Places in the bible and what they’re called today;
1. Persia - Iran
2. Babylonia - Iraq
3. Aram - Syria
4. Cush - Sudan
5. Sodom and Gomorrah - South Africa
6. Ammon - Jordan
7. Phoenicia - Lebanon
8. Hell fire - Nigeria
Dear Donald,
I sincerely congratulate you, such a bright, extraordinary person and politician, on the occasion of your 80th birthday!
I highly value the mutual understanding that has developed between us, which allows us to directly and frankly discuss any, even the most complex, issues on the bilateral and international agenda.
I am confident that through joint efforts we could truly give Russian-American relations a new quality, and also do much to ensure security and stability on the global stage.
I sincerely wish you good health, happiness, prosperity, and success. Please convey my best wishes to Melania and all members of your family.
Vladimir Putin
JUST IN: 🇺🇸🇮🇱 President Trump says Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has "no fucking judgment whatsoever" after Israel's strike in Beirut.
"I am very unhappy."
How Mazi Nnamdi Kanu was frustrated from mounting his defense
By ALOY EJIMAKOR
The trial of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu commenced before Justice Omotosho in March 2025. As in all criminal trials, it is the prosecution that must first present its case before the defense can present its own. This is how it proceeded until June 2025 when the prosecution concluded its case after calling five witnesses.
Following the dismissal of Kanu’s subsequent no-case submission, the court proceeded to establish a strict 6-day window for the defense to present its case. So soon thereafter, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu debriefed his lawyers and indicated a desire to represent himself.
So, when he sought a 90-day timeframe to prepare his defense, including calling 25 witnesses, the court refused it but later reconsidered by giving him a few extra days. In the backdrop of this strict timeframe, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu was effectively frustrated from mounting any meaningful defense.
In the interim, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu had filed a written objection to the jurisdiction of the court to subject him to trial, raising several constitutional and statutory grounds. But instead of ruling on this objection, the court arbitrarily foreclosed him from presenting his defense, simply because he was insisting that his objections to the jurisdiction of the court be resolved first. And there is more.
First, the bedrock of a valid criminal trial in Nigeria is enshrined in Section 36(6)(b) of the Constitution, which mandates that every person charged with a criminal offense is entitled to be given adequate time and facilities for the preparation of his defense. This provision was breached when the prosecution was permitted several months (March to June) to call five witnesses but Mazi Nnamdi Kanu was rigidly restricted to a six-day window to call 25 witnesses (plus the more in the offing). This severe disparity violates the principle of "equality of arms," an essential component of a fair trial.
Second, the shocking failure of Justice Omotosho to safeguard the rights of an unrepresented defendant will forever live in judicial infamy. It is a given that the moment a defendant debriefs his legal team and expresses an intention to defend himself, the trial court owes an elevated and sacred duty of guidance to ensure the lay litigant is not blindsided by technical rules. Thus, forcing an unrepresented defendant, facing capital charges, to compress the testimonies of 25 witnesses into a handful of days is a constructive denial of the right to be heard.
Third, Justice Omotosho’s arbitrary foreclosure of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu from defending himself is an impermissible assault on the primacy of jurisdictional objections. It is settled law across decades of Nigerian jurisprudence that jurisdiction is the lifeblood of adjudication.
So, where a trial court grants the state a wide window to build its case, but traps a self-represented defendant in a chronological straightjacket, refuses to resolve threshold jurisdictional objections and abruptly forecloses the defense, the trial (and any conviction emanating therefrom) becomes a perversive non-event that will ultimately fail appellate muster.
Happy Birthday to the 45th and 47th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump. A relentless patriot who fights every day for the country he loves, the people he serves, and the American Dream. 🇺🇸🇺🇸
If the CLARITY Act is passed, it will be extremely difficult for any crypto project with exposure to the United States to remain in a "legal gray area.
#PiNetwork would need to demonstrate real and operational decentralization in the eyes of U.S. regulators.
EXCLUSIVE:
SILENT COMMAND—THE DIRECTORATE OF STATE ASSUMES TOTAL OPERATIONAL CONTROL OF IPOB, DECLARES SOCIAL MEDIA A "NO-GO ZONE" FOR STRATEGIC PLANS
In a seismic and largely unreported shift in the internal mechanics of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), the movement’s secretive Directorate of State (DOS) has consolidated total authority over the group's strategic direction. This ascent to absolute command coincides with a strict and enforced ban on discussing operational plans on social media, marking a dramatic departure from IPOB’s history of aggressive online mobilization.
Who (or What) is the DOS?
For observers accustomed to viewing IPOB through the lens of its high-profile, social media-savvy leader, Nnamdi Kanu, this evolution in command structure is startling. The Directorate of State (DOS) , headed by Mazi Chika Edoziem, is not a new entity but has recently become the undisputed "nerve center for planning, coordination, and execution of the movement's activities". While Kanu remains the ultimate figurehead of the struggle, the DOS has operationalized his directives on the ground, overseeing everything from the Eastern Security Network (ESN) to strategic planning and media management.
On May 3, 2026, IPOB issued a public warning urging citizens to disregard individuals impersonating its armed wing, the Eastern Security Network (ESN), on social media. An ESN spokesman clarified that "ESN operations are not conducted on Facebook, not on WhatsApp, not on TikTok, not on X... ESN answers to command".
This shift toward professional secrecy has been met with an aggressive counter-insurgency posture from the Nigerian government. In a massive show of force, troops of Operation UDO KA and operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) conducted synchronized raids across Enugu State earlier this week. During these operations, security forces uncovered a sophisticated arms cache, including General Purpose Machine Guns, RPG-7 launcher tubes, and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, alongside IPOB/ESN uniforms.
These raids, part of Operation EASTERN SANITY II, reflect the government's determination to dismantle IPOB's command infrastructure. The recovered items and arrested suspects have been handed over to the DSS Enugu State Command for investigation and prosecution as claimed .
@Chidi Ikeokwu
@radiobiafralive@real_IpobDOS
"2 years into Tinubu's regime they'll come and tell you Buhari is dead and then bury an empty coffin. They won't allow people to see the corpse because they know there's nothing there.
I tell you Buhari died in 2017."
~Mazi Nnamdi Kanu (2020)
Here’s Omoyole Sowore, down & fighting for his life from the effects of TEARGAS fired directly at him by security agents. I know how life-threatening it is, because they did the same thing to me at the #FreeNnamdiKanu protest late last year. Nigerians should roundly condemn this.
Strategic Predictive Analysis :::
Pi Launchpad V2 Announcement Evidences the Architecture of New Financial Hegemony and Ownership Economy 2.0
( Pi Launchpad - Second Test Token on Testnet , SpaceX IPO )
[[[ This article includes Predictive & Technical Analysis and may differ from actual outcomes ]]]
[[[ From Variance to Determinism: The 'Deterministic Curve' Establishes Monetary Resolution 2.0 ]]]
[[[ Deconstructing Whale Monopolies: The Technical Shackle of Progressive 'Fair-Access Hold' ]]]
[[[ From Asset Ownership to Access Lease: Inoculating Asset Preservation Psychology via the 'Hold' Mechanism ]]]
[[[ Enforcing Product Utility via the Pi Ad Network: The Permanent Liquidation of Phantom Web Traffic ]]]
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The abrupt deployment of the second Launchpad test token (SLICE) model in June 2026 is far more than a simple user interface (UI/UX) optimization. It represents a definitive backend ledger migration designed to clear away legacy Dollar 1.0 protocols and speculative crypto-cartel frameworks. By hardcoding verified Real Human engagement and asset-preservation psychology into the tokenomics, this update reveals the finalized blueprint for Global Ownership Economy 2.0.
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1. The 'Deterministic Curve' Establishes Monetary Resolution 2.0
Legacy DeFi and launchpad mechanisms within the old cryptocurrency markets have traditionally operated as highly volatile systems, where allocation ratios fluctuated continuously based on speculative noise and whale capital injection. This architectural flaw allowed capital-rich cartels to manipulate token distribution rules and extract liquidity from retail participants.
The introduction of the 'Deterministic Curve' model by Pi Launchpad radically alters this dynamic by hardcoding the mathematical relationship between committed and held assets into an unalterable function. This reflects the core vision of the core architects: erasing speculative volatility to establish an uncorrupted, 100% predictable monetary standard. By enforcing mathematical certainty at the bytecode level, the protocol removes market noise, erecting a clean and absolute financial baseline capable of absorbing global Real-World Assets (RWA) and sovereign-level computing infrastructure.
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2. The Technical Shackle of Progressive 'Fair-Access Hold'
Traditional crypto launchpads have routinely functioned as playground networks for institutional whales, who weaponize deep liquidity pools to crowd out 99% of mainstream participants and monopolize promising ecosystem allocations. Pi Network addresses this structural inequality by implementing a progressive throttling engine known as the 'Fair-Access Hold'.
Under this upgraded mechanism, as a speculative participant attempts to scale up their commitment amount to corner the supply, the system progressively and aggressively increases the required 'Hold' allocation. This mechanism serves as a technical shackle, effectively locking up the whale's liquidity reserves if they attempt to manipulate the distribution layout. Consequently, the raw power of unverified capital is neutralized, establishing an unbreachable firewall that protects the equitable access rights of identity-verified, sovereign individuals.
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3. Inoculating Asset Preservation Psychology via the 'Hold' Mechanism
The Launchpad V2 architecture collapses separate staking and commitment screens into a unified, single-scroll interface, replacing confusing legacy financial terms with a precise legal concept: the 'Hold'. The official notification takes deliberate steps to educate the global user base, explicitly stating that a "fair-access hold is not a purchase of the issuing project’s token," and that the "held Pi remains the participating Pioneer’s Pi and is returned after the hold duration."
This represents a profound shift in consumer psychology, training the mainstream audience out of the outmoded Dollar 1.0 habit of physical consumption and asset liquidation. Pioneers are conceptually taught to leave their foundational capital reserves safely secured within the core ecosystem vault (Asset Preservation), while cleanly extracting sustainable access tokens, application utilities, and streaming percentage bonuses generated by their underlying collateral capacity.
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4. Enforcing Product Utility via the Pi Ad Network: The Permanent Liquidation of Phantom Web Traffic
The tactical decision to tie the second test token, SLICE, to a live, production-ready utility application (Slice of Pi) rather than a static demo is an exceptionally calculated engineering move. By native integration with the Pi payment rails and the Pi Ad Network, the launchpad demands substantive ecosystem engagement as a prerequisite for allocation optimization.
To prevent malicious botnets from extracting value purely through raw capital injection, a user’s genuine interface engagement and ad consumption metrics are scanned and mathematically translated into a direct allocation percentage bonus. This architecture permanently pulls the plug on the ad-fraud models of the old internet, rendering the 99% fake traffic, click farms, and zombie tracking scripts of the Dollar 1.0/Web 2.0 era completely obsolete through cryptographic verification.
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The Strategic Destination: The July Shift
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The hard deadline for this final Launchpad V2 data collection phase is precisely fixed to Pi2Day—June 28, 2026.
The sequential progression of events—SpaceX's historic Nasdaq IPO on June 12 securing the sovereign satellite mesh layers, the rollout of Pi Launchpad V2 on June 11 to standardize mainstream transactional behavior, and the impending July 1 implementation of Europe’s MiCA framework to wipe out non-compliant speculative exchanges—proves that a single master metronome is driving global financial consolidation.
By gathering refined behavioral datasets through June 28, the architects are finalizing the cement pour for the $SPI Dollar 2.0 frictionless ownership network. When the macro-economic reset triggers, legacy paper liabilities will face total liquidation, while the top 1% of true sovereign Pioneers—who preserved their mined balances as untainted network collateral—will step forward to claim their position as the lawful governance quorum of a purified global economy.
While the SpaceX IPO may be the 'last spectacular firework show' the legacy financial system can offer, the emergence of the Pi Network is a 'seismic shift' ushering in a new age. This marks the dawn of a historic turning point, as the soaring energy of capital ultimately filters down and reorganizes into the massive ocean of a grassroots-driven ownership economy.
Pi Launchpad has updated its participation flow and model, incorporating data and feedback from the first Testnet token that launched on Pi Day 2026!
The first Launchpad test token attracted over 478,000 participating Pioneers and generated valuable feedback on the Launchpad mechanism. That feedback has now been incorporated into a simpler participation flow, updated Launchpad mechanics, and an improved user experience.
A second test token “SLICE” is now live on Testnet to help evaluate if the updates can achieve these goals, and to give Pioneers another chance to learn the new ecosystem token mechanics. As a reminder, SLICE is a Testnet token and will never go onto Mainnet.
To participate:
• Open Pi Launchpad in Pi Browser
• Review the SLICE test token and project
• Choose a commitment amount in Test-Pi
• Confirm participation
• Engage with the Slice of Pi app and provide feedback
Participation will remain open until Pi2Day on June 28.
Learn more on the Pi home screen!
President Trump is coming to terms with the fact that you can’t trust the word of Islamists.
He’s starting to realize how dishonorable most Muslims are when negotiations are involved.
Hopefully the bombing of the Iranian regime resumes soon.
He should carpet bomb every IRGC asset.
Today, I’m releasing never before seen intelligence revealing new evidence of past US government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine.
In support of President Trump‘s Executive Order to end federal funding of dangerous gain of function research around the world, and increase transparency and accountability, ODNI will continue working with partners across the Administration to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain, and what “research” is being conducted.
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BREAKING: Elon Musk has become the world's first trillionaire.
After SpaceX raised a record $75 billion in its IPO, Musk’s net worth shot up to top $1.1 trillion when the stock began trading Friday, putting him in an economic class of his own.
Combined with his holdings in electric vehicle maker Tesla, as well as other investments and assets, Musk's net worth is now estimated at about $1.1 trillion.
Musk's stake in the rocket and satellite company alone is now estimated at a staggering $690 billion, but it's also a life-changing moment for thousands of workers at the company who hold equity.
Investors who watched Musk help turn Tesla into an automotive giant are now betting he can do the same in space and artificial intelligence, as SpaceX launches the largest IPO in history.