Icarium

#TeamArsenal..Resistance is Futile.

[The xG Philosophy @xGPhilosophy]

This is an elite football team.

[Icarium @KidSlicky]

Dowman is Him!

[Icarium @KidSlicky]

Havertz is a shocking footballer

[HLTCO @HLTCO]

I still laugh every time I listen to this. The build-up for the first 1:30 followed by the pay off and @arseblog’s surprised laugh is comedic perfection.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

All of you from all the 6 regions of Nigeria are being royally SET UP, and all you bunch of dummies can see is your local tribal quarrels with each other.

Someone in DC currently has you on a 6-year timer to degenerate into DR Congo/Somalia/Yugoslavia, but all you can see is your Yoruba this, Biafra that, Muslim the other one - meanwhile all of you are going to die, and your nonsense will die with you.

Your *real* enemy (not your neighbour that is as poor and useless as you) produced this report in the same year that it tried to open a military base in Nigeria. You can see the report already has detailed plans for how to share your land to extract the resources under it after you have died.

Just continue fighting your stupid poor man fights against each other, you hear? Keep on ignoring the man behind the curtain. Your enemy in life is <insert tribe that nobody outside Nigeria has heard of or gives a fuck about>

It will kuku all be over in 72 months.

[Cristiano Ronaldo @Cristiano]

I dreamed of this, and I have more dreams. Thank you all!

[Icarium @KidSlicky]

@ADEDIMEX I'm exhausted brother. This is just irresponsible

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

If I were given the task by a foreign power to cripple a developing economy like Nigeria and reduce its 200 million people to a state of desolate, mindless nihilism, here's how I'd go about it.

1. Raise taxes indiscriminately and across board. Do so with zero consultation and make the announcement as abrupt as possible so as to magnify the shock value.

2. Institute multiple taxation and create entire new arms and functions of government centred around collecting new taxes and levies. Make this process as rapid and opaque as possible, and once again, ensure there is zero public consultation and maximum shock value.

3. Remove any subsidies on production (such as those on petrol and diesel, which power 87% of all production in Nigeria) and ensure that any consumer prices set by government (such as electricity tariffs) skyrocket. This ensures that producers not only raise prices but also pass the entire cost burden on to consumers instead of pushing back on the inflationary policies. Crippling consumer inflation ensues, followed by a debilitating cost of living crisis, the likes of which the country has never seen.

4. Make energy production and supply even more convoluted and mind-bending than they already are. Add new layers of corruption between producers and the energy they need. Insert my nephew's oil company into the nerve centre of national energy infrastructure and start a war against the country's only functioning refinery, which threatens to simply access to energy. Create a weird new national energy policy that avoids all the cheaply available energy reserves in Nigeria, and starts pushing weird stuff like "renewables" and CNG on an impoverished population whose cooking fuel is mostly still either kerosene or firewood.

5. Hire a central bank governor whose career at a certain international bank intersects very curiously with mine at a time when I was involved in illegal activity and laundering the proceeds through that bank. Naturally, he is 100% pliant and will do WHATEVER I want him to do without hesitation or pushback. And then...

6. Print money. Print it at a prodigious rate. Expand the money supply at a rate more than 3x that of what my predecessor did during the COVID years. Do all of this with zero parliamentary oversight, and spend money without any sort of appropriation or documentation. Literally print money out of thin air, purchase hard assets with it and watch the worthless fiat money disappear into the dark void of a 65% informal economy. Combined with devastating consumer inflation, an unprecedented cost of living crisis, crippling energy shortages caused by my new layers of corruption and weird energy policies, the national currency's value drops through the floor, falling 200% against the dollar in the 15 months I have had power.

7. Instead of working to build new regional export markets for my country's producers (which continue to function against all the odds), start throwing trade sanctions around ECOWAS and try to start a West African regional war on my country's northern border because France and America want me to. Where my predecessor attracted criticism for creating such close ties to our northern neighbour that he pushed for an economically unviable standard gauge rail line between both countries, I instead try to start a war with that neighbour and commit several violations of international law in the process - including possible war crimes. West Africa as a whole begins to pivot away from my country and my country's producers are left with zero export market and an impoverished local market that can't afford to buy anything.

8. PILE. ON. MORE. DEBT.
Take on loans from EVERYWHERE AND EVERYONE. IMF, World Bank, African Development Bank, Zenith Bank, LAPO Microfinance Bank, pension funds, retail investors, osusu thrift credit society, EVERYTHING. If anyone questions it, throw bullshit statistics like "Low debt-to-GDP ratio" at them.

[Icarium @KidSlicky]

That was close for Izzy just couldn't take it to the end.

[Paddy Power @paddypower]

VAR 1: “Wow, Mosquera appears to have chokeslammed Havertz before attempting to strangle him.”

VAR 2: “Crazy.”

VAR 1: “Should we do something?”

VAR 2: “Nah.”

[lese🦋 @klaylese]

“mommy, why is my name LeStephen Durbooker” https://t.co/bh1cOPHmuR

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

I debated long and hard whether to do this publicly, but I think a message needs to be sent to a group of external interests working in tandem with the internal interests described in the quoted tweet to counteract the interests of half a billion West Africans. A message that at whatever level we exist, we take our destiny seriously and we are not to be trifled with.

Last week, I received an N800,000 offer from an international NGO called Dialogue Earth (formerly known as China Dialogue Trust) to write an article essentially saying that Dangote Refinery is terrible for the environment because something something "Environmental Concerns," something something "Climate Change," something something "Energy Transition Policy," something something "COP 28."

The (unstated but clearly implied) thrust of the brief was for a prominent local voice to put their name on an article that is an argument or a premise for the the Nigerian government to kill the refinery based on its "energy transition commitments" and "environmental policy." This conclusion wasn't immediately apparent when they reached out to me, but I suspected where it was heading, and I quickly accepted the offer so that I could see the brief and obtain hard evidence. I've attached screenshots from the brief below.

Basically, this London-based NGO is headed by Sam Geall, an Oxford professor and is funded by several American intelligence fronts such as Ford Foundation and ClimateWorks (which is blacklisted in India for funding organisations working against India's national interest). For whatever reason, it is now quietly mobilising a resistance campaign against what it describes as "Nigeria's first refinery." Apparently, the status quo of Africa's largest oil producer having no functioning oil refinery to beneficiate its own oil was not a problem for Dialogue Earth and the American CIA fronts who fund it.

The human poverty caused by exporting this raw material and importing refined fuel was not bad for the environment. Also, the fact of European refiners regularly blending West African fuel cargoes with toxic waste and sulphur content 200 times the European legal limit (leading to asthma, bronchitis and eye infections in West Africa) was also not bad for the environment. But Nigeria having a refinery that will wean West Africa off import dependency on those European refiners (and allow West Africa control the sulphur content of its own fuels) is where Dialogue Earth and its funders draw the line. That one is bad for the environment, and David Hundeyin should write an article calling for the refinery to be shut down or limited.

I'm putting this out there publicly so that nobody will henceforth use the term "conspiracy theory" when it is pointed out for the umpteenth time, that there are American and European state and private interests that are heavily invested in keeping Africa exactly as poor as it is, and that they regularly push levers most of us do not even know exist, to make sure that this status quo is protected. These people believe that Africans should not exist or have nice things in this world. Apparently, the sole purpose of our existence is to enhance their experience of the planet and all that it has to offer.

It is because of them that I have to make a public spectacle out of this, even though I know that doing this is probably going to cost someone their job. The message needs to be passed that as poor as we are, you cannot convince us to campaign for the elongation of our own poverty by commissioning $500 hack jobs in the hope that we will be greedy enough to only see the money and ignore the bigger picture of what we can clearly see you trying to do.

I will reiterate something I have said multiple times - I am not a believer in the religious faith called Climate Change/Saving The Environment. I care exactly as much about the environment as do the rich white men who destroyed it to begin with. I firmly believe that if what it takes for Africa to industrialise is for it to burn so much fossil fuel that snow stops falling in Wisconsin and it starts raining concentrated sulphuric acid in Doncaster, it is not too big a price for Europe and North America to pay - it is certainly not bigger than the price Africa had to pay for Europe and North America to develop.

It is and will continue to be 100% OUR prerogative to determine what to do with our hydrocarbons. It is not the rich white men hiding behind these "Climate Advocacy NGOs" who will tell us what to do with our energy reserves, and by what means we are allowed to escape the poverty that they engineered for us.

I might not be a fan of Aliko Dangote or his monopolistic business practices - as is well known - but I'm also smart enough to know when rich white men in DC, Houston, Rotterdam and London and trying to use me as a marionette in their 400 year-old coloniser games. If you are reading this and you are one of the rich white men whose economic interests are threatened by Nigeria refining its own oil, you should come out and fight Aliko Dangote by yourself.

Or at least go find a much stupider African to do your dirty job - there's plenty of those.

It will never be me.

[FOX 32 News @fox32news]

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[Icarium @KidSlicky]

@Seyi_2times @_MoM0 Lmfaoo this is hilarious

[Clive 🏆 @clivepafc]

https://t.co/z5HwfxRl4S

[Squawka @Squawka]

Martin Ødegaard created at least 13 more chances from open-play than any other player in Europe's top seven leagues in 2023/24.

88 for the Arsenal No.8. 🎨

[Icarium @KidSlicky]

@Seyi_2times @TheBukkyFajs

[Icarium @KidSlicky]

@Seyi_2times Lmao I'm saying bro. Let me hold smn

[Football on TNT Sports @footballontnt]

Bukayo Saka against the Premier League big six:

⚽️⚽️⚽️🅰️🅰️ vs. Man Utd
⚽️⚽️🅰️🅰️ vs. Spurs
⚽️⚽️🅰️🅰️ vs. Chelsea
⚽️⚽️⚽️ vs. Liverpool
⚽️⚽️ vs. Man City

𝐁𝐢𝐠 𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 🤩

[The xG Philosophy @xGPhilosophy]

Arsenal (3.76) 3-1 (0.41) Liverpool