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[KING ELOM👑🌕 @iamNeare]

You people like to run with half baked information n think you've said something

Here's the full gist, yes Britain colonized Singapore n like Africa, they never left Singapore cos Singapore is a strategic position in global trade just as the Hormuz strait that USA has been struggling to take over from Iran

25% of global trade pass through Singapore strait, it was a strategic position for the British Empire until they were kicked out by Japanese forces during WW2.

It was after Japan surrendered that Britain sought to regain control of the Strait n yeah they did it through the British trained n controlled puppet Lee Kwan Yew.

Singapore was adopted into the global economy and use for it's strategic position just as Taiwan. Lee is not some Genius but an errand boy carrying out an assignment.

It's by design, and Nigeria/Kenya/Africa wasn't design to use their resources for their own development according the global decision makers (Breton Woods agreement)

How do you know this, Lee was allowed to become a dictator with brutal reforms that crushed every opposition n opposing ideology to the globalist design.

It would look like I'm making excuses for African leaders but I would be wrong if other African leaders haven't tried similar reforms n was declared dictators n this overthrown or killed eg. Gaddafi of Libya, Abacha of Nig, Nkrumah of Ghana, etc

What we call corruption is an Euphemism to water down the activities of puppets serving the interest of imperialism so that we fight just the puppets until they're replaced with another puppet n ignore the system that put the puppets in power.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Fun fact: that's the case of almost anyone in China with access to information that could damage national interests if leaked.

For instance: have you ever seen a former Chinese leader travel abroad on tourism? Like Jiang Zemin or Hu Jintao? Nope, you couldn't have, because they can't 🤷 And the exact same principle would apply to Xi if and when he retires: he would not be allowed to leave China unauthorized (and probably not at all).

It has been the case throughout Chinese history. For instance in the legal code of China's last 2 dynasties - the Ming and the Qing - you'd face the death penalty if you travelled abroad unauthorized and that resulted in the "leaking of China's affairs" (中国事情): https://t.co/nqiSJZcsUi

In other words the Chinese state has always conceived of strategically capable individuals - no matter how powerful they might be - as bearing obligations to the collective that constrain their personal freedom of movement. It's not punitive in intent - it's just structural.

This is something we in the West obviously have a very hard time understanding because - and this isn't intended as a value judgment- we're an individualistic culture with freedom as our cardinal value and have a deep-seated urge to spread our culture.

China - again without value judgment - is almost the exact opposite: collectivist culture with order/harmony as their cardinal value and zero missionary impulse, quite the contrary.

So obviously there is a clash here 😅

Of course you can still legitimately ask yourself whether, in this particular instance and in today's world, this approach will end up helping or hurting China's AI ambitions.

I suspect it'll be largely neutral. You only face these restrictions once you've reached the top - nobody avoids becoming a leading AI talent because success might come with strings attached.

Heck it can even be seen as a status symbol: your brain is basically a state secret 😊

[ching chung cheung𒋩 @Phay305]

@IRANinKENYA The US is gonna sanction you for "Bragging rights" for this

[Mariana @marianagnche]

Russia got sanctioned by governments controlling Visa & Mastercard… and people are shocked Russia stopped depending on them?

China built UnionPay for the exact same reason years ago. This is basic state logic, not a Marvel villain plot. But when Russia does something rational, suddenly people forget how geopolitics works.

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Brian 🍄 @Is_Not_Brian]

Why the fuck does NYC have an Israel Day Parade lol

[ching chung cheung𒋩 @Phay305]

@Mbakaza4L America is corporation not a country anyway.

[ching chung cheung𒋩 @Phay305]

@IsraelMFA 😊😊I call bullshit

[Global Dissident @GlobalDiss]

🚨🇩🇪 GERMAN INDUSTRY IS COLLAPSING.

Bosch is slashing 22,000 jobs in Germany and slowly abandoning its own homeland just to survive.

Germany lost 486,000 jobs in just 3 months, mostly in industry.

The “economic miracle” is dying in real time.

[Mayowa @Mayoveli]

West Africans need to stop forcing our history into Abrahamic or Middle Eastern narratives. It’s historically inaccurate, and honestly, it reflects a deep cultural insecurity.

You Ijebu people are not Jews. Queen Sheba did not visit Ijebuland. Hausas are not Arabs from Baghdad. Igbos are not Israelites. We need to stop romanticizing foreign origins as if our civilizations only become meaningful when linked to the Middle East.

West Africa already has a rich, ancient, and sophisticated history of its own, you have the Nok, Ile-Ife, Benin, Oyo, Gao, Mali, Kanem-Bornu, Igbo-Ukwu, and countless others. Many of our ancestors had lived and developed cultures in these lands for tens of thousands of years before Judaism, Christianity, or Islam even emerged.

There is nothing inferior about being indigenous to Africa. We do not need borrowed identities to validate our existence, intelligence, spirituality, or achievements.

Our history stands on its own. Stop it!

[ching chung cheung𒋩 @Phay305]

@Chetuyachinago This is heartbreaking

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

Nigeria’s ginger export collapsed from a staggering N26 billion($47.5 million) to absolute zero in a span of just three years, wiping out the livelihoods of thousands of families.

The official excuse is being branded as a mere "fungal" disease, which is ridiculously funny, insulting, and misleading.
A mere disease can kill a handful of crops, but it can never systematically wipe out an entire agricultural belt spanning hundreds of thousands of acres. When a disaster of this magnitude destroys crops across multiple communities in Kaduna and neighboring states, we can be rest assured that this is a man-made, policy-driven disaster without a single shred of doubt.

Indeed, the N26 billion export figure quoted was not from 2024. Nigeria’s export of ginger in 2024 had already plummeted to a pathetic N6.2 billion, roughly 4.7 million dollars, which forces us to ask what actually happened between 2023 and 2024 to pave the way for this historic, sudden decline.

Everything began in 2017, when the World Bank sent their economic hitmen to Nigeria to convince the federal government that our agricultural output was poor.
They claimed the issue was not because the predatory terms of the World Trade Organisation banned the government from subsidizing local farmers, providing modern tractors, building secure storage facilities, or protecting domestic markets from heavily subsidized Western imports.
Instead, they deceitfully concluded that Nigerian farmers were doing poorly simply because they lacked access to modern, high-yielding, corporate-patented seeds.

As usual, the incompetent Nigerian government under the Buhari administration rolled over, spread their laps, and eagerly accepted a 200 million dollar loan from the World Bank to kickstart the APPEALS project.
Nigeria historically grew two traditional, highly resilient, non-genetically modified varieties of ginger known as UG1, locally called "Tafin Giwa," and UG2, locally called "Yatsun Biri."
Under this APPEALS program championed by the World Bank, ginger farmers in Northern Nigeria were instructed to abandon their local, highly resilient seeds. Instead, they were forced to source new, delicate foundation seeds from the National Root Crops Research Institute in Umudike, Abia State.

The NRCRI does not operate in a vacuum: it functions within a complex global network of funding, corporate interests, and academic research heavily bankrolled by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the agro-chemical giant Monsanto.

Under this collaborative framework, the Gates-funded institute provided the laboratory methodology and the modified parent seeds, while the World Bank’s APPEALS project supplied the logistics, the demonstration farms, and the training to force farmers into growing these highly dependent seeds. .

Traditionally, farming ginger is not rocket science. All a farmer had to do was make a small hole in the soil, drop the seed rhizome inside, cover it up, and let nature do the rest.
But because the farmers were forced to abandon their traditional seedlings and adopt the genetically fragile, volatile, lab-grown tissue cultures from the Gates-funded institute, they no longer had that luxury. The institute's labs simply lacked the capacity to mass-produce these delicate seeds at the industrial scale required for nationwide agriculture.

This is where the World Bank's economic traps clicked shut. Under the APPEALS program, farmers were trained to cut the healthy foundation rhizomes into tiny, microscopic pieces weighing a mere 4 to 5 grams. These tiny buds were then dipped in a specialized, highly expensive chemical fungicide wash, placed into artificial nursery trays, and kept under protective, climate-controlled shade nets. The farmers had to baby these nurseries, watering them with meticulous care just to get the single buds to sprout into disease-free green seedlings over a thirty-to-forty-day period.

Once these fragile green shoots reached a height of 10 to 15 centimeters and developed a weak, independent root system, the farmers had to carefully transplant them directly into pre-prepared ridges in the open fields.

At first, it looked like a miracle. The farmers saw a temporary 67% surge in their ginger yields, which was paraded by World Bank PR teams as a massive success. But the APPEALS program was only scheduled to last for six years. In 2023, the World Bank packed up their bags, collected their interest, and quietly left the country.

Naturally, the farmers attempted to continue farming on their own to maintain their profit margins, but they ran into a fatal wall. It is not enough to train farmers to use delicate, laboratory-engineered seeds: you must also fund the highly specific chemical inputs those seeds require to survive in the wild. As soon as the farmers tried to buy the specialized fungicides and chemical washes needed to protect these hyper-sensitive crops, they realized the prices had skyrocketed by over 300%, making them completely unaffordable for the average rural farmer.

Desperate, the farmers tried to source cheaper, local alternatives, but these fragile seeds are so biologically delicate that the slightest deviation in chemical treatment or soil temperature renders them sterile and highly vulnerable to pathogens. This is how Nigeria's ginger output collapsed from 47 million dollars in 2023, to a pathetic 4.7 million dollars in 2024, and finally to absolute zero by 2025.

There are many performative reforms currently ongoing to supposedly rescue the Nigerian ginger market. But the cold truth is that the World Bank and Bill Gates successfully destroyed a thriving, self-sufficient local industry that fed millions of homes, and this is not the first time this economic sabotage has occurred in Nigeria.

Look at what they did to our cocoa industry in the late 1980s. Under the brutal dictates of the World Bank's Structural Adjustment Program, the federal government was forced to dissolve the Nigerian Cocoa Board, which had historically guaranteed price stability, provided free high-quality seedlings, and subsidized essential pesticides for local farmers.
Once the market was liberalized, our local farmers were left completely defenseless against the volatile swings of the global commodities market and the predatory pricing of Western buying cartels like Cargill and Barry Callebaut, systematically crashing Nigeria's dominance in global cocoa and reducing our once-proud farmers to low-wage laborers for multinational corporations.

[ching chung cheung𒋩 @Phay305]

@InsideLucysHead 😀😀😀

[ching chung cheung𒋩 @Phay305]

@askghmedia Kwaseakwa.

[Praise @tufpraise]

he's actually Hitler but people don't care since his crimes aren't against white people

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

It is tragic that those of us here in Africa who are victims of imperialism, who still carry the physical and psychological scars of colonial looting, are comfortably celebrating the rise of imperial monopolies like Netflix, Uber, and Temu or Shein, just because we want to deliver a cheap punchline for a few brainless retweets, to chase worthless online clout, or to sound intellectually superior while cheering on our own economic destruction.

Netflix did not "out-innovate" DStv, and DStv was not sleeping. The fundamental, unaddressed difference is that one is a local African broadcaster working with meager, heavily taxed local funding, while the other sits on a mountain of subsidized Western capital, an endless money-printing machine backed by Wall Street, and the geopolitical muscle of the US government.

Netflix gets about $17B in effectively interest-free capital and tax-subsidized benefits every year, which allows them to run their operations at a massive loss while aggressively capturing sovereign markets. On the other hand, DStv is treated as a value stock, meaning public markets ruthlessly demand immediate dividends, strict fiscal discipline, and quarter-by-quarter profitability. If DStv spent ten billion dollars on a single year's content, its share price would crash into oblivion overnight, its board would be wiped out by panicking investors, and its credit lines would be cut.

And just in case you are wondering, the South African government cannot step in to rescue DStv with interest-free loans, thanks to the predatory, highly restrictive treaties enforced by the ruthless World Trade Organisation. If the South African government dared to offer DStv a simple one hundred million dollar grant, they would immediately face brutal litigation at the WTO, because African nations foolishly signed suicidal trade agreements which dictate that if a sovereign state subsidizes its own local industry, it is legally obligated to offer the exact same financial welfare to the foreign predators invading their market.

And this is just the WTO. We have not even discussed the financial hitmen at the IMF or the World Bank, who view any form of state support for local industries as fiscal irresponsibility, a violation of free-market dogmas, or an outright sin. If the government gave DStv a massive loan, the IMF would immediately downgrade the country's credit rating into junk status. This engineered downgrade would make it punishingly expensive for the South African government to build clinics, fund schools, or repair highways, because the interest rates on their national debt would skyrocket to line the pockets of Western lenders.

But brainwashed Africans, who are the primary victims of this neo-colonial economic castration, will happily log onto Western platforms to tell you that Netflix was innovative while DStv was just sleeping.

The absolute worst part of this farce is the brain-dead comparison between Uber and local taxi drivers. A local driver must make an immediate profit today to buy maize meal, bread, and petrol tomorrow. He cannot compete with a multinational behemoth that has an explicit mandate from Wall Street to burn five billion dollars a year in predatory pricing, artificially subsidizing rides just to starve local operators into bankruptcy and clear the field.

The local taxi driver is the most visible, highly vulnerable target of his own state's predatory municipal machinery. He is hunted daily by corrupt traffic officers for compliance, like an expired permit, a slightly worn tire, a missing fire extinguisher, or an arbitrary traffic offense. For him, a single fifty-dollar ticket is not just a minor inconvenience; it is a catastrophic blow, the difference between his children sleeping with a full stomach or going to bed hungry.

But Uber does not even recognize these drivers as human beings with labor rights. They see no need to protect the dignity of work, the right to a living wage, or the basic sovereignty of the citizen. Instead, Uber smugly informs the courts that local labor laws do not apply to them, because they are just an app, and their drivers are merely independent contractors.

With this legal sleight of hand, they have effectively deleted the Bill of Rights for millions of working-class men and women. They have engineered a lawless corporate territory where they can terminate a breadwinner's account via a heartless algorithm with zero human review, pay him slave wages after stealing 30% in service fees, and refuse him a single cent of medical coverage for the crashes he suffers while lining their pockets.
Worse, they offer their rides at a 50% discount because they are heavily subsidized by Silicon Valley venture capitalists playing a global game of market conquest, and local governments are too terrified to intervene, knowing that any attempt to regulate these giants will result in immediate economic retaliation, diplomatic bullying, or Washington threatening to sanction them into oblivion.

Newspapers did not lose because they were lazy. There is no physical way a local newspaper can compete with Facebook or Instagram, which sit on massive surveillance networks, endless pools of free user data, and algorithmic monopolies designed to capture human attention for profit.
This is exactly why China banned these digital parasites and built their own sovereign ecosystems to allow local industries to develop.

How do you expect African manufacturing to ever survive when Shein and Temu are allowed to flood our markets with heavily subsidized, ultra-cheap fast fashion and low-quality equipment?
Do you honestly think China would have transformed into an industrial superpower if they had allowed their territory to be used as a digital and physical dumping ground, a massive cesspool where the West discarded their second-hand clothes, their obsolete laptops, their toxic e-waste, and their plastic garbage under the fraudulent banner of free trade?

This is the core problem I have with motivational speakers, with their brainless "grindset" rhetoric, and with how they completely erase the structures of global capital to blame the victim, because in their world, your poverty is a personal failure rather than the predictable outcome of an international economic system designed to keep you subjugated.

Let me conclude by saying that we must stop applauding the very chains designed to bind us, we must stop worshipping the corporations that are asset-stripping our continent, and we must realize that true innovation cannot exist without economic sovereignty.

[Naa Ayeley @NaaBabyAyeley]

Their generation failed us. They were given so so much and they couldn't even pretend to preserve it. They didnt just close the door behind them, they burned down the room and had the nerve to berate us for not thriving.

[Sir Norman of Nowhere. 🏴‍☠️ @Normanjam67]

A new name for the working class, 'lower-value human capital'.
They don't give a shit about you and your family.

[ching chung cheung𒋩 @Phay305]

@DavidHundeyin @benkoku kind of what you were talking on show today

[ching chung cheung𒋩 @Phay305]

@kipweldone @Farida_N Upon what she's written,.you still couldn't read into it
U're adamant in absorbing common sense