@FabrizioRomano This deal is already done, Nottingham Forest are just delaying the final announcement so that it will be recorded as income for the coming season.
@HQNigerianArmy Kudos to the gallant men and women of the Nigerian Army for that successful operations against criminal elements in the Southeast. Thank you for your unwavering commitment to restoring peace and protecting lives. We stand with our troops!
@SprinterPress The confident rhetoric of Israeli politicians is heavily reliant on American support; without the assurance of US backing, such statements would likely not be made.
@MTN180 I cannot be able to share data with my daughter, the information I always get is that I don't have an active data which is not correct because I have data which is even showing that I have, but to share I will see you don't have an active data. So what is the problem?
🚨 Manchester City are the first team in English football to win the FA Cup across Men’s, Women’s and Youth levels in the same season.
This unprecedented achievement highlights the remarkable depth and talent throughout the entire club. 🩵
“AND YOU STILL DARE TO OPEN YOUR MOUTH…”
Sasha Legerman: This is too accurate not to share.
This Australian’s response to Trump’s rant that “NATO does nothing for America” is absolutely devastating:
“Mate. You run a country where 600,000 homeless people will sleep on the streets tonight.
A country where 40% of adults can’t cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money.
A country where insulin costs more than a car payment, and people ration it just to stay alive.
A country where medical debt is the number one cause of bankruptcy.
A country where women die in hospital parking lots because doctors are too afraid of abortion laws to treat miscarriages.
You imprison more of your own citizens than any country on Earth.
More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea.
In the land of the free, 2 million people sit in cages, and a quarter of them haven’t even been convicted of anything.
They’re simply too poor to afford bail.
Your life expectancy is declining. You’re the only developed nation where that’s happening.
Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba’s.
Your children practice active shooter drills between math and English classes while you sell defense stocks to your friends.
Your minimum wage hasn’t changed in 15 years.
Your teachers work two jobs, your veterans sleep under bridges, and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that never attacked you.
And now a convicted criminal — found liable for sexual abuse, defending a pedophile, sleeping with a porn star, and running the biggest dumpster-fire campaign since the Taliban — is thanking you for yet another disaster.
And you call Greenland badly governed?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world.
Nobody there goes bankrupt because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because insurance refused treatment.
‘NATO wasn’t there when we needed them.’
When exactly was that, champ?
September 11?
Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU.
Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU.
Australia wasn’t even in NATO, and we still showed up. For twenty years.
And then you left at 2 a.m. without telling anyone and left everybody else to clean up the mess.
You don’t care that a great nation is being terrorized by your friend, and you haven’t shown it a single ounce of sympathy.
So maybe before calling other countries badly governed, take a look at your own backyard, you aluminum siding salesman with a spray tan.
The only thing badly managed in this picture is your damn mouth.
And you still dare to lecture the rest of the world?”
Thank you, Pep.
Thank you, Bernardo.
Thank you, John.
For the memories, the passion, the trophies, the tears, the fights, the comebacks and the history you gave this club.
You all helped define Manchester City’s greatest era.
Once Blue. Always Blue. 🩵
John Stones and Bernado Silva have drawn the curtains on their incredible time at Manchester City FC.
Thank you for ten years of unforgettable football, incredible achievements, and moments that made Manchester City fans dream bigger than ever before.
Ten years. Countless trophies. Endless memories.
Thank you, Guardiola, for transforming Man City into a symbol of excellence, dominance, and beautiful football. You did not only win matches you changed the culture of the club and inspired millions of fans around the world
Supporting Trump is a perfect way to appear dumb. Even Tinubu is more professional than Trump.
Biden held America together more than Trump will ever imagine. Europeans respected the US under Biden than under Trump, even China if I must include them.
Under Trump:
-NATO becomes weaker than ever.
-Some European countries denied the US access to their bases and airspaces.
-China openly told its companies to ignore the US sanctions.
-Iran proved that US military installations in the Gulf countries don't offer security guarantees, but are simply sitting targets.
- Operation Epic Fury was launched and it was nicknamed "Operation Epic Mistake" which it is.
I could go on and on.
Trump is a narcissistic president that wants all the glory, attention and support, yet turns out to be grossly incompetent. None of his campaign promises have been fulfilled. None!
Singapore and Nigeria are both colonial projects set up by the same gangs of imperial cartels.
While Singapore managed to become a gleaming capitalist success, Nigeria was left to rot into the poverty capital of the world.
This remarkable divergence between these two nations is of course not due to culture or systematic corruption in Nigeria. The true culprit is the cold and unforgiving Math of Geography.
The British did not see Singapore as a country. To them it was just another mosquito infested swamp with an insignificant number of people. They used it as a cutthroat forward operation to violently counter the Dutch spice monopoly in the East Indies.
Singapore was designed from day one to be nothing more than a highly efficient cashier for the empire. When the British packed up, the Americans walked in and bought the franchise.
America needed Singapore to serve as a logistical ground for the Vietnam war.
And indeed, during the whole duration of the war it was in Singapore that warships were packed, fighter jets would refuel, ammunition stockpiles were warehoused, wounded soldiers were treated in transit, and naval vessels underwent massive repairs.
To make things easier for America they even built an oil refinery in Singapore to make bombing Vietnam easier and more efficient. Because of the war America was contributing to over 15 percent of Singapore's GDP while making Singapore one of the biggest oil manufacturing hubs in the world at that time. It got filthy rich fueling the jets that dropped missiles on its Asian neighbors.
Nigeria on the other hand, was too big and completely unnecessary for the British to develop. All they wanted was a giant extractive plantation and not a state. You do not need functional hospitals or world class universities to siphon crude oil out of the Niger Delta or haul cash crops to the Atlantic. You only need a few compliant local overseers and a secure pipeline to the coast. In fact, systematic dysfunction is necessary for extraction because you leave the state too weak and divided to challenge your plunder or seek for better trading terms.
As the global economy mutated from industrial manufacturing to digital finance, the American empire decided to upgrade its favorite Asian pet once again.
America and its Western allies began transferring astronomical financial assets, routing multinational corporate headquarters, shifting massive foreign direct investments, establishing regional banking monopolies, and integrating the island into exclusive global clearing systems.
They handed over technological patents, advanced telecommunications infrastructure, and lucrative free trade agreements, and this allowed Singapore to ditch the oil stained overalls for a bespoke luxury suit.
The island seamlessly transitioned from a military gas station to a sophisticated global money laundering hub. It became a pristine, high tech vault where Chinese oligarchs, Western tax dodgers, and Third World dictators could legally scrub their looted wealth under the polite and respectable guise of wealth management.
As a reward for spreading its legs to these corporations and billionaires, Singapore was rewarded with shiny skyscrapers because it learned how to wash the dirty money of the ruling class without asking any inconvenient moral questions.
So while the technology and wealth flowed to Singapore, Nigeria was being engineered to fail.
These cartels of imperialists created the World Trade Organisation and drafted laws that made it too expensive for Nigeria to refine and sell its resources so that they continue to flow uninterrupted to power Western industries.
They weaponized the International Monetary Fund(IMF) and the World Bank to shove Structural Adjustment Programs(SAP) down the throat of the country, forcing the reckless privatization of state assets and the crippling devaluation of the currency just to ensure the population stayed desperate and the labor stayed cheap.
They flooded the nation with Western NGOs that masquerade as humanitarian saviors while actually neutralizing genuine grassroots political resistance by making local activists entirely dependent on foreign donor grants.
Furthermore, the Nigerian Police and Army are routinely trained, armed, and funded by the West not to defend the national borders, but to act as a hostile internal occupation force dedicated to protecting multinational oil installations from the very citizens being exploited.
Even the Nigerian judiciary is systematically molded to uphold colonial commercial contracts over human rights, guaranteeing that any legal dispute over stolen land or poisoned water ends in favor of the foreign cartels.
So we can actually conclude that the empire made a highly calculated and brilliant decision by investing in Singapore instead. An investment in Nigeria would have been far too chaotic.
If they transferred all those technological patents and financial skyscrapers to Nigeria it would be a catastrophic risk. Nigeria has a population of over 220 million people, a vast ungovernable landmass, and a monument of natural resources buried underground. Allowing such a massive country to become a wealthy, self sufficient industrial hub would be geopolitical suicide for the West.
At any moment their thriving youth population could simply wake up, organize a massive rebellion, nationalize their resources, and close down the foreign embassies just as the Iranians did to the Americans in the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
For Singapore, no such things will ever happen. The island has no resources to nationalize, no vast population to mount a rebellion, and no survival strategy other than serving the empire.
It is the perfect, obedient corporate vault.