'tunde rasheed

Success is what you call it!

[Fact @Fact]

A lot of problems in the world would disappear if we talked to each other instead of talking about each other.

[Fact @Fact]

A recent study shows that exercising for an hour a day may be enough to counteract the harmful effects of sitting for long periods.

[Femi Fani-Kayode @realFFK]

Extracts of my speech at a meeting with the Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (North), Rev. Joseph Hayab, and his entire Executive Council together with the Chairmen, Secretaries and Youth Leaders of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) representing each of the 19 Northern states of Nigeria in Abuja on 20th August, 2026.

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[𝕊𝕡𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕻𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕤 @SprinterPress]

Professor Jiang says the collapse of the petrodollar is now inevitable and America has no way out!!!
Today, the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve has fallen below 300 million barrels for the first time since 1983.
Trump himself admitted after the ceasefire agreement with Iran: “We would use up the oil reserves in about 4 weeks.” The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is GONE. Empty. Empty. The last barrels are burning right now.

Iran has just given up on nuclear options:
“If the US does not completely leave the Middle East, every barrel of oil will be forced to be traded in Chinese yuan.”
The petroyuan is ready. China and the BRICS are licking each other. When that switch is flipped, the petrodollar loses its dominance forever, the dollar’s ​​reserve status collapses.

Central banks are now on a massive gold buying spree.

Meanwhile, the massive yen withdrawal from Japan in the carry trade is EXPLODING RIGHT NOW. Scott Besant’s multiple interventions on the yen are failing. He also warned the Fed to expand its FIMA repo facility in Japan or risk a sell-off of US Treasuries.
Trillions of leveraged positions explode as the Bank of Japan loses control. Liquidity is at risk in global markets at a time when oil prices will be determined in yuan.
While there is no other fiat currency that can take down the dollar due to its “reserve status,” the dollar has lost 97% of its value against gold to date.

[IRAN ARMY ☫ @IranArmySpoofX]

🚨 BREAKING:

Famous British comedian Mr. Bean:

"I feel ashamed on behalf of the United Kingdom for allowing Israel to besiege two million people in Gaza, cutting off electricity, water, and medicine from them, and then claiming to defend human rights."

[Omoyele Sowore @sowore]

It may not bother some people, but the continued detention of @elrufai is not about justice; it is political vendetta. It is easy to look the other way because he is not your headache, and perhaps because you don’t consider him a nice person. But that is exactly how oppression works, it becomes acceptable when the victim is someone we dislike. Once injustice is tolerated against one person, it becomes easier to use it against everyone else. #FreeElRufaiNow

[Fact @Fact]

Train your mind to stay calm in all situations.

[Z. Tony Rahim💚🌙| HaqXpert 💎 @ZainulRahim3]

@AJEnglish These genocidal zionist bastards won't stop their murderous acts, and the region must come together and expel them, permanently!😡☢️

[@Taliesingirl @taliesingirl]

@AJEnglish What gives Israel the right to bomb other countries as and when it likes? When will the international community stand up to this lawless, violent, apartheid state ?

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

BREAKING: Israeli warplanes have carried out two air strikes targeting the town of al-Mansouri in southern Lebanon, reports Lebanon's National News Agency.

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['tunde rasheed @babsalih97]

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[Fact @Fact]

The carbon dioxide released by humans is slowly turning the ocean into acid.

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If you drink enough water in the morning, you will feel happier, sharper, and more energetic throughout the day.

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Before you talk, listen. Before you react, think. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try.

[Trendtowardshealing @Trendtowar18751]

The King Who Turned Ten Million Screaming People Into Belgian Marble

Imagine the worst thing you’ve ever read about any genocide, then double it, remove every camera, and stretch it across twenty-three quiet years that Europe applauded as charity.

That was Leopold’s Congo.

From 1885 to 1908, under the guise of the “Congo Free State”—a personal fiefdom granted to Belgium’s King Leopold II at the 1884–85 Berlin Conference, where European powers casually carved Africa like a holiday roast—the rubber trade became a death machine.

Leopold, who never set foot there, styled himself a humanitarian philanthropist, founding the International African Association to “civilize” the continent.

In reality, it was plunder: the Congo Basin’s vast rubber vines (discovered in the 1890s amid the bicycle boom) fueled Europe’s industrial age, turning wild lianas into tires, hoses, and insulation.

Every month, villages had to deliver tonnes of rubber hacked from vines deep in the rainforest. Miss the quota by a kilo and the punishment was immediate: soldiers—often Force Publique mercenaries from Zanzibar or Haiti—marched in, rounded up every woman and child, locked them in pens to rot or be raped until the men delivered more.

Still short? Hands. Right hands, severed while the victims were still alive, smoked over slow fires so they wouldn’t rot on the journey to the district officer.

Children’s hands counted toward the tally; tiny, shrivelled things tossed into baskets like dried fruit.

One officer was reprimanded not for the killings, but for using bullets too freely; from then on, a severed hand had to accompany every spent cartridge as proof it had been used on a human.

Ten million people (half the entire population) vanished between 1885 and 1908, per estimates from historians like Adam Hochschild in King Leopold’s Ghost (1998) and the 1904 Casement Report, a British consular exposé that finally pierced the silence.

Some shot, some starved because they couldn’t farm under guard, some worked until their hearts burst, some simply died of grief when their children were taken.

Whole regions turned into howling wilderness. The birth rate collapsed; survivors spoke of villages where only old people and crippled remained, sitting silently because there was no one left to talk to.

And the money? Rivers of it.
Hundreds of billions in modern terms. Leopold spent it like a psychopath winning the lottery:

• He tripled the size of his palace at Laeken.

• He erected the gigantic Cinquantenaire arch in Brussels (still the postcard view).

• He built an entire seaside resort in Ostend so perfect that Belgians still stroll there on Sunday, ice cream in hand, walking on pavement paid for with smoked children’s wrists.

• He gifted his sixteen-year-old mistress a villa that looked like a wedding cake made of Congolese blood.

When the truth finally leaked out (missionaries smuggling photos of stump-armed children, baskets of hands, crucified men), Leopold just burned the state archives for five straight days.

Belgium took the colony off his hands in 1908, called it “reform,” and carried on looting for another half-century under the Belgian Congo until independence in 1960—sparking further chaos, including the CIA-backed assassination of Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba in 1961, which sowed seeds for today’s conflicts.

The king died in 1909 bedecked with medals, hailed as the great builder. His statues stood untouched until 2020.

Ten million people. More than the Holocaust and Stalin’s purges combined, in a fraction of the time.

And most of the world still thinks “Congo” means poverty, not the largest forgotten slaughter in human history.

Brussels is literally built on their bones.

Next time you see those pretty arches, listen closely.

Some cities echo with trams.

This one still echoes with screams no one bothered to record.

[The Invariant One @ShonYewy]

@nxt888 This is wrong because the allies didnt give a shit what Hitler was doing to jews to be honest. They fought the war for their own interests. The idea they fought WW2 to stop the holocaust is post-war rationalisation and myth making.

[perfect storm is coming @MoSoApril2019]

@nxt888 Brutally honest. West is once again growing its next Hitler, a comic one however.
Fake opposition to Trump’s wars and chaos from liberals only makes him stronger. Chickens are coming home to roost.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Aimé Césaire wrote it in 1950 and Europe has been trying to ignore it ever since.

In Discourse on Colonialism, he stated plainly: what the "very distinguished, very humanistic, very Christian bourgeois of the twentieth century" found unforgivable about Hitler was not what he did.

It was to whom he did it.

Hitler applied to European people the methods that Europe had been applying to African and Asian people for centuries.

The dehumanization.
The racial hierarchy.
The biological categorization that placed some human beings outside the protections extended to others.
The organized, bureaucratic, industrialized killing.

None of that was new.

The novelty was the victims.

When Léopold II ran the Congo as a personal extraction enterprise and killed an estimated ten million people — when his agents cut off the hands of Congolese workers who did not meet their rubber quotas, when they took photographs of the severed hands arranged in rows, European civilization was not seized by an unprecedented moral crisis.

It was a business story.

A question of colonial administration.

A management problem in a distant place populated by people whose deaths registered as statistics, when they registered at all.

Hitler's crime, in European memory, was not the method.

It was the application of the method to people Europe had decided were people.

That decision, who counts, is what Césaire was writing about.

It has not been adequately answered.