Those who have lost their lives in the Mediterranean Sea are victims both of decisions that were made and of decisions that were not made. Indifference to the common good and corruption in their countries of origin; a global economic system that generates poverty and exclusion; fear that fuels prejudice and contempt; the belief that such problems do not concern us; the criminal calculations of those who profit from the suffering of others; the slow and difficult transition from mere emergency management to the development of comprehensive and shared policies. #PastoralVisit #Lampedusa
For those confused, here’s a former MOSSAD director admitting that they treat injured ISIS and Al-Qaeda fighters. “it’s for humanitarian reasons, as it’s always good to treat your enemies in a humane way” he says. But when asked if they can treat injured Hezbollah fighters too, he replies with an emphatic NO.
What other proof do you need about the real sponsors of terrorism?
Multipolarity doesn't mean Western people will become poor.
It means they will become normal.
It means a Congolese engineer and a German engineer will negotiate on terms that reflect their actual value rather than the legacy of who colonized whom.
It means the dollar will be one currency among several rather than the rent the whole world pays to America for existing.
It means European countries will have to make foreign policy based on actual relationships rather than the assumption that their preferences automatically constitute the international consensus.
Normal.
The horror with which this prospect is greeted, the language of civilizational threat, of decline, of loss, tells you everything about how far from normal the current arrangement actually is.
And who it's normal for.
If you are outside the United States or the West, always remember that you are not part of this world Elon Musk is envisioning. Actually, if you are not white, count yourself out. If anything, you are going to be the collateral damage for whatever universe Elon dreams of for himself and his Epstein colleagues.
This distinction is important so that you don’t get too excited and start supporting your own exploitation because you are reading a fire headline from a twitter blog.
That’s putting aside the fact that his pastime is making impossible promises. You will be fool to believe he will build you a world where working will be optional.
What happens when an internet leftist darling from the Global South does something that western internet leftists do not understand and can't be bothered to research?
Complete meltdown.
If technology becomes the ultimate criterion, the human person risks being reduced to data, a cog in a machine or a commodity. If, however, technology is integrated with a wise perspective, it can become an instrument of growth, justice and fraternity. #MagnificaHumanitas
Katsina Update:
The Katsina State Keke Ambulance are ready for deployment across Primary Healthcare Centers across the 361 Political Wards in the state
The administration of Governor @dikko_radda has reconstructed at least one Primary Healthcare Center in every of the 361 wards to enhance primary healthcare across the state.
These Keke Ambulance were designed and equipped to provide primary healthcare services in an effort to bring healthcare services closer to communities.
For the record, people from countries that have never had a successful modern revolution need to learn to sit down and shut up more often when those with actual revolutions in progress are going about their business.
If Burkina Faso is receiving criticism from Chinese, Vietnamese, Russian, Cuban, North Korean or Iranian sources, such criticism can be taken seriously and acted on. The source makes the critique valid because they've actually been there and done that.
But if the criticism is coming from our chronically online brethren in White-istan, their cousins in Epstein-istan, and their eternally hapless southern vassals in Arab-istan and Afristan, it has all the value of a Child Rights bill sponsored by Ghislaine Maxwell.
If you haven't figured out how to stop your own taxes from being directly used to fund the wholesale murder of Sahelian villagers, Congolese shopkeepers, Iranian schoolchildren and Palestinian olive farmers; if your own government has revealed that it is controlled by a network of rich White-istanis who eat cute little white girls with pigtails and call their meat "jerky" and you did absolutely nothing about it except make upper case tweets with lots of exclamation marks, your opinions about Ibrahim Traoré, Burkina Faso, the Sahelian Alliance, or any other anti-imperial project are completely worthless and nobody needs them.
That Palestine flag on your Twitter display name has zero revolutionary value and nothing you say has any value. At best, you're a cheerleader and nothing more. So stay on the sidelines, wave your internet pom-poms and learn to shut the fuck up while the actual players on the field get things done.
Rant over.
Some ladies are demanding hugs and kisses from their men, and melting into their arms during painful periods. Others are offering mood swing and disrespect to their men and expecting them to understand.
Guess which one they tried convincing you is women's nature? 😊
Ironically, this heated "Olodo Uprising" conversation is actually a good sign for Nigeria.
Nigeria is finally having its first endogenous, organically-defined culture war over an issue that is intrinsically important to Nigerian society.
Every other culture war that post-colonial Nigeria has fought until now has been imported Yankee slop, or imported religious slop, or both (LGBTQ, 3rd wave Feminism, "sexual liberation", tithing, NYSC hijab, etc).
A society fighting internal culture wars over its own self-defined issues is a society that is finally obtaining an identity of its own. Long may the war continue, and may the olodos suffer crushing defeat that dooms their uprising to the chapters of a Jude Bela historical documentary released in 2045.
The Nigerian tech bros are already thinking of a boat-hailing service. The “Uber” when it floods. That's how they build solutions. Their own version of Innovation it to never think of how to solve the flood crisis permanently, but to manage it and make profit off the situation.