Mr Odu

Talk is cheap, talk less act more.

I follow back

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The United Nations found that the U.S.-led sanctions on Iraq in the 1990s killed approximately half a million children.

Madeleine Albright, U.S. Secretary of State, was asked about this figure in a 1996 interview.

She said: "We think the price is worth it."

Not disputed. Not anguished over. Not offered as a tragic necessity with evident grief.

Worth it.

Five hundred thousand dead children, denominated as a cost that was worth paying to maintain political pressure on a government that the United States had armed and supported a decade earlier when it was gassing Kurds and Iranians.

I want you to hold that number, 500,000 children, and then I want you to think about the last time you saw a Western newspaper run a sustained, weeks-long, morally urgent campaign about those children.

Now think about the coverage of any restriction on women's dress in any Muslim-majority country in the same period.

Compare the column inches.

Compare the outrage.

Compare what was treated as a civilizational crisis requiring urgent Western attention.

The children were the price that was worth it.

The hijab was the story worth telling.

That editorial choice is not about values.

It is about which story serves the people who need the story told.

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

This is why "forex gurus" sell you a course instead of encouraging you to study institutional finance and understand how interbank liquidity actually works.

If the students of Habby Forex and Jeffrey Benson truly understood capital dynamics, they would never believe the ridiculous claim that Jeffrey withdrew $9 million from an offshore retail broker like Assex Markets or Kwakol. The only way such a massive withdrawal could legitimately happen is if these brokers possessed active clearing contracts and institutional settlement lines with Tier-1 liquidity providers like JPMorgan Chase, which they simply do not have.

The primary purpose of selling courses is to control the narrative and keep students in the dark. The irony is that, strictly speaking, these influencers are not even real forex traders, and their audience fails to realize this due to a complete misunderstanding of market microstructure and broker execution models.

A retail broker like the ones Habby Forex promotes is no different from a Bet9ja shop. When you walk into Bet9ja and place a bet that Real Madrid will beat Barcelona, you are simply entering into a private wager with the betting house.
Real Madrid, Barcelona, and La Liga have no idea your bet exists, and neither the players nor the league earn anything whether you win or lose. Your win is an outright loss for the betting house, and your loss is their direct profit. The betting house remains profitable because they know that over 90% of gamblers will eventually lose all their money, and even the rare few who win substantial sums usually gamble it all back.

This is precisely how the brokers used by Habby Forex and Jeffrey Benson operate. When you open their trading app, you see live charts of forex price movements, much like watching live scores on a sports betting app. But when you place an order, that trade is logged solely on the broker's private server. The broker makes zero attempt to route or execute your order in the real interbank market. Routing orders to real global liquidity providers requires massive upfront capital, bridge fees, and transaction costs. Because statistics show that roughly 90% of retail traders wipe out their account balance within 90 days, the broker has no financial incentive to incur costs by sending your order to the real market. They simply wait for you to blow your account so they can pocket 100% of your deposit.

This is also why these brokers offer absurd leverage like 1:2000, as it ensures you lose your money as quickly as possible. In the real financial world, leverage consists of strictly collateralized credit lines. In the United States, retail leverage is legally capped at 1:50; in the UK and EU, it is capped at 1:30; and in many emerging markets, it is even lower to prevent systemic risk due to lack of liquidity.

Ultimately, these brokers partner with forex influencers like Habby and Jeffrey Benson to funnel inexperienced traders onto their platforms. They pay these influencers massive commissions for every referral, and under certain affiliate deals, they even pay them a percentage of their followers' trading losses, because client losses are where the broker makes the most money.

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

Whether Davido is an irredeemable idiot or a politically illiterate pop star is completely immaterial at this stage.

What actually matters is the lethal content, the global reach, and the dangerous narrative of his tweets. If a violent clown is actively chasing you with a sharp knife, you do not lie down on the floor to start laughing at his colorful outfit; you run for your dear life.

Since Davido’s tweet is directly inviting foreign military intervention, Western sanctions, and potential AFRICOM airstrikes on Nigerian soil, there is absolutely no rational reason to dismiss it as merely a harmless joke, given his massive global reach, celebrity prestige, and multi-million-follower influence.

The traitorous Iranian exiles, Iraqi defectors, and Libyan expatriates who were foolishly begging for American airstrikes on their own homelands may very well have been stupid, naive, and perpetually dumb, but their personal intelligence or lack of is completely irrelevant. What actually matters is that their public stupidity served as the essential propaganda cover and narrative justification for innocent schoolgirls to be bombed in their classrooms, and for public bridges, power plants, and water facilities to be reduced to rubble.

By simply dismissing him as "stupid," you are actively sanitizing his tweet, downplaying the danger, and making a treasonable call for foreign military aggression in Nigeria look like another harmless celebrity announcement.

Nigerians desperately need to stop describing the ruling political elites in this country as "clueless," "illiterate," and "incompetent" for this exact same reason. You endlessly scream that President Tinubu is "stupid" and "clueless," yet the World Bank and the IMF are continuously sending him glowing congratulatory messages. Billionaire business moguls, corporate monopolists, and high-profile political godfathers are happily aligning with him because they have successfully secured generational wealth, record corporate dividends, and massive portfolio returns from the overvalued stock market boom caused by artificially engineered hyperinflation.

At what exact point do you finally stop calling him "incompetent" and admit the raw material truth: that he was never here to serve the Nigerian people in the first place? Do you not understand that your superficial insults about his "incompetence" actually provide him with the perfect political cover?

I know that I can be accused of taking life far too seriously most of the time, but this is an emergency area where we desperately need to be ruthlessly serious. Stop making cheap jokes about these people, making viral memes out of their statements, and comforting yourself with the delusion that they are mad, clueless, or stupid.

Recognize that they know, see, and understand perfectly well what they are doing, so you do not end up rolling on the floor and laughing with tears of banter in your eyes while they are actively picking your pockets, looting your national treasury, and destroying your children's future.

[Yummy Chows😋 @nwaebonyistate]

Instead of staying with a man during his downtime and be disrespecting him,pls just walk away.

This is why most of you complain that you suffered with him when he had nothing, and he still left you when he started seeing money.

Men have ego, and they keep records like mad.

Some of you even go as far as receiving gifts from other men and rubbing it on his face, you go out and come back anytime you want with no explanation, you speak to him in a degoretory way, etc. And you think he will not walk away when he makes money.

Some of them won't leave during tht their downtime because they need you to be curing kongi.

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

Nigeria's foreign reserves have supposedly increased to a staggering $51 billion, marking the highest level the country has seen in 17 years.
Unfortunately, this heavily publicized macroeconomic achievement is not something that ordinary Nigerians should be celebrating or congratulating the government over.

This is because a massive, tragic number of local businesses, and independent factories were brutally sacrificed on the altar of the Tinubu Administration's economic policies to make this statistical illusion a physical possibility.
The hard truth is that even though Nigeria's foreign reserves have technically increased from $35 billion in 2022 (under Muhammadu Buhari's administration) up to $51 billion in 2026 (under Tinubu's administration), almost all of this newly added cash came directly from foreign speculators.

To clearly understand this financial scam, you have to remember that when Tinubu first came to power, the base interest rate (the annual profit you expect to make when you buy Treasury Bills or government bonds from the Central Bank) was sitting at roughly 11%. But the very second Tinubu captured power, he aggressively hiked this interest rate to an unprecedented, jaw-dropping 27%.
For relative context, the standard interest rate in the United States is hovering at only about 4 percent. So, obviously, this astronomical increase was strictly done to entice, lure, and practically beg wealthy European bondholders, Wall Street hedge funds, offshore currency speculators, and international capital flight managers to come dump their volatile dollars into Nigeria. While this influx of dollar speculative investment temporarily inflated the Central Bank's reserves, this is nothing but dangerous and highly unstable "hot money."
In 1-3 years, these short-term bonds will inevitably mature, and these offshore investors will aggressively demand their principal and their massive 27 percent interest back, which will rapidly deplete and empty the national reserves even further.

But this is not the only devastating problem. This desperate policy has also violently forced commercial banks to aggressively increase their own lending rates even higher, with many banks now charging local businesses a crippling 35 percent to 40 percent interest on basic business loans. This predatory banking environment has effectively forced countless local businesses, agricultural enterprises, and manufacturing firms to completely collapse. Since many of these struggling businesses depend heavily on short-term bank loans to pay salaries, purchase raw materials, fund daily operations, and maintain their supply chains, there is mathematically no way they can afford to pay these extortionate interest rates to the banks while still maintaining basic operational profitability.

This ridiculously high interest rate, when aggressively added to the painful, continuous removal of petrol and electricity subsidies, has indeed succeeded in artificially inflating Nigeria's foreign reserves to impress Western creditors. But in the exact same breath, it has violently pushed tens of millions of ordinary Nigerians into extreme, multidimensional poverty, skyrocketed the cost of basic food, completely crumbled local industries, and transformed the entire country into an economic wasteland just to make the Central Bank's balance sheet look pretty to the IMF.

[Pathfinder @Pathfinder077]

When the Fulanis arrived in Hausa land, they met the Hausas already practicing Islam. Yet the Fulanis claimed that the Hausas were not practicing Islam in the right way and they declared jihad on the Hausa kingdom.

The Fulanis wlped out every Hausa prince and their kings who were already Muslims in that jihad. In the aftermath of the war only the Fulanis benefited from it and became the ruling class in the Hausa states without appointing any Hausa Muslim to be king, which means they put their tribe first before religion in the Hausa states they conquered

But you as a Yoruba Muslim, because of your ignorance and lack of knowledge about history, will be saying your religion come first before your Yoruba tribe. You’re the biggest f🤡🤡I on earth.

[KING CHIDI @guzu_p]

I feel sad for Arsenal.

If there's something to learn from them, it is their relentless drive and persistence this season.

A team who have been mocked for more than a decade has suddenly become a top club and amongst the best club in the world.

They didn't win the Champions League this year, but with this their performance and zeal, they'll definitely win it in the nearest future.

Arsenal and their fans, please take heart. I understand the pain of being close and still not touching it. Most of us have been there.

This season, you have earned alot of respect from those who once belittled you. And you remain the Champions of England and the second best in the world this season.

Wish you the very best 🙏

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

We did it, together.

[Mr Odu @Jaidonskovic20]

@neo_officialll I was discussing this with my wife a few months ago.
The ratio of female birth is higher

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

Donald Trump just confirmed all my geopolitical analysis on the nature of the modern transatlantic empire. Just read this excerpt:

Reporter: "To what extent are Americans' financial situations motivating you to make a deal?"

President Trump: "Not even a little bit…I don't think about Americans' financial situations."

We need to understand that modern empires have evolved so much that it would be aggressively misleading and false to define them as just a single country. An empire is a conglomerate of mega-corporations that may or may not be headquartered in the country hosting the empire. For example, I consider Samsung an integral part of the U.S. empire, even though it is a South Korean company.

These mega-corporations attach to their host nations like a virus and cannibalize the host nation's financial and military infrastructures to exert ultra-capitalistic dominance across the globe.

This modern transatlantic empire rests on four pillars.

The first pillar is raw military power. Mega-corporations need continuous access to cheap raw materials like lithium from South America, cobalt and uranium from Africa, and oil from the Middle East.
The U.S. maintains approximately 850 recognized military installations across more than 80 sovereign countries, and these bases are the private security arm of this modern transatlantic empire.
They ensure that whoever is in power locally keeps the mines and oil wells open to foreign corporate ownership. If a sovereign nation decides to nationalize its resources by taking its oil back from ExxonMobil to fund its own citizens' welfare, the mega-corporations view this as theft. These military bases also serve as a deterrent and a warning signal. They tell these countries that if they kick out the mega-corporations, the empire has the logistical capability to fund an insurgency, enact a regime change using their paramilitary NGO groups, or launch a full-scale military invasion within 48 hours.

The second pillar is the U.S. Navy, which serves as the logistical protection force for these mega-corporations.
The mega-corporations of today, like Apple, Samsung, Amazon, and Walmart, rely entirely on "just-in-time" global manufacturing.
For example, even though the iPhone is designed in the USA, the A-series microchips are manufactured by TSMC in Taiwan, the OLED display panels are predominantly manufactured by Samsung and LG in South Korea and BOE in China. The highly advanced camera lenses and image sensors are primarily manufactured by Sony in Japan, the flash memory chips are outsourced from Japan and South Korea, the aluminum and titanium used for the casing are sourced from countries like Canada and Australia, and the rare earth minerals needed for the magnets, speakers, and vibration motors are heavily mined and processed in China, Vietnam, and Africa.

Once all these high-tech pieces are manufactured, they are shipped to massive mega-factories to be screwed, glued, and soldered together by human hands in China. Because these mega-corporations must ship components across five different oceans to make their outsourced model work, they require a global police force to guard the trade routes, and this is where the U.S. Navy comes in.
Its primary job is to patrol the global "chokepoints" like the Strait of Malacca, the Strait of Hormuz, and the Suez Canal region.

The U.S. Navy ensures that no regional power (like Iran, China, or Yemen) can block a shipping lane, impose transit taxes, or disrupt the massive cargo ships carrying the conglomerate's goods.
The Navy effectively subsidizes global corporations by providing them with free, invincible shipping insurance.

The third pillar is the boardroom terror groups like the IMF and World Bank.
These are economic hitmen, and their primary assignment is to force indebted nations to dismantle their sovereignty. When a country is on the brink of bankruptcy, the IMF steps in and offers a bailout loan. But the loan comes with extreme conditions called Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs).
To get the money to avoid starvation or state collapse, the country must agree to the IMF's demands.
The IMF demands the country sell off its publicly owned assets to pay the debt. The state water company, the power grid, the telecommunications network, and the national airline are auctioned off for pennies on the dollar. Who buys them? The same mega-corporations that make up the modern transatlantic empire.

The IMF also forces the indebted country to eliminate environmental protections, cut minimum wages, crush labor unions, and slash corporate taxes. They also force countries to cut funding for public healthcare and education to redirect that money to debt repayment for Wall Street banks that are still part of the empire.

The fourth pillar of this modern empire is the cultural pillar that spreads the gospel of global consumerism.
Understand that no empire in human history has ever survived on pure military force and economic extortion alone. To truly rule, an empire needs "soft power", an ideology or a religion that makes the subjects want to be part of the system.
In this transnational corporate empire, that "religion" is global consumerism, and its church is Hollywood, Western media, and Big Tech algorithms on social media platforms.

Why does a teenage boy in Anambra or a factory worker in Vietnam desperately want a $1,200 Apple iPhone when a $100 generic phone does the exact same basic tasks? Because the media pillar has done its job and has trained the global population to view themselves not as citizens, workers, or communities, but as consumers.
If you want to be viewed as modern, wealthy, and relevant, you must buy the iPhone, wear Nike shoes, and drink Coca-Cola.
The media creates an artificial, insatiable psychological void that can only be filled by buying the products that the empire’s supply chain produces.

These corporations funnel hundreds of millions of dollars to Hollywood to make movies like Top Gun, Transformers, or Iron Man to portray the "enforcers" of the empire (the American military) not as guards for corporate shipping lanes, but as heroic defenders of "global freedom."

The media also sanitizes the corporate oligarchs and CEOs as well. Billionaires like Bill Gates and Zuckerberg are packaged not as ruthless monopolists, but as "visionary geniuses" and "philanthropists" saving the world and "connecting people together."

This media apparatus also teaches the global public that the highest form of human achievement is to get a job at a mega-corporation, earn capital, and spend it on the conglomerate's goods. Because the media makes people enjoy consuming, they don't feel like subjects of an empire; they feel like free, active participants.

So, in essence, Trump is right when he said he does not think about Americans' financial situations in whatever foreign wars the U.S. military has to fight to secure supply chains and no-bid contracts for these mega-corporations.

This also confirms my previous analysis that even Americans and the rest of Europe are also victims of these mega-corporations just like the rest of us in the Global South.
The mega-corporations that make up this transatlantic empire have absolutely no loyalty to the American flag, the British Crown, or the Western working class. Capital has no borders.
In this system, the Global South is exploited for its cheap labor and raw materials, while the citizens of the Global North are exploited for their tax dollars and consumer debt.

[Mr Odu @Jaidonskovic20]

@TheEmmalez @Donayinkzy21 Not your story bro

[David Miller @Tracking_Power]

From the Farsi:

We are counting the minutes until we meet the Americans in the Persian Gulf. For the sake of our master's fallen body, for the mutilated bodies of the dear girls and boys of Minab School, and for the revenge that, since that cursed night of 13 Dey 1398, we have awakened to every morning in our thoughts. Come sooner, you bastards!

[Black_Melanin🥰 @itz_taser]

Yesterday, I told my colleague who’s a married man that any woman who’s always saying “my money is my own and my husband’s money is our own”, is a self!sh and a w!cked woman.

He said I’m just saying it and that when I marry I might not maintain the same energy, I told him, I grew up seeing my mother assisting my father in running the household, so I know every woman can do it if they want to.

You don’t need to be married to know what’s good and ev!l.

A lot of women will have money but watch their husbands suffer in order to solve one problem or the other in the family, but will choose not to assist him because he’s the man of the house.

I know all these states from relationships and men often ignores them.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

There is a profound irony in the fact that the countries funding the American war on Iran are the same countries that call themselves the heart of Arab and Muslim civilization.

Mecca is in Saudi Arabia.

The largest sovereign wealth funds in the Muslim world are in the Gulf.

The most expensive mosques.

The most lavish Islamic conferences.

The most generously funded Islamic universities and research centers and charitable foundations.

And the money that funds all of this, the same money, from the same oil, managed by the same governments, is also funding the military infrastructure that is being used against the most significant remaining Muslim power that has not been broken by the American imperial system.

You are funding the dismantling of the last major Muslim state that says no.

With money made from Muslim oil.

Managed by governments that claim Muslim legitimacy.

In the name of a civilization whose Prophet said the Muslim ummah is one body.

The contradiction is not subtle.

It is not hidden.

It does not require sophisticated analysis to see.

It is completely, starkly, humiliatingly visible to every Muslim in the world who is paying attention.

And the Muslims of the world are paying attention.

They are watching.

They are learning.

And what they are learning about the governments of the Gulf will not be forgotten when the security arrangements change and the palaces need a different kind of legitimacy.

[COMBATE |🇵🇷 @upholdreality]

🔴 Hezbollah lured an entire Israeli armored company into a textbook ambush last night on the Taybeh–Qantara axis

Tuesday, Israel's 7th Brigade sent a remote-controlled bulldozer to probe Hezbollah's defensive lines between Muhaysibat and Qantara.

The fighters spotted it and let it pass. They wanted the real prize.

Wednesday at 6:50 PM, it came. A full armored column of Merkava tanks and D9 bulldozers, rolling single-file toward Qantara.

Hezbollah waited. Every vehicle entered the kill zone. Then the order came, and with the battle cry "Ya Rasul Allah," the fighters launched.

Guided missiles slammed into the middle of the column. Four Merkavas and a D9, all destroyed. The column was now cut in half.

The rear platoon popped smoke to hide. It didn't matter. Missiles found them too. All four tanks burned.
The lead platoon tried to push through into Qantara anyway. More missiles. Another D9 and two more Merkavas gone.

The surviving soldiers abandoned their vehicles and tried to evacuate their casualties, fleeing on foot back toward Muhaysibat while Hezbollah artillery pounded their command posts and reinforcements.

Final toll: ten tanks, two bulldozers. An entire company's worth of armor wiped out in a single engagement.

And this was the second time in three days. Two days earlier, Hezbollah destroyed eight Merkavas in a similar ambush on the Taybeh to Deir Siryan road.

[COMBATE |🇵🇷 @upholdreality]

Yemen leader al-Houthi:

"If surrender were the right choice, the Quran would have said: 'When the Jews attack you -- surrender"

"Even animals can tell enemy from friend by instinct. Yet Arab leaders still see their worst enemies as friends... utter FOOLISHNESS."

[Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi]

There’s a Moroccan proverb about three bulls and a lion. The lion promises the brown and black bulls safety if they don’t interfere when he attacks and eats the white bull. They agree. But soon, the lion is once again hungry. He approaches the brown bull and promises him safety if he doesn’t interfere to protect the black bull. The brown bull agrees and the lion eats the black bull without opposition. Eventually the lion, hungry again, attacks the brown bull who now has no one to defend him. His last words are “I was eaten with the white bull.”

[Abubakar Evuti @NgugiEvuti]

If you remember that Palestinians are Arabs, the issue appears multilayered and complicated.

Arab countries surely see the game at play: before Iran it was Palestine, who are Arabs. Right now Israel is already making preparations to turn her attention towards Turkey after they are done with Iran.

Arab or no, one by one the countries that make up the Muslim world will fall.

All of this was foretold: A time will come, said the Prophet (SAW), when Muslims will be eaten like a meal at a feast —with impunity and without fear.

Confused, someone asked the Prophet if it would be because of our small number. The Prophet said, "No, you will be numerous at that time but you will be scum and rubbish like that carried down by a torrent, and Allah will take fear of you from the breasts of your enemy and cast ‘wahn’ into your hearts."

Someone asked: "What is ‘wahn’, O Messenger of Allah?" He replied: "Love of the world and dislike of death."

[𝕊𝕡𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕻𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕤 @SprinterPress]

Residents of Minab spent the Night of Al Qadr at the graves of recently deceased schoolgirls.