Burkinabé students now need government permission to study abroad. This means that whether your father is a cabinet minister or a private millionaire, there is no way for their children to escape the state of the country's educational system
Which leaves them no choice but to make sure that the facilities available to students in the country are befitting of their own children.
That is how a country develops an actual elite. Not like Nigeria where as soon as I finished secondary school, my parents put me on a plane to England to enjoy a standard of education that no Nigerian alive today will ever enjoy in Nigeria. The class my parents belong to is called a pseudo-elite.
A proper elite is what is coming together now in the AES. Just wait. If there is no change of Nigeria's trajectory, within 10 years, Nigerians will start going to university in Burkina Faso and making it out to be a status symbol.
The United States is a capitalist plantation run by 1,000 billionaires who oversee 200 million broke workers with the assistance of 20 million millionaires who provide cover.
This is nothing to celebrate.
@infraa_@foundring1 It increasingly looking like tech as with other manufactured crisis or solutions are just excuses to do the same thing they plan on doing anyway
The "international community" condemned this.
The "international community" is concerned.
The "international community" demands accountability.
Which countries constitute the international community?
In practice: the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia.
Sometimes Japan. Sometimes South Korea.
Seven billion people in China, India, Russia, the Arab world, Latin America, Southeast Asia, and Africa are not the "international community."
They are the subject of the international community's concern.
They are the recipients of the international community's demands.
They are the locations where the international community deploys its accountability mechanisms.
This linguistic sleight of hand, converting a specific group of powerful Western states into "the international community" as if by consensus of the entire planet, is so normalized that serious journalists use it without irony in serious publications every day.
And the Indian reader, the Nigerian reader, the Vietnamese reader encounters this phrase and has two choices:
Accept the framing, in which case they have accepted their own exclusion from the category of "international."
Or reject it, in which case they are being unreasonable, parochial, nationalist, resistant to universal norms.
The language is a trap.
And it was built so carefully that most people walk into it before they notice it's there.
Imagine having forty-something million of your own citizens on food stamps and calling another nation hungry. This is not a proclamation. This is a projection. Keep your SNAP advice.
Our assets, our choices. Mind your malnutrition rates.
⚡️BREAKING: Unexpected arrival of Saudi Arabia's Deputy Foreign Minister at the funeral ceremony of Ayatollah Khamenei
While Oman and Qatar were on the list of foreign delegations, Saudi Arabia was Not
In 2016, President Mahama flew to Tehran. The martyred Imam Seyed Ali Khamenei received him at his residence.
He didn't talk about oil deals or trade memorandums. He talked about what was happening to Africa. He said the extremism isn't homegrown. it has sponsors, and those sponsors come from Western countries and the Zionist regime. He said the answer isn't more dependency on the same people. It's independent countries turning to each other.
That's what he thought about Africa. Not as a problem to manage. Not as a market. As a place full of dignified nations that deserve to stand on their own. Go read what he actually said about Africa in his other meetings with African leaders.
Iran buries its martyred Imam this week. But his words remain standing.
#WeMustRise
#باید_برخاست
#رهبر_شهید
‘The level of prosperity that has been achieved in formal colonial powers is grounded in the robbery of Africa. Built on the grief and suffering of African people’
-Russian President Vladimir Putin
⚓️ IRGC releases video and audio of the last time the USS Brave Sir Robin (CVN-69, aka USS Dwight D. Eisenhower) transited the Strait of Hormuz. This was in late November 2023.
I predict it will be a VERY long time, if ever, that we again see a US carrier enter the Persian Gulf.
We've been quiet recently because Mark Goodwin and I have been working to write the most comprehensive investigation into Polymarket's origins and ambitions to date.
We found that Polymarket's "official" origin story, that Shayne Coplan founded the company alone in 2020 and then built "the company in his bathroom", is a lie. Polymarket really started years earlier as another company called TokenBnk that was deeply tied to Israeli interests, specifically a crypto company founded by Benjamin Netanyahu's niece and nephew. Coplan has actively tried to obfuscate this company from his story and it's not the only thing either.
In Part 1 of this two-part series, we unravel the real history of Polymarket, directly connecting the company to Peter Thiel's efforts to resurrect controversial DARPA programs from its now defunct Information Awareness Office. Polymarket appears to have been chosen by Thiel and his associates to succeed in resurrecting DARPA's Policy Analysis Market where another Thiel-linked company, Augur, had previously failed.
Stay tuned for Part 2, where we explore the current influence of prediction markets and Polymarket, including how an insidious effort to have prediction markets replace representative democracy as a governance model is already being slowly implemented by the White House.
Read Part 1 here: https://t.co/xTmU5RzoZz
‼️ BREAKING: Anthropic has embedded hidden spyware-like code in Claude Code that covertly targets Chinese users. It then sends information regarding every user by injecting it into their prompt message.
Claude Code is sending info like timezone, proxy and possible AI Lab connections into the system prompt in ways Chinese users can't notice.
A coding agent with repo and command permissions should not silently hide routing metadata inside prompts. This is a serious breach of user trust.
🚨🇨🇳 PENTAGON IN PANIC: CHINA TESTS SHAPE-SHIFTING HYPERSONIC RAMJET ENGINE
China has pulled off a major hypersonic breakthrough by ground-testing a variable-geometry Ramjet that reshapes its own internal airflow channel in flight — much like a throat tightening and relaxing — and runs continuously from Mach 1.8 all the way to Mach 6 without leaking superheated gases or needing a heavy rocket booster to get started.
🔸 Chinese engineers solved the decades-old problem of creating reliable airtight seals for moving parts inside variable-geometry Ramjets, a challenge that caused severe gas leaks at extreme heat and speed and led most countries to abandon the design entirely.
🔸 The engine’s combustion chamber throat adjusted itself in just one-third of a second while inhaling gases at 1,650 degrees Celsius, delivering stable performance across a wide speed range that previously required separate boosters and added cost and complexity.
🔸 The graphite seal used in the Chinese breakthrough is the same one the US defense industry desperately needs. The US defense industry, now faces vulnerabilities in its graphite supply chains – material critical for missile nose tips, rocket nozzles, stealth coatings, and nuclear reactor components.
🔸 China produces nearly 80 percent of the world’s graphite, including the high-purity grades needed for aerospace, and restricted exports of the material to the United States starting in late 2024.
🔸 Washington has invoked the Defense Production Act to fund domestic and allied graphite mining while Europe pushes similar efforts under its Critical Raw Materials Act, yet building new supply chains from scratch is expected to take a decade or more.
Do you think U.S. engines can catch up with Chinese technology?