roger makau

Easy happy soul,

[Cyprian, Is Nyakundi @C_NyaKundiH]

To understand LITTLE APERM MUHOOZI, you must understand Sperm Theory.

A little sperm can win one race, enter a powerful host, grow inside that host, feed from that host, speak through that host, then become a national problem.

Without Museveni, Little Sperm Muhoozi has no power of his own.

[Cyprian, Is Nyakundi @C_NyaKundiH]

Sperm Theory is the study of people whose only real achievement was winning a biological race, landing inside power, growing near money, then mistaking family access for personal genius.

Without the host, they are nothing.

Without the surname, nobody listens.

Without state oxygen, they disappear.

[Cyprian, Is Nyakundi @C_NyaKundiH]

Once a small sperm becomes a national problem, there is very little you can do except keep reminding him that he is still a small sperm.

That reminder hurts because it goes straight to the truth.

The surname is borrowed, the power is borrowed, and the confidence is borrowed.

[Okiya Omtatah Okoiti @OkiyaOmtatah]

A General Constitutional Test for the IMF Treaty

A treaty, statute, or international agreement amounts to a de facto constitutional amendment if it:

(a) removes a constitutional power from a constitutional organ;
(b) transfers that power to an entity not established by the Constitution;
(c) immunises the exercise of that power from constitutional scrutiny or judicial oversight; or
(d) fundamentally alters the relationship between the people and the institutions through which they exercise sovereign power.

Where any of these effects arises, the court must ask one question. Were the constitutional amendment procedures under Articles 255, 256, or 257 followed?

If the answer is no, then the measure is unconstitutional and invalid to the extent that it purports to alter the Constitution.
#OdiousDebt #DeniBandia

[Mindset Machine  @mindsetmachine]

Everyone has a million problems until they lose their health.

Then they have only one.

Health is the real luxury. Stay grateful.

[I.R. Iran in Tunisia🎒(تونس) @IranembTun]

The U.S. appears determined to seek revenge for its battlefield defeat on the sports field.

The Iranian national team traveled directly from Seattle Stadium in the United States to the airport and returned to Mexico. Arrived at 04:00 am.

The United States is not qualified to host international sporting events.

This has been the most unfair World Cup for Iran.

Thank you, Mexico. 🇲🇽

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Ernest Shackleton watched the ice slowly crush his ship past saving. He turned to his stranded crew and told them: ship and stores have gone, so now we'll go home.

It was 1915. He had sailed to Antarctica to cross the whole continent on foot, and his ship, the Endurance, got stuck in thick sea ice before he ever reached land. The ice held the ship for ten months, then crushed it until it broke apart. They left the ship that October and watched it sink that November, with no other people for hundreds of miles, no radio, and no one coming to look for them.

What the crew saw was a man who never lost his nerve. What they could not see was his diary. The night the ship was crushed, he wrote one line about it: it is hard to write what I feel. A crewmate later said it plainly. If Shackleton ever wanted to give up, he kept it to himself.

The calm was something he did on purpose. He held everyone to a strict daily routine so no one had time to lose hope. When the men threw out every heavy thing that might slow them down, he ordered them to keep the banjo, because music at night kept the men from falling apart. When his photographer lost his gloves, Shackleton gave away his own and let his fingers freeze.

They lived on the drifting ice for five months, eating seals and penguins. When the ice broke up, they rowed three small lifeboats about 180 miles to Elephant Island, a bare rock where no one lived and no ship would ever pass. Food ran so low that one of the men wrote they might have to eat whoever died first.

So Shackleton bet everything on a single boat. He and five others climbed into a 22-foot lifeboat and sailed 800 miles across the roughest ocean on Earth, through 16 days of freezing storms, aiming for a tiny island called South Georgia. They reached it. Then he crossed its mountains on foot for 36 hours straight, over ground no one had ever crossed, to reach a whaling station and get help.

Twenty-two men were still waiting back on Elephant Island. They waited 105 days. Three times a rescue ship was turned back by the ice before a small Chilean tug finally broke through, on August 30, 1916.

Shackleton stood on the bow as it neared the shore and called across the water, asking if they were all well. The answer came back: all safe, all well.

All 28 of them came home. He never let his men watch him break, and that was the whole point.

[Okiya Omtatah Okoiti @OkiyaOmtatah]

Thank you @gitweeta for sharing this. The paper you cite adds an interesting perspective to the growing debate on accountability and access to justice. I would be very interested in engaging with you further on this issue.

I am currently putting together a case in Kenya concerning the conduct, influence, and accountability of the IMF and World Bank. Your research and analysis could provide valuable insights. Please get in touch with me directly.

[New Direction AFRICA @Its_ereko]

🚨 Iran captain Mehdi Taremi just exposed @FIFAcom and the US:

“This is a disaster World Cup. Infantino promised to fix everything in our locker room… he did nothing. We can’t stay in Seattle — forced back to Tijuana every time. They want us out.”

Visa denials for staff. Day-before travel from Mexico. No recovery. Constant harassment because Iran refuses to bow.

This isn’t sport. It’s political sabotage by the empire using the World Cup as a weapon.

FIFA claims neutrality while Infantino plays lapdog. Iranian players still fighting with dignity.

Expose it. Stand with the players.

[roger makau @makaur]

@Rainmaker1973 @waft2016

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

BBC isn’t backing down.

Trump sued them for $10 billion, which means discovery cuts both ways. Now the BBC wants his phone logs, private schedules, daily diaries, and communications from November 2020 through January 20, 2021.

They aren’t just defending the case. They’re asking a simple question: did their documentary damage Trump’s reputation, or did January 6 do that all by itself?

Lawsuits open doors, and discovery is fair game 💥

[SHAV★ @shavnyuy]

Egyptian hieroglyphics. 3200 BC. No Europeans in sight.

Meroitic script, developed by the Kushite kingdom in present day Sudan. 300 BC. Still being deciphered by scholars today.

Ge’ez, the writing system of Ethiopia and Eritrea. 4th century BC. Still in active use.

Nsibidi, an indigenous script developed by peoples in present day Nigeria and Cameroon. No outside contact. No European involvement.

Vai script, created entirely by Vai people in present day Liberia in the 1830s. Western linguists arrived and found a complete syllabary already functioning without them.

Africa had writing before most of Europe had an alphabet.

[roger makau @makaur]

@jmuragengunjiri 😂

[Ma-Sengane💅🏿 @_ayanda_sengane]

My heart is so heavy today. 💔 We lost an ex-colleague because of a gambling addiction. He won R1 million at a casino, but went back the next day hoping to win even more and lost everything. He emptied his savings trying to recover the loss, then took out a bank loan and lost that too. With no money left, he resigned to access his retirement payout, gambled it away as well, and later died by suicide..

Gambling addiction is far more dangerous than many people realize. 😭

[🏳️‍🌈 Supermiralles 🇮🇹🇳🇱🇬🇧🇪🇸 @BlackVillain666]

Con la ola de calor, han saltado las vías del tranvía en Bruselas

[roger makau @makaur]

@BiancoDavinci Why??? And which sensible man would want to wear that?

[KTN News @KTNNewsKE]

The Gallery of Ruto's Lies PART 2: Kenyans furious as Ruto’s promises turn into empty projects

https://t.co/rYz8aX9pDz

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

That green hillside in the 2019 clip did not grow back on its own. Rio paid around 15,000 of its own favela residents to put roughly 10 million trees on slopes that had been stripped bare, the same slopes that were sending mudslides into homes every rainy season.

The program started in 1986. The city's environment department hired people who lived right next to the bare hills and paid them a monthly wage. They grew native Atlantic Forest trees in local nurseries and replanted the empty slopes. By 2019 they had covered about 3,400 hectares across 92 neighborhoods, an area roughly ten times the size of New York's Central Park, inside a city of six million people.

The reason was never scenery. The favelas had been climbing the hills since the 1940s, whole neighborhoods built straight up the slopes, and every patch they cleared turned into a landslide waiting for rain. Bare ground also baked in the sun and caught fire in dry spells. Tree roots hold the soil and let rainwater soak in instead of running straight off into the streets below. Replanting was a way to stop the hills from killing the people living on them.

Those 30 years are the second time Rio has replanted its hills. In the 1860s the city ran out of water because coffee plantations had flattened the forest on the hills above it, and the springs feeding Rio dried up. The emperor put an army major named Manuel Gomes Archer in charge of fixing it. His crew was six enslaved workers, five men and one woman, listed by name in his diaries: Eleuterio, Constantino, Manuel, Mateus, Leopoldo, and Maria. Over 13 years they planted more than 100,000 trees by hand. That replanting grew into the Tijuca forest, the green carpet wrapped around Christ the Redeemer in every postcard of the city, and one of the first big reforestation projects anyone had tried.

So the before-and-after is real, and it goes back much further than 30 years. Rio has stripped its hills bare twice, once for coffee and once for housing, and replanted its way back both times. The forest you are looking at is something the city had to build on purpose, because the alternative was watching the hillsides come down on top of people.

[MR. HiMSELF @pushinM15]

South Africa has 17,450 empty teacher posts.

Not 17,450 teachers who couldn't be found.

17,450 posts that simply weren't filled.

Here's what makes it worse.

The Department of Basic Education's own National Recruitment Database has 12,700 qualified, unemployed educators actively looking for work right now. Trained teachers. Ready to teach. Sitting at home.

So this isn't a skills shortage. It's a system failure.

While those posts sit empty, South African learners are paying the price. Over 50% of primary school children are taught in classes of more than 40 pupils. Some Gauteng classrooms have 60 to 70 learners per teacher. KwaZulu-Natal averages 39 learners per teacher. These aren't schools.

They're holding pens.

The remaining teachers aren't doing fine either. Research from Stellenbosch University found that 44% of Grade R to Grade 12 teachers feel burned out "always or very often." Nearly half are considering leaving the profession within the next decade. And over 30,000 already left in just five years.

The pipeline is ageing too.

About 49% of current public school teachers are 50 or older. Retirement is coming. Fast.
We keep asking why matric results are what they are. Why Grade 4 learners can't read.

Why the system underperforms year after year.

The answer is standing right in front of us.

You can't build human capital in a classroom with 70 kids and one exhausted teacher.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Bhutan did something almost no country on Earth has done: they put trees in the constitution.

Not a vague "we care about nature" type promise but an actual number. At least 60% of the country must remain under forest cover for all time.

They met the goal and blew past it.

About 70% of Bhutan is forested, which is one reason this small Himalayan country is one of the few carbon-negative nations on Earth. It absorbs more carbon than it emits.

That doesn't mean Bhutan has no emissions. It does. But its forests and land absorb more than the country puts out.

Which is kind of wild when you think about it, because most countries treat forests like a resource to be used and abused as needed.

Bhutan treated them more like national infrastructure. They looked at their forests and decided they weren't just leftover land waiting to be used for something.