🔴⚪ Saka's "off form"? Nah — his two-man band is missing half its members.
Since 2018, Salah and Trent have the deadliest one-two combination in the Premier League. 39 of them. Right behind, at 38? Not Salah and Firmino. Not De Bruyne and Sterling. Not even Robertson and Mane. Saka and Ødegaard.
One combination behind the best partnership England has seen in seven years. Read that again.
Now zoom out. For two seasons we've had that right side broken up piece by piece. Ødegaard in and out with injuries, missing games he should be starting. Ben White — who has 16 one-twos with Saka on that very same list — also in, also out. The right corridor that terrorised Premier League defences since 2018 has been quietly dismantled by fitness, not by form.
And what did people conclude? Saka is off. Saka needs dropping. Saka has gone selfish.
Nobody stopped to ask why the plug wasn't working before blaming the plug. Somebody removed the socket from the wall first.
Last night, all three were out there together again. Did you not see the spark come straight back on the right? Did that flow not remind you of something? That wasn't a coincidence. That's the machine switched back on.
The right side was never broken. It was unplugged.
COYG. 🔴⚪
I spoke about this insidious undermining of the basic concept of Nigerian and African nationhood by US-linked entities like the so-called "Pearlville School" on @RT_com yesterday.
What Is A Color Revolution?
Most of Africa’s nations gained their independence between the 1950s and 1960s, but the colonial entity that spent over 400 preceding years oppressing these nations had no intention of ever leaving them alone.
Africa has dealt with the consequences of this truth ever since. Across the continent, and the wider Global South, every nation that has dared to chart a truly independent course has seen a curious rise in political and social turmoil, usually followed by the ousting or decapitation of its leadership, and the swift return to a political status quo that always favored the West.
In this report for The Spearhead, @barrahart offers a crash course on the West’s regime change playbook, using Ukraine, Nigeria and Tanzania as case studies.
Peller’s Wedding Guests: Foreign Espionage And African Entertainment
When influencers and "foreign guests" collide, as is the case here, we are not watching a wedding but a social engineering operation
It is very clear here that the rise of our internet sensations is often engineered. When foreign money starts flowing into our digital spaces, it is time to start asking who is really behind the screen and what they’re buying with those "gifts." It’s time for Africans to stop being spectators to our own subversion.
Africa is not being underestimated by anyone. That is a dangerous misconception that I once had.
What is actually happening is that Africa is being deliberately underreported and suppressed from mainstream global news cycles because some powerful people need to keep it a secret that their dominance over the global economy as we know it is entirely built on extracting 100 for the price of 0.5 from Africa.
If that coup in Niger had never happened for example, we would never have known that France's famously cheap and plentiful nuclear energy which makes up 70% of its energy mix, and which it sells to the rest of Europe, was cheap and plentiful because Orano spent decades bending Niger over a barrel, paying the country 50 euro cents/kg for Yellowcake uranium when the market price was between €150 and €200/kg.
We didn't know this - but France and its EU collaborators absolutely did, which is why they're sponsoring EU resolutions condemning the AES every 5 minutes. They know exactly what they've lost!
The only people underestimating Africa are Africans - because we have no fucking clue what we are sitting on and we still get most of our information from predatory western sources. Don't get it twisted - everybody outside Africa who matters fully understands what Africa is, which is why Ethiopian Airlines keeps recording a new record profit every year, and it is building the world's largest airport in Bishoftu. Most of that traffic is not made up of Africans.
People from around the world don't stampede in such numbers into a continent that they "underestimate." We're the dummies chasing visas to go work for gold elsewhere while we inherited the entire fucking gold mine.
How you help yourself to "let go" of this "freedom" illusion that has been successfully sold to you by Hollywood and US-funded media and civil society is to ask yourself a few important questions:
What exactly is "freedom"? Is "freedom" the ability to thumbprint on a ballot paper that will be tippexed at the collation centre with your vote given to APC regardless of who you voted for?
Is "freedom" the ability to make social media skits insulting your president that was imposed on you by a foreign power even though nobody voted for him?
Is "freedom" the ability to rant endlessly on Twitter about your "bad leaders", knowing fully well that you are just wasting English and kilobytes to no end whatsoever?
Joseph Stalin once said “It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment. Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home and of bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possible.”
I think that's a much more constructive way of viewing "freedom." Poor, deprived, uneducated people are not, and can never be "free" in any meaningful sense. What use are my "constitutional freedoms" if my stomach is empty? If my stomach and my brain are empty, I am automatically a slave to whoever can put bread in my belly and information in my head - and that person automatically has the power to turn me into a weapon fashioned against myself and those around me. In that situation, which describes most of modern Africa, can you describe me as "free"?
"Democracy" and "freedom" are some of oyibo's most dangerous linguistic weapons when used in the context of people living on a per capita income of less than $3,000/year. Where are you likelier to live a full, happy life - Nigeria or China? Nigeria supposedly has the "democracy" that China doesn't - why are Nigerians leaving that "freedom" and migrating to China for a better life, instead of the other way around? Why do North Koreans have a life expectancy that is over 20 years longer than Nigerians? Why do the Vietnamese have much better lives than most Nigerians who have ever existed?
All of the years you have spent thumbprinting ballot papers for candidates that the US embassy will never allow to win, China has been doing 5-year plans and becoming the world's greatest country.
Call out South Africa’s xenophobia.
Call out the Nigerian ‘Ronus’
Then because of Messi and Enzo Fernandez, draw the line for Argentina’s glaring hatred for blacks and Afro-Argentine genocide.
If you won’t read, at least watch and learn. Bloody hypocrites!
That is precisely why a country going through a socioeconomic transition needs stiff, firm, authoritarian, nationalist bastards as its leadership - not "democratically elected" people who are subject to votes from these miserable idiots who go digging for gold on an expressway.
Lee Kuan Yew told us decades ago that when his government built high rise apartments to take poor Singaporeans out of bamboo shacks, they deliberately began peeing in the elevators and taking countermeasures against the government's attempts to stop them from messing up their own infrastructure. They had to humiliate and punish people brutally before they started acting in ways that were beneficial to their own lives.
If you want to uplift poor, colonised people, you will have to do it AGAINST THEIR WILL. Colonised people are not sane and a revolutionary must not pretend that he is up against sane, rational people who want a better life. A colonised man will steal expensive paint and empty it out into a river so that he can sell the plastic buckets and use the peanuts to play BetPesa. He will dig up his country's first high speed motorway that is going to add hundreds of millions of dollars to everyone's collective pocket, so that he can find gold nuggets and sell them for $650. He will vandalise railway lines that are meant to improve his own life so that he can sell the metal to a scrap dealer and use it to buy some pussy that night.
Colonised people are among the biggest dangers to themselves and the countries they inhabit, and any leader wishing to improve his country's material conditions despite the presence of millions of colonised people who are out of their natural minds, must be prepared to go the Stalin, Mao and Lee Kuan Yew way. Re-education camps, public flogging and forced labour so offenders can repay their debt to society.
China was once burdened with millions of useless idiots like this, but deliberate state policy removed them from the census and transformed China into the world's most successful civilisation. Hard decisions must be made in pursuit of development.
This is why when faced with Sankara's dilemma of 'water for all or champagne for a few', smart nations always choose water for all.
Because when everyone has a solid baseline, the elite can truly thrive and become exceptional. Their "champagne" can be meaningful.
But when most people are dirt poor, the elite become stupid, mediocre bastards who cannot pave their own roads, organise their own garbage collection, and prevent their own Ikoyi from regular flooding, constant foul odour, and mosquito infestation.
Charterhouse my ass.
Maponga Marara no longer views Europeans as colonizers: he sees them as parasites. He argues that they are thieves devoid of civilization, who have stolen African art, minerals, and technology, only to claim these treasures as their own. As evidence, he points to the American dollar, which bears the image of an Egyptian pyramid. He further illustrates how the United States and Europe desperately seek to own history by recasting Africa’s past heroes as white, thereby rewriting the historical record. This strategy, which he exposes as a deliberate ploy also employed in films, aims to make Africans feel inferior to the white man.
They don't need housing, Electricity, industries for employment, they don't even need healthcare or subsidy.
The only thing they need in abundance is DEMOCRACY, 1 CUP HUMAN RICE n FREEDOM OF SPEECH.
Cos look at it na, the Chinese who have housing, Electricity n industries. Their mouth is sealed with padlock to prevent them from speech.
“Never be confident in another person downfall. People laughed at Arsenal. Some even preached from the pulpit like you. But today the same failure are league champion.”
— AY the Comedian banters Pastor Dolapo Lawal for saying Arsenal won’t win the league.