Sagent

Diplomat. International Relations.

Entrepreneur. International Human Rights

[Sagent @mashtroy]

The next viral Pandemic will be Dubbed " Catastrophic Contagion".
It will involve a novel pathogen called SEERS-25. It will be "weaponized" to resemble Enterovirus D68.

Prediction: 20M people worldwide including 15M children.

#ConspiracyTheorist

[Stephen Mutoro @smutoro]

WHAT KURA MEN WON’T TELL YOU ON THE NAIROBI’S NGONG ROAD VIADUCT PROJECT
🫆It was a priority because over half of the Cabinet and who is who in govt or business stays in Karen
🫆 Spain's FIEM concessional loan comes with a binding condition: the works must be executed by a Spanish contractor. This eliminates competitive tendering and locks Kenya into European pricing — the loan appears 'concessional' in interest rate terms but inflates construction costs by 200–300% compared to open tender alternatives.
🫆Kenya pays back the loan and overpays on construction — double cost exposure.
🫆No public participation conducted on value-for-money terms before loan acceptance.
🫆 Two further interchanges planned for the same corridor (Prestige Plaza & City Mortuary roundabout) — negotiations with Spain already underway, meaning the same expensive model risks repetition.
 🫆On Spain v China comparison and what Kenya overpaid: CRBC built 27km of the Nairobi Expressway (far more complex elevated highway with interchanges) at ~Ksh 3.2B/km. Chinese urban flyover/viaduct pricing in Africa typically ranges $9–14M/km. The Junction Mall viaduct at Ksh 4.37B/km (~$34M/km) is 2–3x above this benchmark @MuriraKinoti @KURAroads @KeNHAKenya @KeRRA_Kenya @TransportKE @davis_chirchir @CRBConline_ @Cofek_Kenya

[Jason Reza Jorjani @Jason_Jorjani]

Pentagon admission that the US created Covid TOGETHER WITH CHINA, that the virus engineers knew masks don't work, and that the mRNA vaccines are basically poison. This is TREASON and one of many crimes that justify and necessitate an overthrow of the United States Government.

[Finance Historian|Investor|Farmer @BoardLotSultan]

https://t.co/r2XlGoDhjY

[Clandestine @WarClandestine]

1) HOLY SHIT! I think I may be onto something about #Ukraine.

Zelensky said the Russians are firing at “military installations”. How broad is that term?

I am seeing speculation that could include US installed biolabs.

At first I was like no way.

Then I started digging.

[Liz Churchill @liz_churchill10]

Oh. My. God.

Look at what these Biolabs were MANUFACTURING…

Anthrax, Tularaemia, Tuberculosis, Swine Fever, New Castles Disease, MERS, SARS, Marburg and Ebola

THERE MUST BE ARRESTS

[Janet Machuka @janetmachuka_]

YouTube Documentaries to Watch

1. Inside the Darkest Criminal Network: Trafficked By Marianna Van Zeller — Nat Geo

2. What’s Behind South Africa’s Anti-Migrant Protests — Al Jazeera

3. How Many Africans Were Lured to Fight Russia? —BBC News Africa

4. Exploring Mexico City —Nat Geo

5. From $80,00 a Year to Cleaning Toilets for $8 per Hour —Moconomy

[Barbara Oneill @BarbaraOneillAU]

Drinking hot water mixed with turmeric and lemon on an empty stomach is going to be amazing for your skin, but it will also relieve symptoms of eczema, detoxify your whole body, eliminate toxins, prevent arthritis, relieve joint pain, and reduce the risk of cancer.

[Gladiators zone @Gladiatorszonee]

I highly recommend this playlist on human behavior.

It will change the way you understand yourself and the people around you.

[Barbara Oneill @BarbaraOneillAU]

1. PUFFY EYES EVERY MORNING - kidneys leaking protein into bloodstream overnight.

2. FOAMY URINE - albumin escaping - kidneys have lost their filtering ability.

3. LOWER BACK PAIN (not spine) - kidney inflammation pressing on surrounding tissue.

4. CONSTANT THIRST - kidneys failing to balance fluid properly inside the body.

5. FREQUENT NIGHT URINATION - kidneys losing ability to concentrate urine at night.

6. SWOLLEN FEET AND ANKLES - sodium and fluid building up from poor filtration.

7. METALLIC TASTE IN MOUTH - waste products accumulating in your bloodstream.

8. ITCHING ALL OVER BODY - phosphorus and toxins depositing under your skin.

9. EXTREME FATIGUE - kidneys not producing
enough EPO to carry oxygen in blood.

10. MUSCLE CRAMPS AT NIGHT - electrolyte imbalance from failing filtration.

11. LOSS OF APPETITE SUDDENLY - toxin buildup suppressing hunger signals in brain.

12. PALE OR YELLOWISH SKIN - anemia caused
by low kidney hormone production.

[Luminous choice by FOLA @OlayemiKomolaf4]

Bloating, stomach gas, noisy stomach and itchy anus. Nobody talks about these together. But they are all telling you the exact same thing about what is happening inside your gut .

[Murray Rothbard @MurraySuggests]

The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.

The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.

Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.

If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

[Veloria 🌊 @veloriahq]

“𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳, 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘰𝘰.”

— 𝘌𝘨𝘺𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘣

[Sagent @mashtroy]

There's this mainstream pastor/bishop who slept with a class girl.

[𝙋𝘼𝙐𝙇. 𝐎. 𝐍𝐄𝐊𝐎 @ouma_neko]

A whole Governor from Western Kenya sleeping with a Form 3 student. That's horrible

[Barbara Oneill @BarbaraOneillAU]

FLUSH SUGAR FROM YOUR BODY.

INGREDIENTS
- Cinnamon
- Tumeric
- Rosemary

In a kettle boil 1 liter of water
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp a turmeric
1 tsp rosemary

Boil for 10minutes strain and drink
2 cups per day for 3 days.

[Millie Marconi @MillieMarconnni]

A British biologist looked at 200,000 years of human history and found that the entire reason humans broke out of poverty was not intelligence, not language, not even agriculture, but one mechanism so simple a 6-year-old could explain it.

His name is Matt Ridley.

He is a zoologist by training, an evolutionary biologist by career, and in 2010 he wrote a book called The Rational Optimist that quietly argued the most important fact about human progress had been hiding in plain sight for the entire history of economics.

Naval Ravikant has been telling people to read everything Ridley has ever written for the last 15 years. The reason is the argument inside this one book.

For 200,000 years, anatomically modern humans walked around with the same brain you have right now. Same skull size. Same neural architecture. Same raw capacity for language, planning, and abstract thought.

For roughly 190,000 of those years, almost nothing happened. Generation after generation lived and died inside the same Stone Age toolkit their great-great-grandparents had used. Then somewhere around 50,000 years ago, the line on the chart of human progress started to tick upward. Then it bent. Then it exploded.

The question Ridley spent years on was the only question that mattered. What changed.

It was not the brain. The brain had been the same for 190,000 years. It was not language, which had existed long before the takeoff. It was not even agriculture, which arrived only 10,000 years ago and was actually preceded by the upward bend, not the cause of it.

What changed was that humans started trading with strangers.

This sounds too small to be the answer. Ridley argues that it is the answer to almost everything. The moment one human exchanged a useful object with another human from a different group, something happened that no other species on earth had ever done.

Two ideas that had developed in isolation came into contact. The flint knapper learned what the spear maker had figured out. The fisherman from the coast learned what the hunter from the forest had figured out. The two pieces of knowledge fused into something neither side could have produced alone.

Ridley calls this ideas having sex. The phrase sounds frivolous and it is meant to. The point is that ideas, like genes, get better when they combine with other ideas from different lineages.

An idea sitting inside one head, no matter how brilliant the head, eventually hits a ceiling. The same idea exposed to ten thousand other ideas does something genes do under sexual reproduction. It mixes. It recombines. It produces offspring nobody planned.

The cleanest proof of this argument is the most uncomfortable case study in the book. Tasmania.

Around 10,000 years ago, rising sea levels cut Tasmania off from mainland Australia. A population of roughly 4,000 humans was now isolated on an island, with no possibility of contact with the rest of humanity. They had the same brains. The same language. The same starting toolkit as their cousins 150 kilometers north. The natural experiment was now running.

What happened next is something no economist or geneticist had ever predicted.

The mainland Australians kept inventing. Boomerangs. Spear-throwers. Fishing nets. Bone needles for sewing fitted clothes. Watercraft with paddles. Their technology compounded slowly across the centuries.

The Tasmanians went the other way. They did not just fail to invent the new tools their cousins were developing. They started losing the tools they already had. Fishing was abandoned within a few thousand years. Bone tools disappeared. Fitted clothing disappeared. They forgot how to make fire from scratch and started carrying lit firebrands from camp to camp instead, relighting their fires from a neighbor's whenever their own went out.

By the time European explorers arrived in the 17th century, the Tasmanians had the simplest toolkit of any human society ever recorded. Their material culture had gone backward for 8,000 years.

The archaeologist Rhys Jones called it a slow strangulation of the mind.

Joseph Henrich at Harvard later proved with formal mathematical models that there was nothing wrong with Tasmanian brains. There was something wrong with their network. A toolkit requires a critical mass of people exchanging skills to maintain itself.

The act of teaching a skill is imperfect. Every generation loses a small percentage of what the last generation knew. If your population is large enough and trading widely enough, those losses get caught and corrected by someone else who still remembers.

If your population shrinks below a certain threshold and stops mixing with outsiders, the small losses compound until entire technologies disappear.

This is the part that should haunt anyone reading this in 2026.

Intelligence is not a property of the individual brain. Intelligence is a property of the network the brain is connected to. A genius in isolation will produce less than a mediocre thinker inside a dense exchange of other mediocre thinkers.

The thing your ancestors needed in order to break out of 190,000 years of stagnation was not better brains. It was better connections between brains they already had.

The implication for any individual is direct and uncomfortable. If you are smart and isolated, you will be outproduced by people half as smart who are connected.

The most successful people in any field are almost never the smartest people in it. They are the ones positioned at the intersection of the most idea flows. They are reading more authors than their competitors. They are talking to more people from more disciplines. They are in the rooms where ideas from different lineages bump into each other.

Ridley ends the book on the line that sounds optimistic but is actually a warning its this "The future will be invented by people who connect ideas, not by people who guard them."

[Sagent @mashtroy]

PSG vs Arsenal heat map.

#PSGARS

[CASSIUS @CassiusAnalyse]

À 33 ans, Rockefeller était déjà milliardaire.
À 38 ans, il contrôlait 90% du pétrole américain.
Il allait à l'église chaque dimanche. Et ruinait ses concurrents chaque lundi.

Il avait compris quelque chose que ses rivaux n'ont jamais voulu admettre : la majorité des hommes sont fondamentalement FAIBLES. Et il avait construit un système entier pour exploiter cette faiblesse.

5 stratégies qu'on ne vous enseignera jamais dans une école de commerce. 🧵

[Sagent @mashtroy]

Unprofessional

[Barbara Oneill @BarbaraOneillAU]

FLUSH SUGAR FROM YOUR BODY.

INGREDIENTS
- Cinnamon
- Tumeric &
- Rosemary Leaves

In a cup of water add a teaspoon cinnamon, a teaspoon turmeric, a teaspoon rosemary leaves. Boil for 10minutes, strain and drink 1 cup per day for 3 days.

[LenaSun @bylenasun]

NEW: US says field hospital for Americans exposed to Ebola will be ready in Kenya on Friday. 50 beds to start. If Americans need more care, they will be transferred to facilities in Europe, not US hospitals. My latest. https://t.co/iGoIEkGd0A