Mutendei Writes

Spoken Word/Written Poet, Author, scriptwriter & actor/director, promoting the expressive power of art. Follow on IG @ Mutendei_Writes for more content.

[Mutendei Writes @Mutendei_Writes]

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[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Libraries: free.
AI: subscription.

Libraries: written by humans with expertise.
AI: trained on whatever was on the internet.

Libraries: staffed by professionals.
AI: confidently wrong.

Go to the library.

[Nury Vittachi @NuryVittachi]

It is truly EYE-OPENING to talk to Iranians and get their point of view:
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IRANIANS: You murdered Qasem Soleimani.
U.S./ ISRAEL: We don’t believe in international law.
IRANIANS: You bombed our peace talks in Qatar.
U.S./ ISRAEL: We don’t believe in international law.
IRANIANS: You murdered our govt members and their spouses and children.
U.S./ ISRAEL: We don’t believe in international law.
IRANIANS: You stole our ships and everything in them.
U.S./ ISRAEL: We don’t believe in international law.
IRANIANS: You made an unprovoked attack which killed more than 100 school kids.
U.S./ ISRAEL: We don’t believe in international law.
IRANIANS: We’re going to charge shipping fees so we can rebuild what you destroyed.
U.S./ ISRAEL: YOU CAN’T DO THAT! INTERNATIONAL LAW!!!!

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

"Never forget," they say.

But they choose what you remember.

Never forget Tiananmen.

Never forget 9/11.

Never forget the Holocaust.

But somehow, you are allowed to forget Fallujah.

You are allowed to forget Mỹ Lai.

You are allowed to forget Sabra and Shatila.

You are encouraged to forget Gaza while it is still happening.

This is not a culture of remembrance.

It is a culture of selective memory.

[Edwin Sifuna @edwinsifuna]

The young people of this country are the ones that will save this country. Once we return to the values of meritocracy in public service, such talent will not go to waste.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

It's wild to me that people can work 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, for 60 years and still argue this is the best system humanity can come up with, while defending people who make their entire net worth in 30 seconds and insisting they shouldn't be taxed more.

[Cxspxxr✘🧸 @_6signxxx]

Mamdani is the Democrats’ worst nightmare because he’s living proof that they’re simply not doing their jobs.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Water is not a commodity. It is a birthright. It belongs to the earth, to other species, and to future generations. No corporation has the right to control it.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

There is an animal that:

- Walks to her own food on her own legs
- Eats grass humans cannot digest
- Drinks rainwater that falls whether she's there or not
- Needs no pesticide, herbicide, irrigation, factory, or refinery
- Builds topsoil 30 to 50 times faster than nature
- Fertilises the ground that grew her dinner
- Supports dozens of wildflower, insect, and bird species
- Reproduces herself once a year, free of charge
- Produces meat, milk, butter, cheese, cream, leather, tallow, suet, bone, and broth
- Delivers complete protein, every fat-soluble vitamin, haem iron, B12, zinc, and choline
- Has done all of this, on the same hillsides, for ten thousand years
- Runs on sunlight

And we have spent thirty years being told this animal is the problem.

The fermentation tank in Singapore, drawing power from a fossil fuel grid, fed on monoculture soy from a deforested Brazilian plain, producing a beige paste with twenty-two ingredients, is the solution.

The audacity is breathtaking.

[hello world @whiteTony99]

西方对中国最愤怒是中国把他们躺赚了几十年的暴利生意，一个个砸成了普通人都买得起的日用品。
这种愤怒已经刻进了很多西方人的骨子里，他们不是不理解，而是不愿意理解，不愿意接受自己再也不能躺着剥削全世界的事实。
二十年前，中国修地铁要用盾构机，全部从德国进口。一台盾构机德国卖3.5亿人民币，一分钱都不能少。买的时候还要签霸王条款，机器坏了只能找德国工程师来修。
德国工程师来中国一天的工资是3000欧元，换算成人民币当时是3万多。他们坐飞机必须坐头等舱，住必须是五星级酒店的总统套房。
维修的时候中国人不能在旁边看，必须全部离场，修完了直接开账单，换一个小小的密封圈就要10万人民币。
有时候机器出个小故障，要等德国工程师三个月才能来，整个工地几百人就只能闲着干等，每天损失几百万。
没有人觉得这有什么不对。全世界都默认，高科技就应该卖这么贵，德国人掌握了技术，他们就有资格赚这个钱。甚至放言给中国图纸也造不出盾构机。
但到2008年，中国第一台拥有自主知识产权的盾构机下线。当时德国人根本不在乎，他们觉得中国人造出来的肯定是垃圾，用不了几天就会坏。
结果中国盾构机不仅能用，而且价格直接开到了5000万一台。后来随着技术不断成熟，产量不断提高，现在一台国产盾构机只要2000多万人民币，价格只有原来德国的十七分之一。

德国盾构机的垄断神话一夜之间破灭了。原来全世界只有德国、日本、美国少数几个国家能造盾构机，他们联合起来维持高价，想卖多少钱就卖多少钱。
现在中国加入了，他们的价格体系彻底崩溃了。现在德国盾构机想卖出去，价格也只能降到和中国差不多的水平，再也不能躺着赚暴利了。
而这样的事在各个领域都不断的上演，套用足球解说的一句话，留给西方垄断的时间不多了。

[ابراهيم ناجي Ibrahim Naji @Ibrahym22Nagi]

History will record that Iran was the only country that defended southern Lebanon and forced a halt to the bombing of Beirut at a time when all Arabs, including the Lebanese government, remained silent.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

If capitalism is so great, why do corporations need tax breaks, subsidies, exemptions, grants, bailouts, legal protections, and trade barriers to survive? And when ordinary people ask for help, why is it suddenly called socialism?

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Every time a country resists American power and survives, the story has to be managed.

Cuba has been under embargo for more than sixty years and still exists.

This does not fit.

The story requires that defiance leads to collapse.

Cuba did not collapse.

So Cuba must be described as a "failed state," a "humanitarian disaster," a "cautionary tale," even as the embargo itself remains one of the main causes of its material hardship.

The story requires that defiance to be punished.

When the punishment doesn't fully work, the punishment gets described as the outcome.

Venezuela chose a government Washington didn't approve of.

Sanctions followed. Financial pressure followed. Oil pressure followed. Isolation followed. The economy contracted.

The sanctions were never the headline.

The government's failures were the headline.

The fact that an economy under total financial siege will struggle is not presented as evidence that the siege is working.

It is presented as evidence that the government is the problem.

Then the story moved to its next stage.

The same government that had been sanctioned, isolated, criminalised, and described as "illegitimate" was no longer treated as a government at all.

Its president and First Lady were abducted, flown to the United States, placed before a court, and the whole thing was translated into the language of law.

The kidnapping became "law enforcement."

The violation of sovereignty became procedure.

And afterwards, the story adjusted again.

The same Venezuela that had been described as "too broken," "too corrupt," "too dangerous," and too "illegitimate" to engage with could suddenly be dealt with once the leadership had been removed from the equation.

That is the point.

The suffering was never the real problem.

The disobedience was the problem.

The poverty was not the crime.

The sanctions were not the crime.

The abduction was not the crime.

The crime was refusing to submit.

This is a closed logical loop.

Every country that resists is designated as "failing."

If they struggle, it proves they were wrong to resist.

If they survive, they are described as surviving in misery, which proves they should have submitted.

There is no outcome in which resistance is permitted to be legitimate.

No outcome in which the siege is the story.

Until enough people understand how the story is being told, the siege continues and the narrative covers it.

Vietnam understood this.

We told our own story.

We still do.

[Ariana Jasmine @arianajasmine__]

Mamdani has been in office for 153 days...

$12 billion deficit? balances
Affordable homes? 400,000 announced
World Cup tickets for $50
Multiple corporations sued and won, and the money was given back to the people
Teachers funded, parks/library funding permanently locked in

At this point, if you don't like him, you're just Islamophobic lol

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Israel now occupies more of Lebanon than Russia occupies of Ukraine.

But of course that's a 'good' invasion.

So there is silence.

[Lazzyyyyyy @em_Lazzy]

Mamdani is proving that everything Bernie Sanders wanted to do for the country as president really was possible. He wiped out a $12 Billion deficit, and no rich person died. Crazy how having a great politician can be good for the ppl

[ㄖchibo @0chibo_]

Wadau, hakuna time. Our ancestors knew everything they needed to live well on this land.

The seeds, herbs, the soil, the rains, the stars, the songs, the names.

Colonialism was two grandmothers ago.

What’s left is in the heads of old women in shags who will die in the next ten years. After them, there is nobody.

Go home. Record everything. The knowledge is not gone. It is leaving.

[Francis Gaitho @FGaitho237]

The Ebola Psyop That Could Cost Marco Rubio His Job

The unfolding Ebola controversy may end up costing US Secretary of State Marco Rubio his position. Here is the clear, damning pattern.

Right after the escalation of the Iran war, William Ruto issued an unsolicited press statement on March 23 condemning Iran for bombing neighboring countries. Marco Rubio publicly thanked him for the show of solidarity. Notably, Kenya stood virtually alone among nations in taking this bizarre step.

Kenyan citizens flooded the comment threads, distancing themselves and clarifying that these were Ruto’s personal views, not the position of the people of Kenya.

Exactly two months later, on May 21, Rubio sanctioned Tanzania’s Senior Assistant Commissioner Faustine Jackson Mafwele for his role in the abduction, torture, and sexual assault of activist Boniface Mwangi and a Ugandan activist during a trip to Dar es Salaam.

This move was strikingly selective. The US has yet to sanction any Kenyan official despite the well-documented wave of mass abductions and extrajudicial killings.

The activist trip, followed by intense social media campaigns by Kenyan X-bloggers and Tanzanian blogger Mange Kimambi, was to engineer voter apathy by calling for protests on Election Day. This created justification for Tanzanian security forces to crack down on civilians and facilitate Samia Suluhu Hassan’s swearing-in in a military barracks.

This operation was later confirmed as a joint venture between the Kenyan and Tanzanian governments. During Ruto’s state visit to Tanzania on May 5, Samia Suluhu openly stated that they had consulted and collaborated extensively on how to handle the “Gen Z menace.”

It is public knowledge that Boniface Mwangi was paid by the Ruto to demobilize Gen Z protests in 2024. His sudden proximity to the US was therefore particularly telling.

Then came the Ebola scandal. During a White House press conference on May 27, Marco Rubio - responding to scripted questions - declared that the US objective was to ensure no Ebola victim set foot on American soil. Donald Trump remained silent throughout the briefing, simply nodding. Rubio never verbally mentioned Kenya. Kenya’s name only surfaced later in notes distributed to the media.

It appears Rubio used the presser to test the idea of establishing satellite isolation and quarantine centers outside the US, with Kenya being inserted into the narrative through subsequent media channels.

This raises serious questions: Rubio is the Secretary of State. Health matters should fall under Health Secretary RFK Kennedy Jr. Why is he meddling in another department’s domain?

The biggest red flag was retired Kenyan journalist Saddique Shaban posting videos clearly designed to trigger mass hysteria about Kenya’s “unpreparedness” while overtly pushing for a lockdown. This is the same Shaban who served as a key propagandist engineering the 2020 COVID lockdowns while on Uhuru Kenyatta’s payroll.

It is now evident that this was a coordinated psyop aimed at engineering a lockdown in Kenya. Ruto is in panic mode ahead of planned June-July protests. The camaraderie between the two officials - Ruto meeting Rubio every time he visits the US, combined with the $3 million payment to Continental LLC (a lobbying firm linked to Rubio) - makes the connection unmistakable.

However, the fierce backlash from Kenyans, including court orders blocking the scheme, threats of protests, and warnings of industrial action by the doctors’ union, appears to have caught them off guard. This miscalculation may lead to the sacking of Marco Rubio by Donald Trump.

Trump is already struggling to find an off-ramp from the Iranian conflict. He does not need another self-inflicted geopolitical headache - especially one crafted to shore up a desperate demagogue whose strategic value is nowhere near as significant as he believes in the broader scheme of things.

@USAmbKenya @US_SrAdvisorAF @AsstSecStateAF @AmbCTrujillo @marcorubio

[Wariithi @wariithi]

@kenyanpundit Exactly...

[Mutendei Writes @Mutendei_Writes]

It's because of stories like this that I wrote Zion's Children. If you are a land grabber in Africa, especially so if you're an African, you're worse than colonialists. https://t.co/BlX72Wrjtd

[George T. Diano @georgediano]

What is life Anyway? Elizabeth Njoki is 21 years old. She was born and raised in Nakuru by a banker father and a businesswoman mother. Her father built a 12-bedroom mansion and owned two cars while her mother ran a boutique. Life was comfortable until she was 12, when her father was diagnosed with cancer and diabetes. He died a month later.

Two weeks after the burial, her father's two brothers showed up and kicked the family out of their own home. They took the cars and the boutique, claiming everything belonged to their late brother. The family had nowhere to go.

They were taken in by a friend of her mother for two weeks. They then moved to Naivasha where another friend helped her mother find a job to provide for the children. The children went back to school and tried to accept their new reality.

After some time, the mother fell into depression and nearly lost her mind. Together with a friend, Njoki helped take her to Mathare Hospital where she was admitted. With her mother gone, Njoki dropped out of school and started doing casual jobs to buy food for her three siblings.

Her mother eventually got better and was discharged from hospital with help from the area MCA. Despite everything, Njoki managed to score 378 marks in her KCSE and a Good Samaritan paid for her entire secondary education.

But in Form Three, her mother's condition worsened again. She started disappearing for days at a time before returning home. Without her knowledge, some men took advantage of her situation and she came back pregnant. Njoki once again had to leave school and look for casual jobs to keep the family fed. Her mother later gave birth to their fifth child.

When they could not pay rent, the landlord locked them out with all their belongings still inside. A family friend then relocated them to their rural home in Kinangop to live with their grandmother. Things stabilised for a while. The children went back to school and Njoki adapted to a life of casual work because her mother's mental health kept deteriorating.

Their grandmother died in 2024 and they were kicked out of that home too. Njoki used her savings to rent a single room and life went on.

In June last year, Njoki collapsed and was rushed to hospital by a neighbour after she was found bleeding. Doctors discovered she had fibroids in her uterus requiring urgent surgery, or the uterus would have to be removed entirely to stop the bleeding. She could not raise the 80,000 shillings needed for the operation and continued living with the daily bleeding.

She was trying to manage her own condition, care for her mentally unstable mother, provide for the younger children and pay rent all at once. It became too much. The landlord kicked them out again and a neighbour took them in.

Then in August last year, their second born son was involved in an accident and died on the spot. Njoki went to the area chief who helped organise a simple burial within two days at a public cemetery in Longonot. Only a handful of people attended. Their mother was absent.

Njoki scored a B plus in KCSE. She had the grades to build a future for herself. Instead she chose to stay behind and hold her family together. Today she lives on hope alone, trusting that God will find a way through.

[Jenni @hashjenni]

This is what it looks like when a man got into politics FOR the people and not to work AGAINST the people.