Rola Kamel

Publisher of Identity Magazine. I am a free soul that can't be owned...In love with Egypt...Always been a Proud Egyptian...Optimistic and hate negative vibes

[Josh Hunt @iAmJoshHunt]

I still don’t think many people have clocked how massive this story actually is.

Thames Water is carrying £19.8bn of debt, up 2 billion in a single year, and it will run out of money before Christmas.

£19.8bn against 16 million people who cannot switch, can’t leave, and cannot stop drinking water.

That’s about £1,240 per head. 5 grand for a family of four. In some way, shape, or form, they’re on the hook for it.

That’s the part that I don’t think has landed yet. This isn’t a story about sewage in the Thames, or bonuses, or another regulator caught asleep. The actual event is 30 years of a monopoly being used as collateral by people who knew its customers could never walk away. The bill has now come due… and it’s a big one.

The pipes and the infrastructure were never the real asset. The 16 million captive water drinkers were.

What’s going to really sting is the fact there’s only two ways this gets settled. Your bill goes up, substantially, or your taxes do. Most likely both, and it’ll be on a schedule designed in a way so you don’t notice the hit, in an attempt to suppress the rage you should rightly be feeling.

And before anyone tells me the creditors are taking a 30% haircut, look at what they’ve asked for in return. Fines waived until 2030. Pollution targets “significantly modified.” Bills raised above what the regulator allows. That isn’t exactly them eating the loss now, is it. That’s them buying a regulatory holiday, on debt most of them bought at distressed prices.

Nobody voted for this, nobody borrowed it, and nobody saw the benefit of it. The debt was loaded onto a captive customer base over 30 years and paid out to shareholders who have long since gone.

16 million people are about to find out that they co-signed something they were completely unaware of.

Now, this is what should worry us all. Thames isn’t a rogue outlier, it’s just the first one to fully hit the wall. English water carries north of £60bn of debt. Southern is already junk rated, needed a £1.2bn rescue from its shareholders, and its customers are looking at a 48% bill rise this decade before you count what the CMA added on top. Every one of these companies borrowed heavily when money was free and now have to refinance it all in a world where it isn’t, while being told to spend billions on infrastructure they left rotting for 30 years. Thames is just the first and most visible of what will likely end up being a line of dominoes.

Maybe Burnham nationalises Thames Water. But ask yourself… how many more will need to be nationalised? And who do you think pays for that?

[euronews @euronews]

European Parliament to ask for probe into FIFA boss Infantino https://t.co/Lwe9VphjKD

[CAF @CAF_Online]

They made millions believe. They made Africa proud.

The Pharaohs gave us a #FIFAWorldCup journey to remember. 🇪🇬❤️

[HH Sheikh Mohammed @HHShkMohd]

شهدنا اليوم مباراة مصرية عربية بطولية .. قاتل فيها فراعنة مصر أمام بطل العالم حتى آخر دقيقة .. نفخر بروحهم المصرية .. ونشكرهم ويشكرهم العالم على المباراة الممتعة الرائعة .. هار��لك .. وستعودون أبطالاً لوطنكم العربي .. وستبقون أبطالاً في عيون كل العرب .

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Not a fan of VAR as currently being used . Egypt just got robbed.

[FOX Sports @FOXSports]

Thank you for an incredible run, Egypt. 🇪🇬

[Gakpo Era 🇳🇱 @Szobo_baller]

Jurgen Klopp 🗣️" Today we have witnessed a game where officials are willing to do anything for one side to win , ruling out that Egypt goal was injustice!"

[Geronimo Morgans @GeronimoMorgans]

I'm crying with Egyptians right now because they're leaving this World Cup with their heads held high, as they absolutely should. They were the better team for large stretches of that game, barring the final ten minutes, where decisions once again swung unfairly against them.

I'm crying with the rest of Africa too. Because the pattern is impossible to ignore. Fouls overlooked. Officiating one-sided. And a growing frustration that African teams are consistently on the wrong end of these moments.

At this point, it's no longer a coincidence, it's a pattern. The theory that FIFA want Argentina in the latter stages of the last two World Cups is no longer a conspiracy. It's a conclusion drawn from repeated evidence. There's simply no other way to explain the imbalance.

Gianni Infantino and the rest of FIFA's decision-makers should be ashamed of themselves. Deeply ashamed. Because what we witnessed tonight wasn't football. It was a rigged spectacle. And the world saw it.

[Inside Reality Football @RealityLfc]

🚨Paul Scholes on Mo Salah and Egypt being eliminated by Argentina.

🗣️“This is the greatest robbery in football history I’ve ever witnessed, from the beginning of the game till the end there wasn’t any favorable decision for the Egyptian national team. You don’t have to bring in excuses for such controversial decisions in the end.”

“It’s sad and you can see how emotional and heartbreaking the fans look after the game, it’s not what we expected from the game today. A false penalty and many other decisions that isn’t meant to be taken, we just have to admit the fact that it was rigged and there’s nothing we can do about this.”

“It’s Lionel Messi and we all know why this happened today against the Egyptian team, this wasn’t how football is supposed to be played but they ruin everything with their favorite decisions.”

[Jeremy Clarkson @JeremyClarkson]

Come on Egypt. What a match.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Incredible Egyptian goal is disallowed because of a foul far away, then same situation a few minutes later and goal for Argentina not disallowed! No VAR, nothing? FIFA again looks like a corrupt joke, playing favorites for stars.

[Dave Keating @DaveKeating]

German MEP @d_boeselager, vice chair of the 🇪🇺Parliament's economy committee, warns that Trump has a kill switch to turn off Europe's economy.

"Not every explosion makes a loud boom, but last Friday, I could definitely feel the earth tremble. Because Trump actually pressed a 'red button'. He issued his export control directive to stop Anthropic giving access to its best AI models to Europeans."

"Colleagues, this is a huge middle finger towards Europe, and it tells us two very important things. First, Trump can and will cut us out of AI's foundational models if he feels like it. Which could, by the way, kill 99 % of our AI industry right now, which builds on them."

"And second, and much more fundamentally, Trump has a 'red button' for almost all aspects of our lives. He can stop us from paying because we depend on Visa and Mastercard. He can stop us from using our phones because we depend on Google and Apple, for messaging friends, WhatsApp, or even getting treatments at hospitals or booking trains because of Amazon Web Services."

"Colleagues, let's be courageous, invite Anthropic to move to Europe and build our own foundational models. And let's not sign a trade deal that makes us dependent."

[Reuters @Reuters]

King's College Hospital in London has opened a rooftop garden for critical care patients. Its first patient, a 29-year-old woman dependent on feeding tubes, said the outdoor space gave her 'a real boost to keep on going

[ScienceFocus @ScienceFocusonX]

our knee can heal itself. It just needed Germany to hand it the blueprint.

Doctors in Stuttgart did something quietly radical. They built a gel that lets damaged joint cartilage rebuild itself, no implants, no metal, no major reconstruction.

It's called ChondroFiller liquid.

Here's how it works.

A surgeon injects the liquid into the damaged spot during a single minimally invasive arthroscopic procedure. Within 3 to 5 minutes, it hardens into a stable matrix, molding perfectly to the exact shape of the lesion.

Then the real magic starts.

That matrix becomes a scaffold. Your own repair cells migrate in from the surrounding tissue, multiply, and slowly transform into chondrocytes, the cells that actually build cartilage. Over the following months, your body replaces the gel with brand-new tissue grown from you.

No fibrin glue. No drilling into the bone.

This isn't a fringe experiment, either.

The device is made by Meidrix Biomedicals, developed alongside scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology in Stuttgart. It's been CE-certified since its market launch in 2013 and has already been implanted in more than 20,000 patients worldwide.

The numbers back it up.

In one study of 26 patients with hip cartilage defects larger than 2 cm², 81% achieved good or excellent results. MRI scans confirmed significant healing in over 90% of cases.

One important caveat: it's built for small, focal cartilage defects, not advanced arthritis. Patients with severe osteoarthritis saw weaker results.

But for the right injury, this flips the script entirely.

Instead of replacing the joint, you give it the tools to repair itself.

Source: Meidrix Biomedicals / Fraunhofer Institute IGB, Stuttgart; clinical data via Kazinform News Agency

[ماهر فرغلي @maherfarghali]

نحن على موعد الشهر المقبل مع فيلم ملحمي عالمي تم تصويره بالكامل في مصر، ومن إخراج (مو إسماعيل) وهو ممثل ومخرج ومنتج مصري أمريكي. وطقم الممثلين كلهم تقريبا غير معروفين، وشباب من محافظة أسوان.
هذا الفيلم هذا الف��لم يواجه الأفروسنتريك، ويبن كيف أن مصر أفريقية ولها تأثير كبير في أفريقيا. وهو فيلم عالمي بكل المقاييس من ناحية التمثيل والإخراج والقصة وكل شيء، وهو ملحمة سينمائية تاريخية ومغامرة تدور أحداثها في مصر خلال العصر الحجري، وتحديداً قبل ظهور الفراعنة وبناء الإمبراطوريات عن قصة قائد وأب يدعى "قار"، يخوض رحلة بقاء ملحمية عبر الصحاري المصرية لإنقاذ ابنه، حيث يقف وحيداً لحماية قبيلته من الفناء في عالم يحكمه الدم والنار.
الفيلم يُعتبر حدثًا سينمائيًا مهمًا للسينما المصرية والعربية، لأنه يركز على عصر "كيميت" (الاسم القديم لمصر) بطريقة سينمائية عالمية. والجهة المشاركة في الإنتاج هي جامعة بدر.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Tucker Carlson exposes the terrifying power of the Zionist lobby in the UK. He confirms prominent politician Jeremy Corbyn was completely driven out of public life simply because he opposed Israel.

The entire British political establishment is bought and paid for!

[Shadow of Ezra @ShadowofEzra]

U.S.-born Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard admits Israel will have to go to war with Turkey and Egypt once they finish off Iran, Gaza, and Lebanon.

He says, “The storm is coming,” unlike anything the world has ever seen before.

“We have to be prepared for the next war, which will probably be against Turkey and Egypt.”

[Steve Lacey 🔥 @stevelacey]

Spent 5 nights in Cairo recently and IMO the scams and traffic are way overstated. I had a great time!

Taxi scams at the airport were the same as half the planet. AirPods in, Uber out, zero issues beyond finding the driver.

I stayed in Zamalek in the heart of the city. It’s a small island on the Nile, totally walkable, lots of cafes and food, student population, and a very nice area.

The Pyramids have a new entrance now. It’s a bit of a trek but no queues, clean, nice experience, and no touts out front.

The Egyptian Museum in the center is mostly leftovers now. GEM is the place to go. Big new museum near the Pyramids with all the King Tut artifacts.

Meeting locals was proving difficult so I took a food tour to glimpse some real culture. Tried a few local dishes and met some nice people.

Final takeaway: I could have stayed way longer and I recommend going. My working theory for why Cairo gets such a bad rap is because it is a city with world wonders that attracts Europeans who have barely stepped outside of Europe before. If you’re comfortable with Bali touts and Saigon traffic, Cairo will feel tame.

10/10 would Egypt again.

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

French judge Nicolas Gouyou, who issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu at the ICC, says Visa and Mastercard blocked all his cards, leaving him unable to make purchases.

He says judges, lawyers, & politicians are being intimidated & treated as criminals.

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Multiple people killed and others missing after chemical explosion at US paper mill https://t.co/cDORJkKC4B