Justina

Just try to be balanced and fair.

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

Foreign Interference: Tanzania Blocks European Parliamentary Team From Visiting Country

In November 2022, China revamped its fabled Belt and Road Initiative – a win-win development initiative aimed at the Global South – in Tanzania. In December 2022, Tanzania signed a historic $2.2 billion railway deal with China to link the East African country’s port city, Dar es Salaam, to its neighbors, Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda, as well as the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Many other deals would follow, each with the potential to transform Tanzania and the wider continent, economically and politically, for the better.

But there was one problem.

An African nation was suddenly fast-tracking its development, without the blessing of the West.

And so the West did what it did best. It funded an “opposition” movement in Tanzania, and deployed its media parrots to promote the members of this “opposition” as “defenders of human rights and democracy” fighting against a “repressive” government, and sensationalize this government’s necessary actions to thwart the attempted color revolution that would follow.

And even after this failed regime change plot, the West continues to do everything in its power to destroy Tanzania.

[Maitreya Bhakal @MaitreyaBhakal]

Just so everyone is clear, the gripe here is that China is destroying the profits of the western bourgeoisie, because they are forced to make their products cheaper to compete with Chinese competitors.

This is the central argument of 100% of all western economic analysis of China. The more affordable China's products, the more it destroys their monopolies and their profit margins.

As always, the purpose of such propagandists, as well as their "elected" governments, is to make the interests of the bourgeoisie appear like the national interests of their respective countries. It's the first rule of bourgeois economics: What's good for the bourgeoisie is good for the proletariat.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Dark chocolate is the only confectionery with a press team. "It's basically a superfood," people murmur, snapping off a square with the solemnity of someone taking a vitamin. Start with the word that sells it.

Antioxidants. The flavanols everyone cites are the cacao plant's own defence chemicals, and they barely survive your digestion. Rather than mopping up oxidation, they cause a little of it, a flicker of stress that mildly poisons your cells and forces your body to switch on its own repair machinery. The benefit, such as it is, comes from your system scrambling to neutralise a plant toxin. The marketing sells you the toxin and takes the credit for the cleanup.

Now the metals. Cacao is a bioaccumulator. It hauls cadmium up from the soil and picks up lead as the beans dry on roadside tarps. In 2022 Consumer Reports tested 28 dark bars and found both metals in every one. For 23 of them, an ounce a day pushed an adult past a recognised level of concern. Cadmium then settles into your kidneys for decades and sends no notification.

While it sits there, the oxalates in the same cocoa get to work building kidney stones, and the pesticide residues from intensive cocoa farming ride along uninvited.

And the crop itself is an ecological disaster, most of it grown on cleared West African rainforest, a good deal inside protected parks, much of it by child labour everyone deplores for a fortnight at a time.

So enjoy your square. Just retire the word medicine. You are eating a metal-laced, stone-building plant toxin, and calling the damage a health benefit.

[Stephen Mutoro @smutoro]

WHY AFFORDABLE HOUSING SECURITIZATION IS A BAD IDEA FOR WORKERS
🫆Your 1.5% Housing Levy deduction was sold to you as money to build houses. The Government now wants to use it as collateral for Sh100B bond. Your salary deduction is being turned into a borrowing instrument. You are not building houses. You are servicing a loan
🫆Investors will earn Sh57.6B in interest on that bond. So you pay the levy. Government borrows against it. Investors pocket Ksh.57.6B in interest. Workers get what exactly? This is not affordable housing. This is affordable theft.
🫆The bond matures beyond 10 years — longer than Ruto’s maximum constitutional tenure. Meaning even if Kenyans vote him out, the next government CANNOT abolish the Housing Levy without triggering a bond default. Your vote has been neutralised by a financial instrument. Think about that.
🫆This is the same playbook used on the Sports Levy (now funding Talanta Stadium), Tourism Fund (now funding Bomas redevelopment) and Road Maintenance Levy (now funding SGR extension). Every levy eventually stops doing what it was introduced to do. The Housing Levy was always going to be next.
🫆Your housing levy must build houses — not pad investor portfolios. Period. Watch this space. @WahomeHon @KeTreasury @AGOfficeKenya @lawsocietykenya
#HousingLevy #ConsumerRights

[𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 @OopsGuess]

Mearsheimer says China could not rise peacefully.

But the comments got to the real question:
China already rose peacefully.

It did not bomb its way into the world’s second-largest economy.
It did not build 800 overseas military bases.
It did not sanction half the planet.
It did not invade, assassinate, regime-change, and call it “order.”

China rose through factories, ports, railways, power grids, shipyards, engineers, workers, and decades of national discipline.

The real question is not whether China can rise peacefully.
It already did.

The question is whether America can decline peacefully.

And that is where the real danger begins.

[Joyce Nyairo @jnyairo]

I want to link two Kenyan high school affairs:
1. The fires & closures
2. Political class donning their alma mater uniform

Why would any adult want to go back to their teenage years?
Is it signal of how impossible adult life in Kenya today is?

No.2 is inciting No. 1.

[Eric @amerix]

When there is too much salt in your water or food that the body doesn't want, what happens?

Your tongue naturally rejects the food.

When there is excess salt in your body, what happens?

• You become thirsty,

• You drink more water,

• You urinate,

• You sweat the salt out.

But the functionally illiterate "experts" want you to believe that your body is so stupid that it has no homeostatic mechanism for eliminating the excess salt that it doesn't require.

The only thing that the body has never figured out how to eliminate is sugar.

Sugar is stored, turns into fat, clogs your arteries, and surrounds your organs as visceral fat, leading to chronic inflammation, chronic diseases and failing kidney functions.

Sugar is the enemy, not salt.

EAT SALT.

#FoodFriday

[Justina @waregister]

Fake journalism!

[Erin Burnett OutFront @OutFrontCNN]

CNN’s @clarissaward goes to the epicenter of the deadly Ebola crisis: “Everybody who goes in there sick, they don’t leave, they come out dead.”

[Justina @waregister]

How and why would Kenya Power defy EPRA ruling on a registered dispute, within their mandate as a regulator? Something is not adding up.

[KYK 🇰🇪 @KijanayaKabras]

Paul Njuguna, a retired technical manager at the Agricultural Development Corporation, invested Ksh 16 million in 2019 to set up Elgon Pine, a refined oil and animal feed plant in Eldoret. At its peak, the plant processed 90 tonnes of canola, sunflower, and soya annually, with capacity for 300 tonnes. Njuguna contracted about 100 farmers who supplied raw materials, while he also farmed 10 acres himself.
The business also produced poultry feeds and soap from crop by-products.

The venture collapsed after Kenya Power slapped him with a Ksh 400,000 bill in August 2021, compared to his usual monthly bill of about Ksh 30,000. Njuguna disputed it as an error and filed a complaint, but Kenya Power claimed underbilling and refused to adjust. When he failed to pay, Kenya Power disconnected electricity to both his plant and home. Though EPRA ruled in his favour and ordered reconnection, the power was never restored, forcing him to shut down operations.

The shutdown affected the entire value chain - contracted farmers, suppliers, and employees - all of whom lost income. Njuguna now questions whether the disconnection was deliberate sabotage and why Kenya does little to protect small industrial ventures. His case has raised concerns about how utility billing errors and slow dispute resolution can destroy promising local businesses and the livelihoods tied to them.

[Nzioka Muli @nziokamul1]

Lewa Conservancy in Meru is protected by a violent armed force known as Northern Rangelands Trust.
NRT was founded by the United States Agency for International Development-USAID- a CIA front.

The Trust has 'conservation' interests in over 20 counties in Kenya.
It also unsurprisingly happens to be in carbon credits.
British Airways, Netflix and Beiersdorf - which owns Nivea, are among it's carbon contractors.

In layman, carbon credits is the right to pollute.

Last year, the entity clashed with communities in Isiolo's Cherab and Chari wards after grabbing vast tracks of ancestral grazing land without communal consent.

When the community refused to back down and insisted on grazing on the land, over 200,000 acres mysteriously caught on fire, all grass incinerated.

A 3 judge panel ruled in favour of the community and forced NRT to hand it back and to recall its armed rangers.

The land just so happens to be endowed with precious metals; gold, nickel, tungsten, manganese, copper, bauxite and iron.

Wake up.

[Nzioka Muli @nziokamul1]

People of Kîtui, West Pokot,Isiolo, Turkana, Taita Taveta, Baragoi, Kerio Valley, Maralal, Lamu, Kwale, Narok, Kajiado, Tana River, Kilifi, Machakos, Laikipia, Baringo, Moyale, Garissa, Wajir, Samburu, Makûenî...you are sitting on the rare earth elements and precious metals mentioned below.

You will start seeing banditry and cattle rustling issues increase.
You will see an increase in wild fires.
You will see a resurgence of terrorist activities.
You will see inter-communal land and grazing disputes.
You will see new conservancies crop up.

And am here to tell you it will be a government PsyOp to get you off mineral rich land.

Do Not Comply.
Raise hell.

[Jimi Wanjigi @JimiWanjigi]

I warned us,Odious debt is biting Kenya very hard. Borrowing for paying of wages and allowances is criminal as per the law. We must audit our debt and Stop the payment of odious debt!

[Willis Evans Otieno @otienowill]

A levy that was presented as a housing solution is now being transformed into a long-term debt instrument, potentially binding current and future workers to obligations they never consented to. This is exactly how temporary government measures become permanent burdens on citizens.

This nonsense needs to stop

[Nzioka Muli @nziokamul1]

Let me educate you before everyone lies to you you did something.;

1. You want to go home and farm?
The National Land Commission Act and the Land Ammendment Act are targeting freehold land.
-soon you'll need to pay taxes on that land.
If you can't pay you'll be herded into avoidable housing.

2. The Water Privatisation Act is targeting water.
You'll need a license to collect rain water.
You will be taxed to access water in your local river, well and dam.
And if you think you'll get a borehole, think again, it'll be overtaxxed so only the rich can afford one.

3. The Seed varieties Act seeks to patent seedlings.
Meaning only genetically modified and hybrids will be available.
Your indigenous seeds will be extinct in the next few years.
You will have to buy from Monsanto to plant them, enslavement.

So without land, water and seeds, how will achieve your off grid dream?

You can't run away from the current problem.
You must face it.

There is not a single soul vying for office is running to free us.
They are all controlled, one way or the other.
Ask any about land redistribution, nationalising minerals, shutting down foreign military bases in Kenya, restoring sovereignty and leaving the commonwealth and see.

That leaves us only one option;
Occupying statehouse and installing a transition council.
So we can be fully sure whoever is in that office is our choice.
Then mandate them to rescede those bills, restore our republic and execute the corrupt and recoup stolen assets.

More people have died during elections than during protests.

Am not calling for endless protests, that is the work of cashivists and pay-triots.
I want just one large protest, large enough to storm that hellhole without a single shot or teargas carnister fired.

You want freedom and absolute liberty and a life in some village somewhere?
Get rid of those who made it impossible in the first place.

[Sholla Ard 🇰🇪 @sholard_mancity]

BREAKING: The William Ruto govt is about to pull one of the most selfish financial tricks of his presidency.

A move designed not just to collect the Housing Levy.

But to make sure Kenyans keep paying it for years to come, and no other president in the near future removes it. (Securitization)

Here's the plan.

His government, according to NTV, plans to borrow about KSh150 billion from local and international banks.

The security?

YOUR future Housing Levy payments. So they want to go collect 150 billion and use future housing levy payments as security. (securitization)

This means that if the next government removes the housing levy, Kenya will default on the loan taken by the Ruto government.

Let that sink in.

The government gets KSh150 billion immediately this year.

The money is spent immediately.

But Kenyans remain trapped paying the levy for years afterwards.

This is not an accident.
This is the whole point.

Opposition leaders have repeatedly promised to abolish the Housing Levy.

So what does Ruto's government do?

It moves to tie the levy to a massive loan so that future governments will find it far harder to remove.

In short:

The cash stays with Ruto's administration; they get it and use it before elections.

The bill stays with Kenyans for years
The burden is pushed into the future.

And if the loan is backed by many years of future levy collections, millions of Kenyans could find themselves paying 20 yrs later for a decision long after this government is gone.

That is why this is so selfish.

I warned earlier this year that the new Ruto levies were not just about raising money.

They were about creating assets that could be used to secure more borrowing.

Now we are seeing exactly why.

The question every Kenyan should ask is this:

This is completely evil. We reject all attempts to securitize the Housing Levy.

[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

The colonial police the British left us with wasn't enough? Up to the 1970s, the Nairobi police commissioner was a colonial officer, Myles Oswald. Ian Henderson, the guy who hunted down Kimathi, remained in charge of the Nyeri Police until Jaramogi deported him.

The CS just needs to pick a history book and save the tax payer the plane tickets and per diems.

[Black @LilithBlack25]

Fauci was the man who engineered AIDs in Africa via smallpox vaccine in complicit with WHO

[Kajwang Ace!! @Gitaooh]

Kenyans! Kenyans! Kenyans‼️ Tukiwaambia Ebola Hakuna na ni distraction amini sisi. Alright 👇. Mnadhani hatuna minerals na zetu ni mob kuliko Congo. Wake the fuck up na muache kuongea mambo ya Ebola. Kenyans are about to be evicted en masse from 23 “quarantine”(mining) centers

[Eric @amerix]

Kenya's cabinet secretary for health is asking for USD 20 million (KSh2.6 billion) to prepare for the first 100 Ebola cases.

Which Ebola cases? From where?

Ebola Billionaires.