Kim Mockingbird

The dam was Hezbollah. The hospitals are Hezbollah. The farms are Hezbollah. The apartment buildings are Hezbollah. The churches are Hezbollah. The mosques are Hezbollah. The bridges are Hezbollah. The water treatment plants are Hezbollah. The journalists are Hezbollah. The paramedics are Hezbollah. The clinics are Hezbollah. The civilians are Hezbollah. The

The Soviet Union went from people eating dirt and living in huts to industrializing on such a massive scale that it defeated Germany and developed nuclear weapons. Everyone had housing, guaranteed jobs, and healthcare when they needed it. All of that happened in less than 30 years.

After receiving assassination threats from Israel and the United States, the Iranian Foreign Minister said: “Your threats are beneath our feet. If we feared death, we would not have entered this war, and we would not have offered our finest men as martyrs. Death is an honor for us while defending our homeland…. We were born free, and we will die free.”

JUNE IS THE CRUELEST MONTH The Persians, once again, are exercising infinite patience - even as Epstein Syndicate provocations continue. The Persians may be slow-walking the counter-escalation, out of respect for the Hajj, and to reduce blowback onto the pilgrims. This may go on max until mid-week next week. Meanwhile, the Russian MFA ordered the evacuation of Kiev, for both foreigners and residents. There may be a coordinated decision by the civilization-states to go for broke on the demented Western Legions. Sorry, T.S.Eliot, it's not April. June is gonna be the cruelest month. h/t AHHFrican

Strip the plantation complex out of British economic history and tell me what remains. No sugar capital funding merchant banks. No cotton funding Lancashire mills. No tobacco funding Virginia trade networks. No slave trade profits funding the insurance and shipping industries. No plantation compensation bonds shaping Victorian capital markets. Tell me what the Industrial Revolution runs on. Tell me what funds the merchant houses. Tell me what builds the financial architecture. You've argued the slave economy merely redirected value rather than creating it. The exercise I just described is the test of that claim. Run it. Show your working. Because every economic historian who has run it reached the same conclusion. The one you've been arguing against this entire conversation.

Vucic receives a medal from Xi which supposedly only 12 other foreigners ever received. Can't vouch for fact check but could very well be true. Vucic is single-handedly responsible for $15 billion of Chinese investment/loans in Serbia over the past 12 years, employing 40,000 Serbians today (Serbia has a population 6 million), and selling weapons to Serbia even Russia balked at selling to Serbia (e.g. S-400 equivalent). For comparison, EU invested/loaned about $25 billion, so... more. EU is 100 km from here. China 10,000 km. Russia invested / loaned about $5 billion over the same period. China has saved Serbia's one steel mill (which US Steel gave up for $1)--Serbia still has one, UK does not, for example--China has revived gold and copper mining in Bor which the French and Italians abandoned mid 20th century (my Dad grew up in Bor, and I spent many summers there so I know the area), China has built high speed rail in Serbia that only France and Spain have in Europe (but not, say, Germany), and Huawei--not Elon Musk--has built a top of the notch data center. Countless other investments in all kinds of industries. All of this happened on Vucic's watch. No doubt all of this has also been good and profitable for China, a win-win, the best kind of deal. The pro-EU factions in Serbia--which predictably are also anti-China--point out to Vucic's various faults, some of which I agree with. Where they lose me--and where I realize they are just playing politics and don't care about Serbia but only about themselves--is when they minimize China's contribution to Serbia's relative prosperity, and minimize Vucic's contribution to it. Many of them are now ridiculing this visit by Vucic to China.

⚡️⚡️ Russian scientists have developed a vaccine against a new #Ebola strain, Health Minister #Murashko announced According to the Russian scientists, the vaccine may also protect against the rare Bundibugyo strain linked to the outbreak in the #DRC #MadeInRussia #RussiaAfrica

The IRGC statement declares that it shot down an American MQ-9 drone and forced an RQ-4 drone and an F-35 fighter jet to leave Iranian airspace. This means that once again we detected the F-35 on our radar systems and fired at it. Our capabilities have advanced to such a high level that detecting America’s 5th-generation stealth fighter is no longer considered important news for us.

I'm reading about how the British, in the early 1900s, used to confiscate livestock in Turkana numbering 5,000, up to 16,000. And then when the Samburu raided the Turkana for 300 heads of cattle, the British fined them. Yani, it was ok for the British to steal cattle but not for other Africans to conduct cattle raids. Of course, the math wasn't mathing. The Turkana successfully staged a tax boycott against the colonialists, until the colonialists had to withdraw the tax. But in 1915, the British confiscated a staggering 130,000 head of cattle from the Turkana and killed over 400 warriors. Towards north eastern, the British used to confiscate livestock of Kenyan Somalis so that Europeans breeds would dominate the region and Somalis would be rendered poor due to loss of livestock. The British hated pastoralism (@m_ogada often reminds us that the wazungu and GoK still do) because it made the communities difficult to control, to reduce to forced labor and extract taxes from. So they attacked their livelihoods. And they brought rinderpest. Northern Kenya was governed as "closed districts." People from those regions were not allowed to leave without permission from the colonialists. The act was repealed in guess when? 1997. Yes. And then I remembered Huduma Namba and SHA in which the government proposed means testing, where people's ID cards and SHA contributions included data on the livestock they owned. What I feel reading this is a mixture of anger and horror at that level of looting, surely. And anger that GoK can still be thinking like this in the 21st century. And that this information is not readily accessible. Eesh. pambazuka.org/index.php/nort…

No, but there should be. We need to start stigmatizing that shit. It is not okay to be a stormtrooper for the western empire. It is not honorable. It is not worthy of respect. If you are a westerner who is considering joining the military, you should choose a different career path instead. Don't thank soldiers for their "service". Don't play along with the lie that your nation's soldiers fight for your rights or your freedom. It only encourages more people to join the military when you do that. It's irresponsible and unethical. If you live in the west and you join the military, at no point will you ever be acting in defense of your country; you will be murdering people who are trying to defend their country. You will be murdering them in order to make rich men richer, to make powerful men more powerful, and to help bend the world to the rule of tyrants. And for no other reason. Whenever I point out obvious facts like these I always get brainwashed westerners in my replies telling me I mustn't say such things, because you should always place 100% of the blame on the powerful people who send the troops to war and 0% of the blame on the troops themselves. I have less than zero respect for these mindless objections. They are the reflexive product of blind indoctrination. It serves nobody but the powerful to pretend soldiers bear no moral culpability for their actions in the nations they attack. It just makes it easier to recruit personnel into the armed forces of the most destructive power structure on earth, and to get them to obey immoral commands once they are enlisted. These are grown adults engaging in behavior that would incur the harshest legal penalties in the books if they were inflicted upon westerners in their own country without the blessing of the powerful. It is only because they're being inflicted on foreigners in the global south with the go-ahead from the relevant authority figures that participating in mass murder can be framed as acceptable. It is true that these individuals are less evil than the oligarchs and empire managers who start the wars and hand out the orders, but that's a low bar. It's not okay to join the military of the western empire, and it's not okay to obey orders when you are told to murder people. Never do these things. Ever. Joining the military should be regarded as the most dishonorable career path anyone could possibly choose. Whatever's the most obscene and undignified way to earn money your imagination can come up with, joining the military as a westerner should rank significantly lower than that. It should be as taboo and unappealing as it gets. The crimes of the empire will continue until people stop facilitating those crimes. Anyone who volunteers to help the empire inflict murder and devastation on targeted populations should be regarded as the lowest of the low.

Israel and Hezbollah are increasing the cost on each other. The question is: who will scream first? Hezbollah is defending its country and has accepted the human and financial casualties, no matter how high these are. Israel, on the contrary, is the genocidal criminal side, destroying to occupy and enlarge the country it is occupying. The motivation is different, and the long-term outcome is obvious, regardless of the destruction and casualties.

The cocaine analogy proves my point, not yours, Tom. Cocaine cartels built entire financial systems. They corrupted banks, governments, militaries, and legal institutions across multiple continents. They generated capital that moved through legitimate economies at every level. Economists study narco-economics precisely because illegal drug money built real infrastructure. You've chosen an analogy where the commodity's moral status didn't prevent it from structurally transforming economies. Thank you. That's exactly what sugar did.

Ousmane SONKO a été élu Président de Assemblée nationale du Sénégal ce mardi 25 mai 2026. Ancien Premier ministre et président de Pastef, il succède à El Malick Ndiaye, dont le passage à la tête de l’institution aura été marqué par d’importantes réformes, une modernisation profonde du fonctionnement parlementaire et une volonté constante de renforcer l’efficacité du travail législatif. Dans son discours, le nouveau président de l’Assemblée nationale a vivement salué son prédécesseur, magnifiant son engagement, sa fidélité, sa loyauté ainsi que la qualité du travail accompli durant son mandat. Un hommage fort qui témoigne de la continuité institutionnelle et du respect républicain. Le président Sonko a également réaffirmé les missions essentielles de l’Assemblée nationale : voter les lois, contrôler l’action du Gouvernement et évaluer les politiques publiques, dans le respect des principes démocratiques et des attentes du peuple sénégalais. #ansen #senegal #Parlement

The Atlantic slave trade is not singled out because other slavery didn't exist. It is singled out because it built the world we currently live in. The financial institutions. The insurance markets. The shipping routes. The racial categories. The colonial borders. The wealth distribution between continents that still defines the global economy today. The Atlantic slave trade is not studied with particular intensity because historians are biased. It is studied with particular intensity because its consequences are not historical. They are present. You don't single it out to assign ancient blame. You examine it to understand current reality. The reason your argument wants to dissolve that specificity into universal human wickedness is precisely because universal human wickedness requires nothing from anyone today. Specific, traceable, present consequences do.

The EU has said it will maintain its diplomatic presence in Kiev unchanged, despite Russia's warnings. Well, apparently they've got diplomats to spare and need to trim the headcount.

در گفتگو با رهبران کشورهای عراق، عمان، قطر، ترکیه، تاجیکستان، مصر، قرقیزستان و آذربایجان با تبریک عید سعید قربان اظهار امیدواری کردم که خداوند قلوب ما مسلمانان را به هم نزدیک‌تر کند و شاهد گسترش همکاری‌ها در همه عرصه‌ها و حمایت همه‌جانبه از هم در مقابل تهدیدها باشیم.

That's not quite what happened. Those who tried to change the knowledge dynamics were hounded out of power. In Kenya, Oginga Odinga and Bildad Kaggia noticed there was a problem with Kenyans' political consciousness and started the Lumumba Institute for political education. The vision was to produce cadres who would then be in the media and civil service. The institute didn't last a year. The Americans helped the Kenyan conservatives to shut it down. Meanwhile, the US, through UNESCO, viciously campaigned against expansion of education in developing countries. The US was saying that what needed expansion was media, but really, what they wanted was for American propaganda to reach the grassroots in real time without being subjected to criticism and delay that come from culture and education. #MaishaKazini

Pahlavi Zionist claim there is no internet in Iran. We have internet. I'm currently getting 145m down and 40m up... It's our own version we can do internet banking online shopping taxis and normal stuff... The global sites that are banned have been used to attack Iranian infrastructure and spread propaganda. . as one example you see this site X. It is using a false flag to represent my country to create division... It's like using the old US confederate flag instead of the current one. Long Live Iran. We will get through this and be friends with the world once they understand we are not the bad guys. Follow me and help me get the msg out.

Alhamdulillah, saya berkesempatan mengadakan perbualan telefon dengan Presiden Republik Islam Iran, Dr Masoud Pezeshkian, bagi menyampaikan ucapan Eid Mubarak serta salam persaudaraan dan doa daripada seluruh rakyat Malaysia buat rakyat Iran. Saya menzahirkan harapan agar Iran segera kembali aman dan segala ketegangan serta pertumpahan darah dapat dihentikan melalui jalan damai, hikmah dan diplomasi yang bertanggungjawab. Malaysia kekal berpendirian tegas mengecam sebarang tindakan serangan dan pencerobohan termasuk yang melibatkan serangan dron serta tindakan ketenteraan Israel-Amerika Syarikat yang hanya akan terus mengorbankan nyawa rakyat yang tidak berdosa. Saya turut merakamkan penghargaan atas dukungan serta kerjasama pihak Iran dalam membantu urusan pelepasan kapal Malaysia di Selat Hormuz tempoh hari. Sikap saling menghormati dan semangat persahabatan seperti inilah yang harus terus diperkukuh dalam hubungan antara negara. Presiden Iran turut menyatakan penghargaan terhadap pendirian konsisten Malaysia yang menjunjung keamanan, keadilan dan prinsip kemanusiaan di pentas antarabangsa, selain mengundang saya untuk mengadakan lawatan ke Tehran bagi memperkukuh hubungan dua hala serta kerjasama strategik antara kedua-dua negara. Insya-Allah, saya akan mengatur jadual untuk ke Iran pada masa yang sesuai. Iran sentiasa dekat di hati saya, apatah lagi ramai sahabat dan kenalan di sana yang terus mempertahankan nilai ilmu, persaudaraan dan perjuangan kemanusiaan sejagat. #MalaysiaMADANI #MADANIbekerja #YakinMADANI

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it. Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying. Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence." Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter." Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter. They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created. One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility." Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies. That's the metered intelligence business model. And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.