@IReignForever @calebfashoo @coleworldcharts @JColeNC I also wouldn’t play music on Apple Music if I had the CD…
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@coleworldcharts @JColeNC Higher physical sales equals less streams
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J. Cole’s “2014 Forest Hills Drive(10 Year Anniversary Edition)” is currently receiving more daily streams on Spotify (1.8 M) than his own “The Fall-Off” (1.7 M). Which album do you prefer ?
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@Chetuyachinago Man!!
Thank you for this analysis!😮💨🙌🏿
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We must understand the significance of these peace talks that ended in a stalemate after 21 hours of negotiations.
Iran is not demanding the US give up Texas or a single drop of oil on American soil.
All Iran is demanding are the basic rights a sovereign nation is entitled to under the UN Charter-even if Washington treats that document like a 21st-century suggestion box.
Every sovereign nation is entitled to the enrichment of uranium.
Iran has the right to demand the US stop raining bombs on their cities; Iran should be allowed to freely do business with the rest of humanity without a superpower seizing and blowing up their oil tankers in the name of enforcing illegal sanctions.
Also, Iran has no reason to give up control of the Strait of Hormuz to an aggressor that will seize any opportunity to wipe out their entire civilization.
On the other hand, the US has no demands and has no reason to demand anything. If you come to my house and start pointing at my TV, fridge, and the food in my kitchen, those are not demands; they are theft.
So, the fact that there is no permanent ceasefire agreement is primarily due to Washington not wanting a ceasefire, not Iran.
All Washington has to do for peace to reign in the Persian Gulf is to back up their gunboats and their warships loaded with ammunition, take their all-powerful ass out of the Middle East, and allow the Arabs and Persians to breathe.
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US puppet in Djibouti, Ismail Omar Guelleh, has won “presidential elections” with 97,8% of the vote.
He first succeeded his uncle as President in 1999.
The US has a permanent military base in Djibouti, which serves as the primary hub for US Africa Command (AFRICOM).
Djibouti is a strategic location for the US as it is located at the Bab El-Mandeb Strait.
The Bab El-Mandeb Strait lies in territorial waters of Yemen and Djibouti.
Ansar Allah (Houthis) have previously close the Strait. The US led coalition failed to open the Strait through military might and conceded to a negotiated settlement.
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@DanQuaye22 @weloveghana042 Wouldn’t that be great?😂
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BREAKING: Ghana Card holders in Canada and other countries can travel to Ghana without a visa — NIA.
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We all know that these evacuation orders are not about the U.S. diplomats and expats in Abuja. The U.S. Embassy in Abuja is like the bridge between a heavily fortified supermax prison and an impenetrable nuclear bunker.
It is a billion-dollar, blast-resistant terrarium dropped from orbit. The U.S. Embassy in Abuja is, for all intents and purposes, a sovereign, heavily armed fortress-state entirely capable of functioning smoothly even if Nigeria burns to the ground.
To claim that any staff in the U.S. Embassy in Abuja is in danger due to any unrest in Nigeria is to claim that the crew of a nuclear submarine is in danger from the turbulence of the ocean.
The square perimeter of the embassy alone is surrounded by anti-ram walls thick enough to stop a speeding freight train. They possess shatter-proof, bullet-proof, mortar-proof Gorilla Glass.
They have their own self-sustaining power grids, an independent water supply that goes through several filtration systems, internal medical facilities, and enough Costco-sized pallets of MREs to outlast even a biblical famine in Nigeria.
And let’s not forget the security detail. Behind those walls sits a battalion of special US Marines that eats bricks for breakfast, equipped with ultra-modern machine guns and mountains of ammunition enough to invade and capture a mid-size European republic.
The sand on the floors alone was imported from Virginia, and the surrounding air is filtered before being allowed to pass into the rooms. These embassies were specifically engineered so that the diplomats themselves do not have to experience the Nigeria which they are paid by American taxpayers to report on.
The whole of West Africa could be swallowed by the Atlantic Ocean today, and the U.S. Embassy in Abuja would just float on top of the water, completely intact, generating its own electricity and Wi-Fi so the Ambassador could issue a strongly worded tweet about the incident.
Now you might ask, since this embassy in Abuja is basically a multi-billion-dollar fortress designed to survive even the death of Nigeria, why does Washington even bother with these evacuation orders? Well, the simple answer is that these orders are basically another form of sanctions.
Washington uses these embassy evacuation threats in host nations as leverage to secure better trading terms, get access and security clearances to any location, and counter China by making sure the host nation pays for overpriced American infrastructure instead of cheaper and far better Chinese alternatives.
Once these fake evacuation orders are issued, Wall Street trading algorithms instantly short the host nation's currency. Foreign Direct Investment evaporates. Those European tech bros looking to build a startup hub in the capital immediately cancel their flights.
The multi-billion-dollar Japanese auto plants are paused indefinitely.
So, these evacuation orders are not about the ambassadors living in the impenetrable fortress of the American embassy; they are nothing but financial cruise missiles deployed to force Nigeria to behave or watch its GDP crumble to the mud in less than 72 hours.
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To draw a parallel between apartheid South Africa and apartheid Israel: Today, the Chief of Staff of the ANC military wing and Secretary General of the South African Communist Party, Comrade Thembisile Chris Hani, was assassinated. His assassination was a strategy to disrupt the peaceful transition. South Africans must know that the Dutch colonial settler government operated in the same way that Zionist Israel is operating today.
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@kimheller3 Why bother taking Israel to the ICJ & on the other hand still trading with it. It's nonsensical...
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Israelis can steal anything
in the occupied West Bank.
Even the vending machines aren't safe from them.
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This is the reason you see Trump spewing out contradictory tweets.
At one moment he is talking about bringing freedom and democracy to the good people of Iran.
Next thing before you know it, he is degrading the people of Iran as animals.
One moment he is talking about how this war is about the oil to pander to the billionaires in Silicon Valley and the oil executives in Chevron and ExxonMobil.
Before you know it again, he is talking about something else entirely.
Even the soldiers doing the actual battle are not safe from this toxic propaganda.
You would think that they would be briefed on the true cause of this war in whose name they are prepared to give up their lives.
But instead, they are being fed the delusion that the Orange man is fighting this war to make way for the coming of Christ.
So when you see Trump churning out these room temperature IQ and self-contradictory tweets, understand that he's desperately trying and working extremely hard to pander to all sides of this war.
The real agenda of this war is highly confidential and we may never know the ugly truth unless more files are declassified.
Even EL Rubio and the washed up TV host Hegseth and their MAGA poster boys do not even know what this war is all about. They are just reciting scripts neatly typed and edited to maliciously divide the people.
What we know though, from the reports from US policymakers is that this war is aimed to counter China and Russia and ruthlessly maintain US hegemony.
According to these reports, the US government has zero interest in a multipolar world and is ready to drag all of humanity into the meat grinder of World War 3 just to achieve this aim.
Chetuya Math Chinagolum@Chetuyachinago
Modern warfare is deliberately confusing and intensely propagandized. It is exactly as if the tiny cabal of elite billionaires running this world are just executing their own selfish agendas, without even bothering to drag the rest of us along for the ride. At least during World War II, the objectives were crystal clear, and the enemy was universally agreed by all to be the Nazis. And that was an era when the masses relied entirely on limited newspaper publications. Yet today, humanity has conquered practically everything there is to discover in Information Science and Technology. Whatever gets decided in the Oval Office of the White House is broadcast to the darkest corners of the globe in a matter of nanoseconds. And yet, in spite of all this unprecedented access, absolutely nobody actually knows why America is bombing Iran. Of course, if you ask the Israelis, they will swear to you that the devil practically resides in Tehran, and how Iran must be ruthlessly contained just so they can sleep comfortably at night. To them, this is peddled as a desperate, existential war. If you go to America and ask the average citizen, they will spout even more braindead propaganda. They’ll rant about Epstein files and how Trump is unilaterally burning billions of taxpayer dollars to start bloody wars just to keep those files hidden. Another deranged faction will actually look you in the eye and say Bibi Netanyahu has tapes of Trump doing things I am not even allowed to type here, and is using those tapes to actively blackmail him. Continue your journey into Europe, and the Europeans will smugly tell you that this is strictly America's war. They'll whine about how America needs to be kicked out of NATO immediately to stop dragging them into one meaningless bloodbath after another. In Africa, the situation is even more pathetic, especially among the Christian population, who have been utterly lobotomized by Hollywood propaganda and a Western-imposed education system. These groups unilaterally and blindly stand behind Trump. If Trump were to declare war on their very own communities, they would literally take up arms and fight shoulder-to-shoulder with the American troops slaughtering them. The small echo chamber of geopolitical analysts on this platform will feed you a completely different story. Their hardline position is that this war is strictly about protecting dying US hegemony. They argue that the US despises multipolarism and is actively trying to ignite a Third World War just to emerge as the undisputed, sole superpower. To them, attacking Iran is nothing but a cynical proxy move to counter China and Russia and completely dominate Eurasia. I strongly lean toward the geopolitical angle myself, but that is not the real reason I take to this platform. I am driven by the visceral reality of human suffering. I believe any form of oppression is outright evil, and it is for this exact reason that I vehemently fight back against imperialism. If the soldiers involved in this madness quietly moved to a remote, barren desert to butcher each other, I promise you I would never bother to condemn or praise either side. But as long as innocent schoolchildren, just trying to learn algebra in their classrooms, are being ruthlessly incinerated by precision-guided missiles, I will not shut up. I will continue to weaponize my voice here and aggressively condemn these absolute atrocities.
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My friend recently wrote a substack on this bornfreenowwhat.substack.com
Ndumi@Leave_the_candy
We complain about cheap South African labour and being exploited by corporations but we don’t want to address our domestic worker pay problem in this country. You don’t want your boss to underpay you but you want to underpay someone else.
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When will Africans finally outgrow this embarrassing and childish tourist syndrome?
An African flies to a European country, sees a shiny building or a fancy train, whips out their phone, and immediately runs to social media to cry, "When will our country have this?!"
SPOILER ALERT : those train rides are not free.
They are directly subsidized by the missing wealth and uncollected taxes of the developing world.
Truth is that, while the rest of Europe was tripping over themselves to aggressively extract African resources by sending gunboats, missionaries, and colonial administrators to do their dirty work, Luxembourg was playing 3D chess.
They did not need to get their hands bloody or dirty. Instead, they quietly positioned themselves as the ultimate offshore tollbooth for the wealth being plundered from the Global South.
Here is how their white-collar criminal network operates: A massive multinational conglomerate digs up copper in Zambia, pumps crude in Nigeria, or mines cobalt in the DRC Congo.
By any standard of fairness, the immense wealth generated from those resources should be taxed locally to build the exact same roads, schools, and train networks we keep drooling over.
But the global financial system is rigged. Instead of paying their fair share, that corporation sets up a shell company and often literally just a dusty P.O. Box in Luxembourg.
And then through the dark arts of corporate accounting known as "profit shifting" and "transfer pricing," the company manipulates its books. The African subsidiary, the one doing the actual extraction, magically records zero profit.
Meanwhile, the Luxembourg P.O. Box records billions. Africa gets the environmental degradation, the exploited labor, and a depleted national treasury. Luxembourg gets the capital.
Now, Luxembourg taxes these phantom P.O. boxes just enough to make it look legitimate, pulling in about 5% of their GDP. But that’s just the cover charge. When you factor in the massive ecosystem built to service this racket,the armies of corporate lawyers, wealth managers, auditors, and bankers designing these tax-dodging schemes, it accounts for a staggering 30% of Luxembourg’s entire GDP.
Put the math together, and you realize that nearly 40% of their national wealth is a monument to laundered money.
It is the most flawlessly executed heist in modern history. They managed to siphon the wealth of a continent without firing a single bullet or toppling a single regime.
Larry Madowo@LarryMadowo
All buses, trains, and trams are free in this country. For everyone! Luxembourg is unreal. When will your country have this?
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♦️j*wish chick tried to press Myron about the H*Iocaust and he hit her with the UNO reverse card!😭✡️🔁
“Do you think that lsraeI did a genocide?”
“That’s a complicated question..”
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When ships deliver cargo Nigeria, they leave with empty containers because the country produces nothing it can export
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@lavidaNOTA “Me and my red cup, my blunt and my red cup.
Y'all wouldn't know me without one, I keep a fresh cut. Remember talking to Biggie inside his Lex truck. Said stay fly when you bummy, keep your pajamas Armani”
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“I'm pushing forty, she only twenty-one. Don't applaud me, I'm exhausted, G!”
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the police are about half of every American municipality's budget
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@Sentletse I didn’t know you can withdraw, this is incredible!
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Iran is withdrawing from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
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🇮🇷 Iranian state media has released an AI-generated troll clip of Trump being captured and interrogated by an IRGC spokesperson over truth and lies questions.
This troll video is currently going viral across Iran.
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