Kim Bhari

@Thuranira_1 Do not forget that many employees do not have the time, energy and knowledge about pension schemes.

That is incorrect. Paying KES 200 (USD 1.5) into a pension pot is a joke.| I wish I was paying 6% of my salary into NSSF from 1985. I reckon my pension would have been approximately KES 10 million or so. I would be collecting about KES 60,000 a month. In Tanzania the rate is 10% and it has been running for decades now.

You should not pay more than Kshs 200 to NSSF. The provisions of the NSSF Act recommending higher contributions were declared unconstitutional. What is the use of NSSF anyway? People should have the freedom to save their money in private insurance and pension schemes,they are often much better.

@GMastrokoukos @ChessBase @chessdom @chesscom @ChessTopics @PHChess @TelegraphChess @TarjeiJS @ChessbaseIndia @uachessfed @ECUonline Libya, Iraq, Yugoslavia - are all forgotten. These decisions seem to be one direction only.

@KimBhari @ChessBase @chessdom @chesscom @ChessTopics @PHChess @TelegraphChess @TarjeiJS @ChessbaseIndia @uachessfed @ECUonline Chess players are not affected. They can always switch RUS from their FIDE ID and continue playing (as now). The RCF is suspended and has no membership and no voting rights. Exactly as the Russian Olympic Committee in IOC.

#chess #FIDE @chessbase @chessdom @chesscom @chesstopics @PHChess @TelegraphChess @TarjeiJS @ChessbaseIndia @UAchessfed @ECUonline Today is the official deadline given by the Court of Arbitration of Sport to the Russian Chess Federation (RCF) and FIDE. The RCF is still violating the territorial integrity of the NOC Ukraine, as recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in accordance with the Olympic Charter. The IOC has already suspended the Russian Olympic Committee for the same reason since 2023. The CAS decision is very clear that the suspension of the RCF applies automatically. The FIDE President has a legal obligation, as the top signatory of FIDE's daily management, to instruct the FIDE office to remove the RCF from the FIDE database by today 23:59 CET time ⬇️➡️

@SizweLo Railways, ports, airports, mining, hospitals should belong to the country. Steel is the backbone of any industry. It should be in the country - correct move by the French govt

The French parliament has voted to nationalise steelmaker ArceloMittal to “save jobs” and assert “sovereignty” They may be capitalists, but deep down they know what works Then you have South Africans still sipping on “private sector” propaganda because “Blacks can’t govern”

@amerix You should follow @SamaHoole as well. He has useful tips.

One of the most underrated foods in traditional African nutrition is OX TAIL SOUP. We buy expensive, yet useless supplements, protein powders, collagen drinks, and laboratory-made products while ignoring foods our grandfathers ate regularly. OX TAIL is rich in collagen, gelatin, amino acids, minerals, and healthy fats. • The gelatin supports joint health. • The collagen supports connective tissues, tendons, ligaments, skin, and blood vessels. • The amino acids, especially glycine, support sleep, recovery, and tissue repair. For men above 35, whose joints ache after exercise or whose backs hurt after long hours of work, or who are recovering from illness, ox tail soup is the preferred medicine for healing and recovery. Ox tail soup is also good for Mothers who have just given birth and are just about to breastfeed colostrum to the newborn. Babies who have just started weaning should be given Ox tail soup in plenty. Our ageing parents don't need calcium supplements, they need nutrient-dense foods like the ox tail soup. The strongest men in history did not build themselves on processed foods. They built themselves on nutrient-dense traditional foods. Sometimes the solution is not in a pharmacy, it is in our kitchen. #FoodFriday

@rodgers_adai I think the problem is lot more complex. The root cause could be the delayed/inadequate funding for the schools. That frustration then starts to boil over.

Kenyan children are not special. Are Chinese or Taiwanese children burning schools?? They are in school 7.30am to 10.00pm! Negotiating with students should be out. In any cohort of students, there will always be troublemakers. Bring out the Cane. I am sure the top students are not part of the rioting gang. Those who don't want can stay away. Let those who want to study do it in peace. We went through the same conditions. This African indiscipline should end. And entertainment should be curtailed. We are the most backward race and we want to behave like we are in Europe. Africa needs recolonisation

@GMastrokoukos @ChessBase @chessdom @chesscom @ChessTopics @PHChess @TelegraphChess @TarjeiJS @ChessbaseIndia @uachessfed @ECUonline I still do not get it. The US has a blockade on Cuba and kidnapped a sitting president?

@SamaHoole Interesting. I cannot stand raw milk. I guess it is now hardwired to my DNA. Interesting comments.

We pasteurise milk to kill the bacteria, then sell people probiotic capsules to put the bacteria back, then sell them lactase tablets to digest the milk that used to digest itself. Three products where the cow already provided one. Genius, if you happen to own all three companies.

Telling each African chess story one day at a time. This time we go to Somalia and find out who is their National Champion! kenyachessmasala.com/2026/06/2026-s…

@SamaHoole Thanks for sharing. I just googled the story.

"100% Grated Parmesan Cheese." That's what the label says. That is, in fact, the literal text the manufacturer has chosen to place on the front of the package. The 100% refers to a feeling, not a chemistry. In 2012, the FDA raided Castle Cheese in Pennsylvania, a major supplier of grated cheese to American supermarkets. The 100% Parmesan they were selling was 0% Parmesan. It was a blend of cheddar, Swiss, mozzarella, and powdered cellulose, the last of which is, in industrial terms, wood pulp. Or to be more specific: fine fibres extracted from the cell walls of trees and processed into a flowable powder used to stop the cheese from clumping in the shaker. The Castle Cheese executive went to prison. The company went bankrupt. The practice continued. In 2016, Bloomberg commissioned independent lab testing of major American "100% Parmesan" products. Kraft's product contained 3.8% cellulose. Some Walmart and Albertsons store brands tested as high as 9%. The accepted industry threshold for "anti-clumping" cellulose use is 2 to 4%. The cheese is partly wood. The Italians, who have been making the actual cheese for a thousand years, can only sell their version under EU protection as Parmigiano Reggiano: three ingredients, milk, rennet, salt, aged in a 75-pound wheel for at least twelve months in a specific geographic region with the name burned into the rind in dotted pin lettering. The American "Parmesan" can be anything. The American "Parmesan" can be sawdust. The Italian cheese costs more. The Italian cheese is more. The price of food is sometimes the price of food being food.

@BowesChay I get confused as well as I thought he was born in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Kasparov isn't even Russian, but he's become the ill informed mascot for the even less informed pro EU halfwits trying to "make Russia small" He should have stuck to the chess and kept away from the gin. He did neither.

I do not agree with this proposal which is designed to basically increase the salaries for the highly paid banking executives. We need the brackets to be widened with no tax (or HL) for the first KES 50,000. One should only get to the 30% bracket at around KES 300,000 and not at about KES 32,000 or so. This is what is desperately needed. Everyone thinks that taxes are really to raise revenue for the governments. That is not 100% correct. The other idea behind taxes is the following. Redistribution of Wealth: Taxes enable governments to provide social welfare programs, support the needy, and reduce income inequality. Income over KES 800,00 per month is taxed at 35%. I believe that that another bracket should be introduced at KES 1,000,000 per month at 40% and then say over KES 2,000,000 per month at 50%. I will brace myself for the expected onslaught from KoT on my proposal😀

At the #TaxSymposiumKE convened by @ntvkenya's #BusinessRedefined & @BD_Africa, Kenya Bankers Association (@KenyaBankers) tabled a case for the proposed 5.0% reduction in tax across all PAYE bands. Here's the thinking behind it: · 5.0% of the 2024/25 PAYE collection (Kes 560.0 billion) should yield Kes 28.1 billion stimulus injection into the economy · Any Kes 1.0 billion injected into the MSME ecosystem gives rise to 1,300 new jobs so the Kes 28.1 billion should give rise to 36,000 new jobs · 50.0% of payroll employees utilise increase in salaries to tap credit from the formal financial system · Any Kes 1.0 increase in salary allows payroll staff in Kenya to access between Kes 10.0 & Kes 20.0 worth of credit · So that Kes 28.1 billion stimulus should enable access to just about Kes 140.0 billion in credit to households Remember to submit your comments on Finance Bill 2026 by May 25th, 5:00pm

@BowesChay I find it very difficult to imagine that Mrs Zelensky has done something wrong. Maybe these are just rumours.

Your Update from Moscow. Why would Zelensky be so desperate to provoke Russia? Why now? Well, when you know whats happening in Kiev, it all makes sense.

@STANISKRAPIVNIK Interesting - I was not aware of this.

On May 16, 2018, traffic opened on the 19-kilometer Crimean Bridge. And this is a good occasion to recall the first transport crossing of the Kerch Strait. Stalin made the decision on it three months before the liberation of Crimea. And the Red Army railwaymen quickly built the bridge in 150 days. The first pile - July 1, 1944, the first train - November 3... Military journalist Yevgeny Kirichenko offered previously unpublished archival documents to the magazine "Rodina". "This project was encrypted under the abbreviation '2K' - most likely, from the first letters in the words 'Crimea' and 'Caucasus'. The place for the crossing was chosen between the Chushka peninsula and the eastern cape of the Kerch Peninsula - in the narrowest, 4.5 kilometer, throat of the strait. Before the retreat, the Nazis destroyed the cable car across the strait, and at first, our engineers had to rebuild it. At their disposal - two fishing seiners, a barge, a motorboat and a trophy boat. 'The sea was often stormy. Waves strongly rocked the diesel hammers installed on the rafts, did not allow to drive the piles. To avoid being washed away by water, the soldiers were tied with ropes...' There was not enough of the trophy metal, abandoned by the enemy near Kerch, even for half of the spans and supports. General Pavel Zernov, the future twice Hero of Socialist Labor, found a brilliant solution - to use elements of the destroyed bridges on the Dnieper. On November 3, 1944, the first train passed through the Kerch Strait. The construction managers traditionally stood under the bridge on boats. And soon the bridge ended its short biography, not surviving the winter of 1945. On February 20, under the pressure of abnormally strong ice, half of the bridge supports collapsed, dragging the spans with them. But over four months, more than two thousand trains with fuel and ammunition for the front passed through it. If someone tells you that the Kerch Bridge was a Stalinist adventure, remember this figure...". I'm sure that a majestic monument to the frontline bridge builders and their descendants will one day rise on the banks of the Kerch Strait. @sashakots

Telling each African chess story one day at a time. kenyachessmasala.com/2026/05/the-ke…

@SamaHoole Unfortunately, I cannot stand milk that has not been processed. I guess I have become a full city boy!

In 1984, the Milk Marketing Board made pasteurised semi-skimmed milk nationally available in the British supermarket. That year it accounted for 4.2% of household milk purchases. By 1993, 41%. By 2008, over 60%. It is still, in 2026, the default carton in the average British fridge. The marketing was clever. Semi-skimmed was the sensible middle path. Not the indulgent gold-top the new guidance was nervous about, not the watery red-top nobody actually liked. The grown-up choice for a family that did not want to be reckless. But the British family had already lost most of the milk by the time the green carton arrived. Before 1949, most families drank their milk raw. It was left on the doorstep before dawn, in a glass bottle, by a man who knew the household by name, from a herd within a few miles of the back door. The cream rose to the top of the bottle overnight and the children fought over who got the first pour. That milk contained the full fat-soluble vitamin profile. The native enzymes that helped the body digest it. The lactoferrin and immunoglobulins that supported the immune system. The beneficial bacteria of an unprocessed living food. Children grew up on it for ten thousand years. Then it was taken apart, step by step, in the name of safety and progress. Pasteurisation killed the bacteria, the good with the bad, and degraded the heat-sensitive vitamins. Homogenisation broke the fat globules so small the cream could no longer rise. Skimming removed the cream entirely. The cream did not vanish. It was sold to the food industry, where it became an ingredient in biscuits, ice cream, and ready meals. The household paid the same price for less nutrition, while the best part of the milk was sold back to them inside a Mr Kipling box. The cow produces a complete food. Industry takes it apart, sells the best to manufacturers, sells the leftover to you, and tells you the leftover is the responsible choice. The milkman is gone. The blue lid is in the next fridge along. The raw stuff is at the farm gate, if you can find one.

@SamaHoole So are you saying Seven Seas is no good?

Fish oil capsules are the most aggressively oxidised industrial fat ever sold to a human being as a health supplement, and we have somehow agreed, as a culture, to pretend this is fine. The omega-3 fats in fish oil are the most chemically unstable fats in nature. Light, heat, oxygen. Any of the three starts the reaction. The fish keeps those fats sealed inside cell membranes, shielded by its own antioxidant system, kept cold and dark by living tissue doing its job. The supermarket capsule offers none of that. By the time you crack one open, the contents have travelled through a Peruvian processing plant, a shipping container, a warehouse, a supermarket shelf, and your kitchen cupboard. Every step of the journey is the precise set of conditions the fish spent its entire life protecting those fats from. What comes out the other end is a slurry of oxidation byproducts. Lipid peroxides. Malondialdehyde. 4-hydroxynonenal. Compounds that damage DNA, drive inflammation, and have been linked in the literature to atherosclerosis, neurodegeneration, and the very cardiovascular outcomes the capsule was sold to prevent. Independent labs have repeatedly tested supermarket fish oil and found peroxide values that would not legally pass for human consumption in any other category of food. You are paying a premium for a Petri dish. Eat the fish.

@SamaHoole Is there a difference between cured ham and what we get in the supermarkets?

They took away tallow. We got seed oil. They took away butter. We got margarine. They took away raw milk. We got oat drink. They took away liver. We got iron tablets. They took away bone broth. We got a stock cube. They took away egg yolks. We got egg-white omelettes. They took away cured ham. We got injected reformed pork. They took away aged cheddar in a cloth. We got plastic-wrapped orange rectangles. They took away wool. We got polyester. They took away leather. We got PVC. They took away the back-garden hen and the family cow. We got a four-pint plastic jug. Every product humans had built civilisations on was removed in a single century. Every replacement is patentable, profitable, and slowly making the population sicker. The originals never asked for shelf space, a marketing budget, or your trust. They had it for ten thousand years before any of this began.

@SamaHoole I keep learning so much from you. First time for me to learn about beef tea.

Beef tea was the most reliable medicine in the British pharmacopoeia for over a century. It saved soldiers in the Crimea, fed Florence Nightingale's recovering wounded, kept new mothers alive through the worst of childbed fever, and held weakened patients steady through pneumonia, typhoid, and measles. Between roughly 1840 and 1960, it was what a doctor prescribed when food could no longer be eaten but nutrition could not be skipped. The recipe was simple. A pound of shin or stewing steak from the butcher, cut into half-inch cubes, placed in a stoneware jar with a spoon of water and a pinch of salt, sealed, and set in a pan of simmering water for three hours. The meat released its juices. The result was strained through muslin. A clear, deep brown liquid that smelled of concentrated beef and tasted of nothing else. A teacup contained roughly 6g of complete protein, the full B-vitamin profile of the meat, free amino acids in their most bioavailable form, creatine, taurine, and the haem iron from the haemoglobin. Absorbed by a gut too weak to handle anything solid. Given to women after childbirth. To children recovering from fevers. To soldiers in field hospitals. To the elderly in workhouses. To anyone who couldn't eat but had to be fed. Bovril was launched in 1886 as a shelf-stable industrial version, originally developed to feed the French army. By 1900 a jar sat in roughly a third of British households. The modern equivalent is a "bone broth" sold by a wellness brand in Shoreditch at £8 a serving, made from chicken bones in a Wakefield factory with added "natural flavouring." The real version is forty minutes of work in your kitchen with a piece of beef shin and a jam jar. The Victorian sickbed knew exactly what it was doing.