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Suez Canal was initiated/dug by the French, Ferdinand de Lesseps, a French diplomat and engineer. Construction began in 1859 and was completed in 1869, to "shorten ferrying distance", the transport costs that's eventually factored into the price of final goods. It's a 300m narrow path, BUT, that created the technicality that Middle east is now separate from Africa. Its 193km long. If a piece of the continent is man-made cut like that, it's still the same continent, but a 300m man made path makes "middle east" no longer part of Africa. Ok, Where is middle west? Or Middle south? Or middle north? Africa and middle east Naturally have the same tectonic plate, Side note, in images, look at Madagascar, 400km away, but is part of Africa, look at Spain and Portugal, min 13 km from Africa but are not... Suez Canal, 300m, takes away a huge piece of, & no longer part of Africa, Looks like an accounting thievery.. #learnSomethingNew

@MarioNawfal About that Suez canal x.com/i/status/19642…

🇮🇷 WHY TOLLS ON THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ WOULD BE THE END OF INTERNATIONAL LAW At first glance, Iran charging ships up to $2 million to pass through the Strait of Hormuz might not sound outrageous. Ships already pay hefty fees to cross the Suez Canal, and no one calls that extortion. So why is this any different? Because a canal and a strait may look similar on a map, but they operate on entirely different rules: legally, strategically, and economically. The Suez Canal is a man-made shortcut. Egypt built it, maintains it, secures it, and continuously invests in keeping it navigable. The fees ships pay are, in essence, payment for a service. And crucially, there is an alternative. Vessels can always reroute around the Cape of Good Hope, adding time and cost but preserving choice. That element of choice is what makes the system work. The Strait of Hormuz offers no such flexibility. It's not infrastructure; it's geography. Nearly a fifth of the world’s oil supply moves through that narrow passage, and there is no realistic way around it. When Hormuz closes, or becomes prohibitively expensive, global energy markets seize up, as we're witnessing now. This is exactly why international law treats straits differently. Under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, waterways like Hormuz are subject to “transit passage,” meaning ships have the right to pass through without interference. Coastal states can regulate safety and traffic, but they can't charge simply for the act of passing through. Even the UN’s maritime agency has warned that imposing tolls in Hormuz would set a “dangerous precedent.” And that word, precedent, is where this story really begins. If Iran can charge for Hormuz, what stops others from doing the same? Indonesia in the Strait of Malacca, through which a huge share of global trade flows. Turkey in the Bosphorus. Denmark in the Danish Straits. Each of these chokepoints suddenly becomes a monetized gate. At that point, global trade stops being governed by rules and starts being dictated by whoever controls the narrowest passage of water. We’ve long accepted fees for canals, ports, and even specialized services like escorts through dangerous waters. But charging for simple passage through a natural international strait crosses into new territory, one that could reshape how global commerce functions.

There is a parable in Mathew, a man expected God, asked God, how far, God said I came but u sent me away. We pray for so many things, God answers,/answered, but we were too busy being busy, or too busy to notice, or too busy pretending to be busy, self inflicted pride or whatever, and the network missed, maybe sometimes because some things we expect them delivered in a certain way, our way, but God had another idea of delivery you din't expect or don't approve. So answer to our prayers passed, And to make ourselves sleep at night, we tell ourselves it wasn't God's time, ironically all else we have no idea how God is doing what he does, except that part, it's the only time we know exactly how God works🤦, maybe it's true, as in it's not God's time bacause it passed, sometimes u ask for money but God gives you a million dollars idea instead, and u become too lazy to even take it seriously, sometimes we ask for faithful woman, and God... let me keep quiet... Now, Next time when we pray, do it right, eg, God I dint call that time, and my wife went to someone else, I saw the missed call and dint check back on that guy because of this or that, and I should have, now I missed on that, so God let's try again, because same old prayer what if god is ignoring u because u are missing his answers to your prayers? If u ask for sadza and it comes grey guess what God want u to eat mhunga today, Simply because this sadza is grey u say "it wasn't God's time", not because it wasn't but because u want it to happen in a certain way, but guess what 1st principle when dealing with God, he works in mysterious ways doesn't he..

To all christians, It's time to rebuke being labeled "sheep/lamb", Should not have allowed it in the 1st place, even if it's in the bible, Spend a few days at a mixed farm, you will concur, Sheep and turkeys are the dumbest animals alive. It feels like lining them up & slap the stupid out of them😂 They are painfully stupid. But can make a lot of money out of them, they are good for Business, than those with a brain that works, like goats & road runners, These actually think, (Unless you cage them), Otherwise they assess, adapt, & survive better than turkeys and "sheep 🐑"

@Rainmaker1973 Eliminating plant food..

Iceland switched on the biggest air-cleaning machine on Earth. In May 2024, a facility called Mammoth began operations in Iceland. Built by Swiss company Climeworks, it’s designed to remove up to 36,000 tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year – 10 times more than its predecessor, Orca. The process is called direct air capture (DAC). Giant fans pull in ambient air, and specialized filters trap CO₂ molecules. That CO₂ is then mixed with water and pumped deep underground into basalt rock formations, where it slowly turns into solid stone through a natural mineralization process. And it’s all powered by Iceland’s geothermal energy, meaning the entire system runs on clean, renewable power. The captured CO₂ is stored by Climeworks’ partner, Carbfix, which developed the underground injection method. Over time, the gas reacts with the rock and becomes part of the Earth – locked away for good.

@cb_doge 100%

Can money buy happiness?

@TerribleMaps @grok, this true

A new map of England and France (1793)

@MarioNawfal Moment you said Gates 🤦🙆😬, I'd rather go with Nigeria or south Africa's version

THE $40 SHOT THAT COULD END HIV It’s not a cure - it’s a revolution in a syringe. Twice a year, one injection. Near-total HIV protection. Price tag? 40 bucks. The drug’s name is lenacapavir. Not a vaccine - smarter. It blocks the virus before it can even start replicating. Gilead made it. Gates funded it. India’s generics made it cheap enough to save the world. For years, it sat on a $28,000-a-year U.S. pedestal - a miracle locked behind a paywall. Now, through a tangle of deals, philanthropy, and pressure, it’s dropped to 0.1% of its original cost. That’s not charity. That’s a new economic model for global health. The math is brutal: 40 million people live with HIV. 600,000 die every year. Oral PrEP works, but few stick with it. Lenacapavir changes the game - 2 shots a year instead of 365 pills. Perfect for those the system ignores: young women, sex workers, trans folks, people who use drugs. The ones society treats like data, not lives. If scaled, this drug could cut new infections by up to 20% in high-burden countries. A literal shot at ending one of history’s most relentless killers. The hard part? Delivery. The science is solved. The politics, profit margins, and logistics aren’t. But for the first time in decades, HIV looks beatable... not by miracles, but by math, medicine, and money that finally adds up. Source:: ZME Science, Gilead

BREAKING: Look at this. A new crypto account was opened yesterday morning. 30 minutes BEFORE Trump's announcement of 100% tariffs on China, it added a huge multi-million dollar levered Bitcoin short position, per YF. The market dumped. The trader made a profit of $192 million in two hours. Unusual.

@AnomiePhoenix @MarioNawfal Trump china 100% tariffs

@MarioNawfal Do we know what was the motivation for this liquidation? And how many firms and individual investors have done this? How many would we know the names of?

$19.5 BILLION IN LIQUIDATIONS. THE LARGEST SINGLE-DAY WIPEOUT IN CRYPTO HISTORY Over $19.5B in positions were liquidated within 24 hours, marking the biggest liquidation event ever recorded. That’s 17× bigger than COVID and 13× bigger than FTX A new record in crypto volatility. Source: CoinGlass

@MarioNawfal Uptober, where you at

@libsoftiktok @netflix 👀

OMG. Children's @Netflix show "Strawberry Shortcake: Berry in the Big City" is promoting transgender drag queens to CHILDREN. Netflix is grooming kids. CANCEL NETFLIX

@Rainmaker1973 Right when Nigeria and South Africa now have a working cure in clinical trials in the pipeline to build from

The end of HIV infections may be closer than we think. Scientists cut HIV out of immune cells using CRISPR. And the cells stayed HIV-free even after re-exposure. A cure could finally be within reach. In a groundbreaking advance, scientists at Temple University have successfully used CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing to eliminate HIV-1 DNA from the genomes of human immune cells. Unlike existing treatments that suppress the virus, this method completely removes the genetic blueprint of HIV from infected T-cells.

A story about Mandela, as it relates to 2025 and years to come, aplicable on any conner of the world.. "in this world, call it Realistic onground fact/quote/empathy gap or whatever; there are people who would easily spend $500+ in a single day, but wont give an employee $50 for their kid's school fees..of which that $50, they have&can/will easily give it to the waiter they dont even know, but never a coleague.." With other races, if your only interaction with, for example, black people, is when they rob you, u will then think that crime is black, because u, not even related to your actions, you have been a part of a system-'in-the-sense that', it dint dint let you hang out with black people, white people, in most part of history/apartheid [as it relates to Mandela]/few years ago+, werent allowed to hang out with black people. back then it infact was a crime to do so..that epigenetics passes on to siblings whciht ey may also pass on. Nelson Mandlea, [not a quote but a revelation of his perhaps], at Robben Island, he made friends with most off his prison guards (who were white), and the administration started seing that they shouldnt let Mandela or any of his coleagues asociate with prison guards for longer than just a few monhts, so they rotated them regularly, because the prison guards started to see the prisoners as human beings, and start treating them differently. Mandela would greet them, start to talk to them, ask them how they are doing, asking them about their families and how their families are doing..wish them happy birthday, so he infact wasnt a saint as we think today, but, Just a human being, or just being a human..other people who were in prison with him, [all black], would also start just being humans, [not because they are BEGINING TO], but becase over time, they infact are, but guards[white] dint know.. Now the prison guards getting to know these prisoners [political prosoners of that time], grew to respect them, would get to a point where the prison guards wold be like, "what did you say this guy did again?", as it challenged the guards' assumptions and the systems they were enforcing, and slowly they will start to see that something isnt right, thats how some white people during apartheid started siding with mandela because in that instance, they started seing them and treating them as human beings, and it became hard to treat them as these monsters polititians [white] were making it out to be. Bigotry requires dehumanization, and separation, that way there is no exposure to the other side, and that lack of exposure, infact allows for dehumanization to thrive, by the narrative/reinforcing stereotypes and prvevnting empathy..in this case which was to make mandela "this monster", but guards started seing that something isnt right, that its wrong what they are doing/did to mandela. So mandela in that process while in prosn he learned that in such a system, u need not free only the prisoner, but also the guard[one who enforces].. i'd like to think thats one reason he started treating Everyone equally, how he was able to forgive. I think anywhere in the world, race issues were created by ancestors, from the African History i understand, way i undestood it, the first moments of contacts, when black people met white people, all they had was fascination, wondering how a person looks that way, curiously so, the clothes, language etc, pure fascination, like a kid would when they meet an alien for example, if that makes sense, no ill will at all, just pure fascination.. but whites that landed first contact, sold it back home in an attempt to be meaningful back home, to rise high up in rank back home, as an oportunity, as the whites who 1st came to africa were the low class, and so it began.. so for those who know only black people from them being criminals, why is that, because of how you are seing it from the experiences, not theirs, because u have no way of knowing, because of that separation,,and also the people around you, your black or asian or white few friends, have the similar experience, which infact is because of the separation with the other races. chances of chinese [or countries] coming to Africa is because of what africa has, chances of black people looking for jobs not in africa are because of things in those other economies, jobs.. chances on average more black people robing white people is because of what history left us, with the other with many, the other with less, it is what it is, racoons dont go to racoon owned bins and disturb sleeping racoons, because the good stuff is in human beings' bins, similar with races, as it was laid out by our ancestors.. But the separation of those, is what will ALWAYS make sure it plays into the race fantasy, time for all people of all races to know how its been/is for the other, why is it so, for the other. Those that have it, that which others want, want to protect it, and end up not ascociating with the other, because of that, the fantasy will always play out, so that cycle never ends, and will be passed on to siblings, and it is so, as it was laid out by our ancestors. and if your friends gets robbed, attacked, kidnapped, it becomes a _this happens to "us"_, by "those", so the separation is justified, and so it continues.. There is a movie "Tsotsi", it won an Oscar, it does play into the fantasy and the stereotype, But the miracle is that this "animal"[black], brought the baby[white] back, it must have blown most other races' minds that they [blacks] could infact do that..something they dint know. About a months ago i met a chinese, in Africa, called Tony, who married a remote African lady, and most black people dint know that chinese could fall in love with black woman, because of the separation, ie, for those that dont/never traveled, for those that do or have, its not new, point is, that separation.. because there, locally, chinese run companies, that in most times are in the Continent's resources related, and some dont treat their employees as humans vs others, and in movies, chinese are this race of rules, fights [There's even a saying that proves this thinking ALL chinese are good at kungfu/fighting]. In reality they can Love chocolate. Whichever conner of the world, knowing or Not knowing this, is infact the race issue in this world, separation will always keep this gap alive, by maintaining the misunderstanding, and greed will maintain the imbalance, while dehumanisation Justifies them & helps to keep it that way. JMO, from inspired deductions.

Trevor Noah's grandma (Frances Noah) passed in 2022, at age 95. She was an adult during South Africa(SA)'s apartheid, Mandel's time, giving her front row seat of that specific time through history. SA was the last African country to gain independence 1994, (Well there's South Sudan 2011, (story for another day))

@gunsnrosesgirl3 Its just too real to be a "volcanic elephant" I think it was mortified, giants, beings, trees and all existed,we will figure it out one day when we get outside out firmament 😅 x.com/IrvineMadula/s…

Elephant Rock in Iceland shaped by ancient volcanos

@BitcoinMagazine @Duelbits It better 😃

JUST IN: #Bitcoin is already up over 8% this month 🚀 Will BTC pump the highest it ever has this October? 🤯

@alifarhat79 😅 that will d crazy, but it will send it🚀👊

BREAKING: TRUMP IS CONSIDERING $1,000 TO $2,000 STIMULUS CHECKS FOR ALL TAXPAYERS THAT ARE ALSO BULLISH ON THE STOCK MARKET.