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@MainNeli_ We know these types. They are the ones who fail to pay the Architects and rely on contractors.

Some landlords needs some serious flogging because WTF is this surely? How did they even decide on this atrocity? Madness.

It’s either my uncle Waruthu is heavily bewitched… or the man is the luckiest dropout kikuyu in the history of Kenya. This man dropped out in Class 6. No degree. No biashara. No master plan. Just inherited land and some anointed timing. He starts in Kingeero with a plot left by his father. Then boom Western Bypass construction comes slicing through it, then KeNHA appears and tells him, “Waruthu, kindly move, but first collect your 16 million.” Now a serious man would sit down, call a fundi, maybe an architect, maybe even think of rentals, biashara, mabati ya tenants, something sensible. Not Waruthu. Waruthu buys land in Gitaru for 4 million, puts up a 3-bedroom house, then takes the rest of the money and launches a one-man campaign of alcohol, women and complete financial vandalism. The man did not spend money. He attacked it. Two years later, before the dust even settles, KeNHA returns again. This time for the Gitaru-Kikuyu interchange. I’m not joking. Same man. Same story. Same government. Another cheque. 19 million. At this point you stop calling it luck. This is now a calling. He moves to Manguo near Limuru town, buys about three-quarter acre, builds again for around 4 million, then does exactly what he had done before. Not almost. Not roughly. Exactly. House first, then the balance is taken hostage by bars, women and enjoyment until nothing remains except memories and hangovers. Any other human being would learn. Waruthu? Waruthu behaves like a man who thinks compensation is a monthly salary. Then last November Ruto launches the Rironi-Nakuru-Mau Summit Road project. Now tell me why this man’s land is again sitting next to the highway like it had been booked in advance. Again the government comes. Again they acquire. Again Waruthu is paid. This time 25 million. You people, there are men who hustle for 20 years and never smell 5 million. This fool has made a full career out of being removed by road projects. He doesn’t farm. He doesn’t build wealth. He doesn’t invest. He just keeps positioning himself where tarmac will eventually develop feelings. The last report we got was that he had moved to Ponda Mali in Nakuru. Either there’s a powerful mganga somewhere blessing his land papers… or God has a very twisted sense of humour when it comes to my uncle. The man is turning Kenyan infrastructure into his personal ATM. Respect. 😂

Your post fundamentally misreads what Russia is actually doing in this war. Russia is not watching passively. It is participating actively through the most strategically efficient method available. Providing satellite targeting intelligence of US bases to Iran before strikes. Ukrainian intelligence confirmed it. NBC confirmed it. The E-3 AWACS destroyed at Prince Sultan, one of only 16 in the US Air Force inventory, was struck using Russian Liana spy satellite imagery of the base taken days before the attack. Russia is getting maximum strategic return at zero direct cost. Every American asset destroyed using Russian intelligence degrades US military capability without Moscow firing a single missile. Every dollar Washington spends replacing irreplaceable equipment is a dollar not available for Ukraine. Every week this war continues is a week Ukraine receives less attention, less funding, less political will from Washington. Russia is also providing Iran with drones, food, medicine, and diplomatic cover while managing the war’s duration rather than its outcome. Putin does not want Iran to win decisively. He wants the war to last long enough to exhaust American munitions, credibility, and political capital simultaneously. This is not weakness. This is the most sophisticated proxy warfare strategy currently being executed anywhere on earth. Russia learned from watching America run proxy wars for 70 years. Fund the defender. Provide intelligence. Avoid direct confrontation. Let the superpower exhaust itself against a determined opponent on difficult terrain. The question is not why Russia isn’t protecting Iran. The question is why Washington didn’t see this coming.

May we never go with flowers where others are going with just lubricants and condoms. 🙏🏾

@Jethroe111 The idea that Russia got it's "ass kicked" fundamentally misunderstands their objective, which was to force a negotiated solution, which was sabotaged by Boris Johnson. Their posture then shifted to attritional warfare, which is only assisted by our misadventure in Iran.

@russembkenya @MusaliaMudavadi Kenya needs oil fast. Middle east suppliers have declared Force Majeure.

Congratulations to the Kenyan delegation led by @MusaliaMudavadi on a successful & forward-looking visit: the Moscow talks gave fresh momentum to 🇷🇺Russia-🇰🇪Kenya dialogue, opening new opportunities in trade, education, tourism & broader cooperation🤝 🟩rt.com/africa/635226-…

@zerohedge This is comedy. The Russians were selling oil before and the US couldn't do anything about it.

*US AUTHORIZES DELIVERY, SALE OF CRUDE OIL FROM RUSSIA

Saudi Aramco and Kuwait oil refineries were hit today fuel prices already up by 8% i swear the next EPRA announcement will have people parking their cars

At the border, a man rides up on a bicycle with a sack on the luggage rack. Customs officer: "Do you have anything to declare?" Man: "No." Customs officer: "And what do you have in the sack?" Man: "Sand." On inspection it turns out that it is indeed sand. Every day for a whole week the man comes with the bicycle and the sack on the luggage carrier. On the eighth day, the customs officer gets suspicious. Customs officer: "What do you have in the sack?" Man: "Only sand." Customs officer: "Hmm, let's see ..." The sand is sifted this time. Result: only sand. The man continues to come to the border every day. Two weeks later, the border guard gets fed up and sends the sand to the laboratory. Result: only sand. After another month of "sand transports", the customs officer can't take it any more and asks the man: "Well, I'll give it to you in writing that I won't tell anyone, but I just have to know: you are smuggling something. Please tell me what!" The man: "Bicycles..."

Aisha Gaddafi, the daughter of the slain Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, has addressed the people of Iran. "Negotiations with wolves do not lead to the salvation of the herd - they merely set the date for the next hunt," she stated. According to her, the West assured her father that if he gave up on nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs, the world would open its doors to him. "He believed it, made concessions... And NATO's bombs turned Libya into ruins". She urged Iranians not to make concessions to the enemy, as they do not lead to peace, but only to destruction.

🚨 JUST IN: A migratory bird just shattered world records — flying 8,425 miles (13,560 km) NON-STOP across the Pacific without landing once. The bar-tailed godwit doesn’t stop to eat, drink, or sleep during its migration across the Pacific Ocean. Its journey from Alaska to Australia takes roughly 11 days of continuous flight, covering over 13,000 kilometers through storms, headwinds, and open ocean with zero land beneath it the entire time. Before departure, it does something almost surgical to its own body. It shrinks its digestive organs down to almost nothing, converting the stomach, intestines, and liver into raw fuel. The bird essentially eats its own gut to make room for fat reserves that will power its wings for nearly two weeks straight. The brain doesn’t fully sleep either. Half of it stays active while the other half rests, alternating in shifts mid-flight at altitude over the open Pacific. The godwit is simultaneously unconscious and navigating with magnetic field sensitivity that no human instrument in the 18th century could replicate. What makes this genuinely staggering beyond the physical record is the navigational precision involved. The bird leaves Alaska and arrives in New Zealand with accuracy that would embarrass early GPS systems. It reads Earth’s magnetic field, atmospheric pressure gradients, star positions, and potentially quantum-level compass mechanisms inside its eye that literally let it see magnetic field lines overlaid on its visual field. Evolution spent millions of years building an aerospace navigation system inside a 300 gram animal. We spend billions engineering machines that do what this bird does on instinct, fat reserves, and half a sleeping brain. The longest recorded non-stop flight by a commercial aircraft is around 20 hours. This bird does 11 days. Without a runway.

In October 2023, an Ethiopian woman boarded a flight home from Beirut for the last time after 25 years of working as a housekeeper. A flight attendant guided her to the front of the plane and pulled back a curtain. Standing there in a pilot’s uniform, holding flowers and a cake, was her son. Minalu Mergiya arrived in Lebanon in the late 1990s at 21 years old. She was there through a war in 2006, through an economic collapse, and through the port explosion in 2020 that shook the entire city. She stayed through all of it because her son Kirubel was back home in Addis Ababa with his grandmother, and she had promised herself he would have every opportunity she never did. She saw him once every five years for one month at a time. When Kirubel was old enough, his mum told him her dream of seeing him become a pilot. He trained at the Ethiopian Airlines Aviation Academy and graduated in April 2023 at 20 years old. A few months later, he arranged to fly the exact Beirut to Addis Ababa route his mum was booked on. She hadn’t seen him since 2019. She ran straight into him and didn’t let go. He later said he loved the story the video told, not about him, but about his mother’s journey.

🇮🇷🇺🇸 The New York Times — not a Telegram channel, not a Russian state broadcaster, the New York Times — has published satellite imagery confirming what Iran said it was doing while Washington was busy telling you it wasn’t working. Every major US base across the Gulf. Systematically and methodically. Bahrain, Fifth Fleet headquarters, the nerve centre of American naval power in the region. Al Udeid Qatar — already missing its $1.1 billion AN/TPY-2 radar. Camp Arifjan Kuwait. Ali Al Salem. Prince Sultan in Saudi Arabia. UAE facilities. SATCOM terminals destroyed. Radomes cracked open. Satellite dishes gone. Missile tracking infrastructure — the AN/TPY-2 radar systems that coordinate every Patriot and THAAD battery in theater — targeted with what the imagery confirms was not luck but architecture. Iran didn’t just strike US bases. It mapped the communication and coordination layer that makes American missile defense function as a unified system and then it peeled it apart, base by base, across five countries simultaneously. This is not retaliation but doctrine. Thirty years of studying exactly how the American military machine sees, communicates, and coordinates and then, when the moment came, going straight for the eyes. The interceptors are blind. The magazines are depleted. The Navy can’t guarantee escorts in the Strait. Raytheon is being summoned to emergency meetings. South Korea is sitting exposed. And the New York Times just put the satellite pictures on the front page. Washington built the most expensive military architecture in human history. Iran just showed you the blueprint for how to dismantle it.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ This is not going according to plan.

Summarizes what @baoshaoshan said last week: "The thermodynamic reality is that the US shale exergy peak is forcing the imperial core into a corner. Growth, in the true biophysical sense, is over. To maintain its baseline infrastructure, its military hegemony, and its mathematically unpayable debt servicing, the Empire must cannibalise the global economy”. – The Imperial Noble Lie: Translating Thermodynamic Collapse into Geopolitical War, by Steven J. Newbury, S**stack.

Missionaries did not just bring a religion. They brought a story where Africans start as sinners, outsiders, and latecomers to God. A story where God speaks elsewhere, chooses elsewhere, and only visits Africa through foreigners. This is why African spirituality had to be destroyed first. Once you convince people that their ancestors were foolish, their land cursed, and their memory dangerous, they become easy to rule. Spiritual amnesia prepares political obedience.

Koko’s collapse is a painful reminder that in Kenya, investors can do everything right and still be undone by government failure. Koko Networks invested over $300 million in clean cooking infrastructure, spent more than $100 million subsidising fuel for over 1.5 million households, and secured a $179.6 million political risk guarantee from the World Bank. Yet, despite all this, the company was crippled by the government’s refusal to authorise the sale of carbon credits in the global market. The result is that Kenyan taxpayers are now exposed to a potential KES 23 billion bill. This story will stain Kenya internationally and send jitters through companies already operating here, many quietly questioning whether government commitments made today will still hold tomorrow. Koko becomes yet another company forced to close shop, costing jobs and steadily eroding Kenya’s standing as a credible destination for global capital.

Informal settlements are not lamenting the collapse of Koko because a company failed. They are mourning because a lifeline was strangled quietly, deliberately, by cartels that profit from poverty staying exactly where it is. Koko didn’t collapse on its own. It was suffocated. In the slums, Koko meant one thing: dignity. Clean fuel without debt. No daily humiliation of borrowing paraffin. No coughing children. No women risking their lives with charcoal and kerosene fumes. It was a small revolution in a country where the poor are trained to accept poison as normal. Then the cartels arrived. The same cartels that control fuel imports. The same cartels that own dirty energy supply chains. The same cartels that thrive when informal settlements remain sick, smoky, and desperate. They blocked carbon credits not because they don’t believe in climate action, but because clean cooking threatens their billions. Carbon markets were Koko’s oxygen. Cut that off, and the business bleeds. That wasn’t regulation. That was economic assassination. Now Kenya is staring at a Sh23 billion bill to the World Bank. A country that can’t fund hospitals. A government that pleads poverty when nurses strike. A state that tells hungry people to “tighten belts.” But suddenly, because cartels wanted their profits protected, taxpayers must pay billions. Who benefits? Not the woman in Mukuru. Not the family in Mathare. Not the child who finally stopped coughing at night. The beneficiaries are faceless men in boardrooms, middlemen in suits, and political brokers who never cook with kerosene, never inhale smoke, never bury children from preventable illnesses. This is the Kenyan tragedy in one snapshot: Innovators bring solutions for the poor. Cartels kill them. The poor suffer. The public pays the bill. And no one is arrested. When informal settlements cry today, they are not just crying for Koko. They are crying because every time hope shows up, power crushes it. Because in Kenya, poverty is not an accident it is a business model. And business is booming.

Hey @KeNHAKenya maumbwa nyinyi

There is a species of ant that approaches the edge of another colony, kills a single worker, and then takes on the dead ant’s scent. For ants, scent is everything. Wearing that scent, the intruder walks in with no resistance. The workers pass by without concern. The intruder moves inward, toward the queen, then It sprays the queen with a different scent that makes the workers turn on her. Then they surround her and kill her. The intruder does not need to fight anyone. The colony does the work itself. Once the queen is gone, the intruder reproduces. The true invader is no longer an intruder. It is the future. This is how ideological takeover works. A destructive foreign ideology takes the scent of familiar ideas and walks in as if it belongs. It speaks the native vocabulary, justice, equality, compassion, rights, progress. It uses these words and quietly changes what they point to. Then it moves inward. It alters how foundations are perceived. Responsibility is made to smell like cruelty, law like oppression, borders like hatred, tradition like danger, history like guilt. At that point, the civilization turns on itself. Its courts, universities, churches, media, and bureaucracies begin treating their own foundations as threats. They believe they are defending the system. They are enforcing what now smells legitimate. They do not see the intruder because it sounds exactly like them. And when the founding principles are finally removed, discredited, dismantled, erased, the foreign ideology does not need to conquer anything. It inherits what is left. The queen is gone. The colony is no longer itself. The most effective conquest is the one that convinces a society that its own foundations are the enemy, and that killing them is an act of virtue.