People keep telling me that Africa can't develop because of foreign meddling.
The West interferes, they say. The colonizers won't let us rise.
Let me tell you about Vietnam.
The United States bombed Vietnam for nearly a decade.
They dropped 7.5 million tons of bombs, which is more than three times what was dropped during all of World War II. Entire provinces were flattened.
They sprayed millions of gallons of Agent Orange that poisoned the land and the people for generations.
After the war, America broke its promise to provide reconstruction aid and pressured international institutions to deny Vietnam any loans or assistance.
The country was left isolated, embargoed, and devastated. In 1986, Vietnam was on the brink of collapse.
Inflation had hit 700 percent and farmers were starving.
If any nation had the right to blame foreign powers for its misery and give up, it was Vietnam.
Instead, they changed their policies.
They launched reforms called Doi Moi that legalized private enterprise, welcomed foreign investment, gave farmers land rights, and opened up to global trade.
Within a decade, the economy was growing at 7 percent per year and poverty was cut in half.
Today, Vietnam's GDP per capita has grown from under $100 in 1990 to over $4,000. Poverty dropped from 60 percent to under 5 percent. Major companies are now moving their factories from China to Vietnam.
This is a country that was literally bombed flat by a superpower, poisoned, and abandoned.
And they still found a way to prosper because they were willing to change their economic system.
So when I hear Africans say we can't develop because of meddling, I want to ask: what meddling post-colonialism compares to what Vietnam went through? We weren't bombed like that. We weren't poisoned like that. We weren't embargoed like that.
What we have for the most part are governments that refuse to create the conditions for entrepreneurs to thrive, and leaders who benefit from keeping us poor and dependent.
Foreign meddling is real, and it happens to every poor country on earth.
It's not unique to Africa.
It's what the powerful do to the weak, and every major power plays that game.
The only escape is to become prosperous enough that you can stand on your own feet, and that requires economic freedom.
Wake up Africa!
https://x.com/magattew/status/2059626099038908630?s=20
The West interferes, they say. The colonizers won't let us rise.
Let me tell you about Vietnam.
The United States bombed Vietnam for nearly a decade.
They dropped 7.5 million tons of bombs, which is more than three times what was dropped during all of World War II. Entire provinces were flattened.
They sprayed millions of gallons of Agent Orange that poisoned the land and the people for generations.
After the war, America broke its promise to provide reconstruction aid and pressured international institutions to deny Vietnam any loans or assistance.
The country was left isolated, embargoed, and devastated. In 1986, Vietnam was on the brink of collapse.
Inflation had hit 700 percent and farmers were starving.
If any nation had the right to blame foreign powers for its misery and give up, it was Vietnam.
Instead, they changed their policies.
They launched reforms called Doi Moi that legalized private enterprise, welcomed foreign investment, gave farmers land rights, and opened up to global trade.
Within a decade, the economy was growing at 7 percent per year and poverty was cut in half.
Today, Vietnam's GDP per capita has grown from under $100 in 1990 to over $4,000. Poverty dropped from 60 percent to under 5 percent. Major companies are now moving their factories from China to Vietnam.
This is a country that was literally bombed flat by a superpower, poisoned, and abandoned.
And they still found a way to prosper because they were willing to change their economic system.
So when I hear Africans say we can't develop because of meddling, I want to ask: what meddling post-colonialism compares to what Vietnam went through? We weren't bombed like that. We weren't poisoned like that. We weren't embargoed like that.
What we have for the most part are governments that refuse to create the conditions for entrepreneurs to thrive, and leaders who benefit from keeping us poor and dependent.
Foreign meddling is real, and it happens to every poor country on earth.
It's not unique to Africa.
It's what the powerful do to the weak, and every major power plays that game.
The only escape is to become prosperous enough that you can stand on your own feet, and that requires economic freedom.
Wake up Africa!
https://x.com/magattew/status/2059626099038908630?s=20
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People keep telling me that Africa can't develop because of foreign meddling.
The West interferes, they say. The colonizers won't let us rise.
Let me tell you about Vietnam.
The United States bombed Vietnam for nearly a decade.
They dropped 7.5 million…
The West interferes, they say. The colonizers won't let us rise.
Let me tell you about Vietnam.
The United States bombed Vietnam for nearly a decade.
They dropped 7.5 million…
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🇩🇪 Germany 2025 Crime Stats dropped and it’s jaw-dropping:
Algerian nationals are committing crimes at 18x the rate of native Germans… and nearly 100x the rate of Japanese nationals.
The breakdowns are even wilder:
- Murder: Tunisians at 27x the German rate
- Rape & Sexual Assault: Guinea 21x, Gambia 19x, Algeria 16x
- Robbery: Algeria 111x, Libya 50x the German rate
We're talking about official numbers here.
The disparities are INSANE
Source: German Federal Crime Statistics (PKS 2025)
https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/2053312822574997950
Algerian nationals are committing crimes at 18x the rate of native Germans… and nearly 100x the rate of Japanese nationals.
The breakdowns are even wilder:
- Murder: Tunisians at 27x the German rate
- Rape & Sexual Assault: Guinea 21x, Gambia 19x, Algeria 16x
- Robbery: Algeria 111x, Libya 50x the German rate
We're talking about official numbers here.
The disparities are INSANE
Source: German Federal Crime Statistics (PKS 2025)
https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/2053312822574997950
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Toxic masculinity
A bricklayer in East Yorkshire has spent 35 years putting up barn owl nest boxes on weekends. This year, the region saw 308 owlets hatch.
His name is Robert Salter. He's 56 and does bricklaying full time. In 1990, he saw a piece on the news about a man in Lincolnshire installing barn owl boxes, and decided he'd do the same. He started with five.
He now has more than 350 boxes scattered across fields, farms, outbuildings, and trees in East Yorkshire. Every June, he takes four weeks off from bricklaying and visits them with his wife Sue. Scrambling up ladders, ringing chicks, cleaning boxes, repairing the ones the weather got to. He's a licensed bird ringer for the British Trust for Ornithology.
In 2024, the region ringed 95 owlets. In 2025, the count was 308. The Barn Owl Trust says that nationally, this year was "pretty poor" for barn owl breeding, but east Yorkshire is the exception, and it's the exception because of one man with a ladder.
The barn owl population in the UK was estimated at 4,000 pairs in the mid-2000s and crashed to roughly 1,000 by the early 2010s. The species is still recovering.
Most of conservation is one person who refuses to give up.
https://x.com/giveashitnature/status/2059922633333092766?s=20
A bricklayer in East Yorkshire has spent 35 years putting up barn owl nest boxes on weekends. This year, the region saw 308 owlets hatch.
His name is Robert Salter. He's 56 and does bricklaying full time. In 1990, he saw a piece on the news about a man in Lincolnshire installing barn owl boxes, and decided he'd do the same. He started with five.
He now has more than 350 boxes scattered across fields, farms, outbuildings, and trees in East Yorkshire. Every June, he takes four weeks off from bricklaying and visits them with his wife Sue. Scrambling up ladders, ringing chicks, cleaning boxes, repairing the ones the weather got to. He's a licensed bird ringer for the British Trust for Ornithology.
In 2024, the region ringed 95 owlets. In 2025, the count was 308. The Barn Owl Trust says that nationally, this year was "pretty poor" for barn owl breeding, but east Yorkshire is the exception, and it's the exception because of one man with a ladder.
The barn owl population in the UK was estimated at 4,000 pairs in the mid-2000s and crashed to roughly 1,000 by the early 2010s. The species is still recovering.
Most of conservation is one person who refuses to give up.
https://x.com/giveashitnature/status/2059922633333092766?s=20
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Give A Shit About Nature (@giveashitnature) on X
A bricklayer in East Yorkshire has spent 35 years putting up barn owl nest boxes on weekends. This year, the region saw 308 owlets hatch.
His name is Robert Salter. He's 56 and does bricklaying full time. In 1990, he saw a piece on the news about a man in…
His name is Robert Salter. He's 56 and does bricklaying full time. In 1990, he saw a piece on the news about a man in…
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Somehow I think there must be more to this story.
FBI arrests senior CIA official after uncovering over $40 million in gold bars & $2 million in cash at his Virginia home.
https://patch.com/virginia/reston/fairfax-co-man-charged-federal-theft-case-after-fbi-seizes-gold-bars-cash
FBI arrests senior CIA official after uncovering over $40 million in gold bars & $2 million in cash at his Virginia home.
https://patch.com/virginia/reston/fairfax-co-man-charged-federal-theft-case-after-fbi-seizes-gold-bars-cash
Reston, VA Patch
Fairfax Co. Man Charged In Federal Theft Case After FBI Seizes Gold Bars, Cash
Federal agents arrested a Fairfax County man after seizing gold bars, cash and luxury watches, records show.
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So because the Pathologist said there was nothing the officers could have done to save Henry's life, that excuses the officers for handcuffing him as he bled out, and waiting three minutes before bothering to help him.
It sounds to me like wagons are being circled around the officers involved.
Oh yeah, he's sorry as well.
It sounds to me like wagons are being circled around the officers involved.
Oh yeah, he's sorry as well.
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Today women in Braintree were documenting migrants at the bus stop and heard a disturbance within a charity shop and accusations of theft.
A lady filming for her own protection, who had no prior interaction with the migrant male, had her camera smashed and was violently punched.
Members of the community rushed to her aid and protected her until the police arrived.
BRAINTREE has had enough - join us this Saturday 30th May 1-3pm Braintree town for our protest....
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1EJNrp9Haq/
A lady filming for her own protection, who had no prior interaction with the migrant male, had her camera smashed and was violently punched.
Members of the community rushed to her aid and protected her until the police arrived.
BRAINTREE has had enough - join us this Saturday 30th May 1-3pm Braintree town for our protest....
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1EJNrp9Haq/
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