Are you for real, @KeForestService?
Is this so you can figure out what narrative to push?
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The wave of pushback against Lula's win bears lots of lessons.
There's quarters that will label good leaders as "bad for investors" or "fiscally unrealistic." They believe that countries are built for investors and not for the dignity of their people. Be ready for them!
The entire Financial Times editorial board has published a piece urging Lula to cut government spending and appoint a finance minister who enjoys the confidence of investors.
I get the impression that the FT editorial board has never opened an economics book other than some outdated introductory macroeconomics textbook, perhaps something by Mankiw. Otherwise, it's hard to explain such astonishing arrogance and economic ignorance.
Lula and the Brazilian people have absolutely no reason to bow to the demands of financial markets. Brazil is Latin America's largest economy, a major regional power, and a country with a high degree of monetary sovereignty. Around 97% of the central government's debt is denominated in its own currency, the Brazilian real.
The relationship between the state and financial markets is therefore nothing like the FT portrays it. Brazil is not dependent on financial markets. On the contrary, financial markets depend on government spending, which creates financial assets for the private sector, while government debt denominated in the national currency is one of the instruments through which those assets are held.
What Brazil needs is not capitulation to financial markets, but an independent economic policy focused on expanding production, creating jobs, and improving people's living standards.
Armed with the insights of heterodox economic theory, Brazil has the potential to show the world what a genuine economic miracle looks like. ft.com/content/79785581-88c2…
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So on top of the pension funds engaging in a buy-and-hold of the KPC shares for Dangote, he was also the one dictating the price at which to buy the shares. Are we actually serious? What in the neglect of fiduciary duty is this?
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Former Music Copyright Society of Kenya (MCSK) chief executive Ezekiel Mutua has been ordered to pay musician Nonini Sh3 million for defamatory remarks portraying him as a fugitive evading the law. Milimani Commercial Magistrate J. Gitau also directed Mutua to pull down the offending social media posts within 14 days of the October 26, 2026 judgment, ruling that the statements posted in socal media were likely to damage the musician’s reputation.
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East Africa's most notorious slaver, Tippu Tip hated being told he looked more African than Arab. He believed Africans were sub human and he duly overcompensated.
An 1887 report in The Times described him as contemptuous of Black Africans and said he referred to white men as his “European brothers.”
Tip was actually a product of the Arab slave trade, as he a mixed Arab person in Zanzibar. Both his paternal and maternal grandmother's were enslaved African women from the interior who had been used as sex slaves.
He was born in Zanzibar as Hamad ibn Muhammad. Some say he earned the nickname Tippu Tip, because that’s how the guns that he used sounded, while others
believe it’s because of the prominent, involuntary nervous twitch in his eyes.
While he was born at the peak of the the East African slave trade run by Omani Arabs, he took slave raiding and trading to a whole new level. He led caravans all the way to what is now DRC because by the 1860s, the Tanzanian coast was already depleted of people to enslave.
One of his methods would be to burn down entire villages then kidnap women and children and use the captives to make the men lose the will to fight.
He was a crafty man. When the European colonialist came, he adapted. In 1887, through Henry Morton Stanley, Tippu Tip became governor of the Stanley Falls district in King Leopold II’s Congo Free State. A major slave trader was given an official position in a colonial administration that claimed to oppose slavery.
So when the British abolished slavery in their territories, he went on to supply King Leopold of Belgium with 'labour' for his mines and plantations.
Tip knew the interior if Africa so well, He apparently helped European explorers like David Livingstone and Henry Morton Stanley to map out the interior of Africa. This was consequential during the Scramble for Africa, because then they had a map of Africa to use during the divison
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This paper answers why you can't think straight even when you're not touching your phone.
Researchers from UT Austin and UC San Diego published a paper that explains every unfinished task, every reread paragraph, and every afternoon that vanished.
It's called "Brain Drain."
they took 520 people and gave them tests of memory and problem solving.
the only difference was where their phone was.
on the desk, face down. in their pocket or bag. or in another room.
every phone was on silent. no buzzing. no notifications.
And the results are wild.
the people whose phones were in another room did significantly better than the people whose phones sat face down on the desk.
the closer the phone, the worse they scored.
then they ran it again and made half of them turn their phones completely off.
it didn't matter.
off and face down on the desk still drained the brain.
the paper revealed a brutal paradox:
most people said they weren't thinking about their phone at all.
75.9% said its location didn't affect their performance "at all."
they were wrong.
your brain spends energy just to not pick it up. a quiet, constant effort to ignore the most interesting object in the room.
that effort comes from the same tank you use to think.
and the more dependent people were on their phones, the bigger the hit.
you are not distracted because you're weak.
you are distracted because the most powerful attention machine ever built is sitting three inches from your hand.
the fix is almost insultingly simple.
put it in another room.
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On this Israeli election day, I’d recommend reading this extraordinary @haaretzcom interview with billionaire Ronald Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress and once one of Benjamin Netanyahu’s closest confidants.
One of Lauder’s most striking conclusions: “I realized at the end of the day that Israel really didn't want peace, but they wanted dominance.”
This is coming from someone who helped launch Netanyahu’s political career, introduced him to powerful figures in American politics and media, and secretly negotiated with Hafez al-Assad and Rafik Hariri on his behalf in the late 1990s.
In one of the interview’s biggest revelations, Lauder says Netanyahu agreed to a comprehensive peace deal with Syria and Lebanon, including withdrawal from the Golan Heights, but ultimately refused to sign it for political reasons.
“He chose politics over peace. He put his political future before the deal.”
Now 82, Lauder describes his profound disillusionment with Israel’s direction. After decades of supporting Israeli and Jewish institutions, he has sold his Tel Aviv apartment, given away his Be’er Sheva property, and says he has no intention of returning to Israel.
He warns that Netanyahu’s dependence on figures like Ben-Gvir and Smotrich is damaging Israel, alienating diaspora Jews and eroding support in Washington.
The interview is also full of fascinating details about Lauder’s role in Netanyahu’s political rise. The two became close friends in the 1980s, when Netanyahu was Israel’s ambassador to the UN, speaking almost daily at times.
Lauder says he introduced Netanyahu to speech coach Lilyan Wilder to improve his public speaking and, crucially, to Republican strategist Arthur Finkelstein, who would become instrumental in Netanyahu’s electoral success.
When Netanyahu left New York to pursue a political career in Israel, Lauder threw him a farewell party attended by some of the most influential figures in American media and politics, including Rupert Murdoch and the head of the New York Times.
Lauder recalls opening doors for Netanyahu and helping him cultivate the relationships that would underpin his rise to power.
What makes this interview so revealing is that Lauder is no longtime critic of Israel. He had been a committed Zionist, a Republican power broker, and a man who spent decades financing Jewish institutions, cultivating relationships with Arab leaders, and pursuing diplomatic openings on Israel’s behalf.
A fascinating read 👇
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Surely as a legislator this one does understand the constitutional mandates of different roles that public servants play.
And that legislators don't compete with those in the executive re projects. One executes. The other provides oversight.
Eish.
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This is a senator.
Currently sitting in the Senate of Kenya.
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RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Novel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."
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Too much noise about Election Laws. To live-stream or not?
See below an explainer 🧵 and be the judge.
Section 39 1(G) provides for, “a mechanism for the live-streaming of results as announced at polling stations…”
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"We can't honour the agreements we have made witho their lecturers, but... "
Right.
Of course.
We believe you.
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If it is so standard, what is the problem with making it public?
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President Ruto has defended Dangote’s acquisition of shares in Kenya Pipeline Company, saying the shares are available on the NSE for anyone to buy.
He dismissed demands to disclose the deal, describing it as a standard investment agreement, and warned of a crackdown on alleged racketeering surrounding the transaction.
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Personal branding on public-funded projects is illegal; Court rules citizen.digital/article/pers…
What am I missing?
Isn't it the job of the Senate and of Senators to exercise oversight on matters like this?
And should the GoK not facilitate that process by providing the requisite documents, not just to Senate but to any citizen whois interested?
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Who should appoint the external auditor for the Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC), and should KPC continue to be audited by the Auditor-General?
In response to a recent article I wrote, Auditor-General Nancy Gathungu sent me the following text message:
"My tracking is basically on total percentage ownership for GOK and other public entities. If total is still over 50%, then it will remain a GOE. This is what I reported for the 2025/2026 FY as it was over 70% as at 30 June 2026."
In that report, the Auditor-General (OAG) aggregated the equity held by public pension funds with the 35 percent stake held directly by the national government to arrive at a combined 70 percent public-entity holding. On this basis, she concluded that KPC remains a government-owned entity (GOE) subject to her audit jurisdiction.
Herein lies the paradox: pension schemes are irrevocable trusts—legally and functionally distinct from their public-sector sponsors—and their assets consist entirely of members’ retirement savings. On what legal premise can these private assets be classified as government property?
Following the 2026 IPO and subsequent block trade, the situation should be clearer because the Government of Kenya retains roughly 35 percent of KPC, while the Dangote Group holds approximately 24.76 percent and Uganda’s UNOC holds about 20.15 per cent. While the State remains the largest single shareholder, it no longer possesses majority ownership or effective control.
Under modern company law and established listed-company practice, the external auditor should be appointed or ratified by shareholders at a general meeting, following the recommendation of the board and audit committee—not appointed unilaterally by a single minority shareholder. Now that KPC is no longer government-controlled, the Auditor Gneral must stay out of the picture.
