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“A Republic, If You Can Keep It”: Franklin’s Warning and the Fragility of American Self-Government
(Photo from Cathy Hinkle Pinterest pin)
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(Photo from Cathy Hinkle Pinterest pin)
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The famous quote "A republic, if you can keep it," was spoken by Benjamin Franklin in September 1787 to Elizabeth Willing Powel when she asked whether the Constitutional Convention had created a republic or a monarchy,
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Franklin replied with this warning that the new government's survival depended on the virtue and active participation of its citizens.
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1/ A Russian general has been arrested by a military court after being accused of 'selling' nearly 90 soldiers to a mercenary leader who is accused of extortion, kidnapping, arms trafficking, torture, and murder. Lt Gen Alexander Dembitsky denies the accusations. ⬇️
2/ The case involves Alexey Marushchenko, the head of the 'Yastreb' private military company, which fought in Ukraine. Yastreb's recruiters are said to have promised those who wished to enlish for military service that they would fight with Yastreb, rather than the regular army.
3/ The prospective contract soldiers were required to pay up front for this privilege. However, Russian criminal investigators found that Yastreb pocketed the recruits' money and they were sent straight to regular military units without any opportunity to serve with Yastreb.
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There’s a remarkable detail in one Qur’anic ayah about hardship.
Once you understand it, the verse takes on a whole new depth.
Once you understand it, the verse takes on a whole new depth.
فَإِنَّ مَعَ الْعُسْرِ يُسْرًا
إِنَّ مَعَ الْعُسْرِ يُسْرًا
“Verily, with hardship comes ease. Verily, with hardship comes ease.” (Qur’an 94:5–6)
The same words are repeated twice.
But there is a remarkable detail in the Arabic.
إِنَّ مَعَ الْعُسْرِ يُسْرًا
“Verily, with hardship comes ease. Verily, with hardship comes ease.” (Qur’an 94:5–6)
The same words are repeated twice.
But there is a remarkable detail in the Arabic.
“Al-’usr”الْعُسْرِ (the hardship) is definite, referring to one hardship.
“yusran” يُسْرًا (ease ) is indefinite, and its repetition has led many scholars to explain that it refers to two eases.
One hardship. Two eases.
“yusran” يُسْرًا (ease ) is indefinite, and its repetition has led many scholars to explain that it refers to two eases.
One hardship. Two eases.
Jeffrey Tucker served as the Editorial Director at the libertarian American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) from 2017 to 2021. During his tenure, he was heavily involved in hosting and promoting the Great Barrington Declaration on the organization's campus in Massachusetts
Jeffrey Tucker left AIER in 2021 to found and become the president of the Brownstone Institute, a public health and liberty-focused think tank. He is a anarcho-capitalist, and vocal critic of COVID-19 government lockdowns, vaccine mandates, and public health restrictions.
1./ 🧵How much did Nicola Sturgeon know about her husband's embezzlement? She claims Peter Murrell's crimes were beyond her wildest imagination. Yet the plot of a book he bought her for Valentine's Day has some startling similarities to the scandal that brought her down. 👉
2./ In my latest article I contrast Sturgeon's portrayal of herself as some sort of innocent abroad to the reality. She has had a lifelong fascination with crime dating back to her childhood obsession with the TV series 'Crown Court'. What an episode her trial would make!
3./ Sturgeon insists she could never have suspected Murrell's crimes yet she is a self-professed "massive fan of crime fiction" who is so knowledgeable about the genre she regularly speaks at crime writing festivals. In 2016 her husband Peter gave her a crime novel she adored. 👉
"The Palantir Trap: How Brexit Britain Surrendered Its Soul, and Whether Burnham Can Buy It Back"
Palantir. Plymouth. Putin. How Brexit Britain became a proxy state for American surveillance capitalism while Europe burns.
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As Ukraine enters year five with no ceasefire in sight, US intelligence has formally warned Poland that Russia is preparing a military provocation against NATO's eastern flank. Drone strikes. Simulated air attacks. A possible ground incursion from Kaliningrad.
Into this fracture, Britain is not building European solidarity. It is monetising the crisis. Through deregulated freeports. Through surveillance contracts. Through deals that embed US spytech into the nervous system of British public life.
Into this fracture, Britain is not building European solidarity. It is monetising the crisis. Through deregulated freeports. Through surveillance contracts. Through deals that embed US spytech into the nervous system of British public life.
At Plymouth's freeport, Babcock and Supacat manufacture Jackal 3 military vehicles in a tax-sheltered enclave. Around 140 jobs. Typical of freeport promises. The Teesside precedent: £25m became £560m in public funds, and Michael Gove blocked the NAO from investigating.
SitRep - 03/07/26 - Dozens of substations hit in occupied Crimea
An overview of the daily events in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The plan for occupied Crimea is clear: make it untennable and unlivable for Russians. Ukrainian drones are doing just that.
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ADEYEMI DIDN'T JUST OPEN ONE ACCOUNT WITH THE CBN. HE OPENED THREE. AND EACH ONE REQUIRED A SEPARATE HUMAN APPROVAL CHAIN INSIDE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
PART 1 — THE 34 COMMERCIAL ACCOUNTS AND THEN THE CBN
Let us first separate two things that are being conflated in online discussions.
The police investigation confirmed that Adeyemi operated 34 bank accounts with commercial banks. Nine of those were opened in the names of his fictitious agencies, including the FCT Investment Promotion Agency and related entities. These are standard commercial bank accounts at deposit money banks. Damaging, yes. But not the most alarming part of this story.
The CBN accounts are separate and additional to those 34.
What has now been confirmed by multiple national newspapers, including Punch, Vanguard, PM News, Tribune, and New Telegraph, is that Adeyemi's PFIPC allegedly opened three accounts directly with the Central Bank of Nigeria. A Treasury Single Account. A Domiciliary Account. A Pound Sterling Account.
Three accounts. At the apex bank of Nigeria. Not a commercial bank. The Central Bank.
And here is what makes this specific detail so significant. These three account types do not work the same way. They do not share the same application process. And none of them can be opened automatically or digitally via a self-service portal.
Every single one requires a manual human approval chain inside the federal government.
PART 1 — THE 34 COMMERCIAL ACCOUNTS AND THEN THE CBN
Let us first separate two things that are being conflated in online discussions.
The police investigation confirmed that Adeyemi operated 34 bank accounts with commercial banks. Nine of those were opened in the names of his fictitious agencies, including the FCT Investment Promotion Agency and related entities. These are standard commercial bank accounts at deposit money banks. Damaging, yes. But not the most alarming part of this story.
The CBN accounts are separate and additional to those 34.
What has now been confirmed by multiple national newspapers, including Punch, Vanguard, PM News, Tribune, and New Telegraph, is that Adeyemi's PFIPC allegedly opened three accounts directly with the Central Bank of Nigeria. A Treasury Single Account. A Domiciliary Account. A Pound Sterling Account.
Three accounts. At the apex bank of Nigeria. Not a commercial bank. The Central Bank.
And here is what makes this specific detail so significant. These three account types do not work the same way. They do not share the same application process. And none of them can be opened automatically or digitally via a self-service portal.
Every single one requires a manual human approval chain inside the federal government.
PART 2 — HOW A TSA IS ACTUALLY OPENED
The Treasury Single Account is not a regular bank account. It is Nigeria's unified government financial infrastructure account, designed to consolidate all federal government revenue and payments under CBN oversight. Every naira flowing in and out of a government MDA passes through this system.
For a government agency to open a TSA at the CBN, the process is as follows.
The Accounting Officer of the MDA, typically the Permanent Secretary or Director General, must submit a formal budget proposal through the government's budget management system. That proposal must carry a valid budget code issued by the Budget Office. The Office of the Accountant General of the Federation must then process a formal request to the CBN's Settlement Centre and Funds Department to activate the account. The CBN independently verifies the agency's status with the relevant supervising ministry and the SGF's office before activating anything.
Every one of those steps has a paper trail. Every step has a signature. Every step has a date. Every step has a named official who either approved or processed the request.
For the PFIPC to have an active TSA at the CBN, every single one of those steps had to be completed by someone. A budget code existed. An AGF official processed the activation. A CBN official received the instruction and set up the account.
Those people can be identified. Their signatures are on documents that currently exist.
The Treasury Single Account is not a regular bank account. It is Nigeria's unified government financial infrastructure account, designed to consolidate all federal government revenue and payments under CBN oversight. Every naira flowing in and out of a government MDA passes through this system.
For a government agency to open a TSA at the CBN, the process is as follows.
The Accounting Officer of the MDA, typically the Permanent Secretary or Director General, must submit a formal budget proposal through the government's budget management system. That proposal must carry a valid budget code issued by the Budget Office. The Office of the Accountant General of the Federation must then process a formal request to the CBN's Settlement Centre and Funds Department to activate the account. The CBN independently verifies the agency's status with the relevant supervising ministry and the SGF's office before activating anything.
Every one of those steps has a paper trail. Every step has a signature. Every step has a date. Every step has a named official who either approved or processed the request.
For the PFIPC to have an active TSA at the CBN, every single one of those steps had to be completed by someone. A budget code existed. An AGF official processed the activation. A CBN official received the instruction and set up the account.
Those people can be identified. Their signatures are on documents that currently exist.
PART 3 — THE DOMICILIARY AND POUND STERLING ACCOUNTS
This is where the story becomes even more specific.
We confirmed with CBN and OAGF documentation that foreign currency accounts cannot be automatically generated through an MDA's TSA portal. They are not a byproduct of opening a TSA. They require entirely separate manual applications.
To open a domiciliary sub-account linked to a government MDA's TSA, the Accounting Officer must write a formal letter addressed to the Director of Banking and Payments Services at the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation, requesting authorisation to open a foreign-currency sub-account. The OAGF reviews and approves the request. The OAGF then issues directives to the CBN. The CBN sets up the account. Only after that can the MDA access foreign currency transactions through TSA gateways.
The Pound Sterling account is a separate domiciliary account from a dollar or naira domiciliary account. In Nigeria's banking system, a single currency is used for each domiciliary account. You cannot hold pounds in a dollar domiciliary account. A pound sterling account is a distinct application. A distinct approval. A distinct CBN setup instruction.
So for the PFIPC to have both a domiciliary account and a pound sterling account at the CBN, at minimum two separate formal letters were written. Two separate OAGF approvals were issued. Two separate CBN setup instructions were executed. By named officials. On specific dates. With signatures.
Nobody has explained what sterling-denominated international transactions a Nigerian presidential investment promotion council had such an urgent need to conduct that justified opening a pound sterling account at the apex bank.
This is where the story becomes even more specific.
We confirmed with CBN and OAGF documentation that foreign currency accounts cannot be automatically generated through an MDA's TSA portal. They are not a byproduct of opening a TSA. They require entirely separate manual applications.
To open a domiciliary sub-account linked to a government MDA's TSA, the Accounting Officer must write a formal letter addressed to the Director of Banking and Payments Services at the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation, requesting authorisation to open a foreign-currency sub-account. The OAGF reviews and approves the request. The OAGF then issues directives to the CBN. The CBN sets up the account. Only after that can the MDA access foreign currency transactions through TSA gateways.
The Pound Sterling account is a separate domiciliary account from a dollar or naira domiciliary account. In Nigeria's banking system, a single currency is used for each domiciliary account. You cannot hold pounds in a dollar domiciliary account. A pound sterling account is a distinct application. A distinct approval. A distinct CBN setup instruction.
So for the PFIPC to have both a domiciliary account and a pound sterling account at the CBN, at minimum two separate formal letters were written. Two separate OAGF approvals were issued. Two separate CBN setup instructions were executed. By named officials. On specific dates. With signatures.
Nobody has explained what sterling-denominated international transactions a Nigerian presidential investment promotion council had such an urgent need to conduct that justified opening a pound sterling account at the apex bank.
