Attempting wizardry by being a weight on the world! Those who are insufficiently paranoid are punished. Sin not tragedies. Get it done
Oct 9, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
"following an agreement involving Nigeria and Cameroon in 1980, the Nigerian government committed to building a dam along the course of the Benue River, ostensibly to contain the gushing water released upstream from Lagdo Dam"
In 1981, a shock-absorber dam was designed. Tagged the “Dasin Hausa Dam,” the multi-purpose facility was, besides cushioning the effect of the Lagdo Dam flooding, supposed to generate some 300mw of electricity and irrigate about 150,000 hectares of land
Mar 2, 2019 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
How will history say what happened here is a question that stays in the mind of military leader as well as political ones. Combimed with the personality a soilder (one with no doubt) and the little fighting experience most army personnel. Military history is one of deception.
"Sweeping judgements, malicious gossip, inaccurate statements which spread a misleading impression; these are the symptoms of the moral and mental recklessness that gives rise to war."
Feb 25, 2019 • 19 tweets • 3 min read
"I'm sorry, Ms. Rosenow, but the Times cannot publish the word 'breast' or the word 'cancer' in its pages. Perhaps you could say there will be a meeting about the diseases of the chest wall." 😂😂
Everytime I read any medical history, its never seeks to astonish me the ignorace of humanity and the barbarism & optimism we concort to fix things .
Feb 23, 2019 • 21 tweets • 3 min read
Security services killing their own people is the 2nd cause of violence after homicide. If Nigeria included police and military killings in its murder statistics, its reported homicide in 2008 would have jumped 40%.
Any society can decivilize when governments abandon ordinary people to fend for themselves. But when it becomes "privileged" with the elites using it to capture state resources, the middle class rather than the poor, are the group with power to effect change.
Feb 22, 2019 • 27 tweets • 5 min read
Read three book about Asian countries with communist leaders and they all had their indoctrination in France. Won't mind a book about how France escaped such a strong community and not become socialist in itself.
The cult of Mao. That is such an encompassing statement in how we view China. Equal part brillant and mad. Well most demagogue usually are. - republic.com.ng/aprilmay-2018/…
Feb 17, 2019 • 28 tweets • 5 min read
Ministry for the Prevention of Vice and Promotion of Virtue is definitely the funniest government minstdy I have heard of. Unsurprisingly its the thing that is most obvious for satire, that is usually the most sensitive to it and totalitarian in its function.
There is a whole story on the gender relations in the book and its is just amazingly totalitarian. It's so wild the freedom to live what you will consider a basic life is under constantly under the threat of death.
Feb 12, 2019 • 51 tweets • 8 min read
The lesson I want to get out of this book is how you can hire the smartest people to run a country but still end up with horrible foreign and local policy because they lacked wisdom. (or understanding of how reality fights the abstract. It becomes messy, detailed & poor to map)
The establishment - its what Trump lacked and still affect the efficiency of how his government is run. The running of government requires the knowledge of so many people for so many positions. You can't "drain the swamp".
Feb 8, 2019 • 28 tweets • 5 min read
Unlike Cambodia, Vietnam has always been a land comfortable with rebellion both within itself (the north and south) and against foreign powers (China). I suppose that is why they were earier to rise up against the French. (Culture is a good predictor of people.)
Decent literacy rate plus bureaucracy culture from the Chinese, with a somewhat heterogeneous society with nascent ideals of nationalism.
Feb 5, 2019 • 30 tweets • 5 min read
Crafty but clever really has to be one of the backhanded compliments a person can give you. Speaks more to moral character than anything else. But in a way its used by people who play by abstract rules to describe people who win.
Palace life in Cambodia was definitely interesting..
Feb 3, 2019 • 22 tweets • 4 min read
Weird how much information was chartered of the the US after they conquered Iraq. How are Iraqi researchers able to effectively research their country adequately, if they have to travel to US to access documents from their institutions? It is a cultural loss.
Homegenous societies are far easier to put through social manipulations than heterogeneous ones. A state first duty is to have legibility of the territory and people it controls.
People don't always do what is required of them. They refuse to be robots despite all incentives and benefits to be so. From the agents of the rule maker to the subjects of sovereignty.
Feb 1, 2019 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
What makes Ataturk remarkable was how he took what was "Islamic capital" of the world due to its nature of the Caliph and introduce a huge amount of secularism and modernisation without turning it anti-Islamic.
Especially with the genocide of Armenian and Assyrian Christians, the need to increase the religious freedom of individuals was necessary metamorphosis.
Jan 29, 2019 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
Germany, France, Britain and Russia being wolves who were colonising people territories. Making deals they want you to honour but they don't seem typical of what you will expect so far.
Germany using the Caliph of the Ottoman Empire to declare a "Jihad". Thus employing a strategy of drumming up the "fanaticism" of Islam, to disrupt soilders in the European colonies. Was quite a sly tactic no one has sought to repeat ever since. (sarcasm).
Jan 27, 2019 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
"Nass" means choice or designation by a ruler to choose a member outside his family to rule. - Found it interesting cos of the user account with the handle, that is commonly confused for the Nigerian National Assembly.
The Koran refrers to only two people in the Bible as Caliphs- Adam and David. There is uncertainty in what the term means. Either deputy or successor. With the term deputy carrying less symbolism than successor. Current academic thought says it originally meant successor.
Jan 26, 2019 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Only two forces can inflict greater damage than a tsunami: collision with an asteroid, or nuclear explosion. The water draws (even inland waters) emptying the natural noise in the area, before it crashes as a wave of destruction. It spares nothing destroying all in its path.
Here I was using "Sayanora" like the "Gaijin" I was..
Jan 21, 2019 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
About 150+ pages in and I see why the book comes to about a thousand plus pages. Calling it a biography would be diminishing to scope attempted here. Characters in the world Robert Moses get mini-biographies within the book. This is world building.
Robert A. Caro on the Secrets of Lyndon Johnson’s Archives (Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson) - While this is on a different subject matter. This highlights his approach to research and writing. - newyorker.com/magazine/2019/…
