𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐛𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐬 Kenya’s public debt has reached... 𝐊𝐒𝐡 𝟏𝟐.𝟗𝟖 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐊𝐒𝐡 𝟐𝟑𝟖,𝟑𝟖𝟓 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐊𝐞𝐧𝐲𝐚𝐧. But the bigger question is not only how much we owe, it is how much it costs to service that debt which currently stands at Ksh 2.3 trillion annually, 75% of revenue from ordinary taxes Track the numbers: Public Debt Brief:show more

The US govt debt just reached a new all-time... high of $39.5 trillion. It will reach $40 trillion within 3 or 4 months. 42% of all income tax revenue now goes to paying interest on the national debt. The debt will never be reduced. When bonds come due, the govt refinances at the current higher rates. This increases interest payments the govt pays. in the next 12 months, about $9 trillion in US govt debt will come due. The US treasury will need to refinance $9 trillion, plus they need to sell over $2 trillion in additional bonds (new debt) to cover the govt budget deficit. The key issue you have to consider is how this will affect you and your family. The US govt debt is swallowing the budget. The interest payments will likely consume more than 50% of all income tax revenue in a few years. At some point this financial Ponzi causes bond buyers to demand higher rates for the risk of owning US govt debt. The US govt will always pay it's debt, but if the Fed has to print money (digitally) to monetize the debt, then the US dollar declines in value. That affects your buying power and quality of life dramatically. Everything gets more expensive, but your income doesn't keep up with the process.show more

“A Mark Carney-led government will balance the OPERATING budget... in three years. at the same time, we will run a small deficit on CAPITAL spending.” -Mark Carney I want you to listen very carefully to what Finance Minister Champagne is saying in this video. He is talking about a balanced OPERATIONAL budget. An operational budget refers only to the expenses of running the country. It does not include incredibly expensive CAPITAL expenses. Instead, Minister Champagne refers to capital expenses as investments. THAT IS COMPLETE DISHONESTY. There is no G20 country that has this type of accounting practice. This is important to understand because Canada must go to the bond market to raise money. The bond market does not give a damn how you categorize your debt. Whether it's operational or capital spending, the deeper you get into debt the higher the rate of interest you will have to pay on that debt. In essence, both Carney and Champagne are grossly misleading the Canadian public by telling them that they will balance the operational budget. They're hoping that you don't understand how budgets work, and the truth is they will likely get away with it. Expect a massive increase in our national debt under a Carney government. Mark Carney François-Philippe Champagne (FPC) 🇨🇦show more

China's government built this with 1 trillion dollars. It... now has more bullet trains than the rest of the world combined. They didn't build it for profit, but to provide a public service. Here, our government is experimenting with everything just to figure out How to make a profit from it. How to collect tolls from roads. How to collect tax from every new item. And yes, I have seen them spending millions on airports that no one uses.show more

🚨 JAPAN WILL REVEAL ITS NEW GOVERNMENT DEBT TOTAL... ON MONDAY The previous official figure, measured on March 31, was already: ¥1,343,842,600,000,000 Around $8.5 TRILLION. On August 10, Japan will reveal how much higher that number climbed by the end of June. But the debt number is only one part of the problem. Something much bigger is happening underneath Japan’s financial system. The 2-year government bond yield just reached 1.51%. Its highest level since 1995. The 10-year yield climbed toward 2.9%. And Japan’s policy rate is now 1%. Its highest level in 31 years. That means the era of nearly free money in Japan is ending. For decades, investors borrowed cheap yen. Then moved that money into: U.S. Treasuries. Stocks. Real estate. Crypto. And markets around the world. Now borrowing in yen is becoming more expensive. And Japanese bonds are finally offering meaningful returns at home. This creates one enormous risk: Japanese capital no longer needs to stay overseas. If that money starts returning to Japan, the global carry trade begins to unwind. Foreign assets get sold. Bond yields rise. Liquidity leaves risk markets. And volatility spreads everywhere. Japan is already showing signs of panic. The government spent a record ¥6.28 TRILLION defending the yen in a single day in April. Another intervention worth an estimated $95.5 BILLION may have followed in late July. Yet the yen still collapsed toward ¥164 per dollar before recovering. Intervention is buying time. It is not fixing the underlying problem. And now Japan is trapped between two opposite decisions. Raise rates to defend the yen. Or buy more bonds to stop yields from rising. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has already urged the Bank of Japan to increase bond purchases when necessary. But more bond buying weakens the yen. While higher rates increase the cost of servicing Japan’s massive debt. Fix one problem. Make the other one worse. Monday will not automatically crash global markets. But it will reveal how much larger Japan’s debt burden has become while borrowing costs are hitting multi-decade highs. That is the real risk. Japan financed global markets for decades. Now it may need that money back. I have studied macro cycles for 15 years. This is one of the most important liquidity shifts to watch in 2026. Follow and turn notifications on. Most people will understand what Japan triggered only after markets begin reacting.show more

Since the beginning of March 2026, we collectively worked... on a revenue collection turnaround strategy that has seen collections begin to stabilise at just below 90% on average for the past 6 months. This is from 83.5% year to date achieved in February 2026 just before the new strategy was implemented. The strategy included: • Improving data cleansing and statements distribution. • Stabilising IT systems in revenue management. • Improving disconnections through revenue collection drive. • Resolving long outstanding customer queries through the revenue management warroom. • Handing over long outstanding debt to external debt collectors • Walk the floor collection drive on high owing customers • Improved key account management processes We are turning things around as we committed. Our financial turnaround strategy is on course, results won’t be overnight however we are making steady progress. #WeServeJoburg #FinancialSustainabilityshow more

I have to fact check Mark Carney, again. Carney... says that the financial markets are starting to change the pricing for the cost of borrowing for governments around the world separating the strong and the weak, and Canada is strong. "We are now seeing financial markets starting to change the pricing, literally as we meet today, the cost of borrowing for governments around the world. To separate the strong from the weak. We are the strong, Canada Strong." Except this is INCORRECT and requires more context. The effective interest paid on federal government financial liabilities increased to 3.00% in Q2, 2026 which is higher than the average in 2025. Every movement equals billions more in debt costs and as pandemic era debt matures the debt cost will substantially continue to increase. Canada federal government debt interest cost are projected to grow from $58.7B this year to $80.9B by 2030-31, a 50% increase in just a few years. It will take 13.2% of government revenues. Deficit spending is not stopping either. If Bank of Canada increase rates costs will go up. Oh and Canada's government just issued a long term bond with the highest yield in 19 years so what Mark Carney is saying is happening to others aka "the weak" is actually happening to Canada.show more

Distinctive Yield Mechanics 1/2 I hold 1,000,000 $XPR at... $7 each. That gives me $7,000,000 in collateral value. If I borrow against 25% of that position, my loan amount is: $7,000,000 × 25% = $1,750,000 My current LTV is 25%. At $1,750,000 borrowed against $7,000,000 in collateral, I am sitting at 25% LTV, which leaves a large buffer. Now the interest. A 12% annual borrow rate on $1,750,000 equals: $1,750,000 × 0.12 = $210,000 per year That breaks down to: $210,000 ÷ 12 = $17,500 per month So the debt cost is: $17,500 a month $210,000 a year Now look at the remaining capital. The other 75% of the position represents $5,250,000 in value. If that $5,250,000 is put to work at a conservative 4% annual return, the yield becomes: $5,250,000 × 0.04 = $210,000 per year Monthly, that becomes: $210,000 ÷ 12 = $17,500 per month So the mechanics line up cleanly: Borrow 25% at 12% APR Earn 4% on the remaining 75% Debt cost = $210,000/year Yield generated = $210,000/year Same result from another angle: 25% × 12% = 3% 75% × 4% = 3% So the 4% earned on the 75% can fully service the 12% interest owed on the 25% borrowed. That creates a break-even carry structure before fees, token price changes, liquidation mechanics, reward changes, or compounding differences enter the picture. The hard mechanics are simple: XPR is posted as collateral A smaller amount is borrowed against it Interest accrues on the borrowed amount Yield accrues on the larger remaining portion As long as the yield earned covers the interest owed, the debt can be serviced from the productive side of the position The clean takeaway: A 25% borrow at 12% costs the same annually as a 4% return on the remaining 75%. $1,750,000 borrowed at 12% = $210,000/year owed. $5,250,000 deployed at 4% = $210,000/year earned. That is the hard math.show more

Left: Fasial Islam, "The budget hole the Treasury are... trying to bridge with tax rises is £40 billion a year." Right: "Brexit costs the government £40 billion a year in lost tax revenue" A remarkable coincidence that the budget hole Labour have found equates to the loss in tax revenues from trade with the EU caused by Brexit If Labour joined the EU Single Market, this problem goes away But because Labour will keep the UK out of the EU Single Market, we either have tax rises or fewer services The only third option is for Labour to borrow to invest, which wouldn't be a bad idea. But any reduction in public services is squarely down to Brexit In 2016, Boris Johnson and the Brexiters blamed the EU for a lack of public services in the UK. How ironic that now without the EU Single Market we either raise taxes, or borrow further, to fund public services What a shamblesshow more

🇨🇳 CHINA IS ONE STEP AWAY FROM BREAKING GLOBAL... REAL ESTATE Most people still think China’s housing collapse stays inside China. They’re wrong. For years, Chinese money treated U.S. real estate like a dollar safe haven. California, New York, Seattle, Miami, Texas. Now that cycle is starting to reverse. China’s property market is no longer creating wealth. Home prices are falling. Developers are trapped. Local governments are losing land revenue. Businesses are under pressure. Household confidence is breaking. When wealth breaks at home, liquidity has to come from somewhere. One of the easiest offshore assets to sell is U.S. real estate. The chain is simple: China property down → wealth destruction Debt pressure → liquidity stress Offshore assets sold → U.S. real estate gets hit In a weak market, only a few forced sellers are enough to drag prices lower. Debt-stressed business owners do not care about the perfect listing price. Family offices that need dollars do not care about Zillow estimates. They sell what they can sell. That is how repricing starts. China will not crash U.S. housing by itself. But it can be the shock that exposes how weak it already is. Most people will call this impossible until lower prices start showing up. By then, the repricing is already underway. When the next move becomes clear, I’ll post it here first. Follow and turn notifications on.show more

🤨 “Gaza Is The ONLY Issue That Matters” Yasmin... Alibhai-Brown has once again shown just how detached some public voices have become from the reality facing ordinary people in Britain. During a debate about Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s listening tour and the urgent questions of what he can and should do about the cost of living crisis and the many other huge problems crushing this country, she declared: “I know Andy and I like him but I still won’t vote for him because the ONLY issue that matters to me is what’s he’s going to do on Gaza and he hasn’t answered that.” Not the NHS. Not housing. Not energy bills. Not crime. Not immigration. Not the state of the economy. Just Gaza. This is not principled. It is obsessive. It is a textbook example of someone elevating a distant conflict, however tragic, above the actual, immediate suffering of the people who live here and pay the taxes that keep the lights on. How many more voices like this are there, treating Britain as an afterthought while demanding politicians prioritise foreign policy litmus tests over which they have almost no real control?”​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ When your own country is struggling with stagnant wages, broken public services and a genuine cost of living emergency, announcing that none of it counts unless the politician says the right words about Gaza is just insane to me. You can care about Gaza. Plenty of people do. But when you openly say it is the only thing that matters, and you would reject someone you otherwise like purely on that basis while ignoring everything else, you have stopped talking about politics and started performing purity. And that performance is coming at the expense of the country you actually live in.show more

FOX NEWS: Let's talk about the jobs number from... December. Less than expected. How much of a disappointment is that? HASSETT: Oh, it's not really. If you think about it -- 3 out of the last 4 months were big upward surprises. The unemployment rate dropped a lot. Because of rounding it's actually a bigger drop that you can see if you only look at the first digit.show more

❗️🇺🇦🥔 Zelensky warns Belarusian dictator once again: 📌 “Before... taking any public step, I resort to non-public measures for de-escalation. Belarus has received information at the intelligence and military level: stop helping the ‘Russians.’” 📌 “Step number one — no technical support. Turn it off, remove it and show us that it is stopped. Since this has been conveyed to them more than once, we have reached the stage of a public signal. If he does not do this, we will turn everything off (destroy it… hinting at the retranslators used for the wide and uninterrupted dissemination of signals from Russian reconnaissance and kamikaze drones deep into Ukrainian territory).” 📌 “We are also sending a signal: please stop supplying fuel to the Russian army. There is no threat here. We are simply saying that we see this. The first steps are always confidential, while the next steps are different.” Video is generated by Grok AIshow more

Amusing how I've been caught in the crossfire of... just showing up to do my job as much as I have this World Cup. This video sums it up. 😃 No matter how many questions you ask in the 2/3 minutes you are given, somebody in Zabzugu Fankyenekɔ will say why did you not ask this or that? I am not even a public servant, nobody pays their taxes to me, but they treat you like demma money dey your der! 😂 It's all part of the job. The trick is to never take it personally — as provocative as some of the comments can be.show more

Europe, are you ready? ❗️Today, an explosion and fire... occurred at the KNDS Ammo Italy ammunition plant in Colleferro, near Rome. The cause of the incident is still being investigated. That is why we should not get ahead of the investigation or call it Russian sabotage without evidence. But Europe cannot afford to look at incidents like this in isolation. Hybrid warfare is not only about missiles, tanks, and soldiers crossing borders. It also includes sabotage, cyberattacks, damage to critical infrastructure, arson, influence operations, and the constant testing of where the limits of the EU and NATO response lie. This is how hybrid threats work: for a long time, they may look like a series of separate, unrelated incidents — until their consequences become systemic. So the question today is not whether a Russian link has already been proven in Colleferro. The real question is: Is Europe ready for the moment when the next “incident” turns out to be part of a much larger operation? Ukraine has been warning for years: war does not begin only when tanks cross a border. Very often, it begins much earlier — quietly. P.S. These are all links from russia #Roma #Italy #Rome #russia #HybridWar #russianSabotage #DefendEurope #EuropeanSecurity #NATO #StandWithUkraine #CriticalInfrastructure #SecurityAlertshow more

And just like that, the final pretence collapses. In... Oldham, the line hasn’t merely been crossed, it’s been trampled into the dirt and laughed at. The Labour machine that once hid behind respectable faces no longer even bothers. The people they defended, protected, and quietly enabled are now stepping forward themselves - as candidates. This is what institutional decay looks like when it stops caring who sees it. A getaway driver for a cop killer seeking public office. Heroin dealers rebranded as “community ambassadors” and convicted torturers stand alongside children’s safeguarding leads. Meanwhile, Labour politicians are not whispering support but openly, shamelessly endorsing them. This is not a scandal. It is not a mistake. It is not ignorance. It is complicity. It tells every victim that justice is negotiable. It tells every criminal that power is attainable. And it tells every decent resident that the system no longer belongs to them. This is how democracies rot. Not with tanks in the streets, but with criminals in council chambers and cowards applauding from the sidelines. Welcome to Oldham. Where the mask is off. Where the moral floor has collapsed. And where the question is no longer “How did this happen?” but “Who still has the courage to stop it?” ———— I’m Raja Miah. For seven years, I led a small team that exposed how politicians protected the rape gangs. Before that, I spent over a decade trying to stop violent extremists exploiting abandoned communities. My work is free because the truth must circulate. But truth without numbers is easy to crush. The government does not fear facts. It fears scale. Starmer and the Labour Party fear thousands reading, sharing, and backing the same work because numbers mean witnesses, pressure, and consequences. That’s why this matters: 🔴 Subscribe to the newsletter. It’s free. Every subscriber is a number they can’t erase. Every reader widens the circle they can’t control. If you can afford it, please support for 75p a week (£3/month or £30/year). 👉 Subscribe or support here: Not for perks. Not for access. But because numbers with backing become power. A few supporters can be ignored. Thousands cannot. This is how this campaign survive. This is how we see this through. This is how voices like ours stops being managed and starts being feared. 🔴 Prefer a one-off contribution? 👉 👉 No sponsors. No parties. No institutions to lean on. Just numbers. Growing fast enough that shutting this down becomes impossible. We don’t need everyone. We need enough. We need you. – Raja Miah MBEshow more

Because we see Jimbo every single day, it is... sometimes easy to forget just how much he has changed since he first arrived at Happy Doggo Land. Looking back at those first two photos, it is heartbreaking to see how incredibly skinny and fragile he was. But today? He is a happy, healthy boy with a very important job. He takes his role of guarding the kitchen and delivering food very seriously. He is officially a man of duties, and we could not be more proud of him! ❤️show more

I very much look forward to money being obsolete... 🤍 I do what I have to do to pay bills and stay on top of debt and invest where I can to set my family free of it all on this Earth (3D), while understanding that the SHIFT is coming soon and will Truly set us free. On the new Earth (5D) money will be obsolete. Everyone will have everything they could ever need or want. Money here on this Earth (3D) is a trap. Do what you can to stay above it or possibly set yourself and your family free of it all while still here but always understand that it is a trap and very much not what is really important in existence. Not much longer until we can truly live free! Help where you can and always shine LIGHT and Love to everyone. This is what is really important in life 🤍🛸show more

They started with 50. Now they say they’re 18,000... In 1996 there were fewer than 50 of them. Today, according to the organizers, up to 18,000 walked through Copenhagen. From Dronning Louises Bro to the Imam Ali Mosque. Look at the curve. This is how it happens. First a handful. Then a few hundred. Then it fills a bridge, a district, a capital. A little at a time, until it is no longer a little. And let me be fair, because fairness is the point. There is nothing strange about them holding this mourning procession. They have done it as part of their faith for more than a thousand years. It is theirs, and they believe in it. There is nothing strange about that at all. What should stop us is the other half. There is nothing strange about Europe allowing it either, and that is exactly the problem. Europe allows it because Europe has forgotten who it is. A people that remembers what it stands for does not need to ban anything, it simply knows where its own line runs. We have lost that. And so the issue was never them. The issue is us. Now look at what actually moved through the streets. Men in front. Women in the second row. That is not a detail, that is the whole point. It is a view of women set into a system and marched out into the public square, in a city where generations fought for women and men to stand as equals. The real question is not whether people may believe what they want. They may. The question is why our capital should cultivate a political law-religion that commemorates a 7th-century power struggle by dividing people by sex on Nørrebrogade. One of the organizers is the Imam Ali Mosque, repeatedly described as the Iranian regime’s extended arm in Denmark. The same regime that hangs women and young men from cranes. We are not importing culture. We are importing a system. And we let it grow, not because they are strong, but because we forgot why we were. First a little. Then a lot. Then too late.show more

‼️🇩🇪 BREAKING | The German government has approved the... draft for a 2027 "super-militaristic" state budget. Under this plan, the core defense budget is set at €105.8 billion. This will be supplemented by €27.5 billion mobilized into a special defense fund—a result of abolishing the "debt brake" mechanism—plus €11 billion allocated for direct defense budgetary assistance to Ukraine. ​Additionally, €58.2 billion has been earmarked for indirect defense spending focused on the modernization of logistics and infrastructure (ports, airfields, highways, and bridges). Consequently, it is fair to say that in 2027, Germany will spend over €200 billion on defense and defense-related matters. ​Crucially, this is not a one-time surge. Defense spending is projected to leap forward annually, bolstered by the removal of the debt brake and the potential to mobilize €500 billion in loans for the defense sector. This will significantly increase the net defense budget, which could potentially reach €300–350 billion per year within the next 3 to 5 years. Video is made Grok AIshow more

Asmongold shows how easy it is to fool MAGA... bots that the Iran war is going well. He believed a fake graph of Iranian missile launches. The numbers are made up and the source at the bottom is "IDF Spokesperson". The graph is three days old and predicted Iran would basically be out of missiles by today. The problem is, Iran has launched several waves of missiles TODAY ALONE and they've successfully targeted Israel multiple times along with several US bases. A US base is currently on fire! The building targeted housed a stockpile of patriot missiles which are in very short supply. Satellite imagery shows that over the course of thenl last week, Iran has destroyed a large portion of the radar, communications and air defense installations at most of the largest US bases in the region. None of this is known to Asmongold. He just sees a fake graph and says "these are the facts". The only thing aspect of this graph that's true is that Iran has reduced the total number of missiles and drones launched because the enemy interception rate has plummeted following the destruction of air defense systems and depletion of interceptors. Simply put, it takes fewer and fewer missiles and drones to strike targets, which allows Iran's stockpiles to last MUCH longer. This is very much a GOOD thing for Iran.show more