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May your road be rough — Tai Solarin

  Note: I was told of this presentation by a lecturer of mine in secondary school, another in University and never had the opportunity of reading the whole thing until I found it on the internet recently. This lecture I have heard of in parts and snippets and not as a whole article as first published in Daily Times Newspaper of January 1st, 1964. But I always got the general gist.  Tai Solarin was seen as a general critic and a moral crusader of the generation that I grew up in, in Nigeria. However, like another government critic, Prof Wole Soyinka, IBB knew how to deal with them. As a critic who had no job but to criticize it is easy, he gave Tai the People's Bank and Wole he gave Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC). In 1989, The Peoples Bank was founded by the government, and Tai Solarin became the first chairman. The bank was created to disburse soft loans and other forms of credit to the very poor to start their own businesses. But this was a problem as it was filled with corrupti

Can you change my mind?

  This is a documentary on how a small company had found out how it could "Hack" the democratic process of the Western world using data. The idea was to identify the voters on the border fence who had not made up their minds, then bombard them with specifically targeted advertisements that had already been mean tested and proven to change the minds of the test sample to produce the required result.   Ms Britteny Kaiser At the beginning of the film, a woman whom we later know to be Miss Brittany Kaiser was at what looked like a Parliamentary Inquiry, answering questions. They were asking about her morals after working as an intern for Obama, Amnesty International, various Human Rights Organisations, Ministry of Agriculture and later for Cambridge Analytical, which were responsible for Brexit and Trump's victory later, it seems. She indicated while working for the Obama campaign and the Human Rights Organisations, they paid her very little money and at times nothing at all.

Doing my own research!

  When most people say they are doing their "own research" in this time and age, especially on the COVID Vaccine, they do not mean they are all yearning for other phenomena that could have explained the results, sceptical and in a scientific way. All they mean is they are entering into Google the words "COVID Vaccine", and they read up on it. They are not conducting any scientific experiments or collecting data. Unfortunately, most of them are not critical thinking or understand the scientific method. They have primarily been trained in communication, politics, business, accounts, arts, etc. and fail to realize science is a totally different kettle of fish. They are not doing research in the way we scientists would define it passe. They just mean that they would look deeper into it or, in some cases, just look at it again. Concerning the Scientific Method, Aristotle is thought to be the inventor of the scientific method, which analyses logical implications contained

Selective Presbycusis - Schools want to educated themselves

I was happy when one of my sons approached me to buy him a book. I usually make sure that I keep them reading, which I believe is better than playing computer games. He finished the Harry Potter and Hunger Games series, etc., and I was looking for the next challenge he would take, and the fact that it seems to be recommended by his school came to me as a surprise. I brought the book for him on Amazon, listened to my audio version, and hoped to beat him to the end. But the title seemed provocative, which makes me think, "what were they are actually teaching him at the school?" - fearing that it might be some socialism ultra far-left liberal thing. Especially knowing that our educational institutions are often filled with liberal elites who are progressive, and they might want to politicize the children. I did not want to bring up a mini Black Panther recruit under my roof and facilitated his induction by supplying reading materials. But later, going through its preface, which