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Car Guy Tonio retweeted
Following the recent discovery and subsequent legal proceedings at the Federal High Court in Abuja, a chilling narrative has emerged regarding a dismantled espionage network. Iran had sleeper cells in Nigeria who have been actively spying on both the U.S. and Israeli embassies. These cells were carrying out information and surveillance gathering on both U.S. and Israeli interests in Lagos, including the U.S. Consular office. They were sending this data back to an individual identified as Abu Ali in Iran through encrypted software, preparing such locations for a terrorist attack.
The operation was led by Haruna Ali Abbas, who acted as the primary coordinator for the cell. Abbas, along with Ibrahim Hussein Musa and Adam Suleiman, was intercepted by the Department of State Services (DSS) following a period of intense clandestine activity.
According to testimonies from DSS Deputy Director James Simon, the defendants confessed to receiving specialized training at an Iranian military barracks. During their time in Iran, they were instructed in weapon handling and the collection of open source intelligence specifically targeting American and Israeli assets.
The cell's tradecraft was sophisticated, utilizing coded language and high level encryption software to exfiltrate tactical target packages to their handler, Abu Ali. These packages included detailed lists of American and Israeli concerns in Lagos and their precise locations mapped out for potential kinetic strikes. Beyond physical surveillance, the cell even monitored diplomatic cooperation, such as Israeli agricultural support to the Kwara State government, to identify every possible point of contact.
The downfall of Abbas began on March 16, 2013, when Abbas was arrested at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport while returning from Lebanon.
The subsequent investigation revealed a broader conspiracy to recruit young Nigerians for terrorism training abroad. Now facing trial before Justice Emeka Nwite, the defendants extrajudicial statements have exposed the depth of the plot, with the court adjourning until April 4 for further cross examination as the Nigerian government seeks to finalize the sentencing for these acts of preparatory terrorism.
Iran had sleeper cells in Nigeria have been actively spying on both the US and Israeli embassies. These cells were carrying out information and surveillance gathering on both US and Israeli interests in Lagos, including the US Consular office. They were sending this data back to an individual identified as Abu Ali in Iran through encrypted software, preparing such locations for a terrorist attack.
Car Guy Tonio retweeted
PROBIOTICS ; NAIJA EDITION
1. Omidun – fermented corn or millet drink
2. Zobo (fermented version) – hibiscus drink that can be lightly fermented
3. Pito – traditional sorghum/millet beer (fermented, mildly alcoholic)
4. Kunu – millet, sorghum, or corn-based drink
5. Tepache – a lightly fermented pineapple drink
6. Palm wine – naturally fermented, contains probiotics
7. Iru / Ogiri – fermented locust beans used as seasoning
8. Wara / Local cheese – soft cheese made from fermented milk
Fermentation time varies: longer fermentation usually = more probiotics
Raw consumption is best for probiotics; cooking may kill some bacteria
Car Guy Tonio retweeted
At one point in college, I had an obese roommate.
After a few weeks, she complained about how lucky I was to be thin, since I ate more than her.
The thing is, however, that I absolutely did not eat more than her, in terms of calories or just amount of food.
She put ranch on everything. 600 calorie drinks. Endless snacking.
Maybe my plate was more full than hers at dinner, but it was obvious tp everyone but her that she was consuming more throughout the day.
I'm sorry, but after multiple instances of this happening with other overweight people, I just don't trust when someone heavy insists they're in caloric deficit.
Maybe some people lose weight faster than others. For sure. But it's simple science that if calories out exceed calories in, you WILL lose weight.
I ate 1200 for 44 days straight. Measured and weighed everything. I gained weight. I wish was I kidding.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Gaining fat when consuming fewer calories than burned is impossible per basic energy laws. Reports of weight gain on 1200-calorie diets are usually due to water retention, tracking errors, or other factors, not fat gain.
physics.aps.org/articles/v12/47
precisionnutrition.com/can-you-gain-w…
Car Guy Tonio retweeted
What used to take a team of 4 three weeks to pull off and cost over $15,000 is now possible for less then $3.
These unknown team from the UK solved this and it’s finally out to the public.
The major problem with creating design visuals with normal AI prompts; was that after every iteration;
it starts to change a part of the design,
the brand icons starts to change,
the ratio changes,
the logo starts to flips if it’s not horizontal.
It’s hard to keep things consistent, that’s why so many design studios can’t use AI for designs.
And these folks finally solved that, and totally crashed the market. Now vibe coders, companies and startups can cut down brand asset designs costs by over 99% and still retain consistency.
Interesting time we live in.
Car Guy Tonio retweeted
Then ZIRP ended. Rates went up. Capital pulled back.
And the continent lost an entire generation of startups that were actually building something real.
Default alive wasn't a strategy back then. Now it's the only one that matters."
Watch the full episode: youtube.com/watch?v=XaY0PGhO…
Car Guy Tonio retweeted
There's been a weird wave of people trying to discourage other from buying China made new electric cars. I find it so fascinating. Most of them offer 6-10 year warranties are are currently giving offers like free servicing and maintainance for up to 5 years as well as payment plans.
Why would anyone want to buy a used mercedes or lexus over that?
Car Guy Tonio retweeted
It is in everyone’s best interest to support this amazing project.
The moral compass of any society is shaped by what it chooses to reward, and it is crucial that we find meaningful ways to celebrate and honour academic excellence.
Car Guy Tonio retweeted
Looking at my order books. Looking at what i have built from ground zero. Just me. I export frozen snails, fish fillet, crayfish to the UK, Annual value is 2 million pounds. I have an adhesive factory, i have a paper factory. I have a fruit Juice factory.
Car Guy Tonio retweeted
I spoke with this indie dev from Nigeria who is building his own Action Roguelite where the world is ending, but you still must make all your deliveries
- No delivery is the same
- 11 different playable characters
- Inspired by Crazy Taxi
Called Tossdown
Car Guy Tonio retweeted
I spent time in Shenzhen last year and when I saw Merz come back from China saying Germans need to work more I immediately knew what broke his brain because I lived the exact same cognitive shock
my first week in Huaqiangbei I burned through 4 prototype iterations of a motor controller board for less than a thousand bucks total, back home a friend was working on something similar and spent over 12 thousand for a single revision that took almost two months to arrive
when you live that contrast in your own hands with your own project something permanently shifts in how you see the world and it goes way deeper than speed & cost
what Shenzhen actually built is a collective learning organism, imagine 20 PCB fabs 15 injection mold shops 30 component distributors and a hundred firmware freelancers all within a 2km radius, looks insanely redundant from the outside until you realize redundancy is actually information density in disguise
I watched this firsthand with an injection mold supplier I was working with, this guy had seen a hundred founders iterate similar thermal designs over 6 months so he proactively modified his tooling before I even opened my mouth, he knew what I needed before I knew what I needed, the intelligence lives in the relationships between the nodes and it compounds daily
the west thinks about manufacturing as a cost center you optimize by centralizing…
China accidentally built a distributed neural network of manufacturing intelligence where knowledge diffuses horizontally across thousands of agents faster than any single western company can process internally
so when Merz comes back and says we need to work a bit more I think he saw the problem but COMPLETELY misdiagnosed the solution, telling Germans to work harder is like telling a horse to gallop faster when the other side built a combustion engine
the gap is ARCHITECTURAL
it’s ecosystem density, you need a custom connector in Shenzhen you walk 200 meters, in Munich you send an email and wait 3 weeks
it’s iteration speed, parallel search vs sequential optimization at the system level, it’s risk tolerance, Chinese founders ship something broken on Monday fix it Tuesday ship again Wednesday while European companies are still in the approval phase for the pilot program of the feasibility study…
and Merz only saw the surface, what he missed is the tier 2 cities like Hefei Chengdu Wuhan replicating the Shenzhen model at scale right now
BYD going from irrelevant to outselling every european automaker combined in roughly 5 years, Huawei building its own 7nm chip under maximum sanctions when every analyst said it was physically impossible & behind all of that a government that treats advanced manufacturing as an existential national priority while europe debates whether AI needs another ethics committee
I think what we’re watching is the most asymmetric economic competition in modern history and most western leaders are still framing it as a productivity problem when it’s actually an ontological one
Europe & America are optimizing variables that China stopped tracking years ago meanwhile China is compounding on dimensions the west has no framework to even measure
Merz at least had the courage to name
it out loud and I respect that genuinely but working a bit more inside a broken architecture just means you arrive at the wrong destination slightly faster
NEW:
🇩🇪🇨🇳 German Chancellor Merz says Germans need to work more in order to match China:
“We are simply no longer productive enough. Each individual may say, “I already do quite a lot.” And that may be true.
But when you return from China, ladies and gentlemen, you see things more clearly.
With work-life balance and a four-day week, long-term prosperity in our country cannot be maintained. We will simply have to do a bit more.”
Car Guy Tonio retweeted
If this is the case no need to appeal people to buy made in Nigeria. Market would naturally go where they find value. I used Nigerian tiles for my home setup.. I didn't do it out of patriotism I did it because it made more value sense to me compared to imported.
As of today, once you hit the minimum required volume, it is actually cheaper to manufacture certain products in Nigeria at the same quality than to produce them in China and import them.
When you factor in freight, foreign exchange exposure, lead time, inventory costs, and overall risk, the numbers are no longer as clear cut as they used to be, especially when you deal in volume.
Let us buy more products made in Nigeria to help manufacturers reach the scale required to justify further investment.
In the end, we all stand to gain.
Car Guy Tonio retweeted
Everything being proposed sounds like a rerun of our failed 70s industrial policy.
Import substitution without fixing fundamentals does not create globally competitive firms. It simply transfers inefficiency to local consumers. That will not deliver productivity or export led growth.
Why did Dunlop, Michelin, Peugeot Automobile Nigeria, and Volkswagen struggle locally? Why did so many factories collapse?
Fix power.
Fix logistics.
Make Nigeria attractive to capital.
Make Made in Nigeria globally competitive.
We have tried price controls and blaming greedy industrialists. It did not work then. It will not work now.
Car Guy Tonio retweeted
Summary: Chinese hospital is like a factory, it may not give patients the best experience, but it fixes disease very efficiently at affordable prices. Salute for all the medical workers who work so hard.
Car Guy Tonio retweeted
🚨 BREAKING: Newly released Epstein documents show Jeffrey Epstein and Bill Gates's science advisor Boris Nikolic privately discussed how to overcome African resistance to vaccination campaigns.
Their solution? "Candles and small mirrors, the same as the Americans did with their native Indians."
In a March 2013 email, Epstein tells Nikolic he consulted his "best sources" — people whose conclusions he says are "very often better than the list of the various 26 three-letter agencies."
The topic: Nigerian communities resisting a polio program "associated with both the west and with bill and melinda."
Epstein's source — described as "the most sophisticated, experienced and successful of the group, great experience in countries of your interest" — offered this advice:
"If he wants to get their consent, he needs to use candles and small mirrors, the same as the Americans did with their native Indians."
Nikolic's response?
"Great input — I guess we will need colorful beads and mirrors."
This is Bill Gates's senior science advisor — the man later named backup executor of Epstein's will — laughing along with a colonial metaphor about manufacturing consent from African populations.
Nigeria's distrust of Western vaccination wasn't irrational. In 1996, Pfizer tested an experimental drug on children during a meningitis outbreak in Kano. Eleven children died. The resulting Trovan scandal fueled decades of vaccine hesitancy across northern Nigeria.
But in this private exchange, African resistance isn't treated as a legitimate grievance rooted in lived experience.
It's treated as a problem to be outmaneuvered with trinkets.
Epstein also predicted that Boko Haram would begin kidnapping polio workers for ransom — a prediction that proved largely correct.
He wasn't guessing. He was receiving intelligence-grade analysis from sources he claimed outperformed the CIA.
And he was routing it directly to the man who controlled Bill Gates's scientific agenda.
Nikolic told Epstein: "I would rather seek your opinion than seek opinion of 1,000 of global health experts."
Think about that. The person advising the world's largest private health funder trusted a convicted sex offender's intelligence network more than the entire global health establishment.
Publicly, the Gates Foundation describes its work in Africa as "community-centered" and "evidence-based."
Privately, the people shaping that work compared winning African consent to trading beads with Native Americans.
That's not a communications problem.
That's a legitimacy problem.
📄 Source: EFTA01761706, released under the Epstein Files Transparency Act justice.gov/epstein/files/Da…
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What I found: Jeffrey Epstein wasn't just a sex trafficker. He was a switchboard — routing government secrets, Wall Street intelligence, and political power through one network.
The same network that built the censorship machine that targeted your speech during COVID.
Five parts. All sourced to DOJ documents. Here's the whole investigation 🧵👇
Car Guy Tonio retweeted
I had painful clogged ducts constantly the first few weeks postpartum.
Sunflower lecithin helped temporarily. It's an emulsifier that makes milk less sticky so fat doesn't clump together. Heat and massage helped too. But the clogs kept coming back.
Then my lactation consultant suggested therapeutic ultrasound. I had no idea what that was.
I booked an appointment. She used an ultrasound on my breast for about 30-40 minutes. The heat and mechanical vibration from the ultrasound help dilate the ducts and break up the clog.
I haven't had a clogged duct since.
Therapeutic ultrasound was added to the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine's mastitis protocol in 2022. It's non invasive, no drugs, and no antibiotics. Just sound waves reducing inflammation.
More women need to know this exists.
Imagine giving your internal wiring a high-tech spa day.
Scientists discovered that a simple abdominal ultrasound doesn't just peek at your organs; it actually tickles your vagus nerve into action.
Recent clinical findings reveal that non-invasive abdominal ultrasound is no longer limited to diagnostic imaging. It has emerged as a potent modulator of the autonomic nervous system. By targeting subdiaphragmatic vagus nerve fibers, focused sound waves trigger the body's endogenous cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway.
In rigorous models, 1-MHz ultrasound application induced mechanosensitive depolarization, increasing vagal afferent firing rates by 250%. This neural signal travels to the brainstem, which subsequently activates efferent pathways directed toward the spleen.
The molecular mechanism involves α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors on macrophages. This interaction suppresses NF-κB signaling, leading to a 62% reduction in IL-6 and a 48% drop in TNF-α. In sepsis models, survival rates increased from 35% to 82%.
Human pilot data confirms these anti-inflammatory effects with zero adverse events. This breakthrough paves the way for portable, non-pharmacological treatments for chronic conditions such as IBD, rheumatoid arthritis, and systemic inflammation.
The result? A massive 60% drop in the chemical drama queens known as pro-inflammatory cytokines.
No pills, no needles—just a gentle acoustic nudge that tells your body to stop throwing an inflammatory tantrum.
From arthritis to sepsis, we’re moving toward a future where we can literally "shush" our sickness with a handheld hum.
Who knew the secret to inner peace was just some really good vibrations?
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4167…
Car Guy Tonio retweeted
If you think certain things will never happen in your lifetime, you are hedging yourself out of the future.
Almost every agent-grade tech from the 80s/90s movies (self-driving cars, robots, watches that could make calls, AI, etc.) is now available to consumers. You can now buy James Bond-level self-driving cars from a dealership. I'm not sure we are ready for what’s to come.
Car Guy Tonio retweeted
Getting a dream job that I didn’t even know existed.
OR
How I ended up working in professional paintball.
A thread.
Car Guy Tonio retweeted
My manager at Multichoice while i was Sales Rep, moved to UK without telling anyone, the rest staff thought i knew cos we were very close, but i didn't.
When he settled he was the one that messaged me on WhatsApp, we did video call and he pressed me small thing, cos i came through for him when his mum was sick and need extra support.
No hard feelings, whether you tell me or not, i am not bothered, i wish everyone in my corner all the best, no matter our closeness there are stuff i won't tell you.
Car Guy Tonio retweeted
On March 19th, 2025, a Chinese EV, the Dongfeng Voyah 007, crashed in Yunnan, China.
The car caught fire almost instantly, doors jammed, and bystanders had to smash windows to rescue passengers.
Three in the back seats survived, but the front passenger didn’t.
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced on Monday that from January 1, 2027, all new cars sold in China must have exterior and interior door handles with a mechanical release.