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South Africa Katılım Eylül 2018
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@OgeneAfrican This body cam footage should never have been released to the public. It’s this public shame that probably caused her to take her own life.
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THE FACTS THEY LEAVE OUT
“The movie - "e'Lollipop", 1975 - Did you know? (Similar to the global Hit, Shaka Zulu, and Gods Must Be Crazy) 👉
In 1975, during the height of apartheid, an Afrikaner filmmaker named André Pieterse wrote and produced e'Lollipop, a film about the friendship between a black boy and a white boy in Lesotho. It became the highest-grossing South African film of its era. It opened a Cannes retrospective on South African cinema in 2004. The cast included Patrick Mynhardt, Naomi van Niekerk, Fanie Bekker, and Jan Bruyns alongside Muntu Ndebele and Norman Knox. Decades later, when Ndebele was found drug-addled and dying at 43kg in a derelict Hillbrow flat, it was Pieterse and Knox who found him, rehabilitated him, and gave him his life back.
An Afrikaner made the film. An Afrikaner saved the man. But tell that to the narrative that says apartheid-era South Africa produced nothing but racists. This film existed. These friendships were real. This story was told by Afrikaners, funded by Afrikaners, and carried by Afrikaners to international audiences while the world was told that no such thing was possible. That is the part they erase.”
- ALT AFRIKANER

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In the entire history of modern optometry and neuroscience literature, there are fewer than a dozen documented and thoroughly vetted case studies of individuals with true direct voluntary pupil control.
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She's one of them!
The ability to dilate and constrict their pupils on command, regardless of lighting conditions... Yikes! It's extremely rare, why she can do this just thinking about it is completely unclear.
Even Mark Wahlberg finds it interesting 😆
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This is real footage from 127 years ago.
A family was performing their acrobatic act in Paris, in 1899, and someone was there to film it...
What you are watching was captured by the Lumière brothers, Auguste and Louis, the two Frenchmen who pioneered cinema. Only a few years earlier, in December 1895, they had held the first public screening of projected film in history, using their invention, the Cinématographe.
Now they were pointing their camera at the world around them, recording ordinary life as almost no one ever had before: workers leaving a factory, a train pulling into a station, and this, a family of acrobats throwing their bodies through the air.
The performers were the Kremos, a celebrated troupe who had created their signature act just a few years before this film was made. They were what circus people call icarists, specialists in a breathtaking discipline where one performer lies on their back and launches another into the air with their feet, catching and re-launching them like a juggler using human beings instead of clubs.
The family kept the act alive for generations. Their descendants were still performing, on stages around the world, more than a century after this film was made...
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We are used to seeing the 1920s in black and white. This is what London actually looked like, in full color, more than a hundred years ago.
What you are watching comes from The Open Road, filmed in the summer of 1924 by a British cinematographer named Claude Friese-Greene. It is some of the earliest colour film of London ever made.
What I love about this film is that the color collapses the distance between us and them.
The black-and-white footage we are used to is beautiful, but it makes the past feel like another world. Colour changes that. Red buses, a blue sky, the green of the trees, and suddenly 1924 does not feel like history at all...
What most people don't know is that this footage was one man's attempt to finish his father's life's work: Claude was the son of William Friese-Greene, one of the pioneers of early cinema. Together they had spent years developing a way to capture true color on film, using a system of spinning red and blue-green filters in front of the camera. The process was flawed. It flickered, it produced strange color fringes around anything that moved too fast, and it was soon overtaken by better systems and forgotten. Claude set out on a journey by car from Land's End to the north of Scotland, filming the whole country in his imperfect color, trying to prove that his father's dream could work.
For decades the footage sat largely unseen, its flaws making it almost unwatchable. Then, in our own century, the British Film Institute used digital technology to clean away the flicker and the fringing, revealing what Friese-Greene had actually captured: a lost world, brought back to life in color.
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This is real footage from 120 years ago.
None of the people in it knew that the city around them had four days left...
What you are watching is a cable car gliding down Market Street in San Francisco, filmed on the 14th of April, 1906.
The camera was mounted on the front of the car, so you see the city exactly as it was: the crowds, the horse-drawn carriages, the early automobiles weaving through traffic, the men in hats, the great buildings rising on either side. An ordinary spring afternoon in a thriving American city.
Four days later, on the morning of the 18th of April, a magnitude 7.9 earthquake struck. The shaking lasted under a minute, but it ignited fires that burned through the city for days...
By the time it was over, more than 3,000 people were dead and roughly 80 percent of San Francisco had been destroyed. Almost every building you see in this footage was gone.
And the film itself nearly went with it.
The negative was placed on a train bound for New York on the 17th of April, the day before the earthquake. Had it left a single day later, it would have burned in the fire along with the studio that made it.
This entire moving record of a lost city survives because of one day...
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@Khumo_20220718 And every extra cent you pay for private education, schooling and education is actually an added tax.
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@GarethCliff Watch this space. As soon as government notices its people turning on it, the common tactic is to deflect by getting the people to turn on each other again. In South Africa it’s through the manufacturing of outrage over race and apartheid. Divide and conquer.
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@Simon_Sithole20 @sarstax Watch this space. As soon as government notices its people turning on it, the common tactic is to deflect by getting the people to turn on each other again. In South Africa it’s through the manufacturing of outrage over race and apartheid. Divide and conquer.
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South Africans 🇿🇦 need to stand together and demand answers from this uncaring government!!
@sarstax can NOT just take from us and avoid accountability!!
#TaxRevoltSA
I ❤️ Cape Town ~ I Stand with Russia🇷🇺 MAGA@Lolita721611021
🇿🇦A Tax Revolt Is Coming ⁉️ A TAX REVOLT is definitely coming.... It's the only ammunition we have left. #TaxSlaves ....That is all we are! #TaxSlaves #TaxRevolt #TAXREVOLT
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"30 June, white Afrikaners must leave this country. You’re not welcome here.”
“4,000 of you already cowards ran to America. It’s time for the rest of you to fight.”
“If you don’t do this thing, you dogs, we will kill you, we will burn you, we will destroy/castrate you, your mothers too, we will beat you, we will shoot you"
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