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Godfrey Albertyn 🇿🇦 🇵🇸
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All politicians are guilty until they prove themselves innocent 😊 | Investment professional | Public transport enthusiast
Cape Town, South Africa Katılım Haziran 2009
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Arab states that permanently host U.S. military bases have, as a matter of black-letter international law, forsaken their sovereignty and no longer qualify as fully sovereign states. They therefore cannot invoke the rights and protections reserved exclusively to states that actually meet the legal definition of sovereignty, and they have no say about Iran's right to defend itself against US aggression.
The Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States (1933), Art. 1, defines statehood by four cumulative requirements, the decisive fourth being “the capacity to enter into relations with other States.” This capacity requires exclusive and independent authority over territory and external affairs, without subordination to any other power (Island of Palmas arbitration, 1928; Lotus case, PCIJ 1927).
Numerous Arab states — including Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, UAE, Jordan, and others — host permanent U.S. military bases and facilities under Status of Forces Agreements. These agreements grant American forces extraterritorial immunity, exclusive operational command, and control over large areas of sovereign territory. Local courts cannot prosecute U.S. personnel, local legislatures cannot inspect bases, and host governments cannot unilaterally order eviction without risking severe economic or military retaliation. CIA operational centers embedded within or alongside these bases conduct intelligence, surveillance, rendition, and lethal activities beyond effective Arab oversight.
A state that cannot control who bears arms on its soil, who conducts intelligence operations, or who decides when foreign forces depart has, by definition, surrendered the exclusivity of authority required by Montevideo. It is no longer exercising the functions of a state “to the exclusion of any other State.” It has become, in legal terms, a semi-sovereign protectorate, leased territory, or a modern vassal in all but name.
Arab states hosting permanent U.S. military bases have voluntarily (or under duress) forsaken the fourth Montevideo criterion. They therefore fail the legal definition of fully sovereign states and cannot invoke the full protections of sovereign equality (UN Charter Art. 2(1)) or non-intervention (Art. 2(7)) against the very power whose bases and intelligence apparatus they host.
The Arab world must confront this stark legal reality: symbols of statehood such as flags, UN membership, and national anthems confer no genuine sovereignty when the fundamental attributes of independence have been surrendered — least of all the standing to object when Iran exercises its inherent right of self-defense against American aggression emanating from bases on Arab soil.
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BREAKING : UK 🇬🇧 Prime Minister brutally roasted Trump and exposed him
Journalist : Trump is mocking you on social media when you didn't support him
Starmer : "I am not going to come under pressure he is trying to build against me" 🔥
"I am the British Prime Minister and i will do what's best in our interest rather than getting dragged into such wars"
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Late last night the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force informed me that a plot against my life that was "about to" take place, and that agents had conducted an operation in Hoboken related to this plot. For months, Zionist organizations like Betar and politicians like Randy Fine have encouraged violence against my family and me. I will have more to say as additional details come to light. I will not stop speaking up for the people of Palestine. Thank you for your support.
nytimes.com/2026/03/27/nyr…
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He's right. Just not in the way that he thinks.
The Spectator Index@spectatorindex
Trump says 'we are closer than ever to the rise of the Middle East'
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ETFs are off to their strongest start to a year in history:
Global ETFs have attracted +$518 billion in inflows year-to-date, the highest for any year on record.
This is +30% more than last year's pace and over 5 times the average at this point of the year.
Inflows have been primarily driven by US ETFs, with the S&P 500 ETF, $VOO, attracting +$55.7 billion.
This is followed by the Money Market ETF, $IQMM, at +$22.4 billion, and the S&P 500 ETF, $SPYM, at +$21.4 billion.
Investors are pouring into ETFs more than ever.

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@mbalimcdust Happy birthday to you Mbali, have a most awesome and blessed day 🥳🥳🍾🥂🎉
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This isn’t new. It’s subject to monthly verification by a group that includes both national and international bodies an arrangement we entered into voluntarily. The aim was to ensure transparency, reduce suspicion, and, of course, to recognise that at the dawn of democracy no one wanted a newly elected government to inherit such an arsenal.
It was always a flawed assumption that those who fought for liberation would then turn those same tools on themselves. But regardless, the key point remains: we stopped.
There’s no basis for raising a false alarm about South Africa on this issue.
MyBroadband@mybroadband
South Africa has a stockpile of weapons-grade enriched uranium hidden in a secret location with high-security fencing and multiple layers of defence. mybroadband.co.za/news/governmen…
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Trump at a press conference today:
“I’m going to take a few questions. You can ask me anything you want. You can talk sex.”
Day 27 of the Iran war.
Israel just struck Iranian nuclear facilities.
Iran is demanding sovereignty over the Strait as a peace condition.
The Philippines has 40 days of oil left.
April 6th power plant strike deadline approaching.
Thousands dead across the region.
“You can talk sex.”
This is the President of the United States.
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