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@JoyInWinter @beyond_capital Israeli occupation is cruel and inhumane🤷

Monument to Richard Sorge, a Soviet World War II intelligence officer and Hero of the Soviet Union. Erected in 1981. Baku, Azerbaijan. Sculptor Vladimir Tsigal, the architects are Rasim Aliev, Leonid Pavlov, Y. Dubov.

Yes they are. Stop lying.

Have not been able to get this poor Ugandan nurse out of my head... I've tracked down where we can donate to help her rebuild her life and show her we care You can donate here: gofund.me/f7b1c0075 Please help her if you can.

A lone Black man attends a Klan rally in Jackson, Mississippi, 1950.

22 YEARS LATER AND NOBODY HAS ANSWERED FOR WHAT HAPPENED TO DR DAVID KELLY His name was Dr David Kelly. Most people have forgotten him. They shouldn't. He was a quiet, mild-mannered scientist who spent his career inspecting weapons facilities around the world. He knew more about Iraq's arsenal than almost anyone alive. In 2003, Tony Blair's @InstituteGC government published a dossier claiming Saddam Hussein could deploy chemical weapons within 45 minutes. That claim was used to justify a war. Kelly knew the intelligence behind it was being exaggerated. He said so, privately, to a @BBCNews journalist. That one conversation destroyed his life. The government found out he was the source. Instead of protecting a man who had served his country for decades, they quietly let his name reach the press. He was publicly identified, dragged before two parliamentary committees, and grilled by his own employer. His wife said he came home a broken man. On the afternoon of 17 July 2003, he left his house for a walk in the Oxfordshire countryside. He was 59 years old. He never came back. His body was found the next morning in woodland. A knife beside him. A blister pack of painkillers nearby. Here is where it gets worse. Tony Blair personally intervened to replace the normal coroner's inquest with a private inquiry run by Lord Hutton. The original inquest was suspended before it even properly began. It was never resumed. To this day, Dr David Kelly is the only person in England and Wales in living memory to have died in unexplained circumstances without receiving a full coroner's inquest. Lord Hutton concluded suicide. Case closed. Except eight senior doctors and a former coroner wrote to @thetimes saying the verdict was medically unsafe. The wound found on Kelly's wrist, a severed ulnar artery, would not cause fatal blood loss in a healthy person. There were no fingerprints on the knife. The painkillers found were not in a quantity that experts considered lethal. The government's response, delivered by Attorney General Dominic Grieve in 2011, was essentially: the Hutton Inquiry was good enough, stop asking questions. Think about that. A man quietly raised concerns about the biggest political deception in modern British history, a war that led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He was publicly exposed, professionally destroyed, and found dead days later and the government personally made sure there would never be a proper independent investigation into how he died. Tony Blair went on to become a Middle East Peace Envoy. He has a knighthood. Dr David Kelly got a private inquiry, a rushed verdict, and a sealed post-mortem report that was not released to the public for years. Nobody was ever held accountable. Not for any of it. This story should be on the front page every single year. Share it if you think it matters. Sources: @BBCNews @guardian @thetimes @PrivateEyeNews

Mr Mark Alexander paid tribute to former KWARU and SARU lock Temba Ludwaba, who sadly passed away this week at the age of 81 - more here: tinyurl.com/ffnksfct 🇿🇦

Oh, I forgot this, Rob arrived with nothing except R36 *and a civil engineering degree*

Breaking news Disgraced Lawyer Peet Viljoen Arrested at OR Tambo on Return from US Disgraced lawyer Peet Viljoen was arrested by the Hawks at OR Tambo International Airport on Tuesday evening upon his arrival in South Africa on a United Airlines flight from Newark, New Jersey. The 57-year-old, who was deported from the US after spending about 100 days in detention linked to an alleged shoplifting scheme involving groceries with his wife Mel Viljoen, was immediately taken into custody on a warrant for fraud, theft, forgery, and corruption charges dating back to 2010. These relate to the alleged unlawful sale of Johannesburg Property Company (JPC) properties, where buyers reportedly paid but the funds never reached the company. Viljoen, struck off the attorneys' roll in 2011 and previously linked to the case, is expected to appear in the Pretoria Specialised Commercial Crimes Court on Thursday.

Member of the National People's Army operating communication equipment, 1980s.

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They are trying to save Israel by sacrificing Netanyahu. Acutely aware of his and Israeli popularity plummeting. Make no mistake, these folks are very much pro war with Iran.

1985: Ted Koppel and Winnie Mandela appearing on the ABC-TV series 'Nightline', special 'Ted Koppel in South Africa'. Credit: American Broadcasting Companies

Luxembourg's foreign minister stating the obvious!

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Churches (mosques, temples, cults, etc) are NGOs in China. You have to register. Keep records, report, and file tax returns and otherwise follow regulations. You don't, you will be shut down like a prostitution or a gambling joint. (Yes, there are plenty brothels and casinos operating in China, as are there "underground churches". At some point their time expires.) China is not the US where cults are free to poison society. And that's a good thing. Otherwise you are free to pray and practice your religion. Nobody cares. You are not free to subvert society with your beliefs. You want to destroy a civilization with your religion, that's what the US is for.

The Population registration Act (Act No 30 of 1950) was repealed by the South African parliament on this day in 1991. The Act required every citizen and resident to be officially classified and registered by race (White, Coloured, Bantu/Black African, and later Asian/Indian). This state-enforced classification determined where people could live, who they could marry, their job opportunities, and their civil rights.

Kane many of want it to come back. Talking about "how hard is it to carry your ID". This is exaclt what you want us to go back to under the guise of "illegal immigrants".

Passed away yesterday at 100 years old. Answered the call from Britain to fight and travelled from Jamaica to join the RAF in WW2. Gilbert Clarke.

Yesterday @DrTedros and I had a constructive and cordial teleconference to discuss concerns around xenophobia in South Africa. On the specifics of Dr Tedros tweet : • We clarified that the tragic deaths of 5 Ethiopian nationals are linked to organised crime within the Ethiopian community in SA, rather than xenophobic violence • Regarding Mozambican nationals, we noted that reports of 5 deaths are inaccurate at least 2 have been confirmed, and SAPS is investigating these murders with the utmost seriousness We made it clear that these incidents do not reflect the values or position of the South African Government. Those responsible will face the full force of the law, as will anyone exploiting migration concerns to advance political, personal, or criminal agendas. We also acknowledged that irregular migration is a real challenge for SA one that must be managed humanely and within the framework of the law. We further agreed that addressing the challenges of migration in South Africa is a collective responsibility in the African Continent that needs to adress the root causes of the challenge including the push and pull factors.

Greenland is now asking Trump to invade, hoping to secure a deal similar to the one Iran got.