ZA-based ⚡ | Prone to random outbursts | Skeptical of scapegoats, bad leaders & Big brother | Climate Change pragmatist | Liverpool pain enjoyer |
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I enjoyed it but if I’m honest, I only went to see it, to check if the Palestine reference was legit
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Peter Parker⚡ retweeted
I've really been thinking about the past few years. 7.11M dead from COVID, 100k mass killed in Palestine, 1.6M dead in Russia and Ukraine, 400K dead in Sudan. Just nonstop misery. Cold beer on a Friday night.
It’s called thermal runway. It’s when cells inside lithium-ion batteries (the stuff in our e-bikes, EV’s and e-scooters etc.) degrade rapidly burning one battery cell after the other.
This creates large amounts of heat inside a tightly sealed battery pack causing an explosion
An Oregon family’s home was burnt down in minutes after an e-bike battery exploded. Six people escaped before flames engulfed the home, according to local news.
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Peter Parker⚡ retweeted
🇵🇸🔴After shooting dead a 14-year-old and wounding two other teenagers in the occupied West Bank on Monday, the Israeli military is claiming, without evidence, that the teenagers needed to be “neutralized” because they "intended to throw stones." Israel did not claim any stone was thrown.
Israeli forces killed Moataz Iyad Daghlas, 14, in Burqa, northwest of Nablus, on Monday evening, and wounded a 17-year-old in the abdomen and pelvis and a 19-year-old in the hand, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.
Soldiers blocked ambulances from reaching Moataz and briefly detained three Red Crescent paramedics, WAFA reported. Israel is withholding his body and detained his father.
The Israeli military called those it shot "terrorists" who "intended to throw stones" at a road used by Israeli vehicles, and said its forces "responded with gunfire to neutralize the threat." The road is in the illegally occupied West Bank. Israel did not explain or give any evidence for how it determined the teenagers intended to throw stones.
I hate this coalition nonsense. I never voted for Gayton McKenzie, yet he gets to spend our tax money on World Cup trips and concerts while athletes representing South Africa struggle to even afford to compete. It’s an absolute disgrace.
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Peter Parker⚡ retweeted
The Auditor-General of South Africa yesterday reported that the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture's irregular expenditure increased from R10 million to R67 million over the past financial year, alongside historical misreporting that required retroactive adjustments. Total unresolved irregular or wasteful funds across portfolio entities have been flagged at roughly R800 million.
How much more time does Minister McKenzie need to set things right in his department? For now, it rather looks as if matters are moving in the wrong direction!
Peter Parker⚡ retweeted
Tatjana Smith gets failed by Swimming SA, and she has a Dutch passport to fall back on.
Onthatile Zulu had to beg for hockey funding while R31m went on a FIFA World Cup trip. She has no Netherlands to switch to.
Same system failing both. Only one has an exit. 🇿🇦
Guys, is there actually a law stopping us from starting an AI political party? At this point, why not just replace politicians with AI? Let it manage budgets, make decisions based on actual data and show us where every rand goes
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I’m lucky to have dual citizenship, but I can’t see myself leaving SA. I’m an English-speaking Indian South African. I could live in Italy, but I’d never be accepted. SA isn’t perfect, and belonging here is complicated, but nowhere else would feel like home that’s for sure
Peter Parker⚡ retweeted
Zionism and Afrikaner nationalism.
The two evils we have to live with.
@kalliekriel
I have a genuine concern that the US may be pursuing regime change in SA. Whatever our political differences, the last thing this country needs is a return to apartheid-era inequality, racial exclusion & political patronage under the guise of protecting “persecuted minorities.”
Here’s the notice of funding opportunity put out by the state dept for a grant titled “documentation of hateful rhetoric targeting minority populations in South Africa”.
Anticipated to be around $986500 or over 16 million Rand. It aligns with the propublica report below.
#sabcnews
This is how they fund the removal of your sovereignty. Our lackadaisical government needs to act soon
Here’s the notice of funding opportunity put out by the state dept for a grant titled “documentation of hateful rhetoric targeting minority populations in South Africa”.
Anticipated to be around $986500 or over 16 million Rand. It aligns with the propublica report below.
#sabcnews
ActionSA and the DA literally share some of the same major donors. Whether ActionSA or the DA ends up governing Johannesburg, it hardly matters. Either way, the donors win. The optics are just for you and me, entertainment
FYI: The DA and ActionSA share some of the same major donors.
Martin Moshal: R30m to the DA, R42.5m to ActionSA.
Jessica Slack Jell: R2m to the DA, R8m to ActionSA.
These are publicly disclosed donations. Don’t fall for the discourse
“It’s a privilege to grow old”, I say to myself, as I reflect on all those that we’ve lost along the way
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Peter Parker⚡ retweeted
CAPITALISM: If you don’t like your job, you can just get a new one.
ME: Ok, I want a new job
CAPITALISM: Oh sorry, it’s the time every six years where the entire Economy has to collapse so rich people can loot it. Have you considered begging in the street for Scraps ?
Peter Parker⚡ retweeted
Call for Submission: SAHRC Western Cape Provincial Inquiry into the Progressive Realisation of the Right to have Access to Adequate Housing sahrc.org.za/index.php/sahrc…
