ZA-based ⚡ | Prone to random outbursts | Skeptical of scapegoats, bad leaders & Big brother | Climate Change pragmatist | Liverpool pain enjoyer |
Cape Town, South Africa
Joined October 2011
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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.
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.
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. 🇿🇦
Peter Parker⚡ retweeted
Zionism and Afrikaner nationalism.
The two evils we have to live with.
@kalliekriel
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…
Peter Parker⚡ retweeted
“It was a joke.
We’re good guys.
We’re going to kill Palestinians next month!”
Insane lack of self awareness
Peter Parker⚡ retweeted
A Palestinian man stands helplessly in knee-deep floodwaters as filthy water engulfs the tents of displaced families in Gaza, leaving people who have already lost everything with nowhere dry to sleep.
The video below, shared by Palestinian journalist Ayman al-Hesi, shows a widow whose husband was killed by the Israeli army crying alone as her displacement camp is flooded.
Peter Parker⚡ retweeted
Anyone who has camped in serious rain knows how miserable it can be, especially when your attempts to keep the rain out fail. All you want is to feel dry again. When it’s cold it’s exponentially worse. When you’re with your kids, you feel awful for them as they shiver. Now imagine the tent is your forced home, the water keeps rising, and there’s nowhere to go to get dry or warm.
I admit that I completely broke down today. I cried uncontrollably. I couldn’t hold myself together after witnessing what I saw with my own eyes.
Today, we went to film a journalistic report inside the displacement tents along the seashore. I swear, what we witnessed was beyond what any human being should have to endure.
I saw men crying bitterly. Men I had never seen cry when they lost their children or when their homes were destroyed. Today, I saw them crying because they were powerless to do the simplest thing: protect their children from the water and the cold.
We spoke to families who told us they had spent the entire night carrying their children in their arms after floodwater covered the floors of their tents and soaked their mattresses. They couldn’t find a single dry place to put their children. They couldn’t even give them a few hours of sleep.
I saw children no older than five, without proper clothes to protect them from the cold, without heating, and without a dry place to sleep. Children shivering inside tents that cannot keep out the rain, protect them from the wind, or provide even the most basic sense of safety.
What more must happen for this world to act? How much more suffering must people endure before someone remembers that they are human beings?
I am sick of this world. I am sick of its hypocrisy and empty slogans. To hell with a world that talks endlessly about human rights while leaving children to drown inside their tents. To hell with everyone who has witnessed this suffering and chosen silence, and to hell with the governments and institutions that have the power to act but continue to turn their backs on us.
Peter Parker⚡ retweeted
The African National Congress set out to build a non-racial, non-sexist free democratic South Africa. As it settles into the sunset, the party of Nelson Mandela should be proud that on this one score, it has done exceedingly well. 1/
