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It is our duty to keep them safe - keep tracking and talking about these many, many brave volunteers. When governments fail, people rise 👇🏻 #GlobalSumudFilotilla
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Shame on the world.
🚨 BREAKING: Torrential winter rains are flooding the makeshift tents sheltering displaced Palestinian families across the Gaza Strip. Families are watching their few remaining belongings drown in floodwater as rain pours down on their already fragile shelters.
This is the FOURTH consecutive winter that Palestinians in Gaza have been forced to endure in tents after Israel destroyed more than 80% of buildings across the Strip, leaving hundreds of thousands homeless.
Conditions are catastrophic. Families are exposed to flooding, freezing temperatures and relentless rain, with no adequate shelter and nowhere to go.
AND WINTER HAS ONLY JUST BEGUN‼️
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Tonight, a mosque hosted a Shabbat against genocide. Jews, Muslims and people of different backgrounds standing together for Palestine and humanity. This is who we are in South Africa.
@SAJFP_
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We're building a world of waste. The Bantar Gebang landfill outside of Jakarta alone stretches across 200 football fields.
It's time to move beyond linear systems to ones that are truly circular in nature: buff.ly/p7Y0ANm
#Useless #wasteless #buyless #gocircular
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There is no longer any meaningful media coverage of what is happening in Gaza! After Israel deliberately killed journalists and destroyed most media institutions and news channels, the truth has been silenced, and reporting what is happening here has become an extremely dangerous task, almost impossible to carry out.
We are trying, with every ounce of strength we have, to bring the world the reality of what we endure every single day: bombardment, targeted attacks, displacement, starvation, and horrific massacres. We are trying to document what is happening and keep Gaza's voice alive, despite the enormous dangers surrounding us،
But the most terrifying reality is that we now fear for our lives simply for filming what is happening, publishing a news report, or exposing a crime to the world! We no longer fear bombardment alone; we have also come to fear that telling the truth itself could cost us our lives،
Only a few of us remain, still trying to make Gaza's voice heard around the world. That is why we urgently appeal to you: please do not abandon us. Share our social media accounts as widely as possible.
These accounts are not merely social media pages; they are our last remaining voices and our only window through which we can show the world the killing, destruction, starvation, massacres, and genocide we are enduring.
DO NOT ALLOW OUR VOICES TO BE SILENCED. DO NOT LET THE TRUTH BE BURIED ALONGSIDE THOSE WHO RISK THEIR LIVES TO REPORT IT. HELP US MAKE GAZA'S VOICE HEARD AROUND THE WORLD BEFORE WE LOSE THE LAST PLATFORMS WE HAVE TO SPEAK ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING.
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I've been going through the DTIC response to Washington's AGOA decision, and honestly, some of these figures put the whole debate into perspective.
Did you know that in 2025, approximately 89% of South African exports to the US entered under ordinary WTO Most-Favoured-Nation terms? Only about 10% entered under AGOA, valued at roughly $1.7 billion, down from $4 billion in 2024.
And here's what makes this interesting: AGOA exports represented just 1% of South Africa's total global exports. 😒
Now, I'm not suggesting that losing AGOA won't hurt, particularly for affected farmers, manufacturers and workers. But can we please stop talking as though South Africa's entire economy is going to collapse on 1 January 2027? 😭
We're talking about a serious challenge for certain industries, not the end of the Republic!
And while we're discussing economic dependence, can we also talk about what America gets from its relationship with South Africa? According to the DTIC, South Africa supplies 12 of the 50 minerals the US considers critical to its industries. The department also says we supply approximately 70% of certain US medical isotopes used in cancer treatment. Then there are the more than 600 American companies operating in South Africa, supporting approximately 134,600 local jobs.
So this idea that AGOA is some charitable favour Washington bestows upon helpless South Africans is rather amusing. 😂
Trade relationships involve mutual interests, darlings. America has economic interests here too! 💅
But something else in the DTIC statement caught my attention. Minister Parks Tau says South Africa spent months negotiating with Washington, offering additional concessions while trying to respect our biosecurity requirements, WTO obligations and constitutional responsibilities.
Yet, according to the department, the US subsequently introduced new issues that hadn't formed part of the negotiations that began in 2025.👀👀👀👀👀
And this is where the DTIC's Butterfly Strategy becomes interesting. South Africa is pursuing additional export opportunities across the African Continental Free Trade Area, SADC, India, the EU, UK, ASEAN, MERCOSUR and China. Which is exactly what economic diversification should look like.
Not abandoning America. Not becoming dependent on China. Not imagining BRICS will magically solve every economic problem.
But building relationships across multiple markets so that no single trading partner has disproportionate influence over our economic future.
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Yep. I just hate that the South African operation has been so daft and clumsy. Like they specifically searched for the dumbest. They didn't even pretend to space out the posts and make it seem organic. Just mindless shit spewing out of a burst sewer all at once.
Huge news! For 3 years @SohanDsouza & I have investigated a covert paid ad campaign pushing anti-Muslim, anti-migrant & anti-Qatar hate speech across Europe, Lebanon & the US.
Today we publish Manufacturing the “Great Replacement”: 533M recorded exposures in 30 countries.
1/25
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Hello South Africa......"foreign interference through digital platforms."
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This anti-islam narrative is sponsored by the same people who sponsor the anti-immigration gig.
Remember the end goal. "The internal fragmentation of Africa. Starting with South Africa."
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Excellent piece. The media in SA focused on BEE when it came to Starlink. Here's why SA should never allow Starlink.
Before South Africa licenses Starlink, it should look at Ukraine techcentral.co.za/south-afri…
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TOM EATON | Common Sense would tell you Starlink is a Trojan horse timeslive.co.za/opinion/2026…
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And what do they mean Muslims are "forcing halal down their throats?" Who is forcing them? And why are they opening their throats? South Africans should not tolerate this bullshit. We should not be bullied and manipulated. We should not acquiesce to right wing America and Zionist talking points. It's not too late to reclaim our aspirational values. Handing over the country to the most banal and racist elements in the global political order should not be on the table. We have not had this particular problem in RSA. It is manufactured and imported.
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Isn't it interesting, all these videos of people we've never heard of, whose work is unknown, with no public archive or commentary on any issue, SUDDENLY appearing at the same time to bitch about Islam and halal food. In South Africa? In 2026? In the year of a local government election, suddenly mainly Black influencers and bots with black faces are recording Islamophobic commentary. For a fee no doubt. Who benefits from this? I hope @GovernmentZA is REALLY sharpening its lens on disinformation and paid campaigns. Deliberate manufacturing of religious and tribal hostility is a matter of national importance.
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THIS IS A LIE. FAKE NEWS.
France isn’t burning because of immigrants.
The protests began with FRENCH STUDENTS furious over crumbling schools, overcrowded classrooms and teacher shortages—and exploded as French citizens joined them over the cost of living, wages, pensions, austerity and failing public services.
So Trump sees French citizens protesting their own government and does what he always does:
Find immigrants. Blame immigrants. Scare Americans.
He isn’t explaining what’s happening in France (because the ignorant piece of shit has no idea).
He’s exploiting it to manufacture fear 16 days before an election. Good luck!
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Prof. Jeffrey Sachs:
‘If you add up the 55 countries of the African Union, that’s around 1.5 billion people, same size as India🇮🇳 and China🇨🇳.
The big difference is the imperial powers divided Africa…they HAVE TO unite. As 55 countries you can’t make it, but as ONE African continental economy, you can.’
‘Look at what China did, follow that model.’
Former Economic Hit Man John Perkins explains how Trump PERFECTED being too big to fail, and why Africa and Latin America should replicate his strategy:
‘Trump certainly was extremely successful at being too big to fail. He borrowed so much money from these banks, particularly Deutsche Bank and others, that they couldn’t allow him to fail…
Because then they would probably go bankrupt, or at least their books would look very, very red, and they’d have mud on their face.
So this whole idea of if you borrow so much that the lender becomes your partner and has to make sure that you don’t fail, Trump learned that very early in his real estate career, and he’s been practising it.
Could this serve as an example for countries in Africa, Latin America, and other parts of the world? It could, I think, but only if they all unite.
Because the problem is that this pillar of divide and conquer is so strong that if one country, let’s say Nigeria, tried to do this, then the pressure would be put on all the people, corporations working in Nigeria to stop working in Nigeria and move to one of the neighbouring countries in Africa that had very similar resources.
So the way for it to work would have to be for all of these neighbouring countries to come together and decide that they’re all going to take a similar stand, and use the Trump model to be too big to fail.’
Watch the full interview in the quoted post below 👇
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If one billionaire can slow down the internet for an entire country, shut down Starlink during crises, turn off your car and your wifi, and censoring voices online, that billionaire has way too much power, with no capability of accountability. The definition of power, unchecked.
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“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.” — George Orwell, 1984
Defense contractors & their powerful lobby will never be satisfied with simply aiding the U.S. in building a strong military that is prepared for war.
The nature of the industry’s existence is not patriotism, but endless conflict. War is their business model—a perpetual state of war ensures a perpetual demand for their products.
Until we address this issue, we will continue to be subjected to forever wars that only serve the defense contractors—and the warmongering interests wealthy enough to rent the defense contractors.
Stop spilling American blood for profit.
