URGENT CALL TO ACTION: Comprehensive Appeal to Address the Human Rights Crisis and Atrocities in the Democratic Republic of Congo.🇨🇩
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📌CRITICAL HUMAN RIGHTS ALERT: Immediate, concerted international intervention is urgently required to address the escalating crisis of systematic torture, ethnic violence, sexual abuse, and war crimes unfolding across the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).🇨🇩
Comprehensive Overview of the Crisis
🔖Recent documentation reveals a deeply alarming escalation of violence and severe violations of international human rights and humanitarian law. The current climate in the DRC is characterized by widespread impunity, systemic attacks on civilians, and the explicit targeting of vulnerable communities.
🔖Ethnic Targeting and Persecution: Civilians belonging to specific minority groups, most notably the Banyamulenge Tutsi community, face severe peril, arbitrary displacement, and targeted persecution based entirely on their ethnic origin.
🔖Perpetrators of Atrocities: Grave violations, including summary executions, horrific acts of torture, and systemic sexual violence against women and children, are being perpetrated by elements of the national armed forces (FARDC), allied Wazalendo militias, and foreign armed groups such as the FDLR.
🔖Systemic Breakdown in Urban and Remote Areas: While high-profile incidents and police abuses occurring in plain sight within major centers like Kinshasa demonstrate a profound collapse of institutional protection and law enforcement oversight, the humanitarian situation in remote eastern provinces remains catastrophic and critically underreported.
🔖📌Expanded Key Demands for International Watchdogs and Global Leaders.
🔖To halt this spiral of violence and protect civilian lives, international stakeholders must immediately enact the following measures:
🔖Mandatory and Comprehensive Sanctions: Demand that all individuals involved in planning, ordering, facilitating, or committing these grave violations, regardless of their military rank, political office, or militia affiliation, be immediately subjected to targeted international sanctions, asset freezes, and travel bans.
🔖Strict Accountability for Regional Authorities: Hold political and military leadership, including DRC President Félix Tshisekedi and Burundi President Évariste Ndayishimiye, directly accountable for the actions of state security forces and allied armed groups under their sphere of influence.
🔖Emergency International Investigations: Call upon organizations such as Human Rights Watch and United Nations human rights mechanisms to immediately deploy emergency investigative missions to document ongoing atrocities, secure evidence of war crimes, and track arbitrary detentions.
🔖Bilateral and Multilateral Diplomatic Pressure: Urge key international partners, including the U.S. Department of State (specifically leveraging diplomatic channels through figures like Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs and Secretary of State Marco Rubio) and the European Union External Action Service, to immediately review and suspend security assistance to implicated military units.
🔖URGENT: Grave human rights violations, acts of torture, and systemic sexual violence are rapidly escalating in the DRC under President Tshisekedi’s leadership. Documented evidence confirms horrific abuses committed by the FARDC, Wazalendo militias, and the FDLR, actively targeting civilians, including the Banyamulenge Tutsi, based on ethnic origin.
🔖To stop this catastrophic bloodshed, all individuals, commanders, and political actors involved in these war crimes must be sanctioned accordingly without delay.
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Gasspeicher halb leer, so niedrig war der Stand zu dieser Jahreszeit noch nie. Höhere Gaspreise drohen, die Regierung gefährdet mit ihrer verfehlten Politk die Versorgungssicherheit. Die AfD wird diese energiepolitische Geisterfahrt beenden! https://t.co/1sOwVaLnbl
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🇸🇪 Sverige har Europas mest framgångsrika kapitalmarknad och kan stoltsera med en närmast unik spar- och aktiekultur.
Den särställning som vi byggt upp under de senaste 50 åren bör vi vårda. Kan vara klokt att ha i åtanke i dessa valtider när det pratas mycket om höjda skatter, inte minst på sparande och investeringar. Vårt ekosystem och den goda riskviljan bidrar till tillväxt, sysselsättning och allas vår välfärd. Att rasera de förutsättningarna skulle i förlängningen riskera att göra oss till ett fattigare land.
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Socialdemokraterna vill alltså återinföra bygglov på attefallshus eller tillbyggnad på 30m2. Tillåtelse att få bygga med egna pengar på din egen tomt. Hjärndött. Rösta rätt - rösta höger
It has been 50 years since this photo was taken. Palestinian terrorists invaded the Lebanese Christian town of Damour and massacred 582 Christian civilians.
It was an apocalypse, said a priest who survived the massacre.
“They were coming in thousands, shouting ‘Allahu Akbar! Let us attack them for the Arabs, let us offer a holocaust to Mohammad.’
They were slaughtering everyone, men, women and children.”
Men were lined up against the walls of their homes and gunned down.
Women were tortured and gang-raped.
Babies were shot in the back of the head.
Pregnant women had their babies cut out of the womb.
Just one of the many massacres committed against Christians by Palestinians. This is how Muslims became the majority in Lebanon.
I was a bricklayer.
It was how I paid the bills when I first moved to America. Even the biggest title in bodybuilding, Mr. Olympia, only paid a thousand dollars back then.
It makes me proud that in March, the winner of our Arnold Classic and our Arnold Classic UK took home more than a million dollars. He can focus on bodybuilding.
But in our day, that wasn’t an option. Some guys were teachers. Some sold insurance. Franco and I laid bricks.
We put an ad in the paper and sold ourselves as European craftsmen. We figured if people heard the accents, they would picture old-world masonry instead of two bodybuilders with a wheelbarrow.
It worked.
The phone rang. And then we had to go out and actually do the job, which was the part nobody could fake. Luckily, Franco knew what he was doing.
The work was simple. Mix the mortar. Set the brick. Tap it level. Scrape the edge. Then do it again. And again. Nobody claps for you. There is no crowd, no music, no trophy. There is just the next brick sitting there waiting for you.
You can still find some of the walls we built in Venice.
That’s where my lesson today comes from.
One brick doesn’t look like anything. Ten bricks don’t look like anything. A hundred bricks, you’re starting to see something, but it doesn’t impress anyone.
You just keep laying bricks until the job is done.
And you know what happens after four or five hours on a wall?
You are so damn tired, or you feel so great that you stop measuring.
You are not standing back every ten minutes asking how far from finished it is. You are covered in mortar, your hands are raw, you’re schvitzing, and you are happy. The work took the question away from you.
That is the part nobody tells you about hard work: It doesn’t just build the wall. It terminates the voice that keeps asking when the wall will be done.
You can repeat the same one. I’d encourage progressing your weights, but I love people who repeat programs. The idea you always need a new program goes against my entire training history.