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[ELENB @ElllyLilly]

@TRobinsonNewEra Which wickedness did this policeman commit? Why did that statement grieved him so much?

[BanksyCat @Banksycat]

I'm warning you now. This is a hard listen.

The police weren't the rescue. Survivors say they were the PREDATORS. The HUNTERS. The ones these children needed saving from.

So who protects you when the people with the BADGE are the ones in the room?

@officialsammyuk describes what some of them called cop nights. Officers taking TURNS with the children, she says. Then handing them back to the gangs like nothing happened. A reward for looking the other way.

Watch her say it. Watch the interviewer go silent, because even he couldn't take in what he was hearing.

If the people meant to save these children were hunting them, who was ever coming?

Nobody. That's the answer and it doesn't leave you.

This was a town where 1,400 children were abused. And it wasn't one bad officer. Now listen to what survivors have told the BBC.

One says she was raped from the age of 12 in a marked police car, by a uniformed officer, who told her he'd hand her straight back to the gang if she didn't comply. She said being raped once by a copper was easier than being raped by 15 or 20 men in a night and he knew it.

She named him, she says. He was never arrested. He died on restricted duties before anyone laid a hand on him.

Another, abused by hundreds of men over five years from the age of 11, says she was hunted down by an officer who knew where she'd be, who demanded sex or raped her in the back of the car, and threatened to call the gang himself if she refused.

One survivor says she was forced into an illegal abortion, the officer who abused her then sat across from her and conducted her police interview.

The uniform she was taught her whole life meant safety. For her, it was the trap.

Now look at how high it goes. The watchdog upheld a complaint that the force gave the gang's ringleader a NO ARREST deal, after he abducted a pregnant 14 year old girl. The court heard that some officers passed him drugs. Passed him information. The very people meant to catch him.

Then look at what they did with their own. Eight years. Ninety one investigations. The watchdog found the force fundamentally failed to protect these children. Forty three complaints upheld. Gross misconduct found.

Not one officer lost their job. Not one was charged. Seven were quietly allowed to retire before they could even face a hearing. A former investigator called it, at best a reputational cover up, at worst outright corruption.

The same force is investigating its own former officers. Marking its own homework. The woman who led the original inquiry says she's shocked they're allowed to.

This is the bit that gets me.

That eight year investigation, the one that was meant to find all this, never uncovered the alleged police rapes at all. It took the survivors own lawyers, years later, dragging it out case by case, to force it into the light. The official inquiry looked straight at it and missed it.

So what you've just read is only what slipped out. Only what they couldn't bury. Because how does a child report the police, to the police?

The ones we know about are the ones who got out and were finally believed. For every one of them, there are the ones who never could say a word. Because the people they were meant to run to were the ones some of them needed saving from.

They had one job. Protect the children and the ones who did this put on the uniform and did the opposite.

Nobody was coming and don't tell yourself this is the past.

It's still happening, right now, today, in towns all over this country. Nothing has changed.

Grooming and abuse don't belong to one colour or one faith. White, black, any background, evil hides everywhere.

But that's not the scandal. The scandal is that the machine built to stop it, the police, the councils, the people we pay and trust to protect our children, can rot from the bottom to the very top and close ranks to protect itself.

Until we tear it out by the root and start again, it will keep happening. To somebody's daughter. To somebody's son.

While the people who were meant to come, never do.

[BanksyCat @Banksycat]

A 17 year old girl offered a lad a lift. That's it. That's her whole crime. Being kind. He got in. Then three more climbed in after him.

FOR SIX HOURS, police say, they raped her. Over and over. Driving her round Sydney in her own car like she was a thing, not a child.

Then they dumped her back in the driver's seat and walked off like they'd done nothing. She's SEVENTEEN and she has to live with this for the rest of her life.

That's one of them being marched out of a house in cuffs. The only one of the four old enough to be named. The rest hide behind their age. They were 14, 16 and 18.

Listen to the family screaming at the police. Why are you arresting him. Why him. Shut your mouth, don't say a word. Not one of them screaming for her.

Here's what police say happened, because it's worse than people know.

Half five on a Sunday. Liverpool Westfield, southwest Sydney. A 16 year old she'd never met starts chatting, all friendly, follows her to her car and talks his way in and while he's allegedly attacking her, police say he's on a video call to the others. Filming it. Sending it round. Calling them in.

So no, this wasn't something that just got out of hand. They were watching, allegedly, before they even turned up.

He asks for a lift to a park. She says yes, thinking he'll get out when they arrive. He doesn't. Two more are waiting. A fourth pulls up in another car. And then, police allege, they took control of her own car and drove her round the suburbs while it carried on.

The detective leading the case didn't hold back. She said it beggars belief that men would act this way over six hours and then the line that sticks. In all those six hours, not one of them stopped and said to the others, this is wrong. Not once.

Six hours. Till half eleven at night, when they allegedly left her in the car and walked off. She rang a mate, who drove her to the police station and this is the part that should make people sit up.

That girl, after all of that, gave police a detailed statement over several days. The detective called it the strength of the victim. She is the reason they had the evidence at all. She handed them the case.

Look at the charges if you think it's being overblown.

The 16 year old on his own faces 24 of them. Nine counts of sexual intercourse without consent. The 14 year old, ten more.

A dedicated unit, Strike Force Dungannon, was set up to chase it down and they didn't rush it for a headline. They waited SIX MONTHS to arrest the two older ones, quietly building the case so it would hold.

The moment they knew they could throw the book at them, they moved. When they did, they needed the riot squad to get them out of the houses and none of it happened last week. This was December 2024.

That girl has carried it for over a year already. And it's only grinding through court now, in 2026. Still going. Still not done. She's still waiting.

She was kind for thirty seconds. They took six hours and the rest of her life for it. Four of them. One girl and over a year on, she's STILL waiting for justice to catch up.

That's the world we're handing our daughters.

So remember her. Because the system already wants you to forget and ask yourself what kind of country leaves a child waiting this long.

[Holy Bible @Holy__Bible1]

25 Names of God.

[Esegbona Luis @esegbonaluis]

Breaking News 🥹🥹❤️🚨🚨🙏

Astronaut Reid Wiseman says he has CONVERTED to Christianity after his trip to moon.

"There is no other explanation for what I saw and experienced. When we landed back on earth, I saw the cross and just wept."

Truth be told if you look at everything and still don’t believe in God the creator then it’s crazy . You think everything just happened ?

Moral lesson : Welcome to Christianity . Jesus Christ is king

[Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 @TRobinsonNewEra]

Pastor Steve Maile, Watford, Herts, handcuffed and taken away by a trio of police officers yesterday.

His crime?

Preaching The Gospel!

Only Christians are treat like this.

An absolute disgrace!

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

In ancient times, the city of Thonis-Heracleion, known in modern tiles as the lost kingdom of Cleopatra served as a gateway to Egypt. Today, this mysterious legendary city is submerged in Egypt’s Aboukir Bay, near Alexandria, Egypt 🇪🇬

Why the city sank remains a mystery, but it was swallowed by the Mediterranean Sea and has been buried in sand and mud for more than 1200 years... New amazing underwater discoveries allow archeologists to piece together clues and to create an image of what life was like in the ancient city. Known as Heracleion to the ancient Greeks and Thonis to the ancient Egyptians the city was rediscovered in 2000 by French underwater archaeologist  Dr. Franck Goddio and a team from the European Institute for Underwater Acheology (IEASM) after a four-year geophysical survey. “Prior to its discovery in 2000 by the IEASM, no trace of Thonis-Heracleion had been found.

Its name was almost razed from the memory of mankind, only preserved in ancient classic texts and rare inscriptions found on land by archaeologists. Greek historian Herodotus (5th Century BC) tells us of a great temple that was built where the famous hero Herakles first set foot on to Egypt. He also reports of Helen’s visit to Heracleion with her lover Paris before the Trojan War. More than four centuries after Herodotus’ visit to Egypt, the geographer Strabo observed that the city of Heracleion, which possessed the temple of Herakles, is located straight to the east of Canopus at the mouth of the Canopic branch of the River Nile,” Dr. Frank Goddio writes on his website. As we have previously seen in our article Lost Kingdom Of Cleopatra – An Amazing Egyptian Underwater City scientists believe that the entire city was completely submerged, along with all the artifacts, statues, columns and other beauties of the palace of Cleopatra.

Several of the submerged artifacts remained largely intact. Amongst the discoveries were the foundations of the palace, shipwrecks, red granite columns, and statues of the goddess Isis and a sphinx. Among the massive limestone blocks toppled in the fourth century was a huge quartzite block with an engraving of a pharaoh. An inscription indicates it depicts Seti I, father of Ramses II. Divers also discovered a colossal stone head believed to be of Caesarion, son of Cleopatra and previous lover Julius Caesar, and two sphinxes, one of them probably representing Cleopatra’s father, Ptolemy XII. Researchers believe that the city was a central area used as a customs hub where trade coming from Greece and other places in the Mediterranean entered Egypt.

“The site has amazing preservation. We are now starting to look at some of the more interesting areas within it to try to understand life there,” said Dr. Damian Robinson, who is working on the site and is director of the Oxford Center for Maritime Archaeology at the University of Oxford.

“We are getting a rich picture of things like the trade that was going on there and the nature of the maritime economy in the Egyptian late period. There were things that were coming in from Greece and the Phoenicians.”

“It is a major city we are excavating,” Robinson said.

Everyone who finds underwater archeology a fascinating subject can now look forward to Dr. Giddo’s new documentary that will highlight the major discoveries that have been unearthed at Thonis-Heracleion during a 13-year excavation.

📷 : French Marine archaeologist Frank Goddio explains text on the stele of Heracleion on a barge in an Alexandria naval base June 7, 2001.

#archaeohistories

[Pastor John Hagee @PastorJohnHagee]

STOP speaking fear and START speaking FAITH! You're not just anyone - you're a CHILD OF GOD with mountain-moving authority! When you align your words with pure faith, God honors it every time. Your speech determines your destiny, so choose wisely!

[Lakewood Church @lakewoodchurch]

You’re about to see a breakthrough, a turnaround, the freedom, the provision, where God says, “Let the party begin!”

Let The Party Begin by Joel Osteen

[Joel Osteen @JoelOsteen]

When trouble comes, instead of being upset, have a new perspective. That trouble looks like a setback, but really it’s setting you up to come out with twice what you had before: twice the joy, twice the resources, twice the influence, twice the fulfillment.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: Benson Kipruto and Hellen Obiri, both runners from Kenya, won the men’s and women’s races at the New York City Marathon. Marcel Hug and Susannah Scaroni were the wheelchair champions. See photos and live updates. https://t.co/Cet7Ptjv16

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

My British grandmother, Cora Amelia Robinson, was an important part of my childhood. She was very strict, but also kind and I could always count on her.

She grew up very poor in England during the Great Depression only to be bombed in WW2. To earn money for food, she cleaned houses, leaving me with a lasting respect for those who do so.

My Nana was one of the poor working-class girls with no one to protect her who might have been abducted in present day Britain.

[MASHAV Israel @MASHAVisrael]

Jerusalem, @IsraelMFA headquarters

#BringThemAllHomeNow🎗️

📷@ArnonBossani

[MASHAV Israel @MASHAVisrael]

We were happy to host delegates from Israel’s National Defense College at @MASHAVisrael's International Agricultural Training Center @MATCShefayim. We presented our worldwide projects and activities and discussed the importance and impact of agriculture to sustainable development

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

Doctors at a hospital in Texas informed George Pickering that his son was in a state of brain death. They explained that his son showed "no brain activity" and the decision had been made to remove life support.

Pickering, however, was unconvinced by their assessment and resorted to extreme measures by drawing a firearm. He demanded that the doctors continue their efforts to save his son's life, threatening to use the gun if they refused.

This situation escalated into a tense standoff lasting three hours, during which Pickering faced off against the police while the medical team performed additional tests on his son.

The hospital was secured under lockdown as police negotiators tried to reason with Pickering, who remained adamant. In a pivotal moment, Pickering's son, previously declared braindead, responded to his father's request to squeeze his hand, indicating cognitive presence. Following this revelation, Pickering peacefully surrendered to the authorities.

George Pickering II subsequently served a prison sentence of 11 months. Remarkably, his son experienced a complete recovery.

[ELENB @ElllyLilly]

Ethiopia becomes Africa's latest sovereign default https://t.co/kebwbM90Vq

[ELENB @ElllyLilly]

https://t.co/H4wBy8va7l

[Ifakara Health Institute @ifakarahealth]

💧WATER QUALITY:
Scientists say, in Tanzania it’s “safe today, unsafe tomorrow” 🚱

After examining stored drinking water quality in Tanzanian households and finding variability, scientists @ifakarahealth, @NCState and @Stanford say this might affect estimates of population level access to safe drinking water 🚰, particularly in peri-urban settings. 🏡🔍

Dr. Mwifadhi Mrisho, a research scientist @ifakarahealth, Tanzania and colleagues - Angela Harris, Sean Daly, Amy Pickering, Michael Harris and Jennifer Davis from United States – make the revelation in their new publication on the Environmental Science & Technology journal on Nov. 3, 2023.

The scientists investigated a total of 193 households in peri-urban Tanzania to assess variability in stored water quality and to characterize uncertainty with different data collection schemes. 📊

>>https://t.co/sXEYP7RAqN
>> #IFAKARAnews