🚨BREAKING: Ceuta locals are now tracking down and BLOCKING vehicles belonging to the Red Cross NGO, in order to halt their operations across the enclave
This is unprecedented. They are warning the Red Cross to leave immediately.
An uprising has begun in Ceuta. 🇪🇸
The United States Mission to Belgium condemns, in the strongest terms, Ghent University’s retaliation against an American scholar following his accurate whistleblower reporting on academic fraud.
The United States government regularly funds and supports research, academic exchanges, and other engagements with overseas universities. Dishonest, corrupt institutions that engage in, or reward, scapegoating mob behavior are not desirable partners for us. This is particularly true where the purpose and effect of the scapegoating is to punish accurate journalism unearthing academic dishonesty. We are therefore reviewing any relationships we have with Ghent University.
Bad-faith idealogues will try to make this a referendum on the content of Cofnas’s scholarship – or polemical distortions of it. That’s wrong. Free speech means that controversial views are protected. And Cofnas’s views were known to Ghent University when he was hired.
The ultimate purpose of freedom of speech is to overturn lies, fraud, and false ideologies. This is precisely what Cofnas was doing, and precisely the reason his home institution wants to silence him.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Zeer verontrust en diep beschaamd over mijn alma mater @ugent. Dit is niet langer de universiteit van het vrije denken, van 'durf denken', waar generaties studenten bevrijd werden van hun intellectuele ketenen, maar de universiteit van het verstikkende deugdelijke denken.
I was just suspended by Ghent University. They will almost certainly fire me.
The decision was made by rector Petra De Sutter, a former leader of the Green Party.
Six months in America as refugees from South Africa.
We are still here—still working and still grateful for the chance to call America our new home. Each day, as I drive along quiet country roads, I’m struck by the country’s sense of order. People care. Roads are maintained, improved, and expanded, and progress is visible every day. Properties are kept with obvious pride: lawns are mowed, leaves are cleared, and flowers fill the beds. Mail arrives at the house, packages are left at the front door, and American flags fly from porches because people are proud of their country.
I am slowly adjusting to life without six-foot fences, solid walls, or electric wiring. “Beware of the dog” signs are rare. Cars and bakkies sit outside overnight, and children walk through the woods simply because they can. I no longer experience the daily ritual at every traffic light—the woman with a child asking for money, the man selling phone chargers, license-disc holders, or black bags. That constant pressure is gone.
I still lock the apartment door. I still check my surroundings at the shops, and the sounds of the 4th of July had my nerves on edge. The old, grinding anxiety is fading, though but not erased- just quieter.
Soon, we will move a little farther north for a new role in the company and the next chapter of our lives. The outlook is strong and improving. America is giving us more than a place to call home; it is restoring our hope and the joy of living. It is a truly remarkable place.
Thank you, America, and @POTUS@realDonaldTrump
Aujourd’hui, c’était la course du Palio de Sienne. J’adore ces traditions locales qui perdurent dans toute l’Europe. J’espère toutes les voir au moins une fois dans ma vie.