Ashkaff

Be yourself, and don't pretend to be that you are not. Opinionated, Critic, Controversial sometimes Biased. Love everyone to live in Harmony

[Ashkaff @ashkaff]

2. She blurts out "352!" He is stunned but keeps his word and allows her to pick a sheep. "I'll take this one," she says proudly. "It's the cutest!" "Hey lady," says the shepherd, "If I guess your real hair color, can I have my dog back?""

[Ashkaff @ashkaff]

1. "Tired of constant blonde jokes, a blonde dyes her hair brown. She then goes for a drive in the country and sees a shepherd herding his sheep across the road. "Hey, shepherd, if I guess how many sheep are here, can I keep one?" The shepherd is puzzled but agrees.

[Ashkaff @ashkaff]

@EmlovesAmerica @WarClandestine Why do you call thieving China, I don't understand.

[kickoff @Trollkickoff]

🚨 Karim Benzema on why teammates admired Cristiano Ronaldo so much:

“There was one match with Real Madrid CF I will never forget.

I was having a difficult game. I had already missed two clear chances, and with every miss, I could feel my confidence dropping. In a stadium like the Bernabéu, you hear everything... the frustration, the reactions, the pressure.

Cristiano was already on two goals. He was one goal away from another hat-trick, and everyone in the stadium knew it.

Late in the second half, I made a run into the box and won a penalty.

Normally, nobody expected Cristiano to give that moment away. He was chasing another hat-trick, another record.

But instead, he walked straight to me, put the ball in my hands, and said, ‘Take it. You need this more than I do.’

For a few seconds, I just stood there looking at him.

I scored... and before anyone else reached me, Cristiano Ronaldo was the first one running toward me with a smile.

That’s when I understood why every teammate respected him so much.

People see his ambition, his hunger, his records... but inside the dressing room, we admired him because even in moments where he could choose himself... he sometimes chose his teammates first.”

[Ashkaff @ashkaff]

@EleluAyoola Sorry to hear this experience, but to be precise this is what the MSM has portrayed to the world about Africa. Yet, in this 21st century people are aught to know better only if they seek to educate themselves.

KUDOS to you and stay proud 👏

[Football Talk @FootballTalkHQ]

🗣️ Marcus Rashford's mother: “I used to say to the kids sometimes that I’d already eaten because they used to say to me: ‘Have you had yours?�� and I’d say: ‘Yeah’ but I didn’t have anything to eat.

I was just doing my best to survive. Now Marcus has provided me a home and I sit in my room sometimes and just cry. You’re thinking about where you’ve come from to where you are now.”

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇵🇸 Lamine Yamal raised the Palestinian flag during Barcelona’s La Liga title parade.

The 17-year-old superstar made the gesture as the team celebrated on the streets of Barcelona.

Yamal continues to use his platform unapologetically, and it’s clear the young phenom isn’t afraid to speak, or wave, his mind.

Big moment.

Source: @leylahamed

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

HALF A MILLION PEOPLE WERE DEFRAUDED

Imagine you are behind on your store card payments. You are already struggling. Then the bank quietly adds an extra charge on top of what you owe. Not because it costs them that much. Just because .. they can. And because they think nobody is watching.

Someone was watching.

Nicholas Wilson was a debt recovery lawyer. He goes by Mr Ethical @nw_nicholas on X. His old boss meant it as an insult. In 2003 he noticed that @HSBC subsidiary HFC Bank was adding an illegal 16.4% charge onto the debts of people who were already in financial trouble.

Store cards from John Lewis, Currys, B&Q, Dixons, PC World. Ordinary people. Struggling people. Being quietly robbed.

He told his boss it was illegal. His boss started calling him "Mr Ethical" as a joke. Then they sacked him.

He reported it to the regulators. @TheFCA ignored him for years.

When a researcher separately wrote to both HSBC and the FCA asking about the fraud...

... both wrote back with responses in the exact same wording, same punctuation, same paragraphs. The bank and the regulator were sharing the same script.

FCA's own independent Complaints Commissioner eventually investigated. He called it the worst case of regulatory failure he had ever dealt with.

FCA's response was to appoint Ruth Kelly, an HSBC director, and Baroness Hogg from John Lewis, onto its own board. The two people they were supposed to be investigating were now sitting inside the regulator.

You actually cannot make this up.

After 13 years of Wilson refusing to go away, HSBC quietly agreed to pay some money back. FCA announced 6,700 victims.

Wilson says the real number is closer to 500,000. HSBC has now set aside £223 million for repayments. No fine. No criminal charges. No one went to prison. No one was even publicly named.

Wilson has spent the last 20 years unemployable. Blacklisted. Living on state benefits. Fighting to keep his home. Someone even anonymously reported him to the DWP for benefit fraud while the actual billion pound fraud went unpunished.

The bank that robbed half a million people kept its licence.

The man who caught them lost everything.

Source: @guardian | @BBC | @PrivateEyeNews | @SundayMirror | @realmediauk | nicholaswilson com | @nw_nicholas and others.

[Dr.Amila Fernando🪬 @DrBukkabwoi]

Sri lanka is home to 380+ waterfalls and more, and we are consistently blessed by 103 river basins. And we get two main moonsoon seasons supply those rivers and waterways. Some of them are not even on the maps… this is one of them ! 👇

Can anyone guess!

[Emelia @Astridueil]

France gathered 400 Muslim scholars and beheaded them. In 1917 AD, during the occupation of Chad. In 1852, when France entered the city of Laghouat in Algeria, it killed two-thirds of its population in a single night and burned them alive.

France occupied Algeria for 132 years. In the first 7 years after their arrival, the French eliminated 1 million Muslims, and in the last 7 years before their departure, they eliminated 1.5 million Muslims. The French historian Jacques Gorky estimated that the total number of Muslims killed in Algeria from France's arrival in 1830 to its departure in 1962 was 10 million.

France occupied Tunisia for 75 years, Algeria for 132 years, Morocco for 44 years, and Mauritania for 60 years.

When France entered Egypt during its famous campaign, French soldiers on horseback entered mosques and raped free women in front of their families. They drank wine in the mosques and turned them into stables for their horses.

It is strange to see some people boasting about and defending French civilization, forgetting all its dark history. This is France; remind them of its history.

🔻 When France entered the city of Aghwat (Laghouat) in Algeria in 1852, it burned two-thirds of its inhabitants to death in just one night.

🔻 France conducted 17 nuclear tests in Algeria between 1960 and 1966, resulting in an unknown number of deaths estimated between 27,000 and 100,000 and the effects persist to this day.

🔻 When France left Algeria in 1962, it left behind 11 million landmines more than the total population of Algeria at the time.

🔻 France occupied Algeria for 132 years. In just the first seven years of their occupation, they massacred one million Muslims, and in the last seven years, they martyred another 1.5 million Muslims.

🔻 France is the fourth largest holder of gold reserves in the world, with 2,436 tons of gold stored at the Bank of France, even though France has no active gold mines.

🔻 In contrast, Mali one of the world's largest gold producers with 14 official gold mines has no gold reserves of its own.

🔻 Similarly, the Republic of Congo, which ranks seventh among gold-producing countries, also has no gold reserves in its central bank.

[Ryan Rozbiani @RyanRozbiani]

POWERFUL MOVE

🇮🇷 Iranian Tennis Player Walks Away From World Tour Final in Solidarity With Her People

Hana Shabanpour trained her entire life for a moment like this. She got there. Then she walked away.

Rather than face an Israeli opponent in the World Tennis Tour final in Turkey, she forfeited the title in solidarity with Iranian civilians killed in the war. No podium. No trophy. No hesitation.

While governments negotiate and stall, a 17-year-old made the clearest statement of the week.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Prominent Journalist Max Blumenthal confirms UK ordered a total media blackout to hide a rigged trial against Palestine Action activists.

He reveals the presiding judge is literally a former lawyer for MI6!

British justice system is completely compromised by the Zionist lobby.

[Adnan A. Husain @adnanahusain]

One part of the travesty of the Filton 6 actionists’ trial and retrial that has received less attention but is very important: Rajiv Menon, King’s Council, barrister for a member of the Filton 6, is being persecuted on a wholly unprecedented charge of contempt of court, carrying a punishment of up to two years imprisonment, for mentioning legal history and principles of law that allow juries to make independent decisions on conscience that Judge Johnson ruled out.

In the first trial’s closing statement to the jury, Menon pointed out the case that established this principle from 1670 and quoted the public plaque outside the Old Bailey (the central court in London) commemorating the case. He also reminded the jurors six times that the judge could not direct them to convict. The jury exonerated all the defendants in that first trial. Now they have been retried and convicted on some charges.

It sounds like Rajiv Menon is being punished for being extremely good at his job and for explaining the actual law relevant to the rights of the jury that this establishment judge close to the UK police and security services unethically suppressed to secure a political conviction to protect Elbit Systems. It is hard to avoid the conclusion that the Judge Johnson set up the rules and judgments precisely to engineer a conviction to circumvent the propensity of juries to acquit actionists. Then he plans to sentence them under extremely harsh terrorism laws by manipulating unjustly what jurors could know. Rajiv Menon initially disrupted that plan in the first trial. So now the judge and state are going after him.

We must support Rajiv Menon, a fantastic and principled barrister, and the actionists against the UK state’s punitive crackdown on those using democratic rights to protest and stop the Israeli arms industry from facilitating war crimes, illegal occupation and genocide. The corrupt and complicit political establishment in the UK has shown themselves willing to evacuate rights to free speech and assembly, jury trials, press freedom and a host of democratic rights for all citizens simply to protect Israel’s impunity and their own complicity in the genocide.

Support Rajiv Menon for defending pro-Palestine actionists and condemn what the UK courts and injustice system have done to jury trials and democratic rights!

[Zoom Afrika @zoomafrika1]

In only 4 years in power (1983-87), Thomas Sankara

Built 350 schools, roads, railways without foreign aid

Increased literacy rate by 60%

Banned forced marriages

Gave poor people land

Vaccinated 2.5 million kids

Planted 10 million trees

Appointed females to high governmental positions, encouraged them to work, recruited them into the military, and granted pregnancy leave during

sold off the government fleet of Mercedes cars and made the Renault 5 (the cheapest car sold in Burkina Faso at that time) the official service car of the ministers.

He reduced the salaries of all public servants, including his own, and forbade the use of government chauffeurs and 1st class airline tickets.

As President, he lowered his salary to $450 a month and limited his possessions to a car, four bikes, three guitars, a fridge and a broken freezer.

He opposed foreign aid, saying that “he who feeds you, controls you.”

Drove out French imperialism & withdrew Burkina Faso from IMF

A very productive life that was brutally cut short 💔. He was assassinated at the age of 38. Rest on son of the soil 🕊

[Sophia ❣️ @KeruboSk]

I missed the last train in Seoul once.

Phone at 3%. Didn’t speak Korean. It was raining, freezing, and I had no idea where I was supposed to go.

I tried calling an Uber but my card kept failing because of my bank fraud protection. Perfect timing.

I was standing outside the station looking completely defeated when this older woman walked up to me and started speaking Korean. I told her I didn’t understand.

She pulled out her phone translator and typed:“You are lost?”

I nodded.

She asked where I was staying, looked at the address, then motioned for me to follow her.

This woman walked me almost 15 minutes through side streets, holding her umbrella over both of us while I apologized every thirty seconds.

When we got to my hotel, I tried offering her cash for helping me.

She looked genuinely offended.

Typed into the translator again:“If my son was lost somewhere, I hope someone helps him too.”

Then she bowed and walked away in the rain before I could even process what happened.

Some places still treat strangers like human beings first.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

One of my most popular articles ever included a long extract from a powerful closing speech by barrister Rajiv Menon during a Palestine Action trial in January. In the end, the jury refused to convict the six defendants.

Menon is now on trial for that closing speech – for reminding the jury that they had a 350-year-old right in law to follow their conscience in reaching a verdict, even if it meant defying a direction from the judge to convict.

Paradoxically, Menon joked in his speech that, because of that earlier legal principle, the judge, unlike his counterpart in 1670, could not lock them, the jurors, up were they to choose to follow their consciences.

Instead, the judge is seeking to lock up the barrister. Does 2026 qualify as an improvement on 1670?

It is believed that this is the first time a barrister has been tried for comments made to a jury in his closing speech. That should serve as a potent reminder of just us how authoritarian the current political moment is, and of how quickly long-established legal rights are being dismantled to protect British collusion in genocide.

Read my article – and the part of the speech for which Menon is being tried – here: https://t.co/RyDHG3Iz81

[YUA @creative_yua]

My cousin has been in Canada for six years.
Every month, money lands in my aunt's account.
School fees, house rent, his younger ones' upkeep.
Everybody calls him the family's blessing.

He called last Christmas.
Laughing and asking about everyone.
He sounded fine.
I asked: "How are you doing over there?"
He said: "I'm managing. Canada is good o."

He visited two years ago. We killed a goat.
The whole family came out.
He was smiling in every photo.
Nobody noticed he had lost weight.
I noticed. But I didn't say anything.
I thought maybe it was the cold.

Last month, his friend called my aunt.
Said my cousin had not been eating well.
That some months he sends everything and keeps nothing.
That he cries sometimes. Alone at night.
That he had been doing this for years.

My aunt was quiet for a long time.
Then she said:
"But he never said anything."

...
Well, he never said anything.
Because nobody ever asked beyond "how is Canada?"

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

If a nuclear weapon was going to save Iran from U.S. imperialism, their government would have acquired it a long time ago.

People who are pressuring Iran to build nukes have forgotten that Iran was a colossal and dominant empire long before the United States existed. Even at their peak, the Romans could not touch the Persians. The Parthian Empire was a formidable enemy that routinely outmatched Rome in open desert combat with superior military tactics.

In the 16th century, Iran humiliated and expelled the Portuguese and their massive navy by seizing the Strait of Hormuz to reclaim trade routes between the Middle East, India, and Europe. Iran is not a novice in this game. Their leaders are exceptionally calculating. If a nuke was the answer, they would have finished the job decades ago.

The fatal flaw of nuclear weapons is that they are only useful in a total war scenario. Iran will not launch a nuke if Israel blows up their oil refineries or water desalination plants because nuclear warfare would end all civilization in the Middle East. While a nuclear weapon might stop a direct U.S. invasion or Operation Epic Fury, it does not protect Iran from the suffocating grip of U.S. imperialism.

The U.S. empire functions as a predatory Global Operating System built on four pillars. First, the military pillar with over 800 bases scattered across the globe and 150 nuclear warheads in Europe alone. Second, the financial pillar of the petrodollar which enforces economic imperialism. Third, the cultural pillar like Hollywood, Silicon Valley, and social media, which rebrands global desires to match American consumerism. Finally, the corporate pillar, a global network of multinational corporations that integrates foreign economies into the U.S. system.

North Korea managed to unplug from this system, but their success is due to their proximity to China and Russia. Even while isolated, they still trade with China and get oil from Russia to keep the lights on. Iran has a population of nearly 90 million people and is oceans away from these superpowers. They cannot risk totally unplugging. Remember that when Britain blockaded Germany, over 400,000 people died of starvation.

A superpower will not leave you alone just because you have a better military or an impressive nuke. Iran understands that a full scale nuclear project is a trap. Unlike North Korea, Iran is surrounded by U.S. bases and hostile colonies. If they tried to build a warhead now, missiles from Israel, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia would rain on Tehran at an unprecedented scale.

Instead of a nuke, Iran perfected drone technology. Nuclear weapons provide deterrence, but they are practically unusable in everyday geopolitics because using one triggers total annihilation. Conventional missiles and drones are highly usable tools of power. This has allowed Tehran to successfully project power, retaliate against adversaries, and support the Axis of Resistance without triggering a nuclear apocalypse.

If Iran acquires nuclear weapons now, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Turkey, and Egypt will be forced to follow. Iran would be surrounded by nuclear armed adversaries, exposed to the danger of a miscalculation that could trigger a regional end of days.

They made the right decision by slowly enriching uranium to the 60 percent level and mastering the nuclear fuel cycle. They will eventually go higher. Their plan is not to build a bomb today, but to prove they have the knowledge and the material to build one instantly if the strategic environment demands it. This doctrine of latency is a more effective deterrence than the weapon itself.

[Mike Bales™ 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

I asked my elderly neighbor how he’d stayed married for 57 years. He pointed to an old Chevy in the garage and said, “I bought that car back in 1976. It needed everything but the engine. Now it runs like brand new.”

I laughed and said, “What’s that got to do with marriage?”

He looked at me and said, “You don’t walk away from something you’re building with. You fix it. You grow with it. You accept the flaws. That’s the difference. Too many people today give up when it gets tough.” 🙏🏻

[Islamic Scientific Heritage @IslamicSH_]

✨You’ve seen this in every math class:

sin(a ± b) = sin a cos b ± cos a sin b
sin(2a) = 2 sin a cos a
cos(2a) = 1 − 2 sin²(a)

🚨But did you know these formulae came from a Muslim scholar 1000 years ago?

Meet Abū al-Wafā al-Būzjānī, the genius who shaped Trigonometry. ���

Abū al-Wafā Būzhjānī (d. 998) was a Persian Muslim mathematician and astronomer from Khorasan. Born in Būzjān (near Nishapur, Iran), Būzhjānī showed early brilliance in mathematics and geometry.

He later moved to Baghdad, then the heart of the Islamic Golden Age, a city of scholars, libraries, and observatories.

In Baghdad, he became one of the leading scientists of the House of Wisdom (Bayt al-Ḥikmah). Here, he studied Greek works like Euclid and Ptolemy, and expanded them far beyond their original limits.

📐 His Contributions to Mathematics:

He established several trigonometric identities such as [sin(a±b)] in their modern form:

{sin(α ± β)= Sinα Cosβ ± Cosα Sinβ}
{sin(a + b) = Sin(a)Cos(b) + Cos(a)Sin(b)}
{Cos(2a) = 1-2sin²(a)}
{Sin(2a) = 2Sin(a) Cos(a)}

He compiled tables of sines and tangents at 15° intervals, introduced secant and cosecant, and explored the relationships between all six trigonometric lines. His work made both mathematics and astronomy quantitatively precise.

He also studied geometry, arithmetic, and number theory, writing detailed commentaries on al-Khwārizmī and Diophantus.

Some sources suggest that he introduced the tangent function, although other sources give the credit for this innovation to al-Marwazi.

🌌 His Work in Astronomy:

Abū al-Wafā designed and built a wall quadrant, a large, fixed instrument used to measure celestial altitudes with remarkable accuracy.

This invention influenced later observatories across the Islamic world.

His masterpiece, Kitāb al-Majisṭī (“The Almagest”), improved upon Ptolemy’s astronomy, described planetary motion, and developed mathematical methods for finding the Qibla direction, the direction of prayer. 🕌

In 997, he participated in an experiment to determine the difference in local time between his location, Baghdad, and that of al-Biruni (who was living in Kath, Uzbekistan).

Their result was astonishingly accurate, within about 1 hour of modern calculations. ⏱️