Nilatpal Basu posted this on FB:
At the #WorldCup on Tuesday — a man in a red suit stood completely still for 90 minutes in the stands. Then he covered his mouth and pointed a gun to his head.
FIFA’s cameras cut away immediately.
His name is Michel Kuka Mboladinga — known as “Lumumba Vea,” which means “Lumumba Lives.” For more than a decade he has stood motionless at every DR Congo match — suit and tie, arm raised — as a living tribute to Patrice Lumumba, the first Prime Minister of an independent Congo.
Patrice Lumumba gave a stunning Independence Day speech on June 30, 1960 — standing before King Baudouin of Belgium — excoriating Belgian colonialism. Malcolm X called him “the greatest Black man who ever walked the African continent.”
Six months after independence, Belgian officers and soldiers captured Lumumba, tortured him, and executed him by firing squad. His body was dismembered and dissolved in acid. The only known remnant was a gold tooth kept by the Belgian officer responsible for 39 years until his death.
That is what Lumumba Vea stands in tribute to. Every single match. In a suit. Motionless. For 90 minutes.
On Tuesday against Colombia — he added something new. He covered his mouth and mimicked a gun to his head. A silent, devastating protest against the world’s silence over eastern DR Congo — one of the globe’s most severe yet least-covered humanitarian crises, which has displaced millions and claimed countless lives through violence and massacres.
Lumumba Vea went viral this week — covered by USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, Reuters, ESPN, Sports Illustrated, CNN and the BBC. Every outlet explained the Patrice Lumumba connection. Not one mentioned the link between Lumumba’s CIA-backed assassination, the Western strategy to destabilize an independent Congo, and the current humanitarian catastrophe in eastern DRC today.
That connection is not a footnote. It is the entire story.
The same Western powers that assassinated Lumumba in 1961 — because he wanted Congo’s mineral wealth to benefit Congolese people — have spent 65 years ensuring the DRC remains destabilized, its cobalt and coltan flowing to Western technology companies while its people are massacred in the east.
FIFA cut the cameras. The mainstream media covered the gesture without the history. And a man in a red suit stood in the stands and said — without words — what the world refuses to hear.
Lumumba Lives.
US lawyer and antiwar activist Dan Kovalik just had his devices seized and was interrogated by counter-terror police at Liverpool Airport
Meanwhile, Palestine solidarity activist Sarah Wilkinson is heading to trial on terrorism charges for a couple of Twitter posts, and refusing to give police her mobile pin
The Canary, one of the UK’s most doggedly antiwar independent media outlets, was just debanked by Lloyd’s
The UK recently refused entry to Hasan Piker and Cenk Uyghur, two of the most recognizable voices of the left wing of the US Democratic Party, on national security grounds
It did the same this month to US journalist Jeremy Loffredo
UK counter terror police detained and interrogated my colleague, Kit Klarenberg, seizing his devices, and grilling him about his investigative journalism. PM Keir Starmer’s Labour Together slush fund even hired a private intel firm to smear Kit and The Grayzone.
UK police raided journalist Asa Winstanley’s home and illegally seized his devices on suspicion of “encouragement of terrorism”
The UK Crown Prosecution Service attempted to prosecute journalist Richard Medhurst under the Terrorism Act, but failed
The list of journalists and activists repressed by the British regime goes on and on. And they have one thing in common: outspoken opposition to Israel’s genocidal agenda.
Who’s actually in charge in London?
Are you falling for the division? Or are you awake yet? Things are not as they seem. Share this with your friend who think "Muslims are invading Europe" They are the ones who needs to see this the most. Speaker in the video: is banned everywhere but you can still find him on https://t.co/DIoNzPaxXo and name of his channel there is "The Crowhouse"
Holy shit.
Maradona in 2018 on the day the World Cup 2026 was awarded to USA, Mexico and Canada, goes on saying:
“They will do 4 quarters of the game instead of two halves so to put commercials, you’ll see”
They'll cheer a film about a vigilante cleaning up the people at the bottom. So I made the same film and aimed it at the top, the ones who start the wars, empty the countries, and ship the fallout to your doorstep. One small edit. Suddenly it's 'forbidden'. Tells you everything.
🚨🇺🇸WATCH: Fentanyl and xylazine are making Philly’s opioid crisis way worse and turning it into a full-blown public health nightmare.
This wouldn’t have happened if America wasn’t under Israel’s control.
Algeria scored in the last minute of extra time. Game over. Austria's bench clashed with Algeria's in disbelief. Why would they do that? Then FIFA found three additional extra minutes. Austria equalized. Whistle blew. Iran out. Scripted. Investigation required.
Alta pressione persistente (elemento chiave)
L’anticiclone subtropicale (spesso chiamato “Scandinavian High” o “African High” a seconda della posizione) domina da giorni sull’Europa centro-meridionale. Blocca l’arrivo di perturbazioni atlantiche.
Favorisce la subsidenza (aria che scende dall’alto) → comprime e scalda l’aria.
Mantiene il cielo sereno o poco nuvoloso.
Copertura nuvolosa quasi assente
Con cielo sereno le ore di insolazione sono massime.
In questo periodo dell’anno (poco dopo il solstizio d’estate) il Sole è ancora molto alto e le giornate sono lunghissime → la superficie si scalda tantissimo durante il giorno.
Alta radiazione solare
Siamo a fine giugno → il Sole è al massimo della sua potenza per l’emisfero nord.
Questo è il periodo in cui, a parità di altre condizioni, si raggiungono più facilmente i picchi di calore.
Aria calda in quota
L’alta pressione sta pompando aria calda di origine subtropicale (dal Nord Africa / Mediterraneo) anche a quote medie (1500-4000 m). Questo “riscalda dall’alto” e impedisce all’aria calda al suolo di salire e raffreddarsi.
Lo capiscono anche i bambini, se glielo spieghi.
Dove sta la CO2 qui?
@RealAlexJones No, come on Alex you should know better, do better, it is the month of Muhram and they are mourning the barbaric murder of hasan & hussein , Muhammad's grandsons, butchered with families, for ten days, remembering their refusal to kowtow to tyranny , to oppression
Ukrainians themselves and those who support Zelensky's criminal regime love to tell us that Ukraine is a peaceful nation and that it has never attacked anyone.
Let's inspect the historical data in regards to this lie, shall we?
@LizHiggins19@DonnaLouise1212@BartRoxy Filed under Things that didnt happen,, wells in middle eastern countries?
Not seen many in Dubai, saudi, Kuwait etc most muslim countries have the death sentence for this kinda behaviour, unlike the west where they get a slap on the wrist and parole
Microsoft whistleblower on the firms deep integration into the Zionist genocide:
After nearly two years as a Critical Environment Technician at a Microsoft Italy data center, I choose to resign. This is because, right now, Microsoft is massively expanding its European data centers (aka mass surveillance centers) to use Palestine as a laboratory for its experimental digital weaponry. For the past 994 days, Microsoft has powered the genocide of our people in Palestine, and the company’s European data centers are fundamental to how Microsoft abets crimes against humanity.
On August 6, 2025, reports exposed how Microsoft hosted 11,500 terabytes of intercepted Palestinian phone call data in the Microsoft Netherlands data center, with additional data stored in the Irish data center, amounting to 200 million hours of audio. This trove of mass surveillance data has been described as “one of the world’s largest and most intrusive collections of surveillance data over a single population group.”
This data is used by the Israeli military to identify targets for airstrikes, arrests, and blackmail from the entire Palestinian population. It is also used as training data to build AI-targeting programs. These programs invent arbitrary justifications to murder non-combatants, intentionally adding civilian workers to the Israeli military’s generated “target bank“; the programs also facilitate massacres of entire families at once.