Andreas ⏳🌱🌎

lone walker, dreamer and lover at heart, a cleverly disguised introvert seeking a bigger personal world

[Andreas ⏳🌱🌎 @konfooi]

No wonder folks in droves of many me's my's and I's are escaping the city and moving to the countryside where eagles soar in rarified air third rock from the sun, the Solar System. For Nature heals✌🏽

[Andreas ⏳🌱🌎 @konfooi]

Abdullah Ibrahim: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert https://t.co/ixK58ztnpN via @YouTube

[Andreas ⏳🌱🌎 @konfooi]

23 per cent of children in South Africa live in severe child food poverty https://t.co/ozfuBlxwOg

[Krishnamurti @K__Quotes]

It is not our problems which set man against man, but our ideas about them. Problems bring us together, but ideas separate us.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Morocco!!!

[Ryan Rozbiani @RyanRozbiani]

THE WORLD MUST HEAR THIS!

Over 20% of Gaza's Population Has Been Wiped Out

Tucker Carlson Interviewed British Surgeon, Dr. Nick Maynard, who worked inside Gaza's LAST remaining hospital and he breaks it ALL DOWN.

76,000 killed by direct trauma alone. The Lancet estimates that figure is undercounted by 50%. Add excess deaths from untreated cancer, destroyed dialysis machines, starvation, and infectious disease, and some estimates put the total ABOVE HALF A MILLION.

Pray for the people.

[Mbekezeli @MbekezeliMB]

It’s distressing the levels at which South Africa is stepping back from science at a time when we need it most.

Budget cuts to postgrad funding, research universities, the NRF, SAMRC and HSRC. The ARC and SANBI are a mess.

Now Kirstenbosch is dying.

We can’t go on like this!

[Mats Nilsson @mazzenilsson]

Albert Einstein and Hannah Arendt's 1948 letter to the New York Times: They saw the creation of a Jewish ethnostate in Palestine at the expense of its indigenous Muslim and Christian population as a profound injustice and moral catastrophe.

Einstein and the other signatories explicitly compared Begin’s Herut (Freedom Party), born from the Irgun, to Nazis and Fascists, warning that their ideology of racial superiority and violent ethnic nationalism posed a grave danger to the moral and political future of the new state.

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Full text of Einstein and Hannah Arendt's letter to the New York Times:
TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES
December 2, 1948
Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our time is the emergence in the newly created State of Israel of the “Freedom Party” (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy, and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine.
The current visit of Menachem Begin, leader of this party, to the United States is obviously calculated to give the impression of American support for his party in the coming Israeli elections and to cement political ties with Zionist elements in the United States. Several Americans of national repute have lent their names to welcome his visit. It is inconceivable that those who oppose fascism throughout the world could condone, even by silence, the appearance of such a party in Israel.
Within the Jewish community they have preached an admixture of ultra-nationalism, religious mysticism, and racial superiority. Like other fascist parties, they have been used to break strikes, and they have encouraged demoralization among labor. In their actions they have been marked by cruelty and contempt for human life.
During the recent past, they have systematically terrorized the Arab population, attacked Jewish settlements, and sabotaged the rescue of displaced Jews from Europe.
A shocking example was their behavior in the Arab village of Deir Yassin. This village, off the main roads and surrounded by Jewish lands, had taken no part in the war and had even fought off Arab bands that wanted to use it as their base. On April 9 (1948), terrorist bands attacked this peaceful village, which was not a military objective in the fighting, killed most of its inhabitants — 240 men, women, and children — and kept a few of them alive to parade through the streets of Jerusalem.
Most of the Jewish community was horrified at the deed, and the Jewish Agency sent an apology to King Abdullah of Transjordan. But the terrorists, far from being ashamed of their act, were proud of it, widely publicized it, and invited foreign correspondents to view the corpses and the ravaged village.
The Deir Yassin incident exemplifies the character and actions of the Freedom Party. Within the Jewish community they have attempted to institute a reign of terror, have beaten up Jews who opposed them, and have, by gangster methods, terrorized the population.
It is inconceivable that those who oppose fascism throughout the world could condone, even by silence, the appearance of such a party in Israel.
The undersigned therefore take this means of publicly presenting a warning to the American people concerning a danger to be found in the Freedom Party in Israel, a danger to which the leadership of Menachem Begin gives the greatest emphasis.
(Signed):
Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, Sidney Hook, Rabbi Jessurun Cardozo, Irma Lindheim, and 22 other Jewish scholars, writers, and public figures.
(Published December 4, 1948, in The New York Times.)

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

“Wait so you’re telling me…”

[Andreas ⏳🌱🌎 @konfooi]

@PiersPigou It's good to be the King

[Andreas ⏳🌱🌎 @konfooi]

Lake Street Dive with NEC Gospel Ensemble — What I'm Doing Here https://t.co/TtPsNzPNGU via @YouTube

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

BREAKING! US court ha suspended the US sanctions against me!
As the judge says: "Protecting the Freedom of speech is always just the public interest".
Thanks to my daughter and my husband for stepping up to defend me, and everyone who has helped so far.

Together we are One.

[Empire: World History @EmpirePodUK]

The incredible story behind the Dutch gaining access to the East Indies... 🤯

[Andreas ⏳🌱🌎 @konfooi]

Lake Street Dive - "Don't Let Me Down" [The Beatles Cover] https://t.co/MFyPwDIVAG via @YouTube

[Lorenzo Davids @UrbanLo]

The quiet South African writer who has outsold authors such as Deon Meyer, Trevor Noah and John v.d. Ruit.
Sterkte, Jaco!
https://t.co/1BHLBf2KmQ…

[Lorenzo Davids @UrbanLo]

This is what humans do. We are humans.

[Maria Van Kerkhove @mvankerkhove]

Incredible work of @nicd_sa, South Africa in sequencing the #hantavirus

There has been excellent collaboration as @WHO works to coordinate efforts and actions of governments, experts around the world, the Ship to keep people safe.

@DrTedros @Chikwe_I

https://t.co/lXdNNiTlwZ

[Bravos Research @bravosresearch]

15/ In other words, every time a big crisis hits, money flows to corporate America and a big chunk gets pocketed as pure profit.

And only a small part makes its way down to the average worker's salary.

As the US Treasury Secretary has put it, the Fed is an engine of inequality.

[Andreas ⏳🌱🌎 @konfooi]

Strand, South Africa. Yesterday.

[Andreas ⏳🌱🌎 @konfooi]

Does this post by Malema amount to intimidation ?
If it does, then a warning that intimidation of prosecutors will not be tolerated is meaningless, as promised action is therefore required @npa

[EWN Reporter @ewnreporter]

The NPA has condemned social media posts allegedly linked to the EFF containing threats directed at a prosecutor involved in a case before the kuGompo Regional Court, warning that intimidation of prosecutors will not be tolerated. #Malema @MongeziKoko
📸: NPA

[Senator Peter Welch @SenPeterWelch]

60 hospitals.
44 schools.
Tehran’s synagogue.

These are the civilian targets that President Trump and Secretary Hegseth are bombing in Iran.