"You are not likely to see Henry Nowak’s words stenciled on a mural. No corporation will change its logo. The same establishment that made a few words immortal when spoken by a black man in Minneapolis has met the same words, spoken by a white boy dying on a British street, with what can only be described as a determined, institutional silence. That silence is not neutral. It is a statement. It tells you exactly whose suffering the system has decided counts, and whose does not."
How did it happen that KZN Hawks Head Senona has a rank of a Major General with so much incompetence and lack of integrity while the more operationally skilled employee Karl Sander is a Warrant Officer with 40 years of scarce skill experience?
The application of Affirmative Action although had good intentions but in some cases it has really messed up the country if we are being honest with ourselves.
It's not only Senona, you can name General Shadrack Sibiya, EMPD Chief Julius Mkhwanazi, General Richard Shibiri, the list is long.
Complete chaos at #JNB#ORTIA international departures tonight with #ACSA’s new ‘security’ system. International passengers queuing round the block while new security scanners simply remain unused. What an indictment of an international airport and airport ‘management’.
Note what has happened today. Iran insisted on Israel ceasing fire in Lebanon as part of US ceasefire, then made their proxy in Lebanon keep firing at Israel, then used Israel’s response as a pretext to break off negotiations.
They know Washington is desperate for a deal before the world economy drops off a cliff and Americans pay a fortune at the gas pump. Tehran is running rings around Trump. The Iranians have a strategy and Washington does not. This is an absolute tragedy.
This has quietly been a miracle month in medicine.
In the last 5 weeks we’ve got news on:
- retatrutide, the triple agonist GLP-1 from Lilly, basically melting fat and body-wide inflammation at record levels
- RevMed’s new pancreatic cancer drug showing unprecedented abilities to extend life
- small trial of a one-and-done PCSK9 gene editing therapy for slashing LDL cholesterol
- Mayo’s AI-assisted radiology showing vastly improved cancer detection
- this new therapy for metastatic solid tumors
This stuff is at varying levels of evidence. Retatrutide is ~100% on its way, other stuff needs more clinical trial data. But put it together and we’re maybe on the verge of majorly reducing the mortality of heart disease and cancer, the two leading causes of death in America.