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@SABCNews If South Africa's courts are fully capable, then the focus should be on ensuring justice is delivered swiftly and impartially. Confidence in domestic institutions is earned through consistent action, not just assurances

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@ABC The order of the primaries matters more than many people realize. It can shape media attention, fundraising, and candidate momentum long before most Americans cast a vote.

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You're arguing against a position I haven't taken.

First, this isn't my post. I'm responding to a BBC report, just like everyone else in the comments.

Second, I'm not interested in selective outrage. If the U.S. commits a war crime, investigate it and condemn it. If Israel commits one, investigate it and condemn it. If Iran commits one, investigate it and condemn it. The same standard should apply to everyone.

My concern is with innocent civilians, not with defending governments. Accountability shouldn't depend on whose flag is involved.

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@Osikhena2014 @BBCWorld Life of anyone, anywhere has everything to do with OP

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@Clemz16869531 @Osikhena2014 @BBCWorld Yes Sir

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@WhiteHouse A country with no next generation 💓

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@MbuyiseniNdlozi

You're raising the exact question that keeps AI ethicists up at night.

But here's the uncomfortable follow-up: Who watches the watchmen?

If we call for "global control," we have to be brutally honest about what that means in a world of rival superpowers. Whose values get coded into that global framework? The West's? China's? The Global South's? History shows that "global" often means "whoever has the most leverage."

You're right that private interests cannot be trusted with this—profit motives and existential power don't mix. But state control alone isn't a cure either. We've seen what governments do with surveillance tech.

The only viable path isn't a single global AI czar. It's:

1. Binding international treaties with enforcement mechanisms (not just voluntary pledges)
2. Open-source oversight where independent researchers can audit black-box systems
3. Democratic deliberation before these systems are deployed, not after

Your core warning—that autonomous AI could deem entire populations "unnecessary"—is chillingly plausible. But the solution can't be another top-down power structure. It has to be distributed accountability.

The question isn't whether to control AI. It's how to control it without creating a new global tyranny in the process.

What's your model for that?

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@Osikhena2014 @BBCWorld You saying this Child asked for it?

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Asia is building reserves to survive the price war. Africa? We are sitting on the oil and begging for the gasoline.

Leaders must do two things yesterday:
• Secure a continental buffer stock.
• Prioritize local refining over raw exports.

The era of "export crude, import inflation" is over. Time to power Africa with Africa.
@GovernmentZA , @GovUganda ,@_AfricanUnion ,@NigeriaGov

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The statement is factually correct in the strict political-science sense—the United States has never been a Marxist-Leninist state, nor has it abolished private property or instituted a vanguard party. However, the categorical denial obscures a more nuanced historical reality.

The U.S. has repeatedly employed policies that diverge from classical liberal capitalism and align with collectivist or state-socialist principles:

1. Wartime command economies (WWI, WWII) – the War Industries Board and War Production Board directed industrial output, fixed prices, and allocated resources via central planning, mirroring the administrative apparatus of state socialism, albeit temporarily.

2. The New Deal era – the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) constituted direct state ownership of productive infrastructure. Social Security established compulsory, state-administered wealth redistribution across generational and income cohorts.

3. Land-use and property rights – the doctrine of eminent domain permits uncompensated (or undercompensated) seizure of private capital for public objectives, effectively subordinating individual property claims to collective utility.

4. Monetary and fiscal centralization – the Federal Reserve's suppression of market-determined interest rates, combined with countercyclical deficit spending (e.g., the 2008 Troubled Asset Relief Program and 2020 CARES Act), represents discretionary state allocation of capital—a hallmark of mixed rather than purely market-driven economies.

5. Public goods provision – K-12 education, Medicare, Medicaid, and interstate highways are funded through coercive taxation and administered bureaucratically, functions that in a pure free-market system would be privatized.

To characterize these as 'communist' would be analytically imprecise. But to deny any historical tradition of collectivist state intervention is historically illiterate. The U.S. is best understood as a mixed economy with recurrent episodes of centralized planning, redistribution, and public ownership—features that complicate any absolutist claim of free-market purity.

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@Osikhena2014 @BBCWorld You are right. If the Iranian government has done wrong, let them be prosecuted by courts of law. 💓...but we are talking about the children under this post. If there was a post condemning the Iranian atrocities, the conversation would be different.

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🌊 Why this matters:

· Water temps in Florida hit ~90°F—stress thresholds for corals begin at ~86°F.
· Bleaching = corals expel symbiotic algae (zooxanthellae). Without them, they starve.
· Land-based nurseries offer temperature-controlled, pathogen-free refugia—a "Noah's Ark" approach.

🧬 Genetic banking + assisted evolution research are now critical tools.

Hope isn't lost—but action is urgent. 🔬

#CoralConservation #ClimateAction #MarineScience

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@FoxNews Careful Mr Ambassador, you are on foreign soil.

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@FoxNews Whether people agree or not, you can't knock her for sticking to her principles. She said what she said.

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This is a poignant moment—a President personally ensuring a fallen soldier's family reaches home with dignity. The gesture of offering Air Force One speaks to the weight of that duty, and his words reflect the profound human cost of service. Tyler Feehan’s sacrifice, and his family’s loss, deserve that honor.

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Bab al-Mandeb is the strategic strait connecting the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden, lying between Yemen and the Horn of Africa .

Its name translates to "Gate of Tears" .

It's a critical chokepoint for global trade and energy—about 10-12% of seaborne trade (including oil) passes through it en route to the Suez Canal . Houthi-controlled territory runs directly along its eastern shore , giving them leverage to threaten this vital waterway against Saudi Arabia .

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@AJEnglish Reports of pellet guns and over 100 injuries on students are deeply alarming. The use of such violent methods against peaceful protestors demands accountability and an immediate investigation into police conduct.

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This is a serious breach of operational security (OPSEC) that goes beyond typical gossip. The agent shared sensitive details about the VP's protective operations, which is a fundamental violation of trust in the protection profession. The underlying sentiment seems to be frustration from agents over things like last-minute travel requests—that definitely makes the job harder—but it doesn't excuse compromising security. Leaks from within a protective detail are a huge red flag that threatens the entire mission.

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So Jordan is asking the DOJ—now led by Trump's former defense attorney—to prosecute Smith for 'half-truths,' while Smith's team points out the letter concedes he didn't actually make a false statement. This looks less about justice and more about weaponizing DOJ against a prosecutor who charged Trump.

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@Osikhena2014 @BBCWorld Even U.S. media reported military investigators believe it was an American strike. Unintentional or not, 156 civilians died. Outdated intel isn't an excuse—it's a failure.