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“Wealth means nothing without visible poverty to frame it. Power requires contrast. Hierarchy needs spectators.”
Elnathan John, circa 2025

[Paw24 @Paw241]

@mo4_lo @Lordpriest5 🤣

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Does this mean he is the best spy!

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇺🇸BREAKING: The CIA officer caught with $40 million in gold bars allegedly invented an entire fake top-secret spy program to steal the money.

As if this story couldn't get and wilder:

-David Rush allegedly built a sham "special access program," the blackest box in U.S. intelligence, so secret even top-clearance officials couldn't look inside without authorization

-The fake program posed as "continuity of government" work, the doomsday planning that keeps Washington running after a nuclear war

-He allegedly read in two colleagues as unwitting accomplices and used a made-up government contract to funnel millions, persuading a defense contractor to buy huge amounts of gold

-The FBI raid on his home seized 303 gold bars worth roughly $40 million, $2 million in cash, and 35 luxury watches

-Investigators say he lied about his college degrees, faked being a Navy pilot, and still sailed through the CIA's notoriously brutal vetting

-A judge ordered him held as a flight risk, and several CIA officials are now on leave as the probe widens

The scheme worked because of the system, not in spite of it.

The secrecy walls built to hide operations from China and Russia hid the fraud from the CIA itself.

A man with a fake résumé ran a fake doomsday program inside the most paranoid institution in America, and for years nobody noticed...

Source: Washington Post

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@SipWithSips Lol, everyone goes for the umncincini question?

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@Darkmatterh6nd Still there. Opens on Wednesday for book exchanges

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@StatsGH Lol

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@Sibongakonkhe88 Solo kwavalwa ema Dubai mnetfu. Nyalo ke kuphindze kwanyuka petrol bantfu babuyele emakhumbini.

[Paw24 @Paw241]

@Swelabelusi Batsi kulamalanga khohlwa ngaAfrisam especially for kukhonkha and brick making. Dugongo is the way. Nami ngitjelwe ngulomakhi.

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Manager was having none of it 🤣🤣🤣

[NomadicHistorian @Darkmatterh6nd]

New Year’s Day, 1963 at the Swazi Inn, Mbabane. 🇸🇿🍳
The kitchen staff clearly had zero patience for anyone’s morning-after self-pity. From calling patrons "bastards" to offering "all the bloody cereals" and a Prairie Oyster hangover cure, this is peak social history.

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@hamtoshikamwe @DavidHundeyin Mr Exclamation!, are you well?

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🤣🤣🤣 GTFO

[BusinessTech @BusinessTechSA]

Young South Africans are increasingly dropping out of medical aid schemes, putting serious financial pressure on remaining members.
https://t.co/I0zusWWvbW

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Interesting read

[Tasunungurwa Mufumiri @freemufumiri]

THE TAGWIREI WEDDING: A MASTERCLASS IN HOW ZIMBABWE REALLY WORKS 🧵

1. Last Saturday night, Zimbabwe's ruling elite gathered at a polo club in Harare.

US$20 million+ changed hands as wedding gifts.
Boyz II Men performed.
The President attended.

And 15 million Zimbabweans were being told their wages in ZiG are worth something.

This thread is about the gap between those two realities. 👇

First: who got married?

Taonanyasha Tagwirei is the son of Kudakwashe Tagwirei, founder of Sakunda Holdings.

Who is Kudakwashe Tagwirei?

The US Treasury Department calls him a man who 'derailed economic development and harmed the Zimbabwean people through corruption.'

He's also President Mnangagwa's most important financial backer.

He financially sponsored the coup against the late President Robert Gabriel Mugabe to the tune of USD1.5Million.

The US sanctioned Tagwirei in 2020 under OFAC, the same office that goes after drug cartels and terrorist financiers.

The designation was explicit: he used his personal relationship with Mnangagwa to extract state contracts, monopolize scarce hard currency, and reward officials with luxury vehicles.

He is, legally speaking, a designated corrupt actor.

He threw the party anyway.

[Paw24 @Paw241]

@Zwakeleg1 @Darkmatterh6nd Ow ok, angazani naMbabane lol. Thanks

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@Bayanda001 🤣 classic

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@Darkmatterh6nd The work of Fr. Larry. Sad to see how he died with his work

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Live.

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

In this haunting 1923 photograph, a Selk’nam woman stands in Tierra del Fuego with her child wrapped against her back in a guanaco fur cloak. At first glance, it looks like a quiet image of motherhood: a woman, a child, protection, survival. But behind it is one of the most devastating Indigenous histories in South America. The Selk’nam, also known as the Ona, lived for thousands of years on the island of Tierra del Fuego, at the far southern edge of Chile and Argentina. They were nomadic hunter-gatherers who survived one of the harshest climates on earth, relying heavily on guanaco for food, clothing, shelter, and tools.

Then came settlers, gold prospectors, sheep ranchers, and the brutal logic of colonization. Land that had never been “owned” in the European sense was suddenly fenced, claimed, and turned into ranching territory. The Selk’nam hunted sheep as they had hunted guanaco, not because they were criminals, but because their world had been violently overwritten. To the ranchers, they became an obstacle. To the state, they became a “problem.” To bounty hunters, they became targets. Historians have documented campaigns of extermination in which Selk’nam people were hunted, captured, displaced, and killed as ranching and colonial expansion took over Tierra del Fuego.

Missionaries later gathered survivors into missions, where forced assimilation, disease, confinement, and cultural destruction continued what the rifles had begun. Children were separated from old ways of speaking, moving, believing, and remembering. Survivors often stopped passing down language and identity because being visibly Selk’nam had become dangerous. That is one of the cruelest parts of genocide: it does not only kill bodies. It teaches descendants to hide themselves in order to live.

For many years, the Selk’nam were spoken of as if they had vanished completely. But that language is changing. Descendants have fought to be recognized, to reclaim identity, and to challenge the idea that genocide made them disappear. In Chile, Selk’nam recognition became a major issue in recent years, with descendants insisting: *we are still here.*

#drthehistories

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🤣🤣, man said yinkinga yenu kutsi nigadze lutfo

[#JoySports @JoySportsGH]

‘You cannot expect World Athletics-level technical organization here in Ghana.’

Technical delegate Vivian Gungaru on Ghana’s organization of the African Athletics Championships.

#JoySports

[Paw24 @Paw241]

The greatest civilization in the world

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

Un 13 de mayo de 1985, EEUU bombardeaba a su propia población en Philadelphia, atacando el barrio de Coks Creek, donde afroamericanos de la organización anarquista MOVE de Mamia Abu Jamal establecieron una comuna desde 1981.

La policia de EEUU lanzó explosivos desde helicópteros a las casas donde supuestamente había militantes de MOVE, matando en una de ellas a 5 adultos y 6 niños, después 500 policías dispararon 10.000 balas contra las casas ardiendo durante 90 minutos.

[Paw24 @Paw241]

@Darkmatterh6nd The more things change, the more they stay the same

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@joy_zelda Well, that didn't take long