Peter Delobelle

#publichealth scientist; health policy & systems research; health promotion; non-communicable diseases; South Africa

[Peter Delobelle @PDelobelle]

Achieving Access to Food on a Healthy Planet and an Inclusive Society: The Consumption Dimension
https://t.co/zSRetd0UCZ

[Peter Delobelle @PDelobelle]

Give CGM Access to all South African children under 18, with Type 1 Diabetes - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/Any6enCC1d via @ChangeorgSA

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Interesting read on the downfall of the Western empire https://t.co/4mkTTWpfv7

[Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges]

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[Peter Delobelle @PDelobelle]

Governing Political Realities in NCD Agenda Setting in LMICS: A Case of the Carrot and the Stick?; Comment on “National Public Health Surveillance of Corporations in Key Unhealthy Commodity Industries: A Scoping Review and Framework Synthesis” https://t.co/znlhMpgYEl

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Kick Big Soda Out - Sign the petition [English] https://t.co/QwyYq1g1g4 via @YouTube

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It's time we did something about this - please sign: https://t.co/Nl9Axc6TcA

[Peter Delobelle @PDelobelle]

Reminder of the upcoming #FOODSAMSA webinar on Systems thinking in Food Environment research. Click the link below to add to your calendar 📅🗓️ 18th 👇

https://t.co/L4EQdECHh4

See you there.

[Peter Delobelle @PDelobelle]

⏰It's time to #LeadOnNCDs! 💪Join Global Week for Action (15-22 Oct)! Let's call on leaders to: ✅Implement NCD policies ✅Break down siloes in the response ✅Mobilise investments ✅Stay true to the promises ✅Involve people living w/ #NCDs https://t.co/MgH2LJaWi6 #ActOnNCDs

[Peter Delobelle @PDelobelle]

Glad to be part of #GES2024 which is happening now in the wonderful city of Prague, Czech Republic

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@GorikOoms @wvdammeitm @ITMantwerp Congrats Gorik - all the best in your new position!

[Peter Delobelle @PDelobelle]

@KonstantinKisin First post that makes sense that I've read in a long time. Def agree and looking forward to more.

[tim anderson @timand2037]

Little Jori and thousands of other children in Gaza are being starved by the Israelis and Washington. Does anyone care?

[Peter Delobelle @PDelobelle]

Opening plenary of WPHNC 2024 at Marylebone Parish in London - great location and pleased to be part of this. Stay tuned for more 😉

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@CDIAfrica @UWCSOPH @IUHPE @FrontiersIn Just published: editorial for a new collection of papers on health promoting settings in Frontiers in Public Health https://t.co/jR3L4dJu5I

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

One major problem in the world is western exceptionalism: the belief that the western powers are somehow more moral than other nation states.

This is based on literally nothing but propaganda. An objective analysis of which groups have committed the gravest of crimes against humanity would always — and without exception — put the crimes of Europeans, and later their American offspring, as the worst.

What the Europeans did in both of the Americas, Africa, Asia, Oceania and even on European soil, is unmatched in its inhumanity and impact. And this is not some ancient relic of a bygone era: the US and its European counterparts are still massacring innocent children now, today, as you read this, at unprecedented rates.

Yet western liberals somehow think they live in an enlightened society — just because they’re told they do. They’re told these crimes are ‘of the past’ while they’re fed ideas like equality, democracy, liberty and rule of law as these pillars of virtue that prop up the current society within which they live, but every single one of them is a barefaced lie that takes the tiniest of digging to reveal.

We live in a swamp wrapped in silk: a society built on death and fed with more death every single day, yet we’re told it’s some beacon of virtue because that death mostly occurs elsewhere.

And the cognitive dissonance between this collection of lies and the reality that betrays them is reaching record levels. We are at a point where it requires active participation for the lie to continue: where those who think this charade is ‘ok’ are actively deluding themselves, either out of prejudice towards those currently it’s primary victims, in the vain hopes this evil won’t come home to roost (but it already is, if you look close enough); or cowardice in being too afraid to face the dark truth of the matter.

Hatred or cowardice: that’s the only way you can continue to lie to yourself about the corruption and death at the heart of western society.

James Baldwin: "All the western nations are caught in a lie, the lie of their pretended humanism: this means that their history has no moral justification, and that the West has no moral authority."

And I believe that, until this giant lie is revealed at scale and properly addressed, the world will never know peace — how can it, when we’re too afraid to confront reality?

The work that needs done is in the belly of the beast, the head of the snake, the heart of darkness. And until we can secure a western society entirely free from imperialism, colonialism and forever wars for resources and profit, we are and will remain utterly lost, skipping from crisis to crisis with human suffering untold.

[Peter Delobelle @PDelobelle]

@seyeabimbola Excellent work Seye - thanks for creating a platform to which I can easily refer my GH students North and South alike. You've been the Voice to be reckoned with (and I love the Playlist)

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

BREAKING: BELGIAN PRIME MINISTER OFFICIAL STATEMENT

“There must be an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and there are huge losses

There is a case before the International Court of Justice against Israel, and whatever its decision, we must respect it

We were clear about settler violence in the West Bank and they will not be allowed to enter Belgium

Pressuring the Israeli government to respect international humanitarian law is the best way to prevent violence

We do not have double standards, and human life has value in all countries

We must start peace talks to reach the implementation of the two-state solution.”

[Peter Delobelle @PDelobelle]

Dear President @JoeBiden and global leaders: How many more children must die before you support the global call for a ceasefire? As people from across the world, we call for an immediate ceasefire and an end to the blockade in Gaza. #CeasefireNow https://t.co/OlD11xDs2X