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[NormanM @TuracoBL]

The ANC is being accused of crimes against humanity — and this time, it’s not rhetoric. A coordinated legal case is being built, backed by evidence, lawyers, and civil society. https://t.co/7PKzc725gT

[Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו @netanyahu]

The antisemitic dictator Erdoğan – who is committing genocide against the Kurds, supports the Hamas terrorist organization, oppresses his own people and imprisons political rivals – is the last person who can lecture the State of Israel on morality.

The State of Israel and the IDF, the most moral army in the world, will continue to take forceful action against Iran and its proxies, which threaten the Middle East and the entire world.

[Handre @Handre]

While six million Ukrainians starved to death in 1932-33, Stalin employed a personal chef who prepared elaborate Georgian feasts in his private dining rooms. You need to understand what this tells you about the fundamental nature of state power and economic calculation.

Stalin maintained twenty dachas across the Soviet Union, each staffed with servants, stocked with rare wines, and equipped with private cinemas for his entertainment (this makes for a very interesting Google search). His security detail numbered in the thousands. His personal train car featured bulletproof glass and mahogany paneling. Meanwhile, peasants in Ukraine ate grass, bark, and leather belts before dying in the streets. Bureaucratic incompetence did not cause this. The iron logic of socialism produced it.

Central planners face no market prices to guide resource allocation. Without profit and loss signals, they cannot know what people actually need or value. So resources flow to political priorities instead of economic ones. Stalin's comfort took precedence over Ukrainian lives because political power, not consumer demand, determined production and distribution. The state controlled all grain, all transportation, all information. When you eliminate private property and market exchange, you eliminate the only mechanism that coordinates production with human needs.

Free market economists predicted this outcome decades before the Holodomor. Ludwig von Mises explained in 1920 that socialist economies cannot rationally allocate resources because they lack price signals from voluntary exchange. Without market prices, central planners operate blindly. They literally cannot know what to produce, how much to produce, or where to send it.

Every socialist experiment repeats this pattern: the political elite live in luxury while ordinary people suffer shortages, famines, and death. This outcome was inevitable the moment private property was abolished.

[Marko Matvikov @MarkoMatvikov]

Australia has a relatively small population.

We share no land borders and are protected by vast oceans.

We have abundant agricultural land, enormous natural resources, and some of the world’s most valuable exports.

We’ve enjoyed more than 80 years without war on our own soil and never experienced a civil war.

There is no reason poverty should be increasing in this country.

There is no reason the middle class should be shrinking.

There is no reason each generation shouldn’t have the opportunity to live better than the last.

Australia’s challenges aren’t the result of a lack of land, resources, wealth, or stability.

They are the result of political decisions.

And for too long, we’ve kept electing politicians who fail us.

[Jon Root @JonnyRoot_]

Yesterday, University of Arizona women’s head basketball coach Becky Burke announced that her “wife” was pregnant.

As you can imagine, raising a second child without a father & cosplaying parents caused some backlash. Somehow they were shocked by this…

Let me be VERY clear, a child deserves a father & a mother. If you are in a gay “marriage,” you’ve forfeited the right to be a parent. Marriage was designed by God for one man & one woman. Theresa specific call to “be fruitful and multiply”, which can only happen in that design.

Parenting isn’t about “representation” for the LGBTQ community. If that’s your motivation, you’ve already failed as a parent. You’ve made it about YOU & your LGBTQ community. The child is just a pawn for your political activism.

Lord have mercy on these children.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

As a Japanese watching the UK right now, I have one simple question.

A Sudanese asylum seeker just tried to behead a local man in Belfast. The victim lost an eye.

This comes after years of grooming gangs raping thousands of British girls — gangs that police and councils deliberately ignored because they were afraid of being called racist.

In Japan, even one case like this would have triggered national outrage and immediate policy reversal.

But in Britain, the conversation is still about “not being far-right.”

British people, at what point does protecting your own children become more important than protecting your reputation?

We genuinely do not understand this.

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

One only has to look at the sheer scale of the planet to see the flaws in the climate agenda.

Combined, every town and city on Earth occupies a mere 3% of the world's landmass. The true driving forces for regional climates rest in the oceans and major landforms - the planet's genuine engine rooms. Oceans cover 72% of the globe to an average depth of 2.3 miles. They contain roughly 86% of the global carbon reservoir and 91% of all retained heat energy; by comparison, our thin atmosphere holds a meager 1 to 2% of each.

Ancient ocean currents give balance to the world's weather, carrying tropical warmth to northern regions in cycles that drive migration, cloud formation and global storms. Landforms guide ocean currents across deep geological time, as tectonic changes to continental land masses reshape the entire world.

The legacy of ignoring this planetary scale of the environment can be seen today in our defaced countryside and industrialised coastal retreats. Sweeping vistas are being vandalised by massive arrays of wind and solar structures, causing immeasurable localised environmental carnage.

It has created a perpetual, asset-swapping loop of renewal and replacement at a staggering, endless cost to national economies, while hollowing out traditional industries and aggressively mining the earth for rare metals like copper and silver.

The back-end of this 'clean' energy loop is an impending hazardous waste crisis. With global solar capacity now officially surpassing 2 Terawatts (TW)—representing between 7 and 8 billion solar panel equivalents—the world is utterly unprepared for the onslaught of disposal.

The International Renewable Energy Agency projects up to 78 million metric tons of solar e-waste by 2050. Because there is little financial incentive for complex recycling, up to 90% of decommissioned panels currently go straight into the ground. When left to fracture in landfills, heavy metals like lead and cadmium can leach into surrounding soil and groundwater.

This will remain the most visible legacy from the Twenty-First Century.

[Secretary Kennedy @SecKennedy]

Sheryl. Your article exemplifies the biased reporting we have come to expect from you and @nytimes. It was unfair, inimical, and inaccurate. All one needs to refute your argument is to glance at my publicly available calendar and to review my unprecedented list of accomplishments on a wide range of issues, all of which I drove. You evidently never undertook these foundational due diligences. Why let facts obscure a good story?

You fault me for missing a couple of monthly counselor meetings. However, I meet one-on-one with my counselors every day to decide policy and strategy. We schedule the monthly meetings to give the divisions a chance to keep each other informed about HHS-wide policies with which I’m already intimately familiar. Had you read my calendar, you would have seen that I have back-to-back meetings all day, every day, with both career and political staff, with my counselors and with outside stakeholders, interspersed with press conferences and other policy announcements.

I am knowledgeable and active on every issue in every division of my department, and I always make the final decisions. I meet with the principals at FDA, NIH, CDC, and my senior counselor every morning, something, I’m told, is unprecedented in HHS history. I try to get out of the office between 4:30 and 6:00 PM, so that I can spend three hours, in quiet, responding to emails. I normally work until 11 PM every night, mostly on phone calls to staff.

In order to prove your preconceived case for my disengagement, you quote anonymous employees, some of whom I fired or who quit to avoid being fired. You also deceptively quote HHS employees without identifying whether they were among those I fired, thereby depriving your readers of the opportunity to make an independent judgment about their credibility.

I came into this job to change the culture of a broken agency that has presided over the worst decline in public health in American history. Of course I fired people—lots of them! It's an easy task for even the laziest journalist, to comb that flotsam and jetsam for malevolence toward the Trump administration. And of course, this species of journalist will always be able to find disgruntled individuals among the 70,000 employees of the Department from whom to cherry pick "facts" to flesh out a preordained hit piece. All that is required for this brand of journalism is the ethical elasticity that you seem to have in spades. You had a preconceived thesis, and you set out to prove it. This is a widely accepted technique in journalism today, but I grew up in an era when it would not have been tolerated by the New York Times.

Ultimately, God puts us all on this earth to search for existential truths. I've tried to instill this mission at HHS by implementing gold standard research to end the regime of politicized science that COVID exposed to the American public. There was a time that journalists were proud to be the fearless and uncompromising champions of truth. Standards have devolved, and journalism is dead. The Times now employs propagandists. Your capitulation to partisanship further compounds your journalistic challenges; since we all are aware of your predictable bias, we at HHS are unwilling to talk to you about the topics that are important. The fact that you have minimal access to decision makers leaves you covering trivia and relying on your own capacity for invention.

Btw. When I took this job, the building was empty. About 90% of the employees were not coming to work. I changed that, but your newspaper never covers my reforms. Nor did you cover the fact that my predecessor almost never showed up for work here during his four years in office. When we came in, there were still artifacts from the first Trump administration in many of our office drawers because no one showed up for work during the Biden years. Just as Rochelle Walensky spent her entire term as CDC Director in Cambridge, Xavier Becerra reportedly spent most of his term as HHS Secretary in California. (I live in California, but I’ve only been there once in fifteen months).

His only notable accomplishments here were losing 300,000 children, referred to HHS for custody and care, to human traffickers and drug runners, encouraging transgender surgeries, and disabling the entire program-integrity apparatus, allowing hundreds of billions of dollars of theft from my agency. I have set out to find the children Becerra lost. He is now the front-runner for the governor of California. These are not invented stories; they are genuine scandals that the Times will never cover, presumably, because the malefactors are Democrats.

Finally, you criticize me for spending time with the Indian tribes in Alaska. I consider that part of my job. I run the Indian Health Services, and I’ve had unprecedented success in transforming IHS from a backwater to a top priority for this department. I’ve made more trips to Indian country and to Indian health clinics and hospitals than any HHS secretary in history, and I’ve brought Indians into high positions on the sixth floor for the first time in agency history. This is another success story that the Times will never cover.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The real reason they don’t want voter ID is to commit voting fraud. That is the obvious truth.

[South African Sentinel @SentinelfromSA]

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[South African Sentinel @SentinelfromSA]

Digital ID is a backdoor into complete authoritarian control.

Do not let @CyrilRamaphosa's intentional fumble of illegal immigration and border situation dupe any of you into believing the solution he has been touting.

MyMzanzi is a scam. It's the ANC's way of trying to control you.

Don't like what he (or any other idiot) said on a Sunday "family" meeting and want to speak up about it? Good luck shopping for the next two weeks.

Drove over the speed limit slightly? Good luck being able to stop at the supermarket on the way home - you're now locked out of your own account and money.

Do not fall for it. They are baiting us into accepting their "solution" and also branding it as a form of "convenience" and "safety".

Oh and good luck to any large corporation that becomes, once again, the ANC's enforcer of these rules - bending over to the @GovernmentZA, rolling over and playing dead and enforcing the rules

[Proudly South African 🇿🇦 @SayEntrepreneur]

R1.5 TRILLION. That’s how much South Africans spent on gambling in a year.

​Apps like Betway & Hollywoodbets are booming with games like Aviator and Sugar Rush—so casual that players don't even view it as gambling. The cost? 57% of players are sacrificing food, rent, and transport for a bet. 💔

[Patrick Bet-David @patrickbetdavid]

Aren’t you worth half a billion dollars?

Who’s stopping @LewisHamilton from giving away his wealth?

Is it fair that you won 105 F1 races + 7 championships?

Don’t you think one is enough?

Why are you so greedy with victories?

Be less competitive. 🤔

[Bane @jodambusta]

Someone explained this phenomenon perfectly

[Darwin to Jesus @darwintojesus]

Stephen Meyer explains why atheist attempts to get around a beginning to the universe are contrived and ridiculous.

[David J Harris Jr @DavidJHarrisJr]

🚨JUST IN: Canada just criminalized the Bible. Bill C-9 has passed the Senate, removing key religious protections and opening the door for Scripture to be treated as “hate speech.”

Quoting the Bible on marriage, sin, or God’s design for sexuality can now lead to prosecution for “willful promotion of hatred.”

This is a direct attack on Christianity and religious freedom in Canada.

Brothers and sisters — the time to stand is now.

Pray for Canada. Speak the truth boldly. Defend the Gospel while we still can.

[Magatte Wade @magattew]

Ethiopia was never colonized.

For much of its history, it was one of the poorest countries on the continent.

Meanwhile, Vietnam was colonized by the French, devastated by decades of war, and is now on its way to serious economic prosperity.

If colonialism were the answer to why Africa is poor, Ethiopia should be rich and Vietnam should be broke. Neither is true.

Can we please retire this excuse?

[Ernst Roets @ErnstRoets]

Sign and share!

[Darwin to Jesus @darwintojesus]

Stephen Meyer explains the origins of the fine tuning argument for God and why it’s so compelling.

[Proudly South African 🇿🇦 @SayEntrepreneur]

CSIR
○ 1945: CSIR officially established

○ 1954: Invented the Tellurometer (global microwave land-surveying)

○ 1965: Built the Heavy Vehicle Simulator for rapid road testing

○ 1980: Pioneered lithium-metal-oxide battery tech (powering today's EVs)

○ 1988: Built the Southern Hemisphere's top wind tunnels for advanced aeronautical & supersonic jet design

○ 1990s: Absorbed COMRO to pioneer deep-level gold/platinum mining safety & minerals extraction

○ 1997: Developed the national election result forecasting model

○ 2020: Engineered hydrogen fuel-cell vertical takeoff UAVs for long-endurance flight

○ 2026: Slashed lab-grown meat protein costs by 99% via precision biomanufacturing.

#CSIRHistory

[Danny Nel @magicdan60]

How Transnet was eaten alive and dismantled under the ANC-led Management…
Nobody even noticed it...
Damages of R47 billion.