The role of respect for the law in maintaining the rule of law is far too often overlooked.
January 16, 2026 at 3:48 AM
The role of respect for the law in maintaining the rule of law is far too often overlooked.
Don’t think I’ve ever heard Jon Stewart nearly incandescent with rage throughout. It summarises how this is the year of the mad king without his clothes on.
January 13, 2026 at 6:15 AM
Don’t think I’ve ever heard Jon Stewart nearly incandescent with rage throughout. It summarises how this is the year of the mad king without his clothes on.
Trump is acting as the world’s Brownshirt, not its policeman.
January 11, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Trump is acting as the world’s Brownshirt, not its policeman.
There’s a great South African ad from a decade ago that shows up the “who belongs?” point - love to see the same for the US youtu.be/cBIDkW2_FnQ?...
Nando's Diversity Ad
YouTube video by GourmetGuys
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December 27, 2025 at 8:22 AM
There’s a great South African ad from a decade ago that shows up the “who belongs?” point - love to see the same for the US youtu.be/cBIDkW2_FnQ?...
That’s a “no” then.
December 11, 2025 at 5:51 PM
That’s a “no” then.
The schlep of prevention when people either do not see the risk as real or see the threat of being ill as minimal, and the ‘cost” of action seems too high. It’s the “all kids get ill but get better” mentality taking us down the dangerous RFKJnr-lit pathways to no more vaccines etc.
December 8, 2025 at 4:47 AM
The schlep of prevention when people either do not see the risk as real or see the threat of being ill as minimal, and the ‘cost” of action seems too high. It’s the “all kids get ill but get better” mentality taking us down the dangerous RFKJnr-lit pathways to no more vaccines etc.
His racism is showing (again).
December 4, 2025 at 6:25 PM
His racism is showing (again).
An update from Al Jazeera - youtu.be/5O83Xf9lg8E?...
Gaza warned over ‘displacement agents’ as Palestinians taken abroad through unofficial routes
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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November 15, 2025 at 4:50 PM
An update from Al Jazeera - youtu.be/5O83Xf9lg8E?...
South African news reports that all passengers were from Gaza and somehow allowed to leave from Israel’s Ramon airport without their passports being stamped. How this was done without at a minimum Israeli collusion is the question, as is who would want to put the SA government in a sticky spot…
November 15, 2025 at 11:03 AM
South African news reports that all passengers were from Gaza and somehow allowed to leave from Israel’s Ramon airport without their passports being stamped. How this was done without at a minimum Israeli collusion is the question, as is who would want to put the SA government in a sticky spot…
I am honestly confused why the airlines are being asked to choose what flights to reduce when the issue is ATC staffing at airports. Is there something else happening first, like the FAA working with airports to compile a real time staffing forecast provided daily to airlines? Naive question…
November 7, 2025 at 4:06 AM
I am honestly confused why the airlines are being asked to choose what flights to reduce when the issue is ATC staffing at airports. Is there something else happening first, like the FAA working with airports to compile a real time staffing forecast provided daily to airlines? Naive question…
Though it doesn’t seem like many “White Afrikaners” are jumping at the chance - www.news24.com/citypress/ne...
US books dozens of seats for Afrikaner ‘refugees’, but only three pitch up | News24
Far fewer ‘refugees’ arrived for their flights than were catered for. Despite this, the US government has targeted resettlement of 6 000 people by the end of November.
www.news24.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Though it doesn’t seem like many “White Afrikaners” are jumping at the chance - www.news24.com/citypress/ne...
Thank you for doing good journalism - bringing people’s voices to the fore when political expediency seeks to bury them. (The thread and article are both worthwhile and fascinating reads.)
September 28, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Thank you for doing good journalism - bringing people’s voices to the fore when political expediency seeks to bury them. (The thread and article are both worthwhile and fascinating reads.)
At this rate in a decade there’ll be public health protocols for all flights from the U.S. to manage the spread of vaccine preventable diseases. (Assuming sanity isn’t allowed to prevail.) There are so many reasons governments usually buy or subsidise vaccines.
September 4, 2025 at 4:17 AM
At this rate in a decade there’ll be public health protocols for all flights from the U.S. to manage the spread of vaccine preventable diseases. (Assuming sanity isn’t allowed to prevail.) There are so many reasons governments usually buy or subsidise vaccines.
It was a double tap strike - a deliberate targeting of the emergency workers and journalists who rushed to rescue and record the first massacre. This is a(nother) war crime.
August 25, 2025 at 11:42 AM
It was a double tap strike - a deliberate targeting of the emergency workers and journalists who rushed to rescue and record the first massacre. This is a(nother) war crime.
My bad for not reading the Wired article to the end - was peeved after reading the NYT version which does not mention the possible generic price tag at all. Many more kudos to Wired.
June 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM
My bad for not reading the Wired article to the end - was peeved after reading the NYT version which does not mention the possible generic price tag at all. Many more kudos to Wired.
There’s a new Lancet preprint from Wednesday that points out the actual cost could be as low as $25 instead of +$24k (papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... ). Ending the global HIV epidemic could be in our reach, if it wasn’t about company profits.
Lenacapavir to Prevent HIV Infection: Updated Estimated Costs of Production for Generic Treatments
Background: Lenacapavir/Sunlenca™ administered every 26 weeks as Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) reduces HIV transmission to nearly zero. Affordable lenacapavir
papers.ssrn.com
June 20, 2025 at 11:54 AM
There’s a new Lancet preprint from Wednesday that points out the actual cost could be as low as $25 instead of +$24k (papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... ). Ending the global HIV epidemic could be in our reach, if it wasn’t about company profits.
Apartheid South Africa also saw rock throwing as terrorist violence.
May 27, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Apartheid South Africa also saw rock throwing as terrorist violence.
And of course Crosby’s original “The Columbian Exchange” from 1972. A revelation in environmental history.
May 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
And of course Crosby’s original “The Columbian Exchange” from 1972. A revelation in environmental history.
Plagues and Peoples by McNeill - the book that made epi history popular. Though out dated in many ways, it still challenges the reader to consider the critical drivers of history.
May 22, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Plagues and Peoples by McNeill - the book that made epi history popular. Though out dated in many ways, it still challenges the reader to consider the critical drivers of history.
There’s a lot to be said about the benefits of ethical and regulated clinical trials pre market release.
May 20, 2025 at 11:27 AM
There’s a lot to be said about the benefits of ethical and regulated clinical trials pre market release.
She live(d) in a major tourist hotspot which is part of greater Cape Town and priced out of the reach of almost all South Africans, a lasting legacy of South Africa’s apartheid structures. She is only a refugee from her inability to be racist without blowback in South Africa.
May 12, 2025 at 12:30 PM
She live(d) in a major tourist hotspot which is part of greater Cape Town and priced out of the reach of almost all South Africans, a lasting legacy of South Africa’s apartheid structures. She is only a refugee from her inability to be racist without blowback in South Africa.
They got the wrong day -
May 5, 2025 at 7:19 AM
They got the wrong day -
King Henry VIII vibes (just needs three more wives).
May 3, 2025 at 7:12 AM
King Henry VIII vibes (just needs three more wives).
So the president decides if the country is at war, can use all government resources to act at will during this state of war, and when “combatants” are forcibly sent elsewhere then their hands are cleaned because they are no longer in the country. Lovely.
May 2, 2025 at 6:53 AM
So the president decides if the country is at war, can use all government resources to act at will during this state of war, and when “combatants” are forcibly sent elsewhere then their hands are cleaned because they are no longer in the country. Lovely.
International waters begin at 12 NM off Malta. The ship was at 14 NM. The drone/s were either flown there or launched nearby. Either way this is a blatant threat to the region as well an attack on the idea of humanity.
May 2, 2025 at 5:47 AM
International waters begin at 12 NM off Malta. The ship was at 14 NM. The drone/s were either flown there or launched nearby. Either way this is a blatant threat to the region as well an attack on the idea of humanity.