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Dikidikini is only one of several villages in the Eastern Cape where locals risk their lives to cross a river to get to shops or the nearest town. Unlike other villagers who build makeshift bridges, the people of Dikidikini use a 200L drum to cross the Mzintlava River.

NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯@japan_nobunaga·10hA Japanese diplomat in a morning coat and top hat stepped onto the deck of USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, bracing for the worst humiliation.His name was Toshikazu Kase. He had passed the Japanese Foreign Service examination in 1925 and studied at Amherst and Harvard. He had been on duty at the Foreign Ministry on the weekend of Pearl Harbor, and had helped prepare the document breaking off negotiations with the United States. Now, on an American battleship, he was there to end the war.It was Kase who had suggested the civilian delegation wear formal diplomatic attire of morning dress...

Wall Street Apes@WallStreetApesThis is INSANE 🚨Alaska has major voter irregularities for Midterms- Alaska has 606,007 registered voters- That’s 67,194 more than there are citizens of legal voting age- That's 112.5% of the citizen voting-age population- It's also 40,437 more than all adults living in the stateBut that’s not even the craziest part, Alaska implemented Ballot Measure 1, eligible people applying for the ‘Permanent Fund Dividend’ are automatically registered to voteThe Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend is an annual cash payment distributed to eligible Alaska residents from a portion of the state's oil and mineral wealthSo essentially, EVERYONE gets registered to vote,...

Brian Cates - Political Columnist & Pundit repostedFarai Mazhindu@FaraiMazhindu·5hIn Haiti, they told the Haitian people the Clintons came to save Haiti.After the earthquake in 2010, the world watched Port au Prince crumble, and then the saviors arrived. Bill Clinton became the UN Special Envoy to Haiti. Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State, controlling America's aid. And the Clinton Foundation was right there, raising money in Haiti's name.Husband approving the projects. Wife controlling the money. Foundation collecting the donations. That was a family business.The world pledged 13.5 billion dollars. America pledged 4 billion. It was supposed to rebuild a nation. Instead,...

Farai Mazhindu@FaraiMazhinduThe chaos in El Salvador before Bukele was never an accident, and the chaos in Haiti today is not an accident either.The media told you that the gangs were just poor boys who went bad on their own, but that story falls apart the moment you ask one simple question.Where does a poor sixteen year old boy living in a slum with no job and no money get an AK-47 and an AR-15 and a Glock and thousands of rounds of ammunition, and where does he get a brand new Toyota Hilux and motorcycles and speedboats and drones and...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent tossed Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick right under the bus when asked why a firm at the center of the ongoing Nvidia drama had not been added to a list of companies posing a national security threat. Bessent appeared on CNBC’s Squawk Box on Friday morning, when Joe Kernen brought up reports about tensions between Bessent and Lutnick. Those dust-ups between the two have primarily been over a Singaporean data center company called Megaspeed, which is at the heart on the ongoing drama with Nvidia and its now-ex-CEO Jensen Huang. Huang resigned as head of his own...

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At first, I thought NSW Liberal Senator Jess Collins was being frivolous when she asked questions in a Senate inquiry about who’s allowed to change a lightbulb on a Defence base in Australia and how much it might cost.Senator Collins is chair of the Management of Defence Estate Assets inquiry, following a Federal Government decision to sell 67 Defence properties because they are too costly to maintain. At the inquiry, Senator Collins suggested that a combat engineer, someone trained in an array of difficult and complicated (and sometimes dangerous) tasks, can’t change a faulty lightbulb on an Australian Defence base...

The U.S. Navy quietly relieved Commander Caitlin Cunningham as commanding officer of the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Michael Murphy (DDG-112) on September 27, 2026. Cmdr. Caitlin Cunningham, commanding officer of the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Michael Murphy (DDG-112), was relieved of her duties on September 27, 2026, over what Navy officials described as a “loss of confidence.” The Navy never publicly announced the dismissal when it happened. The stunning development was first reported Thursday by USNI News, which confirmed the removal with a Navy spokesperson. Cunningham had been in command for less than a year, having taken over the...

Shocking video posted to social media shows a black male beating and kicking a white high school girl on a bus in Youngstown, Ohio, as the driver refused to pull over and intervene. The Boardman Local School District launched an investigation after a black male brutally beat and appeared to choke a white teen girl on a bus transporting students to Mahoning Valley Community School last Friday. The victim, a 10th grade girl, was taken to a hospital with severe injuries. The Gateway Pundit is unable to publish the video but it can be viewed here (warning on disturbing content)....

NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯@japan_nobunaga·14hHe was an American Olympic runner at the 1936 Berlin Games. He finished eighth in the 5,000 meters and shook Hitler's hand.Six years later his Air Force B-24 crashed into the Pacific. For forty-seven days he drifted on a raft with two other men. One died. Sharks circled every night.Then the Japanese Navy picked him up and sent him to a prison camp in Naoetsu, on the Japan Sea coast.For over two years, a camp guard the prisoners called The Bird beat him with a belt buckle, broke his nose, made him hold a wooden beam over his head for...

TheOrdinaryAmerican@TheOrdAmericanTrump Teams Up With Bukele & Topples London’s Empire In HaitiMY VIDEO NOTES BEGIN~~~Trump and Bukele teaming up fighting proxy war against the City of London. Four El Salvadoran technicians kidnapped. Bukele told the gangs send the techs to me or I'll bring in troops. The gangs gave them 4 dead bodies, Bukele said 'that's not them' and moved 2000 troops to Haiti.Someone asked Trump about it, 'That's terrible, How can El Salvador go in there like that. Let the UN handle it..." And Trump said, 'Hey, he's got to do what he's got to do. He's got to protect...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) suggested on Wednesday that Supreme Court justices could become impeachment targets when Democrats take control of Congress in January. AOC is accusing the Court of having “legalized” President Donald Trump’s alleged criminal conduct. The New York Democrat made the remarks during an interview with CNN’s Manu Raju following Democratic victories in last week’s midterm elections. She was also asked whether Democrats would pursue the impeachment of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. “There are so many criminals in this administration, it’s hard to figure out who should be, you know, the order of operations,” she said. “There...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confronted Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick last week over his handling of a Singaporean company at the heart of revelations about Chinese spying on Nvidia, demanding to know why the United States had not already banned sales of advanced A.I. chips to the firm. The exchange, which took place at the White House on Thursday and was described by people briefed on it, highlighted growing tensions inside the Trump administration over A.I. policy in general and the Commerce Department’s posture toward Nvidia in particular. The internal debate has only intensified after Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s chief executive, acknowledged...

Do you know someone who can fix anything, even when everyone else has given up? Their ability may reveal a hidden kind of intelligence that traditional IQ tests were never designed to measure. People who are good at fixing things often think differently, notice details others miss, and find solutions where others see impossible problems. This video explains the psychology behind their remarkable problem-solving abilities. Most people believe intelligence comes from academic achievement, high IQ scores, and being good with words or numbers. But practical intelligence involves much more than that. You'll discover how systems thinking, functional fixedness, tolerance for...

NYC woman, born and lived whole life in the Boroughs, speaks truth of voting Dem all her life. Her light bulb moment was after she voted for Mamdani. She voted Republican in 2026 midterms. Lots of F word, but she has a lot to say calling out election results not just in NYC. Hope you will watch it. Link should be above and I'll put in comment below

Hope some people can chime in... 1. What happened to TPUSA help in the election 2. What did the Dems get for 12 million paid to Marc Elias 3. How can every county in 22 states go blue, really? 4. Can votes not be verified after an election to ensure only legal Americans are voting and votes counts are accurate? 5. Why is Thune being chosen as minority leader? 6. Why is Joe Gruters being endorsed by Trump for RNC Chair again?

Nvidia CFO Colette Kress, who usually begins her day talking to the company's Israeli executives, talks to "Globes" about the chips behind the AI revolution.

President Donald Trump announced that he has directed Vice President JD Vance to drop negotiations to end the war with Iran and instead focus on alleged “CORRUPTION” in Democratic-run states. In a Thursday morning Truth Social post, Trump announced the new assignment for his vice president, who has spent months spearheading diplomatic efforts to end the conflict and recently blamed the war for Republicans’ devastating midterm election losses. "I have asked Vice President Vance to focus his complete and total attention on the Massive Corruption and Crime taking place in Democrat run Cities and States throughout the U.S. The Blue...

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