Monty
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philosophy, justice, shiny things
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“Stopping such studies so abruptly is unethical, a huge waste of time and resources, and a violation of trust. It’s extremely complicated — and expensive — to restart them.”
bhekisisa.org/health-news-...
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How the health department will deal with Pepfar’s near collapse - Bhekisisa
Offering state HIV patients who qualify a six-month supply of antiretroviral (ARVs) pills at a time, so that they only have to return to clinics or community pick-up points twice a year to collect the...
bhekisisa.org
February 18, 2025 at 8:59 AM
“Stopping such studies so abruptly is unethical, a huge waste of time and resources, and a violation of trust. It’s extremely complicated — and expensive — to restart them.”
bhekisisa.org/health-news-...
bhekisisa.org/health-news-...
This is bloody heartbreaking. More than 100,000 preventable deaths...
#Measles is one of the leading causes of death among young children globally.
In 2023, an estimated 107 500 people died from measles, mostly children under age 5.
bit.ly/48SAtkf
In 2023, an estimated 107 500 people died from measles, mostly children under age 5.
bit.ly/48SAtkf
February 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
This is bloody heartbreaking. More than 100,000 preventable deaths...
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Please Please Please Share. Share. Share.
Enter February 28 into your Smart Phone Calendar.
Say you're IN!
WE REALLY CAN DO THIS
TOGETHER!!!!
Please Do This With ME!?!
Please Please Please Share. Share. Share.
Enter February 28 into your Smart Phone Calendar.
Say you're IN!
WE REALLY CAN DO THIS
TOGETHER!!!!
Please Do This With ME!?!
February 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
@34thparallel.bsky.social
Please Please Please Share. Share. Share.
Enter February 28 into your Smart Phone Calendar.
Say you're IN!
WE REALLY CAN DO THIS
TOGETHER!!!!
Please Do This With ME!?!
Please Please Please Share. Share. Share.
Enter February 28 into your Smart Phone Calendar.
Say you're IN!
WE REALLY CAN DO THIS
TOGETHER!!!!
Please Do This With ME!?!
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Across Africa, a growing number of people are struggling to meet their most basic needs.
See Afrobarometer's latest survey in this week’s issue.
See Afrobarometer's latest survey in this week’s issue.
February 16, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Across Africa, a growing number of people are struggling to meet their most basic needs.
See Afrobarometer's latest survey in this week’s issue.
See Afrobarometer's latest survey in this week’s issue.
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Lost in the fog of shock and awe, a major war is growing in scale in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Bukavu - a provincial capital in the east of the country - has fallen to Rwandan-backed rebels.
www.reuters.com/world/africa...
www.reuters.com/world/africa...
M23 rebels advance into eastern Congo's strategic city of Bukavu
Rwandan-backed M23 rebels advanced on Sunday into the centre of Bukavu, the second-largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, meeting little resistance from government troops, witnesses and the armed group said.
www.reuters.com
February 16, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Lost in the fog of shock and awe, a major war is growing in scale in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Bukavu - a provincial capital in the east of the country - has fallen to Rwandan-backed rebels.
www.reuters.com/world/africa...
www.reuters.com/world/africa...
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Free movement for all.
February 15, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Free movement for all.
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TB remains the world's deadliest infectious killer disease. While there are newer tests, drugs and regimens available, more research is needed for new drugs, tests and regimens to end this ancient disease. Check out this very good update of impact USAID fund freeze on all TB related work
USAID funding freeze disrupts global tuberculosis control efforts
www.cidrap.umn.edu
February 14, 2025 at 9:05 AM
TB remains the world's deadliest infectious killer disease. While there are newer tests, drugs and regimens available, more research is needed for new drugs, tests and regimens to end this ancient disease. Check out this very good update of impact USAID fund freeze on all TB related work
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The Sudan conflict has been ignored enough.
Attacking and killing civilians seeking safety in a displaced persons camp is unconscionable. The RSF and all other parties to the conflict must immediately end all attacks on civilians.
Attacking and killing civilians seeking safety in a displaced persons camp is unconscionable. The RSF and all other parties to the conflict must immediately end all attacks on civilians.
February 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
The Sudan conflict has been ignored enough.
Attacking and killing civilians seeking safety in a displaced persons camp is unconscionable. The RSF and all other parties to the conflict must immediately end all attacks on civilians.
Attacking and killing civilians seeking safety in a displaced persons camp is unconscionable. The RSF and all other parties to the conflict must immediately end all attacks on civilians.
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"It starts w/ finding clean water, continues w/ finding food, & ends with finding a place to sleep. Is this the life I will live forever?” Zahra's story is one of millions. In parts of #Sudan, 1 in 3 kids under 5 are acutely malnourished. This crisis is happening now, and it's preventable. @msf.ca
Sudan malnutrition crisis: MSF renews call for immediate action to prevent death and starvation | MSF
Action must be taken now to prevent even more avoidable death from malnutrition in Sudan.
www.msf.org
February 4, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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#Migration: In recent months, our teams have identified more cases of women and girls who have repeatedly suffered extreme violence such as kidnapping and sexual assault, either on the migration route or in their home countries.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK0T...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK0T...
One and Thousands: Stories of Women on the Migration Route
YouTube video by Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières
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February 4, 2025 at 4:29 PM
#Migration: In recent months, our teams have identified more cases of women and girls who have repeatedly suffered extreme violence such as kidnapping and sexual assault, either on the migration route or in their home countries.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK0T...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK0T...
Everyone asking the Dems to stop the unfolding coup: Don't you realise this couldn't have happened without them? They've long been whittling democracy down to oligarchy. They helped create & buttress a political system for the rich, funded by the rich. They aren't going to save anyone but themselves
February 4, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Everyone asking the Dems to stop the unfolding coup: Don't you realise this couldn't have happened without them? They've long been whittling democracy down to oligarchy. They helped create & buttress a political system for the rich, funded by the rich. They aren't going to save anyone but themselves
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Global Warming Has Accelerated
Groundbreaking new paper by James Hansen et al.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
Groundbreaking new paper by James Hansen et al.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
February 4, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Global Warming Has Accelerated
Groundbreaking new paper by James Hansen et al.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
Groundbreaking new paper by James Hansen et al.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
Let's talk about medical racism... SO much of it, but I've never seen anything about the fact that all medicine info sheets STILL are only in English & Afrikaans - 32 years post-apartheid.
February 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Let's talk about medical racism... SO much of it, but I've never seen anything about the fact that all medicine info sheets STILL are only in English & Afrikaans - 32 years post-apartheid.
Enraged my local chat group by suggesting we maybe don't clean up our area by spraying a WHO-described "probable carcinogen" all over our streets. So tired of being pilloried for caring about reality and other people. How do you all manage?
February 4, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Enraged my local chat group by suggesting we maybe don't clean up our area by spraying a WHO-described "probable carcinogen" all over our streets. So tired of being pilloried for caring about reality and other people. How do you all manage?
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The Anti-Same-Sex Marriage Law limits the definition of marriage to “a legal union between two persons of the opposite sex” and states that “a marriage or marital union between persons of the same sex wherever concluded” is not recognised in Namibia. www.mambaonline.com/2025/01/21/n...
Namibia: Anti-Same-Sex Marriage Law Enacted
Activists have vowed to challenge a new law in Namibia that overturns a landmark Supreme Court ruling by outlawing same-sex marriage.
www.mambaonline.com
January 22, 2025 at 3:54 AM
The Anti-Same-Sex Marriage Law limits the definition of marriage to “a legal union between two persons of the opposite sex” and states that “a marriage or marital union between persons of the same sex wherever concluded” is not recognised in Namibia. www.mambaonline.com/2025/01/21/n...
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i think the executive orders directing agencies to end energy efficiency regulations and open up more land to drilling and mining is so indicative of the character of the american right — in its view everything, whether people or our larger environment, is something to be exploited and dominated
January 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
i think the executive orders directing agencies to end energy efficiency regulations and open up more land to drilling and mining is so indicative of the character of the american right — in its view everything, whether people or our larger environment, is something to be exploited and dominated
I keep imagining what the coverage would be like if wealthy white people had been forced into the mine, then trapped and starved by SAPS - and the 14-year-old who was down there had been a blonde white girl...
First time I see one of the dead miners mentioned by name: Koali Rankomo, a suspected illegal miner rescued from the Stilfontein mine, has died in hospital. Rankomo was one of a group of 33 men admitted to hospital under police guard after their arrest last week. www.news24.com/news24/south...
Hospitalised illegal miner dies after rescue from Stilfontein mine | News24
A suspected illegal miner who had been hospitalised following the rescue operation at the Stilfontein mine has died.
www.news24.com
January 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I keep imagining what the coverage would be like if wealthy white people had been forced into the mine, then trapped and starved by SAPS - and the 14-year-old who was down there had been a blonde white girl...
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This is what I was writing about 20 years ago as a terrifying but far off prospect, a key tipping point in the climate crisis. Now it’s here. Report by my colleague @patrickgreenfield A third of Arctic’s vast carbon sink now source of emissions, study reveals www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A third of the Arctic’s vast carbon sink now a source of emissions, study reveals
Critical CO2 stores held in permafrost are being released as the landscape changes with global heating, report shows
www.theguardian.com
January 21, 2025 at 1:29 PM
This is what I was writing about 20 years ago as a terrifying but far off prospect, a key tipping point in the climate crisis. Now it’s here. Report by my colleague @patrickgreenfield A third of Arctic’s vast carbon sink now source of emissions, study reveals www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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In some ways I think Musk is the triumph of the Apartheid regime - to have placed someone raised in our rank stew of white supremacy in the position of Grand Vizier of the richest and most militarily powerful nation in the world.
Verwoerd would be smiling today.
#musk #southafrica #apartheid
Verwoerd would be smiling today.
#musk #southafrica #apartheid
January 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
In some ways I think Musk is the triumph of the Apartheid regime - to have placed someone raised in our rank stew of white supremacy in the position of Grand Vizier of the richest and most militarily powerful nation in the world.
Verwoerd would be smiling today.
#musk #southafrica #apartheid
Verwoerd would be smiling today.
#musk #southafrica #apartheid
I kept wondering why the miners in Stilfontein didn't just come up, rather than starve to death. The South African Police Service cultivated the lie that they were callous criminals trying to force SAPS to back down.
The media (aside from Ground Up) did nothing to dispel this.
Here's the truth: 1/
The media (aside from Ground Up) did nothing to dispel this.
Here's the truth: 1/
The violent underworld of Stilfontein’s zama zamas
South Africa’s illicit gold trade is lucrative and controlled by gangs
groundup.org.za
January 21, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I kept wondering why the miners in Stilfontein didn't just come up, rather than starve to death. The South African Police Service cultivated the lie that they were callous criminals trying to force SAPS to back down.
The media (aside from Ground Up) did nothing to dispel this.
Here's the truth: 1/
The media (aside from Ground Up) did nothing to dispel this.
Here's the truth: 1/
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My research, and that of my colleagues, shows that we can achieve good lives for all within planetary boundaries.
Our research (and reality) also exposes how those profiting from inequality, violence & plunder are doing EVERYTHING in their power to prevent us from getting there.
Our research (and reality) also exposes how those profiting from inequality, violence & plunder are doing EVERYTHING in their power to prevent us from getting there.
December 28, 2024 at 8:43 AM
My research, and that of my colleagues, shows that we can achieve good lives for all within planetary boundaries.
Our research (and reality) also exposes how those profiting from inequality, violence & plunder are doing EVERYTHING in their power to prevent us from getting there.
Our research (and reality) also exposes how those profiting from inequality, violence & plunder are doing EVERYTHING in their power to prevent us from getting there.
I don't think the Syrian rebels who have toppled Assad are necessarily great people, just because Assad was monstrous, but Syria is still a sovereign nation. Invading it is illegal under international law, which the West supposedly supports.
“It's with American and British and German weapons that [Israel is] bombing the hell out of Syria... What's happening is that the most powerful states in the world are supporting the terror bombing of Syria.”
www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-exp...
www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-exp...
Israel Expands Invasion of Syria, Launching Massive Airstrikes After Assad's Fall
Israel’s message is clear: regardless of who governs Syria, Israel will ensure it does not possess the basic military capacity to defend itself.
www.dropsitenews.com
December 11, 2024 at 7:02 PM
I don't think the Syrian rebels who have toppled Assad are necessarily great people, just because Assad was monstrous, but Syria is still a sovereign nation. Invading it is illegal under international law, which the West supposedly supports.
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