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شاب مغربي 🇲🇦: تركنا سيارتنا جانباً، ودخلتُ أنا وأصدقائي إلى سبتة في جولة، تجولنا قليلاً ثم خرجنا منها بكل بساطة. والآن عائدون إلى بيوتنا… إلى قصورنا التي تنتظرنا. رسالة بسيطة: بالنسبة لنا، زيارة سبتة ليست «هجرة»… إنها جولة في أرض نعتبرها جزءاً من وطننا. A young Moroccan : “We...

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This divisive Welcome to Country nonsense has been allowed to fester for far too long. Australians are now being told Welcomes to Country had been performed for 250 thousand years and weren’t invented to cater to white people. If they’re not to cater to white people, then why are white people constantly subjected to them? These welcomes are based on a lie: that Australia is not our home. So many people tell me they are just over it. Welcome to Country performances are just racial antagonism disguised as reconciliation, imposed on children before they even get to school. Australia is home to all Australians, and we don’t need or want to be welcomed to our own home. We have shed blood, sweat and tears to build our home, and defend our home. We have as much right to live in our home as anyone else. If you hand over my home to someone else, I have nothing to fight for. If you hand over Australia, I will not defend it and neither will my children. Being an elder doesn’t obligate my respect – respect is earned, not given away to racial exceptionalism. Being aboriginal does not make someone exceptional. Being an Australian is what makes you exceptional. That’s the identity we all share. In this spirit, I stand and turn my back on Welcome to Country performances in Parliament and in public. It’s a shame that so many other political leaders are too gutless to follow the same principle, desperate not to lose votes to the radical left. I strongly encourage other Australians to do the same. Stop being walked over, and stand up for your home.

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149,991 views • 2 years ago

If you look from 1958 onward, the Gulf countries have stood with Lebanon every time we needed help. We have 450,000 Lebanese living in the Gulf. Most of the billions of dollars transferred by the diaspora to Lebanon come from the Gulf. So this is an umbilical relationship between us and the Gulf, and we are grateful for it. Every time Lebanon went through a crisis, the Gulf opened their doors and allowed our people to obtain visas, go and work, and send money back to Lebanon. This is very important for us, and we appreciate everything they have done. Saudi Arabia in particular has been the longest-serving country standing by Lebanon, and it has consistently supported Lebanon. They were also among the countries that helped lead the Taif Agreement, which ended the civil war in Lebanon. Saudi Arabia remains very engaged in supporting stability in Lebanon. I believe Saudi Arabia and the United States are aligned on the future of Lebanon and the region. Our other friends—France, the UK, Egypt, Qatar, and Europe in general—have also stood by us and helped us over the years. We have many friends, but we need to align ourselves on how to move forward. The key now is for this government to disarm Hezbollah and to continue peace talks in Washington in order to sign a peace agreement. Simply focusing on a cessation of hostilities or a ceasefire means we are preparing for the next war, which would lead to renewed destruction after a few years. إذا نظرنا إلى الفترة من عام 1958 فصاعدًا، نجد أن دول الخليج وقفت إلى جانب لبنان في كل مرة احتجنا فيها إلى المساعدة. لدينا 450,000 لبناني يعيشون في دول الخليج. ومعظم مليارات الدولارات التي يحولها المغتربون إلى لبنان تأتي من الخليج. لذلك فإن هذه علاقة عميقة بيننا وبين دول الخليج، ونحن ممتنون لذلك. في كل مرة مرّ فيها لبنان بأزمة، فتحت دول الخليج أبوابها وسمحت لأبنائنا بالحصول على تأشيرات، والعمل، وإرسال الأموال إلى لبنان. هذا أمر بالغ الأهمية بالنسبة لنا، ونحن نقدّر كل ما قاموا به. وتُعد المملكة العربية السعودية على وجه الخصوص هي الدولة الأكثر دعماً للبنان، وقد وقفت باستمرار إلى جانبه. كما كانت من الدول التي ساهمت في قيادة اتفاق الطائف الذي أنهى الحرب الأهلية في لبنان. ولا تزال المملكة العربية السعودية منخرطة بشكل كبير في دعم الاستقرار في لبنان. وأعتقد أن المملكة العربية السعودية والولايات المتحدة متفقتان حول مستقبل لبنان والمنطقة. كما أن أصدقاءنا الآخرين—فرنسا، المملكة المتحدة، مصر، قطر، وأوروبا بشكل عام—قد وقفوا إلى جانبنا وساعدونا عبر السنوات. لدينا العديد من الأصدقاء، لكن علينا أن نوحّد رؤيتنا حول كيفية المضي قدمًا. إن المفتاح الآن هو أن تقوم هذه الحكومة بنزع سلاح حزب الله، ومواصلة محادثات السلام في واشنطن من أجل التوصل إلى اتفاق سلام. فالاكتفاء بوقف الأعمال العدائية أو وقف إطلاق النار يعني أننا نُحضّر لحرب قادمة، ستؤدي إلى دمار جديد بعد بضع سنوات. Brian Katulis Middle East Institute
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If you look from 1958 onward, the Gulf countries have stood with Lebanon every time we needed help. We have 450,000 Lebanese living in the Gulf. Most of the billions of dollars transferred by the diaspora to Lebanon come from the Gulf. So this is an umbilical relationship between us and the Gulf, and we are grateful for it. Every time Lebanon went through a crisis, the Gulf opened their doors and allowed our people to obtain visas, go and work, and send money back to Lebanon. This is very important for us, and we appreciate everything they have done. Saudi Arabia in particular has been the longest-serving country standing by Lebanon, and it has consistently supported Lebanon. They were also among the countries that helped lead the Taif Agreement, which ended the civil war in Lebanon. Saudi Arabia remains very engaged in supporting stability in Lebanon. I believe Saudi Arabia and the United States are aligned on the future of Lebanon and the region. Our other friends—France, the UK, Egypt, Qatar, and Europe in general—have also stood by us and helped us over the years. We have many friends, but we need to align ourselves on how to move forward. The key now is for this government to disarm Hezbollah and to continue peace talks in Washington in order to sign a peace agreement. Simply focusing on a cessation of hostilities or a ceasefire means we are preparing for the next war, which would lead to renewed destruction after a few years. إذا نظرنا إلى الفترة من عام 1958 فصاعدًا، نجد أن دول الخليج وقفت إلى جانب لبنان في كل مرة احتجنا فيها إلى المساعدة. لدينا 450,000 لبناني يعيشون في دول الخليج. ومعظم مليارات الدولارات التي يحولها المغتربون إلى لبنان تأتي من الخليج. لذلك فإن هذه علاقة عميقة بيننا وبين دول الخليج، ونحن ممتنون لذلك. في كل مرة مرّ فيها لبنان بأزمة، فتحت دول الخليج أبوابها وسمحت لأبنائنا بالحصول على تأشيرات، والعمل، وإرسال الأموال إلى لبنان. هذا أمر بالغ الأهمية بالنسبة لنا، ونحن نقدّر كل ما قاموا به. وتُعد المملكة العربية السعودية على وجه الخصوص هي الدولة الأكثر دعماً للبنان، وقد وقفت باستمرار إلى جانبه. كما كانت من الدول التي ساهمت في قيادة اتفاق الطائف الذي أنهى الحرب الأهلية في لبنان. ولا تزال المملكة العربية السعودية منخرطة بشكل كبير في دعم الاستقرار في لبنان. وأعتقد أن المملكة العربية السعودية والولايات المتحدة متفقتان حول مستقبل لبنان والمنطقة. كما أن أصدقاءنا الآخرين—فرنسا، المملكة المتحدة، مصر، قطر، وأوروبا بشكل عام—قد وقفوا إلى جانبنا وساعدونا عبر السنوات. لدينا العديد من الأصدقاء، لكن علينا أن نوحّد رؤيتنا حول كيفية المضي قدمًا. إن المفتاح الآن هو أن تقوم هذه الحكومة بنزع سلاح حزب الله، ومواصلة محادثات السلام في واشنطن من أجل التوصل إلى اتفاق سلام. فالاكتفاء بوقف الأعمال العدائية أو وقف إطلاق النار يعني أننا نُحضّر لحرب قادمة، ستؤدي إلى دمار جديد بعد بضع سنوات. Brian Katulis Middle East Institute

Fouad Makhzoumi

98,058 views • 4 months ago

I’ll add some context to my earlier tweet because I’m still mentally recovering from everything that happened. We were southwest of Kankakee, Illinois and we turned north to go down a dirt road with a bunch of chasers, and once we turned down that road everyone started turning around. I assumed everyone was turning around because of the wall cloud/tornado crossing it, well I was wrong. I couple people turned around and very large hail started hitting the road, so we use a persons driveway to turn around and once we got turned around, a big chunk of hail hit my passenger window (because I’m not the driver), presumably baseball sized hail or larger and nearly shattered the window, but thankfully it was soft enough that it didn’t. We went back east and north on the highway to get another view of the tornado and it goes into full multi-vortex like 30 yards in front of us as hail starts hitting the vehicle, so we turn back around to find a vehicle (I don’t wanna call them out directly) was parked in the middle of the road and was blocking it. That chaser moved and we went south to find more cars on the shoulder on the left side of the road and another car stopped in the southbound lanes and they were panicking and they were blocking us from going south. Thankfully they moved and we were able to get south. Around this time, we start getting text messages that my grandparents who live in Yukon were hearing tornado sirens and we’re getting into shelter. So once we got south of the supercell and were repositioning, I was looking at this while driving and directing my mom because I was trying to figure out what was going on. We were going north on a highway and accidentally missed the road to turn right because my mom didn’t see it and I wasn’t paying attention. So she is forced to make a very sharp right turn on a road that curves, and since we chase in a 13,000 pound Chevy dually 1 ton, we can’t exactly turn on a dime. She tries to turn once and can’t make it so she backs up, she then goes forward again thinking she can make it and she can’t, so she has to back up again. In the midst of this, 3 chasers including Connor Croff were behind us and we were getting honked at. I got told that over stream Connor was bad mouthing us, got mad at us, and said that we almost caused a 3 car pile up simply because we stopped at a stop sign, cleared it, then tried to make a sharp right turn but couldn’t make it all the way, and this made me and my mom very mad once we learned this because we didn’t almost cause a 3 car pile up. If we almost did, they shouldn’t have been driving that close to us and should’ve been giving us space. After this, we continued east and eventually ended up ahead of the supercell as it was producing a wedge tornado. We began driving north towards it and my mom told me there was a semi truck coming up beside us and I asked her to turn our CB Radio on and see if I could get into contact with that driver and get him to stop. In the act of doing all of this, I lost complete situational awareness and ended up putting us in a terrible position. I was able to get into contact with the driver who passed us on the left and managed to get him to stop. Once I got him to stop I looked back at radar to see that we were in the path of the tornado so we turned back south. As we were turning south the tornado was crossing the highway and winds increased significantly. Visibility was bad and we got hit by the tornado. We got hit by a satellite or a vortex on the south side of the tornado and almost blew us off of the road. By losing situational awareness, it got us into a terrible situation, and had we not been in our chase vehicle, Black Betty, that could’ve been a lot worse, but it takes a lot to move this truck, let alone roll it. We’re alright, I’m alright. The truck is alright and didn’t sustain any damage from that tornado, but I’m going to be taking a huge step back and reevaluating the way I chase. Thank god we’re alright.
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I’ll add some context to my earlier tweet because I’m still mentally recovering from everything that happened. We were southwest of Kankakee, Illinois and we turned north to go down a dirt road with a bunch of chasers, and once we turned down that road everyone started turning around. I assumed everyone was turning around because of the wall cloud/tornado crossing it, well I was wrong. I couple people turned around and very large hail started hitting the road, so we use a persons driveway to turn around and once we got turned around, a big chunk of hail hit my passenger window (because I’m not the driver), presumably baseball sized hail or larger and nearly shattered the window, but thankfully it was soft enough that it didn’t. We went back east and north on the highway to get another view of the tornado and it goes into full multi-vortex like 30 yards in front of us as hail starts hitting the vehicle, so we turn back around to find a vehicle (I don’t wanna call them out directly) was parked in the middle of the road and was blocking it. That chaser moved and we went south to find more cars on the shoulder on the left side of the road and another car stopped in the southbound lanes and they were panicking and they were blocking us from going south. Thankfully they moved and we were able to get south. Around this time, we start getting text messages that my grandparents who live in Yukon were hearing tornado sirens and we’re getting into shelter. So once we got south of the supercell and were repositioning, I was looking at this while driving and directing my mom because I was trying to figure out what was going on. We were going north on a highway and accidentally missed the road to turn right because my mom didn’t see it and I wasn’t paying attention. So she is forced to make a very sharp right turn on a road that curves, and since we chase in a 13,000 pound Chevy dually 1 ton, we can’t exactly turn on a dime. She tries to turn once and can’t make it so she backs up, she then goes forward again thinking she can make it and she can’t, so she has to back up again. In the midst of this, 3 chasers including Connor Croff were behind us and we were getting honked at. I got told that over stream Connor was bad mouthing us, got mad at us, and said that we almost caused a 3 car pile up simply because we stopped at a stop sign, cleared it, then tried to make a sharp right turn but couldn’t make it all the way, and this made me and my mom very mad once we learned this because we didn’t almost cause a 3 car pile up. If we almost did, they shouldn’t have been driving that close to us and should’ve been giving us space. After this, we continued east and eventually ended up ahead of the supercell as it was producing a wedge tornado. We began driving north towards it and my mom told me there was a semi truck coming up beside us and I asked her to turn our CB Radio on and see if I could get into contact with that driver and get him to stop. In the act of doing all of this, I lost complete situational awareness and ended up putting us in a terrible position. I was able to get into contact with the driver who passed us on the left and managed to get him to stop. Once I got him to stop I looked back at radar to see that we were in the path of the tornado so we turned back south. As we were turning south the tornado was crossing the highway and winds increased significantly. Visibility was bad and we got hit by the tornado. We got hit by a satellite or a vortex on the south side of the tornado and almost blew us off of the road. By losing situational awareness, it got us into a terrible situation, and had we not been in our chase vehicle, Black Betty, that could’ve been a lot worse, but it takes a lot to move this truck, let alone roll it. We’re alright, I’m alright. The truck is alright and didn’t sustain any damage from that tornado, but I’m going to be taking a huge step back and reevaluating the way I chase. Thank god we’re alright.

Max Archer

223,983 views • 6 months ago

The battles in Sweida, which everyone had heard about, took place. Some people came to us and told us that the Bedouin tribal sheikhs and the Druze sheikhs had agreed that we would remain brothers and that no problems would arise. Then they returned to us in the evening and told us not to leave our homes and that no one would harm us. I stayed in my home because I was going to work the next day. My husband and child stayed with me. My husband is sick and needs a joint replacement, so we did not leave. But our neighbors left their homes and fled the area. The next day, the Druze militia returned to our area and installed heavy weapons on a nearby hill, despite their promise not to harm us. They then targeted families and civilians in the neighborhood with mortar shells. We were directly targeted for two hours despite our attempts to flee the area. Then the Hajri militia searched every house individually, armed with handguns and rifles. They asked us if we had money, phones, weapons, or identification. We told them we were civilians, didn't have any weapons, and didn't know how to use them. My husband, a civilian, didn't know how to use them. I told them there was only a sick man and my child, and we were all trying to take shelter in our house. They told me I was now a prisoner. They also captured my husband and covered his face with the shirt he was wearing. I told them we were neighbors from Amad, and yesterday you had promised us safety and that we wouldn't be targeted. Why are you doing this to us now? They told me no. Then they did the same thing to the rest of the houses in the area. After that, someone came to us and, by chance, he knew my husband before. He hid us in one of the houses, gave us water to drink, and allowed my child to use the bathroom. He was kind and respectful, while the rest were just a criminal gang. Then they gathered everyone they had captured in the mosque. When I entered the mosque, I found many dead people. I found one of the children beheaded, and his mother was my neighbor. Did you see what happened? I saw them because the militia brought all the bodies to the mosque for burial. I saw one of our neighbors, who had difficulty moving due to rheumatism, and they shot him in the feet. Then they took him away, claiming they were going to treat him. Instead, they killed him in front of the mosque. This is what I saw with my own eyes. After that, because I was a nurse, they brought the injured to the mosque for treatment, even though they claimed they were taking them to the hospital. One of the family members was a doctor. I saw five of their injuries with my own eyes, all of them children. Then they made successive promises that they would release us that same day. The guards who escorted us were respectful. As for food, they offered us a cup of bulgur for every five people. I'm now trying to remember the details of what happened. There wasn't enough water, and we were over 1,000 prisoners. Why were they holding you? They told us we were prisoners, promising us they would release us. We held our belongings by the door, waiting for our release. Were they viewing you as civilian prisoners? We are prisoners of Of course. They held us captive so they could force us out of our homes and out of Sweida Governorate. I remember them asking me, "Why didn't you leave your home?" I told them you came to us yesterday, promised us safety, and told us not to leave our homes. out, so now they are asking why. When in reality, they wanted to forcibly displace us from our homes. Where are you now? We are now in Daraa Governorate. They brought us here today. 1/2 #SaveSweidaBedouins #AlHijriGangsKillChildren #Syria
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The battles in Sweida, which everyone had heard about, took place. Some people came to us and told us that the Bedouin tribal sheikhs and the Druze sheikhs had agreed that we would remain brothers and that no problems would arise. Then they returned to us in the evening and told us not to leave our homes and that no one would harm us. I stayed in my home because I was going to work the next day. My husband and child stayed with me. My husband is sick and needs a joint replacement, so we did not leave. But our neighbors left their homes and fled the area. The next day, the Druze militia returned to our area and installed heavy weapons on a nearby hill, despite their promise not to harm us. They then targeted families and civilians in the neighborhood with mortar shells. We were directly targeted for two hours despite our attempts to flee the area. Then the Hajri militia searched every house individually, armed with handguns and rifles. They asked us if we had money, phones, weapons, or identification. We told them we were civilians, didn't have any weapons, and didn't know how to use them. My husband, a civilian, didn't know how to use them. I told them there was only a sick man and my child, and we were all trying to take shelter in our house. They told me I was now a prisoner. They also captured my husband and covered his face with the shirt he was wearing. I told them we were neighbors from Amad, and yesterday you had promised us safety and that we wouldn't be targeted. Why are you doing this to us now? They told me no. Then they did the same thing to the rest of the houses in the area. After that, someone came to us and, by chance, he knew my husband before. He hid us in one of the houses, gave us water to drink, and allowed my child to use the bathroom. He was kind and respectful, while the rest were just a criminal gang. Then they gathered everyone they had captured in the mosque. When I entered the mosque, I found many dead people. I found one of the children beheaded, and his mother was my neighbor. Did you see what happened? I saw them because the militia brought all the bodies to the mosque for burial. I saw one of our neighbors, who had difficulty moving due to rheumatism, and they shot him in the feet. Then they took him away, claiming they were going to treat him. Instead, they killed him in front of the mosque. This is what I saw with my own eyes. After that, because I was a nurse, they brought the injured to the mosque for treatment, even though they claimed they were taking them to the hospital. One of the family members was a doctor. I saw five of their injuries with my own eyes, all of them children. Then they made successive promises that they would release us that same day. The guards who escorted us were respectful. As for food, they offered us a cup of bulgur for every five people. I'm now trying to remember the details of what happened. There wasn't enough water, and we were over 1,000 prisoners. Why were they holding you? They told us we were prisoners, promising us they would release us. We held our belongings by the door, waiting for our release. Were they viewing you as civilian prisoners? We are prisoners of Of course. They held us captive so they could force us out of our homes and out of Sweida Governorate. I remember them asking me, "Why didn't you leave your home?" I told them you came to us yesterday, promised us safety, and told us not to leave our homes. out, so now they are asking why. When in reality, they wanted to forcibly displace us from our homes. Where are you now? We are now in Daraa Governorate. They brought us here today. 1/2 #SaveSweidaBedouins #AlHijriGangsKillChildren #Syria

Omar Alhariri

25,585 views • 1 year ago

Take 3 minutes and watch this! RFK Jr. responds to the Trump assassination attempt with a call for national unity: “I think we all need to take a breath now and step back and see that this is the product of so much vigil and so much anger and that when we release that kind of anger into the universe, it inevitably comes back and reverberates with these kind of consequences. All all of us now have to start looking at each other and saying, ‘we're all Americans and we're better than this. This isn't the way that we want our country to look to our children and look to people around the world.’ We need to stop hating on each other. We need to stop telling other people in the world that the other guy is going to destroy the republic. We need to recognize we're all Americans. We all love our country. It's time now to pray for the president, pray for his family, for President Trump, and to start being kind to each other and to start being generous to each other and to resist all of the implications that we continue in this kind of vitriolic way. Let's have an election. Let's go forward as Americans. Let's love each other. Let's trust each other, and let's rebuild this country as a community.” “Somebody in my group showed me a text message, and then we turned on the television and we watched it as the story was evolving. I've been through this before with my own family. I was with my dad. He died in Los Angeles. I understand the implications that this has for our country, and probably as well as anybody does. I think my message to people is we need to all renounce violence. We need to renounce not just violence, but the hatred and vitriol, and we need to stop marginalizing each other. Let’s have a dialogue with each other about doing that and a conversation and a debate. When my uncle was ill in 1963, there was this kind of division again. There was this kind of hatred when my father was ill. It was in the midst of a time that was probably the most divisive in American history at that time since the American Civil War, and we're back into that kind of milieu today. We all need to take responsibility for it. When we pose something that is mean-spirited, that is condemnatory, that is poisonous towards somebody else, we're contributing to this atmosphere of violence.”
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Take 3 minutes and watch this! RFK Jr. responds to the Trump assassination attempt with a call for national unity: “I think we all need to take a breath now and step back and see that this is the product of so much vigil and so much anger and that when we release that kind of anger into the universe, it inevitably comes back and reverberates with these kind of consequences. All all of us now have to start looking at each other and saying, ‘we're all Americans and we're better than this. This isn't the way that we want our country to look to our children and look to people around the world.’ We need to stop hating on each other. We need to stop telling other people in the world that the other guy is going to destroy the republic. We need to recognize we're all Americans. We all love our country. It's time now to pray for the president, pray for his family, for President Trump, and to start being kind to each other and to start being generous to each other and to resist all of the implications that we continue in this kind of vitriolic way. Let's have an election. Let's go forward as Americans. Let's love each other. Let's trust each other, and let's rebuild this country as a community.” “Somebody in my group showed me a text message, and then we turned on the television and we watched it as the story was evolving. I've been through this before with my own family. I was with my dad. He died in Los Angeles. I understand the implications that this has for our country, and probably as well as anybody does. I think my message to people is we need to all renounce violence. We need to renounce not just violence, but the hatred and vitriol, and we need to stop marginalizing each other. Let’s have a dialogue with each other about doing that and a conversation and a debate. When my uncle was ill in 1963, there was this kind of division again. There was this kind of hatred when my father was ill. It was in the midst of a time that was probably the most divisive in American history at that time since the American Civil War, and we're back into that kind of milieu today. We all need to take responsibility for it. When we pose something that is mean-spirited, that is condemnatory, that is poisonous towards somebody else, we're contributing to this atmosphere of violence.”

End Tribalism in Politics

123,875 views • 2 years ago

I had the great honor of representing my homeland, Rwanda, and sharing the contribution of my work as an artist and cultural practitioner through Museum Ingabo at the Central Academy of Cultural and Tourism Administration in Beijing. During my presentation, I proudly introduced Rwanda as the Land of Brave People, I also featured two powerful videos from Visit Rwanda to showcase the breathtaking beauty and vibrancy of our country. MY SPEECH BEFORE PRESENTATION: “Ladies and Gentlemen, Members of the Central Academy of Cultural and Tourism Administration, AMAHORO. My name is King NGABO, born and raised in the land of a thousand hills, in the heart of Africa. A land of brave ancestors. A land that once kissed the darkness, but has now embraced the sun again. 31 years ago, Tragedy knocked on every door , from north to south, east to west. More than one million Tutsis were killed not because of what they did, but simply because of who they were. The 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi took away our families, leaving behind an endless pain and suffering we carry every day. But let me be clear: Genocide is a part of our history, not our culture. We have refused to be defined by it , even if it left a scar not only on us, but on the whole of humanity. Because when it was happening, The world was watching. The United Nations let our families down. Belgian soldiers evacuated their dogs alongside their citizens and left millions of people in the hands of militias. But gracefully and courageously, Rwandan sons and daughters, those who had been refugees since the 1959 discrimination , stood up and fought to stop the genocide. In just 100 days, over a million were killed. But the few who survived made a choice to never die again. Since then, Rwanda has become: A land of brave people, A land of dreamers and doers, A land that our generation proudly calls Home. Sweet home. Today, we live in peace. And we believe that the future is today, because tomorrow is safe and bright. Just like our Kinyarwanda word “EJO” which means both yesterday and tomorrow ,spoken in the present tense. Rooted deeply in our culture and belief, Speaking one language , Kinyarwanda, Carrying one identity , one we cherish every day. Young people in Rwanda are now the pioneers of things our fathers and mothers could only dream of because their lives were spent in refugee camps, fighting discrimination, and struggling just to survive. You see, my generation , we didn’t inherit gold or privilege. We inherited memory. And from that, we are building vision. This is what makes me “an artist “ who has had the honor of contributing to our national story by creating the first private museum to be added to the 8 national museums in our country. And that is what I am here to present to you today: MUSEUM INGABO. It’s a place where memory meets imagination, Where the past isn’t locked behind glass, But walks with us into the future. Chinese Embassy in Rwanda | Rwanda Embassy | China
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I had the great honor of representing my homeland, Rwanda, and sharing the contribution of my work as an artist and cultural practitioner through Museum Ingabo at the Central Academy of Cultural and Tourism Administration in Beijing. During my presentation, I proudly introduced Rwanda as the Land of Brave People, I also featured two powerful videos from Visit Rwanda to showcase the breathtaking beauty and vibrancy of our country. MY SPEECH BEFORE PRESENTATION: “Ladies and Gentlemen, Members of the Central Academy of Cultural and Tourism Administration, AMAHORO. My name is King NGABO, born and raised in the land of a thousand hills, in the heart of Africa. A land of brave ancestors. A land that once kissed the darkness, but has now embraced the sun again. 31 years ago, Tragedy knocked on every door , from north to south, east to west. More than one million Tutsis were killed not because of what they did, but simply because of who they were. The 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi took away our families, leaving behind an endless pain and suffering we carry every day. But let me be clear: Genocide is a part of our history, not our culture. We have refused to be defined by it , even if it left a scar not only on us, but on the whole of humanity. Because when it was happening, The world was watching. The United Nations let our families down. Belgian soldiers evacuated their dogs alongside their citizens and left millions of people in the hands of militias. But gracefully and courageously, Rwandan sons and daughters, those who had been refugees since the 1959 discrimination , stood up and fought to stop the genocide. In just 100 days, over a million were killed. But the few who survived made a choice to never die again. Since then, Rwanda has become: A land of brave people, A land of dreamers and doers, A land that our generation proudly calls Home. Sweet home. Today, we live in peace. And we believe that the future is today, because tomorrow is safe and bright. Just like our Kinyarwanda word “EJO” which means both yesterday and tomorrow ,spoken in the present tense. Rooted deeply in our culture and belief, Speaking one language , Kinyarwanda, Carrying one identity , one we cherish every day. Young people in Rwanda are now the pioneers of things our fathers and mothers could only dream of because their lives were spent in refugee camps, fighting discrimination, and struggling just to survive. You see, my generation , we didn’t inherit gold or privilege. We inherited memory. And from that, we are building vision. This is what makes me “an artist “ who has had the honor of contributing to our national story by creating the first private museum to be added to the 8 national museums in our country. And that is what I am here to present to you today: MUSEUM INGABO. It’s a place where memory meets imagination, Where the past isn’t locked behind glass, But walks with us into the future. Chinese Embassy in Rwanda | Rwanda Embassy | China

King Ngabo

23,652 views • 1 year ago

FNC Boaster: “These events are, as you can probably imagine, quite tiring. We go from the upper bracket into three games in a row for the final days. That, on top of lots of media, lots of features, lots of just random stuff that we do. Not to mention the fact that when we go into our games, there’s a lot of adrenaline. After every game, my body aches and my head hurts, and then we have to somehow get to sleep, and then we’ve got to wake up early and stuff. So there’s loads of factors into this. It’s not just simply, you go in and you play. And I think we started slow today, especially on Corrode and Lotus. A big map was Lotus for us, and we weren’t able to, just everything wasn’t going our way. The Odin was completely annihilating us. Then when we got to Abyss, we were like, ‘This is the last chance.’ And I felt very confident that we could win this one, because I felt like I knew everything they did on the attack side. And then, what were we like 1–11 down or something? I was like, ‘Oh bloody hell, this one’s going to be a tough one, isn’t it?’ We managed to do it, and then I was like, ‘Holy guacamole, the dream is alive!’ And it felt amazing, hearing the crowd and being able to just do that, because it would’ve been so disappointing of a final to just bomb out there. But in the FNATIC way, we fight back. Ascent, we’re starting to feel the kind of momentum. And then it gets to Sunset, a map that was the one kind of perma-ban we had, but we had some stuff on it. Unfortunately, it was just the crucial map for us to get the win, and some of the rounds just didn’t go our way, and that’s how VALORANT goes, you know. It felt like the rounds that we needed to win, we lost, and then they had an ultimate the next round, and that’s how brutal it is on defense. If we had just been able to win one of those rounds, like the bonus round, holy guacamole, we would’ve been loving life. And it was the difference of like a 1v1 in the end. So yeah, I mean, we tried our best. That’s why I’m not that [sad]. I am sad, obviously, but I’m not like how I was in Toronto, because I felt like we pushed, we tried our best, and I’m very happy with the boys. It would’ve been nice to win, but there’s only one winner, so it’s just a blessing to compete instead.” #VALORANTChampions via Pedro Romero
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FNC Boaster: “These events are, as you can probably imagine, quite tiring. We go from the upper bracket into three games in a row for the final days. That, on top of lots of media, lots of features, lots of just random stuff that we do. Not to mention the fact that when we go into our games, there’s a lot of adrenaline. After every game, my body aches and my head hurts, and then we have to somehow get to sleep, and then we’ve got to wake up early and stuff. So there’s loads of factors into this. It’s not just simply, you go in and you play. And I think we started slow today, especially on Corrode and Lotus. A big map was Lotus for us, and we weren’t able to, just everything wasn’t going our way. The Odin was completely annihilating us. Then when we got to Abyss, we were like, ‘This is the last chance.’ And I felt very confident that we could win this one, because I felt like I knew everything they did on the attack side. And then, what were we like 1–11 down or something? I was like, ‘Oh bloody hell, this one’s going to be a tough one, isn’t it?’ We managed to do it, and then I was like, ‘Holy guacamole, the dream is alive!’ And it felt amazing, hearing the crowd and being able to just do that, because it would’ve been so disappointing of a final to just bomb out there. But in the FNATIC way, we fight back. Ascent, we’re starting to feel the kind of momentum. And then it gets to Sunset, a map that was the one kind of perma-ban we had, but we had some stuff on it. Unfortunately, it was just the crucial map for us to get the win, and some of the rounds just didn’t go our way, and that’s how VALORANT goes, you know. It felt like the rounds that we needed to win, we lost, and then they had an ultimate the next round, and that’s how brutal it is on defense. If we had just been able to win one of those rounds, like the bonus round, holy guacamole, we would’ve been loving life. And it was the difference of like a 1v1 in the end. So yeah, I mean, we tried our best. That’s why I’m not that [sad]. I am sad, obviously, but I’m not like how I was in Toronto, because I felt like we pushed, we tried our best, and I’m very happy with the boys. It would’ve been nice to win, but there’s only one winner, so it’s just a blessing to compete instead.” #VALORANTChampions via Pedro Romero

VALO2ASIA

160,250 views • 1 year ago

Albanese went to China and bent the knee. He didn’t defend Australia, he smiled for the cameras, bowed to Beijing, and called it “diplomacy.” Meanwhile, CCP-linked businesses and wealthy Chinese buyers keep snapping up our land and homes. They’re tightening their grip while everyday Aussies sleep in tents and our factories and farms go bust. And what have we seen in Australia while Albanese was smiling for the cameras on his Chinese tour? Another record-breaking immigration surge. One month. Over net-100,000 new arrivals. And we’re in a housing crisis. Rents through the roof. Families waiting weeks for a doctor. Aussies pushed to the back of the queue in their own country. It’s not just wrong, it’s a slap in the face. Labor claims they’re “cutting migration.” It’s a lie. A con. The floodgates are wide open, and it’s everyday Australians who pay the price. One Nation warned this would happen. They called us names. Racist. Extreme. Now they’re silent because we were right. It is not just Labor that caused this. The Liberals backed it in. Same mistakes. Same betrayals. Australia belongs to Australians. Only One Nation still believes that. And we are the only party fighting to keep it that way.
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Albanese went to China and bent the knee. He didn’t defend Australia, he smiled for the cameras, bowed to Beijing, and called it “diplomacy.” Meanwhile, CCP-linked businesses and wealthy Chinese buyers keep snapping up our land and homes. They’re tightening their grip while everyday Aussies sleep in tents and our factories and farms go bust. And what have we seen in Australia while Albanese was smiling for the cameras on his Chinese tour? Another record-breaking immigration surge. One month. Over net-100,000 new arrivals. And we’re in a housing crisis. Rents through the roof. Families waiting weeks for a doctor. Aussies pushed to the back of the queue in their own country. It’s not just wrong, it’s a slap in the face. Labor claims they’re “cutting migration.” It’s a lie. A con. The floodgates are wide open, and it’s everyday Australians who pay the price. One Nation warned this would happen. They called us names. Racist. Extreme. Now they’re silent because we were right. It is not just Labor that caused this. The Liberals backed it in. Same mistakes. Same betrayals. Australia belongs to Australians. Only One Nation still believes that. And we are the only party fighting to keep it that way.

Pauline Hanson 🇦🇺

79,607 views • 1 year ago