After three years of war and genocide, during which I lost almost everything… my home, my job, my stability, and everything I had built through years of hard work. But they could not take my dream away from me. I am a civil engineer from Gaza. My workplace was destroyed, my life changed completely, and I found myself facing a reality I never chose. But I refuse to let the war be the end, and I refuse to spend the rest of my life held captive by what it destroyed. Today, I am starting over, not because the road has become easier, but because giving up is not an option. This semester, I began studying for a master’s degree in Geomatics Engineering, taking my first steps toward reclaiming my future and fulfilling my dream of becoming a successful engineer who contributes his knowledge and experience to rebuilding my homeland and reconstructing what the war has destroyed. I may have lost years of my life, countless opportunities, and the security I had every right to enjoy, but I still have the determination to start from scratch, even if I have to carve my way through the rubble. We, the people of Gaza, may have our homes destroyed, our jobs taken away, and our dreams scattered by war, but it will never decide on our behalf how our story ends. This is not merely the beginning of my master’s studies; it is the beginning of a new battle, a battle of knowledge, determination, and rebuilding the future. I will keep moving forward, for myself, for my children, and for a homeland that deserves to rise again. 🇵🇸❤️ A photo from my bachelor’s degree graduation celebrations in Civil Engineering.❤️

It is worth noting that this announcement comes one month after new director Luke Lindberg took over as executive director of the World Food Program. Lindberg was handpicked by Donald Trump, having worked in the US department of agriculture. He is a proud backer of wanted war-criminal Benjamin Netanyahu, and an 'America First' proponent who sees it as a priority to export US agricultural products through the humanitarian system. And here he is in 2023 proudly posting a picture of himself with a US-made sniper rifle to be sent to israel, the country currently committing genocide in Gaza, as the WFP reduces food aid.

France is burning. End mass migration or the same will come to Australia.

Please, my friend, lend a helping hand. We urgently need $550 to pay off our mounting living expenses. I'm unable to provide anything for my family. The only grocery store I used to buy from has stopped serving us because of the debt. Please help me 💔🙏🏼 chuffed.org/project/149703

They need everyone to hate Muslims for no reason to keep them from hating Israel for very good reasons.

Western media played a key role "in marginalizing Palestinian voices and reproducing Israeli narratives, .... which ultimately legitimized atrocities." Important new UN report on media complicity in the genocide. Startlingly almost entirely ignored by western media. /1 thenational.scot/news/266466…

Muslim slaves were sometimes vastly more educated than their American masters. In 1788, Thomas Foster, a poorly educated farmer in Natchez, Mississippi, bought a man called Abd al-Rahman Ibrahima. Foster called him “Prince.” The fascinating thing is that he REALLY WAS a prince. A Muslim from Futa Jallon, in present-day Guinea, Ibrahima had studied in the great Islamic centres of Timbuktu and Djenné. He could read and write Arabic, spoke several African languages and had commanded soldiers in his father's army. He was vastly better educated than the American farmer who now owned him. For FORTY YEARS, this highly educated African worked on Foster's plantation. According to his biographer, he even traced Arabic letters in the sand to keep his knowledge alive when he had no access to books or writing materials. In 1826, he wrote a passage from the Qur'an. The writing eventually reached Morocco and helped set in motion diplomatic efforts involving US President John Quincy Adams. He was finally freed in 1828, aged about 66, on condition that he leave America. His wife Isabella gained her freedom too, but they had to leave their children behind in slavery. He reached Liberia in 1829 and died there before he could make it back to Guinea. One complication worth mentioning: his own West African kingdom had participated in the slave trade. History is rarely a tidy morality play. But the story rather spectacularly demolishes the comforting old fantasy that European and American slaveholders were bringing civilization to supposedly primitive Africans. The man with the superior education was the property. The man with the inferior education was the master. Today, in a four letter location, we see one side with all the fighter jets oppress an astonishingly educated population, with both men and women often achieving a level of intellectual richess rarely attained by the American who supply the bombs or the mad dog mobs which attack the locals, journalists and visiting diplomats. Particularly odd is how many highly skilled physicians and engineers the oppressed side manages to produce in conditions that are hardly pedagocially optimal circumstances.

💔 IN GAZA, EVEN PUTTING FOOD ON YOUR FAMILY’S TABLE HAS BECOME A DAILY STRUGGLE. Prices are soaring, aid is shrinking, and I’m terrified of failing to provide food for my family while my sick mother-in-law desperately needs insulin. Even $5 or $10 can make a difference. Please, donate, quote & repost. Help me protect my family. 🙏 chuffed.org/project/184186 @hsnyldrm1979 @Lorena100114 @fOrGiVeNcHy

I have spent perhaps five years working this out. And when it comes to anyone who needs care in this country, from kids to patients to the disabled to the elderly or wounded, Australia is headed in the wrong direction. My hypothesis is that, by 2037, Australia could have a largely government-funded but privately controlled human services system. Government will still pay for care. In fact, it may spend more than ever. But it will increasingly cease to be the organisation that decides how care is delivered, employs the people delivering it, or directly controls the infrastructure on which that care depends. Instead, government will become the purchaser of services, the setter of financial targets, the collector of personal information and, increasingly, a financial partner of the businesses delivering those services. A relatively small number of large organisations could control much of the infrastructure through which Australians access disability support, aged care, veterans’ services, mental health support, employment assistance, childcare and social housing. Some will be conventional private equity businesses. Others will be investment-backed not-for-profits and social enterprises. Their ownership structures will differ, but many will operate in a system designed around government contracts, economies of scale, financial returns and measurable outcomes. The central change will be that government increasingly purchases an outcome rather than guaranteeing the support a person needs. The foundation for several parts of this already exists. It is being actively developed and some of the legislation passed last week, in the midst of that media flurry, will facilitate this happening. It is no single part of legislation but many parts, taken together, that give rise to this. And the most important point is that nobody needs to secretly coordinate the entire system for it to develop this way. The financial incentives, procurement rules and investment structures can drive it in that direction on their own. Australia is headed in the wrong direction. Our government is not listening to what people want and need. Next week we will be holding a meeting and asking people to talk about not just these issues, but solutions. Sign up on the enoughaustralia.com website and we’ll send you more information. Because we are the third richest country in the OECD. And there is enough to go round.

Dear friends, I need your help to buy food, milk, and other necessities. Donations have been very low for the past 10 days. Please, any donation, no matter how small, would make a big difference. chuffed.org/project/159343…

The silent famine is beginning in Gaza. 💔 Aid funding is shrinking, market prices are soaring, and people's pockets are empty. Families can no longer afford to feed their children. Please support and donate to my family. Every contribution makes a difference. 🙏❤️