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A prayer for whoever reads this: May the battle you're fighting silently end in victory. May God replace your worry with peace, your delay with progress, and your struggle with unexpected favor. May the phone call, message, opportunity, or breakthrough you've been waiting for arrive sooner than you imagine. And may this week mark the beginning of a testimony you will never forget. If you're claiming this prayer for yourself or someone you love, type AMEN. ๐Ÿ™โค๏ธ World cup
On the morning of November 30, 2021, in a courtroom in Frankfurt, a judge read out a verdict that no court anywhere had ever delivered before. The defendant, an Iraqi former ISIS member, was guilty of genocide. The specific crime: the death of a five-year-old Yazidi girl named Reda. He and his wife had purchased Reda and her mother as slaves in 2015. As punishment for wetting the bed, he had chained the child to a window in the open sun in Fallujah, Iraq, in heat that reached fifty-one degrees Celsius, and left her there until she died. The mother survived. She testified. It was the first time any court anywhere in the world had convicted any member of the Islamic State of genocide. It was the first time any court anywhere had ruled in law that what was done to the Yazidi people was a genocide. The institutional path that made it possible to use that word, in that courtroom, six years after Reda died, runs straight back through the United Nations to a twenty-two-year-old Yazidi woman who, in December 2015, decided not to speak in generalities. Her name is Nadia Murad. She was born in Kocho, a Yazidi village of about seventeen hundred people in the Sinjar region of northern Iraq. On August 3, 2014, ISIS fighters surrounded Kocho. They separated the men from the women, took the men to the edge of the village, and shot them. They took the older women and shot them too. Among the dead were six of Nadia's brothers and her mother. The younger women โ€” Nadia among them โ€” were loaded onto buses and driven to Mosul. There, they were sold. She was twenty-one years old. She would spend the next three months in captivity, passed between captors under what ISIS called sabaya โ€” sex slavery โ€” until, in early November, she found a door left unlocked and ran. A Muslim family in Mosul, at enormous risk to themselves, sheltered her and helped get her out. She crossed into northern Iraq, then a refugee camp, then Germany, which granted her asylum. She was, by every standard the world recognizes, free. She was also, by every standard the world recognizes, free to be silent. Most survivors of mass sexual violence are silent. Nadia Murad chose differently. On December 16, 2015, she walked into the chamber of the United Nations Security Council, accompanied by the human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, and described what had been done to her and her community. She did not speak in generalities. She did not use the diplomatic euphemisms โ€” gender-based violence, crimes, abuses. She used the names of things. She said the women had been sold. She said the children were as young as nine. She said her mother had been executed. She said what had been done to her. Then she made the demand the testimony had been built to make: international recognition that this was a genocide, and prosecution of the people who had committed it. The room was silent. The transcript exists in the UN archives. Here is the part that turns a speech into law. Vague testimony, by design, cannot become evidence. A genocide conviction in a court of law requires testimony specific enough that a judge can rule on intent, on system, on patterns of conduct. Nadia's testimony, and the testimony of other survivors she helped gather in the years that followed, was specific enough to do that work. In 2016, the United Nations Commission of Inquiry formally determined that ISIS's treatment of the Yazidis met the legal definition of genocide. The United States, the European Parliament, and the UK Parliament reached the same determination in the same months. In 2017, by Security Council resolution, the UN established a specialized investigative team โ€” UNITAD โ€” whose job was collecting evidence to courtroom standard, so prosecutions could one day take place. In 2018, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, shared with the Congolese gynecologist Denis Mukwege, for their work to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war. She used the acceptance speech to remind the room of the women still missing. And in 2021, in Frankfurt, in a case in which Amal Clooney represented Reda's mother, the architecture caught up with the testimony. There have been further German convictions since. There are open prosecutions in other countries. UNITAD's investigative files have been used in courts where the crimes themselves happened in Iraq but the accused was found in Europe, under universal-jurisdiction laws that allow genocide to be tried wherever the perpetrator turns up. Nadia Murad is thirty-two years old now. She continues to travel, to testify, to run Nadia's Initiative, which rebuilds water systems, clinics, and schools in Sinjar โ€” the region she came from. By the most recent figures, more than two thousand eight hundred Yazidi women and children are still missing or held in captivity. Mass graves are still being excavated. The first time a court used the word genocide for what was done to her people, the year was 2021. The first time anyone said it in a chamber where the law could hear it was December 16, 2015. The woman who said it was twenty-two. She did not speak in generalities. If her story moved you, drop one word in the comments โ€” Nadia, witness, evidence, anything that comes to mind. Tap the like button so more people find this story. The page is small. Every reaction helps us keep telling stories like this one.
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GetPOD UK retweeted
Powerful testimony Thank you @kunocaver for sharing
Replying to @KathrynPorter26
I used to work in the ambulance service. . It cannot be fixed. It actively recruited yes men over my 12 year period. It took on too much. It went from accident and emergency plus serious medical refer transfers to a catch all for every social problem in the country. It started with every out of hours GP request. So from 5pm to 9am we took on most those calls. The service then open up the 999 call handling centre to cheaper unqualified staff who followed crib sheets. Previously, older experienced paramedics went into call centres as they got too old to be hauling 25 stone men and women up and down stairs. So more ambulance were sent to "non jobs". Then there was a benefits boom. I had a call to a girl on benefits who didn't have the money to get a taxi to the GP who was 1 mile from where she lived. She didn't want to walk with the push chair. Her child had the sniffles. It was the beginning of the state dependent generation. I had a female with a missing tampon after sex, she lived 400 yards from the local hospital. I drove 20 miles across the county on blues before getting the real story. It was not the reported haemorrhage. Then we started getting everything, Pissed up at the weekend and cut yourself in your beer bottle, call an ambulance to get your pissed up arse 20 miles to the nearest hospital for stitches Having a pissed up mental health crisis at 2am, call an ambulance. Flown in from America for recently diagnosed af, get an ambulance, Need out of hours cancer care, call an ambulance. Every other NHS department closed is doors at 6pm and everything went to the ambulance service. Granny got d&v, call an ambulance. Having your 5th child so you can get a bigger house on benefits, you get an ambulance to take you to hospital. When I started, we used to get 2 to 3 real calls per 12 hr shift. 5 was busy. You worked within an area. When I left there was no such thing as a 12 hr shift. 14 hr became norm, you drive over 3 counties and never stopped. When I started the training was free, in-house and you could qualify within 2.5 years. Now it's A 4 year expensive degree. Plus extra driving licence upgrade costs. No-one I worked with remained within the ambulance service. Everyone has left. The crap you're sent to is astonishing whilst the really sick people die on the streets. All the good staff and managers left. Only the yes men stayed and the decline continues. I'm out of touch now but it doesn't sound like things improved. There aren't more ambulance stations, there are fewer. There were fewer ambulances in my time also. There was always plenty of money for courses in diversity, bed sores, the patients rights when they are attacking you etc. Human resource departments and tick box departments certainly grew more than the front line staff department, in line with every other NHS department. The culture of state dependency is also irreversibly high Everyone feels they are entitled to an ambulance, because we've encouraged everyone that their truth is valid. In the meantime, those that really need it, go without. The population continues to rise, the aging population rises but the amount of ambulances doesn't. For those who think illegal immigrants don't use the NHS , you need to realise they are the first to use it. If you think illegal economic migrant numbers are ok, just wait till you here about the illegal health care migrants. Even before we opened our borders to 3rd worlders, when the EU first opened up to Poland and then Bulgaria, the health care migration was astonishing. I previously had no idea about the mismatch We took in thousands that didn't have access to mental health centres or even deaf support. But that's a story for another day. We're in the mess we put ourselves with prime in charge incapable of turning it around. My advice. If you can get yourself to hospital, do it. You could die waiting for that ambulance to save you.
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Stroyzan retweeted
The Slander of โ€œScholars for Dollarsโ€ and the Reality of the Scholars of the Sunnah: A Powerful Personal Testimony! Shaykh Sulayman Ar-Ruhayli ุญูุธู‡ ุงู„ู„ู‡
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skizo(โœธ,โœธ) KGeN retweeted
I donโ€™t tell my story because I donโ€™t like sympathy! Just know Iโ€™m a walking testimony. You wouldnโ€™t believe HALF the stuff Iโ€™ve been through because of the way I carry myself! I am Forever BLESSED! Literally protected by the grace of GOD! Always remember you never know what a person is going through, went through or came through!๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿพ
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Roar Mikalsen retweeted
Testimony by Israeli ministers daughter of ritual sex abuse in the Knesset. She committed suicide on March 16, 2026. "I'm tied in a bed. I can't move at all. There are a lot of people around me. They're holding a snake and very cruelly put it inside me. The pain is horrible. They pull it out, all covered in blood. They butcher it, making me drink the mixed blood and drink it themselves... The explanation was that now I'm basically a gateway. Now I'm sacred. Anyone who wants to join the 'family' has to go through me." - Knesset committee hearing about the subject of ritual abuse. July 27, 2025.
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Yes. Trial reports and testimony confirm Alec Adamson (and friend) were **selling** marijuana and mushrooms to David Pleasant, who arrived in place of his sister to buy. Pleasant got in the car, refused to pay, put Adamson in a chokehold, punched the friend, then fled. Adamson got out and shot him. Adamson was convicted of aggravated assault (not murder) and sentenced to 4 years. The prior claim had buyer/seller reversed. Facts matter.
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macademy Oslo retweeted
Pam Bondi removed this testimony from the Epstein Files.
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MORAL Authority retweeted
Chief Provincial Inspector Samuel Mashaba of the Gauteng Traffic Police (GTP) concluded his testimony at the #MadlangaCommission
#MadlangaCommission [RECAP] Chief Provincial Inspector Samuel Mashaba of the Gauteng Traffic Police (GTP) was arrested by the Hawks at the crime scene of the Aeroton drug bust on a charge of defeating the ends of justice. He was arrested with Warrant Officer Marumo Magane, Warrant Officer Boy Steve Phakula, and a civilian named Tumelo Nku. He is alleged to have conducted an unauthorised drug bust, falsely identified himself as a Hawks operative, and participated in attempting to steal the cocaine. They were apprehended after being caught offloading the R300-million cocaine consignment from a shipping container onto a private, unmarked Nissan bakkie without following any legal protocols. Mashaba and his co-accused persons had no legal authority to conduct a drug bust in the first place. Following his arrest, Mashaba and his fellow officers immediately launched a counter-complaint with the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) against the senior police generals who intervened at the scene, claiming they were the ones being interfered with.
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Garbage TERF ๐Ÿง™โ€โ™€๏ธ Grammie retweeted
๐Ÿšจ WATCH: In an explosive testimony, reporter Catherine Herridge testifies that CBS News locked her out of the building and seized all her files. She said she was working with sources to "expose government corruption." "CBS Newsโ€™ decision to seize my reporting records crossed a red line that I believe should never be crossed by any media organization." "Multiple sources said they were concerned that by working with me to expose government corruption and misconduct they would be identified and exposed." "CBS News locked me out of the building and seized hundreds of pages of my reporting files, including confidential source information."
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facebook.com/share/p/1KzrVygโ€ฆ โœจ๐’๐๐„๐‚๐ˆ๐€๐‹ ๐’๐”๐๐ƒ๐€๐˜ ๐Œ๐„๐„๐“๐ˆ๐๐† ๐ˆ๐ #๐Œ๐€๐ˆ๐_๐Š๐‡๐€๐Œ๐๐‘๐€_๐‚๐‡๐”๐‘๐‚๐‡ (๐Ÿ๐Ÿ’-๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ”-๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ”)โœจ โœจ These testimonies are not just storiesโ€”they are living proof of God's healing, deliverance, and breakthrough power. Through every testimony, Jesus Christ is glorified, and faith is strengthened. ๐Ÿ™Œ The same God who did it before can do it again. Stay connected for service updates By:- Church Media Team #SundayMeeting #AnkurNarulaMinistries #thechurchofsignsandwonders
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Caption hook:* โ€œPraise Him now. The testimony is loading.โ€
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The tree committed suicide, and it chose Wole Okeโ€™s forest to do it. _ร€mรฌ แปฬ€rแปฬ€ nรญ ล„ sแป tแบนฬlแบนฬ€_, signs speak before words do. The sign was served, the venue was selected, and the process server is Hon. Wole Oke himself. Caesar laughed at Calpurnia and embraced the Senate knives. If Adeleke laughs at Ijebu-Jesa, he embraces the August ballots. _Tรญ แปmแปdรฉ bรก subรบ, รก wo iwรกjรบ; tรญ ร gbร lagbร  bรก subรบ, รก wo แบนฬ€yรฌn_, when a child falls, he looks ahead; when an elder falls, he looks back. The Accord party has fallen and shattered in Okeโ€™s backyard. It should look back at what it did wrong. The stage in Ijebu-Jesa did not merely fall. It filed an affidavit. Location: Oriade/Obokun Federal Constituency. Witness: Hon. Wole Oke. Verdict: Rejected. In the grammar of omens, that is not a coincidence. That is a sworn testimony. That is a coronation invite addressed to APC. Like Calpurniaโ€™s dream, victory has been dreamt, staged, and delivered. The Ides of August is coming, and Ijebu-Jesa has already voted.
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powari retweeted
The witness gives testimony. And lies on the stand
Ema is breakdancing right next to Klavier as he has some sort of medical emergency on the ground. Brilliant
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