Carsten Grötzinger

@c_groetzinger

12 Jul 2023

Sviatoslav Hnizdovskyi

@s_hnizdovskyi

11 Jul 2023

A combat medic from Lviv, Natalia Depa, was killed at the front.

In civil life, Natalia was a cosmetologist and owned a business, but from the beginning of the Russian invasion, she decided to defend Ukraine with her father and brother.

“She died for us to live in peace and thers. Always smiling and cheerful, a brave heart, a friend who is always ready to help.” - say Natalia's friends. R.I.P.

Carsten Grötzinger

@c_groetzinger

7h

Jan von Hein@JanvonHein1

Nov 11

Das schwedische Parlament hat eine Verfassungsänderung gebilligt, die es ermöglicht, Doppelstaatern die Staatsbürgerschaft zu entziehen, wenn sie diese auf betrügerische Weise erlangt haben oder wenn sie wegen Verbrechen verurteilt wurden, die die nationalen Interessen gefährden.

Anna Vero Wendland@VeroWendland

Nov 11

Daniel Gräber

@dg_graeber

Nov 10

CDU/CSU gaben sich 2024 große Mühe, in akribischer Detailarbeit aufzuklären, wie raffiniert der Anti-Atom-Staat der Grünen 2022 die Zerstörung der letzten deutschen Kernkraftwerke trotz Energie-Jahrhundertkrise durchgesetzt hat. Genauestens nachzulesen unter dserver.bundestag.de/btd/20/146/201… (ab Seite 99 „Feststellungen und Bewertung der Fraktion der CDU/CSU“).

Der von Robert Habeck an der Spitze der mächtigen Bundesnetzagentur installierte Parteifreund Klaus Müller kommt in diesem Bericht des Untersuchungsausschusses auf etlichen Seiten vor. Doch statt auf dessen Rücktritt zu drängen belohnt ihn die Union jetzt mit einer zweiten Amtszeit.

Ralf Reski 🇩🇪🇪🇺@ReskiLab

Nov 11

Dixie Forever

@DixieForeverRJ

Nov 10

African Tippu Tip owned roughly 10,000 slaves in the 1890s. That was decades after the American Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the 13th Amendment.

While white European societies had already abolished the slave trade and then slavery itself this man was still ral Africa, burning villages, chaining captives, and selling them.

Tippu Tip became a famous slave and ivory trader of the East African interior. He led armed caravans of thousands of men hundreds of miles inland, raiding villages at dawn, killing the weak or elderly on the spot, and marching the rest in coffles to the coast. Roughly one-third of the captives often died on the journey.

The survivors were sold for Zanzibar’s clove plantations, for domestic service, and for export to the Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf. Women and girls were routinely taken as sex slaves and concubines—standard practice in the Arab trade for centuries.

By 1895 he controlled seven plantations worked by about 10,000 slaves. He built a personal commercial and political domain in the eastern Congo, confirmed or replaced local chiefs, monopolized the ivory trade, and became one of the richest men of his era.

He assisted European explorers when it suited him, then watched from comfortable retirement in Zanzibar as European powers finished suppressing the trade he had helped expand. He died in 1905.

This photograph of him seated in turban and robes, staff in hand, is the classic image of the merchant who got rich selling other Africans.

You can earn a degree in African American studies and never hear Tippu Tip’s name, or the names of the African kings and Arab traders who actually captured and sold Africans who crossed the Atlantic or the Indian. Today’s universities treat the Arab and Swahili caravan Slave traders as footnotes or ignored entirely.

This is not an accident. Acknowledging that African elites and Middle Eastern buyers ran the supply side for centuries undercuts the simple narrative that frames slavery as a uniquely white-European or American invention.

British whites abolished the slave trade in 1807 and slavery in its colonies in 1833, then spent decades and enormous resources on naval patrols to stop the trade. The United States followed in 1865. These white societies were among the first large-scale institutional and systematic bans on slavery in history.

Slavery and the open slave trade continued in Africa and the Islamic world long afterward. Legal chattel slavery was abolished in Saudi Arabia only in 1962; Mauritania was the last country to ban it on paper, in 1981. Tippu Tip’s operation in the 1880s and 1890s was not a dying remnant; it was still large, profitable, and expanding under Arab-Swahili leadership.

The peak slave population in the United States in 1860 was about 3.95 million. Modern estimates of people in forced labor, forced marriage, and other forms of modern slavery put the global total near 50 million TODAY!!!.

Africa alone accounts for millions of slaves TODAY; the Arab states also show some of the highest prevalence rates in the world TODAY. Absolute numbers of people in modern slavery in Africa and the Middle East today exceed the peak historical figure for the United States. Definitions differ—historical chattel slavery is not identical to every form of forced marriage or debt bondage—but the scale of ongoing exploitation is not small.

Tippu Tip was certainly not the only African slave trader. Arab and Swahili traders from Zanzibar and the Omani sphere ran the East African trade for generations, selling captives north into the Middle East for labor, military service.

European societies were among the first to abolish slavery and enforce the ban. That fact is routinely omitted from the version of history taught in American universities. The men who owned ten thousand slaves in the 1890s while marching deep into the African interior should not be ignored. -RJ

Carsten Grötzinger

@c_groetzinger

Nov 11

SMiRK

@smirkone

Nov 11

Schaut mal wie Greta Thunberg euch auslacht XD

Kai Nielsen

@KaiNielsen67

Nov 10

WELT

@welt

Nov 9

CDU will Klaus Müller offenbar für zweite Amtszeit als Netzagenturchef vorschlagen to.welt.de/MOQf7qp