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Queen Elizabeth Is Rumored to Have a Secret, Private Facebook Account, Apparently

by KAYLEIGH ROBERTS
NOV 27, 2021
Today in random things about the royal family: The Queen might have a secret Facebook account. Possibly.

The rumor is apparently such a ~thing~ that actual royal experts are being asked about it. While getting a definitive answer to a question like this a huge long shot (unless Prince Harry decides to include an AMA-style section in his upcoming memoir), experts aren't totally ruling it out. According to British journalist Jonathan Sacerdoti, the idea of the Queen secretly having a private Facebook account is possible because she's actually very tech savvy—especially since the pandemic forced her to go digital with more and more meetings and engagements.

"There’ve been reports that the queen has a secret Facebook account, which I can’t quite believe [because] she is 95 years old," Sacerdoti told Us Weekly. "So, I have trouble sometimes with new technology, but she seems completely able to pick these things up. We saw her during lockdown with all the Zoom calls and the video calls. And now, since her health’s been not quite as good as it was in the past, she’s been doing more [appearances] that way. And now we find out about the Facebook account. It’s extraordinary to think how readily and easily she picks up these new technologies."
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/a38366477/queen-elizabeth-secret-facebook-account/

These figures alone present a major insight into the number of male victims who are over-looked. But it is the evidence Mankind uncovered as to victims’ experiences of the police that was the most worrying. Some 39 per cent of men who reported their abuse to the police were asked to leave the station and 26 per cent were arrested themselves. Overall 52 per cent of men who spoke to Mankind described the help available to them as ‘non-existent’.

We cannot allow this state of affairs to continue. That is why I have launched a written declaration in the European Parliament calling on all European Countries to look at how they handle male victims of domestic violence.

I have called on Member States to ensure that police forces and social services are properly trained in how to deal with men as well as women who come to them for help and to conduct a public information campaign highlighting the problem of domestic violence against men in order to help change social attitudes towards men who are abused by their partners.

Finally, I have also called on the European Commission to undertake research into the full extent of domestic violence against men across Europe.
Changes need to be made at both a European and a national level. In the UK there are 500 refuges for ‘battered women’, which is a great achievement over the last few years but still more needs to be done to address violence against women.
However, there are only nine refuges provided for men.
We need comprehensive action to ensure that victims of domestic violence whether they are women or men get the help that they need.

Currently the European funding programme ‘DAPHNE II’, which deals with issues such as domestic violence, describes itself as being available to help ‘vulnerable women and children’. While in reality money can go to groups dealing with male victims as well, without detailed knowledge of how the programme works it is impossible for charities to know this.

There is work to do and in the coming weeks, months and years and I will fight to raise the profile of domestic violence against men in the hope that soon we will be in a world where people like my friend will no longer be ashamed or afraid to speak out and where the police, social services and every branch of government has the knowledge and ability to offer real help.
* Liz Lynne is Liberal Democrat member of the European Parliament for the West Midlands.
Source: https://www.business-live.co.uk/economic-development/male-victims-untold-stories-domestic-3948190

The overall issue of domestic violence does not go unheard.
We regularly see celebrities, experts and politicians appearing in the media to condemn the crime. We also see governments and legislators at a local, national and European level attempting to create programmes that aim to prevent the violence and aid the victims.
These campaigns and projects, however, are targeted solely at women. It is true that we need serious action to stop domestic violence against women and it is something I have been campaigning on for years.

We mustn’t ignore the fact that men can be victims too. When I have raised this point in the past I have been met with scepticism. I have been told the problem is too small to be of any real concern. When met with this, I have often thought back to my friend, too ashamed to go to the police or admit the problem and it has made me ask – is this issue really as small as we think?
It was this question which made me decide that more must be done to tackle domestic violence against men. I started to look into it and discovered some research done by the UK-based charity Mankind. Mankind are the biggest UK charity involved with domestic violence against men though they are sadly under-funded. In 2006 they did some research surrounding the calls they receive through their hotline. The results were deeply concerning.

According to Mankind’s study, as much as 40 per cent of all domestic violence may actually be committed against men. Up to one in six men may be at risk of domestic violence in their life time and as many as one man a fortnight is killed as a result of domestic violence.
Source : https://www.business-live.co.uk/economic-development/male-victims-untold-stories-domestic-3948190

<< Up to one in six men may be at risk of domestic violence in their life time and as many as one man a fortnight is killed as a result of domestic violence.>>
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Domestic violence is not solely a female issue – men can be victims too, explains MEP Liz Lynne.
A few years ago a friend of mine started to have accidents. They would consistently have cuts or bruises and seemed to have lost the normal energy and spirit which so many people loved about them.

It was clear to me that something was wrong. I confronted them and was met with a tearful confession – my friend was a victim of domestic violence. I immediately told them that they needed to go to the police and press charges. I firmly believe that there is never an excuse for violence and that those who bully and abuse should face punishment.

My friend looked at me: “I can’t go to the police,” they said, “they wouldn’t believe me.” It was then it struck me. My friend was not the type of person that people normally perceive to be the victim of domestic violence – my friend was male.

Eventually, thankfully, my friend left his wife after she had pushed him through a plate-glass window. But ever since I have been appalled and ashamed that he had to be pushed to such extremes before the threat to his safety outweighed the difficulty of coming forward. He, like many men, was a victim of a crime hidden behind a social stereotype that says a man who is abused by their wife or partner cannot be a real man.

The fact is that domestic violence, in all its forms, is one of the most cowardly and detestable crimes occurring in both the UK and indeed the rest of Europe today. Behind far too many closed doors lie examples of appalling brutality, mental torture and physical abuse.

Source: https://www.business-live.co.uk/economic-development/male-victims-untold-stories-domestic-3948190

Libya's election commission has said that Saif Al Islam Al Gaddafi, the son of the former ruler and a major candidate in December's planned presidential election, is ineligible to run.

Gaddafi was one of 25 candidates disqualified in an initial decision on Wednesday pending an appeals process that will ultimately be decided by the judiciary. Some 98 Libyans registered as candidates.
https://www.trtworld.com/africa/libya-s-election-body-blocks-gaddafi-s-son-s-presidential-bid-51988

isaiah4life:
News like this can never never surface in Nigeria.

Buhari enrolled at age 19 in the Nigerian Military Training College (NMTC) in 1962.[16] In February 1964, the college was upgraded to an officer commissioning unit of the Nigerian Army and renamed the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) (prior to 1964, the Nigerian government sent cadets who had completed their NMTC preliminary training to mostly Commonwealth military academies for officer cadet training).


Civil war
Buhari was assigned to the 1st Division under the command of Lt. Col Mohammed Shuwa,

the division had temporarily moved from Kaduna to Makurdi at the onset of the Nigerian Civil War. The 1st division was divided into sectors and then battalions [22]
with Shuwa assisted by sector commanders Martin Adamu and Sule Apollo who was later replaced by Theophilus Danjuma. Buhari's initial assignment was as Adjutant and Company Commander 2 battalion unit, Second Sector Infantry of the 1st Division.

The 2 battalion was one of the units that participated in the first actions of the war, they started from Gakem near Afikpo and moved towards Ogoja with support from Gado Nasko's artillery squad.

[23] They reached and captured Ogoja within a week with the intention of advancing through the flanks to Enugu, the rebel capital.[24] Buhari was briefly the 2 battalion's Commander and led the battalion to Afikpo to link with the 3rd Marine Commando and advance towards Enugu through Nkalagu and Abakaliki. However, before the move to Enugu, he was posted to Nsukka as Brigade Major of the 3rd Infantry Brigade under Joshua Gin who would later become battle fatigued and replaced by Isa Bukar.[25] Buhari stayed with the infantry for a few months as the Nigerian army began to adjust tactics learnt from early battle experiences.

Instead of swift advances, the new tactics involved securing and holding on to the lines of communications and using captured towns as training ground to train new recruits brought in from the army depots in Abeokuta and Zaria.

[25] In 1968, he was posted to the 4 Sector also called the Awka sector which was charged to take over the capture of Onitsha from Division 2. The sector's operations was within the Awka-Abagana-Onitsha region which was important to Biafran forces because it was a major source of food supply. It was in the sector that Buhari's group suffered a lot of casualties trying to protect food supplies route of the rebels along Oji River and Abagana.[26]
Read more https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammadu_Buhari

prospero5:
what was Doe's crime?

African leaders' syndrome?

Aconomist:
Plenty come to Africa. They are called Lebanese, and you monkeys worship them.

orisa37:
THAT'S A TERRORIST CRITICIZING.

Johncables402:
Shut up you foolish boy. What kind of nonsense are you yapping. Go and check the rating for UK and Israeli army and check that of this shithole you call a country. Silly boy

XXXXTENTACION:
So much discrimination in Africa...

Johncables402:
Whose this stupid idiot comparing jews with dirty hungry soldiers? Are you ok ?. Africans can't even feed to meals a day you want them to fight the best army in the world?