The WhatsApp Effect: How SMS Costs Fell from 9 Cents to 0.26 Cents in Zimbabwe. What of Voice Though?

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1.           

   12 December 2024 16:08

   I now use session. No metadata harvesting, no phone number. Say hello to freedom as the internet was meant to be!

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2. MYST🎮

   12 December 2024 18:53

   It’s a conundrum for operators around the world this. Operators in more competitive environments have had to shift their focus to providing affordable or high speed data for their target market. Some have even gone as far as offering in-house streaming services like Verizon Xfinity or Showmax. DAZN a streaming company has secured FIFA World Cup rights which shows you legacy companies will struggle as more and more traditional services move online and take customers with them.

   Massive investments have been made into infrastructure and licences for sms and voice. On the balance sheet companies will be looking to provide their share holders with return on investment (ROI) from every cost center. The question remains when to pull the plug and pivot before competitors.

   Introducing affordable data would make some of those legacy services obsolete over night, so it’s not a decision to be taken lightly, but it has to be taken with haste. If I was a CEO for a telecoms company, this would keep our board and team up all night.

   The question is do you bite the bullet and can them or leave them on to squeeze every last cent. If you read the tea leaves correctly it’s only a matter of time before data takes over completely, in other countries it can be argued it already has, we hear about Starlink Cell services coming soon, so there is no hiding. Companies from outside are now coming to eat your cake, imagine someone prepared to pay $300 shipping wait, then another $40 per month subscription plus bank charges for Starlink while we have ISPs locally. When the Starlink Cell Services goes online it shall pose all sorts of questions, it’s better to have an answer now and corner the data market.

   Telcos in my view must morph into data centric companies. You can make as much from data as from sms and voice services with the right type of offer. Voice over LTE (VoLTE) also allows operators to maintain legacy services while using data, enabling more features on a regular voice call which may appeal to a segment of the population.

   Effectively we have two MNOs left, one of these two has to make the play. Whoever does will become the new leader in ARPU and subscribers in my view, the laggard will find it hard pressing to follow and may have a multinational company to compete with as well.

   The Ides of March.

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3. Cobra iComms

   12 December 2024 18:56

   T-Mobile’s Starlink cell coverage just got full FCC approval

   https://www.androidpolice.com/t-mobiles-starlink-cell-coverage-just-got-full-fcc-approval/

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4. MYST🎮

   12 December 2024 19:01

   Hyatt’s breakfast-cutting experiment, personal Starlinks inflight, more SAS, and Japan’s connection to the AT (Saturday Selection)

   https://frequentmiler.com/hyatts-breakfast-cutting-experiment-personal-starlinks-inflight-more-sas-and-japans-connection-to-the-at-satu

   The world is changing at a breath taking rate, the nice thing is we get to see it and see those that change with it. People now want Starlink on planes. Data hungry world. 💰

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5. MYST🀄

   12 December 2024 19:04

   AI for IT modernization: Faster, cheaper, better

   https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/quantumblack/our-insights/ai-for-it-modernization-faster-cheaper-and-better

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6. MYST🎮

   12 December 2024 19:11

   Dune: Prophecy:’ ‘Twice Born:’ Plans go awry, people die, and what’s behind those blue eyes?

   https://www.space.com/entertainment/dune-prophecy-twice-born-plans-go-awry-people-die-and-whats-behind-those-blue-eyes

   I spent so many evenings in Unit J trying to terraform the planet Dune. Classic video game were I first learned about charisma and espionage, it should be shareware now, Dune. Runs off MsDos, it was cutting edge at the time, 256bit color.

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7. MYST🀄

   12 December 2024 19:19

   Want Verizon’s best priority and speeds for less? I’ve highlighted 6 options that offer just that

   https://www.androidauthority.com/verizon-high-priority-carriers-3500062/

   Next gen Verizon may need revenue from other related and unrelated sources, a movie and videogame studio perhaps, expand into the underserved markets with the fastest growing population, invest in startups and content creators, and like DAZN get in on live sport streaming….Think global🌐🙏

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8. MYST🀄

   12 December 2024 19:26

   Internal T-Mobile memo reveals changes coming to one of the carrier’s top freebies

   https://www.phonearena.com/news/t-mobile-changes-the-rules-for-hulu-on-us-with-ads_id165481

   I imagine our carriers investing in streaming services, since the servers will be local, the data does not need internet, it will be zero rated like this site. We can then watch Caps vs Dynamos on our mobiles every weekend or Come Date my Family, those who want the pre or in-game betting the option it will be there, paid out into your mobile wallet. Advertisers would be there and other things that can be done to attract and make more revenue.

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9. MYST🀄

   12 December 2024 19:28

   Beauty Brands Are Betting on Indie Fashion Collaborations to Capture New Audiences

   https://fashionista.com/2024/12/beauty-independent-fashion-brand-collaborations-trend

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10. Gamers Did It🙏🎮

    12 December 2024 19:32

    Overwatch 2’s “Mercy for a Cause” Campaign Raises $12.3M for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation

    https://overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/news/24163898/#new_tab

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11. MYST🀄

    12 December 2024 19:33

    God of War Art Director Back at Sony But at a Different Studio

    https://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2024/12/09/god-of-war-art-director-back-at-sony-naughty-dog/

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12. MYST🀄

    12 December 2024 19:36

    A Ubisoft Buyout By Tencent Is Being Considered – Report

    https://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2024/12/07/ubisoft-buyout-by-tencent-being-considered/

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13. MYST🀄

    12 December 2024 19:43

    Used Car of the Day: 2008 Mercedes-Benz CLK 350

    https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/cars/used-car-of-the-day/used-car-of-the-day-2008-mercedes-benz-clk-350-44510629?utm_medium

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14. li san al gaib….

    13 December 2024 06:04

    2.9 for 1100 texts ??u just lost me there…why use the cheapest data set not the most popular charge like u did for the $1 120mb….0.26c is misleading…i suppose more people text without using a bundle and it costs them about 4times more….about a cent….sms are still kind of expensive from that viewpoint….

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15. MYST🀄

    13 December 2024 09:27

    Holy Blood, Holy Grail
    by
    Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln

    The Intrigue
    In February 1972 The Lost Treasure of Jerusalem?” the first of our three films on
    Sauniere and the mystery of Rennes-leChateau, was shown.
    The film made no controversial assertions, it simply told the ‘basic
    story’ as it has been recounted in the preceding pages, Nor was there
    any speculation about an ‘explosive secret’ or highlevel blackmail. It
    is also worth mentioning that the film did not cite smile Hoffet the
    young clerical scholar in
    Paris to whom Sauniere confided his parchments by name.
    Not surprisingly perhaps, we received a veritable deluge of mail. Some of it offered
    intriguing speculative suggestions. Some of it was complimentary. Some of it was dotty.
    Of all these letters, one, which the writer did not wish us to publicise, seemed to warrant
    special attention.
    It came from a retired Anglican priest and seemed a curious and provocative non sequitur.
    Our correspondent wrote with categorical certainty and authority. He made his assertions
    baldly and definitively, with no elaboration, and with apparent indifference as to whether
    we believed him or not. The ‘treasure’, he declared flatly, did not involve gold or precious
    stones. On the contrary, it consisted of ‘incontrovertible proof’ that the Crucifixion was a
    fraud and that Jesus was alive as late as A.D. 45.
    This claim sounded flagrantly absurd. What, even to a convinced
    atheist, could possibly comprise ‘incontrovertible proof’ that Jesus
    survived the
    Crucifixion? We were unable to imagine anything which could not be
    disbelieved or repudiated which would not only comprise ‘proof’, but
    ‘proof’ that was truly ‘incontrovertible’. At the same time the sheer.

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16. MYST🀄

    13 December 2024 10:30

    Pakapotsa pairs fight. 5 guys vs 1. Ndangandichifamba zvangu ndakadhakwa. Zvikanzi tinokutorera phone. Why would you take someone’s property, it’s a crime. Even if a King takes someone’s property unlawfully, he has committed a crime. Then people around you will look and say I could be next, because if you can do it to one person, you can do it to us all. This is why other countries send an armada just to rescue one person, it’s the principle.

    I said to them gents you can take it, but before you take it, it’s a fight to the death. There are 5 of you but I know one is going with me to the Chitungwiza, not the other side but the other side.

    Why would you attack a person you are already beating, wake up you are clearly winning, and the other 4 phones were not enough, what kind of creature does not get full? Revel in your success, it’s supposed to be fun, if you cannot find joy in winning I shudder to think what would happen if you lose.

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17. MYST🀄

    13 December 2024 10:33

    3 The Warrior Monks
    To research the Knights Templar proved a daunting undertaking. The voluminous
    quantity of written material devoted to the subject was intimidating; and we could not at
    first be sure how much of this material was reliable. If the Cathars had engendered a
    welter of spurious and romantic legend, the mystification surrounding the Templars was
    even greater.
    On one level they were familiar enough to us the fanatically fierce warrior-monks, knight-
    mystics clad in white mantle with splayed red cross, who played so crucial a role in the
    Crusades. Here, in some sense, were the archetypal crusaders the storm-troopers of the
    Holy Land, who fought and died heroically for Christ in their thousands.
    Yet many writers, even today, regarded them as a much more mysterious
    institution, an essentially secret order, intent on obscure intrigues,
    clandestine machinations, shadowy conspiracies and designs. And there
    remained one perplexing and inexplicable fact. At the end of their
    two-century-long career, these white garbed champions of Christ were
    accused of denying and repudiating
    Christ, of trampling and spitting on the cross.
    In Scott’s Ivanhoe the Templars are depicted as haughty and arrogant
    bullies, greedy and hypocritical despots shamelessly abusing their
    power, cunning manipulators orchestrating the affairs of men and
    kingdoms. In other nineteenth-century writers they are depicted as
    vile satanists, devil-worshippers, practitioners of all manner of
    obscene, abominable and/or heretical rites. More recent historians
    have been inclined to view them as hapless victims, sacrificial pawns
    in the high-level political manoeuvrings of Church and state. And
    there are yet other writers, especially in the tradition of
    Freemasonry, who regard the Templars as mystical adepts and initiates, custodians of an arcane wisdom that transcends Christianity itself.
    Whatever the particular bias or orientation of such writers, no one disputes the heroic zeal
    of the Templars or their contribution to history.
    Nor is there any question that their order is one of the most glamorous
    and enigmatic institutions in the annals of Western culture. No
    account of the
    Crusades or, for that matter, of Europe during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries will
    neglect to mention the Templars. At their zenith they were the most powerful and
    influential organisation in the whole of Christendom, with the single possible exception of
    the papacy.
    And yet certain haunting questions remain. Who and what were the
    Knights
    Templar? Were they merely what they appeared to be, or were they something else?
    Were they simple soldiers on to whom an aura of legend and mystification was
    subsequently grafted? If so, why? Alternatively was there a genuine mystery connected
    with them? Could there have been some foundation for the later embellishments of myth?
    We first considered the accepted accounts of the Templars the accounts offered by
    respected and responsible historians. On virtually every point these accounts raised more
    questions than they answered. They not only collapsed under scrutiny, but suggested
    some sort of ‘cover-up’. We could not escape the suspicion that something had been
    deliberately concealed and a ‘cover story’ manufactured, which later historians had merely
    repeated.
    Knights Templar The Orthodox Account
    So far as is generally known, the first historical information on the
    Templars is provided by a Frankish historian, Guillaume de Tyre, who
    wrote between 1175 and 1185. This was at the peak of the Crusades,
    when Western armies had already conquered the Holy Land and established
    the Kingdom of Jerusalem or, as it was called by the Templars
    themselves, “Outremer’, the “Land Beyond the Sea’. But by the time
    Guillaume de Tyre began to write, Palestine had been in Western hands
    for seventy years, and the Templars had already been in existence for more than fifty. Guillaume was therefore writing of events which
    predated his own lifetime events which he had not personally witnessed or experienced,
    but had learnt of at second or even third hand. At second or third hand and, moreover, on
    the basis of uncertain authority. For there were no Western chroniclers in Outremer
    between 1127 and 1144. Thus there are no written records for those crucial years.
    We do not, in short, know much of Guillaume’s sources, and this may well call some of his
    statements into question. He may have been drawing on popular word of mouth, on a
    none too reliable oral tradition.
    Alternatively, he may have consulted the Templars themselves and
    recounted what they told him. If this is so, it means he is reporting
    only what the
    Templars wanted him to report.
    Granted, Guillaume does provide us with certain basic information; and it is this
    information on which all subsequent accounts of the Templars, all explanations of their
    foundation, all narratives of their activities have been based. But because of Guillaume’s
    vagueness and sketchiness, because of the time at which he was writing, because of the
    death of documented sources, he constitutes a precarious basis on which to build a
    definitive picture. Guillaume’s chronicles are certainly useful. But it is a mistake and one
    to which many historians have succumbed to regard them as unimpugnable and wholly
    accurate.
    Even Guillaume’s dates, as Sir Steven
    Runciman stresses, ‘are confused and at times demonstrably wrong’.”
    According to Guillaume de Tyre, the Order of the Poor Knights of Christ
    and the Temple of Solomon was founded in 1118. Its founder is said to
    be one
    Hugues de Payen, a nobleman from Champagne and vassal of the count of
    Champagne.” One day Hugues, unsolicited, presented himself with eight
    comrades at the palace of Baudouin I -king of Jerusalem, whose elder
    brother, Godfroi de Bouillon, had captured the Holy City nineteen years
    before. Baudouin seems to have received them most cordially, as did
    the
    Patriarch of Jerusalem the religious leader of the new kingdom and special emissary of
    the pope.
    The declared objective of the Templars, Guillaume de Tyre continues,
    was, ‘as far as their strength permitted, they should keep the roads

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18. Rex Mundi💀

    13 December 2024 10:39

    Holy Wars are not fought with spears and guns, Holy wars are waged in the spirit. For we do not battle flesh and blood, but the principalities…..

    When we waged war on the Rhodesian Security forces, we went to great lengths to consult the mediums of Nehanda and Chaminuka, we summoned the God of War Murenga and simple village lads and lasses took up arms against helicopter gunships with light arms. It’s not normal, it’s only a state of mind that can be achieved in the spirit, were fear and unbelief are bound and shackled, a warrior spirit.

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19. MYST🀄

    13 December 2024 10:46

    An experiment at household level. Give to Ceasar what belongs to Ceasar and see if does not rain.🌂

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20. Order of the Middle Temple ⛩️

    13 December 2024 10:49

    and highways safe .. . with especial regard for the protection of
    pilgrims ‘.3 So worthy was this objective apparently that the king placed an entire wing of
    the royal palace at the knights’ disposal. And, despite their declared oath of poverty, the
    knights moved into this lavish accommodation. According to tradition, their quarters were
    built on the foundations of the ancient Temple of Solomon, and from this the fledgling
    Order derived its name.
    For nine years, Guillaume de Tyre tells us, the nine knights admitted
    no new candidates to their Order. They were still supposed to be
    living in poverty such poverty that official seals show two knights
    riding a single horse, implying not only brotherhood, but also a penury
    that precluded separate mounts. This style of seal is often regarded
    as the most famous and distinctive of Templar devices, descending from
    the first days of the
    Order. However, it actually dates from a full century later, when
    the
    Templars were hardly poor if, indeed, they ever were.
    According to Guillaume de Tyre, writing a half century later, the Templars were
    established in 1118 and moved into the king’s palace presumably sallying out from here to
    protect pilgrims on the Holy Land’s highways and byways. And yet there was, at this time,
    an official royal historian, employed by the king. His name was Fulk de Chartres, and he
    was writing not fifty years after the Order’s purported foundation but during the very years
    in question. Curiously enough, Fulk de Chartres makes no mention whatever of Hugues
    de Payen, Hugues’s companions or anything even remotely connected with the Knights
    Templar. Indeed there is a thunderous silence about Templar activities during the early
    days of their existence.
    Certainly there is no record anywhere not even later of them doing anything to protect
    pilgrims. And one cannot but wonder how so few men could hope to fulfill so mammoth a
    self-imposed task. Nine men to protect the pilgrims on all the thoroughfares of the Holy
    Land? Only nine? And all pilgrims? If this was their objective, one would surely expect
    them to welcome new recruits. Yet, according to Guillaume de Tyre, they admitted no
    new candidates to the Order for nine years.
    None the less, within a decade the Templars’ fame seems to have spread

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21. Matte Black ♣️

    13 December 2024 10:53

    back to Europe. Ecclesiastical authorities spoke highly of them and
    extolled their Christian undertaking.
    By 1128, or shortly thereafter, a tract lauding their virtues and qualities was issued by no
    less a person than Saint Bernard, abbot of Clairvaux and the age’s chief spokesman for
    Christendom. Bernard’s tract, “In Praise of the New Knighthood’, declares the Templars
    to be the epitome and apotheosis of Christian values.
    After nine years, in 1127, most of the nine knights returned to Europe and a triumphal
    welcome, orchestrated in large part by Saint Bernard.
    In
    January 1128 a Church council was convened at Troyes court of the count of
    Champagne, Hugues de Payen’s liege lord at which Bernard was again the guiding spirit.
    At this council the Templars were officially recognised and incorporated as a religious-
    military order. Hugues de Payen was given the title of Grand Master. He and his
    subordinates were to be warrior-monks, soldier-mystics, combining the austere discipline
    of the cloister with a martial zeal tantamount to fanaticism a “militia of Christ’, as they were
    called at the time. And it was again Saint Bernard who helped to draw up, with an
    enthusiastic preface, the rule of conduct to which the knights would adhere a rule based
    on that of the Cistercian monastic order, in which Bernard himself was a dominant
    influence.
    The Templa~s were sworn to poverty, chastity and obedience. They were obliged to cut
    their hair but forbidden to cut their beards, thus distinguishing themselves in an age when
    most men were clean-shaven.
    Diet, dress and other aspects of daily life were stringently regulated
    in accordance with both monastic and military routines. All members of
    the
    Order were obliged to wear white habits or surcoats and cloaks, and
    these soon evolved into the distinctive white mantle for which the
    Templars became famous. “It is granted to none to wear white habits,
    or to have white mantles, excepting the .. . Knights of Christ.” So
    stated the
    Order’s rule, which elaborated on the symbolic significance of this
    apparel, “To all the professed knights, both in winter and in summer,
    we give, if they can be procured, white garments, that those who have

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22. Grand Master 6

    13 December 2024 10:56

    ‘5
    In addition to these details, the rule established a loose administrative hierarchy and
    apparatus. And behaviour on the battlefield was strictly controlled. If captured, for
    instance, Templars were not allowed to ask for mercy or to ransom themselves. They
    were compelled to fight to the death.
    Nor were they permitted to retreat, unless the odds against them exceeded three to one.
    In 11396 a Papal Bull was issued by Pope Innocent II a former
    Cistercian monk at Clairvaux and protege of Saint Bernard. According
    to this Bull, the
    Templars would owe allegiance to no secular or ecclesiastical power other than the pope
    himself. In other words, they were rendered totally independent of all kings, princes and
    prelates, and all interference from both political and religious authorities. They had
    become, in effect, a law unto themselves, an autonomous international empire.
    During the two decades following the Council of Troyes, the Order expanded with
    extraordinary rapidity and on an extraordinary scale.
    When Hugues de
    Payen visited England in late 1128, he was received with “great
    worship’ by
    King Henry I. Throughout Europe, younger sons of noble families flocked to enrol in the
    Order’s ranks, and vast donations in money, goods and land were made from every
    quarter of Christendom. Hugues de Payen donated his own properties, and all new
    recruits were obliged to do likewise. On admission to the Order, a man was compelled to
    sign over all his possessions.
    Given such policies, it is not surprising that Templar holdings
    proliferated. Within a mere twelve months of the Council of Troyes,
    the
    Order held substantial estates in France, England, Scotland,
    Flanders,
    Spain and Portugal. Within another decade, it also held territory in
    Italy,
    Austria, Germany, Hungary, the Holy Land and points east. Although individual knights
    were bound to their vow of poverty, this did not prevent the Order from amassing wealth,
    and on an unprecedented scale. All gifts were welcomed. At the same time, the Order
    was forbidden to dispose of anything not even to ransom its leaders. The Temple
    received in abundance but, as a matter of strict policy, it never gave.
    When Hugues de Payen returned to Palestine in 1130, therefore, with an

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23. Grand Master 6 💀

    13 December 2024 11:02

    In our order, we wear black with a white skull with red eyes💀 emblem and we are not bound to the values of chastity and poverty but enterprise.

    We do not lay a sword on the shoulder to confirm a Knight, we lay a spear. Like the ones found at our sacred places.

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24. MYST🀄

    13 December 2024 11:04

    Arise Black Knight of the Order of the Wind. 💀

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25. Dark Knight🎱

    13 December 2024 11:42

    I can find joy even in losing, because we must ‘count it all joy’, Romans. How else can you lose if you do not play the game?, and when you play it, should you not be happy?. Let go of the fear of losing, do your absolutely best until the scorer calls the game. The fear of mockery, bodily harm, theft, witchcraft, thoughts of others swirls around grave yards. People who have left it too late, dreams and prayers all bottled up in one place and no recourse.

    Live your life to the fullest extent it will allow, pursue your dreams with confidence, determination, unselfishness and cheerfulness in adversity. So when the time comes, you will leave with a smile on your face, you lived life.

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26. Dzidzai Chidumba

    13 December 2024 11:47

    When I came back home in 2014, my intentions were not to be thrust into the political arena and debate of the nation.

    I wanted to start a company, to watch local schools rugby and raise my young family.

    I was invited onto the WeVoTED WhatsApp group. A group of predominantly white people who voted for the incumbent. I felt it my duty to help my nation with my small deeds.

    Then I realised, I was quarter backing this thing. My thoughts did not immediately spring to being an independent presidential candidate, no, it was duty to the party and the nation.

    Then someone came after me, even though benign my intentions were. It made me realise one thing, I couldn’t not absolve myself of nations responsibility and notoriety, whether I liked it or not I would be thrust into national political discourse regardless.

    One cursed to a life of servitude, so I might as well be a servant of the people.

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27. MYST🀄

    13 December 2024 13:16

    My other marching song.🎧

    Mambo Dhuterere – Kuchemarudo

    I first heard it ku boot keep wish coming from the Inkomo area.

    Going to see Simbi yangu at the time pa Angwa City apo.😊 We had good times, thank you

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28. Crazy Fan🎲

    13 December 2024 14:50

    Put it on his pads, force him to play a shot to cover.

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29. MYST🀄

    13 December 2024 18:02

    So I called the 111 hotline.Ndikataura ne bhebhi. Then I called again and she helped me. Then I called again, kkk. If I borrow .50 airtime you cannot tell me I cannot buy a .30 300MB bundle. During lunch time you don’t even talk to the ladies but…kkkkk

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30. Dzidzai

    14 December 2024 13:58

    THE OCCULT ROOTS
    OF NAZISM
    Secret Aryan Cults and their
    Influence on Nazi Ideology
    NICHOLAS GOODRICK-CLARKE

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31. MYST🀄

    14 December 2024 19:08

    Introduction
    THIS is an unusual history. Although it presents an account of past
    events relating to the origins and ideology of National Socialism in
    Germany, its proper subject is not the parties, policies and organizations
    through which men rationally express their interests in a social and
    political context. Rather, it is an underground history, concerned with
    the myths, symbols and fantasies that bear on the development of
    reactionary, authoritarian, and Nazi styles of thinking. It is also a
    marginal history, since its principal characters were mystics, seers and
    sectarians who had little to do with the outer realities of politics and
    administration. But such men had the imagination and opportunity to
    describe a dream-world that often underlay the sentiments and
    actions of more worldly men in positions of power and responsibility.
    Indeed, their abstruse ideas and weird cults anticipated the political
    doctrines and institutions of the Third Reich.
    For historians trained exclusively in the evaluation of concrete
    events, causes, and rational purposes, this netherworld of fantasy may
    seem delusive. They would argue that politics and historical change
    are driven only by real material interests. However, fantasies can
    achieve a causal status once they have been institutionalized in beliefs,
    values, and social groups. Fantasies are also an important symptom of
    impending cultural changes and political action. The particular
    fantasies discussed in this book were generated within an extreme
    right-wing movement concerned with the creation of a superman
    elite, the extermination of lesser beings, and the establishment of a
    new world-order. The nature of this movement has set it quite apart
    from the mainstream of rational politics in the twentieth century and
    demands answers relating to its deeper inspiration. An analysis of the
    fantasies underlying such a movement can provide new answers to old
    questions.

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32. Munhu Chikara🔪

    14 December 2024 19:16

    The Modern German Occult Revival
    1880-1910
    OCCULTISM has its basis in a religious way of thinking, the roots of
    which stretch back into antiquity and which may be described as the
    Western esoteric tradition. Its principal ingredients have been identified
    as Gnosticism, the Hermetic treatises on alchemy and magic, Neo-
    Platonism, and the Cabbala, all originating in the eastern Mediterranean
    area during the first few centuries AD. Gnosticism properly refers to
    the beliefs of certain heretical sects among the early Christians that
    claimed to posses gnosis, or special esoteric knowledge of spiritual
    matters. Although their various doctrines differed in many respects,
    two common Gnostic themes exist: first, an oriental (Persian) dualism,
    according to which the two realms of Good and Evil, Light and
    Darkness, order and chaos are viewed as independent battling
    principles; and second, the conviction that this material world is
    utterly evil, so that man can be saved only by attaining the gnosis of the
    higher realm. The Gnostic sects disappeared in the fourth century, but
    their ideas inspired the dualistic Manichaean religion of the second
    century and also the Hermetica. These Greek texts were composed in
    Egypt between the third and fifth centuries and developed a synthesis
    of Gnostic ideas, Neoplatonism and cabbalistic theosophy. Since
    these mystical doctrines arose against a background of cultural and
    social change, a correlation has been noted between the proliferation
    of the sects and the breakdown of the stable agricultural order of the
    late Roman Empire.’
    When the basic assumptions of the medieval world were shaken by
    new modes of enquiry and geographical discoveries in the fifteenth
    century, Gnostic and Hermetic ideas enjoyed a brief revival. Prominent
    humanists and scholar magicians edited the old classical texts during
    the Renaissance and thus created a modern corpus of occult specu-
    lation. But after the triumph ofempiricism in the seventeenth-century

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33. Why we won’t leave

    14 December 2024 20:09

    Hottest women in the world awards. Zimbabwe take it by a country mile
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34. MYST🀄

    14 December 2024 22:38

    The Nationa l Archive s
    Nationa l Archive s and Records Servic e
    Genera l Service s Administratio n
    Washington: 1961

    TH® .AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION (AHA)
    COMMITTEE FOR THE STUDY OF WAR DOCUMENTS
    GUIDES TO GERMAN RECORDS MICROFILMED AT AL3XAM)RIA, VA.
    This is part of a series of guides prepared “by the American Historical Association listing records microfilmed at Alesandria, Va.,
    “by the American Historical Association Microfilming Project*
    An American Committee for the Study of War Documents was established in 1955
    &s a private group of scholars interested in docu-
    mentary research and especially in the microfilming of records of foreign origin kept in American depositories* In 195^* the American
    Committee became a committee of the American Historical Association* Its present chairman is Professor oroa J. Hale, University of
    Virginia, who was preceded “by Dean Reginald H» Phelps, Harvrr.-d University, and Professor Lynn M. Case, The University of Pennsylvania.
    An initial Ford Foundation grant and additional funds provided “by the Old Dominion Foundation, the Lilly Endowment and the Avalon Founda-
    tion enabled the Committee to undertake the cataloguing *nd microfilming of declassified German records in the custody of the World War II
    Records Divfsion of the National Archives (previously TAGO, Departmental Records Branch), at Alexandria, Virginia*
    The p:ans for screening and microfilming these materials were prepared “by a Subcommittee on Microfilming under the chairmanship
    to the end <f 1956 of Professor S» Malcolm Carroll, Duke University, and his successor, Dr* Fritz T. Spstein, The Library of Congress«
    The microfilming team in Alexandria, Virginia, was under the direction of Professor Gerhard L, VJeinberg of the University of Michigan
    in 1956/57* of ®T9 Dagmar Horna Perman from 1957 to September 1959» of Mr, James G. McDowell from September 1959 to August I960, and
    is now under the supervision of Dr. Willard Allen Fletcher of the University of Colorado.
    The American Historical Association expresses its appreciation for the cooperation given to its Committee for the Study of War
    Documents "by the staff of the National Archives, especially its World War II Records Division, and "by the U.S. Department of the Army.

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35. Dzidzai

    14 December 2024 22:39

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36. MYST🀄

    15 December 2024 13:22

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37. Lyndon

    19 December 2024 05:17

    I think younshould also have looked at how WhatsApp killed roaming. International roaming services were for the elite but you don’t need it when you travel. Internet is aalmost ubiquitous and for as long as you have access to internet via Wi-Fi you can voice or video call or send texts or voice notes back home or whereever.

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