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Reflections of a Blood-Spattered and Cursed Land

2012-02-02T02:06:00.000+02:00


Crosses on display on an outcrop of hills, which form part of the Strydpoort mountain range, between Potgietersrus (Mokopane) and Pietersburg (Polokwane). Each cross represents a farm murder.

Although it is deplorably and sickening to think that six farm-related murders have already occurred in South Africa during the first month of 2012, one must bear in mind that the January death-count related to violent crimes, is far higher than this figure. If we had to add to this figure the number of other deaths caused by vehicle accidents, for example, then I’m sure it’s safe to declare that the month of January 2012 was a blood-spattered one.

This posting is going to reveal, once again, the force that is keeping the ANC government in power, and why all efforts to combat this curse will forever fail if we continue doing what we’re doing now.

The recent brutal murder of a 77-year-old man on his farm near Stella, who had lived on his farm, in peace, all his life, was like so many previous murders of this nature - a sadistic cowardly act that could only have been motivated by intense hatred, stirred on by the curse of the devil.

The pathetic quality of police services in the country has come to the fore on several occasions. It came to the fore, in September 2011, when 10 people accused of murder after a 2009 farm attack in the Free State were acquitted by the Regional Court in Ficksburg. It is again coming to the fore in the Eugène Terre'Blanche murder trial. This dilemma, which is so typical of communist-ruled countries, will probably remain a matter of grave concern until the current rulers are removed from their seats of power. And even IF that happens, it will probably take another 20-odd years to repair the damage they caused.

In the meantime we cannot sit around doing nothing… Petitions don’t work, planting white crosses on a hilltop doesn’t work, and neither will pointing fingers at the media or the government for their lack of enthusiasm. It’s all good-and-well to run campaigns so that the whole world can become aware of the plight of our precious farmers, but in the end it does nothing to stop the senseless killings from continuing… The scumbag murderers do not even watch or read the news. I doubt very much whether these cursed savages are even aware that there’s a silent genocide taking place, and that a small part of the community is in uproar about this.

After performing a brief scrutiny of the most recent murders, it once again dawned on me that the conclusions I reached in an older posting, related to the Root Causes, is definitely on the mark. That same evil spell that has caused the shedding of so much innocent blood in the past, is still haunting us.

Although those ancient perpetrators are long dead and gone, the ANC government still holds regular ceremonies to call those spirits from the dead. Time and time again they’ve called up those same ghosts of the past… It is the same mischievous spirit that was so inherent among the original Nguni people, who migrated from the North and who initiated the slaughter of the indigenous Khoi and San by the multitudes. It was the same spirit that drove the black Caesar, Shaka Zulu, and his henchmen to brutally massacre 1000’s, including their own kind; the same spirit which, by the hands of a cowardly and murderous Mzilikazi, plundered, raped, and slaughtered the Sotho and other clans by the dozens, leaving the old Transvaal scattered with fearful inhabitants and haunted by lions, who had grown bold and fat from feeding on human corpses.

Incidentally, the terrifying destruction that Mzilikazi brought upon the old Transvaal, caused people to build the most peculiar homes. It wasn’t uncommon for traders of that time to find the branches of large trees decorated with weird conical dwellings. A certain Mr. Steedman, compiler of an old book of travels, once described this peculiar tree-houses as follows:

“These are used as dormitories, being beyond the reach of the lions, which, since the incursion of the Mantatees, when so many thousands of persons were massacred, have become very numerous in the neighbourhood, and destructive to human life. The branches of these trees are supported by forked sticks or poles, and there are three tiers or platforms on which the huts are constructed…”

Click here to read a vivid and detailed account of Mzilikazi’s exploits, as described by the talented Thomas Bulpin, in chapter 4 of his book: “Lost Trials of the Transvaal”.

Today, the situation is no different… We are still as fearful as ever, and live in a world dominated by keys, locked gates, barricaded walls, security cameras, and alarm sensors of all sorts, in complexes patrolled 24-hours by armed security guards… WELCOME TO SOUTH AFRICA!

Incidentally, about one week ago I was almost shot by a gun-slinging lunatic, who mistook me for an intruder. The incident happened when I gave a friend of mine a lift to a complex one evening where he had some personal business to attend to. While I was waiting in the parking lot in my own vehicle, listening to the radio and minding my own business, a resident of the complex (I assume), who reeked of alcohol, suddenly appeared from nowhere and jammed the barrel of a gun in my face. I am now more convinced than ever that the miserable state of affairs in this country is causing people to go bonkers!

One can go on-and-on talking about this destructive force, which our HIS-Story books so pertinently describe, often in a manner that shrewdly conceals the real culprits and places the blame on others. That same evil spirit was unleashed during the 2nd Boer War, -- through the merciless hands of Kitchener and his henchmen, who brought immeasurable suffering, death, and destruction to the lives of so many innocent woman and children, and a hatred for the English that still lingers on in the minds of way too many.

Then came the Border Wars and the Communist onslaught, wave after wave… until the sudden illusory announcement that it no longer exists. Yet, the evidence is clear for all to see that we’re still being haunted by that same ol’ spirit – the same one that murdered the Biblical Abel… “He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him…” (John 8:44 KJV)

It’s a spirit that the ANC government pays tribute to during their satanic rituals, and it’s the same spirit that keeps them in power. It will also be the same power that will place the next round of rulers in control, UNLESS we acknowledge the fact that it’s not such a clever idea after-all to worship many gods, and that certain powers beyond our control can only be defeated by ‘ONE SUPERIOR POWER’ that is far mightier than all those other ‘gods’ and evil spirits put together.

Lastly, before I log off…
An interesting, but disturbing, phenomenon I picked up while reading the news reports, was the role played by the excessive use of alcohol in several murder cases. It also appears to be the main cause of road fatalities in the country. Although I myself enjoy a glass of good red wine on occasion, or a cold beer when I’m hot and thirsty, they don’t call this stuff “SPIRITS” for nothing!

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They’re all Baboons… The Entire Troop!

2012-01-31T16:16:00.000+02:00

Humans that behave like baboons is not an uncommon spectacle in Africa. You see this sort of thing all the time. It’s a particularly common occurrence in the South African parliament… In fact, there’s even a YouTube video out, that demonstrates this behaviour quite superbly.

One of the most prominent African baboons lives in Zimbabwe. His name is Robert Mugabe. This specific species is notorious for its remarkable ability to wreck an entire country in record time. Several members of this same species have managed to swamp the government structures of South Africa. It’s only a matter of time before they too will have wrecked SA, in a similar fashion they brought Zimbabwe to ruin.

And now for the latest news, brought to you by news24.com :

Baboons wreak havoc at Zim border post

Harare - Troops of bag-snatching, truck-looting baboons are causing chaos at a border post between Zimbabwe and Zambia in daily raids for food, NewsDay reported on Tuesday.

"Baboons are an issue that must be dealt with here because they destroy travellers’ goods," the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority station manager at the Chirundu border post, Tichaona Phiri, told the newspaper.

"Sometimes they bite or clap people on their faces if they try to defend their property and they can snatch ladies' handbags and even destroy cars as they search for food."

The apes also tear up sacks of maize on trucks moving through the border, a committee of lawmakers was told during a visit to the site, located in a national park.

"These baboons can smell maize on trucks and considering their huge numbers, it is very difficult to control them," the newspaper quoted Phiri as saying.

"But the problem is that they behave like human beings and are very good tricksters," said Phiri.
Sourced from: news24.com/Africa/Zimbabwe/Baboons

Looming Poverty created by an Incompetent Government

2012-01-30T17:05:00.000+02:00

Although some of my personal sufferings and afflictions have already siphoned off in a few postings on this blog, I am by nature not the type who usually talks openly about these things. Besides the fact that it can sometimes be humiliating to share, with total strangers, the reasons why you’re having sleepless nights, “PRIDE” is another reason why many of us prefer not to advertise the fact we are on the verge of "dead broke", and have no idea when, or from where, the next source of income will be coming.

Call me whatever names you want, but I simply cannot find long-term consolation in the fact that numerous others are also suffering financially. I’ve seen way too many poverty-stricken people in this democrazy country, who simply don’t want to lift a finger to improve their situation. Granted, there may be a few sitting at the bottom of the pit of hopelessness and despair, and who don’t have the energy to get up and carry on with their lives; there are also a considerable number who prefer to keep their lives in a state of perpetual poverty, as long as there’s enough energy left to beg, steal and borrow from others. Of course, other entities also exist, who are not poverty stricken, like the ANC government for example, who beg, steal, and borrow – simply because they can!

Not a day goes by in this stuffed-up country that I do not meet ordinary hard-working folk, who are battling like hell to keep their heads above water. Many of these people are personal acquaintances of mine, and not merely facebook pals. It is disturbing to see how the numbers who fall in this category are growing by the day - people with kids at school or university and who, not too long ago, where living reasonably comfortable lives... in other words - just making it every month!

Due mainly to my own stubborn pride and reluctance to share my personal circumstances with every Tom, Dick and Harry, many of these people have asked me to help them out. They seldom ask for money, but usually request that I promote their services, or help sell their products, which I’ve often done (for pasella) if my resources and time allows it. If I really do know the person well enough and helping out is going to cost me money, I’ll tell them straight: – “Hey buddy, welcome to the Rock Bottom Club!”

Occasionally, I’ll charge a small fee depending on how intricate or time-consuming the task is, and how much of my own money I’ve spent completing the job. However, if they don’t pay (and this happens quite often) – even after they’ve received the “Final Legal Warning” per registered mail, I’ll simply flush them from memory and pray that we never cross paths again. Taking all these people to court, in a country where the system is already bursting at its seams, is only going to waste more precious time and money! While the number of poor people are on the rise, other factors such as stress, exhaustion, and health problems are also taking its toll, because as I’ve stated in an older (2009) posting, we are all Prisoners of War.

IT’S CALLED SOCIALIST-COMMUNISM !

The fact that I’m subscribed via e-mail, to a leading and most innovative investment service provider does not make me rich. (Forgive me for not mentioning the name, as I’m done with free advertising. It is NOT any one of the familiar Banks or big Investment Groups!) The only reason why I’m subscribed is to keep track of risk-factors that may influence the very small retirement-investment I have.

This morning the regular e-mail subscription was accompanied by an additional message, which said:

I hope you don’t mind me mailing the following story to you, but this came across my desk this morning and I think this is a matter of national interest. I have no idea who the author is, but it is good enough to be shared. Here goes:

(The e-mail came with the subject heading: “Our beloved incompetent government”. TAKE NOTE: I’m not in total agreement with the author's views about the Arab Awakening, as I'm quite sure it was an event sponsored by the devil himself... The rest, however, is definitely worthwhile sharing):

“I think, and I am sure that many of you are the same, that the tolls are a disgrace, both the extortionate toll fees themselves and also the widely published fact that we are expected to pay up to R18 BILLION over the next 10 years just to collect the toll fees. I wanted to share the clarity of thought in this mail and agree that I will not be installing anything on my car.

They are not going to have easy access to my bank account – they say they want a debit order – forget it. Send me a bill (by registered mail) every time.

Together we can make this whole thing fail – as it should. Let the toll gates stay there, not working, as monuments to people power. Let’s call this the start of the SA Awakening, look what the normal people are achieving in North Africa with the Arab Awakening.

I hope this goes around at least a billion times.

Taxes and Open Road Toll Fees

People should not install the transponders but still use the highways and force the government to issue accounts and summonses to all motorists until such time they drop the prices. The government will be forced to send out millions of accounts every month and they don’t have the manpower to do it. This is the best and easiest way to boycott the system.

What is the government going to do about motorists from other neighboring countries that don’t have these transponders? South Africans are too complacent and its time we fight back.

WE have paid for these roads. Now they are also proposing a 1% tax to fund the SABC.

Circulate this to all your friends!!!!!!!!

Has anyone thought just how much tax we are already paying?

35% on your salary
14% on everything you buy (bar fresh produce) and services rendered.
Carbon tax if you buy a new car (besides the 14% VAT you have to pay)
Tax on the fuel you put in your car to run it.
Toll on our roads –

For some it is going to come to a whopper of 10% of your salary (If you earn R10 000.00 a R1 000 would go toward tolling if you migrate between PTA and JHB every day.) – Bully to try and pacify me with the idea that I can claim it back from my income tax!!! I have to fork out the money first. Going on holiday to DBN? Remember to save up your R1000.00 for tolling.

To say the least – For every R10.00 you earn, the government is already taking approx R6.00 and still they want more. Are you happy with the R4.00 you are getting?

NICE!!!!!

When are we going to get up and do something about it? Where is all the money going to? It is definitely not being spent on what it should be – our hospitals are in a state of disrepair, our schools in shambles, our roads full of potholes, our water contaminated, sewers not working, left in the dark because Eskom failed to do their upgrades, the poor are poorer still, municipalities on the brink of collapse, and so the list goes on.

Heard about the youth day celebration that cost R100 million?

Mmmm… did you pay for it?

Oh yes sir/madam you did! R100 million that could have paid for a couple of things our country needed more.

And to put the numbers in perspective:

The next time you hear an SA politician use the word ‘billion’ in a casual manner, think about whether you wanted the ‘politicians’ spending YOUR tax money.

A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into some perspective in one of its press releases:

A billion seconds ago it was 1959.
A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.
A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.
A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet.
A billion Rand ago was only 27 hours and 12 minutes at the rate our SA government is spending it. (a billion rand a day??!!)

Building Permit Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporation Tax
Income Tax
Value Added Tax
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel License Tax
Petrol/Diesel Tax
Hunting License Tax
Luxury Tax
Property Tax
Service charge taxes
Capital gains Tax
Social Security Tax
Securities Transfer Tax
Road Usage Tax
Local Tax
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Worker’s Compensation Tax

STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?

Hardly any of these taxes existed 20 years ago…
And our nation was one of the most prosperous in Africa.

We had absolutely no national debt…

We had the largest middle class in Africa and Mum stayed home to raise the kids.

What happened?

ANSWER:

The Government is ‘running’ the country INTO THE GROUND – on YOUR and MY ‘billions’!!!

I hope this letter goes around at least a billion times….”

Well folks, there you have it!

Oldest dinosaur nesting site found in South Africa

2012-01-28T21:12:00.000+02:00

A 190 million year old dinosaur nesting sight has been found in the Golden Gate Highlands National Park.

This nest is apparently more than 100 million years older than previously known nesting sites.

The site belonged to an early pro-sauropod dinosaur of the early Jurassic called Massospondylus, and reveals significant clues about how complex reproductive behaviours evolved in early dinosaurs.

The six metre mother appeared to have maintained an organised nest, suggesting she arranged the eggs carefully after laying them.

The clutches of eggs, many with embryos and tiny dinosaur footprint, are the oldest known evidence of hatchlings staying in their nests long enough to at least double in size.

"The eggs, embryos, and nests come from the rocks of a nearly vertical road cut only 25 metres long," said Prof. Robert Reisz of the the University of Toronto at Mississauga, who led the study.

"Even so, we found ten nests, suggesting that there are a lot more nests in the cliff, still covered by tons of rock. We predict that many more nests will be eroded out in time, as natural weathering processes continue," Reisz said.

The study was co-authored by Doctors Hans-Dieter Sues (Smithsonian Institute, USA), Eric Roberts (James Cook University, Australia), and Adam Yates (Bernard Price Institute (BPI) for Palaeontological Research at Wits).

It was published in the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The full study can be read here...(PDF 1475KB)

Sourced from: timeslive.co.za

See also the follow-up posting on the sister blog, to read about:

Wikipedia’s Ongoing Deception

Four Farm Murders and Five Farm Attacks in 22 Days – South Africa

2012-01-23T23:30:00.000+02:00

Murdered farmer: Mr. Francois du Toit
Picture sourced from Beeld.com

According to Mr Henk den Graaf, spokesperson for TAU SA, there has already been 4 cases of farm related murders this year, and 5 incidents of farm related attacks. This is truly a disturbing tendency, considering that we are still in the first month of the New Year.

In the most recent attack, a farmer, a certified nutrition specialist, from Mpumalanga was murdered last night (22 Jan 2012), on the farm Kwalata nearby Roossenekal.

At time of posting no news reports in English could be found on the Internet, i.e. -- using the deceased’s name or his workplace as a search reference.

The following Afrikaans report was sourced online from landbou.com:

Voedingskundige vermoor in plaasaanval

Deur CORLI VAN DER MERWE
23 Januarie 2012

’n Boer en voedingskundige van Mpumalanga is gisteraand (22 Januarie 2012) doodgeskiet in waarskynlik die vierde plaasmoord vanjaar.

Mnr. Francois du Toit, wat as voedingskundige by Alzu Voere gewerk het, is op die plaas Kwalata naby Roossenekal in Mpumalanga aangeval. Mnr. Henk den Graaf, woordvoerder vir die TLU SA, sê Du Toit het sy honde op die plaas hoor blaf en gaan ondersoek instel. Hy is glo geskiet pas nadat hy die voordeur oopgemaak het.

Volgens ’n kollega van Du Toit by Alzu Voere wat nie sy naam genoem wil hê nie, was daar vermoedelik drie aanvallers by die plaasmoord betrokke. Hulle het Du Toit se vrou en kinders vasgebind en met vuurwapens en selfone in twee van die egpaar se voertuie gevlug. Die voertuie is later op die plaas teruggevind.

Geweldige slag
Volgens dié kollega was Du Toit ’n gewaardeerde kollega en is sy dood ’n geweldige slag vir die maatskappy. Intussen sê Van den Graaf dat die TLU SA baie bekommerd is oor die aantal plaasmoorde en -aanvalle wat tot dusver vanjaar plaasgevind het.

“Daar was sover vier plaasmoorde en vyf aanvalle volgens ons rekord. Drie van die plaasmoorde was in Noordwes en nou dié een in Mpumalanga. Dit is baie kommerwekkend. As die res van die jaar teen dieselfde trant voortgaan, gaan dit ’n swart en bloederige jaar wees,” sê Van den Graaf.

Die Suid-Afrikaanse Polisiediens kon nog nie bereik word vir kommentaar nie.

A more detailed report of the tragic news can also be read here on beeld.com (Afrikaans).

Thabo Mbeki on the Frightening Reality of ‘False Knowledge’

2012-01-23T23:29:00.000+02:00

Former President Thabo Mbeki

I started exploring the marvels of the Internet and e-mails roughly at the same time when Thabo Mbeki became the 2nd Black African President of South Africa in June 1999. Although I wasn’t paying too much attention to all the intricate details of politics at the time, I do recall that I once subscribed to Mbeki’s weekly column in the ANC newsletter called, “ANC Today”, with the sole purpose of figuring out what was going on in the mind of the man who was going to be running the country I so dearly loved.

I was, of course, also trying to determine whether it was worthwhile, or not, that I acquire the latest copy of Frommer’s Comprehensive Travel Guide to the U.S.A., because by then I already had a number of good reasons to believe that South Africa was not going to become the land of sunshine, hope, and opportunity for all its peoples.

To be truly honest… I never anticipated that the country was going to retreat into the satanic hellhole it has now become… If I only had the foresight to see what was coming, but I suppose it's too late now to cry over spilt milk!

Nevertheless, if one removes certain political blunders out of the equation, bearing in mind that some of them were formulated by the “Masters of Darkness” and that many politicians are mere puppets in the game; and start categorizing the African leaders into columns of “good”, “average” or “bad”, based on their intellect (academic wise) and belief-systems that are more-or-less comparable with conventional Christian views, Thabo Mbeki would most probably end up in the middle column – neither “good” nor “bad”.

It was only later, sometime in the year 2002, when I managed to read a copy of Mbeki’s famous speech, "I am an African", that the reality of the fact struck me that I was indeed also, “an African”, and that the colour of my skin did not change that fact. Since then, I’ve often wondered how many other ‘White Africans’ abandoned thoughts of leaving South Africa - not only due to Mbeki’s speech, but also due to ‘false knowledge’ that was imprinted into our heads.

A PDF version of Mbeki’s "I am an African" speech can be downloaded here – (34.7 Kb).

Political blunders and controversies aside – the Marxist-Communists never considered Thabo Mbeki a big fan of theirs. In fact, Mbeki drew heavy criticism from these bunch of vipers for his perceived abandonment of state-interventionist social democratic economic policies – such as nationalization, land reform, and democratic capital controls – actions that were in total contradiction to the ANC’s prescribed Freedom Charter.

During a recent speech, delivered at the University of Stellenbosch Business School’s Knowledge Management Conference in Bellville, Mbeki made a number of intelligent comments related to the role of “knowledge” in the betterment of society. He also raised a few sensitive questions concerning what exactly constitutes “knowledge”, what knowledge are we talking about when we embrace the term, and most important of all… Who ‘manages’ it?

In the light of the fact that several articles on this blog have focused on ‘informing’ readers that there is a cunning and mischievous hand at work behind world affairs, and that the main stream media (msm) is used as one of their most powerful propaganda tools, I thought it would be most appropriate to draw attention to the fact that there are also knowledgeable people, like Thabo Mbeki for example, who are aware of this fact. Sadly, it is for this same reason why people, who expose this sort of treachery, are often shunned and/or scorned.

Although Mbeki, evidently due to his alliance with the ANC, has not done much to expose by name-and-rank the evil brood responsible for propagating the world’s ‘false knowledge’, he did not play around with words when he suggested that ‘false knowledge’ is at variance with ‘the objective truth’, and even provided a few examples to prove his point.

Thabo Mbeki: Extract from speech made on 16 January, 2012.

The following are extracts from his recent speech delivered on 16 January 2012:

Start of extract…

Accordingly, I would suggest that in the context of the challenging themes of this important Conference, you take some time to inquire into such specific matters which relate to ‘the betterment of global human society’ as:

(i) the obligations of the developed world towards Africa, in the context of what the influential British magazine, ‘The Economist’, in an ‘illustrative’ cover page in May 2000, characterised as ‘The hopeless continent’;

[The false ‘knowledge’ about Africa arising from such prejudiced reporting has, inter alia, discouraged investors from making their capital available for the development of Africa, thus serving as a self-fulfilling prediction.]

(ii) the 2003 war against Iraq;

[The false ‘knowledge’ was propagated that Iraq possessed ‘weapons of mass destruction’, which was not true, but was used to launch a war which has generated immense problems both for Iraq and, at least, the wider Middle East region.]

(iii) the 2011 activation of the concept of the “responsibility to protect” relating to the enforcement of the so-called “no-flight zone” concerning Libya;

[The false ‘knowledge’ was advanced that the Khaddafi regime was about to slaughter millions of civilians. This was used to justify the imposition of a ‘no-flight-zone’ over Libya, which served as a cover to overthrow the Libyan Government and impose a regime approved by the Western Powers, in their interest.]

(iv) the behaviour of global financial capital, which led to the 2008 financial and economic crisis, from which the world economy has not yet recovered, and which resulted in the impoverishment of millions throughout the world;

[Financial capital communicated false ‘knowledge’ especially about US mortgage loans, the so-called sub-prime lending, which nearly resulted in an more punishing global economic depression.]

(v) the role of the international Firms of Accountants in the context of Corporate governance;

[Major global Accounting Firms communicated false ‘knowledge’ about then major firms, such as Enron, which resulted in the loss of billions of dollars by honest investors, including workers’ pension funds.]

(vi) successive scares about world health;

[The Council of Europe has asserted that false ‘knowledge’ was propagated during 2009, which resulted in billions of tax-payer dollars being spent in many countries to respond to a fictional ‘swine flu epidemic’, which benefited the globally dominant and highly profitable pharmaceutical companies.]

(vii) the year 2000 Y2K scare.

[The false ‘knowledge’ that the world would seize-up because of an end-of-century computer mal-function proved to be unfounded, having no scientific basis.]

I mention these particular instances only as examples, and most certainly not as a comprehensive catalogue of instances which illustrate the grave challenge all humanity faces to confront the critical issues that are the subject of this important Conference, of the management of knowledge in the interests of genuine human advancement.

In my view, all these instances confirm the timeliness of precisely the two important themes of this Conference, certainly in their macro-social implications, that “knowledge” should be ‘democratised’ and should be used to ‘better’ the human condition.

At the same time, they illustrate the destructive potential of the abuse of “knowledge” by those who exercise preponderant power, to propagate their version of “knowledge” for selfish ends, as exposed in the example we cited earlier, relating to the contest between The (US) Weekly Standard and The Washington Post.

Thus the question arises organically – does it not stand to reason that the ‘knowledge’ generally available to society to effect its own ‘betterment’ is in fact such ‘knowledge’ as the preponderant powers would permit to be ‘available’, in their own interest!

I say this because of the frightening reality contemporary society faces, of the capacity of a small but powerful minority of humanity, to determine what society should ‘know’, which passes as ‘knowledge’.

End of extract.

Mbeki’s full speech can be viewed here.

The Celebration of a Struggle

2012-01-23T23:07:00.001+02:00

The following was published earlier this month by a user on News24.com. Since so many people have emailed it to me, I thought I may as well share it here...

I live in Bloemfontein and as most people know by now our city is hosting the celebrations of the ANC centenary. Some positives of this celebration is the fixing of potholes in the streets (at last), the replacement of worn out South African flags at the city entrances and the re-painting of faded road signs on the road.

But most of all one notices the hundreds of banners and posters on every lamppost just to make sure everyone knows that the ANC is 100 years old. One of these posters that caught my eye was the one that says: “Celebrating 100 years of selfless struggle.”

This made me realise that that is exactly the problem with the ANC. It has been struggling for 100 years. At first the struggle was against apartheid, but since 1994 they are struggling to govern. They struggle to find honest leaders. Many senior ANC officials have been or are currently being prosecuted. They even struggle to find an honest chief of police, failing twice! They struggle to improve education.

Even though they are spending a larger percentage of the budget on education than most countries, education in the so-called township schools went from bad to worst and South Africa is now worse off than in the latter years of apartheid. They struggle to provide proper health care. Hospitals that were once some of the best in Africa (and even the world) are now mismanaged and in a disastrous condition.

Perhaps where they are struggling the most is Local Government and service delivery. Towns that were once beautiful, clean, well run municipalities, are now in a terrible state. Just drive through places like Mokopane (previously Potgietersrus), Makhado (Louis Trichardt) and even Mthatha to see this deterioration. Corruption, self-interest and greed have unfortunately ensured that the struggle continued since 1994.

I sincerely hope that the 100th year of struggle is the last one. I hope that Pres Zuma will announce that 2012 will now be the first year of achievement and striving for excellence! Let’s all hope that the ANC will now put skill, knowledge, experience and innovation on the top of their requirements list when new leaders are chosen. Please stop struggling and start performing!

Sourced from: news24.com

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About that bomb found at Eskom headquarters...

2012-01-21T12:29:00.002+02:00

I’ve just heard from a reliable source, who prefers to remain anonymous, that a bomb was definitely found yesterday afternoon at Eskom’s Megawatt Park headquarters. Fortunately, the bomb did not go off as there was insufficient power to detonate the device.

The rumours going around that Sipho wanted to go home earlier, and that it was he who made the prank call, is thus simply not true!

News report here.

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Advanced Driving Courses Required Urgently!

2012-01-21T11:43:00.000+02:00

The following two pics arrived in my inbox this morning, thanks to Le Loup-Garou!

I have no idea who took these photographs, or when and where they were taken. The truck transporting the smashed vehicles has a Gauteng (GP) registration.

Yet another illustration of wasteful expenditure by the government, at taxpayers expense!

Related Posts:
(SA Police 2011)

South Africa - receding into a pit of hell? - (December 2011)
Are the SA Police accomplices to farm murders? - (October 2011)
The Demonic Liberal Mob are Dangerous! – (July 2011)
Solving the Problem of Missing State Firearms – (March 2011)
Who raided the Public Protector's offices? – (March 2011)
‘Aggressive’ police storm popular eatery (Video) – (February 2011)
Public Protector Roasts Police Commissioner – (February 2011)
Fed Up With Police Incompetence – (February 2011)
The Sutherland shooting – Extreme Prejudice? - (January 2011)
The Sutherland shooting: Was it a crime-scene gone wrong? – (January 2011)
(By the way… this posting was also referenced on a Wikipedia Page: “Ramtha's School of Enlightenment”)

SA Education: You've ANC nothing yet!

2012-01-20T01:02:00.000+02:00

First the Bad News…

Dr Edith R. Dempster, a senior lecturer at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, recently made a study of matric results for the years 1981, 1991, 2001, and 2010. Data was collected from a public school, with a mixed pupil population, that had a long history of good performance in matric examinations. The final outcome of the study proved that matric has become significantly easier in recent years… In other words, the standards have dropped… Full report here.

This was also my general impression after noticing how the media was making quite a hullabaloo about the record number of distinctions achieved during the 2011 academic year. The over-emphasis of this news was obviously a feeble attempt by the ANC government to create a sensation of national triumph, corresponding to the theme of their 100 Years Centenary Celebrations… All smoke, mirrors, slander, and lies – nothing else!

But even the crooked ANC government, no matter how high-almighty they think they are, can keep on bulldozing the sheeple with propaganda, because not all of us living in this stuffed-up country are sheeple.

The frustrating thing about this business, is that while the ANC government remains in denial, and while the 2012 education season has hardly kicked off, there’s already a teacher strike looming, as proudly announced in their very own newspaper called, “The New Age”… Full report here.

If this is how they intend starting the new year, then I don’t want to know how it’s going to end. Besides the looming strikes, there’s already been several reports about textbooks and stationary that have not been ordered, pupils sitting around twiddling their thumbs, and so forth... It’s old news; the same thing happens every year… Welcome to dEmOcRazy Freedom!!!

Incidentally, I’ve noticed that “The Sowetan” has also exposed a rather extraordinary bit of info in a story about how the government has over the past five years shut down more than 4,500 public schools in the country. Apparently hundreds more are facing closure… Full report here.

And now, the Good News…

In the meantime, while these idiots are doing their utmost to stuff the country up as best they can, the Afrikaners have decided - to hell with this lot, we’re starting our own thing - AGAIN! - A new Afrikaans Academy has opened its doors. The institution is registered at the Department of Education, and its curriculum has been evaluated and approved to be on the same standards as a university… more details here (Afrikaans).

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Rhoda Kadalie names a few puppet-agents of the Devil

2012-01-18T19:49:00.000+02:00

I would normally post articles of this nature on the sister site TIA 4 CHRIST, but in the light of the fact that this blog generates far more pageviews than the sister site, I’ve decided to rather post it here.

The wholesale persecution of Christians in the entire Middle East region, as well as several countries in Africa, mainly in the northern and central regions, have reached pandemic proportions. It has been going on for ages, and is thus not a new phenomenon.

The act of “persecution”, however, does not exclusively involve murder only. It can also involve various other non-lethal activities that are designed to annoy, maltreat, intimidate, and harass Christians – sometimes to the point where some Christians - like me for example – often get the urge to take flight to the serene safety of the Okavango, or to any other secluded and tranquil spot where the persecuting bullies are not present… not in large numbers anyway!

When “persecution” is perceived in the above context it should be obvious that this phenomenon is not restricted to conflict-zones such as, the Middle East or Africa only, but spans all regions where people of dissimilar cultures and religions share the same communal space, bearing in mind that “communal space” can also be an online social platform such as, Facebook, for example.

Now I am fully aware that we cannot hold all non-Christians accountable for the world’s persecuted people, for in this crazy mixed-up world we live in you’ll even find people, who profess to be “Christian”, persecuting (and killing) their own brothers and sisters. Of course, when this happens you’ll notice how quickly satan and his cronies utilize it to their full advantage, and how the msm blossom with the glory of it all in their headlines, much to the delight of the ever-growing number of free-thinking sheeple out there.

The erroneous impression that’s being created of course, is that this sort of thing happens all the time. In reality, it is nothing but a cunning distortion of the truth, as it is NOT in the universal nature of Christians to persecute and/or harm others, unless it becomes a matter of self-defence and/or self-preservation -- basic rights that are fast being removed by the satanic forces in control.

Be that as it may - the safest place to live is in a society where the majority respects and upholds Christian values. It is one of the main reasons why the Afrikaner/Boers want their independence. You’ll also find that where a minority group of non-Christian folk exist in such a society, they’ll either be drawn voluntarily into the Christian community, or (depending on geographic location and circumstances) they’ll be taken no notice of, while the doors of the local churches as well as the money-coffers, will always remain wide open for them.

Sure enough, not all Christians have fully come to terms with the guidance provided in Biblical scripture such as, Matthew 5:44, for example, which states: “But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;” – counselling that I too have difficulty coping with, although I’m quite sure that there must be some-or-other inexplicable wisdom concealed therein, which will perhaps come to light on the day I’m lying on my deathbed.

Personally, I prefer the scripture that says:

“Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.”

Ephesians 5:11 (NIV)

Incidentally, the identical verse in the KJV Bible says: “And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.” Reprove = “criticize”, “take to task”, or “rebuke”.

The bottom line is that the inclination to persecute others is not an inherent quality of a Christian, and neither is it an inherent quality of any individual who has been raised and nurtured by equivalent faith-doctrines, whether they hate their enemies, or not!

Any community (or individual) that purports to be “Christian”, but yet who persecutes others living in their society, is simply put - NOT CHRISTIAN!
(Non-Christians reading this are welcome to replace the word “Christian” with the phrase: “a human-rights campaigner”, or “a caring person”, or whatever other alternative phrase suits them.)

Likewise - any organization, whether it may be a national political party, a local group of humanitarians , or that ‘esteemed’ gang of independent international leaders who call themselves “The Global Elite”, CANNOT BE CHRISTIAN if they ignore the plight of severely persecuted Christians, and/or remain eerily silent on matters related to the appalling state of affairs in the Middle East, and other places where radical murderous elements are ruling the roost.

I was thus pleasantly surprised to see that Rhoda Kadalie has recently published an article, in which she names-and-shames these puppet-agents of the Devil:

Well done Rhoda!

Christians under attack in the Middle East
By Rhoda Kadalie
17 January 2012

Christians are under attack in the Middle East. Now Nigeria has also entered the fray with Islamic militants, Boko Haram, fanning the flames of ethno-religious conflict. Detonating bombs at church sites in Abuja, over the past Christmas holidays, killing and injuring hundreds of Christians, they are doing their damndest to create an Islamic state. In their mission, they continued with bomb and gun attacks at Christians in the North Eastern Yobe and Borno states recently.

In Egypt, 21 Coptic Christians died in a bomb blast as worshippers emerged from the New Year's Mass in Alexandria, Saturday Dec 31st. Although the Minister of the Interior blamed the blast on Al Qaeda, local citizens blamed Militant Muslim groups for inciting religious violence. With the Muslim Brotherhood firmly in control, Egypt's Arab Spring is set to become the Winter of Discontent for Christians and those yearning for a truly democratic state.

In a country of 80 million people, 90% Muslims and 8% Christians, the majority feels threatened by a few Christians who wish to worship freely. The newly elected Military Council and their military courts have allegedly convicted more civilians than were convicted under dictator, Hosni Mubarak, over the past 30 years.

Leader in the pack, Iran has set the precedent for persecuting Christians, having had extensive experience with the Bahai's and the Kurds. For some years the Iranian authorities have been arresting those suspected of evangelising and converting people from Islam to Christianity. Targeting religious holidays for maximum effect, both Egypt and Iran are escalating the conflict by terrorising bloggers, prohibiting the distribution of Bibles and the attendance of mass in Farsi. With only 1% of Iranians classified Christian, Iran is increasingly making their lives a living hell in the country of their birth driving many of them out. The ineffectual United Nations claims that about half of the Christian population has fled the country.

With the 2008 Bill that mandates "that all male apostates be put to death and all female apostates be imprisoned for life", the survival prospects of Christians is slim. Worse, Ayatollah Khamenei declared house churches a threat to Iran's national security and one of its governors called missionaries a "cultural invasion of the enemy."

Ditto Iraq. The numbers of Christians have declined from around 10% in the middle of the 20th century to 5% around 2000, to 3% (800 000) in 2008. Tens of thousands of Iraqi Christians have fled to surrounding countries and the entire Jewish population has left. Tolerance of Christians is dwindling in a country where Christians have lived for more than 2000 years.

The terrorist bloodbath that killed 62 Christians and wounded 60 on October 2010 at the Our Lady of Deliverance Catholic Church in Baghdad was a continuation of the Jihadi's mission to "exterminate Iraqi Christians" described as an "obscene nest of the polytheists [infidels]".

The international human rights community is conspicuously silent about this genocide. Anything remotely smacking of criticism against Muslims propels the Obama administration, the European Union, the United Nations, the Global Elders, and the Left into action.

Not so with Christians and the question is why. This same group does not hesitate to single out Israel for condemnation and when one country is singled out for censure, as is routinely done then the only explanation can be anti-Semitism. Otherwise how do we explain the double standards?

When Syria's Bashar Al Asad declared war against his own citizens killing thousands, the Russell Tribunal gathered in Cape Town to judge whether or not Israel is an apartheid state. Just as Jimmy Kruger was left unmoved by Steve Biko's brutal death, so the atrocities in Libya, Yemen, Bahrain, Egypt, and Syria leave the world's human rights watchdogs cold and mute.

They simply cannot deal with a situation that contradicts their "West versus East" human rights template. Their imperialism paradigm cannot deal with human rights atrocities emanating from post-colonial and Arab countries.

The Global Elders are eerily silent, not to speak of our self-appointed human rights gate-keepers - Zwelinzima Vavi, Zackie Achmat, Ronnie Kasrils, Yasmin Sooka, Archbishop Tutu, Professors Steven Friedman, Farid Esack, Andrew Nash, Judge Dennis Davis, and others.

The tyrannical suppression of the freedom of expression, religion and association of Christians in Muslim countries has escaped their censure. This sanitised form of anti-Semitism feeds into the bipolar view of the "West against the Rest". Like Turkey, they will come to regret what they wished for. It no longer has any influence over its former ally, Syria as it butchers its civilians!

Rhoda Kadalie's article first appeared in Die Burger

Sourced from: www.politicsweb.co.za

RELATED POST: Desmond Tutu and The Elders – (July, 2010)

SOUTH AFRICA : Covering-up the Multiethnic Stuff-Up!

2012-01-16T17:04:00.000+02:00

I’ve noticed that East Coast Radio, including a number of other news outlets such as, Independent Online, Citizen Online, etc... have reported that - despite over half a million visitors flocking to Durban beaches over the festive season, law enforcement and emergency-service officials said no major incidents were reported on New Year’s Day. These same media outlets also mentioned that there were no reported drownings in Durban this festive season.

Sourced from: www.ecr.co.za

I also noticed how these journalists carefully chose the wording in their reports, and how they’ve delicately emphasized that nothing was “reported”, or that there were no “major incidents” on New Year’s Day. Although one can hardly declare that such a guarded approach towards reporting the news produces inaccurate or untrue information, it does create a rather flawed impression of the true state of affairs.

It has lately become a rather contentious issue nowadays to determine WHAT exactly qualifies as a “major incident” in South Africa. For example: Rhino poaching in South Africa has, for some time now, been considered far more “major” than the ongoing and senseless slaughter of the country’s farming community,... that is if the prominence given to these issues by the msm, and also the fanatics on social-media sites, are anything to go by.

South Africa’s complex multiethnic culture is the main reason why there’s a notable discrepancy between “major” occurrences and “minor” ones. For example, it is quite acceptable for a Rastafarian to walk around in public smoking pot. Likewise - it would be a “major” incident if someone slaughtered a cow in the middle of the street in a Waterkloof suburb, but it would not be “major” if it was done in a street in Mamelodi.

Quite often the distinction between “major” and “minor” is determined by “status”. In a country like South Africa, where the significance of being “human” only matters when government requires your vote, animals are considered far more valuable. For example: When 9 bodies washed up on Durban’s main beach in the week after New Year, the msm remained silent... Now if that had been 9 whales or 9 dolphins, there would, most certainly, have been a MAJOR uproar!

It’s all good-and-well for journalists to report news that is relevant to New Year’s Day, but to not follow-up on events that occurred AFTER that day, especially if the events were appallingly newsworthy, inevitably forces one to make the assumption that journalists are either not doing their job, or have been given strict orders to keep quiet about news that may possibly hurt the country’s multiethnic image.

Besides the quandary of what is “major” and what is not, there’s also that old dilemma concerning incidents that have been officially “reported” and incidents that are “unreported”. Any journalist, with a bit of savvy, should know how to deal with this problem... For example, a body count at the local morgue, before and after a main event (eg - a New Year’s bash on Durban’s main beach), should sketch a realistic picture of “unreported” death statistics. On the other hand, IF journalists are following orders, then I suppose such an exercise would be fruitless anyway!

Do the big chiefs who run the mainstream media-outlets in this country think we’re all idiots?

Personally I will never put a foot in Durban ever again, not after my last experience in that horrid place, in April 2009. This does not mean I have no contacts in Durban... I once lived and worked there for more than 10 years, and happen to know a number of people living there, including paramedics, policemen, medical staff, one journalist, and one wild ol' character, known as Snowy Smith, who all keep me regularly informed.

The following info was received via email from Snowy Smith, and confirmed by a number of other sources as being the truth:

9 bodies washed up in Durban in the week after New Year... NONE were ever reported missing, and NONE have yet been identified. The beach was so full of human faeces, that the cleaning crews had to plow it into the beach, rather than pick it all up. As far as the number of unidentified bodies in the local mortuary are concerned, as well as several life-threatening incidents that occurred on the beach on New Year’s Day, the SA Police were given strict instructions not to divulge this information.

60 TONS of litter was left behind on the beach by these holidaymakers, including 69 abandoned/lost kids. A week later 31 of these kids had still not found their parents... Many of the parents/adults had gone home to Johannesburg without even reporting their children missing.

This happens year in and year out on Durban’s main beach, and every year the problem just gets worse, and the cover-ups bigger!

Thankfully, there is YouTube...

RELATED POST: Dark Africa has arrived! - (April 24, 2009)

For those who prefer not to watch the video, the picture should tell the story:

Durban Main Beach - New Year's Day 2012

The Global Muslim Brotherhood

2012-01-15T19:43:00.000+02:00

Allah is our objective.
The Prophet is our leader.
Qur’an is our law.
Jihad is our way.
Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.

If there is any truth in the saying, “a leopard never changes its spots,” then I’m afraid the years ahead will, most certainly, see the destruction of ‘reborn’ Middle Eastern societies. The implementation of 'democratic freedom' in these societies will undoubtedly provide no relief whosoever, but once the process is put into practice, the majority of the populace will forever remain oblivious to the fact that they’ve played right into the hands of satan's agents. The fact that their democracy is still young will evidently also be put forward as one of the reasons why crime, corruption, and social disorder will be rampant for the next 20-odd years.

In the interim, the old paradigm, “Problem-Reaction-Solution” will continue without hindrance, and without the majority sheeple knowing who is really behind the vicious sequence.

This posting will attempt to illustrate how one of the old agents of the ‘rulers of this world’ (aka satan) - the primary instigators of “Islamic” terrorism, since time immemorial, are rapidly worming their way into government seats of power.

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In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Robert Dreyfuss, a freelance investigative journalist, was Middle East Intelligence director of the Executive Intelligence Review. His 1981 book, Hostage to Khomeini, commissioned by Lyndon LaRouche, discusses how various officials in the Carter administration believed that an Islamic Iran could export the Islamic revolution to the Soviet Muslims and cause a break-up of the Soviet Union. This did indeed happen with a rise in an Islamic insurgency inside the Soviet Union which led to its breakup.

The following passage is a direct quote from the book, Hostage to Khomeini – pg 100:

“The real story of the Muslim Brotherhood is more fantastic than the mere imagination of the authors of espionage novels could create. It functions as a conspiracy; its members exchange coded greetings and secret passwords; although no formal membership list exists, its members are organized into hierarchical cells or “lodges” like the European freemason societies and orders. The Muslim Brotherhood does not respect national frontiers; it spans the entire Islamic world. Some of its members are government officials, diplomats, and military men; others are street gangsters and fanatics. While the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood are at home in plush-carpeted panelled board rooms of top financial institutions, at the lower levels the Muslim Brotherhood is a paramilitary army of thugs and assassins. At its highest level, the Muslim Brotherhood is not Muslim. Nor is it Christian, Jewish, or part of any religion. In the innermost council are men who change their religion as easily as other men might change their shirts.”

TAKE NOTE of the last part in the above excerpt: "IT IS NOT MUSLIM, NOR IS IT CHRISTIAN, JEWISH, OR PART OF ANY RELIGION!" People who thus blame religion for all the world's problems, don't have a cooking clue what they're talking about... It's the EXTREMISTS and aspiring pretenders (traitors) amongst us that are a thorn in the flesh!

In another book, The Devil's Game, Robert Dreyfuss describes the roots of the Muslim Brotherhood and its connections with the CIA and western intelligence services. He describes how the CIA and the West used the Muslim brotherhood in an attempt to overthrow President Nasser of Egypt because he nationalized the Suez and kicked out many US and European companies out of Egypt. The book describes how the Israelis also had ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and how they used a lesser enemy to attempt to destroy President Assad of Syria in the 1982 Muslim brotherhood uprising in Homs and Hama. The book provides many references and the author interviewed many witnesses. Similarly he describes how the CIA and British intelligence overthrew Premier Mossadegh of Iran because he nationalized Iran's oil removing the British from a major prize. It is interesting to note that the opposition in the uprisings in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Syria have all been the Muslim Brotherhood - [source].

The Muslim Brotherhood is today the world's oldest and one of the largest Islamist movements, founded in 1928 in Egypt by Hassan al-Banna, who, incidentally, was also a devout admirer of Hitler. The movement was banned in Egypt in November 1948 (post WWII), following several bombings and assassination attempts. At that time the Brotherhood was estimated to have 2000 branches and approximately 500,000 members or sympathizers. In succeeding months Egypt's prime minister was assassinated by a Brotherhood member, and following that Al-Banna himself was assassinated in what is thought to be a cycle of retaliation.

The movement was eventually legalized, following the recent 2011 Egyptian revolution and fall of Hosni Mubarak (aka the Arab Spring) – [source].

On 30 April 2011, the Brotherhood officially formed the Freedom and Justice Party. After three rounds of staggered parliamentary elections, which started in late November 2011 and ended in January 2012, they won the most votes, with the ultra-conservative Salifists coming a close second. Elections for the upper house of parliament will begin at the end of January 2012 – [source].

In the meantime, still in Northern Africa…

On 14 January 2012, Tunisians marked the first anniversary of the ousting of President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, an event that triggered the Arab Spring. President Marzouki also declared Saturday a national holiday, and marked the event by granting pardons to 9,000 prisoners and commuting 122 death sentences… Sound familiar? – [full news report here].

Incidentally, the Tunisian uprising, which forced President Ben Ali to step down on 14 January 2011, and then flee to Saudi Arabia with his family, was inspired by the suicide of young market trader Mohamed Bouazizi who set himself alight in front of the town hall in protest at petty corruption. His death in December 2010 sparked weeks of mass protests across Tunisia as anger over corruption, rising food prices, unemployment and lack of freedom boiled over.

Marzouki was elected interim President of Tunisia by the Constituent Assembly, on 12 December 2011. The Constituent Assembly is a convention consisting of 217 lawmakers representing Tunisians living both in the country and abroad. A plurality of members comes from the moderate Islamist Ennahda Movement, which is basically another one of the many offshoots of … yes; you guessed it - THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD!

On Friday, 13 January 2012, a new pro-democracy organization called the “Sharq Forum” was launched from Tunisia. The Sharq Forum states on their website, that, “...due to the current waves of global, regional, and local political changes and geostrategic shifts; And as a result of the challenges ahead that need to be addressed to achieve peace, stability and prosperity; The Sharq Forum was established.”

The head of its preparatory committee is former Al Jazeera general manager Wadah Khanfar. Khanfar started his career as a journalist while living in South Africa, and where he evidently performed graduate studies in international politics and African studies. In 1997, Khanfar became the Al Jazeera correspondent in South Africa. However, while living in South Africa, Khanfar was also the Director of Human Resource Development for the International Islamic Federation of Student Organizations (IIFSO), an organization that is apparently closely tied to the global Muslim Brotherhood.

A recent report published online on the Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report mentions several sources that have traced Mr. Khanfar’s connections to the Muslim Brotherhood. The report also mentions A MEMO purporting to be a 1998 briefing document prepared for the former South African President, Thabo Mbeki, which has long been posted on the Internet and describes the IIFSO as working closely with Hamas. The memo also identifies an individual called Wahdan Abu Ahmed KHUNFUR who it says was a Trustee of the Al Aqsa Foundation in South Africa as well as a Hamas contact.

The Al Aqsa Foundation is one of the organizations comprising the Union of Good, the worldwide coalition of charities, an umbrella organization consisting of over 50 Islamic charities and funds, directed by global Muslim Brotherhood leader Youssef Qaradawi, which funnel money to organizations belonging to Hamas, and which currently rules the territory of the Gaza Strip.

Hamas, which characterizes itself as an "Islamic resistance movement against Israeli occupation" is also on the US State Department list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations. [click here for more details].

Incidentally, the Muslim Brotherhood is still banned in Russia as a terrorist organization. (Sources here and here [Russian])

The Wikipedia page dealing with the Muslim Brotherhood, should sketch a general picture why this movement can be considered a global one.

So, there you have it my dear readers: - Satan and his cronies are taking over the world, bit by bit and step by step! There’s really no point in getting all worked up about it, as there’s nothing much we can do, except watch, learn, take care of ourselves and our families,... AND blog of course ;-)

RECOMMENDED FURTHER READING:

Islamophobia: Thought Crime of the Totalitarian Future

[Kindle Edition]

By Robert Spence and David Horowitz

In 1989, the Ayatollah Khomeni, ruler of Islamic Iran issued a fatwa calling on all Muslims worldwide to murder the novelist Salman Rushdie for insulting the Prophet Muhammad and Islam. Rushdie’s crime? Blasphemy or “Islamophobia,” as it has come to be known. Since then we have seen worldwide violent Muslim protests over cartoons, blasphemy laws in Europe, prosecutions of notable opponents of Islamic terror like Oriana Fallaci and Geert Wilders, and the demonization of courageous opponents of Islamic imperialism and terror in the West. David Horowitz and Robert Spencer describe the origins of the word “Islamophobia” as a coinage of the Muslim Brotherhood and show how the Brotherhood launched a campaign, by ginning up “Islamophobia” as a hate crime, to stigmatize mention of such issues as radical Islam’s violence against women and murder of homosexuals, and the constant incitement of many imams to terrorism. The authors make the case that “Islamophobia” is a dagger aimed at the heart of free speech and also at the heart of our national security.

The Muslim Brotherhood: The Burden of Tradition

[Hardcover]

By Alison Pargeter

Alison Pargeter is a Senior Research Associate at the Centre of International Studies at the University of Cambridge. Author regularly participates in international conferences, hosted by the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, the International Atomic Energy Agency, the US State Department, the German Foreign Ministry and the Italian government. Other publications - The New Frontiers of Jihad: Radical Islam in Europe (2008).

While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within

[Paperback]
By Bruce Bawer

The struggle for the soul of Europe today is every bit as dire and consequential as it was in the 1930s. Then, in Weimar, Germany, the center did not hold, and the light of civilization nearly went out. Today, the continent has entered yet another “Weimar moment.” Will Europeans rise to the challenge posed by radical Islam, or will they cave in once again to the extremists?

Zuma's speech on the occasion of the ANC's 100 year birthday bash

2012-01-10T23:54:00.001+02:00

Cartoon by Zapiro - www.zapiro.com

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ANC Centenary Festivities - An Abomination!

2012-01-08T15:33:00.001+02:00

“Today our leaders, traditional leaders and traditional healers, had to perform certain rituals before we get into serious business of celebration,” said Zuma after the ritual sacrifice of a bull at the church site where the ANC was founded in 1912.

The 3-day birthday bash of Africa‘s oldest gang of terrorists (now called a “liberation movement”) wraps up today when Zuma will address a rally, at about 16:00 this afternoon, to outline the ANC’s way forward.

President Jacob Zuma led the slaughter of a black bull in a ceremony on the second day of the African National Congress centenary festivities to celebrate its rich anti-apartheid legacy now tarnished by scandals and challenges. – more here

I do not have much to say, presently, about the ANC and their satanic rituals, but will quote a few self-explanatory verses from the Old Testament, which clearly illustrates the fact that animal sacrifice is an abomination unto the Lord God, and furthermore - if read in context with the New Testament book of Hebrew 9:24-28, it is an insult to the blood of Jesus Christ!

Isaiah 1:11-15
11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full [had enough] of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. (KJV)

The same passages in Afrikaans:

Jesaja 1: 11-15
11 Wat het Ek aan die menigte van julle slagoffers? sê die HERE. Ek is sat [genoeg gehad] van die brandoffers van ramme en die vet van vetgemaakte kalwers; en Ek het geen behae in die bloed van stiere of lammers of bokke nie.
12 As julle kom om voor my aangesig te verskyn, wie het dit van julle hand geëis--om my voorhowe te vertrap?
13 Bring nie meer skynheilige offergawes nie; gruwelike reukwerk is dit vir My. Nuwemane en sabbatte, die uitroep van samekomste--Ek verdra geen ongeregtigheid en feestyd nie!
14 Julle nuwemane en julle feestye haat my siel; hulle is My 'n oorlas. Ek is moeg om dit te dra.
15 En as julle jul hande uitbrei, bedek Ek my oë vir julle; ook as julle die gebed vermenigvuldig, luister Ek nie: julle hande is vol bloed. (Source)

The Documentary: “Have You Heard from Johannesburg?”

2012-01-06T11:59:00.004+02:00

'''Have You Heard From Johannesburg?''''' is a series of seven pro-ANC documentaries, with a total runtime of 8.5 hours, covering the 45-year ‘struggle’ against South Africa's system of racial segregation, more commonly known by the liberal swearword - “APARTHEID”.

One of several liberal-minded critics had the following to say about this documentary:

"This brilliant series, on the most important international social justice movement of the 20th century, is a landmark work of global significance."

-- Professor Clayborne Carson, Stanford University

Although the film provides, in my opinion, an unbalanced viewpoint of the apartheid era, I have no major gripe with the overall substance of the film. I do, however, feel that the ANC government is exploiting it for all the wrong reasons. I cannot see how the movie harmonizes with the ANC’s supposed intentions of establishing national unity. I also do not believe this is the type of film that should be screened repetitively, particularly to an audience that has no firsthand experience of the events, or who weren’t even born in that era. That the ANC is doing exactly that, serves as proof of their malicious intentions of indoctrinating the naive masses.

This is not the first anti-apartheid film that the ANC government has exploited for ulterior motives. During the past 17 years of democratic rule the homes and schools of South Africans have been bombarded with an assortment of anti-apartheid material.

Above and beyond the daily dose of misinformation, the ANC has also made a habit of publicizing their frequent celebrations, demonstrations, funerals, meetings, seminars, speeches; -- the list just goes on and on... (God help us when Mandela dies). Their behaviour is so typical of the scenarios illustrated in Kevin D Williamson’s book, “The Politically Incorrect Guide to SOCIALISM”, which reveals, among other facts, that Socialism benefits just one group of people: the central planners themselves. Everything in South Africa revolves around the ANC and Black people... the rest don't count!

If there is one definite prediction I can make for the year 2012, it will be the fact that more and more people, especially the youth, are going to be indoctrinated by half-truths, misinformation and lies than ever before. The programming is going to be so repetitive and forceful that in a few years from now evidence we know for a fact to be falsified, is going to be accepted as undeniable truth. Anybody who dares to disagree with the newly programmed perspectives will be treated like outcasts.

The few 'outcasts' who refuse to shut-up will eventually be terrorized into fearful silence. The insecure and hesitant ones will be persuaded by the majority that “reformation” and “restructuring” is a natural process, and that concepts, such as “Truth” and “Justice” are subjective in nature. Millions will believe these lies and will continue to do so for most part of their life-span. Sadly, by the time some people reach adulthood, and get that irresistible urge to seek the truth for themselves, they will not find it.

Beautiful poetry as well as numerous verses in our Christian Bibles speak of “Truth” and “Love” as if these two concepts belong together (which I believe they do). Yet when the liberal voice speaks of human rights, justice, peace, fairness, freedom for all, and all things bright and beautiful… and so on, their actions, and the series of events their actions generate, seldom incorporate expressions of “Truth” and/or “Love”. That their actions are more inclined to generate hatred, fear, and panic - is a certainty!

I noticed this strange liberal phenomenon again last night, while viewing Episode 4 of the documentary on SABC2. The 4th episode, called “Fair Play”, dealt with a time (not too long ago) when South Africa was subjected to a variety of international sport boycotts.

I never realized that the burning hatred expressed by White hooligans from Britain, Australia and New Zealand, towards the all-White South African Springboks rugby team was so intense and so violent.

Incidentally, the reason why I never realized this was because television in South Africa was only introduced in 1976, when I was about 16 years old. My parents never bothered purchasing a TV set. I left home at the age of seventeen to attend compulsory police training for 6 months. There was no television installed in our training facility. After that I was transferred to a station in Johannesburg where the barracks also had no TV set installed. Television was the last thing on our minds back then!

With the knowledge that Australians were racially prejudiced towards the Aborigines during that same period, the actions of the crazed masses on the sports fields really had me stunned for a moment. I was particularly shocked to hear that certain rugby players actually feared they’ll be shot by some lunatic sport fan. The disgraceful manner in which our sportsmen were treated back then, was in my eyes a reflection of a dark and sinister authority that was ruling the minds of the masses. It was disturbing to see how the ‘supposed’ Christian nations of this world were treating fellow Christians. It is thus no wonder that European nations are today no longer considered as the centres of Christian faith – (see this recent article on the subject).

While viewing those old scenes several thoughts crossed my mind…

That many of the crowds were not sport fans at all but hired activists, who had been swept into a satanic frenzy by media hype, was one thought. Another thought that crossed my mind was that the Springboks, although representatives of South Africa, had absolutely no control over the politics of the day. It was also quite evident that the elements of “Truth” and “Love” were severely lacking from the viewpoints expressed by many of the anti-apartheid commentators.

Have You Heard From Johannesburg?

SABC2 first screened the documentary in September 2010, and is now showing it again this entire week, with one episode per day - starting from Monday, as a precursor to the SABC's planned live television coverage of the ANC's 100 Years Centenary Celebrations on Sunday 8 January for 7 hours: - 5 hours on SABC2, and another 2 hours on SABC1.

Popular primetime shows that have been affected by this indoctrination of the masses include: 50/50, Erfsondes, Pasella, America's Got Talent, Noot vir Noot and Gospel Classics – Source.

For weeks now the SABC has been heavily hyping the 7 part documentary series with a multitude of typical communist-revolutionary style promos in heavy rotation. The SABC announced in a statement ''we are excited as the SABC that we will be beaming these celebrations right into our loyal viewers' homes''...

In other word, what they’re actually saying is:

“We’re extremely happy for the opportunity to once again utilize our State-run television broadcasts to ram the viewpoint down your throats that evil ol’ apartheid was really bad, bad, bad! And WE the ANC, and nobody else, got us all out of that mess! The fact that the documentary has won numerous impressive awards, including Best Documentary of 2010, makes it all the more convincing -- so you better believe it!”

The documentary was produced and directed by Ms. Connie Field (60), an American who lives in the San Francisco Bay area, and who is best known for her work on American themes. One can thus assume that she had very little firsthand experience of South Africa’s multifaceted ‘struggles’, and that she was thus heavily influenced by the illusory hype propagated by the international media, who were hell-bent on creating the worst possible image of a “White” South Africa.

Ms. Field admits that she focused exclusively on the relationship between the South African anti-apartheid movement and its allies abroad, and visited places like the United States, Britain, the Netherlands and Norway. By the time she began filming in South Africa, Nelson Mandela was already president of the country. Her perspective of the “old” South Africa had thus already been shaped by the distorted worldview..., and because it was a “worldview” it was also considered “the norm”.

It thus comes as no surprise that the documentary omits vital details regarding the reasons why certain organizations such as the ANC were banned in the first place, and why the violent rivalries among various black political groups such as, the ANC, Pan Africanist Congress, Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), United Democratic Front (UDF) - to mention a few, only received fleeting treatment.

Ms. Field’s excuse was that 8.5 hours of film was not enough... “Had I been able to make 12 hours, all of that would have been there,” Ms. Field said. “But in order to tell the story clearly, I had to come up with a formula that was somewhat chronological but also schematic. So you have to end up having to make choices, and as you shape things, some things had to fall by the wayside and ended up on the cutting-room floor, including some people who are heroes to me.” – Source

The 7-part documentary includes the following episodes:

All these episodes can be viewed free online, here.

Episode 1: Road to Resistance: 1948 - 1964 (65 Minutes)
As the U.N. adopts the Declaration of Human Rights, South Africa heads in the opposite direction and implements apartheid. A mass movement is born, then crushed, and Nelson Mandela is jailed for life.

Episode 2: Hell of a Job (58 Minutes)
The future of the movement is on the shoulders of Oliver Tambo, who escapes into exile and begins a 30-year journey to engage the world in the struggle to bring democracy to South Africa.

Episode 3: The New Generation (58 Minutes)
Youth in South Africa and around the world are next to join the growing movement against apartheid, and the brutal suppression of a youth uprising in Soweto galvanizes public support for sanctions against South Africa.

Episode 4: Fair Play (96 Minutes)
Athletes and activists around the world hit white South Africa where it hurts: on the playing field. The sports boycott pushes apartheid South Africa out of international sporting competitions, isolating it in an area of passionate importance.

Episode 5: From Selma to Soweto (89 Minutes)
African Americans alter U.S. foreign policy for the first time in history, successfully pressuring the U.S. to impose sanctions and politically isolate Pretoria.

Episode 6: The Bottom Line (86 Minutes)
International grassroots campaigns against Polaroid, Shell, Barclay’s, General Motors and others doing business in South Africa economically isolate the apartheid regime and become the first successful effort to use economic pressure to help bring down a government.

Episode 7: Free At Last (78 Minutes)
An uprising in South Africa becomes the final blow in the cumulative world effort to topple apartheid. Nelson Mandela becomes a household name as the campaign to free him ignites a worldwide crusade.

Responding to the propaganda:

Compared to human rights abuses in Islamic and Communist countries, Apartheid was actually mild. By 1987 just about all the Apartheid laws were abolished. The question is - why did the world then continue to hold sanctions and boycotts against South Africa? Was the so-called “Struggle against Apartheid” perhaps nothing more than a deception by international power players to get their hands on the treasure chest of the world, namely South Africa?

The best response to unbalanced documentaries like these, and the best answers to complex questions about the apartheid system can be found online in Mike Smith’s series of articles called: “Pandora’s Apartheid Box”. In this series Mike Smith provides answers to, among other things, the decisive question: Was the system of racial segregation (apartheid) truly a crime against humanity, or was it perhaps the fairest system ever created for multicultural societies?

I’ve taken the liberty of providing the direct links to articles that Mr. Smith has completed thus far. I’ve listed these links in a separate page created exclusively for this series. Please bear in mind that this is an ongoing project by Mike, and that newer articles will appear as time progresses.

PS: I've just received the news that Mike is planning on publishing one last chapter.

Click here to visit the page - "Pandora’s Apartheid Box"

Related Posts:

Invictus - The Film
Thrashing the White African Heritage
The Sandra Laing Story and the movie SKIN
The ANC’s Scam of Unity in Diversity

Happy New Year 2012!

2011-12-31T11:23:00.000+02:00

If it had not been for the growing number of followers (84 in total) and regular returning visitors, I would have discontinued blogging a long time ago... Thank you for your support!

I am personally grateful to those who expressed their appreciation for the work that’s been published here, despite the fact that there are far more superior blogs out there, which have made a far greater effort to keep track of and expose the evil deeds of our useless government.

A very special THANK YOU to those who encouraged me to continue blogging when I felt like giving up, on more than one occasion.

I wish you all a rewarding, prosperous and safe 2012!

A Bloody Christmas in Nigeria (Video)

2011-12-26T15:19:00.000+02:00

There has been widespread condemnation in the international community of a series of Christmas Day bomb attacks in Nigeria that killed almost 40 people. The militant Islamist group, Boko Haram, has claimed responsibility for the attacks. (Click here for the full report on bbc.co.uk)

As previously stated on this blog - the real masterminds behind world terrorism are not who we think they are. Several authors/researchers have confirmed this fact. David Livingstone, the author of Terrorism and the Illuminati: A Three Thousand Year History (a book I wished I had read sooner), is but one such author/researcher who strongly feels that, contrary to popular belief, it is not the religion of Islam that is posing a threat to the West (or Africa), but rather Islamic “terrorist” organizations that were “created” to serve Western imperialistic objectives.

It’s a relationship that dates back to sixth century BC, and to the birth of the Kabbalah in Babylon; a plot to seek world domination through the use of magic and deception. It has created an entity spoken of in the New Testament scriptures (and summed up in a term called “antichrist”) – an entity which Jesus Christ often spoke about when addressing His disciples, although He called it by various other names.

Biblical scriptures clearly identify how we can establish who is under the spell of this ‘magical’ evil entity:

“Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.” – (1 John 4: 3 KJV)

The “Masters of Darkness” chose a Christmas day in Nigeria to bomb churches, and thus make their point. The current ANC Regime in South Africa did exactly the same – only a few years ago, when they too were classified as “terrorists”.

In the year 1985, two days before Christmas, the ANC detonated a bomb in the holiday town of Amanzimtoti, situated on the Natal South Coast. Five civilians (Christians) were killed and 40 were injured. Click here for the details of other bombings by the same scum.

Today, the terrorists involved in those bombings are the heroes of South Africa’s corrupt ‘democratic’ rulers, and HIS-story has been twisted to fit the modern liberal worldview.

Next year, on 8 January 2012, the African National Congress will be a hundred years old. The ANC centenary celebrations will probably carry on throughout most part of the year. We will, no doubt, be reminded – over and over, how liberation movements on the African continent made it a better place for ALL OF US... and that there is UNiTY iN DiVERSiTY.

It’s a load of utter crap of course, but the majority will believe this satanic propaganda.

May the year 2012 come and go - quickly!

The Gods Must Be Crazy... Again!

2011-12-23T13:54:00.000+02:00

Many South Africans will recall the hilarious 1980’s hit comedy The Gods Must Be Crazy, written and directed by Jamie Uys. The opening scenes show how a Coke bottle is casually thrown from a light passenger aircraft flying over the Kalahari desert. The bottle lands in the middle of a primitive village.

One of the leading actors in the movie, Xi, was played by N!xau, an indigenous San, born in the Kalahari Desert sometime around 1944 – (Biography here).

The "gift from the gods" proved to be a mixed blessing when the tribesmen tussled over it and eventually used it as a weapon. To keep the peace in the village, Xi was assigned to take the bottle to "the end of the earth" and throw it back to the gods… and that is when the actual story begins.

Today, when strange objects drop out of the sky some people get really exited and use the occasion as evidence of alien existence. The fact of the matter is that “earthly” space junk falls out of the sky all the time.

Quite a bit of space junk has rained from the sky this year. In September, for example, NASA's defunct Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) — a 6.5-ton craft that monitored climate from 1991 until 2005, plunged into the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean. Just a month later, Germany's 2.7-ton Roentgen Satellite (ROSAT) fell to Earth over the Indian Ocean. Nobody on the ground was injured by either satellite crash.

An even bigger spacecraft will plummet to Earth soon. Russia's failed Phobos-Grunt Mars probe got stuck in Earth orbit shortly after its Nov. 8 launch, and it's been circling lower and lower ever since. Most experts predict the 14.5-ton spacecraft will come crashing down by mid-January 2012 – (Source)... As Jamie Uys said: “The Gods must be bloody crazy!”

The following photograph portrays an odd-looking metal ball that dropped out of the sky recently, in late November 2011. It slammed into the remote grassland of northern Namibia, in the region known as “Omusati”.

A handout photo provided by the National Forensic Science Institute (NFCI) shows a giant metallic ball of 1,1 metre in diameter weighing some 6 kilograms that fell out of the sky on a remote grassland in Namibia, prompting baffled authorities to contact NASA and the European space agency (ESA) on December 21, 2011.
Image by: AFP PHOTO / National Forensic Science Institute

The 14-inch-wide (35-centimeter) metallic sphere hit the ground about 480 miles (750 kilometers) north of Windhoek, the African country's capital. It left a crater 13 inches (33 cm) deep and 12.5 feet (3.8 meters) across, the Agence-France Presse (AFP) reported Thursday.

The metal "space ball" weighs 13 pounds (6 kilograms). It has a rough surface and appears to consist of two halves that were welded together, according to AFP.

The mystery sphere was discovered in mid-November, but local authorities held off on announcing the find until they could perform a few tests. They determined it poses no danger to the public.

"It is not an explosive device, but rather hollow, but we had to investigate all this first," police deputy inspector general Vilho Hifindaka told AFP.

However, Hifindaka and his colleagues still don't know what the object is or where exactly it came from. They've contacted NASA and the European Space Agency for help, AFP reported.

Locals apparently heard several small explosions a few days before the ball was found. Similar spheres have also been found in Australia and Central America over the last two decades, local authorities said.

Paul Ludik from the NFCI was quick to dismiss any notion that it was foreign to the planet, saying the metal alloy was known to man and used in spacecraft.

No space agency has yet claimed the item, which remains in Namibian police custody.
Sources: timeslive.co.za and www.space.com

The Experiment of the Century!

2011-12-21T14:54:00.000+02:00

The experiment of the century is aiming for the outer precincts of the unknown universe with a radio telescope of colossal proportions, developed by an international consortium of scientists. The massive network of telescopes is known as the "Square Kilometre Array" (SKA).

KAT-7 The seven-dish prototype interferometer array in the Karoo. Picture credit: SKA Africa

The SKA is currently in development and scheduled to be built in the southern hemisphere, in either the Northern Cape of South Africa, or in Western Australia. The chosen sites in both countries is where the view of our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is best and radio interference least.

The splendid beauty of the Milky Way, even when seen with the naked eye, without a telescope, is hard to describe to people who have never witnessed its awesome magnificence. This is one of the reasons why I’m finding it very difficulty to leave Southern Africa permanently, as I’m not quite sure how I’ll adapt to surroundings where such tranquil and soul-soothing natural splendours do not exist. Moving to Australia is, for several personal reasons, totally out of the question!

The SKA-project promises to answer some of the most fundamental questions about the evolution of the universe, including the emergence of the first stars and galaxies. It will be so sensitive that it will be able to detect an airport radar on a planet 50 light years away. In other words, it will be capable of probing back into time, to places that existed billions of years ago… Truly astronomical, I tell you!

The central SKA computer will, among other mind-blowing capabilities, have the processing power of about 1 billion PC’s. More interesting facts and figures can be viewed here.

Note: The links to all relevant sources in this article are repeated at the end of this posting, so please continue reading at your own leisure!

Although the total collecting area of the SKA will be one square kilometre, it will develop into the world’s single largest and most powerful radio telescope ever constructed - by utilizing 3000 dish-antennas, each about 15 metres wide - as well as two other types of radio wave receptors, known as aperture array antennas. The antennas will be arranged in five spiral arms extending to distances of at least 3000 kilometers from the centre of the array.

The following artist’s impression of what the central core site in the Karoo will eventually look like is nowhere near realistic, as it does not portray any site buildings, access roads, or the huge tarmac areas around the dish clusters. Bear in mind also that each separate antenna-dish is a sizeable engineering project in its own right.

Above image was sourced from the public domain.

Here is a more realistic artist’s impression, created by columnist, Ivo Vegter:

The above image were sourced from a posting on dailymaverick.co.za

The SKA is a global collaboration of 20 countries, initially conceived in the year 1991. Four sites were initially proposed in South Africa, Australia, Argentina and China, but after considerable site evaluation surveys, Argentina and China were dropped.

A Race between South Africa and Australia

A race has been on for some time now between the two short-listed countries, South Africa and Australia, to determine which country will be hosting the core SKA site. The final decision will apparently be made by early March 2012. Jodrell Bank Observatory, near Manchester in the UK, was chosen in April 2011 to be the location for the SKA Project Office.

Although political and economic factors will obviously also play a role, the selection-process will focus on the best possible operating environment for the telescope.

The following are some of the criteria that will be taken into account:

Radio frequency interference from mobile phones, TVs, radios and other electrical devices.
The characteristics of the ionosphere (the upper part of the Earth’s atmosphere) and the troposphere (the lower part of the Earth’s atmosphere).
Physical characteristics of the site including climate and subsurface temperatures.
Connectivity across the vast extent of the telescope itself as well as to communications networks for worldwide distribution of data produced by the SKA.
Infrastructure costs, including power supply and distribution.
Operations and maintenance costs.
The long term sustainability of the site as a radio quiet zone. [Source]

In Australia, the core site is located at Boolardy 26°59′S 116°32′E in Western Australia 315 km north-east of Geraldton, on a flat desert-like plain at an elevation of about 460 metres. The most distant stations will be located in New Zealand.

In South Africa, the core site is located at 30°43′16.068″S 21°24′40.068″E at an elevation of about 1000 metres in the Karoo area of the arid Northern Cape Province, about 75 km north-west of Carnarvon, with distant stations in Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, and Mauritius.

South Africa and Mauritius have already agreed to jointly construct a low-frequency array telescope in preparation for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) bid.

The current site in the Karoo is also the location for the South African MeerKAT project which, when finally completed, will consist of an array of 64 - 13.5m diameter antenna dishes. Although a seven-dish engineering and science testbed instrument for MeerKAT (known as KAT-7), is already fully functional, the entire project is scheduled for completion sometime in 2015, or maybe 2016 -- (This Is Africa, remember!)
[Source]

The Australians have similar projects underway, respectively called the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP), and the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). The A$100 million ASKAP project will consist of a telescope array of 36, 12m antenna dishes, and is expected to be to be completed by 2013.
[Source]

The photograph below shows an aerial view of the South African KAT-7 precursor array, located outside Carnarvon. The site offices and vehicles in the picture give a general idea of the size of these antenna dishes.

Above image was sourced from the public domain.

With a budget of €1.5 billion (about R16 billion), construction of the SKA is scheduled to begin in 2016 for initial observations by 2019 and full operation by 2024. The funding will come from many international funding agencies. Preliminary expectations are that Europe, the United States and the rest of the world will each contribute a third of the project's funding.

Australia has already spent more than $400 million developing its radio astronomy infrastructure since 2006, including $150 million on projects directly related to the SKA. [Source]

Africa’s bid, the development impact, money spent, benefits to the economy – and so forth, can be viewed here, on a SA Government Information website.

In 2010, concerns were raised over increased radio interference at the South African site due to an application by Royal Dutch Shell to explore the Karoo for shale gas using hydraulic fracturing. [Source] Hmmm, and I thought all the howling about the Karoo fracking business was about saving the water-poor and ecologically sensitive Karoo region – [see older posting : Stop Fracking in the Karoo].

The Astronomy Geographic Advantage Act

This rather extraordinary Act was passed in South Africa in 2007. It outlaws certain radio related activities in areas that are uniquely suited for optical and radio astronomy – (also known as astronomy advantage areas). This Act has already declared the entire Northern Cape Province, with the exception of the Sol Plaatje Municipality (Kimberley) as an astronomy advantage area with strict regulations on radio frequency interference and 12.5 hectares around the core SKA site protected as a radio astronomy reserve. [Source]

Furthermore, the stipulations of this Act (Chapter 5) permits the government to acquire land included in any astronomy advantage area, by -

(a) purchasing the land, property or right;
(b) exchanging the land, property or right for other land, property or rights; or
(c) expropriating the land, property or right in accordance with the Expropriation Act, 1975 (Act No. 63 of 1975), subject to section 25 of the Constitution, if no agreement is reached with the owner or the holder of the right.

List of external sources consulted in preparation for this posting:

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The ‘new improved’ South Africa and its dilemma with illegal drugs

2011-12-19T18:17:00.002+02:00

As I’ve stated before on this blog (here), drug-smuggling is a massive global network with tentacles reaching into the very core of governments worldwide. It is for this reason that the chief brains behind the big drug-cartels, as well as those responsible for large-scale cultivation and/or production, very seldom get caught.

For example: In December 2009, the head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Antonio Maria Costa, claimed that illegal drug money saved the banking industry from collapse. He claimed he had seen evidence that the proceeds of organised crime were "the only liquid investment capital" available to some banks on the brink of collapse during 2008. He said that a majority of the $352bn (£216bn) of drugs profits was absorbed into the economic system as a result. In other words, $352bn in criminal proceeds was effectively laundered by financial institutions - (See full news report here).

It is the mule-puppets that smuggle the poison, the ‘pushers’ on the streets, and the ‘makers’ of amateur backyard drug labs, who end up being prosecuted every odd now and then. The majority of “mules” and “pushers” seldom have a clue who the real brains are behind the various operations.

Although the few arrests we occasionally read about in South African newspapers and the amount of illegal drugs involved in police raids may seem horrendous, it is, in actual fact, a mere drop in the ocean. Furthermore, many of the “mules” apprehended are often used as decoys to distract law enforcement officials from the main big consignments slipping through. In some instances it is ringleaders inside the drug-cartels who provide the tip-offs, - to collect the “reward money” paid by governments. It truly is a most vicious, greedy, and evil circle!

Not too long ago, when I was involved with the rehabilitation of young drug addicts, on a part-time basis, I once ended up in a meeting attended by an elderly official, who claimed that he was employed by the Central Drug Authority (CDA). The fellow looked like a Jesuit Priest - dressed quite out of the ordinary, compared to the rest of us! He was extremely proficient at sidestepping the real issues, but appeared intelligent when he spoke. Although I’d like to share with readers my reasons why I mistrusted this person from the very beginning, I’ll obviously have to do so very discreetly in a separate future posting sometime.

The bottom line is this: There are ‘demons’ sitting in high places in certain drug-related government agencies. Their main purpose is to boycott and stall the various processes aimed at combating the supply, demand, and consumption of illegal drugs. Although they talk quite a lot and make many promises, they’ve done absolutely bugger-all to introduce measures to reduce the effects of drugs on individuals and society… Enough said, for now!

There was a point in time when South Africa had one of the most organised and most proficient specialized units, whose sole purpose was geared towards combating drug related crimes. They even had paid informers working undercover inside drug-smuggling syndicates. The unit was known as the South African Narcotics Bureau (SANAB). The ANC regime decided to dismantle the unit in 2004 – a decision which could only have been conjured-up by extremely crooked and evil minds - for while SANAB existed, we were doing just fine while keeping the highly addictive killer-drugs such as, heroin, cocaine, methamphetamines (TIK), off the streets and out of school grounds.

The closure of SANAB was not the only specialized police unit dismantled by the ANC Regime. Other specialized units such as, Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offences (FCS) units were also shut down. It was apparently undertaken as part of a drive to centralise control of the Police Service under the former Commissioner Jackie Selebi, who has now just started serving a 15 year sentence in jail for corruption… the bastard!!!

The new ‘improved’ South Africa has declined into a criminal drug haven with 100’s of 1000’s of drug-addicted victims. Some readers may recall that my youngest son also became a victim of heroin addiction and passed away tragically during September 2010, at the age of 21 – (posting here).

Since my son’s death I’ve not been regularly posting drug-related articles. However, this morning I once again felt the need to voice my rage over the drug issue, with the hope that the whole damn country will start acknowledging the fact that the ‘new improved’ South Africa has a very serious disease, and that the only way we are going to cure this disease is by, firstly, getting rid of the current corrupt rulers of this country, and secondly, by taking the law into our own hands in a massive organized campaign that will scare the living daylights out of all those involved in the despicable business of drug-dealing. I know it is easier said than done, but SOMETHING has to be done!

We simply cannot go from one year into the next, while the problem escalates. The past year has seen the world’s Socialist-Communists succeeding, time and again, when they mobilize the masses in their 1000’s. They seem to do it by simply setting a date and snapping their fingers. Yet, we law-abiding citizens, who have an aversion for riotous behaviour (or people associated with such behaviour), think that signing useless online petitions, in the comfy of our homes and offices, is going to solve the world’s problems.

IT’S ALMOST 2012 ALREADY… and the problems are escalating. Governments worldwide are blaming the general public - (you and me) for causing this mess we’re in. They are being untruthful… WAKE UP – WAKE UP – WAKE UP!

Take note of the second paragraph in the following news report:

South Africa a huge link in drug network

2011-12-18

By Erna van Wyk

Johannesburg - Travelling South Africans are increasingly being flagged by customs officials in other countries.

This is in large part due to South African passports being faked and used by international terrorists, said organised crime expert Annette Hübschle.

“We do not have such a brilliant reputation anymore,” she said.

And the situation is exacerbated by an increasing number of southern Africans being arrested for drug-related crimes in Europe and Asia.

Currently, 619 South Africans are in prisons abroad for drug trafficking. In Thailand, 12 South Africans were arrested this year. About 20 were arrested in foreign countries in November alone.

Besides Nolubabalo Nobanda’s arrest, the Bali Times reported in October that two more South Africans faced the death penalty after being arrested in Indonesia at Ngurah Rai International Airport.

Brett Savage, 44, from Johannesburg was arrested for allegedly carrying 3kg of crystal methamphetamine (tik) and Kedibone Motsweneng was arrested days later, allegedly trying to smuggle in 2.5kg of the drug.

At the same airport in September, housekeeper Nyolukana Nomakorinte Christabell, 44, was paraded in front of the media in Bali.

She cried uncontrollably after being caught with 1kg of crystal meth hidden in her underwear.

Hübschle said the volume of drugs trafficked through southern Africa to markets in Europe and Asia had surged.

“South Africa is a huge link in the international drug trafficking chain. These organised crime ‘networks’ are not only into drugs, but into other illicit and licit trading as well.

A trafficker from South Africa, for instance, might traffic rhino horn to China and traffic drugs back to South Africa,” she said.

Sourced from: www.news24.com

Click here for a complete list of drug-related articles on this blog.

Black Man Speaketh with Forked Tongue Again - The Farce of Reconciliation

2011-12-17T16:15:00.000+02:00

I’ve noticed that President Zuma has taken another symbolic measure to enhance the process of reconciliation and unity between Boer-Afrikaner and Black Africans, by opening a road, yesterday on 16 December, linking the Voortrekker Monument and Freedom Park, in Pretoria.

Zuma announced that the two historical sites have signed a memorandum of understanding as a symbol of “goodwill, reconciliation, social cohesion and nation building” – (Full news report here).

Freedom Park, located on a 52ha site on Salvokop that overlooks the Pretoria central business district, opened officially in December 2007. There was much controversy back then when the Park's Memorial Wall was unveiled with the names of those who died in various wars fought on African soil, including Cubans who died in Angola, MINUS the names of SADF soldiers who died while defending the country during the Border Wars in Angola and South West Africa (now Namibia).

Another controversy followed in March 2009 when a new gallery at the memorial neglected to pay tribute to Afrikaner leaders.

When it became clear that the management of Freedom Park were not going to change its stance on adding former SA Defence Force dead to its Wall of Remembrance, the ‘Boers’ made their own plans (as they always do) without the ANC government’s assistance. They erected their own Wall of Remembrance, without State expense, to honour approximately 2500 members of the SA Defence Force who died on duty, between 1961 (foundation of Republic) to the year 1994 – the year the country was handed on a platter to Marxist-Communists. (See older posting : SA Defence Force Wall of Remembrance.)

Although the above episodes clearly demonstrate the lack of understanding the current rulers of South Africa have for concepts such as “reconciliation” and “unity”, it is - in my opinion, far healthier that we keep the status quo, and that no enforced mingling should occur when it comes to matters of cultural purity and sacredness.

For many White South Africans, including myself, the public Vow that was taken by a Trekker commando on 16 December 1838 binds us to commemorate the day as a religious holiday (sabbath). For us the date will always remain spiritually significant no-matter what name you call it. The same date had a psychological influence on a small gang of Black African Communists, who decided to commit their first acts of sabotage on that same date, on 16 December 1961.

See also older postings:

A significant date, and
The Day of the Covenant.

For the ANC government and their cronies the date has no spiritual significance whatsoever. However, because they now find themselves in a position of power, which, by the way, was made possible through a traitorous process of decisions involving numerous “resolutions of understanding”, they’ve decided to blatantly exploit the situation, to the detriment of minority groups.

Yesterday, while delivering a speech at Freedom Park, Zuma could, once again, not resist utilizing that pathetic liberal word called, “apartheid” to hide the weaknesses of the ANC and cover their own deceitfulness. He had to give a reason why the ANC had not spent enough money yet, so he said: “It was important to prioritise basic services for the black majority who suffered “profoundly” under apartheid.”

“The more we invest in education and skills development the more we will reverse the legacy of apartheid and colonial oppression, and we will be closing the societal gap that was created,” said Zuma.

He reiterated that government was still focused on its priorities of fighting crime and corruption, job creation, education, health, and rural development to reverse the legacy of apartheid.

What exactly did Zuma mean when he said that South Africans must participate in nation building by “wiping away the tears and covering the wounds” of a painful past - (another obvious reference to “apartheid”)? Is it not time that the entire nation start shedding tears for all the atrocities taking place right now?

“Apartheid”, “apartheid”, “apartheid” -- We will NEVER hear the end of it until all Whites are gone from South Africa… It boggles the mind to think that the President of the country could come up with such outmoded nonsense, while he addressed the nation - on a day called, “Day of Reconciliation”.

It almost makes it pointless to say, “GOD BLESS AFRICA!”

South Africa - receding into a pit of hell?

2011-12-13T00:44:00.001+02:00

The preparations involved with the drafting of the previous posting, dealing with the current explosive situation in the DR Congo, took up most of my Friday as well as my Saturday afternoon. In-between I’ve been attending to other personal issues. I have thus, since Friday, not been keeping up-to-date with all the latest news in South Africa, and neither have I been paying much attention to the concoction of weekly news dished up by Sundays National newspapers.

After I’d cached-up with most of the news by Monday afternoon, and thoroughly examined all the content that was delivered to my e-mail inbox over the weekend, and sorted the ‘average’, ‘remarkable’, ‘exceptional’, and ‘bizarre’ from the ‘trash’, I’m more than ever convinced that South Africa has become a fully-fledged satanic hellhole.

There are so many stories that exemplify this fact, that I’m at a loss which ones I should use as a focal point for my next article. Stories related to corrupt and incompetent cops have been so plentiful lately that my mind automatically dumps them into a mental folder marked, “The Norm in SA”. Incidentally, this blog already contains more than 30 articles that highlight this problem… Type “SA Police” in the search bar to find them!

Some of these stories (minus the corrupt cop stories), which occurred over the weekend, are as follows:

…. and so on.

However, my hairs stood on end, after reading the story about an alleged police "hit squad" operating in KwaZulu-Natal under the command of the province's Hawks boss, Major-General Johan Booysen.

My immediate reaction was to start drafting an article related to this story, but the little bird on my shoulder, who helps me out of trouble now and then, instantaneously warned me not to deliver an opinion at this point in time. Besides the fact that some of the older white officers who appear to be involved in the matter were, many years ago, former acquaintances of mine, the Sunday Times is known to make groundless accusations from ‘evidence’ they’ve obtained from dubious sources.

All I’m prepared to say right now is that IF these allegations uncovered by The Sunday Times are true (which I strongly doubt), then I’m afraid some of South Africa’s most courageous and most experienced detectives have fallen under the spell of the devil. Their minds have thus deteriorated to the same immorally-depraved level of terrorists.

This sort of thing unfortunately happens in all countries were socialist-communists have taken power, but it should not affect honourable men of standing. Only those who remain sober at all times and who are acutely faithful to their God can survive working and living for an organisation controlled by demonic forces. Even then there is no guarantee they’ll survive, as most men working under hazardous conditions sometimes forget what god(s) they must pledge allegiance to.

Another Election Façade in the DR Congo

2011-12-10T15:30:00.001+02:00

The above image is from the cover of a new book, Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa, by Jason Stearns. The book was published in March 2011. The book can also be ordered here, from Kalahari.com

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), formerly Zaire, is widely considered to be the richest country in the world regarding natural resources. Its untapped deposits of raw minerals are estimated to be worth in excess of US$ 24 trillion. This is more than the combined GDP of Europe and America!

Various reliable reports, including this online report, have revealed overwhelming evidence that the current Kabila regime was “made in the USA” (or the Illuminati-pack ruling the USA) just as was the Mobutu regime it overthrew.

In other words, one neo-colonial puppet ruler was replaced by another, by what may appear to be ‘Western’ powers. In reality most African leaders governing African states, especially potentially wealthy ones, have been groomed and planted by the global elite (aka Illuminati) who control all sides, both East and West. It stands to reason that due to the substantial amount of effort it must have taken to get someone in a position of power (especially in a volatile but wealthy region such as the DRC) , it would be most advantageous to keep them in their ‘posts’ for as long as possible. ‘Governing’ a wealthy country under a fog of war also has its benefits, for some!

Kabila in 2002, with Thabo Mbeki of South Africa, George W. Bush, and Paul Kagame of Rwanda, right, at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.

Joseph Kabila took office ten days after assassinating his mentor and adopting father, President Laurent-Désiré Kabila. He was elected as President in 2006 (at the young age of 36 - can you believe it?) and is standing for another term in the 2011 election. In his early years Kabila became the commander of the infamous army of "kadogos" (child soldiers) and played a key role in major battles on the road to Kinshasa. He eventually received further military training at the PLA National Defense University, in Beijing, China – Source.

The current presidential and parliamentary elections, held in the country on 28 and 29 November 2011, was marred from the start by massive technical shortcomings, from the late delivery of ballots to the chaotic tabulation centers where ballots were being dumped by the millions. There were not enough computers for poll workers to enter the data. Frequent power cuts plunged counting centers into darkness. The election commission failed to meet its Tuesday deadline for releasing results. They announced a 48-hour extension, which eventually turned into a 72-hour one.

When reading about all these ‘difficulties’ the first point that comes to mind is that - This Is Africa (TIA), and that this type of chaos is the norm in Africa. BUT, lately I’ve been pondering whether, or not, all these shortcomings were designed to perhaps deliberately create chaos. It surely explains why, in Africa, baboons in suits are kept in power.

The opposition in the DR Congo had repeatedly announced that it would reject the election outcome, raising fears that the country will once again be plunged back into war. Kabila, 40, controls the security forces but Tshisekedi, 78, commands fierce support on the streets of Kinshasa.

Reuters reported on late Friday (9 Dec 2011) that the main challenger in the DR Congo's election had already declared himself President and had poured scorn on provisional official results handing victory to incumbent Joseph Kabila… In other words, chaos is imminent!

Although international observers said the vote was flawed, they have stopped short of calling it fraudulent... as they always do. Most say the irregularities were not widespread enough to have caused a change in outcome. However, the perception among opposition supporters (long before the millions of votes were completely counted) is that Tshisekedi won, setting the stage for a confrontation. – Source

Criticism has also been raised about the neglect of international organizations, namely the United Nations and the European Union in their support for the elections in the DR Congo (source here). This fact confirms my beliefs regarding a ‘planned chaos’.

On Wednesday when the delayed election results started raising fears of a return to war, tension was already mounting in Kinshasa, a sprawling city of 10 million. Several online sources reported that refugees were fleeing in their 1000’s.

Incidentally, new destination countries for many Congolese includes South Africa and various points en route to Europe.

Anti-Kabila protests by Congolese expatriates also turned violent in Brussels, London, Paris, Johannesburg and Pretoria. I find it quite odd that the local SA media have been relatively silent on this issue.

Earlier in the week the Guardian reported that banks were closing, hotels were emptying and that people with suitcases were clambering aboard boats. Lorries carrying riot police patrolled the streets while the government blocked text message communications. Some 3,000 people fled Kinshasa at the weekend. Hotels in Brazzaville, the capital of the neighbouring Congo-Brazzaville, were fully booked. Boats continued to cross the Congo river on Monday, carrying fleeing residents with suitcases. A security official at the port, who asked not to be named, told AP that many of those crossing were politicians, including members of parliament and ministers who were taking their wives and children to safety. Read the Guardian’s full report here, dated Tuesday 6 December 2011

Shall we briefly explore how matters in the DR Congo got so terribly ‘chaotic’, and why stability has been so elusive?

At the time of its independence in 1960, the DRC was the second most industrialized country in Africa after South Africa. It boasted a thriving mining sector and its agriculture sector was relatively productive. It has been widely reported that the recent conflicts, known as the First and Second Congo Wars, dramatically reduced national output and government revenue, and increased the country’s external debt. It has also been widely reported that various militias, particularly in east Congo, have raped and looted the region with impunity.

Although it is true that much of the conflict in the DRC was focused on gaining control of the country’s substantial natural resources, it is my personal opinion that the Congolese militias only plundered the dust off the tip of the iceberg, and that the real BIG plunderers will eternally remain undisclosed.

The DR Congo wars resulted in approximately 5.4 million deaths since 1998, making it the world’s deadliest documented conflict since World War II. - Source: Special Report Congo

The incessant greed for Congo's vast mineral wealth has made the situation worse. Even the UN mission in Congo, Monusco, which has 19,000 peacekeepers costing $1.4bn (£8.7m) a year, is implicated in illegal practices involving minerals. – Source

The Congo is the world's largest producer of cobalt ore, and a major producer of copper, tin, and industrial diamonds, the latter coming from the Kasai province in the West. The Congo has 70 percent of the world’s coltan, and more than 30 percent of the world’s diamond reserves. The coltan is a major source of tantalum (substitute for platinum), which is used in electronic equipment such as mobile phones, DVD players, video game systems and computers. See also: Congo War and the Role of Coltan, by Natalie D. Ware

Incidentally, long ago - when the country was still known as the Belgian Congo, it was also rich in uranium deposits (and probably still is). It supplied the uranium that was used by the United States to build the atomic weapons - used in the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.

In our modern day-and-age there have been a number of reasons cited for the discrepancy between the vast mineral wealth of the province and the failure of the wealth to increase the overall standard of living. Much has already been published regarding the role of multinational companies and foreign actors in the pillage of natural resources.

Bad governance practices has often been cited as one of the reasons, but never-ever will you see or hear the names of the real role-players and true owners of the so-called multinational companies, who have for centuries manipulated and controlled the political and economic character of the DRC, starting from the time when the US government (through the covert transactions of the CIA) assassinated the Congolese independence leader and first legally elected Prime Minister of the DRC, Patrice Lumumba, in 1961. He was executed by firing squad, in a matter of a few weeks after the country gained independence from Belgium.

Since then there have been various other underhanded dealings and atrocities of all sorts, which unfortunately cannot be covered in a single blog-posting. Lately, it would appear that the machinery of various ‘legally authorized’ institutions, among others, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which is related to the World Bank – both created in 1944, and owned largely by the super-elite Rothschild and Rockefeller families, have become the major role-players in the drama.

One should never lose sight of the fact the theoreticians who drafted the World banking-plan were prominent Fabian Socialists from England, like John Maynard Keynes, and the Assistant Secretary of the U.S.Treasury, Harry Dexter White. White, who became the first Executive Director for the US at the IMF, was also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He was later discovered to be part of the Soviet espionage ring in Washington… Yep, as stated countless times before on the pages of this blog -- the ‘super-elite’ rule all sides, both left and right! Although they sit in high places, mainly in the USA and Britain, their blood-brothers are from the East, hence the reason why almost every techno-gadget found in the majority of ‘western’ homes are “made in China”.

One of the strongest criticisms of the World Bank has been the way in which it is governed. While the World Bank represents 186 countries, it is run by a small number of economically powerful countries (i.e. - elite people, who are all closely connected). These countries (or families – collectively called “The Illuminati”, according to several modern-day independent researchers and authors) choose the leadership and senior management of the World Bank. It thus makes perfect sense that their own personal interests will always dominate the bank.

Source: Woods, Ngaire. The Globalizers: The IMF, the World Bank, and Their Borrowers. Ithica and London: Cornell University Press, 2006, pp.190
See also:

David Moore's edited book The World Bank, University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2007
Weaver Catherine. Hypocrisy Trap: The World Bank and The Poverty of Reform. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008, pp.31–32
EDITORIAL - Criticism of World Trade Organization, World Bank and International Monetary Fund
David Livingstone. Terrorism and the Illuminati: A Three Thousand Year History. BookSurge Publishing, 2007

In July 2010, an IMF press release announced that the IMF and the World Bank's International Development Association (IDA) have decided to provide support of US$12.3 billion in debt relief to the DR Congo. This money was granted on the ‘supposed justification’ that significant progress had been made by DRC authorities over the past several years in strengthening macroeconomic policy management and performance following a devastating decade-long conflict that destroyed the country’s economic and social infrastructure.

Yet, despite this enormous amount of money, malnutrition still affects approximately two thirds of the country's poverty stricken population. Young girls (kids) and women are still working in the mines in conditions of slavery, where they earn less than a dollar a day. – Source

There is no doubt in my mind that the disputed elections in the DR Congo is going to create further chaos, and that all sorts of ‘business deals’ will take place under a fog of war, or at the very least - under a fog of impending chaos, which in turn will be blamed for the main reason why journalists worldwide will not be able to accurately and reliably report on what is really going on.

We can however rest assured that ample smoke-and-mirror ‘news’ will be provided as usual, in sufficient quantities of ‘good news’ so as not to dampen the Christmas spirit.

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Several sources were researched while compiling this posting. Some of the online sources are as follows:

Related Posts:

Please take note that the “Congo” spoken of in some of these postings is the Republic of the Congo (sometimes known locally as Congo-Brazzaville). It should not be confused with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Giraffe rescued from a swimming pool (Video)

2011-12-07T23:16:00.000+02:00

'Lucy', a giraffe on the set of TV show Wild at Heart, fell into a swimming pool, forcing rescue workers to demolish the pool in order to free her. Video courtesy of Discover Africa.

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