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The president, who gets his intelligence briefings from Fox News, repeats a white nationalist myth about murders of white South African farmers. Trust President Trump, following his familiar tactic of deflecting attention from yet another scandal by issuing some outrageous tweet, to come down hard on the wrong side of an issue he knows nothing about, based on no more than a slanted Fox News program. In a late-Wednesday tweet, Mr. Trump said he had asked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to look into land seizures and the “large-scale killing of farmers” in South Africa. It was the first time he has mentioned...

He who believes he has a right to another man’s property ought to produce proof that he is its rightful owner. “As the old legal adage goes, ‘Possession is nine-tenths of the law,’ as it is the best evidence in our uncertain world of legitimate title. The burden of proof rests squarely with the person attempting to alter and abolish present property titles.” (From “Into the Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons For America From Post-Apartheid South-Africa”.) It is to this potent principle that democratic rule in South Africa has taken an axe—or, rather, an assegai.Here is how taking land legally currently works, in...

Chinese President Xi Jinping recently began a multi-country tour of sub-Saharan Africa looking to expand his country’s influence on the continent. The trip came amidst increasing concerns about shoddy construction of infrastructure, rapidly rising levels of debt of African countries, and corrupt autocrats benefitting from foreign investment. These seemingly separated developments are in fact interrelated, as China’s presence in Africa is raising alarm bells for those who fight for human rights, democratic freedoms for all, and fiscal accountability. China may offer African governments many attractive short-term incentives for partnerships, but the long-term goal of Beijing remains to maximize its own...

You know how these stories begin: President Trump went on to Twitter last night and tweeted: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1032454567152246785 By TD Ameritrade The reaction from the South African government was prompt: they denounced Trump’s claim with regard to the large scale killing of farmers in South Africa, which by the way is completely true. The ANC, South Africa’s ruling party, is currently working on legislation which would allow the government to legally steal white-owned land via a Constitutional amendment or modification or whatever. The land would be further distributed to South Africa’s black citizens, or at least that’s the theory, because “muh...

President Donald Trump excited white nationalists on Wednesday when he unexpectedly announced that his administration would look into farm seizures and the "large-scale killing" of white farmers in South Africa — a disputed claim promoted by some right-wing and white supremacist groups in the country. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1032454567152246785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1032454567152246785&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fuk.businessinsider.com%2Ftrump-promotes-white-supremacist-narrative-about-south-africa-2018-8 Trump's tweet was prompted by Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who aired a segment on his prime-time show on Wednesday condemning South African land redistribution and labeling the country's black president "a racist." Carlson, who has been accused of promoting a host of white nationalist talking points, attacked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for...

MELANIA TRUMP, 48, is the third wife of Donald Trump, 72, but what happened when they first met? The First Lady recalled a technique she used to keep the now President of the USA interested in her. Melania Trump has been married to Donald Trump for 13 years, but how did it all begin between them? The stunning former model is said to have met Donald in 1998 at a party in Times Square nightclub the Kit Kat Club. Donald attended the party on a date with Celina Midelfart, a Norwegian businesswoman. However, he soon asked for Melania’s number when...

FARMLANDS (2018) Official Documentary Contains a great deal of information about what is really going on with the "land reforms" in South Africa. I'm not going to claim its the only viewpoint on this subject, but I *do* think it's important to get this information out there so people have a better means of arriving at informed opinions about this.

JOHANNESBURG—South Africa’s government on Thursday criticized a tweet by President Donald Trump in which he said he asked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to study efforts to overhaul land ownership and “large scale killing of farmers” in Africa’s most-developed economy. Mr. Trump’s overnight tweet referenced a report by Fox News host Tucker Carlson attacking the U.S. government’s stance on land reform in South Africa, which he suggested was too lax. South Africa’s rand fell against the dollar after the tweet, and was 1.3% lower in Thursday morning trade. The ruling African National Congress has said it plans to change the...

Headlines in Western media saying an African country has closed 8,000 churches are always going to make Christians sit up and take notice. There are so many stories of the church under pressure, and many of them are true – Christians are the most persecuted religious group in the world. In Rwanda, though, where this story comes from, it's not quite that simple. It's true that the government has closed 8,000 churches – but why, and what do the Christians who live there think about it? Forever shadowed by the 1994 genocide in which around 800,000 Tutsis were murdered by...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he had asked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to “closely study the South Africa land and farm seizures” and the killing of farmers there. “I have asked Secretary of State @SecPompeo to closely study the South Africa land and farm seizures and expropriations and large scale killing of farmers,” Trump said in a post on Twitter. President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on Aug. 1 that the ruling African National Congress (ANC) is forging ahead with plans to change the constitution to allow the expropriation of land without compensation, as whites still own most of...

The South African government has begun seizing land from white farmers, following an August 1 ruling which amended that nation’s constitution to legalize the practice. Despite the disturbing ramifications of this human rights abuse at the hands of a foreign government, both cable and network news have remained stubbornly silent on the issue. According to the Johannesburg-based City Press, the South African government has begun the process of expropriating two game farms based in Limpopo. The government reportedly put the plan into motion after the owners rejected offers by the state to purchase their land for as little as one-tenth...

South Africa is walking the path of Zimbabwe, as its government has begun to literally steal white farmers’ land. The South African government calls this process “seizure”, yet it’s a confiscation by any metrics, because the farmers are not compensated for their loss. In recent weeks, ahead of planned land seizures by the feral black government, a lot of farmers tried to sell their lands, in a desperate move, yet there are no buyers, obviously, for even more obvious reasons. Since the current South African prez Cyril Ramaphosa assumed office and vowed that his party, the African National Congress(ANC is...

Archaeologists have uncovered a large ancient cemetery in Kenya that sheds new light on the area’s early culture. Researchers from Stony Brook University and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History discovered the graveyard, described as the earliest and largest monumental cemetery in Eastern Africa. The find at the Lothagam North Pillar Site near Lake Turkana has surprised experts, offering new details of the ancient herders that used the cemetery. “This group is believed to have had an egalitarian society, without a stratified social hierarchy,” the researchers wrote in a statement. “Thus their construction of such a...

South Africa's state-owned Land Bank said on Monday a plan to allow the state to seize land without compensation could trigger defaults that could cost the government 41 billion rand ($2.8 billion) if the bank's rights as a creditor are not protected. Land Bank is a specialist bank providing financial services to the commercial farming sector and other agricultural businesses. President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on Aug. 1 that the ruling African National Congress (ANC) is forging ahead with plans to change the constitution to allow the expropriation of land without compensation, as whites still own most of South Africa's land...

Shortened title. Full title: In July Obama Praised South African Leader for “Inspiring Great Hope” …On Monday the South African Leader Seized White-Owned Farms Barack Obama traveled to South Africa in July and delivered a speech at the 2018 Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture in Johannesburg. During the speech Obama called for guaranteed income. Obama also praised South African President Cyril Ramaphosa for quote, “Inspiring great hope in this country.”

6. PREPARATION: Victims are identified and separated out because of their ethnic or religious identity. Death lists are drawn up. Members of victim groups are forced to wear identifying symbols. Their property is expropriated. They are often segregated into ghettoes, deported into concentration camps, or confined to a famine-struck region and starved. At this stage, a Genocide Emergency must be declared. If the political will of the great powers, regional alliances, or the U.N. Security Council can be mobilized, armed international intervention should be prepared, or heavy assistance provided to the victim group to prepare for its self-defense. Otherwise, at...

The flow of third world migrants must be brought to a halt, European leaders said over the weekend, with Sebastian Kurz calling for EU nations to begin blocking boats from Africa. Der Standard reported the Austrian Chancellor [pictured above, left] held a telephone conversation with Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, in which the pair agreed that the situation with migrants being ferried across the Mediterranean was not sustainable. “We are both of the opinion that the EU cannot just allow every ship to dock,” said Kurtz, urging other nations in the bloc to close their ports to boats carrying illegal...

Johannesburg-based newspaper City Press reported owners Akkerland Boerdery wanted 200 million rand (£16.7m) for the land, but that the country’s government were willing to offer them just a tenth of that at 20 million rand (£1.67m). A letter sent to the owners earlier this year had said: “Notice is hereby given that a terrain inspection will be held on the farms on April 5, 2018 at 10am in order to conduct an audit of the assets and a handover of the farm’s keys to the state.” Akkerland Boerdery immediately took out an urgent injunction to prevent eviction until a court...

THE South African government has begun the process of seizing land from white farmers. Local newspaper City Press reports two game farms in the northern province of Limpopo are the first to be targeted for unilateral seizure after negotiations with the owners to purchase the properties stalled. While the government says it intends to pay, owners Akkerland Boerdery wanted 200 million rand ($18.7 million) for the land — they’re being offered just 20 million rand ($1.87 million). “Notice is hereby given that a terrain inspection will be held on the farms on April 5, 2018 at 10am in order to...

The great engine of American capitalism is once again firing on all cylinders, as shown by the 4.1 percent annualized growth of America’s gross domestic product (GDP) in the second quarter of this year. Most Americans (with the exception of Democrats in Congress) are celebrating the good economic news. There is quiet rejoicing in many European and Asian capitals as well, since their mostly sluggish economies will now be drawn along in America’s powerful wake. But there is one capital where the American economic renaissance is definitely not welcome news. Consternation reigns in China, where President Xi Jinping is nervously...