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The rule of the African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa since 1994 has been marked by a widening chasm between poor black people, the majority and a tiny black elite, who get richer and richer. A quarter of our children are so badly malnourished that their brains are stunted for life. Amid this terrible hunger, President Cyril Ramaphosa lives in fabulous splendor. He is said to be worth 6 billion rand (around $350 million). He has mansions in the rich parts of South Africa. He has a fleet of luxury cars. He owns a game farm of 11,120 acres....

The ex-boyfriend of the National Guardsman who was shot dead in Washington DC said she wanted to make a difference despite being spat on by the public. Sarah Beckstrom, 20, succumbed to her injures on Thursday after her and fellow guardsman Andrew Wolfe, 24, were ambushed while on duty near the White House on Wednesday. Wolfe remains hospitalized in critical condition. Her former boyfriend, Adam Carr, whom she dated for six years, said Beckstrom had been treated poorly while on duty. 'She was like: "People spit towards us, cuss at us, throw things at us, and we can’t do nothing."...

THE ROAD TO THE CHICAGO TRAIN FIRE ATTACK. On April 23, 2020, a man poured gasoline around the Illinois state government building in Chicago and set it on fire. The man, identified as Lawrence Reed, 44, was said to be angry because he had not received his monthly government Supplemental Security Income check. According to the Chicago news site CWB Chicago, Reed went inside the building, known as the Thompson Center, and asked a worker at a train kiosk where his check was. Reed left and came back about an hour later, asking the same thing. Then, according to CWB...

A historically black university whose president is under scrutiny for plagiarism allegations reported on by The Daily Wire is a “criminal enterprise to divert federal and state funds,” according to a federal lawsuit filed by the school’s former Vice Provost for Academic Affairs. It is one of four similar lawsuits filed in the last few months against the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, its president Heidi Anderson, its provost Rondall Allen, and its diversity, equity, and inclusion czar Jason Casares, that all follow a similar pattern: A faculty member allegedly discovers wrongdoing at the university, and then is retaliated against...

This happened in Brooklyn early on Wednesday. From News 12 Brooklyn: Swastikas were painted on a Magen David Yeshivah in Gravesend. Police say security guards discovered the symbols at 2132 McDonald Ave. just after 6:30 a.m. Wednesday. The swastikas were painted on multiple windows and on a pillar at the Jewish center, according to the NYPD. The swastikas were washed off of the windows and Israeli flags were taped over the symbols on the walls.

Democrats wield chaos as a strategy, overwhelming voters with nonstop turmoil that obscures blame and rallies key groups—leaving Republicans scrambling to counter before the clock runs out. We can draw a few conclusions from an off-year election, when iconic races in blue states went, as expected, overwhelmingly Democratic. Nevertheless, there is only a year left before the midterms. So Republicans must react to even these paltry results. 1) Democrats’ chaotic nihilism still works. The chaos strategy causes so much turmoil, noise, and negative media coverage that the confused voting public simply cannot sort it all out. The public wishes the...

One of the more noxious aspects of Zohran Mamdani’s campaign to be mayor of New York City is the reappearance of Linda Sarsour, the far-left, oxymoronically hijab-wearing “feminist” activist who rocketed to international fame some years ago as the hate-filled face of the leftist/Islamic alliance, glossing over the human rights abuses of Sharia and demonizing Israel with extravagant false claims long before doing so became the left’s favorite pastime. As it turns out, Sarsour has not been enjoying a comfortable, Soros-financed retirement; she has been working on what she calls “the quiet side” of the Mamdani campaign.

Zohran Mamdani’s incoming administration began taking shape on Wednesday as the New York City mayor-elect announced a transition team to help enact what he called the city’s most ambitious policy platform in a generation, vowing to get right to work when he takes office on 1 January. Speaking at a morning press conference in Queens, the 34-year-old democratic socialist revealed an all-female transition team led by Elana Leopold as executive director. It also includes co-chairs Maria Torres-Springer, the former first deputy mayor; Lina Khan, the former federal trade commission chair; the United Way’s president and CEO, Grace Bonilla; and the...

The election results should disabuse every affable conservative that there are ‘level-headed Democrats.’ Your Democrat friends might be friendly to you, but they just voted for a guy who wants you and your family dead.In what should be an unsurprising development to every conservative in America, the “everyday normal Democrat voter” we are all told exists just came out in numbers to vote for assassination fetishist Jay Jones to be the next attorney general of Virginia.We often hear some version of: I know their political leadership wants to groom and mutilate as many children as possible, kill as many unborn...

In 1958, Mao Zedong launched his Great Leap Forward, a massive push to transform China from an agricultural society to an industrial one, aiming to compete with the West. Mao's goal was to surpass British industrial output within 15 years, and that political goal took priority over even human lives. Poor Chinese were moved into collectives that stripped them of private land, livestock, and tools. Farmers were forced into work building primitive steel furnaces while crops and livestock were neglected, and the government seized excess grain for export or urban stores. Less than a year after the Great Leap Forward...

ay Jones is projected to be the next Virginia attorney general, defeating incumbent Republican Jason Miyares, according to several news outlets. “I want to thank every Virginian tonight who placed their trust in me,” Jones told supporters in Richmond, Virginia. Jones emphasized that he is the first black attorney general of the commonwealth, “The weight of that trust is not lost on me at all.” Democrat Abigail Spanberger is also projected to win and be Virginia’s next governor, while Democrat Ghazala Hashmi is projected to be lieutenant governor. “Politics is like a pendulum,” Miyares told supporters in Virginia Beach during...

"Some of those top public servants have felt a need to separate themselves from the public."Of all the Trump ‘scandals’ that the media has dug up, this one is the most revealing.Top Trump Officials Are Moving Onto Military Bases – The AtlanticHow dare they! Moving onto military bases? I wonder why they might be doing that. Probably for the luxurious lifestyles, the high-class dining and the exciting nightlife.“Stephen Miller soon joined a growing list of senior Trump-administration political appointees—at least six by our count—living in Washington-area military housing, where they are shielded not just from potential violence but also from...

Mamdani would be the first Muslim mayor of New York City, and he is rallying his fellow New York Muslims to help make that happen. At the end of the day, Mamdani is playing that "race card" — and hard.One of Zohran Mamdani’s final rallies in New York City centered on his Islamic identity as he rallied Muslim voters and condemned the alleged “Islamophobia” against him, while his campaign thanked a group closely linked both to the NYC mayoral hopeful and to controversial Palestinian-American activist Linda Sarsour.Mamdani’s campaign swing on the final weekend before Tuesday’s election featured a host of...

A division within the FBI is asking defense contractors to report incursions by “unmanned systems” — including unidentified anomalous phenomena — that could pose a threat to U.S. national security. NewsNation special investigative correspondent Ross Coulthart has obtained a flyer produced by the FBI’s Office of the Private Sector announcing a new initiative to report unmanned systems such as drones and underwater vehicles that could pose a threat to defense facilities and “critical infrastructure” sites. The document notes an increase in “incursions over recent months” and says the unmanned systems “may be intended to disrupt operations or gauge U.S. response...

Embattled BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors and her wife have dissolved their consulting business and sold their joint LA home, while she’s dropped her spouse’s name, The Post can reveal. Details about the personal moves surfaced as the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation that Cullors helped found is reportedly in the crosshairs of the Department of Justice for possibly defrauding its donors out of tens of millions of dollars during the country’s 2020 racial-justice protests. It isn’t yet clear who the feds are eyeing in the probe, but subpoenas and at least one search warrant were issued in recent weeks,...

Most Americans expect political violence to keep growing in the United States and believe that it is likely a political candidate will be assassinated in the next few years. Widespread pessimism about political violence is a rare, grim point of consensus in a country riven by political and cultural divisions. A majority of Americans, 55 percent, expect political violence to increase, according to a new poll from POLITICO and Public First. That figure underscores just how much the spate of attacks — from the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk earlier this year to the attempts on President Donald Trump’s...

A far-left radical group, Refuse Fascism, is poised to engage in some pretty fascist behaviors in their efforts to undermine democracy and interfere with the operations of the government. According to posts on the group's website, they are planning an insurrection on November 5 in and around Washington, D.C., in an effort to remove President Trump from office. The website reads (emphasis original), "Surround the White House. Surround the Capitol. Surround the illegitimate fascist-packed Supreme Court. Come back again and again. Across the country, refuse to comply. Every person of conscience, millions of us together, grind the machinery of the...

The Justice Department is probing whether Black Lives Matter (BLM) defrauded donors who sent the organization millions of dollars during the racial justice protests in 2020, the Associated Press is reporting. Federal law enforcement authorities have issued subpoenas and served a search warrant as part of an investigation into the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, Inc. that helped ignite protests in U.S. cities following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May 2020, anonymous sources told the wire service. Protests in some locations resulted in deaths, rioting, looting, fires, and extensive property destruction. According to AP: It was...

Trump is not going to sit back quietly and let the crazy Democrats start another "Summer of Love" mass rioting, looting, arson and murder like they did in 2020. He's getting the troops ready in advance to take on these far left crazies if they should be stupid enough to try it.

The former White House adviser Katie Miller—mother of three young children, and wife of the presidential right-hand man Stephen—walked out of her front door one Thursday morning last month and was confronted by a woman she did not know. When she told this story on Fox News, she described the encounter as a protest that crossed a line. The stranger had told Miller: “I’m watching you,” she said. This was the day after Charlie Kirk’s assassination. It also wasn’t anything new.