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The death of Oriana Fallaci

The author of La rabbia e l’orgoglio (The Rage and the Pride, 2002), the courageous, indomitable, individualistic Oriana Fallaci, has died in her home town of Florence.  She was 77, and had fought a battle with cancer for several years.  It was, of course, the Italian authorities she really desired to fight over their dhimmi reaction to La rabbia.  A pity she was denied the opportunity.  There is an excellent and affectionate article on the lady from a Times blog here.

Not exactly a liberal meltdown, though.  A Guardian hack explains:-

Germany’s racist neo-Nazi party is poised to make a stunning breakthrough during elections this weekend, entering a regional parliament for the second time in three years, polls suggest.

According to a poll for ZDF television the far-right National Party of Germany (NPD) is likely to win 7% of the vote in elections on Sunday in the north-east state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Another Infratest poll puts the party on 6%.

The projected result is above Germany’s 5% hurdle - and means the far-right MPs will sit in the parliament for the first time.

Well, we’ll see.

Pope Benedict XVI quotes from 600 years ago.  Muzzies everywhere go bananas.  But it wasn’t Ben’s real opinion.  Honest.

Judge for yourself.  Here’s the full speech.

200 South Asian illegals land at Tenerife

the migrants ... are the first Asians among more than 24,000 migrants to arrive on the Canary Islands from Africa this year.

The boat was boarded by Spanish police on Thursday when it anchored 3km (two miles) south of Tenerife island.

... Spain’s El Pais newspaper says Pakistanis had flown to Dakar, the capital of Senegal, and were paying $500 (£266) each to Senegalese traffickers in the hope of continuing their journey by sea to Greece.

... Deputy Prime Minister Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega said the government was going to negotiate a fast repatriation of the new arrivals.

And almost too perfect to be true ...

A number of Nigerian politicians  have been conned out of thousands of dollars by people selling papers purporting to certify them as “corruption-free”.

Iran’s President Ahmadinejad has a blog.  It’s in English, too ...  English so poor that I can only suppose he really wrote it himself.  But never mind.  My Persian is not great either.

The page is a bit slow to load.  But if you have an hour or two on your hands, and don’t have to go down the shelter, you can always ask the hip, young bearded one a question or two.  Something like this, perhaps:-

Dear Humble Servant of Almighty Allah’s glorious messenger (pbuh, natch),

I was struck by this passage in your writing ...

Since the extinct shah - Mohammad Reza - was supposed to take and enter Iran into western civilization slavishly, so many schemes were implemented that Iran becomes another market for the western ceremonial goods without any progress in the scientific field. Our Islamic culture would not allow such an infestation, and this was an impediment in front of shah and his foreign masters’ way. Thus, they decided to make this noble and tenacious culture weak gradually that Iran be attached strongly to the west as far as its economy, politics, and culture was concern.

... and it occurred to me that, as the decent and fair man you undoubtedly are, you could not possibly object if our noble and tenacious Western culture would not allow an Islamic “infestation”.  Or have I got something badly wrong there?

Link to the Ahmadinejad blog from Rowan Berkeley’s post to New Right Online Forum.

This video animation constructed from Mordechai Vanunu’s famous sixty photographs is worth a look while pondering Iranian ambitions.

Thanks to Troy for the link.

President Robert Mugabe has begun to reverse his “insane” land grab and offer some white farmers the chance to lease back their holdings in Zimbabwe.

With the fastest shrinking economy in the world, Mr Mugabe has had to backtrack on six years of chaos and his own determination to rid the country of all white farmers.

The Daily Telegraph today.

So the ruinous hand of black African power extends an olive branch to the people it demonised, robbed, terrorised and murdered.  Remember the late Hitler Hunzvi, the “War Veterans” leader who compared himself to revolutionary figures like Che Guevara, Napolean Bonaparte and even Jesus Christ.  He is on record euphemistically threatening, “All revolutions require violence ... No-one can stop the revolution we have started.”

Wrong.  The corruption of Mugabe’s cronies and the incapacity of his people have stopped it.  What few black farmers are cultivating former white-owned lands are doing so on a subsistence basis.  Eighty to ninety per cent of the land, howevever, lies untended while Zimbabweans go without.

Vanity precludes Mugabe himself from making the announcement.  Two “trusted” underlings will be deputised to grovel before an unsurprised world.  Ian Smith described Mugabe as a “Marxist terrorist” and one can’t help but feel that were he alive today, he would counsel the expellees strongly against cooperating with his enemy now.

I suppose in the end there will be some white farmers prepared to listen not to the ghost of Ian Smith but to a chastened yet hardly repentant Mugabe.  It will be short memories and white individualism - the inability or just refusal to observe group dynamics - which will lead them back.

At least one ex-farmer has perfect clarity of mind and purpose, and said yesterday:-

“It’s bloody miserable out there. All our friends have gone, our equipment has been broken, irrigation has been vandalised, our homes have been wrecked, the roads are a mess, our workers have gone so why should we return? I am sure there will be some clots who are so damn miserable in other countries or living in towns that they will go back.

“We should be campaigning for compensation, not going back to help people who wrecked our country.”

Back on News Years Day 2005 at, I see, the civilised hour of 11.33 am I posted a short piece on the political future of Russia.  The core of the article was an interesting prognostication by Telegraph journalist, Niall Ferguson.

His argument was intriguing, and provided several striking parallels between Weimar Germany and present-day Russia.  He concluded like this:-

We must all hope that events in Georgia and Ukraine will inspire a democratic revolution in Russia itself. But the Weimar parallel is not encouraging. Germany’s descent into dictatorship went in stages: there were three more or less authoritarian chancellors before Hitler, each of whom sought to rule Germany by decree.

The question that remains open is whether Putin is just a more successful version of one of these authoritarian warm-up acts, or a fully-fledged Russian führer. Either way, he is fast becoming as big a threat to Western security as he is to Russian democracy.

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Where, dear reader, have we seen this before?

Not Biloxi, right?

THE Government of Robert Mugabe tabled draconian laws yesterday to drive the last white farmers from their land and crush dissent.

The constitutional amendments debated in Parliament will nationalise all agricultural land that has been listed for seizure since 2000. Landowners will have no right to contest the confiscations and will be barred from receiving compensation ...

After five years of murder, assault and harassment of white-owned farms by state agents, the Government has managed to confiscate legally only about 10 per cent of the estimated 4,500 properties. All but a handful of white farmers have had their property listed for “compulsory acquisition”.

However, most of them have kept the Government at bay by fighting their eviction in court. About 450 farmers have stayed on their farms.

Mr Coltart [MDC legal director] said: “These constitutional changes are designed for once and for all to smash the white farmers and to close any possible avenue for using the constitution to protect human rights.”

From todays Times.

Johan’s fine article posted here on June 26th is out of date!  “Try googling “Boer farm murders”.  You will get the picture,” he wrote of the mainstream media’s failure to inform the public about the assault on SA’s Boer farmers.  But today Roger Graef in the Sunday Telegraph has broken the silence.

He has done it, however, in a journalistically even-handed way, reporting the views of a Boer farmer in the northern Gauteng province, the black from whom this particular land was taken and the local police chief.  The latter is provided with an eight-strong force of men and two cars to patrol an area the size of Scotland.

The one-time black farmer is clear that whites should simply go away:-

Payete Ndlovana, the black farmer, explains the violence as revenge for the sins of apartheid. He and his family were kicked off their farm more than 30 years ago and since 1994 he has vainly tried to recover it.

Despite government promises, Mr Payete is furious at the slow pace of land reform. He drives out from his small house in the townships to what was once his family’s land, now fenced off with razor wire.

A narrow passage allows him to visit the graves of his forebears. He backs Robert Mugabe’s approach in Zimbabwe and wants whites to go somewhere else. “Mugabe is right. They kicked us off our land, that’s why we fight,” he says.

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