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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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Willingly, I never give a penny to charities beyond those serving the needy of my own people.  Willingly, I never entertain the solicitations of charities “supporting” the Third World.  Sub-Saharan Africa is completely beyond the pale.  Africans will never, never overcome their inate characteristics - which, of course, include:-

1) A disastrously low average IQ productive of n-o-t-h-i-n-g.

2) Sexual aggression, leading directly to violence and acts of surpassing cruelty at every level from the personal to the genocidal.

3) A striking poverty in those cooperative qualities upon which social and economic progress depend, in consequence of which African rulers are invariably corrupt despots and life for African people is invariably insecure, oft times bestial.

“Make poverty history” is a truly pathetic, wasteful and ignorant idea.  “Make low-IQ history” or “Make sexual aggression history” would make more sense if the developed world grasped the eugenic nettle and bred Africa into some semblance of tolerableness.  But drug-busted, non-musical pop people ... idiot-crowds waving their arms aloft in Hyde Park ... “Sir Bob” and the whole ghastly, liberalistic Mandela-isation of global politics completely turns me off ... dude.

The only, marginally respectable argument for charity to Africa is that some of those who get their hands on the dough might be good enough not to come and live amongst us.  But I don’t think even that modest return on our “investment” will come about.  Nothing sustains in Africa.  Africans will keep coming until we have to close the door.

Around the world billions of predictably suggestible airheads, they say, will view the great publicity stunt.  I never listen to “bands”.  Big children with a few hundred amps but no musicality hold not the slightest appeal for me.  Shan’t watch.  Shan’t listen.  Shan’t pay any attention.  Obviously, shan’t donate.

The ‘freedom’ we have gained is therefore but mere licence for us to behave as to the manner born, destined to build a society consumed by corruption, sexual depravity, autocracy and criminal violence

No, not Thabo Mbeki reflecting on the difficulties of post-apartheid South Africa.  The quote is from a Telegraph article today, and shows Mbeki wackily characterising the supposed opinion of UK Chancellor Gordon Brown in a weekly Presidential epistle to the on-line newsletter, ANC Today.

“President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa rebuked Gordon Brown yesterday,” the Telegraph article begins, “accusing the “presumed successor to Tony Blair” of promoting nostalgia for British imperialism and joining in a “discourse” that “demonises” blacks.”

Mbeki, of course, is a specialist in denial.  So we should not be surprised that he denies those social and economic outcomes the rest of the world wearily anticipates from his people.  He once even found it in him to answer the anti-rape campaign of vicitim-activist Charlene Smith, writing in ANC Today only in the most general terms about ‘contact crime’ (rather than rape) and ascribing the causes to poverty and community degradation.  Mountainous peaks in Serum Testosterone rythmicity, did you say? Never heard of it.

Meanwhile, the latest target of Mbeki’s wrath - our once-prudent Chancellor and PM-in-waiting - is working hard to solve Africa’s crises from without.  That also, in its way, is an act of sublime denial.  Mbeki, apparently, does not recognise a kindred spirit when he sees one.