The fraught relationship between Russia and the West, which was supposed to improve following an agreement over Ukraine, has descended instead into renewed acrimony after a series of tense military and diplomatic confrontations. France and Germany, which had brokered the Minsk accord last week, were yesterday trying to hold together the increasingly fragile ceasefire in
Whites must die for South Africa
The Department of Defence is apparently trying to reverse racial quotas in its recruitment. The latest South African Survey by the SA Institute of Race Relations shows that the military plans to employ more whites and fewer blacks. The defence force admits there is a shortage of white personnel but says its recruitment drives are
English football fans push black off train
A recent video shows a black man in Paris forcefully pushed off a subway train by rowdy British Chelsea fans headed for a match with Paris Saint-Germain. An investigation into their identities is underway. “We’re racist, we’re racist and that’s the way we like it” – this is the phrase they chanted during the incident,
China shuts down obscene dating sites
China’s Internet regulator has shut 65 dating and other match-making websites after accusing them of spreading obscene content and allowing registration with false names, Xinhua state news agency said on Tuesday. Sites closed included ones with names like “Get a one-night stand” and “Playing with you net”, Xinhua said, citing the Cyberspace Administration of China.
Backdoor for jihadists?
Top U.S. counterterrorism officials say they worry a potential terrorist could be hiding among refugees who are looking to come to the United States after escaping the brutal war in Syria. “It’s clearly a population of concern,” the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Nicholas Rasmussen, told the House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday. Committee
Dull leftists attack Pegida with snobbery
The views of the Stammtisch [pub regulars] are a growing force in Germany. The new popular movement in Dresden — Pegida, or ‘Patriotic Europeans against the Islamisation of the West’ has highlighted intra-German divisions: not only those between immigrants and ethnic Germans but also those between most German voters and the country’s small, vainglorious politically
Who controls the weather?
The CIA, ever the innovators, have decided it would be quite useful to know how to control the weather. A prominent climate scientist at Rutgers University in New Jersey has reported receiving a strange phone call from CIA consultants who wanted to know if hostile countries could be triggering floods or drought in the United
Italian coach complains about too many black players
Former Italy and AC Milan coach Arrigo Sacchi has made headlines across the peninsula by stating that there are too many black players in Italian youth teams. The comments come on the same day after Inter claimed the Viareggio Cup over Hellas Verona and will no doubt cause a stir for the next few days
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German TV channel ZDF airs fake news
A citizen’s media group has lodged a complaint against German television channel ZDF for airing a photograph of Russian tanks in eastern Ukraine, which in reality were Russian tanks on patrol in South Ossetia in 2008. Just days after a US politician presented on the Senate floor falsified images of Russian tanks purported to be
Putin heads for Hungary
Vladimir Putin has chosen Hungary for his first state visit to an EU state since the beginning of the Ukrainian crisis a year ago. Energy issues are expected to top the agenda, yet the Russian leader usually has an ace up his sleeve. The Russian president’s visit to Hungary is keeping EU officials in Brussels
Outrage as ISIS beheads Christians
The Islamic State beheaded 21 Egyptian Christians over the weekend, propping the severed heads on the victims’ backs, a barbaric slaughter that led Reverend Franklin Graham to ask, “Can you imagine the outcry if 21 Muslims had been beheaded by Christians?” “Where is the universal condemnation by Muslim leaders around the world?” he asked. The
Jew secretly films Parisian reactions to his religion
A journalist wearing a religious skullcap in Paris had the French public’s reaction filmed by a hidden camera. Zvika Klein, a reporter for Jewish news outlet NRG, walked in the city for ten hours wearing a kippah – also known as a yarmulke – on his head as well as knotted ritual religious tassels. Posting
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EU lends to Zimbabwe again
The European Union has given Zimbabwe $267 million, it said on Monday, the first time the bloc has given financial aid to the southern African nation’s government since imposing sanctions in 2002. The 28-nation EU has gradually eased biting sanctions on Zimbabwe to encourage political reform, although it has kept an asset freeze and a
Brian Williams: member of media circle jerk
Facts are a journalist’s stock-in-trade. He cannot be cavalier about the truth. Nevertheless, Brian Williams, the suspended iconic managing editor and anchor of NBC Nightly News, embellished liberally about events he covered in the course of a limelight-seeking career. As it transpires, Williams’ helicopter did not come under enemy fire in Iraq, in the early