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Armed Sydney attacker hoists black Islamic flag

A police operation is underway at a café in central Sydney, where up to 40 hostages are being held by an armed attacker and a black flag with Arabic inscriptions can be seen. Australia is contributing to the US-led operation against the Islamic State. As the siege was about to enter its sixth hour, at

Eish, let’s fix Eskom’s apartheid by going shopping

Yebo, my friend, you’ve heard the bad news: Eskom is broken because of apartheid. It’s racial. Verwoerd made maths difficult and engineering even more so, hence you can blame it on apartheid. President Zoomer has just had his blindingly brilliant insight and all the libtard media dutifully conveyed this piece of anal-ysis to dem voting

Zuma blames ‘apartheid’ for South Africa’s power crisis

South Africa’s energy problems were a product of apartheid and government was not to blame for the current blackouts, President Jacob Zuma said. “The problem [is] the energy was structured racially to serve a particular race, not the majority,” Zuma told delegates at the Young Communist League’s congress in Cape Town. He said the ANC

Eric Garner: 100% innocent under libertarian law

Eric Garner was doing nothing naturally illicit when he was tackled and placed in the chokehold that killed him. It can be argued, if anything, that Garner was being entrepreneurial. He had been trading untaxed cigarettes in defiance of the state’s “slave patrol” and “Comrade” Andrew Cuomo’s “Cigarette Strike Force,” in the words of liberty’s

Calls for Russian isolation melt as Putin and Modi strike deals

It seems that the Indian premier, Narendra Modi, did not get the memo from Britain: “Russia faces global isolation – again“. On Thursday, during the visit of the Russian president to India, Modi tweeted: “Wonderful day with President Putin. Our meeting was comprehensive. India’s partnership with Russia is incomparable.” At a joint news conference after

Austria mulling gold repatriation

The Austrian state audit court says the central bank should address the concentration risk of storing 80% of its gold reserves with the Bank of England, Standard reports, citing draft audit report. The court has advised the central bank to diversify storage locations, and contract partners, Bloomberg reported. The Austrian central bank is currently reviewing

US, France brace for Africa

Molotov cocktails explode and tear gas fill the streets as U.S. Marines from SPMAGTF Crisis Response – Africa and French gendarmes with Mobile Gendarmerie Armored Group try to control a crowd of rioters in a city street. That is how the scenario played out as the Marines and gendarmes trained together in crowd and riot

US agency infiltrated Cuban music scene for ‘social change’

For more than two years, a US agency secretly infiltrated Cuba’s music scene, recruiting unwitting rappers to spark a youth movement against the government, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press. The idea was to use Cuban musicians to build a network of young people seeking “social change,” documents show. But the operation was

DA-councillor signs for two-hour sex chat summons

A R1 920 bill for a two-hour phone call to a sex line had a veteran DA councillor in the Msunduzi Municipality blushing when he unwittingly signed for the summons demanding payment that was delivered to his office last month. On Thursday, councillor Bill Lambert told the municipality’s executive committee he was appalled when he

Rare cub stolen for muti

A rare animal, a jaguar cub was stolen from the Bloemfontein Zoo and allegedly used for muti, Free State police said. Muti is a term for “traditional medicine” or witchcraft in Southern Africa as far north as Lake Tanganyika. The word is used in most indigenous African languages, as well as in South African English

Harrismith ‘restored to barbarism’

Many other towns in the Free State province are being targeted for renaming in line with government policy of changing names of towns and streets that date from white rule. A proposal to change the name of Harrismith in the Eastern Free State to Intabazwe is somehow a poignant reminder of history’s hard lessons. The proposal

Torture: CIA officials will walk free

From Russian roulette to power drills, shackling and other painful and humiliating “enhanced interrogation techniques”, the CIA crossed all lines. Yet despite evidence incriminating the officials, it is highly likely that the perpetrators will walk free. Although a scandalizing U.S. Senate report over CIA practices has sparked calls for prosecution from human rights groups, chances

Tanzania: ‘Albinos killed like animals’

In the rural areas of Tanzania, men, women, and children with albinism–a lack of pigment that makes them appear glaringly white–are waging an extensive human rights campaign against communities who routinely attack them for their hair or body parts, used in potions to attract wealth and good luck. As BBC explains, the tradition of cooking

Poland’s president admits he knew of CIA prison

Former Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski has acknowledged his country let the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) run a secret prison on its territory following 9/11. Mr Kwasniewski had previously denied that Poland hosted a secret CIA prison. A US Senate report into the CIA’s activities did not name the countries that hosted the prisons. Mr