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Top Gear too white, too male

Has Danny Cohen finally got his man? BBC television chief Cohen appears determined to go down in history as The Man Who Sacked Jeremy Clarkson. If he succeeds he’ll be the toast of fashionable Shoreditch salons, a folk hero to the Guardianistas and all those who despise Top Gear for being too white, too male

Friendly visit from foreign fighter plane

One of the most unusual arrivals taxied in at the Richards Bay airport on Wednesday – a Russian combat aircraft. Piloted by Richard Lovit of Middelburg, the tandem L39 Albatros proved an imposing, if brief, attraction at the airfield. ‘The aircraft is mostly flown at air shows and besides a governed top speed of around

PRAAG campaign for an international hard-news site

Dear reader, Everyone complains about just how biased and politically correct the mainstream media are. Not only are they slavishly in favour of multiculturalism and more or less free immigration to Western countries, but they also selectively report the facts. On the web today, there exists a plethora of blogs and social-media commentary where the

Judge admits BBC had advance knowledge of 9/11

A British judge ruled in favor of a UK citizen who said that the BBC’s premature announcement of the collapse of WTC Building 7 proved advance notice and constitutes a violation of the UK Terrorism Act as the BBC did not report to authorities that the BBC was told the building was down before the

How the US Government and US Military became Murder, Inc.

Andrew Cockburn has written a must-read book. The title is Kill Chain: The Rise Of The High-Tech Assassins. The title could just as well be: How the US Government and US Military Became Murder, Inc. The US military no longer does war. It does assassinations, usually of the wrong people. The main victims of the

Interview with Paul Craig Roberts

The Saker interviews Paul Craig Roberts I had been wanting to interview Paul Craig Roberts for a long time already. For many years I have been following his writings and interviews and every time I read what he had to say I was hoping that one day I would have the privilege to interview him

Boerehaat book on Man Booker list

The 10 finalists for a prestigious literary award were announced at the University of Cape Town yesterday. Boerehaat author and British darling Marlene van Niekerk’s “uncompromising look” at poor Afrikaans communities has netted her a place in the finals of the Man Booker International Prize. The award is a complement to the Man Booker Prize,

Mugabe defends Rhodes

Zimbabwean youths were stopped yesterday from digging up the remains of Cecil Rhodes from his grave in the Matopos Hills, just outside Bulawayo. The Zanu-PF youths assembled at the party’s Bulawayo offices, from which they intended to go to the hills. They apparently planned to exhume Rhodes’s remains so they could be repatriated to Britain.

Paramedics attacked by black thugs

Three paramedics were held at gunpoint during the early hours of Wednesday, while trying to save the life of a five-year-old girl who was suffering from seizures, ER24 said. An ER24 ambulance and a rapid response vehicle were dispatched to a house in Khayelitsha shortly after midnight. While the ambulance personnel was stabilising the girl

Clash of Civilizations

The White House found itself in a thorny situation recently when its chief florist, Laura Dowling, quit and was reportedly escorted from the residence on the eve of Valentine’s Day. That’s according to a Monday night account by The Washington Post outlining the famed florist’s mysterious departure from the White House, CNN reported. First Lady

Heroin addict Angelina Jolie’s latest bizarre op

Angelina Jolie, an alleged a heroin addict, said she has had her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed to avoid the risk of ovarian cancer. Her latest bizarre announcement in a New York Times column printed on Tuesday came nearly two years after the rights campaigner and mother-of-six had a double mastectomy after learning she had

More than 140 believed dead in latest air disaster

A passenger plane flying from Barcelona to Düsseldorf has crashed in a remote and mountainous area of southern France, officials have confirmed. The French prime minister, Manuel Valls, said he fears between 142 and 150 people have been killed. The Airbus A320 making the flight for Lufthansa’s lowcost arm, Germanwings, crashed near the small mountain

Programmer develops bot to troll Twitter

Preaching the climate change gospel can be tough work, especially on Twitter. Software developer Nigel Leck got tired rehashing the same 140-character arguments against climate change deniers, so he programmed a bot that does the work for him. With citations! Leck’s bot, @AI_AGW, doesn’t just respond to arguments directed at Leck himself, it goes out

Another expensive black farming project tanks

President Jacob Zuma handed over 85 new tractors to the Masibuyele Emasimini project in Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal in June 2010 to encourage small-scale farming. The The R500-million for the project is wasted it seems. The project was intended to help “emerging black farmers” but is on the brink of collapse with only six of 32