[The South African] I have been a member since July 2014 and as a loyal cadre have been operational where the party has deployed me without question - in the kitchen of Luthuli House, cooking for reconciliation.
Dear Comrades
I am not writing this in my personal capacity as a gogo, a citizen and a democrat, but as a member of the ANC.
I have been a member since July 2014 and as a loyal cadre have been operational where the party has deployed me without question - in the kitchen of Luthuli House [ANC Headquarters]
, cooking for reconciliation. I asked a simple question: ’What do people think of when they see a fat politician in parliament?’ They immediately think of a thin voter. And many ANC voters are poorer and thinner than ever before. All Julius Malema has to do this 2019 General Election is promise them everything and anything and they will vote him and his party into power democratically. I was supported by Pravin Gordhan and the treasury to put the cabinet on a diet. The diet has worked. Members of cabinet were seen recently fitting into economy-class seats on SAA.
The results of the municipal elections were not unexpected. What was remarkable was the brilliant performance of the IEC and the mass of voters who proved that they have learned a lot in the last 21 years. The fact that we in the ANC conceded defeat where we lost ground is also a good indication of a free and fair election. But my life in the kitchen has become hard to bear. From mid-morning to late at night, streams of comrades slip in under the pretext of asking for a bottle of still water. They just sit and shake their heads. They need, not only comfort food after the election results, but also comforting advice from someone who has seen it all before. Hopefully we'll have a few comrades 'shaking their heads' here after November as well.
I was a faithful cadre in the Afrikaanse Nasionale Kongres, also known as the National Party. My husband was a cabinet minister only promoted because of his slavish devotion to he whom we called Number One. We all became fat, rewarded for nodding in agreement without question and allowing the corrupt to overpower the committed. It was easy then because we called corruption ’policy’ and it ruled the country from 1948 to 1994.
[DAWN] As Moslems worldwide have just performed another Haj and are now celebrating Eidul Azha, it is perhaps an opportune moment to reflect on the current state of that abstract construct -- the ’Moslem world’.
While, indeed, the world as a whole is facing myriad challenges to the global order -- political, financial, security etc -- these problems are magnified manifold in most Moslem-majority states, Pakistain included.
While external players have had a role in destabilising Moslem states and regions, arguably, the greatest challenge is internal, most notably from decrepit and repressive political systems that stifle dissent, as well as from holy warrior movements that thrive in suffocating environments and use Islamic imagery to promote a thoroughly savage agenda.
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Dear Muslims, don't worry about reforming yourselves --- we've seen through you, and we're going to reform you.
#10
Then moslem world is HELL
They have no GOD, no Law, no infrastructure, no Water, no life.
And they have more hell promised to them for fucking with GOD, for having no water, for having no Law, and they will not know THEY ALL are Pagans until they DIE.
[PJ] This war has gone on for a very long time, and last Sunday, the 15th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 jihad attacks, among all the reminiscences, and eulogies, and encomia, virtually no one attempted to explain why.
There’s a simple reason this topic wasn’t discussed: among our political and media "elites," no one knows the answer.
Even the most dire estimates of exactly how long this is going to take have fallen wide of the mark. General Petraeus said in 2010 that it could take another ten years to defeat the Afghan "insurgency." Do you think the Taliban is likely to be disbanded and Afghanistan to be a stable, functioning republic in 2020?
In 2007, Britain’s security chief, Admiral Lord Alan West, said it could take 30 years to defeat terrorism in the United Kingdom. Do you think that in 2037, Britain will be peaceful and free of jihad terrorists?
The very idea is preposterous, and it is preposterous for the same reason that 15 years after 9/11, no one knows why this strange war has lasted so long.
West said more in that 2007 interview:
I now realize that we are talking about a generation -- and by that I would say 30 years. That doesn’t mean necessarily that we are going to stay at a severe level of threat for all those years. But to be able to say one has absolutely changed the mind-set and thought of people IS going to take a generation.
West nailed the answer there -- but no one seemed to notice.
Because nothing, nothing whatsoever, is being done in Britain or anywhere else to change "the mind-set and thought of people."
That is precisely why, fifteen years after 9/11, the West is weaker and more vulnerable than ever.
The entirety of Western intelligentsia, the totality of our political and media elites, steadfastly refuses to acknowledge exactly what the "mindset and thought" of the terrorists really is, and where it comes from. Because of that refusal, policies that don’t deal with the actual problem keep being applied and re-applied -- at the cost of thousands of American lives, billions of American dollars -- and we have nothing to show for this expenditure besides a sharp and continuing loss of American power and prestige.
The jihadis who struck the U.S. on September 11, 2001 have made such immense advances since then not because they are strong, or clever, or capable, but because we are weak, short-sighted, and resolute. Resolute not in fighting them, but in maintaining our denial about who they are and what they want.
The denial is so complete that we have taken numerous steps to actually enable them to achieve their goals: the billions gifted to the Islamic Republic of Iran and the welcoming of the massive Muslim migrant influx are just two of the most recent examples.
Rex Mundy • 14 hours ago
I used to be one of those who worried and whined about Islam, until I realized that it's relatively normal compared to the deep pathology of modern Western liberalism. Muslims are just reacting as our own forefathers would if they encountered the pathologies of this civilization for the first time. Islamism is a symptom, not a disease. The disease is the liberal ROT within our own lands. WE need to fight a jihad against the internal rot, and the Islamic problem will go away along with it.
#2
Sorry but the war has been going on for 700+ years and as has been pointed out the current iteration is due to denial by the elites of what the problem actually is.
The elites are like a doctor that recognizes a disease but can't bring himself to treat it with the one drug that might actually work.
#3
At the risk of stating the obvious, all wars run on money. Follow the money trail to its source and kill it. Whether that be the king of Saudi Arabia or the ayotollah of Iran.
Trump might just get it enough to threaten to do it. And that will be enough.
#7
Because nothing, nothing whatsoever, is being done in Britain or anywhere else to change "the mind-set and thought of people."
Yes, it does not help if political correctness is invoked every time some muzzie shoots up the place, lops off some one's head, or burns some one alive.
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[The South African] I have been a member since July 2014 and as a loyal cadre have been operational where the party has deployed me without question - in the kitchen of Luthuli House, cooking for reconciliation.
