Let the South African government sell some of the diamonds piled up in the DeBeers vaults and use the proceeds to handle it. The country used to be rich, back when the whites were running things, and everything was supposed to become so much better when the natives took the country back.
[AFRICANEWS] Community members in Evaton, South of Johannesburg, gathered at the Emthojeni Awareness Centre to collect food parcels donated by the U.S. Department of Social Development on Wednesday.
Emthonjeni Awareness Centre is a non-governmental organization (NGO) that specialises in orphans and vulnerable children as a result of the HIV pandemic and also has other programmes to help women and youth in the community.
The NGO is one of many that have been affected by the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and USAID freeze by U.S. President Donald Trump ...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election. Then he beat Kamala while dodging bullets... , which has left many of their staff and beneficiaries worried about the future. Shortly after returning to the White House Trump signed an executive order freezing almost all U.S. foreign aid.
Many Africans had known that Trump's ''America First'' outlook meant their continent was likely to be last among his priorities. But they hadn't expected the abrupt halt to foreign aid from the world's largest donor that stops money flowing for wide-ranging projects like disease response, girls' education and free school lunches.
Angelina Msimanga a beneficiary of the funding said she had previously defaulted on her medication and is worried that she will suffer without the help of the NGO. ''I wish that the NGO could continue helping people living with HIV/AIDS for them to continue with their treatment and live a healthy life like other people and not default on their medication,'' Msimanga said.
The NGO has over 200 patients living with HIV/AIDS along with 15 staff members who are mobilised to conduct patient visits. Harriet Mutle, a social worker at Emthonjeni, told the News Agency that Dare Not be Named that the funding played a significant role in helping people living with HIV/AIDS and she wishes Trump would reconsider freezing the aid. ''I would be happy if the American President, Donald Trump, stopped the whole crisis and takes things back to normal," she said. "I don't think he is aware that the funding was helping us and the beneficiaries of the funding."
You would be wrong, my dear. He just considers it the responsibility of your countrymen, who deliberately chose actions that resulted in your infection — a process known for a generation, so there is no excuse — and then equally deliberately refused to take care of those they infected.
The U.S. provides more foreign aid globally than any other country, budgeting about $60 billion in 2023, or about 1% of the U.S. budget.
Is that all of it, or all that is not given sub rosa? And how much of what is given in each category is actually spent to help those in need, versus flowing into private pockets along the way?
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I no longer care. Perhaps there's some white farmers they could steal some more land or money from?
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The Blue in-line (first para) talks about "natives." I had no idea that thieving North Afri and Nigerian illegal migrants and border crossers were "natives."
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natives." I had no idea that thieving North Afri and Nigerian illegal migrants and border crossers were "natives."
I’m the periwinkle highlighter (a purplish blue or blueish purple named for the flower of the same colour), Besoeker.
I meant to refer to the African National Congress/Nelson Mandela types running the country when last I looked, who I thought were as much a racial-tribal group as a political one — all members of certain native tribes. I had no idea immigrants from up north and even further north were allowed to participate.
[FoxBusiness] President Trump has paused massive tariffs against Canada amid negotiations
A top Canadian lawmaker and candidate to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has called for a 100% tariff on Tesla vehicles in an effort to counter tariffs from President Donald Trump.
Chrystia Freeland worked as Trudeau's finance minister until she resigned in January, now running to replace Trudeau as prime minister. The thrust of her economic policy urges Canada to inflict "the biggest trade blow that the United States has ever endured."
"We are going to go after American stakeholders who matter to the White House," Freeland told CNN this week. "I have proposed a 100 percent tariff on all Teslas. I am calling on all the countries that are affected by this tariff to join us, and our retaliation will target specific Trump constituencies."
Freeland also targeted dairy farmers in Wisconsin, saying they are "important" to Trump.
"We're not going to let them sell their products in Canada anymore," she said.
Freeland's threats come after Trump issued pauses on the tariff plans against both Canada and Mexico. Both countries agreed to some capitulations in order to stave off the tariffs and give time for further negotiations.
Freeland's call echoes sentiment from other Canadian officials as well. Canadian lawmaker Jagmeet Singh proposed that Canada should "fight back" against Trump's tariff threat.
"Elon Musk has been very loud. Very vocal attacking our country. We're not going to let that stand. So if you are going to take a shot at us, we're going to fight back," Singh told reporters earlier this week. "So Elon Musk thinks he can tweet off whatever he wants. Yeah, we're going to put a tariff on him. I want that to be something that impacts him."
CNN host Boris Sanchez spoke to Singh on Monday, asking about how Canadians feel about Trump's talk of bringing Canada in as the 51st state. Singh noted that Canadians are known for being polite, but warned, "don‘t take our kindness for weakness" and said "hell no" to the proposal.
"I believe in being good neighbors and having good relationships, but I believe very firmly Donald Trump only understands force. He‘s acted as a bully in many circumstances, and now he‘s acting as an economic bully. The only language that bullies understand is the language of strength. So we have to show that we‘re ready to fight back," Singh replied. "We might be smaller. We might be up against a larger opponent, but it‘s going to hurt both of us. It‘s a bad thing to do. It‘s going to hurt Americans. It‘s going to hurt Canadians. We need to show that it‘s the wrong thing to do, and also show that we‘re ready to fight back and defend what we have."
It’s that important to continue allowing Chinese fetanyl and illegal aliens of all sorts to continue freely flowing south across their border? Or are they so busy cosplaying their anger that they completely skipped over that bit?
[Epoch Times] Current and former employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) have filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), claiming that Musk should have been first confirmed by the Senate. The White House has stated that Musk is a special government employee, meaning that he is not beholden to the same kinds of rules as other federal workers.
Only a few federal executive officers need to be confirmed by the Senate. All the rest are hired either directly by the president or by those designated by him as they work to fulfill their duties. I suspect that every one of the current and former USAID employees involved in this lawsuit was not one of the few who needed Senate confirmation, so they already knew this.
Musk and DOGE were then accused of trying to dismantle an agency "from within by severely disrupting or crippling operations" while posting about their actions on X.
As intended, buttressed by the results of the first DOGE deep dive into USAID records, which revealed shocking levels of illegality, immorality, and egregiously careless handling of the funds and responsibilities entrusted to the department in recent years.
Lawyers for the USAID workers, who remained anonymous in the lawsuit, then deployed a novel argument, saying Musk should be confirmed by the Senate because he should be deemed an officer of the United States under the U.S. Constitution’s appropriations clause.
Because you say so? An arrogance that fits in well with the behaviours that got USAID shut down.
The lawsuit is one of many legal challenges filed in favor of USAID officials against the Trump administration. Last week, a federal judge paused plans to place thousands of USAID workers on leave, while a lawsuit filed on Feb. 11 alleged that the unraveling of USAID is stiffing U.S. businesses on hundreds of millions of dollars in unpaid bills for work that has already been done.
Work that never should have been ordered, and therefore ought not be allowed to be profitted from. There’s a well-known legal principle involved, I’m sure, along with the second that ignorance of the law is no excuse.
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He is an adviser. The confirmed person (Rubio in this case) makes the final decision. They didn't seem to have a problem with it when Soros did it for Obumble.
[FoxNews] Zeldin said his team found $20 billion in taxpayer money 'parked at an outside financial institution'
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Lee Zeldin said Wednesday that his team has located $20 billion in tax dollars that the Biden administration purposely wasted.
"An extremely disturbing video circulated two months ago, featuring a Biden EPA political appointee talking about how they were ‘tossing gold bars off the Titanic,’ rushing to get billions of your tax dollars out the door before Inauguration Day," Zeldin said in a video posted to X, citing another video from December. "The ‘gold bars’ were tax dollars and ‘tossing them off the Titanic’ meant the Biden administration knew they were wasting it."
Zeldin said the EPA has plans to recover the "gold bars" that were found "parked at an outside financial institution," which he does not mention by name.
He said that "this scheme was the first of its kind in EPA history, and it was purposefully designed to obligate all the money in a rush job with reduced oversight" before Inauguration Day.
Zeldin said "there is zero reason to suspect any wrongdoing by the bank," but he thinks an agreement with the institution "needs to be instantly terminated" and all the money should be immediately returned.
He says the EPA needs to resume responsibility for all of these funds, adding that his team will "review every penny that has gone out the door."
"The days of irresponsibly shoveling boatloads of cash to far-left activist groups in the name of environmental justice and climate equity are over," Zeldin said. "The American public deserves a more transparent and accountable government than what transpired these past four years."
He also said that he would be referring this matter to the inspector general's office and that he would work with the Department of Justice to assist President Donald Trump in regaining control.
[NYPOST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued the Trump administration on Wednesday arguing that migrants colonists detained in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have not been given adequate access to lawyers — a claim the Department of Homeland Security disputed and said shows the organization cares more about ''highly dangerous criminal aliens'' than Americans.
The complaint, filed in the district court of Washington, DC, described the notorious Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp (GITMO) as a ''legal black hole'' where the Trump administration is attempting to ''thwart access to counsel'' for migrant detainees.
''For the first time in US history, the federal government has moved noncitizens apprehended and detained in the United States on civil immigration charges to the Naval Station at Guant namo Bay, Cuba,'' the lawsuit reads. ''And it is holding them incommunicado, without access to attorneys, family, or the outside world.''
The ACLU believes the federal government is ''ramping up'' migrant flights to GITMO and is now housing over 50 people with deportation orders without ''any means of communication'' to the ''outside world.''
''Immigrants colonists held at Guant namo have effectively disappeared into a black box and cannot contact or communicate with their family or attorneys,'' the complaint states. ''By doing so, the US government has prevented immigrants colonists from accessing legal assistance to understand their rights and to challenge their transfer and detention or conditions of confinement at Guant namo.''
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Since when do we grant prisoners of war access to lawyers?
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Given that a lot of this first roundup are already under deportation orders why do they need a lawyer? The due process is already complete.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat 
Musk and DOGE were then accused of trying to dismantle an agency "from within by severely disrupting or crippling operations" while posting about their actions on X.
