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Orania was established as a place to protect the Afrikaans culture and Christian values. In 1991, the founding fathers bought 500 hectares of parched Karoo scrubland for R1.6 million Rand. Photos of the place then show a desolate, abandoned wasteland whose only redeeming feature was proximity to the Orange River. 24 years later there has been a remarkable transformation -- perhaps unrivalled on Earth.
Orania now is over 8,000 hectares (80 square kilometres) and worth over R500 million. Just over 1,000 people live there. Efficient, modern irrigation systems have turned the brown semi-desert green, growing crops of lucerne, maize, almonds, olives and, for some reason I don't understand, pecan nuts. Orania seems to have developed a niche market in pecan nuts.
It also grows fruit, vegetables and flowers in greenhouses, and has livestock. Its industrial centre provides for all of its water, sewerage and electricity infrastructure. It provides its own services yet pays taxes to South Africa.
It is acutely sensitive of environmental protection, and uses in a sensible way the best benefits of solar power, modern agriculture and waste separation (at our chalet, there were two rubbish bins marked "Herwinbaar" and "Nie Herwinbaar").
The schools in Orania, using both traditional and informal teaching methods, have got a 100% matric success, sending their pupils to universities all over South Africa. There is essentially no crime. There is no unemployment.
I tried to summarise all of this in 400 words and sent it off to The Citizen. I made a big point of saying that Orania was nothing like apartheid, was in fact the antithesis of apartheid. Slipping further along in the article.
Down the ages, thinkers of all political and religious persuasions, from Karl Marx to Ayn Rand, have tried to design the perfect society. Most practical realisations of these designs have been nightmares, with Communism being the prime example. Small religious communities have done much better, and perhaps "small" is the key to success. Another key to success is organic development on guiding principles rather than implementation of a rigid master plan. Orania seems to me a great success.
It has many of the attributes that all libertarians seek: liberty, voluntary co-operation, mutual respect among all, a free market, and a spirit of enterprise and hard work. The garden labourer lives next door to the business leader, with not much difference in their houses. There is dignity for all. The sense of community and shared purpose is tangible, even to insensitive people such as me. Much like the people of Israel and our own Amish, it was not for nothing that the forefathers of these industrious people departed the corrupt big governments and oppressive central planning regimes of Europe. Might be something to be learned here, if only they can survive and their story told.
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Ya gotta go pretty far into the text before you get some pretty strong hints that she's of the (D) persuasion. SO of course she's being railroaded by the Trunks. But then why try to drag down others? Because she's a witch?
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[BizNews.com] Here's one in the eye for your run of the mill Business School lecturers and those rabid free marketeers. Shareholders should never rank at the top of a company's priorities, says 83 year old billionaire founder of Japanese electronics giant Kyocera Corp. It's all about making your people happy. Not the most popular message in a country where global surveys show only 15% of employees are "engaged". But one that has stood Kazuo Inamori in very good stead. Great story. And have a look at the bottom to read his "Five Business Tips". -- Alec Hogg
Meredith Willson's sappy 1962 Broadway show "The Music Man" illuminates an inscrutable side of American foreign policy: Why do Americans persist in believing that they can remake the world in their own image, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary? We Americans love crooks and swindlers who appeal to our national narcissism, even when we know that they are crooks and swindlers. Willson's hero is a turn-of-the-twentieth-century rogue who styles himself a professor of music, and sells marching band equipment to midwestern towns with the promise that he will teach the local kids to play--but disappears before keeping his end of the bargain. In one Iowa town, the "music man" is caught red-handed, but pardoned by the townsfolk who bask in the warmth of his flattery. He has a long list of antecedents, such as Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer and Sinclair Lewis' Elmer Gantry.
The Iraqi politician Ahmad Chalabi, whose death last week revived the controversy about the 2003 Iraq war, lives on in the hearts of the neoconservatives for the same reason that the burghers of River City, Iowa embraced Willson's swindler. It reveals the better side of the American character: We're too dumb to lie about other countries' politics, which we understand about as well as Sanskrit, and we have no natural defense against sociopaths who lie whenever their lips are moving. There are very few uniquely American jokes: one queries what Snow White said to Pinocchio ("Lie to me, Baby"). That was the adult content, by the way. We Americans love it when the Pinocchios of foreign policy lie to us. Those who view American democracy as an export industry still haven't managed to fall out of love with Chalabi.
[Wash Times] Key lawmakers from both parties say frustration with the White House among the top military officers is at its highest level in decades, the product of President Obama's cautious approach to the wars in Syria and Iraq and an indecisive inner circle of White House advisers who, critics say, have iced the Pentagon out of the policymaking process.
"There's a level of dissatisfaction among the uniformed military that I've never seen in my time here," said Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain in an interview. "For some of us who are a little older, let's go back and read the Pentagon Papers -- what the administration is doing is the kind of incrementalism that defined much of the Vietnam conflict." "Frustrated" yes, but split along conventional and unconventional lines. Reaping the sad harvest of the Goldwater-Nichols Act, and a segment of DoD co-opted by separate funding and Klingon puppet masters.
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SOF was originally designed and is still designated in Joint Publication 3-05 as an 'Army Corps Commander's Asset.' It was never intended to be a stand-alone warfighter or Direct Action element of another gov't agency.
SPECIAL OPERATIONS FORCES (SOF)
Corps operations impact and are influenced by SOF actions. Within the corps G3 there is a special operations coordinator (SOCOORD) element, This functional staff cell exists to advise and integrate SOF capabilities by coordinating with SOF elements. Joint Publication 3-05 contains more information regarding this cell's structure and functions.
When the corps headquarters acts as JTF HQ, it generally includes a joint special operations task force (JSOTF) in lieu of a special operations command (SOC). The JSOTF coordinates all SOF, less PSYOP, within the joint operations area (JOA). A joint psychological operations task force normally coordinates and supports the PSYOP campaign plan throughout the JOA. (See JP 3-05 and JP 3-53 for details.)
When working for a JFLCC or a numbered army commander, the corps uses its organic SOCOORD element to stay advised of and to interface with SOF. The corps submits its special operations target and mission requests to the joint targeting coordination board (JTCB).
The SOCOORD simultaneously conducts informal coordination with the special operations command and control element (SOCCE). If the corps' AO encompasses a special forces operating area, a SOCCE may be under the corps' tactical control. This SOCCE serves as a battle command element and operates a tactical operations center (TOC).
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Again, the US-N-Only-The-US is the proverbial Tip-of-the-Spear in setting up ANTI-US OWG-NWO [includ US-Global Socialist Order?] where the US must unilaterally = asymmetrically give up its histoerical "Sole Superpower" Power-n-Influence around the World so that Russia, China, + Iran, Other? can rise to OWG Globalist-desired,"US-style/par", Co-Superpower status such the US will be just One-of-Many/Several in the new OWG-NWO, aka Space Govt-Order = SUN + PRE-RED GIANT SOLAR-LED GWCC MUST SURRENDER LIKE FRANCE TO TINY "MAHANIST" EARTH = STARFLEET COMMAND.
["FAMILY GUY'S PETER GRIFFIN-VS-SUN here].
* SNAFU/FUBAR = CAN THE US SET UP SAIDSAME ANTI-US OWG-NWO WIDOUT BEING PERCEIVED AS "WEAK" OR VULNERABLE TO THIRD-PARTY CONQUEST OR DOMINATION.
WIDOUT THE US BEING EXISTENTIALLY THREATENED BY THE ITS NEW OWG CO-SUPERPOWER SIBLINGS [US helped create], ANDOR OTHER "GREAT POWER" MILPOL/GEOPOL WANNABES INCLUD NGOS LIKE ISIS/ISIL + AL-QAEDA BOYZ, ETAL. ALA THE NEVER-ENDING "GREAT GAME"???
iff the Globies msicalculate, instead of creating SSECUALR MARXIST-COMMIE-SOCIALIST US-WORLD ORDERthe danger is there that all they ended up DESTROYING MOST OR ALL OF THE ENTIRE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN = NON-MUSLIM WORLD + HELPED RADICAL ISLAM + GLOBAL ISLAM/GLOBAL JIHAD CONQUER THE SAME.
Instead of OWG Global Secualr COmmunism-Socialism, the Lefties got everybody BEHEADED = FORCED TO CONVERT TO ISLAM OR BE BEHEADED.
US-LED ANTI-US OWG-NWO + GLOBALISM = THE US IS DIRECTLY ANDOR INDRECTLY HELPING ITS ENEMIES + WANNABES, ETAL. BECOME MILPOL OR GEOPOL STRONGER RELATIVE TO THE US ITSELF.
E.G. PERTS, MSM-NET CLAIMS OF PUTIN-LED RUSSIA DESIRING OR ACTING LIKE A "GREAT POWER" OR ITS FORMER COLD WAR-ERA SELF THE SUPERPOWER USSR/SOVIET UNION IN THE CRIMEA, ARCTIC, EASTERN EUROPE, + NOW SYRIA [Syria-Iraq] AGZ THE ISIS.
* FARSNEWS > WASHINGTON SPENDS MORE ON ANTI-ISIL EFFORT, [But] DELIVERS [Far = Much] LESS THAN RUSSIA.
US/Obama'S US$8.0Milyuhn vs. Russia's R$4.0mILYUHN.
* FREEREPUBLIC > [Daily Mail] NO PEACE IN HIS TIME: OBAMA ADMINISTARTION SAYS MIDDLE EAST WON'T BE RESOLVED BY 2017.
Consistent, albeit imperfectly or roughly, wid CHINA wanting to see the US pullout of East Asia-WESTPAC by 2020 NLT 2025.
DON'T FEAR ANTI-US US OWG GLOBALIST POTUS OBAMA, FEAR MORE HIS [Post-Jan 2017] ANTI-US US OWG GLOBALIST POTUS SUCCESSOR(S)???
Lest we fergit, 1990's RUSSIA. CHINA > ANTI-US "BATTLE ZONE" STRATEGY = WAR AGZ THE US BY 2018 [Plus-Minus] NOT ONLY POSSIBLE BUT DESIRED.
* SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST > CHINA'S RISE MEANS THE US MUST COME TO TERMS WID SHARING HEGEMONIC POWER.
US = China = Russia = Nuclear Iran = ????? = OWG Co-Superpowers.
JOINTLY + CONTEMPORARY WID AMERIKA!
* WORLD MILITARY FORUM > "HUFFINGTON POST" US MEDIA: US SHOULD STOP OPPOSING CHINESE VERSION OF THE "MONROE DOCTRINE" + ITS [POTUS Teddy]"ROOSEVELT" COROLLARY IN SOUTH CHINA SEA CRISIS AND EAST ASIA.
* FYI FREEREPUBLIC, LUCIANNE > WE ARE ALL [Globalists + Marxists + ...] SOCIALISTS NOW!
JUST LIKE THE OWG THAT MAINSTREAM AMERIKA VOTED FOR ... ... ... OH, WAIT!
[Once again, THE SIMPSONS' NED FLANDERS = D *** NG IT, REMEMBER MY SONS, UNITARIANS ARE THE ENEMY"!]
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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