[AlGhadeerTV] The legacy of De Klerk’s role in South Africa’s transition from apartheid to democracy remains highly contested.
The death of South Africa’s last white president Frederik Willem (FW) de Klerk has drawn mixed reactions.
De Klerk, who negotiated the end of white minority rule and a peaceful transfer of power to a Black-led government, died on Thursday aged 85, after a battle with cancer.
De Klerk won praise worldwide for his role in scrapping apartheid and he shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Mandela in 1993. The following year Mandela won South Africa’s first multi-racial elections with his African National Congress (ANC).
But de Klerk’s role in the transition to democracy remains highly contested nearly 30 years after the end of apartheid.
Many Black people were angered by his failure to curb political violence in the turbulent years leading up to the 1994 multi-racial elections, while right-wing white Afrikaners, who had long ruled the country under de Klerk’s National Party, viewed him as a traitor to their cause of white supremacy.
Here are some of the early reactions to de Klerk’s death:
Al Ghadeer chose some unexpected personalities to quote.
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'You're a f*cking loser…And I'll keep killing f**king babies!' she told Baker
...Well.
That's one way to make a polite, reasoned argument.
Mike
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Death cult
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I'm not a doctor, but I sometimes imagine being one, but only on Rantburg, to figure out odd behaving people. (< Disclaimer)
The little Lady sadly, may be suffering from PMDD !
Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) is a severe, sometimes disabling extension of premenstrual syndrome (PMS). Although PMS and PMDD both have physical and emotional symptoms, PMDD causes extreme mood shifts that can disrupt daily life and damage relationships.
[Complex] A 47-year-old Dutch man has suffered from a rotting penis after a cobra bit his genitals while he sat on the toilet during a safari trip in South Africa.
The New York Post reports, via Urology Case Reports (which contains extremely graphic photos of genitalia), the man suffered from scrotal necrosis after he was bit by the cobra. Urology Case Reports said that this could be the first-ever case of "snouted cobra envenomation of the genitals." It took three hours before he could be flown to the nearest hospital approximately 220 miles away.
"His penis and scrotum were noted to be swollen, deep purple in color, and painful on hospital admission. Scrotal necrosis was diagnosed, and he received multiple doses of a non-specific snake venom antiserum and broad-spectrum antibiotics," reads the medical report. "The scrotal necrosis was reported to involve the entire fascia (skin to internal spermatic) and was excised with extensive margins. Primary closure was performed, leaving a drain in situ. ... The defect in the penile shaft was treated by superficial debridement and a vacuum assisted closure pump. After 9 days, the patient was repatriated to the Netherlands."
The man has since made a full recovery, and a plastic surgeon performed a "penile shaft debridement, with extensive resection of dead tissue extending into the corpus spongiosum to the fold of the preputium." The comments from the authors of the report added, "Always flush the toilet before sitting down in countries notorious for their snake population." "Making it a booster shot?”
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"scrotal necrosis" - who is more susceptible? Barry or Big Mike
also, Scrotal Necrosis is the name of my new band
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In Kipling's Rikki Tikki Tavi (in The Jungle Book) the mongoose Rikki hunts Nag the cobra in ... the bathroom.
Seems to be a cobra thing.
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I used to party with a guy who owned a big night club where I lived. He had a juvenile python in a terrarium in his office. It wound up missing one day, and was found sleeping in the urinal in the backstage dressing room toilet.
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"I got it from sitting on a toilet seat, honest"!
Number 7 must be one of the early ones, unless they reorganized on some other basis after they headed toward the 30s...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have arrested a youth with sophisticated weapons and ammunition
...no shutter gun and rounds of bullet for him, darn it!
from a rubber garden
... not sure what that is, but it sounds almost as suitably plebeian as a brickyard or a banana plantation...
in Raozan area of Chittagong.
The youth was identified as Syed Hossain alias Faruk, 30, son of Mohammad Belal Hossain Faruk,
...how far the family has fallen — from four names to two in a single generation...
of Charabattal area under Rangunia cop shoppe.
That can be found on the 1:2 map hidden in the false wall behind the final row of boxes in the dead file archive in the third Rangunia cop shoppe subbasement. Unfortunately, there is nowhere big enough to unfold it to see...
He was arrested during a raid conducted around 11pm on Sunday
...late enough for the good citizens of Chittagong to be in bed, though early for the miscreants..
on a tip-off,
*Ring, ring* “Mahmoud the Weasel’s fourth nephew twice removed here. Listen carefully — I will say this only once...”
RAB-7 Senior Assistant Director (Media)
Good lord — the RAB have gotten awfully professional and organized since the early days when the newest patrolman got to write up their adventures when done polishing the shutter gun and round of bullet before returning it to its lighted display shelf in the evidence locker, ready for when next called upon...
Mohammad Nurul Abshar confirmed to Dhaka Tribune on Monday.
At that time, an AK-47 rifle, one LG
...long gun?
Or 4K OLED TV?
and eight rounds of ammunition were recovered from him.
”Here — Farouk, right? Give me those before you hurt yourself!”
He tried to escape sensing the presence of the elite crime busters.
“...Spidey sense tingling... Must. Run. Away.”
*Trip* “Ow!”
“Got him, Sarge. There’s no escaping the RAB, young Farouk. We always get our miscreant, even those wanted in twelve systems and loved only by their mothers.”
The arrestee has been handed over to Raozan police.
I think I need to move to Bangladesh. I had no idea arrestee was a real word.
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*blush*You are kindness itself, dear magpie.I’m glad you got as much pleasure from reading as I did channelling RAB encounters of the past. I could feel Pappy, Shipman, and Dr. Steve looking over my shoulder as I typed.
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“Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear, where the RAB always gets their man….”
Thank you TW. Had a serious RAB jonesing, thought maybe they got cancelled by some activist group.
#4
Just for my own amusement, I searched Rantburg’s archives for Rapid Action Battalion. I’d forgotten that Green Steve originated the art form — quite possibly this is the first one, back in 2005.
Bloomberg: The U.S. is raising the alarm with European Union allies that Russia may be weighing a potential invasion of Ukraine as tensions flare between Moscow and the bloc over migrants and energy supplies.https://t.co/ERgHRyLYRm
[Daily Wire] The Internal Revenue Service revealed that it would adjust federal income tax brackets and deductions in light of rising price levels in the United States.
On Wednesday, the Department of Labor announced that year-over-year inflation for consumer prices reached 6.2% in October — the highest increase in thirty years. Prices for fuel, used vehicles, and food saw significant increases.
Also on Wednesday, the IRS raised income tax rate thresholds for tax year 2022 to prevent "bracket creep" — defined by the Tax Foundation as inflation pushing taxpayers into higher income tax brackets or reducing the value of credits, deductions, and exemptions, resulting in higher taxes without higher income.
Fox Business reports that most of the tax rates rose by 3% — the largest increase in four years.
For individual filers, the brackets are as follows:
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#2 Poland could be next. This will militarize the EU.
Next for ... what, invasion by the Russians? Huh?
They're being invaded now by Muslims, not other Christian Slavs. The Polish government and most Poles view the EU as the main threat to Polish liberties and independence, not Russia.
#11
Europe may be better off in Russian hands. At least they know what to do with the muslim problem.
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I am more afraid of Congress's Magic Checkbook than I am of the Russians.
I'd love to see Putin attempt to push all the way to the Atlantic. My impression is that readiness levels in Europe are a joke relative to Cold War standards. I have a feeling that it would put to rest, once and for all, our pledge to initiate a nuclear Masada on behalf of our allies in response to a conventional invasion.
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Hey, I've got an idea! Let's invade Russia from NATO territory in the Baltics. It's not far to Moscow, and we need only kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will collapse. Then this problem will be over, permanently. Never again will there be a dagger pointed at the heart of Europe.
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Hey, I've got an idea! Let's invade Russia from NATO territory in the Baltics. It's not far to Moscow, and we need only kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will collapse. Then this problem will be over, permanently. Never again will there be a dagger pointed at the heart of Europe.
Yes, we will bring winter coats this time.
Russia would fall apart. That would be fine if China fell apart at the same time, but that's not in the cards, for now. How'd you like to see Russia east of the Urals in Chinese hands? How about the former Russian stans?
[IsraelTimes] Blaze destroyed carved wood doors of Austin’s Congregation Beth Israel, damaged the building’s stained glass windows and sanctuary
A suspect has been arrested related to a fire set at an Austin synagogue, Congregation Beth Israel, on October 31.
Franklin Barrett Sechriest, 18, was arrested Wednesday by arson Sherlocks with the Austin Fire Department. Investigators identified Sechriest using surveillance footage that showed the license plate on the car he allegedly used to get to the synagogue.
The fire, set on Halloween night, caused an estimated $25,000 of damage to the building, according to the Austin Fire Department. According to a donation page on the synagogue’s website, the fire destroyed the synagogue’s carved wooden doors, damaged the building’s stained glass windows and caused smoke damage throughout the sanctuary.
The Austin Fire Department had appealed to the public to help identify the suspect, who they described as a white male. Video showed the man carrying a 5-gallon jerry can container, likely with the liquid accelerant used to set the fire at the entrance of the synagogue.
The fire was the latest in a series of antisemitic incidents in the Austin area. On October 24, members of the Goyim Defense League, a neo-Nazi ...adherents of a philosophy that was seen even at the time as pure evil, which makes them either consciously and purely evil, or attention-seeking ratbags. Pick one, or both.... group, hung banners from an overpass near the local Jewish Community Center, as well as a number of synagogues, proclaiming "Vax the Jews."
Though the banner was removed and the demonstration around it broken up by police, an identical banner was hung from the same intersection just two days later. At the time, leaders of the Shalom Austin Jewish community center warned community members that the group might stage further demonstrations in the area in the coming days.
In a statement, Rabbi Steve Folberg, the senior rabbi at Congregation Beth Israel, thanked the Sherlocks for their work on the case and noted a recent increase in antisemitic incidents in Texas.
"It gives us some sense of relief to learn of this arrest, but we are staying vigilant. Across Central Texas and beyond, we are seeing a spike in attacks against Jews," Folberg said.
#Pope Francis warned time was “running out” to save the planet while expressing regret at his absence from #COP26 climate talks in Glasgow, in a letter published and made publichttps://t.co/PjPuwLetoB
#3
^ never say never. Bypass damage is possible. I would suggest teaching University facility. Study and discovery. FDA approval should be quick as mice being so similar to humans. NIH possibly and if approved possibly no cost to patient. Physician referral.
[IsraelTimes] Abandoned boats and animal skulls can be seen on lakebed at Duwaysat Dam, which has succumbed to extreme drought, pipe damage and continued use by struggling farmers.
Some years you just hit the jackpot.
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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.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
[Complex] A 47-year-old Dutch man has suffered from a rotting penis after a cobra bit his genitals while he sat on the toilet during a safari trip in South Africa.
...adherents of a philosophy that was seen even at the time as pure evil, which makes them either consciously and purely evil, or attention-seeking ratbags. Pick one, or both....
