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From Angola to 9/11

11 Monday Sep 2017

Posted by Harry Booyens in International, The US & South Africa

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Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Donald Trump, Soviet Union, Terrorism, United States Congress

Sixteen years after the defining event of 9/11 we are approaching the point where a  generation of young people born at the time is becoming aware of their place in the world. It is time to look at the history behind the terrible events and make sure the same mistakes are never repeated.  This is particularly true in a time when the United States is facing threats of the nature of Iran, ISIS, and North Korea.

In mid-1975 a C-141 Starlifter jet departed Charleston, South Carolina into a murky international picture. Twenty-six years later four fuel laden airliners emerged from that same picture and killed almost 3,000 innocent Americans. The painful story connecting the events may be read HERE in detail. Americans in particular really should read it.

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Back in 1975, the United States was about to be tested in Angola in faraway Africa, and it would fail that test comprehensively due to decisions made by the 1975 US Congress. President Carter would subsequently be repeatedly tested by the consequences and would equally repeatedly fail. To quote Soviet UN Ambassador Dobrynin,

Having suffered no major international complications from its interference in Angola, Moscow had no scruples about escalating its activities in other countries, first Ethiopia, then Yemen, a number of African and Middle Eastern states, and then, to crown it all, Afghanistan.

And there we have it straight from the horse’s mouth. It all started with Angola in 1975. Along the way, it also ultimately resulted in an advanced Western country like South Africa being today little more than just another classic African Basket Case and Hell Hole.

As a natural product of the Soviet-made and US-neglected upheavals in first Angola, and then the Horn of Africa and Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan took note of Bill Clinton’s perfunctory response to the embassy bombings of 1998. Then came the bombing of the USS Cole on 12 October 2000 in the harbor of Aden, Yemen (See Dobrynin’s List quoted above). Incredibly, it elicited zero response from the United States. With this calibration regarding the will of the United States, Osama bin Laden set in motion his plans for the 9/11 attacks.9-11b

Perhaps the surviving members of the 1975 US Congress can explain their thinking to the rest of us and to the loved ones of those who died. Perhaps President Trump can also take note, because this is a vivid explanation of how failure to act will come back to haunt one’s children.

America is a great nation, whether it wants to be or not. It has the strongest military and strongest economy in the history of the planet Earth. It is the international policeman, whether it wants to be or not. It needs to develop the perspective of a great nation.

To quote an honorable man in trying times on the subject of the US congressional failure in Angola,

A great nation cannot escape its responsibilities. Responsibilities abandoned today will return as more acute crises tomorrow.

Gerald Ford, President of the United States (1975)

He was right;…. painfully right. The abandoned responsibility eventually returned in the form of 9/11. Read the more comprehensive Blog page HERE.

The above series of events may be studied in more detail in the book AmaBhulu, which also provides all of the required references for all facts stated.

— Harry Booyens

The 1975 US Congress gave us 9/11

05 Sunday Jun 2016

Posted by Harry Booyens in The US & South Africa

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Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Jimmy Carter, South Africa, Soviet Union, United States Congress

In mid-1975 a jet departed Charleston, SC into an international picture. Twenty-six years later four fuel laden airliners emerged from that same picture and killed 3,000 innocent Americans. This is the painful story connecting the events.

The more complete Blog article is HERE.

Featured_C141_Starlifter

The United States was about to be tested in Angola in faraway Africa, and it would fail that test comprehensively due to decisions made by the 1975 US Congress. President Carter would subsequently be repeatedly tested and would equally repeatedly fail. To quote Soviet UN Ambassador Dobrynin,

Having suffered no major international complications from its interference in Angola, Moscow had no scruples about escalating its activities in other countries, first Ethiopia, then Yemen, a number of African and Middle Eastern states, and then, to crown it all, Afghanistan.

And there we have it straight from the horse’s mouth. It all started with Angola in 1975.

As a natural product of the Soviet-made and US-neglected upheavals in first Angola, and then the Horn of Africa and Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan took note of Bill Clinton’s perfunctory response to the embassy bombings of 1998. Then came the bombing of the USS Cole on 12 October 2000 in the harbor of Aden, Yemen (See Dobrynin’s List quoted above). Incredibly, it elicited zero response from the United States. With this calibration regarding the will of the United States, Osama bin Laden set in motion his plans for the 9/11 attacks.

The failure of resolve on the part of the United States Congress on the matter of Angola in 1975 led directly to the upheaval in Afghanistan and the Horn of Africa, and those upheavals gave us Osama bin Laden, the embassy bombings, the USS Cole, and 9/11. In the process it also ultimately resulted in an advanced Western country like South Africa being today little more than just another classic African Basket Case and Hell Hole.

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And this is how it came to be that a Lockheed C-141 Starlifter cargo jet departed Charleston on 29 July 1975 into an international picture, and how four fuel laden airliners returned out of that very same picture on a beautiful blue sky morning in the East of the United States and killed 3000 innocent Americans (above). Perhaps the surviving members of the 1975 US Congress can explain their thinking to the rest of us and to the loved ones of those who died.

To quote an honorable man and president of the United States on the subject of the US congressional failure in Angola,

A great nation cannot escape its responsibilities. Responsibilities abandoned today will return as more acute crises tomorrow.

 Gerald Ford, President of the United States (1975)

He was right;…. painfully right. Read the more comprehensive Blog page HERE.

The above series of events may be studied in more detail in the book AmaBhulu, which also provides all of the required references for all facts stated.

— Harry Booyens

Why Donald Trump can win

15 Sunday May 2016

Posted by Harry Booyens in The US & South Africa

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Democracy, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Obama, Soviet Union, United States

The first edition of this article was published HERE, just before Trump won the May 3, 2016 Indiana primary.  In this second edition of the article under a new title, we allow for that development and we map some new events against the background of the original edition.

Over the past 40 years the United States has come full circle from the malaise that beset Jimmy Carter to the present situation around Barack Obama, who appears to be trying to emulate South Africa. Frustrated Americans are reacting with their vote. While a concerned world watches, Donald Trump is confusing all the talking heads, turning polls upside down and terrifying Establishment politicians. However, if they would look at the world through different eyes, they would realize he has turned the election from a Left vs Right struggle into a struggle between Opportunity and Entitlement.Featured_Trump40

The international importance of US Internal Politics

I have been a keen student of the United States for some 40 years. The reasons are simple. Firstly, when the United States gets an economic “cold”, the world gets economic “pneumonia”. Secondly, less powerful countries “sail in the wake” of the United States. They may be completely capsized by even slight course changes on the part of the US.

In my own case, I have studied the US political chessboard to determine the consequences for the country of my birth, South Africa. US Foreign Policy effectively destroyed that country while it was not even a bump in the road to Americans. Logically, they do not have to care, until, of course, those consequences come flying through the air in the form of four fuel laden hijacked airliners in a clear blue September sky. But, the events of 9/11 may be traced back to profoundly flawed US Foreign Policy decisions by the Democratic Party dominated Congress in 1975. It may all may be read in the book AmaBhulu. Jerry Ford warned America at the time and Congress did not listen, and South Africa is now in the Sino-Russian-Iranian camp.

Forty years of US Foreign Policy

Over the forty years of my watch, I have seen the United States internationally emasculate itself in the wake of the Vietnam War. As a result, the Communist Revolution expanded tremendously. It led to me being 50 feet above trees on the Angola-Namibia border in an aircraft avoiding Soviet-made surface-to-air missiles. After all, short-sighted Congressional decisions have consequences.

40yearsI have seen grown American men cry in dismay at the state of their country in 1979 under Jimmy Carter. I have seen their pride and hope restored under Ronald Reagan. I have watched Ronald Reagan win the Cold War and bring down the Berlin Wall. I have watched George Bush senior correctly list a Communist dominated organization as a Terrorist Group, only to have those terrorists foisted as a government on decent South Africans on the watch of Bill Clinton. I have seen George Bush Junior go to war in Iraq as part of the Neo-Conservative agenda, and I have seen Barack Obama yet again emasculate the United States on the world stage.

Eagle_ClawThe US has come full circle and is again in the lamentable state it was under Jimmy Carter around the time of the Iran Hostage Crisis and the failed Mission in the Desert to rescue the hostages (photo above). Those Americans who love and build their country feel that both their country and their pride have been trashed, along with their fortunes, their jobs and their children’s futures. They are more angry than I have ever seen them in my life. Only those who steal from the American Dream seem happy. Jimmy Carter has been consigned to the Twilight Zone of American public life since departing office. However, I have actually had Democrats tell me, “Obama is the best thing that ever happened to Carter“. At the same time, I have Republican friends who now detest their party for being utterly ineffectual and for “selling them out”.

The Political State of the Nation

Against this background, let us look at the United States political arena as the Republican and Democratic Party elders do: as the chessboard of Figure 1 below with just two blocks in a one-dimensional row next to each other. Ever since the departure of Ronald Reagan, the country has divided itself between camps on the “Left” and “Right”. In the United States, the term “Left” typically refers to people who are both Socially and Economically liberal, combining thereby Moral issues, Religious issues, Gender Rights, Green Issues and regular Economic Socialism.

1-DimMapEmptyFigure 1 collects some topical US political issues together on this map. This grouping of issues does not necessarily hold in other countries and it certainly polarizes almost every issue in the US. Few other places would list Libertarianism under “The Right”. So, for example, the “Right” is seen as automatically “Hawkish” and the “left” as “Dovish”, yet Democrats  (the nominal custodians of the “Left”) have taken the US into WWI, WWII, and the wars in Korea, Vietnam and Kosovo. Since the Civil War, vastly larger numbers of men have died fighting wars under Democratic presidents than under Republican Commanders-in-Chief. This Left-Right split has rendered political debate in the United States completely useless. Every individual or media group is forced into one of the two blocks and one side is obliged not to believe a word the other says and they belch bile at each other across the divide.

With the advent of President Obama the country was shoved violently and uncomfortably to the “Left”. The first high level reaction came in 2010 in the form of the Tea Party faction of the Republicans on the “Right”. This group is as rigid in their opposition to Tax & Spend  as Obama is in his insistence on expanding social benefits during the worst recession since the Great Depression. Obama_Kenya_Pres_visit

Over the past seven years, President Obama has divided  Americans, but has united excited Kenyans (above). His non-consultative management style is well-known to people from Africa, such as this present author. It has rendered the US government dysfunctional.  It has obviated Congress and has thereby disenfanchised America. The ordinary man in the street perceives this as a “Useless Congress”. However, Obama has made it so. He now rules over his “kingdom” by decree via so-called Executive Actions, a fancy name for “Ignore the voting public” when the voters have actually given the Congress to the Republicans.

To this author, the United States of 2016 behaves more like an African “basket case” by the day. One would swear it is trying to turn itself into South Africa, a rapidly failing state Obama admires and which thinking people of all races are trying to escape. It ought not to surprise Americans, though. After all, a member of the Obama Administration is the ghost writer of Nelson Mandela’s “autobiography”. Perhaps Americans should study South Africa to understand the sheer disaster toward which they are at present headed. No wonder those hard-pressed Americans who care about their family, their country and its position in the world are insisting on dramatic change in Washington. And this brings us to the heart of the matter and the title of this piece.

Enter Donald Trump

The remaining US presidential candidates prove remarkably difficult to place on the one-dimensional map (See Figure 2). It produces a litany of inconsistencies around Trump and Sanders.

1-DimMapDemocrats will have folks believe Trump is a “far right” testosteronic rabble rouser. Ted Cruz will have you believe that Trump is a “further left than” Hillary Clinton. The Republican Establishment will have you believe that he is so politically toxic that he is not even legitimately on the map. CNN talking heads will tell us “Sanders is to the Right of Clinton on Gun Control“. I suggest the Political Establishment and its Media are unable to see the very map they are functioning on. The confusion should be a clue to all of them that the one-dimensional map is inadequate to the job.

Trump is clearly confounding all the Party apparatchiks, commentators, and CNN talking heads. However, he is not confounding the client, the ordinary working American on the ground. Those much-tried folks are flocking to Trump’s flag in masses and droves. The last die-hard “Collective Bargaining” Unionists and Millennials with their sense of entitlement are flocking to Bernie Sanders. However, it is near impossible to depict these developments on the simple one-dimensional map.

The American Dream vs the American Myth

Donald Trump’s advent has made it clear that the US Political Arena is now a distinct two-dimensional map. The time has come to restore the natural vertical axis of the map of Figure 1 and to stop lumping together disparate views behind either “Left” or “Right”.  The vertical axis has Capitalism and Opportunity increasing upward and Socialism and Entitlement increasing downward, as in Figure 3, which is an adapted variant of the Nolan Chart. We show a simple mapping of the candidates, and describe it in more detail further below. Cruz and Kasich, having withdrawn from the race since the first edition of this article, are shown as faded in the diagram, but their locations on the map are important.

2D-map_heads2Trump’s presence has in effect redefined the election as a struggle between the top and bottom on this new map, instead of between the American Liberals and Conservatives. I would submit that those Americans positioned in the top half of the map are mostly people with a love of country who either have a job, or have lost a job and who may have a family and a house with a mortgage. Some 3.2 Million of those mortgages are still “under water”. This includes some of my own American Democrat friends. They are generally having a hard time making headway in the current economic climate. However, they accept that one works to get ahead in life and they do not expect handouts. They believe in the American Dream and have pride in America and its position in the world. They feel pained by America’s diminished international status and want it restored.

Where the “Left” miscalculates, is in assuming that women do not feel the plunge in American status worldwide. Married women in particular certainly see what is happening to their children and their country and do not like it one little bit. This position is also more ethnically blind than the talking heads are prepared to concede. This region of the map also includes Millennials who have discovered their latest iPhone does not have an App for “Give me a Job” and are trying do something about it, rather than protest as “backpacks with legs”.

The desire of people above the line is for Opportunity and restoration of the status of their country, independent of what they think of Gender Rights, Abortion, Religion, or Global Warming. They may well tell voters below the line “When last did a poor guy give you a job?” and many see Trump as the living embodiment of Success via Opportunity. They tend to be Patriotic in their views. In summary, they believe in the American Dream.

The folks below the horizontal line believe they will never have a proper stab at the American Dream. Some believe themselves inherently disadvantaged in some way or another, possibly on the basis of skin colour or ethnicity. Others among them are Millennials, who consider themselves hard done by. It certainly is true that loan institutions and Universities have got rich off their student loans. These young adults are burdened with staggering debt. One has to have sympathy. Many have dropped out of school and are stuck with the debt without a job. It is worth noting that Millennials have a calibration that consists of the Iraq War, the Mortgage Meltdown and the 2008 election of Obama. They learnt soon after that their immediate futures had been destroyed by Wall Street greed and they now blame rampant Capitalism, having never experienced normal working balanced Capitalism. They never knew the U.S.S.R and never saw the implosion of Communism. They “got their brains” after the Cold War.

The desire of people below the line is for Rights or Entitlement, whether it be citizenship, benefits, handouts, debt relief, or jobs “worthy of their expensive university degree“. They believe the American Dream is a Myth of History and prefer to fight or strike for what they can get from the “System”, which they believe rigged against them. Many Millennials in particular tend to be Internationalist, Global and “University Socialist” in their views.

Mapping the Candidates

As shown in Figure 4 below, Trump has placed himself squarely across the top two blocks of this map and has very openly stated his America First principles and his belief in Opportunity. He is also predicting that he can pull clients (voters) from below the horizontal line. When he gets questions of Liberal versus Conservative nature, he tends to fumble them. That is simply because it is not that important to him. He thinks along the vertical axis of the map, seeing people as either wanting opportunity and pride in their country or wanting handouts. I am not sure he could care less whether they are “Bible thumping” Conservatives or “Raving” Liberals. This is why one hears Ted Cruz  calling him “Liberal” and Clinton calling him “Far Right”. One can see his appeal across the top from the tens of thousands of Democratic Party Primary voters who have re-registered as Republicans. And that support is often coming from gritty “Union Democrat” neighbourhoods where jobs have disappeared, rendering unions impotent, if not completely irrelevant.

US_Political_MapClinton, as a Party Establishment creature, is pitching herself further to the Left than she really is, hoping to tack back to the middle in the Fall. Her problem is that she is not really associated with the word “Opportunity”. She certainly spends more time talking about entitlements than about economic actions. She has zero business or job-creation experience, and she is responsible for some of the worst Foreign Policy disasters in US history. She has played a key role in the diminished position of the US on the international stage. Trump is certain to make her life hell over the terrible events at Benghazi. Patriotic Americans are unlikely to forgive her for that fatal debacle and the manipulation of the truth thereafter.

Kasich sits in a limited zone on the horizontal line to the immediate right of the vertical, hoping the front-runners will somehow “crash and burn”. Cruz’s very Conservative agenda confines him to the far right of the top block. He has painted himself completely into a corner on the map. In these two statements we also find the reasons for their failure as candidates since the first edition of this article.

Bernie Sanders, rather than Hillary Clinton, is the clear counter to Donald Trump. While he has positions across the width of the map, he gets almost no traction with Black voters. Ironically, American Blacks mostly associate with the Establishment Clintons. By contrast, Sanders actually commands the “Trendy Lefty” segment, including Socialist oriented Millennials. Little can be more ironic than a 74-year old devout Cold War Socialist (1) from Vermont of all places and (2) leading a horde of iPhone wielding under-25s. He is the figurehead for “The 99%” and “Occupy Wall Street”.

So what?

The consequence of all this is that Trump has mapped himself onto a much larger portion of the present US Political Arena than most understand. This is why one sees the “Evangelicals” vote for him in masses and why thousands of Democrats above the horizontal line are re-registering as Republicans.

Some Black commentators refer to Trump’s base as “Angry White Men” and gleefully point out that there are not enough of them. So let us look at the numbers. According to the US Census Bureau there are 215 million voters in the US. 26 million of all races are aged between 18 and 24, these being Millennials. Of voters aged above 24 years, 136.5 million are whites, 22.5 million are Blacks, and 18 million are Hispanics.  The bureau reports that the 2012 presidential election saw only 65% of Whites register to vote and only 56.5% actually voted. I expect “Angry White Men” to be back with a vengeance and hell-bent on taking back their country. With no Black candidate remaining in the race, the turnout of that group will be significantly lower than the roughly 70% of the Obama years.

The grouping above the line is pointedly not exclusively White. It also includes Blacks, Hispanics and Asians who are actually TRYING to make the American Dream work, as opposed to rioting in the streets in an attempt to win an entitlement. All that stands between Trump and the most powerful office in the world, is his own mouth, and of course, any dirty play by the Establishment of the Republican Party. Should the Party Elders try that, I hereby promise them they will be responsible for the demise of the Republican Party.

The initial refusal of Paul Ryan, Republican Speaker of the House, to endorse Trump may also be understood on the above map. With the Socially Conservative Cruz out of the running, Ryan is trying to “hang tough” for Conservative principles and values in a race that has little to do with those. Americans basically want their country back, particularly red-blooded males. An Angry America, like Trump, is thinking along the vertical axis of the map. The horizontal axis of the map is not their primary concern at this time.

Clinton is yet to comprehend this. She is basically the socially liberal equivalent of the conservative Cruz, her natural opponent. I do not believe she is well positioned to win over Bernie Sanders supporters, especially if she does not comprehend the reality of this map. By rights and logic, it should be Sanders opposing Trump, but the Democrats are going to force Clinton on the voting public. That much is obvious, unless she is charged by the FBI. In that event, the Democrats will likely bring “Good ol’ Joe” Biden out of mothballs. With his “blue collar white” credentials he will try with some subtlety to reposition the Democrat effort for the White House to a more moderate  position above Sanders on the vertical axis.

All this tells me that, in the absence of Clinton being indicted, Donald Trump is going to win this election, unless his mouth gets in the way. The Democrats, for their part, had better pray Clinton gets indicted so Joe Biden can run.

I trust Americans will elect a president that will make the leading country of the Free World strong again. I have lost the country of my birth to the kind of forces that lurk in the Obama Administration. I have seen it thereby turned into a hell hole and dangerous laughing stock. I cannot stomach the destruction of Western Civilization one inch further.

My advice to Hillary Clinton? Dissociate yourself from Barack Obama as fast and as far as you can. Ordinary adult American men are mad as hell at what Barack Obama has done with their country, there are awfully many of them, and they talk to their wives.

— Harry Booyens

Stefan Molyneux and AmaBhulu

12 Saturday Sep 2015

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Irish-born Canadian, Stefan Molyneux, is described by some as “probably the most influential libertarian thinker of our times.” He has certainly been quite contentious at times, and the views of the present author certainly differs from his in a number of respects, but the fact is that he has a solid following. Recently,  he posted an expanded presentation on the subject of South Africa.

As author of AmaBhulu, I was very much surprised to hear my own written words transmitted at me in a very energetic Youtube presentation. Mr Molyneux has clearly read AmaBhulu in some detail, because he quotes verbatim from it no fewer than five times and relies on the book for other information and for some of the points he raises.

  • Referring to the Dutch trading the Cape to the British in 1814, he quotes the line from page 99 of AmaBhulu: “Herewith the Dutch finally deserted their kin in exchange for coin.” This he does in order to make clear this author’s point that Afrikaners have not had anywhere “to go back to” since then. This profound point is lost on pretty much all commentators on South Africa, including most in South Africa. Finally, someone outside South Africa comprehends this crucial point.
  • In respect of the Afrikaner’s attitude towards Communism, he quotes a section from page 342 of AmaBhulu ending in: “It was not so much the socialist philosophy as the total disrespect for religion and human life that created in the staunchly Calvinistic Afrikaner nothing but utter revulsion.”
  • Molyneux also quotes the author on the matter of the economic gains for Black South Africans in the wake of changes made by P.W. Botha, as described on page 454.
  • On the secret 1989 meetings in South Africa between the Soviets and the South African government, Molyneux quotes from page 484 of AmaBhulu.
  • As regards Nelson Mandela’s meeting with P.W. Botha on 5 July 1989,  he recounts this present author’s description on page 485 in the section “The inmate, the jailer, and the Coca-Cola.“

More generally, Molyneux appears to accept a number of points made in AmaBhulu. These include the fact that black people resided far to the east when the Dutch landed at the Cape (see the map below from AmaBhulu), and that the former were also immigrants. Unlike the Dutch, they drove off the indigenous Khoekhoe, which Molyneux regrettably refers to as “Blacks”. The Khoekhoe are, of course, a distinct anthropological grouping within the broader Family of Man.

17th Century migration of Black people down the east coast of South Africa.

17th Century migration of Black people down the east coast of South Africa.

He also understands that apartheid did not materialize out of thin air in a gush of collective malice. It was preceded by around 170 years of frontier strife with Black people.  Molyneux has a degree in History and this likely accounts for the fact that he attributes importance to the subject.

He clearly understands that South Africa had turned a corner in the early 1980s and had started building a Black Middle Class. He seems to agree with the thesis of the author that the Northern Hemisphere White Liberal Guilty Conscience sits at the root of much of the harm that was done to South Africa by the West.

He also very aptly uses the summary  the author provides on pages 549 & 550 of AmaBhulu on the subject of Black Economic Empowerment legislation. He cleverly replaces the word “Black” everywhere in the summary with the word “White” and amusingly suggests it was a 1948 National Party act. He  strings along the unwitting racist and then, at a suitable point, explains that this is actually a 2003 Act and the word “White” is replaced everywhere by “Black”.

Molyneux then confronts the viewer with: “If you suddenly see this legislation in a more favourable light, then congratulations! You now know that you are a racist.” Brilliant! I can see a whole bevy of people I have met in my life splutter and cough and search desperately for an intellectual door to leave by. He provides none such as he then launches into his summary opinion.

He believes that South Africa is a today a “Tragic Missed Opportunity“, a “Gaping and Opening Hell Hole.” He very appropriately ends with “If we don’t know the facts, we can never be in control of the future.”

The present author agrees on this point and contends that the Western Media has never really had the facts about South Africa. All it has ever had has been a psychotic degree of guilt complex which it attempted to address by beating up on the most exposed and most endangered of all nations in the Western Family of Man, the white man in Africa.

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    • Black and White South African Allies
      • The Black King seeks White Help
      • The White Giant and the Black King
      • The Black King with the White Stepfather
      • Until the Birds of Prey have Consumed them Away
      • Slagtersnek – Where men die twice
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    • Pierre Jourdan de Cabrières and the other man
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    • South Africa: Who stole the Land?
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      • 2. The Dutch founding of the Settlement at the Cape – 1652
      • 3. Setting the Fish River Boundary 1750-1779
      • 4. The Two Frontier Wars between the Afrikaners and the amaXhosa
      • 5. The British Cape Frontier before the Great Trek 1799-1836
      • 6. The World of the Black People before the Mfecane: 1816
      • 7. The Mfecane – Twenty Years of Hell on Earth: 1816-1836
      • 8. The Great Trek-1: 1836-1837 – The Trans-Orange
      • 9. The Great Trek-2: 1837-1841: Transvaal and Natal
    • The 1975 US Congress gave us 9/11
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One Year of Silence

One Year of Silence

The Black Racist Virus

The Black Racist Virus

Recent Posts

  • Canadian ER Physician: “I am a Boer from South Africa” February 5, 2022
  • Opening the Year with Scott Balson January 30, 2022
  • Interview with Alex Newman December 17, 2021
  • Livestream with Scott Balson December 17, 2021
  • One Year of Silence December 17, 2021
  • The Black Racist Virus December 20, 2020
  • Trailer for AmaBhulu YouTube Channel December 11, 2020
  • The Farm Murder of Bredin Horner December 3, 2020
  • Harry Booyens Livestream with Scott Balson November 21, 2020
  • Senekal! o’ Senekal! November 6, 2020
  • “America Must Fall”-2 October 14, 2020
  • The Great Trek – Part 2: 1837-1841 September 23, 2020
  • “America must Fall” – Part 2 August 23, 2020
  • Hope in Eastern Europe? June 5, 2020
  • Ricky Grenell and the Satchel of Doom May 19, 2020
  • Who stole the Land?: The Great Trek- Part 1 May 17, 2020
  • Who Stole the Land? – Status Check May 2, 2020
  • Dan Happel and Four Afrikaners March 29, 2020
  • Pompeo speaks; Marx sits …and sits February 20, 2020
  • Walking to President Trump January 1, 2020
  • America, see your future! December 8, 2019

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