Tag: south africa
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#MorningMonarchy: August 23, 2018
The fire challenge, bicycle killers and ‘The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things’ + this day in history w/the Stockholm Syndrome and our song of the day by Echo & the Bunnymen on your Morning Monarchy for August 23, 2018.
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#MorningMonarchy: August 31, 2017
King/Kill Kanye, the Nashville Statement and the Satanic Panic redux + this day in history w/the death of Diana and our song of the day by Godspeed You! Black Emperor on your Morning Monarchy for August 31, 2017.
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BRICS Against Washington Consensus
by Pepe Escobar | atimes.com: The headline news is that this Tuesday in Fortaleza, northeast Brazil, the BRICS group of emerging powers (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) fights the (Neoliberal) World (Dis)Order via a new development bank and a reserve fund set up to offset financial crises. The devil, of course, is in the…
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US Anti-Apartheid Movement Helped Bring Change to South Africa
from voanews.com: It’s been 20 years since the end of apartheid in South Africa, the system of racial segregation that curtailed the rights of black South Africans for decades. One of the strongest protest movements outside South Africa to dismantle apartheid was in the United States during the 1980s.
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Monsanto’s ‘healthier environment’ ads banned in South Africa
from RT.com: The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) of South Africa has ordered biotech titan Monsanto to withdraw its ads on local radio in which the company boasts the supposed benefits of GM crops, including a “healthier environment” and “more food sustainably.” The authority’s order for Monsanto to withdraw its commercial on Radio 702 will take…
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Ritual killer expected #Satan to appear, court hears
from news24.com: The alleged mastermind of a deadly satanic ritual expected Satan to appear after calling on him in a chant, the South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg, sitting in Palm Ridge, heard on Friday. “I expected something to happen,” said Linden Wagner, who wrote the poem that he and his accomplices chanted after he…
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To The Moon? Firm Hopes To Sell $1.5 Billion Trips
A team of former NASA executives is launching a private venture to send people to the moon for a price that is definitely out of this world.






