Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi is expected to attend the funeral of Britains former prime minister Margaret Thatcher on Wednesday, the party said.
Buthelezi leaves for London tomorrow (Tuesday) to attend the funeral of his late friend... with whom he stayed in very close contact, even after her retirement from politics, the IFP said in a statement on Monday.
They found themselves to be kindred spirits, equally committed to the cause of freedom in the world, and to a non-communist outcome to the South African liberation.
Thatcher died of a stroke last week, at the age of 87.
Like Buthelezi, Thatcher stood by her principles and recognized that the abdication of principles only leads to decay, the IFP said.
She shared Buthelezi's dream to make South Africa great... She loved South Africa and saw and hoped for a leadership place in the world for our country.
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Buthelezi was frenemies with Mandela in the first post apartheid election campaign, speaking for the Zulus, and I recall lots of sniping at him from the usual suspects, particularly regarding his mental health. This may help explain why.
If any of our well informed commentators has anything to say about him, I would appreciate it.
(Rooters) - Ruling party candidate Nicolas Maduro won Venezuela's presidential election on Sunday with 51 percent of votes, the electoral authority said, allowing him to carry forward the socialist policies of the late Hugo Chavez.
Of course, those policies depended on the price of oil being stable...
Maduro's young challenger, Miranda state Governor Henrique Capriles, took 49 percent of the ballots, the authority said, in a tighter-than-expected vote.
This may even be true.
I'm guessing it was actually 60-40 to Capriles. I'm further guessing that Maduro's boyz had expected it to be 50-50 and planned to make it 60-40 for him, so they're quite surprised at the result.
[Straits Times] Suspected Chinese hackers defaced the website of the Philippines News Agency (PNA) on Sunday, officials said, a possible repeat of cyber attacks last year also blamed on China during a territorial row.
The state-run agency's website temporarily displayed the Chinese flag and the text: "China Hacker EvilShadow Team, We are evil shadow. We are the team. We have our own dignity China Hacker Lxxker."
Asked if Chinese hackers were behind the attack, presidential spokeswoman Abigail Valte said an investigation was pending but added: "The note left on the site tends to invite that conclusion."
Another government front man, Herminio Coloma, said the hackers group shared news of the attack via Facebook.
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Read, THE SINO-PHIL "TERRITORIAL ROW" CONTINUES.
[POSTANDCOURIER] South Carolina's unemployment agency will lay off 100 employees in June as part of a statewide reorganization that directs anyone seeking jobless benefits to use its upgraded online system, the agency's interim director announced.
John Finan said the Department of Employment and Workforce will eliminate one-on-one help with unemployment claims on June 10, and the number of local offices offering job training and other re-employment services will shrink. Exactly how many of those 56 offices remain open past June will depend on decisions made by the state's 12 workforce investment boards, he said.
It comes two months after the ending of in-person unemployment help at 17 rural offices caused a backlash from legislators. Democrats particularly denounced the move as an attack on rural South Carolina, and the outrage culminated in the resignation of former Director Abraham Turner.
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someone left the irony on
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Yaalonâs innovative blueprint is influenced by a pervasive new concept that the big Arab armies which attacked Israel in the past have been relegated to obsolescence by the Arab Revolt and the decline of the Egyptian and Syrian armies â the first crippled by economic calamity and the second, debilitated by more than two years of fighting a civil war. Ergo, according to this concept, Israel is now for the first time in its 65 years no longer menaced by a large professional army capable of waging a full-blown war.
Is full-scale war really outdated? Debka disagrees with this and considers it short-sighted. The IDFâs radical overhaul
Yaalonâs planning for the revolutionary overhaul of the Israel Defense Forces from the bottom up is in its final stages,
The crux of the proposed new structure is the substantial downsizing in stages of the IDFâs ground and armored forces, starting with the heavy Chariot 4 tank and large Tiger troop carrier units. He believes the time has come to do away with the classical divisions, brigades and professional corps, such as artillery and tanks, which characterize a conventional army, and replace them with small, self-contained armies capable of operating independently.
Each such mini-army would be equipped with its own attack helicopter, tank, artillery and special forces units and self-supply facilities.
In contrast, the Defense Minister aims to expand the Navy, Air Force and Missile Arm for the key task of securing Israelâs airspace and territorial waters. Special Forces units will additionally secure these strategic spaces.
He ascribes equal importance to the establishment of a new Cyber Warfare Command, our military sources say, and plans to earmark for this new unit a generous allocation in the next defense budget.
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Numerous, self sustaining, well led and highly mobile commandos, operating independently with the capability to initiate mutually supporting operations.
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" and replace them with small, self-contained armies capable of operating independently."
Brigade Combat Teams, anyone?
I would have those units "engineer heavy" and able to cut brand new roads through areas where they advance in order to cut the IED risk from traps that may have been set years in advance.
[Arutz Sheva] The Jewish community in New York is protesting an attempt to silence Jewish activist Pamela Geller, who warns against the dangers of Islam. "Never again" versus "Hello again."
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HT: Drudge
King, a firearms instructor, denied in a video posted on YouTube that he suggested anyone shoot at the target, which features a faceless silhouette of a person in a hoodie yawn
holding a beverage can Got nuthin' - a little help?
a pack of Skittles candy tucked in a pocket OK, now I guess that was a little over-the-top
A bull's eye appears on its chest Somebody please check my math: Bull's eye - Skittles = No Story
Also, officer violated the first rule of "Oh Crap" (Note the Article title at link) and didn't (1) clam up or (2)perform a tap dance that would be the envy of Fred Astaire....
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.
