West 'ignores' other Zimbabwe
Madrid - Equatorial Guinea's only opposition legislator said in an interview published on Friday the situation in his country is worse than in Zimbabwe, but Western nations turn a blind eye because of its oil reserves.
"The situation is worse than in Zimbabwe," Placido Mico Abogo said of the west African country, ruled with an iron fist by President Teodoro Obiang Nguema.
"The opposition has no political presence. There are no unions or professional associations. There is no media that escapes the government's control," he told Spanish newspaper El Pais.
"In Zimbabwe, there are independent tribunals. In our case, the judges have been appointed by Obiang and many belong to his party, even though that is illegal," said the secretary-general of the Convergence for Social Democracy Party (CPDS).
[ Russia, China and the rest of Africa recognise that picking on Zimbabwe is both hypocritical and self-serving. Here is some more evidence supporting that view. The country has gone from being the bread basket of Africa to being a basket case - but that is typical of Third World countries and there is no reason to single out Mugabe as a despot. ]
nationalist on 07.12.08 @ 08:22 AM CST [more..]
Africa is giving nothing to anyone - apart from AIDS
No. It will not do. Even as we see African states refusing to take action to restore something resembling civilisation in Zimbabwe, the begging bowl for Ethiopia is being passed around to us, yet again. It is nearly 25 years since Ethiopia's (and Bob Geldof's) famous Feed The World campaign, and in that time Ethiopia's population has grown from 33.5 million to 78 million today.
So why on earth should I do anything to encourage further catastrophic demographic growth in that country? Where is the logic? There is none. To be sure, there are two things saying that logic doesn't count.
One is my conscience, and the other is the picture, yet again, of another wide-eyed child, yet again, gazing, yet again, at the camera, which yet again, captures the tragedy of . . .
Sorry. My conscience has toured this territory on foot and financially. Unlike most of you, I have been to Ethiopia; like most of you, I have stumped up the loot to charities to stop starvation there. The wide-eyed boy-child we saved, 20 years or so ago, is now a priapic, Kalashnikov-bearing hearty, siring children whenever the whim takes him.
[ The fact that such an outspoken article, challenging our attitudes towards precious starving Africans, is published in a mainstream newspaper is a cause for optimism. It is not an article that European nationalists could ever publish without being found guilty of incitement to racial hatred. And the public will only consider it acceptable to air such views when mainstream papers do so - therefore nationalist publications do better to publish more compromising views. But when such an article appears, nationalists must use the material and do our best to show the public that it is okay to feel this way. ]
nationalist on 07.12.08 @ 03:19 AM CST [more..]
Crips and Bloods: How Britain's mobs are imitating US gangs
There seemed to be no obvious reason to pick on the teenage boy who was leaving the Tube station in West London. But within seconds he was being encircled by a group of young lads who forced him, at knifepoint, to take off his clothes before they allowed him to go on his way.
By the appalling standards of knife crime in London today this incident may not be classed as particularly shocking. Until you consider this: the hapless teenager was targeted because he was wearing a blue shirt. And in this particular sliver of London, this gang's chosen colour is, apparently, red. Wearing the wrong colour in the wrong territory smacks of disrespect - even if you were not aware of the "rules".
There is no more terrifying violent crime than the seemingly arbitrary one. David Idowu, 14, was stabbed in Southwark, southeast London, last month and died this week. It has been suggested that the school uniform he was wearing may have been a factor. There is no indication that he was involved in gang culture. His Walworth Academy tie is fastened to the lamppost near where he fell, along with dozens of floral tributes. Last year Sophie Lancaster, 20, was kicked to death by youths in Bacup, Lancashire, because she was dressed as a Goth.
Have we reached a point where a young person might be attacked because of the clothes he or she happens to be wearing? Do parents, who now worry about what colour sweatshirt their son puts on before he leaves the house lest he inadvertently "disses" an unknown gang member, have a legitimate fear, or are we all in danger of becoming hysterical?
[ Pluralism again! Whites living in areas with few immigrants don't have to worry about such things. They must know this, yet they fear the "racism" of their own common-sense observations. ]
nationalist on 07.12.08 @ 03:05 AM CST [more..]