An armed mob, angered over the slow pace of land reform benefits, has launched a Zimbabwean-style invasion of one of South Africa’s new multimillion pound showpiece agricultural reform projects, the biggest yet in value instituted by the post-apartheid government. Government sources said a mob, armed with knives and machetes, had seized control of Forana farm in the rich farming area of Mpumalanga... 

Tory and Labour-appointed EU commissioners who leave their posts receive more than £1 million each in the form of pensions and benefits, according to the Open Europe think tank. “European commissioners leaving office later this year will receive more than £1 million (€1.1 million) each in pension payments and so-called ‘transitional’ and ‘resettlement’ allowances,” Open Europe has... 

Oakton, Va. – Two American icons, General Electric and Berkshire Hathaway, lost their triple-A credit ratings. Then China, America’s largest creditor, called for a new global currency to replace the dollar just weeks after it demanded Washington guarantee the safety of Beijing’s nearly $1 trillion debt holdings. And that was just in March. These events are the latest warnings that... 

Gerald Frederick Toben, 64, was convicted in the Federal Court on 24 counts of contempt of court after continuing to publish material about Jews and the Holocaust on his Adelaide Institute website, despite 2002 orders to stop. Judge Bruce Lander said Toben, who will be sentenced later this month, had steadfastly refused to comply with the law. He did not accept that freedom of speech “does not... 

The Department of Homeland Security has now confirmed something we have all known for some time: the true enemy of the United States government is the American people. The Washington Times reports: “The Department of Homeland Security is warning law enforcement officials about a rise in rightwing extremist activity… (This would include any) groups that reject federal authority in favor of state... 

The US Senate included a measure to restore full funding for foreign aid to the budget it approved late Thursday, increasing chances that the pool of money including assistance for Israel wouldn’t be cut. The $3.5 trillion document passed by the Senate includes a $4 billion boost to the foreign operations appropriation, bringing it up to the $53.8b. sought by President Barack Obama. Sen. John... 

Fears over GM corn's effects on the food chain have led to the ban. Germany has decided to ban genetically modified corn, Agriculture Minister Ilse Aigner announced Tuesday, amid concerns over its environmental and economical impact. Aigner announced a ban on the cultivation of US biotech giant Monsanto’s genetically modified corn strain MON 810 after considering a number of studies. The... 

South African farmers suffered millions of dollars in lost income when 82,000 hectares of genetically-manipulated corn (maize) failed to produce hardly any seeds.The plants look lush and healthy from the outside. Monsanto has offered compensation. Monsanto blames the failure of the three varieties of corn planted on these farms, in three South African provinces,on alleged ‘underfertilisation... 

Phil Spector is likely to die in prison after the legendary Jewish music producer was convicted of murder for shooting the actor Lana Clarkson in a drunken and “sadistic” bout of Russian roulette. The Los Angeles jury spent nearly nine days deliberating over the case in which the prosecution portrayed Spector, 68, as a misogynist with a history of pulling guns and “playing Russian... 

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Barack Obama is to push forward with a plan to offer citizenship to up to 12million immigrants living illegally in the United States. Furious Republican opponents said the proposal was ‘disastrous’ at a time when so many Americans are losing their jobs. They claimed it was ‘payback’ for Mr Obama’s Hispanic support in November’s presidential election and a means... 

Western powers send tough message; Russian minister responds. NATO allies warned Russia on Tuesday that the alliance’s cooperation with Moscow would depend on the pullout of troops from Georgia. They insisted Georgia remained on track to join NATO despite Moscow’s opposition. The emergency meeting in Brussels highlighted a rift within the 27-nation bloc between former Soviet satellite... 

Turkey who has done absolutely nothing for Europe wants and beg to join the EU for economic benefit profiteering, Turkey is a muslim country that denied the holocaust of Christians Armenians. Turkey does not share European values and traditions, and yet Obama wants Turkey to join. America has not done anything special for Europe, the only thing Obama got is that he is the first black President of the... 

One arab youth tried to steal the purse of a French man, after he tried to get it back, the other Arabs beat him. The government of Nicolas Sarkozy sent the policeman in jail, just for putting it on his facebook page, the French are outraged at the incompetence of Sarkozy to deal with ethnic crimes and illegal immigration.  Read More »

In a case with parallels to the Bernie Madoff scandal, a prominent Florida hedge fund manager has vanished – and so has up to $350 million of his clients’ money. Sarasota police are looking into claims that Arthur Nadel, 76, defrauded investors before leaving a distraught note for his family and disappearing. Cops began investigating on Friday after investors complained that Nadel, president...