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Chris Bryant, the new Foreign Office minister, who is gay, has started writing personal letters of congratulations to British diplomats who show public support for gay rights. He is praising them for such support even if it draws anger from national governments or local homophobic groups.

On the eve of today’s Gay Pride March in London, Bryant sent handwritten letters of personal congratulations to three British ambassadors in eastern Europe after they were angrily accused by national governments of promoting gay rights.

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Telegraph: Homosexual “weddings” should be celebrated in churches, a Government minister has said in defiance of religious teaching.

Chris Bryant, who once posed in his underpants on a gay dating website, said he wanted clergy to be “much more open” to the idea of treating civil partnership ceremonies like traditional marriages.

However, his suggestion goes directly against the rules of the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church, which state that only the union of a man and a woman can be celebrated by a priest in church.
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Dailymail: A medal personally established by the Queen is being withdrawn after it was deemed offensive to Muslims and Hindus.

The honour – known as The Trinity Cross of the Order of Trinity – has been ruled unlawful and too Christian.

It has been awarded to 62 distinguished residents of the former colony of Trinidad and Tobago over more than 40 years, including cricketers Brian Lara and Garfield Sobers, novelist V.S. Naipaul and many diplomats and politicians.

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Giles Tremlett in Madrid
The Somali pirates attacking shipping in the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean are directed to their targets by a “consultant” team in London, according to a European military intelligence document obtained by a Spanish radio station.

The document, obtained by Cadena SER radio, says the team and the pirates remain in contact by satellite telephone.

It says that pirate groups have “well-placed informers” in London who are in regular contact with control centres in Somalia where decisions on which vessels to attack are made. These London-based “consultants” help the pirates select targets, providing information on the ships’ cargoes and courses.

In at least one case the pirates have remained in contact with their London informants from the hijacked ship, according to one targeted shipping company.

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The four black poachers wore camouflage clothing and had parked their car by a neighbouring farm. From there they went on foot to the game park. The white owners of the farm weren’t home but were out patrolling another area for poachers.

The four intruders assaulted and tied up a maid on the Imire farm. Two more farm workers were beaten up and forced to show the way to the rhinos’ pen. The poachers then overpowered, disarmed and tied up the guards by the pen.

The poachers fired several shots that killed three adult rhinos. Four baby rhinos that were in another pen survived the attack.

DJ, shot dead by poachers on Imire Safari Ranch. Photo: Imire Safari Ranch

Amber, killed only a week away from giving birth. Photo: Imire Safari Ranch

Amber’s unborn calf did not survive the attack on its mother. Photo: Imire Safari Ranch

Despite the rhinos having been dehorned six weeks earlier and their horns having regrown only a couple of inches, the poachers started hacking away at one of the animals to get at the horn but the sound of an approaching car made them flee to their car where all traces of them disappeared. The police were called for that same evening but didn’t arrive on the scene until the morning after.

A reward fund has been set up by the game park so that a reward can be given to anyone able to supply information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the perpetrators who annihilated the black rhino breeding stock of the Imire Safari Ranch. For further information the owners of the farm can be contacted via e-mail imiregp (at) zol.co.zw

Tatenda, one of the rhino babies who survived but lost her mother DJ and her father Sprinter during the attack on Imire safari Ranch in the beginning of November. In this article’s first picture you can see how the poachers had hacked away at Sprinter despite the rhino having been dehorned. Photo: Imire Safari Ranch

The orphaned Tatenda is being bottle fed by one of Imire’s owners, Judy Travers, who is thanked with a big rhino kiss. Photo: Imire Safari Ranch

The elephants who often walk together with the rhinos on Imire Safari Ranch gathered where the rhinos were shot and just like elephants do when one of their own is killed, they tried to dig a grave. The elephants were visibly upset by the killing of the Imire rhinos. Poto: Imire Safari Ranch

Since the late 1990’s the white-owned farms in Zimbabwe have been fair game to the country’s dictator Mugabe and his hoodlums. Of formerly around 3500 white farmers now only a few hundred remain. Zimbabwe’s economy has capsized in direct correlation to the rate at which its white farmers have been persecuted, murdered and driven out of the country. Its people are facing constant threats of starvation catastrophies. In spite of this, white farmers who continue farming and animal keeping are even being prosecuted and risk being sentenced to prison.

Zimbabwe’s minister of lands, Didymus Mutasa, has said that the remaining white farmers will be forced out, one way or another, wrote British Telegraph in connection with the trials earlier this year of ten white farmers who refused to leave their lands.

“The position is that food shortages or no food shortages, we are going ahead to remove the remaining whites,” commented Mutasa.

Zimbabwians as well as the country’s wild life consequently face further suffering. As recently as in 2005 South African media reported that Mugabe had ordered employees at Zimbabwe’s national parks and nature management areas to kill wild animals to be used for feeding starving peasants in the countryside.

The attack on Imire Safari Ranch and its rhino population is yet another cruel setback for the decades of labour to preserve the unique fauna of Zimbabwe.

Charlotte Thorbjörnsson

The organisation AfricanCrisis have documented the cruelty that’s been perpetuated on the wild as well as domestic animals of Zimbabwe since the black seizure of power.Warning due to upsetting pictures.

Violence against white farmers and their black employees in Zimbabwe.Warning due to upsetting pictures.

“The war was over and Robert Mugabe was the new leader of the country as its Prime Minister.

Independence came and went. The family stayed. I breathed a sigh of relief.

Mugabe had addressed the nation and had offered a “hand of reconciliation”. He wasn’t interested in what colour you were. He wasn’t interested in who you fought for pre-1980… He didn’t even care who you voted for in the election — he had secured 63% of the voters in the election that brought him and his party to power.

If you wanted to stay, you could stay. He just wanted people who would help build Zimbabwe into the pride of Africa.

And do you know the strange thing about his speech? We all believed it. We all swallowed it — hook, line and sinker.”

The excerpt above is taken from Without Honour, an e-book about Rhodesia, a grand white civilization that in 1980 was renamed Zimbabwe and subsequently turned into a black banana republic. The author, Rhodesian Robb WJ Ellis was working as a young policeman after the country’s transition to Zimbabwe. The title of the book alludes to how Robert Mugabe is serving his country without honour.

The president of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe.

Ellis chronologically depicts the development of Rhodesia up until the Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) in 1965, which shocked the British and the rest of the world since no British colony had declared itself independent since the 4th of July 1776 when the United States of America was founded.

The Prime Minister of Rhodesia, Ian Smith, signing the UDI in 1965.

Next, Ellis tells about the Bush War in Rhodesia during the 1970’s when several military elite forces were created, proving the Rhodesians to be the best soldiers in the world. He also describes the black terrorist groups and mentions how they were backed by the Soviet Union, China and North Korea. In his book he reminds us of the elements that took over after the White rule, elements who devoted themselves to robbery, murder and inconceivable violence against their fellow citizens, their political opponents in particualar.

Grey’s Scouts signified the reintroduction of cavalry into the Rhodesian army. A highly mobile and aggressive unit that could pursue the enemy in otherwise inaccessible areas more efficiently than the infantry.

The elite antiterrorist unit, the Selous Scouts. Famous for their incomparable tracking and survival skills.

For at the same time as the leaders, media and leftwing intellectuals of the Western world unreservedly were lauding Robert Mugabe, the new black leader of Zimbabwe, Robb Ellis was forced to collect the body parts of people who were murdered by Robert Mugabe’s North Korea trained 5th brigade and intelligence service (CIO). In the 1980’s between 20,000 and 30,000 Zimbabweans of the Matabele tribe became the victims of genocide perpetrated by Mugabe and his supporters who were Shona, the largest tribe in Zimbabwe.

Criminal and “radical” elements took care of politics and the world at large had no objections. On the contrary! From then on, matters could only deteriorate.

Following an explanation of the country’s historical background, Ellis gives his personal reflections. He begins by explaining how it was emotionally very painful for him to write down his story. His dream had been to become — and remain — just an ordinary policeman. He wanted to solve crimes and make law-abiding citizens out of criminals. But it was not going to be as simple as that. Just like every good policeman he did his job and left his political opinions at home. He was young, had a sense of duty and did his job until his black superiors called him a racist, considered him to be a security risk and forced him into house-arrest.

Robb WJ Ellis as a young policeman in Zimbabwe in the early 1980’s. Photo: Robb WJ Ellis

In his book Robb Ellis describes a meeting with a representative of Zimbabwe’s secret intelligence service, CIO. It took place in the beginning of the 1980’s on the scene of a crime when Ellis was investigating a case in which a teacher had been murdered in cold blood by soldiers from Mugabe’s secret army in front of his young pupils. Before the shooting of their teacher the children had been abused, threatened to death and forced to sing songs extolling the virtues of Robert Mugabe and his party, ZANU PF.

“Without greeting or introduction, this man set about giving me a public, very rude, dressing down from hell. I was ‘a racist’ and was investigating something that ‘didn’t need investigating’. I was ’spending government money prying into government work’ and I must pack up my things and ‘bugger off’ — not to Plumtree — to England. [...]

He didn’t just hate me… he hated my skin, my family, my race, my culture — everything. I can honestly say that for the first time in my life I felt fear for my own life. I felt unwanted, used and abused and, quite frankly, wanted as far away from this ranting individual as I could get.

Without any regard for the ’scene’ or the dead man’s dignity, the fat CIO man marched over and kicked the headmaster’s body — square in the face! Astonished I must have said something to him, or under my breath.

The fat CIO man menacingly drew his service pistol from the holster on his right waistband. Without pointing it directly at me, he waved it about, making it plainly apparent that if I didn’t want to join the headmaster in the hereafter, I should desist from any expression of doubt or objection. [...]

Finally the fat CIO operative re-holstered his weapon and shouted at me to leave.

‘Fuck off! You fucking racist! Get yourself out of my country!’

Where was all this coming from? I was flabbergasted. And I was becoming angry, but I knew enough not to show any reaction to this fat bastard. He and his like had shouted and screamed, saying that the whites were racists, and here he was shouting and screaming at me — for being white — for doing my job…”

This was just the beginning of the witch hunt of whites in Zimbabwe perpetrated by the government, a witch hunt which later on was to claim many victims. The white farmers were threatened, deprived of all of their rights and were murdered. As the number of whites fleeing the country increased further, Zimbabwe became more and more traditionally African.

So far Robb Ellis, who summarizes his story hoping that one day it will be possible for him to re-establish himself in his old home country. This is a hope he shares with many Rhodesians.

Rhodesia was created by white Europeans. They created an unparalleled civilization, but were fought and opposed by the world powers and were finally forced to hand over power to black Africans.

The first Rhodesians were a few hundred pioneers. They had been selected because of their excellent qualities that were necessary in the creation of a new civilization. When the number of Rhodesians increased they had the best qualities imaginable on their side, which highly benefited the creation of their future.

Early pioneers in Southern Rhodesia.

Pioneers in Southern Rhodesia, 1890.

In the 1960’s, when Rhodesia was at the height of its success, not only had a country been created with the highest standard of living in the whole white world, the lowest crime rates and a most sympathetic population. In reality, it had been proven what creators of civilization of superior quality were capable of accomplishing.

The small country of Rhodesia was so efficient that it could supply large areas of black Africa with provisions and other goods that the Rhodesians were able to produce in large quantities. After the country became Zimbabwe the black population has not been able to support itself despite massive disbursements from the outside world.

Salisbury, the capital of Rhodesia, in the 1960’s. Today Salisbury is called Harare.

Salisbury around 1960.

When the Communist as well as the Western world got the notion of transforming this civilization into a Communist state, the pressure became immense, but the Rhodesians fought bravely and for a long time to be able to retain the country that they had created from scratch. With the forces of the superpowers of the world against them victory was not possible.
The Rhodesians gave up and most whites moved from — or rather fled — the country. They were often not able to take anything of value with them but were forced to leave everything behind.

Simultaneously as whites were moving out and blacks were taking over, the country fell apart and black leaders were kept afloat by gigantic disbursements from almost the whole world, like Sweden for example. The rest of the world had its way but nothing, absolutely nothing became better, on the contrary everything, absolutely everything became worse. This proved that the world leaders were fatuous, but that even so they were given the mandate by their voters to make fatuous decisions, having been elected to office in proper democratic order. This is an example that clearly proves there is something wrong with the democratic system since it can prevent the development of something that is beneficial and good, all the while encouraging the development of misery and terror.

Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, in the year 2000.

A little girl watches the devastation left by “Operation Murambatsvina” in 2005 when Mugabe ordered all shantytowns in the country to be demolished. Millions of people were affected. Photo: africancrisis.org

Once white Rhodesians started establishing themselves anew in other countries, many of them wrote accounts and stories about their experiences and the decline which now characterizes Zimbabwe. The stories are many and filled with emotion. Almost everybody knows someone who died in battle, who was wounded or afflicted with serious difficulties. A frequent problem was the fact that so many had been forced to leave all their possessions behind and start all over in a new country, without either funds or the possibility to get a job. Many were suffering from war traumas, many had physical injuries and many were elderly people who had retired from work and whose existences were shattered by being uprooted from Rhodesia.

In 1978 Mugabe adherents murdered eight British missionaries and five children one of whom was a baby. Photo: africancrisis.org

Terrence Samson Ford. One of Zimbabwe’s white farmers murdered by blacks during the land reforms in 2000-2001. Photo: africancrisis.org

The dog of Terrence Samson Ford refuses to leave the body of its murdered owner. Photo: africancrisis.org

A five year old boy, whose parents worked for a white farmer, assaulted by Mugabe’s hoodlums in 2001. Photo: africancrisis.org

Ursula Frost by her 25-year old boyfriend Duncan Cooks’ side after Mugabe supporters attacked him with machetes on a farm in Zimbabwe in 2001. Photo: africancrisis.org

Robb Ellis is one of all of those Rhodesians who have written down their stories. Like other Rhodesians he truly loves his country. When speaking to expatriates of Rhodesia we find that their relationship to their country is passionate. Losing their country was just the same as losing a great love. That is why there are so many, many stories of every detail of the country’s history and they are almost always filled with a deep longing and the dream of being able to recreate what once was. But unfortunately that dream most probably will remain just a dream.

However, there is tremendously much to learn from what befell Rhodesia. The world powers have far from ceased putting pressure on white civilizations. They would rather have them all perish before the slanderers of people of European origin are satisfied. This is why it is important also for Swedes to learn from the fact that civilizations actually can perish and that this could well happen to Sweden soon.

Robb Ellis Photo: Robb WJ Ellis

I urge you to read Robb Ellis’ book. Even though it is apolitical, it is enormously instructive and interesting.

Kenneth Wallgren

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In his drive to kick-start the French economy by creating a culture of hard work, Nicolas Sarkozy believes those who chose to retire early – under 65 – should not benefit from free health care.

During his election campaign earlier this year Mr Sarkozy said: “If you think 53 makes you old enough to retire, then fine, go ahead and retire. But don’t expect the state to pay for it.”

As a result, thousands of Britons living across France were sent “brutal” letters last week from the department of social security informing them that they would no longer be welcomed as non-paying customers of France’s hugely efficient – and traditionally extremely generous – national health service.

The letter stated that, under a change of rules which is due to take effect on Sept 30, any foreign resident who had retired early would lose their right to free state health care.

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Recent polls, including the Ipsos Mori political monitor, last month, have put immigration at number one in the public’s list of concerns. This used to be a polite way for people to tell pollsters that they were racists.

Yet race is no longer the issue: not since the arrival of more than 600,000 white Eastern Europeans after the expansion of the European Union in 2004, in what has become the biggest-ever influx of foreigners to our shores.

After a decade of broadly pro-immigration policies, Labour is on the defensive. Jacqui Smith’s appointment as Home Secretary in June surprised Westminster, but she knows why Gordon Brown chose her for the job

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Mugabe, in power since independence from Britain in 1980, also mocked one of his critics, Roman Catholic Archbishop Pius Ncube, saying he needed prayers after being sued for adultery on Monday.

The veteran Zimbabwean leader accused London of continuing to seek ways to topple him, suggesting that Britain had tried to encourage a coup in exchange for helping the country, which is mired in a deep political and economic crisis.

“They (the military) have refused to be tempted to go against their own people,” Mugabe told thousands of people at the National Heroes Acre shrine in Harare during the burial of a senior army officer.

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The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office said the constitution did not allow for the extradition of its citizens.

However, it said it would consider the possibility that Mr Lugovoi could be put on trial in Russia.

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