“South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said Monday the claim that white people are being persecuted in his country is a ‘completely false narrative.’ It was his latest attempt to push back against allegations made by U.S. President Donald Trump, Elon Musk and some white minority groups in South Africa. South African-born Musk, who has regularly accused South Africa’s [b]lack-led government of being anti-white, repeated a claim this weekend in a social media post that some of the country’s political figures are ‘actively promoting white genocide.’ Ramaphosa said in his weekly message to the nation that South Africans ‘should not allow events beyond our shores to divide us or turn us against each other. In particular, we should challenge the completely false narrative that our country is a place in which people of a certain race or culture are being targeted for persecution.'” (03/24/25)
“Pity poor John Roberts. No, he’s not corrupt or compromised. He is simply a man who has found himself at a pivotal time and place in a position of great responsibility for which he is utterly unsuited. He’s not a dumb man. He is, in fact, a very smart man – Hugh Hewitt knew him personally in the Reagan administration and testifies to that. I have no doubt it’s true. I know many smart people who have similar flaws. As objectively intelligent as John Roberts is, he is unwise, and he is endangering the institution he wants to preserve because he does not understand human nature or the times he finds himself in. Frankly, I’ll take wisdom over raw intellect any day of the week.” (03/24/25)
“Several ‘incendiary devices’ were found at a Tesla dealership in Texas, according to police. A bomb squad deployed to the dealership in north Austin around 8 a.m. Monday after receiving a call about suspicious objects that had been found there. The objects were determined to be working incendiary devices, and were taken away by cops. No suspects or motivations in the case have been released, but it comes after a string of attacks on the Elon Musk-owned car company in recent weeks in retaliation over his activities with President Trump’s DOGE.” (03/24/25)
“Nadine Menendez and her prison-bound husband — former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez — were ‘partners in crime,’ a prosecutor told a jury Monday as opening statements began in her trial over allegations that the power couple accepted bribes of cash and gold bars. The longtime senator was convicted last year of accepting bribes worth hundreds of thousands of dollars from three New Jersey businessmen. Now, a new jury will hear similar evidence about Nadine Menendez, 58, after her trial was postponed when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Assistant U.S. Attorney Lara Pomerantz said Nadine Menendez ‘did the dirty work’ for the 71-year-old New Jersey Democrat, who is scheduled to report to prison in June to begin serving an 11-year sentence. Defense attorney Barry Coburn told jurors they will have to exonerate Nadine Menendez because there will be an ‘absolute, utter failure of proof in this case.'” (03/24/25)
“On March 5, four state attorneys general visited a high school auditorium in Phoenix, to take testimony from people affected, directly or indirectly, by Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency’s rampage through the federal government. At this ‘community impact hearing’, AGs from Arizona, New Mexico, Oregon, and Minnesota, all Democrats, heard from fired VA and Department of Agriculture employees; school superintendents; abortion care and HIV providers who are struggling with funding freezes; navigators who help people connect with federal benefits that may not be there for long; nonprofit leaders in energy efficiency and food security who are seeing the people they serve suffer; and many more. All the speakers articulated the damage to Arizona’s economy and its people. The AGs framed the event as the bare minimum of small-d democratic responsiveness.” (03/24/25)
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“One major challenge is that Zionists benefit from abusing Palestinians and exerting influence in western governments, and they also benefit from people opposing these things — because it can be used to feed their victim-LARPing ‘antisemitism’ narrative. This dynamic allows Israel to go all-out in committing mass atrocities and apartheid abuses while Zionist oligarchs like Miriam Adelson openly purchase western governments without having to worry about the damage it does to their public image, because any response to the damage it does to their public image can be reframed as ‘antisemitism’ and used to advance their interests even further by stomping out civil rights. People demonstrate against Israel’s genocidal atrocities? That’s antisemitism — those protesters need to be silenced, arrested, and deported. People object to blatant Zionist influence in their governments? Antisemitic conspiracy theories: we need more hate speech laws and internet censorship.” (03/23/25)
“It must have seemed like a huge week for the fossil fuel industry: as the Wall Street Journal put it yesterday (and you could sense the headline writer’s glee), ‘The fossil fuel industry gets its revenge on green activists. The oil-and-gas industry is landing blow after blow against climate activists. The Trump administration has cranked out approvals of major projects to ship liquefied natural gas from the Gulf Coast and killed a host of climate-related initiatives. Meanwhile, Texas billionaire Kelcy Warren has won a nearly $700 million verdict against Greenpeace that could spell the end of the group’s U.S. presence. Hell, the Trump administration is trying to resurrect coal, and in what’s doubtless considered a back-slapping prank around the West Wing it just named a fracking executive to run the Department of Energy’s renewables office.” (03/22/25)
“US President Donald Trump revoked security clearances from his previously defeated Democratic election rivals, Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton, as well as a number of other former officials and critics. Trump said in February he was revoking security clearance for his predecessor Joe Biden. His order confirmed that decision, adding that he was also revoking the security clearance of ‘any other member’ of the Biden family. ‘I have determined that it is no longer in the national interest for the following individuals to access classified information,’ Trump’s memorandum read. Former US presidents and top security officials usually keep their security clearance as a courtesy. … Trump’s revocations focus on top Biden administration officials, as well as prominent political critics and attorneys who have challenged Trump or his allies in court.” (03/22/25)
“Climate crusaders, those sanctimonious shepherds of the earth, are trading their pious protests for outright carnage as attacks against Tesla vehicles ripple across the country — an orgy of liberal cannibalism that’s as predictable as a vegan toting along his own tofu to a barbecue. But setting EVs on fire isn’t the only banner of hypocrisy unfurled lately by eco-warriors — whose extremist ideologies increasingly collide with the real world to reveal their ironic outcomes. This month, officials in the Brazilian city of Belém paved over tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest and wetland to build a four-lane, eight-mile-long highway necessary to accommodate the roughly 50,000 climate activists who will descend on the city in November for the UN’s COP30 climate summit.” (03/22/25)
“Orlando police have recovered two sets of earrings worth a combined $769,500 (£597,000) after an alleged thief swallowed them more than two weeks ago. Jaythan Gilder, 32, swallowed the Tiffany & Co. diamond earrings around the time he was taken into custody on 26 February, police said. Mr Gilder was monitored by detectives at an Orlando hospital for ‘more than a dozen days’ before the earrings were expelled from his system, according to the Orlando Police Department. … Police allege Mr Gilder posed as an assistant to an NBA player so he could be shown ‘very high-end jewellery’ in a VIP room at a Tiffany & Co. store in Orlando, Florida on 26 February. Mr Gilder allegedly distracted store employees, then ran from the store with two pairs of earrings. The suspect apparently also dropped a diamond ring valued at $587,000 as he fled the store.” (03/22/25)
