So I am a South African and I find myself in Manila in the Far East, so anything I write below is based on my experience of Internet in South Africa and comparing it to an Internet service provider in the Philippines called “Sun Cellular”.

Let me get right to the point. Under no circumstances unless you are desperate and have no choice use them as an Internet service provider.

Some tech info. I have 97% signal. I have nothing else running, the computer I am using is well setup and clean.

Here are my reasons:

1) The advertise speeds of up to 2000kbs. This is a marketing scam. What they mean is for about an hour a day you will get 200Kbs, then the rest of the time your connection is strangled at a constant (and I mean it hardly waivers unless it gets worse) 20Kbs. You might as well go dial-up.

2) Their service and web support is pretty much non-existent. They clearly got a bunch of kids together with crayons to build their website. They say if it looks cheap it probably is… in this case Sun Cellular both look and are cheap. Don’t expect to have a modern day support system, just a call desk full of people with no technical ability.

3) Don’t expect to play any games like World of Warcraft or DOTA. It seems the trained monkeys who work at Sun Cellular don’t know how to prioritize legitimate traffic. Let me put it this way, I pay more for my World of Warcraft subscription than I do for my Internet… so I am forking out a lot of money for this. Its legal LOW BANDWIDTH legitimate traffic. Playing World of Warcraft requires a constant stable stream of data (it’s a very tiny insignificant amount)… but Sun Cellular techies are unable to identify legitimate traffic from p2p traffic.

If you play WOW, expect your internet connection to drop around 50 times a night.

4) Your internet connect gets shaped, mangled and perverted in many ways. There is no routable IP address if you want to run services, there is no real quality of service.

5) Don’t expect to browse websites like YouTube, listen to streaming audio, or most things you would use an Internet connection for. Forget about it. Get another provider if you actually want to use the Internet for more than just browsing Facebook at slow speeds.

6) Don’t expect to be able to run VoIP services on Sun Cellular. A VoIP connection uses more bandwidth than my game of WoW… so you can imagine how terrible this important service runs on their network.

In my opinion there are only three types of Sun Cellular clients. Those that don’t know any better so continue to use them. Those that are desperate and have no other choice… and prostitutes. I say prostitutes because the only reason you would continue to use them as an Internet service provider is because you like being f##ked.

To the management at Sun Cellular. WAKE THE HECK UP! Even Africa provides better quality Internet than you do! Hire people with real experience and know how, and don’t over subscribe your network!

To everyone else. My suggestion is use a DSL provider like PLDT:
http://www.myworldmydsl.com/

Currently I am paying 799 pesos for “unlimited” (what they mean to say is “strangled and throttled to dial up speeds) Internet. When you get the bill at the end of the month there is also however an extra 200 peso (what I call) “mystery charge. So in all and all you are paying 1099 peso for a terrible connection.

Rather get PLDT Mydsl for 999 pesos (at a constant 512kbs).

If you are wondering where I got the time to write all of this, it’s pretty simple. Sun Cellular’s service is so terrible; I am unable to do anything else.

In 1994 the whole of South Africa voted for a new government, something to get away from the oppressive regime of the brutal Apartheid government. South Africans united against this inhumanity, and heroes were born.

The man who without a doubt is the most respected leader and polititian in the world is the great Nelson Mandela.

However, it appears that South Africa, with its population of just over 40 million souls… was only able to produce one good man. Nelson Mandela was able to prove the reasoning and actions behind Apartheid wrong.

Then along comes Thabo Mbeki.. at first the people of South Africa where happy. They believed that Thabo Mbeki would continue the healing and rebuilding legacy that Nelson had left behind and take South Africa and its new public image to new heights.

Our public image at the end of Mandela’s leadership was one of tolerance… a new nation of hope that pushed off the tyranny of fascism and embraced that of human rights, decency and understanding. A type of government never before seen on the African continent. A real and true roll model for the entire continent to follow.

Then along comes Thabo Mbeki. The greedy corrupt president of South Africa. He has basically being everything Nelson Mandela was not. He showed in his HIV/AIDS denialism that he is an easily led fool.

Under his leadership and denialism, the people of South Africa had to sue the government to get ARVs… and people died.

Under his leadership, South Africa used its vote to veto a call to help the Burmese people to escape their dictatorship and get basic human rights. Yes.. South Africa’s first vote on the UN security council is vote against the people of Burma and for their dictatorship. What a wanker.

We also have Thabo Mbeki to thank for corruption in big arms deals. For ham stringing South Africa’s education and health systems and for supporting and not punishing his corrupt officials.

Under Thabo Mbeki a climate of ultimate corruption… up to the top levels of our government has being allowed to spread. You all know the stories… if he is not supporting a crooked head of police, he is firing people for doing their jobs well.

None of us will forget him firing the Deputy Minister of Health, Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge for actually doing her job. For those of you who don’t remember her… she found out that one of our hospitals (The Frere Hospital in East London) was being so badly run .. that babies were dying left right and center simply because the staff at the Frere where too stupid, too uncompassionate, too corrupt and simply too evil. She tried to do something about this. She was fired by Mbeki.

Lets skip ahead to another chapter in Mbeki’s Satanic cookbook of success. One of Mbeki’s best boys.. our top policeman in the country… Selebi was found by our anti-corruption unit to be corrupt. There’s a surprise! What does Mbeki do to the person that uncovers the corruption? He fires the head of the unit.. Vusi Pikoli… unconstitutionally!!! (You will notice I use more exclamation marks as I get more upset)

So you would think the mayhem and evil from Thabo Mbeki would hopefully get ironed out with age. You would be wrong if you thought that. If anything, the evil of Mbeki’s legacy is spreading.

South Africa’s single greatest shame though (for me personally).. is how we have treated our neighbors. Thabo Mbeki has taken everything that the ANC and Nelson Mandela had built in its reputation, and then threw it out the window with his completely and unforgivable stupidity with how he has handled Robert Mugabe and the Zimbabwe situation.

Mbeki with help from his boyfriend Mugabe, has done more damage to the people of Zimbabwe and South Africa than Apartheid and the colonials ever did. Hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans have being slaughtered under the current ZANU-PF regime.

That’s almost one hundred fold more damage and death than the racist regimes of South Africa’s Apartheid and Smiths Rhodesian forces ever did. If anything, Mugabe and Mbeki have made people like Ian Smith and Verwoerd look like decent, compassionate and honest people.

Tens of thousands of people in Zimbabwe are right now… at this moment, being tortured, abused and murdered by Mugabe. What does Mbeki do? The single biggest thing he has done throughout his entire leadership. Fuck all.

To the people of the world.. I know South Africa has let you down, and I know right now we must look like a stinking pile of dog poo to the international community as our corrupt leaders throw human rights out the windows, turn away from decent honest allies and embrace the corrupt and deadly governments of China, Russia and the Middle East.

Most of our current leadership are a bunch of corrupt thieves who don’t care one bit for the people of South Africa and are completely dedicated to their own greed. The South African government has shamed the people of South Africa and the only thing we can ask the world, is to please forgive us.. while we learn to deal with the evil and corrupt.

In closing, I would like to say as a South African. Dont trust the South African government and certainly dont trust Thabo Mbeki... It is trust wasted.

In this post, I am responding to a rather disgusting piece of "journalism" that I read today in the Zimbabwe Herald (Mugabe`s state run newspaper). I have put all Timothy's passages in block quotes, and my responses follow each of his comments. The link to the original article can be found at the end of this post.

Zim ‘crisis’ removed from reality

By Timothy Kalyegira

AS I focus these days on the dark deception at the international level, we turn today to the most extreme example: Zimbabwe. I have followed world media reports extensively but there is something I have not once heard asked or discussed: Why is Zimbabwe, once one of Africa’s most promising countries, where it is today? Or more pointedly, why is Zimbabwe reported and portrayed to be where it is today?

Simply put, because of the greed and evil of Robert Mugabe and his ZANU-PF cronies. Those sick sick people have destroyed the lives of millions and in my honest and humble opinion, I believe that every single one of them should be shot.

Let us start off by readily agreeing that President Robert Mugabe is an authoritarian leader, a tendency for which he is, needless to say, not alone in Africa.

Hang on there Timothy, yes, Robert Mugabe is an authoritarian leaders... that tends to come with course when one is a kleptocrat totalitarian dictator who has massacred hundreds of thousands of his countries people. A little conservative with that description there would you not say?

Having said that, everything else simply does not add up. Let us look at various inflation rates. Iraq for 2007: 64,80 percent; Afghanistan for 2007: 16,30 percent, according to the CIA World Factbook. The DR Congo for 2006: 14,4 percent; another African country in chaos, Burundi for 2006: 11 percent.

Then, a Voice of America radio broadcast on April 1, 2008 said: "In Somalia, continuing insecurity, a surge in food and fuel prices, and uncontrolled printing of money have created runaway inflation that is threatening the lives of millions already suffering from 18 years of war and lawlessness." What, then, is Somalia’s runaway rate of inflation after "18 years of war and lawlessness"? "Over 100 percent", according to the website indexmundi.com.

We have taken a look at a cross-section of some of the world’s most unstable countries: Iraq, Somalia, Afghanistan, Burundi, the DR Congo and the figures for inflation we see are 14, 11, 64, 100 percent and so forth. Let us turn now to the world record holder, Zimbabwe. As of March 2008, the country’s inflation rate stood at 165 000 percent.

Zimbabwe has not had a single military coup since independence in 1980. No civil war, no war with any of its neighbours, no major drought or famine, no earthquake, no volcanic eruption and no floods caused by extreme rainfall, no locust invasion.

Furthermore, Zimbabwe has been ruled by a Zanu-PF Government from 1980-2008, by the same Prime Minister and later President Mugabe, pursuing the same economic policies, with the same management or mismanagement style.

I really hope there was a gun to your head when you wrote this... because you yourself point out the common factor for this devastation. As you rightly point out... countries like Somalia, Iraq and other war torn bloody parts of the world have lower inflation rates.

You do know what this means right? That Robert Mugabe and his evil country rapers have had a more devastating effect on Zimbabwe than white racism (Smith), war, famine, earth quakes, volcano's, floods, droughts and those locusts you mention.

This is a very very clear indication as to how terribly bad ZANU-PF has being to humanity.

Before the Mugabe Government started uprooting the white farmers in 2000, this Government kept inflation at 5 percent, 8 percent (or 11 percent in difficult years.) How, then, does a country with all the same factors and leaders from 1980 to 2000 suddenly (because the white commercial farmers have been uprooted) see inflation soar to world record levels in a space of just six years starting in 2000? And how is it that a stable Zimbabwe has an inflation rate 1 500 times higher than Somalia, a country without a government since 1991? Does any of this make sense?

Yes, complete sense. ZANU-PF totally destroyed the Zimbabwe economic base (white farmers who where working hard to supply themselves and the rest of the country) and plunged the country that was already suffering the tyranny of Robert Mugabe into a financial abyss. That what happens when you have syphilis infected leaders in command.

Away from abstract figures, the evidence before our ordinary eyes is even more puzzling. If you have watched news video footage on BBC TV, CNN, and other Western TV networks, without exception, you will no doubt have noticed that the streets of the capital Harare are far cleaner and better maintained than those in Kampala, even during the week that Uganda hosted the Commonwealth summit last November.

And this has what to do with the price of oranges? Clearly you must be more focused on clean street rather than basic human rights.

Have you seen any beggars on Harare’s streets? Have you taken the time to notice clean and well-painted Government buildings in Harare?

I notice that ZANU-PF and its ilk killed, rounded up, detained, harassed or attacked the beggars. That works I hear.. but then so did Apartheid. Both where really stupid ideas. This isnt a point at all Timothy.

During the recent presidential campaign rallies, you might have noticed that both the supporters of President Mugabe and the opposition were generally well-dressed, looked and acted cheerful. Nobody wore rags or went about barefooted.

Not from the footage I see. Oh wait, I live in South Africa, where we have this thing called "human rights", and we look after our people (and half of Zimbabwe who have fled here to escape the slaughter in Zimbabwe). From our perspective, all we saw where lots of really stressed unhappy people in long lines doing their best to get rid of the sickness of Zimbabwe (Robert Mugabe)

In 2003 and 2007, South Africa’s subscription TV channel M-Net sponsored the Big Brother Africa reality television show. In both competitions, Zimbabwe had representatives resident in Harare, Tapuwa Mhere in 2003 and Bertha Zakeyo in 2007. You saw them confident, relaxed girls, not thin beggarly girls who had not had proper meals in years.

Yay, so you have some people who are not starving. Dude, seriously.. this also it not a point. Quoting MultiChoice`s Big Brother as a source for trying to present a picture of a good Zimbabwe is really clutching at straws. You are desperate in your writing.

More importantly, for M-Net to still have an office in Zimbabwe where viewing is by paid-up subscription, presupposes that there are enough Zimbabweans with money to afford the luxury of pay TV, despite the 100 000+ inflation rate.

Yeah, and you can find them all in the local ZANU-PF offices. Must be interesting to be in that political party. You kill and torture innocents and get free DSTV!

With that kind of inflation, you don’t have the extra money for luxuries like DSTV.

Again, not unless you are part of the 1% ruling cast thats oppressing the other 99%. I mean, with South Africa`s inflation I cant afford that 10 million Rand (not zim dollars) yacht... but if you go to our harbours you will be able to see them. Even a four year old child can see you are pulling at straws now.

So how come, for all this obvious evidence, nobody has asked the simple question: is this Zimbabwe story real or an orchestrated series of events by the British and American governments and media to punish Mugabe for humiliating the white settlers in Zimbabwe? It leads us to ask the auxillary question: might all these supposedly impressive economic growth, dropping HIV infection, and inflation rates in Uganda under President Yoweri Museveni have, after all, been falsified, as have all the election results of 1996, 2001 and 2006?

You sir, are a sick and fked up racist. You and your scum will soon be removed, and I really hope, you and everyone involved with what you have done to the people of Zimbabwe are held accountable. Blame the whites... for fks sakes man.. cant you even be original?! Syphilis infected Robert Mugabe has being blaming the whites since he killed 200 000 matabele back in the day.

Im not really the violent kinda chap, but humanities gene pool will be much more cleaner after those in ZANU-PF and untruthful propagandists like you are removed.

Wanna know whats totally destroyed Zimbabwe? PEOPLE LIKE YOU. PEOPLE LIKE MUGABE. Disgusting evil corrupt thieves and country rapists EXACTLY like you. The single biggest problem to Africa is its kleptocrats. Greed mate... greed, greed, greed, and not giving a hoot about the value of a human life. No single raindrop believes it is guilty for the flood.

Why do we consistently read about impressive growth and achievement figures under Museveni’s rule, and yet most of us feel and know that we are well worse off today than 22 years ago?

To be honest, I know nothing about Uganda.. though after reading this I will go read, but by siding in the slightest with the ZANU-PF side and trying to make out the slaughter in Zimbabwe is somehow related to some kind of black vs white thing.. I find your writings sick, ill informed, naive, all round wrong and a mostly lies used to build a strawman argument. You are guilty of evil.

l Timothy Kalyegira is a columnist with the Daily Monitor paper of Uganda. He can be contacted on timothy_kalyegira@yahoo.com. This article is reproduced courtesy of African Executive.

Feel free to email this ass at the above email address. People like him are just plain sick :(

Original Article: http://www.herald.co.zw/inside.aspx?sectid=34128&cat=10

I was going to start this post off with a lot of cussing and anger, but after a cup of tea and a moment of reflection I have decided to go with just the anger.

My reasons why China is evil:

- It has amongst the worst cases of human rights abuses in the world
- Its citizens are kept in a state of political fear with political prison camps for anyone who may have an opposing view to the Chinese government
- Its population is HEAVILY censored
- We all know about Tibet
- We all know that the Burma situation is allowed to happen because of its Chinese support.
- We all know that the genocide in Sudan is only able to happen because of all the chinese sponsored weapons (being sold for oil... they make the Americans look like peaceful hippies)
- And now... Southern Africa is going to be experiencing another genocide (the last one took place when Robert Mugabe killed 200 000 matabele... and blamed the Apartheid white government... and the world lapped it up)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/18/wzim218.xml

Yup, another genocide is going to happen, and the thing that makes me so angry.. is the world is going to let is happen. Right now.. weapons are on their way to Robert Mugabe to help him kill more people. Right now the world knows (the people who need to know).. know that this is going to happen.. and once again.. as in Sudan, as in Burma, as in Tibet... the world are going to collectively sit on their fat bums and do nothing about it (except perhaps send a strong worded letter of dissatisfaction to the Chinese government).

Our governments are failing us. It seems all politics is corrupt and all the peoples of the world are suffering from this sickness of apathy. I honestly dont know how people can live with themselves by not acting on these horrors.

Just remember the next time you buy something that says, "Made in China". Know that is was built with blood and that you are guilty of supporting the worlds most evil country and the actions it commits... simply by purchasing a single product made in China. Though.. I doubt most of the people out there even care.

What makes this whole matter worse, is our wonderful ANC led government are supporting the sale of arms to Zimbabwe, and are not doing a single thing to hinder the process.

I am shamed many times over. I am ashamed to be a South African and for allowing so many Zimbabweans to die and I am ashamed to be a member of the human race. Even most of the "good" people in this world.. are evil.. as they allow evil to happen.

"Evil can only happen when good men stand by and do nothing".. and in the case of the rest of the world.. this is exactly what is happening.

I wish there was some army or something I could join to fight China, Zimbabwes ZANUPF and South Africa's corrupt ANC (I swear, you would think Mugabe and Mbeki are having sexual relations when you look at how far Mbeki is up Mugabe's ass).

Am I wrong to be so angry?

Why not to get a HP product.

I used to be a strong supporter of the HP brand... well at least until HP and Microsoft got into bed and had a child called Vista that really should have being aborted. I used to support HP products because they had reliable hardware, and decent support. I never thought a company could sink its reputation as quickly and efficiently as HP has done.

I ordered 2 HP Pavilion notebook / laptops. They had great hardware specs and they looked stunning, the only problem with them being that they came with Vista installed. For those of you who have not realized it. Vista is designed for really stupid people who like shiny things. Anyways.. back to HP. I think, "well no problem", when I get these laptops in I will purchase two copies of Windows XP professional SP2 and install that and a copy of Ubuntu onto my notebook.

The notebooks arrived and I get all excited. Yay! Two stunning pieces of hardware with decent specs... I will even be able to play the latest games I have, and I was really looking forward to using my notebook. I format the drives... navigate to the HP website... to the section that has the XP drivers for it... only to find... NO XP drivers!!! I nearly fell of my chair in surprise. HP is not supporting the worlds most popular desktop operating system (XP)... you cant be serious? The bastards!

The reason I dont want to install Vista is because its Windows XP in a fancy frock. Its a waste of time, resources and a disgusting insult to anyone with an IQ above that of a retarded rabbit. Even though this notebook had very decent specs (duel AMD, Nvidia chipset, 1GB of RAM)... it completely chokes with Vista Basic, and any hopes and dreams of me running any type of game were quickly being dashed against the rocks of corporate stupidity.

However, the story gets even sicker. I find out that while HP does not support XP for my laptop, they do have the drivers for XP for my hardware, but I only found that out after some digging through their other drivers and similar models. HP are trying to screw its customers into using Vista and that's the only reason why they did not put the drivers up on their website. Must be some great kick backs being paid to HP execs that they're willing to destroy their customers trust for profit.

So not only do you get shafted by Microsoft with a terrible product, but you also now get shafted by HP your hardware supplier because they are more interested in profit than quality or you.

So to all my readers... If you want to get a decent notebook that supports multiple operating systems and would likely meet all your entertainment and business needs... get an Acer. If you want to get a notebook that does not really do much and can only run one operating system.. get an Apple product. If you want a useless doorstop for your office... Get a HP notebook or a government official.

Lastly, if you are looking to download drivers from the HP website... set aside a couple of hours for extremely slow downloads for extremely bloated drivers.

So I woke up this morning to find a "take down" notice in my email inbox, and to be honestly surprised it did not come from Scientologists. It came from some other bottom feeders... Rich criminal defence lawyers that protect the big money of convicted criminals.

Basically these law firms are very happy to accept the blood money their clients make in exchange for their "services". In my mind evil can only happen when good men (and woman) stand by and do nothing and in the case of a law firm like Schillings Lawyers.... they not only do nothing, they for financial reward, attempt to stifle free speech and those critical of the criminals they defend.

In my case, Schillings Lawyers sent a threatening email to my hosts (The full PDF of what they sent me can be found here: http://newz.co.za/blood_money/stupid_legal_notice.pdf . I have hosted it off site so that my current host (The Planet) can not be held liable for it). However, that said, to quote the important bit:

"We understand that you host the website www.pickledbushman.com (“the
website”) and we write to you in that capacity.
We refer to a recent posting appearing on the Website entitled:
“Arsenal football club bought out with blood money” (“the Posting”). The Posting
reproduces an article originally written by Craig Murray. The Posting can be
found via the link:
http://www.pickledbushman.com/index.php/2007/09/27/arsenal_football_club_bought_out_with_bl
The posting is false, indefensible and grossly defamatory of our client. Our client
views this matter extremely seriously"

A quick point to Schillings Lawyers... "labling something as "private and confidential" does not make it so. I have entered into no such contract with your insidious law firm.

The post they are referring to is one in which I wrote about how Alisher Usmanov (a convicted criminal) purchased Arsenal Football Club with blood money he earned while he allegedly built his cartel on drug money, extortion and other illegal activities.

However, this post is not about how siff the guy is (that was the purpose of my last post), but rather the bottom feeders that crow around his money at your expense. If you would like to find out more information about Alisher Usmanov please read this article by Craig Murray (former ambassador) http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2007/09/alisher_usmanov.html .

The information Schillings Lawyers wanted me to remove was a copy of Craig Murray's post I had added at the end of my writing to give people more information about this shady character.

In response to that, I have had to remove the duplication of Craig Murrays article and have it now hosted in a country that is legally safe for it (and therefore out of the jurestriction of The Planet). I have included links back on the post back to the original article in its entirety.

When I used google to research what Schillings Lawyers have being up to... Google came back with a real lot of responses, and it seems that most bloggers that have reproduced that article by Craig have also being threatened by them.

Matt Warden, a prominent political blogger had this to say

"Schillings, a London Law firm, have closed down several prominent political blogs (case study on dealing with the “internet attacker“) by contacting their webhosts, on behalf the new part owner of Arsenal - Alisher Usmanov.

Mr Usmanov’s lawyers have also sent “cease and desist” type letters to a number of other blogs that dare to mention the fact that he has been criticised, including Arsenal Fan Blogs."

http://www.mattwardman.com/blog/2007/09/21/webhost-removes-bloggerheads-and-other-sites-after-legal-threats/

So it appears an all out attack on freedom of speech has being instigated by Alisher and law firm Schillings Lawyers.

It seems that its not only bloggers who are the victims of Schillings Lawyers. It appears that they attempted to take on one of the most important sites on the Internet today, Wikileaks.org. Wikileaks.org is a website dedicated to getting the truth out. For the leaking of important sensitive documents that almost always incriminate those in positions of power.

An article linked to wikileaks.org has this to say about Schillings:

"Have WikileakS.org successfully faced down the notorious legal firm of London based minor celebrity media spin lawyers Schillings, whose attempts to censor UK political blogs backfired so spectacularly over their rich client Alisher Usmanov''s criminal past ?

They were threatening WikiLeakS.org on behalf of the discredited Northern Rock plc, who managed to have the first run on a bank in the UK in over 140 years, and who, together with the inept handling of the crisis by the Labour government, are costing the UK taxpayer billions of pounds."

Original link

As you can see, Schillings Lawyers appears to be on the rampage in their attempts to silence people critical of their criminal clients. I just had a thought about this. From what I can see based on this information at my disposal... Schillings Lawyers clients that have being mentioned in the news and information I have seen... all appear to be very shady and illegal characters or companies that hide behind their blood money and lawyers. I wonder who the rest of Schillings Lawyers customers are, and I have to wonder if all of them are just as guilty of similar or worse crimes than the ones we know of their clients whos crimes we do know.

To me, if someone had to mention to me that they were represented by Schilling Lawyers the first few thoughts would be, "criminal, lots of blood money, dangerous". As you can see in the original legal PDF document sent to me the names of the partners at this infamous law are:

Rachel Atkins
Gideon Benaim
Rob Christie-Miller
John Kelly
Keith Schilling
Simon Smith

I am writing down those names so that history can remember them for the kind of people they are. They are the architects behind Schillings Lawyers and in my mind... are just as guilty as their clients.

There's an old saying, "No single raindrop believes it is guilty for the flood" Nowhere is this more evident than here.

Ive said what I have wanted to say about Schillings Lawyers and their siff tactics and I would suggest that everyone out there watch what this law firm and what their clients are up to, because they are the smoke that indicates that there is a fire.

On a personal note to Schillings Lawyers... should you send a take down notice to me about this post I will be shutting down my hosting account with The Planet, and I will be moving it to South African hosting which will be completely beyond your control. I will also make sure that all information about what you try do to this site and others is well documented for future generations to see.

More reading:
http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2474&Itemid=81
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Murray
http://www.mattwardman.com/blog/2007/09/21/webhost-removes-bloggerheads-and-other-sites-after-legal-threats/
http://www.tom-watson.co.uk/?p=1467

Claudette Perry from the Global Afrikan Congress (some black elitist group trying to make political gain and money of racial issues... and they spelt Africa with a "k") on SAFM just before 3pm on the 25th of December informing the people of South Africa that Africans can only be black. That means all the white Africans, colored Africans, eastern Africans and any other African with a different color pigmented skin to her own... cant be African by her definition. She was very clear about this point and even informed some old African (white) lady who phoned in... that she was not African but rather european.

Claudette Perry would make the German Nazi`s with their ethnic profiling so proud. Claudette, generally... around the world.. its accepted that if you are from Africa... you are African, or if you want to be African... you are African. Someone from America is not considered Native American... but they're considered to be someone who is from... America! Australians are Australian, South Americans from South America and so on. Its a freekin regional title you silly dumbat... its not a skin color.

If you want to use that stupid definition of Claudette's that only people with great ancestory from Africa are Africans... well there's kinda a technical fluff up with that. Africa is the cradle of humanity, if were going way way back... why just stop where she wants it to stop... why not go further back and include the rest of humanity? The reason why would not use her mind does not go that far back in her reasoning is because she is a black elitist. No different from her white counterparts in the Klan. They see the data and the facts as they want to see them and try create their own little segregated elitist realities and groups to make themselves feel more special. Basically it sounds like she wants Apartheid.

Then Claudette goes on this whole shcpeel about how "Africans" must be "African", and how all culture in the world are being "europeanised" (she uses the word "europeanised in a very derogatory way"). I don't know if Claudette knows how society works. It changes... therefore it evolves therefore it is subject to one of the mechanics of evolution.. that being natural selection.

Europeans came up with the concept of the car... it was a good idea, so therefore Africans (and the rest of the world) adopted the concept, it sure as heck beats walking. We take what is best from every culture and ethnic group which is why we have things like biltong, sushi, the Internet and ubuntu. From the sound of things she wants some type of anti white society... what.. you want all black people to go back to mud huts and tribalism? Should they not so as they are doing at the moment? choose whats best for them? Rather than have someone like Claudette telling them how they should be?

Then Claudette played the Apartheid and Slavery card. She clearly doesn't know how over played the Apartheid card is now and I kinda think her point on slavery is stupid. Let me explain my reasoning on that point. If she is going to play the slavery card, can I not play it as well? Cant most of Europe use the same line any time they deal with the Italians (Roman slavery)? If you use the Bible as a reference you will see Egyptians (Africans) had slaves way back.

Going back to that social evolution thing I was talking about earlier, it has has being ALL of humanities sin in the past to enslave those weaker than themselves. This is prevalent through ALL histories (except perhaps the Aborigines and the Khoi San.. I am not too sure about them).

Over time humanity has evolved mostly for the better. We decided the wheel was a good idea, we decided that slavery was a bad idea, we think the Internet rocks, we think human rights are a good idea (mostly), and were still working on the whole war part of things... but I am sure we will get there. People are people Claudette, no matter where they come from... they're all capable of the greatest acts of compassion and the most terrible acts of evil.

You gotta love Claudette`s comment on SABC broadcasting, she basically said its all european (white rubbish), she mentioned things like the song, "Silent Nights" and other Christmas carols. What a tosser she is... seriously. Why was she looking at the european TV in the first place? Using Claudette's logic the problem is easy to solve. No european TV, no European carols. Voila! Once again she wants to cherry pic whats considered, "european".

However, the rest of us Africans are going to continue evolving and hopefully for the better while Claudette and her racist buddies can go build their own little racist separatist state next to Oranje. To Claudette and anyone else who reads this... I am African. I was born and bred in Africa and I am going to die an African, and if you are going to tell me I am not African, I am going to call you a liar.

Claudette, if you really want to do something for Africa get your ass into Zimbabwe and help Africans who really need help. Don't stop there there's Sudan that's also in a right mess. Why are you spending so much of your energy trying to segregate society instead of actually getting down to where its at its worst and trying to heal from the ground up? Why? Because you are a hypocrite. Too much work and not enough money for you.

I woke up this morning to the headline, "Gareth accused of blasphemy", and I just shook my head and thought... poor Gareth. Gareth is on the receiving end of South Africa`s rather large dumb club. At first I thought that news report was going to deal with Gareth's reading of "The 9 Most Badass Bible Verses" that he did the other morning on 5FM. What I thought was so ironical about that show is that he was simply quoting from the Bible... and still the freaks in our society got upset about it... but more on that later. Here is one of the Biblical phrases that Gareth read out on air:

That show instantly mobilized all the Christians with no clue and within hours petitions were running around the Internet calling for him to be pulled off the air. Clearly those Christians think that their God is pretty useless and if offended by what Gareth had to say needed these plebeians to run around the Internet for it, because they seem to think that God is too weak to do anything about it himself. Seriously people.. what ARE you thinking?

Here's a perfect example of one of the many simpletons on the Internet. Her name is Gerda and she clearly thinks that praying does not help, so what she did was go and write a HelloPeter complaint about what Gareth had said on air. Does Gerda seem to think that HelloPeter is more powerful than a prayer to her God?

If you look at that first link I posted to the News24 story you will notice the Hitler Youth in our society had this to say about Gareth;

June Jousten,"What really gets to me, is that this seems to happen on a daily basis and that the South African Broadcasting Association does little to zero about it."

June... you are a hypocrite straight out of the starting block. The SABC regularly uses our tax money on Sunday morning SAFM shows to broadcast, "Songs of Praise" to everyone. Whether they want to listen to it or not. There are a lot of people (a real lot of people) out there who really don't wanna listen to that and I am sure more than a few are offended by it. However, we tolerate it. Now Gareth clearly has an opinion that differs to yours and just like you, Gareth is allowed to view his opinion and his beliefs. Tolerance is a two way street, but you only seem to get upset when its not going in your direction.

Tell you what, we can make a deal with you June. Remove all the religious propaganda that is on public radio and we will then promise not make comments on it, but as long as you are shoving religious dogma and your point of view down other peoples necks, expect there to be a balance of opinion.

The next comment was by someone called Gerda-Mari Povey who had this to say about Gareth, "You know what, Gareth, I love your show, but this morning u shocked me!!!! just wanted to say, God is not petty!!!!!

"I pray that something drastic will happen in your life, that will allow you to experience the loving kindness and mercy of God..."

"As a Christian, I really felt offended," she told News24. "He (Gareth) should have more respect for people's religion. He has offended many of his listeners."

"What if my children had heard his comments. It was very irresponsible of him. I'm normally the kind of person who just keeps quiet, but this time it was just too much."

Gerda, you are clearly the person who made the Hellopeter post and clearly confused. You ask what had would have happened if your kids had heard it? What about my kids having to listen to the religious rubbish spewed out on TV and radio waves? You are wanting to brainwash my kids into believing in your fairytale but are not happy if there is an opposing point of view. Since your God clearly didn't give a poo when you prayed to him you then took it a step further and asked called for Gareth to be pulled of the air. Have you ever heard the saying, "Ban a book today burn a person tomorrow"? Just because you don't like hearing something does not give you any permission to have it removed from the air.

South Africans... and I suppose other dumb people around the world have this weird Hitler fetish to want to ban anything they don't like listening to. They seem to think that they can instill their fascism onto you. Free speech doesn't work like that Gerda. The most important type of free speech to allow is that that you hate hearing the most. Take that pious carrot out of your ass Gerda and allow people to have different points of view to your own, because despite what you may think.. you don't know everything and your are NOT always right. The world is made up of many different people with many different points of view and if you had your neo-nazi way, you would like everyone to think and believe what you do.

People like you disgust me. You are the poster child for a lot of whats wrong in the world. If you don't like what Gareth is saying.. DONT LISTEN. Change the station or switch it off. There's no need to go instill your religious fanaticism on other people. Its like if you don't like what I am writing. DONT READ IT. Yeah.. a little self moderation will get you very far.

I totally agree with Gareth's comment;

"If God is great, why would he be so easily offended by what a mortal man says? If God has such an ego, then he must be petty."

Gerda and June.. if God has a problem with what Gareth said do you not think he is big enough to deal with it himself? Do you really think he is so weak that he needs people like you running around doing his chores for him? Do you understand the term "omnipotence"?

Its no wonder South Africa is in the mess it is with people like this running around. I am sure God would rather want Gerda and June to be out amongst the poorest of the poor.. trying to uplift people and ease their suffering.. instead.. they're think they have being given Gods baton to beat anyone into submission who has a different point of view. Gerda.. instead of starting useless petitions to stifle free speech and to take away basic human rights from people, why don't you go down to your local squatter camp and feed a starving poor kid? Oh wait.. its easier to sit on your ass, to pretend you know what God wants, and to start useless petition emails.

The nice thing about this is that people who wanna tell you what to think and say like Gerda... are in a minority. In a recent poll on one of South Africa`s most popular websites, over 88% of people thought that what Gareth had said was acceptable. That at least is a heartening sign that the sickness of censorship is not as wide spread as it used to be.

UPDATE:

This spam dropped into my inbox and for once it was not a Nigerian harvesting email address`s but something rather worse.

Hi everyone,

Can we please draw up a petition that Gareth Cliff publicly apologises for
offending listeners or resigns failing that we will stop supporting 5fm
and stop listening to the show completely.

If we managed to get the "Satanism promoter" to leave Rapport I am sure we
can get the desired effect with Gareth Cliff

Please put your name at the bottom of this e-mail and forward every 100
names to tanyal@firsttech.co.za

I will be sending all the names of all the listeners that feel the same to
Broad Casting Complaints SA

I attach my response to the reply he sent to Gerda-Mari Povey.

Let's show Gareth how "petty" God's people can be.

So feel free either to voice your support, or email your annoyance to that bolded email address.

A member of the MyAdsl forum has mentioned that you can use this as a template.

Dear Tanya,

Today I received an email petition, apparently co-ordinated by yourself, in an attempt to remove Gareth Cliff from the air because he has different beliefs to you.

I'm extremely concerned about people like yourself - you're clearly part of that increasingly vocal and beligerent minority of fundamentalists, predominantly Christians, in South Africa who have recenly co-ordinated a number of attempts to silence voices that do not conform to your world view.

Please understand that we live in an open, democratic society that enshrines in its constitution the right to freedom of religion and freedom of expression. Historically, one of the first steps in a fascist state has always been to destroy voices of dissent. As soon as open discourse in a society is disallowed, the fundamental foundation of all personal freedoms is undermined. Also understand that the very constitution that enables people like Gareth Cliff to openly say what he believes is the same constitution that allows you to gather in fellowship with your Christian bretheren every Sunday.

In a multicultural society, all walks of life should be able to practise their own beliefs and voice thier own opinions. You may disagree with them, but frankly, as long as they're not inflicting harm on others, it's not up to you or anybody else to dictate how they live their lives. Please desist from your public bullying of those whom you deem unsavoury.

Have a lovely evening, I know I will - I'm off to watch The Golden Compass.

Regards

Carl

Please feel free to email this on to all your friends ask them to let Tanya know what they all feel.

Something pretty interesting is happening on the Internet at the moment. Once again its ability to spread information is allowing free speech to survive as it should. The current set of events that brought this particular post on is about the infamous Alisher Usmanov becoming to controlling owner of the Arsenal football club. The problem here is the guy himself, Alisher Usmanov, who by all accounts is a pretty nasty piece of work.

Former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray (we will get back to more on Craig later) describes Alisher Usmanov in his blog (original post follows at the end oft his article) as, "Alisher Usmanov, potential Arsenal chairman, is a Vicious Thug, Criminal, Racketeer, Heroin Trafficker and Accused Rapist". Enough said.

Alisher Usmanov is one of those nasty oligarch's who exploited the communist ideals and the people of the USSR for his own greed, and he certainly has not slacked off with his criminal activities with the fall of communism. Today he is the 187th richest man and runs a major corporation called Metalloinvest, he still traffics in heroin and human misery. Forbes magazine estimates his value to be around US$5.5 Billion.. almost all of it blood money.

Now back to Craig Murray... this bloke spent a lot of time in Uzbekistan and got to know Alisher Usmanov very well. In fact, he wrote a book about Alisher Umanov called, "Murder in Samarkand" in which he writes about Alisher`s criminal activities. The book has so far sold 25,000 copies and while Alisher Umanov's lawyers have claimed the book is, "grossly libellous and defamatory"... and has being out for over a year... no legal action has being brought against Craig Murray yet.

Moving onto present day events, Craig Murray recently wrote a scathing article about what he considered as blood money buying out a famous English football club like Arsenal. However Alisher Usmanov is not without resources and he contact a law firm by the name of Schillings to serve David Murrays host company with a take down notice, threatening the host of David Murrays website if they did not.

David Murray had being hosting his blog website the the host company 'FastHost'. They received the legal threat from Schillings and took his website offline. Another political blogger by the name of Tim Ireland, and author of bloggerheads.com responded to this take down by re-posting David Murrays article on his blog. The host of his website was also Fasthost. They also took down his website. So now the blogosphere is responding and blog writers around the world are re-posting David Murrays original article. In the great words of, 'The Mentor', "you may be able to stop one of us, but you can not stop us all!"

If you have a blog out there, join us and get the word out on how English football is being sold to criminal cartel leaders. Show that trying to take on free speech and the blogosphere is like trying to nail Jelly to a wall. As an Arsenal supporter I would be very worried. If your club represents you, and your club is owned by such a disgusting individual... what does that say about you? Which criminal is going to purchase the next club? How long until Robert Mugabe buys out a club like West Ham United? How can supporters of the great game allow their game to be bought out with money that was earned on the deaths and misery of others? Is there a line?

To end this off I would also like to suggest to anyone hosting with the company Fasthost to cancel their hosting accounts and move to hosts who are more trustworthy.

Find out more:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/25/murray_usmanov_defiant/
http://b-heads.blogspot.com/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/24/usmanov_vs_the_internet/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alisher_Usmanov
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/09/380565.html

IMPORTANT NOTICE.

Due to a take down notice sent by Schillings Lawyers to my hosting provider I have had to remove the information I had here. Legal notice can be found here: http://newz.co.za/blood_money/stupid_legal_notice.pdf

However, the only reason I am doing this is because "The Planet" My host, tends to just switch off servers without any real legal reasons to save their own bacon. So I am REPRODUCING my original article at this location: http://www.newz.co.za/blood_money/blood_money.html

Which is hosted in South Africa and is not under The Planet's control

Its not often I am a supporter of assassination as a method to deal with a problem, but the actions of the South African Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang have put her up there with disgusting people like Robert Mugabe and Dr. Josef Mengele.

Manto is without a doubt the most dumb and openly corrupt health minister South Africa has ever had, (and if you know anything about our history you will realize this is a pretty tall order to achieve). In the past her actions have hampered the efforts of the compassionate and thinking world to get treatment to people suffering from HIV/AIDS, but the world quickly realized she was an agenda pushing alcoholic that had sold herself out to the vitamin companies. Manto completely threw any international credibility she had out the window at a recent HIV/AIDS conference when she suggested the use of the African potato and beetroot on suffering patients instead of anti-retroviral drugs. I will pause a moment for the reader of this article to get over their hysterical laughter. Pause. (1)

Since almost no one believed her information dishonesty and thanks to intervention from the Constitutional Court forcing Manto to hand out anti-retrovirals, this lie from her, hopefully, did not lead to too many more deaths. I wrote about this woman's stupidity in the way she dealt with the HIV/AID’s problem a couple of months back so right now I want to move forward and talk about a recent issue that would make Dr Josef Mengele proud.

The Frere Hospital in East London in the Eastern Cape has come under a lot of fire recently thanks to an exposé by the East London newspaper, the Daily Dispatch, (2) showing the dreadful conditions of the hospital and exposing the high infant death rate. How to our health minister and president respond? The normal thing any tyrannical leadership would do! Mbeki and Manto attack the Dispatch for exposing the story and then whitewash the results to pretend that everything is okay. So basically, Manto is allowing young children to die for her own popularity and our President's denialistic approach to everything. These actions by Manto are so sick and decrepit that this single act escalates her into category of, "People I would like to shoot if it was legal"

I can just imagine Mengele looking up from hell with big doe like eyes saying the words, "You make me so proud" to Manto. It’s at this point in this article that I have to use a lot of restraint from breaking out into endless sentences of profanity and resisting the urge to go out an purchase a firearm. I have major issues with baby killers.

A couple of you might wish to explain that all this information is second hand knowledge and the Daily Dispatch may have got the facts wrongs, so I thought I would recount my last personal experience with the Frere Hospital. A friend of mine, Joeleen, gave birth in that hospital a year or two back and I made sure I was there to assist her in any way I could. I remember arriving and working my way through the packed throng of human misery and on my way up to the ward in which Joeleen resided. I remember arriving in her ward and being shocked by the conditions.

Her hospital gown and bed were soaked in blood, not a single nurse or doctor was around to assist. In a bit of a panic I ran around the hospital trying to find a doctor or nurse to help her, but the time was “lunch time” and the staff were clearly not interested in helping my friend. I tried to get the required items to help clean her up but the nurses would not even give me a roll of toilet paper, so I jumped in my car, drove to the chemist and purchased all the items that she would need for both her and her baby that was to be born shortly.

Joeleen is now the proud mother of a very healthy son, and I can honestly say that it is due to sheer human endurance and not the “sanitary” conditions provided by the Frere hospital. If anything they could have contributed more towards the possible death of the infant than to the survival.

Manto is an alcoholic, as we have stated before, and her recent drinking binge (3) put her in hospital for a liver replacement (must be so great to drink through at many livers as your want because you are the minister of health). When Manto goes to hospital she only uses private hospitals (Why not use a public hospital if you believe in the system Manto?) and she was constantly requesting alcohol be brought to her hospital bed.

A wonderfully intelligent woman who was the then deputy minister of health, Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge was given the reigns (while a liver was being wasted on Manto) of the Health Department.

Nozizwe made the fatal mistake of actually trying to do the right thing… something Mbeki appears unable to tolerate. She believed that the Health Department needed to take a scientific approach to dealing with health issues and even used her intuition to make an unannounced trip to the Frere Hospital to see for herself the conditions in the hospital. Her report slammed the Frere Hospital for their gross misconduct as the conditions she found there were unacceptable. (4)

Her reward for this was to be fired by Mbeki for not towing the government line of denial. Her crime according to Mbeki was that she was a politician and she should not have attended a HIV/AIDS conference with only 'technocrats and scientists'. Gosh... Mbeki is an idiot.

I hope this event has woken up many South Africans who thought there was any good coming from Mbeki and Manto as it is pretty clear there is none. Manto, our lying potato pushing alcoholic is allowing babies to die for her own popularity and Mbeki who appears to have his head so far up Mugabe`s ass is allowing this to happen. Mbeki, Manto, Mugabe and Mengele not only share the letter M in their names, but also are cut from the same cloth when it comes to human right’s abuses!

Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, I salute you for your dedication towards the interests of the people of my country. History will judge you kindly and the people of this country will not forget what you tried to do for us. As for Manto and Mbeki... well I am sure you and Mengele will have a lot to chat about after you die. History will remember your crimes against the people of our country for your own greed.

1 - http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/topstories.aspx?ID=BD4A249459
2 - http://www.dispatch.co.za/2007/07/31/Leader/lp1.html
3 - http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=539071
4 - http://www.thestar.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=3978278