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  1. http://www.politicallyincorrect.me.uk/mortgage.htm The above link might be of interest. An economist points out   the link between  our current credit crisis and political correctness.
  2. fully paid for eh?  As opposed to .................. Tony F Dordogne (24) Huguenot Trails By the way Tony what do you know about Mathematics , Statistics , Probability and Risk Management. No mortgage and in good condition too. I visit France at least every six to eight weeks. Want to know more about my connection with France ? Relevance of Tom Adkins article to Topic on G word is Political Correctness and the stupidity of being PC. .
  3. I own a fully paid for house in France and have done for 3 years.
  4. Thanks. Mozilla Firefox was picking up http://   twice so I removed the http://   since most browsers will find the page automatically.
  5. www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/20081109_White_guilt__Done__over__history.html Link to White Guilt Article. Also email address of  Tom Adkins: E-mail Tom Adkins at [email protected]. I am fairly confident  Tom Adkins would gladly give consent on publication of his article which appeared in the Philly Inquirer in USA Why can conservative views not be  promoted ? Behaving like the thought police because something not to your liking ?
  6. I am not trying to get anything across but simple honest and descent standards in our society. Unfortunately the majority of honest, decent, law abiding persons from all races and religions do not get a proper voice and minorities exploit liberal laws , liberal attitudes and political correctness to the extent that they are heard. most, because they hijack the media. Basically we all have the same hopes , desires and fears in our everyday lives unless unbalanced in  some way. Globally Western Society is in a minority when it comes to population numbers and if other Societies and Religions do not share similar values we are all heading for conflict without question. Liberal values in Society will lead to there being no proper disciplines and structures and ultimately conflict when there are no common views which are shared.
  7. [quote user="kizzy"]I've considered it and it's rubbish. Tom Adkins sound like one bitter man. [/quote] Tom Atkins is not a bitter man he has a conservative outlook on life and expects persons of all races to get on with their lives and behave responsibly and not to use their race as a crutch because of political correctness ,liberal legislation and liberal attitudes in western society.
  8. You should all consider this article. WHITE GUILT IS DEAD    Tom Adkins is the publisher of CommonConservative.com The article  has been  deleted due to copywrite regulations  
  9. I must be missing something,  but it really puzzles me in this whole debate concerning Human Rights and Islam. Why is it that there are no suicide bombers in western societies with Christian backgrounds going to Moslem Countries and causing mayhem and devastation as Moslems are doing in the west. Oh I know, we have extreme right wing factions living within western societies who are capable and  cause mayhem and devastation, however by and large western societies are tolerant and have a fair legal system with equal rights for all.   Moslems however continue to want to live within western societies but want to bring their ways with them.  I say  , when in Rome do as the Romans do. 
  10. The Pound has depreciated significantly as against most other currencies recently including the Euro and Dollar and this has only happened because Gordon Brown and his ilk have been printing money as they do in Africa on a massive scale.Foolishly issuing Sterling Bonds where there is no demand in the Financial Markets. This means that the UK economy is not being seen as a good bet long term.
  11. Tony Suggest your download and read the following and maybe you will get your dates correct. Note this book was published in 1854 and is full of information concerning the Huguenots or French Pretestant Refugees and particulary Chapter 5 concerning South Africa. History of the French Protestant Refugees, from the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes to Our Own Days: From the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes to Our Own DaysBy Charles Weiss, Henry William HerbertTranslated by Henry William HerbertPublished by Stringer & Townsend, 1854Item notes: v.2Original from Harvard UniversityDigitized May 19, 2006595 pages
  12. Tony I do not agree with your account of the facts original documents and all ,your dates are simply not correct. Read a brief synopsis of how the Cape was settled also some critical dates. Early Days in the Cape Although the Portuguese basked in the nautical achievement of successfully navigating the cape, they showed little interest in colonization. Its fierce weather and rocky shoreline posed a threat to their ships, and many of their attempts to trade with the local Khoikhoi ended in conflict. The Mozambican coast was more attractive, with appealing bays to use as waystations, prawns, and links with gold ore in the interior. The Portuguese had little competition in the region until the late 16th century, when the English and Dutch began to challenge them along their trade routes. Traffic around the continent's southern tip increased, and the cape became a regular stopover for scurvy-ridden crews. In 1647, a Dutch vessel was wrecked in what is now Cape Town's Table Bay. The marooned crew, the first Europeans to attempt settlement in the area, built a fort and stayed for a year until they were rescued. Shortly thereafter, the Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, or VOC) decided to establish a permanent settlement. The VOC, one of the major European trading houses sailing the spice route to the East, had no intent of colonizing the area, but only wanted to establish a secure base camp where passing ships could shelter, and where hungry sailors could stock up on fresh supplies of meat, fruit, and vegetables. To this end, a small VOC expedition under the command of Jan van Riebeeck reached Table Bay on April 6, 1652. While the new settlement traded out of necessity with the neighbouring Khoikhoi, the relationship could hardly be described as friendly, and there were deliberate attempts to restrict contact. Partly as a consequence, VOC employees found themselves faced with a labour shortage. To remedy this, they released a small number of Dutch from their contracts and permitted them to establish farms, with which they would supply the VOC settlement from their harvests. This arrangement proved highly successful, producing abundant supplies of fruit, vegetables, wheat, and wine; they later raised livestock. The small initial group of free burghers, as these farmers were known, steadily increased and began to expand their farms further north and east into the territory of the Khoikhoi. he majority of burghers were of Dutch descent and were members of the Calvinist Reformed Church of the Netherlands, but there were also numerous Germans. In 1688 the Dutch and the Germans were joined by the French Huguenots, also Calvinists, who were fleeing religious persecution under King Louis XIV. As the 18th century drew to a close, Dutch mercantile power began to fade, and the British moved in to fill the vacuum. They seized the Cape to prevent it from falling into rival French hands, then briefly relinquished it back to the Dutch, before finally garnering recognition of their sovereignty of the area in 1814. Post edited by a moderator.  Wikipedia copyright details  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights state that a direct link back to the original article should be included with any reproduced Wikipedia articles. This links to the original article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_South_Africa_(1652%E2%80%931815)
  13. We had quite a few black clients  I worked for Deloitte Touche one of the largest accounting and consulting firms in the world. Also  when I was in industry where we employed over 1500 people largely black,  they all had bank  or savings accounts. It  is common sense that banks  have neverever been selective  in financial matters in South Africa nor has large private business. In fact, Anglo American,  Barlows to name a few,  had very progressive and generous employment policies, especially for the blacks. The UK banking sector even now does not offer next day clearance of cheques. South Africa with all its problems has  since the mid 1970's  offered next day clearance of cheques and still does today. You are making excuses, like our current government in the UK,  for incompetence and mismangement,  & in the case of SA this level of incompetance & criminality never existed before, nor would the previous SA gov't have accepted it. Quillan- B&B must be quiet at present, but I have better things to do- so totsiens! CJR ps I am not married to a 2-3 generation SAfrican, rather I trace my ancestry on both sides to the late 18th century.
  14. The comments below of a Journalist are self evident of what is what is happening on the ground right now in South Africa.. I do not accept  any of your interpretations on Africa , you clearly have your head in the sand. At one stage you lived in the country and have a superficial knowledge about South Africa and Africa in general. In just 14 years the South African economy is being destroyed not by the whites but by the blacks running the economy of South Africa. They inherited a vibrant and strong economy and it has only taken 14 years to ruin this. Not unusual in Africa. You can not blame the whites for what is clearly a combination of greed , corruption  and incompetence. I still have family in South Africa and my brother is a Company Director with a  South African and Australian company in  the Mining Industry. South Africa used to lead the world in the mining industry, however because of the uncertainties, corruption  and violence in the country most of the leading academics have left. A friend of ours a retired professor in Economic History from the University of Watersrand  ( An Oxford University Academic) regulary writes to us about what is going on in South Africa. His views are entirely objective  and  based on academic research  on the South African Economy. Quote from the Sunday Herald - A liberal South African Paper Wounded Nation 9 February 2008 The lights are literally and figuratively going out all over South Africa as crime, corruption and mismanagement push the rainbow country towards becoming another failed African state. By Fred Bridgland in Johannesburg 11:50pm Saturday 9th February 2008 AFTER bathing in the warm, fuzzy glow of the Mandela years, South Africans today are deeply demoralised people. The lights are going out in homes, mines, factories and shopping malls as the national power authority, Eskom - suffering from mismanagement, lack of foresight, a failure to maintain power stations and a flight of skilled engineers to other countries - implements rolling power cuts that plunge towns and cities into daily chaos. Major industrial projects are on hold. The only healthy enterprise now worth being involved in is the sale of small diesel generators to powerless households but even this business has run out of supplies and spare parts from China. The currency, the rand, has entered freefall. Crime, much of it gratuitously violent, is rampant, and the national police chief faces trial for corruption and defeating the ends of justice as a result of his alleged deals with a local mafia kingpin and dealer in hard drugs. Newly elected African National Congress (ANC) leader Jacob Zuma, the state president-in-waiting, narrowly escaped being jailed for raping an HIV-positive woman last year, and faces trial later this year for soliciting and accepting bribes in connection with South Africa's shady multi-billion-pound arms deal with British, German and French weapons manufacturers. One local newspaper columnist suggests that Zuma has done for South Africa's international image what Borat has done for Kazakhstan. ANC leaders in 2008 still speak in the spiritually dead jargon they learned in exile in pre-1989 Moscow, East Berlin and Sofia while promiscuously embracing capitalist icons - Mercedes 4x4s, Hugo Boss suits, Bruno Magli shoes and Louis Vuitton bags which they swing, packed with money passed to them under countless tables - as they wing their way to their houses in the south of France. It all adds up to a hydra-headed crisis of huge proportions - a perfect storm as the Rainbow Nation slides off the end of the rainbow and descends in the direction of the massed ranks of failed African states. Eskom has warned foreign investors with millions to sink into big industrial and mining projects: we don't want you here until at least 2013, when new power stations will be built. In the first month of this year, the rand fell 12% against the world's major currencies and foreign investors sold off more than £600 million worth of South African stocks, the biggest sell-off for more than seven years. "There will be further outflows this month, because there won't be any news that will convince investors the local growth picture is going to change for the better," said Rudi van der Merwe, a fund manager at South Africa's Standard Bank. Commenting on the massive power cuts, Trevor Gaunt, professor of electrical engineering at the University of Cape Town, who warned the government eight years ago of the impending crisis, said: "The damage is huge, and now South Africa looks just like the rest of Africa. Maybe it will take 20 years to recover." The power cuts have hit the country's platinum, gold, manganese and high-quality export coal mines particularly hard, with no production on some days and only 40% to 60% on others. "The shutdown of the mining industry is an extraordinary, unprecedented event," said Anton Eberhard, a leading energy expert and professor of business studies at the University of Cape Town. "That's a powerful message, massively damaging to South Africa's reputation for new investment. Our country was built on the mines." To examine how the country, widely hailed as Africa's last best chance, arrived at this parlous state, the particular troubles engulfing the Scorpions (the popular name of the National Prosecuting Authority) offers a useful starting point. The elite unit, modelled on America's FBI and operating in close co-operation with Britain's Serious Fraud Office (SFO), is one of the big successes of post-apartheid South Africa. An independent institution, separate from the slipshod South African Police Service, the Scorpions enjoy massive public support. The unit's edict is to focus on people "who commit and profit from organised crime", and it has been hugely successful in carrying out its mandate. It has pursued and pinned down thousands of high-profile and complex networks of national and international corporate and public fraudsters. Drug kingpins, smugglers and racketeers have felt the Scorpions' sting. A major gang that smuggle platinum, South Africa's biggest foreign exchange earner, to a corrupt English smelting plant has been bust as the result of a huge joint operation between the SFO and the Scorpions. But the Scorpions, whose top men were trained by Scotland Yard, have been too successful for their own good. The ANC government never anticipated the crack crimebusters would take their constitutional independence seriously and investigate the top ranks of the former liberation movement itself. The Scorpions have probed into, and successfully prosecuted, ANC MPs who falsified their parliamentary expenses. They secured a jail sentence for the ANC's chief whip, who took bribes from the German weapons manufacturer that sold frigates and submarines to the South African Defence Force. They sent to jail for 15 years a businessman who paid hundreds of bribes to then state vice-president Jacob Zuma in connection with the arms deal. Zuma was found by the judge to have a corrupt relationship with the businessman, and now the Scorpions have charged Zuma himself with fraud, corruption, tax evasion, racketeering and defeating the ends of justice. His trial will begin in August. The Scorpions last month charged Jackie Selebi, the national police chief, a close friend of state president Thabo Mbeki, with corruption and defeating the ends of justice. Commissioner Selebi, who infamously called a white police sergeant a "f***ing chimpanzee" when she failed to recognise him during an unannounced visit to her Pretoria station, has stepped down pending his trial. But now both wings of the venomously divided ANC - ANC-Mbeki and ANC-Zuma - want the Scorpions crushed, ideally by June this year. The message this will send to the outside world is that South Africa's rulers want only certain categories of crime investigated, while leaving government ministers and other politicians free to stuff their already heavily lined pockets. No good reason for emasculating the Scorpions has been put forward. "That's because there isn't one," said Peter Bruce, editor of the influential Business Day, South Africa's equivalent of, and part-owned by, The Financial Times, in his weekly column. "The Scorpions are being killed off because they investigate too much corruption that involves ANC leaders. It is as simple and ugly as that," he added. The demise of the Scorpions can only exacerbate South Africa's out-of-control crime situation, ranked for its scale and violence only behind Colombia. Everyone has friends and acquaintances who have had guns held to their heads by gangsters, who also blow up ATM machines and hijack security trucks, sawing off their roofs to get at the cash. In the past few days my next-door neighbour, John Matshikiza, a distinguished actor who trained at the Royal Shakespeare Company and is the son of the composer of the South African musical King Kong, had been violently attacked, and friends visiting from Zimbabwe had their car stolen outside my front window in broad daylight. My friends flew home to Zimbabwe without their car and the tinned food supplies they had bought to help withstand their country's dire political and food crisis and 27,000% inflation. Matshikiza, a former member of the Glasgow Citizens Theatre company, was held up by three gunmen as he drove his car into his garage late at night. He gave them his car keys, wallet, cellphone and luxury watch and begged them not to harm his partner, who was inside the house. As one gunman drove the car away, the other two beat Matshikiza unconscious with broken bottles, and now his head is so comprehensively stitched that it looks like a map of the London Underground. These assaults were personal, but mild compared with much commonplace crime. Last week, for example, 18-year-old Razelle Botha, who passed all her A-levels with marks of more than 90% and was about to train as a doctor, returned home with her father, Professor Willem Botha, founder of the geophysics department at the University of Pretoria, from buying pizzas for the family. Inside the house, armed gunmen confronted them. They shot Professor Botha in the leg and pumped bullets into Razelle. One severed her spine. Now she is fighting for her life and will never walk again, and may never become a doctor. The gunmen stole a laptop computer and a camera. Feeding the perfect storm are the two centres of ANC power in the country at the moment. On the one hand, there is the ANC in parliament, led by President Mbeki, who last Friday gave a state-of-the-nation address and apologised to the country for the power crisis. Mbeki made only the briefest of mentions of the national Aids crisis, with more than six million people HIV-positive. He did not address the Scorpions crisis. The collapsing public hospital system, under his eccentric health minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, an alcoholic who recently jumped the public queue for a liver transplant, received no attention. And the name Jacob Zuma did not pass his lips. Last December Mbeki and Zuma stood against each other for the leadership of the ANC at the party's five-yearly electoral congress. Mbeki, who cannot stand again as state president beyond next year's parliamentary and presidential elections, hoped to remain the power behind the throne of a new state president of his choosing. Zuma, a Zulu populist with some 20 children by various wives and mistresses, hoped to prove that last year's rape case, and the trial he faces this year for corruption and other charges, were part of a plot by Mbeki to use state institutions to discredit him. Mbeki assumed that the notion of Zuma assuming next year the mantle worn by Nelson Mandela as South Africa's first black state president would be so appalling to delegates, a deeply sad and precipitous decline, that his own re-election as ANC leader was a shoo-in. But Mbeki completely miscalculated his own unpopularity - his perceived arrogance, failure to solve health and crime problems, his failure to deliver to the poor - and he lost. Now Zuma insists that he is the leader of the country and ANC MPs in parliament must take its orders from him, while Mbeki soldiers on until next year as state president, ordering MPs to toe his line. Greatly understated, it is a mess. Its scale will be dramatically illustrated if South Africa's hosting of the 2010 World Cup is withdrawn by Fifa, the world football body. Already South African premier league football evening games are being played after midnight because power for floodlights cannot be guaranteed before that time. Justice Malala, one of the country's top newspaper columnists, has called on Fifa to end the agony quickly. "I don't want South Africa to host the football World Cup because there is no culture of responsibility in this country," he wrote in Johannesburg's bestselling Sunday Times. "The most outrageous behaviour and incompetence is glossed over. No-one is fired. I have had enough of this nonsense, of keeping quiet and ignoring the fact that the train is about to run us over. "It is increasingly clear that our leaders are incapable of making a success of it. Scrap the thing and give it to Australia, Germany or whoever will spare us the ignominy of watching things fall apart here - football tourists being held up and shot, the lights going out, while our politicians tell us everything is all right."
  15. Let me quote some population statistics which indicate that the blacks could not have suffered too much in South Africa before they took over running the country in 1994.    In 1900 : Whites   1.5 million, Blacks 4.5 million , Coloureds and Indians 1 million  (Approx). Oxford History of SA Volume 2.  If it were not for western medicine  the blacks would not have been able to experience the population growth that has happened since then in South Africa. The white population in South Africa have achieved a lot in spite of their numbers being so much fewer than the blacks. I know that as a Chartered Accountant when I lived in South Africa,  the banking and computer technology sector was far superior to that of the UK. For example a cheque cleared in one day in the 1970s.  Also, I had online access to banking information in 1981. Standards of financial reporting were far superior. This  8.9% white population you talk about have, created the 'power house of Africa'.  This is slowly being destroyed. You talk about the policing problems of the world , in my opinion the rule we follow is : -Smaller or weaker than us? -Any advantage in it? -Is it Politically Correct?  and, otherwise don't bother!!         Is this hypocritcal or what? You mentioned that we should not impose our standards on others-   well it's necessary we do -  think of Nuremburg 1946, the Hague Int'l. Court - quite a few nasties have been there recently. And the UN, ineffectual it is, has soldiers in many countries, but we let Mugabe et al get away with genocide.  More policing is needed, not less. CJR
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