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The UN General Assembly has declared July 18 "Nelson Mandela International Day" to mark the South African anti-apartheid leader's contribution to peace. A resolution adopted by consensus by the 192-member world body on Tuesday calls for commemorations every year starting in 2010 on July 18 - Mandela's birthday - to recognise the Nobel Peace Prize laureate's contribution to resolving conflicts and promoting race relations, human rights and reconciliation. By adopting the resolution, General Assembly President Ali Treki said the international community was expressing its appreciation for "a great man" who suffered for the sake of people everywhere. Mandela, 91, led...

NOTE: This article was written in January, 2005. But it is actually more applicable and prophetic today than it was then. It is a little long but well worth your time. By Gemma Meyer (Gemma Meyer is the pseudonym of a South African journalist. She and her husband, a former conservative member of parliament, still reside in South Africa.) People used to say that South Africa was 20 years behind the rest of the Western world. Television, for example, came late to South Africa (but so did pornography and the gay rights movement). Today, however, South Africa may be the...

Carla Bruni to perform for Nelson Mandela Carla Bruni-Sarkozy will break her pledge never to sing in concert while she is First Lady of France when she performs in New York next month to celebrate Nelson Mandela's 91st birthday. The 41-year old former supermodel will sing a duet with Dave Stewart, the Eurythmics star at New York's Radio City music hall on July 18, in a concert to celebrate Nelson Mandela's 91st birthday. Mrs Bruni-Sarkozy toured regularly before marrying President Nicolas Sarkozy last year, but stopped public performances after taking becoming First Lady, mainly for security concerns and because the...

In what is arguably his most significant gift to friend and former South African President Nelson Mandela, Bill Clinton is lending his name to the effort to establish a global Mandela Day around his July 18 birthday. The campaign and Clinton's involvement will be announced today by the Nelson Mandela Foundation and the humanitarian group named after his prison number: 46664. Bubba, referring to the name friends give Mandela, says: "More than any human being, Madiba has been the great inspiration for the life I lead and the work I do, especially in the area of HIV/AIDS. In return for...

LIBERAL VICTIMHOOD: A GAME YOU CAN PLAY AT HOMEJanuary 28, 2009I notice that liberals have not challenged the overall thesis of my rocketing bestseller, "Guilty: Liberal 'Victims' and Their Assault on America," which is that liberals always play the victim in order to advance, win advantages and oppress others. I guess that would be hard to do when the corrupt Democratic governor of Illinois is running around comparing himself to Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi. Indeed, you can't turn on the TV without seeing some liberal playing victim to score the game-winning point. Caroline Kennedy tried...

By Gemma Meyer (Gemma Meyer is the pseudonym of a South African journalist. She and her husband, a former conservative member of parliament, still reside in South Africa.) People used to say that South Africa was 20 years behind the rest of the Western world. Television, for example, came late to South Africa (but so did pornography and the gay rights movement). Today, however, South Africa may be the grim model of the future Western world, for events in America reveal trends chillingly similar to those that destroyed our country. America's structures are Western. Your Congress, your lobbying groups, your...

Residents from the mining town of Kadoma awoke Friday morning to the sound of Zanu PF thugs demanding they pull down their satellite dishes or risk having their homes burnt down. Frightened residents hastily took down their satellite dishes after the Zanu PF mobs moved around the suburbs to enforce their demands. They accused foreign news stations, accessed via satellite, of misinforming Zimbabweans on the political situation in the country. A woman told us that all the men from nearby Venus Mine were forced to join the Zanu PF mobs in ‘a war against the residents of Kadoma.’ Two trucks...

Erroneously first reported to be the mansion of bruta tyrant Robert Mugabe, it is, in fact, the home of his COUSIN! Mugabe's mansion is even MORE opulent -- but has not yet been photographed (or maybe was but the photog wound up as crocodile chum in the nearest river). http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Zimbabwe/Harare/blog-219289.html As you stroll through this beautiful PALACE, be comforted that much of it -- as well as Robert's -- was paid for with YOUR "MONEY," sucked out of your pocket by the scum who run the UNITED NATIONS and the overeducated idiots who vote for and run the US FOREIGN...

The men who pulled up in three white pickup trucks were looking for Patson Chipiro, head of the Zimbabwean opposition party in Mhondoro district. His wife, Dadirai, told them he was in Harare but would be back later in the day, and the men departed. An hour later they were back. They grabbed Mrs Chipiro and chopped off one of her hands and both her feet. Then they threw her into her hut, locked the door and threw a petrol bomb through the window. The killing last Friday – one of the most grotesque atrocities committed by Robert Mugabe’s regime...

French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau is credited with the famous remark, "La guerre! C'est une chose trop grave pour la confier à des militaries" -- war is too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military. The idea that Clemenceau was trying to project through these words is that experts are often incapable of seeing beyond their profession and understanding the greater domains of necessity. Here in Hawaii, we are facing a transportation infrastructure crisis of the highest degree of peril. I assert to every single man, woman, and child of these Hawaiian Islands that our future is too...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, July 20, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - World famous opponent of South African apartheid, Nelson Mandela, celebrated his 89th birthday last Wednesday by announcing the formation of a Global council of elders, known simply as "The Elders."So far The Elders includes Kofi Annan, Desmond Tutu, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Mary Robinson, Jimmy Carter, Li Zhaoxing, Muhammad Yunus, Ela Bhatt, Graca Machel, and, of course, Nelson Mandela.  The group of high-profile international leaders is intended to be an independent body of "wise" men and women that will use their combined experience to solve any of the host of problems currently...

Glasgow, Scotland Amid tight security, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, the man convicted of murdering 270 innocent people on an airliner that was downed by explosive device over Scotland in 1988, was rushed to hospital in Glasgow on Friday from Barlinnie Prison for unknown ailments. Ushered in through a rarely used “Decontamination Entrance Room” at the hospital, the terrorist was whisked down the hospital’s corridors with a SWAT team-like escort. The Decontamination Room in the hospital is specially designed with state of the art equipment to decontaminate victims of NBC (nuclear, biological, chemical) attack. The entrance was used for security...

WORLD EXCLUSIVE Kate on coke at Mandela's Kate Moss ... snorted cocaine from dirty floor       By CLODAGH HARTLEY in Port Elizabeth, S AfricaTODAY The Sun blows the lid on the sleazy drug-fuelled world that held Kate Moss in a vice-like grip for TEN YEARS. The picture on Page One of  The Sun newspaper shows her in a hotel with cocaine chopped into four lines on the table. The supermodel, 32, is holding a rolled-up tube ready to snort the killer drug in another night of wild partying. We can reveal ‘Cocaine Kate’ even took it at the home...

For Immediate Release: June 14th, 2005 LEADING MEMBER OF the U.S.CONGRESS TO LEAD PROTEST AT EMBASSY OF BURMA PHOTO OPPORTUNITY, WASHINGTON, DC JUNE 17TH AT 10:00 AM   For More Information, Contact: Lynne Weil, (202) 225-6735 Office of Congressman Tom Lantos Jeremy Woodrum (202) 246-7924 US Campaign for Burma Tom Lantos, Top Democrat on International Relations Committee, To Deliver 6,000 Birthday Cards Demanding Release of World's Only Imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize Recipient Aung San Suu Kyi  (Washington, DC)  Tom Lantos (D-CA), the ranking member on the House International Relations Committee, will lead a protest in front of the Embassy...

Palestinian security forces in Ramallah on Monday arrested a suspect in the murder of Samir Rantisi, a local journalist and spokesman for former PA Information Minister Yasser Abed Rabbo. Rantisi, 42, had for years urged Palestinians to endorse non-violent methods in their confrontation with Israel and was strongly opposed to suicide bombings. He was murdered early Monday morning while he was sleeping in his bedroom in the Sateh Marhaba neighborhood. A lone gunman who broke into his apartment in the Shkukani Building shot him twice in the head in front of his wife. The wife managed to identify the suspect,...

A prominent Democratic Party pollster Thursday said the reason members of his party have lost major elections in recent years is because they have not "run with conviction." Stanley Greenberg, who currently heads his own research firm, previously conducted polling and offered advice to then-President Bill Clinton, then-Vice President Al Gore, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and South African President Nelson Mandela. Greenberg conceded that the biggest current weakness among Democratic candidates is that they "do not know what they stand for, they don't know their policy direction, they don't know their underlying values, they don't know who they fight...

President Bush met with former South African President Nelson Mandela. Rob Portman was sworn in as United States Trade Representative. Some members of the WH press corps attempted to mug Scott McClellan and feed words into his mouth during the press briefing today, regarding the White House statement that the United States' image abroad had suffered irreparable damage by Newsweek's now retracted story about the Koran and Guantanamo Bay. Texas judge Priscilla Owen and California judge Janice Rogers Brown visited President Bush at the White House and then Senate Republicans at the Capitol as lawmakers moved toward a confrontation over...

Here's an answer I haven't seen elsewhere to the phony "scandal" regarding Africa, yellowcake, and the forged documents gathered as part of the evidence.Freepers will recall that when the US advance captured the Salman Pak site during the war, the US forces came under criticism because they did not (because they could not for obvious reasons, its a multi-thousand acre site) fully protect the entire site. As a result, the Bush critics said, local Iraqis had looted unprotected areas and exposed themselves to radiation poisoning. Why? How? Here's why -- they found large quantities of plastic tubs filled with --...

President Bush has issued a statement on "Ten Years of Democracy in South Africa," conveniently ignoring the fact that South African President Thabo Mbeki is a Marxist who has surrounded himself with followers of radical Islam. The other curious omission is that while the president complimented "South Africa's commitment to progress at home and around the world," evidence is emerging that South Africa has played a role in nuclear weapons proliferation, including to Iran. The evidence is contained in a hot new book, Iran's Nuclear Option: Tehran's Quest for the Atom Bomb, by journalist Al Venter. Some people forget that...

Former South African President Nelson Mandela says poverty is equivalent to slavery and apartheid, and must be eliminated with the support of the world's richest nations. Mr. Mandela is in Britain at the government's invitation as part of Prime Minister Tony Blair's drive to push for poverty alleviation in developing countries, especially Africa. The former South African president spoke to several thousand people at a midday rally in London's Trafalgar Square, where he said poverty is a violation of fundamental human rights. "Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural," he said. "It is man-made and it can be overcome...

Western nations should make reparations for enslaving and colonising Africans and finance a Marshall Plan-type fund for Africa, says US actor Danny Glover. "I believe in reparations for slavery and colonisation as well, in the shape of a Marshall Plan," Glover told the Associated Press on the sidelines of month-long celebrations in Ethiopia of the 60th anniversary of reggae legend Bob Marley who died in 1981. "Our basic attitude towards Africa is still one of the coloniser," said Glover, a UNICEF goodwill ambassador for the UN children's agency that has co-organised the celebrations with the Bob Marley Foundation. "The...

LONDON (AP) - Britain's first openly gay lawmaker revealed Sunday that he has been HIV positive for 17 years, saying he was inspired by Nelson Mandela to tell the public he had the virus that causes AIDS. Chris Smith, 53, the governing Labour party's former culture secretary, said he was responding to the former South African president's call earlier this month for more publicity about AIDS to fight the stigma attached to the disease. "What Nelson Mandela said very much struck a chord with me," Smith was quoted as saying in the Sunday Times newspaper. "He spoke about how nobody...

Mandela announces son died of AIDS 01-06-2005, 14h06 Nicolas Asfouri - (AFP/Pool/File) JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - Former South African president Nelson Mandela said Thursday that his son Makgatho had died of AIDS. "We have called you today to announce that my son has died of AIDS," Mandela told reporters gathered Thursday at his Johannesburg home just hours after his only surviving son passed away. Makgatho Mandela, 54, had been in intensive care for the past weeks, but no details were released about his condition.

The U.S. is engaged in a bloody war in Iraq for the purpose of eliminating the remnants of a terrorist regime, foreign terrorists, and bringing democracy to Iraq and the region. It is a big gamble that has put radical Islam on the defensive around the world. But shocking evidence demonstrates that controversial former U.S. Marine and former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter, who now writes for the anti-American Arab "news" organization Al Jazeera, was involved in a controversial effort to stop the war by enlisting prominent personalities in a "peace" campaign.

<p>October 10, 2002 -- WASHINGTON - Former President Bill Clinton was showered with pricey gifts while he was in office from the leaders of Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere, but he didn't disclose them because they were earmarked for his presidential library in Arkansas, a new report yesterday revealed.</p>

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - Former President Nelson Mandela celebrated his 86th birthday quietly Sunday at his family home in Qunu in the Eastern Cape with his wife Graca Machel and family members. The low key celebration was in keeping with the Nobel Laureate's announcement in June this year that he would cut back on public appearances, a spokesman from the Nelson Mandela Foundation said. Mandela said he did not want to withdraw completely from public life but would be more selective about events he attended. He has maintained a hectic schedule since retirement from active politics in 1999....

Tiger Woods is no Nelson Mandela! Tiger's father, Earl Woods, was recalling recently the day his son, Tiger, met South Africa's former president, Dr. Nelson Mandela: "it was the first time Tiger met a human being who was equal to him, who was as powerful as Tiger is." Hello!? Brother Earl, Tiger "equal to" Mandela? Nonsense. I've also met and seen Mandela. Tiger Woods can hit a golf ball, alright, but he probably does not know (or relatively do much) about the fact millions of kids of African heritage, White kids and, in fact, among those of his self-styled...

EASTERN CAPE PROVINCE, South Africa – At the scenic foot of a troubled continent of almost one billion people, among whom any good news is welcome, South Africa's 45 million inhabitants are building a uniquely bold venture in democracy. In many ways it is the boldest since the United States was founded. Ten years ago, this nation's liberated blacks voted freely for the first time. They stood eagerly under the sun in long serpentine lines that seemed to reach the horizon. Such photographs, taken on April 27, 1994, their day of independence, appear like trophies on the walls of government...

Satanists hack 46664 site December 12 2003 at 09:56PM The Independent On Saturday Nelson Mandela's 46664 Aids awareness campaign is synonymous with good intentions and positive messages. But web users eager to give a minute of their time to the fight against Aids may be in for a nasty surprise when they hit the site and antichrist symbols and degrading images of Christ appear. When a Cape Town web user, who did not want to be named, logged on to the site earlier this week to find out why the official 46664 T-shirts were sold only in the United Kingdom,...

I'm having an argument with some liberals and the Internet is not going to be of much help, so I need someone who has a print source of Confucius quotes. The quote is: Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. There are a bunch of whacky liberals where I work saying that its a quote from Nelson Mandela. I'm trying to tell them that since ol' Nelson lived about 1500 years after Confucius did, it makes him a PLAGIARIST. The real problem is that when you search the interent there are abundant...

The chief grooms his successor for a noble cause Bill Clinton and Nelson Mandela spend a lot of time together. Last month, they launched the Mandela Rhodes Foundation together in London and then joined each other for celebrations in South Africa marking Mr Mandela's 85th birthday. Mr Mandela has often joked that he needs a younger man than himself to take over his causes when he is gone. More and more, Mr Clinton, who describes himself as too young to be an elder statesman, appears to be his anointed son. When Mr Clinton delivered the first Nelson Mandela lecture...

<p>Many of us believe that President George W. Bush is not only a courageous leader, but also a man who works hard at his job. Most who toil in Washington know that working in the White House requires almost superhuman skills to avoid unnecessarily offending one or more voting groups.</p>

Last Wednesday, Nelson Mandela once again showed his unique moral influence, two weeks before he celebrates his eighty-fifth birthday with a banquet in Johannesburg. In Westminster Hall, he launched the Mandela-Rhodes Foundation which will bring part of the huge fortune built on diamonds and gold back to black South Africa. He heard tributes from Bill Clinton and Tony Blair, with whom he had talked at length at Number 10 beforehand. The Prime Minister made an impromptu speech explaining how Mandela 'symbolised the triumph of hope over injustice'. Mandela warmly thanked him but did not conceal their differences about the Middle...

There may be some things that money just can't buy, but a meeting with Nelson Mandela isn't one of them. The former South African president is charging wealthy guests a staggering $36,000 to shake his hand at a charity dinner in London. British celebrities and millionaires, vying for the 30 tickets to meet arguably the world's most revered leader, will also have their picture taken with him and get to exchange pleasantries. Mr Mandela hopes the event, at London's Savoy Hotel on July 3, will raise $5 million for his charity, which helps children affected by AIDS and HIV in...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (Reuters) - Former South African president Nelson Mandela said on Monday he would not accept an invitation by Western peace activists to visit Baghdad to help prevent a war. The Nobel Peace Laureate has accused President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair of running roughshod over the United Nations in their bid to oust Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. The 84-year-old statesman, respected the world over for his fight against apartheid-era discrimination, was asked by Western peace activists and the Iraqi government to visit Baghdad. But the frail Mandela said he would first consult his family. "They...

I recieved an email with the following quotation of Nelson Mandela's: "One power, with a President who has no foresight and cannot think properly, is now wanting to plunge the world into a holocaust" Nelson Mandella, former South African President on President Bush's plans for war. To Which I responded: "Our men and women with vision choose peace rather than confrontation, except in cases where we cannot get, where we cannot proceed, where we cannot move forward...Then, if the only alternative is violence, we will use violence.'' Nelson Mandella speaking to the Palestinian Legislative Committee. The statement earned Mandella two...

FORMER South African president Nelson Mandela is considering travelling to Iraq to protest against a US-led attack - but only if the United Nations approves. "I'll discuss the matter firstly with my family and secondly with my advisers, but even more importantly with Kofi Annan, the (UN) secretary general," Mandela told SABC television. The elderly statesman - who gave US President George W. Bush a tongue-lashing last month over his belligerant stance towards Iraq - again criticised the US leader today. "What I'm against is the fact that Bush should say: 'Within weeks I'm going to strike at Iraq'. Who...

Sarandon, Garofalo, Mandela – McCarthyism of the Left By Orson Scott Card Susan Sarandon, Janeane Garofalo, and Nelson Mandela – what a crew. This week all three unleashed savage attacks against President George W. Bush and his policy on Iraq, attacks that remind me of nothing so much as the wild and false charges leveled by Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s. Nelson Mandela is a genuine hero, a statesman. He is one of the few revolutionaries to achieve power and then govern responsibly, for the benefit of all the people. Sarandon and Garofalo are, of course, not in that category....

First 'human shields' in Baghdad Fourteen foreigners who have volunteered to act as human shields at key civilian sites in Iraq arrived in the capital Baghdad and launched a call for peace, one of the group said. The group, which will be followed by others in the coming days, comprise 11 Italians, two Canadians and a Spaniard, Canadian Barbara Taman said. They also brought a Saint Bernard dog. The peace activists arrived in five cars after travelling from Italy, then through Greece, Turkey and Syria and crossing the Iraqi border. They hope to organise a demonstration in Baghdad on...

Mandela asked to act on Iraq Former President Nelson Mandela has been asked by "distinguished people" to persuade Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to step down to ease the standoff with the US. Among those who requested that Mandela talk Saddam into an "exit plan" are leaders of Arab states bordering Iraq who are worried about the effects of the imminent war. Mandela says he will travel to Baghdad to carry out the mission only if asked by the United Nations. Mandela's spokesman, Zelda la Grange, said the former president, who is at the forefront of the anti-war lobby, "has...

Even if last week's outrageous, anti-American slurs by Nelson Mandela, former South African president and honorary Canadian citizen, might be excused by the frailties of his advancing years -- he is 84 and suffering failing health -- they should not be politely ignored. Anti-war agitators have already used Mr. Mandela's iconic stature to bolster their feeble case against an invasion of Iraq. London's leftist Daily Mirror, for instance, called Mr. Mandela "the most admired statesman in the world," and insisted his remarks had "demolished the stand taken by [U.S. President] George W. Bush and [British Prime Minister] Tony Blair, and...

DURBAN - In an extraordinary twist to the current tensions between the United States and Iraq, former South African president (and Nobel Peace Prize winner) Nelson Mandela has not only sided strongly against President George W. Bush, but appears on the point of being recruited to a stratagem by Saddam Hussein to block U.S. military intervention. Mandela has uttered stronger and stronger statements critical of Bush. Originally he attempted to telephone the U.S. President to communicate his views, but Bush did not take his calls, so Mandela phoned ex-president George Bush Sr. to complain about his son and ask for...

JAKARTA, Indonesia, Sep 30, 2002 (AP WorldStream via COMTEX) -- Former South African President Nelson Mandela on Monday intensified his criticism of U.S. policy on Iraq, and alleged that race was a factor in countries questioning the United Nations. "No country, however powerful it may be, is entitled to act outside the United Nations," he told local Trans TV on his arrival at Jakarta's Sukarno Hatta Airport for a four-day trip. "The United Nations is here to promote peace in the world and any country that acts outside the United Nations is making a serious mistake." Mandela, a frequent critic...

...The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken. Unqualified support of the Shah of Iran led directly to the Islamic revolution of 1979. Then the United States chose to arm and finance the [Islamic] mujahedin in Afghanistan instead of supporting and encouraging the moderate wing of the government of Afghanistan. That is what led to the Taliban in Afghanistan. But the most catastrophic action of the United States was to sabotage the decision that was painstakingly stitched together by the United Nations regarding...

<p>With Independence Day nearly upon us, we thought it an appropriate time to reflect that the word "independence" comes from the noun "independent" whose meanings include "not being under control" and "unwilling to be under an obligation to others."</p> <p>It is a bit sad, during this week of patriotism, to encounter the oxymoronic world of Washington. As we celebrate a day of independence — not being under control and unwilling to be under obligation to others — we witness those who are dedicated to making a decent president look stupid and others intent on making a flamboyant, corrupt former president and his family appear upright and conscientious. Obligations and control — your name is politics.</p>