Slow Tom @PygaTom

FMD outbreaks existed in this Country for decades now. Yet, it only became a national disaster in the past 2 years. Farmers used to manage it adequately on their own for 30+ years, since the State Veterinary Services went to shit. Only John thought it wise to (illegally, as found by Court) use his Ministerial Powers to block farmers from treating their own animals. No matter how you spin this, this disaster is 100%, entirely, on John. This is why your orchestrated attack on Pieter Groenewald failed so miserably. It was clear to all of us who stand completely outside of party politics to see the difference between him and John. Pieter inherited a disfunctional Department and is trying his best to fix what he can, and he's achieved some successes in it. John inherited a disfunctional Department, then went on a power trip and made it infinitely worse. Only those inside the DA can't grasp this, very simple, concept. The rest of us who follow what is going on around us are not blinded by loyalty for any party.

Pieter Swart @Rdl_Cllr_PSwart

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@willempet State failures predated this minister. Endemic FMD demands sustained reality, not political spin. Major cases already in 2019 and 2022. -OBP produced no FMD vaccines since 2005. -Endemic virus requires vaccines plus extended sustained coverage. Willem, you are using this

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@Our_DA Well done Geordie Porgie for making your name gat.. As the saying goes, the dildo of consequence never comes lubed!

@geordinhl You're proving yourself to be just as retarded as your mentor JS.

Sprinting away would also be acceptable.

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🚨 Marc Thiessen just dropped a GENIUS plan for the Strait of Hormuz Trump should slap a Hormuz Transit Tariff, $2 MILLION escort fee on every vessel. That’s $9 BILLION a month. $100 BILLION a year. Waive it for any country that joins the coalition to reopen the strait.

We addressed the Strait of Hormuz a lot when I was war gaming staff at the Naval War College. An excellent analysis on this global energy choke point and current US strategy. The President is exposing Europe and the UK's energy dependence on US military strength and their current leadership's wasteful practices on self defeating DEI-fueled immigration and green energy. It's the equivalent of a wealthy father telling his spoiled party animal/artists teenagers to get real jobs and pay for their lifestyles and credit cards themselves. Time for these governments to grow up and take responsibility for their own country's interests, or force their populations to elect governments who can. A global economic reckoning is at hand.

@DrJStrategy It's reminiscent of the German delegates at the UN General Assembly laughing at Trump when he warned about their overreliance on Russian energy via Nord Stream 2. The Germans and other countries aren't smirking anymore.

Food for thought. Trump, Hormuz and the End of the Free Ride For half a century, Western strategists have known that the Strait of Hormuz is the acute point where energy, sea power and political will intersect. That knowledge is not in dispute. What is new in this war with Iran is that the United States, under Donald Trump, has chosen not to rush to “solve” the problem. In Hegelian terms, he is refusing an easy synthesis in order to force the underlying contradiction to the surface. The old thesis was simple: the US guarantees open sea lanes in the Gulf, and everyone else structures their economies and politics around that free insurance. Europe and the UK embraced ambitious green policies, ran down hard‑power capabilities and lectured Washington on multilateral virtue, secure in the assumption that American carriers would always appear off Hormuz. The political class behaved as if the American security guarantee were a law of nature, not a contingent choice. Their conduct today is closer to Chamberlain than Churchill: temporising, issuing statements, hoping the storm will pass without a fundamental reordering of their responsibilities. Trump’s antithesis is to withhold the automatic guarantee at the moment of maximum stress. Militarily, the US can break Iran’s residual ability to contest the Strait; that is not the binding constraint. The point is to delay that act. By allowing a closure or semi‑closure to bite, Trump ensures that the immediate pain is concentrated in exactly the jurisdictions that have most conspicuously free‑ridden on US power: the EU and the UK. Their industries, consumers and energy‑transition assumptions are exposed. In that context, his reported blunt message to European and British leaders, you need the oil out of the Strait more than we do; why don’t you go and take it? Is not a throwaway line. It is the verbalisation of the antithesis. It openly reverses the traditional presumption that America will carry the burden while its allies emote from the sidelines. In this dialectic, the prize is not simply the reopening of a chokepoint. The prize is a reordered system in which the United States effectively arbitrages and controls the global flow of oil. A world in which US‑aligned production in the Americas plus a discretionary capability to secure,or not secure, Hormuz places Washington at the centre of the hydrocarbon chessboard. For that strategic end, a rapid restoration of the old status quo would be counterproductive. A quick, surgical “fix” of Hormuz would short‑circuit the dialectic. If Trump rapidly crushed Iran’s remaining coastal capabilities, swept the mines and escorted tankers back through the Strait, Europe and the UK would heave a sigh of relief and return to business as usual: underfunded militaries, maximalist green posturing and performative disdain for US power, all underwritten by that same power. The contradiction between their dependence and their posture would remain latent. By declining to supply the synthesis on demand, and by explicitly telling London and Brussels to “go and take it” themselves, Trump forces a reckoning. European and British leaders must confront the fact that their energy systems, their industrial bases and their geopolitical sermons all rest on an American hard‑power foundation they neither finance nor politically respect. The longer the contradiction is allowed to unfold, the stronger the eventual synthesis can be: a new order in which access to secure flows, Hormuz, Venezuela and beyond, is explicitly conditional on real contributions, not assumed as a right. In that sense, the delay in “taking” the Strait, and the challenge issued to US allies to do it themselves, is not indecision. It is the negative moment Hegel insisted was necessary for history to move. Only by withholding the old guarantee, and by saying so out loud to those who depended on it, can Trump hope to end the free ride.

When we walked into court this morning the minister filed a late supplementary affidavit with some gems inside. This being one of them. Here are the links to the rest. Take notice of promises made in the affidavit and minutes of the task team. •bit.ly/draft-minutest… •bit.ly/Respondents-Su… •bit.ly/drfat-scheme-v…

It's a stark reminder how two-faced the South African government is when you see the gigantic Amazon building going up in Cape Town. Built on a wetland with so much manipulation to get the permits for it passed. Jeff Bezos is ok but Elon Musk isnt. Amazon delivers mostly Chinese manufactured goods door to door competing with local industries and local eCommerce businesses while @Starlink and @elonmusk are banned who will bring the entire country online and 5000 schools connectivity. South Africa is not a serious country.

@iam_smx *trillioniare

The "I don't want anything to die for my food" position that vegans love to gloat about. Right. Have a look at arable farming. Before planting: the field is ploughed. Every mammal, insect, worm, nesting bird, and small rodent living in the top thirty centimetres of soil is killed, displaced, or destroyed. This happens to millions of acres. At harvest: the combine moves through the crop. Mice, voles, leverets, ground-nesting birds, and anything else that lives at crop level is killed by the machinery. Studies on arable harvest mortality suggest small mammal deaths per acre in the tens to hundreds, depending on species and timing. In between: pesticides, herbicides, fungicides. The invertebrate population: the insects, the beetles, the creatures that form the base of the food chain, is deliberately suppressed to protect the crop. Farmland bird populations have declined by over fifty percent since 1970, largely attributed to the collapse of invertebrate abundance on arable land. The soybean field does not look like death. It is quiet, green, and orderly. It is not bloodless. It is just that the blood belongs to things too small or too numerous to name. The cow in the field has a name, approximately, or at least a tag number. The cow's death is visible, documentable, and countable. The voles and the skylarks and the beetles in the soy field are not counted. They are, however, dead. There is no bloodless diet. There is only blood you can see and blood you have decided not to look for.

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So instead of just using any of the millions of infected cattle’s saliva South Africa already has roaming around, a farmer would rather take a vaccine and “formulate a bioweapon” to infect his competitor. This is why professional institutions have official spokespeople, to keep the clowns from clowning.

@africanfarming_ The source of the fake news about R300/a/animal to vaccinate is the department itself, probably because the officials know there will be no consequences

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