Xi will not meet Putin at the airport but Wang Yi will meet him – that is customary and form of diplomacy.  Trump is spiraling down totally pretending to have the higher ground on Xi.  Take a look what the idiot posts.  Trump is going absolutely bonkers on his Truth Social.  That is the most amazing thing to watch and I don’t want to watch it even!

I think they’re going to try some kind of strike but oh dear .. the US is going to see its ass without a mirror.

From some old stomping grounds – South Africa.

At last the constitutional court rules that Ramaphosa must go through an impeachment process.  The issue is almost comical.  Phala phala it is called .. and the meaning is a ceremonial beer container.

Some years ago, 2020m some inquiry found that there was prima facie evidence of ‘serious violations’ of the Prevention and Combating of Corrupt Activities Act and the Constitution. It also intimated, much as Justice Raymond Zondo had done earlier in the State Capture Inquiry, that Ramaphosa was evasive and unconvincing. With understated scepticism, the Panel described the President’s explanation of how in 2020 an undeclared US$580,000 in cash had been paid to him, left unbanked, hidden in a sofa, and then stolen, as being at times ‘vague’ and ‘leaving unsettling gaps’.

There was a lot of laughing about this and the story is that the amount was much higher.  I wrote an article about this, humorous with a cartoon showing this couch where the money was pushing up the cushions and lying everywhere.  Oh boy, did some hand out the smacks, (or they tried to), because a ‘jewish artist’ drew the cartoon ..  I had no clue, it was just a funny cartoon.   At that time (The old Saker site) I had threats, zulu threats, written in English but everyone knows the threats.  Kill the wizards …

Anyway the process has started.  Ramaposa has a few options .. He can wait it out, and play court and political games in various ways but the thing is his party, the ANC is much weaker now than at that time.  And South Africa had to resort to a shared type of government, eventually marketed as the GNU, Government of National Unity.

I’ve never said it with a high profile, but I did some post graduate work with the man.  We shared our lunches because both of us were very poor … so we shared so that we had some choice at least.  The post graduate work was a year of very hard negotiation training.  He was heading up to be head of the mine worker’s union at the time, but I had something going for my white ass.  Having a ‘split’ family – some traditional racists, my grandmother from the other side had started the garment worker’s union with a women by the name of xxx – let me not expose too much!  so, they could not mess with me too much at the time.  That grandmother spent nights in jail fighting for ‘her girls’ and of course, years later I sang freedom songs all night long in jail.  Later of course everyone messed with me and we fled because I liked to be alive still and I had seen too much during the run-up to the negotiations for what Mandela termed the Rainbow Nation.  That lasted only while Mandela was alive, and then the penny dropped.

At its first meeting of the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) in late 1991, the representatives of the SA government, the ANC, and other parties declared their solemn commitment to a South Africa “free from apartheid or any other form of discrimination or domination,” which would strive to “ensure equal opportunities and social justice for all South Africans.” Among the commitments made in relation to the constitution, yet to be negotiated, were that language rights would be respected, there would be a “separation of powers between the legislature, executive and judiciary with appropriate checks and balances”, and the constitution itself would be “guarded over by an independent, non-racial and impartial judiciary.”

That was the fairy story.  Now South Africa has more racial laws than during the time of apartheid and the state has been stolen blind by those that pretend Marxism.  How the Russians can believe this bunch is the end of me!

I trust Ramaaphosa loses all his money, all the stuff that got hidden in the couch, and all his friends’ money as well.  He did not remain poor of course but stinking rich is different from a comfortable life.  He is stinking rich.  That is part of the stuff that I saw when the men with the shiny shoes (from the US and the Brits) walked in during negotiations for the end of apartheid.  Guess who owns the mines now.  With this issue Elon Musk is actually right.  He cannot take Starlink to South Africa, because he is white.  The South African government has just appointed a white fellow as ambassador to the US, supposedly to keep Trump calm and pretend there are no problems with deep seated hatred that has been inculcated, same as zionism and the holocaust and the universities are stuffed with an ideology that makes no sense to anyone and the general population on all sides do not understand what socialism is.  Some hate it, some consider it the beer pot in the couch where you steal from the state and all its people and then, all your costs are paid for you.  Oh dear God, I know the fellow that was just appointed or I knew him then.  And as he was suspect then, the has only grown more suspect now.

Such an incredibly complex story.

Drugs .. controls mostly cellular pathways .. makes cellular signals get there or not.  Weightloss .. I am not hungry!

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11795145/

What kind of cryptography?.  Takes one hell of a compute power to do those things.

There is another issue here besides the flow of money.  At this moment, China needs nothing from the US .. zippo, zero.  They do not need to buy a thing.

The US needs a lot from China.

I don’t know how much we will see, but the Summit Trump Xi next week will be stuff where we all wish to be a fly on the wall.

From a LAC friend .. Ollie Vargas

The US is a narco-state that works WITH drug cartels to keep Latin America in a cycle of poverty and violence. It’s been confirmed once again in another investigation ignored by US media. US & Israel facilitated the narco takeover of Honduras to help undermine Mexico & others.

The US is a narco-state that works WITH drug cartels to keep Latin America in a cycle of poverty and violence. It's been confirmed once again in another investigation ignored by US media.

US & Israel facilitated the narco takeover of Honduras to help undermine Mexico & others. https://t.co/EGu7EMYuCy

— Ollie Vargas (@Ollie_Vargas_) May 1, 2026

Yup – in international waters off coast of Greece.

A comment on the twitter purges .. its not only twitter …

We have a technical bi- or trifurcation.  China is protecting their usable data (usually open source) with major announcements of copyright, and it is almost impossible to embed anything, a movie or documentary or something, from there.  Gotto download and reupload and then one hits copyright.  Russia is going the same way.  Iran as well, and we had such a problem with Pepe’s documentary which was posted on PressTV, and there it would stay.  I eventually said .. no more for me … Gimme the docu and I’ll post it, but I’m not gonna fight for it.   The internet is literally splitting, with Russia making policy (Putin in this past week but the formal is not posted yet) clearly saying that they have to have a fire-walled internet inside of Russia that will stay up in the case that the internet disappears or it is attacked within Russia.  Of course VPN’s may be used and in China as well, but ALL decent VPN’s have some kind of zionist ownership.

Same over in the EU where Pavel Durov (I like him despite his personal strangeness) said it ..

41 kidnappings of crypto holders in France in 3.5 months of 2026.

Why?

🥖 French tax officials selling crypto owners’ data to criminals (Ghalia C.) + massive tax database leaks.

Now the same state also wants IDs and private messages of social media users.

More data => More leaks => More victims.

That’s why Telegram would rather leave the French market than give their corrupt bureaucrats access to private messages. 🐶

In Europe now they have that supposed age verification which is not an age verification.

And people running to Substack run directly into a straightjacket.  I have to check but there are new widgets and things to get anything from Substack out of there.  Hudson and Diesen today – let me know there is a transcript on Substack .. well, every normal internet ability is just suppressed … Copy ‘n Paste .. they’ve seemingly never heard of it.  I’m still fighting with a transcript and the help files are so full of bluster that I do not know what to use.

Telegram is different, but once you are used to it, it is very quick to browse a big stack of info.  But, learning curve is frustrating.  That thing again does not work like anything that is an internet standard.  I do like the translation ability though.

It is a bit of a struggle everywhere.  Jewel and I are busy implementing a translation engine (need one for Call to Action as the people around that do not necessarily speak English and what I was told, they are not savvy, so they don’t understand that every browser in the world can translate.  So,  sounds simple eh.  But if the googleplex is not used, it becomes quite a nightmare.  Google owns ‘translate’ on some level or another.

We’re bifurcating or trifurcating.  Russia won’t get rid of Telegram as they wish to do, and Durov will not make public the personal messaging.  So, the plans for the many terrorists actions are easily passed on.  Durov deletes if Telegram is told, quite willingly and quick, but if the privacy rules are stringent, they apply to the good folks and the bad people equally and that is the hill that Durov will die on.

One cannot remain clean these days.  Jewel used a software that is really very nice for the Call to Action .. and then someone let me know it is a Zionist product.

Oy Vey!  There goes my many years long boycott divest and sanction policy.

At least with Telegram we can still embed, if it is a small and short piece.  The longer ones .. I download and reup on our side.  There goes our server bandwidth limits and I look at the graph in tears!

Internet technologies are just a pita these days.   I’m falling back to websites like Al Mayadeen and they all have Telegram feeds and a quick scan shows what one wants to go and read and what not.  I’m on the point of registering a Chinese social media with English content since the poor guy that was really our mainstay went and died on us.  I still miss that Panda!  He was so good on things China.

The general chaos in the world is only duplicated or triplicated on the internet scene technically.  That is even before one gets to any content.  Bluesky?  As fast as what people ran to Bluesky, so fast they ran away – pretend leftists is all I saw.  That new social media that was made by an Iranian / Australian that all the journalists in the MENA were very happy about .. Oy Vey yet again.  At that stage when I looked, he had farmed the registration function out to Apple or Google.

Today, for the resistance, it is still Telegram.  We need a multilingual social media for resistance.  BRICS must build it.  But, they are sleeping.