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                                                                                                               cork  on  another  vintage  in   advice of foreign bodies who
                                                                                                               Davos.  These  people  are   bear no responsibility for the
                                                                                                               unelected,  unaccountable,   damage they cause.
                                                                                                               and frankly, uninvited.
                                                                                                                                       Now  ask  yourself  why  our
                                                                                                               Then  there's  the  United   governments are dancing to
                                                                                                               Nations,  an  overfunded   their tune?
                                                                                                               talking  shop  that  couldn't   We  didn't  vote  for  this  cli-
                                                                                                               organise a sandwich, never   mate  madness  that's  shut-
                                                                                                               mind world peace. It spends   ting down farms and jacking
                                                                                                               time passing toothless reso-  up power bills. We didn't vote
                                                                                                               lutions and giving tyrants a   for speech codes and "hate
                                                                                                               global  platform,  while  real   crime"  laws  imported  from
                                                               The Global Parasite Class                       crises  go  unanswered.  The   UN treaties. And we certainly
                                                                                                               same  UN  that  lectures  de-  didn't  vote  to  prioritise
                                                              Somewhere  along  the  line,   nations how to behave.  mocracies on human rights   boatloads of undocumented
             Ons wens die volgende tagtigjariges van harte geluk   we outsourced our common   But here's the real question:   while  letting  regimes  like   migrants  over  veterans,
             met hul verjaarsdae en wens hulle alles van die beste   sense to unelected bureau-  who asked them?  China, Iran, and North Korea   pensioners, or families trying
                                                              crats  with  expensive  suits,
             vir die toekoms toe:                                                     Take  the  World  Economic   occupy  seats  on  key  com-  to make ends meet.
                                                              private  jets,  and  an  un-  Forum.  It's  a  billionaire's   mittees. It's not a joke, it's a
             We congratulate the following octogenarians on their   shakable belief in their own   book club in the Alps, where   farce.  But that's what's happening.
             birthdays and wish them everything of the best for the   importance.  Enter  the   tech  oligarchs,  corporate   The World Health Organisa-  Across  the  Western  world,
                                                                                                                                       ordinary citizens are treated
             future:                                          alphabet  soup  of  global   overlords,  and  climate   tion? Please. When COVID hit,
                                                              "governance' the UN, WHO,   evangelists gather to decide                 as second-class, taxed more,
             Maria Vorster, 83 op 5 Desember                  WEF, IMF, WTO, and others   how  the  rest  of  us  should   they  didn't  warn  the  world;   heard less, and expected to
             Judy Herman, 80 op 31 Desember                   that sound like they belong   live. Farmers should sell their   they  protected  China's   keep  quiet  while  global
             Jan Naudé, 93 op 9 Januarie 2026                 in  a  Bond  villain's  rolodex.   tractors.  Drivers  should   image.  We  got  conflicting   bureaucracies and their local
                                                                                                               advice, months of dithering,
             Thea Theron, 81 op 13 Januarie 2026              They  hold  summits,  issue   walk. And we should all eat   and  a  total  failure  to  hold   enforcers  bulldoze  national
             Hannah Buys, 89 op 15 Januarie 2026              reports,  wag  fingers,  and,   lab-grown sludge to save the   anyone  to  account.  But   values.  Meanwhile,  politi-
                                                              most critically, tell sovereign   planet,  while  they  pop  the         cians trip over themselves to
                                                                                                               worse still was how govern-  appease  the  global  com-
                                                                                                               ments,  egged  on  by  WHO   mentariat,  desperate  to  be
                                                                                                               guidance, turned into autho-  seen  as  progressive  on  the
                                                                                                               ritarian enforcers overnight.   world stage, even if their own
                                                                                                               Small  businesses  were   citizens suffer.
                                                                                                               crushed,  schools  shut,
                                                                                                               people  arrested  for  walking   You have to wonder who they
                                                                                                               on  beaches  and  families   are  really  working  for.
                                                                                                               barred  from  attending   Because it's not us.
                                                                                                               funerals.  We  were  told  to   It's  for  the  international
                                                                                                               "trust the science' but what   panels, the NGO class, the
                                                                                                               we  got  was  a  tyranny  of   Twitter  virtue-signalers,  and
                                                                                                               experts  who  never  paid  the   the  high  priests  of  "global
                                                                                                               price for being wrong.  consensus".  But  nobody
                                                                                                               Let's  be  clear,  lockdowns   asked  the  pensioner  who
                                                                                                               may have started as a public   can't  afford  heating,  or  the
                                                                                                               health  response,  but  they   single mother priced out of
                                                                                                               quickly turned into a test run   housing,  whether  she  sup-
                                                                                                               for compliance. A dry run for   ports  mass  immigration
                                                                                                               control.  Fear  was  weapo-  quotas  or  carbon  taxes
                                                                                                               nised, dissent silenced, and   dreamed  up  in  Geneva.
                                                                                                               neighbours  encouraged  to   Nobody  asked  the  truck
                                                                                                               snitch.  Lives  were  ruined,   driver  or  the  farmer  or  the
                                                                                                               livelihoods  destroyed,  and   laid-off  factory  worker
                                                                                                               civil  liberties  shredded,  all   whether they agreed to hand
                                                                                                               while  the  so-called  experts   over national sovereignty to
                                                                                                               contradicted  themselves   a  cabal  of  international
                                                                                                               daily. We must never, under   ideologues.
                                                                                                               any  circumstances,  allow   I sure as hell didn't.
                                                                                                               that level of state overreach   It's  not  cooperation  any-
                                                                                                               again,  especially  on  the
                                                                                                                                       more,  it's  colonisation  in  a
                                                                                                                                       suit  and  tie,  democracy,
                                                                                                                                       inverted.
                                                                                                                                       And  yet,  we  keep  funding
                                                                                                                                       them. We keep bending the
                                                                                                                                       knee.  We  keep  acting  as  if
                                                                                                                                       these  bloated  bodies  are
              The Reporter which is registered at the Post Office as                                                                   sacred  cows  rather  than
              a  newspaper  is  printed  and  published  by  the                                                                       sacred scams.
              proprietors,  Barkly  East  Reporter  cc  (Reg  No.                                                                      It's time to call it what it is.
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              East.                                                                       5:10pm                                       serving  the  people,  they're
                                                                                                                                       serving  themselves.  They're
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              by the proprietors.
                                                                                                                                       they survive by draining the
                                                                                                                                       authority  of  nations,  the
                                                                                                                                       wealth of taxpayers, and the
                                                                                                                                       voice of the people.
                                                                                                                                       So  maybe  it's  time  we
                                                                                                                                       reminded  them  and  our
                                                                                                                                       governments  how  this  is
              Hierdie  lys  van  funksies  en  gebeure    word                                                                         supposed  to  work.  Power
              gepubliseer  in  ‘n  poging  om  te  verhoed  dat                                                                        flows  from  the  bottom  up,
              belangrike fondsinsameling pogings bots. Funksies                                                                        not the top down. We don't
              geplaas op voorwaarde dat ‘n advertensie later                                                                           need these unelected busy-
              geplaas  word.  ‘n  Rekening  sal  gestuur  word                                                                         bodies dictating our futures.
              indien daar nie ‘n advertensie geplaas word nie.                                                                         And  if  our  elected  leaders
                                                                                                                                       keep  taking  orders  from
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                                                                                                                                       means  anything,  it  means
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                                                                                                                                       consent.  And  we  never
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