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Mayor Rob Ford Votes Against Nelson Mandela and Olympic Athletes

Ezra Grant — Thu, 03 Apr 2014 13:19:50 +0000

What could be controversial about the city of Toronto congratulating Canada’s Olympic and Paralympic athletes? Ask Rob Ford. The Toronto mayor on Wednesday cast the sole ‘no’ vote on a City Council motion to offer the athletes kudos. Minutes earlier, he also was the only council member to vote against a proposal to name a […]

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Contents of Mandela’s Last Will Revealed

Ezra Grant — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 01:05:21 +0000

Nelson Mandela left portions of his roughly $4.1-million estate to his wife Graca Machel, family members, staff, schools and the ANC, according to a summary of his will released Monday. Two months after the death of the 95-year-old South African statesman, lawyers said wife Graca was entitled to half the estate, but may opt to […]

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Nelson Mandela’s Will to be Made Public Today

Ezra Grant — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 11:59:03 +0000

The dying wishes of South Africa’s anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela will be revealed on Monday, the Constitutional Court announced. “The executors in the estate… invite you to a media briefing on the contents of his last will and testament,” the court’s vice president, Dikgang Moseneke, said in a statement Sunday nearly two months after Mandela […]

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PIC – Is George Bush Flirting at Nelson Mandela’s Memorial?

Ezra Grant — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 16:38:26 +0000

So President Obama went to the Nelson Mandela Memorial a few days ago and the right wing media couldn’t control themselves when this photo went public. They were quick to point out that President Obama was flirting and Michelle Obama was obviously the angry black woman. After all, she is black and she is… a […]

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Mandela’s Fake Sign Interpreter Speaks – Says He’s Schizophrenic

Ezra Grant — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 12:54:09 +0000

JOHANNESBURG — The South African sign language interpreter accused of using “fake” signs at Nelson Mandela’s memorial service this week said he suffered a schizophrenic episode at the event during which he hallucinated and heard voices. Thamsanqa Jantjie made the admissions to Johannesburg’s Star newspaper Thursday following allegations that have led to him being called […]

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Jon Stewart to the “Media” – “What The F*ck Is Wrong With Us?”

Ezra Grant — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 02:14:39 +0000

It was a memorial service for one of the most important man on the face of the earth. But if you listened to the American media earlier this week, the story was not about Mandela or his amazing accomplishments in ending Apartheid, or becoming South Africa’s first black president, or his underlining amazing quality of […]

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‘Fake’ Sign Language Interpreter Marred Mandela Memorial

MelodyM — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 22:28:58 +0000

As President Obama and other world leaders spoke Tuesday in Johannesburg at a memorial for Nelson Mandela, a man stood nearby and appeared to be doing sign language interpretation. Many in the deaf community are outraged because the man appeared to be faking. Pedro Ugarte /AFP/Getty Images There’s outrage among many in the deaf community over […]

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Right Wing Nut Compares George Zimmerman to Nelson Mandela and Mother Teresa

Ezra Grant — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 03:22:32 +0000

So all George Zimmerman had to do was murder an innocent teenager. That’s it! That’s all he had to do for these Republican nuts to compare him to Nelson Mandela and Mother Teresa! His name is Jack Cashill. He is a contributor to a right wing blog called “World Net Daily.” Cashill, a huge defender of George […]

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President Shook Hands with Raúl Castro Castro – White House Says it Wasn’t Planned

Ezra Grant — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 21:41:04 +0000

White House aide Ben Rhodes told reporters the two exchanged no words more substantive than a greeting. The Cuban government said the gesture may show the “beginning of the end of the US aggressions”. The US broke off diplomatic ties with Cuba in 1961 as Fidel Castro aligned with the Soviet Union in the Cold […]

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President Obama Compares Mandela to Lincoln

Ezra Grant — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 13:49:47 +0000

Prepare for the Republican freak out in 3, 2, 1… President Obama at a memorial on Tuesday in South Africa called the late Nelson Mandela “the last great liberator of the 20th century” who “earned his place in history through struggle and shrewdness” along with “persistence and faith.” Under a rainy sky at the start […]

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Limbaugh: They Think Mandela’s Death is “All About Obama”

Ezra Grant — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 16:45:24 +0000

Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh lashed out the press and the White House this Friday for making Nelson Mandela’s death “all about Obama.” “Without Mandela there might not have been an Obama? I’ll tell you who’s putting this out there. It’s Obama doing everything and anything he can to link himself to Mandela, and the […]

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For Mandela, The Process Was Not Ideal, But the Outcome is Undeniably

Ezra Grant — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 12:01:44 +0000

What kind of world are we living in, when the man responsible for freeing millions of people from an oppressed system, is denounced and dismissed as if ending such a horrible system as apartheid is a common, everyday routine. When Nelson Mandela died at the age of ninety five, people from around the world recognized […]

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South Carolina Sheriff is Defying President’s Orders on How to Honor Mandela

Ezra Grant — Sat, 07 Dec 2013 13:30:57 +0000

A South Carolina sheriff is defying the orders of President Obama to honor the passing of Nelson Mandela by lowering the flag at half staff. Sheriff Rick Clark made his promise in a Facebook post to keep flying the flag at the Pickens County Sheriff’s Office at full height. “I usually don’t post political items, but today […]

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Rick Santorum Compares Apartheid to Repealing Obamacare

Ezra Grant — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 22:15:41 +0000

In a Thursday interview on Fox News, failed Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum had the audacity to compare the struggles of Nelson Mandela and his decades long fight against apartheid, to the Republican’s petty political game of trying to repeal Obamacare. Said Santorum; “He was fighting against some great injustice, and I would make the […]

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Ted Cruz Post Facebook Tribute to Mandela – His Facebook Fans go Nuts

Ezra Grant — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 18:52:50 +0000

This is really a snapshot of the Republican party and the morally deficient base that makes up the party. Nelson Mandela, a world-renowned and world respected leader passed away this week, and although it wasn’t expected, Ted Cruz actually said something nice about the man. He took to his Facebook page and wrote this: Nelson […]

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Today’s Quote – How to Be Truly Free by Nelson Mandela

Ezra Grant — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 01:29:05 +0000

“As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison,” – Nelson Mandela

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Rest In Peace Nelson Mandela

Ezra Grant — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 22:03:28 +0000

Former South African President Nelson Mandela has died at age 95 of complications from a recurring lung infection. The anti-apartheid leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate was a beloved figure around the world, a symbol of reconciliation from a country with a brutal history of racism. Mandela was released from prison in 1990 after nearly […]

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George H.W Bush Issued Statement Announcing The Death of Nelson Mandela

Ezra Grant — Sun, 01 Sep 2013 22:32:21 +0000

Of course, Nelson Mandela is alive. He was in fact, discharged from the hospital today. Bush however, got the wrong information and quickly issued this statement. The former president’s statement read: “Barbara and I mourn the passing of one of the greatest believers in freedom we have had the privilege to know. As President, I […]

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Nelson Mandela Released From Hospital

Ezra Grant — Sun, 01 Sep 2013 13:19:04 +0000

Johannesburg (CNN) — Nelson Mandela has been discharged from the Pretoria hospital where he had been receiving treatment since June, the South African president’s office said Sunday. He will continue his recovery at home. “Madiba’s condition remains critical and is at times unstable,” President Jacob Zuma’s office said, referring to the revered leader’s clan name. “Nevertheless, […]

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Love And War: 15 Facts About The Real Winnie Mandela

Blu — Sun, 07 Jul 2013 00:56:00 +0000

Her husband Nelson Mandela had just been sentenced to life imprisonment, but she was still strong enough to say, “I will continue the struggle.” 1. Winnie Madikizela was born on September 26, 1936 in the village of Mbongweni, Bizana, in the Transkei, South Africa. She was the fourth of eight children. Her father, Columbus, was minister […]

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Nelson Mandela ‘in Vegetative State and Family Advised to Switch Off Life Support’

MelodyM — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 17:34:49 +0000

Suffering: Nelson Mandela was in a vegetative state Getty Nelson Mandela is now in a “permanent vegetative state” and doctors have advised his family to switch his life support machine off. They have told the family there is no chance the anti-apartheid icon will recover. The news was disclosed in court documents lodged in the explosive […]

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President Obama in Jail…

Ezra Grant — Mon, 01 Jul 2013 11:10:22 +0000

President Obama yesterday stood alone in the cramped Robben Island prison cell in South Africa that once held Nelson Mandela, gazing out at the blue sky through a barred window. Obama, who says his political career was inspired by Mandela’s nonviolent fight against apartheid, again drew inspiration by touring the penal island with First Lady […]

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Mandela Family Fights Over Burial While Mandela Fights For His Life

MelodyM — Sun, 30 Jun 2013 17:20:16 +0000

It’s been said that the biggest family fights occur during weddings and funerals. But while the world prays for Nelson Mandela as he holds on to his life, his family is in court fighting…each other. According to the Los Angeles Times, Mandela’s grandson, Mandela, was order to return the bodies of Nelson Mandela’s three dead children […]

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Another Day Passes, And Nelson Mandela Still In Critical Condition

Ezra Grant — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 16:40:44 +0000

After hours of vigils and secret family meetings, South Africans awoke to another day of unease Wednesday as ailing anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela remained hospitalized in critical condition. “Former President Nelson Mandela’s condition remains unchanged in hospital and doctors continue to do their best to ensure his recovery, well-being and comfort,” the government said in […]

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Nelson Mandela Now in Critical Condition

MelodyM — Sun, 23 Jun 2013 22:12:52 +0000

Nelson Mandela was in critical condition Sunday after a deterioration in his health, and doctors “are doing everything possible” for him, South Africa’s government said. The office of President Jacob Zuma said that on Sunday evening the president had visited Mandela, the former president of the country who was imprisoned for nearly three decades as […]

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Nelson Mandela Hospitalized: Former South African President in ‘Serious But Stable Condition’

MelodyM — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 14:02:35 +0000

Nelson Mandela, the former president of South Africa, is in “serious but stable condition” after contracting a lung infection, South Africa officials said. The 94-year-old Nobel Peace prize winner’s “condition deteriorated and he was transferred to a Pretoria hospital,” early Saturday morning according to statement from the office of South African President Jacob Zuma. “The former President is receiving […]

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How Smooth Is President Obama? – Video

Ezra Grant — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:23:21 +0000

Even with babies, the smoothness of President Obama soothes, and it’s evident in the following video, where First Lady Michelle Obama literally had her hands full with an unhappy baby. President Obama, standing nearby and observing the situation, stepped in, taking the little one, and immediately calming the situation. Now, if only he could do […]

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