Restriction by Andrew Zaloumis

Abusing Powers To Restrict

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Andrew has many ways to achieve his objective to hinder people from having a joyful summer Holiday. This is one of many ...

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Andrew Zaloumis vs Public Rights

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World Heritage Failing Us

So I went down to the beach this morning to do my weekly fishing report and run into all sorts of obstacles. Now personally I don't have a problem with traffic flow control this time of the year. The thing is the intimidation factor behind this Hubris human being. Let us grow up and look from an adult perspective ... well this is now in hind site of watching the video ... Because the implementation is grade R mentality I went total tantrum in the video.

Andrew Zaloumis has no right to close a public road. We, the public, allow him to do it because it is in our best interest this time of the year, but the fact doen change. He could implement this with car guards from the local community. The rights of the public stays the same. Only when SAPS or Traffic Officers man such a check point do we waiver our rights. Then the laws of South Africa is invoked. 

Using BIG Men in camouflage uniform is nothing else than bully tactics. There is no reason to bully holiday makers. You ask them for their coporation. They will give it. 99.9% of the time.

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Christmas Box and Apartheid

The bad old Apartheid Regime of South Africa,  as the world is SO aware, everything about it was bad and had to be gotten rid of.
There was one tradition, if I may call it that, and was known as Christmas Box. This was when everyone, in the White suburbs gave a present to the service people. Mainly I remember the Dustbin Boys, the men that collected the rubbish. This time of year they would wait at the gate and people would come out and give them their year end present. It could be money, clothing or food. I see people are leaving goods out today for these men.
A few years I went to a function and the guard at the gate asked for a Christmas Box, I gave that some thought. After a minute or so I explained to him that Christmas Box was a part of the terrible Apartheid Era, and we had put all that behind us, and the Christmas Box had to go with all the other stuff, Pass Laws etc, because we were a New South Africa. He did not like that and insisted that I give him his Christmas Box as if it was his right as a Black Man to get this from me, a White Man. This was not going to happen, but he would not open the gate until he got what he thought was his due. At this point my politeness was lost and I told him to go ask Mandela and the  *^#! ANC for a Christmas Box and if he did not open the gate I would Bliksem him. So much for my Christmas spirit.
Call me strange by when you get rid of something you get rid of it completely, and don’t just keep the parts you liked. Anyhow the New Apartheid laws, like BEE, both the President and the leader of the opposition party, Malema, calling for the death of all Whites, and the Farm Murders have made me not so kindly disposed to the average Black man I see on the street.

That is not racist, it falls squarely under SELF PRESERVATION.

Merry Xmas South Africa.

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Christmas – Marketing – Diamonds

Christmas is now pasted all over, the internet, magazines and billboards, one would think that it is the most successful marketing ploy ever. Not so. Yes, it generates more sales than any other marketing done, but is not client specific, anyone can jump on the band wagon.
I believe the best marketing ploy ever, was done by some people in my own country, Harry of De Beers. With clever use of an ancient tradition and a bit of deceit; they sold diamonds, So well indeed, that even the Great Depression did not affect their sales at all.
Here is the story:
Anthropologists have us believe this tradition originated from a Roman custom in which wives wore rings attached to small keys, indicating their husbands’ ownership.
In 1477, Archduke Maximillian of Austria commissioned the very first diamond engagement ring on record for his wife-to-be, Mary of Burgundy. This sparked a trend for diamond rings among European aristocracy and nobility.
The discovery of massive diamond mines in South Africa in the late 19th century,  for the first time flooded world markets with diamonds. The British businessmen operating the South African mines recognized that only by maintaining the fiction that diamonds were scarce and inherently valuable could they protect their investments and buoy diamond prices. They did so by launching a South Africa–based cartel, De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd. in in 1888. This was only the first step.
In 1938, with the Depression and the rumblings of war, Harry Oppenheimer, the De Beers founder’s son, recruited the New York–based ad agency N.W. Ayer to market his  diamonds in the USA, already the practice of giving diamond engagement rings had been gaining traction for years, but where the diamonds sold were increasingly small and low-quality. Not like old Harry’s. You may have heard the expression “Blood Diamonds” more recently, and the thought that goes behind that expression? It is quite laughable really. A very large reason for the Anglo Boer War revolved around the findings of a massive stone and then a large deposit of diamonds at Kimberly, South Africa. Diamonds were bloody almost from the start.
Ayer set out to persuade young men that diamonds (and only diamonds) were synonymous with romance, and that the measure of a man’s love (plus  his personal and professional success) was directly proportional to the size and quality of the diamond he purchased. Young women, in turn, had to be convinced that courtship concluded, invariably, in a diamond.
Enter Hollywood. Movie idols, the very paragons of romance … to the unwashed masses ….would give, on screen, diamonds to show their undying and indestructible love. Still photographs  of glamorous movie stars swathed in diamonds were everywhere. By now we are in 1947, and Ayer launched the slogan, “A Diamond is Forever.” Not only that, they actually arranged lectures at High Schools all around America, to convince  both the girls and the boys, that the only way to proclaim undying love was with a diamond. The bigger the better no doubt, cunning b#^*ds!
The rest as they say is history.
But the biggest con? As a lot of my friends that have been in Namibia and Angola know, diamonds, even high quality diamonds, are not rare at all.
I did not mention, back in 1888, De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd. (now De Beers), meticulously extending the company’s control over all facets of the diamond trade in the ensuing decades. That included how many would be released at any given time. Clever chap old Harry.
Merry Christmas.

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Religion 101 - Should the church pay taxes?

First we have to look at the modern reasons why the church does not pay tax. As usual any research ends up in the American way of thinking; but the question of taxation and churches predates the American Constitution by centuries. Tax exemption for churches grew out of this history, not out of early American political theory. We can get back to that in a while.
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”

This is some of the reasoning:

 If we tax churches, then we will need to tax all not-for-profit organizations.
Now that is bloody debatable! A picture says a thousand words…..

To tax churches, government would need to have the (currently unconstitutional) authority to audit and regulate churches.

So the church is the IDEAL place to run illegal activities, launder money for arms, drugs and maybe even Rhino horn. Forgive me but I am a pretty cynical chap.


There are too many modern arguments put forward for non-taxation of the church to list them all here. Let’s go back a few centuries.


In the Old Testament, priests were exempted from taxation by Pharaoh (Gen. 47:26) and by Persia’s King Artaxerxes (Ezra 7:24).

Oh, so two pagan leaders gave the priests a break. The habit of following pagan traditions in Christianity is a  longer than I thought. Christmas is coming up and  the memes shall be all over Facebook soon, putting Christ back into Christmas etc. God give me strength.

This can go round and round forever, the best way to solve this is to see what Jesus said.

(Matthew 22:15-22; Luke 20:19-26)
13 Later, they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to catch Jesus in His words. 14“Teacher,” they said, “we know that You are honest and are swayed by no one. Indeed, You are impartial and teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. Now then, is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not? Should we pay them or not?”
15 But Jesus saw through their hypocrisy and said, “Why are you testing Me? Bring Me a denariusb to inspect.” 16So they brought it, and He asked them, “Whose likeness is this? and whose inscription?”
“Caesar’s,” they answered.
17 Then Jesus told them, “Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.”
And they marveled at Him.

America had better update the Dollar, a pic of Trump would do nicely!