The Hanoi Summit Collapse Reaffirms Trump’s Amateur Hour In Diplomacy – Trump has repeatedly undermined his own negotiating position by making clear that he already sees his diplomacy with North Korea as a success. [guardian]

North Korea Disputes Trump: We Didn’t Demand End To All Sanctions – North Korean officials contradicted President Trump in a rare press conference Thursday, stating that they did not, as Trump claimed, demand the removal of all sanctions. [beast]

Trump Ordered Officials To Give Jared Kushner A Security Clearance – President Trump ordered his chief of staff to grant his son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, a top-secret security clearance last year, overruling concerns flagged by intelligence officials and the White House’s top lawyer, four people briefed on the matter said. [nyt]

Girl, 11, Gives Birth To Rapist’s Child After Argentina Refuses Abortion – Campaigners condemn authorities who ignored girl’s plea ‘to remove what the old man put inside me’ [guardian]

The Downfall Of Justin Trudeau – When Justin Trudeau became Canada’s 23rd prime minister in 2015, he was immediately crowned as the darling of the political Left. [tele]

The Cape Town Late Night Taxi Scam Everybody Needs To Know About – We finally found the source of a story going around about one very lucky victim of crime, and he described to us exactly what happened. [here]

Musk Warns of Loss As Tesla Shuts Stores, Cuts Model 3 Cost – Elon Musk is delivering on one big promise — a $35,000 Model 3 — while falling short on another: that Tesla Inc.’s days of losing money are over. [bloom]

Aston Martin Shares Have Plunged 40% Since October – Aston Martin shares tanked nearly 20% in London after the UK carmaker revealed that rising costs had wiped out its profits for 2018. [cnn]

PICS: Mini Cooper Battered After Going Off Cliff Near Bakoven – A Mini Cooper went over a cliff near Bakoven in Cape Town this week, smashing into the rocks below. [n24]

State Capture Wipes Out Third Of SA’s R4.9-Trillion GDP – The cost of State Capture hovers at around R1.5-trillion over the second term of the Jacob Zuma administration. That’s just short of the R1.8-trillion Budget for 2019. Put differently: State Capture has wiped out a third of South Africa’s R4.9-trillion gross domestic product, or effectively annihilated four months of all labour and productivity of all South Africans, from hawkers selling sweets outside schools to boardroom jockeys. [mav]

YouTube Hopes To Silence Child Predators By Shuttering Comments On Videos Of Kids – YouTube announced on Thursday that it will switch off the comments section on videos showing minors, in response to reports that highlighted the problem of pedophiles leaving sexual comments on videos of children. [fort]

Stricken Michael Schumacher ‘Moves To Spend Winter In His £26m Summer Mansion – Micahel Schumacher is continuing his rehabilitation from a tragic skiing injury in the family’s stunning new £26 million Majorca villa, it has been claimed. [dm]

Oprah Winfrey To Host ‘After Neverland’ Special With Michael Jackson Accusers – Oprah Winfrey is set to host a Q&A with Michael Jackson accusers Wade Robson and James Safechuck that will air on HBO and OWN after the documentary “Leaving Neverland,” which details allegations of sexual abuse by the late pop superstar. [var]

Slapped Pupil’s Mother Decides To ‘Withdraw’ Her From Sans Souci, Plans Legal Action – The mother of the Cape Town pupil who was slapped during an altercation with her Afrikaans teacher has decided to “withdraw” her daughter from the school, her lawyers said on Thursday. [n24]

UK To Fine Facebook & Google Up To 4% Value For Not Removing ‘Hate Speech’ & ‘Fake News’ Fast Enough – The UK is rolling out a draconian new ‘harmful content’ policy that will punish social media with massive fines if they fail to remove ill-defined “hate speech,” “misinformation,” and “problematic content” quickly enough. [rt]

Why There’s So Much Buzz Around ‘Sustainable Timber’ These Days – It’s not a topic of conversation as popular as the traffic, or Eskom, or the merits of man buns, but there seems to be a buzz right now around the term ‘sustainable timber’. [here]

‘Worthless’ Painting Found To Be Priceless ‘Lost Caravaggio’ – When thieves broke into a farmhouse a few years ago, they stole a few bottles of perfume — but left behind something far more valuable. [newsau]

Leaked WhatsApp Messages Show Cardiff Offered Emiliano Sala A Commercial Flight But Player Turned It Down – A series of leaked WhatsApp messages have shown that Emiliano Sala was not ‘abandoned’ by Cardiff, as claimed by agent Willie McKay. [dm]

Inside The 2019 Vanity Fair Oscar Party – The 91st Academy Awards might be the high point of awards season, but the most celebrated names in Hollywood don’t end their evenings there. [van]

The ‘Thanks, I Hate it’ Meme Has Found Its Spiritual Home – Some memes are born to die. Others, like the “Thanks, I hate it” meme, can live eternally. [mash]

PRIME CIRCLE – Live At Suikerbossie Restaurant! – With all their international shows and festivals throughout Europe and beyond, it’s amazing Prime Circle are still able to get it together for the locals. Thankfully, they do. [here]

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