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unionist
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posted 11 July 2008 07:43 PM
BBC NewsHere are the close friends of the suffering African people who wanted the U.N. to interfere in the internal affairs of Zimbabwe: Belgium Burkina Faso Costa Rica Croatia France Italy Panama UK United States And here are the bad countries which want to see the suffering of the African people continue: China (vetoed) Libya Russia (vetoed) South Africa Vietnam Indonesia abstained. quote: The US ambassador to the UN, Zalmay Khalilzad, said Russia's veto raised "questions about its reliability as a G8 partner".A BBC correspondent at the UN says the failure of the resolution is a major blow for the United States and Britain.
Indeed.
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Doug
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posted 19 July 2008 03:29 PM
Meanwhile, things in Zimbabwe are just getting silly: quote: Zimbabwe is to introduce a bank-note worth Z$100bn in response to rampant inflation - but the note will barely cover the cost of two loaves of bread. Some Zimbabweans are already calling for higher denominations in a country where the official annual inflation rate has exceeded 2,200,000%...."Nowadays, for my expenses a day, I need about Z$500 billion," one resident said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7515823.stm They're going to have to start using scientific notation on their money soon.
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skarredmunkey
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posted 20 July 2008 01:44 AM
The Lyndon Larouche PAC, Fidel?Seriously? Mmmkay... but for those of us who don't want Western imposed sanctions but still recognize Mugabe for what he really is, here is the progressive view from COSATU/ZCTU (also here, here), and the Green Left Weekly (Australian). [ 20 July 2008: Message edited by: skarredmunkey ]
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Fidel
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posted 20 July 2008 10:55 AM
quote: Originally posted by skarredmunkey: The Lyndon Larouche PAC, Fidel?Seriously?
Sure, he's talked about the "currently onrushing catastrophic collapse" of the banking and financial system for some time. Several empires actually collapsed after WWI, then a few more after WWII, then the USSR in 1990. And now the USSA is looking ripe on the vine. Larouche is more credible than any of the "thundering nitwits" running the show today. Besides, he's 86 years old and can speak freely about the succession of kleptocracies which have deliberately bankrupted America. Here's what Dambuzo Mapuranga had to say about MDC and powerful white neocolonial influences interfering in Zimbabwe's electoral democracy: quote: To quote Thornycroft, “… when the MDC started in 2000 what a pity that they were addressing people in Sandton mostly white people in Sandton north of Johannesburg instead of being in Dar es Salam or Ghana or Abuja. They failed to make contact with Africa for so long, they were in London, we’ve seen it again, Morgan Tsvangirai’s just been in America.” The kith and kin element will always haunt Tsvangirai on his dark road to the State House. Foot-in-mouth Blair in 2004 made it clear where Tsvangirai’s allegiances lay when he proclaimed that he was working with the MDC to bring about regime change in Zimbabwe.
The white devils are not even careful about expressing their intentions to interfere in Zimbabwe politically. Can you imagine Cuba and China funding Nader in the U.S. and NDP here in Canada to the dollar tune of making a similar impact on North American elections? It wouldn't be tolerated. U.S. hawks and Canadian stooges would probably think it an act of war. [ 20 July 2008: Message edited by: Fidel ]
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Fidel
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posted 21 July 2008 02:32 PM
quote: Originally posted by Stockholm:
Good! They were right to say that!!!
They said it all throughout the cold war and at times when U.S. soldiers and scumbag mercenary hirelings were levelling and firebombing villages, schools and hospitals from Mi Lai and Phnom Pehn to El Mozote and San Juan de Limay. [ 21 July 2008: Message edited by: Fidel ]
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Frustrated Mess
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posted 21 July 2008 05:50 PM
quote: After she woke in the dark to sweep city streets, after she walked an hour to buy less than $2 worth of food, after she cooked for two hours in the searing noon heat, Fanta Lingani served her family's only meal of the day. First she set out a bowl of corn mush, seasoned with tree leaves, dried fish and wood ashes, for the 11 smallest children, who tore into it with bare hands. Then she set out a bowl for her husband. Then two bowls for a dozen older children. Then finally, after everyone else had finished, a bowl for herself. She always eats last. A year ago, before food prices nearly doubled, Lingani would have had three meals a day of meat, rice and vegetables. Now two mouthfuls of bland mush would have to do her until tomorrow. Rubbing her red-rimmed eyes, chewing lightly on a twig she picked off the ground, Lingani gave the last of her food to the children. "I'm not hungry," she said.
This is not Zimbabwe, but it is Africa
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Fidel
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posted 21 July 2008 07:14 PM
When was post-British Zimbabwe ever a well-fed country on the road to riches?Where has neoLiberal worked anywhere to do anything but pauperize and destabilize? Look at the U.S. itself after years of dregulation and privatizations since Raygun. They're a basket case on the road to serfdom. Today, 35 million Americans are food insecure - 25 million receive food stamps - and hundreds of rural communities have no basic services. Their New Deal socialist era infrastructure is falling apart, and Americans cant work enough hours in the year to pay Warshington's bills. And its because too many high value jobs have been offshored to the developing world in order that corporate America can slide out of paying American wages and taxes in support of their own society They need American-style New Deal socialism, which is proven to work right there in the land of what used to be plenty, but this time for countries like Zimbabwe. NeoLiberal is economic sabotage, a proven econ atrocity for hundreds of millions of people since start of the 1990's. [ 21 July 2008: Message edited by: Fidel ]
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posted 15 September 2008 02:49 AM
[Zimbabwe rival leaders sign historic deal to share power quote: On Monday, Mbeki introduced Mugabe as president, Tsvangirai as prime minister and Arthur Mutambara, leader of a smaller opposition faction, as deputy prime minister moments before the three signed the document.Leaders of the 14-member South African Development Community and the African Union were present at Monday's ceremony. Under the deal, Mugabe retains control of the military while Tsvangirai controls the police. Tsvangirai will head a council of ministers that will supervise the cabinet, Mugabe is to chair the cabinet, with Tsvangirai as vice-chair. ... The cabinet would have 31 members. Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front, or ZANU-PF, would have 15 cabinet seats, while Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change would have 16 and a splinter MDC faction three seats.
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