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Posted by: Fabienne 2 years, 9 months agoFrom the article: "The Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and 49 other antigovernment protesters were sent to a Harare hospital for treatment on Tuesday, two days after the police arrested and beat them for their efforts to hold a protest meeting.The violence continued to draw international condemnation, including an unusual, if muted, rebuke on Tuesday from neighboring South Africa..."
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bobo-in-texas
March 14, 2007, 3:55 p.m.This is what the citizens of Venezuela can look forward to. They are already facing food shortages despite the oil wealth.
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KingOfTruth
March 15, 2007, 1:07 a.m.Great.....once again we the the unintended consequences(I hope they are) of the radical leftwing Demlibs policies that put the marxist Mugabe in power who then destroyed the food producing capabilty of the country by taking all of the white farmers land and distributing it to blacks.....what a nice Demlibs socialist type of plan......when will they ever learn.....Jimmy Carter had a policy of imposing sanctions on Rhodesia, and, after Bishop Abel Muzorewa was elected Prime Minister, Carter protested that the Marxists Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo had been excluded from the elections. Strong pressure from the United States and the United Kingdom prompted new elections in what was then called Zimbabwe Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).
So this is another Jmmy Carter caused mess.....
"Zimbabwe, which has the world's fourth-worst AIDS epidemic, overtook Swaziland as the country with the world's lowest life expectancy, data released today by the World Health organization showed,"
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rightfromwrong
March 14, 2007, 9:26 a.m.There is no doubt that Mugabe has wrecked this country which was once the envy of many other African countries.
But America should also be retrospective of it's own faulty policies whereby they only care if it suits it's own interests. There is this agenda which was in place and put to Clinton when he was president but he refused. Bush was there man though and he was easily manipulated and of course he has never made a mistake(LOL)
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WCFIELDS
March 14, 2007, 11:35 a.m.Zimbabwe is totally a Liberal project. I just wish y'all could have been here 28 years ago to hear the Silly People hooting and hollering about the demise of Rhodesia and the raising up of "Zimbabwe". Right away things started to go wrong. You don't hear the Left talking about Zimbabwe much anymore. 28 years of total disaster and the Left has moved on to more FUN topics.
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WCFIELDS
March 14, 2007, 12:13 p.m.I could be wrong but I betcha this article isn't gonna get a lot of attention from the Left. The silly party jist don't want to talk about it.
Now, put up an article of a really "important" event, such as "AL GORE AND GEORGE BUSH COME TO BLOWS OVER GLOBAL WARMING", and they'll all come out of the woodwork.
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Murambatsvina
March 14, 2007, 12:34 p.m.Robert Mugabe treats anyone who is not in favour of his "ways" with distain. It is called in English "Clean out the filth". This applies to whites who are booted off their lands whereas blacks are simply relocated to "better" places.
Not unlike what Cecil Rhodes did during his reign. Only he treated the blacks as slaves and whites as royalty.
Were it not for the British,German's ,Italian's , Dutch, French, Portugal & Spanish who colonized every country in Africa except Liberia & Ethiopia Africa would be a much better place now. Still largely living in the stone age but better. Look at Rwanda where favouring one group of people & marginalizing the other as the Dutch directly did,resulted in the death of millions. When it comes right down to it both sides(far left & far right) are extremely vicious to the other. Examples Stalin,Pol Pot,Osama, Mao,Mugabe on one side. Hitler,Franco,Mussolini, Bush, Rhodes on the other.
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Murambatsvina
March 14, 2007, 12:36 p.m.Robert Mugabe treats anyone who is not in favour of his "ways" with distain. It is called in English "Clean out the filth". This applies to whites who are booted off their lands whereas blacks are simply relocated to "better" places.
Not unlike what Cecil Rhodes did during his reign. Only he treated the blacks as slaves and whites as royalty.
Were it not for the Europeans who colonized every country in Africa except Liberia & Ethiopia Africa would be a much better place now. Still largely living in the stone age but better. Look at Rwanda where favouring one group of people & marginalizing the other as the Dutch directly did,resulted in the death of millions. When it comes right down to it both sides(far left & far right) are extremely vicious to the other. Examples Stalin,Pol Pot,Osama, Mao,Mugabe on one side. Hitler,Franco,Rhodes,Bush, Mussolini on the other.
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Murambatsvina
March 14, 2007, 11:16 p.m.No it is not all whitey's fault at all. But when they colonized the the country they did not exactly treat the blacks on an equal footing. Perhaps you have heard of the slave trade. Many of the things Mugabe is doing to the whites was done to the blacks under Cecil Rhodes. It's a crime either way in my books but if you don't think them blacks are as gawd as ya thers nah takking to yah.
Brooklyn Yeesh! the only thing I know about Brooklyn is what I saw on Welcome Back Kotter in the seventies. Fourth largest city in the U.S.A. Never been there,probably never will be either.
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WCFIELDS
March 14, 2007, 11:30 p.m."...if you don't think them blacks are as gawd as ya thers nah takking to yah." No one said nuttin' bout dat, did dey?
However, I've read that Mugabe and Co. threw thousands of white farmers off their land and placed "them blacks" on the land with predictable results.
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ConquerorWyrm
March 15, 2007, 3:12 a.m.DREAMING I SAW DEATH AT CAFE ZIMBABWE
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I saw Death in Africa last night wielding a bloody scythe
reaping through rows of children once concieved with hopeful seed
in a harvest too horrid to be seen in my dreams.
Gardens of stones to mark the bones of victims sprang forth
from every drop of human blood to spill upon the earth.
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Bio-chemical warfare waged in the stomach of a waif;
her dark eyes beautiful, tragic in a drawn mask of despair.
Into those eyes, as deep, as rich as pools of Iraqi tea,
I saw Death
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Despair poured out upon the ground the last decanter of Hope
while Misery sipped her tea sweetened with a touch of Fear.
Not far away, Tragedy and Lord Hunger sat to chat;
much was discussed, the human race, a little of this and that
And sitting around waiting, as if with amusement on his mind,
I saw Death
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