This is the only thing I care about in Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe Photo Album
I would like to know why they are missing from the coverage, save for a few sentences about cholera. Thanks, racist, Zionist MSM.
Btw, you also need to read this and this first, to understand the bulls*** lies and deceptions the Zionist s***-shovelers are slinging at you when it comes to Africa.
Turns out ALL the KILLERS are traced back to CLINTONITE GLOBALISTS and UNPROSECUTED WESTERN WAR CRIMINALS!
"US envoy, citing 'collapse' of Zimbabwe, urges action" by Donna Bryson, Associated Press | December 19, 2008
JOHANNESBURG - Zimbabwe has collapsed and the world must act now to keep it from deteriorating into Somalia-scale chaos, the top US envoy for Africa said yesterday.
US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer said questions about how much longer Zimbabwe can withstand hunger, disease and political stalemate before disintegrating ignore that "there is a complete collapse right now."
If action is not taken soon, chaos could ensue and Zimbabwe's neighbors will be calling for peacekeepers, as some are now calling for in Somalia, Frazer said during an interview in South Africa. Frazer was in southern Africa to consult with regional leaders about what can be done to help Zimbabwe. A day earlier, South African President Kgalema Motlanthe stressed that he believed a proposed unity government was the solution, and that it must be formed quickly.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, in power since independence from Britain in 1980 and seen as increasingly autocratic, and the opposition have been deadlocked over a power-sharing agreement since September. Frazer said that while the United States was not saying the power-sharing agreement has no chance, its proposal is that Mugabe yield to a caretaker government to organize new elections.
Give it a day and see what the U.S. says tomorrow.
The United States is among Mugabe's sharpest critics, accusing him of trampling on democracy and destroying a once prosperous and stable nation. "We think that the person who has ruined the country . . . that he needs to step down," Frazer said. "We're watching Zimbabwe become a failed state. We need to act now, proactively, in Zimbabwe."
Translation: INVASION!!!!!
The political impasse comes amid a mounting economic and humanitarian crisis that has pushed thousands of Zimbabweans to the point of starvation and left 1,111 dead of cholera since August. The latest figures, compiled by the World Health Organization and released yesterday, show that the number of cases has risen to 20,581 since the start of the outbreak.
Also yesterday, Frazer said the United States was pressing for a UN-sanctioned peacekeeping force for Somalia that would be staffed by Africans. A day earlier at the United Nations, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that during the past four months he has asked at least 50 nations and three international organizations to support the council's request for a multinational force to stabilize Somalia.
He said the "lukewarm or negative" replies he had received led him to believe there is almost no international support for a UN force.Good! The U.N. brings nothing but globalist trouble!!!
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O.K., about that power-sharing:
"US rejects Zimbabwe unity deal, envoy says; Believes Mugabe won't share rule" by Karin Brulliard, Washington Post | December 22, 2008
JOHANNESBURG - The United States will not support a unity government in Zimbabwe that includes President Robert Mugabe, a top American envoy told reporters in South Africa yesterday.
Took 'em what, three days? No wonder our word is shit in the world!
A power-sharing agreement between Zimbabwe's opposition parties and Mugabe, who has ruled Zimbabwe with increasing severity for 28 years, is "not credible with Mugabe as president" because he appears unwilling to share control, said Jendayi Frazer, US assistant secretary of state for African affairs.
Not a problem when the name is George W. Bush.
The comments, which came days after Frazer echoed calls by President Bush and other world leaders that Mugabe step down, indicated a shift in US policy toward a power-sharing deal signed in September.
What?
The United States, like other Western nations, initially expressed support for the agreement and pledged to ease sanctions and send aid dollars if the deal gave opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai true power....
Tsvangirai must be the West's man then!
And I WANT the sanctions lifted and aid restored because of the BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE in my photo album, folks! F*** politics when people are suffering!
Last week, the Mugabe government accused Britain of having launched the cholera outbreak as part of a "genocidal onslaught."
Actually, he could be right; U.S. did that to Iraq on purpose during wars and sanctions.
Citing that claim, Frazer yesterday called Mugabe "a man who's lost it, who's losing his mind, who's out of touch with reality."
Actually, that would accurately reflect your boss, beeeeee-ach!
Never mind the fact that methinks thou doth protest too much!
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Of course, the appropriate demonization must be done.
I love this little extract from the piece:
"Western leaders and news media ignored the massacres"
Yeah, right, they "ignored" the massacres and slaughter!!
I guess that's why UMass awarded Mugabe a degree, huh?
C'mon, readers, the WEST SUPPORTED THOSE WAR CRIMES!!!
That's why they were "ignored" until NOW!!
HARARE, Zimbabwe - For a very literal example of Robert Mugabe's staying power, look no further than a recent crisis summit of southern African leaders designed to settle the political impasse that has seen the longtime Zimbabwean leader cling stubbornly to the presidency.
The leaders wanted him to leave the room so they could deliberate in private. He refused.
Between their politeness and his famous capacity to intimidate, the presidents meekly backed down. Mugabe stayed. Be it with his fellow African leaders, the West, or the Zimbabwean opposition, the 84-year-old Mugabe has outmaneuvered - and outlasted - his critics for more than a quarter of a century, through a careful calibration of the international reaction and domestic effect of his actions. As close as the end sometimes seems, Mugabe has managed to survive.
To help understand his long tenure, one need only rewind to the 1980s and the massacres of his early years in power, when he was a conquering hero who had thrown out the white minority regime of Ian Smith. The name of the murderous operation, Gukurahundi, was poetic: the wind that blows away the chaff before the spring rains.
Mugabe's political opponents were the chaff. The spring rains were supposed to signify the golden era of a one-party (or rather, a one-man) state. Western leaders and news media ignored the massacres of the "dissidents" by the army's crack Five Brigade in Matabeleland province in southern Zimbabwe. Some estimates put the dead at 20,000.
Mugabe drew his most important lesson from the West's blas?? reaction, analysts believe: that there was a level of "acceptable" violence that would escape international condemnation but still destroy any threat to his power.
"He's never, ever been frightened of war," said analyst Tony Reeler of the Research & Advocacy Unit, an independent think tank in Harare, the capital. Mugabe learned that he could get away with "subliminal terror" that would not trigger international intervention, he said.
"It's just below the threshold that upsets people, and it's deliberately so," he said.
The shadow of the Gukurahundi campaign has followed Zimbabwe since the early 1980s. Mugabe repeatedly revived its message, that opponents would be killed or tortured. But those who felt the rushing "wind" that was Gukurahundi needed no reminding.
"It's painful to remember. It's a story told in blood," said a 61-year-old retired military officer who was attached to the Five Brigade when it raided villages in 1982, arresting the men, interrogating and torturing them to identify opposition guerrillas. Like others cited in this report, he spoke on condition of anonymity, fearing repercussions.
He said he saw thousands of people killed. Women were shut into thatched huts and burned alive. Even the children were targets. Others who were behind Gukurahundi are now among Mugabe's closest and most trusted allies.
Emerson Mnangagwa was head of security when the massacres started and is now Mugabe's heir-apparent. He was succeeded as security chief in the 1980s by Sydney Sekeremayi, now defense minister. The Five Brigade was commanded by Perence Shiri, the current air force commander.
Like Mugabe, all are obsessed with hanging on to their assets and avoiding prosecution. Their only guarantee of that is clinging to power. Mugabe has rekindled the terror whenever he has perceived a political threat. He unleashed violence in elections in 2000 and 2002 after the rise of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change. He seized land from white farmers beginning in 2000 because many supported the MDC. In 2005, he launched Murambatsvina, or Operation Clean Out the Filth, evicting 700,000 urban people in MDC strongholds from their homes.
With every operation, he grew less popular among the people - but more feared. It seemed that he no longer could distinguish between the two. On election day in March of this year, Mugabe affected the air of a leader so popular that he needn't concern himself with the opposition. He had shown extraordinary energy in the campaign, blitzing several rallies a day clad in his favorite election garb: a peaked cap and a yellow, lime green or red suit.
"Why should I cheat?" he said after casting his vote. "The people are there supporting us, day in, day out. The moment people stop supporting you, then that's the moment you should quit politics."
After his shocking defeat by MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai in the first-round presidential vote, he blamed traitors in his ZANU-PF party, according to several party sources. Enraged, he accused top ZANU-PF figures of "decampaigning," or campaigning against him.
He told military and ruling party leaders that he was ready to step down, according to numerous party sources. But rather than ceding control to the "securocrats" and generals, he has instead strengthened his position with these hard-line forces in the party, the sources say.
"It was done strategically," a ZANU-PF insider said. "It was to jolt people into action, and it had the desired effect."--more --"
You know, the guy probably is a monster; however, I simply no longer trust any accounts provided by my lying, obfuscating, agenda-pushing, war-promoting, Zionist-controlled, Amerikan War Daily press. That's the cost of perpetual lies and propagand-pushing!
And no sooner are the words of my keyboard than....
"Congo re-exported ammunition to Zimbabwe, UN experts say; China connection alleged for arms sent from Sudan" by Reuters | December 22, 2008
Oh, the PROPAGANDA is just STAGGERING!!!
Before continuing, please keep this in mind:
"Some US officials fear the cargo aboard the MV Faina, which was seized by pirates Thursday, could end up in the hands of Al Qaeda-linked militants in Somalia.... But US officials, arms analysts, and maritime officials say the more likely original destination was southern Sudan, where the former rebel group Sudan
"Vadim Alperin was once quoted to be a "Mossad brother" running a number of clandestine front companies including one Kenyan Meat export company enjoying "good trade" with middle eastern countries covertly used for gathering intelligence from countries such as Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia"
You may now begin feasting on your bowl of Zionist slop we call "news" here in AmeriKa!
UNITED NATIONS - The Democratic Republic of the Congo re-exported more than 50 tons of ammunition to Zimbabwe earlier this year, according to a recent report by a UN group of experts for the Security Council.
In their report on UN arms trade restrictions on Congo, where factional violence has raged in the East for years, the group also said that arms it believed originated in China had been flown to Congo from Sudan....
Yeah, the Zionist MSM will "expose" this weapons-running ring.
I mean, it may be true; however, I DON'T BELIEVE IT!!!! I can NO LONGER believe ANYTHING I FIND in my AmeriKan newspapers, readers, and THAT'S SAD!!! They could PRINT the TRUTH and I would still think they are lying.
Of course, they never print the truth, so I know this must be another lying set of agenda-pushing propaganda!
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The Security Council has imposed an arms embargo on militias operating in eastern Congo. It permits arms supplies to the Congolese government army or FARDC but requires that exporters first notify a UN sanctions committee.
The experts' group said it was "aware of large amounts of ammunition arriving in eastern Congo without any notification by exporters to the sanctions committee" and that the FARDC might be exporting weapons and ammunition to other countries in the region.
How ridiculous all this is when you consider the place is awash in weapons -- most of it from the West, no doubt!!!
"As the Democratic Republic of the Congo does not produce weapons or ammunition, this stock would have been imported to the Democratic Republic of the Congo without notification and then possibly exported in violation of the original end-user agreement with the original exporter," it said.
Why do I turn and look towards Israel?
It said that between Aug. 20 and 22 of this year, a
"While this is not a violation of the arms embargo, it is an indication that the Democratic Republic of the Congo could become a transit point for weapons destined for other countries," it said.
You mean, like South Sudan?
The UN experts also said that a Congolese Boeing-707 had carried out five flights between Khartoum and the Congolese city of Kisangani to deliver military supplies to the FARDC. The group said it had "received credible information that the weapons transported originated in China."
"Credible information?" FROM WHOM?
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And NEVER FORGET that 1,400 People Die Every Day for RESOURCES in the Congo, readers! And why must so many die? Here is one reason: OIL
But back to the Zimbabweans!
"For Zimbabweans, a bleak Christmas looms; Economic, health woes grind on" by Angus Shaw, Associated Press | December 24, 2008
An man sifted through garbage in Harare, Zimbabwe, on Sunday. Amid economic collapse, there is little sign of the holidays. (Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/Associated Press)
Good God, I've seen something like that before!
HARARE, Zimbabwe - At overflowing dumpsters in Zimbabwe's capital, desperate vagrants pounced on garbage bags and fought over chicken bones and scraps of discarded food. Sewage clogged streets and most shopkeepers didn't even bother with holiday decorations.
In crumbling, largely Christian Zimbabwe, where a cholera epidemic has killed more than 1,100 people, Christmas is just another day of suffering. "There is nothing for us to celebrate. Christmas is a story of hunger," said Monica Rugare. "It is just another day of poverty, the way we are living today."
The country's Christmas tradition of city dwellers heading to the countryside with gifts of food and clothing for their relatives isn't possible this year. Annual church carol services have been subdued, if they were held at all.
Yesterday, children found a bit of cheer playing in the stinking water gushing from a broken sewer in the impoverished Harare neighborhood of Braeside.
I'm sorry, but that is OFFENSIVE and RACIST!! The kids found "CHEER" at playing in the SEWAGE?
Ten-year-old Kudzai Urere, ignoring the warnings from cholera-conscious adults as she leaped about in the murky water, said her mother had gone to search for food and would not be home until nightfall. When she did return, she would be lucky to bring home vegetables, not toys or candy.
In this country of glaring inequities, there are some who do have the leisure and cash for pastimes like golf, even if they can't escape the stench of chaos.
Just like American society, imagine that!
The sewage flowing down the streets of Braeside emptied into a stream already swollen by heavy seasonal rains. The foul-smelling water ran through a nearby golf course where a few players moved gingerly around it on the fifth fairway yesterday.
More than that, it is SHIT WATER!
Related: Shitting On Gaza, Parts I and II
THE SITUATION IN GAZA STINKS ~~ LITERALLY
Gaza Diary: Sewage on our Doorstep
Zimbabwe's chaos is opportunity for some.
I NEVER LIKE THAT terminology!
Rice: 9/11 an “enormous opportunity”
Rumsfeld: "Why Not another 911"Stories abound of President Robert Mugabe's generals selling the state's diamonds. Another scarce, government-controlled commodity is hard currency. Those close to Mugabe can buy US dollars at the low government rate and sell them on the black market for a hefty profit.
Other Zimbabweans bring in food and other goods from neighboring countries and sell them for US dollars, or have access to hard currency because they work for foreign companies or have relatives abroad. But for most Zimbabweans, the economic collapse of what was once a regional bread basket has left millions dependent on international handouts.
The cholera outbreak that has killed more than 1,100 people since August is blamed on the collapse of water and sewage facilities bereft of purification chemicals or spare parts. The waterborne disease should be easy to prevent and treat, but not in a country where medical supplies are scarce and all state hospitals have closed because they can't pay staff enough to cover the commute to work.
Doctors Without Borders listed Zimbabwe's health crisis and continuing economic collapse among its "Top 10 Humanitarian Crises of 2008," noting in a report released this week that life expectancy has plummeted to just 34 years of age, according to UN figures. Because of the crisis, some 2 million people infected with the AIDS virus have been forced to skip meals or cannot afford bus fare to clinics, it said.
Critics blame Mugabe's policies, including an often-violent campaign, beginning in 2000, to seize white-owned farms and hand them over to veterans of his guerrilla war against white minority rule. Mugabe blames Western sanctions, though the European Union and United States have targeted only Mugabe and dozens of his clique with frozen bank accounts and travel bans.
Sanctions never hurt ruleres, only the most vulnerable.
With inflation running at more than 231 million percent, the central bank has licensed shops and businesses to trade in hard currency for the sale of imported goods and farm supplies. Innocent Zuwa, a farmer, said he was unable to plant any crops in the current wet season - he has no hard currency to buy seed and fertilizer.
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Ready to invade yet? This guy is!
"Nobel laureate Tutu calls for Mugabe ouster; Hints at use of force; activist faces charges" by Angus Shaw, Associated Press | December 25, 2008
HARARE, Zimbabwe - With the death toll from Zimbabwe's cholera epidemic crossing 1,100 and the country in shambles, Nobel Peace laureate Desmond Tutu said yesterday it was time to threaten its longtime president with removal by force....
So he approved of the threats against Iraq, 'eh? What a disappointment the good bishop turned out to be. I guess that's why the agenda-pushing press is giving him play!
Asked during an interview with the BBC whether Mugabe should be removed by force, Tutu said there should "certainly be the threat of it," and he added the president should be warned that he could face prosecution at the International Criminal Court for his violent suppression of opponents....
So Tutu firmly in the globalist camp now?
As the political standoff continues, the country becomes increasingly imperiled.
Doctors Without Borders listed Zimbabwe's health crisis and continuing economic collapse among its "Top 10 Humanitarian Crises of 2008," noting in a report released this week that life expectancy has plummeted to just 34 years of age, according to UN figures. Because of the crisis, about 2 million people infected with the AIDS virus have been forced to skip meals or cannot afford bus fare to clinics for treatment, the relief group said.
I've seen that paragraph before, haven't you (see above)?
Yeah, we know, no matter HOW MANY INNOCENTS MUST SUFFER and DIE!
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