Last week, there was a lot of publicity about a shipment of arms from China destined to be delivered to Zimbabwe being stopped when local trade unionists refused to offload the shipment in Durban.
Mozambique also refused to offload the shipment, and China, after a lot of international pressure, seemed to agree that the arms would […]

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Make the people keep voting until they vote the “correct” way and until Mugabe is declared “President” again.  Except that Mugabe can never even claim to be the legitimate President of Zimbabwe.  From now on even his African neighbours will look askance at this ancient leader of terrorists with a mixture of condescension, amusement, pity […]

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That heparin contamination that killed a few dozen folks might have been a deliberate act, not an accident…well, duh…
I noted that two weeks ago…
And this is on the heels of the fake protein in cat/dog food, and the lead in the kids’s toys.
But in Africa and Asia, things are worse. The tainted cough medicine that […]

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I love conspiracy theories.
The stories often have a smidgen of truth in them, but are amplified until they become larger.
So we are now reading lots of news stories about the genitalia stealing witches in Africa and that mobs are going around killing the witches in Africa.
Actually, the problem, called Koro, is a world wide phenomenum.
Usually […]

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Rice prices have skyrocketed from 18-25 pesos/kg to 24-32 p/kg at the local Palenke.
For farmers and workers who average 100 pesos a day (roughly two dollars), this puts a strain on their budget. So to prevent rice riots, the President is planning to allow poor people to buy subsidized food, and because of the worry […]

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Twenty-four babies, and forty children under the age of six, were among some 250 people rounded up on Friday, and crammed into “filthy cells” at a small prison in one of Harare’s southern suburbs.  (Christina Lamb and John Makura, Sunday Times.)  Their parents were accused by police of “voting incorrectly” during the elections.  Meanwhile in […]

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The Wall Street Journal has an editorial essentially saying that if guns were available to Zimbabwe’s opposition, there would be less of a problem for the people to worry about government persecution and intimidation.
Reality check, please.
The majority of people in Zimbabwe belong to the Mashona tribe.
Traditionally, the Mashona are passive and friendly. They have endured […]

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Recent headlines have focussed on the “cargo of death” shipped from China to Zimbabwe last week, but in an even more sinister development, Chinese troops have been seen on the streets of a Zimbabwe town… (Daily Mail)  Chinese and North Korean troops were also in evidence alongside Mugabe’s own troops when he attended a rally […]

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It’s true! Would hysterical conservatives lie to you about a Godless Muslim Koran-fondling wild man like Scary Barry? A man who doesn’t always wear a flag pin on his lapel? That was mighty careless of him. You’d think the Anti-Christ would be a little more devious than that. Since Christ was clearly a white American, […]

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A wave of fear is sweeping across Zimbabwe as terror reigns, not only in towns and cities but also in rural areas, where people are beaten and otherwise punished for having supported the opposition.  Cathy Buckle this week quotes one victim from a small country town telling her, “…it is terrible, there are injured people […]

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The bad news in today’s papers is that South Africa’s President Mbeki stopped in Harare (Zimbabwe), instead of going to the emergency meeting of the South African Development community in Zambia.
Zambia’s president, Levi Mwanawasa, had called the meeting to discuss the increasingly volitile situation in Zimbabwe after the Zimbabwean government keeps pretending they can’t count […]

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The announcement that Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe will not attend an emergency meeting of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) in nearby Lusaka is bad news for all involved.
After years of destroying the economy and winning elections by a combination of bribes and threats (rural voters knew voting against Mugabe would mean they would be […]

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“…We stand exhausted and betrayed at this critical moment in Zimbabwe’s crisis…” Cathy Buckle wrote from Zimbabwe on Sunday.  The fact that the results of the presidential elections – due a week ago – have still not been announced makes it a dead cert that Mugabe and his Zanu-PF party lost them. 
Zanu-PF is demanding a […]

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Assalamualaikum, Islamic Greetings of Peace
Peace Tv is a household name not only in Pakistan  but also  entire Muslim world.because it has presented a convincing picture of Islam through wise talks, debates and dialogues.
Infact Ijaz ul Haq, son of late Zia ul Haq, a minister in Musharaf’s government is a big fan of Dr.  Zakir Naik. […]

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According to Zimbabwe’s Business Day, Robert Mugabe has (privately) conceded defeat in the Presidential Elections to his family and to his closest advisors, including the military and police chiefs. 
“Mugabe has conceded to his closest advisers — the army, police and intelligence chiefs. He has also told his family and personal advisers that he has lost […]

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The Zimbabwe elections are in chaos (Reuters).  While the country waits in tension, Robert Mugabe has not been seen in public since casting his vote on March 29, and opposition candidate for President, Morgan Tsvangirai is claiming victory (BBC)…  Suspicions remain that the long delayed results of the elections are being caused by manipulation of […]

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What is happening in Zimbabwe is a major election loss for Robert Mugabe, who is now scrambling to rig the vote counting.
In previous elections, Mugabe usually sailed easily into power by his large rural majority.
This time, the majority is not there in many rural areas, either because voters stayed home or because the villages now […]

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Many pundits have commented on how presidential aspirant Barack Obama (D-IL) treated his grandmother - the white one who raised him after his black father abandoned her daughter and their young son, and who was repaid by getting called out as a racist before a national TV audience and again in an interview with Angelo […]

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Mugabe says that both Blair and Brown are “blooming fools” and “devilish liars”… (Reuters, Africa).  Anticipating opposition protests when he declares himself winner of the presidential elections on March 29, Mugabe told supporters in the context of the riots that took place in Kenya that, “If Tsvangirai and his (MDC) group have such plans, they […]

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The UK Times reports widespread opposition to the reelection of dictator Robert Mugabe. However, they report a systematic plan to disenfranchise voters:
Among the concerns cited are boundary changes, irregularities in registration, political intimidation and violence, lack of access to state-controlled media and partisan security officials.
Just in case this doesn’t keep someone from voting, the […]

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Consider this abbreviated list of unseemly associations, and decide if you would vote for this person. The stories are all true, and they have been verified. For now, we will call the person “Candidate X.” But further in this article the person will be exposed, by name.
One long term friend of Candidate X was sent […]

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Set in a little gem of a country in Africa called Botswana is a series of light hearted novels by Alexander McCall-Smith, titled “The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency”.  I refer to Botswana as ‘little’ because, although it is geographically roughly the same size as Texas, it has a total population of only 1.8 million […]

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This article is a second release of this musing. It was published last June, but should have another revisit by Catholic readers. In light of the recently listed “sins” that include those against the environment. HJMN
There are always ways that the Catholic Church can join in the environmental movement in small but yet effective ways. […]

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While Simon Mann was still incarcerated in Zimbabwe, Equatorial Guinea’s President Obiang is said to have boasted that if he ever got his hands on him he would personally sodomise the mercenary, and then have him skinned alive.  Zimbabwe delivered Mann to Equatorial Guinea’s infamous Black Beach jail in January and now Mann has given […]

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After The Last Dispatch, fans of the popular independent jam band thought they’d have to go the rest of their lives without seeing the band play live again. In July of last year anyone who made it to Madison Square Garden in New York got to see the band alive and well, and playing for a […]

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Mugabe said “let there be light” and there WAS light, in Zimbabwe… until Mugabe had finished his election broadcast.  Then, “Ten minutes after the end of the live Zanu-PF election campaign launch, the electricity went off and everything shuddered to a halt again,” Cathy Buckle writes in her weekly newsletter from Zimbabwe.
China and Israel have […]

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So who was the mysterious oppo researcher who gave Matt Drudge that photo of Barack Obama dressed in a turban and Somali garb on a trip to Africa in 2006? And why does his campaign consider it a “smear photo?” For that matter, why did John McCain apologize after one of his surrogates kept referring […]

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Eat your heart out, Indiana Jones – and all those others who have been searching for the Ark of the Covenant for the last 2,700 years.  It’s been found in a small museum in Harare, Zimbabwe.  “I felt a shiver down my spine… a strange sanctity seemed to shine from it…”
 
The hero who claims to […]

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The internet sabotage rumors have been invigorated when a UN official told the AFP:
“We do not want to preempt the results of ongoing investigations, but we do not rule out that a deliberate act of sabotage caused the damage to the undersea cables over two weeks ago,” the UN agency’s head of development, Sami al-Murshed, […]

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According to Zimbabwe Today, a memo leaked from Zimbabwe’s Central Intelligence Organisation puts “all national and provincial security operatives…” on “condition red.”:  ”Be advised to temporarily suspend all minor operations in your provinces for RDWK ahead.”   (I just love the acronym RDWK, which apparently means “real dirty work”…)  It also instructs all operatives to: “…Employ […]

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