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POPSNew Currency or Fancy Food Stamps ? See people I told the "BUSH PLAN" would work .You know the one,where the country is "F**ked and you just print up paper money anyway. Beside what's debt ? Nothing but the American Way. God Bless AHhhhhhhhhhhhh!
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POPSSouth Africa Tells Robert Mugabe To Surrender Worse was to follow. Mbeki flew to Harare and said that Mugabe and Tsvangirai must meet to sign a memorandum of understanding committing themselves to serious negotiations and to share power. The talks, he insisted, must be concluded within two weeks and the two men must meet, shake hands and sign the memorandum. Mugabe had never been willing to meet Tsvangirai, let alone shake his hand. According to leading Zanu-PF sources, he is frightened of going on trial for human rights crimes, particularly since an arrest warrant was issued against Omar Bashir, Sudan’s president, earlier this month. Under Mbeki’s pressure Mugabe gave in.
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POPSHey Pal, Can You Spare $100 Billion? Since then the shelves of many shops and supermarkets have been largely bare, except when owners are prepared to risk being caught charging prices that reflect the cost of importing goods from South Africa. Huge queues form outside any bakery selling bread at a controlled price, and demand far outstrips supply.
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POPSGTMO Trials= Kangeroo Trials- Rapidly, Irratic Moving Target This is not happening in China, Zimbabwe or the former Soviet Union; Our government wants to put on a show of democracy at work. Circus would be more like it. A circus of caged, tortured and worse.This government, if one can call it that, must be very afraid. I am afraid of this kind of " institution ". Sooner, rather than later, we who oppose this sham, might also get into the " show ". Patriotism is what they call that! No wonder the Arabs, and many others, have trouble believing in American Democracy. Are you having trouble yet? Or do you need more?
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POPSCourt Moves To Charge Sudanese President al-Bashir With Genocide "The solution to problems and the current situation in Darfur is not completely independent from the work of the International Criminal Court." The German chancellor said she and Ban also discussed instability in Zimbabwe and the challenge of supporting Africa as food and fuel prices skyrocket. Merkel said that Germany had pledged €600 million (US$954 million) in emergency aid to African nations struggling to deal with rising prices. "Naturally, Germany is strongly committed to development aid." Ban was in Germany for a two-day visit that will also take him to Bonn, where several U.N. programs have their headquarters.
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POPSShame Russia and China continue to support the world's worst regimes all in the name of money.
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POPSHard Power / Soft Power - Krauthammer
Solemn condemnations have been issued from every forum of soft-power fecklessness — the EU, the U.N., the G-8 foreign ministers — demanding that Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe stop butchering his opponents and step down. Before that, the cause du jour was Burma, where a vicious dictatorship allowed thousands of cyclone victims to die by denying them independently delivered foreign aid, lest it weaken the junta’s grip on power. And then there is Darfur, a perennial for which myriad diplomats and foreign-policy experts have devoted uncountable hours at the finest five-star hotels to deplore the genocide and urgently urge relief. What is done to free these people? Nothing. And who’s going to intervene? The only country that could is the country that in the last two decades led coalitions that liberated Kuwait, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan. Having sacrificed much blood and treasure in its latest endeavor — the liberation of 25 million Iraqis from the most barbarous tyranny of all
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POPSRape: 'They looted my body like I was dead' "They kicked my breasts, which are still badly swollen. They took me to a graveyard and raped me again. When I was trying to stop them, they took a hot wire and burned my hand. They looted my body like I was dead. They took my ID card and all my money."
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POPSAnderson Cooper on Robert Mugabe A well said, strong statement by Anderson Cooper. It will be very interesting to see how long the world sits back while this brutal violence continues to be used to thwart democracy. This type of behavior cannot be tolerated.
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POPSMugabe Spoils for a Fight Lying is in political vogue these days. And it seems that the more blatant the lie the more easily it slips off the tongue How often do we need to hear proclamations of peace from obviously non-peaceful countries. Admittedly, Zimbabwe has not directly attacked it's bordering neighbors. Yet the millions of refugees his failed state has produced could be seen as a human tragedy shared by all the surrounding countries. And does this man have room for bluster. Apparently so. With all the chaos in his country he seems to find time to rattle a few sabers of his own.