Mugabe won run-off with 85.51 pct of vote-official

Thousands use ballots to insult Mugabe

There were 131 481 spoilt papers among the more than two-million ballots cast on Friday in the presidential election, from which MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai had withdrawn only days earlier…Marwick Khumalo, leader of the Pan-African Parliament observer mission, said “unpalatable messages were written on many of the spoilt ballots”.

Rice urges stronger actions against Zimbabwe Despite the U.S. push for strong U.N. penalties against Zimbabwe’s government, Chinese officials said Sunday they favored more talks with one of its main African allies and trading partners.

African summit will press Mugabe to negotiate Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe came under pressure at an African Union summit on Monday to negotiate with the opposition after being re-elected in a one-candidate election condemned by regional monitors.

UN urges African leaders to negotiate Zimbabwe settlement The UN today challenged African leaders to negotiate a political settlement in Zimbabwe at the opening of an African Union summit attended by Robert Mugabe…‘This is a moment of truth for regional leaders,’ Asha-Rose Migiro, the UN deputy secretary general, told African heads of state in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.

Mugabe’s nemesis threatens chaos Zimbabwe’s opposition leader is planning to make Zimbabwe ‘ungovernable’ in the aftermath of an election that returned Robert Mugabe to power after a brutal campaign of violence against opposition supporters that drew condemnation from around the world…Morgan Tsvangirai said in an interview with The Globe and Mail that he is drawing up the details of his campaign and called on the international community not to recognize Mr. Mugabe’s inauguration as president, as the country’s months-long political crisis looked set to deepen

Britain’s Brown urges AU to tell Mugabe to go

Robert Mugabe seeks talks to ensure his party’s powerbase Never short in political cunning, Mr Mugabe, 84, has probably done just enough to avoid immediate censure. In the face of worldwide condemnation of a clearly bogus result, President Mugabe has already offered to open talks with the opposition on a government of national unity.

The Australians must be totally FREAKING. Bummer.

It goes without saying that special thanks must be extended to the coalition of the billing, without whose totally trashed integrity none of this would been possible.

Can you imagine? Britain? Trying to take a moral high ground?

AI kaRAMbaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

And Condi? Who called Israel’s Brutal Bombing of Lebanon FN Birth Pangs of a new Middle East and said that Israel should ignore calls for a ceasefire.

Go ahead lady, stand up in those stirrups, no problemo.

One thing’s for sure, we can get a pretty good sense of how important Zimbabwe is to their agenda by the amount of stink they’re raising.

Veeeeeeeeeeeery interesting.

How much longer could it be before the world’s predatory capitalists realize that they’re gonna have to sever all visible ties with the world’s pendejo pantheon?

So, who provides the money to that wonderfully independent and fantastically democratic political party MDC (Millions of Dead cops) and it’s inspirational leader Mr Morgan (Can you kill Mugabe for me) Tsvingirai?

Well, some of the people involved in the Rape of Yugoslavia, that’s who.

RightWing British cash behind bid to combat Mugabe

Top Tories backing pro-democracy trust are accused of promoting their own interests,

The Zimbabwe Democracy Trust, whose patrons include former Tory Foreign Secretaries Malcolm Rifkind, Douglas Hurd and Geoffrey Howe has been accused of using the organisation as a cover for promoting the interests of Western multi-nationals in the troubled region.

Douglas Hurd and Yugoslavia

Can this be the same Douglas Hurd who, as Conservative foreign secretary, was largely responsible for the European Union’s disastrous policy on Yugoslavia, including an arms embargo which prevented the Bosnians from defending themselves against Serbian genocide and ethnic cleansing?

The same Douglas Hurd who warned against armed intervention to halt the dictator Slobodan Milosevic, first in Bosnia and then in Kosovo? The same Douglas Hurd who was told at the time by his former boss Margaret Thatcher: “Douglas, Douglas, you would make Neville Chamberlain look like a warmonger”?

The same Douglas Hurd who, within a year of retirement, returned to Belgrade in 1996 on behalf of the bank that now employed him, NatWest Markets, to negotiate with Milosevic about the privatization of Serbian utilities?

Not only was Mr. (now Lord) Hurd eager to profit from the Serbian Dictator’s desire to sell state assets in order to generate cash to preserve his brutal tyranny—he even tried to justify it by claiming that his motive was the altruistic one of “liberalizing” Serbia, and that Milosevic “could have been rehabilitated.”

So, Morgan’s one of the good-guys . . . right??

Benvenidos Senor Hugh

hola MD

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Zimbabwe holds 75% of known world platinum reserves. Canada comes in fourth place with 3% ...

Many fortunes could melt down quite fast if Zimbabwe would flood the market. So here comes a bubble … , gahhhh … no, non not a bubble (ten headed one).

We have seen bubble monster recently, they tend to screw the poor and make a fast bucks for bubble puppeteers.

Bullion platinum gets converted while Zimbabwe is negated entry on the market through civil strife.

Could you source your 75% of known . . . assertion, please?

a google of the phrase 75% of known world platinum reserves coughs up the following

Anglo Platinum is the largest operator by production and ore reserves of of the Bushveld Complex in South Africa, a freakish geological deposit which contains an estimated 75-90% of the world’s known reserves of platinum group metals . . .

I’ve bookmarked Stock Market Notes, thanks for the lead.

More on Anglo Platinum. Here’s their logo

Recognize it?

So much “creativity”. I can’t stand it : “listed as a separate company on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, and on the London and Brussels Bourses” and everything.

“South Africa” indeed. Pfffffffffffffffft . . . .

The thing to remember about platinum is the fuel cell battery it makes viable runs on electricity. Which means coal (bah), nukes (bah) or LNG — and, you guessed it!

Iran holds the world’s largest known reserves of LNG – after Russia.

So I guess THAT explains a few things.

d’oh.

the problem that’s the opportunity if we play our cards right is that these bozos have latched on to a focused goal at the expense of their big picture . . . and here’s the big picture : their junk economics has systematically eroded the target markets all these conflagrations are being designed to milk.

their junk economics

Could you source your 75% of known . . . assertion, please?

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Mike your graphic shows that SOUTH AFRIKA has 76% of the worlds Platinum supply, NOT Zimbabwe as you earlier asserted.

unless SA means ‘Southern Africa’

So I guess we have a pretty good idea of who “owns” South Africa and how much of a disinterested party they’re going to be when it comes to negotiating some sort of deal for the Zimbas.

Black South Africans are worse off today than they were during the apartheid era.

OPEN QUOTE

A report published by the South African Institute of Race Relations demonstrated that the living conditions for millions of South Africans have worsened since the ending of apartheid 13 years ago. Official unemployment currently stands at 26 percent, but the real figure is 41 percent—double what it was 10 years ago. Millions of workers earn less than US$150 a month, and 4 million people are living in conditions of extreme poverty, defined as less than US$1 a day.

AND, you wouldn’t want to miss THIS (quote continues)

More than half a million workers marched through the towns and cities of South Africa on June 13 (2007) . . . Many strikers spoke bitterly about the contrast between their demand for a 12 percent increase and the 57 percent that has been recommended for President Thabo Mbeki and his cabinet.

Thabo Mbeki, ladies und gentlemen, in a nutshell.

Mr. Let’s Be Fair himself

So I guess we have a pretty good idea of who “owns” South Africa and how much of a disinterested party they’re going to be when it comes to negotiating some sort of deal for the Zimbas.

Mbeki is under a lot of pressure now ain’t he?
He’s also been censored in regard to his attempts to provide an alternative to the AZT/Antiretroviral regimen for HIV patients.

Essentially Saint Mandela sold the place to the Neo-Libs for a pittance, lost stock and barrel – what a cunt!

Let me repeat that – NELSON MANDELA is a cunt!

It’s a regional estimate.

Mandela is an icon made chief of state. A chief of state makes mistakes where an icon can’t. It is guessable he didn’t have much leeway.

A State takes generations to build; instant government does not supply this. Politics without government and state amounts to no more than stating intentions and hoping for the best.

Certainly it was naive to think that the fascists wouldn’t think of a clever way to stay inside South Africa’s pants.

“A report published by the South African Institute of Race Relations demonstrated that the living conditions for millions of South Africans have worsened since the ending of apartheid 13 years ago. Official unemployment currently stands at 26 percent, but the real figure is 41 percent—double what it was 10 years ago. Millions of workers earn less than US$150 a month, and 4 million people are living in conditions of extreme poverty, defined as less than US$1 a day.”

Kinda like how Blacks got gypped after “intergration.”

If the results of the US Presidential election stood and are claimed to be legitimate after all of the “inconsistencies “ in the vote counts in the 2000, and 2004 US Presidential elections, as well as the ‘Skull & Bones’ connection between the 2 candidates in 2004, and the questionable Supreme Court involvement (and subsequent rulling down party lines) after the 2000 elections, then Mugabe’s election is just as legitimate, and reflects the will of the people.

My guess would be that Mugabe’s election is quite a bit MORE legitimate. MDC’s fixing to hold a fire sale. You think Zimbabwe’s been hurting since it stopped being Rhodesia — take a closer look at Zambia.

a closer look at Zambia

We don’t hear about it from the Corporate Press, because they already took the place down.