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G_j Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-10 10:13 PM
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We apologise for these images but they speak of the plight of Zimbabwe's starving
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1257292/The-Mail-apologises-readers-pictures-speak-eloquently-politician-desperate-plight-starving-people-Zimbabwe.html


We apologise for these images but they speak more eloquently than any politician of the plight of Zimbabwe's starving people

By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 8:44 AM on 12th March 2010

For us it is a saddening sight - a magnificent bull elephant struck down in his old age.

But for the starving of Zimbabwe, it was little short of a miracle.

The carcass provided a vital source of food, and hundreds of desperate villagers in the Gonarezhou National Park descended on the dead animal within minutes of its discovery.

Using machetes, axes and knives made from tin cans they set upon the six-ton carcass, which was found deep in scrubland.

..more..
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HeresyLives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-10 10:15 PM
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1. They need to get rid of Mugabe.
He has made a complete mess of a once beautiful country.
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HillbillyBob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-10 10:17 PM
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2. We NEED to get rid of Pat Robertson
his accomplice too!
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HeresyLives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-10 10:18 PM
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3. Wrong country.
Altho I'll agree with you on Robertson anyway.
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G_j Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-10 10:20 PM
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4. That is Liberian Charles Taylor
Edited on Fri Mar-12-10 10:21 PM by G_j
I believe
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-10 11:47 PM
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G_j Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-10 11:52 PM
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17. $8,000,000 investment a gold mine
what a slime bag

give me that old time greed
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vadawg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-10 10:53 PM
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7. yup, mugabe has to go, force will probuably have to be used
i wonder if the commonwealth would ever step up and do what needs to be done
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HeresyLives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-10 10:55 PM
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8. No, he'll die in office.
He's 86, and ill.

And the Commonwealth should stay out of the whole thing.
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vadawg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-10 11:01 PM
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9. yeah so what if he lives another three years and more people starve,
best thing that could happen is if hes helped along the way...
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HeresyLives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-10 11:04 PM
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10. Then he does, and they will.
He has the army on his side...so unless they turn on him...
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vadawg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-10 11:09 PM
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12. and they probuably would turn on him if the commonwealth made moves
or even the UN, whats the point of having these orgs if all they do is stand back and watch shit like this...
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HeresyLives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-10 11:12 PM
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13. No, they hate the idea of interference by ANYbody.
Particularly anybody who is white.

They've been 'helped' once too often by white people.

They have to do this, alone.
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vadawg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-10 11:15 PM
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14. and you have spoken to everybody there who is starving, its total BS
if someone hands you food you dont care what the colour of their skin is, and who says anything about white, you do realise the commonwealth is mutlicultural and multiracial, but if what you say is right and they dont want help from white people is that only here or is it everywhere cause you might want to tell all the white people to stop donating etc... jeez
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HeresyLives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-10 11:50 PM
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16. Actually I pay attention to the news,
and to friends in Zimbabwe.

No, they don't want white people helping them, and in particular, the British.

My country is part of that Commonwealth.
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vadawg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-10 12:03 AM
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18. okay then if they dont want white people to help them, then i guess they are ok with starving
if thats what they really want rather than having anyone who is white helping them then who am i to try to feed them.... :shrug:
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HeresyLives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-10 12:05 AM
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19. He's still alive and in power,
and he's vastly outnumbered, so take it from there.
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vadawg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-10 12:12 AM
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20. well that must mean they are happy to starve and die, so who are we to try to help them
:shrug: i guess they really have gone from the breadbasket to the basket cases of africa...
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HeresyLives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-10 12:14 AM
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21. I think we did that one already.
Yes, Zimbabwe is a basket case, and has been for some years.
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vadawg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-10 12:15 AM
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22. yup i guess it means that when they all die the area will be repopulated with other peoples
who might not be so mad... i guess thats nature for you...
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HeresyLives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-10 12:20 AM
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23. Like I said, we did this one already.
Mugabe will die soon, and Zimbabwe will move on.
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vadawg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-10 12:23 AM
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24. mayby not, i was concerned for the starving but now if what you say is true
then why should people worry about them if they dont want any help....
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HeresyLives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-10 12:26 AM
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25. There are starving people everywhere.
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vadawg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-10 12:29 AM
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26. yeah but rarely will they refuse bread just because of the colour of the donors skin
seems these people are unique if what you are saying is true...
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HeresyLives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-10 12:33 AM
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28. Now you're just arguing to argue.
I'm sure if you shipped food to the country they'd eat it....that's not the same as having the Commonwealth or the UN invade the place.

Please don't use topic-slide, it's a waste of time.
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Chulanowa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-10 02:24 AM
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31. Greet us with flower and candy, I suppose?
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vadawg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-10 03:39 AM
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32. i guess you have never been starving, or had your kids bellie distended
or been eating nothing but dirt and grass, whats the most important thing in situations like this, feeding the people or the hurt feelings of a despot..
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Chulanowa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-14-10 06:48 PM
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33. What's more important?
Not having your family killed by dumb white people in planes who can't tell your village apart from "insurgents"
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G_j Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-10 11:08 PM
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11. depending, of course
on what happens next. It's real hard to imagine worse than Mugabe though.
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ck4829 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-10 10:29 PM
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5. When you and your friends are fighting over who gets to eat a dead thing out in the woods...
Don't you think it's time for a change?
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vadawg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-10 10:32 PM
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6. yup, i used to hunt with a couple of rhodesians, they used to talk about the beauty of their homelan
not much beauty in a land of famine....
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Hannah Bell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-10 12:32 AM
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27. uh, let me guess.....
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vadawg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-10 12:38 AM
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29. guess what????
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smalll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-10 12:42 AM
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30. Oooh! But Mugabe's a militant anti-European black man,
while at the same time, Zimbabwe at this point is clearly a hopeless basketcase, even by African standards.

Oooh! :nuke: Worldview implosion! :nuke: (At least for some of us here.)

Anything problematic we may have heard from Comrade Bob? Merely a mistranslation! (From the English.)
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