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Shooting the messenger...

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Shooting the messenger...
Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe. 
20/5/20

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8153003.stm
An editor at Zambia's biggest-selling newspaper has been charged with distributing obscene materials relating to a health sector crisis.
Have a look at the rest of the story...  I despair!! 
Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe. 
20/5/20

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
OMG!

Queenslander 3x a year.

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
How is Zambia run?  Like Zimbabwe under Mugabe?  Or a "democracy" but extremely poor?
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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Wongo wrote:
How is Zambia run?  Like Zimbabwe under Mugabe?  Or a "democracy" but extremely poor?
 
More of the latter but lacking the "extremely"...   . A quick look at this will give you the flavour - http://www.statehouse.gov.zm/
dairyflat2009-07-17 10:46:45
Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe. 
20/5/20

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8309519.stm
The US has called for Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe to stop "harassing" his rivals, a day after a senior politician was imprisoned.
 
He doesn't get ny better does he???
Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe. 
20/5/20

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
dairyflat wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8309519.stm
The US has called for Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe to stop "harassing" his rivals, a day after a senior politician was imprisoned.
 
He doesn't get ny better does he???


Excuse the French but what the F*C* does the US expect to achieve by "calling for him to stop" I mean really, thats like a wealthy guy from Thorndon walking up to a drug addict on the street breaking into a car and saying "I call upon you to stop", the guys going to look at him sideways and keep going...
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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
brumbys wrote:
dairyflat wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8309519.stm
The US has called for Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe to stop "harassing" his rivals, a day after a senior politician was imprisoned.
 
He doesn't get ny better does he???


Excuse the French but what the F*C* does the US expect to achieve by "calling for him to stop" I mean really, thats like a wealthy guy from Thorndon walking up to a drug addict on the street breaking into a car and saying "I call upon you to stop", the guys going to look at him sideways and keep going...


Yeah, they should just bomb them.
I like tautologies because I like them.
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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Cosimo wrote:
brumbys wrote:
dairyflat wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8309519.stm
The US has called for Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe to stop "harassing" his rivals, a day after a senior politician was imprisoned.
 
He doesn't get ny better does he???


Excuse the French but what the F*C* does the US expect to achieve by "calling for him to stop" I mean really, thats like a wealthy guy from Thorndon walking up to a drug addict on the street breaking into a car and saying "I call upon you to stop", the guys going to look at him sideways and keep going...


Yeah, they should just bomb them.
do you know how much bombs cost...? sheesh you'd think Zimbabwe had oil reserves or something?
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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Moving away from bombing them threaten them with political sanctions, remove trade opportunities, ban them from involvement in multi-lateral institutes...something other than "bad call"
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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
brumbys wrote:
Moving away from bombing them threaten them with political sanctions, remove trade opportunities, ban them from involvement in multi-lateral institutes...something other than "bad call"


removing trade etc will just mean more poor people miss out on food etc
I like tautologies because I like them.
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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Cosimo wrote:
brumbys wrote:
Moving away from bombing them threaten them with political sanctions, remove trade opportunities, ban them from involvement in multi-lateral institutes...something other than "bad call"


removing trade etc will just mean more poor people miss out on food etc
 
Cause that doesn't happen already?
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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Mr_Incredible wrote:
Cosimo wrote:
brumbys wrote:
Moving away from bombing them threaten them with political sanctions, remove trade opportunities, ban them from involvement in multi-lateral institutes...something other than "bad call"


removing trade etc will just mean more poor people miss out on food etc
 
Cause that doesn't happen already?


You're right. Let's make it worse.
I like tautologies because I like them.
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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
"At a press conference, Zambian President Rupiah Banda condemned the Post for circulating what he called pornography."

That's bloody ridiculous
timmymadden2009-10-17 17:36:44
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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Who the f**k gets off to a chick having a baby on the street?
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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Cosimo wrote:
brumbys wrote:
Moving away from bombing them threaten them with political sanctions, remove trade opportunities, ban them from involvement in multi-lateral institutes...something other than "bad call"


removing trade etc will just mean more poor people miss out on food etc
 
And it goes on the logic that evil dictators care about the well being of their populations.

Trade Sanctions are fail with a capital F.
 
Diplomacy, negotiations and revolutions are the only way forward unfortunately.
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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
But you do cut dictators off at the knees. They end up with less resources to utilise, and as a result are unable to keep the military on their side as much!
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