Uh-huh!
Oh, and check out why Zimbabwe and Mugabe are back in the news (gotta love that Zionist press).
"Ahmadinejad, Mugabe given cold shoulder at summit; Leaders decried at UN gathering on food prices" by Silvia Aloisi, Reuters | June 3, 2008
ROME - The Italian and UN hosts of a summit on rising food prices excluded the leaders of Zimbabwe and Iran from the opening dinner yesterday.
President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe is able to attend the meeting only because a European Union travel ban on him does not apply to UN forums.
And Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, on his first visit to Western Europe as Iran's president, received a frosty welcome after offending Israel on the eve of his departure.
They never quit punching, the Zionist media.
And the fact that Israel is insulted makes him a hero to me.
Neither was invited to the official dinner hosted by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon for the heads of state attending the summit, which lasts through Thursday.
Western ministers said Mugabe was responsible for the food shortages faced by millions in Zimbabwe's shattered economy.
"We will not allow the millions of people who can no longer afford a normal meal to be held hostage by Mugabe," said Bert Koenders, the development minister of the Netherlands.
So what are you going to do: INVADE Zimbabwe, Dutcher?
Britain's international development secretary, Douglas Alexander, said 4 million Zimbabweans had to rely on food aid because of Mugabe's policies.
"This is not a man with any credibility or any contribution to a discussion on international food," he said.
Neither are any of you U.N flaks, asshole!!!!
Mugabe, the leader of the former British colony, arrived in Rome, home of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, Sunday. The visit is his first official trip abroad since March elections that were condemned by Western and opposition leaders as fraudulent.
Ahmadinejad said before departing for Rome that Israel would soon disappear off the map and the "satanic power" of the United States would be destroyed.
Whatever, Zionist-controlled MSM. You've misquoted and lied about him the whole time, so why should I believe a word you say (I don't)?
His visit had created a diplomatic headache for Italy and the Holy See after he was said to have requested a meeting with the pope and Berlusconi.
The Italian government ruled out a meeting, citing time constraints, and the pope's schedule for the week mentioned no audiences for any of the summit's heads of state.
Gee, sounds like Ahmadinejad reached out -- and was snubbed. But it is the Iranian who is intransigent!!!
I'm so sick of Zionist lies. They no longer work, shitters!
US Agriculture Secretary Ed Shafer said he would not meet either of the men in Rome.
"We are glad they're here, we appreciate the opportunity for dialogue, but it is our position that we will not meet with them," Shafer said.
Yeah, you never meet with people you are getting ready to bomb.
Alexander said he would not even shake hands with Mugabe, who has ruled Zimbabwe since independence in 1980.
Sounds like Mugabe made out on that one.
Inflation in Zimbabwe, once southern Africa's breadbasket, is 165,000 percent, unemployment stands at 80 percent, and there are chronic shortages of basic necessities including food and fuel. About 3.5 million people have fled to escape poverty.
Mugabe blames Britain for the economic malaise, accusing it of trying to undermine him and reverse his redistribution of white-owned farms to black farmers.
At a gathering of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization in 2005, Mugabe called President Bush and Tony Blair, then Britain's prime minister, "international terrorists" and compared them to Adolf Hitler."Ooooooh, then that explains the accompanying articles and the New York Times' front-page treatment!!!
"Dozens detained in violent clashes; Zimbabwe says opposition at fault" by Angus Shaw, Associated Press | June 3, 2008
HARARE, Zimbabwe - Police arrested at least 70 opposition supporters accused of political violence, state-run media reported yesterday. A newly elected opposition lawmaker also was detained, his lawyer said.
The suspects detained in the district of Buhera, 150 miles south of Harare, are accused of attacking and injuring ruling party supporters during a spate of violence last week that left several homes torched, according to the state-run Herald newspaper.
The opposition denies any campaign of violence targeting the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union--Patriotic Front Party but acknowledged reports that some of its supporters retaliated during the political unrest in Zimbabwe since the disputed March 29 elections.
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai faces longtime President Robert Mugabe in a runoff scheduled for June 27. Rights groups and opposition supporters have cited widespread violence and intimidation in the run-up to the second vote, and there are prevalent fears that Mugabe will try to steal the election.
The opposition Movement for Democratic Change says more than 50 supporters have been killed and thousands driven from their homes, especially in rural areas....
Police detained opposition lawmaker Eric Matinenga when he went to visit those detained in Buhera Saturday, his lawyer said. Matinenga, himself a lawyer, represented opposition leaders in a string of cases in the country's high court.
The allegations against him were unclear, lawyer Innocent Chagonda said.
Six other opposition lawmakers also have been arrested since the March 29 elections. Arthur Mutambara, head of an MDC faction, was jailed Sunday for allegedly making false statements."I read that, and Mugabe is undoubtedly a dick; however, I always wonder where the same concern is for those AmeriKa is holding.
What about them, MSM? I haven't seen anything from you yet!
No, they will just pound Mugabe:
"Zimbabwe blocks access by aid groups; CARE, others aiding rival, Mugabe says" by Celia W. Dugger, New York Times News Service | June 4, 2008
From the Boston Globe (puke)!
JOHANNESBURG - Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Zimbabweans - orphans and old people, the sick and the down and out - have lost access to food and other basic humanitarian assistance as their government has clamped down on international aid groups it says are backing the political opposition, relief agencies say.
In recent days, CARE, one of the largest nonprofit groups working in the country, has been ordered by Zimbabwe's government to suspend all operations, which help 500,000 of the country's most vulnerable people. This month alone, CARE would have fed more than 110,000 people in schools, orphanages, old-age homes and other programs, it said.
But the aid restrictions go far beyond any one group. Muktar Farah, deputy head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Zimbabwe, said yesterday that millions of people have lost assistance because of what he called "the shrinking of humanitarian space."
"NGOs have been told to scale down or stop operations throughout the country," he said, referring to nongovernmental organizations.
Zimbabwe's president, Robert Mugabe, speaking yesterday in Rome at a United Nations conference on world food supplies, accused relief agencies of interfering in politics and contended that the West had conspired "to cripple Zimbabwe's economy" and bring about "illegal regime change."
"Funds are being channeled through nongovernmental organizations to opposition political parties, which are a creation of the West," he said. "These Western-funded NGOs also use food as a political weapon with which to campaign against government, especially in the rural areas."
Well, he sure is right about that one!
On Friday and Monday, representatives of aid groups in Zimbabwe were summoned by administrators in four districts and instructed to cease all work in the field until a bitterly contested presidential runoff is held on June 27 between Mugabe, in power for 28 years, and the opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai.
Aid groups expect such summons from more districts.
In a summary of one such meeting, compiled by an aid group, representatives from Mugabe's office, the police and the army warned the groups not to say anything publicly about their withdrawal and not to conduct any operations at night.
Aid workers and human-rights groups say the restrictions are meant to prevent them from witnessing attacks on opposition activists and supporters, often during nighttime raids, amid the government's increasingly violent crackdown on those it sees as a threat to its hold on power.
The UN Children's Fund said Monday that 10,000 children had been displaced by the violence, scores beaten and that some schools had been taken over by forces supporting the government and turned into centers of torture.
Bringing out the BIG GUNS and the BIG CHARGES, 'eh?
Don't like what he said, do you, globalist shitters?
In a statement, it expressed worry about the hundreds of thousands of vulnerable and orphaned children, given how many aid groups have restricted their operations "due to threats, requests to do so by authorities or general 'concern at current uncertainties.' "
As I was reading this article, the word PALESTINE kept creeping into my mind.
Where is the concern for the SIEGE of GAZA, folks, in my Zionist-control... never mind!?!
Zimbabwean political analysts and civic leaders say that Mugabe and ZANU-PF, his governing party, are themselves seeking to use food as a political weapon in a country, once the region's bread basket, where hunger now afflicts millions.
Probably true, but that's what you do -- sling the charge back at the other guy.
Sorta like what Israel is doing to Iran.
PROJECTING YOUR BEHAVIOR on SOMEONE ELSE!!!!
And hunger is affecting millions EVERYWHERE, not just the leaders you want to put an ax into, AmeriKan MSM!!!!
The government recently bought 600,000 tons of corn. By barring NGOs from giving out food in some areas, the governing party controls food distribution and can use it to reward supporters and punish opponents.
"They've always been willing to forgo the needs of the people in their political interests," said Fambai Ngirande, a spokesman for Zimbabwe's National Association of Nongovernmental Organizations, which has more than 1,000 members in Zimbabwe.
Eldred Masunungure, a political scientist at the University of Zimbabwe, noted that while the opposition defeated large numbers of ZANU-PF politicians in the March 29 election, the government has not allowed the newly elected local officials to take office until after the presidential runoff. It is through these local politicians, he said, that the party determines who is eligible for food aid and other assistance.
In CARE's case, Cabinet ministers have accused its staff of distributing election pamphlets and encouraging people to vote for the opposition. CARE vehemently denies the charges and says the government has not offered any evidence to back up the allegations."I didn't hear any complaints when Israel supplied the voting machines!!!
"UN warns of food shortage and unrest; Urges world leaders to work to control prices" by Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times | June 4, 2008
ROME - World powers must act quickly and boldly to control soaring food prices that threaten nearly 1 billion people with hunger and could trigger global social unrest, the United Nations said yesterday.
Why would you trust the same people who created this mess, readers?
Like trusting a rapist!!!!
At a three-day emergency food summit, UN officials urged nations to eliminate trade barriers, expand research into biotechnology, and boost production with an annual investment of $20 billion to $30 billion.
Oh, so this isn't about feeding the world's people. This is about GLOBALIZATION, GENETICALLY-MODIFIED FOOD, and CORPORATE GIVEAWAYS!!!!
"Nothing is more degrading than hunger, especially when man-made," UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told more than 40 world leaders gathered here.
Ummm, ever hear of GAZA, Ban?!?
I mean, the GALL and CHUTZPAH of the statement is UNBELIEVABLE!!!!
Of course, Zionists don't run the U.N. or the AmeriKan MSM or anything, uh-huh!
Hungry people, he warned, are angry people. Hunger breeds "social disintegration, ill health, and economic decline," he said.
Yeah, SEE GAZA!!!!!
Ban and other senior UN officials painted a picture of potential political turmoil fueled by starvation and shortages, and of rich countries that have failed to keep promises to confront the global food crisis.
Like I said: all part of the plan!
Jacques Diouf, secretary general of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, scolded the world's wealthy nations for wasteful consumption and excessive spending on weapons while ignoring hungry people.
I'll take that with my salt, thank you.
"How can we explain to people of good sense and good faith that it was not possible to find $30 billion a year" to feed the world's hungry, respecting "the most fundamental of human rights: the right to food and the right to life," he said.
Ban said food production would have to grow by 50 percent by 2030 to stave off starvation. The global price tag could be at least $20 billion a year. Countries such as India and China that impose export bans because they are worried about feeding their own people only exacerbate the problem by forcing prices higher, he said.
Yeah, how dare they use their own food for themselves!!!
Why aren't they sending it to Israel like the U.S. does, right, Jew press?
As additional measures to resolved the crisis, Ban and other officials advocated continued research to improve crop yields and animal health, more seeds and fertilizers for small-stake farmers, and more immediate nutritional food relief.
I just see the Monsanto plan here, readers.
Doesn't work, but that's what I'm seeing between the jargon.
Historically high fuel costs, the growing demand for biofuels, a string of poor harvests exacerbated by climate change, speculation, changing diets in Asia - these factors have combined to send food prices through the roof.
Yeah, every reason under the sun (imagined or not) except for the DECLINING DOLLAR!
The greater expense makes staples unavailable or unaffordable to hundreds of millions of people, including an emerging category of what officials call the "new hungry."
As opposed to what, the "OLD" hungry? WTF, readers?
Experts say prices on many commodities, such as rice and wheat, have doubled in the past three years. The summit is also highlighting serious disagreements over the causes of the food crisis. The use of biofuels, for example, where grains, sugar, and palm oil are diverted to produce fuel for motor vehicles, quickly emerged as one of the more divisive topics.
The United States is in the process of allocating about 25 percent of its corn crops to the production of ethanol, which critics blame for part of the overall scarcity. The European Union is also subsidizing biofuel production.
"Use crops as food for people, not fuel for engines," Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak told the summit.
AGREED!
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva took the opposite stand. His nation has a booming industry of ethanol production based on sugar cane.
"It offends me to see fingers pointed against clean energy from biofuels, fingers soiled with oil and coal," he said. "Biofuels are not the villain menacing food security in poor countries."
Well, if you are going to make it out of sugar, fine. Sugar not good for you.
US Agriculture Secretary Edward T. Schafer argued that shifting to biofuels has reduced American dependence on oil while not endangering corn supplies because of a recent string of bumper crops.
And the day the crops recede due to whatever?
He said the shift accounts for no more than 3 percent of the spike in food prices. UN . agencies put the cost at up to 10 times that.
"We recognize that biofuels are a factor in the inflation of prices," Schafer said in a briefing with reporters, "but the real cause is energy and demand."Yup, ANYTHING but the DUMPING DOLLAR!
Pfffffffffttttt!!!!
