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Titolo: il banchetto di Mugabe

l'unico che non si scandalizzerà è, credo, quel pirla di Persio.
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1867645,00.html?xid=newsletter-daily
Zimbabwe's farms are ruined, its economy has evaporated, and its
people have begun to starve and die of cholera. What better time to
call a feast? According to reports in Zimbabwe's domestic press on
Thursday, President Robert Mugabe and delegates to the annual
conference of his ruling Zanu-PF Party will chomp their way through
124 cattle, 81 goats and 18 pigs over the course of their
deliberations in the central town of Bindura. "Even if no more beasts
are donated," said Geoffrey Nyarota, managing editor of
thezimbabwetimes.com
, referring to the practice of delegates donating
animals to the leadership, "124 head of cattle is an inordinately
large quantity of beef." With 5,000 delegates expected to attend, he
added, it worked out to "40 delegates per bovine over four days — that
is not to mention the pork, the goat, the maize-meal, the rice, among
other basic foodstuffs currently in acute shortage throughout
Zimbabwe." Noting he had attended weddings at which two bulls had fed
400 guests, Nyarota added, "This truly is incredible, especially in a
country where millions of impoverished souls are starving."
The catering arrangements for the ruling party's annual shindig only
reinforces the sense of grand delusion pervading the top ranks of
Zimbabwe's regime amid the catastrophe they have brought upon their
country. The U.N. has raised its estimate of the death toll from the
cholera epidemic to 1,111, with 20,580 people infected. Concern is
also growing over the fate of more than 20 opposition and civil-
society leaders and activists who have not been seen since their
abduction this past month. Mystery also surrounds an attempted
assassination attempt against Zimbabwe's air-force chief Perrance
Shiri, who was shot in the arm by unknown gunmen who stopped his car
on Tuesday. Shiri is a key member of Mugabe's inner circle who
commanded the notorious North Korean–trained 5th Brigade that
massacred tens of thousands of supporters of a rival political
movement during the 1980s. (See pictures of the reign of Robert
Mugabe.)
The government response to the expanding crisis is increasingly
bizarre. Mugabe has denied that the cholera epidemic exists. (A
spokesman later claimed he was being sarcastic.) And some of his
ministers and spokesmen have blamed a Western conspiracy — which they
claim is running militia training camps in neighboring Botswana with
the eventual aim of recolonizing Zimbabwe — for the assassination
attempt on Shiri. Even the cholera outbreak forms part of this dark
conspiracy: Information Minister Sikhanyiso Ndlovu described the
disease as part of a "serious biological chemical war ... a genocidal
onslaught on the people of Zimbabwe by ... the unrepentant former
colonial power [Britain], which has enlisted support from its American
and Western allies so that they invade the country." A senior Zanu-PF
official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told TIME that the
opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) was behind the attack
on Shiri. "It is the MDC and its Western donors who are trying to
destabilize our country because we took land from the whites," he
said. "We are going to stand firm to our values."
South Africa President Kgalema Motlanthe has dismissed the regime's
claims. But University of Zimbabwe lecturer John Makumbe believes the
purpose of touting these incredible fictions is that "the regime wants
to create an impression that it is a victim when it is actually the
perpetrator of violence."
Driving Zanu-PF's hysterical self-deception is the party's loss of
popular support. The erstwhile liberation movement lost a general
election in March, and after 28 years in power, Mugabe finished second
in the presidential race behind MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai. The
regime, which has always claimed for itself the mantle of
revolutionary vanguard of the Zimbabwean people, responded with
violence, killing close to 200 MDC members and jailing and torturing
thousands more. Mugabe has since opened power-sharing talks with the
MDC, but those have collapsed over the incumbent's insistence on
keeping absolute control over the police and army, his key instruments
of power. But without a political solution, Zimbabwe cannot escape
economic disaster, because aid donors refused to prop up a dictatorial
regime.
But Mugabe remains defiant. Speaking at a press conference on
Wednesday, former Home Affairs Minister Dumiso Dabengwa, a former
Mugabe ally, said the 84-year-old dictator believed in violence as the
only remedy. "When I was in government and in Zanu-PF, I used to tell
Mugabe not to victimize and use violence against the MDC, but he did
not listen. He refused to stop using violence against the MDC, saying
that the power base of Zanu-PF was threatened. He was unrepentant. He
believes violence is the solution." The U.N. estimates that 5.8
million people out of a population of up to 12 million will need food
aid in the first quarter of next year. But that won't stop the cadres
of Zanu-PF from eating their fill in Bindura.
—With reporting by correspondents inside Zimbabwe

and Western allies so that they invade the country."
comunque sia "l'ombra dell'impero" per molti ancora si stende sul mondo... 
;-DD
A parte la battuta puodarsi pure che Mugabe si sia un po' rincoglionito... 

 chi glielo tocca.
se lo fate voi, guai sicuri

 Infatti non glielo si e' toccato
e, ma minacciate, e non da ieri, e coi toni perentori del padrone che
non vede l'ora di tornare ad essere tale...


Più che altro con limpido il ricordo di uno che si faceva chiamare
"His Excellency President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi
Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, CBE", tutte le volte che veniva citato da un
organo ufficiale. Ah, e dove "CBE" stava per "Conqueror of the British
Empire"...
--
Baci,
Mony

 Am.
e per fortuna che Mugabe passa per essere il liberatore dello Zimbabwe... 
;-) 

Empire"...
immagino che giovanni abbia un poster del "buon Dada" nella sua camera da 
letto... ;-DD