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Well, if anyone doubted the charge that the corporate media, apart from being capitalist scum-sucking criminals, are a bunch of white-supremacist, racist fascist filth!!! look no further than the insidious propaganda below.. Rick Rozoff wrote: > Agence France-Presse (aka Agence Intelligence-Central) > > Monday March 18, 1:24 AM > Defiant Mugabe calls poll victory a 'blow to > imperialism' > A defiant President Robert Mugabe shrugged off Western > condemnation of the election that returned him to > power, saying that the Zimbabwean people had "dealt a > stunning blow to imperialism". > The man who led the nation to independence in 1980, in > a speech laced with the black nationalist and > pan-African rhetoric that dominated his campaign, said > the people had resolved that "never again shall > Zimbabwe be a colony." > He also vowed to redouble efforts to correct the > "monstrous colonial injustice" that saw the lion's > share of Zimbabwe's fertile land controlled by a small > minority of white farmers, placing his land reform > program at the center of an economic recovery plan. > The head of state, 78, after being sworn in at a > ceremony here by a white-wigged, red-gowned chief > justice, again accused Britain of having backed its > "protege", opposition candidate Morgan Tsvangirai. > The former union leader had been tipped to win in a > free and fair vote, but the March 9-11 polls were > preceded by weeks of violence, and the election was > marred by widespread irregularities documented by > observers. > Immediately after Mugabe was declared the winner, > Tsvangirai, 50, rejected the outcome, charging massive > fraud. > His stance was backed by Britain, the European Union, > the United States, local Zimbabwean observers, and -- > crucially -- the Commonwealth observer team, which > issued a categorical condemnation of the polls. > African countries, as well as the Organization of > African Union and the Southern African Development > Community, have on the whole given the vote a clean > bill of health, with few reservations. > Mugabe thanked his African supporters -- who also > rallied round him when a heated Commonwealth summit > this month deferred a decision on Zimbabwe -- and > dismissed the broad Western verdict that the election > was irrevocably flawed. > "It's only free and fair when we, ... we who count > much more than you (Europeans), say that we have won," > he said. > Mugabe said further land reforms would foster the > people's economic empowerment, increase agricultural > production and help create jobs. > Zimbabwe is facing its most severe economic crisis > since independence, with soaring unemployment and food > shortages that have left more than half a million > people in need of emergency assistance. > Mugabe vowed to combat galloping inflation -- nearing > 120 percent -- which "has had such a devastating > effect," leaving four in five of Zimbabwe's 12 million > people under the poverty threshold. > The government imposed price controls on basic goods > to rein in spiralling prices and mollify voters ahead > of the election, but crippling shortages resulted. > The pro-opposition Daily News, in its editorial > Saturday, suggested that Mugabe's victory was a > pyrrhic one given the economic crisis. > "There are many immediate challenges he must face, and > one of the pressing ones is the hunger that is > stalking the country's population. He has made his > bed. Now he must prepare to lie in it." > Two of Mugabe's allies conspicuous in their absence > from Sunday's ceremony, South African and Nigerian > presidents Thabo Mbeki and Olusegun Obasanjo, find > themselves in a diplomatic bind over the scathing > report on the election by Commonwealth observers. > The pair are members of a "troika" appointed at the > Commonwealth summit, along with Australian Prime > Minister John Howard, who will meet in London on > Tuesday to decide whether the 54-member body, which > includes a score of African nations, should sanction > Zimbabwe. > Mbeki and Obasanjo plan to come to Harare on Monday > when they will meet with the president to discuss the > scathing Commonwealth observers' report. > The pair, who reportedly will press the president to > form a national unity government with the opposition > -- considered highly unlikely by both camps -- also > plan to meet with Tsvangirai. > Also absent on Sunday were European diplomats who > decided to boycott the ceremony, as well as any > members of Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change > (MDC), which said it had not been formally invited. > The MDC has not announced its next move pending a > nationwide consultation. Zimbabwe's ZCTU trade union > federation is reportedly under pressure from workers > to call a mass stayaway, and the National > Constitutional Assembly said last week it would stage > peaceful demonstrations nationwide in the coming > weeks. > Independent pollster Masipula Sithole told AFP on > Sunday that a rerun of the election was the "only way > we are going to get over the impasse" while popular > protests were inevitable. > A lack of initiative from the ZCTU or the MDC, he > said, would increase "the likelihood that they will be > spontaneous." > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! 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