[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Zim-bob-we President Bob Muggsy Mugabe Octogenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case... sleeps at crucial meetings and has become a liability for the country, one of his ministers has said.
Professor Welshman Ncube who leads of one of the two Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) formations said the 88 year-old leader slept at the recent Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit in Mozambique.
Prof Ncube told party supporters that President Mugabe had to be roused by Zambian President Michael Sata after he fell asleep a few minutes after the meeting that was meant to discuss the Zim-bob-we crisis began.
"The question is not about the retention of Mugabe, even at the SADC meetings he sleeps," Prof Ncube said. "If you are strong and young, you sleep in a dignified way but his whole body collapses when he sleeps.
"You sleep to a point that you are woken up by an equally old Sata as early as 9 am, who would tell other leaders that let us wake Mugabe he is sleeping. "You think that person can rule Zim-bob-we. We need fresh leaders with power and strength who do you do not have to look at and check if they are still awake."
President Mugabe, 87 has been in power since Zim-bob-we's independence from Britannia in 1980.
There have been reports that he is battling advanced prostate cancer and several other chronic ailments.
In April there were even reports he had died while receiving treatment at a Singapore hospital.
But he often scoffs at reports about his death joking that he has resurrected more times than Jesus Christ.
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Our party must continue to strike fear in the hearts of the white man, our real enemy.
- Robert Mugabe
Geo H. Wittman, "African Suicide," The American Spectator, April 16,2008
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Mugabe, Mandela, Zuma, The Red Arch [Tutu] are but symptoms. When they are gone, they will simply be replaced by others like them. We should no more attempt to 'jump start' these people into the 21st century than we would the Yanomami tribespeople of South America.
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Boeserker - you have a good point that even in people like Mugabe are no longer in power ... the next guy might be 10 times worse. That's a tough thing about the world. Was the inaction worth it? Think of all the people who were beaten, tortured, and killed - or thrown into hell holes by this guy. It's always a tough call, isn't it :-)
[Bloomberg] Hurricane Isaac and a deadly blast at Venezuela's Amuay refinery pushed gasoline to an almost four- month high and threatened to revive a debate about energy costs in the run-up to the presidential election in November.
Futures jumped yesterday in New York as Isaac forced closures of Gulf Coast refineries and reduced rates at others. That market is also reeling from an Aug. 25 kaboom in Venezuela that killed at least 48 people and closed the country's largest fuel-making plant. Futures are up 23 percent since their 2012 settlement low of $2.5501 a gallon on June 21.
Retail prices for regular grade increased 0.6 cent to $3.756 a gallon yesterday, the highest level since May 7, according to AAA, the largest U.S. motoring group.
Prices at the pump will be the highest ever for the U.S. Labor Day holiday, AAA said yesterday. The surge reignites an issue that has pitted President Barack Obama The Cambridge police acted stupidly... , who has called for the elimination of billions of dollars of subsidies enjoyed by the oil and gas industry, against the presumptive Republican nominee Willard Mitt Romney ...former governor of Massachussetts, currently the presumptive Publican nominee for president. He is the son of the former governor of Michigan, George Romney, who himself ran for president after saving American Motors from failure, though not permanently. Romney's charisma is best defined as soporific, which is probably why he is leading the Publican field. On the plus side, he isn't President B.O... . It also spurs speculation that Obama will release supplies from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to ease prices for consumers.
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QE3 gone, corn ethanol and gasoline to the roof Alice, unemployment up (previous number two times in a row women hit hardest and more recently college educated) the great ditherer in action. "release supplies from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve"- symbolic.
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gasoline stocks were already low (about 5 - 10 million barrels below the 210 million normal) before Isaac hit
there are several refineries in the area that are closed or will be closed for a week or so and that will reduce production of gasoline by about 2 to 4 million barrels
however, consumption of gasoline is depressed during the storm and immediately after
the reality is that the slow economy is also depressing consumption by about 1M barrels a week or so; were it not for this, prices would be at least a dollar more per gallon
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Prosecutors in Germany's capital city dismissed a criminal complaint lodged against popular local Rabbi Yitshak Ehrenberg over "causing bodily harm" by performing ritual circumcision, according to a document obtained by The Jerusalem Post on Thursday.
A complaint was filed against the Jerusalem-born Rabbi on July 12, and dismissed as unfounded in an August 15 letter. The prosecutions dismissal document concluded that there is no proof to establish that the Rabbis conduct met the "condition of a criminal violation. In response to Ehrenbergs appearance on the German talk show "Anne Will, the Rabbi announced that we will continue" with circumcisions because it is a core feature of Judaism.
The Post learned on Wednesday that the city of Berlin, which is one of sixteen Federal German States, is considering not implementing the June Cologne court decision outlawing Jewish and Muslim circumcisions.The Berlin prosecutor offices document suggests that the Berlin government rejects the Cologne decision. According to the prosecutors letter even if a non-medical circumcision were to take place it would not meet the elements of severe bodily harm.
A German doctor filed a criminal charge earlier in August against Rabbi David Goldberg for performing circumcision. Dr. Sebastian Guevara Kamm from Giessen in the German state of Hesse, lodged the complaint on the basis a June ruling in Cologne, the North Rhine- Westphalia state, that "non-medical circumcision is a serious and irreversible interference in the integrity of the human body.
The local prosecutors office is still investigating the complaint against Goldberg. The mohel, or person trained in the practice of Jewish circumcision, sees the complaint as part of an anti-Semitic campaign spreading throughout the Federal Republic.
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I'm surprised that Muslims haven't spoken up. IIRC, Muslims also circumcise their young boys, although the requirement isn't as strong as in Judaism. I can't wait until someone files a criminal complaint against an Imam.
According to Wikipedia, Mohamed was born without a foreskin, so his followers had themselves circumcised to imitate him.
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I was discussing this with Mr. Wife this morning, and it is his considered opinion that this is not actually antisemitic -- although it may be anti-Muslim -- but rather that Germans, and Europeans in general, see male circumcision as being as barbaric as female circumcision. And indeed, the original Cologne case involved a Muslim child, not a Jewish infant. A rather responsible Muslim family, in fact, who sought modern medical treatment at a German hospital when complications developed, and were punished for it.
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Male circumcision is sometimes medically indicated. News doesn't say whether or not Germany has banned that as a medical procedure also. Whether done for medical or religious reasons, procedure can have complications.
[Dawn] PPP Senator and Presidency's front man Farhatullah Babar was unanimously elected chairman of the controversial Parliamentary Commission on Creation of New Provinces in Punjab which held its fist meeting on Tuesday despite a boycott by its PML-N members.Talking to news hounds outside the Parliament House after his election, Mr Babar requested the PML-N to end its boycott of the commission. He announced that the commission would meet again on Wednesday to frame its rules of business and prepare the terms of reference.
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Hurricane Isaac and a deadly blast at Venezuela's Amuay refinery pushed gasoline to an almost four- month high and threatened to revive a debate about energy costs in the run-up to the presidential election in November.
A German doctor filed a criminal charge earlier in August against Rabbi David Goldberg for performing circumcision. Dr. Sebastian Guevara Kamm from Giessen in the German state of Hesse, lodged the complaint on the basis a June ruling in Cologne, the North Rhine- Westphalia state, that "non-medical circumcision is a serious and irreversible interference in the integrity of the human body.
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