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>> On Sun, 02 Sep 2007 18:45:03 GMT, " bozak"
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>>>and to think i almost forgot about my lil puppet today...
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>"Way Back Jack" the dirty trailer trash says what???
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>> Shocking Statistics On loser white Fathers Defiling Daughters
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Bongo In De Congo:
*Earlier this month, two people died in a stampede in a sugar line in
the
city of Bulawayo. In southern Zimbabwe, another woman died of
strangulation
when her neck scarf caught in a gas-fueled generator during the
nation's
daily power outages.* At this rate they won't have to worry about
being
harped on about zero-population growth
2 Die in Stampedes at Zimbabwe Exhibit
By ANGUS SHAW
September 02, 2007
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - A woman and a child were killed in stampedes
at a
Zimbabwe agriculture show packed with people lured by scarce snack
foods and
cheap Chinese toys and exhibitors hoping to skirt a government price
freeze
and sell their animals, police said Sunday.
The two died Saturday in two separate surges against the exit gates as
the
show at the Harare Exhibition Park was closing, police spokesman James
Sabau
told state radio. People were hurrying to get into lines for public
trans****tation outside, witnesses said.
Acute gasoline shortages have crippled trans****tation services and
commuters
routinely wait more than three hours to board buses for a 30-minute
trip to
the capital Harare's impoverished satellite town****ps.
The child killed was one of scores of lost children separated from
family
members in large crowds.
Attendance at the six-day annual event was the highest in years, with
many
people hoping to find produce that has disappeared from stores along
with
meat, corn meal, bread, milk, eggs and other staples amid soaring
inflation.
Officials said about 100,000 people came on Friday alone.
Zimbabwe is in the midst of a dire economic crisis blamed largely on
President Robert Mugabe's seizure of white-owned commercial farms for
redistribution to blacks, which began in 2000 and disrupted the
agriculture-based economy.
A government order in June to slash prices of all goods and services
by
about half in a bid to tame the world's highest inflation. Official
inflation is 7,634 percent annually, though independent estimates put
actual
inflation closer to 25,000 percent. The International Monetary Fund
has
forecast it could reach 100,000 percent by the end of the year.
The agriculture show was packed with people lured by scarce snack
foods and
soft drinks and stalls selling cheap Chinese toys and other goods. The
show
was the biggest in years and many exhibitors said they came in hopes
of
being allowed to sell their animals without being subjected to a
government
price freeze.
A cattle auction was banned Thursday at the show ground by price
control
authorities after it became clear bidders from butcheries, hotels and
groups
of private buyers were willing to pay up to 10 times the government's
fixed
price for livestock in the meat-starved nation.
Earlier this month, two people died in a stampede in a sugar line in
the
city of Bulawayo. In southern Zimbabwe, another woman died of
strangulation
when her neck scarf caught in a gas-fueled generator during the
nation's
daily power outages.
Attorneys this week re****ted clients facing acute food shortages in
prisons.
Relatives asked to bring food often could not find enough in the shops
or
get rides to prisons.
A panel of lawmakers has re****ted acute shortages of basic foods in
government youth training centers, which are used to train the
ruling-party
militants blamed for much of country's political violence and
intimidation.
The state Sunday Mail newspaper, meanwhile, re****ted 36,000 tons of
wheat
destined for Zimbabwe was being held at the Mozambique ****t of Beira
awaiting payment.
With shortages of bread and bakery products worsening, Didymus Mutasa,
the
powerful security and lands minister, said the nation's wheat was down
to a
week's supply.
"We do not have wheat stocks at the moment. We are feeding from hand
to
mouth. As soon as we pay, a little amount is brought in ... this is
usually
a week's supply," he was quoted as saying by the paper.
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