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Africa Subsaharan
Mugabe seeks Chinese protection
2011-11-18
[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...
has appealed to China and Russia to protect him from attacks by the United States and Europe.

The veteran ruler, who is barred from travelling to the US and the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
because of alleged human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
violations, is on an official visit to China.
Begging for cash is as official as it gets...
On Wednesday, he met acting Chinese President Xi Jinping where he called on Russia and China to provide a buffer against the "Anglo-Saxon alliance's expansionist agenda given what NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
did in Libya and threats posed to Syria and Iran," his front man told state owned Herald newspaper on Thursday.

"Countries like China and Russia must provide both leadership and protection," President Mugabe's front man Mr George Charamba quoted him as telling the Chinese leader.

"Nature has disbursed its resources in its own ways to different countries with some countries richly endowed while some are not.

"Even us who do not have oil feel no less menaced as these rapacious countries are looking for other resources."

Mr Mugabe, in power since Zim-bob-we's independence from Britannia in 1980, said Western countries were after his country's mineral wealth.
Posted by:Fred

#3  I would suggest the Zims study the history of the settlement of America and pay special attention to the part about the Cherokee.
Posted by: whitecollar redneck   2011-11-18 20:10  

#2  Let the Han colonial era begin!
Won't be like European colonial era in Africa, because they don't need local labor. More like European colonial era in Tasmania.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2011-11-18 05:15  

#1  Homecoming at the old alma mater.
Posted by: Eohippus Phater7165   2011-11-18 00:45  

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