[VOA] HARARE, ZIMBABWE -- Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is in Singapore for medical treatment, in his third such visit this year, a newspaper reported Sunday.
Africa’s oldest ruler at 93, Mugabe was last in Singapore in May for what his spokesman George Charamba said then was treatment for eye problems.
The Standard said he had left again for Singapore Friday for more medical treatment. Information and Broadcasting Services Minister Chris Mushohwe told the newspaper Mugabe was in Singapore but declined to confirm the reason for the visit.
The ruling ZANU-PF party said Saturday it had canceled a youth rally scheduled for July 14 and to be attended by the president because he would be out of the country.
Charamba and Mushohwe did not respond to calls and messages to their phones for comment.
Despite growing concerns about his health, Mugabe has taken more than 10 trips abroad this year and wants to seek another five-year term in office in 2018.
He has ruled the southern African nation since independence from Britain in 1980.
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The great lot of Afrikan despots leave office feet first. I believe there have only been a small handful (two or three) who have voluntarily stepped down.
I had my doubts about a man some call Soetoro, but he stepped down to lead a popular, media based 'resistance movement.'
[Breitbart] The New York Times’ Frank Bruni published a column Sunday in which he accused President Donald Trump of "dissing" Jews. Senator Chuck Schumer writing for Frank Bruni ?
His examples include Trump’s "initial, strange silence" about antisemitic attacks and bomb threats earlier this year (most of which turned out to be hoaxes by a Jewish Israeli-American, a fact Bruni omits). He also cites the omission of a specific reference to Jews in a statement on Holocaust Remembrance Day (where the connection to Jews is quite obvious), and visit to Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial, that Bruni deems too short.
Oddly, Bruni made no mention of Trump’s visit to the Western Wall in Jerusalem -- the first by any U.S. president in office. There could be no more powerful statement of solidarity with the Jewish people. It was not enough for Frank Bruni.
Bruni also slams Trump for declining to visit the Warsaw Ghetto memorial last week on a brief trip to Poland -- though he has to admit, grudgingly, that Ivanka Trump visited the site, and that Trump spoke about the Jewish victims of the Holocaust in his speech in Krasinski Square.
[McClatchy Report] WASHINGTON - Frustration is mounting among Republican activists over the GOP’s continued failure to repeal and replace Obamacare, with grassroots groups now warning of consequences for lawmakers in the 2018 elections if the Senate doesn’t reach a deal soon.
"Activists, real grassroots people, are absolutely disappointed, and to some point I’d say devastated, over what we feel like is a broken promise," said Donald Bryson, the state director of the North Carolina chapter of Americans for Prosperity, an influential conservative group backed by the Koch brothers.
"A lot of these people are just really like, ’Why wasn’t there a plan? Why don’t you all have a sense of urgency?’" he said, even as he noted that conservatives could still support the ultimate repeal bill.
In a surprise move last week, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell delayed a vote on the measure until after the July 4 recess in an effort to lock down more support for the bill. Lawmakers are now scrambling, again, to hammer out an agreement to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act that won’t cause either the moderates or the conservatives to jump ship on a proposal that was at the very heart of the Republican message for years.
After all, McConnell can only afford two "no" votes, and going into the recess this week, there remained considerable opposition to the bill drafted in secret.
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Several big donors have closed their checkbooks over this as well.
I think by the end of 2017 panic will start setting in and they will realize they will be losing their seats and maybe congress if they don't get this done.
#8
If nothing gets done, Obamacare will die of its own weight. Check out this CNBC map of the number of counties that will have one or zero ACA-compliant insurers in 2018, even without repeal. I suspect a repeat of the exercise in three months will be even worse, as insurance companies choose to get out before the flood of red ink forces them out.
#9
The trajectory of the govt is insolvency. Nobody is doing anything about it. Business as usual. You cannot vote your way out of this mess.
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Well if you are holding Frontier Communications (FTR), you just experienced a nearly 60% dividend reduction in June and a lovely 1-15 reverse split today.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[VOA] HARARE, ZIMBABWE -- Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is in Singapore for medical treatment, in his third such visit this year, a newspaper reported Sunday.
[Breitbart] The New York Times’ Frank Bruni published a column Sunday in which he accused President Donald Trump of "dissing" Jews.
