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Tokatakiya
I mainly write about stories that I think aren't being covered enough by the main stream media.
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Something's Going to Happen Today
2008-04-04 13:58:51
Election results are constitutionally mandated to be released today in Zimbabwe. However, ZANU-PF are meeting today to discuss:"a negotiated, immediate departure for Mugabe; a second round of voting by April 19 as required by law if no candidate has a majority; or a 90-day state of emergency in hopes of improving conditions before an eventual runoff"Hopefully, the more sensible elements of ...
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Look's Like Bob's Made Up His Mind on His Future...
2008-04-04 02:01:12
...or someone made up his mind for him.
An office of the MDC in Harare has been raided by Zimbabwean security forces.
Police also arrested reporters, including one from the New York Times.
This is what everyone has been waiting for and Mugabe is not going to disappoint.
Despite this, results for the Zimbabwean Senate have begun to trickle out:
MDC: 5
ZANU-PF: 5
PS: I'm not going to call ...
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Zimbabwe Election Update XI: Final House Results
2008-04-03 03:31:09
MDC (combined): 109
ZANU-PF: 97
Independent: 1
(There are three races that have yet to be run because three of the candidates recently died.)
Still nothing on the poll for president. I have read that they may not release the final results until Friday.
The Zimbabwean constitution allows the president to dissolve the house; so, as great a victory as this is,it may not mean anything if the ...
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Zimbabwe Election Update IX: MDC Declares Victory!
2008-04-02 14:30:06
The MDC has declared Morgan Tsvangirai the winner of the presidential poll:
Tsvangirai: 50.3%
Mugabe: 42.9%
Makoni: 6.8%
Surpassing 50% means that no run-off would be necessary. However, it seems doubtful that these result will stand since the state run media has been predicting a run-off is in the offing. I'd be surprised if these results were allowed to stand but this is a bold move by the ...
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Zimbabwe Election Update VII: Still Neck and Neck
2008-04-02 02:36:56
House of Assembly:
MDC (combined): 90
ZANU-PF: 86 (three ministers have lost their seats)
Still no presidential results.
This article has a lot of interesting speculation... ...
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Zimbabwe Election Update VI: What about Bob?
2008-04-02 00:21:29
[I was hoping I could use this title at some point.]
I have been reading conflicting reports about what is going on with Mugabe.
The story seemed to be that party bigwigs in ZANU-PF were negotiating with the opposition on a way to transition Mugabe out of power, possibly including some sort of freedom from reprisals for the (former?) dictator. The MDC - specifically, Morgan Tsvangirai, the ...
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Pictures from Today's Obama Event in Pennsylvania
2008-04-01 04:35:16
(This is a minor digression from my Zimbabwe coverage.)
My brother and sister-in-law went to see Barack Obama today. Here are some pictures (see if you can spot the Secret Service - they're pretty inconspicuous):
Click to embiggen ...
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Zimbabwe Election Update III: Results Trickle In
2008-03-31 23:11:41
Only 52 of 210 parliamentary seats have been announced so far and the results have been split evenly between Mugabe's ZANU-PF and the opposition MDC. No results for president have yet been announced.
The prolonged delay has made many people think that what they feared prior to the election, that Mugabe would rig the vote, may be coming to pass. I read conflicting accounts that say the Zimbabwe ...
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Zimbabwe Election Update II: Opposition Declares Victory
2008-03-31 03:36:16
The Movement for Democratic Change (opposition) party in Zimbabwe has declared themselves the overwhelming victor in both parliamentary and presidential polls based on results they say they got directly from polling stations.
The elections were declared "peaceful and credible" by monitors but there was dissent on that conclusion amongst the monitors. Also, the release of the official results are ...
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Zimbabwe Election Update: It Begins
2008-03-29 17:03:00
The house of a member of Robert Mugabe's ruling Zanu-PF party had her house bombed in the early morning hours prior to the opening of polls.
The opposition has already claimed that there are widespread voting irregularities.
Unfortunately, we can probably expect a lot more of both of the above in the days to come. First results are expected on Monday.
PS: Did I mention that the election ...
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Tomorrow's Election in Zimbabwe
2008-03-28 23:59:54
One of my favorite subjects is Zimbabwe, or as I call it, "The Worst Country in the World." So, I thought I would be remiss if I didn't say something about tomorrow's Presidential election in Zimbabwe.
Despite the fact that President Robert Mugabe will more than likely win re-election in what is expected to be a wildly illegitimate poll, the aftermath of the contest will probably cause yet more ...
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New Look
2008-03-28 03:05:28
Well, I've been wanting a three-column layout for a while and I finally adapted this one to include all of my crap.
Please let me know if this looks good or if it looks insanely ridiculous. I've sort of lost perspective.
Thanks. ...
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300 & Bush's War
2008-03-27 02:23:36
300 is a great movie, but it is an even better number of days left in the Bush Administration to get below:
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We're under 300 days, people!
Speaking of which, if you ...
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I'm Not Sure How I Feel about This...
2008-03-24 23:30:17
"Upon entering his spacious office overlooking the Capitol Dome in Washington, D.C., the first thing to catch your eye is his Nebraska Cornhuskers screen saver. Mr. Thomas never attended the University of Nebraska, or even lived in the state."That's from (an incredibly biased) piece from the Wall Street Journal on none other than Associate Supreme Court and, apparently, Husker fan Justice ...
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Look Who's Stealing My Ideas Now: Cenk Uygar
2008-03-24 00:28:41
A couple of people have brought to my attention this piece that appeared yesterday on the Huffington Post by Cenk Uygar and the fact that it totally rips off this post that I wrote on Friday!
I would also like to point out that I didn't use the hedging "phrase-my-accusation-in-the-form-of-a-question" crap like he did. I threw down! I make a definitive statement!
So, I have two challenges (one ...
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Cut the $#!#: Clinton's Staff Knows She Can't Win
2008-03-21 23:20:57
From Politico:"One important Clinton adviser estimated to Politico privately that she has no more than a 10 percent chance of winning her race against Barack Obama, an appraisal that was echoed by other operatives.
In other words: The notion of the Democratic contest being a dramatic cliffhanger is a game of make-believe."So, basically, the Clintons must have a masochistic love of ...
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THE Speech
2008-03-21 23:12:06
This is what a President looks like. More importantly, this is what a leader looks like.
Full text here.
For God's sake Clinton, you cannot beat this guy - you can only help McCain beat him.
So please, for your own sake, for the good of your party, and more importantly, for the good of the country and the world, cut the $#!#. I'm not saying quit (although I want you to), just cut the $#!#. ...
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The Post-American World
2008-03-19 03:12:30
Fareed Zakaria has written a new book! (from his Web site):In The Post-American World, Fareed Zakaria argues that the "rise of the rest" is the great story of our time.
"This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else." So begins Fareed Zakaria's important new work on the era we are now entering. Following on the success of his best-selling The ...
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Tibet Deadline Passes
2008-03-18 02:57:45
Can this last until the Olympics?
Well, nobody thought that the Democratic nominating process would take this long either.
Good luck and God bless, Tibet. ...
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Dalai Lama: THIS Is China
2008-03-16 16:03:46
"They [the Chinese] simply rely on using force in order to simulate peace, a peace brought by force using a rule of terror."Enjoy the Olympics! (And Wal-Mart!) ...
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Hugo Chavez: Dictatorship, The Hague, or Bust!
2008-03-06 01:16:27
I'm going to take a break from talking about the Democratic Primary to discuss something slightly less depressing than last night's election results: a regional war in South America!
The short version of the story for those who don't know is this: Columbia has been plagued for years by the narco-terrorist group, FARC. The Columbian version of events says that Columbian troops were pursuing a ...
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Presidential Math: Clinton + Presidency = Self Destruction
2008-03-05 23:41:36
I just received this email from the Obama campaign (emphasis mine):Our projections show the most likely outcome of yesterday's elections will be that Hillary Clinton gained 187 delegates, and we gained 183.
That's a net gain of 4 delegates out of more than 370 delegates available from all the states that voted.
For comparison, that's less than half our net gain of 9 delegates from the District ...
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Election Crap from My Brain
2008-03-05 18:00:01
[I have emerged from my blogging torpor.]
So, what's going to happen tonight?
Hell if I know.
However, everything looks as if Clinton will win Ohio & Rhode Island, Obama will win Texas & (already has won) Vermont. Obama will probably modestly extend his delegate lead (and, according to Tom Brokaw, there are 50 or so superdelegates that are going to endorse Obama tomorrow).
A close race ...
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Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss
2008-02-24 22:43:31
[Sorry, that was trite.]
It looks like Fidel is "out", and Raul is in.
Don't hold your breath for the change. Not until Fidel FINALLY kicks off.
Again, I say, lift the embargo and spend, spend, spend. Communism simply can't go head-to-head with capitalism. History has confirmed that. Let's steamroll the regime with dollars.
If it is good enough for China and Vietnam (with whom, unlike Cuba, ...
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Good News & Bad News from Iraq
2008-02-22 14:02:01
Some of the best news in a while: Sadr extends Iraqi ceasefire. The Mahdi Army ceasefire along with the Sunni Awakening are the two biggest reasons that the Surge has managed to drastically reduce violence in Iraq. (Also, the internal migration and ethnic cleansing that have resulted in sectarian-homogenous neighborhoods - but that's not quite as uplifting.)
And the bad: Turkey launches ground ...
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CNN Is Dumb
2008-02-22 04:27:49
So, the best, most-substantive exchange in tonight's debate was the back and forth on health care.
Which, of course, the candidates basically had to ignore the moderators to have.
Can anyone explain why the moderators would want to STOP the candidates from having a detailed discussion on one of the most important issues in this election?
It's a good thing they jumped in before a debate could ...
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Presidential Candidates Positions on Cuba
2008-02-20 04:24:18
From First Read:"OBAMA.
Wants to normalize relations -- if Cuba begins moving towards democracy 'If the Cuban leadership begins opening Cuba to meaningful democratic change, the United States must be prepared to begin taking steps to normalize relations and to ease the embargo of the last five decades. The freedom of the Cuban people is a cause that should bring the Americans together.' ( ...
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