So, as I asked a few days ago, why has *the media started to collectively turn the other way and
seemingly abandon Zimbabwe to the crocs in their midst, the reptilian monsters now arguably circling in for the kill - of both democracy and those still adhering to and upholding it in that land? Why indeed?
Well, essentially they've chosen to accept, to embrace - readily, without much question or investigation, apparently - the verdict of 'ZEC'(I think it's known as): the independent international election monitors deployed to and stationed throughout the nation who reported back to the onlooking, awaiting world as soon as the final presidential tally was in. Which, I'm sure you'd agree, certainly seems a reasonable enough thing to have done.
Yes, I'll readily grant (the soundness of such thinking) - on an initial and essentially superficial basis, anyhow. And so, why do I happen to believe there's something fishy afloat, when such folk - eminently qualified for their task as they doubtless are - apparently are convinced that a proper election of Emmerson Mnangagwa has taken place?
Well, folks, the signs from Election Day itself, and post-election - and indeed from well before - are in fact quite contrary to that perspective, as a **New Zealand observer, phoning in to Katherine Ryan's RNZ National Nine to Noon Show post-election and before the final result was declared, evidenced in so many ways.
But for now - yes, I'm having to take another break in my narrative, time being against me - let me suggest that the behaviour of Zimbabwean security personnel - riot police in particular, but also military men - towards the opposition MDC Movement and a number of its MPs post-election (and in view of the party's and its leader's well-known and oft-declared claim that they possessed conclusive evidence that said election results did not in fact tally with the well-documented evidence possessed by the MDC and its own, on-the-ground, polling station observers and scrutineers) essentially says it all - all that's needed saying anyway...
*In New Zealand, anyhow - I am unable to speak for other jurisdictions; except to add, the great dearth of coverage from the likes of the BBC post-election suggests that this longstanding 'bastion of truth and impartiality and [old-fashioned] objective journalism' is in the same camp, and set to abandon its well-deserved reputation of bringing truth to power and privilege - wherever that might be.
**The former M.P. for (my sister's electorate of) ***Christchurch Central, Tim Barnett.
***Curiously, today (now August 12th), I noticed that an old TIME Mag (December 5th, 1994) includes former Chch M.P. Lianne Dalziel (these days, the Mayor of Christchurch) as among those listed in 'The Global 100: TIME's roster of young leaders for the new millennium'. Long-serving M.P. and later three-term P.M., and eventually credible United Nations' Secretary-General candidate, ****Helen Clark, however, is conspicuously absent from said inventory.
But not so one politician in particular, only too well-known upon our present-day global scene: believe it or not - yes, it's quite incredible, even moreover rather depressing - no, *****no-one (like 'the [Zimbabwean] Croc') thankfully enough, but a far more significant figure on the world scene, the Syrian leader, despot and war criminal ******Bashar(sic) Al-Assad!
TIME, citing him at *******29 as 'President-in-Waiting', also includes the following eye-opening info re this politician: [he] was a retiring young man who displayed no taste for politics until fate intervened...[being] in Britain...when his elder brother was killed in a car crash...In Damascus, hopes are that the would-be ophthalmologist will bring new vision to bear if he takes over the reins of a country that will play a pivotal role in any lasting Middle East peace.
What more need one add - especially in commentary thereupon?!?!? What indeed!
****Once dubbed a possible future leader of a one-world government, interestingly enough, alongside her parliamentary (and later deputy P.M.) contemporary, the (recently-deceased) Jim Anderton.
*****A whopping 20 of these 100 future leaders are listed in the AFRICA/MIDEAST section.
******Intriguingly enough - and worthy of giving one and all due cause for pause - both (arguably this, the younger, rather than the father and former Syrian President) (Al-)Assad and current, long-serving Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (who, though many will long since have forgotten, also served as P.M. briefly in the late nineties) are singled out for citation in the eminently intriguing The Bible Code and the Bible Code 2: The Countdown by ******Michael Drosnin. That is, in the context of very last days' events in the ever-conflict-ridden Middle East.
*******'Scarily' enough, apparently almost exactly the same age as Yours Truly. No - thankfully - further 'computations' now on my part establish him as - at a guesstimate - a year younger; well and truly living up to his (my sister's current - and my own teenage - (occultic) Chinese Astrological obsession's) animal's reputation as a snake. And assuredly of the most venomous, if subtle and beguiling - yet notwithstanding viciously deadly - variety! Sadly, further computations indicate Al-Assad might've been about to turn 30 that very December (like myself), in which case he's a Chinese 'character' of even far greater significance/potential notoriety (or positive significance):a dragon!
********Interestingly enough, Drosnin's Jewish himself, if of the secular, cultural variety (and - at least formerly - based in New York City as a journalist). And just as interestingly, perhaps, not only is a fellow (Israeli) Jew - the brilliant mathematician, Dr Eliyahu Rips - cited often in said books (as someone who helped establish the validity of the sequencing patterns characteristic of the hidden computer codes), but PM Netanyahu's own dad, who evidently implicitly believed in these 'codes'.
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