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REVOLUTION IS ABOUT THE LAND WITHOUT THE LAND THERE IS NO REVOLUTION

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Messenger: ras menelik Sent: 4/6/2009 3:16:05 PM
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REVOLUTION IS ABOUT THE LAND, WITHOUT THE LAND THERE IS NO REVOLUTION

The true BLACK POWER PAN AFRIKANISTS must stand up and fight for the total
liberation of Zimbabwe and Afrika at large by any means necessary. Zimbabwe has been under siege ever since the government of Zimbabwe under the leadership of HIS EXELENCY THE HONOURABLE PRESIDENT OF ZIMBABWE PRESIDENT GABRIEL MUGABE started the programme of taking back the land which was stolen from InI by European colonialists from Britain who are the former colonial power in Zimbabwe. It is a revolutionary action taking the land from colonialist and give it back to the landless indigenous people who were dispossessed of their land through the barrel of the gun by these vampires from Europe. Afrika belongs to the Afrikans who are black people. Zimbabwe must be defended and advanced by InI BLACK PEOPLE who love InI black self from these forces that has been trying to destabilize that country with the aim of reversing the land programme and colonize Zimbabwe again. The revolution is about the land, and without the land there is no revolution. Zimbabwe is a source of inspiration to InI who are still living in the settler colonial territories like here in Azania. Zimbabwe proved once again that InI Afrikans with confidence of the self and self determination InI CAN defeat these forces that are always downpressing InI and exploiting InI natural and human resources. Afrikan people all over the world must rally around Zimbabwe and help Zimbabwe in this situation of desperation which was caused by the imperialists who always want InI to bow down to them and allow InI to be used and misused by them for their own interests. All these liberated zones must be defended and advanced by InI against the babylon forces which are around InI trying to devour InI. Let InI not forget what happened to Kwame Nkrumah, Patrice Lumumba, Samora Machel, Thomas Sankara, Amilcar Cabral, Bantu Biko, Mangaliso Sobukwe, Marcus Garvey, Peter Tosh, Malcom X, Khalid Mohammad and many other revolutionaries who stood for the legitimate interests of Afrikan people. President Gabriel Mugabe is one of those elects that come from that Afrikan revolutionary lineage of Afrikan warriors who are sent to redeem InI BLACK NATION from colonial rule, landlessness, and out of starvation spiritually and physically. InI must stand up for Zimbabwe so that InI cannot loose the gains that InI has achieved under this revolutionary leadership.
BLACK POWER
RASTAFARI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Messenger: Ras I-Tom Sent: 4/6/2009 4:30:01 PM
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The western media paints one image of Mugabe, and one reality of Africa. The west paints the image of Mugabe as a monster, and the reality of Africa as corrupt leaders, starving children, and men with guns.

I sight that these may be a reality for some, but it does not mean that it is the only reality. The west does not talk about the justice of what Mugabe is trying to attain in Zimbabwe (Africa for the Africans), instead only talks about the sufferation which is a result. Now what I want to ask is what the I them think about the means that Mugabe is going about doing this? Because I don't think ones can deny that there is sufferation which is a result of the way Mugabe is going about doing things. Now is this necessary in order for the change?

As for Africa, the same goes, I dont think ones can deny there is corruption, and sufferation. but the western media does not talk about the caue for this. The west does not talk about colonial rule and borders drawn by Europeans on a map of a land which they never set foo on some parts, despite the many tribes with different social structures within these colonial borders.

The way I sight it is that there is more than one reality. But the reality of suffering Africa and corrupt leaders is because of Europe.
I sight that the problems of Africa are the effect of the cause which was colonial rule.

I hear many white people tell I that it is African leaders that are corrupt and it is Africans killing one another, so how can the west be to blame. but I sight that they just will not open their eyes to sight what the cause of these effects are. I sight that the cause is imperial rule. There are so many problems which are the effect of this wickedness, both physical and psychological for Africans.

I do not know how it is in Zimbabwe,as I do not live there. I only hear of what I hear through western media (and I am aware of the one-sided reality and the agenda being pushed) and also I have read of Africans who say that Mugabe fits the image painted by the west, and also Africans like ras menelik who say that Mugabe is an honorable African leader fighting for the liberation of a peoples.

All I know is that I will always chant Africa for the Africans, not Europeans. It is only just that Africans own their own farms, not Europeans who employ Africans, as this is liek imperil rule. it is Africans land, so let them farm it. However I think we have to look at the way Mugabe goes about doing things, as pushing the Europens out quick so, had left the supermarkets bare or a while, and peoples starving.

But either way, I sight all these problms are simply the effect of a cause, as all causes have an effect.

Ises unto I and I God and King, Haile I Selassie I Jah RasTafarI, Almighty God Jah RasTafarI


Messenger: Ark I Sent: 4/6/2009 10:27:32 PM
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That is the way babylon operates, divide and rule.

They have caused so many wars amongst African nations and also amongst European, Asian, South American, etc. etc. etc..

And when they find a group they can bribe to help them divide and rule, anybody opposing that group is an "evil" group and is the "enemy", according to babylon propaganda.

When I see babylon news speak of a government as "evil", I first assume that they are not, and then if I am interested, I look up what I can find about them, making sure that I limit the babylon propaganda sources, so I can see the other side of the story.

Noam Chomsky said it well, the difference between and freedom fighter and a terrorist, is that a freedom fighter is on babylon's side, and a terrorist is on the other side.

They do it to cause the people in the land to fight against each other so that their nation is weakened. And if the nation is not weakened enough through their own fighting, babylon comes to "free" the country and completes the destruction to make sure the nation is as weak as babylon wants them to be. Then they set up things so they can profit from the building of the nation they destroyed, making sure to build it in babylon's image, and making sure that they are dependant on babylon.

Nations who oppose babylon's new world order, or nations that might potentially oppose babylon's new order are targeted. So basically, if the nation hasn't accepted the mark of the beast, it is a "legitimate" target.


Africa for the Africans. Fire Burn babylon downpression.


Ark I

Itinual Praises unto Jah RasTafarI Haile Selassie I Menen I





Messenger: rootz Sent: 4/8/2009 3:32:13 AM
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*********************FROM HONORABLE TO CRIMINAL*********************

bless,

i overs and agree with what the i's are sayin; that the cause mugabe is rooting for is the way ie 'africa' for the 'africans'. you know when an idea is good in your head until you actually carry it out? almost the same thing.. the idea that white people should come to our land and rule us in the process is a bad idea in itself but he could have had a sit down with these people and not just 'kick them out'!

what's wrong with white people living in a black man's land and not being in rule of that land?

he could've aimed to do dat ie empowering black people to be the ones in top positions etc. yes, the earlier whites tricked zimbabwe into givin them land esp the fertile parts of 'zimbabwe'. many still harbor hatred for the white man because of that. personally, i feel the excuse of saying 'the reason bad things are happening to us is coz of THE MAN' is outdated! yes, we were colonized and we got our independence. zimbabwe was one of the richest 'countries' in africa and its currency was strong but now he came up with an idea that turned it all around!

kicking someone out of your house is one way of making dat person your enemy!

dont get me wrong, im not sayin 'africa' for the 'africans' is a bad idea but it is how one goes about it dat would determine its success or failure. there're some black people who're not empowered enough dat they still rely on the white man to this day! when a person who is above you takes out that man then who will these people look up to? no wonder things started going wrong! and now he takes the idea too much into his head and causes people to go gun crazy and now His way is the only way. NO opposition so no one has the "right" to have a different opinion. his soldiers go gun crazy and go about killing people; anyone, black or white, so now its no longer a fight for liberation but a fight for power.

POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY

now these poor people are pauperised as a result of mugabe's intelligent governship and because he's become paranoid, 'everyone' opposes him so people start disappearing through the night.. a lot of them jump the border this side-and you should see the scene when the police go rounding them up to send them back-but he doesnt even.. coz its not like he's suffering, right?? as long as his next door neighbor is not white..

"accept your realities and move on ahead"
-lutan fyah
love is the only absolute

we need to stop going backward mi idren and sistren. YES things have happened to us and YES some people are still reeling from it all, but instead of asigning blame and reminiscing on the bad things that've happenened to us, what is the way forward?

i agree with ras menelik, to an extent, when he says mugabe is an honorable leader who's fighting for liberation of the people but now that the fight is over what is he still doing? the current situation in 'zimbabwe' should be put upon mugabe's shoulders. even he knows dat he f"*&ed up so what does he do? he declares himself life president so that he doesnt have to answer to anyone for his crimes. (but he forgets that Jah has set a reminder. tsk tsk)

there's nothin honorable dat resulted from what mugabe has done coz all he wanted to do was exert revenge and he's reapin from his efforts. sad thing he's not the only one..

RootsTafari


Messenger: ras menelik Sent: 4/9/2009 3:32:01 AM
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Does Mugabe Have A Point?

By Chinweizu

July 2008




What is going on in Zimbabwe is not just an election crisis, it is a war. Britain is inflicting a war of recolonization on Zimbabwe under the guise of promoting democracy. For the last seven years, Britain, with its European and Diaspora allies— The EU, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the USA-- has waged economic war on Zimbabwe through sanctions and sabotage: after all, these are classic weapons of economic war. Britain has been making propaganda war on Zimbabwe through a demonization and disinformation campaign in the global media. Britain has been waging political war on Zimbabwe using its MDC agents to fight elections. And frustrated by its failure thus far to effect regime change in Zimbabwe, Britain is gearing up to make military war on Zimbabwe, either through a UN intervention, or through a unilateral invasion, or by prompting the MDC to start an armed struggle against the Zimbabwean government.


After Britain failed to persuade the UN Security Council to impose UN sanctions on Zimbabwe, Gordon Brown made it clear on the BBC [July 15, 2008] that he is determined to maintain “political pressure” on Zimbabwe until it “returns to democracy”. And on that same day, in its program “World have your say” which was broadcast from the Central Methodist Church in Johannesburg, South Africa, the BBC presenter openly went about inciting the MDC refugees there to go home and take up AK-47s and begin an armed struggle.


And back in 2007, there were reports, by Grands-Lacs Confidentiel, that at a camp in Rusoma on the border between Rwanda and Tanzania, British and American instructors were training mercenaries recruited from Malawi, Zambia, Botswana and Zimbabwe itself, to invade Zimbabwe.


What is all this for? Black Africans need to understand what exactly is going on if they are to do their duty towards their Black kith and kin in Zimbabwe.


Contrary to the impression long created by British propaganda, the principals in this war or crisis are not Mugabe vs. Tsvangerai but Zimbabwe vs. Britain; and first Tony Blair and now Gordon Brown vs. Robert Mugabe. Tsvangerai is simply a creature and puppet of Britain. The MDC is simply the local political mercenaries that Britain is using to wage its war on the people of Zimbabwe.


Despite the assertions of the sanctioners, their sanctions do not target just Mugabe and his cronies. They have targeted the entire Zimbabwe population. They have done so from the start. For example. It was reported in 2002 that “a ship carrying fuel intended for Zimbabwe was unable to offload its cargo at the port of Beira in Mozambique. British Petroleum, which owns the fuel storage facilities at the port, refused to accept the fuel because Zimbabwe owed the firm $3 million. Approximately 70 percent of Zimbabwe's fuel is shipped from Libya through the port of Beira, where it is transferred to pipelines. The lack of foreign currency has prevented Zimbabwe from meeting its payments to British Petroleum, and [this] could mean a near-total cutoff of fuel, bringing down production in virtually all sectors of Zimbabwe's economy.” We are, perhaps expected to naively believe that the lack of foreign exchange which led to BP’s interdiction of fuel supplies was a result of sanctions that targeted just Mugabe and his cronies! Or was that the direct effect of land reform and mismanagement, as all the woes of the Zimbabwean economy are alleged to be? Well, land redistribution does not produce fuel shortages or cause factories to shut down: when manufacturers deliberately fail to supply goods, despite being supplied with foreign and local currency by the government, that is sabotage, not land reform or mismanagement by government. When syndicates organize the smuggling to Mozambique of locally grown sugar and cattle, while acute shortages afflict the people, that is sabotage or economic warfare, not mismanagement or land reform. Thus we must understand that the acute shortages driving the astronomical inflation are the result of regime change sanctions and sabotage rather than land reform.


And what has been the purpose of it all?


We should recall that former US Assistant Secretary of State on African Affairs, Chester Crocker said in a 2005 testimony to the US Senate for the Zimbabwe Democracy Act [i.e. sanctions and regime change legislation] "To separate the Zimbabwean people from ZANU-PF we are going to have to make their economy scream, and I hope you senators have the stomach for what you have to do." (Democracy Now!, April 1st, 2005). And that is precisely what is happening. The economy is indeed screaming, by enemy design. The enemy intended to so torture the Zimbabwean people that they would reject ZANU-PF at the polls.


Having failed to do so, they are scheming to either invade Zimbabwe or to fund an armed struggle there. All this is allegedly to return Zimbabwe to democracy; to punish its leadership for election violence, alleged election rigging and violations of “human rights”. That can hardly be the true motive. After all, aren’t the UK and the USA on cozy terms with other election riggers, e.g. Mwai Kibaki in Kenya, who happen to be obedient servants to imperialism? So, what are Mugabe’s real and unforgivable sins that have called forth such premeditated torture of the Zimbabwean population?


Top among his sins are:

1] the expropriation of land from the white settlers whose ancestors had stolen it by force a century earlier. If Mugabe completes his land restitution project, his example might give blacks ideas on what to do, in Namibia and South Africa especially!

2] the indigenisation of the mining industries by taking over 51% of their shares for indigenous Zimbabweans; and that

3] Mugabe "balks at reforming his unproductive state-dominated economy", as

The Washington Post, in an editorial on February 1, 2000, complained.

This was a reference to Mugabe’s breaking away from the neo-liberal tutelage and doctrines of the IMF and pursuing “socialist” policies of state domination of the economy. In this post-Soviet era, departure from the orthodox neo-liberal “free market” doctrines is an unforgivable heresy.


If Mugabe gets away with all this and succeeds, Zimbabwe, like Cuba, would become a model for other countries on how to escape the economic stranglehold of neo-colonialism. Zimbabwe would become an example, terrible for imperialism and its exploitation of Black Africa. So there you have it. It is to forestall the domino effect of the ZANU-PF example that Zimbabweans are being tortured with sanctions and threatened with war. Shouldn’t Tony Blair and Gordon Brown be charged to the ICC in De Hague for these crimes against black humanity?


We must put the current crisis in the context of developments since Rhodesia declared UDI in 1965 and touched off the 15 years Zimbabwean liberation war, the Chimurenga, to recover the land.


The Lancaster House Conference was called to save the imperialists from the humiliation of an unconditional surrender by the white Rhodesians to black insurrectionists. Something like that had not happened since Haiti’s victory over Napoleon’s army in 1803. At Lancaster House, ZANU-PF was robbed of the fruits of its battlefield victory over the white settlers. That agreement, which Mugabe was forced by other African countries to accept, delayed the takeover of the land for an initial ten years. Then Mugabe was persuaded by the Commonwealth Secretariat to hold off on summary land reclamation—lest the sight of it happening in next door Zimbabwe should cause white fright and intransigence among the white settlers in South Africa and jeopardize the struggle against Apartheid. Thus for 15 years, ZANU was obliged to put off any radical land reclamation process. Then, in 1997, in the new post-Soviet global political climate, Britain was emboldened to explicitly renege on the Lancaster House Agreement. It thereafter moved to completely reverse the battlefield defeat of its white Rhodesian kith and kin. This was true to the old Elizabethan tactic of defusing a crisis by delay and deceit. Lancaster house was an example of the rule that imperialism negotiates only when on the verge of being defeated, and only for the purpose of robbing its adversaries of victory. Then when it has recovered its poise, it will assuredly counter attack. This post 1979 saga illustrates Cabral’s dictum that “compromises with imperialism are counter-productive.”


Given these fundamentals of the Zimbabwe case, what is our correct Pan-Africanist duty?


First of all, we should not base our views on Zimbabwe on the propaganda disseminated by a western media which serves the agenda of imperialism. It is distressing to see African newspapers serving as megaphones for Africa's imperialist enemies. Pan-Africanists, including pan-Africanist media, parties and governments, urgently need to start depending on our own sources in formulating positions on all issues. This is in keeping with Cabral’s sacred principle that we should be absolutely independent in our way of thinking and acting; and in tackling questions and answering them.


Secondly, Pan-Africanism, to the extent that it is still an anti-imperialist movement, cannot accommodate itself to this imperialist offensive, but must mobilize support for an anti-imperialist Zimbabwe. Its struggle for economic decolonisation should be applauded and given even more support than Black Africa gave to fraternal struggles for political decolonisation.


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It is heartening that African efforts to resolve the election crisis between ZANU-PF and the MDC are going ahead. But what will be required to make them succeed?


Since the MDC is merely a puppet of the British Government, no negotiated settlement is possible unless Britain instructs Tsvangerai to accept it. We need, therefore, to focus on how to end, not just the foreign instigated electoral conflict, but also the underlying war between Britain and Zimbabwe over land and the decolonisation of the Zimbabwean economy.


So long as Britain persists with its sanctions and with threats of inspiring an armed struggle by MDC, so long as Britain insists on returning Zimbabwe to the colonial status where a few white settlers held half of Zimbabwe’s best land, so long as Britain insists on installing a government subservient to itself in Zimbabwe, we must realize that there will be no settlement before unconditional victory by either the British recolonizers or the Zimbabwean anti-colonialists. For ZANU-PF’s exemplary project of economic decolonisation to succeed, a global anti-war movement is called for to constrain Britain from fomenting armed conflict in Zimbabwe. Fostering such a movement is our third Pan-Africanist duty to Zimbabweans

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Chinweizu is a Black Power Pan-Africanist; the author of The West and the Rest of Us, Decolonising the African Mind, and other books. He is the co-founder of the Committee Against Arab Colonialism in Black Africa [CAACBA].



Messenger: Yaa Asantewa Sent: 4/9/2009 6:59:18 AM
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Blessed love. Give thanks for the ights.

My Lord... where did thee i get this posting? Was it online? If so, please could you give I the link. I have received Chinweizu articles before as forwards and stuff. I think he is brilliant. So, if thee I have a link for where, then I would be grateful.

Highly well informed piece. The notion of mercenary tactics should never be underestimated when it comes to Europe involvement in Africa. At the end of the day, whatever one says about Mugabe his plan is far clearer than that which the west has for Africa. Let's not forget the antics of Thatcher's son in Angola not too long ago. There are western government funded mercenaries ALL over Africa, trying to instigate climates that are beneficial to their strategy. Fire!

I don't know if I ever posted here, or was I just talking to my cipher, when I said what I thought of Morgan Tsvangerai long time ago. It is not so easy as just to say he is a puppet, etc etc. But I always felt that some kind of game was being played between himself and Mugabe. The outcome of the car crash is very intriguing and suspicious.

Where Mugabe is a fool is where he is overlooking and underestimating the tactics of the English, as the Iemple says in his article their Elizabethan tradition of delay and deceit is very well refined. If Mugabe is not going to lock down and get on with it, without all this presidential pomp, towards which our 'modern' African 'leaders' have an interesting compulsion, then he is going to find himself very overwhelmed.

The West is pretending to turn their backs, and he is busy mocking them... while behind his back they are blasting any of his real key defences.

JahJah see and know.


Messenger: SunofMan Sent: 4/9/2009 7:40:52 AM
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Greetings...

How long Rastafari should look at Mugabe's heart on the scales???

Zero...Harbor Mengistu in Zimbabwe, for how long??? Don't forget!

Mugabe's judgement is due!!

Selam Rastafari


Messenger: SunofMan Sent: 4/9/2009 8:14:29 PM
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Mengistu is graced with around-the-clock security and two mansions in the affluent suburbs of Gunhill and Borrowdale. Mugabe gave him the second so he could switch between the two, after four Ethiopians tried to kill him on November 4 1995.

When Mugabe begun his destructive land seizures in February 2000, Mengistu also got two plum white-owned farms. Those who watch his movements say he drives the latest ML Mercedes Benz and travels to his farms and other places under discreet escorts. All of this is financed by the state.

When he wants, he takes a walk around his favourite Sam Levy's Village mall with his security guards in the background.

Although he does not travel often, he used his Zimbabwe government diplomatic passport for a controversial visit to South Africa for treatment of a heart problem in 1999 and for a few more surreptitious visits since, according to sources.

His four children are not ordinary refugees either. They are full Zimbabwean citizens and travel the world on their passports issued on Mugabe's directive. Highly placed sources say he gets special treatment because he is not your ordinary political exile.

Unlike Uganda's Milton Obote, who died a virtual pauper in Lusaka, Zambia, or even his compatriot Idi Amin who complained that his US$4 000 monthly stipend from his Saudi hosts was inadequate to cover his expenses and those of his 30 plus children, Mengistu "has had it all and still has it all", said one Zimbabwean intelligence official. This is because when Mugabe's octopus-style grip on power came under heavy threat from a resurgent civic society and opposition, the dictator turned to his old comrade for help.

And the fellow-Marxist who has a death sentence hanging over him in Ethiopia because of his murder of hundreds of thousands of his countrymen during his "Red Terror" reign from 1974 to 1991, had the necessary experience.

"Mengistu did not only play an advisory role, he effectively became an active employee of the CIO," said a source in the dreaded spy agency.

Mengistu worked closely with the security generals in the so-called Joint Operations Command (JOC), the military junta that has run Zimbabwe over the past few years.

He advised them on the "best tactics" for keeping the opposition and civic society at bay.

In fact, some sources claim that the murderous campaigns that Zimbabwe has witnessed over the years are a direct result of Mengistu's "wit".

"Even though he has now slowed because of health problems, he still spends long periods in private consultations with the president at State House," another source said.

Mengistu has every reason to want Mugabe to stay in power. His next port of call should Mugabe be ousted is said to be North Korea which has already approved his future asylum should the need arise. He routinely packed his bags in readiness to flee there before Zimbabwe's elections "just in case", sources say.


Over the years, he has grown accustomed to Zimbabwe and the lifestyle there. Because his residences are very close to Mugabe's and he is looked after by the state, he does not have to suffer the routine problems of power cuts, food and fuel shortages like most Zimbabweans.

Mugabe has for 18 years sternly rebuffed the Ethiopian government's demands that he hand over Mengistu to face justice for his crimes.

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Messenger: ras menelik Sent: 4/10/2009 1:06:14 AM
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WHICH JUSTICE HAILE MIRRIAM MENGISTU WILL FACE FROM CIA CONTROLLED GOVERNMENT OF ETHIOPIA OF MELES ZENAWI? WHAT ABOUT THE ROLE OF OAU ON THIS ISSUE? INI IS ALSO SCEPTICAL OF YOUR "HIGHLY PLACED SOURCES" MI IDREN BECAUSE IT SEEM AS IF YOU TOW THE AMERICAN LINE THE WAY YOU SEE ZIMBABWE AND NORTH KOREA.


Messenger: Ras I-Tom Sent: 4/10/2009 6:02:25 AM
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Mengistu still commit a horrible crime though, not so? And Mengistu is close with Mugabe, not so?

If so. What does that mean?

I ain't saying nothing, because I do not know enough about this, I just want to know what the I think about this, whether or not Ethiopia government of Meles Zenawi is CIA controlled.

Selam.


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