Record deficit kills all visions

Holy Shit!

St Barack on Monday forecast a record budget deficit of $1.56 trillion (£975 billion) for 2010 – worse even than the White House's prediction made just a week ago – as red ink threatened to submerge his leadership and reforms such as health care.

Wholly Shit!

5-time bigamist and South African president Jacob Zuma had undermined the struggle against HIV/Aids by having unprotected sex again. He fathered a love-child with the daughter of SA soccer boss Irvin Khoza. Zuma's behaviour directly contradicts the government's campaign against multiple sexual partners, and the inherent Aids risk in having unprotected sex.

All the President's men were mum about the baby girl, reportedly born to Sonono Khoza, 39, on October 8 last year. The child, Thandekile Matina, was given Zuma's surname and was registered as his daughter. He now has 20 children.

Zuma's behaviour complements that of former president Thabo Mbeki, whose denialist stance on HIV/Aids was found by Harvard University to have possibly contributed to the deaths of more than 300 000 South Africans during his tenure. South Africa has a president who, both through his words and actions, is doing similar damage to the struggle [against HIV/Aids] - a life and death struggle for millions of South Africans.

In 2006, Zuma was narrowly acquitted of raping the HIV-infected daughter of a close family friend. Judge Willem van der Merwe found that Zuma had consensual sex with her after the victim changed her story during trial, purportedly after receiving ZAR 50,000 ($6,750).

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