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To: StocksDATsoar who wrote (116846)	7/20/2003 12:26:34 PM
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Hundreds and hundreds of Americans moving to Canada to pay the HIGH TAXES so the government can keep the money flow spending machine as waisted tax payer dollars to fill there own boots. ROTFLMAO Canadian Government Sucks the big one

To: StocksDATsoar who wrote (116846)	7/20/2003 3:34:32 PM
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Morgue workers borrow bodies for fuel scam July 21 2003 Two morgue workers in Zimbabwe have been arrested for borrowing corpses in a scam to get priority petrol. Zimbabwe faces acute fuel and food shortages. Funeral homes are given preference at the few petrol stations selling fuel if their vehicles are carrying coffins with burial documents. The two allegedly faked burial orders on unclaimed corpses. They took the corpses to petrol stations to get fuel that they later sold on the black market, police said. Police spokeswoman Cecilia Churu said the two workers were arrested on Thursday after security guards at the hospital in the dormitory town of Chitungwiza, 25 kilometres south of Harare, noticed a coffin being returned to the morgue. The workers were expected to be charged under health and burial laws. advertisement advertisement Zimbabwe is suffering its worst economic crisis since independence in 1980 with shortages of hard currency, imports such as petrol and medicines and food. On the black market, fuel and corn meal staple fetch five times the official price. The official exchange rate is 824 Zimbabwe dollars to the US dollar, but the US dollar buys up to Z$2700 on the black market. Fuel shortages have crippled industry and transportation. The prisons department said earlier this month it was unable to deliver prisoners to court for bail hearings and many were retained in custody until diesel supplies were received. Official inflation rose last month to 364 per cent, according to the state Central Statistical Office, up from 300 per cent in May. Zimbabweans were also facing acute shortages of local currency. The central bank said it did not have enough hard currency to import security seals and paper to print new local bank notes. Long lines of people waited at banks on Saturday hoping to draw cash. Investment and foreign aid has largely ended in the southern African country in protest at human rights abuses and longtime President Robert Mugabe's disputed victory in elections last year. AP