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The Plight of Zimbabwe's Starving People
Daily Mail ^ | 12th March 2010 | Mail Foreign Service

Posted on 03/12/2010 11:31:15 AM PST by Niuhuru

For us it is a saddening sight - a magnificent bull elephant struck down in his old age. But for the starving of Zimbabwe, it was little short of a miracle.

The carcass provided a vital source of food, and hundreds of desperate villagers in the Gonarezhou National Park descended on the dead animal within minutes of its discovery.

Using machetes, axes and knives made from tin cans they set upon the six-ton carcass, which was found deep in scrubland.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: africa; africans; carterlegacy; gloriesofcommunism; landreform; mugabe; sanctions; starvation; zimbabwe
Multiculturalism at its finest.
1 posted on 03/12/2010 11:31:15 AM PST by Niuhuru
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To: Niuhuru
Reminicent of a scene in Sante Sangre.
2 posted on 03/12/2010 11:34:18 AM PST by GodBlessRonaldReagan
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To: Niuhuru

Thank goodness those white devils are gone.


3 posted on 03/12/2010 11:35:04 AM PST by Minipax
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To: Niuhuru

Coming to post-Obama hyperinflation America . . .


4 posted on 03/12/2010 11:35:05 AM PST by mywholebodyisaweapon
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To: Minipax

Yeah, and soon the Chinese will be taking over.


5 posted on 03/12/2010 11:37:30 AM PST by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: Niuhuru

Yeah, and to think his cousin, Obamugabe is now leading the US down the same road to collapse. Will we stand by and let this tyrant destroy us?


6 posted on 03/12/2010 11:39:34 AM PST by Neoliberalnot ((Freedom's Precious Metals: Gold, Silver and Lead))
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To: Niuhuru

Human Piranha’s

These people are much better off now that they have driven out the Whites.


7 posted on 03/12/2010 11:41:33 AM PST by Venturer
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To: mywholebodyisaweapon

It won’t be elephants, it’ll be RINO’s


8 posted on 03/12/2010 11:42:00 AM PST by GeronL (I Own Me (yep, boiled down to 6 letters))
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To: Neoliberalnot

People will keep watching ball games and reality TV until the end. You cable and sat TV bill are your ticket to slavery.


9 posted on 03/12/2010 11:42:29 AM PST by Frantzie (TV - sending Americans towards Islamic serfdom - Cancel TV service NOW)
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To: Niuhuru
ONE HEAD - ONE PIKE!!!
10 posted on 03/12/2010 11:43:31 AM PST by headsonpikes (Genocide is the highest sacrament of socialism - "Who-whom?")
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To: GeronL

I don’t think I could stomach Pansey Graham’s carcass, starving or not. :(


11 posted on 03/12/2010 11:45:35 AM PST by mywholebodyisaweapon
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To: Niuhuru

Back when it was called “Rhodesia”, they actually exported food.


12 posted on 03/12/2010 11:46:05 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Niuhuru

Gee, how much blame for this situation is being admitted by the western liberals who helped overthrow Rhodesia? It’s all on them.


13 posted on 03/12/2010 11:52:38 AM PST by ozzymandus
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To: Niuhuru; Clive
Good afternoon:

In the fwiw department, ten years ago, on this very forum, I predicted Zim would go from a net food exporter to a net food importer, and that they would be starving by this time.

I really do hate when I'm right.

5.56mm

14 posted on 03/12/2010 11:54:46 AM PST by M Kehoe
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To: Niuhuru
"Coming to a City near you"...


Just wait till next round of tax hikes hit...

15 posted on 03/12/2010 11:57:12 AM PST by Nat Turner (Escaped from NY in 1983 and not ever going back....)
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To: Niuhuru
Zimbabwe used to be known as Rhodesia and is now a prime example of what happens under wealth redistribution. Contrary to what Zero says, what happened there shows that "spreading the wealth around" leads, not to making everyone better off, but to squalor and despair.

Starting in 1979, the redistribution there was called "Land Reform". The idea was to take land that rich land owners held for generations and redistribute it among the poor. The result: what was once known as the "breadbasket of Africa" was transformed into an economic basket case ruled by an oligarch. A country that at one time could feed much of Africa is now having a hard time feeding even itself.

16 posted on 03/12/2010 12:03:51 PM PST by raisetheroof ("To become Red is to become dead --- gradually." Alexander Solzhenitsyn)
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To: Niuhuru

Good, why let it go to waste (or feed the vultures)

This is nothing new. Elephants hunters for decades have taken the tusks as trophies and let the nearest village have the carcas.

I am not suprised that a western urbanite reporter was shocked to discover that animals are made of meat.


17 posted on 03/12/2010 12:20:41 PM PST by lack-of-trust
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To: Niuhuru; All
Well...

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y10/blogosfera/mug.jpg

-"Pity About Africa..."--


The title is a take-off from a forgettable book with an unforgettable name:


18 posted on 03/12/2010 12:30:11 PM PST by backhoe (All Across America, the Lights are being relit again...)
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To: Frantzie

Never had cable. I am disgusted by most of what I briefly view on TV. Sitcoms are mostly the marketing of deviance as are several other shows on TV. Hollywood writers are clearly without morals and have a perverted view of the world and what passes as entertainment.


19 posted on 03/12/2010 1:05:51 PM PST by Neoliberalnot ((Freedom's Precious Metals: Gold, Silver and Lead))
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To: M Kehoe

africans have a knack for destroying economies. See african continent for examples.


20 posted on 03/12/2010 1:08:01 PM PST by Neoliberalnot ((Freedom's Precious Metals: Gold, Silver and Lead))
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