Posted on 08/03/2013 7:52:56 PM PDT by Innovative
THE president of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, used $850m of diamond money to rig the country's elections, intelligence documents obtained by The Sunday Times reveal.
The documents, dated June 3, detail how Chinese and Zimbabwean diamond companies pumped cash into a war chest used by Mugabe to manipulate the results of the election and intimidate the population.
As Zimbabweans prepared for another five years of autocratic rule after the country's electoral commission announced that Mugabe had won the presidential elections with 61 per cent of the vote.
The classified documents reveal how Mugabe's Zanu-PF party received $800m from two diamond mining companies controlled by Chinese investors and senior military commanders in the Zimbabwean army, police and intelligence services.
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Is that amount in... American Dollars or Zimbabwe “dollars”?
Hitler Becomes Führer
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/triumph/tr-fuehrer.htm
“About 9 a.m. on August 2, 1934, the much anticipated death of President Hindenburg finally occurred. Within hours, the Nazi Reichstag announced the following law, back-dated to August 1st:
The Reich Government has enacted the following law which is hereby promulgated.
Section 1. The office of Reich President will be combined with that of Reich Chancellor. The existing authority of the Reich President will consequently be transferred to the Führer and Reich Chancellor, Adolf Hitler. He will select his deputy.
Section 2. This law is effective as of the time of the death of Reich President von Hindenburg.
The law was technically illegal since it violated provisions of the German constitution concerning presidential succession as well as the Enabling Act of 1933 which forbade Hitler from altering the presidency. But that didn’t matter much anymore. Nobody raised any objections. Hitler himself was becoming the law.
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The unprecedented oath was to Hitler personally, not the German state or constitution, as were previous Army oaths. Obedience to Hitler would now be regarded as a sacred duty by all men in uniform, in accordance with their military code of honor, thus making the German Army the personal instrument of the Führer.
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On August 19, about 95 percent of registered voters in Germany went to the polls and gave Hitler 38 million “Ja” votes (90 percent of the vote). Thus Hitler could now claim he was Führer of the German nation with the overwhelming approval of the people. “
But he is such a good and honest man, just ask Jimmah!
President You Didn’t Build That turns green with envy.
whatever happened to the idea of
manmade real diamonds?
mined diamonds —> human suffering
I wonder if theres any software capable of keeping up with their staggering rate of inflation that could translate American Dollars in Current.....Zimbabwe currency values??
Oh, is he the new Mayor of Detroit?
That could never happen here.
Probably the only silver lining here is that Mugabe is *old*; he won’t be in power much longer.
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