[blam]

FYI

[pabianice]

This is a lie! The Boston Globe regularly reports on the Workers' Paradise Zimbabwe has become under black rule.

[jackbill]

Famine sweeps Zimbabwe

Pity.

[Fish out of Water]

*Index Bump

[El Sordo]

Sad, but entirely predicatable.

[Clive]

It should be emphasized that this is the end ot the austral summer, a time when store shelves ought to be full of maize meal.

The winter wheat crop is not being planted due to farm invasions and due to the issuance Section 8 orders making it a criminal offence for the commercial farmer to continue operations.

Even if a farmer were to be allowed to operate, farms need borrowed capital. What banker will lend money on the strength of a pledge of land and crops that can be confiscated on short notice whenever a Zanu PF bigshot takes it into his mind that he would like to own a farm.

[PaulKersey]

It wasn't always this way in Southern Africa. Here is a REPORT from the 1980s, while this regional crash was in it's early stages.

[eddie willers]

Like this was a big friggin' surprise.

[tubebender]

Do you remember how we got suckered into invading Somolia ? It was video of starving kids every nite just as we sat down to dinner and finally the welfare pimps won out and bingo we invade as CNN films the whole thing from shore!

[Centurion2000]

"We have plenty of our own fields, you know, and it should not be like this," said the 67-year-old peasant. "We used to be able to grow everything we want but that has all changed."

That was before your 'fearless leader' Mugabe decided to throw out all the white folks that ran the farms.

Have fun starving.

[WackyKat]

Oh well, at least they're getting rid of the whiteys. And nary a word about it in the mainstream US media.

[BADROTOFINGER]

There is no drought...JFK

[Matt Young]

The right to grow plants is fundamental. Restrictions on the right to grow plants: 1965 Tens of millions dead of famine in China 1970s million die in Ethiopia 2002 Zimbabwe 1990-2002 Civil Wars in South America Even the USDA wants to restrict the types of garden seeds allowed for distribution, (to avoid weeds!) Every government shoud recognize the unrestricted right of all human beings to put seeds in the ground.

[CDHart]

Is there a history of gun control in Zimbabwe?

Carolyn

[Jimmy Valentine]

I don't know, but I'm going to bet that Mugabe is sleeping soft and eating well no matter what is going on in the country side.

Regards,

[Walkin Man]

In 1928 Stalin began to force all peasants to join Collective Farms. Peasants had to pool their machinery and livestock on large farms, which were controlled by the State. 5,000,000 richer peasants, Kulaks, were murdered or starved to death.

On the Collective farms, peasants were forced to hand over their produce to the government and were either paid wages or had to feed themselves on what was left over, the ensuing result was a devastating famine.

Kulaks burnt their crops and killed their animals, rather than hand them over. 5,000,000 people starved to death in the Soviet Union between 1932 to 1934 . Agricultural production fell by 15%.

"Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it."

[Robert-J]

Maybe when the black Africans have destroyed themselves through war, socialism and whatever diseases that are lumped together as "aids", the Afrikanners(sp) and others can return and turn Africa into a truly nice place to live.