Posted on 08/10/2002 2:37:39 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Theories: It is the only home they have known, after all, they are more African than European despite the color of their skins. Frankly, more African than Jesse Jackson....They may not have the resources to leave, though they'll be forced out on foot or will be killed, so I'd be walking to South Africa....
The Afghanistani Mujahadeen used muzzle loading rifles of the era from the American Revolution to begin their fight against the largest and most powerful army on the planet when the soviets came rolling in. True we later got them into the 20th century...but they began a successful campaign with very little in the way of weapons.
There is no lack of experience, and the farm workers who made Zimbabwe as productive as Kansas are not slothful.
It's a problem of social organization and mismanagement. The only ones who could have made it work, the loyal black farmworkers, have been driven away from their farms into destitution, the "settlers" have to money, experience or tools, it's a total goat screw.
To see to what poor Rhodesia has sunk! I suppose most of today's people don't remember the powerhouse it was before the UN stepped in and "corrected things"!
Sounds a lot like America. We are seeing ourselves disarmed and emasculated on a daily basis. Not to mention Taxed to death.
Yessir pardner. They waited too long.
The UN will begin a huge program of aid to Africa on a scale unlike any before. We taxpayers will surely be called upon by the UN to be the prime movers and donors, and that's a prediction that will come true.
Yes, it does. And marxism has been the great tragedy of the twentieth century. But let's get down to a personal level. The situation in Zimbabwe amounts to the basic battered wife syndrome, "He said he wouldn't hit me anymore, he promised!" And then the idiot ends up back in ER again because she didn't want to face the truth.
We don't want to see what's going on. The population of Zimbabwe has enornmously increased in this century due to the white's farming methods and the medicine. Take them out, and watch what happens. It isn't that Zim blacks aren't capable of taking care of themselves, it's because the marxist escape valve has given their "leadership" a convenient way out. Blame everybody else but us and give us the money/food. Of course the money will end up in our Swiss bank accounts (we'll laugh all the way to the bank) and the food will only go to our supporters, but that's your fault for being stupid.
. . .The people's cries for help to a government that they had just elected and indeed kept in power for the past 20 years were largely ignored.So it is in this context that it is difficult to understand Andrew Young, the visiting African-American activist and former mayor of Atlanta.
While Young, an internationally respected politician, is very right to point out that the land issue was paramount and should be resolved, there is no excuse whatsoever for him - a man who enjoys the full protection of the law in his home country the United States - to come here and proclaim that all is well, that there is no lawlessness in Zimbabwe let alone on the farms, as he is quoted as having said.
Surely it should be obvious to a person of Young's experience that the last place he could find out about the lawlessness in Zimbabwe is the State House.
Zimbabweans are tired of international apologists for ZANU PF's current violent campaign and appeal to Young and his ilk to stop trying to legitimise state-sponsored terrorism. Enough is enough.
PRESIDENT CLINTON ANNOUNCES SOUTHERN AFRICA DEVELOPMENT FUNDGovernment Offered Secret Gem Deal (Kennedys and Democrat Donor--Tempelsman--Involved)Andrew Young, Chairman
Former Mayor of Atlanta and Former United States Ambassador to the United Nations
Atlanta, GAAlison Leland Brisco
Lehman BrothersHouston, TX
Maurice Tempelsman
Leon Tempelsman & Co.
New York, NY
From the University of California:
Nine banks hid loans, set up false investments and facilitated phantom Enron sales
- Bank executives profited personally from "Ponzi scheme"
- Law firms structured phony deals
- Additional insider trading documented
The 485-page amended complaint lays out the scheme in detail, naming J. P. Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse First Boston, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC), Bank America, Barclays Bank, Deutsche Bank and Lehman Brothers as key players in a series of fraudulent transactions that ultimately cost shareholders more than $25 billion.
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Despite bankruptcy, he's still big donor to Jewish causes
. . . largest single donation is the $40 million pledged to the Simon Wiesenthal Center for construction of the Winnick Institute in Jerusalem.
Zimbabwe diamond deals exposed--Former Mossad agent trades weapons for diamonds to Mugabe.
"69. . . a whole network of Israelis was established, including Mr. Gertler in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lev Leviev in Angola and Shmuel Shnitzer in Sierra Leone. In all three cases, the pattern is the same. Conflict diamonds are exchanged for money, weapons and military training. These diamonds are then transported to Tel Aviv by former Israeli Air Force pilots, whose numbers have significantly increased both in UNITA-held territory in Angola and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In Israel, these diamonds are then cut and sold at the Ramat Gan Diamond Centre."Details on the Ramat Gan Diamond Center here:
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