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ABC blamed African famine on "drought." They didn't mention Mugabe at all.
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Posted on 08/26/2002 6:52:41 PM PDT by grundle

I saw a story on the ABC national TV news tonight. They were talking about the current African famine. They blamed it on "drought."

They didn't mention Mugabe at all. They didn't mention that Mugabe stole the land from the farmers. They didn't mention that Mugabe made it illegal for the farmers to plant crops.

They didn't mention that many of the dams and resevoirs are currently full. They didn't mention that many of the streams are currently flowing.

They didn't mention that the drought of 10 years ago didn't cause famine.

They didn't mention that the current drought in 49 of the 50 U.S. states isn't causing famine.

The reason they blamed the current African famine on "drought" is because the are afraid to blame the famine on Marxism.

Blaming African famine on "drought" is equivalent to saying that Matthew Shepard died from "cancer."

Bjorn Lomborg's book "The Skeptical Environmentalist" explains that African famine is caused by Marxism, collective ownership of land, and government price caps, and not by drought, overpopulation, or lack of natural resources, which are the things that enviornmentalists blame the famine on. This is why environmentalists hate Lomborg so much. Environmentalists hate Lomborg because he exposes them as the liars that they are.


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1 posted on 08/26/2002 6:52:41 PM PDT by grundle
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To: grundle
Why I don't watch ABC lies BUMP!
2 posted on 08/26/2002 6:56:11 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: grundle
We understand, but why are you watching the propaganda on ABC?
3 posted on 08/26/2002 6:57:37 PM PDT by angkor
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The people whose jobs require that they know what is going on in the world are this misinformed????? Absolutely pathetic.
4 posted on 08/26/2002 6:58:00 PM PDT by dougherty
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To: grundle
Incredible. Well, sadly, not incredible at all.
5 posted on 08/26/2002 6:58:27 PM PDT by livius
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To: grundle
Peter Jennings gets $11 million a year. He doesn't need to talk about no Stinkin Mugabe.
6 posted on 08/26/2002 6:59:47 PM PDT by jackbill
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To: grundle
ABC? Are they still on the air? I don't watch network TV.
7 posted on 08/26/2002 7:01:55 PM PDT by NoControllingLegalAuthority
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To: grundle
Was this the broadcast that mentioned that famine supplies aren't being distributed because it is allegedly genetically engineered grains from the US?

Talk about your bait and switch...
8 posted on 08/26/2002 7:04:09 PM PDT by Fred Mertz
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To: grundle
Yeah, when they do mention Mugabe they make sure they say that the white farmers grow a lot of Tobacco. They then neglect to mentin that they rotate crops to also grow wheat and such. Add to the revenue non-edible crops make and you have a well fed country.
9 posted on 08/26/2002 7:07:07 PM PDT by Bogey78O
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To: dougherty
The people whose jobs require that they know what is going on in the world are this misinformed????? Absolutely pathetic

If they were just misinformed, that would be a vast improvement. It's a deliberate campaign of misinformation.
10 posted on 08/26/2002 7:11:12 PM PDT by Welsh Rabbit
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To: grundle
You can include the Wall Street Journal in the Conspiracy of Silence. Last friday, on their Op-Ed page, Robert L. Paarlberg, a professor at Wellesley and ass. at Harvard, wrote a piece blaming the famine on the drought and the EU scaring the Africans into being afraid to use GM corn.

This is the kind of stuff that makes me wonder if all the CFR, Bilderberger, Illuminati crap isn't true. There's no way that ABC and the Wall Street Journal can't know the truth, but it seems like they've been given their marching orders and are spouting the company line. When you confront them with the facts, their denials sound like the Monty Python parrot skit.

11 posted on 08/26/2002 7:11:38 PM PDT by Richard Kimball
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You can include the Wall Street Journal in the Conspiracy of Silence. Last friday, on their Op-Ed page, Robert L. Paarlberg, a professor at Wellesley and ass. at Harvard, wrote a piece blaming the famine on the drought and the EU scaring the Africans into being afraid to use GM corn.

This is the kind of stuff that makes me wonder if all the CFR, Bilderberger, Illuminati crap isn't true. There's no way that ABC and the Wall Street Journal can't know the truth, but it seems like they've been given their marching orders and are spouting the company line. When you confront them with the facts, their denials sound like the Monty Python parrot skit.

12 posted on 08/26/2002 7:12:30 PM PDT by Richard Kimball
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"Was this the broadcast that mentioned that famine supplies aren't being distributed because it is allegedly genetically engineered grains from the US?"

Yes.

They showed a starving person who said that even if the food was genetically engineered, he would rather eat it than starve to death. But the bureaucrats and environmentalists don't care about what "the people" think or want. Of course, these bureaucrats and environmentalsits are well fed, and the food that they eat is genetically engineered. As usual, bureaucrats and enviornmentalsits aren't willing to live by the rules that they want to force everyone else to obey.
13 posted on 08/26/2002 7:17:01 PM PDT by grundle
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What do you expect from the biased ABC?

See, by blaming Zimbabwe's lack of food on drought, they can kill two conservatives with one tax increase.

It advances the enviro-loonie's global warming agenda.

It advances the socialist agenda of wealth redistribution.

It hides the atrocities of Mug-a-baby on the minority whites.

Pretty good of ABC, if you ask me.

14 posted on 08/26/2002 7:18:27 PM PDT by Frohickey
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To: grundle
That would make a nice letter to your local editor.

Good catch!

Also, notice that the Eurotrash won't mention having their beloved International Criminal Court (ICC) try Mugabe for his ethnic cleansing and executions...

15 posted on 08/26/2002 7:19:19 PM PDT by Southack
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To: grundle
ABC still has a news program?
16 posted on 08/26/2002 7:20:02 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: grundle
I saw it then. It disgusted me too that it didn't mention Mugabe.

I'm glad you posted this, grundle. Thanks.
17 posted on 08/26/2002 7:22:03 PM PDT by Fred Mertz
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ABC blamed African famine on "drought." They didn't mention Mugabe at all.

So when is the drought going to be blamed on the United States?

18 posted on 08/26/2002 7:24:23 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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Don't you get it. It's global warming, silly. Jeeezzzzz, you'd think that all of that big 3 + CNN bias would have brainwashed you by now.
19 posted on 08/26/2002 7:24:25 PM PDT by SengirV
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To: angkor
We understand, but why are you watching the propaganda on ABC?

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I'll tell you why. Because what is presented there becomes public policy and comes around to undermine us.

So we now have lunatic political systems and governments in Africa that are killing off the farmers and producing hunger. The second step in the argument is that The United States is consuming a disproportionate share of the worlds resources and is to blame for African hunger because of the unequal distribution of food. A parallel second step is that the world's ecology is being ruined by the indusreial nations, including the United States. Deconstruction of industrial societies is necessary to address hubf\ger in the world.

So what we have is psychotic borderline/psychotic dictators, cultures, and political/economic systems being used to justify attack on the United States thousands of miles away. Unfortunately, we also have a previous president and a present president unwilling or incapable of confronting the arguments and refuting.

Watch ABC because it tells you what is going to hit you in the ass in short order.

20 posted on 08/26/2002 7:33:08 PM PDT by RLK
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