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Additionally, sometimes violent land occupations, driven by a government plan to redistribute much of the land owned by the country's small white minority, have disrupted food production and generally discouraged investment in agriculture.

Do they have any confidence that any of this food will get to the people who need it? Sounds like money down a rat home to me as long as Mugabe remains in power.

Additionally, sometimes violent land occupations, driven by a government plan to redistribute much of the land owned by the country's small white minority, have disrupted food production and generally discouraged investment in agriculture.

Well, yes, I suppose having your workers beaten and threatened, your livestock shot, your wives and daughters raped and murdered in their beds and getting thrown in jail for trying to defend yourself would certainly tend to disrupt one's farming and discourage further investment in one's farm.

This is nothing less than genocide against white people, and the UN is supporting it! Instead of international sanctions and blue-helmeted UN soldier to protect the white farmers, we get aid for the murderers.

Does anyone out there still wonder what the New World Order is really about?

What else would you expect from the New York Times?

Zimbabwe wouldn't need food were it not for dictator Mugabe's war of genocide against the farmers.

This is nothing less than genocide against white people, and the UN is supporting it! Instead of international sanctions and blue-helmeted UN soldier to protect the white farmers, we get aid for the murderers.

Does anyone out there still wonder what the New World Order is really about?

Absolutely right! Giving the Zimbabweans food gives them more strength to torture the old Rhodesians. Western aid, technology, food, and medicine has caused a population explosion over there. Time to let natural selection do it's work and winnow away the Zimbabweans.

...sometimes violent land occupations, driven by a government plan to redistribute much of the land owned by the country's small white minority, have disrupted food production and generally discouraged investment in agriculture.

The understatement herein is astounding. The "crisis" for which we'll be forking over hundreds of millions of U.S. taxpayer bucks was caused by these ALWAYS violent land occupations, the killing of farmers, beating of workers, and pillaging of the lands. I read somewhere that 80% of mass-production farms were owned by whites, and almost all of those have had violent squatters intimidating and harassing (if not outright killing) the farmers, taking possession of the land and burning fields. What investor would pump money into that kind of hostile environment? It's not as though the farmers are being compensated for losing their land, land that has been in some of these families for generations. They escape with nothing but the clothes on their backs (if they're lucky) and a thumb in the eye from the government. And now the perpetrators are whining that some unforeseen famine will leave them with a food shortage??? For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. You kill a farmer and seize his farm, and the farmer is no longer producing food on that farm. So there's a food shortage. Duh! (shaking head in disgust...)

Just a Damn minute ,if I remember correctly Robert Mugabe is the President of Zimbawbe and has authorized the killing of white farmers and the redistribution of their lands.

The white farmers and their families, were brutally Murdered and their farms were not worked, so these people have nobody to blame but themselves.

Let the Black Murderers plant the farms and let the crops grow so they can feed themselves.. If these people are so savage and stupid they deserve no better.

No food should be sent to Murderers,CASE CLOSED.

Get in Touch with Ted Kennedy, Jesse Jackson and Fat Al Sharpton,I do believe what we are witnessing in zimbawbe ,is massive Hate Crimes Perpetrated againstWHITE (WHITE) PEOPLE by BLACKS.

Not one grain of food to be sent until all the criminals are brought to justice and the farms given back to the White Farmers.

Or the White farmers are reimbursed for their property and given safe passage out of that country. Didn't we impose Sanctions on South Africa because we thought the WHITE PEOPLE we treating the blacks unjustly

TIME AGAIN FOR SANCTIONS AGAINST THE BLACKS, FOR TREATING THE WHITES TO MURDER..

TIME AGAIN FOR SANCTIONS AGAINST THE BLACKS

Dream on.... you can't commit hate crimes against whites. Even in a country where whites are 0.1% of the population, they are still the opressors. Those farmers may have been great at feeding a continent, but they should have known what was going to happen when the blacks were given the country.

Call me a racist if you will, but the only thing to do is get the whites out and let the blacks starve. 20 yrs from now, they can go back to a depopulated Rhodesia and start the whole sorry cycle over again. That cycle is the story of Rhodesia, South Africa and our future as well. Whites move into a uninhabited or sparcely populated area, build a prosperous civilization, and then allow in hordes of 3rd world scum to take over and destroy it all.

Get used to it. The politically correct name of this process is multiculturism, but what it is is cultural suicide, and its coming to a neighborhood near you.

Those of us on here who follow Zim have been warning of this all along. Namely, that after the Mugabe government had finished ethnically cleansing the whites off of their farms (and destroying Zim's agricultural industry in the process), they would expect the West to feed their sorry butts.

The truly frustrating thing about leftist philosophy is how totally predictable it is....yet somehow the philosophy manages to move ahead anyhow.

I'm reminded of the Greek myth about the man who was condemned to be able to see the future...but the only catch was that no one would ever believe him.

Who is John Galt?

NO S---!! When the Zim. Govt. did this B.S. I know it would only be a short time before the "people" would have to feed by us.

Well, we knew that would happen, Mugabe destroys their food supply, and we get to pay for it.
I have yet to hear the international community come down hard on this piece of work.

Notice the media will never refer to what is being done to the white farmers as "ethnic cleansing" . I say we spend aid money to evacuate the white families and resettle them in the United States; they will make far better citizens than the Third World refuse we currently import.

After Ethnically cleansing the white western culture from among them, they find themselves with no one to feed them. So now they turn to the western culture to... feed them.

One South African farmer described how the farms were carved out of plots of land covered with a type of bush/tree that has an incredible root structure. It takes them about two days to remove each tree, it takes years to make a plot big enough to farm. One farm next to his was "liberated". Within a year 20 black 'farms' were there. Each farm produced only enough for that family. They were watering the farm with buckets hauled from the river by their women and children. The irrigation system was still there but they had broken it and did not bother to fix it! A farm that once produced enough to feed hundreds and employed 20 men, became 20 sustenance farms that are shrinking as the land they can no longer sustain is beginning to grow those bushes again...

Thanks for the ping.

This article is a masterpiece of misinformation and misdirection.

"unwilling to settle for below-market prices"

Make that:
Unwilling to sell at a fraction of the cost of production.
Unwilling to plant only to see the crops destroyed by thugs.
Unable to sell because the crops have been destroyed.
Unable to graze cattle because of veldt fires set by thugs.
Unable to sell maize because it had to be fed to cattle that otherwise would have grazed the burnt out veldt.
Unable to sell meat because the cattle contacted hoof-and-mouth disease or anthrax after the thugs broke down the fences separating the domestic herds from wild herds.
Unable to sell meat because the cattle had to be slaughtered when the veldt was burned,
Unable to maintain commercial farming operations because the farm employees have been attacked, dirven off the land and are nlw living hard in the bush.
Unable to maintain farming operations because the commercial farms have been broken down into market gardens which are not commercially viable in the red soil veldt.
Unable to transport farm produce to market because government and Zanu-PF cadre are confiscating the produce en route at pistol point.

The author of this article is infected with terminal political rectitude.

I am taking the liberty of flagging the people on my list.

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