zimbabwe's economy in collapse - gold for bread

cybrbeastsays...

Hearing about the hyperinflation is shocking and all but seeing the results on the people is truly tragic.

And those annotations in the video are really annoying.
Maybe you can try this:
http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=92712
"You can also disable annotations on embedded videos. To disable annotations on a video you'd like to embed on another site, just add &iv_load_policy=3 to the video's embed code."

dannym3141says...

>> ^Pprt:
Maybe killing the white farmers wasn't such a hot idea after all.
Rhodesians fully deserve this.


Use your brain dude. Of course the "acquisition" of land from the white farmers (and killing of them) helped to cause this. Does that mean these people need to suffer?

Have a fucking heart

Pprtsays...

Let's see...

I live in a country with a minority that is the lifeblood of the economy. They grow food, provide jobs, invest in education and pay most of the taxes. I then proceed to kill them, rape their wives, burn their crops and force them out of the country.

Now I'm hungry and have to sift for gold dust to buy food.

Yeah... I'm not guilty of my disposition...

>> ^dannym3141:
>> ^Pprt:
Maybe killing the white farmers wasn't such a hot idea after all.
Rhodesians fully deserve this.

Use your brain dude. Of course the "acquisition" of land from the white farmers (and killing of them) helped to cause this. Does that mean these people need to suffer?
Have a fucking heart

Pprtsays...

Yes indeed, Mr Taylor is a lucid gentleman and brave enough to broach a thorny subject while remaining reasonable and respectful. It is his opponents who resort to name-calling and ad-hominem insults, most likely because they get backed into a corner by sound arguments and implacable logic. He deserves a minimum of respect by all champions of free speech.

As for the "neo-Nazis" in the video you linked... I have nothing but contempt for such individuals and would rather spend an hour with the most hardcore multiculturalist than any of those despicable, hate-filled idiots.

As for the subject above, I am of the fervent opinion that Zimbabweans are the masters of their demise and deserve no extrication or pity.

Just like most of Africa, they find themselves with pristine agricultural land, enormous mineral resources and untapped human capital. They squander their time with petty tribal fights instead of building their nations. If Greenlanders and Inuits can survive in the harshest conditions on Earth, how can you not live comfortably in the luscious pastures and forest of Africa? They contribute nearly nothing to the sum of humanity and, quite diametrically, demand aid, assitance and support which in effect perpetuates their state of failure.

If they are incompetent, they deserve to fail. Only then, perhaps with a dose of humility, will they permit Whites (or Asians or Indians) to make their country as prosperous and livable as it once was.

As a nota bene, and perhaps a disclaimer against the assumption that I'm some sort of monster... all people deserve the utmost success, and I would not be bothered in the least if Africans, Afghanis or Apaches surpassed all other civilizations in all measures of achievement. I'm just sick and tired of Africans been seen as invalids or "victims of circumstance" that have no hand in shaping the very land they have inhabited for millenia.

omnistegansays...

Notice: The Zimbabwe government redenominated the ZWD again on February 2, 2009 at a rate of 1,000,000,000,000 old ZWD to 1 new ZWD.
1.00 USD=143.420 ZWD

Yeah, I would call that hyper-inflation. 143,420,000,000,000 ZWD to every one US dollar.
That means the bill that guy was using to sift his gold was worth about 0.00000003486 cents.
That's sad...

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