I had three different high schools; they were all in Zimbabwe. I don't see any chance I will be going to a reunion... but on the upside, just think of what I will save in stripper fees.

>> ^MaxWilder:
While it is true that there have been plenty of non-religious reasons for war, it is currently on the top of the list.

Really? Name one currently active armed conflict which is primarily motivated by religion. I can name 5 others which are not. The two active wars in which the U.S. is currently involved have virtually nothing to do with religion. They are about nationalism, tribalism, and political and economic power. Religion is used as a lever for some factions fighting in those conflicts, but it is hardly the root cause. Georgia? Zimbabwe? Myanmar? Sri Lanka? Mexico? How many examples do you need before you realize that religion is not the cause, just an occasionally useful tool?

Not too distant at all: http://www.videosift.com/video/New-York-Post-cartoon-compares-chimp-to-President-Obama

The producers of this video make a common error illustrated in their notation that reads, "racists are ignorant, uneducated and often times mildly retarded due to breeding with close relatives and small barnyard animals."

Many racists are successful, educated, urban and articulate. Racist logic can be fairly sophistated and often seeks a respectable cloak, appealing to reason rather than emotion, to wit, the vile racist logic of pprt: http://www.videosift.com/video/zimbabwe-s-economy-in-collapse-gold-for-bread

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...

Zimbabwe in perspective: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whites_in_Zimbabwe

When it comes to PPRT, people should know who they are dealing with. Scroll down for comments: http://www.videosift.com/video/Losing-the-Race-White-Power-in-the-US-today

The racist Jared Taylor that PPRT praises: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Taylor

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

>> ^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

The repossessing of the farms probably caused the economic crises but the inflation is the result of printing tons of money.
"According to a source at the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, G&D was delivering 432,000 sheets of banknotes every week to Fidelity printers in Harare, where they were stamped with the denomination."

you missed the point

>> ^westy:
This contains utterly redundant bible quotes,
lies

>> ^Asmo:
Zimbabwe/Rhodesia, used to be a source of immense natural wealth and produce and since Mugabe's government was given power, it has descended in to anarchy and violence with one of the most hyperinflated currencies in the world. The farmers who produced this great wealth (mostly white), were murdered or driven off their lands. Their crops and estates were burned and destroyed. Now there is famine.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9503E0D7113BF9
34A3575BC0A9649C8B63

You are confusing tyrannically racially based tactics to retain absolutist power for failure in managing and running an economy. Elections that brought him to power were neither free nor fair.

As much as I dislike the way Pprt is putting his case forward, he isn't particularly wrong (which is sad in it's own way).

Appartheid in Sth Africa was a horrible state of affairs but since it was abolished, the country has descended back in to factional wars between tribal divisions stretching back for centuries.

Zimbabwe/Rhodesia, used to be a source of immense natural wealth and produce and since Mugabe's government was given power, it has descended in to anarchy and violence with one of the most hyperinflated currencies in the world. The farmers who produced this great wealth (mostly white), were murdered or driven off their lands. Their crops and estates were burned and destroyed. Now there is famine.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9503E0D7113BF934A3575BC0A9649C8B63

Watching how much effort goes in to making the dirt cookies, I can't help but feel that the countries leadership could invest in teaching the people how to start up farming to be less reliant on expensive imports. Where is the local leadership to bring these people out of this horrible situation?

Instead we have a country that readily accepts eating dirt to fill their stomachs, and a world that feels the need to butt in to their business because it is becoming increasingly apparent that they are obviously completely incapable of taking care of themselves.

Just as long as we don't say they're completely incapable of taking care of themselves...

Funny how this is the sort of flaw that happens around the world and not, as some would have you believe, only in black cultures. You see a problem, you apply means to alleviate the problem, even temporarily, but you force yourself to ignore the root cause of the problem because it's not politically correct to point it out, rather than working to fix the root problem. Education of Hatian's in methods of food production could start to change things. Political influence on the government to encourage investment in primary and secondary food industries.

But if the people aren't willing to help themselves, how can the rest of the world do anything but shout them a free meal every now and again?

While formally The Fed is a "private corporation" in actuality it's a public agency. It's actions are controlled by the board of the governors which are picked by president and confirmed by the Senate. The Congress audits the Fed and can amend it's activities by a statute.

When the elected representatives have direct access to the printing press, like you are suggesting, there's too much temptation to pump out extra cash before the elections to give economy a temporary boost, and let the successors deal with the long term harms of inflation.

A look at the stability of dollar in the last 80 years compared to some currencies where the government would "print money on their own" (Argentina in 2001, Russia in 1998, Zimbabwe now) would show you that a "private corporation" can do a better job managing money supply than elected officials

Can someone put this in context for me? Who cares if a store looks shit, the shelves are empty and blah, blah...
Can't you choose not to go there? Am I missing something? Isn't retail just soulless and shit anyway? Isn't this more amusingly bad than some kind of humanitarian crisis?
I mean Jesus, if these are your problems.
"Oh no. There's no snow storms of the statue of liberty on display. And someone has left a Starbucks empty coffee cup on the shelves - I think I'm going to die."
It's not like Zimbabwe where they queue all day for bread only to find that at the end of the day the price has quadrupled and there isn't any left anyway.
It's true that the more people have, the more they expect, but really someone just needs to slap some sense into people sometimes. Appreciate what you do have, or go somewhere else rather than feel the travesty of this despicable mismanagement.

>> ^marinara:
Obama is a amateur with a loaded gun. The economy is being taken around the barn and being shot.
Zimbabwe here we come.


At least now, the rest of the world will sympathize.

Obama is a amateur with a loaded gun. The economy is being taken around the barn and being shot.

Zimbabwe here we come.