Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said on Thursday that the country would soon boost agricultural production to survive what he said was a plot by "Western destructive forces" to bring about its collapse.
Speaking as his government launched a $6 million bio-diesel refinery built as a joint venture with a South Korean firm just outside of Harare, Mugabe said his land reforms — blamed for Zimbabwe's economic crisis — would soon begin to bear fruit. "Zimbabwe was never there to collapse and shall never be there to collapse," he said.
Mugabe's critics say his controversial policy of seizing white-owned farms to resettle landless blacks with little farming experience has brought the economy to its knees. Zimbabwe suffers from the world's highest inflation rates and chronic food, fuel and foreign currency shortages.
Mugabe, 83, accuses Western powers, mainly Britain and the United States, of sabotaging the economy to undermine his administration. He faces few political challenges at home.
Analysts say the country's economic woes pose the biggest threat to his rule but the veteran leader vowed Zimbabwe would never crumble under their weight and scoffed at international sanctions against his government. "We have once again demonstrated that the ill-fated illegal sanctions against the innocent people of Zimbabwe can never subdue our resilience and inner propulsion to succeed and remain standing as a nation," he said.
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Smith Mugabe, 83, accuses Western powers, mainly Britain and the United States, of sabotaging the economy to undermine his administration. He faces few political challenges at home.
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Bob should be talking to the North Koreans on the best ways to cook biomass rather than trying to make diesel out of it. No need for fuel if you starve to death.
Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee and South Asian People's Union Against Fundamentalism and Communalism yesterday condemned the audacious remarks against the Liberation War, freedom fighters and constitution by some pro-Jamaat-e-Islami intellectuals.
The organisations said pro-Jamaat intellectuals are making such remarks following similar comments by Jamaat leaders Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid, Abdul Quader Mollah, Kamruzzaman and Shah Abdul Hannan.
In a press release, leaders of the organisations said these people are mainly opposing the demand for trial of war criminals at seminars and roundtables organised in the last few days by Jamaat and its font organisations.
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A special anti-graft court yesterday sentenced former state minister for power Iqbal Hassan Mahmood Tuku to seven years' rigorous and two years' simple imprisonment for amassing wealth illegally and concealing information in his wealth statement.
In default, Tuku will have to suffer another one year in jail. The BNP leader Tuku will have to serve nine years in jail, as the conviction would be implemented consecutively, not concurrently, the court ordered. The Fifth Special Court of Judge Ashraf Hossain also fined him Tk 50 lakh and directed the government to confiscate his wealth worth over Tk 2.23 crore which is disproportionate to his known sources of income.
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Britain is experiencing the greatest exodus of its own nationals in recent history while immigration is at unprecedented levels, new figures show. Last year, 207,000 British citizens - one every three minutes - left the country while 510,000 foreigners arrived to stay for a year or more.
The British made up more than half of the 400,000 moving abroad - yet only 14 per cent of immigrants were UK nationals coming home. The figures do not include hundreds of thousands of east Europeans who have come to work in Britain in the past two years. This is because most are coming for less than 12 months and do not show up on the statistics.
The figures from the Office for National Statistics suggest that only one sixth of the immigrants in 2006 were from the states that joined the EU in 2004. The biggest influx was from the New Commonwealth - India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka - with more than 200,000.
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I would tend to discount the emigrants to France & Spain, who can drive back to the UK in a few hours.
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Following the historical pattern set around 400AD when Rome recalled its legions the the locals had to fend for themselves as strange, exotic, unwashed barbarians like Jutes, Angles and Saxons moved in with the manners of unkempt house pets, chasing the lassies and demanding tribute. Next thing you know, they think they own the place. Either find yourself a new Arthur or make sail for the west.
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A lot of the foreigners entering the country are Poles and so forth come to work for just under a year. Provided they go back home for a bit they can reclaim all their taxes. In this way imported labor undercuts the locals (this should sound familiar to Americans) while cycling the cheap labor out of the country in such a way they never claim old age pension, etc.
It would be better to pay Britons a living wage to tend bar or repair the roof. But if you are going to cut the knees out from under your working class this is still a better solution than bringing in Pakistani hill tribes and pretending the end result will still be England. If anything, the UK should grant citizenship to as many Polish and Ukrainian Catholics and Romanian and Hungarian Orthodox as possible so as to redress some small part of the demographic nightmare we are confronted with.
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Tending bar leads to drunkenness and asbo behaviour, and fixing roofs means wobbling about on dangerous ladders. Better to leave the decisions to the experts at NuLabour, and make sure your telly tax is properly paid.
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More than 50 per cent of the British emigrants moved to just four countries in 2006 - Australia, New Zealand, France and Spain. Eight in every 100 went to the USA.
That's 58%. Seems a shame to abandon mother Britain. There ought to be another way rather than to give it to the barbarians without a shot being fired. Their government has let them down.
If only it was that benign. Britain's government is nothing short of adversarial to the native Britons. Ken Livingston, George Galloway, Malloch-Brown and all their scum-sucking multiculturalist types are giving away the farm without even so much as a by-your-leave.
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"I'm wondering if the ones going to France and Spain are middle-class retirees headed for a little sunny weather and a small villa."
Probably. Much like the population explosion going on right now along Mexico's Pacific coast with US retirees moving there in droves. You can buy a really nice house for around 100K and have a live-in servant for about $75 a week. US Retirees are moving to Mexico by the thousands.
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Here is just one of scores of companies who are helping Americans move to where the cost of living is a lot less. Several of my friends who are empty-nesters have all bought homes in the same neighborhood. Three have already moved down there, the other three will be moving in the next couple of years.
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The Mexican Constitution regulates the ownership of land and declares that ...within a zone of 100 kilometers from the border or 50 kilometers from the coast, a foreigner cannot acquire the direct ownership of the land. These areas are known as Restricted or Prohibited Zones. However, the latest Mexican Foreign Investment Law, which was ratified on December 28, 1993, allows a foreigner or foreign corporation to obtain the rights of ownership through a fiduciary trust known as Fidelicomiso, the equivalent of a US beneficiary trust.
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My point is that I agree with the previous posting that it is probably baby boomers who saw their homes appreciate from tens of thousands of dollars to hundreds of thousands cashing in that investment and fleeing to a place where the weather is warmer and the living cheaper ... and used as an example the thousands of Americans who are moving to Mexico, Panama, and Costa Rica every year as an example.
Panama, by the way, has an EXCELLENT deal for retirees ... no property taxes for 20 years AND discounts on nearly EVERYTHING.
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Yes, crosspatch. Except you and they are assuming stable governments that respect the rights of property. Let me introduce you to Hugo's Venezuela. Shit can go 'south' real quick in places without long records of stability. And of course, just like the bankers, the one's who gamble in this and lose are going to cry and extort the rest of the country to bail them out. Never mind they thought they were 'making it' while the rest of the 'fools' back home shell out the taxes they went for the south to avoid.
Any Panama documentation links that might bear that out? I was born at Ft Clayton Army Hospital in the Canal Zone in '47 and am ready to jump to a RET friendly situation. Anything insight would be cool.
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The United States on Thursday told Bolivia to "knock it off" and stop leveling "unfounded" accusations against Washington's ambassador there.
Bolivian officials have in recent months launched a string of accusations against U.S. ambassador to Bolivia, Philip Goldberg, including claims he was involved in a conspiracy to overthrow the government of leftist President Evo Morales. "The basic message is, just stop it. Knock it off," said State Department spokesman Sean McCormack.
McCormack said the Bolivian ambassador to the United States, Gustavo Guzman, was called in last Friday to meet principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Craig Kelly at the State Department to discuss allegations made against Goldberg. "The allegations are untrue, unfounded and they are not helpful in nurturing relations between the U.S. and Bolivia," McCormack told reporters.
The spat stems from a photograph in which Goldberg and a businessman from the eastern Santa Cruz province, a bastion of the rightist opposition, appear with a third person, Jhon Jairo Vanegas, who the Morales government says is a Colombian criminal. "I cannot understand this photograph with a Colombian paramilitary and this is an open conspiracy," Morales said in a speech to Latin American heads of state in Chile last week.
The stand-off follows months of bickering between the two countries. In August, Bolivian Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera said U.S. aid was being used to finance a think tank where opposition leaders were orchestrating a campaign against Morales' leftist government.
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Sad thing is, the Bolivians, like all leftists, see enemy conspiracies everywhere. They actually believe themselves, too.
The Head of the Russian Missile Forces says they haven't ruled out the possibility of supplying short-range missiles to Belarus. The Iskander system deployment would be in response to U.S. AMD plans in Europe. He adds it would some way address what he sees as the current imbalance between Russian and U.S. missiles.
The statement comes as the Chief of the Russian Armed Forces General Staff, Yury Baluevsky, is in Brussels taking part in a NATO meeting.
He's distanced himself from his colleague but saw no reason why Russia couldn't provide missiles to Belarus.
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In a little-noticed mid-summer announcement, the Asian Development Bank presented official survey results indicating Chinas economy is smaller and poorer than established estimates say. The announcement cited the first authoritative measure of Chinas size using purchasing power parity methods. The results tell us that when the World Bank announces its expected PPP data revisions later this year, Chinas economy will turn out to be 40 per cent smaller than previously stated.
Why such a large revision in the estimates of Chinas economic condition? Until recently, China had never participated in the careful price surveys needed to convert accurately its gross domestic product into PPP dollars.
The ADBs announcement also indicates that the number of dollar-a-day poor in India is closer to 800m than the current estimate of 400m.
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NS - they've been dumping a lot of those reserves on oil.
One of the quiet economic revolutions that took place in America after WWII was the interstate highway system. We at this point take for granted the system, but its economic impact upon transportation of goods, expansion of cities and generation of associate and allied business is totally unappreciated but significant to the overall American economic growth for the last fifty years.
If I were doing long term central planning for the Chinese economy and looking at similar things to model given geographical size and population, it would certainly be one area I'd be making sure critical resources were in place to support.
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In the game civilization I always build roads and railroads as quickly as I can to unify my nation, build up the squares to become more profitable, and speed deployment of units.
I'm certain someone in the PRC has a pirated version, youd' think such basic lessons would be easy enough to learn.
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Until recently, China had never participated in the careful price surveys needed to convert accurately its gross domestic product into PPP dollars.
Small wonder. The cat's out of the bag and China's going to have a difficult time finding anyone to serve as their whipping boy. They have positioned themselves quite firmly at the epicenter of a potential socioeconomic maelstrom and the storm clouds are gathering. We should have popped their bubble economy long ago. Instead, we have sent them untold bazillions of dollars so that they can modernize their military. The above article makes it crystal clear that the Politburo ranks national prosperity a distant second (or third, or fourth ...) behind military might.
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KOMMERSANT > WEST SIBERIA HAS YET TO REVEAL ITS BILLIONS IN OIL WEALTH. Russ believes there's Bilyuuhns and Tilyuuhns and Zilyuuhns of crude oil tons down there, but so far oil tap wells yields/extractions have not reflected it, i.e. "wells are dry". WILL CHINA STILL WANT THE RUSS FAR EAST?
*ASIA TIMES > SINO-RUSSIAN SPLIT AT REGIONAL SUMMIT. SCO Summit, over economics and regional, inter-nation fuel deals [TURKUMEN/TURKMEN GAS]. RIAN > RUSSIA TO SUPPLY 1/3 OF EUROPEAN GAS.
[UK] Foreign Secretary David Miliband has suggested the European Union should work towards including Russia, Middle Eastern and North African countries. He said enlargement was "our most powerful tool" for extending stability.
In his first major speech on the UK's relationship with Europe, he said the EU would not become a "superpower" but should be a "role model" for the world. It could be a "model power of regional co-operation" dedicated to free trade, the environment and tackling extremism. He said the EU must "keep our promises to Turkey", adding: "If we fail.... it will signal a deep and dangerous divide between east and west. Beyond that we must keep the door open, retaining the incentive for change and the prospect of membership provides."
Mr Miliband made his address at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium, where Baroness Thatcher delivered her famous warning against "some sort of identikit European personality" almost exactly two decades ago in September 1988. Mr Miliband said that speech had been "haunted by demons - a European superstate bringing in socialism by the back door". But he said: "The truth is that the EU has enlarged, remodelled and opened up. It is not and is not going to become a superstate. But neither is it destined to become a superpower."
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AMERICAN THINKER > SARKOZY AND THE SOCIALIST BAG OF TRICKS. Among other thingys, articles hits at Europe's "pathetic defenses", e.g. out of a reported 1.7Milyuhn people in uniform, ONLY A FEW SCORE 000's ARE ACTUALLY AVAILABLE TO ACTUALLY FIGHT ON ALL-EURO'S ACTUAL BEHALF.
*ISRAEL INSIDER > THE LYNCHING DATE IS SET. Annapolis Summit = Israel's doom??? Ergo the USA-West, one day espec vv NUCLEAR IRAN??? ALso from ISRAEL INSIDER > Egypt claims to had stopped 20 tons of TNT ["Atomic TNT"]from reaching Gaza hence Israel.
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Foreign Secretary David Miliband has suggested the European Union should work towards including Russia, Middle Eastern and North African countries.
Because why have a European union unless you can include Siberians, Arabs and Africans. They left out Polynesia which personally I find extremely Polynesiaphobic of them.
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Seems like the EU right now is like a guy that is falling off a cliff. They are thinking to themselves, "This can't be bad. It hasn't hurt yet." Never mind the fact that they are about 30 seconds away from impact.
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Foreign Secretary David Miliband has suggested the European Union should work towards including Russia, Middle Eastern and North African countries.
Yew betcha. Cuz nothing says "powerful tool" like a visionary delusional idiot wanting to hitch his team of spavined EU horses to some of the region's biggest political and economic deadweights.
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He's wrong, but he's right, in a way. The ME, with a nucleus of Turkey, Iraq and maybe Egypt, could form a potent economic trading bloc.
Turkey would provide the know-how, because of its EU experience. Iraq has a superior economic system in place, courtesy of J. Paul Bremer, and should have explosive growth relatively soon, and Egypt also has potent assets, if it can reform itself politically.
Militarily, they would be far stronger than Europe. Turkey with its NATO military, and both Iraq and Egypt with US training and equipment. The three together, excepting nuclear weapons, would match Russia's military might.
If there would be some way, any way, for a ME Common Market (MECM) to form with democratic states, the rest of the ME would be compelled to democratize and join.
The bottom line is that if they could dispatch their tyrants and form real democracies, join together in a free market bloc, and combine their military might, the ME would be far more powerful and wealthier than Europe.
It *would* be an idealized version of the Sultanate, except that it would have no Sultan.
For something like this to begin would be the icing on the cake for Bush, after having prevented the ME from descending into chaos and maybe nuclear war.
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The bottom line is that if they could dispatch their tyrants and form real democracies, join together in a free market bloc, and combine their military might, the ME would be far more powerful and wealthier than Europe.
That is one helluva gargantuan and unlikely "if" you've got there, 'moose.
Newsweek announced that Karl Rove, the controversial architect of the rise and fall of the modern G.O.P., will join its ranks as a new contributor to balance the recent hire of blogger Markos Moulitsas.
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HMMMM, HMMMM, BOLIVIA, now ROVE + KOS > D *** NGED GAS STATION BLUE CLOUD = BLUE ANGELS!
Not in any paper I have ever read. I guess conservative means anyone to the right of Lenin.
58% of the Sunday show guests were conservative in 2005.
Take a guess which party controlled controlled the White House, Congress and Senate? Care to hazard a guess what percentage of the hosts were conservative? How many hosts were/still are Democratic party functionaries before the TV gig? During the 2004 election cycle Washington, D.C. journalists preferred Kerry over Bush by 12-to-1 (92%). You will find no other profession with such skewed political views.
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I can't remember the last time I read Newsweek. I sure as hell can't remember the last time I bought a copy. I know it wasn't in this millenium...
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said on Thursday that the country would soon boost agricultural production to survive what he said was a plot by "Western destructive forces" to bring about its collapse.
Britain is experiencing the greatest exodus of its own nationals in recent history while immigration is at unprecedented levels, new figures show. Last year, 207,000 British citizens - one every three minutes - left the country while 510,000 foreigners arrived to stay for a year or more.
The United States on Thursday told Bolivia to "knock it off" and stop leveling "unfounded" accusations against Washington's ambassador there.
Newsweek announced that Karl Rove, the controversial architect of the rise and fall of the modern G.O.P., will join its ranks as a new contributor to balance the recent hire of blogger Markos Moulitsas.
