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Your discussion is interesting and frightening, but I believe you have your history wrong.
Mugabe did not take power in a revolution.
The government of the previous regime, under prime minister Ian Smith, was forced by the combined influence of all western powers, which boycotted his regime and threatened it with destruction for not sharing power with the indigenous peoples.
As a result of that pressure a "Democracy" was set up in the new state of Zimbabwe, on the principle of one man one vote, among all the peoples of the country. These included the 'settlers' as well as members of many tribes, of which two of them were much larger than the rest. Mugabe's tribe was the largest and as a result he won the first election, and he proceeded to slowly absorb all of its wealth among his favorites, as is not unusual among all powerful rulers.
Anyone with the slightest bit of foresight suspected that Zimbabwe would become a disaster, but that did not discourage the do-gooders of the United States and Great Britain from forcing the termination of the Smith regime.
I was under the impression that the Chinese government has more or less taken over the country, and any starvation should be laid at its feet.
The countries that coerced the present failures do share some responsibility for the consequences of their folly, but they have never acknowledged their folly at all.
If thee is now talk of famine, it is to encourage western do-gooders to donate food for the starving people
Unfortunately, in the past, when famines occur, usually caused by natural disasters, such donations have been given to the starving people rather to the farmers. The latter then cannot sell what small crops they salvage at all at any price, and so the country ends up perpetually dependent on gifts from abroad, another brilliant way to help people.
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The countries that coerced the present failures do share some responsibility for the consequences of their folly, but they have never acknowledged their folly at all.
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Unfortunately, in the past, when famines occur, usually caused by natural disasters, such donations have been given to the starving people rather to the farmers. The latter then cannot sell what small crops they salvage at all at any price, a
So damned predictable.
Destroy the price structure => destroy incentives for farmers to plant or industry to produce
Destroy incentives => destroy capacity
Destroy capacity => increase dependence on foreign "aid"
Increase imports => destroy incentive to produce
etc
etc
Criminally stupid.
Shame on us. Shane on our retarded elites.
[Red State] As RedState reported when it happened, an Islamic terrorist killed two people on the London Bridge via a knife attack earlier in the week. The attacker was eventually taken down by some self-less civilians who risked their lives to physically bring the man to the pavement. You can see video of that here. Police would eventually kill Usman Khan.
But if anyone was wondering whether there was forewarning of this possibly happening, it turns out Khan was already a convicted terrorist and inexplicably was allowed to walk free after pledging his transgressions were just "immaturity."
Khan would be let go by a judge, taking in his declaration of being a changed man as evidence enough of his rehabilitation into society.
This is insanity and naivete on a grand scale. Khan was literally convicted of helping plan a major terrorist attack. There was no question he was involved and intended to be part of it. Yet, many European nations (and in America) continue to hold the ridiculous view that these are just misunderstood human being who would otherwise be fine if they just had a better job or something. Islamist ideology is not easily defeated, and when you have droves of people coming in who hold it, it should be no surprise that their barbarism comes with them.
The decision to release Khan didn’t come from the lower levels either. It was signed off by the Ministry of Justice and the terrorist was released after serving just half his sentence. Now, two people are dead because of that decision.
And just in case you wanted another example of how bonkers the UK justice system is, one of the people who helped tackle Khan was a convicted murderer himself, out on day release.
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'Sir Brian' deserves the harshing, but please wait. There's more! These promising lads along with dozens more, were released from GITMO by our former Kenyan overseer. Not surprising, many returned to the former occupations.
#3
They're not capable of "reform." They hate us. They want to kill us. This hatred and this bloodlust are what defines their faith, their mission in life.
#5
We too released this bastard in '99. But then we were bartering for the lives of 148 innocent passengers. Bastard went on to be a regular pain in the arse.
#7
Not him, but he did gag some activists trying to expose graft in Social welfare spending, in the interest of 'public good', I imagine.
I think something is inherently wrong in the psyche of a man or woman who aspires to wear a white wig and hold a wooden hammer to tell others what's what.
They pass all sorts of tests and exams, hobnob with the powerful and make deals trading in what is called 'justice'. They live in a world their own, where real people do not matter; of course their close friends matter, and those who help them get there but not everyone.
I'm in favor of giving more jurisdictional mandate to law enforcement itself. Devolving that column into only interpreters of constitutional rightness of legislation, white collar crimes and graft.
#11
I liked the ruling made by the first armed London Police officer who arrived on scene as he said to those restraining him, "Back off of him!" "Back off of him!" "BANG!!"
Bet the room woke right up when he went all stabby. Too bad they won't learn anything
[AmericanThinker] So many things wrong with this picture just to start.
The worst though was the fact that the terrorist
...that’d be Usman Khan...
was not just let out on a much undeserved parole, he was busy lecturing the leftists at Cambridge University at a conference, participating in "workshops" on his supposed prison rehabilitation, the leftists eating it up and calling for more such "reform." He was one of their leaders and they were taking it from him.
Here's the London Telegraph's report:
The event at the centre of the London Bridge attack was an alumni celebration for an organisation run by academics from the University of Cambridge.
Learning Together was set up in 2014 by Ruth Armstrong and Amy Ludlow, from the Faculty of Law and Institute of Criminology.
It brings together people in criminal justice and higher education institutions.
The attacker, who was on probation and wearing a tag, is understood to have been invited to share his experiences as a former prisoner.
Academics and criminal justice campaigners had tweeted excitedly about the day ahead as they gathered at the Grade II listed Fishmongers Hall, just off London Bridge, to celebrate Learning Together’s fifth anniversary....
Seems that coddling and cossetting terrorists like these as warm, fuzzy, cuddly 'victims' who need reparations from society for their time in the can doesn't work out the way they say it will work out.
You can bet the leftists involved in this sham will refuse to take any responsibility for the two people now dead that their coddling led to. They'll keep calling for letting these beasts out of the can because dead people can always be dismissed easily.
#10
Shelter in place, and vote dem while you are at it.
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Interesting. The "active shooter training" given here at U Wisconsin at Madison said "Run/Hide/Fight," and emphasized that throwing a wastebasket was better than doing nothing.
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We could create the order of the Jaw of an Ass in Israel.
So many asses, with so many jaws — but only a few are real, live donkeys, g(r)omgoru.
[AlAhram] The electoral programme announced by British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn is reminiscent of a 1960s developing world dictator.
Such drenching scorn from the developing part of the Developing World!
Many British citizens from the north of country to the south are wondering where their country is heading. The ripple effects of the vote to leave the Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an Union, the so-called Brexit, still have not run their course, clouding the atmosphere with uncertainty and doubts about the future of the United Kingdom and its political and economic prospects.
satire
[TheDerringer] The Derringer has an exclusive report that President Trump is seriously considering buying Jeffrey Epstein's ‘Pedophile Island' as a tactic to improve his media coverage. The idea apparently arose in an oval office meeting with his communications team who suggested that Trump could get the same Epstein-style media blackout if he gets pedophile island back up and running and starts hobnobbing with the international elites there.
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I saw Epstein's island last week, from about a mile away, on a ferry between St. Thomas and St. Johns.
The ferry also passed Water Island, and the tour guide identified a big house on the water, calling it "Joe Biden's house". Just a fleeting glimpse, but I suppose it's over 5,000 SF and north of $10 million.
Not clear whether Biden owns it, or rents it. A search revealed two local newspaper articles which only said he visits there regularly. I'm sure he saved a lot of money riding Amtrak all those years.
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Bee has a rival?
Super. More = merrier
My lord, you are merry.
No s---, darlin'. Git over here...
#4
James's Biden, Lunch Box Joe's brother owns property on Water Island. James is also involved in the "family business" of China and Ukraine. Must be profitable (sarc).
Long, so get a cup of whatever hot stuff you need to start your day, dear Reader, and settle in for the kind of summary David P. Goldman does so well. Herewith the set-up:
[AsiaTimes] Not a bad spy novel, but a national nightmare: Taking a careful look at the spooks’ campaign to topple Donald Trump.
Book Review: Ball of Collusion, by Andrew C McCarthy (Encounter Books, 2019). Hardcover, 266 pages. US$35.99
America’s Central Intelligence Agency in concert with foreign intelligence services manufactured the myth of Donald Trump’s alleged collusion with Russia, argues Andrew McCarthy, a distinguished federal prosecutor turned public intellectual.
A contributor to Fox News and a prolific writer for The National Review and other conservative media, McCarthy well knows how to build a case and argue it before a jury. His latest book Ball of Collusion should be read carefully by everyone with an interest in American politics. It is exhaustively documented and brilliantly argued, and brings a wealth of evidence to bear on behalf of his thesis that an insular, self-perpetuating Establishment conspired to sandbag an outsider who threatened its perspectives and perquisites.
From my vantage point as an American, the constitutional issue is paramount: The American people elected Donald Trump, and it is horrifying to consider the possibility that a cabal of unelected civil servants supported by the mainstream media might nullify a presidential election. That is why I support the president unequivocally and without hesitation against his detractors.
But this sordid business has deep implications for America’s allies as well as her rivals. Trump is not a popular president overseas, except in Poland, Hungary, and Israel. In the eyes of polite opinion, McCarthy writes, “Donald Trump was anathema: a know-nothing narcissist – as uncouth as Queens – riding a populist-nationalist wave of fellow yahoos that threatened their tidy, multilateral post-World War II order.” China (and not only China) views Trump as a bully who presses American advantage at the risk of disruption to the global economy.
Donald Trump has one quality for which the rest of the world should be grateful: He really does not care how China, Russia, or any other country manages its affairs. By “America First,” he simply means that he cares about what happens in America, and is incurious about what happens outside America unless it affects his country directly. That stands in sharp contrast to view of all the wings of America’s political Establishment – progressive, “realist” and neoconservative – who believe that America should bring about the millenarian End of History by bringing democracy to Iraq and Afghanistan, by expanding NATO into a giant social-engineering project, by pressing China to transform itself into a Western-style democracy, and so forth.
McCarthy reports in persuasive detail how the spooks set up the president. There is more to be said, though, about why they did it. I will summarize McCarthy’s findings, and afterward discuss the motivation.
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Most interesting nugget from the piece is Spengler/Goldman's anecdote of his dinner with a ChiCom senior military official who asserted, "General Petraeus created ISIS in order to destabilize China,” a senior Chinese military official informed me over dinner in 2015.
Spengler/Goldman:
The individual in question appears, incidentally, as one of China’s masterminds of so-called unrestricted warfare in Michael Pillsbury’s now-celebrated book The Hundred Year Marathon.
“That’s ridiculous,” I replied.
“It is not ridiculous in the least,” the Chinese soldier continued in the benevolent tone in which one instructs low-aptitude recruits. “There are ISIS leaders whom we have identified and tracked who were trained by Petraeus during the ‘Surge,’” the counter-insurgency campaign that David Petraeus conducted in 2008-2009 to contain a Sunni rebellion against the majority Shiite government that the United States had helped bring to power in 2007.
I tried to explain: “This was a comedy of errors. ... When Obama took US forces out of Iraq, a lot of the same Sunnis who took money from Petraeus faced the same Shiite state, and became non-state actors, that is ISIS. And the CIA’s support for Sunni jihadist opponents of the Assad government in Syria made matters worse, as the Defense Intelligence Agency warned in a notorious 2012 report.”
My Chinese interlocutor was not impressed. “You’re trying to tell me that the people who run the world’s great superpower are complete idiots who don’t think about the consequences of their actions? I don’t believe you.”
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My Chinese interlocutor was not impressed. “You’re trying to tell me that the people who run the world’s great superpower are complete idiots who don’t think about the consequences of their actions? I don’t believe you.”
The truth exists independent of human belief.
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Ref 1: And the CIA’s support for Sunni jihadist opponents of the Assad government in Syria made matters worse, as the Defense Intelligence Agency warned in a notorious 2012 report.”
Rantburg 'name that fella' bonus question:
The man who was in charge at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) at that time ?
#10
For being on the other side, he's simply a bigger level of idiot. And the Chinese, in particular, are dependent on the US political class besides Trump being similar types of traitorous idiots, otherwise they wouldn't have an alliance with the country that was shielding Osama Bin Laden.
So they're talking out of both sides of their mouths on both of their faces, IMHO.
I gotta go off the net to cook some turkey, have a nice day, all y'all.
#12
The Chinese have been setting one barbarian against another for thousands of years, so they're projecting their time-honored tradition onto Uncle Sam. And they're equally familiar with the possibility that the balls don't always stay up in the air, however skilled the juggler. A case in point is the way they allied with the Mongols against their old enemy, the Jurchens. The Jurchen defeat freed the Mongols to embark upon the destruction of Song China.
[American Thinker] Uprisings in Iran have become routine occurrences, albeit without much success. Why? Because Iran is ruled by a totalitarian Islamic ideology like Nazism and communism. In Iran, there is no sovereignty of the people. Instead, there is a perception of the Ummah in Shia theology "rule of Mahdi", guardianship over the people. In other words, Iran belongs to "Imam Zaman" (the Hidden Imam) and in his absence, a supreme leader is in charge. In this case, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Any revolt against the State is considered a direct attack against the upcoming "Lord of the Age."
Hence, at the slightest signs of protests, the regime unleashes its wild dogs (soldiers of Mahdi) on a killing spree. Iranians partook in many protests across the country amidst a failing economic situation, systematic government corruption, and widespread frustration over the lack of political and social freedoms. As always, the regime’s security apparatus reacted to these protests with mass arrests and severe due process abuses. Pundits and experts believe "Khamenei’s tough response could just invite more anger."
Since the Islamic invasion of 1979, the Mullahs have ruled over the unarmed Iranian people with an iron fist and absolute power while draining the nation’s treasury. As a result, millions of Iranians had no choice but to flee their homes to the four corners of the globe. In these recent protests, Iran’s rulers once again revealed their real identity to the world that they don’t value human life. They are simply vicious killers.
[AlAhram] Israel bombed nearly two dozen targets in Syria last week that it said were used by mainly Iranian forces.
Israel bombed 20 targets it said were used by Syrian and Iranian forces in Syria around the capital Damascus early on 20 November in response to rocket attacks that had been launched from Syria on Israel the previous day.
One of Israel’s targets was the house of Akram al-Ajouri, a leader of Islamic Jihad
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BB via Instapundit
U.S.‐As the media continues to gaslight the American people, cover for pedophiles, and retract information when it damages their political allies, the nation is increasingly wishing there were some sort of phrase to describe the kind of behavior befitting of an adversary of the populace.
"If only there were a catchy phrase, in use for hundreds of years in a variety of contexts, that succinctly described the way the corporate press is behaving," said one man in Nebraska. He shook his head. "Nothing comes to mind though."
Concerned citizens convened in Cleveland to come up with a cogent callsign for the corporate cable news media.
Here is what they've come up with so far:
Adversary of the populace
Opposition of the citizenry
Opponent of the masses
Traitor to the inhabitants
Villian of the plebeians
Foe of the folk
Antagonist of the population
"Nothing quite has the right ring to it," said a man from Iowa, rubbing his chin. "We just can't put our finger on what to call these guys."
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
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Red State] As RedState reported when it happened, an Islamic terrorist killed two people on the London Bridge via a knife attack earlier in the week. The attacker was eventually taken down by some self-less civilians who risked their lives to physically bring the man to the pavement. You can see video of that here. Police would eventually kill Usman Khan.
'Sir Brian' deserves the harshing, but please wait. There's more! These promising lads along with dozens more, were released from GITMO by our former Kenyan overseer. Not surprising, many returned to the former occupations. 
We too released 
Ref 1: And the CIA’s support for Sunni jihadist opponents of the Assad government in Syria made matters worse, as the Defense Intelligence Agency warned in a notorious 2012 report.”
Ref #6: Photo confirmation. Problem solved by the Almighty. 
[American Thinker] Uprisings in Iran have become routine occurrences, albeit without much success. Why? Because Iran is ruled by a totalitarian Islamic ideology like Nazism and communism. In Iran, there is no sovereignty of the people. Instead, there is a perception of the Ummah in Shia theology "rule of Mahdi", guardianship over the people. In other words, Iran belongs to "Imam Zaman" (the Hidden Imam) and in his absence, a supreme leader is in charge. In this case, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Any revolt against the State is considered a direct attack against the upcoming "Lord of the Age."
[AlAhram] Israel bombed nearly two dozen targets in Syria last week that it said were used by mainly Iranian forces.
