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2004-06-25 Africa: Subsaharan

5 Million Still Need Food Aid in Zimbabwe

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Posted by Steve White 2004-06-25 12:36:31 AM|| || Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Zim needs to clean house of Bob. Then maybe other countries will help. What about Bob? Bob is like Kimmie, he has run his country into the ground. Let the people run him into the ground first before we ever give aid.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-06-25 12:50:54 AM|| 2004-06-25 12:50:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Nearly 5 million people will need food aid over the next year despite government claims Zimbabweans won't need such relief, a U.N.-led group said Thursday.

That's nice. Now go away and leave us Americans alone.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-06-25 1:35:48 AM|| 2004-06-25 1:35:48 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 The US needs to fund a new aid agency. With each bag of food, distribute an assault rifle and a map to Mugabe palace.

Posted by ed 2004-06-25 2:11:18 AM|| 2004-06-25 2:11:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Ditto, #2. Didn't these same fine folks of Zimbabawe kill approx. 1500 white farmers not to mention they wontonly slaughtered game animals and left their carcasses to rot because they thought it was so much fun to see blood flow and gosh there'd be dumb old Uncle Sam who would surely come by with food soon enough...no worries. I hope we tell the UN to take a hike-go to the ME countries for $ -I'm told Islam is the religion of peace and kindness. Maybe the mullahs and shieks can dig into their Swiss bank accounts and cough up some $ for starving Zims.

Posted by rex 2004-06-25 2:16:56 AM|| 2004-06-25 2:16:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Hmmm, let's see here...

5 million hungry people, at the doctor-reccomended minimum of 2300 calories a day, times 365 days in a year... carry the 11...

I get 4.2 x 10^12 calories for the year. An average ear of good ol' US corn has around 130-145 calories...call it 138...that's about 3 x 10^10 ears of corn. At around 70 lbs a bushel.

Lotsa luck.

Posted by mojo 2004-06-25 3:09:06 AM|| 2004-06-25 3:09:06 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 It appears we are well on our way to seeing this future come to fruition.

And when it does come I won't know whether to laugh or cry, or even which is worse: Starvation through deliberate government policy, or our own home grown Marxists who will find a way to blame everyone and everything other than the person/policy most directly responsible.

Posted by badanov 2004-06-25 7:58:02 AM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2004-06-25 7:58:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Mojo - corn (maize) is 56 lbs a bushel, on average. It's textbook. Rice is 45 lbs, soybeans and wheat, 60 lbs. Barley, 48 lbs. Milo/sorghum , 56 lbs.

Zimbabwe's primary food crop used to be corn/maize, before Bob drove all his agricultural capitalists into Zambian exile, where a nasty flood season wrecked what looked like a pretty good bumper crop. So much for the Scotsman-predicted economic moral lesson. Oh, well. There's always next year.

This has been your industrial agriculture lesson for the day.

Posted by Mitch H. 2004-06-25 9:08:03 AM|| [http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2004-06-25 9:08:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 let bob feed them with all the newly aquired farms...as bomb-a-rama said..
Now go away and leave us Americans alone

say's it all

Posted by Dan 2004-06-25 9:27:53 AM|| 2004-06-25 9:27:53 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Call France, they're up for bat finally.

...which is worse: Starvation through deliberate government policy, or our own home grown Marxists who will find a way to blame everyone and everything other than the person/policy most directly responsible.

Badanov, GLAD TO SEE SOMEONE ELSE SAYING IT-this tendency to blame anyone but the person responsible seems to be a widespread mindset in the world today.

Posted by jules 187 2004-06-25 10:48:34 AM|| 2004-06-25 10:48:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 South Africa's done its best to keep Bob in power, even though they're supposedly worried about refugees, let Mbeki feed the starving

Posted by Frank G 2004-06-25 10:54:25 AM|| 2004-06-25 10:54:25 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 So how much corn is that?
It looks like about 2.45 S. Loads.

Posted by Shipman 2004-06-25 11:49:02 AM|| 2004-06-25 11:49:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 I'm amazed the AP reporter had the timerity to note Bob's trangressions.

I'm not sure the AP reporter ever considered them transgressions.

Posted by Pappy 2004-06-25 4:17:18 PM|| 2004-06-25 4:17:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Let them eat Bob.

Posted by Random thoughts 2004-06-25 10:31:57 PM|| 2004-06-25 10:31:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Hey! We've got lots of radioactive waste! Let's crop dust their country with it and see if it helps. If not...well. We tried.

Posted by Silentbrick 2004-06-25 10:41:08 PM|| 2004-06-25 10:41:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 SB: that's pretty cold and cynical - wish I'd thought of it first

Posted by Frank G 2004-06-25 10:51:33 PM|| 2004-06-25 10:51:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Actually, I didn't either. Not directly. Laurence of the Rats, my brother who will likely kill me for linking him to me, thought of it during a HS debate. They were joking about improving US agriculture by nuking everyone else's wheatfields. Then they'd all come to us begging for food. So the evil thoughts were originally his.

Posted by Silentbrick 2004-06-25 10:55:00 PM|| 2004-06-25 10:55:00 PM|| Front Page Top

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