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2006-12-11 Africa Subsaharan
Zimbabwe's Amazing List of Unbelievable Records...
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Posted by anonymous5089 2006-12-11 06:55|| || Front Page|| [11131 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 I fondly look back at the carefree days of 1000% inflation.
Posted by ed 2006-12-11 09:02||   2006-12-11 09:02|| Front Page Top

#2 Highest inflation at around 2000%

THEREFORE

The world's fastest shrinking economy.

Inflation kills the economy THAT'S WHY you should care about the UK and US's massive monetary inflation.
Posted by Bright Pebbles in Blairistan 2006-12-11 09:26||   2006-12-11 09:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Granted inflation is a major concern, but I would have to believe that the government's confiscation and subsequent mismanagement of most income producing sectors of the economy was the root cause of inflation and the death of the economy.
Posted by RWV 2006-12-11 10:44||   2006-12-11 10:44|| Front Page Top

#4 We Be #1! We Be #1! We Be #1!
Posted by Farmin B. Hard 2006-12-11 10:53||   2006-12-11 10:53|| Front Page Top

#5 "government's confiscation and subsequent mismanagement"

And What do you think monetary inflation is?
Posted by Bright Pebbles in Blairistan 2006-12-11 12:13||   2006-12-11 12:13|| Front Page Top

#6 Why is Mugabe still in power? His continued existence is absurd.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2006-12-11 16:48||   2006-12-11 16:48|| Front Page Top

#7 Why is Mugabe still in power? The answer is another question: who is going to assume all the liabilities by kicking a$$ and taking names?

What country or organization is going to take this humanitarian Chapter 11 country and pour billions of its own treasure into deposing the tyrants and rebuilding the country?

They have good farmland, anything else of value? I hear no rumblings from the UN-ZimBob is their kinda guy, one of the brothers. The former colonial masters are not volunteering, they're broke.

The people will not grab their pitchforks, macheties, and such stuff and take ZimBob down, so why should the rest of the world. If they did something, maybe others would help out.

It is a tragedy, especially for children. I do not see any way out of the abyss, except for for the populace to do something for themselves.
Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul  2006-12-11 17:01||   2006-12-11 17:01|| Front Page Top

#8 Checked the CIA-World Factbook on Zimbabwe:

Industries:
mining (coal, gold, platinum, copper, nickel, tin, clay, numerous metallic and nonmetallic ores), steel; wood products, cement, chemicals, fertilizer, clothing and footwear, foodstuffs, beverages

Agricultural:
corn, cotton, tobacco, wheat, coffee, sugarcane, peanuts; sheep, goats, pigs

Well, the Chicoms have been visiting and making nice, but is there enough for some good mercenaries to take care of business? Don't know.

Goats and pigs---well, if there were no pigs, the Saudis would invest, heh.
Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul  2006-12-11 17:35||   2006-12-11 17:35|| Front Page Top

#9 Is this where a5089 posts the Wild Geese Squirrels pic?
Posted by .com 2006-12-11 17:37||   2006-12-11 17:37|| Front Page Top

#10 Give Hugo a few years, I'm sure he can beat Mugabe's record.
Posted by DMFD 2006-12-11 18:50||   2006-12-11 18:50|| Front Page Top

#11 Bright Pebbles

You should not read books, magazines or newspapers. You should sell your computer. The money you save could be used towards finding a minder.

I have no further advice.

You should offer no more advice. At that point the internet will be in equilibrium, or steady state. If you ever open a book, newspaper or magazine the world will shift towards disequilibrium. It will be your fault and yours alone. If ever in the future the world has wars, pestilence or plague it will be your fault for reading. And don't get on the internet again. For that we will probably lose a city.

And never confuse an opinion with fact again. Grow truffels and raise pigs. It is your want
Posted by OregonGuy">OregonGuy  2006-12-11 21:59||   2006-12-11 21:59|| Front Page Top

#12 OregonGuy
I realize that you have/grow white truffles in Oregon but what's your problem with what Bright Pebbles said?

One speculates that his family exited the nation they used to live in when the world did nothing about an Islamic Cannibal. When one of the world's poorest countries couldn't stomach all the bodies flowing down its rivers and invaded... the Cannibal got to live out his life in luxury in a mansion in SaudiLand.

Of course that could be speculation on my side you fricking idiot.
Posted by 3dc 2006-12-11 23:51||   2006-12-11 23:51|| Front Page Top

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