Posted on 02/26/2016 3:22:18 PM PST by Kaslin
Robert Mugabe, the sempiternal dictator of Zimbabwe since 1980, has been an international pariah for some time. But could global warming thaw his frayed and frosty relationships with world leaders?
When Mugabe first came to power in 1980 he was feted in the West. His accession was not praised by all Zimbabweans, notably the Whites and the Ndebele, who were not keen on Mugabe's efforts to turn the nation into a one-party state.
Mugabe formed a military unit to deal with malcontents, trained by North Korea, naming them the Gukurahundi, a word in his native Shona tongue meaning "the early rain which washes away the chaff." In 1983 this 5th Brigade executed systematic killings of Ndebele civilians in Matabeleland. Conservative estimates of the death toll are put at 20,000. In Mugabe's words, the people of Matabeleland needed to be "re-educated." Western politicians mostly tiptoed around this unpleasantness.
Mugabe's policies made life in Zimbabwe more and more difficult, and by 2000 his cachet had finally run out. In that year he implemented another racist attack, this time on white farmers in which he drove them, and anyone associated with them, off their farmland.
This led to a collapse of the nation's cereal production and widespread famine. Mugabe turned a deaf ear to international concern for the unfolding Zimbabwean humanitarian disaster. In 2005 he said, "We are not hungry.... Why foist this food upon us? We don't want to be choked. We have enough." He said this at a time over 1.5 million people were starving, especially in Matabeleland.
In 2008 he exacerbated food insecurity for Zimbabweans by blocking international humanitarian organizations from delivering food and humanitarian aid to populations in the worst-affected rural areas.
After 36 years of often violent rule some would call Mugabe a dictator. But he has shown himself a most adept politician. For while the world community grimaces at the Mugabe-inflicted humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe, President Mugabe blames the weather and gets applause.
Last December, as a welcome guest and speaker at the U.N. Climate Summit in Paris, he rebuked Western nations, saying that because of global warming caused by developed nations, "[d]isaster stalks our planet Earth." Mugabe's solution includes "provision of long-term financial resources, technology development and transfer, capacity-building". In short, show me the money.
President Obama agrees. He is eager for the US to pay other nations billions of dollars in global warming reparations. Mugabe has risen to the occasion. A government-owned Zimbabwe newspaper is claiming global warming reparations of $1.5 billion a year.
Mugabe doesn't even blush with shame when he demands the cash because he understands the game, the shameless charade of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the convention, who just announced that she will step down in July, welcomed Mugabe to the Paris conference. She admits that the whole game is not actually about the climate but about economics, saying, "This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution." I.e., she's intent on substituting central planning for free trade.
Global warming provides a neat way for tyrants to blame shift and top up their slush funds. Rather than in jail for crimes against humanity, Mugabe has found an expedient that finds him rising phoenix-like from the ashes of Zimbabwe, if not a hero then certainly a comrade in the warm embrace of global warming politics.
James Wanliss, Ph.D., is Professor of Physics at Presbyterian College, Clinton, SC. He is a Senior Fellow and Contributing Writer for The Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation, and author of Resisting the Green Dragon: Dominion, Not Death. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed physics articles, has held the NSF CAREER award, and does research in space science and nonlinear dynamical systems under grants from NASA and NSF.
All the marxists and the muslims need an excuse to shut down western man. Global warming is a great excuse for them to coalesce their forces, after all.... that is what gave us nOmama.
Its great that one of the leaders who understands it the best is at the front of the lineup.
Go ahead and give him 1.5 billion ZIMBABWE dollars! What would that be... about 25 cents? /s;)
Glowbull Warming is a bigger fraud than Robert Mugabe.
It’s a localized global warming event?
Prof. Wanliss:
Two lessons for you from an old commie hunter.
Mugabe has always been a Marxist and when he came into power, he became a Marxist dictator. He always has been and will be until the day he dies.
He slaughtered many fellow Zimbabweens, as you mentioned, but reports told of No. Korean military units assisting in this political/tribal genocide, not just training the local rabble military.
Secondly, communist dictators always blame the “West, capitalism, America, Uncle Sam, Uncle Irv, and Mamie Eisenhower” for all their problems, those caused by nature to those caused by their communist/Marxist economic and political policies.
Mugabe wants “money, honey, that’s what he wants” and he typically rolls out the old communist mantra of “blame it on the West, make them feel guilty, turn them into pariahs, and then demand reparations/damages money from them. And the stupids in the West, from Comrade Obama to the Euro-weenies want to give it to them.
Someone asked the other day at FR how much Mugabe’s daughter is worth in stolen money and pay-offs. How much is he worth? How much was Chavez worth before he croaked, “May God Be Thanked For That”? Castro and his family? Saddam and “the boys”? Assad and his gang of killers? Kim Il Mentally Deranged family? Putin and his KGB/Russian Mafia family? ETC.
The West is the piggy bank of Marxist dictators and like good little “class warriors”, we pay these bastards off.
Let’s call a “Communist/Marxist” a “Communist/Marxist” and not a “dictator”, a “socialist”, a “progressive”, or even “sane”.
Their deeds tell us exactly who and what they are. No need for use to be polite in describing them in soft terms.
Hitler was not called “the leader of Germany”, but a “murderous Nazi genocidal bastard”.
Mugabe is his first cousin so he deserves the exact same clarity of description of just who he is.
Time for the country to go back to the old ways ... king for a year with all power and have anything and as much as want, then killed and new king installed.
President Obama agrees. He is eager for the US to pay other nations billions of dollars in global warming reparations.
OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a giant nuclear furnace that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
Yeah, global warming is what’s wrong with Rhodesia.
William F. Buckley
Mugabe has fundamentally transformed Rhodesia. He is an inspiration for President Obama.
BUMP.
I gave my wife a 100 billion Zimbabwe dollar note for Christmas 5 years ago that cost (with postage) less than $5.00 US delivered.
Think Dr. Evil: ‘One hundred billion dollars!’
Colonial government was 100 times better than most current African regimes.
Places like DC and Detroit would turn into Zimbabwe if we allowed it, some people would just love to steal houses from every White person.
I have one of those...in white, of course.
I still miss my original “Airborne - Death From Above” shirt.
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