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"Pity About Africa..."
variuos websites | 06-0103 | The Heavy Equipment Guy

Posted on 06/01/2003 5:11:38 AM PDT by backhoe

"Why do you keep posting this stuff? Nobody cares about Africa, anyway..."
...the truth is archived here on Free Republic, and I maintain that one
day, when things over there are too awful to be ignored any longer, those who
have eyes to see will read the stories here, and be appalled at the silence.
 
 
...and the "war-veterans", most of whom were too young to serve. Chaos and anarchy reign in Zimbabwe There is no rule of law, only Mugabe's rule...Hyper-inflation, government chaos and a persecuted minority sounds too much like Germany prior to Hitler. Peace marches & organized demonstrations will only give the corrupt regime an identifiable target.
 
 
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Pity the poor people of Congo.
 
 
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On the eve of a week of protest Our Special Correspondent in Harare reports from a country facing collapse of a dictatorship
 
 
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***AN UNANSWERED ISLAMIC PRAYER*** (Humor/Pity Alert)
      Posted by AmericanInTokyo
On 04/08/2003 1:41 PM EDT with 17 comments

MEMRI Arab Translation Service ^ | 8 April 2003 | AmericanInTokyo		      
 
Mr. T takes no pity on Best Buy
      Posted by WaveThatFlag
On 05/01/2003 6:05 PM EDT with 32 comments

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Mr. T Goes After Best Buy ("I pity the fools!")
      Posted by mhking
On 05/01/2003 11:07 PM EDT with 9 comments

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TOWN WITHOUT PITY (Un-American Fieldsboro Democrat Mayor Digs In His Heels)
      Posted by Doctor Raoul
On 03/29/2003 4:29 AM EST with 50 comments

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Sars in Africa would be 'devastating'
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U.S. to Fund Gender Feminism in Africa?
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Missing Boeing 727 Aircraft - Angola Africa
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Dinosaur Cannibal: Fossil Evidence Found in Africa
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'Africa should beware of GM food aid'
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Winnie Mandela: South Africa’s Mother of Thieves
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Ships could go to horn of Africa: commodore
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      Posted by Clive
On 04/26/2003 6:30 AM EDT with 12 comments

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      Posted by sarcasm
On 04/26/2003 8:54 AM EDT with 3 comments

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Daily Reports Rhodesia

Rhetoric of blame is now a white lie (AFRICA, HEAL THYSELF)
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"I remember Africa in the 1960s, everyone was filled with high expectations after independence. Forty years on, Africa is a series of kleptocracies, many worse off than they were under colonial rule. Almost all of the common people in relative worse shape to the rest of the world than they were before independence. Africans after 40 years have no one to blame but their own leadership for their problems. The leaders want to deflect blame to the West. The West's not buying it anymore..."

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To: cyborg
I wrote a scathing letter to Essence about their honoring Winnie Mandela

You did a very good thing- there is no doubt in my mind that the Mandelas are part of the problem, not the solution to it. Africa has so much potential, but always seems to fall back into the traps of corruption and tribalism.

81 posted on 04/27/2004 4:55:58 PM PDT by backhoe (--30--)
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To: backhoe
"Africa has so much potential..."

There-in lies one of the biggest disappointments for me, there is an abundance of natural resources, but Africa just can't seem to get it right. Compare this for example to the Scandinavian countries, where there is very little, but they are still prosperous and safe. I really want to believe that South Africa will turn out differently, but it's not looking very promising.
82 posted on 04/27/2004 5:16:14 PM PDT by Ironfocus
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To: Ironfocus
Safe for now... if they keep up the welfare state and socialism-lite they won't be. Western Europe is lucky that they have money to help them when they fall back into infantile socialism (like Spain). Eastern Europe is another story. Pity Africa though...the bodies have to be piled high before it makes the news.
83 posted on 04/27/2004 5:35:06 PM PDT by cyborg
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To: cyborg
I guess they have been socialist for so long that it will continue to be accepted by the people. The interesting part will come when the large companies from those countries decide to revolt against the murderous taxes, as it is denying them the opportunity to employ on an equal basis compared to economically developing countries.

How high do those piles need to be? There is 28,000 bodies per year in South Africa, and no-one cares.
84 posted on 04/27/2004 5:39:35 PM PDT by Ironfocus
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To: Ironfocus
Last time I heard from a friend in Scandanavia, he works for almost nothing but the governments have to get the money from somewhere. I hear things are a bit rougher in Sweden than it is in Norway. Oh well. Another thing that these countries have going for it is christian religion (even if most people are nominal in their faith). The piles African dead need to be on the level of Auschwitz-Birkenau post-Hitler findings. A mass execution of white farmers in SA would attract attention but not the way they're being picked off slowly right now. It's so sad really.
85 posted on 04/27/2004 5:47:01 PM PDT by cyborg
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To: backhoe
I read the articles on a fairly regular basis. The leftists in the U.S. are happy to further the cause of the leftists in Africa. What they don't want is for the rest of America to know who supported the leftists and the consequences of that support. That would undermine the leftist program to inflict the same damage on America. Keep posting. We might night be able to do anything about it, but it serves as a living example of the consequences of socialism and communism.
86 posted on 04/27/2004 5:49:04 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: cyborg
Yep, your friend is right, wages are low and taxes high. I paid around 56% tax on an income of just over $60k in Finland. I have to differ on the religion part, I did not see any significant religion in either Sweden or Finland, apart from the Finnish "missionary", who proudly boasted to me how he hid "freedom fighters" in his church when the SA armed forces were looking for them.
87 posted on 04/27/2004 5:52:10 PM PDT by Ironfocus
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To: Ironfocus
Socialism does kill people's religious fervor. Sometimes I wonder how different the world would be without any christian influence at all. When he told me about getting taxed almost 80% at one time in his life, I didn't feel so bad about my measly 25% *LOL*
88 posted on 04/27/2004 5:55:33 PM PDT by cyborg
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To: cyborg
The excuse they have for not being religious is that they are "culturally advanced", and had no place for primitive idol worship. They did use it as a weapon to have the communists installed in Namibia and South Africa though, knowing that the religious South Africans won't attack churches, just like the USA won't attack mosques now.
89 posted on 04/27/2004 5:58:46 PM PDT by Ironfocus
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To: Ironfocus
I agree.
90 posted on 04/27/2004 5:59:39 PM PDT by cyborg
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To: Myrddin
I read the articles on a fairly regular basis-

Thank you... I often wonder who sees this stuff!

91 posted on 04/28/2004 1:39:20 AM PDT by backhoe ("Pity About Africa...")
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To: backhoe
Africa was cursed by the imposition of post-WWII fuzzy-minded Euro-socialism bureaucracy, left like a dead cow in a well by the departing colonial powers.

Africa has spent a half-century trying to make British Labour Party programs and French dirigisme work. Generations of innocent Africans have been sacrificed to the greater glory of the various Maximum Leaders.

Thus the ugly sight we turn our eyes from.

Like the Mid-east, the only solution is an American-style Revolution - and perhaps a Union of former colonies.

I'm not holding my breath.
92 posted on 04/28/2004 10:12:01 AM PDT by headsonpikes (Spirit of '76 bttt!)
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1147881/posts
90 Days To Stop Another Disaster In Africa (Sudan)
The Guardian (UK) ^ | 6-5-2004 | Ewen MacAskill


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1147883/posts
Congo on the brink of new civil war amid genocide accusations-(another paradise)
the telegraph ^ | 05/06/2004) | By Adrian Blomfield in Bukavu


93 posted on 06/05/2004 3:58:28 AM PDT by backhoe (-30-)
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1149648/posts
Zim plans massive land nationalisation
IOL SA
Nothing outside the state, nothing against the state, everything for the state. Robert Mugabe does a Mussolini impression.


94 posted on 06/08/2004 3:25:12 AM PDT by backhoe
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To: backhoe
You might be interested in this article about the U.N. and Katanga.
95 posted on 06/08/2004 6:16:05 AM PDT by zeugma (The Great Experiment is over.)
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1158366/posts
Rumblings of war in heart of Africa
Bakersfield Californian ^ | 6/22/04 | Abraham McLaughlin and Duncan Woodside -CSM


96 posted on 06/23/2004 1:08:07 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the Trackball into the Sunset...)
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 Big Men Are Back (The black heart of Africa)

97 posted on 06/25/2004 3:40:39 AM PDT by backhoe (-30-)
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'Marxists' destroy 'New South Africa'

98 posted on 07/17/2004 4:18:05 PM PDT by backhoe ("Pity About Africa...")
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 'Rape 2 and call me in the morning' (South African medicine includes children)

99 posted on 08/07/2004 11:31:17 AM PDT by backhoe ("Pity About Africa...")
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Out of Africa: always the same thing

100 posted on 10/05/2004 10:03:46 AM PDT by backhoe ("Pity About Africa...")
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