Mugabenomics
Liberty Scott has noted Mugabe's German banknote paper supplier is going to pull the plug. The largest note is currently $50,000,000.The Telegraph does a masterful job of highlighting the comic unreality of the monetary implosion:
Some prices have trebled from a week ago, when toilet paper worked out at just under Z$22 million for a single sheet. There was none in the supermarket yesterday, but by now there is probably an alternative use for the Z$50 million note.
At one Harare restaurant, dinner was Z$875 billion per person, and a bottle of house wine was a little short of half a trillion dollars a bottle.
In one shop, a television was on sale, with a sign marked “1.7”. Asked if that meant trillions, the shopkeeper answered: “No, the next one. I don’t know what it’s called.”
We're in a sweat about 4% inflation and the damage that does - what must a million percent be doing. Ruination.
The regime has no answers. Anyone with any brains and any conscience is never going to involve themselves with the regime.
posted by Tim Selwyn @ 4:04 pm
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looks like they've been getting financial advice from the same guy who advises the likes of Bush and Key
Yup that one little guy sitting in his dark office plotting the worlds downfall through his minions Mugabe, Bush and Key.
How have we been blind to it for so long?
Say, Who is that little guy Anon?
you should see a doctor abut yr paranoia problem there legio..plots... dark offices... dear oh dear
You don't know who he is either then Anon?
Or maybe you're the same Anon that made the stupid comment in the first place?
Either way I want to know who this guy is that advises Mugabe, Bush and Key. Its all starting to sound like a Bo ber/Hager/Greens conspiracy theory to me.
Batshit crazy is the correct term I believe.
the us and uk should gave invaded the country years ago but the bleeding hearts would have gone nuts so why bother, if the locals want him out up to them to do it, whats wrong with them.
What's wrong with the people of Burma, Malaysia, Philippines, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Iran etc. etc. ?
The security forces are controlled by the political masters. If the opposition leadership is weak (usually because the security forces make it impossible for them to operate their party organisations) and there is little assistance from their neighbours and the international community then the regime will continue.
Look at what happened when the people of Hungary and Poland and Czechoslovakia tried to throw off the Soviet regime - the crack down was brutal.
Look at the trumped up charges again on Anwar Ibrahim (sp?) in Malaysia, look at what happened when the right failed in an impeachment hearing in the Philippines senate against Estrada - there was a coup...
The opposition in Zimababwe need:
1. Solid leadership (Tsvangirai was beaten up - Ibrahim style - not so long ago and may be psychologically adverse to causing his supporters to get the same treatment, ie. has succumbed to intimidation). This also includes planning to remove the regime - which will make them guilty of treason should they be caught, but also includes formulating an exit strategy for the top regime figures to get them out of the picture and into exile).
2. International support to marginalise and choke the regime (which they don't really have esp. because of South Africa)
3. Strong-holds (districts and cities) that will easily fall to the opposition and be held by them while the garrisons and units of security forces are contained (but even with mass support such as in Romania they could still put up effective resistance until the political head is decapitated). Bulawayo is the MDC strong-hold.
Even the lazy French managed a revolution.
Other revolutions were quashed because not enough people bothered to join and larger outside forces joined in - there are no outside forces who would step in to support Mugabe, far from it the outside forces if they interfered at all would help get rid of him.
What are the other black states doing - nothing, useless. People sometimes get what they ask for and desverve, change has to come from within I suspect.
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