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Jimmy the Dhimmi funded commie land seizure in Zimbabwe

Whenever I mention that Jimmah Carter never met a dictator he didn’t like, the left gets angrier than Ted Kennedy at the bottom of a Dewar’s bottle. It can be denied no longer. From Jammie Wearing Fool:

Here’s a shocker.

Presidential disaster Jimmy Carter agreed to have the U.S. underwrite the communist takeover/redistribution of property in Zimbabwe in 1980.

Of course, the communists at the Beeb call it land reform.

US backed Zimbabwe land reform

The key role played by the United States ahead of Zimbabwe’s independence in resolving the sticky point of land redistribution has just come to light.

The land issue has always been emotive in Zimbabwe — as can be seen with the current crisis sparked off by the government seizure of mainly white-owned farms in 2000.

Cutting to the chase, Mugabe and his revolutionaries took property away from white owners and gave it to his buddies. During the negotiations of all this with the British government, who wanted to get out of that mess, they needed a sucker to write some checks to make it all happen.

Enter Carter.

“He secretly contacted the US ambassador in London, Kingham Brewster, and asked him to get the then US President, Jimmy Carter, to promise money to pay white farmers for their land.

Mr Mugabe was angered when the UK stopped land payments.

“Brewster was totally supportive. We were at a stage where Mugabe and Nkomo were packing their bags,” he explains.

“He came back to me within 24 hours. They had got hold of Jimmy Carter and Carter authorised Brewster to say to me that the United States would contribute a substantial amount for a process of land redistribution and they would undertake to encourage the British government to give similar assurances.”

To put this in perspective, the U.S. was in the middle of a major recession at that point, and Carter agreed to help underwrite the Communist takeover of property in another country.

So how did that work out?

“But the UK government found that some of the farms were being given to President Mugabe’s close associates, and refused to continue the payments.

Mr Mugabe was furious, claiming bad faith.

The path to the seizure of white farms was opened and thus began the long slide to today’s economic chaos.”

Today, as a direct result of Carter’s contributions to the effort, Zimbabwe is falling apart. They have approximately 5,000% annual inflation, life expectancies in the 34- to 37-year range, and thousands hungry and leaving every day.

And today the left sees Carter as some kind of hero.

Actually, the inflation rate is more like 7,600%, but why quibble over a couple thou when it comes to hellishly high inflation? You get the picture.

Did this schmuck get anything right?

August 23, 2007 Posted by | Carter, corruption, Mugabe, shameful, socialism | 3 Comments

“New Peer-Reviewed Scientific Studies Chill Global Warming Fears”

That’s the title of the blog entry from Senate EPW Committee member James Inhofe (R-OK), a global “warming” antagonist (in other words, someone I admire!).  Moonbattery has a better run-down, though:

It looks like we’re on our way to the climate change consensus that moonbats keep barking about — but the consensus will be that significant manmade global warming is complete bunk. From the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works:

Washington DC — An abundance of new peer-reviewed studies, analysis, and data error discoveries in the last several months has prompted scientists to declare that fear of catastrophic man-made global warming “bites the dust” and the scientific underpinnings for alarm may be “falling apart.” The latest study to cast doubt on climate fears finds that even a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide would not have the previously predicted dire impacts on global temperatures. This new study is not unique, as a host of recent peer-reviewed studies have cast a chill on global warming fears.

“Anthropogenic (man-made) global warming bites the dust,” declared astronomer Dr. Ian Wilson after reviewing the new study which has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Geophysical Research. Another scientist said the peer-reviewed study overturned “in one fell swoop” the climate fears promoted by the UN and former Vice President Al Gore. The study entitled “Heat Capacity, Time Constant, and Sensitivity of Earth’s Climate System,” was authored by Brookhaven National Lab scientist Stephen Schwartz. (LINK)

It turns out the climate is only one third as sensitive to CO2 as the UN’s hyper-politicized IPCC has been screeching. At the current rate of increase, atmospheric CO2 will double around 2070. This would raise temperatures about 0.6°C — completely insignificant considering the climate’s normal fluctuation.

This might be a good time for liberal elitists in the media and government to move on to a new phony crisis before the public starts to notice the egg oozing down their faces.

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The Goracle’s prophesies have been debunked.

Here’s guessing that the left will try and discredit Wilson and Schwartz by proving that they are doing the work of “Big Oil” because they were spotted putting gasoline into their vehicles.

August 23, 2007 Posted by | global warming | 4 Comments

ABC captions Bush speech in typical biased fashion

From Ace:

The newsroom is a sacred, magical place where unhinged partisanship never intrudes into actual reportage.

Except when it does.

The actual reference occurs on page three of the article:

After comparing the current war against extremists with the militarists of Japan and the communists in Korea and Vietnam in Wednesday’s speech, he plans to discuss the war in Iraq in the context of its implications for the broader Middle East in a speech next Tuesday at the annual American Legion convention in Reno, Nev.

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MSM Suddenly Convinced Iraq NOT Like Vietnam, Now That Bush Has Suggested Comparison To Mass Slaughter and Displaced Boat People: Apparently Iraq is only like Vietnam in ways that benefit the Democratic party.

Who knew?
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Changed! Now reads “New Bush Talking Point: Iraq Like Vietnam.”

No more caps, no more “AS 14 AMERICANS DIE, DIE, DIE!!!11!!“

‘Sokay. I got it all screencapped.

The Actual Text Of His Remarks: Of course the MSM isn’t interested in reporting them. But the Weekly Standard is.
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As Allah points out, Bush didn’t say Iraq was like Vietnam — he said it would be like Vietnam were we to surrender. Apparently the high-nuanced folks at ABC have not mastered the nuances of the subjunctive or conditional moods.

Nope…no liberal media bias!

August 23, 2007 Posted by | Iraq, media bias | Leave a Comment

Amnesty does in Johnny Mac…in Arizona!

Poor John McCain. The media darling du jour has officially jumped the shark. From Conservative Princess:

We are over McCain. Not that we ever weren’t over John McCain, but you know…we’re not even willing to give him the benefit of the doubt concerning his campaign finance. At this point, we’re pretty sure that he’s paying most Republicans to take notice of him. Give him a week and you’ll find his sweaters on eBay. Give him two years and he’ll be declaring himself on hiatus from the Senate.

Gov. Janet Napolitano would beat Sen. John McCain if the two went head-to-head in an election, according to a new poll.

In a hypothetical head-to-head race for McCain’s Senate seat, 47 percent of those polled would vote for Napolitano, 36 percent for the sitting Republican senator, and 17 percent were undecided.

That would be quite the margin, and its strikingly odd, since while McCain sucks as a Presidential candidate, he’s a pretty effective, if obnoxiously moderate Senator. Granted, McCain is both in the public eye more now than usual (making him more of a target), and he’s also in pretty dire straits, but this can’t be a morale booster. By 2010, when McCain is back up for election, the mistakes of 2008 will long be in his past, particularly if he runs out of money by December, but at the moment, it can’t feel good.

Getting spanked by a bumbling governor like Napolitano would allow Johnny Mac to embark on his passion: $50/hr lettuce picking.

August 23, 2007 Posted by | illegal immigration, McCain | Leave a Comment

   

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