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AFRICA FEST 2007 - AUGUST 11, 2007 at WARNER PARK
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Why didn't Uncle Sam shoot back? He has shot back in Vietnam ( Oh, his waterloo!) Irak, Afghanistan and who knows where else? Was it false modesty or military straitjacket that held back Uncle Sam's compulsive tendency to fire back in order to teach people the worldover that there's only one Uncle Sam on earth?
PETER W.VAKUNTA
DEPARTMENT OF FRENCH AND ITALIAN
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON
602 VAN HISE HALL
1220 LINDEN DRIVE
MADISON WI 53706-1525
U.S.A
Office 608 262 4067
Home 608 442 6089
Cell 608 381 0407
"The day will come when history will speak... Africa will write its own history... it will be a history of glory and dignity." - Patrice Lumumba
----- Original Message -----
From: VERA R CROWELL <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thursday, August 2, 2007 4:09 pm
Subject: Re: Fwd: NYTimes.com: Caps on Prices Only Deepen Zimbabweans' Misery
To: [log in to unmask]
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> You are so right, Peter.
>
> I remember my uncle would tell us stories from when he was a marine
> stationed at Gitmo; Cuban soldiers would shoot at them as they were
> walking the fence line, but they couldn't shoot back.
>
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> "In the days before volcanoes were invented, lava had to be hand
> carried down from the mountains and poured on the sleeping villagers.
> This took a great deal of time."
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter W. Vakunta" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Thursday, August 2, 2007 4:05 pm
> Subject: Re: Fwd: NYTimes.com: Caps on Prices Only Deepen
> Zimbabweans' Misery
> To: [log in to unmask]
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> > "...how does jailing people (store owners, at that) get the economy
>
> > moving again?"
> > Robert Mugabe probably took his cue from the Guantanamos (big and
> > small) that we have erected at home and in Cuba.
> >
> > PETER W.VAKUNTA
> > DEPARTMENT OF FRENCH AND ITALIAN
> > UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON
> > 602 VAN HISE HALL
> > 1220 LINDEN DRIVE
> > MADISON WI 53706-1525
> > U.S.A
> > Office 608 262 4067
> > Home 608 442 6089
> > Cell 608 381 0407
> >
> > "The day will come when history will speak... Africa will write its
>
> > own history... it will be a history of glory and dignity." -
> Patrice Lumumba
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: VERA R CROWELL <[log in to unmask]>
> > Date: Thursday, August 2, 2007 12:32 pm
> > Subject: Fwd: NYTimes.com: Caps on Prices Only Deepen Zimbabweans'
> Misery
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> >
> >
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> > > AFRICA FEST 2007 - AUGUST 11, 2007 at WARNER PARK
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> > > I love this list (it's obvious I don't get out much). Over the
> > years
> > > I have received very stern lectures (and that's putting it
> mildly)
> > > from my friends on this list. My favorites are: the reasons why
> > Black
> > > America is in the state it's in, all the problems that exist in
> > > America, and how America (her leaders, businesses and military)
> are
> > to
> > > blame for not only her own ills, but most of the ills in the
> world
> > > (directly to blame for most, indirectly to blame for all the
> rest).
> > I
> > > do not and would not attack anyone. I make observations just as
> all
> >
> > > of you do. My observations are generally regarded as ignorant
> > > diatribes and my only hope (help me, Obi-Wan) is to go and live
> in
> > > Africa. Just to reassure you, I will definitely be going to
> > > Africa...not to worry.
> > >
> > > Just as an aside, though, I may not be a rocket scientist, and I
>
> > > don't live in Zimbabwe, but, how does jailing people (store
> owners,
> > at
> > > that) get the economy moving again? Again, I may not live there,
> but
> >
> > > what do my whereabouts have to do with all the missing capital in
>
> > > Zimbabwe (I don't have it)? Capital earned in a country has to be
>
> > > reinvested back into that country's economy for that economy to
> grow
> >
> > > and thrive. When dollars earned are sent out of the country by
> the
> > > millions, it does affect the economic cycle.
> > >
> > > What else have I learned from my friends here on this list? I
> will
> >
> > > recount my lessons (because I have learned them well). There are
> two
> >
> > > things not spoken of here: the brain drain out of Africa (missing
>
> > > human capital), and the repatriation of African countries from
> > people
> > > in the African diaspora. Does 'not speaking of them' make the
> > > situations and the subsequent consequences disappear? Not really
>
> > (just
> > > an observation).
> > >
> > > Most countries have gone through a hyperinflation cycle at one
> time
> >
> > > or another. The series of bad economic decisions made in Zimbabwe
>
> > > makes the situation worse.
> > >
> > > Back to the article. This is the type of issue I'm talking
> about.
> > You
> > > can't blame the G-8s for this. From a global perspective, perhaps
>
> > you
> > > can blame everyone on the planet for not purchasing enough
> > Zimbabwean
> > > goods to keep the economy moving...that, I would accept. In
> today's
> >
> > > market, we have no choice but to try to purchase globally
> whenever possible.
> > >
> > > From the article: "It appears, however, that not even an
> > unchallenged
> > > autocrat can repeal the laws of supply and demand. One month
> after
> > Mr.
> > > Mugabe decreed just that, commanding merchants nationwide to
> counter
> >
> > > 10,000-percent-a-year hyperinflation by slashing prices in half
> and
> >
> > > more, Zimbabwe’s economy is at a halt...Manufacturing has slowed
> to
> > a
> > > crawl because few businesses can produce goods for less than
> their
> > > government-imposed sale prices...Zimbabwe’s economy has been
> > shrinking
> > > since 2000, buffeted by political turmoil, capital flight and
> > > mismanagement, but never has it been in a more dire state than
> now,
> >
> > > business executives say."
> > >
> > > ...Mr. Mugabe has cast the price cuts as a strike not against
> > > hyperinflation, but against profiteering businesses that he says
> are
> >
> > > part of a Western conspiracy to reimpose colonial rule. In that
> > view,
> > > price rollbacks are the government’s countermeasure... His June
> 26
> > > decree, much of which was later enacted into law, was draconian:
>
> > > businesses were ordered to reduce their prices by about 50
> percent.
> >
> > > Shop owners who refused to comply would be jailed. Stores that
> > closed
> > > or refused to restock goods would be taken over by the
> government.
> > In
> > > recent weeks, gangs of price inspectors have patrolled shops and
>
> > > factories, imposing price reductions, sometimes arbitrarily. As
> many
> >
> > > as 4,000 businesspeople have been arrested, fined or jailed,
> > according
> > > to the Zimbabwean police...In Plumtree, near Zimbabwe’s border
> with
> >
> > > Botswana, a line of shoppers gathered outside a shoe store last
> week
> >
> > > even before opening hours, said Moses Mzila, who represents the
> area
> >
> > > in Parliament. As the store opened, g
> > > overnment inspectors appeared — and the throng followed them in,
>
> > > buying up stock as it was marked down.
> > >
> > > “It’s theft, outright theft,” Mr. Mzila said. “Some of them had
> big
> >
> > > cars, shiny, sparkling double-cabs, and they filled them up with
>
> > shoes
> > > and just drove away.”"
> > >
> > > ******************************
> > > "In the days before volcanoes were invented, lava had to be hand
>
> > > carried down from the mountains and poured on the sleeping villagers.
> > > This took a great deal of time."
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> > > Date Thu, 02 Aug 2007 10:54:19 -0500 (CDT)
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> > > INTERNATIONAL / AFRICA | August 2, 2007
> > > Caps on Prices Only Deepen Zimbabweans' Misery
> > > By MICHAEL WINES
> > > One month after the government tried to allay the effects of
> > > hyperinflation, Zimbabwe's economy is at a halt.
> > >
> > > http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/02/world/africa/02zimbabwe.html?ex=1186718400&en=63a549b45dd9fc46&ei=5070&emc=eta1
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