Zimbabwe has won approval to lead the UN Commission on Sustainable Development.
Here are some previous posts on our new world leader on sustainable development: Zimbabwe 1, Zimbabwe 2, Zimbabwe 3, Zimbabwe 4.
Hat tip to Independent Sources.
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From the article:
“In 2000, Mugabe’s government began violently seizing thousands of white-owned commercial farms as part of a program to redistribute land to poor blacks. The chaotic way the seizures were carried out disrupted the agriculture-based economy in Zimbabwe, a former regional breadbasket. Drought, government corruption and repressive policies have compounded the problems.”
I love how they article seems to imply that the problems were initially created by the CHAOTIC seizing of the farms, not the fact that the farms were seized from people who knew how to work them and produce mass amounts of food.
It seems to imply that if the seizing had been orderly and “planned” then things would be much more peachy. Forgive me if I’m skeptical of that.
Zimbabwe’s methods are sustainable, but just for Mugabe. Course that’s because he’s 83 years old and is at the top of the heap.
Several European nations have also called Zimbabwe’s candidacy inappropriate.
Whoa, stop with the harsh language EU! “Inappropriate” is passing gas during a dinner date. I would hardly call the slow death that Zimbabwe’s going through the same thing.
Someone must be trying to make the Bush foreign policy look good in comparison. . .
I’m with Happyjuggler here, nothing like seeing incompetence glorified… Oh well, it is the UN what else should we expect?
Please don’t belittle the League of Nations – give it a chance.
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