XPost: alt.activism, alt.politics, alt.politics.economics   
   From: tim.howard@cox.net   
      
   Stan de SD wrote:   
      
   > Tell me where 1% control all the wealth, other than in Communist nations,   
   > and present some sources and cites to back up your claim. Otherwise, you're   
   > blowing smoke out of your ass as usual.   
   >   
   This thread was refering to a UN report showing 1% control half of all   
   PERSONAL wealth.  You and a bunch of others who do not want to address   
   this issue have gotten off topic.  Go back to the beginning of this   
   thread to see the source.   
   >   
     >>>Tell us why people are starving in Cuba, Zimbabwe, and North Korea,   
   >>   
   >>There is no mass starvation in Cuba.   
   >   
   >   
   > Rations allowed to Cuban slaves in 1842:   
   > Meat - 8 ounces   
   > Rice - 3 ounces   
   > Beans - 4 ounces   
   > Rations allowed to Cuban slaves citizens since 1962:   
   > Meat - 2 ounces   
   > Rice - 3 ounces   
   > Beans - 1 ounce   
   >   
   This is not all the food they have to eat and you know it.  Your ration   
   stats do not tell the whole story.  There is no mass starvation in Cuba.   
      
     >>In Zimbabwe there is "selective   
   >>starvation", where the Gov. is deliberatly targeting areas where it's   
   >>perceived enemies are.   
   >   
   >   
   > Nice try, Timmy Toilet. Mass starvation has been going on for several years   
   > now:   
   >   
   My name is not Timmy.   
      
   > Archbishop: Thousands of Zimbabweans starve, die weekly from disease   
   >   
   > By Simon Caldwell   
   > Catholic News Service   
      
   I am not going to defend the regime in Zimbabwa.   
   >   
     > The U.N. World Food Program estimates that 6.1 million Zimbabweans,   
   about   
   > half of the 12 million population, face starvation.   
   >   
   If this is true, then Mugabe's selective starvation program even more of   
   the country than I had know about.  I am not defending his program.   
      
   > "Zimbabwe is not a nation at war," Archbishop Ncube said. "It used to be   
   > able to feed itself and its neighbors. Zimbabwe used to have one of the   
   > highest life-expectancy rates in Africa.   
   >   
   So there has not always been starvation since the day Mugabe took over.   
     Again I said the starvation and disease were not a result of   
   "communist" policies.  They are a result of Mugabe persuing a policy of   
   killing his assumed enemies, and of him "importing military aircraft   
   from China" instead of "   
      
   North Koreans are starving because Kim Jung Il has   
   >>isolated them from the world.  What is happening there would happen to   
   >>any poor nation, even a capitalist nation.   
   >   
   > More bullshit. The DPRK is a hard-core communist nation.   
      
   Yes it is.  Perhaps I didn't clarify.  I meant if any poor nation   
   isolated itself from the rest of the world to the extent N. Korea did,   
   thye would be starving too.   
   >   
      
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