LAST POST OF 2010 - WHAT DO WE NEED TO REVIEW?

So much has occurred between the post in March and this final post of 2010.

I am blessed to have learnt much blessed to still have something left to fight with come 2011.

I think the greatest lesson I realised regarding the struggle in the first decade of the 21st Century is that Zimbabwe wont survive without..... HONESTY.

The end result more political mire and sins of omission and commission.

A great country is being betrayed reduced by too much dishonesty ... too many people with short sighted, short term, selfish, self serving agendas at play. Usually either based on cowardice or greed.

(I wrote the piece below in response to an article on another blog - I think its apt)


The point is - CAN A STRATEGIC REVIEW EVER TAKE PLACE AND HAVE PRACTICAL EFFECT for the greater good?

Why else look back and reflect over issues?

A freedom struggle is an intellectual and practical 'arms race' between the forces deemed the cause of oppression / suppression and the oppressed.

THE PROBLEM in Zimbabwe is that a natural process of protest and change was hijacked and artificially infused with the anger of some over the land issue and the opportunistic greed of big powers seeking to control the nations resources. .

The peoples agenda for broadbased freedoms -begun years earlier- against policies like ESAP/(HIPC) and the one party state agenda; has now been put second by parties using the crisis and political prostitution to get money and status.
There have been ZERO corresponding lasting gains for the country. There have been no increases in THE RULE OF LAW with the increasing waistlines or bank balances.

The selfish ECONOMIC AGENDA of foreign powers mixed with self serving individualism has created a clever, well resourced hope and change talking monster that has usurped the real struggle.

- What this has done is corrupt a revolutionary process in terms of strategic thinking and infusion of effective personnel -all binned- in favour of retaining people and ideas that served the new masters economic agenda best.

Who was watching the setting up of so many donor funded individuals and groups who on the surface opposed Mugabe as the forefront of a mass popular movement called MUGABE MUST GO - but on closer inspection proved straw men with no real foundation or vision for Zimbabwes 'freedom'?
WHAT SENSIBLE STRATEGY is in the hands of a 'faux' manufactured opposition that is MORE loyal to the desires of its outside elite donors than the needs and protection of the Zimbabean people?...

their existence (funding, ideas base) rests with the donors rather than any evolutionary process of greater efficiency of leadership or ideas renewal.(Why do they use foreign 'consultants' as advisers - while excluding so many Zimbabweans?) The elite interference dis-empowers the peoples mandate and agency - Zanu playing nationalist hero stating to deal directly with the organ grinder rather than the Zimbabwean proxy...where is the peoples legitimate voice?

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Zimbabwes false struggle is based upon a cover of anti 'HUMAN RIGHTS' abuse that allows the regime new life and power - WHAT genuine human rights campaigners NEED increased amounts of peoples suffering -for years- to boost their own international political profiles and profit margins ...What genuine human rights advocates talk of 'non-violence' while seeking to get to State House riding on the back of stage-managed public anger and manipulating civil strife?
What is sensible or 'peace loving' about sending civilians against a military regime - just so one can score democratic propaganda points?

The two branches of the forces supposedly challenging the incumbency (the owners and their proxies) have appropriated positions where their blunders and mistakes dont really affect them so in terms of issues like the REFERENDUM and other issues if their failures dont affect them why should they care about the QUALITY of their planning or decision making?

The CFR / Western hegemony (the true chefs) - are indifferent because they live a long way away from the suffering their meddling creates.

The opposition chefs dont care because their money/survival doesn't depend on any political effectiveness - they are the trusted employees the foreign powers African Karzais, good 'yes-men' and megaphones. Opposition supporters are human rights cannon fodder there to be incited but never prudently organised or protected.

It isnt about challenging Mugabe using constant blundering and fumbling - the issue is their inability to stop a seeming years old legacy of blundering and fumbling.

PEOPLE SEE EVIDENCE OF COMING DISASTER YET DO NOTHING

The issue here in probably the shortest ZimINS post is to ask why are people always reacting but are never proactive? The regime has obvious intentions towards entrenching and regaining power through force. The build up of forces and looting has been going on for months ever since negotiations started post 2008 elections.

It would be easy to call it a case of ostriches burying heads in the sand and people living in a state of paralysis and denial; unfortunately re the Zimbabwe issue the path of ousting of the OPFOR regime rests on the fixed econmic agendas of the international bosses passed on to the population through their fake 'pro democracy' hired proxies.

Is the regime invincible? NO...The issue is who opposes the regime and the agendas they serve.

NEW ZIMBABWE ELECTIONS ~ MORE POLITICAL FALSEHOOD

No real change is taking place in Zimbabwe due to the fact that the real deals are going on in secret out of the public view.

A myriad of self serving hidden agendas and cover-ups. Zimbabwe Libre is at the centre of a new Scramble for Africa. The years have moved on from Berlin 1884-85 the powers involved have changed; but the greed and the use of African proxies and puppets being there to subdue the masses while a few elites get richer remains constant.

MDC chefs for all their rhetoric about CHINJA are beneficiaries of the Zimbabwe crisis (donor fund eating puppets of foreign interests); along with being beneficiaries of the political fudge that created the hybrid called 'the GNU'(watered own stooges on the same gravy train as the tyranny).

The MDC leadership gets away with it due to a culture of cult worship, clientelism myopia and make believe that runs through that party. The entire 'opposition pretence' is as bad but MDC is mentioned because as Zimbabweans we have placed too many hopes for liberation with a group of frauds charlatans and opportunists and have not demanded to seek the results or the books. Our agency and sense of national responsibility to liberate ourselves is on the shelf.

Remember when things began, all the talk was all about the dictatorship is bad as it is a HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATOR? Well even with the GNU in place the dictatorship is still a human rights violator but that issue has been swept under the carpet and the noise replaced by one pretence about 'economic stability and progress'.

Its pointless to ask how you can have this so called 'economic stability' while the top looters remain entrenched, you will not get an answer. It is also pointless to ask where the stability is when the Military junta (JOC)is as firmly entrenched as ever.
The opposition visualize the dictatorship as a traditional 'political establishment NOT a corporate / military operation, NOT as a centralized business process that operates on basic economic and technological principles.

The tyranny uses the dishonesty of its opponents to recruit new business partners and foot soldiers and retain "support staff", negotiate for and purchase supplies, and to regroup. Their opponents still believe when the Dear Leader dies elections will sweep them into power.
They dont refer to the past for any future study, they dont review the last games from 2002-2008, and know how to gain or use 'leverage'.

In a post last year, the blog stated the tyranny that leverages past guerilla experience prototyping it into the civilian arena and 'swarming' principles.

The bad news is that you wont get those benefitting from the presence of the tyranny learning these lessons and approaching the issue in a different light. The bad news is that this model of "phoney warfare" is waged against the people not by or for the people. It creates a false idea of security that is easily spread regarding what change really means and what it invloves.

History is required reading for anyone wanting to gain a deeper understanding. Don't read it though and the cycle of raised false hopes and crushing disappointments that serve to make a greedy few rich will continue indefinitely.

It's sure to keep you awake.

PUBLIC SERVANTS ~ NOT THE RULERS OF THE PUBLIC

Politicians and diapers must be changed often and usually for the same reason.

PRISON WALLS and ASSOCIATED FEARS about REVOLUTION

Someone once said, “There is no prison built by a mere mortal that man can not break out of!”

He was wrong.

The strongest prison walls are not always the physical walls we can see and climb over. They are the mental walls in our heads.

The status quo is not the only game in town but when you have shut your mind to everything, boxed yourself in, then of course they become the only game in town.

"I have to study politics and war, so that my children can study mathematics and philosphy"

You can jail a revolutionary but you cant jail the revolution. You can run a freedom fighter around the country but you cant run freedom fighting around the country. You can murder a liberator but you cant murder liberation.

FREEDOM IS NEVER COATED IN LIES

Its an issue of ‘priority’…

Once upon a time the ‘assumed priority’ was that a struggle was taking place that would bring about the total freedom of the nation, the removal of a corrupt dictatorship that loots the national future in order to sustain a criminal presence in the present.

MDC presented itself as a party with the credible personnel, with ideas and methodology to remove that tyranny and offer a ‘new Zimbabwe’

But its easy to look good when you have no real track record and the only policies one has are finger pointing. Over time the public saw the truth and the ‘priority’ of struggle began to change 1) the forceful promises of regime change were exposed as empty rhetoric and lies spouted to garner mass public support and 2) the personnel / ideas department of the MDC proved no match against the Zanu mafia.

Swap peoples desperation for change/ (remember CHINJA). Present it as the ‘popularity’ of the MDC ‘dear leader’.

Such was the depth of their donor funded fallacy and hallucination that MDC chefs believed any poor standard of leadership was acceptable (plans? who needs plans they often crowed)

The priority became to entrench yet another unquestioned and unchallenged political gang… to hell with the hopeful gullible Zimbabwean public.

Remember when the infighting began, it wasnt over how best to serve the people but over power. People were being driven from their homes MDC was infighting. Power corrupts and is so sweet. It was about clinging to position. Who was there to challenge the new ‘dear leader’?

PRIORITY…changed to hell with the people or rule of law, get the resources and the money.

The democratic forces were proving opportunistic and inept but who wants to go back to having nothing having tasted the donor funded perks of the eternal Zimbabwe crisis. The political circus of hangers on playing golf with their Western string pullers?

Knowing that a growing wave of doubters had seen that they were no match for the Zanu killers and looters… MDC leadership from 2005 put out feelers of ‘if you cant beat them join them’ to the Zanu mafia.
These nefarious deals culminating in things like the GNU, the Kariba Draft and other dodgy secret dealings that divided Zimbabwe economically and politically like a cake among the various elites. “We will not negotiate in public”. They cried.
So long as it was the ordinary people that suffered but the -money men- got paid the elites could wage their phoney war for power for eternity.

The ‘new priority’ cling to political power make sure the people would never to be priority beneficiaries of the Zimbabwean economy.

PRIORITY…

Move time on from the heady days of 1999 and we see an MDC changing the liberation goal posts.
Having been backed by Western owners MDC chefs ‘priority’ is returning the profits of that investment to their foreign handlers.

The ECONOMY is touted as a ‘success’ while the looters remain and new corporate vultures appear. A ‘success’ and yet the finance minister talks of “85% of his country’s citizens… drowning in poverty”.

Morgan unable to complete that original task of freeing the country from top to bottom indulges in self deception, lies and make believe. Advisors cheerleading the pretence with unwarrented over optimism.

SHIFTED TWISTED PRIORITIES…

In the full light of day its become apparent that for the new party elites ‘the struggle’ is about 4X4s, Mercs, perks, political survival, status and more perks. Zimbabwe has a new army of Vasco Da Gamas in its new ‘dear leader’ and others to the tune of US$28 million worth of travel floating on the sea of 85% poverty.

GNU LAW = GUN LAW = NO RULE OF LAW

revolution...is the solution.

When killers and liars are rewarded by the fearful

GNU = hypocrisy...the sad fact that nothing good comes from lies.

Coup plotters were rewarded through the false opposition provided by MDC leadership.
(One cant address a problem looking at Zimbabwe through the lens of fear, greed, and using 'public service' as a means to gain from being foreign puppets. Political rallies to ego boost for 'deadwood'... isnt involving people in the process of their own liberation)

Imagine its called the Movement for Democratic Change...it ends up sanitizing and legtimizing dictatorship and tyranny.

How bad a tyranny? ...During the March-June 2008 violence killers removed the eyes, ears or tounges from those they had killed as a means to getting 'paid per head'.

Those that organized the murders are part of the GNU.

As someone wrote...'Zimbabwe - at most levels has since abandoned the will of the people and is largley motivated by personal interests at many levels.'

That attitude will need a fundamental rethink from all of us if people want to live in a decent country.

As Thomas Jefferson once said of the USA, "if we can’t be the 'home of the brave', we won’t be the 'land of the free' for long". Cowards dont overturn tyranny Zimbabweans shouldnt think that our freedoms don’t need defending.

GNU = NO GOVERNMENT and NO UNITY

GNU = coup d' etat

GNU= COUP D' ETAT

FROM WIKIPEDIA ......A coup d’état (pronounced /kuːdeɪˈtɑː/ AHD: [ko͞o"dā tä]), often simply called a coup, is the sudden unconstitutional overthrow of a government by a (typically small) part of the state establishment – usually the military – to replace the branch of the stricken government, either with another civil government or with a military government..............................The coup d’état succeeds if its opponents fail to thwart the usurpers, allowing them to consolidate their positions, obtain the surrender of the overthrown government or acquiescence of the populace and the surviving armed forces, and thus claim legitimacy.........
Between March 29 -June 27 2008 Zanu waged an armed coup d' etat and overthrew the rightful government. The displaced government then agreed that the coup plotter in chief was in charge and the people would remain hostages to the coercive armed power of the coup plotters.

ANTI CORRUPTION ~ Veritas vincit (truth conquers)

Superstition and corruption ...10 years of MDC /ZANU ‘Inongova njake-njake’ (It’s every man for himself).


THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.
Thomas Paine 1776.



Corruption impacts on growth

SO NOW WHAT MUST MEN AND WOMEN OF GOOD CONSCIENCE DO?

The reason for the creation of this site was so men and women who saw the need for genuine liberation in Zimbabwe could present ideas... network and channel their energies into productive endevours either military or business...STRAIGHT REALITY HERE NO SANITIZED B/S.

The tyranny has got to go Zimbabweans need to get up and get working to get our country back...Too many pseudo intellectual analyzers...pacifists.. blog posers and political pimps and hoes in our midst when real revolutionaries are who we need.

The reality is out there folks ...

The posting has been slow of late but that was more to do with contributors undergoing training...nothing to do with forgetting about you guys... we say we are REAL we must walk all our talk....

In answer to the question 'why do many talented Zimbabweans not get involved?' The answer remains they see no leadership and thus reduce Zimbabwe to an issue of circumstance outside of their input or control.

The wrong switching of this issue from a governance platform to one of economics opened the flood gates to population flight instead of consideration and focus on national worth and rights.

Zimbabweans are not homogenous or idealouges regardless of expressions of concern... individual pragmatism and the politics of the belly rules... the global identity of the 'consumer' has made people re evaluate their political position in relation to their financial need and quality of life. The world has changed and the old style politics presently offered as hero worship is irrelevant to the new global existence. MDC take orders from outsiders and never created a resistance or built safety nets or economic structures at any grass roots level.

Dialouge was conducted with corporate interests when most of the rest of the Zimbabwean population as kept in the dark regarding these months of wasted talks that have lead to nowhere.
The coming democratic 'paradise' is like most systems, there for the new elite, the MDC shefs and their corporate masters.

Beyond the branch system that many have used to exploit fellow asylum seekers and entrench a political kingdom for themselves under a guise of the ONLY force there to remove Mugabe THEY HAVE NOTHING.
They gained much milage out of that SOLE AND ONLY PARTY lie and talented people were excluded as no structures existed within MDC to harness their vision for a new Zimbabwe or talents, as MDC has a strict agenda to follow from its outside backers.

Diasporan Zimbabweans already work or live in stable second countries or have nothing to return to in Zimbabwe so why should they care if the material needs of food clothing shelter and security are not being met in Zimbabwe...as for Zanu PF followers they are entrenched in the lowest forms of national kleptomania that corrupts all who partake in their criminal network.

People will enter a secure foundation where they SEE security and that their skills and talents can be rewarded and appreciated but in any population only a tiny percentage are the founding thought leadership in terms of initial vision and foundation building everyone else wants to walk into the office and be shown their place.

The trouble is that so long as MDC command the monopoly of resources due who their puppet strings are attached to..'talented' Zimbabweans (the nation)will like all others be shunted to a corners as bystanders in a struggle between THE STATE (the owners fronted by MDC) and THE GOVERNMENT (the errant administrators the once favoured Zanu PF)

Alternatives and plans have existed for ages but without appropriate material support where can these plans go?

As to dealing effectively with the bad people ...As Orwell stated regarding the safe guarding of all freedoms.
"We Sleep Safe In Our Beds because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those that would do us harm."

Andrisson Manyere and Jestina Mukoko and others murdered and brutilized and abducted cant say that about MDC as no such policy exists in that party.

HONDO...

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

DEAL or No DEAL??????????????

People and nation first...before elite political compacts.

Zimbabwe : Saturn eats his young : ~ Part 1

Some regulars may have been wondering ...’WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON WITH THE SITE?????????’. Visitors wont know the feeling of loss quite so badly but since the last post on 28 July much has gone on as much as its all stayed the same.
For a while the blog posts were more graphic in nature as they say a picture says a thousand words, but not every sentiment can be expressed by a visual image.

Anyway because of the events back in Zim. The pretence of power sharing talks that some wanted to turn into power transfer talks which resulted in there being no talks. People took their foot off the gas peddle and their eye off the ball.

Not to say attention was not being paid to issues or events more that you gotta give people time to know when a dead end is a dead end and in relation to the struggle in Zimbabwe people won’t begin any serious fight back until they realise the whole nature of the feudalist OPFOR and neo-liberal OPPOSITION game being played at their expense.

Anyway this particular piece is about people power...More importantly about the power that folks must claim from politicians and big business and all the other opportunist vultures waiting in the wings to pluck at the rich pickings of a post liberation Zimbabwe.
The word here is AGENCY...the ability of people to break out of the status quo 'mindless' field and think and do for self.

It is a well known fact that most of Africa must break the patronage system and the dependency culture; the idea of creating a culture of small business owners fails to materialise within most minds short of as an extension of the eternal cycle of more charity and dependency.

In the first 10 years of the struggle against dictatorship there has been an economic meltdown caused by both OPFOR corruption but also by politically inspired economic sanction like ZDERA. The issue here being one raised before... that a country may fail within a period of time but why did the national coherence of Zimbabweans turn towards rank opportunism and detachment so quickly. In the first 6 months of 2008 starvation is a grave concern affecting many within the country, the OPFOR dismissed many NGOs that were feeding people and this was seen as the issue. Yet how human is it to let yourself starve to death waiting for help that may never come, merely because that was the assumed and constant direction of help yesterday?
On the surface the problem is known and the answer is aid...but aid creates dependency so can a remedy with a worse side efffect really be a cure? Independence is more than aid alone.

I recommend that something has taken place that has changed the fundamental character of our culture into something new, something worse. I would argue that at a certain level Zimbabweans in the main are business minded. In fact, the death of the ‘formal sector’ and its rapid conversion into an informal economy of ‘cash barons’, ‘get rich quick’ middle men and opportunistic short termist wheeler dealers should be required study for every business student.

the Zimbabwe insurgency argues that this rapid switch from citizen to chaotic character willing to feed upon itself outlines the reasons for the greatest failing and gives a plan which, if followed, will significantly decrease the probability of faltering in the future.The crux of this argument is that each person literally divorced themselves from responsibility when what was needed was to think through every operation and ultimately set themselves and their environment up the way franchises do. Can you use the field you plough for food as your toilet? Of course not, yet over the past decades we have learnt that the only method of survival is one where people destroy the very environment that is meant to sustain them culminating in an externalisation process.

A society thrives through the correct use and interpretation of just on word – ORGANISATION.
Can we really find comfort if we have yet to come to terms with the nature of our own insecurity and the levels of destructiveness we are willing to create or accept in the pursuit of a state of survival we claim is living?

The Scramble for Zimbabwe: Stage 3 ... Opposing the modern day 'Matrix'

tyranny has many disguises, but only one mind.
WHEREVER THERE IS OPPRESSION...

there will be... resistance

The Scramble for Zimbabwe : Stage 2 ...The Super One Party State

'Animal Farm'

by George Orwell

http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/books/animalfarm.htmhttp://

'The Scramble for Zimbabwe' : NEGOTIATIONS- NO NEGOTIATIONS

"Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today”

~Ghandi~

"In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.”

~Denis Diderot~

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murder is less to fear."

~Cicero~

Zimbabweans' Lives are in the African Union Hands *MDC

NO SOLUTION for Zimbabwe will be found in the AU Dictators Club 2008, Or Western neo-liberal hypocrisy...
THOSE IN GLASS HOUSES CANNOT ever THROW STONES.