As if things couldn’t get any worse in Zimbabwe, the latest estimate is that the annual currency inflation rate could reach 24,136% by December [1]. This quote from the article reminds me of accounts of the hyperinflation in Weimar Germany: “This weekend bread prices rose again, to Zim$20,000 per loaf. At the beginning of the week, one loaf was selling for around $9,500.” The exchange rate to the US Dollar is now approaching Zim$65,000 to USD$1. I’ve said it before (and hopefully I won’t have to say it again): Comrade Mugabe and his band of fools must go!
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I noticed that a particularly nice HMMWV [2] is for sale on eBay [3].
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The recent revival of the CBS Jericho [4] television series [4] (following the much-publicized “nuts” fan protest campaign [5]), may spell for success for the The Sarah Connor Chronicles [6] series, planned by the Fox network for 2008. (There is also a Terminator 4 [7] movie in pre-production, slated for release in 2009.) Perhaps survivalist fiction is now carving a substantial niche in the mainstream America’s media appetite. This gives me hope that my Pulling Through [8] screenplay might get noticed by a producer. But I’m probably just dreaming.