Flim flam artists are always trying to seperate a fool from his money.
Case one, I ran with with this story [1] on 28 October [2], but it bears repeating:
When Nomatter Tagarira, a spirit medium, claimed that she could conjure refined diesel out of a rock by striking it with her staff, ministers in Robert Mugabe’s Government believed that they might have found the solution to Zimbabwe’s perennial fuel shortage.
After witnessing her apparently miraculous gift they gave her five billion Zimbabwean dollars in cash (worth £1.7 million at the start of the year but now worth one seven-hundredth of that) in return for the fuel. Ms Tagarira was also given a farm, said to have been seized from its white owner during Mr Mugabe’s lawless land grab, as well as food and services that included a round-the-clock armed guard on the rock in the district of Chinhoyi 60 miles (100km) from Harare, the capital.
Case two, and with this one [3] on Monday, December 24 [4]:
[5]MANCHESTER, N.H. – Hillary Clinton predicted Saturday that just electing her President will cut the price of oil.
When the world hears her commitment at her inauguration about ending American dependence on foreign fuel, Clinton says, oil-pumping countries will lower prices to stifle America’s incentive to develop alternative energy.
“I predict to you, the oil-producing countries will drop the price of oil,” Clinton said, speaking at the Manchester YWCA. “They will once again assume, once the cost pressure is off, Americans and our political process will recede.”
So question, who, Tagarira or Mrs. Clinton, is the biggest, liar, fraud, charlatan? Neither claim was ever remotely credible or plausible. Yet Robert Mugabe’s was naive enough to fall, somewhat, for Targara’s scheme. Will the voters of Iowa be as naive as Mugabe and fall for Mrs. Clinton’s scam?