1. Posted on 29 March, 2011

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    Reblogged from inspiringaction

    “A billboard for ‘The Zimbabwean Newspaper’ made entirely of worthless Zimbabwean bank notes. What more proof do you need of a country’s total economic collapse than being able to paste trillions and trillions and trillions of dollar notes onto a billboard and it is still cheaper than if you had used paper?” Tomorrow: journalist Peter Godwin, who grew up in Zimbabwe. His book The Fear is about Robert Mugabe’s torture campaign to intimidate those who would vote against him. 

    “A billboard for ‘The Zimbabwean Newspaper’ made entirely of worthless Zimbabwean bank notes. What more proof do you need of a country’s total economic collapse than being able to paste trillions and trillions and trillions of dollar notes onto a billboard and it is still cheaper than if you had used paper?”

    Tomorrow: journalist Peter Godwin, who grew up in Zimbabwe. His book The Fear is about Robert Mugabe’s torture campaign to intimidate those who would vote against him.