Ambassadors of Poverty

What kind of ambassador are you? don't tell me now, after you read this you can check yourself then tell me *winks*  Got this from a friend today.
 
Ambassadors of poverty are: The corrupt masters of the economy with their head abroad and anus at home, patriots in reverse order, determined merchants of loot who boost the economy of the colonial order to impoverish brothers and sisters at home. Ambassadors of poverty are the ''saviours'' of the people, office loafers in the guise of workers, barons of incompetence with kleptomaniac fingers and suckling filaments, position occupants and enemies of service, locked in corrosive war of corruption with their peoples' treasury and killing their future. Ambassadors of poverty are the dubious-sit-tight ''patriots'' frustrating the corporate will of their followers;the beleaguered, hungry and famished owners of the land. People , priced out of their conscience and power, incapacitated by their destitution, unable to withstand the temptation of crispy mint and food aroma. Ambassadors of poverty are the political elite in air conditioned chambers and exotic cars, with tearful stories of rip-off, tucked away from their impoverished constituencies, lying prostrate with death traps for roads, mud for water, candle for light, underneath trees for schools, rats for protein, fasting as food and alibi as governance. Ambassadors of poverty are the rancorous elite in battle of supremacy for the control of power, and their peoples' wealth mowing down their own with whiteman's machine, oiled by the prosperity of black patronage, counterpoised by deprivations as the corpses of their able bodied men, women and children lie unmourned in shallow graves, in their fallow farm lands long abandoned. Ambassadors of poverty are the able-bodied men on the streets without motive, without vision, without mission! Men fit for the farms but glued to the city hungry and desperate, constituting willing tools in the hands of political overlords for mission of vendetta against political foes in their fight for power. Ambassadors of poverty are those whose actions and in-actions reduce their peoples' expectations to nothingness! Those whose antecedents have lost the spark to inspire, while their people lie in surrender, having been defeated by poverty. Ambassadors of poverty are the round trippers, the elusive importers of unseen goods and services, sand inclusive..who trip the economy down by tricking form M for harvests of dollars as import, when their people see neither money nor food. Ambassadors of poverty are all of us whose in-actions steal our collective joy because of what we should do which we never do, as we bargain away our conscience in the market place to assuage our hunger and our masters' will. Refuse now to be an ambassador of poverty and a corrupt master of the economy!!!

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Police have dispersed striking miners at the Marikana mine in South Africa who tried to march despite a government-ordered clampdown to halt illegal protests. Monday’s development came as unions in South Africa began their national congress where the strike at the Lonmin PLC's platinum mine is expected to top the agenda. The miners were angry at a police crackdown on Saturday during which rubber bullets and tear gas were fired at a shantytown in Marikana, where officers killed 34 miners on August 16. On Sunday, police persuaded hundreds of strikers at another mine, run by the Anglo American company, to halt an illegal protest without violence. In Depth The presence of 1,000 soldiers brought into the "platinum belt", 100km northwest of Johannesburg, has escalated tensions over union rivalries and higher pay demands that have stopped work at one gold and six platinum mines. Al Jazeera's Haru Mutasa, reporting from the mine, said: "Police are playing a cat-and-mouse game with the striking miners. They have brought in reinforcements and encircled the entire settlement. "They went out on foot, cocked their guns, then got back in their vehicles and seemingly drove away. "The miners on the road here are defying government orders not to assemble and they are quite defiant now. They are saying that "if the police come back, there will be war". Meanwhile, at the gathering of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), the major talking point for delegates is the crisis that has gripped the country's mining sector for the past five weeks. The ongoing strikes are continuing to damage South Africa's economy and are especially critical to the mining sector. Tens of thousands of miners remain on strike, and many are critical of the close ties between the main labour unions and the ruling ANC party. Al Jazeera's Mike Hanna, reporting from the congress venue in Johannesburg, said the meeting was happening against a backdrop of the labour dispute which has created great ruptures and splits within the union movement. There has also ben great criticism of the union movement, COSATU and the ANC, he said "What we are seeing is questioning among the delegates of whether the ANC is going to shift its policy, or whether the delegates at this conference can bring pressure to bear on the government to alter its policy, or if this is not going to work and the trade union will have to split away from the ANC and the government itself". The striking miners have accused union leaders of being too close to politicians.

Source: Al Jazeera and agencies

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Source: Al Jazeera and agencies

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Angry protests spread over anti-Islam video

Sources from Al Jazeera  disclosed this not long ago... I mean what is happening in our today world? Is dialogue no more in the dictionary?  Demonstrations over movie trailer made in US and deemed insulting to Islam spread across Middle East and North Africa.

Angry demonstrations against an anti-Islam film made in the US have spread to several countries across the Middle East and North Africa. Clashes between police and demonstrators near the US embassy in Sanaa on Thursday killed four people, a security official said. "Four people were killed and 34 others were wounded in the clashes that lasted from morning until late in the evening" in the area around the US embassy in Sanaa, the official said. The protesters removed the embassy's sign on the outer wall and brought down the US flag and burned it, according to witnesses.Earlier on Thursday, a security official said that Yemeni police shot dead a protester in confrontations outside the embassy, shortly after ejecting crowds that briefly stormed the mission's compound. A number of diplomatic vehicles were torched as security forces used water cannons and warning shots in a bid to drive them out. In Egypt, 224 people were injured in protests, eight of whom needed to be transfered to hospital, the health ministry said. In Libya, where the US ambassador and three embassy staff were killed during protests in Benghazi on Tuesday, officials said they had made "four arrests" over the attack. In the Iranian capital, Tehran, up to 500 people protested over the issue chanting "Death to America!" and death to the movie's director, an AFP photographer at the scene said. The rally, near the Swiss embassy that handles US interests in the absence of US-Iran diplomatic ties, ended peacefully two hours later. US flags burned Meanwhile, Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi has condemned the film that has sparked an outcry in his country. "We Egyptians reject any kind of assault or insult against our prophet. I condemn and oppose all who... insult our prophet," Morsi, on an official visit to Brussels, said in remarks broadcast by Egyptian state television. President Morsi appealed for calm, saying Egyptians "reject any kind of assault" against Prophet Muhammad "[But] it is our duty to protect our guests and visitors from abroad... I call on everyone to take that into consideration, to not violate Egyptian law... to not assault embassies," he added. Egyptians have clashed with police outside US embassy in the capital, Cairo, for the third day. About 30 people have been injured, including more than 10 riot police in the overnight clashes, as the fallout from a film ridiculing Islam's prophet continued to rage on Thursday. Police have used tear gas to disperse the crowd, as interior ministry said at least 12 people have been arrested. American flags were also burned in Tunisia, outside the US embassy in the capital, Tunis. Police fired tear gas at demonstrators who shouted their opposition to the film, and chanted slogans against the US. A small crowd also burned an American flag in Gaza City where Hamas, the elected government there, has condemned the film. Despite the Egyptian government's call for calm, protesters chanted in the streets and fires burned. Innocence of Muslims, the film that mocked Prophet Muhammad, was allegedly produced in the US by a filmmaker with ties to Coptic Christian groups, and excerpted on YouTube with dubbing in Arabic. On Wednesday, about 200 demonstrators took part in protests in the Egyptian capital. They rallied into the night chanting "leave Egypt" but there was however no repeat of the previous day's events when angry crowds climbed the walls of the complex and tore down an American flag, which they replaced briefly with a black, Islamist flag. YouTube block Meanwhile, YouTube, the video website owned by Google Inc, has said it will not remove the film clip, but it has blocked access to it in those countries. Al Jazeera's Rosiland Jordan reports on US-Middle East relations following protests  The Afghan government has ordered an indefinite ban on YouTube to prevent access to the film deemed offensive to Muslims, officials said on Thursday. The US prosecutor-general said on Wednesday that four people were being questioned after Tuesday's events. Nine Coptic Egyptian-Americans were also put on an airport watch list. They are believed to have contributed to the production of the anti-Islam film that led to the embassy protest. The man behind the protests told Al Jazeera he just wanted to combat insults against Islam through legal and peaceful means. Wesam Abdel Wareth, the protest organiser, said his group was not happy that young people who joined their protest brought down the US flag. He also said there was no co-ordination with protesters in Libya, and he condemned the violence there. On Tuesday, Egypt's prestigious Al-Azhar mosque condemned a symbolic "trial" of the Prophet organised by a US group, including Terry Jones, a Christian pastor who triggered riots in Afghanistan in 2010 by threatening to burn the Quran. But it was not immediately clear whether the event sponsored by Jones also prompted the embassy events. Egypt 'neither enemy, nor ally' Meanwhile, US President Barack Obama has called the leaders of Egypt and Libya to discuss security co-operation following the violence in Cairo and Benghazi, the White House has said. Iraqi supporters of Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr burn Israeli and US flags in the Iraqi city of Kut [AFP] Obama urged Egypt to uphold its commitments to defend US diplomatic facilities and personnel and called on Libya to work with US authorities to bring those behind the deadly attack on the US consulate to justice. Morsi promised Egypt "would honour its obligation to ensure the safety of American personnel", the White House said. Obama told Morsi that while "he rejects efforts to denigrate Islam ... there is never any justification for violence against innocents". Whatever the cause, the events appeared to underscore how much the ground in the Middle East has shifted for Washington, which for decades had close ties with Arab dictators who could be counted on to crush dissent. Obama's administration in recent weeks had appeared to overcome some of its initial caution after the election of Morsi, offering his government desperately needed debt relief and backing for international loans. Egypt is neither an ally nor an enemy of the United States, Obama said on Wednesday. "I don't think that we would consider them an ally, but we don't consider them an enemy," Obama said in excerpts of an interview with Telemundo aired by MSNBC.

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