Friday, September 21, 2012

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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I have been wondering why someone who is working to make the society a cashless one, will be planning on introducing a higher currency denomination into the economic system. Now fading away the N20, N10,N5 to coins is another issue entirely, like i saw in a cartoonist column of a paper, will we now be forced to withdraw "coins" from ATM's and carry them home with
Right now, the Federal government of Nigeria is commissioning the Army Headquarter Dog centre...I don't understand this o...Is it dog centres we need now or what? please i want to know what you think about this new development

Monday, September 17, 2012

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
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
  In pictures: Marikana miners
  Legal implications for S African miners
  Can Zuma survive?
  Mine Shooting: Who is to blame?
  Unrest spreads
  Will Marikana resurrect Julius Malema?
  Has the post-Apartheid bubble burst?
  South Africans react to mining 'massacre
  S Africa miners complain of 'living hell'
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
As we all know, President Barack Obama hardly deserves the epithet “socialist” tossed at him by right-wing commentators and candidates. There is one prominent Socialist in Washington, DC, but Senator Bernie Sanders comes from a very small state and acts as a true voice in the wilderness. Looking abroad, French voters this year elected a Socialist, François Hollande, to head their government, the first time that has happened in two decades. Could this happen some time soon in
As we all know, President Barack Obama hardly deserves the epithet “socialist” tossed at him by right-wing commentators and candidates. There is one prominent Socialist in Washington, DC, but Senator Bernie Sanders comes from a very small state and acts as a true voice in the wilderness. Looking abroad, French voters this year elected a Socialist, François Hollande, to head their government, the first time that has happened in two decades. Could this happen some time soon in