TheDude wrote:What, no tip?
vox_mundi wrote:Zimbabwe- the poster child of collapse
From Water shortages force Zimbabwe parliament closure
"A lot of barter takes place. Money is not used as much or if it is, it's all foreign exchange." Supermarkets in Harare are accepting only US dollars and South African rands, leaving those Zimbabweans without access to foreign currency in dire straits.
Zimbabwe's parliament has been forced to close because it has run out of cash and water, the opposition claimed today, as the country's economic crisis causes a virtual shutdown of public life.
Hotels in Harare have been refusing to accept MPs because the parliament has no money to pay their expenses or allowances.
It has also gone days without water. Speaking to the independent news agency Zim Online, Innocent Gonese, chief whip of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, said: "Parliament has no money to pay for the MPs' allowances and accommodation. That is why parliament had to adjourn to December 16. There was also no water at the building."
On Tuesday the high court was forced to close because of water shortages. Many schools and hospitals are also shut.
efarmer wrote:"Taste the sizzling fury of fajita skillet death you marauding zombie goon!"
As Robert Mugabe's grip on power has slipped, the thugs who carried out preelection terror in his name find themselves in the cross hairs of those they tormented.
The "green bomber" dropped into Club M5 the other day to get a bottle of Lion beer to go, but he wasn't fast enough. Right away he was surrounded by five members of the opposition, people he used to beat up, in a township bar where he used to be king.
"They just surrounded me. They started accusing me of this and that. They just wanted revenge. They said: 'Now we got you alone. You used to trouble us during your heyday. Now it's our day.' "
He ran, chased by the drunken group.
The green bombers were the ruling party's shock troops, thugs who killed and terrorized in the name of President Robert Mugabe before elections this year. Just a few months ago, the thought of challenging one of them was unthinkable in Harare's townships, stagnant and hopeless places where young men hung around sharing cheap beer in plastic bottles and waiting for the "Old Man" to die.
But after Mugabe was forced into a power-sharing deal with the opposition in September, there was a quickening: People were impatient, exuberant, hopeful and fearful of betrayal all at once. Now that the deal has collapsed, the frustration in the capital's townships is palpable, and the specter of spiraling violence looms over their shabby streets.
People want justice -- and without it, some warn darkly, they'll take matters into their own hands.
RedStateGreen wrote:It's just a sad slide of a formerly decent country with an incompetent psycho at the helm.
PenultimateManStanding wrote:Yemen is next it looks like. Maybe there will be pirates all over the place before long. Bye bye shipping.
Jotapay wrote:I don't think the pirates will have a serious effect on much. Three ships really isn't going to make much of a dent. It isn't that expensive to put some serious hardware and a few trained personnel on these ships to repel the poorly equipped and trained pirates.PenultimateManStanding wrote:Yemen is next it looks like. Maybe there will be pirates all over the place before long. Bye bye shipping.
Jotapay wrote:I don't think the pirates will have a serious effect on much. Three ships really isn't going to make much of a dent.PenultimateManStanding wrote:Yemen is next it looks like. Maybe there will be pirates all over the place before long. Bye bye shipping.
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