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Troops crush an opposition event while the CPDM feasts on tax money

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Frederick Ambe Reading all the analyses and comments on thirty years and the voilent repression in Douala. One thing is sure. The temperature is rising. Thanks, friends for sharing these stories. They convince fence-sitters that those in power today are truly sons of Satan and it is our holy duty to say NO. It is said in French and I paraphrase that 'you cannot sell the skin of the bear until you have killed it' but I think these Prefects, etc. will need some special treatment one day in this country. A very special pardon maybe. The crimes they have committed are unspeakable. They who should be more reasonable than halfbook soldiers, gendarmes and policemen... is there a special diet in ENAM, EMIA, etc, a special brain poison? Common, man, don't these guys read history?! Or do they soon forget the guillotines and Intendants in the name of 'Commandement' , a misconception that makes them see their fellow citizens as inferior beings. Do they ev...
Meditating: How on this sad morning years ago calamity befell a nation. How a manmade night, a permanent eclipse was cast on the commonweal. How a floating island levitated from the S.E. Forests and pinioned over the state. How an era of unprecedented corruption and tribalism was ushered in by the 'peaceful revolution'. How the death warrant of progress, employment and happiness was signed. Oh Lord, to you I recourse! If a people get the government they deserve How have we deserved this who were born Thirty years ago and less? Certainly God is is with us in knowing No one ever deserved to rot under zombie king Eager to portray the semblance of life Than to lead his nation in the strive for wellbeing! I ponder over these and wonder: How is this nightmare going to end? Shall we, lambs of no living God But of a mere mortal, die on the Calvary Of vain labours and on our off-shoot Bequeath a harvest of another Faure or Ali? Or shall we at last see difference i...
See original article and previous comments. To my TP colleague: a comment on complaints about low pricing and outsourcing to cheap destinations. A poster was very angry that Greek-English translations got outsourced to a very low paying and low time budget destination. Another further accused people doing this to be settling for Google Translate and later revision by an overzealous revisor. Well, someone will say that if a combination of Google Translate and eager revisor results in a usable translation what the hell? However, this combination usually fails. Unless the agencies spend less on the translator just to have the revisor re-translate. It will be a loss for the agency paying twice for the same job. If they continue to do it (which they surely do to warrant our complaints), it takes no magic to see they could be satisfied. The truth is that there are many young and hungry trainees out there, more eager to acquire experience than make money for now. If they ac...