Greetings my friends, first I will like you to know that when ever any nation show the smallest sign of collapse, merchants of deaths will do everything in their power to fuel it, more importantly to satisfy their personal greed. The merchants of death may be nations looking to exploit natural resources of another nation, or black market arm dealers, natural troublemakers, blood thirsty peasant, frustrated citizens looking to vent their anger on something or someone else etc.

We live in the 21st century, smarter and more educated than any generation that was in existence before us, don't let anyone use you to pursue their own interests. "Because at the end, you will painfully realize you've been used" and you can't do sh1t about it.

A word of advice, it is better to live in a world were their is hope than to live in a world were hoping is a torture to your conscious and subconscious being.

Obidike jr.

Culled from counterpunch dot org and theguardian dot com

The real reason the Us wanted Gaddafi gone.

For those who feel the tension surrounding Nigeria now, read patiently and understand why you should never move towards destroying your motherland no matter what anyone tells you.


"it was better under Gaddafi,” says the young Libyan
student, studying the froth bubbling over the top of his
cappuccino in a cafe in Tunis as he contemplates the
revolution that swept Muammar Gaddafi from power four
years ago. “I never thought to say this before, I hated him,
but things were better then. At least we had security.”

If I had that time again, I would not join [the rebels],” he
says. Like many of his former comrades, he has left the
country, but won’t give his name, fearing retribution against
his family back home.
“In the past, we would have a party for the anniversary of
the revolution, but not this time,” says Ashraf Abdul-Wahab,
a journalist. “A lot of people tell you it was better under
Gaddafi, that the revolution was a mistake. What they mean
is, things are worse now than they were then.”

When the U.S. invaded Iraq riding a pack of lies and
monstrous manipulation, the entire U.S. elite, including
major news services, academics, and politicians from both
parties, lined up to cheerlead and off they went to war. It
was one of the most shameful chapters in the long history
of shameful acts of U.S. imperial foreign policy.
But it actually didn’t take too long for dissenting voices to
come out of the woodwork. The lies were exposed, the liars
identified, the manipulation denounced. The war went ion
but at least we knew the lies.


Watching the sorry media spectacle of the tragic farce
unfolding in Libya, one has to wonder if anyone will ever
expose the lies and hubris that have characterized the
coverage of this faux Arab spring.


To be sure, as more journalists, aid workers and human
rights representatives arrive in the country the more some
of the obvious facts trickle out. The “freedom fighters” —
more like soccer hooligans with guns — have looted dozens
of arms depots of the Libyan military. According to Peter
Bouckaert of Human Rights Watch, “Every time a city falls,
they end up being looted. . . Every facility we go to where
there were surface-to-air missiles, they’re gone.”
Just what will these lovers of democracy do with these
weapons? The U.S. and E.U. might just start to worry that
no matter who buys them on the black market, they will
eventually end up in the hands of al Qaeda or other militant
groups. As NATO knows full well, some of the so-called
rebels have ties to al Qaeda. Or perhaps the missiles will
end up in the hands of the Taliban where they will be used to
shoot down U.S. helicopters. Talk about blowback. Too bad
the Americans have never quite grasped the meaning of
irony.


The photos of the revolutionaries give any thoughtful
observer pause. Almost every photo of the victorious rebels
show aggressive, undisciplined, young men armed to the
teeth holding their guns high in the air (often firing
randomly). Boys with their (lethal) toys.


And while the Western media repeatedly imply that the
Nation Transitional Council is in control of these dangerous
gangs the truth lies elsewhere. Several rebel groups have
denounced the NTC and said they don’t recognize its
authority. So not only does the council not represent
anyone, it doesn’t even control its own “army.” The NTC is
little more than a group of greedy opportunists salivating at
the thought of getting its hands on the billions in state funds
that NATO is now handing over to them. Only with the
constant disciplinary efforts of its NATO handlers does the
council manage to maintain a semblance of decorum and
credibility.


In other situations where dictators were deposed the seizing
of their assets was justified – because they were in
personal bank accounts. But the tens of billions illegally
seized by Western countries was money belonging to the
Libyan state and its national bank. That no one has
commented on the casual elimination of sovereignty,
someone should. NATO has effectively destroyed the Libyan
government — not just Gaddafi’s regime. Tens of thousands
of foreign workers have left Libya, many of whom were
critical to the running of the country. Rebels have been
accused of randomly executing blacks, many of them
students and workers. Who will fill their critical roles now?
But none of this bothers the Canadian political elite and its
intellectual hired guns.


One of the most shameful examples
is Lloyd Axworthy, the “highly respected” former foreign
affairs minister under Jean Chretien. He penned an op-ed
for the Globe and Mail in which he waxed on romantically
about how the NATO bombing of Libya is a huge advance
for the principle of Responsibility to Protect – a UN principle
promoted by Axworthy in in 1999-2000.
According to Axworthy, “We are seriously engaged in
a
resetting of the international order toward a more humane,
just world.” I predict that instead NATO’s grotesque
manipulation of the UN mandate to impose a “no fly” zone
to protect “civilians” (a violation Axworthy doesn’t even
mention) will in fact do more damage to the responsibility to
protect principle than any similar action to date. It will
tarnish the UN, too, which has allowed its mandate to be
used for imperial gain. The rush by France, Britain and Italy
in particular, to get their hands on Libyan oil will soon be too
obvious to cover up. The revolutionaries are no doubt busy
signing deals handing over that previously nationalized
resource to the neo-colonialists who put them in power —
robbing the real civilians of their birthright.


We should ask who will take the “responsibility to protect”
Libyans from this new gang? Who will protect the people of
Libya so that they continue to enjoy a literacy rate above 90
per cent, the lowest infant mortality rate and highest life
expectancy of all of Africa, free medical care and education
and the highest Human Development Index of any country
on the continent?


Do the boys firing their guns in the air even have a clue that
their living standards — subsidized by nationalized oil —
were among the highest in Africa? Who will they blame
when medical care disappears and their kids have to pay to
go to school? Western, free-market democracy will come to
Libya at a very high price when designed and delivered by
the neo-colonial powers.


Why does virtually no one in the mainstream Canadian
media even mention the fact that Libya was the biggest
obstacle to the continued super-exploitation of Africa and its
vast resources. This is, after all, the principle reason for
NATO’s determination to turn a ‘no fly zone” into regime
change. On a whole number of fronts, Libya was using its
oil wealth to gradually close the doors to the International
Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the hegemony of the
U.S. dollar in the economic domination of Africa.


Africa’s role as a giant pool of cheap resources was being
threatened just as the U.S. and E.U. faced economic
catastrophe because of the failure of their own neo-liberal
policies. Gaddafi’s determination to eliminate Africa’s
dependence on Western financial institutions was one of the
most serious threats faced by global capitalism. Gaddafi
was not only in the process of creating the African
Investment Bank (providing interest-free loans to African
nations) and the African Monetary Fund (to be centred in
Cameroon) and eliminating the role of the IMF. It was also in
the planning stages of creating a new, gold-backed African
currency that would seriously weaken the U.S. by
undermining the dollar.


It is almost certain that in return for putting the new bunch
in power, and freeing up the billions in state funds, NATO
will demand these new institutions be smothered in their
cribs. Gaddafi was also instrumental in killing AFRICOM, a
new U.S. military command and control base intended to
add military intimidation to American economic domination.
Look for that initiative to be revived.


It’s easy to be gratified getting rid of a brutal dictator. But
when will we learn that waging war has enormous, long-
lasting consequences? Already, the head of the new
“government” is calling for legislation based on Sharia law
– reversing 42 years of secularism in Libya. Western-style
democracy is an unlikely outcome in a country consisting of
many different and hostile tribes – unified only by Gaddafi’s
iron fist and socialist policies which distributed wealth
equally amongst them.


So if we are going to feel triumphant – Prime Minister
Stephen Harper boasted about Canada “punching above our
weight” – let’s be clear what we have accomplished. We
got rid of one moderately nasty dictator. But we have
eliminated a government which distributed its oil wealth
more equally than any other Arab state, will impose on
Libya a new market imperative, likely eliminating most
social programs and making Libya less equal, may well end
up with a government based on Islamic law (if it doesn’t fly
apart in tribal warfare) and have destroyed Africa’s best
hope for independent development.


How shall we celebrate?

I always shake my head when people say Qadaffi is a bad person, a tyrant and all sort of names. it's what the western world want us to believe. he's the best thing that has ever happened to those fools. they are saying some tribes are marginalized, he's not fair enough towards aome people.
Now that's he's gone, nobody is enjoying anything, Libya is in total chaos because those that helped in toppling his administration are just interested in thier natural resources, they don't give a rat's as$ about the citizens. As far as the leader is thier puppet, that's the only thing that matters.
most of the Arabian/middle eastern countries are not used to democracy, they are used to a sytem like monarchy and it's been working for them for ages until recently when thier citizens start copying and listening to some outside forces without filtering the information they recieve...


I hope we Nigerians learn from the ordeals of countries like libya and Egypt. .

civil wars, terrorism and other vices are bound to happen in any failed state/democracy. ..

That is the more reason you should tell your bubu to calm down so he and his family won't end like the ghadaffis

https://www.nairaland.com/2842778/insulting-judiciary-femi-fani-kayode-writes


Woe unto those that tremble before men of power and that worship false gods. Destruction and perdition awaits those who bow before Baal, who exalt the servants of Belial, who kiss the ring of the Baphomet, who say ”Buhari is God” and who crawl at the feet of the Lord of the Flies.

For example you have no right to tell the courts how to administer justice and who and who not to grant bail. Again you have no business to tell the legislature which laws to pass and how to run their affairs.

Again you have no right and neither do you have the power to pronounce any Nigerian citizen guilty of any crime unless and until a duly constituted court of law has done so. You cannot be the prosecutor, judge and jury in any criminal proceeding and this is especially so when you initiated those proceedings and you are the accuser.
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To attempt to do so is not only unacceptable and irresponsible but it is also heartless and unkind. The fact that most of our senior and respected lawyers have refused to tell you this simply because they are scared of you or because they are looking for patronage from your government does not mean that what you are doing is lawful or acceptable. What you are doing is morally and legally reprehensible and it is unacceptable in any democratic and civilized society.
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You have no right to attempt to cower or intimidate the fourth estate of the realm, which is the media, or attempt to pervert and corrupt the Nigerian public with daily doses of lies, falsehood, deceit and propaganda which is being duly and dutifully administered by your Minister of Information and your numerous media aides.
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Mr. President I wish to remind you that it is an incontrovertible fact that in just seven months your government has succeeded in marginalizing the Igbo more than any other Federal Government in living memory and certainly since the civil war.

This is a record that you ought not to be proud of. What the Igbo want is fairness, equal rights, equal representation, equity and respect. They also believe that they have the right to determine their own future and make their own choices.

Mr. President I do not believe that this Is this too much for them to ask given the fact that they have contributed, perhaps more than most, to national development and integration in the last forty five years?

It is not too much to ask given the fact that no less than three million of their people, including one million innocent children, were slaughtered during our civil war in the name of keeping Nigeria one?

I have no doubt that you will remember this very well Mr. President given the fact that you were one of those that prosecuted that war and fought in it.

You will also remember the brutal mass murder and the war crimes and crimes against humanity that were perpetrated against the unarmed and defenseless Igbo civilian population of Asaba in 1968 when over one thousand of them were rounded up, taken to the town square and shot to death for no just cause.

The soldiers that carried out that unspeakable act of cowardice, brutality and barbarity were under the command of your professional colleague, the late Head of State, General Murtala Mohammed. Mr. President that was a dark, shameful and ignoble chapter in our history which still cries out for justice and reparations.

Needless to say the pain of such horrendous events and numerous others that the Igbo have been subjected to by the Nigerian state and those that control it over the last fifty five years still haunts them.

The truth is that regardless of the obvious contempt that you have for them the Igbo will continue to insist on justice, fairness and on having their rights respected in our country.

If you refuse to address their numerous and legitimate grievances and you refuse to treat them with the understanding, sensitivity and compassion that they deserve, the agitation for self-determination, secession and the yearning for the establishment of a new nation called Biafra will wax stronger and stronger until it reaches dangerous and irresistible proportions.

That is what you are toying with Mr. President and if that were to happen be rest assured that the Yoruba would take a cue from it and so would the people of the Niger Delta. It would effectively signify the beginning of the balkanisation of Nigeria.
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Whether you and those with your world view like to hear it or not, that is the bitter truth.

and so the game continues and white man who's while the black loses

Cc: lalasticlala
I think this should make fp.