Link

http://www.starpulse.com/news/Kevin_Blair/2012/01/09/beyonce_jayzs_security_kept_other_par

I don't normally comment about celebrity and how they live their life but this people have turned themselves to gods, is it not the same way she carried her baby other women carried their own? Just because they are rich does not make their own child more special than the other children.

Beyonce & Jay-Z's Security Kept Other Parents From Seeing Their Newborns At NYC Hospital

While Beyonce and Jay-Z were welcoming new daughter Blue Ivy into the world Saturday night, the couple's bodyguards were keeping other parents from seeing their own newborns at New York's Lenox Hill Hospital, according to a report in the Daily News.

Beyonce delivered her baby girl via a scheduled Caesarean section on the sixth floor of the building, where the NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) just happens to be located; and where Brooklyn resident Neil Coulon's newborn premature twin girls were being kept for observation. Coulon says he had to jump through hoops just to see his daughters because of the stars' security team.

"Three times they stopped me from entering or exiting the NICU and it happened once on Friday," Coulon tells the News, "Just because they wanted to use the hallway."

Coulon also explained to New York Post that when he did get a chance to see his girls, it wasn't on his own terms.

"They locked us into the NICU and would say, 'You can't come out to the hallway for the next 20 minutes. "When I finally was able to go back out, I went to the waiting room and they'd ushered my family downstairs."

A hospital spokesperson speaking on condition of anonymity says the high-profile couple - well-known for their privacy and who are rarely photographed together - spent $1.3 million to have the entire floor to themselves and were accompanied by an entourage of bodyguards.

She tells the Daily News, "Some people were upset. I heard a gentleman say he couldn't go upstairs to see his baby."

Although Beyonce gave birth on the sixth floor of the Hospital, she'll be recovering on the fourth floor in a rented out wing the couple reserved and renovated - including the addition of a bulletproof door - over the last few months leading up to the birth of baby Blue.

"Her room is bulletproof. It's custom-made," a hospital source confirmed to the Post.

The hospital does let patients reserve rooms or suites for their recovery after childbirth; but an insider says that the $1.3 million that Beyonce and Jay-Z (real name Shawn Carter) reportedly paid is exaggerated. Just how much did they spend then? Well, the hospital won't comment on that.

Despite a staff member confirming the complaints from visitors and patients, hospital spokeswoman Anne Silverman says she hasn't heard anything and that Coulon's complaint was "the first time" she heard about the commotion.

But all he wants is an apology for the added stress on him and his for their troubles.

"To have that circus roll into town and ruin our parade was unpleasant, All I want is an apology," he says.

This is very sad. We don't have standards and inspectors to make sure the standards are kept in Nigeria. People just erect anything anyhow. The cement they even use these has more sand than real cement, let it rain a couple of time the walls will start cracking. People losing their lives because of stupid things.

Nice one inspired motors, the message is timely.

I remember Fhemmy motors also had a video on this.

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I had also posted this video on that thread too

Sicherheit:

FUEL ECONOMY

Video shows how driving style can affect MPG and offers tips on how to improve fuel economy


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No matter where you drive, there are some simple things you can do now to increase your fuel economy:

First, check your tire pressure regularly. Just one psi under-inflated can reduce fuel economy by 3%.

Second, get the junk out of the trunk. Those golf clubs, mega-size toolkits and bags of traction salt are forcing your engine to work harder than it should.

Keep your car tuned up. A well-maintained car will run more efficiently.

And finally, commit to driving less often. Carpool to work or school, and consider walking or biking for short trips.

Getting the most economy out of your car just makes sense, and the rewards go way beyond mere dollars and cents. Driving smart is a decision that we all can live with. So, step off the gas, and take a stride towards efficient motoring!


Disclaimer - This video was not made by me, I found it on a State Public Service Website that provides free videos for download.

This whole saga baffles me seriously. I don't understand why the pastor will react that way to what she said. This is not the first time someone will call themselves a witch for Jesus. I can't count how many times I have heard people say things like Aje funfun, which mean white witch which many people believe are the good ones who help people.


My Aunty listens to a popular Christian song and the Lady sings about overcoming other witches because she is a white witch, a witch for Jesus. This kind of talk is very commonplace in Nigeria and except pastor Oyedepo wants to lie he can't say that is the first time he has heard it. I can bet everything that girl was only repeating what she heard one pastor say. Okay, let's even assume, calling yourself a white witch is not right, it is obvious the girl is barely literate and might not know, so the normal thing the Pastor should have done was to ask for explanation and if her explanation does not conform with his definition, he will then correct her. Why is a leader, a teacher and Shepard if it's not to make sure his flock learn? The only thing we have learnt is that the pastor is hot tempered. Let us forget all that talk that it is holy rage. The suicide bombers are also feeling Holy Rage too.

Also God, at least the God I serve does not need anyone on earth to fight is battle for him. He can do it on his own, He has been doing it for many years.

Outstrip:

You are wrong. There were at least 2 other females that were not just in disagreement but were totally insensitive. I will not say annonymouse was insensitive it was more,  I don't even know the word for it. When it comes to issues of someone in a powerless position being abused we would expect that Nigerian females will be more sympathetic and even champion the cause. It is bit frustrating to hear a female joke about r4pe

You have missed my point, he did not call out all the people who were insensitive, he singled out the women even though there were more insensitive men than women and they said worse things. As a guy, I find what the men on this thread said more offensive than anything the women have said, 

souldust:

it so unfortunate that many of the ladies in here are not being sympathetic with the poor boy.
some are even saying he he enjoyed it and he should keep quiet.
i am beginning to think that women are very selfish.
imagine for a moment that a lady is the one narrating this horrible experience. do you know how much outcry the men are going to cause among feminists had they said the lady should keep quiet?  



i really praise this fellow for coming out to talk about it. it takes much courage to do what he has done especially in a society where men are seen as unabusable. at least not by women.



pathetic!
unfortunately, the society has made us to think that way.
but the wrongness of an abuse is not a function of how we see the abuse but the psychological effect it leaves with the abused. i have a friend who was abused by his aunty (older cousin). today, the boy dey fear women like mad. it is affecting his whole social life!

Are you so drunk you can't read very well? Majority of the people who are not sympathetic to him are men while Majority of the people commending him for being brave to come out are women. You people always manage to find a way to blame women for everything. If you can't tell the difference between F and M, let us know so that we can help you before you go around embarrassing yourself.

it is well:

I'm beginning to think they are like the so called aunty.

emmatok:

God bless you.

Look at them, follow follow. You will think if at least one person can't read, another will be able to pick up the slack but omugos will follow join like headless chickens.


First Responder - Man

kokoA:

Liar! He enjoyed it jare

Kunbee:

Make we hear word

no1madman:

so fuckin what! u fuckin enjoyed it,didn't u?

MeGaStReEt:

wait for the so-called aunt to come and tell us how Ice Prince refused to let go of her, how he insisted on going for 6th round. this guy is a genius

MORN DEW:

so what' the big deal about that he should say something else

kizito96:

What has that got to do with him now.

This one even says men enjoy being raped

olajide_07:

Funny but its the truth SEX is over rated, as per his case he is just one in a million our experiences with "aunties" like he said are so many, "we guys dey see, but we no dey yan! Because we sometimes enjoy it and want more since its freely given so its not worth going public for guess its just another publicity thing with reference to his sexuality or other wise

It is a man's world, that means men can't be raped abi

olajide_07:

@soludust maybe you have or didn't experience it some of us did but what's the big deal about it like they say its a mans world so we are expected to enjoy it even when we don't sometimes, with regards your friend that's afraid of women he just doesnt have confidence in himself its not psychological its a confidence thing and a reason to want to practice homo-Sxualism, atleast your friend did say he was beaten to a pulp before his paths were pulled down so believe it or not for every 10 men standing or walking the streets in nigeria 1 has experienced this circumstance.

madjune:

Though i luv his music but i think in matters like this, he should keep his mouth shut or take a transatlantic flight to JERRY SPRINGER LIVE SHOW.

And this one that claims he is Christian

stagger:

Can someone tell this fellow that just because he is now superstar does not give him the right to assault us with such a distasteful story of his personal life.

We want his music, not his personal life story.

The only female that was didn't agree with him telling his story was anonymous6 and even then she was still sympathetic because she showed she was concerned about how people will perceive now.

lagerwhenindoubt:

There is no alternative to SHOPrite Ajah.

Imagine my utter shock/horror when i visited SHOPLeft (in Surulere) - Dear God!!!       it was filled with Alaba and Idumota traders and some mbgueke-feeling-funky igbo girls. I could not understand why people will insult SHOPRite by wearing bathroom slippers to a super-market like it was on their street. uncouth men literary shouting at the top of their voice on their GSM trying to locate their friends within the Mall.

For real:

They close shop at 10pm. as i was leaving i saw a small crowd gathering at the door trying to get in and one ankara and lace-wearing fat woman started pleading to get inside and buy 1 pack of chewing gums -WTF!@!

You are a sad person.
So person must wear their sunday best to go and buy Golden Morn in shoprite?
I pity your life because you don't know you are more bush than the people you are looking down on.

Why are mountain roads always winding up and never have a steep gradient?

A winding road puts less load on an engine, transmission, and cooling system of a vehicle , and allows more cars to successfully traverse it at a safe speed than a steep gradient. Additionally, it's safer to build because construction equipment plummeting down a hill while trying to make a steep road is never a good thing

Cars can't go "straight up" and roads that go straight up would tend to crumble to say nothing of how extraordinarily difficult (and expensive) it would be to construct such a road.

Lasinoh:

Moo moo!
Yes You can!
Especially if your so-called mountains DO NOT HAVE VALLEYS UNDERNEATH!
Abeg show us beta pictures. . .no break my glasses with this 'foggy mess'!

It is unfortunate that you are this dumb. Entry Level Physics will solve you lack of knowledge problem.  

Another picture for Mr. Straight road



That Calabar picture impressed me so much, I did know there can be roads in Nigeria.

Lasinoh:

No pun intended!


Why climb the same hill twice?
Did the road stop 'ascending'?

Who is dumb and dumber?
You of course for using 'ignorance to pose' on this thread!
I repeat. . . why climb the same hill twice?
Only in Calabar land I guess!
I may be dumb sha.

Answer: This photo tells us that Calabar people are DUMB AND DUMBER for being charged for the same road UP THE SAME HILL TWICE!!!!!
LWKMD!!!!!

I hope you are joking because if you are not, then you are more than dumb. How can they build straight roads on mountains?

This is an Arizona Highway


Abi they should demolish the mountains to make straight?
Ode Oshi.

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Okija juju, as far as me and other concerned Igbos are involved you are not IGBO,as so u r not eligible to run,hence your shameful disqualification!!
If you like speak Igbo from today till eternity you will never be accepted!!
This is one reason I frown at people who speak Igbo but are not Igbo. Its not good for our security!!
Okija, is a slowpoke from one of our enemies who using his little knowledge of the language and culture to break into our security code!!

Goddamn! You Igbos are paranoid!! Who did una like this? I say God punish that person! If you are shaking in your boot because people can speak your language, what should Yoruba people do with everybody and their dog speaking their language? It is that paranoia that runs deep in Igbo blood that makes Okija_Juju's point look senseless to you.
Ah, ko baje fun inferiority complex ati paranoia, see how they can turn grown men into irrational children.

okunoba:

@ Okija juju, you are ahead of your time, the socrates of Nairaland. You are way above this meaningless title. A special breed, you have a mind of your own, not just a sheep following the herd. I am sure you love Ndigbo more than  those that  follow the sheep(Ojuwku) and refuse to see the damage done to Ndigbo by his reckless adventurism.

Someone asked a question about what you would have done if you were the governor of the Eastern Region when Igbos were being killed, well I am sure you wouldn`t have gone to war knowing full well you were ill prepared for it. I think you would have used reason and not brute force to deal with the situation. Before the war thousands lost their lives, after it millions died. All for nothing. Southerners are still being killed today in the North and yet we have not decided to go to war because of it. Y did the Ikemba decide to sacrifice millions of lives just to save few thousands, it makes absolutely no sense except that it was just a power struggle between him and Gowan, but masked as a struggle for the great Igbo race.

As a student of history I know u can`t take on the World on your own, what made the Ikemba do it? The war was not just between Ndigbo and the North, no it was against Nigeria and the rest of the World pretty much. This is what we call arrogance of the highest order, thinking u can take on everybody. AU, UN, USA, RUSSIA, BRITAIN were all against the break up yet he continued with the misadventure. LIke u rightly said he should have made the ultimate sacrifice like the many brave souls who gave everything for Biafra. May their souls rest in perfect peace.

With a mind set like yours Okija and many others like u, the Igbo race would surely take their rightful place again as first among equals.

I salute your courage once again.
Igbo Kwenu

Seconded!!!
Obviously part of the job of the so called Eze of Nairaland is not to bridge the gap between the Igbo race and other tribes, it is to enlarge that gap.

@ Okija_Juju
The day people like PointB and all other hypocrites/sycophants agree with what you do or say is the day you should hang your hat and go jump off a bridge because it means you have lost your way.

Bros, a beg don't think because you didn't get a lot of votes, you are not liked, the kind of people who understand and support your philosophy don't waste time on such silliness like this and they respect you too much to insult you. They will rather see you run for a REAL position with REAL powers to make REAL changes and not be a deaf, dumb and crippled king of the e-sandbox.

You will continue to be light years ahead your peers.

Funkymallam:

Silva pls spill the bean. . .

No be the same Lokoja dem stop ACN members from entering Abuja to support Tinubu? I think it is obvious now that GEJ is using Lokoja as the security gate to keep enemies away.

Senate to deliberate on ACN supporters’ arrest

Written by Oluwole Josiah, Abuja

The Senate on Thursday voted to consider a motion on the arrest and breach of the fundamental rights of supporters of the Action Congress of Nigeria barred from entering Abuja by the police on Wednesday.

Members of the Osun State chapter of the ACN were arrested on their way to Abuja on Tuesday and detained till Wednesday by the police in Kogi State.

Senator Sola Adeyeye from Osun State rose on Order 42 of the Standing Rules of the Senate relating to matters of urgent national importance, urging the Senate to consider at another plenary the barring of ACN supportersfrom coming into Abuja.

He said the supporters were on their way to Abuja given that they had the right to do so as guaranteed by the constitution, but were not allowed free movement into the city of Abuja.

After presenting his case, senators, through a voice vote, were unanimous in their decision to take the motion on Tuesday.

The supporters were said to be on their way to Abuja to attend the trial of the former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu, at the Code of Conduct Tribunal.

The Osun State Vice-Chairman of the party, Chief Ishola Oyewumi, in Lokoja on Thursday, said their ordeal started at about 6:41pm on Tuesday when the Osun Government coaster bus in which they were travelling was accosted by policemen at Jamata village, near the River Niger Bridge.

He said the policemen almost 10 in number immediately ordered all the occupants of the bus to disembark for identification and thorough checking.

He said, “All of us promptly complied but nothing incriminating was found in the bus with number plate OSGH 192.”

He said they were surprised when the police insisted that they could not proceed on their trip, ordering them to go back to Osun.

The party leader said before they could offer further explanation, the police ordered everybody back into the bus and directed the driver to return them to their take-off point.

He said the policemen escorted the bus to a point at Kabba junction before turning back.

Oyewumi said they decided to turn back and continue with the journey only for them to run into the same policemen at Jamata village.

He said the policemen were infuriated by that action and immediately arrested them.

Among those detained were the state auditor of the party, Mrs. Funke Ogundele, Welfare Officer, Mr. John Olayemi and the state ACN youth leader, Mr Rasheed Adeniji

Others are Assistant secretary, Mr. Omolaoye Akintola, Assistant Public Relations Officer, Mr. Samson Oyebode, Assistant Financial Secretary, Mr. Bakare Idera, among others.

Oyeumi said he and his colleagues and were made to sleep in the open without food and water until about 2pm on Wednesday when they were released to the Kogi Chairman of the party, Alhaji Haddy Ametuo.

Why is it that GEJ is always inaugurating something? If he is not cutting ribbon for one center, he is opening envelop for a theater. It looks as if he is just inauguration president. I'm sure if Boko Haram invite to come and launch their first terrorist school, the dopemu will go.

After stealing $10 million from the church, they are asking members to donate food which be delivered to the pastors wife in a Limo. This so called men of god have no conscience 

Bankrupt church wants donations for pastor’s sick wife ferried in limo

Some members of a bankrupt Orange County, Calif. megachurch are expressing outrage after fielding an email request for congregants to deliver food to waiting limos so that it can ferried to the founder's sick wife. The appeal comes weeks after a lawsuit charged that the founder of the Crystal Cathedral house of worship, Rev. Robert Schuller, and his family had been paying themselves lavish salaries and other benefits while the church was in financial straits.

"They've completely depleted the church's funds," one member, Bob Canfield, told the Orange County Register. "But they have shown that they have absolutely no remorse for what they've done. They're still being chauffeured around in limos. We, the congregants, have nothing."

An email sent recently by Crystal Cathedral administrators said that Schuller and his wife, Arvella, "would appreciate meals over the next three to four weeks." It added: "They are to be sent to the church in order to be transported to Arvella. The limo drivers could pick up the dinners or meet in the Tower Lobby around 4:30 p.m."

Arvella Schuller has been suffering from pneumonia, and the email asked that the food be low in sodium and include items such as fruit, meat, soup and eggs.

Crystal Cathedral Ministries filed for bankruptcy last month. A lawsuit filed by creditors alleges that the Schullers borrowed more than $10 million from the church's endowment fund, and used it for salaries and regular church expenses.

"R.H. Schuller used his control and influence to cause the [cathedral] to enter into the agreements that benefitted himself and his family, to the detriment of the creditors and in breach of his fiduciary duties" to the church, the suit charges.

A spokesman for the church, John Charles, said the food request was in keeping with the church's commitment to Christian charity. "As Dr. Schuller always says, 'Find a need and fill it,'" he said. "I think that's what we were trying to do here."

But Canfield sees things differently. "These are millionaires who have limos and chauffeurs," he said. "Why in God's name would they want the congregants to deliver meals? It's ludicrous."



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Another reason Igbo marriage last long is because the women know how to cut shows secretly, their husbands don't catch them because they are doing it with each other. Go to festac and hear how this Igbo wives sleep with themselves. They pretend they are selling goods like bags, shoes, cloths, makeup etc and go to each others house to cut their shows. I know a girl that was almost attacked when she went to look at goods in one Igbo woman's house, the woman invited her to the bedroom nd she followed because she thot that is where the goods are only for the woman to start hugging her and pressing her breast and telling her she is beautiful. The girl said she carried her slippers and ran, then she called the woman who introduced her to tell what happened and the woman laughed at her and said she shouldn't have ran away, she should have just told the other woman she does not want to do. She was so shocked because of how nonchalant the other woman took the news. This is what the stay at home Igbo women do when their husbands are working hard to provide for them. Imagine

One day, Libyans will wake up and realize they were tricked by the west to destroy their lives.

[B]The Lies Behind the West's War on Libya[/b]

By Jean-Paul Pougala

April 21, 2011 "Information Clearing House" --  It was Gaddafi’s Libya that offered all of Africa its first revolution in modern times – connecting the entire continent by telephone, television, radio broadcasting and several other technological applications such as telemedicine and distance teaching. And thanks to the WMAX radio bridge, a low cost connection was made available across the continent, including in rural areas.

It began in 1992, when 45 African nations established RASCOM (Regional African Satellite Communication Organization) so that Africa would have its own satellite and slash communication costs in the continent. This was a time when phone calls to and from Africa were the most expensive in the world because of the annual US$500 million fee pocketed by Europe for the use of its satellites like Intelsat for phone conversations, including those within the same country.

An African satellite only cost a onetime payment of US$400 million and the continent no longer had to pay a US$500 million annual lease. Which banker wouldn’t finance such a project? But the problem remained – how can slaves, seeking to free themselves from their master’s exploitation ask the master’s help to achieve that freedom? Not surprisingly, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the USA, Europe only made vague promises for 14 years. Gaddafi put an end to these futile pleas to the western ‘benefactors’ with their exorbitant interest rates. The Libyan guide put US$300 million on the table; the African Development Bank added US$50 million more and the West African Development Bank a further US$27 million – and that’s how Africa got its first communications satellite on 26 December 2007.

China and Russia followed suit and shared their technology and helped launch satellites for South Africa, Nigeria, Angola, Algeria and a second African satellite was launched in July 2010. The first totally indigenously built satellite and manufactured on African soil, in Algeria, is set for 2020. This satellite is aimed at competing with the best in the world, but at ten times less the cost, a real challenge.

This is how a symbolic gesture of a mere US$300 million changed the life of an entire continent. Gaddafi’s Libya cost the West, not just depriving it of US$500 million per year but the billions of dollars in debt and interest that the initial loan would generate for years to come and in an exponential manner, thereby helping maintain an occult system in order to plunder the continent.

[B]African Monetary Fund, African Central Bank, African Investment Bank[/b]

The US$30 billion frozen by Mr Obama belong to the Libyan Central Bank and had been earmarked as the Libyan contribution to three key projects which would add the finishing touches to the African federation – the African Investment Bank in Syrte, Libya, the establishment in 2011 of the African Monetary Fund to be based in Yaounde with a US$42 billion capital fund and the Abuja-based African Central Bank in Nigeria which when it starts printing African money will ring the death knell for the CFA franc through which Paris has been able to maintain its hold on some African countries for the last fifty years. It is easy to understand the French wrath against Gaddafi.

The African Monetary Fund is expected to totally supplant the African activities of the International Monetary Fund which, with only US$25 billion, was able to bring an entire continent to its knees and make it swallow questionable privatisation like forcing African countries to move from public to private monopolies. No surprise then that on 16-17 December 2010, the Africans unanimously rejected attempts by Western countries to join the African Monetary Fund, saying it was open only to African nations.

It is increasingly obvious that after Libya, the western coalition will go after Algeria, because apart from its huge energy resources, the country has cash reserves of around €150 billion. This is what lures the countries that are bombing Libya and they all have one thing in common – they are practically bankrupt. The USA alone, has a staggering debt of $US14,000 billion, France, Great Britain and Italy each have a US$2,000 billion public deficit compared to less than US$400 billion in public debt for 46 African countries combined.

Inciting spurious wars in Africa in the hope that this will revitalise their economies which are sinking ever more into the doldrums will ultimately hasten the western decline which actually began in 1884 during the notorious Berlin Conference. As the American economist Adam Smith predicted in 1865 when he publicly backed Abraham Lincoln for the abolition of slavery, ‘the economy of any country which relies on the slavery of blacks is destined to descend into hell the day those countries awaken’.

[B]Regional Unity as an Obstacle to the Creation of a United States of Africa[/b]

To destabilise and destroy the African union which was veering dangerously (for the West) towards a United States of Africa under the guiding hand of Gaddafi, the European Union first tried, unsuccessfully, to create the Union for the Mediterranean (UPM). North Africa somehow had to be cut off from the rest of Africa, using the old tired racist clichés of the 18th and 19th centuries, which claimed that Africans of Arab origin were more evolved and civilised than the rest of the continent. This failed because Gaddafi refused to buy into it. He soon understood what game was being played when only a handful of African countries were invited to join the Mediterranean grouping without informing the African Union but inviting all 27 members of the European Union.

Without the driving force behind the African Federation, the UPM failed even before it began, still-born with Sarkozy as president and Mubarak as vice president. The French foreign minister, Alain Juppe is now attempting to re-launch the idea, banking no doubt on the fall of Gaddafi. What African leaders fail to understand is that as long as the European Union continues to finance the African Union, the status quo will remain, because no real independence. This is why the European Union has encouraged and financed regional groupings in Africa.

It is obvious that the West African Economic Community (ECOWAS), which has an embassy in Brussels and depends for the bulk of its funding on the European Union, is a vociferous opponent to the African federation. That’s why Lincoln fought in the US war of secession because the moment a group of countries come together in a regional political organisation, it weakens the main group. That is what Europe wanted and the Africans have never understood the game plan, creating a plethora of regional groupings, COMESA, UDEAC, SADC, and the Great Maghreb which never saw the light of day thanks to Gaddafi who understood what was happening.

[B]Gaddafi, the African Who Cleansed the Continent from the Humiliation of Apartheid[/b]

For most Africans, Gaddafi is a generous man, a humanist, known for his unselfish support for the struggle against the racist regime in South Africa. If he had been an egotist, he wouldn’t have risked the wrath of the West to help the ANC both militarily and financially in the fight against apartheid. This was why Mandela, soon after his release from 27 years in jail, decided to break the UN embargo and travel to Libya on 23 October 1997. For five long years, no plane could touch down in Libya because of the embargo. One needed to take a plane to the Tunisian city of Jerba and continue by road for five hours to reach Ben Gardane, cross the border and continue on a desert road for three hours before reaching Tripoli. The other solution was to go through Malta, and take a night ferry on ill-maintained boats to the Libyan coast. A hellish journey for a whole people, simply to punish one man.

Mandela didn’t mince his words when the former US president Bill Clinton said the visit was an ‘unwelcome’ one – ‘No country can claim to be the policeman of the world and no state can dictate to another what it should do’. He added – ‘Those that yesterday were friends of our enemies have the gall today to tell me not to visit my brother Gaddafi, they are advising us to be ungrateful and forget our friends of the past.’

Indeed, the West still considered the South African racists to be their brothers who needed to be protected. That’s why the members of the ANC, including Nelson Mandela, were considered to be dangerous terrorists. It was only on 2 July 2008, that the US Congress finally voted a law to remove the name of Nelson Mandela and his ANC comrades from their black list, not because they realised how silly that list was but because they wanted to mark Mandela’s 90th birthday. If the West was truly sorry for its past support for Mandela’s enemies and really sincere when they name streets and places after him, how can they continue to wage war against someone who helped Mandela and his people to be victorious, Gaddafi?

[B]Are Those Who Want to Export Democracy Themselves Democrats?[/b]

And what if Gaddafi’s Libya were more democratic than the USA, France, Britain and other countries waging war to export democracy to Libya? On 19 March 2003, President George Bush began bombing Iraq under the pretext of bringing democracy. On 19 March 2011, exactly eight years later to the day, it was the French president’s turn to rain down bombs over Libya, once again claiming it was to bring democracy. Nobel peace prize-winner and US President Obama says unleashing cruise missiles from submarines is to oust the dictator and introduce democracy.

The question that anyone with even minimum intelligence cannot help asking is the following: Are countries like France, England, the USA, Italy, Norway, Denmark, Poland who defend their right to bomb Libya on the strength of their self proclaimed democratic status really democratic? If yes, are they more democratic than Gaddafi’s Libya? The answer in fact is a resounding NO, for the plain and simple reason that democracy doesn’t exist. This isn’t a personal opinion, but a quote from someone whose native town Geneva, hosts the bulk of UN institutions. The quote is from Jean Jacques Rousseau, born in Geneva in 1712 and who writes in chapter four of the third book of the famous Social Contract that ‘there never was a true democracy and there never will be.’

Rousseau sets out the following four conditions for a country to be labelled a democracy and according to these Gaddafi’s Libya is far more democratic than the USA, France and the others claiming to export democracy:

1. The State: The bigger a country, the less democratic it can be. According to Rousseau, the state has to be extremely small so that people can come together and know each other. Before asking people to vote, one must ensure that everybody knows everyone else, otherwise voting will be an act without any democratic basis, a simulacrum of democracy to elect a dictator.

The Libyan state is based on a system of tribal allegiances, which by definition group people together in small entities. The democratic spirit is much more present in a tribe, a village than in a big country, simply because people know each other, share a common life rhythm which involves a kind of self-regulation or even self-censorship in that the reactions and counter reactions of other members impacts on the group.

From this perspective, it would appear that Libya fits Rousseau’s conditions better than the USA, France and Great Britain, all highly urbanised societies where most neighbours don’t even say hello to each other and therefore don’t know each other even if they have lived side by side for twenty years. These countries leapfrogged leaped into the next stage – ‘the vote’ – which has been cleverly sanctified to obfuscate the fact that voting on the future of the country is useless if the voter doesn’t know the other citizens. This has been pushed to ridiculous limits with voting rights being given to people living abroad. Communicating with and amongst each other is a precondition for any democratic debate before an election.

2. Simplicity in customs and behavioural patterns are also essential if one is to avoid spending the bulk of the time debating legal and judicial procedures in order to deal with the multitude of conflicts of interest inevitable in a large and complex society. Western countries define themselves as civilised nations with a more complex social structure whereas Libya is described as a primitive country with a simple set of customs. This aspect too indicates that Libya responds better to Rousseau’s democratic criteria than all those trying to give lessons in democracy. Conflicts in complex societies are most often won by those with more power, which is why the rich manage to avoid prison because they can afford to hire top lawyers and instead arrange for state repression to be directed against someone one who stole a banana in a supermarket rather than a financial criminal who ruined a bank. In the city of New York for example where 75 per cent of the population is white, 80 per cent of management posts are occupied by whites who make up only 20 per cent of incarcerated people.

3. Equality in status and wealth: A look at the Forbes 2010 list shows who the richest people in each of the countries currently bombing Libya are and the difference between them and those who earn the lowest salaries in those nations; a similar exercise on Libya will reveal that in terms of wealth distribution, Libya has much more to teach than those fighting it now, and not the contrary. So here too, using Rousseau’s criteria, Libya is more democratic than the nations pompously pretending to bring democracy. In the USA, 5 per cent of the population owns 60 per cent of the national wealth, making it the most unequal and unbalanced society in the world.

4. No luxuries: according to Rousseau there can’t be any luxury if there is to be democracy. Luxury, he says, makes wealth a necessity which then becomes a virtue in itself, it, and not the welfare of the people becomes the goal to be reached at all cost, ‘Luxury corrupts both the rich and the poor, the one through possession and the other through envy; it makes the nation soft and prey to vanity; it distances people from the State and enslaves them, making them a slave to opinion.’

Is there more luxury in France than in Libya? The reports on employees committing suicide because of stressful working conditions even in public or semi-public companies, all in the name of maximising profit for a minority and keeping them in luxury, happen in the West, not in Libya.

The American sociologist C. Wright Mills wrote in 1956 that American democracy was a ‘dictatorship of the elite’. According to Mills, the USA is not a democracy because it is money that talks during elections and not the people. The results of each election are the expression of the voice of money and not the voice of the people. After Bush senior and Bush junior, they are already talking about a younger Bush for the 2012 Republican primaries. Moreover, as Max Weber pointed out, since political power is dependent on the bureaucracy, the US has 43 million bureaucrats and military personnel who effectively rule the country but without being elected and are not accountable to the people for their actions. One person (a rich one) is elected, but the real power lies with the caste of the wealthy who then get nominated to be ambassadors, generals, etc.

How many people in these self-proclaimed democracies know that Peru’s constitution prohibits an outgoing president from seeking a second consecutive mandate? How many know that in Guatemala, not only can an outgoing president not seek re-election to the same post, no one from that person’s family can aspire to the top job either? Or that Rwanda is the only country in the world that has 56 per cent female parliamentarians? How many people know that in the 2007 CIA index, four of the world’s best-governed countries are African? That the top prize goes to Equatorial Guinea whose public debt represents only 1.14 per cent of GDP?

Rousseau maintains that civil wars, revolts and rebellions are the ingredients of the beginning of democracy. Because democracy is not an end, but a permanent process of the reaffirmation of the natural rights of human beings which in countries all over the world (without exception) are trampled upon by a handful of men and women who have hijacked the power of the people to perpetuate their supremacy. There are here and there groups of people who have usurped the term ‘democracy’ – instead of it being an ideal towards which one strives it has become a label to be appropriated or a slogan which is used by people who can shout louder than others. If a country is calm, like France or the USA, that is to say without any rebellions, it only means, from Rousseau’s perspective, that the dictatorial system is sufficiently repressive to pre-empt any revolt.

It wouldn’t be a bad thing if the Libyans revolted. What is bad is to affirm that people stoically accept a system that represses them all over the world without reacting. And Rousseau concludes: ‘Malo periculosam libertatem quam quietum servitium – translation – If gods were people, they would govern themselves democratically. Such a perfect government is not applicable to human beings.’ To claim that one is killing Libyans for their own good is a hoax.

[B]What Lessons for Africa?[/b]

After 500 years of a profoundly unequal relationship with the West, it is clear that we don’t have the same criteria of what is good and bad. We have deeply divergent interests. How can one not deplore the ‘yes’ votes from three sub-Saharan countries (Nigeria, South Africa and Gabon) for resolution 1973 that inaugurated the latest form of colonisation baptised ‘the protection of peoples’, which legitimises the racist theories that have informed Europeans since the 18th century and according to which North Africa has nothing to do with sub-Saharan Africa, that North Africa is more evolved, cultivated and civilised than the rest of Africa?

It is as if Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Algeria were not part of Africa, Even the United Nations seems to ignore the role of the African Union in the affairs of member states. The aim is to isolate sub Saharan African countries to better isolate and control them. Indeed, Algeria (US$16 billion) and Libya (US$10 billion ) together contribute 62 per cent of the US$42 billion which constitute the capital of the African Monetary Fund (AMF). The biggest and most populous country in sub Saharan Africa, Nigeria, followed by South Africa are far behind with only 3 billion dollars each.

It is disconcerting to say the least that for the first time in the history of the United Nations, war has been declared against a people without having explored the slightest possibility of a peaceful solution to the crisis. Does Africa really belong anymore to this organisation? Nigeria and South Africa are prepared to vote ‘Yes’ to everything the West asks because they naively believe the vague promises of a permanent seat at the Security Council with similar veto rights. They both forget that France has no power to offer anything. If it did, Mitterand would have long done the needful for Helmut Kohl’s Germany.

A reform of the United Nations is not on the agenda. The only way to make a point is to use the Chinese method – all 50 African nations should quit the United Nations and only return if their longstanding demand is finally met, a seat for the entire African federation or nothing. This non-violent method is the only weapon of justice available to the poor and weak that we are. We should simply quit the United Nations because this organisation, by its very structure and hierarchy, is at the service of the most powerful.

We should leave the United Nations to register our rejection of a worldview based on the annihilation of those who are weaker. They are free to continue as before but at least we will not be party to it and say we agree when we were never asked for our opinion. And even when we expressed our point of view, like we did on Saturday 19 March in Nouakchott, when we opposed the military action, our opinion was simply ignored and the bombs started falling on the African people.

Today’s events are reminiscent of what happened with China in the past. Today, one recognises the Ouattara government, the rebel government in Libya, like one did at the end of the Second World War with China. The so-called international community chose Taiwan to be the sole representative of the Chinese people instead of Mao’s China. It took 26 years when on 25 October 1971, for the UN to pass resolution 2758 which all Africans should read to put an end to human folly. China was admitted and on its terms – it refused to be a member if it didn’t have a veto right. When the demand was met and the resolution tabled, it still took a year for the Chinese foreign minister to respond in writing to the UN Secretary General on 29 September 1972, a letter which didn’t say yes or thank you but spelt out guarantees required for China’s dignity to be respected.

What does Africa hope to achieve from the United Nations without playing hard ball? We saw how in Cote d’Ivoire a UN bureaucrat considers himself to be above the constitution of the country. We entered this organisation by agreeing to be slaves and to believe that we will be invited to dine at the same table and eat from plates we ourselves washed is not just credulous, it is silly.

When the African Union endorsed Ouattara’s victory and glossed over contrary reports from its own electoral observers simply to please our former masters, how can we expect to be respected? When South African president Zuma declares that Ouattara hasn’t won the elections and then says the exact opposite during a trip to Paris, one is entitled to question the credibility of these leaders who claim to represent and speak on behalf of a billion Africans.

Africa’s strength and real freedom will only come if it can take properly thought out actions and assume the consequences. Dignity and respect come with a price tag. Are we prepared to pay it? Otherwise, our place is in the kitchen and in the toilets in order to make others comfortable.

AUTO THEFT PREVENTION TOOLS

There are many tools in the market to protect your car from being stolen, some are very popular and others not so. In order to help you make the right decision on how to protect your car, we will be posting some of these tool in the hopes that it will spark a discussion about the pros and cons.

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What Is An Engine Immobilizer?

An engine immobilizer is a device which prevents the starter from activating unless a special microchip is within range. Some engine immobilizing devices require the microchip to be inside a key inserted in the ignition, while others simply need it to be within a certain radius. In most cases, the microchip is embedded inside the key or a device on the keychain.

How Does It Work?

An engine immobilizer consists of several devices that work together to operate correctly. Inside the key, a microchip emits a signal which is activated by an electromagnetic field. The key transmits a binary code that is unique, which can then be read by the car’s ECU (Engine Control Unit). If the signal is a correct match, the ECU will permit fuel to flow, and the engine to start up. If the car is attempted to be started with a key without a microchip, or if it is “hot-wired”, the engine won’t turn on.

Immobilizer Add-On Units

Even if your vehicle doesn’t have an engine immobilizer, you can purchase an add-on unit. Installing an engine immobilizer will often make you eligible for an insurance credit and/or discount, if you purchase the correct model. For a self-arming immobilizer, an insurance approved unit will intercept at least two circuits (usually the fuel pump circuit and the low-voltage ignition circuit). It’s best if you contact your insurance company to obtain a list of approved engine immobilizers.

Should I Get An Engine Immobilizer?

The easy answer to this question is yes, since an engine immobilizer is a great way to protect your vehicle from being stolen. However, there are several things you need to consider. Since the micro-chipped key you will be using to start your car is unique, it can be very expensive to replace. Some of these keys can cost from $300 – $800 to replace, depending on the system installed in your car. In addition to this, if the microchip becomes damaged, you will not be able to start your car (though some systems have safeguards to prevent this from happening). If your car doesn’t have an immobilizer installed, there is also the cost of the unit to consider – usually from $100 – $500. Essentially, the choice to purchase an engine immobilizer depends on the model of your car, your budget and the existing security features in your vehicle.

I forgot to add my own two cents on the Auto Security Topic.

Car Security is not only about keeping your car safe, it is also about keeping yourself safe. Here are some tricks some thieves can use to ambush you and steal your car. So be extra vigilant and cautious when you are confronted with the following scenarios

CAR SECURITY: Car Safety Tips - AMBUSHES

Phony Good Samaritan

Examples
Returning to her parked car, a woman found it with a flat tire. As she began replacing it with a spare, a Good Samaritan passerby insisted on helping. The Good Samaritan used the tire-iron to knock the woman unconscious and steal her wallet and car. Guess who had deflated the tire and waited for her?


At an interstate rest stop, a man told a woman something was leaking from her car, then forced her into the back of the vehicle and violated her.

Phony-Victim-Needing-Help:

Examples
A woman stopped her car at a stop sign when a young man staggered in front of her car and seemed to fall unconscious. She got out to help and he robbed her.

The Good Samaritan was parking outside a store when James Walton asked him for help. He agreed to drive him to his disabled car to jump-start it. A few blocks away, James Walton punched the Good Samaritan and stole his car.

Bump-and-Rob
a car bumps yours in order to get you to pull over to "file an accident report." One early tip-off of a crime-in-progress is if his car is trying to barricade yours from leaving.

If you’re not sure, open your window no more than a quarter-inch to give him a paper with your name and car's license plate number – only. Do not hand him any of your paperwork. Do not open your door no matter what.

Or, simply signal him to follow you, then turn on your flashing hazard lights and drive slowly to an active public area where you can phone the police.

Force-Over:
If a Bump-and-Rob doesn’t work, the more brazen robbers may grow frustrated and simply force your car off the road. “Drive to Survive” author Curt Rich advises for car security that if you must jump a curb, do so at an angle. Or quickly back up to escape. Otherwise, simply get all your passengers out and give up your car and money.


A driver in Harrisburg PA slammed on his brakes to avoid hitting a baby carriage that rolled in front of him and struck the carriage lightly with his car. He got out to check and found no baby inside. He then felt what he assumed was a firearm pressed into his back and was ordered to hand over his wallet.


Blockade:
Any obstacle (whether trashcan, vehicle, baby carriage, or “pedestrian”) blocking your path allows criminals to trap you. A baby carriage is especially devious to shock and draw you out of your car. If at all possible to control your shock, stay in your car while calling police on your cell phone. And keep scanning your surroundings for suspicious activity before even thinking of getting out of your car to render aid.

If it’s a trashcan or vehicle blockade, again, for car security, jump a curb or back up to escape. If two cars block you from front and rear (and suspicious activity begins), ram back and forth until you can escape. Otherwise, simply get all your passengers out and give up your car and money. . .Don't try to be a HERO!!!

Eggs-on-Windshield:
If eggs are smashed on your windshield while you're driving, do NOT [/b]operate the wiper or wiper/spray. The wiper will only make the mess worse by smearing it; the wiper/spray will mix water and egg into a milky goo that fully blocks your vision. Then you're forced to stop and become a victim of robbers. Instead, just drive away. If you need to, stick your head out the window to see ahead until you get to a gas station to clean your windshield.

[b]Hitchhikers:

Scott Eizember was hitchhiking on a rainy day in Arkansas when Dr. Samuel Peebles and his wife picked him up. Eizember pulled a handgun, beat them and stole their van. He'd already murdered another couple earlier.

For car security, do not pick up any hitchhiker - and remember that 13 percent of armed robbers are female.

REMAIN SAFE!!!

Fhemmmy:

^^^ Chief . . .Where have you been, and nice to see you around now . . . Share the knowledge and let us learn oh

The autobot banned me. 

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This may be IT! The RPM does that and i did not think it was part of the problem. In fact, the speedometer does the same. Will let them know and then get back to you.

Madam good luck, I hope this is the problem. You have tried on this car. If it makes you feel better, you are not alone. The consumer complaint section for Hyundai is full of complain on this issues and how the Mechanics, even the ones from the Hyundai dealership can not find the problem immediately.


Here's more on Transmission Slippage

Symptoms of a slipping transmission

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Video Transcript

Generally speaking, when you're talking about a slipping transmission, you're talking about an automatic.

There are clutch bands in an automatic transmission that grip the various gear sets to transfer power from the engine to the wheels. If these bands do not have enough force to grip down tightly enough, they will slip and you will get various problems, most notably the vehicle will have difficulty accelerating.

When you step on the gas, you might see the tachometer increase in speed, but the vehicle speed itself doesn't increase. The vehicle might not move at all if the bands are loose enough.

Now there are several causes for this. There could be something as simple as not enough fluid in the transmission so that it's unable to create the hydraulic pressure necessary to engage the bands.

There also could be blockages in the valve body or in the various fluid passages in the transmission that could be keeping it from engaging properly.

The bands themselves could just be worn. In which case they need to be adjusted or replaced, and the solenoids that engage the bands could be failing or failed and not able to engage the bands themselves.

Oga Fehmmmy, good job listing the signs for all the different problems. It is a good learning tool for other people.

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These Hyundai people don tire me. Shey the guy said he had found the problem? Now the car is even worse than ever. Before, it would buck when accelerating but now it is dragging back like it wont move. So frustrating. The annoying part was that i had to fight with them cos they said it was no longer under warranty. Is there any help from guys?

What it is not;
1. Bad ignition coil
2. Bad fuel pump
3. Bad fuel injector
4. Not error codes
5. throttle sensor problem

and others that i can not recall.

Madam, after extensive research on Hyundai cars, it has become clear that TRANSMISSION SLIPPAGE a common to Hyundais. Unfortunately, the signs for this problem is very similar to many other issues like the ones Fhemmmy has detailed.


Hyundai Transmission Slippage Symptoms


Transmission Shifting on its Own
One of the signs of a slipped transmission on a Hyundai is when the gear shifts on its own to a lower gear than the one engaged. In particular, owners of the Hyundai Accent have reported this symptom as a problem. Other drivers have complained that while driving in a set gear, it will shift to the lowest gear on its own while the vehicle is moving. Moreover, it's been reported that after shifting to a lower gear, the driver is unable to shift to another gear. On such occasions, drivers have temporarily resolved the problem by turning the engine off then restarting it. However, once the vehicle restarts and is running, the problem usually recurs.

Jerking
Another symptom of a slipped transmission in a Hyundai is jerking while driving. Again, this has commonly been reported in the Hyundai Accent. This can happen even when the gears are not in use. This jerking usually continues until the car reaches a lower RPM at which point the jerking lessens but doesn't fully subside. In some cases, this has happened after the troublesome transmission was changed and the new transmission put in place. The jerking usually prevents the car from accelerating and driving faster than 20 MPH.


Bucking While in Overdrive
Bucking is another sign that the transmission could be slipping. When this happens, it causes the vehicle to speed up and slow down without effort from the driver. On such occasions, the RPM usually shoots up erratically. In some cases, this problem has surfaced just two years after purchase.

This the only other thing that can be the problem.

Waiting oh

Nice banner Oga Fhemmmy. What is our next topic?

aug 27:

hw u dey siena pls if vehjcle display VSA on dash board what does it sjgnify

It means there is a problem with the Vehicle Stability Assistance. This can happens when you oversteer or the car slides
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The VSA system is an active safety system that consists of three technologies. Two of them are existing safety systems – Anti-lock Braking System (ABS) and Traction Control System (TCS) – previously offered in Honda vehicles. The third technology in a VSA system is a Side Slip Control feature.

An example of when side slip may occur is when a driver engages a corner too quickly on a wet road. When the cornering forces of a vehicle are greater than the available tire grip levels, side slip occurs. If the front wheels are slipping sideways, the car is understeering. On the other hand, if the rear wheels are slipping sideways, the car is oversteering.

There's a button on the dashboard that you can press to reset it.

Fhemmmy:

If the post is so long, it might be caught by the anti-spam bot . . . . .
Break the message down into smaller pieces . . . . .

I have been on ban since yesterday, they just released me.

You better go and get a real checkup, how do you know he injected you with what he said he did?

I don't know why my post is not showing?

Richvkunt:

And by the way what are you doing on facebook when you should be helping your husband get a job.
Warning you my dear,the grass always looks greener in the other field!

She should be helping him find a job? Do you think at all?