Former United States of America envoy to Nigeria, Ambassador Walter Carrington yesterday said his country was backing President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration because he had shown that he was sincere and committed to conducting credible elections in 2011 as well as improving on the fortunes of Nigerians

cap28:

becomrich i would advise you to seek immediate psychiatric attention as you seem to be in a very unstable condition - who told you america remains neutral with regard to the internal politics of other countries - let me ask you a question:

who assassinated Murtala Mohammed in 1976?

who overthrew Kwame Nkrumah in 1966?

who removed Manuel Noriega of Panama in 1989 - and can you tell me why he is serving life imprisonment in a Miami jail?

who kidnapped former Haitian president - Jean Bertrand Aristide and DEPORTED him to Congo in 2004?

who abducted Hugo Chavez in 2003 and tried to have him murdered?

who murdered Patrice Lumumba of Zaire in 1964 and replaced him with dictator Mobutu?

who threatened to launch a nuclear strike on Cuba in 1961?

You better go back and get some treatment from your shrink then do a crash course on US imperialism.

now back to the topic

the handwriting is now on the wall, the US have shown their hand - does anyone know of any non western country that the US supports that engages in a democratic system of government.

The US was responsible for eliminating Yaradua and replacing him with their docile puppet Jonathan under instructions from their agent Obasanjo - Obasanjo has been on the CIA payroll since the 70's this is why he keeps wandering in and out of the corridors of power whenever he feels like, Abacha like Yaradua was seen as a thorn in the side of the US when he stopped taking orders from washington and decided that he could make his own decisions without consulting them first, unfortunately enough for him he underestimated the ruthlessness of american imperialism and paid with his life.

Walter Carrington has long been involved in nigerian politics therefore it is ludicrous for him to blatantly lie about his involvement in the nigerian political system as the US and the British have been teleguiding the political and economic direction of nigeria since independence.

The sooner nigerians wake up and understand what is really going on the better for us, we are yet to take control of our political and economic destiny, nigerian is a client state of the US and Britain and will remain one until we have a revolution which will clear out this band of criminals who have decided to collude with foreigners to destroy our country and the lives of future generations to come.

Nzeogwu tried it but was stopped by cowardly gutless Ironsi and other hopeless and delusional fools, now look at where we are today, it is going to take a completely new and radicalised generation of courageous young nigerians to overthrow the tyranny that exists in present day nigeria, and it will be no easy task, the civil war of 67-70 will be childs play compared to what is to come.

cap28:

becomrich i would advise you to seek immediate psychiatric attention as you seem to be in a very unstable condition - who told you america remains neutral with regard to the internal politics of other countries - let me ask you a question:

who assassinated Murtala Mohammed in 1976?

who overthrew Kwame Nkrumah in 1966?

who removed Manuel Noriega of Panama in 1989 - and can you tell me why he is serving life imprisonment in a Miami jail?

who kidnapped former Haitian president - Jean Bertrand Aristide and DEPORTED him to Congo in 2004?

who abducted Hugo Chavez in 2003 and tried to have him murdered?

who murdered Patrice Lumumba of Zaire in 1964 and replaced him with dictator Mobutu?

who threatened to launch a nuclear strike on  Cuba in 1961?

You better go back and get some treatment from your shrink then do a crash course on US imperialism.

now back to the topic

the handwriting is now on the wall, the US have shown their hand - does anyone know of any non western country that the US supports that engages in a democratic system of government.

The US was responsible for eliminating Yaradua and replacing him with their docile puppet Jonathan under instructions from their agent Obasanjo - Obasanjo has been on the CIA payroll since the 70's this is why he keeps wandering in and out of the corridors of power whenever he feels like, Abacha like Yaradua was seen as a thorn in the side of the US when he stopped taking orders from washington and decided that he could make his own decisions without consulting them first, unfortunately enough for him he underestimated the ruthlessness of american imperialism and paid with his life.

Walter Carrington has long been involved in nigerian politics therefore it is ludicrous for him to blatantly lie about his involvement in the nigerian political system as the US and the British have been teleguiding the political and economic direction of nigeria since independence. 

The sooner nigerians wake up and understand what is really going on the better for us, we are yet to take control of our political and economic destiny, nigerian is  a client state of the US and Britain and will remain one until we have a revolution which will clear out this band of criminals who have decided to collude with foreigners to destroy our country and the lives of future generations to come.

Nzeogwu tried it but was stopped by cowardly gutless Ironsi and other hopeless and delusional fools, now look at where we are today, it is going to take a completely new and radicalised generation of courageous young nigerians to overthrow the tyranny that exists in present day nigeria, and it will be no easy task, the civil war of 67-70 will be childs play compared to what is to come.

~Bluetooth:

these are classified information if i'm not mistaken.i would know some have been de-classified for you to know.please provide a reliable SOURCE because they are incredible accusation against the US.

otawa:

alarm, alarm.

US never cares about anyone but their own interest.

Alas, gullible Nigerians will be jumping for joy!

philip0906:

CAP28 better provide d source,cos d CIA is around   . . .

paddy_lo:

Yea i like this ish. . Goodluck Jo is the right man,at the right time in our critical history. . . .

cap28:


The sooner nigerians wake up and understand what is really going on the better for us, we are yet to take control of our political and economic destiny, nigerian is  a client state of the US and Britain and will remain one until we have a revolution which will clear out this band of criminals who have decided to collude with foreigners to destroy our country and the lives of future generations to come.

Most countries which have partnered with the US have turned out extremely successful. Examples abound. South Korea, Japan, Germany, UAE, Qatar and a host of other countries. So I don't see why it is bad to partner with the almighty U.S of A.

~Bluetooth:

these are classified information if i'm not mistaken.i would know some have been de-classified for you to know.please provide a reliable SOURCE because they are incredible accusation against the US.

Why is he the right man?? ?

cap28:

as  you correctly noted most of this is classified, however some of it over the years has been leaked but many of the sources have been discredited or even murdered thereby making it very difficult to substantiate, if i had access to the classified files on Obasanjo's relationship with the americans I doubt that i would be risking my life by disclosing their contents on the internet, are you aware that the files on the assassination of John F Kennedy, Martin LUther King, Bobby Kennedy, Malcolm X and John Lennon remain classifed until 2080 when we'll all be dead - but there are still various pieces of evidence that have surfaced indicating govt invovlements and coverups.

With regard to Noriega - some info on him has been declassified - his life sentence was reduced and he was released in April this year but was re indicted by a french court and is now serving 7 years in a french jail for
murder, drug traffickign and money laundering.

manuel noriega was a  drug baron and former president of panama, he was also a CIA agent - he was indicted on drug trafficking charges by the US when he refused to continue to allow america to dictate the economic and political direction of  his country- funnily enough his CV sounds quite similar to IBB's the only difference being that IBB never challenged the imperialist dictates of the american run world bank and IMF infact he collaborated with these two institutions assisting them in the economic despoil of our country.  i suppose thats why he is still alive, rich and has even been given the green light by america to run for the presidency come 2011.

Noriega was well known to the CIA as a drug trafficker well before he was indicted by the US govt infact the US ASSISTED him in many of his drug traffickign operations and he assisted them by providing them with intelligence on the left wing govt of nicaragua which america was trying to overthrow at the time, so it was a case of you scratch my back and i scratch yours.  As a result he became extremely rich and powerful - does that sound familiar (IBB anyone? Obasanjo)

His biggest mistake though was biting the hand that assisted in feeding him, IBB differs from him in that respect,  IBB is a man with absolutely no conscience and reminds me of Mobutu Sese Seko of congo (another CIA stooge).

When stooges turn against their masters its just a matter of time before they are brought down - remember Saddam?

So the moral of the story is - allow foreigners to come in and appropriate the wealth of your country and youll be allowed to traffick drugs and even kill people (IBB) but if you dare stand up to the west and try to prevent them from reducing the people of your country to serfs and destitutes you will either end up six feet under or if you are lucky you'll spend a very long time in a maximum security prison for a very long time - nice eh.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Noriega#Involvement_with_CIA

PapaBrowne:

Most countries which have partnered with the US have turned out extremely successful. Examples abound. South Korea, Japan, Germany, UAE, Qatar and a host of other countries. So I don't see why it is bad to partner with the almighty U.S of A. The country I detest is the the U.K.

Paddy lo loves singing the praises of america's economic policies but sadly he doesnt seem to understand what the involve.

Paddy let me explain something to you that you have failed to understand america practices  neo imperialism - it invests in countries like nigeria because nigeria has poor human rights records meaning low tolerance by the govt for riots, labour unions, protests and other grassroots groups which pose a potential threat to foreign multinational exploitative practices, also because of grinding poverty labour in nigeria is extremely cheap, which again is ideal for US/British owned multinationals as they are only interested in maximising profit at the expense of the workforce, you should ask yourself why these multinationals are forever shutting down their factories in the US and Europe and relocating them to places like nigeria, india, indonesia and thailand which have abysmall human rights records.

Its all about proft my friend - nothing more nothing less - you seem convinced that the US are interested in the economic development and grownth of nigeria, if that were the case why is it that they attack countries who refuse to adopt their neo liberal economic policies like Cuba, Venezuela, north korea, Iran  why have they imposed an economic blockade agaisnt cuba since 1959 despite Cuba's willingness to engage in trade with them (but not in accordance with their neo liberal economic policies) why?

Stop deceiving yourself and start educating yourself about the truth of america's economic policies towards africa and latin america, have you for one day even looked at the international trade agreements that nigeria is signed up to with europe and america - do they resemble anything close to a fair and equitable trade arrangement or are they exploitative and predatory?

You are delusional and there is nothing i can do to change that but stop misleading people with your fantasy stories about the supposed economic development which you claim is being initiated by america and europe in Nigeria.

If  you dont understand something just be honest enough to admit that you dont understand it rather than spouting off fantasy stories.

[b]
@cap28
where were u indoctrinated,and where did u go to school. . cuba,North Korea.  .Venezuela  .  . ?.  .cause u sound like the crackpot chavez,the lunatic Kim jon ill(lil jon),or the demented castro. . .
Now in your ramblings above u fail to distinguish btw multinationals and the country in which they have their headquarters. .
In one breath U say multinationals remove jobs from america to third world countries,yet u still claim its americas plan to de-industrialize Africa. .
well which one is it cause it cant be both. . .

Your problem is u fail to understand what capitalism means. . .The shareholders of any company are the owners,not the Govt,not the country it is Headquartered in
and in todays world anybody can wake up and buy into apple computer,intel,boeing,Google,Ford and so on,on any continent in the world,from the very comfort of his home through a discount broker,from capetown,to sao paulo,to singapore

That means anyone can own these multinationals u rail against,who pay dividends and contribute to world growth and commerce

The key is for African countries to develop their own multinationals,and in Nigeria we are already doing so.  .from Dangote,UBA,First bank,Oando and so on who are spreading all over Africa and listing on the Johannesburg stock exchange

The problem with the likes of u is that u enjoy the trappings of capitalism,and free markets,free press.,by hiding in such places as the U.K,while u rail against those such luxuries u enjoy

u should pls move to IRAN,VENEZUELA,CUBA or NORTH KOREA and spare us the idiotic rants. . .
lets see how long u last over there,lets see if u can get online and speak your mind freely without being arrested
Lets see if u can really survive in such bankrupt economic systems where u have to get permission from the state to open a barbing salon,and when they give their consent they tell u what to charge and set your salary

lets see whats really good homie. . put up or shut up. . . .

Move to cuba or North Korea live there,and see how the shoe pinches then come back and lets talk
Free market CAPITALISM is the best path to Prosperity,and the corporation has a key role to play in it

In fact,theres a thought provoking paper that states that the Corporation is the link that has kept innovation alive in the world or the past 500yrs,i'll post it next. . . . [/b]

~Bluetooth:

most info are just allegations.the US have a tendency of establishing good rapport anywhere there interests lie,so no big qualms about that but making unsubstantiated information that has not been de-classified is unnecessary.would you also deduce that jonathan has been recruited as an agent ?

paddy_lo:

[b]For one he is from the Niger Delta,if anybody deserves to be the president in Nigeria today,its someone from there

so let them have it,so Nigeria can move forward. . . .

Also his policies are private sector friendly,and should continue with the reforms that has helped to grow our economy @ 6% since 2001

His finance minister is a great pick and will help to put a check on the overzealous SANUSI

He has done right by the INEC pick. . and our next set of elections should be credible

He is level headed. . .and is de-mystifyng the presidency.  .enough of this gra gra presidents like OBJ,IBB,Atiku,Buhari and so on

He is young enough. . . .He appointed the first female Oil Minister in Nigeria,and the First ever Female OPEC oil minister
so at the next OPEC meeting in OCTOBER all the arab oil shieks and other randy fellows,will be eyeing our OIL minister. . lol

I like the crowd he moves around with,Femi otedola,Dangote et al. . distinguished private sector achievers

Theres more but u get the point[/b]

cap28:

Nzeogwu tried it but was stopped by cowardly gutless Ironsi and other hopeless and delusional fools, now look at where we are today, it is going to take a completely new and radicalised generation of courageous young nigerians to overthrow the tyranny that exists in present day nigeria, and it will be no easy task, the civil war of 67-70 will be childs play compared to what is to come.

paddy_lo:


@cap28
where were u indoctrinated,and where did u go to school. . cuba,North Korea.  .Venezuela  .  . ?.  .cause u sound like the crackpot chavez,the lunatic Kim jon ill(lil jon),or the demented castro. . .

Your problem is u fail to understand what capitalism means. . .The shareholders of any company are the owners,not the Govt,not the country it is Headquartered in
and in todays world anybody can wake up and buy into apple computer,intel,boeing,Google,Ford and so on,on any continent in the world,from the very comfort of his home through a discount broker,from capetown,to sao paulo,to singapore

That means anyone can own these multinationals u rail against,who pay dividends and contribute to world growth and commerce

The key is for African countries to develop their own multinationals,and in Nigeria we are already doing so.  .from Dangote,UBA,First bank,Oando and so on who are spreading all over Africa and listing on the Johannesburg stock exchange

The problem with the likes of u is that u enjoy the trappings of capitalism,and free markets,free press.,by hiding in such places as the U.K,while u rail against those such luxuries u enjoy

u should pls move to IRAN,VENEZUELA,CUBA or NORTH KOREA and spare us the idiotic rants. . .
lets see how long u last over there,lets see if u can get online and speak your mind freely without being arrested
Lets see if u can really survive in such bankrupt economic systems where u have to get permission from the state to open a barbing salon,and when they give their consent they tell u what to charge and set your salary

lets see whats really good homie. . put up or shut up. . . .

Move to cuba or North Korea live there,and see how the shoe pinches then come back and lets talk
Free market CAPITALISM is the best path to Prosperity,and the corporation has a key role to play in it

In fact,theres a thought provoking paper that states that the Corporation is the link that has kept innovation alive in the world or the past 500yrs,i'll post it next. . . .

paddy_lo:

[size=14pt]Unlike a pre-modern partnership or any other sort of company lacking in a simple ownership transfer mechanism, a corporation is never dissolved or wound down when an owner decides to exit the property: Rather, the corporation is merely passed from owner to owner by way of its stock sale[/size].

Some owners might decide to break off productive units of a corporation and sell them off—maybe the corporation is a conglomerate, and the new owners decide to break it apart until there’s nothing left. The conglomerate itself might disappear completely—but those productive units that made it up live on with new owners. Gulf + Western would be an example.

A corporation might even go bankrupt—in fact many small corporations do. But if the corporation is of a size where its productive units are individually viable—say one of its factories that produces doo-dads is still a money-making venture—then the corporation’s owners’ stock will be wiped out in a bankruptcy, but the corporation’s productive units will be sold off to pay its creditors. Those productive units will continue to exist through time, with new owners who will improve them.

So then what are these “productive units” that I’m speaking of? The productive units are what carry out the business of the corporation—but that’s no help at all. Let me rephrase the question: What does a productive unit have that makes it worth keeping, as opposed to dismantling it into its component parts—tools, trucks, desks, chairs, etc.—in a bankruptcy? To rephrase again: What is the thing that holds all the assets of a company together, and makes it worth more whole than dissolved?

[size=14pt]Or to rephrase yet again: What is the soul of a company?[/size]

An apocryphal story: Sir Walter Raleigh bet Queen Elizabeth that he could measure the weight of smoke from a cigar—a seemingly impossible feat. He took a fresh cigar, carefully weighed it, then smoked it, making sure to tap all his ash on the scale. When the cigar was consumed, he weighed the ash and the remains of the cigar—the difference between that weight and the weight of the fresh cigar was, he claimed, the weight of smoke. He was right, too. Just because you can’t catch it, doesn’t mean it’s weightless, or immaterial, or nonexistent.

I said before that a company is a repository of assets, both tangible and intangible. The concept of tangible assets is pretty obvious and straightforward. The company accumulates and owns buildings, trucks, chairs, desks, tools, paperclips, whathaveyou. Those things are the tangible assets of any company.

The intangible assets, however, are trickier. On the one hand, there are monetizable intangible assets, such as patents and copyrights, or specific permits or warrants, and of course professional services. There are also stocks and bonds and other financial assets. These are all intangible assets which can be bought or sold or hired; hence they are monetizable.

But then there is another intangible asset which cannot be quantified or monetized, yet which undoubtably exists, and has real value—like Raleigh’s smoke. This non-monetizable, intangible asset is accumulated through the ordinary activities of the company, and is essential to the company’s existence through time. It is the way in which the component elements of a company are arranged between one another—the way in which tangible and intangible assets are arranged and interact. This seemingly weightless smoke—which is essential—I will call the structural asset of the company.

The structural asset of the company refers to the way that the company is internally organized, in order to pursue its business and satisfy the demand by society for its products. It is the thing that makes a company worth more than the sum of all its tangible and intangible assets.

To make this concept clear: A human body is made up of 43 kg of oxygen, 16 kg of carbon, 7 kg of hydrogen, 2.8 kg of nitrogen, 1 kg of calcium, 780 g of phosphorus, and about a kilo of various other elements. If I gather these elements together, and then dump them all in a tub, do I wind up with a 70 kg person? I should, shouldn’t I? After all, those elements I just mentioned are what make up a human being’s body, in those amounts that I just listed. If I gather them in a tub, and mix them up, a fully formed person ought to pop out, shake my hand, and join me for lunch at the restaurant down the street—right?

Of course not—what’s lacking here is the structure of the body: The way those elements are arranged internally. I can have all the elements that make up a human body—but not have a human body.

Similarly with a company: The machine tools, the trucks, the patents, the services of various workers, the copyrights, the paperclips—those are the component elements that make up a company. But they are not the company. What they need is the structural asset of the company, to arrange those component elements into a viable business.

It cannot be monetized or measured, and it cannot be transferred—it is inherent to the company. The structural asset of a company is constantly being accumulated and expanded through the business activity of the company. It is the thing whose decay leads to the entropy of the company. It is the thing which makes the company worth more than its constituent assets.

The structural asset of a company makes it possible to replace one tangible or intangible asset for another, without losing the company’s identity. That is, it allows a company to swap an old machine on the factory floor for a new one, a new worker for a worker who has left, and still remain what it was. Just as, say, a lung transplant for John does not mean that John ceases to be John and is now Frank, the structural asset allows a company to change machinery and people and locations and even businesses, while maintaining its identity through time.

[size=14pt]The structural asset of a company is the mechanism that allows it to accumulate knowledge[/size].

[size=14pt]But up until 1602, companies whose owners died or lost interest were dissolved or wound down—thus was the structural asset of a company lost. Which meant that the accumulated knowledge was lost too. That’s why the technology behind the Antikythera clockwork was lost for 1700 years—since there was no mechanism to pass on the accumulated knowledge inherent in the structural asset of their company, once the owners lost interest in the business or died, all the accumulated technologies they had developed were lost.[/size]

However, I argue that with the founding of the Dutch East India Company in 1602, such loss of technology stopped happening. Owners who lost interest in the business for whatever reason could sell their stock in the corporation—and thus the corporation lived on, continuing to preserve and accumulate knowledge through time with other, more interested owners. Thus was technological development out of Europe a geometric progression.

This also explains why other cultures and empires, more civilized and advanced than Europe in 1602, were left in the dust a mere two hundred years later, and have been struggling to catch up to the West ever since. Think Japan, China, and the Ottoman Empire in 1602: Far superior to Europe, one and all. Now think Japan, China, the Ottoman Empire in 1850: Far behind Europe technologically, struggling to compete, and only able to once they had imported the concept of the corporation.

[size=14pt]Had the Greek manufacturer of the Antikythera clockwork been a corporation instead of (likely) a tradesman with a few apprentices, the technology of the Antikythera clockwork would not have been lost. In fact, that technology would have been built upon as subsequent owners of the Antikythera Clockworks Corporation would have added and expanded its business, before selling on their stock in the corporation to some other owners, who would themselves have improved the corporation[/size].

That did not happen—because corporations did not exist. There was no efficient ownership transfer mechanism which would maximise the benefit for both the seller of the company, and for the company itself. But once corporations came into existence in 1602 in Europe, we have had the smooth uninterrupted material progress I spoke of earlier, and which we enjoy today.

[size=14pt]This is why corporations matter. This is why they are an essential part of our current civilization[/size]—above any religion, second only to the individual and the state.

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/guest-post-why-corporations-matter-part-1

THERE U HAVE IT MR CAP28. . I DARE U TO REFUTE ANY PART OF THIS BRILLIANT PAPER
The Corporations/Capitalism u rail against,is one key factor that guarantees our way of life and that of our Civilization

And pls Becomerich dont even try reading this expose cause it is obviously so above your vapid,Brainless skull
cheers