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Seun:I meant her allegiance does not lie with Nigeria. The NOW was a mistake, meant to write NOT. Will effect the change asap. |
nwando:And they can't even contain it, that tells you the type of human beings waiting for Nigeria to be developed. Tribal bigotry is a disease. |
Kobojunkie:Considering the fact that since the diversion tactics stopped working you have been at a loss as to what position to hold on the thread I actually welcome the post in quote. This is far better than what you have been doing. |
davidylan:No need making up unnecessary allegations. No one is expecting to push anything down your throat. I have always maintained that those who easily get hurt on public discussion forums are those that are interested in trying to make everyone agree with them and when this don't happen insults and name callings begin. All we need is access to information, the people here are capable of reading and understanding and more importantly are able to make up their minds based on what they read, see or hear. We should stop wanting to think for others and we should understand that everyone cannot agree on one thing. Failure to abide by these simple things will always lead to one thing - anger and frustration in not being able to make people agree with us and what usually follows is abuses and insults. Agree or disagree with any position without resorting to attacking anyone, it is simple and very effective. We have seen enough diversion on so many topics on this forum. |
People should not be surprised at some of the negative comments coming from some people on this issue. Tribalism has eaten deep into the very fabric of this country and people tend to see issues from a tribal point of view. Believe me, even if some easterners come up today with a very workable plan to provide uninterruptible power supply in Nigeria in the next 6 months such plan will not see the light of the day because of tribal politics with all the attendant envy and jealousy that come with it. It is this same type of thinking that made the FG to shift the siting of the Steel Plant from Onitsha (chosen due to nearness of raw materials) to Ajaokuta (where railway lines needed to be built to transport coal from Enugu) just to make sure that such an important project don't get sited in Igboland. |
denex:Her allegiance must lie somewhere and Nigeria is In reality do we even need to take loans at all? In my opinion, NO. One person cannot be loyal to both a country and World Bank unless that country by design is programmed to benefit from the ultimate goal of the World Bank and we all know Nigeria don't belong to that class. |
@Yow, Do you have a website? Considering the fact that you are ready to build websites for other people you should at least have a sort of online presence or is it really not necessary in your own case? |
@naijaking1, Thanks for the updates. You see when the tactics of insults and diversion stops working many simply disappear because their positions will be at odds with reality, hence the preference for diversions in the first place. Ultimately, it does not make sense for people to be hoping for peace in the region while subscribing to "Israel is always right and justified in its actions". Without justice and fair play you cannot have peace in the region and more importantly all the major players should understand that they lose in the war, not necessarily the people who support them for different reasons from selfish ones to unselfish ones. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ An Israeli Strike on Syria Kindles Debate in the U.S. * Sign In to E-Mail or Save This * Reprints * Share o Del.icio.us o Digg o Facebook o Newsvine o Permalink Article Tools Sponsored By By MARK MAZZETTI and HELENE COOPER Published: October 10, 2007 WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 — A sharp debate is under way in the Bush administration about the significance of the Israeli intelligence that led to last month’s Israeli strike inside Syria, according to current and former American government officials. Skip to next paragraph Enlarge This Image Kevin Lamarque/Reuters A familiar administration divide: Vice President Dick Cheney says Israeli intelligence was credible, while Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice questions whether there was a real threat. At issue is whether intelligence that Israel presented months ago to the White House — to support claims that Syria had begun early work on what could become a nuclear weapons program with help from North Korea — was conclusive enough to justify military action by Israel and a possible rethinking of American policy toward the two nations. The debate has fractured along now-familiar fault lines, with Vice President Dick Cheney and conservative hawks in the administration portraying the Israeli intelligence as credible and arguing that it should cause the United States to reconsider its diplomatic overtures to Syria and North Korea. By contrast, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her allies within the administration have said they do not believe that the intelligence presented so far merits any change in the American diplomatic approach. “Some people think that it means that the sky is falling,” a senior administration official said. “Others say that they’re not convinced that the real intelligence poses a threat.” Several current and former officials, as well as outside experts, spoke on the condition of anonymity because the intelligence surrounding the Israeli strike remains highly classified. Besides Ms. Rice, officials said that Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates was cautious about fully endorsing Israeli warnings that Syria was on a path that could lead to a nuclear weapon. Others in the Bush administration remain unconvinced that a nascent Syrian nuclear program could pose an immediate threat. It has long been known that North Korean scientists have aided Damascus in developing sophisticated ballistic missile technology, and there appears to be little debate that North Koreans frequently visited a site in the Syrian desert that Israeli jets attacked Sept. 6. Where officials disagree is whether the accumulated evidence points to a Syrian nuclear program that poses a significant threat to the Middle East. Mr. Cheney and his allies have expressed unease at the decision last week by President Bush and Ms. Rice to proceed with an agreement to supply North Korea with economic aid in return for the North’s disabling its nuclear reactor. Those officials argued that the Israeli intelligence demonstrates that North Korea cannot be trusted. They also argue that the United States should be prepared to scuttle the agreement unless North Korea admits to its dealing with the Syrians. During a breakfast meeting on Oct. 2 at the White House, Ms. Rice and her chief North Korea negotiator, Christopher R. Hill, made the case to President Bush that the United States faced a choice: to continue with the nuclear pact with North Korea as a way to bring the secretive country back into the diplomatic fold and give it the incentive to stop proliferating nuclear material; or to return to the administration’s previous strategy of isolation, which detractors say left North Korea to its own devices and led it to test a nuclear device last October. Mr. Cheney and Stephen J. Hadley, the national security adviser, also attended the meeting, administration officials said. The Israeli strike occurred at a particularly delicate time for American diplomatic efforts. In addition to the North Korean nuclear negotiations, the White House is also trying to engineer a regional Middle East peace conference that would work toward a comprehensive peace accord between Arabs and Israelis. The current and former American officials said Israel presented the United States with intelligence over the summer about what it described as nuclear activity in Syria. Officials have said Israel told the White House shortly in advance of the September raid that it was prepared to carry it out, but it is not clear whether the White House took a position then about whether the attack was justified. One former top Bush administration official said Israeli officials were so concerned about the threat posed by a potential Syrian nuclear program that they told the White House they could not wait past the end of the summer to strike the facility. Last week, Turkish officials traveled to Damascus to present the Syrian government with the Israeli dossier on what was believed to be a Syrian nuclear program, according to a Middle East security analyst in Washington. The analyst said that Syrian officials vigorously denied the intelligence and said that what the Israelis hit was a storage depot for strategic missiles. That denial followed a similar denial from North Korea. Mr. Hill, the State Department’s assistant secretary for East Asia and Pacific affairs, raised the Syria issue with his North Korean counterparts in talks in Beijing in late September. The North Koreans denied providing any nuclear material to Syria. Publicly, Syrian officials have said Israeli jets hit an empty warehouse. Bruce Riedel, a veteran of the C.I.A. and the National Security Council and now a Middle East expert at the Brookings Institution, said that American intelligence agencies remained cautious in drawing hard conclusions about the significance of the suspicious activity at the Syrian site. Still, Mr. Riedel said Israel would not have launched the strike in Syria if it believed Damascus was merely developing more sophisticated ballistic missiles or chemical weapons. “Those red lines were crossed 20 years ago,” he said. “You don’t risk general war in the Middle East over an extra 100 kilometers’ range on a missile system.” Another former intelligence official said Syria was attempting to develop so-called airburst capability for its ballistic missiles. Such technology would allow Syria to detonate warheads in the air to disperse the warhead’s material more widely. Since North Korea detonated its nuclear device, Ms. Rice has prodded Mr. Bush toward a more diplomatic approach with North Korea, through talks that also include Japan, Russia, South Korea and China. Those talks led to the initial agreement last February for North Korea to shut down its nuclear reactor in exchange for fuel and food aid. That deal angered conservatives who believed that the Bush administration had made diplomacy toward North Korea too high a priority, at the expense of efforts to combat the spread of illicit weapons in the Middle East. “Opposing the Israeli strike to protect the six-party talks would be a breathtaking repudiation of the administration’s own national security strategy,” said John R. Bolton, former United States ambassador to the United Nations. But other current and former officials argue that the diplomatic approach is America’s best option for dealing with the question of North Korean proliferation. “You can’t just make these decisions using the top of your spinal cord, you have to use the whole brain,” said Philip D. Zelikow, the former counselor at the State Department. “What other policy are we going to pursue that we think would be better?” +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++= |
Thanks naijaking1 for the update. Asking for Israel's withdrawal to pre 1967 borders by Abbas is a step in the right direction as it will usher in a new era where lasting peace can be built upon. If Abbas is hinging his call on the UN Resolutions then he should ensure that Palestine keeps its own part of the bargain. Peace cannot be guaranteed by using force, may be fear but certainly not peace. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Abbas wants return to pre-1967 borders By MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 55 minutes ago RAMALLAH, West Bank - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday laid out his most specific demands for the borders of a future independent state, calling for a full Israeli withdrawal from all territories captured in the 1967 Mideast war. ADVERTISEMENT click here Abbas' claim comes as Israeli and Palestinian negotiating teams are trying to hammer out a joint vision for a future peace deal in time for a U.S.-hosted conference next month. In a a new confidence-building gesture to Abbas, Israel agreed Wednesday to grant residency permits to thousands of Palestinians who have been living illegally in the West Bank on expired visitors' visas. Abbas' comments appeared to set the stage for tough negotiations, which are expected to include complicated arrangements such as land swaps and shared control over holy sites. Israel is seeking to retain parts of the West Bank and east Jerusalem. In a television interview, Abbas said the Palestinians want to establish a state on 6,205 square kilometers (2,400 square miles) of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. It was the first time he has given a precise number for the amount of land he is seeking. "We have 6,205 square kilometers in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip," Abbas told Palestine TV. "We want it as it is." According to Palestinian negotiating documents obtained by The Associated Press, the Palestinian demands include all of the Gaza Strip, West Bank, east Jerusalem and small areas along the West Bank frontier that were considered no man's land before the 1967 war. Abbas said his claim is backed by U.N. resolutions. "This is our vision for the Palestinian independent state with full sovereignty on its borders, water and resources." Israeli government spokeswoman Miri Eisin declined to comment, saying she did not want to prejudice negotiations. But the Palestinian demands appear to exceed anything that Israel would be willing to offer. Israeli and Palestinian negotiators held their first working meeting this week in advance of next month's conference in Annapolis, Maryland. The U.S. hopes the document will provide a launching ground for full-fledged negotiations on a final peace agreement. Despite Abbas' tough public stance, aides to Abbas said he has agreed in recent talks with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to exchange West Bank land Israel wants to keep in a final peace deal with an equal amount of Israeli land. This would allow Israel to annex the West Bank area where the settlement blocs are located. As part of the proposal, Abbas offered Olmert about 2 percent of the West Bank, the aides said. Olmert is seeking some 6-8 percent of the West Bank, but has said the exact amount of territory should be decided in future negotiations. The aides spoke on condition of anonymity since they were not authorized to discuss sensitive diplomatic matters with the media. In exchange for the West Bank land, Israel is reportedly considering transferring to the Palestinians a strip of area between the Gaza Strip and West Bank to allow for a connection between them. About 40 kilometers (25 miles) of Israeli territory separates the two Palestinian territories. Abbas said the joint statement at the conference must deal with the main hurdles preventing a final peace agreement. "The international conference must include the six major issues that are Jerusalem, refugees, borders, settlements, water and security," Abbas said. Meanwhile, Israel said it expects to complete a list of 5,000 Palestinians who will receive the residency permits ahead of the Muslim Eid el-Fitr holiday later this week. Shlomo Dror, an Israeli army spokesman, said further lists will be approved in the future Hussein al-Sheikh, a Palestinian official overseeing the contacts, confirmed Israel had informed him of the decision, but said West Bank Palestinians were only allotted 3,500 permits. Israel rejected Palestinian demands to give permits to 1,500 people in Gaza. The decision is significant for the Palestinians since more than 20,000 who visited the West Bank on tourist visas in recent years have been living in hiding since their travel permits expired. The order doesn't apply to an estimated 20,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. According to the agreement, Abbas will issue the actual residency permits. Under past peace agreements, the Palestinians could not issue residency permits without Israel's permission. Israel registered the Palestinians in its own records. Also Wednesday, Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian militant in Nablus affiliated with Abbas' Fatah and injured another, members of the armed group said. Witnesses said the Israeli soldiers entered Nablus' Old City, known as a militant stronghold, disguised in Palestinian security forces uniforms and carrying rifles typical of the forces. Israeli military officials said troops fired toward two armed men, killing one and injuring another. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ |
@naijaking1, Go through all my posts on this forum, no where will you see me abuse or insult anyone for disagreeing with my position. Every single abuse or insult that is attached to my name was done as a way of response in kind. I have every right to insult or abuse anyone that insults or abuses me. Unfortunately, many people cannot stand others having opinions not original to them and rather than use logic, facts, common sense to make their points they resort to all manner of insults. Personally, I handle insults well and will continue to do so. I never insult people unless when responding in kind, there are a lot of issues that demand attention for one to consider making insults a major project on a public discussion forum. @texazzpete, Most people here are attempting to learn something abi while people like you believe you know it all, cannot make a mistake and you are perfect abi? Spare me that nonsense. I have seen people in my lifetime that commit blunders upon blunders without even knowing. Stick to the topic and you will get responses, try using the insult tactics you will equally get responses in kind. I really don't care how you come across, I respond to issues accordingly. |
No comment. It seems that this guy is improving by the day, at least one can make sense of his posts. Keep it up. After all said and done he gets to use the forum as a school. Sorry, done with teaching you or correcting you as you don't even say thank you. Bye bye. |
texazzpete:You see what heavy bias and blind support for Bush is doing to this man? Has Iran been invaded already? @Kobojunkie, Your hypocrisy is stinking to high heavens. So, I insult anyone that disagrees with me abi? There is no better lie than this because unlike you I accept responsibilities of my actions. I have never insulted anyone on this forum for any reason but have always responded to insults in kind, no regrets, no apologies, if you can live with this fact just go straight to hell because people who lie and misinform should be avoided at all cost. While disagreeing with you on this forum I openly apologized for accusing you of making a wrong statement, that is what reasonable people do. Trying to be right all the time even when you are clearly wrong is counter productive. Finding it difficult to accept mistakes is one of the greatest problems people like you have and unfortunately there is nothing anyone can do about it, I believe it is a way of life for you so live it to the end. Don't just come and and talk nonsense about objectivity when you find it supremely difficult to apply it. |
evergie:This sounds more like bad belle than any rational objections. |
@Kobojunkie, Believe what you want to believe as regards hating Israel or not hating Israel, such nonsense don't have any effect on me and I will not bother to tell you whether I hate Israel or not because such useless accusations usually come from people who find it difficult to trash the issues raised. I am so sick of your hypocrisy. You are usually the first to ask people to be objective and yet you are always subjective and your advice always go to people that do not share your views. Can you kindly stick that advice in your breast pocket? I can handle someone that is wrong but I cannot stand hypocrites. |
@davidylan, Why are you doing this to yourself? Do you have any shame at all? You are simply a huge joke, always displaying your low level of reasoning by twisting, turning, avoiding, duplicating everything and hoping to wear other discussants out by your endless beating around the bush. Face your studies, that is what sensible students do. Good luck, I sincerely mean it ooo. |
@texazzpete, I do not owe you any explanation as regards whether I am anti anything. I am neither pro nor anti anything. I point out issues I have with anything and there is absolutely nothing you can do about that apart from ranting your way as have always done. I am neither an arab nor an american or israeli so basically my allegiance does not lies with any of these people. As a Nigerian christian I see issues that are not right and point them out, unfortunately people like you equate christianity to total support for Israel regardless of what they do. God forbid the day I get down to that level you have gotten yourself into. The Palestinians have committed atrocities just as Israel have done so why would the media play down on what Israel does while highlighting anything done by the Palestinians whi have been driven out of the lands and turned into refugees in their own lands? You can go straight to hell with your racial and religious hatred, I certainly do not belong to such class of human beings who would hate a people based on race or religion. Rid yourself of the hate before you try to make sense because I just see you as a completely brainwashed religious bigot. |
@RichyBlack, Learn to ignore some of these people. They lie, they use multiple IDs, they hate anything islam or arab. You cannot go far with them unless you are ready to play their dirty games of deceit, diversion and endless meaningless questions. I advised you earlier, may be its time to revisit that advice. Do have a good week. |
@juintade, Thanks for the styling comment, will remove them as the css page contains all the styling I may need. My mistake for not removing them before now. Your comment on use of english being an excuse is nonsense, you don't insult and at the same time want to compare insult with criticism. @Salvage, Thanks. Any link to an entertainment website you have seen that the design is cool? As regards a graphic designer, until I see a good one I won't gamble with getting one as many people claim to be graphic designers and yet don't have any to show. One should be able to show at least a sample of work done otherwise you will end up paying people for doing nothing. @boraddo, Thanks. I believe that is the surest route now as I can easily recreate any design even though coming up with designs is not my area. |
@juintade, I take criticisms well. If I don't I wouldn't have asked for them. I handle insults well too, I guess that is why you are responding a second time. Maybe you need to seperate style from content by putting all your CSS in an external file.Do you just say things you don't understand? The styling is in an external file but I guess you really don't know what the the statement you made means in reality. Maybe you should add more content and complete the site before you start asking for review and please learn to accept criticismI agree with you on this one. I have perfected the art of accepting criticisms just as I have perfected the art of responding to insults and believe me I know the difference between the 2. And don't go about believing that insulting people is part of what comes with criticisms. |
Tawnee:Good luck. |
Learn PHP. You can't go wrong with PHP. |
juintade:I guess your dog (if you had one) would do better working on the your website and your blog. juintade:Out of curiosity? If you cannot make out the programming platform then it shows you don't know anything about programming platforms, sorry. Thanks anyway for your comments. |
ST3V3:The content in bold refers, thanks for showing the rest that don't know Mr Know It All. May be you also need to think for the rest since according to you showing them what they don't know is now your work. Can you recommend a school for me? But let is be like 20,000 miles away from any that you attended abeg. |
Thanks a lot. I will remember to take all your comments into consideration. Back to drawing board. |
@davidylan, The only sensible thing you have done in your whole life (apart from not saying no to education) is to support Arsenal (based on th Wenger Knows part of your signature). Or, are you being paid to support Arsenal? |
Kobojunkie:Emeka. |
Kobojunkie:I think I agree with you on this one. It is better to stay away than to make statements like the one you made about Britain actually owning the lands being occupied by Israel and Palestine. The only wahala is that many people still cannot believe that a human being made that statement, you see wahala wey you put me inside? |
Hmmm, It is not even a good practice to use up hard disks. Even 75% is ok. So, if you have say 100,000 domains, all of them will come with their unique visitors and will be hitting the same server, not so? A server without a reasonable limit on the number of domains that can and should be hosted on it is a good candidate for server crashes. |
Hello, Could anyone review the website www.justnigeriaentertainment.com and post comments, criticisms and suggestions? The site is being setup to become an entertainment information portal for Nigerians with heavy emphasis on Nigeria Entertainment. Basically there is no limit to what can be implemented on the website. So, if you have an idea you think is cool, just let me know and it will be implemented. On the web, it is all about data manipulation, think it, we actualize it. |
The good thing about a forum like this one is that it gives one ample opportunity to show the world how stupid one ba be. The pig that wrote this (note the content in bold) ST3V3:also wrote this ST3V3:Only people that are not sure of who their fathers are will say one thing and do another. In extreme cases they won't even understand what they say or write. The pig stated that he will ignore threads by Afam and went ahead to post another reply. Is this pig normal at all. Boy, I have seen dogs say things they don't mean and I will remember to add you to the list. |
I-man:Kindly provide an independent corroboration if you have any. Or, better still kindly provide an independent article that opposes the the one some of you label conspiracy theory. It is not enough to continue to ask endless questions when faced with issues that demand explanation, such diversionary tactics don't work any longer. |
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