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PoliticsRe: Message From An Angry American Soldier by Afam(m): 7:02pm On May 22, 2007
Hugoboi is telling his own version of the story, the version that makes sense to him alone.

Bragging about the US military casualty not exceeding 2000 is alone to ignore him as he has no clue of how many US soldiers that have died in Iraq.

Davd Adenuga,

Face your studies lest you become a disaster. Half education is dangerous.
PoliticsRe: Okonjo Iweala For World Bank President by Afam(m): 5:34pm On May 22, 2007
TayoD:
@Afam,
I guess the cheap drugs you've been taking have knocked you senseless to notice.

Your cowardice keeps you from addressing people by name but we can clearly see through your shenanigan. Besides, any one not cursed with an empty brain as yours will understand your reference to the "truth" can only be in response to the only post that has mentioned the tuth thus far - mine!

A classic personal confession of a sobering addict to cheap drugs!
Whatever! Keep hiding your head in the sand! Anyone with some sense understands what I wrote!
On the contrary I prefer not to put down names of people that are habitual liars and shameless things.

Let me have your surname as I need to buy 2 dogs, I will use your username for one and your surname for the other. Deal?
PoliticsRe: Vatsa’s Widow, Safiya, Dies At 56 by Afam(m): 5:29pm On May 22, 2007
May her soul rest in perfect peace.
PoliticsSome Quotes By Bush by Afam(op): 5:01pm On May 22, 2007
From my inbox, these are jokes but won't be surprised if they are actual statements made by Bush.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

"To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions,
I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be
president of the United States."
---George W. Bush



"You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are
the ones you want to concentrate on."
---George W. Bush


"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over
and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of
catapult the propaganda."
---George W. Bush
PoliticsRe: 99% Of Nigerians Are Corrupt And Dubious by Afam(m): 12:49pm On May 22, 2007
fstranger:
The 99% generalization is unfair.
In reality it looks more like this, 100% Ibos are corrupt,even the unborn ones.
40% yorubas are corrupt (These 40% are mostly people with Ibo friends or live in Ibo lands)
10 % Hausas are corrupt.
I wonder why the admin of this forum is allowing such an ethnic dog like this bastard use this forum. This same bastard will buy from Igbo man and if possible beg him for money. Dogs like these should just be burnt alive to make the world a better place.
PoliticsRe: Okonjo Iweala For World Bank President by Afam(m): 11:49am On May 22, 2007
TayoD:
What can we expect from a pathological liar but another shit-load of lies. I am not too surprised because political correctness and lies go hand in hand.

But wait a minute, this afam[/b]ed liar is under the illusion of being born with all knowledge with no form of influence from parents, friends or teachers, and as such his lies may appear as the truth to him. Perhaps the reason why he has not been influenced by teachers is because he never went to school. What a classic example of humpty dumpty - all head but no brains, a waste of cranial space!!

To present facts to substantiate his position is alien to him because in his disillusioned world, what he says is right irrespective of the facts and the truth on ground. He is so quick to forget that he just had to retract his recent lies targeted at my person, but of course, it is too much to expect him to learn from his past mistakes!
[b]
And what a coward to address me without saying my name.
Just saw this. Na wahoooo.

So this boy is now able to know when he is being refered to, a positive development in my opinion.

Mixing unintelligence, stupidity and foolishness together is not good atall.

The last statement (in bold) refers, can't remember seeing any audio feature on this forum so there is no way I could have said your name. Your olodoness no get part 2.
PoliticsRe: Message From An Angry American Soldier by Afam(m): 9:56am On May 22, 2007
Mariory:
Poor Poor Afam. You have some how managed to drag the Israelis into this thread. Poor poor Afam. So much hate. Is it eating you up inside? Is it really painful? grin
4 out of the 5 statements had nothing to do with Israel yet the only one that does (with good reasons too based on where the message was coming from) catches your fancy because that is the only thing you want to see.

Do you have any comments to make on the woman's letter? If yes, state your position. If no, do not turn the thread into a referendum on Afam as that is what incoherent and empty heads do what they lack the intellect to make their points on any issues they get involved in.
PoliticsRe: How Nigerians Abroad Reject Yar Adua. --prof Chinua Achebe by Afam(m): 9:44am On May 22, 2007
nigeria1:
Afam did Nigerian in Nigeria vote for him ?? it is question for you,
Ofcourse, Nigerians in Nigeria voted for him. Do you believe we may have imported people from Mali and Chad to vote for him?

I hope the author is not thinking way too much of himself with statements like these otherwise he will end up ridiculing himself.
Foreign AffairsRe: Israel Doesn't Want Peace By Gideon Levy by Afam(op): 9:32am On May 22, 2007
@Mrmayor,

You simply have to live with the fact that some people on this forum think that supporting Israel regardless of any wrongs they do is all it takes to become a good christian (one even had the guts to ask me why I was not supporting Israel when I claim to be a christian). Such is the level of stpidity being exhibited on a public forum by those that have been wrong quite a number of times on virtually all the issues they have attemtped to contribute to.

Education does not equal knowledge and on this forum I have seen enough proof.

Even when some Israelis are not happy with the senseless killing of many civilians in the Israeli Hezbollah war some religous bigts here are ready to spend their last breathe defending what Israelis are opposing, what a shame.
PoliticsRe: Message From An Angry American Soldier by Afam(m): 9:27am On May 22, 2007
Exactly the position of some of us that dare stand by the truth.

On this forum, for doing so you will be labelled an Anti Bush but I am glad an american is echoing what a lot of people have been saying for a long long time now.

I am surprised we have not heard from the die hard supporters of Bush on this forum, the floor is open, let us see how this thread will be twisted by the spin doctors.

A day will come when similar letters will come from Israelis based on the many lies being used to ensure the conflit in the middle east remains unresolved.

I am still wondering why these guys have not impeached the most incompetent president in the world.
PoliticsRe: How Nigerians Abroad Reject Yar Adua. --prof Chinua Achebe by Afam(m): 7:04pm On May 21, 2007
Did Nigerians abroad elect him as their spokesman?

Meanwhile what Nigerians living in Nigeria think is far far far more important and relevant than what Nigerians living abroad think or feel about Nigeria.
Technology MarketRe: An Alternative Power Supply System, Pls Check It Out by Afam(m): 9:20am On May 21, 2007
Thanks ogogoro.

We offer en enforceable 1 year warranty. We repair or replace at no cost and it makes sense to us as we build these units to last long.
WebmastersRe: Good Web Design Services in Nigeria? by Afam(m): 8:55am On May 21, 2007
gbolio4:
Mr Afam always speaks wisely,

He has to be a sage wink
Hmm, I have a big head already so do not let it grow bigger with these words.

Seriously though, I believe we all stand to benefit when we stick with the facts and with the truth in anything we do in life, afterall life is too short for us to be exaggerating things and creating issues out of nothing.

Thanks for the kind words.

NB: The free directory (both offline and online businesses) is now on a new website www.afamite.com/directory. Listing is also free.
ProgrammingRe: Urgent: Interview (programmer) by Afam(m): 8:49am On May 21, 2007
The idea of being asked to write full fledged applications all in the name of being interviewed is wrong in my opinion.

I have seen big organisations do this before, I have been asked to do a complete online demo of what I think their website should look like (after having a lenghty discusssion) and my response is usually simple; No money, no demo as I do not have the time to be writing codes for someone when the money is not in the bank even if the money is for the demo itself.

The reason for this is simple, in most cases these organisations get 3 or 4 web designers/programmers and ask for demos and at the end of the day the organisation picks the best after going through all the free demos that must have been developed by the designers/programmers.

So, I will rather use the time to learn a new thing or watch cartoons, far better than doing a free job for oragnisations that do not offer free services.
WebmastersRe: Creating A Newspaper Website by Afam(m): 8:37am On May 21, 2007
No two newspaper websites are the same.

Get a programmer that can write good codes to do anything online, it's your best bet.

I feel sad when you hear people focusing energy on the wrong thing as regards web development.

The whole of yahoo or google or youtube can be replicated with codes written from scratch by any good web programmer.

If you are not ready to pay for the project then learn web programming yourself and then you can do anything you want.

www.afamite.com is a pet project I work on anytime I have free time to burn, the only money spent on it is the cost of the hosting just to make sure that what I have on the machine works well on the net.

Like someone stated, see the best newspaper websites out there and ask a programmer (not web designer) to build something similar and of course with additional features that may make sense in our own context here in Nigeria.
PoliticsRe: Okonjo Iweala For World Bank President by Afam(m): 5:14pm On May 18, 2007
Truth has been bastardized to the extent that anyone can claim to stand by the truth when in the real sense such a person has been caught red handed lying.
PoliticsRe: Okonjo Iweala For World Bank President by Afam(m): 9:32am On May 18, 2007
What I do not understand is why the White House should be the one deciding who goes or who stays in the World bank.

The article reproduced below tells the disturbing story.

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White House to quickly replace Wolfowitz By JEANNINE AVERSA, AP Economics Writer
1 hour, 1 minute ago



WASHINGTON - Trying to put a controversy behind it, the Bush administration was wasting no time finding a successor to World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz, who will resign over his handling of a pay package for his girlfriend.

ADVERTISEMENT

Wolfowitz on Thursday announced that he would step down at the end of June, his leadership undermined by a furor over the compensation he arranged in 2005 for Shaha Riza, a bank employee.

His departure ends a two-year run at the development bank that was marked by controversy from the start, given his previous role as a major architect of the Iraq war when he served as the No. 2 official at the Pentagon.

It also ends a potential political headache for President Bush, who had named Wolfowitz to the post.

The Wolfowitz flap had been seen as a growing liability that threatened to tarnish the poverty-fighting institution's reputation and hobble its ability to persuade countries around the world to contribute billions of dollars to provide financial assistance to poor nations.

The bank "needs to rebuild it credibility immediately, regain its focus and devote its full attention to its clients," said the bank's staff association, which, along with former bank officials, aid groups and some Democratic politicians, had wanted Wolfowitz to resign.

The White House said it would move quickly to name a new candidate to run the bank.

Bush "will have a candidate to announce soon, allowing for an orderly transition that will have the World Bank refocused on its mission," White House spokesman Tony Fratto said.

Bush's selection must be approved by the World Bank's board.

Among those mentioned as a possible replacement for Wolfowitz were former Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick, who was Bush's former trade chief; Robert Kimmitt, the No. 2 at the Treasury Department; Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson; former Rep. Jim Leach, R-Iowa; Sen. Richard Lugar (news, bio, voting record), R-Ind., and Stanley Fischer, who once worked at the International Monetary Fund and is now with the Bank of Israel.

A White House official wouldn't comment on possible candidates, saying "any reporting on potential names is pure speculation."

The 185-nation bank, created in 1945 to rebuild Europe after World War II, provides more than $20 billion a year for projects such as building dams and roads, bolstering education and fighting disease. The bank's centerpiece program offers interest-free loans to the poorest countries.

By tradition, the bank has been run by an American. The Bush administration keenly wanted to keep that decades-old practice intact as it dealt with the Wolfowitz situation. The United States is the bank's largest shareholder and its biggest financial contributor.

Paulson, who will work with the president on finding a successor to Wolfowitz, said, "I will consult my colleagues around the world as we search for a leader." That suggested a more consultive approach to finding a new head of the bank.

Bush's selection of Wolfowitz in 2005 for the bank post had stunned Europeans and some other countries. Europeans were upset that Bush would tap someone so closely associated with the Iraq war. After the pay controversy erupted a month ago, Europeans led the charge for Wolfowitz to resign.

Wolfowitz waged a vigorous battle to save his job and maintained he had acted in good faith. He was all but forced out, however, by the finding of a special bank panel that he violated conflict-of-interest rules in his handling of Riza's pay package.

Until near the end, the Bush administration had professed support for Wolfowitz. But in a shift on Tuesday, the White House indicated for the first time it was open to his departure. It was the same day Wolfowitz made a last-ditch plea to save his job before the board.

After days of negotiations, Wolfowitz got what he wanted — an acknowledgment from the bank's board that he did not bear sole responsibility for the conflict-of-interest furor surrounding his handling of the pay package.

"He assured us that he acted ethically and in good faith in what he believed were the best interests of the institution, and we accept that," the board said in its announcement of Wolfowitz's resignation.

The bank board said it was clear that a number of people had erred in reviewing Riza's pay package. The board's statement made no mention of any financial arrangements related to Wolfowitz's departure, nor did it speak to Riza's future.

For his part, Wolfowitz said he was pleased that the board "accepted my assurance that I acted ethically and in good faith in what I believed were the best interests of the institution, including protecting the rights of a valued staff member."

Now, he said, it was in the best interest of the board that its mission "be carried forward under new leadership."

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On the Net:

World Bank: http://www.worldbank.org
ProgrammingRe: How To Become A Successful Programmer? by Afam(m): 9:24am On May 18, 2007
Passion and willingness to learn.

Unfortunately, the average Nigerian believes he/she knows it all and rather than accept what he/she does not know will rather blame someone or anything for not knowing that thing.

In programming, you must be sure of what your code will do even in different scenarios, not just guessing or hoping (as My2cents put it) that your code will do this or that.

Again, it takes time to learn but how many of us are willing to spend time to learn, a lot of us wants to make money today today as if there is no tomorrow.
PoliticsRe: What Is Happening To Out-going Vice President, Atiku Abubakar? by Afam(m): 9:17am On May 18, 2007
Iyke-D:
I read a statement from his media person a day or so ago where he said he still plans to rule Nigeria as
he is certain that the tribunal will void Yar Adua's victory. I suppose he will be governing from Maryland
and the UK, he his inventing a new brand of democracy - Virtual Democracy Version 1.0.
And if Yar'adua's victory is annuled then he will kidnap Buhari that came second or he would also void Buhari's 2nd position.

Honestly, those who support this man are as guilty and as clueless as the man himself.
Foreign AffairsRe: Israel Plans Nuclear Strike On Iran by Afam(m): 9:04am On May 18, 2007
No nation is good enough to have nukes afterall the US is the only nation on record to have knowingly used atomic bombs to target 2 civilian populations in Hiroshima and Nagasaki so what are we talking about here?

If a country feels it has the right to own nukes then any country that wants to own them should go ahead and acquire them.

If you don't plan to use it one day why spend money developing ithuhhuh
PoliticsRe: Aipac On Trial by Afam(op): 8:56am On May 18, 2007
@Tornadoz,

It seems that truth is always bitter and the revelations may have embarassed those that are ready to do anything to support Israel regardless of what Israel does.

I guess some assume that being a good christian is the same thing as total support for Israel, what a shame.
WebmastersRe: Website Review, Anyone? by Afam(op): 8:54am On May 18, 2007
smartsoft:
I don't expect you to use 100 fonts for differents sites, what i meant is that you should change that font to something more nice. Know hard feelings oooooooooo ! the site looks so scanty.
Na wah ooo. Ok, let me have an example of the font you want me to use especially one that you have used on a website you designed.

About the site being scanty I don't manufacture content, every single content on the site is from the client. You may also post the link to a website that you built that is not scanty so I can learn a thing or two.
PoliticsAipac On Trial by Afam(op): 6:44pm On May 17, 2007
From the inbox.

Let the religous bigots and hate filled fellows begin the usual diversionary responses.

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++=

Editor's Note:

What is AIPAC? It is the American Israeli Political Action
Committee and it lobbies Congress and does some "other"
things. Read and learn.


AIPAC on Trial - by Justin Raimondo

Is there a First Amendment right to engage in espionage?
Dorothy Rabinowitz seems to think so. Describing the
actions of Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman, two former top
officials of AIPAC, the premier Israel lobbying group,
who passed purloined intelligence to Israeli government
officials, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
characterized them as "activities that go on every day in
Washington, and that are clearly protected under the First
Amendment."

If what Rabinowitz says is true-if passing classified
information to foreign officials is routine in the nation's
capital-then we are all in big trouble.

On Aug. 4, 2005, Rosen, Weissman, and Pentagon analyst
Larry Franklin were indicted by a federal grand jury and
charged with violating provisions of the Espionage Act
that forbid divulging national defense information to
persons not authorized to receive it. The indictment
traces the treasonous trio's circuitous path as they met
in the shadows-in empty restaurants, at Union Station in
Washington, on street corners. Rosen and Weissman sought
out and cultivated Franklin, milking him for information
that they dutifully transmitted to their Israeli handlers.
According to Rabinowitz, however, they were merely "doing
what they had every reason to view as their jobs"-which is
true, assuming they understood their jobs to be spying for
Israel.

The trial is scheduled to begin June 7. As the day of
reckoning approaches, the Israel lobby is ratcheting up
the rhetoric. So, too, is the defense: in a duet of
hysterical accusations and frenzied rationalizations, the
accused spies' defenders have described the proceedings as
a frame-up, the result of an intra-bureaucratic struggle
within the government, and a plot by anti-Semites in Bush's
Justice Department to carry out a Washington pogrom.

None of these flights of imagination are any more
convincing than the Dream Team's defense of O.J. Simpson.
Yet the noise level continues to rise, as if sheer volume,
instead of logical arguments, could overwhelm the copious
evidence of the defendants' guilt.

The indictment lists numerous acts of espionage, dating
back to 1999, in which Rosen and/or Weissman acted as
conduits for classified information flowing from Washington
to Tel Aviv. The feds had been watching for a long time:
the indictment makes clear that Rosen and Weissman didn't
make a move without the FBI's counterintelligence unit
knowing about it.

This surveillance is how they happened on Larry Franklin,
the Pentagon's top Iran analyst, who walked in on a
luncheon meeting in Arlington, Virginia, attended by Rosen,
Weissman, and Naor Gilon, chief of the political-affairs
section at the Israeli Embassy. The feds were listening
in as Franklin-referring to a document dated June 25 and
marked "top secret"-announced he had secrets to tell.

Tell not sell: unlike the majority of post-Cold War spies,
the AIPAC-Franklin espionage ring wasn't centered around
financial gain but ideology. Franklin is a dedicated neo-
conservative, a minor yet key player in the neocon network,
who served in the military attache's office in the U.S.
Embassy in Tel Aviv in the late 1990s and was a Defense
Intelligence Agency analyst with expertise in Iranian
affairs working in Douglas Feith's policy shop.

The counter-intelligence unit was hot on Franklin's trail,
and they watched his every move-his wholesale transfer of
top-secret information on Iran, al-Qaeda, and other
intelligence of interest to Israel to Rosen and Weissman,
who funneled it to their contacts in the Israeli Embassy.
The FBI gave Franklin enough rope to hang himself, and
then moved in, showing up at his door and confronting him
with his treachery.

A search of his home and office turned up a veritable
lending library of classified documents dating back years,
all of which had doubtless been made available to the
Israelis. Faced with the probability of a long prison
stretch, Franklin agreed to wear a wire to his subsequent
meetings with Rosen and Weissman. In the months that
followed, the FBI built its case, recording conversations
and following the AIPAC duo.

And they did a good job, apparently, because the government
is making an unusual request: that some testimony and
evidence be shielded from the public due to its highly
sensitive nature. This wasn't just a case of pilfering a
few innocuous memoranda. It looks like team AIPAC made off
with the family jewels and maybe even the deed to the
house. Why else would the Justice Department risk having a
conviction thrown out on appeal on account of such a rarely
invoked legal mechanism?

The defense has protested proposed security procedures-
magnetometers at the courtroom door, security sweeps of
the courtroom itself, an officer of the court monitoring
electronic surveillance while the trial is in session-on
the grounds they would prejudice the jury against the
defendants. They compare this to dragging Rosen and
Weissman before the jury in prisoners' uniforms and
shackles. Yet these security measures point to the serious-
ness of the matter before the court, the depth to which
the Rosen-Weissman-Franklin spy ring penetrated the
government, and the ongoing breach they have opened in
America's national-security firewall.

While most of the more cautious elements in the Jewish
community are staying well away from this case, the
radicals, such as Rabbi Avi Weiss and his AMCHA-Coalition
for Jewish Concerns, who have previously devoted their
efforts to freeing Jonathan Pollard, have now turned
their attention to Rosen and Weissman.

Steven Lieberman and Anne Sterba, lawyers for the group,
wrote in an amicus brief: "Trying these two men for dis-
closing critical 'national defense information' to foreign
officials, without letting the public know what the alleged
information was, will allow enemies of the Jewish people
to exaggerate the significance of that evidence and will
leave the press and the public to subsist only on rumors
and speculation."

The Weiss group likens the prosecution of Rosen and
Weissman to the Dreyfus case-in effect positing the
existence of a vast anti-Semitic conspiracy at the highest
levels of the Justice Department. Not exactly a credible
contention, offered, as it is, without evidence, but the
defenders of Rosen and Weissman are getting more frantic
as the trial date approaches. As a writer for the Israeli
newspaper Ha'aretz put it, "Does this trial really carry
any resemblance to the Dreyfus trial? It's a different
era, a different country, a different system, a different
accusation. Making this comparison demands some
imagination, much ambition, and maybe a speck of chutzpah
too."

A recently unsealed defense memorandum details a Feb. 16,
2005 colloquy between Rosen's lawyer, Abbe Lowell, and
Nathan Lewin, AIPAC's legal counsel, in which the latter
reveals that Paul McNulty-then the U.S. attorney for the
eastern district of Virginia and chief prosecutor in the
case-"would like to end it with minimal damage to AIPAC."
Lewin told Lowell, "He is fighting with the FBI to limit
the investigation to Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman and to
avoid expanding it." This is hardly the behavior one would
expect of contemporary anti-Dreyfusards in the Justice
Department plotting to scapegoat AIPAC and the Jews.

Clearly the Rosen-Weissman defense team is involved in a
bit of "greymail," that is, forcing the government to
disclose as much classified information as possible during
the discovery phase of this case and hoping to derail the
prosecution entirely as it weighs the effects of disclosure
against the benefits of a possible conviction. As we go to
press, Judge T.S. Ellis has ruled against the prosecution's
proposal to shield sensitive testimony and evidence behind
a veil of pseudonyms and euphemism, which could delay the
begining of the trial.

Efforts to embarrass the administration go beyond accusing
DOJ and extend to prominent figures such as Condoleezza
Rice, who is accused by Abbe Lowell of leaking national
defense information to AIPAC as Franklin did. Gen. Anthony
Zinni is being targeted in a similar manner. Both have been
subpoenaed, along with David Satterfield, deputy chief of
the U.S. mission to Iraq, and William Burns, U.S.
ambassador to Russia, to testify. If Rosen and Weissman
are going down, the Israel lobby seems to be saying, then
so are a lot of prominent people-some of whom, like Zinni,
just happen to be their enemies.

This isn't greymail, it's blackmail. It was Zinni, after
all, who said of the Israel lobby and the neoconservatives:
"I think it's the worst-kept secret in Washington. Every-
body-everybody I talk to in Washington-has known and fully
knows what their agenda was [during the run up to the
Iraq War] and what they were trying to do."

The intrigue thickened last October as word leaked that a
proposed deal was dangled in front of Rep. Jane Harman:
AIPAC would back her to become head of the House
Intelligence Committee if she would urge the government
to treat Rosen, Weissman-and AIPAC itself-with kid gloves.

The Forward reported, "Several congressional sources
confirmed that major donors to the Democratic Party have
been lobbying Pelosi on behalf of Harman's nomination to
head the intelligence committee and that these attempts
were not welcomed by the House Democratic leader." Time
named Haim Saban, the billionaire Hollywood producer and
major AIPAC moneybags, as one of the supplicants.

Pelosi didn't fall for it, and Harman was rebuffed. Perhaps
this was in the background when the speaker was booed as
she addressed the subsequent AIPAC national conference,
although Pelosi got back in the Israel lobby's good graces
after she stripped a provision from the military
appropriations bill that would have required the president
to go to Congress for permission to attack Iran.

The defense has fought to get the case against Rosen and
Weissman thrown out on any number of grounds: the Espionage
Act is unconstitutional, it doesn't apply to their clients
but only to government officials, and, last but not least,
it's a violation of the Israel lobby's First Amendment
"right" to betray classified information to its masters
in Tel Aviv. Twisting and turning, threatening and
spitting, delaying as best it can, the defense has tried
to wriggle out of it every which way, to no avail. The
trial is going forward, and the public spectacle of the
biggest espionage scandal involving Israel since the
prosecution of Pollard could deliver a body blow to the
Israel lobby at a time when it has come in for public
scrutiny and criticism as never before.

But that hasn't prevented the lobby from brazenly defend-
ing the accused spies, in spite of the preponderance of
evidence, and even hailing them as patriots. Writing in
The Forward, Michael Berenbaum avers, "Instead of being
grounds for prosecution, perhaps the influence Steven Rosen
and Keith Weissman were trying to exert-making officials
and the public aware of the danger from Iran-should be
heralded." And why should we hail espionage as laudable in
this instance?

Well, you see, because the AIPAC defendants were ahead of
their time in citing the danger from Iran: "In Washington,
as Rosen and Weissman are learning the hard way, the
'crime' is often not being wrong, but rather being right
too early or at the wrong time, or being out of sync with
the conventional wisdom, or pushing an inconvenient truth."

In light of Judge Ellis's recent ruling that in this trial
the Espionage Act is going to be interpreted narrowly and
that the burden is on the prosecution to show that the
defendants knowingly harmed U.S. national security
interests, the defense might be expected to make a pitch
similar to Berenbaum's-that, instead of prosecuting Rosen
and Weissman, we ought to be pinning medals on their
chests.

The AIPAC defendants weren't spies, they were merely ahead
of the curve, anticipating the day when a distinction is
no longer being made between American and Israeli
interests. That is the line we are hearing, as the curtain
goes up on the trial of Rosen and Weissman. Whether the
jury or the public falls for it remains to be seen.

-----------------------------------------------------------

Justin Raimondo is editorial director of Antiwar.com
WebmastersRe: Creating A Newspaper Website by Afam(m): 12:54pm On May 17, 2007
Something like www.afamite.com/news?
WebmastersRe: Website Review, Anyone? by Afam(op): 10:49am On May 17, 2007
smartsoft:
I think you should try and change the font. Many times i see some of the site you design, the font you use are always same just like this one on the page.

And where you have EXTRACON LIMITED, i think you should change the brown background it doesn't look good.
Thanks for the comments but I doubt if I will effect the changes you want.

1. That I use the same font for some of the sites I design is not a bad thing to do. Do you expect me to use over 100 different fonts for over hundred websites? What is important is that the font used is clear enough for people to read.

2. On the background on the header area that is what the client wants so there is nothing anyone can do about that.

Thanks once again for your comments.
WebmastersRe: Website Review, Anyone? by Afam(op): 3:58pm On May 16, 2007
Thanks, will do, just needed the client to see the framework and the images, will surely tidy that up when moving the website to its own location.

But as they say better do now what you are planning to do later if time permits, so no more excuses, let me work on them.
WebmastersRe: The Poor State Of Nigerian Bank Websites by Afam(m): 3:56pm On May 16, 2007
@Segebee,

You are so very wrong my dear.

That you cannot start and finish a professional website in 24hrs or 3 days does not mean that others cannot do so.

See the following website, everything (including programming, image optimization, design) took less than 36 hrs not even 2 days.

Now, tell me what is wrong with the site - www.justwebservices.com/extracon
WebmastersRe: Website Review, Anyone? by Afam(op): 3:21pm On May 16, 2007
boraddo:
nice and simple, but i think u shld apply a left padding (margin) to your text,
Thanks for that, sorted it out.

I guess its easy and simple to use.
PoliticsRe: Nigeria's Vice-president Elect Goodluck Attacked by Afam(m): 3:09pm On May 16, 2007
noblezone:
Afam exagerated headlines one day "It Appears the PDP is not Power Hungry After All", events showed that PDP is actually both Power Intoxicated and Power Hungry.
With all your education you are yet to know the meaning of exaggeration, pity! Why don't you post the link to the thread or better still reproduce the content if you have no shame.

It seems that once you tell a lie it doesn't matter whether you tell 100 or 1000.
Foreign AffairsRe: Israel Doesn't Want Peace By Gideon Levy by Afam(op): 11:41am On May 16, 2007
As long as it takes a couple of months for you to find or search for such stories your position remains very very weak.

But as they say "he that is down need fear no fall". Maybe before October you will find another article likt this one.
PoliticsRe: Nigeria's Vice-president Elect Goodluck Attacked by Afam(m): 11:14am On May 16, 2007
When people openly endorse misinformation and lies then only God knows what can be expected of them.

People like these are ready to do anything to achieve anything in life and should be avoided at all costs. This is really disgusting.
Foreign AffairsRe: Israel Doesn't Want Peace By Gideon Levy by Afam(op): 11:12am On May 16, 2007
@noblezone,

What a shame, did I touch something that really hurt you?

Your post is a classical example of one based on bitterness and cowardice.

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