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Roman Empire Rules Today Pt 1 (Full Length)


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Fast and Furious UK-Style: Britain’s Gun-running to East Africa, Somali Pirates
January 6, 2014

http://www.blacklistednews.com/Fast_and_Furious_UK-Style%3A_Britain%E2%80%99s_Gun-running_to_East_Africa%2C_Somali_Pirates/31787/0/38/38/Y/M.html

There is a strong suggestion in this report that many of these weapons have ended up into the hands of Somalian pirates – and this is where we see the business cycle come full circle…

UK govt accused of indirectly arming Somali pirates
Published time: January 06, 2014 02:33
http://rt.com/news/british-weapons-somali-pirates-208/


A report on the UK’s weapons exports has triggered accusations that Britain may be arming Somali pirates and dictatorial regimes. MPs allege this is due to the sheer volume of guns being exported and poor oversight.

An urgent review has been launched over why some 44,000 guns were exported to East Africa in just 15 months. Government data shows that among the weapons were 30,000 assault rifles, 2,536 pistols and 11,000 rifles which ended up in countries with poor human rights records like Somalia, Egypt and Sri Lanka. Some of the weapons were also exported to Russia and South Africa.

The report, which was part of a wide-ranging inquiry into arms exports, noted the MPs want to know why UK firms would need such a large stash of new weapons, given that they already had thousands of weapons in their armory before April 2012.

MPs alleged that the sheer volume of weapons being exported meant that it was difficult to keep tabs on where they end up, prompting speculation the UK could be arming pirates in Somalia.

House of Commons Arms Export Controls Committee said that the Business Department, which approved the weapons export, did not thoroughly assess where the weapons were going. MPs also raised doubts as to whether Britain’s export policy has got the “balance right between the arms trade, surveillance equipment and our economic interests.”

"The evidence provided to us by Mr Bell seems to suggest that the department did not have a process of looking at the cumulative number of weapons and whether those exports fitted the scenario on the ground needed for protection."

The head of the Export Control Organisation at the Business Department, Edward Bell said he understood the worries of MPs given the large quantity of arms, although he denied the weapons had fallen into the wrong hands.

“I understand the concern about the volumes … having now heard about the volumes, I would like to do a bit more digging around that. I have no concerns that anything untoward has happened, but I certainly will have a closer look at the volumes involved,” Bell told MPs. The Business Department has now launched an internal inquiry into weapons exports.

Piracy remains a big problem in Somali despite international efforts to curtail attacks. In November of last year a US court sentenced two Somali pirates to life in prison for the killing of four American citizens onboard a yacht off the Horn of Africa in 2011.

Prosecutors said the pirates intended to kidnap the Americans and hold them for ransom in Somalia.
However, following four days of negotiations with the US Navy, the pirates shot their captives dead and opened fire on the US vessels.

There has been a significant naval operation by many countries around the Horn of Africa and the Indian Ocean, which has helped stop attacks. There haven’t been any successful pirate raids on ships since May 2012.

The Holy Land?


Israel to fund all abortions for women 20-33 starting next year
Another 6,300 women are expected to have a state-funded abortion next year, at a cost of about $4.6 million.


By Ido Efrati | Dec. 30, 2013

Israel will pay for abortions for women aged 20 to 33 regardless of circumstance starting next year, health officials said Monday, adding that they hope to make eligibilty for state funding universal in the future.

Until now, subsidized abortions for women of all ages were available in medical emergencies or in case of rape and sexual abuse. Women under the age of 20 or over 40 were also eligible for abortion funding even when the reason was personal.

Despite the new funding, which was recently approved as part of Israel’s state-subsidized “health basket” for 2014, women will still have to appear before a state committee before terminating a pregnancy.

The new rule opens it up for 6,300 more women to have a state-funded abortion next year, at a cost of about 16 million shekels ($4.6 million). The cost of all state-subsidized abortions is estimated at 24 million shekels a year.

Monday’s news was announced by the committee that determines which medicines and medical technologies will be added to the 2014 health basket. The health-basket committee is headed by the director of Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Prof. Jonathan Halevy.

“It was brought to our attention that there is a large group of women between 20 and 40 who for various reasons – financial or reasons of secrecy – do not terminate pregnancies,” Halevy told a press conference. “In the current basket we’ve approved funding for pregnancy termination for women in the 20-to-33 age group, with the intention of completing the process ... and raising the age to 40.”

The committee is keeping contraceptives outside the health basket, but Halevy said this was only due to a lack of funds. “The private expense for birth control pills is low, but when we’re talking about financing for the entire population, that’s a hefty sum,” he said.

The committee’s original list came in 2.5 million shekels short of the 300-million-shekel budget for additions, so the panel tried to add a drug for children’s joint diseases. But that medicine would only apply to around 10 children, and attempts to get the manufacturer to lower the price failed. Instead, the committee expanded its original decision on abortion funding; it increased the age for funding on demand to 33 from 30.

The committee approved 83 new drugs and medical technologies for 2014, items expected to serve some 375,000 Israelis at a total additional cost of 300 million shekels, on top of the 7.8-billion-shekel budget for medicines and technologies already in the health basket. The basket now goes to the Health Ministry for approval; it also needs cabinet approval.

Cancer drugs make up 41 percent of the new additons, some 121 million shekels. In recent years this figure was 35 percent to 38 percent. Other treatments added include vaccinations, tests and support technologies.

For 2013 the committee added 88 new drugs that affected some 300,000 Israelis – an attempt to include as many patients as possible. The committee tried to keep to this philosophy this year; it began its deliberations in early October and whittled its list down from 650 drugs and technologies.

Among new items approved for 2014 are the drugs Stribild and Tivicay for HIV carriers, and six new drugs for asthma and other lung diseases. The budget has also been increased for cystic-fibrosis patients. Five drugs were approved for schizophrenia and the use of current drugs has been expanded.

Patients with severe Parkinson’s disease will be disappointed as the drug Duodopa, considered highly effective, was not added to the list. Its annual cost is estimated at 62 million shekels. The committee declined to commit 21 percent of the additional funding to a single drug. Nine drugs for diabetes were also all left off the list. The committee also did not add hormonal birth control or IUDs to the basket.

All committee decisions are unanimous. Unlike previous years, the panel finished its work in the early evening and did not stay up until the middle of the night or well into the following morning. The add-on list had been whittled down to 380 million shekels by midday Monday.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/.premium-1.566198

December 22, 2013 6:09 pm

Time for Nigeria to plug its oil leaks
Only an audit can resolve confusion over missing billions

For more than a generation technocrats, politicians and oil men have wrestled over whether and how to go about strengthening oversight of Nigeria’s notoriously opaque oil industry. One conclusion that can be drawn from the official confusion this month over the proportion of oil revenues going missing is that little progress has been made in bringing greater transparency to the sector. Africa’s leading oil producer still hosts an industry subject to billions of dollars in abuse, in obvious need of more stringent monitoring.

The latest debate around the issue was sparked by a leaked letter to Goodluck Jonathan, the president. In it the central bank governor warned that the state oil company had failed between January 2012 and July 2013 to account for nearly $50bn in revenues from oil sales. Somewhat inured though many Nigerians are to big-ticket scandals, the scale of this revelation elicited a sharp national intake of breath.

Opponents of the president have been quick to take advantage amid a general rise in the political temperature ahead of the 2015 elections. Last week 37 members of the national assembly crossed the floor to opposition, causing the ruling People’s Democratic party to lose its majority for the first time since the return of civilian rule in 1999. Mr Jonathan’s presidency is deeply wounded.

As it turns out, the central bank’s calculations contained big omissions. After poring over the data, officials have whittled the figure for related shortfalls down to more like $11bn. There are big questions still left to answer, however. The first is how the state oil company justifies withholding the $11bn identified. This in turn is part of a bigger puzzle over falling oil revenues that drove the central bank governor to raise the alarm in the first place.

Part of the answer lies in industrial-scale theft direct from pipelines. Another may lie in regulatory uncertainty. Far-reaching legislation designed to clean up the mess in the sector has been languishing for five years. As a result there has been a marked drop in investment in fresh production by the international oil companies.

Yet the shortfalls on the books are not fully explained by production losses and fluctuations in price. Oil earnings this year are down by about a third in dollar terms compared with 2011, while the fall in exports is on average 10 per cent. Swap contracts, when crude oil allocated for domestic consumption is exchanged for refined product imports without money changing hands, may be hiding further substantial losses.

To fill gaps in the budget this year the finance ministry has had to draw down on the rainy-day savings fund that is financed by windfall earnings above the budgeted price of oil. This has left Nigeria unnecessarily vulnerable to shocks.

Heading into the 100th anniversary year of its creation, Africa’s most populous nation should be in a better position. Investor interest in the country’s potential as a market and a motor for regional growth has rarely been higher. The oil price is high and the economy is growing at about 7 per cent. Not for he first time, Nigerians are being let down by poor stewardship of the oil industry, on which their country still depends for more than 90 per cent of export earnings.

Mr Jonathan should order a forensic, external audit of the oil accounts to clear up the confusion. This could go two ways. It could expose the real extent of losses owing to gross mismanagement and knock a further dent in public confidence. However, it could also show that government is serious about plugging the holes, while adding urgency to the passage of legislation meant to restore the industry back to health.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d8a2be64-697c-11e3-aba3-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2oFeWcDGl

IAC fires PR exec Justine Sacco over ‘racist’ tweet over AIDS
IAC’s Chief Communications Director Justine Sacco tweeted, ‘Going to Africa. Hope I don't get AIDS. Just kidding. I'm white!’ on her way to Cape Town Friday. The single tweet has sparked what some are calling ‘rage donations’ to AIDS charities.

Justine Sacco, the chief communications director for IAC, may need a refresher course in...PR.

Sacco has been sacked.

Justine Sacco, the New York PR executive who sparked a global firestorm for her wildly insensitive tweet on AIDS, was fired Saturday by her bosses at media conglomerate IAC.

“There is no excuse for the hateful statements that have been made and we condemn them unequivocally,” said a rep for the company, which includes brands such as OKCupid, Vimeo, and the Daily Beast.

“The offensive comment does not reflect the views and values of IAC. We take this issue very seriously, and we have parted ways with the employee in question.”

Sacco, 30, tweeted Friday, "Going to Africa. Hope I don't get AIDS. Just kidding. I'm white!" before taking off for South Africa.

But one web-savvy savant turned hate into opportunity, linking the website www.justinesacco.com to Aid for Africa, a group of nonprofits that have seen a serious spike in donations.

Justine Sacco the chief communications director for IAC tweeted "Going to Africa. Hope I don't get AIDS. Just kidding. I'm white!"

By Saturday afternoon, the IAC website was scrubbed clean of all traces of Sacco.

A Twitter account claiming to be Sacco emerged early Saturday in which a person claiming to be the PR exec apologized for her racist tweet. "I'm truly sorry."

The account could not be independently verified by the Daily News

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/pr-exec-justine-sacco-tweet-sparks-aids-donations-article-1.1554932

Last updated: December 12, 2013 12:59 am

Mentor adds to Nigeria president’s woes amid missing $50bn

By William Wallis in Lagos

President Goodluck Jonathan©Reuters

President Goodluck Jonathan

The in-tray of Goodluck Jonathan, Nigeria’s president, has been filling up with some potent mail in recent weeks. In just over 24 hours two letters have leaked, one from the central bank raising questions about the whereabouts of $50bn in oil revenues, the other a broadside from a former head of state, Olusegun Obasanjo.

Both have combined to cast a pall over Mr Jonathan’s presidency at a time of rising political tension and concern over the state of government finances ahead of elections in 2015.


As head of state and leader of the ruling People’s Democratic party, Gen Obasanjo was instrumental in Mr Jonathan’s ascent to the top. He has often argued that it was vital in the interests of preserving Nigeria’s multi-ethnic federation and quelling militancy in the oil-producing Niger delta to prove that someone from that region – Mr Jonathan’s – could reach the top.

But under the heading “before it is too late” he has sent a withering assessment of his protégé’s rule, effectively calling on him in a letter leaked to the media to stand down ahead of the 2015 polls in the interests of party and national unity. Likening the current situation to the dark days in the 1990s when General Sani Abacha’s brutal and corrupt rule stretched Africa’s most populous nation to breaking point, he implies that Mr Jonathan has put ethnic and personal interests above those of the nation.

Over 18 pages, he lists a string of abuses allegedly taking place from billion-dollar fraud in the oil industry to the use of security agencies for political ends. He implores Mr Jonathan to stick to what he says was an original promise not to seek a second term as president.

The issue of his second term has contributed to dividing the ruling party in recent months, prompting a faction of state governors, most of them from the predominantly Muslim north to defect to the opposition. “If on the altar of the party you go for broke, the party may be broken beyond repairs. In such a situation Nigeria as a nation may also be adversely affected, not just the PDP. I wish to see no more bloodshed occasioned by politics,” Gen Obasanjo writes.

Contacted by the FT, the former head of state, who stood down in 2007 after serving two terms as elected president, said he had felt compelled to send the letter out of “serious concern” about the direction in which Nigeria is heading.

Presidential spokespeople contacted by the FT were not on hand to respond. But an ally of the president said: “I don’t know why he has done this. He must be frustrated that he doesn’t have the influence he used to have . . . For him to stand up and be the moral conscience I don’t think too many people will buy into that. I see a lot of people who will call him a hypocrite.”

Separately a letter from the Central Bank of Nigeria suggests that the state oil company has failed to account for nearly $50bn in crude oil sold between January 2012 and July 2013 that should by law have been remitted to government coffers. The alleged shortfall amounts to 76 per cent of crude oil sold by the NNPC and is nearly equal to federal budget expenditure for both years. The NNPC has rejected the allegations.

Lamido Sanusi, the CBN governor, declined to comment on the letter. In it he says he felt obliged to write to the president documenting the “continued failure of the NNPC to repatriate significant proportions of the proceeds of crude oil shipments it made in gross violation of the law.” He wrote that he had been warning the president of this since as far back as 2010.

Mr Obasanjo also refers to 430,000 b/d of oil which he alleges have not been remitted to federal coffers. “Please deal with this allegation transparently and let the truth be known,” he pleads.

Huge shortfalls in oil revenues, which typically account for 80 per cent of government revenue, have periodically come to light in Nigeria’s past. However, the combined sums involved in Mr Sanusi’s calculations and Gen Obasanjo’s allegations dwarf previous controversies over the opaque nature of the oil industry in Africa’s leading producer.

Both letters have surfaced at a time when President Jonathan is under growing public pressure for his perceived failure to tackle corruption and act on the findings of a series of state-sanctioned investigations pointing to gross mismanagement in the oil industry. In a statement, the NNPC denied it had withheld payments and said the CBN’s information was “misleading” and “capable of creating public disaffection.”

“The allegation is borne out of misunderstanding of the workings of the oil and gas industry and the modality for remitting crude oil sales revenue into the Federation Account,” the statement said.

The 24 per cent of total crude oil earnings the CBN acknowledges receiving represents the full amount due from the NNPC’s share of sales, the statement added. The remainder could be accounted for in field development costs as well as from the receipts collected by other government agencies.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0410ec3a-6273-11e3-bba5-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2nEcKeVQw

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfEBupAeo4







Published on Feb 4, 2013

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Nigeria: Fertile Ground for Balkanization

http://www.infowars.com/nigeria-fertile-ground-for-balkanization/


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Nigeria: Fertile Ground for Balkanization
April 10, 2012


By Nile Bowie


While the Sahel security crisis continues to deteriorate following Tuareg rebels’ declaration of an independent state in Mali’s troubled northern territory [1], recent events in Nigeria indicate a potential for increased regional instability. Boko Haram, a Salafist organization seeking to overthrow the secular administration of Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, has recently killed 38 civilians in a suicide car bomb targeting nearby churches holding Easter services in the northern city of Kaduna [2]. As part of an ongoing campaign of sectarian violence, the group has strives to implement sharia law through the establishment of an Islamic State in northern Nigeria [3]. The group’s belligerent acts of violence claimed more than 500 lives during 2011 [4], prompting President Jonathan to call the current security crisis more dire than that experienced during 1967’s Biafran civil war, adding that jihadi sympathizers have successfully infiltrated his government and security agencies [5].

The group has claimed responsibility for the August 2011 bombing of the United Nations headquarters in the Nigerian capital, Abuja [6], and its adoption of sophisticated tactics indicate that Boko Haram is receiving arms and training from abroad. Mainstream outlets can now be seen readying public opinion for an increased presence in Africa under the Right to Protect Doctrine (R2P) by warning of increased terrorist attacks in Europe, following shifts in Islamist activity away from Iraq and Afghanistan, to the "ungoverned spaces" of the Sahel [7]. While the ongoing War on Terror provides the needed justification for the US Africa Command (AFRICOM) to expand its base of operations throughout the Sahel and the troubled regions of east and central Africa, the modus operandi of Boko Haram indicates foreign nurturing in numerous mediums.

The Nigerian Tribune has reported that Boko Haram receives funding from different groups from Saudi Arabia and the UK, specifically from the Al-Muntada Trust Fund, headquartered in the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia’s Islamic World Society [8]. During an interview conducted by Al-Jazeera with Abu Mousab Abdel Wadoud, the AQIM leader states that Algeria-based organizations have provided arms to Nigeria's Boko Haram movement "to defend Muslims in Nigeria and stop the advance of a minority of Crusaders" [9]. It remains highly documented that members of Al-Qaeda (AQIM) and the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) who fought among the Libyan rebels directly received arms [10] and logistical support [11] from NATO bloc countries during the Libyan conflict in 2011. While top AFRICOM General Carter Ham claims terrorist networks pose a "real challenge" to the United States [13], warning of the threat posed by Al-Qaeda and the stock of chemical weapons they obtained after raiding Gaddafi’s weapons bunker [12], the confirmed reports accusing the US of arming and training Islamist terrorist groups remain safely neglected in official Pentagon press statements.

While NATO's Supreme Allied Commander, Admiral James Stavridis openly acknowledged the presence of Al-Qaeda fighters among Libya’s rebels [14], the New Yorker has recently confirmed that the US has trained members of the Iranian opposition group Mujahideen-e-Khalq in Nevada [15], a US State Department listed terrorist organization (#29) [16] responsible for the recent assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists [17]. As the UN warns that weapons such as rocket-propelled grenades and explosives from Libya may reach Boko Haram [18], armed Tuareg fighters in northern Mali have been seen operating in army issue Toyota Hi-Lux technical trucks [19], armed with mortars, machine guns, anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons originally belonging to the LIFG, al-Qaeda affiliated Libyan rebels [20]. UN reports also disclose that Boko Haram members from Nigeria and Chad had received training at Al-Qaeda camps in Mali in 2011 [21].

Nigerian recruits were reportedly trained in an earlier incarnation of AQIM, referred to as the Algerian Groupe Salafiste pour la Prédication et le Combat (GSPC) [22], and superficial aspects of Boko Haram’s operations reflect Nigeria’s 1982 Maitatsine uprisings, a fundamentalism movement countering perceived government oppression [23]. As sectarian violence continues unimpeded, the prospects for a civil war between Nigeria’s economically dominant Christians in the South and marginalized Muslims in the North remains ever present. Although most Nigerians find themselves less divided by religious differences and more victimized by the nations notoriously corrupt political institutions, outside forces funding Boko Haram’s deplorable campaign of violence are bent on exploiting tension between Nigeria’s two largest religious groups.

A divided and warring Nigeria ultimately serves the interests of the United States as cited by Zbigniew Brzezinski, top adviser to Barack Obama and leading US foreign policy theoretician. Brzezinski, who co-founded the Trilateral Commission and openly credits himself with the creation of the Afghan Mujahideen [24], has influenced policy that encourages the division of existing nation-states by the succession and emergence of microstates, based on all cultural, ethnic and religious peculiarities. Author and historian Dr. Webster G. Tarpley writes, “For Africa, Brzezinski recommends the so-called ‘micro-nationalities’ concept, which means that national boundaries established in the 19th century should be swept aside in favor of a crazy quilt of petty tribal entities, each one so small that it could not hope to resist even a medium-sized oil multinational” [25].

Following the mass exodus of Chinese business interests during the Libyan conflict, a shattered Nigeria would ultimately create conditions where China’s growing cooperation with Abuja can be challenged and ultimately, disrupted. China has provided extensive economic, military and political support to Nigeria, an important source of oil and petroleum for Beijing. In addition to sponsoring Nigeria for a permanent seat in the UN Security Council [26], China has invested in Africa’s booming telecommunications market by building and launching a geostationary commercial satellite, owned by Nigeria and operated in Abuja, [27] as a gesture of increased partnership between the two nations. In 2010, China and Nigeria signed a $23 billion deal to construct three fuel refineries in Nigeria, adding an extra 750,000 barrels per day of domestic refining capacity [28].

While Algerian intelligence confirms a direct link between Boko Haram and western-financed AQIM [29], Boko Haram spokesman Abu Qaqa claims to have visited Mecca with Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau, where the group received financial and technical support from Al-Qaeda in Saudi Arabia (AQAP) [30]. While US officials acknowledge the presence of Al-Qaeda within the militant Syrian opposition [31], the Saudi Arabian Monarchy and other members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have created a multimillion-dollar fund to pay salaries to members of the rebel Free Syrian Army, to encourage soldiers to defect from the Syrian military and join opposition ranks [32], as part of an ongoing regime change program. A recently released subcommittee report issued by the United States Department of Homeland Security entitled “Boko Haram: Emerging Threat to the US Homeland” [33] further indicates the long-term objectives of counter terrorism operations in the region. The document reiterates the importance of sensitive resources within the Niger Delta region, and calls for using extrajudicial assassinations and unmanned aerial drone bombardments to combat the growing threat of Boko Haram in northern Nigeria.

The United States Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania conducted a series of African war game scenarios in preparation for the Pentagon’s expansion of AFRICOM under the Obama Administration. One scenario tested the US Africa Command’s capacity to respond to a disintegrating Nigeria on the verge of collapse amidst civil war, by sending 20,000 US troops to battle vying rebel factions seeking to control the Niger Delta oil fields [34]. At a press conference at the House Armed Services Committee on March 13, 2008, former AFRICOM Commander, General William Ward stated that AFRICOM would operate under the theatre-goal of “combating terrorism” to prioritize the issue of America’s growing dependence on African oil [35]. At an AFRICOM Conference held at Fort McNair on February 18, 2008, Vice Admiral Robert T. Moeller openly declared the guiding principle of AFRICOM is to protect “the free flow of natural resources from Africa to the global market”, before citing China’s increasing presence in the region as challenging to American interests [36].

In 2007, US State Department adviser Dr. J. Peter Pham commented on AFRICOM’s strategic objectives of "protecting access to hydrocarbons and other strategic resources which Africa has in abundance, a task which includes ensuring against the vulnerability of those natural riches and ensuring that no other interested third parties, such as China, India, Japan, or Russia, obtain monopolies or preferential treatment." [37] As covertly supporting terrorist organizations to achieve foreign policy aims appears to be the commanding prerequisite of foreign policy operations under the Obama Administration, Boko Haram exists as a separate arm of the US destabilization apparatus, aimed at shattering Africa’s most populous nation and biggest potential market. As Russia and China continue to assert themselves in the UNSC against calls to intervene on behalf of Syria’s militant opposition, the international community must adequately investigate the sources responsible for orchestrating insurgent activity in the Sahel and reprimand those parties accordingly.

Notes

[1] Triumphant Tuareg rebels fall out over al-Qaeda's jihad in Mali, The Telegraph, April 07, 2012

[2] Suicide Bomb Attack in Divided Nigeria Damages 2 Churches, The New York Times, April 8, 2012

[3] Who are Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamists? BBC, January 11, 2012

[4] Nigeria stunned by Kano attacks that killed more than 150, Los Angeles Times, January 21, 2012

[5] Nigeria's Goodluck Jonathan: Officials back Boko Haram, BBC, January 8, 2012

[6] Abuja attack: Car bomb hits Nigeria UN building, BBC, August 26, 2011

[7] Mali's coup matters in London, too, The Guardian, April 3, 2012

[8] Boko Haram’s funding traced to UK, S/Arabia, The Nigerian Tribune, February 13, 2012

[9] Al-Qaida makes a move on troubled Nigeria, UPI, June 17, 2010

[10] France defends arms airlift to Libyan rebels, Reuters, June 30, 2011

[11] Surveillance and Coordination With NATO Aided Rebels, The New York Times, August 21, 2011

[12] Top US General warns of coordination between al-Qaeda-linked African terror groups, The Telegraph, March 01, 2012

[13] Statement of General Carter Ham U.S. Army Commander, United States Africa Command, AFRICOM, February 29, 2012

[14] Libya: al-Qaeda among Libya rebels, Nato chief fears, The Telegraph, March 29, 2011

[15] Our Men in Iran? The New Yorker, April 6, 2012

[16] Foreign Terrorist Organizations, Bureau of Counterterrorism, U.S. Department of State, Janurary 27, 2012

[17] 'US operated deep in Iran, trained assassins', YNET News, April 8, 2012

[18] Spiking Arms Proliferation, Organized Crime, Terrorism, Part of Fallout from Libyan Crisis Afflicting Sahel, Security Council Told, United Nations, January 26, 2012

[19] Arab Spring Bleeds Deeper into Africa, Asia Times March 24, 2012

[20] Qaddafi’s Weapons, Taken by Old Allies, Reinvigorate an Insurgent Army in Mali, The New York Times, February 5, 2012

[21] Arms from Libya could reach Boko Haram, al Qaeda: U.N. Reuters, Jan 26, 2012

[22] An Interview With Abdelmalek Droukdal, The New York Times, July 1, 2008

[23] Is Nigeria al-Qaeda’s new frontier? Geneva Centre for Security Policy, March 20, 2012

[24] How Jimmy Carter and I Started the Mujahideen, Counterpunch, January 15, 1998

[25] Obama: The Postmodern Coup: Making of a Manchurian Candidate, Dr. Webster Griffin Tarpley, Progressive Press, 2008

[26] UN Security Council: China Backs Nigeria, AllAfrica, October 29, 2004

[27] China Builds And Launches A Satellite For Nigeria, The Washington Post, May 14, 2007

[28] Nigeria and china sign $23bn deal for three refineries, BBC, May 14, 2010

[29] Algeria says Nigeria's Boko Haram tied to al Qaeda, Reuters, November 13, 2011

[30] Boko Haram vows to fight until Nigeria establishes sharia law, The Guardian, January 27, 2012

[31] Al-Qaeda infiltrating Syrian opposition, U.S. officials say, The Washington Post, February 17, 2012

[32] Saudi Arabia, Gulf countries to fund Free Syrian Army, The China Post, April 2, 2012

[33] Boko Haram: Emerging Threat to the US Homeland, United States Department of Homeland Security, 2011

[34] Africa: U.S. Military Holds War Games on Nigeria, Somalia, AllAfrica, August 14, 2009

[35] Ibid

[36] Ibid

[25] China and the Congo Wars: AFRICOM. America's New Military Command, Centre for Research on Globalization, November 26, 2008
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[b]It may be finally time for marriage reformation for the clergy.


Pope Benedict's resignation linked to gay conclave: report
A 300-page dossier compiled by three cardinals investigating the theft of Vatican documents was reportedly given to the Pope the day he decided to resign. The investigation is said to have uncovered a number of factions within the Vatican of gay men who have engaged in sexual activity with male prostitutes and at organized sex romps.
By Bill Hutchinson / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS



Andrew Medichini/AP

A bombshell report revealed Pope Benedict’s (right) resignation is tied to top Vatican clergy involved in sex romps with male prostitutes at Rome saunas.

Pope Benedict’s stunning resignation is being linked to a bombshell report exposing a secret gay conclave at the Vatican being blackmailed over acts of a “worldly nature” with laymen.

The 300-page dossier — compiled by three cardinals investigating the theft of Vatican documents — was given to the Pope on Dec. 17, the same day he decided to resign, an Italian newspaper reported Friday.

Just days after receiving the report, Pope Benedict railed against gay marriage and homosexuality, calling it “the manipulation of nature.”

The probe uncovered a number of factions within the Vatican, including one whose members were “united by sexual orientation,” La Repubblica reported, citing passages from the report.
Members of the gay lobby included high-ranking Catholic clergy who organized sex romps at a Rome sauna, a suburban Rome villa and a beauty parlor, according to the report. The group was also known to meet at a university residence used by an Italian archbishop.

Quoting a high-placed Vatican source, La Repubblica revealed members of the gay faction were being subjected to “external influence” or blackmail, from laymen with whom they had relationships of a “worldly nature.

In this photo released by Italian Polizia Moderna police magazine staff, an aerial view of the St. Peter's Basilica and square at the Vatican Thursday April 7, 2005, ahead of Pope John Paul II's funeral scheduled for Friday April 8, 2005.

Male prostitutes — who had pictures of the priests dressed in drag and others performing gay sex acts — were behind the extortion, The Daily Beast reported.

“Everything revolves around the nonobservance of the Sixth and Seventh Commandments,” a source close to the cardinals who prepared the report told La Repubblica.

The Sixth Commandment instructs: “Thou shall not commit adultery” and under Catholic doctrine also forbids homosexuality. The Seventh Commandment declares stealing to be a sin.

The report, which comes in two volumes bound in red covers, is being kept in a safe at the papal apartments. It is to be delivered to the next Pope once he is elected.

It was prepared by Spanish Cardinal Julián Herranz, Slovak Cardinal Jozef Tomko and Cardinal Salvatore De Giorgi, a former archbishop of Palermo.

The sleuthing cardinals were ordered by Pope Benedict to conduct a secret investigation into the so-called “Vatileaks” scandal involving the pontiff’s former butler, Paolo Gabriele.
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Journalist David Gibson, who wrote the latest biography on Pope Benedict, said the Pope's resignation was likely due to numerous factors, mainly revolving around the internal problems of the Vatican, of which sexual shenanigans were likely one.

Gabriele was arrested in May for stealing and leaking papal correspondence to the press.

Benedict, 85, publicly announced on Feb. 11 that he is stepping down after heading the Holy See for nearly eight years. He is the first Pope to retire in more than seven centuries.

Vatican spokesman, Father Federico Lombardi, said he would not “confirm or deny” news accounts of the report.

The Pope’s last day on the job is Feb. 28. His successor will be chosen in March by the 116-member College of Cardinals — which includes Timothy Cardinal Dolan, head of the New York Archdiocese.

“I know nothing of the content of the report but whatever it contains it is clear that significant reforms are needed within the Vatican bureaucracy,” said Australia’s George Cardinal Pell.

Journalist David Gibson, who wrote the latest biography on Pope Benedict, said it is a stretch to infer the pontiff’s resignation was prompted by the cardinals’ report. “For one thing, Benedict’s resignation was most certainly the result of numerous factors, mainly revolving around the internal problems of the Vatican, of which sexual shenanigans were likely one — but hardly the only one, or even the principal one,” Gibson wrote in his online blog.

bhutchinson@nydailynews.com

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/pope-resignation-linked-gay-conclave-report-article-1.1271328


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[b]thoughts?

smells like shenanigans




French hostages seized in Cameroon found safe: report
Reuters – 10 minutes ago



PARIS (Reuters) - Seven French hostages kidnapped in Cameroon have been found alive in a house in northern Nigeria and are safe with Nigerian authorities, French television reported on Thursday.

The hostages, four children and three adults, were captured by Islamist militants this week while on a tourist excursion to the Waza national park near the Nigerian border with Cameroon.

It was the first case of foreigners being seized in the mainly Muslim north of Cameroon, a former French colony, but the region is considered within the operational sphere of Islamist sect Boko Haram and fellow Nigerian Islamist militants Ansaru.

"The hostages are safe and sound and are in the hands of Nigerian authorities," BFMTV quoted an officer from Cameroon's army as saying.

France's minister for veterans' affairs, who told parliament on Thursday that seven hostages abducted from Cameroon had been released, said minutes later there was no official confirmation that they had been freed.

A French diplomatic source said there would be no official confirmation until French authorities had received physical proof the hostages had been freed or they were in French hands.

(Reporting By Emile Picy and Nicholas Vinocur in Paris; Additional reporting by Joe Brock in Abuja; Editing by Pravin Char)
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Michaeljones36: As an Akata/African American I can say that this idea is unnecessary.

Get involved in the African renaissance, don't try to start some separate country.

Ever watched the documentary 'Blacks Without Borders'? It backs up your business plan. Form alliances and get involved in the day to day struggle where you think you can fit in, be an positive asset, and help contribute success to the continent.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMuVpnSlbZk

@Op

Got any proof other than your personal hearsay? Links, websites, FB pages to back up your claims? Why would western blacks want to form an apartheid system in the mother/fatherland after being on the front lines of the international South Africa protests? It goes against the grain of any black power unity movement, or ideology. Most westernized Bougie kneegroes are comfortable and aren't trying to leave oyinbo lands. Caribbean folks have their hands full developing their countries.



Anyway, a Ghanian writer penned an astute essay a few years ago.


How Africans Lost Power ‘In The World’

http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=167965

By Kwabena Boateng Jacaboba

Will Mr. C. have time to go into the bush(true story) and meet with native doctors like he did when he visited 9ja while in office, or will they come to the new city? He received some strong juju back then to keep the other political party from impeaching him.

one success story




About David Robinson

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Harvesting History

In many ways, David Robinson has followed in his late father's footsteps. But he was never a baseball player. David Robinson sells coffee and lives in a place where no one even cares about the New York Yankees.

Jackie Robinson, David's father, was one of the world's greatest athletes. As the first African American in the Major Leagues, his triumphs are well documented in books and film, and in Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame.

The unimaginable pressure that his father felt left an imprint on a nation, and on David. It was character more than catching, heroism more than hitting, that David felt the need to live up to.


Into Africa

David's journey to create Sweet Unity Farms began long ago, when David was trekking through Africa. Stirred by the beauty and poverty there, he purchased land in Tanzania to start a cooperative coffee farm.

His hope was to help local farmers join together to build a thriving business. Now married with children and living in Tanzania with his family, his goal is as large as the civil rights struggle his father helped champion.


Growing Dignity

David is attempting to use his unique position to change the way people in Tanzania live and work. He’s formed a cooperative of approximately 650 small coffee farms which, rather than selling its raw coffee to multinational buyers in Tanzania, is marketing it directly in North America.

The name for this venture came as naturally as David's will to lead it: Sweet Unity Farms. The collective, with David's leadership, is creating a new model of progressive economic development.

His work is transforming poverty into equality. Sweet Unity Farms coffee now offers hope to a people, and carries on his father’s legacy.
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Mr. Coffee

TOOLBOX

By Lynne Duke
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, July 4, 2005

The coffee farmer from Africa used to build houses in Harlem. He used to study at Stanford and protest war and racism. He fought with his fists as a black kid under siege by first-grade classmates at a white private school in Connecticut.

For fun, he'd ride unprotected on his childhood horse named Diamond, even swim with the beast in the pond on his family's six-acre estate.

And when little David Robinson, his big sister Sharon and older brother Jackie Jr. went out to dinner with their parents, they were amazed when crowds would line up to get an autograph from their famous father, Jackie Robinson, the pride of black America, the first black man in baseball's major leagues.

The coffee farmer from Africa is tall and erect, as his father was. And he's got the same rich dark skin, piercing eyes and strong brow, though the thick beard and dashiki hint at a different kind of life, one that would have perplexed his late father.

He is here for the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, where his Tanzanian Arabica coffee is being featured. The American Institute of Wine and Food held a reception at David Greggory restaurant for him and some Bolivian chocolate makers too. The question on everyone's lips, as always, was: How did this man become a coffee farmer in Africa?

"I was blessed to have gone to Tanzania when I was 15, in the company of my mother; went back at 19; settled there in 1984," says Robinson, giving the short answer. "I went to be involved in international economics. Coffee is the largest foreign exchange earner for Tanzania. America is the largest consumer of coffee in the world.

"I was a fisherman for a moment," he adds wryly, "but my first export of lobster was declared spoiled."

He ticks off this progression, this reasoning, as if it were pure logic, cause and effect, that called him to Africa.

But the story of how this scion of a civil rights icon transplanted himself in Africa goes much deeper. In fact, it goes to the roots of the Jackie Robinson legacy, to the civil rights struggle, to slavery.

It is a deeply American story, though it is playing out in Africa -- mirroring all those African stories that were played out in America. And the fact that he is a descendant of Africans shipped to America in chains is why a reverse trek, a return to Africa, seemed a logical move for someone with Robinson's ideologic bent.

What he once did in Harlem, building houses for his father's construction company, then building sweat equity in a black real estate cooperative, Robinson, 53, is doing in a different way in Africa. He views his work as a melding of black aspirations from both sides of the Atlantic.

He called himself a pan-Africanist during the 1970s when many black activists in the United States and Africa espoused a common purpose. Robinson still hews to that ideal, though now he calls himself a "humanist." His focus, though, remains the same: lifting the race, as folks used to say in his father's day.

One wonders whether his father would approve of his son's African life.

"He would recognize the intent of opening opportunity and developing potential, which was very much the focus of his life," says Robinson during an interview on the Mall at his Folklife Festival display.

"He would be perplexed at why that needed to be done 10,000 miles away, in Africa, rural Africa particularly."

Africa imprinted itself on Robinson's consciousness at the age of 14, during his youthful travels there with his mother, Rachel Robinson.

Five years later, he spent nearly a year roaming the continent following the 1971 death of his big brother, Jackie Jr., who had become addicted to heroin while serving in Vietnam and died in an automobile accident, driving David's car.

His death ripped the family's heart. Rachel Robinson, now 82, wrote in her 1996 memoir, "Jackie Robinson: An Intimate Portrait," "In that moment I felt we had gained so much in life and lost it all when we lost our Jackie." (Jackie Sr. would die a year later.)

"When Jackie Jr. was killed, David spent a year walking the east coast of Africa by himself," Rachel Robinson recalls. "That told me something about where he went for comfort and where he went to deal with the grief."

So when he moved there, she was not altogether surprised. But she has worried, she says, that his life there would become a rejection of America.

Robinson says that wasn't the point.

"I wasn't leaving America," he says. "I never left America forever. I wasn't going to sit up on a mountaintop in Africa or a beach in Africa and just chill and stay there. It was always going to be about how black people in America and Africa need each other."

And it was also, for him, a way to recapture the sense of identity that he feels within the African American community. He compares it to trauma, a kind of psychic branding, passed from generation to generation.

Robinson moved to Tanzania 21 years ago, first settling in the capital, Dar es Salaam. Initially, he tried exporting African art. Then he tried the fish trade. Finally he moved into coffee.

Out in the lush highlands of the Mbozi district of the southwestern Tanzania region whose coffee is praised the world over, Robinson has built a life, raised a family and seen his goals begin to flower.

Among African Americans who move to Africa, Robinson is relatively unusual for plunging deep into the African wilderness. His 280-acre farm, called Sweet Unity, includes 60 acres that he and one of his sons cleared. Robinson enlists up to 50 relatives and neighbors from other farms to harvest his coffee; similarly he helps with neighboring harvests.

It is part of the Mshikamano Farmers Group, a 10-year-old cooperative whose product, Sweet Unity Farms coffee, is featured at the Folklife Festival's Food Culture USA program.

Robinson, as the group's marketing manager, is seeking new retail and corporate clients. To earn better prices for the crops of Mshikamano's 300 coffee farms, Robinson is swimming against the currents of the global coffee trade by trying to market their product directly to buyers. (Sweet Unity Farms coffee can be found in markets in Atlanta and New York, but not yet in the District.)

And Robinson and the cooperative are battling Mbozi's unforgiving environment, filled with malaria, backbreaking work, a history of poverty and farming failures.

As a driving force in starting Mshikamano, Robinson found his presence duly noted by grant makers at the African Development Foundation, a U.S.-government organization, which awarded the cooperative $210,000 this year for such supports as tools and fertilizers.

"The fact that he would move there, start a family there, live in the village with no electricity, no running water: It's quite a commitment," says Tom Coogan, ADF's representative for eastern and southern Africa. "And I think he really understood at the local level both what the farmers needed and how he could help."

In Tanzania, Robinson is affectionately known, in Kiswahili, as M negro (the Negro). His life takes the appellation "African American" to a whole new level, for Robinson is living an African life, not just acknowledging Africa with a name.

In 1990, he petitioned local authorities in Mbozi for land, which meant explaining why he, a non-Tanzanian, should be granted such a privilege. Despite letters of introduction from government contacts on the coast, his first couple of pitches were rejected. The third village, Bara, seemed more open to the idea.

Robinson presented himself to the village authorities as a descendant of Africa, once separated from the continent and its tribes by slavery, who had returned to claim a place.

"Traditionally in an African society, a social member, a tribal member, has a village and all villagers look out for and will allocate land to their members," he explains.

So he told them, "By history, I lost my location. But I am choosing this location and I want you, based on that principle, to give me some consideration."
The village's "political science committee" unanimously approved his petition and gave him a piece of remote forest land a 45-minute walk from the nearest farm.

Robinson then began his search for a bride. A family of the Wanyamwezi tribe adopted him to assist in the process (one can't just show up in rural Africa and ask a young woman for a date). They sent a delegation out in the Mbozi region to prospect for marriage-aged women.

Robinson knew he wanted to meet a Nyamwezi woman because he thought they would share a similar consciousness as descendants of enslaved people. (The Wanyamwezi were heavily raided in the 19th century by Arab slave traders along Africa's east coast.) He also admits that he had his eye on the Wanyamwezi because its women are reputed to be beautiful.

Out of the search process emerged Ruti Mpunda, then 18. They have been married for 15 years, have grown to love one another, says Robinson, and have had seven children. One, named Jack, died from malaria at the age of 4 more than a decade ago.

The family lived in the remote village of Bara until three years ago. Robinson moved them to the capital, to be closer to proper schools. But he spends most of his time at the farm, at Sweet Unity.

From his land he can see Lake Rukwa, among the smaller lakes of the Great Rift Valley of Africa, just south of Lake Tanganyika. He can survey coffee lands, as far as the eye can see, that he will pass on to his children.

His father, after baseball, was an executive for the Chock Full O'Nuts coffee empire in New York. But Robinson doesn't think that influenced his choice of vocation. His workplace is deep in the African bush, a place his father would never have gone. (His mother has visited Tanzania several times, though the rough trek to the farm from the capital, about 16 hours by car, became too rigorous as her age advanced.)

Robinson is a celebrated figure in the region. A man who has committed himself to helping the farmers better their lives. An African American who has come back. Mnegro.

"They have no idea who Jackie Robinson is," says Coogan, who has traveled in the region. "They don't know what baseball is. But they're in awe of what David has done."

Robinson chuckles fondly as he uses the term that is archaic in America, saying, "The Negroes will always be remembered in Mbozi."

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https://img.timeinc.net/time/magazine/archive/covers/1947/1101470922_400.jpg

Harry Warnecke/ New York Daily News
Published: 02/15/2013 1:30:26
Jackie Robinson, 1947
Although Jackie Robinson is revered as one of the first African Americans to break the color barrier, New York boasts a rich history of many such firsts - not only in sports, but also the realm of arts, politics, public service and even the world of finance. Check out the list. There are lots of surprises ... In 1947 Robinson was signed to the Brooklyn Dodgers, paving the way for African Americans to play in Major League Baseball.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/new-york-firsts-black-history-gallery-1.51194#ixzz2LRPzn6Y8

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with Nelson Rockefeller(former U.S. V.P./NY Governor, and the late Senator Jacob Javits

sacked NIMC workers may need to take a lesson from yankee oyinbos

they used to go buckwild to get their rights!


Rioting Across America - The Great Depression



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exuGv3HsV-U

RIP, Mr. Esiri talents and presence will be greatly missed.


'Black Liquid Gold', and 'Who Will tell The President' are two of my favorite movies that he starred in.

Found this the other day while researching the contractor where the kidnappings took place in the north. This company has been awarded 9ja road and infrastructure contracts for over 30 years.




About Setraco Nigeria Limited


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http://www1.businessindex.com.ng/CompanyProfile.aspx?mfgcode=50656734&sInfo=Setraco%20Nigeria%20Limited-Stadium+Construction

Setraco was established in 1977 and started by constructing township and district roads in what was then Bendel State. Over the last thirty years the Company has rapidly grown to become one of the largest construction companies in Nigeria specialized in roads and bridges. With a presence today in around 20 states; Setraco has played a key role in developing Nigeria’s infrastructure as the Country strives towards becoming a developed nation.

Setraco Nigeria is a member of the Setraco International Holding group of companies. The Company is also technically partnered with a number of leading design and consulting firms across the globe which enables us to present our clients with cutting edge solutions for their needs.

http://www1.businessindex.com.ng/CompanyProfile.aspx?mfgcode=50656734&sInfo=Setraco%20Nigeria%20Limited-Stadium+Construction



Setraco International Holding

Owner, Setraco International Holding

Lebanon Construction

http://lb.linkedin.com/pub/setraco-international-holding/27/b41/31a

Nigerian "terrorists" nab French tourists in Cameroon: Hollande
By Bate Felix and Jean-Baptiste Vey | Reuter


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Reuters/Reuters - France's President Francois Hollande leaves after delivering a speech to celebrate Chinese New Year at the Elysee Palace in Paris, February 18, 2013. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer



DAKAR/ATHENS (Reuters) - Gunmen kidnapped seven French nationals, including three children, on Tuesday in northern Cameroon near the border with Nigeria and the perpetrators came from neighboring Nigeria, French President Francois Hollande said.

The risk of attacks on French nationals and interests in Africa has risen since France sent forces into Mali last month to help oust Islamist rebels occupying the country's north.

"They have been taken by a terrorist group that we know and that is in Nigeria," Hollande told reporters during a visit to Greece. Islamist militants in northern Nigeria now pose the biggest threat to stability in Africa's top oil-producing state.

Radio France International had earlier reported the kidnapping, saying that the seven people were taken by armed men on motorbikes and were being taken towards Nigeria.

Western governments have grown concerned that Nigeria's radical Islamists may link up with groups elsewhere in the region, particularly al Qaeda's North African wing AQIM given the conflict in nearby Mali.

The seven tourists were abducted at around 7 a.m. in a village about 10 km (six miles) from the Nigerian border near the Waza national park and Lake Chad in the extreme north of Cameroon where Westerners often go for holidays.

It was the first case of foreigners being seized in the mostly Muslim north of Cameroon, a former French colony.

"I see the hand of (Nigerian militants) Boko Haram in that part of Cameroon. France is in Mali, and it will continue until its mission is completed," Hollande said.

France intervened in Mali last month when Islamist rebels, after hijacking a rebellion by ethnic Tuareg MNLA separatists to seize control of the north in the confusion following a military coup, pushed south towards the capital Bamako.

Eight French citizens are already being held in West Africa's Sahel region by al Qaeda-affiliated groups.

Cameroon Information Minister Issa Tchiroma Bakary said he could not confirm the kidnapping report for now.

On Sunday, seven foreigners were snatched from the compound of Lebanese construction company Setraco in northern Nigeria's Bauchi state, and al Qaeda-linked Ansaru took responsibility.

Northern Nigeria is increasingly afflicted by attacks and kidnappings by Islamist militants. Ansaru, which rose to prominence only in recent months, has also claimed the abduction in December of a French national who is still missing.

An Ansaru statement said kidnappings were driven by "the transgression and atrocities done to the religion of Allah by the European countries in many places, such as Afghanistan and Mali."

(Additional reporting by John Irish and Diadie Ba in Dakar, Vicky Buffery in Paris; Writing by John Irish; Editing by Mark Heinrich)

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jidegirl12: This ain't bout me, your boss is not obliged to feed the poor / hungry on the streets to justify his humanity/ morality.
Why should an average rich apologize for his wealth?
Well I understand the objective of this thread but do you think bashing the rich will make any difference to Nigeria's current situation ? When your leaders in Abuja waste money on daily basis like no tomorrow?

Are you forgetting something?

Matthew 23:11

"He that is the greatest among you shall be your servant."


Proverbs 28:27

Those who give to the poor will lack nothing,
but those who close their eyes to them receive many curses.


Matthew 14:13-21

Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand

AFRICOM in action!


After Niger Comes ______?




Council on Foreign Relations Calling for War In Niger?
February 18, 2013


Source: Foreign Affairs


http://www.blacklistednews.com/Council_on_Foreign_Relations_Calling_for_War_In_Niger%3F/24294/0/38/38/Y/M.html



After Mali Comes Niger
West Africa's Problems Migrate East
Sebastian Elischer

http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/138931/sebastian-elischer/after-mali-comes-niger?page=show

Burger01: Those foreigners were given traveling warning alerts to volatile northern region of Nigeria!!! What were they after in the north that could be that important than their freaking lives?.. Now, international communities would have excuses to put Nigeria in the bad light of the world... C'mon!!!

One has to wonder why the FG or state government awarded the road contract to foreigners, and why didn't the company employ 9ja workers?




Nigeria foreign workers abducted in Bauchi state


At least six foreign workers have been seized and a security guard shot dead by gunmen who attacked a construction company site in northern Nigeria, officials say.

One of the workers seized was Italian, one was Greek and two others Lebanese.

But UK officials could not confirm a report that another was British.

No-one has admitted the abductions but the Islamist militant group, Boko Haram, has staged a series of attacks in northern Nigeria.

A security guard was killed as the attackers targeted the workers' camp at Jama'are in Bauchi state.

Correspondents say it is the biggest kidnapping in northern Nigeria in recent times.

The kidnapping of foreigners and wealthy Nigerians is common in the oil-rich Niger Delta region, in the south of the country, and has become a lucrative trade for criminals.

Oil workers and other foreign nationals are often targeted because companies pay high ransom money to secure their employees' release, correspondents say.
Police station attacked

Lebanese foreign minister Adnan Mansour said two of those held were from Lebanon.

An Italian and a Greek national were also abducted from the site run by Lebanese-owned firm Setraco, the foreign ministries in Rome and Athens confirmed.

Another of those seized was a Filipino, a union leader at Setraco told the BBC.

The Italian ambassador in Abuja said, "Italy's absolute priority is the safety of its compatriot," Ansa news agency reported.

A UK foreign office spokesman said it was investigating reports of a Briton being kidnapped.

The raid was preceded by an attack on the local police station, when two vehicles were blown up, in the town of Jama'are, some 125 miles (200km) north of the state capital, Bauchi.

The attackers then moved on to a camp belonging to Setraco, killing a guard and seizing the workers. Setraco is currently expanding a major road in the area.

The state capital has itself been attacked several times by Boko Haram, which wants to impose Sharia (Islamic law) across Nigeria.

Earlier this month, nine polio vaccinators were shot dead at two health centres in northern Nigeria.

Some Nigerian Muslim leaders have previously opposed polio vaccinations, claiming they could cause infertility.

Boko Haram has emerged as one of the most prolific militant groups in West Africa, carrying out a large number of low-level attacks but also some more sophisticated attacks.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21491628

pendo89: you really love history

history, current events, and ___.




Kenya begins construction of 'silicon' city Konza

23 January 2013 Last updated at 09:05 ET

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21158928


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Kenya's president has launched a $14.5bn (£9.1bn) project to build a new city intended to be an IT business hub and dubbed "Africa's Silicon Savannah"

shymexx: That's my doozy, Osi... That nigga stays bagging bad bytches lol...

he also toasted A-list Hollywood babes

SPOTTED: NY Giant Osi Umenyiora Wining & Dining Elise Neal

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Just sharing!

Royal tales of the throne.



THE HALLETT REPORT No. 6

The Abdication of ‘Queen’ Elizabeth II
We are NOW in an Interregnum

The Real Deal with Dr. Jim Fetzer, 14 January 2013.

In HALLETT REPORT NO 6
Lord Chancellor Greg Hallett continues to expose the
Illegitimacy of the incumbent British Monarchy in an interview with Dr. Jim Fetzer.
The proposed changes to the Laws of Succession
is an attempt by the Mafia to maintain their stronghold.
Queen Victoria had a legitimate firstborn son who lived as the British Exilarch in Portugal.
His descendants have a Legitimate and Superior Claim to the Throne of the United Kingdom.


http://www.theworldoftruth.net/HallettReport/No6.html#.UR8Kr_IRCUQ


https://www.theworldoftruth.net/HallettReport/No6/images/HR6-poster.jpg



Greg Hallett Proxy To The Throne Of England The OFP


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXwP0q-Zsms



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