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anoda member posted more photos

https://www.nairaland.com/1167921/photos-president-jonathan-visits-dilapidated

onatisi: some ppl don't realize that the main aim of Nigeria sending troops to mali is not to gain from Mali mineral but to curb and if possible eliminate the activities of terrorist INSIDE NIGERIA,we are in Mali to make sure that these terrorist dont have a safe heaven to train and attack Nigeria , it has got nothing to do with gold or mineral resources , on this issue i will give gej a pass mark

timeless wisdom

“Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.” – Charles Dickens, 1844


"Charity should begin at himself.” – John Wycliffe 1383

NL go make me pigeon improve to understand nollywood movies.

cap28: HANDS OFF MALI YOU EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN DEMONS ALONG WITH YOUR WEST AFRICAN LACKEYS AND SLAVES WHO ARE RUSHING TO HELP THE WHITE MAN STEAL THE NATURAL RESOURCES OF A FELLOW AFRICAN NATION

SHAME ON ANY AFRICAN WHO SUPPORTS THIS DAYLIGHT ROBBERY AND WESTERN ANNEXATION OF A SOVEREIGN AFRICAN STATE!!!!

stup.id slaves of western imperialism - go and secure mali's gold, uranium and other valuable minerals for US and French corporations - africans due to poor education and lack of exposure will forever remain slaves of the europeans.

what business does nigeria have fighting a war against their fellow africans on behalf of france and the united states ? this is another chapter in the long saga of US/EU invasion and occupation of the african continent under the pretext of fighting a fictitious war on terror - a war that was created right out of central casting studios in hollywood.

nigerians stop beign cowards and pawns of the europeans - who created al qaeda? if you can answer that question you have already gone halfway to resolve the problem of boko haram in nigeria.







http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/01/15/pers-j15.html

You try but the Africom mission and 21th century crusades is in full effect and many will fail to comprehend the intricate deception until its too late .

another viewpoint


ROBBING PETER MALI TO PAY PAUL GERMANY

http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/robmalipaygermany.php


The German government started demanding their physical gold to be repatriated back to Germany from both the Bank of France and the New York Federal Reserve. Germany demanded all of the 374 tons of gold held by the Bank of France, but only 300 tons of the 1500 tons of bullion held by the New York Federal Reserve. Both the Bank of France and the New York Federal Reserve have stated that the process of returning the gold will take years, five years for the French gold, and seven for the gold coming from the New York Federal Reserve. The delay makes the situation clear. Neither the Bank of France nor the New York Federal Reserve actually have the gold Germany deposited, sending tungsten fakes back to the very nation that first spotted the fraud is risky, the France and the United States are scrambling to find replacement gold.

Which brings us to Mali.

Mali is one of the world's largest gold producers. Together with neighboring Ghana they account for 7-8% of world gold output. That makes them a rich prize for nations desperate for real physical gold. So, even as Germany started demanding their gold back from the Bank of France and the New York Federal Reserve, France (aided by the US) decided to invade Mali to fight "Islamists" working for "Al Qaeda." Of course, "Islamists" has become the catch-all label for people that need to be killed to get them out of the way of the path to riches, and the people being bombed by France (aided by the US) are not "Al Qaeda" but Tawariqs, who have been fighting for their independence for 150 years, long before the CIA created "Al Qaeda". Left to themselves, the Tawariqs could sell gold to whoever they want for whatever they want, and right now China can outbid the US and France.

humor .....

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Drones are big business now a days!

Drone program grows

http://www.marketplace.org/topics/tech/drone-program-grows-while-military-shrinks

The new Defense Department budget was announced yesterday by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. The grand total? $525 billion, down form $531 billion in the current fiscal year. The Pentagon aims to cut $487 billion from its budget over the next 10 years. That means a reduction of 100,000 troops, base closures, and cutting back on ships and aircraft.

One area that is not slated for reduction, however, is the UAV program. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, commonly referred to as drones, are going to see a 30 percent increase under the new plan. "I actually would argue that this budget is only the start of that," says Peter W. Singer, director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative at Brookings.

[b]These gigantic international corporations are in the eye of the politicians. The lawmakers are feeling the heat from their constituents but most are fully bought and paid for by these monoliths. These multinational entities move millions and billions of profits around the world at the press of a keystroke. Seems like a global class war is on the horizon. The middle classes in the west have had about enough and many are preparing for the next economic meltdown. Guns, rifles, and ammunition are flying off the shelves in gun stores and gun shows in America. Stay tuned.


Taxation: Unsafe offshore

By Vanessa Houlder
Governments want to close tax loopholes but risk scaring off big foreign investors

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January 13, 2013 7:22 pm
Taxation: Unsafe offshore

By Vanessa Houlder
Governments want to close tax loopholes but risk scaring off big foreign investors
ship in the distance©Alamy

Reading the barometer: governments are responding to a changing political climate and are looking to stop companies logging their profits in offshore tax havens

In April 1961, a newly elected President John F. Kennedy launched an offensive against a phenomenon that he feared could undermine America’s future: aggressive tax avoidance.

In a message to Congress, he railed against the “unjustifiable” use of tax havens by growing numbers of businesses to slash their tax liabilities at home and abroad.



More than 50 years on, the political rhetoric seems to be identical, echoing Kennedy’s broadside against “artificial arrangements”. Once again, businesses are under fire for using corporate structures that shift profits to low-tax jurisdictions. Political anger is mounting over the low taxes paid by multinationals such as Apple, Google and Amazon during an age of brutal cuts in public spending.

In the US, the powerful Senate investigations panel has attacked the “loopholes” and “gimmicks” used to move earnings offshore; in Australia, a Treasury minister slammed multinationals’ tax practices as “not fair game”. In Britain, David Cameron, the prime minister, sent a blunt message to business: “We’re playing fair by you; you’ve got to play fair by us.” Pascal Saint-Amans, the OECD’s top tax official, says this political pressure has now moved beyond rhetoric and represents a turning of the tide against avoidance by big business.

“The aggressive tax planning of the last 20 years was achieved with the complicity of governments themselves to cope with tax competition,” he says. “This mindset is seriously changing.”

Galvanising co-ordinated action, Britain, Germany and France have thrown their weight behind an urgent review of the international tax standards, which they say, faces “difficulty keeping up with changes in global business practices, such as the development of ecommerce in commercial activities”.

The potential reforms will start to take shape next month at a Group of 20 meeting in Russia, where the Paris-based OECD will release an interim report on tax. Governments are already locking horns with businesses over how far the measures will go.



In November, they met to discuss proposals to tighten the rules on the artificial shifting of profits to tax havens. While these meetings are normally dry, sedate affairs, the session in Paris was marked by a more palpable sense of tension.

James Phillips, a tax executive at CGGVeritas Group, a French oil services company – but speaking at the meeting in a personal capacity – stressed what he saw as the dangers of pushing business too far. “The current financial crisis will, eventually, pass – it is far from historically unique. If, however, its legacy is to retrench international trade via reducing opportunities for profitable gain by institutionalising double taxation its legacy will be much further reaching,” he said.

Despite the protestations from business, finance ministries must respond to an increasingly irate public that feels global tax rules have been rigged in favour of multinationals.

“All of this is taking place against the backdrop of anti-globalisation and protectionism. Politicians are starting to pick up the vibe,” says Jeffrey Owens, professor at the Vienna University of Economics and Business.

Multinationals, stung by the damage to their reputations, accuse governments of blaming companies for a system that the states themselves designed to attract investors. When Google, which shifted billions of dollars from Ireland to Bermuda to achieve an overseas tax rate of just 3.2 per cent in 2011, drew fire from politicians, Eric Schmidt, its executive chairman, insisted the tax structure was “based on the incentives that the governments offered us to operate”.

Ireland, where Google employs 3,000 people from 65 countries in Dublin’s former docklands, taxes a sliver of profit from the billions of the Google’s overseas sales which are booked in the country. This is achieved by Google’s use of a “double Irish” structure, that exploits different definitions of tax residence in the Irish and US tax codes. The Irish unit pays royalties to Google in the tax haven of Bermuda for using the company’s own intellectual property.

. . .

But Google’s arrangements are, above all, a symptom of flaws in the US tax system. Scott Hodge, president of the Tax Foundation, a non-partisan research group in Washington, says these kinds of “tax planning gymnastics” are the “the response you would expect when businesses are subject to an arcane, outmoded tax system”.

As well as having the highest tax rate in the industrialised world, the US is increasingly unusual in taxing companies’ worldwide profits. To mitigate these disadvantages for its companies competing abroad, it allows them to defer US taxes on foreign earnings until they are repatriated.

Since 1997, Washington has tilted the tax system further in the companies’ favour by passing the “check-the-box” regulations that opened up new opportunities to put income in tax havens, without having to invest in real operations there. Companies had a new incentive to strip taxable profits out of high-tax countries through payments of interest or royalties, pushing down the average overseas tax rates of US businesses.

In Europe, the problems are exacerbated by the anti-discrimination rules enshrined in the 1957 Treaty of Rome which have hindered the policing of national tax boundaries. Existing single-market rules allow businesses to “structure arrangements with such jurisdictions via the member state with the weakest response ... this does not only erode member states’ tax bases but also endangers fair competitive conditions for business”, according to a new report on aggressive tax planning by the European Commission.

Emerging economies, particularly the powerhouses of Brazil, China and India, are also feeling the pinch. The existing rules on international taxation “only take care of the interest of developed countries”, the Indian government told the UN in March 2012, a sign of frustration over multinationals’ ability to siphon off profits through royalties and management fees and deposit them in tax-friendlier locales. “The Brics are saying: you are raiding our markets,” says one multinational executive.

Beijing is increasingly resisting efforts to cast its companies as low-margin “contract” manufacturers, arguing that its own technical expertise, infrastructure and huge population mean substantial value is created in China and should be taxable there. Brazil has rejected conventional approaches to determine multinationals’ tax bills in favour of a simpler, more rigid approach that assumes fixed industry-wide profit margins.

Facing competing demands, the fragile consensus over the international allocation of multinationals’ profits risks a breakdown. Highlighting the dangers of a failure by governments to collaborate on reforms, the OECD warns: “The consequences could be damaging in terms of increased possibilities for mismatches, additional disputes, increased uncertainty for business, a battle to be the first to grab taxable income through purported anti-avoidance measures, or a race to the bottom with respect to corporate income taxes.”

There is “no magic recipe” to address profit shifting, the OECD warns. But it is increasingly confident about the technical changes that would make the system more robust.

The new guidelines on “intangible” assets it is pushing through would stop companies shifting profits to shell companies in tax havens, although they would not stop the transfer of intellectual property and other intangibles to a low-tax country if companies had genuine business operations there.

It is also likely to propose a crackdown on arbitrage – the exploitation of differences between countries’ tax codes – by recommending governments refuse tax deductions on income that will be untaxed in another jurisdiction. Reforms of the rules affecting ecommerce companies are also under consideration.

Similar proposals are being pushed by the European Commission. Calling for a “strong and cohesive EU stance”, Algirdas Semeta, the tax commissioner, said: “In a single market, within a globalised economy, national mismatches and loopholes become the playthings of those that seek to escape taxation.”

Some factors are already working in governments’ favour: demands from the public and investors for greater transparency, a growing and renewed awareness of the risks of extreme tax planning to companies’ reputations and the recently acquired ability to prise open the details of companies held in tax havens.

. . .

Attempts at reform will, however, face powerful headwinds. The forces of tax competition – including the temptation to grab the most mobile profits, such as those arising from intellectual property – remain significant. In spite of the soaring rhetoric, governments must proceed with some caution, fearing any cooling of investment because of a crackdown on tax avoidance.

“Member states are defensive,” says a Brussels-based official contemplating efforts to co-ordinate a tougher code. “Countries are using their tax system to compete.” In the UK, for example, at the same time as spearheading international efforts to collaborate on reforms, George Osborne, the chancellor, is this year launching a “patent box” offering a cut-price tax rate for certain types of intellectual property and an offshore finance company regime to enhance the UK’s ability to attract headquarters.

Rooting out avoidance might, paradoxically, intensify competition on tax rates. James Hines of the University of Michigan says tax havens “play the important role of pressure valves”, allowing big countries to impose higher taxes on domestic businesses without deterring international investors or triggering “beggar thy neighbour” tax competition.

Rates in industrialised countries have already been driven down from almost 50 per cent to less than 30 per cent since the 1980s in a trend that shows no sign of ending. Pressure is likely to intensify if the US joins the fray. The International Monetary Fund reports: “Any sizeable US corporate income tax reform can therefore be expected to elicit a tax competition reaction by other countries.”

But as cash-strapped governments around the world attempt to repair their deficits, they will battle to defend corporate tax revenues that – while failing to keep up with the growth of companies’ profitability – have held broadly steady at 8-10 per cent of the total for the past 50 years.

One likely alternative would be a far greater reliance on consumption taxes, which would only add to increasingly unequal income distribution.

Given this need to preserve the integrity of the tax system, businesses would be well advised to brace for higher tax bills.

“Governments have made the business tax system more friendly since the mid 1980s,” says Mr Owens. “Now it is payback time”.


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Chick from Ghana got the NL memo.


Eazzy goes from Brazilian hair to Short cut

Entertainment of Monday, 14 January 2013

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Eazzy steps into 2013 with a new hair look she prefers to call “short”.

Backstage of the recently-held December2Rememba concert, Eazzy poses in a long-sleeved-black Jacket and hot pants to match.

When asked about what she feels, she replied, “Am falling in love with mi short hair look more and more everydae..look for #2013”, she says.

The singer/rapper is currently in the studio, working on new singles. Her most recent single “Rock Dis Party”, which features Kwaw Kese, is doing pretty well.

Are you feeling Eazzy’s new look?


http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/entertainment/artikel.php?ID=262067

what do you think of Low Cuts on women?

they are extremely more sexy, organic, and hygienically conscious than the weave and wig wearers. low maintenance cut means more time for other important things in life, or more leisure and relaxation time. it also shows a good sense of economics and thriftiness! why send your hard earned money to Asia or Brazil for another woman's chopped off chemically treated mane?

Knowledge9000: She looks like a transgendered. I don't get how any man would find this thing attractive. I could easily do the same as a guy...simply shave off all the hair on my body, apply some lip sticks, nice hair do and sexy clothes.

you gotta kidding me , did you not see her twist and shake what her mama gave her in the opening scenes of


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dat yansh can clap-o

starts @ 09:25

http://www.nollywoodone.com/drama/5227-native-daughter.html

It wouldn't surprise me if the big looters and colonial oil masters set up a trap for the villagers to try and dissuade this siphoning behavior. This has been happening too often in 9ja recently.

[b]Culled From S. Reporters


How To Become Easily Rich In Nigeria- All You Need Is About 2 Years!
Posted: January 12, 2013 - 16:01

You really not need to be smart or savvy to make money in Nigeria, you really not need to keep sending those annoying 419 letters or open up profiles on dating sites trying to scam unsuspecting soul mate searchers, what you have to do rather, is to open up your own Pentecostal church in Nigeria.

*We have the population,160 million people you can weekly extort money from( let's be conservative with the number).

*There is no legislation or a Government agency like charity commission that regulate what you do, you are simply the boss. To even jazz it more, if you know the current CAN President, Pastor Ayo and you often go to the mountain to conduct fasting prayers and offer imaginary sign and wonders, you may be lucky to have access to the anointed one in Aso Villa. You may well as well be on their payroll where you will be invited to join other prayer warriors who are mandated to pray regularly for our President. As we have now come to know, leadership in Nigeria have been outsourced to these characters and their counterpart in other imaginary religious faith and deities. That is part of the collective prize that all of us must pay whenever a misfit takes centre stage and becomes the president of this great Nation. It did not start with this current President, the only thing he has done is to make it more creative hence deceiving Nigerians is very easy, all you have to do is join Pastor Adebayo or any of the top ranking Pentecostal Prosperity Preaching "daddy's" in their Friday Night Vigil; and in the full glare of the cameras ask the church congregation to pray for you as you embark on the journey of changing our Nation. Many gullible Nigerians love to be fooled especially once you use church, Jesus, Bible, Quaran or Prophet Mohammed. Anyway Back to the script....

*Prayer warriors take note because 2015 presidential election will be the mother of all election rigging in Nigeria. A lot of our stolen monies will be shared too.

Back to the church thing,

*You can start from a mechanic workshop or under a flyover bridge, Just make your story look very bad, we have many of those.

The idea here is that during the formative stages of your would be criminal empire, you better have a very moving moonlight story that you will keep recycling to your captured souls because the gullible's among us are too many and they easily buy into such stories without knowing that it was part of the fake package. If you doubt us, please ask our friend Pastor Dr Sign Fireman or Pastor Chris Ojigbani. As Nigerians, we love dramatized stories of how our pastors started and how God called them, none of them has ever told you that they actually called themselves. Church member's never miss that part especially during their voodoo church service. Even if they are in the kitchen busy trying to make food for themselves, once the bogus pastors starts with his story of how God called him or Satan called him, come and see our people behave like they are before God himself. Many Echoes of "To God be the glory" and all manner of wild chanting fill the air.

*Name the church whatever you like and you are good to go. You can equally name it 'Facebook Church of God for all Saints', we have seen worse than that too. You need not worry about us because we have psychologically inoculated ourselves many year's back when we first took notice of how this criminality is destroying our great Nation. This has become the antithesis of what severe brainwashing is doing to our population today. Our 70's, 80's and even early 90's were not as this bad as it is today. We are dealing with a well organized crime empire worse than both Boko Haram and drug pushing combined together. In Africa too, these criminal voodoo pastors from Nigeria are fast opening up church's everywhere and making so much money. Indoctrinating / training their fellow would be pastors in other countries in Africa is better for them because you speak the language of your country while they provide you the platform using their already established brand. You have to think deep but also have a serious analytical skills to understand why we have labeled these so called church set ups worse than Boko Haram and drug pushing combined together. If you want to brainwash a nation or people, all you have to do is starve them with no access to information and then entrap them with religion laced with deep rooted poverty. That is the story of Nigeria today and we are speaking from experience and not noise.

Do we really get that stupider to not have an iota of common sense that God handed to each and every one of us free of charge?..

Somebody wakes up from nowhere and tells you that "God said" or that "God called him"; because you are made out of greed, because of your inordinate insatiable lust to become rich in a country littered with all manners of stench, you fall like a pack of bricks to their scam, then the next thing, you loose your God given common sense approach to things which will take you years to recover under a routine psychological therapy sessions. Some of you end up loosing your marriage in the process because you have allowed a third party into your marriage which is the fake pastor called Man of God who now control your thinking.

The scripture tells us that "by their fruits ye shall know them" yet you know these fake men called God but you continue patronizing them with monies that you struggle so hard to earn. We do not give a penny to any Pentecostal church in Nigeria unless the Pastor or church is really doing God's work, we rather donate our money to good charity doing God's work. We are not sure that on the day of judgement that God will ask us how many times we went to church or mosque, rather, it will be for you and us to tell God how we impacted on people's lives here on earth, what we did to change the lives of people. When are you going to stop being deceived and seek truth or let the truth seek you out?.. Do you know this person before,the pastor, do you know his past? NO! you don't but you call him 'daddy'. Well the result is perpetual mental slavery laced with a heavy dose of hypnotism and heck, you become psychologically mentally entrapped, a complete zombie if you may like. Your thoughts process and mindset are at the mercies of most of these voodoo Pentecostal pastors. Their fellow imams are not left out either, they take advantage of the vulnerable who are simply loyal to them, because most of them are poor, they are fed with tuwo shinkafa( Mashed Rice) by most of these stark illiterates called imams who teach their flock nothing else other than distorted words of our holy prophet, may peace be unto him. Some of these imams preach violence, no wonder our North is littered with terrorists.

Now that you know how to make money in Nigeria, are you going to be part of sanitizing this money making industry to protect the image of Nigeria or would you love to join the bandwagon of enslaving of Nigerians?. You make that call yourself...
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yeah, fine gurl!

Now that Nse is taken, Nuella is my new Nollywood fantasy babe.


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“You Are A Husband Snatcher” – Dimoko-Korkus Insists Nuella Njubigbo Is Dating Governor Amaechi

National Enconmium entertainer,Stella Dimoko-Korkus, has lashed out at actress Nuella Njubigbo, who accused her of blackmail, after she did a report on her alleged relationship with Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State.

In her response, she insisted that Njubigbo was dating the Governor and opened more cans of worms.

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photoHere is her full response:

Dear Nuella,

I saw the press release and I am still laughing…laughing because you did the right thing by standing up to defend yourself but you used the wrong words and you focused on the wrong topic. I was not the only blog who broke that story, in fact I was the second person who broke the story and the other blog has other details you might also choose to respond to..

The story there is as follows: ”When you see Nuella Njubigbo ride in her Toyota Highlander, please know that it is Rivers state tax payers money moving in action as it was a gift from Rivers Governor Rotimi Amaechi for all the love she has been showering on him since they met coincidentally through a desperate businessman looking from patronage from the Governor.

Bononline gathered that Nuella met Governor Amaechi when a Desperate Contractor who had heard several tales of Gov Amaechi sex orgy with Nollywood stars including being a major contributing factor to the collapse of the marriage of a Big Nollywood star who also fell apart from her friend who is a divorcee and has a record of being Nollywood serial lover who went behind her to sleep with the deep pocket Governor. The plan between the contractor and Nuella was for her to hook the Governor during the presentation and thereafter help convince the Governor to go on with deal, Plan A worked well as the Governor liked Nuella and they exchanged numbers but plan B completely failed as Nuella just hooked on to the Governor and forgot the contractor, we learnt that part of the goodies Nuella had benefited from Gov Amaechi is her Toyota Highlander taken from the pool of cars which was supposed to be given to Government officials and she reportedly got 5m late November. Twice she has also been on the Govt delegation Aboard.”

I will tender my apology at the end of this memo no doubt but first I want to tackle some issues that you pointed out in your press release. Note that my response has nothing to do with ”pulling you down further”, I am only trying one last attempt like a drowning fish to rescue my name that you called out in your release….I want to state here categorically that I am not a babalawo, hence your reference to ”the writers concoction of lies was a misfire”.

Let me start from the beginning.

I am so sorry for not contacting you before I released my story concerning you and the South-South Governor, I guess that was a misfire on my side but the thing is I am tired of the lies told by you and your ilk when called to confirm a story…biko forgive me for that.

I never claimed or wrote anywhere that Nuella lives in the east with a Nollywood producer. I reported last year that Actress Nuella was in a neck deep in a relationship with movie producer Tchidi Chikere and that he had moved out of his home into hers. They came out with a press release denying that anything of such was happening. I hinted that the actress may be pregnant and her flat tummy proved me wrong.

The publicist of that press release confirmed that relationship and even said the producers wife was the reason her marriage crashed, the publicist also corrected me that Nuella was not pregnant.

Before I broke the report of Nuella’s affair with Tchidi which was an open secret, they had been dating for many months before the report and Tchidi was a known face at her abode in Lagos. The second man I reported she dated was international footballer Emmanuel…. whom she visited briefly in Russia. If she claims she did not go to Russsia to drink tea then so be it, but thank God she did not break the footballer’s relationship to someone else. I quote ”The writer should be bold enough to say publicly what axe she has to grind with Nuella rather than hide behind the noble profession of journalism to execute her cheap hatchet job. An open declaration of her true intentions will probably confer on her some measure of respect which she desperately needs to salvage her dwindling career fortunes.

Journalism is not for rumour mongers. We know it is her stock in trade to blackmail rising stars and ‘A-listers’ who are mostly her friends until they come and pay ‘homage’. We won’t be blackmailed under any circumstance.”

This is my Response to this below the belt comment towards me.

WHAT DWINDLING FORTUNE? WHAT DWINDLING CAREER? I HAVE BEEN WRITING FOR 12YRS AND I WILL NOT WRITE FOREVER..NUELLA WILL NOT ACT FOREVER TOO:::AND WHAT IS MY BUSINESS WITH NUELLA? OF COURSE I AM A GOSSIP WRITER AND I HAVE NEVER CLAIMED TO BE OTHERWISE, IF YOU GET HIT DONT GET PERSONAL BY SAYING I AM BLACKMAILING YOU, PLEASE PROVIDE PROOF OF BLACKMAIL FROM ANYONE IN NOLLYWOOD THAT I HAVE SENT. THIS IS THE RECENT BABASH BY NOLLYWOOD PEOPLE AND THEIR EMERGENCY PUBLICISTS….WHEN A STORY EMERGES THEY SCREAM BLACKMAIL…IF BLACKMAIL IS MY STOCK IN TRADE THEN HUSBAND SNATCHING IS YOURS NUELLA….REPENT AND I WILL BE RIGHT BEHIND YOU!

IF NUELLA IS PAID OVER N500k PER SCRIPT TO ACT THEN SOMEBODY MUST BE PRINTING FAKE MONEY, CAN WE SEE PROOF OF WHO HAS PAID HER ANY AMOUNT RANGING UP TO 100k TO ACT?….I REPEAT THAT THE CAR WAS A GIFT FROM HER SOUTH-SOUTH GOVERNOR BOYFRIEND, HOWEVER I AM SORRY IF MY STORY HAS SPOILT THE NECK DEEP ROMANCE.

NUELLA IF YOU CLAIM YOU DID NOT VISIT THE GOVERNOR WITH A CERTAIN YOUNG MAN WHO HAD BUSINESS PROPOSALS WITH THE GOVERNOR AND TOOK YOU ALONG AS BLING BLING THEN I DONT KNOW WHAT ELSE TO SAY.

—I DONT WANT TO DRAG ISSUES BUT DOES ANY PAY PAGE ON YOUR INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT SHOW THAT YOU TRAVELLED TO GHANA IN NOVEMBER 2012? WHO WITH? IF YOU CLAIM ITS A CONCOCTION OF MY LIES, PROVE IT.

—–DID YOU HAVE A SHOUTING MATCH WITH YOUR PRODUCER LOVER OVER YOUR SMS EXCHANGE WITH THE SOUTH SOUTH GOVERNOR OR NOT?CHECK YOUR SMS IF YOU HAVENT DELETED THEN CHECK ALL YOUR FRIENDS, ONE OR PROBABLY BOTH IS LEAKING.

—–IN DECEMBER 2012 WHEN HANGING OUT WITH FRIENDS DID YOU BOAST TO THEM THAT AFTER THE ‘JEEP’ THE NEXT THING TO COLLECT IS A HOUSE.
TRY TO REMEMBER EVERYONE YOU HUNG OUT WITH ON THIS DAY NUELLA. THERE MUST BE A HOLE OR IT MUST BE ANOTHER OF MY CONCOCTIONS.

I APOLOGISE FOR BLOWING THE LID OFF YOUR SECRET ROMANCE(S)HOWEVER THE GOSSIP THING I DO GIVES ME NO ROOM TO THINK TWICE. I AM INDEED SORRY FOR THE EMBARRASSMENT THE STORY MUST HAVE CAUSED YOU AND YOUR LOVER.

IF YOU CHOSE TO SEEK LEGAL REDRESS, I MAY HAVE TO RECOMMEND THAT YOU TRY RADICAL LAWYER FESTUS KEYAMO, HE IS GOOD IN HELPING LIARS WIN CASES OF SUCH AND PUTTING SHAMELESS;’DWINDLING FORTUNE AND CAREER JOURNALISTS’LIKE ME TO SHAME.
THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS YOU NUELLA/PRESTIGE MEDIA.

Culled From NAIJ

http://www.osundefender.org/?p=85548

progress report .....


Three years after Haiti earthquake, loss of hope, desperation

By Jacqueline Charles

http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/01/08/3173715/three-years-after-haiti-earthquake.html

The narrow corridor home deep inside the mountain was supposed to be a new beginning, a place where Alexandra Simin could have a fresh shot at life after nearly two years of sleeping on a dirt floor in a fetid tent city.

But 14 months after trading in her small tent for the one-room cinder block shack in the hillside slum called “Jalousie” or Jealousy, the mother of two and survivor of Haiti’s catastrophic Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake was again without a home.

“I always thought that after a year things would be easier; there would be jobs in the country and I could find work,” said Simin, 25, as she faced her second eviction in as many months.

“I really thought life would have gotten better.”

Three years after the monstrous 7.0 quake, and a year after the Haitian government, with help from the international community, began emptying the most visible tent cities and returning dwellers to neighborhoods, the number of displaced quake victims living on public plazas and roadways has dropped significantly.

But in a little-noticed consequence of the removals, many have been forced to return to the capital’s teeming slums. That’s a far cry from what the Haitian government and the international community, which has spent billions here, promised in the quake’s aftermath — to create jobs, build homes and construct a “new Haiti.”

The situation has caused some in the international community to question whether the focus should have been creating jobs rather than housing.

“You’re not going to get a nice housing estate even in a poor area by creating jobs because people will put up what they like and make decisions about how they use their money,’’ said Nigel Fisher, who heads the United Nation’s humanitarian operations in Haiti. “But in the end, at least, they are not being dependent. They are making their own decisions. I think that’s really important. It’s something we missed.”

In trying to rebuild, Simin and other former tent dwellers say stitching back their tattered lives is proving to be as elusive as the lofty promises. They say little has changed since the quake as poverty deepens, reconstruction stalls, political paralysis take root and cholera and chronic disasters become the norm.

“The country is becoming more and more difficult to live in,” said Simin, sitting outside a friend’s one-room home, where she sleeps on the floor with her two children. “We haven’t seen change. People have problems with food, problems with schools, problems with housing. Once you have a problem with finding a place to sleep, you just might as well just die. There’s no living.”

Simin and others say it’s clear that neither the government nor the international community had a plan for what would happen to them once they left the tent cities. Their growing sense of despair comes as the aid groups that flooded Haiti in the aftermath either cut programs or leave as funds dry up — and as half of the promised $5.3 billion in donor pledges remain outstanding.

Meanwhile, Haiti is facing even tougher economic times, according to a recent evaluation by the International Monetary Fund: rising food prices have helped increase inflation almost 2 percent since June to 6.8 percent; the forecast growth in gross domestic product, once projected at 7.8 percent, is now down to 2.5 percent because of the government’s slow execution of public projects; and a spring drought followed by two storms this hurricane season created more than $170 million in crop losses and put an additional 1.5 million Haitians in danger of hunger.

“In a sense, you are no longer talking about the earthquake, you are talking about poverty,” said Fisher, about the ongoing challenges being faced by those leaving the camps. “We are talking about the dearth of resources for taking on the transformation of a country, which has very poor infrastructure, which has most people living in poverty.”

“Even the people in the camps: Why are they there? It’s because they don’t have any alternatives. They don’t have jobs,” Fisher said. “This whole issue: Do you build houses or can you use that money to create jobs so that people can make their own choices, I’ve come more and more to think … shouldn’t we be focusing on jobs?”

Before the quake, Pauline Louis and her husband Wilbert Jean-Louis scraped a living on his carpentry skills and her sidewalk sales of stylish, secondhand American clothes known as pepe. The money wasn’t much but it was just enough to keep a roof over their heads and care for Louis’ two children from a previous relationship.

These days, even pepe is hard to find.

“Some days you go downtown to buy the ‘pepe’ and you return just as you left — empty-handed,” said Louis, 37.

Even Jean-Louis’ hand-made wooden china cabinets and delicately crafted headboards, which sold before the quake, sit for months on a sidewalk along a busy Petionville street.

“There is no money in the streets; no activity. The country is broke,” he said one recent afternoon, carving a flower on a new headboard at the nameless sidewalk workshop.

For months, the couple have been struggling, trying to come up with the $325 to keep their tiny one-room apartment, also in the Jalousie slum, for another year. Initially, the owner asked $625 but Louis, a tough negotiator, got him to drop his price.

FROM TENT TO SLUM, A TRANSFER OF STRESS

The place isn’t much. There’s a small cooking area off the main room where the couple eat, sleep and receive visitors. The inside walls are painted pink; a wall unit, made by Jean-Louis, holds an old model 13-inch television and a few stuffed animals while another is stacked with ceramic dishes and cups. The couple’s twin bed doubles as a couch.

Jean-Louis’ 22-year-old brother, Gerald, and Louis’ 6-year-old cousin, Tracey, whom she recently took in after the girl’s parents died, also live with them — along with the family’s pet cat.

The living conditions are far different from tent living, Louis said. But with no steady income, and only the goodwill of her landlord keeping a roof over their heads, she wonders whether she would have been better with a job instead of the house.

“We were happy when [the International Organization for Migration] came to remove us. We were living under stress,” she said. “But what I see is that we’ve traded one stress for another stress.”

Francois Desruisseaux, IOM’s program manager for camp management, said surveys showed that while living in the camps, people considered shelter as their main priority. But after relocating to neighborhoods, shelter soon becomes a fourth priority. Finding a job, followed by food and education, become their top concerns.

While the average camp resident received $500 in rental subsidy, they also received an additional $150 for moving and other expenses to help them out.

“Considering many Haitians make barely $2 a day, this can represent close to five months’ salary for some,” Desruisseaux said. “We believe the rental subsidy is a much better situation than living in a camp and returning [homeless quake victims] to their pre-earthquake environment; in some cases in a better situation than they were prior to the earthquake.”

After IOM paid the $437 to her new landlord for a year’s rent, Simin invested the rest. She bought $37.50 in candy to resell in hopes of having money come in. She also paid $50 toward her daughters’, ages 5 and 8, school fees. But three months later, school administrators sent the girls home after she failed to come up with the remaining $275, Simin said. Days after Christmas, she hit rock bottom again: the friend and fellow quake victim whom she had temporarily moved in with was packing her things to move out on New Year’s Day after also being unable to renew her lease. “If she leaves, I have no choice but to also leave,” said Simin, who recently moved in with another friend, also living in Jalousie.

An ongoing IOM-led evaluation of returnees won’t be finalized until the end of this month. But preliminary results involving 500 families show that all remain in “some sort of accommodations.” In many cases though, they have either doubled up, moved back in with families or found cheaper housing, those familiar with the survey said.

Those involved in the government’s rebuilding efforts, particularly President Michel Martelly’s relocation and revitalization of six camps attached to 16 neighborhoods, say progress has been made.

In the last few months, the government has opened a state university and industrial park in the north, where it also unveiled a new asphalt runway to accommodate large carriers. The quake-damaged National Palace was finally demolished, and Haiti celebrated the opening of a new international airport arrival lounge and a privately-financed luxury hotel in the capital.

The number of homeless quake residents, which peaked at 1.5 million shortly after the disaster left more than 300,000 dead, has dropped to 347,284 as of December, IOM said.

Since the government launched its returnee program in 2011, some 635,322 people have been helped by the international community to move out of the camps through either rental subsides, transitional shelters or home repairs, IOM said.

“We know there are still camps, but as you drive on a regular day you don’t see much camps,” said Clement Belizaire, director of the government’s camp relocation and neighborhood rehabilitation program who puts the number of quake homeless at 290,000. “The first priority of the government was public squares; the second was schools and then sports infrastructures. We cleared all the major public structures; we cleared all the major sports infrastructures; we cleared all of the major schools.”

‘DISASTER TAKES US BACK TO ZERO’

But with 450 camp sites still dotting Haiti’s hilly terrain, challenges remain. Tackling them, humanitarians say, requires Haiti to not only prioritize and put in strong, accountable government institutions, but to make the transition from short-term humanitarian aid to more sustainable development.

“You cannot continue to implement stopgap measures to deal with specific short-term issues,” said George Ngwa, spokesman for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs here. “Haiti goes from one emergency to another. Every time it appears, we are making progress. A disaster takes us back to zero — or minus.”

Before the quake, Jean Guerrier Sanon lived with two of his sisters in Port-au-Prince and got by with help from his parents, rural farmers who paid his school fees with the earnings from their beans, yam and banana plantations in the outskirts of Jeremie. After the quake, everyone went their separate ways including him. He took up residence inside a tent on the Champ de Mars, the public square of Haitian independence heroes in front of the now razed presidential palace.

With the lease on the bedroom he rented for $500-a-year inside a private home up next month, Sanon said he’s running out of options. He has been unable to find a job, and any hope of having his parents help out, he said, was washed away in October when Hurricane Sandy left their crops in ruin.

Moving in with any of his eight brothers and sisters, isn’t an option either, he said. “You’re 27 years old, and not working. Even if they used to help you out, it’s not easy to be sitting up in their house doing nothing,” he said.

Looking out at the now empty Champ de Mars from his doorway, Sanon said its clearing was a “big victory” but bittersweet. “Once they uprooted us,” he said, “they should have turned and look back.”

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River of Haitians march to stop the attacks on former President Aristide and the Lavalas movement

Friday, January 11, 2013 0:50


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[In this video, titled “Une Grande Confrontation Inevitable,” the crowd is initially shown protesting on Jan. 9 outside the Port au Prince courthouse. From 2:47 minutes in, they begin to march to President Aristide’s home, harassed by the police as thousands more join in along the way. – ed.]

Not well reported by the mainstream media, on Wednesday, Jan. 9, there were MASSIVE demonstrations throughout Haiti to support former President Aristide, who the Martelly-Lamothe government summoned to court on frivolous and specious charges his supporters see as political persecution. People came out in huge numbers in Port au Prince, Cap Haitian, Gonaives, Central Plateau, Hinche, Les Cayes, other cities and even in the Island of La Gonave to tell the government that putting Aristide on trial is the same as putting the Haitian masses on trial.

Apparently the people flowing into the streets forced Martelly Prosecutor Lucmane Delille to back-peddle on his court summons, calling Aristide to beseech him not to leave home, saying Delille would come to his house to meet with him and his lawyers.

Many folks who took to the streets yesterday indicated that even if shot down or killed by the U.N. or police, they will not allow the “internationals” to escape accountability for the theft of over $7 billion in charity dollars meant for homeless earthquake victims. Three years after the earthquake, Haitians will not be distracted by the “Aristide-is-corrupt-and-without-support” card to prolong the corruption and tyranny. “2013 will not be the same as 2004,” the year of the coup that forced Aristide into exile, they say. – Ezili Danto, Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network (HLLN), Jan. 10, 2013

by the Haiti Action Committee

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Supporters of former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide chant and display signs outside the courthouse in Port au Prince on Wednesday, Jan. 9. When they learned that the prosecutor, Lucmane Delille, had gone to Aristide’s home to question him, a river of tens if not hundreds of thousands of people marched to his home, surrounding it protectively as they had when he returned to Haiti. – Photo: Swoan Parker, Reuters

It is nearly two years since the joyous return of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, his wife and colleague Mildred Trouillot, and their two daughters to their homeland of Haiti. Tens of thousands of people followed President Aristide’s car as it drove through the streets to his home and then climbed over the walls to continue an emotional and heart-felt greeting for Haiti’s first democratically elected president. In his speech at the airport, President Aristide focused on education and the importance of inclusion for all Haitians in the process of restoring democracy.

Since his return, President Aristide has done exactly what he promised to do – reopen the University of the Aristide Foundation’s Medical School. On Sept. 26, 2011, the medical school once again opened its doors – this time to a new group of 126 future Haitian doctors. Seven years after the school’s forced closure by the U.S.-orchestrated coup in 2004 and four months after the return of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to Haiti, medical education resumed at UNIFA. Just this fall, UNIFA began accepting candidates for a new nursing school. And this is just the beginning of a determined initiative to improve health care for all Haitians, particularly critical with the ravages of the cholera epidemic sweeping the country.

Yet President Aristide is again under attack. He has been summoned to appear in court this Wednesday, Jan. 9, as part of an investigation into Lafanmi Selavi, a home for street children that Aristide organized in 1986. Some former residents of the home now claim that Aristide owes them money, among other unfounded and fabricated charges. The prosecutor in this current investigation was a key member of the GNB, the right-wing network that helped direct the 2004 coup against Aristide’s democratically elected government.

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Thousands surround the home of former President Aristide – affectionately called Titid by the people – while he is questioned by prosecutor Lucmane Delille. – Photo: Swoan Parker, Reuters

This court summons is the latest twist in the continuing campaign to undermine both President Aristide and his political party, Fanmi Lavalas. Twenty-one pro-Lavalas activists and musicians have been jailed without charges since Dec. 16 after taking part in a demonstration commemorating the 22nd anniversary of President Aristide’s election in 1990. This was followed by a court summons to seven Lavalas grassroots leaders and activists for speaking out against the arrest of the 21. And now the court summons President Aristide.

This is no surprise. The Haitian government of Michel Martelly came to power after a staged “election” in which Fanmi Lavalas, the most popular political party in Haiti, was banned from participation. Martelly has embraced Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, the brutal former dictator, who lives freely in Haiti and has just been granted a diplomatic passport. Human rights organizations estimate that Duvalier and his father, Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier, ordered the deaths of 20,000 to 30,000 Haitian citizens during their 29-year rule. While Duvalier has been “cleared” by the Haitian government of human rights charges, Aristide and the Lavalas movement remain targeted.

Enough is enough. We call on the Haitian government to withdraw the summons against President Aristide and to free the 21 activists now jailed in Haiti. We also call on the United Nations occupying forces in Haiti and the U.S. State Department to cease their attacks against President Aristide and the Lavalas movement.

How you can help

Contact the following officials:

Minister of Justice and Public Security Jean Renel Sanon, 18 avenue Charles Summer, Port-au-Prince, Haïti, secretariat.mjsp@yahoo.com (Salutation: Monsieur le Ministre/Dear Minister)

Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, United Nations, New York, NY 10017 USA, (212) 963-5012, fax (212) 963-7055, ecu@un.org

Haiti - The crisis, 3 years on

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Speak out against the Red Cross on the third anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti on Friday, Jan. 11, 4:30-5:30 p.m., outside Red Cross headquarters, 3901 Broadway, near MacArthur BART, Oakland

To mark the third anniversary of the earthquake that devastated Haiti, actions in a number of countries are calling the U.S. government and NGOs (non-governmental organizations) on their rape and pillage of Haiti.

Tens of thousands of people have been demonstrating in Haiti for months. Three years after the earthquake, despite billions donated by a generous public, hundreds of thousands of people are still struggling to survive in tent cities, surrounded by rubble. They are still without clean water or food security or income, still fighting the cholera imported by U.N. troops. And now they face the further devastation of Hurricane Sandy, which destroyed 70 percent of the crops – though only its impact on the U.S. got publicity. See “Disastrous Relief“ in the London Guardian.

Haiti has more NGOs per square mile than any other country in the world, yet it is the most impoverished in the Western Hemisphere. The NGOs have stolen millions intended for earthquake survivors. And joining in the stealing, the corrupt Martelly government, put there by the U.S., represses the mass protests of a people who refuse to be defeated.
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Global Women’s Strike protested NGO corruption in Haiti with a “Stop NGO Pillage” rally in London May 1, 2012

We chose the 11th for the rally rather than the 12th, the actual anniversary of the earthquake, because the Red Cross offices will be closed Saturday.

Some of us spoke out outside the London Red Cross in May 2012. It was one of the biggest beneficiaries of public donations: at least $479 million to the U.S. Red Cross alone – whose CEO earns $600,000 a year. Hardly any of these millions have reached the survivors. Instead the Red Cross is using some of it to build a luxury hotel and conference center in Haiti. We must protest this grand theft. See http://globalwomenstrike.net/content/protest-red-cross-theft-haiti.

Western governments and NGOs have used natural disasters as their opportunity to destroy Haiti’s agriculture and impose sweatshops. At this moment almost everywhere in the world there seems no limit to the plunder by the elites. The burden and the trauma are falling especially on women – the first carers, the poorest and the hardest workers – the main breadwinners in 70 percent of Haitian families. In protesting the rape of Haiti, we refuse the rip-off we are suffering everywhere by the same elite.

What you can do:

Bring your networks to the speakout.
Circulate this call widely. Even those who don’t come will be informed.
Contact your local media, especially radio stations.
Invite a GWS speaker to your school, college, community center, church or organization.
Pledge a regular donation to the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund, www.haitiemergencyrelief.org. HERF is led by Haitians and every bit goes to those it is intended for, particularly women’s self-help survival initiatives and food co-operatives – there is no overhead.

Visit the Haiti Action Committee at www.haitisolidarity.net and on Facebook. The vigil is called by Global Women’s Strike (GWS) and Women of Color in the GWS and endorsed by the Haiti Action Committee. To contact GWS, call (415) 626-4114 or email sf@allwomencount.net.

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Mali, Wahabis and Saudis; Following the Money Trail
Tue, 01/08/2013 - 15:10 — Thomas C. Mountain

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Chad |
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Libya |
Saudi Arabia

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The US and Western-backed overthrow of Libya's Ghadaffi irrevocably altered Africa's continental landscape. Chad and Mali, already paralyzed by excessive debt and climate change, are in the crosshairs of well-armed rebel “movements” operating across the Libyan border, backed by the West and financed by Saudi Arabia.

Mali, Wahabis and Saudis; Following the Money Trail

By Thomas C. Mountain

Previously published at Counterpunch

“The Tuareg peoples of the Sahel, along with their more northern, agricultural cousins the Berbers, predate the Arab invasion of Northern Africa by millennia...”

A well armed and supplied Wahabi movement in the African country of Mali, funded by the Saudis, has taken over most of northern Mali and has begun to, amongst other Wahabi practices, destroy tombs of Islamic African kings, the world famous Mansas of Mali that are world heritage sites.

This latest in a series of extremist Wahabi movements exploded on the scene following the western attack on Libya and the destruction of the Gaddafi government in 2011.

Mali, as in most of the central and western Sahel region in Africa, is in the midst of a years long drought that has left hundreds of thousands starving and millions more, especially children, damaged by malnutrition. With the pastoral, nomadic economy collapsing where did the sudden major influx of funds come from that allowed the rapid expansion of the Wahabi movement in the Sahel to take place?

While human trafficking and to a much lesser extent, drug smuggling, has been a source of income for the criminal elements of the Tuareg peoples of the region, since the western military destroyed the Gaddafi government in Libya in 2011, the major destination of the human traffickers, the numbers of migrants trafficked by the criminal gangs to Libya has fallen to a fraction of its past levels and most of the cash flow for these criminals has dried up.

The Tuareg peoples of the Sahel, along with their more northern, agricultural cousins the Berbers, predate the Arab invasion of Northern Africa by millennia and have long been victims of marginalization by both the western, mainly French, colonialists and later the neocolonialist regimes installed by their former western masters.

In the case in Chad, the French uranium mines have polluted the ground water and left the land literally life threatening. As a result for decades now the Tuareg have been in an ongoing state of armed resistance to the crimes committed against their people and have a legitimate claim to much of the Sahel region, in the case of Mali, the land of “Azawad” as they have proclaimed it.

But the traditional Tuareg fighters, suffering from famine and a collapsing economy have been outgunned and driven from the cities of northern Mali by the Wahabis, with their shining new pickup trucks, plentiful fuel and seemingly inexhaustible flow of weaponry and supplies.

So where is the funding for the Mali Wahabis coming from? Every Wahabi movement that has been competently investigated has been tied to the Saudis, in most cases to the almost 30,000 strong Saudi royal family and the Mali Wahabis are no exception.

In Afghanistan, in Pakistan, in Iraq, Egypt and North Africa and even Syria, Saudi money, billion$ of dollar$ worth, has funded the most reactionary, extreme and violently dangerous centers of terrorism and backwardness.

“Until the very real, and growing threat of Wahabism is contained, all sorts of crimes almost unthinkable in many parts of the world just decades ago will continue to spill the blood of innocents...”

Murdering girls for going to school? Massacring religious pilgrims for the crime of being Shiite “heretics”? Destroying world heritage historical sites whether Buddhist statues in Afghanistan or tombs of the world famous Mansas of Mali, Islamic tombs, but still not “pure” enough for these Wahabis?

And all paid for by one of the most corrupt and reactionary regimes on the planet, who just happen to be a major ally of the western regimes, the Saudi Arabian royal family.

Once again when one digs into the real source of the crimes being committed in Africa one uncovers a foreign source, whether western or a major western ally, the Wahabi regime installed by the British on the Arabian peninsula almost a century ago, the Kingdom of the House of Saud, Saudi Arabia.

Until the very real, and growing threat of Wahabism is contained, all sorts of crimes almost unthinkable in many parts of the world just decades ago will continue to spill the blood of innocents, create chaos and anarchy and leave in its wake backwardness and suffering in the populations inflicted by this most reactionary of ideologies, an ideology that was put in power and supplied with arms and industry by the western powers that so hypocritically claim to oppose all such ignorance and oppression.

Mali, Wahabis and Saudis, follow the money trail and find out who is really to blame for the crimes committed in the name of the long suffering Tuaregs of the Sahel. And no amount of western funded West African troops who may invade and occupy Mali will do anything other than cause more suffering to Mali’s people.

Thomas C. Mountain is the most widely distributed independent journalist in Africa, living and reporting from Eritrea since 2006. He can be reached at thomascmountain_at_yahoo_dot_com.

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Posted on Fri, Jan. 11, 2013

Honda announces plans to cut 800 jobs


The Associated Press
Japanese automaker Honda says it will cut about one in four jobs at its UK factory as it struggles with low demand in Europe.

Honda Motor Europe says poor sales across Europe due to the region's economic crisis are behind the loss of 800 positions among its 3,500 member workforce in Swindon. The plant makes the Civic, Jazz and CR-V models.

Honda has been making cars in Britain since 1992. About 165,000 cars were built in Swindon last year - though it has the capacity to build 250,000.

The decision comes despite some bright spots in the industry. The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders reported this week that new car sales in the UK topped 2 million last year, the best since 2008.

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January 11, 2013, 5:48 a.m. ET

China Car Sales Set to Surge in 2013

China's auto sales are set to grow faster in 2013 on the back of an improving economy, an industry association said Friday, though analysts cautioned that the country's auto market still faces roadblocks to strong growth.

China's auto market, the world's largest, had a disappointing year in 2012 due to a confluence of factors, including slowing economic growth, restrictions on auto purchases by some big-city governments in an effort to control traffic congestion, and a territorial dispute between Beijing and Tokyo that depressed demand for Japanese cars.

Auto sales in China, including both passenger and commercial vehicles, rose 4.3% to 19.3 million units last year, according to the China Association of Auto Manufacturers. That was short of the 8% increase that CAAM expected, though it was still better than 2011, when sales rose just 2.5%, after special government incentives for car purchases expired.

In contrast, U.S. auto sales jumped 13% to 14.5 million last year, their best year since 2007. China overtook the U.S. as the biggest auto market by number of new vehicles sold in 2009.

At a news briefing Friday, CAAM's deputy secretary-general, Shi Jianhua, forecast a 7% rise in China vehicle sales for 2013.

"The macroeconomic rebound has laid a good foundation for the auto market, and the trend of urbanization will make demand firm over the long run," he said.

But Mr. Shi also cautioned that the outlook for commercial vehicles could be hampered by the government's effort to shift away from investment-led growth, which could mean decreased construction and heavy-industry activity.

Other analysts warned that demand for passenger cars could take another hit if more cities take measures to limit the number of cars on their streets. Last year, the southern city of Guangzhou and the southwestern city of Guiyang joined Beijing and Shanghai in putting such restrictions in place, seeking to relieve traffic conditions and limit air pollution.

"If there are no more curbs, China's passenger-vehicle market could grow 10% this year. But the odds of additional curbs are high, so the growth will probably be 5%," said Rao Da, secretary-general of the China Passenger Car Association.

Despite the near-term challenges, foreign car makers have remained upbeat on the China market. BMW AG BMW.XE -0.27% Chief Executive Norbert Reithofer said in May that in the medium term, the company's production in China could double to 400,000 cars a year.

Even Japanese brands, which saw a sharp drop in sales in the second half of the year, are now projecting solid gains in 2013. Toyota Motor Corp. 7203.TO +1.31% said earlier this week that it aims to lift China sales by 7% this year, compared to its 2% target for world-wide growth.

"China remains a highly attractive market due to its long-term growth potential. It is no surprise that auto makers are playing some big bets in China, and doing so ahead of other markets," said Andrew Thomson, head of KPMG's Asia-Pacific automotive consulting practice.

At Friday's news briefing, Li Bin, secretary-general of CAAM's motorcycle branch, urged government support for the country's struggling motorcycle industry. Motorcycle sales fell 15% to a five-year low of 23.65 million units in 2012, according to CAAM, which counts motorcycle sales separately from total vehicle sales.

The government could reduce the consumption tax on motorcycle purchases this year, which ranges from 3% to 10% depending on engine size, Mr. Li said, and could also boost the export-tax rebate for motorcycles.
—Rose Yu in Shanghai and Yajun Zhang in Beijing

automaticcars: Why do Nigerians think Japanese vehicles are better than Europeans, Koreans, Americans and German vehicles? The world is changing everyday and technology is swiftly changing the way vehicles opereate. There are parts available for most vehicles in Nigeria. I have been watching and asking myself why Nigerians don't patronize other vehicle brands except Japanese brands. In the last seven years, there have been recalls after recalls of all Japanese brands on monthly bases. Has anyone ever heard where German, Korean, or any other european vehicles being recalled for major flaw like the toyotas, hondas, nissan, and co? What is the problem with Nigerians when making car choices? Imagine someone who has never bought or used a car before in his life telling me how bad European vehicles are. I asked him how did he know European vehicles are bad? He told me he heard it from people before.

Ladies and gentlemen, why do Nigerians mostly buy Japanese vehicles and not other brands?

One word.

Kaizen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaizen

Kaizen (改善?), Japanese for "improvement", or "change for the better" refers to philosophy or practices that focus upon continuous improvement of processes in manufacturing, engineering, and business management. It has been applied in healthcare,[1] psychotherapy,[2] life-coaching, government, banking, and other industries. When used in the business sense and applied to the workplace, kaizen refers to activities that continually improve all functions, and involves all employees from the CEO to the assembly line workers. It also applies to processes, such as purchasing and logistics, that cross organizational boundaries into the supply chain.[3] By improving standardized activities and processes, kaizen aims to eliminate waste (see lean manufacturing). Kaizen was first implemented in several Japanese businesses after the Second World War, influenced in part by American business and quality management teachers who visited the country. It has since spread throughout the world[4] and is now being implemented in many other venues besides just business and productivity.

History

After WWII, to help restore Japan, American occupation forces brought in American experts to help with the rebuilding of Japanese industry while The Civil Communications Section (CCS) developed a Management Training Program that taught statistical control methods as part of the overall material. This course was developed and taught by Homer Sarasohn and Charles Protzman in 1949-50. Sarasohn recommended W. Edwards Deming for further training in Statistical Methods.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming

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revolt: Ll the links I received are non operational, pls does anibodi have the downloaded copy of this video so we can watch plsssssssss. I'm gasping for breath finkn of this video, pls send to dozienos@gmail.com. na

try getting in touch with the creator of the doc in London, he must be aware that there's a strong demand for his film. he may need help working on the copyright music issues.

Jide Olanrewaju

London, United Kingdom
Investment Management

http://uk.linkedin.com/in/jide06


http://www.satyacapital.com/people/investment-team/jide-olanrewaju.html

nollywood20: Emeka Ike should stop whining and start winning.
Winners are never quitters.

We are not whining, we are making movies.

gbam .....


Kelani Shoots New Movie

Accomplished filmmaker, Tunde Kelani, has started shooting a new film, Dazzling Mirage. He has also returned to location to film some missing parts of Ma’ami, starring star actress, Funke Akindele.

Tunde Kelani

The decision to shoot the missing scenes, according to Kelani is because the film has not been released. Dazzling Mirage written is by Olayinka Abimbola Egbokhare, according to Kelani is a story that will touch the nerve of a nation and our approach to sufferers of sickle cell anaemia and the myths. “It is an interesting love story because all of us are connected directly or indirectly to the sufferers of this ailment. I’m intrigued by the writer’s approach to weave a love story with it and that to me, is an attraction. I have also had personal relationship with sufferers of this ailment and I consider it my responsibility to bring their story to fore,’’ he explained.

Egbokhare’s Dazzling Mirage, published by Loud Books, is a narrative about the adoptive daughter of the Adebayos. It is a story of her travails and triumphs against the odds of physical pains and psychological traumas she experienced in her journey towards self-fulfilment.
http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2013/01/04/nigeria-entertainment-scene-tit-bits/


Nigeria: Tunde Kelani Shoots Sickle Cell Movie
By Charles Mgbolu, 8 January 2013

http://allafrica.com/stories/201301080652.html

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Following the success of his last film Maami, ace producer and director, Mr. Tunde Kelani will wow every mind once again as he announces plans to shoot a new movie on the peculiar blood genotype - Sickle cell.

The new movie according to the award winning cinematographer will be based on the book adaptation of Dazzling mirage written by Olayinka Abimbola Egbokhare.

The story races across pacy plots surrounding the life of a sickle cell patient who battles to surmount the crises arising from her rare blood condition.

Tunde Kelani in his announcement said 'I'm intrigued by the writer's approach to weave a love story with it and that to me, it is an attraction. I have also had personal relationship with sufferers of this ailment and I consider it my responsibility to bring their story to fore'

Like all of his films, the buzz is already on who will play his main character. Tunde is popular with using unknown yet extremely gifted actors and actresses for his main movie roles. However, with the success of Maami, played by Funke Akindele, Mr. Kelani may shop for another notable face in the industry.

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https://allafrica.com/download/pic/main/main/csiid/00220656:8adf28535b46b10f09b82ef86162c735:arc180x117:w180:us1.jpg

Jamaican Dancehall Stars to Perform in Uganda

http://allafrica.com/view/group/main/main/id/00022137.html

Nigeria: Corruption Under Jonathan Is Too Much - Obasanjo

By Chika Otuchikere and Kingsley Opurum With Agency Report, 9 January 2013

http://allafrica.com/stories/201301090158.html?viewall=1


https://allafrica.com/download/pic/main/main/csiid/00170912:4410bac865b1784b0fda153bdff95a1e:arc614x376:w290:us1.jpg


Nigeria's Anti-Terrorism Strategy Criticised

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has faulted the government's anti-terror strategy, calling for more effort in ending the Boko Haram insurgency in the country.

http://allafrica.com/view/group/main/main/id/00022159.html?aa_source=useful-column

Interesting!


Piers Morgan Experiences 1776


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYAF9qRE8s0

Published on Jan 9, 2013

On the Tuesday, January 8 edition of the Alex Jones Show, Alex covers his appearance on CNN's Piers Morgan show last night and his effort to defend the Constitution and the Second Amendment from attack by the establishment media as the government prepares its latest gun-grabbing assault on law-abiding Americans. Alex talks about how CNN ejected him from the studio after one segment and how an "armed Mafia" tailed him during his New York visit. Alex talks about the overwhelming response to his appearance and the fact we have put the globalists on notice.


Alex Jones appeared on CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight last night to deliver a clear message: "You are not going to take our guns."
http://www.infowars.com/alex-jones-to-piers-morgan-you-are-not-going-to-take-...

[Check it Out Today]
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utube already censored the documentary

another link


http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bce_1357533657

enough for me and my 2 to 4 mistresses to rest comfortably on at night.
just a joke, like Nollywood Actor Chief Pete Edochie said, "I don't steal."


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Once upon a time Former Gov Ibori was ballin like that in London town ...
don't know if he was raising heck and partying like these middle eastern boyz...


PhotoNews: James Ibori's looting of Delta State

http://www.afripol.org/afripol/item/519-photonews-james-iboris-looting-of-delta-state.html

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https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/02/27/article-2107280-11F2375E000005DC-877_634x328.jpg

Try not to give in to bribes one transaction at a time and encourage those close to you to develop the same behavior ...

Good write ups on the topic ....


Nigeria Diasporas And Bribery Of Custom Officials At Lagos MMA

By Paul Omoruyi

http://saharareporters.com/article/nigeria-diasporas-and-bribery-custom-officials-lagos-mma-paul-omoruyi

In Praise of Corruption

By Chido Onumah

http://saharareporters.com/column/praise-corruption-chido-onumah