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Foreign AffairsAfrica For Ron Paul 2012 by AfroBlue(op): 9:01pm On Jan 08, 2012
PoliticsRe: National Assembly Summons Emergency Meeting Live by AfroBlue(m): 1:19pm On Jan 08, 2012
They might want to discuss getting 9ja refineries up in running in an record amount of time. There's no excuse for re-importing your own fuel at global market prices. What kind of insanity is that?

There must be some technical experts that can be hired to get the job done ASAP.
RomanceRe: In Love With An Heir.Is Love This Blind? by AfroBlue(m): 12:58am On Jan 08, 2012
^^^
Showing off her blessings to her male fans
Most men like ample fun bags grin
RomanceRe: In Love With An Heir.Is Love This Blind? by AfroBlue(m): 12:50am On Jan 08, 2012
Foreign AffairsRe: Support The Relief Efforts In Haiti by AfroBlue(m): 11:14pm On Jan 07, 2012
RomanceRe: I Want To Marry Rich by AfroBlue(m): 11:01pm On Jan 07, 2012
@pendo89

You have 9 what? smiley
PoliticsRe: Israeli Mossad Ready To Move In As Boko Haram Menace Gets Out Of Control by AfroBlue(m): 10:36pm On Jan 07, 2012
Will they offer their services for free?

More lip service like they did during the Nigeria/Biafra Civil War?

Don't forget, America gives them $3 billion+ a year for their military.



Israel Caught Selling 69 Us Patriot Missiles To Red China

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-832638.0.html
Foreign AffairsRe: Kenyan Activist Launches Anti-bribe Website by AfroBlue(op): 10:27pm On Jan 07, 2012
@Pendo89

What ever happened to that young politician that wore all the bling and was accused of being in league with drug traffickers?


Also, I joined http://wazua.com/clubsk/, same screen name but haven't posted anything yet.
PoliticsRe: Boko Haram Base Found In North Cameroun! by AfroBlue(m): 10:14pm On Jan 07, 2012
Sounds like the military industrial complex is recruiting paid mercenaries like they did with Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan.


“They are easily identifiable with their bizarre dressing. They wear long beards and red or black headscarves,” Peter Kum, a reporter with the French language daily, La Nouvelle Expression reported Tuesday, January 3. According to him, since several months Lagdo locals have testified that the strangers are combing surrounding villages and actively preaching anti-Western sermons, establishing units and proposing huge amounts of money to those willing to follow them."
PropertiesRe: Building A Large Duplex In Enugu by AfroBlue(m): 8:43pm On Jan 07, 2012
Serious question. How is waste water and sewage disposed of? Septic tank?
RomanceRe: Having A Baby For A Married Man by AfroBlue(m): 8:02pm On Jan 07, 2012
Foreign AffairsRe: Kenyan Activist Launches Anti-bribe Website by AfroBlue(op): 11:20am On Jan 07, 2012
pendo89:
Good news is, the goverment is tightening its noose around corrupt fellows but it's impossible to have a corrupt free country.
Few bad elements will always abound to spread the cancer.
I will check the site to see if videos or photos of the offenders can be uploaded for the Police Commissioner to see.
Nice one if followed by action.
Corruption occurs all over the globe. In my part of the world the corruption is institutional with the main beneficiaries being the financial and weapons industries. Luckily local law enforcement doesn't openly solicit bribes. From time to time, town, city, state, and federal officials get implicated and prosecuted in a scheme to defraud the public treasury. Right now the Attorney General is in hot water over whether or not he knew anything about an government agency supplying Mexican drug cartels with high powered weapons.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Fast_and_Furious
Foreign AffairsRe: Support The Relief Efforts In Haiti by AfroBlue(m): 10:53am On Jan 07, 2012
Haiti: Seven Places Where Earthquake Money Did and Did Not Go
by Bill Quigley and Amber Ramanauskas
Haiti, a close neighbor of the US with over nine million people, was devastated by earthquake on January 12, 2010. Hundreds of thousands were killed and many more wounded.

The UN estimated international donors gave Haiti over $1.6 billion in relief aid since the earthquake (about $155 per Haitian) and over $2 billion in recovery aid (about $173 per Haitian) over the last two years.

Yet Haiti looks like the earthquake happened two months ago, not two years. Over half a million people remain homeless in hundreds of informal camps, most of the tons of debris from destroyed buildings still lays where it fell, and cholera, a preventable disease, was introduced into the country and is now an epidemic killing thousands and sickening hundreds of thousands more.

It turns out that almost none of the money that the general public thought was going to Haiti actually went directly to Haiti. The international community chose to bypass the Haitian people, Haitian non-governmental organizations and the government of Haiti. Funds were instead diverted to other governments, international NGOs, and private companies.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/03-2
PoliticsNigeria: The Next Front For Africom by AfroBlue(op): 3:21am On Jan 07, 2012
Nigeria: The Next Front for AFRICOM

January 6, 2012

By Nile Bowie

BlacklistedNews.com

Lagos Dissents Under IMF Hegemony


http://www.blacklistednews.com/Nigeria%3A_The_Next_Front_for_AFRICOM/17312/0/0/0/Y/M.html


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Foreign AffairsKenyan Activist Launches Anti-bribe Website by AfroBlue(op): 6:44pm On Jan 06, 2012
[b]January 6, 2012


Kenyan Activist Launches Anti-Bribe Website

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — One Kenyan had to pay a $24 bribe to a traffic cop for speeding — but then successfully argued that $8 of it should be returned so he could have something left to pay bribes farther down the road.

Another resident said policemen only released her husband from a traffic stop after she hopped out of the car while breastfeeding her child.

"We wasted about 10 min and I bacame furious as it was already past 9pm at nite. I was breastfeeding and came out with my baby still on the breast and without shoes," she wrote. "The traffic officer was so embarassed."

Requests for bribes are so frequent that Kenyans like to trade their favorite tips for dealing with them, and now one man fed up with the country's pervasive corruption has launched a website where people can share their stories.

Already the site has collected more than 300 stories in less than three weeks, said its founder, Anthony Ragui.

A spokesman for Kenya's government-funded Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission said officials would welcome the information being gathered online at www.ipaidabribe.or.ke.

"The fight against corruption calls for concerted efforts from everyone. This kind of initiative is something that would be most welcomed but it is important the information is carefully analyzed," said Nicholas Simani. "It is a noble initiative."

Almost every Kenyan has a bribery story to tell. Some are punchlines to jokes about the country's corruption. Others, like officials taking bribes to grant licenses to dangerous drivers, have more serious consequences.

Ragui, the website's founder, returned to his native Kenya in 2007 after working for the American bank Wells Fargo.

"I saw a system that works, where you pay your taxes and get services in return," said the 37-year-old, his eyes shining behind his glasses. "I came back and everyone was complaining about corruption here. But no one was doing anything about it. So I decided to take the first step."

Ragui's website uses software from an Indian site — also called ipaidabribe — that has collected information on more than 15,000 bribes since it was put up in 2010.

The Kenyan site, which Ragui and some web designers are funding themselves, is the first spin-off from the Indian site. But T.R. Raghunandan, who administers the Indian site, said he had had inquiries from Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Russia, Nepal and the Philippines.

The software blocks out the names of payers or receivers of bribes to avoid the service being abused. But Ragui hopes the information he collects will identify where and why bribes are most commonly paid.

The site has three main sections. One part collects details on bribes paid. Another part records ways people have avoided paying bribes. And a final part asks readers to send in positive stories about honest officials or services freely and quickly provided.

"I want to show the good as well as the bad," Ragui said. "I want to create competition between departments and regions, so that leaders want to be rated in the top five and not the bottom five. Not everyone in the system is corrupt."

Kenya is ranked 154th out of 182 nations by anti-corruption campaigners Transparency International. Requests for bribes are so frequent that Kenyans like to trade their favorite tips for dealing with them.

Environmentalist Brian Harding, a former Nairobi resident, said he kept a stack of tea bags in the car to give out whenever the inevitable request came to buy police 'a cup of tea.'

But more frequently, the police get their way. Ben Loyseau was stopped last year for speeding although the police speed gun was broken. When the shirtless Loyseau challenged his fine, he said they fined him $5 instead for driving "naked."

Stories on Ragui's website also detail police confiscating driving licenses and demanding payment for their return, or describe police asking for money to blame an innocent party for an accident.

"This traffic cop wanted 300 shillings because I hit the car behind me while reversing so as to charge the other guy with the offense," one entry read.

Ragui says humorous stories often hide the fact that even petty corruption costs lives. Criminals pay bribes to walk free and drivers pay to get their licenses, then cause fatal accidents.

Kenya's driving test requires participants to drive a short distance, often just few hundred feet (100 meters) and then push a toy car around on a board with their fingers, calling out 'checking mirrors or 'indicating' to instructors.

When Alice Leslie did her test, she said applicants who went through a driving school passed no matter how badly they did but much better drivers who did their tests independently from a driving school failed.

She paid a driving school to book her test but lost control of the car going around a corner and again by hitting a speed bump.

She passed anyway and was told: "You'll be a good driver one day."

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Online:

http://www.ipaidabribe.or.ke

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Follow Katharine Houreld at http://twitter.com/khoureld[/b]
PoliticsAfricans Selling Out Africans In Africa Again by AfroBlue(op): 4:02pm On Jan 06, 2012
Great write-up, the author gores the correct oxen!


Africans Selling Out Africans In Africa Again

By Farouk Martins Aresa


http://saharareporters.com/article/africans-selling-out-africans-africa-again-farouk-martins-aresa
RomanceRe: Cheaters T V Show Now Available Kenyan Edition by AfroBlue(op): 7:10pm On Jan 05, 2012
Wife busted with her son's best friend!!

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RomanceRe: Cheaters T V Show Now Available Kenyan Edition by AfroBlue(op): 6:51pm On Jan 05, 2012
Just a TV Drama, I think it started and is popular in Yankee


http://www.cheaters.com/


BEST OF CHEATERS PT.1


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[quote author=Mrs, Chima link=topic=839682.msg9902278#msg9902278 date=1325785603]Kenyan women are paying investigators to confirmed what they already know?  WTF.   huh
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RomanceCheaters T V Show Now Available Kenyan Edition by AfroBlue(op): 6:44pm On Jan 05, 2012
PoliticsRe: Nlc To Shut Down Airports, Banks, Etc - Advises Masses To Stockpile. Who Loses? by AfroBlue(m): 4:04pm On Jan 05, 2012
dappssee:
If there is a strike today the people that will suffer the most are the same people NLC is seemingly fighting for - the market women, artisans etc

The transportation industry will lso suffer but it wont affect the oil and gas industries that much because you can't shut down an oil well. It will cost millions of dollars to restart it so Nigeria will continue to produce and sell oil. It will however have a positive effect on the exchange rate as we will be exporting (oil forms the biggest part of our exports) and not importing (as the sea and airports will not function)
True talk, subsitute 9ja for Yankee in this sobering article concerning lack of transport. And let me add one of my own.

Because of lack of jet fuel at the airports, Treasury Looters and their connected accomplices will not be able to fly to Dubai to enjoy their other lifestyle.


When Trucks Stop America(Nigeria) Stops

The first 24 hours
• Delivery of medical supplies to the affected area will cease.
• Hospitals will run out of basic supplies such as syringes and catheters
within hours. Radiopharmaceuticals will deteriorate and become
unusable.
• Service stations will begin to run out of fuel.
• Manufacturers using just-in-time manufacturing will develop component
shortages.
• U.S. mail and other package delivery will cease.

Within one day
• Food shortages will begin to develop.
• Automobile fuel availability and delivery will dwindle, leading to skyrocketing
prices and long lines at the gas pumps.
• Without manufacturing components and trucks for product delivery,
assembly lines will shut down, putting thousands out of work.

Within two to three days
• Food shortages will escalate, especially in the face of hoarding and
consumer panic.
• Supplies of essentials—such as bottled water, powdered milk, and
canned meat—at major retailers will disappear.
• ATMs will run out of cash and banks will be unable to process
transactions.
• Service stations will completely run out of fuel for autos and trucks.
• Garbage will start piling up in urban and suburban areas.
• Container ships will sit idle in ports and rail transport will be disrupted,
eventually coming to a standstill.

Within a week
• Automobile travel will cease due to the lack of fuel. Without autos and
busses, many people will not be able to get to work, shop for groceries,
or access medical care.
• Hospitals will begin to exhaust oxygen supplies.

Within two weeks
• The nation’s clean water supply will begin to run dry.

Within four weeks
• The nation will exhaust its clean water supply and water will be safe for
drinking only after boiling. As a result gastrointestinal illnesses will
increase, further taxing an already weakened health care system.
RomanceRe: Learn Dont Trust A Lady Unless: by AfroBlue(m): 12:31pm On Jan 05, 2012
related entertainment   grin



Cheating Wife Gets Busted on Live Radio


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKdNyfgRzWY&feature=related



The Burger King- Cheating Wife   grin

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PoliticsRe: Nlc To Shut Down Airports, Banks, Etc - Advises Masses To Stockpile. Who Loses? by AfroBlue(m): 11:55am On Jan 05, 2012
related news from the Congo



For Congo Children, Food Today Means None Tomorrow

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/03/wo, o-food.html?hp


https://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2012/01/03/world/JP-KINSHASA/JP-KINSHASA-articleLarge.jpg
Protesters faced off with the police in Kinshasa after the deeply flawed presidential election in November. But the intense mass demonstrations many expected proved difficult to sustain, in part because of the daily struggle to survive.
PoliticsRe: 6 Oil Marketers In Trouble For Funding Fuel Riots by AfroBlue(m): 6:08am On Jan 05, 2012
Op

Thanks for posting the story, it makes a ton of sense.
Foreign AffairsRe: The Current Situation Of Libya by AfroBlue(m): 5:57am On Jan 05, 2012
related info



Libya Latest News: Chaos

By Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey

January 04, 2012 "Pravda" - -No wonder the media is silent in that clique of nations which perpetrated the latest round of war crimes in attacking Libya, violating the UN Charter, violating the UNSC Resolutions, violating the Geneva Conventions, because the news we are receiving from the ground is shocking. Here are some front-line reports from credible sources inside Libya, just what has NATO done?

How many of your tax-payers' dollars are being squandered on Libya? Well, quite a few it would seem. No wonder there is no money for your son's education, Mrs. Brown; no wonder the maternity wing has been closed, Sharon; no wonder Mr. Price has just been told his mother's cancer treatment will have to be suspended because "there simply isn't the money" and anyway "do you know how much she is costing the system"?

Interesting, because NATO has stirred up a hornet's nest in Libya. The picture we get from reading front-line reports is one of utter chaos, with the so-called "NTC" now fighting among itself in a myriad of terrorist factions rather than providing any form of "Government", which it was always going to be utterly incapable of anyway. How can a bunch of terrorists and thugs, rapists, murderers, torturers, arsonists, looters and thieves constitute a Government?

Yesterday, December 3: reports of mass fights among groups of "rats" (terrorists) in Tripoli city centre and at the Mitiga air base. Misuratah and Benghazi terrorists fought each other and 30 terrorist officers from Benghazi were executed. Baniwalid tribe marching on Tripoli, the population (anti-TNC/NATO terrorist forces) set to welcome them.

Sirte: Strong fights among groups of terrorists and with Libyan Green Resistance (Jamahiriya forces).

More and more, the Zintan Militia fights alongside the Green Resistance against terrorist Al Qaeda Bel Haj militia (Bel Haj is an Al Qaeda terrorist who fought against NATO, now befriended by the FUKUS Three - France, UK and US - and used against the people of Libya). Zintan Militia holding Saif al-islam al-Qathafi (who has reportedly married a Zintan bride) say they are not giving up the son of Muammar al-Qathafi to any foreign court because the ICC does not have jurisdiction in Libya. Bel Haj and Hefter militia fighting each other in Zintan

Misuratah: Racist NTC/NATO terrorist forces destroy a Taourga cemetery.

Al-Zawiyah: Green flags flying everywhere, city sterlised and fee of TN/NATO terrorist forces.

Sabha, Gharyan, Tarhouna: Green flags everywhere as the Green resistance sterilise vast areas free of NTC/NATO terrorist forces. Green flags over Ghadames, liberated from NTC/NATO terrorist forces by the Green Resistance. Bel Haj terrorist militia fled from Gharyan. In Sabha, a huge caravan of Green Resistance heroes chanted "Oh God Muammar Libia Bess". NATO knows that the people pf Libya do not accept their criminal terrorist forces as "Government".

TNC/NATO terrorist forces attacked Tobruk and were driven back by citizens' Jamahiriya militia and Green Resistance.

Chief terrorist, the traitor Mustafa Abdul Jalil, warns of civil war. It is already civil war and was from day one when this murderer allowed NATO to launch terrorist attacks using foreign forces from Qatar inside Libya.

What did NATO expect? The Libyan people had peace and prosperity for 42 years. The Jamahiriya system of government is participative democracy, far more participative than western-style Parliamentary systems where for instance someone like Cameron can be Prime Minister with a minority of the votes. In the Jamahiriya system communities organise what they need and the Government distributes what they want.

Libyans have enjoyed prosperity, free housing and utilities. They will not give up these birthrights, certainly not to foreigners and foreign-imposed terrorists who have raped Libya's women, who have perpetrated racist attacks, who have beheaded people in the street, who have tortured children, who have invaded private property, who have committed sodomy, arson, robbery,

These are criminals and in supporting these torturers and terrorists, NATO is liable for war crimes, along with its political and military leaders.

NATO will have to pay a massive reconstruction bill, will have to pay compensation to Libya and Libyans affected by this lunacy and NATO's terrorist forces will have to be tried and punished. Otherwise, get ready for more of the same.

Libya is totally out of NATO's control and the British and American taxpayer, mainly, is paying for it. Who else could it be? So sorry Mrs. Smith, if you cannot afford to pay your electricity bill this winter, you will have to freeze to death. Look at it this way: Think of how much money you will save the National Health Service if you do, then we can afford another cruise missile to strafe water supplies in Libya and deprive babies of sanitation "to break their backs", eh what? Talk about an ethical foreign policy,
Foreign AffairsRe: Guitar And Politics: Can Being A Pop Star Help Win A Presidential Election? by AfroBlue(m): 7:43pm On Jan 04, 2012
PoliticsRe: When Will There Be A Mass Protest Against Corruption? by AfroBlue(m): 7:40pm On Jan 04, 2012
I recenty came across this article, a few 9ja names are included



Switzerland: A parasite feeding on Africa and Third world countries?

http://embassyinvestigations.org/2011/08/03/switzerland-a-parasite-feeding-on-africa-and-third-world-countries/
PoliticsRe: Reps To Probe 26 Private Refinery Deals By OBJ's Administration by AfroBlue(m): 4:54pm On Jan 04, 2012
PoliticsRe: When Will There Be A Mass Protest Against Corruption? by AfroBlue(m): 4:43pm On Jan 04, 2012
Nigerian Politicians Use Dubai As Their Safe Haven Now

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-822654.0.html
PoliticsRe: Fuel Subsidy Cabal Named! by AfroBlue(m): 4:33pm On Jan 04, 2012
PoliticsRe: It Is Time To Sell Nigeria's Refineries For N500 Each (Poll Added to thread) by AfroBlue(m): 4:18pm On Jan 04, 2012

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