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Against AFRICOM: Questioning the US Agenda in Africa

http://tv.globalresearch.ca/2011/12/against-africom-questioning-us-agenda-africa


by grtv
Established in 2007, the United States African Command (AFRICOM) has been at the heart of the US agenda to secure the continent and its resources against America's supposed enemies. Now, many are questioning AFRICOM's role on the continent at all.

Find out more about the race for Africa's riches in this week's GRTV Feature Interview with former congresswoman and 2008 presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney.

Shout out to an special lady on this thread. She knows who she is and I don't care to put her on front street.

Baby have a blessed and safe Christmas. You already bring joy to the world and especially to me through this medium of communication.

And a shout out to all my 9ja posse, be blessed and enjoy your meat, rice, soups and pounded yam. eat, drink and be merry like the big boys in Abuja and state government.

Royal Dutch Shell: The World’s Dirtiest Oil Company

http://ironboltbruce.blog.com/2011/10/20/royal-dutch-shell-the-worlds-dirtiest-oil-company/

My people say, ' You don't miss the water until the well run dry'

Marine Asks Michelle Obama to Marine Corps Ball   
Date: Monday, December 19, 2011, 11:32 am
By: EURweb.com


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A United States marine wasn't shy in asking the First Lady of the United States out on a date.

During a Christmas giveaway to children in need, Marine Lance Cpl. Aaron Leeks was standing near the Matchbox cars when Michelle Obama moved right next to him.

“She said, ‘yes.’ She’d love to go with me,” said Leeks, who is now awaiting White House confirmation that the president’s wife, indeed, will be his date for the Marine Corps Ball in Nov. 2012.

“The reason she’s checking with her husband is to make sure that week is clear,” said Leeks, whose fiancée, another marine, is stationed in Okinawa, Japan.

Within the next 45 days, he heads for Afghanistan where he’ll be assigned to mortuary affairs, the unit he checked off as his first preference when he enlisted in March 2010.

“We process remains from fallen soldiers,” Leeks said. “We’re the last line from the fallen soldier to their family. Our job is to bring them back. Not too many people can do this.”

Asking the first lady to the ball–she had stopped in to spotlight the Marines 65-year-old “Toys for Tots” project–was its own kind of daring. Afterward, “a few people asked me, ‘Did you just ask your boss’s boss’s boss’s wife out?’”

Leeks said his request is a “thank you” for Michelle Obama’s personal outreach to military families.

“I knew how supportive the first lady is of the family structure, in general, and especially military families,” Leek told ABCNews.com by phone, from his parents’ home in Frederick, Md.

For his first Marines ball, he was date-less. The two women he asked declined.

“I think one of them said she thought she’d have to work. The next young lady I asked just told me, ‘no’ without further explanation,” he said.

When he extended the same invitation to the president’s wife, she looked kind of shocked at first.

“Like, was I really asking her? She said, ‘Really?’ And I said, ‘Yes, ma’am’, I’m greatly honored.’”

Earlier this year, other marines also invited celebrities to a Marine Corps Ball, including Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake who both attended events in November.

the latest juicy rumor


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Michelle Obama Secret Affair Allegations Surface

The Globe magazine just released a bombshell and is reporting that Michelle Obama is having a "steamy secret affair" with a Secret Service Agent. According to The Globe, rumors started to circulate that Obama may be having an affair after her recent admission to NBC's Al Roker that she frequently "sneaks out" of the White House; and the ever increasing time she is spending away from the White House may be a cover to hide "a sizzling affair she's carrying on with a Secret Service agent."

According to The Globe's anonymous source: "The rumors are that she's getting it on with a Secret Service agent who is not part of her detail. ,  Her frequent outings away from the White House give her and him an opportunity to get together." The source adds: "Something has been going on for a couple of months and there's no question Barack is embarrassed about her increasingly frequent excursions away from him at the White House."

The allegations are, of course, unsubstantiated and only time will tell if the allegations will fizzle or blow up into a major issue in the upcoming presidential campaign. Typically, the media will not report unsubstantiated claims from anonymous sources, but the recent media feeding frenzy over unsubstantiated allegation against businessman Herman Cain, which literally sank his candidacy, leave the question open: will the media pursue, or even bother to investigate this story?

When it comes to the Mainstream Media, anything goes. That much is clear. But will the media apply the same standard to Obama as to Cain? Only time will tell.

The Globe adds: "Insiders say that after author Larry Sinclair shockingly claimed he had gay romps with [Barack] Obama in a limo and hotel, it wouldn't surprise some people if Michelle would look for comfort elsewhere."

Developing,

@MsDarkSkin

I'd like a invite when you and Chairman 190 set the date. 


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Same subject and issues from the states, circa 2009.
I checked the NL archives and couldn't these posted.



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The op is right, androids are now the lions of the industry



Android's Facebook app overtakes iPhone's for first time

Android app now has 58.8 million daily active users, while the iPhone version has 57.6 million
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/dec/19/android-facebook-app-iphone?newsfeed=true



Could RIM's survival mean ditching the BlackBerry?

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/19/uk-rim-blackberry-idUSLNE7BI01W20111219

Newsflash, BH has nothing to do with true Islam. These crews are str8 up criminals organized and financed by politicians or others and have been wrecking havoc in 9ja all during an Islamic holy month. Robbing banks, killing innocents, destroying Mosques should have been a clue to rational thinkers. Instead folks are ready to have a civil war or split up the country. Colonists have all the guns and bullets you need to satisfy their war lust.



Sorry about the Wiki link but I don't like to type, especially when the idea has already been formulated in good form.



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

Muharram (Arabic: المحرّم) is the first month of the Islamic calendar. It is one of the four sacred months of the year in which fighting is prohibited.[1] Since the Islamic calendar is a lunar calendar, Muharram moves from year to year when compared with the Gregorian calendar.
Muharram is so called because it is unlawful to fight during this month, the word is derived from the word haraam, meaning "forbidden". It is held to be the most sacred of all the months, excluding Ramadan. Some Muslims fast during these days. The tenth day of Muharram is the Day of Ashura, which to Shia Muslims is part of the Mourning of Muharram.


AH First day (CE / AD) Last day (CE / AD)
1431 18 December 2009 15 January 2010
1432   7 December 2010   4 January 2011
1433 26 November 2011 25 December 2011

@pendo89

The peoples thoughts are in the right place. It isn't easy organizing mass movements. It's difficult when one is living from paycheck to paycheck or from daily receipts of income to survive. Thus I put those words of universal wisdom about saving in my NL signature section.


Kenyans have a good track record of coming together for change. The Mau Mau Uprising and and the efforts of the Honorable Sister Wangari Maathai are important templates.

I'm working on getting on African soil and staying there. A childhood acquaintance made the move a while ago and there was no looking back.

Fields of Dreams

By Pam Lambert
Dreaming of Africa, Jackie Robinson's Son Found a Wife and Way of Life in Tanzania

http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20139974,00.html

@pendo89

Thanks for the update

Some say school fees are coming up soon.


Matatu Operators Turn Down Call for Mass Strike

http://allafrica.com/stories/201112191782.html

Dump that relationship quickly, they're users!

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Mr. Kim with his son Kim Jong-un in 2010.


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Mr. Kim with his son Kim Jong-nam, front right, in 1981.


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Mr. Kim, left, with his father Kim Il-sung, and his mother.

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Mr. Kim with Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright in 2000.


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Mr. Kim with President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea in 2007.


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Mr. Kim with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia in 2002.


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Mr. Kim in August 2011.

Kudos again, its rare to read about an elected official with much sense.

SaharaReporters travel underground in Nigeria to explore police corruption, traffic chaos and general disorder in Nigerian southern cities.



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20 Year Girl Arrested For Faking Pregnancy


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A 20-year-old house help, Ivy Nkrumah, has been arrested for faking pregnancy. She was said to have stuffed rags around her stomach in order to collect money from her boyfriend, Francis Osei Bonsu.

The Station Officer of the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU), Inspector Who Knows Attipoe, told journalists in [b]Accra [/b]yesterday that somewhere in June this year the suspect reported to DOVVSU at her boyfriend, Bonsu, a businessman, had impregnated her and had failed to cater for her. He said DOVVSU referred the case to the Social Welfare where Bonsu was asked to remit an amount of GH¢50 every month and also take care of her medical expenses until she delivered.

Inspector Attipoe said Bonsu subsequently started paying the Money through the Social Welfare to Ivy.

Later, Bonsu suspected that Ivy was not pregnant and decided to stop paying the money and was later called by the officials of the Social Welfare to explain why.

Inspector Attipoe said officials of the Social Welfare, then referred the case to a Family Tribunal Court in Accra where it was decided that Bonsu pays GH¢100 every month and rent a place for her.

According to the station officer, he paid the GH¢100 once and did not pay again because he was still suspicious that Ivy was not really pregnant.
Inspector Attipoe said when he failed to pay the following month, a bench warrant was issued for his arrest on December 9.

At the court, Bonsu insisted that he suspected the pregnancy was faked.
The court therefore, conducted an examination on her and realised that Ivy had tied rags around her belly and she was subsequently arrested.
The Crime officer said she would be put before court for defrauding by false pretence and deceit of a public officer.

In an interview with the suspect, Ivy claimed she got pregnant with Bonsu, but later had a miscarriage.

She said she did that to pay the man back because Bonsu promised to cater for her but reneged.

good drop H. Chief, I haven't seen this in months.




STAN MEETS PRESIDENT OBAMA- PART 1


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STAN THE WHITE MAN-EPISODE 3- FANTASY METAPHYSICAL IDIOTS


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STAN THE WHITE MAN- EPISODE 2 -BLACK HAIR


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STAN THE WHITE MAN- EPISODE 2 -BLACK HAIR   


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And people like to call one a conspiratorial kook when you tell them about how most global prices for commodities are set in the City of London, and the power brokers are working on one world government, NWO.

The global corporations have too many deadly and sophisticated weapons for an armed revolution especially in a country as important as 9ja.

The way to go is mental revolution.

The Awakening-Final Version-Full Length Documentary


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I think a lot of American artists want the money in the bank or an security bond for their services before they make the trek. I doubt that the BH thugs and goons even know who these people are.

I still think this BH movement is supported by global industrial military forces that want to create another Civil War in 9ja like the British instigated the first one.

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and there cant be only one woman involved, if he did indeed cheat.

this is a ______ guy we're talking about here.

the comments on your link are so funny btw.


Not my work playa, courtesy of mediafakeout, they embellish a lot but sometimes get the story correct.

Some say Kobe had an child out of wedlock and got served court papers during a game this year.

Kobe Bryant Gets Served With Paternity Suit After Magic Game ,
www.vibe.com/, /wtf-kobe-bryant-gets-served-paternity-suit-after-m, Feb 15, 2011 – The word is that the mysterious package is a paternity suit from a girl Kobe knocked up ,  "Kobe paid for her to live in Italy for the last year. ,


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[b]There may be one glimmer of hope on the horizon. The Federal Reserve has been lending huge amounts of money to the European Central Bank and the European Central Bank has been lending that money out to European banks. In turn, the European banks have been using much of that money to buy up European government bonds. It is a massive Ponzi scheme, [/b]but it has stabilized bond yields in Europe for now. This scheme was described in a recent article by Simone Foxman,

That's because the European Central Bank may have already introduced roundabout measures that will solve some of Europe's big problems—it's making investing in peripheral sovereign debt a huge profit opportunity for banks.

Theoretically, financial institutions will be able coin money by borrowing ultra-cheap from the ECB and buying higher yielding sovereign debt.

Essentially, it appears the ECB might allow European banks to pledge everything but the kitchen sink in return for funds. First, the new policy allows European banks to hold far fewer assets as collateral in exchange for funding from the ECB—freeing up liquidity to the tune of €103 billion ($134 billion). More importantly, relaxing collateral restrictions could also allow European banks to use even somewhat risky sovereign assets as collateral for bond purchases.

But this Ponzi scheme cannot go on indefinitely. A lot of European banks are already starting to run out of collateral for these loans as one Australian news source recently explained,

"If anyone thinks things are getting better, they simply don't understand how severe the problems are," a London executive at a global bank said. "A major bank could fail within weeks."

Others said many continental banks, including French, Italian and Spanish lenders, were close to running out of the acceptable forms of collateral, such as US Treasury bonds, that could be used to finance short-term loans.

Some have been forced to lend out their gold reserves to maintain access to US dollar funding.

So will the European Central Bank keep lending them money once they are out of collateral?

If they do, the ECB itself could potentially be in a great deal of danger.

The truth is that the ECB is already playing with fire. So far, the European Central Bank has spent over 274 billion dollars buying up European government bonds in an attempt to keep bond yields down.

How many toxic assets can the ECB buy up before they get into real trouble?

That is a very interesting question.

Meanwhile, the rest of the world is becoming increasingly concerned about the financial panic that is sweeping Europe.

For example, Australian banks have been given one week to perform a stress test that evaluates their ability to survive in the event of a European financial collapse.

Why all the urgency?

Do they know something that we don't?

Just like back in 2008, we are seeing massive problems at some of the largest banks in the world.

On Thursday, Fitch Ratings downgraded a whole bunch of the world's most prominent banks,

The banks included Bank of America, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, as well as Europe's Barclays, Societe Generale and BNP Paribas.

Germany's Deutsche Bank and Switerzland's Credit Suisse were also downgraded.

The global banking system is a giant house of cards. There is simply way too much debt, way too much leverage and way too much risk.

On average, major banks across Europe are leveraged 26 to 1.

If the value of the assets held by those banks declines by just 4 percent, they will be wiped out.

Yes, that is how serious things are.

And already we are starting to see major banks fail in Europe.

This week it was revealed that Germany's second largest bank is going to need a bailout. The following comes from a Sky News report,

Germany's second largest bank, Commerzbank, is reportedly in discussions with the German government about a bailout after regulators said it needed to raise more money to cope with a potential default on its loans to governments.

"Intense talks" have been going on for several days, according to sources who spoke to the news agency Reuters.

So if Germany's second largest bank is failing, are any banks in Europe safe?

Just like we saw back during the 1930s, we are starting to see a run on banks all over Europe.

In fact, according to a recent Der Spiegel article, a run on Greek banks has been going on for a while now and is rapidly accelerating,

He means that the outflow of funds from Greek bank accounts has been accelerating rapidly. At the start of 2010, savings and time deposits held by private households in Greece totalled €237.7 billion -- by the end of 2011, they had fallen by €49 billion. Since then, the decline has been gaining momentum. Savings fell by a further €5.4 billion in September and by an estimated €8.5 billion in October -- the biggest monthly outflow of funds since the start of the debt crisis in late 2009.

If you can believe it, approximately 20 percent of all bank deposits in Greece have been withdrawn since the start of 2011.

Europe is in a massive amount of trouble. The euro is dropping like a rock and the European financial system is paralyzed by panic and fear.

It is going to take a miracle to prevent a massive financial collapse from happening in Europe in 2012.

Unfortunately, there do not appear to be any miracles for Europe on the horizon.

All of this has created an environment where there is not much credit flowing in Europe at all. When there is a credit crunch of this magnitude, it causes the money supply to start to shrink. This is already happening all over Europe as a recent article in the Telegraph noted,

All key measures of the money supply in the eurozone contracted in October with drastic falls across parts of southern Europe, raising the risk of severe recession over coming months.

Right now, we are seeing the money supply in each of the "PIIGS" nations fall at a staggering rate. The following comes from the same Telegraph article referenced above,

Simon Ward from Henderson Global Investors said "narrow" M1 money – which includes cash and overnight deposits, and signals short-term spending plans – shows an alarming split between North and South.

While real M1 deposits are still holding up in the German bloc, the rate of fall over the last six months (annualised) has been 20.7pc in Greece, 16.3pc in Portugal, 11.8pc in Ireland, and 8.1pc in Spain, and 6.7pc in Italy. The pace of decline in Italy has been accelerating, partly due to capital flight. "This rate of contraction is greater than in early 2008 and implies an even deeper recession, both for Italy and the whole periphery," said Mr Ward.

Those numbers scream "Recession, Recession, Recession".