₦airaland Forum

A pleasant smile

A quiet tongue

A tigress/lioness behind closed doors

A thrifty purse/pocketbook.

And most important, the ability to prepare the meat, soup, and vegetables after the man goes hunting and farming(working).


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texazzpete:
People like you are the worst kind of traitors out there!
So the murderous LRA (whose crimes against humanity have been documented for decades!)are now your heroes abi?

[quote][/quote]Thank you very much for the compliment. Yes, I am a traitor to the wealthy 1% that own everything and suck the life and resources out of every corner of the globe.

LRA crimes are a Uganda problem to solve after they get rid of their dictator that has been in power for 24 years and is making side deals with colonial powers to fatten his Swiss bank accounts.

[b]Monday, September 26, 2011British Corporation Mass Murdering Ugandans in UN Sanctioned Land Grab
Beneath fraud, media spin, & UN stamps of approval, awaits an unfolding nightmare for the people of Africa and the world.
by Tony Cartalucci

The New York Times recently reported in an article titled, "In Scramble for Land, Group Says, Company Pushed Ugandans Out," that the British "New Forests Company" has evicted over 20,000 people from their land in Uganda to make way for tree plantations. Homes were burnt, people, including women and children, were brutalized and murdered during the long eviction process. However, the New York Times states that in this case "the government and the company said the settlers were illegal and evicted for a good cause: to protect the environment and help fight global warming."



The "group" the New York Times is referring to is Oxfam, which published a report titled, "The New Forests Company and its Uganda plantations," detailing the activities of New Forests in Uganda and the evictions the New York Times gingerly describes in its article.

Who is The New Forests Company?

Meet "New Forests," a UK-based firm that claims to be a "sustainable and socially responsible forestry company with established, rapidly growing plantations and the prospect of a diversified product base for local and regional export markets which will deliver both attractive returns to investors and significant social and environmental benefits." Their corporate website is not short of the color green, nor of African people smiling and prospering, so apparently, we are left to believe, New Forests has made good on their mission statement.


Image: Taken from New Forests' website, they proudly display the swath of destruction their company is responsible for, of course, instead of depicting the displacements, murders, and thuggery they are committing against the people of Africa, they place images of thriving trees.
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Meet Robert Deveruex, chairman of New Forests, one of the founding shareholders of The Virgin Group and former chairman of Soho House Group. He has spent a great deal of time and energy making what his corporation is doing in Africa appear to have a philanthropic spin. In an August 2010 Guardian article titled, "Robert Devereux donates £4m of art collection to set up African charity," Devereux claims of his New Forests company that it "has a huge community development programme. It's not philanthropy. We go to the community and we say, 'We want to co-invest with you. If you provide what labour and materials you can, we'll provide money for things that you can't get.'" Devereux, however, never mentioned what happens if the community says, "no thanks."


Photo: Robert Devereux, a long time investor, a long time con-artist spinning his company's despoiling of Africa as some sort of cutting-edge investment strategy that makes money and "helps" people. Even as Devereux made his disingenuous statements in 2010 regarding New Forests, the villagers in Uganda he was "helping" had already filed a court case a year earlier protesting the British company's encroachment on their land.
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Meet New Forests executive director and CEO Julian Ozanne, who previously worked for the Financial Times, advised US and European investment banks on business and political risk in Africa and worked for the global corporate-fascists nexus, the World Economic Forum. Also serving as a New Forest director is Jonathan Aisbitt, chairman of the investment firm, The Man Group, and previously a partner and managing director at the now notorious Goldman Sachs.

There is also Avril Stassen, who is not only a director at New Forests but is also currently a principal at Agri-Vie Investment Advisers, which claims to be "focused on food and agribusiness in Sub-Sahara Africa with a mission to generate an above average investment return, as well as demonstrable socio-economic development impacts through its equity investments in food and agribusinesses." In other words, buying up land in African nations people depend on to live, to instead broaden foreign investors' portfolios and profits, all under the cover of feel good rhetoric and pictures of smiling Africans pasted all over their website and annual reports. A good website that seems to be keeping watch on Agri-Vie is Farmlandgrab.org, which in one short URL explains exactly the game Agri-Vie is playing.

And finally, meet Sajjad Sabur, also a director at New Forests, as well as a managing director at HSBC, heading the mega-bank's "Principal Investments Africa" branch which targets African businesses with management buyouts, growth capital and recapitalization "opportunities." Sabur's HSBC invesment arm has actually invested in New Forests.

Quite clearly, this looks more like the profile of a Wall Street-London corporate-fascist hit team than anything at all involving humanitarian, environmental, or social concerns. And judging by Oxfam's report and the subsequent attempt by the New York Times to mitigate the gravity of what the largest banks in the world are doing to Africa, it seems like a corporate-fascist hit is just what is unfolding in Uganda at New Forests' hands.

Globalization is Modern Day Imperialism by Anglo-American Bankers

Backtracking to New Forests' mission statement, apparently "social responsibility" equates to murdering or displacing tens of thousands of Ugandans in their own nation, and "attractive returns" equates to the extraction and exportation of Ugandan resources for a corporation's shareholders 4,000 miles away. What we are told is of significant "benefit" to society and the environment looks more like a textbook case of imperialism, perpetrated by British, surely new to being socially and environmentally responsible, but certainly not to imperialism nor gimmicks used to mask it behind noble causes.

The New York Times reveals that the World Bank is also an investor in New Forests along with HSBC, and that the true nature of the scam goes beyond merely displacing tens of thousands to grow trees, but that the trees are being used for the purpose of selling contrived carbon credits, not even to provide tangible resources for economic activity. The New York Times also implicates the United Nations, which granted New Forests permission to "trade" with the Ugandan government regarding its 50-year lease to grow trees in the landlocked nation.

The government of Uganda, led by President-for-life Yoweri Museveni for the last 25 years, was the result of a protracted civil war led by Museveni himself. After seizing power, he was immediately lauded by the West, embraced the World Bank and International Monetary Fund's plans for restructuring his newly conquered nation, and has been running it as a dictator ever since. It is no surprise that Museveni is now selling his own people out, no doubt in exchange for his perpetual, unhindered rule, transiting a vast corporate media black hole enjoyed by regimes servile to Wall Street and London worldwide.

The globalist New York Times has a long tradition of apologizing not just for Anglo-American bankers as they defile the planet, but defending their accomplices, Museveni apparently one of them. In a 1997 New York Times article titled, "Uganda Leader Stands Tall in New African Order," Museveni is praised for his extraterritorial meddling throughout neighboring African states. The New York Times claims, "not only has Mr. Museveni resurrected his own impoverished nation from two decades of brutal dictatorship and near economic collapse, but he is also widely seen as the covert patron of rebel movements like the one that has just toppled Mobutu Sese Seko, the longtime dictator of Zaire." The article then brushes off accusations that Museveni is dictator of a single party system of governance by providing Museveni's own defense, that Uganda is pre-industrial and not ready for multiparty democracy.

How resurrected Uganda is from poverty is a matter of debate, and certainly, the concept of poverty has taken on all new dimensions for over 20,000 Ugandans forced from their land by Anglo-American bankers and their willing accomplices in the Ugandan government. How Museveni plans on bringing Uganda past its "pre-industrial" state by handing over land to foreigners to grow trees on for the next 50 years, leaving his own people homeless, jobless, and destitute for an entire generation is also a profound mystery.

What we are watching in Africa is the grotesque reality that is globalization peaking through the thick layer of lies, propaganda, spin, liberal ideologies, and imagery used to dupe the Western world, and increasingly many in the developing world. It is a reality that entails theft on a massive scale, human exploitation, mass-murder, collective punishment, and intimidation. For those that think Uganda is an isolated anomaly and are somehow able to dismiss the backgrounds of New Forests which represents an entire network designed specifically to exploit and strip mine all of Africa, one need look no further than Southeast Asia's Cambodia. There, half way around the world from Uganda, another Western backed dictator-for-life, Hun Sen, has literally sold half his country to foreign investors, displacing hundreds of thousands at gunpoint in a nearly identical Wall Street-London land-grab.

Globalization is a multi-billion dollar packaged update of the British Empire's "spreading of civilization." Designs of dominion and exploitation have historically always been accompanied by excuses seen as palatable for the masses who were expected to support and carry these designs to fruition for the ruling elite. While it is no longer fashionable to kill black and brown people while accusing them of being "savages," it is still quite fashionable to consider them "undemocratic," "backwards," "overpopulating," "terrorists," and above all, "detriments to our environment." At least, New Forests and New York Times seem to think so.

Once again, the choice we the people have, upon learning of this, is to either detach in cowardice and apathy, or identify the corporations, banks, and institutions leading this "globalization," expose them, boycott them, and ultimately replace them. Those of New Forests guilty of displacing, even murdering people simply for profit in a foreign nation, thousands of miles from their shores, don't belong in business anymore.

The darkest villains we face on earth today are not cave dwelling Islamic fundamentalists, Libyan colonels, or Americans selling sliver coins, instead, the most dangerous, degenerate, and detrimental members of the human race reside on Wall Street and in London's financial institutions. [/b]

[b]Just saw this truthful essay on the net.
Sorry about the cut and paste job but it strongly addresses the topic matter.






Obama Sends US Troops to Uganda
October 14, 2011
By Tony Cartalucci - BLN Contributing Writer


http://www.blacklistednews.com/Obama_Sends_US_Troops_to_Uganda/16138/0/38/38/Y/M.html

Nobel Peace Prize-President quietly opens 8th US battlefront.

While America occupies Iraq and Afghanistan, wages covert war on Pakistan, conducts drone attacks on Yemen and Somalia, bombards Libya, and positions for a wider confrontation with Iran and Syria, Nobel Peace Prize Laurette President Obama has now quietly, without much fanfare, sent 100 US troops to help Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni crush rebels threatening his 25 year dictatorship.

In what is essentially a "reverse-Libyan-style" intervention, the US is sending troops to crush, not assist rebels rising up against their despotic ruler. Ironically, just as with Libya's rebels, Uganda's rebels are also listed as a foreign terrorist organization by the US State Department. Instead of the corporate-financier contrived International Criminal Court issuing fictitious warrants for Uganda's head of state, as was done with Qaddafi in Libya, it is the Ugandan rebel leader, Joseph Kony, who is being targeted.

Both the Ugandan government (with US assistance) and the rebels, known as the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), are accused of perpetrating heinous atrocities against their enemies and civilian populations in their decades long conflict. In particular, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has just recently presided over the mass murdering and displacement of 20,000 of his own people on behalf of British corporations who sought to construct tree plantations on their land. US and British military assistance and business deals with the Ugandan government have been a ubiquitous feature throughout Museveni's perpetual, unending term as president.

While mutilated victims of the LRA are just now being paraded in front of the public to frame the recent US troop deployment as another "humanitarian intervention," it is more than likely that geopolitical aspirations, not humanitarian concerns, are driving this agenda. This is especially so considering just how equally abhorrent the Ugandan government's human rights record is.

The LRA has often been harbored by the Sudanese government (now the South Sudanese government). Sudan has served as a proxy battlefield between the West and China for control over of its vast oil holdings and ultimately as part of a greater battle to control Africa's resources. Sudan appears to have used the LRA as a sort of armed buffer between them and their neighbors, in particular, Uganda, ruled by an eager servant of the Anglo-American agenda.

Surely, as Africa, a forsaken continent, is already written off in the minds of many Americans, little concern and few eyebrow will be lifted as their Nobel Peace Prize-wearing president sends yet more troops off to war there, in a global military expansion quickly and alarmingly approaching the scale and scope of Adolf Hitler's expansion across Europe and Northern Africa during World War II. This is difficult to deny when the final tally is done - the United States is conducting either covert or overt military operations in at least 8 nations - Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia, Iran, Libya, Pakistan, and now Uganda - and has 820 military installations in at least 135 countries. As Wall Street and London seek global hegemony, the price Americans pay as this tally grows will only increase. However far flung Uganda may seem, every inch of expansion by the globalists is one inch less for free humanity.

Identify the corporate-financier interests engineering and driving this agenda, boycott and replace them.








British Corporation Mass Murdering Ugandans in UN Sanctioned Land Grab


http://landdestroyer..com/2011/09/british-corporation-mass-murdering.html[/b]






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Any elected official that achieved this amount of debt reduction can be excused for breaking a campaign promise not to run again in my opinion. But I don't condone fraudulent elections!


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


Debt relief

From the beginning of her presidency, Sirleaf vowed to make reduction of the national debt, which stood at approximately US$4.9 billion in 2006, a top priority for her administration. The United States became the first country to grant debt relief to Liberia, waiving the full $391 million owed to it by Liberia in early 2007.[22] In September of that year, the G-8 headed by German Chancellor Angela Merkel provided $324.5 million to paying off 60% of Liberia's debt to the International Monetary Fund, crediting their decision with the macroeconomic policies pursued by the Sirleaf administration.[23]

In April 2009, the government successfully wrote off an additional $1.2 billion in foreign commercial debt in a deal that saw the government buy back the debt at a 97% discounted rate through financing provided by the International Development Association, Germany, Norway, the United States and the United Kingdom.[24] The discounted rate was the largest ever for a developing country.[24]

The country was deemed eligible to participate in the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries initiative in 2008.[25] In June 2010, the country reached the completion point of the HIPC initiative, qualifying it for relief from its entire external debt.[26] That same month, the World Bank and IMF agreed to fund $1.5 billion in writing off the Liberia's multilateral debt.[27] On 16 September, the Paris Club agreed to cancel $1.26 billion, with independent bilateral creditors canceling an additional $107 million, essentially writing off Liberia's remaining external debt.[28] Sirleaf vowed to prevent unsustainable borrowing in the future by restricting annual borrowing to 3% of GDP and limiting expenditure of all borrowed funds to one-off infrastructure projects.[29]

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eGuerrilla:
@AfroBlue,

African Bush fighters, you say? You are having a laugh!
Kony is the vilest war lord we have ever had on the continent and deserves no less than the OBL treatment, in my opinion.

If you do nothing else today, please read up on the antecedents of this psycho.

[quote][/quote]I am in no means posting this information to excuse the atrocities of Kony. The point of the thread is to highlight the in your face tactics of the Imperialists powers. No longer are they satisfied with supporting behind the scenes clandestine military and political operations, now its right out in the open. Western powers are now in a cold war with China to control the natural resources of Africa. Before you know it colonialism will return in full-force on the continent. Mr. Obama with his war machine and military industrial complex industry is a disgrace to the voters that put him in office 3 years ago. He promised to fight for peace and prosperity but has sold out to the real powers that rule the planet with war financing, weapons, and banking corruption.

The USA is a stone's throw behind Greece when it comes to default and economic frailty. Mr. Obama has plenty on his plate to fix in America instead of sticking his nose in other's affairs. The so-called war on terror that western powers are pursuing is one gigantic fraud of epic proportions soon to engulf Africa. The die has been cast and the chess pieces are obeying the commands of the chess masters.


Notice below the French and United Nations (NWO) in attendence.




ECOWAS Defence Chiefs Meet In Abuja


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A two day meeting has been opened by the ECOWAS Committee of Chiefs of Defence Staff (CCDS) in Abuja, Nigeria's capital city on Tuesday.

The Ecowas committee of Chiefs of Defence Staff is working on measures that can be used to check the influx of weapons spilling over from the Libyan crises into the sub-region.

Air Chief Marshall Oluseyi Petinrin who chaired the 29th meeting of the ECOWAS committee in Abuja explained that the Libyan crises has resulted in a spillover of weapons into Niger, Mali and other parts of the region giving rise to terrorism.

He said the meeting will come up with specific measures to tackle these security concerns among ECOWAS member countries.

With the terrorism challenges in Nigeria laced with spates of bombings in various parts of the country every opening for more influx of weapons needs to be closed else it could further empower terrorists.

The meeting is scheduled to put into consideration the recommendations of an extraordinary meeting of the defence chiefs that focused on the right response to the security threat between the Cote d'Voire and Liberia's borders and the region's general security situation.

Defence chiefs of Nigeria, Liberia, Ghana, Senegal, Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast had on September 13 held an extra ordinary meeting to comply with the directive of the summit held by the six countries' heads of state and government on September 10 in Abuja.

In attendance at the meeting are the Defence Chiefs of ECOWAS member states, force commanders of the United Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) and United Missions in Cote D'Ivoire (UNOCI). Commander of the French Forces based in Dakar and representatives from the United Nations in West Arica (UNOWA) another Dakar based United Nations organisation.

UNOCI and UNMIL Force Commanders will also be briefing members of the committee during the meeting, said a statement by ECOWAS.

They will also be considering the proposal by Forum of Ministers of security on the code of conduct for military-security personnel, counter terrorism strategy, INTERPOL-European Union-ECOWAS initiative on security and the maritime security in the Gulf of Guinea.

The Defence Chiefs will also be discussing other issues including the ECOWAS Small Arms Programme (ECOSAP) based in Bamako, Mali and issues relating to the Freetown based regional logistic depot.[/b]


P.S. Mr. eGuerrilla, please read up on where (OBL) aka Tim Osman received his training.

[b]October 14, 2011


Why Send US Troops Against African Bush Fighters?


NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Why is the U.S. sending its troops to finish off a fractured band of bush fighters in the middle of Africa? Political payback for the quiet sacrifices of Uganda's troops in Somalia could be one reason.

President Barack Obama announced Friday he is dispatching about 100 U.S. troops — mostly special operations forces — to central Africa to advise in the fight against the Lord's Resistance Army — a guerrilla group accused of widespread atrocities across several countries. The first U.S. troops arrived Wednesday.

Long considered one of Africa's most brutal rebel groups, the Lord's Resistance Army began its attacks in Uganda more than 20 years ago. But the rebels are at their weakest point in 15 years. Their forces are fractured and scattered, and the Ugandan military estimated earlier this year that only 200 to 400 fighters remain. In 2003 the LRA had 3,000 armed troops and 2,000 people in support roles.

But capturing LRA leader Joseph Kony — a ruthless and brutal thug — remains the highest priority for Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, a 25-year-leader who has committed thousands of troops to the African Union force in Somalia to fight militants from al-Shabab, a group with ties from al-Qaida.

The U.S. has not had forces in Somalia since pulling out shortly after the 1993 Black Hawk Down battle in Mogadishu in which 18 American troops died.

Some experts believe that the U.S. military advisers sent to Uganda could be a reward for the U.S.-funded Ugandan troops service in Somalia.

"I've been hearing that. I don't know if our group necessarily agrees with that, but it definitely would make sense," said Matt Brown, a spokesman for the Enough Project, a U.S. group working to end genocide and crimes against humanity, especially in central Africa.

"The U.S. doesn't have to fight al-Qaida-linked Shabab in Somalia, so we help Uganda take care of their domestic security problems, freeing them up to fight a more dangerous — or a more pressing, perhaps — issue in Somalia. I don't know if we would necessarily say that but it's surely a plausible theory," Brown said.

Col. Felix Kulayigye, Uganda's military spokesman, told The Associated Press previously that Ugandan forces have long received "invaluable" support from the U.S. military, including intelligence sharing, in the fight against the LRA.

That support got a huge boost this week.

Though the deployment of 100 troops is relatively small, it marks a possible sea-change for Washington in overcoming its reluctance to commit troops to Africa. Even the U.S. Africa Command, which oversees U.S. military operations on the continent, is based in Germany. The U.S. maintains a base in the tiny East African nation of Djibouti, but most troops there are not on combat missions.

The LRA poses no known security threat to the United States, and a report from the Enough Project last year said that Kony no longer has complete and direct command and control over each LRA unit.

But the group's tactics have been widely condemned as vicious. Few are expected to object to Obama's move to help regional security forces eliminate a group that has slaughtered thousands of civilians and routinely kidnaps children to be child soldiers and sex slaves.

Kony is wanted by the International Criminal Court for his group's attacks, which now take place in South Sudan, Congo and the Central African Republic.

Still, Bill Roggio, the managing editor of The Long War Journal, called the Obama administration's rationale for sending troops "puzzling," especially since the LRA does not present a national security threat to the U.S. — "despite what President Obama said."

"The timing of this deployment is odd, especially given the administration's desire to disengage from conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan," Roggio said. "It is unclear why the issue has resurfaced, but the administration may be rewarding Uganda" for its military contributions in Somalia, he said.

Obama said that although the U.S. troops will be combat equipped, they will not engage LRA forces unless it is in self-defense.

In recent months, the administration has stepped up its support for Uganda. In June, the Pentagon moved to send nearly $45 million in military equipment to Uganda and Burundi, another country contributing in Somalia. The aid included four small drones, body armor and night-vision and communications gear and is being used in the fight against al-Shabab.

Last November, the U.S. announced a new strategy to counter the LRA's attacks on civilians. U.S. legislation passed last year with huge bipartisian support calling for the coordination of U.S. diplomatic, economic, intelligence and military efforts against the LRA. That's one reason, Brown said, Obama may be sending in advisers. He said that regional stability is also good for U.S. interests.

"It really doesn't take that many U.S. resources," Brown said. "You've got 100 troops to go in and take care of the LRA problem once and for all."

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Jason Straziuso has been AP's bureau chief in East Africa since 2009.[/b]

Only a smiling black face in the White House could send U.S. troops to kill Africans, first Libya, now Uganda.

Obama Sends Troops Against Uganda Rebel

President Barack Obama authorized about 100 “combat-equipped U.S. forces,” including special operations personnel, to central Africa to help fight against Uganda’s renegade Lord’s Resistance Army and its leader, Joseph Kony.

The troops are to “provide assistance to regional forces that are working toward” Kony’s removal “from the battlefield,” Obama said today in a letter to House and Senate leaders released by the White House.

The White House was responding to 2010 legislation pushed by a group of lawmakers and human rights organizations that supported a comprehensive U.S. effort short of active military involvement to mitigate or eliminate the Lord’s Resistance Army threat.

The Lord’s Resistance Army for more than 20 years “has murdered, violated and kidnapped tens of thousands of men, woman and children in central Africa,” Obama’s letter said. The State Department has designated the group a terrorist organization, and in 2008 the Treasury Department added Kony to its list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists.

The U.S. has provided more than $40 million since 2008 for “critical logistical support, equipment and training” to forces fighting Kony, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said.

Previous assistance includes 17 U.S. military advisers on a training mission, U.S. Africa Command spokesman Kenneth Fidler said in an e-mail.

Removing Kony
“Even with some limited U.S. assistance, however, regional military efforts have thus far been unsuccessful in removing Kony or his top commanders,” Obama’s letter said.

The 100 troops, primarily U.S. special operations forces, will assist forces from Uganda, South Sudan, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo with “information, advice, and assistance,” the letter said.

U.S. troops will not directly engage Kony’s forces “unless necessary for self-defense,” Obama said.

“We don’t know how long the duration” of the deployment will be, and “hope it will lasts until Kony and his commanders are brought to justice,” said Michael Poffenberger, executive director of Resolve, a Washington-based human rights groups pushing for action. Poffenberger said he was briefed by the National Security Council before release of the Obama letter.

‘Internal Defense’
The special operations forces will be performing “foreign internal defense” training that’s to “provide the right balance of strategic and tactical experience to supplement host nation military efforts,” Fidler said.

“Our forces are prepared to stay as long as necessary,” he said. The personnel will be commanded by Special Operations Command-Africa.

Besides the humanitarian grounds for sending troops cited by Obama, the U.S. has growing concern that the instability caused by the LRA will benefit militant Islamic groups in Somalia and northern Africa.

So far, said William M. Bellamy, a former U.S. ambassador to Kenya who heads the Africa Center for Strategic Studies at the National Defense University in Washington, there is no evidence that the LRA has links to any Islamist groups. “The LRA is kind of off on its own planet,” he said.

The U.S. does have a growing interest in helping Uganda battle the LRA, Bellamy said, in part because the country is preparing to send an additional 2,000 peacekeeping troops to battle the militant group al-Shabaab in Somalia.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-14/obama-sends-troops-against-uganda-rebels.html

[img]http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/data?pid=avimage&iid=iDLIenwY69KI[/img]
Joseph Kony, head of the Lords Resistance Army, prepares to take questions from journalists at his first press conference after twenty years of armed conflict between the LRA and the Ugandan government on August 1, 2006, Southern Sudan

More info on the project.


http://www.skyebankng.com/images/projects/elegantcourt.pdf

[b]40 MOST POWERFUL CELEBRITIES IN AFRICA


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Nigerian novelist, Chinua Achebe took the 1st place on the Forbes' most powerful celebs in Africa list. Wole soyinka and Femi Kuti made the top 10, while Genevieve is the only nollywood star on the list.

Chinua Achebe - 1, Wole Soyinka - 7, Femi Kuti - 10, Genevieve Nnaji - 19, Chimamanda Adichie - 32, 2face Idibia - 34, PSquare - 35, Don Jazzy - 36, Dbanj - 37, Nneka - 38, Asa - 39.

Here is the full list

1. Chinua Achebe, 80, Novelist (Nigeria)
2. Youssou N'dour, 51, Musician (Senegal)
3. Didier Drogba, 33, Footballer (Cote D'Voire)
4. Angelique Kidjoe, 51, Musician (Benin Republic)
5. Akon, 38, Musician (Senegal)
6. Wole Soyinka, 77, Playwright (Nigeria)
7. Salif Keita, 62, Musician (Mali)
8. Yvonne Chaka Chaka, 46, (South African)
9. Oumou Sang, 43, Musician (Mali)
10. Femi Kuti, 49, Musician (Nigerian)
11. Toumani Diabaté, Musician (Mali)
12. Oliver Mtukudzi, 59, Musician (Zimbabwe)
13. Haile Gebrselassie, 38, Athlete (Ethiopia)
14. Khaled Hadj Ibrahim, 51, Musician (Algeria)
15. Samuel Eto'o, 30, Soccer Player (Cameroun)
16. Alek Wek, 34, Supermodel (Sudan)
17. Liya Kebede, 33, Supermodel (Ethopia)
18. Dobet Gnahoré, 29, Musician (Ivory Coast)
19. Genevieve Nnaji, 32, Actress (Nigeria)
20. Koffi Olomidé, 55, Musician (Congo)
21. Neill Blomkamp, 32, Movie Director (South Africa)
22. Souad Massi, 39, Musician (Algeria)
23. Baaba Maal, 58, Musician (Senegalese)
24. Hugh Masekela, 72, Musician (South Africa)
25. K'Naan, 33, Rapper (Somalia)
26. Amadou and Mariam, Musicians (Mali)
27. Awilo Longomba, Musician (Congo)
28. Eric Wainaina, 38, Musician (Kenya)
29. Binyavanga Wainaina, 40, Author (Kenya)
30. Ngugi Wa Thiongo, 73, Author (Kenya)
31. Freshlyground, Musicians (South Africa)
32. Chimamanda Adichie, 34, Writer (Nigeria)
33. Rokia Traoré, 37, Musician (Mali)
34. Tuface Idibia, 36, Musician (Nigeria)
35. P-Square, 29, Musicians (Nigeria)
36. Don Jazzy, 30, Music Producer (Nigeria)
37. D'Banj, 31, Musician (Nigeria)
38. Nneka, 31, Musician (Nigeria)
39. Asa, 29, Musician (Nigeria)
40. Patricia Amira, 33, TV Personality (Kenya) [/b]

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Court jails bachelor 4 years for seducing married woman


From PAUL ORUDE, Bauchi


Tuesday, October 11, 2011



A Chief Magistrate court sitting in Bauchi has sentenced a man to four years imprisonment for seducing a married woman.
The court presided over by Chief Magistrate, Isa Mohammed convicted Attahiru Umar Sade, a bachelor.
The husband of the woman Suleiman Bello through his lawyers, UB Darazo, Auwal Ibrahim and Jibrin Sa’id Jibrin filed a direct criminal complaint before the court against the accused.

Bello alleged that sometimes in July 2010, Umar Sade started wooing his wife Mars Munira Mohammed in an unlawful way suggestive of his intention for a love relationship and she reported the matter to him.
Bello told the court that when he heard the complaint, he approached the man and warned him to desist from any kind of interaction with his wife, and moved his wife from their former house at Danjuma Goje to Federal Low cost in order to blocked him from her.

He said in spite of the preventive measure, the accused went out of his way, got her mobile phone number and put calls to her on Monday September 26, 2011.
Bello said the accused sent to his wife via text message a recharge card Zain for N500 made up of these numbers 6994686556722738 to his wife, and the following day September 27, 2011, he lodged a complaint at Dutsen Tanshi Police station.
He said the accused put two calls to his wife and Police arrested the man at the scene of the conversation with his wife asking her if her husband was at home, later he was released on bail.

Counsels to the complainant told the court that the accused is suspected to have committed the offences of criminal trespass, and enticing a married woman contrary to section 342, 344, and 389 and punishable under section 348, 355, and 389 of the penal code laws.
When asked by the presiding judge yesterday, the accused pleaded guilty to all the charges and appeal for leniency from the court.
In his judgment, the presiding Judge, Chief Magistrate, Isa Mohammed sentenced the accused to six months in prison or pay a fine of N5,000 on first count charge, on the second count charged he sentenced him to one year in prison or pay a fine of N10,000 on the third count charged he was sentenced to two years in prison or pay a fine of N15,000 and ordered him to pay the sum of N50,000 as compensation to the complainant or to spend six months in prison.


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[b]October 13, 2011


Haiti Gov't Links to Old Regime Prompt Scrutiny




PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Back from exile, former strongman Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier lives in a villa in the hills above Haiti's capital. His son serves as a consultant to the country's new president, Michel Martelly, while others with links to Duvalier's hated and feared regime work for the administration.

Duvalier himself is rumored to be ill and appears too frail to return to power. But for many Haitians who remember the ex-dictator's brutal rule, the rise of his loyalists to the new president's inner circle triggers suspicions about where Martelly's loyalties lie.

Such developments might be shrugged off in many countries, but not in Haiti, where much of the political establishment for the past 15 years has consisted of people associated with the mass uprising that forced "Baby Doc" to flee the country for France in 1986.

Now, a former minister and ambassador under the regime is serving as a close adviser to Martelly. And at least five high-ranking members of the administration, including the new prime minister, are the children of senior dictatorship officials.

Sen. Moise Jean-Charles said he and others who lived through those years are uneasy that Duvalierists are aligned with a president with no previous political experience and a history of supporting right-wing causes.

"They've been nostalgic for 25 years," Jean-Charles said of Duvalier's supporters. "And now, they're back in the country and back in power."

Martelly's powers will be at least partly held in check because his opponents control both houses of parliament.

Nonetheless, Jean-Charles, an ex-mayor under former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, has taken his concerns to radio stations and the senate floor. Human rights advocates have echoed similar warnings, especially after a raucous protest staged by Duvalier supporters last month disrupted a news conference calling for the ex-dictator's prosecution.

"There's a lot of worry," said Haitian economist and sociologist Camille Chalmers. "The political circle is made up of Duvalierists."

Martelly spokesman Lucien Jura told The Associated Press that the appointments were based on individual qualifications rather than political affiliation.

"As President Martelly said before, he's not excluding," Jura said. "If the citizen is competent, honest and has good will , regardless of the political sector he's in, he's welcome."

The new government includes a few veterans from Aristide's government, including Mario Dupuy, a communications adviser who was chief spokesman during Aristide's second term.

Martelly met with Aristide and Duvalier on Wednesday in an effort to reconcile differences between the former leaders and their followers. The day before he met with Prosper Avril, an army colonel who overthrew a transitional government in 1988 and resigned two years later amid protests.

"It's time for us again to be one nation, stand behind one project," Martelly told the AP outside the plush home where Duvalier is staying.

While running for office, Martelly pitched himself as a populist even if he later imposed taxes on remittances and phone calls from abroad to help pay for the free schooling of 772,000 children. He's also pledged to build housing and create jobs for some of the half million people still homeless nearly two years after an earthquake devastated the country.

While Martelly hasn't publicly voiced any support for Duvalier, he's addressed some of the top priorities of Duvalier's relatively small political base since taking office in May.

Last month, he proposed to restore the country's disbanded army in addition to award back pay to former soldiers dismissed by Aristide in 1995. Duvalier relied heavily on the military to crack down on internal dissent.

The proposed force will patrol Haiti's porous borders and provide relief during natural catastrophes as well as revive an intelligence unit that the CIA created after Duvalier's ouster to combat cocaine trafficking. That unit, the National Information Service, will assume a new role of fighting terrorism threats, mafia networks and "extremist" organizations.

Critics say it would be better to improve the police force, which is more likely to remain independent. Martelly said he has seen little reform in the police department.

"He can't control the police so he's trying to create his own force," Jean-Charles said.

Adding to the worries, Martelly hasn't pressed for the prosecution of Duvalier, who has been accused of looting the treasury and torturing and killing political opponents during his 15-year rule. Martelly has said it's up to the judiciary to handle Duvalier's case.

What's sparked the most concern has been the personnel picks of the musician-turned-president.

In his first months in office, Martelly turned to people such as Daniel Supplice, an adviser who served as an ambassador and a former minister of social affairs under Duvalier. Supplice hasn't been directly tied to the abuses associated with the Duvalier regime.

Martelly's also tapped the children of Duvalier officials including Prime Minister Garry Conille, a former chief of staff to Bill Clinton in the ex-president's role as U.N. special envoy to Haiti. Conille's father, Serge, was a minister of sports and youth for the dictatorship.

Conille declined to discuss his father and the family ties to Duvalier when asked by an AP reporter, responding, "I would expect a much more intelligent question from somebody like you."

Other picks with Duvalier links include Martelly's senior advisers Thierry and Gregory Mayard-Paul, whose father Constantin Mayard-Paul was a lawyer for Claude Raymond, a feared army lieutenant general under "Baby Doc."

Raymond's son, Claude Jr., recently joined the administration as deputy director general for immigration. Josefa R. Gauthier, whose father Adrien was a diplomat under "Baby Doc's" regime, is the director general for the government's Fund for Economic and Social Assistance.

The most prominent tie is Francois Nicolas "Nico," Duvalier's 28-year-old son, who is a consultant to Martelly.

To be sure, Haiti's political ranks have been a revolving door since both Duvaliers exiled thousands of professionals and shrank the talent pool from which governments draw qualified workers. Even Aristide, who helped lead the movement to oust the dictatorship, had a few Duvalierists in his administration.

But Martelly has hired more officials from the former regime than his last two predecessors.

The resurgent Duvalier movement made an assertive public appearance during last month's news conference organized by Amnesty International to discuss the stalled criminal investigation into the ex-dictator.

As a representative of the human rights group tried to speak, Duvalier supporters yelled into the microphones of journalists and shouted him down.

"You're trying to create a civil war in this country," Reynold Georges, a lawyer for Duvalier, told an Amnesty representative at the news conference. "If he needs to be tried, he will be tried." [/b]

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Nigeria's fashion designer Lisa Folawiyo's shiny clothes have captivated people from Lagos to Cape Town, London, Paris, New York and Hollywood

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She is the founder and creative director of Jewel by Lisa, a brand that specialises in Ankara textiles, the vibrant wax-resist dyed fabrics characteristic of West Africa and widely used across the continent.

These clothes, originally based on traditional Indonesian batik and formerly known as Dutch wax, have been popular in Nigeria for generations.

"Our mothers, grandmothers and probably great-grandmothers have worn this fabric," Ms Folawiyo told the BBC series African Dream.

But, as though they were not already bright enough, she decided to embellish them with beads, sequins and crystals, all sewn by hand, and the chic combination became an instant success.

"I can confidently say that Jewel by Lisa was the originator of the embellished Ankara which we see today everywhere," the designer said.

"I have a huge clientele and I have been able to hire a showroom in New York, for instance, and from that showroom we have been able to be stocked in about two stores in New York. Also, I am stocked in a store in South Africa," she added.
Teamwork

Ms Folawiyo attributes her company's success to the way it imbues traditional clothing with a very modern look.

Lisa Folawiyo

* Age: 35
* Studied law at Nigeria Law School
* Started Jewel by Lisa in 2005, employing two tailors
* Jewel by Lisa now has 30 employees
* It operates from showrooms in Lagos and New York
* It is sold in Nigeria, South Africa, the UK and the US

She also thinks that a great deal of Jewel by Lisa's achievements have to do with the people she works with.

"I have a great team. That is how I have been able to make a good business out of this," she said.

"When I started Jewel by Lisa, I worked from home, by myself, and hired able hands of one or two tailors, and it was very much a passion, just something I loved doing," Ms Folawiyo explained.

She says that the excitement is still there but that her team helps her to keep focused and to have a good structure in place.

"This enables me to still run away with my creativity and run away with my passion but then they definitively make sure that the numbers are adding up," she told the BBC's Tomi Oladipo.
Not only glamour
A dress from Jewel by Lisa's most recent collection Jewel by Lisa's most recent collection includes dresses like this

Ms Folawiyo believes that there is still room in the industry for new entrepreneurs.

"Because of my story I do know that you don't have to go to a design school to be a good designer but I do think that you must have a good eye, you want to understand garment-making as opposed to wanting to be called a designer," she said.

In her opinion, many young people have the wrong impression of a designer's life.

"They see the glamorous side. They see us when we go for a fashion show. They see when you go on the runway and take your bow, and they see you've been featured in magazines, and they think: 'Oh, I want that'.

"But it's a lot of hard work; it's a lot of passion."

African Dream is broadcast on the BBC Network Africa programme every Monday morning.


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Gaddafi Placed $97 Billion To Free Africa From Imperialism!

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"I dream of a united Africa." -Muammar Gaddafi




What the US-NATO-EU hopes to achieve is to eliminate the half-reliable partner Gaddafi and replace him with a neo-liberal oriented government that will do their bidding: sign in on AFRICOM, kick China out, reverse the government central bank to a BIS private enterprise, continue using dollars of course, and have the lackey leaders join in their permanent war age throughout the Middle East and Africa.



New neo-liberal socio-economic policies would eliminate what the Gaddafi government has provided the entire population through state subsidies funded with oil export sales: the highest standard of living in Africa with free, universal health and education care, and the possibility of studying abroad at state expense; $50,000 for each new married couple to get started with; non-interest state loans; subsidized prices of cars much lower than in Europe; the cheapest gasoline and bread prices in the world (similar to Venezuela); no taxes for those working in agriculture.




The Central Bank also financed Africa’s first communication satellite with $300 million of the $377 cost. It started up for all Africa, December 26, 2007, thus saving the 45-African nations an annual fee of $500 million pocketed by Europe for use of its satellites and this means much less cost for telephones and other communication systems.




While Gaddafi had turned much of his oil sales toward the West, inviting in many of the major oil companies for great profits (BP, EXXON Mobil, Shell, Total, etc), he did not join the US wars against Afghanistan and Iraq as did most of the oil rich Middle Eastern governments. Nor did he sign on with AFRICOM, a US-inspired pact oriented towards US economic and military benefit in Africa also oriented to isolate China from Africa’s natural resources. In fact, China has 50 major economic projects going in Libya with $18 billion investment. Before the US-NATO invasion, there were 30,000 Chinese workers on these and other projects. Much of China’s investment is destroyed.




In 2010 Gaddafi offered to invest $97 billion in Africa to free it from Western influence, on condition that African states rid themselves of corruption and nepotism. Gaddafi always dreamed of a Developed, United Africa and was about to make that dream come true - and nothing is more terrifying to the West than a Developed, United Africa.




Here is a selection of the initiatives Libya has already put in place in Africa, as well as some of the projects it is planning, explaining why the West's illegal war against Libya also is a war against Entire Africa.

AFRICAN UNION:

Libya is one of the biggest contributors to the budget of the African Union. Libya is one of five countries -- the others are Algeria, Egypt, Nigeria and South Africa -- which cover 75 percent of the Union's budget. "Libya makes its full required contribution to AU funds. Not all countries do and that buys it influence," a senior African Union official said.

[b]Brooklyn rapper Talib Kweli knew it was hip to hop fence and join Occupy Wall Street activists BY Tracy Connor
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Monday, October 10th 2011, 4:00 AM

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Talib Kweli joined protesters and performed a song off a new unreleased solo album at Zuccotti Park.

Hip-hop star Talib Kweli says his first visit to Occupy Wall Street won't be his last.


The Brooklyn rapper loaned his lyrics to the cause last week when he performed a song off a new unreleased solo album at Zuccotti Park.


"I'm not aligned with everyone politically who is there," he told the Daily News. "But I was overwhelmed by seeing democracy in action.


"You have to see how dedicated these people are to creating social awareness and creating a platform for us to talk about issues , disparities in our country."


Kweli, 36, was on the road with Mos Def - his former partner in the acclaimed duo Black Star - when the activists began their sit-in against financial inequity.


He read about it on Twitter first, started hearing about other artists visiting the protesters and decided to go himself.


"Now this is the New York City I love," he tweeted as he pulled up last week.


Kweli grew up in Park Slope until he was 11 and then Flatbush. He went to Brooklyn Technical High School before his parents, both college professors, sent him to boarding school in Connecticut.


His brother, Jamal Greene, is a Harvard- and Yale-educated constitutional law professor at Columbia who clerked for a Supreme Court justice - after a stint as a Sports Illustrated reporter.


Kweli, who lives in Park Slope, said he hopes he can use his fame to bring more attention to the protesters.


He thought about making a video for the song he performed, "Distraction," but is worried it might look like he's using their cause to promote his work.


The song was written a year ago and contains references to corporate greed and the Arab Spring revolutions.


He said he'll be keeping tabs on the movement and sending out updates to his 370,000 Twitter followers. Another visit to Zuccotti Park seems likely.


"I'm positive I'll go back," he said.[/b]

Kanye West joins Occupy Wall Street demonstrators as celebrities weigh in with their support for growing protest movement
Singer becomes most high-profile name to join in U.S. economic protests
He follows actors such as Mark Ruffalo, Susan Sarandon and Penn Badgley
Russell Simmons and Reverend Al Sharpton also went to New York camp



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The protests against the state of the U.S. political and economic systems have now spread to more than 25 cities - from Sacramento to Seattle, Anchorage to Atlanta and Mobile to Minneapolis.
Other famous names who visited the New York site on Monday included Russell Simmons, co-founder of Def Jam records, and civil rights campaigner the Reverend Al Sharpton.


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Famous faces: Russell Simmons, left, co-founder of Def Jam records, speaks to a member of the media during the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York, while actor Danny Glover, right, was at Occupy LA at the weekend
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Famous name: Actor and activist Susan Sarandon visits the protest and the 'No Comment' protest art show in the former JP Morgan building across the street from the New York Stock Exchange on Monday
Michael Bloomberg said he will allow Occupy Wall Street protesters to stay indefinitely at their Manhattan village - but suggested some have only camped out there because of the warm weather.
The New York City Mayor said demonstrators will only be allowed to stay in Zuccotti Park as long as they obey the laws, after protester numbers swelled this weekend as the city enjoyed warm weather.

But as the Occupy Wall Street protest continued in full strength in Manhattan today, the atmosphere in New York's financial district has become increasingly debauched.
Conspicuously living among the politically active in the makeshift village in Zuccotti Park are opportunistic junkies and homeless people - making the most of the free food on offer.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2047634/Occupy-Wall-Street-Kanye-West-joins-demonstrators-celebrity-support-grows.html#ixzz1aQqPDv00

[b]Sista makes a lot of sense in her articles!


Don't forget my dogs, give but don't empty your pockets and don't forget about quality time (non sexual) with your Queen



Men’s Relationship With Women

Story by AMARA

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Every woman, no matter the age, loves to be loved and pampered. Don’t blame us, God made us that way. To a good number of Nigerian men, it’s all about how much you have in your pocket. But I don’t really blame you because my fellow ladies have made you believe there is no relationship without a fat bank account. But have you wondered why we have wives of the so called rich and very busy men go around with boys they fend for?

Men now believe a girl can be treated anyhow and be pacified later by a fat cheque, exotic ride, and holiday to the Caribbean. Maybe it has been working for you simply because you have always met the greedy ones. But a time will come when you will fall head-over-heels in love with a girl only to have her walk out of your life. Then you will come to agree with me that there are dos and don’ts in every relationship.

Many relationships in Nigeria are in trouble because our dear men have refused to see women as partners. To them, she is just another piece of furniture and should be treated as one. Men still believe a woman should be seen and not heard. I still wonder when I see men beat their wives and girlfriends. This has led to the breakup of many relationships as the lady would rather live outside the relationship than die in the relationship.

I so much agree in a man being the head of every relationship. Everyone knows Amara is a strong supporter and promoter of African culture. But guys, I still see many African men who treat their wives like partners and not slaves. Treating a woman well has nothing to do with wealth. Yes, a woman deserves some level of comfort but that shouldn’t take the place of companionship.

Be it for a date or marriage, every decent girl wants a man who will always respect and treat her like a lady. To help you succeed in your relationship with the woman of your dream, try these few tips:

APPRECIATE HER:

It takes just a little effort to win a woman’s heart. A woman wants to be appreciated always. No matter how much you spend on your woman, she will never be satisfied until you give her that which her heart longs for. Look at her every morning before you step out of the house and tell her how beautiful she is. Even if you think she is not, I know there is one particular attribute she has which won your heart.

Yours may be a long distance relationship, thank God for GSM. She wants to hear your voice last thing at night, she wants you to talk her to sleep and wake her up the next morning to sweet words(I enjoy this, sleeping off while talking with him). This is the easiest way to win a woman’s heart and have her go the extra mile for you. Don’t let familiarity quench the fire and don’t be deceived into believing she doesn’t care; she does.

SPEND TIME WITH HER:

Give her time. I understand things are getting tougher. Men go through a lot of pressure to make ends meet (women do too). Traffic situation, especially in Lagos, is getting worse by the day but guys all these are not good enough reasons for your failure to spend time with the woman you love. She needs your time not just the goodies. I know a man who does not tolerate visitors in his house on Sunday; it is strictly for him to spend time with his wife and children. Another friend of mine switches off his phones on Sundays to avoid anything taking him away from the intimacy he enjoys with his family. Please deal with the habit of answering calls till you sleep off. Recently, I learnt this and leave my phone on silent once its 9p.m. We existed happily before GSM came and can live without it for just few hours.

GIVE

Be generous with the woman you claim to love. Most guys believe in just words. Guys, love gives. For you to be a good lover, you must be able to give according to your capability. Make that woman the envy of her friends. I am not saying you should go beyond your pocket just to make her happy. She is your woman and knows your worth. Love gives.

REMEMBER

Don’t forget her birthday, marriage anniversary and other important dates. Close early from work on that day and take her to a place she has never been before. Make it a memorable one; after all, she remembers yours. You can get friends for a surprise party for her.

Boy, stop coming up with the excuse of leaving town on an official assignment during St. Valentine season. Some guys make sure the official assignment starts a week before St. Valentine ‘s Day simply because they want to cheat on their wives and girlfriends. If you don’t like her look, get her to change it. This has led a lot of women into unfaithfulness.

•RESPECT HER

Make her feel on top among friends. We know you are the man but please don’t put it on her face. Don’t shout at her in public, that hurts a woman deeply. Guys, it is wrong discussing your woman with friends and relations. If you must, sing her praise. It is wrong gathering in that beer parlour to talk about her.

•CORRECT HER IN LOVE

Women are weaker vessels, so says the Holy Bible. Learn to treat her as one. She is bound to make grievous mistakes, pardon her, and put her on the right track. She may be the nagging type; love her.

•ACCEPT HER

I have seen a lot of men dating a girl without wanting to have anything to do with her job, friends and family. Guys, you must make that girl you claim to love dearly feel accepted. You must be ready to discuss her job, accept her friends and if there are ones you don’t like, gradually make her see reasons. But her family, you must accept. Why would any responsible man or woman stop the partner’s family from visiting?

Don’t try to make her change her job against her wish. I have seen men try to force a lady out of her job due to selfish reasons. Ninety-nine percent of the motive behind it is complex and insecurity. You may try to make her feel the job is too stressful for her but boy, we know why you did that. Inasmuch as you have to protect your own (girlfriend or wife), you don’t have to let your emotions rule all the time.

•TRUST HER

So many men have lost the woman they cherish so much simply because they chose to believe their friends rather than her. When you love a woman, you are bound to be jealous but please, keep it under control. Don’t allow the discussions or experiences of your friends ruin your relationship. Trust your woman, believe her. Some girls have had to walk out of relationships just because their man refused to believe them.

•AVOID BATTERING

Never raise your hands on her. Only cowards beat women. If you want to show us how strong you are, please find men like you in the stadium. Some men even go to the point of hitting their girlfriends and wives in public. That is just a proof of your level of irresponsibility. No matter how much a woman provokes you, never raise a hand on her. Yes, I agree with you, women can get you to the point where you lose control of yourself. But there are men like you handling it the right way. There are better ways to make a woman sober.

•INVOLVE HER

Involve her in your decision making. Don’t rule out her ideas as irrelevant. Women are most times more intelligent than men and if you are blessed to have an intelligent woman around you, please use her. Let the woman in your life know you and what you are worth. Refuse to believe people when they say she will kill you and take your properties.

Most Nigerian widows suffer at the death of their husbands simply because the man trusted his brothers and parents more than his wife and children. Oga, why would you leave your wife and children to make your brother the administrator of your will? No matter how much you trust him, your children and wife will suffer should anything happen.

•FLAUNT HER

Please don’t make your woman feel you are not proud of her. Introduce her to friends and relations; don’t walk far behind her in public. Volunteer to drive her to the spa or supermarket. If you are proud of your woman, let us know you are.

•GIVE HER A BREAK

Allow her to travel and sometimes have a time-out with friends far away from you. Don’t make her lose her individuality because she is with you. Don’t try to force her to become what she is not. A lot of women turn to Zombies when they have their man around but when you see them with friends, you see the lively part of them. Let that girl go, if she is yours she will remain yours. Love isn’t about bondage. Don’t let low self-esteem ruin your relationship.

If Nigerian men can decide to start treating women as individuals and adults, things will get better in the society. This issue of freedom is a very important one. I have seen that the women that find it difficult surviving as widows are those who were never allowed by their husbands to be themselves.

Your relationship with your woman shouldn’t be a cat and rat affair. Please do something to make this weekend an exciting one for her. Every woman, no matter the age, yearns for true love and affection. No woman wants to be made to feel old even when she knows she is getting old. [/b]

[b]Black Panther Blasts Diddy, Jay & Wayne


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Former Black Panther Richie Williams celebrates the 40th anniversary of the founding of the organization's New York chapter.


NEW YORK – A former Black Panther Party leader who warred against the police and the establishment in the 1970s put Jay-Z, Diddy, Kanye West, Lil Wayne and other elite rappers on blast for being apolitical, high-priced slaves to capitalism and for blatantly flaunting their conspicuous consumption in people’s faces.
Richie Williams finds it deplorable that these admired hip-hop figures, whom he was willing to die for before they were even born, are jingling their fame and fortune in front of their admirers’ eyes while the country is in the throes of the most profound economic cataclysm in 80 years. When Williams was their age, he and his Black Panther Party comrades selflessly battled the police and the FBI for all blacks’ rights to seek prosperity, only for the rappers to turn out to be self-centered, narcissistic and politically-ignorant entertainers who devote little or no time and resources to further their community.
“I just want to say one thing: The Jay-Zs, the P. Diddys, the Kanye Wests, the Lil Waynes need to step up to the plate and make their voices heard and never mind all that bling-bling. Get out here with your people and take this [Occupy Wall Street protest] to the next level,” he said, pointing an accusatory finger for added emphasis.
“Never mind hanging out with the Nets, the Mets and the mayor [Michael Bloomberg],” he continues. “Tell the police commissioner about how horribly they are treating us, and talk about police brutality. Stop sucking up to [the establishment] and to the police commissioner. I won’t call the police what we used to call them. But bacon fat still sucks,” he finished, noting that it was common for black freedom fighters of the sixties to refer to law enforcement officers as “pigs.”
Williams, who served seven years during the Vietnam War and now has 10 grandchildren, still wants to be in the mix for positive change. And he admonishes all of us, quoting Bob Marley, “Don’t give up the fight.”
The art collector is also the author of From a Whisper to a Scream: Revisiting the Amerikkkan Holocaust. After he noted that the New York chapter of the Black Panther Party is celebrating their 40th anniversary throughout 2011, “Richie,” born Richard Cooper Williams, took time to touch upon other subjects during our brief encounter:
Do you believe that this movement today will lead to positive changes as protests turned the tide in the ’60s and ’70s?
Yes I do. I am not going to be a naysayer. I’m keeping my fingers crossed because we’ve got to change the structure of this country.
Does this remind you of the days of the Black Power and Peace movements? There are a lot of similarities. We’re in solidarity with the people here today. What’s happening here today is for the same reasons, the same causes that we fought for 40 years ago.
Do you believe that the police and Mayor Bloomberg are treating the protesters differently than they would if this place was filled with African Americans and other minorities? We took the brunt of the police force’s passion, if you will [back int he 70s]. This cause here today is for the same reasons, the same causes. But we were beaten down and brutalized. When the country saw the picture of the white girl being arrested, they said ‘let’s go down there because this is happening to our children’. But when it was happening to children, it was just us.
Not to sound racist, but this [movement of white uprising] is happening because it’s affecting white people. It’s affecting all of us, but this has been happening to black people since the beginning of this country. The ‘chickens are now coming home to roost’, as Malcolm said. A lot of white folk have spent what they have, are in debt and are in houses that are underwater with mortgages. And unfortunately, or fortunately, it took this to bring us all together.
What has this economic crisis done to America’s middle class? There is no more middle class. They have become, like Richard Pryor once said of the Vietnamese [during the Vietnam War], the white middle class have become the ‘new n——.’
How does hearing what many rappers talk about today make you feel? I came back [from the Vietnam War] and fought a civil war that the Frederick Douglasses and Harriett Tubmans set up for us. They made it possible for us and your father and mother, and it is a disgrace and we are doing their memories a disservice by not carrying on the groundwork that they laid for us.
Does seeing all of this unfold before you take you back to your Panther days? Yes. I’m 73 years old. I’m still a young man, in my spirit. And I wake up every day and I have not lost that fire in my belly. And I’m going out of here on fire.[/b]

Money Cometh & The Anointed Money Ritual: EXPOSED!!!!!




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWM5D9UVF4Q

America's Conquest of Africa: The Roles of France and Israel

- by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, Julien Teil - 2011-10-06

Terrorists not only fight for Washington on the ground, they also act as frontmen for regime change through so-called human rights organizations that promote democracy. Introduction by Cynthia McKinney


http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=26886