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[b]Monrovia (AFP) - In the narrow, gloomy alleyways of one of west Africa's largest slums, Liberian teenagers explain the dangers of Ebola to their neighbours -- but the message is falling on deaf ears.

West Point, a squalid township of 75,000 jutting from Liberia's capital Monrovia into the Atlantic Ocean, has been awash with cynicism since being quarantined at gunpoint after riots in August.

The population density in the byzantine network of tin-roofed shanties is staggering. People live cheek-by-jowl, touching, jostling -- and presenting the perfect opportunity for proliferation of a virus that many residents even refuse to believe exists.

"It's one of the worst communities in Liberia. There are a lot of bad guys, a lot of violence and criminality," says social worker Prezton Vaye.

A group of young girls in West Point are on the front line of the fight against an epidemic which has killed 2,000 Liberians, with an initiative they call "A-Life", or "Adolescents Leading the Intense Fight against Ebola".

They have received training to deliver information from UNICEF and a local charity called Think on preventing the spread of the tropical pathogen

The girls have a shared history: A-Life is the second iteration of a community support group they formed to combat sexual violence.

They were persuaded Ebola was an even more pressing concern however when an armed mob attacked and looted an isolation centre in the slum, sparking a national panic when a group of infected patients escaped.

The government's response to the incident was swift and brutal. On August 20 the slum's residents were surrounded by a cordon of soldiers and heavily armed police.

A riot ensued, with the inhabitants pelting security forces with stones and provoking return fire. A teenager, Siafa Kamara, was fatally wounded.

The lockdown stayed in place for ten days and, by the time it was lifted, many residents had decided there was no Ebola in West Point at all, heightening their sense of injustice at having been penned in.

- 'People don't listen' -

"I want to help my fellow citizens. There are a lot of sick people in West Point, but the people here still don't believe Ebola is real, because they don't see (anyone) die," says Jessica Neufville, 16.

Twice a week, around 60 teenagers in sky blue T-shirts fan out through West Point's alleys, going from door to door, or opening to opening where no doors have been installed.

"We tell people how they can protect themselves: no shaking hands, avoid body fluid contact. We tell them that if someone in the family is sick, one particular person should take care of the sick, in a specific room," Jessica tells AFP.

The response, she says, is often mistrust, or blank faces at best

"People don't want to listen, they say it's not true," she tells AFP.

President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf echoed Jessica's frustration at the launch of an international youth coalition against Ebola in Monrovia on Thursday, speaking out against Liberians failing to accept the reality of the epidemic.

"We can build Ebola treatment units across the country, establish testing centres, bring in all the medication and personal protective equipment, but if the behaviour of Liberians is not changed, the virus will continue to spread," she said.

In a lane about 1.5 metres (five feet) wide, three mothers sit on a small wooden bench, leaning against a wall. The girls surround them, one delivering the well-rehearsed message.

One mother hides her face in her hands, embarrassed or perhaps hostile. The other two never deign to look up or speak, busying themselves instead with plaiting their hair.

The day's canvassing passes without incident or impediment, but things don't always go so smoothly, says Vaye, the social worker.

"People don't want to hear about Ebola. They say the government is lying, it's a way to take our money," he tells AFP.

Among those least open to being educated on Ebola are the most destitute residents of a community where penury was a way of life even before the epidemic destroyed the black market economy.

The A-Life girls collar another mother on their rounds but find that health concerns are not among her priorities.

"I want work. Since Ebola, there's nothing. I want work," she says.[/b]
http://news.yahoo.com/cynicism-dies-hard-ebola-hit-liberian-slum-155358108.html

GenBuhari:
All the people in all the countries involved are all part of the hoax.
Because the news media are controlled by the hoaxers, they will never show those people that want to tell the truth. Even ISIS terrorist group is hoaxed to give excuse for NATO to get into Syria, this why you would not get anybody interviewing the Syrian leader at this time.
Have heard that Africans who have died of Ebola are now being reported as resurrecting from death? Do you believe that also?; if not why not?

I guess you and me have to agree to disagree if you believe ISIS is a hoax, lol

GenBuhari:
But all the media are control by the hoaxers, other than the media you have no independent evidence of the existence of Ebola right? Think about it.

No I don't have evidence beside the Medical staff and doctors of both Liberia and America(including scientist) who actually proved first hand accounts that it exist.

Good luck to her

theanonymous:
it would be more awkward if every other "anonymous" puts up a post

yeah it would be ackward

GenBuhari:
why do you believe it exists?

It's obvious in the news especially in Liberia

[b]LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Boko Haram, the extremist Islamic group In Nigeria, has published a video that shows charred plane wreckage and the beheading of a man identified as a pilot of a missing Nigerian Air Force jet, bolstering the group's claims that it shot down a fighter plane.

The video also allegedly features Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau, a man Nigeria's military twice has claimed to kill — first in 2009 and again last year. Two weeks ago the military said they had killed a Shekau lookalike who had posed in the group's videos.

"Here I am, alive, and I will remain alive until the day Allah takes away my breath," the man says in the Hausa language. "Even if you kill me ... it will not stop us imposing Islamic rule ... We are still in our Islamic state, reigning and teaching the Quran."

The United States still has a $7 million bounty on Shekau's head.

The video was made available to The Associated Press through the same channels used previously and seems to show the same man. Nigeria's Defense Headquarters suggested in a blog that the insurgents had manipulated images and cloned "another Shekau."

In the video, the man identified as Shekau says Boko Haram is implementing strict Shariah law in areas of northeast Nigeria under its control. Examples are shown, including the stoning death of a man apparently accused of adultery; the amputation of the hand of a young man accused of theft; the lashings of a man and what appears to be a girl covered in a hijab.

The video ends with a show of burnt-out plane parts in rugged bush. Two pilots and an Alpha jet have been missing since Sept. 11 when it left the northeastern town of Yola on a bombing mission against Boko Haram.

The video shows a kneeling man in a camouflage vest with his right hand in a sling, with a fighter hovering over him with an ax, which is later used in the beheading.

Speaking in English, the victim identifies himself as a wing commander in the Nigerian Air Force and says he was undertaking a mission in Kauri area of northeast Borno state.

"We were shot down and our aircraft crashed," he says. "To this day I don't know the whereabouts of my second pilot."

The insurgents have stolen military hardware from Nigerian forces, probably including anti-aircraft weapons.[/b]
http://news.yahoo.com/boko-haram-video-shows-beheading-nigeria-pilot-121607194.html

[b]LAGOS— Twenty years after its birth in a video shop in Lagos, Nigeria's "Nollywood" is one of the most prolific film industries on earth. Despite low budgets and whirlwind production schedules, Nigerian films are wildly popular in Africa and industry professionals say they hope, in the future, their films will be as great in quality as they are in quantity.

As a generator hums on the roof, Director F. Olu Michaels shoots his 14th episode of Remember Me, a soap opera about a girl with magical powers.

He said that since he got into the business 16 years ago, Nollywood has grown from a rag-tag industry into a giant -- producing thousands of films a year.

F. Olu Michaels, a Nollywood director, said, “It has changed a lot. Bad jobs don’t really make waves anymore. If you don’t really do a good job you’re nowhere. Bad jobs just die along the line, but good jobs are recommended and people keep talking about it.”

Tight productions

But Nollywood also suffers from the same woes as the rest of Nigeria -- widespread poverty, insecurity, and lack of electricity. As a result, Nigerian artists say their movies are made on tight budgets and films lack "polish."

At a fancy country club in Lagos, Olu Jacobs, one of Nollywood’s most famous actors, said many movies are shot in only a week for less than $30,000.

"We haven’t got the money to prolong it for more than six, seven, eight, nine, 10 days maximum. Otherwise you run out of money,” said Jacobs.

Resonant themes

Jacobs said Nollywood movies are popular, though, because they reflect themes Africans can relate to, instead of Hollywood's version of the continent: an exotic land of large, wild animals and suffering villagers.

“I’m an eternal optimist. I will tell you Nollywood is going to improve by leaps ands bounds because more and more people and organizations are beginning to see that this field is respected outside this country,” said Jacobs.

Back on the set of Remember Me, where the generator is still the only source of power, 21-year-old actress Bronze Mannuels said Nollywood gives young Nigerian artists a chance to “make it."

“It’s about the passion. It’s about how much effort you can put into. That’s how I see it,” she said.

This is Mannuel's first role after many auditions. She said she doesn’t want to be just another actress, however, she wants to be a Nollywood star.[/b]
http://www.voanews.com/content/nigeria-nollywood-movie-industry-rolls-at-high-gear/2423930.html

GenBuhari: This may be one of the possible real reasons to behind the Ebola propaganda - To justify World Bank /IMF involvement in the region which would help USA take over the resources in the region.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuCdOkf4NxQ
Ebola probably does not exist at all and all the fake hysteria is to psychological manipulation of Africans to terrorise them and justify IMF and World bank criminal involvement to exploit the region.

well when it comes to Ebola I believe it exist, however I am not naive to the fact that there are organizations and etc that don't have the best interest for Africans and use certain ways to do that but when it comes Ebola I don't think it's the case.

Cause of the love of money

Asians don't play when it comes to business and money, so I am not surprised. This what Asian people look up to that's why they are progressing. I think Black Africans will have more billionaires in the near future as time progresses because their are many african entrepreneurs in Africa with new ideas in Africa that hasn't been touched in Africa.

[b]ABIDJAN (Reuters) - The billboard depicts a masked health worker in a biohazard suit looming over a bed-ridden patient. Above them, bright red letters warn commuters on a busy Abidjan street that "The Ebola risk is always there".

As Ivory Coast campaigns to fend off an Ebola outbreak ravaging neighboring West African states, such grim reminders of the catastrophe unfolding across its western border are everywhere.

The worst recorded outbreak of the virus has killed over 2,400 people in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, wreaking havoc on their fragile economies, and has also spread to Nigeria and Senegal.

If it reaches Ivory Coast, the powerhouse of French-speaking West Africa, the economic consequences could be yet worse. The country of 20 million people

exports 40 percent of the world's cocoa, the raw material for chocolate, and supplies its landlocked neighbors with everything from rice to fuel.

Ivory Coast is taking the kind of aggressive anti-infection measures that its poorer, smaller western neighbors were slow to adopt. Hand washing stations have appeared at the entrances of government buildings and office towers in Abidjan, the bustling economic capital. People have abandoned the traditional three-kiss greeting.

Mass mobile text messages send out a government awareness campaign nationwide. And children, exposed to the information drive on radio and television, quarantine their classmates in a playground game they call "Ebola".

"It's without precedent," said Daouda Coulibaly, the epidemiologist charged with leading the effort. "We started back in March to explain to people that this is a real disease. It must be taken seriously."

The World Health Organization (WHO) has already warned that several neighboring countries are at risk. With the outbreak gathering pace, the WHO has said a $1 billion international response will be needed to keep the number of those infected within the "tens of thousands".

Coulibaly is working seven days a week to ensure that none of them is Ivorian, and the government has imposed draconian measures at its borders. Flights to and from Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia have been banned - provoking anger in those countries - and last month the western border was shut.

Dozens of people have been tested for the disease. The army is now patrolling the area and those caught crossing into Ivory Coast illicitly face an automatic 21-day quarantine.

A man hunting bush rats in violation of a government ban on bush meat, thought to be one way in which Ebola is transmitted, was condemned to five years in prison last month.

But experts warn that Ivory Coast may struggle to insulate itself completely due to its long, porous borders with both Guinea and Liberia - the country worst hit by the disease.

"The epidemic, particularly in Sierra Leone and Liberia, is outpacing our attempts to control it," said Marc Poncin, head of emergency response for medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres in Guinea. "Ivory Coast is the country most at risk. It's probably a question of time before it appears in Ivory Coast."

RENAISSANCE AT RISK

Little over three years after a civil war, the Ivorian economy is bouncing back. Growth hit 9.8 percent last year and investors' interest is booming.

A $750 million Eurobond issued in July attracted $4.75 billion worth of orders, and the government has said it will tap international debt markets again next year.

President Alassane Ouattara, who emerged victorious from the 2011 conflict largely thanks to military backing from France, is up for reelection next year. He is campaigning as the architect of an Ivorian renaissance but Ebola could jeopardize that.

"We're worried by Ebola in neighboring countries that are our economic and commercial partners," Ouattara said on Wednesday, in his first direct comments on the outbreak. "We're working to ensure that we maintain our strong rate of growth."

For Ronak Gopaldas, head of country risk analysis at South Africa's Rand Merchant Bank, the government knows its record is on the line: "Ebola risks puncturing all the good work that's been done and I think that's why they've been so proactive."

While economists assess Ebola's impact, it is clear that an economic calamity is brewing across Ivory Coast's borders. Economic growth in Liberia and Sierra Leone could drop by almost 3.5 percentage points, according to the International Monetary Fund, as Ebola cripples agriculture and services.

Prices there have rocketed as worried citizens rush to stock up on provisions and border closures disrupt imports.

Ivory Coast would face the same problems were Ebola to jump the border. But, with an economy that makes up 40 percent of the eight-nation CFA franc bloc, the repercussions would be regional, including higher inflation.

"We're already affected economically speaking because of the perception," Trade Minister Jean-Louis Billon told Reuters. "Those who are frightened are more those who know less about Africa and are coming to discover."

Though the country has yet to register a single case, at least two international conferences due to take place in Ivory Coast have been canceled. International cocoa exporters have restricted staff movements in the country, exposing the sector's vulnerability to the growing fear of Ebola.

"The more you go to the perception that things are getting out of control, the more you will have this psychological effect," said Alain Feler, IMF representative in Ivory Coast.

Citizens of Abidjan are wary. On packed public buses, people try to avoid touching. "It's often difficult because you can't avoid human contact," said student Cesar Kouame Kouakou. "But we try to do it because no-one knows what causes this sickness."

Ivorian authorities are heartened by events in Senegal and Nigeria, where relatively rapid government responses appear to have contained outbreaks.

After an initially slow start, hundreds of millions of dollars in international financial assistance are also beginning to pour into Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone to fund the Ebola fight and offset the economic damage.

President Barack Obama has announced that the United States plans to send 3,000 troops to the region.

For Coulibaly, the growing momentum is a positive step, but he worries that nations on the frontline are still being neglected. "The neighboring countries must be assisted financially, logistically, with material resources," he said. "We need to see that assistance now." [/b]
http://news.yahoo.com/west-african-powerhouse-ivory-coast-battles-keep-ebola-164129306--business.html

jayriginal: and it came to pass that . . .

lmao, yup its 2014 now no world has ended

[b] WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The largest-ever outbreak of Ebola could drain billions of dollars from economies in West Africa by the end of next year if the epidemic is not contained, the World Bank said in an analysis on Wednesday.

The global development lender predicted that slow containment of the deadly virus in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone could lead to broader regional contagion, particularly through tourism and trade.

Under the worst-case scenario, Guinea's economic growth could be reduced by 2.3 percentage points next year while Sierra Leone's growth would be cut by 8.9 percentage points. Liberia would be hardest hit, with a reduction of 11.7 percentage points next year.

"We really need to scale up our response and what we have learned from this study is that time is of the essence," World Bank President Jim Yong Kim told reporters.

Even under the best-case scenario, countries would need a "massive" scaling up of their response to contain the disease in the next four to six months, the bank said.

The World Health Organization (WHO) said the outbreak requires a $1 billion expenditure to limit its spread. "The ($1 billion) is something we need right now, and it could go up rapidly if we do not respond," Kim said.

The United States announced on Tuesday it would send 3,000 troops to help tackle the Ebola outbreak.

The bank itself has pledged about $200 million in emergency assistance to Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the three countries most affected.

HARDEST-HIT ECONOMIES

The World Bank predicted the three West African countries so far affected by the virus would lose $359 million in economic output this year. All three also have significant funding gaps, totaling nearly $300 million.

Inflation and food prices were also starting to rise due to shortages, panic buying and speculation, the bank said.

Failure to contain the virus quickly could also affect business in neighboring countries, including Nigeria, Ghana and Senegal.

"The analysis finds that the largest economic effects of the crisis are not as a result of the direct costs ... but rather those resulting from aversion behavior driven by fear of contagion," the bank said in a statement.

The worst Ebola outbreak since the disease was identified in 1976 has already killed nearly 2,500 people, half of the number infected by the virus.

The bank said agreeing on a standardized Ebola treatment and prevention protocol, endorsed by the WHO, was critical and would significantly reduce the virus's death rate, now at 53 percent.

The outbreak of the highly contagious virus, which causes fever and uncontrolled bleeding, was first confirmed in the remote forests of southeastern Guinea in March.[/b]
http://news.yahoo.com/world-bank-sees-possible-ebola-hit-billions-dollars-141429010--business.html

[b]The Arab League calls for members to support efforts against Isis, as Obama seeks to widen coalition against the extremists


Barack Obama will announce a new US "game plan" for an offensive against Islamic State (Isis) this week, the US president said on Sunday as efforts to build an international coalition against the extremists made progress.

The US president – who had been derided for saying last month he did not have a strategy to contend with Isis – said he would seek congressional support on Tuesday and then "describe what our game plan's going to be" in a speech on Wednesday.

"I just want the American people to understand the nature of the threat and how we're going to deal with it and to have confidence that we'll be able to deal with it," the president told NBC's Meet the Press programme, broadcast on Sunday. "The next phase is now to start going on some offence."

The US said on Sunday it had carried out five strikes on an Isis patrol threatening the Haditha dam – Iraq's second biggest hydroelectric facility.

On the same day, the Arab League called on members to support international efforts against Isis, with its head, Nabil Elaraby, calling on member states to confront it both militarily and politically.

It is unclear whether Elaraby's appeal, made at a foreign ministers' meeting in Cairo, will succeed in galvanising Arab state support for a US-led coalition against the Islamists. Arab governments have been reluctant to take an active role for fear of becoming targets of the new wave of violent jihadism that has swept through Syria and Iraq.

A so-called "core coalition" of 10 countries to tackle Isis announced at last week's Nato summit in Wales by the US secretary of state, John Kerry, had no Arab members and included only one Muslim state, Turkey.

Obama went out of his way to stress that the new offensive would not represent the unravelling of his most prized foreign policy achievement, the extrication of his country from costly and bloody wars abroad, reiterating his administration's pledge that it would not send ground troops to either Iraq or Syria, where Isis controls a large swath of territory.

"This is not the equivalent of the Iraq war," he said. "What this is similar to is the kinds of counter-terrorism campaigns that we've been engaging in consistently over the last five, six, seven years.

"We are going to be a part of an international coalition, carrying out air strikes in support of work on the ground by Iraqi troops, Kurdish troops," he said, adding that increased US military commitment was inevitable in the face of the looming menace. Obama said that there was no intelligence suggesting an imminent Isis threat to the US homeland, but he pointed out that the group, which has publicly murdered two American journalists, has attracted foreign fighters from western nations who could travel to the US "unimpeded" and eventually pose a threat.

David Cameron will brief MPs on the outcome of the Nato summit before a full-day debate on Wednesday which will give MPs a chance to discuss but not vote on any specific form of military action. Ministers are keen to see if there is support for action against Isis in Syria as well as in Iraq.

The government is increasingly confident that a broad-based new government will be formed in Baghdad this week, and hopes that this will encourage the Sunni population in Iraq to support efforts to tackle Isis in Sunni-held areas.

Britain will not join the US in carrying out air strikes against Isis until the formation of a government in Baghdad, a meeting of the UN security council and further practical expressions of Arab support for attacking Isis.

The outgoing head of the British army, General Sir Peter Wall, said Britain should not rush into military action. He told the Telegraph that the government must be cautious because it has little idea of the capabilities and strengths of the organisation.

A key element of Obama's US strategy will be to build a regional alliance to contain and ultimately reverse the spread of Isis. Kerry spoke to Elaraby by telephone before the weekend meeting of Arab foreign ministers.

The Arab League chief said it was necessary for its members to take a "clear and firm decision for a comprehensive confrontation" of what he described as "cancerous and terrorist" groups.

"What is happening in Iraq, and the presence of an armed terrorist group that not only challenges the state authority but its very existence and that of other countries … is one of the examples of the challenges that are violently shaking the Arab world, and one the Arab League, regrettably, has not been able to confront," he said.

Kerry is also expected to head a US delegation travelling to the Middle East this week to rally support. He is hoping to enlist countries in the region before a meeting of the UN security council hosted by Obama in the week of 22 September in New York.

Iraq has welcomed greater US military involvement, but the Obama administration has been keen to emphasise that its offensive against Isis does not amount to tacit support for the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad. Rather, the US sees the spearhead of its campaign against Isis in Syria as another wing of the anti-Assad opposition, the Free Syrian Army, which America is helping to train and equip. However, Obama's remarks made it clear that the US priority in Syria now was taking on Isis rather than the regime.

"Our attitude towards Assad continues to be that through his actions, through using chemical weapons on his own people, dropping barrel bombs that killed innocent children, that he has foregone legitimacy," the president said. "But when it comes to our policy and the coalition that we're putting together, our focus specifically is on [Isis]."

"I will reserve the right to always protect the American people and go after folks who are trying to hurt us wherever they are.

"But in terms of controlling territory, we're going to have to develop a moderate Sunni opposition that can control territory and that we can work with," he said. "The notion that the United States should be putting boots on the ground, I think would be a profound mistake. And I want to be very clear and very explicit about that."[/b]
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/07/obama-isis-iraq-syria-arab-league-coalition-extremists

[b]Americans back President Barack Obama's decision to begin conducting air strikes in Iraq, but strongly oppose sending American ground troops to fight the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, a new HuffPost/YouGov poll finds.

Fifty-eight percent of Americans in the new poll supported Obama's authorization of air strikes against insurgents in Iraq, while 24 percent said they oppose the move. A similar percentage said they would approve of the use of drones. The air strikes brought a rare moment of bipartisan agreement, with 66 percent of Democrats and 65 percent of Republicans supporting the move. Independents expressed less positive opinions, with just half approving.

Polls have consistently shown Americans' wariness of foreign intervention, as Obama noted in a Thursday speech. "I know that many of you are rightly concerned about any American military action in Iraq -- even limited strikes like these," he said.

Now that the decision to launch strikes has been made, though, Americans are considerably more supportive than they were in earlier polling that asked them simply to consider the possibility of such strikes. A June HuffPost/YouGov poll asked Americans to weigh possible interventions in Iraq, with just 44 percent in favor of air strikes and 33 percent opposed.[/b]

[b]Approval of Obama's handling of the situation in Iraq has also risen modestly. Two months ago, just 33 percent of Americans approved, with 45 percent disapproving; in the most recent poll, views were about evenly split, with 42 percent approving, and 40 percent disapproving. His approval on Iraq rose 7 points among Democrats, and 9 points among independents and Republicans.

Americans are divided about whether the U.S. government has been aggressive enough in its response to the situation in Iraq. Thirty-six percent of those polled said the American government should respond more forcefully to insurgents in Iraq, while 16 percent said the response should be less aggressive. Another 22 percent said the U.S. government's response to insurgents in Iraq has been about right.

Desire for a tougher response, however, has exceeded support for actually sending in more troops. Only 15 percent supported sending American ground troops to fight the Islamic State, compared to 63 percent who opposed it. Americans were also opposed to sending American troops to assist Iraqi army units, though by a smaller margin of 45 percent to 30 percent.

Republicans were the most supportive of sending ground troops to Iraq, with 25 percent of Republicans endorsing the idea. By comparison, 12 percent of Democrats and 13 percent of independents said they would support sending American ground troops to fight ISIS.[/b]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/12/iraq-poll_n_5669691.html

carefreewannabe:
People forget too quickly that Bush is responsible for the mess Obama finds himself in.



People expected miracles and are disappointed now.

Obama has done a lot to fix the economy but no miracles, of course.

Corporations and stockholders have been prospering. New jobs have been created. Oil production is booming.

The debt has risen, which is due to deficit spending that governments implement in times of recession.

I don't know if had new wars with the other candidate but it's possible.



We don't know the future.



He tried what his war-tired voters expected of him.



The CIA is a criminal organization. He should take a better care of it.



Possibly.



The Cold War started earlier but anyway, it is not Obama's fault. The EU and Putin are to blame in the first place.

Yup people forgot Bush started the mess and expected Obama to be Santa Claus or a magician and make a big mess just disappear. Well Senator McCain when running against Obama back in 2008 wanted to extend the war the bush created and had issues with north Korea and Iran and mentioned that having war with them is a possibility during his campaings then.

I agree we don't know the future but economist have said around bush's time that the glory days of Bill Clintons time will never come back, the economy will get better for America they said depending on what path America takes but not back to the times of the 90's. Worldwide economies have changed since then.

When it comes to the CIA, don't care to defend them but they just seem like a secret society with a agenda

ChiefJusticeFuk: The fear of NSA and need for green card made you pull all this crap above from that your pile @ss

I'm not a NSA fanatic and I was born in America so I don't need a green card. stay off the drugs

ChiefJusticeFuk: 1. Did not fix the U.S. economy

2. U.S. economy heading for a major permanent recession due to Obama's reckless debt based solution.

3. Highest record deficit ever. The U.S. owes well over 14 trillion dollars now with no jobs in sight. Obama's solution is to print more money.

4. Phucked up beyond repair Iraq with his premature withdrawal of U.S. troops.

5. Funded Al Qaeda and ISIS in distabilizing moderate Syria.

6. Supported Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt

7. Installed the Benghazi thugs over Libya.

8. Frustrates Nigerian Govt efforts in defeating a home based insurgency that has links to the CIA

9. Supports a coup in Ukraine ushering in a fascist pro-Europe political party to rattle Russia

10. Started another cold war.

The worst president? If Obama is the worst where do you put former President Nixon and former President Bush, who were the worst as far as I am concerned. No sorry I don't agree Obama is the worst or in the worst list in the first place

1 & 2 he fixed the US economy the best way he can after 8 Years of president who started the Iraq and Afghanistan war in the first place. which lead to the economy spiraling out of control. If he didn't become president and Senator McCain became President, we would have been seeing the economy keep sliding with another three wars in Iran, North Korea and Russia.

3. if Obama wasn't president it still would have been there with another president

If you are complain about the economy you need to include Former President Bush. The glory days of America's economy in the 90's when Clinton was president is gone and will never will come back.

4. Premature withdrawal, he said way back that he was withdrawing troops July 2014 and he has said many times he was ending the war before the end of his presidency.

8. CIA?

5. 6. 7. 9. ? put down that Heineken, Guinness, and whiskey cause it has reached overload with you

10. the cold war has been ongoing since the 70's and will never end as long as Russia and America are around. Put down the drugs

sad

gede7744: ebola and its popularity will soob become a thing of d past very soon


when saying stringe attack, l thought d man was forcefully injected.

d heading self get as e be

I don't know why he was attacked in the first place

Why is the "I like" option not available anymore for comments

AABeauty: Are you implying that America doesn't have a "native culture?" It does, the cultures of the Native Americans who were here before anyone else.

African Americans have their own culture.

Yeah true Native Americans have a native culture, I forgot to mention them but I already mentioned african americans have a culture already to a extent, so I don't know why you are repeating it but it is not native when it comes to old world cultures in Asia, African and etc

[b]An on-duty U.S. air marshal was attacked with a syringe in Nigeria’s main airport Sunday, but FBI officials said the syringe didn’t appear to include deadly pathogens such as the Ebola virus, the Associated Press reported.

The marshal boarded a United flight after the attack in Lagos, landing in Houston and then went to the hospital, the AP reported. A law enforcement official told CNN that the marshal “felt fine” during the 12-hour flight.

The FBI said in a statement that “out of an abundance of caution” the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention conducted an on-site screening of the marshal when he landed Monday morning. “The victim did not exhibit any signs of illness during the flight and was transported to a hospital upon landing for further testing,” the statement read. “None of the testing conducted has indicated a danger to other passengers.”

It’s still unclear what was in the syringe, though. CDC’s initial testing was negative for deadly infectious agents, including “any bad stuff” such as Ebola, FBI spokesman Christos Sinos told AP.

The World Health Organization announced Tuesday that West Africa has more than 4,000 confirmed, probable and suspected cases of Ebola. The virus is mostly concentrated in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, with just 21 of those cases in Nigeria. But officials in Nigeria are cautious about the epidemic within their borders; this week, the country’s health ministry announced 477 people in the oil city of Port Harcourt are under surveillance for Ebola.[/b]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/world/wp/2014/09/09/u-s-air-marshal-boarded-flight-to-u-s-after-syringe-attack-in-nigerian-airport/

CityNG: But those who are leading the successful intervention and treatment should be the leaders.
Nigeria has impressed the US enough for the diplomat to make the personal dn private call and ask Nigeria specifically.
Perhaps if the US thinks that SA can help then they will send the US Diplomat to SA to ask them.
In the meantime Nigeria has been recognized as a leader and asked to asset.
They should.
SA, Ghana hasn't been asked.

well like I said Nigeria has proved themselves to be the leaders in handling this Ebola outbreak, no argument there

I've said it from the beginning Nigeria should help, how they help is entirely up to the Nigerian government

CityNG: I am vastly educated both scholastically and worldly.

Here's what you said:



So how intelligent is your response to the USA? DO you really mean to stand by your ascertaition that the US needs to ask other countries who have no demonstrated experience being infected and responding to the infection of Ebola?

I again bring you to the reality that

1) Nigeria is sub standard to the US

2) The USA has acknowledged Nigeria as a leader in the response to Ebola.

What you guys need to to is celebrate the acknowledgment and ask your leadership to respond by doing as asked by a world leader.

There's a sound reasoning behind the suggestion.

Nigeria, heck Africa as a whole is just an air and sea blockade away from the rest of the world. I hope that doesn't happen when I come home for the holidays.

South Africa and Kenya for example are top economies like Nigeria in Africa and their health care system when it comes to responding to diseases like Ebola would most likely be the same as Nigeria regardless if they didn't experience it, However it doesn't hurt if you have the experience first hand to combat it and so I give Nigeria a A+ for how they have handled it for a african country and see no issue in how America acknowledged Nigeria, they deserve it(especially since as you said Nigeria is sub-standard to USA). However Like I said before I think Nigeria should help, not against it.

Ebola is now a worldwide issue and requires all to help