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gretblue:Are you capable of having an independent opinion other than the ones being fed to you by mainstream authorities and media? |
gretblue:"Its easier to fool people, than to convince them they have been fooled”. - David Mark Twain |
Kyase:The US has a population of 380 million. What's your point? |
sweetmelanin:Absolutely. The lockdown, surely, is being orchestrated to achieve an agenda. The below screenshot compares countries that have not implemented lockdown vs those implementing lockdown. It's obvious that the lockdown is clearly not "saving lives".
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sweetmelanin:"The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants" — Albert Camus --- https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/who-controls-british-government-response-covid19-part-one?fbclid=IwAR3wT04Vvf2I1AxZeAlmJsAIqQuzWS_Ma5IuFjsyJUqUO6rdJwbihz5XmhI |
litigator:Well, I wasn't asking for your Business Plan. Was only asking for you to share ideas. But if you think you're better off holding unto whatever you know, then fair enough. --- Regards. |
litigator:I'm not a "big man", whatever that means. I think it's high time we Africans learn to be much more open with information, especially when such information will not materially diminish your own opportunities. This mentality is what is holding us back from making any meaningful progress as a people. --- "A candle does not lose any of its light by lighting another candle". --- Safe! |
litigator:I don't have the links but as someone interested in agriculture, I'm interested to hear what you have to share. |
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has come under criticism for joining protesters demanding that restrictions on movement introduced to stop the spread of coronavirus be lifted. Mr Bolsonaro has clashed in recent weeks with state governors who have imposed lockdowns, denouncing the measures as "dictatorial". As of Sunday, Brazil had more than 38,000 confirmed cases, the highest number in Latin America. More than 2,400 people there have died. President Bolsonaro addressed a crowd of a few hundred supporters outside army headquarters in the capital, Brasilia, on Sunday. He said the protesters were "patriots" for defending individual freedoms. As well as demanding an end to the lockdown, some of those attending the rally also held up signs calling for Brazil's Congress and the Supreme Court to be closed down. Others said they wanted the military to take over the handling of the coronavirus crisis. Brazil was under military rule for more than two decades from 1964 until 1985 and calls for the armed forces to be given more power are highly controversial. While the president did not make any reference to those demands at the time, his appearance at the rally - at which people were calling for the closure of the country's democratic institutions - was labelled "provocative" by his critics. On Monday, however, while talking to journalists, Mr Bolsonaro quickly responded to one of his supporters who called for the closure of the Supreme Court by stating that Brazil was a democratic country. He said that the nation's top court, as well as Congress, would remain open. Journalists have noted that at Sunday's rally the president neither wore a face mask, even though he coughed on occasion, nor gloves - precautions which many other politicians in the region are taking. He has in the past dismissed coronavirus as "little more than a flu". Rodrigo Maia, the speaker of Brazil's Chamber of Deputies and a critic of Mr Bolsonaro, tweeted that "the whole world is united against coronavirus, but in Brazil we have to fight the coronavirus and the virus of authoritarianism" . "In the name of the Chamber of Deputies, I reject any and all acts which defend the dictatorship," he added. Relations between the president on the one hand and Congress and the Supreme Court on the other have been tense, with Mr Bolsonaro claiming they are trying to curtail his powers and even oust him. Last week, the president sacked his health minister, Luiz Henrique Mandetta , who had backed the lockdown measures. President Bolsonaro argues that the lockdown measures are damaging the economy and has argued that they should be eased and Brazil's borders reopened. --- https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-latin-america-52351636
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Welcome to the New World Economic Order and the world of A.I. --- The global imperialist have used the CV pandemic to distract everyone from the fact that they are in the process of collapsing the existing world economic order and setting up a new one. --- Those of you who are screaming lockdown & social distancing, just prepare for the Dystopian & Orwellian State that is about to be foisted on you. -- Fasten your seat belts folks, it's gonna be a really rough & bumpy ride. The global oil-driven economy is over! |
grandstar:This is going to be different. |
Welcome to the New World Economic Order and the world of A.I. --- The global imperialist have used the CV pandemic to distract everyone from the fact that they are in the process of collapsing the existing world economic order and setting up a new one. --- Those of you who are screaming lockdown & social distancing, just prepare for the Dystopian & Orwellian State that is about to be foisted on you. -- Fasten your seat belts, it's gonna be a really rough & bumpy ride. The global oil-driven economy is over! |
grandstar:Per your last statement, it's unfortunate that we didn't use the opportunity of relatively higher oil prices to diversify the economy. We should've fixed power and other critical infrastructure to Kickstart manufacturing. Alas, the chicken has come home to roost. It's now going to be nearly impossible to make any diversification efforts. Soon, the government will have to deal with massive social unrest. |
salford1:Was reviewed down to $30. |
salford1:Yup. But when you consider that our oil is priced at $3 - $4 discount to Brent, then we're practically operating in negative territory. |
salford1:$18 - $22 |
There are a lot more existential threat to the average Nigerian than the Corona Virus. Most of the global prediction models have been way of by a factor of more than 100. It was their fear mongering predictions that led national governments to start implementing shutdowns. Since then, the real data have shown that those models are nonsense. Even the US is dumping the WHO and Imperial College models. --- As much as we're trying to save lives, it doesn't have to be at the cost of people's livelihood. With oil prices hovering below $20/bbl, the public sector economy is going to face dire straits. There's really no point subjecting the private sector economy to an even greater collapse. |
Blue3k:Agreed completely. I, personally, would like the tax base to be expanded. If not for anything, it will force citizens to become more involved in governance. They'll ask more questions and demand accountability on how their money is being used. Also, we're going into a new global economy in which oil will not have as much relevance anymore. It will be difficult to ever see $50 oil price again, so alternative sources of revenue is now even more imperative. I still maintain, however, that the government has consistently shown they can't be trusted to properly manage public funds. If they maintain this attitude, more tax money won't change anything except to continue lining the pockets of government officials. |
kikero:Taxes do not just generate revenue for governments to use, it also makes citizens Demand accountability from their governments. Most of us don't pay taxes, so we always tend to see public funds as "government money", but if everyone is paying taxes, suddenly everyone will become interested in how the funds are utilized. Having said that, our governments have not demonstrated that they can be trusted with more money. Govt needs to show that they are responsible with the current public funds they are receiving before demanding higher taxes from citizens. Due to govt failed policies, manufacturing is dead, exports are almost non-existent (apart from oil), unemployment (and underemployment) is ridiculously high, 80% of the population living below poverty. Where does the govt expect citizens to get money to pay higher taxes? Just a simple provisions of stable power supply would galvanize the private sector. Why have they not done that?. I agree with you about Nigeria being a poor country. The illusion of wealth comes from the fact that government officials tend to loot so much and live life of affluence. This, then, gives a false sense of national wealth. However, I've said it many times that, even if there was zero stealing by government officials, our revenue is still terribly abysmal. Just take a look at the budget per capita and compare it with other countries, then you realize how terrible our situation is. A situation, unfortunately, compounded by corruption. |
Ukpafi:What do you mean "not been in Rivers before"? Better stick to things you know about. When Wike and Mama Peace over-ran Rivers with military while Amaechi was governor, was Nigeria not a "federal nation"? |
Unfortunately, Wike is not doing this because he loves the people of the state. He, probably, believes Amaechi (as minister of transport) is trying to undermine him and so he's trying to score cheap political point on this. Tbh, he's lucky that things are not as in the GEJ era, where he (as a federal minister) and Mama Peace used the security agencies to completely undermine Amaechi as governor. But he shouldn't push it too far, Nigeria is not a very democratic country. |
muykem:As much as I would hate this to happen, I honestly, would like some of these governors to have a taste of what they've been doing to L.G Chairmen. |
Sweden has implemented very lose lockdown policy, with some schools, bars, restaurants still remaining open. There has not been any significant rise in cases unlike countries like Italy, US, UK, etc who have been on complete lockdown yet still reporting higher infection (and death) numbers. --- "People won’t tolerate severe lockdown for more than a month or two, since boredom, isolation, and economic desperation will get overwhelming." |
fulaniHERDSman:Problem is, with the lockdown, tax revenue is going to drop significantly. Same thing with revenue from ports & customs. Now, if oil prices remain that low for long, government will not have any revenue to use for palliatives. They won't even be able to pay salaries of civil servants, except they start going cap-in-hand to beg for loans. --- Trying times ahead. Not a good time to be living in Nigeria. |
DanseMacabre: |
Under the worst-case scenario with no interventions against the virus, Africa could see 3.3 million deaths and 1.2 billion infections, the report by the UN Economic Commission for Africa said.Africa's population is estimated 1.2 billion. That forecast would mean nearly every person on the continent getting infected. These models are nonsense sometimes. The guys at Imperial College did similar modeling and projected 2 million deaths in the US and 500k deaths in the UK. After scaring everyone into "mass house arrest" they have now reviewed the US figures to under 80k and the UK figures to around 20k. |
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Unfortunately, most of us are limited to only the information (propaganda) that is being spouted by mainstream authority (government & media). I encourage folks to intelligently seek other sources of information to enlighten themselves. Only then can one have a balanced view of events. BTW, I would only trust a poll conducted by a fairly neutral party...maybe Premium Times can conduct one and then I'll trust the result. I'm clearly not in support of the lockdown. If it continues for long, Africa and other 3rd world countries will experience famine and mass starvation. This is deviously playing into the depopulation agenda. Developed countries that are implementing this have also implemented palliatives to all citizens to cushion the effect. --- It's a choice between (potential) sickness and starvation. |
