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A few of my favorite songs to toke to. . .

Eek-A-Mouse with Bitty Bong
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dkfdZVcRCg&hl=en&fs=1[/flash]

X-Raided with Do You Wanna Get High
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twbezH0ccG0&hl=en&fs=1[/flash]

Mac Dre with Fire
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqcFlnnBE6I&hl=en&fs=1[/flash]

Marlon Asher with Ganja Farmer
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYQHqLuWuig&hl=en&fs=1[/flash]

LMAO @ this entire thread.

The OP hasn't even responded yet.

LMAO @ all the people in here demonizing Igbo. . .

. . . .we always joke about how some naija make Igbo to be worse than crack.

Yeah, occasionally. I mostly "vaporize" my weed (meaning I use a vaporizor to consume the weed), but when I'm out at a party or something, I'll smoke some in a blunt or a bowl.

The best weed I've ever had was "Platinum Kush". In California we have medical marijuana dispensaries, and over there is where the good sh*t is. If you want "the bomb", get yourself a card.

Excellent news.

Why are you shouting?

If you think this is bad, research how Chinese companies operate.

Breaking News! Breaking News! Breaking News!

No, not really.

I like our flag.

Hmm, I thought Britian was so "multicultural" and "tolerant" of others? Police must be exempt. . . .

Just use eye drops, no eating necessary.

https://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51T9GQMSWBL._SL500_AA280_.jpg

The world is slowly going crazy. . . . .

. . . . .R.I.P to the 16 who lost their lives in this tragedy.

I'm truly sick of hearing about this type of sh*t happening in Ukraine! R.I P. to the guy, soon, this matter will be dealt with, diplomatically or another type of way. . .

On another note, naijamd, you should really consider editing your first post.

What you said in that could really be taken seriously as a threat. Meaning, they can [and will] track your arse down.

Emirates, JetBlue, Arik Air

billymuse, instead of being so obsessed about the success of Igbos, why don't you log off of the internet, and do something for yourself?

Ask yourself, what's the whole purpose of this? The only thing I see from this thread is crying, whining, and more whining. Get a life, and stop obsessing.

OP, most Asians use water, not paper.

They were after all the inventors of this:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/JapaneseToiletBidet.jpg/509px-JapaneseToiletBidet.jpg

Why do people like walking around with their ass wet?

I use paper, then wash my hands. I've never had any "residue" on my hands from using toilet paper.

They robbed a congregation in the house of god? People are wicked!

How can someone expect a "United States of Africa" to work when we can't even secure peace in a "united" Nigeria?

Why has the word hácker been censored?

Is this going to be similar to the system Indians have?

IMO, this is more sad than funny.

Here are some newer pictures of Luanda:

National bank of Angola
https://farm1.static.flickr.com/40/84259260_08a88c46d1.jpg

At the beach
https://farm1.static.flickr.com/9/85463071_10f11fd988.jpg

Se Catherdral
https://farm1.static.flickr.com/37/85462927_a9f1adc2d6.jpg

Luanda cityscape
https://farm4.static.flickr.com/3427/3317674432_49d3ac5288.jpg

The waterfront
https://farm4.static.flickr.com/3472/3292656006_f54ea16441.jpg

The war destroyed a lot of the stuff constantin posted, but they've rebuilt a lot of it. In comparison to Nigeria, Angola is very much more developed.

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Ethiopia's Relations With America

Apr 3rd 2008 | ADDIS ABABA

America and Ethiopia need each other, but their needs are not equal

THE alliance between the United States and Ethiopia was born of pragmatism. In another time, they might have been enemies. Ethiopians do not like American soldiers tramping on their soil. Americans dislike Ethiopia's bad human-rights record. Local elections due this month are a case in point. Ethiopia's opposition, emasculated by the long imprisonment of its leaders (most of whom were pardoned last year) and weakened by its own divisions, will almost certainly be crushed in an unfair contest. “It's going to be a stitch-up,” says a Western diplomat. “Control is what this government is all about.”

America jealously guards information about its more discreet military activities in Ethiopia, while advertising its soldiers' do-gooding: digging wells, vaccinating animals and so on. Officially, it contributes only a sliver of Ethiopia's $300m defence budget. Unofficially, it may have helped pay for the rising costs of Ethiopia's army, one of Africa's largest. Some say America has a secret base in eastern Ethiopia to move CIA, special forces and “friendlies” into next-door Somalia; America says not.

What is certain is that the closest military ties between the two countries involve Somalia, which America fears may have already become an incubator of Islamist terrorism. That is why America backed Ethiopia's invasion of Somalia at the end of 2006. Its own air raids on supposed terrorist targets in Somalia have relied on Ethiopian intelligence, though nearly all appear to have missed. American officials praise the Ethiopian troops who are still in Mogadishu, Somalia's battered capital, as peacekeepers; most Somalis see them as occupiers.

Leftist hardliners in Ethiopia's government think that its prime minister, Meles Zenawi, is doing the Bush administration's bidding. That is not how the Americans portray it. Regardless of Mr Zenawi, who must answer to his party's central committee and is anyway due to step down in 2010, the Pentagon wants to make Ethiopia a bulwark in a region where Somalia is a dangerously failed state, Sudan and Eritrea are pariahs and Kenya has troubles of its own. Ethiopia has other selling points. The African Union is based there. Its ancient Christian history stirs American evangelicals. Its poverty and population (at 80m, Africa's third-largest) attract development-minded foreigners.

But Ethiopia is too poor to be rated an A-list client state. Even American hawks admit that selling guns to one of the planet's hungriest countries, the “cradle of humanity” to boot, would look bad. America says the little it gives Ethiopia's forces is “non-lethal”: boots, night-vision goggles, medical kits and so forth. It would like to do more to train Ethiopian troops for peacekeeping work. A measure of America's realism is the way it has allowed Ethiopia to buy arms from North Korea. (I thought they were apart of the axis of evil?)

So differences remain. Many in Ethiopia's 1.2m-strong diaspora in the United States have lobbied their congressional representatives to condemn Mr Zenawi's government as tyrannical. A bill passed by the House of Representatives last year called for curbs on aid to Ethiopia, but is unlikely to be passed by the Senate. Yet it points to a division between those in Washington (mainly Republicans) wanting to reward Ethiopia for fighting terrorism in Somalia and those (mainly Democrats) wishing to punish it for its human-rights abuses at home.

Ethiopia, for its part, had hoped for stronger support from America over its border dispute with Eritrea. It wants the administration to list two Ethiopian separatist groups, the Ogaden National Liberation Front and the Oromo Liberation Front, as terrorists. America is reluctant. The process is complex; it has taken a long time to complete listing the Shabab, a Somali jihadist group. The Ogaden and Oromo fronts will go on fund-raising among their supporters in America, just as the Irish Republican Army once did.

Aid from European Union countries will probably keep flowing, however patent Ethiopia's human-rights violations. China will invest more. But Ethiopia's luck may run out. After several years of good harvests, a famine may set in this year. With 8m of its people likely to depend on food aid, much of it paid for by the Americans, Ethiopia still needs America a lot more than America needs it.

http://www.economist.com/world/mideast-africa/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10979876

Kobojunkie:
Please tell me you are joking with the response above, please do!!

No not in the slightest. But why so condescending?

Kobojunkie:
Any who, there is no need getting into all this rambling of conspiracies and what not.

Conspiracy theories? Please point out the conspiracies. I'll be more than happy to back up everything I've typed on this thread.

Kobojunkie:
Turning this thread into yet another AMERICA is to blame FOR AFRICA’s miseries has yet to help so far, so please stick to the issue at hand and not more of the above.

How is that? This thread deals with the subject of AFRICOM, and me bringing up Somalia (and American proxies) is relevant to this topic, because it gives an idea of what's to come if AFRICOM were to fully materialize.

I'm the last person that would blame America for Africa's miseries. I very well know and accept the wrong doing of African leaders, but you can't simply ignore the vast amount of foreign interference that's been taking place for too long.

9jaganja:
That's a conspiracy theory dude. The Somalians and Ethiopian issue went way back since when the Somalis helped the Europeans commit genocide on Ethiopians killing more than 500k Ethiopians. Eritreans were in the evil too that's the major reason they had to break away from Ethiopia. Saying the US put the Ethiopians troops to distort the Somalis' government is a lie. There beef went way back to when all the Ethiopians had to fight was bow and arrow while the Europeans brought automatics to aid the Somalis. It wasn't even cause of a dispute between the two, it was just that Mussolini felt like killing some Africans.

You're just as (if not more) naive as the poster above.

The animosity between Somalis and Ethiopians is something I didn't need you to explain to me.

You think America decided to support Ethiopia's military force for no reason? ROTFLMAO!!! (Now that's funny)

Thanks.

merge:
Why?

Why? I feel that it's ridiculous some people in here are willing to side with foreign powers because of something that they refuse to let go.

The plight of Igbos in Nigeria is something no one can ignore, BUT people forget that Nigeria is still a very young nation (not even 50 years old).

It's strange people don't realize that many great nations across the world have been through these same type of struggles throughout their histories, but as time went on, things got better.

The defeatist attitude that some Igbos hold is extremely counter-productive not only to Nigeria, but also to Igbos as a whole.

Kobojunkie:
I have to say it is the same subject. We can sit here and demonize the outsiders for coming in to our shores and get nowhere with the hatemongering because on the other side we have our own politicians continually creating reasons for the outsiders to come in to take care of their business. For instance, would China, Russia, even Denmark have need to send their navy to Somalia if the Somalian government was doing its job? The answer is NO. The same thing goes for the rest of Africa. The British coming to the Aid of its people in Zimbabwe; the list goes on.

The irony of it all is that Westerners are more often than not the ones who put those politicians in charge.

Somalia hasn't had a functioning government since 1991, so you fail at making a point.

The Somali people at one point resolved their issues by electing a moderate Islamacist party into power, but the U.S. didn't like that, so they trained Ethiopian troops, and sent them into Somalia to destabilize the new government.

Look at the situation now. About the piracy, do you think it started out of nowhere? There is no government in Somalia, which means no Navy, which means Somalia waters are constantly vulnerable.

These so-called "pirates" actually started out as a sort of vigilante Navy, protecting their waters from toxic wastes that were illegally dumped into their waters by ships traces back to Europe.

Going by record, the U.S. has done much more harm to Africa than good.

Honestly, some of the responses in this thread make me feel ashamed to be part Igbo.