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Sports › Re: FORMULA ONE F1 Official SeasonThread - Revamped by budaatum: 3:36pm On Apr 05, 2020

Politics › Re: 5G: Dino Melaye Says They Are Threatening Him by budaatum: 3:30pm On Apr 05, 2020
Politics › Re: 5G: Dino Melaye Says They Are Threatening Him by budaatum: 3:24pm On Apr 05, 2020

Christianity Etc › Re: My Reflections On COVID-19 And The Coming Of Jesus. Spring-Summer 2020. 12 Weeks by budaatum: 2:57pm On Apr 05, 2020
LordReed:
Rubbish. The US government had Intel on how far the virus could spread as far back as January. HHS had models as far back as February. Trump sat on his fat arse and did nothing, maybe Pence told him their audio god will perform his audio magic and the virus will disappear. Meanwhile immediately some senators got briefed they dumped their stocks. Anybody saying they couldn't have predicted this is lying like a jackass.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2020/04/04/coronavirus-government-dysfunction/?arc404=true

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum: 2:47pm On Apr 05, 2020
I had to check. The current top five most infected states are led by Democrats. Massachusetts, the sixth, is run by a Republican.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/obamacare-s-health-care-protections-face-first-true-test-coronavirus-n1176231

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum: 2:36pm On Apr 05, 2020
Chrisbeks:
At the worst possible moment, Joe Biden has endorsed tax increases on Wisconsin residents.

Donald Trump is at work protecting the country & Sleepy Joe wants to raise taxes!
Not related. Just decided to park this with your's.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/05/climate-crisis-villains-oil-industry-big-banks-pipelines

Romance › Re: Nairaland 2019 Slum Book [fill And Shoutout] by budaatum:
[quote author=finalboss post=88113914][/quote]I doff my gele to you.
Christianity Etc › Re: The Non-Christian Chatbox ( sticky ) by budaatum: 8:25pm On Apr 04, 2020
LordReed:
No, the suggestion is for an interrelated social structure were cooperation is the key activity rather than a social order that creates stratification with all its attendant problems.
There is no social order that has no "stratification with all its attendant problems" my Lord. Friends fight, families too as do tribes, and scientists, it's afterall how humans resolve difference and create interrelated social structure, which is what "social order" is despite your veiled attempt to make it seem otherwise!

It is a pity evolution is slow but imagine no religion in the human dna. I bet "attendant problems" would have decimated more people than many claim religion has.

LordReed:
There were more than 12 disciples my dear buda but the 12 remained when things got tough. Indeed healers summon us to cooperate but are we listening?
As a wise person is written to have once said, "[url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+4%3A1-20&version=NIV]those with ears hear[/url]". Just that to hear is as camels in a needles eye.

Here's some reading. I resisted pointing bits out.
https://philosophynow.org/issues/137/Our_Nietzschean_Future

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum: 6:49pm On Apr 04, 2020
ornicus:
Guy, you know trumpanzees are cultist fanatics na. They have been programmed by a steady diet of faux news, and are incapable of logical thought.

I have been sliding quotes from 1984 and animal farm into my comments but those have gone completely over their empty heads

They are taking boxer to the knackers - the casual way some republicans the so called party of life say its OK for the old to die to 'save the economy'

Oceania has always been at war with East Asia. Trump will say one thing, they will jump on it. He will deny it the next minute and they will claim he never said it.

For them ignorance is strength.
Sparknoted Fountainheads don't read 1984.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum:

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum: 12:04pm On Apr 04, 2020

Foreign Affairs › Re: USA Hijacks N95 Masks That Germany Purchased From China by budaatum: 8:42am On Apr 04, 2020
LibertyRep:
No need to fight over facemask.

Let them come to Aba and Cross River in Nigeria.

Health › Re: This Is Our Rating Of Nigeria's Response To Coronavirus - UN by budaatum:

Health › Re: This Is Our Rating Of Nigeria's Response To Coronavirus - UN by budaatum:
[s]Full transcript of Secretary-General's Joint Press Conference on Humanitarian Crises in Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen

https://www.un..org/sg/en/content/sg/press-encounter/2017-02-22/full-transcript-secretary-generals-joint-press-conference [/s]
Politics › Re: $22 Billion Loan Advocates. HOW FAR? Crude Oil Is $29 Today by budaatum: 11:35pm On Apr 03, 2020
Agboriotejoye:
Spot on!! A lot of people are confused abt what US debt looks like. They think it's world bank or IMF loans
World Bank and IMF are the lenders of last resort. The ones you go to borrow from after everyone else refuses to lend to you!

https://www.thebalance.com/u-s-debt-to-china-how-much-does-it-own-3306355

Politics › Re: $22 Billion Loan Advocates. HOW FAR? Crude Oil Is $29 Today by budaatum: 11:31pm On Apr 03, 2020
0m0nnakoda:
It is clear you do not understand the issues

The US borrows in the capital market IN AMERICA just like the Nigerian government sells Treasury Bills.

ANYONE can buy them ,individuals, companies or governments. YOU can buy them ,anyone can

IT IS NOT SOVREIGN DEBT I.e the US DID NOT BORROW FROM CHINA

Also the paper is FUNGIBLE meaning it can be sold on the open market and is Traded daily

700 billion of US bonds is TRADED DAILY

The US NEVER went to China to borrow money. Rather the Chinese government bought US paper.


What is noteworthy is that Interest rates on US paper is close to 0 yet the Chinese government BOUGHT hundreds of billions

Nigerian paper gives rates of about 13 % yet who is buying?

The high interest rate indicates lack of confidence
I find it amusing when people say I do not understand. That, "paper" you say America sells is bought by people who earn interest on it so it sounds like debt to me. Besides, isn't that "paper" precisely how US government funds it's deficit, "$1.08 trillion to Mainland China", on which interest is paid, in dollars?

The guarantee of US paper, as little as it seems, is backed by tax money - people's sweat, I might call it if I were to be crude - and that seems solid at the moment considering current debt and while US is borrowing more that it has ever borrowed, so interest payments may rise soon. Besides, China always plays the long game. But I ramble.

America may borrow in dollars, but they still have to pay those dollars back, somehow.
Christianity Etc › Re: The Non-Christian Chatbox ( sticky ) by budaatum: 10:13pm On Apr 03, 2020
AmericanPecan:
Imagine if there were a form with 210 pages about build better infrastructure or something more productive than something that is a fiction. Imagine if the time by people going to church every week globally would be applied to say planting trees. Do you think we could see that day?
Of course we can see that day. Just let us know when you plant a tree.
Christianity Etc › Re: The Non-Christian Chatbox ( sticky ) by budaatum: 10:11pm On Apr 03, 2020
LordReed:
The idea of a city fascinates me. The formation of a biological community without a functioning, supportive social community leads to havoc. Whole worlds have become single biological communities without an interrelated social structure and this has always led to ruin. It becomes dramatically instructive under overcrowded conditions. The ghetto is lethal. Psychic stresses of overcrowding create pressures which will erupt. The city is an attempt to manage these forces. The social forms by which cities make the attempt are worth study. Remember that there exists a certain malevolence about the formation of any social order. It is the struggle for existence by an artificial entity. Despotism and slavery hover at the edges. Many injuries occur and, thus, the need for laws. The law develops its own power structure, creating more wounds and new injustices. Such trauma can be healed by cooperation, not by confrontation. The summons to cooperate identifies the healer.
My Lord! Are you suggesting "social order". Are you aware it is a functuon of, in order, blood ties, ideology sharing, areahood (tribe, race, proximity etc), humanity, or perhaps, maturity?

A sub-section under ideology is, religion, as in, "similar shared views". Its greater function however, is the part it plays in the "struggle for existence" by the creation of a "social order", or, perhaps more accurately, something that orders people into a society.

Unfortunately, though "wisdom (of its time) calls aloud, raising her voice in the public square; and on top of the wall she cries out and at the city gate she makes her speech", "the world did not recognize him". (And yes do note the she and him).

Have you ever wondered why 12 disciples, my Lord? I can't but wonder if it wouldn't be truer to say, "the healer summons to cooperate".
Foreign Affairs › US Paycheck Protection Program by budaatum(op): 9:47pm On Apr 03, 2020
The Paycheck Protection Program is a loan designed to provide a direct incentive for small businesses to keep their workers on the payroll.

SBA will forgive loans if all employees are kept on the payroll for eight weeks and the money is used for payroll, rent, mortgage interest, or utilities.

You can apply through any existing SBA 7(a) lender or through any federally insured depository institution, federally insured credit union, and Farm Credit System institution that is participating. Other regulated lenders will be available to make these loans once they are approved and enrolled in the program. You should consult with your local lender as to whether it is participating in the program.

Lenders may begin processing loan applications as soon as April 3, 2020. The Paycheck Protection Program will be available through June 30, 2020.

More info - https://www.sba.gov/funding-programs/loans/coronavirus-relief-options/paycheck-protection-program-ppp

Health › Re: South Africa's Ruthlessly Efficient Fight Against Coronavirus by budaatum: 9:16pm On Apr 03, 2020
SlayerForever:
South Africa is an organized country. The zoo is a fourth world country, do the maths.
Sounds like an admission of guilt.

"South Africa has human beings, a zoo has animals".
Health › Re: South Africa's Ruthlessly Efficient Fight Against Coronavirus by budaatum: 9:14pm On Apr 03, 2020
Tetrahedron:
That country is not our mate, they sure do have their own problems but they are more disciplined people
Imagine what the anti-bubus would say if he tries this in Nigeria!
Politics › Re: Who Is The worst Governor In Managing This Covid-19 Period by budaatum: 8:59pm On Apr 03, 2020
I think Lagos wins this handsdown, especially if the following is true and the norm.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/31/africa/nigeria-covid-19-survivor/index.html

Christianity Etc › Re: Has Coronaovirus Taken From You? by budaatum(op): 8:56pm On Apr 03, 2020
Maximus69:
My dear buda, are you now interested in changing the topic of your thread?

Because Maximus has given what he had but you said that's not what you wanted. So let sleeping dog lie! wink
You can't let sleeping dogs lie, Max. You can't resist sticking your boot in so its odd for you to suggest one do what you can't.

I asked a question. "Has Coronaovirus Taken From You?" It was in no way a request for anyone to give me anything, though I am grateful to everyone who gave their unexpected kind words.
Christianity Etc › Re: Has Coronaovirus Taken From You? by budaatum(op): 8:48pm On Apr 03, 2020
frosbel2:
budaatum ;

I have had a very anxious week , my sister in London got infected with COVID-19. She had a rough time but is now on the mend.

We live 60 miles out of London , so hopefully may have escaped the worst.

Actually we are almost living in hiding - grin

Hope you are keeping safe as well..
I'm right in the centre, compared. Old Kent Road. Only Christmas is deader!
Christianity Etc › Re: Has Coronaovirus Taken From You? by budaatum(op): 8:45pm On Apr 03, 2020
Maximus69:
My dear buda, this is what you typed.

So there's no need asking Maximus further questions! smiley
I think you might have missed the point. I was suggesting, to you, in case you were not quite aware what you were doing. But as I am aware, you are not a CW, so, please carry on.

Christianity Etc › Re: Has Coronaovirus Taken From You? by budaatum(op): 8:22pm On Apr 03, 2020
faceland:
It is NOT COVID-19 that killed him otherwise his wife, children and their neighbors all ought to go to isolation center. Sorry for the lost but how does your cousin death relate to this?
No autopsy. Showed symptoms. And the family don't believe in isolation I'm being told.

You are right though. "NOT COVID-19 that killed him". And thank you for bringing us back on topic.

It was ignorance that killed him. He fell ill. Told no one. Family fell on their knees praying. And he died.

Might I leave it to you to "relate to this", please?
Christianity Etc › Re: Has Coronaovirus Taken From You? by budaatum(op): 8:07pm On Apr 03, 2020
Maximus69:
Perhaps you misconstrued "their domain" to mean quit responding even when someone else asked interesting question! cheesy
I guess you must have a unique definition of "interesting question".

No one has a domain here, Max. If people did, you'd remain in your's, unless you mean only others should and not you. Besides, aren't you here asking people to abandon their domain and join your domain?

Are you fishing for JW Max?

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum: 7:58pm On Apr 03, 2020

Christianity Etc › Re: Has Coronaovirus Taken From You? by budaatum(op): 7:30pm On Apr 03, 2020
Maximus69:
Interest matters buda!

We are Jehovah's Witnesses, our motive is to preach the good news of God's Kingdom.

So in as much as anyone shows lack of interest in that, we move away from their domain! smiley
I have never seen you "move away from their domain" when they "show lack of interest".

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