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Brendaniel:
The end justifies the beginning, the truth will always stand at the end...

Brendaniel:
budaatum, do what you feel like doing, the most important thing here is I have played my part...

Kobojunkie:
Your entire OP(original post) is a doctrine of men, a teaching that is not based on Jesus Christ's own Gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven but instead your own ideas and rules attempted in the Name of God.

Jesus Christ warned against the attaching of such doctrines and commandments of men to His message(New Covenant) which He commanded us to go teach the world.

_{** substituted from another Bible translation for better understanding of what is impacted}

Brendaniel:
Secondly, legalizing gay has nothing to do with advancement, I mean all the technologies and the good leadership they are enjoying was never as a result of legalizing gay, whether they legalized gay or not will not have changed anything, gay practice is a personal thing, it doesn't increase intelligence in any way, or do you have any proof to show that gay practice or legalizing gay practice has anything to do with advancement, now the claim that society will rot away because of gay practice by the preacher will be proved in my second response of your quote...

I check the evidence. If it conforms to the facts, it's likly true, and if it doesn't conform to the facts, it's likely a lie.

Simply put, you put the claims to a test, if it fails it's a lie, if it doesn't it's the truth, there are only 2 options in life: TRUTH or LIE
I will explain further in my second response, it's all connected...

Brendaniel:
When you talk you are only repeating what you already know, when you listen you might learn something new, talk less and do more, do more and talk less, I have seen through and through you...

Brendaniel:
You are only trying to be defensive here, I never endorsed any sin, corruption and kidnapping are all bad, you were the one who endorsed homosexuality as not been a bad thing, I only pointed out to you that it is a bad thing, I have my choices in life just like you have yours, do whatever pleases you, that's the freedom God gave everyone, but that will not stop me from speaking the truth, it's left for you to accept it or reject it, I have played my part and that's what matters most....

Austeen007:
The Truth is THAT PEOPLE IN AUTHORITY IN NIGERIA ARE LESS CONCERNED ALL THOSE CHURCHES HAS BRANCHES ABROAD WHERE THEY RESPECT THE LAW ON NOISE POLLUTION, BUT BACK IN NIGERIA THE MAKE ULTRA SONIC NOISE EVEN DURING SLEEPING HOURS

OLAADEGBU:
The irony is that atheists are 100% certain that there is neither God nor afterlife.

Sheunma:
Truth!

Lies!

Absolute truth!

Where do you get these stuff from?

Brendaniel:
THE QUESTION IS WHERE DO WE DRAW THE LINE, THE TRUTH IS THE ONLY STANDARD...

Myer:
Thanks Buda.
However, I don't have my definition, just the same generic one.

Religion: The belief in a deity or deities and the activities that accompany such belief.

Of course the bible defines true religion as the acts of charity to orphans and widows. James 1;27

Myer:
My question to you is, does faith work?

If you believe faith works then you should believe that if one places their faith in any religion, it just may work for them.

HellVictorinho:
You shouldn't say nonsense about me unless you are mentally deranged!!!!!!
If your brain is that damaged,then it means there's nothing that can stop you from exhibiting such needless behavior except death.
In fact, this is one of the reasons why life is absurd.
budaatum just decides to tell lies about someone for no reason whatsoever and budaatum is unwilling to stop lying because budaatum doesn't have loaded guns directed at budaatum's brain and that of budaatum's children.
There's no grammar that budaatum can use to show that budaatum doesn't deserve to be shot in the head for saying Hell Victorinho is something that Hell Victorinho detests.

HellVictorinho:
Since I don't agree,don't tell anyone anything like that concerning me.
Don't tell me anything like that.
Period.

HellVictorinho:
You have to prove what you said about me because I don't agree.

HellVictorinho:
You are not the only one I have quoted before.
You are wrong when you say I am obsessed.
Ultimately, you are not capable of proving what cannot be true.

Brendaniel:
there is nothing like self righteousness here, in life you are either wrong or right, there is no hanging on the fence and this isn't about competition, it's about the truth, either what you stand for is a lie or is the absolute truth...

emezuo17:
. You can't learn fulfude in a year or even ten years, they won't teach you, and even if you live amongst them, they will rather speak your own language, ask yourself why no hausa, gwari, nupe, jukun, chaba and other tribes up north who have assimilated with the fulanis for more than hundred years been able to speak or even understand fulfude.

molotough:
[s]WTF! Budaatum is a fulani mongrel (confirmed one)[/s]

Brendaniel:
Legality doesn't make something true, let me ask you a question, how do you know a truth from a lie?

Google, Ad Tech, and the Gutting of the News Publishers

This kind of thing – news publications with lots of traffic gutting their staff because they’ve been losing tons of money – has been happening for years, and these publishers and the media outlets that report on it are under some kind of omertà, and aren’t talking about what is actually causing the losses that trigger the gutting. So now we have another gutting, this time at the HuffPost, and omertà reigns.

BuzzFeed – which acquired the HuffPost last November from Verizon, which had acquired it as part of its 2015 acquisition of AOL, which had acquired the Huffington Post, as it was called then, in 2011 – announced on Tuesday that it has laid off 45 HuffPost reporters, editors, and producers, and that HuffPost Canada will be shut down entirely. In addition, two executive editors resigned over the deal. So 47 people gone.

BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti, one of the cofounders of the Huffington Post in 2005, told employees at the virtual meeting where the gutting was announced that HuffPost’s “losses last year exceeded $20 million, and would be similar this year without intervention. Though BuzzFeed is a profitable company, we don’t have the resources to support another two years of losses.”

So some hypothetical math: Let’s assume that these 47 HuffPost employees cost the company on average, benefits and taxes included, $150,000 each a year. This is probably way high since publishers are not known to pay rich salaries and offer huge benefits, but stay with me for a minute. Shedding these 47 employees would then save the company $7 million a year. That leaves another $13 million to cut to reach break-even.

But wait… these people produced news content that generated pageviews that produced revenues from ads, and if you cut these people out, content is going to drop, pageviews are going to drop, revenues are going to drop, and you’re chasing a moving target.

BuzzFeed knew about these losses last year when it did its due diligence before it acquired HuffPost. BuzzFeed itself has undergone waves of layoffs in order to shrink itself to profitability.

Not once did BuzzFeed mention the reasons why the HuffPost lost money last year, and the reasons why BuzzFeed itself had engaged in waves of layoffs of its own people. Omertà.

Other news publications have filed for bankruptcy without ever specifying the real reason for the losses. Big publishers like the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal have gutted their staff without specifying the real reason – the company that is the real reason.

But separately, the bad boy of news publishing, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, which owns the Wall Street Journal among many other publications, officially broke the omertà about the existential issue for publishers: Google’s total dominance in multiple layers at the core and all over internet advertising. And its abuse of power in that arena.

Last year, it was reported that News Corp complained to antitrust authorities in the US and other countries that Google was abusing its power and sucking revenues out of the stream that should be going to publishers. And I see what Google is doing to publishers every day on my own site.

The US Justice Department filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google in October last year, a decade behind the curve, after much of the damage had already been done.

The New Media Alliance, which advocates for news publishers, repeated some industry data – a bitter but well-known dose of reality for publishers – in its latest missive of February 21, concerning the antitrust lawsuit:

“News publisher ad revenues have plummeted dramatically over the last two decades; between 2005 and 2018, news organizations saw their ad revenue fall by 70 percent. During that same period, Google’s ad revenue increased from approximately $6 billion to $116 billion, and Google’s market capitalization increased from approximately $100 billion to $1 trillion.”

Since the endpoint of this data in 2018, the situation has continued on the same trajectory: Google siphoning out more money that should have gone to publishers, more publishers collapsing, more publishers losing more money and laying off more people, and Google’s advertising revenues rising 26% to $147 billion, and its market cap rising another 40% to $1.4 trillion.

I have seen this for years on my own site: Every year, ad revenues per million Google ads served declined. Via the Google empire, you need to get more and more traffic and serve more and more Google ads, and overall revenues from Google ads might still decline.

Google and the entire industry of “Ad Tech” have inserted themselves in multiple opaque layers between the advertiser (such as Macy’s) and publications (such as WOLF STREET), and extract by now most of the money out of the huge pile that advertisers spend, leaving less and less for publishers.

Before the internet, the advertiser would use an ad agency, and the publisher might also use an ad agency, and each agency might take a cut of 15%. But other than one or two ad agencies, there was nothing between an advertiser and a publisher. The publisher got 70% to 85% of the money the advertiser spent. The publisher controlled the ads. And the advertiser could audit the publisher’s ad placements. There were plenty of games being played in the industry, but there were tools in place to deal with the games. And publishers were able to fund their operations.

Under the Google ad system, everything changed, and publishers no longer control anything. They no longer know what ads are running on their sites, and they don’t know how much they’re going to get paid for those ads, if anything, and they’re at the complete mercy of multiple opaque layers of Ad Tech dominated by Google.

Sure, publishers can make their own private deals with advertisers, and I do too, and those are the best deals for both sides, where both parties know what they’re going to get and the dollars involved. But those deals are not common.

Beyond private deals, publishers can no longer get around Google because Google owns and operates much of the infrastructure of internet advertising, controlling about 90% of search ads, running the largest ad exchange and the largest ad server, dominating the browsers with its Chrome, and dominating mobile devices with its Android operating system. It also owns data centers and a big part of the cloud, where much of the advertising dynamics take place. It also owns fiberoptic cables, and on and on…

The HuffPost is the latest example of a publisher with a big successful site that is getting gutted because it lost $20 million last year, and not a soul pointed at Google as the reason why ad revenues were so low that it lost $20 million. Huffpost and BuzzFeed both are successful online publications with lots of visitors. It’s not that they cannot get readers. But their advertising revenues per ads served aren’t enough.

The regulatory action against Google in Europe, Australia, and elsewhere has focused on other aspects of how Google is abusing its power, not directly related to what Google is doing to publishers via its advertising machinations.

The publishing industry has turned to subscriptions and paywalls to deal with the problem. Subscription revenues at the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and others have risen last year, some of them sharply, and traffic has risen, but ad revenues have plunged.

But publishers like the HuffPost, BuzzFeed, and many others, including WOLF STREET, that want to offer their content to all readers and not block some or all of it behind a paywall, face Google’s machinations all day every day – and for me personally, that’s the most galling part of my work. And you know what? It fits seamlessly into the immense concentration of power at a small number of corporate giants with practically unlimited resources.

https://wolfstreet.com/2021/03/10/google-and-the-gutting-of-the-news-publishers/

Samson0599:
And who told you we don't have many Northern graduates? The northern elites have the habit of helping their people secure employment with little or no formal education.... Go to southwest for instance, You see a household, where all of them have masters degree and none is gainfully employed.

Brendaniel:
Never pride yourself in your ability to subdue or dominate others; rather, learn to use your authority over yourself. Conquer yourself! That’s when you really win: when you say to yourself, “I’m going to do the right thing and say the right thing only,” and keep at it.

Brendaniel:
The society that looks with favor or approval upon homosexuality will rot away into complete moral degradation.

Brendaniel:
I have shown buda, but buda can't see because buda cannot see, "they have eyes but cannot see, ears but they cannot hear" If buda has had a conversation with me and cannot still see, then buda cannot see...

Mintum:
Lol, you are making me laugh. So you think what's happening is about herding cattle? You are very ignorant and you really need to travel beyond the southwest to know what's up. The north has enough vast land for ranching or ruga that they don't need any other part of the country if that's what it's really all about. I know you from the American politics thread and I am not surprised you think this way, you are a very gullible person. Imagine still being a supporter of Buhari at this time in this country? Something is seriously wrong with you.

selemempe:
exactly what we are saying. You guys will soon hand over heebadan to fulanis too

Brendaniel:
And you missed it right again, this isn't about control, this is about truth not even facts, you missed it, you just can't see it...

DarkJeddi:
Guess the people being attacked doesn't know a Fulani when they see one..

SmartPolician:
Keep defending a clueless oldie until the marauders overrun the entire SW region.

People elected Buhari to solve Nigeria's problems and not remind us when it started. After all, they promised to do a better job than the PDP.

Ending open grazing and sending the security operatives after these bandits is as easy as ABC. It's very easier for a Fulani president to get his people to end that practice than a president of any other tribe.

Buhari is very insincere about ending open grazing because he wants every state to donate their lands to the Fulani herders for free. The other time, Femi Adesina was asking Nigerians which was better: Giving up their lands or giving up lives in place of their lands?

Buhari has no business leading a country in the 21st century because he lacks ideas, extremely parochial and insincere.

PS: I won't reply you again.

budaatum:
What I would hope is my people go and do Ruga on our own land and grow our own superior better cattle so we can make even more money and live better livelihoods.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOOPUKvG208

Livestock Transformation Development Plan

The Fear of Fulani Herdsmen and Cows!

Cattle Ranch 101

Abascoh:
[s]You are a very dumb fellow. People like you are the worst kind of people to have in a family or a group that is facing a war because you will be there making stupid excuses for the enemy while your people are being annihilated[/s].

Brendaniel:
I have been listening to you, that's why I concluded this:

I have been watching you for a while now, from you gender identity to your religious identity to your ethnic identity, all are deceit, your game plan is foiled...

Remember, do more and talk less, talk less and do more, you don't use words to take the bull by the horn, you use your hands...