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jaephoenix:
This is the title of his book
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing

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Have you read it or listened to him defend the arguments in it? Because he did argue that the universe came from nothing.

Sick. Just sick how people can commend this.

Iraq - Weapons of Mass destruction!
Libya - Ghadaffi!
Venezuela - Drugs & Maduro!
Nigeria - Christian Genocide!
I am sure they were prepping the same script for SA with alleged white genocide but stopped because of their massive investments there already.

Pitiful.

The Global South needs to wake up, unite, and pull out of the UN.

ThaThinka:
In all of this, I am still struggling to understand how the president of a country will go into another country to arrest its president. As what exactly? 🤨

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Honestly. And ill schooled people who have been victims of imperialism and even slavery, segregation and apartheid will be praising it. Disgusting.

MrBadNews:
South Korea: The "Lifeboat" Feeling
For most South Koreans in the 50s, the U.S. showing up wasn't some political debate it was a literal lifeboat. The North had pushed them into a tiny corner of the peninsula, and they were facing total collapse.
The Reality: There’s a reason you still see elderly South Koreans today who are fiercely pro-American. To them, the U.S. is why their grandkids aren't living in a famine-stricken dictatorship. But it’s a heavy kind of gratitude, born out of a war that leveled every city they had.


Grenada: The "Locked Door" Moment
Grenada is probably the only place where "happy" might actually fit. Imagine being stuck in your house under a "shoot-to-kill" curfew because a violent military coup just murdered your favorite leader. You're terrified, the power is out, and you don't know who's in charge.
The Reality: When the U.S. landed, people literally ran into the streets to cheer because they could finally breathe again. They turned the date into a national holiday not to celebrate the U.S., but to celebrate being able to walk outside without catching a bullet.


Panama: The "Sledgehammer" Relief
Panama is the most complicated one. Most people there hated Noriega. He was a thug and he was destroying the country. So when he was dragged out, there was a huge sense of "finally, the monster is gone."

The Reality: But then you have the families in El Chorrillo. The U.S. basically incinerated their neighborhood to get to Noriega’s headquarters. It’s hard to feel "happy" about being liberated when you’re standing in the ruins of your own living room. It felt less like a rescue and more like a surgery performed with a chainsaw.


At the end of the day, it’s rarely about loving the U.S. It’s about the fact that the situation before the intervention was so terrifying that the invasion felt like the lesser of two evils.

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Lol. Korea was a Cold War Issue and not an invasion as you think. The other side was China/ Communists.

The "war"never ended officially. There was just a cease fire up till today which split the country.

Also it's called the Korean Conflict because Congress never declared war.

So you are simply comparing apples and oranges.

Thirdly it's remarkable how you leave out of your consideration the most notable examples of Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Syria and Libya.

PS: Try think for yourself next time rather than running to place a question with AI. Anyone can tell miles away.

MrBadNews:
Also check for South Korea, Panama and Grenada invasion. these countries were happy after USA invaded

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You don't even have your facts right. Pathetic.

Fuckyoumod:
that's the must important thing.

The happiness of the Venezuelan people, forget all this corrupt regimes around the world condemning it.

Trump did noble.

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The sad thing is how Trump is noble in the eyes of some of you. No he is not corrupt at all.

LordReed:
Yeah I saw it, that's why I made my response. Lemme repeat this is speculation at this point because the big bang is the extent to which our knowledge goes. Yes it is still a mystery but I like that we are still investigating it.

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We are wired to push the boundaries, but I really do suspect that there are some barriers of knowledge we may never cross.
We may not even have the capacity to download or understand some levels of knowledge any more than an ant can do computer science.

Laple0541:
You are the real DUMB one here to be candid! What did Venezuela do to the US that North Korea hasn’t done? Every North Korean curse America on a daily basis and they pass it from generation to generation that America is their number one enemy and death unto them but yet the it isn’t a grave threat to you!

Now tell us what Venezuela did. They stopped you transacting biz with the US and went Eastward. If truly Venezuela is trafficking drugs to the state, why can’t Trump stop it the way he’s stopping illegal immigration? The US have boarders on air, land and water and they can control whatever comes in and out so why can’t they channel their energies in those directions?

It’s high time you stopped believing everything you read or hear on media conglomerates. USE YOUR HEAD.

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Thank you. The little chap knows nothing.

SenecaTheYonger:
Maduro is not just any president. In fact, he was never a president. He wasn't even elected.

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Any foreign leader elected or unelected, military or civilian, criminal or innocent.

SenecaTheYonger:
I was hoping you'd call Maduro a good or even average leader.

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Nah he wasn't. But that doesn't change the point. Once you normalize being able to do that to any president, there is a problem.

SenecaTheYonger:
You can stop imperialism by being a good and upright leader to your citizens, or else you're just calling for invasion lol.

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Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhaa!
What jokes!

Have a good afternoon young man and while you are at it, go and study some history!

Please also drop that moniker, your are doing a gross disservice to Seneca!

SenecaTheYonger:
Honestly, thank Maduro. He created the perfect enviroment for invasion.

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You will grow up and understand the consequences of such brazen imperialism, it is to be hoped.

hotwax:
venezuela is a direct neigboor. China is poking nose there. Maduro is flooding drugs into the USA.

Oil is another factor. Hizbollah and Iran IRCG are also operating in Venezuela.

Venezuel had this coming for years.

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Think worever you like boy. You will grow up.

SenecaTheYonger:
There is no direct provocation between North Korea and USA. Unless u mean US allies.

Also Trump’s original campaigns was about going after drug dealers. I know Africans are used to leader that can never fulfill their promises, so this must look strange.

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What a laugh, i will not bother.

hotwax:
not a threat to America.

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Neither was Venezuela. In no way shape or form.
And no, thats not the reason they will not dare NK.

The reason is its led by a Nuclear Armed lunatic. And they have allies within his range.

SenecaTheYonger:
Cocaine is made in Columbia and Venezuela, and it comes through Mexico and sold to the United States.

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Thats not what I was laughing at. I was laughing because its like you dont know the many provocations of North Korea over the years.

Aside from that you really fell for this drugs story. Na wah for una oh. Your naivete has no part 2.

SenecaTheYonger:
North Korea is not really producing and selling drugs to USA citizens.

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Hahahahahahahahahahahhahahaha!
Joker!

bookson:
Dumb question...
You should have asked why North Korea is not doing to America what Venezuela did that made their President and wife to be kidnapped like mere criminals..
No matter how mad any President or country on the earth is, they can never provoke the US.

Know this and know peace

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Ignorant. How old are you?

LordReed:
To be clear I am not stating that quantum foam is what preceded the big bang, it is just a candidate explanation for how it went down.

This article should explain it a bit better than I: https://www.space.com/the-universe/how-quantum-foam-may-have-inflated-the-early-universe

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Thanks for this, which I have gone through. Did you see my last revert by the way?

Well, all said and done all I see there is a great amount of speculation without any concrete answers to questions. As the article acknowledges, the early universe remains a mystery. I will add that the present universe is still one.

"Bail is free" is the biggest joke in Nigeria.

givedemwotowoto:
Many African leaders are more useless than their Western counterparts, and since you’re worshipping these useless African leaders, it shows where on the scale of usefulness you are.

Someone who worships and defends the useless leadership of a known drug lord, a known heroin trafficker, is talking when sensible people talk

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Why don't you point out how Libya, Somalia and Iraq have improved since the USA did them the same favour?

HacheNoire:
Can’t you see the immense benefits Syrians, Libyans and Iraqis are getting.

In 2024, A African man saying the citizens of nation are okay with another nation taking their resources.

When I find the comments of people like you, it only makes me understand how Africa was conquered.

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Your first line should be enough to make him think.

LordIsaac:
No one is ignorant of the wiles of the imperialists. However, I'd argue that Nigeria was better pre-independence compared to our followership under wicked thieves. Just imagine how many houses recovered from Emiefewerey, Malami, and the other thieves since 1960!

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Freedom has a price and it takes time and work to prosper. Yes we are burdened with corruption but what is extracted by corrupt locals would not be worse than what would have been extracted by corrupt imperialists. Infrastructure would likely have been better because of established expertise and established ways of doing things which didn't have to be learnt from scratch in terms of managing a society properly as we now have to learn from scratch, but believe you me, if we were still under the colonialists, in Lagos for example, the Island would be white territory almost strictly. . . And that would be only the smallest of the many indignities.

JuanDeDios:
I doubt he'll succeed though. There's no mechanism in place for him to run Venezuela – in 2026. He may want to run it, but that doesn't mean it'll work. Venezuelans may welcome the ouster of Maduro, but they'll resist US rule - and global sentiments, and even sentiments within America, will be on their side.

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All sane people certainly hope so.

SlavaUkraini:
Continue to Cry 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Your Hot Tears is very Sweet....

The Venezuelan people will run their own country with the US supporting them...

Let me give you a little bit of History and Geopolitical lesson and make sure you never forget it because it will help you understand some of America's Interventionist actions globally.

Many years ago the American government sent high level diplomats to Saudi Arabia and they made a deal with the house of Saud....

The deal was simple ....

" The House of Saud can continue to Rule the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with American Protection, while in return, Every Crude Oil must be Sold in Dollars"

The Billions of Dollars in crude sales belong to Saudi Arabia not America but the Crude must be sold in Dollars....

Saddam Hussein had problems with the US when he had plans to start selling Iraqi Crude in Euros....

Ghaddafi started having problems with the US and France when he was proposing a common African currency backed by Gold and Natural Resources...

What Trump and the US is looking for in Venezuela is not Crude Oil because America have enough Crude Oil...

What America is after is the Continuation and Dominance of the Petro-Dollar system

The Global demand for the Dollar must continue. That is what makes America Great

If the New Leader of Venezuela will not Agree to sell Venezuelan Oil in US Dollars that leader will Join Maduro wherever he is ....... I can bet you on that one..

Trump is not even hiding it. The Man is so open about it.

He has said it that American Oil companies will soon go in and start revamping the Venezuelan Oil Sector...

American Oil companies will be drilling the Oil for the Venezuelan people and that Oil will be Sold in Dollars which favors the American Economy..

Every Global Super power today wants you to do business in their currency because they saw how that system has favoured the American Economy.

They are busy forming BRICS to move away from dollars and settle trade in their own currencies and America is smiling because America has other plans to make the dollar relevant..

As Long as the Dollar remains relevant, America will always be on top

America will always be 10 steps ahead of them because God Almighty made them number 1 for such a time as this...

And who God has blessed, no one can curse

God Bless America 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

God Bless Donald J Trump

God Bless Benjamin Netanyahu

I Stand with America and Israel Forever

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Good analysis so long as you dont deny its Machiavellian, inequitable and against all principles of International Law. What has happened in Venezuela is worse than just gun boat diplomacy.

Bad analysis if you try to claim there is anything right or legal about this or that its good for the international order.

nepapole:
There only 2 countries above the law - Israel and America.

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Russia dey there oh.

Disinfectant123:
Clearly someone does not have a history of the crusades in the slightest

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Yeah he was wrong on that but he made some other valid points and said some important things quite correct in history.

LordReed:
Nah, quantum foam is whole different thing than pure math or the quantum woo woo people usually refer to when they say the word quantum. I think it is the basis for why Krauss says nothing is unstable. I know Krauss' description is problematic but I think quantum foam is an interesting direction.

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Thank you for this.

I gather -
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Quantum foam (also called spacetime foam) is the idea that at the most microscopic level imaginable, the fabric of the universe is not smooth or empty, but is a roiling, turbulent "foam" of energy and fluctuating geometry.

1. The Scale: Beyond Microscopic: Quantum foam exists at the Planck scale, the smallest possible unit of distance in physics.7 To give you a sense of how small this is:Planck Length: 8$\approx 1.6 \times 10^{-35}$ meters.9Comparison: If you magnified an atom to the size of the entire observable universe, the "bubbles" of the quantum foam would only then be about the size of a human fingernail.

2. Why Does It Exist?
The concept arises from trying to combine two conflicting "rulebooks" of physics:

General Relativity: Einstein’s theory, which says spacetime is a smooth, flexible fabric curved by gravity.

Quantum Mechanics: Which says that on a small enough scale, nothing is ever truly still or "zero." Everything fluctuates due to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.

When you apply quantum rules to the fabric of space, the "uncertainty" means that at the Planck scale, the geometry of space-time itself begins to wobble and fluctuate wildly.

3. Key Characteristics
Virtual Particles: The foam is filled with "virtual" particles and antiparticles that pop into existence and annihilate each other almost instantly.

Fluctuating Geometry: Space might not just be "bumpy"; it could technically form tiny wormholes or microscopic black holes that appear and disappear in fractions of a second.

The Vacuum is Not Empty: It suggests that "empty space" actually contains a massive amount of "zero-point energy."

4. Experimental Evidence
Because it is so small, we cannot "see" quantum foam with any current or foreseeable microscope. However, scientists look for its effects:

- The Casimir Effect: A proven phenomenon where two uncharged metal plates in a vacuum are pushed together. This is widely considered evidence that the "vacuum" is actually full of fluctuating energy (virtual particles).

- Light Speed Variations: Some theories suggest that very high-energy light from distant Gamma-Ray Bursts might be slightly slowed down by the "bumpiness" of quantum foam, similar to how a car slows down on a gravel road compared to smooth asphalt.

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Having looked at it, I can't see how this helps anything in the discussion as to the origin of the universe. In fact rather than speak to the beginning or origin it would appear to be speaking to the base nature of its fabric. That doesnt seem to me to advance the discussion an iota.

In fact there does not seem to be anything new about this. It seems to have been proposed by the physicist John Wheeler in 1955 - same man who advanced the notion of black holes. or made the notion popular. 1955 is a very long time ago in this science.

Over and above all this is the fact that this notion does not change the fact that the universe is expanding, which is the fundamental fact that roots the Big Bang. And to that extent, it does not take away the core concept of the universe expanding from a point still.

So I struggle to see the value here.

JuanDeDios:
Well, the precedent exists already.

Anyway, regime change is a double-edged sword - as he might find out.

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It exists but reinforcing it is still not good at all.

He says the US will run Venezuela for now.
This is a bad precedent.

LegendHero:
Fake news to tarnish Wike name.

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As if he needs anyone to tarnish his already ignoble name.

JASONjnr:
Brother, Under Section 5(1)(a) of the 1999 Constitution, the executive powers of the Federation are vested in the President, including authority over the administration of federal assets and liabilities. NNPCL is a wholly government-owned entity, and its debts form part of internal governmental financial arrangements rather than private obligations. Section 162 applies only to revenue that has legally accrued to the Federation Account; disputed or reconciled sums cannot be treated as collectible revenue. By approving a set-off, the President did not divert public funds but exercised fiscal management necessary for budget implementation under Section 81. Furthermore, Section 166 recognises debt set-off as a legitimate governmental practice, reinforcing the constitutional acceptability of such adjustments. In the absence of any express constitutional prohibition, the President’s action remains a lawful exercise of executive discretion aimed at ensuring fiscal stability and efficient governance.

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You have to specifically quote a section that states that monies earned and constitutionally meant for the Consolidated Fund can be withheld by an earning agency or body or organisation and then written off by the President.

Because that is a recipe for major corruption.

The implication will be that even if NNPC doesn't remit a kobo to the Consolidated Fund the president can write it off.

Do you understand the enormity of what you are suggesting.

This is not a matter of dispute.

Section 166 which you cite says nothing like what you claim. It has to do with set off with regard to funds due to states as well as set off with regard to loans applicable to such sub nationals.

"​Section 166: Set-off
​(1) Any payment that is required by this Part of this Chapter to be made by the Federation to a State may be set-off by the Federation in or towards payment of any sum that is due from that State to the Federation in respect of any loan made by the Federation to that State.

​(2) The right of set-off conferred by subsection (1) of this section shall be without prejudice to any other right of the Federation to obtain payment of any sum due to the Federation in respect of any loan."

This has nothing to do with writing off sums due from NNPC which are earnings.

Furthermore a set off is simply different from a write off!!!

Do you understand what a set off is? How is it the same as a write off? ? ?