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anonymous1759:
That's provocative like it or not. You can protest on your soil Just like country's did for George Floyd but sending balloons into another mans country is a threat to security to that state the USA and isreal you worship won't take that rubbush from a neighboring country which is not thier ally it's a sensitive situation every country is not like Nigeria where our leaders just care about looting no protection of airspace.

Thanks for educating that illiterate.

donbachi:
They should take dis her threat serious o..i remember when my girlfriend dat year.threatened to break my television.i ignored it.2days later,she broke it...fear an angry woman

Lmaooooo
My chest

The South should stop those activists from sending ballons into the North it is provocative.

micfoley:
Gandhi was a racist?

Yes he was

olyrayy:
Bro, as for the black egyptian hypothesis, evidence is more on the side of them being black. For instance, Herodotus and a lot of other Greeks historians described the Egyptians as black with Wooly hair. You can easily find this on the Wikipedia page for the Black Egyptian Hypothesis here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Egyptian_hypothesis#Greek_historians

Aside from the Egyptians, another Grand African empire that is undeniable was Axum (A pre-cursor of Ethiopia). It was widely regarded as one of the four great powers of its time. It even conquered the Hejaz (part of Arabia). The other great powers that were contemporaries of Axum were Persia, Rome and China. You can check this out here; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Aksum#cite_note-britishmuseum.org-2

Also, the great West African Kingdoms of Benin, Oyo, and the Sokoto Caliphates were quite awesome in their own rights. For instance, the Walls of the Ancient City of Benin, is the largest man-made structure in the world, even larger than the great wall of China.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walls_of_Benin#cite_note-African_Queen-10

Also note that when the Dutch visited Ancient Benin in the 16th Century, they marvelled at the organisation of the city, and commented that it was quite an Urban city comparable to the cities of Europe, Amsterdam in particular (This was at a time when the Dutch were the pre-eminent European power). Source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Benin#cite_note-32

Another great African feat is the Zulu Kingdom. If we take scale into consideration, the rate of Shaka Zulu's conquest is quite comparable to the rate of conquest of Alexander the great. This is because Shaka Zulu started with a much smaller base than Alexander the great, and conquered at the same rate. My source for this is the book: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa.

You should also note that the Zulu kingdom, years after Shaka's death, and in a weakened state, was the only African kingdom to defeat the british in battle. This occurred in the battle of Isandhwalhna.

So, in essence, it's not that we never had great civilisations, it's that we don't know much about our history and heritage. Although currently, we should be ashamed of ourselves, but that is not to say that we didn't do great things in the past.

I recommend you read the General History of Africa Series. It's freely available online. You should also check out Walter Rodney's How Europe Underdeveloped Africa.

The op does not even understand what civilization means. You shouldn't have tried to enlighten him. If you are saying blacks have not contributed to human development because some are into crimes in 21st century then you don't know the definition of civilization.

Cc: Amujale

Righteousness89:
I just admire and love the Guts of President Donald Trump!

The Most Patrotic President on Earth Today!

Just try and get sense for once this man

Should African countries leave the ICC en masse? It's like these western institutions were created to witch hunt Africans. Who will hold super powers responsible for their actions? It is easy to extradite an African to the Hague for war crimes committed in Africa but America does not want the ICC to probe its own war crimes.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump lobbed a broadside attack Thursday against the International Criminal Court by authorizing economic sanctions and travel restrictions against court workers directly involved in investigating American troops and intelligence officials for possible war crimes in Afghanistan.

The executive order signed by the president marks his administration’s latest attack against international organizations, treaties and agreements that don't hew to its policies. Since taking office, Trump has withdrawn from the Paris climate accord, the Iran nuclear deal and two arms control treaties with Russia. He has pulled the U.S. out of the U.N. Human Rights Council and the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, threatened to leave the International Postal Union and announced an end to cooperation with the World Health Organization.

“The International Criminal Court’s actions are an attack on the rights of the American people and threaten to infringe upon our national sovereignty,” White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said in a statement. “The ICC was established to provide accountability for war crimes, but in practice it has been an unaccountable and ineffective international bureaucracy that targets and threatens United States personnel as well as personnel of our allies and partners.”

The executive order authorized the secretary of state, in consultation with the treasury secretary, to block financial assets within U.S. jurisdiction of court personnel who directly engage in investigating, harassing or detaining U.S. personnel. The order authorizes the secretary of state to block court officials and their family members involved in the investigations from entering the United States. The ICC-related travel restrictions go beyond what the State Department issued last year.

McEnany said that, despite repeated calls by the United States and its allies, the ICC has not embraced reform. She alleged the court continues to pursue politically motivated investigations against the U.S. and its partners, including Israel.

“We are concerned that adversary nations are manipulating the International Criminal Court by encouraging these allegations against United States personnel,” McEnany said. “Further, we have strong reason to believe there is corruption and misconduct at the highest levels of the International Criminal Court office of the prosecutor, calling into question the integrity of its investigation into American service members.”

A senior administration official said the U.S. believes the international court is a target of malign influence by Russia. The official, who was not authorized to publicly discuss the issue, said the administration believes Moscow is encouraging the court to investigate U.S. personnel but did not provide further details.

The Hague-based court was created in 2002 to prosecute war crimes and crimes of humanity and genocide in areas where perpetrators might not otherwise face justice. It has 123 state parties that recognize its jurisdiction.

Unlike those treaties and agreements, though, the United States has never been a member of the International Criminal Court. Administrations of both parties have been concerned about the potential for political prosecutions of American troops and officials for alleged war crimes and other atrocities. The U.S. has extracted pledges from most of the court’s members that they will not seek such prosecutions and risk losing U.S. military and other assistance.

However, ICC prosecutors have shown a willingness to press ahead with investigations into U.S. service members and earlier this year launched one that drew swift U.S. condemnation.

Human rights groups deplored the Trump administration's move.

“The Trump administration’s latest action paves the way for imposing sanctions against ICC officials and demonstrates contempt for the global rule of law," said Andrea Prasow, the Washington director of Human Rights Watch. "This assault on the ICC is an effort to block victims of serious crimes whether in Afghanistan, Israel or Palestine from seeing justice. Countries that support international justice should publicly oppose this blatant attempt at obstruction.”

Last year, after former national security adviser John Bolton threatened ICC employees with sanctions if they went forward with prosecutions of U.S. or allied troops, including from Israel, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo revoked the visa of the court’s chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda. Bensouda had asked ICC judges to open an investigation into alleged war crimes in Afghanistan that could have involved Americans. The judges initially rejected the request, but the denial was overturned after Bensouda appealed the decision and the investigation was authorized in March.

The appellate ruling marked the first time the court’s prosecutor has been cleared to investigate U.S. forces, and set the global tribunal on a collision course with the Trump administration. Bensouda pledged to carry out an independent and impartial investigation and called for full support and cooperation from all parties. Pompeo called the decision “a truly breathtaking action by an unaccountable political institution masquerading as a legal body.”

The case involves allegations of war crimes committed by Afghan national security , Taliban and Haqqani network militants, as well as U.S. forces and intelligence officials in Afghanistan since May 2003. Bensouda say there’s information that members of the U.S. military and intelligence agencies “committed acts of torture, cruel treatment, outrages upon personal dignity, rape and sexual violence.”

Bolton and then Pompeo have said such steps are necessary to prevent The Hague-based court from infringing on U.S. sovereignty by prosecuting American forces or allies for torture or other war crimes. Pompeo said in May the U.S. is capable of punishing its own citizens for atrocities and shouldn't be subjected to a foreign tribunal that's designed to be a court of last resort to prosecute war crimes cases when a country’s judiciary is incapable of doing so.

“This court has become corrupted and is attempting to go after the young men and women of the United States of America who fought so hard, and they did so under the rule of law in the most civilized nation in the world, the United States of America,” Pompeo said May 29 in a podcast hosted by the conservative American Enterprise Institute. “And they’re now suggesting somehow that our ability to, when we have someone does something wrong, our ability to police that up is inadequate and they think that the ICC ought to be able to haul these young men and women in.”

Source: https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/trump-oks-sanctions-against-international-133110310.html

Cc: lalasticlala mynd44

His opponents should be careful

American dictionary Merriam-Webster will change its definition of the word racism at the suggestion of a young Black woman who wanted it to better reflect the oppression of people of colour.

Kennedy Mitchum, a recent graduate of Drake University in Iowa, contacted Merriam-Webster, which has published its dictionaries since 1847, to propose updating the term.

"I basically told them that they need to include that there's a systematic oppression upon a group of people," she told the local CBS affiliate KMOV.

"It's not just, 'Oh, I don't like someone.'"

Merriam-Webster's editorial manager, Peter Sokolowski, confirmed to AFP that the definition would be modified after Mitchum's request.

The dictionary currently offers three definitions of racism, and Sokolowski said the second definition touches on Mitchum's point - but that "we will make that even more clear in our next release".

In the current version of the second definition, racism is "a doctrine or political program based on the assumption of racism and designed to execute its principles," and "a political or social system founded on racism".

"This is the kind of continuous revision that is part of the work of keeping the dictionary up to date, based on rigorous criteria and research we employ in order to describe the language as it is actually used," Sokolowski said.

One of the dictionary's editors told Mitchum that the definitions of other words that are "related to racism or have racial connotations" would also be updated, without specifying which ones.

"We apologise for the harm and offense we have caused in failing to address this issue sooner," the editor wrote, according to a message published by Drake University and retweeted by Mitchum.

The Merriam-Webster site, where definitions are available for free, had nearly 50 million unique visitors in May, according to the SimilarWeb site.

Merriam-Webster's Twitter account has also become a viral hit in recent years, with Buzzfeed calling it "the sassiest dictionary on Twitter".

source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/06/dictionary-merriam-webster-change-definition-racism-200610090139069.html

Cc: lalasticlala mynd44 seun

Malawian:
They can veto all they like, let them ship the arms let us see.

Are you saying America would start a war with Russia and China for shipping arms to Iran?

WaywardSon:
lol it's funny you guys think US allies are against the US. You don't have knowledge about the decades long alliance between America and Europe. Forget this talks in the end what Iran wants is Economic sanctions to be lifted and the weight of USA sanctions can NEVER be remedied even by a host of Nations like EU. They can keep buying arms from Russia and China lol by the time they hit economic rock bottom the people may revolt and enact regime change which is something the US is happy with.

what deal? You mean the worst deal of all time lol. Obama gave these guys hundreds of billions of dollars through executive privilege. No Congress. And after all that money and lifting of sanctions they weren't any guarantees that Iran wasn't gonna stop enriching uranium and also stop their sponsorships of chaos and militias in the middle east! These guys have been sponsoring Hezbollah and Houthi rebels in Yemen for decades now. Trump's impulsiveness is what made him order the killing of Soleimani who has been on Bush and Obama's watchlist since but it was only gonna take a man with guts to pull the trigger. Iran is not yet ready to breathe, its so fucccing easy, stop being a fucccing nuisance!!

It's not Obama's deal it's a deal signed by world powers. The P5+1 agreed to the terms of the deal and who is America to back out of the deal and start giving its own terms? Is America bigger than the UN?

There won't be regime change in Iran it's like you don't know the Iranians these people have been under harsh economic sanctions for 40yrs now. You think ordinary Iranians don't know their enemies. Yes they don't like their life under the mullahs but they won't hand over their country to America who toppled their first democratic leader for its own selfish interest. They know what America is after in that region.

America can't eat her cake and have it. The EU is right about this and i really commend them for coming out to say the truth. America is trying to create a unilatetal world that runs on its own rule and that won't work as long as we have a multilateral institution like the UN. America should drop her pride. It's a pity Mr Trump allowed Benjamin Netanyahu to use him. America is losing her credibility.

What are your views @

Efewestern
kemicalreact
Whyem15
Zoharariel
Elpacino481

Unilateralism is not helping America

Antiochus:
This news sweet me die. The EU has woken up. America thinks every country has to bow to her now that her allies are against her on this Iran issue their eyes go clear.

Yes America has isolated herself. A country that thrives on unilateralism. Russia and China are poised to veto any arms embargo that uncle sam is pushing for. Let's see how uncle same is going to impose her own unilateral and indefinite arms embargo on Iran.

BRUSSELS - The European Union's top diplomat said Tuesday that since the United States has already withdrawn from an international agreement curbing Iran's nuclear ambitions, it can't now use its former membership of the pact to try to impose a permanent arms embargo on the Islamic Republic.

The accord, which Iran signed with the U.S., Britain, Germany, France, China and Russia in 2015, has been unraveling since President Donald Trump pulled Washington out in 2018 and reinstated sanctions designed to cripple Tehran under what the U.S. called a "maximum pressure" campaign.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Kelly Craft have said that extending a permanent U.N. backed arms embargo against Iran is now a top priority for Washington.

But speaking to reporters Tuesday after talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell insisted that since the U.S. has pulled out of the nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, it can no longer claim to have a role in it.

"The United States has withdrawn from the JCPOA, and now they cannot claim that they are still part of the JCPOA in order to deal with this issue from the JCPOA agreement. They withdraw. It's clear. They withdraw," Borrell said.

On Monday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accused the Trump administration of unleashing a politically motivated campaign against Iran and he called for "universal condemnation" of the U.S. attempt to get the U.N. Security Council to impose a permanent arms embargo.

The EU sees the nuclear deal as a key pillar of regional and world security and has struggled to keep the pact alive despite U.S. pressure. Borrell is tasked with supervising the way the pact is applied and to help resolve disputes between the parties.

Source: https://www.voanews.com/middle-east/voa-news-iran/eu-rejects-any-us-attempt-invoke-iran-nuclear-deal

mysticwarrior:
Sleeping with another man's wife with her consent is disgusting, raping another man's wife without her cosent is terrible, raping another man's pregnant wife to death is a very horrible crime in every judgement, they karmic punishment for this crime is indescribable.

mysticwarrior where you dey since? Welcome back

OLAADEGBU:
I should believe you are smart enough to decipher answer from the picture that speaks a thousand times more than words, unless you asking me to spoon-feed you.

You can't spoon feed me cause you have nothing in your brain

OLAADEGBU:
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Here is a simple comparison for you.

Answer the question if you are intelligent

OLAADEGBU:
www.nairaland.com/attachments/11690724_bouncer_jpeg67990e4fbacd77cc9d43b88d1c9cc588

I will be surprised if you've still got teeth left in that your cussing mouth.

Na nairalanders won do the voting? The way you are flooding this section with this your Trump topic sef

FarahAideed:
For you to say you like Bernie Sanders shows you dont study history..I can never stand any thing socialist or Communist in my life ..Socialism is beautiful Uhuru. Nonsense that only breeds poverty and has never worked for even a day anywhere ..

I have no business with Bernie Sanders but let me ask you a question. What do you know about Socialism/Communism?

Airoflaw:
All lives matter

Yes all lives matter but the racist white cops don't know this. If they knew all lives matter they won't be killing blacks like chicken.

This is not cool. Mad man

FlordFlorez:
Rev. Al Sharpton is very funny. Said he'd never seen someone hold bible like that. How should he have held it.

Brigadier General Trump turned the bible upside down.

ValCon888:
I thought he was supposed to build a wall around Mexico not a wall around the White House.

Wall na wall make the racist buffon sha build one before Americans vote him out in the next election.

In all these things we are more than conquerors. Rest on George Floyd.

Russia and China have maintained a no first use policy for years this is a momentous shift in Russia's nuclear posture. I expect China to follow suit. U.S/NATO nuclear posture ain't helping matters and its intention of placing kinetic weapons into orbit under its Prompt Global Strike (PGS) programme. A new cold war is brewing.

compton11:
india India,im just feeling surprise,they even have India-africa summit

Lol. Don't be surprised our leaders don sell us na.

feedthenation:
It will be nice to state the facts and not label the protests as only taking place in Democrat states.

The protests are taking place in major cities which include both Democrats and Republican states:


Miami - Florida - Republican governor
Nashville - Tennesse - Republican governor
Atlanta - Georgia - Republican governor
Dallas, Houston - Texas - Republican governor
Cleveland - Ohio - Republican governor
Salt Lake City - Utah - Republican governor
Washington DC - Maryland - Republican governor

Minneapolis - Minnesota - Democrat governor
Louieville - Kenturky - Democrat governor
Los Angeles - California - Democrat governor
New York - Democrat governor
Portland - Oregon - Democrat governor

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/31/george-floyd-protests-us-cities-hotspots-unrest

Don't mind those cretins. Their love for Trump has beclouded their sense of judgment.

compton11:
Imagine India is even having military base in Djibouti!

Bro African leaders are all sellouts. The scramble for Africa continues.