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Foreign AffairsRe: America Surrenders: Marco Rubio Says ''Offensve Stage Of War With Iran Is OVER'' by educatedfool: 11:06pm On May 05
"Who would ever thought that I would see this day" Akon - Sunny Day
Foreign AffairsRe: We Need People To Come Back': Dubai's Tourism Industry Reels As Foreigners Flee by educatedfool: 9:29am On May 05
na una allow US use you

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Everton Vs Manchester City (3 - 3) On 4th May 2026 by educatedfool: 9:41pm On May 04
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ahmedsaniadamu:
Its not a scam they are currently working on the licences and this is MVP not released yet.
It seems like they're about to run a Ponzi scheme, but your work was still fantastic.
WebmastersRe: Checkout The Investment Platform I Build For Client by educatedfool: 4:09pm On May 04
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Foreign AffairsRe: Iran Launches Missiles At US Warship Attempting To Cross Hormuz: Report by educatedfool: 2:28pm On May 04
Nwaikpe:
These kids don't know what they are playing with.
America is too calm for them.
America should learn from Israel the effect of the kid's gloves with jeehardeest like hamas.

The moment they see that you have any iota of respect or pity for them, they will capitalize on it to make the world turn on you.
The rule that makes them relax is this: If they attack on day 1, on day 3, the world should be salvaging what remains of them. Or else, on day 4, they will start crying, victim.
una think say war na Holywood script

War is the only game where winning still means losing.
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CrimeRe: Nigerian Woman 'Runs Mad’ After Allegedly Confessing To K!lling Her Friend by educatedfool: 10:41pm On May 02
She's just avoiding jail
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Foreign AffairsRe: Russia Releases Images Showing Its Military Fighting Jihadists In Mali by educatedfool: 3:27pm On May 01
Jakarta:
Voluntary, you are the one that organised the protest with sole aim of human shields for it to know it was voluntary I guess.

A strong country will not allow civilians to protest around a facility that has been targeted for bombing. How did you know that the citizens made the choice in the first place?


I never said all their reports were accurate, you are the one being blinded by western media sentiments. When it suits your narratives their story is TRUE, but FALSE when it doesn't lol!!!


Can you please dispute my fact, was Khamenei killed, using a babalawo calabash from Isreal? Or did Isreal use spiritual powerss, can you please tell me where and how Khamenei was killed?

I ask again, if your most protected supreme leader could be killed like house flies, what then is the fate of the ordinary man?


According to you, the US threw everything they had at Iran, but you are yet to backup your claims with credible fact. If you like cry from now till Jericho Iran can't comfortably fight Isreal let alone the almighty US of A.

A country that invaded your airspace, sniffed the life out of your supreme leader and military ranks like rats, and then closed your ports, is way bigger and stronger than you militarily. Hard pills are hard to swallow I know, but you must accept reality.

Way back then, that was how folks like you hyped Japan, until Hiroshima, and Nagasaki became a history lesson in chemistry classes.
You're doing a lot of talking, but most of it still comes down to assumptions dressed up as certainty.

Let's start with your main claim. You keep insisting those civilians were "used as human shields," yet you still haven't shown a single piece of evidence that they were forced. Not one. A video of people forming a human chain does not prove coercion. You’re the one making that leap, not the evidence.

You keep asking how anyone knows it was voluntary, but that question cuts both ways. How do you know it wasn't? You don't. So your entire point rests on an assumption you're treating like a fact.

On the assassination of Ali Khamenei, yes, it happened. But again, you're stretching it beyond what it proves. High-level assassinations are about intelligence penetration, not a full measurement of a country's overall strength. If that's your standard, then every country with a security breach automatically becomes "weak," which doesn't hold up.

Now this idea that a "strong country wouldn't allow civilians near a target" is just your personal definition, not reality. Governments don't have absolute control over every civilian movement, especially during crises. People act on their own, sometimes irrationally, sometimes symbolically. That happens globally.

You also keep repeating dramatic phrases like "airspace taken," "everything thrown," and "closed ports," but you haven't actually substantiated those claims with anything concrete. You're stacking exaggerations to make your argument sound heavier than it actually is.

And your Hiroshima and Nagasaki comparison doesn't strengthen your point either. Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were unique, extreme events in a completely different geopolitical era. Bringing that up here is just reaching for shock value, not making a solid comparison.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia Releases Images Showing Its Military Fighting Jihadists In Mali by educatedfool: 9:04pm On Apr 30
Jakarta:
A country you called strong wouldn't allow her citizens to gather around a facility that is about to be nuked by an enemy country. What then is the use of their milliatry?

Talking about media bias and credibility, so I should should believe stories from a website whose domain was registered just 3 years ago, with no credible faces behinds its ownership, over credible news medias with verifiable faces behind them, and even have correspondence in various countries and their government houses? Nawa for the way some of una dey think oh!!.

A country occupied your airspace killed your most protected leader like a housefly, killed your milliatry ranks like common rats. Even your current supreme leader can't address u & Ur people for fear of being killed.

With all these, all you could do is throw missiles carelessly, and use armless humans as shields to protect your power infrastructures. What if same country reciprocated the gesture of throwing missiles at you carelessly?

Open mouth waa!!! say the ALMIGHTY US of A, the ODOGU of world milliatry might threw all they had at Iran
Lol!!! currently enjoying beating the dead horse, knowing fully well that I stand to gain nothing from it.
You're mixing emotion, assumptions, and headlines, then calling it analysis. That video you shared doesn't show people being forced into anything. It shows a human chain. That's something people around the world do voluntarily during protests or to show solidarity. Jumping from that to "they're being used as shields" without proof is you filling in gaps with your own narrative.

A "strong country wouldn't allow it”? Strong countries also allow protests, even risky ones. Citizens making a choice doesn't automatically mean the military has failed. Unless you're saying any government that doesn't physically drag people away from demonstrations is weak, which doesn't really hold up.

On your media point, you're acting like having "faces" and global offices automatically makes every report accurate. It doesn't. Big outlets have gotten major stories wrong before, sometimes badly. That's exactly why people question claims instead of treating them as gospel. Credibility isn't about size alone, it's about evidence.

Your whole argument leans heavily on exaggeration. "Airspace occupied," "everything thrown," "careless missiles." If all of that were literally true in the way you're presenting it, the outcome would be very different and not something we'd be casually debating. You're turning complex military and political realities into dramatic one-liners.

And the assassination point again, you keep repeating it like it settles everything. Security failures happen everywhere. If one high-profile hit defines a country's strength, then no country, including the ones you're praising, comes out looking strong.

What really stands out is how certain you are while relying on interpretations rather than solid proof. You're not just arguing facts, you're amplifying the most extreme version of them. That's why it sounds convincing at first, but falls apart when you actually look at the details.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia Releases Images Showing Its Military Fighting Jihadists In Mali by educatedfool: 3:27pm On Apr 30
Jakarta:
I can help you with data if you don't have any to watch the video.

https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/4/7/iranians-form-human-chains-across-bridges-at-power-plants


As for govfacts
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That's from mediabiasfactcheck.

You point to western media when the narratives suits you, but discredit same when it doesn't.
That video shows people forming a human chain. It doesn't prove they were forced or "used as shields." You're adding that conclusion yourself. People can and do voluntarily protest like that all over the world.

So let's be clear, there's a difference between civilians being used and civilians choosing to stand there. You're blurring that line to fit your narrative.

And on media bias, thanks for proving my point. If sources can have bias, then you can't just take one report and treat it as unquestionable fact when it suits you.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia Releases Images Showing Its Military Fighting Jihadists In Mali by educatedfool: 2:31pm On Apr 30
Jakarta:
So you are the US defence minister for you to know US threw everything they had at Iran? Guy go search on your favourite news media and dispute my claims of Iran using humans as shield for protecting their power infrastructures from being bombed by the US. Why am I even wasting my time with you? Ur user name says it all, no need beating a dead horse.
You made the claim, so bring the evidence. Telling me to "go search" is just a way of dodging responsibility.

We've already seen how "confirmed" narratives can collapse. The Iraq war was justified with intelligence that later turned out to be "almost entirely wrong"
https://govfacts.org/policy-security/intelligence/the-white-house-iran-dossier-looks-a-lot-like-the-iraq-wmd-case/

So forgive me if I don't take your claim at face value without solid proof. Confidence is not evidence.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia Releases Images Showing Its Military Fighting Jihadists In Mali by educatedfool: 12:34pm On Apr 30
Jakarta:
Not weak by using humans as shield? Are you people consoling yourselves, or being blinded by sentiments? US threw everything they had at Iran? Common man be realistic for once, remember the most protected man in Iran was killed like a common rat.
A country blocked all your ports with nothing going in or coming out and you could do little or nothing about it.

People like you are bad friends to keep, because you will never be honest in telling your friends their true strengths, weakness, good and bad habits.
You keep saying "human shields" like you were there watching it happen yourself, when in reality it's the same recycled narrative pushed by Western media every time they want to justify a side. The same media that told the world Iraq had weapons of mass destruction with full confidence, only for it to turn out false. The same media that has misreported conflicts over and over, then quietly walks it back when the truth comes out. But somehow this time you decided it must be 100 percent accurate. Convenient.

So no, people aren't being blinded by sentiment. Some of us just don't swallow everything we're told without questioning it. You hear one version and run with it like it's gospel.

And this idea that "everything was thrown at Iran" is just unrealistic. If everything was truly thrown at them, you wouldn't be here arguing about it like it's some debate topic, the outcome would be obvious. There's a reason things stop where they stop.

About your "most protected man" point, intelligence failures and assassinations happen everywhere, even in the most powerful countries in the world. That doesn't suddenly reduce a whole country to nothing. If that's your standard, then no country on earth is strong.
What's really ironic is you're calling others dishonest, but you're repeating narratives without questioning where they come from or how many times similar stories have been proven wrong. That's not honesty, that's just confidence without verification.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia Releases Images Showing Its Military Fighting Jihadists In Mali by educatedfool: 4:35am On Apr 30
RealityKings1:
But they couldn't go to Iran to fight 😀
Russia doesn't need to go to Iran. That's the point you’re missing. Iran is not weak or waiting for rescue, it fights its own battles and has been doing that for years.

The same so called world powers you're hyping threw everything they had and still couldn't break it. Instead they started talking ceasefire when things got uncomfortable for them. That is not dominance, that is pressure they couldn't handle.

So no, nobody needs to go fight for Iran. Iran already proved it can stand on its own and push powerful countries to the point where they start looking for a way out grin
Foreign AffairsRe: Malnourished Ukranian Soldiers Forced To Starve And Drink Rain Water (Photos) by educatedfool: 4:28am On Apr 30
sweetjohn:
They did infact, morethan 100k missiles and drones was sent to Israel but unfortunately 90% of them where intercepted. Israel is very powerful bro. Iran saving grace is that she is very far from Israel if not Iran would be no different from Gaza or Lebanon
no i heard na %99.98 grin



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndDZkmKSNhs
Foreign AffairsRe: Malnourished Ukranian Soldiers Forced To Starve And Drink Rain Water (Photos) by educatedfool: 10:10pm On Apr 29
sweetjohn:
Why not leave the gulf weak nations alone and face Israel you had for centuries upon centuries wanted to destroy but keep being destroyed instead
so dem no bomb Israel and it gulf alies join? grin
PoliticsRe: Peter Obi, Kwankwaso Ticket Can’t Give ADC Numbers – NWC Member, Oladimeji by educatedfool: 4:28am On Apr 29
SeeWahala:
That was how the mandate robbers were taunting obidients that Peter Obi will fade away from politics before the next 6 months after their 2023 robbery but since that day up until today they have not rested from mentioning his name 100 times daily with tears 😂

Worst is that Peter Obi has added even more supporters than before while their druggie Baroni has amassed hungry Boys as his Henchmen grin

Sharing pants to themselves to cover their naked shame tongue
I just noticed am grin
Foreign AffairsRe: Iran Offers To Reopen Strait Of Hormuz, End War If US Lifts Blockade by educatedfool: 4:21pm On Apr 27
Western Propaganda

Anyways na dem own media
PhonesRe: WhatsApp To Stop Working On Millions Of Android Phones By September 2026 by educatedfool: 2:37pm On Apr 27
Kalatium:
E no go affect me. So whatever.
How did you know? I heard e no go even work on Android 13 below .
Foreign AffairsRe: German Chancellor Merz Says US ‘Being Humiliated By The Iranian Leadership’ by educatedfool: 2:05pm On Apr 27
Who would have thought grin

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Foreign AffairsRe: Fake Jewish Assassin Allen Cole Wearing An IDF Sweater by educatedfool: 3:41pm On Apr 26
Hmm

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BusinessRe: Those Refinery Scraps You Paid For Are Not From Us - NNPC To Buyers by educatedfool: 10:07am On Apr 26
Wetin be that abeg huh make una dey talk sense
PoliticsRe: Did Kano Government Distribute Pants To Women As Empowerment Gifts? by educatedfool: 4:52pm On Apr 25
The image go fit turn husband off
PoliticsRe: Kenyan President Ruto Credits Dangote For Ending Fuel Scarcity In Nigeria by educatedfool: 12:19pm On Apr 25
Science/TechnologyRe: Yellow Card Publishes 2026 Report On Data Protection And AI Governance by educatedfool: 2:57pm On Apr 24
Wow, Great job YellowCard.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia Detains 40 Israelis At Moscow Airport Over Iran War (Photos) by educatedfool: 1:40pm On Apr 24
They went all the way to Russia just to blame it for something and pretend to be victims.
SportsRe: Ranchers Bees Promoted To The NPFL After 18 Years by educatedfool: 1:28pm On Apr 24
Katsina United fans no get joy

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Chelsea Don Sack Another Coach Again — But The Real Problem No Be Manager by educatedfool: 1:26pm On Apr 24
Chelsea dey becoming ManU grin
PoliticsRe: Yusuf Buhari Visits Katsina Governor, Declares Intention To Contest RepsElection by educatedfool: 2:44pm On Apr 23
Imaging if na Seyi visit Lagos do dis 🌚
PoliticsRe: Sokoto Protesters March To INEC Office, Call On Tinubu To Remove Amupitan by educatedfool: 10:41am On Apr 23
Breaker001:
Una go protest tire, aswear
grin Abeg wetin be your job and salary?
Foreign AffairsRe: Islamic Slave Trade In The 21st Century - Far Worse Than You Think by educatedfool: 4:08am On Apr 23
Kobojunkie:
By the time his Libyan captors branded his face, Sunday Iabarot had already run away twice and had been sold three times.The gnarled scar that covers most of the left side of his face appears to show a crude number 3. His jailer carved it into his cheek with a fire-heated knife, cutting and cauterizing at the same time.

Iabarot left Nigeria in February 2016 with a plan to head northward and buy passage on a smuggler’s boat destined for Europe, where he had heard from friends on Facebook that jobs were plentiful. The journey of more than 2,500 miles would take him across the trackless desert plains of Niger and through the lawless tribal lands of southern Libya before depositing him at the southern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. He never made it. Instead, he was captured the moment he arrived in Libya, then sold to armed men who kept a stable of African migrants they exploited for labor and ransom.

The brand on his face, he says, was both punishment and a mark of identification. Fourteen other men who attempted to escape the fetid warehouse where they had been held as captive labor in Bani Walid, Libya, for several months in 2017 were similarly scarred, though the symbols differed. Iabarot, who is illiterate, wasn’t sure if they were numbers or letters or merely the twisted doodles of deranged men who saw their black captives as little more than livestock to be bought and sold. “It was as if we weren’t human,” the 32-year-old from Benin City, Nigeria, tells TIME.

Iabarot is among an estimated 650,000 men and women who have crossed the Sahara over the past five years dreaming of a better life in Europe. Some are fleeing war and persecution. Others, like Iabarot, are leaving villages where economic dysfunction and erratic rainfall make it impossible to find work or even enough to eat. To make the harrowing journey, they enlist the services of trans-Saharan smugglers who profit by augmenting their truckloads of weapons, drugs and other contraband goods with human cargo.

But along the way, tens of thousands like Iabarot are finding themselves treated not just as cargo but as chattel and trapped in a terrifying cycle of extortion, imprisonment, forced labor and prostitution, according to estimates by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime. “They are not only facing inhuman treatment. They are being sold from one trafficker to another,” says Carlotta Sami, southern European regional spokesperson for UNHCR, the U.N. refugee agency. Essentially, they are slaves: human beings who have been reduced to being possessions with a fixed value, based on assessments of the kind of income they can accrue to their owners as targets for extortion, as unpaid labor or—as is often the case with women—prostitutes.

Slavery may seem like a relic of history. But according to the U.N.’s International Labor Organization (ILO), there are more than three times as many people in forced servitude today as were captured and sold during the 350-year span of the transatlantic slave trade. What the ILO calls “the new slavery” takes in 25 million people in debt bondage and 15 million in forced marriage. As an illicit industry, it is one of the world’s most lucrative, earning criminal networks $150 billion a year, just behind drug smuggling and weapons trafficking. “Modern slavery is far and away more profitable now than at any point in human history,” says Siddharth Kara, an economist at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy.

The corridor from Africa’s most populous country to its northern Mediterranean shores has proved especially lucrative. As conflict, climate change and lack of opportunity push increasing numbers of people across borders, draconian E.U. policies designed to curb migration funnel them into the hands of modern-day slave drivers. The trade might be most visible in Libya, where aid organizations and journalists have documented actual slave auctions. But now it is seeping into southern Europe too—in particular Italy, where vulnerable migrants are being forced to toil unpaid in the fields picking tomatoes, olives and citrus fruits and trafficked into prostitution rings.

“We no longer need slavers going into Africa to capture their quarry,” says Aboubakar Soumahoro, a union representative who came to Italy from Ivory Coast 17 years ago with the hope of finding a better life. “The rope of desperation has replaced their iron chains. Now Africans are sending themselves to Europe and becoming slaves in the process.”

When Iabarot reached Libya’s southern border, he met a seemingly friendly taxi driver who offered to drive him to the capital city, Tripoli, for free. Instead, he was sold to a “white Libyan,” or Arab, for $200. He was forced to work off his “debt” on a construction site, a pattern that repeated each time he was sold and resold. “If you work hard, you get bread,” he tells TIME from the darkened room of an abandoned hotel in Benin City that the Nigerian government is using to house human trafficking victims rescued from Libya. “If you refuse to work, you are beaten. If you run away and get caught …” His voice trails off. The scar on his face says the rest.
https://time.com/5550333/african-slave-trade/
This post is deliberately misleading. It's trying to frame a criminal human trafficking crisis as something inherently tied to Islam, which is simply not true.

Human trafficking in Libya is a documented reality, but it's the result of lawlessness, militias, and organized crime networks operating in a failed state, not religious doctrine. Libya has been unstable since the 2011 collapse of its government, and that vacuum is what allows these abuses to happen.

Calling it "Islamic slave trade" is dishonest framing. Islam, like Christianity or any major religion, explicitly condemns oppression and exploitation. Criminals abusing people in a Muslim-majority region does not make their actions "Islamic" any more than crimes in Europe or America make them "Christian crimes."

And if we're going to play that game, what about human trafficking in places like parts of Europe, Southeast Asia, or even cases linked to Epstein's island? Were those "Christian trafficking rings"? Of course not. That would be just as ridiculous.

This isn't about religion. It's about power, poverty, migration desperation, and criminal exploitation. Trying to pin it on Islam is either ignorance or intentional bias.

If you actually care about the victims, you'd focus on the real causes instead of pushing an agenda.

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