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You guys miss one key fact:That Gowon and a few of the top Nigerian high command recognized at the time.They were desperate to avoid the war being exploited and turned into an East Block West block battle which would have changed Nigeria as we know it.
The soviet's were seeking much more than the toe hold that they had in the country at the time and the Nigerians were fortunate and smart enough (the only time the Nigerians demonstrated wisdom to be honest) to recognize the perils of that path.
If the soviets were allowed more opportunities to penetrate the country they would have aided Nigeria in more efficiently prosecuting the war for a time at least but the Americans wold have stepped in on the side of Biafra as they would not bear to see the "most influential black African country succumb to the communists the (Americans) would have almost overnight have reinforced Biafra's army and the war would have been out of the hands of Gowon or Ojukwu for that matter.It would have been a proxy war which definitely would have spread beyond the Biafra enclave.Lagos would have felt the pangs of that war.
The British in this equation would not have mattered as history tells us that the British and the soviets have and could accommodate or more accurately tolerate each other but not so for the US and the Soviets.
A diligent study of the history of the cold war era shows that the Nigerian civil war was the Only military conflict in which the Soviets' were involved outside soviet territory and did not draw the Americans in support or aid of the other side of the conflict.One only needs to read of the Eisenhower Doctrine to know how much differently the civil war would have gone especially if our oil boon had come before the civil war.
Those factors combined together would give any deep thinker who was around at the time of the civil war the shakes imagining what might have been.
The other conflicts are well known:the Korean war,south Yemen Angola,Nicaragua and other Latin American countries to state a few examples.
History also bears witness to the fact that those conflicts went largely out of the control of both local parties with long term suffering for all involved.
Looking at things retrospectively the actions of Gowon at the time saved Nigeria a much more bitter longer and encompassing civil war that and the fact that the British were there to "keep the Soviets honest".
The problem with Nigeria or more accurately those that have run Nigeria since the civil war is that they know theses facts and many others that are at the heart of the issues we face as a Nation but have chosen to deny or hide them thinking that that will be enough.
The joke on them is that while we may be a Nation that destroys our records because it suits the current National structure that there be no records of wrongs done earlier, we were keenly observed by others and while those observations were for intelligence purposes at that time and held in their secret archives' for a time,they(records) are beginning to trickle out.
Soon it will be a flood of truth that we have always known but could not prove.
The British,the US and even the Russians (to a lesser extent) are slowly declassifying their files and archives of intelligence comprising the sixties,seventies and early eighties.Many of those files when it comes to Africa are centered on Egypt,Nigeria and South Africa.
It is the study of such files concerning Nigeria that led some Strategic Researchers in the west to posit the possible disintegration of Nigeria within a couple of years if things continued the way they were going.

uken73: Nigeria has always been a major contributor if not the highest contributor to African Peace. Excluding Nigeria may only be because we are seen as capable and they are trying to help others to their feet so that they can contribute too. This may be the idea behind this.

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We don't have to always see things about Nigeria in the negative.

The most likely scenario,but most people prefer to see things through anti government(read anti-gej) lenses.It clouds their reasoning and impairs their judgment.

If completed this year as they say that will be undeniable progress.

When will we ever get to work with these tools for criminal investigation work in this country Nigeria.
One thi,g is sure only a well educated force can attain such levels and when I say educated,I don't mean graduates of law and sociology and the likes who currently form the overwhelming majority of personnel that are counted as "Educated".

Madam there are five times as much troops in Borno state as there are in the next most militarized territory in Nigeria currently.If you do not know ask stop telling silly lies that would make an adult look childish (with all due respect ).

GenBuhari: Who is delusional?

Go figure,ain't it obvious already?
Jakumo was right and I thought he was just being funny.

slimfit1: Good answer

The smartest answer one could ever give in any situation or location.I see things that let me know that Goody goody is not the dumb person everyone makes him out to be.

GenBuhari: But they want us to believe looting started and ended with Abacha because they keeping highlighting a disputed half a billion from 16 years ago, whilst ignoring the whereabouts of $20 Billion recently confirmed missing.

and you think "Abacha loot" is not propaganda

Abacha was not a looter - check the economic performance and policies of his government and it would strike you that they are not those of a looter.

One word "Delusional".

Freeze is just hyperventilating any reasonable individual would advocate Mr Trumps position.You may not like the man but damn if his message wasn't right on the money.
Plus the hypocrisy of it we crucify the government for not having banned flights from Ebola zones early enough then in the same breath curse a man who is concerned about Ebola coming into the US from Nigeria(a distinct possibility given the number of flights between Nigeria and the US).
Let's try not to reason with our a.rse all the time.Fair is fair.

AUSTAAI: It's just a matter of weeks, this Ebola thing will fizzle out like every other virus and everyone will know that it was a mere gimmick and most importantly @ jpphilips is just a BASTARD. for calling people names just because they aired their views. You can put your point across without damning your country for being a zoo or labelling your entire family as fools and morons. May you come in contact with Ebola. For your info: am making my way to quarantine to hug the so called Ebola victims and am disguised as a volunteer.

YOU ARE AN IDIOOOOOT.
This is my first insult on nairaland but you are more than deserving of it.I will not wish the virus on you because you will infect your own family with it even when you know that you should isolate yourself from them.
How are people so Stu.pid?

jpphilips: That is exactly the thought of m0r0ns who make the higher Nigerian populace, and yes the US is sending their experts to treat the bunch of retards in Africa who knowest not appreciation in life.

Your problem is education, you have shown the world how dense your brain is.
As much as the opinion you spewed up there remains yours as such, you expect it to be respected, the bad news is this; not all opinion is worthy of public consumption and that is why men and women aka parents spent so much to bring you up to speed in ratiocination.
Time, energy, resources, sacrifice were made to see that you don't think this way but after all the effort, the resultant effect was a pea brain embedded in a skull casing so thick that only hairs could sprout out, not even air nor valuable information could pass.


This opinion of yours is the reason the Northern part of Nigeria suffered a polio epidermic recently, because at some point, riffraff like you told them they are using immunization to sterilize Africans the reason they refused immunization and became lab rats for the polio virus,
where they better off in their fears? of course not, they are the street beggars that every state Govt is fighting so hard to rehabilitate and in the worst cases, deport them back to where they came from.


If m0r0ns like you were lucky to posses a functional head against the pear Angel Gabriel gave him in place of head, he would have juxtaposed the south vs North sterility ratio to ascertain the veracity of the so called conspiracy theorem, but as an African individual cursed already not just with shady looks but shady brains also, had no time to task his brain skull, shameful huh!.


Today is not really my birthday but a day of magnanimity I set aside not to educate m0r0ns like you but to see if I can awaken the least logical consciousness from your dense brain.

You claim they want to make money from you, how many Africans fund global disease research? which African country researched on polio? cholera? yellow fever? cancer? HIV and Aids, Meningitis, SARS, Deng fever etc? how are they making money from you? they research and got ARV, gave it to you free, when you survive, you have mouth to talk nonsense.

The richest man in Africa happens to be your kins man, which disease is he funding its research?

Africa as a continent is backward, of course a continent filled with individuals like the OP cannot really make progress, because of this, we have no real answer to what our problems are and how it affects us, it was the same white that explained it to us and equally gave us a chance to fight them. How?

Before now, your fore fathers were throwing sickle cell patients to the evil forest and blaming it on "Ogbanje" not until the whites came and told them what it is and how they could prevent it, I don't expect you to understand this point as a scion of those Neanderthals who were dehumanizing their fellow species, assuming that evolution has made a little difference in you over the years, will you say we didn't have Sickle cell before now? we did, but we knew not what it was, thanks to the white man who told us and proffered a way out.

I know your dense brain never knew that Ebola has been around since 1976, of course being a product of Jakande free education I am certain that your Biology teacher being an unqualified corper must have skipped that part.

The fact that we waited for the white man to discover it for us doesn't mean it was not there and instead of pinning it on the white man, sane minds are grateful for their works in Africa and have shown appreciation through awards and honors, as a goat brain, I am sure you know not why Bill gates have won "Time" magazine man of the year award severally.

Now talking about diseases and the foreign interest like you alleged;

Black plaque wiped Europe's population by 30% between 1346-1350, since the destination was Europe at the time, does your postulation on the white man stand?

VHF (viral hemorrhagic fever) ravaged Mexico in 1576, guess the white gave it to them too?

plague was in England in 1603, Italy between 1629-1631 etc, are you saying they gave it to themselves, at the cost of 280,000 lives in the case of Italy?

1 million Russians died between 1852 to 1860 of guess what? "yellow fever", ya! it was a problem at the time, who gave it to them?

Much recently in 2009, "Dengue fever" ravaged Australia are you still holding on to your conspiracy theory? if the white men have had equal share of their own epidemic, common sense should cease this medium to inform you that your present day 2014 is the white man's 1840, unfortunately, there is no sense in you let alone one that is common.

The difference between you and the white man is that, while you are lazy looking for a god to bribe 10% to solve your problems or where to trade blames, they were pragmatic enough to get the solution to their problems, while you continued living in 1540 Europe in 2014.
should be proper I said "Shame on you" at this point.

Why will the whites give you epidermic when they have had worse epidemic than yours at some point in their history? oh! sorry, I forgot that dense brains don't read, they just peruse pictures.
Why will they be interested in depopulating you when the first 5 most populous nations are not even in Africa?
And your new found Ebola being controlled by red cross and Doctors without borders, guess they are African organizations too?

Billionaires in America and Europe are contributing immensely to research and development of vaccines for the diseases ravaging Africans, typical example is the cholera outbreak in Nigeria in 2001 and the Poliomyelitis outbreak in 2007, Bill gates (a white man by the way)coughed out over $80m from his hard earned sweat to give victory to ingrates like you who would have been national statistics had he not intervened.

Bill and Mellisa foundation (a consortium of American and European Billionaires, with no Nigerian Billionaire as a member by the way) have invested over $250m for an African never do well like you, a scum whose sense of reasoning has been greatly impaired by high doses of "Eba" to have a malaria vaccine come 2015.

When you hear USAID, SFH etc you don't know that the white man is the reason HIV and Aids have not sent Africans like you to the great beyond. What concerns Bill gates with your malaria? mosquito dey bite am? but the humanity in him is the reason a break through will be made come 2015, I don't expect a low life in your position to appreciate that anyways!! afterall there is no clear difference between stup!dity and evil.

It is an unappreciative fool who peddles conspiracy theorem as yours, I hereby declare you a patient in dire need of Moral rehabilitation.





And why haven't you gone to the Lagos state quarantine zone to hug the patients there if there is nothing like Ebola? That is what illiteracy serves on your table, to make you downplay an obvious threat that will eventually consume you, on the flip side, it may be the solution to reducing the number of m0r0ns in this country.

Do you know that majority of commercial drivers don't use seat belts? do you know there are people who don't use condoms? Life is for those who deserve it, if not for the grace of god, fvctards like you shouldn't be born, I am only worried about feeble minds that will go down with you.

You couldn't have said it any better than I would.The problem is that these pseudo intellectual MORONS could get infected for all their denial of the reality of Ebola and spread it to the more rational people in the society deliberately I might add.
The difference between those living in the west and us here in Africa specifically Nigeria is that in the west,for the most part as soon as an individual feels he/she has been infected they try to minimize contact with family by coming out and letting their situation be known almost immediately but here the fool will try successfull for the most part to conceal the fact that they have been infected and act like everything is ok meanwhile putting their entire family at risk.

If you all think the last ship was scary what will you say about the strain.
That is a whole lot more scary,although far less realistic than the story line possibility of the last ship.

^^^^^^
And for those who care to know , a US plane of the same specs has survived a hostile encounter with a Chinese fighter jet that did not survive.Resulting in the first foreign policy crisis Gorge Bush had to face as he stepped into office in early 2000/2001.
Ya'll might wanna read about it thinking that the Russian jet would have dealt,with the US plane is just so much one sided thinking.

A converted passenger jet used as an Electronic Intelligence platform is different from a fighter jet even the most maverick of,pilots will seek to avoid confrontation unless absolutely necessary which would,mean he had no where to go or that war was declared.
The elint plane does have measures to counter the jet (theoretically at least ) but if that becomes the case then the US and Russia are at war.

Djtm: I've read this stance (and other POVs) on facebook. The thing is, it is not their job to do so. They are not responsible for us. They are not our "Daddy". African phamarceuticals should rise up and take the challenge too. If foreigners work on a cure, good. If they don't, well...

You don't say "the reason I'm not in school is because my neighbour did not pay my school fees. When his kids start going to school, I know he'll pay school fees."

You just said it all nothing to add here.Until we drop the self deceit on the so-called efficacy of traditional medicine we would go nowhere.
Africa and Africans have for so long deceived themselves willfully I might add that just mashing and boiling together some roots , herbs leaves and the like are all that is required to solve todays increasingly complex health challenges always saying that our great fore fathers used those same methods and that our civilization can date back thousands of years as Su h we have nothing to learn from the west.
Well the Indians the chinese the Japanese and the Koreans have civilizations that predate western civilization but the only reason that those countries are where they are today technologically is because those countries have realized that :Science is Science.
Science is not western civilization nor is it Japanese,Indian,Eastern or even African civilization,it is simply a set of rules you must follow to gain certain results.
Those results will not be different (for Africa) if we copied and followed those rules and processes like the Asians did.Practicing science will not make us less Africans as it has not made the Indian less Indian or the Korean less Korean.

NairaMinted: Whilst I do not believe Ebola is going to wipe out mankind, I do see the danger that a Russia-West confrontation poses… Paul Craig Roberts once again saying it as it is!


IF NUCLEAR WAR DOESN’T EXTERMINATE US EBOLA VIRUS MIGHT

Unless the world reins in the demented criminals in Washington, the world has signed its own death warrant

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by PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS | AUGUST 2, 2014

I just heard on National Public Radio two things that have totally destroyed what tiny bit of belief I still had in American leadership. I have concluded that the term “intelligent American” is an oxymoron.

American elites have decided that Americans are not sufficiently threatened by war and economic chaos, so they are bringing the ebola virus to America. National Public Radio reported that two people infected with the ebola virus, which cannot be cured and is usually deadly, are being brought to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia.

All it takes is one cough, one sneeze, one drop of saliva, and the virus is loose in one of the main transportation centers of the US.

Pandemic anyone? Little doubt but that most of the world would emit a great sigh of relief to be rid of Washington.
Allegedly the ebola carriers will be quarantined in special rooms. But we already know that American hospitals cannot even contain staph infections. http://rt.com/usa/177408-nightmare-bacteria-antibiotic-southeast/ What happens to the utensils, plates, cups, and glasses with which the ebola infected persons eat and drink? And who gets to clean the bed pans? One slip-up by one person, one tear in a rubber glove, and the virus is loose.

If we don’t die from ebola, we still have to dodge nuclear war. I heard part of Obama’s press conference. Obama accused Putin of doing everything that only Obama is doing.

If Obama believes what he told the press, he is utterly disinformed by his advisors. If he doesn’t believe the crude propaganda that he speaks, he is consciously leading the drive to war with Russia which probably means war with China as well and the end of us all.

Keep in mind that after eight years the US military was unable to successfully occupy Iraq and that after 13 years the US is unable to defeat a few thousand lightly armed Taliban in Afghanistan.

Russia and China are not Iraq, Libya, or Afghanistan.

War with Russia will be nuclear. Washington has prepared for it. Washington has abandoned the ABM treaty, created what it thinks is an ABM shield, and changed its war doctrine to permit US nuclear first strike. All of this is obviously directed at Russia, and the Russian government knows it. How long will Russia sit there waiting for Washington’s first strike?

Russia hasn’t done anything except get in the way, belatedly, of Washington’s lies that Washington uses to start wars. Russia (and China) went along with Washington’s lies about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. Russia (and China) went along with Washington’s lies that Washington’s 13-year attempted conquest and occupation of Afghanistan had to do with finding Osama bin Laden. Washington (and China) fell for Washington’s deception that a UN resolution establishing a no-fly zone over Libya was for the purpose of preventing Gaddafi’s air force from bombing his own people, only to discover that Washington misused the resolution to send the NATO air force to overthrow the Libyan government.

When Washington drew a “red line” in the sand with regard to the Syrian government’s use of chemical weapons against the outside forces that Washington had organized and sent into Syria to overthrow the government, all the while pretending that these Islamists mercenaries were the true spokesmen for democracy in Syria, most of the world knew that Washington was about to organize a chemical attack and blame Assad. When the Washington orchestrated attack happened on schedule, this time Russia and China did not fall for it. And neither did the British Parliament. Washington was unable to produce any evidence for the charges that Washington made and hoped would bring in at least the British to support Washington’s military assault on Syria. Russia, however, was able to produce evidence, and the evidence foiled Washington’s plot against Syria.

Russia’s intervention angered Washington, as did Russia’s intervention that blocked

Washington’s plot to attack Iran. Washington, devoid of all evidence and in contradiction to the reports from the International Atomic Energy Agency from inspectors on the ground in Iran that there was no diversion of uranium from the legal energy program to a weapons program, had Iran set up for attack. Iran was surrounded by about 40 US military bases and two of Washington’s fleets off its coast.

But in stepped Russia and worked out a deal, which Washington had to accept, that kept Iranian uranium enrichment at the low level used for energy, a level far below weapons requirements.

Two black marks agains Russia whose government prevented wars that Washington wanted. Russia (and China) were supposed to endorse Washington’s lies like the puppet states of Europe, Canada, Australia, and Japan, countries that long ago gave up their sovereignty to Washington.

Unfortunately for Russia, Russia demonstrated that Russia had achieved sufficient power and influence to block Washington’s war plans and, thereby, brought into action against Russia the Wolfowitz Doctrine. I have cited this doctrine in recent columns, but you can google it and read it for yourself. The doctrine is the basis for Washington’s foreign policy and declares that the principle goal of Washington’s foreign policy is to prevent the rise of any country that could serve as a check on Washington’s hegemony over the world. (The doctrine explicitly mentions Russia but also applies to China.)

Washington is disturbed that Russia has twice foiled Washington’s war intentions and that the Parliament of the US Puppet State of Great Britain voted with the Russians.

Washington is also concerned with the growing economic and political relations between Washington’s EU puppet states and Russia. EU countries, especially Germany, have numerous and profitable economic connections with Russia, and all of Europe is dependent on Russian supplied energy.
Washington concluded that Washington was in danger of losing its control over Europe.

While the Russian government was asleep at the switch enjoying the Olympics, Washington pulled off its coup in Kiev.
Neoconservative Victoria Nuland, appointed by Obama as Assistant Secretary of State,
announced at a press conference last December that Washington had spent $5 billion
purchasing fifth column Ukrainian NGOs that can be put into street demonstrations to destabilize a government and on grooming and purchasing Ukrainian politicians who will serve as Washington’s stooges. Nuland, of course, described Washington’s purchase of Ukraine as “furthering democracy” in Ukraine.

Washington’s coup against a democratically elected government brought to power extreme elements that proclaimed their hatred of Jews and Russians. These elements destroyed Russian war memorials erected to remember Russia’s liberation of Ukraine from the Third Reich, passed legislation outlawing Russian as an official language, and engaged in violent physical attacks on the Russian speaking population.

Ukraine has always been an area of changing borders. As some have put it, “Ukraine is a country in search of borders.” When Ukraine was a Soviet province, Soviet leaders attached, for various reasons, traditional Russian provinces to the Ukraine Socialist Soviet Republic. When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, pressure from Washington on a weak Russia resulted in the separation of Ukraine from Russia and this included Crimea, a part of Russia since the 1700s and Russia’s warm water port.

The Russian populations in the former Russian territories that Soviet leaders foolishly attached to Ukraine were alarmed by the extreme Russophobia of the government that Washington established in Kiev. The former Russian territories voted to rejoin their mother country and to depart the Russophobic US puppet state established in Kiev.

The Russian government accepted the request from Crimea, but not the requests from the other former Russian provinces in order to demonstrate to Europe that Russia was not provocative and not the source of the crisis. Putin even had the Russian Duma rescind his power to intervene militarily in Ukraine in order to protect the secessionist provinces.
This restraint hurt rather than helped the Russian government’s position. Washington
used its propaganda machine to label self-determination by Crimeans as “invasion and annexation by Russia of Crimea.”
Russia’s restraint with regard to requests to rejoin Russia from the other former Russian provinces resulted in a Washington encouraged military attack by its puppet government in Kiev against the separatist provinces that Russia refused to accept. Washington’s propaganda then succeeded in blaming Russia for the war that Washington launched on the separatist provinces.

Washington is not interested in the truth, and Russia cannot win a propaganda war with Washington which controls the world language, which is English, the language of Washington’s propaganda. The Western media consists of idiots who are enabling Washington’s drive toward war and the extermination of life on earth.

If the Russian government had accepted the separatist provinces request, there would be no war. The Ukrainian government is demented and controlled by Washington, but it is not going to attack territories acknowledged by Russia as its territory.
By showing restraint, Russia has convinced Washington that Russia is weak, and Washington has increased the pressure. Russia has convinced Europe that there is
no cost from Russia to Europe’s complying with Washington’s sanctions. By relying on good will, reasonableness, truth and evidence, Russia has misread Washington and its craven European puppets.

What Obama meant in his White House Press Conference today (August 1) when he said that Putin should use diplomacy–which Putin has been
using to no effect–is that Putin should hand Crimea, over the objection of Crimeans and the Russian people, to Washington’s puppet government in Kiev so that Washington can evict Russia from its warm weather port and access to the Mediterranean Sea, thus making redundant Russia’s naval base at Tartus, Syria. Obama also wants Putin to send into the separatist areas of Ukraine, areas that traditionally were part of Russia, Russian military forces to subdue the breakaway territories for Washington’s puppet government in Kiev.

This is Washington’s “diplomatic” position. Only a totally demented person could regard Obama’s position as realistic.

As a person who is considered fair-minded by world media and who arrives at reasonable conclusions independently of Washington’s propaganda, I am often interviewed by foreign as well as US independent media organizations. As of late, the Russian media has turned to me on a number of occasions. What I have learned is that the Russian media is perplexed by Washington’s hostility to Russia.

Russia is not operating in the old Confederate South trying to turn the American South
against Washington for Washington’s rapine, murder, and destruction of the Southern culture, but Washington is operating in the Russian South trying to turn Ukraine, long a part of Russia, against Russia.

As Russians, except perhaps for the government, are unaware of the Wolfowitz Doctrine, they do not know that the main goal of Washington is to prevent the rise of all other powers that could limit Washington’s role as sole Unipower, Hegemon over Earth.

Instead of realizing the real threat, Russian media organizations ask me if the Russian budget can stand responding to sanctions from Washington and the EU by cutting off the energy supply to Europe.

Each time I hear this question I am astonished. Russia can shut down much of European industry and deprive the Europeans of heat in winter, and Russian media ask me if Russia can afford it?

Can Russia afford to be demonized by lies, to be driven into the ground by propagandistic sanctions that will hurt Europe and some US corporations, to convey the
image that Russia is so weak as to be helpless in the face of Western sanctions as to accept the sanctions without demonstrating the cost to Europe and the US?

Does Washington even have Russians brainwashed?

I am concerned about the crisis that Washington has orchestrated, because I believe it is leading to war, which will be nuclear. Are you ready to be destroyed over Washington’s lies about one Malaysian airliner? I am convinced that Washington is behind the destruction of MH-17, because Washington’s propaganda show was already ready and was instantly in performance. That Washington is responsible is the reason that Washington will not release its satellite photos of the area during the moment of the airliner’s destruction. That Washington is responsible is the reason that Washington replies to Russian hard evidence with lies and propaganda. It is Obama and Obama’s stooges in Kiev that refuse to negotiate, not Russia.

Russia has as many nuclear warheads as Washington, and Washington’s “ABM shield” is a farce. If the insane American government drives a crisis, which Washington alone created, to war, we will all die, and for what? The answer is: for a Washington LIE.

Do you want to die for a lie? Another Washington lie?
If you don’t, you had better let Washington know.

Russia cannot end this crisis unless it puts its foot down. I have previously made the case that Russia should take its case to the UN. Alternatively, the Russian government needs to engage Europe in two questions. One is does Europe want its energy supplies from Russia cut off, energy that Washington, despite its lies, cannot replace for 3 or more years if at all.. The other is does Europe want war with Russia and does Europe think that those idiotic countries that host Washington’s missiles won’t be nuked and exterminated?

The crisis in Ukraine will continue to Russia’s and all of humanity’s cost until Russia explains to the stupid, arrogant, hubris-filled West that the West’s criminal and aggressive actions against Russia bear a real cost, and that Russia is prepared to impose the cost.

The propagandized people in the West have no idea of the fate toward which their demented governments are driving them. Russia needs to make it clear to the brainwashed propagandized peoples in the West that Russia is not going to be a puppet state of the West or to accept gratuitous aggression from the White House Fool.

It would help to save life on Earth if China also made this clear.

The sooner the better.

Unless the world reins in the demented criminals in Washington, the world has signed its own death warrant.

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts’ latest books are The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West and How America Was Lost.

Funny that the writer currently and has always lived in the west(read US,Uk,).You would think that he lives in Russia or better yet the worlds second largest economy China.
If living in the west was sucha suffocating misery as he makes out he would,do well to relocate to his Ideal paradise Russia or China.
Concocting and mashing half truths and outrageous lies together as informed opinion.

Three top secret, experimental vials stored at subzero temperatures were flown into Liberia last week in a last-ditch effort to save the American missionary workers who had contracted Ebola, according to a source familiar with details of the treatment.

A representative from the National Institutes of Health contacted Samaritan's Purse, the aid organization both Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol worked for in Liberia, and offered up the experimental treatment, known as ZMapp, according to the source.

The drug was developed by the biotech firm Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc. The patients were told that this treatment had never been tried before in a human being, but had shown promise in small experiments with monkeys.
According to company documents, four monkeys infected with Ebola and then given the therapy within 24 hours had survived. Two of four monkeys that started therapy within 48 hours also survived, while one that was not treated died within five days of exposure.


http://edition.cnn.com/2014/08/04/health/experimental-ebola-serum/index.html?c=homepage-t

I can understand reasons why they are not just going to come out and publicize that a cure is available if it turns out to be true that the previously infected doctors are currently improving.
If it got out that a cure was available,people would drop the high levels of preventive measures currently in place and,in,implementation.
From what little information the article gives,it does appear that the doctors had begun the treatment regimens' in Liberia or wherever then flown back for intensive treatment.That you can't afford for an entire countries population let alone three so it would make more sense to keep the prevention of infection protocols in place.

My my who be this op wey den just decimate finish.Na only you waka come?
Jakumo if I was at work reading this I would probably have earned myself a trip to the loony bin and in straight jacket no less with the way you had me laughing and rolling on the floor.
I beg take am easy.

omololu2020: mr man,how old are you?

Reading his posts, I thought to ask him the same question.

EasternLeopard: You see your life

CBN Benin was ransacked and burnt according to you guys claim

But the people of Midwest never complained of non-payment of their deposited cash.

Does it not occur to you that something is wrong somewhere

How were the midwesterners refunded their cash deposit despite the ransacking and burning of CBN Benin

That is a very interesting point and very relevant questions arise thereto.
Details of the civil war and its aftermath have yet to be fully and honestly reviewed.The American political system which we claim to emulate still talk about the civil way of about TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO and base policy discussions on the issues that led to that war but in our country we try to bury all information relating to a civil war that happen barely fifty years ago even when its clear that the issues they try to bury are pertinent to the troubles we face as a nation(?)/ country.

Idrismusty97: Like seriously?

They are better ways of solving this menace. If you like kill everybody in Borno boko haram might just grow stronger. Jonathan! Don't be quick to give directives! Learn from Russia. That was the same thing Russia did when they killed 266 children and parents. Yet! It didn't stop terrorism in they country. Bokoharam is turning into an ideology! Anyone can throw bomb and claimed they are bokoharam even with no connection to the evil sect. Read about the Russia siege here;
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58381-2004Sep3.html

So Mr. Idris having known that,would you advice the government/military to storm BokoHaram hideouts without carefull consideration in the event that the girls are located within said hideouts?
Do you think he/they should just jump in and bring bring back the girls as some people are singing everyday knowing that if they went that way the only girls that might come back would be dead girls?

Jakumo: Come to think of it this idea of a walking bomb is not a new invention by Nigeria's Boko Haram terror gang, since Afghan insurgents were reported to have rigged up donkeys to wander close to coalition troops, under the observation of operatives poised to dial the cellphone number that would spray donkey fragments and deadly shrapnel in a resounding boom.

Thanks to the convenience of the internet, people bent on mass murder can share ideas about optimizing the "bang for buck" result produced by various alternate methods of mayhem.

It's a sick sick trend.I see lots,of similarities between BokoHaram,their sponsors up north and Hamas.
They both are willing to trade lives even the lives of their own people but not their own lives to achieve Stu.pid political objectives.

I said it.
https://www.nairaland.com/1832551/bomb-blast-zoo-roadnear-shoprite/6#25038094

" It could be those girls (chibok) or any of the many others that have been kidnapped but no one publicized.The operative word is could.
Even if it was them,it is very unlikely that brainwashing would have taken place in so short a time (100 plus days) over unwilling subjects ,enough to go on a mission to kill ones self never mind others no.
A far more likely scenario is the theory of unknowing delivery agents.
For the longest time I and many others (young people who grew up in the north) have wondered why and how BokoHaram could so successfully plan and execute kidnapping(s) of that magnitude and afterwards manage to hide the kidnapped subjects (in this case girls) from every surveillance asset,search and rescue efforts but in the same turn seemingly (I use the word seemingly because it is now becoming obvious that it was a strategy) demonstrate repeated cases of incompetence by have a number of girls escape periodically.
I posit that the girls still in captivity are shown the news of the escaped girls while all the while their captors would have announced to the captives that a few of them were gong to be released because/after they did what was required of them.
ln that situation tomorrow they ask girl number Bleep to do so so and so when the release her at a particular
location and then she will be free to go otherwise someone will shot her or something girl Bleep will comply not knowing that the bag they gave her to hold or wear or whatever could be a bomb the captors and supposed releases would then detonate at a time and distance of their choosing.
The end result is the same female in possession of a bomb that detonates killing her and others while we are held in the fear of female suicide bombers.
Which one is bleep now ,I typed Bleep .
ok I get it x.x.x "

Jakumo: No phucking wonder that all of a sudden young women are being used as suicide bombers in northern Nigeria. Trust Nigerian terrorists to "upgrade" an already diabolical practice, by adding the devious new twist of keeping suicide bombers in the dark until the moment when they are blown asunder.

Conventional wisdom about the methodology of terror has always been that suicide bombers are WILLING killers of innocent bystanders, yet here is a story coming out of Nigeria detailing how unsuspecting young women are deceived into running delivery errands conveying innocent-looking packages cleverly rigged up for detonation by remote control radio link, most likely using a modified cell-phone handset, triggered with an incoming call placed from a cold-blooded psychopath assigned to follow the walking bomb until that opportuned moment of maximum carnage.

With this sobering revelation, it is now evident that many if not most most of the young women, determined to have been carrying the explosives used in suicide bomb attacks in northern Nigeria, may well have been just as much innocent victims of the attacks as were all others caught up in the blasts. Truth can often be stranger than fiction, and this revelation about Nigeria's unwitting female "martyrs" is a stark illustration of that well-worn adage.

I made this call earlier in an analysis of the trend of female suicide bombers like I said then the it was more likely that these "bombers" were unknowing and unwilling delivery agents considered as disposable.I also said there that more likely the bombs were detonated remotely at a time and choosing of their controllers who would very likely be within the vicinity of the bomb blast but outside its effective range.

Their lies will catch up with them soon.

Descartes: It means that this present Administration has allowed oppostion to thrive
You got it now

I thought I was the only one who saw it.The opposition can't even keep their lies consistent:
On one hand Goodluck is weak clueless and incompetent then were hear he is heavy handed next he is a brutal dictator worse than anything the country has ever experienced then he is Machiavellian because of his desire to hold on to power then we here the opposition is being stifled now we have money bag himself admitting unwittingly ofcourse that the political terrain and electoral process has never been so open that he Han openly and publicly anticipate winning an election against an incumbent.

Ahuitzotl: [color=#1980BC] [b]More like a pincer manoeurver...i see your point but you must understand that the situation will be akin to nazi germany in the WW11 where they had to faceoff western allies in the west and russia in the east thus reducing their potency on both side of the fronts with a resounding defeat likewise the north will be forced to fight an exhaustive war on two fronts;Debilitating guerrila war in the west launched by christian yorobars from Benin Republic and a war of attrition with the [b][/b]Imperial Biafran Army.Remember most Yorubas conscripted against their will into the northern occupation army won't fight as committed as those on the other side of the two fronts thus the northern occupation army will be prone to desertion and sabotage invariably collapsing it as Eastern choke points are established from the midwest corridor into the South West.This action will cut off the hinterland north from the coast thus starving them of imports and supply whilst creatin an encirclement of those trapped below our choke points to be annhilated or interned as POWs.The North will try a counter invasion to relieve its forces in the south but will get bogged down by skirmishes in the middle belt, a dwindling supply of much needed military hardware imports and is eventually crushed by a combined military blockade of the coastal supply route and a reverse biafran armoured thrust,takin advantage of the thin spread of a hardware starved army spread across a large extensive area, starting with a river crossing at Lokoja before hammering into Abuja, a circling of Zaria and an occupation of Kaduna forcing the North to the negotiating table.....It is best the North comin off an annexation of the South West comes to an agreement with the igbos thus isolating the yorobars from potential assistance,secure their exposed eastern flank and secure the Southwest port and coast...for a strong northern economy.[/b] [/color]

I'm rolling over and laughing at this post.I just figured that his main goal is to piss some people off mightily and the crazy thing is it's working.
If you read his posts carefully you will find that he is not at all delusional as he might sound right off the bat he just wants to push someone/some peoples buttons and then sit in a corner and watch them fume.If this wasn't a sad topic it might have been obvious to everyone including the intended targets of his goads or should I say taunts.

EasternLeopard: Brilliant point of view

Not just states map but ethno-religious map of Nigeria.

| meant to make that clarification/emphasis by finding such a map but posting with my phone has challenges

sirblac: The region with more wealth and foreign alliances will win.The Yoruba's have foreign aid if we call our guys from benin,Togo Ghana Brazil Cuba and Argentina we shall be a force to reckon with also with billionaires Lyk adenuga,otedola,obat,dele momodu e.t.c we are ready for warbring it on.
The north with foreign aid from Arab and Islamic countries will use these war to carry out a jihad in d country with billions of stolen funds by ex politicians they are a force to reckon with.
South east with foreign aids from few countries Lyk Haiti and jamica with very few billionaires will have a lot problems on funds and man power during the war.

Of all the commentators you appears to be the most delusional.If the most recent wars on the African continent is anything to do by,was are not fought with only the weapons you have at hand.
You imagine that the Adenugas ,the Obattolas, the Otedollas do not have their equals in the south south or the south east.
Where do you get the idea that those folks would willingly roll out billions to persecute a war against who the SE/SS where the core of their billions came from?
Even if they did for filial reason they would be doing that,knowing that that would be the end of any investment that have past the cost line of ondo.
The SE/SS may never really trust each other but every baby knows that the only way the north would reach the SS is throught the SE and Edo .The have admited to themselves in separate fora that if the core north were to engage the SE they wold have to intervene and not wait because if they stood by and did nothing they would have more to lose than the SE .
For everyone in this conversation I think it will benefit you all to take a long hard dispassionate look at the map of Nigeria before voicing/typing out any opinions you would have formed.
Weigh you opinions against the cold hard truth that the map represents and be sure that you opinions stand in the face of the realites that the map presents

Ahuitzotl: [color=#1980BC] We are talking heat not radar... [/color]

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OkikiOluwa1: Make them test him well at the airport & place him underwatch for 3 months instead of 21 days. Jim Iyke is stubborn, so is his antibodies & red blood cells. If he's infected, he can carry it around for years.
Last Bullet
Ebola Alert to all Jim Iyke's girlfriends.
[i]Nadia Buhari, close ya border[/i]!

I died and resurrected after reading that part.Was in a meeting with colleagues and I saw that part I had to grit my teeth to keep from bursting out with laughter.

fairheven: Am talking of operation that led to his capture,an u seem to be missin the point here...it was totally wrong for an irresponsible nigerian police officer to have killed Yusuf Mohammed,prio to that time the sect had not carried a single terror attack,so the killing triggered evrytin.

Are you delusional or are you plaged by deliberate amnesia?
Yusuf was captured after a confrontation between the army/police task force and his group IN THE WAKE OF OUTBREAK OF KILLINGS IN MAIDUGARI AND ENVIRONS BY HIS SECT.DO you think terror attacks is only when a bomb goes off?
The post makes it clear that you northerners only consider incidents of violence against northern/muslims that began sometime in 2010 terror the rest of us have had to bear it for decades.