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Foreign Affairs › Re: US Elections 2008 Results: Obama vs Mccain by Horus(m): 11:43pm On Nov 01, 2008
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The Anchorage Daily News, Alaska's largest newspaper, endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama Sunday after declaring Gov. Sarah Palin "too risky" to be one step away from the Oval Office.
"Like picking (Republican presidential candidate John) McCain for president, putting her one 72-year-old heartbeat from the leadership of the free world is just too risky at this time," The Daily News said.
The newspaper said Obama "brings far more promise to the office. In a time of grave economic crisis, he displays thoughtful analysis, enlists wise counsel and operates with a cool, steady hand."
The Daily News said since the economic crisis has emerged, McCain has "stumbled and fumbled badly" in dealing with it.
"Of the two candidates, Sen. Obama better understands the mortgage meltdown's root causes and has the judgment and intelligence to shape a solution, as well as the leadership to rally the country behind it," the paper said.
The Daily News said Palin has shown the country why she is a success as governor. But the paper said few would argue that Palin is truly ready to step into the job of being president despite her passion, charisma and strong work ethic.
"Gov. Palin's nomination clearly alters the landscape for Alaskans as we survey this race for the presidency — but it does not overwhelm all other judgment. The election, after all is said and done, is not about Sarah Palin, and our sober view is that her running mate, Sen. John McCain, is the wrong choice for president at this critical time for our nation," the paper said.

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/us_elections_2008/7692731.stm
Travel › Re: Building A Rapid Mass Transit System (Metro-Rail) In Lagos by Horus(m): 7:20pm On Nov 01, 2008
China to build metrolines in Nigeria

Yar’Adua’s plan for Lagos and Abuja

President Umaru Yar’Adua said Saturday in Shanghai, China, that the Government would soon embark on the development of metro lines for some major cities and welcomes Chinese technical assistance for the projects.

Speaking at the Shanghai Shentong Metro Company on the last day of his state visit to China, Nigerian President Yar’Adua said his administration was currently exploring options for financing the project.
In a statement made available to panapress Saturday, the Special Adviser to the President on Communication, Olusegun Adeniyi, quoted Ya’Adua as saying "We will b e seeking your technical inputs very soon and I hope you will offer us the assistance because we need to develop metro lines for some of our major cities like Lagos and Abuja to bridge the transportation gap.
"The main challenge is finance but once we have sorted that out, we will be getting back to you for technical assistance," the President told senior executives of the company.
The Shanghai Shentong Metro Company operates the Shanghai Metro which is one of the world’s newest and most rapidly expanding subway system with an average of 2.18 million passengers daily in 2007.

Source: http://en.afrik.com/article12717.html
Foreign Affairs › Re: War Again In Congo? by Horus(m): 3:58am On Nov 01, 2008
There Is An Ongoing Battle For The Resources Of Africa. The Two Most Prominent Battlefronts Is The Congo And Darfur, Sudan. This Is A Holocaust That Most Africans Are Ignorant Of. Untold Millions Have Died And Will Die if we dont react.
Foreign Affairs › Re: War Again In Congo? by Horus(m): 7:26pm On Oct 31, 2008
Sports › Re: F1 Racing: Hamilton Wellwishers Only by Horus(m): 1:35pm On Oct 31, 2008
Lewis Hamilton targeted by internet racists

Oct 31 2008 by Our Correspondent, South Wales Echo

LEWIS Hamilton will attempt to put a sickening disruption to his world title dreams to the back of his mind.
Ahead of his attempt on Sunday to become Formula One’s first black champion, Spanish racists have set up a vile website targeting Hamilton.
The sport had hoped scenes witnessed at the Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona, where a handful of Spanish people blackened their faces, wore black wigs and sported t-shirts with the inscription ’Hamilton’s family’, were a one-off earlier this year.
That prompted world governing body, the FIA, to launch its anti-racism campaign ‘EveryRace’, with Hamilton as its figurehead.
The FIA and McLaren have condemned those involved with the website.

Source: http://www.walesonline.co.uk/sports/sports-news-round-up/2008/10/31/f1-lewis-hamilton-targeted-by-internet-racists-91466-22156845/
Foreign Affairs › Re: War Again In Congo? by Horus(m): 11:20am On Oct 31, 2008
What African people have to understand is that World Powers create conflicts for wars that are not real but at heart are aligned with business ambitions. In that way, the illuminati and the western world can gain more natural resources and control.
Foreign Affairs › Re: We Already Had A Black President by Horus(m): 6:57pm On Oct 30, 2008
Video: http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=HCmcnQ1cZcY&eurl=http://www.presidentjohnhanson.com/
John Hanson was A Moor, AKA Black.
Moor where exempt from slavery.
(Please watch the video)
Foreign Affairs › Re: War Again In Congo? by Horus(m): 2:33pm On Oct 30, 2008
How we fuel Africa's bloodiest war

What is rarely mentioned is the great global heist of Congo's resources

Thursday, 30 October 2008

The deadliest war since Adolf Hitler marched across Europe is starting again – and you are almost certainly carrying a blood-soaked chunk of the slaughter in your pocket. When we glance at the holocaust in Congo, with 5.4 million dead, the clichés of Africa reporting tumble out: this is a "tribal conflict" in "the Heart of Darkness". It isn't. The United Nations investigation found it was a war led by "armies of business" to seize the metals that make our 21st-century society zing and bling. The war in Congo is a war about you.
Every day I think about the people I met in the war zones of eastern Congo when I reported from there. The wards were filled with women who had been gang-raped by the militias and shot in the vagina. The battalions of child soldiers – drugged, dazed 13-year-olds who had been made to kill members of their own families so they couldn't try to escape and go home. But oddly, as I watch the war starting again on CNN, I find myself thinking about a woman I met who had, by Congolese standards, not suffered in extremis.

https://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00065/congo1_65762a.jpg
People throw stones at UN peacekeepers patrolling on a road in Kibati, about 16 miles north of Goma

I was driving back to Goma from a diamond mine one day when my car got a puncture. As I waited for it to be fixed, I stood by the roadside and watched the great trails of women who stagger along every road in eastern Congo, carrying all their belongings on their backs in mighty crippling heaps. I stopped a 27 -year-old woman called Marie-Jean Bisimwa, who had four little children toddling along beside her. She told me she was lucky. Yes, her village had been burned out. Yes, she had lost her husband somewhere in the chaos. Yes, her sister had been raped and gone insane. But she and her kids were alive.
I gave her a lift, and it was only after a few hours of chat along on cratered roads that I noticed there was something strange about Marie-Jean's children. They were slumped forward, their gazes fixed in front of them. They didn't look around, or speak, or smile. "I haven't ever been able to feed them," she said. "Because of the war."
Their brains hadn't developed; they never would now. "Will they get better?" she asked. I left her in a village on the outskirts of Goma, and her kids stumbled after her, expressionless.
There are two stories about how this war began – the official story, and the true story. The official story is that after the Rwandan genocide, the Hutu mass murderers fled across the border into Congo. The Rwandan government chased after them. But it's a lie. How do we know? The Rwandan government didn't go to where the Hutu genocidaires were, at least not at first. They went to where Congo's natural resources were – and began to pillage them. They even told their troops to work with any Hutus they came across. Congo is the richest country in the world for gold, diamonds, coltan, cassiterite, and more. Everybody wanted a slice – so six other countries invaded.
These resources were not being stolen to for use in Africa. They were seized so they could be sold on to us. The more we bought, the more the invaders stole – and slaughtered. The rise of mobile phones caused a surge in deaths, because the coltan they contain is found primarily in Congo. The UN named the international corporations it believed were involved: Anglo-America, Standard Chartered Bank, De Beers and more than 100 others. (They all deny the charges.) But instead of stopping these corporations, our governments demanded that the UN stop criticising them.
There were times when the fighting flagged. In 2003, a peace deal was finally brokered by the UN and the international armies withdrew. Many continued to work via proxy militias – but the carnage waned somewhat. Until now. As with the first war, there is a cover-story, and the truth. A Congolese militia leader called Laurent Nkunda – backed by Rwanda – claims he needs to protect the local Tutsi population from the same Hutu genocidaires who have been hiding out in the jungles of eastern Congo since 1994. That's why he is seizing Congolese military bases and is poised to march on Goma.

https://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00065/congo4_65841a.jpg
People cook as they stay in an improvised Internally Displaced People (IDP) camp in Kibati, about 25 kilometers (15.5 miles) north of the provincial capital of Goma

It is a lie. François Grignon, Africa Director of the International Crisis Group, tells me the truth: "Nkunda is being funded by Rwandan businessmen so they can retain control of the mines in North Kivu. This is the absolute core of the conflict. What we are seeing now is beneficiaries of the illegal war economy fighting to maintain their right to exploit."
At the moment, Rwandan business interests make a fortune from the mines they illegally seized during the war. The global coltan price has collapsed, so now they focus hungrily on cassiterite, which is used to make tin cans and other consumer disposables. As the war began to wane, they faced losing their control to the elected Congolese government – so they have given it another bloody kick-start.
Yet the debate about Congo in the West – when it exists at all – focuses on our inability to provide a decent bandage, without mentioning that we are causing the wound. It's true the 17,000 UN forces in the country are abysmally failing to protect the civilian population, and urgently need to be super-charged. But it is even more important to stop fuelling the war in the first place by buying blood-soaked natural resources. Nkunda only has enough guns and grenades to take on the Congolese army and the UN because we buy his loot. We need to prosecute the corporations buying them for abetting crimes against humanity, and introduce a global coltan-tax to pay for a substantial peacekeeping force. To get there, we need to build an international system that values the lives of black people more than it values profit.
Somewhere out there – lost in the great global heist of Congo's resources – are Marie-Jean and her children, limping along the road once more, carrying everything they own on their backs. They will probably never use a coltan-filled mobile phone, a cassiterite-smelted can of beans, or a gold necklace – but they may yet die for one.

Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-how-we-fuel-africas-bloodiest-war-978461.html
Foreign Affairs › Re: US Elections 2008 Results: Obama vs Mccain by Horus(m): 6:35pm On Oct 28, 2008
A video of the plot to kill Obama.
Video: http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=f33kykExqVs
Politics › Re: Breaking News: Assassination Plot Targeting Obama Disrupted by Horus(m): 6:10pm On Oct 28, 2008
A video of the plot to kill Obama.
Video: http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=f33kykExqVs
Christianity Etc › Re: Spiritual Grace; Amazing Pictures! by Horus(m): 11:23am On Oct 25, 2008
Christianity Etc › Re: Who Is Who In Hell by Horus(m): 5:17pm On Oct 24, 2008
Hell is a fabrication.The concept of hell is something that was created in the hearts and minds of the authors of your Bible and Koran. Before you were informed of what and where hell was, it never crossed your mind to even think about it. So, within the pages of your scriptures hell was born. Just as a God could not exist without the devil, heaven could not exist if there wasn’t a hell.So where did hell come from? It didn’t exist in Adam’s, Noah’s, nor Abraham’s time. It is something that was fabricated so that they could capitalize off of your fear.
Christianity Etc › Re: Spiritual Grace; Amazing Pictures! by Horus(m): 4:54pm On Oct 24, 2008
Car Talk › South African Electric Vehicle by Horus(op): 11:33am On Oct 18, 2008
South African Electric Vehicle.

Video: http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTILe-WosO4
Travel › Re: What Is The Best City In West Africa To Live In? by Horus(m): 8:44pm On Oct 17, 2008
Politics › Who Is More Corrupt,nigeria Or Usa? by Horus(op): 9:21am On Oct 09, 2008
After watching this video,tell me who is the most corrupt, Nigeria or USA ??
Video: http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq4aQdaxBcM&feature=related
Travel › Re: Railway Project! What Happened? by Horus(m): 9:27am On Sep 30, 2008
Foreign Affairs › Re: Obama Clinches Democratic Nomination by Horus(m): 3:38pm On Jun 08, 2008
Foreign Affairs › Re: Obama Clinches Democratic Nomination by Horus(m): 12:04am On Jun 07, 2008
Foreign Affairs › Re: Obama Clinches Democratic Nomination by Horus(m): 11:19am On Jun 04, 2008
[size=19pt]Obama seals nomination [/size]

WASHINGTON — Change is coming, that much Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama agree on as they plunge into a five-month campaign for the White House.
The primaries behind them, the presidential rivals were wasting no time drawing the battle line for a fall fight that will make history with the election of either the oldest first-term president in McCain or the first black leader in Obama. In speeches marking the start of the general election, both maneuvered for the advantage with voters sour on the status quo.McCain, a four-term Arizona senator seeking to succeed a fellow Republican, uttered the word “change” more than 30 times as he tried to distance himself from President Bush and blister his Democratic rival. Obama uttered the phrase 19 times in a speech that claimed the Democratic presidential nomination.

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“The wrong change looks not to the future but to the past for solutions that have failed us before and will surely fail us again,” McCain, 71, said in suburban New Orleans. “I have a few years on my opponent, so I am surprised that a young man has bought into so many failed ideas.”
In St. Paul, Minn., Obama, 46 and a first-term Illinois senator, ceded no ground on the reformer mantle and cast McCain as a continuation of the unpopular Bush’s eight-year tenure.“My differences with him are not personal; they are with the policies he has proposed in this campaign. Because while John McCain can legitimately tout moments of independence from his party in the past, such independence has not been the hallmark of his presidential campaign,” Obama said.
The campaign is the first in half a century in which neither a sitting president nor a vice president is running for the highest office, and the first since 1960 in which a senator will assume the White House. A fragile economy and an ongoing Iraq war, as well as matters of age and race serve as a backdrop.
Both McCain and Obama were full of praise for defeated Democratic candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton as the two sought to make a play for her loyalist backers — women and working-class voters.

https://www.protectingamerica.org/enews/images/September/Barack_Obama.jpg

Clinton, the New York senator and former first lady, stopped short of dropping out of the race even though Obama had reached the requisite delegate count for the Democratic Party’s nomination. Instead of conceding, Clinton said she would spend the next few days determining “how to move forward with the best interests of our country and our party guiding my way.”
Behind the scenes, she maneuvered for the vice presidential spot on Obama’s fall ticket, expressing a willingness in a conference call with her state’s congressional delegation. “I am open to it” if it would help the party’s prospects in November, Clinton replied, according to participants who spoke on condition of anonymity because the call was private. Obama’s aides were noncommittal.
In the meantime, the party was swinging behind him.
Officials said Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland was ready to endorse him on Wednesday.
Additionally, party leaders readied a statement urging uncommitted superdelegates in Congress and among the ranks of governors to state their preference by Friday. Several officials said that while they wanted to unify the party quickly, they were also determined not to appear to push Clinton out of the race, particularly since she will be returning to the Senate once her presidential bid is over.
On Wednesday, both Obama and Clinton were addressing the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a pro-Israel lobbying group.
On the final night of the primary season, Clinton won South Dakota while Obama took Montana — and a slew of party superdelegates who declared their support to help him clinch the party nod. He did it, according to The Associated Press tally, based on primary elections, state Democratic caucuses and support from superdelegates. It took 2,118 delegates to clinch the nomination at the convention in Denver this summer, and Obama had 2,144 by the AP count.
In contrast to the 17-month Democratic primary, Republicans gave McCain the status of likely GOP nominee in March. Since then, McCain has laid the groundwork for the general election campaign by portraying Obama as lacking the experience and judgment needed to be commander in chief.
McCain spoke first and he accused his younger rival of voting “to deny funds to the soldiers who have done a brilliant and brave job” in Iraq. It was a reference to 2007 legislation to pay for the Iraq war, a measure Obama opposed, citing the lack of a timetable for withdrawing troops.
The Republican was taking his message — that he has a record of reform while his opponent simply has rhetoric — directly to the voters in morning appearances on network news programs from Louisiana, where he will campaign later Wednesday.
Obama addressed thousands of cheering backers in the same Minnesota arena where Republicans will hold their nominating convention in early September. He promised an aboveboard debate and seemed to suggest that the GOP simply engages in divisive politics.
Said Obama: “What you don’t deserve is another election that’s governed by fear, and innuendo, and division. What you won’t hear from this campaign or this party is the kind of politics that uses religion as a wedge and patriotism as a bludgeon — that sees our opponents not as competitors to challenge, but enemies to demonize.”

Source: http://www.smdailyjournal.com/article_preview.php?id=92916
Christianity Etc › Are Fatwa Killings Justifiable? by Horus(op): 8:32pm On Mar 04, 2008
Are Fatwa Killings Justifiable?

What do you think?
Christianity Etc › Re: If Your A True Muslim Read This. by Horus(m): 7:37pm On Mar 04, 2008
All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab;
So why those who practice the religion that cannot be named on this forum are enslaving Black African today?
Christianity Etc › Re: Why Condoms Should Be Distributed In The Church by Horus(m): 12:45pm On Mar 04, 2008
Why Condoms Should Be Distributed In The Mosque?  grin
Christianity Etc › Re: If Your A True Muslim Read This. by Horus(m): 11:49am On Mar 04, 2008
babaearly:
@ POSTER
[size=40pt]SO YOU HAVE TO BE TAN TO BE A GREAT ONE?
WHAT WOULD YOU CALL THE BLACK MUSLIMS,WHITE MUSLIMS,ASIAN MUSLIMS?
DO YOU MEAN ISLAM IS A RACIST RELIGION?[/size]
Yes,the religion that Cannot be named on this Forum,is racist.Just look at what is hapening in Sudan today.
Christianity Etc › Re: Muhammed In The Bible by Horus(m): 10:00am On Mar 04, 2008
[img]http://www.englishforum.ch/attachments/family-matters/98d1158920230-kindergartens-oerlikon-zurich-hijack.gif[/img]

WARNING:This thread have been hijacked by huh(we dont have right to name them because of the lack of free speech)
Christianity Etc › Re: What You Do Not Hear From The Pulpits by Horus(m): 1:48pm On Mar 03, 2008
https://www.newworldordertshirts.com/Art/Elements/FreeSpeech.gif

therationa was banned for posting stuff attacking our is-lamic friends.
Where is the freedom of expression?
Christianity Etc › Re: What The Great Prophet Said About Hell! by Horus(m): 12:36pm On Mar 03, 2008
@ lafille
Who care? grin Mind your own business
Christianity Etc › Re: What The Great Prophet Said About Hell! by Horus(m): 11:51am On Mar 03, 2008
lafile:
@Horus
The treatment you give to questions being asked about your soul will determine the answers you get for questions you ask about Hell and Heaven.
I am NOT complaining there is NO heaven and NO hell.FINISH. grin
Christianity Etc › Re: Why Condoms Should Be Distributed In The Church by Horus(m): 11:44am On Mar 03, 2008
obstead200:
I have an idea. Maybe condoms should be distributed with a very powerful bible tract inside the packet with this message; fORNICATION WILL LEAD You TO HELL.this way maybe those who collect the condoms will cahnge there minds. Remember the packet of rothmans cigarrette grin grin grin cheesy.
Or maybe the condoms distributed in churches should be called Holly Condoms  grin
Christianity Etc › Re: What You Do Not Hear From The Pulpits by Horus(m): 11:26am On Mar 03, 2008
joshjosh:
a question i would like you to answer for me is how you think the churches should be funded and financed? thank you
The churches should all be closed instead of being funded and financed. The tithe scam has given rise to the proliferation of Churches today and most appalling of all is that the proliferation of Churches has in turn given rise to "Social Crimes" in the name of God. Example of this could be seen in the manner Christians are converting Christians from other Churches to boost the number of tithe payers in their own Church.

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