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PhonesRe: UMIDIGI DISCUSSION THREAD by Kenny242(m): 6:33am On Jan 12, 2021
Anybody want to sell their UMI, I have 35k
PhonesRe: UMIDIGI DISCUSSION THREAD by Kenny242(m): 6:32am On Jan 12, 2021
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Make I sell my A5 pro too

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PoliticsRe: The Real Story Of Asher Restaurant Kaduna Demolished By State Government! by Kenny242(op): 10:45am On Jan 03, 2021
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PoliticsRe: The Real Story Of Asher Restaurant Kaduna Demolished By State Government! by Kenny242(op): 10:44am On Jan 03, 2021
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PoliticsRe: The Real Story Of Asher Restaurant Kaduna Demolished By State Government! by Kenny242(op): 10:41am On Jan 03, 2021
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PoliticsThe Real Story Of Asher Restaurant Kaduna Demolished By State Government! by Kenny242(op): 10:40am On Jan 03, 2021
THE REAL STORY OF ASHER KINGS AND QUEENS RESTAURANT KADUNA, THE FACILITY DEMOLISHED BY THE STATE GOVERNMENT ON THE ALLEGATIONS OF HOSTING A SEX PARTY.

(The facility was never a hotel or guess house)

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CrimeRe: The 2-year-old Who Was Smoking 40 Cigarettes A Day Here Is His Transformation by Kenny242(op): 7:00am On Jan 03, 2021
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CrimeRe: The 2-year-old Who Was Smoking 40 Cigarettes A Day Here Is His Transformation by Kenny242(op): 9:33pm On Jan 02, 2021
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CrimeRe: The 2-year-old Who Was Smoking 40 Cigarettes A Day Here Is His Transformation by Kenny242(op): 6:14pm On Jan 02, 2021
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CrimeThe 2-year-old Who Was Smoking 40 Cigarettes A Day Here Is His Transformation by Kenny242(op): 5:52pm On Jan 02, 2021
Remember the 2-year-old who was smoking 40 cigarettes a day?

Public outrage forced the parents to finally seek help. The Indonesian government placed Ardi in a rehabilitation program. As expected, this was challenging.

Ardi developed an addiction to food whilst his cigarette cravings tapered. He became morbidly obese at the age of 5 and was given further treatment.

With years of help, Ardi became healthy and his addictions are no longer present. He kicked his old habits and can now be a child again.

Here is his transformation

https://www.quora.com/Can-you-write-something-that-will-shock-me-to-the-core

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Foreign AffairsRe: Here Are Five Lies About Iran That We Need To Refute To Stop!! by Kenny242(op): 5:10pm On Jan 01, 2021
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EducationRe: JAMB Rewards OGITECH With N75 Million. by Kenny242(m): 4:49pm On Jan 01, 2021
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SportsRe: 14 Football Records That Will Take Many Generations To Break by Kenny242(m): 4:49pm On Jan 01, 2021
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Nairaland GeneralRe: See The Building Where Lord Frederick Lugard Signed Document Of Amalgamation by Kenny242(m): 4:49pm On Jan 01, 2021
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HealthRe: Joe Biden: Start Of 2021 Going To Be Tough by Kenny242(m): 4:48pm On Jan 01, 2021
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RomanceRe: Adulthood Apology, Who Do You Owe Yours? by Kenny242(m): 4:47pm On Jan 01, 2021
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FamilyRe: Nairaland Christmas Giveaway 2020 by Kenny242(m): 3:42pm On Dec 25, 2020
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Foreign AffairsRe: Here Are Five Lies About Iran That We Need To Refute To Stop!! by Kenny242(op): 9:22am On Dec 21, 2020
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Foreign AffairsRe: Here Are Five Lies About Iran That We Need To Refute To Stop!! by Kenny242(op): 12:47pm On Dec 20, 2020
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Foreign AffairsRe: Here Are Five Lies About Iran That We Need To Refute To Stop!! by Kenny242(op): 12:33pm On Dec 20, 2020
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Foreign AffairsHere Are Five Lies About Iran That We Need To Refute To Stop!! by Kenny242(op): 12:31pm On Dec 20, 2020
Here Are Five Lies About Iran That We Need to Refute to Stop Another Illegal War
The Trump administration is lying about Iran and its nuclear program. The media has to debunk this false drumbeat for war.

FORGET URANIUM ENRICHMENT: Has Iran mastered time travel?
Last month, the Trump White House put out a typically Orwellian statement, chock-filled with lies, distortions, and half-truths about Iran and the 2015 nuclear deal. One line in particular stood out from the rest: “There is little doubt that even before the deal’s existence, Iran was violating its terms.”




Huh? The Iranians were violating an agreement — before it even existed?

Is it any surprise that even the foreign minister of Iran took to Twitter to join the online ridiculing of the White House?


The Trump administration’s lies on the topic of Iran are now beyond parody. There is, however, nothing funny about them. U.S. government lies can have deadly consequences: Never forget that hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi men, women, and children, not to mention more than 4,400 U.S. military personnel, are dead today because of the sheer volume of falsehoods told by the George W. Bush administration.

So it is incumbent upon journalists to do in 2019 what we collectively did not do in 2003: Check the facts, challenge the lies, debunk the myths.

Here’s my contribution: a refutation of five of the most dishonest and inaccurate claims from the hawks — claims that brought the United States and Iran to the brink of conflict only a few weeks ago.

Lie #1: Iran Is Building a Nuclear Weapon
President Donald Trump has referred to Iran’s “quest for nuclear weapons” and claimed the Islamic Republic will soon be “on the cusp of acquiring the world’s most dangerous weapons.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has argued, “Even after the deal, Iran continued to preserve and expand its nuclear weapons program for future use.”

The truth is that while it is accurate to speak of an Iranian nuclear program, which is legal under the Non-Proliferation Treaty, it is an utter lie to speak of an Iranian nuclear weapons program — as countless news organizations have also done.

As long ago as 2007, the U.S. intelligence community produced a National Intelligence Estimate on Iran which offered what then-President George W. Bush would later describe in his memoir as a “stunning” and “eye-popping” conclusion that “tied my hands on the military side”: “We judge with high confidence that in fall 2003, Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program.”

Nothing has changed since then. In January, then-Director of National Intelligence, Trump appointee, and former Republican congressman Dan Coats reaffirmed the consensus view of 16 U.S. intelligence agencies when he told the Senate: “We continue to assess that Iran is not currently undertaking the key nuclear weapons-development activities we judge necessary to produce a nuclear device.”

Nuclear weapons program? What nuclear weapons program?

Lie #2: Iran Violated the Nuclear Deal
The Trump administration has repeatedly claimed that Iran was not sticking to the terms of the agreement — prior to the administration itself violating the agreement by unilaterally pulling out and reimposing economic sanctions on Iran.

The president claimed Iran “committed multiple violations.” Hawkish Republican Sen. Tom Cotton accused Tehran of having “repeatedly violated the terms of the deal.” So did Mark Dubowitz, head of the neoconservative Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, who said, “Iran is incrementally violating the deal.”

In fact, the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, published more than a dozen reports confirming that Iran was fully complying with the terms of the deal. In April 2018, then-Defense Secretary James Mattis described the nuclear agreement as “pretty robust.” Even the then-head of the Israeli military, Gen. Gadi Eisenkot, said in March 2018 that the deal “with all its faults” was “working.”

Last month, Iran’s foreign minister, Javad Zarif, announced that the country’s stockpiles of enriched low-grade uranium would exceed the 300-kilogram limit laid out in the nuclear agreement — provoking a flurry of condemnations from Western governments and op-ed columnists. But let’s be clear about the order of events: The Iranian violation of one particular aspect of the deal came more than a year after the United States violated the entire deal.

Lie #3: Iran Is the Leading State Sponsor of Terror
“Iran remained the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism,” declared the State Department in September 2018. The Islamic Republic has been “the world’s central banker of international terrorism since 1979,” claimed national security adviser John Bolton a few weeks later. In June, Trump called Iran the “number one terrorist nation” in the world.

This makes no sense. Few would dispute the fact that Tehran has provided support, funds, and weaponry to Hamas and Hezbollah, both of which have been designated “Foreign Terrorist Organizations” by the U.S. government (though it is also worth noting that millions of Palestinians and Lebanese see them as resistance groups that are fighting against Israeli occupiers).

Yet the “war on terror” declared by Bush in the wake of the 9/11 attacks has been fought against Sunni jihadist groups such as Al Qaeda, ISIS, and the Shabab — none of which are backed by Shia-majority Iran.

According to the Global Terrorism Index 2018, compiled by the Institute for Economics & Peace, more than half of the deaths caused by terrorists around the world in 2017 were a result of attacks by four groups: ISIS, the Taliban, the Shabab, and Boko Haram. Again, the experts agree that none of these groups are sponsored by Iran.

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In fact, it is Iran’s biggest regional rival, Saudi Arabia, which has been accused of arming, funding, and providing Salafi ideological cover for many of these jihadists — including by this president.

“Who blew up the World Trade Center?” Trump asked on Fox News during the 2016 election campaign. “It wasn’t the Iraqis, it was Saudi — take a look at Saudi Arabia, open the documents.”

If any nation deserves the dubious distinction of being “the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism,” it is the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, not the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Lie #4: Iran Working with Al Qaeda
By conjuring up a fictitious alliance between Iran and Al Qaeda, the Trump administration has found a novel way of both justifying the “number one terrorist nation” tag and providing legal cover for a future U.S. attack on Tehran.

The president has claimed that Tehran “provides assistance to Al Qaeda.” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, during his tenure as CIA chief, suggested it is an “open secret” that “there have been relationships” and “there have been times the Iranians have worked alongside Al Qaeda.”

The Bush administration’s attempt to link secular Saddam Hussein with the theocratic fanatics of Al Qaeda sounded preposterous to many of us back in 2002 and 2003. It was a dumb lie. Yet the Trump administration, and its hawkish outriders at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, now want us to believe that the sectarian Sunni killers of Al Qaeda have formed an alliance with Iran, a hard-line Shia theocracy.

“I’ve never seen any evidence of active collaboration,” Jason Burke, author of “Al-Qaeda: Casting a Shadow of Terror,” told me in 2017. The relationship between Al Qaeda and Iran is “not one of alliance” but “highly antagonistic,” concluded a report by the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point in 2012.

The Iran-Al Qaeda conspiracy theory is an especially dangerous one. The 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force, passed by Congress in the wake of 9/11, allows the president to “use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons.” As Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine told the New York Times in June, Trump administration officials “are looking to bootstrap an argument to allow the president to do what he likes without coming to Congress, and they feel the 2001 authorization will allow them to go to war with Iran.”

Lie #5: War on Iran Would Be Easy
This is perhaps the dumbest lie of all. Trump has threatened “the official end of Iran.” His pal in the Senate, Tom Cotton, has predicted that the United States could win a war with Tehran with just two strikes: “The first strike and the last strike.”

To call such statements absurd would be an understatement. Iran isn’t Iraq. As Col. Larry Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Colin Powell, told me on a recent episode of my podcast, Deconstructed, a conflict with the Islamic Republic “would be horrible”:

Four times almost the size of Iraq, 80 million, not 26 million people, homogeneity to the population that Iraq certainly didn’t have, 51 percent Persian. Terrain … that’s just inhospitable, almost killed Alexander the Great, for example. This would be a vicious, long-term guerrilla campaign waged by the Iranians over 10 or 15 years. And at the end of it, it would look about like Iraq did in 2011. And it would cost $2 trillion and lots of lives and more than anything else, it would require at least a half a million troops.

In other words, it would be a disaster of epic proportions. Let’s be clear: Many of the accusations leveled by Western governments and Western media organizations against Iran — it is a serial violator of human rights; it is complicit in Bashar Assad’s murderous attacks on his own people; it backs Hamas and Hezbollah, it is a promoter of anti-Semitism — are undeniably true. But the five lies that are constantly deployed by politicians and pundits to justify military action against Iran, and even regime change in Tehran, are flat-out false. And if they are not called out, we will soon find ourselves embroiled in another bloody Middle East conflict that will make the war in Iraq look like a walk in the park.

https://theintercept.com/2019/08/14/trump-iran-worst-lies/

RomanceRe: Black People Are Part Of The Reason For Racism They Are Getting. by Kenny242(m): 10:25am On Dec 20, 2020
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EducationRe: Optical Illusion Images That Will Make You Go Crazy! by Kenny242(m): 5:34pm On Dec 19, 2020
Raydos:
This is the hardest, I still can't see anything too
Look well its car not ocean
Nairaland GeneralRe: Aminat Aweke Emerged The 2021 President Of JCI ASO by Kenny242(m): 4:56pm On Dec 16, 2020
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Foreign AffairsRe: Adel Abdel-Bary Released From US Jail Because He Is Too Fat (Pix) by Kenny242(m): 9:42am On Dec 16, 2020
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PoliticsRe: Opinion: Who Should We Blame For Nigeria Situation ?! by Kenny242(op): 5:45pm On Dec 15, 2020
phorget:
Blame the abokis, they've successfully ran the country to the ground. They owns Nigeria.
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PoliticsRe: Opinion: Who Should We Blame For Nigeria Situation ?! by Kenny242(op): 5:41pm On Dec 15, 2020
Nanaborga:
The people

We have ourselves to blame for the type of leaders we currently have , anyway I blame our colonial masters , because we were not properly colonized, almost all Nigerians have this greedy and criminal mentality and it’s affecting us all , even a pastor or an iman given the chance will still loot us , na revival we need and if possible get colonized again to remove this mentality from us .

An American citizen naturally loves her country and will do anything to defend and grow her country, while in Africa all we care about is loot and don’t care if the country perish , we need to love Nigeria , that natural love is all we need for this country to grow .
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PoliticsOpinion: Who Should We Blame For Nigeria Situation ?! by Kenny242(op): 5:31pm On Dec 15, 2020
With the situation of Nigeria currently, problems right, left, and center. WHO! Should we blame the situation we into now ?

The government OR
The people

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PoliticsRe: President @mbuhari Appears In New Video Visiting His Cows In Katsina by Kenny242(op): 2:48pm On Dec 15, 2020
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PoliticsRe: President @mbuhari Appears In New Video Visiting His Cows In Katsina by Kenny242(op): 7:10am On Dec 15, 2020
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