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Mindfulness:
So how comes someone like you who has been an anti-divorce warrior embraces Trump who is married for the third time.
Are you schizophrenic?

Mindfulness:
Says the one who was preaching the Bible for ten years on NL and ended up posing in his undies.

baylord101:
Na wa oo, CAN is always complaining, Probably it's for those religion bigostic in the SE and Core North because I could remember my days back in secondary School, we divide the class to two for IRS/CRS class.

Back then in Umunneochi in Abia state, any time we are preparing for solat passerby will open their mouth and locked their leg just to witness what we are doing and I blame them not because it's only Christianity they were exposed to unlike in Southwest where you will see both sleeping in the same room.

Mindfulness:
Says the one who bullied every divorcee and single parent on family section but came here to defend an adulterer like Trump.

We love CNN. You have FoxNews. Go and watch it and stop whining like the Fake President.

Lies of omission are worse than fake news. They mislead purposefully and then still claim they were not wrong. The deceit is abhorrent.

ab·hor·rent [abˈhôrənt, abˈhärənt] ADJECTIVE: inspiring disgust and loathing; repugnant:

synonyms: detestable · hateful · loathsome · despicable · abominable · execrable · repellent · repugnant · repulsive · revolting · disgusting · distasteful · horrible · horrid · horrifying · awful · heinous · reprehensible · obnoxious · odious · nauseating · offensive · contemptible

I think that word sums it up nicely

Seems like a weird play by CNN here. I would have thought Lefitsts would be outraged at Dems praying as a group; unless it was to some nebulous Lady-Earth spirit chicken-duck thing

IloveMoney:
Why its a good thing that IPOB is gaining international recognition as seen by the visit of a Turkish diplomat to Nnamdi kanu. i would also want IPOB to be very careful and trust no one. The diplomat may be a spy working for an any international spy agency.

Of interest to me is the badge the diplomat tagged on Nnamdi kanu's cloth. That badge could be a recorder/spy tool which is intended to record and gather intelligence on IPOB's activities and planning.

Please if there is any IPOB member here on this forum reading this and also has access to Nnamdi Kanu/ IPOB planner, please i want you to alert them and Tell them to vet donations, material gift or whatever, no matter how small it is.

Thanks


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Today we dare to think freely where before we did not, but however we cannot; our will to think is only a willingness to think what the media term 'a necessity' against chaos, and this is what we feel as our continuing liberty.

Can anyone imagine a more appalling caricature of freedom of thought?

Any consumer of modern media neither knows, nor is allowed to know, the purposes for which he is used, nor even the role that he is to play. Here, as in every army, the soldier obeys blindly, and war-aims and operation-plans change without his knowledge. The press today is an army with carefully organized arms and branches, with journalists as officers, and voters as soldiers.

I do not think greater subversion of a republic could ever be imagined.

Today every founding father would demand, not freedom for the press, but freedom from the press; but the politician, both democrat and republican, play a game with the media to secure all of their positions against the voter who today is best seen as the mark in the greatest confidence game ever attempted.

Until the mark rebels, the game's rigging is just his paranoia. Is the entire republic worth anyone's loyalty today? Subsets, yes, have character and lives worth defending and will defend us in return. The greatest subversion is to think ourselves, the voter, alone. We must not think the thoughts the media demand, but thoughts of what the broadest in-group that secures safety and so loyalty is.

raumdeuter:
Gun is a part of American culture and guns cant be taken away. Many Americans even Bernie Sanders are gun owners.

Other part of the world is not America, America is different from other part of the world I wonder why you all fail to understand and equate it to other parts of the world

Guns are not the problem people are the problem and the people in this case are Liberals who cant accept the result of an election they contested and lost

Shelloween:
Dear Abubakr Al-Hassan, you should know that "If you Kill Eze in Kaduna, you've Killed Musa in Aba". Nobody's killing Anybody. Somebody should please take Nnamdi Kanu back to prison, this ethnic rivalry and sh!t exacerbated the moment they let his smelly ass out. I love Biafra but I love Nigeria more. I dread the I would need a visa to travel to Lagos. #OneNigeria

stanech:
There is no difference between these left wing nut jobs and ISIS

Loretta Lynch: We Need More Marching, Blood, Death On Streets

stanech:
#BREAKING: House Majority Whip Congressman @SteveScalise. aides shot at baseball practice in Virginia

Capitol Police credited with preventing 'massacre' by stopping shooter

Dumbocrats at work

President Trump and his reformist agenda have endured unfathomable sneers, smears and hatred thrown at him by Washington's swamp dwellers and the hordes of glorified bloggers who call themselves "journalists".

Now five men lie wounded, their bodies maimed and mangled by a middle-aged member of "The Resistance" who demanded to know their political affiliations before opening fire. Their blood is on the hands of EVERY SINGLE SHITLIB who tried to legitimize violence against America's democratically elected leadership.

If you state that America's government is illegitimate then by definition you're legitimizing political violence.

If you equate America's President with Hitler then you're clearly implying that killing him would be legitimate.

If you accuse the US President of being a Russian Spy then you're accusing them of treason which is a capital crime; you're directly calling for their arrest and execution.

The hateful rhetoric that inspired this shooting needs to end immediately for the sake of all Americans. If leftists wish to continue inspiring and escalating violence then I don't think they'll like how it will end.

PastorAji:
[b]Good morning all.
I have been a keen observer and follower of the trend of things since late 2015 till now when "Our Brothers" (according to Sir. Winston Churchill) have been agitating to form their own Repubic

There has been a question that has been nagging im my brain all this while that has been begging for answers and I hope "MY BROTHERS" would kindly give answers to

Judging from the fallout of result from the UK Paliamentary Elections which made Tessy May still retains the PM of UK/Britain, but making their party a "hung majority" they went to polls for one mision, "TO LEAVE THE EU" and they already have their blueprint (economic, trade, imigration etc)

HERE GOES MY QUESTION AND I WANT INTELLIGENT ANSWERS WITH REFRENCES WHERE I WOULD ACCESS THE MATERIALS FROM

"WHAT ARE THE ECONOMIC, POLITICAL, SOCIAL BLUEPRINTS "OUR BROTHERS" INTEND TO USE OR NEGOTIATE FOR IF ON EVENTUALITY THEY WANT BIAFRA

Thank you and God bless Nigeria[/b]

References
1. https://www.ft.com/content/0d23ac8e-c780-11e6-8f29-9445cac8966f
2. http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2016-17/europeanunionnotificationofwithdrawal.html


Seun
Mynd44
Lalasticlala
Obinoscopy et al

House Majority Whip Steve Scalise and a congressional aide were shot by a rifle-wielding gunman who sprayed a hail of bullets at a GOP baseball practice in Virginia Wednesday morning, before U.S. Capitol Police took the gunman down.

Scalise was "badly injured," according to a tweet from President Trump, but expected to recover. A spokesperson from Scalise said he was "stable" and undergoing surgery after being shot in the hip. Five people were "transported medically" from the scene, Alexandria Police Chief Michael Brown said. It appeared that included Scalise, a congressional aide, the gunman and two law enforcement officers -- one of whom was hit by fragments.

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., told Fox News: "We were like sitting ducks."

"Without the Capitol Hill police it would have been a massacre," Paul said, describing the scene as "sort of a killing field."


The gunman was shot by Capitol Police and Alexandria Police, apprehended and taken to the hospital, officials said. Sen. Mike Lee told Fox News, however, the gunman was killed. The incident occurred at Simpson Field in Alexandria, about 10 miles from Washington D.C

James T. Hodgkinson, a 66-year-old Illinois man, has been identified as the suspect in the shooting at the Congressional baseball practice in Alexandria, Virginia, that left House Majority WHIP Steve Scalise and others injured.

According to witnesses, James T. Hodgkinson fired dozens, if not hundreds of shots, from the third base dugout at Eugene Simpson Stadium Park in Alexandria, Virginia, as the group was at batting practice around 7 AM EST. NAME began firing after asking the group if they were ‘Democrats or Republicans’.

James T. Hodgkinson was eventually subdued down by Capitol Police officers who were accompanying Scalise and was brought to a hospital for treatment.

1. No nation will alow 80% of its commerce to be controled by foreigners, as Igbos are likely to do in a post-Biafra-exit Nigeria.

2. Pueto Rica whishes to lose its statehood and prefers to be admitted into the US union as the 51st state.

(CNN)Could Puerto Rico become the 51st US state? That's the question of the day after Puerto Ricans voted overwhelmingly for statehood during a nonbinding weekend referendum. There are a few catches, though: Only 23% of eligible citizens voted, and, well, there's plenty of red tape on the way to becoming a state. Here are the basics:

What exactly is Puerto Rico to the United States?

Puerto Rico is officially a US Commonwealth. The island came under US control in 1898 after the Spanish-American War, but it wasn't until 1952 that Puerto Rico and the United States officially approved a federal law making it a commonwealth.

As residents of a US commonwealth, Puerto Ricans:

-- Have their own constitution

-- Have their own governor

-- Only pay federal income tax on work done within the United States

-- Pay into Social Security and have access to Medicare and Medicaid, but not some other government programs

-- Do not have a vote in the US Congress

-- Can vote in presidential primary elections, but not in presidential elections

-- Are natural-born US citizens

It is also worth a note that there are a million more Puerto Ricans who live in the mainland United States than live in Puerto Rico.

Why do some Puerto Ricans want statehood?

After this weekend's election, Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló said statehood voters were "claiming [their] equal rights as American citizens."

However, it goes deeper than that. Puerto Rico is in an economic crisis.The commonwealth filed for municipal bankruptcy in May, and is in the hole for $70 billion owed to various creditors. Poverty is rampant, unemployment is high -- 11.5% -- and statehood supporters, including Rosselló, say the move could boost Puerto Rico's economy.

This is far from the first time the question of statehood has been posed to the Puerto Rican people, and it hasn't always been so popular. Votes were held in 1967, 1991,1993, 1998 and 2012. The 2012 referendum was the first time the popular vote swung in statehood's favor. Since these votes were nonbinding referendums, no action had to be taken, and indeed, no action was.

At the time, political analysts said the 2012 vote didn't necessarily indicate an overwhelming desire for statehood, but rather an overwhelming desire for a status change in general, whether it be statehood, independence or some other solution.

Puerto Rico: An argument for independence 01:32

How could they even become a state?

It's Congress' call. To become the 51st state, Congress would have to pass a statute to admit Puerto Rico as a state, and conversations around that possibility have obviously been going on for decades.

The generalities of this process are found in the "New States" clause in the US Constitution. Every state after the original 13 colonies has been admitted under this directive.

Article IV, Section 3, Clause 1 of the US Constitution

"New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new States shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress."

After the vote, Rossello said in a statement that he will visit Washington soon and plead his case for statehood. However, the election's numbers may stifle his argument.

Why was turnout so low?

At first glance, it may look like statehood claimed a victory with this weekend's vote. However, the numbers tell a different story. According to the State Electoral Commission, 518,000 people voted, which represents 23% of eligible voters. For comparison, in 2012, 1.8 million people voted, which was a turnout of 77.5%. So even though the statehood vote "won," 300,000 fewer people voted for that option this year than in 2012.

A Puerto Rican voter ticks a ballot during the fifth referendum in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Why the low turnout? Before the election, opposition parties encouraged citizens to refrain from voting, saying the election was "rigged" because of the way the ballot was worded.

An earlier version of the ballot was rejected by federal officials in April because it didn't offer an option for voters to indicate they wanted Puerto Rico to stay a commonwealth. Additionally, the Department of Justice pointed out the earlier version of the ballot was "potentially misleading" because it implied statehood was the "only option" for Puerto Ricans to gain American citizenship (in fact, Puerto Ricans are US citizens by birth). The ballot was revised after these criticisms, but the skepticism in Puerto Rico remained.

What happens next?

Again, this latest vote was a "nonbinding referendum," so nothing really HAS to happen next. But now there is going to be another vote in October. It's all about convincing Congress, so if the turnout is better and the support is still high, Puerto Rican leaders and statehood supporters will have an even stronger case to lay before Congress.

1. No nation will alow 80% of its commerce to be controled by foreigners, as Igbos are likely to do in a post-Biafra exit Nigeria.

2. Pueto Rica whishes to lose its statehood and prefers to be admitted into the US union as the 51st state.

(CNN)Could Puerto Rico become the 51st US state? That's the question of the day after Puerto Ricans voted overwhelmingly for statehood during a nonbinding weekend referendum. There are a few catches, though: Only 23% of eligible citizens voted, and, well, there's plenty of red tape on the way to becoming a state. Here are the basics:

What exactly is Puerto Rico to the United States?

Puerto Rico is officially a US Commonwealth. The island came under US control in 1898 after the Spanish-American War, but it wasn't until 1952 that Puerto Rico and the United States officially approved a federal law making it a commonwealth.

As residents of a US commonwealth, Puerto Ricans:

-- Have their own constitution

-- Have their own governor

-- Only pay federal income tax on work done within the United States

-- Pay into Social Security and have access to Medicare and Medicaid, but not some other government programs

-- Do not have a vote in the US Congress

-- Can vote in presidential primary elections, but not in presidential elections

-- Are natural-born US citizens

It is also worth a note that there are a million more Puerto Ricans who live in the mainland United States than live in Puerto Rico.

Why do some Puerto Ricans want statehood?

After this weekend's election, Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló said statehood voters were "claiming [their] equal rights as American citizens."

However, it goes deeper than that. Puerto Rico is in an economic crisis.The commonwealth filed for municipal bankruptcy in May, and is in the hole for $70 billion owed to various creditors. Poverty is rampant, unemployment is high -- 11.5% -- and statehood supporters, including Rosselló, say the move could boost Puerto Rico's economy.

This is far from the first time the question of statehood has been posed to the Puerto Rican people, and it hasn't always been so popular. Votes were held in 1967, 1991,1993, 1998 and 2012. The 2012 referendum was the first time the popular vote swung in statehood's favor. Since these votes were nonbinding referendums, no action had to be taken, and indeed, no action was.

At the time, political analysts said the 2012 vote didn't necessarily indicate an overwhelming desire for statehood, but rather an overwhelming desire for a status change in general, whether it be statehood, independence or some other solution.

Puerto Rico: An argument for independence 01:32

How could they even become a state?

It's Congress' call. To become the 51st state, Congress would have to pass a statute to admit Puerto Rico as a state, and conversations around that possibility have obviously been going on for decades.

The generalities of this process are found in the "New States" clause in the US Constitution. Every state after the original 13 colonies has been admitted under this directive.

Article IV, Section 3, Clause 1 of the US Constitution

"New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new States shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress."

After the vote, Rossello said in a statement that he will visit Washington soon and plead his case for statehood. However, the election's numbers may stifle his argument.

Why was turnout so low?

At first glance, it may look like statehood claimed a victory with this weekend's vote. However, the numbers tell a different story. According to the State Electoral Commission, 518,000 people voted, which represents 23% of eligible voters. For comparison, in 2012, 1.8 million people voted, which was a turnout of 77.5%. So even though the statehood vote "won," 300,000 fewer people voted for that option this year than in 2012.

A Puerto Rican voter ticks a ballot during the fifth referendum in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Why the low turnout? Before the election, opposition parties encouraged citizens to refrain from voting, saying the election was "rigged" because of the way the ballot was worded.

An earlier version of the ballot was rejected by federal officials in April because it didn't offer an option for voters to indicate they wanted Puerto Rico to stay a commonwealth. Additionally, the Department of Justice pointed out the earlier version of the ballot was "potentially misleading" because it implied statehood was the "only option" for Puerto Ricans to gain American citizenship (in fact, Puerto Ricans are US citizens by birth). The ballot was revised after these criticisms, but the skepticism in Puerto Rico remained.

What happens next?

Again, this latest vote was a "nonbinding referendum," so nothing really HAS to happen next. But now there is going to be another vote in October. It's all about convincing Congress, so if the turnout is better and the support is still high, Puerto Rican leaders and statehood supporters will have an even stronger case to lay before Congress.

AromePeter:
Some people really think they have an opinion to share even though it's from a misinformed state of mind. One of the advantages of the Internet is, it has afforded this kinda people a platform to air their views... School in Nigeria with a malfunction institutions, you need to be an outlier & think outside the box to talk and do differently... We have example of nations that were more diverse and populated than Nigeria and still went on to use this as a strength to build a great nation. Things sometimes gets wrong to get right. All foundations are builds differently. If ours wasn't well laid, we are not too old to rebuild, reform and restructure... No great nation had it easily. Do your research and prove me wrong! The problem is everybody wants it sharp sharp in Nigeria. That's why we have the yahoo boys, kidnappers, cases of armed robbery and all manner of social vices I the country... Nobody wants to do due diligence and be patient to start a business or a movement and be patient to watch it grow and flourish. But people, businesses and even nations that has endured, tolerated, and worked diligently has been proven to be great and successful

gegee:
that the yorubas do it does not mean igbos dont do it and doesnt make it right either.

gegee:
those war mongering miscreants will still come here and call the OP afonja simply because he has a different point of veiw from them

obailala:
So how is the secession supposed to help these Igbos up north?

laudate:
Impossible, judging by the immature responses flowing from your keyboard...

laudate:
Poking what nose? An issue for discussion is posted on a public forum, and you have the nerve to ask people not to comment on it? By the way, just how old are you?

laudate:
Why am I not surprised by your response? When folks like you have nothing intelligent to say, they resort to insults. FYI, I can make any comment I like, on any topic. It was NOT written anywhere, that I had to take permission from you or your deluded members to do so. Now swerve, and get off my mentions for good!

Bravo123:
A few hours after the Apex Igbo Socio- Political group distanced the Igbos from IPOB's call for secession, the Ralph Uwazurike, lead Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has appealed for peace as he holds consultation with Northern groups in Kaduna.

Mr. Uwazurike, who led a delegation of Igbo leaders from the South East, told some youth groups in Kaduna on Monday that MASSOB had pursued the path of peace since its creation in 1999.

“MASSOB had existed for 18 years without violence, but in 2009, I went to London and opened Radio Biafra and handed it over to Nnamdi Kanu as the director...
Read more http://alabingo.com/2017/06/massob-disowns-n…-northern-groups/