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PointB: Aid to America from fugitive?
lwkmd

I tire for the man o! 'Trojan aid' can't work for America naw

Thoughts popping up in people's mind is 'who in his right mind will accept a free gist from a wanted terrorist with a huge bounty?!

A terrorist on the world's 'most wanted list of baddies' Hafiz Saeed, who is an Islamist militant and is alleged to have masterminded the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks that left more than 160 people dead has issued a written statement on Wednesday saying "his organization was willing to send supplies and volunteers to help the U.S. East Coast recover".

"We are ready to send food items, medicines and doctors to the U.S. for the people affected by the storm," said Saeed. "America [may] fix bounties on our heads but as followers of the teachings of the Prophet Mohammed (peace be upon him), we feel it is our Islamic duty to help Americans trapped in a catastrophe." Saeed noted that the charity he heads had provided aid in Sri Lanka and Indonesia after the 2004 tsunami.

Mr Hafiz Saeed who is the founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a terror group banned by the <i>Pakistani government</i>, and still heads its charity wing, Jamaat ud Dawa. Earlier this year the U.S. State Department offered a $10 million reward for information leading to his capture or arrest.

The US Embassy in Pakistan however declined his 'good intentions' rather calmly with a statement on Twitter. "We respect the Islamic tradition of help to the needy," said the tweet, "but we can't take Hafiz Saeed's offer seriously."

via - XtremeGists



Like seriously, who in his right mind would want to accept such "kind gestures" from a fugitive?! Smh

what's wiv all the hidden posts?? makes this thread look like a war front...

Admins should utilize their powers not just hide posts anyhow! This thread is so unkempt! smfh

Where da furck is his damned left hand?!

An effigy of disgraced cycling star – Lance Armstrong will be burned during an English town’s bonfire celebrations, reports say.

According to the Associated Press, a 30-foot effigy of Armstrong — who was recently stripped of his numerous Tour de France titles for doping offenses — will be burned during Edenbridge’s renowned Bonfire Night.

Every year, the event’s organizers choose a celebrity to be burned in effigy. In 2011, the unfortunate celeb was soccer player Mario Balotelli. The Manchester City striker had made headlines earlier that year for setting off a firework in his own bathroom, according to the Guardian.

This year, organizers say they had a tough time deciding which famous personality would go up in flames.

The BBC reports that radical cleric Abu Hamza, British media personality Jimmy Savile and George Osborne, a British Conservative politician and Chancellor of the Exchequer, had made the fiery shortlist.

In the end, however, it was the disgraced cyclist who emerged as the top pick.


“Lance Armstrong is certainly the biggest villain in sport, with fans across the globe feeling cheated by a man who was thought to be whiter than white,” said Mark Young, spokesman of the Edenbridge Bonfire Society.

Young added that Osborne was ruled out for being “a bit boring,” and Savile was crossed off the list over concerns that children attending the bonfire would “start asking their parents questions.” (Savile is suspected of “widespread sexual abuse,” BBC reports.)

The effigy of Armstrong will be wearing a “Jim’ll Fix It” badge in reference to Savile’s BBC TV show of the same name. The effigy will also be holding a sign that says “For sale, racing bike, no longer required.”

Last week, the International Cycling Union stripped Armstrong of his seven Tour De France titles and banned him from professional cycling for life.

“Lance Armstrong has no place in cycling,” UCI President Pat McQuaid said as he confirmed the ratification.

The decision came after years of probes and rumors that Armstrong had been guilty of doping. The cancer survivor, who was once widely regarded as one of the greatest cyclists of all time, has vehemently denied the accusations.

His effigy will be burned at the Edenbridge bonfire celebrations this Saturday.

According to Agence France-Presse (AFP), revelers across Britain “celebrate with bonfires and fireworks on or around November 5 to mark a failed 1605 plot to blow up parliament and kill king James I.”

Traditionally, writes the AFP, an effigy — which “for centuries represented Catholic rebel Guy Fawkes, the leader of the so-called Gunpowder Plot” — is burned.

via - XtremeGists/HuffPost

There are quite a variety of hairstyles one can keep, afro being one of the most intriguing, some say it’s really sexy too

We know everyone has his/her own fashion and beauty tips. Hairstyles is a pride of most ladies and gents.


The question is:

Gents – Do you consider ladies keeping Afro sexy?


[size=10pt]Ladies – Do you consider men keeping Afro sexy?[size=10pt]

Please drop your honest opinion. Thanks

via = http://xtremegists.com/2012/10/menwomen-afro-hairstyles-do-you-consider-them-sexy/

Tusky44: American flood clean o. See naija own as e dirty. hmm

lolling

ItsModella: hehehehehe...I really do not have any say on it, they're just fake pictures.

lol

yinchar: What exactly are you saying...stop confusing yourself with English bro....lmao

seriously yu're the one confusing yourself mate!
Try reading in btw the lines...

tpia@:
a lot of websites are handling the matter and distinguishing between the fake and real pictures, although obviously not everyone on the web will be aware the photos are fake.

snopes.com has some explanations here:

http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/sandy.asp

If you go through the link there, you'll see there are brief details of the pictures...
The link again is http://xtremegists.com/2012/10/sandy-gets-escalated-as-fake-photos-devour-social-media/

enitan2002: You think i will fall for all these fake pix without seeing them on Al-Jazeera, CNN, BBC or FRANCE 24?

And those that seldom read and watch news on the above named news channels??

linearity: I do not know about the others, but the first photo is not a fake picture. That is actual and real photo taken of the three tomb Sentinels standing guard at the Arlington Cemetery’s Tomb of the Unknowns Soldier.

The only caveat is that, that picture was taken when it was raining on Oct. 18, 2012 and not during the Hurricane Sandy.

It is wrong to pass them as been taken during Hurricane Sandy, but it is also wrong to label them as fake.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/10/soldiers-guard-the-tomb-of-unknowns-during-hurricane-sandy/

It's not fake as in the soldiers don't guard the tomb but it's fake because it wasn't taken during hurricane sandy...

Some really strange pics.

This is a Shark inside the water in front of some1's house (claims the person though)
XtremeGist-Facebook

In this trying times, some spooky people are seen escalating the damages done by hurricane sandy and uploading various ‘fake’ images of the supposed hurricane sandy

Checkout some of the overly popular and most shared fake photos of the latest hurricane disaster in New York and various state of the United states of America – Sandy.

via = http://xtremegists.com/2012/10/sandy-gets-escalated-as-fake-photos-devour-social-media/

More pics below...

Awful Tuesday morning as residents of New York and other ‘overly affected’ states awake to the terror of Hurricane sandy as few feared dead and power cut off by the deadly hurricane.

As Superstorm Sandy marched slowly inland, millions along the East Coast awoke Tuesday without power or mass transit, with huge swaths of the nation’s largest city unusually vacant and dark.

New York was among the hardest hit, with its financial heart in Lower Manhattan shuttered for a second day and seawater cascading into the still-gaping construction pit at the World Trade Center. President Barack Obama declared a major disaster in the city and Long Island.

The storm that made landfall in New Jersey on Monday evening with 80 mph sustained winds killed at least 16 people in seven states, cut power to more than 7.4 million homes and businesses from the Carolinas to Ohio, caused scares at two nuclear power plants and stopped the presidential campaign cold.

The massive storm reached well into the Midwest: Chicago officials warned residents to stay away from the Lake Michigan shore as the city prepares for winds of up to 60 mph and waves exceeding 24 feet well into Wednesday.

“This will be one for the record books,” said John Miksad, senior vice president for electric operations at Consolidated Edison, which had more than 670,000 customers without power in and around New York City.

An unprecedented 13-foot surge of seawater — 3 feet above the previous record — gushed into Gotham, inundating tunnels, subway stations and the electrical system that powers Wall Street, and sent hospital patients and tourists scrambling for safety. Skyscrapers swayed and creaked in winds that partially toppled a crane 74 stories above Midtown.

Right before dawn, a handful of taxis were out on the streets, though there was an abundance of emergency and police vehicles.
Remnants of the former Category 1 hurricane were forecast to head across Pennsylvania before taking another sharp turn into western New York by Wednesday morning. Although weakening as it goes, the massive storm — which caused wind warnings from Florida to Canada — will continue to bring heavy rain and local flooding, said Daniel Brown, warning coordination meteorologist at the National Hurricane Center in Miami.

As Hurricane Sandy closed in on the Northeast, it converged with a cold-weather system that turned it into a monstrous hybrid of rain and high wind — and even snow in West Virginia and other mountainous areas inland.

Just before it made landfall at 8 p.m. near Atlantic City, N.J., forecasters stripped Sandy of hurricane status — but the distinction was purely technical, based on its shape and internal temperature. It still packed hurricane-force wind, and forecasters were careful to say it was still dangerous to the tens of millions in its path.

While the hurricane’s 90 mph winds registered as only a Category 1 on a scale of five, it packed “astoundingly low” barometric pressure, giving it terrific energy to push water inland, said Kerry Emanuel, a professor of meteorology at MIT.

Officials blamed at least 16 deaths on the converging storms — five in New York, three each in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, two in Connecticut, and one each in Maryland, North Carolina and West Virginia. Three of the victims were children, one just 8 years old.
Sandy, which killed 69 people in the Caribbean before making its way up the Eastern Seaboard, began to hook left at midday Monday toward the New Jersey coast. Even before it made landfall, crashing waves had claimed an old, 50-foot piece of Atlantic City’s world-famous Boardwalk.

“We are looking at the highest storm surges ever recorded” in the Northeast, said Jeff Masters, meteorology director for Weather Underground, a private forecasting service.
Sitting on the dangerous northeast wall of the storm, the New York metropolitan area got the worst of it.

An explosion at a ConEdison substation knocked out power to about 310,000 customers in Manhattan, said Miksad.
“We see a pop. The whole sky lights up,” said Dani Hart, 30, who was watching the storm from the roof of her building in the Navy Yards.
“It sounded like the Fourth of July,” Stephen Weisbrot said from his 10th-floor apartment.


New York University’s Tisch Hospital was forced to evacuate 200 patients after its backup generator failed. NYU Medical Dean Robert Grossman said patients — among them 20 babies from neonatal intensive care that were on battery-powered respirators — had to be carried down staircases and to dozens of waiting ambulances.

Not only was the subway shut down, but the Holland Tunnel connecting New York to New Jersey was closed, as was a tunnel between Brooklyn and Manhattan. The Brooklyn Bridge, the George Washington Bridge, the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and several other spans were closed due to high winds.

A construction crane atop a $1.5 billion luxury high-rise in midtown Manhattan collapsed in high winds and dangled precariously. Thousands of people were ordered to leave several nearby buildings as a precaution, including 900 guests at the ultramodern Le Parker Meridien hotel.

Alice Goldberg, 15, a tourist from Paris, was watching television in the hotel — whose slogan is “Uptown, Not Uptight” — when a voice came over the loudspeaker and told everyone to leave.

“They said to take only what we needed, and leave the rest, because we’ll come back in two or three days,” she said as she and hundreds of others gathered in the luggage-strewn marble lobby. “I hope so.”
Trading at the New York Stock Exchange was canceled again Tuesday — the first time the exchange suspended operations for two consecutive days due to weather since an 1888 blizzard struck the city.

Fire destroyed at least 50 homes Monday night in a flooded neighborhood in the Breezy Point section of the borough of Queens, where the Rockaway peninsula juts into the Atlantic Ocean. Firefighters told WABC-TV that they had to use a boat to rescue residents because the water was chest high on the street. About 25 people were trapped in one home, with two injuries reported.

Airlines canceled around 12,500 flights because of the storm, a number that was expected to grow.
Off North Carolina, not far from an area known as “the Graveyard of the Atlantic,” a replica of the 18th-century sailing ship HMS Bounty that was built for the 1962 Marlon Brando movie “Mutiny on the Bounty” sank when her diesel engine and bilge pumps failed. Coast Guard helicopters plucked 14 crew members from rubber lifeboats bobbing in 18-foot seas.

A 15th crew member who was found unresponsive several hours after the others was later pronounced dead. The Bounty’s captain was still missing.

One of the units at Indian Point, a nuclear power plant about 45 miles north of New York City, was shut down around 10:45 p.m. Monday because of external electrical grid issues, said Entergy Corp., which operates the plant. The company said there was no risk to employees or the public.

And officials declared an “unusual event” at the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant in Lacey Township, N.J., the nation’s oldest, when waters surged to 6 feet above sea level during the evening. Within two hours, the situation at the reactor — which was offline for regular maintenance — was upgraded to an alert, the second-lowest in a four-tiered warning system. Oyster Creek provides 9 percent of the state’s electricity.

In Baltimore, fire officials said four unoccupied rowhouses collapsed in the storm, sending debris into the street but causing no injuries. Meanwhile, a blizzard in far western Maryland caused a pileup of tractor-trailers that blocked the westbound lanes of Interstate 68 on slippery Big Savage Mountain near the town of Finzel.

“It’s like a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs up here,” said Bill Wiltson, a Maryland State Police dispatcher.
Hundreds of miles from the storm’s center, gusts topping 60 mph prompted officials to close the port of Portland, Maine, and scaring away several cruise ships. A state of emergency in New Hampshire prompted Vice President Joe Biden to cancel a rally in Keene and Republican nominee Mitt Romney’s wife, Ann, to call off her bus tour through the Granite State.

About 360,000 people in 30 Connecticut towns were urged to leave their homes under mandatory and voluntary evacuation orders. Christi McEldowney was among those who fled to a Fairfield shelter. She and other families brought tents for their children to play in.
“There’s something about this storm,” she said. “I feel it deep inside.”

Despite dire warnings and evacuation orders that began Saturday, many stayed put.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie — whose own family had to move to the executive mansion after his home in Mendham, far from the storm’s center, lost power — criticized the mayor of Atlantic City for opening shelters there instead of forcing people out.
Eugenia Buono, 77, and her neighbor, Elaine DiCandio, 76, were among several dozen people who took shelter at South Kingstown High School in Narragansett, R.I. They live on Harbor Island, which is connected to the mainland by a causeway.

“I’m not an idiot,” said Buono, who survived hurricanes Carol in 1954 and Bob in 1991. “People are very foolish if they don’t leave.”

SPECIAL ADVICE to all in the heart of Sandy, please – Evacuate ASAP!

http://xtremegists.com/2012/10/terror-hurricane-sandy-leaves-death-water-surges-darkness/

Saturday seemed to be the highest day in the life of Fabrice Muamba – as he married his girlfriend Shauna Magunda. The event which was star struck was held at Peckforton Castle in Cheshire.


Happy couple: Fabrice Muamba (right) married Shauna Magunda (second right) at Peckforton Castle in Cheshire on Saturday. The couple are here pictured with Robin Van Persie and his wife Bouchra.

vIa -http://xtremegists.com/2012/10/pics-fabrice-muamba-wedding-guest-van-persie-of-man-u/

deeplo: I always like to read contributions on NL and most people will complain, whine and shout but failed to do anything. In the last 3years i have not buy garri, yam, cocoyam, corn (maize)and vegetables, the reason is i grow all of these at my backyard. Moreso, all unused land around me has been turned to grow one thing or the other.
To be sincere, ask yourself what can you do to make difference in this country?

hmm English,,, buh on a serious note did yu just say you 'grow' GARRI??

Crown Prince: I witnessed in port harcourt two weeks ago angry hausa men dealing breau de change chased a combined team of policemen fully armed away at presidential hotel along Aba road. Infact they combined to resist arrest of their member whom police has come to arrest for frivolous transactions. These policemen were chased back with stones, metals and other dangerous objects.

The scene became electrifying when majority of the hausa men began to consult and arrange their charms and amulets for the worst case scenerio.

My points is the Nigeria police are not well equipped to combat civil disturbances like the Aluu case. They lack the training and apparatus to curtail such uprising in a civilian uprisings.
1. They lack defensive metal shield.
2. No combatant metal helment
3. No false(rubbe) bullet
4. No tear gas
5.No informative disseminating system(megaphone).
6. No batten

Now tell me how a defenseless police will confront a mob? Ok, their AK 47, do you expect them to start shooting all the members of the community because they want to save a suspect?
If we all have watched the ARABS spring uprisings, our orientations will definitely change to absolve the police of ineptitude.

But again, while not holding brief for the police or anybody I still blame the police for not using diplomatic means to coerce the angry mob into not engaging in barbaric acts. The could have immediately got to the chief of the community and appeal to him to stop the mob detailing the implication of jungle justice rather than calling for a 10km backup.
My sympathy goes to the family of those unfortunate guys. God knows the best.

Is any member of your household a police officer or are you one?? Shut the fu2k up!

chemashie: Do you have to quote the whole epistle & write in block letters to drive home ur point? Olodo!

dude yu're wack! I think yu've lost nuts in yur small pea-nut sized head! I won't be surprised if yu're a police officer or yur p-man is one

As expected, Australian dare-devil – Felix Baumgarter – has broken the Youtube’s record as the most viewed video (not forgetting he broke the speed of sound barrier )

http://techinfomania.com/2012/10/felix-baumgartner-breaks-youtube-and-sound-barriers/
As part of the Red Bull Stratos mission, Felix Baumgartner broke at least three world records today when he free-fell from the edge of the stratosphere back down to earth with nothing but a suit and a chute.

First, he broke the record for highest jump from a platform at 128,100 feet (around 23 miles) after ascending to that height in a tense three-hour ascension via balloon.

Second, he set a new record for the longest distance freefall at 119,846 feet. During that fall, he broke the sound barrier and man’s record for maximum vertical velocity by travelling at a speed of 833.9 mph, or Mach 1.24.

Another as-yet-confirmed record may lie in Internet infamy, as YouTube (one of the few video services live-streaming the event) clocked in its live, concurrent viewership at least 8 million during Baumgartner’s freefall. To put that in perspective, recent streaming of the Olympic games peaked at a little over half a million concurrent views.

Made YouTube’s history
The event that stands closest in contention for the concurrent views on YouTube crown is the first U.S. presidential debate of this year’s election. YouTube commented that Obama and Romney’s back-and-forth garnered “millions of live streamed views of the debates, and one of the highest number of concurrent streams ever for a YouTube live stream.”

While Baumgartner may not be dethroning Bieber for total lifetime views anytime soon, it’s clear that not only does the world still marvel at the widening limits of human endeavor, but that YouTube has a meaningful part to play in how that liminal exploration will be seen across the globe.

Already, critics are calling into question the role of corporations in the future of technological and galactic discovery, saying that feeding these landmark moments to companies like Red Bull and Google only serve to monetize the expanding breadth of knowledge and experience.

Just minutes after mission Red Bull Stratos landed safely on the ground in New Mexico, his arms raised in triumph, NASA’s official Twitter account congratulated Baumgartner for his “record-breaking leap from the edge of space.

CrazyMan: Do you have any proof?

I gave up believing stories from this incident because each story counters the next one.

First the story was that they were caught around 3am in the morning. Then it became 5am.

Then another story claimed that they went to collect money from someone who owed them...

The story contradicted itself when it claimed that the (the students) were cultists.

As time passed by, the government and the senate became interested in the matter...the cultisim issue was dropped.

The students began to protest (one would wonder what took them so long)

The story took another shape. People said they were innocent, people said they were guilty (we're yet to find the exact truth)

The families and sympathizers started looking for people to blame. They blamed the village chief for supporting the execution (I would agree with them...the chief should be arrested)

They blamed the police for not responding quickly, later they said they were there but had no bullets in their guns.

Now they're saying the police gave them (the villagers) the go ahead on the lynching of the students.

I believe we're adults, and I believe we all want justice for the slain students.

But dragging the name of the police force who are working tirelessly to ensure that they (the dead students) get justice isn't the right way to go about it.

You must be a police officer! Bunch of No-lifers! smh

Adanyebe: i tink is high tym people reframe from the act of taking laws into their hands,... i mean what are the corpse for...and how much were they sure of the quartet being guilty of the alleged crime... whom are they to take the first stride to cast the stone

Horus: https://sphotos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/c83.0.403.403/p403x403/527488_10151126101943409_1263793180_n.jpg
Ugonna

Very handsome,,, @Aluu-natics

queensmith: Moronic statement

I won't blame yu,,, it's a good thing it's the cyber world

VV2A: I thank God i was dere. i might actually have lost her cos she was on the verge of going wen i shouted her name and slapped her face.

wen she got better she said she heard my voice from afar. Tears come to my eyes anytime i remember this.

So please men, stay in the labor room with your wives. she will surely appreciate it.

I almost shed tears for yu sire

The CEO of G.O.O.D Music won seven awards out of 17 which he was nominated for including ‘Producer of the Year’ and ‘Track of the Year’ shared with rap partner Jay Z.

Another big winner of the night was Def Jam rapper – 2 Chainz – who walked away with three awards including the ‘Rookie of the Year’, beating MMG rapper Meek Mill.

Jay Z and Rick Ross also won the ‘Hustler of the Year’ and ‘MVP of the Year’ respectively.

‘Nas‘ Jones won his first ever BET Hip-Hop award for his single ‘Daughters‘ in the ‘Impact Track’ category.

Visit the link below for the full list of winners at the BET

http://xtremegists.com/2012/10/bet-absent-kanye-west-packs-7-awards/

Hearty congrats to Kanye West... heard he went house hunting with Kim K and they showed their 'other side' on the road

Malawi1414: u r sick!I feel u need a psychologist

lolzzz easy man, easy

Ezeed: isnt this topic overflogged?

how??

rezzy: Six weeks old baby? That's abortion

I guess he meant the baby is currently six weeks old

Wow! Enough respect to all the guys who've witnessed their ladies give birth!

zannie: I am someone who doesn't handle any form of pain well at all. I wud like my husband to be there. At least looking at his face or shredding his hands with my nails wud be such motivation to push the lil minion out. Tehehehe

Lolzz so your husband must feel the pain too