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Tetehjewels:
Trump and Pompeo are slowly running mad. Is it the same Iraqi Militia who was instrumental to the destruction of ISIS in Iraq that USA now want to call terrorists?

The same Suleimani along with the kurd forces helped protect about 1million Christians in Syria as he destroyed ISIS in Syria as well is now who USA calls a terrorist?

God is watching. I am a Christian but something about all USA is doing and saying this time is not right

It is possible that what you have quoted here may not be the total picture. Remember that under the Obama administration, several millions of dollars were sent to Iran to appease them. Also recall that ISIS was formed during the Obama administration - right under his watch. Also, you do realise that the US under DJ Trump have done a lot at home to destroy the Obama legacies - with the attendant revelations of all manner of atrocities committed under Obama. If you have been following "neutral" media outlets, you will know that the entire security apparatus of the US was basically compromised under Obama.

A new Sheriff is in town. He's all talk and action too. Fear him.

sometime in 2018.......

Captainrambo2:
Under buhari nobody is corrupt.

Abi

chewwie:
Big disgrace to who? More than. 60 million American voters in several key states love him. His economy is the best in the world

LOL Tell them o o o

BackToLife:
Arab Muslim infiltrates are playing these Western Leaders against one another, using their egos, sowing seeds of discord and acrymony. I thought Caucasians are wiser than this.

Excellent angle/viewpoint to all these crazy things going on in the world!

Ayoefa:
[[s]quote author=cRobo post=84624718]This is why I love

[s]He is not scared of anyone, he says it as it is

Unlike the other president speaking behind his back because they are too scared to talk to him

But Trump slammed them calling them two faced

You just can't hate Trump unless you get all your new from Democrats CNN[/s]

Yeah, that's why the rest of the world is laughing at the orangutan clown.

Fact is that what the rest of the world thinks is irrelevant to many people in the US.

Please send the pictures of the Siennas - 2004 and 2000 to my whatsapp handle - 08054734984. Thanks.

destinie2019:
He is not thinking pencil production. He is not thinking ANY production. Only fulani matters.

Hahaha

Osyxcel:
So what will happen to the other bad ones?

LOL

But why!! Nnna ehn, Nigeria sef. Hmnn!! Land of the absurd!

CanadianNaija:
Easy because you are not doing any of the work na, the kids aren’t with you.

Well, they come to Naija on holidays. And that's when I truly appreciate what she's been through this past 2 years. Strangely, she's not complaining at all. So, when I visit, and see how organised "we" now do things, I am happy. Kids are in their teens now. Helping in their own little way.


Very nice topic for young couples.

OK. Mine is kinda very odd.

We live in different countries. She's outside of Naija. I'm in Naija.

We are both engineers - with over 10 years in the business.

Kids are with her - better education where she is. Her company pays for ALL the school fees - for the 3 of them. Company said they can pay for 4.

We had a maid. Fired her. And now, for the past 2 years, no maid.

13+ years married.

No wahala.

Godson213:
Your budget?

1.1M

Help me get 6 plugs, leather seats, sunroof, XLE. 1998/99 model. Thanks

How many plugs is in the Camry's engine?

Help me with a clean 1998/99 XLE V6 edition, clean leather seats and possibly moon roof. Let me know how much. Call 08054734984 when you're ready. Thank you!

Is that a Hostel? Why are we so dirty in this country? How can one possible call that a medical student's hostel. Na wa.

I had a similar experience. Front of the Lagos Airport. I observe that their exchange rate is usually higher than what the bureau de change offers. This lures you to them. I recall that the bureau de change rate was lower than theirs and this guy just kept following up till when I got to the taxi that was to take me to the hotel. I decided to go with him out of pity and exchanged the amount. I got to the hotel to find out that a large amount of the money exchanged was missing.

Whatever black magic those guys use has something to do with "illegality and greed" - I think. But it's worth investigating what they do and to check if these have any spiritual implications for the victims of their shenanigans.

OK. So, I'm actually one of such. In fact, I live in Naija here while my wife works in another country and earns more than myself. I've been married for 12 years. I truly enjoy my work and it pays in millions - not the meagre 150K on the table here.

Someone earlier posted some questions to ask before making any move. I have asked those questions and I decided to keep my high paying Naija job. I visit wifey and kids often. There is no question of infidelity, disrespect or the other shitty things associated with the materialistic and lazy women of nowadays and stupid feminists (yes, I dislike feminists). And I have peace of mind.

readyornot:
Bia, Opeyemi. Is she your "second hand" product?
Was her marital status not known to Prince Harry before he popped the "will you marry me?" question to her?
Abi you haven't heard of the pidgin English adage "Monkey no fine, hin mama still like am?"
What is the intention of your nonsensical analysis?
Abeg go and drink water from your own cistern & allow the Prince to quietly drink from his own.

That cistern - from which the prince will drink, is fairly used, second hand one!

Opinedecandid:
What do you think will save you?

I believe in the present circumstances, in this country, it won’t do anything.

New York Times is a well known pro muslim, pro Hillary, pro "liberals" news outfit in the US. Same as the WashingtonPost, ABC and on top of the pack is the useless, lies-filled "Very Fake News" outlet called CNN. These crop of news outlets have been bought by people who want "a New World Order". They hate anything coming from the hard working and goal oriented D.J. Trump - the President of the US they all fear!

Jakumo:
President Buhari's relentless war on corrupt government officials and their cronies continues to be conducted with absolute impartiality, whereby NOBODY whose greedy grasping paws were caught in the treasury, will fly under the radar, regardless of the culprits' tribal lineage, wealth, power, or political connections.

With this indisputable truth in mind, the legacy of El Presidente Buhari, as a fearless and doggedly determined man of his word, has not wavered, and will not falter in the slightest, as the years roll by.

Get well soon, President Buhari, and while you recuperate, rest assured that your second-in-command, Vice President Osinbajo, is proving to be an industrious leader of men imbued with the unwavering integrity that is essential to faithfully execute the agenda spelled out for him, without fear of favor, until such time as the doctors issue their green light for you to head on home to a rapturous welcome, and resume your duties as possibly the greatest president Nigeria has known since the nation gained independence from British rule in 1960.

Hmnn. Been a while Sir Jakumo. Good to catch you here after a long while.

sunmbo123:
last I checked

seun osewa is a Christian


sooooooo

you're channeling your anger to the wrong place


go on now pumpkin
.you'll be late for school

It's not impossible that Seun has been "caged" by your likes.

Praise the Lord for Ms Binta's testimony.

My take on this: You will reap what you sow - in your marriage, in life and in every facet of human endeavor. Because we all are humans and we all have feelings, whatever decision anyone takes in marriage he/she must be ready to bear the consequences. Reasonable and responsible people make/take decisions and stand by it - no matter the consequences.

Now, in the light of God's words and as most people know, God hates divorce. His desire for marriages is for couples to live together till death do them part. When he commanded us to do our marriages that way, He knew that there will be friction in the home. He also knew that some husbands will lose their jobs and there will be problems at home. But He commanded, all thesame, for couples to live together through it all.

Now, that said, we then need to understand why a woman will leave her husband in critical moments of their life as couples (mind you I have heard about men who leave their wives for reasons that are equally as serious as this job loss story). This is very important. There could be several reasons for her leaving and we must not jump to conclusion that what she did was wrong. Hear from both side of the divide (if it has gotten to that stage) and you will hear a lot.

Now, no matter what wrong the man may have committed against you as woman/wife, I will advise that you still stick with your man. For you to have decided to marry that man - no matter how many years ago that decision was made, it must have cost you something. And you must really like that man dearly. Stay with your man for better for worse until death do you part.

This whole thing looks like some script. Something isn't right about the whole ''show''. That said, Fayose should learn to keep his mouth shut next time. Keeping quiet sometimes save you a lot of embarrassment and headache.

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Money, Power and Oil. Exposing the Libyan Agenda: A Closer Look at Hillary’s Emails

By Ellen Brown
Global Research, March 14, 2016
The Web of Debt Blog 13 March 2016
Region: Middle East & North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, USA
Theme: Global Economy, Intelligence, US NATO War Agenda
print 1710 117 20 1994
Hillary Clinton Emails
Critics have long questioned why violent intervention was necessary in Libya. Hillary Clinton’s recently published emails confirm that it was less about protecting the people from a dictator than about money, banking, and preventing African economic sovereignty.

The brief visit of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Libya in October 2011 was referred to by the media as a “victory lap.” “We came, we saw, he died!” she crowed in a CBS video interview on hearing of the capture and brutal murder of Libyan leader Muammar el-Qaddafi.

But the victory lap, write Scott Shane and Jo Becker in the New York Times, was premature. Libya was relegated to the back burner by the State Department, “as the country dissolved into chaos, leading to a civil war that would destabilize the region, fueling the refugee crisis in Europe and allowing the Islamic State to establish a Libyan haven that the United States is now desperately trying to contain.”

US-NATO intervention was allegedly undertaken on humanitarian grounds, after reports of mass atrocities; but human rights organizations questioned the claims after finding alack of evidence. Today, however, verifiable atrocities are occurring. As Dan Kovalik wrote in the Huffington Post, “the human rights situation in Libya is a disaster, as ‘thousands of detainees [including children] languish in prisons without proper judicial review,’ and ‘kidnappings and targeted killings are rampant’.”

Before 2011, Libya had achieved economic independence, with its own water, its own food, its own oil, its own money, and its own state-owned bank. It had arisen under Qaddafi from one of the poorest of countries to the richest in Africa. Education and medical treatment were free; having a home was considered a human right; and Libyans participated in an original system of local democracy. The country boasted the world’s largest irrigation system, the Great Man-made River project, which brought water from the desert to the cities and coastal areas; and Qaddafi was embarking on a program to spread this model throughout Africa.

But that was before US-NATO forces bombed the irrigation system and wreaked havoc on the country. Today the situation is so dire that President Obama has asked his advisors to draw up options including a new military front in Libya, and the Defense Department is reportedly standing ready with “the full spectrum of military operations required.”

The Secretary of State’s victory lap was indeed premature, if what we’re talking about is the officially stated goal of humanitarian intervention. But her newly-released emails reveal another agenda behind the Libyan war; and this one, it seems, was achieved.

Mission Accomplished?

Of the 3,000 emails released from Hillary Clinton’s private email server in late December 2015, about a third were from her close confidante Sidney Blumenthal, the attorney who defended her husband in the Monica Lewinsky case. One of these emails,dated April 2, 2011, reads in part:

Qaddafi’s government holds 143 tons of gold, and a similar amount in silver . . . . This gold was accumulated prior to the current rebellion and was intended to be used to establish a pan-African currency based on the Libyan golden Dinar. This plan was designed to provide the Francophone African Countries with an alternative to the French franc (CFA).

In a “source comment,” the original declassified email adds:

According to knowledgeable individuals this quantity of gold and silver is valued at more than $7 billion. French intelligence officers discovered this plan shortly after the current rebellion began, and this was one of the factors that influenced President Nicolas Sarkozy’s decision to commit France to the attack on Libya. According to these individuals Sarkozy’s plans are driven by the following issues:

A desire to gain a greater share of Libya oil production,
Increase French influence in North Africa,
Improve his internal political situation in France,
Provide the French military with an opportunity to reassert its position in the world,
Address the concern of his advisors over Qaddafi’s long term plans to supplant France as the dominant power in Francophone Africa
Conspicuously absent is any mention of humanitarian concerns. The objectives are money, power and oil.

Other explosive confirmations in the newly-published emails are detailed byinvestigative journalist Robert Parry. They include admissions of rebel war crimes, of special ops trainers inside Libya from nearly the start of protests, and of Al Qaeda embedded in the US-backed opposition. Key propaganda themes for violent intervention are acknowledged to be mere rumors. Parry suggests they may have originated with Blumenthal himself. They include the bizarre claim that Qaddafi had a “rape policy” involving passing Viagra out to his troops, a charge later raised by UN Ambassador Susan Rice in a UN presentation. Parry asks rhetorically:

So do you think it would it be easier for the Obama administration to rally American support behind this “regime change” by explaining how the French wanted to steal Libya’s wealth and maintain French neocolonial influence over Africa – or would Americans respond better to propaganda themes about Gaddafi passing out Viagra to his troops so they could rape more women while his snipers targeted innocent children? Bingo!

Toppling the Global Financial Scheme

Qaddafi’s threatened attempt to establish an independent African currency was not taken lightly by Western interests. In 2011, Sarkozy reportedly called the Libyan leader a threat to the financial security of the world. How could this tiny country of six million people pose such a threat? First some background.

It is banks, not governments, that create most of the money in Western economies, as the Bank of England recently acknowledged. This has been going on for centuries, through the process called “fractional reserve” lending. Originally, the reserves were in gold. In 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt replaced gold domestically with central bank-created reserves, but gold remained the reserve currency internationally.

In 1944, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank were created in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, to unify this bank-created money system globally. An IMF ruling said that no paper money could have gold backing. A money supply created privately as debt at interest requires a continual supply of debtors; and over the next half century, most developing countries wound up in debt to the IMF. The loans came with strings attached, including “structural adjustment” policies involving austerity measures and privatization of public assets.

After 1944, the US dollar traded interchangeably with gold as global reserve currency. When the US was no longer able to maintain the dollar’s gold backing, in the 1970s it made a deal with OPEC to “back” the dollar with oil, creating the “petro-dollar.” Oil would be sold only in US dollars, which would be deposited in Wall Street and other international banks.

In 2001, dissatisfied with the shrinking value of the dollars that OPEC was getting for its oil, Iraq’s Saddam Hussein broke the pact and sold oil in euros. Regime change swiftly followed, accompanied by widespread destruction of the country.

In Libya, Qaddafi also broke the pact; but he did more than just sell his oil in another currency.

As these developments are detailed by blogger Denise Rhyne:

For decades, Libya and other African countries had been attempting to create a pan-African gold standard. Libya’s al-Qadhafi and other heads of African States had wanted an independent, pan-African, “hard currency.”

Under al-Qadhafi’s leadership, African nations had convened at least twice for monetary unification. The countries discussed the possibility of using the Libyan dinar and the silver dirham as the only possible money to buy African oil.

Until the recent US/NATO invasion, the gold dinar was issued by the Central Bank of Libya (CBL). The Libyan bank was 100% state owned and independent. Foreigners had to go through the CBL to do business with Libya. The Central Bank of Libya issued the dinar, using the country’s 143.8 tons of gold.

Libya’s Qadhafi (African Union 2009 Chair) conceived and financed a plan to unify the sovereign States of Africa with one gold currency (United States of Africa). In 2004, a pan-African Parliament (53 nations) laid plans for the African Economic Community – with a single gold currency by 2023.

African oil-producing nations were planning to abandon the petro-dollar, and demand gold payment for oil/gas.

Showing What Is Possible

Qaddafi had done more than organize an African monetary coup. He had demonstrated that financial independence could be achieved. His greatest infrastructure project, the Great Man-made River, was turning arid regions into a breadbasket for Libya; and the $33 billion project was being funded interest-free without foreign debt, through Libya’s own state-owned bank.



That could explain why this critical piece of infrastructure was destroyed in 2011. NATO not only bombed the pipeline but finished off the project by bombing the factory producing the pipes necessary to repair it. Crippling a civilian irrigation system serving up to 70% of the population hardly looks like humanitarian intervention. Rather, as Canadian Professor Maximilian Forte put it in his heavily researched book Slouching Towards Sirte: NATO’s War on Libya and Africa:

[T]he goal of US military intervention was to disrupt an emerging pattern of independence and a network of collaboration within Africa that would facilitate increased African self-reliance. This is at odds with the geostrategic and political economic ambitions of extra-continental European powers, namely the US.

Mystery Solved

Hilary Clinton’s emails shed light on another enigma remarked on by early commentators. Why, within weeks of initiating fighting, did the rebels set up their own central bank? Robert Wenzel wrote in The Economic Policy Journal in 2011:

This suggests we have a bit more than a rag tag bunch of rebels running around and that there are some pretty sophisticated influences. I have never before heard of a central bank being created in just a matter of weeks out of a popular uprising.

It was all highly suspicious, but as Alex Newman concluded in a November 2011 article:

Whether salvaging central banking and the corrupt global monetary system were truly among the reasons for Gadhafi’s overthrow . . . may never be known for certain – at least not publicly.

There the matter would have remained – suspicious but unverified like so many stories of fraud and corruption – but for the publication of Hillary Clinton’s emails after an FBI probe. They add substantial weight to Newman’s suspicions: violent intervention was not chiefly about the security of the people. It was about the security of global banking, money and oil.

Ellen Brown is an attorney, founder of the Public Banking Institute, and author of twelve books including the best-selling Web of Debt. Her latest book, The Public Bank Solution, explores successful public banking models historically and globally. Her 300+ blog articles are at EllenBrown.com. Listen to “It’s Our Money with Ellen Brown” on PRN.FM.

The original source of this article is The Web of Debt Blog

Copyright © Ellen Brown, The Web of Debt Blog, 2016

bakynes:
He wasn't born there, so his Citizenship can be revoked.

Operative word here is ''can''. Meaning you too don't have all the facts.

My own experience is the direct opposite.

I was in a bus some years back, and this woman with big breasts kept pressing them against my back and shoulders at any slightest opportunity the bus goes through a pothole or swerve. It was weird. It's not like there wasn't enough space between us. But you can see her deliberately trying to squeeze those breasts on my back and shoulder.

It's both ways if you ask me. But my case is rare sha.

I'm going to do a very rough estimate of what Nigeria may have generated during the tenure of GEJ based on the content of this report.

So, we have $67billion dollars in 1.5 years - January 2012 to July 2013. This translates to some $45 billion dollars per year from crude oil sales. And then for GEJ's 6 years in office, one can comfortably assume that we generated $268 billion dollars for that period. If that's changed to Naira, at some N150 to the dollar (varies and could be high), that's some:

[size=18pt]N40.2 TRILLION[/size].

So, what did we spend that humoungous amount on in Nigeria that we still have epileptic power, dilapidated road networks, all manner of societal ills and evil. . . . . . .