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saxywale2:
Land of the free, Home of the brave. The American dream is real!

America - A nation of immigrants.

The American dream is very valid. You can come from a dirt poor country, and within a few years make it big in America aslong as you are hardworking and stay away from breaking laws. The list is endless from music to movie to STEM to academia, and to any industry you can think off. Immigrants are living the dream.

This lady's feat reminds me of Rihanna's American Oxygen music that talks about how hard working immigrants to America are helping to build the country in return for the opportunity the USA have them. She herself being an immigrant from Barbados.

And let's not forget the contributions of other immigrants like Elon Musk, Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla, Arnold Schwarzenegger (Later Became Governor of California), Enrico Fermi, Philip Emeagwali, Charlize Theron e.t.c.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ao8cGLIMtvg

Yawns..

I understand where they are coming from. They are struggling to defeat the dollars. Goodluck to them.

Now that he owns Twitter, Elon Musk has given employees their first ultimatum: Meet his deadline to introduce paid verification on Twitter or pack up and leave.

The directive is to change Twitter Blue, the company’s optional, $4.99 a month subscription that unlocks additional features, into a more expensive subscription that also verifies users, according to people familiar with the matter and internal correspondence seen by The Verge. Twitter is currently planning to charge $19.99 for the new Twitter Blue subscription. Under the current plan, verified users would have 90 days to subscribe or lose their blue checkmark.

Employees working on the project were told on Sunday that they need to meet a deadline of November 7th to launch the feature or they will be fired.

More:
https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/30/23431931/twitter-paid-verification-elon-musk-blue-monthly-subscription

walkbrazil4k:
Fireworks everywhere.

Congrats on a successful election.

The United Nations, Turkey and Ukraine are pressing ahead to implement a Black Sea grain deal with a transit plan in place for 16 ships on Monday, despite Russia suspending its participation in the pact that has allowed the export of Ukrainian agricultural products to world markets.

Russia, which invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, halted its role in the Black Sea deal on Saturday for an "indefinite term" because it said it could not "guarantee safety of civilian ships" travelling under the pact after an attack on its Black Sea fleet.

The United Nations and Turkey, two main brokers of the July deal, scrambled on Sunday to save it. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was deeply concerned about Russia's move and delayed a foreign trip to try and revive the agreement that was intended to ease a global food crisis, his spokesperson said.

Currently, there are 97 loaded vessels and 15 inbound vessels registered for JCC inspection around Istanbul. There are an additional 89 that have applied to join the Initiative.

In addition, the Ukrainian, Turkish and United Nations delegations agreed on a movement plan for tomorrow 31 October for the maritime humanitarian corridor of 16 vessels, 12 outbound and 4 inbound.

There was no movement of vessels in the corridor today, 30 October. There are currently 21 vessels engaged in the Initiative that are in or near the three Ukrainian ports with a capacity of over 700,000 metric tons, including IKARIA ANGEL, a vessel chartered by the World Food Programme loaded with 30,000 metric tons of wheat for the emergency response in the Horn of Africa.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-suspends-participation-deal-ukraine-grain-exports-tass-2022-10-29/

jesmond3945:
And you think this information will benefit you the ordinary African man? This unipolar created by America after ww2 to keep everybody under its wings will be broken soon. Soon an African currency will compete with other currencies in world trade.

Amen

budaatum:
Are you a proponent of free speech who does not care about how people feel irrespective of if it's lies or truths?

I am a proponent of moderated speech. I choose to educate people in any way I find suitable.

Enugurangers:
Some people celebrating free speech or freeworld are already angry at others exercising their freedom.

Hypocrites everywhere.

Thank you!

budaatum:
I'm not a Muslim, but see how I have reacted to your so called free speech.

There's your right to say whatever you want, but don't expect not to offend with lies.

Well, proponents of free speech do not care about how people feel irrespective of if it's lies or truths.
And exactly why it is my right to speak freely as long as I am not breaking any law.

I deliberately spoke freely to offend a particular poster and expose his myopic thinking. Tucker Carlson is very good in riling up white supremacists with his speech, but he is exercising his right to speak freely.

budaatum:
So, the image you posted was not you exercising your right to free speech, but an example of what free speech might be?

Rwanda, incidentally, was based on lies, just as that image you posted has no credible evidence supporting it.

Now you get what I am driving at. Free speech can be used to propagate hate speech and lies. It's still free speech nontheless. Whether it's a lie or true, I can exercise my freedom of speech to propagate good or bad.

The so called proponent of free speech above screamed blue murder when I exercised my free speech. I don't need an oracle to tell me that he is a Muslim. He wants to eat his cake and have it too.

budaatum:
Are you suggesting the image in your post is not part of you supposed free speech, or do you expect it to be ignored?

The point of that post was to show that speech (not moderated) can turn out horrible for everyone, and it goes beyond MSM (left vs right) as some have earlier suggested on this post - a very myopic view of free speech. My free speech post has already triggered one of the supporters of the so called free speech above which was the point of my post.

The Rwanda genocide started from a free speech radio station. Examples of other aftermath of unmoderated speech below:

budaatum:
You love lies too, and have never bothered to check the authenticity of what you post.

The essence of the post(s) flew right over your head.

Yearly data from Bank for international settlements (BIS) shows that USD is used in 88% of global transactions. The figure is unchanged from 2019.

https://www.bis.org/statistics/rpfx22.htm

Apologies to the Putin fans rushing to view the thread wishing for doom and gloom. You know I love sarcasm.

October started off wet and it was quite cool, but only in the first three days of the month. After that it got warmer and warmer. The southwest current came and then just stayed with us. We’ve had more or less the same weather conditions for three weeks now. You’re starting to wonder if this will be the basic structure for the coming winter.

The past winters had actually all been too warm. Last winter even made it into the top 10 warmest winters since 1881.

https://germany.detailzero.com/news/171115/Warmest-October-in-Germany-for-140-years-will-the-winter-fail.html

After self-proclaimed "free speech absolutist" Elon Musk closed the $44 billion deal on Twitter, anonymous accounts set about testing the limits of the social media platform's moderation policies.

The Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI), a research group that analyzes social media content to predict emerging threats, said that use of the N-word on Twitter increased by nearly 500% in the 12 hours immediately after Musk's deal was finalized.

The newspaper also noted that several online trolling accounts called on others to use racist language in the aftermath of the deal.

"Elon now controls twitter. Unleash the racial slurs. K---S AND N-----S," said one account, using slurs for Jewish and Black people, per the outlet.

"I can freely express how much I hate n-----s … now, thank you elon," another said, The outlet reported.

Musk has said he would bring in moderation in a letter addressed to advertises. This suggest that free speech is not going to be free afterall.

GM has already stopped advertising on twitter pending when a moderation process would be established.

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-takeover-sparked-n-word-use-jump-2022-10

(Reuters) - New British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is considering freezing the country's foreign aid budget for two years, the Telegraph reported on Friday, citing sources.

That is good news but also bad news for corrupt leaders of poor countries that embezzle these funds anyway. The corrupt leaders need to have sense by force. Enough of the spoon feeding. Time for them to wake up.

I wish USA and other countries that sends Aid to poor countries can do the same.


https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/rishi-sunak-could-freeze-foreign-aid-telegraph-2022-10-28/

lhordspy:
Please unquote me from the rubbish you just said.

And please never mention me or quote me again in your life

I never begin and this thing is already reacting like chemical. It's a free world and I can quote who the ever I want. You can go ahead to create your own platform to restrict posters.

lhordspy:
I swear.

They almost turned twitter to another BBC, CNN. A pro-western propaganda media.

Especialy the Ukraine-Russia thing, so many bias reporting. And always muting or deleting the real news emanating from ukraine, especially the ones in Russia favour.


Welcome to the free world. People

Time for me to open a twitter account so that I can slam those head Slammers everyday of the week. Hehehe

I love free speech. Thank you Elon Musk

Very bad.

Too bad.

https://twitter.com/KilledInUkraine/status/1586277864823222273?t=DwubJk3bpR7MJv5hPaW1Sw&s=19

Some dead Russian soldiers about to be sent back home to Russia. Wars and invasions are not solutions.

President Xi Jinping says China and the United States must “find ways to get along” to safeguard world peace and development, state media reported.

The Chinese leader’s conciliatory words follow after months of tension between Washington and Beijing over what the US views as China’s increasingly aggressive stance towards Taiwan, and Beijing’s refusal to condemn Russia’s war in Ukraine.

“The world today is neither peaceful nor tranquil,” Xi wrote in a congratulatory letter to the annual gala of the National Committee on US-China Relations, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV reported on Thursday.

“As major powers, strengthening communication and cooperation between China and the US will help to increase global stability and certainty, and promote world peace and development,” Xi said in his message to the New York-based non-profit organisation.

Xi added that China was “willing to work with the US to give mutual respect, coexist peacefully… (and) find ways to get along in the new era”. Doing so “will not only be good for both countries, but also benefit the world”, Xi wrote.

US President Joe Biden also told his security chiefs in Washington that the US is not seeking conflict with Beijing.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/27/chinas-xi-says-willing-to-work-with-us-for-mutual-benefits

Teaser4:
I don’t have time for back and forth…. I typed “you can’t just cut trees in Europe” , not …. You can’t cut trees in Europe”…

Whatever. Keep dancing around.

Teaser4:
I believe say na English I type up there not French, did you see “all” in my post

No. You typed in fulfude lol

Yes you can cut trees in Europe.

Teaser4:
Lmao, you can’t just cut trees in Europe, you will go to jail(cos they’re protected by law, Climate isssh), do I need to explain that to you…. You can google it

Secondly, the benches na dry wood and you know why dem need am…

You need more

Not all trees are protected. Fact.
Burning the bed gives off toxic fumes i.e treated wood. Makes zero sense.

Even the far right leader in Italy gave Putin the middle finger.

Russia GDP Year-over-Year has been falling like dominoes.

Too bad. Just too bad.

Gboy1026:
oga mind ur business I didn't quote u.

Nairaland doesn't belong to you. I can quote whoever I want. That's what Nairaland is all about. You have the liberty to ignore.

To the gloom and doom Putin fanboys jumping on the thread with great enthusiasm, my apologies to you. I was being sarcastic

https://www.citizen.digital/business/europe-now-has-so-much-natural-gas-that-prices-just-dipped-below-zero-n308206

Europe now has so much natural gas that prices just dipped below zero.

Europe has more natural gas than it knows what to do with. So much, in fact, that spot prices briefly went negative earlier this week.

For months, officials have warned of an energy crisis this winter as Russia - once the region's biggest supplier of natural gas - slashed supplies in retaliation for sanctions Europe imposed over its invasion of Ukraine.

Now, EU gas storage facilities are close to full, tankers carrying liquefied natural gas (LNG) are lining up at ports, unable to unload their cargoes, and prices are tumbling.

Warm Weather to the Resue
Massimo Di Odoardo, vice president of gas and LNG research at Wood Mackenzie, says unseasonably mild weather is largely responsible for the dramatic change in fortune.

"In countries like Italy, Spain, France, we're seeing temperatures and [gas] consumption closer to August and early September [levels]," he told CNN Business. "Even in countries in the Nordics, the UK and Germany, consumption is way below the average for this time of the year," he added.

The European Union has also built substantial buffers against any further supply cuts by filling gas storage facilities close to capacity. Stores are now almost 94% full, according to data from Gas Infrastructure Europe. That's well above the 80% target the bloc set countries to reach by November.

"That's an extremely high level," Di Odoardo said, noting that the maximum storage level averaged 87% of capacity over the past five years.

Gboy1026:
Pls would love to go into this publishing of books on Amazon. Can u put me through?

Haha. So you haven't heard that Amazon is of the devil since it's American.