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 Crime › Re: Abba Kyari: Police Reveal Identity Of Suspected Drug Barons by owagbeba: 3:21pm On Feb 15, 2022 |
Talawaka:I reckon this will turn out to be a counter-sting operation by Kyari and IRT team to catch the accomplices in NDLEA and at the same time NDLEA setup a sting operation to catch crooked cops.... it may turn to be that both NPF and NDLEA were both running sting operations to catch crooked agents |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: When Cruelty Is The Point - U.S. Decides To Kill More Afghan People by owagbeba(op): 9:07pm On Feb 11, 2022 |
The 'accredited representative' will simply be claimed to exist and to have given 'the blessing' but will never be named. To give money that is owned by Afghanistan's central bank and is needed to help Afghan people to relatives of people who died in 9/11 is completely unjustified. The Taliban who are now ruling Afghanistan are not the same ones who ruled the country previously. Moreover no Taliban ever knew beforehand that 9/11 was planned by some people who at that time lived in Afghanistan. They are not responsible for 9/11. Moreover the money is simply not theirs. Central bank assets are owned by the central bank not by a ruling government of whatever kind. The U.S. Federal Reserve is not holding Democrats or Republican money nor is the Afghan central bank holding Taliban money. In an interview, Dr. Mehrabi — who is also an economics professor at Montgomery College in Maryland [and a longtime member of the Afghan central bank board] — contended that the central bank should be seen as independent of the now Taliban-led Afghan government. He said that many civil servants there knew how to run the bank, and that depriving the bank of the funds it needed to maintain price stability would lead to runs on commercial banks, mass defaulting on loans and ultimately broader disaster. “You’re talking about moving toward a total collapse of the banking system,” he said. “I think it’s a shortsighted view.” But an administration official familiar with the government deliberations argued that the “sad reality” was that even if the central bank regained access to the assets in New York and moved them all into Afghanistan for one last injection of capital, it would not solve the deeper structural problems that have sent the country’s economy spiraling into ruin. The Afghan people shall just die from the 'structural problems' that have been caused by the U.S. occupation, its abrupt end, and are now caused by the theft of their money. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: When Cruelty Is The Point - U.S. Decides To Kill More Afghan People by owagbeba(op): 9:07pm On Feb 11, 2022 |
This is vengefulness at the most inhuman level: President Biden will start to clear a legal path for certain relatives of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to pursue $3.5 billion from assets that Afghanistan’s central bank had deposited in New York before the Taliban takeover, according to officials familiar with internal deliberations. At the same time, Mr. Biden will issue an executive order invoking emergency powers to consolidate and freeze all $7 billion of the total assets the Afghan central bank kept in New York and ask a judge for permission to move the other $3.5 billion to a trust fund to pay for immediate humanitarian relief efforts and other needs in Afghanistan, the officials said. Afghanistan is in dire need of those reserve funds. As its central bank had no access to the funds it could not intervene when the Afghan currency devaluated after the U.S. and its minions had fled. It has made it impossible for the government and the people to acquire food from abroad. The United Nations and many other organization have warned that millions of people in Afghanistan are in imminent danger of dying for lack of food. A new huge wave of refugees is fleeing the country and is likely to destabilize its neighbors. It was a bad move to freeze that money. It is unscrupulous to steal it. It also illegal under U.S. law which is why the Biden administration decided to fudge it: It is highly unusual for the United States government to commandeer a foreign country’s assets on domestic soil. Officials are said to have discussed a two-part legal process for Mr. Biden to engineer that outcome. First, he would use emergency powers under a provision of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to “direct and compel” that a foreign country’s assets in the United States be moved to a segregated account. That would block them, but the Afghanistan central bank would still own them. Second, officials have discussed then using a provision of the Federal Reserve Act that permits disposing of property belonging to the central bank of a foreign nation — so long as it has the blessing of someone the secretary of state has recognized as being “the accredited representative” of that foreign country. But deciding who qualifies as such a person, at a time when Afghanistan’s former government no longer exists, has raised significant complications. It remained unclear what solution Biden administration officials had settled on and whether the name of any person or people they deem as such would be disclosed for security reasons, like possibly endangering family members still in Afghanistan. |
| Foreign Affairs › When Cruelty Is The Point - U.S. Decides To Kill More Afghan People by owagbeba(op): 9:07pm On Feb 11, 2022 |
www.moonofalabama.org When Cruelty Is The Point - U.S. Decides To Kill More Afghan People Last summer, after decades of killing Afghans in Afghanistan, the U.S. government decides to move its occupation forces out of that country. The operation was badly prepared, (or intentionally sabotaged by the Pentagon), and ended in chaos. More than 120,000 Afghans, most of them higher educated ones, were also taken abroad. This alone was severely damaging to Afghanistan. The U.S. also froze the $7+ billion reserve funds of the central bank of Afghanistan which have been held in New York. This is the Afghan peoples money. Part of the total funds are reserves that private Afghan banks had deposited with the central bank. It is money that ordinary Afghan people had deposited at those private banks. Now the Biden administration, ignoring the various owners of those funds, has decided to steal all of them. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: African Union Summit Reverses Decision On Israel’s Observer Status by owagbeba: 11:42pm On Feb 06, 2022 |
saintokwuluora:What is divine about Israel? Could you please stop this parody? |
| Culture › Re: Turbaning Ceremony Of Hon Chibuike R Amaechi In Duara Kastina (Video & Photos) by owagbeba: 8:28pm On Feb 05, 2022 |
okomile:Your head dey there.... na only you decode 1 Like |
| Politics › Re: World Bank Blames FG As High Inflation Worsens Poverty by owagbeba: 7:16am On Feb 05, 2022 |
ayindejimmy:I think those in charge of this country don’t like the people of this country. Inflation is high yet government raised the bench mark import duty to 3 million naira for an import dependent nation, coupled with the unstable “naira” edging toward 600. I wonder how they want to curb inflation. Foreign shipping lines have raised freight by 300%. 1 Like |
| Crime › Re: Boyfriend Stabbed Lover To Death Then Lay In Bed Next To Her Body In UK (Pics) by owagbeba: 6:50am On Feb 04, 2022 |
nighter:Any difference to those 4 black kids pounding a girl’s head in a mortar? |
| Car Talk › Re: Nonso Offor: From Venza To Royce Sweptail - Moto Innovation, Manufacturing Skill by owagbeba: 7:50pm On Feb 03, 2022 |
SoludoTV:My take away from this video: “Igbos are really losing their langauge... “. sad! |
| Politics › Re: Fein Bruce Is A Merchant Of Violence By Seun Ogundele by owagbeba: 6:11am On Feb 03, 2022 |
Rollsnjaguar:Why do you folks reason this way? What has Fein done wrong? Defend his client? Is that his sin? What you can’t win, then you beat up! 3 Likes |
| Politics › Re: Fein Bruce Is A Merchant Of Violence By Seun Ogundele by owagbeba: 6:10am On Feb 03, 2022 |
Golan007:Is that not pure capitalist principle? |
| Politics › Re: Fein Bruce Is A Merchant Of Violence By Seun Ogundele by owagbeba: 6:09am On Feb 03, 2022 |
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| Romance › Re: Can Someone Vividly Explain How People Make Money From Rituals Killings by owagbeba: 8:55am On Jan 31, 2022 |
advanceDNA:I think my question is clear enough |
| Romance › Re: Can Someone Vividly Explain How People Make Money From Rituals Killings by owagbeba: 7:00am On Jan 31, 2022 |
advanceDNA:Yes, I want to understand these forces and their applications. Are the ones responsible for ritual rewards different from sacrificial rewards? |
| Romance › Re: Can Someone Vividly Explain How People Make Money From Rituals Killings by owagbeba: 6:41am On Jan 31, 2022 |
Delight2014:Why doesn’t the other negating laws like karma cancel out the benefits of ritual sacrifice if there Is any? 1 Like |
| Romance › Re: Can Someone Vividly Explain How People Make Money From Rituals Killings by owagbeba: 6:33am On Jan 31, 2022 |
advanceDNA:Just curious, what are these forces in the universe responsible for rewarding ritual sacrifice? |
| Crime › Re: 3 Boys Slaughter Girlfriend, Burn Her Head For Money Ritual In Ogun (Graphic) by owagbeba: 5:44pm On Jan 29, 2022 |
CAPSLOCKED:This is a mess! How then do we solve this conundrum? We just can’t let this way of life continue as usual. We really get to make drastic changes for everybody to conform, be them religious bodies or what have you. What’s the way forward? Better policing? But our police numbers are not enough for the whole population. Banning the witchdoctors? They will go underground and continue their practice. Promulgate death penalty for anyone caught in ritual practice - aniam 3 Likes 1 Share |
| Crime › Re: 3 Boys Slaughter Girlfriend, Burn Her Head For Money Ritual In Ogun (Graphic) by owagbeba: 2:36pm On Jan 29, 2022 |
CAPSLOCKED:Can’t the nation make a policy change and outlaw these witch doctors / herbalist, and some rogue churches? They are the oneS promulgating the false belief in money ritual. 2 Likes |
| Politics › Re: Wike: Aircraft Abandoned By Amaechi In Germany, Retrieved, Repaired And Returned by owagbeba: 8:04am On Jan 26, 2022 |
Mom007:Nigeria for you... Wasting funds on junk. Bunch of goons masquerading as politicians |
| Politics › Re: Wike: Aircraft Abandoned By Amaechi In Germany, Retrieved, Repaired And Returned by owagbeba: 7:59am On Jan 26, 2022 |
UCyril:Probably weighed the cost of repair versus the welfare of his state... spending 4,000,000euro on a joyride is really foolhardy |
| Politics › Re: Wike: Aircraft Abandoned By Amaechi In Germany, Retrieved, Repaired And Returned by owagbeba: 7:53am On Jan 26, 2022 |
SarkinYarki:Very bad decision, indeed. How many medium scale food processing plant can 4 million euros build in River state? We have tones of food going to waste. We can setup dehydrating plants, refrigerating centers and milling plants. But we spend 4,000,000 euros repairing a private jet for a joy ride... TIA! 3 Likes |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: A 'parthogenetic' Conflict - There Is No Russian Invasion Threat To Ukraine by owagbeba(op): 11:21pm On Jan 25, 2022 |
The cherry on top... Finally ... cold feet from NATO! Sometimes I wonder why the EU lets themselves play vassal to the US. They must end this Western axis of evil... it really has to stop. US creates wars and drag their European vassals into their wars.. this has to stop
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| Foreign Affairs › Re: A 'parthogenetic' Conflict - There Is No Russian Invasion Threat To Ukraine by owagbeba(op): 8:09pm On Jan 25, 2022 |
The icing on all the hysteria 
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| Foreign Affairs › Re: A 'parthogenetic' Conflict - There Is No Russian Invasion Threat To Ukraine by owagbeba(op): 8:06pm On Jan 25, 2022 |
Again - those barracks were not built over night. They are long-term facilities. The 237th Tank Regiment is stationed in Valuyki and Soloti. It has 90+ tanks, 40+ infantry fighting vehicles, 18 howitzers, 8 mortars. It consists of three tank battalions, one mechanized battalion, one sniper company, one recon company, one self-propelled howitzer battalion and one air defence battalion. All such units also have lots of trucks to carry the ammunition, fuel and other supplies they need. All together those vehicles are clearly sufficient to fill that large parking lot. The pictures that were supposed to show a 'new Russian military buildup' only showed units in their regular barracks were they have been stationed for years. None of the units seen in them is deployed in a build-up-to-war like manner. Posted by b on January 25, 2022 at 14:38 www.moonofalabama.org |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: A 'parthogenetic' Conflict - There Is No Russian Invasion Threat To Ukraine by owagbeba(op): 8:05pm On Jan 25, 2022 |
shows parts of the 237th Tank Regiment near Soloti, Belgorod Oblast, Russia. The picture is cropped so that it does not show the troop quarters which prove that the tanks are parked next to the unit's barracks where they belong during peacetime. Here is an uncropped image from Google maps:
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| Foreign Affairs › Re: A 'parthogenetic' Conflict - There Is No Russian Invasion Threat To Ukraine by owagbeba(op): 8:04pm On Jan 25, 2022 |
Another picture that was circulated widely to demonstrate that Russia is 'bolstering forces along Ukraine border' is this one:
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| Foreign Affairs › Re: A 'parthogenetic' Conflict - There Is No Russian Invasion Threat To Ukraine by owagbeba(op): 8:04pm On Jan 25, 2022 |
The picture shows parts of the regular storage area of the 144th Mechanized Division near Yelnya, Smolensk Oblast. The divisions was established in 2016-2017 on the basis of the former 28th Mechanized Brigade (Yekaterinburg). This is a large formation with hundreds of vehicles. The division's forces include i.a. two mechanized regiments, one tank regiment, one recon battalion, one self-propelled artillery regiment, one anti-tank artillery battalion as well as supplementary forces. Here is an uncropped picture of the whole area. It shows large size barracks at the top right and parking grounds for each of its subunits. The barracks roads and facilities were not built over night. The above picture was cropped to only show the lower middle part of the picture below.
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| Foreign Affairs › Re: A 'parthogenetic' Conflict - There Is No Russian Invasion Threat To Ukraine by owagbeba(op): 8:00pm On Jan 25, 2022 |
Based on such pictures Politico, for example, headlined on November 1: Satellite images show new Russian military buildup near Ukraine The deployments come as tension is rising between Moscow and the West. New commercial satellite photos taken on Monday confirm recent reports that Russia is once again massing troops and military equipment on the border with Ukraine after a major buildup this spring. The new images taken by Maxar Technologies and shared with POLITICO show a buildup of armored units, tanks and self-propelled artillery along with ground troops massing near the Russian town of Yelnya close to the border of Belarus. The units, which began moving in late September from other areas of Russia where they are normally based, include the elite 1st Guards Tank Army. Yelnya is 250 kilometers (150 mi) north of the nearest Ukrainian border, not 'close' to it. The piece included this picture:
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| Foreign Affairs › Re: A 'parthogenetic' Conflict - There Is No Russian Invasion Threat To Ukraine by owagbeba(op): 7:59pm On Jan 25, 2022 |
Here is more evidence that there is absolutely no indication of any Russian invasion of the Ukraine: Mujtaba (Mij) Rahman @Mij_Europe - 14:36 UTC · Jan 24, 2022 Senior Elysée source tells me: “There is a kind of alarmism in Washington and London which we cannot understand. We see no immediate likelihood of Russian military action. We simply want our interpretation to be taken into account before a common western approach is agreed.” --- Richard Hadley @FranceVotes - 15:50 UTC · Jan 24, 2022 Replying to @Mij_Europe Elysée briefed 'same' to @PhilippRicard (21 Jan @lemondefr): ‘France, like Germany, remain puzzled by USA & UK alarmism'. A source is quoted: 'We see same number of lorries, tanks and people. We observed same manoeuvres, but can't conclude offensive is imminent from all that.' Yesterday the BBC interviewed the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov: Some of our partners contribute to panic. This is beneficial to Russia - Danilov (machine translation) Whether BBC News Ukraine asked the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksiy Danilov whether there is a reason for panic or whether the Russian invasion is so real today and what the Ukrainian authorities are doing. ... BBC: What is happening near the Ukrainian borders? Is the number of troops increasing, are they maneuvering? Alexei Danilov: The number of Russian troops is not increasing in the form in which many people paint today. Do they have maneuvers there - yes, but they were in them all the time. This is their territory, they have the right to move left and right there. Is it unpleasant for us? Yes, it's unpleasant, but it's not news to us. If this is news to someone in the West, I apologize. Likewise Ukraine's Defense Minister via TASS: Ukrainian defense minister sees no threat of Russian invasion in near future Alexey Reznikov said that a scenario of a Russian attack in the near future was also unlikely KIEV, January 25. /TASS/. Ukrainian Defense Minister Alexey Reznikov said early on Tuesday he had received no information so far indicating the possibility of Russia’s invasion of his country in the near future. "As of today, the armed forces of Russia created no strike groups, indicating they were ready to launch an offensive tomorrow," he told Ukraine’s ICTV television channel, adding that a scenario of a Russian attack in the near future was also unlikely. When asked about the likelihood of Russia attacking Ukraine on February 20, the final day of the Olympic Games in Beijing, the minister said the probability was "low." And this military analysis via the Kiev Independent: Center for Defense Strategies: How likely is large-scale war in Ukraine? (analysis) Editor’s note: This is an analysis by the Center of Defense Strategies’ experts Andriy Zagorodnyuk, Alina Frolova, Oleksiy Pavliuchyk. It was originally published in Ukrainian by Ukrainska Pravda. The Kyiv Independent has translated it and is republishing it with permission. How realistic is the scenario of a full-scale offensive into all or most of Ukraine in the near future? At the moment, there are not enough Russian troops on Ukraine’s borders and no fully formed military groups needed to conduct a strategic offensive against Ukraine. According to our estimates, supported by many of the indicators below, a large-scale general military operation can’t take place for at least the next two or three weeks. As of Jan. 23, we do not observe the required formation of several hundred thousand troops, not only on the border with Ukraine, but also on Russian territory behind the front line. Besides, we do not see the creation of strategic reserve units, nor the mobilization of the necessary connections and units on the basis of the centers for mobilization deployment. Russian troops move mainly as battalion tactical groups (mechanized, tank and airborne troops) and tactical groups (artillery, multiple launch missile systems). Russia hasn’t completed the formation of groups of troops in operational areas. It also hasn’t established and tested its wartime administration system. If Russia was conducting preparations for a large-scale invasion, it would have been much more noticeable. Therefore, what we currently have is the military threat posed by about 127,000 Russian servicemen along Ukraine’s borders, in the occupied territories of eastern Ukraine, and in Crimea. This number has not increased since April, and is not enough for a full-scale offensive. ... How likely is an invasion in 2022? In general, a large-scale Russian offensive operation against Ukraine in 2022 seems unlikely according to many indicators, even judging by purely military requirements. ... The story of Russian preparations for an invasion of the Ukraine is made up from whole cloth. It was peddled in early November with cropped satellite images which pretended that equipment parked next to regular long term Russian barracks was newly moved there in preparation of a war |
| Foreign Affairs › A 'parthogenetic' Conflict - There Is No Russian Invasion Threat To Ukraine by owagbeba(op): 7:59pm On Jan 25, 2022 |
www.moonofalabama.org With regards to the completely made up story of the 'imminent Russian invasion' of the Ukraine a commentator remarked to me: What we are seeing is a 'parthogenetic' conflict/war/crisis. A first - to my recollection. Indeed - the virgin birth of a conflict in which there is no enemy. There is no threat of a Russian invasion of the Ukraine now or in the foreseeable future. Despite that today's New York Times has put no less than four 'invasion' stories at the top of its homepage.
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| Foreign Affairs › Re: In Pictures: Ukraine On Edge Amid Fears Of A Russian Invasion by owagbeba: 3:09pm On Jan 25, 2022 |
owagbeba:Russia may not be poised to invade Ukraine – Pentagon
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| Foreign Affairs › Re: In Pictures: Ukraine On Edge Amid Fears Of A Russian Invasion by owagbeba: 2:00pm On Jan 25, 2022 |
No threat of immediate Russian attack on Ukraine – EU https://www.rt.com/russia/547261-no-threat-invasion-ukraine/ 1 Like
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