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We have just learned that there is STILL NO EVIDENCE that President Donald Trump colluded in any way with any Russians during the 2016 Presidential election.

BREAKING NEWS: Donald J. Trump is expected to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, which would be a significant foreign policy break with nearly every other nation on earth

Mindfulness:
It's actually Trump who should have headache with the FBI investigating his ties to Russia.

What ties exactly? There are no ties this investigation will be another waste of time. Remember the scam recount?

seunmsg:
Putin is actually laughing out loud at how he's finally using Trump to break the strong bond between Europe and America. The once strong and influential USA is about to lose its influence in international affairs and you guys are still urging him on. Can't you Trump ass lickers see that this is what Putin wants all along?

Trust me! There is no crack in the bond. The US and Europe is one and NATO alliance is still strong, What Trump is asking is for Germany and other European Nations to pay their fair share of the deal and stop the ripoff.

Donald J. Trump
Russian officials must be laughing at the U.S. & how a lame excuse for why the Dems lost the election has taken over the Fake News.

Donald J. Trump


We have a MASSIVE trade deficit with Germany, plus they pay FAR LESS than they should on NATO & military. Very bad for U.S. This will change.


Now this is news!!!

Mindfulness:
I will call him Fake President until I die, 8 or 80 years.

Well na your headache be that oo..

Mindfulness:
If you do not understand it by now, you never will.

You have to get used to calling him Mr president cos he will be there for good 8 years

Mindfulness:
There is hardly anything positive to report about the Fake President.

Really? How is he a fake president?

KratosCorp:

Those Dumbocrats are the actual terrorists

armyofone:
Not true, watched it on CNN live yesterday.

Not true. They hardly report any positive news about President Trump...

Umuahia, Nigeria - Nnamdi Kanu waves his hand and puffs in frustration: "Nothing seems to be working in Nigeria. There is pain and hardship everywhere. What we're fighting [for] is not self-determination for the sake of it. It's because Nigeria is not functioning and can never function."

The leader of a group demanding the secession of southeastern Nigeria is speaking exclusively to Al Jazeera in the parlour of his father's home in the southeastern city of Umuahia.

It's the first time he has spoken to an international media outlet since he was granted bail on health grounds last month. His bail conditions prohibit him from being in a crowd of more than 10 people, leaving the country and giving media interviews.

But when asked if he is worried that he will get in trouble with the Nigerian authorities for speaking to Al Jazeera he scoffs, "I don't care," and rolls his eyes.

"I can't go outside to call for a press conference. I can't go on Biafra Radio to broadcast. I can't allow large [groups of] people to basically congregate outside to see me … it's like asking me not to breathe," he says.

On the other side of the parlour door, dozens of people are waiting to see Kanu. A throng of young men dressed in black guard the compound. They refer to Kanu as, "our supreme leader" or "his royal highness".

Kanu left Nigeria to study economics and politics at the London Metropolitan University and started Radio Biafra, an obscure, niche, London-based radio station in 2009.

In one broadcast, Kanu said: "We have one thing in common, all of us that believe in Biafra, one thing we have in common, a pathological hatred for Nigeria. I cannot begin to put into words how much I hate Nigeria."

Over the past two years, Kanu's status has risen.

Today, he's a highly visible activist and leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) organisation, and after being imprisoned in the Nigerian capital of Abuja for nearly two years on treasonable felony charges, he has now returned home.

"Kanu is my saviour," says Sopuru Amah, a senior student at one of Nigeria's oldest universities, the University of Nigeria in the southeastern city of Nsukka.

"Just like Jesus was sent to save the world, Kanu was sent by God himself to save the Igbo people."

Nigeria's ethnic politics

With an estimated population of more than 180 million, Nigeria is often called the "giant of Africa". The complexity of Nigeria's population is compounded by its ethnic diversity. Around 250 ethnic groups, each with their own languages, reside in Nigeria. With a myriad of ethnicities dotted across the landscape, three major groups tend to emerge in national dialogue due to their sheer numbers: the Yoruba, from the southwest; the Hausa-Fulani in the north and the Igbo from the southeast.

Pro-Biafrans say the federal Nigerian government is discriminating and marginalising them, the Igbo people.

"I'm not allowed to contest for the presidency of Nigeria because I'm Igbo. I'm not allowed to aspire to become the inspector general of police because I'm Igbo. I'm not allowed to become chief of army staff because I'm Igbo. What sort of stupid country is that?" Kanu asks. "Why would any idiot want me to be in that sort of country?"

In Kanu's mind, Umuahia does not exist in Nigeria. It is in Biafra and he is waiting for the world to acknowledge it.

Since the 1964 appointment of the first indigenous Nigerian as the head of the Nigerian Police Force, known as the inspector general, more than a dozen officers have held the post. Two of them have been Igbo. In a lineup of almost two-dozen chiefs of army staff, the highest-ranking military officer in the Nigerian army, two have come from southeastern Nigeria.

Perceptions of marginalisation

"The southeast feels it has been politically marginalised. There is a point to that. It has been shrunken from being one of the three major regions of the country to now being virtually a minority with the smallest number of states of the six zones in the federation," explains Nnamdi Obasi, a senior analyst at the International Crisis Group.

He says that there has only been one Igbo president and one Igbo vice president since Nigeria declared independence from the UK in 1960.

Pro-Biafrans also complain that the federal government is not funding enough infrastructure development in the region, despite a recent announcement by the federal Minister of Power, Works and Housing that road construction will be completed in the southeast.

The southeastern region of Nigeria has five states, while other regions have more.

"They certainly are at a disadvantaged position now," Obasi says. "The political configuration of the country ensures that less federal allocation gets to the southeast."

Nigeria's national economics is closely tied to its politics. Nigeria is a highly centralised federalism that relies on revenue from oil sales. Money trickles down from the central government and more money flows towards regions that have more state and local governments.

A recent poll conducted by SBM Intelligence, a local research group, found that the pro-Biafra movement is gaining popularity in the southeast and that this growth could be a reaction to the perception that the region is marginalised and economically deprived.

"So the Nigerian government has to be seen clearly as carrying the region along," Cheta Nwanze, a lead researcher at SBM Intelligence, says.

But pro-Biafrans like Amah have written off the Nigerian federal government and, in particular, the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.

"Buhari hates the southeast because we didn't vote for him," says Chukwudi Diru, a taxi driver with a mini Biafran flag taped to the dashboard of his 2003 car.

In his landmark 2015 election victory, Buhari garnered the least amount of votes in the southernmost and southeastern region.

Buhari commented on this during a visit to the United States shortly after his win. During an address at the United States Institute of Peace, Buhari responded to a participant in the audience who asked how he would bring development to the oil-rich Niger Delta region in the south, which has suffered decades of environmental degradation due to oil spills and oil bunkering.

"I hope you have a copy of the election results," Buhari responded to the woman. "Naturally, the constituencies that gave me 97 percent cannot, in all honesty, be treated [in the same way] on some issues with constituencies that gave me five percent. I think this is a political reality."

Buhari's soundbite has been tagged and re-posted across Nigeria's social media spaces.

"To be honest, things like the president's 97 percent and five percent comment only helped add further fuel to the fire that the southeast is being marginalised," Nwanze says.

And that fire is already burning in the southeast. On storefronts along the streets of Umuahia, photos of Nnamdi Kanu and Odumegwu Chukwuemeka Ojukwu, the leader of the short-lived Republic of Biafra (1967-1970) are pasted on wooden doorframes.

At the campus of Amah's university, more students are reading pro-Biafran books and followers of Kanu hold "evangelism" meetings to preach the gospel of pro-Biafra.

At crowded bus stations in town, Kanu's voice booms from loudspeakers. Many people here mark May 30 as Biafra Remembrance Day. ..........


http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/05/50-years-nigeria-biafra-secessionist-movement-170529151102396.html

obixcel:
Now that's a President, A real Leader. CNN would never show this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXOzrAepT84

CNN will never report this

obixcel:
Indeed, I loved how he smacked those NATO leaders like bunch of school children been told by their Principal that they're lagging behind.

for once; a say it like it is President..

So Americans now prefer pussssy grabbers and body slammers to democrats

MAGA


FYI....Trump's foreign trip has so far been a great success...

Lucasbalo:
You and your sidekick better go tell the US Embassy for your visa on account of the clueless one before he got kicked out. I and tens of millions of Americans are enjoying the bigot being ridiculed. Watch it from your Skunky hideout, his days are numbered.

Shut the furck up U Dumbocrat

obixcel:
I'm so far enjoying all d liberal sour grapes, never laughed louder like this before. Keep moaning...I mean - d Orgasm type hahahaha. Looking for impeachment?, Watergate? whatever......President Trump 2016-2024 would be the longest political hangover for the dumbocrats.

dumbocrats

Breaking: Trump’s New Focus on Border Enforcement Cuts Illegal Crossings by 76%

mojeer678:
Brilliant Stanech!!!

DRAIN THE SWAMP FINALLY!!!! TRUMP FIRED COMEY

See: https://twitter.com/AFP/status/862060799321403392

If he now proceeds to wipe out Obama and Hillary, things will be looking a LOT BETTER. The FBI had the truth and nothing but the truth on 911, but was prevented from acting on it. This was made abundantly clear in an intervew with Canada's CBC. If the FBI changes now, IT'S MILLER TIME!
UPDATE: There are tweets below the main tweet that claim insider contacts at the FBI are happy because they can finally do their jobs!
COMEY HAD BETTER WATCH OUT FOR THE CLINTONS NOW, BECAUSE HE KNOWS TOO MUCH, AND IS NOW OFFICIALLY ON SUICIDE WATCH! How long do you think he'll last?
GET THIS: Comey found out he was fired when the news came across the screen of a television that was behind him while he was speaking to new recruits! HA HA HA, that's priceless!
Now the litmus test: Will Trump put in a new director who will actually pursue the criminals in government? Will he put Hillary down, or were his comments about Hillary being a friend more than politics? Will Trump survive the upcoming assault from liberals who will now use this firing as an excuse to say Trump was afraid about the FBI investigating "ties to Russia?" whatever happens, it will all hinge on whether or not Trump ends up being bamboozled by advisors and/or stupid about who he puts in after Comey. The right decision is a matter of life and death for Trump.

I listened to his testimony in congress and was wondering why he was still in charge of the FBI. The guy is a tool.

Donald J. Trump
James Comey will be replaced by someone who will do a far better job, bringing back the spirit and prestige of the FBI.

Lucasbalo:
Why don't you do the Google search yourself and find out in her manifestos. You guys are very good in googling and all of a sudden your brain is in reverse. If trump order the CIA drone to bomb your village and all your family members are incinerated, I bet your charred brain will find a way to absolve him . You are a sick puppy for supporting worthless racists. KKK are sending their journals to your mailbox.

Oga provide evidence that Le pen is racist or Shut-up

On Comey: The whole purpose of the fascist Left, is to create reasonable doubt, to delegitimize Trump. The losing democrats have no case, it's been almost a year, and not one shred of evidence that support their claim that Russia colluded with the Trump campaign. There's no there there, just delusional people suffering from some kind of schizophrenia..

The Obama secrets will be pouring out sooon

Kophschmerzen:
If your brain cells ain't beyond repairable damage, you would have check out her manifesto and utterances. Where she justified the French genocide in Algeria. Plus the labelling of Muslims and all foreigners irrespective of there nationality as parasites. Go talk to your fellow brainless alt right morons that form the core base of le pen supporters and come tell us what they think of peeps with your skin color.

Wow you just made a fool of yourself Mr..

Here let me give you an example;;

Hillary Clinton is a racist because she called black men supper predators..

Just tell me exactly what Le pen said to qualify her as a racist you are quoting constitutions and sermons...

The question is tell me what she said exactly because nothing in that manifesto suggests that she is a racist..

Kophschmerzen:
F!!!**k off and come back when you learn how to spell label.

The issue is not the spelling just tell me in simple terms how Le pen is a racist. Just one example

Lucasbalo:
You are just like Missy, repeating yourself .. All of a sudden you forget how to google.

I have searched through the internet there is no single statement she made that suggest she's racist, bigot etc I agree SHE IS A NATIONALIST THOUGH.


Tell me why you think she is racist..

Lucasbalo:
Like I told you before. You and your friends are masters in googling. Google Le Pen National Front and come back to me. Her father was an old segregationist that started National Front and handed the baton to Marine when he retired. If you know more than French people who overwhelmingly rejected her.

How is she a racist ? Na simple question na...

I can tell you why I think Hillary is a racist. SO Oga tell me how is Le pen a Racist?

Lucasbalo:
Go and read the National Front Manifesto from her dad. It's a white nationalist party. If you know better than the French people that rejected her, that's your problem. I don't understand why a black man from Africa is so in love with racist being. You are a sick man. Really sick indeed.

Yea she did not win, the french people rejected her but she is not a racist, She is a very brilliant lady she is smart and eloquent. Far better than your God killiery

Kophschmerzen:
You are brain dead nitwits, do your stupid self a favor and watch the debate and all her interview. Before polluting the thread with your gutter stupidity.

really? you mean like you labeeled Trump? She is not a racist can you give me one racist statement she made, just one....

Lucasbalo:
I have new found respect for French People for rejecting Xenophobia, Nationalism, Bigotry, Hatred and more importantly Racism. Hope this sends a message to the divisive voices in America and all over the World. Big ups for French Citizens.

Lepen was none of those things you listed except for nationalism. There is nothing wrong with that.