₦airaland Forum

1. Drugs

Two words best describe the global drug market: Insanely large. According to UNODC (The UN Office on Drugs and Crime), the global market for illicit drugs is worth more than $300 billion annually. If the drug black market were a country, its GNP would rank 21st in the world, after Sweden.

Marijuana alone has a market value of $141.8 billion, according to the black-market research organization Havocscope. Add to that a $70 billion cocaine market, a $65 billion market for prescription drugs, and a $28 billion amphetamines market, and you just have the beginning. One can only marvel that governments are missing out on the taxation opportunity.

2. Defence

Governments spend trillions per year on tanks, artillery, armored vehicles, aircraft, motor gunboats, missiles, and other defense goodies. Global military spending was $1.14 trillion in 2007. That number is only going up. Global military spending is expected to increase 34% to $1.15 trillion by 2012. And global defense industry profits increased 12.6% during 2007-8, according to Fortune.

Who’s the biggest, baddest military spender of them all? That honor goes to the US, which spent $623 billion on defense in 2008. We’re also the world’s biggest military weaponry supplier. 9 of the 10 biggest profiteers of last year’s global war spend were US companies. Hey, at least we have one market that the recession hasn’t dry up.

3. Prostitution

If you’ve ever slipped a sex worker money for sweet-tasting deeds, congratulations. You just contributed to a $108 billion market. Enslavement contributes to those high returns: Globally, a single woman sex slave earns her love-vendor up to $250,000/year. Who needs business school when you can build an empire of prostitutes?

Although prostitution is more common in poor countries and around military bases, rich countries like the US certainly get their share. Here, prostitutes charge an average of up to $50 for MouthAction, $100 for intercourse, and have 3-5 clients per day. If nothing else, the prostitution market is productive

4. Oil

The oil market, like its product, is vast, slippery and opaque. Nobody’s even sure what the market size is. According to one estimate, it’s worth a whopping $2.5 trillion.

Underhanded deals and collusion play no small part in this (read this article for more), but even the legitimate numbers are impressive. Crude oil production profits increased 16.2% in 2007-8 alone.

The 6 most profitable oil companies in the world—Exxon Mobil, Gazprom, Shell, Chevron, BP, and Brazil’s Petrobras—netted a total profit of $156 billion in 2008. Add to that peak oil’s potential supply shortages, OPEC’s ongoing legal collusion, a $12.5 billion oil smuggling black market, and shady commodities deals, and you have oil barons swimming in profits for the foreseeable future.


5. Counterfeits


Counterfeiting continues to burgeon, especially with regards to technology and drugs. Check out these Havocscope market size numbers:

• Counterfeit technology products: $100 billion
• Counterfeit pharmaceutical drugs: $75 billion
• Web video piracy: $60 billion
• Software piracy: $51.4 billion
• Movie piracy: $18.2 billion
• Counterfeit auto parts: $16 billion

The list above doesn’t include other lucrative counterfeit markets like clothing, shoes, and pirated music. Or fake medical devices, which make up a $7 billion market. Even more scarily, counterfeit airline parts are a $2 billion market. Cheapness, it seems, has no rational limits.

6. Sports

No matter what country you’re in, you have a home team. You may own merchandise, like a baseball cap or mug, related to that team. You probably watch your team’s games on TV. You may even place the occasional bet on your team (unless you’re a Cubs fan).

Around the world, there are millions, perhaps billions of people just like you. Thanks to your fandom, savvy merchants are cashing in big on TV rights, sponsorships, merchandise, hospitality, and the hundreds of other ways sports can make money.

According to Plunkett Research, in the US alone, the “Big 4”–NFL, NBA, NHL and MLB–bring in $17 billion in annual revenue. “That’s just the tip of the iceberg,” says Plunkett:

U.S. sporting equipment sales at retail sporting goods stores are roughly $41 billion yearly, according to U.S. government figures. A reasonable estimate of the total U.S. sports market would be $400 to $425 billion yearly. However, the sports industry is so complex, including ticket sales, licensed products, sports video games, collectibles, sporting goods, sports-related advertising, endorsement income, stadium naming fees and facilities income; that it’s difficult to put an all-encompassing figure on annual revenue.

That’s the US alone. Now add in soccer, rugby, handball, table tennis, muay thai, and all those other sports the rest of the world loves. Sprinkle in global events for good measure–this year’s FIFA World Cup is expected to bring in about $3.4 billion in revenue–and sports is always in the running for the world’s most lucrative market.

Look at how fat she is

This is so embarrassing

Dude are you gay?

Montenegro:
Do u have a big aşs?

Cc: lalasticalala

why is it paining you

AVRecruit:
Who cares who women prefer are they God? Please get more productive uses of your time.

Rapist tendencies... Run for your life

SANDOSKI:

Excuse me,


M a church girl and

I don't know wat you mean.....

SANDOSKI:

Excuse me,


M a church girl and

I don't know wat you mean.....

It's okay to be in denial

ForeverYoung197:
I ain't a bad girl. Do I look like one? Maybe I just hate being with a person who has "bad boy" possessed.

Maybe you're the opposite Bad girl like good guy it's very understandable

ForeverYoung197:
I still prefer good guys OP. For me they are not boring at all. They are just perfect for my liking.

If I hear you are I. Denial, deep down you like bad boys. I'm sure you even have one or some right now

evegran:
I'm tired of the generalisation that goes on here on NL.

OP, use "some"
Eg: "Why do some women prefer bad boys to nice guys"?


I'm excluded from that though.
I like nice, civil guys. Ones with manners and a functioning brain.

Not some smelly, uncultured guy- forming rapper and acting like a teenager in a bid to come across as "cool".
I get irritated at such. 0_o

A typical ‘bad boy’ is a masculine guy who not only naturally looks for certainty in action, but actually takes the action he needs to take to experience certainty.

He’s a guy on a journey, he’s going places, he’s doing exciting things, and his life is an adventure. He’s not sitting around waiting for things to be handed to him, he’s off on a mission. He experiences certainty through his ability to take action and make a difference and he communicates that to women.

He’s not waiting for a nice response and some polite validation to feel good about himself. He’s out there, living life, and experiencing the certainty he needs through taking action. Because he experiences it, he’s able to effortlessly able to communicate it to women so they experience it as well.

A typical nice guy is an inherently Masculine guy who’s biological programming dictates that the simplest and easiest way for him to experience certainty is through action, yet he doesn’t have the balls to take action.

Because he’s doesn’t take action but still craves certainty, he goes the other route and tries to experience certainty through communication. He waits for polite smiles, social validation, the approval of his mates, and acceptance from people around him to experience certainty.

This means that when he’s talking to women, he’s not able to communicate certainty because he doesn’t have it for himself. You can’t give something you don’t have. And not only does he not experience it for himself, he’s trying to experience it through women! He is the definition of needy – he needs approval and validation to feel good about himself.

This is why Feminine Women aren’t drawn to him – he has nothing to offer. All he’s doing is trying to get something from them.

It's a different scenario but they both inflict the same pain. Like I said if you can tolerate what I just said, you can tolerate Nigeria, pain is pain. If not you have no right to be talking about tolerance for Nigeria

Safari29:
brotherly, that is a different scenario entirely


beside who is cheating who in Nigeria? The last time i check all major tribes in Nigeria are in government, except if some are greedy, they want everything

Exactly! Disowning him/her will not make the problem go away, it will make the problem escalate and much more worse. Where's the logic?

foolinlove:
Accept. If someone is born gay then they can't help it, like being born blind or with no legs. Pray for them, support them. You don't have to agree but you need to show love like Jesus love all his brothers and sisters.

They will go thru horrible things because they are gay and they will need your love and support, otherwise they may take their own life or turn to drugs or alcohol to deal with their pain.

Easier said than done :-/

kenkenn:
I disown him or her

So are you going to kill him or take his life away because he's gay? That would be murder and that would make you no better than him and even worse than him. Please think logically

ErnieSmallzz:
my brother? Gay? It can't fit happen lailai , and if it does happen Mehn! He is so dead!



OP! Dnt 4get to vote Refiner 2day oh

Because the people calling them ugly are angered by them and can't control their emotions

Realistically.... Vagina is one of the sweetest thing in life for men. Men can't do without it and they are so addicted to it that they even pay money for it. Millions are spent just because of pussy even politicians all over the world steal money from their country funds and spend it on oloshos that's why this world is a mess because men can't do without the pussy. Imagine how the world will be without men not being addicted to the pussy I'm just being realistic here.

Strahovski1:
This guy is a looser.

There are so many good things in life and the vagina is not one of them

Op you are making girls rich while you are making yourself poor, where is the logic?

Michealoguns:
Was chatting on palmchat and we kept arguing which trick work the best to get her in your bed

My one and only trick and it opens all doors,makes all knees bend, makes the ugly, handsome and pretty
MONEY, MONEY, MONEY

TRIED it over and over again, it works.
If you don't believe, drop your own suggestions

it's called commensalism: is a relationship between species in which one benefits and the other is Unaffected. Op I'm guessing you are the one unaffected and you are not benefiting sex doesn't put roof under your head or make you rich only money can do that. While the girls you are sleeping with are benefiting because they get the money in this life you can't survive without money, money is everything Op you are definitely playing yourself

Michealoguns:
Was chatting on palmchat and we kept arguing which trick work the best to get her in your bed

My one and only trick and it opens all doors,makes all knees bend, makes the ugly, handsome and pretty
MONEY, MONEY, MONEY

TRIED it over and over again, it works.
If you don't believe, drop your own suggestions

Easier said than done, I bet you can't tolerate if your wife cheats on you and disrespects you anyhow daily if you can tolerate that, then you have every right to tell Nigerians to tolerate the bullshit of Nigeria

Safari29:
value what you have not until you lose it. be tolerant. u cant be 100% comfortable for a long time

Easier said than done

Safari29:
value what you have not until you lose it. be tolerant. u cant be 100% comfortable for a long time

Why must you get too emotionally attached after sex. If you want to avoid that problem, then don't have sex at all. Preventing any kind of sexual contact makes you think logically and avoids you from getting emotionally attached

foolinlove:
Yeah my experience of being used. But I usually don't cry until a few days later when I realised they didn't care bout me.

You are so pathetic

foolinlove:
Yeah my experience of being used. But I usually don't cry until a few days later when I realised they didn't care bout me.

Nobody in this life can't do without money #fact

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