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wowo2: yeah right, especially when the only issues they comment on are football, sex and women.

God! the football of a thing is most sad.
I think the reason is partly the effects of colonial indoctrination and partly poor educational standards.
I was with a group of people whom i assumed were learned and i was telling them how christianity came to nigeria citing many events from the national archives in order to persuade them to accept that teaching christian religious knowledge in schools is extremely dangerous psychologically to our children and our culture as our identity, i used a JSS 3 students notebook as an example where a topic " the evil of african traditional religion" was treated and imediately they all verbally abused me and the priest(catholic priest) said i was posessed. The two things that pained me was that i use reason,logic,historical and verifiable evidence and observed abnormalities on contemporary african society to back my points while they as OP said kept repeating same "your are working for the devil " phrase which provides no information nor illumination on their point if they had one.
Secondly the few who understood me were reluctant to criticise the status quo for fear of the priest(in white) or being bundled as an antichrist with me.
When i started stating in chronological order how christianity was sustained in eastern nigeria with the killings,forceful detentions and partial genocides in the name of god and compared it to the Muslim Jihad they simply asked me to leave.
Are black people really unintelligent as a race ?

Thoth was the egyptian God of knowledge and Writing. Thoth served as a
mediating power, especially
between good and evil, making
sure neither had a decisive
victory over the other. He
also served as scribe of the gods,credited with the invention
of writing and alphabets (i.e.
hieroglyphs) themselves. In
the underworld, Duat, he
appeared as an ape, A'an, the
god of equilibrium, who
reported when the scales
weighing the deceased's heart
against the feather, representing
the principle of Ma'at, was exactly
even.

I want to ask a very simple question. Are we Africans really stupid or do we actually enjoy and take pride in our sufferings ?

cap28: have you read NSSM 200? my guess would be no

do you know who Dr Henry Kissinger is? i would again say no

if you have never done any research around NSSM 200 why do you call it a conspiracy theory? is it because your brain is too lazy to think for itself?

look cap28 i had realised albeit sadly that majority of Nigerians even those who claim to be educated would not waste their time on any document that is more than a page except if it is p.o.r.n or football.

LeoMax: What are you saying, in essence dude?

i am saying that Africans are being played again.

just like the black face of obama is used to woo africans and propel africom so will Mrs Iweala would be used to propel economic doom for africa, Africa is the prize and the battle ground is africa, and anybody who knows anything about Strategic studies and planning knows that by population,dispersion,resources,military might and number, Nigeria is Africa. anyone who dominates nigeria dominates africa, very few people know this, and fewer people are bent on making use of this knowlegde.
why would Nigerian leaders continue making harsh economic policies when the life of the common man is already hell ?
why would they police patrol be called off in times of increasing security tensions ?
why would the President continue to fan and appease all these factions and seperatist movements instead of doing what any resonable leader should do to ensure the stability of the nation ?
All these are part of the a very cohesive psychological warfare being downed on nigeria.
very soon when things degenerates and gets out of hand we will all see what we had done to our selves.
You people should understand one basic rule of national security, considering technological advancement and economic power, our only bet for defending ourselves is our size and that means we have to be united.

@Beaf.. i will let you decide, you already know which side you are on.

Syria and US Imperialism

by Sara Flounders

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24659

Global Research, May 6, 2011
Workers.org



When U.S. imperialism engages in an attack on any government or movement, it is essential that the workers’ and progressive political movements for change gather as much information as is available and take a stand.

It is cowardly to be neutral and rank betrayal to stand on the same side as the imperialist octopus, which seeks to dominate the world.

This has been an ABC for workers’ movements through 150 years of class-conscious struggles. It is the very basis of Marxism. It is reflected in union songs that raise the challenge “Which side are you on?” and by labor organizers who explain again and again: “An injury to one is an injury to all.”

A social explosion is shaking the Arab world. U.S. imperialism and all the old regimes tied to it in the region are trying desperately to manage and contain this still unfolding mass upheaval into channels that do not threaten imperialist domination of the region.

The U.S. and its collaborators are also trying to divide and undermine the two wings of the resistance -- the Islamic forces and the secular nationalist forces -- which together overthrew the U.S.-backed dictatorships in Egypt and Tunisia. There is now a concerted U.S. effort to turn these same political forces against two regimes in the region that have opposed U.S. domination in the past -- Libya and Syria.

Both Libya and Syria have their own development problems, which are exacerbated by the general global capitalist crisis and decades of compromise imposed on them as they tried to survive in a hostile environment of unrelenting attacks -- political, sometimes military and including economic sanctions.

The U.S./NATO bombing of Libya has clarified where imperialism stands regarding that country. The transnational exploiters are determined to totally seize hold of the richest oil reserves in Africa and cut off the billions of dollars that Libya was contributing toward the development of much poorer African countries.

Syria is also targeted by imperialism -- because of its heroic defense of Palestinian resistance over decades and its refusal to recognize the Zionist occupation. Syria’s assistance to Hezbollah in their struggle to end the Israeli occupation of Lebanon and their strategic alliance with Iran cannot be forgotten.

Even if a great deal of Syria’s internal situation is difficult to understand, it is important to note that in this unfolding struggle clear statements of support for the Syrian government and against U.S. destabilization efforts have come from Hugo Chávez in Venezuela, Hezbollah Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah in Lebanon and several exiled leaders of Hamas, the Palestinian organization that was elected by the people of Gaza. These political leaders have experienced first-hand U.S. destabilization campaigns that used corporate media fabrications, externally financed opposition groups, targeted assassinations, special ops sabotage and well-trained Internet operatives.

On the side of the supposedly “democratic opposition” are such reactionaries as Sen. Joseph Lieberman, chair of the powerful Senate Homeland Security Committee, who called on the U.S. to bomb Syria next, after Libya. Outspoken supporters of the opposition in Syria include James Woolsey, former CIA Director and advisor to Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign.

Wikileaks exposes U.S. role

An article entitled “U.S. secretly backed Syrian opposition groups” by Craig Whitlock (Washington Post, April 18) described in great detail the information contained in U.S. diplomatic cables that Wikileaks had sent to news agencies around the world and posted on its web site. The article summarizes what these State Department cables reveal about the secret funding of Syrian political opposition groups, including the beaming of anti-government programming into the country via satellite television.

The article describes the U.S.-funded efforts as part of a “long-standing campaign to overthrow the country’s autocratic leader, Bashar al-Assad,” which began under President George W. Bush and continued under President Barack Obama, even though Obama claimed to be rebuilding relations with Syria and posted an ambassador to Damascus for the first time in six years.

According to an April 2009 cable signed by the top-ranking U.S. diplomat in Damascus at the time, Syrian authorities “would undoubtedly view any U.S. funds going to illegal political groups as tantamount to supporting regime change.” The Washington Post article describes in some detail the links between the U.S.-funded opposition Barada TV and the role of Malik al-Abdeh, who is on its board and distributes videos and protest updates. Al-Abdeh is also on the board of the Movement for Justice and Democracy, which his brother, Anas Al-Abdeh, chairs. The secret cables “report persistent fears among U.S. diplomats that Syrian state security agents had uncovered the money trail from Washington.”

Role of Al Jazeera

Perhaps the most revealing challenge to and exposé of the destabilization campaign in Syria came with the resignation of Ghassan Ben Jeddo, the best-known journalist with Al Jazeera’s television news programs and chief of its Beirut bureau. Ben Jeddo resigned in protest of Al Jazeera’s biased coverage, especially noting a “smear campaign against the Syrian government” that has turned Al Jazeera into a “propaganda outlet.”

Al Jazeera favorably covered the unstoppable mass upsurge of millions in Egypt and Tunisia. However, this satellite news channel has also extensively reported every claim and political charge, regardless of how unsubstantiated, made by the political opposition in both Syria and Libya. It became the strongest voice in the region, watched by millions of viewers, to call for U.S. “humanitarian” intervention, no-fly zones and bombing of Libya. So it is important to understand the position of Al Jazeera as a news corporation, especially when it claims to speak for the oppressed.

Al Jazeera, which is based in Qatar, never reports that 94 percent of the work force in Qatar is made up of immigrants who have absolutely no rights at all and exist in conditions of near slavery. The brutal repression of the mass movement in the absolute monarchy of Bahrain, which is just next door to Qatar and is now occupied by Saudi troops, also receives little coverage on Al Jazeera.

Is this censorship because Al Jazeera TV News is funded by the absolute monarch of Qatar, the Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani?

It is especially important to note that Al Jazeera never mentions the huge U.S. Central Command military air base right there in Qatar. Drones on secret missions throughout the region regularly take off from this base. Qatar has also sent planes to participate in the U.S./NATO bombing of Libya.

Qatar works closely with the U.S. State Department in supporting U.S. intervention in the area. Qatar was one of the first Arab states, and the first among the Gulf States, to establish relations with Israel. During the 2009 Israeli bombardment of Gaza, it canceled these relations but has since offered to renew them.

Facebook and counter-revolution

The CIA and National Endowment for Democracy have become expert at utilizing a barrage of social media such as Facebook, Twitter and Youtube to overwhelm targeted governments with millions of fabricated messages, wild rumors and images.

Fabricated alerts about struggles and splits among rival factions in Syria’s military leading to resignations turned out to be false. For example, Major Gen. al-Rifai (Ret.) denied as baseless news broadcasts over satellite television that he was leading a split in the military. He added that he had retired 10 years ago.

Izzat al-Rashek of the Hamas Politburo and Ali Baraka, Hamas representative in Lebanon, denied published claims that the leadership of this Palestinian resistance organization was relocating to Qatar from Damascus. Ali Baraka explained that this was a U.S. fabrication to pressure Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah and obstruct Palestinian reconciliation while raising conflict between resistance movements and Syria.

The Syrian government has charged that snipers fired into demonstrations, shooting army and police in an effort to have police open fire on demonstrators.

Rumors, anonymous Internet postings and satellite television reports aimed at heightening sectarian differences are part of the destabilization campaign.

Dual character of Syria

It is not difficult to see why U.S. imperialism and its pawns in the region, including Israel and the corrupt dependent monarchies of Jordan, Qatar, United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, would want to see “regime change’ in Syria.

Syria is one of the few Arab states that have no relations with Israel. Several Palestinian resistance organizations have offices-in-exile in Syria, including Hamas. Syria is allied closely with Iran and with Lebanon.

Syria today is not socialist nor a revolutionary country. Capitalism with its resulting inequality has not been overturned. There is a capitalist class in Syria; many within it have benefited from “reforms” that sold formerly state-owned industries to private capital.

However, the Syrian state represents contradictory forces. It has been a bulwark to protect the gains won in the anti-colonial struggles and upheavals by the Arab masses in 1960s and 1970s. During that period many important social gains were made, major industries and resources that had belonged to foreign capital were nationalized, and big advances were made in guaranteed health care, living standards and education.

Syria under the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party is fiercely secular. It has maintained religious freedom for all while allowing no one religious grouping to dominate or be promoted by the state.

But the regime in Syria has also harshly repressed efforts of mass movements based in Lebanon and Syria that wanted to take the struggle further. It has defended its repression of past movements by pointing to its precarious position right next to Israel, the impact of two Israeli wars in 1967 and 1973, and the resulting Israeli occupation and annexation of the important Golan Heights region of Syria for 44 years.

Years of U.S. sanctions and past destabilization efforts have also had a cumulative effect. The state apparatus, ever fearful of continuing outside intervention, has become fearful of change.

It is essential to recognize this dual character and not apologize for or ignore all the problems that flow from it.

Syria has had the added burden of providing for more than 500,000 Palestinian refugees and their descendants for the past 63 years. Their conditions are better than in any surrounding countries because, unlike in Lebanon and Jordan, healthcare, education and housing are accessible to Palestinians in Syria.

Impact of Iraq war

The massive U.S. invasion and destruction of neighboring Iraq, the Bush-Blair discussion of a similar attack on Syria in 2003, and the harsh new sanctions on Syria have added intense pressure.

But the most dislocating factor is never discussed in the corporate media: More than 1,500,000 Iraqis have flooded into Syria to escape the last eight years of U.S. occupation.

This was a huge influx for a country with a population in 2006 of 18 million. According to a 2007 report by the office of the U.S. High Commissioner for Refugees, the arrival of 2,000 desperate Iraqis per day had an extreme impact on all facets of life in Syria, particularly on the services offered by the state to all its citizens and all refugees. Syria has the highest level of civic and social rights for refugees in the region. Other surrounding countries require a minimum bank balance and ban destitute refugees.

The unexpected arrival of these Iraqi refugees has had a dramatic impact on the infrastructure, on guaranteed free elementary and high schools, on free healthcare, on housing availability and other areas of the economy. It has led to a rise in costs across the board. The prices of foodstuffs and basic goods have gone up by 30 percent, property prices by 40 percent and housing rentals by 150 percent.

Iraqi refugees also benefited from Syrian state subsidies in gasoline, food, water and other essential goods provided to everyone. Such a large mass of unemployed people led to the lowering of wages and increased competition for jobs. The impact of the global economic downturn during this difficult period added to the problems. (Middle East Institute, Dec. 10, 2010, report on Refugee Cooperation)

The U.S. created the refugee crisis, which left more than 25 percent of the Iraqi population displaced by sectarian violence. Yet it accepts the lowest number of refugees and has donated less than the cost of one day of the war in Iraq toward U.N. relief costs. U.S. sanctions on Syria have increased the economic dislocations.

All this has increased the awareness of the Syrian government and people about the dangers of U.S. occupation and the internal destabilization and bloodbath that can come with U.S.-instigated sectarian violence.

Washington claims it is worried about instability in Syria. But U.S. imperialism as a system is driven to create instability. The overwhelming dominance and power of military and oil corporations in the U.S. economy and the enormous profits of military contracts endlessly reinforce the drive to seek military solutions.

Every statement made by the Syrian government has recognized the importance of making internal reforms while maintaining national unity in an extremely diverse country that has historic differences in religion, tribes and regions and now contains almost 2 million refugees.

The diverse nationalities, religions and cultural groupings in Syria have every right to be part of this process. But what they need most is an end to constant, unrelenting U.S. intervention.

U.S. hands off!

Sara Flounders is a frequent contributor to Global Research. Global Research Articles by Sara Flounders

Nigerians would someday cry to have an Abacha rule them again.

Nigeria's misery has not started yet, i warned them long ago the steps that would lead to actual military domination of the country, some foolish people who does not understand international politics and imperialism are already rejoicing and thinking they would come and descend on the north, they are not coming for the North, they are coming for the whole of Nigeria and Niger Delta at heart, the North is only the pasty or clearer stated the reason they would use to drum in, when they do and start unleashing their terror no voice will be heard anymore, any Muslim that says against the atrocity of the Alien imperialist forces would be a condemned Al qeda criminal, any christian that does same would either disappear, a gun runner, oil bunker-er/terrorist of Niger Delta Origin or ultimately a secessionist.
They would flare it more and more and the torched has passed from Terrorist/Boko haram stage to Terrorist/Al qeda phase now making it an international issue, foreigners would be kidnapped and killed and al qeda would mysteriously confirm it leading in nations of the deceased and further validating Nigeria as a terrorist infested,corruption instituted and a weak state that needs foreign assistance and ultimately it would set in.

Since foreign forces could not be lodged on persuasion and many officials see it against their interests we can only expect the stance to get more serious, according to Goyles analysis a replication of 9/11 is possible by which Nigeria would be validated as a World Threat and the governments of the imperialist nation reason for swift action bypassing all due legal procedures. if that happens the Nigerian Government has no choice but to take side with the imperialists for self preservation.
ARIS-NI Dept Report#100211 Date: Feb,04,2012.


Considering the above mentioned obstacles and the inefficiency of the reactionary elites in the Nigerian goverment to fully execute the imperialist agenda, a shift of stance which would bring Nigeria closer to Al qeda is to be expected, either by capturing Nigerians in Afghanistan or else where in the middle east and having him declare he is al qeda or making reports based on shady intelligence the presence of a top al qeda official in Nigeria, whatever way they choose it is not more to be doubted that Bush's War on Terror would be taken to Nigeria.Idika also asserts that
ARIS-NI Dept Report#100113 Date: Dec,16,2011.

Intelligence gathering costs very little when you are in defensive mode,the costs comes in when you went offensive like subversion,overthrowing a goverment,inciting war or extracting national secrets.
Lets get the defensive right first.
Cuba is 15 times poorer than isreal but they have an extremely good intel outfits that can play both roles.

Intelligence gathering costs very little when you are in defensive mode,the costs comes in when you went offensive like subversion,overthrowing a goverment,inciting war or extracting national secrets.
Lets get the defensive right first.
Cuba is 15 times poorer than isreal but they have an extremely good intel outfits that can play both roles.

The Nigerian masses still don't understand the evils of privatization or why it is being forced on them, those World Economic powers forcing their policies down our throat never had the interest of the people at heart, sometimes i wonder if the people can't read between the lines and the game they are being played but maybe we should have a try here.
1: The Foreign coporations and their Governments orders the president to privatise or he will meet his demise.
2: He has to increase the tariffs so that he will bear the blunt of the people and those foreign greedy corporations won't have to do it themselves.
3: The Foreign Corporations come in and buys the national assets for pennies and then suck the masses dry with the new tariff.
4: Production remains same and local industries that can't afford fuel can no longer afford electricity killing the few industries we had and grinding local production to a halt, the result of that is pushing Nigeria more towards import bases economy favouring those foreign countries that conspired it in the first place and creating a new wave of poor masses or totally destroying or shrinking the middle class.

Why can't we see through these spoof and understand that some nations are out to destroy our country in ally with greedy heartless politicians, why can't we unite and see our self through ? How can people defend this sort of daylight robbery ?
It saddens me all the time the ignorance of Nigerians.
How can they increase tariff and then pay those foreign companies subsidies again, its like eating your cake and having it back.

Nigerians really need to suffer so that they will be enlightened, and the real horror is not far in the future.

Nigerian Currency is artificially devalued, the IMF "suggested" that to Central Bank.
Abacha kept the naira pegged at 21 to a dollar thats why he built all he did and still did not borrow from the evil world bank and IMF. The currency he had has value and he can buy ENOUGH with less . That is economics for you and he was crucified chiefly because he refused to sell out his country.

onojiwizard@gmail.com:
Mr. Thot i dont know which country you are from but i think nigerians are more elignthen than whatever country you come from, point of correction the naira as at this morning is 158 naira to 1dollar, and also note that the value of a countries currency is determined by your export and import capacity, before Ghana revalued her currency nigeria first started that process, but because we know our economics better than you do, we decided not to do so, note that the chinese and the japanese are also keeping their currency low to gain export advantage so the value of our currency is not the issue, and again when will we africans grow above the western conspiracy thing and start to shape our destinies, pls stop the nonse and start looking closely at your self before you blame others for your problems.

You are quite ignorant of how world economy works maybe i should use this opportunity to enlighten those who SINCERELY wishes to be.
First what does nigeria produce ? What LOCALY PRODUCED goods do we export ?
Nigeria imports 90% of what it consumes just like Ghana even though the later is developing industrially, so a stronger currency is in our favour since we are import based. GHANA KNEW THIS so they pick on it and strengthened their currency given their citizens better lives and more capital power.
China and Japan artificially devalues their currency since they are export based but they did not devalue it so that their goods and services would be bought for pennies instead they found a balance hence pegging it at 6.5 to a dollar. They can still enjoy the advantages of a strong currency and the advantages of the devaluation which makes goods produced in china always cheaper than their competitors, or do you think they can't devalue pass nigeria if that makes sense ?
Foreign corporations can come and buy up all your assets because of this stupid policy and all your efforts will be paid for in pennies. A teacher in the Us earns more than a Doctor in Nigeria and you can't still do simple maths to know why.

onojiwizard@gmail.com:
thot nigeria only has one problem and that is curuption every nigerian knows, that is is our problem we know also that will end one day, also note that from your quatation of 1.5 to 1 dolar for a Ghana cedi I was right hence my calculation was right, stop trying to mislead my people you guys simply pay more for petrol than we do, so stop the nonsense please and mind your business in your country

onojiwizard@gmail.com:
thot nigeria only has one problem and that is curuption every nigerian knows, that is is our problem we know also that will end one day, also note that from your quatation of 1.5 to 1 dolar for a Ghana cedi I was right hence my calculation was right, stop trying to mislead my people you guys simply pay more for petrol than we do, so stop the nonsense please and mind your business in your country

You were wrong beacause your reference is irrelivant, it is like saying that a litre of fuel sells for 1£ in the UK so nigerian should also buy at above 200 naira then you forget that very few nigerians earns more than 300 pounds a month,you forgot that the average salary of a person in the UK is 11 times more than what you earn here.
So how many can afford gasoline if such silly references are used in policy making. A loaf of bread sells for 4.5 dollars in some parts of the Us so why don't you buy a loaf for 600 naira in your city.
Only uneducated people or lazy minds who fail to think for themselves would fall for such tricks.

sweet9ja:
no mind dem, nigerians are quick to jump to conclusion.Speak for yourself.Cry for ya sef.JAM is playing politics with the Ghanaian economy.

onojiwizard@gmail.com:
when will Nigerian learn to check the facts before they react like this, the price after the removal of subsidy was GHp 175 which is $1.03 which is 163 naira, now with 20% decrease it is now GHp 140 which is now $0.83 which is 130 naira. so pls as Nigerian we must stop comparing ourselves with Ghana because our case is different

I think you are the one that suppose to check your facts before trying to derail Nigerians who are only trying to be enlightened . As of this morning the Ghananian Cedis is trading at 1.539 to 1 dollar but the IMF and World Bank has forced your spineless country to devalue its currency to 190 naira to 1 dollar so that they will be enjoying greater exchange rate even with their failed economies. So you cannot use the Ghananian currency in a reference to a Nigerian situation, a middle class Ghananian family can afford to send their children to a foreign university due to the favourable exchange rate that add value to their currency and hardwork, in your country only rich citizens can afford that and your hard work and goods you produce can be bought for pennies by the western countries.

As an older ghananian intellectual and you will see the secret battle they are fighting with these western countries over domination of their economy and resources, it gets worse every election time as they always try to sponsor their puppets into the ghananian presidential seats but i trust the ghananians as they have always use a soft and legal method to always push them and their agenda aside.

I paines me how easily people are being fooled . We all are now dark strings of a huge evil harp played by the crawny hands of the white devil ,we are making a really sad tune.

Mark my words the more the US come in the more the bombings intensify, more innocent people will be killed by the security forces till it turns to an islam vs USA scenario. More foreign forces would be requested to control it and more billions needed for national development would be used on security deals with the West. We will just end up like Congo on an endless and meaningless warfare , our own situation would be more bloody because of our high population and extreme ignorance.

I am very sure this is where we are headed.

The late and beloved, General
Sani Abacha. A leader you stood
against the IMF and world power
that wanted to forcefully get
Nigeria to take a loan that they
never needed. Abacha told them;
the money from oil sales was
enough for Nigeria. That's what I
call a leader with balls. Not
enough, they came back to him,
you must devalue naira or face
sanctions, once again, Abacha
told them go to hell. They
imposed travel ban on Abacha to
western countries. People didn't
know that Abacha never traveled
to any western country for most
of his leadership tenure. Even
when he was dying, he believed
in Nigeria and Nigerian doctors
treated him. That is what you call
a patriotic leader. He met with
Gaddafi and sought advice on
how get Nigeria to become
economic independent from the
western world countries. Yes,
many economic think-tanks have
it that Nigeria was close to being
independent from foreign
dependence before he was killed.
The international bankers have
succeeded in rubbishing his
image, that he stole this and stole
that. And most of us have fallen
prey and gullible to these chip
shot attack on his credibility.
Have you asked yourself, where
are all these monies that they
claimed he stole and recovered?
Are we not entitled to know
where the money went to. Have
you asked yourself, if these
people can claim that Abacha
stole billions and are unable to
find any thing even $1m on IBB,
common sense tells you that this
was all orchestrated. Remember
Abacha served IBB for almost 11
years and the only time in our
history when a Chief of defense
staff(Abacha) had the same
military rank as the head of state
(IBB). And most people who
served closely with him, will tell
you that he was deeply against
the World Bank-led Structural
Adjustment Program and wasted
no time, not following through
on it when he came to power.
Yes he was brutal during his
administration but he meant well
for Nigeria. I have no fear that
had he remained in power,
Nigeria would been on par with
Gaddafi-led Libya. Not Libya
today. Judge for yourselves, all
the major construction
embarked and built in Abuja,
were initiated by the Abacha
regime. Just a few, National
Hospital Abuja (the only major
hospital fully functioning in
Nigeria today), National Stadium,
Nigeria conference center, NNPC
towers (He initiated it), Ministry
of finance, and provided the land
for the building of the CBN
towers e.t.c. I can name many
more, but this is just to give you
an idea. Why is it that no new
medical center or major hospital
has been since the one initiated
by Abacha, though completed by
Abdulsalami. This just tells you
that this man had a vision. Again,
yes he was a dictator but some
countries need dictators to
protect us from the White-led
blood suckers of the black
countries.
History will judge and very soon,
you guys will begin to see the
undeniable truth on the
achievements of the man, Late
General Sani Abacha.
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[/b]many people will not believe you because the western imperialist media already maintains a firm grip on their minds, Abacha fought fiercly and patriotically against the enemies of africa but just like Murtala Mohamed such people will not last long in power.
My first time in Nigeria was during Buhari/Idiagbon regime and i like them a lot too. So i will say Buhari/idiagbon -> Abacha.
People who say Abacha is brutal does not know how SUBVERSION works and are ignorant.[b/]

Unless Nigerians get our Priorities straight the Imperialists will accomplish what they intended.

Africans always try to borrow solutions to OTHER peoples problems, Cashless society is being forced on people whereby the foundation for such policies has not bee put in place, Nigeria has no Data networks infrastructure , has one of the highest cost of internet subscriptions , does not have Data and Systems security engineers to ward against phishers and hackers.
How can this work if you don't have internet to connect vast networks of ATM machines and bank servers ?
How can such transactions be secure if you don't have Professional System security engineers to safeguard the computer naive masses from scams and protect their personal data and capital ?
How can this work if the masses themselves does not have access to cheap internet facilities ?

My cousin told me last December that he cannot withdraw money from the ATM because there is "NO SERVICE" meaning the network facility is down. how can people do business with such an unreliable facility ?
Even China has not implemented cashless policies because they don't take their orders from IMF and their imperialistic fraudsters no matter the amount of capital that flows around in the nation . Their aim is to cripple the economy and they are doing a good job

cap28:
thanks thoth - your posts reassure me that im not going crazy.

do you think nigerians will ever get to the point of being able to do this?:


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and if they do - will the nigerian govt use water canons or live ammunition?

I think the masses should be careful because they would use any means neccesary to contain the protest, i don't think the police is meant to hurt anybody but if the protest becomes massive it might result in more casualties.
A bomb blast in one or two of the protest zones south of the country will do the trick,though i hope they never need to go such extremes.

cap28:
Also africans have attempted to end the neo colonial exploitation and abuse by coming up with economic policies which will help grow their economies - have you heard of the lagos plan which was deviced by various african countries in the 1980s?  African countries tried to implement it but were blocked by america and europe:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagos_Plan_of_Action

]
Comunism failed not because it is inherently bad but because not enough countries adopted it, likewise many continental and regional economic policies failed because  many of those leaders are puppets and will always undermine the efforts of others.
Many African leaders stood by and left Ivory Coast to be invaded by French troops and Gbabo ousted. The somalians were attacked by the Ethiopians and Kenyans as a western proxy, Nigerian troops are used to terrorize and intimidate sudanese masses so that western corporations can exploit them. AU and OAU did nothing as Qaddafi was bombed.
I had a course in 2007 and that was where i heard that the "Ghana must go " saga was to pressure Mr Rawlings of Ghana to adopt US policies,now many Ghananians hates nigerians while the actual pepetrators remains in Ghana's good books.

I saw your posts and they are very encouraging .

cap28:
I've been reading through your posts and i must say you are very very knowledgeable on international affairs and how they affect nigeria.

You sound like someone who has had a lot of exposure - you must feel a lot of frustration reading most of the posts on here.

The nigerian historian Chinweizu Ibekwe once stated that if no black african country is able to get its act together by the end of the 21st century black africans are going to suffer the same fate as the native americans and the aborigines of australia, new zealand and tasmania ie extermination  at the hands of europeans - here is what he says:

do you agree with this?

Also africans have attempted to end the neo colonial exploitation and abuse by coming up with economic policies which will help grow their economies - have you heard of the lagos plan which was deviced by various african countries in the 1980s?  African countries tried to implement it but were blocked by america and europe:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagos_Plan_of_Action

Don't let some posters frustrate you, keep in mind that some are working hard to achieve a goal that clearly opposes yours, just see it as a game.

Think of Africa as the Paradise that Europeans never had,sunshine,fertile lands,no earthquakes,tsunamies or typhoons and aboundance of natural resources.
There has been numerous attempts to exterminate Africans and some are still going on. We had transcripts of 1968,1969,1972-78,1981,1990-1992,1999,2005 of the Bilderberge Conference to show for a fact that the Ebola Virus was artificially created as a biological weapon and tested in Congo . Though we cannot infer from the transcripts the origin of AIDS, We know it has been used as an extermination tool particularly in Africa and the modes of insertion was clearly stated and debated on some of them-Zimbabwe'99 (1990-92,1999). There are other measures targeted at the African population but this is a delicate topic.

cap28:
Is it too late to stop them in their tracks? what can nigerians do to prevent this?

Considering the extent that their operations has been succesfull the only bet is to educate the masses as much as we can, they have more money than us,they have bought all the assumed leaders from Ohaneze to OPC, The goverment is a collosal puppet show, our aim should be to unite all nigerians and fight them, since they continously use our puppet leaders to divide us across cultural lines only EDUCATING the masses and helping them identify OUR COMMON ENEMY will UNITE us and fight together with one objective. Anything else will play us more into their hands.

We are now at the PsyOps stage, IMF/World Bank/AFRICOM are working together simultenously achieve full spectrum domination in Africa(2nd colonisation) .
Nigerians in this case is being prepared psychological for the next stage of the operation. Meanwhile the international community is also being prepared as well for the next stage, as soon as the image of a corrupt,terrorist infested,poor and malfuntioning nation is complete and it is established that nigeria is a threat to World Peace and foreign assistance should be used to contain the threat because the nation lacks the ability then the next stage is ushered in.

How stupid are Nigerians? So anybody that preaches against the west/IMF/WORLD BANK is now a terrorist ? Enlightened individuals should educate others and people should not buy that anti-west equals to terrorist propaganda.

If Nigerians thin that strike or Protests will lift them out of this misery then they are wholly mistaken, if Nigerians think that NLC is on their side then they are in for a a huge disappointment.