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Nawa ooo...av said it dat if u want unbiased news stop watching cnn, BBC nd Co. Cos it like believing everything u hear about the incumbent leaders on NTA.

So cbn is apc.....next level cluelessness

10 years ko 10 years ni.....can't see any homosexual act in dat video....so three ladies in a bathtub is an act of homosexuality ....nawa oooo

Who was really responsible for the downing of flight MH17? Let's take a look at the facts...

As SCG News explains...

On July 17th, 2014 two major events took place: Malaysian flight MH17 was downed over eastern Ukraine, presumably by a missile, and Israel began a ground invasion of Gaza. Israel's invasion was granted an almost complete media blackout. The MH17 tragedy, however, got full coverage, and was immediately propagandized. (This in spite of the fact that far more civilians have been killed by Israel's bombardment of Gaza over the past few weeks.)

The U.S. government and the western media pinned the responsibility for the MH17 tragedy on Russia within minutes, long before investigators had time to even arrive at the scene, much less provide any actual conclusions. Then came an all out information war, with lies, omissions and disinformation coming from all sides.

The geopolitical implications of this event should not be underestimated. If this was ever in doubt, the fact that Obama just sent military advisers to Ukraine to help Kiev in its assault against the east should make it very clear. Depending on how much mileage Washington can get out of it, the downing of flight MH17 could end up being extremely pivotal.

Anyone who knows their history, knows that media coverage of events like these often lay the psychological groundwork for war. Consider the sinking of the Lusitania for example on 5/7/1915 (or the murder archduke Ferdinand in 1914). These combined with the Zimmermann Telegram (which was dispatched on 1/16/1917) pushed US public opinion over the tipping point, and on 4/6/1917 the United States declared war on Germany.

It is worth noting that though the U.S. denied it at the time, later diving expeditions revealed that the Lusitania was indeed smuggling war munitions at the time that was sunk (as Germany had asserted from the beginning). Of course, by the time the truth was known it was far too late for the 116,000 Americans who were killed in that conflict.

So who was REALLY responsible for the downing of flight MH17?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b67OGUsQC44
please watch

AkinEgba: Yes, absolute numbers are different from %s, and % tells a better economic story. For me too, Nigeria is better off as one in the long run. I am an Igbo, but I am not interested in Biafra but want peace in Nigeria and for those killing Igbos and other Nigerians in other parts of Nigeria to desist from doing so. Otherwise then Biafra is an option.

To grow, we should start holding our thieving leaders more accountable. For example, there is no reason why the current Gov of Abia who has so underdeveloped Aba City in the past 8 years should not be stoned to death put in jail and the keys thrown away. All the monies these leaders have been stealing, hence next to nothing is being done with the monthly allocations, would have gone a long way in creating many more productive Nigerians via education and skills acquisition.

so u get sense like dis....thought u are one of those tribal bigot

Quite informative ....thanks bro

See what happens when USA removes legitimate governments with puppets...

God forgave them....God only pronounced the consequence of sin to them...remember that the reward of sin is death....shalom

Ask4bigneyo: It is your life BUT remember, you are not the bonafide owner...

LEST I FORGET:
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HOLY BIBLE, Last opened= Last week Sunday.

God is soaking your cain inside kerosine!

Emessy: The central bank of Nigeria is determined to boost the Countries financial capabilities and economy before the next elections and a bill has been passed to the House of Assembly over printing of The great General Of Biafra OJUKWU's picture on the upcoming N2000 naira note , votes are still being counted in the national assembly but as of currently The Majority which are Yorubas , Hausa and Other tribes have opposed it saying Lt con Ojukwu was nothing but a trouble maker

WWW.nighouseass.com//ojukwuN2000pic...

"great general"please stop insulting ojukwu himself ....he was a coward and a loser...he fled from war front and left his "beloved biafrians" for a life of luxury in ghana.....

joeanointing: I will love to thank God for the priviledge to be the first person to comment. This is my first time of bn first. Russia needs to amend it ways because the multiplier effects of the sanctions are disastrous.

too much cnn and bbc is not gud 4 u....u can visit zerohedge.com for unbaised news

killing innocent people is bad...so i dont support the indiscriminate bombing by isreal in gaza...but hamas is also at fault as well by shooting rockets into isreal

mr likey

Godson201333: It took the president of Cameroun just 2 days to rescue the wife of the deputy prime minister of his country that Boko Haram kidnapped. He did not use human life as a political tool to gain advantage over the opposition party by accusing them of the abduction. His wife did not start crying on TV to tell the country that the woman was not kidnapped.

Jonathan is just a disgrace,Like someone has already said,If Jonathan should win the next election,then it means maybe our nation has been cursed.

the naija president is lame and weak.

Quantifying the Effects of Regime Change

Since 2001, the U.S. has undertaken regime change in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya.

All 3 countries are now in chaos … and extremists are more in control than ever.

Iraq

In Iraq, hardcore Islamic jihadis known as ISIS have taken over much of the country – shown in red as the new “Islamic State” or self-described caliphate – using captured American weapons:

http://heavyeditorial.files./2014/06/territorial_control_of_the_isis-svg.png?w=640&h=489

USA Today notes: “Iraq is already splitting into three states“.

Christians are being rounded up and killed, and Christian leaders in Iraq say the end of Christianity in Iraq is “very near”. But as we documented in 2012, Saddam Hussein – for all his faults – was a secular leader who tolerated Christians.

Libya

Libya has also descended into absolute chaos. We reported in 2012:

Al Qaeda is now largely in control of Libya. Indeed, Al Qaeda flags were flown over the Benghazi courthouse once Gaddafi was toppled.
(This is – again – in contrast to toleration of Christians under Gadaffi.)

The Guardian noted in March:

According to Amnesty International, the “mounting curbs on freedom of expression are threatening the rights Libyans sought to gain“. A repressive Gaddafi-era law has been amended to criminalise any insults to officials or the general national congress (the interim parliament). One journalist, Amara al-Khattabi, was put on trial for alleging corruption among judges. Satellite television stations deemed critical of the authorities have been banned, one station has been attacked with rocket-propelled grenades, and journalists have been assassinated.

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Ever since the fall of [Gadaffi's] dictatorship, there have been stories of black Libyans being treated en masse as Gaddafi loyalists and attacked. In a savage act of collective punishment, 35,000 people were driven out of Tawergha in retaliation for the brutal siege of the anti-Gaddafi stronghold of Misrata. The town was trashed and its inhabitants have been left in what human rights organisations are calling “deplorable conditions” in a Tripoli refugee camp. Such forced removals continue elsewhere. Thousands have been arbitrarily detained without any pretence of due process; and judges, prosecutors, lawyers and witnesses have been attacked or even killed. Libya’s first post-Gaddafi prosecutor general, Abdulaziz Al-Hassadi, was assassinated in the town of Derna last month.

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When residents of Benghazi – the heartland of the revolution – protested against militia rule in June last year, 32 people were killed in what became known as “Black Saturday”. In another protest in Tripoli last November, 46 died and 500 were injured.
Under militia rule, Libya is beginning to disintegrate. Last summer forces under the command of the warlord Ibrahim Jadran took control of eastern oil terminals …. These forces which hijacked a oil tanker this month, prompting threats from Libya’s prime minister that it would be bombed until US forces captured it this weekend. Clashes have broken out in Jadran’s home town of Ajdabiya. In painful echoes of Iraq’s nightmare, a car bomb exploded at a Benghazi military base last week and killed at least eight soldiers, and Libya’s main airport was shut on Friday after a bomb exploded on its runway.

One of the great perversities of the so-called war on terror is that fundamentalist Islamist forces have flourished as a direct consequence of it. Libya is no exception, even though such movements often have little popular support. The Muslim Brotherhood and other elements are better organised than many of their rivals, helping to remove the prime minister, push through legislation, and establish alliances with opportunistic militias.

Ominously, Libya’s chaos is spilling across the region. The country is awash with up to 15 million rifles and other weapons, and a report by the UN panel of experts this month found that “Libya has become a primary source of illicit weapons“. These arms are fuelling chaos in 14 countries, including Somalia, the Central African Republic, Nigeria and Niger.

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There is a real prospect of the country collapsing into civil war or even breaking up. Unless there are negotiated settlements to its multiple problems, Libya will surely continue its descent into mayhem, and the region could be dragged into the mire with it.

No wonder western governments and journalists who hailed the success of this intervention are so silent. But here are the consequences of their war, and they must take responsibility for them.
28-year CIA veteran Paul Pillar – who rose to be one of the agency’s top analysts – wrote in May:

Just when one might have thought the mess in Libya could not have gotten worse, it has.

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Saudi Arabia and several other Arab states have evacuated their diplomats from Libya, the United States is preparing for possible evacuation of U.S. personnel, and the country appears on the brink of a larger civil war.

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Those in Libya closest to being called secular liberals seem to be associated with military officers of the old regime.

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The intervention already has negatively affected U.S. interests, particularly in providing a disincentive to other regimes to do what Gaddafi did in negotiating an end to involvement in terrorism and an end to production of unconventional weapons.
And things have only gotten worse since then.

(It should be remembered that the U.S. helped sew the seeds of chaos in several ways. Not only did we engage in direct military intervention against Gadafi, but also – as confirmed by a group of CIA officers – armed Al Qaeda so that they would help topple Gaddafi.)

Afghanistan

Opium production is at an all-time high under the American occupation of Afghanistan.

And the New York Times reports this week that the Taliban are currently making huge gains in Afghanistan … in some cases expanding even beyond their traditional areas of influence prior to 2001:

The Taliban have found success beyond their traditional strongholds in the rural south and are now dominating territory near crucial highways and cities that surround Kabul, the capital, in strategic provinces like Kapisa and Nangarhar.
U.S. troops are just now leaving, and so the worst may be still to come. In addition – as we discuss below – the U.S. previously imposed regime change on Afghanistan … and the results were bad.

History Repeats

The U.S. carried out regime change in Iran in 1953 … which led to radicalization in the country. Specifically, the CIA admits that the U.S. overthrew the moderate, suit-and-tie-wearing, Democratically-elected prime minister of Iran in 1953. (He was overthrown because he had nationalized Iran’s oil, which had previously been controlled by BP and other Western oil companies). As part of that action, the CIA admits that it hired Iranians to pose as Communists and stage bombings in Iran in order to turn the country against its prime minister.

If the U.S. hadn’t overthrown the moderate Iranian government, the fundamentalist Mullahs would have never taken over. Iran has been known for thousands of years for tolerating Christians and other religious minorities.

Hawks in the U.S. government been pushing for another round of regime change in Iran for decades.

Hillary Clinton and then-president Jimmy Carter’s National Security Adviser have both admitted on the record that the U.S. previously carried out regime change in Afghanistan in the 1970s by backing Bin Laden and the Mujahadin … the precursor to Al Qaeda.

And look how that turned out.

Syria

The U.S. has heavily backed the Islamic rebels in Syria in an attempt to implement regime change in that country. The result?

As shown by the map above, they’ve taken a third of the country as part of their “caliphate”

And the jihadis are now busily crucifying, beheading and slitting the throats of Christians. (Yup, Syria was previously known for tolerating Christians.)

Haven’t These Wars Made It Safer at Home?

But haven’t all of these wars made it safer here at home? Nope … a top Pentagon officials says we’re no safer – and perhaps less safe – after 13 years of war.

As we’ve pointed out for almost a decade, security experts – conservative hawks and liberal doves alike – agree that waging war in the Middle East weakens national security and increases terrorism. See this, this, this, this, this, this and this.

Regime Support

But the U.S. doesn’t always back regime change. Sometimes we work to support regimes …

… Unfortunately, they tend to be some of the most brutal tyrannies on the planet.

Postscript: We can probably add Ukraine to the list of regime changed countries falling into chaos and murderous extremism, given that:

The U.S. State Department spent more than $5 billion dollars in pushing Ukraine away from Russia
The U.S. ambassador to Ukraine (Geoffrey Pyatt) and assistant Secretary of State (Victoria Nuland) were recorded plotting the downfall of the former Ukraine government in a leaked recording
Top-level U.S. officials literally handed out cookies to the protesters who overthrew the Ukrainian government
The U.S. has been backing – militarily as well as monetarily – the Neo-Nazis who have plunged the country into chaos
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-29/all-countries-which-us-%E2%80%9Cregime-changed%E2%80%9D-%E2%80%93-iraq-afghanistan-and-libya-%E2%80%93-have-descende

I think D op is more clueless than d president. ..even d president acknowledged that der was an attempt on general buhari and idumoron cited a more clueless individual asari dokubo , dis shows the level of folly in the anti-buhari camp

Heya a a. ...may his soul rest in peace

all d best

my strikers will be ronaldo de lima and pele

Omexonomy: These moronnic APC are ready to do any thing to get to power

u sound like a slowpoke

bamanga tukur was quoted as saying the BOKO HARAM are freedom fighters........daris god ooooo

Agwaso: Driving on Fashola's interlock roads is very bumpy. One might link the deplorable state of the roads to the soil structure of Lekki - V.I. Axis. My opinion is that Fashola needs help. He needs to use the right people to do quality job. Ajose Adeogun Street, V.I. Was constructed over five years ago and the road is still smooth if Zenith bank can do quality road construction, why can Fashola same?

smh for the op....

zuchyblink: The truth is that nigerias inability to
develope is correlated with a grand plan
against all igbos.actually most of nigerian
onshore oil is produced in igboland.igbos
have however been balkanized and put at
loggerheads.oil was actually discovered in
owerri before oloibiri,but swept under the
carpet with false claims of not being in
commercial quantity.i can assure everyone
on this thread that very soon oil will be
struck in owerri again.the largest oil
producing local government in nigeria is
ogba/egbema/ndoni in rivers state.though
99% igbo-speaking,it should be noted that
part of it was ceded to rivers state as a
result of oil in 1976 to reduce imo's income.

can u tell me those that hate the ibos and please give me prove.thanks

omenka: Until we stop playing victims, the backstage will always remain our abode!! What kind of arrant fuckery is this Are our "leaders" themselves united How many states in the SE did Ikemba win when he stood for presidential election

Most useless imagination ever!!!

igbos shud stop playing the victim,dis is 2014,ibo is a major tribe in nigeria,they shud fight for there rights through actions and not through ranting.
u guyz keep blaming yorubas and hausa,but both tribes are controlling nigeria through sheer gut and determination from them...ibos need to wake up and use there strength ,finacial,political,economical to achieve there objectives rather than playing the victim game.