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What would empty words do? Ask Georgian's about U.S. support last summer. Ask the Cubans in America about U.S. support. The fact that this is all just a big battle between the ruling class in Iran and not a true social revolutionary movement so far speaks volume. If he says something you'd accuse him of hypocrisy for not backing it up. He says nothing and he is letting the Iranians suffer in silence. I respect that Iranians want Ahmedinijad out, but it isn't for social reasons. They know that the clerics vet who can and cannot run for office, they know that their foreign policy is still in the hands of the Supreme leader, Iranians are feeling the pinch of the economy and have been for quite a while now and they want someone that will focus on that. Do you see the idiots claiming the protests to be a U.S. conspiracy on this forums from non Iranians? Imagine when the U.S. starts to pander by spewing bullshit that "today we are all Iranians" and then watch as the government cracks down even more mercilessly on these people. The people marching on the streets aren't doing so because of a social reason; other than the fact that they want the Iranian state to live up to its end of the bargain of allowing it to choose its President's.

The Qatari ruling monarchs own al-jazeera so I guess that means that they are zionists? Yes you are right about staged protests, I guess the millions who have protested were trucked and flown in from the Iranian diaspora. Yes people want dinnerjacket out, but not for the reasons you said. The supreme leader is still going to be there, Iran is in all likelihood still pursuing nuclear weapons regardless of who the president is. but that isn't what this is about. This is about the one pressure valve of Iranians being denied them. Ahmedinijad did not win this election and I do not think that it is beyond the pale to state it emphatically.

weak minds are easily distracted and manipulated. And here I thought you magnanimous for letting me have the last word. It would seem that your word flits as much as you do.

Like I said before, I am a dickish impish sort of fellow. If you want to be petty, I can be petty. Please, for future reference, don't bitch and moan about something you yourself are guilty about.

My dear, you are starting to sound like a broken record. Kindly get back to the cave. I guess footballers protesting is another western conspiracy. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8105722.stm

For a vapid airhead I agree.

Gee, I guess I must be imagining seeing a five-mile-long sea of humanity marching in the center of Tehran earlier this week in protest of the elections. what circular logic? It is self evident that the elections were rigged. If a party or a candidate wins by the majority claimed by dinnerjackit fairly then there should be no reason for a five-mile-long sea of humanity to march in protest of the elections. Do you know what the Bleep you are talking about or do you just have logorrhea? I guess you've perfected the act of posting on threads without the aid of computers or smartphones. Clearly that is what buttressed your claim.

I am not a self-serving hypocrite complaining abut the excesses of the news media while contributing to it. What? You think that this story is so pressing as to post it here? If so good job, but I wonder if it is in keeping with the spirit of this subforum. Afterall,reading this had little to do with substantive international news, it is just a throwaway story that is at best a sidebar. Again, I am not the one exercising monopolistic interests in reserving the right to post and bitch about the inane .No, nothing about me badgering you and your dumb thread is not ironic. It is dickish, but I am not a bleeping hypocrite for saying that you are part of the problem that you moan about, that the ultimate gatekeeper is you.

If you get news about big brother it is because you choose to get news about big brother. If you can name the winners of inane reality show or even know most of its contestants then it is because you choose to know. Its as if you people have no self-discerning bone in your body to separate crap from substance. I see you protecting your right to post the inane by informing another poster in a thread that you've already started a thread about it. Again, if you complain about the problem, then contribute to it makes me "think the lady doth protest too much."

wtf is wrong with you people. A million discontent Iranians march to protest a rigged election and we get people like Afam saying well where is your proof? U guess these idiots are totally devoid from reality when they in all actuality are living in a state where the will of the people isn't being served by these leaders because they weren't actually elected into office in the first day. If the elections weren't rigged why should the Leader ask the Guardian Council to do a partial recount. Again, comparing the case of South Africa whose ANC party won with about the same margin of victory as the incumbent in Iran yet I haven't seen mass rallies ending in death protesting the injustice of ANC's reelection. Nobody is extolling Iran as the paradigm of democracy, but you don't get what is happening in Iran if dinnerjacket truly did win with the margins quoted, It makes no bleating sense at all. If PDP doesn't rig elections then Nigerians as a whole is a nation of incredibly stupid people. I guess all those people dying on election day two years ago is one of the hallmarks of a trouble free and fair electoral system.

Listen idiot, let me post what I posted before so that you may READ it.

tunku:
Yes, I sure do like getting hourly updates about a news event that happened hours ago that is of no great importance. These channels are echo chambers and after watching fifteen minutes of it can deduce what will be covered for the rest of the day. Again Rss feeds are fine and well but if you choose to focus on every inane story you get then that is up to you, but please don't tell me that it is about being informed or in the loop. I don't know how squashing a fly makes one in the loop. Take the any news website that isn't a blog and you will notice that outside of the morning updates and truly breaking news and live events such as a policy speech or a sports event the websites update infrequently over the day. But again, you are the ultimate gatekeeper and you can always shut out the noise, but if you choose not to and complain about the noise then you are taking the piss out of all of us.

Again, who said I didn't mention truly breaking news? If you don't want to see butt licking of politicians then stop watching partisan news channels. The fractured nature of American politics makes it obvious the leaning of dedicated new channels and all sides participate in the licking of butts. But basic reading comprehension escapes you so you must feel aggrieved more than the normal intelligent person on the streets that knows when and how to shut off noise.

I wonder where I said truly breaking news shouldn't be reported? But how often does truly breaking news happens that is of great importance. And we all know that 9/11 is a daily occurrence. Actually its not on me to tell you what you should or shouldn't be reading, I could care less. But to cry of overexposure is a bit rich if you are willingly part of the largess of information overload.  Again, if you could read, which I doubt, you would know that I mentioned that breaking news are covered on news sites. But if getting feeds, twits, and twats about someone squashing a fly is what riles your goat then by all means feel aggrieved by your own banality.

Yes, I sure do like getting hourly updates about a news event that happened hours ago that is of no great importance. These channels are echo chambers and after watching fifteen minutes of it can deduce what will be covered for the rest of the day. Again Rss feeds are fine and well but if you choose to focus on every inane story you get then that is up to you, but please don't tell me that it is about being informed or in the loop. I don't know how squashing a fly makes one in the loop. Take the any news website that isn't a blog and you will notice that outside of the morning updates and truly breaking news and live events such as a policy speech or a sports event the websites update infrequently over the day. But again, you are the ultimate gatekeeper and you can always shut out the noise, but if you choose not to and complain about the noise then you are taking the piss out of all of us.

Oh man, I don't know much about economics but I know that this is a pittance. 600m dollars is not going to power a nation like Nigeria. Why accept this loan? What is the interest rate? Out of billions of dollars still coming from oil despite the cutback in productivity Nigeria can fund programs like this by itself. Yet another backwards step. It would not at all surprise me if this turns out to be another subprime loan.

True and I too have access to those things, but I don't spend it looking for inane news unless The news is actually breaking news I stop watching news after my daily allotment of morning and evening news, which in all honestly rarely involve 24/7 news. Thank God of PBS, I get BBC America and the supremely professional Jim Lehrer News Hour, and lets not forget World Affairs for international news. What I'm trying to say is PBS is the only thing that won't get you that feeling of overexposure, because to be frank 24/7 news channels stretch an hour of news to last all day long.

The problem is one of institutions versus personalities. Military rule devolves into nothing but a personal fiefdom for whoever is ruling it, but what happens when that leader dies and he was running the state on a whim rather than building institutions that can survive bad leadership. I'd rather have the option of voting out bad leaders every four years rather than praying that colonell izzi is a kind leader. If you want to see the failure of military rule even when it is good just look towards Yugoslavia after Tito's death. Why do you think that Nigeria is in such a bind anyways if not for the misrule of military government? Democracies aren't perfect and occasionally you get very bad leadership but in the end it is a better system because it doesn't saddle you with people like IBB, Abacha, Obasanjo, and yes even Yar'dua for a lifetime.

The reason you hear Obama everywhere is because you are watching 24 hour news services, Get a job or a life and you wouldn't care about Obama. Anyone praising O'reilly as fair and balance is off their rockers, but religious nutjobs are excluded from that list though.

First supporters of the hardline Islamic state said that there was no vote rigging, now they've changed their tune to well what do you expect they've always rigged. God idiots Bleep too much.

You are right tpiah. This all effort is an oxymoronic exercise in stupidity. The most virulent anti-nigerian forces are in power in Nigeria and they have much more than 5 million dollars to wage a stupid war against themselves. These are the same people in Aso rock running to Harvard university when their generator stopped working for 10 minutes, 10 whole minutes and its off to Harvard to fix the generator.

The stats really didn't paint African countries in any new light, well most of them. They've stayed behind while the rest of the world moves on.

any billionaire involved in petty sniping of one another cannot have earned their billions in a legitimate way. Wow. Errand boy go back to your masters and tell him to stop sending his rabid dog in here.

walata44:
Are advocating this type of firewall in Nigeria or what is your point?

I am saying that they are not competent to pull it off successfully. So if it exists it is bound for failure no matter what because it is a government initiative tackling the internet like a preteen would. China is competent at being a repressive state on the internet, Nigeria is a freaking joke if it thinks that this will work.

I have no reason to doubt that this program is real but I have serious reasons to doubt how well it will be executed. The idiots can't even power Aso Rock for 24/7 and when it broke down they said they'd seek harvard's help to fix it, wtf! Second, the yahoo boys praising dirt like LITMUS are easily found out and dismissed as idiots working for the government. Third, these idiots have no idea how information is passed, sourced, and disseminated on the internet. China has the great firewall of China to block unfriendly sites from its citizens, and This Nigerian government is spending 5 million dollars on a bunch of yahoos who are barely literate. Fourth, like hell all this money will be spent on this program without being chopped up until its nothing but 500 dollars to pay some idiot, LItmus, to post on forums such as this.

NEPA has been rebranded PHCN. That was about what two years ago? , the logical conclusion of Nigeria's rebranding is to change the name to "Not Nigeria"

So songs prove your greatness? Hahaha choke and die on your rent.

JustGood:
You can count on the fact election was fair

I present two weekly shows for Iranian-owned Press TV.

As such, I know that, uniquely for a developing country, the Iranian broadcast media went to extraordinary lengths to be fair to all four presidential candidates.

This author's impartiality is doubtful. Seriously the Iranian-Owned Presstv is the pravda of that country. If that is your evidence please take it back to the dustbin where it belongs.

I hope as a doctor it would be a matter of pride for Dr. Mimiko to improve Ondo's healthcare infrastructure if nothing else is accomplished in his term in office.

I guess the west told Zimbabweans to stop any effort at farming despite sanctions against it. I guess once you've  been sanctioned there is no need to keep up feeding yourselves, or providing potable water to its citizens. What about Hamas? Yes they were rightly elected and the punitive punishment meted out against the Palestinians is unfair, but no one is forcing them into attacking their own people and the Palestinians Authority. you attack the west for anything and everything wrong with the world, well buddy it takes two to tango.

Afam lay off the pipe man. Yes we all know the hypocrisies of the West, but it in no way excuses the likes of Hamas, and Mugabe failing their own people.

Is this a Jet or a propeller powered small frame aircraft? Either way the hell? Why not fix the roads for the people that you represent rather than flying above the problem.
Dear Honorable idiot, the idea is to mobilize safe and cheap transportation for the masses, not waste money on crap that the average Nigerian cannot even afford to pay off in his/her lifetime.

Members of the committee are permitted to seek technical support from any part of the world, including the prestigious Harvard University. Considering the seriousness of the matter still and the need to address it expeditiously, this invitation to tender is hereby issued under Presidential seal:

There goes Harvard again, my god, why do the idiots in power have such a boner for that institution? I am beginning to wonder if Harvard doesn't encourage this kind of nefarious behavior of gross incompetence by working with these idiots. Second, why make the repair of the generators open to the general public? You'd think that the Presidential Villa would be the only building in the whole of Nigeria getting 24/7 electricity from the grid. Seriously retarded folks are running Nigeria and this is just one more notch to show it.