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Besides the property markets, The Chinese government controlled banking sector is a sort of riddle wrapped in a puzzle inside an enigma. No one can begin to fathom the amount of non-performing loans on the books. Unlike the US which went through a gut wrenching cleansing - thanks to the largess of the lobby-less taxpayer, the financial sector is once again back in fighting shape (privatized profits, public losses). China is yet to address their toxic assets

[quote author=eku_bear link=topic=604613.msg7726260#msg7726260 date=1297646623]You aren't the only guy who thinks this way:

http://video.ft.com/v/772837551001/Why-Jim-Chanos-is-short-China[/quote]very educative!!!!

I have an opinion that China is just another Bubble, when it bursts, it's going to drag the world down with it.

I don't see anyone talking about Banana Island, you need nothing less than 500 million to own a plot in such places

If Jonathan Dumps OBJ, I go just dey laugh ke ke ke ke

It means someone is about to be rigged out!

Odunnu:
Hey Violent,you sound so much like my brother. I grew up between two brothers and my big brother did a great job on me. Even b4 a guy drops his lyrics, I already know where the bus would be stopping lol.

Lmao!!!

Idowuogbo:
nobody but me , ,

@violent
emmh are u my long lost brother jus teasin , am d last born got two brothers dey do exactly wot u asked the poster to do wiv me , it gets so bad dat dier friends are like na una wan marry your sister , we all club together  its fun stuff , dats y over soji dey worri me now o
but guys tend to find gals that knows it al a turn off , y is dat?  

Well I guess, it's a matter of knowing exactly where to strike the balance.  The "other" guys in your life want you to be all girly and somewhat ''new" while it's your brother's responsibility to ensure you aren't being taken for a ride.  The chic should then be able to tell when to let her guard down and just go with the flow.

I remember once being overtly protective of my sisters i checked their facebook walls and read their twitter updates, until i realized it wasn't working {although i still do, you can't blame me, i've got 3 of them }, so i started by just teasing them that their boyfriends are not as charming and outgoing as I am, this normally draw a conversation line, and i discovered they gradually compared prospective "Sharp hunting'' guys in their subconscious mind to me.  I found out it worked. On a number of occasion, my younger sister seeked my opinion about some guy, and rather than just balk at her, I will make it a fun thing by saying something along the lines of[i] "wow, you both are going to have some really ugly kids and i might have to adopt one of your puppies''[/i]. . . .of course we laugh about it, and she subsequently raised her standards with regards to the kind of guys she speaks with

[quote author=Ileke-IdI link=topic=604168.msg7724138#msg7724138 date=1297618621]Why should anyone even entertain the thoughts of Soyinka being NIgeria's president?

What presidential qualities has he shown to possess? Apart from starting an unsuccessful party, then quitting Nigeria's politics (assuming that he was even that important in it).

People have been so mentally and economically harassed by disloyal Leaders, that they now concentrate more on the integrity of the person, and less on his experience and qualities he posses to lead a popl. of more than 150m people.

Let's not focus on his integrity or his loyalties or kindness, really that alone cannot help a country. Scripting a few words in poetic structure does not grant one the ability to lead.


So. . . . anywaz, referring to the poster's question. . . . can we stop asking the same question every year?[/quote]First, the fact that the party he started hasn't produced a presidential candidate or an Assembly aspirant does not make it unsuccessful, the party only started a couple of months ago, Judging it's success now is a bit too forward.

Second, when you talk about experience, you necessarily don't need to have held a Political position before laying claim to having experience, there are personal competencies that can be developed from everyday interactions with people in your immediate environment that are transferable and can be put to great use as a leader of a nation.  What a leader requires is an ability to make informed decisions not years spent arguing balderdash in the house,  . ,  . Obiagbon has experience, how do you suppose he'd rank when compared with Soyinka? I know right? i must be out of my mind to even make such comparisons

Third, If we don't focus on the integrity, loyality or kindness, what other essential qualities do you suppose we focus on?

This is a man that has been listed among the smartest people in the world. . . .  (http://specials.msn.com/A-List/Worlds-smartest-people.aspx?cp-documentid=24231105&imageindex=1&gt1=36010). . . . . , probably with an IQ in the range of 180, would you rather not a Soyinka than 12 Goodluck Jonathans combined?. . .The dude is not just scripting a few words, everyone scripts words, hell, even i can write poetry, it takes a few intellectuals to write something deserving a nobel award!

Please note that I don't advocate for Soyinka being a President, because critics are best as critics, I am however against your argument that the dude does not have what it takes to push the nation forward.  By all arguments, he's one of the rarest Nigerians ever!

just give her everything supposed strikers can't afford to!

Take her out shopping with her friends, buy her stuffs, and encourage her to speak to you more often, she will learn to measure those "sharp hunting guys" by her brother's standards.

I have also observed that in most cases, chics with low self esteem, or chics who haven't "been there" are the ones likely to fall for those "sharp hunting" guys.  If you go out clubbing alone with your kid sister, she'd know how to control her alcohol intake and know who to interact with, what makes this more interesting is that you will be providing her with all the experience she's likely to be enticed with while having fun and taking a special time off at the same time.

Your sister will feel safer around you and she will be able to discern people's intention faster!
Being pushy will make her rebellious, she'd find the need to go out of her way to prove a point that she's old enough to take care of herself

NB; To achieve most of the stuffs above, you must have been a "sharp hunting" guy at some point yourself, and you must have a very good self confidence.

where do you suggest we go sir?

A rare gem in my own opinion.

This is just one of the many cases of "I think", "they said", "we heard". . .and in addition to what Ajanlekoko said, without tangible reliable facts, it's hard not to see this as mere propaganda clearly drafted by PDP apologist who are bent on taking over leadership reins from south-western rascals!

Let's hope non-rascally neighbors along with their party leaders can learn a thing or two from their rascally colleagues.

it baffles me how you guys manage to score up to 40,000

last cowboy song by Highwaymen

I am usually not  the person i think I am, the person I am which sometimes is the person i think I am not has a lopsided sense of humor and many a times, this sends a wave of amusement down my spine.

JERUSALEM — As the streets of Gaza exploded with celebration on Friday night with masked Hamas militants marching defiantly to cheer the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, Israelis reacted with quiet and deep concern because the regional leader on whom they had relied most was suddenly gone.

The government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu maintained the same studied silence it has sustained for more than two weeks on the assumption that nothing it said could serve its interests: if it praised the pro-democracy movement, it would be seen as disloyal to its ally, Mr. Mubarak. If it favored Mr. Mubarak, it would be dismissed as a supporter of dictatorships.

But behind the scenes, officials willing to share their thoughts anonymously expressed worry because they believed that whoever followed Mr. Mubarak would be less friendly to Israel.

“We don’t know who will be running things in the coming months in Egypt, but we have to keep two things in mind,” one top official said. “The first is that the only example we have of this kind of thing in the region is Iran in 1979. You can’t take that out of your mind. The second is that if Egypt pulls back in any way from its peace with Israel, it will discourage anyone else in the region, including the Palestinians, from stepping forward. So the regional implications for us are significant.”

The official said it was more likely than not that Egypt would maintain its peace treaty with Israel and added that, in any case, relations with Israel would probably not be among the first concerns of the incoming Egyptian authorities.

Omar Suleiman, the former head of Egyptian intelligence who was recently named vice president by Mr. Mubarak, has long-standing relations with Israel and is respected here. But his role seems subordinate, at best, to the military council that appears to be running Egypt. Still, relations between the Israeli and Egyptian defense establishments have long been cordial. But officials worry that cooperative efforts could slow or halt.

Earlier this week, Mr. Netanyahu did speak publicly in Jerusalem about Egypt before a group called the European Friends of Israel. He laid out three possible situations if Mr. Mubarak resigned. “There are many possible outcomes beyond the liberal, democratic models that we take for granted in our own countries,” he said.

“First, Egyptians may choose to embrace the model of a secular reformist state with a prominent role for the military. There is a second possibility that the Islamists exploit the influence to gradually take the country into a reverse direction — not towards modernity and reform but backward.

“And there’s still a third possibility — that Egypt would go the way of Iran, where calls for progress would be silenced by a dark and violent despotism that subjugates its own people and threatens everyone else.”

Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, a former defense minister who developed a friendship with Mr. Mubarak over some 20 years, said by telephone — and also on Israeli television — that he had spoken with Mr. Mubarak hours before his Thursday night speech to the nation. Mr. Mubarak, he said, seemed to know he had no choice but to leave — and Mr. Ben-Eliezer agreed. But Mr. Mubarak saw great peril ahead.

“He spoke about a snowball that was starting to roll, which would not leave a single Arab state untouched in either the Middle East or North Africa,” Mr. Ben-Eliezer said. “He spoke of his disappointment with the Americans. He said, ‘You will have to grow accustomed to one fact — that you’re going to live in a radical Islamic world, and no one can promise what will happen tomorrow.’ For me, he was one of the pillars of the peace process.”

Israel’s entire strategic outlook relies in some fashion on its three-decade peace with Egypt. Thanks to the treaty, its military has minimal presence on its southern border, freeing it up for actions to the east and north; about 40 percent of Israel’s natural gas is imported from Egypt; Egypt has been supportive and helpful in negotiating with the Palestinians; Egypt has played a big role in stopping the smuggling of weapons and militants into Gaza, and in helping Israel in its blockade policy aimed at squeezing Hamas.

The other regional countries that have diplomatic relations with Israel — Jordan and Turkey — have cooled significantly in recent years, especially after Israel’s 2006 war in Lebanon and its 2008-9 war in Gaza.

The marches in Gaza on Friday, a rare open display by armed uniformed militants on the streets, showed that the Egyptian policy toward Hamas would most likely change and had, in fact, already loosened. The border has been breached repeatedly in the past two weeks by Hamas, which has brought back its militants from Egyptian prisons. Hamas officials are calling on Egypt to open its border with Gaza completely. And last weekend, a gas pipeline in the Sinai exploded, apparently as a result of sabotage, disrupting the supply to Israel and Jordan.

The marchers in Gaza chanted against Mr. Mubarak and also against President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority, whom they consider a traitor. One of Israel’s fears is that the decline of Mr. Mubarak will strengthen Hamas and weaken the more moderate Palestinian Authority.

Eli Shaked, Israel’s ambassador to Cairo from 2003 to 2005 and deputy ambassador there from 1989 to 1992, gave a bleak analysis of Egypt’s prospects to move toward democracy, saying by telephone that it had too few institutions, educated people and political parties to move to a democratic system. He feared that the only force organized enough to take over was the Muslim Brotherhood, which he described as anti-American, anti-Israel and anti-peace.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/12/world/middleeast/12israel.html

Well, i wouldn't be so quick to initiate an applause for the man who set himself ablaze hoping it will lead to some end result, . .whatever happened to staying alive and fighting for your beloved country?

Let's not be brash with our emotions here, suicide is never an answer, whatever the question!

Many times, e-flirting taken too far will eventually develop strong emotional undertones for individuals who are usually very sensitive.  The fact that many financial scams find their roots from e-flirting shows that it really does work. Emotions are very fickle things, once you chat with someone who is capable of holding you spell bound with their choice of words, many times, you are quick to lose the fact that you've never even met in the real world.

The truth about e-flirting, once it moves out of a public forum to a more private arena such as YIM, is that you are really connecting with the other person using real emotions, what differentiates it from real flirting is the physical form factor.

I wouldn't set myself ablaze, not under any circumstance, not even in a quest to be named "brave"

I noticed this dude repeatedly mentioned not listening to the sources that come from outside, what might this sources be? could it be pressures from Washington?

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Anyway he don talk am - Say na Egypt he go die. I expect him to be assassinated anytime soon. so his prophesy on dying in Egypt can come true.

I feel those words sha[i] "the only way I will not be a part of Egypt is down in the ground"[/i]. . . his predecessor was assassinated, there is a possibility that he'd be handed the same ticket!

I strongly believe Israel is country urging him to hold on!

That guy is crazy i swear, i really don't understand the armies role at this point, they inferred earlier on that they are likely to be taking control

Mubarak refuses to resign!

Dear citizens, my sons, the youths of Egypt, today I am directing my speech to the youth of Egypt, those who are in there in Tahrir Square and the vast areas of the country

I'm addressing you today out of a true and an honest heart from a father to his sons and daughters, and I'm telling you that I really cherish you as a symbol for a new generation for Egypt who are calling for change for the better, and are adamant to achieve this change for a better future.

I'm telling you here before anything else, that the blood of the victims will not go unpunished. And at the same time, as I said here, that I will follow all those perpetrators who have afflicted those crimes with full sense of decisiveness. Those who had committed those crimes are going to be punished severely. And families of those victims, that I really felt the pain, I felt that I was in your boots, and my heart really felt for what really happened.

I tell you that I'm actually opting to satisfy your demands and I am fully determined to fulfill my promise with a full sense of perseverance and honesty and out of a sense of keenness of carrying out the demands without taking any steps backwards. This sense of abiding comes from a sense of convincing from your honest demands and your honest movement, and that those demands are legitimate demands.

Mistakes can happen in any political system and in any country, but at the same time, the most important is to recognize them and trying to put things on the right track as quick as possible, and to punish those who commit crimes. And I tell you here, as a head of state, I do not find any embarrassment at all in listening to the youth of my country, and to satisfying their demands. But the embarrassment would only lie in the fact -- and I would never permit -- is that I would listen to any sort of intervention that would come from outside, from the outside world, whatever the source is, whatever the intention behind them are.

Dear youth of Egypt, dear citizens, I had already announced before that I am not going to run in the upcoming presidential elections. I have already given a lot to this country for more than 60 years of my effort, whether during the years of war or years of peace, and I am going to adhere to this decision, and at the same time adhere to the decision of shouldering the responsibility in defending the constitution and the national interest of the people until the transfer of power and the transfer of responsibility, which is going to be to the one that the people will choose as their leader in transparent and free elections where guarantees are going to be there for full transparency and for freedom.

This is the offer that I undertook before Allah almighty and the people and I'm going to keep my promise so that we would put Egypt on a path of security and stability, and would already out a perspective for coming out of this crisis and to satisfy the demands of the youth and the people in a way that respects the constitutional legitimacy and would not restrict it in any way. And at the same time put a framework for a peaceful transition of power through respectful dialogue between the different political parties of Egypt and with a sense of honesty and transparency.

I have put all those perspectives on the table and out of a sense of commitment of carrying the nation out of this critical juncture and I'm following up on the steps held day by day, hour by hour, if I can say, looking forward to the full support of all those who are really keen on Egypt and the Egyptian people so that we would succeed in translating it to action on solid ground, according to a national reconciliation that has strong bases, and that the armed forces with full due respect, can stop and initiate a national dialogue that includes the youth of Egypt and all of the different political parties. And this national dialogue can result in a near sense of consensus that is going to put our feet on a way out of this crisis. We need to continue this sense of dialogue, so that we would go further from the main guidelines into a roadmap that is quite crystal clear and that has a timetable to achieve those issues.

We are moving day after day on the path of a peaceful transfer of power from now until next September. This nation has already agreed that a committee will be held to study the different constitutional elements and all the requirements that would make those constitutional elements. Also an investigative committee will be held to take care of the follow-up of what I had promised the people. I was very keen that those two committees of people who are known among Egyptians as honest brokers, the constitutional leaders of Egypt. and members of the judiciary. In addition to that, and owing to the victims that we have lost in miserable circumstances, that really made us feel the pain and really shake the conscience of the nation, and I have given my directives that the investigations will be carried out very quickly concerning the issues that happened last week and that the results would be set up with the prosecutor general's office to take the necessary measures regarding this issue.

Yesterday I had received a preliminary report concerning the constitutional amendments that are of priority at this stage, as suggested by the committee that we have established. And in accordance to the suggestions that have been presented, and in accordance to my legislative and constitutional powers, according to Article 189 of the Egyptian Constitution, I have already presented the demand of six articles of the Egyptian Constitution 76, 77, 88, 93, and 198 this in addition to abolishing Article 179, this in addition also to expecting a sense of preparedness to adding other amendments to the constitution.
Those constitutional amendments in the first place will facilitate the procedures for the presidency, and would put a certain term for the presidency, and would also ensure that the judiciary would supervise the upcoming presidential election. The judiciary is also going to deal with the issue of the legitimacy of the members of parliament. And the suggestion to abolish Article 179 was maybe a way to achieve a sense of balance between protecting the nation from the dangers of terrorism and at the same time respecting legitimacy and civil freedom of the citizens in a way that is going to open the door further to abolishing the emergency law until when the situation permits in the country.

Dear citizens, the priority right now is regaining the sense of confidence in Egyptians and a sense of trust in our economy, our reputation. Change and transfer that we have already started and that is not going to bring us any sort of step backwards. Egypt is passing through a critical juncture. We should not ever permit that this is going to continue because this affects negatively our economy. Negative repercussions on our economy day after day would lead to a situation where we find those youth who had called for change, they would really be endangered out of the movement. This critical juncture is not at all co-relevant to me personally, it's not co-relevant to Hosni Mubarak, but now Egypt is a top priority. It's present, it's future, the future of the coming generations, all of the Egyptian people now are all in one boat, in one corner, and we have to continue the national dialogue that we have already started with the spirit of a team and away from any sense of animosity and any sense of differences. So that we would overcome this critical juncture, and so that we would regain confidence in our economy and we would retain security and stability on the Egyptian street.
I used to be exactly like the Egyptian youth when I was honored to be part of the military, and the sense of loyalty and providing sacrifices for my country. I have spent my life safeguarding the interests of the nation, witnessed wars, and witnessed victories, and I had already lived the years of occupation, I lived also the moments of crossing and the moments of victory. The best moment of my life was when I put the Egyptian flag on Sinai, and I had already endangered my life for the sake of the country. I had never ever been accepting any sort of foreign intervention in Egyptian affairs.

I've retained Egyptian security, I exerted efforts for the sake of its people, for the sake of Egyptian civilization, I did not seek any type of forced popularity and I am quite confident that the majority of the Egyptian people know who Hosni Mubarak is.

So Egypt is a top priority now.
So I thought I would delegate powers to the vice president, according to the constitution, stipulations of the constitution I know quite well that Egypt, while fighting should try to go out of this juncture, but at the same time the determination of the people is going to help Egypt across this juncture through the perseverance, the honesty of its people, and is going to be above all.

We are going to prove that we the Egyptians, our sense of awareness, of the demands of its people through a national dialogue, through the wise dialogue, we're going to prove that we are not followers to anybody, we're not going to take instructions from anybody, and no one is going to take decisions on our behalf, except only the rhythm of the street and the demands of the people.
We are going to prove this with a sense of determination of the Egyptian people, and with the sense of unity and solidarity of its people and by putting Egypt's pride and dignity above all, and preserving our identity, which is the main essence of our presence for more than 7,000 years of civilization.
The spirit is going to live in us as Egypt is going to long live, with its peasants, with its laborers, with its intellectuals, and its going to be in the hearts of our elderly, in the hearts of our youth, the hearts also, of our kids, and the hearts of Copts and Muslims and all of those who are going to live on this soil.
Once again, I say that I have lived for the sake of this country. I have shouldered the responsibility with honesty, and Egypt is going to live above all until I deliver and transfer the responsibility. Egypt will continue to be in my heart until I die and Egypt's people will always be living with pride, with dignity, to the end.
God bless Egypt. God bless Egypt, a country of security and stability. God bless the Egyptians, with wise decisions for the sake of their nation.
Thank you.

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/02/10/egypt.mubarak.statement/

hmnn!

Genius100:
Do any of you clowns realize that OBJ did not have to loot the treasury to be rich when he was president? Nigeria is a nation of sycophants. When OBJ was president, he could tell Julius Berger to renovate his farms for free and they would. He could get Dangote to bank role some of his investments and pay Dangote back by giving him contracts. OBJ is a smart man and there is zero evidence that he looted the treasury. He definitely got richer, but it was not because he looted the treasury. Another prime example is OBJ raising millions of dollars for his library. Did he have to loot to get that money? No!! Get it right folks, OBJ did not loot the treasury. That's why he's so confident when talking about corruption.

You don't have to pen rob to be tagged amongst the famous cadre of looters, awarding bogus contracts as well as unexplainable/untraceable funds within your administration amounts to financial crimes as well.

However, I am willing to bet my breakfast that even though it's obvious that OBJ notoriously enriched himself through this means, it can hardly be substantiated due to the fact that the dude operates using third parties with plausible deniability. You wouldn't simply catch him with his hand in the cookie jar, and hear this, he did know where his friends, colleagues and associates  have their wardrobes and the number of skeletons in each.

As earlier posters rightly stated, Daniel committed political suicide by going after OBJ.  Being an Army General and the President with the longest tenure in Nigeria's democratic history doesn't come easy, and it means OBJ has necessary contacts and connections to be the Jury, the judge and the executioner. To fight such a man, you need three extra pair of balls.

Watch as OGD crashes, you don't go after Ebora Owu, except you've got the DSR-1 sniper rifle, and even at that, OBJ better be dead already before shooting!

GEJ ought to learn a few things about being a rascal as well

orisirisi!

The President's Language is uncouth, demands for public apology should be in order

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