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Why is China being criticized for having no political views, on local matters in African nations in which the Chinese are making some inroads? Put conversely, why does the United States accept money from China to finance American public debts without a whimper or murmur about China’s Human Right records or and Chinese non-adherence to the fine ideals of democracy, freedom, liberty and the rule of law?
President Obama visited China and he forgot or neglected to badger and chastise China’s record on Human Rights, the rule of law, due process, democracy and inequalities etc even as America demand that excoriate and badger African governments over Human Rights, the rule of law, due process, democracy and inequalities etc!
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BP Equals Big Polluter Equals British Pensioners = Big Problem=Bankruptcy Probability
It is quite easy to imagine, what BP or any other oil corporate giant would have done, were the spewing in the Gulf of Mexico to have occurred in a less powerful nation, with less powerful and assertive government, scientists, environmentalists, press and media and vibrant public such as we have here in the United States. There have been vigorous reactions throughout the USA, and reactions have not been limited to the Gulf Coast states. Denouncing BP has been by every American and as such, it has been an equal opportunity event.
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Israel In Lawlessness Defies The World Again! Murders Innocent Humanitarians
Israel has again, lawlessly massacred defenseless protesters; Israel’s culture of lawlessness is her default position in Israel’s blockade against Palestine, the same lawlessness with which Israel resort to arbitrary demolition of properties of Palestinians as Israel also frequently undertakes confiscation of properties of Palestinians. Israel is allowed to indulge in lawlessness while the entire world looks the other way, always!
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Spill Baby Spill; Of Private Profits Public Burdens And Liability?
It is the case that in this BP inflicted environmental disaster and mammoth catastrophe in American Gulf Coast, chickens come home to roost, both onshore and offshore drilling has consequences and Nigerians have been dealing with these adverse effects for so long, longer than 50 years! As a consequence of the catastrophe in America’s Gulf Coast, the world have had to learn first hand, the stories of fishermen, oyster men, and assortment of restaurants and travel and tours operators in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida etc.
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American Oil Spills In Gulf Of Mexico Is A Good Thing! Lessons for Nigerians & Ecuadorians etc
Whereas, when oil drilling activities and oil explorations results in disasters as we presently witness in America’s Gulf Coast in the Gulf of Mexico, it is particularly noteworthy, that BP, Halliburton, Trans Oceans etc have engaged in PURELY VOLUNTARY actions at remediation in cleaning up, in offering compensations to individuals and companies and as well as offering $170 million dollars within one month, to the US Gulf Coast states of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi, even well before the effects and consequences of pollution become apparent.
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Owanbe! Is Here, A Guide Book On How Life Is Lived in Nigeria
This well written, appealing, and well-documented cultural masterpiece is profound for many reasons, but two immediate reasons will suffice. The first reason is the dearth and paucity of similar writings, documentations, and recordation of how life is lived in Nigeria, and in fact, all of Africa. As a consequence, some non-Africans have in the past engaged in the blissful ignorance of asserting erroneously, that Africans have no contributions to poetries and songs, and so, poets are John Keats and John Donne and song writers and composers are Beethoven, Chopin and Mozart - all because Nigerians and other Africans did not engage in the good business of documenting and recording our poetries and songs.
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What If Obama Nominated A Black Woman To The US Supreme Court?
As a matter of diversity and demographics which truly reflects America, it is well past time when an African American woman arrives at the hallowed halls of the US Supreme Court. It is probably also about time, that another African American male also arrives at the US Supreme Court. And why not? It a surprise that an African American woman has not been nominated to high profile position of significance in the legal arena, since the failed nomination of Professor Lani Guinier by President Bill Clinton to serve as assist attorney general for Civil Rights of the United States almost twenty years ago.
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Nigerians and Nigeria Mourn The Death of President Umaru Musa YarAdua
President YarAdua is dead and his passing should be marked with a show of national unity, as our nation mourns the death of our president. Nigerians must and should show utmost respect, and accord utmost dignity to our departed president, his family, friends and political associates. This is not the time for rancor and bitterness. This is not the time for any schisms, chasms and intrigues.
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Hair Holiday Or Moratorium By Black Women As Economic Stimulus
Imagine for a split second, that these squandered scarce money, time and scarce resources were instead invested in exercise classes, for health and fitness or personal growth and improvements, imagine if invested in education and or business and personal grooming of different kinds? Imagine that there are 500 million continental African women and women of African descent worldwide.
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American Oil Spillage & Environmental Racism; A Case Of Permanent Double Standards
There are documented facts and evidences of gas flaring in Nigeria’s Niger Delta, gas flaring which has gone on for 24 a day, everyday for several decades, resulting miscarriages, burning eyes, and many other health hazards which are now common in the Nigeria Delta. Nigeria is one of such nations where so much profits are derived by the oil multinationals, and yet, there remains abject poverty. And besides, these oil companies have for several decades been unwilling to voluntarily, clean up oil spillages caused by themselves.
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