I experienced it

For the first time I experienced it; I experienced the practical meaning of what the writer or last canonic editor of the biblic book of Corinthians meant by 'gaining nil in being lovelessly poured away like libation'. (1?? Corinthians 13:??)

I had doubted, even openly question'd the possibility of expending oneself for other people and not be loving those others. For a long time. But some necessity to enter and re-enter Nigeria, and to spend length periods (13 days to a dozen weeks at a time) in it since early 2011 has answered me.

I 'm always aware of the sinister possibility of getting nigerianized in this large society where the operative "acquired" instinct is "Survival of the sneakiest". To start a character of "godfully" making promises that, ab initio, I have no intention of fulfilling; and of zealously preaching what I do not believe. Well, not yet; probably n-ever!

I don't take pride in any religion(s) [especially the institutionalized ones]. But I revere the 'recorded' prophets: for their "cleverness" or providential foresight. And I even have some admiration for people who still gather enough conviction, or courage, or illusion...to publicly preach conventional religion conventionally.
But I know that whom I cannot trust, I usually don't love well.

The 'masaukin baƙi' (guest houses) are always full of people who punctuate every word they speak with the name of the Holy god. Even those who openly admit membership of the violent jihadist groups of Nigeria: alias ɓoko-hɛrɛm, tho' their colleagues do warn them to be quiet on that...
But with almost all, one can't engage in any transaction and not get made a dupe of at any point where extra trust is involved; and this with abrasive, inflated ego...

Although I give of myself to'em in ways I hadn't thought I could-- we are a community--I'm almost sure I don't love them more than that. And if I do, I don't feel it; just cold performances by which to get by.

Netanyahu's apology to Hitler

There is something exponentially wrong with [the mentation of] "leaders" who hurry to massacre their people in the name of protecting them. The sinister preparations, overt & covert, of Judæo-American war-brewers toward an imminent 'confrontation' with Iran is a symptom or a syndrome of some deadly dementia.

They chant to the world that the authorities of the Ay't'llah Republic are attempting to lay their hand on the handle of unconventional weapons with the sole purpose of wiping Israel off the surface of the earth.
Does that sound reasonable? Can they really get us believing that Iran is wholly composed of unreasoning lunatics who couldn't evaluate that: if they have 10 nuclear warheads, "the others" have 10 times 10; still "the further others" have 10 times 10,000?
Too much about nothing!

This has been done before. USA's propagandists had sometime zestfully wanted the whole world to believe that once Nor'Korea acquires thermo-nuclear (nucleo-thermal) weapon, it'd be blastering every corner of our planet with it...
In fact, Mr Ahmadinejad's speech in 2005, was deliberately mistranslated to give it unsavoury, excitatory public hue in English. The man never said 'Israel should or shall be wiped off the earth' in the original speech in Farsi. The speech really was not a glorification of Yerushalem ('Qod' in Farsi (persian)), but neither was it about wiping it off.

If the jewish state has any enemy {that will wipe it off...}, it's not Iran; not Hîsbollah, or any other raving formation. The greatest threat to Isræl are within it; they are the imperialist war-mongers, "les marchands de mort", managing its affairs now or in the future.

But if Isræl, whether as Pentagon's spearhead or independently, attacks Persia, then they & their allies et al should apologise to the late Mr Adolph Hitler and his Goebbeline accolytes...

Away with this "hollow democracy"! How is it that state officials professing and proclaiming the people's mandate are so subtly anti-people!?

Anyway, whoever says that his neighbour will not sleep, himself will not too. And the doctor or pharmacist that brews diarrhœa sooner than later falls diarrhic along with his targets.

MY WORD TO THE ISRÆLIS

As recorded in the gospels, at the trial of the GrandTeacher & Instructor, one of the officiating personnel said: "It's better for one man to die than for the whole nation to perish..."
It is better that The real enemy, the ones within, disguised in intimate appellations, be got rid of than for millions to be sacrificed to their egoïstic glory. The sado-genocidists.

Even if Iranians are a bunch of "wẹre yọko yọko" (complete, unreserved lunatics), which they are not, in fact, whoever is running naked in pursuit of a naked mad fellow in order to apprehend and beclothe the mad one is himself no saner than his target. He may even be madder!

BAKASSI

This is a peninsula in the extreme south-eastern frontière of Nigeria, in the creeky edge of the Gulf of Guinea. It also constitute the extreme south-western tip of the Cameroun.

The Camerouns was a german colonial territory turned french
after European 2nd World War.

Historically, All official maps from colonial time, beginning about 1883-1914, to post-independence period of Nigeria between 1960 to 1993, located Bakassi and the surrounding islands in the Camerouns. The inhabitants were mostly village fisher-folk: nigerians (west) & camérounians (east).

During the Nigerian Fratricide, commonly called Nigeria-Biafra war, the head of government in Nigeria, Mr. Gowon, pledged [nigerian side of] Bakassi to Ahidjo's Cameroun for aid against the Biafrans. Ahidjo who grew up in N E Nigeria was already anti-Biafra...
Cameroun fulfilled her part of this"informal pact"...

After the war, Gowon partially formalized the pact, by what is called Marwa Declaration. Marwa (Maroua) is a town in N Caméroun. But the two countries continued disputing over the péninsula through the (late) nineteen seventies. Negotiations and boundary commissions procured no definite results.

In 1981, Camerounian security agents aggressed their Nigerian counterparts in Bakassi. Some lives were lost. This led to partial militarization of the area: from Akwa Yafe river to Boro Camp. Skirmishes occasionally occurred.

During the regime of Mr. Abacha, Nigeria openly occupied Bakassi. Abacha himself gave it the status of LGA (local government area). But it was also then that they nigerianly made a mess of the whole diplomacy and politics over Bakassi. Not by the occupation but by the droves of official and unofficial negotiators who wrangled among themselves for estacodes.

Cameroun prudently discerned that Nigeria had very weak case whatever her military or populational might. She took the matter to the International Court. By the IC's verdict, Camerounian state got back {that's, legitimized the "ownership" of} what had always been hers.

Mr. Obasanjo started to implement that verdict. It culminated under Mr. Yarad on August 14, 2008. This is the GreenTree Agreement.

Nigerian governments complacently mis-informed the populace. So, many people combined the illusion, the ignorance, mischievous patriotism, plus the thirst for the petroleum in Bakassi, in making a huge babel of the transference.

Probably, many of the people of Bakassi would have, unconfusedly, become Camerounians if they wouldn't relocate {or pay rents...} as advised by some high-ranking officials involved in the affair. But some clever crooks among Nigerian executives and officials have calculated to use them as a ladle to spoon huge funds into their private bank accounts. That's why they induced the translocation of the population of west Bakassi...

Bakassi, from the past and by politics, belongs in the Camerouns.
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The present developments there are both surprising and unsurprising. They elicit some questions.

Is nigerian go'ment secretly attemting to "retake" the whole of Bakassi?
...after spending all those time & resources implemeting Green Tree?
Or are somebodies being goaded on by a mental picture of private wealth if they could preside over the issuance of licenses for oil extraction (BAKASSI is "oily") ?
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To me, one of the things Mr Obasanjo got excellently right was the "obedience" to the verdict...
At that time, the next option was war; and I think it still is. You can guess well who'd participate in the war & for what reasons...

And don't forget that the immediate target of "the missiles" are afiriKan 'brothers'...who of their own natural will, neither make weapons nor make war for pétroleum; and who can freely give the field to each other, unmindful of the modern-wealth that nature had put underneath.

In a nation where gov'ments delight in keeping the governed in ignorance, blind & zealous patriotism may prove very dangerous; may engender unimaginable disasters...

10 times the population of Bakassi may get wasted in military conflagration, to the profit of foreigners, and the problem would still be intactly unsolved...

There's a big question here: to what use were the huge resources marked out for resettlement of bakassi indigens and denizens put...? ...that they are crying 'neglect' so soon

Super Terrorist

The USA have become an architect all wars.

What are happening in the world today along global capitalist economy show that had al-Qaeda never existed, USA's power managers and their co-war merchants of war would create one. Any mask for war-mongering is welcome. They love war the way maggots love rotten things.
We are seeing in a decade, a fast-paced globalisation of war, poverty and TYRANNY [tyranny & contracted anarchty packaged in democracy labels= the tranny from the USA].

Obama and colleagues are fixated at Reagan's "war to the world" foreign policy. 'Talking' peace and 'walking' war, exciting frenetic love of weapons in other peoples across the world. Schizophrenic media sing their glory. Democracy, populace-centered system, is disappearing. Most governments now use force, not persuasion, in interactions with their subjects. And they start with deception.

If the USA are still adequately democratic, why do they engage in "these wars" in opposition to the wishes of Americans?
The economy is not advancing. Instead, we (the human creatures) are advancing stupidly toward a deadliest of Global Mass Destructions!

They are putting veracity to some of the words Ozama bn Laden:

This People Are Naïve

Sweet but useless.

This people are naïve, at least in this dimension. I mean those urging Mrs Clinton to tackle Mr Jonathan concerning Nigerga.

1.
nigerian Nigerians are not rational peoples; so you don't go applying reasoning with'em when they are not yet tired...

2.
"The trouble(s)" in Nigeria is a lucrative one. The stupendous quantities of resources being channelled into (gun-pivoted branch of) security, though unsustainable, is a great opportunity to (in)security contractors. They'll "resourcefully", nigerianly, prolong the troubles...Don't be deceived by official public speeches or statements.
I personally feel that Mr Jonathan is a political imbecile. But I also feel that the most intelligent, atruistic, nigeria-centric, person or project will waste a lot and achieve very little, even nothing, stability-wise with the Nigeria of today.
I think it better to urge a fulscale restructuring of Nigeria that'd incorporate some efficient native sanction system, especially in dealing with fretricidal hypocrisies. I say this because I have dossiers of several instances of sponsors and instigators of public trouble, who should've been apprenhended and consigned to a lifetime in "isolated compounds" or even to eternal silence below the ground according to law, taking refuge in the corporate Nigeria and escaped justice...
Why? Because the crimes don't pain Aso Rock (Abuja) half as they do the direct victims.

3.
USA is a prime suspect in the violent insecurity afflicting W Africa et al nowadays. How do you expect an artful woman representing a rapacious superpower to be genuinely interested in the security of a bland field like Nigeria. Will she like the physical & the environmental climate? Will USA people come to live in Nigeria? This a populous part of Afrika: a continent that to global capitalist is only suitable as a market & source of raw materials, nothing else. Isn't internal instability a huge aid to the appropriation of peoples and territories into the fold of the 'empire' of which the Secretary of State is an envoy?
I have noticed that wherever there is heightened ACIA [américan central intelligence agency] activities, organized insecurity & public deception also heighten.
They who have fixated prez Jonathan, will they de-fixate him? I do not think so. Unless their interest, which is wide-ranging, including the prevention of China from cornering the only easily re-colonised continent, has changed.

This People Are Naïve

"Church talk".
This people are naïve, at least in this dimension. I mean urging Mrs Clinton to tackle Mr Jonathan concerning Nigerga.

1.
nigerian Nigerians are not rational peoples; so you don't go applying reasoning with'em.
2.
"The trouble(s)" in Nigeria is a lucrative one. The stupendous quantities of resources being channelled into (gun-pivoted branch of) security, tho' unsustainable, is a great opportunity to (in)security contractors. They'll "resourcefully", nigerianly, prolong the troubles...Don't be deceived by official public speeches or statements.
I personally feel that Mr Jonathan is a political imbecile. But I also feel that the most intelligent, atruistic, nigeria-centric, person or project will waste a lot and achieve very little, even nothing, with the Nigeria of today.
I think it better to urge a fulscale restructuring of Nigeria that'd incorporate some efficient native sanction system, especially in dealing with fretricidal hypocrisies. I say this because I have dossiers of several instances of sponsors and instigators of public trouble, who should've been apprenhended and consigned a lifetime in "isolated compounds", or even to eternal silence below the ground, took refuge in the corporate Nigeria and escaped justice...
Why? Because the crimes don't pain Aso Rock (Abuja) half as they do the direct victims.

3.
USA is a prime suspect in the violent insecurity afflicting W Africa et al nowadays. How do you expect an artful woman representing a rapacious superpower to be genuinely interested in the security of a bland field like Nigeria. Will USA people come to live in Nigeria? Isn't internal instability a huge aid to the appropriation of peoples and territories into the fold of the empire?
I have noticed that wherever there is heightened ACIA [américan central intelligence agency] activities, organized insecurity & public deception also heighten.
They who have fixated prez Jonathan, will they de-fixate him? I do not think so. Unless their interest, which is wide-ranging, including the prevention of China from cornering the only easily re-colonised continent, has changed.