LOL.
The US needs to tuck it’s tail and quit trying to get involved in other nations business.
Yes they are called “Shareholder Agreements” - Pacte d’actionnaire in my work - and they are about dividends and management rights, and technology transfers. These are useful things and build for the future. They have no thing to do with ignorant claims and lies about non-existent slave markets nor other pretensions.
Since you do not know or understand any single thing about Nigeria, just leave it alone instead of making false claims and bravure statements. Keep to kicking at home.
Then perhaps you should take your own English parable to your heart and not write things like:
Then your false estimations of yourself would not be questioned.
I will thank even sven for bringing actual knowledge here. And for understanding Africa is not the prejudices of the dark continent, I suggest the Financial Times http://www.thisisafricaonline.com/
Yeah–every time someone with actual knowledge comes into to a conversation after Broomstick takes a steaming dump in it, she’s shown to be a moron supreme who’s only goal is to spread ignorance and disrupt threads.
And I agree with your post a few down from the one I quoted about Even Sven. We’ve had disagreements in the past, but holy crap, her stuff here was excellent.
I wish to apologize to the readers of this thread who are actually interested in the thread topic for Fenris and Ducca threadshitting about something completely irrelevant to the topic at hand. Unfortunately, I can’t stop them from following me around and derailing threads I am trying to participate in.
'Sokay. As a daily lurker, it’s frustrating to watch the stalker brigade follow folks around the Board, even in cases where I personally wish the poster would find another home. I guess folks have to have hobbies.
Remember when Fenris was on hiatus or where ever he was? Me, too. ::sighs::
Bob Ducca and Fenris, in case you think that you need to find out when you pissed in my Cheerios, we don’t have a past that I know about. Even with my low post count, like all of us I’ve posted plenty of stupid shit on this Board. I can live with how I’ve come across and I won’t defend old stuff just so you guys have something to do. So relax and enjoy your very tiny pitting.
To the OP: My thoughts are with the girls, their families, and their community. I read about this before the twitter campaign and was horrified. Why must people be so fucking terrible? /rhetorical question
If only everybody had the courage to play armchair diplomats and quibble about the meaning of “trafficking” on Internet message boards, this kind of thing… well, yes, it would still happen so never mind.
Dredging up irrelevant past posts in a vaguely stalkerish fashion is what Fenris does. AFAICT, it’s all he’s good for.
If there was something I could do to actually fix the problem I certainly would. Alas, the only thing I can do is add my voice to the collective outrage.
I find it interesting that while foreign governments from outside Nigeria have apparently lent some people to the problem no one is being very specific about what, exactly, those people are doing. Maybe that’s for the best.
I’m pretty sure we’re going to find out Kony is behind this and we’re all gonna wish we’d posted about it more on Facebook when we had the chance.
I would also like to apologize to the readers of this thread that actually think Broomstick is somebody that’s not perpetually full of shit.
Oh, right. He’s been mod-noted for that:
Are you actually posting just to remind everybody about the time you begged the board for money so you wouldn’t have to spend your own savings to keep your rabbits air conditioned?
Just when you thought the hijack was over . . .
Some people are wondering why Boko Haran wasn’t on the terrorist blackist back in 2012. Really? Should we add everyone just in case?
Better safe than sorry.
I also wish to apologize to the readers. I forgot to bring my lunch to work and I must go and purchase one instead. I feel much shame over this.
Share a few extra “Bring our girls home” statuses on Facbeook and you’ll be even.
I wish you would apologise for spreading prejudiced lies about slave markets that do not exist, which you invent as facts based on the reading of a few articles online without any knowledge and what is clear is an abiliity to tell stories, and making prejudiced statements about a country you know nothing about.
It is a magical thinking about America or any Great Power that things can be solved easily by their interventions. Why would bandits who live in the forest and the bush care about a designation, for people who are barely using money since they steal and extort and live very simply…
This is like the brash statements that it is time for the Nigerian government to have American help. Which will make such a Big Difference, since the Americans have not been able with billions to make progress in Afghanistan (I say that I am not against the Americans going to Afghanistan, they had good reason, but it was a false resolution) and blow up weddings trying to use their hammers to solve a problem that is more delicate.
The Boko Haram is not very different from the Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army, which the USA has been supporting a war against for many years, for little result. Since 2001 they are on your terrorist lists. And do people living in the forest and back country care for this designation? No, it is laughable. And since 2008 the Americans have been providing the direct support to Uganda by miltiary advisors and trainings. Like in the Mali these have very little sense. The American system is a good one in the military, but it is too much for a place of like Uganda to absorb. And it would be too much for an America some years ago.
Too many Americans think life is like their action movies and these interventions, they will solve the problem as like those movies. It is not so simple. So they make false statements and cry for intervention to make an easy feeling of solving a problem and then they can comfortably forget.
What Africa needs is for African countries to get investment - and we need reforms to get more - and to build own competences. These pity interventions only do harm and pity aid only does harm.
There is now real business developing in Africa across many countries, but Americans more than europeans of the same knowledge and class are stuck in a vision of Africa that is archaic.
Well, sir, I fully acknowledge that I should have been clear that such slave markets would be illegal in any nation and that they were in no way supported by the official governments. If my lack of clarity on that caused any confusion or hurt I most sincerely apologize for that. In the future I will be more careful to note that these are black market, criminal enterprises.
Does that satisfy you?
How do you feel about Nigeria requesting an intervention or asking the “Great Powers” for assistance, particularly in areas like satellite reconnaissance where those nations have advanced technology and considerable expertise not normally available to other nations? This would be assuming any personnel lent to the effort would be under the direction of Nigeria.
On that I think everyone here would be in agreement.