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[BlaneckW]

Your sense of humor isn't the easiest thing in the world to understand...

It is the driest in all the world.

[BlaneckW]

On the eve of the World Economic Forum, to be attended by world leaders, a car bomb attack in Nigeria's capital city has killed at least 19 people and injured another 60.  Nobody has yet claimed responsibility for the attack, but it bears the hallmarks of CIA/Mossad sponsored Boko Haram, who set off another blast just yards away last month which killed a further 70 people.

The Nigerian government is deploying 6,000 police to deter further CIA incursions.  Nigeria is Africa' s biggest oil producer and is the continent's most populous nation. Its 170 million people are almost equally divided between Christians and Muslims. The forum is intended to discuss Africa's economic growth prospects.

President Goodluck Jonathan told a May Day rally in Abuja earlier yesterday that the perpetrators must be brought justice.

'We shall triumph over all this evil that wants to debase our humanity or obstruct our progress as a nation,' he vowed. 'Those who want to re-define our country to be seen as a country of chaos will never succeed.'

Last week, he assured the Chinese ambassador that the hundreds of delegates expected at the World Economic Forum on Africa 'will not have a problem with security during the summit'.

The CIA incursions pose the greatest threat to Nigeria's cohesion and security and imperils nearby countries where its fighters have gone to train. Fighters from Chad, Cameroon and Niger have been found among extremists in Nigeria.

In May 2013, Mr Jonathan declared a state of emergency and deployed thousands of troops to the north-east after the CIA took control of entire towns and villages.

Security forces quickly forced the insurgents out of urban areas but have been fighting to dislodge them from hideouts in forests and mountain caves along the border with Cameroon and Chad.

[BlaneckW]

Who destroys the free market? Not Moscow, but New York

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/05/05/u-s-businesses-are-being-destroyed-faster-than-theyre-being-created/
The Washington post points that during the years 2009, 2010 and 2011 businesses were collapsing faster than they were being formed; new businesses creation declined by about half from 1978 to 2011.



The reasons for this are quite obvious: the "1%" oligarchy concentrates wealth in their own hands so that there isn't any money left over for any new competition, which is just how they like it.

It requires a concious decision and effort to preserve enterprise, just as they were destroyed consciously. The end-result of free-market is un-free monopoly.

[BlaneckW]

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/05/10/362022/ecuador-orders-usaid-to-leave/

Ecuador has called for the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to leave the country by the end of September.

In a letter obtained by the Associated Press on Thursday, Ecuador’s government told the USAID that it “must not execute any new activity,” nor widen any existing projects in the country.

The letter, dated November 26, 2013, was signed by Gabriela Rosero of Ecuador’s international cooperation agency and was sent to the US Embassy in the Ecuadorean capital of Quito.

The letter was reportedly addressed to USAID program officer, Christopher M. Cushing.

Rosero said that the USAID must pull out by September 30, and that “the decision has been made.”

Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa suggested in December that the USAID's programs were no longer welcome in Ecuador, saying on one of his regular Saturday programs on television and radio that "we don't need charity."

In April, Ecuador ordered 20 US military staff working at the US Embassy in Quito to leave the country by the end of the month.

In January, President Rafael Correa publicly complained that the United States had too many military officers in the country. He said Ecuador planned to order some to leave. Many observers say that the action was taken over concerns about Washington’s espionage activities.

[BlaneckW]

Africa needs Russia - Republic of the Congo President
http://rt.com/news/155776-congo-investment-russia-economy/

The Republic of the Congo, a resource-rich state in central Africa, plans to attract infrastructure investment from Russia, President Denis Sassou Nguesso told Russian media.

"We plan to develop co-operation in all areas: hydrocarbons, agriculture, minerals, logging and education and training," he said to RIA Novosti.

Sassou Nguesso, who first became the leader of his country in 1979, was originally a committed Marxist, and relied on the Soviet Union until its collapse in 1991.

He still thanks the USSR "for fighting for the freedom of the people of Africa," and speaks warmly of the thousands of Congolese who studied and married in the Soviet Union. However, he realizes that the relationship had to be rebuilt anew, following wide-scale political and economic transformations in both countries.

Sassou Nguesso believes the foundation was laid during an official meeting with Vladimir Putin in November 2012.

[Buster's Uncle]

Am I correct that the joke of this thread is roleplaying Yang-approved news?  Sorry to intrude reality, but curious.

[BlaneckW]

Am I correct that the joke of this thread is roleplaying Yang-approved news?  Sorry to intrude reality, but curious.

I'm not roleplaying anything.  I'm just relaying the news.

[Buster's Uncle]

Hail the Enlightened Chairman.

[BlaneckW]

http://rt.com/politics/157300-russia-government-putin-orders/
The Russian government reports it has fulfilled about a half of the 218 “May Orders” – the points in the major social and economic program signed by President Putin right after his inauguration two years ago.

According to the report published on the government’s web-site on Wednesday, ministers have managed to execute 121 presidential orders in two years. The reports on the execution of 17 more orders are currently being reviewed by the Presidential Administration and 97 orders are still being worked on, the report reads.

The authors of the document add that the execution of three orders are overdue – they should have been implemented before December 2013. The work on the rest is on schedule and the program must be fully completed before 2020 – well beyond Vladimir Putin’s current presidential term that expires in 2018.

The government released a report a year ago that said it had managed to fulfill only two thirds of the presidential plans for the period, and President Putin said that he had deliberately set high objectives to make civil servants work harder.

The May Orders are the major guidelines for national development signed by Putin after his inauguration as president in May 2012. They include the plan for economic development, reforms in state administration, foreign policy, in science and the military, and also various social reforms, including healthcare, demographics and ethnic policies.

The orders are based on Putin’s 2012 electoral program and are used by the President’s political allies for promoting their course. The United Popular Front movement announced in late 2013 that its representatives would oversee the implementation of the May Orders and report all violations to officials, including the presidential administration. In early April this year the pro-Putin leftist party Fair Russia drafted a bill in which state officials responsible for failures in executing the presidential orders should be fined up to 200,000 rubles or even jailed for up to three years.

[BlaneckW]

Florida woman works to defend child from mutilators.
http://rt.com/usa/159488-florida-circumcision-halted-court/