This is one of the silliest "essays" I have ever read. The logic defies the gravity of common sense and intelligence. If this idiocy is to be believed, countries that plan for the future are doomed. And unserious countries like Nigeria are bound to prosper and become the new giants of civilization. Mimicry trumps planning and innovation.
Anyone who believes that Western nations only yesterday started planning for the possibility of unrest as a result of economic challenges is delusional, period. Nations like America are sustainable because they have a cognitive elite of thinkers, dreamers AND doers. African intellectuals, myself included, like to talk, boast, eat, poop, sleep, and mimic. Nothing ever happens. I mean, look at what we have done to much of Africa! Look at Nigeria.
We have the audacity to smirk at America for engaging in strategic long-range planning. Remove the forest in Africa's eyes first abeg you. Someone calls the open looting currently going in in Nigeria by PhDs "democracy." Every day I pray for the soldiers to come back and take back their country. Every day. This democracy must be stopped at all costs. At all costs. And if I hear anymore nonsense about Gbagbo and democracy and associated bullsh*t I will throw up!
Nigeria is currently on her knees precisely because of the thievery of our intellectuals that brought us "the prodemocracy movement." All the horrors of all our military regime combined do not add up to one tenth of the atrocities heaped on our people by the assholes of Aso Rock. Our intellectuals have teamed up with their friends to rape our continent. And people are smirking at America for planning! Perish the thought. God forbid that we should plan for tomorrow. Does it take a genius to see that we are living in a new dispensation and that all our assumptions about economics need review? Haba!
If you want to see how unserious we are go and find the "official website" of Nigeria! Broken links everywhere, not a single usable piece of information. Find Lagos State. Same nonsense. Find the Federal Ministry of Education. Disgraceful. Look for ASUU. A joke. Our intellectuals have become money grubbing jokers. When you talk now they start forming and raking and foaming in the mouth. Must we have a democracy? I hate to say this; Naipaul is right, we are mimic men and women. The question is WHY are we like this? WHAT in the hell is wrong with us? WHAT in the hell are we doing? Africa matter tire me jare! I will shut up for ever!
- Ikhide
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| U.S. Military Prepares for Economic Collapse | | l |
| Written by Raven Clabough |
| Tuesday, 07 December 2010 11:35 |
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According to CNBC, "The Pentagon is planning for real economic threats to America." CNBC's Business News analyst Eamon Javers explains: Ever since the crash of 2008, the Defense Intelligence establishment has really been paying a lot of attention to global markets and how they could serve as a threat to U.S. National security interests. At one upcoming seminar that we're going to see here next month, they're going to be taking a look at a lot of the issues … [including] the use of sovereign wealth funds to manipulate markets, currencies; nation state economic collapse, sovereign default, nation state instability; U.S. Allies' budgets, deficits, national security infrastructures. Similarly, the Army has launched an operation called "Unified Quest 2011" in which it studies the "implications of 'large scale economic breakdown' inside the United States that would force the Army to keep 'domestic order amid civil unrest.'" The Quest also trains the Army in how to "deal with fragmented global power and drastically lower budgets." In October, the United States Marine Corps visited J.P. Morgan to "study markets and the economy." Javers concludes: All different parts of the Pentagon and Defense Intelligence establishment are looking at markets and looking at ways they can present a new kind of threat to the United States. These are the guys whose job it is to think of the worst possible things that could happen. According to Wired.com, the Army hosts a Unified Quest every year, which entails "the Army's chief of staff [instructing] talented mid-career and senior officers and senior enlisted (wo)men to evaluate where the service is falling short — and propose remedies." However, the 2011 Unified Quest lends truth to assertions that the United States is indeed not witnessing an upward economic recovery, as so many in our federal government have asserted. Soldiers are being trained in evacuation and detainment as a response to rioting, revealing the possibility that the United States military may resort to martial law in order to maintain order. Unified Quest 2011 also prepares soldiers to act as diplomats in the event that there is a limited availability of diplomats at combat outposts, or on the streets contending with hungry and angry Americans. Wired.com writes, "There's a strong consensus that negotiations ought to be part of the Army's toolkit — something backed by a ream of recent doctrinal manuals and various short courses in negotiation at the Army's many schools." Blacklisted News explains that the Pentagon's war games are just one of many examples that show the direction in which the world is headed. Others include the decentralization of FEMA from a single distribution facility in Washington to 15 regional facilities across the nation. Blacklisted News also claims, "Anecdotal evidence indicates that the U.S. government has been the leading buyer of freeze dried foods for the last couple of years, and private emergency shelter contractors have reported a shortage in equipment and supplies for building personal-sized bunkers." Other global powers are apparently preparing for "Doomsday" scenarios. Russia has reportedly been preparing for the development of 5,000 new underground bunkers for the city of Moscow, while the European Union commissioned the building of a "Doomsday Seed Vault" in a mountainside several hundred feet above sea level in 2006. Additionally, FEMA's website recommends that American families have emergency preparedness supplies readily available, including food and water, for at least several weeks. Photo of Pentagon: AP Images |
Skeptics who continue to assert that the economic plight of the United States has been overstated need not look further than the Pentagon to find out just how wrong they are. 
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