why do you guys always wright rubbish any time JJ speaks. When Kofour speaks he is wright to say what he said. Look if you good for nothing poeple have nothing better to do shut up. The peace we have today is as a result of J ... read full comment
why do you guys always wright rubbish any time JJ speaks. When Kofour speaks he is wright to say what he said. Look if you good for nothing poeple have nothing better to do shut up. The peace we have today is as a result of JJ not Kofour he came to end all coup de tats in ghana. show some level of creat to JJ. I wittness all that was going on in Ghana he came to save us. NPP came to destroy all the foundation he laid and even did all they could to jail him but nothing they could find on him. If JJ is corrupt will he have giving his award money to USD? You think Kofour the grredy man will do that. Judge for your selfs. When he was cleaning gutters and all sort of things for ghana you think kofour will descend that low. He paved the way for kofour to be who he is today. Dont post stupd things here any more if you cant wright sence.
rawlings is a hypocrite 10 years ago
idiot....rawlings is corrupt to the core. He is really a rags to riches story...hypocrite and a murderer to boot.
idiot....rawlings is corrupt to the core. He is really a rags to riches story...hypocrite and a murderer to boot.
Kondendiara Kakraba 10 years ago
Kwame I believe you really need Nana Addo in your life. Pray he wins power to introduce his free education policy so you can benefit. Your grammar is horribly horrible! JJ did what? gave his award money to UDS? So what? JJ pr ... read full comment
Kwame I believe you really need Nana Addo in your life. Pray he wins power to introduce his free education policy so you can benefit. Your grammar is horribly horrible! JJ did what? gave his award money to UDS? So what? JJ presided over billions if not trillions of cedis paid into account number 48 during AFRC regime. It is public record that what was left in that account was insignificant and not near what he claimed publicly to have left in there. He personally flew helicopter to Obuasi to airlift our gold to an unknown location only to direct auditors to Antoa and Akonodi-chemical interrogation. What therefore is peanut money to this raving lunatic? Yes, he has a stash of money hidden somewhere enjoying it "nyafu nyafu."
nyamekye 10 years ago
are u surprised? I think sometimes, he forgets his medication. Or if he is run out, reminder, Dr Asare is still alive.
are u surprised? I think sometimes, he forgets his medication. Or if he is run out, reminder, Dr Asare is still alive.
NAKED 10 years ago
Mali at first glance seems a most unlikely place for the NATO powers, led by a neo-colonialist French government of Socialist President Francois Hollande (and quietly backed to the hilt by the Obama Administration), to launch ... read full comment
Mali at first glance seems a most unlikely place for the NATO powers, led by a neo-colonialist French government of Socialist President Francois Hollande (and quietly backed to the hilt by the Obama Administration), to launch what is being called by some a new Thirty Years’ War Against Terrorism.
Mali, with a population of some 12 million, and a landmass three and a half times the size of Germany, is a land-locked largely Saharan Desert country in the center of western Africa, bordered by Algeria to its north, Mauritania to its west, Senegal, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso and Niger to its southern part. People I know who have spent time there before the recent US-led efforts at destabilization called it one of the most peaceful and beautiful places on earth, the home of Timbuktu. Its people are some ninety percent Muslim of varying persuasions. It has a rural subsistence agriculture and adult illiteracy of nearly 50%. Yet this country is suddenly the center of a new global “war on terror.”
On January 20 Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron announced his country’s curious resolve to dedicate itself to deal with “the terrorism threat” in Mali and north Africa. Cameron declared, “It will require a response that is about years, even decades, rather than months, and it requires a response that…has an absolutely iron resolve…” [1] Britain in its colonial heyday never had a stake in Mali. Until it won independence in 1960, Mali was a French colony.
On January 11, after more than a year of behind-the-scenes pressure on the neighboring Algeria to get them entangled in an invasion of its neighbor Mali, Hollande decided to make a direct French military intervention with US backing. His government launched air strikes in the rebel-held north of Mali against a fanatical Salafist band of jihadist cutthroats calling itself Al-Qaeda in the Islamic-Mahgreb (AQIM). The pretext for the seemingly swift French action was a military move by a tiny group of Islamic Jihadists of the Tuareg people, Asnar Dine, affiliated with the larger AQIM. On January 10 Asnar Dine – backed by other Islamist groups – attacked the southern town of Konna. That marked the first time since the Tuareg rebellion in early 2012 that Jihadist rebels moved out of traditional Tuareg territory in the northern desert to spread Islamic law to the south of Mali.
As French journalist Thierry Meyssan noted, French forces were remarkably well prepared: “The transitional President, Dioncounda Traore, declared a state of emergency and called to France for help. Paris intervened within hours to prevent the fall of the capital, Bamako. Far-sightedly, the Elysée had already pre-positioned in Mali troops from the 1st Marine Infantry Parachute Regiment (“the Colonials”) and the 13th Parachute Dragoon Regiment, helicopters from the COS (Special Operations Command), three Mirage 2000D’s, two Mirage F-1’s, three C135’s, a C130 Hercules and a C160 Transall.” [2] What a convenient coincidence.
By January 21 US Air Force transport planes began delivering hundreds of French elite soldiers and military equipment to Mali, ostensibly to roll back what we were told was an out-of-control terrorist advance south towards the Mali capital. [3] French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told media the number of its ‘boots on the ground’ in Mali had reached 2,000, adding that “around 4,000 troops will be mobilized for this operation,” in Mali and outside bases. [4]
But there are strong indications the French agenda in Mali is anything but humanitarian. In a France 5 TV interview, Le Drian carelessly admitted, “The goal is the total reconquest of Mali. We will not leave any pockets.” And President Francois Hollande said French troops would remain in the region long enough “to defeat terrorism.” The United States, Canada, Britain, Belgium, Germany and Denmark have all said they would support the French operation against Mali. [5]
Mali itself, like much of Africa is rich in raw materials. It has large reserves of gold, uranium and most recently, though western oil companies try to hide it, of oil, lots of oil. The French preferred to ignore Mali’s vast resources, keeping it a poor subsistence agriculture country. Under the deposed democratically-elected President Amadou Toumani Toure, for the first time the government initiated a systematic mapping of the vast wealth under its soil. According to Mamadou Igor Diarra, previous mining minister, Malian soil contains copper, uranium, phosphate, bauxite, gems and in particular, a large percentage of gold in addition to oil and gas. Thus, Mali is one of the countries in the world with the most raw materials. With its gold mining, the country is already one of the leading exploiters directly behind South Africa and Ghana. [6] Two thirds of France’s electricity is from nuclear power and sources of new uranium are essential. Presently, France draws significant uranium imports from neighboring Niger.
Now the picture gets a little complex.
According to usually reliable former US military experts with direct familiarity with the region, speaking on condition of anonymity, US and NATO Special Forces actually trained the same “terrorist” bands now justifying a neo-colonial US-backed invasion of Mali by France. The major question is why would Washington and Paris train the terrorists they are now acting to destroy in a “war on terror?” Were they really surprised at the lack of NATO loyalty from their trainees? And what is behind AFRICOM’s American-backed French takeover of Mali?
Rawlings the MURDERER 10 years ago
rawlings must see psychiatric for check up ,rawlings has forgotten that he was even suckk
ing pregnant woman's blood in the achimota forest .big fool rawlings
rawlings must see psychiatric for check up ,rawlings has forgotten that he was even suckk
ing pregnant woman's blood in the achimota forest .big fool rawlings
Innusah 10 years ago
Rawlings might not be sane but his mental capabilities are definitely higher than that of u adofo!
Rawlings might not be sane but his mental capabilities are definitely higher than that of u adofo!
Kwame 10 years ago
NPP members have been calling people thieves and corrupt does that imply that they are also a psychiatrist case?
NPP members have now let the whole world to know that they have mass hallucination, which is mass insanity.
NPP members have been calling people thieves and corrupt does that imply that they are also a psychiatrist case?
NPP members have now let the whole world to know that they have mass hallucination, which is mass insanity.
Master Kwaku 10 years ago
No! J.J. is NOT sane. He is either insane or his brain (if he has any) is gravely affected by narcotic drugs!
No! J.J. is NOT sane. He is either insane or his brain (if he has any) is gravely affected by narcotic drugs!
why do you guys always wright rubbish any time JJ speaks. When Kofour speaks he is wright to say what he said. Look if you good for nothing poeple have nothing better to do shut up. The peace we have today is as a result of J ...
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idiot....rawlings is corrupt to the core. He is really a rags to riches story...hypocrite and a murderer to boot.
Kwame I believe you really need Nana Addo in your life. Pray he wins power to introduce his free education policy so you can benefit. Your grammar is horribly horrible! JJ did what? gave his award money to UDS? So what? JJ pr ...
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are u surprised? I think sometimes, he forgets his medication. Or if he is run out, reminder, Dr Asare is still alive.
Mali at first glance seems a most unlikely place for the NATO powers, led by a neo-colonialist French government of Socialist President Francois Hollande (and quietly backed to the hilt by the Obama Administration), to launch ...
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rawlings must see psychiatric for check up ,rawlings has forgotten that he was even suckk
ing pregnant woman's blood in the achimota forest .big fool rawlings
Rawlings might not be sane but his mental capabilities are definitely higher than that of u adofo!
NPP members have been calling people thieves and corrupt does that imply that they are also a psychiatrist case?
NPP members have now let the whole world to know that they have mass hallucination, which is mass insanity.
No! J.J. is NOT sane. He is either insane or his brain (if he has any) is gravely affected by narcotic drugs!
JJ the ridiculous statesman