The Nkrumahist Who Transformed Ignorance Into Bliss (2)

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• Kweku Biney 10 years ago

  So Mr Baidoo, you can write without insulting people.

  So Mr Baidoo, you can write without insulting people.

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• Sammy 10 years ago

  Baidoo, never waste your precious time on those guys like Kwesi Sakyi and his co-equals like Francis Kwarteng, Lungu, Kojo T etc, you see! Sakyi for instance is a big time braggart who should not be taken serious just like th ...
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  Baidoo, never waste your precious time on those guys like Kwesi Sakyi and his co-equals like Francis Kwarteng, Lungu, Kojo T etc, you see! Sakyi for instance is a big time braggart who should not be taken serious just like the rest of his afore mentioned friends. You can call them blockheads.

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• Kojo T 10 years ago

  So Eintein improved on the ideas of Newton and company .The Japanese did not reinvent the wheel of the train locomotive but COPIED it and now at the forefront.But then what is the difference ? Then is Trokosi practice limited ...
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  So Eintein improved on the ideas of Newton and company .The Japanese did not reinvent the wheel of the train locomotive but COPIED it and now at the forefront.But then what is the difference ? Then is Trokosi practice limited to the pacification of the gods through virgin enslavement ?Go deeper PKB and stop destroying the good name of Prof Awoonor who worked for the Institute of African Studies and most likely researched the Trokosi practice that you have only a superficial understanding of .You andyour Ilk are dangerous to society

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• Kojo B 10 years ago

  Kojo T, you durty Ewe, that word/Name is "Einstein" and not "Eintein."

  Kojo T, you durty Ewe, that word/Name is "Einstein" and not "Eintein."

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• Kojo B 10 years ago

  CORRECTION:
  Kojo T, you DIRTY Ewe, that word/Name is "Einstein" and not "Eintein."

  CORRECTION:
  Kojo T, you DIRTY Ewe, that word/Name is "Einstein" and not "Eintein."

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• PhiIip Kobina Baidoo 10 years ago

  Hello Kojo T, you cannot even see anything wrong with Trokosi, and you keep letting me know that I am confused. Thank you.

  Hello Kojo T, you cannot even see anything wrong with Trokosi, and you keep letting me know that I am confused. Thank you.

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• PhiIip Kobina Baidoo 10 years ago

  Hello Sammy, your advice is well taken. This is my last; life is too precocious. Thank you

  Hello Sammy, your advice is well taken. This is my last; life is too precocious. Thank you

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• JATO KWASHIVI RAWLINGS 10 years ago

  THE JEWS ARE ONE RACE WHICH FOR CENTURIES(FROM DAYS OF THE PHAROAHS OF EGYPT) HAVE SUFFERED MORE OF SLAVERY AND OTHER FORMS OF RACIAL SUPPRESSION THAN OTHER RACES. THE MOST RECENT BEING THE GENOCIDE OF SIX MILLION JEWS BY HIT ...
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  THE JEWS ARE ONE RACE WHICH FOR CENTURIES(FROM DAYS OF THE PHAROAHS OF EGYPT) HAVE SUFFERED MORE OF SLAVERY AND OTHER FORMS OF RACIAL SUPPRESSION THAN OTHER RACES. THE MOST RECENT BEING THE GENOCIDE OF SIX MILLION JEWS BY HITLER AND THE NAZIS. YET, THEY FORGET QUICKLY, DUST THEMSELVES UP AND DO NOT ALLOW THE BITTERNESS OF THEIR SUFFERING TO CLOUD THEIR THINKING AND LIVES AND HOOK THEM DOWN IN DESPAIR AND HOPELESSNESS. THEY LEAVE THE SUFFERING AND THE RESULTING BITTERNESS AND THEY RISE UP, TO FORGE NEW LIVES FOR THEMSELVES AND THEIR COMMUNITY. AFTER HITLER, JEWS TODAY RUN BANKING AND FINANCE, THE HIGH VALUE JEWELLRY INDUSTRY, HOLLYWOOD FILM MAKING, THE FASHION INDUSTRY, THE MUSIC INDUSTRY, MINING ETC. YET, THE AFRICAN AND THE AFRICAN IN THE DIASPORA STILL HOLDS GRUDGES FROM 15TH CENTURY SLAVERY AND COLONIALISM, MAKING THEM BITTER AND THEREFORE UNPRODUCTIVE AND NOT FORWARD LOOKING AND PROGRESSIVE. THE CONSEQUENCE OF ALL THIS IS THE UNDERDEVELOPMENT OF THE CONTINENT OF AFRICA AND THE WOEFUL LAG OF THE DIASPORAN AFRICAN IN THE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND SUCCESS STAKES.

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• MINOR CASE 10 years ago

  Oh my God , you are a genius yourself for succinctly talking sense into these blockheads who daily want us to dwell on our past and accuse others for our failures as a race. Their mind set is that the capitalists/whites have ...
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  Oh my God , you are a genius yourself for succinctly talking sense into these blockheads who daily want us to dwell on our past and accuse others for our failures as a race. Their mind set is that the capitalists/whites have permanently disabled us and we have to accept that as our lot and all we can do is to keep blaming them hoping that they will understand and help us development on a silver platter. The Francis Kwarteng's the Kojo T's the Prof. Lungu's etc are the likes of the Jessie Jacksons and the Al Sharptons [ the so called leaders who thrive on the woes of blacks]. They are seen at the head of demonstrations when ever " atrocities " are committed against a black person but never address the ills in the black community . Ills such as drugs and gangs , absentee fathers , teenage pregnancy , gun violence . They blame the white man for all these ills much as the likes of Francis Kwarteng blame the capitalists for our ineptitude. When are we going to take responsibility of our destiny and stop reliving the past and stop the blame game. Africa is the most endowed continent in the whole world and the poorest. Corruption everywhere . Recently , the USA retrieved and handed over to Nigeria hundreds of million of dollars the Abacha family kept in a bank in New Jersey . General Mobutu Seseku of Zaire , at the time of his death was wealthier than his country. I know these thievery of our resourses will be blamed on the minipulations of the capitalists. If so , then the African is a fool indeed as Bob Marley wrote ," In the abundance of water the fool is thirsty "

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• JATO KWASHIVI RAWLINGS 10 years ago

  SOUTH KOREA DID NOT SIT IN PITY AFTER JAPAN'S COLONISATION OF ITS NATION. OTHER COLONIES OF THE UNITED KINGDOM; SINGAPORE, MALAYSIA HAVE PROGRESSED AND DEVELOPED INSPITE OF CENTURIES OF PAST SUBJUGATION. WHAT HAS AFRICA ACHIE ...
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  SOUTH KOREA DID NOT SIT IN PITY AFTER JAPAN'S COLONISATION OF ITS NATION. OTHER COLONIES OF THE UNITED KINGDOM; SINGAPORE, MALAYSIA HAVE PROGRESSED AND DEVELOPED INSPITE OF CENTURIES OF PAST SUBJUGATION. WHAT HAS AFRICA ACHIEVED??????? NIGERIA IS BANKRUPT AND CANNOT PAY PUBLIC SERVANTS TODAY, BECAUSE PAST RULERS HELPED THEMSELVES TO US$150 BILLIONS OF STATE FUNDS. HOW WILL THE CONTINENT DEVELOP IF THE FUNDS MEANT FOR DEVELOPMENT ENDS UP IN THE CAYMAN ISLANDS, MAURITIUS AND IN SECRET SWISS NUMBERED ACCOUNTS, YET THE SAME THIEVES WILL TURN ROUND AND FOOL AFRICANS THAT, IT IS THE CAPITALISTS WHO ARE THE CAUSE OF THEIR WOES AND PROBLEMS OF POVERTY, ILLITERACY AND DISEASE. WHY HAVE THE SAME SO CALLED AND SCAPEGOATED "WICKED CAPITALISTS" NOT PREVENTED CHINA, SOUTH KOREA, SINGAPORE AND MALAYSIA FROM PROGRESS AND DEVELOPMENT?????? OUR AKANS HAVE A SAYING, "ABOA BI BEKA WO A, OFIRI WO NTAMA MU". THE ENEMY OF PROGRESS IN AFRICA AND AMONG THE DIASPORAN AFRICAN ARE THE CORRUPT AND GREEDY ENTRENCHED LEADERSHIP WHICH HOLDS SWAY OVER THEM, SOMETIMES FOR DECADES, WITH NO SIGNS OF EVER RELINQUISHING POWER, A LA MUGABE, BIYA, MUSEVENI AND OTHERS.

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• GORGORDUTOR 10 years ago

  YOUR STUPIDITY IS APPARENT YOUR DISCERNMENT IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS ABYSMAL!!!! THE ZIONISTS USED THE DEATHS OF JEWS IM THE NAZI CAMPS TO DISPOSSESS THE PALESTINIANS OF THEIR LAND AMD IMPOSE AN APARTHEID SYSTEMS USING NAZI T ...
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  YOUR STUPIDITY IS APPARENT YOUR DISCERNMENT IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS ABYSMAL!!!! THE ZIONISTS USED THE DEATHS OF JEWS IM THE NAZI CAMPS TO DISPOSSESS THE PALESTINIANS OF THEIR LAND AMD IMPOSE AN APARTHEID SYSTEMS USING NAZI TACTICS. THEY HAVE USED THAT CLUB TO AND EUROPEAN GUILT & PREJUDICE TO MAINTAIN THEIR APARTHEID STATE!! CURRENTLY THEY HAVE AMERICA IN THEIR GRIP. WITNESS THE DEMONSTRABLY FALSE PROPOSITION THEY HAVE EMPLOYED TO GET THE AMERICANS TO HOLD IRAN HOSTAGE SINCE 1992. IN AMERICA TODAY ISRAEL MOT US INTERESTS ARE PARAMOUNT SO MUCH SO THAT WHEN ISRAEL EMBARKS ON MASSIVE WAR CRIME SPREES THE ABSURD REFRAIN IS "ISRAEL HAS A RIGHT TO PROTECT ITSELF". ISRAEL/ ZIONIST LOBBY IS SO POWERFUL THAT IT COMMANDS THE CONGRESS TO INVITE THE ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER TO ADDRESS THEM AND WHAT DOES HE DO? ATTACK THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES IN HIGHLY PERSONAL TERMS AND RECIEBES A STANDING OVATION!!! WHERE DO YOU GET YOUR DEMONSTRABLY FALSE ALTERNATE REALITIES?? ZIONIST DUPE!!!

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• JATO KWASHIVI RAWLINGS 10 years ago

  YOU THINK JEWISH HISTORY BEGAN IN CONTEPORARY TIMES, HENCE YOUR RATHER SHALLOW VIEWS AND IGNORANT DIATRIBE OF THE IGNORAMUS THAT YOU ARE. GO AND LEARN SOME MORE AND STOP DISPLAYING YOUR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE ON THIS FORUM.

  YOU THINK JEWISH HISTORY BEGAN IN CONTEPORARY TIMES, HENCE YOUR RATHER SHALLOW VIEWS AND IGNORANT DIATRIBE OF THE IGNORAMUS THAT YOU ARE. GO AND LEARN SOME MORE AND STOP DISPLAYING YOUR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE ON THIS FORUM.

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• GORGORDUTOR 10 years ago

  IDIOTICUS AFRICANIENSIS subtype NEOCOLONIAL ZIONIST DUMMY IGNORAMUS. Habitat: SWAMPY MARSHLANDS OF MENTAL AIDDS (ACQUIRED INTELLECTUAL DEFICIENCY/DEFECTIVE SYNDROME) CONTINUOUS INGESTION OF SWAMP GAS IDIOCIES COMPELL THIS SPE ...
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  IDIOTICUS AFRICANIENSIS subtype NEOCOLONIAL ZIONIST DUMMY IGNORAMUS. Habitat: SWAMPY MARSHLANDS OF MENTAL AIDDS (ACQUIRED INTELLECTUAL DEFICIENCY/DEFECTIVE SYNDROME) CONTINUOUS INGESTION OF SWAMP GAS IDIOCIES COMPELL THIS SPECIES TO HONK WILDLY AND EXPOSE IT INTELLECTUAL SHALLOWNESS AND IDIOTIC GULLIBILITY!! YAKAGBEMEI!

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• JATO KWASHIVI RAWLINGS 10 years ago

  THE KWAME NKRUMAH STYLE USE OF ACADEMIC TERMS; "NEO COLONIALISM" ETC, DOES NOT FEED THE HUNGRY IN AFRICA. AFRICA SHOULD GET ITS HOUSE, FULL OF CORRUPTION IN ORDER AND GET THEIR HANDS TO THE DIRT AND SOLVE THE BASIC PROBLEMS A ...
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  THE KWAME NKRUMAH STYLE USE OF ACADEMIC TERMS; "NEO COLONIALISM" ETC, DOES NOT FEED THE HUNGRY IN AFRICA. AFRICA SHOULD GET ITS HOUSE, FULL OF CORRUPTION IN ORDER AND GET THEIR HANDS TO THE DIRT AND SOLVE THE BASIC PROBLEMS AND WE SHALL LEARN TO DO TO GREAT THINGS AND ACHIEVE GREAT FEATS FROM OUR OWN EFFORTS. WE CHOP ALL OUR MONEY THROUGH STEALING, BECOME BANKRUPT AND INDEBETED TO OUR EYES AND THEM GO CUP IN HAND TO THE CAPITALIST INSTITUTION TO BEG FOR CRUMBS AND THEN START USING TERMS LIKE "NEO COLONIALISM" IN OUR WRITE UP, ONLY TO IMPRESS OURSELVES, WHILE WE GO HUNGRY.

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• G. K. Berko 10 years ago

  THE BITTER EXPERIENCE OF THE JEWS IS ALWAYS AT THE ROOT OF THEIR UNRELENTING CRAVE FOR SUCCESS. THEY MAY HAVE FORGIVEN THOSE WHO HURT THEM. BUT THEY HAVE NEVER FORGOTTEN THE ORDEALS THEY WENT THROUGH. THIS UNDERLIES THEIR CUR ...
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  THE BITTER EXPERIENCE OF THE JEWS IS ALWAYS AT THE ROOT OF THEIR UNRELENTING CRAVE FOR SUCCESS. THEY MAY HAVE FORGIVEN THOSE WHO HURT THEM. BUT THEY HAVE NEVER FORGOTTEN THE ORDEALS THEY WENT THROUGH. THIS UNDERLIES THEIR CURRENT PHILOSOPHY THAT THEY WOULD NOT EVER ALLOW THEMSELVES TO BE SO DECIMATED BY ANY OTHER GROUP AGAIN. HENCE, THE EVER-GROWING MILITARY STRENGTH THEY ACQUIRE TODAY, AND THEIR SEEMINGLY MERCILESS RETRIBUTION AGAINST ANY VIOLENCE AGAINST THEM, AS SEEN WITH THEIR RECENT ENCOUNTERS WITH THE PALESTINIANS.
  
  SIMILARLY, AFRICANS NEED TO CHANNEL THE MEMORY OF THEIR PAINFUL PAST AND EVEN THE CONTINUED RISK OF SUFFERING THE SAME AROUND THE WORLD INTO A CONCERTED EFFORT TO SURGE FORWARD IN ALL AREAS OF HUMAN ENDEAVOR.
  
  I NOTED ELSEWHERE RECENTLY THAT WE COULD LEARN A LOT FROM THE JEWISH EXPERIENCE. NEVERTHELESS, WHAT YOU MISSED OR FAILED ADMIT IS THE FACT THE SUBJUGATION OF THE AFRICAN STILL CONTINUES, WHILE THAT OF THE JEWS HAS STOPPED, AT LEAST, INSTITUTIONALLY.
  
  THE LIKES OF BILL COSBY AND DR. BEN CARSON HAVE CHASTIZED BLACKS FOR NOT DOING ENOUGH FOR THEMSELVES BUT KEEP BLAMING THEIR OPPRESSORS FOR THEIR PLIGHT. YOU SEEM TO BE IN THE SAME BOAT AS THESE TWO PROMINENT AFRICAN-AMERICANS.
  
  HOWEVER, THESE TWO AFRICAN-AMERICAN LEADERS AND FOLKS IN THEIR LEAGUE FORGET THAT IT TAKES CERTAIN MOTIVATION TO GET FOLKS TO RE-TUNE THEIR PSYCHE TO CONCENTRATE ON ACHIEVING MORE BY THEMSELVES. I BET THAT THEY DID GET SOME HELP SOMEWHERE. EVEN BEN CARSON COMMENDS HIS MOTHER FOR HAVING HELPED HIM TO CHANGE HIS HORRIBLE EARLY WAYS UNTO THE PATH OF SUCCESS.
  
  WHAT MOST AFRICAN-AMERICANS DON'T HAVE IN ABUNDANCE IS JUST THAT KIND OF HELP. WE AFRICANS ALSO HAVE OUR LIMITATIONS IN THAT DIRECTION. AS MUCH OF EVERY SUCCESS NEEDS SOME FINANCIAL BREAK TO BEGIN WITH, MANY OF US DON'T HAVE THE MINIMUM TO LIFT OURSELVES UP WITH.
  
  MOREOVER, THE IMPERIALISTIC COLLABORATION WITH THE FEW BAD LEADERS AMONG US TO KEEP THE MAJORITY IN POVERTY STILL GOES ON. THE JEWS ARE NOT STILL CONTINUOUSLY HAMPERED IN THAT WAY.
  
  THEREFORE, AS YOU ARE RIGHT THAT WE OUGHT TO DO MORE FOR OURSELVES AND TRY TO LOOK PAST OUR PAINFUL PAST, YOU SHOULD AS MUCH ACKNOWLEDGE THAT IT IS MORE DIFFICULT TO ACHIEVE ANYTHING SIGNIFICANT IN THE SHORT TERM AS OUR SUBJUGATION STILL CONTINUES.
  
  THE JEWS WERE ABLE TO MERGE INTO THE WESTERN SOCIETY MORE EASILY AFTER THE WW II, AND, ESPECIALLY, IN THE USA, AFTER THE CIVIL RIGHTS STRUGGLE THEY TEAMED UP WITH MARTIN LUTHER KING AND OTHER BLACKS TO EARN A BREAK IN THE DISCRIMINATION THEY SHARED. THAT MERGER OR ASSIMILATION INTO THE SOCIETIES HAS, PRACTICALLY, ELUDED THE BLACKS, BUT NOT THE JEWS. THE RELAXATION OF INTERMARRIAGE RESTRICTIONS BOTH CULTURALLY AND RELIGIOUSLY HAVE HELPED THE JEWS MORE. NOW, WE HAVE THE PROMINENT PRESENCE AND INFLUENCE OF THE AMERICAN JEWS IN ALL IMPORTANT SECTORS OF THE SOCIETY AND GOVERNMENT. NO WONDER THEY CAN INFLUENCE WHAT WARS AMERICANS FIGHT TODAY.
  
  IN AFRICA, THE COLD-WAR AND COLONIALISM WROUGHT DEEPER PSYCHOLOGICAL SCARS THAT WE ARE STILL GRAPPLING WITH TO FIND A STABLE EQUILIBRIUM TO ADVANCE ON. OUR INDUSTRIAL BASES HAVE OFTEN BEEN THWARTED TO KEEP US DEPENDENT ON WESTERN AND OTHER FOREIGN SUPPLIES. WE HAVE DIFFICULTY SHIRKING THE IMPORT DEPENDENCY.
  
  OUR AGRICULTURAL OPPORTUNITIES HAVE SUFFERED NOT A NATURAL CONSTRICTION OF GROWTH BY THE FREE MARKET, BUT BY DELIBERATE MANIPULATION OF THE MARKET BY CARTELS AND OTHERS WHO CONTROL THE MARKET TO THEIR ADVANTAGE.
  
  OUR EDUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT THAT COULD HAVE HELPED US BECOME TECHNICALLY SELF-SUFFICIENT AND INNOVATIVE TO IMPROVE UPON OUR ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS HAS BEEN UNDERMINED TO MAKE IT MORE DIFFICULT FOR THE POOR TO ATTAIN THE NECESSARY LITERACY TO FACILITATE IMPLEMENTATION OF ANY GOOD POLICIES. WE COULD HAVE BY NOW BE DRILLING OUR OWN OIL AS IN BRAZIL.
  
  WE ARE HOOKED ON THE SARDINES, MILK AND SUGAR ECONOMICS FOR FAR TOO LONG. AND YET, WE ARE NOT ALLOWED TO MANUFACTURE OUR OWN. OUR BANKS WOULD RATHER LEND TO OUTSIDERS THAN TO LOCAL ENTREPRENEURS TO START UP AND RUN VITAL BUSINESSES. EVEN OUR GOVERNMENTS ARE FOOLED TO BELIEVE THAT ONLY FOREIGN BUSINESSES DESERVE ITS FINANCIAL GUARANTEES TO OPERATE IN OUR LAND. REMEMER THE STX HOAX OF A KOREAN CONSTRUCTION INVESTMENT THE MILLS ADMINISTRATION BOUGHT INTO? OUR LOCAL QUALIFIED BUILDERS AND JOB SEEKERS WERE EXEMPTED FROM WORKING IN IT WHILE THE GOVERNMENT WAS GOING TO GUARANTEE $3 BILLION FOR THE PROJECT. NOW, I HEAR THE PROJECT HAS BEEN GIVEN TO SOME MOROCCANS. WHY? OUR BUILDERS ARE NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR EVEN RESIDENTIAL HOUSES?
  
  OUR NATURAL RESOURCES LIKE OIL AND GOLD HAVE BEEN GIVEN AWAY OSTENSIBLY BECAUSE WE DO NOT HAVE THE EXPERTISE OURSELVES TO HARNESS THEM. REALLY? WHY NOT WAIT TILL WE HAVE ENOUGH EXPERTS OF OUR OWN TO HELP TAP INTO THE RESOURCES AT A CHEAPER COST? OUR LEADERS SOLD OUR GOLD AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSETS TO THE BRITISH AND IN EXCHANGE FATTENED THEIR PERSONAL POCKETS AND GOT BRITISH IMPERIAL TITLE OF O.B.E. OR OTHER BESTOWED UPON THEM.
  
  ASK HOW MUCH RE-INVESTMENT DID THE GHANAIAN LEADERS WHO GAINED MASSIVELY FROM THESE DEALS MADE IN THE COUNTRY WITH THEIR BOOTY? HAVE YOU HEARD THE SOUTH AFRICAN BASED VENTURE CAPITAL FIRM OWNED BY SAM JONAH SUPPORT ANY LOCAL BUSINESSES IN GHANA YET? HAVE YOU SEEN THE EO-GROUP EXPAND ITS OPERATIONS IN THE COUNTRY OR HIRE ANY MORE EMPLOYEES FROM OUR GROWING YOUTHFUL JOBLESS POPULATION? IT IS ONLY RECENTLY, AFTER A LOT OF INSINUATION AGAINST THE EO-GROUP FOR ITS LACK OF RE-INVESTING IN GHANA THAT ADUSEI, THE OTHER PARTNER OF THE GROUP BEGAN A FOUNDATION THAT HAS SINCE DONATED A FEW $ 1000S TO EDUCATIONAL CAUSES IN ASHANTI REGION.
  
  I CAN GO ON AND ON. OUR SELF-INFLICTING INJURIES STEM FROM CERTAIN PRESSURES FROM OUTSIDE AS WELL. YOU MAY DISPUTE THAT. SURELY, THEY ARE PREVENTABLE. BUT ONCE THOSE LEADING THOSE TO INFLICT US THOSE INJURIES GET THEMSELVES IN CERTAIN COMPROMISING SITUATIONS, THERE IS LITTLE THEY THEMSELVES CAN DO TO UNO THE HARM OR CORRECT THE ERROR.
  
  
  YET, THE UNDENIABLE STILL FACT REMAINS THAT NO COUNTRY SUCCEEDS AND ADVANCES WITHOUT ESTABLISHING A STRONG EARNING CAPACITY AMONG ITS OWN CITIZENS THAT IS RECIRCULATED IN EXPANDING BUSINESSES. A FEW OF US COULD BE FILTHY RICH. BUT WHEN THAT WEALTH IS HIDDEN IN SAFE HAVENS ABROAD, HOW GOOD DOES IT DO FOR THE NATION?
  
  THE SO-CALLED ASIAN TIGERS OF EMERGING ECONOMIC GIANTS ALL HAVE EMBEDED IN THEIR ECONOMIC POLICIES SIGNIFICANT ATTENTION TO LOCAL CONTENT WHEN FOREIGN INVESTORS ARE INVITED IN TO OPERATE.
  
  THE CONTINUED PRESSURE FROM ABROAD TO KEEP THE STATUS QUO IN OUR ECONOMIC POLICIES HAS LARGELY TO BLAME FOR OUR SLOW TO NO GROWTH. WE NEED TO ACCEPT OUR PART OF THE PROBLEM. BUT YOU CANNOT DENY THE FACT THAT THE EXTERNAL PRESSURES AND COERCION HAVE EXTENDED OUR PLIGHT BY COOPTING OUR LEADERS TO TOW THEIR DECEPTIVE SELFISH SCHEMES.
  
  THINK ABOUT THE FARMING SECTOR FOR EXAMPLE. WHILE THE USA HAS LONG BEEN PAYING SUBSIDIES TO HER FARMERS, EVEN TO OTHERS NOT TO PRODUCE SO THAT PRICES OF THEIR CROPS WOULD STAY PROFITABLY HIGH ALL THE TIME, SHE VEHEMENTLY OPPOSES OUR GOVERNMENTS SUBSIDIZING OUR FARMERS. THERE HAVE BEEN TIMES THAT WE HAVE PRODUCED CORN, FOR INSTANCE, ABUNDANTLY WHILE OUR NEIGHBORS HAVE BEEN STARVING. AND INSTEAD OF THE FAO AND OTHER SO-CALLED DONOR NATIONS BUYING OUR EXCESS CROPS TO HELP THESE NEIGHBORS, THEY WOULD RATHER SEND IN THEIR INFERIOR LIVESTOCK QUALITY EXCESS PRODUCE TO THESE HUNGRY NEIGHBORS OF OURS. SUCH IS HOW OUR AGRICULTURAL PROGRESS GETS UNDERMINED.
  
  AGAIN, OUR CROPS WERE FOR LONG AND EVEN STILL HARDLY WELCOMED IN WESTERN FOREIGN MARKETS. VARIOUS HEALTH RESTRICTIONS ARE NEEDLESSLY IMPOSED ON OUR PRODUCE TO KEEP THEM OFF THEIR MARKETS. SO, OUR FARMERS GET DISCOURAGED TO PRODUCE MORE AND BUILD WEALTH.
  
  EVEN IN COCOA PRODUCTION, IF PROVIDENCE HAD NOT INTERVENED WITH THE MANIFESTATIONS OF GLOBAL WARMING AND CLIMATE CHANGE TO DRASTICALLY REDUCE SUPPLY OF THE CROP, THE PRICE WOULD HAVE STILL REMAINED RELATIVELY LOW, AND LESS ATTRACTIVE. THE CARTELS STILL CONTROL HOW MUCH THE PRICE GOES.
  
  INDUSTRIALLY, THE WEALTHY WEST STILL OFFERS SUBSIDIES TO CERTAIN INDUSTRIES THAT COULD FACE TIGHT COMPETITION OUTSIDE, OR HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO KEEP THEIR COUNTRIES AT THE EDGE OF THE TECHNOLOGICAL AND DEFENSE RACE. WHO SAYS THE ARMS RACE IS DEAD? CHECK WITH BOEING, LOCKHEED MARTIN AND BAE SYSTEMS, PLC.
  
  THEREFORE, LET US KEEP THE GRUDGES BUT TURN THEM INTO INSPIRATION TO DO MORE FOR OURSELVES. THE GRUDGES COULD HELP IN PRICKING THE MORAL NERVE OF THE DEVELOPED IMPERIALISTIC COUNTRIES TO DO AS THEY PREACH ON MORALITY TO THE WORLD. THE GRUDGES SHOULD NOT BE ANTAGONISTIC, OR REVIVE ENMITY BETWEEN THEM AND US. THEY SHOULD POKE THEM IN THE RIBS TO REMIND THEM WE DO NOT DESERVE THAT TREATMENT.
  
  WE CANNONT WIN MILITARILY OVER THEM. BUT WE CAN WIN PSYCHOLOGICALLY TO HELP US PASS THAT PAINFUL THRESHHOLD.
  
  LONG LIVE GHANA!!!

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• JATO KWASHIVI RAWLINGS 10 years ago

  BY ALL STATISTICS, ANTI SEMITISM HAS NOT STOPPED AS YOU CLAIM. IT IS ON THE INCREASE, BY ALL AVAILABLE STATISTICS TODAY. THE FACT THAT, YOU DO NOT SEE JEWS BEING MURDERED DOES NOT MEAN HATRED AGAINST THEM HAS DIMINISHED.

  BY ALL STATISTICS, ANTI SEMITISM HAS NOT STOPPED AS YOU CLAIM. IT IS ON THE INCREASE, BY ALL AVAILABLE STATISTICS TODAY. THE FACT THAT, YOU DO NOT SEE JEWS BEING MURDERED DOES NOT MEAN HATRED AGAINST THEM HAS DIMINISHED.

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• GORGORDUTOR 10 years ago

  STUPID IDIOT DO YOU COMPREHEND THAT SO-CALLED "HATRED & ANTI-SEMITISM", IS A CANARD ROUTINELY DEPLOYED TO BLUNT CRITICISM OF ISRAEL BRUTAL ILLEGAL, RACIST ETHNIC CLEANSING DEPLOYED AGAINST THE PALESTINIANS!!
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  STUPID IDIOT DO YOU COMPREHEND THAT SO-CALLED "HATRED & ANTI-SEMITISM", IS A CANARD ROUTINELY DEPLOYED TO BLUNT CRITICISM OF ISRAEL BRUTAL ILLEGAL, RACIST ETHNIC CLEANSING DEPLOYED AGAINST THE PALESTINIANS!!
  THE FACTS ARE CLEAR A GANG OF EUROPEAN RACISTS MASQUERADING AS SO CALLED JEWS HAVE SUCCESSFULLY DISPOSSESSED THE ABORIGINAL INHABITANTS AND ESTABLISHED A RACIST COLONIAL REGIME!!! IDIOTIC AFRICANS SUCH AS YOURSELF SELF BLINDED BY EUROPEAN SOCALLED CHRISTIANITY ROUTINELY TURN A BLIND EYE TO THE PROFOUNDLY UNJUST APARTHEID TERRORIST STATE. BLOVIATING SHALLOW MINDS LIKE YOUR IGNORANT SELF ALWAYS CRYING ABOUT PREVENTIVE DETENTION UNDER THE CPP, ARE CURIOUSLY IN SUPPORT OF A REGIME THAT HAS DEPLOYED THE SAME MEASURES AGAINST AN OCCUPIED AND BRUTALISED POPULATION FOR ALMOST 50 YEARS!! WU NYANSA WORHI?? A MINDLESS DRONE LIKE YOU WOULD HAVE FOLLOWED KWASEAPANYIN ABUAFREH BUSIA IN DALLYING WITH APARTHEID PRIME MINISTER BALTHAZAR VORSTER!!! ARE YOU AWARE THAT ISRAEL AND APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA WERE BED FELLOWS? ARE YOU AWARE OF THEIR MACHINATIONS IN LIBERIA, SIERRA LEONE AND IVORY COAST PRIOR TO AND DURING THEIR CIVIL WARS!! DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THEIR INVOLVEMENT WITH MOBUTU AND THEIR STRENUOUS EFFORTS TO PREVENT THE EMERGENCE OF AN AFRICAN GEM CUTTING INDUSTRY. ARE YOU AWARE THAT CECIL RHODES THE PRIME MOVER IN ESTABLIHING WHITE SUPREMACY IN SOUTHERN AFRICA WAS A JEW??!!! DO YOU KNOW OF TINY ROWLAND & LONRHO WHO FOR YEARS RANGED ACROSS AFRICAN BRIBING LEADERS AND CORRUPTING GOVERNMENTS INCLUDING YOUR NAMESAKE RAWLINGS???!!!! ARE YOU AWARE THAT TO ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES US FOREIGN POLICY IS RUN FROM TEL AVIV. DO YOU KNOW THAT WALL STREET HOLLYWOOD AND MUSIC INDUSTRIES IS CONTROLLED AND DOMINATED BY ZIONISTS WHO DEMONSTRATE A CONTEMPT FOR THEIR FELLOW AMERICANS!!! ODONKPO LIKE YOUR TYPE. MINDLESS ASOROABUA, DELUDED WANNABE OBRONI NINCOMPOOP!!! ENIMGUASINI AFRICAN MUGWUMP. SHALLOW IDIOTS LIKE YOURSEL BEWARE!! I WILL SLAM YOU WITH YOUR OWN MEDICINE AND TACTICS PLUS I GOT FACTS ON MY SIDE ALL Y'ALL MUTHAFUCKAS

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• Abra Kuma 10 years ago

  Sir,
  
  Thank you for your mature and constructive approach to the debate. What an admirable teacher you are! Any debate/argument that does not reflect both the positives as well as the negatives of the issue under discussion ...
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  Sir,
  
  Thank you for your mature and constructive approach to the debate. What an admirable teacher you are! Any debate/argument that does not reflect both the positives as well as the negatives of the issue under discussion lacks credibility - worse when the debater resorts to insulting his/her opponent(s).
  
  Blessed are the peacemakers! No matter how much we disagree with someone's point of view, our common goal should be how best to communicate our concerns and researched findings to our opponents so that together we can find solutions to Ghana's problems. Sometimes we must agree to disagree but we must unite at all costs for our country's sake, for our own good. Lately, many of us seem more focused on digging each other's eyes out, rather than politely indicating the areas/points our opponents have not taken into account.
  
  Thank you for bringing us back to reality! Please continue your insightful comments. They are very uplifting! Like a heavy-duty torchlight switched on in the midst of dumsor! Bless you!
  
  Bless Ghana!

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• Kwabena Yeboah 10 years ago

  You lost me, as you may have lost many of your readers. Where can I find Prof. Sakyi's article - when was it published, and what was the title of his article?
  
  How do you expect your readership to react responsibly to your ...
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  You lost me, as you may have lost many of your readers. Where can I find Prof. Sakyi's article - when was it published, and what was the title of his article?
  
  How do you expect your readership to react responsibly to your to what you have put out her without reading Prof. Sakyi's article? By the way, you can be civil in your rebuttal and yet constructive in your criticism. Emotional outbursts belong to fools.

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• Philip Kobina Baidoo 10 years ago

  Hello Mr Yeboah, this is part two of two. Your request was dealt with in the first part. Thank you.

  Hello Mr Yeboah, this is part two of two. Your request was dealt with in the first part. Thank you.

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• JOE JOE 10 years ago

  "Emotional outbursts belong to fools."
  Baidoo is a bigger FOOL than you can ever imagine

  "Emotional outbursts belong to fools."
  Baidoo is a bigger FOOL than you can ever imagine

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• KWAKU ANANSE 10 years ago

  A close security aide of former President Goodluck Jonathan who was recently interrogated by security agents, had refunded to the Federal Government the sum of N1.5 billion he allegedly acquired illegally in office, New Teleg ...
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  A close security aide of former President Goodluck Jonathan who was recently interrogated by security agents, had refunded to the Federal Government the sum of N1.5 billion he allegedly acquired illegally in office, New Telegraph is reporting.
  
  The report which did not name the aide said that President Buhari’s anti-corruption crusade has started yielding results with the recovery of billions of naira from some officials who served in the immediate past administration.
  
  Quoting a source, the report said “The security agency has recovered N1.5 billion from an aide of former President Goodluck Jonathan. After a series of investigation, the money was traced to his account, which he could not explain the source as a public servant.
  
  “The aide is not alone as some others have voluntarily returned money to the Federal Government to avoid prosecution,” a source in the presidential villa said.
  
  Already, the Federal Government has concluded arrangements to create an escrow account for the lodgement of the recovered funds. Buhari had sought the assistance of foreign partners and institutions to help Nigeria in the recovery of over $150 billion stolen funds stashed in foreign banks.
  
  It was learnt that about N1.5 billion has been recovered from one of the aides of the former president. Multiple sources confirmed that the money was traced to the aide who could not explain the source of the fund, considered to be proceeds from corrupt practices.
  
  It was further learnt that the government has traced $1 billion to a single bank account in one of the western countries.
  
  The money, believed to be proceeds from corruption, was said to belong to an official of the Jonathan administration. “We are making headways. Don’t forget that Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State revealed that one of Jonathan’s ministers stashed $6 billion abroad. As at today, we have traced $1 billion into an account in one of the Western countries. We will soon come up with startling revelations,” the source said. But the Buhari administration is keeping secret the identity of those who have voluntarily returned stolen money.
  
  A presidency official confided in New Telegraph that people are coming up with concrete evidence on the plundering of the nation’s commonwealth by past public office holders and public servants. “People are coming forward with documents on how the treasury was plundered.
  
  Some details of the sordid transactions in the oil sector have been submitted to President Buhari. Nigerians will be surprised with the mindless looting of the treasury with those trusted with the nation’s commonwealth. It’s mind-boggling,” the source said. It was learnt that some of the permanent secretaries and top government officials had presented some damning documents on former public office holders relating to corrupt practices.
  
  “The permanent secretaries did not just brief the president on the situation on ground in their respective ministries, but they presented some documents on some transactions that are not in conformity with due process. So, the briefing some of the permanent secretaries had with the president was revealing. Don’t forget that the permanent secretaries are the chief executives of the ministries,” the source added.
  
  Already, Buhari has mandated Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo to coordinate the process of recovery of the stolen funds, it was learnt. A source close to the presidency said Osinbajo had been liaising with some officials and foreign partners who have volunteered to help Nigeria in the recovery of the fund. “We are hopeful that so much money will be recovered.
  
  So, the vice-president has the mandate of the president to create the escrow account and work out other modalities. “The essence of this dedicated account is to ensure proper monitoring and judicious use of the recovered funds not like in the past where recovered stolen funds were mismanaged,” a source familiar with the arrangement said.
  
  Buhari had, last week, stated that his administration had intensified efforts to recover looted funds. “We are getting cooperation from the international community, including information on ships that take crude oil from Nigeria and change direction, or offload their contents into other ships midstream. “Some monies were paid to individual accounts. We are identifying the financial institutions and countries that are involved,” Buhari said. It was learnt that the EFCC was raising a special team to help in the recovery efforts.
  
  A source in the antigraft commission told New Telegraph that operatives had commenced a discreet probe of accounts of former and present management staff of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and its subsidiaries. “The bulk of the money stolen is from the oil sector.
  
  We have beamed the searchlight on the activities of the oil giant and its officials, both former and present, to know their culpability in several unwholesome transactions. We are also extending investigations to oil deals and other transactions in the oil sector. We are working with the NNPC on the inquiry,” an EFCC official said.

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