Pilots at the controls of the Boeing Co. 737 MAX that crashed in March in Ethiopia initially followed emergency procedures laid out by the plane maker but still failed to recover control of the jet, according to people briefed on the probe’s preliminary findings.

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After turning off a flight-control system that was automatically pushing down the plane’s nose shortly after takeoff March 10, these people said, the crew couldn’t get the aircraft to climb and ended up turning it back on and relying on other steps before the final plunge killed all 157 people on board.

The sequence of events, still subject to further evaluation by investigators, appears to undercut assertions by Boeing and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration over the past five months that by simply following established procedures to turn off the suspect stall-prevention feature, called MCAS, pilots could overcome a misfire of the system and avoid ending in a crash.

The pilots on Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 initially reacted to the emergency by shutting off power to electric motors driven by the automated system, these people said, but then appear to have re-engaged the system to cope with a persistent steep nose-down angle. It wasn’t immediately clear why the pilots turned the automated system back on instead of continuing to follow Boeing’s standard emergency checklist, but government and industry officials said the likely reason would have been because manual controls to raise the nose didn’t achieve the desired results.

After first cranking a manual wheel in the cockpit that controls the same movable surfaces on the plane’s tail that MCAS had affected, the pilots turned electric power back on, one of these people said. They began to use electric switches to try to raise the plane’s nose, according to these people. But the electric power also reactivated MCAS, allowing it to continue its strong downward commands, the people said.


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The same automated system, also implicated in a 737 MAX crash in Indonesia in late October, has become the focus of various congressional and federal investigations, including a Justice Department criminal probe.

The latest details are based on data downloaded from the plane’s black-box recorders, these people said. They come as Ethiopian investigators prepare to release their report about their preliminary conclusions from the accident, anticipated in the coming days.

Investigators probing the Oct. 29 crash of Lion Air Flight 610 believe erroneous data from a single sensor caused the MCAS system to misfire, ultimately sending the plane into a fatal nose-dive and killing all 189 people on board. Some of the same key factors were at play in the Ethiopian crash, according to people briefed on the details of both crashes.

After the Lion Air accident, Boeing and the FAA issued bulletins to 737 MAX operators around the world reminding them of the existing procedure pilots are trained to follow should the plane’s flight-control system go haywire and mistakenly push down the nose. Those are the steps the Ethiopian pilots initially took months later, these people said.

That procedure works to disable the new MCAS, much like another flight-control feature on earlier 737 models, by cutting power. The plane maker and FAA’s bulletins highlighting that safeguard were often mentioned after the Lion Air accident when U.S. aviation industry officials vouched for the aircraft’s safety.

Boeing Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg noted the procedure in a Nov. 13 television interview when asked about information given to pilots.

“In fact, that’s part of the training manual,” Mr. Muilenburg said on Fox Business Network, adding the manufacturer was confident in the plane’s safety. “It’s an existing procedure so the bulletin we put out…pointed to that existing flight procedure.”

At a briefing for reporters last week, a Boeing official noted investigations of both crashes were continuing but didn’t comment about specifics when he outlined a coming software fix for the MCAS system and related training changes.

The revised system will rely on two sensors, instead of one as originally designed, to prevent erroneous data triggering it. The system will now be designed to make it less aggressive and allow pilots more control over it, according to previous Boeing and FAA statements.

Mike Sinnett, Boeing’s vice president of product strategy, said last week the plane maker had “complete confidence that the changes we’re making would address any of these accidents.”

The software fix could come as soon as mid-April, according to a person briefed on that issue, but further tests are needed before regulators can approve and mandate it so the grounded fleet can return to service. Another person close to the process, however, said final FAA reviews and tests could take up to six weeks. After that, it could take months longer for some overseas regulators to review and certify the fix for aircraft they oversee.

Activation of MCAS and a related pilot alert, which warns pilots of an impending aerodynamic stall, had been reported previously regarding the Ethiopian crash. But in the wake of the tragedy, Boeing, the FAA and Ethiopian authorities leading the probe have refrained from making any comments about whether the crew followed Boeing-sanctioned procedures to cope with the emergency.

Going forward, aviation experts, regulators and pilots debating the relevant safety issues will have to consider the implications that while the pilots did take such steps in the beginning, those apparently didn’t work as expected likely due to the plane’s speed, altitude and other factors. Eventually, the crew veered to other, nonstandard procedures that made their predicament even worse.








Another issue likely to be raised by the preliminary Ethiopian report is why a single sensor malfunctioned or somehow may have been damaged shortly after takeoff—touching off the deadly chain of events.

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igwefivestar:
from today onwards, I fear anything that ends with 'RI E.g, sarri, Buhari,

Better start fearing garri too.

nho4:


Thanks.. Can I get the app on Apple Appstore?

Yes for sure. Udemy is one. I use always. You can download it on google app store.

The Empire actor is being accused of orchestrating his own attack.

It’s been almost three weeks since actor and singer Jussie Smollett came forward saying he was the victim of a hate crime in an attack that briefly left him hospitalized. But now news reports, citing anonymous sources, are calling Smollett’s story into question, fueling a firestorm of outrage and confusion over what to believe and how to feel about the case.

Smollett, who is black and gay, plays a queer character in the Fox drama Empire. Initial reports of the attack were quickly met with an widespread outpouring of support from Smollett’s colleagues, the LGBTQ community at large, and politicians. Empire co-creator Danny Strong, for example, condemned the attack and tweeted his support of Smollett.

Chicago police said from the outset that they were treating the incident as a possible hate crime. Media reports followed every development in the unexpected case of a celebrity who claimed to be a victim of targeted violence and hate.


But in the weeks since Smollett’s story first made headlines, the narrative has taken a number of twists and turns — from assumed tragedy to suspected hoax. Several reports, citing unnamed sources, suggest that police are investigating whether Smollett helped orchestrate his own attack. Smollett, however, has stood by his initial claims.

Though much of what happened on that January night is still unclear — or perhaps because it’s unclear — the story has activated virtually every lightning rod issue dividing America today, from racism and homophobia to distrust in the media and politically motivated attacks. Here’s what we know so far.

Police initially detained two suspects — only to release them when the investigation’s trajectory “shifted”

Smollett says he was attacked on January 29 by two masked men at the entrance of the Loews hotel in Chicago. He claims they yelled racist and homophobic remarks — making references to his show Empire and President Donald Trump’s signature slogan, “Make America Great Again.” Smollett says one attacker tied a noose around his neck and poured a substance on him that he believed was bleach; then the two fled.

Police were unable to find surveillance video of the attack even though it was in a heavily trafficked area with plenty of cameras nearby. They did, however, release images from surveillance video a day after the incident that showed two shadowed people walking down a sidewalk. Authorities wanted to take them in for questioning.

On Wednesday, February 13, police arrested two Nigerian men, Olabinjo Osundairo and Abimbola Osundairo, brothers who were later found to have known Smollett prior to the incident. Their lawyer says one of them had worked as an extra on the set of Empire; Smollett’s lawyer says another was his personal trainer for a brief stint, though neither attorney specified which brother served which role, or whether they were both talking about the same person.

Police raided their homes in search of the liquid suspected of being poured on Smollett. They recovered Empire scripts, a phone, and a black mask.

Until Friday, February 15, the brothers were being treated by authorities as “persons of interest.” But by that afternoon, the narrative had turned. Police released them both without charges, saying new evidence has “shifted the trajectory of the investigation.”

Mostly unnamed sources are driving rumors of a hoax. Smollett has since lawyered up.

Rumors began circulating earlier this week that Smollett was somehow involved in his own attack, and that he may have even orchestrated it all. By Saturday, February 16, police spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi said they were looking to re-interview Smollett (though authorities still haven’t indicated why).

Initially, local media outlets were primarily the ones driving the story. According to CBS Chicago, two unnamed sources with “intimate knowledge of the investigation” said Smollett was potentially behind the attack and had involved the two brothers. ABC7 ran another story, again with unnamed sources who claimed that police were investigating whether the attack was staged “allegedly because Smollett was being written off of ‘Empire.’”

Guglielmi pushed back on the reports, tweeting on Thursday, February 14, that the reports of a hoax were unconfirmed by detectives and that the ABC7 sources in particular “are uninformed and inaccurate.”

National outlets, however, have backed up the local reports since Thursday, February 14. An unnamed source told CBS News that the Osundairos told investigators that Smollett had paid them off. CNN similarly reported that “[t]wo law enforcement sources with knowledge of the investigation” said Smollett “paid two men to orchestrate an assault on him that he reported late last month.”

CBS News, citing anonymous sources, reported that Smollett was upset that he didn’t get a “bigger reaction” from a threatening letter sent to him, so he staged the attack.

In his first televised interview since first reporting his account of the attack, Smollett on Thursday, February 14, told ABC host Robin Roberts he was “pissed off” that critics doubted his story.


Stories soon surfaced that Smollett had hired a high-profile defense attorney, Michael D. Monico, who is best known for representing Michael Cohen, but those reports appear to have been premature. Instead, Smollett is being represented by Chicago defense attorneys Todd S. Pugh and Victor P. Henderson. On Saturday, February 16, they released a statement saying Smollett is “angered and devastated” to find that he knows the alleged perpetrators in the case.

”He has now been further victimized by claims attributed to these alleged perpetrators that Jussie played a role in his own attack. Nothing is further from the truth and anyone claiming otherwise is lying,” the statement continued.

The rumors feed into a conservative conspiracy around media bias

Underpinning all the twists in Smollett’s story is his suggestion from day one that his alleged assailants supported Trump. The actor said in his statement to police that his masked attacker told him, “This is MAGA country,” along with racist and homophobic remarks. He later had to push back on reports that they were wearing MAGA hats while pinning him down.

“They called me a f****t, they called me a n****r. There’s no which way you cut it. I don’t need some MAGA hat as the cherry on some racist sundae,” Smollett said in his interview with Roberts on Thursday, February 14.

So once rumors began to surface suggesting that Smollett manufactured his attack, conservative media and pundits quickly pointed to his story as evidence of a broad conspiracy aimed at vilifying Trump supporters. As conservative CNN commentator S.E. Cupp noted over the weekend, Trumpers were “giddy” in their reaction to reports speculating about a hoax. And it’s clear from the responses to Cupp’s tweet that Smollett’s critics saw the new developments as validation that Trump supporters — not minorities, LGBTQ individuals, or other disadvantaged groups — are the people who are actually being persecuted.


It’s very similar to the “validation” seen last month after the Covington Catholic School teens were dragged online for seeming to harass Native American elders. Once it became clear there was more to the story, conservative media quickly coalesced behind the students, saying they were the real victims in this case: victims of liberals’ instinctive dismissal of anyone wearing a MAGA cap.

As Vox’s Zack Beauchamp wrote at the time, the Covington drama became something of a Rorschach test, with “each side seeing what it wants to in a way that’s more revealing about their own worldviews than the actual incident.” For the right, it revealed several of their “core animating assumptions”:


From their point of view, the liberal reaction to the video, and not the footage itself, was the biggest problem. It reveals a culture where white men are acceptable targets of hate who deserve no sympathy and no due process, and where the left-wing mob wields tremendous power through its command of the public sphere.

That view connects to a broader assumption shared by many conservatives: that white Christian men are a persecuted minority in modern America.

Then, as now, the ensuing backlash to the initial news reports also ignited anti-media sentiment among conservatives. Even though most coverage of the actor’s attack directly reflected police statements, and it was clear the investigation was ongoing, the developing narrative is being taken as a sign that journalists blindly accept any stories with a careless disregard for the facts — particularly those stories that support liberal ideals.

In both the Covington and Smollett cases, liberals were quick to condemn what was, at first glance, unacceptable behavior. In the latter case, even President Trump, who is often criticized for taking his time before commenting on cases where the victims are minorities or from disadvantaged groups, denounced Smollet’s alleged attack as “horrible.”

“It doesn’t get worse, as far as I’m concerned,” he said from the Oval Office days after news broke.

No matter how the facts shake out — for all the speculation, police are still not calling Smollet a “suspect” — the case now hits at the core identity that Trump shares with his supporters, perpetuating a dangerous worldview that the media is corrupt and the stories of racism and bigotry are better off not being believed.

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there are so many Youtube channels for coding. But you can learn a lot from Udemy. Its an educational app for any subject or field, I bought a coding course there when I was still doing coding classes here in Canada, but since I stopped attending I don't use Udemy again. Maybe you can try that, its very nice app to learn any skill.

nho4:


Please can you recommend any youtube video tutorial on coding for me please? I want to learn programming

Here in Canada, these wouldn't even make the Junkyard.

a person holding a sign: Canadian border guards are silhouetted as they replace each other at an inspection booth at the Douglas border crossing on the Canada-USA border in Surrey, B.C., on Thursday, August 20, 2009. Canada's border agency has quietly begun sharing information with U.S. Homeland Security about the thousands of American citizens who cross into Canada each day.© Darryl Dyck/CP Canadian border guards are silhouetted as they replace each other at an inspection booth at the Douglas border crossing on the Canada-USA border in Surrey, B.C., on Thursday, August 20, 2009. Canada's border agency has quietly begun sharing…
In the wake of marijuana legalization in Canada, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has a main message for people crossing into the country: don't bring any pot into the U.S.




U.S. border agents held a media conference Wednesday to spell out the rules for crossing through the Canadian-American border now that weed is legal.

Here are five major takeaways.

A pot pardon in Canada does not translate to the U.S.

On Wednesday, Ottawa announced plans to pardon Canadians with simple pot possession convictions in the past (30 grams or less).

READ MORE: Canadians with past pot convictions won’t have to pay or wait to apply for a pardon

But U.S. border officials said the U.S. does not recognize foreign pardons. So you could be "deemed inadmissible" to enter into the U.S. even if Canada has given you a pot pardon.

Heading into the U.S. for weed-related business


If you're a Canadian government employee working in the weed business and head to the States on a work-related trip, you may not be let in.

Even if you're heading to a U.S. state for pot business where cannabis is legal, such as California or Colorado, a U.S. border agent may still deem you inadmissible.

MORE: For the launch of our weekly newsletter Cannabis IQ, we’re giving away $100 Visa gift cards. Click here to find out more.

However, if you work in the weed industry in Canada and are heading into America for pleasure, not business, you may be let in.

U.S. citizens coming into Canada for 'pot tourism'

If you're an American travelling in Canada and smoked weed after it became legal, you may be OK to head back into the States — even if you admit it to a border official.

But border officials stressed that if your vehicle smells like weed you will probably get searched.

Don't lie


American border officials stressed that if you're heading into the U.S., don't lie about getting high. The honesty policy applies to those who used cannabis before it became legal too.

"Border officials are going to find out if you're lying. Being honest is always the best. If you are dishonest then you could be denied entry and it's misrepresentation," a U.S. border guard said.

Don't bring weed of any form into the U.S.


This may seem like the most obvious warning, but U.S. border officials made sure to reiterate the statement.

READ MORE: Where can I buy pot? A coast-to-coast guide for marijuana legalization day



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Whether you're a Canadian or U.S. citizen, if you bring marijuana of any form into the U.S., you could be fined, arrested and face state and federal charges.

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Desperate to stay in Canada, a failed refugee claimant married a Canadian man who turned her into his sex slave, a Windsor court heard Tuesday.

The man, who can’t be named to protect the identity of his wife, would demand sex three to four times a day, the Nigerian woman testified.

“If I don’t agree, he says he is going to call immigration and have me deported… I just have to do what he wants me to do.”

The man is on trial, charged with three counts of sexual assault, three counts of extortion and one count of assault stemming from incidents alleged to have occurred in the two months following their May 2015 marriage.



If we had let her, she would have run out into traffic and been killed


In questioning the woman in court Tuesday, defence lawyer Ken Marley suggested the woman got married to avoid deportation and made up the claims of sexual assault and extortion to stay in the country. The woman denied the suggestion, but agreed she went on the online dating site Plenty of Fish to find a husband after her refugee claim and two subsequent appeals were denied.

By virtue of being a Crown witness in the case, the woman got temporary resident status. She testified she expects to now get permanent status in Canada.

The woman said she came to Canada to save her 13-year-old daughter from having her genitals mutilated in a ceremony known as female circumcision. Girls have been known to bleed to death, the woman said.

During the ceremony, the blood of the girl’s mother must be smeared on the temple walls, the woman explained. If she never returns to Nigeria, the ceremony can’t take place.

But a tribunal of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada denied the woman’s claim, saying if she truly had wanted to save her daughter, she would not have left her behind in Nigeria.

The woman came to Canada in January 2013 with a fake passport. She testified that as soon as she landed in Montreal, she immediately told immigration officials her real identity to start a refugee claim.

She was detained for several weeks until she obtained documents from Nigeria to confirm her identity, she said. She was released pending the outcome of her refugee claim.

The woman didn’t want to endure another Montreal winter, so she moved to the Toronto suburb of Etobicoke, and later, Brampton.

That’s where she was living when in 2015, she went on Plenty of Fish looking for “a serious man ready to settle down,” she testified. In May, she met the man from Windsor and had sex with him in his hotel room that night.

They got a marriage licence six days later.

The man helped her move her belongings to Windsor and they married at city hall.

She was 32. He was 46.

The woman described her marriage as “pains.” Her husband would demand MouthAction daily in addition to intercourse. If she refused or complained she was too tired, he would threaten to call her immigration lawyer and rescind his sponsorship application.

He wanted to go camping at Algonquin Park and she agreed to go along. For five days, she ate nothing but crackers, she said. Her husband constantly demanded sex there, too. Once after having intercourse in the tent, he wanted her to go for a walk in the forest. There he forced her to have sex on a fallen tree and recorded it on his phone to show his friends, she testified.

She got poison ivy.

When they returned to Windsor, he forced her to come to work with him at a packing house in Leamington and wait in the car for 8½ hours. He wanted her there for MouthAction during his breaks, she testified.

Her husband expected her to perform MouthAction on him while he was driving. He would threaten to call the police if she refused.

She testified that’s what happened on July 30, 2015, when police were called to her husband’s silver Chevy Cavalier parked on the side of Highway 401.

When officers arrived, she tried to dart into traffic to commit suicide.

OPP officer Rene Tamminga testified Tuesday he was called to the westbound lanes of Highway 401 near County Road 31 that day for what was described as a “mobile domestic.”

The woman was seated in the back seat of the car. Her husband had called police. Tamminga said the woman told him her husband had broken her cellphone.

Tamminga said when he tried to get the woman into his cruiser to have a conversation away from her husband, the woman believed she was about to be arrested.

“She became extremely hysterical.”

The woman pleaded with Tamminga and his partner to shoot her.

She kept trying to get away from them, running into the ditch then toward the road.

“If we had let her, she would have run out into traffic and been killed,” Tamminga told the court.

The officers tackled her and forced her into the cruiser for her own safety.

They called an ambulance and she was held in the Chatham-Kent hospital under the Mental Health Act before being placed in a women’s shelter in Windsor.

The woman, who started her testimony with the help of a Yoruba interpreter, said she preferred to testify in English.

“I liked the way he talked to me,” she said of why she married her husband. “I thought he was a man of God.”

The trial continues before Superior Court Justice Paul Howard.

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at the end of the day, you can only drive one at a time....

Koolking:
It's Explorers again...my man

Why Air Force One come dey smoke like that.


Mehn, check out security detail for one president: 1,000 own staff plus planes, helicopters and cars including bomb-proof 'Beast. 10, 000 police officers.

In Nigeria, people would be beating themselves cussing the office of the president.

is not smoke from the engine they call it flaring in aviation in aviation terms. This is when the touches down and the pilot engages the break on touch down.

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You hit the nail on the head. Accidents do happen but they can be reduced to the minimum if we are serious. Imagine no driving tests for truck drivers, no drug tests and no protection against sleep deprivation due to long hours of driving. In advanced countries like the U. S, the trucking company could go bankrupt from insurance claims and law suits.

You dear not dispatch a truck with an uncertified driver else that will be the end of your company. That is why truck drivers are very hard to find here especially long haul drivers with years of experience. sometimes they dictate their own wage and you don't want to offend them else you might never be able to replace them. With the introduction of E-logs, a driver cannot be on duty more than 14hrs in a day, with 10 hrs of driving time and he cannot drive more than 4 hours in a stretch without an hour of rest else he DOT officials checks his E-logs and find out he exceeds any of those limit, he will end up paying up to $3k fine or his license ceased. Without such measures, its very rare you hear of truck accident and compulsorily all trucks must stop in a weighing station to check if they are overweight and if overweight the carriers are heavily fined. With what I learnt over here about trucking, it will be very difficult for 95% of Nigerian truck drivers to operate here even carriers like Dangote etc.

Nigeria is truly a sick country indeed, allowing dead truck to ply the roads everyday. I wonder which is more easier to do, clearing dead bodies and debris after each accident or applying strict worthiness for trucks and it likes! Here in Canada I work in a trucking company and I know how much effort it takes to put a truck on the road. After each trip, the tires are changed and the trucks are overhauled for the next trip and every year we take the truck for certification and road worthiness and with these measure, you hardly hear of truck accident even under icy conditions. Then to get a class 1 license here is like passing the medical school exam. I personally know people who have failed the test more than 10 times, not because they are bad drivers but the rules are the rules and you cannot cut corners; But in my country every Tom, Dick and Harry can hop into a truck and start driving. Nigeria have a long way o jare.

[b][/b]Thanks to Donald Trump’s baffling decision to plunge us into a trade war, Canada Day this year will almost certainly feature a higher-than-average rate of passive-aggressive America-bashing.



The United States remains our closest friend and ally, and continues to supply us with all our non-Drake entertainment. Nevertheless, in the spirit of informed jingoism, here is a quick (and obviously biased) guide to the ways in which Canada is indisputably superior to our southern neighbour.

We fought Nazis earlier!

The awesome might and manpower of the United States was instrumental in liberating Western Europe from Nazi domination and shielding it from Soviet conquest. Nevertheless, Canada can take pride that we were killing Nazis while Charles Lindbergh was still hosting isolationist “America First” rallies. The United States not only entered the Second World War late, but retained financial ties with Nazi Germany well into 1941. Even as Hitler steamrolled Europe and laid siege to Great Britain, Germany was getting its movies from Hollywood and building Wehrmacht trucks in Ford Motor Company factories. Frustrated by their country’s neutrality, thousands of Americans would cross the border to join the Canadian military. The RCAF alone recruited around 9,000 Americans before the attack on Pearl Harbor brought the United States into the war. George H.W. Bush, in fact, was seriously considering strapping on a maple leaf to fight the Nazis before Pearl Harbor intervened.


GermanAmericanBund: Swastikas being paraded through New York City in October, 1939 — one month after Canada had declared war on Germany.© U.S. Library of Congress Swastikas being paraded through New York City in October, 1939 — one month after Canada had declared war on Germany.
No Civil War!

The United States had only been a country for 87 years (or four score and seven years if you’re being formal) before it was plunged into a horrific civil war. On Canada’s 87th birthday in 1954, by contrast, it hosted a Commonwealth games and invented Yahtzee. Not only has Canada never had a civil war, but it hasn’t even come close. The 1869 Red River Rebellion killed one person. Quebec secessionist terrorism in the 1960s also claimed only one victim. The biggest armed uprising in Canada’s history was arguably a series of rebellions in 1837 designed to remake British North America as a republic. But the rebellions were small and laughably unsuccessful. In one particularly ignominious example in Toronto, 800 rebels turned and fled after encountering a loyalist force of only 20 riflemen. Also, in a detail that would have flabbergasted Americans of the age, many of the pro-government troops who put down the 1837 rebellions were black.

No slavery!


By the time of Canada’s 1867 founding, the United States was also slavery-free (see “Civil War,” above). Canadian soil has also hosted plenty of human bondage, be it pre-contact Indigenous slavery or African slavery in colonial times. Nevertheless, slavery was officially illegal in the lands that would become Canada by 1834 — 31 years before it was the case in the U.S. We also never participated in the particularly brutal and industrialized form of plantation slavery that came to dominate the southern United States. The slave population in British North America was never more than 10,000. In Mississippi on the eve of the Civil War, there were more than 440,000 slaves compared to a free population of only 354,000.

No vicious beatings in our parliament!


One of the darker moments in U.S. legislative history came in 1856, when a South Carolina senator approached Massachusetts’ Charles Sumner in the U.S. Senate chamber and proceeded to cane him to within an inch of his life. Worst still, the incident was only an extreme example of a political culture renowned for its violence. Nineteenth century U.S. federal politicians regularly beat, threatened or pulled guns on their opponents on Capitol Hill. Two-term U.S. president Andrew Jackson participated in more than 100 duels over his lifetime, and later expressed regret that he had not shot the then-Speaker of the House, Henry Clay. Against all this, it’s quite an achievement that one of the most uncivil moments in Canada’s parliament remains the time a Tory called a Liberal a “political sewer pipe.”

No Indian Wars!



sittingWalsh2.jpg: It's no accident that after his victory at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Sitting Bull fled north and made friends with a Mountie.© File It's no accident that after his victory at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Sitting Bull fled north and made friends with a Mountie.

Canada has nothing to be smug about when it comes to our history of Indigenous relations. Nevertheless, when compared to the much bloodier legacy of the United States, Canadian Indigenous policy is more humane on virtually every measure. The most obvious example is that the United States spent much of the 19th century engaged in open and often brutal warfare with everyone from Seminoles in Florida to Apache in New Mexico to Sioux in Montana. Canada, meanwhile, settled its entire west with only the occasional skirmish. Major Canadian incidents of settler-Indigenous violence, such as the Chilcotin War or the North-West Rebellion, would barely qualify as footnotes in the massacre-packed history of U.S. expansion. Even at the time, Americans marveled at the apparent Canadian ability to co-exist with Indigenous people without shooting them. Canada had “the same greedy, dominant Anglo-Saxon race, and the same heathen,” wrote the Minnesota Episcopal bishop Henry Whipple in the 1870s. “They have not spent one dollar on Indian wars, they have had no Indian massacres.”

We abolished the penny!



LFP_LDN20120330CGpenny1: Pictured: A tyranny from which Americans have not freed themselves.© Craig Glover/The London Free Press Pictured: A tyranny from which Americans have not freed themselves.


When a Canadian crosses the United States border, they are stepping into a museum of obsolete payment systems. U.S. credit cards still stubbornly refuse to come equipped with microchips, preferring to rely exclusively on easily-defrauded magnetic strips. Banknotes are printed on paper rather than polymer. Most notoriously, Americans still use the penny, a monstrous one cent copper-plated disc worth far less than the metal it contains. And the penny remains in U.S. circulation for the dumbest of reasons: A combination of legislative apathy and aggressive lobbying by the U.S. zinc industry.

No violent founding!



Loyalists: A statue of Loyalist refugees in Hamilton, Ont. Americans usually leave out the part about the refugees.© Wikimedia Commons A statue of Loyalist refugees in Hamilton, Ont. Americans usually leave out the part about the refugees.
Canada’s peaceful 1867 birth was so easily overlooked that our own head of state forgot to mention it in her diary. The United States, by contrast, came into being atop more than 100,000 dead. These dual histories are all the more notable given that the United States and Canada were both seeking autonomy from the same country: Great Britain. The vast majority of British colonies, in fact, would gain their independence without killing anybody. This makes it all the more unreasonable that the Founding Fathers allowed a tax dispute with London to spiral into a devastating internecine war that sent thousands of families fleeing into Nova Scotia for their lives.

We had way less Prohibition!


Alcohol was effectively illegal in the United States from 1920 to 1933. The policy is now regarded as an epic failure, having spawned a dramatic rise in organized crime, political corruption and fatal poisonings. Canada also flirted with Prohibition after the First World War, but was much quicker to realize it was a terrible idea. Quebec, for one, repealed prohibition a mere two years after instituting it. The legal concept of “airspace,” in fact, was invented because the prohibitionist U.S. government objected to Canada constantly flying planeloads of whiskey over “dry” Alaska in order to resupply the Yukon.

We’re not as fat!



CS_obesity0: An obese Canadian. These are much rarer.© Tom Braid An obese Canadian. These are much rarer.

To be sure, Canada is still one of the fattest countries in the world. Just ask the thousands of new Canadians who sprout a beer belly almost immediately after swearing an oath to the Queen. Nevertheless, only 20.2 per cent of Canadian adults are obese. This is compared to 39.8 per cent of U.S. adults. This is despite the fact that Canadians similarly live in car-dependent cities, not to mention occupying a far colder country. However, the Great White North also lacks Cheez-Its and White Castle, which arguably means we are less susceptible to caloric temptation.

We aren’t utterly crushed by debt!


The Liberals under Justin Trudeau are the most spendthrift Canadian government in decades. Despite this, we’re still not even close to the utterly meteoric sums being run up by Washington. In the current fiscal year, the Canadian federal government is set to run up a deficit of $19.4 billion — roughly $524 per Canadian. In the U.S., meanwhile, a Republican-dominated Washington is set to rack up a federal deficit of $985 billion next year — or US$3,024 per American (CDN$4,032.40). The disparity gets even starker when comparing our respective national debts. The per-capita share of the Canadian federal debt is $17,800. In the U.S., it’s US$64,564 (CDN$86,057.68).

Our obnoxious reality TV star failed miserably at politics!

It may be hard to remember, but there was once a Canadian reality TV star who knew almost nothing about our political system and had no legislative experience whatsoever. Regardless, he figured he could use his wealth and star power alone to cruise into the prime minister’s office. Not only did Kevin O’Leary not become prime minister, but he withdrew from the Conservative leadership election within four months and continues to nurse $400,000 in campaign debts. To be fair, though, O’Leary’s political ambitions didn’t fall apart because Canadians have a deep-rooted culture of demanding sober, thoughtful and experienced legislators. Rather, it’s because O’Leary can’t speak French.

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Canada is monitoring the impact of U.S. President Donald Trump's "zero-tolerance" migrant policy — which has led to the forcible detention of thousands of children — to determine if the U.S. remains a safe country for asylum seekers.


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Global outrage is growing over Trump's hardline approach to people crossing illegally into the U.S. from Mexico — a policy that puts adults through the criminal justice system while sending their children to detention camps. The Trump administration also has eliminated the option of citing a risk of domestic or gang violence as grounds to seek protection.

Critics are calling on Canada to urgently respond by suspending the Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA) with the United States, but Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen said the government will analyze the situation to determine the impact of the Trump administration's policy on due process, appeals rights and migrants' ability to make asylum claims.

"We have to see the impact of these changes on the domestic asylum system in the U.S. to see whether the U.S. continues to meet its obligations, not just to the international community, but also to the Safe Third Country Agreement," he said.

Hussen said that ongoing analysis is being carried out by both countries, as well as the UN's refugee agency. He said he could not provide any time frame for the review.

In past, the minister has said the 14-year-old agreement — which requires that migrants crossing the Canada/U.S. border make their refugee claims in the first "safe" country they come to, whether it's Canada or the U.S. — is working in Canada's interests but should be modernized.

According to data provided to CBC News by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, 1,949 asylum seekers were turned back at official border points in 2017 — refused entry to Canada under the STCA.

That's up dramatically from previous years. In 2016, 731 were refused; in 2015, 418 were turned away and in 2014 just 456 were denied entry.


Fearful fleeing Trump


"The jump in numbers means that individuals are genuinely, legitimately and justifiably afraid about how they will be treated and about whether they will be given due process under the Trump administration's regime," said Aris Daghighian, a refugee lawyer and executive member of the Canadian Refugee Lawyers Association.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed on the weekend that nearly 2,000 migrant children were separated from their families between April 19 and May 31, when the Trump administration was cracking down on illegal immigration along the U.S.-Mexico border.

The UN has said separating families amounts to an "arbitrary and unlawful" interference in family life and calls it a "serious violation" of the rights of children.

Despite international outrage and condemnation, Trump defended the practice today.

"The United States will not be a migrant camp and it will not be a refugee-holding facility," he said.

Daghighian said it's clear the U.S. is not meeting its international obligations on refugees, human rights and rights of the child, and that Canada should not be its immigration partner under the STCA.

"The problem here now is that both the conditions of detention — subjecting individuals to cruel and unusual separation from their children — but also the grounds for which the U.S. is willing to offer protection are being severely limited," he said. "So in that way, Canada can't be confident that the U.S. will abide by its international obligations that it will provide protection to these individuals under a fair process."

Failing to denounce the U.S. and shred the agreement would amount to a departure from Canada's record of leading on humanitarian issues and would send the wrong message to the world, Daghighian said.


Moral, legal obligations


"It would say that, for political reasons, or for reasons to do with the current trade negotiations, we're willing to give up some of our most fundamental values, our moral obligations and our legal obligations."

While Canada deals in much smaller numbers, this country does hold children in immigration detention centres. Statistics from the Canada Border Services Agency show that 150 minors (aged under 18) were detained with a parent or guardian over a nine-month period that ended Dec. 31, 2017, and another five were held unaccompanied.

In November 2017, Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale issued a directive on the treatment of minors in Canada's immigration detention system. It said that, "as much as humanly possible," children must be kept out of detention and with their families.

Citing the best interests of the child as its primary consideration, the directive said alternatives to detention must be considered, such as cash or performance bonds and community supervision.

NDP immigration critic Jenny Kwan said the developments south of the border underscore the fact that the U.S. is no longer a 'safe third country'.

She called it "astounding" that the Liberal government would consider keeping Canada in an agreement with a country that is flagrantly flouting international law on the rights of refugees and children.

"If we continue on with the status quo in the face of this inhumane development, then Canada is complicit to the situation," she said.

Asked today if Canada can still consider the U.S. a safe country in light of the crackdown, Transport Minister Marc Garneau, chair of the cabinet committee on U.S. relations, said: "Of course we can."

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Researchers have come closer than ever to understanding how a man was cured of Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV) almost 10 years ago.
*Scientists create pioneering new skin to save boy from rare genetic condition Researchers have come closer than ever to understanding how a man was cured of Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV) almost 10 years ago.
Timothy Brown, the 51-year-old American man known as the ‘Berlin patient’, was declared HIV-free in 2008 after two bone marrow transplants at a hospital in Berlin.
He is one of just two people in history (and the first identified) to successfully beat the virus, and all attempts to replicate his procedure have ended in death.
However, a team at Oregon Health And Science University today published a paper on an ongoing study on a specific insular breed of monkey, which appears to be our strongest bet at replicating and understanding the mysterious case. While the researchers say they believe completely curing HIV is unlikely to ever happen, they say Brown’s bone marrow procedure, if refined, could help patients reach ‘drug-free remission’.

Speaking to Daily Mail Online, Brown said he is “very excited” about the study, which he has been following closely with regular updates from lead author Dr. Jonah Sacha.

“I would love to know what cured me,” said Brown, who spends his year speaking at conferences, attending HIV presentations, and advocating for new research.

“From the moment I got cured, I had the option to hide my identity. But I wanted people to know, I don’t want to be the only person who was cured.”

Brown, who is from Seattle but lived in Germany, was diagnosed with HIV in 1995.

In 2006, after more than a decade on standard anti-retroviral therapy to suppress his disease, he was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, a cancer of the blood cells.

His doctor at the Charite Hospital in Berlin said his best bet at survival was a bone marrow transplant, which replaces a sick person’s immune system with stem cells from the bone marrow of a healthy person.

It is an incredibly delicate and risky procedure, since one’s immune system is designed to defend their own body against foreign cells or pathogens.

There is a risk of death if it is not a strong enough match. Instead of seamlessly replacing one weakened immune system with the other, the transplant could trigger a battle between the two immune systems, killing the patient.

According to Be The Match, the chance of finding a perfect match is about 50/50, but even then there is a risk.

Finding a precise match for someone with HIV is even more complex, since their immune system is already compromised.

In Brown’s case, he received a transplant from a person with a mutation of the CCR5 receptor, which has been linked to HIV immunity.

Despite the risks, Brown survived his first transplant, and stopped taking his HIV medication that day. He had another transplant in early 2008. On February 2008, he was declared HIV-free at the CROI Conference in Boston.

The only other person to have been cured of HIV remains anonymous. He was also in Berlin, and was declared HIV-free in 1998 after being prescribed an unconventional cocktail of HIV and cancer drugs.

Studies have since shown that the 1998 case appears to have largely been influenced by the patient’s genes.

But Brown’s case remains a mystery – and attempts to replicate his transplant have been disastrous.

Indeed, a report published by the New England Journal of Medicine in 2014 described six attempts to treat HIV patients with a stem cell donation, but none lived longer than a year.

Consequently, researchers require an animal model to investigate.

While bone marrow transplants have been shown to work in rhesus monkeys, a common species in scientific experiments, they are too genetically diverse to be a reliable model. In fact, many of the failed attempts at curing HIV in patients with bone marrow have been linked to some of the proteins found in rhesus monkeys’ immune systems.

Instead, Oregonian researchers have turned to examining a specific group of monkeys descended from just five monkeys left on an island by Dutch spice traders five centuries ago.

Cynomolgus macaques, also known as crab-eating or long-tailed macaques, are prevalent across south-east Asia.

But in Mauritius, the Indian Ocean island off the coast of Madagascar, there is a population of them who descended from just five monkeys, left on the island in the early 1500s. At the time, there were just four males and one female. As such, today’s population is not very genetically-diverse, and the chance of finding a bone marrow match is high.
In a new report published early Friday morning, the researchers from the university’s Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute declared they successfully performed a stem cell transplant in two of these monkeys, who are healthy more than a year later. The team, led by Dr Sacha, said the promising finding could take about a decade to develop into a functional treatment, but it also sheds light on how we could use stem-cell transplants for other diseases like leukemia and sickle cell anemia.

Meanwhile, doctors have saved a boy, seven-year-old Hassan, who was close to death, in an induced coma after losing 80 per cent of his skin to a rare genetic condition. Doctors saved him after growing an almost completely new skin for him in the laboratory.

Hassan, whose family’s full name has not been released, suffered from ‘butterfly disease’, which makes human skin as delicate as the insect’s wings and likely to blister and peel off at the slightest touch.

He has been covered in blisters and wounds since he was a few days old and before the operation most of his body looked like an open wound.

Doctors grew a new skin in the laboratory using stem cells genetically altered to eliminate the flaw that causes the disease.

In what has been described as a major breakthrough in the use of stem cells to treat disease, this was then successfully transplanted on to Hassan’s body.

Now, 21 months later, having been admitted to a hospital burns unit close to death, he appears to be fully recovered.

His new skin has successfully ‘anchored’ to his body without the symptoms that have plagued him his whole life.

*Adapted from DailyMailUK Online
https://t.guardian.ng/features/how-berlin-patient-was-cured-of-hiv-2/

Modes, na beg I dey begooo

Researchers have come closer than ever to understanding how a man was cured of Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV) almost 10 years ago.
*Scientists create pioneering new skin to save boy from rare genetic condition Researchers have come closer than ever to understanding how a man was cured of Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV) almost 10 years ago.
Timothy Brown, the 51-year-old American man known as the ‘Berlin patient’, was declared HIV-free in 2008 after two bone marrow transplants at a hospital in Berlin.
He is one of just two people in history (and the first identified) to successfully beat the virus, and all attempts to replicate his procedure have ended in death.
However, a team at Oregon Health And Science University today published a paper on an ongoing study on a specific insular breed of monkey, which appears to be our strongest bet at replicating and understanding the mysterious case. While the researchers say they believe completely curing HIV is unlikely to ever happen, they say Brown’s bone marrow procedure, if refined, could help patients reach ‘drug-free remission’.

Speaking to Daily Mail Online, Brown said he is “very excited” about the study, which he has been following closely with regular updates from lead author Dr. Jonah Sacha.

“I would love to know what cured me,” said Brown, who spends his year speaking at conferences, attending HIV presentations, and advocating for new research.

“From the moment I got cured, I had the option to hide my identity. But I wanted people to know, I don’t want to be the only person who was cured.”

Brown, who is from Seattle but lived in Germany, was diagnosed with HIV in 1995.

In 2006, after more than a decade on standard anti-retroviral therapy to suppress his disease, he was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, a cancer of the blood cells.

His doctor at the Charite Hospital in Berlin said his best bet at survival was a bone marrow transplant, which replaces a sick person’s immune system with stem cells from the bone marrow of a healthy person.

It is an incredibly delicate and risky procedure, since one’s immune system is designed to defend their own body against foreign cells or pathogens.

There is a risk of death if it is not a strong enough match. Instead of seamlessly replacing one weakened immune system with the other, the transplant could trigger a battle between the two immune systems, killing the patient.

According to Be The Match, the chance of finding a perfect match is about 50/50, but even then there is a risk.

Finding a precise match for someone with HIV is even more complex, since their immune system is already compromised.

In Brown’s case, he received a transplant from a person with a mutation of the CCR5 receptor, which has been linked to HIV immunity.

Despite the risks, Brown survived his first transplant, and stopped taking his HIV medication that day. He had another transplant in early 2008. On February 2008, he was declared HIV-free at the CROI Conference in Boston.

The only other person to have been cured of HIV remains anonymous. He was also in Berlin, and was declared HIV-free in 1998 after being prescribed an unconventional cocktail of HIV and cancer drugs.

Studies have since shown that the 1998 case appears to have largely been influenced by the patient’s genes.

But Brown’s case remains a mystery – and attempts to replicate his transplant have been disastrous.

Indeed, a report published by the New England Journal of Medicine in 2014 described six attempts to treat HIV patients with a stem cell donation, but none lived longer than a year.

Consequently, researchers require an animal model to investigate.

While bone marrow transplants have been shown to work in rhesus monkeys, a common species in scientific experiments, they are too genetically diverse to be a reliable model. In fact, many of the failed attempts at curing HIV in patients with bone marrow have been linked to some of the proteins found in rhesus monkeys’ immune systems.

Instead, Oregonian researchers have turned to examining a specific group of monkeys descended from just five monkeys left on an island by Dutch spice traders five centuries ago.

Cynomolgus macaques, also known as crab-eating or long-tailed macaques, are prevalent across south-east Asia.

But in Mauritius, the Indian Ocean island off the coast of Madagascar, there is a population of them who descended from just five monkeys, left on the island in the early 1500s. At the time, there were just four males and one female. As such, today’s population is not very genetically-diverse, and the chance of finding a bone marrow match is high.
In a new report published early Friday morning, the researchers from the university’s Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute declared they successfully performed a stem cell transplant in two of these monkeys, who are healthy more than a year later. The team, led by Dr Sacha, said the promising finding could take about a decade to develop into a functional treatment, but it also sheds light on how we could use stem-cell transplants for other diseases like leukemia and sickle cell anemia.

Meanwhile, doctors have saved a boy, seven-year-old Hassan, who was close to death, in an induced coma after losing 80 per cent of his skin to a rare genetic condition. Doctors saved him after growing an almost completely new skin for him in the laboratory.

Hassan, whose family’s full name has not been released, suffered from ‘butterfly disease’, which makes human skin as delicate as the insect’s wings and likely to blister and peel off at the slightest touch.

He has been covered in blisters and wounds since he was a few days old and before the operation most of his body looked like an open wound.

Doctors grew a new skin in the laboratory using stem cells genetically altered to eliminate the flaw that causes the disease.

In what has been described as a major breakthrough in the use of stem cells to treat disease, this was then successfully transplanted on to Hassan’s body.

Now, 21 months later, having been admitted to a hospital burns unit close to death, he appears to be fully recovered.

His new skin has successfully ‘anchored’ to his body without the symptoms that have plagued him his whole life.

*Adapted from DailyMailUK Online
https://t.guardian.ng/features/how-berlin-patient-was-cured-of-hiv-2/

Modes pls do the needful

Environmental group claims Amina J. Mohammed authorized illegal exports of endangered rosewood during her term as Nigeria’s environment minister.
BY COLUM LYNCH, SIOBHÁN O'GRADY | NOVEMBER 9, 2017, 7:51 AM

U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed speaks at the U.N. in February. (Devra Berkowitz/U.N. Photo)
Amina J. Mohammed, the U.N. deputy secretary-general, has ascended to the lofty pinnacle of global diplomacy on the back of her record as a champion of the environment and the poor. But in January, just weeks before assuming her current job, she spent her final days as Nigeria’s environment minister doing something that has outraged activists. Despite a ban then in force on the export of rosewood, an endangered resource, she signed thousands of certificates authorizing the shipment of vast quantities of the wood.

The certificates “came in bags, and I just signed them because that is what I had to do,” she recalled in an interview last month in her sprawling 38th-floor U.N. headquarters office in Manhattan overlooking the East River. “I don’t remember how many.”

A senior Nigerian forestry official, who asked not to be named, confirmed that Mohammed had signed 2,992 export certificates on Jan. 16.

Mohammed said her action was part of a complicated, though legal, balancing act aimed at ensuring Nigeria’s threatened forests were being harvested sustainably while also honoring contracts with Chinese rosewood importers and protecting the livelihoods of a growing number of Nigerians who depend on the timber trade.

Wood from rosewood trees — also known as kosso — is prized in China for its pinkish hue and purplish-brown streaks. Since 2012, however, the export of rosewood has decimated forests throughout West Africa. Environmentalists fear that uncontrolled deforestation of the region’s woodlands will encourage soil erosion and accelerate the spread of Saharan desert into once productive areas.

Mohammed’s 11th-hour decision to approve the kosso shipments was first documented by a Washington-based environmental group and is now part of an inquiry by the secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), to which Nigeria is a signatory.


A logger saws a kosso tree in Nigeria’s Taraba state in violation of a forest harvest ban on March 27. (Mathias Rittgerott-Rettet den Regenwald)
In a letter to Nigerian authorities in August 2017, John Scanlon, CITES’s secretary-general, raised concern about information his agency had received indicating that as many as 10,000 containers of Nigerian rosewood had been stopped by Chinese authorities between May and December 2016, because they were not accompanied by the proper CITES documentation, according to Michael Osakuade, the acting director of Nigeria’s Department of Forestry. On Dec. 31, 2016, Mohammed herself imposed a three-month ban on the trade in rosewood. Yet following Mohammed’s mass signings, more than two weeks after the ban went into force, the trade quickly resumed: Chinese trade data show that between then and April, as many as 12,000 containers of kosso logs were cleared to enter the country.

Yuan Liu, a spokesman for CITES, declined to comment on the letter on the grounds that a committee of signatories to the treaty needed to approve public statements on the matter. But Liu previously confirmed to Foreign Policy by email that CITES “has been in communication with China and Nigeria” about the kosso trade. He referred FP to an Oct. 6 compliance report underscoring the treaty body’s concerns about the prospect of wrongdoing. It urges that signatories to the endangered species treaty “should not accept any CITES permit or certificate for [kosso wood] issued by Nigeria unless its authenticity has been confirmed by the Secretariat.”

The permit dispute has attracted international scrutiny of the record of one of Africa’s leading diplomatic figures while highlighting the challenges of maintaining the highest environment.
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Smellymouth:

bester Freund..Ich kann meine E-Mails zugreifen..

you speak very good German, are you from Germany?

LadyExcellency:


APC and Buhari's Government have openly accused the past government of ushering Nigerians into unrealistic and unsustainable social and economic status hence they are there to reconfigure Nigerians to a life of poverty, want and despondency.

Any decent home owner in Nigeria is now a suspected criminal except Burutai.

The problem Nigeria will have in the future as it relates to this government will not be scarcity of resources but envy and suspicion on why millions and billions should be given to a company for award of contract which will definitely make some rich against their policy of enslavement hence most contracts in the budget wouldn't be awarded even when the money is there.

Buhari may follow Yar'dua footsteps who saved money for Nigeria by implementing average of 25% yearly budget during his three years in Aso Rock.

Guy, I don't comment much on nairaland but you got these spot on. How some people still celebrate this guys baffle me.

Businessideas:
This Op is an Agbaya!!

na you sabi o, I just observed his silence lately my Guy.

I don't believe our dear senator is such a quiet man since he got into the red chamber.

People! please has anyone seen or heard from our Vocal senator both online and offline lately? I don't want to believe that after his encounter with AMCON over his business interests our dear senator have decided to soft pedal a bit on his twitter and television crusade both for and against the government of the day. Who see BMB make them tell us pop.

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steadyguy101:
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i have been to these campuses physically

i have been to the admissions offices of these schools

And i must state that i am a graduate of one of these schools

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