If you want to know how the United States went from being the most admired to the most hated nation today, you have to read this thread. It exposes the insanity of the American liberal media, which by the way is the major cause of the decline of the western society.

Between 2013 and 2015 the Nigerian government practically begged for the sale of specialized aircraft to fight the insurgency, the A-29 Super Tucano to be precise and its compliment of precision guided munitions and smart bombs. Nigeria was willing to pay over half a billion.
The U.S found every reason they could to delay the deal. Even when they agreed upon the sale, one mishap and the deal is cancelled. This went on for years. Hillary Clinton herself fought for two years not to include Boko Haram on the U.S list of terrorist organizations.
Then there was a disruption. President Trump won the 2016 presidential election. Ever a pragmatic man it didn't take long for him to see the absurdity in denying Nigeria weapons it needed to BHT. He cancelled Obama's ban and approved the sale of the A-29. ALL HELL BROKE OUT
The U.S mainstream media went beserk. They accused President Trump of supporting a brutal and abusive Nigerian government. Why, they asked was the U.S identifying itself with an autocratic regime. To say this is hilarious will be an understatement.
Nigeria happens to be the 6th largest democracy on planet it. Its president is voted into office. It has institutions, heck our system of government was modelled after that of the United States. Meanwhile the U.S has for close to a decade been not only supporting,
but providing ''unsolicited' military aid to two of Africa's most brutal and repressive regimes. I highlighted the word ''unsolicited'' because it was Washington who reached out to Chad and Cameroon offering military aid. The President of Cameroon has been in power for 40 years
Paul Biya is 87 years old and still will not relinquish power. Idris Derby took power in 1991 and has remained President of Chad for 31 years. These are dictators for life yet the US not only recognize their regimes but provide weapons the dictators need to hold unto power.
The people of Chad are among the poorest on earth. Institutions are non-existent. The country's oil wealth have been squandered on arms and to bribe generals. The country lacks even the most basic of infrastructure. In Cameroon its much worse. Over half the population
have known one president all their lives. They have no concept of what elected representative is. Cameroon was the first country on earth to cut off internet in a region for over a year over University protesters'. Thousands of Anglophone Cameroonians have been massacred by
Cameroonian troops. In one incident captured on video a woman blindfolded with her child on her back was shot by Cameroonian gendarmes. They shot this woman with her baby on her back. The gruesome killings of civilians, including children, are egregious crimes that should be
investigated. Instead the U.S started a program to train Cameroonian troops and build a drone base kilometers from a notorious chamber were political dissidents are tortured. The media doesn't talk about it. Where is the outrage?
Instead they deflect and train their guns on Nigeria the only functioning democracy in that axis.
In what is perhaps the most insulting and ridiculous of claims they accused the Nigerian military of launching an assault on a UN Compound, exonerating Boko Haram. These crazy American media accuse the President of lionizing Nigerian soldiers as national heroes.
What is happening the world over is the Western media and Human Rights Groups defending terrorism. These crazy people rely on faulty evidence and flawed methodology to portray terrorists as victims and the Nigerian military as aggressors, regardless of circumstance.
This latest incident is a prime example. The outrage is not about the henious acts committed by gunmen, instead they are launching attacks on the military trying to rescue the girls and building cases accusing the military of commiting war crimes. Once in a while
they throw in one or two words about Boko Harams crimes to give a pretensions air of objectivity and then go on the offensive. These are the people Nigerians are running to for justice? Any entity that find its offensive going after terrorist groups are themselves terrorists.
CNN, BBC, Al-Jazeera, Amnesty International have done more harm to people with their coverage than any terrorist group can. Just look at Libya and Syria. American society has so degraded that the media shapes foreign policy.
Every political action takes into consideration how the media will perceive it. The American media is the real dangerous virus. Outlets such as CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, The New York Times, Washington Post and USA Today, has been proved over and over again, that if
you don’t fall in step with the liberal agenda that those media outlets are ramming down the throats of Americans, then you will be fired. They find it appalling that Trump okayed the sale of Super Tucano to Nigeria to fight the barbaric insurgents. So what do they do?
They just trash Trump every single hour of every single day. They trash the Nigerian government at every opportunity. They openly despises anything positive that comes out of Nigeria. Everyone Nigerian with even the slightest hint of intelligence knows that
the western media, Amnesty International and the rest of the mainstream media has made it their mission to bring about an insurrection against the central government in Nigeria, who they accuse of war crimes completely ignoring the barbarity of Boko Haram and ISIS.
As if stoking unrest isn’t bad enough, the media has sunk to all time lows coordinating with NGOs to bring a case against the duly elected president of a sovereign state. CNN, BBC, Amnesty International has now become the arch enemy of the Nigerian people and Nigeria itself.
Once upon a time, in times of national tragedies politics were put aside for the benefit of the people. Disgustingly, instead of respecting the government the MSM used the disaster to up their disgusting attack on Nigeria, spreading panic and openly rooting for an uprising.
Left wing hypocritical media blasted Trump for approving A-29 to Nigeria to fight terror, saying it will be used against civilians and then turned around and criticize the Nigerian military a second time for not doing enough to protect the people. These people are crazy.

More from Defense News Nigeria

More from Society

Imagine if Christians actually had to live according to their Bibles.


Imagine if Christians actually sacrificed themselves for the good of those they considered their enemies, with no thought of any recompense or reward, but only to honor the essential humanity of all people.

Imagine if Christians sold all their possessions and gave it to the poor.

Imagine if they relentlessly stood up for the widow, the orphan, and the foreigner.

Imagine if they worshipped a God whose response to political power was to reject it.

Or cancelled all debt owed them?

Imagine if the primary orientation of Christians was what others needed, not what they deserved.

Imagine Christians with no interest in protecting what they had.

Imagine Christians who made room for other beliefs, and honored the truths they found there.

Imagine Christians who saved their forgiveness and mercy for others, rather than saving it for themselves.

Whose empathy went first to the abused, not the abuser.

Who didn't see tax as theft; who didn't need to control distribution of public good to the deserving.
Two things can be true at once:
1. There is an issue with hostility some academics have faced on some issues
2. Another academic who himself uses threats of legal action to bully colleagues into silence is not a good faith champion of the free speech cause


I have kept quiet about Matthew's recent outpourings on here but as my estwhile co-author has now seen fit to portray me as an enabler of oppression I think I have a right to reply. So I will.

I consider Matthew to be a colleague and a friend, and we had a longstanding agreement not to engage in disputes on twitter. I disagree with much in the article @UOzkirimli wrote on his research in @openDemocracy but I strongly support his right to express such critical views

I therefore find it outrageous that Matthew saw fit to bully @openDemocracy with legal threats, seeking it seems to stifle criticism of his own work. Such behaviour is simply wrong, and completely inconsistent with an academic commitment to free speech.

I am not embroiling myself in the various other cases Matt lists because, unlike him, I think attention to the detail matters and I don't have time to research each of these cases in detail.

You May Also Like

शमशान में जब महर्षि दधीचि के मांसपिंड का दाह संस्कार हो रहा था तो उनकी पत्नी अपने पति का वियोग सहन नहीं कर पायी और पास में ही स्थित विशाल पीपल वृक्ष के कोटर में अपने तीन वर्ष के बालक को रख के स्वयं चिता पे बैठ कर सती हो गयी ।इस प्रकार ऋषी दधीचि और उनकी पत्नी की मुक्ति हो गयी।


परन्तु पीपल के कोटर में रखा बालक भूख प्यास से तड़पने लगा। जब कुछ नहीं मिला तो वो कोटर में पड़े पीपल के गोदों (फल) को खाकर बड़ा होने लगा। कालान्तर में पीपल के फलों और पत्तों को खाकर बालक का जीवन किसी प्रकार सुरक्षित रहा।

एक दिन देवर्षि नारद वहां से गुजर रहे थे ।नारद ने पीपल के कोटर में बालक को देख कर उसका परिचय मांगा -
नारद बोले - बालक तुम कौन हो?
बालक - यही तो मैं भी जानना चहता हूँ ।
नारद - तुम्हारे जनक कौन हैं?
बालक - यही तो मैं भी जानना चाहता हूँ ।

तब नारद ने आँखें बन्द कर ध्यान लगाया ।


तत्पश्चात आश्चर्यचकित हो कर बालक को बताया कि 'हे बालक! तुम महान दानी महर्षि दधीचि के पुत्र हो । तुम्हारे पिता की अस्थियों का वज्रास्त्र बनाकर ही देवताओं ने असुरों पर विजय पायी थी।तुम्हारे पिता की मृत्यु मात्र 31 वर्ष की वय में ही हो गयी थी'।

बालक - मेरे पिता की अकाल मृत्यु का क्या कारण था?
नारद - तुम्हारे पिता पर शनिदेव की महादशा थी।
बालक - मेरे उपर आयी विपत्ति का कारण क्या था?
नारद - शनिदेव की महादशा।
इतना बताकर देवर्षि नारद ने पीपल के पत्तों और गोदों को खाकर बड़े हुए उस बालक का नाम पिप्पलाद रखा और उसे दीक्षित किया।
Recently, the @CNIL issued a decision regarding the GDPR compliance of an unknown French adtech company named "Vectaury". It may seem like small fry, but the decision has potential wide-ranging impacts for Google, the IAB framework, and today's adtech. It's thread time! 👇

It's all in French, but if you're up for it you can read:
• Their blog post (lacks the most interesting details):
https://t.co/PHkDcOT1hy
• Their high-level legal decision: https://t.co/hwpiEvjodt
• The full notification: https://t.co/QQB7rfynha

I've read it so you needn't!

Vectaury was collecting geolocation data in order to create profiles (eg. people who often go to this or that type of shop) so as to power ad targeting. They operate through embedded SDKs and ad bidding, making them invisible to users.

The @CNIL notes that profiling based off of geolocation presents particular risks since it reveals people's movements and habits. As risky, the processing requires consent — this will be the heart of their assessment.

Interesting point: they justify the decision in part because of how many people COULD be targeted in this way (rather than how many have — though they note that too). Because it's on a phone, and many have phones, it is considered large-scale processing no matter what.
@EricTopol @NBA @StephenKissler @yhgrad B.1.1.7 reveals clearly that SARS-CoV-2 is reverting to its original pre-outbreak condition, i.e. adapted to transgenic hACE2 mice (either Baric's BALB/c ones or others used at WIV labs during chimeric bat coronavirus experiments aimed at developing a pan betacoronavirus vaccine)

@NBA @StephenKissler @yhgrad 1. From Day 1, SARS-COV-2 was very well adapted to humans .....and transgenic hACE2 Mice


@NBA @StephenKissler @yhgrad 2. High Probability of serial passaging in Transgenic Mice expressing hACE2 in genesis of SARS-COV-2


@NBA @StephenKissler @yhgrad B.1.1.7 has an unusually large number of genetic changes, ... found to date in mouse-adapted SARS-CoV2 and is also seen in ferret infections.
https://t.co/9Z4oJmkcKj


@NBA @StephenKissler @yhgrad We adapted a clinical isolate of SARS-CoV-2 by serial passaging in the ... Thus, this mouse-adapted strain and associated challenge model should be ... (B) SARS-CoV-2 genomic RNA loads in mouse lung homogenates at P0 to P6.
https://t.co/I90OOCJg7o