Comments on: “Sweet Crude” the poverty of oil http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/sweet_crude_the_poverty_of_oil.html black looks Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:40:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Sokari http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/sweet_crude_the_poverty_of_oil.html#comment-100740 Sokari Mon, 19 May 2008 08:27:51 +0000 http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/sweet_crude_the_poverty_of_oil.html#comment-100740 Beauty @ excellent! Beauty @ excellent!

]]> By: Beauty http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/sweet_crude_the_poverty_of_oil.html#comment-100739 Beauty Mon, 19 May 2008 08:26:05 +0000 http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/sweet_crude_the_poverty_of_oil.html#comment-100739 "When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool." The advent of militancy was due to failing to listen to the people of the Niger Delta 5, 10, 15, 20 years ago. The trouble began and people like OBJ wrote off the issues as "hooligans causing trouble". The bloggers were written off as under achievers that had incomplete education. Trouble now has a comfortable leather adjustable recliner in our parlour. Beautys last blog post..<a href="http://nigeriawhatisnew.blogspot.com/2008/05/violence-against-immigrants-south.html" rel="nofollow">Violence against immigrants - South Africa</a> “When suffering knocks at your door and
you say there is no seat for him,
he tells you not to worry because
he has brought his own stool.”

The advent of militancy was due to failing to listen to the people of the Niger Delta 5, 10, 15, 20 years ago. The trouble began and people like OBJ wrote off the issues as “hooligans causing trouble”. The bloggers were written off as under achievers that had incomplete education. Trouble now has a comfortable leather adjustable recliner in our parlour.

Beautys last blog post..Violence against immigrants - South Africa

]]> By: Sokari http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/sweet_crude_the_poverty_of_oil.html#comment-100693 Sokari Sun, 18 May 2008 20:19:11 +0000 http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/sweet_crude_the_poverty_of_oil.html#comment-100693 Beauty @ Chinua Achebe is a very wise man but this I dont get? Beauty @ Chinua Achebe is a very wise man but this I dont get?

]]> By: Beauty http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/sweet_crude_the_poverty_of_oil.html#comment-100588 Beauty Sat, 17 May 2008 10:40:32 +0000 http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/sweet_crude_the_poverty_of_oil.html#comment-100588 I have a Chinua Achebe answer to "What was Nigeria’s excuse for failing to listen to the people of the Niger Delta 5, 10, 15, 20 years ago?" <blockquote><strong>When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.</strong></blockquote> Beautys last blog post..<a href="http://nigeriawhatisnew.blogspot.com/2008/05/dimeji-bankole-hardtalk-interview.html" rel="nofollow">Dimeji Bankole - HARDtalk interview</a> I have a Chinua Achebe answer to “What was Nigeria’s excuse for failing to listen to the people of the Niger Delta 5, 10, 15, 20 years ago?”

When suffering knocks at your door and
you say there is no seat for him,
he tells you not to worry because
he has brought his own stool.

Beautys last blog post..Dimeji Bankole - HARDtalk interview

]]> By: Mwangi - the Displaced African http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/sweet_crude_the_poverty_of_oil.html#comment-100482 Mwangi - the Displaced African Thu, 15 May 2008 20:21:54 +0000 http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/sweet_crude_the_poverty_of_oil.html#comment-100482 I often wonder to myself, with all the wealth and abundance and access to knowledge and wisdom that a lot of these oil conglomerates have, are they really so selfish, callous and stupid as to treat the jeopardy of the environment and the lives of people on oil rich lands with such contempt and/or abandon? Or is there something I am missing? It appears as though the same rhetoric that was used to "blanket label" all anti-colonialists and freedom fighters as savages/terrorists/thugs/hooligans/barbarians etc etc still continues to this day Mwangi - the Displaced Africans last blog post..<a href="http://www.thedisplacedafrican.com/291/stuff-african-people-like-sleeping/" rel="nofollow">Stuff African People Like: Sleeping</a> I often wonder to myself, with all the wealth and abundance and access to knowledge and wisdom that a lot of these oil conglomerates have, are they really so selfish, callous and stupid as to treat the jeopardy of the environment and the lives of people on oil rich lands with such contempt and/or abandon? Or is there something I am missing?

It appears as though the same rhetoric that was used to “blanket label” all anti-colonialists and freedom fighters as savages/terrorists/thugs/hooligans/barbarians etc etc still continues to this day

Mwangi - the Displaced Africans last blog post..Stuff African People Like: Sleeping

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