"PRESIDENT JONATHAN GOODLUCK CANNOT FIGHT OFFICIAL CORRUPTION IN NIGERIA"

This is the whole truth that all Nigerians must know today about their President that cannot, will not and unable to fight the culture of the official corruption in Nigeria from his comfortable abode inside the Aso Rock villa. (i) President Jonathan Goodluck is a direct product and the epitome of the heavily corrupt Nigeria's political and electoral systems. President Jonathan Goodluck is also a direct product of the politics of religious bigotry, election rigging, selection instead of election, mediocrity, Godfatherism, nepotism, regionalism and tribalism.

(ii) President Jonathan Goodluck is all his political life career to date either as an elected or a selected public official in his various capacities such as a former deputy governor, a former acting state governor, a former governor, a former vice-president, a former acting president and the current president has never openly or publicly known to have fought against the official culture of corruption in Nigeria passively or aggressively at all levels.

(ii) President Jonathan Goodluck can never and will never have the needed capacity and the leadership ability to fight this huge menace of the official culture of corruption in Nigeria effectively because he would be bitting the most powerful politicians and the most corrupt political fingers that fed him to power. President Jonathan Goodluck will be committing the biggest political suicide of his entire life that may cost him his physical and untimely death or the end of his entire political career as well as  the presidency of Nigeria.

IS THE TWO-STATE SOLUTION THE ANSWER TO THE ISRAEL-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT?

"THE PERMANENT PEACE AND SOLUTION BETWEEN ISREAL AND THE PALESTINIAN MAY BE FINALLY ACHIEVED BY IMPLEMENTING THE TWO-STATE POLITICAL SOLUTION PROPOSED BY JIMMY CARTER THE FORMER AMERICAN PRESIDENT IN HIS BOOK":In his heavily controversial book published in 2006 by the former President Jimmy Carter of America and titled "Palestine:Peace Not Apartheid". The former American leader identified the two primary sources of this conflict and then proposed a two-state political solution for a permanent peace in the Middle East.

President Jimmy Carter identifies the "two interrelated obstacles to permanent peace in the Middle East":(i) Some Israelis believe they have the right to confiscate and colonize Palestinian land and try to justify the sustained subjugation and persecution of increasingly hopeless and aggravated Palestinians; and (ii) Some Palestinians react by honoring suicide bombers as martyrs to be rewarded in heaven and consider the killing of Israelis as victories.

And to bring an end to what Jimmy Carter calls "this continuing tragedy", Jimmy Carter calls for a revitalization of the peace process based on the following three "key requirements":
(i). The security of Israel must be guaranteed.
(ii). The internal debate within Israel must be resolved in order to define Israel's permanent legal boundary.
(iii). The sovereignty of all Middle East nations and sanctity of international borders must be honored.

ARE THEY TRULY MEGA-CHURCHES OR MEGA-BUSINESSES IN ALL REALITY TODAY?

The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ that started about 2,000 years ago in Jerusalem was the first ever recorded Mega-Church in the 2,000 years of Christianity, Church history or Church existence on earth since the ascension of Jesus Christ from mount Olivet. The Church of Jerusalem recorded one-day membership growth of about 3,000 new converts at its onset according to the account of Book of the Acts of the Apostles 2:41:"Then they that gladly received his word (gospel of Jesus Christ) were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls." 


This Church in Jerusalem continued to grow daily and in membership through the preaching of the gospel of Jesus Christ only as it can be seen again in Book of the Acts of the Apostles 4:4:"Howbeit many of them which heard the word believed; and the number of the men was about five thousand." This Church even expanded more and more im membership as it is recorded again in the Book of the Acts of the Apostles 6:6a-6b:"in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied".

This early Church in Jerusalem was unique and totally different from the Mega-Churches of our 21st century human universe in terms of its entire operations for a number of reasons:(i) The Apostles in charge of this Church focused primarily on the preaching of the gospel of Jesus Christ (word and prayer) and never on materialism. (ii) This Church did not own any known money-making businesses at all. (iii) This Church did not collect any mandatory tithes from its members. (iv) The members of this Church practiced voluntary givings as the way they gave. This Church met the daily needs of its poor members. (v) The leaders of this Church (Apostles) were not super-rich and did not own businesses, did not set up businesses, did not start businesses or controlled businesses and controlled the Church incomes or finances personally or for their own personal uses. (vi) This Church did not also preached the today's popular prosperity gospel that promises health and wealth for every Christian who tithe mandatorily, give offerings regularly, have faith in God and do positive confessions as a way of life.

 The Mega-Churches of today are light years away from this biblical pattern that is in the Book of the Acts of Apostles. The Pastors and Bishops of the 21st century Mega-Churches act as the "CEOs" and use "secular business and ponzi scheme tactics" instead of the "sound biblical principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ" to grow their congregations in terms of money, materialism and membership. Many mega-churches now own music studios, publishing houses, schools, universities, computer graphic design suites and their own record labels, daily radio talk shows, satellite networks and special effects 3-D Web sites that offer videos-on-demand. 
The pastors and bishops of today's mega-churches are super-rich, drive the most luxurious automobiles, live and own mansions, fly in their own private jets, eat the best, wear the best, vacation in the best holiday resorts around the world, enjoy tax-free and unregulated incomes, own fat bank accounts and big businesses that are highly profitable. In the United States at the moment, the prosperity gospel is now a $3 billion yearly business that is left unregulated and as well as tax-free.

WAS JESUS CHRIST A PROSPERITY GOSPEL PREACHER AND TEACHER?

The first and the most important way to answer this very important question today is to look carefully at what the four documented records of the earthly ministry of Jesus Christ in the land of Palestine that were recorded by the four different authors of the canonical gospel of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John said. The brief accounts of Jesus' physical appearances after his resurrection from the dead and his final ascension from mount Olivet to the right hand of his Father in heaven as it was recorded in the Book of the Acts of the Apostles will also give us more insight into the type of the gospel that Jesus Christ preached 2,000 years ago.

The second way to answer this important question is to know exactly what the prosperity gospel is, teaches or preaches and then compare the teachings of the prosperity gospel with the words and the teachings of Jesus Christ from the New Testament Scriptures. By doing these objective comparisons, it will be very easy to conclude whether the teachings of the prosperity gospel of today and the gospel that Jesus Christ preached 2,000 years ago in the New Testament Scriptures are the same, similar or are both totally different and light years apart from each other.

Jesus Christ introduced his own gospel to the world for the first time in Mark 1:14-15:"Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel".

Apostle Paul in the Book of 1 Corinthians 15:2-6 defined the gospel of Jesus Christ in this light and manner:"By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve:

After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep".

These two definitions of the gospel of Jesus Christ above, one from Jesus Christ himself and the second definition on the same subject matter came from Apostle Paul. By comparing these two definitions with one another, we can easily unlock the exact meaning of the gospel of Jesus Christ or the gospel that Jesus Christ preached in the land of Palestine about 2,000 years ago. These two definitions from Jesus Christ and Apostle Paul pointed to two similar concepts:repentance from sin and believing in Jesus Christ who died for sin. 

I will now systematically examine what the prosperity gospel is all about, teaches or preaches. According to the online website, the Wikipedia defines prosperity gospel in this light:"Prosperity theology (sometimes referred to as the prosperity gospel or the health and wealth gospel) is a Christian religious doctrine that financial blessing is the will of God for Christians, and that faith, positive speech, and donations of tithes and offerings to Christian ministries will always increase one's material wealth. Based on non-traditional interpretations of the Bible, often with emphasis on the Book of Malachi.......", 

First and foremost, the two gospels (the gospel of Jesus Christ and the prosperity gospel) are not the same and they are not even similar to one another in all reality or ramifications. The gospel of Jesus Christ primarily focuses on the repentance from sin and the believing in Jesus Christ who is the perfect sacrifice for sin. The prosperity gospel focuses on health, wealth creation or financial blessings that come through mandatory tithing, giving of one's offerings, exercising personal faith in God and positive confessions. 

Secondly and finally, Jesus Christ according to the four canonical gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John and from the Book of the Acts of Apostles did not tithe either once or on regularly basis and he never commanded tithing to be practiced or to be observed by his apostles, disciples or his Church. 

There are no biblical evidences also in the entire New Testament Bible that showed that the 12 Apostles of Jesus Christ and the early Church or Christians tithed also either once or on regularly basis. The early Christians according to the accounts of the New Testament Scriptures practiced voluntary givings as their standard way of giving their own offerings.

"THE GLOBAL RACE IN THE 21ST CENTURY FOR NUCLEAR ENERGY OR BOMBS"

Among the non-renewable energy sources known to man today, the nuclear energy remains the cheapest source of energy and the most dangerous energy source that we have. This unique energy source can be used by mankind for for peaceful purposes that can help to contribute to our 21st century global energy needs or for dangerous uses to make those weapons of mass destruction that can be used in wars amongst nations or can threaten the continuous existence of global peace and the survival of the world's 7 billion human beings. The nations of Iran and Venezuela respectively are also working secretly to join this rat race by acquiring their own nuclear arsenals or reactors.

The following countries have the nuclear bombs or nuclear arsenals in their disposals. They are the United States, Russia, United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea. According to the report from the Federation of American Scientists, there are estimated 20,000 nuclear warheads in the world today, with 10,000 for Russia, 8,500 for the United States, 250 for the United Kingdom, 300 for France, 80 for Israel, 90-110 for Pakistan, 80-100 for India and less than 10 for North Korea. The United States under the NATO nuclear weapons sharing treaty has agreed to provide nuclear cover for Belgium, Germany, Italy, Netherlands and Turkey if the need arises.

About 30 countries have the nuclear reactors today in the world for energy peaceful energy generation and uses. An estimated 10 new nuclear reactors are built around the world every year totaling about 442 nuclear power stations that generate about 15% of world's energy needs in the area of electricity supply. As of today, American has 104, France has 58 and Japan has 40, with another 115 new nuclear stations being built in Asia and 25 new units alone in China are under construction. finally, about 45 other nations around the world have shown great interest and desire to build their own nuclear reactors for power generation in the nearest future.

"THE AMERICAN DREAM AT THE PRICE OF HUGE PERSONAL DEBTS"

People from all the nations of the world today continue to immigrate by sea, land and air for the last few centuries into the most prosperous nation in the entire 6,000 years of the documented human history, in order to tap into the "American Dream or American Prosperity" that is abundantly available in the true land of prosperity. But this big dream or prosperity that keeps changing the life or the destiny of the millions of immigrants around the world who moved to America also comes with the huge monetary price to pay for this dream in terms of personal debts. 

America as a nation in her 236th year of existence has successfully created the world's largest economy of $16 trillion as well as the world's largest middle class population in the entire human universe. America has also created those vast economic opportunities for her citizens and residents that have lifted over 70% of her entire workforce into the financial and material prosperity that the world has never seen or known in recent times, instead of the massive poverty, lacks, wants and insufficiencies that plagued the workers that work so hard in the many of the nations of the world today.

This American Dream came to most Americans with heavy personal sacrifices and the ranking up of huge personal debts also. According to some reliable current data of the financial profiles of most Americans. Those data show clearly that Americans in 2011 owe more than $12 trillion in personal debts, $8.5 trillion on mortgage loans, $730 billion on credit cards, $710 billion on automobile loans, $670 billion on home equity line of credits, $530 billion on student loans and $340 billion on other things.

Is the American Dream and prosperity based on debt, debt and more debt? The banks in America have already forgiven by writing-off $695 billion for these debtors and these consumers have also paid down only $375 billion out of their $12 trillion consumer debts they own. As the prices of everything, such as gas, food, health care, college tuitions, utility services begin to rise in America year in and year out unabated plus the stagnation in wages paid to American workers and coupled with the current high unemployment rate that is about 7.7%. Many Americans will continue to default on their debts, file for bankruptcy and the American banks and creditors will be left without any other alternatives in their hands to work with, but to continue to write-off their huge personal debts owned by most Americans as bad debts. 

"THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF A WEAK AMERICAN DOLLAR"

The United States dollar remains the world's only reserve currency since the end of the second world war or to be very precise, from the 1970 when America moved away from the traditional gold reserves. Everything in the world's economy today (goods and services) is dollar-priced, dollar-rated and dollar-based. The official national currencies of all the nations of the entire human universe are all tied to this almighty American dollar. The oil that remains the major source of energy worldwide and it is needed to power all the developing, emerging and developed economies is dollar-priced. The entire stock markets, international financial transactions between banks worldwide, gold and all precious metals that drive global trade and economy are fully tied to the powerful American dollar. The nations of the world today all have their national debt profiles, GDPs, economic growth rate indicators, global poverty rates and their foreign reserves in the American dollar.

Today, American dollar is facing two major challenges that can shape its future and the global economy either for good or for better. The first major challenge to the powerful America dollar today is the internal or the domestic forces that are coming from the present state of the entire America's national economy today. The second big challenge is based on the first challenge to the American dollar and this second challenge is coming from the major players in the global economy, such as China, Russia, France, Japan, India, Brazil and the rich Gulf oil nations, because of their fear or uncertainty about the future of the American dollar. This fear is forcing these nations to begin to seek and plan for an alternative international currency if the worst that is anticipated about the American dollar eventually happens in the nearest future. 

The American national debt is now about $16 trillion and it is almost equally to her entire annual GDP. This debt is now almost unmanageable if this annual rising debt will be left unaddressed by the broken politics in Washington and by the worst 112th Congress that put their own party loyalty and ideologies above the national interests of America and the American voters who elected them to power. The America's tax master, the Internal Revenue Services (IRS) brings in about $4.5 trillion annually from taxing the 160 million American workers and businesses. The yearly expenditures of the American government is about $5.5 trillion annually at the present moment, thereby resulting in $1 trillion annually as deficit that is borrowed from foreign creditors and it is adding yearly to nation's debt and also preventing America from buying down on her huge foreign debt.

There are two practical answers to the reduction of the America's national debt or deficits today:(i) The reduction in all the government spendings by cutting down on most of the government financed and subsidized programs in America and around the world. The programs are defense, foreign missions and aid, foreign military bases, Medicaid, Medicare, Pell Grant, food stamps, unemployment benefits, free public education and federal prison expenditures. (ii) The second practical approach is to increase the government revenue base by increasing the tax rates on the incomes of the 2% richest Americans, capital gains and the big corporations instead of the tax breaks that they have enjoyed for a decade now. 

The biggest problem with these two practical answers to the America's huge foreign debt is the dirty and the broken politics in Washington today that has no room for the politics of compromise and the politics of national interest instead of the politics of party loyalty, politics of special interests and politics of two parallel economic ideologies that will never meet at any point, but have taken over the minds and the hearts of the 112th do-nothing-Congress since the onset of the presidency of Barack Hussein Obama in 2009.