Rawlings indicts U.S.A, Germany over phone-bugging claims: Read full Statement

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  • Pelicles 12 years ago

    Cold blooded killer, just shut the fuck off.

  • WILLIAM 12 years ago

    The Great ancestors of Africa, the mother of all continents and the youth of Africa must be proud with JJ's ststement. Long live Africa.

  • OSEI TAWIAH 12 years ago

    Look at this Trokosi disappointed European trying to fool the world. Ofui, you think holding on to a country for 20 years is called Freedom. No wonder you are an admirer of Mugabe. Nkwaseafuo dictators.

  • Parker 12 years ago

    Rather dwell in the desert than a contentious woman,consider 20years of dictatorship rule to what we are experiencing in Ghana today, the so called democratic rule,lack of transparency,bullying,corruption,just a little over ...
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  • HARD-TALK, UK 12 years ago

    IMAGINE THERE WAS NO RAWLINGS!

    JEREMIAH JOHN RAWLINGS
    The true son of mama Africa
    You came, you saw and you
    conquered your corrupt enemies.

    He first appeared on the Ghanaian
    political scene on June 4, 1979.
    Then ...
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  • OLD SOLDIER 12 years ago

    Author:...OBAA YAA...

    OOO FATHER FORGIVE HIM FOR HE KNOWS NOT WHAT HE IS DOING.
    A hallmark of any incompetency is an excuse, which by the way is a trademark for Mahama’s Administration an extension Mill’s inability to ...
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  • KWARNING NJ 12 years ago

    you admire him, i despise him.

  • Stanley 12 years ago

    Look who is talking and by the way, who wrote the speech for the fool? A good speech delivered by a true-to-life Don Quixote.

  • OGOGLO QUARTER 12 years ago

    YOU CAN HATE OR LIKE HIM,HE IS WHAT HE IS....NO COMPA...

  • GHFUO, change ur thinking 12 years ago

    SEND JJ TO THE HAGUE

  • KOLA, LONDON PROPER 12 years ago

    I bet Kuffuor the thief can not speak against wrong doing by the west and the USA as JJR has done.

  • prempeh 1. 12 years ago

    Yes, that is surelly true, Kuffour cannot say this words, because he is stooge for the Western

  • Nicholas J Bedzo 12 years ago

    Hello JJ Rawlings the most tallented
    son of Africa,who has his country at heart,let the almihty father protects
    you in all your endevious,that your toils will not be in vain ( Amen ) We
    love you dearly from our hearts.

  • KABI MA ME KA BI 12 years ago

    JJ RAWLLINGS, WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE DONE TO SNOWDEN/ASSANGE IF THEY WERE UNFORTUNATE ENOUGH TO BE GHANAIANS BETWEEN 1979-1992?

  • Repugnant. 12 years ago

    He could have been a fine man but his ego is too unkempt. What does he mean by bipolar/unipolar world? Yet again, who did Rawlings emancipate? beside those good men and women he killed as a fetish to boost his vacous ego! Phe ...
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  • no mercy 12 years ago

    Stupid man,Cold Blooded killer
    May GOD forgive you,19 years in Ghana
    as President

  • Ekuma 12 years ago

    What a fool and unpatriotic and ignorant idiot called PELLICLES .

    Rawlings is brave and bold like Nkrumah. Rawlings is not a sycophant . If we listen to Rawlings and Nkrumah, the West will BOW to Africa in less than 10 yea ...
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  • Shamu 12 years ago

    When shall Ghana and Africa get people like this man. Is very regretful tha foolish Democaratic set up that we brought to ourself turn to be in the hands of corrupt, drug lords, and enemies of Africa. It is time to go back to ...
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  • Parker 12 years ago

    Until then we are heading south at such an alarming rate,what is more demonic than what we are seeing today Putin made similar comments on America and her western allies against Syria. And now their hypocrisy is proven, our ...
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  • AKOS 12 years ago

    MR GBESHIE PLEASE BE CAREFUL. THEY WILL POUR INSULTS ON YOU AND HOUND YOU.

  • Kojo 12 years ago

    Obviously Rawlings has a message that can be summed up in one paragraph. What we see is repetitive hoopla that undermines the power of his observations. He needs a better speech writer!

  • King 12 years ago

    Rawlings should thank his stars that he can still sleep on his bed after killing a lot of people by firing squad with no reason, and now he has the guts to point fingers and make reference to human rights and justice, just sh ...
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  • Stanley 12 years ago

    My friend stop your too-known. There is absolutely nothing wrong about the composition and substance of that speech. When it gets to your turn you can go and write yours and present it the way you want - in one paragraph.

  • mensa 12 years ago

    HE IS TALKING DOWN AT AMERICA AND GLORYFIYING FIDEL CASTRO AND SOUTH AMERICA AND EVERYONE THAT HATE AMERICA
    MR RAWLINGS YOU DO NOT TALK ON BEHALF OF GHANA PEOPLE OR EVEN AFRICA PEOPLE IN GHANA SUPORTS THE USA CONTRIBUTIONS
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  • WILLIAM 12 years ago

    African people helped and continue to help USA to be what you impishly admire! Exhorcise your mind of the colonial mentality.It will do you a lot of good.

  • dawuni 12 years ago

    LONG LIVE RAWLINGS!

  • Ajanie 12 years ago

    The truth was spoken. God bless Papa Rawlings and we love you.Best speech ever.

  • AK47 IS MY FUCKING ADDRESS 12 years ago

    EX PREZ JJ ENJOY MEDIA ATTENTION THAN ANY RETIRED PRESIDENT ON PLANET .

  • ROGUE LAWYER 12 years ago

    Africa could have been a holy continent if her leaders stopped corruption-
    The man the westerns declared him as a dictator is now the preacher of Democracy , freedom of speech, justice and human rights

    .THESE ARE NOTHIN ...
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  • Repugnant. 12 years ago

    Talk cannot be that cheap? This hypocrisy cannot go unchallenged, what did he say when President Obama told it to his face that "the days of Africa's strong and wicked men were over" what was his reaction then? Hiding behind ...
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  • Kwesi 12 years ago

    You sound a bit like Okoampa

  • Repugnant. 12 years ago

    Halitosis is bad breath, necrotic is rotten.

  • Jake 12 years ago

    What is the meaning Okaompa?

  • ROGUE LAWYER 12 years ago

    MAYBE YOU ARE LIVING IN A VILLAGE WHERE THERE IS NO TV; OR INTERNET TO SEE WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE WORLD,
    HIS SPEECH WAS NOT A STRONGMAN ALTITUDE BUT SEEKING EQUAL JUSTICE FROM THE WORLD LEEADERS-
    do you wanted rawlings ...
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  • Sammy 12 years ago

    Am not a fun of Rawlings but these are the words of a true African.

  • OSEI AGYEI SAMUEL 12 years ago

    Great, wonderful, powerful, superb, fantastic speech from Jerry John Rawlings.

  • Kofi of Africa 12 years ago

    RAWLINGS IS A LIVING HYPOCRITE!

    COMPATRIOTS,

    VARIOUSLY, ON FACEBOOK (RECENTLY ON THE WALL OF ONE PROSPER TSIKATA) GHANAWEB, MODERNGHANA AND ELSEWHERE ON THE INTERNET, I HAVE CRITICISED AND FACTUALLY EXPOSED RAWLINGS' O ...
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  • Ghana First 12 years ago

    MR KA NA WU

  • Ebo 12 years ago

    JJ's words on the global forum is supreme. I really admire his courage and respect the effort he makes in contributing to Africa's positive image

  • AKASI MARTHA NZEMA 12 years ago

    "HOLY SPIRIT" GUARD THE CONTINENT OF AFRICA AND AFRICANS. JJ RAWLINGS I LOVE YOU BUT MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

  • Victor A. Young 12 years ago

    Rawlings seems to be making some interesting observations and pronouncement, esp. on the international scene, he however seems lost on the whole gist of America's quest to arrest Edward Snowden, who is a traitor. Rawlings sho ...
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  • Kwaku Ananse 12 years ago

    Who's talking about hypocrisy?? JJ, stop making a mockery of equal rights and justice, you are the poster child of human rights violations.

    Maybe you have dementia, you violated more human rights than any African dictator ...
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  • ABU 12 years ago

    I will embrasse Rawlings the very day he will have the courage to admit to the senseless and fruitless killings he pepertrated on Ghanaians during his dictatorial rule that he is currently condemning what the leaders of today ...
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  • Obiba Kwame 12 years ago

    For a guy who overthrew the democratically elected government of a country, collected all the living leaders of the country and anybody he percieved as a threat to his rule, lined them up on a beach and shot them all im broad ...
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  • KOFI NSIA 12 years ago

    THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JJ RAWLLINGS , HUMAN RIGHTS TOOK EFFECT WHEN HE RETIRED AS PRESIDENT OF GHANA.WHAT HUMAN RIGHTS DID THOSE WHO DISAGREED WITH HIM IN AFRC/PNDC DAYS HAD? JJ,PLEASE TALK ABOUT POVERTY,INEQUALITY,ETC BUT H ...
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  • mensa 12 years ago

    WE REMMBER HOW YOU KILLED PEOPLE LIKE FLYS IN GHANA IN YOUR WAY TO STEAL POWER AND BECOME A LEADER BUT YOU WERE NOTHING BUT A CRIMINAL DICTATOR
    THAT WENT IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF IDI AMIN DADA OF UGANDA

  • Einstein 12 years ago

    You hit the nail right on the head comrade Rawlings.. This is an incredible speech

  • BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!! 12 years ago

    Honouring this political predator nana addo who fully supported Kennedy agyapong to direct the "Akans" to massacred and kill all the Gas and Ewe's, and also to Lynch security personnel who venture to come to their aid, is a b ...
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  • Feliz Dias 12 years ago

    It is a very serious disgrace to have people with colonial minds who will want to pre-empty the glaring facts about the world order that Jerry has spoken about. This is one of the reasons why africa cannot develop. When some ...
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  • Fela 12 years ago

    Tell them! Freedom is the answer.
    America needs to be told.
    Good job honourable JJ

  • Alai 12 years ago

    Rawlings is and would remain one of the greatest revolutionary of our time. He is an African Stateman and his speeches and utterances shake the hypocrites.
    Long live JJ

  • sheriff wisdomgold 12 years ago

    we are watching you and be careful of your words how many people did you killed in ghana and get away with and you are a big fool that you do not know that all phone calls are being bugging we know all what you are doing and ...
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  • Sanku 12 years ago

    I like the way Rawlings has exposed the West's double standards.

    They are truly hypocrites. They oppress their citizens and yet blame Africa leaders.

  • SADIQ BRAIMAH 12 years ago

    CHAIRMAN/PRESIDENT, THIS IS A THOUGHT PROVOKING PRESENTATION. WE THANK THE ALMIGHTY FOR THE LIKES OF YOU. IF OTHERS WOULD SPEAK OUT, WE WOULD HAVE PROGRESSED.IMAGINE THAT THESE THINGSS ARE HAPPENING WHEN THE UNITED STATES PRE ...
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  • kwesi 12 years ago

    pelicles u are big fool what rawlings said what mistake he did and u telling him to shut up try to be honest with the facts not the person speaking

  • Kontor Germany 12 years ago

    JJ should clean his own NOSE.Now he know that the people need freedom to talk about government? What about dwelling his revolution time?

  • kwadwo 12 years ago

    Well-said, Chairman Rawlings. American presidents and their military Generals must be charged with war crimes for their roles for atrocities in Cambodia, Vietnam, Nicaragua Iraq etc.America practices state terrorism. The worl ...
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  • kwadwo 12 years ago

    Well-said, Chairman Rawlings. American presidents and their military Generals must be charged with war crimes for their roles for atrocities in Cambodia, Vietnam, Nicaragua Iraq etc.America practices state terrorism. The worl ...
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  • ezekiel 12 years ago

    This is the kind of brains and men we need to lead this continent

  • Onipaba 12 years ago

    Shut up J.J.leave that to the intellecturals not you semi illeterate drop out self made politician .This topic is too deep for you to poke your nose into.Get lost

  • MARCUS AMPADU 12 years ago

    I find it interesting that Rawlings didn't metion Kwame Nkrumah.
    Unipolar world, bipolar world - all show that the Nonalignment policies of Kwame Nkrumah was the right one. The post-Snowden world reflects that.