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Nigeria has been in the news lately with the Christmas attempted terrorist attack originating there. So I asked Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth<\/a>, of  Nigeria, who has posted synchronicities here, for his thoughts. I think you’ll find them interesting in that he couches his response in terms of the Chinese calendar.
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“All I can see now is that the young suicide bomber was born in the Year of the Fire Tiger (1986) by the Chinese calendar and we are approaching the year of the Metal Tiger in mid-February. The tiger is the mascot of the Nigerian Army. It’s the fiercest of the cat family.<\/div>\n
“Still on metals, 1941 and 2001 were  the years of the Metal Snake, which occur once every 60 years. The two major attacks on United States soil were:  Pearl Harbor (1941) and the World Trade Center (2001).<\/div>\n
“Interestingly, metal birds were the means of those attacks, airplanes bombing Pearl Harbor and striking the World Trade Center.”<\/div>\n

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 We agree with Augustine, who said, “Beyond terrorism, we should emphasize the similarities between Nigeria and the U.S.”<\/p>\n

To that end, we are posting two more of his trademark synchronicities, which compare U.S. and Nigerian leaders, pointing out the similarities in their backgrounds.<\/p>\n

The first one: Bill Clinton and Olusegun Obasanjo. Both were presidents of their countries, the U.S. and Nigeria respectively. Clinton belonged to the Democratic Party and Obasanjo to the Peoples Democratic Party. They were both born on a Tuesday. They are both Baptist.<\/p>\n

Clinton’s first name, William, begins with W, ends with M. Obasanjo’s first name, Matthew, begins with M, ends with W. Both first names are seven letters long. And, for good measure, both men were involved in sex scandals with women whose names start with M: Monica for Clinton, and Monisola for Obasanjo.<\/p>\n

 Augustine also pairs Mike Akhigbe, a retired vice admiral of the Nigerian navy, and Admiral Mike Mullen, the current chairman of the joint chief of staff of the United States. Right off, we have two Mikes, and looking up Akhigbe, we found he does indeed go by the name Mike.<\/p>\n

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 Both men were born in 1946. Akhigbe served as the chief of the naval staff, Mullen was chief of naval operations. Akhigbe also served as chief of the general staff, a position similar to Mullen’s role as chairman of the joint chiefs. Mullen resigned as chief of naval staff on Mike Akhigbe’s  birthday, Sept. 29, 2007, and  Mullen became chairman of the joint chiefs on Oct. 1, 2007, which is Nigeria’s day of Independence.<\/p>\n

Augustine, who also notes that both men attended Catholic schools, calls the comparison “a classic case of things happening in a meaningful manner.”<\/p>\n

The way I see it, such comparisons show us that in spite of our differences, we are all inter-connected.
Rob<\/p>\n

We ran across a blog this evening by Dr. Stephen Diamond<\/a>, a forensic psychotherapist in L.A. He has a fascinating post on the unconscious psychology of terrorists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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