A Macro Economic Analysis of the Jubilee Nominees

[Onyango Oloo]

demokrasia-kenya.blogspot.com/2013/04/a-macro-economic-analysis-of-jubilee.html

[nereah]

Apr 27, 2013 9:33:06 GMT 3 Onyango Oloo said:

demokrasia-kenya.blogspot.com/2013/04/a-macro-economic-analysis-of-jubilee.html

thanks big o for deodorizing jukwaa with this brilliant piece. it is entertaining, edifying, informative and refreshing.

well done!

[Onyango Oloo]

I have corrected some major typos, edited the piece seven times (certainly NOT the last time I will be doing that) and generally updated the digital essay.

The upshot of what I am saying is this:

Press Reload/Refresh.

OO

[Onyango Oloo]

Comment from the Demokrasia Kenya Blog:

Ong'wen said...

Comrade. You have hit the bull's eye. Congratulations!

[Onyango Oloo]

Comment from the KPTJ mailing list:

Kwamchetsi Makokha

11:14 AM

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Wow, Oloo. That’s deep!

[furaha]

Apr 27, 2013 16:01:41 GMT 3 Onyango Oloo said:

Comment from the KPTJ mailing list:

Kwamchetsi Makokha

11:14 AM

to kptj-communica.

Wow, Oloo. That’s deep!

And Kwamchetsi is right! It is a very interesting read. Worth our while!
Just one thought, though. Technocrats are not necessarily non-thinkers... They are well-established and respected professionals with proven track-records. However, that does not mean that they are ruthless implementers who only heed instructions from above. Quite a few may actually have learned to loathe politicians, seeing them as hidering rather than promoting progress. Technocrats are not necessarily a-political.


But the scenario you suggest most definitely bears close watching!

[jakaswanga]

I could say more, and I will Oloo, but for today I wan to digress a bit:

You write

The first real economic hit man was back in the early 1950s, Kermit Roosevelt, Jr., the grandson of Teddy, who overthrew the government of Iran, a democratically elected government, Mossadegh’s government who was Time‘s magazine person of the year; and he was so successful at doing this without any bloodshed—well, there was a little bloodshed, but no military intervention, just spending millions of dollars and replaced Mossadegh with the Shah of Iran. At that point, we understood that this idea of economic hit man was an extremely good one. We didn’t have to worry about the threat of war with Russia when we did it this way. The problem with that was that Roosevelt was a C.I.A. agent. He was a government employee. Had he been caught, we would have been in a lot of trouble. It would have been very embarrassing. So, at that point, the decision was made to use organizations like the C.I.A. and the N.S.A. to recruit potential economic hit men like me and then send us to work for private consulting companies, engineering firms, construction companies, so that if we were caught, there would be no connection with the government."

Oloo,
Occasionally I have access to an alternative world library in which people tell their own tales, without journalists interceding to poison the air while saying they are increasing articulation and comprehension.

You know, and perhaps have seen him on TV, Mohamed Ahmadinejad, outgoing President of IR-Iran. He is an engineer by trade. And publicly and privately very attached to the Iranian Nuclear program. And he does not come in fake or PR-hyped when he adresses his people mostly.

You also know that the USA and Israel have a running operation called DECAPITATE, in which they target and assassinate the Nuclear physicists and technicians of Iran, and to date, they have extra-judicially executed about 7 exceedingly brilliant men, two of them I think were Nobel short-listed.

In this video from the World Library, Ahmadinejad at the funeral of yet another top nuclear scholar murdered by the civilised West [--O My dear Njakip! ], rises to speak.

He tells his people that 'the enemy shall ever use all its powers to try to recapture Iran and tie her to slavery'. That the blood of Iranians shall flow at the hands of the enemy, for no other reason that they Iranians want to shape their own future according to their own vision.

'Death has become the friend of our independence. What word can you have for a civilisation that kills the best of your talents in cold blood, just because they research a technology which they themselves, the murderers, already possess?

We have said no to slavery, yes to self-determination. If we continue to say no to slavery and yes to self determination, then I tell you mothers of Iran, sons and daughters of our land, folk of our faith, it is our fate to shed tears mourning our brave slain by the enemy. Powerful enemies spare naught to lay us low.

We stand firm in our dignity, then must we bear the pain of grief, daily. For our enemy does not spare a second, but forever plots for us major grief............'
.

It is a fascinating speech of a leader naked before his people. Telling them the price of freedom.

Western journalists usually qualify them speeches as rambling, ---that is why I wanted another translation and I found this Farsi [speaking] Afghan to do it.

Knowing the regime of sanctions against Iran from the West --total Banking black-out and total oil-port embargos for instance, and listening to Ahmadinejad tell his people the score of their dignity, I obviously come home to Kenya and listen to stories about Uhuruto challenging the West and charting an independent Kenyan path. ---There is a nice one you posted on the Geo-political significance of Uhuruto's win.

What then do I honestly think of Mr. Ruto and Mr. Kenyatta crying in church after victory over the West?

I think we have two children under the protective gaze of Mother Superior. They are allowed their cheek because boys will be boys. But not too much, the iron cage is the iron cage. And independence is beyond the pay-grade our excellencies. Independence is first thought.

Original Oloo himself reveals nicely that Omamo knows nothing at defence, which is WHY she is there. A puppet on a chain. A pin-up glamour girl, like playmate of the year in an American famous calender.

Great reading you Oloo, dymistifying the subtle moves of a power constellation, but I noticed you dropped the baptismal Original!

Koso aluongi Oloo Nyundo?

[Onyango Oloo]

Feedback from KPTJ:

Cyprian O NYAMWAMU

3:03 AM April 28, 2013

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Oloo,

This is good!

[Onyango Oloo]

Text message from a retired European diplomat residing in Nairobi (Saturday, April 27, 2013 18:18:54:

Hi, ur 2day's n also the last piece v gud n "illuminating".Tks n congrats.

[Onyango Oloo]

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[Onyango Oloo]

Tamtam said...

Interesting post as always OO.

I would love to observe the dynamics in Henry Rotich's office. It looks like there will be quite a bit of storming in that department,lol.

I must order Economic Hitman. Thanks for the reference.
11:32

Nairobian said...

Onyango you have really done well on this. In a nutshell, This Uhuruto administration is a committee for selling off Kenya to China and The west and for making more Kenyans poorer... Obama will be happy to do business with these two boys mark you and to get US military bases expanded here to get China out .. You have done very well on this.
2:51 AM

[moja]

Great piece OO. About Matiangi, it might help a lot if his days at Egerton were to draw attention as well. Might have ran away without paying a loan and letting his colleague-guarantors clear the mess at some point at Egerton. Just heard about this.

[mwalimumkuu]

OO,

Even with such brilliance, you could not resit the usual cynicism and snide hu? Good piece though, actually the only one that has not dwelt much on tribes on so far.

[Onyango Oloo]

An esteemed member of Jukwaa has contacted me privately to make the following CORRECTION:

Apr 28, 2013 15:59:58 GMT 3 xxxx said:

Hi OO,

The cabinet nominee for National Treasury, Henry Rotich, is a Ruto's bossom buddy all the way from campus days. Any of their contemporaries at UON will confirm to you that the two were actually inseparabe-Ruto, who was based in Chiromo, would frequently spend nights in Rotich's main campus abode, as was common among students then as now.

While the main thrust of your piece is broadly correct and indeed laudable, I hesitate to believe that Rotich's nomination emanated from a Kenyatta strategem, and not Ruto.

Just a point of note

xxxxxx