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Post by jakaswanga on May 19, 2013 14:07:49 GMT 3
WHAT OPTIONS UHURU'S ADMINISTRATIONINTRODUCTION: THE HEADACHES OF UHURU KENYATTA AS HE CONTEMPLATES THE HISTORICAL LIMITATIONS OF HIS OPTIONS AS A COMPRADOR CHIEFTAIN. We need to spark an Industrial revolution. ---President Uhuru Kenyatta adressing Kenyans in his inaugural speech. But is he in a mental prison, in a historical cage? or, put another way, is a petty bourgeoisie cosciousness plotting a jailbreak outta capitalist undervelopment? or, fwack me yawa, is this the tiding of a looming class suicide? [Uuwi Mboya wuod Ndiege nyaka nene itho piny osebet mudho, to mani Ng'amba riedo koso magi pod illusions?] part 1. ... Koro... A class that is not productive in any way, arrogates itself the power to share out the social surplus. They have hijacked the proceeds of real expended labour, tapping the sweat and toil of those who produce, sucking and drenching themselves in it. Our Mpigs have elevated themselves into an aristocratic-like class whose domination over the fates of the lesser mortals, is a God-given birthright, natural and immutable and eternal. Righteous. It is the scenario for a perfect historical storm, but being African and brotherly, let me make it one in a tea-cup. A storm in the president's tea cup! President Uhuru Kenyatta's cup to be specific. But you are free to think it is a storm in his heart. Or even a thorn in his mind. www.nation.co.ke/News/Uproar-over-MPs-greed-for-money/-/1056/1841530/-/4luw06/-/index.html It is indeed a blatant act of provocation, when, reveling in uspeakable greed and boundless arrogance, the current caucus of parasitical Mpigs are resolved to do away with all bodies that would check their self-aggrandisement. These bodies include the now famous salaries $ remunerations committee, SRC; and the purpose of this 'deregulation', clearly is to give themselves a free run at the public-Kitty, holding the treasury to ransom, ever increasing their perks without any attempt whatsoever to author an elaboration, substantiation, nor justification for the hefty compensations. Their doctrine is simply that of entitlement. Why would a parasite explain its mode of existence? aint it simply is!? and is self-explanatory? koso? But, wait a moment! if I said these actions were bereft of justifications, I had not yet heard from my sister Millie, as quoted below. www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000083100&story_title=Kenya-mps-to-amend-constitution-in-push-for-pay-rise [why we will ammend constitution]. Ah yes, may I debase Clint Eastwood famous quip thus: Financial burdens are like azzholes, everyone got them. But it just aint the taxpayers job to plug the large hole in a Mpig's butt or pocket! -- That was Clint in the Dirty Harry series. With sisters like Millie and brothers like Linturi having taken leave of their senses, I and others at least who frequent political forums like this blog for debate, find themselves challenged to EXPLAIN this sad state of affairs, even if only for our own sanity, because our humanity is also defined as thinking beings. Thinking beings are doomed to seek logical and sensible answers to phenomena, natural or social, therefore it is the curse of thinking Kenyans to grapple with the parasitic genealogy of their Mps, and, indeed, our bureaucratic class at large. And as we grapple with this abhorrent realities, the contours of steps toward improvement may start to doom in our minds, for the search for solutions too, is standard human behaviour. There are every signs our President too, His Excellency Uhuru Muigai, taa ya Kenya, is feeling the heat and looking for a way out. There is a black hole of a deficit in government finances facing him, and rising as the devolution bill too demands its own, and not pea-nuts neither. The crunch is out there. So we have to ask, even if not prompted by coded concepts like sovereign default and fiscal Cliffs, what exactly it is our Mpigs do? what value in the productive process they add? what value addition to the national surplus they accrue? what on earth they do that can make them lay claim to what they lay claim to: a criminally massive portion. Is there a cheaper way of having a better result than this infamy we witness daily? Must relief only come from the time-tested gory solutions? or are there lighter alternatives? Suspecting we have to enter a regime of austerity one way or another, and it is ordinary Wanjiku who shall bear the full wrath of the pain as she is taxed to the bone directly or indirectly, I have to ask the question: DO WE NEED THIS 11th PARLIAMENT AT THIS PRICE? [Same can be asked of the IEBC of the famous defect BVR kits! now they demand 400M for Makueni by-election]There is devolution in the offing, Big Government is going local, who needs a noisy circus of parasites loafing in far-off Nairobi? What is their job description? their performance evaluation?What is a Kenyan MPig really worth anyway? What is the worth of political scumbags making law to rob our people and confine our country to underdevelopment and backwardness forever? Is a Kenyan MPig really worth more than a pig at Burma meat market? ---[ Please visit your local public maternity hospital, and work up enough nerves to peep into the assembly-bay where the still-born babies are collected awaiting disposal. Visit the wards if their mothers suvived and peep, too, into the insane pain in their robbed hearts, the inconsolable grief that now only God can help bear. Then think: if it is all preventable 50 years after independence, Mr President of the republic, could them that preside over such PREVENTABLE mass foetal murder, be worth more than pigs? It is the ease with which I have seen medical personnel dispose of dead infants that leads me to think Mpgis can be disposed of with equal ease. I mean, it is not like any national poet in Kenya has written a gut-wrenching ode to bewail the ongoing infanticide called child mortality rates! ---so don't fwack with me!] Just like nobody finds it important enough to spare a thought at the massive death of Kenyan infants, so too will I not protest if a herd of pigs were condemned to an abbatoir by some purposeful butcher who lost his temper at their distasteful manners. But yes... in defence... of our holy representatives... --They make laws under a democratic mandate of universal suffrage they say? they were popularly elected they say, and thus their will has become supreme like that of the almighty? They say that they embody the aspirations of the people they represent? Lo! they are a pedigree of holy bloods, of hides immune to the stab of the dagger, of ears immune to all sense. They are untouchables! I suppose that is a good way of looking at it, divinity, but I have a model of social conflict where dynamic factors embeded in the reality of a specific society, move to render irrelevant, those institutions that stagnate, that refuse to reform nor adapt, and become obsolete. They then become rotten dead wood, still standing only to wait for some small wind to drop them off. For instance: the elephant cabinet of the GCG under Raila and Kibaki never worked as a cabinet. It was too large. Kibaki's kitchen cabinet would cut the meat, cook it and serve it, and the rest, especially the Agwambo crowd, would whine about the mini-kipandes served to them. The GCG was nothing but a maffia parley, an arrangement of criminal loot, with the security heads as capos. And the Agwambo side too, was a one man show anyway. They say the cabinet had to be that large to guarantee peace, all inclusive then. But it was just a feeding frenzy. An empty show. Time and again, in that vacuum, the security services and the Army spread their wings. They became nearly autonomous, in any case paramount in looting the security and defence budget, so that there was not a single chopper available to scan the area ahead of the hapless 40+ recruits who were sacrificed in the Baragoi ambush. Politically we got a glimpse of SECURITY power when we saw Gichangi and Muhoro [then of CID] mockingly laugh and repeatedly ignore parliament: at one occasion it was a summon about a forged British letter I think. It was the contempt of impunity yes, but also the statement of fact. The 10th parliament was a useless joke. A contemptible charlatan. And not everybody was subscribed to the empty rituals of going through the motions, pretending otherwise. The 10th parliament must have rotted away, done something to reduce them to that level of impotence and contempt. Indeed everybody understood those parliamentary committees were irrelevant to the men at arms. That the Mpigs sat on them merely for the eating allowance. Ridiculous beasts! And so it is with the 11th parliament. A twin to the tenth. They will stop at nothing to have their way with public money. They will unite cross-house to boycott proceedings, derailing august activities and paralysing the political process. They will go on sabotage mode: their own version of ngo-srow or Industrial action I suppose. Yes, parliamentarians have become a total disgrace, and the honour of the august house need must be reclaimed. Yes, the vilest form of lowly creatures run amok in the center of the home wreaking pestilence. It is a very unseemly sight. And the ball is in the PORK's court. Before it comes back to the public for a darker charge. Seing the police battered down an innocent occupy protest. But yes we can, as the case may be, in terms of historical options, also resolve to continue the facade of a robust parliamentary system boasting two houses like the USA, and also paying the bills akin to the USA, but, Alas, for the difference we will be getting totally NO SERVICE, and making no historical progress. In otherwords, an institutionalised game of FRAUD would be our lot. The IEBC has made their fraudulent killing, now it is the turn of the Mpigs. ---If they can get past our Horatio at the House! Aaah, standing at bay watching our future sail away toward the past, the 2nd liberation defrauded. Dreams and ideals and national aspirations frozen. Urban slums and countrysides teeming with decaying youth. Futures lost. Plantations of anger. But hope never dies, and ... Aah --mmmm, here is a fresh, youngish president of the modernish world wading into the the social quagmire and political impasse. Digitally up to his neck in a 50-year deep crisis of smashed nationalist dreams and independence ideals, he talks of vision 2030; talks of igniting industrialisation, talks of service delivery, talks of ushering the nation into global competition ---a cut throat race, yet his engine of entry is some obsolete mechanical museum piece that never started in the last half a century. And his side-kicks in the act is a house of legislature that specialises in sabotage of the national dream. So something has to give, the dream deferred or the house tamed. Horatio at the bridge. O hero of our land! House untamed, Uhuru Kenyatta is the latest insect crawling around the ruins, the ruins of nationalist aspirations. Mr. Kenyatta must mutate, or suffer the same fate as the rest of his predecessors. Footnotes. Promises that faded faster than one can utter the word dream. NOT YET UHURU so to speak! Just plain Muigai so to say! NB: For Kenya to be an athletics super-power, we know how much work, apart from talent, our athletes have put into those Olympic and Commonwealth gold medals. Scientific methods of training and diets to boot. No luck, no manna from heaven. If one is serious about beating the competition, there is the model then. Kenyan proven homegrown! I do not believe in wasting money. I do not believe in tolerating inefficient organisations bent on bankrupting stake-holders. I believe in lean and mean outfits that get a job done. I believe for the nothing this parliament gets done, it should cost less, do more with less, write performance contracts. Or be read the riot act. ---- Kimaiyo whose force let her officers killed in duty be feasted upon by wild-animals in Baragoi is just a clueless thug clobbering the wrong crowd at the CBD, at the entry to the parliament buildings! At best a swine protecting fellow swines! Those are the stuffs of my belief. My thinking is different. I think this is a golden opportunity to get rid of the beasts. Public support for their elimination is peak. I think, Mr. Kenyatta Sir, striking when the iron is hot is not a bad idea in politics. Leadership is making the toughest calls of all. And it is time thy nerves, O son of Jommo, held steady! otherwise a name like Independence the light of Kenya is a boot too big for your excellency! Yeah, tomorrow would be too late, Uhuru. Lady Justice in the form of a rounded off Bensouda could be picking your bones in far off shores! And and as you bandy tales with neighbour Charles Taylor, the vile Mpigs still run amok at home! Bethink thee, son of Jomo. Bethink thee, cries the beloved land of our ancestors, the land that gave your father the good fortunes you have inherited. But the history of a land does not plead with men. So it is Bethink thee Mr. President, or fwack off, clown. 50 years of failed rule, breeds a fearsome impatience. Your father, architected this mess. Clean it. Or quit.
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Post by jakaswanga on May 25, 2013 15:16:17 GMT 3
WHAT OPTIONS UHURU'S ADMINISTRATIONINTRODUCTION: THE HEADACHES OF UHURU KENYATTA AS HE CONTEMPLATES THE HISTORICAL LIMITATIONS OF HIS OPTIONS AS A COMPRADOR CHIEFTAIN. We need to spark an Industrial revolution. ---President Uhuru Kenyatta adressing Kenyans in his inaugural speech. But is he in a mental prison, in a historical cage? or, put another way, is a petty bourgeoisie cosciousness plotting a jailbreak outta capitalist undervelopment? or, fwack me yawa, is this the tiding of a looming class suicide? [Uuwi Mboya wuod Ndiege nyaka nene itho piny osebet mudho, to mani Ng'amba riedo koso magi pod illusions?] part 1. ... Koro... A class that is not productive in any way, arrogates itself the power to share out the social surplus. They have hijacked the proceeds of real expended labour, tapping the sweat and toil of those who produce, sucking and drenching themselves in it. Our Mpigs have elevated themselves into an aristocratic-like class whose domination over the fates of the lesser mortals, is a God-given birthright, natural and immutable and eternal. Righteous. We will re-visit Onyango Oloo Original in his prophetic incantation within the dini ya Amilcar Cabral: The comprador or petit bourgeoisie have a defined fate: BETRAY THE PEOPLE OR COMMIT CLASS SUICIDE TO SERVE THEM. ' ---[En akagna mar yiero wang'yo, to yore ariyo nyaka nene osetamo gande otoyo luwo nyadirat. Momiyo en digini mar thirno e tend mudho, kata permanent crisis of leadership!]In classical terms then, this [COMPRADOR]is the auxiliary class, an intermidiary instrument necessary for the agenda of imperialism to continue in the satelite economies. They are wedged between the dictates of exploitation demanded by imperial capital investment, and the (freedom and justice pregnant) aspirations of the native working /\ productive class, which is subjugated under this extractive regime. Under electoral, should we say populist politics then, this ancillary class must pander to the two masters, namely [1]the true interests of their people which they must betray (or commit class suicide to serve, historically a very far-off shot); and [2] the program of imperial capital which they must obey and effect (or be replaced by others more reliable and malleable.) Caught in this historical fix, the local petit bourgeoisie ruler ----let us call them Raila, Kibaki, M7, Kagame, and in our present case Uhuru Kenyatta---- will adopt a public posture of anti-imperialism while, in office, do exactly the bidding of imperialism in policy. On its part, Imperialism understands the political wit of this rhetorical posturing, and accepts it as a necessary evil. It is a political trick of the local elite to hoodwink their masses. To lull them to sleep with rhetoric. [Oyieyo chami to kudhoi]. Indeed it was a British PR-Buro that coached Mr. Kenyatta on how to exploit the ICC indictment to rally against the West, stoking the flames of Afro-nationalism. The result of this stagnant politics, where cynically too, ethnicity is politically radicalised to solidify a support base, is a perpetuation of the crisis which is characteristic of a marginalised economy under imperial domination, or a semi-colonial economy under the straight-jacket of foreign exploitation. I state this is the current state and fate of Afrika. Being laid to waste by scavengers from abroad with the collusion of a local servant class.The visible impoverishment of populations in Africa and the marginalsation of her national economies globally, despite statistics of monumental growth, tell the tale of incongruous economic policies, yeah, tell the tale of confinement to barter trade and the export of raw commodities, whose values shall be added, if not multiplied elsewhere for re-export to, yes, poor Afrika. ---Afrika: Her people malnourished, while millions of hectares of her prime agricultural land, having been violently cleared of indigenous people, is leased by her political comprador class to foreign companies to grow food too expensive for the destitute working class to buy. #I should link a study of the TANA DELTA LAND LEASES HERE. A trip through the slums of Africa -- be you in Cairo, Jo'burg, Nairobi, Lusaka, Kinshasha, Lagos or Banqui, will give you a very clear idea of the economic state of the majority of the people. World bank reports of economic miracles, then look like the blurb of a doctor injecting a death dose, but calming the patient with kindly words: don't worry be happy. www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/24/africa-billion-population-un-reportAnd these slums, teeming with lost lives of the young, not to mention their rural lumpem counterparts, can only be policed by a SHOOT TO KILL police order. Essentially what our KDF does with terrorists. That is a contradiction that can not be resolved within the order that produced it without making a mockery of her 'hygiëne protocols' [like Miranda rights]. This vicious confrontation between the comprador and her dispossesed mass that has taken to [violent] crime as subsistence, was recently revealed in clear policy, when the representative of the digital epoch and pan-Africanist campaigner, VP elect William Ruto, issued a shoot to kill order as a rule of engagement between the security forces and the suspected criminals. Shoot on sight! is a combat zone order. It does not get more ruthless than that in peace time, does it?. And so it is all over the continent. No time for arrests, the suspension of civil rights of a certain category of the population. You could quote ex-President Dubya of the greatest democracy on earth and say there used to be a poster out there in the West: 'enemy combatants!' Wanted Dead! Fuack Miranda Rights! ----Continued......
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Post by jakaswanga on Jun 9, 2013 12:02:31 GMT 3
The following intriguing import by the trouble-shooter from Buffalo is not what I could have meant, but Mutua's uncanny bluntness ties in neatly with my misgivings about the 'battle-stations deployment' of the troops at hand. In other words the combat formation, given the mission, smells of a waterloo in the making. The calibers are right and excellent quality, but inserted into the wrong guns, it is all blowback, or, as Mutua asserts, boomerang down the line! A high-performance dynamic can be seen in the body skeleton. A full throttled Ferrari revving out of the garage, has the ring of a road monster/master your ear will catch. The power cough of its exhaust a warning! watch me hit the road! and the speed is 'WARP'! Seat belts please! (Industrialisation here Kenya comes!) The article by Makau Mutua is so extraordinary that I copy paste in full. Hmmmm I think some have refered to her here on Jukwaa as a PIN-UP girl at the DOD walls! The play butt of the year for our boys in uniform, ever starved in that department. If I were a Jaluos worth his pride, I would think Omamo's appointment a bigger tribal humiliation than Raila's VIP lounge eviction! Omamo 'Recho', former ambassador to France, consumate diplomat with a world understanding and accent to match, is our C ondoleezza Rice or Marlene Albright. So, either secretary for foreign affairs, or permanent secretary in that department, or ambassador to the UN or USA. Any other post in cabinet is bull-sh!t and Nyanza knows it! ---This is also the official verdict of my chang'aa club! Yes, wrong deployment of troops at the battlefront. Uhuruto aren't grown up to running Kenya yet. And their 'hoodwinking' games are so childish, even a retarded kid sees them through. But it is still lotsa fun and we can lotsa laugh! HAHAHAHA! One more 1904 RUSE! The Masai were always easy to hoodwink with a piece of paper to make them feel important! Impotent chief Lenana signing away all his lands in return for a christian baptism!The DDD in action! I invest all my hopes on Dr. Rotich. Fellow Havardman Obama bailed out Wall-Street and got the economy talking again. Our own Havardman can sure be the only guy, Horatio at the bridge, to keep the industrialisation agenda on course. Uhuruto can then continue making their childish runs at decisions! and amusing themselves kicking Raila's balls around the airport! While Kenya moves on! Rotich you must definitely talk back to the bosses on finance, and desist from being Makau's cast of 'HODGEPODGE OF MISPLACED PROFESSIONAL AND BUREAUCRATIC RETREAD! (That is the day you will be sacked of course!)
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 19, 2013 18:39:52 GMT 3
This is an important speech by President Kenyatta. It is a redux in the continental sense, that is a sequel which is a repeat. In his speech to the joint house soon after his inauguration, he touched at length on this subject of Industrialisation. This is the next big evocation of the subject: the INDUSTRIALISATION VISION OF HIS REGIME. --kenya's economic take-off! This is a national dream articulated. As every generation in power has done since independence in the early 60s! A suspended dream hanging out there, waiting for a generation of hardier breed to bring it to fruition! Enter Kenyatta II! I plan to listen to it carefully in the characteristic fashion ---reading it for signs of a genuine pregnancy, or once more, as only has been too often in Africa, a hoax of what would never even be a miscarriage, since there was no viable seeds mating in the first place! Industrialisation without a total Agrarian reform? that already is a sky-high hurdle. But did Onyango Oloo insist on slack being cut Muigai's way?
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Post by b6k on Sept 20, 2013 10:03:42 GMT 3
This is an important speech by President Kenyatta. It is a redux in the continental sense, that is a sequel which is a repeat. In his speech to the joint house soon after his inauguration, he touched at length on this subject of Industrialisation. This is the next big evocation of the subject: the INDUSTRIALISATION VISION OF HIS REGIME. --kenya's economic take-off! This is a national dream articulated. As every generation in power has done since independence in the early 60s! A suspended dream hanging out there, waiting for a generation of hardier breed to bring it to fruition! Enter Kenyatta II! I plan to listen to it carefully in the characteristic fashion ---reading it for signs of a genuine pregnancy, or once more, as only has been too often in Africa, a hoax of what would never even be a miscarriage, since there was no viable seeds mating in the first place! Industrialisation without a total Agrarian reform? that already is a sky-high hurdle. But did Onyango Oloo insist on slack being cut Muigai's way? Jakaswanga, I agree with OO that you probably should cut Kamwana some slack. As much as some have pooh poohed his policy of looking to the East, there really is nothing wrong with it in my view. If north-south partnerships ain't working, maybe it's high time we tried to have a lot more south-south type deals (& we aren't just talking the Chinese, we can trade with Brazil, India, Malaysia as well as increase our feelers into Africa in general as we saw with the recent visit by Jonathan Goodluck). The only thing I can fault him for in this speech was his veiled attack at "unscrupulous" businessmen who are making a profit out of the new VAT tax regime whilst forgetting that his own brother, Muhoho, was at the forefront of price hikes in milk (forget the brand on the packets of milk you buy; Brookside Dairy has a near monopoly in the industry having bought up most of the competition in country) the minute VAT kicked in! Anyway, if you want verifiable (read western) proof that UK is on the right track even as he looks east, listen to the pragmatism of Jendayi Frazer in this clip: It's all about the Benjamins & geo-strategic importance of KE & if the US is still smarting because kasini didn't win & bogeyman Uhuru took over, well the Chinese & Indians will step in to fill the void... Remember there was a time we were musing about KE becoming a financial hub for EA in some other thread? Well it may come to pass if we get the nod from China to become the first clearing house for the Chinese Yuan outside of Asia. Singapore & Hong Kong are already clearing houses for that currency. www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/18/africa-investment-idUSL5N0H92C920130918
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Post by mank on Sept 23, 2013 17:18:48 GMT 3
This is an important speech by President Kenyatta. It is a redux in the continental sense, that is a sequel which is a repeat. In his speech to the joint house soon after his inauguration, he touched at length on this subject of Industrialisation. This is the next big evocation of the subject: the INDUSTRIALISATION VISION OF HIS REGIME. --kenya's economic take-off! This is a national dream articulated. As every generation in power has done since independence in the early 60s! A suspended dream hanging out there, waiting for a generation of hardier breed to bring it to fruition! Enter Kenyatta II! I plan to listen to it carefully in the characteristic fashion ---reading it for signs of a genuine pregnancy, or once more, as only has been too often in Africa, a hoax of what would never even be a miscarriage, since there was no viable seeds mating in the first place! Industrialisation without a total Agrarian reform? that already is a sky-high hurdle. But did Onyango Oloo insist on slack being cut Muigai's way? Amigo, You did not reveal to me what you knew, when you said on the other thread that the production process is the greater consideration than either the loot by thempigs or overcrowding of public workers. You just let me play the old vinyl disc in which our production process is static and what we save is always limited by how much we eat, given typical weather conditions! There is something tectonic happening here. I never heard Moi or Kibaki (and this is an economist) give a credible broad vision, or a realistic working model within which the government's decisions were being made. In Moi's government especially, it was uncoordinated, directionless decision making from morning to evening. The Central Bank had its plans over there, and Moi was making his decisions on the road. Ocampo would probably agree, that was one situation of "no common plan" where one is expected. Ready for Take Off is quite fitting a heading. And reading the faces of those in the audience, I see that they too believe. We can dream too!
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 23, 2013 19:40:40 GMT 3
This is an important speech by President Kenyatta. It is a redux in the continental sense, that is a sequel which is a repeat. In his speech to the joint house soon after his inauguration, he touched at length on this subject of Industrialisation. This is the next big evocation of the subject: the INDUSTRIALISATION VISION OF HIS REGIME. --kenya's economic take-off! This is a national dream articulated. As every generation in power has done since independence in the early 60s! A suspended dream hanging out there, waiting for a generation of hardier breed to bring it to fruition! Enter Kenyatta II! I plan to listen to it carefully in the characteristic fashion ---reading it for signs of a genuine pregnancy, or once more, as only has been too often in Africa, a hoax of what would never even be a miscarriage, since there was no viable seeds mating in the first place! Industrialisation without a total Agrarian reform? that already is a sky-high hurdle. But did Onyango Oloo insist on slack being cut Muigai's way? Amigo, You did not reveal to me what you knew, when you said on the other thread that the production process is the greater consideration than either the loot by thempigs or overcrowding of public workers. You just let me play the old vinyl disc in which our production process is static and what we save is always limited by how much we eat, given typical weather conditions! There is something tectonic happening here. I never heard Moi or Kibaki (and this is an economist) give a credible broad vision, or a realistic working model within which the government's decisions were being made. In Moi's government especially, it was uncoordinated, directionless decision making from morning to evening. The Central Bank had its plans over there, and Moi was making his decisions on the road. Ocampo would probably agree, that was one situation of "no common plan" where one is expected. Ready for Take Off is quite fitting a heading. And reading the faces of those in the audience, I see that they too believe. We can dream too! HAAHAAHAAAHAA AAAAHAAAAAHAAAA! MANK! ---that is the opposite of the patented Shebbesh ringtone when K idero calls, or gropes her with harsh hands! [the quotes below are from the Nairobi budget thread. You will soon see why I have transferred them to the INDUSTRIALISATION TAKE-OFF DEBATE!] You know what amigo! You have cracked it! ---Listen to yourself: That Mank, is what Hjalmar Schacht put in practice to help turn German depression around in 3 years! How can a country's roads, buildings, everything be dilapidated, [absent in the case of Kenya] while the unemployment rate is 60% of the most healthy, and able-bodied section of the population, --ie youth [defined as between 18-33yrs!] Have an engineer designing a road, a house, an airport, a rail station, easy-to build houses like Jerusalem double-deckers in Nairobi near Jericho; set a scientific/technical standard to be met strictly [Quality gauge/control] and set the IDLE millions (THE GONYA-GONYA GENERATION) to work --- crushing kokoto, ferrying kokoto by any means local, digging irrigation pits and trenches; hunting wild-beasts that migrate in their millions in the East African savannah for dietary supplements to labour in camps; draining swamps for rice plantations; excavating dams AND reservoirs! AND STUDYING! The list of what is to be done being endless! You know Germans when they have a go at it! Insane work ethic and technical super standards ---or death! [King H ammurabi: building crashes and kills people? mass murder charge on supervising engineer, or whoever the guy is who should have detected architectural design flaws, structural mistakes, or workers misreading of calculations [gauge] specifications.That is why in that other thread I want Hjalmar Schacht fished out of oblivion and applied to Afrika, en masse! MANK WROTE: Absolutely Mank! In fact, given the phase where infrastructural need is limitless [ eg: calculate the manual intensive labour need in a Super Highway from Magadi to Lokichogio, Namanga to Mandera, or even 10 million 3 bedroomed permanent housing units in 5 years!] NB: Studying a bit of human creativity unleashed negatively in Rwanda, I detected that 1-week crash courses in murder had nearly resulted in the total elimination of 1 Million people in one month! Boys became evil geniuses in destruction! Now, TURN that negative energy around in a 2-week crash-course in CONSTRUCTION, like building technology -- shaping blocks, laying blocks/bricks, koroga-koroga mixing, elementary carpentry, art and crafty finishing off design [construction beautification eg 'key-ing' off brick or stone constructions!]---- and unleash it for the benefit of your country! Then in two years utakuta your country has gone places! like TAKE-OFF! MANK WROTE: There you have closed the sale Amigo -----aaaaa haaaa haaaa! the argument. What remains is putting it to practice. You have written Rotich his solution, and handed Ouru Kenyatta his methodology to legend as the true nation builder! Failure is his fate to decide! CASE CLOSED! BEST OPTION DEFINED! NB: For us historians, an economic crisis is: when a country consistently fails to use its greatest resource, and worse, when that society needs it most. Human creativity in labour, skilled or not! Explain the decline of empires? ----the Kings did not recognise the potent nature of labour organised at work! It was the theoretical recognition of labour as the limitless creator of wealth, that marked the modern bourgeoisie as a most revolutionary class in human history. Then they put it to practice and woke up the world.A mass programme of COMPULSORY education, public universities, research institutes, scientific technical institutes! training colleges! [Old royalties and elites had thought education was THE PRIVELLEGE OF A FEW! ---Like now in Kenya, the school fees is so stiff only the PRIVELLGED FEW get the best education! ---That is an old dead world! stagnant and malignant!] lABOUR! once you have it, trained and performing at its optimal best, then natural resources are not richness. NB: So you see why I like to slap the son of Jomo and pinch the ears of fin-sec Rotich? From their use/disbursement of the social surplus, I can detect they are old world, stagnant and malignant! ---that public wage bill they are footing!] Their budget for education in Kenya is bullsh!t. It means their minds are still not awake to Kenya's greatest resource: brainpower! [skilled $ unskilled labour]. And, worst, may be bribed or just desperate for loans, they are ready to [allow] import 80,000 Chinese wheelbarrow pushers to build the Chinese funded Railway, while, as you say,But Jubilee and Cord and their Mpigs? they would rather cut deals in [Turkana] Oil, Coast rare metals, Kambaland coal deposits, land and other such useless natural things. Visit the Samsung's R$D Campus in South Korea ---Far bigger than Microsoft's campus in her heydays in Seattle, Washington--- to have an idea of a leadership that worships trained labour more than an Ayatollah worships his Allah! That is the kind of fellas I want running the ministry of Education in Kenya. Then you will catch me bowing in respect to our minister when he comes to my school! Kaimenyi? I wouldn't even bother to glance at the dog professor! AAAAAh, amigo! you sure made my day! My respect for post-world war 2 econometrists is refound! and rekindled! ---thanx!
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Post by mank on Sept 24, 2013 3:56:21 GMT 3
Aaaaiyah yahaiyaa....amigo!
I am glad to know that the theoretical "Unemployment Benefits in Exchange for Public Service" model that has developed from our discussion is not all theoretical after all, rather a version of it has been put into use by none other than Hjalmar Schacht; the fellow with whose deeds you are so proud! Now how do give Kenya the Schacht vision?
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 24, 2013 19:20:02 GMT 3
Aaaaiyah yahaiyaa....amigo! I am glad to know that the theoretical "Unemployment Benefits in Exchange for Public Service" model that has developed from our discussion is not all theoretical after all, rather a version of it has been put into use by none other than Hjalmar Schacht; the fellow with whose deeds you are so proud! Now how do give Kenya the Schacht vision? Emmm, Mank, the guy is a bit controversial in some respects. Like ambassador Muthaura, he was acquitted at the ICC of then! But yes, if you mean his ECONOMIC DEEDS as minister of economic policy and planning yes! [Imagine there was a time when the minister of economic planning/policy was historically more key than that of finance, who was merely the state accountant!]
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Post by mank on Sept 25, 2013 0:20:33 GMT 3
Aaaaiyah yahaiyaa....amigo! I am glad to know that the theoretical "Unemployment Benefits in Exchange for Public Service" model that has developed from our discussion is not all theoretical after all, rather a version of it has been put into use by none other than Hjalmar Schacht; the fellow with whose deeds you are so proud! Now how do give Kenya the Schacht vision? Emmm, Mank, the guy is a bit controversial in some respects. Like ambassador Muthaura, he was acquitted at the ICC of then! But yes, if you mean his ECONOMIC DEEDS as minister of economic policy and planning yes! [Imagine there was a time when the minister of economic planning/policy was historically more key than that of finance, who was merely the state accountant!] oh, yeah ... I mean "economic deeds." No way his Nazi deeds, whatever those were.
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Post by jakaswanga on Oct 5, 2013 11:37:14 GMT 3
What a mess this Westgate Mall siege, Uhuru Kenyatta,My thinking, Mr. President, is that however good in person and well-intentioned you may be, however jovial, carefree, happy go lucky you may be, or dedicated and fiercely loyal to the nation and working round the clock to champion her aspirations, all will be to naught when you assemble an incompetent team to help you out. I believe I must have found occasion on August Jukwaa, to stop by and ponder this particular chasm in your thinking, this blackhole where all your good intentions do disappear into. ---Think of your pledge to curtail the public wage bill for instance ---Think of your rush to the coast to distribute faulty title-deeds ---Think of the controversies around the tendering and implementation of the lap-top for primary schools. [Rural Eletrification a pre-condition? would be a good question! Or option solar-driven laptops for Turkana classes which are conducted under acacias] As a private businessman and part of the board controlling the Kenyatta fortune, you always hire the best. For sure if you hired Ole Lenku in the Kenyatta empire, it would probably be as a bar-tender in one of your subsidiary-owned hotels. In your troubles with the ICC, again the private Uhuru went for top of the range Qcs from London, and bothers not with the ilks of his cousin Githu Muigai, the AG. Oh No, Githu Muigai professorials at law are only good enough to hoodwink Wanjiku. Further you wouldn't neither use nor employ him privately. So, privately, you have proven to have an eye for quality, exceptional quality. But as soon as you enter into public office, you develop a total contempt for Wanjiku and Kenya. You hire scum, dregs and clueless laymen, and preside over tens of billions computer errors at the treasury. You then run a terrifyingly incompetent racket in public office, leading to a logical conclusion that public office is merely subterfuge for you, a front perhaps to skim off more public money, there to further upgrade the already public -money-based Kenyatta fortune. A KLEPTOCRATIC CONSTRUCT. This split personality, this schizophrenia, now magnified by the devil's alliance with Ruto, is proving to be a blackhole in which your rule is being sucked into, PREMATURELY. You are bogged down in more than beginners' blues. Take a look at Mallgate, or the Westgate debacle. After State House had decreed it was to be a police-led operation, the army under Karangi went into an over-my-dead-body pose, and a stand off developed which extended the siege to more than 60? hours. Whole elite divisions numbering 4,000 in total against 5 terrorists for 3 days? Sir, that makes the 5 terrorists supermen. 2 had been killed the first day, so remaining three to occupy our commando elites for 3 days . There is something comical about that. But it is simple on a second take. The police wouldn't obey the army, and the army wouldn't obey the police. A paralysing stand-off ensued. ---Commander in Chief? irrelevant.So now the big story is the looting KDF at the Westgate Mall? Has anybody read the TJRC report? Has the KDF ever conducted an operation where they did not loot? and rape? and entertain themselves of freebies from the next shop, yAWA? To me the big news is they did not do any raping at that mall. Hongera KDF, but may be there was no time with those 5 Shabaab guys firing like mad three days nonstop! The other day the KDF were rampaging through Garissa town after three of their own were gunned down. Details of that 'rampaging' are a horror that has not received equivalent outrage as the Westgate looting has. But of course these others in the far-off wild frontiers in the North-East were Kenyans of a lesser order, primitive Nomadic hunter gatherers of no international clout. Probably terrorist sympathisers TOO! We are not one with them! We can safely ignore them, shiftas ! www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-20401136here is the burning of the Central Mall in Garissa. Notice the similarity with Westgate? Standard KDF procedure? Smoke rising over Garissa AND THE SAME METHOD IN WESTGATE. Aftermath of the Garissa Mall arson by the KDF. And here is Westgate Well, this business of we are one, and great concerns, a reported fuming General Karangi, irate at KDF's good name ruined by allegations of looting at the Westgate Mall and ordering an intensive inquiry, they do stretch the limit of incredulity for those with memories about their country. First, read the TJRC report sir, even in the edited version. You will be surprised how often we have been here before! MEANWHILE: MUTAHI NGUNYI SAID THIS IS THE MOMENT FOR THE GREAT PURGE? ---remember together with Ahmednassir he extolled you to deal decisively with Raila some months ago, and ---events O events DEAR BOY! there you are pictured in a we are one song, walking the red carpet and holding hands with who? the man you should ruthlessly have dealt with! Lucky you did not heed Nassir, No? Well, I am a sceptic as far as this goading by Mutahi Ngunyi is concerned, this would be firm hand of Uhuru at the sword, purging like a raging Atilla on the Run.When one reads Africa confidential saying: an increasingly politicised and ethnicised National Intelligence service has reduced the effectiveness of intel gathering, that is code for: the Gikuyu-led and dominated NIS helped rig and scatter the ICC witnesses! Well, me thinks that makes the president v ery indebted to certain key men. And not just because they may know where the bodies are buried, just when the ICC may be looking for them. In such cases, gratitude would serve you best, though serve Kenya worst. Therefore to turn around so quickly and liquidate those who brought you to power and are insulating you from many ills, risking the future of the country at it, would be an adolescent mistake. And to ruthlessly purge an army at war even worse.For 1: It means the officer core that has served in Somalia must take over at the DoD. And the rusted and aged office marshals and clerks of the Kibaki regime move over. Rusted and aged but dependable on a parochial agenda which is your regime's mandate, sir. A tour of duty officer core is not the same as paper generals and their lieutenant ADCs who are veteran bureaucratic warriors protecting vested interests like the massive tender scams of the military, --secret and lucrative and a closed market. These Kibaki-Moi veterans are men of ranked loyalties to embedded networks of super fortunes, who are the power behind your throne. They insisted on the Uhuru presidency. Even Mudavadi, Mutahi Ngunyi's ealier fad, they could not trust. A hurried shake-up infusing new blood from the field poisoned with all-Kenya patriotism after the camaraderie of blood-toil in lawless Somalia and its terrorist dens, would have to disturb the existent equilibrium. It would be good for the country, but bad for you! For me, it is the economy stupid. Once you let the Mpigs run riot at the treasury, looting Wanjiku like nobody's business and further making the PUBLIC WAGE BILL a run-away, I have no faith in your ability to be tough on anything worthwhile for the country. I will see if I can do a deal with the new PM Joseph Kinyua. See if he considers the economy a greater priority than the war on terror. War on terror? George Dubya bankrupted his country fighting it, and his successor Obama had to arrange the biggest BAIL-OUT in that nation's history to kick-start the economy. Running the printing press like insane. And still he is in the red, and Washington in gridlock. The economy stupid, that is the thing that gives me dysentry and keeps me awake sweating in dread fear. Terrorists? aah, fairy tales. Mere police work. Competent police if you will!
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Post by jakaswanga on Nov 24, 2013 1:14:59 GMT 3
At this thread jukwaa.proboards.com/thread/8795/keter-outburst-tna-pact-unravelingb6k threw the debate wide off course! Jakaswanga, please don't fall under the general fallacy that Uhuru is motivated to act only on things ICC. If you take a look at the dairy industry for example you will find that he is an extremely driven man, albeit with a little help from his younger brother, Muhoho. Over the last few months, Brookside Dairy has purchased (controlling) shares in almost all large private milk packaging companies in the nation. Brookside is in effect creating a monopsony (a market where there is only one buyer) in the market. This does not bode well for Kenya's dairy farmers. Let them sell to KCC you say. Well, being el presidente, don't you think Uhuru can pull some strings behind the scenes to make sure that the para-statal toes the line? Excerpt 1: "School milk program is set to be revamped to Sh2.6 billion, and it’s not easy to know whether it’s out of Uhuru’s love for kids, or it’s just out of expanding business for Brookside. With Brookside set to supply 70% of the milk to schools, with the rest including KCC sharing the rest 30% of the business, it’s easy to see, how Uhuru’s Brookside will pocket at least 1.5 billion of the Sh2.6 billion school milk budget." Excerpt 2: "There’s already talk of KCC being privatized, and you never know, Brookside is very keen on acquiring a majority stake, together with a Chinese Dairy company. And poor souls, that would be it. Game over for Dairy farmers. KCC is what NCPB is to the maize farmers." www.kenya-today.com/opinion/uhurus-plot-to-sabotage-dairy-industryThe brilliant thing about the Kenyatta family strategy in its bid to monopolize the dairy industry is they tend to leave the brands they acquire running (at least their brands if staff really are sent packing as the article alludes to in at least one case) so as to display a sense of false competition. Excerpt: "In its acquisition spree, Brookside has managed to buy out all its close competitors including Ilara, Delamare and Spin Knit, which was selling the Tuzo brand. This leaves out Fresha, owned by Githunguri Dairies and New KCC as the only other big processors in the market. A consumer study carried out in December last year shows that Molo Milk, manufactured by Buzeki Dairy, commands 18 per cent of the processed milk market followed by Brookside Dairy’s Tuzo and Ilara brands with 15 per cent each. Three Brookside Dairy brands — Tuzo, Ilara and Brookside enjoy a combined market share of 42 per cent, according to the Consumer Insight survey." www.standardmedia.co.ke/business/article/2000087532/brookside-dairy-acquires-majority-stake-in-molo-milkKeep in mind Stanley Githunguri is amongst the elite Kikuyus who supported ODM/CORD who have effectively been neutralized by Jubilee machinations. KE has reached the stage where it is run by the robber barons much like the US was in the 19th century. We need anti-trust laws ASAP! Misunderstimate (to use a Bushism) this guy at your own peril... PS: Don't forget Uhuru's milk money turned Gor Mahia around to make 'em champions after 18 years in the wilderness! How's that for drive? Uhuru Kenyatta, in my estimation, can successfully be projected as a representative case, as the ideological personification of the peak of comprador evolution in modern Africa/Kenya. A best-case scenario. ---Does this class have historical room to evolve further, to mutate toward a full-fledge bourgeoisie? or does it stunt and then retard to stay comprador forever, failing to amount a successful strategy to be incorporated as an equal into the class of mature, international bourgeoisie? Is this class –the Obasanjos, Uhurus, Ramaphosas doomed to subservience in the international game of modern super finance [ bow to either China or the USA]? Or do they still have room to contribute toward a National Democratic revolution in their home countries [presently sub-colonies]? . Bear with me to See this point? The point that Uhuru Kenyatta, effectively the richest Kenyan, and from the richest Kenyan family, has found it necessary to take personal command of the Kenyan state. ---What then, is the historical constellation of forces, that push forward this agenda? The agenda of merging political power with financial power in one man at the top of the state? Or put in another way, the need personalise political power as was in the past. 1. At some historical stage in human political evolution, say in the pharaonic stage, the political leader or head of state, was divine, a god, and derived his mandate from divinity. He then is also a spiritual leader, a high priest of the cult interpreting the will of heaven ---see the Catholic Papacy seated at the Vatican which is a relic of this stupidity in human thinking--- and deemed immortal if not infallible! This illusion can only be maintained by an agrarian economy of limited mental sophistication. Usually the only effective way to remove such gods, has always been murder. No immunity from that one in history! The pharaos of course bankrupted Egypt with their follies of burial rituals, for the pyramids are really monuments to an insane fiscal policy. Egypt is not recovering anytime soon after millennial decades of extreme misrule and wastage! 2. Just before the rise of the [ industrial] bourgeoisie in Europe, during the era of [land-based] aristocrats but increasing differentiation in trades and skills, with the chief aristocrat being the King or emperor, the King effectively was also the richest man in the land. The Kingdom was his dominion, his private estate, and others held land at his leisure. No other title deed but the crown’s prerogative was recognised. Fawning at the court trying to enter the royal favour was the major activity of the aristocracy. Parliament if any, was in the King’s pocket. Nb: [We remember the first white brit to land in Kenya claimed her for his King, as the crown’s dominion, and the King later decreed her the Whiteman’s Highlands in the main, rewarding baron this and baron that with abandon. Meanwhile the Congo in whole was the private shamba of Leopold of Belgium!] This kind of monopoly was not going to get anybody anywhere if commerce was to be the purpose in life. So Kings soon had to cede power so that ordinary traders could have title deeds to their lands, land reform and others, and sell as they wished or use as collateral for loans; and resisting Kings just had to loose their heads at the guillotine. The absolutism of monarchy had reached its historical dead end. But there is always uneven development. In lands like Brunei, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, and some other such residues of prehistory, The king is still the virtual head of state, richest man, and a kind of deity elevated above other mortals. Some even claim lineage to the prophet Mohammed, as source of their holy legitimacy. You need to be very extreme and inventive with torture to maintain such an obsolete system of nonsense. [I am told Macnamara told Opec Arabs thus: believe anything you want, even that you are Allah himself. But never believe you can cut the oil supply to the United States and live to tell the tale. We will rip-fwack your arsz, all the way to the mouth!] Now, in Kenya too, it would appear we are late. The richest man can not afford to entrust state power to a ‘’hired class of loyal managers’’ in accordance with the doctrine of the separation of powers----poor Mudavadi thought he could be a safe pair of hands, but that proved a risk too far for the realities in Uhuru’s political economy. WHY THIS HISTORICAL NEED FOR A MONOPOLIST KING? This insecurity that leads to Uniting all the threads [finance, power, and religion in one office]? Why this pre-industrial model for Kenya? ---[easy, because we are not yet industrialised after all, so we do not have a material differentiation in the economic skeleton which could sustain a separation of powers at the apex of the state ----LEGISLATURE, JUDICIARY, OPPOSITION/ENFORCEMENT. Since I come from the other side of the analytical divide, I do not look for answers in the psychological make-up, nor political dispensation of the the man-KING in question, Nay, I look at the level of productive forces in Kenya vis a vis the international phase of current capitalism, and further take a look at Mr. Kenyatta’s relation to the means of production. KENYATTA senior accumulated via land. In that sense he was an aristocrat King. Uhuru Kenyatta has to evolve higher, become an Industrialist accumulator, though in the materialist ideological sense, he remains a primitive accumulator. Remaining a primitive accumulator is the key reason why he has to maintain personal control of the state. The state remains in our dispensation, the key instrument in organising the market, resolving the conflicts. The judiciary has no independence, and most if not all institutes are corrupt, which means relying on them for arbitration, for conflict resolution, if you do not control them literally, is living in a fool’s paradise. And the best control they respond to is wielding material power issuing from state control. He [Uhuru and his class] does not add value by revolutionising technology, nor inventive new processes, nor creation of totally new products. They are not into investment in R&D. They acquire what is already made, risk free, –a la hedge funds which are described as locusts. Parasitism then. George Thuo can not make KBS/Stage Coach profitable and goes into recievership, then there it is, let there be city-hoppa, and Thuo is an ace CEO! That kind of man and mentality, needs a host to suck and sustain himself, or will wilt in the real world of free competition. The resilient maturity of the USA [bourgeoisie] is seen in such crazy inventions like FACEBOOK. Free e-mail [of which Yahoo was the creator]; YouTube, GOOGLE and I-phone. These are things which are neither here nor there in the hard world, but for sooth, they have revolutionised the relationship between societies and distant man to himself ---like the bourgeoisie revolution of compulsory education did in the past centuries. These jocular creations have made their creators super-rich, richer than all Presidents in American history in combined tally. Not to mention one of the craziest inventions, the computer operating system [originalised as MS-DOS of Microsoft]. Uhuru Kenyatta, as the peak of aspirant bourgeoisie consciousness in neo-colonial Kenya, is still doing dairy products! Still doing fake title deeds, transport mungiki deals, rent and real estates, hotels and banks! These are thousand year old lines of trade and technological dead-ends which can no longer revolutionise the productive base! They are A bit like the motor vehicle industry in the USA. Keeps the country moving, but No longer a vehicle to the future! This lateness is the tragedy of the infanitilism of the comprador. Personally, and as private citizens, they can enter into a life of collaboration and enjoy vast amounts of wealth as a satellite group, an auxiliary, but when they enter politics, which means they have to mouth [if not articulate] the freedom ideals of their population, they can no longer be contented with the marginal, parochial, and subservient end station of an auxiliary, slavish class. Then they enter the Amilcar Cabral hospital. Class suicide or perish. Uhuru and co can not commit class suicide. This is the reason why Uhuru Kenyatta’s Kenya is not in a position to mount an economic challenge to the West. When you own the kind of hotels Uhuru owns, then you want westerners to come fill them up, paying in dollars! For all talk of China.If you buy Gor Mahia, you need lots of cash infuse, if they are not to make an ass of themselves paired against Barcelona or Man-U! Uhuru Kenyatta can only use the Kenyan state to further enrich himself. He can not re-organise it, to widen its productive base to absorb the thwarted futures of her youth. T o do this, he has to author an economic program that negates the exploitative relationship, and resists the wrath of the West. This is beyond him. Beyond the competences of his class, be it Raila or Mudavadi. Looking at the troubles of Iran with its Oil kitty, yet a formidable leadership with a robust sense of the country’s history and destiny, me thinks Uhuru and Ruto are dry grass which would burn to ash under the cold stare of a displeased international capital. Everybody knows this, and this is why it is all business as usual in Kenya. Baba na Mama, the West, will bail the son of Jomo out, for a price he will willingly pay. China will mention her price to Baba na Mama, and quietly take care of herself. This is why the US and UK ambassadors met Ruto in Nairobi. They are working on a bail-out solution. Baba na Mama I said. The rest of the children, Duale, Amina, Macharia and the Jubilee house, can fill the world with noise bashing the West for faiiing to support immunity, but at the end of the day they will come home hungry after shouting themselves coarse, and ther will be a warm meal, courtesy of Baba na Mama, at whom they are shaking their fists now!The way we are now? We know know one month of limited sanctions and the Ksh. goes 300 to the dollar. It is more or less a shut-down. Baba na Mama wont let it come that far. It is not in their interest to have Uhuru’s goose cooked and Kenya go to the dogs. No, Like they fished out Annan out of retirement to save the day when it was Raila and Kibaki's turn to destroy the nation, they will haul a rat out of the hat this time around too, if push comes to shove and Uhuru refuses to go to the Hague! NB: One notices a lot of anti-imperialist posturing within the political class. It is a correct historical instinct, but essentially the recalcitrant cheek of a mischievous child. Nearly every week there is an official delegation from Kenya to one or other western country seeking trade redress, extra cash, FDI, or whatever. Even the county governor of Uashin Gishu who threw the British viceroy from a hotel, runs a county with one of the most active dependent relationships with the UK! So what the heck? He just wants a bigger take, wants to squeeze out the NGOs who share the loot! Independence, gentlemen, that is a steep hill. Every step, sacrifice. ---I think that was Ho Chi Minh, after the French and Americans had driven him out of Saigon. Young Vo Nguyen Giap, young Duc Tho and the rest of the boys then were scared of the might of the Western Alliance cannibalising their paddy nation, and comrade Stalin had reached an arrangement with them in the division of Europe. China was embroiled in its own civil war. The world looked dark, the future darker. Ho spoke to his boyish lieutenants. ''A thousand years of struggle then, every second a sacrifice, but Vietnam will be free, the mightiest armies fled, and Saigon the United capital --get to work boys!'' Vo would later write: sheltering in a cave, hungry and troops in disarray, the super-power roaring above us with superior death, I admit I doubted the sanity of uncle Ho. But Ho never doubted the Vietnamese people. Led by competence, they would pay the price of their freedom, defeat the invader and bow to no foreign power!'' It would take more than 45 years of vicious war against all the western powers for these men to return to Saigon in victory, and rename her Ho Chi Minh city. By then Uncle Ho was long dead! It is important to know the price of freedom as paid by others too. I just had these feeling the Kenyan Mpigs, currently vocal against the powers that be, have no game plane when those powers turn nasty. And yeah, imperialism can be nasty. For starters, Barrack Obama is a natural cold-blood. Game plan Nairobi, game plan independence. That is a steep call.
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Post by podp on Nov 24, 2013 3:19:00 GMT 3
At this thread jukwaa.proboards.com/thread/8795/keter-outburst-tna-pact-unravelingb6k threw the debate wide off course! But there is always uneven development. In lands like Brunei, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, and some other such residues of prehistory, The king is still the virtual head of state, richest man, and a kind of deity elevated above other mortals. Some even claim lineage to the prophet Mohammed, as source of their holy legitimacy. You need to be very extreme and inventive with torture to maintain such an obsolete system of nonsense. [I am told Macnamara told Opec Arabs thus: believe anything you want, even that you are Allah himself. But never believe you can cut the oil supply to the United States and live to tell the tale. We will rip-fwack your arsz, all the way to the mouth!] WHY THIS HISTORICAL NEED FOR A MONOPOLIST KING? This insecurity that leads to Uniting all the threads [finance, power, and religion in one office]? Why this pre-industrial model for Kenya? ---[easy, because we are not yet industrialised after all, so we do not have a material differentiation in the economic skeleton which could sustain a separation of powers at the apex of the state ----LEGISLATURE, JUDICIARY, OPPOSITION/ENFORCEMENT. He [Uhuru and his class] does not add value by revolutionising technology, nor inventive new processes, nor creation of totally new products. They are not into investment in R&D. They acquire what is already made, risk free, –a la hedge funds which are described as locusts. Parasitism then. George Thuo can not make KBS/Stage Coach profitable and goes into recievership, then there it is, let there be city-hoppa, and Thuo is an ace CEO! That kind of man and mentality, needs a host to suck and sustain himself, or will wilt in the real world of free competition.Uhuru Kenyatta can only use the Kenyan state to further enrich himself. He can not re-organise it, to widen its productive base to absorb the thwarted futures of her youth. T o do this, he has to author an economic program that negates the exploitative relationship, and resists the wrath of the West. This is beyond him. Beyond the competences of his class, be it Raila or Mudavadi. Looking at the troubles of Iran with its Oil kitty, yet a formidable leadership with a robust sense of the country’s history and destiny, me thinks Uhuru and Ruto are dry grass which would burn to ash under the cold stare of a displeased international capital. Everybody knows this, and this is why it is all business as usual in Kenya. Baba na Mama, the West, will bail the son of Jomo out, for a price he will willingly pay. China will mention her price to Baba na Mama, and quietly take care of herself. This is why the US and UK ambassadors met Ruto in Nairobi. They are working on a bail-out solution. Baba na Mama I said. The rest of the children, Duale, Amina, Macharia and the Jubilee house, can fill the world with noise bashing the West for faiiing to support immunity, but at the end of the day they will come home hungry after shouting themselves coarse, and ther will be a warm meal, courtesy of Baba na Mama, at whom they are shaking their fists now!The way we are now? We know know one month of limited sanctions and the Ksh. goes 300 to the dollar. It is more or less a shut-down. Baba na Mama wont let it come that far. It is not in their interest to have Uhuru’s goose cooked and Kenya go to the dogs. No, It is important to know the price of freedom as paid by others too. I just had these feeling the Kenyan Mpigs, currently vocal against the powers that be, have no game plane when those powers turn nasty. And yeah, imperialism can be nasty. For starters, Barrack Obama is a natural cold-blood. Game plan Nairobi, game plan independence. That is a steep call. Who betrayed neocolonial Kenya? Why did Kenyans allow this betrayal to take place? Why is Kenya constantly plagued by drought and famine? Who should own the drought-infested land? What is the true history of Kenya? How can the damage of neocolonialism be undone? And finally, how can patriotic Kenyans get rid of the stooges of imperialism? journals.hil.unb.ca/index.php/IFR/article/view/7768/8825the above questions can all be answered by reading Ngugi wa Thiongo's older books... Ngugi's first three novels, 'The River Between', 'Weep Not, Child', and 'A Grain of Wheat', form, in the views of many critics, a trilogy of sorts, beginning with the female circumcision controversy of 1929, through the Emergency and Mau Mau of 1952 to 1956, to independence in 1963. Since 'Petals of Blood' describes the period of 1970 to 1974, it examines the present in light of the past. it shows us that there are different structures that make up the postcolonial African nation, one of the most obvious of which is the official national structure created artificially by colonialism. In particular, the novel suggests that most political or literary theories about the official nation are simplistic because they fail to take into account the complexities of the relationship between the nation and the nation... In 'Writers in Politics' Ngugi explains further his main intention in identifying the artificiality of the national structure created by colonialism. He points out that, in Petals of Blood, he was really trying to reveal how "imperialism under colonial or neo-colonial conditions, can never develop our country, develop us Kenyans into anything creatively meaningful for all our peoples ... In 'Moving the Centre' he defines the neocolonial condition that prevents the emergence of such a natio as one in which the nation is "nominally independent with comprador-type regimes running the economy, politics, and culture of the country consistently on behalf of the West"... Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship must also be disassembled. We didn't do this in Africa in the 1960's. We removed the white colonialists and they were replaced by black neo-colonialists, Swiss bank socialists, crocodile liberalists, quack revolutionaries, and briefcase bandits. Africans will tell you, we struggled very hard to remove one cockroach from power and the next rat came to do exactly the same thing. This is because we did not disassemble the dictatorship state. To disassemble a dictatorship you have to do things in order and steps. www.huffingtonpost.com/thor-halvorssen/george-ayittey-how-to-def_b_883549.htmllast red high light And I can promise you this: The world will be watching what decisions you make. The world will be watching what you do. Because one of the wonderful things that’s happening is, where people used to only see suffering and conflict in Africa, suddenly, now they're seeing opportunity for resources, for investment, for partnership, for influence. Governments and businesses from around the world are sizing up the continent, and they're making decisions themselves about where to invest their own time and their own energy. And as I said yesterday at a town hall meeting up in Johannesburg, that’s a good thing. We want all countries -- China, India, Brazil, Turkey, Europe, America -- we want everybody paying attention to what's going on here, because it speaks to your progress. www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/06/30/remarks-president-obama-university-cape-townSo let me close by saying this. Governments matter. Political leadership matters. And I do hope that some of you here today decide to follow the path of public service. It can sometimes be thankless, but I believe it can also be a noble life. But we also have to recognize that the choices we make are not limited to the policies and programs of government. Peace and prosperity in Africa, and around the world, also depends on the attitudes of people. the other red high lights suffice to say on the foregoing speech there was an ominous reply to a question on... KENYA MODERATOR: Now, Mr. President, as you prepare to respond to that question, I’m sure you’re alive to the fact that there has been a lot of speculation in the Kenyan media and also in the social media for your reasons for not visiting Kenya on your second tour of Africa. Maybe if you recall in an interview that you did have with this channel that is way back on the 1st of June 2010, you did a promise that during your tenure as President of the United States of America, you will be touring Kenya. Well, will you still keep your word on that? (Laughter and applause.) PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, Asante Sana. It’s wonderful to see all of you. (Laughter.) First of all, let me just say that I’m going to be President for another three and a half years. (Laughter and applause.) One of the things that you learn as President is not only do people want you to fulfill your promises, but they want you to fulfill your promises yesterday. (Laughter.) And part of the reason that I wasn’t able to visit Kenya this time is I’ve been to Kenya multiple times and there hadn’t been a sustained visit by me in West Africa; and then South Africa, given the importance of the work that we’re doing together; Tanzania is a country I hadn’t visited before. So I was trying to spread the wealth a little bit in terms of my visit. But what’s also true, I won’t deny, is that Kenya just had an election. I was very proud to see the restraint in which the election was held. We did not see a repeat of the violence that we saw in the last election. But with a new administration that’s also having to manage some of the international issues around the ICC, I did not think it was the optimal time for me to visit. But as I said, I’m going to -- I’ve got three and a half years. So if in three years and seven months I’m not in Kenya, then you can fault me for not following through on my promise. (Laughter.) www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/06/29/remarks-president-obama-young-african-leaders-initiative-town-hallin 'Writers in Politics' Ngugi states that "the state is there, in other words, to protect the free operation of finance capital. And as long as the state is able to deliver that stability, does it matter how much ethnic cleansing it does?" Oseina Thomas Koital testified to Amnesty International in June 2003: She was in her late teens. Two decades ago, around midday, she was taking her sheep home. Seven UK soldiers caught her. She screamed and struggled. She remembers being raped by four of them. Then she lost consciousness. Soldiers were white and weaving military boots, a headgear of leafy branches, and had backpacks and guns. When she regained consciousness, she was in a pool of blood. Even after two decades, she never regained her health. www.bannedthought.net/India/PeoplesMarch/PM1999-2006/archives/2003/nov2k3/kenya.htmAnna Tipitia, said to Guardian that she was attacked by two soldiers in 1983. They raped, beat and kicked her in a brutal attack in which they broke her pelvis. She said "Even if the British soldiers compensate me, I will never be able to forget.’’ Commit atrocities and suppress the truth! That seems to be the British government policy. The comprador government knows about the atrocities and kept mum. While social stigma is one reason why women did not come out openly earlier, the real reason is the complicity and collaboration of the Kenyan government. Their attitude towards the Masai tribals is always that they are second grade citizens.... so tying that with the other red high lights a concerned Kenyan did write... Riches from the earth have spawned brutal dictatorships, internal conflicts, become magnets for heartless buccaneers from far corners of the globe, provoked wars between nations, and sometimes held up countries for auction to the highest bidder. Often, exploitation of these resources has proceeded in utter contempt for the rights of the local communities, with vast profits being sucked out of the ground to enrich the ruling families and their foreign compradors, while the land is left depleted and polluted. www.nation.co.ke/oped/Editorial/Foreign+compradors/-/440804/1374776/-/3osud4z/-/index.htmlfrom the Communist Manifesto spring forth the following words... The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilisation. The cheap prices of commodities are the heavy artillery with which it batters down all Chinese walls, with which it forces the barbarians’ intensely obstinate hatred of foreigners to capitulate. It compels all nations, on pain of extinction, to adopt the bourgeois mode of production; it compels them to introduce what it calls civilisation into their midst, i.e., to become bourgeois themselves. In one word, it creates a world after its own image. so when you talk of individuals in Kenya high up as UhuRuto, MdVd, Raila and what have you not with their children, George Ayiteh has this to say... Dictators are allergic to reform, and they are cunning survivors. They will do whatever it takes to preserve their power and wealth, no matter how much blood ends up on their hands. They are master deceivers and talented manipulators who cannot be trusted to change. www.huffingtonpost.com/thor-halvorssen/george-ayittey-how-to-def_b_883549.htmlThe modus operandi of all dictators is essentially the same: Besides parliament, if there is one, they seize control of six key state institutions (the security forces, the media, the civil service, the judiciary, the electoral commission, and the central bank), pack them with their supporters, and debauch them to serve their interests. To succeed, a popular revolution must wrestle control of at least one or more of these institutions out of the dictator's clutches. in Africa Betrayed he describes the vampire state, and when one sees how in Kenya our UhuRuto are going about the ICC the coconut democracy comes alive... Under “Coconut Democracy”, African states uphold a farcical system of elections to keep up a semblance of political legitimacy. But fraud and vote-rigging mar the process. The paper ballots mean little without a free press and with government and crony-capitalist monopolies dominating the economic system. Both of these political orders Ayittey terms “Vampire States” because they “suck the economic vitality of their people.” - www.africanliberty.org/content/dangerous-economics-george-ayittey-zachary-caceresand there in are some few written books by Africans that I can draw your missive. it is refreshing to read those who see through the veil.
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Post by jakaswanga on Mar 11, 2014 22:07:22 GMT 3
One year later, the son of Jomo is a nervous wreck shivering over elementary things like the public wage bill! And engaging in headless-chicken antics like voluntary pay-cuts of 0%! ---that is, when the richest man in Kenya who earns over ksh 2M/m takes a pay cut of 20%, it is just another very fat joke! And methinks this guy is not really pre-occupied with the problems of INDUSTRIALISATION! If he were... HMMM, you would feel a distinct breeze through the body of the land. A purpose pervading the republic, steeling the people. Firm resolve oozing out of the policy pronouncements. Stuff you do not ridicule without suffering brain haemorrhage! But now, as I sip a drink I write: The Great Roman soldier and General Julius Ceasar became a statesman as the Dictator of Rome. Dictator in those days was a gentler title in political science, but no less ruthless in political practice. In fact one was appointed Dictator so that he could more effectively use the tool of murder more effectively in public policy. Democracy has indeed been having a very long walk to fruition. If I remember correctly, it took the holocaust, the industrial extermination of a people, to jump start the concept of crimes against humanity, just last century. We have no illusions then, about the murderous heart of man. Well, Gaius Julius, as apprentice Ceasar, became a statesman but maintained the legions standing. The legions did not come cheap. Just like the Kenyan public service. So when the legions went unpaid, there had to be a new war, that by plunder they get paid; or, failing an external war because defeat would be guaranteed, there had to be some other internal and genial solution, barring the disbanding of the legions. So it came to pass, that Ceasar decided on the expropriation of the nobility, thus setting in motion a chain of events that would lead to that most famous of assassinations by the noble senators of the republic. Earlier on, a hard-up predecessor from the nobility had expropriated the various religious orders who, due to tax exemptions, had accumulated staggering fortunes. Then foolishly, the man entered a temple to perform some religious ritual. Naked and alone, the priesthood murdered him in revenge. Yet even earlier, another ruler with state finances on the low had sought to solve the situation by taxing the peasants to the bone. There was a rebellion that brought hunger due to the disrupted agricultural system, then bread riots in Rome that ended the dynasty. It would appear every crisis must be solved by expropriation in the short term. Common sense would think a wise leader would expropriate the haves. But clearly the vengeance of the haves is fatal. Conventional leaders are then doomed to expropriate the have-nots. This is not without its risks neither. Because it too can break the social fabric that sustains an order. This is the balancing act which Uhuruto must perform. This is the knife edge on which the Jubilee administration is balanced. This is the rotten legacy of the GCG of Kibaki and Raila ---of which major figures in the current administration were key players. This is chicks come home to roost. Yet I am positive. Kenya’s natural resources ---the way I have seen them assessed and figures put to them, suffice to have external interests conduct an orderly bail-out, and manage the expropriation, say under the tutelage of the IMF with a bit of Chinese back up. The oil in Turkana, the rare metals, the gas in the ocean etc, which have all been mortgaged to foreign interests, is the life line.The price of the bail-out will still be terrible on the future of the country methinks. Servitude. But you have to weigh servitude against collapse, as in the Central African Republic in December 2013! I it is a hard, long think. The futures of nations usually are.
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Post by podp on Mar 12, 2014 13:21:06 GMT 3
One year later, the son of Jomo is a nervous wreck shivering over elementary things like the public wage bill! And engaging in headless-chicken antics like voluntary pay-cuts of 0%! ---that is, when the richest man in Kenya who earns over ksh 2M/m takes a pay cut of 20%, it is just another very fat joke! And methinks this guy is not really pre-occupied with the problems of INDUSTRIALISATION! If he were... HMMM, you would feel a distinct breeze through the body of the land. A purpose pervading the republic, steeling the people. Firm resolve oozing out of the policy pronouncements. Stuff you do not ridicule without suffering brain haemorrhage! Yet I am positive. Kenya’s natural resources ---the way I have seen them assessed and figures put to them, suffice to have external interests conduct an orderly bail-out, and manage the expropriation, say under the tutelage of the IMF with a bit of Chinese back up. The oil in Turkana, the rare metals, the gas in the ocean etc, which have all been mortgaged to foreign interests, is the life line.The price of the bail-out will still be terrible on the future of the country methinks. Servitude. But you have to weigh servitude against collapse, as in the Central African Republic in December 2013! I it is a hard, long think. The futures of nations usually are. But a year down the line, most of the big projects initiated under the Kibaki regime are suffering from what experts term as lack of leadership and commitment from the government to push them to completion. Some have stalled amid accusations of corruption while others have been affected by shifting priorities. KONZA TECHNO CITY Then President Mwai Kibaki commissioned the planned Konza Technopolis on 23 January, 2013. In the months following the pomp of the ground-breaking ceremony, Konza has remained dormant. www.nation.co.ke/lifestyle/smartcompany/Kibaki-projects-face-greatest-test-of-time-as-regime-changes-/-/1226/2238948/-/hms7yiz/-/index.htmlThe process of acquiring the Sh100 million software controversial. Sources interviewed said it was single sourced and that those who opposed the process removed from the procurement committee and replaced with compliant ones. www.the-star.co.ke/news/article-158411/auditor-general-pays-sh100m-software-not-deliveredThe review board, however, said the tendering process must not start afresh but from the Best And Final Offer (Bafo) stage. “The only parties that shall be allowed to participate further in the process shall be HP and Haier Electrical Appliances,” said Josephine Wambua Mong’are, chairperson of the board, shutting the door against Olive. ‘The tender committee is directed to proceed with the tender process from the point of opening of the best and final offers and thereafter conduct due diligence in accordance with the criteria set under clauses 34.2, 34.3 and 34.4 of tender document,’ reads the board’s ruling. www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000106658&story_title=board-cancels-sh24-6b-school-laptop-tender-awarded-to-indian-firm&pageNo=2kusema na ku-tender is an interesting xyz pisode of the Jubilants in Power
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Post by jakaswanga on Jun 26, 2014 18:30:48 GMT 3
NATIONS IN CUL-DE-SACS: TOWARD A DEAD END. I was always of the impression that, the process of political stagnation, as the 2nd liberation decomposed away, would be much more in the style of a good strip tease. That is, it would slowly take its seedy time, swinging this way and that way, bit by bit evolving toward its inevitable treacherous but fascinating nakedness. I was of the opinion it would take the backlash of an economic crisis, a trickle-down dry up, to back President Kenyatta against the wall where he would have no option but to reveal his claws, and confess his political genotype: a barbarian completely defacing the remaining torso of the 2nd constitution promulgated in 2010: A comprador cretin by species. (Having reached its evolutionary dead end, unable to countenance class suicide, regression is inevitable. That regression is manifested as the old state we used to live in.) But, to continue, I was thinking Uhuruto could take its time, like a Gulliver riding out without a scratch the lilliputian arrows of the opposition, because with the oil finds up in Turkana and gas fields down off the coast, I reckoned the credit ratings of the republic would be buoyant enough to keep up the act of glitter, financed by debt and sustained by the duplicity of oil-hungry powers. I thought Ouru could afford to be confident; so the nervous twitches that were clearly discernable I ascribed to wolf-criers like Kimemia and Iringo at the behest of the rest of the new power princelings unsure and feeling their steps. NB: By nervous twitches I refer to the cooking up of the coup rumours which led for instance, to Eliud Owallo’s summons for tea at the CID Hqs, in addition to the other hairy-brained attempts to persecute Raila after buying him out, or bribing him away from politics, proved a non-starter I did not think then, that this nervousness reached the very top, reached the bedroom of the sovereign himself. I did not know the Sovereign of the republic of Kenya was shivering wet in his pants, overwhelmed by feelings of foreboding. scared of not being found man enough. Apparently when Baba came back to a triumphant if somewhat haphazard welcoming party at Uhuru Park, and, as it were, an electrical bolt split the skies above the republic and mesmerized the public, the President’s nerves gave up and he became a brooding, sulking and spoiled adolescent in power. That is like an idle mind which is said to be a devil’s work-shop. (With results like the arrest of the Lamu governor for … DPP Tobiko has not been specific!) NB: The sky-splitting, wananchi mesmerizing electric bolt I am talking about above, is of course the rallying call of SabaSaba. This was the last straw which broke the camel’s back. (with results like the order to the police to ban the meet the public rallies where the glib-tongued populist rouble-rouser would be fish in his waters.) These pressures as the political cauldron heats, has wrought upon us an unbalanced President, an unhinged Uhuru Kenyatta. Raw fear has been sufficient to precipitate the political crisis I had expected to unfold, but not this soon. But as it is, the comprador state which has been masquerading as reformed, is showing its skeleton remained unchanged, has grown new teeth where it was supposedly defanged. (that second liberation yarn is a good tale, but betting the nation’s futures on it!? nah) PART OF THE OLD SKELETON SHOWING ITS FANGS.
The opposition is equated to traitors (terrorist fifth columns) Rallies of the opposition are haphazardly banned … citing security. Legislators are summoned en masse in court over speeches whose quotes are far from hate. The president is in decree mode with respect to security infrastructure (fire-power merges) Perhaps SabaSaba makes us nervous because we instinctively recognise there is room for a third liberation? It is a point worth pondering. I can see some soldiers from the Machakos brigade have already gotten cold feet and are hanging their gloves, or is it dodging the draft ?………………. NB: Why did most if not all post-colonial (the so called independent) African countries degenerate into forms of authoritarian dictatorships from civilian to military? only to rot away under debt servitude, civil strife, and the other well-documented ills of neo-colonial stagnation?NB: None of those infamous leaders started out as a bad man. Even the Marshall who would preside over one of the greatest rots of the World, Mobutu Sese Seko, mouthed some of the grandest plans ever heard on the continent as a beginner. And with the natural wealth of Kongo/Zaire, funding and getting credit would not be that difficult. It did not work out that way. And the tropical libraries are full of theses on what went wrong. But there is a higher ''level of because'' which is seldom mentioned in these write ups: the role of ideology in state failure. Things like corruption alone do not lead to state failure. Democracies like the UK and the USA are sickeningly corrupted with campaign money, but they work pretty well. My answer is simply because they listen to their people. And they take the greatest efforts to convince the people that all those ills and evils they wreak upon the world ---assassinations in foreign lands, manipulating foreign governments, killing foreign children by drones in droves, etc etc--- is for their sake! This selling can be very tough business. One need only look at old videos of Tony Blair selling the WMD story and Iraq war to a sceptical British public. And the same Tony Blair as errand boy of British Petroleum gone to lobby Gaddaffi in his desert tent for oil concessions. ‘ ’British petroleum in business is Jobs Jobs Jobs for Britain! And that is an issue of national interest. Primary national interest. I would be a bad prime minister if I did not fight for British jobs!’’ – that is sure a good lawyer working hard on the job. That is ideological maturity. But what is the ideological immaturity that has condemned and continues to condemn Africa to global marginalisation and local stagnation? –Why the spectacular oil riches of Africa’s biggest economy and democracy, Nigeria, produces the resistance of the likes of Boko Haram?Now that is a long think I can not handle now with one eye on the Hannibal Lector of the football fields. The cannibal Luis Suarez, facing the guillotine! This Mpeketoni thing: It could just be the banana split that skid the juggernaut.
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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 4, 2014 23:00:51 GMT 3
Unfortunately, just before my favourite and national team --the ' 'Workmanship,'' confined the drunkards from Paris to their diminished reserves, I perused Jukwaa and was shaken awake by Digital Oloo's mental wondering as he wandered the streets of the city in the sun. ---Aah, thanks Oloo for a very stimulating read. That is how I came tot he following post. ---You are posting it on Nipate too .. for not exactly some red carpet reception .. Here I go.. The laden political term fascism has been dropped. That is, it has been introduced of late to describe, explain or qualify some worrying tendencies evident in Mr. Kenyatta’s latest political confusions, as he impotently grapples with the general crisis which has curtailed industrialisation so far, the past half a century in Kenya. It is advisable to remember, first and foremost, that Fascism is a class rule. In current Kenya, it would specifically be the class rule of -a degenerate- semblance of the bourgeoisie. Second, the comprador class, to which I assign the son of Jomo now holding brief, are such a ‘semblance’ of the bourgeoisie. NB: --The comprador are a prototype that shall need lots of evolutionary fixes, or never be deployed as a fully operational model, --a doomed would-be clone. But in the historical circumstances of Kenya today, let us just say we have the ‘’class rule’’ of the comprador bourgeoisie … (for the moment forgetting they are a caretaker, a quisling bureaucracy devoid of an ‘’own rule’’). Also, it is imperative to add the qualification, that the comprador of Kenya are in effect less than a full-fledge PETTY bourgeoisie. That ‘’less’’ is used as a category of ‘’consciousness’’, ie, level of ideological maturity. In this hierarchy of consciousness’s, or the articulation [and eventually elevation] of a class consciousness into a world [dominating] vision, Kenya is in the clutches of an ‘’infantile consciousness’’. Now then… If fascism is a class rule, a form of [petty] bourgeoisie class rule, then the implications are obvious in the case of Kenya. We recognise both the government party, Jubilee, and the opposition party, Cord, are essentially organisations led and geared toward the defence of the class interests of the [infantile] bourgeoisie, albeit different factions of it. When push comes to shove, these factions merge for the greater good of their class, against the true national interest. We also recognise, these outfits are popular parties which, at the last elections at a near turn-out of 100%, between them, clocked all the votes in certain regions. All the contradictions of society, will thus be inherent in these organisations, emotional behemoths as they are. Now, fascism has some classical definitions which I will indulge in due course, but at this moment, suffice it to say, it is a method of dealing with a general but grave political-economic crisis in [semi] capitalist society. Fascism is an attempt to stabilise, and save the class rule of the petty bourgeoisie, and will be copied by the infantile ‘’semblances’’ as they face their own grave, half capitalist crisis. ….. Therefore, on a wider scale, if Uhuru Kenyatta’s regime lurches toward fascism in his (class’s) political bankruptcy, it is for the general good of his whole comprador class that runs Kenya. That is, he acts on behalf of the official opposition too. If Raila and Weta and Kalo do not realise this, then I can only say it is a testimony to even a much more retarded strand of ideological infantilism of this lot. Post-colonial Africa produced more in the rule than otherwise, a myriad of authoritarian and quasi militaristic fascist regimes, even those who professed leftism like the Angolans. There was no liberation of, and no revolutionaisation of the PRODUCTIVE FORCES toward maturiy, or at least escalated development. Such massive stagnation in the development productive forces, needs state terror to maintain, or a legendary rotten and corrupt incompetence as we saw in Mobutu’s Zaire. Since the following insights were written, theory has moved on, but there is a blatancy in the first generation of illuminates that keeps their echo undying. I will tackle right-wing star theorists of fascism at a later date, time allowing. But for today, given the historic quagmire in Kenya, I prefer centre stage for leading theorists of the left. I frankly think they thought deepest about fascism. Those with time should take a deeper look into those two. Another view, Leon Trotsky, having improved on Antonio Gramsci.www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/1924/10/fascism-liberalism.htm SABASABA can be viewed as based on real and not imagined material contradictions within the mass, and one faction of the elite is trying to use this a a bargaining chip. The result is a crisis within the elites, easily diverted [ story-lined] to read a crisis within the ruling caste of aristocrats loyal to the competing Odinga and Kenyatta dynasties, and therefore a tribal affair. Given the zoned electoral voter-loyalty last time around, and earlier, one could logically posit that this diversionary story-line is popular en masse, and has colonised the consciousness of a large part of the working and proletarian related classes. And we know, Fascism is classically a reactionary movement with a mass base. And given the popularity of religion in Kenya, there is definitely still room for ‘’mystic and imaginary solutions’’! ---It is a fertile era for pure superstition, so to speak. Reality can wait, letting illusions run their course, setting the stage for a messy correction or forced dramatic resolution. Other visions www.publiceye.org/eyes/whatfasc.html I hope, just squeezing in before the football match, after reading the Notorious Oloo here that I have earned my keep as a teacher. Football of course is another diversion from more assertive mental occupations. A drug to sedate restive masses, especially the young men who, otherwise, would use the time to question and discuss their real predicaments other than the artistry of an Argentinian tax-dodger called Leonel Messi. ---yeah, on second thoughts, if they are going to use your money to pay off predatory hedge funds .. better jump tax .. Henry Rotich and his runaway Eurobonds! Watch our backs sir, unless as a Bretton Woods dyed in the wood fellow, your brief is to engineer the fraud of the century, Wanjiku the victim! ( Main street bailing out Wall Street, and Wall Street walking home with Billions in bonuses was the USA version of the robbery of the century under Obama and his Washington-NewYork revolving door plotters!!) A bond is a debt! And certain debts are plane servitude! And servitude is the aim of fascism. Haa! Am off to football to get my jab of the cocaine ---Colombia selling! To the Favellas of Brasil.
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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 31, 2014 23:24:27 GMT 3
At a time when devolution is the catch phrase in town, at the top there is a traject of concentration. The chief of the army is slotted to be a kind of despot, wielding absolute power over the forces, but reporting as the private secretary to one and the only president!It is the privatisation of the national army into a personal tool of two people. Add this to the other bill which proposes that the DGI, Michael Gichangi, have similar powers to transfer, dismiss, commission, promote any intelligence officer at his private whims, then a picture of the fascist facilitation/midwifing becomes clearer. The legislative skeleton apparent. The bad news is it all ends in sadness: a stake up Gadaffi's ass; Il Caudillo Mussolini shot to death in a cave. It all starts with a power grab which looks brilliant at the time of its execution, but later turns out to have been a death sentence in slow motion for the perpetrators. Let us see if we are different in Kenya. Back to KANU absolutism. - See more at: www.the-star.co.ke/news/article-181329/general-karangi-answer-uhuru-directly#sthash.GxMuhbnZ.dpuf
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Post by mank on Aug 1, 2014 6:43:31 GMT 3
At a time when devolution is the catch phrase in town, at the top there is a traject of concentration. The chief of the army is slotted to be a kind of despot, wielding absolute power over the forces, but reporting as the private secretary to one and the only president!It is the privatisation of the national army into a personal tool of two people. Add this to the other bill which proposes that the DGI, Michael Gichangi, have similar powers to transfer, dismiss, commission, promote any intelligence officer at his private whims, then a picture of the fascist facilitation/midwifing becomes clearer. The legislative skeleton apparent. The bad news is it all ends in sadness: a stake up Gadaffi's ass; Il Caudillo Mussolini shot to death in a cave. It all starts with a power grab which looks brilliant at the time of its execution, but later turns out to have been a death sentence in slow motion for the perpetrators. Let us see if we are different in Kenya. Back to KANU absolutism. :.... Amigo Jakaswanga, Politicians always need to be checked, or they will grab and grab. So here, its no surprise that his excellency wants more. We should be glad that he is trying it now. He could have been smarter and waited for a better time (for him). What this presents is an opportunity to test how far we've come as with the constitution. Uhuru should not be able to grab any power he thirsts for, unless parliament (and us) allow him. He may want to have the Nyayo power but he shouldn't get it ... unless guards go to sleep. I would expect law makers, especially one Wetangula, to be all over this already. Otherwise they are at the frontline defense of the constitution, and I would expect those among them who have been telling us how we needed to chant in the streets and reform the reformed constitution with urgency are by voluntary design even ahead of others at that frontline, defending the gains of the last time we did what they ask us to do today. If they are not getting dirty with this one, then they are fake revolutionaries. In that case they should confess so real others are aware that leadership positions are open at the frontline in the struggle to make an orderly nation of her people.
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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 5, 2014 19:36:55 GMT 3
NO SABASABA, BUT SOMETHING ELSE --OURU KENYATTA PULLS A FAST ONE ON AJIMMY! SabaSaba was such a big stick that, when it was wielded by one corrupt faction to intimidate the othrer into an accommodation, the fall-outs were bound to be messy, but with some unexpected hilarious twists. on the predictable side we saw nervous frogs like Mutua of Machakos leap away; Kidero's body language become discomfiture, and would-be radicals like Ababu Namwamba adopt tongue-tied stances, fishily incompatible with their much-publicised powers of oratory. SabaSaba all but split CORD. On the other side, Jubilee was not sleeping easy neither. The panic which resulted in the lock-down of Nairobi, evidently continued behind the scenes, and combined with the terrorist problem of the coast, has now forced Uhuru into a daring dynamic. --Of Land politics. On Land, Ngilu is now set to revoke titles all the way to 1963! which immediately raises the question why not all the way to the original sin, the colonial land-grab of which chaps like the Delamere's still owe their land clout!? Nevertheless Ouru Kenyatta must be praised for publicly now agreeing his father was a land-grabber. –-As Jaramogi and Kaggia eloquently put it. Well, Ouru himself, as you have seen told by the records after the Ngilu clean-up, has no land in his name. That is a very important ideological detail. From an ideological analytical perspective of financial evolution, he has [relatively] moved on from raw-land-led primitive accumulation which was his father's mode, and evolved into the laundering of the proceeds of that primitive accumulation. He is now an industrialist and banking magnate, general retailer and manufacturer, and can afford to have his lands NATIONALISED by Ngilu if she wishes! But those who still own land as a method of primitive accumulation are in trouble. That is the political economy of this move with which Ouru Kenyatta has transfixed Orengo as the land-grabber! Orengo may have friends of Ouru appearing in his list as land-grabbers, and certifiably yes, but Ouru's name is not one of them! –--This is why in my analysis of Ouru Kenyatta as the possible peak of comprador consciousness, I said: And I continued to hammer thus on it. One notices the running import of Aden Duale's latest bill which seeks to have the chief of general staff of all KDF forces, be only answerable to the president, in this case Ouru Kenyatta, scion of the richest family in the land. An icing on the cake. A staggering concentration of power in one family. Only the spiritual power is now missing, otherwise the man would be a Pharaoh: a human deity.I think I have already covered the political economy of a ''human deity'' for emperor. The peak of agrarian civilisation or peasant-based caste politicology. In a budding crisis of the peasantry, a feudal decay fore-shadowing industrialisation, the primitive ruler accumulating power can not be a deity, but merely a fascist dictator, because the fascist ideology must have a popular base, and in the crisis, the lumpem will be such a base, their population being majority --disenfranchised youth. But the lumpem, being sub proletariat, have a radical material existence of impoverishment which has little room for religious bullsh!t. They value real, [monied] material life over God and his heaven after death. And so religion is a pitfall many fascists have tended to avoid. That was by way of a footnote to help understand the contradictions in Ouru Kenyatta's consciousness which dictate his political options –- like the populist negation of the title deeds, owned likely by fellows in his orbit. There is a bigger picture. He can suppress their INDIVIDUAL INTERESTS, to further THEIR CLASS INTERESTS, that is, entrench their class rule by WIDENING ITS APPEAL BASE by POPULIST announcements, even if lackluster. (This is also why Ruto insisted withheld certificates of fee defaulters must be released, even as the legal framework by which the government will pay off these debts to secondary schools is not in place. The measure is popular and populist, and administratively shambolic and irregular. 2. Just as Orengo revoked Kazungu Kambi's title-deeds, and the courts overruled him, there remains always the possibility that Ouru's directive to Ngilu to annul all the Lamu title deeds, can be revoked by a court. To avoid this climb down, if it would be deemed politically too embarrassing, it could be necessary to straighten out the judges behind the scenes. That is how stuff works. –-end footnote. NB: I am actually sorry this footnote came up in a run-down of Orengo's tribulations, which I prefered to enrol within Luo nationalism and her contradictions, which is where I am heading now.
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Post by podp on Aug 7, 2014 20:14:01 GMT 3
From an ideological analytical perspective of financial evolution, he has [relatively] moved on from raw-land-led primitive accumulation which was his father's mode, and evolved into the laundering of the proceeds of that primitive accumulation. He is now an industrialist and banking magnate, general retailer and manufacturer, and can afford to have his lands NATIONALISED by Ngilu if she wishes! But those who still own land as a method of primitive accumulation are in trouble.
That is the political economy of this move with which Ouru Kenyatta has transfixed Orengo as the land-grabber! Orengo may have friends of Ouru appearing in his list as land-grabbers, and certifiably yes, but Ouru's name is not one of them! –--This is why in my analysis of Ouru Kenyatta as the possible peak of comprador consciousness, I said:
In a Wednesday advertisement the National Treasury said it had received approval for 59 projects that the government plans to execute through public/private partnerships.
The projects range from telecommunications, agriculture, health, energy, transport, real estate to water and sewerage.
More than a quarter of the projects involve construction of roads, railway, ports and railway lines, highlighting the government’s focus on improving transport to make it easy to do business in the country.
LONG-TERM SOLUTION
www.nation.co.ke/business/Kenya-lines-up-raft-of-mega-projects-on-the-road/-/996/2410810/-/14rhigi/-/index.html
not so long ago family flag bearer that at one time was selling milk at kshs 60 for half litre packet when price of petrol was kshs 110 per litre, implying a litre of milk was more expensive than a litre of petrol went into bed with the French milk giant
The deal with Brookside, which had 2013 sales of around 130 million euros ($176 million) and has a share of about 40 percent of Kenya's dairy market, gives Danone access to the largest milk collection network in East Africa with over 140,000 farmers and a distribution network of more than 200,000 outlets.
uk.reuters.com/article/2014/07/18/danone-brookside-idUKL6N0PT12N20140718
Brookside sells mostly long-life milk in Kenya and neighboring countries such as Tanzania and Uganda. The company has a 40% market share in Kenya and over 140,000 milk farms in the region around Kenya, also referred to as Africa's "milk valley."
Mr. Marchant said Danone will help Brookside expand the group's product range and possibly expand in other markets.
online.wsj.com/articles/danone-to-buy-40-stake-in-kenyan-dairy-company-brookside-1405661403
so even as former Anti-Corruption Czar claims 'A beautiful thing: the Pandora's Box of mashamba/land in Kenya opened by the President himself and emphatically so!' you may be bang on the theory of our comprador beginning to be real bourgeoisie as the need for world capitalist to merge and decide how best to utilize future mass labor cheaply available in Africa. no need for bloody scenes and hence warning to Riek Marchar to learn how to eat with Salva Kiir.
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Post by jakaswanga on Feb 8, 2015 16:20:08 GMT 3
First, a moment of comical relief. Puffing up his chest on his way to the recent AU summit in Addis Ababa which ended up crowing Old Soldier Robert Mugabe at its helm, Uhuru Kenyatta roared in the Daily-Nation and territorially claimed Africa as a non-imperialist zone. Every foreign intervener was advised to keep his distance. Well, frogs will be granted their croaks in their ponds. Out there in the ocean, it is a different ball game. www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Forget-foreign-intervention/-/440808/2608152/-/cipypl/-/index.html RECAP: Okay, you all have heard of the statistics: AFRICA RISING. Fair enough. NB: I am racking my head and somebody help me out on this, Podp, Otishotish, Mank: Nigeria ''rebate'' doubled her GDP overnight. That is a rise no doubt. Then hardly 5 months later the elections are postponed coz army had no fire-power nor motivation to quash a pre-historic sect running amok around arid areas? How does that work out with a rising African giant? Theat is the new boys of Jubilee went amok at the cookie jar left well-filled by the LOOK-EAST ex-Makerere don (for all his PEV woes!)
[/quote]Again, fair enough: the world bank says the debts are manageable, the ratios reasonable and not alarmist. CAVEAT: A lot of these borrowing bravado, even the Eurobonds, were entered into by Rotich and his treasury at a calculation of an approaching OIL BONANZA. This was a projected rate of not less than $100/barrel. But now, geo-political realities rather than market mechanisms have combined to plummet oil prices to below 45$/barrel. And oil companies have cut back on investments and profit projections for the near future. TULLOW in Turkana too I think. Will oil prices rise again to the old level? And after how long? Are oil credits in advance castles built in the air? (we await Rotich's other genial manoeuvres, apart from more loans indicating a dive toward alarming ratios of debt to GDP!) NB: Uhuru Kenyatta fits perfectly into this historical trap: necessarily an increasing public posture of anti- imperialism while, in the kitchen, an imperialist domesticate.Latest, after proving our might by bolting out of the ICC to safely join the likes of the USA OUTSIDE IT --Aden Duale has announced the law will be changed to allow for the Chinese hackers recently arrested in Runda to be repatriated. ostensibly to be tried in China. this swiftly followed this
hint.. by the Real Boss.. The Chinese foreign minister came and 'politely' urged the step. (pinching Bi Amina's buttocks discretely in the background and giving her a deep wink I suppose!) And so it will be done. The will of the distant emperor conveyed to overseas vassals by a senior emissary! (Alternative readings of the situation welcome please. Where was Aden Duale when we extradited the so-called Kampala bombing suspects, Kenyan citizens, without any court hearing to Uganda?) Engineer Michael Kamau of transport, a scientist whose mind has little room for romantic nonsense, had no time for obfuscations when he was asked his readings. He told parliament direct. Cabinet Secretary for Transport and Infrastructure Eng. Michael Kamau when he appeared before the Parliamentary Public Investment Committee at Continental house in Nairobi on Monday 20/01/14. [PHOTO: BONIFACE OKENDO/STANDARD] with a straight smile.[/i] Reality is reality. No apologies. When without exception you kill off sections of your constitutional requirements and autonomy in order to be funded for this and that, you of course know are a dog. Alternative readings of the situation welcome! Well, in the absence of a convincing alternative narrative, mesays my Excellency Uhuru Kenyatta can shout all he likes at the top of his voice WE ARE FREE TO MAKE OUR CHOICES, but deep down he knows the score. He is merely posturing, covering the pain he feels within, our collective pain. The pain of every slave. Every dog on a leash. Laugh at Mugabe, but remember however late, he carried out a land reform, much against the anger of a white aristocracy and their international patrons abroad. Old Robert, he was of a different, hardier breed.
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Post by OtishOtish on Feb 8, 2015 18:16:24 GMT 3
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Post by OtishOtish on Feb 8, 2015 18:21:12 GMT 3
Alternative readings of the situation welcome please. When we were kids and my father had to deliver some caning but we thought weeping and wailing would deter him, he had this advice: " This is going to happen, no matter what. Best to bend over and take it quietly". It seems that Kenya is taking similarly sensible advice when it comes to Kung Fu tarimbo spring-roll. It's hardly the best position from which to assert equality and demand respect, but "leaders" on The Beloved Continent have never been short of chutzpah.
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