|
Post by jakaswanga on Apr 21, 2014 15:21:21 GMT 3
A NOTE TO FOOT:A long long time ago before the world started, when I was a young student up North in the wastelands of Northumberland, we had an Irish-born lecturer who was really a rogue of a rebel. And the drunken son of a Scotch managed to persuade the bulk of us to choose teaching as a profession, above the gold-paved highways that led to the City, and the glittering paycheques of London’s commercial empire. ‘The government does not appear to be overly concerned with the health of the people.’ He winked at us one day. ‘We can see this in its lacklustre approach to the twin evils of smoking and over-consumption of sugary foods, even fast foods. Obesity and nicotine-related health ailments are a national time bomb, but the Health department keeps its head in the sand.’ Why, if the facts are clear in relation to the twin ills, would a government not care a bout a healthy population, which surely will be highly productive, some of us asked in amazement? That was when the professor gave us a strange look, as if he could not decided whether we were totally naïve, or just completely stupid. Too much in love with our mother, Margaret Thatcher! [He fondly called her Big Momma] ‘’Have you ever heard of the food lobby? And do you know the stranglehold, or the power of big money over our politicians –even over Your Big Momma Maggie!? Some special interest groups, and certain sectors of the economy, have the financial muscle to influence political decision making, enough to burry science. Government policy is always good, but rarely for the people.’’ The rogue taught us the basics of scepticism. And he went to give us data from studies in various fields, in some cases, scientists whose careers had been ruined, because their findings contradicted big business. He concluded by informing us that, in any case, barter trade between poor countries, could even be more profitable endeavour, than the compulsory dollar mediation. So, ever so slowly, I came around to thinking, that using the dollar for our African countries, could be an enforced political decision by the powers that be, and not the ECONOMICALLY sensible decision as otherwise would be, if our countries were free to decide for themselves, and were led by a different caliber. This really spoilt my head, and ruined my mood about economic science. I felt it had all the answers, but hoarded them in a devil’s pact to keep certain sectors of the human globe destitute, dependent and downtrodden. If there were people, organised and decidedly powerful enough to force other governments to knowingly practice wrong science/policies on their people, it followed in my mind that they would always do it for the sake of their profit ad infinitum. For I thought that is how human beings behave. In addition, the history I was studying showed changed tended to be a bloody business. No such thing as a bloodless liberation. Some of the things civilised men do: 1. SHELLIf Shell Oil Company can make super profits degrading the Niger Delta environment without somebody stopping them, that is exactly what they would do. Of their own volition they would not adopt a save )the earth policy. 2. AREVAIf Areva of France can mine Uranium in Niger without somebody forcing them to take care of the environment, they will go ahead to dump waste all over the place and extinguish the local population by way of radiation-initiated slow genocide, like cancer and congenital defects. www.theguardian.com/global-development/2011/dec/12/french-nuclear-group-monitor-health-niger That is right, it is only in 2013 that the French were ready to consider a link between uranium radiation and health problems in the Uranium mining areas of Africa. Does anybody remember how long ago science established the link between genetical mutations, cancer and uranium radiation? ---And was it not a French scientist who won the Nobel price on that research!? ---May be he used Africans as his guinea pigs? I tell you fellow Kenyans it is a blessing the French Telecom Orange is quitting the Kenyan market! They are a primitive people, and should be told what Amilcar Cabral allegedly told the young Portuguese soldiers who went back and initiated the Anja Revolution that ended the military Juntas. Cabral laughed: ''Portugal can not civilise any colony. It is one of the most primitive and backward countries in Europe. Your mothers sleep with goats and donkeys in dug-out caves. They shit in the bush like us natives here, draw water from wells like us natives here, and your women stink, that is why you can not keep your hands off ours who bathe everyday! I suggest you go back and civilise, and christianize your Portugal first, and let us here, too, get on with the business of civilising ours. Or you will get badly hurt''. A young officer from North Portugal --whose mother indeed lived in a hovel and stunk due to the leakages of a medically neglected fistula, was so humiliated he became a leading strategist of the famous coup in Lisboa. And this must be the story we must tell Christin Lagarde of IMF when she comes visiting next time around with her modernising policies. Let her go save France from Hollande first! we will do just fine without French interference in Kenya, and Africa. (A pity Uhuru Kenyatta lacks the guts of Cabral! and fawns instead like a long-tongued labrador at Christin's pheromoned feet!) ...But ... Take a look at More Areva blues. www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/05/us-niger-areva-specialreport-idUSBREA140AA20140205 FRANCO-PHONE AFRICA! I tell you we ANGLOPHONE colonials are blessed compared to them! But better late than never! Well, even sleeping dogs do wake up. But we know France is broke and a diminishing power, so actually they can not pay up. Niger better look elsewhere. Of course France is seeking ways to solve the crisis by other means, and that is why its troops are in the area. Also notice the changing energy politics in Europe in the light of the NATO vs Russia war-mongering, and the plans to substitute cheap Russian gas with expensive USA LPG. That means poor France can not afford to let go of its cheap energy-producing African backyard. Then there is the rapped up arms race, which must require a new nuclear arms deal renewal. But that was a by the way. 3. UNION CARBIDE.And if Union Carbide can build a ramshackle factory in Bophal India without any authority calling them to halt, that is exactly what they will do. Until disaster unfolds. realsociology.edublogs.org/2010/08/11/case-study-union-carbide-in-bhopal-the-worst-industrial-accident-in-history/ And here is a detail that shows one just how evil the combination of corrupt administrators and callous money men [captains of industry] are. The plant had actually become a mere toxic dump in the middle of a densely populated area. –Of course every scientist and politician knew the risks. But did they care? NB: a comparative study from Papua New Guinea. www.skwirk.com/p-c_s-57_u-507_t-1375_c-5294/qld/sose-geography/the-global-citizen-ecology-and-economy/economy/ecology-case-studies/mining-pollution-in-papua-new-guinea After this footnote, we can now go back to Central Banks and the case of the mysterious rising price of Gold.
|
|
|
Post by jakaswanga on Apr 21, 2014 15:44:56 GMT 3
FOOTNOTE: DO YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO DOCTOR JOHN YUDKIN AND WHY? www.telegraph.co.uk/health/dietandfitness/10634081/John-Yudkin-the-man-who-tried-to-warn-us-about-sugar.htmlAnd, dear reader, do you know what happened to the first scientist who, after lab tests on rats, declared Tobacco to be one of the greatest health sins of our modern world? ---Oh! he thinks tobacco is more dangerous than Communism! Remove him from our universities! he is poison to young minds! And when Darwin wrote the origin of species? ---how did they ''church'' react? I do remember my Irish teacher with some fondness!
|
|
|
Post by jakaswanga on Apr 21, 2014 15:54:50 GMT 3
|
|
|
Post by podp on Apr 21, 2014 23:17:28 GMT 3
Beware Afrika! I see our Central Bankers and chancellors of the Exchequers have embarked on a massive statistical upgrade of the status of our various GDP's! They are certainly not the only illusionists in the market. The world, has become Onitsha CENTRAL BANKERS of THE MAJOR ECONOMIES HAVE RUN OUT OF ORTHODOX TRICKS. Enter the era of super illusionists! This bankruptcy of official policy is a game changer, and Afrika must find out really why China is hoarding Gold! Our addiction to the dollar must be questioned. But that is a long story, and we will go about it in parts. Somebody help me out: I am looking for the title of the short story by Chinua Achebe which handles MONEY DOUBLING at Onitsha Market, Nigeria. I have not found this title at the Achebe bibliography, yet I am sure, from memory, that Dr. Omollosing who was our Achebe specialist, made us take a long think about this story! I think there was a character in it called Chike who wanted to cross the river [ of Poverty to the other bank of Industrialisation] but had not enough fare! Wherefrom he met the money-doubling character! I am sory Amigo Mank --chief econometrist of Jukwaa, but it really looks to me like all these your monetary abracadabra like quantitative easing and the rest, are just the money doublers of Onitsha and other stories already told so well in folklore narratives! The more Chike saw the ferry-boats the more he wanted to make the trip to Asaba. But where would he get the money? He did not know. Still, he hoped. Eleven-year-old Chike longs to cross the Niger River to the city of Asaba, but he doesn’t have the sixpence he needs to pay for the ferry ride. With the help of his friend S.M.O.G., he embarks on a series of adventures to help him get there. Along the way, he is exposed to a range of new experiences that are both thrilling and terrifying, from eating his first skewer of suya under the shade of a mango tree, to visiting the village magician who promises to double the money in his pocket. Once he finally makes it across the river, Chike realizes that life on the other side is far different from his expectations, and he must find the courage within him to make it home. www.amazon.com/Chike-River-Chinua-Achebe/dp/0307473864otherwise we are all upgrading and you should be rejoicing not gnashing your teeth. After months of delays and mounting anticipation, Nigeria’s economy has been officially “rebased”. It is now worth $510bn (2013 figures) – an 89% rise, far in excess of analysts’ predictions. Nigeria is now Africa’s largest economy, pushing South Africa to a distant second place. It's long overdue. The United Nations Statistical Commission recommends a statistical rebasing every five years, to a) account for changes in the patterns of economic activity (consumption and production), such as a country discovering new mineral wealth or getting an infusion of broadband or launching a local car manufacturing industry or seeing an industry lapse into obsolescence b) update base prices to a more recent year, to account for inflation. www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/07/nigeria-south-africa-largest-economy"Kenya is set to achieve the key middle-income economic status next month following a government-led statistical review that is likely to increase the size of the country’s economy by a fifth to $50bn. Benjamin Macharia Muchiri, senior manager at the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics, said the gross domestic product for 2009, the new base year, was “about 20 per cent higher than previously estimated”. He added: “Preliminary results for other years between 2006 and 2011 show revised GDPs going up by between 15 to 25 per cent.” The increase – expected to be announced in May, although 2014 quarterly figures will not be updated until September – would push Kenya’s GDP for 2009 to about $37bn. Applying the same jump to 2013 could put the country’s economy above $50bn. At that level, Kenya, a nation of more than 43m people, will enjoy a GDP per capita of more than $1,136, up from a current estimate of $943, and within the benchmark of $1,036 set by the World Bank for middle-income nations. www.wazua.co.ke/forum.aspx?g=posts&t=28531
|
|
|
Post by jakaswanga on Apr 23, 2014 23:15:50 GMT 3
The more Chike saw the ferry-boats the more he wanted to make the trip to Asaba. But where would he get the money? He did not know. Still, he hoped. Eleven-year-old Chike longs to cross the Niger River to the city of Asaba, but he doesn’t have the sixpence he needs to pay for the ferry ride. With the help of his friend S.M.O.G., he embarks on a series of adventures to help him get there. Along the way, he is exposed to a range of new experiences that are both thrilling and terrifying, from eating his first skewer of suya under the shade of a mango tree, to visiting the village magician who promises to double the money in his pocket. Once he finally makes it across the river, Chike realizes that life on the other side is far different from his expectations, and he must find the courage within him to make it home. www.amazon.com/Chike-River-Chinua-Achebe/dp/0307473864 Thanx Podp! I had mistakenly thought the phrase the money doublers of onitsha was in the title. Any way in Kisumu too we used to have the Wash-Wash gang, who run a paper to money transformation racket, more like these central bankers like Draghi and Bernanke who run the dollar and euro printing presses at Turbo, and raked in super bonuses for a job well done! UUUUU UUUU, it is just an illusion! there is a song with a line like that! Podp, Macharia Muchiri and Co are revising figures all the way to 2006! Jesus, what have they been doing in the meantime? where have they been? ---AAAH, they collected so much data, it takes a decade to punch them in, process and make sense! Statisticians too better go digital I say!
|
|
|
Post by jakaswanga on May 14, 2014 20:02:30 GMT 3
Beware Afrika! I see our Central Bankers and chancellors of the Exchequers have embarked on a massive statistical upgrade of the status of our various GDP's! They are certainly not the only illusionists in the market. The world, has become Onitsha CENTRAL BANKERS of THE MAJOR ECONOMIES HAVE RUN OUT OF ORTHODOX TRICKS. Enter the era of super illusionists! This bankruptcy of official policy is a game changer, and Afrika must find out really why China is hoarding Gold! Our addiction to the dollar must be questioned. But that is a long story, and we will go about it in parts. First: THE ILLUSIONISTS. But executing the tired old King did not change the system. www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/02/03/janet-yellens-fed-challenges-start-immediately Janet Yellen, the new FED Chair. To be continued. Somebody help me out: I am looking for the title of the short story by Chinua Achebe which handles MONEY DOUBLING at Onitsha Market, Nigeria. I have not found this title at the Achebe bibliography, yet I am sure, from memory, that Dr. Omollosing who was our Achebe specialist, made us take a long think about this story! I think there was a character in it called Chike who wanted to cross the river [ of Poverty to the other bank of Industrialisation] but had not enough fare! Wherefrom he met the money-doubling character! I am sory Amigo Mank --chief econometrist of Jukwaa, but it really looks to me like all these your monetary abracadabra like quantitative easing and the rest, are just the money doublers of Onitsha and other stories already told so well in folklore narratives! THE FOLLOWING IS AN UBELIEVABLE TALE! If IT IS TRUE! GOSH! WAR AND GOD HELP THE DOLLAR! --Could the FED really have resorted to blatant subterfuge and chicanery to bring home a good report for its famous policy of QE and tapering? to fool the market, keeping up dollar appearances stable value!? That would be the FED as a titanic that hit the iceberg full-steam and sunk! kaput! Here is the article by Paul Craig Roberts and Dave Kranzler And the popularity of its hits means Chicago is in an existential crisis. www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2014/05/14/the-fed-is-the-great-deceiver/
|
|
|
Post by jakaswanga on May 28, 2014 22:47:42 GMT 3
There was a time the leaves of the oak at Dodona told truths as the wind flowed through them, and folks in their ‘’simplicity were content to hear an oak rock, provided it told the truth’’. Here is a Greek philosopher in his own words: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodona Our Central Banks, especially those of the West –the famous FED, the bank of England, the ECB, the Bundesbank, are of course towering citadels of prophetic models of the global economy. As the Chairs ruffle their papers –the rushing through the leaves of the Dodona Oak- and proclaim their truths in lofty press conferences steeped in awesome rituals, the people of our time, not wanting to be taken for another ride, politely listen as good manners dictate before the worshipped. But once out of earshot, the people burst with pent up laughter and place bets on how long the show will last before the priests have to find employ elsewhere, and the Holy Banks, become relics. Like Dodona, and the deep-drawling Delphis. This is current Dodona. What remains of the the world’s once most powerful oracle. When Hjalmar Schacht took over as minister of economic affairs, Bankers did not impress him. He thought they were parasitic leeches, that had to be controlled tightly. Up to recently, and even today, Switzerland is the mecca of Banking. But what does a closer look reveal? Switzerland has been nothing but a clearing house for contraband capital. An El Dorado of dirty money. There is no genius to Bankers in the cheesy Alpine Land. Nearly everybody in the world would love to avoid tax in their country. The Swiss specialised in helping out the big guys. A looters paradise! See the figure which has left Africa for Switzerland in the past 4 decades and marvel! But times are changing, the USA can not print dollars forever and maintain its value. The Internal Revenue service wants every genuine dollar they can find, and Switzerland is a good place to take a long look at. Here is a taste of the debate. Hjalmar Schacht! they do not teach him at the Vaticans of Economic theory, do they, Mank!? And so you will quantitatively ease and taper and print yourself to hyperinflation amigo! Tell that to Rotich! I saw he has put all his hopes on Eurobonds! A gambler's market!
|
|
|
Post by jakaswanga on Aug 4, 2014 20:59:06 GMT 3
GHANA: THE CEDI COLLAPSES. SO WHAT HAPPENED TO AFRICA RISING IN ACCRA?Ghana is an OIL-BOOM economy. She has political stability and orderly changes of power. She is business friendly and open and an investor's paradise. So why, really, is the CEDI collapsed? I will go to work on it, meanwhile I give you standard reports! www.bdlive.co.za/africa/africanbusiness/2014/08/04/ghana-seeks-imf-bailout-for-ailing-currency No, no similarities with Kenya, even when you read the one below, from the fiancial times. But If I were Rotich, our fin-sec, I would launch a commando team to forensically study Ghana. There is a sh!t storm out there, even for limitless Turkana black gold miners! An oil-rich country going for a bail out from the IMF. Must have done every stupid thing that can be done!
|
|
|
Post by wanyee on Aug 10, 2014 19:03:37 GMT 3
Jakaswanga, You are hitting the nail on the head: "The key point to be gleaned here is that neoliberalism is a selective use of free market principles in favor of powerful economic actors. For instance, US policymakers gladly embrace market freedom if it allows corporations to exploit cheap labor abroad and undermine domestic unions. But on the other hand they refuse to heed the WTO’s demands that they abolish their massive agricultural subsidies (which distort the competitive advantage of third world countries), because that would run against the interests of a powerful corporate lobby. The 2008 bank bailouts provide another prime example of this double standard. A true free market would have left the banks to pay for their own mistakes. Neoliberalism, however, often means state intervention for the rich and free markets for the poor. Indeed, many of the problems produced by neoliberalism could be mitigated by a more equitable application of market principles. In the case of the agriculture trade, for instance, poor countries would benefit hugely from more market liberalization. Another good example is Germany’s system. Working on a theory known as ordoliberalism, Germany uses state intervention to prevent monopolies and encourage competition among small and medium-sized businesses." Source: www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/article_comments/a_short_history_of_neoliberalism_and_how_we_can_fix_itSee also:Policy-makers who advise developing countries to focus on export-led growth often cite the example of the “East Asian Tigers” (Malaysia, South Korea, Thailand, and Singapore) as success stories.(1) However, as opposed to initial claims by the proponents of neoliberalism, the successes of these economies were induced by their respective governments, rather than being market-driven.(2) The much touted successes of the Asian Tigers mirrored those of the United States and other industrialized countries, in that the state played a central role in managing the national economy. Beginning in the 1960s, these countries invested significantly in local industry.(3) Also, while deeply engaged in economic globalization, the domestic markets of these “market” economies were far from unfettered. Globalization was calculated and paced, and government intervention was cautious, but pervasive. East Asian governments played a key role in planning and advancing domestic technology, determining which sectors to develop rather than allowing this to be determined by external market forces.(4) The East Asian Tigers successfully followed a course that was quite different from that proposed by the Washington Consensus: the role of the state was much bigger than the modest one permitted by market fundamentalism, and more emphasis was put on equity and pro-poor policies. East Asian governments believed in the value of markets, but they acknowledged the fact that markets need to be governed, because private firms can disobey the rules of the market. They also adopted protectionist policies. For example, Malaysia did not simply relinquish its oil wealth to foreign corporations, but stipulated that these companies transfer technology and expertise to local workers. It subsequently developed a government-owned oil company, Petronas, which even trains industry personnel in other oil-producing developing countries.(5) It was not until the 1980s, after possibly succumbing to pressure from the IMF and the U.S. Treasury, did the East Asian governments open up their markets to speculative capital flows. Capital flowed in for a while, then sentiment changed and it quickly fled back out, resulting in the Asian crisis. As a result, officials in the region have been “rejecting even more firmly the Washington Consensus market fundamentalism which opened their countries to the ravages of…speculators.”(6) The World Bank has since recognized the influence of the state in its “East Asian miracle” study, contradicting its initial interpretations of the success of the East Asian economies.(7) References:1. Hout, W. (1993). Capitalism in the Third World: Development, Dependence and the World System. Aldershot, U.K: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited 2. Kay, C., & Gwynne, R.N. (2000). Relevance of Structuralist and Dependency Theories in the Neoliberal Period: A Latin American Perspective. The Hague, The Netherlands: University of Birmingham, Institute of Social Studies 3. Stiglitz, J.E. (2006). Making Globalization Work. Toronto, ON: Penguin Group 4. Ibid 5. Ibid6. Ibid. p.34 7. World Bank. (1993). The East Asian Miracle: Public Policy and Economic Growth. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. Read More: www.madaraka.net/?page_id=201
|
|
|
Post by jakaswanga on Jul 26, 2015 13:36:38 GMT 3
COMMON SENSE AND THE ECONOMICS OF SCALE, THE BASICS WILL TAKE YOU FAR IF SERIOUS.Hmm, this 26th day of June 2015, President Obama of the United States has put down a performance at the chinese-built Kasarani which easily looks to rival if not, as a spectacle, outgun the declaration of Independence in 1963 or the inauguration of Mwai Kibaki to end the Moi-KANU years. It was so hot, authentically passionate a times, it was overwhelming. So I will take a different tangent and return to it later at a social thread. But now do I scurry away from tear-jerkers like ... when he lost his luggage and the lady helping to fill out the form recognised his name and asked if he was related to the senior Obama she had known. 'Obama 'felt the up to then disconnected parts of his identity lock and rivet, and he became whole in his identity.' Tales do not come more human than that. So let me conserve my tears for later. I do the hard stuff now. www.nation.co.ke/business/-/996/2808060/-/kujo8s/-/index.html NO No No! Goldman Sachs! International Finance Corporation's Women Entrepreneurs Opportunity Facility! That is the kind of obfuscation which is a killer --like the european counterpart which shut the door on Greece ( European Fiancial Stability Facility!). Obama knows the kind of service charges American bankers hit clients with, and the bonus culture at the Sucking Goldman, no? Ask the Greeks what happened to them when the Golden boys acted as consultants at their Central bank and ministry of Finance. So why trust the sheep to the wolves? Is Obama merely out to subsidise and reward his wall-street backers one last time as he hits the last stretch of his presidency? --I ask because there are easier, more intelligent and more time-tested ways of helping out starting entrepreneurs. And there are powerful reasons why EXISTENT financial facilities are never adequate! OWN BANKS! They -- upcoming specific economic group with status quo odds stacked against them-- must form their own Industrial and Commerce Bank. You know, like China's recently launched Industrial and Investment Bank, yet the IMF and World Bank exists! --yes, Like in industrialising France, the Agri-COLE-cultural bank, with a constitution detailing its historical mandate to respond to the specific economic, financial interests farmers. Yes, taking ones future in their hands is the wisdom of a separate niche bank for that particular sector, tailored-made, specialised, responsive to its target audience. But you put the fate of starting entrepreneurs at the lap of derivative wolves at wolf-street, and you tell me you are going places, I say No, just give me an old-fashioned bank. --eg Banki Kuu ya Wanawake!- controlled interest rates (like Central Banks do for Commercial Banks ) -controlled service fees (Like Central Banks do for Commercial Banks) -controlled terms of refund (remember QE is when the money is given freely to Commercial banks!) -No mandate to swindle and propel into enslavement by debt (like the Goldman Sachs agenda for Greece was). -No crazy names like FACILITY. Call a spade a spade: Starters Credit Bank! Women Investment Bank. -Banki Kuu ya Wanawake! Kwani running a --SACCO-- cooperative bank has become rocket science? The USA can just make sure its money is used corruption free. That is all. Again I prefer the old method. The USA should just build 3 MAMOTH ALL FEMALES TECHNICAL INSTITUTES specialising in immediate and applicable technology. (ANGLO-, FRANCO, ANGLOPHONE) Mammoth insitutes I said: Kwani we forget how the current Nobel Price Factory in the sciences, Massachusetts institute of Technology, started out? A megacampus in its time! There is a lot of land in Zambia (Anglophone), let the USA build a monstrous 30,000 per year intake technological school for women there, like the many TECHs in the USA, only this time with the economics of scale, eyeing a backdrop of 400 million women. (international includes Asia and Latin America.) That would be a statement of confidence. For Francophone, build it at Kisangani in Congo, a light in the heart of darkness! plenty of Land! Take a look at the Pan-European space technological station in French Guyana, South America, for the economics of scale. Just kidding, I meant take a look at the NASA campus! Well, the All Africa applied technological school for women in Kisangani does not have to be that megalomanic, but the NASA SCALE puts into perspective these stories about connecting 10,000 African women IN village seminars about technology in the computer age. Mesays, when people mean business, you know and can see they mean business -they build the Panama Canal for instance, no mean feat! So I remembered when JF Kennedy meant business after the shock of the Russian sputnik earth orbit. That is how I compare seriousness, and come to recognise Obama is not serious. He is just playing politics for his country to counter China on the cheap.Well, Equity needed liquidity to expand operations to the Congo market and, locally, take the battle to Safaricom. Combine these aims with Goldman Sachs expertise and bend, and you may not exactly get the desired cheap loans channelled to female, youth and start-up enterprises. And you know what the Opus Dei fellow at Central Bank said about instrument interest rates and the market. He has a doctrine about that. Methinks we just need a specific, specialistic and separate Industrial and Technology Investment bank! Ruthlessly dedicated to its purpose and core clientele. Investors from the homes of capital and venture capitalists are capable of making their investment decisions without admonishment from politicians. They will come on their own when they see the opportunity. You can trust them on that. Then there are those out for the subsidies from their home governments, but these ones you do not want. They are short-term locusts, gone with the next administration if winds change. If we are confident enough to put functional systems into play -security, judiciary (fair arbitration is important in commercial disputes), constant electricity, functional hospitals, transparent procedures -so that you do not have to know people to get business--- we could just zoom past South Africa and urinate on the Oga brothers! But Somalia worries me. So long we are not a good neighbour and a honest power-broker in their conflict, we got a constipation and the ever threat of a running belly. Kennedy Space Centre [img[https://formaementis.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/kennedy_space_center_headquarters.jpg[/img] This NASA scale is the one I expect In Kisangani for the women technological institute, Obama Super-Power serious! And this is just for shopping! Built in a country under 30 year sanctions! -where there is a will, there is a way! So you want African women entrepreneurs in technology!? Give me a mega school for the guiness book of records, just to show 'half the team which hitherto has not been playing,' will now enter the field at full fear! - Iwinjo, Omera Obama!? You will man up, or shut up on the future of Africa! And remain content telling emotional tales that jerk tears!
|
|
|
Post by jakaswanga on Jul 26, 2015 13:58:56 GMT 3
Pardon, on the economics of scale, I forgot a detail. MEGACAMPUS HOSTELS! O yeah, I forgot to remind of how you house 30,000 (FEMALE STUDENTS in one megacampus. It is so easy it was solved over a hundred years ago: where? Where else but Obamaland USA! 4,000/dormitory? So with 5 dormitories you cover 20,000!? and you do them four storeys to save on surface area! –-Costs your ask: You forgot the Otishotish Trillion dollars Africa saved for a rainy day in Western vaults! This is how I come to tell POTUS to man up or shut up! Only willpower is remaining and we launch Africa!
|
|
|
Post by jakaswanga on Oct 14, 2015 20:11:20 GMT 3
AFRICA CONFIDENTIAL; As is indexed by the proprietor of the blog Onyango Oloo, makes a hilarious point on the governor of the Central bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele. A point one could juxtapose on Kenya's entry, Dr. Opus Deian Njoroge. Remember this phraseology: A HALTING PERFORMANCE! Intriguing! Intriguing choice of characterisation of a failed exercise! But I find myself not beholden enough to interests which would dictate a diplomatic dress down to cushion this harsh reality. Edged in my mind, because I was not studying economics but it was a historically too pivotal moment to miss, was how the speculator George Sorros of the Quantum Fund, led a host of locusts to pluck naked chancellor of the exchequer Norman Lamont. This was post Thatcher Britain, John Major's watch. it was 16 September 1992, Black Wednesday. This --BLACK WEDNESDAY-- event continues to fascinate me. And over the years I have tried to read the memoirs and the commentary of the men who lived it from the inside. For instance Jim Trott, the man who was charged with mopping up shed pounds to shore up THE sterling's value What did Sorros and the markets know, but the UK government tried to deny? ---The pound was overvalued for psychological reasons. The productivity and trade levels of the British economy could not sustain the set, predetermined fluctuation range for the pound within the European Exchange Rate Mechanism, ERM, if its bluff was called by a mean outfit. Already over exposed on debt because Thatcherism had been an economic miracle of a consumerist boom funded by debt, the pound was groggy on rubbery legs. And behind closed doors the treasury knew it. The gap between reality and bravado, usually filled with illusions, would be the burrial ground of many a career. THE EXCHANGE RATES OF AFRICAN CURRENCIES Some will remember the days of official exchange rates, when there flourished a blackmarket in every city centre corner for foreign currency. The legalisation of this market, at least in Kenya, manifests itself as the many bureaus which litter every town-center-street nowadays. That is a serious lesson to learn about fictitious exchange rates. AFRICAN SUPER POWERS. Now Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa in the narrative of a rising Africa are lions of savannah roaring and making known their arrival. Much like the Asian tigers of yonder. But there is this discordant, unconvincing tone in the roar; the lions are rather tame, wagging their tales while on their hind legs, salivating domesticatedly for debt from far and near, merely to pay salaries of an inept do-nothing bureaucracy. The banks and financial markets know this. The lions are not into any economic activity that generates surplus, neither does african rising entail competitive commodities which designate new technologies, nor new services worldwide marketable. The debt addiction is a pyramid scheme, a consumerist addiction. The central banks of Nigeria and Kenya ----spending big shoring up the values of the shilling and Naira, are KRARUBANDIKA comedians charlatans keeping up appearances. Like Norman Lamont to George Soros, meals being fattened for the kill, those rebase statistics we marvelled at. REBASE It was called rebase, a method of calculation which upgraded the volumes of the economies of Kenya and Nigeria and several other Lions and camels. This pimping up mathematics I will call the rubbing of the Alladin lamp of statistics. And so like Mr. Karubandika, the central banks of Kenya and Nigeria puffed up their chests and roared their virility for all to hear. A HALTING PERFORMANCE! Says Patrick Smith with his tongue in his cheek in the confidential african. British humour, a halting performance by a bull = ? --stiff upper lip please! Karubandika! how does the song go again!?
|
|
|
Post by jakaswanga on Oct 16, 2015 18:30:02 GMT 3
ON THE RESOLVE TO DEFEND AFRICAN CURRENCIES BY GOING INTO DEEPER DEBT50% of the collected revenue went to debt repayment and debt servicing. A Kenyan statistic stated with nonchalance. A bit like telling a goat El-Ninho is around the corner. Mbeeeeh! replies the goat with a merry chime! Meanwhile the shilling grew weaker, devalued, making the repayments more expensive than originally projected. Then Behold, taking on more debt is the medicine the government doctors have prescribed for the 'crunched' patient --- new debt at even steeper interest rates. -- Mbeee he he heh! let I goat chew curd in peace!www.nation.co.ke/news/Treasury-has-no-cash/-/1056/2915658/-/65xp2gz/-/index.html In this scheme of events, the old words PRODUCTIVITY nor INVESTMENT do not appear. This is 'newconomy'! A wholly financialised system. No such thing as puttin people into real work, labour being productive. Mercifully the projectedgrowth is still a whooping 5.5% the next four quarters. Not that I take that for God's truth. Neither am I the only doubting Tom, for in the distance I can hear the funeral drums revving. But is it a mock event, those funeral drums, or are they the real deal? Take a look at the patient. Forgetting for a moment the placebo talk of the finance kid Henry Rotich at parliament buildings yesterday. NOW LET US VISIT THE REAL WORLD. How long (actual working days on the avarage) does it take East African Economies to produce surplus value equal to $.1.2Bn?) ponder that! Enumerated are trong reasons why the Kenyan shilling or Naija Naira-- is depreciating, and, stated too, is the equally strong resolve of the respective Treasuries and Central Banks to uphold the delusional levels of exchange! Keeping up illusions will expensive for someone. For Wanjiku I guess. Central Bank of Nigeria building, Abuja. I want to revisit my teaching-aid, Karubandika. That is the untiringly famous Marquis hit Song from Tanzania. I want to replay it for the listening pleasure of African Central bankers who, in the footsteps of Emofiele of Nigeria, are battling to shore up their currencies, to keep their exchange rates within a predefined, narrow fluctuation range ---at all costs!Within the fairy tales of our people and village folklore ---simple songs, are depths which if you are minded to think out, still leave you floating. (Think of the money-doublers of Onitsha market by Chinua Achebe for instance!) --is that not a variant of the recent statistical exercise called REBASE!?I am game as the now dormant Jukwaaist Nereah would say. We have seen what happened to the British pound when, under J ohn Major at No. 10 Downing, Norman Lamont insisted without back-up that the Pound's worth was Sterling. We saw the markets did not buy it, and speculators had a field day laughing all the way to the bank! Much less known is the asphyxiation of Greece during the recent Euro and Eurozone finance and economic crisis. The Euro was defined as a HARD & TOUGH CURRENCY, indeed modelled on the heavy-weight German D-Mark. Now, that is all very excellent for a formidable industrial and economic powerhouse like Germany, a prudent system with a conservative Central Bank with a hawk's eye on the indicators. But for backward Greece, a contraband Mediterranean economy of fish and people smugglers, goatherds and ouzo addicts, a siesta-prone bureaucracy and a thieving elite, fake blondes strutting stuff on the legendary Aegean beaches, all fat on Northern largesse (in the form of what would later turn out to be cut-throat loans), the hardness and toughness of the Euro was a standard four centuries ahead. Them Greeks would have been better off with a currency truly reflective of their comatose economy, say a worthless DRACHMA loitering with every wind.Alas! now every six months Hellas is having elections. The purpose is to have a popular government enslaved from Brussels, run by creditors siphoning off Greek blood. Greece was living above its means, enjoying the life of credit
Kujibandika madaraka sio yako bwana wewe ---Marquis Original in the song Karubandika. and happily, not everything economists say is true! And economists can be paid to lie like we saw in the case of the professors Reihnart and Rogoff from Might Harvard. Central Bank of Angola building, Loanda.''Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth'' said Albert Einstein! So we warn Yale and Harvard to beware of the the fate of Dodona and Delphoi, once all the worlds truthsayers, now all but dreary ruins! Having achieved universal dominance and the monopoly of truth speaking, they abuse their power and began to choose who to tell the truths to, and then abused their reputation by insisting everything they said was the truth and the truth alone. People still came, but now for the comical show! Then better comical shows arrived at nearer-by theaters, and their era was gone forever. Central Bank building Ghana, Accra. And here is a man we can describe as exemplifying the saying: once bitten, twice shy. South African Reserve Bank building, Pretoria. Benki kuu ya Tanzania. Central bank building of Malawi, Lilongwe. Central Bank of West African states building, Bamako, Mali.if only the policies were as confident as the buildings of central banks! Dakar, Senegal.To conclude on a positive note
I have a dream ... Wait until I present my Jukwaa special on the GREAT CEMENT SCAM OF KENYA! high standards!?? --talk to hardware people and fundis, guys! go to your nearest supermarket and take a look at the chainlink wire! a toddler can rip it! But Job creation! Dead end now? --where will the youth go!? A-shabaab recruit?
|
|
jpl
New Member
Posts: 31
|
Post by jpl on Oct 17, 2015 16:33:00 GMT 3
|
|
|
Post by jakaswanga on Oct 18, 2015 11:07:48 GMT 3
THE VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE DELIVERED TO NAIROBI!The IMF has decided her two blue-eyed boys at the Treasury, The Harvard-Yale doctorate tandem of Henry Rotich and Patrick Njoroge, are not up to the job. (The IMF stranglehold on Kenya's finances is completed by their former resident economist, Dr. Kamau Thugge). But now they have sacked them. Diplomatic lingo, they have 'brought in technical re-enforcement!' (TAC-commando team from their barracks in Dar-es-Salaam). The triad's act in Nairobi has collapsed. And Nairobi is a prestigious and pet project of Bretton Woods! Some fwack-ups get punished. Subtly.But straightforward chaps like me who do not mind calling a spade a spade will recognise the situation for what it is. No longer without quotes can we refer to Henry Rotich as the minister of finance, nor Kamau Thugge as the 'Principal Secretary' Finance, nor can I use the titular Chairperson for Njoroge Patrick as CBK without a knowing wink. Yes, they have OFFICIALLY become figureheads, puppets, removed from the centre of action where decisions are made, but, howbeit, ornaments publicly retained for yes, Public relations exercises. ---(You know, like Raychelle Omamo at defence; like Pasteur Bizimungu as President of Rwanda, always bearing a deep-mocking, haunting look from VP Paul Kagame, Almighty Lord of the Land). But this re-enforcement by reputedly ace --IMF firebrigade---- technicians does not calm me. Indeed I am petrified, for this is like jumping from the frying pan into a fire. I know where their doctoral concoctions have taken me before --Mozambican case-study apart. From the Out Patient to the ICU. And that is not even the long memory all the way to SAP! (the first round of the African economic tumble into debt servitude!) TODAY: Take a look at this Armadno Morales, the IMF nyapara (overseer/capo) in town. He does not sound like an ace doctor that is for those of us who may have heard of this word 'quick recovery, as in Wirtschaftswunder . Therefore, why the best of Kerio Valley who went all the way to Kennedy at Harvard, the best of the White Man World, should defer to mafia don Moralies, will must form the subject of a cultural rather than an economic post, Jukwaa here! ----Truth be told, Dr. Henry Rotich has publicly thrown in the towel. I once said he was missing in action, but he was not yet lost. But now!? Totally vacating the offices of his head, the greatest brain ever from Kerio Valley told the country in his financial care there is no money. He squandered it all on his watch, on binge, so we can start praying for divine deliverance like they are doing in Zambia. (He is gone off economics as a rational science, so culture will do, you catch!?) Meanwhile in the material world, such a goat must -not seeing the honour in resigning himself---- of course be relieved of his duties otherwise, even if to be replaced by a herd of sheep from Dar! And so the IMF has sacked him and his team. Here it is. HELPING HAND OF THE IMF! That is bullsh!t, and, more, it is anti-devolution, the flower of the second liberation. The IMF identifies counties, the devolution show-piece cases, as the CAUSE of the current malaise! Bullsh!t! The massive theft and graft and mismanagement of resources is not mentioned. Comparative figures, %GDP lost to the above by the national government, are an eye-opener. Morales is not any more than a cataracted goat. Before we go back to Morales, take a look at this report from the business daily, where counties have'nt done that badly. They become more independent: That is interesting to ponder. Disburse from the treasury has been sporadic and late, and less, and we remember the public spat between Kamau Thugge of the treasury and Munyua, the chair of the current caucus of governors. What is this now!? I thought the beginning of economic science is: resources/means are limited, but demands are infinite, so economics is the best scientific maximisation of choices facing this constraint. Who has ever heard of abundant resources in economics? --''scarce resources need to be allocated' is hardly an insight coming from a so-called IMF hot shot! -he is still a goat. No mention of the auditor general's report on the wastage, misuse and open-ended accounting practices of the treasury!? Low revenue collection!? You want mandazi sellers by the roadside taxed ksh. 500 per day while their daily profit is ksh. 55? I would rather Ranguma of Kisumu refund all his hotel expanse, and Anne Waiguru her NYS bonus! (Check the total sum!) But more revenue collection by increased taxation scares off investors, like in this tongue-in- cheek scare-tale bACK TO the star. Is Kamau Thugge --former star resident imf economist, now an idiot, that experts must come from Daresalaam to manage his disburse sheet? We are stealing deliberately in Kenya. We do not need foreign experts neither to show us how to steal more, nor to tell us stealing is bad for our land and future! That is the case here! Coming from daresalam to tell Waiguru to stop stealing ksh.900M from the NYS!Come on Opus Dei Man. You can do that yourself amigo! Kamau Thugge achieved a doctorate in economics without having this ingrained in his psyche!? Mama yie! Thoo! this is commerce taught in form four! Yawa! And so the priority became the repayment of debt and servicing of debt, where 50% of the scarce revenues collected went! Morales is a goat. And following a goat's advice has its price! Watch us pay! Here! FOOTNOTE: if you do not know your past, you have no idea where you are going or something like that said Bob Marley. You need THE VISION THING! When the pretenders at the top of the Kenyan treasury later write their memoirs, I can assure you, dear reader, a passage will be a direct reflection of the above quote! Anybody dare take bets to the contrary! And I will be back! Am still searching for the economic doc whose concoction works Wirtschaftswunder!It is a charlatans ball out there! And I got some MOLY from the knave Hermeias! To add to forewarned is forearmed! Cheers Amigos! This is gonna be a Long March for Africa!
|
|
jpl
New Member
Posts: 31
|
Post by jpl on Oct 19, 2015 15:05:08 GMT 3
|
|
|
Post by jakaswanga on Jul 9, 2017 10:08:48 GMT 3
THE RISING TWIN ASIAN POWERS COME CALLINGWHICH CASH CRUNCH? An observation in series: Just like the mercenary intellectual attempts by the likes of CJ David Maraga, AG Githu Muigai and other Judiciary moguls to harmonise Kenya's understanding of integrity and ethical leadership into compatibility with looting the public must be fiercely resisted, so too must the GLOBAL intellectual attempt to harmonize Africa's understanding of her RISING as compatible with the horrors of debt reparations we see, be ruthlessly fought. Then the nothing doing about systematic theft and plunder of states and African resources, because INCUMBENT intellectual POWER continentally can't define theft, as in nor differentiate consensual sex from rape for that matter: that is your crisis there: morally blind elites, but rising nevertheless. The rising Africa has some 30 million kids sleeping rough on city streets. The minors are not going to school nor under any institutional socialisation. They are Outcasts, abandoned wild. Kinshasha alone estimates anything between two hundred thousand to half a million. Then of course there is the dry death for many a young African in the thirsty Sahara, or a watery choke in the Mediterranean if they survive the desert, fleeing the rising Africa to declining Europe! www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/02/morocco-rabat-spain-europe-migrants-asylum.html The rising continent has no place for a lot of her young. Only the chosen few will rise along. So the vote with the feet as it were. This years figures, waawu! edition.cnn.com/2016/10/06/europe/migrant-boats-libya-aris-messinis/index.html There was that African Union summit the other day in Addis Ababa, they gave no da-mn of a thought for this
. say.... crisis, did they!? And so the EU's supremo Angela Merkel called them to a SKYPE conference
over the African immigration
.... crisis... ? perhaps it could make it to the G20-agenda in Hamburg!? 'What immigration crisis? the heads of African states asked. 'Those are tourists, adventurous young men and women. Since when is adventure for the young a crime!? We are glad to be rid of them, testosterone bombs, but we will accept money to keep them in concentration camps.'The French African protectorate of Niger has been selected to pioneer this containment strategy. Overnight, Niger has become a frontline nation in the fight against global terrorism. Even the army was caught off gaurd. They were used to earning pocket money escorting immigrants to Libya's border. Now these were terrorists to be confined to camps, and well, the pocket money would be higher! The moral confusion on a commander's face told a terrible African tale. When others take over your thinking and pay you to parrot it! Launching pad to Libya Agadez, is right in the storm's eye. The new border of Africa with Europe. After Europe helped destroy Libya where close to 3 million Africans of the Sahel earned keep! a crisis!? NB: Austria has moved her army in combat readiness with armed personnel carriers and tracker dogs to seal their border with Italy. African immigrants are a plague, or black-death bearing rodents. It is that kind of world now. But the ball is in Africa's court. Wish you could decode the German phrases within that diplomatic SHARPENING OF RHETORIC!We really must rise! even up!
|
|
|
Post by jakaswanga on Jul 9, 2017 11:09:32 GMT 3
2. OF KENYA'S NEW FRIENDS AND EASTERLY BLUES So HERE is a question to ponder: HOW COME CHINA OUT DID INDIA? Economically speaking: How did China come to show her giant neighbour dust in the past quarter century plus? Let us parrot the official line: India is the largest democracy on Earth! She is now run by the BJP (Bharatiya Janata hindu radical nationalist gang), backed by the largest popular mass movement on Earth -- Shut up Kashmiri separatists and Dalits! On the other hand, China is openly a state capitalist authoritarian conglomerate led by pretender red princelings. In the meantime, China has emerged as the super power in waiting whereas India still is something of that sleeping elephant Gandhi mocked her for. Nothing could have unveiled the insecurities of India more than Prime Minister Narendra Mordi's recent boycott of the OBOR or Belt and Road Initiative conference in Beijing. Narendra Mordi, the great Hindu supremacist is flammoxed and left cooking in his caste-ridden ideology. For Truly the Janata guys have a very nasty streak running through them. So unsettled by China's rise is India, slighted big man Narendra Mordi would do anything to get attention. He has invaded --disputed territory with--- China just days before the G20 summit in Hamburg, and enjoyed Israeli hospitality without a ritual nod at Palestine. It is an unnerving feat in denial by the is great Asian power. India has quite a powerful battery of progressive thinking. But under Mordi, that is another India now, silent on the international stage. So what did China do which India did not do!? And how does the future balance of forces between the two Asian giants straighten out!? Not least in Africa and Kenya! Is China headed for a chaotic collapse of its totalitarianism (or at least a painful transition) while India primes for a phoenix surge? past the EU and the USA soon? A super power just a watery eye glance away from Mombasa!? 2. How come India has, with its headstart of an indigenous business elite, courtesy of a colonial legacy, dominating in many African countries, lost the battle for Africa to China in the last two decades of globalisation? When the Othaya baby Mwai Kibaki grew up, shook himself out of his Oblomovian mental insolvency, bored of the ever condescending West, yawned loudly and, possessed of a flash of insight, looked East, the truth is he was looking past (English-speaking and fellow Commonwealth) India to distant China! Necessity is the mother of many things! Ouch! these figures are dangerously low when you ask me. But then this growl at China from the Indian nationalists, uneasy at the dragon's embrace. The authors are Director, and Consultant Foreign Service Institute New Delhi, respectively. Views are expressed are personal, and do not represent the views of the Government of India Ahmen!? Romantic ivalry pitches!? I don't think China's supremacy over India in Africa is simply a money talks issue. I think it is the product of an integrated, decided personality. IDENTITY. China is decidedly not interested in playing second fiddle to anybody in the future. While all a Hindu nationalist India can't stand is an overbearing, superior China or Pakistan! Incumbent parochial Indian nationalism is only interested in being the pre-eminent Asian power; China mature nationalism, global. The HISTORICAL PERSONALITY of China's leadership, outrules subservience to any other nation. That means the possibility of an actual hot war with the United States is not fiction. The USA is not about to go down without a bang!
---That is Thucydides for you!setting a trap! When one (Chinese) takes a keen look at the USA's investment in its awesome military prowess and one (Chinese) discerns all that might is pivoting ones (Asia) way, one (Chinese or Otherwise) ceases to do illusions and live in fairy tales. Therefore while Brahmin and aristocratically deluded Hindus entertain notions of their natural invincibility, and therefore the 'untouchability of the continent of Dalits', the ruthless priorities of a Chinese leadership with no illusions of a born superiority, dictate an alternative relationship to Africa. To suffer illusions in the geopolitical game is to dig own grave. So the realist Chinese will do benefits of doubts, massively. The last time a Chinese emperor suffered delusions of superiority, his divine majesty was forced to feed opium to his own people for a foreigners profit, cede Hongkong and Shanghai as free opium ports, and yesterday, another divine emperor, Pu Yi, was forced to allow the Japs to use Chinese as medical guinea pigs. Such repeated thorogh beatings by deemed lessers cures you a bit of superiority complexes! Now I must indulge this benefit of doubt thing with some detail. It is an important cultural signifier in the external relationships of Africa (500 years at the bottom of world hierarchy) and other fairer skins from afar. It has fostered a consciousness of a racial hierarchy, delusional sentiments of natural superiority of whiter over blacker skinned. It is a seething thing, and in crisis, its hiss is barely camouflaged by social niceties. NEXT: Benefits of doubt in colonial policy: THE CASE OF CAREY FRANCIS.
|
|
|
Post by jakaswanga on Jul 9, 2017 15:28:59 GMT 3
Benefits of doubt, the E. Carey Francis template! Now, about ECF! Like Carey Francis! ' Edward Carey Francis' is the romanticised personification of a thorough-bred reactionary but, by default, progressive, colonial missionary juggling God with Queen abroad, in his case in the dark continent. He was a Cambridge accomplished mathematics teacher, a DEDICATED general educationist, a pious mission administrator and a DEDICATED colonial servant, even civil servant. He believed he was doing God's work, colonialism was the civilisation of Africa. He was doing his part bringing divine European light to the Heart of darkness. He was a man of mission so said. Behold too, he was a vetted white supremacist charged with teaching the 'monkeys and apes' a few tricks conform their deemed low intelligence, but to make them useful to their settler white masters. Trickily said, the complexities of a peripheral colonial settler economy beggared some 'pimped-up monkeys', aka relatively skilled labour. Of course the white settler class - intoxicated with their racial mythology---- believed the most mature African brain could hardly go beyond the competence of a five-year old
.. White
.... BOY! Reality had a set of (so to speak) alternative facts in ambush. And a clash was set up against myths going for facts, myths built to sustain and service oppression and exploitation of the native in his own homeland! Carey Francis thought, well, may be so, may be not, beyond a 5-year old white boy. Benefit of doubt then, why don't we find out for sure and talk for proven fact!? So the Cambridge scientist logician in him forced him into the experiment of teaching the 'monkeys and apelings' some Mathematics at the same curriculum and aptitude he would and used to do in Old White Northumberland! ---The results were terrifying to others but a scientific revelation to Carey. Aptitude at Math and his other cognitive related subjects didn't go with the racial myths of his country, nor with his own prejudice! With reality and official practice so mismatched, trouble was burgeoning, one helluva sh!tstorm a-coming sooner than the good Lord! Carey was of course by now a cooking crisis! Not prepared to cede one to the other, balancing the world of his scientific observations with the world of his necessary colonial and religious mythology began to demand fits and bouts of insanity! Yap! great to have a racist who does not describe the native as LAZY! You feel me!? NB: allow me to pull your leg a bit. - -His scientific and highly logical mathematical mind was at variance with his religiously held views of the superiority of his whiteness, country, Queen and God, and how the world ought to be. This tension comes to a head in the reality of the colony where he can't deny there are Africans in his class in their teens at, GCE, but already math whizzes the superior of many a white Cambridge graduate he had passed. One part of Carey's mind falls apart, the other marvels at a discovery the radicalism of Charles Darwin in the face of religious orthodoxy. Or, of course, the mind-blowing sacrilege of Galileo Galilei, correcting the Pope, The Church, and God!You want to wonder what these ' other ways that I care most', in which 'they do so badly!' were? For one: that story in The Bible about the Holy Birth, smart African boys never heard greater bull in their stiff-co.cked lives! They christened their black dicks ' Angel Gabriel', the holy Rod of God! Yeah, UNCTUOUSLY pious! Deconstructed! Our story continues presently. the core of benefit of doubt. NB: Once I was loafing at OD-MIKAYI in Kisumu, at the strangely named Kenyatta sportsground. The music was good and as I had just finished some tutorials in the park with some foreign students attached to me from good old Europe, it was time to ride a fishy lunch and time new appointments. That was when I ran into an old KU acquaintance, Paul Otula. He was then the happy principal of Maseno High School. He asked me what my lazy arse was doing so early in town. So I pointed to the corner where the statue of Carey Francis stands and told him I had come to pour libations at his statue because I am deep into ancestor worship and is still kind of 'unctuously pious' with respect to the new Gods from across the sea! ''Ing'eni ma e wuodwa maduong', owuon ma nochako Maseno school, ma tinde odoko Mbariariany mokwongo ma Luo okawo kaka margi. Mano e momiyo waketone rapar e tie od Mikayi kaeni, momiyo Josombwa bende nyaka, po gichopo ka, kinde ka kinde gibed jotim Misango e tie hekalu mar Japuonj ma noguro mise mar somo e ogandawa! Koso en a shameful colonial relic, wamuke, kaka Jokongo omuko Leopold Kinshasha, Jo-South Africa omuko Verwoerd Pretoria, Jo-Polando omuko Lenin Warzawa, Jo-Algeria omuko Camus Oran! Koso nying pawni ema wakuong waloki, oa Kenyatta ma nonengo Mboya, odogie Ramogi Ajwang' sportsground!?'NEXT: Benefit of doubt CHINA.
|
|
|
Post by jakaswanga on Jul 9, 2017 16:59:19 GMT 3
BENEFIT OF DOUBT CHINA CHINA STYLE Okay, I do get scared, please have mercy!. Our county governments of Luoland have been defeated to remove even one acre of hyacinth, even organising a manual attempt by prisoners in the teeming cells! Our engineers over there at Machakos built this thing called the TARRAM ROAD. And the Kirinyaga engineers, road construction company, took 4 years to do 4km murram! Then you sit across from the Chinese at the negotiating table, and they have paid $3bn inclusive 30% corruption rate for the project, and for them it is an investment to earn keep, and soonest. Can you really tell them, get the fak off now, I will run the railway and repay you on time? Wont they wonder, without reminding you, you just let the other functional lunatic express be reclaimed by bush and the elements, and this SGR is even more modern to run!? Then there is the question of T-shirts we print in China, and the ballot papers. These are no more sophisticated than the wedding or seasons greating cards we buy in supermarkets from River Road printing presses, yet, local industry ignored, it is Dubai kickbacks time for the compromisable likes of Chebukati! Then it is tough time claiming you want autonomy over the SGR!yeah, we need a CEO's finishing school I tell ya! not just universities! every street has a university campus house in Kenyan cities today, anyway. But that is beside the point for now! Benefit of doubt CHINA.The current Chinese are famous for not telling the Africans what they should want. They say what they themselves want and what money they can foot. So if 'econsdon' Mwai wa Kibaki wants a Thika Super Highway as a present to his fellow Mount Kenya oligarchs, and not a Mombasa-Nairobi dual super artery to shift cargo toward the hinterland, that is what he gets, at a price. If Uhuruto wants a (diesel-wagon) Madaraka SGR railway at an exorbitant 30% kick-back rate, that is what Kenya gets, even if others would bargain and get double mileage and beefier wagons for the same amount! And there is this joke which went: if Eduardo Dos Santos of Angola wanted the oil billions injected into his daughter's private accounts in Switzerland, and absolutely nothing done in Angola, that is the way it would go! Dos Santos pondered that, the Chinese waited patiently, their faces serious, may be on poker. But the aging Angolan dictator decided he was powerful, but not enough to steal all of Angola's oil wealth! He would most definitely end up like Julius Caesar: ''ET TU, BRUTE!'. Or Nicolas Caucescue of Romania. And that fear therefore the African miracle But a generation of dependency complexed African bureaucrats used to long lectures, guidance and admonitions from the IMF and WB, became wholly disoriented by this approach. Finding in it nothing but a new lifeline for kleptocracy, to leave behind another monumental debt problem. What is a SURROGATE TREASURY?Woolly language from the FT! --nearly fairy tale. The thing is from 2007-2010, The Dos Santos clique stole $31.4bn from that country. CASH CRISIS? you kidding me, WHICH CASH CRISIS!? Not even going to forensic accounting is how you explain this: Of course that is the money which made Isabella Dos Santos, first daughter, the richest African business woman. And now crown-princess! And there is this other tabloid bit from Nigeria which too was ruled by an Oil pilferer Obasanjo tells African's richest woman, Folorunsho Alakija - I made you And so someone must come up and shove the burden of building, because Africa can manufacture bilionaires but not bridges. www.ictsd.org/bridges-news/bridges-africa/news/africa-and-chinaâs-one-belt-one-road-initiative-why-now-and-what THEREFORE THE POINT TO PONDER Now, say the new Africa, the one dubbed rising in some quarters, were to mean business, mean real business. Thereto is a vacancy for a 'rising' central banker, or a parcel of such, you know, a real superstar, his game and brains high-grade space fuel, a rocket accelerator. Such a mean kid boasts the kind of profile a chap like Deng Hsiao Ping would have been dying for as he plotted, so to speak. That was when The Old Guide needed hot talent to mind his successive 5-year-leaping plans with their yearly 25% growth rates, for a quarter of a century long. Of course given the number of economic miracles in the past century, one is vindicated to opine these kind of hot studs come a dime a dozen! if you want them for real! Check this out if you are a doubting Tom. Adolf Hitler had his, named Hjalmar Schacht. Konrad Adenauer --the phoenix rises Bundes chancellor---- found his (money man) in Ludwig Erhard just a few years later in the same country: (that suggest a conveyor-belt assembly line!); After the 2nd world war, The Netherlands had theirs under a builder premier named Clothes. (Clothes like Cabbage for Kohl of Germany!) The thrifty Dutch managed the --Marshall reconstruction loans-- money so meanly they developed a new branch of economics, ECONOMETRICS. The Germans also with the American Marshall plan, beaten at their own game, gaped in awe. To this day (in sour grapes) they refer to the Dutch as Miser Kings! (That is why the Germans always support the Dutch to chair the Eurogroup or run the European Central Bank! In deed it was the Dutch minister of finance chairing the Eurogroup, Jeroen Graveflowers, who castigated Greece and the rest of the Siesta heads for showing exceptional labour ethics only in the wastage of money on 'birds and wine'!) Dictator Park Chung Hee of South Korea had his (money management men), and all those Asian tigers of which Mwai Kibaki's agemates ( Mahathir and Lee Kuan) made proud, do show case their hot studs with abandon. With the list that endless, a go-getter central banker, chewing nails and pissing ball-bearings, backed by other lords of econometry, unpusillanimously turboring a country's economy at speeds beyond the comprehension of the WB$IMF, ceases to be a a neede in a haystack. I am saying, Carey Francis again, EXCELLENCE AT WORK is typical trained African, only that unctuous piousness is the sh!t. You feel me!? WHICH BRINGS ME TO MY CENTRAL BANKER, PATRICK OD NJOROGE You feel me? I will be back.
|
|
|
Post by jakaswanga on Jul 15, 2017 12:08:36 GMT 3
Dictator Park Chung Hee of South Korea had his (money management men), and all those Asian tigers of which Mwai Kibaki's agemates ( Mahathir and Lee Kuan) made proud, do show case their hot studs with abandon. With the list that endless, a go-getter central banker, chewing nails and pissing ball-bearings, backed by other lords of econometry, unpusillanimously turboring a country's economy at speeds beyond the comprehension of the WB$IMF, ceases to be a a neede in a haystack. I am saying, Carey Francis again, EXCELLENCE AT WORK is typical trained African, only that unctuous piousness is the sh!t. You feel me!? WHICH BRINGS ME TO MY CENTRAL BANKER, PATRICK OD NJOROGE You feel me? I will be back. MY CENTRAL BANKER (1) Now, suppose Dr. Patrick Njoroge of Kenya comes in for an interview before Africa's Deng Hsiaoping to be. Let us say a rogue head-hunter like a REFORMED OtishOtish has whispered in the ear of the (Tshaka-like tyrant-of-a steely-statesman-but-Konrad-Adenauer-like) genius of econometric statesmanship, that the underemployed Spartan boy has the potential brainworks and game to get done with it, and, importantly too, his Opus-Dei bend gives him the unflinching balls topped by the kind of fanatic work-ethic spied but regretted by master Carey Francis in his Alliance High brood! Further, pitches the mercenary impresario Otishotish, all this high-flier potential is currently dormant, emasculated at a lowly trench called the Central Bank of Kenya, an immoral hell hole where the Opus Dei Boy is under a barbarian, comprador ritual abuse and orders not to even know how the small change amount of the Eurobond, $2bn, can appear in uncorrupted balance sheets. And then there is the leaky IFMIS systems which, under his watch, allows such scams like the NYS of Waiguru where hairdressers collects ksh. 1Bn cash in real time, for haircuts! Now, for a world class economist, that is the equivalent of ritual, anal abuse at a nunnery. The kid has to be rescued you see. So he can get a real job for the pay, a Yale paygrade station. --Or why did you think Dr. Patrick Njoroge morally dissents? ---gives all his dividends away, forsaking the ostentatious material trappings of of our noveau riche, an elite obsessesed of parasitism!? He knows for the half to no job at the CBK, Pro Deo is a good rate! For instance the CBK was just but a clearing house for the NYS scam, dutifully dispensing to the conduit banks. As Sherlock Holmes would pipe, why didn't the sharp dogs get the scent, quick time!? I gave it a cultural reading you see. Blame it on the poet Okot P'Bitek. Banging the talking drums inside my head, joining town-crier Okigbo's paths of Thunder, disturbing my sleep! Just like Kenyan, Kikuyu culture so to speak, produced men the moral granite of Bildad Kaggia --or recently John the 'refusenik' Githong'o, there must be other signs out there of this streak, manifesting themselves in ways you gotta think some to figure out. So when a top graduate from Yale who had worked both IMF and World Bank couldn't account for a dime at the CBK, I went culturally full alert: how was our culture, or Gikuyu culture so to speak, going to resolve this contradiction in the abstract!? 1. Njoroge was mentally too complicated and ideologically too sophisticated to, under the tension, implode into a total drunk like Young Mwai Kibaki when he ran into institutional mediocrity. 2. He was not going to 'resign unto oblivion' (like they say James Gichuru did when minister of finance and saw Kenyatta was an insufferable money glutton). 3. Religiously stubborn, he would stay the mission like the accursed Sisiphos, do his best under the circumstances like a tragic hero, take no pay. ---well, take it and expend it on charity! Fascinating I tell ya! the life of a schoolmaster figuring out the futures of his class! It is 'divinity'! But before we get there ---Afro Tshaka Deng interviewing Dr. Patrick for a real job, a disclaimer! In fact two disclaimers if I find time!
|
|
|
Post by jakaswanga on Jul 15, 2017 16:14:15 GMT 3
DISCLAIMERS I am sure throughout the continent, a new generation of bankers are game, they are limbering toward the challenge. But as we wait for our home boy Dr. Patrick Njoroge to tune his mind at his best thoughts, or ordinarily said, groom himself in his Sunday best for the interview for the vacancy for the Central Banker of a real rising Africa, we hold fort keeping other errant thoughts at bay. There will be time enough for that on another day. This means I will for the moment avoid the dark side of history. This dark side suggests you don't jump up, and up, rise and rise without some bloody mess called struggle in the form of war. But keep your fingers crossed for miracles! #footnotes?#later Well, you know the thing about an idea whose time has arrived. You know how self-explanatory it all works out, as if, Holy Molly, it was no brainier all long. But you also know how more often than not mankind is minded to miss open goals. For instance, currently we (Kenyans) collectively seem hell-bent on making a mess of the 2017 Presidential (tally at the General Elections), yet we all know in the event the economy would take a hit which reels us back a decade. Anyway, what the heck, with no option of divorce, a suicide pact is a suicide pact! Man is after all an emotional, psychological animal too, not just a rational, self-interest obsessed calculating homo economicus. But before that, let me pull your leg a bit, and you, your mental socks up pull! OF DIRTY JOKES, OF THE POLITICO-ECONOMIC KINDThis will be the kind they rate with over three crosses. Dirty Dirty Dirty. Mankind has the imagination to travel far ahead and loose it, but once it is imagined, it can be conceptualised and experimented in reality (as in an engineering prototype) and be done. And so it is with the various futures of Africa. From the OAU to the AU we moved. May be a snail's pace, but there is no mistaking the dynamic, no mistaking the historical direction, nor the fearsome churn of energy below decks which turns the wheels even if the captaincy is roguish, pirate and reluctant. I think there is a mutiny underway. Check the countless bodies of young Africans abandoned to the shifting sands of the Sahara, the deeps of the Mediterranean, the modern slave markets of Libya, the rape camps of Islamic outlaws in the same, and ask yourself this: which leadership of a people allows this to happen to her young and maintains popular mandate and legitimacy?Otherwise put: give me the names of African heads of state who have recently won a free and fair presidential election, and let us tick off their strong points! (Jacob Zuma, Atta Aiddo, Muhammad Buhari, Botswana, ?) Very dirty joke. Sorry Megafuli, sorry Independent Kenyalamp! John Pombe fact up in Zanzibar, Muigai kaJomo was given a pass by a tired Wily Mutunga on a technicality! while M7, Rwanda's Paul K and Burundi's JP, round up the East African shameful interpretation of legitimacy!)Our purposes of a liberal economically rising Africa will assume ordinary stuff like periodic elections to negotiate factional power fights is a non-event on the economic front. Our lived reality testifies presidential elections are upheavals where states all but implode into instability, the counting of votes having proved rocket science to the native elites. You know when people like Wafula Chebukati ---he didn't come top in the interview to replace Hassan---- are your independent counters of votes, your are sort of asking for it, so better be prepared. Of our elites, think of Sembene Ousmane's typology. We can paraphrase the book (Xala) into a dirty joke: Fakfaking on a limp d.ick can't be one of ones skyscraping experiences in bed, and not Africa's certainly. That is a comment on the recent spate of REBASES which have seen, statistically, African economies burst the glass ceiling of middle income economies! But the list of tribal rites and expected, accompanying rituals they have refused to tender into, are glaring curses. Take Kenya the beloved. The capital city boasting a centre of skyscrapers in the sun is essentially a sewer belt teeming with KIPINDUPINDU pathogens. 'El Hadji' has refused to engineer urban sanitation, total and permanent water supply, not to mention worthy hospitals with motivated personnel. Kipindupindu can be prevented by immunisation. But then the vaccines were placebos! More examples of unaccomplished 'RISING TRIBAL RITES' are readily thinkable,! --eg a truly functional IFMIS SYSTEM, a truly ethics and anti-corruption fighting body. The real bomb is, check South Korea when it was risig for a comparative, the %tage of GDP spent on EDUCATION! Howbeit throughout the continent at large this XALA quagmire is the general template. But we are rising to the dream. The dream of Africa the land of plenty for all her own, Africa the land of honey and milk for all her children (30 million of them now human street rodents across our cities), ah, yes, we rise to the dream of Africa the paradise once lost, now found.But Paradise Found isn't ready made, even in dreams. It requires some 'tedious stuff' be done. But I will for the moment avoid the dark side of history, which suggests you don't jump up, and up, and rise and rise without some struggle which, at its worst, is a bloody mess called war.That is another dirty joke . #footnote# BLOODY MESS BEFORE THE RISEThe American civil war (North vs the South), The Bolshevik Russian civil war where Leon Trotsky so proved his mettle, China's Unification civil war which ended with Chiang Kai Shek fleeing across that straight and ushering in Mao Ze Dong who set the state for the genius Deng Hsiao Ping
.. And the bloodiest of all, the African civil war which saw the unification of the landmass South of the Sahara into a Federation Welfare republic, closes the argument. That is the dirtiest joke for today! and that was on a lighter note.
|
|
|
Post by jakaswanga on Jul 16, 2017 17:55:56 GMT 3
2, THE TOUGH CALL WAITING TO BE MADEHow does Tshaka Deng react!? Figuring out this scene consumed my whole Sunday. Prevented me from watching football. ---It goes: THE FASCINATING TSHAKA KASENZANGAKHONA is re-incarnated as an African Deng, and he is recruiting. The early bird catches the worm. Our CBK man Patrick Njoroge is first in. The rest of the current African crop of central bankers are of course lobotomised garbage, BokoHaram, and if Njoroge faulters, the net will be cast into alternative seas, far from the revolving door of the IMF-WB incubator chicks. The ambition in the tyrant's missionaric heart is a modest 20% GDP growth per year sustained for the next decade. Many an ordinary economist hearing that feels his balls climbing his duodenum and changes trade. There can be no African wirtschaftswunder, their resigned heads droop, like that d.ick under Xala. But there he is, the call-maker; his eyes ooze a ferocious cruelty, and his smile a cynical capacity which condemns his attempts at civility to a crocodile's invitation to a kiss. No man nor woman will sell him sh!t. He will work the African wirtschaftswunder. Precedents galore so no brainier! But his is a heart without illusions. Many Aboko people will mentally implode on him. For all one knows, satirists grin in the dark, he could very well think he is the alpha and omega, No him no Africa risen! ---But before he is done his term, tour of duty and dead, betrayed by inevitable human decay, Africa would have arisen, and the age of mass hunger, caveman existence, wanton squalor, state moral degradation, uncare and pitiless humiliation for her people at home and abroad, relegated to chapters in museum shelvesAnd there is our hero, Sr. Patrick, calculating whether he is game! I said figuring out this scene, Njoroge before Tshaka Deng, ruined my Sunday agendas! ----- Above, I mused a bit about several national upheavals defining futures. One was the American civil war (North vs the South or the confederacy); the Russian civil war (in the wake of the Bolshevik revolution), and China's which ended with the unification under the revolutionary Mao Ze Dong (in its bosom the forging of the statescraft genius Deng Hsiao Ping). But from the top of this thread is of course Germany's forgotten first wirtschaftswunder, the one worked out by Hjalmar Schacht under the mission Chancellor Adolf Hitler. The second one ---featuring Ludwig and Konrad--- is the safe, and therefore canonically famous: the one which started from ash, the smouldering ruins of the Third Reich. Then too Before the Korean ceasefire, bodycount in the peninsular was those sides past 5 million, 17% of the Korean population then. This means the7 million dead of the DR Congo, 9%, is, in perspective, not yet the big deal you think it is. Perspective? See the following German statistic: lost 25% of her population in thirty years non-stop war! www.bookofhorriblethings.com/ax02.html How is that for an adult joke, that Paul Kagame's Tutsis specifically have studied how to milk a holocaust, since such a horror has been theirs too in the neighbourhood. --Remember the small middle eastern super power called Israel, yeah, that bad kid kicking every big ass in the region, but hesitant if Iran be too big a meal to chew!? You know what percentage of their European part was lost in that stuff young Europeans don't call The Shoa? When war broke out just after the launching of the state of Israel in 1948, commander in chief Ben Gurion, looking at Arab and Palestinian villages in the promised land, said: 'they don't belong here. They move or die.' Yeah, it is called a tough call. Under an existential threat. I don't see Africa getting anywhere without a tough call. There will need must be a tough call. Not necessarily the various grades of genocide -----Holocaust, Catastrophe, Apocalypto, Armageddon, Umfeqane, Pacification (this is the colonial terminology for the wiping out of African tribes)------ but a tough call. A total guillotine regime on the corrupt clans of the corrupt heads of African states and their accessory bureaucrats and orbiting clientele is such a possible tough call. it frees a tremendous amount of money for sane-headed investment. (like the Finnish Primary school carriculum!) The Helsinki protocol. Yeah, I did plead the moment to leave the dark side of history alone. In the past 100 years or so, the people who have risen, some twice in a generation like the Germans, have something to show for it: a fundamental test of character, stark choice between darkness and light. Primary schools which shame the palaces of Kings! That is when you prove you put education first! And the salary of primary teachers higher than Nokia CEO's! That is a sure tough call. You know any African central banker capable of such a call!? He would need to have undergone REFORMATION unto new thinking! Then you can make tough calls In the face of certain oblivion! Consider Japan. The emperor was a God. No doubt. But General MacArthur thought, if the son of a b!tich is the son of light as he thinks, he will be atomic bomb proof and shield his folks. No doubt. But let us find out. How be it with a shocked, broken and whimpering human voice, the humbled Emperor announced the unconditional capitulation of Japan. Then did the viciously ambitious General call his commander in chief in DC. 'Told you sir, madhafaka is just another sh!tbag out of his depth when uncle Sam comes calling! Son of Light? Change that to ... of a B!itch, sir!'The president of the United states and commander in chief of the allies, the newbie Harry S. Truman, is said to have instinctively perceived the arrogant General thought he, Douglas MacArthur, supreme commander of the Pacific and new emperor of Japan to be, was the better man to run the USA in the light of the red threat. One had to fade away sooner. So ended feudal Japan's divine tenures with a bang, two big Flashy bangs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Tell me about tough calls. TEDIOUS STUFF TO BE DONE: no big deal really. ABC stuff as I always say. Rise, eh, gotta rise alone! But smiles on children's faces is too much to ask for!? Just a little innocent happiness? Let us imagine some modalities. Let us do some time travel. Let us ride the dream. Let us see what goes. That rising Africa we sing about, in lip service. There is a tough call to be made out there. If this is what Africa thinks her children should be playing with
. And not this
.. Then one better have an escape plan, even as we live up the maisonette ends of say Muthaiga in Nairobi. or just below
|
|
|
Post by jakaswanga on Jul 30, 2017 11:10:48 GMT 3
THE SURRENDER OF THE INDUSTRIALISATION PROGRAM OF AFRICA TO CHINAif POWER HATES A VACCUM, so does time and tide wait for no man, wherefore an idea whose time has arrived will be carried out. If not by locals then necessarily by foreigners! So it is not like Africa is waiting for Africans to industrialise her. But first, a broadside. THE DR. NJOROGE RESISTANCE Towards a strategic adjustment program! The comprador-run ramshackle states of Africa have of course been financially 'hijacked' by China's surplus capital. And it is not like they resisted the boarding. Broke and down, they welcomed it like Laibon Lenana the British. In Kenya we recognised this as the LOOK EAST turn of neck, articulated no less by the mouth of the Othaya genius, Emilio K., when he was president and reality shaped him up. The goatherd authoritarian Arap Moi had run Kenya aground, helped by compass-illiterate adjudants like Nicholas Biwott. Of course prototypical central bankers like Patrick Njoroge, marinated and programmed and indoctrinated at the IMF and other Breton Wood bootcamps, do their best to resist this tide of history Kibaki pegged us to; and, like cats being pulled with ropes (a very messy MIAW-ish affair according to the Luo), our Njoroge trudges along like a struggler ever looking behind, plotting a stealthy exit. But now that his domina, Christin Lagarde herself, has hinted the IMF is as open (as she will be forced) to moving her headquarters to Beijing, we can expect the old-fashioned robots to be re-tooled with new software, or upgrades capable of wholly embracing the eastern interface! A question of shaping up or getting out. Next door to China is of course India. An economically fully risen India at 1 billion people, what that does look like to anyone!? ---The Asian century they call it. If not China the biggest, then India I think, 2050. I repeat I have always been stunned by Dr. Patrick Njoroge's total lack of interest in Asia, like thumbing his nose at the China infrastructure and Investment Bank. My forthright opinion has been a Njoroge blatantly guilty of recalcitrant stupidity and romantic nostalgia. The -AII-- bank (and its forerunner) is actually Africa's Industrialisation Bank. It finances, via its EXIM clearing house franchise and other credit facilities, all those Chinese loans to Africa keeping us afloat or, in the new jargon, jumpstarting us a-rising!#Ethiopia manufacturing footnote here# But here is a reluctant hint from Ndemo the Bitange. Donor financing is a careless, intellectually negligent phrase to use without quotation marks, once one (like Dr. Ndemo) is aware of the net flow of wealth out of Africa back to the West. Donor funding is loot facilitation. How much was it again Africa haemorrhages out per year? --See the looting machine and Africa's odious debts and all those Malibu deals. Bitter sweet like this one You will be surprised there is 'donor funding' for Nigeria, from
.... you guessed it! Eh, even donor funding to buy the Nigerian police a helicopter, and the coast guard, a finger-count-horse-power motor boat! But that aside: There is another painful question to face internally before we point external fingers. Why do we, left to our own vast competences, build TARRAM roads, run morgues for public hospitals, hold rigged elections, obsess with graft, pilfer off 25% GDP, steal land meant for primary schools, grab plots earmarked for recreational city parks, yet imagine we are grown ups!? Why do we fail to define integrity or do the simple arithmetic sums of say the Eurobond accounts, and still imagine the world should treat us with respect!?We make quite a mess of it. Wherefore you get this
. voting with the feet of the youth and Why o why? Running a country, even the size of a continent, cannot be that much of a rocket science in 2017! Precedents galore! So how about Africa Kenya stopped joking with herself? ETHIPIA FOOTNOTE: yAP, Ethiopians can't do it themselves. Somebody else gotta do it. Invest $8M in a tannery in the land of the largest cattle population! Roaring success. If they don't, even more Ethiopian youth will be dying, crossing the Sahara, drowning in the Med sea! cont.
|
|
|
Post by jakaswanga on Jul 30, 2017 12:33:31 GMT 3
POWER HATES A VACUUM: CHINA TO THE RESCUE OF THE LATE AFRICA So how about Africa stopped joking with herself? But as other Africans continue to joke with the future of Africa, others continue to interrogate ourselves why we are in such a mess, It is a soul-search of sorts. I say we do all these things and behave thus because we are an INFANTILE comprador order. That is the order which gotta change. Infantile comes from ---where is Etymologist William Erudite Ochieng'---- the Latin infans, baby, taken off the old Greek 'brephos' whose other divergent synonyms were fetus and Infantos! -- jelly-fish weak, malleable and of no own structure yet. That is a mind a bit like thick porridge which assumes whatever the shape of the container. But these days it is much more like Childish-minded, not exactly stupid, just undeveloped but a work in progress, still mentally infirm and lost in the big wide adult world, but coming! Such 'infans' do need permanent guidance. ---That is why IMF inspectors come to monitor and give Njoroge his briefs, and how it comes to that even as a former CEO of Stopes, Cyprian Awiti of HomaBay, when confronted by the Auditor General Eduard Ouko's sleuths on incomplete imprests to the tune of 400M, could only respond: 'are you saying I am a 'JK'? do you know me!' That 'infans complex' is how it comes that even as an ace professor at law and risen to Attorney General of the Land, Githu Muigai wouldn't know what INTEGRITY in PUBLIC office imports to the constitution! Is it a case of wilful, voluntary moronism or forced behaviour? Forced farce? We will investigate one possible explanation as to the systematic mediocrity of the comprador infrastructure of government, such as is witnessed throughout the continent at large. And poor Kenya is not the worst in the class I tell ya! Here in Kenya we can laugh at ourselves, the media is robust with a celebration of all shades of opinion and nonsense; we insult each other with reptilian venom in social media, and then go to bed cross-ethnic with one another ---with an Ares-Aphrodite like passion at a fcuckfest! We at least know ourselves. COMPRADOR MEDIOCRITY IN INFRASTRUCTURE REVISITED Collapsing flats in Nairobi environs like Umoja, Huruma, Pipeline, or further away in Kisii, Kisumu; Tarram roads in Machakos, Wajir, Kirinyaga and, of county tender roads, everywhere is a tie-break in shoddiness; the local dispensary or district hospital, or even academic or referral if you wish, is just a short pre-morgue stop for the patient. So, who is your quack now, the masses are back to waganga kienyeji. Yet medical research is a daily avalanche of new knowledge! And again, Kenya is not the worst in the African class! But if you know your peers have under achieved, why take comfort in comparing yourselves to them and finding yourself better? So, yeah, wonder above wonder! it is not that the our Kenyan engineers of all sorts, our docs, agronomists, accountants, legal men and what have you professionals, suffer a different curriculum than elsewhere in the competitive world of education where mediocrity is only incidental, nay, on the contrary, the Kenyan syllabus is formidable enough for our Technical Universities to rank respectable if not Afrotopp! Okay that is not world-famous if you consider Wittwatersrand tops Africa but is at no 2000 in the Shanghai ranking of world colleges, but, anyway, last time I saw neither Nairobi nor JKUAT were that bad! Even for this: and, local 2nd class degrees like those of Mike Sonko aside, there is the distinguished core of corps of Kenyan professionals trained abroad at the summits ---Mutahi Ngunyi, John Githong'o, David Ndii, David Rotich, Wily Mutunga, Makau Mutua and Peter Kagwanja, Patrick CBK Njoroge, Uhuru Kenyatta, Eduard Ouko, Mukhisa Kituyi, Miguna Miguna, Raila Odinga, YouNameHer! Or neitherShenorHe! Truly Kenya is just about the African Shangri-La of the well educated at the top! Should they be mediocre, or preside over mediocrity, it is not their lack of training to blame, since they are alumni's of the best brooding grounds, and their peers do rocket stuff elsewhere! Therefore if flats still collapse ---and Raila was minister for public works; Cholera still consumes Dr. David Rotich at a top-end hotel while the PS for health is a hygiene super specialist, Mutahi Ngunyi accidentally pockets 7m for services he didn't render to the NYS, John Githong'o presents a baseless and in-accurate report excelling in innuendo and character assassination --(that is government spokesman Dr. Alfred Mutua dismissing the Kroll report!); state books fail to balance while Kamau Thugge is a world authority on state finances,
.... if wrong fertiliser is imported, pit-latrines overflow, watered ones refuse to flash; city taps never heard of water, genuine title-deeds are non-existent and banks must charge high interest rates to calm their nerves, sugarcane refuses to grow such that giant millers like Mumias collapse, maize grows but refuses to maintain quality in mass storage
.. if city drainages clog and turns abodes swampy
it isn't all because Kenya lacks the know-how nor managerial personnel
. nor the money! It is because
. think about it
. really think
.. Enraged at a Chinese sweeper in Nairobi!? Did you not listen to the then transport secretary Michael Kamau in parliament before the relevant committee, when tasked over why the tendering for the SGR went the way it went, our procurement laws not withstanding!? I did. And then carefully listened to AG Githu Muigai too. Githu preferred to pretend. Michael Kamau didn't do an ostrich in a certain, famous position. There is a lot of sweeping work to be done in Nairobi. For those patriots interested in sweeping, it is a belt of filth beyond Kidero and Sonko, or the ladies Shebesh and Passaris. --But offside Candidate Ngatia would very much like to come in and clean up the filth left by the British! or so he said! But before a Kenyan like him comes along to the top, there really can't be enough Chinese helping hands in town! And that is CHINA'S FORCED HAND IN THE RICE OF AFRIKA! NB: There is a mountain of a pile of rubbish next to the stadium in Kisumu. It has been there for years, and building. It made Kisumu be disqualified from hosting Africa cup matches. Should I really complain if I find Chinamen shoving the sh!t away with spades for 25K/m, 11 hours a work day, a six-day week!?
|
|