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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 17, 2013 14:27:40 GMT 3
THE ATAHUALPA SYNDROME: NO SOVEREIGN SHOULD FREELY ALLOW HIMSELF TO BE HELD HOSTAGE BY FOREIGN COURTS MR. Kenyatta, as president of Kenya, should dare the devil, and like Omar Bashir of Sudan, ignore the ICC, and face the consequences. In my thinking, those consequences, which we shall detail out later, are conquerable without a great bump, so long some tough economic decisions are made by thou son of Jomo. But if the son of Jomo does a runner, and proceeds to run Kenya in the useless, quixotic way he has since his declaration as president, then there will be an economic contraction beyond containment, further lurching into social upheaval. With the likely doom of his presidency as ultimate consequence. ----But about that later. 1. Mr. Kenyatta is historically well-poised to mutate from a mere [ bandit bourgeoisie or] comprador chieftain {using the state for primitive accumulation}, into a full-fledged nationalist [near mature] bourgeoisie, endowed if only instinctively, of the drive to assert NATIONAL economic independence and decisively break away from the necessary class subservience [to imperialist capital] unique to the LUMPEN or bandit bourgeoisie mode of production relations, hitherto operative in Kenya. In other words, through the method of state looting, the Kenyattas class has now reached a MATERIAL take-off stage, a financial threshold, that is the harbinger of new consciousness, a kind of evolved consciousness that imperates [necessitates and mandates] a new upgraded form of organisation of the productive forces. This would be the thinking that FOR INSTANCE, ties the massive youth unemployment to the infrastructural primitiveness, and mates it in solution dynamic. ---Elsewhere being discussed [ as Nazi Germany options]. 2. Little boys do grow up, and that is how little boys like Tom Mboya, Jomo Kenyatta, Oginga Odinga and the rest, outgrew the structures of classical colonialism, and sent the likes of Governor Baring flying home with the Union Jack in a paper-bag. That was the flag independence. Now comes the time when a new generation of little boys, Uhuru Kenyatta, William Ruto, Evans Kidero [or his wife Susan Mboya who apparently is an ace CEO], grow up and cut their teeth the way the earlier mentioned granddads did way back in the 50s and 60s. This cutting of teeth, in contemporary terms, would be the re-organisation of the neo-colonial economic structure, to be able to thwart any WESTERN economic sabotage. Sanctions and financial switch-off being the swords of Damocles that Luo boy in Washington would marshal to keep Kenya in his basement. 3. So the caveat have now been stated: either an ideological transformation into a new economic practice or productive new deal, or collapse in the event of a runner and consequential sanctions. ---I notice Uhuru is going to Russia and China just before the trials start. He could of course negotiate for covering fire. Though of course the Chinese and Russians will not hesitate to sell him should the USA offer a sweeter deal. But that is the way international politics works, so no hard hearts. Self interest first. But the visits will give a good indicator on what those two players think, if Mr. Kenyatta raises the middle-finger at that ICC theater. SOVEREIGNITY. Both as a joke, and as something deadly serious. And now let me tackle the unquantifiable factor of dignity, and the ruthless depths of patriotism during periods of external humiliation. The presidency of Kenya is a peoples sovereign ---even if we are a mere neo-colony, and a Western rag upon which they wipe their feet. But that does not mean the defeat of Kenyan nationalism is total and complete, so that our subservience must be a 100% to the dot at every beck and call. There are islands of autonomy, Holy Grounds, like the Kabaas of Mecca where no infidel, however powerful, is entertained. Any local ruler who fails to protect those reserves, those holy wells of dignity, sells them or rents them out for whatever purpose, becomes a doomed twat, to be confined to eternal infamy. A Judas figure of everlasting bad press. The Kenyan sovereign, currently defined as H.E the President, in whose person the authority to be commander in chief is invested and personified for the period, can not willingly submit himself to be taken hostage in a foreign land. I mean, even for Ouru Kenyatta the Muthamaki, there limits to jokes a man can visit upon his country. The judges, not constituted by Kenyans, will be exercising sovereignity over the Kenyan sovereign, as if we had gone to war and had our Muthamaki captured and now held prisoner. In which case his replacement would already be sworn in, for a King in captivity is no longer of a free mind, nor will, and can no longer be custodian of destiny! neither his nor ours as a collective. What are you then, as president of Kenya, being asked by some absent-minded Judge in far-off Holland ----- [O I ordered some special sushi from Tokyo, and the flight is reported cancelled! Damn my supper! now where were we!------ to identify yourself!? Then you say: 'I am his excellency Uhuru Kenyatta!' The Judge then smiles in amusement, forgetting her irritation at the sushi rotting in a grounded plane for a moment, ----'these Muthamaki Africans are really dogs! The emperor of Japan would rather die than be taken to any court where he, the son of sunrays, would have to identify themselves!'Personally when you enter that court room at the Hague as President of Kenya, I will start referring to you as His tameness, The Dog of Kenya. A sovereign does not surrender in advance. He goes to war, puts up a spirited fight, goes down honourably, becoming the legend to inspire the next generation in the historical struggle. When a sovereign surrenders in advance, like you would if you honour those Hague summons, he ceases to be anything but a treacherous pretender, a public joke and a historical stain to be erased from the pages of shame in the history of the nation.Held captive in foreign lands in foreign hands, you will be like Atahualpa the Inca. Stripped to the bone after walking into an ambush by the conqustadore Pizarro; to secure his release, issuing a command to fill stadiums with gold and silver to satiate the lust of the Spanish hard-hearts. ---Fool that he was!    .jpg) The Spanish led by Pizarro took the gold then executed him after a mock trial. The Gold saferly shipped to Spain! Mr. Kenyatta. The so-called international community under whose auspices this ICC operates is not interested in the well-being of Kenyans, and least in the personal fate of Uhuru Kenyatta. Like Atahualpa to Pizarro, and Aztec Montezuma to Hernan Cortez, International capitalism considers Uhuru Kenyatta just another disposable liability if that is the profitable option.As a history teacher, I feel the need to ram this lesson up your presiential ass with the full force of words like Apocalypto or Umfeqane. I do not suffer idiots easily, and so far, the Uhuruto presidency has been a running show in idiocy. There has been no single decisive economic reform debated. No recognition of consequences.No appreciation of solutions. So: Like Incan Atahualpa, safely caged, you Kenyatta as prezzo will be offered deals to fill Western stadiums with Kenyan silver and Gold, ransom. Take the deal, but then you no longer can return as president of Kenya. Your best option is take your own fate in your own hands and consider the heritage of your name, and its echo, 500 years from now. Atahualpa, or Tshaka Tzulu. Or well, just Muigai Kamau --I believe the historical Jomo Kenyatta was known as Johnstone Kamau.Let us see if boys do become men, whether you toy boys dare face this knife of circumcision of the big bad world. Or Uhuruto is just the latest fad of fakes to rise to the summit of African flag independence. I will be back. |
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Post by Daktari wa makazi on Aug 17, 2013 18:31:54 GMT 3
Why would Uhuru ran away from the ICC when all indications are that he is winning the Case? As things stand, the Prosecution are playing catching up on the issue of witnesses and their telephone calls, as the Kenyan High Court is deliberating whether to force the mobile telephone companies to release damning information on those calls. It is a matter of when, not if, the High Court makes such an order, then clearly the ICC witnesses will be 'cooked' as their testimony will be exposed to what it is!
I think most people including the West have seen the writing on the wall - the ICC cases are going nowhere. That is why we don't here much of the support of ICC we used to hear. Where are the sanctions and so forth?
I think of interest to me, is that fact that, amongst the International Courts, the ICC is unique in that it hears and sees witnesses in front of it giving their testimony. Most International Court usually operate as appellate bodies with no access to witnesses. The ICC with it uniqueness will therefore build its judgement on what it heard, or seen. That means the testimony of the witnesses will be crucial. The battle ground is already drawn and it is clear it will focus on the witnesses and their testimony. The ICC can only form a view and make a ruling after it heard and seen the witnesses.
This is significant, as we will know, first hand, what happened and hopefully learn from it. I am a great believer in learning from history in informing the future.
But, that aside, the Cases as they stand, are in my view, damn quid. I have said that before, and nothing has changed since.
The parties must by now know what witnesses each one of them will produce before the Court. In my view that is why both camps and their lawyers are very busy on the ground in Kenya combing the details of witnesses, looking for weakness to expose and trying very much to undercut the strength where they deem some.
We read Anyong Nyon'g feeling the heat from Khan QC on his adventure to unearth witnesses from the ODM, and we read Uhuru's High Court rendezvous. The heat is being turned up and people are feeling it across the land.
Those who thought the 'white man' will come through the ICC and give them 'power' and 'leadership' are wallowing in self-pity. Morgan Tsvangirai has seen the signs and is cutting his losses. At least he got a wife out of the whole deal!
Time to sit and wait for the games to begin at the ICC.
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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 18, 2013 12:38:07 GMT 3
Why would Uhuru ran away from the ICC when all indications are that he is winning the Case? All indications are he is winning the case huh? like in the following cartoon  NOW, THE PRESTIGE AND MYSTIC OF THE SOVEREIGN. Why would he do a runner from the ICC you ask? Because surrendering to the far-off ICC means he invalidates his position as the Kenyan sovereign. That is he surrenders the 'scepter' of command. If an event happens that needs the immediate attention of the PORK, while the PORK is in the docks, the permission of the president of the court will be required before the PORK is alerted. In effect, Uhuru Kenyatta would be incommunicado. Nothing but a hostage under the control of his captors. That situation is farce, a vacuum that power in real life does not tolerate. A HISTORICAL HINT. In the land case in Kiambu in which Uhuru Kenyatta and his mum Ngina WERE mentioned as respondents, ---Kenyatta senior swindled his half brother of a plot or something like that, the AG has successfully argued that Uhuru Kenyatta as president is guaranteed IMMUNITY by the constitution, and his name has been struck off the case. Now, what is the thinking in modern law that grants presidents this IMMUNITY? NB: (1. This presidential immunity a general trend in modern jurisprudence, and is why for instance Jaques Chirac was not prosecuted when he was president of France, for his corruption during his tenure as mayor of Paris. 2. In religion and in the days of god-kings, it is the concept of 'infallibility' as of the pope! an earthly version of being 'divine'.) Appearing in court like every other street urchin caught thieving, dissipates the mystic of power, so diminishes the office of sovereign, that he can no longer wields COMMAND. Send a General naked to salute at a parade of askaris, and military discipline will break down into giggles, guaranteed!) The perfect modern example when a sovereign looses the mystic is Mikhael Gorbachev during the coup in Moscow. As he was held in the Krim, far from Moscow, events were moving fast and Boris Yeltsin emerged. Gorby returns, still officially the head of the USSR, but he is nothing but a joke, a political cartoon. His days are gone, and him with them. Publicly Yeltsin orders him to sign the dissolution of the USSR, the empire of which he is allegedly the deity! ----Live on TV .  --sign it now you godamn fool!  Isaid now, and yes I called you godamn fool! Vladimir Putin, then a KGB officer, watched it. His heart breaking. Later as president of the remnant Russia, Putin would would say grimly that it had been a learning moment, that humiliation of Gorbachev and the dissolution of the Soviet Union! And then, that drunk should never have come that far!  Methinks When Ouru is held at the Hague, time and the tide of politics in Nairobi wont be waiting for him. The situation is fluid, and it needs a present man constantly at it. Internet may crash, and orders by SKYPE reach Nairobi 3 days later! or Hackers Anonimous may play mayhem with the messages! As things stand, the Prosecution are playing catching up on the issue of witnesses and their telephone calls, as the Kenyan High Court is deliberating whether to force the mobile telephone companies to release damning information on those calls. It is a matter of when, not if, the High Court makes such an order, then clearly the ICC witnesses will be 'cooked' as their testimony will be exposed to what it is! Come on Sadik, this above is conjecture. He could win, he could loose. I would think it certainly aint no slum dunk! |
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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 22, 2013 23:08:53 GMT 3
Uhuru and Ruto cast as Castor and Pollux: But without the grand finale! THE DIOSCURI ACT [or the POLLYDEUXES SHOW] ---the Gemini constellation and the Hague ICC. Of legend, Beautiful Leda was the honoured wife of Tyndareos, King of Sparta. She bore him twins, of separate fatherhood: One the son of a God and therefore immortal, the other the son of the human King and therefore mortal. This came to be because the Sexmaniac god Zeus, of the withering thunderbolt, unable to contain his lust, bestowed the honour of rape upon the queen Leda. Later, divine and immortal Pollux, on the death of his mortal twin Castor, asked his bio-divine father Zeus to grant him eternal life, so that they would be together forever. Holy Zeus, the patron of all Solomonic species of humans, told his son that was too much to ask, but he would make their immortality alternate. Today one is alive and the other dead, tomorrow they change fates. Forever. So when Uhuru is at the Hague, Ruto will be home as commander in chief, radiant in act like one part of the gemimi constellation. And there shall never be a power vacuum! That is the best mythology I can come up with to equivocate! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castor_and_Pollux But if, as now some fear, the two may have to be together simultaneously at the Hague, then a third person has to be found to act as their puppet, warming the seat at home. With top predators like the enigma Raila on the prowl, fangs ever the sharp, instincts perpetually on the offensive, the stooge who would be in contact with Uhuruto on skype, would be dead on arrival. The political mutiny and turmoil across the board would swipe him under. The eventuality of this power vacuum, is in my opinion a national top priority. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000091569&story_title=new-fears-over-ruto-uhuru-trials-at-the-hague NB: If he comes back with all the milk and honey from Beijin, then for sure the chinese know something we do not, to back up their bet! ---I will be reading the small print in mandarin!
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 9, 2013 19:05:40 GMT 3
THE ATAHUALPA SYNDROME: NO SOVEREIGN SHOULD FREELY ALLOW HIMSELF TO BE HELD HOSTAGE BY FOREIGN COURTSMR. Kenyatta, as president of Kenya, should dare the devil, and like Omar Bashir of Sudan, ignore the ICC, and face the consequences. In my thinking, those consequences, which we shall detail out later, are conquerable without a great bump, so long some tough economic decisions are made by thou son of Jomo. <><><><><><><><<>< But the visits will give a good indicator on what those two players think, if Mr. Kenyatta raises the middle-finger at that ICC theater. SOVEREIGNITY. Both as a joke, and as something deadly serious. And now let me tackle the unquantifiable factor of dignity, and the ruthless depths of patriotism during periods of external humiliation. The presidency of Kenya is a peoples sovereign ---even if we are a mere neo-colony, and a Western rag upon which they wipe their feet. But that does not mean the defeat of Kenyan nationalism is total and complete, so that our subservience must be a 100% to the dot at every beck and call. There are islands of autonomy, Holy Grounds, like the Kabaas of Mecca where no infidel, however powerful, is entertained. Any local ruler who fails to protect those reserves, those holy wells of dignity, sells them or rents them out for whatever purpose, becomes a doomed twat, to be confined to eternal infamy. A Judas figure of everlasting bad press.The Kenyan sovereign, currently defined as H.E the President, in whose person the authority to be commander in chief is invested and personified for the period, can not willingly submit himself to be taken hostage in a foreign land. I mean, even for Ouru Kenyatta the Muthamaki, there limits to jokes a man can visit upon his country. The judges, not constituted by Kenyans, will be exercising sovereignity over the Kenyan sovereign, as if we had gone to war and had our Muthamaki captured and now held prisoner. In which case his replacement would already be sworn in, for a King in captivity is no longer of a free mind, nor will, and can no longer be custodian of destiny! neither his nor ours as a collective. What are you then, as president of Kenya, being asked by some absent-minded Judge in far-off Holland ----- [O I ordered some special sushi from Tokyo, and the flight is reported cancelled! Damn my supper! now where were we!------ to identify yourself!? Then you say: 'I am his excellency Uhuru Kenyatta!' The Judge then smiles in amusement, forgetting her irritation at the sushi rotting in a grounded plane for a moment, ----'these Muthamaki Africans are really dogs! The emperor of Japan would rather die than be taken to any court where he, the son of sunrays, would have to identify themselves!'Personally when you enter that court room at the Hague as President of Kenya, I will start referring to you as His tameness, The Dog of Kenya. A sovereign does not surrender in advance. He goes to war, puts up a spirited fight, goes down honourably, becoming the legend to inspire the next generation in the historical struggle. When a sovereign surrenders in advance, like you would if you honour those Hague summons, he ceases to be anything but a treacherous pretender, a public joke and a historical stain to be erased from the pages of shame in the history of the nation.Held captive in foreign lands in foreign hands, you will be like Atahualpa the Inca. Stripped to the bone after walking into an ambush by the conqustadore Pizarro; to secure his release, issuing a command to fill stadiums with gold and silver to satiate the lust of the Spanish hard-hearts. ---Fool that he was! A CHRONOLOGY THAT IS DECISIVE, THE INEVITABLE? www.nation.co.ke/news/No+power+vacuum+over+Hague+declares+Uhuru+/-/1056/1983530/-/n5lqhy/-/index.html In the rule, politicians in power take time to come to face facts. Then they always react late when events have already overtaken them. This is why history is such a mess. Wrong decision making leads to a clash with factual reality, denial of reality leads to messy corrective measures. If only Morsi had accepted the facts in time, and his predecessor Mubarak too. And the colonel come King of Kings in Libya. And so too Assad. J ohn Michuki said: we need to keep this process here, where we can control it. In Gikuyu he was even more forthright: where we can KILL it. That is my Man. His mind does not have cobwebs. But the cocky deniers of reality, with cobwebs in their minds telling them it would take 100 years for the ICC-cases to mature, yelled: do not be vague, let us go to the Hague. And so it came to pass. Now the Hague demands its pound of blood, Lady Justice knife in hand, and, surprise surprise, our parliament hastened back to adopt the MICHUKI OPTION! But the horse already bolted from the stable, even as we slam the door shut. What remains is rearguard action. Now, the son of Jomo wakes up to the fact of a possible simultaneous absence of the PORK and his Veep from his Banana republic, and recognises factual implications.And changes his tune: ---Better late than never if you ask me! www.nation.co.ke/news/politics/We+will+not+be+at+The+Hague+together+Uhuru/-/1064/1984410/-/irubeg/-/index.htmlBut whose decision is it now? whether both the PORK and VP can be held incommunicado in the Whiteman's land simultaneously? Here the chicks come to roost: The decision is no longer that of the SOVEREIGN if he is a 100% loyal. In their role as culprits, the two indictees have not 'autonomy', and can only plead their case before the court. And hope their logic is convincing. And their priority warranted. But a sovereign who surrenders his fate to external powers has a name in history. A stooge, or a vassal. A dog. Why Uhuru Kenyatta would choose to be a vassal beats me, unless he already cut a deal, and that surrender is the least terrible of all other possible consequences. That is, deciding to dare the court to do its worst ---by simply declaring his duties as the PORK more paramount than ICC's summons, has been explained to him to be warrant more dire consequences than the surrender of his sovereignity as an elected president of some land. The standard is more clear-cut: The sovereign has decided it is his sovereign decision. ONE AT A TIME. CASTOR AND POLLUX: EITHER BENSOUDA AND HER ICC COURT ARRANGE NON-PARRALLEL SHOW FOR UHURUTO, OR THE DUO CEASES COOPERATION. www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000093115&story_title=uhuru-rejects-parallel-hague-trial-with-rutoPollideuxes or nothing! But a court where the culprits decide whether they appear or not, is a bit of a joke! |
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Post by OtishOtish on Sept 9, 2013 19:25:02 GMT 3
Jakaswanga: He is the latest dispatch from the court: We wanted to draw your attention to a point made by the Presiding Judge of Trial Chamber V(a) of the International Criminal Court (ICC) during the status conference held today, 9 September 2013, in the case The Prosecutor v. William Samoei Ruto and Joshua Arap Sang.
This oral ruling is related to the sitting schedule in the Ruto and Sang case that will follow the opening of the trial The Prosecutor v. Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta on 12 November 2013.
The Chamber indicated that it would be sitting in alternating periods of the judicial calendar. This will entail a minimum block of four weeks of the judicial calendar exclusively devoted to one case, before passing to another block devoted to the other Kenyan case.
This will no doubt be hailed as some sort of victory in some quarters. However: (a) there are two judges sitting on both cases, and the tentative schedule that showed them hearing both cases on the same day had them sitting from about 9:30AM to 6PM every day. That would be excessive even in a straightforward cases. (b) There is an issue about even the availability of courtrooms; this in fact was brought up by the Defence (see below); (c) the judges had already indicated that a change in schedule would be necessary (see below). The latest decision is a good one. We have heard of people going to court, supposedly to "bar" them from leaving Kenya, and over the weekend Uhuru himself seems to have thought that he'd found a good excuse (i.e. one that Kenyans could swallow) to do a runner. Now, he'll have to go back to the drawing board. On his part, Ruto this morning tried to have a 4-week adjournment immediately after the opening or after the first witnesses. He got the most obvious sensible response. Ruto Defence: 10. Second, as the Trial Chamber is well aware, this Court only has two courtrooms.
The application to have the trial heard in Kenya or Tanzania has been rejected.
Accordingly, the extra court capacity (in terms of physical court room space) that
that option would have brought is not available. In the coming months, trial
proceedings will be on-going in the Bemba case, the Kenyatta case and, of course
this case. In addition, the confirmation hearing will begin in the Ntaganda case on
10 February 2014. Moreover, in May 2014, trial is scheduled to start in the Banda
and Jerbo case. Therefore, the physical constraints of courtroom space means that
some flexibility in case scheduling will be required in any event. The Court does
not have the physical capacity in terms of court space to have consecutive sittings
in all its cases between now and the end of the trial in this case.www.icc-cpi.int/iccdocs/doc/doc1634755.pdfThe judge's response: The Chamber agrees
with the Ruto Defence that there may be a need to modify the sitting schedule in the
present case once the trial in the Kenyatta case commences.^^ However, there is no such
need at the present time. On the contrary, the Chamber stresses the significance of
advancing as much as possible before the constraints identified by the Ruto Defence
affect the present case.
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 9, 2013 19:56:19 GMT 3
Jakaswanga: The latest decision is a good one. We have heard of people going to court, supposedly to "bar" them from leaving Kenya, and over the weekend Uhuru himself seems to have thought that he'd found a good excuse (i.e. one that Kenyans could swallow) to do a runner. N ow, he'll have to go back to the drawing board. Otishotish, I want Kenyatta to do a runner so long he insists on being prezzo. I do not want to be confronted with permanently suppressing feelings of contempt for my president. I really value the sovereignity of Kenya. My president in a foreign court is to me just a dog. A dog. People shed blood for that fwaking flag! Moi tortured countless fellas for that fwaking flag! The flag is our symbol of dignity! The highest office of the land must have that dignity and autonomy, subservient to no foreigner. Okay, I know even a rat can be a president, but not of a free country! Uhuru must not be a dog! Or let him be, but in his individual capacity. |
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Post by OtishOtish on Sept 9, 2013 20:14:15 GMT 3
Jakaswanga: The latest decision is a good one. We have heard of people going to court, supposedly to "bar" them from leaving Kenya, and over the weekend Uhuru himself seems to have thought that he'd found a good excuse (i.e. one that Kenyans could swallow) to do a runner. N ow, he'll have to go back to the drawing board. Otishotish, I want Kenyatta to do a runner so long he insists on being prezzo. I do not want to be confronted with permanently suppressing feelings of contempt for my president. I really value the sovereignity of Kenya. My president in a foreign court is to me just a dog. A dog. People shed blood for that fwaking flag! Moi tortured countless fellas for that fwaking flag! The flag is our symbol of dignity! The highest office of the land must have that dignity and autonomy, subservient to no foreigner. Okay, I know even a rat can be a president, but not of a free country! Uhuru must not be a dog! Or let him be, but in his individual capacity. And exactly how is "sovereignity" defined in Kenya? I ask because I noticed that a Mr. Kindiki, who has been a leader in the "drop-ICC" campaign, has also been a leader in a fly-by-night campaign to sue the UK for banning miraa. |
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Post by b6k on Sept 9, 2013 21:11:29 GMT 3
NB: If he comes back with all the milk and honey from Beijin, then for sure the chinese know something we do not, to back up their bet! ---I will be reading the small print in mandarin! , pray tell. What does the translation of the Mandarin fine print say in English since Uhuru's return from China with a 5 billion dollar deal loan whatchamacallit? What do the Chinese know that Barry the bomber has missed? |
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 9, 2013 21:16:53 GMT 3
Otishotish, I want Kenyatta to do a runner so long he insists on being prezzo. I do not want to be confronted with permanently suppressing feelings of contempt for my president. I really value the sovereignity of Kenya. My president in a foreign court is to me just a dog. A dog. People shed blood for that fwaking flag! Moi tortured countless fellas for that fwaking flag! The flag is our symbol of dignity! The highest office of the land must have that dignity and autonomy, subservient to no foreigner. Okay, I know even a rat can be a president, but not of a free country! Uhuru must not be a dog! Or let him be, but in his individual capacity. And exactly how is "sovereignity" defined in Kenya? I ask because I noticed that a Mr. Kindiki, who has been a leader in the "drop-ICC" campaign, has also been a leader in a fly-by-night campaign to sue the UK for banning miraa. Sovereinity, is an abstract concept which can be felt, like love. Sovereignity is what makes a slave die with a look of defiance on his face, after the rebellion has failed, and every bone in his body broken. Sovereignity, is the dream of freedom. A man, much less a human being, does not choose slavery of own volition. He must be forced into it, and forced into it, he must be forever plotting escape. Uhuru the president of Kenya voluntarily entering a plane to the Hague, is like Kunta Kinte immediately accepting his name is 'Tobby'. No, Uhuru should be 'Tobby' only after the whole of his back is torn to pieces by an iron-tipped whip! But Bensouda or some other hireling coughs, beckons him like a dog, and Up he wags his tail and jumps to her commands like her tame labrador! ---yes he can, but not as my president! I am too passionately committed to Kenya, too fiercely dedicated to her flag, not to call a dog a dog when I see it disgracing and humiliating it. When Kenyan troops die in Somalia, or wherever on duty, it is the national flag that raps them, that is presented to their widows and survivors. Now, upon the shoulders of the man upon whom we officially entrust with the death command of our national defence forces, rests a curse. The curse to uphold the dignity of the nation, safeguard her pride, even if that is a tragedy [defeated by a more powerful enemy and executed like Spartacus!]! he, the leading symbol buckles, behaves treacherous, proves himself of a feeble breed, docile before the enemy, a sell-out, then he has to be ostracised like stray dogs are. Litter. |
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 25, 2013 22:37:09 GMT 3
Let us now be adults, Mr. President.If earlier on as a prince who never took anything seriously because all consequences of your behaviour would be sanitized by your powerful father and his fixers ----like is usual for those born with golden spoons in their mouths, then now is your time to come of age. If you had, by a fateful chance of stupid negligence, not yet full absorbed the dead import of the responsibilities of the office of head of state, even that of a semi banana republic, then this Westgate mall massacre must have driven the lesson home, and sordidly too, with the ruthless clarity of which only unabridged reality has the patent. The lesson of the crisis then is: YOu, or anyone else, can not run Kenya by Skype. The Commander In Chief of the KDF, the personification of the national flag won by blood, must be a PRESENT act. And if, elsewhere apart from home at any pariticular time, he/she must be capable of breaking the trip to return home ASAP, to take care of business. And such business can be a crisis of a magnituede as we have just witnessed Al-Shabaab visit upon Nairobi. Were you to be detained in foreign lands as a common law criminal, under quarantine or city-arrest l ike Vice President Ruto was at the Hague as the crisis unfolded, forced to beg permission from international bureaucrats who, for all we know, are themselves puppets of yet darker forces, then I think your role as the PORK would very quickly have become irrelevant. Somebody, or some people would simply have emerged to replace the absent PORK, and life went on as the crisis was resolved. ---Just like while Ruto was marooned in his cold room in far off Holland, gawking and qwaking a the TV screen relaying the Westgate reality soap, would-be coup plotters like Raila emerged to take your side and bask in statesmanship instead of the absent Ruto, so too would you yourself have been replaced by others. Because power allows not a vacuum. The President is absent, long live the acting president. Let me tell you a story: On september 11 that fateful day in New York, the security controllers of President Dubya Bush thought it a good idea to hide him in a hole in ground at an airbase command center. The life of POTUS was of paramouncy, security logic dictated, correctly  . Meanwhile in New York, in the real world, mayor Rudi Giulliani was walking the dangerous streets, air-filter and surgeon's nose-cap on his face. He was talking to folks, encouraging rescue teams, making a physical presence of authority to avoid a collapse into chaos. The cameras did not leave him. An authentic American hero.Karl Rove, Bush's political brains, watching, recognised the situation immediately. He flew directly to the airbase where Bush was hiding under the ground, waved the goons and geeks aside guarding the president, and slapped Dubya as he pointed at the screen. That, he said, is the NEXT AMERICAN PRESIDENT NEXT ELECTION, unless you break free of these jailors of yours, get out of this rat hole, and rush to Washington and take command of the nation ---promising to give them blood, dams of it, in vengeance. Bush was not dumb. He understood Rove instinctively and moved. ----T here was an old poster out in the West. Wanted dead or alive. We will smoke them out from every nook of every cave, and grind them at the steelmills! .... or something like that, his blood-curdling speech went. (Later with things like Guantanamo we would come to know the USA had been totally blown off the high moral pretensions. With Peace nobel-price winner Obama now a graduated drone-hit killer with impunity]. Moral of the tale: if you let yourself be caged like a rat in some foreign den of a court at the mercy of Bensouda's clawy paws, and a crisis hit Nairobi or Kenya, you will be forgotten like William Ruto was forgotten those first two days, or like George Bush nearly was, had it not been for quick-thinking Karl Rove.So, son of Jomo, learn your lesson. Westgate was God's message to you. ## Two days of crisis and you emerged bleary-eyed, wild in countenance and barely on top of the crisis --- absent mindedly denying foreign involvement in the 'rescue operations' while all knew there was considerable foreign presence. Those meetings with security chiefs you were emerging from, you think you could have done them via skype? or secure lines cracked by Hackers Anonimous? If you think like that, that you can run Kenya part-time, deal with severe crisis part-time from a hotel-room at the Hague, then you are still a very foolish boy. But a total danger to the security of the nation of Kenya. You make up your mind. You resign the presidency and go the Hague. Or you retain the presidency, and it is fwack Bensouda. I heard you in flowing tribute to the dead KDF soldier say: they paid the ultimate price for their country. Now I ask you, son of Jomo, which price are you ready to pay for your country? And what price do you think your country should pay for your folly? The problem with some of us, Mr. Muigai, is that we really love Kenya. And for all her faults we cherish her deeply. With ruthless abandon. Not all of us, are cynical about the flag of the republic; but it is the tragedy of you the political class, that you assume everybody shares in your cynical scorn of the flag ---- a mere piece of cloth, a certain Kosgey once publicly proclaimed to hilarious laughter from her class! Total blasphemy. Nay, however tattered it may fly amongst other flags, it is all we have as the embodiment of our nationhood, that under her even at the price of death we will never bow to any outside power, human or divine, that insults the national flag of Kenya. ----So do not fwak around with it, commander. It is a holy piece of cloth that demands the highest sacrifice known to living things if need be. Let those six dead KDF servicemen and the earlier two policemen who died in the first assault, be a true sermon to your heart, and not just another occasion for the cynical manipulation of national feelings for cheap political bullsh!t point scoring.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2013 23:59:00 GMT 3
Let us now be adults, Mr. President.If earlier on as a prince who never took anything seriously because all consequences of your behaviour would be sanitized by your powerful father and his fixers ----like is usual for those born with golden spoons in their mouths, then now is your time to come of age. If you had, by a fateful chance of stupid negligence, not yet full absorbed the dead import of the responsibilities of the office of head of state, even that of a semi banana republic, then this Westgate mall massacre must have driven the lesson home, and sordidly too, with the ruthless clarity of which only unabridged reality has the patent. The lesson of the crisis then is: YOu, or anyone else, can not run Kenya by Skype. The Commander In Chief of the KDF, the personification of the national flag won by blood, must be a PRESENT act. And if, elsewhere apart from home at any pariticular time, he/she must be capable of breaking the trip to return home ASAP, to take care of business. And such business can be a crisis of a magnituede as we have just witnessed Al-Shabaab visit upon Nairobi. Were you to be detained in foreign lands as a common law criminal, under quarantine or city-arrest l ike Vice President Ruto was at the Hague as the crisis unfolded, forced to beg permission from international bureaucrats who, for all we know, are themselves puppets of yet darker forces, then I think your role as the PORK would very quickly have become irrelevant. Somebody, or some people would simply have emerged to replace the absent PORK, and life went on as the crisis was resolved. ---Just like while Ruto was marooned in his cold room in far off Holland, gawking and qwaking a the TV screen relaying the Westgate reality soap, would-be coup plotters like Raila emerged to take your side and bask in statesmanship instead of the absent Ruto, so too would you yourself have been replaced by others. Because power allows not a vacuum. The President is absent, long live the acting president. Let me tell you a story: On september 11 that fateful day in New York, the security controllers of President Dubya Bush thought it a good idea to hide him in a hole in ground at an airbase command center. The life of POTUS was of paramouncy, security logic dictated, correctly . Meanwhile in New York, in the real world, mayor Rudi Giulliani was walking the dangerous streets, air-filter and surgeon's nose-cap on his face. He was talking to folks, encouraging rescue teams, making a physical presence of authority to avoid a collapse into chaos. The cameras did not leave him. An authentic American hero.Karl Rove, Bush's political brains, watching, recognised the situation immediately. He flew directly to the airbase where Bush was hiding under the ground, waved the goons and geeks aside guarding the president, and slapped Dubya as he pointed at the screen. That, he said, is the NEXT AMERICAN PRESIDENT NEXT ELECTION, unless you break free of these jailors of yours, get out of this rat hole, and rush to Washington and take command of the nation ---promising to give them blood, dams of it, in vengeance. Bush was not dumb. He understood Rove instinctively and moved. ----T here was an old poster out in the West. Wanted dead or alive. We will smoke them out from every nook of every cave, and grind them at the steelmills! .... or something like that, his blood-curdling speech went. (Later with things like Guantanamo we would come to know the USA had been totally blown off the high moral pretensions. With Peace nobel-price winner Obama now a graduated drone-hit killer with impunity]. Moral of the tale: if you let yourself be caged like a rat in some foreign den of a court at the mercy of Bensouda's clawy paws, and a crisis hit Nairobi or Kenya, you will be forgotten like William Ruto was forgotten those first two days, or like George Bush nearly was, had it not been for quick-thinking Karl Rove.So, son of Jomo, learn your lesson. Westgate was God's message to you. ## Two days of crisis and you emerged bleary-eyed, wild in countenance and barely on top of the crisis --- absent mindedly denying foreign involvement in the 'rescue operations' while all knew there was considerable foreign presence. Those meetings with security chiefs you were emerging from, you think you could have done them via skype? or secure lines cracked by Hackers Anonimous? If you think like that, that you can run Kenya part-time, deal with severe crisis part-time from a hotel-room at the Hague, then you are still a very foolish boy. But a total danger to the security of the nation of Kenya. You make up your mind. You resign the presidency and go the Hague. Or you retain the presidency, and it is fwack Bensouda. I heard you in flowing tribute to the dead KDF soldier say: they paid the ultimate price for their country. Now I ask you, son of Jomo, which price are you ready to pay for your country? And what price do you think your country should pay for your folly? The problem with some of us, Mr. Muigai, is that we really love Kenya. And for all her faults we cherish her deeply. With ruthless abandon. Not all of us, are cynical about the flag of the republic; but it is the tragedy of you the political class, that you assume everybody shares in your cynical scorn of the flag ---- a mere piece of cloth, a certain Kosgey once publicly proclaimed to hilarious laughter from her class! Total blasphemy. Nay, however tattered it may fly amongst other flags, it is all we have as the embodiment of our nationhood, that under her even at the price of death we will never bow to any outside power, human or divine, that insults the national flag of Kenya. ----So do not fwak around with it, commander. It is a holy piece of cloth that demands the highest sacrifice known to living things if need be. Let those six dead KDF servicemen and the earlier two policemen who died in the first assault, be a true sermon to your heart, and not just another occasion for the cynical manipulation of national feelings for cheap political bullsh!t point scoring. that's blazing and so very well put. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2013 18:44:05 GMT 3
Amina Mohammed, the current bulldog supremo for uhuruto fwack the ICC. She's been let loose to torment kenyans with uhuruto's "private business". Does it sound like Kenyatta is going anywhere come November? What did I say about Wanjiku's interests vs a certain sort of woman with power? Amina's working real hard for/with the boys. No?
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Post by jakaswanga on Mar 1, 2014 2:26:34 GMT 3
the CASTOR AND POLLUX SHOW: UHURU AND RUTO SIMULTANEOUSLY AWAY! BUT WHY THE DESPERATE PR? Once upon a time, DP Ruto ---one half of the Dioscuri twins, got a reprieve from compulsory attendance of the now useless ICC proceedings in far-off the Hague. This excusal was on account of the dictates of power dynamics, that the President and his deputy c ould not simultaneously be absent from the republic. They had to alternate presence. Lazily, Kenyan constitutional lawyers did not bother to pinpoint the argument to a time scale, so that the debate would be on the qualification of that period which constitutes/risks a constitutional crisis, if the two be away together. That kind of blanket para-[legal] reasoning is of course only for the purposes of expediency in courtrooms one does not wish to take too seriously. I am therefore happy to note, and report, that, even if only for one day and a half, both President and the deputy president of Kenya were concurrently out of the country! ---it was about time these lame infants defecating at State House showed signs of growing up! Why wouldn’t Ruto go to visit his mpango wa kando in Zanzibar on the same day Uhuru Muigai is getting drunk with Museveni in a ranch near the Kongo border? Kenya can easily run on automatic pilot for a few months surely, if both men met with ‘disabling fates’ in their cross border adventures! It would simply be the well-known case of the president and deputy are dead, long leave the president and deputy! That is the simple rule in history. Everybody is expendable! And the vacancies quickly filled! And so here we are! Uhuru and Ruto are learning how to walk and say ta-ta-ta.. Ma-ma! Makofi wananchi! These boys can actually show initiative! They are nolonger mentally crippled by fear after all! The ICC is a dead monkey scarecrow! correct: Both president and deputy were away SIMULTANEOUSLY on 26-02-2014! Power Vacuum? Was that not the day Arsenal was playing Bayern Munich!? Which idle mind would notice a power vacuum on such a day? www.nation.co.ke/news/politics/Uhuru-Ruto-absence-in-line-with-Constitution/-/1064/2226186/-/on7a6vz/-/index.htmlWhy spoil this thing with the strenuous clarification that it was in line with the constitution!? Where is this stupid article which bans the president and his deputy from attending a joint gang-bang extravaganza in South Africa, courtesy of Jacob Zuma’s expensively furnished brothel aka House One!? The ICC has fatally compromised its independence in the Kenyan cases. The bench allowing itself to be subject to Inter State Party resolutions. They need jokers to take them seriously! Fearful Manoah Esipisu should have a bit of respect for his country. Kenya need not strenuously explain to anybody outside the citizens why their president is visiting a neighbouring country, while the deputy is visiting the most dynamic country in the continent [Nigeria]. So next time Mr Weakknees Esipisu, make it a take it or leave it affair. Never use the law to explain where to or why our President is going anywhere! Pu-ssy is enough reason for any man to go anywhere, on public expenses! |
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Post by jakaswanga on Apr 9, 2014 21:05:47 GMT 3
SOVEREIGNTY. Both as a joke, and as something deadly serious. And now let me tackle the unquantifiable factor of dignity, and the ruthless depths of patriotism during periods of external humiliation. The presidency of Kenya is a peoples sovereign ---even if we are a mere neo-colony, and a Western rag upon which they wipe their feet. But that does not mean the defeat of Kenyan nationalism is total and complete, so that our subservience must be a 100% to the dot at every beck and call. There are islands of autonomy, Holy Grounds, like the Kabaas of Mecca where no infidel, however powerful, is entertained. Any local ruler who fails to protect those reserves, those holy wells of dignity, sells them or rents them out for whatever purpose, becomes a doomed twat, to be confined to eternal infamy. A Judas figure of everlasting bad press. The Kenyan sovereign, currently defined as H.E the President, in whose person the authority to be commander in chief is invested and personified for the period, can not willingly submit himself to be taken hostage in a foreign land. I mean, even for Ouru Kenyatta the Muthamaki, there limits to jokes a man can visit upon his country. The judges, not constituted by Kenyans, will be exercising sovereignty over the Kenyan sovereign, as if we had gone to war and had our Muthamaki captured and now held prisoner. In which case his replacement would already be sworn in, for a King in captivity is no longer of a free mind, nor will, and can no longer be custodian of destiny! neither his nor ours as a collective. ....................... Let us see if boys do become men, whether you toy boys dare face this knife of circumcision of the big bad world. Or Uhuruto is just the latest fad of fakes to rise to the summit of African flag independence. I return to this concept of a ‘’Sovereign’’, and you, Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta, the president of the republic of Kenya, as the current peoples sovereign. This implies, whether it makes meaning to you or not, that in your office is invested the ‘’peoples will’’. ---((We will later engage in a [an academic discussion] on how the peoples’ will can be ascertained . And the dangers inherent in its faulty interpretations, which lead to nightmare governments enacting horror policies. But that is another story for later.)) For today, let me remind you that you are the bearer of an office authorised to wield the total command of war, commander in chief of the death-wreaking forces, --forces armed and specially sustained by society to accomplish the barbarian but necessary tasks of war, on behalf of the citizens. ( Of course the armed men can go rogue, as often has happened in the history of human society, and wage war both abroad and on own population for their own selfish business interests and power lusts, but that is another story). For today, you are the holy one, and your purposes too, holy, seeing you have decided to be a war [on terror] president and not and industrialisation catalyst. War on corruption? No, not holy! I have come across several hypotheses explaining the cleric Makaburi’s death. And my heart is much perturbed, just listening to the following. 1. Inter-al-shabaab politics. An internal liquidation, due to factional disputes. 2. ATPU: anti terrorist police unit, acting on pure local command structure. 3. Kenyan police/security elements acting on orders from the USA and allies 4. Direct hit by local or imported wet team of the Americans and or Israelis.. My problem is not that Makaburi is dead. Men are born, men die. And death eventually comes to us all, mortal men. That is no big deal. Even the nature of the cleric’s death, cold-blooded murder, is not a big deal for the purposes of this missive. The big deal for me in this episode, is much more basic. I believe, that when Kenyan blood is spilt, it must be accounted for, and responsibility for it must be taken. I believe, Kenya has reached a stage where every drop of blood of a citizen of hers, needs a truthful explanation. Kenyan blood is dear, dear to my heart, dear to the flag, and I insist, must be dear to the sovereign, the commander in chief in whose hands the command of death lies in defence of the land. It is the official brief of the sovereign to hold the blood of the citizens dear.NB: A Russian girl once told me she supported the Red Army's total eradication of the Romanovs from history --the family of the Nicolas II the last Czar. Reason? he had sent Russians soldiers to war with sticks against German machine guns. Such a disdain for Russian lives, needed to be punished by extirpation from history! Expulsion from the genetic pool! yes, food for thought! If the sovereign, in this case you, Uhuru, is satisfied, that to fulfil your constitutional and citizen duties as head of state, which is the defence of Kenyan interests which you are sworn to do, necessitates the extra-judicial killing of a fellow citizen, so be it I say. But just say so, address the nation, face the citizens, explaining to the people why the difficult, horrific choice, and taking full responsibility for the act. You are the commander in chief, and the death command rests in your hand. We know this, I may criticise it, but I would not claim it is not within the auspices of your office to make a decision to kill, on the instant when the situation warrants it, in your due consideration, in defence of Kenya and her people. As b6k says: it is a dirty job that gotta be done, and somebody has to do it. --If Bibi Netanyahu wants ‘’to take out’’ a Hamas head for the good of his country, he does not hide it. But of course he would never take-out a fellow Jew###! Obama can kill his fellow Americans too, he gets criticism, but no impeachment. He explains to the American people why, and which law allows him to do that. Thin yes, but he gets the nation along. This is the war on terror. And they did already sign into it under his predecessor! Lies or no lies! I want the Kenyan sovereign living up the decorum of his office. Ruthless and blood thirsty as the above if need be, but always explaining which bee it is crawling up his intestine, making him a murderer on behalf of the people of Kenya. The murder of a fellow citizen by state agents must be explained, just like private murders too, are explained in a different setting, the court of law. ----(Fwack the ICC, I do not give a damn sh!t about charlatan exercise!) If the Kenyan president decides on an extra-judicial killing of a Kenyan, he need must explain that too, in the court of KENYAN public opinion. (I do not do ‘’international community’’ –that is the idle phraseology of diplomats living well. Kenyan is for me the key word!) I need to see you, Muigai the PORK, rising up to this. --Rising to understanding, that the Kenyan Flag is a holy responsibility. And Kenyan blood, must be to our president, holier than the word of God. Put Kenya before God. And if God disagrees, fwack God. Uhuru son of Kenyatta, your are sovereign or not! When the story is, it is a foreign agency running a local arm of the security forces to which you are the commander in chief! That there is a possibility that you, Uhuru Kenyatta, is merely the rubber-stamping hireling of a foreign power to execute a fellow citizen not to their liking, then we have a problem in legitimacy, a legitimacy which is outside the scope of whether you beat Raila fairly or not. When the possible story is, that you are not hired, but coerced, intimidated or otherwise tabbed by foreign powers into sanctioning the liquidation your citizens; that you are not actually a sovereign but an errand boy come local butcher on behalf of thugs from afar! …. Then O heavens forbid! ---what did the Americans do to their running dog Manuel Noriega when he was no longer useful to them? … Then O heavens would have to look elsewhere in shame! For even Montezuma### baring his ass to Hernan Cortez in exchange for his life would be a picture of lesser infamy! So clear the air quickly. GG Kariuki says you are not Kibaki whom I understand the Gikuyu have a very unflattering name for in these things! |
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Post by jakaswanga on Oct 10, 2014 20:54:58 GMT 3
THE MUTHAMAKI CAPTURED AND HELD HOSTAGE, WAS HE TURNED? Heavy traffic as Uhuru returns from ICCSomebody needs to poop on the party. I am thinking of the warnings which many post-colonial writers, then young men, imbued the continent with. They were not convinced it would be wise to believe the tales about glorious futures which the founding fathers of the freshly independent African countries spun with rouble-rousing rhetoric. Wole soyinka, Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiongo, Sembene Ousmane and Okot P Bitek amongst others, proved to be reliable prophets of doom. The High hopes of the African post-colonial order soon capsized into the disorder of coups, corruption, misrule, ethnic driven quagmire, economic mismanagement leading to debt bondage na kadhalika. Independence had become a living nightmare for one reason or another. Now once more we have high hopes, and the narrative is Africa Rising. But once bitten should be shy. As I watched the triumphalism of Uhuru Kenyatta speeching on his return from his date at the Hague with the ICC, I found myself thinking of the earlier generation of esteemed party poopers. Nationalism has some interesting complexes, or pitfalls as Frantz Fanon would have it. NB: 1. Frantz Fanon: we are going to hear more about him in this post. Keep him in mind, dear reader; keep him in mind especially on the thesis that the colonist deliberately seeks to degrade the colonised into an animal. This dehumanisation, with depersonalisation as an intended psychological result, has as purpose the eternalisation of oppression, since animals .. (sic) depersonalised or psychiatric people, can not offer organised resistance to colonialism, or other higher forms of domination (like neo-imperialism). NB: 2. We will visit Palestina, and review an artistic study of how Israeli security services, using Fanonian analysis, can be proved to be trying their best to ''animalise'' the Palestinian people. How they use sophisticated methods to try to sap or negate the will of the Palestinians to resist. Naturally they are not making much headway, which is why they are continually forced into raw genocidal war, which is physical elimination, psychological degradation having failed. And then we will try to show the relevance of Nbs 1&2 to the Kenyan situation and the recent momentary captivity of the '' temporarily abdicated'' Kenyan sovereign.
THE INDEPENDENCE OF KENYA, REAL VS IMAGINED. It is important we understand the limits of our independence as it is currently constituted. It is imperative to recognise the contours, actually the confines within which we can profess our autonomy or national sovereignty, that is our ranking in the pecking order of the international power game. I think some states are only nominally independent. That in reality some states are vassals, dependencies of certain powers. They have to, when the chips are down, show subservience to their patron nation, for the consequences of disobedience is national doom (actually the doom of that ruling clique, for the patron will do regime change). It is therefore not far-fetched to understand Kenya's recent proof of cooperation with the ICC as motivated by the fear of the economic consequences of too much open recalcitrance. Like a no show of Uhuru Kenyatta with a middle finger. The extent to which we (as Kenyans) have gone to appease the ICC summons has been adequately termed historic. It entailed a necessity for the head of state to transmute himself into a being capable of DIVINITY. He abdicated temporarily, taking off for Holland without bearing the sovereignty of Kenya, sat before Fatou Bensouda in his private capacity, and returned to triumphantly resume his presidential persona. All in less than 24 hours.Proteus son of Poseidon, the Old man of the Sea, is a mythological figure credited with a capability to, when cornered, assume any form that made it possible to wriggle out of the tight spot. He could even change into water and damp away from the danger, only to reconstitute a few paces away! The scene in the film THE TERMINATOR with Arnold Schwarzeneger where the atomised creature chasing him reconstitutes, is (if you ask me) inspired by the legend of Proteus, the mythological knave of an immortal who, by the time Homer is revising his Iliad, has become an object of humorous ridicule. This divinity trick performed by the President of Kenya, this brilliant constitutional gimmick much derided by others as a cheap stunt, was actually a desperate compromise. It would appear the ICC set a hurdle which so cornered the sovereign we needed such a divinity stunt to wriggle out. Otherwise in the mind of the elite, a consequence awaited beyond our -national- coping abilities. Actually, because we know this cornering can only happen to selected states and their presidents, Uhuru Kenyatta's trip to the Hague, regardless of the successful trick, was a surrender. But every soldier knows there can be a moment in battle where the enemy is so entrenched in vantage points and assembled such devastating firepower that, unless one is suicidal, surrender is the soldierly option. The difference in reality, is that SURRENDER MUST NOT BE MARKETED AS VICTORY.  That is a dangerous illusion, that would be a lie which reality would later correct with cruel mechanicity. Think of Saddam Hussein declaring victory, after signing his defeat and expulsion from Kuwait by the American army. He neglected to re-organise Iraq in line with the reality of his defeat. That omission, continued by subsequent regimes too, has led to the current nightmare in Iraq.  Defence of Mr Kenyatta at the beginnng of the Status Conference WednesdayReturning from his momentary captivity yesterday; re-assuming his UNITY after having been split into a duality; regaining his seat and seal from his deputy Ruto, Uhuru Kenyatta rode a wave of nationalist hysteria as if he were a heroic General ruler come back from a military campaign that had secured the borders of the Kingdom forever. And folks –-let us assume they were not a hired cheer crowd as is the business in Africa these days-- ululating and thumping their chests in joyous din, further escalated the intoxication and re-enforced the illusion the President was serving the population. The victorious maestro, the returning conquering hero. A deity. It is an amusing denial of reality. And one hopes within two days it will be let be. And reality return. It is said that when Marcus Antony had lost the sea battle against Octavianus, his concubine Cleopatra of Egypt sped home and ordered the capital to prepare for celebrations as if Egypt had achieved a great naval victory over Rome. Within six months, Antony and Cleopatra had committed famous suicides. Power corrupts, and the most dangerous corruption of power, is the illusion of its own reality immune to facts on the ground. The fact on the ground, is that the President of the republic of Kenya was contained and encased incommunicado in a foreign land. Atahualpad. We have set a precedent to be proud of! Some say ... with … the tamed, expectant look of a Pavlov dog. Methinks our sovereignty was blackmailed and intimidated into this cowering step. Our elite lost their nerve, caved in, and there was QC Kay with a most welcome Deus ex machina! QC Qay Akhbar! But this blackmail, this intimidation, this caving in to create, in positive language, a precedent in humility for civilisation, can also mark a watershed. The Broken man spinning fiction of heroism. The Uhuruto heroics across Nairobi streets yesterday, merely the hysteria of denial. The blackmailer always comes back, once he breaks the culprit once. And with this, I dive to part two, and offer a Fanonian study from Palestina. THE FILM OMAR. THE ENDURING RELEVANCE OF FRANTZ FANON, THE COLONISED AND THE COLONIST AND THE FIGHT FOR HUMANITY. COLLABORATION AND PSYCHOLOGICAL MANIPULATION: israel vs Palestina www.opendemocracy.net/arab-awakening/william-eichler/film-review-%27omar%27-and-nature-of-colonialism I ran out of time. Mebbe later.
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Post by OtishOtish on Oct 11, 2014 0:04:04 GMT 3
I will comment, but first let me review (mainly for myself) recent history (i.e. after His Excellency became His Excellency). * Kenya's parliament passes a motion to withdraw the country from the Rome Statute. Again. But this time they really mean it! Again. * His Excellency decides that this is no longer a "personal challenge"; it is a matter of the sovereignty of the great republic of Kenya and the pride of its people. There is no separating the "individual" and the "president". His followers, supporters, and government agree. So do all the other His Excellencies in Africa. (The Her Excellencies were not very keen on the nonsense.) * There is plenty of tough talk all around. Extraordinary Summits called by his Brethren-In-Power. UN Security Council, ICC Assembly of States Parties, dot, dot, dot. That a president should be in the dock! A grave insult to all of Africa! Neo-Colonialism! Hyper-Imperialism! Galactic Capitalism & Exploitation! This *ism, that*ism! Africa must be respected! "Respectable" elderly women will strip naked if H.E. is summoned. "Powerful" senators will mobilise the youth to block JKIA should H.E. even think of respecting such summons. Dot, dot, dot. But reality is one heck of a something. * The court orders His Excellency to haul ass to the Netherlands ... an implicit or-else. This is not the time for withdrawal motions, Extraordinary summits, or sovereign & independent. Save that for later; right now the perp must show up in court. This is serious. * There is the sudden discovery that Individual Kenyatta and President Kenyatta are different; finally, agreement with the court that it is the "individual" that they are concerned with. The individual will haul ass; the presidency will be temporarily placed in safe hands at home. A pity the discovery came so late in the day. * Although most people assume that the katiba quietly kicks in (or is quietly kicked in) whenever Uhuru is away---e.g. his recent 5-day trip to the USA---they are wrong. In those cases, there has been a "power vacuum" or something at home; at any rate, this time there must be a formal hand-over of power to His Deputy Excellency. Pomp & Ceremony. * The natives, led by the media, go wild with delight. According to the media, led by the Daily Nonsense, The Stunted, and The Startled, Uhuru is now a "civilian". Yes, a civilian. The 8-4-4 brigade at work. And isn't he ever so humble about it. What a mensch! Wow. * The circus gets into full swing. The media: Caption: photograph of Ag President Ruto smiling behind the big desk in the big office; Title: Ag President Ruto set to enjoy the trappings of power; Caption: Ag President Ruto, first morning in power receiving Important Person. * Meanwhile, over in the Netherlands .... Judges: " Mr. Kenyatta, you may now say a few words if you wish". Mr. Kenyatta declines; this is not the place for tough talk or any opening of the mouth; best to save that for the home folks and fire from 3,000 miles away. Alright then, Mr. Kenyatta; just sit there, be quiet, and behave yourself; we'll let you know when we are done. Hours later ... OK, Mr. Kenyatta; that's it. You may now go home. But don't forget your bail conditions!. (That was Individual Kenyatta, but leading international media report that Kenya's president has just become the first to ...) * Restart the action: State House issues statement that anyone's acting presidency expired the minute the real president was given permission to go home. Fellow President of Sovereign African Country next door presses the "un-pause button" on the tough talk. * His Excellency arrives back home, where he is promptly declared a Great Hero, because of ... er, em? Ah, yes, ... he went over there and stared the Mzungu Devil right in the eye. Told him to fwack off right back to hell. OK, he didn't actually say it, given that he never said anything, but he was thinking it; and they knew he was thinking it; and we know that they knew that, and, and, and ... What a Hero! His Excellency takes the cue from President Museveni: now is the time to talk tough! Blast them with both barrels! Mr. Museveni of course will not say much about the little matters Uganda has at the ICC, the ones that were started at his request: www.icc-cpi.int/en_menus/icc/situations%20and%20cases/situations/situation%20icc%200204/Pages/situation%20index.aspxNor, while egging on Brother Uhuru, will Mr. Museveni comment on his own very recent cold shower of reality: www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000137016/museveni-says-new-gay-law-risks-trade-boycott-by-the-westAnd the local His Excellency has a very odd idea of his role president and of the ICC's role: according to him, if the ICC wants to help Kenya, it should come to Kenya and help the youth find jobs, build roads, build hospitals, etc. Wow. Me myself, I sometimes wonder why I waste good money for The Comedy Channel on cable TV. So much free stuff to be had out there. |
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Post by mank on Oct 11, 2014 6:47:06 GMT 3
"Coming of Age: Why Uhuru Kenyatta should say Fwack the ICC!"
I think it all depends on what the court does now. Counsel stood confidently before the court and told it what I wondered why we were taking so long ... "I don't trust the prosecution, or this court ...." Hua! And counsel did not stop there ..."and I have drawn a line on the sand. I am not sharing any more evidence! The evidence we shared, showing that all that..." well I don't remember the actual words, but if you put "nonsense" you will be catching drift. So it goes, "... The evidence we share, showing that all that which you call evidence is bee ees from a bunch of liars, we were not acknowledged. We were ignored - by the prosecution, and this court.... I have drawn a line on the sand."
Folks, bear with me, while I present my report above as it is actual quoting, its really just the closest paraphrase of what I heard. but it is close enough.
Now what?
Fatyou wants the case dismissed ... she has indicated herd desire for that in many ways. She even gives the court what looks the dumbest ultimatum "..you either deny us our request for indefinite suspension of the case in which case you can cite our self confessed lack of the evidence to sustain the accusal of Kamwana, and thereby FORCE us to withdraw the case, or accept our request for indefinite suspension, in which case you can be sure that we'll be here again whenever it is that you call us back, giving you this same embarrassing ultimatum to you ... again. It is up to you to save us from this awkwardness Madman President.
Madam President: Mr. Attorney General, may I ask you, what is a PIN?
Githu: A pin is a numbee...r,
Madam President: Mr. A. G., we are not interested in your answer. We have the information you gave us.
Githu: But you asked me, madam Pre...
Madam President: Mr. A. G., we are not interested in your answer!
Ha!
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Post by jakaswanga on Oct 11, 2014 9:25:52 GMT 3
" Coming of Age: Why Uhuru Kenyatta should say Fwack the ICC!"
I think it all depends on what the court does now. Counsel stood confidently before the court and told it what I wondered why we were taking so long ... "I don't trust the prosecution, or this court ...." Hua! And counsel did not stop there ..."and I have drawn a line on the sand. I am not sharing any more evidence! The evidence we shared, showing that all that..." well I don't remember the actual words, but if you put "nonsense" you will be catching drift. So it goes, "... The evidence we share, showing that all that which you call evidence is bee ees from a bunch of liars, we were not acknowledged. We were ignored - by the prosecution, and this court.... I have drawn a line on the sand."
Folks, bear with me, while I present my report above as it is actual quoting, its really just the closest paraphrase of what I heard. but it is close enough.
Now what?
Fatyou wants the case dismissed ... she has indicated herd desire for that in many ways. She even gives the court what looks the dumbest ultimatum "..you either deny us our request for indefinite suspension of the case in which case you can cite our self confessed lack of the evidence to sustain the accusal of Kamwana, and thereby FORCE us to withdraw the case, or accept our request for indefinite suspension, in which case you can be sure that we'll be here again whenever it is that you call us back, giving you this same embarrassing ultimatum to you ... again. It is up to you to save us from this awkwardness Madman President.
Madam President: Mr. Attorney General, may I ask you, what is a PIN?
Githu: A pin is a numbee...r,
Madam President: Mr. A. G., we are not interested in your answer. We have the information you gave us.
Githu: But you asked me, madam Pre...
Madam President: Mr. A. G., we are not interested in your answer!Ha! Ha, Mank! my thinking goes like this ... Our ( Kenyan best opinion) is, the charge sheet crimes against humanity for which Muigai Kenyatta is indicted, can not be proved by this court. Any number of reasons why not, are thinkable, including next to no serious investigation. But we also can not deny as Kenyans, that terrible crimes were committed during that national altercation known as PEV: Crimes for which top politicians are more than responsible. We know as a nation, too, that there will be no LOCAL prosecutions of the WAKI 20, neither in total nor in partial, so CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY is out of question in kenya for the concerned politicians. We are also not interested in a TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION 'STUNT' like the South Africa used. (That Tutu thing was not a bad 'gimmick  ' actually, if you ask me! We could have copied it for some healing! Though I remember Bethwel Kiplagat's TJRC report is gathering dust. It was merely another ''eating'' opportunity.) So what to do, given we know ourselves so well? O We know our ruling class so well, and O they know us so well they think they can get away with anything, so? There is an undeniable impasse there, and I am sure some international forces with the due influence, can not miss this golden opportunity to ''manipulate the elite'' to serve their nefarious purpose in some way. We are signatories to the Roman statutes in whole, and our political class, unthinking, did not move first enough to withdraw, preferring to hurl useless insults at the ICC instead of legal technical work, producing stunts like QC Qay now has done with this divinity gimmick). The political economy of Africa captained by a USELESS CLASS OF POLITICIANS sustains the manipulation of OUR elite and politics. EG –- By raw bribery (Ghana Oil contracts),
–-by intimidation and blackmail (Kenya fears sanctions so President makes history going to the Hague),
–-by dependency subsidy (donor-funded economies like Rwanda and Uganda)
–-By ''military corruption'' like the American cash-washing to the reat Egyptian army into a tool of its middle eastern policy to underwrite Israeli uncontested might. Egyptian army becomes a trading corporation.I therefore think the continuation of the Uhuru case is not based on law but on HARDCORE INTERNATIONAL POLITICS. Uhuru Kenyatta, without his heart in it, and not thinking far ahead, earlier on adopted a posture of bravado and chest thumping against the West. He ranted they were fading powers of no relevance to Kenya, and THEY wanted to impose the ki-hii Raila as their puppet on Kenya. During his inauguration he humiliated Western ambassadors. But he lacked the mental depth of Mwai Kibaki in his look-east declaration, and Uhuruto's new handlers lacked the intellectual sophistication of the Kibaki institutional bureaucracy in its international dealings. Never underestimate the foxy nature of men like John Michuki. His loss was an arterial bleeding for the comprador state.No sooner was Uhuruto sworn in than they did the inevitable. They homed Kenya to her historical allies –-where she exports her shi!ty fruits, horticulture and fish; where the Kenyatta banks trade dollarised foreign exchange. ANd debts are registered, of an economy needing loans to service loans. Imperialism opened her jaws wide to welcome back the prodigal son. And you know what they say about a crocodiles open jaws. It could be a smile, it could be death trap. My hunch is Kenya is being shown her place in a game in which no quarter is given. It is the law of the jungle, the World order. Kenyatta, running one of the star economies of the Africa rising narrative, is told wewe kijana kuja hapa Hague –-the way a patrolling Kenyan policeman will call a random citizen to show power on the streets, and all tails fold and off his Excellency goes, riding an appropriate constitutional gimmick.It is a message to the other would-be dogs to recognise the leash they are on. Robert Mugabe may be old and senile, but he leaves a legacy of romantic defiance which is hard to mock. The new digital generation are the ash which once great fires have turned into to. And so, like in the film Omar, Uhuruto are like Palestinian collaborators caught in the blackmail and control game of Israeli power. Toys who will need even more desperate gimmicks to regain their dignity, or otherwise, creatures lost to deals of subservience in the dark. Turned, serving other interests, but we know not. Here below, more on the FILM OMAR. THE FILM Omar, directed by Hany Abu-Assad. Palestine, 2013. A critical essay by Sophie Chamas. |
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Post by jakaswanga on Oct 11, 2014 9:35:02 GMT 3
ART can sometimes lead to a deeper understanding of reality, when well read. I am reading the ICC appearance of the abdicated Kenyan president as a contueing narrative of the subjugation of Africa. An international order that, apart from the fact of africa being marginalised in international trade --a primitve backyard of raw extraction and consumer product dumping, her politicians too are margin, and can be inferiorised. They can be terrorised into collaborative abdication, or cornered into pariah states like the guy of North Sudan, the outlaw Omar Bashir. So a study of collaboration in own degradation, will be, to use b6k, illuminating!Let us go to Palestine. that is the current hottest battlefield where the Fanonian stuff can be seen. THE FILM Omar, directed by Hany Abu-Assad. Palestine, 2013. A critical essay by Sophie Chamas. ec2-50-16-193-68.compute-1.amazonaws.com/pages/index/19278/sympathy-for-the-devil_palestine%E2%80%99s-tragic-collabor Sympathy for the Devil: Palestine’s Tragic Collaborators –-by Sophie Chamas Israel and her intelligence services puts all effort into the recruitment of Palestinian collaborators www.theguardian.com/world/2011/dec/28/palestinians-gaza-strip-collaborate-israel  The Erez crossing at the northern end of the Gaza Strip. Israel insists rigorous security checks have proved to be essential. Photograph: Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Images |
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Post by mank on Oct 11, 2014 18:16:17 GMT 3
" Coming of Age: Why Uhuru Kenyatta should say Fwack the ICC!"
I think it all depends on what the court does now. Counsel stood confidently before the court and told it what I wondered why we were taking so long ... "I don't trust the prosecution, or this court ...." Hua! And counsel did not stop there ..."and I have drawn a line on the sand. I am not sharing any more evidence! The evidence we shared, showing that all that..." well I don't remember the actual words, but if you put "nonsense" you will be catching drift. So it goes, "... The evidence we share, showing that all that which you call evidence is bee ees from a bunch of liars, we were not acknowledged. We were ignored - by the prosecution, and this court.... I have drawn a line on the sand."
Folks, bear with me, while I present my report above as it is actual quoting, its really just the closest paraphrase of what I heard. but it is close enough.
Now what?
Fatyou wants the case dismissed ... she has indicated herd desire for that in many ways. She even gives the court what looks the dumbest ultimatum "..you either deny us our request for indefinite suspension of the case in which case you can cite our self confessed lack of the evidence to sustain the accusal of Kamwana, and thereby FORCE us to withdraw the case, or accept our request for indefinite suspension, in which case you can be sure that we'll be here again whenever it is that you call us back, giving you this same embarrassing ultimatum to you ... again. It is up to you to save us from this awkwardness Madman President.
Madam President: Mr. Attorney General, may I ask you, what is a PIN?
Githu: A pin is a numbee...r,
Madam President: Mr. A. G., we are not interested in your answer. We have the information you gave us.
Githu: But you asked me, madam Pre...
Madam President: Mr. A. G., we are not interested in your answer!Ha! Ha, Mank! my thinking goes like this ... Our ( Kenyan best opinion) is, the charge sheet crimes against humanity for which Muigai Kenyatta is indicted, can not be proved by this court. Any number of reasons why not, are thinkable, including next to no serious investigation. I agree amigo. But I also question now, as at the beginning of the drama in the Netherlands,whether the investigation itself was aimed at the real issue. I think we know how our politicians brought us to war - they did it well before the violence. What the prosecution is interested in is merely finding a few facts to attribute war to ... did Uhuru move bags of money during the PEV? That's all the prosecution thinks is necessary to prove the case, and I think the court is also ready to accept that ... that's why the prosecution is so adamant about bank records, in my opinion. But to me, bank records don't mean a thing. In fact I would be surprised if any politician in the affected areas did not spend money during the PEV! Unless you tell me that the culture of polytricians carrying loads of money in their jackets ready to dish out to their subjects died with the Moi era! So to me, finding that Kenyatta moved money ... even disbursed it in the violence-stricken areas, proves nothing. Absolutely nothing. But to the prosecution and the court, that shuts the door on your His Excellency. ... i n my honest opinion, I think Uhuru runs a serious risk in that sense! True! But what a letdown, to find that our saving lord from da Hague is willing to bank on lying maniacs for the sake of any conviction? To them what matters is the crucification ... not a demonstrable cause for it. I think Kenyans wanted the truth first ... although many think they know it, and would be happy to put their "convicts" on the cross already! That's an interesting take amigo. I have hardly been persuaded that the ICC is really playing geographical politics, but your take above has my attention. To me the Hague just looks like a club with too much of an ambition in issues it is incapable of comprehending. |
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Post by mank on Oct 11, 2014 23:03:57 GMT 3
Here below, more on the FILM OMAR. THE FILM Omar, directed by Hany Abu-Assad. Palestine, 2013. A critical essay by Sophie Chamas. Where amigo is flick? ...oh, I see the review. |
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Post by OtishOtish on Oct 12, 2014 0:47:26 GMT 3
The political economy of Africa captained by a USELESS CLASS OF POLITICIANS sustains the manipulation of OUR elite and politics.
As with individuals, so with nations: it's very hard to respect those who apparently don't respect themselves. A beggar demanding equality from the person providing the largesse will always get a few chuckles.
Africa Talks Tough, Will Not Accept More Nonsense:
The Tough-Talking African Union has now approved its budget for 2015. A summary:
* Total amount is $522 million.
* Of that, the Sovereign & Independent African Nations have coughed up $147 million. That leaves a largish gap.
* Fortunately, the usual "international partners" have agreed to fork out $225 million. That is more than the Sovereign & Independents themselves are putting in. But it still leaves a gap of $150 million, which, again, is more than the Sovereign & Independents themselves are putting in. What to do?
* Obvious solution: "further US$149,266,824 to be solicited from partners". (Much nicer than "well, we'll just have to beg for that too".)
Summary: 71% of the AU budget to be covered by begging. But we remain sovereign, independent, and equal. Must be respected.
summits.au.int/en/sites/default/files/Assembly%20AU%20Dec%20517%20-%20545%20(XXIII)%20_E.pdf
"Worthy Citizens: Don't misinterpret our silence. As soon as the budget is fully covered there will be plenty of
Neo-Colonialism!--Hyper-Imperialism!--Galactic Capitalism & Exploitation! fireworks. First things first".
Down to National Thinking:
Uhuru's statement on how the ICC can help Kenya would have been less funny had he said that they should come to Kenya and help create jobs; instead, it was about helping the youth look for jobs. Great insight for a solution to the youth-unemployment problem: just go look for a job or get help looking for one! Reminds me of what some American wag said on poverty: "If you have a problem with poverty, go get a job". Exactly.
The unemployed manambas H. E. was addressing roared with approval: Yes, we need help looking for jobs! This guy really understands our problems!
In the meantime Cadbury, Eveready, etc. are moving out; deals with the EU remain problematic; the "middle income" status that has had people so excited will mean Kenya getting cut out of "easy deals for poor folks"; etc.
Telling the ICC to fwack off:By all means. But best to do it before summons have been issued or after summons have been obeyed; in middle, stand up, at attention, when judges enter and leave ... remember primary-school, when ma'am entered and said "good morning, class". And when in the harsh, cold light of real realities, don't expect the African-brethren to make any noise; notwithstanding their "fireworks", they know the direction in which the world turns. Still, over and done with. For now. Let's sit back and enjoy the 8-4-4 media (bought & paid for or sucking up in hope) as it goes into overdrive: what a triumphant performance! what a president! and before this, middle-income ahead of schedule! what a ... ! what a ...! could this be the Second Coming? |
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Post by b6k on Oct 14, 2014 12:48:59 GMT 3
Jakaswanga, haven't I warned you in the past about the folly of getting weak in the knees & teary eyed whenever you see the cloth that waves at you as look at my avatar? Why get so worked up about the myth of nationhood when we all know Kenya Inc was haphazardly cobbled up at the barrel of a gun as an offshoot of the intended area of conquest, Uganda aka the Pearl of Africa, by the Imperial British East Africa Company? Other nations were also similarly "created" by royal (corporate) charter when other regional companies were incorporated be it the United States of America or India. Do you honestly believe the goal was to bequeath the natives with nations or create new markets and sources of raw materials?
You compare Uhuru to Atahualpa? No. That distinction would fall to the likes of Chief Waiyaki (who died whilst making a long trek to exile in the coast that commenced on what is today Waiyaki Way) for refusing to supply African porters with grain or the original Samoei who was gunned down whilst preparing for "peace talks" with the Brits whom he ran rings around for a decade in heated battle. These and others like Sakawa were the last sovereigns in geographical Kenya. By the time Jomo senior arrived on the scene, KE was a fully functioning colony which meant the very best of his efforts would be carried out as a comprador (let us forget the past & move on...) from a conquered people, not a sovereign. Uhuru at best is the son of a comprador.
Where you see nations, I see markets. The markets of the world today can broadly be separated into 4 regions. The US runs most of it's hemisphere either directly or by proxy, a state of affairs that was guaranteed through gunboat diplomacy, again the barrel of a gun. Canada through NAFTA has one foot in the US arrangement while its heart lies with the UK via the Commonwealth.
Europe constitutes the second region & it dominates everything to its south. The UK therefore has pull in its former anglophone dominions in Africa while France does the same with its francophone ones. Portugal is a deadbeat Euro power (which explains Angola's current deadly embrace with China since it lacks the "guidance" of its historical Euro mentor) but for the sake of argument let's agree her former dominions fall under the Euro column. The Middle East was equally carved up by European powers with the US having pull in Egypt and Libya. Germany, the European powerhouse remains a US occupied country, all appearances of "sovereignty" notwithstanding. The same can be argued about the Asian ailing economic powerhouse, Japan. It's facade of course is the ever expanding EU (economic branch) coupled with NATO it's military wing which is dominated by the US, the inheritor of policing duties over Britannia's dominions.
The third region is comprised of Russia & its ever shrinking Eastern European satellite states. Robbed of its victory over Nazi Germany by the west (you may recall it took 3 partners, Roosevelt, Churchill & Stalin to bring the Germans to their knees) a "Cold War" was initiated against this former ally. Thanks to the Cold War & other internal challenges such as dwindling birth rates & rising alcoholism this region has stagnated but remains powerful.
The fourth region is China. back in 1996, a periodical called International Economy did a write up on the Overseas Chinese. It explained how the Chinese living outside of China's borders controlled 90% of the Indonesian economy, 75% of Thailand's, 50-60% of Malaysia's, & 100% of Taiwan, Hong Kong & Singapore's economies. Indeed today added together these overseas Chinese can match China's GDP in their respective "home" countries. Regions 3 and 4 are making ripples with new economic arrangements such as BRICS but until the ripples become waves, the old order still stands.
Where am I going with all this you may ask? Well, Kenya is a very small cog in the sphere of influence that falls under the UK & therefore by extension Europe. If you have read Prof David Hoile's "ICC: Europe's Guantanamo Bay" then you may be aware that the EU used to fund almost 70% of the ICC's budget. Once Japan joined its funding program this came down to 60% (& gave Japan the right to have some of its nationals join the ICC eg. Justice Kuniko Ozaki, the summoner of Uhuru, who was but a professor before she was appointed an ICC Judge). 60% in a set up which each country can at most give 22% of the ICC's budget (Hoile argues the EU is essentially one country as it has a president, a parliament a court, etc) will buy you a lot of clout. Also within Hoile's book you will learn that Africans, who we are usually told "enthusiastically embraced" the ICC when it was originally proposed in fact had their arms twisted by the EU which had the rider in the 2001 Cotonou Agreement that EU aid would only be forthcoming to those countries that accepted the ICC in their statutes (similar riders were added into EU agreements with South East Asian countries). Yes, the follies once again, of cap-in-hand diplomacy that is the norm for Africa today. Add to that the UNSC's connection with the ICC & take a look where its 5 permanent members (US, UK, France, Russia & China) fall in the economic regions above that I posit to you govern global commerce & explain to me how on earth you'd expect Uhuru to stand up to the ICC for sake of "sovereignty" & hope to retain power without having to forever look over his shoulder as a more pliant son of a Ker waits impatiently in the wings to replace him by ballot or by bullet as we saw during PEV.
Some lament when they see small outfits like Cadbury's (we don't produce cocoa) or Eveready pull out but I won't sweat the small stuff. Drinking Chocolate & Dairy Milk bars will come to us whether from South Africa, Dubai or Egypt and we already have batteries from all over. I'll be worried when I see the likes of Brooke Bond owners Unilever (where Baroness Linda Chalker & the Royal family sit on the board) or Finlays (The Swire Group of old) pull out as that will mean our biggest investor, the UK, has totally lost faith in comprador UK & the country, Kenya Inc, he's allowed to manage provided he kowtows. So why blame a brother if he wants to save face? At least his done it constitutionally, n'est pas?
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Post by jakaswanga on Oct 20, 2014 8:47:06 GMT 3
[On Oct 20, 2014 7:19 AM] > Indeed b6k, you have on more than one occasion stared askance at the propensity of my knees to wobble at the sight of the Kenyan 'Union Jack' aloft, dancing the winds taut. And verily did you intimate in passing, that you would rather it were the better half of "smitta-smitten" whose photo you cheekily thrust upon us, which would be the better object of a teary tribute, should my heart be that weak. Yes, as you say, IBEA-co it was indeed, that can be credited with 'creating us' as it were. But having been so created by the white imperial man, does not hinder us from usurping mental autonomy and moving forth to conjure up our own (post-colonial) destiny. Call it Operation Independence: the struggle for liberation. > Remember even with god who, as the show-topper of his divine work, allegedly created man, and in his own image at that, almighty man has since proved to be a very independent minded creature. No longer a dog tethered to the controlled Eden. > This antagonistic development between creator and creature, as exemplified in the holy book, is a good example to study if I may say so, for us colonials and our colonial masters, past or present. We can choose, and indeed have chosen, to rebel against the colonial Eden, chosen to construct an identity of nationhood but within the colonial, geographic boundaries, ... an identity which for me is far from being a myth, though I agree in the world of the Almighty Colonist, the only intent was that these geographic entities be extraction reserves and, at most, dump yards for finished products. Jakaswanga, haven't I warned you in the past about the folly of getting weak in the knees & teary eyed whenever you see the cloth that waves at you as look at my avatar? Why get so worked up about the myth of nationhood when we all know Kenya Inc was haphazardly cobbled up at the barrel of a gun as an offshoot of the intended area of conquest, Uganda aka the Pearl of Africa, by the Imperial British East Africa Company? Other nations were also similarly "created" by royal (corporate) charter when other regional companies were incorporated be it the United States of America or India. Do you honestly believe the goal was to bequeath the natives with nations or create new markets and sources of raw materials? You compare Uhuru to Atahualpa? No. That distinction would fall to the likes of Chief Waiyaki (who died whilst making a long trek to exile in the coast that commenced on what is today Waiyaki Way) for refusing to supply African porters with grain or the original Samoei who was gunned down whilst preparing for "peace talks" with the Brits whom he ran rings around for a decade in heated battle. These and others like Sakawa were the last sovereigns in geographical Kenya. By the time Jomo senior arrived on the scene, KE was a fully functioning colony which meant the very best of his efforts would be carried out as a comprador (let us forget the past & move on...) from a conquered people, not a sovereign. Uhuru at best is the son of a comprador. Where you see nations, I see markets. The markets of the world today can broadly be separated into 4 regions. The US runs most of it's hemisphere either directly or by proxy, a state of affairs that was guaranteed through gunboat diplomacy, again the barrel of a gun. Canada through NAFTA has one foot in the US arrangement while its heart lies with the UK via the Commonwealth. Europe constitutes the second region & it dominates everything to its south. The UK therefore has pull in its former anglophone dominions in Africa while France does the same with its francophone ones. Portugal is a deadbeat Euro power (which explains Angola's current deadly embrace with China since it lacks the "guidance" of its historical Euro mentor) but for the sake of argument let's agree her former dominions fall under the Euro column. The Middle East was equally carved up by European powers with the US having pull in Egypt and Libya. Germany, the European powerhouse remains a US occupied country, all appearances of "sovereignty" notwithstanding. The same can be argued about the Asian ailing economic powerhouse, Japan. It's facade of course is the ever expanding EU (economic branch) coupled with NATO it's military wing which is dominated by the US, the inheritor of policing duties over Britannia's dominions. The third region is comprised of Russia & its ever shrinking Eastern European satellite states. Robbed of its victory over Nazi Germany by the west (you may recall it took 3 partners, Roosevelt, Churchill & Stalin to bring the Germans to their knees) a "Cold War" was initiated against this former ally. Thanks to the Cold War & other internal challenges such as dwindling birth rates & rising alcoholism this region has stagnated but remains powerful. The fourth region is China. back in 1996, a periodical called International Economy did a write up on the Overseas Chinese. It explained how the Chinese living outside of China's borders controlled 90% of the Indonesian economy, 75% of Thailand's, 50-60% of Malaysia's, & 100% of Taiwan, Hong Kong & Singapore's economies. Indeed today added together these overseas Chinese can match China's GDP in their respective "home" countries. Regions 3 and 4 are making ripples with new economic arrangements such as BRICS but until the ripples become waves, the old order still stands. Where am I going with all this you may ask? Well, Kenya is a very small cog in the sphere of influence that falls under the UK & therefore by extension Europe. If you have read Prof David Hoile's "ICC: Europe's Guantanamo Bay" then you may be aware that the EU used to fund almost 70% of the ICC's budget. Once Japan joined its funding program this came down to 60% (& gave Japan the right to have some of its nationals join the ICC eg. Justice Kuniko Ozaki, the summoner of Uhuru, who was but a professor before she was appointed an ICC Judge). 60% in a set up which each country can at most give 22% of the ICC's budget (Hoile argues the EU is essentially one country as it has a president, a parliament a court, etc) will buy you a lot of clout. Also within Hoile's book you will learn that Africans, who we are usually told "enthusiastically embraced" the ICC when it was originally proposed in fact had their arms twisted by the EU which had the rider in the 2001 Cotonou Agreement that EU aid would only be forthcoming to those countries that accepted the ICC in their statutes (similar riders were added into EU agreements with South East Asian countries). Yes, the follies once again, of cap-in-hand diplomacy that is the norm for Africa today. Add to that the UNSC's connection with the ICC & take a look where its 5 permanent members (US, UK, France, Russia & China) fall in the economic regions above that I posit to you govern global commerce & explain to me how on earth you'd expect Uhuru to stand up to the ICC for sake of "sovereignty" & hope to retain power without having to forever look over his shoulder as a more pliant son of a Ker waits impatiently in the wings to replace him by ballot or by bullet as we saw during PEV. Some lament when they see small outfits like Cadbury's (we don't produce cocoa) or Eveready pull out but I won't sweat the small stuff. Drinking Chocolate & Dairy Milk bars will come to us whether from South Africa, Dubai or Egypt and we already have batteries from all over. I'll be worried when I see the likes of Brooke Bond owners Unilever (where Baroness Linda Chalker & the Royal family sit on the board) or Finlays (The Swire Group of old) pull out as that will mean our biggest investor, the UK, has totally lost faith in comprador UK & the country, Kenya Inc, he's allowed to manage provided he kowtows. So why blame a brother if he wants to save face? At least his done it constitutionally, n'est pas? b6k! I am going digital. Smart phone surfing and jukwaaring! Tough! I finally screwed up enough guts to be fully literate at it. I noticed you set a blazing trail! |
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. Meanwhile in New York, in the real world, mayor Rudi Giulliani was walking the dangerous streets, air-filter and surgeon's nose-cap on his face. He was talking to folks, encouraging rescue teams, making a physical presence of authority to avoid a collapse into chaos. The cameras did not leave him. An authentic American hero.
the argument and even agreed to alternate their trials. Also Mr Ruto has been able to convince the ICC to grant him absence from the trials when the president is due to travel out of the country on the basis that argument that both of them cannot be out at the same time.
' actually, if you ask me! We could have copied it for some healing! Though I remember Bethwel Kiplagat's TJRC report is gathering dust. It was merely another ''eating'' opportunity.)