OBAMA SHUNS MUGABE, BUT WHO IS THE FOOL?

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OBAMA SHUNS MUGABE, BUT WHO IS THE FUTURE OF AFRICA?

We were at a funeral fundraiser for a fallen teacher. Funeral fundraisers are a legendary Luo industry. Seeing that, like ancient pharaohs who bankrupted Egypt BY building skyscraping tombs called pyramids, we were likely burying the nations future under the sand, I had my favourite homeland econometrist in exile, Dr. Kotieno, put a figure on the opportunity cost, had we the people of the lake) otherwise invested all that money in economic (re)generation instead of washing down rotting corpses with it. –--But ...

that is a debate for the cultural thread or ideological faultlines Luoland. Time abiding, we will catch up with it later. But suffice is to say, Dr. Kotieno smiled and said: 'wiyi diny omera, we alerni gigi! assuming we have in place better captains of Industry than your usual run-down-the-mill ilk's of Evans Kidero –-thinking of Mumias Sugar; Ojwang' Kombudo –-thinking of Kisumu municipality; William Odongo Omamo –-thinking of RIAT money early 70s; So&So –-thinking of Lake Basin Development Authority; or Luo Thrift and Kisumu Molasses shares subscription –-thinking of the Royal Family; then, and truly then, would we now have at least two Luoland Multinationals. (1.) A land, air and sea Transport Company and (2) A Bank bigger than the KCB!'

That is why I like Dr. Kotieno. He may be a right wing sod, but his answers are clear-cut and shows he ate fish in infancy, long before the fish in the lake became poisoned with
(1) medical chemicals from Russia hospital and cancerous refuse from nearby sugar mills;
and
(2) glYPHOSATE-based pesticides and herbicides used with impunity all over the country, courtesy of the various MoNsaNto-pocketed men in Kenya who front this kind of environmental-degradation agriculture.
(Plantation agriculture in the Rift Valley uses carcinogenic Monsanto stuff, which then seep into and laze the waters of the rivers feeding the lake, poisoning the fish and brains. And that is how our fish-eating advantage has been neutralised, and the 'gonyagonya' generation of mutants effected!)



That genetical bit was offered by a biology teacher in a series called GI MOMIYO NYIKWAR RAMOGI TINDE WIGI ODINO!
(It is a variation on the Miguna lament about the caliphate!)

Yes, funeral fundraisers can be tedious affairs, long and drawn-out harambees, especially when a man had decided to ignore SACCO membership, to rely on old culture to see him transported and buried wherever. So we spent the time banging stories, keeping the count, whiling the time away like Otis Redding at the dock of the bay, watching time sail by.

I will keep Jukwaa posted on the other juicy bits that were digested in the wake.
–-Ojienda and his sidekick Judge continue to gag Bonny Khalwale on Kidero on Mumias, while certified investigators, as early as 2005, are on record terming the Mumias sugary payments to his account irregular.
The judge must be one of the ones CJ Mutunga wants re-vetted!
–--Nkaissery and Boinet and pastor N'gan'ga. Ng'ang'a is the man of God who caused a death near Limuru on a motorway accident, then, with the aide of his police escorts, cooked a very ungodly tale to cover it up. And Boinnet and Nkaissery seconded him until Wanjiku stood her ground about what she had seen with her own eyes.
–---The health insurance negotiated by KUPPET which leaves KNUT caught pants down in a bad deal, and haemorrhaging members!
–---Minister Kaimenyi's attempts to micromanage the educational sector, now banning mocks without consulting stakeholders, and basing his decision on bus-stand hearsay about the causes of student riots.
---The relationship between Margaret Kenyatta and Anne Waiguru.
---what do we do with the Motorcycle gang culture arising out of the apiko youngmen?

Then came my turn to give a take on (1) The Nightrunners club, and (2) the great son of Alego Kogelo, Potus Obama. They fondly refer to him as Obama Polo Malo, that is Obama Sky-High. He has set the bar for Luo political achievement. Here is the way a bodabodaman at Oyugis put it to me without blinking.

'President mar Kenya girigi t'ang'o, ka wasebet mar Amerka Supapawa!? Agwambo giri laro takataka omera!'
–--''After a Luo has risen to the presidency of the Super Power America, who cares about these useless things like the Kenyan presidency!? Raila is just chasing a rubbish office!''

I just politely reminded him even rubbish offices have their comfort zones, like the Weston Hotel, Radisson Hotel, The Kenyatta estate which made Fortune bill that family as the richest in Kenya, followed by the Arap Moi clan, then the Kibakis. 'The rubbish office packs quite a looting punch, just vote and help Agwambo on the merry hunt! (wabi wagwen choke e bwo mesa kaka nyiguogi!)'

So here is a summary of my Obama-Mugabe take without the jokes –-NB:-- the jokes are what make the tedious business of 'budho maiti' bearable. (Alcohol being banned during Luo wakes on the dead, we traditionally take delight in words, twists of meanings, and displays of oratory and rhetorical flair. By the time the female ahangla dances take the field with displays of hipster prowess to stimulate the physical senses, it is expected the mind has had its fill of intellectual pleasures, and business can now all go erotical. The dependence on alcohol for fun is inexplicable in this realm. (N'ga momer romre gi n'gat motho; giduto wigi ok ti!' –-''drunk and dead are the same; both are brain-dead'', say the Luo wise!'

THE GREAT SON AND HIS PRODIGAL VISIT:
(WASUNGREURU WUODWA OBIRO!)

After his triumphant stint in Kenya, President Barrack Obama of the United States visited Ethiopia. There at Addis Ababa was he hosted by his counterpart Hailemariam Desalegn, there at the famous Chinese-built hall did he address the plenum of the African Union. There too, howbeit missing, was the AU's current chair, Bad Boy Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe.

That is a significant detail. But you wouldn't suspect it from the little and (supposedly) self-explanatory reports it got.

Simple. Mugabe did not turn up.

How did Obama and Mugabe manage to avoid one another at this great day? No US president has ever had the honour to address the African heads of state at the OAU's crucible at Addis, and it would have been quite a photo-op of the official host, the Old Rogue Robert, beaming beside the POTUS, reminiscent of the way he beamed beside Vladimir Putin of Russia during the Heroes day parade in Moscow in May. (There is a footnote missing here, of Putin explaining why he showed the old African dictator such public respect and honour. Putin's genuine warmth to Mugabe had not escaped keen Russians. This was more than Mao's the enemy of enemy is my friend: Putin: 'he knows the price of freedom. He fought for it at its most intense, he led his people and country from the dread yoke of colonial-sponsored apartheid and discrimination. I respect that, more so at a time when other powers that be think Russia should be they doormat!')

But in Addis Abbeba Mugabe was the odd man out. Unwanted near Potus, like a certain William in Kenya.

I have been hunting for the fireworks behind the scenes. You bet there were. –-How much money were the Ethiopians bribed with, privately and officially, to stay way Robert!? We all heard Obama declare to the whole world, that the pre-rigged elections of Ethiopia which had unearthed a 100% population support for the ruling Derge, were an excellent feat in democratic Africa, and should be copied. Well, the Derge and its Tigrayan heartbeat must have sold Ethiopia's very soul to the visiting emperor for them to be rewarded with such as stinging endorsement! (while their dungeons rot with the bones of journalists and other critical minds!)

A state banquet earlier, the story was the same in Nairobi where the –-by Transparency International Ratings--- super corrupt regime of Uhuru Kenyatta was patted on the back by the emperor for its war on graft! And , behold, the vassal opposition ordered to man up and bow before the Jubilee deity Muigai –-a renowned puppet of corruption cartels!

Is there a single functional anti-corruption body in Kenya right now? Names please!

It all shows Obama is a scorch earth, and his callous viciousness reveals why he made it to POTUS. He has a single-minded drive to use power to override facts, has a cold-blooded ruthlessness completely detached from reality at his core, yet his personal charm and eloquence is such as to outdo Blessed Orpheus, yes, faced with Kerberos at the gates of Hades, the lyricist charmed his way in and out of hell to retrieve his love!



And did you watch him sing in that church in Charleston South Carolina, where white supremacist kid Dylann Roof, an APARTHEID HERO, did what the people Robert Mugabe fought used to do!



Barry is a bomb! A P-R bomb. And American weapon of mass distraction!

OBAMA AND MUGABE, there is a contrast to make. –-First the light touch:

The two have a history. In the famous Monsters Ball of Washington –-Obama and his African Monsters-- held on August 5/6 2014, when the whole lot of AU crop of the so-called leaders trooped to Washington, Obama singled out Robert Mugabe as the exception. Old Robert was not invited.

Why this snub? Is Old Robert a great party pooper? a creature morally lower than Jahmeh of Gambia or Obiang' of E-Guinea?

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2718143/Obamas-monsters-ball-How-White-House-opened-doors-Africas-evil-dictators-homophobes-turned-blind-eye-human-rights-record.html

MORAL PITFALLS, MORAL HIGH GROUNDS

What do we know about the depths of depravity to which successive American heads of state have sunk, letting the CIA do whatever it did across the conflict-ridden world? Only yesterday was this wholly redacted report of the CIA torture rigmarole in its various blackspots across the globe, serving as rendition closets where the ritualised tortures and demonic subcultures of the occult could be indulged with impunity, not to mention Guantanamo Bay, which is the open occultic cathedral of American depravity –--what Auschwitz was to Fuhrer Germany. The pathology of a rotten politicology, shameless in glory, displaying undisputed power over the people, mesmerising them with breaking the taboos of renaissance!

Yes, Obama reckons his hands are too bloody clean to be dirtied by the black handshake of Old Robert!

But who is Robert Mugabe in African history? and what is his significance in world history?

First I have an apology to make. I cannot make it all JOKE FREE here! The night is long and the ahangla people are late. I have been slotted extra time.

The world, like Luoland, thinks Obama and Mugabe are an item. Take a look, and a laugh.







Then back to the question, who is Robert Mugabe in African history, and his significance in world history, that our own Alego Kogeloman Obama, Okew Kaoch Wuon Modongo Thur gi Min, World Monarch and Emperor of the Capitalist Empire, has to move move heaven and Earth fomovemake-believe excommunication!?

Who the Fcuk is Robert Mugabe?

FIRST THE BAD ROBERT.

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Then back to the question, who is Robert Mugabe in African history, and his significance in world history, that our own Alego Kogeloman Obama, Okew Kaoch Wuon Modongo Thur gi Min, World Monarch and Emperor of the Capitalist Empire, has to move heaven and Earth for make-believe excommunication!?

Who the Fcuk is Robert Mugabe?

FIRST THE BAD ROBERT.

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Read more: jukwaa.proboards.com/thread/9396/obama-shuns-mugabe-who-fool#ixzz3iEmJz4bj

Our lady of mercy has kindly laboured and typed out the notes I had scribled and the smartphone voice upgrades I had sent. That being the case, lets fly.

Who the Fcuk is Robert Mugabe?

FIRST THE BAD ROBERT.

The exploits of the 5th Brigade is, in my opinion, the worst phase of Robert Mugabe. This North Korean-trained paramilitary was unleashed in Matabeleland to contain an insurgency. This was after the breakdown in the political process of integration, post independence, which saw Joshua Nkomo and his henchmen treasoned. Joshua Nkomo was the head of ZAPU-pf whose guerilla outfit was the Zimbabue Peoples Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA). Mugabe was ZANU-pf, and his outfit ZANLA (Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army). No sooner had they rounded off the rampaging white-led Selous Scouts of Ian Smith's renegade apartheid regime than the former comrades turned on each other. (sounds like South Sudan, eh!? Kiir and Machar eh!?)

Young Robert was not a man to share power. Just like Paul Kagame, Jonas Savimbi,Yoweri M7 Kaguta, The Boers John Vorster and Pieter Botha, Eduardo dos Santos, Pierre Nkurunziza, Jaafar al Numeiry, Mohammed Gaddafi, Mobutu Sese Seko -and yes, a clean sweep of everybody else you never heard of, including Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga, Wickliff Oparanya and Ababu Namwamba! (neither do i remember my old man sharing power with any of his wives openly!)

By the time he was doing to Morgan Tsivingirai what he had done to Abel Muzorewa, Robert was only enacting a farce. Obama therefore comes at a time when Mugabe has seen all them greats, and shaken hands with historically, to Africa, more greats than Obama, like Fidel Castro Ruz, whom Obama has no time for.

Who T-F is Fidel Castro Ruz?

He is a Cuban bearded cheek with a golden track record in Africa. While Obama's predecessors, to whom he is loyalty-bound by oath to always laud, were sanctioning the murders of independence heroes like Patrice Lumumba, supporting Portuguese colonialism and considering apartheid South Africa a bastion of enlightenment in the continent, Fidel Castro managed to convince –-with material goods-- Eduardo dos Santos and his young commanders to take a stand, and deliver the fight to the SADF and its UNITA collaborators and Koevoet running dogs. The South African Defence Force, known as White Might, deemed itself almighty in its racial myth of superiority, occupying sandy Namibia and, at will and at leisure, rampaging through any of the so-called frontline states, drawing in disaffected blacks and incorporating white soulmates from Zimbabwe/Rhodesia.

Dos Santos was still a bit scared of white power (Mugabe was not), neither were his younger commanders who clearly saw, as Castro had intended, that a victory over the invincible white south African army would make them, and remake the whole of southern Africa.

And so it came to pass.

However, old soldiers of the SADF claim to this day they gave the MPLA and her Caribbean backers a thrashing at the battlefield. But they are always at a loss to explain their retreat all the way to South Africa post Cuino Cuanavale, abandoning their UNITA allies, abandoning Namibia. Extremely kind-hearted whitemen I would say, the Boer army thrashing the natives then turning their backs, walking back, leaving all that territory to the nuinsance blacks!

There is another explanation though. Cuban pilots established air superiority. They cut the retreating path, locking the SADF in a trap. A death trap. The Boer army could surrender or have battalions wiped-off. And so was Namibia lost to them, but won by SWAPO!

The Cubans had not fought Unita in the south since the 1984 Lusaka agreement where the Cuban army pledged to stay north of the 16th parallel. In the south the Angolan army with the ANC armed wing Umkhonto we Sizwe and Nambia's liberation movement SWAPO had held Unita back, but the 1987 months of SADF build-up spelled real danger.

Against this background in November 1987 Fidel Castro (pictured) decided that the South African threat to crush the Angolan army at Cuito Cuanavale could be the opportunity to force the SADF out of Angola for good.
Linked to that decision was a commitment in Havana to see Namibia independent and a new world born in South Africa itself.

The previous year at a non-aligned summit in Harare Castro had raised spirits across a southern Africa destabilised by South African assassinations and bombings when he declared that Cuba would "remain in Angola until the end of apartheid."

In Luanda in early 1988 Western diplomats were predicting a very different scenario - the imminent fall of Cuito Cuanavale, a new power base for Savimbi and pressure on a weakened Angolan government to send the Cuban troops home.
In fact with Angolan troops, the reinforced Cuban forces led by the veteran Cuban general Arnaldo Ochoa Sanchez, who had been a leader in the 1975 Angolan war as well as in Ethiopia and Congo, fought a brilliant campaign across an arc of southern Angola from March to July 1988.

The ANC and SWAPO fighters were integrated into the effort. The new Cuban MiG fighters quickly showed they more than matched South Africa's previous air superiority and, using new Cuban-built airstrips on the Namibian border, they bombed the dams that provided power to the SADF bases in Namibia.
This dramatic turn in the military situation changed the balance of forces in tense negotiations ongoing in London and then Cairo.
Lead Cuban negotiator Jorge Risquet was finally in the position to demand and receive the exit of the SADF from Angola and Namibia, independence for Namibia, all before the withdrawal of Cuba's own troops.
South Africa's apartheid state was on the way out.
www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-176d-Victory-at-Cuito-Cuanavale#.VcWnPvk8pp0

One could also read the biography of then boer defence minister Magnus Malan. He says he kicked Angolan and Cuban and Russian asss to ashes!

mg.co.za/article/2007-07-11-cuito-cuanavale-revisited

Cuito Cuanavale revisited

11 Jul 2007 22:59 Piero Gleijeses

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the opening of the battle of Cuito Cuanavale, in south-eastern Angola, which pitted the armed forces of apartheid South Africa against the Cuban army and Angolan forces. General Magnus Malan writes in his memoirs that this campaign marked a great victory for the South African Defence Force (SADF).

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the opening of the battle of Cuito Cuanavale, in south-eastern Angola, which pitted the armed forces of apartheid South Africa against the Cuban army and Angolan forces. General Magnus Malan writes in his memoirs that this campaign marked a great victory for the South African Defence Force (SADF). But Nelson Mandela could not disagree more: Cuito Cuanavale, he asserted, “was the turning point for the liberation of our continent—and of my people—from the scourge of apartheid”.

Debate over the significance of Cuito Cuanavale has been intense, partly because the relevant South African documents remain classified. I have, however, been able to study files from the closed Cuban archives as well as many US documents. Despite the ideological divide that separates Havana and Washington, their records tell a remarkably similar story.

Then Obama has to wait until he is a lame duck before he can fleetingly shake the younger Castro's hands in public!

That will be the day he will screw up enough guts to apologise to Africa for his predecessor's collusions in the murder of Patrice Lumumba of Congo. Now he still got duty running around the globe laying wreaths on the graves of whitemen who made keep butchering Africans.

In an episode that came to symbolize American excesses in the third world, Mr. Devlin, then 38, received word that he would be getting a visit from “Joe from Paris” with an important message. The messenger turned out to be Sidney Gottlieb, the agency’s top poison expert, who passed on orders he said had been approved by President Dwight D. Eisenhower to kill Lumumba, who the United States feared might ally the mineral-rich Congo with the Soviet Union.

But on the African scene, opposing Malan, and his international backers in the West,

HERE IS FIDEL CASTRO, himself a survivor of numerous white-house approved 'hits'

But on November 15 1987, Cuban President Fidel Castro had decided to send more troops and weapons to Angola—his best planes with his best pilots, his most sophisticated anti-aircraft weapons and his most modern tanks. Castro’s goal was not merely to defend Cuito, it was to force the SADF out of Angola once and for all. He later described this strategy to South African Communist Party leader Joe Slovo: Cuba would halt the South African onslaught and then attack from another direction, “like a boxer who with his left hand blocks the blow and with his right—strikes”. [2]

Cuban planes and 1Â 500 Cuban solders reinforced the Angolans, and Cuito did not fall.
On March 23 1988, the SADF launched its last major attack on the town. As Colonel Jan Breytenbach writes, the South African assault “was brought to a grinding and definite halt” by the combined Cuban and Angolan forces.
Now Havana’s right hand prepared to strike. Powerful Cuban columns were marching through south-western Angola toward the Namibian border. The documents telling us what the South African leaders thought about this threat are still classified. But we know what the SADF did: it gave ground. US intelligence explained that the South Africans withdrew because they were impressed by the suddenness and scale of the Cuban advance and because they believed that a major battle “involved serious risks”. [3]

This is the kind of man the illicit skirt-tilter Bill Clinton did not want to sit next to at the inauguration of Nelson Mandela!



And if Obama wont shake Mugabe's hand, The Lady would! And she was all iron,



but famously melted.



Matabeleland and the murders perpetrated by the 5th brigade were never an issue in the West. But then Robert Mugabe started on a LAND RECLAMATION POLICY, disposessing those who had dispossessed the Africans! and, let those be whites! all hell broke loose in the western press!

Mugabe now became a demon MONSTER! An outlaw! A renegade, worse than idi Amin! A man in a class of his own. Had he been born a generation earlier, they definitely would have arranged a Lumumba ending for him.

This is the cold-blooded reality of Robert Mugabe. The old despot still shows a clear streak of resistance to imperial domination. His body may be close to giving up on life, but his mind has not surrendered.

He is not Kagame of Rwanda, a despot and his own peoples mass murderer to the core, but a loyal, useful and submissive servant to his masters.
He is not Museveni, Luwero triangle and a dictator to the core, but loyal, surrendered and submissive to his masters;
Mugabe is not our Ouru Kenyatta, cuddly and tail-wagging in his corner under leash; no, the old Shona rogue is not any of your run of the mill killer-despots jumping up and down the writhing face of Africa, fierce at home, docile before foreign power, mere running agents of foreign domination.

Robert Mugabe is a very very very bad man! He is baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad! They can't wait to have him dead. He is a monster echoing the worst Western civilisation can throw at you …

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THE MISSING LINKS IN THE HARVARD HISTORY OF AFRICA

So, ever since his infamous land reform where the even more infamous if notorious war-veterans took center stage, the demonisation and vilification of Ol' Robert in the West reached hysterical proportions.





Land reforms in Kenya according to GADO!



Another view of Mugabe's land reforms!





Chenjerai 'Hitler' Hunzvi, leader of the war veterans who forced the farm hijacks.

of interest in the land reform debate in zimbabwe.

www.ids.ac.uk/news/debating-zimbabwe-s-land-reform

www.hrw.org/reports/2002/zimbabwe/ZimLand0302-02.htm

In April 1989, the Zimbabwe Liberation War Veterans' Association (WVA) was formed, bringing together ex-combatants from both Zanla and Zipra to lobby for increased government assistance. By 1991, the government opened negotiations with the veterans group and several laws were passed in their favour, including a War Victims Compensation Act (1993). The administration of the compensation, however, was corrupt and inefficient. A number of senior Zanu officials were later found to be claiming large pay-outs, while those in real need remained neglected. The confrontation over these issues provoked a crisis in relations between the government and the WVA.

Mugabe and his cronies at the top of ZANU pf had no intention of land redistribution in any meaningful fashion, and if for the less they did, they had every intention of following the Kenyan example. But while the Kenyan Mau Mau had had insignificant membership, and the new army could deal with the remnants, the organisation of the ex ZIPRA and ex ZANLAS, demobilised guerrillas some of them with their fearsome reputations still intact, into one powerful union whose members outnumbered the national army, unnerved the corrupt elite around Mugabe and they sought an accommodation. But the situation was out of hand, and what the western press concentrated on were the crude-weapon wielding hordes confronting scared and cowering whites in rural Africa. This was really the heart of darkness, and the leader certainly a black Hitler!



Charlie Charplin or AxxxxxH, take your laugh!

The pencil strip of hair running vertically from the bridge of his nose to the cleft of his upper lip … was now transcribed by the Western Press to echo another famous upper-lip hairdo!

THE ZIMBABWEAN LAND REFORM, giving land to natives at a time when foreign firms are re-grabbing tracts of African land for commercial farming while Africans starve and die in droves, is the key to understanding Robert Mugabe's ostracisation from the capitalist west.

And, now to make my point, this colonial western narrative is the storyline Barrack Obama is pushing in his shunning of Mugabe. It is the distorted narrative he grew up in –-Kenyan roots not withstanding; just like, Harvard Education not withstanding, embracing Cuba is a piecemeal, snailslow mental adaptation to him, such that shaking Raul Castro's hand for a few seconds at Mandela's wake was, believe it or not, a earth-shaking event for Barrack Obama!



For starters, let me take you to the monuments in Angola remembering the Afro-Cubans who died in the liberation of Angola from portuguese colonialism, South African white colonial expansionism. Thereafter we could visit Cuba's role in the independence struggles of Africa in the last century in total. Then, dollar to blood, please find an econometrist who knows the going rate for liberation blood, and let him put a dollar figure to the litres thereof! Then, folks, do compare the absolute amounts to the recent downpour of dollars Obama came with to water his security deals with Africa!

Haya Mank! Are you game, BiL, O chief econometrist of Jukwaa!

Obama is my tribesman, and I am setting him upright so that, soon as ex POTUS, he does not continue walking upside down in his appreciation of African history! as he now does!

Currently Obama thinks the case of culpability of Kagame in the Eastern Congo genocide does not hold water, but he thinks Robert Mugabe is a horror too much to be in his presence! And he, Brother Barrack, runs Gitmo bay in Castro's Cuba!And what levels of depravity have American doctors pawned to the Company reached in that hell-hole?

So I say, in Kenya, in Nairobi, POTUS Obama can shun Mugabe. In Ethiopia too, and just about anywhere else he visits in Africa. But it is not a position sustainable in Kisumu where my ilks hold court!

Kisumo Pacho en Luoland Omera! Kata idoko Nyasaye to pod wakweri kama ibamie! Sano ok walami! Kata iketo milion tara piny! Ani kata ibed Ala kendo ibi gi Paradis, to ikwedo mondwa kik yieng siandagi e ahangla, to ohandi mar Paradisno idok godo adoga ku miayoe kode!'

While the American news media recently focused on “the handshake” between President Obama and Raúl Castro, it is worth pondering why the organizers of Nelson Mandela’s memorial service invited Raúl Castro to be one of only six foreign leaders—of the ninety-one in attendance—to speak at the ceremony. Not only was Raúl Castro accorded that honor, but he also received by far the warmest introduction: "We now will get an address from a tiny island, an island of people who liberated us ... the people of Cuba," the chairperson of the African National Congress (ANC) said. Such words echo what Mandela himself said when he visited Cuba in 1991: “We come here with a sense of the great debt that is owed the people of Cuba ... What other country can point to a record of greater selflessness than Cuba has displayed in its relations to Africa?”

Many factors led to the demise of apartheid. The white South African government was defeated not just by the power of Mandela, the courage of the South African people, or the worldwide movement to impose sanctions. It was also brought down by the defeat of the South African military in Angola. This explains the prominence of Raúl Castro at the memorial service: it was Cuban troops that humiliated the South African army. In the 1970s and 1980s, Cuba changed the course of history in southern Africa despite the best efforts of the United States to prevent it.
nationalinterest.org/commentary/why-south-africa-loves-cuba-9705

You heard that? Cuba changed the course of history –-for the better-- in southern Africa despite the best efforts of the USA to prevent it.

So I will go with Noam Chomsky: Harvard, there is huge stuff from reality they delete out of the syllabus there. That is why the McNamaras mess in Vietnam, the Kissingers in Chile, and you all know about post-Saddam Iraq!

When Obam comes home next, nolonger weighed down by the chains of office, we will panel-beat that Harvard-bent brain of his alright! After all, Obama senior went to the same school,and we do not want any like father like son business anymore.

And that ends the forward thrust of this delivery.

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addis abbaba 2016 January: AU SUMMIT.

MUGABE PUTS BANKI MOON ON THE SPOT OVER PALESTINE, un=security council, RIDICULES OBAMA AS PATHETIC



Our dead speak: this half-corpse still spots one of the clearest minds in public Africa. I wonder what message Africa is putting across. Piny Osemer, or as Owino jashirati put it in english, the world upside down.

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WHY DID OBAMA'S CRYSTAL CLEAR AND STEELY MIND FAINT ON OL' ROBERT?

JOHN 8:7. Jesus Delivers the Adulterous Woman

…6: They were saying this, testing Him, so that they might have grounds for accusing Him. But Jesus stooped down and with His finger wrote on the ground.
-7: But when they persisted in asking Him, He straightened up, and said to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him be the first to throw a stone at her."
-8: Again He stooped down and wrote on the ground.…

Barrack Obama senior was a drinking buddy of my main man Philip Ochieng', the wit of the daily-nation columns. And like most of his generation, this Obama was very conscious of Africa's future. He even tested for a stint at Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe, hoping to see some of the ideas he had fashioned for the industrialisation of Kenya, bear fruit elsewhere in Africa.
Obama senior had worked hard on industrialisation policy in Nairobi. It was his passion and chief intellectual work piece. ---That it was thrown to gather dust in the archives of the ministry of economic planning, disillusioned him deep if not broke his heart.

For a brief moment of optimism he figured independent Zimbabwe, a bit like the early 70s Kenya, could have use for his ideas. That was a dead end too.

When, thinking of the monster's ball in DC, Obama junior in his role as the Caesar of the world aka POTUS, decided to treat old Robert like the only leper in the AU, somewhere in my hard-disk I heard a hoot. I am past caring for the over-stayed Mugabe, but that does not mean old Robert does not carry water for Africa in the think. I couldn't locate the cause for alarm within the Kenyan praxis of moving on where everything goes, so I waited for a stab of deeper insight. It was unearthed as I laboured on the Luo cultural pivot. It turned up as interrogated folklore.

When it is not in the official archives, check folklore. I learnt that from Okot P'Bitek. This poet is another wily Luo with a drive for the bottle. He is more famous for Lawino and Ocol though --works which have refused to gather dust like the industrialisation blue-print of the brilliant economist, Barack snr. (These are songs we have not yet managed to have our praise-money-singing-ahangla supremos give a shot. A work in progress though!)

Folklore is a huge bank, a reservoir of some delicious fish if you know how to catch. I asked a retired history don: it bothers me as a Luo that Obama should treat Mugabe as litter, what's wrong with my Luo subconscious? Old Rob is a public fool aint he!?
'His father worked for Robert, it was an idealistic streak. Ill-informed but still better than drink which he died of, if you ask me,' the old don answered.



Now, from the Luo perspective, I have caught up with young Obama, the emperor. Young Obama is POTUS, he is the outgoing world's most powerful man, officially. He did not get there by wool in his mind. He devoured the Clinton syndicate, a cold and cruel machinery which, desperate, dirtily reminded America he was a zero blackie. But it turned out a shot too cheap for the ferocious beast Obama is. He is colder and crueler, and too sophisticated for such old cheap shots..

Obama's extraordinary mental rigour has shone through in three instances in my opinion, instances in which a lesser man or woman would have known no way back, imprisoned in pride, unable to concede face in public.

1. The famous red-line in the sand over Syria. As soon as he realised he had been tricked by the intelligence services –-the gas attack was not Assad's doing but a complicated false-flag operation involving two Syrian neighbours, Obama crawled back. It was a decision which earned him public ridicule. But in private, when the chiefs of intelligence were caught trying to cause another attack on an middle eastern country on a FALSE PRETEXT, like the George Bush WMD in Iraq, they served their a-rses to Barrack to prevent the sack and disgrace.

2. When Putin took Crimea. Obama did not bother go hysterical about it. The now silent Clintonite Victoria Nuland had all, against Obama's caution, poked the bear in his lair, and on the rebound, Barrack calculated it was a waste of time to gnaw the Crimea from the bear's paws. Lots of military men breathed a sigh of relief, especially that a Russian jet-jammer had overflown US frigates and rendered them completely blind.

3. When Bibi Netanyahu decided he would pre-empt Obama and start bombing Iran anyway, calculating the USA would not abandon Israel, Obama shrugged and ordered the 5th fleet to jam if not shoot down Israeli jets on Persian bomb-runs. Again in private, American generals saluted the portrait of their CiC. The clarity of his mind was divine. That paid up papers and hired journalists called him out for a craven Muslim lover did not shake him. This emperor was a considered decision maker. His blood-thirst and fury could be seen in the drone killings in which he authorised the execution of American citizens too. A real, real red line crossed.

Knowing the caliber of this retiring Potus, I waited for Old Robert to see what our dead speak would be. He had to have a go. Our Africa.
Mugabe stood up in Addis Abbaba and, one foot in the grave, wondered aloud in clear tones when the AU would invite the president of a free Palestine to come join them! 'They suffer like you and I, or as our people used to suffer under colonialism!' Old Robert asserted. And then tore into young Obama on his laziness on the defense of freedom.

It was a gong loud enough to wake me up.

I thought of Black lives matter, a kind of occupy movement in the USA launched after ritual police executions of young black males achieved motion picture notoriety.

But nothing in the past year comes close to FLINT, MICHIGAN. Not even Chicago's Homan square black site.
Flint is near Detroit, and it is 70% black and 100% poor. A dying satelite city. They switched Flint off the standard water system, and replaced it with pumping untreated water from the Flint river!

That is like Germans putting Jews in the Xyklon-B saturated chamber and, opening the door later, showing surprise all bodies are motionless: oops, this was not the purpose! –-Jewish lives matter!
That is how I view Rick Snyder coming to the rescue. The governor of Michigan.

Feb. 5, 2016 Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder on Friday fired a suspended official with the state environmental agency charged with protecting municipal drinking water, the latest administration official to be ousted as the governor addresses the lead contamination of water in Flint, Mich.
The official, Liane Shekter Smith, was previously head of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality’s Drinking Water and Municipal Assistance unit. She was suspended, along with an environmental manager who reported to her, on Jan. 22.

To switch off good water and pump river water to a black community in the land of God, the sole indispensable country on earth! And that switching was done by black CEO's!

Omera Obama, so you cannot shake Robert Mugabe's hand while your own party will deliberately poison a black poor city with lead and all river pollutants!? Great tough ruthless emperor you be, but on the Luo pivot you rate a lesser man than Robert Mugabe. Mugabe's mind is more forged by renaissance. He is a freedom man. And therefore a future. While thee emperor Obama is a status-quo man, and therefore the past. Guantanamo man.

In Flint, Mich., there’s so much lead in children’s blood that a state of emergency is declared

By Yanan Wang December 15, 2015
For months, worried parents in Flint, Mich., arrived at their pediatricians’ offices in droves. Holding a toddler by the hand or an infant in their arms, they all have the same question: Are their children being poisoned?
To find out, all it takes is a prick of the finger, a small letting of blood. If tests come back positive, the potentially severe consequences are far more difficult to discern.
That’s how lead works. It leaves its mark quietly, with a virtually invisible trail. But years later, when a child shows signs of a learning disability or behavioral issues, lead’s prior presence in the bloodstream suddenly becomes inescapable.

According to the World Health Organization, “lead affects children’s brain development resulting in reduced intelligence quotient (IQ), behavioral changes such as shortening of attention span and increased antisocial behavior, and reduced educational attainment. Lead exposure also causes anemia, hypertension, renal impairment, immunotoxicity and toxicity to the reproductive organs. The neurological and behavioral effects of lead are believed to be irreversible.”
How companies make millions off lead-poisoned, poor blacks

On on that April day, the 20-year-old says, she asked her mom to give it a look. Her mother glanced at the words, then back at her daughter. “What does this mean all of your payments were sold to a third party?” her mother recalls saying.
The distraught woman said the letter, written by her insurance company, referred to Rose’s lead checks. The family had settled a lead-paint lawsuit against one Baltimore slumlord in 2007, granting Rose a monthly check of nearly $1,000, with yearly increases. Those payments were guaranteed for 35 years.

By Terrence McCoy August 25, 2015

www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/how-companies-make-millions-off-lead-poisoned-poor-blacks/2015/08/25/7460c1de-0d8c-11e5-9726-49d6fa26a8c6_story.html?tid=a_inl

Dont come to Africa to point at Mugabe's sh!t, Obama. You got a pile yourself to wipe shove down.

The following occurred in Chicago, Illinois, USA and not some Communist dictatorship or theocratic backwater.
A secret interrogation site is being used by the Chicago police to hold suspects for up to a day or more without access to an attorney or being read their Miranda rights.
The facility is "off the books" -- no one will acknowledge its existence despite the fact that Chicago criminal defense attorneys are very familiar with the site. Suspects are temporarily "disappeared" from police precincts and re-appear to be booked hours later.
The site is apparently used by special police task forces -- anti-terror, anti-gang, anti-drug units.
The disappeared: Chicago police detain Americans at abuse-laden 'black site'
Exclusive: Secret interrogation facility reveals aspects of war on terror in US
‘They disappeared us’: protester details 17-hour shackling without basic rights
Accounts describe police brutality, missing 15-year-old and one man’s death
Latest: Follow the Guardian’s investigation into Chicago’s Homan Square
At least 3,500 Americans have been detained inside a Chicago police warehouse described by some of its arrestees as a secretive interrogation facility, newly uncovered records reveal.
Of the thousands held in the facility known as Homan Square over a decade, 82% were black. Only three received documented visits from an attorney, according to a cache of documents obtained when the Guardian sued the police.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/05/homan-square-chicago-thousands-detained oo

When the Talibhan mob had cornered that woman accused of adultery, what did our Solomonic Jesus quip? Innocence is a rare commodity or so I forget! –--At your own peril will you throw stones at Old Robert! I mark Obama's mind clouded on this one.

[jakaswanga]

OBAMA GOES TO CUBA: WHAT IS THE BIG DEAL IF NOT A CONFESSION OF FAILURE?

The last and only American president to visit Cuba while in office was Calvin Coolidge, who travelled there in January 1928. (Former President Jimmy Carter visited in March 2011.) @reuters

Cuba is 90km from mainland USA. Nakuru from Nairobi is 120km.

It is a historic visit. The rest of the world kind of thinks the Americans have finally figured out how absurd they have been. Obama could not keep up with the stupidity no more. –--Cuba was until recently in the list drawn up by Washington of states sponsoring international terrorism!



50,000 doctors in some of the remotest , neglected corners, and medically needy places on earth. BOLIVARIA Hugo Chavez looked at Obama and told him point blank: 'Amigo, if you believe Cuba has been a sponsor of international terrorism, you would have to excuse me, because I would call you an incorrigible idiot! And yet you are not any Bush!'

Professor Obama winched. He is always suppose to be the smartest man in the room. –--That is pretty easy in Washington, remarked a New Yorker.

Before we come to Cuba, and Mugabe, let us visit the intensive --and now famous-- interview by the Atlantic's Goldenberg, a week ago. It could help us decipher whether Barrack will one day wake up on Africa, or whether he will go to the grave convinced murdering Gaddafi the way he and Hilary did, was a giant step for Africa.

www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/03/obama-goldberg-world-leaders/473367/

Barrack Obama’s Revolution in Foreign Policy

Mar 13, 2016

When you think you’re the smartest person in the room, it’s tempting to make up your own grand strategy.

www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/03/obama-doctrine-revolution/473481/

It is a criticism I have heard from more than one person who has worked with President Obama: that he regards himself as the smartest person in the room—any room. Jeffrey Goldberg’s fascinating article reveals that this is a considerable understatement. The president seems to think he is the smartest person in the world, perhaps ever.

Power corrupts in subtle ways. It appears to have made Obama arrogant. As described in Goldberg’s story, he is impatient to the point of rudeness with members of his own administration. His response to Secretary of State John Kerry when he hands him a paper on Syria is: “Oh, another proposal?” “Samantha, enough,” he snaps at the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. “I’ve already read your book.” We learn, too, that he “secretly disdains … the Washington foreign-policy establishment.”

The president is also bluntly critical of traditional American allies. He is said to have told Prime Minister David Cameron that Britain “would no longer be able to claim a ‘special relationship’ with the United States” if it did not “pay [its] fair share” by increasing defense spending. The Pakistanis and the Saudis get especially short shrift here, as—predictably—does Israel.

Related Story . The Obama Doctrine

“Bibi, you have to understand something,” he tells the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. “I’m the African American son of a single mother, and I live here, in this house. I live in the White House. I managed to get elected president of the United States. You think I don’t understand what you’re talking about, but I do.” Netanyahu may have wondered what exactly in Obama’s biography gives him such insight into the present-day predicament of Israel. .. ...

Haya, the Europeans have been irked to white heat by the cooly insolent negro of a POTUS!

The president (Obama) explains: “I am … an idealist insofar as I believe that we should be promoting values, like democracy and human rights” not only out of self-interest, but also because “it makes the world a better place.” But “you could call me a realist in believing we can’t, at any given moment, relieve all the world’s misery. … We’ve got to be hardheaded … and pick and choose our spots. … There are going to be times where our security interests conflict with our concerns about human rights.”

As Mugabe lies half dead in some Asian hospital, –---like many African leaders he failed to preside over an institutionalised health-care system capable of answering to his intensive clinical needs in youth or age, the presidency of Barrack Obama too, hits the comatose stretch which is popularly called lame duck.

And the real Barrack has been waking up in his lame duck stretch. May be to secure a secure legacy, a powerful man must regain his senses, do common sense. Stop sucking to the likes of AIPAC&Netanyahu and do a deal with a rising Iran; stop sucking to the likes of the old Cuban Lobby in the USA, and open up to Cuba.

But the hardest word to say is sorry. –-Sorry Raul, we failed to kill your elder brother all the 100 times we tried in 50 years! You would have been president earlier and younger, and this trip wouldn't have needed to historic!

[jakaswanga]

THE MISEDUCATION OF BARRACK OBAMA


Poor tango?

Some republicans in Congress doubted Obama would survive his remaining days as president if he promised to return Guantanamo to Cuba as Raul Castro had demanded during the joint press conference in Havana.

This was already treason

Barack Obama told reporters Monday during a press conference in Cuba, “I personally would not disagree,” with Raul Castro’s criticism of America.

Pundits and opinion leaders are shocked, that an American president agrees with the views of a vile dictator over Holy USA!

A comment on the following too, is of course a no go. Obama wouldn't dare a sorry.

Fidel Castro had dodged several CIA-backed assassination attempts – including plots involving exploding cigars, a fungus-infected scuba-diving suit and a poisoned pen syringe.

In total the CIA plotted an estimated 638 attempts on Castro’s life.

–---If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.
Fidel Castro

www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/06/nelson-mandela-castro_n_4400212.html

Americans generally view Nelson Mandela as a hero and Fidel Castro as a villain. Mandela saw things differently.
The South African leader’s nationalist and anti-imperialist stances collided head on with the world’s superpower and gave him a lot in common with its Cuban archenemy. Mandela embraced the former Cuban dictator because he opposed apartheid and represented the aspirations of Third World nationalists that the United States undermined across the globe during the Cold War
in 2003, Mandela said: “If there’s a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don’t care.”

Shortly following his release after 27 years as a political prisoner in 1990, Mandela visited Cuba to express his gratitude, calling Castro’s Revolution “a source of inspiration to all freedom-loving people.”
“We admire the sacrifices of the Cuban people in maintaining their independence and sovereignty in the face of a vicious, imperialist-orchestrated campaign,

UsA voted not against the British-sponsored Saudi Arabia's assumption of the chair of the un human rights commission. Nor do I have any recollection of the USA under Obama or any of his predecessors, giving lectures to the Saudis on human rights. This is well put of the professor from Chicago

The president (Obama) explains: “I am … an idealist insofar as I believe that we should be promoting values, like democracy and human rights” not only out of self-interest, but also because “it makes the world a better place.” But “you could call me a realist in believing we can’t, at any given moment, relieve all the world’s misery. … We’ve got to be hardheaded … and pick and choose our spots. … There are going to be times where our security interests conflict with our concerns about human rights.”

Saudi Arabia, oil man, let us say for instance, is such a spot picked with hard head and hardened heart, to let ride and be conflicted.

Castro said that Cuba meets more indicators of human rights than many other countries, and turned the tables on the U.S., criticizing the country’s health and education systems as human rights abuses.
"We find it inconceivable that a government does not defend and ensure the right to health care, education, social security, food provision and development, equal pay and the rights of children," Castro said through a translator. "We oppose political manipulation and double standards in the approach to human rights." ...

Obama added that the speed with which Congress would act to remove the blockade directly depended on Cuban “progress” on human rights.

“We can’t force change on any particular country. Ultimately, it has to come from within,” he said.
“Human rights issues should not be politicised,” Castro said, adding that Cuba complies with 47 out of 61 international human rights instruments, and no country complies with them all. In Cuba, healthcare and education are considered human rights, as well as equal pay for equal work to men and women, he said.

may be Obama came with too much arrogance. Regime change is a famous policy of the USA, Libya, Syria, Ukraine, publicly stated, wikileaks verified, Eduard Snowden certified. Cuba is no place to tell such a stupid lie in public for the man who is always the smartest in the room.
Such blatant lies in a delicate situation indicates smarts which have hit rock bottom.

I think Cuba was an education for Obama.
--Health Care was Obama's big deal in his first term. Cuban leaders had already reached the conclusion Universal Health Care was a human right in the 50s, and worked on the revolutionary transformation of the system to achieve that purpose, with spectacular results.

The Cuban intellectual resistance, fronted by a septuagenarian, back-peddled the Emperor to cliches on every retort. Cliches about freedom of expression which even in the homeland are no longer convincing.
How have pundits been wrong everytime about Trump and Sanders, calling their wins surprising at every turn?

In almost every survey, Hillary Clinton outpolled Bernie Sanders by 10 or even 20 points in Michigan. Not one single major poll had Sanders ahead, but then Bernie Sanders surprised all the pollsters and won. WHY?

Answer: the pundits and their authoritative papers have been bought and bribed by the establishment to write fiction which reality then corrects.

There are other answers. –-It rained and HRC's supporters do not like walking in water to vote. They looked at the polls and concluded HRC has it in the bag already, why bother vote any more. Bernie Sander's people rigged the count. The establishment decided Sanders should win to keep a semblance of competitiveness, and avoid a republican backlash against a Hilary coronation.

Here is a clue of the rigged game.

October 15 2015. Did the Media Get the Democratic Debate Wrong?
By John Cassidy

www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/did-the-media-get-the-democratic-debate-wrong

In the media coverage of Tuesday’s Democratic debate, there was almost universal agreement that Hillary Clinton came out on top. In online polls, several focus groups, and much of social media, though, the story was rather different. Many people insisted that Bernie Sanders was the victor, and that the lame “M.S.M.” had gotten it wrong again.

if Barrack Obama spent some critical thinking quality time on his own backyard –--like untreated river water being pumped into black homes in Flint Michigan, he would lower his tone even more, lecturing Cuba on the value of humans.
His education may just have started in Cuba. He is always the smartest man in Washington. He would have noticed the ease with which Habana calls his bluff.

I have a feeling this is the real reason Obama avoids Robert Mugabe. Robert once scoffed: 'You shake Netanyahu's hand as if he is your twin brother, Obama. But what of Palestine and her long suffering people? What tidings do you have for them, Obama!?'

Ol'Rob the rogue; Obama will be happy he is tongue-tied in death I tell ya!