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Post by jakaswanga on May 21, 2017 9:58:56 GMT 3
HERE COMES THE OBOR, NO MORE OBLOMOVS PLEASE! May 2017, Beijing.While political Washington embroils itself in a feast on own entrails, the world has not stopped. Rome is not what it used to be, the center of the civilised world. There's been other stuff to marvel at in the same week. For instance the OBOR. There is also the turn-out record Iranian presidential election, which has reconfirmed Hassan Rouhani in the first round, taking place simultaneously as Donald Trump extorted a multi-billion arms protection ransom from the House of Saud ----- $109 billion in arms sales, $350 billion in direct U.S. investment over 10 years. There was much pomp and ceremony with zombie-like King, like a voodoo puppet, fished out of self-soiling confinement, gracing the occasion with his half-dead smiles. John Kerry's replacement, former oil-man Rex Tillerson, meanwhile gave a press conference flanked by his Saudi counterpart Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeiri. They re-iterated Iran's terrorist sponsorship and the joint US-Saudi determination to combat its evil extremism. Comparing the Riyadh show with pictures from Tehran, and thinking of the old FBI hound contracted in Washington to smell the POTUS's dirty laundry, I can't stifle the feeling Trump and his party, even if it a 10,000 jobs creating exercise with the bonus of taking care of Israel's interests, are on the wrong side of history in the middle east. Iran is far, far stabler than Saudi Arabia, far, far more modernised in its thinking, and arming Saudi Arabia to the teeth is a suicidal priming. Obama's instincts were right. Rex Tillerson talks with Saudi Deputy Crown Prince and Defense Mohammed bin Salman , Riyadh May 20 2017.U.S. President Donald Trump dances with a sword as he arrives to a welcome ceremony by Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud at Al Murabba Palace in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia May 20, 2017. But before all that stuff in the middle east this weekend, Beijin was the place where it was happening, mid week. The unfolding of the new world order. CHINA'S OBOR PROJECT Xi Jin Pin and his fake red-blood types running the PRC could have come up with it as just another possibility to export excess capacity, but it has grown into more, and more, and sped off the bottle, like that story from the Arabian nights. To be more correct, the genesis is a historical line, nearly linear. Xi's immediate predecessor Hu Jin Tao launched the GOING OUT phace of the policy, built on, remember, Deng's 'Open Window' which was followed by ' OPEN DOOR'! It is a managed metamorphosis. You might have seen a (nature documentary of a) freshly-born antelope calf groggily rise to its feet, then, tentatively making the first steps, discovering its running instincts and waking up to its destiny: to outrace predators or be their meal. To that purpose, within minutes, the fresher tests its anatomy and picks up speed, and is already beyond the claws of an amateur leopard or lame cheetah. It is a jungle out there; full alert is to live long and procreate. Letting down guard a second is be another's dinner. So do I see China and the OBOR project. ONE BELT ONE ROAD (Major Beijing conference May 14-16th 2017). If Xi ever sought a mandate qualifiable by Heaven, this is it, China on the wings a-cruise, like a migratory bird hit the fair winds. China is thrusting ahead with the right historical currents. A hint at the scale. Poor Yemen, so close to Saudi's billions, so far from their investment! But that is another story. Xi Jin Pin and his PRC have to grow up fast and show some running leg in the jungle, or be the frog in the jaws of a snake. 1. The USA has moved from MAD to a winnable nuclear war. And that is no lie. Interesting diagrams of how the post limited nuclear war war looks like! The famous Obama-announced Asia Pivot is to contain China in a box. That means confine her to a lesser, 2nd-tier power subservient to the US of A, forever. 3. The USA wont back down unless presented with irrefutable factollogy of its weakness or demise, in the event she enacts such stupidity as a pre-emptive nuclear strike. 4. Eclipsed White Power is equal to suicidal Trauma. China must play the world therapist. China must assume the role of a Nelson Mandela, re-assuring insane white supremacists that 300 years of humuliation wont be punished with equivalent exactitude. Talking about historical currents (while DC is all dog it dog currently --with the renegade white house against the renegade security bosses and their Clintonian attack-dog press-core), traditional Euripean allies Europeann hedging their bets, subtly. The EU, breathless after the Le Pen scare in France which followed hot on Brexit, while still being driven mad by the current Teresa May hysterics, sent high-powered delegation, howbeit just like the busybee Brits! The most interesting denunciation has come from segments of worried Indian-Hindu nationalism: they reckon OBOR is an incipient evil, a mask for a fate worse than Colonialism! They implored President Mordi to be recalcitrant, warning him Pakistan is already so deep in China's pocket, China is a mortal enemy! (howbeit business people see in China their natural market. Mordi was in a fix!) In other words, nationalist narrative-wise, the biggest liberal democracy (caste-ridden India) senses it has lost the battle for the near future to their fellow Asian rivals. India is no competitor to China. China is an ambitious capitalist monster dragon masquerading as a communist state propagating alternative relationships, and it has no plans for future deference to another hegemon! More about that Asiatic brotherly feud elsewhere. If one checks the OBOR shipping lines or trade routes, one notices Mombasa Kenya, or is it Dar in Tz, or Kismayo in Somalia, is the beach point on the East Coast of Africa. Selected large Chinese-invested infrastructure projects in Africa, needs upgrade 2017. Our own Ouru kenyatta, peace be upon his windy ass, was a big presence in Beijing. He left the irrelevant Somali conference in London in a huff to be where it mattered. This was a routine chore no doubt, a kind of vassal's call on the emperor, but of late our excellency has let a lot of chores evolve into impossible climb moutains. Routine chores like the daily Ugali at ksh.90 which shot up to an abominable ksh.160/2kg package before Ouru, like a folded OBLOMOV, lifted his lazy arz off his state bed, fearing the unga revolution. But it was nice to see Ouru meeting Vladimir Putin on a serious note, and Bi Amina inviting Sergii Lavrov to Kenya. Better late than never, silly gal. She should have invited Lavrov first week of duty after her appointment. Why? To discuss Somalia of course so that now, during the EAC conference in Daresalaam, Somalia would be there as an equal and united republic!Putin and Erdogan are a pair, and Turkey is the greatest investor in Somalia, and, wait for it, the largest trainer of Somali students at the highest levels! (Now you tell me if you do not think China, Russia, Kenya, Tz and Turkey working on Somalia wouldn't snuff out the turmoil in 5 years!) We will come to this Turkey point elsewhere when we discuss Germany's sad sigh during her 'MARSHALL PLAN FOR AFRICA' catch up momentum Yap, Bi Amina, you faking late gal. If Jubilee wins you should be fired for negligence. Somali would now be long peaceful, and railways being built from Kismayo to Garissa, those Al-Shabaab boys pushing wheelbarrows and lifting steel! NB: which brings me to Patrick Njoroge of the Central Bank. I was searching for his photos in Beijin, where our ace meets Beijinge capital export Bankers and introduces himself as the competent man to manage the ten billions of dollars of the ONE CONTINET CHAPTER of OBOR [/i]...[/quote] If Njoroge wasn't in Beijing closing deals, but stayed in Nairobi to fill fraudulent vouchers of imported rotten maize, then I am fakd! His negligence and stupidity would be stunning, criminal. NOMINATED AFRICAN HUB!
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Post by jakaswanga on May 20, 2017 16:56:59 GMT 3
OF MIRACLES AND DAILY STAPLESIt is not that I love miracles, it is that I love puzzling out how they work. I love the tedious job of collecting hints, discerning the patterNs and jig-sawing out the sudoku puzzle of their political economy. I know very few economic miracles but, from the top of my head, I can mention the German 'wirtschaftswunder' and, Behold, that day ON THE MOUNT when Jesus on some five fish and five loaves, fed a multitude stomach full.If I haven't written about them earlier, I will elsewhere. But suffice is to say it was thus a mouth-watering experience for me to gather the man I had accused of abdication, Muthamaki Kenyatta, not to mention his quixotic side-kick Pancha William Singh, had, with a few days, reduced the price of maize from ksh.160/2kg, to a pocket-friendly ksh90/2kg.I consider that an economic miracle! So I checked out a few economists to find out what such a spectacular crash in prices is called in the market and, most importantly, explained. The world is so much full of over-priced goods there can never be enough price-crash miracles, meseems. But having been around the block some, I tend to be a doubting Tom, even if it is Godson Jesus himself feeding 10000 on 10 loaves, and the multitude itself professing a full stomach. When I checked out the German economic miracle of Adenauer and co, I found a sordid tale of a slave-farms work ethic, but yes, without the extreme parasitism nor the mindless waste of public money our compradors so specialise in. The miracle lay in common sense, and common sense meant setting intelligent targets, and the organisation to meet them up time. Like growing 45 milion tonnes of maize per year would be a game-changer in Kenya! For Uhuruto who built toilets in Kibera slums at prohibitive costs --see Anne Waiguru's vouchers!---- to get maize from Mexico through the sea at super-sonic speeds was always going to be a fishy story. Here is a good tip I found. . www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/beginner-guide-how-manufacture-national-food-crisis/440808-3934320-2go3j5/index.html So now I must munch my cheap ugali and not ask questions!? Anyway what is the point of asking questions whose answers we know!? It is to prepare us for the fall. When you try walking on water like Jesus reportedly did, it is nice to have plan B. In case you can't swim. But ever since I met this Nigerian lady I have ceased to be worried. She said: 'I don't know any sensible Nigerians who think they have a government. And those who think there is one only expect one thing from that monster, trouble! In the planning of my life there is no such thing as a Nigerian government contribution except on the entry TROUBLE!' Dam-n I always wondered how come Nigerians are reportedly among the happiest people on Earth! Now I know! I ask Kenyans to take note! Some bills are out there coming calling. Even miracles must be paid for these days! Over to you Ruto! More miracles please!
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Post by jakaswanga on May 20, 2017 0:32:37 GMT 3
FORMER FBI DIRECTOR TO SEARCH FOR THE SMOKING GUN WITH PUTIN'S PRINTS
But what about this body he does not see? Rich, STEPHEN RICH used to be the name.
Vladimir Putin of Russia is, according to the American Deep State and the multitude of Washingtonian politicians and establishment correspondents, the best manipulator ever. He managed to con Hilary out of her birthright, the ascension to POTUS. Putin and his KGB operatives hoisted upon Americans, a president they would rather not have had! --How he did it and other stories is what the former FBI director, Robert Mueller III, has been contracted to unravel. Many swamp creatures of course hope he will ' somehow prove' that Donald Trump is a Putin Manchurian candidate so that he can be impeached. Bringing Trump down will be a well-regarded job, in DC no doubt. But No, I don't think anybody in DC believes the Russian angle to Hilary's loss. There were primaries and Trump did wallop crown princess like Jeb Bush. And it was a crowded field. If he could beat Bush he could beat Clinton, I always thought.
But now there is a body. A dead body. Seth Rich. Comey's FBI wasn't interested in that body. So I thought of Maddox's nose. That stinks, stinks like morning sh!t amassed from yesterday evening's BBQ! WHO IS MADDOX?
I remember those O level days when we boys would share detectives and crime paper backs while the girls did Mills&Boon. In James Hadley Chase and Perry Mason et al, there is the standard scene where a body is found, and a murder is, or not. One of my favorite Chase's involve a character who used to be an INSURANCE CLAIMS PAYER named Maddox. Here is the open goal -TELL IT TO THE BIRDS It stinks like your rectum inside out, Maddox tells his chief investigator. The chief investigator, hours ago having feasted on the kind of meals which lead to releases of pungent, obnoxious winds, is for a moment minded to have the boss smell just how dangerous his colon really is at that moment. But to save both of them certain death by toxic asphyxiation he mercifully tightens his sphincters.
So when the FBI ignores the murdered corpse of a DNC staffer outed to have been leaking to WIKILEAKS and costing Hilary her future, it does NOT TAKE A GENIUS to work out something fishy is going on in Washington DC!
But then, something is always going on in a swamp, no!?
Murder is always trouble. And the corpse of Seth Rich is, what should I say, the elephant in the room or the skeleton in the cupboard behind the desk of special counsel Robert Mueller and his mission? I will enjoy a good night's thriller read: THE THINGS MEN DO! Nb: A Shakespearean there was something rotten at the heart of Queen Hilary's campaign will do for later, should Mueller too, like Comey, prove richly corpse-blind!
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Post by jakaswanga on May 18, 2017 21:02:35 GMT 3
Jakaswanga:
What I did not mention is that QUITE A FEW JUKWAA MEMBERS were grossly offended. One member who I had sent a link to my Tweedlee essay posted a public denunciation on Facebook.
Let me state that I was not offended at all by Jakaswaga's posting of that re-incarnated barbarian lording it over South Africans and who is literally 'sodomizing' Saint Mandela. Conversation now with my friends in Madiba land almost always end with the question "is there something inherently wrong with us black Africans"? Those in authority almost always “hope the blue lights, bodyguards, free housing, free business class flights, adulation from the poor and those hoping to get government contracts etc” will be forever. According to Time Magazine, only Kenya, Angola, Rwanda, Nigeria and South Africa may not see any leadership changes soon. Is that because of stability or stagnation? Here is what they start on Zuma. "Jacob Zuma, who leads the African National Congress (ANC)—the party once-led by Nelson Mandela— remains in office despite almost 800 charges of corruption leveled against him. Given his continued control of the party, he is likely to survive the vote of no confidence slated to be held in the next month or so." time.com/4777536/africa-change-kenya-angola-rwanda-nigeria/Let us hold our breath as the stench down South blows East. Podp, Comrade Oloo has declined to engage in this debate. I think he is a red towing the party-line. The South African Communist Party, their hands bloodied with the Marikana mines massacre in the best tradition of the apartheid state, compromised in its ideological corruption and rented phraseology (broad front) to keep their lucrative alliance with the rotten Zuma, is, like an addict on scarce cig butt, hell-bent on milking the saintly image of Nelson Mandela to the last drop. Thus is Ayanda blasphemous! They accuse Julius Malema of roguish, confused adventurism while they themselves mow down striking miners and condone Goodwill Zwelithini's murder-inciting xenophobia! Red Oloo is a seasoned debater. When he opts out, it can only be party orthodoxy sedatives numbing his mind! Mistaken loyalty is you ask me. Lakini Weye onindi! Obiro mana chiew!
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Post by jakaswanga on May 18, 2017 20:40:17 GMT 3
WHITEMAN TIRED OF THE BLACK BURDEN! GHANAIAN 'OLIVER TWIST' enrages the EU-ambassador! And it is about time too! Recently, I treated Jukwaa to an outburst by the outgoing chairman of the Eurogroup, the Dutch minister of finance, Jeroen Disselbloem. The 'Lowlander' who comes from where thrift is the creed in public finances had lost his temper at the Siesta republics of Southern Europe. These hot-bloods had amassed impossible loans, blown them away on 'Schnaps und Frauen' ==' booze and chicks', and now, gone broke and sinking, shamelessly came to demand reprieve from the 'industrious others', as if debt-write offs were their god-given right! (Jeron drove the point home in some colorful German, forcing the lingo-mindful, NAZI-past guilt-complex-ridden editors to sanitize him up, in a vain attempt to mediate southern rage upfront!) Da-mn! Still all hell broke loose. The caucus of Ziesta zone politicians went all out to lynch him! But the Dutchman went to face the Europarliamentarians in person: 'politicians running ramshackle economies don't scare me, neither do I take lectures on diplomacy from them!', he twitched his nose with Northern contempt in the crowded house in Brussels! He will serve his term out. The lynching failed! German fin-sec Wolfgang Schaeuble must have done a somersaulting pirouette with his wheelchair! Now (2) Donald Trump has put African countries on notice. Unlike his kindly predecessor Obama, he will be speeding up the deportation of illegal African migrants in the USA. Ghana is looking at 7000 returnees the coming months. The U.S. Ambassador to Ghana, Robert P. Jackson, was surprised at questions as to whether the Trump administration would 'facilitate the rehabilitation of deportees'! His face quickly recovered its poker mask. He was diplomatic in the dodge; but not so, another whiteman from Europe, a colleague of the temperamental Dutchman. Ghana is an oil producer, recently started. And then they have a cabinet! Museveni has over 80 in his cabinet in toto, the recently installed Nana-Akufo Addo of Ghana, an elephantine 110 +Even guilt-ridden whitemen ever mindful of racist history have their limits in bembelezering black idiots, more than 50 years after independence! The world a-changing. But it left African leaders behind! Our own Ouru -- Turkana oil dollars in his pocket, the Eurobond blown on the rotund Waiguru et al, has been reported vigorously waving the begging bowl in Chinese faces during the OBOR (One belt one road) conference! Dam-n! I do understand these Europeans who can no longer stomach nor bring up respect for this kind of Totally Amoral and deranged African parasites! Now us, ordinary Africans!
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Post by jakaswanga on May 14, 2017 14:24:21 GMT 3
TUC-ke's SOSSION CONSUMED BY THE WRONG ELECTIONS!Sossion, allow me, my friend, to kick your balls hard. You are too much in the thick of Bomet! You need to wake up. You should be in the thick of LABOUR! Trade Unionism is the key to Kenya's future, in as much as it stays close to historical aspirations of the creators of wealth. We are talking the legacy of Markan Singh, Chege Kibichu, Bildad Kaggia, and Tom Mboya. Especially the aborted organisational promise of Tom. Demanding higher wages is not the sole role of trade Unions, much as triumphalist neo-libelism will preach moderation as they pass legislation to outlaw worker's gains --- Just wait for Macron to settle in and start using the imperial powers of the French presidency! Unionism is about first, the balance of power between capital and labour. Second, social and state power. On the first, You know American Basket Ball and Ice Hockey and Baseball players went on strike? It wasn't about cash directly, it was about control of image, and power over destiny. Money they had, power zero. they didn't own themselves one bit. They were commodities. Its is like blacks in American football still. Money yes, say even less, control no. But the most, least common denominator under which workers can unite, is of course MORE cash, the wage! IN SEARCH OF A NEW DIRECTION (The Tom Mboya model of 1963 is surely dead) NB: will report later what this Mboya union model was. But it was sure a reactionary affair tailored to 'subsurviate' Unions to a one-party comprador party! --More about that later. Strikes for higher wages are therefore a minimalist agenda really. A basic demand point. Chege Kibichu in historical context put it humorously. 'Strike for a few more pence per month!? Of course. While we plan to kill the whiteman for independence!' Put in other words: the maximum concession the colonial government can give, is less than the minimum benefit an African government will bestow the workers after independence!That is the potence of historical memory! so what did the second liberation of Kenya bring the Unions? fake CBA signatures from the governments, county and national? And the guy did not have a degree imagine! 70 years later, all union leaders have multiple degrees, and what do they say? --it is the end of history and capitalism has won! It is with this askance in mind that I chronicle the following storms in a tea cup. jukwaa.proboards.com/thread/7338/kenyan-teachers-effectively-on-strike?page=6jukwaa.proboards.com/thread/8548/labour-unrest-strikes-democratisedjukwaa.proboards.com/thread/9540/presidential-candidate-martin-ngatia-perspective qz.com/894578/kenyas-refusal-to-agree-to-the-demands-of-striking-doctors-is-making-the-country-sick/ What is up on the Kenyan labour scene!? -It is the endless tug-of-war on which CBA is the CBA. At the center of the storm today in the 2nd republic heading for its second General Election, are the twin professions we used to so much debate in primary school: A TEACHER IS BETTER THAN A DOCTOR! Here is where we are, MAY MOTHER'S DAY 2017. THE CBA BLUES OF KENYAN TEACHERS AND DOCTORS www.nation.co.ke/news/education/Teachers-pay-rise-deal-talks-resume-in-two-weeks/2643604-3916850-1430kbgz/index.html and in medics land www.nation.co.ke/news/Doctors--strike-paralyse-health-services-Nyeri/1056-3917832-fj3avuz/index.html And this piece One step forward, 2 back. The doctors are being footballed between the county and national governments, once again. Just like in 2013 when they were duped into thinking they hd signed a legitimate CBA with a bonafide official from a legitimate government and thus went back to work, they are finding out the recent RETURN-TO-WORK FORMULA didn't have any guarantees of paying the 5-month strike period withheld salaries. As the money lay parked in accounts, hungry and broke governors and long-fingered ministry officials like Muraguri of Mafya house couldn't resist a dive into the cookie jar. Now there is no money. Remember even to finance this ---(MAIZE IMPORTS) Rotich is calling for an emergency parliamentary session to pass a supplementary budget, while his boss Ouru is abroad waving the begging bowl around. So what can the Unions do? Vie for power of course and have their workers conscious representatives in government. In other words --forget Atwoli, he is a retard, Sossion and his new generation ilk should make the development legendary Union man Tom Mboya could never make. Sponsor/launch a labour party. When understands the core ideological limitations of Tom Mboya which underpin the post-colonial trade union crisis in Kenya, it becomes very easy to understand why these unionists keep on signing CBA's on toilet papers which, as soon as government officials have smiled them away from the meetings, are used to wipe sweaty bottoms and flushed down the gutter. TSC chief executive Nancy Macharia again: I read somewhere the Attorney General is the highest paid public servant. Surgeons, how much do you earn!? Life being so cheap in Kenya, I guess your levels of responsibility and the complexities of your decision-making as they impact the lives of others isn't such a big deal in this country. Switch careers, migrate to greener pastures, suffer without bitterness, or roll up your sleeves and put up a fight. Even doctors have to fight sometimes for their dignity. But not yet a labour party of course! ( Ababu Namwamba's LPK is a cheap joke, a stupid usurpation of name!)
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Post by jakaswanga on May 14, 2017 10:47:49 GMT 3
Of course Jakaswanga had to drag in Einstein into his misery! Of course Brother Einstein! I know you are a founder member of Mighty Jukwaa, and I respect that. In this case, in my misery as you correctly put it ---seeing I am falsely branded a pornographer and a serial dirty-shit!ter polluting an otherwise healthy and family-friendly blog, I expected you to swallow our sibling rivalry (ang'eyo walaro Nyi Suba kodi!) and come to my defence, that your Jukwaa will not be held ransom by Jacob-Zuma sycophants lootocratically flogging the divinity of a dead Mandela! ---Iwinjo Omera!
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Post by jakaswanga on May 14, 2017 10:16:50 GMT 3
THE DEBT CONUNDRUM WB&IMF PATRONISING NJOROGE$CO WITH NO-BRAINERSI dreamt Patrick CBK Njoroge rose up to curtly say 'I know ---Better!' and then was so shocked at his daring self, he fainted! This is stuff nobody in Nairobi can think out themselves? Nor take remedial steps to address! Not even Ivy-league-certified former employees of the Breton Woods syndicates come home? why, O why!? If wishes were horses, plunder-beggar-economies would have big mouths I guess! Sanctimonious advisories, raised fingers and wrinkled brows, as if the our local aces were lay naughts, errant infants or do-nothing rascals. Ever the condescending tone from abroad and an assumed above, as if our own technical heroes at finance house, the treasury, were junior and even more mediocre functionaries of the IMF and World Bank. Every other bloated frog from abroad working for the Breton Woods twins, comes to our shores with a package of admonitions, corrections and sanctions, hogwash and bullsh!t, taking liberties with pot-shots at our Treasury hot-shots, shouting them down like straying goats
and Lo! Behold, like mentally handicapped wimps, Njoroge Rotich and Thugge Kinyua wilt away like rainless seeds in the arid heat! Not even a sheepish MBEE-EHE-EE to protest dignity! Frankly I can't stand it --yellow brains eating yellow aflatoxin maize as famine relief, or Nairobi meat being anthrax-ridden donkey choice-cuts! And it is all a middle-income economy in rising continent! Some standards Africa has! No, it is a 'season of anomalies' The 'Andrea Chilulus' and ' Tombo young Maasais' gone to all the best schools (Yale Columbia and Harvard), read all the whiteman's economic wisdom and caught the best diseases therein (degrees), end up, having risen to the top of our land where high calibre input is direly needed, end up as a bunch of witless goats mentally disoriented by a thunderstorm! -O! where art thou herdsman, to herd the flock home We lost, thirsty and late, we hungry, afraid and angryUnder John Major, Britons used to jive the hapless Prime Minister, that Thatcher was driving from the back seat. As the Thatcher-love-sicktabloids would chide, John majors in the lack of balls which she, Maggie, had in plenty. It was a warped tribute to the iron lady who was reputedly not for turning, but ramming from behind. I have been trying to SUDOKU out whether China's Exim banks, fearing for their loans abroad, for instance to Kenya specifically, has sourced the Breton Woods institutes to keep a watchful eye on the corruptible crop of their African robots milling around indebted treasuries, playing sentry. For there is a way our moneybureaucrats are clueless rats in a tight ditch, thieving their way to national oblivion. In a predatory racket inflated by a boom in Infrastructure loans, the myopic Kenyan captains could precipitate a Zimbabwe-like (I nearly said Spendicus Greece like) crisis which would beggar a debt write-off or an Obama-like Wall Street expensive bail=out. The IMF and World Bank, discredited after their star role in the Greek drama and double games in the Ukrainian crisis (where they tore up their charter to help the US-NATO play geo-political games), has increasingly been squeezed by China in their traditional hunting fields in the third world too; and, fearing even more irrelevance, just at a time when the mother countries are facing systemic crisis of their own, the fading greats could have cut a deal with the coming power, to continue managing African economies on behalf of an extractive China. The two Breton wood power houses are of course experienced slave breakers, they are astute in the science of expropriation and debt servitude; they could have conned China into a colonial arrangement, cajoling the rotten top of her bankers into repeating European adventures of the past, thereby awaken and earn African nationalist fury. Corruption in China, the emperor's stale breathSuch paranoid speculations have made me very jittery. But the unbridled wastefulness and looting spree which Jubilee has engaged in the last few years of a loan binge, does nothing to 'therapise' my pathology. (Neither do the developments elsewhere in Africa --Angola, Zumaland, DRC or Nigeria for that matter!). Even as I write this, Kenyans of average income are on tight-belt rations, the prices of daily consumables having run away.But other things first . STUDY-CASE THE SGR: China Exim bank funds it A-Z. Chinamen will manage the masterpiece for a long time too, fearing Kenyans will let the beautiful stations and tracks be reclaimed by bush and earth like we did with the inherited LUNATIC EXPRESS Uganda Railway. And today Uhuru Kenyatta is back in Beijing like an addict for another shot! How be it land compensations has been 300% over market rates!? and who are you gonna run to!? Buhari = Yar'Adua. When you have been there before, farce and tragedy as opposite mirrors.Dr. Mohammed Swazuri himself, he of the National Land Commission, has been (NOT?) arrested in the fall-out. His deputy, Abigail Mbagaya, was found with a ksh. 18M haul. Peanuts compared to Nigerian hauls or even our own Josephine Kabura withdrawals from the Central Bank, but still, substantial in a country where ksh.150/2kg posho is out of reach of every other Onyango Kamau and Mutiso household. But commissioner SamuelTororei couldn't believe his eyes. He still termed the hard cash 'speculative'. Earned at skillful play at the stock exchange perhaps he means. www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/2017/03/swazuri-court-stop-parliament-petition-seeking-ouster/ A 1.2M bribe for the professor!? I wish he would just defend himself with a laconic 'that is peanuts! I wouldn't stake my reputation for shillings change!' Instead he goes around saying so&so HAVE NO MANDATE to investigate him! Earlier on that is your man, a professor, running the Land's show, a decade after Ndung'u's report. But that is not the point today. Remember Rwanda and Uganda compared notes about routing stuff through Kenya, oil pipelines and rails, and didn't like what they saw in terms of land costs (and other hidden costs) relative to Tanzania. AND this beauty Eh, a Chinese construction company, CRBC, IS THE ONE WHICH HAS FAILED THE COMMUNITY! YAWA! It is the Chinese suppose to compensate Kenyans for their own railway, touted by our own government as the prime achievement of their tenure in office!? Even when others point out as much as 40% of the railway's cost are fictitious expenditures, with land compensations a whooping 30%! and at least ksh. 30bn is into thin air! and we read: NLC is constitutionally mandated to acquire land for construction of the standard gauge railway.Omera yawa! -villagers! I resign! even the theater of the absurd can only be enjoyed so far! It is like we brainlessly bent on self-ruin, like Kenya is a suicide pact! ---Sign me that divorce paper, thy Dr. NdiiWHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT, this CRBC company! In 1901 this was surely an architectural masterpiece 2016 NAIROBI TERMINUS MARVEL What a disappointment, this CRBC! Omera yawa! -villagers! It is like we bent on self-ruin, like Kenya is a suicide pact! I sue for divorce from this mad love! Its like Nyanza leaders fuming at the EU for refusing to finance the building of more toilets around the beaches, to prevent contamination of the for-export Nile Perch with Luo sh!t! Or even Jubilee politicians angry at Trump for repealing the Medical Aid to Kenya bcoz oversize ticks like PS Muraguri hive off lion portions under the table: 'Trump is a terrible racist', Jubilee bloggers chorus!Ai yawa! My only disappointment is with us Kenyans. I was thinking with the Engineers graduated in Kenya the past 40 years, at least we could have managed to build and finance the terminals ourselves, watch the names of our architects dotting the stations, their creative masterpieces becoming part of the landscape and folklore for future generations, tourists 100 years from now. I mean, if we can privately finance all those MALLS (as ONLINE SHOPPING becomes the game!) and our politicians like Ouru, Ruto and Raila afford those billion homes, the Kenyan state can surely build 100 railway stations as wonders of the world!?No! --villagers! Yawa can't build a pit latrine, can't build a rail terminus in 2017! And wait for it: can't figure this out THE CONSEQUENCES Now imagine you are a foreigner with some money to invest in Kenya, and you are not a fool. You are prudent and cautious. You have no intention of being the meal. WHAT DO YOU DO!? Or you have loaned Kenya a lot of money and they are back for more, delegating their insatiably looting president with even a bigger begging bowl, WHAT DO YOU DO!? Contingency wise to avoid being the meal!? And you know their squandered their own EUROBOND investment fund even with their best and the brightest econometrists looking on! And now they have all these big malls in the city but the citizens can't buy a kilo of flour for the kids!? He, what do you do, given you have to invest. Capital must be invested to multiply more, or the system collapse. But first, a railway story. With Jimmy Wanjigi at the center. --------------------
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Post by jakaswanga on May 13, 2017 19:56:29 GMT 3
Will do, no debate. So long my exclusive rights ---which I have forcefully usurped from OtishOtish--- to lame-kick Brother Einstein's hinds whenever he arises from whatever meals to blow bursts of foul with the force of a surfacing deep-diving whale, I am game happy!
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Post by jakaswanga on May 13, 2017 19:30:29 GMT 3
THE RESTLESS SWAMP AKA DC Brother Omwenga of Jukwaa, now you see him now you don't, used to call them roadside broadsides. These were vintage Arap Moi shocks to the personnel at the top echelons of the KANU state. They were sudden and impromptu and the 1PM news where they were usually announced was dubbed a bowel-triggering experience which anybody serving at the president's leisure, approached with the reluctance of a condemned, onward to the gallows. President Donald Trump just did that the other day, and to none other than the expired FBI director, James Comey. Comey was on official function in far-away California, in mid sentence, when a murmur went through the hall, catching him off balance. Smart gadgets tuned to newsflashes had caught the national news break, and the silent TV behind him had talking heads flushing red. Comey was no longer what he was there doing. Like many a Kenyan who served under Moi, he was learning of his dismissal through the media. Well, many a decent man who served in the court of the emperor of Japan never heard the time to even realise their dismissal. The samurai ace sword sped through their necks quicker than a surprised Oh!? Now the democrats who had pledged to fire Comey as soon as Clinton was coroneted were caught on the wrong foot. They were now defending a man whom their smart lawyers from New York had found in error, sabotaging Hilary''s pre-ordained assumption of the New Roman throne. He was re-opening the investigations into the server-issue less than a fortnight before the voting date. The usurper emperor of a POTUS was now forcing them to swallow all that work, adopt operation denounce Trump, even to the extent of contemplating impeachment. --The lady who replaced the exhausted Sean Spicer, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, had a field day re-quoting the democrats then on James Comey. Every other big shot democrat thought the American people were better off if Comey resigned! She is the daughter of Arkansa's governor Mike Huckabee.Everybody opposed to Trump is talking ' Nixonian'. Why has Comey been so controversial? Like most, if not all heads of powerful bureaucracies who handle secret information and have rival companies to mind, James Comey couldn't resist playing politics and enlarging his turf during a transition period when vacuums in power loom. He moved to enrich himself with more clout and his organisation with more power, But in a controversially close and rabid election, that meant playing both sides, improvising and ever hedging bets as the 'tea leaves' of orthodox punditry failed to reveal the future. The buro heads began to dither, stall and rust in inertia. The formidable FBI can not, to date, factually confirm nor exonerate Russia from the accusation of having manipulated the US election! -Kenyans who read the Kriegler report on whether the 2007/8 elections were rigged, may be excused a faint chuckle. Not least because when the FBI cowboys come to Nairobi, they have a habit of pushing aside Ndegwa Muhooro and his boys. As if Ndegwa, our own homebred cowboy and a tough cookie of sorts, is some litter them Yankees found loitering in their backyard. Just saying. On Hilary, the Director Comey first played deaf after doing a quick look-and-not-find. They gave Hilary a clean pass on the use of unprotected servers. A deep favour many frowned upon. Then the wall street journal revealed hotter stuff close to the elections, that classified material did in fact get communicated by the secretary on unprotected servers. The mighty FBI hastily got to (RE)investigations late in the day. And Comey came in very fast to say, even if the secretary had been extremely careless, the buro was not recommending prosecution, and there would ne none! Shifting evidence, plotting facts against the flaw, recommending prosecution or not is not the official brief of the investigative arm, and Comey, a former top prosecutor knows that. He was expanding. He was a swamp creature and other swamp creatures who sharpen knives to sink into other swamp creatures took note, and plotted in patience. One Loretta Lynch, Obama's minister for Justice whose staff should have laboured over the decision to prosecute or not, was of course a swamp creature who had the mental depreciation to privately meet Hilary's husband as these things happened. A total administrative recuss which Comey filled up the wrong way, by himself! But that is not all, there is more juice in the sponge. The the deputy director, now acting FBI director awaiting confirmation, Andrew McCabe is another one. It hadn't escaped swamp watchers that his wife was running for political office in Virginia, and was funded by the Clintonian foundation based in New York. --Was there a conflict of interest in him overseeing the Clinton investigations? No, yes, no, yes, possibly but, anyway no. Comey did some bureaucratic dances of denial and believed himself. Breitbart and allied media, all pro-Trump rags winging around Steve Banon, Trumps political brains, were left by the liberal pro-Clinton establishment media to argue the case of CONFLICTS OF INTEREST and the toxicity of an incestuous, swampy Washington. This made the right the only sane voices in town! --for that moment! NB: Now (see footnote) with Trump, his daughter and son in law deep in the state and deep in business, and the cabinet of moguls not even bothering to declare their wealth, the Breitbarts of the world have lost their sharp and critical sting on swamp creatures and blind spots for conflicts of interest at the top; and the liberals too, can't bite much because sharp girls like Sarah Huckabee will rub the hypocrisy in with such charming vigour, that the world is ready to accept an alternative SET OF FACTS for every situation. before the Yankees get rid of their president, he will get rid of a lot of things and people. There will even be no more executive orders to sign.
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Post by jakaswanga on May 13, 2017 8:06:20 GMT 3
PERMANENTLY LOOKING EASTThe improvising president is flying direct from the London conference on Somalia to China, his mission, from the horse's own mouth, to ' deepen our partnership with the Asian giant!' That was when I remembered something and decided it is time to urinate on the WESTERN IMF hirelings Ouru Kenyatta has been forced to hire as economic administrators. But first, the whole story as reported by a Kenyan daily. You see chaps like CBK Njoroge were turning their noses away when China launched the Asia Infrastructure Investment bank. Here is the thread on which I mused. The obvious thing was, Kenya being the pretender giant economy around EAC, for Nairobi to orchestrate a Union Organ of the local Central Banks --Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, T, DRC, Sudan and Somalia--- and have this Organ apply for membership of the Beijing-launched Asian Investment and Industrial bank. WHY? Because it is no brainer the 100 billion Euros which is the minimum infrastructure budget Sahara South will need in the next decade, will heavily be Chinese. Here is Ouru Kenyatta instinctively recognising the reality. You know when Chou en Lai visited Nyerere and the others in the mid sixties, he said China was going to build a 5000Km railway from Shanghai to Tibet (Qinghai-Lhasa)-Kathmandu (Nepal). By the time it was electrified, decades later, Africa's long trajectory from Alexandria to Cape Town via Jo'Burg, should be her twins. So did Mao's emisary Chou en Lai grin at Julius Nyerere, who responded he wanted Dar-es-salaam to Loanda first! (TRANS SOUTH!) Just to get the historical perspective about dreams already dreamt, waiting for implementers. ---- Railways from Mombasa to Doula (Cameroun) via Kisangani, were already on the table as soon as Lumumba of Congo became premier in one year! That is 1963. So when Ouru Kenyatta goes to Beijing in 2017 to discuss the same, you really know how much time we have wasted the past half century, and why we should not waste any more time again. This is why that Njoroge's CBK did not apply, even in tokenism, to join the Asia Infrastructure Bank, pisses me off, and makes me urinate on IMF-sedated head. It suggests get ready for another 50 years of wasted opportunities. NB: On Somalia, Kenya like Ethiopia are trying to carve out colonies in major landgrabs and proxy gaimes, while at the same time pretending to stabilise the central government. That will be an expensive affair, usurping the priorities of Kenya toward security. For instance that is why neighbours opted out of the LAMU pipeline. They reckon Somali nationalism angered by Kenyan colonialism will do everything to blow it up, or always do sabotage work, spiralling the costs and the delays, plummeting profitability. Somalia: go with Tz. UNCONDITIONAL meeting of all groups, including the terrorists.Think about it this simple: Ouru wants the rail to go all the way to DRC, but Mogadishu-Wajir, or Garissa Kismayo is not on the cards!? Now, that is the presidential homework talking about regional economic integration. But then, with these IMF spoiler stooges running his head, he will do the wrong homework and even then, get all his sums wrong! But he gets this one right: LOOKING EAST! Not even God can prevent that, leave alone Opus Dei sleeper stalwarts. IT IS ONE BELT ONE ROAD versus Obama's preventive Asia pivot!
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Post by jakaswanga on May 13, 2017 6:48:49 GMT 3
Dear Jakaswanga:You are probably the most prolific poster on Jukwaa. I and many members value your contributions. But you have made ME get a WARNING from Proboards the service provider who let us run this popular site free of charge.This is the first since I started this board on August 22,2005. I consider this very unfortunate.
On May 7, 2017, you had the audacity to share a very OBSCENE & PORNOGRAPHIC SERIES OF CARTOONS featuring Jacob Zuma.Not aware of the clear breach, I only became aware of the incident TODAY and only because of the Proboards message. Do you want Jukwaa to be shut down forever?Please think of other Jukwaa members when you interact.
I HAVE REMOVED THE ENTIRE THREAD. PLEASE CONSIDER THIS A WARNING TO YOU TO CEASE AND DESIST FORTHWITH FROM SUCH UNCOUTH BEHAVIOUR. Sincerely, Onyango Oloo Founder, Moderator and Administrator JUKWAA AYANDA MABULUOf course it is pointless to argue with the algorithms delegated by PROBOARDS to filter obscenity and porn. But it is something else for you, Onyango Oloo, moderating a high-end political blog like Jukwaa, to concur and be dismissive, that the relevant paintings of Ayanda Mabulu are merely 'a very obscene and pornographic series of cartoons'! I think for your own part, you could best have assumed studied neutrality, nd this would take the form of just writing a disclaimer that, without joining the discussion of what is art and not art, the determining face is
..... the licensing protocol of this (PROBOARDS SERVER) does not sustain such sexually explicit works as Ayanda Mabulu and his ilk practice, produce and promote as art! I therefore delete the said pictorials as an administrative act subject to the agreed trading license of the FREE hosting service! But we will accept links! And long live the furious debate on art and porn! By the way, I am curious, are the prophet Mohammed denigrating cartoons posted by the Danish paper, Jylland Posten, or the Charlie Hebdo caricatures of the Prophet, acceptable to Proboards!?
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Post by jakaswanga on May 8, 2017 23:14:02 GMT 3
MUTHAMA SPITS ON KALONZO
Muthama is the senator who was groped by Jubilee Mpigs during the famous melee in which Moses Kuria allegedly licked his fingers to the last dew, having seized the pandemonium to indulge his consuming fantasy, that is to finger Millie Odhiambo. Jubilee Mpigs of unknown sex tore down Muthama's trousers and held him by the balls as it were. Now he says he wont defend his Nachakos senate seat, lest they sodomise him!
Muthama will not be supporting Kalonzo, but he will be campaigning for Raila. Moi, that is Gideon, will not be supporting the Hustler Ruto, but he will campaign vigorously for his fellow royal, Uhuru Kenyatta. That kind of fellow then.
For a challenger, NASA looks unfocused, lazy and chaotic. They do not miss an opportunity to score an own goal, and the tally keeps on rising. Then there is the pettiness surrounding the elite of conglomerate. Raila's siblings Jakoyo and Oburu are drinking one another's blood over there, MDVD and Weta are having a sub, sub ethnic domestic over there, and here we have Muthama and Kalonzi rolling in the mud in public. It is a tidy mess. This way they can not punch Uhuruto to the ropes, even as the chances to come thick and fast. Howbeit, on the contrary, it is Jubilee on the offensive. The simplicity with which Uhuruto can send Mr. Clean groggy and wobbly in the knees is a marvel to behold. They simple had their pawn at the NGO's coordination board, Executive Director Fazula Mahamed, freeze the accounts, declaring them secret and illegal. But the innuendo is interesting. In fact its propagandistic value is immense
1. it is like Kalonzo, a former VP and possibly the next VP, is a paid agent of foreign powers! is a running dog being run by dark characters of ill intentions to Kenya! Or 2. Ruto wants his money back. The money he, in hind sight, was duped by brokers into paying out in the belief the Katikatiman (as Ruto ever derides him) could be bought to betray Raila last minute. This money is too much for William to write off as bad venture, bad investment. He just has to confiscate it back!
NASA, the challenger, is behaving like it is entitled, a bit like Peter Kenneth moving to Nairobi, expecting expecting a warm embrace from the riff-raff. Nasty surprise. Kalonzo must learn quick how to put steel in a punch, break Ruto's jaw in the same spin which doubles Kenyatta down with his balls kicked.
NB: Kalonzo will remember how tough Ruto is. He describes it well, in his book, how Ruto forced Kenyatta to both get rid of Kalonzo and Mudavadi as anointed successors to Kibaki. Ruto had served under Mudavadi long long time ago in ODM, and knew MDVD is no fighter. His body language used to ooze so much contempt it was sickening to watch.
'My brother in the spirit of transparency, we inform you we are going to Burundi to meet president Nkurunziza, and sister Charity has kindly agreed to come along!' Uhuru told Kalonzo in his home in Karen as the fixer Jimmy Wanjigi played wet nurse. (Kalonzo's presidential ambitions were still born, and a kind-heart needed take care of the corpse!) And Ngilu wasn't mourning, quite the opposite, strip teasing for the dynamic duo.
Now I say it for the last time. Get a punch, Kalonzo. It is the only way a man gets rid of perpetual contempt. You are everybody's punching bag. Rise, punch back, break a nose, kick Uhuru's balls, try being a man for once ---in case you want be president of a republic that is.
The price of daily foof stuffs in the kiosk alone is enough weapon to break Kenyatta's legs with. He, Kalonzo, do you have the guts to ask: how can the richest Kenyan dynast feel the pain of the Wanjiku, while his family got rich robbing the same Wanjiku?
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Post by jakaswanga on May 7, 2017 16:29:52 GMT 3
BILIONARE CHRIS KIRUBI'S HUMULIATION OF SONKO, THEATER OR A PARASITE'S DELUSION? IT IS a complex matter, and I been thinking long and hard. FIRST, Kalonzo Musyoka's tame autobiography has nonetheless lifted the veil and like a wardrobe malfunction intended or not, offered a titillating picture between the thighs of Kenyan power. A voyeur's plateful of a peephole. It was a moment like or in a theatrical divas match of fury like or the choreographed OMG moment which scooped more advert revenues after the live SUPER BOWL event, as the sensation spread, that the much hoarded part of La-Toya's sister could now be taken a measure of, raw. Kenyan politics, AGAINST ALL ODDSHere is some sensational reporting of the OOPS OH MY GOD theatrics I was specifically interested in Chris Kirubi's recent put down of the possible Nairobi governor Mbuvi Sonko. Sonko pulsed him as SPECIAL ECONOMIC ADVISOR, but the snobbery of vanity forced Kirubi to adopt a Migun/Kidero like superiorist attitude. The sewer rat Sonko isn't worth even a glance of the great Chris's busy eye! Let alone a hearing. I chuckled. The power-broker of Kenya whose communications are tapped by British Intelligence for tips on what is cooking high up at Kenya's summit, is too busy with international organisations to be bothered with shaping the future of Nairobi, --Nairobi, the emerging financial capital of East and Southern Africa! Kirubi is playing high poker, a hard to get wh-ore, or else, if he is serious, then does his disdain for Nairobi's likely governor, Mike Sonko, show the pathological delusion of an overblown parasitic ego. A bubble which would belie the ease with which Sonko punctured the Kenneth hot-air balloon. A delusion which underlines the foolhardiness with which Ouru thought he could finger-snappingly degrade Sonko to oblivion on behalf of the bubble PK! OF THE TERM STATE BANDIT OR PUBLIC PARASITE NB: In other summary, they all have an intimate relation with the Kenyan state don't they!? in fact the state has been their chief business! No!? Gideon Moi endorsed Uhuru Kenyatta! A homecoming! Kaungamen aka pharmacists didn't get rich thieving from the public! Bandits, but not parasites! I insist on the substantiation! You get rich 'shoplifting' the public treasury or cattle-rustling the state kraal, you are just an overgrown tapeworm in the belly of society.
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Post by jakaswanga on May 7, 2017 12:07:28 GMT 3
SONKO GOES PRESIDENTIAL ON JKL, OR IS IT GUBERNATORIAL? The candidate at a city rally with JKL I have premised elsewhere that Keeping the presidency of Kenya as the hot-ass monopoly of the bandit bourgeoisie is the only historical agenda in town, and immediately the only open option. Howbeit we will keep the thought, to explore later, whether the era of national democratic revolutions is now defunct, and popular peoples revolutions extinct, yeah, whether it is now slavery without recompense, that the world is reduced to a litter of dead hopes, like those of the slaves of Rome after the defeat of Spartacus and his band. It would be a long time before Rome collapsed --Goodness gracious me! and a long, long evolution time before the blooming of renaissance, and the explosion of the French revolution. But for that whole period of incestuous power arrangements punctuated by murder at every paragraph, the character of humanity is not in doubt. Its ruthlessness and resilience heroic. Anyway, more about that later. Today, let us spare a thought provoked by two events. Baba Yao's wallop over the miller Kabogo in Kiambu, and Mbuvi Sonko's knock-out of Peter Kenneth. So stunned is PK, that he knows not whether to run as independent, go back to his own party, continue in Jubilee and angle up for a possible running mate position, seconding his nemesis. He could also disappear into irrelevance, but as I paged him a genotypical fence-sitter like Mwai Kibaki, he should cross his fingers a situation will emerge which needs a COMPROMISE, MILD CANDIDATE. As Kenyan politics heat up, and with heady ambitions galore, huge options could open up for depolarising weaklings. THE URBAN POPULIST UPSURGE The trick between Sonko and Waititu is their street populism. Kabogo and Peter look very posh, tidy and neat and well-spoken, but in the harshness of urban life, all that poshness translates, to the majority, as out of touch and even bigoted look-down. Ferdinand Waititu and Mike Sonko have opened up space in the urban political play-field. They have done that by own ability. They have widened the options subconsciously. They have fertilised the ground for an urban, popular revanchism. It is a pity the young ambitious thug Babu Owino doesn't have the sewer instinct to read the sh!t, yet. The city, the other city which is a swamp of human dung, will not hand itself over to the gentrified, dandified folk like Peter Kenneth and Evans Kidero without a steep fight. The harsh reality of city life for the majority gives them a nose to ferret out fakes, and choose their own fake, choose their own bandit if a bandit it must be,yeah, ave their own charlatan, if a charlatans it must be. Of course most of them city desperadoes are Sundays in Church professing their belief in and indulging their grief in fictitious solutions. Heaven after death is the ultimate fiction if you ask me. But where would classical drama be without Deus Ex Machina? On JKL live, Sonko in court, there is a telling moment of psychological emergence when Sonko disqualifies his opponents. He wont attack them since 'they are not in the studio to defend themselves'' but
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. 'Evans Kidero has a Phd but we all know what he did to Mumias, forcing president Uhuru to bail it out recently!'Hallo Sonko! I forget what my in-law did to Mumias ( Sugar company?) though I know lawyer Ojienda has been burning the midnight oil smoking out every legal trick in the book to have Kidero's linens washed in private, and not in court! I gather, from an African proverb no less, that when you see such professorial frogs running breathless up and about town, 'acrobaticing' in broad daylight, there must a huge thing threatening both their lives and their paymasters' pockets! But the brutal point the (by the establishment) unwanted Candidate is making is clear: Run down Mumias has run down Nairobi, and his Phd is but an upper class BLING BLING, merely a scarecrow for the uninitiated. Bluff! Sonko is here much against the wishes of the owners of Nairobi as we say. In similar fashion as with Kidero does Sonko go to diminish Peter Kenneth's managerial acumen at Kenya-Re, hot air. On Miguna he just repeats Raila Odinga's pitch: the man has a mental problem! I think that is also what President Ouru Kenyatta once made of Raila Odinga. So it wasn't like Sonko was having an ungubernatiorial meltdown! In other words, the academic dwarf, deplorable buffoon and lowly slum scum, has outgrown intimidation by the snobs and posh's flashing their Ivy-league degrees and blue-chip Cvs! (And to date, CV's which need crooked lawyers filing PERMANENT INJUNCTIONS in crooked courts to keep their achievements forever in the dark!) Sonko calls their bluff: Administrative Fakes! watch that price of unga, Harvardman Rotich, lest your CV and abilities too come up for rubish! Impotent and wilted di.cks promising a nympho the ride of her of her dreams! Kidero has had four years, and look, I am the guy supplying water, medicine, school fees and reclaiming stolen land plots! ---who said only Phd's know how PR propaganda works!? NB: Ever looking to peddle the sensational, TV-man Jeff Koinange is perplexed by the new Sonko in his gubernatorial pose. Where is the uncouth Sonko he asks, confronted with a cool one who apologises for slighting albinos the other day when he lunged at PK who had called him a professional hooligan! This psychological emergence of the outsiders which we already saw in Mombasa with governor 001, Joho, is here to stay. And it is the emerging story of the urban landscape. The urban voters are still welded to bandits, and charlatans for the lack of alternatives, but not necessarily to the state looter bandits --who are the traditional owners of city votes. The atrocious snob Miguna declassed Sonko with he can not spell governor, and the fake ace Kidero declassed the same with he does not know who the UN SG is! That is how they have lost this election I think. This race is about rats in the sewer, and Nairobi is 70% sewer. It is not about Gutterrez of gutter-press! NB: some footnote on the distribution of surface area of the Nairobi habitat and clean water resources will enlighten. But with silly and irrelevant put downs, the two Luo boys have lost it, just like Jomo's boy too lost it when he thought he could elbow Sonko out in favour of the then MK great hope to succeed him, Peter Kenneth. After Sonko pointed out PK's 2013 treachery, the Ouru beat a hasty retreat, just like earlier on, an attempt by DP Ruto and his allies to impose Eugene Wamalwa in Nairobi too had hit the rocks and proved a non starter. Nairobi is coming to its own, resisting being the puppet of Ethnic Kings with a rural outlook. The sewer is that sucking. The posh elite, unable to learn anything else but feudal boardroom intrigue and the misuse of institutional power (like party rigging and legal blackmail), will no doubt continue to try to fiefdomise Nairobi. Sonko has denied them the age-old template of the cuts against the uncuts with which they would have herded their electorate to the ethnic cage, had they succeeded to enact a PK versus EK fight. Sonko cuts through the Odinga-Kenyatta template. Nairobi, a vast sea of humanity daily wading a sh!t-swamp, is getting ready to pronounce her neutrality to the tribal feud of the two royal houses, at least in the all-important gubernatorial seat. The rats are out of the cage, and the sewer from whence they come teems with more independents. FOOTNOTE: Nairobi has some interesting tensions, heightened even as they mirror the republic at large. Chief of this is that 80% live on less than 10% of her habited geographical area. (That figure can be tuned best by a look at the UN habitat organisation. Or another statistic www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2016/feb/16/atms-cheap-safe-water-nairobis-slums Then the water distribution That is an important statistic underlying social power, underpinning a caste system of enforced un-equality. Then there is the fact of HOW CHEAP the richest get the water, and HOW EXPENSIVE the slum dwellers buy the meagre they use. Put in perspective, some will immediately recognise the water politics of apartheid south Africa, and Israel and Palestinians. Those with the heart can unearth the statistics of water as a tool of political domination. There was once a coca-cola uptake yardstick for measuring the economic progress of a state, but, between me and you, thinking of the colonial/settler landgrab and the 'RISAF' concentration camps for the native, the clean WaterVolume/habitSurface Area ratio as related to the High and the Low, the Mighty and the Powerless, may be the better option to watch, should you want to tell the true story of our city and land. A colonial era political economy by other means? Nairobi is where it is happening. The explosion in social tension, the burst in the outer contours of the bubble, the beating heart of the beast. Bluffs will be called. NB: People, the usual suspects --sewer club, are still complaining of the price of Ugali posho? And you have Harvard and Yale men running the economy!? One reading is, our academic fetishism is misplaced. It couldn't be worse. Another reading is, the no-degrees (valid degree as Sonko says), would make matters worse, you aint seen nothing yet if you think ksh. 160 per unga packet is exorbitant, wait until real illiterates take over! You will need a wheelbarrow of cash to buy a packet of milk. And prices will be denoted in kilogramme of similar denomination bundles. For instance a sack of ksh.1000 notes weighing 25kg, standardised as ndururu, will buy one loaf of bread. You must have seen it to believe it can happen. Super hyper inflation!
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Post by jakaswanga on May 7, 2017 10:36:13 GMT 3
MACRON, THE FRENCH TONY BLAIR COMES OF AGE TODAY I want to deliberately put it as footnote in the French thread. The change in the Hamas founding charter which, simultaneously, has seen the exiled Khaled Meshaal succeeded by Gazan-resident Ismael Haniyah, as the top political leader of Hamas. The election is done by Hamas's Shura council, a kind of politburo which is constituted by representatives from all wings of the resistance, including the military, aka Qassam brigades. It is a 2-year tenure, limited to a successive two terms. Khaled Meshaal, left, and Ismail Haniya Why do I put it as a footnote on the day the Fifth republic elects the no-party Emmanuel Macron as her president, against the Frexit and xenophobically nationalist champion Marine Le Pen of the National front? Because things which happen far away from France exert more influence on the direction of the nation than the things which happen in France itself. Dien Bien Phu may not have been reported in France in much detail, but it marked the end of French Indochina, and any pretence of France as a power in Asia. And now the yellow bastads are making in-roads and massive gains into the French backwaters of black Africa. Then, most emotionally important, is the legacy of the Algerian civil war of. (Did I forget to say anti-colonial liberation war!?) It is the elephant in the room the fifth barely mentions directly. It informs a lot of Islamic and nationalist discourse in France, and tends to subconsciously monopolise the debate between France in totality and her colonial past. That debate crystallises to whether 4th or 5th generation offspring of non-white immigrants and Islamic to boot, are really French, could ever really be French! The impossibility of assimilation? the bankruptcy of the fifth republic's ideological premise? But there is a new guy in town. Now read that again: ALLEGED TORTURES AND MASSACRES! In other words there is no conclusive historical evidence the French troops did what they did! We call that historical denial, like saying, 'alleged crimes committed by NAZI's against Jewish people in the concentration camps!'French teachers of civics, history and philosopy around the BanLieues --urban slum areas of high immigrant concentration, report frustrations when the children of immigrants, especially from the former colonies, more so Muslims, defiantly and articulately state the French ran a NAZI-Hitlerite regime in Algeria, Gaza is a concentration camp policed by Israelis, and the Palestinian NAKBA, the Great Catastrophe, ranks with the HOLOCAUST in historical crimes! That is like blowing up French (White) Identity. Some teachers just quit, leaving the savages to rot in their slums. The Algerian veteran Le Pen, the father of Marine, once called concentration camps a detail of the second world war, and Europe came down on his head like the tower of babbel. Belittling the holocaust, let alone denying it, is itself a crime against humanity in official France. Not so denying colonial atrocities by European powers, or belittling them. Repent and they shall be forgiven! Okay, that is the brilliant 39-year Old emperor to be crowned today, May 7 2017, by the people for the first tenure. He is flirting with the loyalties of, seducing the segment of French voters with Maghreb origins. But the Palestinian issue is another elephant in the room within Muslim France. And here the incoming emperor has not come up with any slogans. When brilliant young men hired to fix stuff start ignoring elephants in the room, I don't feel easy, nor sleep easy. As a teacher it makes me feel nervous about the performance of the whizzkidd at the tests reality shall author. But those who want to win elections must have forked tongues to hide their hearts, the campaign is after all, just game.
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Post by jakaswanga on May 2, 2017 20:11:04 GMT 3
THE BANDITS MONOPOLISE THE APEX, HOLD THE PRESIDENCY CAPTIVE
DISCLAIMER:
For the purposes of this thread, I wish to operate from the premise, that, for the foreseeable future, The Kenyan Presidency is held captive by the bandit bourgeoisie. TheY will football it amongst themselves, exclusively passing it around and on like it were some fetish object and heirloom. Fiercely they will growl at any outsider nearing by, and ruthlessly shall they abuse power to maintain power, and use the state to further privately accumulate.
Well, the state is esily a class heirloom! it takes a social upheaval the rank of a revolution to change that! and it is definitely an object of fetish, coveted by by all social formations ---and Tom Dicks and Harry's!
There is the dissatisfaction with nominations which has led to the rise of independents, or would be independents, but their dissent is much more the expression of personal grief than any programmatic alternative. Nevertheless, this phenomenon is a vague pointer to systemic malfunction, though it is less important than the borrowing spree to pay off matured loans and service new ones which Henry Rotich, the cabinet secretary for finance, has already been relegated to.
The famous macro-economist is busy digging a debt-hole from which ever more slices of the national cake has to be cut and thrown to the monsters, aka creditors. It is a race to the bottom, and to the bone, cursing future generations with inherited debt and guilt! ----This pointer to a systematic, financial malfunction is the real story of the bandit bourgeoisie rule, or misrule. It is their Achilles heel, and the seeds of a Greek tragedy.
But the drama has a long build up. Meanwhile the popular bandits fly their pirate flag, run their buccaneering state. It is party time in the bandit Fiefdom. Howbeit I will merry along too ---that is gladly accept that 300% increment CBA negotiated by KNUT/KUPPET! And so too advise the doctors to merry along after their debt-funded historic settlement, not to mention the minimum wagers who received some small bone from the buccaneer's table, to make meaning of May Day One.
I am being happy and not worrying too much! Things can be worse you know! Thinking of Greece today, under forced austerity! Too mentally imploded to consider independence!
NB: Independence can be overrated. The British establishment is currently scared sh!tless, forced by their people to get out of the EU!
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Post by jakaswanga on Apr 30, 2017 12:37:21 GMT 3
TALK ABOUT THE DEVIL'S ALTERNATIVEThat is Kaungaman Sonko versus SweetTooth Kidero. And between them, the Independent, Outsider Miguna Miguna. Who is your man now, Rufus Nairobi Voter! Miguna can already expend some bragging rights I think. Uhuru Kenyatta's yet to be-launched NAITOBI METROPOLITAN AREA TA, shoplifts lots of stuff from the Miguna basket, aka manifesto underpinning Double-M's would-be gubernatorial action program. Miguna could just be the man for governor Sonko to consult with on that! NAMATA If history were linear, Miguna wins the contest flat. But even if the general trend is Africa rising, and up and up, there are graphic patches where the graph heads south before picking up again. A deep trough. Main challenger Sonko is a Kaungaman, a self-street-made alleged pharmacist with sky-high populist underpinnings. After knocking out Reuben Ndolo in Makadara but getting rigged out, Sonko gave the middle finger to the orange constellation and went to peddle his political talents elsewhere. These proved formidable. And the move paid off handsomely. Sonko had been the nearest thing to a progressive community organiser the Makadara area had seen busy with the youth. It was a bit like the Obama Chicago story. Without the Harvard, East Coast posh bit. For many, the Ndolo-Sonko incident must now be ancient history, out of mind, but I remember some very juicy details about it. In those days, ladies like Liz Ongoro who are now fuming fire and brimstone and literally dragging Orange House inhabitants through the dust in rage, never saw anything wrong with rigged candidate lists. They were content to fan the fires which would later quench them. But in a good and daring move, Sonko moved on, and on, and on. It was a trajectory destined for more conflict. They say Nairobi has its owners, and it is understood one refers not the Maa people. It was therefore no surprise Sonko, wiping the floor with Big Man Dick Waithika --don't tell me you forgot Dick! would later rattle ambitions in Jubilee and face the same problem again: that of not being the party's nor the establishment's preferred candidate for a top Nairobi seat. ----Sewer rats must only go so far, like Africans under colonialism. It is a caste system they want. Glass ceiling for others born low! The Gikuyu posh gentry orbiting around Uhuru Kenyatta sought to bar him from his chosen path, that of Nairobi governor. They hadn't removed Baba Yao Waititu from the scene only to hand it over to another sewer rat, had they? A particularly uncompromising wing of Mumbi extremists went so far as to parachute from Gatanga, Peter Kenneth, and try many underhanded ways to get Sonko off the front ticket. Sonko who had tirelessly campaigned city wide for Uhuru Kenyatta while Peter fornicated elsewhere with his own delusions of gravitas, stuck to his guns. Aksante ya punda was becoming mateke too often. He consulted the historical memory of how he had dispatched off the Unbeatable Dick, Waithika, and Lo, behold, the street dog pulled a fast one on yellowman Pete K. I believe Sonko had also earlier on outclassed Bishop Wanjiru. Everybody knows he does not do it on his ethnic votes. It is a rainbow coalition he rides. Mostly the wretched of the earth against the chosen few. It will now be SewerRat Sonko vs PoshSnob Kidero. Incumbent Kidero on the other hand is a kind of Kenyan Dr. Odili. That is a Nigerian ex governor of many judicial lives, a man who give his name to a legal syndrome reminiscent of a military order, a decree! Lawsuits citing financial malfeasance flock to Kidero the way flies flock to an excellent sh!tpile. But money does buy dribbler lawyers who know how to work the system. And the Mutunga-wrecked judicial system loves being worked some. LOOTOKRATA TROPICANA These types of creature, Odili and Kidero, William Ruto or the ex president of Mozambique, Armando Guebuza, are a specimen of that ace politico-evolutionary species who have colonised public office in Africa, and, as top predators specialised in parasitism, are militarized atop the social pyramid of the continent. They have a brandname - Lootokrata Tripikana, and there is the particularly horrid strain, Kleptokrata Mobutista. The latter send their countries to utter ruin in the process. They are now perpetuating themselves by becoming an aristocratic, bureaucratic nobility, like from Santos to Santos in Angola, or M7 to M6 in Uganda, or from Eyadema to Gnassingbé in Togo. The difference between M7&M6 being the same as between the Togo case! I spare you the Latin form of that for today. Let us just call them the tapeworms in the body politic of Africa. They run failed bureaucracies and failed states, failed public health care systems, and there is a reason why despite Africa's high-tech universities with their powerful graduates and grades, it is the Chinaman to build even a one-storey flat at your market centre, leave alone roads and dams and airports and 4g networks. These parasites in office, need the World Bank, need the IMF or whatever other external body to hold their hands doing this and that. And definitely counting votes! And the winner is ... heresy yawa ... ( Migori and Kisumu gubernatorial races)
.... both contestants! --Ai yawa Luowa! Utimo mamono! If we slight Miguna, the battle for Nairobi county's top seat is therefore a choice between two bandits. One of these bandits will give Wanjiku a gentler rape ordeal. --who is your bandit now! It is always a devil's choice, history!
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Post by jakaswanga on Apr 29, 2017 19:42:39 GMT 3
'WW-what aboutttt the BBBig Man?, the alleged assassin of Tom Mboya reputedly asked on his way to the gallows! Damn, it is the same the world over! 'I am just a PATSY', cried Lee Harvey, just moments before being shot in jail! Pasolini is a devil with images, whether stills or cine. There is a famous scene of the ultimate power abuse, non physical, when the captives are forced to enjoy a meal of choice fecal matter from their captors. EAT SH!t ---And they eat sh!t. the camera close-ups of shamelessly munching shit fills with so much disgust even the perverted are unsettled. Of course the tongues will also clean lick the arzes of the dominators, Mama Mia, there would even be competition in begging to. There is the distinct possibility captives can be so broken they perform their self-degrading acts with stunning, enthusiastic submission. To date, it is a thought this could be the trick within black on black violence in the United States! NB: (For one, closer to home, think of the way we Kenyans sing and praise and line up whole days to vote for people we know are positively rotten! Or is there subversion is such total submission!? Yes, a dialogue between Muranga and HomaBay might degenerate thus: we know Anne Waiguru is a rot who messed up the NYS, but she is our Queen and will be our Governor, just like you know Raila is a total rigger with his men in blacks et al, but you will still lick his arz to the last piece of sh!t! Second, Islam is reportedly a religion of Submission, but there is no mistaking the ferocity of some of its militant sects against their defined enemies! There is terrible violence submerged in submission! Yes, colonial pacification was training the native in eating his alleged superior's sh!t of free will! There is terrible energy in bondage. Managing its release is the political skill of a millennia!) The SALO artistic depiction was just plainly banned for decades. In any case the film stayed disturbingly macabre; and some say the motive for Pasolini's murder. Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, Haffez Assads Taldmoor prison of horrors, Auschwitz, what is new? Once you have seen SALO and thought about us, humans in unchecked power, there is nowhere for your mind to hide. We are all eating sh!t in the refuse belt of Democracy. That is why I started with the image of human scavengers competing birds upon the garbage heaps of urban Kenya. And the public administrators some of the best paid in the world. Kenyans, aren't we well trained! don't we cherish eating sh!t! I dare say, track events and athletics apart, we are a most competitive case of dung eaters! It needs some keen insight why! Eat sh!t, O fellow Kenyan! compete the ravens, you are a perfect scavenger! THE VOTER, THE RETURNING OFFICER AND THE FUTURE OF KENYA
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Post by jakaswanga on Apr 29, 2017 17:22:52 GMT 3
ACHEBE'S PARABLE THE VOTER COMES TO KENYA (2) We will get to Kenya Voter Blues alright, but not yet. First the phrase to EAT SH!t, and enjoy it! --A quickie from Paolo Pasolini's delve into the abuse of power, chapter fascism. Okay. When it comes to the deconstruction of the post-colonial voter in the immediate African setting, the definitive portrait was painted by the grand griot of letters, Chinu Achebe. The short story mocks, satirizes and undercuts the foundation upon which the democratic process is to be based. It was written in 1965, a period of idealism and high hopes but just as shady clouds appear in the path of the newly independent countries. They are pretender independent countries, veiled misformed faces, waiting for the mask of extravagant curtains to be peeled back by some event such as an economic crisis. ('Sudden riches by men who only yesterday walked barefoot in the dusty village tracks; now that they hold political office and in one term of a few years, their homes are sprawled architectural masterpieces upon acres bigger than several primary schools combined!' --That is all fiction of course, art depicting early 60's Nigeria Umuofia! not the fortunes of the MCA near you after DEVOLUTION!) Kenya! NB: (We could do Wole The Poet Soyinka too, but the man is a thorough mystic, a monk who does not do sex, at least in public! We will come to him when our pleasures of the flesh are indulged senseless! Dangerous Achebe, a lady lecturer told us, is the proverbial wily tongue at the nnnnn, irresistible sensations, or for us men, from her experience, the deep warmth of the deepest throat!)It is tremendous power in his/her hands, The Voter. To choose who exercises power over the polity and bestow legitimacy upon his acts. Kings chosen by God wont do now, nor will self-appointed and forcefully crowned ones be popular. The Voter is in the eye of a storm. The forces acting on him or her are tectonic Big Bangs. By hook or crook, every social force wants to ingratiate themselves as the Voters True Love, or, failing that, usurp the Voter's voice and becry the voter's loyalty and blessing, somehow. Welcome to Riggingland. Eat your cake and have it still! The story, short story, is pure poison. It is served with the cynical but divine sophistication of a master chef de souse, a slave serving his revenge cold at those who monopolise his services against his will. It is a near perverted act of lacing his delicacies with his sh!t and urine before offering them with priestly ritualism to the aristocrats at feast, aristocrats who claim their natural superiority over him, the lowly cook. The Voter is an INSPIRED moment of pure clarity. The tongue in cheek, is dipped in pure poison, as if the kisser and the kissed are in a suicide pact. It is a labour of passion, morbid passion. The Visionary Voter. There is the horrible cheek which reminds of the Italian school of horror art films, but more so, the prophetic and definitive study of Fascism by Paolo Pasolini, SALO, based on Marquis de Sades memoirs, 120 DAYS OF SODOM. NEXT: Something quick about Paolo Pasolini's murder, for he was likely murdered for his political inclinations.
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Post by jakaswanga on Apr 29, 2017 16:48:44 GMT 3
CHINUA ACHEBE'S PARABLE OF THE VOTER REVISITED, THE MORAL CRISIS1. PREFACE: THE VOTER, THE RETURNING OFFICER AND THE FUTURE OF AFRICA Achebe's masterpiece tells the tale of Rufus Okeke, chief campaigner of the candidate of the Peoples Alliance Party, PAP, in their zonal stronghold of Igboland. During this round, Rufus and his entrepreneural ilk can make more money pledging their vote in secret to the futile challenger, from the upstart but well-oiled Peoples Organisation Party, POP. It is an opportunity to maximize the earnings of the season which, the elections having been reduced to a money-making exercise nowadays, is surely one of plenty. But there is a catch. Roof is religious, or superstitious if you wish, and there are oaths which mean something to him. His profit-motive cynicism has not yet managed to wipe out his reli-consciousness nor conscience in whole. Should we say he has not completely moved on from the shackles of accountability? The POP trouble-shooter who is his friend other days, has this intelligence and uses it to attempt to ensure Ruff's compliance on the electoral date. Secret blackmail. He has no intention of being cheated that easy as would be the case without some kind of surety. Roof swears the most powerful oath that binds a man to his word, the classic one involving The River Styx I guess. He will betray the party for which he is the chief campaigner and which has been his livelihood ---doesn't matter anyway for the victory is assured in this zone. But that is easier said than done. Ruff has squables at the moment supreme. It is more precipitated by fear of the consequences of the powerful oath than anything else thinkable or desirable, like keener, inner insight! On the positive side, he has emotionally grown attached to his prestige as the chief campaigner and most trusted aide of the popular candidate. He has appearances to keep, even to himself! Even as he succumbs to greed. On election day, to serve two masters at the same time, vote two candidates with the same ballot, Rufus comes up with a literal ingenuity which, comical as it is, wipes out the foundations of electoral democracy in Nigeria. The next year there is a coup, two coups in fact. A so-called Igbo coup, and the so-called counter-Igbo coup! ---Enter General Gowon and Chkwuemeka Ojukwu of course! Decrees couldn't be challenged in any law court! --a permanent injunction! Military rule as a permanent injunction on the rule of the law!! yah? Enter the civilians then, and yes, I present you more permanent injunctions! (See Dr. Odili soap!) just to get the parameters in place. At the end of ANIMAL FARM, pig and man appear the same to the Animals. When your Afrian civilian courts offer permanent injunctions on own volition, what is the difference with outright military decrees? 2. IS IT THE KENYAN VOTER, THE RETURNING OFFICER, THE POLITICAL PARTY, THE HUMAN OR COMPUTER ERROR, OR IS IT THE COUNTERS AT THE TALLYING CENTRE? For there is something rotten at the centre of the Kenyan electoral process! An ominous tale, like Achebe's prophetic humour. It is a tough sum, counting and adding votes up! continued.
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Post by jakaswanga on Apr 28, 2017 21:06:25 GMT 3
RULERS AND TAX CUTS, RATE CUTS, FEES AND BUSINESS CLASSESI will come to Nairbo Jubilee gubernatorial candidate Mike Sonko shortly. You might have gathered he has sunk the boot across, all the way deep up Peter Kenneth's tight arze, and is sizing CORD's Man Kiddero up for the same treatment. But before all that, some dots to connect. USA pressiden Donald Trump has just presented the mother of all tax cutsto commemorate his 100th day. Here is a peek from the Guardian. remember the zeal with which Ex-Potus Obama bailed out the banks and later had the Ben Bernanke's FED shower them with easy cash. Power is not neutral, it has its vested interests to serve first. That is its class nature. Here is something from Kenya. Every country in the world these days is of course supposed to slash and burn regulations and restrictions which CAPITAL INVESTORS can frown on. Woo Big FDI mainly. www.industrialization.go.ke/index.php/media-center/blog/281-new-laws-to-improve-kenya-s-business-environment now one of Sonko's pitches has been a promise of LOWER RATES AND LOWER RENTS. The president did not cover the lower sector in his pro-business fast-track! There is a 'business category' in Kenya much maligned. And yet they still form the backbone of the city commerce. These are all those Mpesa Kiosks, One Man shops in the estates, cubicles in down town areas where beauties sell all wares, street hustlers, vegetable stalls, estate salons and tailors, small garages, welders can carpenter shops, and those jua kali hot spots like Gikomba. The whole informal sector called petty tradings.This is where most Kenyans, most Nairobians are employed. They pay (protection charges) dues to street gangs controlling the area; they pay dues to police patrols running the area; they pay dues to county askaris/clerks inspecting the area, then come the OFFICIAL RATES. And then there is the issue of licensing. So I collected a few statistics. How has (for example) the LICENCE rates (fees) faired in the past 3 years? Answer: in the last year alone, 2016-2017 Man Kidero and his administration has nearly doubled the licensing LEVY. Some permits have moved from ksh.10K to ksh.19K! Now, anybody who has studied econometrics anywhere, what do you call that? That is IRRATIONAL, economics being a RATIONAL science, at least in theory! Permit prices which double in one year while the economic growth rate is an official 6% but inflation 12%!? So you find me very comfortable calling Kidero vermin, Luo vermin! And man Rotich a Kerio he-goat! Nairobi' informal sector, petty traders who are the backbone of the city commerce need THE MOTHER OF ALL RATE BREAKS! The kind Donald Trump is giving to his rich friends! Now Who, mirror mirror on the wall, is at least ready to put this on the political agenda!? Yo! Mike Mbuvi Sonko! (How did you miss this Miguna!) The way Mike has whacked Pete, the answer lies in micro-economic data! The way Waititu fcuckd Kabogo, there is some micro-sociology to unearth. I will be back.
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Post by jakaswanga on Apr 27, 2017 23:12:07 GMT 3
ALWAYS THE DEVIL'S ALTERNATIVE,
that is history for you!
It was whispered then, but now confirmed for real as insiders talk both openly and off the cuff, that Hilary Clinton reckoned there was nowhere for progressives to go, regardless of how horrible they thought of her, regardless of how unfit for POTUS they deemed her. So with utter disdain for the constituency of Bernie Sanders, the Clintonian inner court plotted, and with contempt for both the wider electorate (basket of deplorables) and Sanders himself, they moved the institutes of the Democratic Party to kill off the Sanders Challenge. It is called rigging by other means.
She had the whole left locked in, willy-nilly, and the algorithms concurred!
It didn't work out that way of course. Trump moved in. Mentally shocked beyond sense, the Party and her cohorts could only explain her wipe-out by, it was Vladimir Putin who dunnit! Russian devil ashindwe!
Americans of course couldn't willingly vote for Trump in such numbers!
In other words, yeees, you got it, Luos cannot vote for Uhuru Kenyatta in such large numbers as those UHRU TENA mobs in Nyanza prtesting the riggings of their home party! can they!? Re-paraphrased with historical brutality, there once was a Kenyan wisdom the country couldn't vote in sufficiently large numbers to have an UNCUT boy win the presidency! And then it happened and fellas like Professor Wanjohi had to organise a coup at high speed, and commandeer a nervous-wrecked Evans Gicheru to swear in a reluctant and drunken but witty Mwai Kibaki!
Reading the peoples mind is an uncertainty principle!
These are lessons not worth teaching. Because nobody will learn them. They, unlike Planck and Niels Bohr, only serve as entertainment. An Egyptian lady told me, that General Al-Sisi has murdered or disappeared 40 thousand Egyptian political activists doesn't count in their history. There are 80 Million Egyptians, things will get serious when Abdel kills 5 million. Egyptians agree the General and his military are too stupid and purposeless to compete those NAZI numbers, even in a dictatorship as long last as Mubarak's!
That is Egyptian humour.
So I looked at my Luo Nyanza and its shoddy primaries, and the make-believe democratic throatfulls of the popular party, and thought, heck, they are frogs croaking in the pathway of a truck, willing it to stop, that is funny!
That my sister Millie Odhiambo's house was burnt in Suba North aka Mbita constituency, ostensibly to protest electoral irregularities, is the most telling parable. Way back in 2013, Millie all but bared her hinds at Orange House when they rigged her out of her win. She got her win, but not before a threat to invoke the mother of all curses!
And thereafter she held her tongue, saw no further evil, but qualified the institutional rot which had precipitated her victimisation. Not only that, her people perceive her to have mutated into the bad goods, and a section of them was angry enough to commit arson in disapproval.
Riding the mob is riding the rodeo in a field of rattle snakes! Only true democracy can charm the people forever. Only a honest process can guarantee immunity from the mob's blood thirst.
And then today the ODM captain becomes the opposition flagbearer. Where can we Luos run to, no doubt they grin cynically at Orange house. Luos are locked, together with all progressives. Those shouts of Uhuru tena in Homa Bay and Kisumu, are frogs trying to prevent a cow from drinking from the pond. Bure kabisa!
He he! Dawa ya moto ni moto, dawa ya ufisadi ni ufisadi! Kenya, it appears in this formulation, can only be saved from the rotten and corrupt Uhurutosing through replacement with damaged goods like Mudavadi and Raila!? That is the devil's choice for you. The historical point is psychological. Exchanging one rot for another PEACEFULLY and legitimately is historically commendable.
You know countries like the Congo paid a price of like ^6 million dead just to replace a rotten Mobutu with a rotten x2Kabila. That is a real bad deal.
If you ask me, replacing Uhuru with Raila need not even cost half as much as the compromised IEBC Chebukati has been given. I have been checking how real and tough finance ministers spend on elections!
You would be surprised how cheap efficient elections really can be!
But this will be Odinga vs Kenyatta. Barcelona vs Real Madrid. There is more to it than what it is!
Poor Luo Nyanza! Swallowing all that ODM rigging, I will be watching the constipation!
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Post by jakaswanga on Apr 26, 2017 23:51:54 GMT 3
THE CARNIVAL OF CHEATS PREDICTS A HARSH ENDING
It is one of those humorous warnings fate delivers to a people, but because it takes the form of comedy and farce, its dark depths are ignored and business goes on as usual. And so for the moment we will keep on unperturbed. That famous pose, cliche of the ostrich comes to mind.
THE MASSIVE RIGGING IN THE NOMINATIONS AS BUSINESS AS USUAL
Anomalies and irregularities, we also say of such. But when they are 100% deliberate, pre-meditated, and it is suppose to be a democratic process whose cliches of credibility --like transparency, we are well aware of, we are in effect charting a course to the wrong direction.
Rigging can be easily explained. Institutional rigging too, even in the form of American gerrymandering. The powers that be, the elite and owners of the land in their insecurity, want a certain result. They organise and manipulate the circumstances of the due process, to achieve their inclination. Sometimes the circumstance can not be manipulated, so the popular will is simply annulled ---like the Algerian military did after the Front for Islamic Salvation won the election.
'Democracy', aka the rule of the people was always a complication. Because, apart from the construction REPRESENTATION which means power is exercised by a few on behalf of the people, more often than not, the peoples will is not the ruler's mind. And the rulers' preferences not the peoples choices. A guaranteed rough ride.
-Yet electoral democracy needs, for its mandate and legitimacy, the peoples support. The majority result is the measure of support. Controlling this 'legitimacy-bestowing' result has therefore been one of the most hotly contested offices in politics. It lead Josef Stalin to remark: it does not matter how many votes you get, it is who announces the results who counts. The Soviet Union would take slightly over half a century after Stalin to collapse, but there already in Stalin's words, is the cynical sterility of his mind, wholly disdainful of the people on whose behalf the revolution was launched. We in effect bear witness the political bankruptcy of the system. It does not need the peoples thinking participation! The people are sheep.
Mouthing democracy, pretending democracy while practicing something else creates quite a turbulent history in nations. The Great United States had a great constitution about equality, but kept blackpeople in chains. A prelude to a civil war. Apartheid South Africa was very democratic, again, you had to be white to have the pleasure. So they had to deal with terrorists like Mandela. Today's Israel with her Palestinians is more or less the same thing. Not that it bothers anybody that much really. But interesting times ahead. The middle east is a cooking pressure of HATE. With no Mandela in sight/jail.
Rigging or falsifying electoral results is a method to cheat the people out of their will, their votes and hopes and agenda. It is sabotage which wants to pretend (electoral) legitimacy. It is a method by which an establishment maintains its rule.
But this is the Luo pivot, wherefore after the customary historical and international perspective, I pigeon home.
And today I have been soaked. And I detected a tint of rage in my eye. A situation which panicked me because I couldn't find a humorous way out. I felt recidivistic, to long ago when I was a young man, with a temper of no reverse gear.
But now I caught myself in time! I re-read this bit I wrote a few days ago: I think that summarises Raila Odinga's tenure as the Luo Ker Madit. --A degenerated half-corpse holding down a people
while letting
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Die Quick! O my King For soon as you are late Free shall we be to breathe!
Die Quick, Old Fool You have made the Luos The World's laughing stock!
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Post by jakaswanga on Apr 25, 2017 20:51:55 GMT 3
BERLIN, GERMANY, APRIL 25 2017; then MIGORI-HOMA BAY COUNTY There is a conference in Berlin now, the subject is women, or more specifically, how to safeguard and upgrade their participation in the labour market. Angela Merkel is the host. Let me give you the official grab or blurb. Some hawk-minded folks could have noticed it dangerously looks like a TRADE-UNION'S agenda. (What happened to women unionist by the way!?) But let us look at who are the top babes in the act. The official organiser and host is Angela Merkel. The most powerful woman on Earth. Next to her is Christin Lagarde, yes, that is the IMF (Hellas-breaking) hot stud and she comes from France. On show on her maiden international duty as special advisor to the president of the USA is Ivanka Trump. She ran into trouble, defending her father for kind of 'grabbing only willing puszies!' Another famous woman on show is Dutch Queen Maxima, known in Kenya for some micro-credit cash, but what she exactly does for a living is unknown, though producing royal progeny is usually lucrative enough and a career satisfactory enough for ladies of a certain kind. It dangerously looks like the annual DAVOS gathering of the rich and powerful, pledging themselves to the communist manifesto! Why did this Berlin thing catch my attention!? First, I have a fascination for Berlin, ever since my history teacher in primary school told us Bismarck organised a conference there in 1875, where he had a crude map of Africa in the form of a cake, to be sliced into pieces for the appetites of various European national deities. Then of course Berlin was the designed headquarters of the Third Reich, Hitler's Kingdom come. Currently of course, Europe is a tale of two cities, Berlin and Brussels. The power lies in Berlin, but oozes out in Brussels. Not that anybody is fooled, even by the farcical ritual of the weekly migration of the European parliament between Brussels and Strasbourg, France. Every European knows there is Germany, and then the rest. -I should amuse you elsewhere with Emmanuel Macron's upfront pledge of loyalty to Merkel, as he awaits his coronation in May unto the French Presidency. Once upon a time this seat, French president, was about equal to the German Chancellorship, today the fifth republic has shrunk into a German protectorate, like Tanganyika before the first world war. Macron will be Merkel's prefect. ON THE BORDER OF HOMA BAY AND MIGORI COUNTIES A lady was picked from her place of work and put up in police cells. She was accused of abandoning and neglecting a minor, her two year old child. As she was being locked up, she kept on yelling --- 'dak umiyaga mochamo. Donge abiro manyone? Donge tijni ema datim eka ok wanind kech!?'
The lady had locked up her child and left her alone in the house while she went to work. She is a barmaid. A job some think is a cover for something else. Her defence: 'Where have you been to feed me? I have to feed myself and my baby, and this is my life, and my work, and how we manage. Otherwise we starve!'This is obviously a DESPERATE SITUATION In other words, this is the life of a 'working woman' on the lower ends of the market. wRETCHED. The question raised is interesting. Where do single-parent women with minors park their children when they go to work, say a full day's job? So far in countries which do not have the institute of child benefits? Does the informality still cope? or we are witnessing a burst here? the need for a new institute?Given Kenya is a 24/7 economy upstart, and given the statistics of single parenthood, and the need to be upto something to earn keep, meseems we are staring at a huge social problem, cheap maids aside for those who can afford.So, as these posh women mee far away in Berlin, I longed to hear of our own posh in Nyanza, taking a step back from the nominations farce, and putting up a honest day's thought. We have quite a stellar cast of them down here in Nyanza. Millie LoudMouth Odhiambo, Grace Unopposed Wanga, Invisible Denittah Ghatti, Rose the Voiceless Nyamunga, Nominated senator Judy Sijeny and Chrisitn Ombaka across, in Siaya. Not to mention Jubilee Joy Gwendo and Elephant Ruth Odinga from Kisumu county. Considering the amounts stolen from country budgets, and the entertainment wastes, methinks child day--- and night-cares (for bar maids and nurses and other professions of the night) is an affordable risk -(recurrent expenditure), like a tax break Investors you know. There is an econometric model which successfully 'equivocates' the economic value the likes of bar-maids contribute to the GDP by their despised labour, against the would-be social costs of the day and night kindergarten. Politics is priorities. A lootocracy has other priorities of course. A 24hrs/economy sustained by folks in their child-rearing years has its demands and dictates though. One of them is, a safe parking or dumping place for kids as the parents, single or otherwise, go out and about building the nation elsewhere. The days of dumping them at the granny's are gone. Too analogue. We are digital now! In mind. The top Western women in Berlin today need not worry about their kids, do they? But down here in Luo Nyanza, that no single female representative in politics puts CHILD CARE DURING LABOUR HOURS on the TOP agenda, is enough reason to ABOLISH their reserved slots! --The money so saved can pay day and nigh kindergarten orphanages, to avoid working women locking up their kids in fire-prone grassthatchs, as they go about eking subsistence on the desperate lane. Jowa! Nyiluogi wigi dwa lil ma loyo bwogi nadi, koso yawa!
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