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Post by podp on Sept 20, 2015 21:31:05 GMT 3
Meanwhile, the president is to address himself on this matter here shortly. ~~ Mwalimumkuu @nyumbakubwa ~~ some speech, comparing mangoes with bananas. if Presidents' are mangoes this little story www.africaranking.com/highest-paid-african-presidents/5/would have helped when saying Kenya's teachers are the 3rd highest paid in Africa! he wants to drag us to the Nyayo era. ike a good student of Moi our current PORK wants us to compare ourselves with the lowest beneath us. hear him 'The lowest-paid teacher in Kenya earns seven times as much as his counterpart in Burundi. The lowest paid teacher in Uganda earns the equivalent of KSh. 7,600; the lowest paid in Tanzania KSh. 15,800, compared to the lowest-paid Kenyan teacher who takes home over Ksh. 23,000. Indeed, Kenya’s teachers are the third-highest paid on the continent, after Morocco and South Africa both of whose economies are larger ours.' Read more at: standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000177019/president-uhuru-kenyatta-s-statement-on-teachers-strike?articleID=2000177019&story_title=president-uhuru-kenyatta-s-statement-on-teachers-strike&pageNo=2or better still try comparing the loans we got from the Chinese for the SGR whose benefits are obvious with the sure issue of having an educated population by making primary to university education 'free', rather than turn all youths into manual laborers as Ni-Ya-Sweety misuse of young people is being touted as the best thing that is available after sliced bread. then the usual amnesia of us Kenyans, rejecting the courts' ruling and not reminding us it is the same courts' that has made us have a nusu mate government of uhu-ru-to! could it have been a diversion of non agreement on who to be the cabinet secretaries? last time David Okuta died, will Sossion too die or the uhu-ru-to nusu mate will split. interesting times ahead folks. like hyenas the Cord brigade is waiting to pick pieces or will the Luhyas for once be the ones to salvage ouru? more pop corn please “A government that disobeys court orders should be disobeyed because the judicial authority is derived from the people,” read one of the placards carried by the activists while another placard read, “Court Ordered government to Pay Teachers Not to Close Schools.” www.nation.co.ke/news/Activists-threaten-mass-action-over-teachers-strike/-/1056/2878258/-/sh6024z/-/index.htmll
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Post by podp on Aug 31, 2015 18:36:51 GMT 3
For the first time in history, an African nation stands on top of the world. The Jamaicans put up a valiant fight and although tied with KE in their gold & bronze medals haul, we had a lot more silvers than they did. Athletics super power, USA, was relegated to third place while Russia was in ninth. Hosts, China were really outclassed this time around. Now let's wait and see what kind of homecoming our heroes get once they get to JKIA. If only we could turn out in large numbers as we do for politicians; be it opposition candidate, Kibaki, coming back from seeking medical attention in the UK, or candidates Uhuruto coming back from thumbing their noses at the ICC in The Hague, or "Baba" coming back from his sabbatical leave in the USA. Where politicians are heroes, our real ones are usually just forgotten... Typically Kenyans are armchair critics and cheerleaders! Ask them to go the streets to cheer the heroes and you will get an "you are being funny" stare. But when it comes to the politician, they will cheer and injure at the same time even for the most ridiculous reason!spot on. we need new or is it change our attitude. reminds me of story 'In solidarity with the millions of students out on the streets, I have decided to bake a thousand cupcakes with red velvet frosting signifying your zeal! I have some of my fellow friends will with you soon with the oven fresh warm goodies. #revolution#justice#we'llrocket" www.antiserious.com/2014/11/20/difficult-life-armchair-revolutionary/for the revolting thing about armchair revolutionaries is defined
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Post by podp on Aug 24, 2015 12:33:25 GMT 3
Sometimes I wonder. If the reasons for which the south seceeded from the north can be the same, with which south Sudan now can be split. For i seriously doubt the caliber of Kiir n Machar to unify south Sudan in prosperity. SS may go the way of further differentiation. Garang was a unionist ... But.... We all want a united south Sudan, but the omens are not good. May be the Nigerian solution in which Abiola n Abatcha both disappeared from the scene? Kiir has no vision but has the power. Machar had vision but no power. Machar like our RAO is being blinded by quest for power and the vision will disappear if it already has not. otherwise the Nigerian solution occurred because both A's were a thorn to the USA and their European allies. SS is more of an appendage of Chinese interests but one never knows if like what happened in Gabon may recur
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Post by podp on Aug 19, 2015 11:54:31 GMT 3
HOW CONVINCING IS ABABU NAMWAMBA'S TIGHT-ROPE WALK?[, or at least Luhya Mpigs!
What took you so long, O saviours!
I wont mind buying Brazillian sugar from Uganda @ ksh. 70/kilo. I hear importation licenses have already been sold out to Jubilee-connected people. That leaves only the smuggling option for the rest of the interested businessmen. Caught in-between, the farmer reads conspiracy; Cord is protecting old barons, Jubilee wants to introduce new ones. A stalemate to protect vested interests has been created to make pertinent issues irrelevant. And the media has been very unfair to Kenyans. It has obfuscated the issues and made hay reducing it to an altercation between President Uhuru Kenyatta and Cord leader Raila Odinga. All other voices of reason have been muzzled in the noise media wants made a Jubilee versus Cord contest for the Luhya vote. www.mediamaxnetwork.co.ke/people-daily/161950/farmers-suffer-as-hypocrisy-reigns-in-sugar-wars/
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Post by podp on Aug 18, 2015 9:23:59 GMT 3
The same farmer who plants cane buys sugar at Kshs.200,does this benefit him at all?The bigger picture is to address issues of corruption in the procurement of sugar,ensure we import cheaper sugar to meet the shortfall,that way, all consumers of sugar laugh all the way to the supermarket.As it is now sugarcane farming in Western Kenya is a poverty crop.While at it lets name and shame the sugar barons.My vote will neither be lost nor gained by the politics surrounding the sugar! Local manufacturers are producing a kilo of sugar at Sh87, the MPs reported, which is three-fold the Sh29 it would cost a comparable mill in Malawi. A recent report from the Kenya Sugar Board found that the landed price of imported sugar was on average Sh62 per kilo, but could be lower depending on individual millers’ efficiencies. Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/business/article/2000173216/here-is-how-the-sugar-import-business-is-big-big-moneyA belated Government strategic master plan commits itself to a sector overhaul that still seems impossible to deliver. Is this the way to go? Maybe, but strategic options should be based on whether the sugar industry is viable or not. If it is not viable, Western Kenya farmers can be advised to replace the crop and let Kenya import sugar or grow cane in other areas, like the Coast region. If it is viable, then why has the Government not yet managed to solve the perennial problems that plague the sector? I believe the solution is to privatise the sector. This is because every form of organisation is meant to be a particular way — a government as an institution is not meant to be efficient, rather, it is meant to be functional, creating an enabling environment for development. The private sector, on the other hand, is meant to be efficient. Thus, our journey to sugar sufficiency is going to the defined by the involvement of the private sector, if not privatization. Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000173229/is-kenya-s-sh55b-sugar-industry-worth-fighting-to-save?articleID=2000173229&story_title=is-kenya-s-sh55b-sugar-industry-worth-fighting-to-save&pageNo=3red high light that is why the proposal to grow marihuana makes better economic sense rather than the sugarcane for farmers in former Western and Nyanza provinces
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Post by podp on Aug 18, 2015 9:16:24 GMT 3
HOW CONVINCING IS ABABU NAMWAMBA'S TIGHT-ROPE WALK?Yes they are! But they are just increasing their bribery rates. If Jubilee wants to buy them, if Ouru needs their company at Ikulu, a low-key ministry here to Eugene and an odd directorship here to Marende wont be enough to insure their betrayal in the eyes of their people. But a cumulative 10% of shares in Brookside awarded, plus a 50% stake in the profitable importation of the Brazillian sugar packed as produce of Uganda, may just be the trick that bagged Western, or at least Luhya Mpigs! Budalang'i MP Ababu Namwamba said their stand on the sugar deal had nothing to do with politics but the welfare of their people. "This is not about politics but the welfare of the people of western Kenya, who are cane farmers. It should be clear that we (the caucus) have never declared our support for either Jubilee or CORD coalitions," said Mr Namwamba The reform -which I assume is beyond the young Generali, would of course include a repossession (or confiscation) of the wealth portfolios accumulated by former managers of this sugar firms. There is enough public support in Luhyaland for this option. But a pity all these bulls who boast circumcised members have no fire in their balls, no fight in their heads, no passion in their hearts, no loyalty to their people nor to the industry. I therefore expect smooth sailing for Ouru. I expect Jubilee to walk over Western the way Uhuruto walked over Mudavadi. No quarter given. This is a ruthless game and many are for sale at the right price at the right time. Pushed to a corner and still too scared to hold ones sword steady and fight back is, in war, a clear-cut surrender. I wont mind buying Brazillian sugar from Uganda @ ksh. 70/kilo. I hear importation licenses have already been sold out to Jubilee-connected people. That leaves only the smuggling option for the rest of the interested businessmen. Local manufacturers are producing a kilo of sugar at Sh87, the MPs reported, which is three-fold the Sh29 it would cost a comparable mill in Malawi. A recent report from the Kenya Sugar Board found that the landed price of imported sugar was on average Sh62 per kilo, but could be lower depending on individual millers’ efficiencies. Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/business/article/2000173216/here-is-how-the-sugar-import-business-is-big-big-moneyback to the politicians from Western, you are spot on that they are increasing their bribery rates.
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Post by podp on Aug 16, 2015 8:11:09 GMT 3
Meanwhile Ouru and Museveni conducted highly profitable personal business while hiding under the cloaks of state office. It is a great class economic move for them as a power-elite, but a very dangerous political gamble, you know, like those old days when royal houses of Europe intermarried to perpetuate their rule forever!
Then something happened and the rest is history.it starts to get clear as the clouds depart and the sky gets blue www.nation.co.ke/news/politics/Kenya-Uganda-Sugar-Deal-Imports-Government/-/1064/2834438/-/3ccqu3/-/index.htmlWell, yes, if we’re talking literally; you’d find few out-and-proud intra-familial newlyweds these days taking the floor to the Elvis classic ‘Kissin’ Cousins’, and singing heartily along to its somewhat disconcerting refrain: “I’ve got a gal, she’s as cute as can be/She’s a distant cousin but she’s not too distant with me… We’re all cousins, that’s what I believe/Because we’re children of Adam and Eve.” But scientists suggest that the Habsburgs et al were just putting into admittedly over-literal practice a trait that may be hard-wired within us all, citing studies that show that, when it comes to choosing partners, people tend to opt for those who are strikingly similar to themselves — a phenomenon called assortative mating. The similarities range from social to psychological and physical, even down to earlobe length. therakeonline.com/men-dressing-stylishly-rake-style/exploring-one-of-the-last-taboos-incest/a nicer book can be read at books.google.co.ke/books?id=Kn5wTC8ifoUC&pg=PA115&lpg=PA115&dq=how+the+elites+in+Germany+crumpled&source=bl&ots=IHpccvEjN4&sig=5hV2aqr5qobC9zUNbLfadmCuWsI&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=how%20the%20elites%20in%20Germany%20crumpled&f=false
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Post by podp on Aug 14, 2015 19:53:27 GMT 3
Do you have studies I can look at? Why I'm asking is because we are nowhere near going to implement the community consolidation into towns to free up farmland for large scale farming. Kenyans love their space and love building homesteads, which eat up land. Unlike Europe or even Asia where some countries like Holland have reached a 4% workforce in agriculture feeding a whole country unlike Kenya which I think is still past 50%. Not only sugar, same can be said of almost all produce. assuming you can read and hence transfer the technical knowhow from paper to practice try understanding that sugar (both for tea i.e. table sugar or industrial refined for beverage production) is a secondary product in mature countries. The energy and environmental crises which the modern world is experiencing is forcing to re-evaluate the efficient utilization or finding alternative uses for natural, renewable resources, using clean technologies. In this regard, lignocellulosic biomass holds considerable potential to meet the current energy demand of the modern world. www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1687850714000119that aside in Egypt farmers complain even though 'Egypt produces 1.5 million tonnes of sugar, and the crop takes up 47.7 percent of the total farmed area nationwide at 325,700 feddans. Of this total, 117,700 feddans, according to official data from last year, are located in Qena.' english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/3/12/97906/Business/Economy/Cultivation-of-sugarcane-takes-toll-on-Egypts-farm.aspx
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Post by podp on Aug 14, 2015 8:20:03 GMT 3
Kenya has the highest production cost of sugar in COMESA as such isn't possible to sustain sugar industry in kenya in the long run unless something about the cost is addressed. Maybe sugar production shifts to coast in Galana irrigation project. The 1b that government loaned to mumias is just postponing the inevitable. Webuye pan panper mill is another white elephant which can't be revived. 1st red high light economically growing sugar on less than 70 to 100 acres per person is not worthy it. so on that score you are completely right assuming in Galana the 1,000,000 acres will be all sugar and theta irrigation and fast maturing type will be grown. politically we have the new brand name for RAO as a leader of political poverty. so taking the gaffe of PORK and scoring political points both him and the general leadership of Western and Nyanza will harp on how PORK and Jubilee are impoverishing their people. 2nd red high light very true as the Webuye machinery were first exported to Britain in the 1930s before later being brought to Kenya in the 1960s. actually other than Canada and Scandinavian countries nowhere else on earth is it economical to produce paper from trees. heck we are aiming at 10% forest cover in Kenya and the last thing we need is a paper mill whose raw material is a tree. going forward if we copied Egypt we can produce paper from sugar
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Post by podp on Aug 9, 2015 7:48:03 GMT 3
Prof Muigai, the government’s chief legal advisor, said the Bill is an initiative of KDF, a parliamentary committee and the Ministry of Defence. He said the Bill is owned by the parent ministry and he has “nothing useful to say” about it and advised that inquiries on its content should be directed to those who initiated it and who now own it. The Leader of Majority in the National Assembly Aden Duale has in the past defended the Bill saying it had been taken through stakeholders forums including constitutional bodies and the office of the AG. “The content of the Bill is owned by KDF and the parent ministry. They are the ones who know what they sought to achieve through the proposed changes,” Muigai told The Standard on Sunday. ..... Mr Nyachae, however, admitted that his commission gave views on the proposed amendments when they were presented through the Miscellaneous Amendment Bill. He said he cannot know whether the input of the commission was factored in the published bill. “For the moment, we remain in the dark as to whether our input was considered because we haven’t seen the published Bill. Once you have the published Bill, we can discuss and I will tell what our proposals were in the matters raised,” Nyachae said. Law Society of Kenya chairman Eric Mutua, however, says the AG “cannot run away from this.” He said technically, the AG owns all the Bills generated from parent ministries because they are developed with assistance of legal counsels drawn from his office. Read more at: standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000172134/attorney-general-cic-chairperson-nyachae-disown-controversial-kdf-billwho is fooling who?
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Post by podp on Aug 3, 2015 20:34:13 GMT 3
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Post by podp on Jul 20, 2015 21:07:15 GMT 3
THE WOLF SCHAUBLE RUNS AMOK, BUT WHAT IS COOKING UNDER? The callous ruthlessness with which the popular vote has been crushed, the nonchalant vindictiveness with which the democratic wishes of the Greek people tossed aside, all in a would-be leading light of modern civilisation and open society called the European Union, needs to be noted as a watershed. Hitherto, it had been in the third world where 'White Mischief'' ran amok and, for instance, The 'Company' changed regimes with murderous impunity regardless of their democratic mandate. From Jacobo Arbez Guzman (Guatemala 1954) via, continents apart, Lumumba of Congo (1961), to Chile's Salvador Allende (1973), that was just the way white mischief was. -Of late we have had the thwarted attempts at Venezuela's late Hugo Chavez, and the curbed tenure of Rafael Correa of Equador (2010). I am avoiding current Egypt whose monster is NOW the toss of Berlin, thanks to a gas deal with Siemens. Now, anno 2015, the game is played right at home. Greece. Well, bloodless coup then. There is no where to hid the simple truth. I dread the cynical, dreadfully mocking look on Paul Kagame's face, should, now that he is becoming Eternal Paul, any Western leader dare give him a lecture on DEMOCRACY and its principles! ....... Here is the sanitized version (of the Brussels 'fistfight') a s the mouth piece of global capital would run it: 1st red high light if one reads current Times issue on Greece it gives one a view of the lazy good for nothing Greeks. in a way if one has been to say Germany, Spain, Ireland and Greece one cannot avoid noticing the work ethics of Germans is miles apart from that of Greeks. cheap money and joining the EU made the Greeks access 'cheap' loans which they used to indulge their senses instead of being productive. it is almost like the 'Footsteps of ....' the late Congolese kleptomaniac Mobutu Seseseko stealing reloaded. so for democracy try elsewhere not the EU as Noam noted..."the goal of production is to produce free people," -- "free men," he said, but that's many years ago. That's the goal of production, not to produce commodities. He was a major theorist of democracy. There were many different, conflicting strands of democratic theory, but the one I'm talking about held that democracy requires dissolution of private power. He said as long as there is private control over the economic system, talk about democracy is a joke. Repeating basically Adam Smith, Dewey said, Politics is the shadow that big business casts over society. He said attenuating the shadow doesn't do much. Reforms are still going to leave it tyrannical. Basically, a classical liberal view. His main point was that you can't even talk about democracy until you have democratic control of industry, commerce, banking, everything. That means control by the people who work in the institutions, and the communities. www.chomsky.info/books/warfare02.htm2nd red high light the paper you quote is for the masses otherwise for the elite the aim is different. again Noam says....the educational system is divided into fragments. The part that's directed toward working people and the general population is indeed designed to impose obedience. But the education for elites can't quite do that. It has to allow creativity and independence. Otherwise they won't be able to do their job of making money. You find the same thing in the press. That's why I read the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times and Business Week. They just have to tell the truth. That's a contradiction in the mainstream press, too. Take, say, the New York Times or the Washington Post. They have dual functions and they're contradictory. One function is to subdue the great beast. But another function is to let their audience, which is an elite audience, gain a tolerably realistic picture of what's going on in the world. Otherwise, they won't be able to satisfy their own needs. That's a contradiction that runs right through the educational system as well. www.chomsky.info/books/warfare02.htm
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Post by podp on Jul 18, 2015 21:13:31 GMT 3
THE DIKTATS OF THE IMF AND THE POLITICS OF THE KENYAN TREASURYLOOK EAST FACE WEST!
RUNNING THE SHOW IN NAIROBI [/b] Continued![/quote] So here is an economy, and I think one of my, sort of, reference points I think is very interesting; you have China and the United States, the number one and two largest economies in the world today. One economy has no democracy, has deprioritised democracy and it’s used state capitalism as its engine for growth. The other economy has absolutely got liberal democracy as its ideological frame for politics, and it believes in free markets. But these two economies have the exact same income and equality Gini coefficient, and therefore, if you’re sitting anywhere else in the world, where income and equality matters, growth matters, China has a pretty compelling story over the last several years. We have not seen the decline in real wages over the period; of course now, there is a lot of pressure, given their population, on wages. We’ve seen very significant, even double digit growth numbers, which are very important in very impoverished economies. We’ve seen them actually roll out infrastructure. We’ve seen them move hundreds of millions of people out of poverty in a very short period of time. There are lots of things to admire and like about that. Of course, it’s not without its challenges, but, you know, if you look at their political system, and I’ve been very lucky; I’ve had the opportunity, as part of a group, to spend an hour with the Chinese President about a year ago, and I think the way that he expressed concern for the currency of the global economy was, in a way, much more sophisticated than what I’d heard elsewhere. What do I mean? It was untainted by political strictures. So let me explain. The income inequality point, there was an acknowledgement that on the one hand trickledown economics has not worked, the idea of keeping taxes low because richer people… or the owners of capital were going to invest and hire people. He said, that’s a great idea, but it didn’t work. Neither, though, did the tax and spend redistribution model; that has also not worked. So it was quite refreshing to have a public policy, you know, head, someone who’s responsible in the political class in China, to say, you know what; we’ve tried these two models and neither of them has worked, and so rather than be hamstrung by one or the other because that’s going to win me votes, I’m actually looking for a third way. His view was, sort of, in that se moneyweek.com/dambisa-moyo-the-trouble-with-democracy/I think the fundamental thing I’m getting at here, whether its capital, labour or productivity, is that we have a political system in place, particularly in the developed markets, that does not match the structural problems that the world is facing. So if you think about it, if somebody goes and does a call outside now and says, what are the big issues that the world faces, most of us will acknowledge it’s around education, it’s around infrastructure and investment, it’s around the cost of healthcare – long-term problems, but we have a political system in place, which is largely liberal democracy, that has cyclicality that’s much more short-term and myopic, and therefore doesn’t address some of the problems that we’re addressing right now. moneyweek.com/dambisa-moyo-the-trouble-with-democracy/
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Post by podp on Jul 18, 2015 20:17:32 GMT 3
Ocassionally there is a ripple on the surface. the standard: who leads nyanza after Raila? An more wil come in rapid succession as the inevitable dawns even on the professors of denial. My first instalment.THE KINGS IS DEAD! LONG LIVE THE KING! chants the court crier then. But Odinga’s story is not ripe to write yet. If there is one thing he can do, that he must do, it is to run for the President in 2017. It is a win-win situation. Winning would be a bonus. If he loses, he will have fought the good fight and lost. Not running would be criminal. JAP would obliterate the opposition. Then, we can settle to write his legacy. - See more at: www.the-star.co.ke/news/railas-towering-and-tragic-legacy#sthash.LqJZzUBp.dpuftherefore it follows Throwing an unseemly tantrum by threatening to boycott the 2017 general election unless the IEBC toes its line and timing it to coincide with President Obama and President Kenyatta’s hosting of the world at the 6th GES is juvenile politics. A general election boycott would divide Kenyans dangerously and set the stage for instability as the opposition leadership faces the prospect of an entire election cycle out in the cold and on the sidelines. Things are getting better in Kenya, not worse, the country is achieving steady progress and optimism has made a comeback among millions of Kenyans. Others, far from Kenya, have also noticed. - See more at: www.the-star.co.ke/news/billionaires-came-talk-and-found-government-was-ready-listen#sthash.31W2Y44x.dpufand so the man RAO has to succeed himself first before grooming a successor or becoming an M7 variant or fading out like a slow punctured tire
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Post by podp on Jul 18, 2015 20:05:38 GMT 3
[quote source="/post/133396/thread" timestamp="1437146035" author=" podp" [Some radical Luo economists, purely as academic interest, produced a paper which analysed corruption, ineptitude, mismanagement in Nyanza institutions, and concluded there were no Gikuyus to blame: The pathetic state of Kisumu services then --water, primary schools, lands-office. The white-elephant Siaya Bondo water project, Alensi ma Homabay --voted King of Corruption. Even the success story of Mumias sugar under Kidero, I read was a fake: the EU and Brazil and Russia re-exporting Cuban sugar, could still sell sugar in Kisumu at a cheaper rate than all the sugar companies in Nyanza. 'Your ace-CEO Kidero and his ilk, need MASSIVE STATE PROTECTION to continue their racket'[/i], Thatcherite Dr. Kotieno wrote. Somebody must have suggested it was Kikuyu middlemen [through Gideon Moi] illegally importing sugar to kill off Nyanza industries and punish the Luos. Otieno thought these were obsolete industries that had failed to be innovative in process technology, failed to be efficient in productivity, and were rickety under a bloated stunted management. Uncompetitive both locally and globally. But that is complicated stuff. So the public will be served this one: Bonface Khalwale is a spoiler. Fwacking Luhya ruining the Luhya vote for Raila. My problem is colder and darker. Kidero is soiling TJ Mboya's legacy. The merger of Mboya's lineage to a bandit who would use the law to gag an interrogation of his conduct while custodian of a public utility, is the proof of a ' 'total disclocation from historical personality''. -That is Cabralian. Now some faka Judge or most-likely-bribed Justice is gonna gag my mind from thinking? And some faka professor lawyer who most likely helped design the looting of Mumias is gonna intimidate me from writing off Kidero as a reactionary comprador bandit bourgeoisie? [/quote] Secondly, experts have projected that it requires Sh6 billion to redeem the fortunes of the miller. The state had promised to donate Sh2.3 billion but only gave Sh1 billion. The argument being advanced is that shareholders will chip in and raise the rest of the funds through a rights issue. The Sh1 billion is a welcome effort, but it is laughable. Mumias Sugar is a national asset, and not the property of the Luhya people. In fact, it is listed on the Stock Exchange. The prime duty of any government is to protect jobs. It happened in the US when the Obama administration sunk in billions of dollars to save private motor enterprises from collapse just to save jobs. Jubilee is duty-bound to ensure every effort is explored to keep Mumias up and running to ensure the available jobs are protected at whatever cost. Reducing the serious economic problem surrounding Mumias to a dash for the 2017 votes is slipshod on the part of Jubilee. Thirdly, despite the elaborate fanfare displayed during the Presidential visit, the Luhya leaders came out of the rendezvous looking bad, empty and, I dare say, cheap. Here was that rare opportunity for local leaders to get maximum concession from Jubilee – a regime that has deals with them through a mixture of jingoism and contempt. Mumias Sugar is in deep problems. Sh1 billion was nothing more than a handout. - See more at: www.the-star.co.ke/news/what-gains-jubilee-after-mumias-bailout#sthash.0ZFB2bC8.dpuf
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Post by podp on Jul 17, 2015 18:13:55 GMT 3
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Post by podp on Jul 16, 2015 19:03:35 GMT 3
Podp, What do you see? and do you see what I see? The hottest conglomerate of aggregated real estate in Kenya is this entity called Nairobi. Also the Capital city, but once upon a time, the place of cold water. In less than a century, its value has sky-rocketed, and, from a simple oasis if one were to calculate the multiplier factor, surely it would be of an astronomical denomination. All tribes of the world, and all animals in the thicket, have reaped fortunes and fortunes in the meantime, except of course the original, historical owners, namely the Maasai. To avoid the sorry fate of these docile Maas, utterly dispossessed and reduced to aimless livestock in reserves, the new gospel according to Charity seems to be: grab your own historical land before some foreigner does! NB: The whiteman grabbed the land, and he was fought, that the land return to the natives. But come independence, the street smart native elite just grabbed the vacated land for themselves. In other words, the grabbing itself was not what was fought and what Uhuru would adress, nay, rather, the sticking point was that it (the grabbing) was done by a foreigner -(the whiteman!). This is the parallel now. The Ngilu doctrine. Grabbing is good, so long it is a local boy! (That is also how it comes that Gikuyu peasants called settlers --new word for foreigner-- were cleansed out of the rift valley, yet the master grabber of land in the Rift Valley, Daniel Arap Moi, was left untouched. he is a local boy who grabbed local land, no problem in Kenya.Where is the shock!? How can a Kamba steal Kamba land!? Isn't he simply taking back what the government grabbed from the Kambas without compensation in the colonial days!Let us hope for the sake of Kenya, that Maasais continue to be unimaginative, and do not calculate with interest and present the bill owed them by Kenya, on account of the prime real estate area called Nairobi. (imaginative is when they declare the Lenana agreements 'odious'!) it is a comedy show in Kenya, but the subtext is chilling. The Kenyan state is banned from exercising land rights in TRIBAL homelands! (tribal? are the tribes nations or not!?) way back .... What Kenya needs is a leader who is above tribalism, a man who is brave enough to resist the sectarian demands from his own ethnic group and who will ensure that the whole population is dealt with fairly. Regrettably, given the behaviour of the electorate, who seem in general to have voted along tribal lines we are a long way from that. www.opendemocracy.net/article/democracy_power/kenya_roots_crisisthat was during 2008 period and one cycle later we are like Sisyphus of old Jamaica....Prominent among the features of the literature of this period was the emphasis on social realism and communal experience, as against individual fortunes. While the bulk of Jamaica’s wealth was owned by the white establishment and middle class who constituted a minute percentage of the population, the majority of the blacks were the urban dispossessed who inhabited over-congested slums and lived a deprived existence. These slum dwellers frequently adopted survival strategies to combat their exclusion from the Island’s wealth. www.bjournal.co.uk/paper/BJASS_3_1/BJASS_03_01_07.pdfit continues....Also, most of the blacks were barely literate and could not hold down steady jobs. Consequently, self-exploration and definition were prominent features of the literature of this period as were the emphasis on social realism and the focus on communal experience, as against individual fortunes. and there in we see why other than Europeans, Asians, Gema, Kalenjin, Kisii the rest Kamba, Luhyia, Luo, etc. are yet to have any tangible contribution as individual (tech)entrepreneurs so land offers an easy path for takeoff. the late Mutula Kalonzo with his land investment was showing a way to investing ones shillings. the trail is spreading. another repeat this time with Bull Fighter playing squirrel In The Children of Sisyphus, the Rastas are led by Brother Solomon. They constitute a small weird separatist group who base all their hopes on the possible repatriation to Africa. They are complacent due to their implicit and naïve belief in this repatriation and because of this, they are unable to mobilize themselves either to change their personal circumstances or to pose an organized threat to the bourgeoisie. These Rastas explain away their personal misfortunes as being part of life’s trials which must be endured before the coming of the millennium. www.bjournal.co.uk/paper/BJASS_3_1/BJASS_03_01_07.pdf
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Post by podp on Jul 15, 2015 8:38:28 GMT 3
it is becoming a zonal country..here is our Masaa Lady aka Charity Ngilu Her remarks in defence of Mr Musyoka over claims that he may have grabbed National Youth Service land in Machakos County are simply shocking. According to her, the land belongs to the Kamba community and cannot be taken away from them. The implication here is that nobody should question an irregular acquisition of land if the beneficiary is a member of the community. www.nation.co.ke/oped/Editorial/Charity-Ngilu-Kalonzo-Musyoka-Land-Machakos/-/440804/2789232/-/tomi3/-/index.htmlthen we have been reading another grand lady aka Naomi Sidi Kalenjins unite their votes, the Luhya scatter theirs The Luhya have scattered their very considerable vote in every multiparty poll since the restoration of political pluralism. Compare this to the fact that only once in the multiparty era has the Kalenjin vote gone to the loser, and the community remained out of government for one election cycle – in 2002, when Mwai Kibaki trounced Uhuru Kenyatta and downed Kanu. In 2007 they voted for the loser again, this time Raila, but ended up in government through the expedient of the Grand Coalition regime that meant there was no opposition for a five-year cycle. - See more at: www.the-star.co.ke/news/what-coast-can-learn-voting-patterns-rift-valley#sthash.Fu8is3Dj.dpuf
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Post by podp on Jul 11, 2015 20:28:43 GMT 3
[q Lending money to a Bananaland is not smart. A bit like lending money to a drunk.Some people have no debt simply because nobody is foolish enough to lend them any! they are debt free because they are ... junk! when you think for example of SGR....500 B. how much for the LAPPSET projects like port in Lamu, pipeline, road, rail, resort cities, etc. so there is the bar and happy hour when price is half.... The Greeks, Italians, Spaniards and Irish walk into a bar, where the French and Germans are the bartenders. It’s happy hour, and the Germans and the French are serving half-price drinks. Although everyone quickly drinks too much, the bartenders keep on serving. Eventually, the inebriated customers head home and get into all kinds of trouble -- fights, car accidents, some broken windows. So who’s to blame? Clearly, the Greeks shouldn’t have drunk so much. However, the French and Germans also shouldn’t have served the Greeks when they were clearly drunk www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/07/01/the-forgotten-origins-of-greeces-terrible-crisis-will-make-you-think-twice-about-whos-to-blame/?postshare=9831435831454402and now we have noble 25 B for NYS,
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Post by podp on Jul 9, 2015 22:19:30 GMT 3
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Post by podp on Jul 8, 2015 12:10:28 GMT 3
sailing in the eye of a storm. it is starting to make sense. why do we have problems with 20% of our total population? Pareto principle in play. just read this. Thirdly, I think the issue of dispossession, mostly of a violent kind, and the decline of masculinity is key in explaining the inordinate drunkenness, especially in counties around Mount Kenya. TRAUMA According to historian Caroline Elkins, British forces wielded their authority with a perverse colonial logic: only by physically and psychologically atomising almost the entire population of 1.5 million in central Kenya could colonial authority be restored and the civilising mission reinstated. The heinous practice of castration of men in Central Kenya was one of the methods used to entrench colonial authority. It did not begin the other day with some women in Nyeri. This trauma, first of dispossession of material resources and dignity, then of de-masculinisation, partly explains why alcoholism is heavily concentrated in central Kenya. www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Alcoholism-Society-Kenya-History/-/440808/2778620/-/2j1u7c/-/index.htmlso we need to start there when trying to understand the matriarch. my other teacher died but left us a gem. the little known book titled The Autumn of the Patriach is a "poem on the solitude of power" according to the author, the novel is a flowing tract on the life of an eternal dictator. listening and watching the going on yesterday that little known book kept coming back to my sub conscious The book is a supreme polemic, a spiritual exposé, an attack against any society that encourages or even permits the growth of such a monstrosity. García Márquez objectifies the monster and at novel's end attempts to explain it as the consequences of the General's incapacity to love:". . .he had tried to compensate for that infamous fate [of being unable to love] with the burning cultivation of the solitary vice of power, he had made himself victim of his own sect to be immolated on the flames of that infinite holocaust, he had fed on fallacy and crime, he had flourished in impiety and dishonor and he had put himself above his feverish avarice and his congenital fear only to keep until the end of time the little glass ball [his personal symbol of the nation] in his hand without knowing that it was an endless vice the satiety of which generated its own appetite until the end of all times general sir. . . ." But the monster is not reducible to a single cause, any more than civilization is explainable through the invention of the wheel. The cause is beyond reductive statements, even when they exfoliate into such resplendent prose. The General presumes to have love of a kind for his goddess mother and his lusty wife. But he loves them the way he loves and softly caresses his wounded testicle: as an extension of himself. Given time, he will annihilate anything that is not of, by, from, or for himself. Could lovelessness alone explain such blood-drenched misanthropy? www.nytimes.com/books/97/06/15/reviews/marque-autumn.htmlso what happened yesterday? www.nation.co.ke/video/-/1951480/2779650/-/i08yaq/-/index.html
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Post by podp on Jul 8, 2015 11:50:39 GMT 3
DP RUTO STOKES ANTI-GAY TALK TO DEFLECT EMBARASSMENT ARISING FROM UPCOMING OBAMA SNUB Simply because of his status as one indicted and charged by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity. This is Kenya's deputy president for crying out loud.He is looking for stories to tell his people after Obama departs without shaking his hand. Look for other ways to save face. Better still, make up an official tour outside the country. sometime the Pareto Principle can be turned inside out. say 20% of our people cause problems for the 80%. try using it on the famed 40 agains 1 hype just before 2007 elections White House spokesperson John Earnest now says that president Barack Obama will discuss the rights of gays in Kenya on his official trip in the country on July 24 to 25. This is despite the protest that the issue has caused in the country with deputy president William Ruto leading in calls for total ban on homosexuality in the country. Parliamentarians led by Justin Muturi have also been sensational on the issue claiming that they will evict Obama from the house if he dares to address them on gay legislation. But White House stated that president Obama “had not been made aware” of such concerns and that “the president talks about human rights anywhere he travels across the world.” “And that’s been true when he’s traveled to places like China… and I’m confident the president will not hesitate to make clear the protection of basic human rights in Kenya is also a priority consistent with the values that we hold dear here in the United States of America,” a report published by The Washington Post says. The newspaper sought to clarify further whether president Obama will restrain himself on addressing gay rights in Kenya and the reply was: “Absolutely not.” Recently, gay marriages were made legal across all states in America. tuko.co.ke/17829-obama-to-talk-about-gays-in-kenya-white-house.html
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Post by podp on Jun 29, 2015 17:53:46 GMT 3
Jakaswanga,my elder waragi-swigging bro,i know she just broke your heart but there seems to be more than meets the eye in the shady deals that NYS is involved in particularly in as far as procurement is concerned.Now as one Mbadi puts it,the President has raised the bar very high and now that the buck stops with your "Favorite" CS the only honourable thing is to step aside.However much fudging on the matter,there is a clear impropriety in the Ministry that will eventually come to light once the investigations are complete. Friends and supporters of Anne Waiguru, our powerful Minister for Devolution, can support her without re-writing the criminal law. An offence is committed once one has an intent to commit an offence, what in law is called mens rea. It matters not that you didn't succeed in completing the act. Attempted offences are offences to act as a deterrence from one even having criminal thoughts. Inchoate offences are therefore as bad as completed ones. It is why we have offences of "attempted" and "conspiracy" across our Penal Code and Public Officer Ethics Act. What friends of Minister Waiguru need to argue is that she wasn't involved at all. The argument that no money was lost could be an admission that she was involved but didn't succeed! Anne Waiguru needs friends but not such kind of friends. We are happy when no money is lost. We are happy when no one is killed. But it doesn't stop DPP Keriako Tobiko from indicting one with attempting to defraud, or attempted murder or conspiracy to defraud or murder! Anne Waiguru may need to change advisers. www.facebook.com/donald.kipkorir?fref=ts
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Post by podp on Jun 25, 2015 23:04:49 GMT 3
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