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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 9, 2011 19:47:57 GMT 3
JUST A VIEW. THE TIMES A-CHANGING! For those whow went to economic schools in the 90s, the chief oracle, undisputed and dominant like the will of Allah to the believers, was the FED, and her chairman then, Alan Greenspan, was the high priest whose incantations held the figurative keys to everlasting life. He spoke a language called greenspeak, a way of saying nothing while appearing to have said something unique.
FAST FORWARD: Today the USA is facing a double-dip, possibly with Europe in her wake, and China worried shitless. Yet no one hears anything from the FED. Infact Bernanke Ben [should be the name of the current chairman] has been so invicible as to earn the name the invicible man! Organs never heard of before in the public domain have emerged: Credit rating agencies. Fitch, Standard & Poor, Moody's! suddenly their incantations have become the new greenspeak. But no sooner have they achieved superiority [over the FED] than they are growing ever the more pale. Standard and Poor have gotten into an argument about wrong sums in the Obamaland downgrade. a 2 trillion dollar error or so. And the others? How come they gave Lehman brothers the highest score one month before her demise? Were they so tied up in her investment portfolios, as private businesses themselves, that they hid the truth form the market while they offloaded their toxic stocks from the same? Or is it just that their models are about junkish too? A long time ago, the words of the clergy [pope or imam] used to be absolute truth. No more. It looks to me like the days when the world put their trust on the words and laws of economists are at sunset! A times a change.
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Post by abdulmote on Aug 13, 2011 0:08:51 GMT 3
A lesson from the holy Quran: “It is better of a person who was a wrong doer to reform and sustain doing good deeds, than for a person who had been doing good deeds and then become arrogant due to his doing of the(said) good deedsâ€.
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Post by commes on Aug 16, 2011 12:37:23 GMT 3
I always wonder why I tend to retreat to a quieter environment or corner where people are.
I am not a crowd person per se, though I like the choice of knowing that I can join in or log out to be alone. That lone corner in a bar or at the counter is a favorite. It may appear that I am hiding away from everyone else but that is not the case. Sometimes, being alone gives me this serene and peaceful feeling and makes me happier, nothing personal. I never say much but oceans of thoughts and stuff flood my mind. They are better expressed in written than oral submissions.
I know that I am not weird. I struggle with ordinary issues of religion, faith, God and my own personal existence. We perceive each other thru our senses. It makes others want to belong while others don’t.
I believe that I am a biologically entity, one big bacteria. We only arrogate ourselves as the highest niche in the hierarchy of “creation”. Probably the parasitic and symbiotic viruses that afflict us consider themselves likewise. Who will ever know? Questions and many more questions? Is there a higher purpose in life other than living? Why all this hurry and many projects when the end is the same for all? For what purpose? Is there a simpler more meaningful way of life? Why chase big dreams and forget how to live.
In anyway, since I exist as an organic entity, with no known purpose, and in a structured environment, let me blog all the politics and political convictions that I can. It is a perfect excuse for a better world and a better future for the next generation.
Just an INTJ view
The views expressed above are my own and are not intended to discredit, hijack or injure the personal views of those who access jukwaa ;D ;D ;D
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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 20, 2011 16:28:56 GMT 3
A VIEW FROM CHINA! BOY CAMERON MATURES!
ONE OF the funniest things in world diplomacy this week, 17 aug 2011, was the official, mocking congratulation of David Cameron by the Chinese daily –said to reflect the thinking of the politburo mandarins of the Chinese CP. In the run to the Beijin Olympics, China had degraded internet acess and yanked off certain sites like facebook off their servers. Cameron, then the Queens opposition leader, ranted about this intolerable infringement on democratic rights by an authoritarian regime. FF to early august 2011, in the aftermath of the urban rupture of the impoverished underbelly of Britain, and Cameron, now prime minister, with an Olympic coming to his capital within a year, not only imitates measure for measure what the authoritarian Chinese did in their time, but charts a new chapter by installing night proceedings in court where defendants appear in tens with one lawyer and are sentenced in 10 minutes! BOY DAVID HAS REALLY GROWN UP!
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Post by abdulmote on Aug 26, 2011 23:06:19 GMT 3
In life it is better to be a persistent giver rather than a persistent taker. It requires not to be bestowed with abundance of wealth or indeed of material possessions. To be content and be able to assume generosity, even in times of personal deprivation, requires just the belief and confidence that you are indeed bestowed with the capacity to give to others who may be more in need, than you may think you could ever be. Generosity is the ability rather than a capacity that can be built and become established through deliberate actions and personal discipline over time.
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To be able to accept self-criticisms, even against strongly held personal convictions, requires strong courage and the ability to detach oneself from their own strongly held belief. Such beliefs may in fact remain attached to one’s own self-invisible ego. Good empathy is the first key towards such courage, without which one is bound to head towards self and ultimate destruction.
Just a view.
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 6, 2011 20:34:31 GMT 3
Moderator went:
TENDER-FEEL-OVER is it enigma? You will to reduce Judge Trendafilova to yours and some other simpletons' sexual object. Even going by the so called African culture we do not disrespect our elders so. Not to mention that she is competently engaged in a case that changes our experiences as Kenyans at so many levels. Then we have people refering to Ocampo's assistants as girls. Einstein started that one. I only saw grown women and men in that court room. Did you people see any children?
While I'm at it, in the last week someone has referred to Martha Karua using a misogynist epithet. It may have been b6k again. That person didn't qualify his statement as he purported to be quoting what he has heard others say. That again is unacceptable here.
There maybe a bit of a taunt aimed at me going on here. I mean Jakswanga wrote a piece that was replete with the B word. When I called him on it he hit me below the belt even harder. Dude thinks he is getting away with that one.
I think I'll start a thread on sexism here on JUKWAA or dig up an old one the next time someone gives me reason to. Though I must tell all of you that no matter what you are saying, or how much clarity you bring to the issues, or how much I agree with your ideological positions, or how smart you are will not matter if you trash people on account of their being female in the world
[/b] KathureK-Unlike Enigma, I practiced pronouncing east european names because they were always playing my favourite Williams, Serena, at tennis. Hantuchova, Bratislava, Sharapova, Kuznetsova, Primakova, Kournikova! I din't care much for their priced blue eyes and blonde locks! All my attention riveted to Serena's prowess everywhere, even there. But I refer to Obama as the yes-we-can lad'; and to David Cameron and William Hague as the two boys in charge of her majesty's foreign policy. You did not complain. I remember Gandhi telling the vice-roy of India to go and tell that girl [the queen] that she better find another toy, for India is too big for anything she might want to do with it. You are oversensitive to the extent where your sex remains a mystery to me! I see other correspondents have been privy to information wherefrom they can determine you, but I have to do with your credentials on Jukwaa log, and here you are neither male nor female. Such an ambiguity is ofcourse fertile ground for an idle mind like mine.
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 10, 2011 13:15:00 GMT 3
There is a lot of dirt thrown at the Ruto camp for trying to draw Agwambo into their club of the accused. Here below is my view, after a confrontation of nationalisms in Nakuru earlier last month.
WHY THEY ROPE ARAP MIBEI: UNPAID BILLS OF HISTORY, AND RUTO'S GAMBLE
There are tricks that political mobilisers everywhere play on the populace, calculating these can be used as codes to sway opinion and command behaviour. Such a trick is like being crowned elder of an ethnic group, or tribe-nation as I prefer to term them in Kenya. Now, these elder things are important; not only are they a throwback to the days of warrior-priest-kings mediating between supernatural powers on behalf of the tribe and, if need be, conducting material war to annihilate the enemies of the kingdom, nay, they still are a legitimate authority in their own right, capable of evoking authentic loyalty. Indeed they do compete and usually are more powerful emotional command centers than the symbols of the post-colonial multi-ethnic state, such as our Kenya.
When Ruto is crowned elder of the Kalenjin, despite his junior years, the tribe-nation bestows upon him the mantle of leadership, or atleast part of the nation-tribe publicly asserts his claim to it as legitimate, and encoded herein is a warrior's role. [Coded in the sense of inferred from the collective psychology of that people, given their history and the historical evolution of the office of ELDER, ... even if consedered mere romantic folklore by pundits from elsewhere]. So when candidates from other ethnic enclaves vie for the eldership of another tribe-nation, as in Raila being crowned Kalenjin elder, he in part positions himself as inheritor to the auspices of that office, and a mandated executor thereof. He may be doing it for short-term political ends, and all will be well that ends well, but if things turn awry, and a crisis emerges as did in the PEV, they dynamism of this relationship comes apparent from the other side. The elders have a debt of duty to the tribe-nation that crowned them so, and whereas as politicians of no loyalty they may not even remember the crowning date, the nation-tribe does not forget. Becomes aggrieved. Registers a score reading betrayal. It seethes, like the legendery Luo sulking at Jomo's failure to in kind, return the honour bestowed upon him by Jaramogi when he insisted Uhuru na Kenyatta, and stepped aside for him to assume the presidency of fresh-born Kenya. This kind of grief does not repair easy, and may, with the passage of time, if not adressed, become a defination of the other in popular conciousness. Creating a fictional gap, but a social and lived reality. As prejudice.
Actually this perception of use and dump is part of Raila's problem in Kalenjin land. When the youth refered to him fondly as Arap Mibei, co-opting or assimilating him, there was a dark side to it, which may have escaped his political handlers [and the Dick-Morris school PR mentors] then. His acceptance of the paraphernalia of elder was a transaction in which he entered the chain of command willy-nilly, and, in the perception of the let us say these naive folks, meant he would shoulder the responsibilities: majorly as president which they expected him to become, but otherwise too, --as the nature of all gambles is the possibility of another result apart from the one in hope. Therefore when the police in the aftermath of the Annan-accord went on a rampage in the rift arresting hoardes of Kalenjin youth, Arap Mibei was expected to put in a buffer of sorts. He did not, or if he did, it was too token and perfunctory to convince the enraged folk that he was serious. Ruto too, I was told, did not pass this test.
It was on my way back from Nairobi about a month ago, when in Nakuru I ran into the practical politics of this betrayal. The --for lack of a better term-- Kalenjin Luo divorce. [Among other things I was finding out from my job interview why even university lecturers would support the then looming teachers strike! But that is for another day!]
The feeling here is akin to that of the mau mau veterans, subsumed and ignored after the ascendancy of Kenyatta to the top job. Dumped horses at the abbatoir after being ridden to the door of the shining castle. As we sipped beer and did nyamachoma in Nakuru, I was just discovering how complicated the trials of Ruto at the ICC are to his native land. I found myself called upon my my Onjelo hosts to answer this: There is now a re-writing of Kenya's history. The kalenjin are master villains, their anti-rigging uprising and violence now de-politicised --especially by Luo intellectuals gravitating toward the Raila axis. Their court battle against Ruto has blinded them to the heroic role of the Kalenjin youth in the struggle against the kibaki theft. Raila is now in bed with Kibaki sharing the cake, and is putting the boot in the Kalenjin mouths. Ahsante ya Arap Mibei imekuwa ahsante ya punda kali.
But the commentry which hit me the most was that of a Kalenjin taxi man. He said: the 'Luos under arap Mibei are having a very prostitute like tendency. You are friends with them today, then comes a rich man, and they are gone and nolonger know you! Until the rich man drops them after using them well! huu siasa ya umalaya yenu, jatelo, inashinda sisi kufwata. And he spat on the ground.'
Post Script: There is a network in Rift Valley that specialised in the instigation of ethnic clashes originally. The self-acclaimed emeritus professor of Kenyan Politics, Daniel arap Moi, ordered it into existence for his purposes. The name of the Moi man who technically made it feasible is well known in Rift Valley, and well known too to political prisoners who did time under Moi. He is not in the Ocampo list, neither is he in the Waki list. As is the creativity of man, the network evolved and split into many things [see Mungiki's evolution from a semi-religious sect into a an organisation of conglomerate of activities], and one wing developed a leadership independent of the political movers of Kalenjin. This specific wing, which consedered people like Ruto and many of the Moi courtiers as part of the land problem in Rift Valley, saw a political opening in the coded Majimboist rhetoric which was being championed by the pentagon of ODM, and went for political co-operation, that is a tactical alliance but very mindful of their hidden agenda. The radical solution: ethnic cleansing.
When William Ruto assumed command of Kalenjin nationalism, it was much more from opportunistic politics than substance. [He tried to hawk it to several parties for the best deal before he settled on Raila]. But he was a man unwittingly riding what looked like a horse, but wasn't after all. The radical agenda of which he was not part, neither in organisation nor leadership, would suck him and his operatives in a momentous showdown in 2007/2008. And when the dust settled, he would be left bearing the can. Ruto stands in the Hague for crimes he did not commit, plan nor condone publicly in code or otherwise. But he bears the political responsibility of having been the de facto leader at the time of their perpetration. That is the trick Kalenjin nationalism [of the radical variant] has played on William Ruto, and to a lesser extent, on captain Raila who went to pay tribute to it in operation vote for me. In Kalenjin folklore, it was under the battle standards of Arap Ruto and Arap Mibei that they gallantly fought their war!
NB: Slobodan Milosevic had NEVER been a Serbian nationalist in his political life. But when he went to Kosovo he discerned this force as far greater than the fake communism which had sent him from Belgrado. He switched ideologies, correctly identifying Nationalism as the future of Balkan politics, and decided to manipulate it for his political ambitions. He would ride it to dissolve Yugoslavia and emerge president of the carcass. But he did not recognise where Sebian nationalism, smirting as is testified in 500 years of wailing poetry, was capable of riding him to in wild charge. He died in a Hague cell for crimes committed under the banner of extreme Serbian nationalism. A force he had never believed in but merely took to manipulate for his own career.
It is a lesson never to be learnt in the school of ambition. And certainly not by William Ruto.
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Post by abdulmote on Dec 3, 2011 0:56:39 GMT 3
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Post by jakaswanga on Dec 5, 2011 20:32:13 GMT 3
POLITICAL MANIAC LETTER TO JAKASWANGAPathetic! Your whole being is wholesome pathetic! We have been here before, haven't we? I strongly condemn Jukwaaist JakaswangaI had moved on. And Jukwaa too I think. New battles had arisen to be fought. And lots of water down the bridge. But it looks like you are emotionally stunted, as a by-product of your psychological cretinism. Otherwise I cannot see another rational explanation for this flogging of a dead horse! I always gathered planet Jukwaa is large enough for our two bloated egos to co-exist in a live and let live compromise. You don't read my posts, I read yours, and I reserve the right to respond. Of late I have been mild, even tame, since I did not want to test the bloodthirst of the guillotine-minded moderator! [Ha, cry me a river! he coldly told me and tactician as we mourned the beheading of danielwaweru! Go to hell if you want and see you there in death! he told roughrider [whom I think deserves more respect than that] back from his suspension! Try me Jakaswanga and watch me feed your bowels to my fish in river Yala! he told me as he cleaned the blood off the blade! Meanwhile niclasclause was dead before he could pronouce Jukwaa. So to save my neck, I am all sport these days, and me and Kathure are in love! any gender she has is my choice and appreciation! I am a good guy on good manners! And I am keeping it that way! Respect! PM, let it rest.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2011 21:18:34 GMT 3
POLITICAL MANIAC LETTER TO JAKASWANGAPathetic! Your whole being is wholesome pathetic! We have been here before, haven't we? I strongly condemn Jukwaaist JakaswangaI had moved on. And Jukwaa too I think. New battles had arisen to be fought. And lots of water down the bridge. But it looks like you are emotionally stunted, as a by-product of your psychological cretinism. Otherwise I cannot see another rational explanation for this flogging of a dead horse! I always gathered planet Jukwaa is large enough for our two bloated egos to co-exist in a live and let live compromise. You don't read my posts, I read yours, and I reserve the right to respond. Of late I have been mild, even tame, since I did not want to test the bloodthirst of the guillotine-minded moderator! [Ha, cry me a river! he coldly told me and tactician as we mourned the beheading of danielwaweru! Go to hell if you want and see you there in death! he told roughrider [whom I think deserves more respect than that] back from his suspension! Try me Jakaswanga and watch me feed your bowels to my fish in river Yala! he told me as he cleaned the blood off the blade! Meanwhile niclasclause was dead before he could pronouce Jukwaa. So to save my neck, I am all sport these days, and me and Kathure are in love! any gender she has is my choice and appreciation! I am a good guy on good manners! And I am keeping it that way! Respect! PM, let it rest. Ya, jakaswangaya better have your manners! and no Kathure and you aren't in love because Kathure got over falling in love with jerks a long time ago. I will give you credit and say that you are brilliant and I enjoy reading your comments regardless of the fact that you are a brilliant jerk! Oh and by the way, I see that you've assigned a gender to me because you refer to me as "she". You maybe right but you need not guess since I already told you that I'm cisgender.
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Post by jakaswanga on Dec 6, 2011 20:05:02 GMT 3
Ya, jakaswangaya better have your manners! and no Kathure and you aren't in love because Kathure got over falling in love with jerks a long time ago. I will give you credit and say that you are brilliant and I enjoy reading your comments regardless of the fact that you are a brilliant jerk! Oh and by the way, I see that you've assigned a gender to me because you refer to me as "she". You maybe right but you need not guess since I already told you that I'm cisgender.UUUWIII! Ai yawa, jaber Kathure nyar jothurgi! [O yee, fair Kebaara the offspring of Cisgenderland people!] since when do cultured cisgenders [like you] give reformed guys like me such a public put-down? Have I not, from an aesthetical perspective, made myself over to the extent of circumcising my prose to conform to the artistic sensibilities of your delicate heart! Look now at the messy pieces of my broken heart allover! But verily this night I will go to the altar of cupid, the god of love, and beseech him in supplication after much sacrifice, to shoot one of his erotic arrows tipped with amore, in the direction of your heart! This that thy cisgender heart may melt for the Jak of Juqwaa! Even Jerks need love! By the god Pluto we do!
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Post by phil on Dec 6, 2011 21:15:32 GMT 3
@ Jakaswanga
I was hoping to contribute on P'maniac' s emotional thread but Oloo locked it before I could say anything. I am a champion of responsible free speech so I was upset at this censorship by Oloo. As far as I can see, this matter can only rest if you swallow your pride an apologise to P'maniac and his mom. Hii kujipiga kifua hardly elevates you or takes Jukwaa anywhere.
Let's not have emotions and egos clouding healthy debate.
Saying sorry is a sign of strength and not weakness.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2011 15:13:24 GMT 3
Ya, jakaswangaya better have your manners! and no Kathure and you aren't in love because Kathure got over falling in love with jerks a long time ago. I will give you credit and say that you are brilliant and I enjoy reading your comments regardless of the fact that you are a brilliant jerk! Oh and by the way, I see that you've assigned a gender to me because you refer to me as "she". You maybe right but you need not guess since I already told you that I'm cisgender.UUUWIII! Ai yawa, jaber Kathure nyar jothurgi! [O yee, fair Kebaara the offspring of Cisgenderland people!] since when do cultured cisgenders [like you] give reformed guys like me such a public put-down? Have I not, from an aesthetical perspective, made myself over to the extent of circumcising my prose to conform to the artistic sensibilities of your delicate heart! Look now at the messy pieces of my broken heart allover! But verily this night I will go to the altar of cupid, the god of love, and beseech him in supplication after much sacrifice, to shoot one of his erotic arrows tipped with amore, in the direction of your heart! This that thy cisgender heart may melt for the Jak of Juqwaa! Even Jerks need love! By the god Pluto we do! jakaswangaAs it happens, I am an offspring of cisgender folks. Since we're sharing, tell me are you an offspring of cisgender folks too? Let me know when you hear back from cupid
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Post by jakaswanga on Dec 31, 2011 11:34:31 GMT 3
THE PAKI REPUBLIC DOES ONE ON THE HINDI REPUBLIC! I found this hilarious and I want to share it with Jukwaaists who may have missed it. I was alerted to it by a Kenyan in India. President Asif Ali Zardari [Mr. 10% during his wife's tenure as president] recently appointed Hina Rabbani Khar to the ministry of foreign affairs. This is the land of the ultra-conservative Talibhan and various al qaida affliates, so this is important. She is female and she is 34 years old and she looks like every man's wet dream in that part of the world. Marital status unknown. Then she descended on India on tuesday 02/08/11. And here is a taste of the commentry in leading indian blogs and papers: The normally evil paki republic has unleashed a new weapon of mass distraction on our Sikh-led India. She is 34 pure years of eruptive beauty and 60kg or thereabouts of luscious splendour. Foreign minister S.M Krishna [79] and premier Manmohan Singh [?] nearly fainted at her appearance, and, had this paki godess had the presence of mind to ask them, they would have blessedly signed away India's nuclear arsenal! To which god must we now pray fo guidance? When she arrived in Dilli [Delhi], even the skies saluted her with a monsoon welcome! THE IND REPUB HITS BACK! WMD UNLEASHED ON PAK REPUB! It was a creative blitz which would definately be followed up, when the pakistani beauty [External affairs minister] was refered to as a WMD in India. Now Veena Malik, a paki bomb [as the Indian press calls them], is the latest controversy in that part of the world whose sense of humour I so enjoy. She has been photo-shot, then shopped nearly naked in pose for the FHM [For him magazine] India, with a tattoo reading ISI on her bare arms! An explosion of epic mass distraction! Those who follow the politics of the subcontinent would know this counts for a cultural nuclear stand-off! VEENA MALIK EXPOSEDIND REPUBLIC UNLEASHES WMD ON THE PAK REPUBLIC! ISI [Inter Services Intelligence] is the backbone of the Pakistan state, and runs her atomic programme. They are the guys who laughed at an elected president Benazir Bhuto when she asked for the codes to the bomb! No toy for whisky drinking gals, a brigadier told her. Stay tuned for more tactical exchanges of WMDs between the two rival republics!
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Post by jakaswanga on Apr 28, 2012 9:29:41 GMT 3
19/4/12Agni V ICBM India missileRavi Gupta is the spokesman for India's DRDO, Defence Research and Development Organization. And in this primarily military brain-tank, India has been making quantum leaps. With this successful launch, India joins an exclusive club of nations with that capacity. Gupta assured the world India's purposes are peaceful. [Unlike with Iran] The world agreed, only a murmur from China. The AGNI V is a nuclear intercontinental ballistic missile, with a range of 5000km. Past Afrika on the way to the USA; middle Europe; and all of China. In the Indian popular press, this missile is known as 'CHINA KILLER'!China responded with humour: India is drunk with missile delusion! overestimating the size and strength of her balls. An unnecessary blank. Well, India is now the world's largest importer of arms, and is investing heavily in her 'balls'! Very soon they will be oversize, and we await the Chinese quip! A COMEDIAN'S take from the HIND REPUBLIC:Sir, why do we need such an ICBM missile? Evil Pakistan is next door, not 5 thousand kilometers away! Ah my boy, much ignorance you reveal. The Pak republic had a referendum and have decided to rejoin Mother India. And what they have is a weapon of mass distraction, not destruction. We have decided to deal with the Real Pakistan, China. But some things stay the same: HATF IV SHAHEEN: PAKI MEDIUM RANGE NUCLEAR WARHEADThe Paki republic could not afford to be left idle. 7 days later on april 26-2012, Lt. Gen. Khalid Ahmed Kidwai, head of the Paki missile programme, announced the successful launch of the medium range [2-3000 km] nuclear war head missile, the HATf IV Shaheen.A dissappointed Paki patriot wrote: On the scales the Indian Javelin hits 5, Pakistans only 2 . The Indian arm is still thicker than ours. Pump up some muscle, General Khalid, or just shut up!
NB: The way they paint their missiles in asia is a revelation in art. Reminds me of how we paint fishing boats in lake victoria!
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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 3, 2013 23:06:14 GMT 3
JUST A VIEW. THE TIMES A-CHANGING!. Signs of the new [old] world order.[/I have Always enjoyed real-time political theater more than artistic impressions. So I was watching the choreography of Egypts latest coup, just completed, and the performance of Gen. Al-Sissi, military commander, as he announced his power-grab from Mohammed Morsi's hand. His moment supreme. A puffed-up frog croaking in the winds he looked. Yes, this is the land of Nasser, Sethos 11, Ramses the Great, and whole milenium of toilet-paper general leaders with a mile of insignias on their shoulders. But the new world order is a Lawless one and he has the tide. There were days such a coup would sollicit condemnations from self-appointed policemen of the world, given Morsi was democratically elected. Now, the so-called leaders of the free-world just shrug, exhausted themselves by their own [economic] problems without adding another's. 2. ANOTHER SIGN: BELL-RINGERS HAVE NO WHERE TO HIDE. CIVILISATION DECLARES WAR ON THE DISSENT OF CONSCIENCE! THE SECURITY OF THE STATE IS PARAMOUNT! Yesterday over European skies. Another landmark passed. The Bolivian President Evo Morales, on a flight from Moscow, was literally forced down, to land in Vienna Austria, where he was practically under arrest, sorry he was a 'forced guest' as his presidential plane was searched by Americans for Snowden the Scandalous. They were tipped the fugitive was being smuggled to Bolivia from Russia. This was the hijacking of a presidential plane in modern times. The end of 'diplomatic immunity' above the skies. Whatever your position, the moment you leave your own skies, you are fare game! France and Portugal had refused to let Morales's plane use their air-spaces! On orders from the USA. That is they are vassal states that owe tribute to Emperor Obama. NB: About a decade ago, the Italian airforce is reported to have stalled a plan by the usual suspects to blow Khadaffi's plane to bits over Italian airspace. Their reasoning was interesting. Libyans are our neighbours. You start killing directly or otherwise the sons of your neighbours, you unluck a vendetta, and soon discover you and your own sons too, are afterall mortal. I suspect in this new Lawless world we are entering, a lot of superior men are going to discover just how mortal they are, and wishfully think what a good thing civilisation actually used to be. In a Lawless world, flying may become so dangerous, human beings may no longer engage in it. The airspace will be filled with rogue swarms of drones on suicide bombing missions. Gosh! I already miss civilisation! When there was still something called privacy! NB2> The americans planted bugs in some furniture in a top european commission conference room. And this high and mighty european used to retire there with his you know for a little of what otishotish calls ding-dong! And when he met Obama in Germany the other day, the joke goes in european tabloids, Obama greeted him with: I know how you come! Noisy piggy! please watch a film called 'the life of others', in part detailing the total surveillance regime of the East German [not so] Secret police, aka Stassi. Or the once Romanian equivalent called Securitate. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Big brother wants to know what is on your mind! ---They do not believe Sigmund Freud who says it is only sex sex and sex en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_of_othersen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_of_others
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Post by omundu on Jul 4, 2013 1:17:04 GMT 3
JUST A VIEW. THE TIMES A-CHANGING!. Signs of the new [old] world order.[/I have Always enjoyed real-time political theater more than artistic impressions. So I was watching the choreography of Egypts latest coup, just completed, and the performance of Gen. Al-Sissi, military commander, as he announced his power-grab from Mohammed Morsi's hand. His moment supreme. A puffed-up frog croaking in the winds he looked. Yes, this is the land of Nasser, Sethos 11, Ramses the Great, and whole milenium of toilet-paper general leaders with a mile of insignias on their shoulders. But the new world order is a Lawless one and he has the tide. There were days such a coup would sollicit condemnations from self-appointed policemen of the world, given Morsi was democratically elected. Now, the so-called leaders of the free-world just shrug, exhausted themselves by their own [economic] problems without adding another's. 2. ANOTHER SIGN: BELL-RINGERS HAVE NO WHERE TO HIDE. CIVILISATION DECLARES WAR ON THE DISSENT OF CONSCIENCE! THE SECURITY OF THE STATE IS PARAMOUNT! Yesterday over European skies. Another landmark passed. The Bolivian President Evo Morales, on a flight from Moscow, was literally forced down, to land in Vienna Austria, where he was practically under arrest, sorry he was a 'forced guest' as his presidential plane was searched by Americans for Snowden the Scandalous. They were tipped the fugitive was being smuggled to Bolivia from Russia. This was the hijacking of a presidential plane in modern times. The end of 'diplomatic immunity' above the skies. Whatever your position, the moment you leave your own skies, you are fare game! France and Portugal had refused to let Morales's plane use their air-spaces! On orders from the USA. That is they are vassal states that owe tribute to Emperor Obama. NB: About a decade ago, the Italian airforce is reported to have stalled a plan by the usual suspects to blow Khadaffi's plane to bits over Italian airspace. Their reasoning was interesting. Libyans are our neighbours. You start killing directly or otherwise the sons of your neighbours, you unluck a vendetta, and soon discover you and your own sons too, are afterall mortal. I suspect in this new Lawless world we are entering, a lot of superior men are going to discover just how mortal they are, and wishfully think what a good thing civilisation actually used to be. In a Lawless world, flying may become so dangerous, human beings may no longer engage in it. The airspace will be filled with rogue swarms of drones on suicide bombing missions. Gosh! I already miss civilisation! When there was still something called privacy! NB2> The americans planted bugs in some furniture in a top european commission conference room. And this high and mighty european used to retire there with his you know for a little of what otishotish calls ding-dong! And when he met Obama in Germany the other day, the joke goes in european tabloids, Obama greeted him with: I know how you come! Noisy piggy! please watch a film called 'the life of others', in part detailing the total surveillance regime of the East German [not so] Secret police, aka Stassi. Or the once Romanian equivalent called Securitate. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Big brother wants to know what is on your mind! ---They do not believe Sigmund Freud who says it is only sex sex and sex en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_of_othersen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_of_othersI remember following the Snowden situation with trepidation. I remember thinking that the demise of civilization has come earlier than I predicted. There was a point when the Bolivian presidential jet was low on fuel. France andN I think portugal ? Denied it a flight over their airspace and the pilot had to detour via Austria. How would the french have handled a situation like the Bolivian presidential jet crashlanding due to lack of fuel ? Complete deficiency in foresight. And when the news broke out, they all backtracked, but the milk had been spilt already. One can help but notice that washington has lost control in this whole Snowden saga. They do not really know what's happening and seem to be deep in a wild goose chase and are increasingly being embarrassed by events. In addition, the lose 'HULK' on a rampage tactics they seem to be using against the South American states is something I would have expected from Dubya as opposed to Obama. Something is just not right. Someone should have told them weeks ago that revoking Snowden's passport was a wrong move and now they can't even track him. And the latest incident you seem to have missed is the announcement by the Ecuadorian ambassador in London that they just found a bug at their london office. They will inform us soon, who the bug belongs to. The plot thickens I tellz ya! What I am gathering from some whispers is that Snowden was given some conditions for sanctuary in Russia: he expressly rejected a request by Putin not to embarrass his american friends by releasing one or two specific leaks. He refused Putin's request and subsequently the sanctuary. That, and the refusal by western european countries of the bolivian overflight, paints to something more sinister in the leaks. Something that may embarrass others beyond america. Just my thoughts!!! On morsi's situation. Could it be a phyrric victory for the protestors ? Could they have perfectly played into the hands of the military men of Mubarak ? I guess it remains to be seen. Some say the development is a military coup. But I think it may not be that simple: Ovlav - I think- would probably describe it as a democratic military coup; it does not exactly fit into the typical military coups we have in africa; the people protested (largest protest ever in the world with some putting figures at 17 million) and the military answered the people's will one would say. Morsi's favourability had fallen drastically in the past months. Plus his messing up of the constitution didn't help either. Does the end justify the means ?
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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 4, 2013 22:41:00 GMT 3
On morsi's situation. Could it be a phyrric victory for the protestors ? Could they have perfectly played into the hands of the military men of Mubarak ? I guess it remains to be seen. Some say the development is a military coup. But I think it may not be that simple: Ovlav - I think- would probably describe it as a democratic military coup; it does not exactly fit into the typical military coups we have in africa; the people protested (largest protest ever in the world with some putting figures at 17 million) and the military answered the people's will one would say. Morsi's favourability had fallen drastically in the past months. Plus his messing up of the constitution didn't help either. Does the end justify the means ? Omundu, Nevertheless I am amused still, at the sudden confusion around the word coup. Top lawyers Obama and Cameron suddenly do not know the specific defination of the word coup, and whether it can be applied to the egyptian situation. I am sure I watched a coup, live on TV! The military overthrew a government [that it was popularly elected is not a matter for now], suspended the constitution, appointed their own puppet to be installed president, and are arresting top members of the former regime. But lawyers see somthing different there. Uhuru Kenyatta's alleged crimes were, should we say in this London-Washington perspective, 'interventions to stablise an escalating situation. Excesses are regretable, but maximum restraint was practiced'.
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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 26, 2013 20:25:22 GMT 3
JUST A VIEW. THE TIMES A-CHANGING! --- Signs of the new [old] world order.www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-23840824?SThisFB well, male twins have been known to share the same wife for ages! Now lets see the new constitution in full ornate, in its marital clause!
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Post by OtishOtish on Aug 26, 2013 20:49:46 GMT 3
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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 27, 2013 21:50:08 GMT 3
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 21, 2013 9:44:44 GMT 3
I remember a thread in which the Kenyan embassy in Canada was derailing ex-Jukwaa Adongo's trip to Jamhuri. Take a look at the antics of our Oga brothers towards their own brethren captured here! ---whatever they teach at schools of diplomats in Africa!
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Post by jakaswanga on Oct 27, 2013 12:36:02 GMT 3
CERTAIN KIAMBAA VICTIMS, THE SPLIT AND DISCORD WITHIN THE HEARTSBack at kiambaa, at the scene of the crime in Uasin Gishu, I have been studying the feelings of some of the victims struggling to move on. The Kenyan press has been helpful. Another: BUT ALL IS NOT AT EASe WITHIN THE SOUL. Watch this contradiction. This is unconditional, blanket forgiveness competing with a natural heart-felt desire for justice and reporting a volatile turbulence at heart. My verdict, listening to the above tortuous justifications to maintain the status quo – the uneasy peace now returned, is that this is a hostage situation. The victims, under the potential destructive total power of the host community, calculates they can only survive by swallowing wholesale and without complaint, the injustices visited upon them by the so-called host community. Also, they must deny the natural human desire in their hearts for some kind of redress, even the confession by perpetrators which would acknowledge a terrible ill done. Forgiving those who have neither repented -- [meaning they consciously and publicly acknowledge their sin]--- nor asked for forgiveness is a tall order even in the best of classical Christian doctrine! I think a peace based denied justice is no way to build a healthy society. It is merely the choice of brooding vengeance, festering hidden wounds being fertilized by the passage of time. That is exactly the colonial situation, where the whiteman got away with all manner of atrocities upon the native, leaving the native, beneath his fake contented yes mastah smile, a seething soul of frustrated, contorted and demented rage. Fear of retaliation by the black enslaved majority, was a chief consideration why the minority white government of apartheid and its support base, would not cede power. Soothing this fear, is the key to the Mandela magic.One will also notice to what depths the Lancaster documents heralding both Kenyan and Zimbabuean independence went, inserting clauses guaranteeing safety and property rights to the former colonials in the new constitutions! –Fear of retaliation! reckless and vengeful for ills past. These victims of Kiambaa in Uasin-Gishu ---I do not know whether the Stockholm syndrome holds for communities too—do remind me of the American south too. Some black slaves, when talk of abolution and justice reached their ears, called their children to conference, and in trepidation they incalculated. ---‘Have you seen them whites break every bone of would-be rebellious blackmen at the wheel? ---Have you seen them unleash ferocious hunting dogs on an escaped slave re-captured? Have you seen them drive cudgels and file-tails unto the eye sockets of blackmen who eyeballed white damsels with the I know what Is in your mind and I can take care of it look of impertinence? Have you seen the whiteman saw off the limbs of a black slave who secretly learnt to read and write? ---That is what this talk of justice and abolution will wreak upon ye, O les miserables. Wherefore hearken to me child, avoid the vile fates above. This is how the lord in his wisdom wants it. And you can not argue with the lord god. He knows best, ahmen. If it is his plan for us negro people to be slaves to white folk, so be it. We aint gonna change that. O nay, I say none is gonna change that. We stay slaves, that is our fate, and cross to bear in this life!’ FF: Nowadays, modern black American lingo and cultural expressions, have a certain derogatory vocabulary specifically fashioned to deride that kind of sermon, their adherents, and the ‘slavish’ mental faculties from which it sprung and was recreated. Even fellas like the POTUS Barrack Obama, as they run torture camps at Gitmo to break other peoples wills, I heard them laud the struggle and sacrifices of reverends like Dr. martin luther king, and all the other rebels whose fates are mirrored and narrated in Alex Haley’s great KUNTA KINTE BOOK. Even in the greatest of adversities, oppression and powerful cruel forces, the human soul proved indomitable in its desire to achieve freedom, justice and equality. Man finds courage and determination to face the vilest of cruelties and put-downs, tortures and hell’s pains, to rise up, DEMAND HIS RIGHTS AND JUSTICE, and pay the price.AS certain sectors of Kiambaa victims choose to swallow their humanity and bend their conscience to suit the dictates of fear, I condemn them not. I say I understand their predicament and choice, but I tell them, peace without justice is no recipe to build a civilization. You rot in shame daily, pretending you have forgiven those who destroyed your families and lives. You will disgust yourselves on the insides, as publicly your mouth forgiveness without justice which your heart cries for, driving you insane. Live with it then. Live has no easy options. NB: The Kunta-Kinte book is called ROOTS. 2. KIAMBAA as narrated by her survivors here is of course a model of conflict resolution and community relations management. But it is a model I would not give a dime of sh!t for. A peace based on denied justice. Based on total intimidation by the other, based on total mental captivity, is a route to hell. But still a route then.
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Post by abdulmote on Mar 24, 2014 0:58:57 GMT 3
I was both very sad and angry at what those despicable and heinous criminals did to those innocent God worshipping souls today. The government needs to proactively engage its citizens, and particularly the muslims, and start acting seriously about the real terror threat that is about to engulf our peace loving coastal cities. Extra judicially killing an imam here and there will not help or provide a lasting solution to this mannace. Kenya is not Israel and Palestine. It is but one nation of immense diversity and it will remain that way for centuries to come. And on the other side we have the usual killers on our roads. Passenger carrying vehicles being driven on the roads whilst mechanically unsafe.. Such an outcome does not just happen or materialise out of the blue. Someone knew or had the responsibility of ensuring the vehicle's safety or roadworthiness before such a massacre. But those persons did not care! Someone must have recklessly contributed to the deaths of those innocent passengers and that person/s must be appropriately punished if this government cares. Our country is needlessly turning into and being established as a country of mourners lately. But we must not resign ourselves into such a fate just yet. And I gather Nairobi is once again going through another painful wave of wanton crimes and daylight robberies. Where are we heading to mother Kenya, I ask, where are we...?
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Post by jakaswanga on Mar 24, 2014 21:41:22 GMT 3
I was both very sad and angry at what those despicable and heinous criminals did to those innocent God worshipping souls today. The government needs to proactively engage its citizens, and particularly the muslims, and start acting seriously about the real terror threat that is about to engulf our peace loving coastal cities. Extra judicially killing an imam here and there will not help or provide a lasting solution to this mannace. Kenya is not Israel and Palestine. It is but one nation of immense diversity and it will remain that way for centuries to come. And on the other side we have the usual killers on our roads. Passenger carrying vehicles being driven on the roads whilst mechanically unsafe.. Such an outcome does not just happen or materialise out of the blue. Someone knew or had the responsibility of ensuring the vehicle's safety or roadworthiness before such a massacre. But those persons did not care! Someone must have recklessly contributed to the deaths of those innocent passengers and that person/s must be appropriately punished if this government cares. Our country is needlessly turning into and being established as a country of mourners lately. But we must not resign ourselves into such a fate just yet. And I gather Nairobi is once again going through another painful wave of wanton crimes and daylight robberies. Where are we heading to mother Kenya, I ask, where are we...? This subject is something which has been working my mind ---(that is apart from the new addition to the staff. She is of Asian origin, but viewed from the rear, 'they' mount a successful challenge to the renowned Onion Kingship of butt-perfect Latinas. But that is another story!). My concerns on this coastal subject, were much raised when our security forces stormed a Mosque, and elsewhere on other Islamic media, I saw it billed as infidel Christians had defiled the House of Allah. Inflammatory language yes, but the pictures from the Majid Musa mosque, in the aftermath of the police assault, and the dead youth inside, now called martyrs in those media, too had been needlessly inflammatory. That police operation already indicated to me, that the Kenyan security establishment, may not be very sensititive to inter-religious relations in Kenya as they ought to be. These matters can tend to be very delicate, and in certain political dispensations, explosive. Whether one remembers Lebanon of yester years, or the Central African republic which, hitherto, had no history of Muslim/Christian murderous dichotomy, Rambo police methods are merely escalation. This attack on a Christian Church as believers were gathered in fellowship, I have the strongest suspicion, is revenge in part motivated by the police raid into the Majid Musa Mosque, sometime back. This, is a tit for tat. Two: From the Majid Musa Mosque, a lad named Hemed was arrested. To date, his whereabouts are unknown, and his relatives and family fear the worst. About yesterday, Ole Lenku, issued a statement, that Hemed must have been amongst the youth who escaped later that day after the arrest. This statement comes after some back and forth in various courts of the land, and various police authorities. ---The real fear, is Hemed and a few others, have been summarily executed. - ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1099535 Abdulmote, did I hear you tell me we now have a reformed judiciary? A Kenyan has disappeared into thin air, last seen by the police. Have you even heard a simple indication that, with out new state of the art constitution, anybody in authority has raised the stakes? Yeah. Who really believes we are working at peace? NB: Ponder this footnote, Ndugu Abdulmote: It is now reported that what only used to be done by traffic police, has now become the rule: In scenes or road accidents, Kenyan youth rush, not to aid the bleeding victims by first aid, No, to rob them of their valuables before the police arrive to do the same! Now, stripping dead or wounded bodies is not exactly new to humanity. In medieval times, there was a special unit of prisoners who were set loose on the battlfied, where former soldiers lay groaning and dying with arrows sticking in their eyes and axe cuts on their skulls. They were then stripped naked of their valuables. But that this medieval culture has returned to modern Kenya ---the logic is that of the firs bird that caught the worm: other wise the police will, and if the police do not, the hospital personnel will--- needs a long thinking pause! Ponder that!
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