THE PEOPLE SECEDE: NASA AND JUBILEE MUST GO!

[jakaswanga]

THE AMERICAN PREFECT TAKES CHARGE

No, this is not about Paul Bremer in Iraq!

This is about Robert Godec, the Empire's Trumpian man in Nairobi.

PROLOGUE

1. The People's President, Our Hearts Raila Amollo Odinga, abdicated his mandate and surrendered to the fates of ignomy, by a no show at his scheduled popular coronation on 12-12-2017, Jamhuri day. The venue was to be the hallowed Tononoka grounds in Mombasa county, Pwani.

The usurper or computer kifaranga, Your Excellency Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta, was denied any shred of legitimacy by the people. They, in utter rejection, let him address empty terraces at the hallowed Kasarani grounds, and the same spontaneous BOYCOTT was witnessed all over the Jamhuri. Officials of the state addressed only themselves and a handful of the media on this republican day. The national repudiation of the so-called jurisprudential mandate, duly elected, is clear as day!

Solomon Maraga!?

“Kenyans will say what they have to say, and most of the time it will not be flattering. However, that is democracy and as I have learnt anyway is first, simply grow a thick skin CJ and secondly, consult, talk to people within the law, but also hear the other side.” Kenyatta told Maraga

The judiciary has always continued its scumbag racket post 2010 promulgation, just like the police force its thuggery, the army its banditry, the roads their carnage, and the bureaucracy its thieving. No news there.

Chief Justice David Maraga does not need thick skin, he already has one in full melanin glory. Likely it is his skull which needs be less thick, that he can think out what the implications of the national denunciation are, for his judiciary. The boycott of Jamhuri by the people is of course a repudiation of the clean bill of health his court ruling gave the usurpers. That is an important political reading for the politically literate. –--It immediately forced the hardliner William Ruto, aka The Hustler Singh, to instinctively make conciliatory noises. –--Okay, amigo's, no NUSU-MKATE, but a quarter may be!?

That is also an important reading for the politically literate. Otherwise what would the Quatro of Pavlovian NASA dogs salivate at!?

Anyway, the people have instinctively outed the two fakes: Odinga and Kenyatta. I argue they have been repudiated by circumstances not of their own making, but beyond their control. They have become even lesser puppets. The vacuum --of power-- is temporarily filled by the imperial prefect, Robert Godec! But the political problem remains: how to oust the systems these two institutes represent.

Meanwhile here is Rome's prefect taking charge.

And how the nation lets the cat out of the bag. But it still needs decoding.

Envoys pick four-point agenda as they prepare for talks

Dec 16 2017 --In Summary

Momentum for the talks was given impetus by President Uhuru Kenyatta who on Tuesday said that he was willing to talk to the opposition led by Mr Raila Odinga.
Earlier, Mr Odinga had said that he and his allies had suspended his parallel swearing-in to give room for dialogue.
Under strengthening of institutions, the issues to be discussed are likely to include electoral reforms targeting the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission

By IBRAHIM ORUKO& TIM WANYONYI

Four key agenda items for Kenya’s national dialogue have been proposed ahead of talks facilitated by diplomats, the clergy, business and trade union leaders.
They are seeking to bring the feuding political camps together to end the deep divisions caused by the prolonged election period.
A concept paper seen by the Nation lists the strengthening of institutions, inclusivity, devolution and good governance as the agenda items that the drivers of the talks want discussed, and hope the two sides of the political divide will accept.
Besides healing the rifts caused by the last elections, resolving these issues is also likely to resolve the agitation for secession by the opposition, the protests over regional exclusion in appointments and also set Kenya on a path to credible elections in 2022.

TALKS

Momentum for the talks was given impetus by President Uhuru Kenyatta who on Tuesday said that he was willing to talk to the opposition led by Mr Raila Odinga.
Earlier, Mr Odinga had said that he and his allies had suspended his parallel swearing-in to give room for dialogue. However, the two leaders could not agree on what their talks would be about.
The concept paper now sets out issues that would bring the two leaders and their respective allies together as part of the campaign to heal the deep rifts that have divided the country after the August and October elections.
On Thursday Jubilee MPs also rallied behind Dr Oburu Oginga, the elder brother of Mr Odinga, as a nominee for the East African Legislative Assembly, in what was seen as the thawing of hostilities between the two camps.
Leaders from both camps also rejected the nomination of Mr Norman Magaya by Nasa. Mr Magaya was seen as a divisive figure and his combative stance against Jubilee contributed to his rejection in both Houses of the Parliament.

ELECTORAL REFORMS

Under strengthening of institutions, the issues to be discussed are likely to include electoral reforms targeting the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission.
Mr Odinga has in the past alleged that the commission robbed him of his victory and has demanded that its top leaders be sent home and new ones appointed in their place.
On good governance, the key issues will include reforms of the security agencies, which have been accused of dealing too harshly with opposition supporters, leading to the deaths of dozens during political protests before and after the elections.
The issues under devolution is likely to involve how to make the system work better for Kenyans and this may include increasing the amount of money that the national government allocates to counties and the timeliness with which it does so.

WESTERN NATIONS

A source in the diplomatic community said the objective of the envoys, mostly from the western nations, is to bring the feuding politicians to the negotiating table.
However, they also hope to bring on board a wide spectrum of representatives from other sectors including the business community, religious leaders, civil society and workers’ representatives.
According to the source, some governors, who have also been approached to be part of the talks, have said that they would want political issues to also be debated. They also said those leading the talks should not expect quick developments but rather progressive consultations.
“Expectations from both sides are far away from each other,” the source said.
He said that while both Jubilee and Nasa leaders have been warming up to talks, there are still concerns about the format that the engagement should take. Jubilee has insisted that only Parliament can lead the discussion but this may leave out key stakeholders, including Nasa leaders who are not Members of Parliament.

BACK SEAT

The envoys are keen to have the key political leaders pick eminent individuals to represent them once the talks begin. Once this is done, the envoys will take a back seat.
READ: Uhuru rules out dialogue with Nasa
READ: US pushes for dialogue amid political tension in Kenya
“We’ll then set up a secretariat which we will support. But this is about Kenya and it is Kenyans that must talk to each other and find a way forward,” said one of the diplomats who has been involved in the efforts to unite Kenyans after the divisive elections. He and his colleagues yesterday met in Nairobi to strategise more on how to make progress.
In the end, the consultations are aimed at preparing the ground for direct talks between President Kenyatta and Mr Odinga.

At the same time, a number of African leaders are expected in the country next week in what is believed to be part of the multi-prong strategy to bring the two leaders together. However, the number and identities of the leaders was still closely guarded by yesterday although there were indications that President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda would be among them.
Even though the meeting has been organised as a regional parley to focus on integration, a Kenyan diplomat based in Kampala told the Saturday Nation that the meeting will dwell on the political feud in Kenya and that it will explore possibilities of bringing the two leaders together.

WESTERN POWERS

“The leaders have been invited by Western diplomats. Yes, there are efforts towards national dialogue in Kenya, but I am not privy to the character of the discussions. But what I can confirm is that regional leaders have been invited and President Museveni will be there,” the diplomat said. “I don’t know who the other leaders on the list are. Even though this is being pushed by the EU, I am not sure whether it is through the African Union or the East African Community.”
Kenya is considered by western powers as a key security and geopolitical ally in Eastern Africa.
Elsewhere, while the National Council of Churches of Kenya (NCCK) leadership acknowledged its participation in the quest for dialogue, it said the push was by individual clerics and not as a group as has been the case before.
“It will be difficult to gauge the progress at this point,” said Canon Margaret Mbogo, the NCCK national chairperson.
A representative of the business community, on the other hand, said a decision had not been reached on whether the business leaders would engage the two protagonists or not.

RESISTANCE

“We are not able to comment on the question of dialogue,” said Kespa Chief Executive Officer Carole Kariuki.
Mr Cyprian Nyamwamu of the Interreligious Forum also confirmed the existence of behind-the-scenes talks but said there is a sense of resistance because they never solve the underlying political problems.
“The meetings are going on and we are aware of them. We welcome them but we are frustrated because these initiatives never resolve the outstanding issues. We can’t keep on repairing without looking at the engineering designs,” he said.
Central Organisation of Trade Unions (COTU) Secretary-General Francis Atwoli, who has been involved in efforts to get the President and Mr Odinga to talk, accused politicians of grandstanding as Kenyans suffered because of a poorly-performing economy.

ELECTIONS

“I’ve reached out to the President and his deputy over this matter. I’ve been saying that the two leaders must meet and talk and that not Uhuru, not Raila should give conditions for such talks to happen,” Mr Atwoli said from London.
“If the President had met Raila before the elections, our elections would not have been as expensive as they were. We would not have lost 300 lives. If the two met today, our shilling will appreciate immediately. It will boost investor confidence,” he said.

The first thing to notice is the absence of China in the PUBLIC MENTION of the bussy-bees buzzing about this much ado about a parley. The man in charge is an imperial capo called Robert Godec. He is the US ambassador to Kenya. He works for the state department in the regime of the emperor Donald Trump.

Like Nero who toyed with his cock as Rome burnt –---the pathology of pyromania, the Donald is a bit ... you know ... up there, seeing how the POTUS recently poured fuel to the bonfire. He declared the American embassy will move to occupied Jerusalem, an insensitive and stupid move which has mushroomed the burning fires of the middle east.
That is the State Department of empire for you, the institute men like Godec work for. –--Elsewhere ….. Fak the Palestinians and their nationalist aspirations ....…. elsewhere kill Gaddaffi to make way for freedom in Libya. Why the SD wouldn't care sh!t about Palestinian's historical aspirations, but care a whale about the Kenyan peoples, is now what we have to explain.

And the long tale of that one comes next!

We are the chosen ones for the empire's love!

[jakaswanga]

Dec 16, 2017 13:51:39 GMT 3 jakaswanga said:

THE AMERICAN PREFECT TAKES CHARGE

No, this is not about Paul Bremer in Iraq!

This is about Robert Godec, the Empire's Trumpian man in Nairobi.

PROLOGUE

1. The People's President, Our Hearts Raila Amollo Odinga, abdicated his mandate and surrendered to the fates of ignomy, by a no show at his scheduled popular coronation on 12-12-2017, Jamhuri day. The venue was to be the hallowed Tononoka grounds in Mombasa county, Pwani.

The usurper or computer kifaranga, Your Excellency Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta, was denied any shred of legitimacy by the people. They, in utter rejection, let him address empty terraces at the hallowed Kasarani grounds, and the same spontaneous BOYCOTT was witnessed all over the Jamhuri. Officials of the state addressed only themselves and a handful of the media on this republican day. The national repudiation of the so-called jurisprudential mandate, duly elected, is clear as day!

Meanwhile here is Rome's prefect taking charge.

And how the nation lets the cat out of the bag. But it still needs decoding.

Envoys pick four-point agenda as they prepare for talks

Dec 16 2017 --In Summary

Momentum for the talks was given impetus by President Uhuru Kenyatta who on Tuesday said that he was willing to talk to the opposition led by Mr Raila Odinga.
Earlier, Mr Odinga had said that he and his allies had suspended his parallel swearing-in to give room for dialogue.

The first thing to notice is the absence of China in the PUBLIC MENTION of the bussy-bees buzzing about this much ado about a parley. The man in charge is an imperial capo called Robert Godec. He is the US ambassador to Kenya. He works for the state department in the regime of the emperor Donald Trump.

Like Nero who toyed with his cock as Rome burnt –---the pathology of pyromania, the Donald is a bit ... you know ... up there, seeing how the POTUS recently poured fuel to the bonfire. He declared the American embassy will move to occupied Jerusalem, an insensitive and stupid move which has mushroomed the burning fires of the middle east.
That is the State Department of empire for you, the institute men like Godec work for. –--Elsewhere ….. Fak the Palestinians and their nationalist aspirations ....…. elsewhere kill Gaddaffi to make way for freedom in Libya. Why the SD wouldn't care sh!t about Palestinian's historical aspirations, but care a whale about the Kenyan peoples, is now what we have to explain.

And the long tale of that one comes next!

We are the chosen ones for the empire's love!

WHY ARE WE KENYANS THE CHOSEN ONES!?

A TALE OF FIRE IN THE BLOOD

The story of human greed and the depths of pathology to which it drives man, is as poetic as the story of human fury. Achilleus the son of Peleus is accosted by the King of Men, the ultimate tyrant Agamemnon. The King comes to confiscate the lovely damsel Briseis. Her bedroom prowess, the legend goes, rank out the divine ones of Hellene the Argive. And it is to set right the elopement of the cock-stiffening Hellene with the lady-killer Paris, that the Trojan war is about. Achilles hits the roof, mourning the loss of the true passion of his cock and tongue besides Patroklos. His temper at the insult is so morbid, is such a pathology, that it becomes the subject of one of the greatest war memoirs. The Trojan war according to the poet Homerus. In old English they call it wroth. –-his heart waxed wroth, even the gods, the female ones, squirmed!

His mother Thetis, the mpango wa kando of the chief God Jupiter, sped to heaven and warned. If you do not appease the rage of my man-slaying son, not even your semi-mortal mistressess will his rampaging cock spare! --Quickly the bell rang and the gods came to caucus, and the event leading to the end of the 10-year war were set in motion!

Sing for us, O popular musicians, the morbid wrath that waxed in the heart of German nationalism and infested Hitler and his NAZI adherents, that at the end, Germany lay in ruins and six million Jews entered the lexicon as holocausts.

FIRE IN THE BLOOD

Sing for me too, when you are at it, how the Big Pharma of the West folded their arms and let millions of Black Africans die of Aids. How they arm-twisted those at the forefront of the GENERICS technology, how they derailed their efforts, all in purpose to fill their own insatiable pockets with super profits, and swim in black blood.

An intricate tale of 'medicine, monopoly and malice', FIRE IN THE BLOOD tells the story of how Western pharmaceutical companies and governments aggressively blocked access to low-cost AIDS drugs for the countries of Africa and the global south in the years after 1996 - causing ten million or more unnecessary deaths - and the improbable group of people who decided to fight back.

Shot on four continents and including contributions from global figures such as Bill Clinton, Desmond Tutu and Joseph Stiglitz, FIRE IN THE BLOOD is the never-before-told true story of the remarkable coalition which came together to stop 'the Crime of the Century' and save millions of lives in the process.
As the film makes clear, however, this story is by no means over. With dramatic past victories having given way to serious setbacks engineered far from public view, the real fight for access to life-saving medicine is almost certainly just beginning.
A film by Dylan Mohan Gray, narrated by William Hurt.

The AIDS HOLOCAUST I SAID! --you deniers!






So, once again, to what do we owe our special place in the heart of Empire!?

–-We are related to empire through the former emperor, Barrack Obama.

That is for the children's bedtime stories.

Reality is Easy: the global chess game. It is all to remind the upstart red gook, Xi JinPin, that he is an outsider, and that for all his FOCAC, deep love confessions as profused here!




FOCAC will be Forum for Chaina Africa cooperation!) Here is the love from the East.

Kenya eyes Chinese investments to hasten industrial growth


2017-NAIROBI, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- Kenya is keen to tap Chinese investments in the manufacturing sector deemed crucial to addressing poverty and unemployment in the country, officials said on Wednesday.
Chris Kiptoo, Principal Secretary in the State Department of Trade, said Kenya is keen to harness Beijing's technical prowess, capital and experience to promote industrial growth as outlined in the country's Vision 2030 blue print.

"We are exploring new partnerships with Chinese investors to develop a strong manufacturing sector that can create jobs and boost our export potential," Kiptoo said.

He spoke in Nairobi during a China-Africa Industrial Capacity Cooperation Forum held on the sidelines of the ongoing China-Africa Industrial Capacity Cooperation Expo.
More than 50 Chinese companies drawn from diverse sectors like manufacturing, renewable energy, telecommunications and mining are showcasing their products and services to potential clients during the four-day expo.

Kiptoo said the expo provides a chance for Kenya and China to deepen their bilateral cooperation in the manufacturing sector.

"This exposition provides an opportunity for Chinese companies to introduce new and appropriate technologies to modernize our industries," Kiptoo said, adding that Kenya is also facilitating Chinese investments in wholesale and retail sectors.

Kiptoo said Kenya's industrial sector has potential for growth thanks to political goodwill, availability of skilled labor, modern infrastructure and a stable macro-economic climate.
"State-led reforms have improved the business environment thus attracting foreign direct investment flows into key sectors like manufacturing, infrastructure and agro-processing," Kiptoo said.

Guo Ce, Economic and Commercial Counselor at the Chinese Embassy in Kenya, noted the East African nation is currently one favorite destination for Chinese investors.
"Its (Kenya) location is very important and apart from good legislation, the country has a strong human resource base," Guo said.

He hailed Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta's new vision to convert Kenya into a manufacturing hub as a means to address youth unemployment and boost the country's export potential.

Moses Ikiara, Managing Director of Kenya Investment Authority (Keinvest), said the expo will help showcase the potential growth of Kenya's manufacturing sector to Chinese investors.

"We are very excited Nairobi has been chosen to host the first China-Africa Industrial Cooperation expo. We hope to tap into China's capacity in different areas like technology and man power to grow our industrial sector," said Ikiara.

He added that Kenya aims to attract Chinese investments in the Special Economic Zones (SECs) that will be established in the country's hinterland.

US ambassador to Kenya Robert Godec speaks to the press at Bomas, Nairobi on October 2, 2017

One feels like noticing, standing beside Godec is not the Chinese ambassador to Kenya! you know like those parties where men introduce their wives to you, while the wives are the long-term mpangos of your friend. All faces on poker!

Well, I will risk a conspiratorial look!

JUST OVER THE BORDER, there is another thread. The dots on the 'eee's need fitting.


Brig. Muhanga Kayanja Takes Over from Brig Sam Okiding in Command of UPDF Contingent in Somalia

US lawmaker presses Pentagon on reports of civilian massacre in Somalia

Saturday December 9 2017

“Counterterrorism Efforts in Africa.”

Congressman Lieu, a California Democrat, had called attention to a pair of news stories reporting that the Special Forces' ground attack in Bariire was based on intelligence from local rivals of those killed on the farm.
The US raid, carried out in conjunction with Somali government troops, was also reportedly conducted against the advice of Ugandan Brig Gen Kayanja Muhanga, the commander of the African Union military contingent in that region of Somalia.

This story is currently like it has nothing to do with Kenya, and Godec. But it will change, because of the role of the Nairobi embassy in operations across.

Robert F. Godec has served as U.S. Ambassador to Kenya since January 16, 2013. Before serving in Nairobi, Godec was the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Counterterrorism in the Department of State.

he is the prefect of Somalia for those who did not know.

How is the peace process going on over there!? –--More Yemen and Afghanistan!? And then there was a Recep Tayyip Erdogan (comprehensive) peace process which was sabotaged. Somali's tell the story elsewhere, with some colourful descriptions of Rayechelle Omamo and Amina Mohammed.
Here is a hint

Turkey sets up largest overseas army base in Somalia

1 Oct 2017

Turkey has set up its biggest overseas military base in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, increasing Ankara's presence in the Horn of Africa country.
Officially opened on Saturday, the base, which reportedly cost $50m, will train 10,000 Somali troops and has the capacity to train at least 1,500 soldiers at a time, according to Turkish and Somali officials.
"This is the largest training base of its kind outside of Turkey," Hulusi Akar, Turkey's chief of General Staff, said at the ceremony.
"The government of Turkey and its army will provide all the needed support to our brothers in Somalia," Akar said.

'Geopolitical interests'

Turkey is not the only country that has set up a military facility in the country.

The US has military bases in Somalia, although it has not publicly acknowledged their existence. One of the largest is at Balidogle airfield - a former Somali Airforce base 110km northwest outside Mogadishu.
The United Arab Emirates is another country which has army presence. It runs one military facility in Mogadishu and has agreed to a deal with the breakaway region of Somaliland in the country's north to establish a second.

Analysts say it is not surprising that many countries are establishing bases in the country of 11 million people.

"The strategic location of Somalia and its political impasse has made it an attractive location for foreign entities that have geopolitical interests in the region," Hamza Egal, a Nairobi-based Somalia analyst, told Al Jazeera.
"Turkey has been a strong ally in Somalia's state building, but it also seeks mutually lucrative interests with the fragile state," Egal added.

Ankara has been increasing its foothold in the strategic country with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visiting the horn of Africa country twice since 2011.
Turkey has built schools, hospitals and roads in the country and continues to send humanitarian aid to Somalia.
@aljazeera

Turkish colleges now host the greatest number of Somali students in higher education anywhere in the globe. Kenya hosts the biggest number of squalid Somamlis in medieval camps like Daabab. Kenya and Turkey, are a match made in heaven over Somalia, I would think!

It is always important to have an eye on Somalia when discussing Kenyan politics. There is another map of that LAPSSET corridor thing of which the SGR, Kenya's flagpost rail program, is part of. Kismayu and Mogadishu are important ports in it, in the context of the OBOR. Or BRI –-Belt and Road initiative, which is China's, and Xi JinPin's hardware 'breakthrough'.

Against that breakthrough is of course the Asia Pivot of Barrack Obama!

At this point in history, Turkey, a member of NATO, finds herself increasingly outside the USA-EU NATO grand scheme. This is a consequent of geo-political fall outs from the Syrian war. Kurdish independence scares the sh!t out of Turkey's eyes. Erdogan has turned around from Assad must go to Assad will stay until whenever Syria stabilises. Meanwhile the security, strategic and economic interests of Turkey increasingly draws her toward the China-Russia axis of the emerging new, so-called multipolar world.

ONE BELT ONE ROAD?

Kenya finds itself in a situation not too dissimilar from Turkey's. We are culturally embedded in the AFRICOM network, and intellectually ensconced in the Bretton-Woods framework of global economics.

But our stomachs have been looking and increasingly filling East!

Kenya is a centre piece, and signed up to the BELT AND RAILWAY INITIATIVE, EAC Africa corridor.



and a bit closer



But we increasingly find ourselves embedded in a military-security complex, AFRICOM, like Turkey in NATO, which increasingly forces us to act against our natural economic interests, increasingly Eastern in outlook!

Well, we cord dance! until

Kenya does not behave like Somalia is a key member of the East African Economic Community! –-We even planned to build an apartheid wall from Lamu to Mandera! That kind of thinking is found in Nairobi heights too! Luckily, William Ruto is not an economists and his inability to integrate Somali in the economic future of the region can be excused as a child's jovial error.
But the stakes in the geo-political game are too high. And Kenya will have to man up. (Omamo and Amina have failed to woman up, so we are back to ancient sexism!)

GODEC TAKES CHARGE!

Walking around Africa, walking around Kenya, we all know China is in. Godec has been hard at work

Bechtel Selected to Build First Expressway in Kenya

05 August 2017 NAIROBI

Project to be supported with US and UK export credit agencies financing

Bechtel, a global leader in engineering, procurement, and construction, has been selected by the Kenya National Highways Authority to build the first high-speed expressway in the country. The new 294-mile (473-kilometre) route will vastly improve the connectivity, efficiency and safety of road transport between Nairobi and the country’s main sea port, Mombasa, and will reduce the journey time from over 10 hours to under four hours. The expressway will serve as a central part of Kenya’s national transport system, helping to promote trade and development in Kenya and further into landlocked Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. This project will complement the new Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) to transform the 280-mile (450-kilometre) Nairobi-Mombasa corridor into a vibrant and continuous economic zone.

“Bechtel has been working with the Government of Kenya for over two years to develop this strategic infrastructure priority project, which will support unlocking significant growth in Kenya and the region,” said Craig Albert, president of Bechtel’s global infrastructure business. “We will bring global megaproject capability and local commitment to deliver the Nairobi-Mombasa expressway to our high standards of quality, safety and sustainability. We’ll create infrastructure and skills legacies by partnering with local companies, suppliers, and directly employing and training Kenyans.”

The high-speed expressway will be one of the most important new pieces of infrastructure in the East African Community. It will have four lanes and 19 interchanges. The expressway will become a toll road and will provide a faster transit to support growth and industry. As part of the delivery of the project, Bechtel will employ over 4,000 people and provide training and capacity building. The project will also include master planning for three special economic zones along the alignment, and will be focused on developing business in coordination with the new SGR and local communities.

That SGR thing better man-up, or it will soon be a dead-weight loan as David Ndii keeps humming!

Godec, doing his best as a cog in the Asia pivot, is capable of brow-beating the neo-colonial elite haggling over state power to a parley. He can intimidate them with travel and economic sanctions, but he can also bribe them all with promises of personal gain, courtesy of the American tax payer. We have already seen how he soft-tuned Mudavadi, Wetangula, Kalonzo and Raila to climb down from their' 'dangerous recklessness' of the swearing in. The ever mercenary church helping him a bit to shove it in.

What Godec does not have, is enough resources to bribe the whole disaffected Kenyan populace to ascribe to the elite parley of his authorship. The US taxpayer isn't in a good shape neither, is still reeling from bailing out greedy Wall Street bankers, and needs his or her share of the scarce American dream too. A dwindling dream. What Godec will enforce is the public obedience of his clients –--Jubilee and NASA principals, but down the lanes at Wanjiku's the dissent will remain unbridged. This will force local politicians and street-smart wannabes to chart their own course, closer to the radicalised people.

For Ouru and Raila and Kalonzo, it is very well that they telephone behind the scenes and have their families, Oburu and Kalonzo junior, be used as gifts exchanged to show goodwill to share the meat. That is the EALA deal which saw Norman Magaya rejected because he is headstrong and trouble-minded!
But for the mass of the people who believed in RESIST and struggle, braved the tear gas and live bullets and roamed human shields around the peoples president, Raila Amollo Odinga, there is only one word: treachery and nepotism. Selling out. The magic evaporates. Because the magic is based on aspirations for a better future for all, the wretched of Kenya who have missed the matunda ya uhuru fiesta.

There is no parley Godec can work between the disenfranchised of Kenya and their sell-out leadership. Godec can only enhance the secession. For his thinking and role, can not stomach a new economic deal. The finance capital of the USA for which he soldiers, is engaged in a global war of survival which outrules new economic deals where finance colonies uplift their people at their expense.

That is his historical limitation.

How come the electionS failed to negotiate a parley between the elite!? Two of them elections in one month!? And how come the court rulings too have failed in the same!? Remember Our New constitution was and still is proclaimed the best in the continent!?

The explanation may lie in an old term –--irreconcilableness of antagonisms.

But antagonisms between who and who!?

We all know the lot of them NASA big wigs –--Raila, Kalonzo, Wetangula, Mudavadi, and the Jubilee hot shots –--Uhuru, Ruto et al, can easily reach a meat-chopping formula over lunch! They are birds of the same feather. Remnants of the Kibaki Raila GCG!

So why do they need Godec for cover!?

Because they lost the people. All that death and destruction, rape and nightly murders as Matiang'i and Koome (lets leave the clueless Boinett out of it!) deployed maximum lethal force, and the next day they turn around and kiss and go to bed!

Ai! So cheap is Kenyan slum blood!? Nay, the people have a historical memory; blood spills en masse don't heal that quick. Even if you are The Mysterious One trying the magic!

The people dissent. And that is why all around the country during Jamhuri day, power spoke to itself. The tale of the empty stadia has dangerous undertones. Nobody had called for a BOYCOTT. But there it was, undeniable.
There are magics even the high Robert Godec, prefect of the Emperor Donald Trump, wont work.

Dont't worry about Paul Bremer of Iraq. Only historians paid to, remember him.
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Next

THE WAR FOR SUPER PROFITS

Why is fire in the blood story important to revisit? Because there is a new game in town, a new war which will be as fierce as any fought over grain, gold, trade routes, or energy resources aka oil and gas.

[jakaswanga]

A footnote to put things in perspective.

EURASIA AND INDO-PACIFIC

–--Navigating between the clashing rocks of Asia.

Asia is in a bit of a bind. But it is a luxury problem.

Common sense has it, intellectual thought has it, street smart wise cracks has it, that, already, the center of gravity of the world has shifted East, to Asia. The argument is where exactly the pendulum comes to rest, whether in the Eurasia area, whether in the Indo Pacific!

That is the luxury. The luxury of guaranteed sucess. Thucydides trap my windy exhaust!

It, guaranteed suxess, is like East Africa will be United into a great country, it is all there in the statistical projections and econometric algorithms. It is just a question where the Adminstrative Capital city will be situated. May be Tabora, May be Namanga, or Arusha where the EALA already sits!

NB: Notice all the maps of East Africa you come across, behave the Sir William Ruto way: Somalia is excised! Exorcised from East Africa!



Now, there are more Somalis in Nyanza than Kikuyus, more Somalis in Uganda than Kenyans, more Somalis in Tz than Ugandans and Kenyans combined!

These are the statistics which inform my automatic intergration of Somalia into the EAC! You can only expell the Garissa Lodgers by genocide or a mass-hysterical pogrom, so-called ethnic cleansing these days!

Howbeit EALA has no seats for the three Somali republics! –--Such facts, such omissions, make me use the word FAKHED very freely. I do not see the reason why powermen who purge Somalia from the EAC, setting the silent stage for a South-African like xenophobic boomerang, needs anything less than contempt and SHETANI ASHINDWE rituals! Here is a founding definition

The East African Community (EAC) is an intergovernmental organization composed of six countries in the African Great Lakes region in eastern Africa: Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.

Somalia-z better join Ethiopia, the economic sprinter of the region! –-But do I say 'wirtschafstwunder'!

But that is a by the way. It is not really important. The land of the Garissa Lodge people will be like Switzerland or Norway, too advanced to be members of the backward European Union! Union Somalia will be too, too advanced to be a subset of the Ethiopian DERG look-alike regime, or a member of a sh!t-hole called EAC, ran by clones of William Ruto, Karunaibaga Kaguta (M7's son), or Lowassa when he beats Magafuli next election!

But we are not yet at that luxury problem! We have not yet made up our minds whether to hold mathematically faithful elections, or do away with them completely to save time and money and efforts for more productive eandevours!

ASIAN LUXURY 2050

Asia is. –--China 1, India 2, Indonesia 4.

Vietnam, The philipines and Japan just hovering around the top 10 there. Neither would a unified Korea be a joke!

The World in 2050

The long view: how will the global economic order change by 2050?

In 2050, 2 of the largest economies in the world, will be accounting for around 85% of world GDP.
Key results of our analysis (as summarised also in the accompanying video) include:
The world economy could more than double in size by 2050, far outstripping population growth, due to continued technology-driven productivity improvements

Emerging markets (E7) could grow around twice as fast as advanced economies (G7) on average
As a result, six of the seven largest economies in the world are projected to be emerging economies in 2050 led by China (1st), India (2nd) and Indonesia (4th)

The US could be down to third place in the global GDP rankings while the EU27’s share of world GDP could fall below 10% by 2050

UK could be down to 10th place by 2050, France out of the top 10 and Italy out of the top 20 as they are overtaken by faster growing emerging economies like Mexico, Turkey and Vietnam respectively
But emerging economies need to enhance their institutions and their infrastructure significantly if they are to realise their long-term growth potential.

This Asian Century scenario we hold in mind, as we witness the American prefect, Rob Godec, whistle-in his Kenyan puppies.

Who let the dogs out anyway!?

The terrifying thing in the Asian luxury is this: India plays spoiler.

Thinking of China and the USA locked in a Thucidides trap, with the US's Asia Pivot as a shot across the bow of China's rise.

What role, calculations India?

Troops of India and China were locked in a 73-day standoff in Dokalam that began from June 16 over road construction activity at the India-Bhutan-China tri-junction. The tension eased after talks between top officials of both the countries.

Newspaper reports said that the Chinese Army had begun constructing a road about 10 km from the point of stand-off, with more of its troops standing guard. Indian and Chinese troops were in a standoff situation on the Doklam plateau for over two months since June.

The Indian Army later crossed the Sikkim border to stop the construction work. While India and Bhutan maintained that it violated the status quo in the tri-junction, Beijing claimed that it was Chinese territory. Around 1,000 Chinese troops are still present on the plateau, which is approximately 800 metres from the faceoff site.

Indian-Chinese relations over the expansion of the Belt and Road initiative have been tense from the start, as China expands its soft power and builds closer ties with India’s neighbours on all sides under so-called “win-win partnerships”. The current confrontation between India and China in the border region of Sikkim should be seen as an outlet for this tension, and Chinese motivations must be closely watched:

China/Indian rebalancing in the region continues, and this incident may be a glimpse of things to come.

And, all politics being local
economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/chinas-obor-fails-to-get-global-traction-faces-opposition-from-big-nations/articleshow/58741011.cms

NEW DELHI: India was not alone in raising a red flag over the strategic and economic implications of China's much vaunted One Belt One Road (OBOR), when it decided to skip the just concluded summit in Beijing.

Of the 64 countries identified by China along the OBOR initiative, only 20 countries were represented by their top leaders and 44 other nations sent ministers for the May 14-16 mega show.

Incidentally nine other nations whose top leaders were present in Beijing for the summit are not in the list of 64 countries.

A joint communique outlining outcomes from the summit would reflect that China could not push its entire agenda in a unilateral fashion it would have originally envisaged, pointed out experts who have followed OBOR initiative since it was conceived. ET has learnt that leaders, ministers and officials from Germany, France, England, Greece, Portugal and Estonia had objections to the original text of the communique over issues of transparency and environmental protection.

While Russian President Vladimir Putin called for more negotiations on the project on day one the summit, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta also felt that there should be more transparency in the entire process to implement OBOR. The final Communique from the summit referred to key international principles including issue of sovereignty that India advocated. CPECBSE -4.45 % passing through PoK was one of key reasons that influenced India to skip the Summit.

Eh! you know where Ouru was this weekend, inspecting, or as we say, OPENING!?


President Uhuru Kenyatta inspects 4.5km SGR tunnel at Em-Bulbul in Kajiado County

The transparency which went with the tendering for the SGR, to try putting it in a Kwamachetsi Makokha headtwist, was of course brighter than the tropical noon sun on a cloudless day! And you can ask a man named Wanjigi if he is still Jimmy to his Mount Kenya hommies!

Haa! Kenya is caught in the whirpool: where do we moor our raft, vision 2030.

WOE, O WOE BE I!

I quest the Golden Fleece
The journey is an Odyssey
No sure carpenter built my ship!

My vision …. is a cataracted 2030
My treasury leaks; like a bursted ship
Captained by the likes, of David Rotich!

I look East towards the Symplegades
And O! There clashes the twin rocks!
Woe be I that Dr. Patrick is no Phine Nose
Whose birdy advice passes a ship unto legend!
*****

Now we can resume our tale of imperial love for Kenya, we the chosen people! and the war for super profits in the digitalised economy.

[jakaswanga]

MARKET WARS, THE STATE HOUSE NEAR YOU AS A PAWN!

BIG DATA, BIG TECH, AI COMPANIES EMERGE TO RULE THE WORLD

The Devonshire White Paper was a document written in 1923 by the Colonial Secretary, Victor Christian William Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire, regarding the status of settlers (of all races) and natives in the Colony of Kenya. The genesis of the Devonshire White Paper lies in the Legislative Council (Legco), which was established in 1907. The Legco consisted of three official members (civil servants) and three non-official members who were settlers nominated by the governor to represent white settler interests. These settlers, who were led by Lord Delamere, started to demand for elected representatives, quoting one of the foremost canons of taxation; “no taxation without representation.”

I will do from the Devonshire white paper to the Godec white paper!

Remember the old world? That world documented in set pieces like the Seven sisters!? How oil companies subdivided the BLACK GOLD, the mines, and ruled the Earth forever! You may also be old enough to remember when banks ruled everybody, man and county, by debt servitude and. too, when the cycles of boom and bust –--according to Gordon Brown of Britain, then a star chancellor of the exchequer--- were foggy memories from a dead past!? (a few years later Wall Street melted down, but don't worry yet!). Remember too, how the Tyranosauroii Monsanto and Synerga have patented every living thing, even your own body DNA ---which you now don't own nor inherit from your parents, but only rent on a user friendly certificate purchased from the DNA printer companies!?

If you don't, and are young enough to be digitally literate, you should pay attention to the latest round of details, or the hitches in the fine print from the WTA negotiations. There was another WTA round just completed in Buenos Aires, Argentina this week December 15, 2017. More tit-bits about that later.

WHAT DO THEY SING ABOUT THESE DAYS?

Sing, O Muze, daughter of Zeus, of the greed that hides beneath the breasts of men, and drives them beyond sense, to shape the world according to their pockets; sing too, of the depths of depravity and cruelty men shall visit, to appease this hunger in their hearts for super profits! And neither for the sake of patronising ruth, nor condescending pity seeking to utter a word of sooth, shall you hide a single truth –--but, O divine Daughter of the Heavens, all shall you reveal and spare us not the full thrust of knowing!

That is how classical poets say: call a spade a spade or fak off, madam.

NB: I love classical mumbo-jumbo too, sense-challenging epithets like His Excellency, My Learned Friend, This Esteemed Court, Honourable Member of Parliament, His Highness Cyprian Awiti of Homa Bay, His Holiness William Ruto! –--you get the gist!

But sometimes I tire of my loves, your excellencie's, their hignesses et al .... and you hear me clearly say … 'the use dogs Odinga and Kenyatta and their running puppies, Kalonzo, Mudavadi and Duale, Pavlov's spell waning, were chest-kicked in to order by the irritated American prefect Godec!'

And again you get the gist! –--'reveal and spare us no the full thrust of knowing!' O Muze!

Who let the dogs out!? waved an Argeifontes wand to dispel Pavlov's spel!?


US Government's Special Message To Maraga


Godec just making sure the Uhuruto twin kid get it


A meeting between NASA top leaders and Foreign envoys, December 8, 2017. [Photo/@bobgodec]
Foreign envoys held a meeting with leaders of the NASA coalition over the country's political environment.
The meeting also involved religious and business leaders.
The envoys were led by US Ambassador to Kenya Robert Godec and the British High Commissioner Nic Hailey on Friday.

We hold these photos in mind to comparatively tell the story of Flynn, yes, the Trumpian advisor who resigned coz he met the Russian ambassador to wherever, for whatever purpose, even on behalf of the incoming POTUS!!


Flynn Michael. Disqualified from high office coz of unamerican activities!

Sawa.

EMERGING MARKETS AND THE BATTLE TO CONTROL THEM

Probably Half –-if not more of--- the world's population, overwhelmingly in the Global South is not yet connected to the new HOLY GRAIL, aka data network or the ONLINE, streaming craze. Like coca cola for that extra dollar wants everybody fatting up on its addictive sugars, Facebook wants even prenatals to open homepages for advert revenue to flow in. That is Adam Smith or so. And Zuckenberg is not the only one reconnaiting where the next 300 million subscribers are hiding. And that is just Black Africa only!

Big Data companies are not like Big Pharma. Big Pharma, as we have seen in the documentary fire within, are content to preside over a holocaust if the remaining patients are rich enough to cough up the difference in profit. Not Big Data! Big data wants everybody born and not yet born to live, and become WIRED, a data consumer zombie!

Every soul counts! this is a different model in pricing! a greed more extractive, with a phobia for waste not yet seen in history!

That is an important insight. It will tell you why Bill Gates would throw away his billions at AIDS remidials. Data men are like the industrial bourgeosie compared to aristocrats who, now, are Oil and Pharma men! mentally antic!

BIG DATA SPACE is where the next big thing HAS happened.

No, I don't mean crypto currencies and the demythologisation of the supposed divine power of central banks. I mean data –---control of data, bio-data, E-COMMERCE infrastructure, high tech and general informational/streaming flow, payment templates and new pathways in AI (artificial intelligence) which, as hinted here below, has ramifications beyond our wildest fears of algorithms.

@guardian.co.Uk. Samuel Gibbs. 7 December 2017

AlphaZero, the game-playing AI created by Google sibling DeepMind, has beaten the world’s best chess-playing computer program, having taught itself how to play in under four hours.
The repurposed AI, which has repeatedly beaten the world’s best Go players as AlphaGo, has been generalised so that it can now learn other games. It took just four hours to learn the rules to chess before beating the world champion chess program, Stockfish 8, in a 100-game match up.

The digital revolution, is a revolution beyond even the transformational realms of the industrial revolution of yonder. (The one Karl Marx so lyrically waxes about as having yanked mankind from an existence in oblivion to the light of civilisation!)

Data mining –---a security services Shangri-La---, Big Tech companies like Google (linked to the empire's intel service the NSA), Facebook, mutants of Microsoft or Huawei or ZTC or Samsung&LG etc etc, are set to be what Oil companies once were, what central banks once were, even what nation states once were: ALMIGHTY Zeus's: Cloud Gatherer gods of the controlling techno Thunderbolt!

Oil Giants (when they were what they were in power) could overthrow any government that threatened their accounts. They did this much like fruit companies reduced much of Latin America to the famous BANANA REPUBLICS. Oil companies ruled the world, with the blessed power of the Western military industrial complex behind them of course.

Ayatolla Ruhollah Khomeini, allowing himself a glance at the grave of Mohammad Hedayat Mossadeq, whilst addressing his fellow citizens, remarked

We are determined, that never again forever, shall a foreign power repeat this infamy on an Iranian leader in the service of his people! –--Allah … bear witness this vow of the Islamic republic! And let it by your free will!

Banks, acting as owners of growth-giving credit --that is the theory, have also ruled the world, having designed their policies to be chains of debt servitude. But Big Tech and Big Data Firms are set to emerge at the top of the food chain this century. Google for instance is already a virtual monopolist on both hand-held devices and desktops. If Google expands into banking, e-commerce, content generation, games and music production and distribution --YOU TUBE!, ISP gateway licensor, genetic and social fingerprinting, thought policeman etc etc, –---A-to-Z in E-commerce as in the model of vertical integration once the modus operandi of Big oil companies ((…... from prospecting to mining to refining to wholesale to pump retail …..), Google becomes god with a big G!

The Alpha and Omega of modern life! she already is in CYBER SPACE!

The intellectual properties' regime (rather than the total liberalisation and dismantling of regulations) preached by the usual suspects, opens the door for this monopolism. Those with a headstart stay ahead, forever! The tortoise doesn't catch Achilles. It is a old school texbook political economy. In that sense the world stays the same. A slave-versus-master antagonism!

It is this context of the battle for supremacy of the Big Tech, currently the USA versus China, that we must place the philanthropies of Bill Gates in Africa, the nonchalance of Facebook's Zuckenberg munching samaki and osugha at Mama Oliech's, and China's Jack Ma, lecturing offhand under the acacia trees of Nairobi University.

And it is that same context that we must see the acts of Robert Godec in calling his reluctant dogs home for a few toe pinches.



You might continue thinking this is about a Luo-Gikuyu dynastic rivalry if you like. I mean local power stories of competing royal houses are the stuff of very good dramas. Wake me up to share in the juice, when beautiful women –-like Hellen--- make an appearance in the script! I am always in for puzzy juice or epic gossips like Romeo and Julietta!

China has emerged as a go-getter in Big Data research and, most threateningly, a highly competitive technical power house therein. (we may need to do a comparative on CYBER WAR capacities to fill in the gaps!) China indeed has jumped to the head of the queue of those advocating global free trade! who would have thought that about reds, fake or real!

Jack Ma calls for easier e-commerce rules at WTO meeting

16/12/17

Alibaba founder Jack Ma recently urged World Trade Organisation (WTO) members to adopt easier and transparent rules for e-commerce to encourage small businesses to succeed. He was addressing a session to launch an initiative, 'Enabling e-commerce', to promote policies and practices for small businesses at the 11th WTO Ministerial Conference in Buenos Aires.

WTO member nations are divided over the way the issue of e-commerce should be tackled. While some want to push e-commerce to the negotiating table, India and many others maintain that binding rules would restrict the policy space to deal with the emerging sector, and favour the continuation of 1998 Work Programme with non-negotiating mandate.

Ma urged businesses and governments to work together to create a more inclusive trade model to expand the benefits of globalisation to those who have been left behind, according to a news agency report.

The ‘Enabling e-commerce’ initiative, a joint effort of the WTO, the World Economic Forum (WEF) and the electronic World Trade Platform (eWTP), envisions a set-up where small businesses, young people and developing countries can succeed in the global marketplace, Ma added. (DS)

They are leaving nothing to chance. And they have another plan apart from the physical OBOR (One Belt One Road) or BRI (Belt Road Initiative). They too are, like Zuckenbeerg of Facebook, out to connect and bind the UN-ONLINE mass of humanity, including those not yet born, just as Google and the rest. But they have a much more comprehensive plan, just like the OBOR.

ASIA PIVOT TIME! It must be stopped. Men like Godec are here to at least derail it. And competitively advantageosyly let the Googles and Facebooks, hommies, run away with it.

ASIA PIVOT TIME: The masses are looking East in Africa, forced by the realities of sheer desperation. Odinga and Kenyatta for their time must look anxiously behind them, even as they home West.

Kibaki of Kenya didn't look East out of first choice love. The econs don was always a dyed in the wool Breton Woods tool, like Patrick CBK Njoroge, like Njugunah Ndung'u, like Cheserem, like Duncan Ndegwa, like Saitoti, Joseph Kinyua, David Rotich, Bosire and Obure!

Yes, Emilio Mwai too was of that school.
But reality in its harshness forced Kibaki's neck to where life could be meaningful. Determined not to end up a useless drunk as he had been for decades at the top, Mwai Kibaki had a sober moment!

Praise the lord! ---would, it had been a Damascus road equivalent, and he, Mwai, were younger!

It is a bit of wishful thinking, but Ouru Kenyatta, Raila Odinga, and the rest of the Pavlovian crowd wagging tail at the doorstep of Robert Godec, will be no different when reality enters the picture.

Can Africa complete her liberation process without seceding from the Western finance orbit!?

I am no Teiresias of Thebes, But I know for sooth, That China and India will emerge, To take their rightful places. I know too Africa too will emerge, Bloodstained and dizzy but proud and upright! Africans will be the late slaves who fought to death And came out on top!

But led by dogs who sell out on the dot, The slaves are doomed to rot In the cellars of civilisation forever! This is why I say away with the dogged and doggish Odinga's and Kenyatta's! NASA AND JUBILEE MUST GO!

Enter the NRM!

Either we can count votes correctly and tally up correctly, or quit the clownesque wastage of billions on sham elections and a fake IEBC's. Look at Rotich at the intensive care unit here

China’s Sh487bn debt load tops list of foreign lenders

November 30, 2017 21:50. By EDWIN MUTAI

China has once again topped the list of 14 countries that advanced bilateral loans to Kenya in the past year, according to newly released Treasury data.
Beijing gave Nairobi a total Sh487 billion ($4,733.94 million) in the 12 months through end of September 2017.
The report shows that in just three months to September, China lent Kenya Sh122.73 billion ($119.16 million).
Japan, which has lent Kenya ($879.29 million) is second, followed by France ($687.89 million), and Germany ($314.25 million) respectively. Other lenders jointly account for $362.06 million in bilateral loans to Kenya.
IDA/IFAD and African Development Bank (ADB/ADF) top the list of multilateral financiers to Kenya having lent $5,132 million and $1,993 respectively.
Official data shows that Kenya’s overall public debt increased by Sh777.5 billion in the year to September 2017 to reach Sh4.4 trillion.
Most notable is the speed at which the country is accumulating public debt which rose from Sh3.7 trillion in September 2016 to Sh4.486 trillion in September 2017, according to the latest budgetary and economic review report.

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That is not a man who can afford wasting a single cent, unless he is the mad type who says, after every mealy meal, I am okay now, let us burn the granary!

So while China topped this list, I noticed no Chinaman next to Godec as he issued orders to the most important politicians in Kenya. ---Waaaah!

Ach, Harsh realities haven't set in yet! Lets sleep some more!

I am off for a drink! Alcohol free. I need to think!

About a slave's greed, for freedom.

Sing –-O inspired poets! Of the wrathful drive for liberation, that waxes 24/7 below the breast of a slave!

ULTIMATUM BY KOFFIE OLOMIDE



Few would know the Ndombolo dance is a freedom dacne deep in the jungles of the Congo where it originated! But then, few would know parties like KANU, FRELIMO, MPLA, NRM … started on a note of idealism for the decolonisation of Africa!

Sianda madongo aweyo; wang'gi dongo aweyo,
dendgi yom aweyo, Kong'o bende aweyo! Uhuru kende!
(paraphrased from Okatch Biggy Kotieno: Owara!)

FOOTNOTE:

It is to Congo where the guitars talk that I sign off.



You sit with these guys in a bar in Kinshasha, and ask them what is that their fingers are doing, culturally speaking. They grin and you do not know whether you are being mocked. We tell stories, the guitarists smile. Here is Mahele dancing as they break his bones on the orders of Mobutu. And, another tune, this is Patrice Lumumba giving a speech with his eyes after they jam a paper in his mouth on the way to his death.



We also have Paul Kagame shooting down Habyarmana to initiate a genocide in Rwanda and Congo, you fancy that!?

Then you wanna leave the subject alone, and join the women of gyrating hips!



Africa! Dammn!

[jakaswanga]

A WARNING FROM THE WORLD OF POPULAR ART

BATTLE GROUND AFRICA

LONE WOLF II:



China in Africa, between James Bond and Rambo!

You know how art is, even popular brands which are snacks, fast food, cheap laughs and, at first sight, outright propaganda. They don't do away the imagination of the creator, if you listen hard enough.

Here is the film version of Alibaba Jack Ma. It may be a caricature, but it is the task of analysts, like histologists looking at foggy pictures of cells last century, or market analysts peering into the future fluctuations of crypto currencies, to make sense of the material they have.

Now, after doing the GOOGLES, FACEBOOKS, JACK-MA'S, AMAZONS, BILL GATES and the battle for the yet to emerge markets, lets see how the frontiers begin to condense on the minds of artists, caricature, comedy or not.

Remember Rambo! No man, no war, no law can stop him!

That will be the day NOLLYWOOD will make the action packed jingoistic movie: AFRIKA NIGA, no power, no God, no company shall keep him down! --where the action hero, Afrika Niga, barks this is my yard as he mows down every imaginable foreign invader --European, American, Latino, Asian. Then gives a dirty grin: 'but your women, are all welcome to my c.ock!'

I swear it will be a blockbuster in Africa like Wolf Warrior or American sniper in their yards.

But today lets go to China announcing they kicked the USA's ass out of Afrika, to become the new dominator of the mindless who-re!

chinafilminsider.com/film-review-wolf-warriors-2/

When the Chinese action movie “Wolf Warrior II” arrived in theatres, in July, it looked like a standard shoot-’em-up, with a lonesome hero and frequent explosions. Within two weeks, however, “Wolf Warrior II” had become the highest-grossing Chinese movie of all time. Some crowds gave it standing ovations; others sang the national anthem. In October, China selected it as its official entry in the foreign-language category of the Academy Awards.

The hero, Leng Feng, played by the action star Wu Jing (who also directed the film), is a veteran of the “wolf warriors,” special forces of the People’s Liberation Army. In retirement, he works as a guard in a fictional African country, on the frontier of China’s ventures abroad. A rebel army, backed by Western mercenaries, attempts to seize power, and the country is engulfed in civil war. Leng shepherds civilians to the gates of the Chinese Embassy, where the Ambassador wades into the battle and declares, “Stand down! We are Chinese! China and Africa are friends.” The rebels hold their fire, and survivors are spirited to safety aboard a Chinese battleship.

Leng rescues an American doctor, who tells him that the Marines will come to their aid. “But where are they now?” he asks her. She calls the American consulate and gets a recorded message: “Unfortunately, we are closed.” In the final battle, a villain, played by the American actor Frank Grillo, tells Leng, “People like you will always be inferior to people like me. Get used to it.” Leng beats the villain to death and replies, “That was *ing history.”

The film closes with the image of a Chinese passport and the words “Don’t give up if you run into danger abroad. Please remember, a strong motherland will always have your back!”

Strong motherland: an economy to sustain 20,000 submarines, 20,000 megaoton ICBMs, 10,000 aircraft carriers etc etc!

We are talking a serious motherland.

But, look around your motherland, dear Kenyan. And boast to me of her strength, now and tomorrow!

Ati Uhuru Kenyatta the is his Excellency the president of Kenya?

I don't buy that sh!t, no less than I buy the sh!t Onyango Oloo is peddling about the Mariakana-killer Cyril Ramaphosa is better than lowly demagogue Julius Malema. There is apparent reality, and then there is reality.

The reality of an Africa whose liberation is yet to pick up speed. And all politics being local, the reality of a Kenya whose peoples must secede before they succeed!

Imagine a Luo blockbuster on El-Adde!? ---RETURN TO EL-ADDE

PLOT: The Jubilee cowardly Generals in Nairobi counting charcaol money, do not care about the Kenyan soldiers remaining in Al-Shabaab captivity years on. Frustrated majorly Luo former elite unit members –--left KDF because promotion don't fall the uncuts way, decide to do something about their former mates of all tribes, still held prisoner. Ex top killer-boy sergeant Otieno and daredevil soldier Omollo recruit the toughies who, for any number of dirty reasons, have fallen by the wayside. Major Kipkericho –--demoted because he did not show enough deterrence to the King in waiting William Ruto; original cold-blood Mutiso, expelled from the army because he screwed every senior officer's wife and daughter; Hassan who does agree with Shabaab but loves Kenya more; weapons expert Kariuki, suspended because he sold KDF weapons to Congo rebels and pocketed the profit; etc etc you get the gist.

This band of ex KDF rogues bring back our boys from Shabaab jail camps, take them to Major Obwoge's graveside and summon Raychelle Omamo for a hand over. Big-US Mama Recho weeps in joy, surprising the crowd by chanting Luo sigalagalas and jowi-jowi without a US accent! We see the peoples president in a closing shot, in rage wondering whether to order the execution of ex sergeant Otieno, who has refused re-instatement into the KDF, ripped Ida's scarf off, shoved it up her arse, and then forced it into Agwambo's mouth.
'Eat sh!t, faking president of the faking people!' daredevil quips. Ruto and Uhuru are seen in Kamiti uniform, lining for beans.

That is the film I want to review! Some day!

Today, lets take a closer look at China's view.

[jakaswanga]

A REVOLUTIONARY SITUATION WITHOUT A REVOLUTIONARY LEADERSHIP IS MERELY A REBELLION!

The wretched of the earth of Kenya, so said, have been proposed a tantalising vision, 2030 or Canaan. They can take their pick! Have their two presidents, or captains of the boat to sail them there. It is a lock-down of stares and as the saying goes, we are waiting for a first blink from either. There will be lots of hysterics I think, but not much else.

Rebellions are soon re-hijacked by charlatans of the old order. Then the revolution is aborted. You could think: from Mohammed Morsi to General Abdel-Sisi, the difference stayed the same. Egypt continues to wallow in an economic crisis.

Friday 10 March 2017

Egypt's annual inflation rate has hit 31.7 percent, figures for February show, as the government battles protests over bread shortages and a deepening economic crisis.
Inflation has soared since the floatation of the Egyptian pound and the slashing of fuel subsidies by President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi in November, as part of a series of economic reforms necessary to secure a bailout loan of $12bn from the International Monetary Fund.

The currency has since depreciated by roughly half, while social tensions are increasing.

"This is the highest inflation rate recorded in more than 30 years," said Amr Adly, a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University's centre on democracy, development and the rule of law.

REFORMS!?

And, because we are later going to deconstruct our two pillars of growth, Harvardian WB Rotich and Yale-IMF Patrick Njoroge, in their intoxicated borrowing to finance growth, yet merely oiling the wheels of tenderpreneurial corruption .... primitive accumulation .... we note

Official numbers, figures, and economic indicators show that both regimes—Morsi’s Brotherhood and Al-Sisi’s military rule—have leaned a great deal on foreign loans and aid to stimulate the economy, though their sources varied.

For the Brotherhood to rule, they often relied on Qatar and Turkey for support, while Al-Sisi has been depended more on Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Kuwait, who happened to be the three major supporters of the 30 June Uprising.

According to Finance Minister Amr El-Garhy, public debt jumped to exceed EGP 3tn, equivalent to more than 98% of GDP.

Worse, the widening budget deficit (11.5% in the current fiscal year) pushes debt to grow even more.

Meanwhile, the Egyptian state maintains sound reliance on borrowing internally and externally to finance the budget deficit and implement national projects.

Al-Sisi came to power only to find himself burdened with a legacy of huge debts, soaring inflation, a budget deficit, and slow economic growth. Through adopting a legislative reforms package and adjusting security conditions, Al-Sisi sought to facilitate investment flow into the country, yet this has not been enough to curb rising unemployment or improve the quality of life of Egyptians.

Two points of the reform were to remove fuel subsidy and wheat subsidy! The jails filled up with dissilusioned hungry young men! It is effectively a military dictatorship which can oversee the nation-killing reforms!

Of what relevance to Kenya then!?

You see, as Raila Odinga and Kalonzo Musyoka come to power at the end of this month, no less than the Uhuruto regime now, will they find themselves –--in the words of the above article---- burdened with a legacy of huge public debt et al!

To date I said, I have not heard none of the Rotichs' and Dr. Patricks' of NASA, nor the radical NRM strategists aka Migunas' and Ndii's of NASA, talk the NEW CREDIT DEAL. The new DEBT DEAL. Freedom from Rotich's peonage knot or not!?

The bottom line is, overall, as already exemplified in the NASA protectorates ---or mini states--- of Luo Nyanza, the same class stays in power, yeah, the same set of policies carried out by the other twin, Jubilee. This means the mentality and the social top-down relations of power, stay intact, which is why they do deals in the dark, and not a spokesman to elucidate.

It is none of our business I suppose! how Oburu and Kalonzo junior make it to EALA!

But the revolutionary situation signaled the need for a new deal in the relations of production, which means a recidivism is impossible in the productive equation, except for the price of a recession, and other variations of an economic downturn. The statistic only 30% of Form Ones had arrived in school on the deadline date is a significant indicator of micro-economics in Kenya.

So the economic crisis continues, and in deed deepens, and with it the political crisis. This goes on until power figures out how to repress the people but pimp-up the relations of production. How to make political repression go hand-in-hand with spectacular growth rates requires quite some mental grit. Deng Hsiao Ping is the modern King of it.

The Asian Tiger Model they call it.



The likes of Mahathir of Malaysia and Lee Kwan Yew of Singapore hold historical fort here. And it was a terrible laugh from the late Singaporean dictator before an Asian college of Afro-students: 'I am a dictator too, but never has been and never will be a thief! Africa is rich, and rich in dictators too, but –--and he laughed in a disconcertingly dislocated way----- they are just thieves, common stupid thieves! This way Africa goes nowhere! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!'


Catching up: Lee and former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad chatting at the latter’s office in Putrajaya in April 2005 during his visit to Malaysia. — EPA

Now, older, I still steal a furtive look around. Joseph Kabila? Paul Kagame? Yoweri Museveni? Jacob Zuma?

How about closer to home?

Uhuru Kenyatta and William Singh Ruto? And then even more close to home: Cyprian Awiti, Cornel Rasanga and some other two whose names I dare not mention!

Luo Cyprian Awiti is the governor whose accounting office was arsoned. Only one explanation there. When I heard, I heard the haughty laugh of the old and late Singaporean dictator ratcheting inside my thoughts! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!

Of towering intellect and intimidating work-ethics, Lee Kwan long ago drove it deeper than Trump's pit-latrine remark! No?

With rage thee hearts seethe; So do I like a mamba, hiss.
The submarine is sailing yes, but it is a spin to the bottom
Burry me in oblivion, O Africa, like thy fleeing youth at sea


NB: A revolution implies the transformation of social relations, and that would be, first and foremost, minimally, the relations of production, and then the political super structure which manages it. If the same class (consciousness and their institutes –--ISA's) stay in power, then all it can be, is a class palace coup. That would just be another faction of the elite come into power, may be by other means than the regular election when the b!tch of power is passed around in mediated protocol.

In Kenya we already have our perfect constitution promulgated in 2010, just like we had another exceptional one in 1963. But here we are, not much out of the woods. That kicks the door in on a fundamental question: what now!?

The most lyrical description of revolution I know is Marx on the bourgeoisie revolution, when the industrial bourgeoisie make mince-mead of the aristocracy and their feudal order. This is the emergence of historical capitalism, live. Let me search for it for a long quote.

Earlier on I opted: the parasitic comprador forced into a quasi-revolutionary stand is an exercise in tragi-comedy. Now, as the latest deadline for the twice-postponed swearing-in of Raila and Kalonzo fast approaches, we watch the parasitic comprador stewing in their own fat.

1. There is the advent of treason charges they are loath to face, and
2. There is the rage from their grassroots which will drive them out of business should they chicken out.

Even the master of katikati, Kalonzo Musyoka, instinctively recognizes this time his last bluff has been called. William Ruto already has no rating for Kalonzo and Mudavadi. That is why he calmly steered Uhuru Kenyatta to get rid of both of them, from G7 to G2, calling them literal takataka noticeable only because they pollute the political landscape. They can be beaten or rigged out without consequences, which is why Ouru Kenyatta boasted to Raila: SI ATA WEWE UIBE KURA ! KILA WAKATI UMEIBIWA, KWANI WEWE SIO MWANAUME!

Of course in this terrible statement Uhuru was drunk and displayed his misunderstanding of William Ruto. Ruto has always been perceptive enough to recognise Raila is a different caliber. Raila's reasons for not bringing down the roof have nothing to do with cowardice, rather, a sense of fatal vanity, which is that he is a WORLD statesman in his own right, and can, or even MUST AFFORD the magnanimity of mildness during a crisis, for the national good. In 2008 when Ruto was with Raila and Kibaki rigged, Katikati Kalonzo saw his katikati chance and, without reserve, joined Kibaki in his crime against the people. But Raila told Ruto during the negotiations: 'We are sacrificing our win, we are going into coalition with Kibaki as the junior partner while we have won the election, because the national interest now is social cohesion, to prevent a total meltdown into violence and break-up. It does not mean we are weak, it defines our strength of character and patriotism.'

It was a logic Ruto found extremely difficult to swallow. Just like Miguna too, and a host of other young hot-heads. It is a turn-the-other cheek logic for most. And for Uhuru Kenyatta, a mark of utter weakness, ineptitude and, dare I say it, the sissy mark of the uncut!

Behold, when Jaramogi Odinga refused to be a Judas and insisted UHURU NA KENYATTA, instead of forming the government as the former colonial power insisted, no sooner was the Kiambu clique in power than they laughed at Odinga's stupidity.

Thinking of the consuming guilt-complex which issues out of treachery, and the moral strength of characters of forged identity, I think Jaramogi is up there beyond the vermin I see littering the Kenyan political landscape currently. They are lowly Mugo's who would betray Kihika all over again!

General R. gives a speech instead of Mugo and calls for the traitor to step forward, assuming it will be Karanja. Mugo comes out of the crowd and says it is he who did it; he feels a sense of freedom at first, quickly followed by terror. No one accosts him, and the confused crowd parts and lets him go.
Later, General R. and Koina come to arrest him and tell him he will have a private trial. Mugo makes peace with this, deciding he will accept his punishment.

–-Grain of wheat by Ngugi wa Thion'go!