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Post by jakaswanga on Apr 23, 2017 15:37:49 GMT 3
VLADIMIR PUTIN MOVES IN TO CLEAN UP YELTSIN'S MESSBut first: Barrack ObamaBarrack Obama too, when he became POTUS in a YES-WE-CAN wave, had a Bonapartist mandate. That is, a reactionarily powerful and run-away rogue segment of the ruling class, after nearly sinking the ship in their greedy recklessness, had to be curtailed to the wider benefit or safety. Overall regime stabilisation needed this, in deed, also to more effectively purpose the longevity of the ruling class at large, in that top position. That would have been the maximum believable change, the agenda which Obama so eloquently throated as his campaign slogan. Anyway, the ideologically incestuous regime of Barrack Obama really had nowhere to go. ---(Correcting Clintonian excesses with Clintonian paradigms -that is the 'incestuous' bit). The total financialisation of the economy, unleashed by Bill Clinton's REFORMS --the Neo-Thatcherite DEREGULATORY ORTHODOXY informed policies, brought forth a Wall-Street Oligarchy no less debased than the Yeltsin brood in Moscow. As public money flooded their way without a prefect, the sky became the limit in the casino game in The Big Apple. Unhinged by the free, to themselves risk-free cash, the Wall Street oligarchy suffered delusions, bathed itself in Olympian infallibility, enshrouded itself in Papal Unicity, and created a plethora of marketed academic myths to underwrite its self-professed intellectual invisibility. The world was truly at their feet. The Chinese too didn't help matters, continuing to feed the illusions and the bonus addictions of Wall Street moguls. The Chinese gave a very elastic credit card to the American economy, financing in part the American purchase and consumption of made in China. Wall Street lived in the sky, hiving off the lion's share in the deal
. Social windfall. We know what happened next. As candidates Obama and McCain were on the campaign trail, there was a meltdown in Wall Street. Olympus came crashing down, and Obama was soon elected to clean up the mess. And Dubya Bush did leave behind quite a mess both abroad and at home. Barry looked the more formidable candidate, looked more blessed of the needed intellectual tenanciy and (East Coast) sophistication to conduct a Bonapartist policy. CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN, he would bring. Both streets gave him a chance. We know what happened next. Soon as he finished his stuttering repetition of the oath of office, he turned out a hoax. But he was an accomplished fake, an utter sophisticate, too rhetorically bewitching, too intelligent and versatile for many to fathom at first. There was also a Wall-street orchestrated cover-up, by a friendly corporate press ---which in the same way had covered up for Dubya Bush in his lies to initiate war against Iraq, post the twin towers 9/11 hit. Once the Big Money boys read Barry Boy correct as a fellow robber of Main Street to the profit of Wall Street, that he was a Subsidy Man to the Big Banks, a malleable Bail Out Man, they fettered and contained him no less than Yeltsin was held hostage. All his cold-blooded ferocity would henceforth be directed at Muslims in far-off lands. Obama no drama would feed them drone-deaths by the payloads. Nor would he bother doing body counts. Bodies? which bodies? aint bodies dismembered beyond count after such a ferocious strike by hellfire missiles? The American people finally figured out the Democrats are just glib-tongued conmen, and reckoned: how about going for the real thing without any pretences!? No Obama third term, aka POTUS Hilary. So the enraged blowback has been Donald Trump! Trump is the real thing, a honest fake and an unfalsifiable buffoon! He looks cartoonish even in real life, but like Nero of Rome, he is an ever vicious danger in his theatricality. His White House, with its nepotism and family power, retro-active cabinet of oligarchs and dominant pseudo racists, is a consolidation of 'reaction'. Indeed a Mad-Dog House. It is a self-coronation of institutional capital. A plutocracy not a democracy. Ignoramus Trump may be cartoonesk and theatrical, but that is because he is the catalyst, the first rough rung of what American reaction could turn out to be if it evolves in the classic route. When a few become super rich, and the rest poor, the logical form of government which serves their interest is an oligarchy, and at its core a dynasty however miscreant. A dynasty is a family rule in succession, royalty. Currently some economists talk of America as the 1 percenters against the 90-niners. This is to illustrate the disproportionality of wealth accumulation and distribution. Historically the accompanying regime should correctly be a plutocracy, not a democracy. So it is a sensible thought: the USA is already a plutocracy masquerading as a democracy. That is Obama's true legacy. We can decidedly speculate decidedly, this is why the last election was from the beginning billed as a ROYAL DERBY, the Bushes versus the Clintons, royal houses. More about that evolution later. Obama was hired to panel beat it a bit after the financial crash of 2008! But the beast proved too unmanageable, or Barrack too weak to bequeath himself of his BONAPARTIST tasks. What he did was, instead of reigning Wall-Street in and punishing rogue bankers and letting ideological flair have its way, he came unconditionally to their rescue. Instead of letting MARKET SHOCK THERAPY sweep away all rotten banks, he was intimidated by the boisterous nonsense of some banks are TOO BIG TO FAIL. The financial sector (which had wisely funded him more than they did McCain) heaved a sigh of relief and went back to their bad old ways. The government set about pilfering the American taxpayer to BAIL OUT the Criminals! And if that was not enough, the FED set about (QE) printing money and giving it free to the financialists. Taxpayers will foot up that (loan) bill too, at the risk of a sovereign default. In this feast of cheap, free money, Barrack delivered huge to his BIG FINANCIAL BACKERS, but betrayed or misunderstood his ELECTORAL, POPULAR BONAPARTIST MANDATE. the hovering danger of sovereign default.And with that, of course Barry more or less buried Hilary Clinton's candidature. Given she was even less intellectually and emotionally formidable than Obama ----(Obama had dissociated himself from the Bush Wars)---- Hilary stuck with Wall street and propagated more wars abroad even as the economy disintegrated at home for the 99%! And her instinctive illiteracy forced her to repudiate grassroot Benny Sanders, to whom Trump was no match in a dual face-off, reported the polls!). Enter Trump. PUTIN'S BONAPARTIST RISE, THE DARK HORSE CHINAOn his ascension, Vladimir Putin, however, faced with the Bonapartist option, did not hesitate. Of course Russia was in a worse state. Having been a KGB official in puppet state East Germany, watching close view how satellite states are manipulated, Putin must have recognised the end station of Yeltsin's Russia. An American colony. With speed, he went for the rotten Oligarchs and cut them down to size. He restored the primacy of the Russian state above the private lobbysts and fortuned puppet masters in the shadows. It was a messy authoritarian operation, but it is referred to in Russia by patriots as the 'restoration' ----of limited national dignity. For instance Pensionados, many of them patriots of the Great patriotic war against Hitler, had lost all their savings and retirement benefits in the banking reform, and then become homeless as residential apartments went market rates. Hungry and sleeping under bridges, winter around the corner, something had to be done. Putin did what he had to do, a menacing growl ever in his eye. Speaking of messy authoritarian operations, Deng Hsiao Ping's clearance of Tian Amin Square is horridly infamous! NB: How does dignity square off against oligarchic fake democracy? I think we have to go to China -run by red pricelings--- how dangerous that ride is! Vladimir Putin then set about reconstructing Russia, and to the dismay of an Eastwards expanding NATO, he developed enough thrust to be a world player. Not power, but player. Russia's economy is too backward to be a world power, but Russia has enough technological and military strategic depth to repel any form of foreign intimidation. That makes a bipolar world. An imperial plutocracy like the USA can't have that, can't resign itself to that duality. And with China rising even more, there is plenty of trouble ahead for the unreformed USA. Obama should have prepared the USA to share the world. He didn't. Now it has to be a question of ' asiyefundishwa na mamake!' During the campaign, Donald Trump in his populist pitches seemed to recognise the need for the USA to share the world domination with others. No chance of that now. He is dropping bombs and throwing missiles with such callousness, insulting international treaties with such insensitivity, he is positively unstable. Yet so much power in his hands. Dangerous times for the world. For America too.
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Post by jakaswanga on Apr 22, 2017 20:51:36 GMT 3
AL L RISE FOR SAINT DAVID'S LAST SALUTE!SUBTOPIC: The unconditional post-humus acquittal of David Mwiraria by his gangmates.It caught my eye. But because I was busy eying something else more rounded, well-balanced and suggestive of untold delights were it to yield its divine hinterlands, I decided to give it a brutal snap, as if it were some fly aiming for my soup of fish. Such errant insects can turn me truly nasty I tell ya. A rotten political elite hardly able to organise simple primary elections pretending divine auspices of cleansing state pickpockets in a ritual post-humus milking of crocodile tears is just the right trigger for my underbelly motions. And aint I game!Uhuru Kenyatta has in his exalted ineptitude ordered scrapped from the Anglo-Leasing list of condemned scumbugs, the name of Kibaki I finance minister, David Mwiraria. His own Imenti people rejected his attempt to represent them in 2007, soon after he was indicted for theft in 2006 and forced off the cabinet. But, shetani ashindwe, Prince Muigai is reported to have been backed and edged on by the nominal opposition heroes, the serial cuckold Weta and the last shot hopeful, Prince Rao. Unfortunately, in funereally proclaiming Mwiraria to be your cleanest piece of linen on your brightest day, there is no accompanying documentation referencing a comprehensive investigation which has, having availed and ordered all the facts, declared the incriminating and subsequent booking of David, the then finance minister, to have been erroneous, misinformed and career malicious. Failing the above meticulousness, short of the common sense protocol of formal rehabilitation, Ouru's declaration backed by his thieving classmates ---and yes by that I am referring to the Tokyo embassy and Turkana OilBlock swindler Weta and the Maize flour dusty and Molasses landgrabber Rao, must be seen as the impunity of a ruling a class arrogating itself Almightiness, so to forgive themselves as they wish. However, it also has a double-barrelled purpose: {1}. to please (I think it is the Ameru) where the culprit came from. This for the purposes of electoral ingratiation, and {2}, a backroom deal to hang together, lest they hang apart. You know with Saitoti safely dead ---by happenstance or design, Musalia Mudavadi is for now the can-carrier in chief of the Goldenberg worms. And he is a NASA principal, aint he!? Now you start yelling Mwiraria is an AngloLeasing SoB, who knows what next? At the same time, there is a case in court seeking to bar Raila from contesting, and yes, you guessed the grounds. This case needs to be defeated, lest it expand to include all. It needs to be done what the wily Mutunga did to the earlier one, quickly, lest it fireball of hand this time around, even if still farce. This needs cross elite concerted action. A blameless Mwiraria so declared, washes them all of the blood or oil in their hands. The oil of corruption which is the elephant in the room whenever Government and opposition come to a parley! with the taxpayer as the paying looser! Now here is some sheet to ponder. citizentv.co.ke/news/court-orders-arrest-of-david-mwiraria-over-anglo-leasing-scam-106969/ Clean bill of health to the rotting corpse? I dissent. The post-humus whitewash is hogwash. Put lipstick on the corpse, it changes not its rotten life and smell. WHEN I TIRE OF FORKED TONGUES They adorn the casket with perfumes Hoping to camouflage the sickly stench The words from their forked tongues Are a pungent secretion of hypocrisy
Whitewashing a black thief in death Is the futile task, of those who colluded With his rotten self and deeds when he lived
David alive was the spider at the centre of the web of graft David dead is still the same three-piece scumbug oozing rot
O Great thief of Kenya! May the Hells lease you forever in fire!<><> That is how I feel when looters of the public commonwealth are officially cleansed. Now, Menoah Esipisu, lets see you try sugarcoat this obvious bitter truth with fine lies!It will be a wonderful opportunity to dive deep into the mind of a modern day African spin doctor! Ach, just kidding, mercenaries are a well-documented trade! citizentv.co.ke/news/anglo-leasing-scam-talk-dominates-ex-minister-david-mwiraria-burial-164206/ Nothing but good about the dead! But remember to read me the Kroll report unedited! I have a considered dissent as you see. IT IS MY TURN TO SPEAK! I am tired of teaching propaganda as history! Even for a 300% negotiated phantom hike in remuneration, my mercenary services, or glands wont juice! 2006 TO 2017 and Ndegwa Muhooro hasn't completed his investigations on Anglo-Leasing! Ever heard of the Oblomov syndrome? meanwhile. THE DOUBLE GAME OF HEARTS We may still be slaves, Bowed before Ethnic Kings We may still be silent sheep Cowed by the ruthless state But our minds are long freed Our thoughts are no longer those of a serf Subjugated all the way from body to mind
From the vile lies of this lot Our mental autonomy is complete When they speak The fictitious reality they uphold Makes us but laugh at their conceit We marvel at how reality passed them by: They are a tragicomic act of make-believe!
With hearts of steely venom, we await the toll of the bell! For an idea whose time has arrived must slash its way through.
Lie to me, O child of our land My ears have developed an appetite for lies I found something terrible which fattens on them The anger of a rising Africa, her temper too, heating up!<><><> Next: decoding the distasteful painting depicting THE ZUMA MANDELA ANAL BASH OF AYANDA MABULU
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Post by jakaswanga on Apr 22, 2017 13:51:10 GMT 3
BARRACK OBAMA'S TRUE LEGACY (A Luo pivot post!)
2. THE OBAMA PUTIN PARALLEL 3. THE OBAMA PUTIN DIVERGENCE 4. NO DEAL TO CLOSE, TRUMP'S DWINDLED OPTIONS
1. ANATOMY OF A DIFFERENCE
Boris Yeltsin, a mentally shrunken alcoholic with a permanent lecherous grin, was putting up acts. He was pretending at running Russia. In truth, he was a dead-weight already wearing a death mask, much in the same way several aging African leaders now are, including Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe. These are degenerated half-corpses holding down a people, while letting all the world's looters and their local hirelings rape and fcuk them up to their fill. Mavi ya kuku kabisa!
In Russia, a beltway of oligarchs, a coterie of financial and industrial parasites, had locked the country down in their grasp. They were controlling all her vitals, ever feeding the president drink to keep him forever drunk so they could run his politics unperturbed. They succeeded, for a time, to have the whole of Russia's resources mortgaged to their narrow interests. (Very much like an African, or Luo neo-colonial regime with powerful friends abroad and a farcical mask of liberal democracy at home. The Luo bit can be the Yala swamp episode for instance!)
The majority of the once hard-working Russian people, dispossessed of their all by a hurricane of plunderous privatization under the guise of SHOCK THERAPY, were flung back to the squalid social relationships of pre-revolutionary Russia, only in this case not agrarian but industrial serfdom or destitute vagrancy, yet, compounding matters, the industrial base was in steep decline, in deep crisis. Such a far-back swing of the social pendulum, necessitated an equally ancient momentum of correction. ---That is a process to restore the primacy of politics over finance, restore state social priorities over Multinationals, restore the supremacy of government (bureaucracy ) over private Concerns, and address the concerns of a seething population. In Russia, this population was one traumatized by the loss of a recent past ---of USSR Greatness. It still had a powerful sense, nostalgic perhaps, of national autonomy and sovereignty. The 'shock-therapised' Russia they inhabited did not look, feel nor sound like an Independent state at the helm of its own destiny. Neither did the 'Oblomovian' Jeltsin look like what Pereistroika and Glasnost had ordered for the children of a dead Soviet empire, --to rebuild a prosperous and glorious future (replacing their dreary Soviet past!)
The sentiment of independence for nations with a burning historical memory is no joke. That is why the British electorate shocked their elite by voting BREXIT. Brussels feels like a controlling, colonial yoke, not to the elite though, for whom the Brusselians bureaucracy is a tool for imperial neo-liberal flag-raising. Yet contemporary France too, in crisis of decline beyond her current elite to arrest, is having two powerful candidates mobilising large swathes of the electorate in an anti EU, more French autonomy pitch. ---Everybody recognises there is Germany at the centre, and then the rest in the EU, satellites. It is hurting prides, ancient prides, leading to nationalist ressurgence. In the same way, Russia was seething under the clownish regime of the Great Drunk. Searching for an escape route.
It is the economy stupid yes, but get the politics wrong, you are a gone class. Politics introduces a fiery concept into the social debate; in the case of a post-renaissance world, these are like the revolutionary concepts of liberty, justice and social justice. People start mouthing slogans like Egalite etc etc; people enshrine them in the founding documents of states, promulgate them, mythologise and embed them in the national psyche, then an engorged elite wakes up one chilly day to happily claim, 'get real, one can't possibly take all that constitutional sh!t seriously! can they!?'
Howbeit --- surprise surprise, there you go! civilised man gets confronted with the Liberation wars, rebellious colonies and the other forms of outlawed dissent at home. Hmmm. hell hath no fury like a rennaisance dream quashed. That is the problem in the Middle East. Medieval regimes long after the rennaisance, gets a lot of people hot under the ... not collar but djelaba and veil! -KABOOM!
I must admit I am rewinding how we, Nyanza Luo Kenyans, promulgated the new constitution with such vigelegele na makofi za furaha, only for the fishy elite to turn around the next day and say, 'HOLY SH!T, you don't think such stuff like CHAPTER SIX are to be taken seriously, do you!?' This turn-around episode offers a ringside seat to how nations deviate from their senses and degenerate at the hands of a vision-challenged aristocracy.
Czar Alexander II abolished serfdom in Russia in 1861 under the pressures of the ideas of THE ENLIGHTENMENT. That ( ptent ideological package of) enlightenment is what I call a fiery concept. But the royal family in its fantasies of divinity sought to keep things the same, so Russia fomented some, and some more, until Lenin and his mates like Leon Trotsky and Kirov came in and put an end to the stinking ROMANOV FAMILY BUSINESS. The last of the divine Romanovs, still suffering from the familial delusions of grandeur, ended up in a disused pit latrine in Siberia' Taiga forest, I think.
Such horrid stuff can happen even to gods who get the politics of social relations wrong. Jehovah and Allah can look back and see the skeletons of the gods that were before their monotheistic rise, and ponder.
A narrow elite, an aristocracy, a plutocracy, any oligarchy or some other form of bio-financial royalty, even a pretender meritocracy of White world domination, bent on regimenting social inequality, bent on perpetuating a political system iron-casting a racial caste system as it were, is sitting on a crown of thorns, or as we say these explosive days, on a bomb. And this holds even if you are the exceptional America, god's every Eden of freedom.
Ending official slavery was thus worth a massive civil war in the USA, just like completely ending serfdom was worth a Revolution in Russia. (I should find time to compare the lives of serfs in Tzarist Russia, and the lives of Slaves in America, the latter United States.)
FOOTNOTE: 'OBLOMOVIAN'
Ivan Goncharov's famous novel first published 1859 has the aristocrat, AiAi-O, Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, as the main protagonist. Legendarily lazy, indecisive but an adorable pet reclused to his bed most of the working day, I.I.O became a folklorish character in Russia. Romantic Tolstoy (the legend of Anna Karenina and War and Peace) waxed ever delirious of him. But impatient men, ruthless and bored of Russian backwardness based on a debilitating serfdom and Tsarist rot, demanding a New Deal for Mother Russia and her pre-historic empire, saw in Oblomov the personification of that which had to be uprooted from the Russian soul, a soul corrupted by centuries of Tzarism and Orthodox Church's prostitution to power: Oblomov was the personification of Pathological Inactivity. Vladimir Lenin, usually an astitute political economic analyst, took vocation into cultural criticism, stung by Ilya Ilyich Oblomov and his jocular popularity.
Why would anybody work hard, the Russian youth reading Ivan asked.
Anyway, our Russian hero Oblomov is the fullest flower of lazy aristocratic mentality. Always, he becomes overwhelmed with feelings of great distaste and repugnance, and sometimes even pity, when peer pressure piles on him to keep up appearances being a busy bee with everything else which occupies the normal and going. These will be mortgages, loans for bigger cars, greater credit card red ranges, careering, productive work, business success, wealth and prestige, possessions and a multicultural harem in every city.
Oblomov can't be bothered any.
And there is one huge trouble to crown it all. He is lazy in physical action yes, he can never make up his mind yes, but his mind is lithe, quick and, showing he spends his time in bed thinking some deep thoughts, he offers devastating, even convincing criticism of the banality of the daily sh!t of dreary loads the hard-workers' have to push to satisfy ambition!
There is a dark tone here, and Ivan Goncharov was satirically pulling legs. May be like Nikolai Gogol (of the Government Inspector fame -which was a set book in East Africa literature curriculum). Gogol was famously accused by the Soviet authorities of ever mocking and inviting others to laugh at just how stupid the hard working working classes really are!
Yeees,
If a hairdresser Josephine Kabura can, rags to milionare overnight, leave a bank with a truckload of hard-cash, and if in Nigeria, a bar-tender can live in an apartment with $43M dollars cash, working hard to be rich may not be the most intelligent thing you, dear parent, can tell a nest of your Kenyan post adolescent work-shy youth, even if most of them are Luos! (I hear we Luos are the laziest of the Kenyan tribes!)
Yeees!
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VLADIMIR PUTIN MOVES IN TO CLEAN UP YELTSIN'S MESS
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Post by jakaswanga on Apr 21, 2017 23:32:59 GMT 3
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Post by jakaswanga on Apr 20, 2017 20:16:08 GMT 3
THE POLITICS OF GRAIN AND POWER, AND PTOLEMEAN ELITES When Julius Caesar pursued rival Pompei to Egypt, bread politics was at the heart of the matter. When the rattlesnake Cleopatra rolled out of a mat at his feet and offered a fanged kiss, the ambitious grain-hungry Roman soldier took a chance. To all imperial purposes, the Ptolemean dynasty had run a ground in Alexandria. The Egyptian state had decayed away in incestuous intrigue and royal in-breedin. The retarded siblings were engaged in a race to extinction. The state was as rotten as The Congo under SS Mobutu, so the Roman General thought his sword could move through to its heart like hot iron through butter. He would conquer Egypt like he had done Gaul, and like he had presented their leader, Vercingetorix the son of Celtillus, in chains to Rome, so would he deliver a Ptolemaic head. He would make Egypt be the grain-belt, an agrarian concubine province of Rome. Rome, the die having been cast when he crossed the Rubicorn in 49BC, would have legions and legions to feed under him, Julius the warmonger and eternal dictator; the wheat plantation called Egypt was too important to be left to the family whims of a rotten, imploded dynasty like the Ptolemy's. He would take a chance at taming the rattlesnake Cleopatra. But her megalomania, more intense than his, would give him the greatest headache of his political career, and finally lead to his doom in a most famous senate scene. Howbeit to date Egypt is still nothing but a playground of imperial interests, some as low as Saudi's own incestuous royals! The General running Egypt has been awarding islands in the red sea to the Saudis, in exchange for cash to buy grain, for an Egypt without bread is a Pharaoh who is dead. Egypt is where wheat was first domesticated, and where bread was first baked! Myth mixed with a bit of truth forged into a national psyche is an insidious threat to any authority. Even divine authority. But Boy Muigai is no Caesar material is he. Neither is his deputy, Pancha Ruto. Let them engorge with good meat, and the 2030 thing they never heard of. They are a quixotic pair under whose watch the hairdresser Josephine Kabura manually withdrew several pick-up loads of hard cash from the central bank. Ksh. 1,8bn? --I saw somebody work out how many suitcases of how many kilos it would be, all notes highest denomination! One could even say Kenya's political elite is Ptolemaic, and the Chinese have figured this out thus. Food for thought. Food for thought I said. How did it come to pass that the once Great Egypt became a Roman footrug for the next 1000 years after the Ptolemaic rot?! I don't know, but I know the score: if in 2017 a fruit-seller MCA' mpango wa kando withdraws ksh. 315M cash (Bungoma), and hairdressers withdraw 1 billion shillings cash in one day at one bank branch (Kabura); when a bad lawyer's couple (O$M) buys 27M worth of clothes in HongKong, and your finance minister (Rotich) who went to the best college in the world (Harvard) can't tell what $2bn (Eurobond) dollars did in specifics, then these are Ptolemaic symptoms you are a meal waiting to be eaten for a century by a foreigner feeling the weight of destiny on his shoulders, or an empire, rising. NB: The United States is claiming freedom of navigation marching her ships through the South China sea, mocking the red dragon in its lair. Showing who is boss. The USA and allies do conduct periodic naval exercises called TALISMAN SABRE, rehearsing the blockaded of the straights of Malacca! That means asphixiating China's main ports off Indian Ocean shipping lanes! A trade death choke! Now, the Chinese are set to be the pre-eminent economy in the world in a few decades. Obviously there is a problem. If this is to happen, America has to retreat from such fantasies as above. If she does not do it of own volition, it will be forcce. So mesays when the Chinese and Americans come to Kenya, it is with the plans of a war in their minds. Considering these imperial stakes of New Rome and Old Rome, can you honestly answer as a Kenyan, that Nairobi is not a Ptolemaic nest of rot, run aground in incestuous debauchery and depravity! Food for thought mesays! NB: So I wished Muigai had called Luo bluff: ' Nyinyi hamta nipigia kura, hilo ni wazi, lakini mimi kama rais wenu -duly elected! I will feed you if you have the patience to be orderly! I wont transform 5 loaves and two fish into a meal for 5000, that one I leave to your Mysterious One, The Enigma, but I will buy Yala Swamp off Dominion --good riddance, you don't want that facking Canadian American do you!? and in partnership with another FDI, using the Brookside and Danone template, I will grow so much maize and cassava at Yala wetlands, you wouldn't know what to do with them. Or better, you would start calling for a ban on imported wheat, or declare chapati eating treason unless the unga-ngano is blended 50% Yala cornflour! --Tunasikizana jameni!?'That is the kind of sh!t a non Quixotic politician would sprinkle on a voters pulling his leg, yeyetoyal to another candidate. Thus did I awake from my revelry. To my utter discomfort, Man Opiyo Wandayi of Ugunja (Mpig) demanded the president tackle Hyacinth! Mama Mia! That is a local problem for Their ExExcellencies Jack Ranguma, Cyprian Awiti, Okoth Obado and Cornelis Rasanga! That is if it is at all a problem worth an excellency's in-tray! I have seen what young men can do if the motivation is right. Take a visit to a Gold Mine for starters. Young men tear rock from the bowels of the earth and grind it to dust in tones per day. In a week they excavate a canyon the size of a rift valley furrow! One month organised labour paid for by the 400m lost in HomaBay. The lake is hyacinth free. I remember visiting Muhoroni in boyhood when they stil cut acreage of cane with machete's. I remember the song and fury of a thousand men cutting cane and dancing war dances. One week, no cane was left standing in the sugar belt. 24/7 9 hours a day. Men at work! When I heard Opiyo Wandayi, I couldn't resist asking myself if this is how Egypt became everybody's doormat since Ptolemean rot!
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Post by jakaswanga on Apr 19, 2017 22:18:09 GMT 3
KENYATTA'S KISUMO BLITZ ENTERS A MAIZE DITCH (OURU LIMBE KISUMO OLING'ORE E KECH) Lke a triumphant Caesar acknowledging an adoring street mob in remote and thus excitable provinces, a van-bound Ouru waded the thronged Kisumu Main street, and was forced into an impromptu show of presidential head. Nervous security men [only Gaddaffi did babes] twitched around the motorcade, satirically obvious by their immaculate dress, and out of place plane clothes. The satire is, plane clothes yes, but they were in uniform, down to the cliche darks. This is they eye-wear type spotted by the so-called state house cop, that is the high afande who was dispatched to personally block Governor Joho from the official launch of the Mtongwe ferry services, officiated by the president here is the 'bespectacled' , uniformed fang being bared by the state at the Nyali-bridge confrontation The skies ruled clear --safe of enemy drones and snipers may be, the presidential head, tortoise like, cautiously emerged from the customized roof-opening and wafted in the bright sun. And in that typical pose with 2/3rds of the body remaining within the car, he addressed the lively throng. Howbeit like all urban crowds, this was a chameleon mob, always negotiating a deal from the emperor, playing games even to the extent of faking masochist docility. So too did this one put up an act of expressing well-wishes and welcoming cheers and hearty smiles, but lo, the calculated softness of a hardened harlot soliciting a maximum tip. The mob wanted the price of Unga reduced. Because 'unga' has another meaning on the urban streets of Kenya, let us specify we talking the staple for Ugali, survival unga and not entertainment powder. WHEN FIVE FISH AND SIX LOAVES FED 6 THOUSAND They say the devil took Jesus to the wilderness for some of them tests. Like, if you are that divine, change rock to bread and let us dine! Wily man of Nazareth danced around that one, just like he would later try before Pontius Pilate, when the Roman Judge asked if he was the King of the Jews, and unsure god-son replied :'you have said so!' Anyway, the scheming Kisumu crowd seemed to be in a devilish mood; but for his Excellency? Would His Excellency dare expose his fallibility, the way he did during the state house caucus on corruption which earned him the titled ABDICATEE? (there is nothing I can do, my hands are tied powerless!)Well, he listened to us, the starved people of the hyacinth swamp, crooning: O His Excellency, thee all powerful King! Change this swamp of hyacinth into a plantation of rice! Change this high acreage of litter near Moi stadium into an open-air mountain of maize bags!
O All powerful Muthamaki, let not your people starve, for Truly thou oath of office, is to mind even those who wouldn't vote for thee--------------- My head swam I swear. Uhuru Kenyatta Akhbar, akhbar kabisa, I must have shouted. 'Ouru in Malo, Malo Malo tok Wang'Chieng'! Loknwa lwanda man wi got Riat kande odok kuon wabang' sani, yaye Nyasaye madhano!' You see I recall the president of the Unga Millers had sneaked to state house Nairobi, to point out to the dim wit that, just like the Government bureaucracy and IMF&WB were convinced, that the market is best to decide money rates, so too do the Unga miller concur it is not the government's duty to order them on how to run their business. That would be taking Kenya back to the days of the two rates to the dollar, the official, and the real, black market level! The Unga-Millers are in no mood to be stopped from making a killing, they have no intention of letting themselves be selectively victimised, unless there is a kickback, a compensation for their 'patriotic incurrence of loss', yes, a SUBSIDY! And the millers won the day. The price stays high. But we have had maize scandals before. And politicians were the profiteers. lessons from Egypt wheat The drought had announced itself long ago. www.treasury.go.ke/media-centre/news-updates/421-cost-of-maize-flour-to-cost-sh115-by-next-week.html So what could Boy Muigai do in Kisumu except self consciously piss on himself? 'tuta angalia mambo haya, msiwe na wasiwasi!' he pacified, undivinely. I came back to my senses ---not unlike the proverbial Ukrainian peasant seeing the light after seeing the divine Czar, a weak and half-crippled Nicolas. I came back to my senses and thought of grain politics $ empires. Rome and Egypt, Mesopotamia, Babylon and irrigation canals. Or cakes, hogs, royalty and starving Parisian mobs!
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Post by jakaswanga on Apr 17, 2017 9:31:56 GMT 3
I know we have been studying and marvelling at the disturbing revelations by the Auditor General on the malfeasance bedevilling Luo-led county governments. [Forget fancy Bungoma and its Josephine Kabura model Lilian Wafula for the moment] We have seen how all construction companies in Homa Bay are owned or controlled by one person, the wife of the public tenderer and payer, talk about bureaucratic incest; we have seen the perfection in waste and shoddy jobs, think of the multi million market in Bondo now functioning as bushland sh!itbelt; we have seen how palm-greasing and clientele nepotism are the order of tendepreneural day; we have gotten to know Madame-R is an ace German garbage collector and recycling company, but with a post-office box at Ahero without an office there; we have witnessed a fresh Jack Ranguma of Kisumu rent to spend ksh.1M/month public money at a 'kick-back' Kisumu hotel, while the referral hospital, Russia or Jaramogi Odinga Mausoleum, decayed away in drought, unable to pay water bills. And then there is the latest Government Disburse Portal as edited by Menoah Esipisu. Okay, Menoah is usually a scumbug full of cheap spin --see him blaming the opposition for provoking the constant presidential losses of temper over Mombasa port and Turkana oil, but on the Lake Basin Authority squandering several tens of millions on a MALL while leaving the hyacinth intact, he does cut deep, our spinning Menoah disk. Knowing all the above, and more, so you might opt to wax delirious in laugh-fits at the patented sophisticates or ''Luopeans' -so-called! What a people full of vain-glorious bull, what a delusional crew of uncut and uncouth retards, soiling their own nests, defeating themselves while yelling historical victimisation! What a sordid pact of vermin! What a people of zero work and full-day egomania!If you laugh more, it is because you went to school after they already removed Ngugi and Cabral from the syllabus, and replaced them with Daniel Arap Moi praise songs! The depravity I so diligently and laboriously catalogue ---the rule of the Vermin Mutants, is but an aspect of our modern, anti-Luopean political journey. It is a shadowy story, dark in depths and murky in thrust. It is actually the peak of the radical dissertation or tangential 'ideological'' offshoot authored by Raila Odinga. It was at its inception dubbed OPERATION COOPERATION. And I already commented on it elsewhere in the ideological faul-tlines thread. In short, Raila would expend his family political capital to mobilise Luo nationalism to help buttress the imploding Moi in exchange for inheriting the rotting Kingdom. A katikati move, a short-cut to the top. This was a rejection of the permanent ALUTA CONTINUA implied in the NOT YET UHURU treatise of his dad, KPU Jaramogi. Shifting base to a brooding, budding Luo comprador capitalist class seeking to expand its accumulation by a deal with the state which remains the major conduit of monetary advancement and business patronage, Raila entered the normal fray. And of course he carried the Luos along. The dire consequences of marginalisation in permanent opposition, consequential exile in Siberia far from power, had changed minds. The problem would be, below the elite, below the political entrepreneurs accumulating with turbo charge ---like Kidero, things more or less stayed the same. The economic fortunes have not equally matched up to the price of giving up the struggle for some real matunda ya Uhuru. That is the political problematic now. The political seat is the entrepreneurial seat. A crowd rush, a stampede. The mutants, the vermin you now confuse for Luos, are the rich and colourful flowers of that Agwambo dribble move. Thinking of the lines of a famous CU song: Let them bloom but for this day, soon they will wilt and decay unto historical dust! For Vision 2030 is a heavy cross to bear, and their knees buckle. And they are no Jesus. Laugh, with restraint. continued.
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Post by jakaswanga on Apr 17, 2017 8:37:51 GMT 3
NASA FALL OUT, NASA FALL IN: WHY THE DILLY DALLY?For months on end, the principals have held the nation titilated by their farcical side shows. To date, it is still unknown the ticket which will square off against the Uhuruto tandem. Why are these experienced politicians this fuzzy?? It is because they are petty and in their personal blindness, unable to identify the priorities of the people. They are thus not guided by the need to articulate these and, better, think out and opt for realistic alternatives. Their economic agenda is no different from Jubilee, so where do they go if not Confusionland? If their agenda is or were, then would it be a tough time explaining why in the regions dominated by the cohorts and parties of the NASA principals, the difference between CORDED and JUBILEED counties, is the same. This reduces their problem to a personalities issue. An infantile clash of ambitions. The effective mechanism for solving a problem is about as sacrosanct as anything can be. There are many ways to Rome they say, many ways to solve the same problem, but when it comes to power, I don't believe the ways are that diverse, nor do I believe many politicians are that ingenuous and creative. Power remains a passion for lower apes like man, and once common sense no longer is a mediator, the Pandora's box of negativisms flings open. Out flies the whole arsenal --- chicanery, treachery, skulduggery, and forked tongues spinning poison. Yes, all those things which have made the corridors of power that blood soaked and the history of MOU's in Kenya a Judas street. Indeed we are standing by for a battle royal within Jubilee as soon as Uhuru Kenyatta enters the lame duck stretch. The common sense option, Peter Kenneth as William Ruto's running mate, is not that obvious. There are passions in the race, blocking vision. In the context of confused ideological formations, or, in our case, political organisations wholly subscribed to ethno-fascism ---they are top down, controlled by supreme leaders, tend toward bio-exclusivity, choosing one out of a desperate crew who made a career out of chameleon tendencies is a riddle to behold. And in the context of Kenya as a ''COMMON TRAGEDY'' where they will act in individual interest to the detriment of the common purpose, what we watch is also the institutional impossibility of authoring and implementing a fool-proofed, purposed mechanism to resolve not only the national flagbearer, but also local posts. I.e the primaries or NOMINATION exercise is ramshackle. Modern concepts are mouthed, but capacity to effect always wanting. nb: EQUIVOCATING 'INFANTILE' (Remember the fabulous Anne Waiguru baby, the IFMIS system, which was to be the magic wand against corruption? Modern and all it was, but in practice, it has proved worse than analogue systems in its susceptibility to grafty manipulation! #that is why the word INFANTILE is used to characterise such an elite. Modern concept, illiterate result. Further example is Nigeria: book-keeping is studied to CPA and chartered accounting levels, e.g Okonjo Ngozi Iweala and rest of the Harvadian Bokos holding pens, but a look at Nigeria's state finances then reveals pre-upright ape scripts! So BOOM, Boko Haram, some call the bluff!) Back to NASA ETHNO CONCESSIONS, THE LUOS IN A QUANDARY My instincts tell me it is the Luos to bite the bullet. Make a harsh sacrifice as the QUID for QUO. This regardless of the fact that of the lot, Raila is the most formidable candidate. The people of the lake are fronting Evans Kidero for the Nairobi county gubernatorial repeat, and that means canvassing the whole NASA fraternity to ''block-vote'' for him. Nairobi is prestigious enough. Then again for the IKULU seat, they want the same for one of their own, Tinga! It strikes the others as a GREED, no less than GEMA's famous monopoly of slots. The GEMA fraternity, nearly twice the Luo vote, buoyed too by the experience of being state insiders (two Kenyatta's and one Kibaki), comes to the national table with a different mentality. The more or less continual enjoyment of state power has invested within them, (actually we are talking ETHNO ELITES), the illusions which foster supremacist thinking. The GEMA elites therefore offer a range of reactionary attitudes necessary to monopolise power, including avowed xenophobia. This means they can shamelessness and arrogantly indulge the fantasies of bureaucratic incest from A-to-Z: The Presidency, GEMA, the VP/PM GEMA, CGS Gema, all parastatal CEO', GEMA, CBK, GEMA. Give and take a few variations! But we 'Luopeans' are different! Not only are we too numerically inferior, and the homeland too far from Nairobi, but our innate level of sophistication forbids such political depravity. Inclusiveness and rational compromise is the pain in the a-ss. Now hold your breath before you laugh some more! I will presently be on it!
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Post by jakaswanga on Apr 16, 2017 10:35:25 GMT 3
GOVERNMENT OUTCOMPETES OTHER BORROWERS, WTF! From two sources, one of them the world bank, we glean it is businesswise safer and more prudent for the banks to lend money to the government than to (privates and) investors. 'They have no incentive!' or so they say, to explain the much-touted CASH CRUNCH following the enactment of the law capping interest rates. The government itself, out to promote investment, foreign (FDI) or local entrepreneurs, in deed pledged to drive forth a culture of business, is 'busy' cutting interest rates to cheapen the cost of credit to both the existent and upcoming entrepreneurial class, but only to be confronted with zero results, albeit preliminary. But importantly the government is confronted with fifth-column resistance from within and without. The most powerful monetary institute in the land, the CBK, is against the policy. The Breton-Woods college of experts or --WB-IMF-- Curia who seem to hold the rights over Kenya's economic pathway, are against it. We have seen them ordering the treasury to disregard the law without bothering with neither parliamentary protocol nor presidential signature. O boy O boy, toyboy heads of state! Obviously the Jubilee regime is between a rock and a hard place, condolences! And then add this Yap! Mama Superior has to keep the trainee nun in chastity chains. But with China being the leading creditor to Kenya, there may be a dissonance here yet to surface in the tone of Mother Superior. But that is not the point for today. That one would need a separate evaluation, thus: 15 YEARS AFTER KIBAKI LOOKED EAST, HOW FAR HAVE WE SAILED? Or is it looking East while sailing West? NB: Was not part of the Eurobond used to RETIRE LOANS on orders of the same World Bank? The eurobond was ostensibly to fund development, but no sooner was the goose fat than it had to be banked outside Kenya, and fraudulently transacted contrary to its original aims, and the same WB gave all that chicanery a clean bill of health. The sheepskin is not covering well, all the way to the wolf's toes. --RAT-ATAT-TAT! Open and get eaten. However, for the purposes of this post, the question is, how can the Jubilee government get out of this jam where it shoots itself in the foot? The Gok wants to cheapen the price of loans to local investors, while, being a 'Karybdis'-like sucker of credit merrily vacuum-cleaning all the cash, the effect is to leave the target entrepreneurs high and dry, and, yeah, the predator banks even more evil, smelling a total kill, interest cap-law still born! NB: We have to revisit the issue why other well-meaning initiatives are failing to make much of an impact. And for sooth there is no shortage of such: The Youth Fund, Uwezo Fund, KAZI KWA VIJANA, SACCO, lots of NGO stuff which are just but
.. See there, no new thinking required. All the good ideas are out there, in fact, already government policy. In the immediate 2 post-Moi years before Kibaki and Raila fell out, the economic thinktank fronted by F rancis Muthaura, Anyang' Nyong'o and David Mwiraria within cabinet and others without, did all the necessary intellectual work
.. (actually, for those with the institutional memory, these were echoes of the original TJ-Mboya-Gikonyo-Kiano-James-Gichuru dynamism before Kenyatta-I succumbed to whatever it was which deflated them so!) And then, Raila-Kibaki deflated badly, we know what happened next. John Githong'o had to go. John Githong'o? A cash-crunch is supposedly a shortage!? -- Try adding up the monies lost to corruption in the last decade, plus. Now consider the opportunity cost, had the funds been in the hands of a Deng Hsiao Ping or Marshall Fund custodian-like Dr. Cutthroat!... and effectively used! What a profit we would now reap! say no sewage in city drinking water for instance! no accident victims dying outside private hospitals in mkokoteni ambulances because such, forget the oath of Hippocrates, don't take the poor who wont pay! I don't think we have a cash-crunch problem, Kenya, I don't buy the crap of we have no cheap money to fire up entrepreneurs, even venture-capital technological start-ups, on the contrary, I think we are awash with cash. But, how do I put it
.... without the heart of Tshaka Tzulu at its grimmest nor the demonic rage of the Hutu-Tutsi political romance at its genocidal climax?
...... let me be soft and mild. It is Easter. We have a 'financial management problem.' A small hitch really. Like systems breakdowns, by design. IFMIS But a note of caution is ever prudent. No Quick fix? One day, Patience runs out There is a crunch of mercy And the nation awakes To her bloodiest hour
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Post by jakaswanga on Apr 15, 2017 17:45:58 GMT 3
Who are the banks squeezing off credit?Small scale and medium businesses? Individual starters and on-going one man enterprises? This profiling of THE VICTIM of capital exclusion is important. It helps understand the political economy of the financial class war. Essentially, the economics of scale, the pressures of marginal returns and efficiency dictate estate farming over individual small holdings, supermarkets over one-man shops, a city-wide transport company of light-rail, tubes and buses over individual matatus and bodaboda bikes, big banks over small banks, multinationals over cottage industries, ie Big Capital over Small capitial. But the social dislocations brought about by unchecked concentration of capital, the inequality and desolation and ruin in its wake, is a political bomb. I found some good examples in the American south, how blacks were excluded from capital accumulation by deliberate bank action. It looked uncannily like the Kenyan SETTLER STATE in its pro-White commercial activism at the exclusion of the native black! BANK LOANS, interest rates, tell quite a political story! Ruthless to the core. Let us keep our options open then. If wars are too important to be left to Generals, certainly money lending is too important to be left to bankers! The pressure is so intense Patrick Njoroge --in a homing pigeon act--- told the financial markets new York the law is TEMPORARY! Hoarding: Every fool knows it would .... reduce access to credit! records are around since literacy in BC! the behaviour of money-lenders isn't exactly rocket science! and the greedier they come, the surer their predictability. This is merely an ideological offensive. And it should be correctly appreciated. what cheek, the hyenas are ordering Kenya where to stall the sheep!So why do humans keep digging if they are in a hole? Enter the idea of a state banks! co-operative banks and tailor-made sector banks .... which of course were killed by the PRIVATISATION DEMANDS of the IMF during the SAP 'reforms'! I would never think a debilitating credit-crunch orchestrated by a network of monopoly banks running a cartel of sharky loans is a new problem in history, especially when the lenders think they are a force beyond the control of any power, mortal or immortal. Surprise surprise! Even Babylonian Hammurabi popularly dubbed the law giver faced this problem, and there are pretty good laws he gave on this as part of his famous reforms, 1780 BC, ones you never heard of out of the legendary eye for an eye or a rape for a rape! NB: By the way a rape for a rape is still the customary practice in Latin American jails, and just about anywhere there is crowding behind bars. Rapist men are gang-raped to hollow oozing tubes on their first night in jail. But that is another story. Since Hammurabi the subject of controlling the price of credit has taken flight. Solutions galore, failures galore. It has brought up and down many empires in-between. Let me visit my favorite crisis, the 'wirtschaftswunder' --- Deng Hsiao Ping's China miracle!? No, something more modest! Ever heard of the Marshall Bank, aka Marshall plan!? This is Germany in the days there were still two of them! I checked: POLITICAL DECISION first: zero-rate interests; state guaranteed loans, PRIORITIES CLEARLY DEFINED. For instance: every family shall habit a humane dwelling, then follows a definition of 'humane'', architectural, social and bio-habitat (water and power supply). Whether such a massive national public housing project makes profit or not is not the calculation. Some people just think in say, in 1950, their people must have decent housing whether they are 'economically productive or not. That kind of thinking is of course beyond a banker. Just like free education in technological institutes. For bankers, the price of education must be kept high, students milked dry, students mortgaged to death by study debts. A caste system of those who can pay enforced, rather than talent arise and excel regardless of social background.But there is a catch in state banks. We know CORRUPTION kills all that is good. Nations of hearts not forged into cold-blooded ruthlessness against this vice, are doomed to the bottom, whatever good ideas they try. Our Kenya is super pious in the worship of corruption, Opus Dei head of the CBK or not. Wonderful cultural homework there. But, if things are otherwise, and a 'Marshall Plan' is a national consensus
.. then.. Run a thrifty regime on it ---so that Eduard Ouko and his his fiscal sleuths do not terrify us with such horror tales of waste----; Run a thrifty regime on it, such that, with the Chinese loans, you use your better senses and succumb not to your Tropical heart of dissipation unto birds and booze, (O, I have only one wife --Kibaki, O, Waiguru is not my mpango wa kando --Uhuru) Run a thrifty regime on it, so that you get your work ethic back to your grandmother who did 9-hrs/day back-breaking labor on subsistence to rear your now very proud clan, Run a thrifty regime on it, so that you enter the 21st century, using the models of efficiency and delivery of service and labour productivity, (avoid Anne Waiguru's NYS blues!)Run a thrifty regime on it, that you practice all the common sense stuff others elsewhere have done to such miraculous results (stop lauding rotting thieves like David Mwiraria!)
.... ... then an only then might we just have our 'wirtschaftswunder'! And Home grown to boot. It is that easy really. Impossible feats can not be repeated as often as social advancement has been throughout the world! If a thing like industrialisation were Herculean, its accomplishment would be legendary. As it is, it is ABC. A walk in the park of history! Which brings me back to that catch, that sting in the tale: CORRUPTION IN KENYA. The rot of the political leadership. The cancer we all know, and know can be treated, and know how. Need I tell you about Dr. Ngatia. Yes, here. AN IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS ARIVED. We say corruption is killing the country. True. All god plans die at the altar of corruption. But I saw a flash of light from the cultural kitchen. Corruption itself can be killed, but as a start if that is too radical, reduced to a minimum. Do I have an example of any country in the world which has contained corruption successfully!? No I don't for today, but tomorrow I might just have such an example: Kenya! Nchi ya ajabu! There is a dark sting in that 'ajabu' business! But first: An execution in Eastleigh
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Post by jakaswanga on Apr 15, 2017 9:44:03 GMT 3
TALKING LUO CULTURE PARABLES: MIGUNA VERSUS KIDERO FOR NAIROBINB: Assume the Whiteman under the spell of capitalist expansion, eying African gold, African lands, African labour, lecherously coveting black puszy and other resources, recognised he needed one hell of a cover story. How else could he proceed to legitimate the looting exercise called colonialism, without resort to ideological subterfuge? There had to be a whole industry called into existence to hoodwink and obfuscate the reality of oppression and plunder, not to mention buttress the accompanying racial hierarchy. Howbeit the industrial bourgeoisie did invent the mother of all cover stories: bringing civilisation to the heart of darkness, saving the soul of the native, bathing the Dark Continent in the light of Christianity. This was a marketing strategy which neither Goebellian yarns spun to (Holocaust) purpose nor subsequent Machiavellian scripts of imperial bondage can bring to mind. (think of Dubya's cover story for his Iraq invasion to loot Iraqi oil and sovereign funds! Think of Obama's consensus generation for the destruction of the Libyan state to loot Gaddafi's fortunes to save the Euro!)But what, come to think of it, minding Luo pivot tales, are the contemporary yarns spun by the (devolved) neo-colonial elites (of Luo Nyanza) to legitimate their current spree of looting? ( Auditor General Ouko recording and reporting) It was when I asked myself this question that I came to the following: a look at two extremes to generate some fire. LUO PIVOT: Which major two tendencies lock horns in the Miguna vs Kidero Nairobi bash? For Ongoro vs Kajwang, which has engulfed orange house in gunfire, mayhem and befuddled comical scandal, Corruption Major vs Corruption Minor will be an adequate take. QUICK: The excommunicated Ongoro is some kind of hubby-basher, a no-nonsense she-male virile. Orangemen wont fok around with her without some kind of rapid counter attack, even in the form of a violent anal fak. She wont threaten to 'GUMO' (bare hinds at in an irredeemable curse) like sister Gesatimestwo Millie, nor will she squat to sh!t on her hands and rain stench at orange house when she is rigged out, no way, such self-demeaning antics are not her stock in trade, she will gate-crush, march and manmunch, manhandle and send men to maternity wards for anal repair. Last time I checked, in the same way Wafula Buke and co once jetted Lagat Magerer out, Dirctor Oduor Ong'wen faired, biting the dust under the feet of outraged Ongoro loyalists or hired hooligans. Spot the differences Nyeri Deputy assembly Speaker David Gichuru is roughed up by youths Lagat Magerer roughed up by Nairobi CORD MCA's Peter Kaluma and Washington Ogaga show Raila their latest 'Abiro gi diel Achiel' Ahangla moves. This is the one which should have ended us above in private The unopposed jig. But when the courtiers rig you out, angry is the face So let us leave the lesser Luo beasts to their carnival of auto-destruction masterminded at Orange House. Vying on MDVD's ANC ticket may be! The royal court's vengeance has been swift. We used to say Kangaroo. But Liz is ODM-barred like KANU used to do with former KPU's. And if Rosemary Odinga hadn't mercifully fallen sick, hers and Eliud Owallo's dalliance in Kibra would be making headlines for the wrong reasons too. Yes, there is a civil war in our hearts for now, we Luos, but when we are done, Kenya here we come! Unless by then Dr. Ndii's evil prophecy of divorce came to pass! Haya, just that you know. Let us now turn our gaze to the real beef. The elephant in the room is of course, on the cultural chapter of the pivot, the deeper parameters of the Miguna versus Kidero oppositionality. Which social forces at play have produced these extreme two? And what resolution modes does their antagonism portend?
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Post by jakaswanga on Apr 12, 2017 22:38:13 GMT 3
CAPPING MAIZE-PRICE GOOD, CAPPING INTEREST-RATES BAD? Yawa! At the treasury I like to talk of a triangle of super aces --Man Thugge, Man Rotich and Man Njoroge. A bit cheeky though I must admit, because I am a severe doubting Tom, walking with my eyes open both sides of town. For one, it does not help matters to read Kenya's ranking on the world corruption index has degenerated more, yet we were already hovering near the bottom. That kind of statistic incites bad thoughts, like our 'aces' could be one huge scam, that they are more likely a Triad of evil like those Hong Kong things who used to compete the Yokohama Yakuza, or, on the softer case, they are flower girls fronting a mafia regime, hired for the PR. On the Hjalmar Schacht kind of 'wirtschaftswunder' depth, I think you will agree, dear reader, that is a scale beyond the scope of our Nairobi Jubilee babes, the best of the hottest, perched at the treasury stools, selling sh!it-loose arz at inflated prices! This is our system run by no-nonsense lean and mean and clean disciplinarians (CBK Njoroge)? what is one suppose to think if they saw the German tyrant Wolfgang Schaeuble in austerity action? Stop being a goat, PM Joseph Kinyua! but of course there is that saying about old dogs and new tricks! Now the beef: MAIZE PRICE VERSUS MONEY PRICEIt is always important to catch the principle premising an argumentation. And when those presenting the case are brainy types (officially of the highest official calibre), one has no option but to argue the detail. And it is the detail wherein the devil is said to reside. Technochratic ace Rotich and his fall-back mates mentioned above, are therefore (officially at least), well equipped to thrash out the devil in this detail. Why is it that when it comes to the law capping interest rates, all caution breaks loose at the top, the Kenyan (establishment) economists sing from the same hymn, official thinktanks and banking braintrusts become identical twins in policy, and, in concert with bureaucratic firepower, drag their feet and weigh the bill down in opposition. Koro gin mana the famous case of PAKA YWAYO TEK? (Try dragging a cat!) - -Lo! Free market you know, they bleat in unison, Let the market decide the interest rate, it works best All the checks and balances are in-built, it is all a perfect self-regulatory system, it is a guaranteed equilibrium, you know! they chorus in consensus Government interference would be killing a goose as it lays golden eggs Back off, this is our turf! We know best what is good for the country and y'all! But, O God, when it comes to the price of POSHO, chapati and may be other 'household daily alimentary canal utilities', the finance minister who holds repute as an econometric superstar begins to wax touchy-feely and tender-lovy at Wanjiku!? Suddenly basta the free market, enter price controls, enter state intervention, frontal action, big cannonic coughs as heads nod vigorous in universal agreement with the WISDOM of a 'peoples' budget!Honestly I smell a rat! So I checked the classics on the uniqueness of market sectors. To interpret for myself, for instance, how the market regulates the rates of Koinange street happy endings, and health insurance rates for jua-kali porn actors. I gathered the demand curve for table salt respective price variation is apparently like the heart of a veteran prostitute at the words I love you, unmoved. But the demand for a blowjob with a happy ending, on the other hand, is so price sensitive that when it hit ksh.50 bob, Nairobi street hookers could survive on a diet of sperm! Some freak swallow maniacs could have died of high-protein poisoning for all I know. But the death statistics (distributed to the causes in that branch) is not my concern today, rather, my concern is the Kenyan economic theory of price variations in whatever market vis-a-vis demand curve fluctuations on the street! And then the RISK PROFILE of the average Kenyan middle and small scale business which the banks use. It is apparently as scary as 'young black male' to a Caucasian cop in Trumpland. The detail I am arguing, following my reading of the Kenyan Financial street, is that, letting the market (which means the cartel of corrupt bankers) determine interest rates, is not a question of principle and market efficiency, it is an ideological choice and institutional power prerogative. But there is a mandatory political game to be minded: the government is striving to be seen to lower food prices because it is scared of food riots in an election year, bad press, bad results, the body of government bureaucrats at the finance ministry are against interest caps because it stops them lining their pockets with bribes from bankers. Politicians can be voted out of office, bureaucrats are technocrats safe from such vetting. There is a tension there. --But at the top of the mandarinate chain, like CBK governor and the IMF coterie of apparatchiks infesting the whole realm, they are pre-programmed robots and parrots who must do their rut by rote; they are brainwashed into a unipolar view of neo-liberal deregulation. It is an article of faith, keeping the state at bay, except for bail outs. This top layer is a lost cause, since, like all pious fanatics in the lord, they of course possesseth the sole and only truth, Ahmen. Market principles rule!? We human beings don't buy that sh!t. Humans do, by definition, intervene to manipulate reality, we intervene to purpose a certain gainful result. We plan, we engineer stuff, correct dysfunctional bankers with for instance a Glass-Steagall act (now repealed by Clinton and Bailout Obam endorsed, well, Trump fully!). So a class in power can socially engineer the stratification of society that leaves them always at the top, that is they effect or 'do policies' toward the perpetuation of their social dominance. -----(May be I should do an in-depth into colonial financial policies designed to exclude the native from accumulation (which would soon put in a position of competiton with settler commercial interests!) The ease with which the colonial sitution illustrates the point makes it handy ---the banking point of class bias, and racial economic warfare!) But there are also other common sense interventions thinkable. For instance, China: it is to control interest rates, to have cheap money, to avoid institutional loan-sharks, and avoid debt servitude to powerful interest far and wide who wish her doom, that an economic giant like China, and rising still, despite the existence of the Japan-led Asia Development Bank, Western-led IMF and World Bank, goes on to launch its own Asia infrastructure and investment bank! Gotta get the politics right, even if that is discovering the wheel all over, again. The way wall-street bankers in their greed threw the American Main street economy tot he dogs, forcing Obama into the mother of all Bail-Outs, you really don't want bankers running your future for you, much less bankers you do not control. Big minds understand this, streetwise politicians perceive it instinctively. Unlike the Eurobond where he chokes on his fifth amendment, this 'posho yes interest rates no' quagmire, should be easy for His Holiness, our Opus Dei custodian of the Kenya shilling, to wade us through. Calming explaining the specifics (of why POSHO SI, Money NoN) in the same economy. B: what is up with the IFMIS?
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Post by jakaswanga on Apr 11, 2017 23:05:14 GMT 3
Folks:One or two people may have noticed my absence from this forum.What happened? Simple. I have been unwell. Since November 2016, I came down with a major illness. I moved from Mombasa to Kirinyaga County where I have some family friends who also happen to be in laws. I am sorry for the inconvenience in not performing my moderator/administrator role for such a long time. But I am glad that old timers have kept the fires burning. Onyango Oloo
Jukwaa Administrator Dear Onyango Oloo, Pole sana, hope you are now vigorous in full again, and some vintage digitals in spe. I did notice your absence for one, but I kind of thought you had concluded things were quiet here, and as some of those expensive and acerbic tirades the likes of OtishOtish and Sadique used to engage in, no longer feature, you had submerged into a goat's hump, reasoning your moderation ---which actually was more often than not a guillotine intervention, wasn't called for. As you may notice, I have also evolved into long essays, having quit alcohol and bar-time, or to be more honest, having been ran out of the mpango wa kando market by MCA's! (that 300% raise some of our colleagues died for has not been affected yet, and stalled antic proboxes can not compete sleek new Toyota SUV's funded by devolution heists). And of course there is no longer Einstein to insult here! So I spend all my spare mental energies focused on main issues! Anyway be well!
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Post by jakaswanga on Apr 11, 2017 22:51:21 GMT 3
FROM WHERE, CULTURALLY SPEAKING, LADY JUSTICE HELLEN WASILWA'S PUT-DOWN OF UNIONISTS? Judge Hellen Wasilwa's much publicised and scandalised outburst provided me with an occasion for some quintessential cultural bemusement, at first. Hell hath no fury, you know, like a Lady Justice whose vibrator ran out of batteries just a shade before the explosion. Such a climactic momentum interruptus is of course worse than the hitherto worst case poetic scenario, a woman scorned. A dirty thought is a devil's gem, and a devil's gem if you strike a Faustian bargain, can vouch in for half your soul. The colonial racist state, like the planaria worm of the legendary fruit-fly in the laboratory, is a relatively simple political economic and social genotype. That makes it a god-send teaching device, a genial aid for decoding reality. In this case the raw reality of simple capitalist exploitation using racial hierarchy. It is a basic model yes, but one knows a skyscraper when one sees the foundations. Studying the ruins of ones past, one can develop a fairly consummate idea of where current mistakes (of the same mode) may lead. Perhaps one can even consequently warn the youth to embrace, like the samurai or gladiators were once instilled to embrace their horrid deaths, their true calling. By the time the first anniversary of independence is celebrated with the declaration of the republic in 1964, the veil of disguise riding the euphoria of black rule ----often aptly characterised as black skins white masks, has so muddied the water so much so that the horror at the bottom of the pond is obfuscated. The (post-colonial) situation is complex, confusing and no longer black and white. It has been repeatedly demonstrated by critical thinking and adequately by factual analysis, that the structures of expropriation and exploitation remained intact; that the state remained unreformed in its anti people core, and the new black elite wielding her, were in deed more committed to enriching themselves at the expense of the ideals of the liberation slogans they mouthed. Judge Hellen's hysteric seizureHer hysterical scream at the young Unionist Doctors arraigned before her bench, kept echoing in my sleep. Amongst other profanities she yelled: 'YOU ARE STINKING OF SEWAGE!' Some like yours truly will know doctors can smell of worse, duty calling. I used to date a forensic pathologist who spent her days digging up not so fresh and not so dried up mass graves, full of roaches. She hated my morbid jokes. As she scrubbed herself for hours at the sordid day's end, I would grin with, 'don't over do it, love, some of us former soldiers find in a faint odour of rotting corpses a pheromone. A bit more pungent then it is positively an aphrodisiac!'After she nearly blinded me with a syringe to the eye, I learnt never to chide a woman for smelling of rot, any rot, even natural menstrual odour. So when Judge Hellen Wasilwa declared the doctors ---- several of them female, were stinking of sewage in her court, I knew I would let the episode roll around in my mind until it achieved some full cultural meaning. When your high culture expresses such pure hate without shame, you take notice. to fathom why, why the meltdown? It was an act of pure hatred. But because it wasn't a personal matter, it had to be in the ideological realm. These people essentially were strangers to her. Stewing in racial hatred premised on prejudice, a Nazi German needed not know a Jew personally to hate any with all his heart. This is also true of all bigots, be they white supremacists against blacks, cut men against uncut Luos, or Hutus against Tutsis. Nor could the intensity of the emotions the lady Judge brought to bear --it was a whole meltdown really in that court, be at the behest of puppet-masters running her behind the scenes. To appease such masters, she just had to adorn on the mask of a cold, indifferent bureaucratic machine, an apparatchik running a death-row without emotion. Like this That is assuming the Lady Justice is so mentally challenged she never heard of the PONTIUS PILATE TEMPLATE. This is one of the greatest instances of LEGAL SOLOMONISM in antiquity. When the miscreant Jesus was brought to him to kill, the Roman knave sidestepped the web of intrigue. He washed his hands clean of the matter! But Wasilwa overdid the attack-dog bit: SHE IS A PATHOLOGY! After this 'international' context in which labour is on the defensive vis-a-vis Capital in its neoliberal, global triumphalism, I now feel free to wax at large and indulge similar Kenyan passions at depth. Let us therefore talk Hellen Wasilwa, some heart to heart deep! She is a pathology. By now you have heard of her! I spent time on the intro. However, there is another detail connected to her show. Listening to the hullabaloo after she sent the Union doctors to court, you may not have discerned the octaves of COTU's Francis Atwoli nor TUC-ke's Wilson Sossion (more widely known as KNUT boss!). How come during such a deep crisis the twin Big Union Guns were so nondescript? Could it be because they are a bubble within an aristocratic labour class whose parochial (class) woes couldn''t be further from the majority of struggling Kenyans? Where did it all go wrong for Kenya's trade Unions? I suspect we have to dive to Tom Mboya in his transformation from a Union and political activist to a mercurial unipolar state bureaucrat. In his ideological limitations and architectural framework of the post-colonial theatre in which Unionism would unfold, we could find the wrong turn! whic birthed these kinds of COTUS! Hellen Wasilwa's unlady Justice like tantrum, is a deep, long trip wire from the past!
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Post by jakaswanga on Apr 9, 2017 21:01:26 GMT 3
THE KENYAN TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS, THE 'BEASTOCRACY' William Foster Lloyd 1794-1852Foster was an English commentator on economics. My best way of explaining his best shot is this: Think of a busy public toilet in a city, with nobody responsible for it. It is a 'Common'
. Utility
. a highly beneficial and universal convenience, but without supervision and regulation ----specified and effected protocol of care, it quickly degenerates into a no-go mess. Why? Individual users acting privately and only in their narrow interest, wholly behave contrary to the common good. I was trying to explain, from classical economics, why we Kenyans are highly industrious and strict in our individual and private entrepreneurial endeavours, but when it comes to Kenya, our COMMON, country and land, it is like we do everything to destroy her as a common wealth. It is as if we are hell bent on what Cheeky Dr. Ndii christened ' tidings of divorce'! As Kenyans in public service we retard to pre-accounting cavemen, guttural troglodytes of no numerical insights -- -NYS, Mafya House, Goldenberg, SGR land compensations, Eurobonds, we mutate backwards to book-keeping challenged monkeys ---Angloleasing; we become authentic beasts --- fake signatures on CBA's, fake title deeds, toxic maize for human consumption
. you name it all, all the way to rigged elections! We hit the recidivistic trail, a government of beasts, by the beasts, for the beasts, in effect, a ' beastocracy'! Of course it is common currency Kenya is a carnival of beasts! As individuals, we build shopping malls bigger than Kennedy Space Centre in America, but as City council, county government, we preside over what Ngugi wa Thiong'o called 'a vast swamp of slums ringing a show-case square kilometre city centre'. Then the few permanent houses in those slums are built to collapse. And not by quakes! This chasm where excellence intertwines beastliness in a double-helix of public/private is, like the social inequality described by JM Kariuki as 10 billionares and 22million beggars, a harbinger of instability whose {modus for] resolution is the first political problematic of the land of beasts. The public space is looted to erect private castles, the public treasury is looted to finance private development for the political class. Obviously the pendulum must swing back for some balance. We can manage the swing back or let it to anarchy. Either way it gonna happen. That was the revolving door between government and business, a beasts recycling enterprise. next TOWARD A RESOLUTION OF THE TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS
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Post by jakaswanga on Apr 8, 2017 14:57:41 GMT 3
cont: ---MORE ON KENYAN LABOUR TO FOLLOW AT FOOTNOTES. But first: THE CURRENT INTERNATIONAL CONTEXTDonald Trump's nativism (or white nationalism) is, partly, I think, an attempt to neutralise the unity of all American dispossessed, the so-called 90-percenters. Donald is a divide and rule majoritarian identity politician no less than Clinton: that is the Hilary part with her focus groups or secretive (ADA) algorithms. Too, Neo-Liberalism's global battlecry of the CLASH OF CIVILISATIONS, is another ruse to supplant the fundamental issue in the global village of Capital. It obfuscates, confuses and channels popular Western (read WHITE worker discontent) disenfranchisement elsewhere --at The Evil Muslims for instance. Meanwhile, as this bogeyman politics occupies public discourse under terrorism and the rest, a scorch-earth regime of ANTI-WORKERS measures (dubbed 'reforms') are rammed through these states. The former 'labour aristocrats' richly fattened by spoils from the colonies and neo-colonies, now find themselves precariously dangling just a foothold above the abyss of unemployment or odd jobs. The old certainties of WHITE PRIVILEGE have melted, the once life-tenure jobs are outsourced to cheap-labour China for instance, or computerised for better profit and efficiency. In the absence of vision, that is an existential crisis. Time for gun-ship diplomacy abroad to inform who is still the top gorrila. Then Left or right, what wing the elected government is, matters not, the policy is the same. It is all neo-liberal orthodoxy. We see that in Tradeu's Canada, Republicans or Democrats in the US, or within the EU --especially Greece, poor little Greece. Then there is France. A bit like a headless chicken now. Yes France!O France! The ferocious push-back on workers' rights under the cloak of REFORM by the professed SOCIALIST François Hollande is a testtube case. Hollande and co, i.e Parti Socialiste, were elected on a popular platform of rejectionism, denouncing the stranded Nicolas Sarkozy 'reforms' as ordered by Brussels, but no sooner were the 'Socialists' installed than they used the special powers of the imperial French presidency to betray their electoral pledges. It became the slow death of Hollande's presidency, and more or less the death-knell on his PS. The destruction of the socialist party (PS) seems to have been the historical role of the banker Emmanuel Macron who Hollande had hired into his cabinet as the 'modernising man'. Macron, the French Tony Blair so-called, is now an 'independent' with a kind of Berlusconi-like FORZA ITALIA movement behind him. It is called France Marche and has the establishment's backing against the Front National (FN) threat. FN? that is the party of Madame Le Pen. Hollande himself has suffered the ignominy of being the most unpopular public figure since Marie Antoinette was reported feeding cakes to the hogs while the mob starved! He wont defend his treachery by seeking re-election. WIDOWED, THE WHITE WORKING CLASS WEIGHS HER OPTIONS, FASCISM? With the white working class so betrayed by their traditional labour parties, the fascists and right wing extremists have emerged into the vacuum, and aint they scaring the establishment!? Indeed, so much so that the extreme right has forced the artificially cultivated paper-thin differences between right-of-centre and left-of-centre to melt. Thus spooked, these 'symbions' who made business pretending fundamental differences now form a pact, and put forth an official joint electoral block, usually called the SANITARY CORDON or QUARANTINE. This FIREWALL is to keep the 'barbarian right' away. It reminds of how post-war Italian politics used to work to keep the Communists at bay, Washington calling the shots. Anyway, today in France we have seen the DEFECTION of Prime Minister Manuel Valls. He is, after chickening out of the party nominations for Hollande's replacement, no longer backing his party's official candidate in the presidential election, but neither is he resigning from the premiership of France immediately, a position he holds by virtue of his party's sanction, i.e. support. It is all the stink and sink of the fifth republic I suppose. When you next walk into the French Cultural centre in Nairobi, hold your nose in the air if you can catch the sickly waft from Paris! WORKERS AND CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL TRADE DEALS The case of TPP and T-TIP Then there is this other one between European Union and North America. The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership How come the European Trade Unions were sidelined while some of the 'enlightened' countries of the EU, like Germany France and Holland, had Labour Parties in their coalition governments? --- In fact the long-serving Chairman of the Eurogroup, the powerful college of Eurozone Finance Ministers, has been a Dutch Labour Politician! Could it be even the Eurozone Trade Unions themselves, like the major American ones who all supported Hilary Clinton against Bernie Sanders, are just journeymen on the neo-liberal gravy-train? that their membership so dwindled they are no longer representative of labour as a consciousness nor class? (The end of their history?) Too little too late. This is what I call the ferocious push-back on workers rights in the international context. It forms the global ideological climate within which SATELLITES like Kenya take their cue, or, in this case, quisling Professors like Nyong'o fire striking doctors and hireling-local-nyaparas like Uhuru Kenyatta swear ---by the last grey hair on the green cant of a red goat----- to do them same to the same! Birds of the same feather operate similarly, dogs of the same home instinctively recognise the same whistle, and twins speak with one voice on the same subject! Omera Anyang' Nyong'o, Omera Ouru, both of you, we hear, studied political science and economics. And in power you want to resolve a DOCTOR'S LABOUR UNREST with mass sacking! As my fisherman father would say: you gentlemen have taken your heads and inserted them deep inside your rectums, and now you are talking through your arzholes! The words don't just smell, they smell a distinct odour. And their meaning is putrefaction. Nyong's loss of temper with the doctors, Uhuru's tantrums of swearing at the doctors, are thus informed and covered. That was the cutting down to the chase, recognising the global, historical context and situating the forces at work at ones local within that. Now let us pretend we do not know all that and revert to our lazy default, we are sovereign. These are the sackers of doctors? Hmm, absolute power corrupts absolutely. But there is also Karma, when the high fall. Lucky Nyong'o fell beside his sword. And lucky Muigai had a narrow escape from cold cells. Sackers can also get sacked of course. FOOTNOTES: WORKERS ACTIVISM AND KENYA'S TRUE HISTORY
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Post by jakaswanga on Apr 8, 2017 11:02:50 GMT 3
WHY KENYAN OFFICIALDOM IS SO HOSTILE TO ORGANISED LABOUR
Organised labour has been at the forefront of the struggle for Kenya's independence, and much has been said, documented and taught, for instance, the INTERTERRITORIAL RAILWAY strike of 1959-1960 in East Africa.
Organised labour remains the most lethal opposant of the neo-colonial infrastructure, just like it was against the classical colonial regime. For the essence of both regimes is exploitation; neither is expropriation done on tribal basis, much as we pathologically obsess with ethnicity in Kenya.
1934: Eliud Mathu and James Gichuru formed KATU, Kenya African teachers union. It has been a long march to KNUT!
THE REVOLUTIONARY BOURGEOISIE GIVE A CALLING CARD
Classically said, the most fearsome product of the historical bourgeoisie revolution is the proletariat. At its most conscious, this worker-class is suppose to be the grave digger of capitalism, otherwise it stays a sleeping elephant. A sleeping giant necessitates a lot of action on the part of its opponents to keep it comatose and tamed. To this purpose, modern capitalism in the motherlands has been an exercise in the management of worker's anger. This exercise, political pacification, has a parallel to be drawn with the tokens witnessed in the colonial enterprise. These took the form of mild concessions to the natives to assuage their anger. More often than not were they bribes directed at the native elites, but these steps merely whetted a mass appetite for independence, and own home rule at large.
It will be instructive to remember that Kenya's dynamite star politician TJ Mboya, was, from 1953 when it was founded, the secretary general of KENYA FEDERATION OF LABOUR until 1957. And Daniel Arap Moi started in trade unionism too, as a Rift Valley teachers representative, and LEGICO member. With Operation Jock Scott ( 20 October1952) sweeping established KAU leaders to detention and the rest into clandestine Mau Mau operations, youngsters like Tom Mboya became prominent, and it is important to repeat, that it was LABOUR ACTIVISM which held the torch, and the consciousness which gave them national pre-eminence as they rose in esteem and Wanjiku's heart.
Behold! It was Daniel Arap Moi who in 1957 moved a motion in the legico to have the government help raise a NATIONAL teachers Union! There were teachers Unions in the colony at large of course, but they were independent and regionalised and 'fiefdomised' ---Nyanza (NATU), Coast (CATU), Central (KTA), Rift-Valley (RATA). Fully devolved as it were!
The history of the anti-colonial struggle is manifestly the history of Trade Unionism --Fred Kubai, Bildad Kaggia, Markan Singh, Chege Kibachia, Tom Mboya, James Gichuru, Eliud Mathu.
At around 1950, after much jostling, Trade Unionists and their militance enter a cooperation pact with political agitators within KAU. It was a volatile Union which reverberates to this day; at its heart, the radicalism of workers whose consciousness tend toward uncompromising positions with reaction, and, on the other hand, the petit bourgeoisie politicians with much trust in the benevolence of the Motherland and the guardianship from Power. In KAU, the umbrella organisation of African Nationalism, the 1947-England-returnee Jomo Kenyatta who had assumed leadership (after James Gichuru stood down for him) showed a bias toward the so-called 'EDUCATED WING'. These included JD Otiende, Walter F. Odede, James Gichuru, Francis Khamisi, Bernard Ohanga and Tom Mbotela. The radical wing, essentially a bastion of trade unionists from the street already flirting with Dedan Kimathi's unflinching militance (armed option), ventured names like Fred Kubai, Bildad Kaggia, Achieng' Oneko, Paul Ngei, and Stanley Mathenge.
Maina wa Kinyatti details these chapters with rigour. Assa Okoth too I think.
These divergent tendencies are still discernible in Kenya today. In fact they play out with vigour, But it will be noticeable, that within POLITICAL INCUMBENTS, and office boys both sides of the JUBILEE-NASA paper-line, former unionists are next to non existence, neither are current unionists in consultancy. It is called the marginalisation of labour in government. It is in part a legacy of Tom Mboya's devious innovation soon after he became Labour Minister in the reactionary Kenyatta-KANU dispensation. This reaction would soon see a split in KANU two years later when radicals like who else buT BILDAD KAGGIA and Jaramogi bolted to launch KPU (KAPU). Remember today the governors have told boy Muigai he can pay the doctors from his pocket if he wants, they have better things to spend their budget on rather than idler strikers! One properly and legally constituted employer may be good idea for docs!? No?
NB: 1962 Saw a wave of strikes with Tom Mboya as minister for Labour. Brilliant man he was, he masterminded the DISPUTE RESOLUTION MACHINERY known as the Kenya Industrial Relations Charter. It was wide and comprehensive and involved and consulted all stakeholders, a classic tripartite affair involving Unions, Employers and Government. But of course it was doomed, and he must have known it, perceptive fellow who he was, because he sat in cabinet with people who openly wanted UNIONS BANNED and the workers, fully under totalitarian control of the One party and divine employer/investor, left to busy themselves solely with task of building the nation aka DEVELOPMENT! Strikes would be a form of dissent called TREASON!
(Gladiators must do and die in the arena, and not dare question why they must kill themselves for the amusement and profit of the nobility!)
Now you see where hotly temperamental Judges like Hellen Wasilwa come from when they send Unionists to detention? And when Kenyatta II broths in public, growling hotter than a b!tch in cubs, swearing to tear the medical degrees of striking doctors, you catch the historical currents sweeping under his high seat?
---MORE ON KENYAN LABOUR TO FOLLOW AT FOOTNOTES.
But first: THE CURRENT INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT
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Post by jakaswanga on Apr 6, 2017 20:28:40 GMT 3
Once upon a time, THERE WAS ANOTHER DOCTORS' STRIKE You know what they say about history and repetitions! And I am game. Kenyatta time now! The repercussions of Professor Nyong'o's moment of madness when he was minister of Health, continues to reverberate! ---or was it his moment of ideological candour, when in a flash of administrative temper, his ANTI-WORKERS subconscious emerged in its true reactionary face. May be his wits stolen away by what is popularly dubbed the corruption of power, he sacked the doctors on strike and vowed how easily they could be replaced by others from abroad or the neighbours! Well, you know 'heart and brain surgeons' like Magoha and Kaimenyi, we don't produce them conveyor belt roll-outs like we do other professions --economists, accountants, teachers, lawyers, historians, politicians, you name it! Nor can we, as Miguna Miguna is wont to say of the peculiarities of the Kenyan anti-meritocratic system which recycles crooks into politicians, easily METAMORPHOSE lesser others into skilled docs! Hopefully Medicine is still a restricted profession; the clients (aka patients) have the deepest phobia for fakes and incompetents, rightly so. (May be this phobia is the reason why those Kenyans with money always go abroad!? They don't trust locals, like white settlers of old who could never let themselves be touched by a black doctor, even a visiting American one! Similarly our elites are somehow convinced Greats like Urologist Magoha and Periodontologist Kaimenyi only train ----again Miguna's scorching critique of Luo politicians comes in handy---- specialists in mediocrity!) Even to fix a broken leg Mwai Kibaki had to go to England, just like Bomet Ruto to South Africa to fix a broken nose! May be John Michuki (like the late Nyeri govenor of yesterday) couldn't believe he was dying until he heard it from doctors abroad! Real middle fingers at our Chiromo school by the elite! But that was an aside. The point I want to make is this: this taking for granted of Kenyan workers by the cream of the land, even highly skilled workers like medics, is now again being exemplified by non other than the Amherst graduate of an unknown thesis. Indulging his temper once again, His Excellency THREATENED DOCTORS, that, if they exercise their constitutional right to work stoppage to press for the release of their wrongfully confiscated salaries respective the recently ended strike, he would exercise the import of the Anyang' Nyong'o template. That is have them de-registered from the medical board. That means they then can no longer practice medicine in Kenya. Disbarred at his excellency's leisure! www.nation.co.ke/news/Uhuru-pay-doctors/1056-3878750-13a712az/index.html He swore! Common, I think the DN is being sensational. Over ther at KNUT& KUPPET, I do not remember any legal advisor nor consultant cautioning us, that STRIKE ACTIONS are at the leisure of His Excellency the POTUS! There is a protocol yes, but it involves consultation with Unionised members and stake holders, plus a rational expose or equivocation of labour stoppage as a LAST RESORT. If the president wants to ban strikes before the 2010 Constitution is wholy mutilated like the Lancaster one at his father' hands, he must first declare a state of emergency or some other administratively construed POWER-GRAB. AG Professor Githu Muigai please, stop your Seneca act and stay the kid away from Neroistic fantasies of divinity! NGAI! What should we do with the rogue professor Cicero Anyang' Nyong'o who seems to have wrongly influenced our impressionable Amherst alumni? No wonder Kenyan culture produced a KARMA MOMENT for Nyong'o. During the Joho-Obado fracas in Migori, there is a very unflattering picture of the gubernatorial aspirant, fallen and cowering under the tables. May be he was later attended by one of the doctors he threatened to sack when power corrupted his senses. NB: This Kenyan disdain, total institutional and ideological hostility toward organised workers in the defence of their rights (remember Judge Hellene Wasilwa at Dr. Oluga and his team of Union negotiators?) is historically explicable if we cut down to the chase. And that is exactly what I will attempt next, quick time allowing.
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Post by jakaswanga on Apr 5, 2017 22:22:39 GMT 3
JEROEN'S SHARP KICK TO AN OPEN WOUND, COMING TO A COUNTY NEAR ME? A few days ago, toward the last week of March 2017, the outgoing chairman of the Eurogroup, outgoing (thus interim) Dutch minister of finance Joroen Dijsselbloem, gave an interview to a German media outlet, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. He ventured coded stuff which has caused quite some commotion. He reportedly snorted his nose, that the Southern Countries (aka the Siestazone) had borrowed lots of money ostensibly for good causes, but once the money was in their hands, PIIGS that they are, their oversexed Mediterranean nature overwhelmed their better senses. They spent the money on delicacies like booze and birds, but when the creditors came calling, PAY UP! they turned into shameless beggars, thinking aid, bail-outs and debt write-offs are their birthrights! That is when 'solidarity flies out of the window for me!' the pro-German austerity Dutchman fumed. THINKING OF JEROEN'S ANGER AT A COUNTY NEAR ME I think there is a crisis in Luoland. This, short-cutly said, is a local aspect of the general crisis of the capitalist underdevelopment of Africa. The gap today, between African countries and their Asian counterparts which were at a comparable level just over half a century ago, is the best illustration how deep this crisis is. There have been spectacular failures in Asia of course, but I seem not able to come up with EVEN ONE spectacular case of African industrial success. It is actually an epidemic of state under achievement, and our counties are threatening to go the same way. I view the daily scandals we come across in public administration, maladministration in Luoland, as symptoms of this crisis. Amongst others are: the catalogue of corruption enumerated by the Auditor General; in-ability to meaningfully collect garbage, total surrender to the trenchant hyacinth menace, and the lack of noteworthy, cutting-edge, ground-breaking consultancy delivered by local institutions of higher learning. This means they really do not engage in researching the realities of the social environment within which they operate. (For starters, Riat, Maseno, JOIT Bondo, Mawego etc etc, should really have been able to jointly come up with a foolproof hyacinth removal system!) Pondering the above, I went to look up some classical concepts to help with my insight. I therefore will touch on the TRAGEDY OF COMMONS to explain some of the self-evident self defeatism afflicting Luo Nyanza. It is possible I changed my mind on this concept and preferred to apply it to the KENYAN COMMON WEALTH. --- FOOTNOTE presently. Most importantly, taking a trip down the classical lane, I took a quick look at why, and in deed how come, the industrial bourgeoisie -----defined as a most revolutionary class by some classical commentators, overthrew and superseded the ARISTOCRACY. This historical ascendancy unto social supremacy of the bourgeoisie, first in Europe and thereafter world domination, it occurs to me, could not have come about if this revolutionary class preferred consumerism to investment in science, appreciated fiction above factology, nepotism above meritocracy; or displayed accounting illiteracy, giving way to stone-age book-keeping mores as has been explicated in the Luo counties (throughout Kenya and Africa at large!) I could say, I suspect a major contributory factor to the social crisis in Luoland -----the maintenance, policing and enforcement of backwardness,------- is that, a historically retarded class is at the apex of power. This statal bureaucracy (mostly organised in the ODM) is a modern day parasitic nobility and political aristocracy, As it were, its instincts are social regression. Examples of social regression are rigged elections (negating the peoples will), rigging exam results, and, of course, a visit to the nearest public hospital near you will be highly informative. A TARRAM road is also a good example of social regression, given the status of Nairobi University (faculty of civil engineering) as an African leader! There is thus in (practice) the field, a mental implosion of professional competences. The implosion of accounting as a professional competence in the Luoland counties (and in deed all the countries of Africa including Squeaky Clean Rwanda!), is a particularly powerful device of regression. It necessarily to gives the powers that be, a free pass to swindle off public monies, and loot: primitively accumulate and at once indulge waste. Anyway, keep all that in mind as I write the following. I am pressed for time so the organisation may be topsy-turvy. THE OTHER IMPORT OF JEROEN THE OUTRAGED EUROCHAIR Now this will be a bit touchy for the long-toed. The national life expectancy for women is 65 years. Down in Nyanza one has to do minus. This means the recent positive budgetary announcement by the minister of Finance (Henry Rotich) that he will be funding essentials to old Kenyans at the age of 70 is, statistically said, an oxymoron. That 70 would be a freak statistic, may be denoting medical wonders performed on the very very rich, like the Kenyatta daughter who died today at a ripe age of 89. And those very very rich, like Kibaki, need no paltry ksh.2000/month handout from Rotich anyway. Nevertheless, reality being odder than statistics, Luo Nyanza will on head count, boast quite a grandmother lucky enough to be a freak statistic, ie +70. Howbeit toothless gums not withstanding, these shrivelled skeletons will pronounce the following to the correct diction: DANIDA, NORAD, NOVID, USAID. This is because it is likely without the largesse of the above, they would now be many feet under, succumbed conform the Luoland life expectancy which is far below the national average. Here is Obama coming to the rescue. Of course Trump does not share Obama's Kenyaphilia. [ Such Nyanza old ladies of course, practised in stretching out their wrinkled palms for handouts from abroad, have had to at least, for a show of gratitude, learn to pronounce correctly the name of the angels! The Europeans through DANIDA, NOVIB OXFAM and NORAD------ are even on record paying for toilets to be dug along the beaches of the lake, so as to prevent the fishermen from contaminating the for-export proteinous perch with their faecal-matter laced fingers! (picture for a moment Jeroen's nose on this detail!) This imposition of hygienic standards is important. For, when you link it to what the Neurozone Kindhearts really think deep within, as was revealed by an outraged Jeroen Dijsselbloem in moment of candour, then does a picture emerge of contempt hidden behind supremacist empathy, scorn camouflaged as understanding, and, for entertainment, rogue experiments in social anthropology financed to measure where, in this case near the bottom, the natives of the lake rank in the scales ape evolution! When whitemen have to pay for toilets around Lake Victoria so that the people of the Lake don't infest their fish with sh!t, and one is talking early 21at century after the digital revolution, not to mention their excellency's the governors driving around pot-holes in sleek convoys of SUV's, then you know it is a moment to halt and think: HEY LUO NYANZA, WE HAVE A PROBLEM! The problem is, thinking always did require a head! A human head I suppose! Aristocrats are in-bred parasites too retarded for such a task. What is the tragedy of the commons? 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Post by jakaswanga on Apr 4, 2017 22:25:35 GMT 3
THE BATTLE OF CONTROLLING MONEY, THUS SOCIETY Controlling the supply of money Controlling the distribution of money Controlling the price of money, the renting rate, and the rate of circulation. The Bankers of Kenya want it all. Don't they!? www.standardmedia.co.ke/business/article/2001234098/commercial-banks-now-gang-up-to-deny-kenyans-cheap-loans These Kenyan bankers feel connected enough, powerful enough to pull strings, to throw temper tantrums at one and all, threaten the government, withdraw their vital service (loans), and freely engage in economic sabotage without fear of retaliation. They are the real bosses of the land, in their minds. When Bankers gang up to deny Kenyans 'cheap loans, I take a long think. I think of what would have happened without the cheap loan arrangement called THE MARSHALL PLAN to Germany after world war II. The Marshall cheap-loans plan, and the thrift of its management of course, is called the mother of the wirtschaftswunder. I am no believer in miracles, much less economic ones, but for Germany I wont belabour the point. Well, even if Kenya were to be awash with cheap credit, I know the Eurobond-challenged Kerio Valley goat Rotich is no Ludwig Erhard, nor is the Muthaki Ouru a kanselier Konrad Adenauer, but you get the gist of the bases I intend to touch. ----2030 is not that far off, and if isn't arbitrary but is a real a date with destiny to be kept, there is stuff we do, and stuff we don't. That is if a country wanna keep it real, go real places in real time and pace. My opinion is, these bankers of Kenya, controlling Money in all its facets, are abusing their power and, consummate their narrow interests, sabotaging the evolution of Kenya toward her full flowering and emergence. Therefore, their liquidation should be on the political and economic agenda. Give Safaricom a Banker's licence too. And the 70k limit moves to 7M. So that 90% of Kenyans can bank their salaries at Mpesa or Airtel if they wish. Metadata speaking, no humans. The truth is algorithms have already rendered banking managers processing loans obsolete. And these obsolete things are standing in Kenya's path toward her realisation. Vision 2030, money is a big part of it, bankers not necessarily. Smart computer programs will do. Of course history also shows other ways by which nations get rid of obsolete things making believe divine.
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Post by jakaswanga on Apr 4, 2017 20:49:35 GMT 3
Footnote: explaining JM to millennials. Took me some time to come to it. jukwaa.proboards.com/thread/9421/kariuki-robert-ouko-murders NB: My experience in Kenyan classrooms reveals to me millennials tend not to know what, or who JM was or is. Of course many do not care, but for the benefit of those millennials of higher aptitude who may be bothered, hear me wax offside. JM is Josiah Mwangi Kariuki. He was the Mpig for Nyandarua North, murdered 1975 March. BTW: budding Phd student and former Intelligence chief Michael Gichangi, whose fortunes and downs I traced here, might just feel the higher need to write an insiders thesis on this infamous episode. That is if a phat chance were to exist he could get an inkling of a higher calling than re-mouthing platitudes, or rehashing the bland non-committal poker blurbs of rote, habitual intelligence subterfuge. Happy man or dead mind? (thinking of McNamara about wars and Generals!) May be folks like yours truly might just be obliged to help the dyed-in-the wool soldier (read robotised mind) take his first tentative steps at critical thinking! That is what we born walimu live for -----serially betrayed KNUT/KUPPET/UASU CBA's or not! (to watch old virgin minds open up for thought, like shy thighs, or lips, for the first taste of stiff c.ock, is a reward in itself! Hossana Hossana!)Now he, JM, immersing himself within the people and getting contaminated with their aspirations, was evolving toward 'class suicide', wherefore with his glib tongue and populist touch he was a flashing clear and present danger to the thieving establishment. His aim at the presidency, a whisper increasingly resonating around the country, would be a worst-case scenario to the ruling KANU clique. So he was liquidated, under the watch of the father of the nation, Kenyatta snr. And he continues to be obliviated under the sun! And here is a caption from Rosemary Kariuki, the daughter. Gichangi's delayed Phd thesis, unredacted, any takers! Truthers I mean!? At least the man Kenya wanted to forget, TJ Mboya, has been memorably rehabilitated outside the National Archives, but JM is still wholly in the cold. In fact the 21st March, which used to be his commemoration day when University student Politics still produced the ilk of Mapambano Kajwang' and Mgangha Mwandawiro, is eerily silent nowadays. There is a dark saying about a people who do not know their history. They are pretty easy to manipulate and fool out of their future! Rosemary Kariuki Waithaka: Unquenchable thirsts to know? Fires burning inside to remind? NEW CONSTITUTION, OLD BOOKS I in my tomb of amnesia drunk on the drops of the Lethe I serve you your history of Kenya
I spin a yarn as fake as our Democracy Which is but a kicking lootocratic plutocracy Where the essentials of book keeping are extinct!
JM had us under hypnosis But BG the hero cop and co Saved us from the populist trance
No doubt Robert Ouko committed suicide Then overcome with grief at his vile deed Changed his mind and did a resurrection gimmick But only to burn his own body and hide his odd tracks
In the land of no truthers What is a fact but an alternative meaning? O Teiresias of Thebes, how I miss thou blind in sight!
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Post by jakaswanga on Apr 3, 2017 20:26:34 GMT 3
Good to keep in the archives of Jukwaa, a perspective! To be continued!
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Post by jakaswanga on Apr 2, 2017 17:46:00 GMT 3
JEROEN'S SHARP KICK TO AN OPEN WOUND, COMING TO A COUNTY NEAR ME? A few days ago, toward the last week of March 2017, the outgoing chairman of the Eurogroup, outgoing (thus interim) Dutch minister of finance Joroen Dijsselbloem, gave an interview to a German media outlet, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. He ventured coded stuff which has caused quite some commotion. He reportedly snorted his nose, that the Southern Countries (aka the Siestazone) had borrowed lots of money ostensibly for good causes, but once the money was in their hands, PIIGS that they are, their oversexed Mediterranean nature overwhelmed their better senses. They spent the money on delicacies like booze and birds, but when the creditors came calling, PAY UP! they turned into shameless beggars, thinking aid, bail-outs and debt write-offs are their birthrights! That is when 'solidarity flies out of the window for me!' the pro-German austerity Dutchman fumed. There may be other sanitized versions in as many self-respecting English papers! But there is this Italian cartoon which is as tasteless as the subject is tasteful: A well-proportioned belle lies spread out on a mattress of Euros. The room is awash with exclusive vintage drinks. She is rubbed in Champaign, caviar, yoghurt ..... say all the chummy goodies a man given to seedy self-indulgence can lick off any part of an offering hottie. Long tongues issue out of the faces of Crisis-peak Prime Ministers from the South; they are all over her, lapping her up, slurping yummy yummy and backslapping each other in excess if orgiastic camaraderie, but, howbeit, the places they have cleaned up on her body reveal the tattoo DEBT, all over, in a geometric progression! Jerome Dijsselbloem is in the doorway, a party gatecrusher, his c.ock misshaping his underwear into a tent, his face a contortion of disgust and pure lust! The 'meal' coaxes him with a tongue-out, open mouth inviting look!The good times before the bad times! Anyway The roof has literally come down. Current PortuguesE premier, Antonio Costa, declared the Dutchaman's remarks racist, xenophobic and sexist and demanded he resign forthwith from his chairmanship of the Eurogroup. The leader of the Social Democrats in the Europarliament, Italian Giani Pitella, loudly asked everyone around if the cranckpot Hollander belonged to the same progressive movement really. But the Eurogroup chair has refused to apologise nor withdraw the controversial remarks: 'they preffer to misunderstand me and avoid the issue!'Some will remember the famous altercation between debtor Greece and creditor Germany, where we had this Jeroen, an intellectual inferior but social superior of Varoufakis, do a hatchet man's job for the Germans. Frying pan into fire. It wa a hard lesson in the relations of power. A debtor who wants credit relief, bail out or debt restructuring is yes, an if wishes were horses, beggars would ride tragedy. superior intellect going through creditor exercises!I just had to go and check what Kenya's debt portfolio is, and what we use our loans for! and how wisely! (well-endowed belles or not!?) But first I had to visit home and find out how we explain away the Auditor General's evaluation which tabbed 400M embezzled. And that was just one financial year! Was Ouko mistaken, so poor at Arithmetic he should be fixed for Libel? Or, pray tell, is it a case of, wait for it...... 'once the money was in our hands, lusty PIIGS that we are, our oversexed tropical nature overwhelmed our better senses. We spent the money on booze and birds!' and real estate with fake title deeds!Did I catch Rotich paying up (recurrent expenditure) with loans fomr China? That should mean part of the kitty the counties are wasting away on booze and birds is actually DEBT! I am not sure I want a Chinese Jerome to express himself more diplomatically when we go bust and put up a Southern European act! Next: AWITI'S HOMA BAY EXPLAINS why Ouko's figures are bogus, and must be treated with the contempt they deserve! But first, a clue. First, a head count on 'sponcy's' or first ladies! Someone is lying naked!
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Post by jakaswanga on Apr 1, 2017 15:45:17 GMT 3
STEELING KALONZO'S PUNCH Joho may have got a D-minus, and carries around him the smears of pharmacy --like Uhuruto the stench of a state rotting in graft, but G-001 seems to possess in abundance that which makes a man a man. It is called courage. This is what distinguishes the men from the boys (or as the saying goes since Thatcher, Iron Ladies from puszies). And nowhere is courage more needed than when power becomes abusive, and the rulers full of impunity. Why did Mandela served 25+ years? Jomo Kenyatta 10, and, if you bother to keep tab, why are those who served the longest SOLITARY CONFINEMENT in the USA jails, blacks aligned to the black ' consciousness' panthers party? Their crimes were black consciousness, deep sense of self-awareness, historical self mapping and thinking and acting for the own self and kind, remembering Steven Biko too. It is when a boy stands up against oppression, even if he is a former pimp like a late great Black leader in the USA, that he will know Shakespeare is wrong! A scorned woman hathn't the fury of threatened power. (OTHERWISE: It is when a woman grows balls and dares challenge Papal orthodoxy or patriarchal divinity that she will be burnt as a witch!) It is so with G-001-Joho, that the alleged crimes he is being shadowed for by the Kenyan state are not the issue. Pharmacy? They are more prominent, wholesale pharmacists around town e.g the Othaya Narc activist. Untouchable no doubt. In fact, Jubilee is the political home of such chemists. See the American list! ODM is more a petty smugglers paradise, a small town looters mess, and, occasionally, big-time parastatal sackers like Kidero. But with thieves like Nico Muraguri promoted from health to Lands, with every state tender a rip-off scandal, and the Eurobond kitty unto thin air melted, unleashing KRA sleuths on Joho's accounts accounts for what it is, state vengeance on behalf of the injured ego of the president, as a would-be King of Hearts thwarted. For the bigger picture ----we will follow the politics and money of Big Port economies elsewhere. The battles over the who-res Shanghai, Singapore, New York, Baltimore, LA, Rotterdam, Hongkong, Osaka, Beirut, are documented enough. And come to think of it, what really was that Trojan war all about? Container ports and ship rests!? But before all that big game, there is of course the short-term interest of 2022. Joho, like Peter Kenneth, like William Ruto and Evans Kidero, are in the thick of things. But Joho seems to have something the rest do not have. For starters he achieved the name Sultan by fronting the ODM faction of CORD in a clean sweep of Mombasa seats in 2013. The not ODM votes went to sister Wiper. Those are your Omar Hassans and Hezron Awitis. And nobody talked of rigging. That means anybody going to be running against Joho on anything, has to take note. A man must have something apart from pushing posho to have that kind of electoral appeal. It could even be an articulation of historical grievance, who knows? But the powers that be have decided they can not match him openly, so they must bring the state to bear heavily upon him. I guess in the old Kenyatta days, they would do a JM on him. State-orchestrated bureaucratic lynching. Kalonzo must find his voice quick, a voice which rhymes with the masses, a voice which packs grassroots gravitas and not boardroom MOU's, so that he does not, like Mudavadi under the spell of Nick Wanjohi, sit around waiting for free-bies, while, in truth, a fly caught fluttering in a spiders web, soon to breath its last. Kalonzo must go out there and get scars in combat, accumulate red badges of courage like Joho. Or people like Alfred Mutua et al will piss on him as they pass him by. And should he follow Nyenze's advise and bolt from NASA, is that really not just another route to oblivion. The Emali declaration not withstanding. Either they hang together and possibly deliver, or hang apart together and certainly go under ----sooner than the August date. For as soon as NASA breaks, it is a foregone coronation! Muthamaki Hoye! Uhuruto Huraah! Footnote: explaining JM to millennials.
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Post by jakaswanga on Apr 1, 2017 10:59:38 GMT 3
ON MUSALIA MUDAVADI, RAILA ODINGA, KALONZO MUSYOKA, AND THE BOARDROOM DUPES! How can the masses decide Aren't they sheep of no mind? Those born to rule must not abdicate They must wait to be removed in doom!
Of the people by the people for the people? The heavenly kingdom taking its time a-comingI wish I could discount it as grimed propaganda, the recent report, following Mbuvi Sonko's TV meltdown, that Musalia Mudavadi's futile, actually abortive vie for the presidency in 2013, was the half-baked brainchild of the mentally offbeat but elitist Gikuyu thinktank, headed by their then houseboy pet consiglieri, professor Nick Wanjohi. Nick was performing under Mwai Kibaki, and in the detail too, was another DP-allied Kibaki cousin from Laikipia. The latter was acting as the paymaster general. It was essentially a coup against the abrasive Muthamaki's ascendancy. The instincts of this posh, pretentious wing of Gikuyu money was Uhuru with his ICC infection was too toxic for business. A malleable, wormy-spined Musalia would just be fine. Of course fixing the future of whole peoples, or pretending to (so as to secure power and nyakua their resources) is a favourite pastime of incumbent power, ever plotting away in posh boardrooms and vile courts. Outsiders never know what the exclusive Bilderberg group agree to, whenever they gather in their tight-lipped occultically white conclaves. THE SEVEN SISTERS Perhaps highly illustrative too, will be the Al-Jazeera documentary, The seven sisters, Energy Corps, sharing the oil-spoils of the world. A Kartel. Watch for the detail of the political murder of the career of Mohammad Mosaddegh, the elected Iranian Prime Minister who nationalised oil fields. ---Oil!? Turkana nationalists here we come! Now, FF to a speech by Khomeini on the declaration of the Islamic republic. The Imam beseeched Allah, His Name ever High, to bear him witness before his people. 'Moussadeg was a man of secular ways, but heretofore and forever in all Iranian history, accord him the honour reserved only for the Prophet!' Or so my guide informed me in my wanderings around that world. The men who, with treacherous heart for Iran, toasted their famous victory over Moussadeg and crusaded to have their pet, The Shah of Persia, inducted to the realms of divinity as a freedom fighter and pillar of stability, may emerge from their graves to wonder if Shakespeare was really right. The bard famously claimed hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. May be the fury of a degraded nation refinding its pride surpasses the imaginations of even the greatest of bourgeois romantic poets. Last time I heard, Harvadian ace Barrack Obama had washed his hands of the Iranian hot potato and handed it over to a buffoon and his mad dog troupe. Lo, very fine we hardly ever learn anything from history. Fixing peoples futures never goes according to the colonial, patronising plan, a plan always out to swindle others of their territorial wealth, dignity and futures. This clash of intentions makes history a very interesting read but a touch too bloody. Saddam Hussein's invasion of Iran was facilitated by the same clique of rogues to derail the rising Islamic republic. The self-professed grandmasters of the geo-political game. Last time I checked, modern Iraq hardly looks anything in the neighbourhood of the status of Iran. But O! The vanities of men! Hard-headedly ever butting! Like rams fooled by own reflection ever charge-ramming a shadow on a rock!So did MDVD the son of Mudamba swallow Nick Wanjohi's line to the sinker. He absconded last minute, in double-crossing fashion from his deputy captaincy of the ODM. Mesays it is the kind of gullibility or downright stupidity (at the top) which needs a 'classical' take. He wanted to reap where he did not sow. He wanted to be the beneficiary by default in a power-game, wanted to have the presidency apportioned to him by the graces. Howbeit even at the village dance, always attended by the local rogues and bullies, every boy knows the village beauty is not handed over on a bono-bed (as the case used to be said), but a boy who had the village top c.unt, would surely spot a few scars, thanks to the no-holes-barred ruthless competition. There is the added element which gives rise to the folklorish all is fair in war and love: enraged and amok, even if only in feigned jealousy and envy, and necessarily oblivious to the individual preference of the booty, such village ruffians can take their turns spoiling the beautiful sport for everybody, succeeding themselves in a game of monopoly in the bono bed. This is the 'classical' take in power and politics, where, for instance in Africa, the rape of colonialism is succeeded by a continued rape under neo-colonialism. Much of elsewhere too, every page of history is painted in blood colours; free and fair elections are more myth than reality, and political succession is a game of cloaks and daggers, treachery and horror deals behind the scenes. Or should I say deals like the (Kenyan) MOU's with the half life of a who-re's loyalty? OPPORTUNITY COST OF MUDAVADI'S DEFECTION Nb: with Kalonzo's one foot already sticking outside the NASA tent, we are at it again! no!? Mudavadi's true role in 2013 was to deny a CORDED victory. Now, born again in the the political cold, he supposedly wants to atone. It is a karma tribute to Raila Odinga, that he was always drawn to this weak-minded slime addicted to political parasitism. But there is more of the same at the top! From the biography of one, Kalonzo Musyoka, we glean the perennial KATIKATI man too, wanted, was promised and believed the same: If he supported Mwai Kibaki --who had stolen the elections in 2007 against Raila, Ruto and Mudavadi, Emilio Mwai would award him his lame-duck stamp of approval for the succession, since, wait for it, it would be the turn of a non-Gikuyu, and anything but the Luo rogue would do!I swear there is no limit to the bullsh!it politicians will swallow on account of their egos! Don't loose your respects for these creatures yet. They are goats yes, but such are still cleverer than sheep, at least I think so (without reading lower case animal biology!). If most animals can be trapped using their rampant and libidinous mating instincts as lure, similarly can outmatched and over ambitious wannabes be tricked by their vanity to blunder them unto oblivion. An import into the class complexes of the comprador ------political zoology, might be more essential here than insectology, but the morbidity of sexual cannibalism adds a nasty and dark spice to a bloody subject which, otherwise, may sound like a clinical exercise in academic nonsensology. Today, enjoying the skskulduggery Within the state looters and posho-pushers, I do not want 'academic abstractia' to get in the way of a good classical story, one with poetic chimes to boot. Some will know of the story how Nissos the Kentaur tricked Megara with his dying words. He said his blood was a love portion which would endear and tether the wandering heart her husband, Heracles, to her forever and ever. But his blood was of course the boiling venom of a thousand scorpion cobras! That pretty much put paid to the co.cky wanderings of the husband upon the rolling-buttocked earth, but at the price of widowhood. Mudavadi is a kid really. Kalonzo a kid really. And I remember Raila too joined KANU's decomposing Moi (in guise of the famous CO-OPERATION) on the basis of an MOU that Moi would anoint Him successor! (Why Moi would do that seeing all that bloody revenge he enacted on Raila's co-plotters of the 1982 August coup, is a story for another day on the Luo thread!) In our Kenyan MOU's we trust I bet! By the people, of the people, for the people? Ah!? O they yarns we spin because we are scared of democracy! Wherefore the universal suffrage idea, that the Kenyan electorate should freely choose is obviously always a plan C for these people! Some wicked Nissos sells them a lot of snake oil for love portions! And like poor me who always falls in love however painful the last break, the goats jump to the bottom of the hole!Again and again every election cycle! It sets the stage for tears and grief, and much regret. THE CHILDISHLY INNOCENT MDVD But Mudavadi has an advantage. Apart from being childish, he is simple. That makes him likeable enough. A simpleton with no nastiness in him, .... yet. Such a child is easy to forgive, for he knows not what he does, Father. But he could do with a little trip to the purgatory and a painful mea culpa ringed out of him before Wanjiku. By way of growing up some. KALONZO THE WEAK PUNCHER My instinct is that Kalonzo is too much of a weak puncher. He is Mr. Clean, but opposing a really dirty Jubilee regime, he has been unable to make punch-way to the top of national consciousness as the Broom to clean the Uhuruto dungpile away! Imagine if he was really THE HITMAN FROM UKAMBANI!? if he were a toiling puncher delivering incessant head and body blows to the opponent! For sooth Uhuru and his band of thieves wouldn't dare show their heads anywhere outside state house! Clean Kalonzo would have QUARANTINED them off, locked them out under the banner of ZERO TETOLERANCE on corruption. And zero-toleranc would of course lock out Raila and Mudavadi too. (MDVD is Angloeasing and Goldenberg and the kind of financial Mayhem Raila tolerates within his Luo governors in Nyanza is of course incompatible with Mr. Clean's running mate!) Kalonzo's clean punch is thus ever limp, a shrivelled member which awes not neither the competition nor the who-re price! And so Kalonzo continues to be a mealy-mouthed prize-fighter nearly being overshadowed by renegade young upstar bulls like Goebbels Machakos Mutua! A bit of a hype really. Will the real Kalonzo emerge or this Kalonzo shut-up! This mealy-mouthed Musyoka with his KATIKATI instincts does not have the inner passion to propel his ambitions in his own (made-up clean) image. He continues to cut a picture of a dealmaker in the dark, which means a man more schooled in intrigues than substance. I think William Ruto and Uhuru Kenyatta, when they were facing the ICC bleak, must have read his character and concluded he couldn't be trusted with their fate, so they chucked him unceremoniously out of the the G-somethings. Mudavadi too they --the condemned--- must have read as too easy to influence. Powerful forces aiming to inherit Uhuru and Ruto's empires and bury the duo forever would have soon convinced him to help have them locked in the Hague forever, for that would be the best for Kenya! William Ruto has often visited this theme with such bitter passion in public that convinces me this fear was real. And which political psychiatrist wants to swear it was pure paranoia!? You know the value of our MOU's don't ya!? Shetani ashindwe! Ashindwe Kabisa! Uhuru said. Muigai himself was at first gullible enough to miss the possible dead-end import, good riddance in above Nick Wanjohi scenario. It took William Ruto to say No, NO WAY! and drive sense into Kenyatta's court, to bring him back to the top of the ticket. And then unleashed on the campaign trail we all saw Ruto THE WORKAHOLIC in prayer rally after prayer rally, week in week out. He took Kenyatta through his paces in the ringer of public exposure, pitching, seducing, cajoling Wanjiku. Those prayer rallies which swung the mood in the country, denouncing the ICC and banging the drums of patriotism and even Pan-Africanism, accusing Raila of plotting to dance on their graves with his colonial friends, were HARD WORK. And William Ruto is a workaholic once he has made up his mind. As I watch the NASA chieftains perform, dilly-dally with lots of foot in mouth, I think they have not learnt their lessons yet. They want to hang a part together and have Uhuruto make an easy meal of them. They are lazy old men doing a jig here and a gig there, and their wiles which could compensate their decreased energy levels, are wanting and off track. They are busier plotting against each other than keeping their eyes on the top price. They are like digging their own graves together. Can these old dogs learn new tricks in old age? Four months they have to work a miracle or have some event, O events, to save them! A hint to Kalonzo ---Read the Lion and the Jewel of Soyinka. And 2. Do you know why the whole state machinery is after G-001Joho!?He has one devastating quality which separates the men from the boys. It is called courage. And then a mouth! I will meditate on this quality shortly. For meseems Uhuruto's nightmare has become governor 001 and not whoever emerges to front NASA this year. Kalonzo is still tosha, your lesser evil! i will be back!
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