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Post by podp on Nov 7, 2016 23:44:59 GMT 3
some things keep returning. why does PORK get so agitated when the hairdresser aka Kafura is mentioned? once upon a time before he became PORK hanging around Galileowhen the mother of Beyond Zero was beyond reach domiciled in United Kingdom. Kaman was known after imbibing rather than collect a normal prostitute....notice the Koinange collections diversified and started centres along roads between Sarit Centre and Thika super high way inside Waiyaki way. he was then known by hair dressers, whom he specialised in collecting, as the ka 50k rich boy. he paid for their services with a standard ka 50k. so when I was listening to madam Anne so it appears she kept close to to the hairdresser along the Mafya mantra of 'keeping your friend close, and your enemy even closer' www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=982236118569393&set=a.356153704510974.1073741825.100003490424704&type=3&theatershe did not know her rival? I doubt but overtime this ladies come up PORK gets agitated and seeks a diversion in the son of Jaramogi, his 'nemesis' in the public eye but blossom buddies when it comes to their caring of their siblings. profmichaelwainaina.com/2016/11/02/lucky-sisters-cord-jubilee-tribal-kingpins-ones-can-appointed-ambassador-others-surely-can-tenderpreneur/and the circus continues.
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Post by podp on Oct 18, 2016 19:22:36 GMT 3
Tuta release wezi wa kuku ili wale wa corruption wachukue nafasi zao. www.nation.co.ke/news/President-Kenyatta-rebukes-agencies-over-anticorruption-fight/1056-3420824-n0srv7/index.htmlhow can one separate corruption from politics in Kenya? listen say to Muranga residents saying their people need enough water when they never raised their voices before! so again the question 'how can we separate corruption from politics in Kenya?' so corruption results in injustice. yet only not so many days ago the GEMA community were talking of politics in the Muranga water issue. who is fooling who?
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Post by podp on Sept 24, 2016 21:24:42 GMT 3
"Unlike Raila Odinga, the bishop who postulated that unity ought to come before development may not know why his comments earned a presidential invective. He walked into a hornet’s nest. Since independence, the Kanu-Kadu establishment has sought to bury the land justice question under an avalanche of paternalistic development rhetoric. After declaring in Sessional Paper No. 10 of 1965 that the Kanu government would continue with the colonial policy of exclusionary development — favouring high-potential areas and disciplined people — Jomo Kenyatta, in his preface to the Sessional Paper, declared the development debate closed. Inadvertently or otherwise, the pastor, too, was speaking Mr Odinga’s language. National unity necessarily means confronting and addressing the root causes of disunity, which leads you to the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission and land. One would have thought that President Kenyatta would know that development paternalism is long past its sell-by date. If, as it seems, President Kenyatta cannot stand the heat, he should get out of the kitchen." www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/of-limuru-hunt-land-and-luo-bogeyman/440808-3392860-iqea88/index.htmlso as much as we try to dodge the Ndungu Report and the Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission Report, they keep rearing their head.
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Post by podp on Sept 24, 2016 9:45:45 GMT 3
Warning rehash: EXHOES FROM THE PAST and RECYCLED RHETORIC. A QUIXOTIC FART IN PUBLIC I was on the lookout like a partner on the honeymoon night, expecting to be ravished manifold in inspired fashion. Lurid expectations and hot fantasies filled my head as the day approached, and like a primed bomb I ticked toward inevitable explosion, bar some sad twist of history to throw a spanner in the works. In love with the idea of the new republic, the Kenyan one launched after a half a century of a once beloved but an eventual illusion, I tuned my heart to the chimes of the Gospel of the second liberation as would be sang according to the new saints Uhuruto. This digital duo would be interpreting the historical challenge at hand, chatting the national vision to Utopia. Never mind for the moment their stale records in office ----The Hustler and the mini don, the prince and the once pauper. Kenya's Kingdom and times come, I believe in Jubilee In the heat of courtship.Of course there was a problem. You know, a second liberation implies the experience of a first one; it implies memory, and, consequently, the sometimes sobering if cynical comparative ability of experience. A who're on the wedding night could have seen it all before. And serial liars making passionate vows need faces at some degree of mask, double-bottomly acting complicit enthusiasm or stoney innocence. The words of an African politician, goes, not even a parrot bothers to echo, is a Well-Worn wedding-ring on suchlike great occasions, as Uhuru Kenyatta was scheduled to perform at. Nevertheless, the romanticism in my heart warmed me up for the message of the new dawn. On the lookout for a Messiah, given, amongst other ills, Africa's global marginalisation, I operate an open-minded heart, the benefit of doubt abundant like a supply of naivete from the naturally foolish, or incurable optimists of course. In this enthusiastic state I attended the Kasarani launch of the Jubilee party. And Uhuru Kenyatta went for it. O yes he did, until he overdid it and, lacking the historical depth of thought and political memory of Africa, he served, as they say, stale wine in new bottling. It was an exemplary crisis text, revealing the unbridgeable gap between Africa's prosperous instincts and government priorities. Clue: why are Chinese engineers building roads in Africa better and cheaper than African ones? Anyway, His Excellency's theme was unity. -----Now, his speechwriter was straight out of Moi Nyayoism! PEACE LOVE and UNITY! Under the baba na mama party. The son was paying tribute to his political godfather. And those who remember the speeches which rationalised the need to disband all other political outfits except KANU soon after independence, will have scratched the back of their necks at the son's passionate echoing of his other father. -------Certain things they say, repeat themselves as farce, before they proceed to outdo themselves in other forms like tragicomedies. Why did the first republics fail nearly everywhere? The first post colonial republics of our continent were periods of highness, deep highness, just before the dream became a nightmare as every founding father either degenerated into buffoonery, or even more lame military juntas moved in to fill the vacuum. But the speeches of Kwameh, Nyerere, Lumumba, Senghor, Mandela, Nasser --the whole rigmarole, testify an articulation only awaiting practice, aka implimentation. Listening to Uhuru's pitch at Kasarani, launching the latest wonder drug to take Kenya places, I exercised tremendous intellectual cruelty to avert a cynical spread of scorn across my face. He had been KANU leader and dumped the party symbols, and here he was re-introducing KANU doctrines wholesale, claiming all Kenyans could fit into one party! Certainly the party of corruption yes!Uhuru Kenyatta has never pursued the implementation of anything with passion. That raises the possibility his speech performances are exercises in hysterics. And it is this possibility I am minded to investigate: Hysteria as a political coping mechanism in nationals crises. Ctd. 1st and 4th red high high light Uhuru has not lived up to any challenge he gave himself. it was glaring from the past, for example "The long silence before defending Ms Ann Waiguru at the height of the National Youth Service scandal is exactly how one must not fight corruption! At times like those, it is crucial to cut the links as fast as possible, including political ties such as not accepting her to be in the same party. In other words, tainted people should not be allowed in the political parties of those who claim they want to fight corruption and wastage." www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/free-advice-on-how-to-fight-kenya-corruption-epidemic/440808-3392874-s2eks4z/index.htmlmany may not recall, but once upon a time "When Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore conceived his Vision in 1965 for the development of his country, he had three clear-cut goals. To make his country completely self-reliant, totally corruption -free, and take Singapore from third-world to first-world country in his own generation. And he achieved all the three goals much before he died recently in 2015...... while in our beloved country Kenya "it is only the upper middle class, the top 5%, who can afford to buy their own property. The rest 95% are either living in a hut in a rural area, or a shack in the slums, or a rented accommodation in the low-cost housing estates. That is why Kenya is still considered a highly unequal and a polarized society." www.kenyaengineer.co.ke/features/item/3156-kenya-vision-2030-and-why-it-will-remain-a-pipe-dreamso recently while burying the lord of ethnic hatred who once told Kikuyus 'to lie low like antelopes' as there are in lion country and may be eaten any time, RAO in his characteristic style got PORK admitting his UhuRuto regime main objective is to perpetuate corruption as long as they are in power. "The President’s unguarded reaction was a Freudian slip that has remained the talking point since. The unfortunate comment that has since gone viral was “kumeza mate sio kula nyama … endeleeni kumeza mate, lakini nyama tutakula (swallowing saliva is not the same as eating meat… keep on salivating but we will continue eating)”. If that comment comes to define President Kenyatta, it reveals a decadent leadership still stuck in kleptocratic tendencies where pursuit of political office is not about service, but about eating." www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/440808-3387662-10bis14/index.html2nd red high light "...if African countries cannot do research and orient other researchers to Africa, if Africans does not tell her stories, and if Africa does not use local case studies to teach, then indeed we shall have allowed ourselves to be dominated..... The risk of not resisting the decline of freedom and increased abuses of human rights is that, in the long run, the Africa Union (AU) will revert to the old ways, where no African country could question or condemn what was happening in its neighbourhood. In return, they too won’t ask. It is a dangerous policy that would lead to the displacement of people, disrupted education and undermined economic development. History tells us that Uganda was once an African leader in education, but disruptions caused by Idi Amin have taken decades to reverse." www.nation.co.ke/oped/blogs/dot9/ndemo/2274486-3378138-nf2uxdz/index.html"When Bildad Kaggia reminded Jomo Kenyatta, Uhuru's father, that they did not fight for independence so that they--the people then in the KANU government--could enjoy at the expense of the poor and landless, Kenyatta asked Kaggia "what he had done for himself" since he was made Assistant Minister for Lands in that KANU government. In a public speech calculated to humiliate Kaggia, Kenyatta showed the public the miserable house Kaggia had built for himself while he Kenyatta did not only live in a mansion, but he had acquired acres and acres of land while Kaggia sat around whining about the poor." www.the-star.co.ke/news/2016/09/24/revisiting-issues-of-justice-truth-and-reconciliation_c14249203rd red high light "The recently launched Jubilee Party is nothing but a buttressing of negative ethnicity, disguised as an effort to bring Kenyans together. In fact the only thing it can achieve is solidification of the ethnic sentiment both within and without the party. In its wake, the tribes outside the new party are now busy solidifying against the Jubilee tribes ahead of a General Election whose preparation looks like a checklist of the Armageddon." Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000217167/merchants-of-tribal-hate-have-grown-more-arrogant
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Post by podp on Sept 24, 2016 9:07:53 GMT 3
What would be the most serious reading of the recent stand off at Moi University Eldoret? The strongly projected view that the new head (VC) must neither be a foreigner, nor a settler, nor a weed! No Arap no graduation! And so the police ringed the campus as prof. Ayiro was sworn in, ahem, in acting capacity! Ruto is very aggressive and vicious when it comes to placing Kalenjins in every available space in Public Service not caring if the do the Mo1 era slash and burn policy. He places his tribesman or woman with express instructions to bring an envelope to his residence weekly if not monthly. Performance targets are pegged on how much his CEO placed tribe-people promise to deliver and actually do when he performs monitoring and evaluation of their efforts. Having a non Kalenjin in Eldoret and now Moi University makes him feel he is loosing to the Kikuyu oligarchs, since this UhuRuto regime is the real nusu mkate. "We are reminded of Shylock in Shakespeare’s play, The Merchant of Venice where he said, “He hath disgraced me, and hindered me half a million; laughed at me, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies; and what’s the reason? I am a Jew. “Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer,..." Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000217167/merchants-of-tribal-hate-have-grown-more-arrogant
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Post by podp on Jul 7, 2016 7:06:08 GMT 3
A LETTER TO ELECHI AMADI Dear Teacher, ... Truly I say unto thee, this consultation can not wait! Nobody said the dead possesses the wisdom. But you were always one with a sense of humour, and I am sure you will appreciate a cheeky device. --After all is not the legendary Ihuoma such a one!? ..... For a terrible joke goes in Israel. Bibi was always Yonni's inferior, were Yonni alive, Bibi would never have made PM of Israel. [/font] [/quote] This is a dangerous terrain, Elechi, Kenya is accused of having aided the Israeli raid on Uganda. Covertly of course, because officially Kenya endorsed the Non-aligned and Arab league diplomatic position of boycotting Israel and agitating for the two-state solution, with right of the return of Palestinian refugees. So, Amadi, there is still no Palestinian state. Daily their land dwindles under an intensified Israeli land grab, aka settler occupations. Especially under Bibi Netanyahu. What now for the current generation of African leaders respective the national aspirations of the Palestinian people? As the leaders of East and Central Africa gather and fawn around Bibi Netanyahu in Kampala for a tutorial of how keep a rebellious people in check ---for I think the Israeli terrorist problem is a colonial problem, and the Palestinian terrorist problem is a liberation problem, what do history and civics teachers reviewing the Press in class say, if minded to be a Solomon or Nestor the Horseman, famed of counsel like the gods? FOOTNOTE: ooooh I cry out for the fallen soldier, Elechi Amadi. reading Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half a Yellow Sun one is mesmerised by the man the twins shared, although in the novel he married only one of them while the other twin had an affair with him. instead of a tragedy befalling the twins it is the Biafra war that unites the twins. the sad ending is that one twin disappears and the reader is left not knowing if she was killed by combatants and she went to fetch food for the other twin or she gave up her man for the beautiful twin. the horrors of war are not as stuck as 'Sunset in Biafra, a rendition of his personal experience with Eastern Nigeria’s three years’ secession, following the flawed elections of 1966 and the virulent ethnic backlash.' Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000207722/elechi-amadi-a-tribute-to-a-literary-icon Sunset in Biafra leaves one aghast at what men do to fellow human kind in times of extreme hate. Amadi writes from the perspective of a sensitive and refined civilian caught up in the chaos of conquest and occupation. Amadi encases his Apollonian reflections in a somber prose: The earth had become a monster, a ubiquitous monster, licking her fangs yet in no hurry to swallow me up. She sneered at me as I trod on her, she laughed at me as I ate, knowing she was fattening me for the kill ... Life was a bitter, cruel dream, arranged by a sadistic god! The police cell was more crowded. There were over seventy of us in three rooms. Actually there were more than three rooms, but the others were unusable. Detainees defecated and urinated freely in them and the stench which permeated the occupied rooms was difficult to bear. Again, there were the bedbugs. I had not seen such a dense population of them before. There were many cracks in the wall, especially near the floor, and these were crammed with fat bedbugs. At night they descended on the inmates and fed well. 'Amadi's Sunset in Biafra begins in the city of Zaria in Northern Nigeria with Amadi resigning from the Nigerian Army. He leaves Zaria just one week before the coup of January 15th, 1966 and travels to his home village of Aluu, near Port Harcourt. His military training and intellectual stature guarantee him a leadership position when "Biafran" troops occupy the Rivers Region. Amadi's narrative emerges from this experience. His complicated war-time itinerary, interrupted by interrogations and detentions, take him around "Biafra." Amadi's circuit widens when Federal troops re-occupy Port Harcourt. It expands to include the Ahoada District, where he becomes District Officer, and even Lagos. The Federal military government appoints him head of the Rivers Ministry of Local Government in Port Harcourt. He makes sorties from Port Harcourt in search of his missing family and parents. In a rare happy ending for the "Biafran" conflict, he is re-united with all his kin at the narrative's conclusion.' but wait....is it a happy ending when Amadi is re-united with his peasant father? hear him "I picked up my father the next day just four miles from home. Clad in a tattered ancient black overcoat, and with a white beard, he was pushing his bicycle along with steps made remarkably steady by his proximity to his ancestral home. He did not weep as he hugged me, but I knew he felt more than everybody else." quod.lib.umich.edu/p/passages/4761530.0006.010/--two-niger-delta-texts-on-the-biafran-war?rgn=main;view=fulltextAmadi is not sitting somewhere in a foreign country as yours truly and spewing hate to the other ethnic group not belonging to his own. urging the two communities to tear each other apart. no he once served the Nigerian army and later lived among his people who happen to reside deep within Biafra territory suffering with them. what lessons are there for us who sit far far away on key boards furiously hurling insults to our perceived enemy almost always the other ethnic group. and only less than three months of post election violence of December 2007 to February 2008 makes us cringe when Biafra lasted 3 'good' years! For three years, 1967-1970, millions of lives were lost in a bloody civil war that was to see secessionist Biafra subdued and brought back to the republic, with its citizens becoming, till date, second class in the country of their birth. Forty-one years after the civil war, the political ‘marginalisation’ of the Igbos seems to have become an official Nigerian internal policy, while the high priests of this shameful act appear to be none other than the so-called political leaders of the South-East themselves. Prostitutes in the halls of any government in power, these pretenders to the political leadership of the Igbos have become rich by selling the destiny of their people to the highest bidder. Therefore, while they go about in the daytime spreading the gospel of Igbo political emancipation, at night they march their people to the ‘master’s chambers’, allowing the big man to have his way with them. It is for this particular reason that Ojukwu will be missed. Ojukwu was not known to mince words when fighting for the rights of his people. He was also not known to suffer the foolishness of is people, especially when it was apparent that they were deliberately putting themselves in a position where they would not be given equal treatment by other Nigerian citizens. Little wonder then, that he was hardly seen in the petty gatherings of so-called Igbo leaders who were known for hobnobbing with the powers-that-be, to the detriment of their people. ndukwe.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/sunset-in-biafra/when one looks at our Igbo's of Kenya the great Luo nation, does one not fail to see the sun is yet to rise for them? what difference does one not see of the late Tom Mboya and now Raila Odinga with Prostitutes in the halls of any government in power, these pretenders to the political leadership of the Igbos have become rich by selling the destiny of their people to the highest bidder. ooooh I mourn the fallen teacher, Elechi Amadi reading the Concubine.....'Ihuoma is a concubine to a tribal god. Any man who dreams of winning her love must die. We would say in Africa that “she kills the men who love her.” Yet it is not Ihuoma as such,' Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000207722/elechi-amadi-a-tribute-to-a-literary-iconwhy did Tom Mboya have to die, nay be killed in Kenya, leaving us stranded with the monster Jomo Kenyatta for almost a decade before he also died like the dictator described in The Autumn of the Patriarch? www.amazon.com/Autumn-Patriarch-Gabriel-Garcia-Marquez/dp/0060882867we have had our share of tyrants all displaying corruption of power. we daily witness our PORK and deputy PORK oscillating from charity to deceit, benevolence to violence, fear of God to extreme cruelty, just like the dictator of The Autumn of the Patriarch embodies the best and the worst of human nature.we always hear of Kenya having once been at par with South Korea yet it is now we are rated as a middle income economy while our yesterdays' peer boasts that soon Sumsung will topple Apple's iPhone and be the top of the world. while our demented past PORK Kibaki could only emulate the late Mobutu Seseko of Zaire now rightfully called Congo. Mobutu had only one tarmac road from the capital Kinshasa going back to his mothers' birthplace. every time I ride along Thika super high way memories of Mobutu building a road from Kinshasa to where he hoped to be buried flashes in my mind. it would have been more sensible to build a road from Kinshasa to Katanga where the bulk of Congo's wealth in minerals came from or in keeping with Nkrumah's dream of one Africa build a highway to Rwanda so that it eventually connects with Uganda - Kenya and Burundi-Tanzania becoming a vital link between East and West Africa. but no Kibaki built a super high way to his hoped burial place, Neri, where his mother was born. just like the late Mobutu. every time I look at the portraits of past PORKs memories that 'shines a nuanced portrait of "President" Mobutu. A thief, certainly. A thug, yup. A man who bears some responsibility for turning a potentially wealthy country into a cesspool, sure. ' www.amazon.com/Footsteps-Mr-Kurtz-Disaster-Mobutus/dp/0060934433recently as Wainguru of NYS "fame" , and Odhiambo of Youth Fund "fame" under Jomo's son watch aka UhuRuto one cannot help not seeing Mobutu emerging aa the talented politicians who are bringing a measure of order to Kenya's post-colonial chaos. since on top, however, they are looting the national treasury in order to pay off rapacious underlings who would settle for nothing less than chartered helicopters, buying and building houses in Karen, Runda, Kitsuru and other uptown places in Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu etc. ooooh I weep for our continent. Ihuoma is a concubine to a tribal god. Any man who dreams of winning her love must die. We would say in Africa that “she kills the men who love her.” Yet it is not Ihuoma as such or is it that Patrice Lumumba would have been a terrible leader and hence only Mobutu could be the misleader for Congo? 'Mobutu didn't rise to office on his good looks and winning personality--he was essentially put there by the CIA. He also didn't retain power simply because he was good at exercising it; France, Belgium, and the United States, not to mention the World Bank, kept him there with military support and an endless stream of dollars. The tale of how he played the First World like a violin is fascinating. Mobutu's nationalization of foreign-owned assets and his machinations with the White House sparked several plot elements in Heart of Diamonds: A Novel of Scandal, Love and Death in the Congo.' so when one looks at Kagame of Rwanda, M7 of Uganda and our own UhuRuto pair would we be wrong to assume they are in power courtesy of USA and western powers and not the adulations from the hopeful masses of Eastern Africa who love their dictators? ooooh I weep for our continent. Ihuoma is a concubine to a tribal god. Any man who dreams of winning her love must die. We would say in Africa that “she kills the men who love her.” Yet it is not Ihuoma as such 'In The Concubine, the beautiful Ihuoma loses her husband Ekweme when he dies after a fight with his rival for her love, Madume. Madume himself dies shortly afterwards when a serpentine creature spits venom into his eyes after he has spitefully raided her banana plantation. Ihuoma recovers from her season of mourning to accept love from the affable Emenike. But Emenike dies in a freaky domestic accident, only a few days to their proposed wedding day. It transpires that Ihuoma is a concubine to a tribal god. Any man who dreams of winning her love must die. We would say in Africa that “she kills the men who love her.” Yet it is not Ihuoma as such, it is the gods.' Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000207722/elechi-amadi-a-tribute-to-a-literary-iconso we are doomed to have UhuRuto the reincarnates of both Jomo Kenyatta and Daniel Moi, as our local despots. M7 for Uganda. Kagame for Rwanda. Kabila for Congo, having ably replaced the monster Mobutu Sese Seko As the sun sets on Biafra, I pray that someday, in the not-so-distant future, it will rise again, bearing on its wings warriors for whom the task of rebuilding a battered nation-state will be second to none. As the sun sets at dusk today, may it rise with the first cockcrow tomorrow ndukwe.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/sunset-in-biafra/ooooh I cry for the fallen surveyor.....(to be continued)
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Post by podp on May 24, 2016 17:26:15 GMT 3
This JJ saga reminds me of Kenyans queuing to get Kamlesh Pattni's autograph and those who thronged his church oblivious of the damage he had done to the Kenya economy. JJ did nothing more than fleece Kenyans through illicit deals and as is typical he is most likely a victim of his imagined success where he crossed paths of competing business interests - this does not sound like a political fix. Inspector General of police Joseph Boinnet says the new development could therefore lead to the arrest of the murderers. “The areas covered in investigations include ballistic examination of two spent cartridges recovered from the scene which show it was from an AK47. Examination of two similar weapons recovered during recent encounters with criminals indicates one of them could be the murder weapon. This could therefore lead to the arrest of the murderers of the late Jacob Juma,” said Bonnet. Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000202882/police-we-have-gun-that-was-used-to-kill-jacob-jumathe best take is ***** Kudos to the police for over the weekend eliminating four criminals said to be behind a fresh wave of carjackings and kidnappings in Nairobi. What I found most interesting was that the police also intend to establish if the AK-47 rifle found on them was the one used in the murder of controversial businessman Jacob Juma. How convenient that would be: Police off the hook and suspects all dead. Case closed. ***** www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/We-all-must-read-Constitution-to-know-rights-and-obligations/-/440808/3215650/-/smrucvz/-/index.html
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Post by podp on May 23, 2016 20:45:23 GMT 3
THE WEST PAYS NOT, KDF STOPS LINDA NCHI!That is where we are now! ****** You can not make that up yawa! The president is so desperate, so out of his wits, he can not permit himself not even a tattered piece of self-respect! (Kara maberberie ema igoyoe propaganda!) much as Bono would like to turn the situation into an Aid Band, the largest refugee camp on earth is not a juicy place! www.nytimes.com/2016/04/12/opinion/the-permanent-temporary-solution.html?_r=0it appears we, Kenyans, are demanding for ransom to keep the Somali's in refugee camps in our country! Against the backdrop of the Turkey deal, refugees are a good currency to hold: a hedge against foreign criticism, a liability for which to blame domestic problems, and a bargaining chip for special favors from abroad. In its vulgar attempt to buy itself out of its international obligations, the European Union has started a bidding war. ***** It seems that most countries would prefer to deport potential taxpayers and pay huge fines in order to deny themselves economic growth. The World Humanitarian Summit, a United Nations-sponsored conference that will be held later this month in Istanbul, is an opportunity to shift the global discussion about refugees toward the potential benefits for all. But I fear it will simply turn into an auction. www.nytimes.com/2016/05/17/opinion/refugees-shouldnt-be-bargaining-chips.htmlso listening to the UN SG at the Humanitarian Summit saying "“We are all here because global humanitarian action is unprecedentedly strained,” Mr. Ban told thousands of participants attending the opening ceremony,..." www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=54011#.V0Lrhse0duYone wonders what DPORK Ruto leading a delegation comprising of retired general Nkaissery who encouraged what Al Jazeera calls 'Day of Rage" is not so complementary to all the rest that is occurring www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/05/tear-gas-disperse-kenya-electoral-body-protest-160509144542177.html
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Post by podp on May 23, 2016 20:09:03 GMT 3
The man was most likely fixed by one of his associates in questionable activities. CORD et. al. have milked it enough. Time to move on. watching the 1st version of jicho peeve one had doubts however, watching the 2nd version where CID boss Ndegwa Muhoro is asked to confirm if he has questioned DPORK Ruto he avoids answering yes or no. then why are the cameras images deleted so that one may know if JJ had company in the car between his Westlands office and ....again CID boss murmurs about non working cameras! that is not helping allegations that the murder of JJ was by GoK operatives. will post the 2nd version when online
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Post by podp on Apr 14, 2016 11:25:50 GMT 3
This man has climbed the ladder is a rapid and lucrative way that should inspire all Kenyan youth. 2013: Mr. Ngunyi 2014: Dr. Ngunyi 2015: Prof. Ngunyi (2016: Sir Ngunyi?) And all this just from Powerpoint slides. Now, as a "professor", he commands top rates, as his income from the NYS shows. Gob bless Jubilee. think he earned the accolades. first he convinced us, through tyranny of numbers, mantra that if you registered as a GEMA and Kalenjin voter your vote went to UhuRuto and if you registered as Luo and Kamba to RAO. The rest were either spoilt votes or split between those two with majority of Luhya votes going to MDVD. something more interesting is that after acquiring a plot in Runda he took 2001 to 2009 to build his residence, and when Jubilee came to power he took 2014 and 2015 to buy two more mansions in Runda with one acting as his office and the other available for rent. rent in the sense of Eng Magiti buying a house in Kitsuri to hide liquid cash from Devolution ministry heists! give the man his titles as who would not recall our politicians led by Joho graduating from Uganda without any classmate remembering them or Waititu being born in 1980 obtaining his degree in India in 1995 and now poised to become a governor in a county near Nairobi! forget EACC assisting in this riddles, as its CEO also got a bachelors degree in University of Nairobi when the course had not yet started!
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Post by podp on Apr 12, 2016 17:22:59 GMT 3
Prof: Interesting perspectives you invite us to consider here. My only problem though is, you are looking at this thing from the same lenses over and over, you cannot see it differently. Barrack Muluka is simply a more refined version of David Ndii. They say the same thing but in different languages. Whereas Muluka is a little more urbane in approach, Ndii is riff-raff-ish. They both have been socialized in the same way and don't know it any other way. In their vocabulary, Jomo Kenyatta and his descendants are the problem. In their minds, we have no future as a country as long as we continue to reject the Odinga orphans. They seem to believe that Carey Francis' English should be the only English spoken by everyone now and in future, they have refused to move with the times. The nationalist contract the younger Kenyatta and his jubilee are selling to us, has nothing to do with the tribe. In fact it has nothing to do with any specific people or region, but everything with a certain thinking, a new thinking. A thinking that does not look at government as the solution to our troubles but as a facilitator to our own solving of those troubles. A thinking that focuses our attention to our place on the global scene where our ideas should compete with the best. A thinking that redefines our identity beyond Luo and Kikuyu. We've already broken the ground in readiness for this take off. The 2013 elections was a game changer that many of us have not fathomed. Looking at the work Jubilee has done in the last three or so years reveals a foundation that is taking shape. The transformation is real and in every corner. It is not benefiting Kikuyus and Luos alone, it is in Turkana, Kilifi, Busia, Narok everywhere. Women and the youth, disabled and old, all have a platform and realistic chance to make their contribution. Education, health, infrastructure, ICT etc are all taking shape. This is a huge scare to the Ndiis of this world and their benefactors. They have to consistently sell to us what we are used to, in the hope that we shall reject the new order to perpetuate a system that benefits them more. They are wrong. It will not happen. They had a chance in 2013 to puncture our wheels, they failed. Not that they never tried, no. They called all stops, they were in virtually all western cities conspiring with powers that be to scuttle the crusade. They failed. They tried our judiciary, they failed. They never gave up. All you are seeing and reading now, is the last desperate move whose intention is to force a githeri-like government where they will plant their destructive forces to fight from within. It is their last hope, literally, that is what Ngunyi Mutahi is addressing himself to in those videos. Like before, they will fail. I am looking at the zodiac and signs are, the nationalist contract is an idea of the times, it will triumph. ~~ Mwalimumkuu @nyumbakubwa ~~ 1st red high light this is scary if we all can be fitted in a box the way Pavlov did his experiments with the dogs. www.simplypsychology.org/pavlov.htmlbut wait a moment. reverse that logic on the 1st red high light on say Uhuru. it would have young Kenyatta behaving exactly like old Jomo. same genes. so why are we surprised? did old Jomo not undergo phases and hence if ICC is truly behind young Kenyatta what stops him from behaving like his Dad old Jomo immediately he acquired the reigns of power? so we should expect Waiguru and Odhiambo looting our hard earned tax payers money in the name of the youth the way old Jomo grabbed land after 1965! teacher cautioned us. "Paulo Freire says, that no one is born fully-formed: „it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.” Self-experience can never be defined from another person, without risk of manipulation. Helping people to become themselves is always vulnerable to manipulate them. To tackle this very basic problem of every pedagogical intervention the primary challenge for today’s pedagogy and even adult education is to be very self-critical. Therefore it is suggested to discuss, the risk of manipulation by „helping“." www.infonet-ae.eu/articles-science-55/2142-paulo-freire-pedagogy-between-oppression-and-liberationso that we do not box either Ndii/Muluka and Uhuru it would be better we thought through teachers caution. "An important key concept in this is emancipation. It is emancipation, liberation from oppressive social relations, which critical pedagogy is committed to. Social critique leads to social change. With this mode of critique we want students to see clearly that phenomena like inequality are not necessary, but arose in a certain historical context that has been established and produced by man-made social processes. Upon becoming aware of this reality, a person no longer needs to feel like a manipulable object anymore." daily-struggles.tumblr.com/post/18785753110/paulo-freire-and-the-role-of-critical-pedagogy2nd red high light at 50+ Uhuru is no longer young, however if ones reference point is Kibaki or his late father Jomo when they became PORK, we could say Uhuru is in his midlife. young should be the under 40s preferably below 35 years old. that aside I have found the deposit type of education not liberating. so when Uhuru says 'idea of the Constitution enacted in 2010 as a national covenant' it appears as something his speech writes did and not something he is advancing, otherwise it would have been present from post august 2010 when we got the constitution. 2013 election was more of ethnic mobilisation targeting mainly his Gema community and bringing in Ruto who ably mobilised his Kalenjin community. even now Uhuru with the assumption that all Gema will vote for him as like last time or even better has a lesser uphill task compared to any of the CORD principals as they (CORD) start from a lesser ethnic number forcing them to either have in excess of 2 communities for them to measure to Uluru's ability to easily win. some times back we used to say tribalisms were the less educated ones until Kibaki become PORK in 2003 and retrenched ethnicity surpassing old Jomo. the 2013 dynamic duo have taken it to dizzying heights such that even university elections now in Kenya take an ethnic angle. mind you the people participating in the university elections are almost always below 30 years so only one who is not in Kenya or in touch with the happenings in Kenya can naively state that 'tribe' has no place in our thinking. maybe if UhuRuto can stop appointing less members of their ethnicities to Public positions but that does not appear as something that will happen now. the best way to show your thinking would be jotting down what you have attempted, however again that is missing, so where may one read UhuRuto's thinking if they do not belong to their ethnic enclaves? was having a conversation with a former Treasury worker (from neither UhuRuto ethnic backgrounds) who recalled that during the 1980s to as recent as 2012 at the tank (some basement brainstorming facility) they would meet as thinkers regardless of ethnicity and debate economic/financial way forwards in light of occurrences. however that ended when UhuRuto became PORK and DPORK. ethnic cleansing happened and what we now have are closed meetings comprising of selects from the two ethnic communities of UhuRuto hence the blunders are not seen until a Kafura type of confession occurs! so again where can one glean this 'new thinking' of UhuRuto if one does not belong to their ethnic origins? 3rd red high light this will be a game changer to all, especially the future generations. there is no gainsaying of the marvels that education, health, infrastructure, ICT etc. will impact on our people. like the laptop project for primary schools it sure is great. what is yet to make sense is why laptops when for below class 4 children tablets would make more sense both economically and also logistically! even at higher classes again tablets even iPad would be cost effective as opposed to laptops. and this brings to mind the current push to replace 8-4-4 with 2-6-3-3-3 system. more dialogues with prolonged time for consensus building makes sense however again we have a rushed attempt which does not build trust but suspicion of the real intent. on health the impact of uplifting level 5 hospitals with MES goes without saying. again governors representing the 47 counties and the Ministry of Health decision makers could have agreed behind doors and rolled out this marvellous program without the side shows that started then, e.g. www.universalhealth2030.org/index.php/component/k2/item/614-kenya-why-ministry-bought-sh38bn-medical-equipmentto the current brinkmanship continuing now i.e. www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/2015/06/governors-want-sh38bn-medical-equipment-deal-probed/the sad thing about such happenings is that opportunists like in New Nyanza General hospital crop up. africanewsonline.blogspot.co.ke/2011/10/this-sorry-state-of-nyanza-general.htmlin the past we had sorrow state in many government hospitals www.nation.co.ke/news/Ill-equipped-hospitals-and-poor-pay-drive-4000-doctors-away-/-/1056/1746948/-/x3o9i7/-/index.htmlhowever improvements have been the order of the day save for squabbles between the national and county governments "Questions have emerged on the accountability of billions of shillings meant to fund the free maternity services in public health facilities." Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000197893/govt-counties-clash-over-sh7-2b-to-fund-free-maternity-fundssimilar stories are in galore on infrastructure www.nation.co.ke/business/Ministry-ditches-costly-annuity-model-in-road-project/-/996/2910378/-/wb6dctz/-/index.html"The government plans to construct 10,000 kilometres of tarmac roads in three years under the annuity programme." www.nation.co.ke/news/Jubilee-still-riding-on-promises-says-Cord-leaders/-/1056/3152822/-/p2m7f4/-/index.html.itthe SGR appears flying very well as reported in Star newspaper. "Last week, six more locomotives that will be used to lay the rails for the country's new railway line arrived at the port of Mombasa. This has set the ball rolling for more and timely progress to be made in the construction of the Standard Gauge Railway, which will improve our human and cargo transportation." www.the-star.co.ke/news/2015/11/07/the-jubilee-government-is-doing-better-than-most-of-its-critics-care_c1236132ICT has its own dynamics regardless of who is in power since Mo1 days. ICT belongs to 'disruptive technologies' that will propel society forward notwithstanding if we continue having ethnic bigots as our leaders or we have more progressive leaders. "However, one problem persists: While technology continues to develop, the ability of people and organisations to fully adopt new technologies have not kept pace. For example, security is a top concern for many organisations – according to Dell’s Global Technological Adoption Index – and, due to its inherent complexity, creates barriers to the adoption of cloud, big data, and mobility, which inhibits overall innovation." www.digitalnewsasia.com/insights/ict-evolution-from-exponential-technologies-to-disruptive-innovations
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Post by podp on Apr 10, 2016 4:33:13 GMT 3
David Ndii Vs Nationalist Covenant
I have contemplated starting a new thread on this, but on a second thought, believed that, it could perfectly fit here, from a different angle.
I have resisted giving David Ndii's thoughts much attention because I have often found them to be a little too emotional and reflective of the frustrations of a section of political elite with little regard to nationhood. After Uhuru Kenyatta's STON address, which as always elevated the discourse and sharply contrasted Ndii's arguments, the good doctor has again put pen to paper (here). This time, a little more sober than before. The truth is, however, as a people, our call is far much higher than what Ndii and his paymasters challenge us to every week. Our problems and challenges whether at village level, or local church, should be located in the larger global context and not the tribe of our chief and village elder.
Whereas tribe has sold big in Kenya in the past, I think we have moved on to a larger pedestal. Of course there are a few who are yet to see this. My take has always been that, something happened in 2013 that the Kenya's political left is yet to fully comprehend. We slayed the tribal narrative in that election, and all we await is it's burial in 2017. To me therefore, just as Uhuru Kenyatta above, Ndii's views and those who subscribe to such, are like the early morning wails on the burial day, very common in my motherland; they are normally energy-supping and breathtaking, but the last of such. The originators and promoters of the tribal narrative are fading away from the face of Kenya, 2017 will put them to rest and the Nationalist Covenant will firmly take its rightful place. I am not worried.
~~ Mwalimumkuu @nyumbakubwa ~~ decided to return to class on devolution and majimbo versus nationalism and federalism just to get is correct on the above two red high lights reason we have the Constitution of 2010 primarily was to dilute the effects of a unitary state by introducing devolution which has kind of created 48 states, one national and 47 counties. much as we may wish to claim we have a nationalist covenant we need to first define it. since both Uhuru and Ruto have no history of producing intellectual discourse as none has any writings that can be attributed to them it is a bit of a tall order to rely on them defining what nationalist covenant is. on the 1st red high light all it takes to dismantle it is to quote Muluka. "President Kenyatta presides over an ethnic duopoly. Even if all the political parties in Kenya were to be dissolved and replaced with only one party, this alone would not create national unity. The face of the Public Service is disturbingly duopolistic. If the President does not dismantle this duopoly and replace it with the face of Kenya, his national unity proclamations remain a pipe dream and a formation of empty words." Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/sports/article/2000195393/uhuru-must-stop-making-excuses-and-tackle-graftthis sickly way of tackling the ethnic question flies to the reality of what is happening everyday even to fields where it does not make sense as this current story narrates. "Muthee’s appointment slightly over a week ago kicked a storm within athletics fraternity with demands that a CEO for the global event should come from within athletics ranks. His appointment followed the suspension of former AK CEO, Isaac Mwangi, by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Ethics Committee over doping-related cases. “Riadha House (AK headquarters) is currently sagging under the weight of major scandals that the Government opted for Muthee to assure the general public that the event is in safe hands and that the Government is keen to stage the event successfully,” said a highly-placed source, who could not be identified because he is not authorised to speak for the Ministry." Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/sports/article/2000197735/clean-up-house-first-debate-rages-over-ceo-s-appointmentsince both UhuRuto are adept at talking one thing and doing the exact opposite it is clear that the 2nd red highlight is neither here nor there. off course both are not originators but inheritors of entrenched ethnicity. both learned at the feet of Mo1 who clearly stated he was following Jomo's nays when he took over in 1878 when Jomo peacefully dies in his sleep. and many things that happened in Mo1's time are slowly and surely creeping back. the Machiavellianism of talking nice things like nationalist convent while packing important national offices with ethnic bigots is the order of the day practiced by both UhuRuto. Machiavellianism - the political doctrine of Machiavelli: any means (however unscrupulous) can be used by a ruler in order to create and maintain his autocratic government www.webster-dictionary.org/definition/Machiavellianismwill continue being at play come 2017 when we go to polls. all Jubilee spin doctors are busy preparing Kenyans for a supposed bloodbath if any dares to refuse the continuity of UhuRuto duopoly. so when it comes to dealing with IEBC instead of being quick to arrest the bloggers unlike the bank directors of say Imperial, NBK and now Chase bank we get UhuRuto talking that the IEBC is an independent constitutional office and if anyone has beef with it all one has to do is go to Parliament get endorsement of a Tribunal to investigate IEBC and voila UhuRuto will take the necessary corrective action. 6 or 5 years ago this article appeared in Star newspaper. "Phobias are considered to be pesky little bothers. But as irrational as they may be, most phobias are not without a root cause. Something, however small, must have happened to trigger the fear. Now, there is one popular phobia in Kenya called Kikuyu phobia." allafrica.com/stories/201109020161.htmlso now that we have a duopoly inform of UhuRuto pair to them could nationalist convention mean adding a 3rd, 4th or even 5th ethnic community to that? listening to the hypothesis of Mutahi Nguni we can see the evolving narrative. when the latter talked of tyranny of numbers was he in a way preparing us to the 'fact' that a computer program could sift say Kikuyu names and give those votes to Uluru and the same way give Luo names to RAO ensuring 'tyranny'. so now the hypothesis on how not return to 2007/2008 the bigger picture being painted is that we can reconcile if we accept corruption is an institution so we should only contain it and stop kidding ourselves that we can do without it. so back to the headline and listening to the Jubilee consultant above Ndii is elevated to a status of a political engineer following prisoner of contract. flipping that on UhuRuto one can see they are also trying to take us the the nationalist definition. "Nationalism makes one to think only of one’s country’s virtues and not its deficiencies. Nationalism can also make one contemptuous of the virtues of other nations." Read more: Difference Between Nationalism and Patriotism | Difference Between | Nationalism vs Patriotism www.differencebetween.net/language/difference-between-nationalism-and-patriotism/#ixzz45PX0h4Tdso that explains why UhuRuto can only trust and rely on their ethnic enclaves for appointments in the national (read ethnicity) government. so when one thinks of the nationalist aka UhuRuto style it is nice to read George Orwell who said "Indifference to Reality. All nationalists have the power of not seeing resemblances between similar sets of facts.....The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them....Every nationalist is haunted by the belief that the past can be altered. He spends part of his time in a fantasy world in which things happen as they should....Indifference to objective truth is encouraged by the sealing-off of one part of the world from another, which makes it harder and harder to discover what is actually happening. There can often be a genuine doubt about the most enormous events. " orwell.ru/library/essays/nationalism/english/e_natin conclusion UhuRuto fit being called nationalist in the definition of Charles "Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first." Read more at: www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/c/charlesdeg111702.htmlUhuRuto hate everyone who is not a Kikuyu for Uhuru and a Kalenjin for Ruto. as good Christians one may turn the other cheek. as good Muslims it is an eye for an eye. let them, UhuRuto, try another one. but yes they are nationalists who fit what Charles said "hate for people other than your own comes first." yes let them try another one.
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Post by podp on Apr 7, 2016 22:08:55 GMT 3
PODP SAID Professor Podp, I got my rears covered with armour. You better be back with some real roaring machine. Your hero Timothy Geithner is a certified crook. There is enough literature to indict him to hell! fortune.com/2014/05/14/the-bigger-beef-between-tim-geithner-and-his-critics/ Sheila C. Bair, –--bull by the horns And when Geithner was head of the New York Federal reserve, what heists did he perform? Margaret Thatcher: 'The Brititsh people want their money where they can control it. In their pockets. To give it to anybody else, middlemen, even the state, is to be patronising. So we will lower taxes massively' Withnin capitalism them, there was the distinct option of not giving the money to the failed banks, but bailing out the homeowners direct, and injecting the money direct to industrial investors ---by wiping out their tax obligations for several financial years. Geithner was not practising capitalism with his bank bail outs. He was using the crisis to loot Main Street for Wall Street. A parasite strategist who colonised Barrack Obama's White House an hijacked the promised popular economic policy! originally full of Main Street goodies! If it wasn't justice for sale do you know how many years T.G would get to serve at a penitentiary? looks like you are doing a Kagwanja on Ndii. instead of dealing with the 4 points Ndii claims Kenya went astray (1963-1978 Jomo becoming an bigot ethnic primitive accumulator; Ethnicity again making a strong return in 1992 and 2003; and finally we discarded chapter 6 of our Constitution in favour of ethnicity) Kagwanja spends more time on the person of Ndii and paradoxically drags RAO. so you too are going for the person of Tim G and not the effects of his time both at Fed and as Secretary of Treasury. so going personal first as it is easy let me quote "StressTest" on page 230 to 231 Tim opens up on his relationship with Sheila. 'I decided to call Sheila Bair to see if FDIC could use its systemic risk authority to provide a solution. I probably wasn't the best person to make he case to Sheila. We did not know each other well, and in our conflicts over WaMu and Wachovia I had been derisive of her arguments....I had been more aggressive, dismissing her focus on limiting immediate risks to the FDIC insurance fund as parochial and shortsighted, warning that she was dragging us towards an epic disaster....Sheila and I would continue to have our differences, including on this very issue, but her willingness to use the FDIC's guarantee authority was one of the turning points of the crisis....It was clear Sheila had reservations, and she was too adept a bureaucratic warrior to let us box her in.' so I would not be surprised if she also had her thinking on Tim G. on Tim G.'s tax issues he has explained them as arising when he was working at the IMF. it was more on carelessness on his part than wilful evasion of taxation. back to the issue of the topic some independent observations from OECD Q1 2008 - 100 www.oecd.org/std/46180007.pdfhad Tim G claiming that 'because of the aggressive fiscal, monetary and financial force we deployed, the US economy has grown faster than other major advanced economies since the financial crisis' one good commentator says this of 'Stress Test' writer, Tim G. "In this informative book, he attempts a defense of his actions (and inactions) in this crucial time of US economic history. In the trial of public opinion and the press, Geithner has been blamed of both (i) missing the warning signs of the upcoming crisis and doing little to prevent it, (ii) and bailing out the main culprits in Wall Street while forgetting about most of the victims in Main Street. He mounts a forceful defense of the second acussation. Geithner presents himself as a reasonable utilitarist who made difficult and controversial decisions with only one goal in mind: safeguarding the wellbeing of millions of people. In his account, he had to battle moral hazard fundamentalists arguing for doing nothing in the midst of a terrible crisis, eloquent demagogues asking for revenge at any cost, irresponsible politicians playing dangerous games of brinkmanship, superficial journalists telling and retelling the same morality tale, and opportunistic financiers taking advantage of sensible public polcies. I battled, he suggests, all these people at once and prevailed against long odds, saving the world of a catastrophe. Self-congratulatory, indeed. But truthful to some degree." page 503 onwards Tim G again explains "Our financial reforms will tie future compensation packages more closely to long term performance, with legal authority for clawbacks when firms run into trouble.....The perception that Wall Street paid no price for its misbehaviour is also inaccurate. By early 2014, the big banks had paid more than $ 100 billion in fines related to the crisis. Overall, there has been a substantial increase in enforcement penalties for US financial firms, and the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the stronger authorities and resources granted to the other financial regulators will create an even more credible deterrent in the future....It's also true that individual Wall Street CEOs haven't been marched off to jail en masse, as many Americans thought they should be. But this was not a conspiracy of public corruption or ineptitude. Federal prosecutors and state attorneys general had all the right incentives to go after high profile financial scalps, and they have brought down some insider traders and Ponzi schemers. For the most part, they have concluded that the financial activities most responsible for the crisis weren't illegal, however unethical or dumb they may have been. There was an appalling amount of mortgage fraud during the credit boom; it caused a lot of pain, and it deserved a more forceful enforcement response than the government delivered. But the bulk of the huge boom in borrowing that caused the crisis was between consenting adults who took risks they believed would pay off, risks that did pay off for a long time, risks fuelled by genuine but imprudent beliefs that rising real estate values would make future defaults extremely unlikely. ...In any case, federal laws do not prohibit greed or ignorance or excessive optimism or even excessive risk taking." I still love his idiom 'What feels just and fair is often the opposite of what's required for a just and fair outcome' and his explanation "It's why policymakers generally tend to make crises worse, and why the politics of crisis management are always untenable." "The instinctive reaction of the policy wonk as well as politician to an epic financial crisis is to punish the perpetrators and impose losses on their creditors while limiting taxpayer exposure to catastrophic risk. It seems obvious that government should discourage the risky behaviour that created the mess, and certainly shouldn't reward it. On the fiscal side, it seems just as obvious to many that exploding budget deficits should prompt fiscal restraint, that when families and business have to tighten their belts, the government should tighten its belt as well." "All that sounds right. It usually is right. But in a severe crisis, it's wrong." so in the end Tim G if one was to compare his actions and not his person it would be best to view them within the mirror of Complications: Notes from the Life of a Young Surgeon by Atul Gawande www.amazon.com/Complications-Notes-Life-Young-Surgeon/product-reviews/0143028456The book does portray the doctors as human beings that come with all the normal traits that any of us do. The pressure they must deal with is that when they make a mistake, it can irreparably harm or cause the death of the patient they are trying to help. so Tim G had his successes. he also made mistakes, strangely not the ones most of us think he did, and reading Stress Test brings them out.
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Post by podp on Apr 4, 2016 9:56:31 GMT 3
PART TWO: THE GLOBAL EMPIRE OF BANKERSBanks I hear elsewhere, run the world. And those are not voices parroting an overstretched reading of old classical critics like Karl Marx. Once Barrack Obama promised Wall Street a safe landing (bail out) and a scot free sailing (away from their crimes and duplicity unpunished), and thereby got Big-Bucks backing over the old soldier John McCain, that was that, the race which was. Now the Bankers have trapped Hilary Clinton as their honey-pot. They view the erratic GOP-line-up as a threat to their free-meal ticket. So they are all out to hoist her on top regardless. And aint she willing and playing to the gallery!? In fact the talk was of inevitability, the primaries a mere formality; the whole exercise was billed a coronation in effect, where Sanders and Jeb Bush would merely be members of the cast: meat-chop sub gladiators thrown into the arena for the crimson spice of excitement to the otherwise easily-bored Roman crowd. Howbeit so bored the crowd became, they came up with better comedy: vote The Trump over The Bush and incite a civil war amongst the elites! Break up the republican party even. THE GLASS-STEAGALL ACT REPEALEDBill Clinton the husband is of course the man who (kind of) repealed that great piece of great depression legislation. It is a story worth following in detail. What did it mean and how did it come to pass behind the scenes? and then cost to repeal. Was Bill Clinton a puppet of the Big? Who lobbied for and who didn't why? That between Sanders and HRC is an important difference. The new act in summary is like Others insist it was this repeal wherein lies the seeds of the Financial meltdown a decade later in 2008. Finance managed to throw off the chains of regulation, free at last, and this (deregulation) would lead to an incestuous and reckless casino capitalism, and a great crash. It is important to have such historic battles between bankers and the public/consumer in mind, when dealing with any conflict in which the BANKERS HAVE YOUR BEST INTERESTS AT HEART, as now the say in Kenya. Some will know until recently in the history of business Banking and speculation capital, charging interest was called USURY. In political science usury is called parasitism. The stage was set then for titanic clash between the industrial class, producing goods from the mixing of labour and capital (called the production function or equation in econo-mathematics), against speculators and bankers in control of money and lending as a sword. This clash would lead to the theory of NATIONALISATION OF BANKS. Then with the demise of the state capitalist Soviet Union, Western liberal capitalism declared itself the winner: The end of history. A ringing boast like the one a French banker quoted by Marx. However, big commerical Banks still use this theory of nationalisation when they go bust and it suits them. Instead of bankruptcy, they temporarily sell themselves to the tax-payer to be bailed out. The politicians are in their pocket so to speak. After that period of retreat and retread, they venture back into the market! I wonder what Adam Smith would say about such a trick. Where do rigged markets lead to? This HISTORICAL, IDEOLOGICAL STRUGGLE, too, is important to keep in mind, when Kenyan bankers gang up against legislatures talking about interest rate caps. And is it not ironic that our legislators themselves can hardly be found guilty of prioritising the interests of Wanjiku!? Why, for the love of Agnes Masogange's ass, would we call them Mpigs? It must be a sixth sense of survival at play that interest rates worry them. Or are they deep in debt and paying up? Or is it old class struggle bubbling up in disguise? History has her ironies thus, like the day Kenyan Mpigs, whose reputation is that of competitive medalists in the thoroughly corrupt second republic, are found defending Wanjiku from predatory banker rates! It is the story of the defect clock being right at least once in its cycle! A wonder to behold! And Lo, I behold! Several political economy critics and profound thinkers, famous of them Karl Marx whose citation is relayed above, declared these rents, these credits earned from selling money, to be FICTITIOUS remunerations, and like insurance and real estate speculations, forming the rich nest for a whole bureaucracy of fat parasites. --Agents and middlemen in all forms facilitating a looting. (The NYS, Eurobond, and the rest have revealed to us the talents of our experts used against the people.) Famously they historically live on commissions, dividends, exorbitant salaries, kick backs and pay backs, interest rates skimming and, these days with the great (ECB, FED) GLOBAL FINANCIAL trick of QUANTITATIVE EASING -(QE), stock options, bonuses and bond buy backs. The market is also rigged, considering scandals like LIBOR.These are all means of exploiting labour; ways of extracting exacting tolls from it. But the mechanisms are cleverly hidden away, (Though it was not much clever nor hidden away when the Financial Crisis hit home in 2008. The Big Banks were declared too big to fail, hmm, and Wall-Street had to be bailed out by Main Street, for the benefit of Main Street they said. These was just a question of the hidden burst surface. All the way to the Eurozone. Actually Greece has to be expropriated to save French, Dutch and German Banks.) ----So somebody somewhere always has to pay all that bill -(for the free lunch of QE for instance). It is a forced public loan but exclusively for financial markets controlled by a tiny oligarchy. Labour pays through the nose starting immediately, and with interest. Labour works for the value of that freely created and banker privatised money. And so, like in peonage systems, most of the world is in debt. Bankers have the power to create money just like that. In advanced capitalism wholly electronic, adding zeros to saldos, central banks have now divolved this task to any commercial bank. But money is a measurement of value, and value can not be created by magic incantations like that, yeah, Capital and labour gotta mix in a productive function. But the bankers and their proxies are in power. The script goes they will rule to the end of the world. Admirable confidence, seeing how many eternal regimes have joined the ash heap of
THE RULE OF THE RESERVE CURRENCY'S The reserve currencies whose values do not fluctuate much regardless of their Central Banks running the printing presses down, are the uro and the doll$r. How does that magic work? I mean if Dr. Patrick Njoroge increased the supply of the Kenyan shilling in such ratios as Mario Draghi of the ECB has pumped euros into the system, the Kenya shilling would go the Zimbabue Kwacha a few years ago. Hyper inflation. I wish to get more time later on and repute the 3 red high lights. 4 books make good readings top on the list is Stress Test which one reviewer said “Very few important subjects in American history have been the subject of as much disinformation and deliberate distortion as the events surrounding the financial crisis that broke in 2008. Tim Geithner’s candid, clear-headed, and refreshingly self-effacing account of his role in formulating the federal government’s response is a very welcome antidote. Geithner’s book is a triple threat: it is first-rate economic history, insightful political science, and, most important, a cogent exposition of the importance of adhering to the policies adopted in the aftermath of the crisis if we are to succeed in diminishing the likelihood of any recurrence.” www.amazon.com/Stress-Test-Reflections-Financial-Crises/dp/0804138613the second is Lords of Finance obtainable at www.amazon.com/Lords-Finance-Bankers-Broke-World/dp/0143116800/ref=pd_rhf_dp_s_cp_1?ie=UTF8&dpID=51lFTjjM9sL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_SL500_SR88%2C135_&refRID=0TFDVZ7ET50437AX56PK"The first is the U.S. banking system. Back in the fall, the authorities managed to prevent a financial meltdown. People are not pulling money out of banks anymore—in fact, they are putting money in. The problem is that as a consequence of past bad loans, the banking system has lost a good part of its capital. There is no way that the economy can recover unless the banking system is recapitalized. While there are many technical issues about the best way to do this, most experts agree that it will not be done without a massive injection of public money, possibly as much as $1 trillion from you and me, the taxpayer. " the second last is by the former chairman of the Fed bank in New York who one critic had this to say of his memoir "Most of the informational content was already public in one form or another, such as through the Fed’s exhaustive minutes and transcripts. And while the author admits to some mistakes around timing or perception, he puts more energy into defending his key actions than he puts into dispassionately pondering how unconventional monetary policy might have worked better, what future evolutions of policy innovation might look like, and what kind of adaptations our political institutions must undergo to enhance their flexibility when responding to financial and economic crises. On these essential questions, the book is not very courageous." www.amazon.com/The-Courage-Act-Memoir-Aftermath/dp/039324721X/ref=pd_sim_14_2?ie=UTF8&dpID=51k%2B1bxdMpL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR108%2C160_&refRID=02WBNR1KQK11JMA148JQthe last but not least is what Greenspan himself said not so long ago. you may read it at www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11794357/Former-Fed-chief-Alan-Greenspan-warns-of-bond-market-bubble.htmlbut as you always say I will also be back
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Post by podp on Mar 28, 2016 5:58:51 GMT 3
THE OKOA ISSUE EXPOSES THE MERCENARY LUO COMPRADOR ROT ONCE AGAIN Let us talk a bit about the professional Luo vermin too, I mean the technically proficent wing licing around CORD in Nairobi. How much of mercenary saboteurs are they to the current pet project? We will do a classical sociology of the middle class later, for an all round historical perspective. But first, local politics. The only politics. The Nairobi star this Easter Weekend has a reconstruction of the mess at the ODM secretariat which distilled into the OKOA-KENYA fiasco. The case of the disqualified bogus signatures, or scapegoat version, Jubilee chicanery in concert with a compromised, chicken-addicted IEABC. Here is the case as made by the leading county newspaper, or meat-wrap material as the paper magnates Uhuru Kenyatta and his pal The Agha Khan would have them. [/i] [/quote]Rhinos and one-person repeated signatures! --Of course one can get away with that in Kenya, but that is if it will be the Kenya police or, more specifically, Ndegwa Muhoro's CDI to verify the signatures. But if it is the IEABC armed with BVR kits, then bewarned a minimum of competence at forgery will be advisable, chicken curry not withstanding. And the lack of this professional courtesy, the lack of this minimum of professional decorum, or effort called COMPETENCE, (and I am setting the bar low talking about minimum standards of competence), has to be the real bone of contention. And it is what Raila will not face. CAREY OREGE AND PAUL MBOYA. (NEGLIGENCE OR SABOTAGE?) --Rhino drawings for signatures? huh? Those are two big Luo professional names. It will be important to explain, within Luo nationalism itself, why they have made such giant fool of themselves professionally, and of Raila Odinga politically. This will not be possible without a political economic and philosophical understanding of the comprador as an ideological system. Unless we assume the duo are just plain embeciles. Comprador mentality, while technically at par with the world's best, will always underperform. This is why in materialist critique the comprador are dubbed INFANTILE.1. Njoroge (CBK) and Rotich (Finance) are as good and as educated as one can get to run any Finance ---same schools as the Obamas, Hilary Clinton, Henry Kissinger, Mario Draghi (ECB,
the whole Wall Street empire elite. But put in charge of finance in Nairobi, a mere $52 bn on pimped-up figures, they are babies of whom the IMF and the World Bank ever hold their hands with this or other imported technical advisory team. Raila too, true to form, looks elsewhere to apportion the blame. Hilarious! A cycle of vermin, is another vicious one too. here you too went off mark on one or so issues. let us start with the signatures submitted to IEBC, to assist us do away with the first two red high lights. a fb friend told me 'First, there is no requirement for authentication of one million signatures or even one single signature. Even if that requirement existed, IEBC cannot and does not have the ability and technology to even authenticate one single signature. Existing signature verification technologies only check for signature authenticity by generating a confidence score against the signature to be verified. Confidence scores do not give a 100% accuracy, which would invalidate any results before any court. Also, to do this, a database of existing signatures would be required. The Integrated Population Registry System of Kenya, the primary platform and data store for all government agencies with regards to persons in Kenya does not have stored images of people's signatures. The electoral commission is only required to verify that the initiative is supported by at least one million registered voters. IEBC can do this by comparing the IDs of the persons provided by Okoa Kenya against the IEBC database of registered voters. In the presence of an electronic version of the list provided by Okoa Kenya, this exercise is a simple database query and does not require 10 minutes to implement and execute. IEBC has not done this and therefore does not have any basis to reject or accept the list provided." that not withstanding somewhere in yesterday or the previous day Nation newspaper there was this article Just look at the mess they made of the Okoa Kenya initiative! Maybe, just maybe, if they do go immediately, one day, we Kenyans will get to hold free and fair elections which have eluded us for the past five decades. Probably, the folk at the new electoral commission will be able to count signatures competently so that anyone who wants to hold a referendum can do so without having to worry whether the required numbers add up. It shouldn’t matter whether some of the signatures resemble stray duikers in the bush. Under the Constitution, people have a right to sign their names any way they like. www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/IEBC-has-messed-up-badly-and-officials-should-be-sent-packing/-/440808/3133966/-/wp70rez/-/index.htmladditionally still on same topic Barack Muluka had this to say The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) Chairman, Isaack Hassan asks rhetorically, “How can you question our integrity and at the same time seek our services?” This question does not need an answer. For, the answer is implied within the question. “We will not give you the services you crave, if you question our integrity.” www.standardmedia.co.ke/mobile/article/2000196113/outbursts-of-anger-won-t-restore-iebc-s-credibilityand last from the horses own mouth "The commission has no power, real or imagined to verify the authenticity of the signatures as do to so would be ultra vies. It is a clear manifestation that IEBC is a joke of a commission that does not comprehend the enormity of the constitutional responsibility bestowed on it," said Magaya. Magaya claimed that the week preceding the announcement by IEBC that the initiative had been thrown out, some of its commissioners called the leadership of Okoa Kenya to communicate that the initiative had met the threshold and they were in the process of preparing the transmission to county assemblies. Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000196319/cord-defends-itself-on-fake-signatureson last red high light we all think serious rain started beating RAO when he was serving under the gnus make government. when he got rid of Miguna Miguna and to date he still peddles the line MM is insane he will remain delusional. even now the Church leaders are telling RAO what to do and if you can see the picture on this story it leaves no doubt on who are the biggest liabilities for RAO in the Luo nation but will the vermin be cast aside? Church leaders and Luo elders openly criticised a section of CORD MPs, questioning their stand and contributions in the National Assembly and the Senate and warned Raila that he needed better performers to check Jubilee administration. Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000196322/shake-off-sycophants-to-win-in-2017-raila-toldotherwise on Jubilee side they are busy locking their vermin in Siberia without the cold associated with it as devolution ministry alone could have seen Waiguru preside over in excess of 10 billion stolen during her tenure and it is obvious Mwangi Kiunjuri will continue that 'rich' legacy the Matriarch began on the last red high light we read from the same page to quote the late Nigerian novelist, China Achebe from his little book "The Trouble with Nigeria" and this can be said to be our trouble too.... "The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership. There is nothing basically wrong with the Nigerian character. There is nothing wrong with the Nigerian land or climate or water or air or anything else. The Nigerian problem is the unwillingness or inability of its leaders to rise to the responsibility, to the challenge of personal example which are the hallmarks of true leadership. We have lost the twentieth century; are we bent on seeing that our children also lose the twenty-first? God forbid!” according to George Ayitteh this is the Internalises view which most of your posting here adhere to unlike the attitude of most of our elites who for decades embrace the externalist view.
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Post by podp on Mar 26, 2016 8:14:02 GMT 3
Kamalet, As he raised the bible to take the oath of office, neither Ruto nor Uhuru bothered to insert an opt out clause. like - Deemed useless pieces of Kenya inhabited especially by none-Jubilee voters, more so mad Jaruos who are not known to cherish circumcision, will not be accorded the full defense protocol of territorial sovereignty. In addition, should a foreign state annex such worthless rocks, and in the process annul the dignity and Kenyan statehood of the said group or groups, this oath of office to defend every inch of Kenya will be null and void. It is a selective aoth! Some kenyans are lesser!You catch me Kamale? They didn't bother design a pragmatic opt out of the principle of territorial autonomy --respective lesser Kenyans like yours truly. Now that they do it in office, it that neglect becomes treason. It is legally possible to proceed to impeach Uhuru Kenyatta for failing in the holiest of duties of a head of state. This is what CORD should do, so that Jubilee is forced to mobile its tyranny in parliament, to state clearly that they are happy to pass the rock as a present to M7. Good riddance. THE OTHER NARRATIVE ON THE BLIND SIDE Uhuru Kenyatta likes to talk of Unity. Social cohesion. There is some wound to mind, were he serious. He has some bad history with Jaluos which this episode of callousness respective Migingo will not help. His father Jomo is held responsible for the murder of the Luo star Tom Mboya. That is a hot grievance not to be underestimated. And in the wake of that murder and KPU pandemonium, Old Jomo boycotted Nyanza forever to death, his heart harsh and bent on exacting vengeance by neglect. During PEV -2008, wrongfully or rightfully, the Mungiki who roasted Jaluos in Naivasha are believed to have been facilitated by young Kenyatta's money. That is lots of bad blood. Fast forward to 2013, and the same kenyatta is suspected of rigging Raila out, the man whose father stood down for Kenyata the father, at independence. The Uhuru Kenyatta I don't care attitude to Migingo therefore fits a narrative of antagonistic hate, a pattern of mutual alienation which mocks Kenyatta's exhortations to Unity. It is a dangerous faultline. But the good thing about Uhuru is his honesty over Migingo. He does not care. That is important because he further precipitates the Luo nationalist crisis. Luo nationalism does not have the luxury of not caring. We Luos have to sort ourselves out first. Outsiders are welcome to laugh at us for the moment, as our Migingo brethren feel as lonely as the Palestinians under the Israeli boot. Nairobi is far away, in fact further off than Kampala! on the two red high lights going a bit to our history we may get some insights from David Ndii's article below excerpts. The meaning of Prof Ogot’s pronouncement should now be clear. It is a failure of the imagination. The failure to develop and propagate a national narrative alluring enough to nurture a “deep, horizontal comradeship” beyond the tribe. The reasons for the failure of Kenyan nationalism is a subject for historians to ponder. When the history is written, four squandered opportunities will stand out.The first was a decision by Jomo Kenyatta’s Kanu’s administration after independence that wealth was more important than people. Jomo Kenyatta himself metamorphosed from an erudite fiery nationalist to a parochial acquisitive tribalist. The second opportunity came in 1992. The transition to multiparty politics afforded the Opposition leaders opportunity to set the country on a different political trajectory. Tribalism got the better of them.The third one came a decade later in 2003 when the country elected Mwai Kibaki on a platform of inclusive politics. Kibaki tore up the political covenant, tribalised the government and went back to the post-independence doctrine of wealth above all else.The Kibaki administration’s belligerence and political thuggery brought the country to the brink of civil war. Ironically, Kibaki ended up with exactly the same cohabitation in his second term that he had refused to honour in the first. NEW CONSTITUTION The fourth is between the enactment of the new Constitution in 2010 and the 2013 General Election. It is a period of contest between the political values espoused in the Constitution — democracy, rule of law, transparency and ethical leadership on the one hand, and tribalism and corruption of the past on the other. Tribalism and corruption triumphed.www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Kenya-is-a-cruel-marriage--it-s-time-we-talk-divorce/-/440808/3134132/-/yrd7n0/-/index.htmlso in a nutshell we need to stop imagining we are patriots and agree that we are nationalists (read tribalisms) who hate eat other with a passion. it was Charles de Gaulle who said 'Patriotism is when love of your people come first. Nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.' to what extent should we embrace the fact that Uhuru hates Raila just like his father Jomo before him hated Jaramogi and when stretching it to their ethnic enclaves they have poisoned those around them to return the hate favour with relish? what are some sample sources to support this narrative? is David Ndii wrong when he writes?.... The Luo Nation. From Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, Ochieng’ Oneko, Tom Mboya, Argwings Kodhek, Robert Ouko and Raila Odinga— no other nation has sacrificed so much for so little in the name of Kenya project. It is perhaps fitting and inevitable that it is a Luo intellectual who pronounced the failure of the project. I think it is about time that the Luo Nation asked itself whether it is not time to cut its losses. If the Luo Nation channelled its considerable human capital and political energy to the development of Luoland, it will without doubt be an enviable nation and economic powerhouse in no time. www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Kenya-is-a-cruel-marriage--it-s-time-we-talk-divorce/-/440808/3134132/-/yrd7n0/-/index.htmlso now what? is the above source reliable, recalling that Bethel Ogot said 'Project Kenya is a failure' 10 years ago? what are the perspectives? why are they important and who may support or disagree with with the sources of these perspectives? what are your own, deep down? what argumentations and evidence can one adduce to embrace the narrative being advanced? back to the two red highlights
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Post by podp on Mar 18, 2016 21:13:38 GMT 3
KACC job is to call the suspected thieves, be it Kidero, Waiguru, etc., who once shown what they have stolen are asked to share with the KACC guys or else... while PORKs buddy easily forced an acting CEO not only to be a double signatory but also to pay kshs. 180 million to a single sourced 'air' supplier and now the DPP's office is claiming they are not able to serve sermons to NYS 10 suspects facing the charges of money laundering! plus EACC admitting they will make more 'extortions' from the untouched 10,000 files. ntv.nation.co.ke/news/national/-/2725528/3122046/-/kp3rovz/-/index.html
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Post by podp on Feb 24, 2016 18:18:38 GMT 3
BETS CLOSING NOW ON WAIGURU'S TAKE ON THE RECENT UGANDA ELECTIONS!Parochialism is a very dangerous thing. I waxed lyrical about the FLOW Waiguru had gone into, as she dissected Tanzania in the aftermath of their shoddy and disgracefully conducted election. I had an idea trouble was coming for Anne. ---And now it has arrived. But first, a recap of Anne Waiguru unleashed. At her natural flow and fair, eloquent and holding nothing back, the lady is cool, easy and hot. Ndii is blown to pieces then vaporized. Let us take a peek! .... Luckily Kenyans on social media have disagreed and apologised to Ugandans at large. Mr. Kenyatta and his statehouse mouthpieces, they insist, were merely expressing a personal opinion. The congratulations to the farcical winner of the sham elections, were in their private capacity and not as the OFFICAL standpoint of the KENYAN government, nor were they on behalf of the Kenyan people. M7 is UK's business partner after all, it was a private affair! What will Waiguru the lithe commentator do with her sharp mind on this!? I think she will let Uganda pass! And that now is the shame of parochialism, seing how she ripped Tz CCM's guts! The shame is one step forward, one mile back! It is not surprising therefore, that as sharp as she is, Anne does not remember her official hairdresser Josephine. Very sharp by half. That is how she was the most competent and supr cabinet minister, but just another ordinary graft queen. Because she has a sharp but parochial mind. That makes her a perfect cog in somebody's machine. A tool perfected for us and dump. NB: Congo Kabila has followed M7 suit. He arrested the opposition candidate. He said the man needed to cool down. Cooled down opposition heads is good for democracy in Congo, says Joseph. the 2 red high lights Majority leader Aden Duale has maintained that Jubilee coalition is solid and nobody can rock it from within. The Garissa MP maintains that Jubilee is not divided saying that Waiguru’s affidavit linking him to NYS scam is a scheme to blame one side of coalition. "We have sacked very powerful corrupt individuals in this government. One wing of the coalition may be blamed for playing a role but in URP we have no apologies to make when it comes to the fight against the vice,"dual said Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000192824/waiguru-s-affidavit-is-a-scheme-to-divide-jubilee-says-dualePolitics has become both too local and not local enough. It is not local enough when it comes to the politics of local representation. A political class has emerged- and not one based necessarily on any merit. The proposal to have a right of recall if an MP betrays the trust of his/her constituents could give some power back to local communities - if structured right. Candidate selection through primaries could help too in cutting through the group-think and political nepotism of party politics. www.thersa.org/discover/publications-and-articles/rsa-blogs/2013/06/the-parochialism-of-politics/The political principle of localism is that which supports local production and consumption of goods, local control of government, and local culture and identity. Localist politics have been approached from many directions by different groups. Nevertheless, localism can generally be described as related to regionalism, and in opposition to centralism. In pejorative use, the term Parish pump politics is used to describe political activity that is more evidently concerned with addressing the immediate needs of the local electorate than with strategy that might affect their long-term well-being. www.liquisearch.com/parochial/parochialism_in_politicsso little brained but sharp as they come Anne who once worked in an international environment and was expected to bring her experience in the civil service somehow started regressing. just like some naively thought that the dynamic duo as the ICC indictees were favourably referred in circles they enjoyed support, would be less ethnic oriented than the Kibakis ( he who could not imagine working with non Gemas until the aftermath of 2007/2008 post election violence forced him to reconsider) and RAO of the Caliphate fame. so Anne got sucked into parochialism and as the Mungiki adherents are known never to betray the oath taken things started unfolding when the Devolution dockets' allocation jumped to kshs. 25 billion. how to absorb such large sums when we all know Devolution was not a war ministry where defence expenditures can easily escalate from unit x to more than triple x and be absorbed patriotically? the only way to 'cleverly' absorb the kshs. 25 billion was to steal in all ways possible. those civil servants who refused to play ball, since the IFMIS system has in excess of 20 steps before payments are effected were transferred enmass from the Devolution docket. there are preachers, from the Gema community, who were being paid in excess of kshs. 5 million per week to pray for success of Kibera activities being undertaken by NYS. then we have the consultations by Mutahi Ngunyi which lawyers would expect them to cost kshs. 15 million at most yet he would bill kshs. 50 million! and the eating frenzy much as it was supposed to be confined to Gema community mafia spiralled out and brought in the Olalos and the Rift Valley mafia. and just like any mafiosi family business grumbling over the turf is soon degenerating into mob wars with one side TNA blaming the other side URP yet as Jubilee the aim was to keep CORD brigade out. so the Mashinani Party leader is having a ball. he is smarting from being told 'peso sio ya mama yak' so he now quips “We should not engage in protracted political rhetoric over this matter. Those named in Waiguru’s affidavit should return the money acquired fraudulently,” he said. citizentv.co.ke/news/return-money-stolen-from-nys-ruto-tells-duale-murkomen-115823/it is getting nicer being a Kenyan as even my taxi driver who speaks and was born a Gema is complaining that they never thought Kamwana, as they fondly refer to PORK, would preside over thieving of tax payers money while crying 'jameni ndugu zanguni, tupendane tuache siasa za matusi tupatie wananchi maendeleo'. in Israel where PORK is signing bilateral with the Netanyahu government he needs to find out on the sides what happened to ... Barak “took bribes worth millions and tens of millions,” Olmert said. “There is no weapons deal Israel does ... everyone is talking about it.” Zaken then asked Olmert where the money was. “He hides it … in Switzerland or in some law firm, he transfers it to a company where Barak’s name doesn’t appear,” Olmert said. read more: www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.645373so as the saga continues one day we will learn PORK received money from the Cabinet Secretaries he choose while deputy PORK similarly received money from his Cabinet Secretaries. and hopefully both will not be residing at the Hague but our Kamiti and Naivasha maximum prisons. clean up those places while you are in power they may become you homes in a not so distant future, their advisers should counsel them
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Post by podp on Feb 24, 2016 17:47:20 GMT 3
Even in making all this noise, the constitutional time period to appoint a tribunal had not expired for those getting excited about impeachment to make a case. I am sure several of such people must have felt like complete idiots thinking that the alleged illegitimate government had no plan B when the names were announced once it became clear the JSC was not willing to get their heads out of their asses and deal with the elephant in the house.This is the same JSC that is court trying to remove the judge from office and it must have seen an opportunity to achieve its ends by picking on the impeachment route as their plan B should retirement fail. So we now have a tribunal that is not constitutionally time bound (apart from being asked to act expeditiously) to do anything and which can drag its feet long enough for the court of appeal to make a ruling before proceeding with the hearings to remove the judge. Bottom line the sensible route proposed by the president to hold back the petition until this matter is resolved is still achieved! But we fail to acknowledge the constitutional weakness we now face. The tribunal if it ever gets to sit and make a ruling to remove the judge, Tunoi still has a date with the Supreme Court where he sits to hear a possible appeal. How would his colleagues who may have had a cut in the $200 million rule especially if agreeing with the tribunal leaves them exposed to investigations too? Tunoi must prefer the tribunal route as it can get him out of trouble as retiring opens him to criminal investigation! the unfolding NYS scam gives a pointer of what to expect in answering the above, high lighted! it will be a field day for Kenyans who have been treated to grand daylight robberies at the NYS and by extension the Executive stealing, now appearing co-joined to the Legislature. we will have a case of Judiciary too joining the Mpigs at the trough so it will get merrier when all the 3 organs (Executive, Judiciary and Legislature) are seen as one entity. it helps in the scales falling from our eyes and realising that something 'good' has to come out of all that 'filth'
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Post by podp on Feb 15, 2016 22:33:56 GMT 3
The introduction of Bt cotton has reportedly boosted total cotton production. In 2014, Burkina Faso had the largest number of total GM crop producers on the African continent. It has more than 140,000 smallholder farmers cultivating Bt cotton. Burkina Faso’s success story has been celebrated as an example of how GM crops can help poor farmers. Many farmers have enthusiastically adopted the technology, and for good reason. Studies show that Bt cotton has increased yields and profits. The average Bt cotton farming family gained 50% more profit than from conventional cotton. This is despite the very high cost of Bt cotton seed. / in Kenya bt maize is to be planted already tried successfully Following these results, KALRO and AATF have made an application to the National Biosafety Authority (NBA), for commercial release of the WEMA Bt maize to the farming communities and consumers to contribute to enhancing food security in the country. This WEMA Bt maize variety which has been developed through biotechnology,.... Our top priority as an institution is to see continued growth of the agriculture sector that is a key contributor to the national vision of a food-secured nation. AATF and Kalro launched scientific trials after socio-economic studies showed the spotted stem borer (Chilo partellus) and the African Stem Borer (Busseola fusca) wreaked havoc across maize plantations, causing smallholder farmers a Sh9 billion loss, equivalent to 400,000 bags of maize, which then forced the government to import the staple. allafrica.com/stories/201602140293.html
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Post by podp on Jan 18, 2016 22:45:21 GMT 3
Kamalet:Although it is still early in the year, I think you are Jukwaa's runaway winner for the MOST HUMOUROUS post of 2016. Only you can TWIST the Galava issue completely out of recognition. A top editor is censored and censured from criticizing the Jubilee government. How can that be equivalent to kicking out a cyberdelinquent for sophomoric, reckless postings on Jukwaa?Onyango Oloo Administrator Happy new Year folks! May be Oloo should revise the headline to include retired KANU-obsolete fossil Nkaissery! he ordered Boinett to arrest and jail anybody who shares photos of dead KA personnel in Somalia. That is now censorship! happy new 2016 with best wishes to Jukwaa contributors. thinking of the above highlighted. 'In Hungary, Ecuador, Turkey, Kenya, and elsewhere, officials are mimicking autocracies like Russia, Iran, or China by redacting critical news and building state media brands. They are also creating more subtle tools to complement the blunt instruments of attacking journalists. Stealth censorship appeals to authoritarian governments that want to appear like democracies—or at least not like old-style dictatorships. In illiberal democracies, of which there are a growing number, the government aims to keep a grip on the news media while concealing its fingerprints. A global survey of attacks on the press today shows governments mixing direct and indirect pressures as part of a booming emerging market in information control.' www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/02/government-censorship-21st-century-internet/385528/media owners face a difficult relationship with the government. When they approve stories containing potentially embarassing information, government officials often try to censor it. media.about.com/od/mediaethics/a/How-Media-Censorship-Affects-The-News.htmgoing back to 2007/2008 post election violence the excerpt below shows the dangers of censorship Preaching is not a journalist’s main job. Blatant fraud in a presidential election was clearly an urgent matter for the media and its journalists. But in the interests of restoring public order they deliberately chose to ignore it while thousands of Kenyans poured into the streets in search of “truth” and “justice.” After weeks of violence and killings that have exhausted the country, still nobody knows who really won the election, who cheated and how, and why social and tribal divisions cracked the foundations of the great Kenyan democracy that was seen as unbreakable. www.article19.org/data/files/pdfs/publications/kenya-how-far-to-go.pdfafter a brief dalliance between the media and Jubilee leadership in 2013, a reward for the former came. '"These media laws will force journalists and news outlets to self-censor to survive. They are a severe blow to investigative reporting in Kenya," cpj.org/2013/12/kenya-parliament-passes-draconian-media-laws.phpso the Interior CS is just applying what is on paper i.e. Act signed by PORK and the challenge of the Itumbis holed in the presidency is to try and hack into anyone who disobeys the CS
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Post by podp on Jan 9, 2016 10:36:09 GMT 3
OtishOtish, b6k, you guys gotta go all the way to Bloomberg to justify or vilify the son of Jomo!? Me? Whenever I am in Nairobi I take two tours. One through the slums, checking out such. I "Sometimes we recognize leaders’ toxicity only after they leave their institutions in disarray and their hapless followers in despair. Worse yet, we frequently perceive the inadequacies of toxic leaders in real time but do little to stop them.” Pg. 10 www.leadershipnow.com/leadershop/0195166345.htmlJomo Kenyatta’s regime was corrupt, illiberal and competent. Moi’s was corrupt, illiberal and mediocre. Kibaki’s was corrupt, liberal and competent. So, Moi scores zero out of three. Jomo scores one out of three. Kibaki scores two out of three. Now it adds up! Jubilee’s stock has fallen not just because it is seen as corrupt, but because it comes across as also illiberal and incompetent. Like Moi’s regime, it scores zero out of three. www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Jubilee-like-Moi-regime-scores-a-zero-/-/440808/2638032/-/sncejn/-/index.htmlKoyaga shows no mercy to those who question his right to rule. A mighty hunter of men as well as animals, he emasculates his victims and places their mmmes in their mouths to prevent their spirits taking revenge on him (or possibly because he is an evil bastard). www.theguardian.com/books/2003/mar/15/featuresreviews.guardianreview16from David Ndii's article there is the statement Mediocracy works the same way. The people who thrive in it are idiots and rascals. This has the effect of driving good smart people out of the system so that in the end, the entire system is made up of idiots and rascals. in the epic "The Allure of Toxic Leaders: Why we follow Destructive Bosses and Corrupt Politicians—and How We Can Survive Them" we learn that... Toxic leaders leave their followers worse off than they found them. A few of the many other ways toxic leaders act are they: violate basic standards of human rights; feed followers illusions; stifle criticism; maliciously set constituents against one another. Back in Kenya, the drums of war have begun beating. They ring with the unmistakable sound of 2006 – 2007, ahead of the disaster that would follow. The opposition says the incumbents have begun rigging next year’s election. They say in law that res ipso dictum – which is to say that things speak for themselves. But even when things don’t speak for themselves, politicians engage in reckless talk that could sink society. Deputy President William Ruto goes to Kakamega to tell the people, “We beat these useless people when we were not in government. How do they imagine that they are going to beat us now that we are in government? That is impossible.” You are still pondering over the wider significance of the DP’s words when a CORD defector turned Jubilee zealot blurts, “We are going to win this election. No matter what, we will win. We will rig. And if we cannot rig, we will steal.” Consider that he says this in the presence of the Deputy President. Put this together with hostile early campaigns. Disaster is not too far. If the political class cannot speak cautiously and sensitively, it should keep quiet. Religious leaders, NGOs, the media and the academic fraternity must protect the public from the injurious messaging of the political class. Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000187506/polls-in-africa-are-exercises-in-democratic-fiction
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Post by podp on Jan 9, 2016 10:12:55 GMT 3
prelude A number of questions arise to which, so far, no answers have been offered. First, if indeed a new mega project was to be initiated for a vast agricultural project at the Coast, were the leaders of this region consulted? Were any attempts made to consider whether providing these new seed varieties, advanced fertilisers and irrigation to tens of thousands of smallholder farmers all over the Coast might not yield the same proposed benefits while financially empowering these farmers at the same time? In other words, how is it possible that billions of shillings are being spent on a vast white elephant agricultural project at the Coast while the hundreds of thousands of smallholder farmers in that region have never been offered what was supposed to be the foundation of the Galana Kulalu Scheme – that is irrigation, improved seed and better fertiliser and, above all, a ready market for the harvest?By any measure, this is an incredible injustice. Here is a clear example, in real time, of what happens when a region does not have a leadership strong enough to stand up for its people and to demand that local priorities must point the way for any new development project. It would be funny if it weren’t so tragic. Because, from our point of view at the Coast, all those billions dedicated to the Galana-Kulalu Ranch might as well been poured out into the Gala River and washed out to sea. This money did not create any jobs worth talking about for the hundreds of thousands of unemployed of the Coast. It did not produce economic opportunity for the local farmers. It did not educate any local farmers in scientific agricultural methods for boosting their maize production. And it did not create any new infrastructure that might benefit the local people, whether the project succeeded or failed. Speaking to the press during a parliamentary committee investigation into the Galana-Kulalu project, the MP for Mukurweini, Hon Kabando wa Kabando, was quoted as saying: “There is a problem at Galana. One could be excused for thinking this is another cash cow: This could turn out to be another scandal.”He should have added this will always happen to any region that does not have a leadership strong and aggressive enough to promote its own people’s interests at the national level. www.the-star.co.ke/news/2016/01/09/the-injustices-of-white-elephant-projects-the-galana-kulalu-ranch_c1270967back to the topic at hand Several things have happened during Uhuru’s stay, including high level “surrenders” and arrests of terror suspects in Mombasa and Malindi. Campaigns ahead of the Malindi Town constituency by-election began during his stay and this morning, Uhuru is set to issue the first batch of title deeds to squatters to be settled on the controversial Waitiki Farm. Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000187505/why-uhuru-has-camped-at-the-coastsamburu • 2 hours ago Isn't issuance of title deeds a service that the government is mandated to provide to the land owners or is uhuru giving out free land? Isn't issuance of title deed the work of some junior clerk in lands ministry? Does uhuru not have more meaningful work to do than to be an overpaid clerk? www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000187505/why-uhuru-has-camped-at-the-coast?articleID=2000187505&story_title=why-president-uhuru-kenyatta-pitched-tent-in-coast&pageNo=2
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Post by podp on Dec 30, 2015 10:44:28 GMT 3
Podp, Please elaborate...in "layman terms"... teacher left us with many works and I am sorry I did not leave the reference for you. Daring to Dream is a posthumously published collection of some of Freire's writing, speeches, and dialogues, assembled by his second wife. The book is premised on Freire's idea of history as possibility rather than as determinism. In other words, we can take the attitude that things are the way they are, and there is nothing we can do about it (fatalism, determinism), to say, "that is the reality of things;" or that we can play a part in making history (possibility), by taking the attitude that, "reality can and must be mutable; it must be transformable." Freire wants the oppressed peoples to realize that history is not determined, to raise their consciousness that they have agency in this world, to transform the world rather than adapting to it, to participate in history rather than being subject to it.
They can act upon history, rather than merely being acted upon by those in more powerful positions. Freire's teaching philosophy includes the notion that by discussing the notion of culture with learners, the teacher can help learners to be creators of culture, "not simply as a spectator of the world, but as someone who intervenes, who is capable of intervention in the world, are able to change the world." Freire is inspired, even in his old age, by "the possibility of surpassing the condition of object and reaching the condition of subject, maker of the world, remaker of the world." In order to realize the view of history as possibility, we have choices when we confront "limit situations:" decide that we cannot possibly overcome the situation, decide that we don't want to overcome it, at least for the time being, or decide that it is something to be overcome. But the key theme of the book is the notion that in order to sustain this idea that you can be a participant in history, the idea of history as possibility, then you also must have a vision or dream of what the future might look like. Why should this be a 'dare?' For a few reasons, I think: you might dream of something better and find your current situation so depressingly far from that, that you give up trying to do anything about it; or, looking at the current situation, you might limit your vision of the future, whereas Freire wants you to go way beyond a vision that might be constricted by current conditions; and, in your dream of the future, you might be ridiculed by those around you, precisely as a "dreamer." I see a parallel here with Christian values, which influenced Freire's thinking. A person who holds the Christian values of beneficence, forgiveness, and helping the poor and the weak, might envision a society that eradicates poverty, one in which the poor are taken care of. Although it may be impossible to bring about this society right now - or even to imagine it as a real possibility - it is important to hold that idea in your mind, be inspired by it, and let it guide your actions. Freire is writing for people who, in his words, "refuse to settle," who hold in themselves a dream of democracy and liberation. He is realistic about what people can accomplish. He does not believe that today's struggles will necessarily accomplish their goals, but they may lay the ground work for future generations. This is why the book is subtitled, "Toward a pedagogy of the unfinished."Read this to deepen your well of knowledge of the transformational possibilities of education, as well as education's limits; let it inspire you to conceive your own 'dream' by which to be guided as an educator. www.amazon.com/Pedagogy-Indignation-Series-Critical-Narrative/dp/1594510512
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Post by podp on Dec 29, 2015 22:18:55 GMT 3
Podp, Indeed, Kenya may have undermined Africa’s position during the negotiations, in the same way that one individual may undermine a group of people with a common goal. However, this does not absolve rich countries from their actions vis a vis the developing world – which are, in the case of the WTO – “driven by their corporate world whose single most important motive is price and market domination.” as a people we must 'realize that history is not determined, to raise their consciousness that they have agency in this world, to transform the world rather than adapting to it, to participate in history rather than being subject to it.'
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