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17:39
From: Kikuyumoja's realm
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Ah, wieder so ne verlogene Scheisse…oder vielleicht bin ich auch einfach nur zu anspruchsvoll, als dass mir der Sinn einer solch öffentlichen Mobilmachung nicht bewusst werden will.
…Hier findest du die neuesten Informationen über Strategien, Musik und Kleidung der Neonazis.
Aufm Studivz läuft zZt so ne Werbung gegen Nazis, was ja auch politisch korrekt ist und sicherlich wunderbar ankommt. Wenn der Sinn des Studivz darin besteht, so vielen aussagekräftigen oder gerne auch sinnlosen Gruppen beizutreten, die dann in ihrer Gesamtheit ein mehr oder weniger genaues Bild bzw Image eines *Profils* wiedergeben sollen, dann erfüllt diese Gruppe sicherlich auch ihren Zweck. Nebenbei wird so die Plattform “sauber” gehalten.
Für mich befremdlich wirken solche Aktionen allerdings hinsichtlich des Feindbildes - als dass ich da zu wenige Idioten erkennen mag. Es mag ja sein, dass in meinem kleinen Mikrokosmos zu wenige Neonazis auftauchen um der Gesellschaft jetzt kollektiv den Stempel aufzudrücken, aber ich wundere mich immer noch. Ja, ich wundere mich.
Mein österreichischer Vermieter würde jetzt sagen: “Wissens, die Deutschen…naaa…die sind so faschistisch. Also die Anderen auch, aber die Deutschen die rufen im Radio an um ne Radarkontrolle zu melden, und wundern sich dann wenn ein Kind doootgfahrn wiard. Ich find die sollten dafür ins Gfäängnis kommn.”
Hmm. Vielleicht nicht unbedingt das beste Beispiel, jedoch: bei solchen Aktionen, die dann nur einen *click-of-a-button* entfernt sind, springen viele auf den fahrenden (Image-)Zug, aber bei anderen Dingen, die ein selbstständiges, eigenverantwortliches und mutiges Handeln beinhalten, wird oft der Schwanz eingezogen. Das ist so eine falsche Genauigkeit für mich.
Bei einem so klar ausdefinierten Feinbild vermag es ein Leichtes sein, “Mut” oder Gruppenzugehörigkeit zu beweisen. Die für mich offene Frage: wieso gibt es so eine Werbung nicht für Zivilcourage, sozialen Einsatz für die Gesellschaft oder einen neuen Generationenvertrag?
Oder anders gefragt: was hat die leidvolle DuBistDeutschland-Kampagne von vor drei (?) Jahren eigentlich gebracht?
Fickt die Nazis, es gibt ganz andere Probleme heutzutage. Macht dafür mal Gruppen, werdet aktiv und mischt Euch ein. Hab ich auch gemacht und es hat mir nur geholfen in the long run.
Von den guten, den sozial engagierten Menschen, gibt es meiner Meinung nach immer noch viel zu wenige. Siehe Demos, siehe Freiwilige Helfer, siehe Umweltaktivisten, siehe Bildung unserer Kinder, und so weiter. Statt diese Ideale (es muss ja nicht gleich Altruismus sein) als Vorbild zu nehmen, werden Feindbilder ausgemacht und gruppendynamisch ausgegrenzt. So schafft man sich eine abgefuckte Gesellschaftsform.
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15:20
From: Black Looks
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Lesbian and Gay Equality Project, Johannesburg, South Africa.
In a packed Springs Magristrate Court C, the five young men accused of murdering Eudy Simalane appeared this morning before Acting Chief Magistrate Mandla Mthombeni. The five young men, (K. Magabhula, J. Mahlangu, T. Mvuba, T. Pitja and T. Phithi) did not have anything to say to [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Killers of EUDY SIMELANE appear before a packed court. ", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/killers_of_eudy_simelane_appear_before_a_packed_court_.html" });
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13:27
From: You Missed This
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I am a crazy one when an idea gets hold of me. One thing that happens is that I really get excited about it and discouraging me becomes impossible. The truth is that time and again in my life I have pressed on with a number of “crazy ideas that will never work” that have ended up not doing too badly. A good example is this very blog. “One of his crazy ideas that never work, huyo ametupa mbao” somebody who thinks they know me too well quipped about it. ----------------- Also posted in the last few minutes;
The good thing about the fat donkey Kenya MPs ------------------ But that one is a storo for another day. Today I will focus on the drama around my house construction project high in the hills somewhere in Ukambani where my ancestors come from. From my few travels here and there, I had been inspired to think out of the box when it came to construction. By some stroke of very good luck I got a fundi who was receptive to my “crazy ideas”. Now usually where I come from, to construct a house you either need to make bricks (there is plenty of good material all over the place to make some really nice bricks) or you get stones from elsewhere. And yet there is plenty of stone everywhere you look. It is a great menace and if people had the means they would probably pay you to get it off their shambas. But nobody had ever thought of it as building material. I was advised not to dare use “those funny stones” for the foundation of my small shack otherwise it would collapse for sure. But when I met up with my fundi and dug the foundation, that is exactly what we used. Somebody even asked me if I had ever constructed a house before. When I said “no”, they gave me some friendly advice. They suggested that I start with a small toilet on the outside first and then later I could come to my shack. That one stung me and made me even more determined. Let me spare you the details and cut a long story short. The house still stands today, 16 years later. It doesn’t even have a single crack anywhere on any wall. It is a small house that I hope to expand into a nice country cabin one day. I have this most spectacular view of the valley below and into the distance towards what must be Thika. Just breath-taking. Imagine sipping morning tea while taking in a view like that. But the construction did not go without mishaps. My ideas worked great until we got to the roof. I wanted to use stone and cement on the roof in a way that I had seen done elsewhere. In fact my construction site became a local tourist attraction as people came to see me fail. Finally the roof did not work out and I was forced to use conventional roofing material. But I have not given up. These days we have the Internet and when I get back there some day, I will Google how to construct a roof with stones and cement. So why am I telling you guys all this? It is because our beloved country is in a deep hole country and sinking deeper by the day. And the only thing that can save us are some radical brand new ideas. The only problem is that Kenyans are too conservative for them. Way too conservative. Most Kenyans can’t even think out of the box when writing a mere job application. Too risky, they will tell you. But wise people tell us, no risk no gain. Personally I believe that only some very radical ideas can save us now. Pussy-footing will just have us going round and round in circles when the people are really suffering and I can assure you the boiling point for them is way too close. Here are some of the radical ideas I believe can go a long way in helping us save our beloved country. - Pass legislation to bar folks from standing for any political office in a constituency within their home province.
- Pass a law to rotate the presidency around different tribes in Kenya for the next 50 years. That means that once your tribe has seen the presidency, no candidate from that tribe can stand again for the next 50 years. The years can be reduced to a minimum of 30 years.
- Reduce the presidential and parliamentary term to 4 years from 5
- Making it law that the president and vice president are never the same gender. So if the president is a man the vice president MUST be a woman.
- Parliament should be at least 50% women.
- Punish the crime of rape with castration and enforce the law kabisa. Also enforce the law on wife-beaters and increase the jail term considerably for all men who are involved in any kind of violence against women.
- Move army headquarters from Nairobi to El-Wak and have strong military presence where it will help most—close to our porous borders where guns and all sorts of harmful things cross into the country at will.
- Build massive solar and wind powered electricity generation plants in the North Eastern province to help counter the major world energy crisis that is coming.
- Create massive programs to directly address the idle youth and unemployment. For example food-for-work and higher-education-for-work. This where people work on massive farms and the produce they grow is sold to finance their stay there as they learn how they can be able to sustain themselves as farmers or in small-scale business when they leave the camp and others come in for the same program. Same system can also be used to help the poor access higher education or those who did not make it through the conventional system to have another shot at a professional career.
- Shift government head offices for everything from Nairobi to Nakuru, Parliament to Kisumu, main State House where cabinet meetings will be held should be Mombasa. Prime Ministers official residence and office should be Nyeri (if we don’t have a PM that is where the VP should operate from.)
- Make it a criminal offense to discriminate against anybody along tribal or gender lines.
- Give major tax concessions to businesses that are most active in creating gainful employment.
Gym instructor has his way with attractive young Dubai-based man's girl friend
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12:42
From: Kikuyumoja's realm
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….und nicht anders stellen sie sich bei payback also die Chinesen vor.
Ich behaupte an dieser Stelle einfach mal, dass heutige, europäische Verbraucher mit der Zeichnung im Screenshot eine Parallele zu ihrem Chinabild [Schiinahh, Kiinahh] erkennen - und es auch ganz wunderbar zu den bewegten Bildern im Poparchiv im McChopstick-Stil zuordnen können. Ist das jetzt gut oder schlecht?
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12:34
From: Kenyanentrepreneur.com
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I was having a short, but interesting conversation with someone late last night and the topic of Equity Banks’ rapid rise to the top came up (apparently, it now holds 41% of all bank accounts in the country).
Anyway, during this short conversation, this guy told me that he attended a speech given by Equity’s MD at the Harvard [...]
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11:52
From: You Missed This
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 First of all it's Monday. The number of those nursing alcoholic hangovers is higher than those who remember the exact biblical scripture delivered by the pastor this past Sunday. How about starting the week on a lighter note? We all begin nursery school with outlandish dreams of becoming the next Bill Gates or Dr. Manu Chandaria. Indeed, only a fraction of us look forward to fitting the shoes of Mahatma Gandhi or Nelson Mandela. By the time you finish high school, the future you have crafted for yourself is usually pretty obvious. You just might be on the fantastic verge of joining Kamangu the cobbler. You might also be a few years from corporate opulence, high society and sausage for breakfast. Those who fall in between will, mostly unsuccessfully, spend their midlife trying to get ahead whichever which way, even if it means backyard chicken farms in the city. The point is, we always aspire to be richer...like so and so. In fact, your worst enemy is that workmate or neighbor who makes a measly 500 Kshs more than you. It's just human nature. You cannot stomach that neighbor with a DVD player; you cannot wait to steal the remote control when you visit..... anything to frustrate him or her is a good thing. Needless to say, those with money inspire those without. I therefore proclaim fat jet set monied MPs an important source of inspiration to starving villagers and two cent slum dwellers? FACT: If your MP consistently visits your constituency projects on a donkey drawn cart, none of your nursery school going kids would aspire to ride on anything but a donkey.
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9:43
From: The Displaced African
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For My Church Folk
It’s amazing how entire societies can practice selective amnesia. How African people, of all people, could have bought into the idea that because gay people are getting married, youngsters my age are fornicating like steroid-amped bunnies and there are natural disasters such as hurricanes and tsunamis, that means that Jesus Christ is coming tomorrow boggles me.
Are You Forgetting Where We Were Decades Ago?
Are you forgetting that until quite recently we weren’t even thought of or treated as whole human beings? Are you forgetting that almost the entire continent of Africa was under colonialism and that African civil rights were nothing more than an illusion of the occasional schizophrenic. Are you forgetting that colonialism, slavery and all forms of oppression against the African brought with them:
1) Murder
2) Mutilation
3) Rape
4) Assault
5) Intense labour without any possibility of pay
So ladies and gentlemen how does that compare with the reality of today? We are among the first lots of Africans within the Western empire who are not enslaved by some European barbarian. I am assuming you are not reading this from a concentration camp or a dungeon. If you are, contact me, I would love to interview you about your experiences.
What About Before That?
Let’s see!The last couple of centuries have been nothing but a moral purists dream haven’t they? What with:
a) World War 2
b) The first Nuclear weapon being dropped
c) World War 1
d) The Scramble for Africa
e) The misuse of religion to enslave millions of people worldwide
f) The occupation and colonization of almost every nation on Earth.
g) The turf and property ways that tribal societies in Africa used to have with each other e.g. the Maasai vs the Kikuyu
h) The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade etc etc etc
Compare that to the prospect of living next to a couple that call themselves “Stacy and Mary” as opposed to “Mark and Mary”? Do they even compare?
Yes, Mr. Young Stud (real name;) ) may distribute his semen up and down the globe, but can you compare it to the millions of African women who were held down and raped while their village is being pillaged and robbed by occupying forces?
So What’s Your Point?
My point is quite simple. You have to keep your life in perspective. Yes, we do exist in the age of neocolonialism and yes the chains of oppression and the yoke of selfishness and greed is far from removed.
However
A lot of people died and made sacrifices so you could sit in a cyber-cafe or sit in a fully furnished home and read this.
This is one of the first generations EVER in the history of the Western empire to have middle and upper classes.
We have been blessed due to great people like Aime, Fannon, Lumumba, Mandela, X, Biko, Kimathi,Mboya, Nyerere and Nkrumah to be able to eat on the same tables as the Westerners who once oppressed us and that is no light blessing.
So please put your life in perspective and be thankful for all the blessings that your forefathers and your divine Father has blessed you with. Quit fixating on whether or not the rapture is erupting tomorrow and instead focus on being a creature that lives by the only two commandments that matter:
1) Love God
2) Love your fellow man as you love yourself, not forgetting that what you do to the least of your brethren has direct impact on point number 1.
Do the above two things as they were originally intended and you don’t even need to worry about whether or not the world is ending tomorrow: you’re ready!
If this post caused a little stirring in your soul, feel free to subscribe to the blog via email or RSS to get regular inspiration.
Be blessed and bless others,
Mwangi
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9:15
From: KA-INVESTOR
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 (This post is in memory of all the 114 passengers who perished in the crash) It’s exactly one year since KQ flight 507 went down in Duala – Cameroon. Up to now, no official report has been released on the real cause of the crash. Kenya Airways is now seeking the help of the Kenya government and the US Administration, manufacturers of the Boeing, to compel the Cameroonian authorities to release the one year old report. The Boeing 737-800 series was only 6 months old and so the issue of a technical hitch could not arise. Two weeks ago, another 737-800 series belonging to KQ overshot the runway at the Entebbe International Airport in Uganda, and once again the incident was blamed on bad weather. On Friday last week, a Kenya Airways flight from Kisumu to Nairobi aborted after what the airline said was a small technical hitch (what hitch?) Although KQ CEO, Titus Naikuni, came out defending his company’s record and said that such hitches are expected taking into account the volume of flights KQ covers, it leaves a lot to beg. The frequency of the recent incidences does not look normal at all. Could this be a case of mismanagement? It’s clearly understood that workers at this flight company are quite overworked and may be under performing not due to laziness, but fatigue. What KQ needs is a complete overhaul and not a re-branding, hiking fares or cancellation of partnerships. The whole management team needs to be replaced with a new one with more stringent performance contracts. Without this the inefficient rot in there will never be dealt with and more disappointing things will happen. We cannot afford to lose more lives just because we want to serve vested interests. Our African Pride is bigger than that. The company is faced with very tough industry times (increased fuel prices, stringent terrorism laws and stiff competition from international Airlines) and cannot afford to goof around. I think making the KQ private owned or fully owned by the public will make it more efficient and accountable to its customers. Things like 48 hours delays of flights will be a thing of the past.
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7:10
From: My part of the world.......
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Oh Joy! Monday is here! I'll try and say that as many times as I can till I believe it. Anyway in case you don't know I always have a digital camera in my car and I do try and take pics when I can, of course most of them aren't masterpieces but I do like to have something to look back to when I move on. Anyway here are some pics for you.  With the price of gas, I'm soon going to be wiping the dust off my bus card  Kenyans doing what we do best  A great looking mural  I like the artistic freedom people take with their shops in this part of town  More freedom of expression at work  A building design that stays with you  I liked the design of the sign  Some folk are living large I tell you..  A view from a hotel just by the Airport  Someone told me the hotel was once a hanger  Do transvestites prefer to fly with air tran? (Crude Acolyte statement of the day)  A news crew doing a story around the time one airline had their planes were grounded  Just wanted to show you all my private jet  No, I was not seated at the bar at anytime that day! In other news I was reading about how during Labour day wanainchi booed the President when he did not declare a rise in the minimum wage. What it got me to wondering was if many employers even adhere to that minimum wage law and how often it is enforced? It's a known fact that many Indian owned factories in the Industrial Area over work, under pay and abuse their Kenyan workers. What is sad though is that the labour officials do nothing or are bribed to turn a blind eye. And what makes things worse is that I hear that fares are going to go up in Kenya do to the price of petrol, I guess more Kenyans are going to start walking. Oh the joys of a globalized economy, America's problems become everyone else's problems. Anyway let me get myself back to the everyday grind before I start thinking too hard and get pensive. ps: A good reason not to play with other men's wives!
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6:58
From: Walk of Kings:
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Destiny is one of those things that I continue to blog about.Something about destiny hangs over my head .I can shake it or side step it .It consumes my thoughts at times ,I think more about destiny than other people (possibly) .The End purpose of Life,why are we here !Destiny why cant we shake destiny. Maybe because it is destiny . Do you ever feel like your steps are ordered that you going through life and situations like clockwork.
I go through cyclical revelations of destiny , every season is different but the course is the same in that no matter how many twists n turns the direction, goal and result is fixed .(I feel like I am fighting in a fixed fight-fixed in my favor )You cant talk about destiny and not talk about purpose .What is the purpose of your life .I might not have all the details about my purpose but I know the one who sets up time and purpose set up my destiny .That is a comfort I am glad to have . It makes life enjoyable ,when I go through rough seasons I remember, you are being refined to be unveiled .When things don't work out, my mind and heart are at peace knowing that the destiny maker only wants the best for me- the fight is fixed . When things go well !I remember it is his purpose not mine that matters-thats why he fixed the fight .
Have blessed day! enjoy what destiny sends your way & take comfort in God for He is still in control
1 O LORD, you have searched me
and you know me.
2 You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar.
3 You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways.
~`~
15 My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place.
When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,
16 your eyes saw my unformed body.
All the days ordained for me
were written in your book
before one of them came to be.
17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
Psalm 139:1-3 (New International Version)
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6:58
From: Memories, Sentiments, Rants and Raves
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I decided to take last Friday off seeing that Thursday was labor day hence left me with four days to bum and goof off. I did manage to participate in one of those conversations *smh*... It was said that for any woman to keep her man she has to be strict with him. Apparently, men need to be chaperoned to ensure good behavior. Supposedly this is meant to explain why some women want to know where their man is, who he is with, what they are doing and what time he will be home.
In my opinion, if your partner wants to cheat on you no amount of chaperoning will prevent them from doing it. The person will find opportunity in the strangest of places and do it. I would like to believe at the point in time we are dating, you know what you want.Secondly, should a time come and you feel that i no longer meet the criteria you should have the decency to let me know so that we can call it quits. This thing of recruiting his boys or his boys' girlfriends to look out for you is pure gas. My ma says that you should know when to stay and fight and when to walk away. I am assuming that at the point where i launch inquisitions into your whereabouts, doings and recruit spies, it means i don't trust you. Without trust there is no relationship, this is one of the pillars to any relationship. If that is the way to keep a man hallo spinsterhood just because there is some stunts i just wont do.
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0:54
From: What An African Woman Thinks
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So, I've a confession to make:
All this blogging business is really about expressing my wannabe novelist-ness. Well, OK, not all of it, but at least some of it is.
If my high school had a yearbook in my day, under my photo(in which I would have been smiling, I have a great smile and don't I know it), would have been the caption:
"most likely to write a novel someday."
Seriously. Back then, yours truly and (almost) everybody I knew thought I had a novel buried in me. It now turns out that the treasure was buried far deeper than anyone could have imagined.
Sigh.
Maybe I peaked in high school. Maybe I raised expectations a tad too high and the last decade or so has been a subconscious effort to lower the bar. Maybe.
Or maybe the novel will come to me in my seventies. There are people who have written their first novel in their seventies, you know. And it's turned out splendidly for them, I think. So why not me?
I bumped into Binyavanga some time ago. He doesn't know this is me, just so you know. He gave me this sage advice:
"You know what you need to do if you want to be a writer? Write."
Oh bummer. No way around that then? Because I find writing in a particular direction in a sustained way so ... tedious. I tend instead to follow my goat as she grazes and sort of bump into things to write about. Or write about things that have bumped into me. I'm very opportunistic that way.
Besides, all I want is a hefty advance, to be sort of famous, and to do a book tour or two.
Oh, and to have people crease their brow when they pass me on the street because they think they recognise me from somewhere but they can't quite tell where. That tickles me, it really does.
Do I need to write a whole book for that, or will a few chapters do?It's my window, but I don't own the view.
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0:42
From: The Benin Epilogue Part I: Africa-Ready for Business
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I’ve been preoccupied with risk these days. Or risk mitigation to be exact. I’m tired of watching my TD Ameritrade account get whipsawed. It’s got me thinking. Would a portfolio invested solely in African markets be a tragedy waiting to happen? The chart below shows the correlations (or lack thereof) between the dollar-adjusted monthly returns of 10 African local stock indexes over the past 16 months. This is a relatively short time frame, but I think it’s sufficient to get an idea of some of the relationships between the countries that we cover in this newsletter. Unsurprisingly, the strongest positive correlation we see is between the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (SA) and the Emerging Market Index (EEM). South Africa is a full-fledged emerging market. It is large and liquid, making it a favorite of funds desirous of exposure to the continent. But this also means it is likely to be hit first and worst in the event of a global economic downturn. The next strongest correlation is that between South Africa and Namibia. The neighboring countries share a customs union, a currency linkage, and a lot of history. Thus their stock indexes move in a concerted fashion. Similarly, the markets of Kenya and Uganda exhibit a strong relationship. Investors from both countries can easily invest in one another’s markets. And landlocked Uganda is almost entirely dependent on trade routes through Kenya. Thus, Kenya’s political crisis early this year hurt the Ugandan index more than the Nairobi Stock Exchange itself! Continue Reading at Cheetah IndexOf course, I love your comments. But, if you can't comment at this particular time- but would like to let us know that you were here; please sign and View my guestbook
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