Today Quote

The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand.
- Cesare Lombroso

How the Africa-China romance is killing Europe

In the past decade the international media first focused on China’s economic boom, which was then followed by the ‘Africa is rising’ narrative.

The latter partly as a result of China’s investments. Many have wondered whether China’s interest in Africa would trigger a new wave of colonialism and exploitation of mineral resources, needed to keep Chinese factories going.
On regular occasions one would find media analyses of the China-Africa romance (like here) . And like a mother not too happy with her daughter’s choice of partner, the experts tended to be wary of the authenticity of the cute new couple. Even when South Africa became the ‘S’ in BRICS, the rest of the world (read: the West) had its doubts. Was South Africa ready to play with the big boys?
As it now turns out, what the West, and Europe in particular, have been afraid of all the time is how much the “Old World” would lose because of the new relations between China and the African continent.

A documentary on Dutch public television by broadcaster VPRO, that premiered recently, painfully shows the consequences for Europe now that it virtually has closed its borders,while China is welcoming African migrants with open arms.
The 45-minute documentary entitled “Black money: The future comes from Africa” (one could question the title) examines two things.

THE KENYAN ELECTORATE MBWA MENTALITY

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If someone calls me a Dog i'll consider it the worst insult and may lead to everlasting enemity but wait a moment.

What are the similarities between a Kenyan and a dog?

When I was a boy I owned a dog called Marugu.I say owned because I bought it at a few coins when it was a puppy, fed it on leftovers from my mom’s pot till it grew to a strong male dog. In exchange o the leftovers Marugu gave me fanatical loyalty.

Marugu was my entertainment tool, my source of food and my security. I used to go hunting, my Marugu was fast and angile.Together with other dogs they would chase and kill Antelopes. For some reason which am still to be told to date, They wouldn't eat their kill.They would wait for us to share what is rightfully theirs; they would not start eating until we shared.

When we shared we would eat the fleshy chunks and feed Marugu and other dogs on intestines, head, hooves and testacles. After ­ hunting we used to hold Dog fighting contest. We would set Marugu against other dogs that are otherwise his friends and workmate during the tedious hunting job, and they tear each other apart as we would cheer and laugh.

Not one day did these dogs realize that they are the ones who hunted and so they have the right to decide who eats what, no,they were too royal to question. Deep within them they knew that if they decided to tear me apart I was nothing to them yet for some reason even when I decided to be cruel to Marugu and other dogs it used to coil its tail between the legs and submit, why am yet to know. Maybe some dark forces as someone said. Marugu and other dogs never stopped one day to ask themselves why they were fighting upon our instructions. They were friends playing nice games, and workmates while hunting, but when we decided we want to watch a dog fight all it took was a single command and friends turn against each other. And the battle used to be Ugly.
When I look at poor Kenyans, They remind me of my Marugu. Kenyans are the ones Who pay taxes. Leaders pay themselves from 800k with their taxes while the services and salaries given to taxpayer are the hooves and testacies I fed the dogs after hunting. Remember the leaders don’t pay taxes and the only work they do is sleep in parliament. So they are eaters we are workers. And like my Marugu ordinary Kenyans never complain. And just like my Marugu hugged me lovingly after mistreating it and wags its tail at me, we too sing for and clap at our leaders after adding themselves salaries from our money. And just like I would be nothing if Marugu decided to tear me apart, so is the poor Kenyans If they decide that the leaders will spend the night out ofpowers today it will happen. But just like dogs to us something holds them back and during these elections they are still singing for the same vultures who have reaped them off all the dignity back to power. I concur with the ones who say there are some dark forces.

How do you elect someone who is worthy 40 billion half of which he cannot account for when you cannot afford two meals a day. How can you elect a person who owns land the size of a District when you in Kibera cannot spit outside or else it lands on neighbors’ pot. How can you fight your neighbor because a leader said so. If you will elect UHURU,RAILA. I need someone to explain to me the difference between you and Marugu. I know what you are going to do, you will insult me for reminding you that you don’t think. Just like Marugu used to attack any other dog that barked at me despite me stealing its fair share.

If you are not a MBWA in the head stand upright like the homo erectus you are and defend your dignity.

(Mbwa=Dog)

Hellen Keller : I overcome deafness and blindness sufficiently to be happy, and I supposed that anyone could come out victorious if he threw himself valiantly into life's struggle.

"I had once believed that we are all masters of our fate - that we could mould our lives into any form we pleased... I had overcome deafness and blindness sufficiently to be happy, and I supposed that anyone could come out victorious if he threw himself valiantly into life's struggle. But as I went more and more about the country I learned that I had spoken with assurance on a subject I knew little about. I forgot that I owed my success partly to the advantages of my birth and environment... Now, however, I learned that the power to rise in the world is not within the reach of everyone."

Keller's biography can be found @ http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAkeller.htm

@HTTP://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Keller

Point!

Smartphones-smartphones-smartphones!!!!

[caption id="attachment_687" align="alignnone" width="432"] Top: obama and family during the first term swearing in ceremony in 2009
Below: Obama and family using smart-phones during the swearing in ceremony for a second term in office in 2013[/caption]

This era of the smartphones!!!!!!

21 Things Every Nairobian has done at least Once

1. Used the words “Me I”
2. Pressed the Lift Buttonmore than Once when in a Hurry
3. Downloaded Pirated Music
4. Exchanged words witha ‘Ma3’ conductor
5. Spent at least 2 hours in the Jam
6. Used Traffic Jam as an excuse for being late even when it isn’t
7. Used a Cyber Café
8. Got soaked wet in the Nairobi Rain.
9. Felt the wrath of an unexpected Pothole
10. Bought an item from ‘Mtumba’
11. After buying the item from ‘Mtumba’,realized could have bought it for half the price elsewhere.
12. Caught the Nairobi Flu
13. Wished they could work in a different town
14. Saved someone in their phone as ‘Don’t pick’
15. Skipped Church on a Sunday
16. Tried to ‘Tweng’
17. Looked back when you heard, “Pssst Pssst!” on the street
18. Passed in front of Hilton Hotel
19. Encountered either ‘Kanjo’ or Traffic copsor ‘Ngeta’ guys or more than one of the above.
20. Concocted an acronym to avoid typing the full word in an SMS.
21. Went back up country and felt like everyone is ‘Shao’

Discipline : What is the pain of discipline?

The pain of discipline is the pain that you must endure to create the habits that will grant you your desires. Only through right habits can you succeed; it is right habits alone that grant you your desires.
Right habits come through pain. Fortunately the pain of developing right habits is a temporary pain, but the benefits of right habits will last a lifetime.

It takes about six to nine months to form a sustainable habit. I didn’t say three weeks, I said it takes about six to nine months, depending on what the habit is. You may be thinking “That’s hard,” yeah, well so is a lifetime of regret.

The pain of discipline is a small pain to endure, when you consider all that it promises.

As an example, the pain of creating the habit of working out and eating right over the next nine months is not nearly as grievous as the pain of living an unhealthy life. The pain of discipline is a temporary pain.
As another example, the pain of developing the habits that the most successful people in your industry possess will take time indeed, but they will serve you well for the rest of your life.

Your life will produce results based on your kinds of habits. You can’t produce a successful life, if you don’t have successful habits. Like I often say, everybody can run, but everybody doesn’t have the habit of running everyday. Everybody can work, but everyone’s not committed to having the

Judge Not!

I say 'Judge Not' Though I know this is a difficult task…. We are always find ourselves judging others, things and situations!

Just imagine meeting someone new, in a moment, you’ve already judged them; in a split second, your mind has placed a hundred judgments on them. You’ve judged where you’ve met them, you’ve judged their attire, you’ve judged who introduced you to them, you’ve judged their looks, and you’ve judged the kind of car they arrived in, etc…

Our minds are a “judgment machine!”

Let's discuss the amazing life you can live when you get free from judging every person you meet and every situation you experience. I believe if we can learn to judge less, then we can live happier, more purposeful, and more fulfilled lives. This may very well be one of most important articles you’ve ever read. So don’t judge it based on what you’ve read thus far,don't judge, don’t judge it based on me, just be open to experience what life is trying to teach you in this moment. You’re reading this for a reason, you were destined to show up to this site, at this or a later moment.

Why should you judge less?

Who am I?