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Not at any cost
posted Tuesday, 31 January 2006
Swallow your dog food
Kenya had declared a national disaster by reason of the fact that the rains had failed and hence a poor harvest and the consequences of hunger and deprivation have ensued.
Down in some faraway land (New Zealand) a food company run by a motherly lady who sprinkles nutrients on her porridge every morning offers to send 42 tons of those nutrients to feed the probably starving children of Kenya.
The offer is rejected with derisive comments as perception overrides reality in the quest to maintain dignity and pride – we are only human.
Aid on Trotters
Then in Palestine, Hamas prepares to take on the mantle of leadership which we must agree is well deserved because they have to-date been benefactors of their people a lot better than the erstwhile Fatah movement.
The West threatens to withhold aid because there is another facet of Hamas which exercises an uneasy ceasefire in attacking Israel that it wants to obliterate in favour of a Greater Palestine.
The curse of democracy means they have a mandate to run and if the West who so willingly enjoys trotters and the other parts withhold aid, other trotter-haters of the Middle-East might just step in and completely undermine any little influence the West might have in Israel-Palestine crisis.
Babe and Scooby
This shrill singing from the West does not seem to faze Hamas who might eventually moderate their views about Israel for the sake of peace and progress as the two-state solution betweens to saunter down the crooked roadmap.
However, there is concern that the powder mix which when mixed with water forms a paste that could well rival the gourmet quality of Pedigree Chum might be construed as dog food even though the recipe has been modified for humans.
Pride or Prejudice
As Kenya swallows their prejudice and Hamas moderates their pride in an exchange of sentiments; it is hopeful that the West consider the Hamas social record of prudence, efficiency and service to the needy Palestinians and our dear lady of Mighty Mix dog biscuits rephrase her offer without the mention of dog.
Kenya might then not bark at such a tainted but useful if not essential gift and Hamas might grunt as they recognise Israel and elevate the standard of living of their people.
Without prejudice
No offence is intended with regards to analogies appearing in this piece. The import is to illustrate agreement and strong disagreement as donors’ intentions and misunderstanding contrasts with recipients’ requirements and the maintenance of their dignity.
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Sunday, 9 August 2009
I visited the Kwakoe multicultural festival at Bijlmerpark in South East Amsterdam.
Ghana: No antibodies for this virus - Obama's speech
Sunday, 12 July 2009
What we should not lose sight of from President Obama's speech to the Ghanaian parliament is that it is the first time a Western leader has been able to speak the truth to African leaders and not have blow-back. Against Obama they have no antibodies.
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Monday, 8 June 2009
If you have a charitable giving portfolio, I recommend that you add the Mission Aviation Fellowship to that portfolio.
Dead Aid - Review
Sunday, 10 May 2009
I review Dambisa Moyo's Dead Aid:Why Aid is not working and how there is another way for Africa.
Nigeria: When women rage with the pudenda and the paps
Thursday, 30 April 2009
The women are using unusual weapons of warfare to effect political dialogue and change, I think it would be very effective
Nigeria: Obasanjo's Hard Talk
Friday, 20 March 2009
The ex-president of Nigeria - Olusegun Obasanjo was on Hard Talk and failed to answer the real questions.
Thought Picnic: Palestine
Thursday, 8 January 2009
If Palestine were as well armed as Israel such that they could match Israel, bomb for bomb, missile to missile - would there now be peace in the Middle East for the fear of mutually assured destruction?
Nigeria: Ribadu and kids get bundled out of NIPSS graduation
Sunday, 23 November 2008
The erstwhile EFCC chairman gets bundled out of the NIPSS graduation cermony after the government fails by all other means to stop his graduation. His wife, 6 children and his guests all get pulled out of the event too.
Bailout: The premise that stinking shit becomes durable gold
Thursday, 25 September 2008
I am still not convinced that toxic assets when acquired with the bailout of $700 billion of tax payers' money would suddenly lose their toxicity and become durable and worthwhile assets. Bull!
Who is buying this shit?
Nigeria: Dragging Iwu to the court of the Twelfth of June
Monday, 16 June 2008
When the tenure of Professor Maurice is placed in juxtaposition to that of Professor Humphrey Nwosu, the former is found wanting.
That is the start difference between the National Electoral Commissions of 1993 and 2007.
Adedibu, Half of Ibadanland, the man is no more
Wednesday, 11 June 2008
The strongman of Ibadan, the elder thug that has plagued Oyo State with menace and with impunity - that power broker and peddler of the riotous mob - Alhaji Lamidi Adedibu has died.
They shall not grow old
Saturday, 24 May 2008
11 elderly people are burnt to death by a mob after being accused of practising witchcraft in Kenya - the law should go after the leaders of the mob and make them face charges for murder.
Zimbabwe: Mugabe is a coward
Sunday, 13 April 2008
Robert Mugabe is coward, he cannot bear to see he has lost and he cannot accept the fact that he has lost - he is afraid of the truth of democracy in Zimbabwe and he must not be allowed to change the truth.
Olympic torch lights up Tibetan cause
Wednesday, 9 April 2008
If anything, the Chinese have been naive to think they could pull off the Olympics without the spotlight being shone on their internal affairs including Tibet.
They should have known someone would take advantage of the Olympic year for this.
Inside China: Hatchlings of Democracy get nasty
Sunday, 23 March 2008
The election for class monitor of 8-year olds in China reveals a lot more about the machinations and manipulation of democracy and the dangers that might be ahead.
In Nigeria, can wives make independent choices?
Friday, 21 March 2008
A news story throws the spotlight on the husband-wife dynamic within a patriarchal hegemony.
Wikileaks - The right to know
Wednesday, 20 February 2008
Wikileaks is a site under threat for the reason that it gives succour to the whistleblower to post documents that expose practices/activities that normally would not be revealed.
The site supports the compelling concept of the right to know.
Nigeria sets no good examples for Africa
Tuesday, 5 February 2008
Some of the problems in Africa exist because countries like Nigeria set bad examples which take away their moral authority to tackle other problems in the continent.
I have a nano-dream
Monday, 21 January 2008
As we commemorate the Martin Luther King Day 2008, I do not think we are any nearer fulfilling the words of that "I have a dream" speech given almost 45 years ago.
We have individuals, fine, but not great numbers of people who have really made it.
Cloning: Vitually indistinguishable shit
Sunday, 20 January 2008
Cloned food might be virtually indistinguishable from conventional produce but it does not give the FDA the right to not require cloned foods be specifically labelled.
They damned the consequences
Wednesday, 2 January 2008
Murders and vote-rigging by people who damned the consequences of their actions in Pakistan and Kenya. We need to have ways of getting justice for these unjust actions.
UN International Anti-Corruption Day - My take
Saturday, 8 December 2007
I express a few views on the celebration of the United Nations International Anti-Corruption Day 2007 - the fight would be a very difficult one.
The Nigerian restaurant kaleidoscope - Part 2
Tuesday, 23 October 2007
A continuation of my experience at the Nigerian restaurant on Sunday.
The Nigerian restaurant kaleidoscope - Part 1
Tuesday, 23 October 2007
A visit to a Nigerian restaurant and insights to other things in a many parts.
The seriously unfunny Kiwi parliament
Sunday, 5 August 2007
The New Zealand parliament have banned using footage of parliament for satirical purposes. Me thinks we need a radical lobotomy to force in a humour gene.
Medinat Yisrael - 59
Monday, 14 May 2007
59 years since the declaration of independence of Israel, but how much longer for peace?
Farfour free to burn - II - Poor translation?
Thursday, 10 May 2007
A comment left on an earlier blog contends that a mistranslation has portrayed a situation as more serious than it really is. I do not know for sure.
Farfour free to burn
Thursday, 10 May 2007
A Hamas sponsored TV station broadcast a despicable programme indoctrinating kids into jihadist hatred.
Food Science 102: Coal tars
Wednesday, 9 May 2007
More food additives and it is all about colour and preservation. With the amount of tar in these products, the road does lead to the stomach.
Is Nigeria a model for Africa?
Friday, 4 May 2007
A number of articles in the Economist about the Nigerian elections are painting us as a country rapidly losing respect, influence and clout - a model we are not.
Food Science 101 - Additives
Tuesday, 1 May 2007
Sometimes an empty stomach is better than ingesting additives.
Save us from the Carbon Nazis
Wednesday, 25 April 2007
All this carbon footprint talk and how it affects me - I am seriously concerned.
It's a barking barbecue
Wednesday, 7 March 2007
Dog are a barbecue delicacy in the Federal Capital of Nigeria - dogs would have to learn that silence is golden when the dog-napper is on the prowl
Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls
Saturday, 6 January 2007
Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls - A laudable venture, a challenge to philanthropy and a standard to established systems that have failed education at all levels. I am in awe.
Left with the bread crumbs of Middle East diplomacy
Thursday, 30 November 2006
There is a kind of self-determination going on in Israel, Palestine, Iraq, Iran, Syria and Lebanon, all without the influence of America - probably a few lessons for America too.
The Day of the Toothpicks
Thursday, 7 September 2006
7 inconsequential ministers resign from Mr. Blair's government in order to force his hand to tell us when he is leaving the job of Prime Minister, it is possible they have been put up to it by the Chancellor of the Executor - who knows?
The raid on Peking, London
Saturday, 2 September 2006
The raid on a Chinese restaurant in London shows how this war on terror is impacting seriously on our way of life.
Ahmedinejad-Bush coming to your television
Tuesday, 29 August 2006
The Iranian doctor of engineering invites a one-time failed oil businessman to a debate about world issues. I want a front row seat, who is selling the tickets? bin Laden might also already be dead so what fuels the war on terror?
My contribution to the war on terror - suspicion
Monday, 28 August 2006
This war on terror is turning me into a vulnerable, suspicious, jittery bigot ready to view any seemingly unacceptable observation as anti-social and hence having terrorist tendencies. Are we all getting programmed that way?
Making an ass of a South African policeman
Saturday, 26 August 2006
The minister in charge of safety and security in South Africa suggests that the police should ride donkeys to crime scenes.
Made in America - just in your backyard
Friday, 25 August 2006
Unexploded cluster bombs supplied by the US to Israel are found in Lebanon - Let us see how Condi Rice tackles America's image from all perspectives.
Much terror out of a mobile phone and a plastic bag
Friday, 25 August 2006
A plane returns to Schiphol under escort because a few mobile phones and plastic bags give the appearance of an impending terrorist attack. Methinks we are getting better at terrifying ourselves than the real terrorists are.
Back to James Blake and Rosa Parks - 1955 to 2006
Friday, 25 August 2006
Black students are asked to give up their seats for white students 51 years after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat. America, we've got a serious problem.
London police in an institutionally culpable homicide
Thursday, 24 August 2006
A 22-year old father gets shot by the 14-year old for standing up to their anti-social behaviour in a crime that could have been avoided had the police investigated and prosecuted the stabbing of the same father 7 months before.
The end to presidential voyeurism
Friday, 18 August 2006
A judge has declared the unwarranted surveillance of American citizens illegal. That is one big win for civil liberties all around the world, in my view.
Aspirant elimination depicts murderous democracy
Tuesday, 15 August 2006
Another ruling party aspirant killing and a riot to clean things up as we prepare for the 2007 Elections in Nigeria. What gives?
The American-Israeli tinderbox that Hezbollah lit up
Tuesday, 15 August 2006
If America was already privy to Israeli plans to attack Lebanon long before the kidnap of the 2 soldiers in Israel on July the 12th, the whole truth of this matter does not augur well for the new world order at all.
A large body count with no ease as war ceases
Monday, 14 August 2006
The people who lost the most from the Israeli-Lebanon conflict are those who were sacrificed in the proxy war between American and Iran, neither Israel nor Lebanon have gained anything - rather they would have to talk to each other.
Not leaving on a jet plane soon
Sunday, 13 August 2006
The number of planned terror attacks have been foiled, we are told, with that comes greater paranoia from the United States than the terrorists themselves could have intended. It you as much as have any liq
A dead man dishonoured
Sunday, 13 August 2006
The burial of Funsho Williams was not without event from the sermons given to the way his supporters allowed their egos to get in the way of letting their leader lie in state.
Sweet dreams are made of these
Wednesday, 9 August 2006
How I learnt that I could control my dreams and what I have learnt from doing so.
Daytime television a cure for current news
Tuesday, 8 August 2006
Well, I have gone off the news, my remote control deliberately misses every news channel as daytime television seems a welcome relief.
The doctor says good riddance
Thursday, 3 August 2006
I think it was clear that losing the leadership of the Economic Management Team was also going to lose us a Foreign Minister. She was no doubt humiliated by the manner of her removal - This minister is above the fray with her dignity intact.
Mind that language
Thursday, 3 August 2006
A study shows that the Dutch are not as proficient in other languages as we all assume them to be. In fact, other Europeans who speak other languages have a better grasp of the languages they speak than the Dutch. Could that be true?
A doctor without a patient
Wednesday, 2 August 2006
After the reshuffle of six weeks ago which moved the technocrat finance minister to the foreign affairs minister, she now loses the leadership of the Economic Management Team whilst negotiating in that position in London.
Scotland Yard in Nigerian murder backyard
Tuesday, 1 August 2006
The Scotland Yard has been invited to help the Nigerian Police in investigating and resolving the latest political murder - we do hope they get all the cooperation they require and something lasting comes of it.
Somehow, Israel can do no wrong
Monday, 31 July 2006
The angel of death arrives in Qana, Lebanon a second time, on the wings of American supplied bombs, autographed by religious Jews and chaperoned by Israeli aircraft. This is utter madness.
Condi is not welcome in Lebanon
Sunday, 30 July 2006
Sometimes you just have to speak up and stop being run around by seemingly benevolent but insincere friends. Lebanon has reached that stage with America by saying the Secretary of State is not welcome. A snub as good as you can get.
A poker hand of unintended consequences
Sunday, 30 July 2006
The gamble US, Britain and Israel have taken in the Lebanon issue can see a better resolution than new occupations. Israel should relinquish occupied territories of Shebaa Farms and Golan Heights. That is the really hard but courageous decision.
Condi knows nothing about birth pangs
Saturday, 29 July 2006
Bombs and hostilities continue as birth pangs of a new Middle-East as the midwife returns to the woman in travail and extended labour to probably deliver the baby still-born. No new Middle-East can emerge with this belligerence.
Precision-guided resolutions that miss the target
Thursday, 27 July 2006
The question is how precision-guided weapons can accidentally hit a prominent target. Then I examine the UN SC Resolution 1559 and find that we might not have heard the whole truth of that matter of Israeli withdrawal. Syria it appears did more.
The Red Cross marks the missile target - Updated
Wednesday, 26 July 2006
Two ambulances get blown up with the missiles coming through the centre of the Red Cross on the roof and a clearly marked UN observers post is obliterated with surgical precision. This wild and reckless party is getting atrocious by the day.
Pay up or get bombed up
Tuesday, 25 July 2006
In a suit filed in the US, it has come to light that one of the reasons there might still be Americans left to be evacuated from Lebanon is they were at one time required to agree to pay the costs of their evacuation. Get we get any lower?
Condolezza condoles with aid
Tuesday, 25 July 2006
Dr Rice's unannounced visit to Lebanon finished every semblance of genuine friendship between the Lebanese and America as they are being sacrificed on the altar of some new Middle-East order. Know your friends.
Verdonk back with new controversy
Monday, 24 July 2006
She made the last government fall, kept out of the public eye for a few weeks - she is now back to make it difficult for once illegal and consequently legal immigrants to gain re-entry to the Netherlands.
Condolezza brings condolences - maybe more
Sunday, 23 July 2006
Until America demands a cessation of violence by every forceful means possible, this Middle-East conflict would only continue. To now learn that Israel is asking for an arms order to be speeded up from the US, leaves much to be desired of the US.
The land of the matter - The Middle-East Cauldron
Saturday, 22 July 2006
I provide a framework of how the Balfour Declaration of 1917 promised one thing and offered another leading to the many conflicts that have plagued Israel throughout the last century till today.
Attaching the burden of history to the Middle-East
Friday, 21 July 2006
Having received a few comments on my views of the current conflicts in the Middle-East, I am concerned that a larger historical perspective is being lost in reviewing the prevailing events. There can be no resolution without that context.
Peace eludes our time with appeasement
Monday, 17 July 2006
Evacuating foreign citizens of influential countries from Lebanon is the best tacit appeasement that would help the troubles escalate beyond manageable proportions. I fear for when those Israeli rockets land inadvertently in Iran and Syria.
A crusading psychopath is in a war near you
Sunday, 16 July 2006
The shortage of army manpower in America lead to relaxing the rules of recruitment, Steven Green benefited and now has a rap sheet of rape and murder committed in Iraq. They created a monster of a pussy-cat criminal and dumped back in society.
Forked-tongues fuelling the Middle-Eastern fires
Saturday, 15 July 2006
Where would we find a seriously honest broker to look at the facts of the Middle-East Conflict and get the protagonists to face their responsibilities to global peace squarely and act accordingly? America is not in the frame for honest brokerage.
Spooky Brother Act as Spook goes to Court
Friday, 14 July 2006
Polish twin brothers as heads of government depending on who you are looking at and the spy throws a pie in the face of the White House - when you uncover a spy - well ...
Dummies guide to removing thorns
Friday, 14 July 2006
The way Israel is going about removing the Palestinian thorn in their sides would hurt Israel more than it would hurt Palestine eventually. This belligerence is patently not the solution to the Middle East Conflict.
Needing aid for those in charge against AIDS
Thursday, 13 July 2006
It appears the man in charge of the fight against HIV/AIDS in Nigeria does not understand his demographic or the context of homosexuality and has garbled a useful message on issues that would kill the message of safer sex.
Scalding snouts out of the Nigeria Civil Service trough
Monday, 10 July 2006
The new deal to sack 20% of the Nigerian Civil service with a generous severance pay and a consequent increase in civil service salaries is inflationary at best - worse could happen.
Marie Fatayi-Williams - A mother for peace
Friday, 7 July 2006
One solemn voice that encompasses the emotion and magnitude of the day - a mother indeed.
Clambering from the ruins of World Cup 2006
Thursday, 6 July 2006
The seedings are awry, the referees are the news and then we have one more controversial referee for the final - FIFA is doing so much to make us hate the beautiful game.
6th of July - 1942, 1946 & 2006
Thursday, 6 July 2006
On this day, Anne Frank's family sought refuge from the Nazi's in the Secret Annex and 4 years later this day George W. Bush arrived in the first tranche of baby-boomers - Does history have much to teach us?
Justice! Delayed, denied and deceased
Wednesday, 5 July 2006
Kenneth Lay is dead and the Enron case is unfinished - where is the justice in unfinished matters like this?
30 years after the Raid on Entebbe
Wednesday, 5 July 2006
I am beginning to wonder if Israel has not already discounted the hostage corporal as dead and are just waiting for that opportunity to unleash unspeakable and unrelenting terror on the occupied Palestinians.
Hocus Pocus Zim Bab We Arghhh!
Monday, 3 July 2006
Zimbabwe legalises witchcraft in the light of the president not being able to muster Christian support. The only hope of the people from the crises that has befallen them is the mortality of Mr Mugabe. Could the witches have some good spells?
Blasting the hostage out of Gaza
Friday, 30 June 2006
I am not sure that the destruction of Palestinian infrastructure in Gaza would lead to the kind of resolution we all desire, the release of the young soldier-conscript. Does Israel have any tool beyond might in this conflict?
The new ball order - Football meritocracy
Friday, 23 June 2006
The World Cup levels the playing field of political powers and undue influence - little countries make minced meat of behemoths and if you cannot play you get beaten and go home. The Olympics has nothing on the World Cup.
Arise! Sir easy
Saturday, 17 June 2006
The Chairman of easyGroup of companies is knighted in the Queen's birthday honours list- I suppose a new business can come out of this accolade - easyHonours?
Insemination Tax Credit
Tuesday, 6 June 2006
If the President of the United States is really serious about strong marriages, he should stop going after gay marriage and rather strengthen marriage through Insemination Tax Credits.
Old-age Rum's field day
Friday, 5 May 2006
A hapless septuagenarian was heckled during an important speech to his supporters, then accused of lying. How rotten! This is in empathetic concern and commiseration. Why badger a poor old man?
Death eludes the State
Wednesday, 3 May 2006
The jury decision to give Moussaoui a sentence of life imprisonment without parole might just end the obsession with the death penalty in America. Is the President and the Governors listening?
Why Brussels doesn't work
Sunday, 23 April 2006
Europe and Brussels are synonymous, Brussels is a microcosm of Europe. What works works and what doesn't grates. We, the people of Europe have to protest vehemently to be heard but no guarantee of good results. This is Europe through storage lockers.
Iraq is far away from a Gettysburg Address
Monday, 17 April 2006
I begin a series of examining what democracy means and why the ideals of the Gettysburg Address are beginning to look impossible to attain.
Eureka! is Farsi for Enrichment
Wednesday, 12 April 2006
Iran is enriched with the ability to enrich uranium, have we forgotten they just tested a supercavitation missile last week? Oil, gold, war, markets - what else is being knocked out of stability?
Not in my local shop
Thursday, 30 March 2006
A visit to the African goods shop bring idle banter, hilarity and the serious case of disguises aided with hair extensions and skin-lightening cream.
Awake! Oh frail man! Your people have called
Tuesday, 28 March 2006
The Kadima Party takes the election spoils in Israel as its leader lays in coma commanding more influence than those who opposed him as an able-bodied man. Those who have written Ariel Sharon's obituary should tear up their copy and wish him well.
The people are high on opium - V
Friday, 24 February 2006
I am saddened to see that the Mohammed cartoon saga is still costing lives around the world. We now need to examine the conseqences of exercising the freedom of expression. It is time also for Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten to take some responsibility.
No harsh tongue for Mrs Verdonk
Monday, 23 January 2006
The Dutch have come up with a very innovative public places ban; whist we are still trying to stomach the smoking ban in some public places, we now have the prospect of banning other languages but Dutch in public places.
Setting democracy ablaze with gas
Tuesday, 3 January 2006
This little Ukraine problem of gas supplies has more far-reaching consequences that could affect the whole basis of our democracy
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