Iraq patriot Muntazer al-Zaidi ~ Hero

AFP - Tuesday, December 16
Iraq patriot Muntazer al-Zaidi declared HERO for his shoe attack on war criminal Bush
What a powerful message this true Iraq patriot sent
"This is a farewell kiss, you dog," he yelled in Arabic as he threw his shoes.
"This is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq."
Arab world hails shoe attack as Bush's farewell gift

Baghdad (AFP) - - Iraq faced mounting calls on Monday to release the journalist who hurled his shoes at George W. Bush, an action branded shameful by the government but hailed by many in the Arab world as an ideal parting gift to the unpopular US president.

Colleagues of Muntazer al-Zaidi, who works for independent Iraqi television station Al-Baghdadia, said he "detested America" and had been plotting such an attack for months against the man who ordered the invasion of his country.

"Throwing the shoes at Bush was the best goodbye kiss ever... it expresses how Iraqis and other Arabs hate Bush," wrote Musa Barhoumeh, editor of Jordan's independent Al-Gahd Arabic newspaper.

The hypocrite Iraqi government however branded Zaidi's actions as "shameful" and demanded an apology from his Cairo-based employer, which in turn was calling for his immediate release from custody.

"As far as I'm concerned, as he long as he hit him using a shoe it's perfect," said Cairo shoe~shiner Ahmed Ali.


Iraqi Muntazer Al-Zaidi Throws a Shoe at Pr Bush of USA – 17th Dec 08

An Egyptian man said Wednesday he was offering his 20-year-old daughter in marriage to Iraqi journalist Muntazer al-Zaidi, who threw his shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush in Baghdad Sunday, The daughter, Amal Saad Gumaa, said she agreed with the idea. "This is something that would honour me. I would like to live in Iraq, especially if I were attached to this hero," she told Reuters by telephone.
Egyptian offers daughter to Iraqi shoe-thrower.

Her father, Saad Gumaa, said he had called Dergham, Zaidi's brother, to tell him of the offer. "I find nothing more valuable than my daughter to offer to him, and I am prepared to provide her with everything needed for marriage," he added.
Zaidi's gesture has struck a chord across the Arab world, where President Bush is widely despised for invading Iraq in 2003 and for his support for Israel.
Amal is a student in the media faculty at Minya University in central Egypt.
Zaidi's response to the proposal was not immediately clear.
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/afp/2008121...a-7e07afd.html

Domestic Tyranny

So true about certain countries on the American Continent :
"A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny. "
– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Taxation

Here is an interesting essay:
Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for allten comes to $100.
If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:
The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.
The fifth would pay $1.
The sixth would pay $3.
The seventh would pay $7.
The eighth would pay $12.
The ninth would pay $18.
The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.
So that's what they decided to do.
The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until one day when the owner threw them a curve. "Since you are all such good customers," he said, "I'm going to reduce the cost of your daily beer by $20." Drinks for the ten now cost just $80.
The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes so the first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free.
But what about the other six men - the paying customers?
How could they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his "fair share?"
They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33.
But if they subtracted that from everybody's share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each end up being paid to drink his beer So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man's bill by roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay.
And so:
The fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings).
The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33% savings).
The seventh now pay $5 instead of $7 (28% savings).
The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% savings).
The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% savings).
The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% savings).
Each of the six was better off than before.
And the first four continued to drink for free.
But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings."I only got a dollar out of the $20," declared the sixth man. He pointed to the tenth man, "but he got $10!""Yeah, that's right," exclaimed the fifth man. "I only saved a dollar, too.
It's unfair that he got ten times more than I got."
"That's true!!" Shouted the seventh man. "Why should he get $10 back when I got only two? The wealthy get all the breaks!""Wait a minute," yelled the first four men in unison.
"We didn't get anything at all. The system exploits the poor!
"The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up.
The next night the tenth man didn't show up for drinks, so the nine sat down and had beers without him.
But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important... they didn't have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill!

And that, ladies and gentlemen, journalists and college professors, is how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction.
Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore.
In fact, they might start drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.

David R. Kamerschen, Ph.D. (Professor of Economics)
University of Georgia

For those who understand, no explanation is needed.
For those who can't understand, no explanation is possible.

8million Compensation Thrown Out

A former Citigroup contractor claiming a record £8 million compensation for racial discrimination and unfair dismissal has lost his case.
Ethiopian born, Nardos Mulugeta pictured, was employed as an Xerox engineer by Citigroup in Canary Wharf in 2003 and resigned in 2007 after claiming he was subject to ongoing discrimination.
A tribunal in Stratford heard Mr Mulugeta 40, had made several suicide attempts which he claimed was brought on by stress caused by racist behaviour from colleagues over a period of four years.
The photocopy firm had a contract with Citigroup in Canary Wharf where Mr Mulugeta said a colleague boasted of his BNP membership and “Go” by his name in the signing-in book.
He also told the tribunal he was overlooked for promotion for four years and had to work in a fume filled environment which caused him further health problems.
Xerox strongly denied all allegations, with former Citigroup operations manager Jonathan Elliot telling the tribunal: “I don’t believe he suffered from racial discrimination.”
The judge heard Mr Mulugeta had a history of depression and suicide attempts before he tried to kill himself while at Citigroup.
He attempted suicide the day after a meeting with colleagues where he says he was told to withdraw his grievances, not to make GP appointments within working hours and to return to work as soon as possible.
In his witness statement relating to the meeting, Mr Mulugeta said: “They broke me in two and I could not cope. I think they wanted me to leave but I wanted worse than quitting my Job.”
A judge at Stratford Tribunal Court rejected his case on all counts.

Wisdom of Africa

“It’s strange to see a Dog unconcerned when a Sheep is barking at strangers”
(Proverb from Ghana, from “Wisdom of Africa”)

Central America & Africa is NOT for Sale!!!

MS mediates co-operation between Kenya, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua.
Matildah Obeyia Musumba is the first African development workers who works in Central America.

Everything began last year with an exchange of experiences during a workshop on intercultural co-operation that was held at the MS training centre in Tanzania.

The next step took place when MS partner organisations in Africa and Central America met in May of this year to prepare a document titled “The Nairobi Consensus”, an alternative from the South to the Copenhagen Consensus, which was put forth by the British magazine The Economist and the Danish Environmental Assessment Institute. The purpose of the exercise was to carry out a cost-benefit analysis regarding the various approaches to strategies aimed at poverty reduction.
Starting on 15 November, and for a period of about two weeks afterwards, NGO representatives from Kenya, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala will meet again, this time in El Salvador, in order to discuss a merger of the campaigns titled “Central America is not for Sale” and “Africa is not for Sale”. The host of the meeting is CESTA – Friends of the Earth, an MS partner organisation. The mediators of this contact between continents are MS Kenya and MS Central America.

Both campaigns work in defence of the local environment against the devastating consequences of neo-liberal policies and the mega-projects of international transnationals, such as for example the physical infrastructure projects in Mesoamerica that form part of the Puebla-Panama Plan.

The first South-South project
There are several “firsts” in this project, both for MS and for the organisations from the South. Thus it will be the first time that MS acts as a mediator in the co-operation towards a common campaign between two continents from the South. It is also the first time that an African development worker is posted to Central America.

The Kenyan anthropologist Matildah Obeyia Musumba began her work as an MS development worker in Kenya, where she supported Kenyan NGOs in their preparation for the workshop with their Central American counterparts. She thereupon travelled to El Salvador to contribute to the final preparations for the upcoming meeting. When it concludes on 3 December, Matildah Obeyia will have become a key person regarding follow-up to this effort in both Central America and Africa.

Britain's Gulag

The Brutal End of an Empire in Kenya

This book is a must reading for the general public, decision makers and development practitioners working on advocacy and policy dialogue on equity and social justice in Kenya.

The historical facts outlined on Mau Mau in particular, could not have come at a better time than now when the country is deadlocked on political and economic reforms.

The Mau Mau uprising in Kenya has been portrayed as one of the most barbaric upraising of the twentieths century. Britain’s Gulag by Caroline Elkins questions this accepted orthodoxy and examines the crimes perpetrated by colonial forces against Mau Mau and considerable measures that the British colonial government undertook to conceal them.

The author provides a comprehensive overview of what happened inside Kenya’s detention camps as well as efforts to conceal the violence from the post-independence generation.

The publication is an eye opener and therefore a big resource in attempting to set the record straight. It brings out significant lessons that both colonial and independent Kenya governments never learnt. Essentially it is the single most resource for any one seeking to fully understanding the savagery of the Mau Mau war and the ruthless determination with which Britain sought to control its empire in Kenya.

The book explains the origin of Mau Mau upraising in quest for restitution of land appropriated by White Settlers in Kenya in early part of the twentieths century. Mau Mau rebellion and colonial legacy is central to the current socio-economic and political crisis facing the country. The crisis characterized by poverty, inequality and increased crime and insecurity; can fairly be explained by the ruthless force and denial with which the British sought to crash the rebellion.

Elkins views the history from a human rights perspective elucidating how inequalities have given rise to exclusion and failure of people’s voices to be heard. The Mau Mau fought for land and freedom – ironically both remain a dream for majority of Kenyans forty years after independence. She brings a new revelation to the root causes of the current inequality in Kenya between the rich and the poor with respect to land as a resource and other economic opportunities. While the British laid the foundation for a colonial legacy characterized by lack of accountability, injustice, violations of international conventions, torture and detention without trial, the colonial heritage continues to hound independent Kenya with gross violation of human rights of citizens and wanton destruction of lives and property.

In a practical sense, this book is a case in point for establishment of a Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission for post-independence Kenya. It does this by sending a strong message that it is better to let people know the truth in order to allow for reconciliation and forgiveness than wait for it to come out later because it ultimately will.

Elkins’ findings seriously challenge an archaic strategy of destroying records to conceal incriminating evidence. The strategy is based on the premise that if records do not exist, people will not know and therefore the atrocities did not happen. Until this publication came out all that most Kenyans knew is what the political elites wanted the citizens to know.

Kenyatta understandably sacrificed the past for the future by calling for reconciliation in the early days of his presidency by sweeping issues under the carpet.

The book is highly recommended to the many young Kenyans born after independence who know nothing about Mau Mau uprising and how it led to independence.

If you are concerned about oppression and state brutality in Kenya and accumulation of wealth by a few at the expense of the majority, this book provides the starting point in addressing these and other unresolved issues in a more direct, honest and bold manner.

Reviewed by: Hudson Shiverenje is Program Officer at MS Kenya

Kiswahili ~ Uniting East Africa

Kiswahili: In spite of local obstacles, cultural reluctance and the frequent use of English, East Africans still have their own common mother tongue.

If nothing else unites the three East African countries Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania, the language does. Kiswahili is now officially the common language in the East African Community.
And why not? The non tribal language has been used by East Africans for decades. Through the days of the colonial powers it was the identity of East Africans, after independence it rooted in each of the three countries in different ways and the language has always been closely linked to the people of East Africa.

Eliminates tribal languages

Kiswahili (Swahili): Is spoken in all countries of Eastern Africa .

Tanzania: Deliberate efforts were made by the independent nation to promote the language. The former Pr Julius K. Nyerere managed to unite more than 120 different tribes with each their tribal language in one common language and a common identity as Tanzanians.
Swahili is the national as well as the official language in Tanzania - almost all Tanzanians speak Swahili and are unified by it. Tanzania's special relations with countries of southern Africa was the chief reason behind the spread of Swahili to Zambia, Malawi, South Africa, and other neighbouring countries to the south.

Kenya: Swahili is the national language, but official correspondence is still conducted in English.
We need Kenyan's to make that extra effort to to corresond in Swahili, since out of the three nations, Kenyans hold a better stabding in the whole wide world. Their stand will bench mark the effort to establish Swahili a step further. However Pr Mzee Jomo Kenyatta did make Swahili a compulsory subject in Schools and all students did have to sit for examinations.

Uganda: The national language is English but Swahili enjoys a large number of speakers especially in the military. As a matter of fact, during the Pr Idi Amin's rule Swahili was declared the national language of Uganda . However, the declaration has never been seriously observed nor repealed by the successive governments, and many Ugandans still see the language as the voice of the military.

The Swahili language is basically of Bantu (African) origin. It has borrowed words from other languages such as Arabic probably as a result of the Swahili people using the Quran written in Arabic for spiritual guidance as Muslims.

The formation of the Swahili culture and language is by some scholars related to the intercourse of African and Asiatic people on the coast of East Africa.

The word ‘Swahili’ was used by early Arab visitors to the coast and it means ‘The Coast’. Ultimately it came to be applied to the people and the language.
writes: Michael Bech is MS Tanzania's information officer

Language Kiswahili

Kiswahili Swahili language is the only language in Africa that can technically be classified as a true ‘Lingua Franca’. Unlike most other African languages it is a non tribal language, rather it is more of an intra-national language of the Eastern Central and Southern Africa.
The language spreads from Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Zanzibar, Rwanda, Burundi, Eastern Zaire, Northern Zaire, Northern Malawi, Northern Mozambique, Oman and northern Zambia to as far as Somalia. It is currently estimated that well over 100 million people use Swahili for communication.

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The Swahili Beat

The Swahili Beat is an upbeat look at the remarkable history of the Swahili people of East African coast (Kenya, Tanzania & Zanzibar).

Packed with the music and dance of its indigenous peoples, the film takes viewers along the coast from the fabled island of Lamu to Zanzibar, Mombasa, Kilwa, Bagamoyo, Tanga and Dar es Salaam, tracing the development of the Swahili culture through the intermarriage of Arab settlers, arriving from Oman in the 8th century, with local Africans.

The resulting Islamic hybrid culture cemented economic and social stability.

The emergence of the Swahili as prosperous merchant brokers in the Indian Ocean basin and in the growing East African slave trade made them a lucrative target for successive waves of settlers, invaders and colonizers, including the Persians, Indians, Portuguese, Arabs, Germans and British.

The Swahili have withstood all these invasions and maintained their Afro-Arab Islamic culture until today.

They absorbed all Invasions, by inter~marriage of settlers, and have Won thus Far.
Can they survive in the face of globalization, the Internet and tourism?

UK 'lax' over identity theft - By Julian Knight (BBC News Personal Finance Reporter)

Identity theft could lead to theft from your bank account.
People are leaving themselves wide open to identity theft by not taking proper precautions with their private correspondence, according to a leading criminologist.
Professor Martin Gill, of the University of Leicester, interviewed identity thieves to find out how they perpetrated their scams.

What emerged from Professor Gill's study was that the widely held view that ID theft involved highly organised criminal gangs told only half the story.

Fraudsters are opportunistic, often acting on their own, the study found.
Typical methods used to obtain personal details included:
• Mail theft - thieves prey on flats where shared mail boxes made it easier for mail to be stolen
• Bribing delivery people - fraudsters would pay delivery people to hand over items containing identity info
• Rubbish bins - thieves would rummage through rubbish bags seeking discarded bills and bank statements
• Handbag theft - fraudsters target unattended bags as many people leave personal documents in them.

Stolen identities
According to the study, once criminals got hold of personal documents it was relatively easy:
to apply for - and obtain - loans and credit cards.

The criminals also said that security checks carried out by retailers when presented with fraudulently obtained credit cards was "lax".
Some male fraudsters were even able to use cards bearing stolen female identities in shops.
Professor Gill called on firms to be more vigilant.
"Retailers, financial services and delivery companies need to make sure they're doing all they can to prevent identity fraud," he said.
However, Professor Gill added that it was essential for the public to take greater care over how they store and dispose of personal documentation.
"Simple actions like shredding personal documents, redirecting mail and keeping important papers under lock and key would help to abate this crime," he said.
Growing crime
The study coincides with the start of the first National Identity Fraud Prevention Week.
ID fraud is one of the UK's fastest-growing crimes.
ID thieves access accounts, run up bills, launder money, carry out benefit fraud and take out fraudulent loans
Earlier this year, a survey from Which? magazine found that a quarter of UK adults have had their identity stolen or know someone who has fallen victim to ID fraud.

How to avoid ID theft
Do not use your mother's maiden name or place of birth as a security password
Check your credit record annually
If you move, make sure you let your bank know
Shred or rip-up post before throwing it in the bin
Never use the same password for all your accounts
Do not carry address details in your wallet
Source: Which?

"I was a victim of ID theft" (Julian Knight)

The White Masai Cross-Cultural Love in Africa

The White Masai (Die Weisse Massai), directed by Hermine Huntgeburth, is based upon an autobiographical novel by Swiss writer Corinne Hofmann. In English, German and Swahili with English subtitles.
After a tour of Africa with her friend, Swiss tourist Carola (Nina Hoss) meets Lemalian (Jacky Ido) on the bus and decides to hang out with him on her last night on the continent. She stays behind in the African hinterlands in the hopes of finding her true love.
Review from The Globe & Mail:
"There are two stories in The White Masai but, alas, only one verdict. The first tells the familiar tale of a pale Western woman vacationing in a hot Third World country and throwing herself at an even hotter local hunk. The second tries to be a sensitive twist on that theme: Instead of the man vying to marry his way out of poverty, the woman decides to marry her way in, and the movie shifts to become a stranger-in-a-strange-land yarn, where culture clashes play out on a bed of passion. But the clashes are just strung together episodically, like check-points on a journey leading nowhere special, leaving the characters to disappear behind the incidents. We want to know the lovers yet never really get the chance, and the result is a small picture painted on a epic canvas."

Nelly Furtado Sings Kabhie Kabhie

Music
Nelly Furtado sings classic Hindi song Kabhie Kabhie
"Kabhi Kabhie" is a classic Hindi love song from a classic Hindi film from 1976 also called Kabhie Kabhie (Sometimes Sometimes). The song is so romantic that people are known to tear up just from the melody, let alone the words (Lyrics & English translation of the lyrics http://www.bollywhat.com/)...

so popular that you can even find songstress Nelly Furtado belting out the beautiful lyrics of Khabi Kahbie in one of her concerts in Nottingham, England February 2007 (in Hindi to boot!).
Nelly Furtado has said: "I grew up with a lot of Asian and Indian friends speaking Punjabi and Hindi. And I grew up watching a lot of Bhangra, Bollywood, religious music and we even had it on television on Saturdays. Actually sometimes while I would clean hotel rooms... my friends invited me to sing at their Indian cultural festival when I was about 18 years old, and my friend's father said I should sing in Hindi, and I really liked it. I learned Kabhi Kabhi"
* Listen & watch a short clip of Nelly Furtado's version of Khabi Kahbie @ HERE.
* Original version of Khabi Kahbie on Youtube @ HERE.
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Thought Provoking

“What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say,
'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!'
Would you:
"Throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon?"
Or would you:
"Never have I heard anything more divine'?”

One Day at a Time

“One day at a time ~ this is enough.
Do not look back and grieve over the past for it is gone;
Do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come.
Live in the present, make it so beautiful it will be worth remembering.”

Mimi Si Jui !!! ~ I Dont Know !!!

White Hubby Antonino Esposito fainted when bride Marianna gave birth to “Black Twins", nine months after their honeymoon in Kenya.
Stunned relatives of the Italian couple fought each other in the maternity ward as Doctors delivered the dusky boys.
But Marianna, 27, swore the unhappy event wasn’t her fault.
Clutching a rosary, she said: “I’m an incurable sleep-walker, and must have wandered through black Africa.” “Some man must have raped me while I was in a semi-trance.”
Forgiving Antoniono accepted her excuse.
But the family have fled their native Naples for Germany, to get away from their neighbours’ jeers.

Methali Za Kiswahili ~ Proverbs

Adhabu ya kaburi aijua maiti: The torture of the grave is only known by the corpse

Baada ya dhiki faraja: After hardship comes relief

Chombo cha kuzama hakina usukani: A sinking vessel needs no navigation

Fadhila ya punda ni mateke: Gratitude of a donkey is a kick

Ganda la mua la jana chungu kaona kivuno: The skin of yesterday's sugarcane is a harvest to an ant

Usicheze na simba, ukamtia mkono kinywani: When you play with a lion, do not put your hand in its mouth (that would be going too far!)

Ucheshi wa mtoto ni anga Ia nyumba: The laughter of a child lights up the house

Kinywa ni jumba la maneno: Mouth is the home of words

Machoni rafiki, moyoni mnafiki: Friendly in the eyes, a hypocrite at heart

Mama nipe radhi kuishi na watu kazi: Mother, give me your blessings; living with people is really tough

Live Life ~ Mahatma Gandhi

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

Two Roads ~ Nelson Mandela

“If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal.
Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.”

Missionaries in Africa ~ Bishop Desmond Tutu

When the Missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land.
They said, 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes.
When we opened our eyes, we had the Bible and they had our land.

Gazelle & The Lion

Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death.
It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle...
When the sun comes up, you'd better be running.”

Hongo, Rushwa and Ufisadi

The scandals on corruption in Tanzania has come to the extent that new Swahili words have to be put in use.
'Hongo' ~ is bribery.
'Rushwa' ~ is corruption.
'Mlaruswa' ~ is someone who 'Eats' corruption ('walarusha', pl.).
'Ufisadi' ~ is the word to describe what the Tanzanians call 'grand corruption', and what has happened recently is categorised as such.
'Fisad' is a person acting corrupt, someone who has no shame, no conscience in regards of i.e. management of public resources'.

Subira ~ A Short Swahili Film

SUBIRA ~ was shot entirely on location in Lamu, Kenya.
The cast from Lamu were all non-professional, which offerred them a chance to work in a film for the very first time.

The director spoke little or no Swahili, and most of the cast spoke only Swahili, this proved a challenge on his hands.

But the director set the film in Swahili and used all local Lamu talent to enhance the authenticity of the story. In addition, SUBIRA took on hands on trainees from Kibera, Africa’s largest slum in line with the vision of Hot Sun Films to train and promote talent from the urban slums of Africa.

The film is about how girls are being brought up along the Swahili Coast. Not just in Lamu, it is very likely similar on Zanzibar. When a girl becomes a woman, her space becomes even more confined. And she is supposed to behave - and to wait. What I liked about the film in particular is that it is so simple, but still tells a clear story.

The director has used the sound effects well-known from Nigerian movies, which I found interesting. It kind of went along well.