A reply I sent to prospective Presidential candidate with some additions:

"Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal -- that there is no human relation between master and slave.": Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy - (1828-1910).

''Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin. The Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create deposits, and with the flick of the pen they will create enough deposits to buy it back again. However, take it away from them, and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear and they ought to disappear, for this would be a happier and better world to live in. But, if you wish to remain the slaves of Bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create deposits." : Sir Josiah Stamp (1880-1941) President of the Bank of England in the 1920's, the second richest man in Britain

"Endless money forms the sinews of war." : Marcus Tullius Cicero -
(106-43 B.C.) Roman Statesman, Philosopher and Orator

“The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.” Professor. J. K. Galbraith.

You are living in a totalitarian tripartite dictatorship, viz Elected, Press and financial. The last sustaining the two former, due to the fact that money is created out of NOTHING as an interest bearing DEBT enslaving you all from cradle to grave. Any other legislation is only cosmetic, giving a semblance of democracy. What is needed is a basic paradigm shift in the Noe classical economics which governed by interest bearing DEBT, get the money lenders out of the market, get the elected government to issue the money towards productive capacity as interest free loans, to be repaid and debt cancelled, hence counter inflationary.

The insidious and invidious practice of usury is NOT necessary or inevitable. Cindy you are doing a good job but running in the wrong direction just as the rest of the poor devils.

Unless you addresses the question of Money Supply, you all will remain enslaved, and the enslaved will do any thing as they are ordered to do and be willing connon foder to fight illegal illicit wars based on lies.

In the Third World a child is killed EVERY THREE SECONDS, the HOLOCAUST is alive and well and had been for decades, you all have been blind.

In response to : In her new book, "The Shock Doctrine", Naomi Klein provides an excellent analysis of the free-market fundamentalist and corporatist strategies that hobbled newly-independent African governments from the outset, making it impossible for them to deliver "democracy" in any real sense of redistribution and economic justice.

Ken Lohento – 2008-10-19

Radio remains the most straightforward technological means of communication in Africa, but a survey undertaken by the Institut Panos Afrique de l’Ouest (IPAO) has revealed significant disparities between people’s levels of access and stations’ connections in the seven countries it studied across the West African region. Among the IPAO’s recommendations are the creation of national initiatives to achieve better and more widespread use of new available technologies and greater incorporation of the study of Information and Communications Technology (ITC) in journalists’ training.

Sokari Erkine reviews the following from the African blogoshphere:

Mama Ethiopia
Wondering the World
What An African Woman Wants
Ore’s Notes
Black Looks
Uganda Scarlett Lion
Helen Zille

A Special Tribunal for Kenya… or a date with the International Court of Justice in The Hague for post-election violence suspects — that is one of the far-reaching recommendations of the Waki Commission. And among those that could find themselves before either tribunal as early as June, next year, are people — including some Cabinet ministers — named as nised or participated in the violence.

A new World Bank report Global Development Finance says developing countries as a whole have so far shown resilience in the face of US-based financial turmoil and soaring energy and food prices, partly because of improved policies, higher investments and technological progress in recent years, says the report. In 2008, growth in China, the rest of East Asia and the Pacific, and other developing regions together will fall from 7.8% to a still-strong 6.5% while their high-income trading partners like the United States slow to between 1 and 2% and import less.

http://www.pambazuka.org/images/articles/403/DRC_crisis_l.jpgFollowing the at the end of October, Kambale Musavuli discusses the importance of raising awareness around the crisis in the DR Congo. As a Congolese granted asylum in the USA in 1998, Musavuli urges the global community, and African-Americans in particular, to revitalise international attention on the Congo as a means of shedding light on the ongoing conflict and harnessing the potential for strong advocacy relationships.

With the US presidential election fast approaching, Mukoma Wa Ngugi offers his reflections on Barack Obama’s candidacy, George W. Bush’s exalted status within particular African countries and the future prospects for US-Africa relations under a new US administration. While asserting that Obama’s rise would scarcely have been possible in Wa Ngugi’s own native Kenya, the author contends that Africans must ultimately rely on themselves if the continent’s promise is to be fulfilled.

http://www.pambazuka.org/images/articles/403/JEM_l.jpgIn his review of recent events in the Sudanese Darfur crisis, Savo Heleta assesses the role of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) rebel group. With its explicit goal of overthrowing the current Bashir regime, Heleta argues, the JEM represents a potentially revolutionary movement, one whose egalitarian, pro-justice manifesto will only come to fruition with the support of a broad range of regional players and influences.

http://www.pambazuka.org/images/articles/403/KNCHR_l.jpgLawrence M. Mute’s presentation draws upon Kenya’s experiences as documented by the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) in the course of its work monitoring the 2005 Constitutional Referendum and the 2007 General Elections. It explains the basis upon which the national commission is persuaded that it is feasible and legally allowable for hate speech legislation to be enacted in Kenya in a manner that does not violate the constitutional right of Kenyans to the freedom of expression. It outlines the key elements that should be included in hate speech legislation and the manner in which those elements should be framed in order, on one hand, to protect Kenyans against hate speech while, on the other hand, to ensure that their right to express themselves is not undermined.

http://www.pambazuka.org/images/articles/403/northern_kenya_l.jpgSurvey… a history of marginalisation and distance from government support, Ahmed Issack Hassan explores the legal and administrative impediments to have plagued the development of the region of Northern Kenya. Citing a litany of human rights abuses and the discrimination faced by inhabitants of the region, the author argues for the need for appropriate and effective legislation and sustained political goodwill from executive and national parliamentary power in the struggle to tackle tyrannical practice.

Highlighting the current lack of an adequate legislative framework around the treatment of asylum seekers in Israel, Anat Ben-Dor describes the Israeli state’s trend towards ‘hot returns’ in its approach to foreign nationals within its borders. Following an initial high court denial of a request for an injunction, the Hotline for Migrant Workers and the Refugee Rights Clinic at Tel Aviv University (TAU) has resumed its calls for the court’s intervention to ensure greater protection of asylum seekers’ rights.

Citing the example of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, Joe Contreras explores the degree to which Latin Americans are increasingly keen to mobilise and assert their African roots on the back of a new black consciousness movement stirring in Central and South America. While momentum around black power would not be said to be entirely new in the region, lobbying for community land rights and increased spending to improve living conditions in urban slums and rural villages has gathered pace, driven in particular by its epicentre of Colombia and facilitated by the possibilities for communication and the sharing of experiences through the Internet.

is an important reminder of the critical part that adult learning plays in the socio-economic and political development of any society. It is particularly the education of women that is crucial to development of societies. There is often a false dichotomy made between the education of children and that of adults – they are inextricably linked together. The forthcoming World Conference on Adult Education (Confintea V1) will be held in Brazil and occurs every 12 years in different regions of the world. It’s an important coming together of adult educators and activists from governments and civil society. As Salma, points out, we all must work towards it having longer term significance than ‘yet another conference’.

Salma points to the legacy of the late Tanzanian President Nyerere’s to adult education and development. At the University of Western Cape, South Africa, we have recognized this legacy and hold an annual lecture: Vice Chancellor’s Julius Nyerere Annual Lecture on Lifelong Learning. The fifth consecutive lecture was held to coincide with the International Literacy Day in September where, well known South African feminist activist and educator, Pregs Govender, made a provocative presentation entitled, “Love and courage: inciting insubordination”. For anyone who would like to have access to her speech, please communicate with Tania Oppel at [email][email protected]

Uganda has been elected to occupy a non-permanent seat of UN Security Council when delegates today cast their votes to the international body's powerful for 2009-10 term. Uganda, which was already assured of a seat from a unanimous regional backing has been joined by Japan, Turkey, Austria and Mexico.

This report from UNCTAD examines Africa’s export performance after trade liberalisation to draw lessons for use in the design of future development strategies. Liberalisation over the last 25 years has removed policy barriers that were seen to inhibit export performance. Despite this the level and composition of exports has not changed. Exports have not diversified and as a whole market share is down from 6 per cent of world exports to 3 per cent.

A human rights framework not only offers distinctive strengths but also specific tools for development work. It is therefore essential for development actors to actively integrate human rights into development planning. For this purpose, Dignity International has released a new learning manual named "From poverty to dignity: A learning manual on human rights based development" designed to be a guide, to encourage and inspire facilitators who want supporting materials that can give them a push in realising a good human rights learning programme.

African leaders from three regional economic blocs are due to hold a historic joint summit in Uganda this month to harmonise regional integration policies and programmes in a move that may give fresh impetus to the long-conceived goal of an African Economic Community.

Ivory Coast's long-awaited presidential election, which will cement peace between President Laurent Gbagbo and rebels, is "technically impossible" this year and will be held in 2009, an electoral official said on Friday. The vote in the world's No. 1 cocoa producer, which had already been delayed several times since 2005 by political conflict and sporadic violence, was scheduled for Nov. 30.

A call by the MDC for parliament to investigate this year’s political violence has touched a raw nerve in the ZANU PF system. On Wednesday MDC Mutare Central legislator Innocent Gonese tabled a motion for a parliamentary Select Committee to investigate the violence which rocked the country after the March 29 elections, that were won by the MDC. Harare East MP Tendai Biti also tabled another motion asking parliament to investigate the ‘militarization and politicization of food distribution.