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Dec 26 @alykhansatchu: Fort Jesus Mombasa Africa |
Built by the Portuguese at the end of the 16th century at the southern edge of the town of Mombasa, over a spur of coral rock, and kept under their control for one century, Fort Jesus, Mombasa, bears testimony to the first successful attempt by Western civilization to rule the Indian ocean trade routes, which, until then had remained under Eastern influence.
My Father and my Grandfather occupied an Office in Ralli House for much more than a half century. Yesterday we drove by Fort Jesus, visited my Mother's grave and had to move with some despatch in the Office. The Office had not been cleaned for Eternity - It felt like I was sitting in a dust-bowl something like the Amboseli right about now. . And then characters would appear out of the dust.
''What about the shelves?'' ''What about this and what about that?''
You see other Peoples characters very clearly like through a magnifying glass in these sorts of moments.
Mombasa is as always steamy.
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Between Message and Martyrdom: The World Press Photo of the Year Law & Politics |
The photograph is a still image of messages, trapped fleetingly. For that reason, it has been seen as mimicking death, a mask forever preserved. It suspends, a captured meaning hovering in time. That such images become weapons is undeniable. Not all are poetic notices to the great and the good. They are often reminders of the bountifully nasty, an inspiration for what is to come.
The photograph taught us, effectively, a new visual code, a Susan Sontag reminds us. In instructing us on that code, “photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe.”
The right as to what to observe, and what is worth looking at. The award of the “World Press Photo of the Year” Burhan Özbilici’s dramatic shot featuring the slaying of Russian ambassador Andrei Karlov in an Ankara art gallery is one such example, a fistful of tensions and discomforting points. It has divided and abhorred judges; it has drawn out parallels and debates.
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"I think the president was right to ask for his resignation," Ryan said. Law & Politics |
Less than a month into his presidency, Trump’s national security team is in disarray. An all-hands meeting was called for the National Security Council staff Tuesday morning, where the agency’s acting director, retired Army Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg and his deputy K.T. McFarland spoke, according to people familiar with the matter.
“I think misleading the vice president really was the key here,” Conway said in an interview with NBC News. Flynn decided “that the situation had become unsustainable for him here and, of course, the president accepted that resignation.”
Conclusions
Quite a remarkable scenario but evidently Flynn was a conduit.
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05-DEC-2016 :: "We have a deviate, Tomahawk." Law & Politics |
However, my starting point is the election of President Donald Trump because hindsight will surely show that Russia ran a seriously sophisticated programme of interference, mostly digital. Don DeLillo, who is a prophetic 21st writer, writes as follows in one of his short stories: The specialist is monitoring data on his mission console when a voice breaks in, “a voice that carried with it a strange and unspecifiable poignancy”. He checks in with his flight-dynamics and conceptual- paradigm officers at Colorado Command: “We have a deviate, Tomahawk.” “We copy. There’s a voice.” “We have gross oscillation here.” “There’s some interference. I have gone redundant but I’m not sure it’s helping.” “We are clearing an outframe to locate source.” “Thank you, Colorado.” “It is probably just selective noise. You are negative red on the step-function quad.” “It was a voice,” I told them. “We have just received an affirm on selective noise... We will correct, Tomahawk. In the meantime, advise you to stay redundant.” The voice, in contrast to Colorado’s metallic pidgin, is a melange of repartee, laughter, and song, with a “quality of purest, sweetest sadness”. “Somehow we are picking up signals from radio programmes of 40, 50, 60 years ago.” I have no doubt that Putin ran a seriously 21st predominantly digital programme of interference which amplified the Trump candidacy. POTUS Trump was an ideal candidate for this kind of support.
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Johnson joked about the autocrat who spent 22 years in power, Yahya Jammeh - calling him "Jammeh dodger" Africa |
He has written nostalgically of colonialism in Africa. “The continent may be a blot, but it is not a blot upon our conscience,” he once wrote in a column in the Spectator. “The problem is not that we were once in charge, but that we are not in charge any more.”
He apologised in 2008 for a 2002 column entitled “If Blair’s so good at running the Congo, let him stay there” in which he referred to “flag-waving piccaninnies” and wrote of Tony Blair’s arrival: “No doubt the AK47s will fall silent, and the pangas will stop their hacking of human flesh, and the tribal warriors will all break out in watermelon smiles to see the big white chief touch down in his big white British taxpayer-funded bird.”
But at a press conference on Tuesday, the foreign secretary’s press team prevented Gambian journalists from asking questions about this, saying beforehand that their questions were “too aggressive” and “insulting”.
Johnson said that Britain could help the Gambia – which Adama Barrow’s government said had been looted by Jammeh before he left for Equatorial Guinea – with its education, security and “your wonderful tourism industry”, adding that it had been “hard to have a relationship of the fullness that we want” while the old president, who pulled his country out of the Commonwealth and threw out diplomats, was in power.
Conclusions
A lot depends on the amount of support Adama Barrow can marshall and so far its looking promising.
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Kenya's Vote Preparations Thrown Into Doubt by Court Ruling Kenyan Economy |
Kenya’s preparations for general elections in August face “a period of uncertainty” after the High Court nullified a ballot-paper printing contract, the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission said.
The commission may appeal the ruling over the contract that had been awarded to Dubai-based Al Ghurair Printing and Publishing Co., IEBC spokesman Andrew Limo said in a statement e-mailed Monday. Kenya is scheduled to hold presidential and legislative elections on Aug. 8.
“The decision sends the preparations for the general election into a period of uncertainty,” Limo said. “The commission wishes to assure the country that it will do everything possible to ensure that we have credible elections.”
Any lack of trust in the electoral body “doesn’t bode well for the elections in August,” said Ahmed Salim, an analyst at Teneo Strategy in Dubai. “The court ruling deals a double blow to the IEBC’s preparations. It comes at a time when they are failing to meet their voter-registration targets. They will need to get some trust and confidence back to the public.”
Conclusions
Linguistic contention levels continue climbing.
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