UNIVERSAL LESSONS IN DEMOCRACY FROM KENYA'S CHAOTIC PARTY NOMINATIONS

 From missing ballot papers to delayed voting by up to seven hours the nominations were simply a sham and a shame perhaps a true reflection of the leadership we expect to derive from such a process.

http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000075266&story_title=Kenya-Kenya%E2%80%99s-sham-nominations
Apart from laughs,surprises and some genuine shockers our recent party nominations revealed the underlying ugliness of democracy as a system of government. No process will ever guarantee morally upright leaders.No magic formula exists to make a saint out of an ordinary individual aspiring to leadership. Democracy by its nature can't manufacture such an undemocratic process. Therefore we will continue to suffer the sight of clowns,comedians and criminals and fools feted as democratically chosen leaders.
This isn't mutually exclusive to Kenya,Africa or indeed the 3rd world;contrary to the unformed notions of first year political science students its a worldwide phenomenon. The 'mature democracies' in Europe and N.America also experience political conmanship. The people project all their hopes onto cardboard characters ,charlatans & ruthless mind controlled candidates and suffer the consequences-again and again.

This is Rod Blagojevich.Until his arrest in 2008 he was the Illinois governor. This 'reformer,'allegedly attempted to sell his seat for 6 mn $. Here is his charge sheet:wire fraud, attempted extortion, bribery, extortion conspiracy and bribery conspiracy. The charges involved a series of situations in which, prosecutors say, he tried to gain campaign contributions or other benefits for enacting legislation, for releasing grant money and for appointing a new senator, as Illinois law requires the governor to do, after Mr. Obama was elected in 2008.

 http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/rod_r_blagojevich/index.html

But this is small potatoes compared to the shenanigans of the patriarch of the foremost political clan in the US,toasted by all as American Royalty. Joseph P. Kennedy,father of Ted  and the famous martyrs to secret oligarchy JFK and RFK was widely reported by researchers and criminals to have been a bootlegger in prohibition days. Unlike his confreres,his drive and education enabled him to reinvent himself and go completely legit.

 In 1973 mob boss Frank Costello said he and Kennedy had been bootlegging partners. Other underworld figures have also claimed Joe was in pretty deep. At least one writer (Davis, 1984) thinks bootlegging enabled Joe to earn his initial financial stake, but that's hard to believe; he had plenty of chances to make money more or less legally.

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/716/what-is-the-true-source-of-the-kennedy-familys-wealth

By the mid 50s,Forbes declared his net worth to be roughly 300 mn $. He was able to use his influence with hoodlums to get JFK elected.
Even China's burgeoning mega rich show that politics,big money and shady life styles are inextricably linked . No less an authority than Forbes recently stated 90% of the riches are Politburo members.
So,Dear Reader,the next time a youngster in the diaspora lectures us on the unsuitability of our leaders buy him this special brew-on me.

SLAVERY WASN'T A BLACK THING

No it wasn't-by no means. It seems as early as the mid 1600s Up to one-half of all the arrivals in the American colonies were Whites slaves and they were America's first slaves-ever since James 2 sold 30,000 Irish prisoners. These Whites were slaves for life, long before Blacks ever were. This slavery was even hereditary. White children born to White slaves were enslaved too

 http://www.revisionisthistory.org/forgottenslaves.html
 Poor children on the British Isles would be kidnapped,(from whence the term,kid-nabbed) herded to Liverpool,Bristol and Aberdeen, stuffed into tiny ships,occasionally by the hundred and transported to the USA. The Irish however suffered terribly. Cromwell crucified the Catholics;whatever the agenda of the commentator,its fact that at least 500,000 Irish were sold while 300,000 were sold into American and W.Indian slavery.

Strangely,since they were treated as harshly as the black slaves Hollywood continually projects onto the public consciousness,suffering whippings,lifelong servitude and branding the Establishment insists they were indentured servants or bonded servants. In fact,they may have suffered more than their African counterparts.
Ships carrying White slaves to America often lost half their slaves to death. According to historian Sharon V. Salinger, "Scattered data reveal that the mortality for [White] servants at certain times equaled that for [Black] slaves in the 'middle passage,' and during other periods actually exceeded the death rate for [Black] slaves." Salinger reports a death rate of ten to twenty percent over the entire 18th century for Black slaves on board ships enroute to America compared with a death rate of 25% for White slaves enroute to America.

 http://www.revisionisthistory.org/forgottenslaves.html

Even in the 1850s  Frederic Law Olmsted, the landscape architect who designed New York's Central Park, was in Alabama on a pleasure trip and saw bales of cotton being thrown from a considerable height into a cargo ship's hold. The men tossing the bales somewhat recklessly into the hold were Negroes, the men in the hold were Irish.
Olmsted inquired about this to a shipworker. "Oh," said the worker, "the niggers are worth too much to be risked here; if the Paddies are knocked overboard or get their backs broke, nobody loses anything."

Britains' rulers always despised their Irish Catholics,and the story of their inhumanities is a long one. Look at this 19th century cartoon. No wonder they comprised the bulk of white slavery.

Despite the overwhelming evidence of the magnitude of white slavery the Mainstream Media still shows only this.

Not a mystery really. The white elites can share can a false ethic kinship with their victims blinding them to their own plight,the black intelligentsia on the other hand can whine and screech emotionally extorting 'reparations and damages' out of guilt tripped white business while they act as gatekeepers for said funds. A win-win situation for  the likes of Prof.Gates,Sharpton et al and those who inflicted centuries of indignities upon their fellow whites who now suffer complete collective amnesia.

http://karanjazplace.blogspot.com/2013/01/slavery-wasnt-black-thing-2.html