Hear Oh, World!

Why do you bother us Malawians? We are not like you. We live simple
lives and we love one another.

It is wrong to test a law. In your hypocrisies you find it important
to legitimise a wrong you personally don't accept. A strong deliberate
blind eye to this unnatural relationship of a man and a man. Its not
for money for you politicians are already filthy rich. To you it comes
as a luxury. A deliberate slip. For what reason?

You put us Malawians, the people you claim to help, to test. You
expect us to smile to your bidding? I would ask this to you today: a
preacher preaches for the correction of the society why do you chose
to put the preacher in jail?

Whether psychologic, genetic whatever your "scientists" or
"psychologists" justify it is an abnormality. If you search long
enough, all sin is genetic(for we all sin because of the fall of Adam
and we die for this reason) but a person is still able to chose
between right and wrong. When he choses right he lives when he choses
wrong, it is said the wages of sin is death. God changes those who
have sort His help.

The government, however, does punish wrongs and God allows it to do
so. For it does not exist unless God allows.

You create laws to bar the preacher from correcting the wrongs in the
society and set free the wrongs. Why do you condemn the preacher for
homophobia and not the Sodomy offenders?

Wake up! You are humans! And there is the devil who wants death for
you; paralysing your minds over what seems to be freedoms but are
destructions of a society.

We Malawians are not happy that you have to put us through this. Your
money which you give us does not come with a clean heart. If I were
the President or Parliamentarian I would not accept such help from
you. All of you who have set this condition on us.

Label us not wrong for pointing out the wrong however rich you may be.

I remember Zimbabwe and What your Divided and Conquer strategies have
done to African Economies which you claim to want to help develop.
This infuriets me.

It is said, "Do repay not evil for evil." The President of Malawi has
not allowed this Evil in our land. But this world wants to Judge us
for labelling the wrong what it is. So because We can to forgive, we
have forgiven. What is it to you? Push us no further.

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Accept The Challenge God Will Guide.

The Warm Heart of Africa

I used to pray some little prayers. God bless Malawi, God bless
Africa. God bless Malawi that it will be a home of a people in a time
when everywhere else there is no home. That its gates would close to
danger but cover in your people. That it would be independent enough
to withstand external pressure. I have seen the answers to my prayers.

God has blessed Malawi. And through Malawi He is blessing Africa.

I hear about two days ago, two hundred something ethiopians have been
dropped in Nkhata Bay by somebody they don't know. They seek peace and
food for there is war and famine in their land. They have crossed
borders Tanzania and Mozambique into Malawi. Because our President in
the African Leader and they seek help from him.

I find myself wanting to welcome them giving them the heart of warmth
and food for the cold nights they have been through in this warm heart
of Africa.

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To A Hopeless Soul

In the dark alone
Paralised
In mind and so
In body.
Oh Helpless Soul
Drunk with tears of sorrow
At the thought of pain endured
Day and Night
What brings this night?
I tried to do good today.
To hope for better sleep.
No. Pain in the night.
Pain and Sleepnesses.
Bad things troubling my sleep.
Helpless I live to the next day.
Bad things in the day.
What do I?
To not do wrong?
To sleep better in the night?
A step two I fall.
Fear for the night
Helpless Soul.
Awake.
Love receive.
Shield of faith.
Sword of the Spirit.
Breast Plate of Rightiousness.
Belt of Truth.
Helmet of Salvation.
Shoes of preaching the Gospel.
Do war.
Pursue.
Destroy.
Your enemy of old.
Give no mercy.
In Jesus Name.

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Accept The Challenge God Will Guide.

On John 3:16

Necodemus Came to Jesus by night asking for a way to enter the Kingdom
of God. By his status in the society he could not confront Jesus in
the public. But he saw his shortfall despite being religious and he
wanted to be saved from evil to get to Heaven.

Jesus told him He must be born again of Water and the Holy Spirit.
Over the ages this verse has been said and said but not many have understood.

Take it like a public key cryptographic protocal. There is one private
key for which all may go through. One needs to negotiate with the
security provider in order to establish a connection.

In our case Jesus would be this provider and key.

Flesh gives birth to flesh(John 3:6). In my own ways I can do good but
without a relationship with Jesus making peace with Him or my works
are in vain. The works would paint me red like all God's children but
if the Paint is not the blood of Jesus I still perish. If one of the
eqyptians had done what the jews did they too would have been saved
from the Angel of Death.

The wind blows where it wishes you here the sound of it but you don't
know where it comes from(John 3:8). You see the children of God living
a good life. You see them save under very difficult circumstances.
What's with them? It the Jesus they are in a relationship with. That
saves them. The Holy Spirit that comforms them to the commands of God.
And because of their relationship with Jesus where they fail Jesus
becomes their fulfilment.

So it is Jesus the one to make peace with and get to Heaven. He is not
far but as far as your trust in Him and your confession, in really
speaking to Him, in realising your short falls and really asking Him
to save you. To change your flesh by the Spirit. Did not John the
Baptist say, Jesus will baptise by the Holy Spirit? It falls within
His power to do so.

--
Accept The Challenge God Will Guide.

Comment on Value-Adding

I want to point out a self betrayal on value-adding. Under-valuing the raw material, devalues the end product however much additional value is added.

In Malawi we have often under paid laborers and under-valued the raw material. Even on export the outcome of that product is a very little contribution to the GDP. No wonder the GDP of most African Countries is very low. For they are raw material producers and they are betraying themselves by under-valuing labor and raw materials.

I would advise before thinking about exporting an expensive valuable product think about the end of that product in the case it is not found to be valuable by the end buyer.

It comes to a point of producing what we ourselves really need.
In the case of Tomato Processor: Most Malawians use fresh tomato and not preserved one. If external market fails we have effectively reduced supply at country level and wasted it as it is not as valuable at country level. Because we would rather have the fresh product but what is available is a processed product, we have effectively devalued the product but increased its price.

The GDP per capita which seem to be calculated from the GDP itself is really faulty than starting with the distribution of the per capita income across the population. If this distribution is normal and not highly skewed towards the fewer rich population it is an indication that things are good. And then calculation the total GDP from the per capita.

While the GDP can indicate the overall income its reality on the ground might not be rosy. For example:
1. A region might have a high GDP but the product does not benefit its population rather exported and in the end the population suffers from lack of basic needs (Obviously not our goal).
2. A region might have high GDP but the economic machinery might not allow the majority of the population to benefit(rich getting richer, the poor remaining poor)
(By its commission, the government which drives the direction of the economy for the benefit of its citizen, should not want this).
3. A rise in GDP can also be an indication that the value of a product at raw material level has been increased. (So effectively Malawi's GDP will rise highly if the laborer and the raw material are not under-valued).

We might price ourselves highly, but nobody can buy us. This, in the end, is what reduces our value. Therefore I see it very important to put our valued labor to what we really want. While mining can increase our national income on exports, it destroys the land, which we live in and benefit from, in such a way that we might have to start importing basic needs as well. While the $500million/ billion from uranium we get seems to be a lot, it might not even be one hundredth of the real value and much more worse the pollution stays on our land the profit in another land. If every thing has to have trade offs for optimal benefit, this is the reason why Kamuzu might not have exploited mining and concentrated on agriculture. And effectively the reason why we still have a lot of minerals.

Muluzi's government drilled a lot of boleholes receded the water table and there was no rain. (Just an economic policy, huh?).

Bingu's government added just a tit bit of fertilizer to the rain. What a harvest.

Does Bingu's government destroy this same land by an economic policy? Tread carefully.

Malawi(Africa) is not poor and its riches are not dependent on what others value but on what we ourselves value. There have been tales, stories, or why the white men kill themselves and others over stones which they don't eat(africans wondering).

Where is our value? If we put our energy where our value is needed we will have the income we really deserve.

Share this where it might benefit before we destroy so much with inverted ideologies.

Sent from my BlackBerry smartphone

Test Drive Cyptography: Reloaded

24 Series
Pirated Version Season 9. Given an ultimatum to crack a message for
the wife's release.
What's the encryption protocal?
Blowfish 1024 bits
What's the word length?
32bits
Where is my wife?
We will bring her when its done. How long will it take?
Its done.
They say, He is a level 6 as the wife.
Wow! Do these things happen?
So people have to be trained to be level 6. So people stumble themselves up.
Some people get punished for stumbling to level 6.
Some people take the long winding road called cryptography to go round
and round and never understand. So that the best of them can't crack
the simplest. Because the expert says so nobody else tries. So the
secret stays secure.
I thought: how clever!
There is an animal that passes its nest/home to lead its prey away and
protect its eggs or young ones. Cryptography in real life then.
Why am I saying this?
Today or tomorrow the secret will be found out. When its found its
better be a good thing.

Is cryptography useless? In so many ways, it isn't. It saved the
animal's young ones by leading the prey away. What's bad is to punish
someone for stumbling on a hole that seems so obviously open.

When one is not accepted for a good thing they may resort to the bad
thing they have been trying to prevent. I guess that's what makes a
BlackHat from a WhiteHat. Because he may still remain with some good
in him. Against those who have done him no wrong he will do good. In
world of survival of the fittest, a GreyHat strives, a WhiteHat
endures in places of love, a BlackHat destroys.
WhiteHat has to do more work for so little. While the WhiteHat and the
GreyHat may be conservative in their ways, the BlackHeart stops at
nothing.

Can a secret prevail? Good triumphs over evil not by repaying back
evil but continuing to be good. Evil may be strong but Good attracts
masses that save him. Evil might paint evil on Good to get
sympathy/support from the masses but in prevailng to be good, Good
proves himself before the masses.

Walk an extra mile for a solder who forces you to walk a mile. Give
another cheak to one who slaps you. Give another coat for someone who
gets yours. He wanted to inflict pain. Do him good.

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Accept The Challenge God Will Guide.

Of Balances in Economy

I thought about exchange of goods. Money is just a median of the
exchange. It seems to have become the most important thing than the
goods themselves. People would hold on to money than the goods. It
might be good at country level but not internationally. For we don't
eat money but the goods we can.

Going back at personal level: almost every bank and advert insurance
this insurance that with a few savings for help in a time you might
not have money. Health insurance, Life insurance, etc. so many other
public services that at one time were provided free. Oh yes they said
you don't give freebie to people they won't develop. I guess it
matters as well how you define development. Many people who have money
cannot afford to buy a cow which one can have free in the villages.

In a business arena where every body is really trying to maximise
profit goods become undervalued. The highier the product goes in the
exchange chain, the highier the price though the lesser the value
added and the graph of the price against value added would be found
to be exponential.

When we get so much forex as indication of financial growth it is the
same as selling all you maize and keeping the money. Suppose everyone
sells all the maize, where does it go? Surely its just not lying
around somewhere. If it is, when the farmer needs it again later, he
will have to pay a highier price. If it is not, it might have gone
somewhere it can't be taken back(like outside the country for
example). Then when the farmer needs the maize back, there will be too
few available for everyone and not to mention the price which is even
highier. So in the end, we have a country full of money but no food.
Money can be eaten by rats and be useless. At least if one had maize
if eaten by rats there is still plenty to eat and the worst case is
that it will be given to cattle which we can still eat and drink milk.

Is tobacco a solution? Grow so much tobacco, and no sale you just
wasted a lot of resource on imported inputs which we don't eat.
Suppose we grow what we need which if not sold we can still eat.
Maize, Groundnuts, Beans, Bananas, Oranges, Cattle, Chicken, pa dziko
padzikhala pa mwana alirengi. If one has some food and shelter they
can live another day with an empty pocket. But if even food and
shelter they have to buy as well, there comes a day when the pocket
runs dry when they sleep with an empty stomach.

A question I should ask, I don't if I will get the answer from any
reader but its worth asking: can fertiliser be made from tobacco? For
if the buyers don't buy the useless leaves, it can atleast be bought
at its value to give back to the growers and processed into fertiliser
to give back to the fertility of our land. Than selling at a give away
price. Then a farmer disappointed by the sale would also be encouraged
to grow food crops.

I believe the former government(Kamuzu's) limited the growth to a few
who really had the expertize and resources to produce better quality
and it must have been a quotaed growth based on the demand and Malawi
as whole benefitted. Other's who saw these tobacco farmers prospering
found this unfair. While it might not be achievable to return to this
restriction honest truth without restriction would help more while
means are also being found to what tobacco can be useful to Malawi
itself. Letting people see this reality (better what you can eat and
sale, than sale or throw away) and encouraging them to grow food
crops. Practice our good agricultural ways as we used to. Kodi kukhala
ndu nkhokwe pakhomo nchimidzi? Koma chakudya chimasungidwa bwino
munkhokwe than muchipinda (no actellic superguard, no mbewa
mukagwiritsa nthito mouse guard). Kodi tikufuna kuti azungu adzabwere
azatiphunzitse kumanga nkhokwe? A Malawi lekani enawo aziseka ino
konzani moyo wanu.
I know people are being encouraged to be in farm clubs I guess this is
towards cooperate farming of tobacco and other crops which cannot be
managed individually, can be grown in this way. But even these
individual farmers could be encouraged to grow food for their own.

Akuti musangowapatsa zaulere muziwagulitsa azilimbikira nthito. Kodi
zikakhalapo zaulere tisawapatse? Kodi tikachite kuchepetsa zimene
alinazo kuti azikakugula? Kodi tikachepetsa zimene alinazo zina
zipezeka kuti? Kodi kukhala ndi moyo, mesa nkukhala ndi chakudya
ndipogona, ndi kusangala ndi abale ako?

At the end of the day, when everything else is said and done, even the
best economy gives money for free to achieve the balance. I guess now
it becomes a choice of what to give for free: money to buy good
health, food, shelter and clothing or good health, shelter and
clothing so that people are strong and healthy and with peace of mind
to grow their own food or if available, why not all free?

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Accept The Challenge God Will Guide.

Of Controversies: Right and Wrong.

Here we are in 21st Century. We have gone through and learned from
history. There are laws defining what is right and also what is wrong.
Clearly some wrongs have been done in certain circumstances and been
found to be good. There are evidences of these all over the world all
through out history. There have been a lot violencies of angry people
convinced that a wrong they are fighting for is good. There have also
been a lot of violencies of people fighting for themselves against a
wrong being done on them by some people who either do the wrong
thinking that it is good or do the wrong selfishly. What's to do?

I was going through my life I found that there was a time I knew a
right and a wrong. I found that I was able to speak much about the
right I knew than a wrong I knew. If I had a way out on the wrong, I
would be able to avoid it. But in my mind this wrong could be done for
there is no other way. It became a necessity. With time I saw there
were other better ways it could have been done. I began to regret. But
I understood the mind of a lawyer who would be found bending the law
to meet his end. The Art of War encourages to capitalise on the other
person's weaknesses. While it solves my problem, I have done wrong to
my collegue if the problem I solve for myself did harm to him and he
was the innocent one. My responsibility was to still not do the wrong
against him.

A person meaning to do right, would not do wrong unless he is
convinced that what he is doing is right. A person who has done wrong
might have done wrong knowing what he was doing was wrong but
convinced himself he had a necessary reason; he might have done the
wrong not knowing; or might have known he was doing wrong and he meant
to do it any way. Of these people would forgive the first two after
having understood their situation. A person defending himself is doing
so to save himself. It might be from punishment that is to follow for
the wrong he has done with him still thinking he is innocent, or with
him having understood that he was wrong and so ask forgiveness, or
because he knew he was wrong in the first place and has been caught to
as long as he can survive. In many cases the one asking forgiveness,
would get lighter punishment than the one who is admant in
selfrightoousness. The last would use any of the two ways in which the
former would react to gain sympathy to avoid punishment.

Here is world so learned in the psychology of man. Education awards
high marks for applying the learned ideas well. And in a way it has
taught us it is good to apply classroom ideas even though they might
have bad effects on other human beings. Marketing, Business
Administration, Maximising profit, Good business ideas.

First Merchant Bank has given loans to farmers to give back after the
tobacco sales. I can see many farmers crying foul in the end. A good
business idea, capitalizing on the farmers weakness. They advise well
as though you will have no problem but how painful when they tell you
in the face the things you did not know and even tell you: This is
business my friend as if it is good to do the "business" they have on
me.

Responsibility, do not do this. Don't capitalize on other people's
weaknesses and do them wrong.

Politicians world over have used these controversies here and there to
find their way up in politics. Many people have found themselves in
conflicts over and over again after have be infuriated by a political
agenda. The media is in the same situation. People react to what they
hear and they would believe somebody a bad person because a fellow
politician has said so. It is always too late when they come back to
their senses and understand the said bad person and really too late to
make amends.

The Democratic government as it has been put forward with its
mechanisms much of which really treats human beings at animal level(as
though human beings can't understand and make better decisions) has
brought much of the problems. While democracy might have been
understood in the way it is presented, the reality of the practice
might be very far from the way it is presented.

The birth of the United States talks about people coming together from
all over to a new land with a purpose to leave behind the problems
they have left at home. They found the law of God as the best to
follow in establishing a government and based the constitution of the
word of God the Bible. Is it possible to follow somebody's laws
without really following him?

This government encouraged fairness at all levels as the Bible defines
it. According to its characteristics this government seems to have
been closer in its ways to the greek government which was called
democracy. We then named this new found government democracy. So many
studied the greek government and forgot the foundations of this new
government. Some of the ways of the greek government had flaws which
could be the reason why it failed and was once again replaced by one
man led government.

This new government which was found to be fair was presented and
understood to be based on the greek foundations. So others
implementing similar governments to this new found government
implement it basing on a wrong foundation. Can these other governments
stand?

America still stands strong. Its principles are the same embedded in
the peoples hearts for they understand what they have but have not
explanation how they had it. Basing on the similarities of its ways to
the previous government, they think that's what they have. But because
its not, they do not have the problems other governments have.

The law of God teaches love at all cost. Love your neighbour as
yourself. If you loved your neibour you would not steal their wife or
car or anything theirs you would do no harm on them. If you love your
woman you wouldn't rape her. Or cheat on her. You wouldn't want to do
to them what would hurt you. The book of Romans has put in a better
way what I want to say from Romans 12 verse 9 to Romans 13 about a
man's relationship to neighbours, and government. Read more discover
yourself much more the treasures in the word that you would appriciate
and find helpful.

Do we leave out the creator of this perfect law? Science has required
proof of His existance. God has proved his existance in many ways for
those who have accepted him. Does he not seek and you will find? Does
he not say He has put us in the lands or situations we leave so that
we might seek him and find him? He challenges you to seek him and you
will find him. The Bible defines faith in Hebrews Chapter 11. Faith is
the substance of things hoped for. Faith is the evidence of things
unseen. If there was no substance of those things it would be mere
hope. But there is substance. If there was no evidence of thing not
seen there would be no faith.

Does Science want proof that not all of its ways are based on
evidence? For a student to believe a teacher of the things he has not
understood he believes they are true on the trust that the teacher
knows more than he himself. How many mathematical proofs even today
are based on how so and so proved them? For the first voyager to go
out to sea and around the world which has become the evidence that the
world is round and not flat it had to take a step of faith(courage
based on the evidence he has which many don't have). Its only when he
had gone round the world did many believe the truth that all the
people(now called great scientists) said about the word being round
and not flat. The church was among those who did not believe but they
were many more who didn't outside the church and included scientists.
The thing is if a there is a truth. It will be found out however one
tries to bend it and it does not depend on an individual opinion for
even if the church can not know all truths but as much God has
revealed.

This law though very perfect God admits bitterly nobody understands.
They have all sinned. All of them. Paul says in Romans I try to do
good but I end up doing wrong. So without God we fail to live by this
perfect law.
God has provided His Son and The Holy Spirit to teach us His ways.
Those that seek him they find Him.

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Accept The Challenge God Will Guide.