The Illuminati!! Fact or Fiction

JUST who are the Illuminati? Does such an organization, or sect, or body of individuals, or grouping, actually exist? Does history or factual citation, records of registry, actually show them to be what today’s myth claims them to be?

And what about the rumours that abound today about a world of puppet masters that control everything from the price of bread to the name of Jay-Z and Beyonce’s baby girl? Who are the Illuminati?

The organisation known as the Illuminati actually does have a record of historical existence. The first known record of this organisation was as an order, which, quite frankly, is a fancy way of saying it was a loosely structured association of sorts, since the term ‘order’ does not have much structural or legal relevance today.

This order was made up of five men, who came together in 1776 in Upper Bavaria to share interests that borrowed from the age of enlightenment that was the in-thing then. Enlightenment here is key as the name Illuminati itself comes from the word illumination.

At the time, freethinking (which is making a powerful come-back in the age of the Internet and social media) was also rapidly gaining ground and the organisation, which was initially led by a university professor named Adam Weishaupt, almost by default based itself at the University of Ingolstadt.

The pursuit of intellectualism, rational thought, freethinking and science was what the original Illuminati prided it self in intellectualism was all the rage at the time and a lot of with the Illuminati. The original Illuminati This adaptation was obviously important because the pursuit of Church.

It is against this backdrop that the Illuminati’s position and examined. They were an organisation that sought to control the world. Now they do! As Dennis Asiimwe found out Tupac Shakur was also linked with Illuminati Rihanna after the release of her Rated R album people found it fashionable to associate themselves took on the operational and structural set up of an earlier order, the Free Masons, one that included secrecy, a vow to follow the ways of the order and had an honourary system that was based on one’s education, particularly degrees achieved at university level. intellectualism put them in direct con ict with another established institution, the speculation about its make up can today

SO WHAT ARE THEY TODAY?
Publicly, the Illuminati of today are rather di erent. From an order, whose interest was the pursuit of intellectual excellence and free thought, you have one that is perceived to run the world, manage the ow of information and if you want to believe some of the religious conservatives and slightly hysterical sci- websites, is run by representatives of the devil and an alien race, sometimes simultaneously.

This sudden switch in perception is mind-boggling, until you understand that within today’s environment are certain factors that play a role, some of them new, and some of them pretty consistent with recent conspiracy theories of the same ilk.

First, there is the recognition that world governments are not really what they seem. There is nothing new to this. There has always been a power behind the throne, in uence peddlers if you will, even if you decided to use the Bible’s Old Testament as a record.

But it follows that it is more likely that these interests are - nancial, military or even social. It really does not have to be some secret organisation whose actual existence in its original form may have faded with time. Second, the idea of the use of popular culture to propagate a dark agenda is just as old.

Today, the hip-hop and pop genres is rife with rumours of support and control from this shady organisation, with the afore-mentioned Jay – Z, Whitney Houston and even Michael Jackson listed as having been somehow influenced by the organization.
Fifteen years ago, this same assertion was made of the rock music genre, which sounds rather too convenient. The third and probably most telling, is the power of modern-day Christianity. In an increasingly cynical world, the Church needs a boogeyman. It is no wonder that the Illuminati offer a convenient and darkly malevolent figure for what ails the world

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Dates Za tusker Project Fame

Do you still want to participate in Tusker Project Fame 5? If yes, then here are the dates

for the auditions that will happen across the six countries:

                   April 21^st – Burundi, Nakuru and Meru.

                            28^th- Dar-es-salaam, Arusha and Mombasa

                    May 5^th – Nairobi

The organizers are yet to announce the venues, but immediately they do we will be the first to inform you.

Keep on rehearsing as for Kenyan auditions, your in for a treat as judge Ian Mbugua will be there.

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Happy Birthday Mwalimu..Bado tupo pamoja

                                                       Down:Nyerere with Fidel Castro

One of Africa’s most respected figures, Julius Nyerere (1922 — 1999) was a politician of principle and intelligence. Known as Mwalimu or teacher he had a vision of education that was rich with possibility

Julius Kambarage Nyerere was born on April 13, 1922 in Butiama, on the eastern shore of lake Victoria in north west Tanganyika. His father was the chief of the small Zanaki tribe. He was 12 before he started school (he had to walk 26 miles to Musoma to do so). Later, he transferred for his secondary education to the Tabora Government Secondary School. His intelligence was quickly recognized by the Roman Catholic fathers who taught him. He went on, with their help, to train as a teacher at Makerere University in Kampala (Uganda). On gaining his Certificate, he taught for three years and then went on a government scholarship to study history and political economy for his Master of Arts at the University of Edinburgh (he was the first Tanzanian to study at a British university and only the second to gain a university degree outside Africa. In Edinburgh, partly through his encounter with Fabian thinking, Nyerere began to develop his particular vision of connecting socialism with African communal living.

On his return to Tanganyika, Nyerere was forced by the colonial authorities to make a choice between his political activities and his teaching. He was reported as saying that he was a schoolmaster by choice and a politician by accident. Working to bring a number of different nationalist factions into one grouping he achieved this in 1954 with the formation of TANU (the Tanganyika African National Union). He became President of the Union (a post he held until 1977), entered the Legislative Council in 1958 and became chief minister in 1960. A year later Tanganyika was granted internal self-government and Nyerere became premier. Full independence came in December 1961 and he was elected President in 1962.

Nyerere’s integrity, ability as a political orator and organizer, and readiness to work with different groupings was a significant factor in independence being achieved without bloodshed. In this he was helped by the co-operative attitude of the last British governor — Sir Richard Turnbull. In 1964, following a coup in Zanzibar (and an attempted coup in Tanganyika itself) Nyerere negotiated with the new leaders in Zanzibar and agreed to absorb them into the union government. The result was the creation of the Republic of Tanzania.

Ujamma, socialism and self reliance

As President, Nyerere had to steer a difficult course. By the late 1960s Tanzania was one of the world’s poorest countries. Like many others it was suffering from a severe foreign debt burden, a decrease in foreign aid, and a fall in the price of commodities. His solution, the collectivization of agriculture, villigization (see Ujamma below) and large-scale nationalization was a unique blend of socialism and communal life. The vision was set out in the Arusha Declaration of 1967 (reprinted in Nyerere 1968):

"The objective of socialism in the United Republic of Tanzania is to build a society in which all members have equal rights and equal opportunities; in which all can live in peace with their neighbours without suffering or imposing injustice, being exploited, or exploiting; and in which all have a gradually increasing basic level of material welfare before any individual lives in luxury." (Nyerere 1968: 340)

The focus, given the nature of Tanzanian society, was on rural development. People were encouraged (sometimes forced) to live and work on a co-operative basis in organized villages or ujamaa (meaning ‘familyhood’ in Kishwahili). The idea was to extend traditional values and responsibilities around kinship to Tanzania as a whole.

Within the Declaration there was a commitment to raising basic living standards (and an opposition to conspicuous consumption and large private wealth). The socialism he believed in was ‘people-centred’. Humanness in its fullest sense rather than wealth creation must come first. Societies become better places through the development of people rather than the gearing up of production. This was a matter that Nyerere took to be important both in political and private terms. Unlike many other politicians, he did not amass a large fortune through exploiting his position.

The policy met with significant political resistance (especially when people were forced into rural communes) and little economic success. Nearly 10 million peasants were moved and many were effectively forced to give up their land. The idea of collective farming was less than attractive to many peasants. A large number found themselves worse off. Productivity went down. However, the focus on human development and self-reliance did bring some success in other areas notably in health, education and in political identity.

Liberation struggles

A committed pan-Africanist, Nyerere provided a home for a number of African liberation movements including the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan African Congress (PAC) of South Africa, Frelimo when seeking to overthrow Portuguese rule in Mozambique, Zanla (and Robert Mugabe) in their struggle to unseat the white regime in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). He also opposed the brutal regime of Idi Amin in Uganda. Following a border invasion by Amin in 1978, a 20,000-strong Tanzanian army along with rebel groups, invaded Uganda. It took the capital, Kampala, in 1979, restoring Uganda’s first President, Milton Obote, to power. The battle against Amin was expensive and placed a strain on government finances. There was considerable criticism within Tanzania that he had both overlooked domestic issues and had not paid proper attention to internal human rights abuses. Tanzania was a one party state — and while there was a strong democratic element in organization and a concern for consensus, this did not stop Nyerere using the Preventive Detention Act to imprison opponents. In part this may have been justified by the need to contain divisiveness, but there does appear to have been a disjuncture between his commitment to human rights on the world stage, and his actions at home.

Retirement

In 1985 Nyerere gave up the Presidency but remained as chair of the Party - Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM). He gradually withdrew from active politics, retiring to his farm in Butiama. In 1990 he relinquished his chairmanship of CCM but remained active on the world stage as Chair of the Intergovernmental South Centre. One of his last high profile actions was as the chief mediator in the Burundi conflict (in 1996). He died in a London hospital of leukaemia on October 14, 1999.

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DAVID BECKHAM POSES FOR ELLE UK MAGAZINE...

Soccer player turned underwear designer David Beckham will make magazine history today when he poses for Elle UK's first cover that doesn't feature a woman.

Elle UK editor Lorraine Candy said the July issue will be pegged to this Summer's Olympic games in London, and picked Beckham because he bridges the gap between British sports and British fashion.

"David Beckham is a national hero, so we saw an opportunity to shoot a celebratory cover to support a historical and patriotic year," she said. "He is an icon and Elle is known for featuring icons on its cover. This is a first for us on the newsstand and I believe he is loved by men and women alike. Anyway, who doesn't want to see a picture of one of the world's most handsome men on the front cover of a magazine? It will be a collector's issue."

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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW YA DIAMOND AKIWA MSIBANI KWA MAREHEMU KANUMBA...

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