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Preaching by: John J. Malone, Sr - JABSBG*

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A Diamond In the Rough - Comments (0)

Printer Friendly Category: Behind the Lines,Venture in Africa
Author: John Malone
Date: 4th October, 2006 @ 05:13:54 PM

Some people find the right side of an issue just because they have the character to do so: they want to be right; they need to be right.

Don Yamamoto is that sort of person. It merely happens that he is the Deputy Secretary of State for African Affairs. You might find a guy just like him at the local power company, or the local Tel-co, holding down the fort, making sure the systems delivering essential services ACTUALLY WORK.
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Niceties & Treachery. - Comments (0)

Printer Friendly Category: Behind the Lines,Venture in Africa
Author: John Malone
Date: 14th September, 2006 @ 04:55:15 AM

At the first, solicting help from Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel was confusing and complex, to say the least. It took a whole series of calls, and perhaps a couple of weeks to get any attention to my problem. After a few weeks passed without formal protest to the Kenyan government, I knew I was in trouble. In fact, the battle was 90% lost by then.

To this day, the US Government has not protested to the Kenyan government about the expropriation. In fact, it seems to have joined the Kenyan government in covering it up.
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Political Appeal - Comments (0)

Printer Friendly Category: Behind the Lines,Venture in Africa
Author: John Malone
Date: 3rd September, 2006 @ 02:09:24 AM

According to US laws and treaties, there are serious sanctions in place for foreign nations that expropriate American assets: like our venture.

In retrospect, it’s only a little bit humorous when one of the first things the acting Deputy Chief of Mission (Virginia Palmer) told me was, “Well, we’re not going to send in the marines, that’s for sure.”
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A Lesson Previously Learned. - Comments (2)

Printer Friendly Category: Behind the Lines,Venture in Africa
Author: John Malone
Date: 20th August, 2006 @ 11:35:20 PM

Some paths you only need to explore once.

My investment had been expropriated by a foreign government by police force. There was no subtlety involved at all.

About nine years earlier, we had an incident arise whereby a Kenyan bank simply took money – a lot of money – by crediting our crossed bank cheque to the account of account of a friend of one of the bank’s management, who was clearly not the payee. As we looked into the crime, we discovered the bank was run by a long-time poltical crony of the Kenyatta family.
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Expropriation! - Comments (1)

Printer Friendly Category: Behind the Lines,Venture in Africa
Author: John Malone
Date: 27th July, 2006 @ 02:32:17 PM

“Expropriation.”

It’s the one word the U.S. State Department apparently never wants to say.

In early June of 2003, Presidential appointee and political hack Nick Wanjohi, Vice Chancellor of the JKUAT, dispatched campus security to our joint venture operation and forcibly ejected the management of Diamond systems, Ltd. and “suspended” our company, which was a 50% partner.
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Misbegotten Hopes - Comments (2)

Printer Friendly Category: Behind the Lines,Venture in Africa
Author: John Malone
Date: 20th July, 2006 @ 11:48:12 PM

Everybody worships somewhere.

While a young “campus radical” in the university, we said “liberals pray in the courts.” It was more derogatory than the mere pun of it.

Today, many people, especially Christians, worship at the ballot box. If only the “right guy” gets elected. For about a decade, this was the hope of many in Kenya, and everyone connected with the US State Department with regard to Kenya. Daniel Arap Moi became the personification of evil in the sight of many. He was so corrupt. He was the problem with development. He was the only problem in the way to the promised land.
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African Venture: No Secrets to Our Success - Comments (1)

Printer Friendly Category: Behind the Lines,Venture in Africa
Author: John Malone
Date: 25th June, 2006 @ 11:42:38 PM

You may realize this account is leading to a bitter end. It is.

This account is to inform the reader of how we succeeded and why we failed, and who helped each side.

Our success is in no way attributable to governments. In fact, on the Kenyan side, steering clear of typical government involvement was essential.
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