In The Wilderness With Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe has been doing fine like any other developing African Country until 5th November, 1997, when the then British secretary of State Clare Short interfered with an existing agreement which was the main grounds for that country to gain independence from the British!
I quote from Clare Short’s letter to Zimbabwean Minister for Agriculture. “I should make it clear that we do not accept that British have a special responsibility to meet the costs of land purchase in Zimbabwe. We are a new government from diverse backgrounds without links to former colonial interests. My own origins are Irish, and as you know we were colonized, not colonizers” this letter to the Government of Zimbabwe is an insult and the cost of this long-lasting consequences.
In 1979, the British government proposed an agreement to the leadership of Zimbabwe, a condition that will make them an independent state. The agreement was that 1. Zimbabwe complies with the Constitution and hold general elections after every 5years. 2. White farmer be made to keep their lands and Britain will pay compensation to subsidize the economy.

This agreement was complied with, the people of Zimbabwe have held elections, and British governments paid compensations dully from 1979, when in 1998, the British government under Tony Blair’s leadership decided to change priorities and withdrew the compensations for Zimbabwe in reference to the letter from Clare Short in 1997.

Now we need to understand that, Zimbabwe has survived from the Constitutional agreements it signed with Britain, and the compensations from Britain annually for development purposes. The Zimbabwean economy is an agro based and it depends on Agriculture to develop. When there is a situation where the land for the countrymen is being taken by (British) White farmers, then the countrymen needs to taken care of. It is in light of this, that when the agreement was breached, Zimbabwe said, well! We are not bound by any contract anymore, lets take our land and give to our own people who can farm and feed the nation, let the white farmers deal directly with Britain.

This is the story of Zimbabwe, the white farmers and Britain thought the land would be bought from them and sold to the blacks, but Mugabe said No!, we would give it to them free. This is why Britain is angry and says Mugabe is breaching the tenants of democracy, human rights and violence.

They then embark on a crusade to destabilized the government, they fund the opposition MDC to rally against the government, make tings difficult to them, give the government a bad image for the world to believe just as the United States did to Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.

The United States would have nothing to do this if Britain were not their friend, they got involved and George Bush is openly declared the US government involvement in sponsoring regime change activities in Zimbabwe, and they base their stands on Human rights and violence.

BBC, CNN and he international media have been polluted, they have been made to defame the government of Zimbabwe and we believed them because they have our ears, I was pressing for regime change in the Zimbabwe elections, for Mugabe to go until now that I got the real story.

All these human rights and violence because the white farmers went abroad wearing rags and asking for tax exemptions as if things were hard for them, they wanted to exploit the Black minority and make money.

Let Africa wake up, let us search for the truth, the Zimbabwe economy is bad, inflation is 4,500%, the government did some bad things, but the real story as to what caused all these messes should be known.

There is no country with such bad treatment in recorded history as Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe have not had a balance of payment since 1998, they have had economic sanctions from development partmers, the Breton-Wood, IMF, World Bank, European Union and America. They have survived for 9 years, no support, no foreign exchange, no love.

MUGABE:Truth Is Incapable Of Being Soiled By Any Outward Touch As The Sunbeam

If we increase people’s salaries today, you see them doubling the prices of goods in shops as if to say we want to drain every last dollar they have. It is in such ways that we see some industrialists here pushing for regime change and we have to look out for them. So now we are going to make things hard for each other. There is not going to be any more playing, let those in industry, those in commerce, those elsewhere – producers and retailers – take note. The nonsense of escalating prices has got to come to an end immediately,”

We owe it to ourselves and to posterity to guard jealously our hard-won independence. The country is now ours, the land is now ours and the mineral and other natural resources are today ours. Zimbabwe, from that point of view, is not a poor country by any stretch of imagination and ours is now to work hard to turn around the country’s economic fortunes.

And let us be very clear on this one – no one else can do it except ourselves. Even those who might promise that they will give us lots of money if we abide by regime change, in the end will never honour their promises. And who are they, after all, to want to decide for us which way we shall follow; to want to decide for us who shall be our leaders, to want to decide for us what destiny we shall follow?

They don’t understand that they no longer rule Zimbabwe and that we are now Independent. It is no longer Blair’s Zimbabwe; it is now the Zimbabwe of the Mugabes, the Msikas and the Mujurus. It is our, but they don’t want to see it it that way. So they formet a war and that is where these sanctions are coming from.

And now the bushes of this world take up the matter in Washington. They see their buddy Blair crying and say: “We don’t care why he is crying” All they want is to know what they can do for their friend, and hence they too can impose sanctions.

Some don’t understand this and say “remove Mugabe and things will be okay”. And do they are sent to demonise their government. Some accept money thinking that what the British and Americans say will come to pass.

We are our own liberators to the end. We died, suffered and died for our struggle. Brig-Gen Gunda is one of those young men who sacrificed their lives. He’s one of those who came back after a long, very protracted struggle which saw them suffer in the bush, which saw them face the enemy, which saw them also confront the enemy.

Those who declare themselves enemies to us have done so on their own and not becouse we have declared them enemies. but we stand for our right, we stand by that which is ours; our country, our country’s interest. Our Zimbabwe. And we know that through dedication, through sacrifice, through loyalty to the country, our loyalty also to ourselves, we succeed. We will conquer.

Those who lie against us do so in vain. Yes, it may take time for the truth to emerge but you still stand by what is true. You stand by what is true and one day instead of what is commonly known as “might is right”, right will be might. The truth is right and right will be might. So let us be true people, let us be honest people, let us avoid hypocrisy, and let us be true to ourselves and to our people.

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An abridged version of President Mugabe’s speech on the burial of the national hero, Brig-Gen Armstrong P. Gunda, on 27 June

Vista Activation Period Cracked

Hackers are going all out to crack Windows Vista activation procedure which is enhanced by Software Protection Platform (SPP).

Until now, Microsoft has an upper hand, with no permanent or foolproof ways to crack or bypass Windows Vista activation request emerged. Instead, various workarounds and tricks to bypass, skip, delay, disable or spoof Vista activation has been suggestion, to various degree of success, such as extend evaluation period, rearm method, install Vista in future year, ‘frankenbuild’ Vista by replacing RTM build WPA files with RC build files, activate against spoofed KMS server, or run and activate Vista with own local KMS server and etc. Now, there is new crack method that able to permanently stop the countdown timer of time left to activate Windows Vista, effectively running Vista OS in full functionality evaluation mode forever.

1. Install Windows Vista Ultimate edition (or other edition) without product key.
2. Windows Vista needs to be applied with 2099-ReArm trick, so that the counter of minutes to no activation required period will not return to normal after reboot. Click on Start Orb button.
3. Select “All Programs”, then “Accessories”.
4. Right click on “Command Prompt, then select “Run as Administrator (A)”.
5. If User Account Control (UAC) prompt a warning message, click on “Continue”.
6. In the command prompt, type date and press Enter. You will see the following:

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6000]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Windows\system32>date
Current date: 08/28/2007 Tuesday
Enter new date:
7. Enter 12/31/2099 (December 31, 2099).

Press Enter
8. Next, type cscript slmgr.vbs -rearm. You will see something like the following:

C:\Windows\system32>cscript slmgr.vbs -rearm
Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.7
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

The command completed successfully.
To make the change effectively, please restart the system.
9. Then reset the date of the system to current date again by typing date again. You will see the following:

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6000]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Windows\system32>date
Current date: 12/31/2099 Thursday
Enter new date:

10. Type in current date, i.e. 08/27/2007.
11. Exit from command prompt, but do not restart the computer.
12. Download StopTimer.zip, StopTimer.zip, StopTimer.zip or StopTimer.zip torrent.
13. Extract the downloaded archive file into a folder. It should contains “Vista test crack.exe” and “timerstop.sys”.
14. Execute or run the “Vista test crack.exe” by right click on “Vista test crack.exe”, and select “Run as Administrator (A)”.
15. Optional: Press in Test button, and it will pop up a message says 4 timers are stopped. At this time, the counter should be freezed, Check with slmgr.vbs -dlv command, with the minutes left should be the same after a few minutes interval. If it’s the case, continue with the following steps to run the crack every startup.
16. In the Vista test crack window, click on “Install” button. You will be prompted with “Service installed” message if everything is done properly and correctly. The crack will copy the patched stoptimer.sys to system folder and install a new service named “timerstop” to stop kernel-mode timers in spsys.sys system file.
17. Exit from the crack, and restart the computer.
18. The hacking is basically done. Next few steps to to verify that the activation grace period built-in countdown timer is actually stopped and disable the timers from working properly, and make sure that the crack is installed properly. After restart, log on to Windows Vista. Run for a few minutes.
19. Press on Windows + R keys.
20. Type slmgr.vbs -dlv to check the time left to activate Windows Vista. If the time left is 43200 minutes that’s mean the crack is successful.

Source: KezNews.com

Market Of Accra

I want to share these photos of Accra to you, i visited the newly constructed hawkers Market and some other places of “interest”.

For those of you who have not visited Accra before, i hope you enjoy this

In The Court Of Public Opinion – Stephen Addei

I am amazed sometimes when I come across some news articles and particularly the quick responds they receive. Recently there has been news in Ghana that Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Prof. Stephen Adei awarded himself an academic honor of Professor!

The news also alleges that the Professor is corrupt and a dictator and therefore the cry of his dismissal.

Let us not forget that GIMPA is what it is now because of the strong leadership and management style of the white beard Professor. GIMPA is the most prestigious tertiary institution in Ghana and one of the highly acclaimed in Africa.

I believe the professor should be given the opportunity to clarify himself at least to his Professorship and continue with hi good work, and critics wants to know.

From the time of our lord and savior Jesus Christ, those who proclaim he is Lord ‘he is Lord’ were the same people who shout ‘ Crucify him’, ‘Crucify him.’

The same Ghanaians who trooped to cheer at Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah, first Black President and the first president of the land, were the same people who cheered on the streets, mounted placards, broke his statues and vandalized his home and state assets when he was overthrown.

Let us not be by each other and support and wealthy course. It doesn’t matter whether Mr. Adei is a professor, what matters is his effort to serve, and his effort to build capacity of many our top executives for good development.

Please Mr. Blackman don’t crucify the man, some people may not like his style of leadership, I agree, some may call him names, yes it’s true but you should also know that lazy people and opportunists are always defaming selfless citizens.

New Tools Found For Wi-Fi Hacking

Wi-Fi hackers have gotten more advanced and your private information is even more at risk. The recent Black Hat conference in Las Vegas featured a demonstration by Errata Security that detailed how a hacker can use new tools to steal your encrypted cookies and passwords and then control your online sessions.

Errata has combated this new hack threat with their own tools, Hamster and Ferret, which prevent attacks. It appears that the good guys are following closely behind the bad guys but they’re still slightly behind and all Wi-Fi users need to be careful.

Source: [securecomputing.net.au]

WINNEBA: The one way town!

One Way!I have been in Winneba for the past 7 days, attending a wireless Network Seminar at the Winneba Open Digital Village (WODIV).

I have always joined a public taxi from our residence at the South Campus of the University of Education, Winneba which drives through the main Winneba Market, then some turns, get to the Central Campus of the University, atleast 2 mins drive; along the way we meet the North Campus, then to the Venue, located at a surbub called ‘Low Cost’ (pronouced popularly loocos). behind the Klimovich memorial Hospital.One morning, my friend, Henry and I were fortunate to have a lift by a co-participant; we had driven pass the Market when we heard boys shout from afar, “one way! one way!

I wondered, had the driver missed his way! then our co-participant exclaimed, ‘iv always missed the way, this town has too many one ways!. aparantly he wasn’t alone in this experience, today is the day 9 of our 10 day seminar and I have been offered a lift by another participant, as we were driving to the Seminar, he asked me to be checking for the road signs because he don’t want to repeat this mistake of using a wrong lane.

I must confess, I am not a driver and the only road signs I know are the zebra crossing and some few others; we had gone pass the Central Campus and we saw a taxi coming in our direction! Not again, we had to make a quick turn and go make u-turns and diversions to meet the road again.

Whoa! what an experience in Winneba, a very quiet town in the Central region of Ghana, we had a very good time in Winneba so I am posting this blog to advice tourists and Motorists who are not farmiliar with the township to be cautious entering Winneba and also to acknowledge the people of Winneba for giving the participants, coming from all over the Regions of Ghana and Nigeria a warm reception.

I had the best of times, I must say, Henry could be browsing the Internet on his Nokia phone, which he’s addicted to around 11pm to the south. I will say Winneba is a town you must also visit if you have never been there!

However when you are going there you must practice how to take a one way road and and take a curve into another one way.

Out of all these experiences the workshop was very good. We are now armed with ideas skills and knowledge of how to set up and deploy a WLAN. Thanks to the generosity of our sponsorers, and WODIV staff, who have made it possible for us to aquire these skills and knowledge.

Sparta Vr. Troy – The Trojan Horse (Computing)

History

The Greek siege of Troy had lasted for ten years. The Greeks devised a new ruse: a giant hollow wooden horse which was filled with Greek warriors led by Odysseus. The rest of the Greek army appeared to leave, but actually hid behind Tenedos. Meanwhile, a Greek spy, Sinon, convinced the Trojans that the horse was a gift the Trojans accepted the gift.

In ancient times it was customary for a defeated general to surrender his horse to the victorious general in a sign of respect. It should be noted here that the horse was the sacred animal of Poseidon.

The Trojans hugely celebrated the end of the siege, so that, when the Greeks emerged from the horse, the city was in a drunken stupor. The Greek warriors opened the city gates to allow the rest of the army to enter, and the city was pillaged ruthlessly, all the men were killed, and all the women and children were taken into slavery.

this is the history which surrounds the Trojan virus of today!

 

The Trojan Horse (Computing)

In the context of computer software, a Trojan horse is a program that installs malicious software while under the guise of doing something else. Though not limited in their payload, Trojan horses are more notorious for installing backdoor programs which allow unauthorized remote access to the victim’s machine by unwanted parties – normally with malicious intentions. Unlike a computer virus, a Trojan horse does not propagate by inserting its code into other computer files. The term is derived from the classical myth of the Trojan Horse. Like the mythical Trojan Horse, the malicious code is hidden in a computer program or other computer file which may appear to be useful, interesting, or at the very least harmless to an unsuspecting user. When this computer program or file is executed by the unsuspecting user, the malicious code is also executed resulting in the installation of the malicious Trojan horse program.

Example of a Trojan horse

A simple example of a Trojan horse would be a program named “waterfalls.scr” which claimed to be a free waterfall screensaver. When run, it would instead open computer ports and allow hackers to access the user’s computer remotely.

Types of Trojan horse payloads

Trojan horse payloads are almost always designed to do various harmful things, but can also be harmless. They are broken down in classification based on how they breach and damage systems. The nine main types of Trojan horse payloads are:

Remote Access

Email Sending

Data Destruction

Downloader

Proxy Trojan (disguising others as the infected computer)

FTP Trojan (adding or copying data from the infected computer)

security software disabler

denial-of-service attack (DoS)

URL trojan (directing the infected computer to only connect to the internet via an expensive dial-up connection)

Some examples of damage are:

erasing or overwriting data on a computer

encrypting files in a cryptoviral extortion attack

corrupting files in a subtle way

upload and download files

allowing remote access to the victim’s computer. This is called a RAT (remote administration tool)

spreading other malware, such as viruses: this type of Trojan horse is called a ‘dropper’ or ‘vector’

setting up networks of zombie computers in order to launch DDoS attacks or send spam.

spying on the user of a computer and covertly reporting data like browsing habits to other people

making screenshots

logging keystrokes to steal information such as passwords and credit card numbers

phishing for bank or other account details, which can be used for criminal activities

installing a backdoor on a computer system

opening and closing CD-ROM tray

harvesting e-mail addresses and using them for spam

restarting the computer whenever the infected program is started

deactivating or interfering with anti-virus and firewall programs

deactivating or interfering with other competing forms of malware

Well Known Trojan Horses

  • Downloader-EV
  • Pest Trap
  • NetBus
  • flooder
  • Tagasaurus
  • Vundo trojan
  • Gromozon Trojan

 

 

 

the secret in making password fun!

Last time i made a comment on General Angrines post, ‘PASSWORD SUCK‘. it really sucks for Network Administrators and users who are into serious security business.sorry oo!

I wanna share with you how i make my password very strong with at least 20 words with lots of fun when changing over.

I have adopted a sentence phrase mode which im can decide to change over, when i really want to else i change only portion of the phrase. at least i use a 3 word phrase.

Check this out. i have a password idiocracymeltsmetabolism (idiocracy melts metabolism). this is cool, i can change the middle word melts to be diffuses then i have mediocracydiffusesmetabolism. since i have this phrase it’s fun cos i really know what im doing.

better still i can you my local language for a passphrase, which gives me more words obaatheresayeobaapa obaa theresa ye obaa pa (Lady theresa is a good lady).

This is fun, i can change the word theresa to a more more local name memunatu. i think this this is a very strong idea for high technos like me. really passowords should not suck when when it’s your job, people ask me how i keep such long passwords in mind and i say i have a secret

meet me at the ol’ skuul re-union

Come saturday the 11th, Accra will go wild. come that day by God’s grace all roads leading to the La trade fair area will be chocked and abused as usual.

some of my friends are washing their ol’ school uniforms they wore several years ago and you can imargine how it will look on them when they’ve grown beard and pot belly! i tell you. some are also geting some whistles, bands and sorts of stuffs for merry making in a grand style carnival.

it’s the joy fm ol’ school re-union. i will be there, meet me there okay! it will be hot. everybody who is not able to make it must have his or her own reasons denying such free entertainment experience.

the joy fm is the biggest outdoor carnival to be organized yearly in Ghana since 2003.

on your way coming just call me 024 4476466