Zenni Optical Stylish Frames!

For USA Audience
Its almost impossible to get stylish glasses for as little as Kenya Shillings 500,no doubt there are cheap and stylish frames around in Kenya being sold by optica and Baus Opticians but nothing will beat the price of zennioptical.com an online optical products store.Just going through their stylish online product catalogue leaves you craving for a change in your eye wear!I just wish they were shipping to Kenya i would get myself one of these titanium spectacles(however the opportunity lists that these service is available to Africa)!

For one i wear spectacles and im getting ideas from their huge selection of frames, with single vision lens, sunsensor (potochromic)lens, tinted suglasses lens, bifocal lens and progressive lens.
The Secret to Zenni’s Low Prices is that they sell only their own manufactured frames direct to the customer, with no middlemen and virtually no advertising budget. No wonder they have such an unbeatable price offer!Give the site a visit!!!

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New Bold Standard Newspaper-relaunched!

Traditional news media is morphing in response to changing technological advances.The East African Standard was yesterday relaunched in a fun filled ostentatious occasion at the Tamarind owned Carnivore Restaurant in Langata.The occasion which was graced by the Honorable Prime Minister-Raila Odinga among ,members of the diplomatic community,members of the business community among others culminated in a fireworks display and the presentation of an award to the Prime Minister for his galant and consistent efforts in championing press freedom!

The newly revamped paper is being guided by a new mantra "Fairness,Justice & Prosperity".Among the new features apart from the layout,design is that the online version of the newspaper features an interactive blog section where members of the public can have their say and contribute their opinion on the content.This is indeed a bold move in the right direction.We welcome them to the unhibited world of blogging!

Unlike Nation online, the Standard does not limit its readership with a paid up premium content.That is already advantage and for sure the Standard Newspaper will continue to be the premier source of news and information.The revamped edition including the Standard website will attract more readership base.Its time the daily Nation (Nation Media Group Kenya)took cue and allowed users access to its premium content at no cost, this will greatly impact its readership base and generate massive online advertisement sales!At the moment they are just limiting themselves .

I believe that this was not just a re branding exercise but a market optimization strategy by the Standard Group!These is quite some achievement and proper stewardship by the Standard Group Deputy Chairman/Strategy Adviser Mr Paul Melley and the Managing Director, Mr Paul Wanyagah. We wish them all the best!The challenge for the East Standard now is to remain objective and politically neutral-will that ever happen in Kenya???

African Court Of Justice and Human Rights!

It is said that the rights of humans- both individually and collectively as enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) are universal, inalienable and immutable. However, there seems to be a new school of thought/concept of human rights developing especially among the international community in the west with regards to African affairs that African human rights can be abrogated under the guise of a now common cliché albeit lame excuse “African problems need an African Solution’”

For example if one unlawfully steals or forcefully takes away the rightful possession/life or even dignity of another in Africa the justiceable solution is not restitution but power sharing or division of the loot! At the same time its ironical that treaty organs set up by member states of the African Union such as the African Court of Peoples and Human Rights (ACPHR) and the proposed African Court of Justice (ACJ) are the most unknown, irrelevant, toothless, useless and hardly referred to international redress organs yet they are supposed to be the defenders of justice. I am sure that most of my readers don’t even know there is an African Court of Justice; this is especially so in the light of the different crisis that have hit the continent such as the Darfur-Somalia crisis, Congo/Sierra Leone wars, Zimbabwe Presidential poll impasse, Kenya post election violence, et cetera. The fore said treaty organs are no good than the paper they are enshrined in!

The world has quickly forgotten that ‘injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere’ and that all states have a collective duty to protect the universal fundamental rights ,freedoms and duties that make the possibility for justice to prevail world wide! The fact that injustice is a cancer is exemplified by the 2007 Kenyan election scenario which has now become the SI standard for African despots to follow –fraud has become a basic survival necessity for the power seekers and retainers. It is quite interesting to note how international protection of human rights has degenerated under the current watch of the UN Security Council in the recent past. The Nuremberg Tribunals pointed out that ‘international law imposes duties and liabilities upon individuals as well as states and that crimes against international law are committed by men and not by abstract entities, and that only by punishing individuals who commit such crimes can the provisions of international law be enforced. Now manifest breaches of international law, norms and opinion juris/jus cogens (loosely referring to state practice) are treated as “domestic affairs” and the UN turns a blind eye. What a fallacy- who is fooling who? Is international intervention justified only where oil, precious gems other natural emoluments and state economic interests are present? That has to stop-we all are humans created equal in all respects. Hitler and his generals are no worse than unmentionable African despots now reigning who use state machinery and security forces against their own citizens! Africa Union should be disbanded for its passive role, abject abandon and its aiding and abetting crimes by African states against their own citizenry. The AU has not lived to its mandate as set out in Set out in Article 3 and 4 of its constitutive Act/document

I write this post under the backdrop that a Kenyan Professor Githu Muigai has been appointed a Judgewhich peoples?)And Human Rights. of the African Court of People’s and Human Rights(ACPHR) which became effective on 30 July 2006.Congratulations are in order. He just goes to join another toothless bulldog but at least he will earn money and recognition for doing nothing and sitting tight! That is the African Court of “peoples”-(lends itself to the question