Kenya: Not Even a Drill-Gone-Live, This is Just a Drill

Spot the Hoxtonite Photojournalist having way too much fun and his colleague taking pictures of the third photojournalist taking this picture, who has utterly failed to take cover before snapping away at government forces whilst standing out in the open, in clear view of the large building supposedly swarming with crazed killers just across the street.

Seriously, there were more cameramen who responded to this event it seems at times that police or soldiers...

 Oh, please...

My favourite lie was the Kenyan woman who claimed she hid for two days under some supermarket shopping trollies;

1) You can't lie underneath a supermarket shopping trolly

2) Even if you could, everyone could see you - it's made of wire.

Actually, even better than that we're the Kenyan reported and officials who insisted they were unsure after two whether the remaining hostages and attackers had any supplies and expressed concern for an imaginary two year old who they claimed was trapped inside a fully stoked supermarket without access to food or water.

Plus we had all the mass shooting tropes, there's always one little girl who miraculously survives by pretending to be dead

This whole event is pretty damn pathetic - harsh to say, but this is the kind of False Flag you would expect to see in a Banana Republic.

Of course, Kenya isn't a Banana Republic - it's one of the wealthiest and most developed countries in Africa, but one both the British and the Isrealis both consider within their sphere of influence.

False Flag Terror provocations were first attempted as a counterinsurgency strategy on a large scale in Kenya by the British in the 1940s and 50s, frustrated that the Mau Mau independence movement was not violent, they started their OWN Mau Mau which was EXTREMELY violent and initiated a brutal crackdown - these synthetic Mau Mau were known as "pseudo-gangs" by the man responsible for them.

One Mau Mau was a grass-roots movement for national liberation - the other Mau Mau indiscriminately set out to kill white people.

And Asians - the tripartite element of the legacy of British Imperial sociology is very important here;

All the important speaking parts in this media event have been given to Asians.

The British Empire imported South Asians to Africa, Hong Kong and other important colonies to run the Imperial bureaucracy, and they were (and are, it seems) considered somewhat essential - for this reason, apartheid  South Africa had four legally codified racial divisions, Blacks, Whites, Coloured and Asian.

Kenya, again, was one of the British Empire's most important and successful African colonies, and unlike nearby Uganda, where the Asian population was expelled by Idi Amin in 1972, creating an immigration crisis in Britain, Kenyan Asians have remained an vital part of the social infrastructure of the Kenyan State.

Al-Shabab is a pseudogangs - their name doesn't mean anything, it just means "the lads", but I have not yet seen any evidence of any real violence or bloodshed in this event at all.