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The Supreme Court has ripped the mask off Mamata Banerjee’s Bengal: this is no democracy, this is political thuggery with state protection. Seven judicial officers were gheraoed for hours in Malda during voter-roll revision work; the officers’ vehicles were attacked with stone-pelting and sticks. The Supreme Court has now called it what it is: a “brazen attempt” to browbeat judges, a “calculated” and “well-planned” move to demoralise them, and proof of the “complete failure” of Bengal’s civil and police administration. CJI Surya Kant’s remark cut to the bone: “In your state, each one of you speaks political language… We have never seen such a polarised state.” That is not just a judicial rebuke. It is an X-ray of Mamata Banerjee’s Bengal, where everything is politicised, institutions are pressured, and even judges cannot do election-related duty without the street being weaponised against them. The Supreme Court has not treated this as some random local flare-up either. It has ordered central-force protection for judicial officers, directed the Election Commission to get the incident probed by an independent agency such as the CBI or NIA with a preliminary report directly to the Court, sought explanations from top state officials, and tightened access at hearing sites so mobs cannot overwhelm the process again. Why is all this happening in Bengal? Because TMC knows 2026 is not unfolding on the old script. Once a ruling party starts sensing slippage, voter-list scrutiny becomes dangerous to its ecosystem, officials become targets, and street intimidation becomes a substitute for political confidence. This is not governance. This is pre-election desperation. That is why the Supreme Court’s words matter so much. The Court has effectively said this was not a spontaneous outburst but a calculated assault on the electoral process and on judicial authority itself. This is the real state of Mamata’s West Bengal: when defeat looms, law and order becomes negotiable, institutions are left exposed, and the street is used as political muscle. The Supreme Court has now seen through it. The country should too. And of course, the state of West Bengal.
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The Supreme Court has ripped the mask off Mamata Banerjee’s Bengal: this is no democracy, this is political thuggery with state protection. Seven judicial officers were gheraoed for hours in Malda during voter-roll revision work; the officers’ vehicles were attacked with stone-pelting and sticks. The Supreme Court has now called it what it is: a “brazen attempt” to browbeat judges, a “calculated” and “well-planned” move to demoralise them, and proof of the “complete failure” of Bengal’s civil and police administration. CJI Surya Kant’s remark cut to the bone: “In your state, each one of you speaks political language… We have never seen such a polarised state.” That is not just a judicial rebuke. It is an X-ray of Mamata Banerjee’s Bengal, where everything is politicised, institutions are pressured, and even judges cannot do election-related duty without the street being weaponised against them. The Supreme Court has not treated this as some random local flare-up either. It has ordered central-force protection for judicial officers, directed the Election Commission to get the incident probed by an independent agency such as the CBI or NIA with a preliminary report directly to the Court, sought explanations from top state officials, and tightened access at hearing sites so mobs cannot overwhelm the process again. Why is all this happening in Bengal? Because TMC knows 2026 is not unfolding on the old script. Once a ruling party starts sensing slippage, voter-list scrutiny becomes dangerous to its ecosystem, officials become targets, and street intimidation becomes a substitute for political confidence. This is not governance. This is pre-election desperation. That is why the Supreme Court’s words matter so much. The Court has effectively said this was not a spontaneous outburst but a calculated assault on the electoral process and on judicial authority itself. This is the real state of Mamata’s West Bengal: when defeat looms, law and order becomes negotiable, institutions are left exposed, and the street is used as political muscle. The Supreme Court has now seen through it. The country should too. And of course, the state of West Bengal.

Mahesh Jethmalani

192,812 просмотров • 3 месяцев назад

Due process isn’t just “a court exists” or “they know they broke the law.” It’s the constitutional guarantee that before the government takes away someone’s liberty, it must follow fair procedures. That includes: •Clear notice of charges •Officers identifying themselves •A neutral judge •Access to legal counsel •The right to present evidence & challenge the government’s evidence •A written decision, with the chance to appeal The Constitution says “no person” shall be deprived of liberty without due process, not just citizens, not just when it’s convenient. Without due process and proper safeguards, it’s not justice, it’s an abuse of government power, and it’s antithetical to the Constitution. Full Story Here:
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Joe Walsh

21,630 просмотров • 10 месяцев назад

#WATCH | Delhi | On Supreme Court Judge Ujjal Bhuyan's reported remarks on interference of executive in the collegium system, Advocate Aman Lekhi says, "I tend to agree to the context in which Justice Bhuyan spoke. What is important to note in the case of Justice Sreedharan is three aspects: institutional integrity, perception (of independence), and the worth of law not only as a doctrine but also in practice. I feel that there has been a failure in all three counts. The executive has no role as far as the functioning of judges is concerned. The only involvement which justifies the executive's participation in the process is giving information about judges, which is otherwise not available to the court or the institution... When you are dealing with a sitting judge, no matter what your perception of the judge may be, that is part of the judicial realm. As long as there is no want of judicial integrity or honesty, or any breach of propriety by the judge concerned, it is beyond the executive to interfere... What has been released by the court suggests that Justice Sreedharan's transfer was shifted from Chhattisgarh to Allahabad due to the executive's interference. If something is prompted by the executive and a decision is subsequently re-engineered by the court, the entire process is compromised. That is not how it is supposed to work... Transparency has to fuel belief, not extinguish it, in the efficacy of the process..."
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#WATCH | Delhi | On Supreme Court Judge Ujjal Bhuyan's reported remarks on interference of executive in the collegium system, Advocate Aman Lekhi says, "I tend to agree to the context in which Justice Bhuyan spoke. What is important to note in the case of Justice Sreedharan is three aspects: institutional integrity, perception (of independence), and the worth of law not only as a doctrine but also in practice. I feel that there has been a failure in all three counts. The executive has no role as far as the functioning of judges is concerned. The only involvement which justifies the executive's participation in the process is giving information about judges, which is otherwise not available to the court or the institution... When you are dealing with a sitting judge, no matter what your perception of the judge may be, that is part of the judicial realm. As long as there is no want of judicial integrity or honesty, or any breach of propriety by the judge concerned, it is beyond the executive to interfere... What has been released by the court suggests that Justice Sreedharan's transfer was shifted from Chhattisgarh to Allahabad due to the executive's interference. If something is prompted by the executive and a decision is subsequently re-engineered by the court, the entire process is compromised. That is not how it is supposed to work... Transparency has to fuel belief, not extinguish it, in the efficacy of the process..."

ANI

23,184 просмотров • 5 месяцев назад

🚨🇺🇸 THE DEATH OF DEMOCRACY: A SYSTEM DESIGNED TO IGNORE THE MASSES Garland Nixon asserts that the U.S. system is no longer a functioning democracy or constitutional republic, as it produces politicians who do not respond to the people. We are seeing a systemic problem where financial entities and lobbying groups have completely hijacked the decision-making process. When a system only produces outcomes that benefit the elite and ignore the masses, you can’t call it a democracy anymore. Garland Nixon
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🚨🇺🇸 THE DEATH OF DEMOCRACY: A SYSTEM DESIGNED TO IGNORE THE MASSES Garland Nixon asserts that the U.S. system is no longer a functioning democracy or constitutional republic, as it produces politicians who do not respond to the people. We are seeing a systemic problem where financial entities and lobbying groups have completely hijacked the decision-making process. When a system only produces outcomes that benefit the elite and ignore the masses, you can’t call it a democracy anymore. Garland Nixon

Mario Nawfal

43,355 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад

🚨 MEDIA BLACKOUT 🚨 Everyone’s buzzing about how the Winooski School District in left-wing Vermont raised the Somalian flag. But almost no one wants to talk about something even more shocking: Red State Texas just allowed the Pakistani Flag of Persecution to fly on American soil. Yes - Texas. The flag of forced conversions. The flag of stolen daughters. The flag under which churches burn, and minorities disappear. And our “leaders” said nothing. Picture this: You’re a Christian, Hindu, or Sikh in Pakistan. Every day is a countdown. Your church or temple could be torched by a mob at any moment. Your home can be seized with one accusation of “blasphemy.” Your daughter, even at 12 or 13, can be kidnapped, forcibly converted, married to her abductor, and the courts will call it “lawful.” This isn’t a glitch in the system. This is the system. State-sanctioned religious apartheid. So you flee for your life. You come to America. To Texas, the state that promises freedom, faith, and American sovereignty. And then you look up… …and see the same flag that flew over your terror - now raised in the Lone Star State. That green crescent doesn’t symbolize “diversity.” It symbolizes blasphemy laws, terror networks, child marriage, and the crushing of every non-Muslim minority. So the question becomes: Why is Texas flying the banner of a regime that destroys Christians, Hindus, Sikhs, women, and children? Why are our elected officials rolling out the red carpet for a government built on persecution? And where are all the “America First” conservatives who promised to defend our cultural sovereignty? Because let’s be brutally honest: When the Pakistani flag rises over Texas, that is not “inclusion.” It is ideological penetration, Islamic soft power and creeping conquest. If this can happen in Texas, it can happen anywhere. And if we don’t call it out now, we will wake up one day to find that the symbols of our enemies have quietly replaced the symbols of our nation.
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Amy Mek

4,790,660 просмотров • 7 месяцев назад

Hakeem Jeffries and Democrats are planning a "mini revolution" after Virginia's Supreme Court shot down their gerrymandering plans, former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II tells me: “They have no respect for the rule of law itself or the institutions that make up the American Republic… It’s still a revolution when you start with ignoring court orders and so forth, which is what they’ve always accused our side of being prepared to do. And here, they rather blithely throw it about like it’s no big deal.”
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Hakeem Jeffries and Democrats are planning a "mini revolution" after Virginia's Supreme Court shot down their gerrymandering plans, former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II tells me: “They have no respect for the rule of law itself or the institutions that make up the American Republic… It’s still a revolution when you start with ignoring court orders and so forth, which is what they’ve always accused our side of being prepared to do. And here, they rather blithely throw it about like it’s no big deal.”

Glenn Beck

36,883 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад

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Morning Joe Gets it right about Kilmar Abrego Garcia and JD Vance lied. You can't blame "leftist Judges" when Clarence Thomas and the entire supreme court agrees that what Trump did was wrong, and that Garcia should be brought back to the U.S. Here are some FACTS: Abrego Garcia is a loving father and husband. He was living and working legally in America. He has absolutely NO criminal record in America or El Salvador or anywhere else in the world. JD Vance claimed he was "a convicted MS-13 gang member" and Trump had him arrested and sent to prison in El Salvador with absolutely no trial, no hearing, and no due process. A Judge ordered Trump to return him. Trump fought and fought not to. Yesterday, the Supreme Court unanimously agreed that Trump must return him because TRUMP BROKE THE LAW.

Ed Krassenstein

105,746 просмотров • 1 год назад

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AmericanPapaBear™

51,666 просмотров • 6 месяцев назад

Ossoff: No child in Georgia should be turned away from the doctor because they don't have health insurance. No child in Georgia should have to go without a checkup or be denied the hearing or dental or vision or mental health care they need to be happy and healthy and to thrive. How can we say we're doing right when children are being turned away from the doctor, when insurance companies deny Georgia kids and Georgia families care they need, when state officials turn a blind eye to the abuse and mistreatment of Georgia's foster kids, some of whom are literally trafficked while in the care of the State?
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Ossoff: No child in Georgia should be turned away from the doctor because they don't have health insurance. No child in Georgia should have to go without a checkup or be denied the hearing or dental or vision or mental health care they need to be happy and healthy and to thrive. How can we say we're doing right when children are being turned away from the doctor, when insurance companies deny Georgia kids and Georgia families care they need, when state officials turn a blind eye to the abuse and mistreatment of Georgia's foster kids, some of whom are literally trafficked while in the care of the State?

Team Ossoff

40,884 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад

Listen to this guy. From what I know, he is the Assistant Commissioner of Kalar Kahar a civil servant from the DMG group, supposedly among the brightest minds meant to represent the country. That happens in countries that fail to respect human rights and civil liberties, where lawlessness replaces the rule of law and the state has no writ. Countries that disregard democracy and the people’s mandate, where merit has no place in institutions. These nations inevitably face brain drain, forcing their best talent abroad while surviving only on remittances. With no real exports left, their brightest minds become the only export. And when clowns in palaces are left to run state affairs, governance disappears and leaving only a circus for the world to watch.
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Listen to this guy. From what I know, he is the Assistant Commissioner of Kalar Kahar a civil servant from the DMG group, supposedly among the brightest minds meant to represent the country. That happens in countries that fail to respect human rights and civil liberties, where lawlessness replaces the rule of law and the state has no writ. Countries that disregard democracy and the people’s mandate, where merit has no place in institutions. These nations inevitably face brain drain, forcing their best talent abroad while surviving only on remittances. With no real exports left, their brightest minds become the only export. And when clowns in palaces are left to run state affairs, governance disappears and leaving only a circus for the world to watch.

Atif Khan

39,127 просмотров • 8 месяцев назад

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Kalonzo Musyoka

127,075 просмотров • 10 месяцев назад

If you don’t understand the difference between a Democracy and a Constitutional Republic then watch this video and learn something. Write down what she has to say and use it when faced with having to argue with a leftist. After listening to this video, you will cringe every time you hear a Media personality or a Democrat refer to what we have as a Democracy. Remember … the word democracy is no written no where in our constitution.
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If you don’t understand the difference between a Democracy and a Constitutional Republic then watch this video and learn something. Write down what she has to say and use it when faced with having to argue with a leftist. After listening to this video, you will cringe every time you hear a Media personality or a Democrat refer to what we have as a Democracy. Remember … the word democracy is no written no where in our constitution.

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532,739 просмотров • 1 год назад

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Jacob

95,196 просмотров • 1 год назад

When a political face-off escalates to the Supreme Court, it’s no longer just about BJP vs Congress—it becomes a test of legal principles. In the Himanta Biswa Sarma vs Pawan Khera case, the apex court didn’t simply pick sides; it stepped in to question jurisdiction and legal process. While the Telangana High Court had granted Khera temporary protection, the Supreme Court stayed that relief and directed him to seek bail in Assam—highlighting concerns over forum shopping and reinforcing judicial discipline. So, is this a win for the Assam government or a setback for Khera? The answer lies somewhere in between. The court’s move signals not political bias, but a strong message: follow proper legal channels, because in the end, process matters as much as the verdict.Abhishek Singhvi #supremecourtofindia #legalnews #assamcm #himantabiswasarma #pawankhera
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When a political face-off escalates to the Supreme Court, it’s no longer just about BJP vs Congress—it becomes a test of legal principles. In the Himanta Biswa Sarma vs Pawan Khera case, the apex court didn’t simply pick sides; it stepped in to question jurisdiction and legal process. While the Telangana High Court had granted Khera temporary protection, the Supreme Court stayed that relief and directed him to seek bail in Assam—highlighting concerns over forum shopping and reinforcing judicial discipline. So, is this a win for the Assam government or a setback for Khera? The answer lies somewhere in between. The court’s move signals not political bias, but a strong message: follow proper legal channels, because in the end, process matters as much as the verdict.Abhishek Singhvi #supremecourtofindia #legalnews #assamcm #himantabiswasarma #pawankhera

LawChakra

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Le Pen distracting Europeans from the great AC debate or whatever vital issues they love to talk about. "The decline has been going on for 40, 45 years. Decline is when you can no longer control your borders; it’s when children can no longer read or write, or even swim; it’s when you can no longer provide medical care, even though you once had the world’s leading healthcare system. It's when we can't even recruit teachers anymore because they're so terrified of having to teach under the conditions they're currently facing. That's when the justice system is no longer able to function because it lacks the resources to issue rulings for two or three years. That's when the industry is collapsing in on itself; that's when we're flooded with products we have to import because we can no longer produce them - that's when our farmers are hanging themselves in their barns. That's what decline really is, but decline isn't inevitable. The decline is the result of poor political decisions."
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Le Pen distracting Europeans from the great AC debate or whatever vital issues they love to talk about. "The decline has been going on for 40, 45 years. Decline is when you can no longer control your borders; it’s when children can no longer read or write, or even swim; it’s when you can no longer provide medical care, even though you once had the world’s leading healthcare system. It's when we can't even recruit teachers anymore because they're so terrified of having to teach under the conditions they're currently facing. That's when the justice system is no longer able to function because it lacks the resources to issue rulings for two or three years. That's when the industry is collapsing in on itself; that's when we're flooded with products we have to import because we can no longer produce them - that's when our farmers are hanging themselves in their barns. That's what decline really is, but decline isn't inevitable. The decline is the result of poor political decisions."

Margarita Simonyan

13,979 просмотров • 18 дней назад

Hunt: Do you believe Israel has a right to exist? El-Sayed: Now the question about a right to exist is interesting because nobody's ever asked me whether or not I believe Palestine has a right to exist. Israel exists. The question is whether or not we want a politics where our money is sent over to Israel to do genocide and apartheid, instead of investing in our own kids. Hunt: Does it have a right to exist?
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Hunt: Do you believe Israel has a right to exist? El-Sayed: Now the question about a right to exist is interesting because nobody's ever asked me whether or not I believe Palestine has a right to exist. Israel exists. The question is whether or not we want a politics where our money is sent over to Israel to do genocide and apartheid, instead of investing in our own kids. Hunt: Does it have a right to exist?

Acyn

1,703,218 просмотров • 17 дней назад

Article 142 has become a nuclear missile against Democratic forces available to judiciary 24x7. We cannot have a situation where you direct the President of India and on what basis? The only right you have under the Constitution is to interpret the Constitution under Article 145(3). There it has to be five judges when Article 145(3) was there, the number of judges in the Supreme Court was eight, 5 out of 8, now 5 out of 30 odd more. The judges who issued a mandamus virtually to the President and presented a scenario it will be law of the land have forgotten the power of the Constitution. How can that combination of judges deal with something under Article 145(3) if it was preserved then for five out of eight. #RajyaSabha
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Article 142 has become a nuclear missile against Democratic forces available to judiciary 24x7. We cannot have a situation where you direct the President of India and on what basis? The only right you have under the Constitution is to interpret the Constitution under Article 145(3). There it has to be five judges when Article 145(3) was there, the number of judges in the Supreme Court was eight, 5 out of 8, now 5 out of 30 odd more. The judges who issued a mandamus virtually to the President and presented a scenario it will be law of the land have forgotten the power of the Constitution. How can that combination of judges deal with something under Article 145(3) if it was preserved then for five out of eight. #RajyaSabha

Vice-President of India

393,989 просмотров • 1 год назад

Joshua Maponga claims that African countries can fix their job crises by getting educated and then “going back to the village” and “starting up stuff”. What Maponga doesn’t seem to understand is that individuals fail because their country’s industrial policy is not geared towards sustaining such. No amount of individual effort is going to move the needle. The idea of a mass of individuals all doing their own thing is intuitive and motivational, but history does not support it. No country ever uplifted itself through individual enterprise without deliberate state policy. That’s where everything starts, no exceptions. Maponga’s message resonates because it speaks to agency and self-reliance. It’s basically a philosophy of individual and community upliftment in the absence of a functional state. But the thing is, individuals and communities don’t operate in a vacuum. Their success is shaped by the enabling environment, or lack thereof, created by the state. An educated person can start an agri-business, but if there are no reliable roads to get goods to market and no energy grid for cold storage, the venture is hamstrung. This kind of infrastructure is a public good that requires state planning and investment. Where does capital come from? Without a functioning national financial system, development banks, or policies that de-risk lending to SMEs, entrepreneurs rely on personal savings or predatory loans. This severely limits scale. You might as well get a job. When the local population is poor, and regional trade is hampered by poor logistics and tariffs, the market is too small, so who will you sell to? State-led industrial policy must nurture industries, protect developing ones and negotiate regional/international trade agreements to create larger markets for you. Maponga’s motivated individuals would be the engine of the economy, but without the state to lay the tracks, the train of national development goes nowhere. History shows that the tracks must come first. You’re not going to “start” and hope state policy finds you along the way. Even if 100 individuals start successful small ventures, how do they become a competitive industry? A lone tomato farmer, a lone processor, and a lone trucker all fail without coordinated investment in inputs, processing facilities, and supply chains. This is where state industrial policy comes in. Getting an engineering degree means nothing when your country has no industrial policy. As I keep saying, no successful developmental state has relied on individual enterprise. There are numerous examples of this. Sure, Maponga is offering an individual survival manual within a broken system, but for individual efforts to sum to national development, you need a functioning state that provides the structure. This is where the focus should be. But he is misdirecting public consciousness. At the exact moment when Africans should be demanding the developmental state capacity of infrastructure, industrial policy and coordinated investment, he’s telling them the solution lies in individual initiative and “going back to the village.” This is politically demobilising by shifting the blame and responsibility away from where it belongs, in state failure and elite capture, onto individuals and communities. Then when hen people internalise that their poverty is due to not being entrepreneurial enough, they stop making rightful claims on the state. Instead of selling the people false hope, entertainers like Maponga should be creating political demand for industrial policy. They should be building public understanding that South Korea, China, Taiwan, Japan, and every Western nation had active developmental states. They should be making it common knowledge that “free market” development is a myth, and that Africans deserve the same state-led development that worked everywhere else. In the end, when you strip away all the self-motivation, the fact remains: development is a state-mediated process and the Maponga message is just a relic of the neoliberal moment when we pretended the state didn’t matter and individuals could bootstrap their way to development.
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Joshua Maponga claims that African countries can fix their job crises by getting educated and then “going back to the village” and “starting up stuff”. What Maponga doesn’t seem to understand is that individuals fail because their country’s industrial policy is not geared towards sustaining such. No amount of individual effort is going to move the needle. The idea of a mass of individuals all doing their own thing is intuitive and motivational, but history does not support it. No country ever uplifted itself through individual enterprise without deliberate state policy. That’s where everything starts, no exceptions. Maponga’s message resonates because it speaks to agency and self-reliance. It’s basically a philosophy of individual and community upliftment in the absence of a functional state. But the thing is, individuals and communities don’t operate in a vacuum. Their success is shaped by the enabling environment, or lack thereof, created by the state. An educated person can start an agri-business, but if there are no reliable roads to get goods to market and no energy grid for cold storage, the venture is hamstrung. This kind of infrastructure is a public good that requires state planning and investment. Where does capital come from? Without a functioning national financial system, development banks, or policies that de-risk lending to SMEs, entrepreneurs rely on personal savings or predatory loans. This severely limits scale. You might as well get a job. When the local population is poor, and regional trade is hampered by poor logistics and tariffs, the market is too small, so who will you sell to? State-led industrial policy must nurture industries, protect developing ones and negotiate regional/international trade agreements to create larger markets for you. Maponga’s motivated individuals would be the engine of the economy, but without the state to lay the tracks, the train of national development goes nowhere. History shows that the tracks must come first. You’re not going to “start” and hope state policy finds you along the way. Even if 100 individuals start successful small ventures, how do they become a competitive industry? A lone tomato farmer, a lone processor, and a lone trucker all fail without coordinated investment in inputs, processing facilities, and supply chains. This is where state industrial policy comes in. Getting an engineering degree means nothing when your country has no industrial policy. As I keep saying, no successful developmental state has relied on individual enterprise. There are numerous examples of this. Sure, Maponga is offering an individual survival manual within a broken system, but for individual efforts to sum to national development, you need a functioning state that provides the structure. This is where the focus should be. But he is misdirecting public consciousness. At the exact moment when Africans should be demanding the developmental state capacity of infrastructure, industrial policy and coordinated investment, he’s telling them the solution lies in individual initiative and “going back to the village.” This is politically demobilising by shifting the blame and responsibility away from where it belongs, in state failure and elite capture, onto individuals and communities. Then when hen people internalise that their poverty is due to not being entrepreneurial enough, they stop making rightful claims on the state. Instead of selling the people false hope, entertainers like Maponga should be creating political demand for industrial policy. They should be building public understanding that South Korea, China, Taiwan, Japan, and every Western nation had active developmental states. They should be making it common knowledge that “free market” development is a myth, and that Africans deserve the same state-led development that worked everywhere else. In the end, when you strip away all the self-motivation, the fact remains: development is a state-mediated process and the Maponga message is just a relic of the neoliberal moment when we pretended the state didn’t matter and individuals could bootstrap their way to development.

Sizwe SikaMusi

29,473 просмотров • 7 месяцев назад

Today I asked the Deputy President a serious and clear question: How can SAPS justify acquitting the VIP Unit officers in a disciplinary hearing when a court has accepted the same video evidence they declared inadmissible? Instead of answering, he laughed and tried to deflect by referring to matter being in court. Let’s be clear: The video evidence was not challenged in court. The court accepted its integrity. Yet SAPS’s internal process cleared those ‘officers’ caught on video assaulting civilians because, amongst other things, the video evidence was declared inadmissible. The court once again this week confirmed the video evidence is admissible. This isn’t just a procedural mess. It’s a crisis of credibility in state accountability. I didn’t expect a credible answer, in fact, I think the deflection and laughing says quite a lot about integrity. We won’t let this go. See you in court in August! #bluelightmafia
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Today I asked the Deputy President a serious and clear question: How can SAPS justify acquitting the VIP Unit officers in a disciplinary hearing when a court has accepted the same video evidence they declared inadmissible? Instead of answering, he laughed and tried to deflect by referring to matter being in court. Let’s be clear: The video evidence was not challenged in court. The court accepted its integrity. Yet SAPS’s internal process cleared those ‘officers’ caught on video assaulting civilians because, amongst other things, the video evidence was declared inadmissible. The court once again this week confirmed the video evidence is admissible. This isn’t just a procedural mess. It’s a crisis of credibility in state accountability. I didn’t expect a credible answer, in fact, I think the deflection and laughing says quite a lot about integrity. We won’t let this go. See you in court in August! #bluelightmafia

Ian Cameron

62,540 просмотров • 1 год назад