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    US Politics: The End of Government Bureaucracy

    Everytime I look at what USAID has actually been up to, it gets so much worse. At first I thought it was mostly just wasting money on a handful of silly ideological schemes, good headline stuff. But its obvious now a big part of it was being used as vehicle for corruption. The more that comes...
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    US Politics: Democracy Won

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    Trump threatens South Africa on land expropriation

    It's also framed in a way that makes it seem like white people are keeping other people out of property ownership and hoarding all the land for themselves. In reality, most people can't afford property because of hostile economic/business/foreign investment policies. There aren't any jobs!
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    Ballooning municipal debt could force government to give Eskom another bailout

    This is my feeling on it as well. Government bailing out government because government isn’t paying its bills to government? Regardless of how they market it, In the end it still hurts the taxpayer and bill payer, because the money was misappropriated and now they don’t have it.
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    US Politics: Democracy Won

    Yes, prioritize would mean they don't exclusively target illegal immigrants who have committed additional crimes, they just get priority. Again, they were transparent that this would be the case on the campaign trail. I'm not some radical with blind allegiance, I have no intention of lying to...
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    US Politics: Democracy Won

    They said they were prioritizing dangerous illegal immigrants, but also made it clear all illegal immigrants are in their sights, and those they encounter associated with or in the vicinity of the prioritized targets would be arrested on the spot as well.
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    US Politics: Democracy Won

    Are they though? I mean are they really? I don't mean individual heroes on the ground doing all they can, I mean is the country, the government and the state really doing something to address their problems? A cursory look says, absolutely not. In fact, it looks like Mozambique has done almost...
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    US Politics: Democracy Won

    It appears the president of Kenya and I are of one mind! https://mybroadband.co.za/forum/threads/us-politics-democracy-won.1305148/page-440#post-33616947
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    US Politics: Democracy Won

    You know exactly what I mean. Putting friends and incompetent cronies into critical posts, anti-economic growth ideologies and policies, a culture of self-entitlement and corruption amongst the ruling politicians and blaming everyone else for the end result. We see this first hand here.
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    US Politics: Democracy Won

    It is waste and at a time of national stringency. $36.5 trillion in the hole and growing fast with a $2 trillion deficit. I don't know enough about the specifics of Mozambique and their local politics, but if its anything like the rest of Africa (including South Africa), it often boils down to...
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    US Politics: Democracy Won

    Somehow they thought this would be a win, boggles the mind.
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    A shocking Chinese AI advancement called DeepSeek is sending US stocks plunging

    Generally I think the AI stock bubble has been due a correction, and still due a large one, but the current stock knock isn't that. That's just investor over-reaction to a competitor entering the market that they don't understand. The really scary (for investors) $5.6M training cost that keeps...
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    Flight ticket price disaster if FlySafair is grounded

    South Africa and own goals go hand in hand. If there is a way to chase away foreign investment, destroy jobs and drive prices up, you can be assured South Africa will be actively pursuing it.
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    US Politics: Democracy Won

    That is more a realization of the scale of the problem that has been created. And just because it will take long and is a difficult job, does it mean it shouldn’t be done? 1000 less criminals on the street a week!
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    Clock ticking for the SABC

    Let it die and rather push to improve internet penetration and access.
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    Ramaphosa signs contentious Expropriation Bill into law

    This is my last on this depressing topic. The sustainable way to solve many of the problems in South Africa, including the imbalance of property ownership, is improving the economy. If people have a reasonable income, they can buy property. Empower people through employment, entrepreneurship...
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    US Politics: Democracy Won

    You are right, but I don't think that policy has been working on the African continent. African leaders are happy to wreak havoc on their countries, run to the West to bail them out, then spit venom about West, while still being overtly favorable to Russia and China. One can deduce that...
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    Ramaphosa signs contentious Expropriation Bill into law

    My tentative optimism about the the country, which was lifted post elections, has now bombed. Lesson learned, again.
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    Bad news for South Africans who pay for electricity

    I see they conveniently left out some of the biggest contributors, like corruption, inefficiency and having far too many employees.
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    US Politics: Democracy Won

    Good lord, is this Nazi stuff still getting oxygen? It's proven to be a disastrous strategy. It's not landing with anyone other than a diminishing but increasingly radical audience. It's so transparent that its desperate/sour grapes and people just aren't falling for it anymore.
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