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Sometime back, you told us how Ethiopia is ahead of Kenya. I came across this article on aljazeera about how kids are suffering from malnutrition:
I believe this is as a result of the drought caused by El Nino. At least in Kenya we have an El Nino Fund.
What a shame, they have the guts to buy high-speed trains and didn’t have contingency plan on food for half a million people? A dang bettle is more organized.
P. S wasipewe mahindi yetu na mtu, mchiku awaletee noodles.
Sometimes I wonder @kah tony the paradox with Ethiopia. Juzi ama ni jana si Tanzanian police arrested more than 80 severely dehydrated Ethiopian migrants in the back of a lorry on their way to SA…
Was thinking about the post ya Ethiopia plus yesterdays one on Libya. And I was thinking there are similarities btwn Libya ya Gadaffi na Singapore thou now there is not.
Democracy is a a dead cat the West wants to sell for good money.
Lee Kuan Yew was a shrewd character who created the appearance of a Western-style liberal democracy where, in theory, power is contestable but, in fact, one-party rule is protected. He’s done this by altering a couple of key design details. When an opposition politician criticises a government minister, the minister commonly sues for defamation. Singapore’s helpful courts award such crushing damages that the opposition politician is bankrupted and some have been forced into exile to avoid jail.
Singapore’s media is closely guided by the government. Internet censorship and monitoring is highly developed. And the ruling party maintains a subtly coercive role in managing the value of the typical family’s most valuable asset, the family home.
How? Most citizens buy flats in government-built and government-maintained apartment blocks. Blocks whose residents dare vote for the opposition live under explicit threat of having their essential upgrades put at the bottom of the work program. The PAP holds an astonishing 81 out of the 87 seats in parliament.
A more charitable description of Singapore is that it’s a Confucian democracy, with a benign all-knowing patriarch presiding over a meritocratic civil service and a successful government-led capitalist economy.
There is no democracy anywhere. In every society there are decision makers. And its not your kawaida citizen. It is the rich nobility.
This thinking of Democracy versus autocracy, left versus right, East versus West is all an illusion. Each country has its unique politics but the decision makers are the same nobility.
Democratic procedures have no intrinsic value. What matters is good government. Lee believed the government’s primary duty is to create a “stable and orderly society” where people are well cared for, their food, housing, employment, health etc
In Lee’s view that democracy can drag down nations is best exemplified in India’s case. India has wasted decades in state planning and controls that have bogged it down in bureaucracy and corruption…India is a nation of unfulfilled greatness. This is because of limitations in India’s constitutional system and the political system that prevent it from going at high speed. Whatever the political leadership may want to do, it must go through a very complex system at the centre, and then even a more complex system in the various states….Indians will go at a tempo which is decided by their constitution, by their ethnic mix, by their voting patterns, and the resulting coalition governments, which makes for very difficult decision-making. We did a terrible mistake in passing this American style constitution ati to entrench democracy yet we are a different mix of ethnic communities each trying to outdo the other.
There is no better alternative to democracy than total democracy. That is the truth and nothing but the truth. If there was, many would have adopted already. Be grateful you were born in Kenya and not in North Korea or Iraq of yore.
Human beings are very ungrateful, always seeking things that dont bring joy, that muzzle freedom, that enslave…nothing but the truth…
total benevolent dictatorship. Julius Caesar took rome ahead in leaos and bound by making the decree law permanent hitherto reserved for states of emergency and thus sidestepped the canternkerous senate
I’ve been around the country side na 3,4 and 5 are not even close to being met.
I also have a feeling they’re being taken for a ride by the Chinese.