With the Lok Sabha elections just weeks away, a Leftist Opinion: "Who are the AAP voters who would otherwise vote for the BJP? By definition, they are people who wouldn’t mind having a prime minister who presided over a massacre of Muslims in Gujarat (whether or not they know what role he played in it). This is where the AAP and BJP constituencies overlap. But these voters are fickle. AAP issued just one statement during its election campaign about the violence in Muzaffar nagar, and apparently that was enough to make the overwhelming majority of Jats, who constitute a strong voting bloc in outer Delhi constituencies, decide to support the BJP. In other words, the more AAP makes anti-communal statements or takes left-wing positions, the less it is a threat to the BJP."
In March 2014, ALTER-EU and its supporter organisations, including Corporate Europe Observatory, will launch a campaign to demand that candidates in the upcoming European elections “stand-up for citizens and democracy against the excessive lobbying influence of banks and big business”.
A Republican (?) video just before the recall elections i Wisconsin 2012. Blurb: "The Reclaim Wisconsin rally was filled with everything you need to know about the "Democracy" movement in Wisconsin. Here it is EXPOSED as a vulgar, childish, bullying mob!! Share the truth about Democracy in Wisconsin with friends - especially those in Wisconsin! Stand with Scott Walker on June 5th to prevent this mob rule from overcoming the rule of law in our beautiful Republic! God Bless the USA!!"
They want capitalism without democracy, we want democracy without capitalism Statement of the Blockupy coordinating committee, 5.6.2013 Blockupy 2013 – we experienced intense and powerful days of collective action and common resistance. On Friday, more than 3000 activists blockaded the entrance to the European Central Bank, making good on our announcement to carry our resistance deep into the heart of the European crisis regime.
23 mai 2012, par Alain Garrigou: " une société privée espagnole basée à Barcelone gère l’ensemble du processus par son logiciel qui assure le vote, le décompte et la vérification. Sans qu’on puisse vérifier ses chiffres..."
Stephen M. Kohn of the National Whistleblowers Center says that for national security whistleblowers, Obama's presidency has been "a disaster." Kohn, the author of eight books on whistleblower law, represents Sibel Edmonds, an FBI whistleblower and the author of the just-released Classified Woman. Edmonds submitted her book to the FBI for censorship, and the FBI failed to identify anything that she could not print, but also refused to approve of the book. Edmonds, however, has gone ahead and published it. The book protects, rather than endangering, national security. But it does embarrass the FBI.
"Although Hosni Mubarak was forced to step down in February 2011, the uprisings in Egypt show little sign of retreat. While the uniting rallying cry may have been against dictatorship, the struggle in Egypt that took headlines across the world in early 2011 reflected deeper social, political, and economic problems. The key demands of the revolution have still not been met. The continuation of military rule and the promise of more neoliberal economic policies lead many to believe it will be a long battle. Protestors in Egypt are hopeful, however, as people all over the world revolt against an economic system that benefits the few at the expense of the many."
Stephen M. Walt, in Foreign Policy: "Ask yourself: how many contemporary political leaders do you genuinely admire? How many of them would rate a paragraph, let alone a whole chapter, in a revised edition of Profiles in Courage? How many of them seem capable of giving you a straight answer to a hard question, as opposed to offering you a lot of happy double-talk? How many of them are better at making a powerful speech than they are at taking a principled stand and sticking to it? How many of them have really got your back, as opposed to pandering to the endless parade of well-heeled lobbyists and special interest groups? Is there political leader in your country who is not for sale? If you've been paying attention, and you can't find such leaders in your country, and you having been watching the obscenely wealthy get richer and more powerful, so that they can rig the game to make themselves richer still, then you'd probably think about painting a sign and getting out in the streets. And if I didn't already have this blog for my soap-box, maybe I would too. "
The gradual disappearance of open wireless networks is a tragedy of the commons, with a confusing twist of privacy and security debate. This essay explains why the progressive locking of wireless networks is harmful — for convenience, for privacy and for
1. I Socialdemokratiska tidskriften Tiden 1/2002 skriver Anders Ehnmark om vänsterpartiets kongress. Citerar Carlo Cattaneo (1801–69), den lombardiske filosof som på 1840-talet talade för Europas Förenta Stater: ” Libertà è repubblica; e repubblica è plu
Günter Grass, Die Zeit 4.5.2005. "Mithin entscheidet das Parlament nicht souverän. Es ist von den mächtigen Wirtschaftsverbänden, den Banken und Konzernen abhängig, die keiner demokratischen Kontrolle unterliegen. So macht sich der Gesetzgeber zum Gespött
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