BREXIT Vote Delayed – Democracy Has Fallen
by Martin Armstrong Once upon a time, if you voted against someone like Obama or Tony Blair in Britain, you simply accepted your loss and moved on. Those days are … Read more
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DEMOCRACY DIES IN DARKNESS: Pelosi’s Determined Defense of Closed-Door Impeachment Inquiry Sparks ‘Star Chamber’ Fears.
via theepochtimes: WASHINGTON—Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s latest refusal to allow a formal vote on impeaching President Donald Trump has some legal experts worrying that a modern version of England’s infamous … Read more
DANIEL HANNAN: Our democracy is being overthrown by the EU’s Hideous Strength.
via telegraph.co.uk: It’s not about Brexit any more, at least not primarily. It’s about whether we remain a democracy in the fullest sense. Our system depends on unwritten conventions and precedents. … Read more
Why the CNN Fake News & Others are a Major Threat to Democracy
by Martin Armstrong We think of false information as a domestic problem that Trump is in the battle with CNN and the term “fake news” is just political talk. It’s … Read more
‘It’s no longer about Brexit; it’s about democracy’: Galloway on Britain’s ‘least finest hour’
Eighty years ago this week, Britain declared war on Nazi Germany. Within months, we stood alone with the Hitlerite hordes, at the Channel ports, preparing to invade us.
Researchers studying Facebook’s impact on democracy threaten to quit
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A group of philanthropies working with Facebook Inc (FB.O) to study the social network’s impact on democracy threatened on Tuesday to quit, saying the company had … Read more
Martial Law Considered In Hong Kong To Crush Pro-Democracy Protests
Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, Authorities in Hong Kong are considering whether to impose draconian martial law powers in a bid to crush pro-democracy protests. According to … Read more
JOEL KOTKIN: The Tech Oligarchs Are Going to Destroy Democracy — Unless We Stop Them
Once, the big tech firms embodied American exceptionalism and aspiration. Today, they are strangling these ideals. Government: do something. “Whom do the oligarchs’ wish to destroy? Of course, Donald Trump, whom … Read more
Silicon Valley Is Destroying American Democracy by Playing Political Favorites
via Robert Bridge: Perhaps it was expecting too much that the tech giants would check their political allegiances at the door to ensure fairness. Instead, they have let their political affinities … Read more
EUROELECTIONS: everyone’s a winner, except democracy and analysis
by John Ward Many are the victories being declared following the elections to the European Parliament, and many are the false dawns. The best an objective commentator can do in such … Read more
D Is for a Dictatorship Disguised as a Democracy
by John W. Whitehead “When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, … Read more
WE NEVER SEE WORRIES ABOUT “THE STATE OF OUR DEMOCRACY” WHEN THE LEFT IS WINNING
via Twitter: h/t GR
The Demise of Democracy
by Raúl Ilargi Meijer Leonardo da Vinci Vitruvian man c1510Leonardo wrote: “Vitruvius, architect, writes in his work on architecture that the measurements of man are distributed in this manner”: The length of … Read more
Time for Parliament to feel the heat of direct democracy
by John Ward I call for a national alliance, run at constituency level, between frustrated Brexiteers and cheated female SPA reform victims ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ Up and down the Land, people are … Read more
It’s Only Bad For Our Democracy When Republicans Do It
Democratic Superstars Get Away with Questioning the Integrity of Elections. Andrew Gillum and Stacey Abrams were 2018 runner-up candidates for governor in the country’s third- and ninth-largest states, are considered … Read more