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Vladimir Zhirinovsky, an odious leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia has approved militarization of the Russian Federation and said that all the countries of the former Soviet Union were a zone of Russian interests. Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia praised the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office, which began to verify the legitimacy of recognition of independence of the Baltic republics by the State Council of the USSR in 1991, Joinfo.ua reports referring to the Russian media...

Italy’s Chamber of Deputies witnessed an unusual and symbolic protest when a lawmaker entered the chamber draped in a white sheet like a ghost, with the word “Referendum” written across the front. The stunt was led by Riccardo Magi, secretary of the liberal party +Europa, who used the theatrical gesture to denounce what he sees as an attempt by Giorgia Meloni’s government to suppress public debate and encourage voter abstention ahead of the national referendums scheduled for 8 and 9 June. A ghost haunts Italy’s parliament: theatrical protest against government. Credit: Italian Congress TV Italy’s Chamber of Deputies witnessed an...

Venezuelan electoral authorities on Sunday claimed that 95 percent of voters in a nonbinding referendum approved of the nation's territorial claim on a huge chunk of neighboring oil-rich Guyana.

During the 1970s and 1980s, the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), then based in the United Methodist Building on Capitol Hill, vigorously lobbied for Nicaragua's Sandinista regime, the Cuban-style Marxist regime that shot its way to power in 1979. Today, WOLA pretends it is concerned about the rule of law in Honduras after the Honduran Congress and Supreme Court supported removing the leftist president for defying its constitution. WOLA and Jim Wallis' publication Sojourners have teamed up to spin Honduras' defense of its democracy as another example of a U.S.-supported, imperialist military coup. The constitutional coup in Honduras was...

In reviewing the events which took place this weekend in Honduras, we feel the need to add somewhat of a clarification to the post previous to this one, in which we mentioned that U.S. President Barack Obama seemed willing only to offer rhetoric in the defense of an ousted national leader (Honduran President Mel Zelaya). In making that observation, we appear to have made an error in judgment which we feel compelled to correct. It seems — as our friends at Power Line (the estimable Scott Johnson) have observed — that the military coup that took place occurred at the...

Secession movements have dotted the American landscape for a long time. While the Confederacy was the only secession movement that had any traction, most of these movements were quixotic at best and laughable at worst. There’s a new secession effort on the horizon, and just like the Confederates of the mid-19th century, Democrats are behind it. Newsweek reports that California’s secretary of state has given the green light to a secession movement to gather signatures for a petition to put California’s secession from the U.S. on the ballot in 2028.The reason for this movement is exactly what you would expect.“Calexit,...

President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela is an exuberant dictator, a lover of military salutes who is being investigated for crimes against humanity, but he’s not reckless enough to invade neighboring Guyana, is he? Would the leader of a country in an ever-deepening economic crisis risk starting Latin America’s first interstate war this century? Well, maybe. For a century and a half, Guyana and Venezuela have quarreled over Essequibo, a stretch of the Amazon that both countries claim. Guyana has long governed the territory, but Venezuela also claims sovereignty over it, citing maps drawn in colonial times. Last year, Maduro expressed...

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It’s been well established that Joe Biden’s poll numbers are terrible. In addition to being behind Trump in national polling, he’s also trailing him in battleground state polling. It is widely acknowledged that the outcome of the 2024 election will come down to a small number of battleground states, and one of them is Pennsylvania. Donald Trump won Pennsylvania in 2016, but in 2020, Biden narrowly took the state, though there are countless sworn statements from poll workers claiming shenanigans were going on that may have impacted the results. Regardless of what you believe about what happened in Pennsylvania in...

For those worried that abortion extremism is coming to their states, heed these lessons from Ohio. On Nov. 7 in Ohio, the passage of Issue 1 dealt the pro-life movement another stunning defeat in a long string of statewide losses since Roe v. Wade was overturned.It would be too easy for politicians and pundits on the left, and even some on the right, to jump on the “Being pro-life is political suicide” bandwagon and integrate that notion immediately into a long-term strategy to shape our American political life. We have already seen this in the days following Nov. 7.But...

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australians resoundingly rejected on Saturday a referendum proposal to create an advocacy committee to offer advice to Parliament on policies that affect Indigenous people — the nation's most disadvantaged ethnic minority. The government proposed the first constitutional change since 1977 as a step forward in Indigenous rights. But the vote divided Indigenous leaders as well as the wider community. More than 59% of voters opposed the so-called Voice to Parliament with almost half the votes counted by Saturday. The loss is unofficial but is not contested. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese blamed his political opponents' campaigning against...

Here in Australia, our politicians are promoting a divisive and racist change to our constitution by referendum - the creation of an indigenous "voice" with undefined powers. Voting is underway now.According to Reuters:SYDNEY, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Support for a proposal to amend Australia's constitution to enshrine recognition of Indigenous people has edged higher, according to a poll published on Tuesday, although most voters intend to reject the change in a referendum now underway.Early voting on whether to recognise Indigenous Australians in the constitution and create a "Voice to Parliament" to give them an avenue to advise the government on...

An Ohio ballot initiative to make it harder to change the state’s constitution, prior to November’s referendum on whether to codify abortion as a right, has failed – thanks to major opposition funding by radical left-wing groups. Defeated by a large margin on Tuesday, State Issue 1 would have raised the threshold for passing future ballot measures from 50% to 60%. Because it failed to pass, pro-abortion forces need just a simple majority of Ohioans to vote their way in order to codify a right to abortion in November. Proponents of the measure, represented by the Protect Our Constitution coalition,...

Yesterday morning, I took to Twitter (which I still refuse to call “X”) and predicted that Issue 1 in Ohio would fall short by a 55/45 margin.Predicting that Issue 1 fails in Ohio today, probably with a 55/45 or so split. Opponents have made the debate entirely about abortion rights rather than the constitution and the huge early turnout suggests it's worked.https://t.co/kJgIRx67fS— Jazz Shaw (@JazzShaw) August 8, 2023It actually turned out to be around 57/43 (we’ll embed the final result widget below) but that was the general ballpark. That doesn’t make me some sort of clairvoyant. It was just how...

Twenty-six states have initiative and/or veto referendum processes at the statewide level. Washington, D.C., also has initiative and referendum processes. The availability of the powers at the local level varies by jurisdiction depending on state and local laws. The initiative process allows citizens to propose a new statute or constitutional amendment. The referendum process allows citizens to refer a law that passed the legislature to the ballot for voters to decide whether to uphold or repeal the law. The following states have initiative and/or veto referendum processes at the statewide level: Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Florida Idaho Illinois Maine

Today, I filed HB 3596, which is commonly known as the “Texas Independence Referendum Act," or TEXIT If passed, it will place a referendum on the ballot during the next general election, allowing the people of Texas to vote on whether or not the State should investigate the possibility of Texas independence, and present potential plans to the Legislature.

Mere days after hundreds of thousand of people marched for life in Washington, D.C., the New York legislature committed to promoting death. The legislature voted by a large majority a second time on Jan. 24 to pass a resolution to codify abortion “rights” in the state constitution, meaning the amendment only awaits approval from voters, according to Politico. I guess the state motto “Excelsior” (“Ever higher”) refers to increasing the number of unborn babies killed.LifeNews explained, “To amend the New York Constitution, the language must pass the state legislature in two separate sessions and then receive a majority of voters’...

Two more conservative-leaning counties in eastern Oregon, and one politically split county in California, have voted to begin the process that could lead to secession from their respective blue states.What the proposed border relocation would look like. (Courtesy of Move Oregon's Border for a Greater Idaho)On Nov. 8, Oregon’s Morrow County passed the Greater Idaho proposal with 60 percent of the vote and Wheeler County with 59 percent.A similar measure in San Bernardino County, California, passed by a narrow margin, 51.3 percent to 48.7.“These are solutions they want their elected leaders to look into,” said Matt McCaw, spokesman for the...

Scott Ritter talks about the referendum in Ukraine to become part of Russia 28 min. interview

In less than 24 hours part of Ukraine becomes part of Russia and NATO just held a secret meeting to ramp up the war. Vladimir Putin pointed the finger directly at the U.S. for its attack on the Nord Stream pipelines. Germany is on the brink of collapse as German energy experts point to coming blackouts.