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  • The Hong Kong Protesters Aren’t Driven by Hope “We might as well go down fighting.”

    11/16/2019 11:57:31 PM PST · by Zhang Fei · 49 replies
    The Atlantic ^ | November 12, 2019 | Zeynep Tufekci
    HONG KONG—For months now, I’ve been told that Hong Kong’s protests would end soon. They’ll end when school starts, I heard during the summer. School did start, but the protests wore on, only now I saw high-school students in crisp school uniforms joining the protesters’ ranks. Next, the mask ban of early October was supposed to slow protesters down, but the very first day after that ban, I watched streams of protesters in masks and helmets make their way to their usual haunts on Hong Kong Island. The government shut down many of the subway lines that day, a practice...
  • An Issue For Debate: Universal Suffrage

    03/14/2016 9:58:47 AM PDT · by Sean_Anthony · 10 replies
    Canada Free Press ^ | 03/14/16 | Bob Christie
    With certain exceptions, people who pay no taxes, and people who receive cash or equivalents from the government, should not be allowed to vote Most people recognize the expression “skin in the game” and accept that it means those persons who have something of value at risk have purchased a specific privilege or right deemed worthy of the gamble. Those without “skin in the game”, non-players in effect, are not entitled to the same privilege or right. If you have ever played poker with your buddies you know you are not entitled to be dealt a hand and perhaps rake...
  • EPIC DNC FAIL: Reports Thousands of Delegates, Media Locked Out of Democrat Convention Tonight

    09/05/2012 6:35:49 PM PDT · by kristinn · 221 replies
    Wednesday, September 5, 2012 | Kristinn
    The Democratic National Convention has descended in to chaos today both inside and outside the Time Warner arena in Charlotte, North Carolina.Following the debacle earlier today of the ramming through over the loud objections of delegates of pro-God, pro-Israel language to the platform, fire marshalls have locked down the arena leaving a reported thousands of credentialed delegates and reporters stranded outside.Reporters on Twitter are sending out on scene reports and photographs with commentary such as "mayhem", "fail" and "farce"."Democratic convention descending into farce. After "booing God" debacle, delegates, and media locked out of the convention by fire marshals" , Nico...
  • Island of Sark embraces democracy after 400 years

    04/19/2008 4:49:13 PM PDT · by Dawnsblood · 5 replies · 18+ views
    Times Online ^ | 4/10/08 | Staff
    Lieutenant-Colonel Guille described life on the island as idyllic, adding: “It’s a very quiet and peaceful place, we are a self-sufficient, close-knit little community and we just like to get on with life away from the public eye.” He said he believed that the island’s original settlers in the 16th century would be “quite pleased” with the changes. All of Sark’s original 40 colonising families were able to vote in the island’s elections. Lieutenant-Colonel Guille added: “That was an extremely democratic thing to do and very democratic for that age.” A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Justice said: “We can...