#DEMOCRACY

A thread on this opinion piece from @PeterLewisEMC, who is the Director of @CntrResponsTech which claims to be non-partisan and research driven. Unfortunately, this article and their ACCC submission suggests
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1. Italian anti-mafia police wiretaps published by ORA News indicate that the Italian mob is involved in #Tirana's massive construction wave currently taking place. They also indicate the people who
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the lost myth of Christianity [Thread] The problem with the west is that it is antithetical to the Christian faith, it lays on the foundation of the truth in the
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Did you know that in Kerala there are a total of 21,683 Madrassas ?Since Kerala has 14 districts that means 1,549 Madrassas per district. There are 70 panchayats per district
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2020 is finally, finally almost over. We’re assuming it’s been as much of a blur for you as it has for us, so here's a quick review of the year
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1/6.. #WithdrawEIA2020 #EIA2020Draft If we don’t raise our voice against this now, we will have to witness many factories destroying our forests & natural resources or more VizagGAS tragedy
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@NBWA From the the 81 million legitimate voters, we are reaching out to you as major GOP donors to ask you to join a growing list of companies that are
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The System Has Been Rigged A Long TimeDIEBOLD IS DOMINION!Everyone remember those Diebold voting machines? You know, the ones with their security flaws and their own election scandals? Diebold was
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Normalisation of a repressive regime? Nothing about this govt is normal - think back a few years and compare the amount of the following to today's govt HonestyOpennessIntegritySelflessnessObjectivityAccountabilityLeadership (as in
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Yesterday I saw a friend, a defence barrister, face a lot of abuse over his advocacy in a very upsetting case. For many outside the criminal justice system it is
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Like Israeli’s centrist candidate @gantzbe, I am critical of Trump’s & Netanyahu’s desired unilateral, non-reciprocal annexation of the West Bank. The key for me is: what happens to Palestinians stuck
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Ukraine’s Security Council has sanctioned and effectively banned 3 all-news TV channels allied with Viktor Medvedchuk (ZIK, 112, NewsOne) for spreading “pro-Russian propaganda”. Nothing like this has ever happened in
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1. Thread of 1850s electoral tidbits from Eric Foner's "Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men", which is a great book about the ideology of the pre-Civil War Republican Party. Everything
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A cultivated Conservative friend of mine once exhibited great distress because in a gay moment I once called Edmund Burke an atheist. I need scarcely say that the remark lacked
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"The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy." - Montesquieu Today is #NoPoliticsDay,
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There are at least two things that distinguish the contemporary GOP from far-right, ethnonationalist parties in Europe: 1) the GOP is (in theory and practice) anti-majoritarian; 2) the GOP remains
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