The new age of Ayn Rand: how she won over Trump and Silicon Valley. As they plough through their GCSE revision, UK students planning to take politics A-level in the autumn can comfort themselves with this thought: come September, they will be studying one thinker who does not belong in the dusty archives of ancient political theory but is achingly on trend.
Donald Trump Losing by a Landslide Would Heal the Nation. Where real power comes from. Suppose They Threw an Election and Nobody Came. Sadly, Rob Ford epitomises what Canada has become. Pope Francis might be Time magazine's person of the year, but for Canada, there can be little doubt who our main noisemaker has been.
Toronto's mayor, Rob Ford, with his acknowledgments of crack smoking, drunken stupors, driving while under the influence and socialising with drug dealers, has made Canadians cringe in an unexpected way. Without Privacy There Can Be No Democracy. (Image: Jared Rodriguez / t r u t h o u t, Adapted From: freestyle_ttorry, bkbral, danstrange / Flickr)The president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, spoke this morning at the United Nations and delivered a powerful indictment of spying by the NSA on behalf of the United States.
She said, "Without respect for a nation's sovereignty, there is no basis for proper relations among nations," adding that "Brazil knows how to protect itself. Brazil ... does not provide shelter to terrorist groups. We are a democratic country. " The Brazilian president is so outraged at American spying, both on her country and on her personal emails and her personal life, that she canceled a state dinner with President Obama. While most Americans see this as a rift between Brazil in the United States over the issue of our spying on them, President Rousseff highlighted the most important point of all elsewhere in her speech this morning. This is not just true of international relations. Voter demographics. Come to Jesus. Source: Mike Malloy It's a mad, mad, mad, mad, mad world Truthseekers, and the religious right stands at the epicenter of our collective national nervous breakdown.
It's difficult to believe that we're living in a society that still justifies discrimination, bigotry, denial of civil rights, and even murder by some twisted interpretation of the teachings of Jesus. Jesus, the ultimate peacemaker, would cast the current crop of Christian Crazies out of the temple -- and out of the political system -- were he here today. Welcome to Jesusland, where male politicians who attempt to force women to undergo invasive medical procedures and/or deny their privacy rights can successfully attain and maintain public office.
Even those who believe women should be forced to sustain a pregnancy that was a result of rape or incest. Can you imagine a group of female politicians trying to control a man's right to a vasectomy? Canadian Government votes against… Science. Our fearless leader, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, voting “No” to science in this country.
Conservative MP and senator belittle Chief Theresa Spence, Idle No More movement. Zoom OTTAWA — Two members of Stephen Harper’s Conservative caucus — an elected MP and a senator — publicly disparaged the Idle No More movement and Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence at a fundraising dinner for a provincial candidate Tuesday.
Sen. Patrick Brazeau referred to Spence’s “so-called hunger strike” in addressing about 80 people at a Legion hall in the Ottawa suburb of Orleans, and mocked her physical shape. “I was sick two weeks ago,” Brazeau said. The 14 Defining Characteristics Of Fascism. Canada’s new politics of discord could carry a heavy price. Call 2012 the year of The Cleavage, the year when the fractures in Canadian society gaped wide enough to threaten the legitimacy of our democracy, of our political trust in one another and much of what remains of our common national imagination.
Day by day these past 12 months, when Canadians might have been collaborating with one another to build for the common good, to respectfully acknowledge and find room for each other’s thoughts and beliefs, we’ve advanced resolutely in the opposite direction toward suspicion and loathing and marginalization and the rejection of a communal public life. Running government like a business has been a dismal failure. Thirty years ago, Anglo-American politicians set out to make the public sector look like the private sector.
They decided to grab hold of the policy-making levers and push public servants to manage operations along the lines of their private-sector counterparts. There’s plenty of evidence to suggest that politicians have gained the upper hand in shaping policies. Evidence-based policy-making has lost currency, as has the policy advisory role of senior public servants.
But there’s also plenty of evidence to suggest that management reform measures have failed. Civil service not what it was - Michael's essay, January 20, 2013. Stephen Harper - The Canadian Public Don't Care I Broke The Law. Canada’s ‘no comment’ Conservative government. Tuesday, a day in Harperland … “Mr.
Kenney declined repeated requests for comment.” (The Globe and Mail)“The government did not respond Monday to questions about its position.” (The Globe and Mail)“La Presse posed the question to Mr.