Sentences with phrase «years about democracy»
I have been hearing a lot in the recent years about democracy and capitalism.
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This crock has pretty much imploded over the last few years, although I sense a creeping rebirth when I hear the President talk about how the JOBS legislation is such a triumph of democracy since pretty soon every Tom, Dick and Harry will be able to buy and own cheap stocks, and raise money through new and virtually unregulated crowd - funding vehicles.
The misuse of Budget Bills reflects an arrogance that sees Canadians as not caring about the deeply diminished role of Parliament and the erosion of democracy that they have introduced in recent years.
The footage serves as a plausible facsimile of the war as defined by the Pentagon; it tells viewers nothing about the origins and nature of an enemy that Republicans and Democrats alike have been ignoring for the last ten years, out of deference to the demands of Big Oil and in the hope that a world of six billion people might wake up one morning, consider the odds, and start bowing to Bill Gates, Michael Jordan, and the Goddess of Democracy.
Here's what Plato wrote about democracy almost 2350 years ago: ``... do you notice how tender they make the citizen's soul, so that if someone proposes anything that smacks in any way of slavery, they are irritated and can't stand it?
whatever the democratic party tells you is a lie do the opposite they would want you to go against republicans becuase our country is not a democracy its a republic people wake up the republican party isnt about the rich its about all of us lower taxes for all the republican party is about smaller government not intruding in your life the democrats know this and started a class war to make blacks and hispanics flood their cause im a 24 latino and switched republican last year i was fooled my whole life read history and you will see im telling the truth
So far in 2017, aside from contemplating the end of democracy as we know it, we've learned a few things about parenting trends that could very well set the tone for the rest of the year.
It's like when Americans come to Japan and pretend that their gun control laws (10 gun deaths last year) mean nothing, because they don't understand freedom (Japan is pretty democratic, and unlike the US they use that democracy to vote out their Prine Ministers about every year — pretty sure they understand democracy!).
«It's disappointing to me that, despite many years of talk from people on both the left and the right of politics we are still stuck with this system which is antiquated and undemocratic... We need to try to get beyond the more tabloid version of this argument and really understand what it says about our democracy — you've got people appointed to the legislature without going through the proper processes of democratic accountability that are taken for granted in most countries in the world and you have people being influenced by making political donations.
Particularly with a general election less than two years away, conference as the platform for presenting ourselves as a party of real democracy, as well as being passionate about policy, is really important.
She writes about European Democracy and global Europe, has taught at renowned universities in Europe and the US and has 20 years experience.Her new book «Warum Europa eine Republik werden muss!
Whereas, sixty - nine years later and three years before the 19th Amendment was ratified, women in New York won that right on Election Day, November 6, 1917; to commemorate this important heritage, the New York State Women's Suffrage 100th Anniversary Commemoration Commission was established to increase education and awareness through a statewide discussion about the lasting legacy of women's suffrage and how it continues to shape American democracy today; and
Surely the fact that these files were still active for at least 10 years while we were MPs raises fundamental questions about parliamentary sovereignty and privilege — principles that are vital to our democracy.
Last year, Zalishchuk spoke at the Personal Democracy Forum about the challenges for civil society in her country.
«A smidgen of democracy I don't think will go amiss, since we've been talking about it for about 100 years.»
Congressman Michael Grimm and his campaign made a big deal about an alleged break - in at his headquarters last weekend, calling the incident «politically motivated» and «an assault on democracy,» claiming hard drives in the office were erased and comparing the situation to the deadly shooting that left former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords critically wounded last year.
Lawmaker representing Ijebu Ode / Odogbolu / Ijebu North East at the House of Representatives, Hon. Kehinde Odeneye, has called on Nigerians not to appraise President Muhammadu Buhari based on his democracy day speech because there is nothing really much to say about a year into his administration where he was so much inundated with the task of putting what was abruptly left by the previous administration back into perspectives.
Sani said, «It is not simply about Chief MKO Abiola not being recongnised by Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, it is about an institutional decision of the political class, who continues to suppress the role played by the free press bringing about democracy... 17 years down democratic lane, hardly will you see any of those that were on the streets of Lagos protesting for democracy ever being recognised with even an award of OON, which is the lowest.
This time of year is always about unity and togetherness, and seeing them in Jerusalem was just another indicator of how unified we as New Yorkers are in our support of the one true democracy in the Middle East and Israel.»
Adds Andrew Rasiej, founder of Personal Democracy Forum, an online hub of how politics and technology intersect: «Obama's success online is as much about how our society has changed, how our media ecology has changed, just in the past four years.»
The U.S. State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, or DRL, as it is called, manages a budget of about half a billion dollars per year spread across 350 human rights - related programs spanning the globe, including many that focus on forensics or internet freedom.
To which I would add that there seemed to be far less objection when, only last year, the Palme d'Or went to another meditative film about nature, death, and possible afterlives — Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives — perhaps because there is no right - wing Buddhist conspiracy suspected of plotting to undermine Western democracy as we know it.
As an American abroad and working in the field of political - education reform in Central and Eastern Europe, I have been following the conversations about U.S. civics education — or, more precisely, education for democracy — with great interest over the past year.
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Walker has been a popular governor for school choice supporters — American Federation for Children chairwoman Betsy DeVos and husband Dick have contributed about $ 250,000 to Walker in recent years, according to the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign.
Two years ago, the Center for Popular Democracy (CPD) issued a report demonstrating that charter schools in 15 states — about one - third of the states with charter schools — had experienced over $ 100 million in reported fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement since 1994.
In fact, as reported by Mike Antonucci, five days after the election, the teacher union - dominated Democracy Alliance — a coalition of leftwing Democrats chaired by NEA Executive Director John Stocks — met to strategize about the years ahead.
As for why the corruption, all the obvious reasons: a) the country's made up of a zillion different historically hostile tribes arbitrarily thrown together as a country by the Brits; b) life is short, there are few official safety nets (e.g., unemployment insurance, pensions), so there are few moral qualms about taking care of your own, no matter what; c) there's not yet any sort of history of democracy, of regulation of profiteering — this is a very young, very capitalist country; d) the outside world and all its wealth provides tremendous incentives for corruption — the amount and indiscriminate nature of foreign aid, the fact that the amount of money that would eventually be paid for, say, a rhino horn dagger will trickle down to paying the poacher enough money to cover his kids» school fees for years; e) the fact that the west encourages the illicitly wealthy in the developing world to hide their loot in western institutions (e.g., Swiss banks).
PBS NewsHour talks to Justice Edwin Cameron about raising funds to conserve and maintain South Africa's Constitutional Court art collection, which was first assembled 20 years ago with the arrival of democracy and the founding of the court.
Blair had sharpened his ideas about leadership and the failings of democracy in the years since he left power.
Every few years, democracy was about the people's vote.
The «All of Me» singer and 10 - time Grammy winner has been involved with Rock the Vote for years, as well, and was the face of the organization's Democracy Day initiative to educate young people about the Twenty - sixth Amendment, which lowered the voting age in the US from 21 to 18 in 1971.
As shown in «Polluting Democracy,» Mike Rogers (R - MI) has no large coal plants in his district, but takes coal company cash and votes against pollution controls on coal plants in neighboring districts that kill about 454 people every year, very likely including people in his district.
The idea behind OneWebDay is to focus attention on a key internet value (this year, online participation in democracy), focus attention on local internet concerns (connectivity, censorship, individual skills), and create a global constituency that cares about protecting and defending the internet.
Its findings, based on two years of research and data, were grim: It saw growing social inequities and the curtailing of the rule of law and political freedoms in about 40 nations, including some countries with rather advanced democracies.