about everything, and especially the rest
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand wither, let my tongue cleave to my palate if I do not remember you, if I do not set Jerusalem above my highest joy. (Psalms, 137, 5-7).
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Elections are a much simpler process in a single-party system. Of course. As the president, you designate who you want to succeed to you, and “boom”, you’re done.
You’re allowed to designate your brother (as in the case of Raul Castro), your son (as Bashar Al-Asad in Syria) or even yourself for eternity (as the “Eternal President of the Republic” in North Korea).
In those cases, elections (if any …) are quite straight-forward. Declare who will replace you, have people vote for your protégé (or imprisoned as independent lawyers and judges in Pakistan during the 2008 elections, or killed as some political opponents in Guatemala for the 2007 elections, …), and you’re done. Continue reading ‘Russia’s edge over the U.S. primaries: the single-party system’
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“Criminalised” homosexuality ? |
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Homosexual sodomy rocks the Holy Land ! Shlomo Benizri, a Knesset (Israeli parliament) politician and member of the Shas Party, seems to think so: he blamed the parliament laxism towards gays for 6 earthquakes that rocked the region in the last 3 months. The Shas party is said to be ultra-orthodox, close to Hasidic Judaism and supporting the Great Israel.
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So I leave for 4 days and look what happens ! |
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I was away last week-end for four days, and look what happens when I’m gone !
The Pakistani legislative elections last Monday were a key turn in Pakistan (officially the “Islamic Republic of Pakistan”) politics as President General Pervez Musharraf saw his government falling to the opposition. Cooperation with the U.S. highly in question …. As a reminder, Musharraf didn’t win the presidency through traditional elections, but launched a coup d’Etat in October 1999. Musharraf has been working closely with the U.S. against terrorism, as Pakistan has a border with Afghanistan and Iran.
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