... majority of the public remains distracted by the Huxleyan feelies. Our argument starts in England, the first country to enshrine personal freedom in the Magna Carta, and the first of the Western democracies to flee from it. Shortly after 2001, posters began appearing on London buses and in bus shelters showing eyes floating and watching, with the slogan "Secure Beneath the Watching Eyes" . It ...
... majority of the public remains distracted by the Huxleyan feelies. Our argument starts in England, the first country to enshrine personal freedom in the Magna Carta, and the first of the Western democracies to flee from it. Shortly after 2001, posters began appearing on London buses and in bus shelters showing eyes floating and watching, with the slogan "Secure Beneath the Watching Eyes" . It ...
... majority of the public remains distracted by the Huxleyan feelies. Our argument starts in England, the first country to enshrine personal freedom in the Magna Carta, and the first of the Western democracies to flee from it. Shortly after 2001, posters began appearing on London buses and in bus shelters showing eyes floating and watching, with the slogan "Secure Beneath the Watching Eyes" . It ...
...time together after WWII. Preferably a few decades after, but they haven't seen each other since before the fall of Berlin, when they were both expansionist military empires. Now they're both geeky democracies, not great but doing okay, who really kind of like engineering. I want to see them rediscovering each other, the things that are different but also the things that are the same (diligence, ...
...the influence wielded by the Iranian-funded Hezbollah in Lebanon as a cause for concern over Lebanon's acceptance into the Security Council. Walid Phares, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and Fox News contributor on terrorism, was one of the architects of U.N. Resolution 1559 which passed in 2004 and called for the immediate disarmament of armed militias. Given the new ...
...will presumably stop blaming the banks for Britain's ills and will start blaming the rating agencies. But this is an inexorable tide caused by the fact that no government (and I include the non-democracies here) seems willing to state that standards of living for the working, the unemployed and the retired will have to fall. Iceland, Ireland and Spain -- the current basket cases in the eyes of...
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. ...
... year, defense will still amount to only 28 percent of the budget. The calls for cutting back the defense budget come in nice, simple arithmetic. They're the same kind of talk that led the democracies to neglect their defenses in the 1930s and invited the tragedy of World War II. We must not let that grim chapter of history repeat itself through apathy or neglect. ... Free people must voluntarily ...
... replaced by rapid decline. One potential political result of the collapse of our short experiment with financially empowered individuals (a rising tide lifts all boats scenario in Western democracies) is likely a creeping global neo-feudalism of indefinite duration (decentralized and autocratic stasis held in place by fluid globalized markets). The lesson: the ability to bootstrap resilient ...
...many would think the young, bright and beautiful Knox just couldn't be guilty. She doesn't fit the stereotype of a lustful, murdering vixen, but as they say one should not judge a book by its cover. I'm not going to knock the Italian justice system (at least not until I learn more about it) and I tend to believe that it is probably as fair as any of the justice systems in the mature democracies.
