This article, that I find very interesting, has been published 2 days ago on the Canadian Global Research Site. However it explains me lots including the strange situation with senseless Georgia’s president barbarian action in Osetia.
“Operation Brimstone ended only one week ago. This was the joint US/UK/French naval war games in the Atlantic Ocean [...]
As it became known President George W. Bush is going to freeze mortgage interest rates to help homeowners hit by a credit crisis that has roiled financial markets, a White House official confirmed.s, saying the slump in the housing market was “source of concern” throughout the United States.
“The steps I outlined today are a sensible [...]
First Past The Post (FPTP)
This is the simplest system. Each voter votes for one candidate. The
candidate they prefer. The candidate with the most votes is elected.
FPTP can also be used to elect multiple candidates for a constituency
in some local elections. Each voter gets N votes where there are N
people to be elected. The voters must [...]
Elections are the central institution of democratic representative governments.
Jeane Kirkpatrick, scholar and former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, has offered this definition: “Democratic elections are not merely symbolic….They are competitive, periodic, inclusive, definitive elections in which the chief decision-makers in a government are selected by citizens who enjoy broad freedom to criticize government, to [...]
The New Zealand Constitution Act (UK) established a system of representative government for New Zealand, with a General Assembly consisting of a Legislative Council appointed by the Crown and a House of Representatives elected every five years by males over the age of 21 who owned, leased or rented property of a certain value.
An election is a decision making process where people choose people to hold official offices. This is the usual mechanism by which modern democracy fills offices in the legislature, and sometimes in the executive and judiciary, and in regional and local government. This is also typically the case in a wide range of other private [...]
