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RE: News from your Country - Zak6858 - 05-14-2016
Apparently we have made it to the Eurovision final again. Seriously if they let us in one more time Europe is actually gonna hate us.
RE: News from your Country - Punchwood - 05-17-2016
I'm quite a bit late but on May the 5th we had the "Super Thursday" elections in the UK. You can get all the results here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2016
RE: News from your Country - Qwert - 05-17-2016
I hope the UK stays in the EU.
RE: News from your Country - Seraph - 05-17-2016
Me too. I'm not sure it's looking very likely, just at the moment, however.
RE: News from your Country - RandomGuy199 - 05-18-2016
Venezuelan update!
Lately, President Maduro has gotten himself in a war of words with Luis Almagro, General Secretary of the OAS (Organization of American States), due to speculation that he would invoke the Inter-American Democratic Charter on Venezuela's case. Maduro rejects any action against the country, saying that nobody has a right to "intervene in the internal affairs" of Venezuela, and called Almagro "a CIA agent", "puppet of the Empire (that is, the US)", "traitor", "scum", and more of the usual baseless accusations.
This was Almagro's response. For non-Spanish speakers, here is a translation:
"Message from the General Secretary of the OAS to the President of Venezuela
18 of May, 2016
President Nicolás Maduro,
I am not a CIA agent. And your lie, even if you repeat it a thousand times, will never be truth. Anyway it is convenient to make it clear, even if this is just to deny the absurd. My conscience is clear, President, and my conduct is even more clear. There is no threat you can make that will even remotely touch any of those.
I am not a traitor. I am neither a traitor of ideas, or of principles, and this implies that I am not to my people, the ones that feel represented by the principles of liberty, honesty, decency, public probity [*], democracy, and human rights. But you are, President, you betray your people and your supposed ideology with your content-less ramblings, you are a traitor to ethics in politics with your lies, and you betray the most sacred principle in politics; submitting yourself to your people's scrutiny.
You must return the wealth of those who have governed your country with you, because that wealth belongs to the people, you must return justice to your people in all the sense of the word (even finding the true killers of the 43[**] and not the ones you have imprisoned for their ideas, even if they aren't yours or mine). You must return the political prisoners to their families.
You must give back to the National Assembly its legitimate power, because that power comes from the people, you must give back to the people the choice about its future. You will never give back their lives to the children who died in the hospitals because of the lack of medicines, you will never make the people forget such suffering, such intimidation, such misery, such discontent and anguish.
I hope nobody makes the mistake of organizing a coup d'état against you, but you should not do so either. It is your duty. You have the duty to have the public decency of making the recall referendum in this year 2016, because when politics are polarized, the choice must be given back to the people. That is what your Constitution says. Denying the people the possibility of choosing only turns you into another little dictator, one of the many this continent has had.
I know the OAS and my work annoy you [*]. I'm sorry to tell you that I'm not bowing down nor getting intimidated."
Wow.
*= I omitted something here, as I couldn't understand the expression he used.
**= Referring to the 43 people who died in the 2014 Venezuelan protests.
RE: News from your Country - Ryccia - 05-20-2016
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2016/04/29/3773874/puerto-rico-tax-exempt-churches
Might want to take an example from your stepson, America
RE: News from your Country - RandomGuy199 - 03-31-2017
Due to exceptional circumstances, I'll revive this thread yet again.
Venezuela's Supreme Court has "ruled" that because of the situation of "contempt, which persists in the National Assembly", it will exercise, indefinitely, all the powers usually allocated to the legislature. I'm not exaggerating when I say all; it can essentially create its own laws now. As it is painfully obvious, this move effectively dissolves the Assembly.
This is a self-coup, similar to the one Fujimori did in Peru twenty years ago. There's no question about it. Now, for all intens and purposes, I'm living in a fucking dictatorship.
Sources:
- http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-39449494
- http://www.eluniversal.com/noticias/politica/tsj-asume-competencias-mientras-esta-mantenga-desacato_646036 (in Spanish)
RE: News from your Country - Jay Coop - 03-31-2017
@RandomGuy199 Tyranny cannot survive if the people fight back. Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Gandhi. They led the charge for freedom. Venezuela needs people to rise up and demonstrate. Protest. Civil disobedience. That is how you take your country back.
RE: News from your Country - GI-Land - 03-31-2017
@Qvait But sometimes it's not as easy as that.
I think RG already mentioned, that people talking against the government were imprisoned because of that.
Sometimes it's just not as easy as "Just demonstrate and it will resolve". It's only easy, if the time is right and if it's a really, really big movement.
RE: News from your Country - Jay Coop - 03-31-2017
@GI-Land They just can't put everyone in prison.