Tag: US

Non-Democratic Nature of US System Never More Apparent! (8.11.2022)

“One of the most consequential outcomes of this redistricting cycle has been the continuing decrease in the number of competitive congressional districts,” Michael Li and Chris Leaverton of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law pointed out.

“All told, there are now fewer competitive districts than at any point in the last 52 years,” they wrote in an analysis. “If the good news is that both parties emerged with reasonable opportunities in coming years to win control of a closely divided House, the bad news is that they will fight that battle on the narrowest of terrains under maps artificially engineered to reduce competition.”

“American democracy was never designed to be democratic,” wrote American critic and essayist Louis Menand in a piece published in The New Yorker earlier this year.

“The partisan redistricting tactics of cracking and packing aren’t merely flaws in the system — they are the system,” Menand continued, stressing that the American government has never been a government “by the people.”

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Emails: Beware Alternative Media Outlets Bearing Gifts! (6.11.2022)

Of course, nowhere does its reporting advise its readers to access Russian language news articles (even through a universal translator) and that there in this rich seam – all the content published by The Grayzone will be found – together with far more. If the US, UK and EU were not supporting Neo-Nazism in the Ukraine – what would The Grayzone be reporting? What would be its slant on the Western status quo?

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A Lib-Dems Government is Lurking in the Wings! (5.11.2022) 

The British Electorate is more or less ‘racist’ and the selection of a British Indian as Tory ‘Prime Minister’ has sent an energising jolt through the centre, right and far-right ground of British politics! The internet is abuzz with a general trend amongst White Britain’s who feel affronted and betrayed by a Tory Party that can usually be trusted with applying the British sense of White dominance, privilege and superiority – but which has BETRAYED this sense of racial belonging! The talk on the mainstream and extreme political forums is that the Tories must be punished, and the British (White) status quo must be a) firmly re-established and b) defended – just as Neo-Nazi Ukraine (supported by the US, UK and EU) is staunchly supporting White (Anglo-Saxon) dominance against barbaric Slavic incursions on the borders of civilisation! Token and boutique multiculturalism can be tolerated – just as long as the Black, Brown and Yellow are kept away from any genuine or true positions of political power! When the Lib-Dems WIN the next election – the UK will then be re-joining the EU – proving that no single country can truly escape the post-1945 US hegemony if its population is prevented from electing a generally left-wing (Marxist-Leninist) government!  

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Email: Remembering Heather Quan (1985-2006) [5.11.2022]

Although Ryan Waller was shot in the face (and ‘brain’) and survived with a severe brain injury for a number of hours afterwards (the Coroner stated Ryan’s jaw was broken after he was shot in the face – presumably when the Police tackled him to the ground upon arrest) – Heather Quan was shot in the head and immediately killed by the two Hillbilly-type characters who invaded their home on Xmas Day, 2006! Her story is always treated as subordinate to that of Ryan – and she only seems to exist (as a validation) via her association with Ryan (this is not the fault of Ryan or his family – but US society as a whole). It is nothing new – I know – but the day we stop caring about the racial bias is the day US anti-intellectualism finally triumphs through the removal of all obstacles to its dominance!

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Gary Younge, a sociology professor at the University of Manchester, once commented that dollars play a decisive role in U.S. politics. He wrote, “U.S. elections: no matter who you vote for, money always wins.”

In 1863, the ideal democratic government of the United States was depicted by then-U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in his landmark Gettysburg Address as the “government of the people, by the people, for the people.”

More than 150 years later, the fig leaf of democracy can no longer cover up the corruption of the American political system. Kishore Mahbubani, a Singaporean scholar, put it best in his book The Asian 21st Century. “Americans are proud of their democratic political system. But the facts show that America has increasingly come to resemble a plutocracy, where society is governed of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%.”

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Chinese Structural Biologist Yan Ning Will Return to China to Establish Medical Academy (2.11.2022)

In 2014, Yan’s team analyzed the three-dimensional crystal structure of the human glucose transporter GLUT1 for the first time.

Then she was invited by Princeton to take up the post of Shirley M. Tilghman, Professor of Molecular Biology, in May 2017, and held a concurrent post of professor in Tsinghua at the same time.

In 2019, she was elected as a foreign member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences for outstanding contributions to research. She became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences two years later.

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