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The power of a King’s Speech
“King Charles III is a constitutional monarch, meaning that he is Head of State. Although his political and executive powers are limited, the Monarch plays a central role in the life of the nation and has a lot of important responsibilities”. (The Role of the Monarch: https://ndla.no/subject:1:9b93cd9e-a45c-428c-a8fb-b4955169efdf/topic:0b7ab7e5-14c7-4118-b81e-c7d27df3aa6d/resource:ad73b390-5142-49e7-ba86-ef25c74d2e28) But what are these responsibilities? What is this…
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Protect the voters
Trump tells his supporters to become poll watchers with a baseless claim about fraud at voting locations – CNN: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/08/politics/donald-trump-poll-watchers-north-carolina/index.html Trump’s promotion of armed militias risks stoking civil war | Trudy Rubin – The Philadelphia Inquirer: https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/kenosha-trump-kyle-rittenhouse-portland-antifa-20200901.html Voter intimidation – ACLU: https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/field_pdf_file/kyr-voterintimidation-v03.pdf Brennan Center for Justice: https://www.brennancenter.org Selma to Montgomery March – HISTORY.COM EDITORS: https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/selma-montgomery-march…
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Contempt is not automatic
At the Vernets fire station, around noon, you could find a queue speaking all languages that blocked two streets in Geneva. A person shouts: “We have to queue while we get here to get them fucked”. The tone rises, the irritation is felt, which gives a rather negative image of foreigners to the people of…
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Le mépris, c’est pas automatique
A la caserne des Vernets vers midi, on pouvait trouver une queue parlant toutes les langues qui bloquaient deux rues à Genève. Une personne crie: « We have to queue while we get here to get them fucked ». Le ton monte, l’énervement se fait sentir ce qui donne une image assez négative des étrangers…
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Fahrenheit 11/9, Michael Moore
And that if this is the America we’re trying to save, maybe, we need to ask ourselves, Why? Why save this America? The America I want to save is the America we’ve never had. It didn’t need to end up like this. And it still doesn’t. Evil is a slow moving organism. By the time…
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Allez Allez Allez !
Allez Allez Allez ! Merci d’ouvrir les mairies pour les doléances, plus qu’un pas avant les référendum. Comme pour le serment du jeu de paume, les Français pourraient se « constituer » sans l’aval du pouvoir. Par exemple, les mairies pourraient organiser le vote pour modifier la constitution et introduire le RIC (Référendum d’Initiative Citoyenne) et mettre le…
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2 France
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