by Cimino | 18 Dec 2020 | Democracy index, Election turnout, Term of office, Youth voting
Direct-democracy threat to free fair and frequent elections Four depravedly indifferent years of failed-fake-reality-show-host-led democracy in the United States is but the most recent demonstration of the race to the bottom that is populist politics. The line,...
by Cimino | 3 Nov 2020 | Climate disinformation, Te Muri Crossing, Term of office
Donald’s depraved indifference indiminishable at 100 000/day Ahead of itself, but by less than two months, the Mahurangi Magazine, 5 July, predicted: The depraved indifference of Donald Trump means that, come 5 September when New Zealanders begin flocking to...
by Cimino | 18 Sep 2020 | Climate mobilisation, Democracy index, Direct democracy, Term of office
Act now and Aotearoa could own Democracy Day 2021 With Donald Trump’s best prospects now being immediate resignation and a prompt Mike Pence pardon, the United States’ flawed democracy might now survive long enough to face redemption. Shy seven weeks, it is 20 years...
by Cimino | 7 Sep 2020 | Climate mobilisation, Democracy index, Direct democracy, Pandemic, Term of office
25% less democracy doesn’t equate to 25% less can-kicking Blamed for everything from the lack of climate-action mobilisation to the lack of a capital gains tax, to the failure to raise the retirement age, the three-year parliamentary term—it is persistently...
by Cimino | 27 May 2020 | Climate mobilisation, Coalition democratisation, Pandemic
Every global thing to gain by taking coalition initiative Messiah complex is a label few would wish have bestowed. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern would likely rather run a Walker mileOlympian Sir John George Walker was the first person to run the mile in under 3:50...
by Cimino | 12 Jan 2020 | Climate mobilisation, Corruption, Nuclear power
Despite Abraham Lincoln’s definitive closing Gettysburg words, government of the people, by the people for the people, has perished from the earth, placing all earth’s creatures in implacable peril. Billions upon billions of creatures of all species, including human,...
