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[Liberal Democrat Voice] Web blocking and the Lords: [...] In the last day or so there has been particular focus on an amendment put forward in the Lords by Tim Clement-Jones and Tim Razzall, the reasoning for which Tim Clement-Jones explained in a post here but which journalist and author (and Lib Dem member) Cory Doctorow disagreed with. [...]

[David Rothkopf] Why I am no longer a Democrat | David Rothkopf: When you have a system of governance, where the same party has majority in the legislative body, holds the executive office, and has majority in the Supreme court - you end up with virtual dictatorship as it played out right in front of our eyes. What happened to all that bellicose assertion of "choice", and "freedom of expression".

[Last Days America] Neo Fascist Nations Like China Undermine the Worlds Economy: Using ...: Ruling powers in the four states buttressed their control with tight restrictions on the Internet and media, promotion of nationalist versions of history in school textbooks and use of state wealth to serve their own interests, said the report.

[Robert Amsterdam] Gideon Rachman: Comparing Russia and China's Resurgence (Robert ...: Optimists point to some contrary indicators, such as outbreaks of environmental activism - organised over the internet or by mobile phone. It is true that the network of social activities not directly controlled by the state has expanded, as the Chinese economy has grown and become more complicated.

[MetaFilter] How corporations help governments spy on their people | MetaFilter: I think the high road forward would be for Europe and the U.S. to pass a laws saying that telephone companies must seek export approval for sale of lawful intercept technologies, and that dissidents may sue to obstruct the export. Ideally, this'll makes all lawful intercept technologies significantly less profitable for telephone companies, hopefully inspiring minimalistic compliance with legal requirements for their existence.

[: Most-Cited Full-Text Articles] Democratic Dominoes: Diffusion Approaches to the Spread of ...: This article is an attempt to indicate how diffusion approaches, based on the concepts of linkage and interdependence, can be of help in our thinking about the spread of democracy. The analyses address the existence or absence of diffusion effects in regard to changes in the degree of freedom in the world's governments, and whether or not there has been a more specific global movement towards democracy.

[沪江博客-风雪夜归人] 沪江博客 - 风雪夜归人 - Global Political Economy: The end of the Cold War and the growth of economic globalization coincided with a new industrial revolution based on the computer and the rise of the information or Internet economy. Technological developments are transforming almost every aspect of economic, political, and social affairs as computing power provides an impetus to the world economy that may prove as significant as those previously produced by steam power, electric power, and oil power.

[CamKh.com Cambodia, Khmer, Hot News, World News,] Q&A: Anwar Ibrahim discusses trial, Muslim issues : CamKh.com ...: And the failure to achieve a meaningful peace gives authoritarian Muslim governments an easy opportunity to score political mileage out of the Palestinians' plight. Stoking the flames of anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism is a good distraction from the stench in their own backyard, namely rampant corruption, denial of basic human rights, abuse of power and the suppression of civil society.

[Balloon Juice] Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Stay Classy, CNN: Cable news are irrelevant in the age of the internet. The audience will get older and more conservative.

[Hot Air » Top Picks] Hot Air » Blog Archive » House Republicans propose federal ...: If nothing else, it will start a much-needed debate on the proper size of the federal government, a debate that has been secondary to every issue on the national stage but rarely debated separately.  Whether or not 20% is the right number, we need to make a decision on some limitation Americans want for the cost of its government so that policymakers can know their limitations.  They certainly don’t know them now.

[Philip Greenspun's Weblog] Philip Greenspun's Weblog » Should government employees be allowed ...: a balanced budget using accrual-based accounting would probably be better than what we have now, but it would not prevent government workers from voting for defined benefit pensions that will insulate them from the effects of a collapse in the U.S. economy. Which is why we need to stop them from voting because it is very expensive to maintain a significant fraction of the population on an entirely separate income growth curve from the rest of the economy (as we’ve demonstrated with Wall Street, GM, and government workers during 2008, 2009, and onward).

[poemless. the blog.] LQD: “The eternal weakness of Russian liberalism” by Mark Adomanis ...: Satarov’s target is Kremlin ideologist Vladislav Surkov’s recent interview with Vedemosti, an exercise in the sort of banal defense of government power that exist completely independently of time or place: if he was an American, Surkov would undoubtedly have a high-profile chair at the Brookings Institutions or AEI from which he would sagely spout all sorts of justifications for cutting taxes, invading Iraq, occupying Afghanistan, and torturing “terrorists.” Surkov’s words, which Satarov tries to imbue with some magic and profound significance, are almost entirely without meaning since they are the words of the government apologist and (by design) are so vacuous that they can be use to defend any course of action be it republican, democratic, authoritarian, monarchical, totalitarian, or some combination of all of these.

[Blog: Elderly Cat Health Problem] Blog: Elderly Cat Health Problem » Dallas Health Job: True, the sovereign people can be wrong: In which case, from time to time, their elected leaders have the duty to correct them. broadband Internet access to K-12 schools 20.

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