Long-Term Institution-Building, National Ownership Critical to Peacebuilding in Africa, Speakers Stress at Security Council Debate (UN - United Nations)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Jul 2016
(Source. UN - United Nations) ... Issuing presidential statement S/PRST/2016/12, it noted the need for comprehensive approaches to institution-building, bearing in mind African countries' national development strategies ... It also recognized the critical role of the African Union, seeing opportunities for partnership with that entity ... and ended at 4.19 p.m ... Efforts that excluded local communities risked the taint of political illegitimacy....

The Hamilton Affair excerpt: Alexander Hamilton shares his upbringing with Eliza

Edit Entertainment Weekly 26 Jul 2016
Alexander Hamilton’s story is ripe for fictionalization, as Broadway fans and pop culture obsessives know from the success of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony-winning musical, Hamilton. But the founding father’s life is re-written once again in Elizabeth Cobbs’ forthcoming novel, The Hamilton Affair, out August 2 ... Excerpt from The Hamilton Affair by Elizabeth Cobbs ... Mama’s dishonor and death, his father’s disappearance, his own illegitimacy ... ....

How Do We Make America Strong Again? Start Telling the Truth

Edit Information Clearing House 25 Jul 2016
By Charles Hugh Smith. July 25, 2016 "Information Clearing House" - You want to make America strong again? The only way to do so is to start telling the truth and insisting on the truth ... If you hold great wealth and power, and the source of your wealth and power is illegitimate, you must dissemble, fabricate, propagandize and lie to hide the illegitimacy of your power. That is the status quo of the U.S. in a nutshell....

'It was a practical solution to Irish life'

Edit Belfast Telegraph 23 Jul 2016
Lisa McInerney says that her grandmother would have been the authority figure in her life. "All the discipline, all the rules, that would have all applied. Now I look at the younger grandchildren, the ones that never lived with her, who are more like 'proper' grandchildren, and now she's all - 'oh, no rules whatsoever, here's some sweets ...' ... Share Go To ... This was in the early 1980s and Ireland still had the illegitimacy status ... ....

What is missing in President Barzani’s rhetoric for a Kurdish state-building enterprise?

Edit Open Democracy 22 Jul 2016
The question before Masoud Barzani is what to do in order to turn state-building rhetoric into a future Kurdish state ... Alice Martins / Press Association ... There might be many reasons for this ... States without these characteristics are often seen as ‘failed states’, either as “factionalized/fragile state”, because they lack a monopoly of violence or as “predatory states”, when their illegitimacy is their distinctive feature ... Iraq. Turkey ... ....

To Coup or Not to Coup: Radical political reform is the only way to resolve ...

Edit Open Democracy 22 Jul 2016
Brazil continues to struggle with a political and representational crisis. As the country’s institutions collapse, the slogans Fora Temer and Volta Dilma no longer serve a purpose. Español ... Sao Paulo, Brazil. 2015. AP Photo/Andre Penner ... The PT’s opposition to the impeachment of President Rousseff has been based entirely on the illegitimacy associated with the word ‘coup’, enabling them to mobilise large parts of the Left ... Brazil. Topics. ... ....

Medical colleges: The mathematics

Edit The Himalayan 21 Jul 2016
Nobody has the guts to speak when Dr KC is not holding his protests. Some of us even remain silent while he is holding protests. Now is the time to look in the mirror and support the truth and develop compassion. Medical colleges were shown recently to keep fake patients for claiming more seats to admit medical students. It takes around NRs ... That would be great ... There is illegitimacy and pollution in all steps ... It’s as simple as that ... ....

Stanford scholar deciphers coup attempt in Turkey (Stanford University)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Jul 2016
(Source. Stanford University) ... Can you briefly explain what has happened in Turkey?. The still-unfolding course of events can be best described as a socio-political implosion ... Why did the coup fail? ... The political rhetoric surrounding the 2015 national elections, the abrupt shift to a securitization approach to the Kurdish Question, and the spillover effects of the Syrian conflict have normalized violence and illegitimacy in the country....

Hillary and the NAACP Mob

Edit The American Spectator 20 Jul 2016
At this rate Marilyn Mosby may get a speaking slot at the convention ... She peppered her speech with euphemistic slights at the police and with calls for everyone but criminals to be held “accountable.” Nor did she mention the crisis of illegitimacy and fatherless homes, even as she threw out statistics about infant mortality and deaths from asthma in the black community explained by that crisis ... ....

Voice of the people!

Edit DNA India 19 Jul 2016
--> Ashwani Kumar . Tue, 19 Jul 2016-08.00am , Mumbai , dna. Brexit issue reflects the regressive features of democracy, capitalism and globalisation. Though India’s chief economic adviser and officials in the finance ministry see opportunity in adversity, Brexit threatens to be a much bigger crisis than the financial crisis of 2008 ... Much worse ... It also shows increasingly the illegitimacy of the idea of a welfare state ... ....

Uganda: Besigye's Party Differ Over Direction of Defiance Campaign

Edit Topix 16 Jul 2016
Dr Kizza Besigye in his first press conference on Wednesday, a day after his release from jail, carefully avoided discussing his party's decision to appoint opposition leaders in Parliament. That appointment, according to insiders, took the wind out of Besigye's defiance campaign, designed largely to expose the illegitimacy of the newly-elected ruling NRM government by refusing to work with it ... ....

Scorched earth in South China Sea

Edit Asia Times 14 Jul 2016
China ... Even Itu Aba Island a.k.a ... Cognizant of the fact that the PRC had boycotted the proceedings, aware that the PRC had publicly, repeatedly, and vociferously stated its intention to disregard the ruling, perhaps unofficially contacted by the PRC to receive a heavy-handed threat that an adverse ruling might trigger a PRC withdrawal from UNCLOS and a collapse of the treaty, chafing under PRC accusations of illegitimacy and bias…....

The Millennial’s Guide to Newt Gingrich

Edit Politico 14 Jul 2016
Others say that, behind the scenes, Gingrich is not so phlegmatic ... But hold up ... Its promises included a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution; a crime bill financing prison construction and additional law enforcement; an exhortation to “discourage illegitimacy and teen pregnancy” and reform welfare; increased military spending and decreased participation in the U.N.; capital gains tax cuts; and term limits for legislators ... ....
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