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Is this how the USA budget and spending laws work?

Take a few mins, about 5, to watch this.

I thought this was interesting. Be warned, some things in the clip are slightly risque.

An excerpt from a book: Throughout recorded time, and probably since the end of the Neolithic Age, there have been three kinds of people in the world, the High, the Middle, and the Low. They have been subdivided in many ways, they have borne countless different names, and their relative...

There is a great wave of refugees exiting Syria and staying for a while in Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan, and Iraq but many are not willing to stay in those countries where they cannot work and cannot live a normal life but must be contained in camps where tents are their homes and rain and snow bring...

This is a very interesting video.

Take a look at this video. It is helpful.

We need a new category in Politics, it ought to be called Economics. But since we do not have Economics I will use World. I think this explanation of banking and the uncertainty that people feel about the safety of their money is a good one. I hope you find it edifying too.

No Taxation without Representation was a catch cry of the USA revolution from 1776 AD onwards. A principle that many still regard as fundamental. Yet in the USA many immigrants who are not citizens pay taxes and cannot vote thus they have no representation despite being taxed. Is this morally...

Listen to this ....

What does one do when one's national leader is a lemon? What if he/she is the leader of the political party you prefer to support?

Australia changed Prime minister last year. The previous incumbent (Tony Abbot) was thrown out by his own party. His replacement (Malcolm Turnbull) is glib and well spoken and not very convincing. The public has lost their liking for him and his popularity is declining. His opponents now appear...

Are fear and ignorance driving our politics? Political debate and political speeches appear to be driven by finding somebody or something to be afraid of and then magnifying it until it dominates people's thinking. Mexican "illegal immigrants", "refugees", "terrorism", "economic ruin", "higher...

Is a person who has fled from Syria to Turkey still seeking asylum or have they found it in Turkey and ought they wait in Turkey until they can return to Syria or until they are settled in some country willing to receive them?

The parody ... The reality ...

It's rather good ...

In Canada's national election, held on Monday 19th October 2015, the Liberal Party appears to have won in excess of 181 seats in the 338 member lower house of Parliament thus effectively ending the government of Stephen Harper. This marks a significant swing to the left in Canadian politics at...

For those who are curious here is a flow chart depicting how votes work in an Australian election. Here is a sample ballot for the recent Canning byelection The above is the Liberal Party's suggested voting order. The Liberal Party is a conservative party in Australia. I hope the above...

This is prefixed "world" only because There's no "Australian" prefix available :P It's Friday in Australia, and in my locale tomorrow is election day. I live in the "canning" electorate and our previous member died of sudden heart failure so we have what is called a by-election on Saturday...