"The results of this article suggest that statistical minorities in stratified democracies can overcome structural biases to influence and frame the news, direct elite discourse, sway public opinion and win at the ballot box. For subordinate groups in democratic polities, though, tactics matter. An “eye for an eye” in response to violent repression may be moral, but this research suggests it may not be strategic."As I please 2David Landon Cole2020-05-25 | ...As I pleaseDavid Landon Cole2020-05-25 | Van Gend en Loos is direct effect Factortame is supremacy Cassis de Dijon is that products manufactured in one state may be sold in any other state, regardless of the other state's regulationsCoronavirus mortality rates in the UK and Ireland, or, some notes on methodsDavid Landon Cole2020-04-13 | The Twitter thread I'm responding to is at twitter.com/laineydoyle/status/1249127908876128259.
The quote comes from Clark, Golder, and Golder's Principles of Comparative Politics, 1st ed, p28
The first time I recorded this video, I used a DSLR, but it wouldn't focus properly. The second time, I recorded with my mobile phone and it came out OK. Because I was recording the video on my phone, I was using a dictaphone to record the sound from my fancy new lav mic. Unfortunately, the dictaphone wasn't working, so I've ended up using the sound captured by the phone with the gain boosted all the way. I hope it's OK.Election Reflections, or Corbyn, Corbynism, and CorbynitesDavid Landon Cole2020-02-26 | In which I ramble about the 2019 General Election, the Labour Party, Brexit, and Jeremy Corbyn. The EDM I mention, #392 of the 2004-05 session, is at edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/26919. The full text is
"That this House welcomes John Pilger's column for the New Statesman issue of 13th December, reminding readers of the devastating human cost of the so-termed 'humanitarian' invasion of Kosovo, led by NATO and the United States in the Spring of 1999, without any sanction of the United Nations Security Council; congratulates John Pilger on his expose of the fraudulent justifications for intervening in a 'genocide' that never really existed in Kosovo; recalls President Clinton's Secretary of Defense William Cohen claimed, entirely without foundation, that 'we've now seen about 100,000 military-aged [Albanian] men missing.....they may have been murdered' and that David Scheffer, the US ambassador-at-large for war crimes, announced with equal inaccuracy that as many as '225,000 ethnic Albanian men aged between 14 and 59' may have been killed; recalls that the leader of a Spanish forensic team sent to Kosovo returned home, complaining angrily that he and his colleagues had become part of 'a semantic pirouette by the war propaganda machines, because we did not find one mass grave'; further recalls that one year later, the International War Crimes Tribunal, a body de facto set up by NATO, announced that the final count of bodies found in Kosovo's 'mass graves' was 2,788; believes the pollution impact of the bombing of Kosovo is still emerging, including the impact of the use of depleted uranium munitions; and calls on the Government to provide full assistance in the clean up of Kosovo."The Extinction Rebellion Cambridge protestDavid Landon Cole2020-02-24 | I went and visited the Extinction Rebellion Cambridge protest - some thoughts on the protest, their demands, and tactics.
I'm getting back into doing YouTube videos, so apologies if the quality's not great. The jump cut near the end is because my phone stopped recording!
XR Cambridge: xrcambridge.org/rebel-for-justiceHi how are youDavid Landon Cole2019-12-16 | The blog post I mention is at davidlandoncole.com/2019/05/cambs4corbyn-and-anti-semitism/. A member of the CLP spoke against my motion and admitted in their remarks that they were responsible for the Facebook page. Thanks to hpesoj00 for spotting that I forgot to include the link!St Neots hustingsDavid Landon Cole2019-12-09 | A hustings held in St Neots for the Huntingdon constituency for the 2019 UK General Elections. Four candidates were present - Samuel Sweek (Labour), Mark Argent (LibDem), Daniel Laycock (Green), and Paul Bullen (Independent). Jonathon Djanogly (Conservative) withdrew from the hustings; Tom Varghese (Independent) was not able to attend. Organised by Christine Green, held at St Neots United Reform Church by kind permission of Pastor Rick.The morning after the #Brexit beforeDavid Landon Cole2018-01-18 | ...Uluṟu sunset timelapseDavid Landon Cole2018-01-18 | ...Mewtwo!David Landon Cole2017-10-01 | Space Fighter Loop Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0Dear @cobratate re: depressionDavid Landon Cole2017-09-08 | ...Sherbornes two castles from the airDavid Landon Cole2017-07-31 | Some footage I took with my drone of the castles in Sherborne.
Introduced by Christine Green and chaired by Father Paul Andrews.
The candidates were Paul Bullen (UKIP), Rod Cantrill (LibDem), Nik Johnson (Labour), and Tom MacLennan (Green). Jonathon Djanogly (Conservative) was not able to attend.
European Court of Auditors annual report for 2014: http://www.eca.europa.eu/en/Pages/DocItem.aspx?did=33470. The bits I used are on p11.
Flowchart of the ordinary legislative procedure from the Fondation Robert Schumann at http://elections-europeennes.robert-schuman.eu/en/le-pouvoir-legislatif/
Text of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex%3A12012E%2FTXT
EP article on the Spitzenkandidaten process: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/news-room/20150526STO59409/Spitzenkandidaten-the-story-of-what-made-last-year's-EP-elections-different
Lisbon Treaty: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=OJ:C:2007:306:FULL&from=EN Proceeding of the European Council regarding EU relations with EFTA countries: https://www.parlament.gv.at/PAKT/EU/XXIV/EU/10/30/EU_103044/imfname_10389263.pdf (see esp paras 29-40)
Declaration of interest: I assisted on the election campaign of my mother in law, Jane Duncan, to become president of RIBA; she has spoken about some of the issues concerning the Garden Bridge’s procurement. What I say in this video does not represent her opinion.In which our hero reappears momentarilyDavid Landon Cole2016-03-14 | The Breakfast Club: youtube.com/channel/UC_PT7MX0__APn9ImvyQvXBARe: Paris shootings: worst fears realizedDavid Landon Cole2015-11-24 | I know I've had disagreements with Thunderf00t before, but I've always tried to keep things civil. I would ask that everyone do the same in this comment section.
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