Mr. Normand Douglas
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Joined Jan 2025
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Jan 03, 2025 1 subscriber 33 posts
Balanced and unbiased political reporting, offering a centrist perspective on current events and policies.
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The bets on the President of the Republic and Tasoulas (we’ll see…), Nikos, Stefanos, and Louka (...
Greetings!If Mitsotakis’s choice for the President of the Republic (PoR) were being wagered by bookies today, the odds would likely stand at 70%-30% in favor of Tasoulas. This is because the weekend’s buzz that the Prime Minister is seriously considering—besi…
Sarkozy must wear electronic tag after losing graft case appeal
PARIS - France's highest appeals court ordered former president Nicolas Sarkozy to wear an electronic tag for a year Wednesday -- a first for a former head of state -- after confirming his convictions for corruption and influence peddling.
The West Is Not Dying, but It Is Working on It
Western power is as strong as ever. What has changed is that the combination of socialism for financiers, collapsing prospects for the bottom 50%, and the surrender of our minds to Big Tech has given rise to overweening Western elites with little use for the …
Rising butter prices give European consumers and bakers a bad taste
PARIS — Pastry chef Arnaud Delmontel rolls out dough for croissants and pains au chocolat that later emerge golden and fragrant from the oven in his Paris patisserie. The price for the butter so essential to the pastries has shot up in recent months, by 25%…HOW BARACK OBAMA BUILT AN OMNIPOTENT THOUGHT-MACHINE, AND HOW IT WAS DESTROYED
If anyone in the future cares enough to write an authentic history of the 2024 presidential campaign, they might begin by noting that American politics exists downstream of American culture, which is a deep and broad river. Like any river, American culture fo…
The Ultimate Analysis of the Election and What Democrats Need to do Next
Since everyone has taken a shot at it, here’s mine. Donald Trump eked out almost a point and a half plurality over Kamala Harris. A margin this small can be explained by any number of factors. In no particular order: Some of those contain quite a bit, and I’v…
Places that matter and places that don't: territorial revenge and counter-revenge in Poland
Adamiak, Czeslaw, Rodriguez-Pose, Andres ORCID: 0000-0002-8041-0856 , Churski, Pawel, Dubownik, Anna, Pietrzykowski, Maciej, Szyda, Barbara and Rosik, Piotr (2024) Places that matter and places that don't: territorial revenge and counter-revenge in Poland. Te…
Can solutions journalism work for local newsrooms?
The news is often quite good at being bad — as in deeply negative and depressing. This systemic negativity in news coverage, in one estimation, has gone from being “a mere ‘news value’ to an overarching ‘news ideology.” And it’s not without consequence: It’s …6th Circuit Wrongly Rejects Federal Jurisdiction Over Essential Broadband Internet Access Services
On Thursday, a three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit ruled against the Federal Communications Commission's 2024 Net Neutrality rulemaking, which empowered the agency to protect internet users against all manner of abuse by major …
