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2017-02-04 Thread Molly Hankwitz
[digested @ nettime -- mod (tb)] Molly Hankwitz <mollyhankw...@gmail.com> Re: will someone explain petition for new election Re: will someone e

Re: will someone explain

2017-02-04 Thread Carsten Agger
On 02/04/2017 04:47 AM, Scot Mcphee wrote: (after the death of Nero) Thus it variously motivated minds, not only in the city amongst the fathers, the people and the urban soldiers, but it roused all the legions and their leaders: for the secret of the empire was divulged - it was possible to

Re: will someone explain

2017-02-04 Thread John Hopkins
On 03/Feb/17 20:47, Scot Mcphee wrote: Tacitus seems to understand it pretty well: *ita varios motus animorum non modo in urbe apud patres aut populum aut urbanum militem, sed omnis legiones ducesque conciverat, evulgato imperii arcano posse principem alibi quam Romae fieri. *(Tac. Hist. 1.4)

Re: will someone explain

2017-02-04 Thread Scot Mcphee
On 4 February 2017 at 07:32, Keith Hart wrote: > Why ask Americans to explain? Would you expect Romans to understand > the Empire, better to ask a Greek slave. Tacitus seems to understand it pretty well: *ita varios motus animorum non modo in urbe apud patres aut

Re: will someone explain

2017-02-03 Thread Keith Hart
Why ask Americans to explain? Would you expect Romans to understand the Empire, better to ask a Greek slave. In any case, there is no better account of what makes the Americans tick than Alexis de Tocqueville's. Incidentally the French government sent him there with a mate to study the prison

Re: will someone explain

2017-02-03 Thread Patrice Riemens
gly constructed with -checks and > balences- so as to ensure that the President can never be a > dictator/king/emperor. > > And yet it appears (at least froma distance) that he is able through > this instrument called -executive orders- to do whatever he likes. Can > someone explain

Re: will someone explain

2017-02-02 Thread KMV
Ben is on target. Additionally, while it seems there are constitutional grounds to challenge quite a few things Trump is doing, it requires not only the political will from the other branches to mount the challenge, but the further will to force the matter if Trump and others alied

will someone explain

2017-02-02 Thread David Garcia
that the President can never be a dictator/king/emperor. And yet it appears (at least froma distance) that he is able through this instrument called -executive orders- to do whatever he likes. Can someone explain this apparent contradiction. Has he (or Bannon) introduced in his campaign (and now in government