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...anywhere else, Africans have another, more rueful reason to take note of electoral contests 10,000 miles away: the transparent and hotly contested race bears such stark contrast to recent elections in their own countries, which have been marred by opacity, vote-rigging and tribal politics. There has been widespread violence in the aftermath of Kenya's Dec. 27 poll, with the country split along tribal lines. Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times recently reported that members of Obama's Luo ethnic group are supporting him, while rival Kikuyus are vociferously backing Clinton. "People do stand back...
...crisis of confidence," says Gustavo de Arístegui, the PP's foreign affairs spokesperson and a candidate for parliamentary reelection. "Their economic policies have been very risky, very irresponsible, and Spanish families are paying the price." The PP has also linked economic woes to what it believes is widespread anxiety over Spain's burgeoning immigrant population. During Monday's debate, Rajoy blamed Zapatero for 2005's mass regularization of immigrants, arguing that they "couldn't all fit." Borrowing a page from French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Rajoy also repeated his party's call for greater "control and order" of immigrants...
...reality is that the FCC will shy away from addressing these more important issues, hoping that its academic debate about network management might serve as a salve for the widespread criticism that it’s asleep at the digital switch...
...Indeed, in the hours preceding the FCC vote, Martin blithely acknowledged that the new rule would make it harder for people of color and women to own broadcast stations. Martin has also been the subject of widespread criticism from the civil rights community for other efforts that would hamper African-American television programmers such as a la carte pricing and his campaign to award large swaths of cable channel space to incumbent broadcasters at the potential expense of programmers of color. The civil rights community accused the FCC and its chairman of aping an “anti-diversity agenda...
...It’s all fine and good for the FCC to have dog and pony shows to respond to Silicon Valley lobbyists. But the real business of the FCC—ensuring a widespread diversity of voices on the nation’s airways—is under attack. The FCC would better serve the public by staying home and attending to real business of the people...