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Monday, October 29, 2012

UK Parliament: 'Prime Minister's Questions: 24 October 2012'


Source:UK Parliament- Prime Minister David Cameron (Conservative England) United Kingdom.

"Prime Minister, David Cameron, answered questions from MPs in the House of Commons on Wednesday 24 October.
  
Starting at midday, the Prime Minister answers questions from MPs in the Commons for half an hour every Wednesday.
 
In most cases, the session starts with a routine 'open question' from an MP about the Prime Minister's engagements. MPs can then ask supplementary questions on any subject, often one of current political significance.
 
Opposition MPs follow up on this or another topic, usually led by the Leader of the Opposition, Edward Miliband. Normally, he is the only MP allowed to come back with further questions." 

From the UK Parliament

I don't like everything about the United Kingdom's form of government as an American. 

I don't like the fact that the voters can't directly elect their own chief executive, the voters in parties get to elect their own leaders, they do have something that looks like a primary system but. Once the General Election starts in Britain, it's up to who controls the House of Commons that decides who becomes the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the next Parliament. Whereas Americans decide for ourselves who becomes the next President in the next Congress. We directly elect our chief executive and the UK Government is too centralize for me. 

Britain also doesn't have the checks and balances or separation of branches but their system seems to work for them, they don't do everything that I would do and I'm sure they believe we don't do everything they.

But I do like Prime Minister's Questions that they do in the House of Commons and getting to hear the the two main political philosophies in Britain: conservatism and socialism. And getting to hear from their Prime Minister and Opposition Leader. I think that's great for democracy, especially voters and to hear where the two main parties are on the issues in their country.

Euro News: 'Israelis Protest About Illegal African Immigrants'


Source:Euro News- with a look at Israel.

"Israelis have taken to the streets to protest about the number of illegal African immigrants living in their neighourhoods in Tel Aviv. 
Officials estimate 60 thousand people have crossed illegally into Israel in recent years via the desert border with Egypt to look for work. Ministers say the influx of African migrants is a threat to public order." 

From Euro News 

"Euronews (styled on-air in lowercase as euronews) is a European television news network, headquartered in Lyon, France. The network began broadcasting on 1 January 1993 and covers world news from a European perspective.

The majority of Euronews (88%) is owned by Portuguese investment management firm Alpac Capital[2][3][4] with the rest partly owned by several European and North African public and state-owned broadcasting organizations.

It is a provider of livestreamed news, which can be viewed in most of the world (with the exceptions of the United States, Canada, Turkey, Singapore, China, Cuba, and North Korea)[citation needed] via its website, on YouTube, and on various mobile devices and digital media players, including Fubo TV, Sling TV, Pluto TV and Haystack News." 

From Wikipedia

America not the only country with Jewish-African tensions. America is not the only country that has a nationalist-right in it that tends to look down upon immigrants who aren't from the majority racial or ethnic backgrounds of the country. 

Israel is by far the most pro-Jewish country in the world and even though it does have Arab, Greek, and Slavic minorities, it wants to remain the Jewish State of Israel indefinitely.