{"id":1571,"date":"2005-04-22T14:26:40","date_gmt":"2005-04-22T21:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=1571"},"modified":"2005-04-22T14:26:40","modified_gmt":"2005-04-22T21:26:40","slug":"1571","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2005\/04\/22\/1571\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/pilger\/pilger26.html\">Truth can be subverted, but for millions of decent Britons the subversion is over, and the penny has finally dropped. For that, they have Blair to thank. On 5 May, they will silently go on strike against a corrupt, undemocratic system, as they did at the last election, producing the lowest turnout since the franchise, including barely a third in some constituencies. Others will come under extraordinary pressure to put aside considerations of basic morality and vote for this &#8220;successful&#8221; Blair government. They \u2013 allow me to change that to you \u2013 ought to be aware of what this will mean for your fellow human beings.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/ny-wochar214226829apr21,0,6705480.story?coll=ny-worldnews-headlines\">The charter members of the board were all well-known international religious figures, except for Bush and his close friend and business partner, Jamal Daniel&#8230;<br \/>\nBesides then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, founding board members included Rene-Samuel Sirat, the former chief rabbi of France; Jordan&#8217;s Prince Hassan, a Muslim dedicated to religious dialogue; the late Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, another prominent Muslim; Olivier Fatio, director of the Institute of the History of the Reformation; and foundation president Metropolitan Damaskinos, a Greek Orthodox leader&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Truth can be subverted, but for millions of decent Britons the subversion is over, and the penny has finally dropped. For that, they have Blair to thank. On 5 May, they will silently go on strike against a corrupt, undemocratic system, as they did at the last election, producing the lowest turnout since the franchise, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-erstwhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}