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Likewise, the Italian populist Beppe Grillo’s attempt to empower ordinary citizens is not a cause for concern; but his claim that his Five Star Movement deserves nothing less than 100% of seats in parliament, because all other contenders are corrupt and immoral, certainly is.
This might be tolerable when it comes to ordinary goods – not everyone can have a yacht; but when it comes to an essential resource, we must ensure access on an equitable basis.
As the late Nobel laureate Elinor Ostrom demonstrated, ordinary people are capable of sharing resources and avoiding the “tragedy of the commons.”
Companies fear for their intellectual property; ordinary citizens worry about how their private information might be used and abused.
Above all, ordinary people must call for systemic change.
Of course, ordinary citizens – again, especially young people – also have a responsibility to help bring about effective climate action.
In many areas, frustration with inter-governmental intransigence and incompetence has sparked extraordinary innovation by non-governmental organizations, corporations, and ordinary people.
But for the past twenty years their blatant political chicanery has been met with a potent new force: the massed voices of ordinary people who refuse to be cowed.
Only when the courage of millions of ordinary Ukrainians gathered in central Kyiv galvanized world opinion did the US and EU marshal the courage to stand up for an honest election result.
While the Orange Revolution made ordinary Ukrainians more conscious of their rights than ever before, this alone cannot guarantee that they are certain to see those rights vindicated in the coming weeks.
In the short run, of course, the US behaves like an ordinary power.
With interest rates already very low, advanced economies’ central bankers know that they must go beyond ordinary monetary policy – or lose credibility on inflation.
Will it be able to exercise authority and ensure security for ordinary Libyans, thereby preventing a recurrence of the blood vendettas that shattered Iraq after Saddam’s fall?
Ordinary Ukrainians aspire to law and order; businessmen want their playing field to be leveled with the richest and most well connected.
Ecologists and other environmental scientists bear some of the blame for failing to make their concerns meaningful to ordinary people.
But, while commentators debate geostrategic considerations, deterrence, ethnic strife, and the plight of ordinary people caught in the middle, dispassionate discussion of another, vital aspect of conflict – its economic cost – is rare.
Resorting to thugs to carry out widespread intimidation, and blaming violence on the largely peaceful protests of hundreds of thousands of ordinary Egyptians, as their government has done, is not a good omen.
Given the opportunity to govern honestly and peacefully for a few years, the administrations of Presidents Obasanjo and Wahid could make vast improvements in the lives of ordinary Nigerians and Indonesians.
Furthermore, because governments did not trust one another, they insisted on including in treaties what would normally belong in ordinary legislation.
The truth is that ordinary Cubans are more oppressed by a personal embargo, one that has transformed them into blindfolded and muzzled pawns.
The old standoff between the two nations is beside the point to ordinary people; they desire a closer relationship with the US, where many of their families and friends live.
Ordinary citizens want to own a modest business, have access to a free press, organize political parties, re-make society, and liberate prisoners.
In other words, ordinary people should not be made to suffer for the foibles of policymakers enthralled by some defunct economic theory.
Some on the left, motivated in part by revulsion against financial types who are thought to reap unjustified incomes, have joined forces with conventional economists, whose almost religious belief in their models has blinded them to the harm their dubious economic theory can do to the real economy and the interests of ordinary people.
And, judging from the public’s enthusiastic support, so would ordinary Japanese.
Yet in recent years, topics about which most people had never heard or cared – for example, securitization, credit default swaps, and the European payment system known as Target 2 – have imposed themselves on public debate, forcing ordinary people to grapple with their intricacies.
They are, however, relatively effective at preventing the movement of ordinary people.
That would vastly improve the overall computer-security situation: Ordinary people would feel secure and law enforcement and security specialists could focus on the biggest threats.
Soviet communism was doomed long before then, when, as Amalrik predicted, the communist myth finally died in the hearts and minds of ordinary people and officials alike.
Moreover, the way ordinary Chinese rallied to help victims of the earthquake in Sichuan has been quite remarkable, as have been the spontaneous efforts of people in Burma to assist their fellow citizens, even as the military did very little.
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