Referendum Farce in Burma

What once felt to me like dignified theatre seems more and more like dangerous farce.

The result, historians agree, was a legal travesty.

But that putsch, thankfully, ended as a farce.

Transparency without accountability becomes meaningless and makes a mockery of good governance.

Meanwhile, the state lurches from fiscal tragedy to fiscal farce.

It's a joke you know.

The actions of the Sudanese government and the southern Sudan Popular Movement, says the blogger, are being seen as a farce لماذا يظل الشعور متزايدا بأن الحكومة السودانية وشريكها في الحكم الحركة الشعبية لايقومان بشئ غير اداء مسرحية باهتة الملامح امام اعين الشعب السوداني.

anasqtiesh The charges against Razan Ghazzawi are a farce.

Karl Marx wrote that history always repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce.

In the latter case, the new (and quite expensive) chairs would be treated as government proxies, making a mockery of the entire exercise.

They ranged from vocal support for the Chinese government, which has labeled the arbitration a farce, to calls for a tougher stance from the government and mockery of the Philippines.

Do such post election changes in direction make a mockery of democracy? How can voters make intelligent judgments when campaigns are so carefully scripted and slickly promoted?

Indeed, they may well have wondered if the cunning ex KGB men around Putin simply wanted to make Kaczynski s Katyn commemoration a mockery?

At the second session of the theatrical military trial, Mohamed and his co defendants were sentenced to 20 years each.

But regional and international pressure on Assad has been ineffective. While the Arab League seemed to act decisively last November when it suspended Syria s membership, the military observer mission that it sent to Syria was a farce.

The Séralini fiasco was only a week old when, on September 26, the Climate Vulnerability Forum, a group of countries led by Bangladesh, launched the second edition of its Global Vulnerability Monitor.

Those front loaded tax increases and government spending cuts plunged the economy deeper into recession, making a farce of claims that the public debt was sustainable and forcing the inevitable debt restructuring after two more agonizing years.