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Silencing NGOs -- How Authoritarian Regimes Silence Dissent
Despite ongoing efforts by NGOs to raise important human rights issues before the UN Human Rights Council, abusive regimes including China, Pakistan, Egypt, Iran, and others continue to stonewall and silence criticism and those that seek to shine a spotlight on grave human rights abuse around the world.
Tags: Council, dissent, Human, Iran, Nations, of, order, point, Rights, Sharia, silencing, Tibet, UN, United, Watch
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10 Questions For The Dalai Lama 2-9
10 QUESTIONS FOR THE DALAI LAMA
When China invaded Tibet in 1950, it promised to bring modernity to the isolated feudal kingdom. Instead, it brought a reign of religious and cultural repression that drove into exile the Tibetan government, including its supreme religious and political leader, the Dalai Lama. At his cottage in McLeod Ganj, India, the Dalai Lama, spoke with TIME's Alex Perry.
HOW IS THE SITUATION IN TIBET?
Despite some economic improvement and development, the threats to our cultural heritage, religious freedom and environment are serious. In the countryside, facilities in education and health are very, very poor. It's like the big gap in China proper between rich and poor.
IS THERE ANY REASON FOR OPTIMISM?
Many communist and authoritarian regimes have changed,...
Tags: Aggression, Buddhism, Buddhist, China, Compassion, Dalai, Free, Freedom, His, Holiness, India, Lama, Lhasa, Non, Peace, Tibet, Violence
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JEWISH FOUNDERS OF THE SECULAR REGIME IN TURKEY
Visit http://atajew.com for more information.
The following quotation is from "The Secret Jews", Dr. Joachim Prinz, Random House, 1973, page 122:
"..The revolt of the Young Turks in 1908 against the authoritarian regime of Sultan Abdul Hamid began among the intellectuals of Salonika. It was from there that the demand for a constitutional regime originated. Among the leaders of the revolution which resulted in a more modern government in Turkey were Djavid Bey and Mustafa Kemal. Both were ardent 'doenmehs' [Jew]. Djavid Bey became minister of finance; Mustafa Kemal became the leader of the new regime and he adopted the name of Ataturk. His opponents tried to use his 'doenmeh' background to unseat him, but without success. Too many of the Young Turks in the newly formed revolutionary...
Tags: Ataturk, Caliph, Crypto, Doenmeh, Donmeh, Freemason, Je, Jewish, Kemal, Khilafah, Mustafa, Ottoman, Sabbatean, Sultan, Turkey, Zionism
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GNN Workshop: Brazil
In July, 2002, Guerrilla News Network was invited to lead a workshop with video production students at the 34th UFMG Winter Festival in Diamantina, Brasil. The goal of the workshop was to conceive, shoot, edit and design a video for exhibition at the end of the Festival. O Ciclone Lento e Sutil (The Quiet and Subtle Cyclone) was produced by GNN with 17 students using 3 mini DV cameras and 1.5 Final Cut Pro edit stations over a 10 day period.
The Quiet and Subtle Cyclone is a design-enriched investigation of the process and effects that authoritarian regimes have on the citizenry. Using the government of Argentinian General Jorge Videla as a case study, our work focused on three specific scenarios, namely: the loss of language and the freedom to communicate, the loss of citizenship...
Tags: cyclone
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Johan Norberg: The Record of Liberalization
Naomi Klein's recent book, The Shock Doctrine, points to the cases in which authoritarian regimes liberalized their economies. Johan Norberg, in his recent analysis, "The Klein Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Polemics," shows that most countries have liberalized over the last three decades and capitalism is given rise to many of the ends that Klein herself would appreciate.
Tags: cato, doctrine, institute, johan, klein, naomi, norberg, shock
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The Challenges of Democracy in Latin America
Carlos Mateo Balmelli, President of the National Senate in Paraguay, explores how Latin American countries can establish democracy in societies recovering from authoritarian regimes with Paraguay itself experiencing the region's longest dictatorship under Alfredo Stroessner who ruled for 35 years until 1989.
Series: "Voices" [3/2005] [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 9349]
Tags: America, Carlos, democracy, Latin, Mateo, Paraguay
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Only the Rivers Run Free
Inspired by the fact that a huge percent of the world's population lives under oppresive or authoritarian regimes
Tags: Acoustic, Ballad, Folk, Political, Renninger, Ron, Singer, Songwriter
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Bad Religion - Punkrock Song lyrics
A term associated with Count Otto von Bismarck, the Prussian Chancellor (Prime Minister) who united Germany by absorbing the states into Prussia.
It means the politics of power, disregarding the human consequences, doing whatever is necessary to achieve the ends desired.
Adolf Hitler interpreted it as the policy of signing treaties without any intention of carrying them out. (In 1942 Ribbentrop gave him a birthday present of all the treaties he had ignored.)
It could also be applied to Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger in the negotiations to end the Vietnam war. Saturation bombing of Hanoi was turned on and off in order to compel north Vietnamese agreement. Kissinger received the Nobel Peace prize, which should perhaps be renamed the Realpolitik prize.
Much of modern diplomacy and...
Tags: alternatief, Bad, bismarck, grey, lyrics, otto, punkrock, race, Religion, song, the, von
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The Stalin Monologues, Episode 2
Big Joe Stalin sets the record straight about his authoritarian regime. Stalin isn't just some Hitler clone, or some anti-Semitic fascist, he's a Stalinist! He kills indiscriminately, like a real authoritarian would. More black comedy from Gary A. Ballard. Brought to you by The Game of Angst, at http://gameangst.blogspot.com. Other episodes available at http://stalinmonologues.blogspot.com
Tags: Bush, Comedy, Communism, Fascism, Fascists, Hitler, Politics, Satire, Stalin
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Practice Space - Vampire State
FOR MORE PRACTICE SPACE GO TO:
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Tracking the Filipino band Vampire State to their practice space near the Capitol Parish Church proved a lot simpler than we thought it was going to be. Our concern that the rigidly Catholic doctrine espoused by yet another authoritarian regime masquerading as a democracy in Manila might infringe on the younger generation's freedom of rock-spression was unfounded at best. These kids were fucking amp'd on political punk. Armed with a refreshing call-to-arms vibe that has been sadly hijacked here in the States by panhandling hobos with a couple of Conflict patches and a dog on rope, Vampire State ARE punk. I guess living in a country where a police state actually does exist makes you a bit harder than...
Tags: cebu, city, practice, punk, space, state, tv, vampire, vice, viceland, www.vbs.tv
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Authors@Google: Ian Bremmer
Authors@Google welcomed Ian Bremmer to the NY office Friday May 4th 2007. Ian Bremmer is president of the Eurasia Group, a political risk advisory and consulting firm. He is also a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute and a columnist for the Financial Times.
Ian Bremmer received his PhD in political science from Stanford University in 1994, specializing in nation- and state-building in the former Soviet Union. Bremmer went on to the faculty of the Hoover Institution where, at 25, he became the Institution's youngest ever National Fellow. He has held research and faculty positions at Columbia University, the EastWest Institute, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the World Policy Institute, where he has served as Senior Fellow since 1997. His research focuses on states in...
Tags: Authors@Google, Bremmer, Curve, Ian, J, The
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Kim Jong Il, A Great Leader, A Great Man (Part 1:Propaganda)
STRONGLY SUGGEST YOU TO CHECK OUT PART 2: The Truth!!!!
Part 1 of Michael and Jay's first documentary: History project on dictators about the use of propaganda in an authoritarian regime. It was meant for a 10-year old audience, but it is universal. We hope you enjoy it.
Produced/Edited by: Jay and Michael. Narrated by: Michael.
Web Manager: Jay
Sources listed at end of video
Tags: dictators, documentary, history, ib, Il, jong, kim, korea, korean, north, political, project, propaganda
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1986 Edsa Revolution People Power
People Power Revolution
The People Power Revolution (also known as the EDSA Revolution and the Philippine Revolution of 1986) was a series of nonviolent and prayerful mass street demonstrations in the Philippines that occurred in 1986. It is sometimes referred to as the Yellow Revolution due to presence of yellow ribbons during the arrival of Ninoy Aquino. These protests were the culmination of a long resistance by the people against the 20-year running authoritarian regime of then current president Ferdinand Marcos and made news headlines as "the revolution that surprised the world". The majority of the demonstrations took place at Epifanio de los Santos Avenue, known more commonly by its acronym EDSA, in Quezon City, Metropolitan Manila and involved over 200,000 Filipino civilians as...
Tags: Aquino, Cory, Enrile, Fidel, Gregorio, Honasan, Juan, Laban, Ninoy, People, Philippines, Pilipinas, Pinoy, Ponce, Power, Ramos, Revolution
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The hidden history of Armenian genocide
The plans of the 1915-23 Armenian Genocide, where a million and half Armenians perished in a barbaric way in their ancestral lands in modern Turkey, actually were drawn up and were in place by the year 1910 or 1912.
In Istanbul, which was the capital and the power center of the Ottoman Empire, there was only few thousands (less than 10,000) Jews and some 200,000 Armenians and Greeks who controlled the trade, finances and arts of the Empire. Jews and Christians were in strong competition through hundreds of years of the life of the empire. Jews were the losers always because the Sultans listened to and favored the Christians. For the Zionist Jews to take over Turkey, its Christians had to be eliminated; and that is another ugly facade of the first Genocide of the 20th Century in...
Tags: Armenian, Christian, Crypto, donmeh, holocaust, Israel, Istanbul, Jew, Ottoman, Palestine, Rothschild, Sabbatai, Sultan, Turks, young
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Kim Jong Il, A Great Leader, A Great Man (Part 2: The Truth)
Part 2 of Michael and Jay's first documentary: History project on dictators about the use of propaganda in an authoritarian regime. It was meant for a 10-year old audience, but it is universal. We hope you enjoy it.
Produced/Edited by: Jay and Michael. Narrated by: Michael.
Web Manager: Jay Sources listed at end of video
Tags: dictatorship, documentary, history, ib, il, jong, kim, korea, north, project, propaganda
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Big changes for the Paraguayan society
IN THE PAPERS : End of an authoritarian regime in Paraguay - "Lula says no renegotiating of Itaipu treaty..." - "Delanoë irritates Beijing by supporting the Dalai Lama" - A controversial beauty pageant for landmine victims.
Tags: 24, Big, changes, Delano, France, Paraguayan, press, review, society
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Shao Jiang on Human Rights
If we don't oppose authoritarian regimes using the liberties we currently have, then one day we'll end up like the regimes we tolerated
Tags: politics
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EDSA: A DANGEROUS LIFE PART 1/33
A Dangerous Life is a 1988 English-language film about the 1986 People Power Revolution in the Philippines directed by Robert Markowitz and written by David Williamson. It was originally released as a six-hour HBO mini-series in the United States and was later edited down as a 162-minute television movie.
NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENDED.
The People Power Revolution (also known as the EDSA Revolution and the Philippine Revolution of 1986) was a series of nonviolent and prayerful mass street demonstrations in the Philippines that occurred in 1986. It is sometimes referred to as the Yellow Revolution due to the presence of yellow ribbons during the arrival of Ninoy Aquino. These protests were the culmination of a long resistance by the people against the 20-year running authoritarian...
Tags: aquino, benigno, corazon, cory, dangerous, edsa, ferdinand, imelda, law, life, marcos, martial, ninoy, people, philippines, power
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EDSA: A DANGEROUS LIFE PART 2/33
A Dangerous Life is a 1988 English-language film about the 1986 People Power Revolution in the Philippines directed by Robert Markowitz and written by David Williamson. It was originally released as a six-hour HBO mini-series in the United States and was later edited down as a 162-minute television movie.
NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENDED.
The People Power Revolution (also known as the EDSA Revolution and the Philippine Revolution of 1986) was a series of nonviolent and prayerful mass street demonstrations in the Philippines that occurred in 1986. It is sometimes referred to as the Yellow Revolution due to the presence of yellow ribbons during the arrival of Ninoy Aquino. These protests were the culmination of a long resistance by the people against the 20-year running authoritarian...
Tags: aquino, benigno, corazon, cory, dangerous, edsa, ferdinand, imelda, law, life, marcos, martial, ninoy, people, philippines, power
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EDSA: A DANGEROUS LIFE PART 6/33
A Dangerous Life is a 1988 English-language film about the 1986 People Power Revolution in the Philippines directed by Robert Markowitz and written by David Williamson. It was originally released as a six-hour HBO mini-series in the United States and was later edited down as a 162-minute television movie.
NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENDED.
The People Power Revolution (also known as the EDSA Revolution and the Philippine Revolution of 1986) was a series of nonviolent and prayerful mass street demonstrations in the Philippines that occurred in 1986. It is sometimes referred to as the Yellow Revolution due to the presence of yellow ribbons during the arrival of Ninoy Aquino. These protests were the culmination of a long resistance by the people against the 20-year running authoritarian...
Tags: aquino, benigno, corazon, cory, dangerous, edsa, ferdinand, imelda, law, life, marcos, martial, ninoy, people, philippines, power
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