Een eerbetoon aan Howard Zinn

Conversations with History: Chalmers Johnson

DECLINE of EMPIRES: The Signs of Decay

"I Voted Each And Every Time AGAINST The Patriot Act" Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez todaysnewsvideos

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United States House Committee on Homeland Security

The U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security is a standing committee of the United States House of Representatives, the lower house of Congress. Its responsibilities include U.S. security legislation and oversight of the Department of Homeland Security.

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With his famous wit and insight, Vidal also demonstrates the ways in which the "War on Terrorism" is being used to curtail civil liberties and shred the Bill of Rights

Gore Vidal on Understanding America's Terrorist Crisis

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Op maandag 10 juni 2013 16:04 schreef deelnemer het volgende:

Howard Zinn - You Can't Be Neutral On A Moving Train

Howard Zinn: You can't be neutral on a moving train (1/2)

Howard Zinn: You can't be neutral on a moving train (2/2)

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2002 documentary about the April 2002 Venezuelan coup attempt which briefly deposed Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. The documentary says that the coup was the result of a conspiracy between various old guard and anti-Chávez factions within Venezuela and the United States.

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Chavez: Inside the Coup

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His 2007 film The War on Democracy was Pilger's first to be released in the cinema. It was named Best Documentary at the 2008 One World Media Awards.[34] The film explores the role of US intervention since the 1950s, overt and covert, in toppling a series of governments in the region. The film also explores the attempted overthrow of Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez in 2002.

The War on Democracy by John Pilger

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'Stealing A Nation' is a film about the plight of the Chagos Islands, whose indigenous population was secretly and brutally expelled by British Governments in the late 1960s and early 1970s to make way for an American military base.

Stealing A Nation - John Pilger [HD]

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The War You Don't See challenges the media for the role they played in the Iraq, Afghanistan, and Israel/Palestine conflicts.

The War You Don't See.

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The New Rulers of the World (2001) Pilger investigates the realities of globalisation by taking a close look at Indonesia."

John Pilger - The New rulers of The World

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John Pilger in conversation with Charles Glass looks back on half a century of reporting from around the world.

Reflections with John Pilger

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Kissinger cables

The Kissinger Cables are 1.7 million United States diplomatic and intelligence records dating from 1973 to 1976 that WikiLeaks republished in April 2013.

At the time Henry Kissinger was the United States Secretary of State and National Security Adviser. They had previously been declassified and released by the U.S. government; all the records are from the National Archives and Record Administration. The cables can be searched for using a search engine provided by WikiLeaks at the Public Library of United States Diplomacy, a special page on the Wikileaks website.

In one of the documents, Kissinger, who authored many of the 205,901 cables that deal with his activities, was quoted as saying "The illegal we do immediately; the unconstitutional takes a little longer."

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Henry Kissinger

Since he left office, some efforts have been made to hold Kissinger responsible for perceived injustices of American foreign policy during his tenure in government. Christopher Hitchens, the late British-American journalist and author, was highly critical of Kissinger, authoring The Trial of Henry Kissinger, in which Hitchens called for the prosecution of Kissinger "for war crimes, for crimes against humanity, and for offenses against common or customary or international law, including conspiracy to commit murder, kidnap, and torture".

The Trials Of Henry Kissinger.

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Daniel Ellsberg is a former American military analyst employed by the RAND Corporation who precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of government decision-making about the Vietnam War, to The New York Times and other newspapers.

Conversations with History: Daniel Ellsberg

Authors@Google: Daniel Ellsberg

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In the documentary The Secret Government, Bill Moyers exposes the inner workings of a secret government much more vast that most people would ever imagine. Though originally broadcast in 1987, it is even more relevant today. Interviews with respected top military, intelligence, and government insiders reveal both the history and secret objectives of powerful groups in the hidden shadows of our government.

The Secret Government - The Constitution In Crisis (PBS 1987)

Sheldon Wolin

Sheldon Wolin cont.

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Bill Moyers speaks with the journalist after the release of "Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt," the book Hedges co-authored with fellow reporter and artist Joe Sacco. The 50-minute conversation is followed by a segment on Sacco, who talks about the thinking and experiences that moved him to become a "comics journalist."

Chris Hedges Sits Down With Bill Moyers

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Op vrijdag 12 juli 2013 22:26 schreef heite het volgende:
Is dit het topic waar je youtubefilmpjes dumpt die geen hond gaat kijken?

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Op vrijdag 12 juli 2013 23:22 schreef Bram_van_Loon het volgende:
Heite, spreek alsjeblieft voor jezelf.
Gezien het grote aantal filmpjes zou ik het echter wel op prijs stellen als wordt aanbevolen met welke paar filmpjes te starten.

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Newly disclosed emails obtained by the Associated Press show former Indiana governor Mitch Daniels sought to remove Howard Zinn's work from state classrooms just weeks after the historian's death in 2010.

Daniels wrote, "This terrible anti-American academic has finally passed away." After he described "A People's History" as a "truly execrable, anti-factual piece of disinformation that misstates American history on every page," Daniels asked: "Can someone assure me that it is not in use anywhere in Indiana? If it is, how do we get rid of it before more young people are force-fed a totally false version of our history?''

Censoring Howard Zinn: Former Indiana Gov. Tried to Remove "A People's History" From State Schools

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Op dinsdag 23 juli 2013 11:19 schreef Klopkoek het volgende:

Net zoals door allerlei krachten jarenlang is ontkend dat speculanten doelbewust de voedselprijzen opdrijven. Nee, nee, dat komt door overbevolking. Niet door boze speculanten.

Maar nu heeft een uitgelekt intern memo van Goldman Sachs duidelijk laten zien dat de prijzen van allerlei grondstoffen en voedsel wel zo'n 30-40% hoger ligt dankzij de speculanten. De man die dit heeft laten lekken is een held.

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This hour long documentary follows the award-winning reporter Greg Palast on the trail of the Bush family: Bush Family Fortunes: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy

Bush Family Fortunes (2003)

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Austerity was named "Word of the Year" for 2010.

This documentary explains the nature of capitalist crisis, visits the protests against austerity measures, and recommends revolutionary paths for the future.

Capitalism Is The Crisis (Full Movie)

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Op woensdag 7 augustus 2013 10:21 schreef robin007bond het volgende:

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Are some big players about to leave the commodities market?

The subject being debated in Washington is whether or not deposit-taking U.S. banks should be permitted to trade in physical commodities like oil, minerals, and agricultural products. At issue is how regulators can effectively assess the safety of citizens’ bank deposits in the incredibly complex and volatile world of commodity trading. Such a ruling to take deposit banks out of commodities would eliminate players like JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs from the commodity trading business. In fact, the 10 biggest banks on Wall Street earned about $6 billion in commodity trading revenue last year, proving that American banks are more than just sideline players in the commodity markets.

Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley were both historically permitted to trade in commodities because they were investment banks, but during the American financial meltdown of 2008, they became bank holding companies which had retail banking subsidiaries. At the time, the U.S. Federal Reserve gave them a five-year grace period to exit physical commodity trading, and that grace period expires in September 2013. With $7.7 billion in commodity holdings in their March 31 financial statement, it certainly does not appear that Goldman Sachs has been exiting the commodity business approaching the September deadline. To be clear, most of the invested capital is in energy and minerals, but agriculture still holds a portion of this portfolio.

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Senate looks into the role of banks in commodities

Significant risks to the nation’s financial system and to taxpayers are the potential consequences of continuing to allow the country’s largest financial institutions to own commodities units that store and ship vast quantities of metals, oil and the other basic building blocks of the economy, several witnesses warned a Senate panel on Tuesday.

The ability of those bank subsidiaries to gather nonpublic information on commodities stores and shipping also could give the banks an unfair advantage in the markets and cost consumers billions of dollars, the witnesses said.

The Senate Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection subcommittee convened the hearing to explore whether financial companies should control power plants, warehouses and oil refineries.

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JPMorgan Chase subsidiary to pay $410 million penalty in electricity pricing scheme

On March 14, 2011, Blythe Masters, head of JPMorgan Chase’s global commodities group, asked one of her top deputies why California power officials were making ominous inquiries into the bank’s arcane and lucrative business of selling electricity. Five months earlier, Masters had been given a spreadsheet predicting that this line of business would generate profits of $1.5 billion to $2 billion by 2018.

Francis Dunleavy, the Houston-based executive in charge, replied in an e-mail that he would handle the matter, but added that “it may not be pretty.”

On Tuesday, JPMorgan Chase agreed to a record $410 million settlement of accusations by government regulators of manipulating electricity prices in California and the Midwest.

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'Taking Responsibility': German Banking Giant Quits Food Speculation

The DZ Bank decision highlights the deep differences among German financial institutions when it comes to the controversial practice of speculating on foodstuffs. Commerzbank and several Landesbanken (state-owned savings banks) had previously announced their intention to back out of food commodities speculation. But neither Deutsche Bank nor Allianz has followed them. Both say that it has not been proven that speculation on foodstuffs results in hunger and shortages.

Organizations such as Foodwatch disagree, pointing to studies showing that speculation leads to price bubbles. For DZ Bank, the risk was simply too great. The bank quietly announced in January that it was suspending such trading indefinitely, but few took notice. In its letter to Foodwatch, board member Lille was much clearer. He said the bank welcomes the fact that the effects of speculation on food prices are being intensively studied.

The letter says that DZ Bank will allow securities based on agricultural commodities to expire in 2013 and has ceased purchasing agricultural derivatives from other banks. The same holds true for funds managed by Union Investment.

Hille also made clear in the letter that his bank supports the creation of stricter financial market regulations. DZ Bank would like to see "controls on transaction volumes, particularly the introduction of effective position limits for exchanges and central clearing platforms." In other words, DZ Bank would like to limit the degree to which hedge funds and other speculators participate in so-called over-the-counter, or off-exchange, trading. Such limits existed until the beginning of the 2000s, but were then eliminated as deregulation progressed. Since then, the share of speculators on agricultural commodities markets has risen from 30 percent to 80 percent.

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Robert Waterman McChesneys work concentrates on the history and political economy of communication, emphasizing the role media play in democratic and capitalist societies. He is among the most widely read and honored communication scholars in the world today. His work has been professionally translated into 30 languages.

R. McChesney: Media and Politics in the United States Today

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Op zaterdag 10 augustus 2013 18:51 schreef Paper_Tiger het volgende:
Het leuke aan dit topic is dat nu blijkt dat TS en ik humanitair op een lijn zitten maar dat in de praktijk dus heel anders benaderen.

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Op zaterdag 10 augustus 2013 21:25 schreef Paper_Tiger het volgende:

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Ik ben zowel voor persoonlijke als financiële vrijheid en ben tegen iedere vorm van macht over andere mensen. Mensen die geloven in overheden zijn de mensen die als links of recht betiteld kunnen worden.

Je conclusie is onzin. Beide groepen mensen kunnen prima naast elkaar leven in eenzelfde maatschappij.

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International observers point to a coming Asian century that will be dominated by the economic strength and political power of China and India. Some suggest the success of Indian unity and democracy, and recent surge in economic growth signal India's imminent emergence as a global superpower.

In an IDRC public lecture, renowned Indian historian and biographer Ramachandra Guha critically explored India's future on the world stage. Analyzing the deep fault-lines within Indian society, politics, economics, and culture, he suggested that talk of Indian superstardom is highly premature.

Ramachandra Guha: Ten reasons why India will not and must not become a superpower

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This Documentary is to those who claim that, "India has moved on, there is nothing called untouchability or cast-ism in India today". This is to show them the picture they failed to see till now, to remove the curtain of their eyes. Those who claim that their should not be special rights for those belonging to backward castes..and they should be for poors.."This is how the 'Higher Castes' treat a Schedule Caste/Scheduled Tribe no matter what his financial state is". You talk about equality and a fight with equal stature..where is that equal stature now? If those rights are not fair, which are meant for them to lift them up from their low status, to give them a right to stand at 'equal' within a society, then is it fair that those so called "Savarnas..Higher Caste" are pushing them back in a deeper pit of backwardness, of social negligence, underdeveloped, poverty, and a state from where no one even gives a damn what will happen to that particular group of society...Is that Fair? Is it human?

India Untouched: Research Documentary! (Screened in Satyamev Jayate 8th July 2012)

Michael Moore - The Big One (german sub) 1-6

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We Are Slowly Dying": Fast Food Workers Launch Strike For Living Wage and Right to Unionize

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Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Code Pink, author of Drone Warfare, Killing by Remote Control, speaking about Drones at a talk called by World Can't Wait and Debra Sweet on July 29, 2013

Medea Benjamin: Drones, Endless War

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Medea Benjamin vs President Obama: CodePink Founder Disrupts Speech, Criticizing Drone, Gitmo Policy

Medea Benjamin v. President Obama: CodePink Founder Disrupts Speech, Criticizing Drone, Gitmo Policy

"That Woman Is Worth Paying Attention To": Medea Benjamin Explains Why She Disrupted Obama's Speech

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Journalist Jeremy Scahill spoke at The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy NY on May 22, 2013 on the eve of President Obama's address on drone policy.

Jeremy Scahill "How Do You Surrender To A Drone?"

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The CIA dating service

News Video courtship of a terrorist and his bride

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Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

Born into a poor Mahar Dalit family, Ambedkar campaigned against social discrimination, the system of Chaturvarna – the categorisation of Hindu society into four varnas – and the Hindu caste system.

As independent India's first law minister, he was principal architect of Constitution of India. Barack Obama, president of USA, referred to Dr. Ambedkar as a founding father of modern India during his address speech in Indian Parliament. The poll conducted by CNN-IBN titled "The Greatest Indian since Gandhi" resulted in Ambedkar being voted above all.

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De film “Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar: The Untold Truth”

Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar is a 2000 Indian feature filmin English language, directed by Jabbar Patel. It tells the story of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, known mainly for his contributions in shaping the Constitution of India, as the chairman of the Drafting Committee of the Indian Constituent Assembly.

The role of Ambedkar was played by actor Mammootty: He won the National Film Award for Best Actor that year. Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar won the National Film Awards for Best feature film in English and Best Art Direction (Nitin Chandrakant Desai) in 1999.

Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar: The Untold Truth' [HD] Full Movie in English

Tribute to Dr Ambedkar at Columbia University: Prof. Nicolas Dirks

Tribute to Dr Ambedkar at Columbia University: Prof. Nicolas Dirks

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Gandhi & the Caste System – it may surprise you!

Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar Interview-1955

Tweestrijd Gandhi en Ambedkar

Ambedkar eiste tijdens deze tweede Ronde Tafel Conferentie aparte verkiezingen voor alle onderdrukte klassen, waaronder niet alleen kastelozen, maar ook inheemse volkeren en vrouwen. Gandhi was hier fel op tegen en liet het uiteindelijk op een hongerstaking aankomen.

Reconciling Gandhi With Ambedkar

The historian Ramachandra Guha of the London School of Economics details a complicated yet complementary relationship between two of India’s dynamic founding fathers.

According to Professor Guha, while both Mr. Gandhi and Mr. Ambedkar fought against the caste system — a form of human taxonomy Professor Guha deemed “the most sophisticated, subtle, and diabolical form of social exclusion and discrimination invented by human beings” — their approaches were vastly different. Mr. Gandhi, an upper-caste member of the elite, challenged the caste system from above, in its highest echelons, as Mr. Ambedkar, the 14th child of a Dalit sepoy in the Indian Army, challenged it from below. And while Mr. Gandhi’s views on caste evolved slowly over the years, he remained deeply spiritual and sought social change within Hinduism. Mr. Ambedkar, on the other hand, favored using the state as an instrument for establishing forward-thinking social policies. Though he was born a Hindu, he often swore he wouldn’t die one, and, true to his word, he converted to Buddhism along with 200,000 of his followers weeks before his death in 1956.

Professor Guha said that Mr. Ambedkar’s selection as an architect of the Constitution was truly ahead of its time: “that a person who, under traditional Hindu law was not allowed into someone’s home, was now writing the Constitution, was as radical a step as Barack Obama becoming president of the United States 60 years later.”

Gandhi: The Story of my Experiments with Truth

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Castes in India: Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development

Dr. Ambedkar has evaluated that the endogamy (absence of intermarriage) is the only one that can be called the essence of caste and only characteristic that is peculiar to caste.

Kastenstelsel

De term Varna (= kleur) verwijst naar de oude en enigszins geďdealiseerde viervoudige onderverdeling van de hindoeďstische maatschappij:
• Brahmanen, de priesterlijke en geleerde klasse;
• Kshatriya's, de strijders en de heersers;
• Vaishya's, de landbouwers en de handelaars;
• Shudra's, de burgers en arbeiders.

De dalits (kastelozen) werden door Mahatma Gandhi de Harijans genoemd, wat betekent: "de kinderen van God". Hoewel de Shudrastatus in 1949 onwettig werd verklaard, is de weerstand tegen verandering sterk, vooral in plattelandsgebieden.

Hindoes geloven dat de kaste waarin iemand geboren wordt afhankelijk is van het karma uit de vorige levens. De Boeddha erkende het belang van het kastenstelsel niet. Ieder persoon kon, onafhankelijk van zijn kaste, bij hem monnik worden. Hij zei dat een brahmaan (een brahmaanse priester) niet heilig is doordat hij in een bepaalde familie geboren is of omdat zijn moeder brahmaanse is. Maar in wie waarheid is, en wie nergens meer aan hecht, is volgens de Boeddha een ware brahmaan.

A revivalist for Buddhism in India, Ambedkar inspired the Modernist Buddhist Movement in Maharashtra which is spreading all across India is also called Dalit Buddhist movement.

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Theory And Practice - Conversations With Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn

Theory And Practice-Conversations With Chomsky & Zinn

Noam Chomsky on "Democracy's Endgame?" (with Arundhati Roy and Amy Goodman)

Malalai Joya and Noam Chomsky at Harvard

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Withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan

During his 2013 State of the Union Address Barack Obama announced that 34,000 US troops will leave Afghanistan by February 2014, but did not specify what the post-2014 troop levels would be.

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President Obama was giving in early July 2013 serious consideration to speeding up the withdrawal of United States forces from Afghanistan and to a zero option that would leave no American troops there after 2014.

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Op zaterdag 9 november 2013 13:27 schreef robin007bond het volgende:

Edit: Wat vind jij eigenlijk van The Venus Project? Klinkt voor mij nog erg futuristisch.

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Jacque Fresco (born March 13, 1916), is an American self-taught structural designer, architectural designer, concept artist, educator, and futurist. Fresco writes and lectures his views concerning sustainable cities, energy efficiency, natural-resource management, cybernetic technology, advanced automation, and the role of science in society. With his colleague, Roxanne Meadows, he is the founder and director of The Venus Project. As an outspoken social critic, Fresco advocates global implementation of a socioeconomic system of social cooperation, technological automation, and scientific methodology, which he refers to as a 'resource-based economy.

Jacque Fresco - What the Future Holds Beyond 2000 - Nichols College (1999)

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Op zondag 10 november 2013 16:51 schreef robin007bond het volgende:
Zo is Karl Popper volgens velen niet meer 'the king of science' met zijn falsifieerbaarheid, want het blijkt dat in veel wetenschappen falsifieerbaarheid gewoon niet mogelijk is.

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Op donderdag 14 november 2013 11:54 schreef Opnieuw-energie het volgende:

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I hate it when somebody is right!

De intentie ontbreekt om huidige systemen te doorbreken, aan mooie woorden en documentaires geen gebrek. Wel aan moed om zaken anders te gaan benaderen en mogelijkheden mogelijk te maken voor alternatieve manieren van probleemoplossingen.

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Op vrijdag 15 november 2013 21:08 schreef Opnieuw-energie het volgende:

Alan Watt: Shock And Awe - The Manipulation Of The Human Psyche (Full Version)

Ik hoop dat je deze niet erg vindt deelnemer, voor velen toch de moeite waard denk ik.

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Op zaterdag 16 november 2013 09:39 schreef Opnieuw-energie het volgende:

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Bedankt voor je commentaar deelnemer.

Zelf ook een paar opmerkingen.

Ik vind dat het mensen toch minimaal aan het denken zou moeten zetten over de onderwerpen die hij bespreekt, velen slaan door, maar heeft hij enige valide punten is de vraag? En is het de moeite die te onderzoeken.

1 Hij spreekt over de concentratie van macht en besluitvoering, wat aan de andere kant zorgt voor machteloosheid bij de gewone man, de zogenaamde expert society. Heeft hij hier een punt? En is dit wat wij zouden moeten willen en is het gunstig voor ons.

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2 Massamanipulatie en of het inleggen van meningen die voorgevormd zijn? Heeft hij hierin gelijk en is dit de ideale manier van het leren kritisch denken van de massa, en worden wij daar dociel van door gebrek aan interactie en de mate waarin alles voorgekauwd wordt?

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De weg naar slavernij

Hayek's centrale stelling is dat alle vormen van collectivisme logisch en onvermijdelijk leiden tot tirannie. Hij gebruikt de Sovjet-Unie en nazi-Duitsland als voorbeelden van landen die "de weg tot slavernij" hadden afgelegd en tirannie hadden bereikt.

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3 Is er een geleidelijke aanval op het gezin gekomen door middel van de introductie van individualiteit en het nastreven van een vooropgezet en doelbewust in stand gehouden materialistisch ideaal waarin de persoon en zijn of haar kansen en ontwikkeling centraal staan?

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4 Zijn de voorgenoemde trends fictief en de toevallige samenloop van de complexiteit waar je over spreekt, of zit daar een behoorlijke PR machine achter die dit dan wel gecoördineerd of ongecoördineerd aanstuurt en is stand houdt?

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Op donderdag 14 november 2013 11:48 schreef deelnemer het volgende:
Tu Wei-ming (Chinese filosofie: confusianisme)
A World of Ideas with Bill Moyers - Tu Wei-ming (A Confucian Life in America)

Du Weiming 2001/02/01 (01) Harvard University Moral Reasoning 40 Tu Wei-ming 杜维� �佛大学

Du Weiming 2001/02/06 (02) Harvard University Moral Reasoning 40 Tu Wei-ming 杜维� �佛大学

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Op donderdag 14 november 2013 14:37 schreef Opnieuw-energie het volgende:

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Daadkracht vergt moed

Maar je hebt gelijk als je zegt dat de machtsmotieven ongezond zijn, egoďstisch zou ik zeggen. Maar het is haast ondoenlijk om zulke structuren te doorbreken als diezelfde machthebbers haast op monopoly zitten.

Dan worden wij steeds afhankelijker van steeds minder mensen, dat vernauwt mijn inziens het aanbod en de richting van de maatschappij. Dat doorbreken zou een begin zijn.

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The discussion spanned a wide range of subjects, including the relationship between markets and morality, justice, and the future of education.

Michael Sandel in conversation with AC Grayling (1/3)

Michael Sandel in conversation with AC Grayling (2/3)

Michael Sandel in conversation with AC Grayling (3/3)

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South Korea and Japan consider history textbook with China

Several politicians in South Korea and Japan have begun exploring the possibility of a joint history textbook between their nations and China. But given the lingering differences over issues ranging from past wars to current territorial claims, the proposal faces numerous hurdles.

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Emanuel Pastreich

Pastreich is director of The Asia Institute, a think tank that conducts research on the intersection of international relations, the environment and technology in East Asia.

Korea, China & Japan The History that Unlocks the Future (part 1)

Korea, China & Japan The History that Unlocks the Future (part 2)

Korea, China & Japan The History that Unlocks the Future (part 3)

A Brief History of Korean History, From a Historical Perspective. Historically.

Rewriting Korean History -- Royal Asiatic Society Korea Lecture

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Lecture presented by David C. Kang, Professor and Director, USC Korean Studies Institute, giving a workshop on Korea. This lecture provides a short overview of Korean history, politics, and North Korea. Intended to introduce broad themes in Korean history to a general audience, the lecture emphasizes Korea's historical and contemporary international relations, its dynamic experiences during the 20th century, and a discussion of the people of North Korea.

An Overview of Korea - Full

North Korea Beyond the Headlines PART 1: Introducing North Korea

North Korea Beyond the Headlines PART 2: Dealing with North Korea's Military Challenge

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This is a lecture from the lecture series The Politics and Ethics of the Rise of China hosted by the Ethics and Public Life program of Cornell University.

The Politics and Ethics of the Rise of China: David Kang

Webcast 19 - David Kang - Whose Land is This? East Asia's Territorial Disputes

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Myanmar, a diverse country of over 55 million people has entered a new era of unprecedented democratic reform after decades of military rule. The success of the country's transition hinges on peace negotiations with multiple armed ethnic groups. These minorities represent more than one-third of the population in the resource-rich borderlands of the country. In the past year, ceasefire agreements have been signed with 13 rebel armies, but one conflict in Kachin state remains the key stumbling block.

101 East - Myanmar's fragile peace

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Op zondag 12 januari 2014 23:39 schreef deelnemer het volgende:

101 East - Myanmar's fragile peace

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Kachin State

The majority of the state's 1.2 million inhabitants are ethnic Kachin, also known as Jinghpaw. The state is home to other ethnic groups including the Rawang, Lisu, Zaiwa, Lawngwaw, Lachik, Bamar, Shan and a small number of Tibetans. Christianity (Protestant and Roman Catholic) is the main religion in Kachin State. The Kachin language is the state's lingua franca.

Renewed fighting between the Kachin Independence Army and the Burmese army began on June 9, 2011 at Ta-pein hydropower plant and continued throughout 2012. Initial reports suggested that from June to September 2011 a total of 5,580 Internally Displaced Persons from 1,397 households arrived at 38 IDP camps under Myanmar Government control.[13]

In August, 2012 Thousands of Kachin refugees were forced by the Chinese Government back into Myanmar despite the continued fighting there, calls to cease such action by NGOs like Human Rights Watch and the illegality of doing so under international law.[14]

As of Oct 9, 2012, over 100,000 IDPs are taking shelter in various camps across Kachin State. The majority of IDPs (est. 70,000) are currently sheltering in KIA controlled territory.[15] Fatality estimates were difficult to estimate but most reports suggested that between government troops, Kachin Independence Army rebels, and civilians upwards of 1,000 people had died in the conflict.

People & Power - Blood and Gold: Inside Burma's Hidden War

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The Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO) and government peace makers pledged to work together towards a nation-wide ceasefire on Thursday, marking the end of a three-day round of meetings in the state capital Myitkyina.

Kachin peace agreement

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Saffron Revolution

In August 2007, an increase in the price of diesel andpetrol led to a series of anti-government protests that were dealt with harshly by the government. The protests then became a campaign of civil resistance(also called the Saffron Revolution. led by Buddhist monks, hundreds of whom defied the house arrest of democracy advocate Aung San Suu Kyi to pay their respects at the gate of her house. The government finally cracked down on them on 26 September 2007.

Inside the Protests - Burma

Frost over the World - Myanmar - 28 Sep 07

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Karen people

Reports as recently as February, 2010, state that the Burmese army continues to burn Karen villages, displacing thousands of people.[17] Many Karen, including people such as former KNU secretary Padoh Mahn Sha Lah Phan and his daughter, Zoya Phan, have accused the military government of Burma of ethnic cleansing.

Video from Burma: SHOOT ON SIGHT

Burma's ethnic cleansing vs Karenni Army

101 East - The world's longest ongoing war

No peace without ethnic rights

Caught in a Two-Front War in Post-Ceasefire Karen State door Karen News

Suu Kyi visits refugee camp in Thailand

2013 review

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Military rule

On 2 March 1962, the military led by General Ne Win took control of Burma through a coup d'étatand the government has been under direct or indirect control by the military since then.

In May 1990, the government held free elections for the first time in almost 30 years and the National League for Democracy (NLD), the party of Aung San Suu Kyi, won 392 out of a total 489 seats (80% of the seats).

However, the military junta refused to cede power and continued to rule the nation as the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) until 1997, and then as the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) until its dissolution in March 2011.

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Roadmap to democracy

1. Reconvening of the National Convention that has been adjourned since 1996.

2. After the successful holding of the National Convention, step by step implementation of the process necessary for the emergence of a genuine and disciplined democratic system.

3. Drafting of a new constitution in accordance with basic principles and detailed basic principles laid down by the National Convention.

4. Adoption of the constitution through national referendum.

5. Holding of free and fair elections for Pyithu Hluttaws (Legislative bodies) according to the new constitution.

6. Convening of Hluttaws attended by Hluttaw members in accordance with the new constitution.

7. Building a modern, developed and democratic nation by the state leaders elected by the Hluttaw; and the government and other central organs formed by the Hluttaw.

Dealing with the Devil - Burma

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Several attempts have been made to conclude a form of peace with Burma's military junta, the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), but with little success. The 2004 peace talks yielded only an informal ceasefire which the regime used to reinforce their frontline troops. Analysts realized this was a ruse, and sure enough, offensives against KNU held areas have resumed in earnest.

Black Friday Massacre - Burma

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Announcement Nos 1/2008 and 2/2008 issued

Approval of the Constitution draft will be sought in National Referendum to be held in May 2008. In accordance with the forthcoming state Constitution the multi-party democracy general elections will be held in 2010.

Myanmar - National Referendum to be held in May 2008

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Burmese constitutional referendum, 2008

Among the changes that the referendum seeks to make are:

- One quarter of all parliamentary seats would be reserved for military officers.

- The Ministry of Home Affairs would fall exclusively under military control.

- Anyone married to a non-Burmese would be barred from running for the office of president.

First cyclone, now 'sham' vote CNN

Dissidents Denounce Burma Referendum

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Documentary about the road to the November 2010 elections in Burma/Myanmar. The film deals with the circumstances surrounding these first elections in Burma since 1991:
- the new constitution
- the fraud during the 2008 referendum
- the generals that took of their uniform and became civilian politician overnight,
- the so-called independent political parties
- the elections boycott by the National League of Democracy.

101 East - Myanmar elections

The Generals' Elections in Burma (Documentary - 2010)

The Story Behind Burma's Elections - Burma

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Op zaterdag 18 januari 2014 22:35 schreef waht het volgende:
Wat maakt Birma zo relevant?

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Burmese by-elections, 2012

The by-elections occurred on 1 April 2012 and the NLD won 43 of the 45 available seats. The 2012 by-elections were also the first time that international representatives were allowed to monitor the voting process in Burma.

(ENGLISH) Aung San Suu Kyi's 2012 Campaign TV Speech w/ English subtitles

Burma After the Election

Aung San Suu Kyi takes seat in Burma parliament

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Myanmar President U Thein Sein first exclusive TV interview with an international broadcaster. President Thein Sein reveals his plans to navigate for Myanmar's potentially difficult journey towards democracy.

Myanmar President Thein Sein Interview with Channel NewsAsia

BBC HARDtalk - U Thein Sein - President of Burma (2/10/12)

Road to Democracy - Myanmar's election struggle

101 East - Myanmar's Turn

President Obama Speaks at the University of Yangon (HD)

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Freedom from Fear speech by Aung Sang Suu Kyi, 1990

It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.

Most Burmese are familiar with the four a-gati, the four kinds of corruption. Chanda-gati, corruption induced by desire, is deviation from the right path in pursuit of bribes or for the sake of those one loves. Dosa-gati is taking the wrong path to spite those against whom one bears ill will, and moga-gati is aberration due to ignorance. But perhaps the worst of the four is bhaya-gati, for not only does bhaya, fear, stifle and slowly destroy all sense of right and wrong, it so often lies at the root of the other three kinds of corruption.

Just as chanda-gati, when not the result of sheer avarice, can be caused by fear of want or fear of losing the goodwill of those one loves, so fear of being surpassed, humiliated or injured in some way can provide the impetus for ill will. And it would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear. With so close a relationship between fear and corruption it is little wonder that in any society where fear is rife corruption in all forms becomes deeply entrenched.

Public dissatisfaction with economic hardships has been seen as the chief cause of the movement for democracy in Burma, sparked off by the student demonstrations 1988. It is true that years of incoherent policies, inept official measures, burgeoning inflation and falling real income had turned the country into an economic shambles. But it was more than the difficulties of eking out a barely acceptable standard of living that had eroded the patience of a traditionally good-natured, quiescent people - it was also the humiliation of a way of life disfigured by corruption and fear.

Rangoon University set to reopen

101 East - Restoring Rangoon

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This is the place where WOII never ended.

The Britisch armed the minorities in Myanmar to fight against the Japanese. The Japanese armed the Burmese nationalists who took over the goverment of this country after independence (the leader of the Burmese independent army Aung San is the father of Aung San Suu Kyi). The civil war led tot he emergence of a strong Burmese army that took over in 1962 (the militairy coup). Much of Burmese history of the last 70 years was shaped by the battle fields that were created in WOII.

Burma, My Father and the Forgotten Army BBC full documentary 2013

Burma: The forgotten war.

The Bridge On The River Kwai (NG)

Burmese Campaign in World War II - The Stilwell Road (1945)

Myanmar in Transition

Counting the Cost - Myanmar: A land of opportunity?

Myanmar & Oil-Gas Pipeline - China moves in (6 June 2013)

China's Myanmar problem

Rediscovering Myanmar (How India is embracing its long lost brother)

Mercedes-Benz Showroom Grand Opening in Yangon, Myanmar

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Burma's history and the current political situation in the country, focusing on China's involvement in Burma's politics and economy.

China, Burma, and the Kokang War of August 2009

Who Is The Drug King of the Golden Triangle?

Who really killed Aung San? Vol 1

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Slavery and the Making of America

Slavery and the Making of America is a four-part series documenting the history of American slavery from its beginnings in the British colonies to its end in the Southern states and the years of post-Civil War Reconstruction. Drawing on a wealth of recent scholarship, it looks at slavery as an integral part of a developing nation, challenging the long held notion that slavery was exclusively a Southern enterprise. At the same time, by focusing on the remarkable stories of individual slaves, it offers new perspectives on the slave experience and testifies to the active role that Africans and African Americans took in surviving their bondage and shaping their own lives.

(Indentured servant)

Slavery And The Making Of America

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Slavery by another name

“Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II” is a book by American writer Douglas A. Blackmon, that explores the forced labor of imprisoned black men and women through the convict lease system used by states, local governments, white farmers, and corporations after the American Civil War until World War II in the southern United States.

Slavery by Another Name PBS Documentary 2012)

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Freedom Riders

Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and following years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia (1946) and Boynton v. Virginia (1960), which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional. The Southern states had ignored the rulings and the federal government did nothing to enforce them. The first Freedom Ride left Washington, D.C., on May 4, 1961, and was scheduled to arrive in New Orleans on May 17.

Freedom Riders (A Documentary on NonViolent Civil Right Movement in the US)

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Eyes on the Prize

A total of 14 episodes of Eyes on the Prize were produced over two seasons.

The first season, Eyes on the Prize I: America's Civil Rights Years 19541964, consists of six episodes, which premiered on January 21, 1987 and concluded on February 25, 1987.

The second season, Eyes on the Prize II: America at the Racial Crossroads 1965-1985, consists of eight episodes, which aired on January 15, 1990 and ended on March 5, 1990.

Since its debut, the series has been lauded for its depiction of the Civil Rights Movement. The documentary is used extensively in primary and secondary schools, as well as, other educational settings as a way to convey the experiences and struggle for civil rights in the United States.

Eyes on the Prize - 01- Awakenings, 1954-1956

Eyes on the Prize - 02 - Fighting Back, 1957-1962

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Michelle Alexander, highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, Associate Professor of Law at Ohio State University, and author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, delivers the 30th Annual George E. Kent Lecture, in honor of the late George E. Kent, who was one of the earliest tenured African American professors at the University of Chicago.

Michelle Alexander, author of "The New Jim Crow" - 2013 George E. Kent Lecture

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Op vrijdag 14 februari 2014 03:32 schreef Fir3fly het volgende:
Hoe kan iemand die zoveel onzin verkondigd zoveel goede informatie verzamelen?

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Cynthia McLeod studied the life of Elisabeth Samson for over five years. Samson was a free Negress whose name occurs prominently in historical works on Suriname because she wanted to marry a white man (which was forbidden in the colony Suriname during the first half of the 18th century). The results of this research were first published as a study by the Faculty of Cultural Anthropology of the University of Utrecht. For eight years subsequently McLeod studied the social structure and life of that period, which allowed her to position Elisabeth as a rich free black person in this society dominated by prejudices and white supremacy. She then wrote the highly captivating novel: The Free Negress Elisabeth.

Lecture: UC Regents Professor Cynthia McLeod about Elisabeth Samson and the Surinamese Slave Society

100 jaar afschaffing slavernij Suriname (Documentaire uit 1963)

Uit de erfenis van slavernij: Plantageleven Curaçao 6/19

Uit de erfenis van slavernij: Plantageleven Suriname 7/19

Wij slaven van Suriname: Anton de Kom (1 van 6)

Suriname 1973-1982 Deel 1

The Battle for Suriname's Rainforest

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One year ago this month, the young Internet freedom activist and groundbreaking programmer Aaron Swartz took his own life. Swartz died shortly before he was set to go to trial for downloading millions of academic articles from servers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology based on the belief that the articles should be freely available online. At the time he committed suicide, Swartz was facing 35 years in prison, a penalty supporters called excessively harsh.

The Internet's Own Boy - Film on Aaron Swartz Captures Late Activist's Struggle for Online Freedom

Aaron Swartz: How We Stopped SOPA

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Prior to the demographic transition, fertility in northwestern Europe was controlled by limiting marriage. Marriage was regulated by landowners and the churches, and was not allowed unless a man had accumulated the resources necessary to support a family. Long periods of being landless, a servant, or an apprentice, precluded marriage. Once married, there was no control of fertility. But, only about half of adults were married at any given time, so fertility was about half of what it might have been.

00:00 - Chapter 1. Fertility Control in Europe
13:41 - Chapter 2. Human Sexuality and Birth Control in Victorian Europe
27:14 - Chapter 3. Individual Empowerment in the Fertility Transition
43:44 - Chapter 4. Explanations for Fertility Transition
58:54 - Chapter 5. Conclusion of Fertility Transition

9. Demographic Transition in Europe

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Op maandag 24 februari 2014 10:26 schreef deelnemer het volgende:
Long periods of being landless, a servant, or an apprentice, precluded marriage.

The Unknown History of England's Domestic Servants (Full Documentary)

Secrets from the Workhouse Ep 1 HD

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Op donderdag 27 februari 2014 12:46 schreef waht het volgende:

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Heeft ook een leuk boek geschreven genaamd Marketing Rebellion (vrij te verkrijgen), over de manier waarop organisaties die voor hulpbehoevenden opkomen strijden voor de beperkte middelen die via overheid of liefdadigheid worden aangeboden. Zoals altijd klopt de rooskleurige publieke perceptie niet, in de basis is het strijd, het al dan niet nobele doeleinde verandert daar niets aan.

http://www.docstoc.com/do(...)llion-_ie-WikiLeaks_

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Heraclitus' gedachte dat alles altijd verandert formuleerde Plato met de woorden "panta rhei" (alles stroomt). Later voegde men er "kai ouden menei" (en niets blijft) aan toe. Men illustreert dit door te stellen dat je nooit twee keer in dezelfde rivier kunt stappen, omdat de tweede keer dat je erin stapt, je, door de stroming, in ander water gestapt zult zijn dan de eerste keer. Zijn leerling Kratylos trok deze consequentie nog verder door en stelde dat je nooit één keer in dezelfde rivier kon stappen. Een ander voorbeeld is de cyclus van het lichaam: wanneer het lichaam sterft, verteert het en daaruit ontstaat nieuw leven, aldus Heraclitus.

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Nog belangrijker dan de leer van de verandering was voor hem echter de leer van de eenheid der tegendelen. Tegenovergestelde spanningen zijn toch op elkaar afgestemd. Zo heb je zonder dag geen nacht. Een pad omhoog is ook hetzelfde pad als het pad omlaag. Als er geen tegenspraak was, had je volgens Heraclitus geen werkelijkheid.

Wellicht was Heraclitus daarom een voorstander van oorlog, omdat in de strijd tegendelen samenwerken om een beweging te scheppen die harmonie is. "Du choc des opinions jaillit la lumičre", zeggen de Fransen. Uit de botsing der meningen ontspringt de waarheid. Dit is om te zetten naar "twist en tegenspraak zijn onvermijdelijk".

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We speak to Yale University History Professor Timothy Snyder. His latest article for The New York Review of Books is "Ukraine: The Haze of Propaganda."

We also speak to retired CIA analyst Ray McGovern. He focused on Russian foreign policy for the first decade of his 27-year career with the Agency. He recently wrote an article titled, "Ukraine: One 'Regime Change' Too Many?"

Who Is Provoking the Unrest in Ukraine? A Debate on Role of Russia, U.S. in Regional Crisis (1/2)

Who Is Provoking the Unrest in Ukraine? A Debate on Role of Russia, U.S. in Regional Crisis (2/2)

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Timothy Snyder: Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin

Snyders thesis is that the 'bloodlands', a region which comprised what is modern-day Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia and the Baltic states, is the area where the regimes of Stalin and Hitler, despite their conflicting goals, interacted to increase suffering and bloodshed many times worse than any seen in western history.

Timothy Snyder Discusses "Bloodlands" at The Ukrainian Museum of Modern Art

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Where they (Nazi-German en USSR) cannot agree, is Ukraine. Both imperial visions, both ideologies, as they are put into practice, depend upon controle of Ukraine. It is therefore impossible for them to agree about Ukraine. It is therefore not suprising that Ukraine is the central theater of the war. Ukraine is where more people died than anywhere else. Ukraine is where the Holocaust begins. Ukraine is where famine is, and so on (35:10 - 35:32).

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Rus krijgt verknipt beeld Oekraďne

"In Oekraďne heeft een fascistische staatsgreep plaatsgevonden. De hoofdstad Kiev is goeddeels in de as gelegd. Gewapende bendes zwerven er door de straten. De staat is geďmplodeerd en de politie is machteloos. Ultranationalistische strijdgroepen trekken op naar de Russisch-sprekende oostelijke delen van Oekraďne en de Krim om ieder verzet de kop in te drukken. Tienduizenden vluchtelingen trekken de grens over om in Rusland een veilig heenkomen te zoeken."

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The Panama Deception

The Panama Deception gaat over de ware redenen achter de Amerikaanse invasie in Panama in 1989. Hoewel de oorspronkelijke motivatie de bescherming van Amerikaanse militairen en het herstel van democratie heette, wilde de Verenigde Staten in werkelijkheid haar regelgeving met harde hand doorvoeren in het Centraal-Amerikaanse land, nadat Manuel Noriega onbruikbaar werd. In plaats van op de indertijd gemaakte mediaverslaggeving, baseert The Panama Deception zich met name op getuige-verslaggeving en deskundigen. Er is ruim aandacht voor de media-manipulatie en zelfcensuur die de Amerikaanse bevolking een ander beeld voorschotelde, dan wat er zich in werkelijkheid afspeelde.

The Panama Deception - US Invasion Of Panama

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The Fog of War

Robert McNamara was Secretary of Defense van de Verenigde Staten onder de presidenten John F. Kennedy en Lyndon B. Johnson. In The Fog of War vertelt hij aan de hand van 'elf geleerde lessen' over de ervaringen en inzichten die hij in functie opdeed. McNamara wordt geďnterviewd en bespreekt hoogte- en dieptepunten, waarbij archiefbeelden ter illustratie dienen. Onder meer zijn rol in de Tweede Wereldoorlog, de Cubacrisis en de Vietnamoorlog komen aan bod.

The Fog of War - Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara

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Ameriquest

Ameriquest was founded by Roland Arnall in 1979, in Orange County, California, as a savings and loan association, or thrift, called Long Beach Savings & Loan. The bank moved to Orange County in 1991 and was converted to a pure mortgage lender in 1994, and renamed Long Beach Mortgage Co.

Ameriquest was one of the United States' largest sub-prime mortgage lender until it was shut down in September 2007. Ameriquest originated the stated income loan, which allowed potential borrowers to state their income without any process of verification. Many of these stated income loans were the catalyst to the ultimate failure of Ameriquest itself, and a key factor in the 2007 subprime mortgage financial crisis.

In February 2005, reporters Michael Hudson (reporter) and Scott Reckard broke a story in the Los Angeles Times about “boiler room” sales tactics at Ameriquest. Their investigation found evidence that the lender had in various questionable practices, including “deceiving borrowers about the terms of their loans, forging documents, falsifying appraisals and fabricating borrowers' income to qualify them for loans they couldn't afford.”

Subprime lenders made $587 billion in new mortgages in 2004, up from $390 billion in 2003, according to National Mortgage News. Ameriquest's share of that is estimated at over $50 billion.

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Roland Arnal becomes ambassador to the Netherlands in 2006

On August 1, 2005, President George W Bush nominated Arnall to become the U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands. The Senate approved his nomination on February 9, 2006. Arnall was installed as ambassador on March 8, 2006 when Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands received Arnall's letters of credence.

Hilarious "Don't judge too quickly" Ameriquest series

Dean's Speaker Series: Bethany McLean - Loyola's Quinlan School of Business

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To discuss how the super-rich have willfully confused their self-interest with America's interest, Bill Moyers is joined by Rolling Stone magazine's Matt Taibbi, who regularly shines his spotlight on scandals involving big business and government, and journalist Chrystia Freeland, author of the new book Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else.

Matt Taibbi and Chrystia Freeland on the One Percent's Power and Privileges

Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else (Full Session)

The One Percent

Crisis in Ukraine: How Should U.S. and Europe Respond? | Institute of Politics

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On March 7, Foreign Policy at Brookings hosted a discussion on the crisis in Ukraine, looking at where the crisis might go next and how the U.S. and Europe might respond to and defuse the standoff between Ukraine and Russia.

The Crisis in Ukraine

'Last thing US wants in the world is democracy. It wants control'

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Sophie Shevardnadze

Sophie Shevardnadze is the granddaughter of former Georgian President and Soviet minister of foreign affairs Eduard Shevardnadze, and was known to join him on some high-level meetings between the Soviets and the Americans when she was in her teens.[3][4] She was born in the Georgian SSR, Soviet Union but moved to France at age 10, then moved to the United States.

Sophie on Russian FM Sergey Lavrov's first ever selfie (ft Sophie's selfie face)

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Nina Khrushcheva is the great-granddaughter of Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev and a member of the faculty of the Julien J. Studley Graduate Program in International Affairs as a scholar of public policy, culture, and media.

Nina L. Khrushcheva: The Lost Khrushchev | The New School for Public Engagement

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Nobel Prize winner and MIT Professor Emeritus Robert M. Solow discusses inequality and equitable growth at the launch of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth.

Interview with Robert Solow about Equitable Growth (Long Version)

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Op vrijdag 30 mei 2014 12:47 schreef Montagui het volgende:
Docu van een half uur over Oekraďne, met vooral de focus 'Right Sector' en de 'Separatisten'.

The Battle for Ukraine Frontline Documentry

TED - Drones, how they work ? The basics explained.

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The use of militarized drones -- flying unmanned aircraft equipped with weaponry -- represents a major shift in the calculus of war and combat. Three leading thinkers debate the perils and promises of drone warfare.

Drone Warfare: Prospects and Dangers

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After Ukraine's decisive election of Petro Poroshenko what next for the country?

Hromadke.TV, in conduction with the AtlanticCouncil, is hosting a special discussion on the future of Ukraine. What steps does Ukraine need to take to fulfill its democratic, free and European dream? And what role can the West play to help Ukrainians move forward.

Hromadske.tv - an initiative of prominent Ukrainian journalists aimed to create a public multimedia platform, which provides unbiased and uncensored information about important social issues based on open editorial policy with transparent funding.

Atlantic Council is a think tank that promotes transatlantic leadership to face global challenges and has played an active role in covering the crisis in Ukraine.

#MaidanLivesOn: From Revolution to Reform

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Experts discuss the ongoing crisis in Ukraine and provide recommendations for U.S. policy going forward.

This meeting is part of the "What to Do About" series, which highlights specific issues and features experts who put forward competing analyses and policy prescriptions in a mock high-level U.S. government meeting.

What To Do About Russia and Ukraine

Newsroom Mezhyhirya: The story of YanukovychLeaks. (Documentary)

Delivering Bulletproof Vests to the Ukrainian Army: Russian Roulette (Dispatch 46)

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Like other Asia-Pacific nations, Australia is hopeful that the regional interests of its treaty ally, the United States, and its most important trading partner, China, can be balanced to its own long-term advantage. Professor of Strategic Studies at Australian National University Hugh White has been a leading advocate for the view that Australia cannot hope to maintain a neutral distance between the U.S. and China; it will have to choose between them. His analysis, if correct, holds major implications not only for Australia, China, and the U.S., but for every Asia-Pacific nation.

Taking China Seriously: Replacing the Pivot With a Policy That Works

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The Islamic State, a hardline Sunni jihadist group that formerly had ties to al Qaeda, has conquered large swathes of Iraq and Syria. Previously known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the group has announced its intention to reestablish the caliphate and has declared its leader, the shadowy Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as the caliph.

The Islamic State (Full Length)

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Same - Same But Different , is a documentary about Peace in Timor Leste

Same-Same But Different - Timor Leste

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Op woensdag 26 november 2014 18:16 schreef robin007bond het volgende:

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Zeker een beetje zoals het boek van David Graeber?

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Op zondag 23 november 2014 17:01 schreef deelnemer het volgende:

Myths of the American Mind: Money Part I

Myths of the American Mind: Money Part II