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...Internet, village folk are becoming more conscious of pervasive hardship and injustice and are beginning to voice their resentment. The protests have put the authorities in a bind. True to the dogma of communism, the regime is making incessant efforts to clamp down on websites and blogs, hoping that dissent will not burst into a wildfire. When the demonstrations get ugly, the government may opt for bloody suppression and further fuel the people's outrage, leading to tragic anarchy. For the sake of the future of more than 1 billion people, let's hope Beijing finds an amicable solution...
...whose infamous “torture memo” of August 2002 gave the thumbs-up to the degradation of hundreds—if not thousands—of human beings, to give a speech on constitutional law.By not only hosting Bybee but guaranteeing him a forum free of dissent, the Federalist Society has made Harvard complicit in an ongoing whitewash. To understand how Bybee’s reputation has been laundered, we need to look briefly at the history of the torture memo he authored.Written when its author was Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel...
...based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore, was adapted for the screen by the notorious Wachowski brothers of “The Matrix” fame. The film is set in an Orwellian future, replete with governmental conspiracies, constant surveillance, and a harsh crackdown on political dissent. Portman compellingly plays Evey Hammond, the film’s protagonist alongside “The Matrix”’s Hugo Weaving as the masked liberator...
...urban-rural income divide is at its widest since the People's Republic was founded in 1949, with farmers earning just one-third of what city dwellers do. To try to quell rising dissent, Hu has unveiled a massive New Deal for farmers, promising billions of dollars in central-government aid for "building a new socialist countryside." The reference to rural socialism was pure marketing magic; many farmers miss the good old days when nearly everyone was poor-but at least the state provided a safety net, known in China as an "iron rice bowl...
...still criticism, and the leadership will try to stop it at all costs." So even if the country isn't really reverting to socialism, there's at least one trait that Comrade Van Winkle will find familiar in this crop of Chinese leaders: a continuing aversion to dissent...