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Eduardo Medeiros

comunistas - A ilha presidencial com Lula Hugo Chavez Evo Morales Alvaro Uribe - 0 views

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    Imagine que você ficasse preso numa ilha deserta. Já seria algo muito ruim, não é? Agora, imagine que você tivesse que aguentar a embriaguez do Lula, o puxa-saquismo do Evo Morales, os discursos intermináveis do Hugo Chávez e a "ranzinzisse" de Álvaro Uribe. Pois é exatamente isso que é retratado na série de desenho animado A Ilha Presidencial criada por www.elchiguirebipolar.com. Você pode até não gostar de alguns desses presidentes latino-americanos, mas com certeza dará boas risadas!
Ed Webb

Amid Protest, Hong Kong Retreats on 'Moral Education' Plan - NYTimes.com - 3 views

  • HONG KONG — Faced with tens of thousands of protesters contending that a Beijing-backed plan for “moral and national education” amounted to brainwashing and political indoctrination, Hong Kong’s chief executive backpedaled on Saturday and revoked a 2015 deadline for every school to start teaching it.
  • For the past 10 days, swelling protests against the plan were the latest sign of a new interest in political activism by youths here, and there were some signs that this activism could be spreading in mainland China for the first time since the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989.
  • The police initially detained 21 protesters but released them a day later as the crowds swelled. The smelting project itself has been canceled and shows no sign of being restarted, several Shifang residents said, adding that the city had been completely quiet ever since the protests.
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  • The national education curriculum — contemporary Chinese history with a heavy dose of nationalism and a favorable interpretation of the Communist Party’s role — was originally supposed to be phased in school by school starting with the academic year that began last Monday. But only a handful of schools have begun teaching the subject.
David Hilton

Welcome to The Anti-Saloon League Website... - 0 views

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    From 1893 to 1933, the Anti-Saloon League was a major force in American politics. Influencing the United States through the printed word and lobbying, it turned a moral crusade into a Constitutional amendment. The League left a legacy of printed material at a site bequeathed to the Westerville Public Library which houses the Anti-Saloon League Museum
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    A sterling example of the good old-fashioned moral crusade. Of course, we don't have them anymore, do we...?
Eduardo Medeiros

Emir Sader relembra o 11 de setembro do Chile - 0 views

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    Não era a primeira vez que eu despertava com os ruídos dos aviões sobrevoando a região. Dois meses e meio antes, no final de junho, tinha vivido essa circunstância angustiante. Tinha descido correndo até o Palácio da Moeda, que ficava a duas quadras do prédio de apartamento central onde eu morava. A imagem era a que voltaria a presenciar poucas semanas depois: tropas cercando o palácio presidencial. Setores das FFAA mais radicalizados forçavam o resto das instituições militares a acelerar o golpe em preparação. Mas as condições não estavam dadas, a tal ponto que o Comandante-em-chefe das FFAA ainda era leal a Allende - Carlos Prats, que percorreu todos os quartéis rebelados e, com argumentos e força moral, conseguiu a rendição dos golpistas.
Aaron Shaw

Ming - 3 views

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    "The Ming dynasty began in 1368, and lasted until 1644 A.D. Its founder was a peasant, the third of only three peasants ever to become an emperor in China. He is known as Hongwu Emperor, and led the revolt against the Mongols and the Yuan Dynasty. He was constantly worried about conspiracies against himself, and despite the many moral homilies he gave, favored violence in dealing with any one suspected of plotting against him or associated with the conspirators. "
Eduardo Medeiros

Quem é o Cabo Anselmo por Celso Lungaretti - 0 views

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    Na reestréia do programa Roda Viva, a busca de impacto prevaleceu sobre os critérios de ordem moral: a atração foi um sujeito que se vangloria de, passando-se por companheiro dos resistentes, ter contribuído para que a ditadura militar exterminasse cerca de 200 deles durante os anos de chumbo.
Kay Cunningham

Environmental History Resources - 10 views

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    'The environment is one of the most pressing concerns facing society in the 21st century. The environmental debate is hugely complex with cultural, social, economic, moral, political and scientific dimensions all interacting. Key to this debate is Environmental History which provides an valuable long-term perspective on environmental change.'
Ed Webb

British have invaded nine out of ten countries - so look out Luxembourg - Telegraph - 9 views

  • "Other countries could write similar books – but they would be much shorter. I don't think anyone could match this, although the Americans had a later start and have been working hard on it in the twentieth century."
  • The only other nation which has achieved anything approaching the British total, Mr Laycock said, is France – which also holds the unfortunate record for having endured the most British invasions.
  • Mr Laycock added: "One one level, for the British, it is quite amazing and quite humbling, that this is all part of our history, but clearly there are parts of our history that we are less proud of. The book is not intended as any kind of moral judgment on our history or our empire. It is meant as a light-hearted bit of fun." The countries never invaded by the British: Andorra Belarus Bolivia Burundi Central African Republic Chad Congo, Republic of Guatemala Ivory Coast Kyrgyzstan Liechtenstein Luxembourg Mali Marshall Islands Monaco Mongolia Paraguay Sao Tome and Principe Sweden Tajikistan Uzbekistan Vatican City
David Hilton

Coin and Conscience - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections - 0 views

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    Part of an excellent group of online collections run out of Harvard libraries.
Mr Maher

Jefferson Davis' Speech at Jackson, Miss.December 1862 - 0 views

  • ble and clearly defined in the spirit of that declaration which rests the right to govern on the consent of the governed, but because I foresaw that the wickedness of the North would precipitate a war upon us. Those who supposed that the exercise of this right of separation could not produce war, have had cause to be convinced that they had credited their recent associates of the North with a moderation, a sagacity, a morality they did not possess. You have been involved in a war waged for the gratification of the lust of power and of aggrandizement, for your conquest and your subjugation, with a malignant ferocity and with a disregard and a contempt of the usages of civilization, entirely unequalled in history. Such, I have ever warned you, were the characteristics of the Northern people--of those with whom our ancestors entered into a Union of consent, and with whom they formed a constitutional compact. And yet, such was the attachment of our people for that Union, such their devotion to it, that those who desired preparation to be made for the inevitable conflict, were denounced as men who only wished to destroy the Union. After what has happened during the last two years, my only wonder is that we consented to live for so long a time in association with such miscreants, and have loved so much a government rotten to the core. Were it ever to be proposed again to enter into a Union with such a people, I could no more consent to do it than to trust myself in a den of thieves.
  • The issue then being: will you be slaves; will you consent to be robbed of your property; to be reduced to provincial dependence; will you renounce the exercise of those rights with which you were born and which were transmitted to you by your fathers?
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      How strange is it that Jeff Davis uses the term "slaves" in reference to white southerners under northern oppression. Just what do they think a slave is?
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    21st century readers may be surprised to hear Jeff Davis's language when he talks about the north a year and a half into the Civil War.
Mr Maher

The First Decades of the Massachusetts Bay; or Idleness, Wolves, and a Man Who Shall No... - 6 views

  • In November 1630, John Baker was “whipped for shooteing att fowle on the Sabboth day”; and in June 1631, it was ordered that Phillip Ratliffe should be whipped, have his ears cut off, and be banished “for vttering mallitious and scandulous speeches against the goumt. & the church of Salem.
  • The inattention paid in the official record to women or indigenous land compels us to force open gaps and bring alternative narratives to light. Without this work, John Winthrop’s will be the only story told in textbooks about this country’s colonial history.
  • The Puritan freemen may have the loudest voices in the archive, but theirs are not the only narratives being told.
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  • In fact, deviations from moral norms receive some of the harshest punishments, such as in October 1631, when the court determined that to copulate with another man’s wife was punishable by death.
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    When historians look through more evidence they come to understandings that students never get to see becuase their teachers may only rely on the evidence that is part of the liturgy of the US History narrative canon. In this instance, routine court records will tell us much more about puritan Massachusetts than a John Winthrop sermon.
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