Political Unrest in Bangkok Thailand
Duration : 0:0:31
Aug
23
An Australian man is in Thailand’s jails for his actions during the anti-government protests in May. He was sentenced to a jail term, released for time already served, and then quickly detained again for overstaying his visa.
An Australian man will remain in detention in Thailand, after a court sentenced him to jail time for his involvement in Thailand’s red-shirt movement.
Conor Purcell was escorted to court Friday morning in Bangkok where he has been detained since the end of Political Unrest in May.
He was detained on accusations of violating emergency laws imposed by the Thai government during the red shirts’ protest.
On Friday, the municipal court sentenced Purcell to 45 days prison after he pled guilty to the charges. But because Purcell had been in detention since the end of political protests, the judge released him for time already served.
He was then quickly detained on charges he overstayed his visa.
On his arrival in court Purcell shouted furiously at the unfairness of his treatment.
[Conor Purcell, Australian National]:
“They are breaking their own criminal procedure code in every stage. Detention was extended without accusation and without charge for five times. Illegal arrest, illegal detention.”
Purcell will remain in detention pending a decision on whether immigration officials will deport him or not.
Duration : 0:1:21
Aug
9
An Hodgson, Senior Strategic Analyst, explains how Thailand has been gripped by political turmoil since the coup in 2006. Since the latest Political Unrest in May 2010, the economy has been adversely affected. A reduced amount of tourists have been traveling to Thailand, lowering the flight and hotel numbers. This negative impact on the Thai tourism industry is taking a toll on the overall GDP in Thailand.
Business confidence was also affected, with the BSI index experiencing the largest month-on-month fall since 1999. The consumer confidence index also fell – but experienced less of a decline in its most recent quarter than in 2009, mainly due to the Thai economy being hard hit by the global recession.
Due to political instability in Thailand, there will be more tourism arrivals in countries surrounding Thailand because tourists will direct their interests to outlying countries. Tourism agencies have reported booking cancellations in Thailand. Foreign investment will also be impacted, as investors will be looking at the political turmoil in Thailand and relocating investments to neighboring countries.
Duration : 0:4:14
Aug
1
Sorry about the low quality… movie I made for a history project a few years ago… obviously I don’t own the Superman footage… hope you enjoy it!
Watch as Henry Clay takes on the formidable task of saving the country from political disagreements, but will he be able stop the unrest growing up to the Civil War?
Duration : 0:6:45
Jul
9
Sorry about the sound track, the music is a bit distracting. This is a portion of a video downloaded today entitled American Militia Rising. Credit is given to the compiler – (will add name when found). It’s an MSNBC clip questioning Obama’s strategy of “preventative detention”
The concept from a United States President is virtually beyond belief…
Quite simply, this effort continues abuses started long before, but, enforced by, the Patriot Act.
Is this Tyranny?
Duration : 0:2:2
Jun
14
Despotism is a form of government by which a single entity rules with absolute and unlimited power, and may be expressed by an individual as an autocracy or through a group as an oligarchy. Despotism itself means to “rule in the fashion of a despot”, and should not be confused with the actual and singular position of ‘Despot’.
Despot comes from the Greek despotes, which roughly means “master” or “one with power”, and was used to translate a wide variety of titles and positions. It was used to describe the unlimited power and authority of the Pharaohs of Egypt, employed in the Byzantine court as a title of nobility, used by the rulers of Byzantine vassal states, and was also adopted as a title of the Byzantine Emperors. Thus, despot is found to have different meanings and interpretations at various times in history, and can not be expressed by a single definition. This is similar to the other Greek titles of Basileus and Autokrator, which, along with Despot, have all been used to describe at different times everything from a local chieftain, to simple ruler, to a king or an emperor.
Colloquially, ‘despot’ has been applied pejoratively to a person, particularity a head of state or government, who abuses his power and authority to oppress his people, subjects or subordinates. In this sense, it is similar to the pejorative connotations that have likewise arisen with the term ‘tyrant’. ‘Dictator’ also has developed nearly similar pejorative connotations, though ‘despot’ and ‘tyrant’ tend to stress cruelty and even enjoyment therefrom, while ‘dictator’ tends to imply more harshness or unfair implementation of law.
In its classical form, a despotism is a state where a single individual (the despot) wields all the power and authority embodying the state, and everyone else is a subsidiary person. This form of despotism was common in the first forms of statehood and civilization; the Pharaoh of Egypt is exemplary of the classical Despot.
The term now implies tyrannical rule. Despotism can mean Tyranny (dominance through threat of punishment and violence), or absolutism; or dictatorship (a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator, not restricted by a constitution, laws or opposition, etc.).
Propaganda is a form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position. As opposed to impartially providing information, propaganda in its most basic sense, presents information primarily to influence an audience. Propaganda often presents facts selectively (thus possibly lying by omission) to encourage a particular synthesis, or uses loaded messages to produce an emotional rather than rational response to the information presented. The desired result is a change of the attitude toward the subject in the target audience to further a political agenda. Propaganda can be used as a form of political warfare.
Duration : 0:9:57
Jun
13
Film: The Syrian Bride
Directed by Eran Riklis
Israel (2004)
Family Drama/Political Drama
9 parts/90 mins
In Arabic with English subtitles (default)
Please be sure to turn on the CC (closed captions) button to view subtitles
Subtitles are translatable to any language: Click CC then click translate.
Synopsis:
A family deals with the typical anxieties of a wedding day while also confronting the political turmoil of the Middle East. Hammed (Makram J. Khoury) is a leading political figure in Majdal Shams, a Druze community that has been under Israeli occupation since the late ’60s. Years ago, Hammed arranged for his daughter Mona (Clara Khoury) to marry Tallel (Derar Sliman), who has since become a successful actor in Syria. Hammed has gathered the family together to see Mona off, but the occasion is a bittersweet one — given the combative relationship between Israel and Syria, once Mona crosses the border with her husband, it’s unlikely she will ever be able to return. Hammed’s oldest son, Hattem (Eyad Sheety), comes back from Russia, where he now lives with his wife, but his father still refuses to forgive him for leaving the land of his birth. Marwan (Ashraf Barhoum), a younger son, is a businessman living in Italy who uses his visit home as an opportunity to visit Jeanne (Julie-Anne Roth), an American United Nations representative he’s been dating. And daughter Amal (Hiam Abbass) helps her sister Mona deal with the stress and details of her big day as she struggles to live as a modern woman while married to Amin (Adnan Tarabshi), who wants his spouse to follow a more traditional path.
Review:
The essential plot sounds pretty simple: A Druze woman (Clara Khoury) in a pro-Syrian village in the Golan Heights is planning to marry a soap opera star from Damascus.
Of course, the situation is rife with controversy. The village falls on the Israeli side of the disputed border. To complete the union, the woman must be surrendered by her family at the border crossing, get an exit visa from the Israelis, be accepted on the Syrian side and meet her groom. In addition, she will never be allowed to return to her home village again because the rigid bureaucrats on both sides won’t allow it.
Peppered with subtle flourishes that make the setting highly realistic, the film is a deft balancing act of all its issues. None is given too much prominence, yet none is ignored. You feel as if you are a witness to the intimacies of a real family. As a result, we are allowed to rail against the absurdity of the bureaucracies on both sides. We get angry about the brutal stupidity of the military on both sides.
The film deals intelligently with nationalism, Political Unrest, sexual repression, and patriarchal domination, all forces that impinge on the family’s internal dynamics and the fate of its individual members. The central concerns, though, are Family dynamics and tensions between the restricting force tradition and the invigorating power of personal realization.
Politics, which is in the background in the film’s first chapters, moves into the foreground in the film’s last act, which in tone approximates comedy of the absurd. The banality of the conflict and the mindless bureaucracy of the Middle East are depicted by the near-farcical attempts of a Red Cross worker to gain Israeli and Syrian co-operation for Mona’s wedding day passage from the Israeli side of the border to the Syrian side.
A border movie par excellence, The Syrian Bride is about physical, mental, and emotional borders, and the risk involved in crossing them. On one level, it’s a political melodrama, about one family’s struggles with borders and boundaries.
Right now, once you cross the border, there is no way back. At the end, the family, the government, the military officials, and all those gathered on both sides of the border, find themselves facing an uncertain future, trapped in No-Man’s Land between Israel and Syria. The family celebrations surrounding Mona’s betrothal are tinged with an anxiety and sadness caused by the knowledge that once she crosses the border at Quneitra, Mona will not be allowed to return to her village. As the film progresses, the tensions of this particular family serve as a microcosm of the larger identity and political crisis facing the Druze and the Middle East at large.
While not an overtly message film, The Syrian Bride does have a political agenda. Riklis hopes that his film will contribute towards a greater understanding, compassion, and tolerance of the Middle East conflict. “I always say that I live in Israel, but I am a filmmaker who doesn’t believe in borders for films,” says Riklis.
Duration : 0:9:16
Jun
7
At a recent Council on Foreign Relations speech in Montreal, co-founder with David Rockefeller of the Trilateral Commission and regular Bilderberg attendee Zbigniew Brzezinski warned that a “global political awakening,” in combination with infighting amongst the elite, was threatening to derail the move towards a one world government.
Brzezinski explained that global political leadership had become “much more diversified unlike what it was until relatively recently,” noting the rise of China as a geopolitical power, and that global leadership in the context of the G20 was “lacking internal unity with many of its members in bilateral antagonisms.”
In other words, the global elite is infighting amongst itself and this is hampering efforts to rescue the agenda for global government, which seems to be failing on almost every front.
Brzezinski then explained another significant factor in that, “For the first time in all of human history mankind is politically awakened — that’s a total new reality — it has not been so for most of human history.”
Brzezinski continued, “The whole world has become politically awakened,” adding that all over the world people were aware of what was happening politically and were “consciously aware of global inequities, inequalities, lack of respect, exploitation.”
“Mankind is now politically awakened and stirring,” said Brzezinski, adding that this in combination with a fractured elite “makes it a much more difficult context for any major power, including currently the leading world power, the United States.”
During a subsequent question and answer session, Brzezinski was asked if he thought another organization should replace the United Nations as the de facto “one world government,” to which Brzezinski responded, “There should be such an organization,” before pointing out that the UN was not it in its current role.
As the text at the end of the video makes clear, Brzezinski’s admission that humanity has undergone a political awakening is not a positive development in the eyes of the elite.
In his 1970 book Between Two Ages: America’s Role in the Technetronic Era, Brzezinski wrote the following.
“The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities.”
The “elite” to which Brzezinski refers included many of those who were in attendance for his speech at the CFR meeting. The global political awakening which Brzezinski discussed represents part of the resistance to that very elite dominated society and the systems of control, subjugation and surveillance that they have imposed upon the human race in pursuit of a “more controlled society” and a one world government.
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Duration : 0:6:5
Jun
7
Band: Napalm Death
Song: Life?
Album: Scum
Genre(s): Hardcore Punk (early), Grindcore/Death Metal (later)
Lyrical Theme(s): Political Unrest, Hate, Aggression, Social Issues
http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=219
http://www.purevolume.com/napalmdeath
http://www.napalmdeath.org/
http://www.myspace.com/napalmdeath
http://www.myspace.com/shanenapalm
Scum is hailed as the first groundbreaking Grindcore album.
Lyrics:
Brought into this emptiness
Never hope or choice
Emotionless and cold
This is life?
Illusions shattered
An existence of lies
A constant struggle
Freedom denied
At their feet – submission
No sanctuary in death
Drugged up, up
Is that all you’re worth?
Duration : 0:0:44
Jun
6
Rapper “Xtremist” puts a totally different spin on B.o.B’s Airplanes – Very political lyrics – touching on the Flotilla ambush, Gaza, Israel, Arab Sheikhs, U.S Government, Satanism, New World order and more… A MUST LISTEN
Lyrics below (and also in the actual video)
You can choose to get your views from the news, that are straight dishonest then again, you can’t stop this dude speaking truth, or spreading knowledge If you knew what they were brewing it’d make you sick to your stomach And the views I spew are harder to chew, it’ll make you vomit Visualize your children being burnt alive in a building Or throwing stones at a tank, forced to fight for their freedom Running from gunning soldiers while in shock from the bleeding Never recorded by reporters and everyday it’s repeated Oil rich kingdoms, hypocritical leaders Claiming Islam but are they really believers? living in a fairytale based on unexpected riches fornicate with the devil, manipulated like bitches. U.AE luring the west, moving away from the scriptures “Everybody come and party but don’t you kiss on their beaches” Or they’ll throw your in jail, okay, NOW they’re religious? Deport you back with Etihad, smash heinekens back to England
Ninety nine, point nine percent of you, are vegetables, it’s terrible Doing what they tell you to, with no chance of a variable Programmed and conditioned to the point you’re unrepairable So this is for the one in a thousand that wana hear the truth their mission is to pull you right away from religion Using satanic magicians, with tactician precision Animalistic vision to vilify the Arab civilian So mind control, makes you oppose when they claim to really be victims! With George W. in power, we witnessed planes hit the towers But how’d they shower to the ground in under less than an hour? And that little scam, was part of a magnificent plan To steal the resources in Iraq, and Afghanistan You see bush was just a puppet along with Barack Obama Controlled by, the banking families who orchestrate all this drama Those families initiated the collapse of the dollar Evidently about to bring the new world order upon us
Witness the ultimate act of piracy, committed by a Tyranny Ambushed the ships suppling the, Gazans that are In dire need. Is-rael defying the, international laws so violently This happens every time indeed, genocide is what they try achieve! They stormed the quarters of the ships in in-ternational waters With automatic weapons started following orders to slaughter Murdered twenty civilians, left many others in torture Humanitarians trying to help out children, mothers and daughters. But let’s pretend, for a second, like it never happened… Like they never stole a land and made the people vanish Like they were never treated by the west with double standards Like they were never on a mission to control the planet Now… Let’s pretend like we gave a And when a people needs our help we actually lend a hand And if we witness something wrong rapidly take a stance As if we’re all humans living on the same land
Duration : 0:4:9
