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In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued."
(From a speech read on video on August 31, 1995 before the NGO Forum on Women, Beijing, China)
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Ngo Diem was heard to say, “I want a repressive machine controlling the whole of the country of South Vietnam from Saigon to the remotest villages. You shall apply massacres, torture, deportations, and mass imprisonment while conducting constant raids. You shall make the population so fearful of this government that no-one shall ever dare to become a revolutionary or any other kind of outlaw!”
(A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)
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Michael G. Kramer
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If you don't make the time to work on creating the life you want, you're eventually going to be forced to spend a LOT of time dealing with a life you don't want.
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Kevin Ngo (Let's Do This! 100 Powerful Messages to Help You Take Action)
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I have learned that I, we, are a dollar-a-day people (which is terrible, they say, because a cow in Japan is worth $9 a day). This means that a Japanese cow would be a middle class Kenyan... a $9-a-day cow from Japan could very well head a humanitarian NGO in Kenya. Massages are very cheap in Nairobi, so the cow would be comfortable.
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Binyavanga Wainaina
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Until you run out of pages, there's still room to write an epic ending.
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Kevin Ngo
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When you start to accept responsibility for the results you get in life, you also take back the power to change your future outcome.
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Kevin Ngo (Let's Do This! 100 Powerful Messages to Help You Take Action)
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It is during our failures that we discover our true desire for success.
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Kevin Ngo (Let's Do This! 100 Powerful Messages to Help You Take Action)
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My wife, Rohini, visits a lot of government schools as part of her NGO reach-out. One of the questions she most likes to ask the kids is what they would like to be when they grow up. The answers are varied--'engineer,' 'teacher,' 'policeman' and, increasingly, 'computer' [sic]. But even in the rural schools, one aspiration that they never express is 'farmer
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Nandan Nilekani
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The word “violence” is being systematically remade to conform to their worldview. Looting and arson aren’t violence, they argue. And yet physical violence directed at their opponents is also not violence but rather “self-defense.
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Andy Ngo (Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy)
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And if he can’t be politically killed?” Ngo smiled at Johnny. He unfolded his index finger, cocked his thumb, and then snapped it down. “Bam,” he said softly. “Bam, bam, bam.” “No,” Johnny said, surprised at the hoarseness in his own voice “That’s never an answer. Never.” “No? I thought it was an answer you Americans used quite often.
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Stephen King (The Dead Zone)
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Both the extreme left and right seek to undermine liberal democracy and the rule of law, whether through the use of violence or other means. They have differing political visions and goals, but both would result in the destruction of the liberties we value.
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Andy Ngo (Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy)
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Since 2016, we have been told over and over by biased media and antifa apologists that antifa is not an organization. We’ve been lied to.
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Andy Ngo (Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy)
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Colloquially, critical theory is sometimes referred to as “cultural Marxism,” an application of Marxist theory to groups of people based on identity rather than class.
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Andy Ngo (Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy)
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antifa is a violent extremist movement that attacks all kinds of targets under the guise of “anti-fascism.
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Andy Ngo (Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy)
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As useful idiots for antifa, the press predictably published reports that helped provoke more hatred for law enforcement in Portland.
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Andy Ngo (Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy)
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That’s the genius of antifa’s riot strategy: they only have to light the match.
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Andy Ngo (Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy)
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Some victims are valued more in the eyes of the American media than others.
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Andy Ngo (Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy)
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It was later revealed that Floyd’s blood contained a fatal level of fentanyl.
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Andy Ngo (Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy)
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Despite claiming to be a refuge for blacks from white racists, CHAZ ended up with a 100 percent black victim shooting rate. To date, only one suspect was named in all
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Andy Ngo (Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy)
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By weaponizing the discourse of human rights to justify the use of force against governments that resisted the Washington consensus, this group of well-connected liberals was able to stir support where the neocons could not. Their brand of interventionism appealed directly to the sensibility of the Democratic Party's metropolitan base, large swaths of academia, the foundation-funded human rights NGO complex, and the New York Times editorial board. The xhibition of atrocities allegedly committed by adversarial governments, either by Western-funded civil society groups, major human rights organizations or the mainstream press, was the military humanists' stock in trade, enabling them to mask imperial designs behind a patina of "genocide prevention." With this neat tactic, they effectively neutralized progressive antiwar elements and tarred those who dared to protest their wars as dictator apologists.
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Max Blumenthal (The Management of Savagery: How America's National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump)
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violence is a feature, not a bug, of antifa’s ideology. In fact, they venerate violence. Since 2015, untold numbers of victims, including other journalists, have been doxed, beaten, robbed, or killed by antifa militants. Few of them receive media attention—or justice.
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Andy Ngo (Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy)
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Antifa know the effect that smashed windows, breached businesses, and fires have on crowd mentality. Each act serves as blood in the water. It can turn protesters into rioters. That’s why antifa teach this in their literature that is disseminated widely online and in real life.
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Andy Ngo (Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy)
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I’m angry at them, but I still see their humanity and don’t wish them ill. I actually feel sympathy for those pulled and brainwashed into antifa’s twisted ideology. They are often exploited and used by a movement that explicitly rejects the value of individuals in favor of the cause.
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Andy Ngo (Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy)
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Indeed, if the riots of 2020 prove anything, it’s that a sizable portion of Democratic politicians, intellectuals, academics, and journalists find riots and looting justifiable if committed in the name of “racial justice.
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Andy Ngo (Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy)
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What unites this group of leftists is its opposition to so-called fascism, though importantly, what is defined as fascism is left wide open. This is intentional as it allows antifa to justify all manner of violence and extremism in the name of opposing “fascism.
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Andy Ngo (Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy)
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Hour by hour I laid in bed thinking about what would motivate those who say they are defending people of color to brutally beat a person of color.
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Andy Ngo (Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy)
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Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?” 4And they said to one another, m“Let us choose a leader and ngo back to Egypt.
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Anonymous (Holy Bible: English Standard Version (ESV))
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American media constantly warn us about the rise of right-wing violence and the lethal threat posed by white supremacy. No honest person denies there are indeed violent far-right militants in the United States, as documented by federal law enforcement, but their numbers and influence are grossly exaggerated by biased media. Antifa receive a tiny fraction of the news coverage of the far right, and yet I would argue their increasingly violent tactics and ideology pose just as much, if not more, of a threat to the future of American liberal democracy.
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Andy Ngo (Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy)
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The CrimethInc manual on breaking windows goes on to explain that taxpaying businesses are fair game to target because that ends up hurting police, who rely on public funding. The intellectualizing of their arguments tries to mask the ruthlessness of their worldview. They don’t care whom they harm, what livelihoods they destroy, as long as it furthers their political agenda.
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Andy Ngo (Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy)
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What exactly was the role of the U.S. government in the coup that overthrew Ngo Dinh Diem?” Trumbull stared for a moment at Foley’s rigid back. Then he said to Patchen, “Tell him.” “I think you already know, Paul,” Patchen said. “In simple terms, we countenanced it. We knew it was being planned. We offered advice. We provided support. We encouraged the plot. We welcomed the results.
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Charles McCarry (Tears of Autumn: A Paul Christopher Novel (Paul Christopher Novels))
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What's a City/NGO-sponsored Neighborhood Summit, you ask? It's a trumped-up group of hand-picked 'neighborhood leaders' who have been instructed in Asset Based Community Development and the Delphi Technique. Their goal? To create neighborhood associations that are managed and manipulated by facilitators who have learned 'consensus building' and are using it to further the (United Nations's Agenda 21) plans.
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Rosa Koire
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The BLM-antifa narrative that police are murdering black and brown people in epidemic proportions needs to be thoroughly debunked. It is not supported by the evidence or data. This should be the job of the media, but it has been they who fan the flames of racial division through one-sided wall-to-wall coverage. The unending distraction from real issues that can otherwise be addressed through evidence-based policy making has us chasing shadows.
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Andy Ngo (Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy)
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The idea was that the NED would do somewhat overtly what the CIA had been doing covertly for decades, and thus, hopefully, eliminate the stigma associated with CIA covert activities. Allen Weinstein, who helped draft the legislation establishing NED, declared in 1991: ‘A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA.’6 NED receives virtually all its financing from the US government ($5 billion in total since 19917), but it likes to refer to itself as an NGO (non-governmental organization) because this helps to maintain a certain credibility abroad that an official US government agency might not have. But NGO is the wrong category. NED is a GO.
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William Blum (America's Deadliest Export: Democracy The Truth about US Foreign Policy and Everything Else)
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At the moment, the threat of the far right is understood by the American public and actively countered by government, academia, media, and civil society. No comparable resolve or mass organization exists to counter the far left. Why? One explanation is the cultural dominance of the left. The political homogeneity in popular culture, academe, and urban centers of influence (e.g., New York, Washington, DC, Los Angeles, etc.) has produced a populace with severe blind spots.
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Andy Ngo (Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy)
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You may need help or information from some nongovernmental organization, and the local person heading that NGO may be some West Coast, liberal-educated, no-leg-shaving, Birkenstock-wearing female uniform-hater. And you gotta deal with her.
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Dick Couch (Chosen Soldier: The Making of a Special Forces Warrior)
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In short, critical theorists develop ways to “criticize” perceived structures and systems of oppression in order to bring about radical change. It offers a heuristic for understanding all human interaction through power dynamics between groups. When applied to race, concepts like white privilege, whiteness, and intersectionality purport to explain why there are disparities in outcomes among racial groups.
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Andy Ngo (Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy)
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Wars are told from the point of view of arms dealers and politicians, disasters are interpreted by NGO’s, most issues are never covered at all. Official channels decide what will or will not be revealed and media are rewarded for their obedience by access to more official information.
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Heather Marsh (Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale)
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From the moment they're recruited to the time they're 'rescued' and deported, trafficked women are terrorized. Every single day they face a world stacked heavily against them. Their only friends are the dedicated women and men who form the thin front line against trafficking--an often thankless job. Those working for nongovernmental aid agencies and organizations are the real heroes in this bleak morass. Still, their work is merely a Band-Aid solution. In the vast majority of cases, NGO workers report that their funding is ad hoc and wholly inadequate to meet even basic needs.
If we truly want a fair shot at saving these women, we need to open not only our minds but also our wallets. We need to focus on programs that care compassionately for the victims and we need to implement them immediately, worldwide. The most urgent priorities are safe shelters and clinics equipped and staffed to offer medical and psychological treatment. We need to understand that most of these women have been psychologically and physically ripped apart. And we need to be prepared for the fac thtat most have been infected with various sexually transmitted diseases.
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Victor Malarek (The Natashas: Inside the New Global Sex Trade)
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My view of the charity world is that compared with business, there is too much talk, way too many meetings and expert panels and blue-ribbon commissions, and not enough action. Or as an Australian friend of mine once opined: "Sometimes you just have to have a go and get on with it, mate!".
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John Wood (Creating Room to Read)
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When we condemn men--corporate employees and ngo functionaries, police, soldiers--for taking advantage of hungry women and children, we stay within the bounds of conventional morality. When we ask why women and children are made hungry in the first place, why their economies or societies have collapsed, why they are abjectly dependent on food aid or why corporate mercenaries are at large in their countries, we risk departing from the conventional by rejecting the camouflaging power of scale, and holding the larger crimes to be as wicked as the smaller ones.
D.A. Clarke, Resisting the New Sexual World order
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Rebecca Whisnant (Not for Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography)
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Be Your Own Biggest Cheerleader The world can sometimes be a harsh and cruel place. Everyone has their own opinions on different things and some of them will have no problem voicing what they think about your dreams. I really wish everyone can have their own group of supporters who will encourage them and cheer them on, but that's hardly the case. For many, the reality is they just have to be their own biggest cheerleader. Your opinion is what really counts. You can have tons of people tell you that you can achieve your dreams but if you personally don't believe it, you're not going to put in the effort to make your dreams happen. If you have tons of people hating on you and discouraging you, does it make things harder? Of course it does! But if you allow other people's opinion of you to negatively affect the belief you have in yourself, then you're just letting them win without even putting up a fight.
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Kevin Ngo (Let's Do This! 100 Powerful Messages to Help You Take Action)
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The booklet, available free to print as an online PDF file, argues breaking windows is an act of protest against capitalism, white supremacy, and the police, and should be actively practiced:
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Andy Ngo (Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy)
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While the Antifascist Action and all opposing groups were banned after Hitler became head of state, the antifa communist ideology never went away. From the ashes of WWII, it was absorbed and institutionalized in the official state ideology of what would become the German Democratic Republic, also known as East Germany. From 1949 to 1990, East Germany existed as a communist state carved out of the Weimar Republic by the Soviet Union, one of WWII’s victorious Allied leaders. For over forty years, the extremely repressive conditions in East Germany exemplified what “antifa” state-building actually looks like.
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Andy Ngo (Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy)
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antifa are an ideology and movement of radical pan-leftist politics whose adherents are mainly militant anarchist communists or collectivist anarchists. A smaller fraction of them are socialists who organize through political groups like the Democratic Socialists of America and others. Labels aside, their defining characteristics are a militant opposition to free markets and the desire to destroy the United States and its institutions, culture, and history.
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Andy Ngo (Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy)
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And if the sociopathy of the booklet wasn’t clear enough, the anonymous author argues that, at the end of the day, window smashing creates work opportunities for laborers who otherwise would be wasting their time doing something else.
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Andy Ngo (Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy)
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NUMBERS 14 Then all the congregation raised a loud cry, and the people iwept that night. 2And all the people of Israel jgrumbled against Moses and Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or kwould that we had died in this wilderness! 3Why is the LORD bringing us into this land, to fall by the sword? lOur wives and our little ones will become a prey. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?” 4And they said to one another, m“Let us choose a leader and ngo back to Egypt.
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Anonymous (Holy Bible: English Standard Version (ESV))
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After an exchange of fire, Reed was shot dead by a police officer, who is also black. Reed’s death and edited video clips were used as propaganda to incite anger and hatred online. On the petition website Change.org, a campaign was started to “demand justice” for Reed.
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Andy Ngo (Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy)
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Try as U.S. officials might to get him to broaden his government, to show more sensitivity to the needs of his people, to show greater tolerance for the expression of political opposition, they got nowhere. Instead Diem, his utter confidence in his own political instincts wholly unimpaired, turned increasingly inward, relying almost exclusively on an ever-shrinking circle of confidants headed by his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu. More than ever, personal loyalty, rather than ability and efficiency, became the criterion for promotion and reward.
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Fredrik Logevall (Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam)
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To smash a shop window is to contest all the boundaries that cut through this society: black and white, rich and poor, included and excluded. Most of us have become inured to all this segregation, taking such inequalities for granted as a fact of life. Breaking windows is a way to break this silence, to challenge the absurd notion that the social construct of property rights is more important than the needs of the people around us.
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Andy Ngo (Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy)
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In 2009 the Israeli NGO Breaking the Silence published a report of its members’, reserve soldiers’ and other soldiers’ preparation for Operation Cast Lead, when the attack on the dummy city was replaced by an assault on the real Gaza. The gist of the testimonies was that the soldiers had orders to attack Gaza as if they were attacking a massive enemy stronghold: this became clear from the firepower employed, the absence of any orders or procedures about acting properly within a civilian environment, and the synchronized effort from land, sea and air. Among the worst practices they rehearsed were the senseless demolition of houses, the spraying of civilians with phosphorus shells, the killing of innocent civilians by light weaponry and obeying orders from their commanders generally to act with no moral compass. ‘You feel like an infantile child with a magnifying glass that torments ants, you burn them,’ one soldier testified.4 In short, they practised the total destruction of the real city as they trained in the mock city
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Ilan Pappé (The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories)
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Though BLM has some differing goals from antifa (e.g. the more explicit promotion of communism rather than anarchist-communism), both ideologies now cross-pollinate and influence one another to the point that they are linked entities. In Portland and Seattle, they are one and the same, with the same people showing up to each other’s events. Their convergence has been immensely mutually beneficial. Antifa gets mainstream legitimacy on the back of American racial divisions while BLM gets a volunteer militia at helm.
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Andy Ngo
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Antifa, its far-left allies, and useful idiots have convinced the public that patriotism is synonymous with racism and fascism. I reject that and call for all decent people to do the same...Antifa seek to destroy the American philosophy and the literal state itself. They are finding some success. For those who are drawn to their siren calls of ‘anti-racism’, ‘anti-fascism’ and ‘equity,’ look to where their ideas have been put into practice. No one inherits a utopia or civilization. They inherit ash, blood, and feces-stained rubble.
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Andy Ngo (Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy)
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Mohammed started telling me about some of the most horrific stories he encountered in Mosul during the ISIL years, including when he worked at a local NGO as a caseworker. ‘How can you not be traumatized and suffer sleepless nights when dealing with a story of a 13-year old boy who was escaping for safety with his parents and sister from the right to the left side of Mosul, while it was being liberated by the Iraqi army?’ Mohammed paused, lit a cigarette, rolled down the car window, and continued, ‘as they were running, the father wanted to make sure the road was clear, so as soon as he ventured out, he got a bullet in his head from a sniper. The mother ran to him crying and screaming. She, too, got a bullet in her head. As the little boy and his sister tried to escape, the girl was shot, but she didn’t die. After hiding in a nearby building for a while, they came out and took their parents’ bodies to bury them in that same empty building they took as a shelter. Once done, as they were leaving, the little girl got yet another bullet and died this time. The 13-year old boy survived, but did he really survive? Can even a person who hears this story survive it?
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Louis Yako
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Foreign nongovernment organizations (NGOs) that support Russian democratic civic groups are a particular target of Russian accusations of foreign economic intrigue. In 2004, President Putin accused Russian NGOs of pursuing "dubious group and commercial interests" for taking foreign money. FSB Director Nikolai Patrushev told the Russian State Duma in 2005 that the FSB had uncovered spies working in foreign-sponsored NGOs. He further claimed, "Foreign secret services are ever more actively using non-traditional methods for their work and, with the help of different NGOs educational programs, are propagandizing their interests, particularly in the former Soviet Union." Patrushev accused the United States of placing spies undercover within the Peace Corps, which was expelled from Russia in 2002, the Saudi Red Crescent, and the Kuwaiti NGO Society for Social Reform. Patrushev attributed an economic motive to these perceived foreign plots, alleging that industrialized states did not want "a powerful economic competitor like Russia." Echoing Soviet-era accusations of nefarious Western economic intent, he claimed that Russia had lost billions of dollars per year due to U.S., EU, and Canadian "trade discrimination. Pushing for stronger regulation of NGOs, Patrushev said, "The imperfectness of legislation and lack of efficient mechanisms for state oversight creates a fertile ground for conducting intelligence operations under the guise of charity and other activities. In 2012, Putin signed the "foreign agent law," which ordered Russian civil rights organizations that received any foreign funding to register as "foreign agents.
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Kevin P. Riehle (Russian Intelligence: A Case-based Study of Russian Services and Missions Past and Present)
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유네스코 수원출장안마( Ymz44.COM )시흥섹파입싸기금 출연을 통해, 저개발 국가의 문화산업 진흥을 지원함으로써 한국 문화산업의 위상을 제고하고 문화산업의 국제연대를 도모하였다. 세부사업 내역은 4가지가 있다.
첫째, 브루기나파소 ‘문화산업 육성기관 설립지원’으로 음악 산업 기반시설 Reemdoogo센터를 설립 지원하였고, 20명의 사업가들을 선정하여 개별 프로그램을 제공하였고 음악관련 사업가들에 대한 훈련자료 개발 등을 하였다.
둘째, 라오스 지원 사업이며, 사업명은 ‘라오스 문화산업-창조적 도약을 위한 준비’이다. 라오스문화산업의 현 상태에 대한 상세한 이해를 위한 기초조사를 하였으며, 문화산업발전 최우선과제 규명을 위한 주요 이해당사자 파악 및 수원출장안마( Ymz44.COM )시흥섹파입싸연계를 하였다. 그리고 최우선 과제 부문 중 한 개 이상의 부문을 위한 개발전략을 제안하였다.
셋째, 몽골 지원 사업이며, 사업명은 ‘몽골의 공예산업 강화’이다. 공예분야에 중점을 둔 고유 접근법 개발을 위한 방법론 수립을 지원하였으며, 정부, 기관, 학계, NGO, 기능보유자를 포함한 프로젝트팀 결성을 지원하였다. 그리고 지역 내 창조산업 종사자들의 역량 형성지원 등을 하였다.
넷째, 베트남 지원 사업이며, 사업명은 ‘광남 지역의 공예마을 관광 진흥’이다. 세계문화유산 보존지역의 공예마을 관광프레임 워크를 제공하였으며, 공예품생산과 관광부분 연결성 강화로 소득창출지원을 하였다. 그리고 프레임워크의 검증, 시행과정의 문서화를 하였으며, 지방 관광협회 수원출장안마( Ymz44.COM )시흥섹파입싸설립 및 운영 등을 하였다.
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Akshara Foundation is charity organization/ NGO in India. Our aim is to provide quality education for underprivileged children in Bangalore, India
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Freedom House is a human rights NGO that has long worked closely with USAID, which distributes U.S. government money for human rights promotion as well as regular aid and which has been condemned as Russophobic by Russian officials. As far back as 2004—before the founding of Donetsk Republic—it was also accused in Ukraine, Russia and the U.S. of indirectly supporting organizations working to promote the election of Viktor Yushchenko.
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Tim Judah (In Wartime: Stories from Ukraine)
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Larry Brilliant: And then Steve Jobs happened to come to Ann Arbor. He stayed with me, and he had given me the first $5,000 to start Seva, and I started to hit him up for some money to analyze the data from the survey, and he said, “Well, show me what you’ve done.” And I showed him Seva-Talk, and I showed him how we could talk to each other all over the country, and then when I asked him for the money he said, “Look, Larry, instead of asking me for money, why don’t you take your own fucking software, make your own fucking company, make your own fucking money, endow your own fucking NGO, and get rid of blindness yourself! I’ll help you. I’ll help you build what you’ve got into a company, and find you investors to take it public.” And he did, and that’s what happened.
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Adam Fisher (Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley (As Told by the Hackers, Founders, and Freaks Who Made It Boom))
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There is a thirty-three page essay by Arundhati Roy on the issue yet it doesn't smell of the jungles. It smells of her. It stinks of her agenda. Why, I wonder? Why is it that most of the op-eds and essays from the so-called intelligentsia comprising editors, professors, historians, political analysts, social workers, NGO entrepreneurs, humanitarians, and civil society leaders favour the false Naxal
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Vivek Agnihotri (Urban Naxals: The Making of Buddha in a Traffic Jam)
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uryakoko Imana nt'jyinama;
Abagiye inama ahubwo Irabasanga!
Ni nkumugozi w'inyabutatu,
umwe nabwiwe ibyawo n'abakuze.
Ntitwari kubimenya iyo udatana,
Ntiwari gucibwa iyo udacika.
Gusa ngibisa birasabirana;
Burya abagenda bamenya byinshi
Nimucyo dutangatange bitaracika
ahari nitujya inama, Imana izadusanga!
Yego; Ntawe uvuma iritararenga,
Mata warinziza amatage ataraza,
Harabatatiye baratana batitangiye,
Abandi bakwakwanya batangira,
iGasabo iba intandaro y'ubutane;
erega Imana ihora burya ibireba!
Barya ntibari gucibwa iyo bidacika!
Nubwo ntabyera ngo dee!
Dore ko ibyara mweru na muhima
Nimucyo dutangatange ritararenga
Kuko ndabona inzira zikigendwa
Ahari nitujya inama Imana izadusanga!
Sinakunze uburyo mubitwara,
Nubwo nashimye uburyo mubishaka
Mbona harababigize umushinga,
Bamwangamwabo bati nimunyangire
Erega urukundo ruruta byose
Kandi kubana nibyaburiwese
byaba akarusho mugihe tubihuje!
nimuze dutangatange bitaracika
ahari nitujya inama Imana izadusanga
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nkubiri_robert
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The boycott in the academic world today against Israelis has its roots, in some measure, in the 2001 United Nations–sponsored Durban World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance. There were actually two gatherings in Durban—the official United Nations conference and one sponsored by a group of about three thousand nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). The discussion about Israel at both meetings was vituperative and overshadowed all other issues on the meetings’ agendas. The final declaration adopted by the NGO forum laid the groundwork for the BDS movement by equating Zionism with racism and calling for a boycott of Israel.
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Deborah E. Lipstadt (Antisemitism: Here and Now)
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In literacy, India is 183 among 214 countries—below many African countries. Reports The Economic Times of 18 January 2013: “The Annual Status of Education Report (ASER 2012) by NGO Pratham shows that the number of Class V students who could not read a Class II level text or solve a simple arithmetic problem has increased. In 2010, 46.3% of kids in this category failed to make the cut and this shot up to 51.8% in 2011 and 53.2% in 2012...In 2010, 29.1% children in Class V could not solve a two-digit subtraction problem without seeking help. This proportion increased to 39% in 2011 and 46.5% in 2012.
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Rajnikant Puranik (Nehru's 97 Major Blunders)
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In Brazil, from 2008–14, a local NGO, ReCivitas Institute, gave a monthly basic income of about US$9 to 100 residents of Quatinga Velho, a small poor village in São Paulo state, funded by private donors. In January 2016, it launched Basic Income Startup, another donor-funded project, which will give individuals a ‘lifetime’ basic income, adding another individual for each $1,000 donated. ReCivitas hopes this idea will be replicated elsewhere in Brazil and internationally.
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Guy Standing (Basic Income: And How We Can Make It Happen)
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It’s no surprise that many later analysts, in judging these and other actions and statements by Diem in the course of 1955, depicted him as a power-hungry and hypocritical autocrat, a reactionary mandarin, a pliant U.S. puppet, and nothing more. But this is insufficient. As recent scholarship has demonstrated, Diem was a modernizer of sorts, a man who had his own vision for Vietnam’s future and who sought to strike a balance between progress and Vietnam’s cultural traditions. “We are not going to go back to a sterile copy of the mandarin past,” Diem told journalist Marguerite Higgins. “We are going to adapt the best of our heritage to the modern situation.”15 Along with his brother and chief adviser Ngo Dinh Nhu, he embraced the ideology of personalism, which was rooted in the efforts of humanist Roman Catholic intellectuals in interwar France to find a third way to economic development, between liberal democracy and Communism. A key figure was philosopher Emmanuel Mounier, who expounded his ideas in books and in the journal Esprit. For Nhu, an intellectual and a graduate of France’s L’École des chartes, personalism’s emphasis on the value of community, rather than individualism, while at the same time avoiding the dehumanizing collectivism of socialism, held tremendous appeal and could complement the traditional concern of Vietnamese culture with social relationships.
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Fredrik Logevall (Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam)
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Karzai stands in relation to the Afghanistan War as Ngo Dinh Diem stands in relation to the Vietnam War: His credentials as a nationalist untainted by corruption but with a Western orientation made him in Washington’s eyes a seemingly ideal partner. In the 1950s, the Eisenhower administration had sought to use President Diem as its agent in creating a Republic of Vietnam compatible with U.S. national security interests. In the 2000s, the Bush administration sought to use Karzai for similar purposes. Much to their subsequent
consternation, U.S. military and civilian officials soon enough discovered, as they had four decades earlier with Diem, that Karzai had a mind of his own.
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Andrew J. Bacevich
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There was more. My own visa had not been renewed and nobody seemed to know why. My family and I were booked to fly out of Islamabad in a week and we didn’t know if we would be able to return. Three of my children were born here and all of them grew up here; this is the only home they have ever known and we were being forced to leave. The government had been cracking down on foreign visas and dozens of NGO workers, missionaries and diplomats have faced difficulties in extending their stay here. The government seemed intent on cutting Pakistan off even further from the rest of the world, seeking to protect its national security by building a wall around its frontiers as tall and as impenetrable as the ramparts of Rohtas.
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Matthew Vaughan (Land Of Beauty, Land Of Pain: Seeking The Soul Of Pakistan)
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In the NGO universe, which has evolved a strange anodyne language of its own, everything has become a “subject”, a separate, professionalised, special-interest issue. Community development, leadership development, human rights, health, education, reproductive rights, AIDS, orphans with AIDS—have all been hermetically sealed into their own silos with their own elaborate and precise funding brief. Funding has fragmented solidarity in ways that repression never could.
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Arundhati Roy (Capitalism: A Ghost Story)
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Rakesh Rajdev, despite owning a number of businesses, dedicates much of his time, money, and effort to social welfare.
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Shri Rakesh Rajdev Ji is a great contributor to social welfare
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Rakesh Rajdev always believed that the children’s education is important for the country’s development.
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Rakesh Rajdev - An inspiring businessman as well as a philanthropist
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Rakesh Rajdev, through his non-profit organization, Kanuda Mitra Mandal, stands as a testament to the power of selfless giving and the impact it can have on society.
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Rakesh Rajdev - A True Philanthropist Carrying Forward A Legacy Of Giving From His Late Father
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What sets Rakesh Rajdev apart as a true philanthropist is his hands-on approach and genuine engagement with the communities he aims to uplift.
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Rakesh Rajdev- A Philanthropic Visionary Person Bridging Gaps Through Kanuda Mitra Mandal
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The difference between the Western and Africa is that . The west is fighting for its own people and Africa is fighting against its own people. The president, Mayor, Member of parliament, Politicians, Institutions, NGO’s, Foundations, Artists, Police, Military, and the Media they are in one voice in fighting for their country nonmatter their differences or believes. But in Africa The president, Mayor, Member of parliament, Politicians, Institutions, NGO’s, Foundations, Artists, Police, Military, and the Media they all fighting against their own people. The hate they have for their own it is what makes Africa what it is today.
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D.J. Kyos
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when the world was covered in uncertainty and fear, a glimmer of hope emerged in the form of Rakesh Rajdev.
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Rakesh Rajdev - A Beacon Of Hope In Pandemic Darkness
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Rakesh Rajdev reminds us that love, support, and exclusivity can bridge the gaps and build a more equitable and compassionate society for all.
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Rakesh Rajdev – Supporting The Society Through Kanuda Mitra Mandal
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We Should Do Something
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Julia Peters (Three Little Birds Burning in the Flames of War)
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This includes enormous sums of money funneled to bodies that appear to support conflict resolution and fundamental rights. The problem is that far too much of this money goes to bodies that fight for the opposite. Below are just a few prominent examples. The Dutch government funds Electronic Intifada.[813] Ali Abunimah is one of its heads. Abunimah considers Mahmoud Abbas to be a “collaborator” with Israelis (the Palestinian term for a traitor who deserves death).[814] Abunimah is also a virulent opponent to the peace process and an open supporter of the “one-state solution”[815] whose real meaning—in the eyes of Europe, as well as Israel—is an end to the Jewish state. Sweden, Belgium, Ireland, Norway, and Holland have supported the NGO al-Haq over the last decade.[816] A Palestinian organization based in Ramallah, al-Haq is supposedly a neutral human rights organization. The problem? It supports both BDS and the right of return.[817] Could someone explain how funding such an organization promotes genuine peace? The Development Center (NDC) transfers millions of dollars to Israeli and Palestinian organizations. The fund is supported by the World Bank, France, and other European countries.[818] Formally, the fund supports human rights as such, but a check of the organizations it funds shows that most of them either support the right of return or are involved in BDS. Among the dozens of organizations backed by the European Union is the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), headed by Jeff Halper. Halper has made a name for himself giving lecture tours attacking not just Israel but also global capitalism. He even views the Saudi Peace Plan as nothing more than a ploy “intended more to placate the Arab Street than as an actual political position.”[819] In his opinion, Western leaders are practically begging Israel to become a regional power so that the West can continue to oppress the Arab masses. ICAHD also publicly supports BDS and Return.[820] Despite all this, this openly radical organization was supported by the European Union to the tune of €169,661 between February 2010 and June 2012.[821] We could go on like this forever to cover the ever-growing list of organizations which are funded by the European Union, and European countries.[822] Organization after organization sells the West a bill of goods about supporting human rights—and then goes on to support the campaign against the very existence of Israel, for a right of return,
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Ben-Dror Yemini (Industry of Lies: Media, Academia, and the Israeli-Arab Conflict)
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The BLM-antifa narrative that police are murdering black and brown people in epidemic proportions needs to be thoroughly debunked. It is not supported by the evidence or data. This should be the job of the media, but it has been they who fan the flames of racial division through one-sided wall-to-wall coverage.
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Andy Ngo (Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy)
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If it doesn’t attract donors.
If it doesn’t give them exposure or publicity.
If it doesn’t destabilize the country.
If it doesn't influence, interfere, or disturb the politics.
If it doesn't disturb the economy or peace.
If is not suit their narrative or agenda.
It does not make the country worse or distracted.
It does not serve the interests of their masters or handlers.
If it does not make them profit.
If it does not go against South Africa or South African citizens,
It does not impress or please the United States of America or Europe.
You will never hear any words or statement coming from the NPO, NGO, Political parties,
Politicians, Foundations, South African human resource agencies, and the Legacy Mainstream Media.
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De philosopher DJ Kyos
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The only difference between Obama’s and McCain’s foreign policy was that Obama represented that faction of America’s foreign policy establishment which places an emphasis of long term “Soft Power” strategies; saving war as a last resort should their phony NGO “protests”, hunger sanctions and “rebel” proxy wars fail to achieve the intended effect. McCain on the other hand, just like the departing Bush/Cheney, was the candidate of choice for the “Neo-Conservative” faction of America’s ruling class; a group that believes in war as a first choice, second choice and third choice! The argument between these overlapping “schools of thought” is generally over tactics, not over the final result.
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M.S. King (The War Against Putin: What the Government-Media Complex Isn't Telling You About Russia)
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Strategic Failure: The ill-will caused by drone strikes are not reducing the threat of terrorism but increasing it. While there were many individuals who once had positive views of the United States, new polling shows the anti-American sentiment effect of drone strikes. Such sentiments discredit diplomatic and NGO efforts to address the civilian and political issues in sveral countries, and potentially drive people into the ranks of militant organizations. Finally, in the very long run, they share our concern about the danger of setting precedent. They envision a future where not only do countries have the ability to indiscriminately attack people, but that dangerous and radical non-state actors can do so as well.
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Harry Jones (Drones: Personal Guide to Drones - Camera, Airframe, Radio & Power)
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Ngo Dinh Diem was a selection and creation of the CIA, as well as others such as Admiral Arthur Radford and Cardinal Spellman, but the primary role in the early creation of the “father of his country” image for Ngo Dinh Diem was played by the CIA—and Edward G. Lansdale was the man upon whom this responsibility fell. He became such a firm supporter of Diem that when he visited Diem just after Kennedy’s election he carried with him a gift “from the U.S. Government,” a huge desk set with a brass plate across its base reading, “To Ngo Dinh Diem, The Father of His Country.” The presentation of that gift to Diem by Lansdale marked nearly seven years of close personal and official relationship, all under the sponsorship of the CIA. It was the CIA that created Diem’s first elite bodyguard to keep him alive in those early and precarious days. It was the CIA that created the Special Forces of Vietnamese troops, which were under the tight control of Ngo Dinh Nhu, and it was the CIA that created and directed the tens of thousands of paramilitary forces of all kinds in South Vietnam during those difficult years of the Diem regime. Not until the U.S. Marines landed in South Vietnam, in the van of the escalation in 1964, did an element of American troops arrive in Vietnam that were not under the operational control of the CIA.
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L. Fletcher Prouty (The Secret Team: The CIA & its Allies in Control of the United States & the World)
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Vietnam was not so much a goal as it was a refuge and backlash of everything that had gone wrong in a quarter-century of clandestine activities. There can be no questioning the fact that Vietnam inherited some of the Korea leftovers; it inherited the Magsaysay team from the Philippines with its belief in another Robin-Hood-like Magsaysay in the person of Ngo Dinh Diem; it fell heir to the Indonesian shambles; it soaked up men and materials from the Tibetan campaign and from Laos in particular, and it inherited men and material, including a large number of specially modified aircraft, from the Bay of Pigs disaster. In its leadership it inherited men who had been in Greece in the late forties or during the Eisenhower era and who felt that they knew Communist insurgency when they saw it. The nation of South Vietnam had not existed as a nation before 1954, rather it was another country’s piece of real estate. South Vietnam has never really been a nation. It has become the quagmire of things gone wrong during the past twenty-five years.
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L. Fletcher Prouty (The Secret Team: The CIA & its Allies in Control of the United States & the World)
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Mr. Kennedy had become disenchanted with the Vietnamese President, Ngo Dinh Diem, and Diem distrusted Kennedy.
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Jim Bishop (The Day Kennedy Was Shot)
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Francine’s face. “We don’t really use the word ‘teaching’,” she said, using her fingers to form quotation marks. “We train NGO leaders to better manage their organizations.” “Right,” I said, although still not certain how “teaching” was different from “training”. Maybe I wasn’t so smart, after all. “We facilitate staff to be better project managers, financial managers, better people managers.” Francine leaned into the desk to emphasize the word “facilitate”. “And we facilitate organizations to develop long-term strategies, to create sound work plans, and to evaluate their programs. Among other things, of course. So our role is that of a facilitator, not a teacher, as such.” I’d never heard the word “facilitate” used so many times in the same breath. Back then, I had no idea how many times I, myself, would breathlessly use that word during my work in Africa.
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Jillian Reilly (Shame - Confessions of an Aid Worker in Africa)
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For a nation to be truly transformed, there must be movements, civil societies, NGOs that are spread all across the land to educate people on the issues of Personal Responsibility. If a nation or rather active citizens of a nation could successfully launch such campaigns and a good percentage of the populace begin to live by the principles of Personal Responsibility, which is “don’t blame others”, think of what you can do to fix it. Such a nation would cross the huddle of civilization in a record time.
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Sunday Adelaja
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It was the CIA that created Diem’s first elite bodyguard to keep him alive in those early and precarious days. It was the CIA that created the Special Forces of Vietnamese troops, which were under the tight control of Ngo Dinh Nhu, and it was the CIA that created and directed the tens of thousands of paramilitary forces of all kinds in South Vietnam during those difficult years of the Diem regime. Not until the U.S. Marines landed in South Vietnam, in the van of the escalation in 1964, did an element of American troops arrive in Vietnam that were not under the operational control of the CIA.
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L. Fletcher Prouty (The Secret Team: The CIA & its Allies in Control of the United States & the World)
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According to Freedom House, an NGO founded in 1941 to advocate for democracy and human rights, at least twenty-two governments around the world manipulate social media for propaganda purposes, including Venezuela, Egypt, and Malaysia. In Russia, an undercover investigation by the St. Petersburg
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Marc Goodman (Future Crimes)
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PROTECT WHISTLEBLOWERS
Columbia law professor David Pozen contends that democracies need to be leaky-leaks and whistleblowing are themselves security mechanisms against an overreaching government. In his view, leaks serve as a counterpoint to the trend of overclassification and, ultimately as a way for governments to win back the trust lost through excessive secrecy.
Ethnographer danah boyd has called whistleblowing the civil disobedience of the information age; it enables individuals to fight back against abuse by the powerful. The NGO Human Rights Watch wrote that "those who disclose official wrongdoing...perform an important service in a democratic society...."
In this way of thinking, whistleblowers provide another oversight mechanism. You can think of them as a random surprise inspection. Just as we have laws to protect corporate whistleblowers, we need laws to protect government whistleblowers. Once they are in place, we could create a framework and rules for whistleblowing legally.
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Bruce Schneier (Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World)
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What can we expect from the “Occupiers” who “condemn the violence of both sides” by carefully omitting which camp is equipped for war and which has a few cobblestones? That one side kills people and the other expresses their rage by breaking windows? At a time when the left is decomposing, when the far right are on the upswing, why is there not a single reaction from leftist political parties, NGO’s, or unions, after this police murder?
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Anonymous
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One of Arvind Kejriwal’s many NGOs is generously funded by the Ford Foundation. Kiran Bedi’s NGO is funded by Coca-Cola and Lehman Brothers.
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Anonymous
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government or an NGO… a job that would enable
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K.S. Ruff (The Broken Road (Broken #1))
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the practitioner tries to recognize (ngo bzhung) whatever arises exactly as it arises. From this stance the practitioner discovers, rather than ordinary mental elaboration, a natural tendency for the mind to calm itself and simplify its content.
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Daniel P. Brown (Pointing Out the Great Way: The Stages of Meditation in the Mahamudra Tradition)
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俄国 1861 年农奴制改革后,为了管理在形式上已经成为独 立个体经济的自由农民,改变原来警察式的统治方式,把中央政 府从大量的不具备全国性意义的事务中解脱出来,沙皇政府的管 理职能有所改变,它下放了一部分权力到地方政府和自治机关。 为“解放农奴”所作的配套工程之一,就是在省、县两级建立地 方自治局,这是一种介于政府和民间之间的“类法团组织”,类 似于一种沙皇政治板块原则上不松动下的放权让利,建立一种 “类 NGO”或半官方的组织来承担原来沙皇地方政府的职能
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Anonymous
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Food should figure in the writing of Adivasi identity. In villages far off the road, all the food – meat, fish, kuccha, yams – comes from the forest. Having complete independence in procuring one’s food allows a people to disregard all outside interference, even apparently relevant NGO (non-governmental organization) or government programmes. Consider, for instance, the luxury in food choices and tastes
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Madhu Ramnath (Woodsmoke and Leafcups: Autobiographical Footnotes to the Anthropology of the Durwa People)
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We are careful not to touch the NGO people, though, because we can see that even though they are giving us things, they do not want to touch us or for us to touch them.
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NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names
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We are careful not to touch the NGO people, though, because we can see that even though they are giving us things, they do not want to touch us or for us to touch them.
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NoViolet Bulawayo (We Need New Names)
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Amnesty, regarded as one of the most progressive, democratic, and liberal bodies ever invented, is, like any other NGO, a collection of self-appointed laymen and laywomen who view themselves as the sole arbiters of truth and justice. They serve as the policeman, prosecutor, and judge, all under the same roof, and nobody is entitled to question them.
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Tuvia Tenenbom (The Taming of the Jew (JUDAISM Book 2))
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Don’t be fooled by their hypocrisy and double standards. They have no honor, moral standards, ethics, principles or integrity. It is never about right or wrong, but it is about which side they are on, who is paying them and who is also on the payroll. When it is one of their own who does wrong or who commits crime. They will never call them out. Prosecute, judge, arrest, cancel, confront, expose, seek answers or humiliate them. They wont comment or make any statements . They will be silent like nothing happened because they protect each other and protect their interests. When it is not one of their own. All hell will break lose. They would have 24/7 coverage on every news channel or newspaper, on the front pages. Having their own sketchy, bias headline, analysts, experts, professors, influences, investigators, journalists and witnesses. They would even blow it out of proposition. Making remarks and statement seeking answers. Challenging the court ,government and the people. They are all puppets and there is someone pulling the strings. They are all owned by the same master.
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D.J. Kyos