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		<title>Undermining The Economy</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you wanted a plan for the economy of the nation&#8217;s richest and most successful in the world to be compromised, how do you proceed?
The first thing you have done to the system of underlying values which constitute the basis of degradation of prosperity. In other words, the value system on which the founders of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you wanted a plan for the economy of the nation&#8217;s richest and most successful in the world to be compromised, how do you proceed?<span id="more-56"></span></p>
<p>The first thing you have done to the system of underlying values which constitute the basis of degradation of prosperity. In other words, the value system on which the founders of this nation, and many generations of immigrants who came here looking for an opportunity drawing. The core of this value is the belief that everything that you do not deserve what you did not win.</p>
<p>The first step would be to believe that the condition of the people that prosperity is bad, that any person making more modest incomes must be evil (or at least dishonest), and no one deserves to be rich, low matter how much they contribute to the economy and how they create many opportunities for others. The rich are, by definition, always a minority, because the concept itself, someone who has much more wealth than the average person makes. All it usually takes for the many against the few turn a sense of dissatisfaction.</p>
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		<title>The Continuing Struggle For Freedom</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:22:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As provided in the school in 1969 in the midst of history as the president of the charismatic history of the Philippines has built its strength on the idea of the Filipino people. Ferdinand E. Marcos and was revered as a hero of the generation that survived the Second World War. He was a hero [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As provided in the school in 1969 in the midst of history as the president of the charismatic history of the Philippines has built its strength on the idea of the Filipino people. Ferdinand E. Marcos and was revered as a hero of the generation that survived the Second World War. He was a hero to be medalist war against the Japanese imperialist ambitions and his exploits as a young lieutenant, earned him several medals. It has a dark side of his personal history as it was to kill the hated rival for political power in the province by his father to be. Her subsequent strengthening bar exams, despite his detention has obtained his acquittal for him and gave the story of his first encounter with the nerve of ice, which was then introduced to the Philippines the first bite of a Article in the Constitution nebula called Martial Law.<span id="more-53"></span></p>
<p>Ferdinand Marcos ruled the Philippines because he could. He had intelligence, audacity, boldness and clarity of decision-making skills hamburger, the oligarchs, who used to decide the Philippines archipelago. His brilliant speech charmed his audience as he wove the magic of his vision of a new society and rendered helpless and powerless, so he built his rival, the military support of the Presidency hollow, he had created. Use judiciously easily corrupted media and politicians, he created the fiction of invincibility when he was a master of the masses. It was the perfect dictator, loved and adored by the masses in secret during the hunt for wealth and power of the oligarchs.</p>
<p>It was a sad, old, when he was defeated driven from his palace, with a gentle and smiling, the widow of his nemesis, Benigno Aquino. He squandered his prestige, power and chance to become the father of his country when he wanted, a warlord, a pivotal role, even a gangster.</p>
<p>In 1969 he was invincible, and students across the country were involved in the amazing power he had accumulated. She guessed correctly that nothing good power concentrated in the hands of a man. The truth of the matter is that Ferdinand Marcos created the myth of the army as the only decisive force in Philippine politics. It led to the hypothesis that power to the opposition. Extrajudicial executions, ironically called &#8220;recovery&#8221; were the Principal Investigator methods to convey the fear and terror in the heart of the opposition candidates.</p>
<p>This fiction of military superiority in the deluded mind of people like Gringo Honasan, who is like a Ferdinand Marcos seconds, and he fantasizes about his younger cohorts of the infamous Oakwood mutiny who believe, wrongly, in his naivete, which took place in the history on their side. None of these late flowering, which want to become military dictator has ambitious vision Ferdinant Marcos, who played the fears of the American people about the communist threat and he has a strong alliance and prestige in the community Internatinal.</p>
<p>The fight for freedom is that politicians cynically manipulate the Filipino people without worrying about the lessons of history. A true leader is needed, not plastic fantastic smile, the girl-of-a-outgoing presidents, whose claim to fame, the classmate of Bill Clinton, nor a hero action movie character who need at this time is terrible. The shame is not in politics to the Philippines as a thick face, is the only criterion necessary to succeed in this mud slings arena.</p>
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		<title>The Role of Media and Technology in Political Science</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 03:20:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In communication, the medium is known to use the transfer tool and storage equipment for storing and providing information of all kinds. It is known that the mass media and the media are synonymous, although used on a single data carrier reference for communication purpose.
Political science is simply a social science theory and practice of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In communication, the medium is known to use the transfer tool and storage equipment for storing and providing information of all kinds. It is known that the mass media and the media are synonymous, although used on a single data carrier reference for communication purpose.<span id="more-51"></span></p>
<p>Political science is simply a social science theory and practice of politics. It is also based on descriptions and analysis of political systems and political behavior. There are several areas in science policies, which include: political theory, public policy, national policy, international relations and comparative politics.</p>
<p>The media play an important role in the political science of a nation. It is the medium that makes or breaks a political party.</p>
<p>Media is a group based on the analysis of mass opinion in order to complete evaluations at the individual level and national level, the performance of performance of economic reforms of the nation. City People Party identity is refined through the collective memories, stories and social media infusion, and tend to their political attitudes and orientations in parallel. Secondly, the crucial influence of the historical memory of people tends to influence decisions taken by them. And the media play an important role in refreshing their memories. Not only the memory of a &#8220;century of humiliation&#8221;, but the memory of a century of glory &#8220;and the psychological impact on public opinion, economic development, nationalism and national security in this area .</p>
<p>The Internet is perhaps one of the most effective media communication. The essential role of transforming mass media plan has been strongly emphasized in recent times. Internet is &#8220;the weapon of the weak regimes&#8221; for a mass audience in non-democratic summer. This type of voice gives a significant example of political engagement and criticism of government policy, using modern media as an intermediary. It is necessary to improve the quality of political communication, facilitating the emergence of civil society, and, finally, to accelerate the democratization process in countries in transition.</p>
<p>Internet and new media staff has significantly improved the ability to generate mass public of a global movement. There are several ways in which media organizations could continue &#8211; political objectives. One possibility could include technical standards interest groups to influence political candidates and officials. Media organizations and their leaders might seek government action is particularly important for themselves (eg, easing restrictions on foreign ownership in TV stations), through campaign contributions, preferably in political or lobbying, as other interest groups. We came in dozens of cases in history where journalists and academics from a party or an individual for personal favors and have.</p>
<p>Therefore regulate the media in political science is to be strictly for our own economic well-being of a nation.</p>
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		<title>The Reason Why People Of Color Presumed Biased, When Whites Are Not?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 02:52:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wise Latinas across the country are sporting T-shirts with pride in the first Latina to express that you accept the Supreme Court of the United States. But during the hearings for Sonia Sotomayor, a senator after another has sought assurances that the judge would not give rise to influence their future decisions.
Senator Jeff Sessions of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wise Latinas across the country are sporting T-shirts with pride in the first Latina to express that you accept the Supreme Court of the United States. But during the hearings for Sonia Sotomayor, a senator after another has sought assurances that the judge would not give rise to influence their future decisions.<span id="more-49"></span></p>
<p>Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, complained that all those who believe it is acceptable to a judge of their personal history, sex, prejudice, or sympathy to make their decision for or against the dominance of parties in court. &#8221;</p>
<p>It is certainly fair to ask that members of the High Court, other than personal use politics and prejudice in its deliberations. But it seems strange that some white men can so easily himself and all those like them to be seen to adopt a non-partisan &#8211; and at the same time close to someone of another environment would inevitably involve decisions.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, it is a common instinct, too. In each area, it seems, people from underrepresented groups must show themselves capable of overcoming their identity. &#8220;One person will make, color immediately suspected bias and perspective in their decisions,&#8221; said Luis Fraga, a political scientist at the University of Washington.</p>
<p>Assessors are looking for a bias in the research of scientists of color. Editors minority journalists press to see if they tend to cover their own populations. But those of us who appreciate a great privilege, but are &#8211; accepted our objectivity.</p>
<p>We would do well to follow Sotomayor &#8211; is to see the attention on the prism through which we see the world. In this often quoted speech in 2001 at UC Berkeley, said Sotomayor, that personal history May be wise. Also at the hearing Tuesday, Sotomayor acknowledged his own life story as a latina May shaping their responses. But in both cases it has not ceased. He clearly indicated the need for judges to take into account the feelings and how they accept the hearing, they may not be appropriate. &#8221;</p>
<p>In the Berkeley speech, also urged to review their audiences to infer hypotheses warning Sotomayor, assumptions and perspectives of the experience and cultural heritage. &#8220;She tried to get all of us to recognize that the substantive perspective, the cultural richness you bring&#8221; &#8230; gives an overview of potential, but you can also prejudices, &#8220;says Fraga.</p>
<p>But whites are rarely on the road in terms of our cultural and social experiences color our thinking. We are not called to do &#8211; both our status and majority of reports of institutions such as the power of media and medicine believe that we have nothing definite, that is our reality, the truth of &#8221; real.</p>
<p>Mainstream News Outlets prospects sleeve white, as if they were representative. When reporting on the poll on race relations in the past year, for example, stressed the &#8220;Washington Post&#8221; the great progress made over the last ten years. Only one quarter of all Americans now consider a larger problem of racism, the investigation revealed that ten years, a decline of more than 50 percent from before thee. Only later in history, a read is a striking difference in views: 44 percent of the black population has seen racism as a major social problem and fully twice as likely as whites. Similarly, USA Today reported last year that &#8220;the hope of the Race Relations High&#8221; with the candidacy of Barack Obama, facing sharp distinctions between African-Americans, Latinos and whites in their thoughts racism.</p>
<p>Despite the diversity of American society knows, remains the normative framework that everyone should be merged or compared. Consider an ordinance. They are generally subjected to clinical trials to include most of white patients. But I&#8217;ve never heard of &#8220;white&#8221; pill or &#8220;white&#8221; antihistamine Zyrtec. In contrast, the heart treatment approved BiDil, the first drug to study in a black population, was particularly pronounced for African-Americans and especially to be marketed.</p>
<p>Life experience. In fact, the whole field of cognitive psychology, and experiential learning of this concept: &#8220;Almost every result that we have indicates that (is) no way,&#8221; says experimental psychologist at Harvard University Mahzarin Banaji.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, many white men and women ignore that fact when it comes to the impact of our own race on our own decisions. As Fraga said, with his insistence that the forms of identity perception, Sotomayor law &#8220;requires all of us a deep look in the mirror.&#8221;</p>
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