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2012.
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Occupy Wall Street (and This, That, and the Other Place) might seem, at first video streaming glance, to be singular among protest movements. But-with its vaporous ends and its grounded means-"Occupy" is recognizable as yet another outbreak in history's long list of peasant revolts.
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099662
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2010.
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At dinner in Prague with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's president, Jeff Gedmin, and half a dozen RFE/RL staffers, Gedmin said, to no one in particular, "Do you think at any time in the future history will look back and say, 'I wish they hadn't broadcast so much information'?"
It will be an unpleasant future if history says that. And it won't be RFE/RL's fault. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty broadcasts information to Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East in twenty-eight languages. Much of the information comes from the places where those twenty-eight languages are spoken. RFE/RL has five hundred and fifty employees in Prague-speaking the twenty-eight languages and then some-forty more back in Washington, and several hundred full- and part-time correspondents, editors, and technicians at bureaus in eighteen countries. Reporters are also working, sometimes clandestinely, in countries where RFE/RL bureaus aren't allowed. The mission is to tell people living in those countries what is happening to them.
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115083
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2012.
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When did America quit bragging? When did we stop punching hardest, kicking highest, roaring loudest, beating the devil, and leaving everybody else in the dust?
We're the richest country on earth-four and a half percent of the world's people producing more than twenty percent of the world's wealth. But you wouldn't know from the cheapjack spending squabbles in Congress. We possess more military power than the rest of the planet combined. Though you couldn't tell by the way we're treated by everyone from the impotent Kremlin to the raggedy councils of the Taliban. The earth is ours. We have the might and means to achieve the spectacular-and no intention of doing so.
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