One of the Philippines’ largest broadcasters, ABS-CBN, has been refused a new licence after being forced off air in May.
On Friday, an overwhelming majority of a parliamentary committee rejected as “undeserving” ABS-CBN’s request for a 25-year extension of its franchise.
Government critics say the refusal is directly connected to the channel’s criticism of President Rodrigo Duterte.
ABS-CBN refused to broadcast Mr Duterte’s campaign ads in 2016.
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The original pilsner-type beer is from Czechoslovakia. How ironic they chose that type of beer to represent German Neo Nazis.
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Elections have consequences.
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Given that Plzeň/Pilsen is right on the border of the Sudentenland I wouldn’t be so sure that they have a huge problem with that.
I think the argument is that, since the Marcomanni lived in Bohemia, and were Germans, and the Czechs live in Bohemia, they must also be Germans, just Slavic-speaking ones.
But the Boii, who Boiohaemum and Boiovaria are named for, are generally thought to be Celtic, and the Cotini and other groups likewise. So doesn’t the same logic imply that the Marcomanni and Czechs and Bavarians are Celtic? And the Swiss and Swabians are Celtic?
Or that their heritage may involve all these groups, and nationalism has to erase the complexity and ambiguity in favor of a single story and identity.
It is much simpler. The lands just to the west had traditionally had a majority of German speakers and apparently up to some point in the middle ages so did the city itself. It’s not like any definition of German* other than “German speaker” has ever been viable. If anything nationalists would be more likely to consider the area hardly properly foreign, at least pre-WW2.
(* “Deutsch”, that is. That the sons and daughters of Albion saddled us with a certain flowery and ill-defined term from antiquity is another matter.)
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I’m partial to the Lakotan Iyášiča Makȟóčhe , assumming that the translation is accurate. Medieval Greek ( Frángoi ,) is also interesting.
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He played to his base.
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Why does that sound familiar?
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“This image is an insult to my ancestors, my family and my political movement,” she said, adding she was “more determined than ever to fight against #racism, for liberty, equality and fraternity” - repeating the most famous slogan of the French Revolution.
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Then he passes me a sticker that came free with his magazine, the right-wing weekly Gazeta Polska. It shows a rainbow flag with a black cross through it. “We gave out 70,000 of these,” says Sakiewicz. “And people congratulated us because we Poles love freedom.”
Now in his 50s, Sakiewicz grew up in a Poland controlled by the Soviet Union when the government told people how to think, rejected Church influence and tolerated no dissent. Bizarrely, he now accuses LGBT campaigners of behaving in the same way.
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One man, with a shaved head, tells me he doesn’t like the LGBT group’s message. “They don’t want to fit into our society,” he says. “And we don’t want them in this town.”“They are weakening the nation,” says another. “And that’s the goal of Poland’s enemies. War’s no longer about tanks and missiles. You destroy a country by making chaos. And that’s what these gays are trying to do.”
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Maybe not Nazification, but certainly an example of the expanding Xeniphobication of the world.
Mr Tatar, who is pro-Turkey and wants Cyprus to be two separate states, won just under 52% of the vote to defeat the incumbent, Mustafa Akinci.
Mr Akinci wants reunification with the southern Greek part of the island.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has sent his congratulations to Mr Ersin.
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Not familiar with Genocide Watch, but seeing a lot about this:
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