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Come on, you have dictators ruling the world, population is growing by millions, there's no more fish in the sea, the North Pole is melting and as the last TED Prize winner said, we're all becoming fat.
And when the colonial period ended, what you had in place of that was generally secular dictators, which say they're a country, but did not bring democracy to the country, and established their own dictatorship.
And I think the West, at least some powers in the West, particularly the United States, made the mistake of supporting those secular dictators, thinking that they were more helpful for their interests.
But the fact that those dictators suppressed democracy in their country and suppressed Islamic groups in their country actually made the Islamists much more strident.
Arab masses just revolted against their dictators.
And they did not turn out to be the Islamist boogeyman that the dictators were always using to justify their regime.
And though young people from the Arab world were pretty successful in bringing down three dictators, shaking the region, kind of persuading the clever kings from Jordan and Morocco to do substantial reforms, it is yet to be seen what will be the outcome.
The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project is staffed by journalists and citizens where they are crowd-sourcing what dictators and terrorists are doing with public funds around the world, and, in a more dramatic case, we've seen in Mexico, a country that has been racked by 50,000 narcotics-related murders in the past six years.
Sometimes the Arab dictators didn't understand these two hands.
We become dictators with a remote and start to criticize the people on TV.
But as we were doing the inspiring work of building search engines and video-sharing sites and social networks, criminals, dictators and terrorists were figuring out how to use those same platforms against us.
At least in my very own city of Cairo, it helped overthrow two separate dictators.
The same tool that united us to topple dictators eventually tore us apart.
Of course, you could have spared the prisoners 98 days on the island by telling them at least 99 of you have green eyes, but when mad dictators are involved, you're best off with a good headstart.
Some thinkers have gone on to credit the idea of the noble lie as a prototype for 20th century propaganda, and the philosopher king as inspiration for the dictators that used them.
And the punishment that the dictators are using to intimidate them must not prevent us from getting what we want.
Dictators feed on propaganda.
Dictators survive by instigating fear, and they use the military to suppress dissident voices, even though they try to give the impression that the military is to protect the nation.
Dictators are cruel monsters, and I am not saying it to be nice.
Currently owned and dominated by two mini dictators, who rule my life with an iron fist while wearing their Huggies diapers.
We saw dictators fall, we saw others hang on.
This is why the extremists, the dictators, the autocrats and, frankly, all the ideologues of the world cannot stand humor.
That's why dictators hate cartoonists and try to eradicate everything that involves humor as a mirror for social and political issues.
I'll just give you a very short list of reasons why authoritarian deliberation may actually help the dictators.
So having people involved in planning for 2020 is not necessarily going to change anything, because the dictators are still the ones who control the agenda.
Africans use protests to challenge both dictators as well as power cuts.
We know of the dictators falling in Tunisia and in Egypt, but popular movements have prevented presidents from stealing third terms in Senegal, in Malawi and Burkina Faso as well.
And for dictators all over the world, the good news is when cartoonists, journalists and activists shut up.
In fact it is the Buddhist Burmese culture who has left the doors wide opens to their dictators.
No, never mind that Pat was good friends with the genocidal dictators of Zaire and Zimbabwe in order to help him acquire such wealth; it's all for the greater glory of God, don't you know?
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