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Battle on a New Front: Chinese Media in Africa
By thegeneration April 21, 2013 Last upadateApril 21, 2013
by Rujuta Gandhi
First, China constructed multibillion-dollar cities, or ghost cities, dubbed as such because of the empty high-rises, parking lots, and playgrounds. Then, it "gifted" the $200 billion African Union headquarters. Now, China Daily, a global Chinese newspaper, blesses the continent with its Africa edition. Why is China burdening itself with a responsibility to develop Africa, and why expand its media presence? Perhaps the communist nation hopes to find amity by extending a hand of friendship—a gesture riddled with soft power ambitions.
Slowly developing Chinese media in Africa is a geostrategic move against western media, which already hold the upper hand by bashing Chinese involvement throughout the continent. Since 2008, these sources have increasingly been exposing China's harmful role—its contribution to the genocide in Darfur is only one example. Non-media sources, such as the book China and Africa: A Century of Engagement, also contribute to this condemnation. Therefore, by establishing a media presence, China hopes to combat what it perceives as "misrepresentations" of its purpose in Africa. Such misconceptions could harm future economic ties and political support in Sino-African relations. Consequently, China is using the media as a tool of soft power.
This power play will help protect China's future in both the long and short term. In the long term, it is likely that they aim to secure their economic presence and ability to extract natural resources or to resettle their burgeoning population, among other motives. However, in the short term, the government is taking swift action to survive on the new battlefield of state-financed satellite television news, a notion voiced publicly by former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Already, foreign news services, such as France24 and Russia Today, have moved their metaphorical pawns, bishops, and knights to gain ground and mitigate negative images of their respective countries. China is merely following suit.
Xinhua News Agency, China's state-owned press, established its presence in Africa beginning in the 1970s and now operates more than 20 bureaus continent-wide. In 2011, it began broadcasting a subsidiary television station, CNC World. A year later, the state-run but market-funded Chinese Central Television (CCTV) rooted its headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. Most recently (and another year later), China Daily launched its Africa edition. However, both broadcasting companies incorporate heavy biases in favor of China; they highlight social and cultural topics and positive narratives while avoiding controversial ones, including political issues. In the April 12–18, 2013 weekly edition, the article "Strong China-Africa Cooperation Pays," endeavored to convince Africans that, with China's aid, Africa can be an "Asian tiger," while "Good Hair Days" discussed the relationship between women's hairstyles and social change in China. Furthermore, in an attempt to gain an upper hand on the U.S., the cover story "Advent of a Banking Superpower" was followed with this sub-heading: "Country has massive lead over the United States in terms of availability of savings, says expert."
The appearance of Chinese media parallels government motives and initiatives. Soon after the decolonization of Africa, the Chinese government began to establish diplomatic relations with African states. With these ties came Xinhua, the Xinhua News Agency's online newspaper. These actions can arguably be perceived as part of the rewards package for African nations that supported Chinese Security Council membership. From post-colonization until 2000, media coverage contained little substantive analysis.
Since then, the need to increase their soft power drives the Chinese government's new $7–9 billion policy. During the Chinese-dubbed Year of Africa in 2006, Chinese journalism and media relations were among many of the topics discussed during high-level exchanges and forums. The roadmap effectively institutionalizes soft power by assisting in the development of media infrastructure, revealing a long-term soft power mission to strengthen diplomatic and economic ties.
However, the survival and effectiveness of Chinese media are still questionable. In terms of journalism itself, the government is reportedly exporting its domestic censorship laws, which will likely result in declined legitimacy. On the other hand, China is making strides on the front of public diplomacy and institution-building assistance. Since 2006, Xinhua has trained a growing number of African journalists. Additionally, CNC World and CCTV's bureaus both employ African journalists (though the executives and editors are Chinese). Meanwhile, the Chinese government provides media equipment as to support institutional development throughout Africa.
If Chinese media advances, Sino-African relations will strengthen. And if western media cannot wage its own soft power to fight back, a continuing shift in global power will be progressively more inevitable as the U.S. may lose ground on the resources and benefits that Africa can offer.
Facts and figures from BBC, China Daily Africa Weekly, and South African Institute for International Affairs.
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'Flying imams' case is settled at our expense
It's all too easy to apply hindsight to a potentially perilous situation.
by Katherine Kersten
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The "flying imams" and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) are declaring victory in their legal war against law-enforcement personnel and safety procedures at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. Their "victory" -- aided and abetted by a judge arrogantly dismissive of law-enforcement realities -- is a major setback for transportation safety.
The case made news three years ago when the six imams were removed from a U.S. Airways jet after passengers and airline employees reported that the six were engaging in suspicious behavior, including changing seats into a so-called 9/11 pattern; cursing the United States and its conflict with Saddam Hussein; chanting "Allah, Allah" when boarding was called, and unnecessarily requesting seat-belt extenders that could be used as weapons.
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Highway To Spookiness
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Publish Date: Aug 23 2016 2:53PM
Updated Date: Aug 23 2016 2:53PM
Kollywood commedianne Soori shared a spine-chilling video of his encounter with a 'ghost' on his FB page a few days ago. Soori who was traveling in his car on the Palani-Coimbatore highway captured a one-minute video which he claims is of a 'paranormal creature' that he happened to see.
What's there in the video?
The car approaches a 'headless', saffron-clad sadhu with ash-covered grey legs, right in the middle of the road. Fear grips Soori and his driver, as is palpable in his voice, as the actor asks his driver to turn off the headlights and just drive on — and "run over" the ghostly figure. A few seconds later, a huge thud is heard after which the cabin light of the car is turned on, and the footage shows an orange-coloured object that had settled on the windshield, plucked out as if by magic.
Does it sound sppoky? According to some media reports, one explanation for this encounter is that it was a tarpaulin used to protect goods carried by a lorry or luggage tied up on a bus' carrier.
If you haven't seen the video yet, see it here:
What Do Our Students Think Of This Tryst?
Somethings are beyond reason and this is one of them. The way Soori's voice was shaking, it was apparent that there was more than what met our eyes. Whether it was a doctored video or not, we don't know and never will. But I do beleive that such creatures exist. I have heard many of my relatives speak about such headless/armless creatures found mainly in the highways.
- Swastik Patnaik, class X, Mother's International Public School, Delhi
This is one spooky video and the narration adds to the drama. While I don't believe in ghosts or supernatural, I do believe that somethings don't have any explanation. This is that case for me. I don't think this is a tarpaulin or luggage. At the same time I am not entirely convinced that this is a spirit!
- Aradhya Mudgal, class IX, Mayoor International, Delhi
I have heard a lot of these tales coming from highways. In fact on one occasion when we were driving from Shimla To Delhi, my father suddenly stopped the car and switched off the head lights. We sat in total darkness for 15 minutes. Later, dad told us that someone was pulling us behind. It was a very strong magnetic force and he lost control of the car for a couple of minutes. When he looked at the side way mirror, dad saw no vehicle behind us! It was spooky!
- Aditi Mirhcnadani, class XII, Raksham Public School
I must have been 9 years then. We were driving down from a party venue at 12 am. We had to cover a stretch of 37 kms on the highway to get home. Everything was smooth untill we met a scooterist walking with his vehicle. My father stopped the car and offered to help him. But he kept walking. We thought he was hard of hearing, so we shouted at him. But he just kept looking straight and continued walking. We let him be and drove away. Five kilometres before our home, we saw the same scooterist walking down with his vehicle. This time, Dad didn't drive by. We waited for him to get out of our sight, then we continued our journey.
- Rohini Dutta, class IX, Ellam Convent, Mumbai
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I won''t say that these kind of creatures do not exist as I too have felt this kind of abnormal feeling. It was a dark night and my family was driving on a quiet road. As we were on the way, we saw a man who was going to bang on our car and we really crushed him. Our heart beats stopped but what we saw was the same man who stood up from behind of the car and just went on his way without saying a word. Really creepy wasn''t it!
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Home News Glenn Beck: Liberals were right about Iraq
Glenn Beck: Liberals were right about Iraq
6/20/14 12:57pm by John Aravosis 64
On his radio show on Tuesday, conservative sky-is-falling paranoid Glenn Beck admitted that liberals were right about it being a bad idea to invade Iraq.
Beck's comments came on the heels of the news that Iraq is falling apart at the seams while Al-Qaeda-backed insurgents take over major cities in the north, and march on Baghadad. And while liberals are reticent about getting back into the same costly war we just got out of, Republicans like Dick Cheney are just itching to jump back in.
Beck has these fits of clarity every once in a while. But they don't seem to complement his otherwise nutty history of being just as hysterical as the next guy. When Beck says something like this, I have to wonder if he truly believes it:
We are far from reaching across the aisle. I shouldn't say that. The Republicans and Democrats are perfectly fine reaching across the aisle. They are not only reaching across the aisle, they are reaching across the aisle and fondling each other. It's just they are on the same exact page, and they will demonize. The Republicans are doing it, and the Democrats will do it. They will demonize anyone that steps out of line with the parties.
Sounds nice, but Glenn Beck is still part of the problem. A big part of the problem.
Now on to Beck's comments about Iraq:
Maybe we could come together now on this nightmare in Iraq. From the beginning, most people on the left were against going into Iraq. I wasn't. At the time I believed that the United States was under threat from Saddam Hussein. I really truly believed that Saddam Hussein was funding terrorists. We knew that. He was funding the terrorists in Hamas. We knew that he was giving money. We could track that. We knew he hated us. We knew that without a shadow of a doubt. It wasn't much or a stretch to believe that he would fund a terror strike against us, especially since he would say that. So I took him at his word.
There were also atrocities that were happening in Iraq torture chambers, mass graves. At the time, the unanimous belief – even with Hillary Clinton and everybody else – was that he had weapon of mass destruction. There was also the element – and this is really what spoke to me – of bringing freedom to the people of Iraq for the first time in their long history. I don't want to control Iraq, but I have a soft spot for people who are being tortured and just want freedom because I really, truly believe Democrats and Republicans are the same. Israelis and Palestinians are the same. Once you get the politicians to leave the room, once you can deprogram people from what the politicians and leaders have said, everyone is pretty much the same. It's like, 'I just want to be left alone.' 'I just want to raise my family, have fun.' 'I want a decent life.' Then politicians get involved and program us to hate each other. You have to be carefully taught who to hate.
Now, in spite of the things I felt at the time when we went into war, liberals said: We shouldn't get involved. We shouldn't nation-build. And there was no indication the people of Iraq had the will to be free. I thought that was insulting at the time. Everybody wants to be free. They said we couldn't force freedom on people. Let me lead with my mistakes. You are right. Liberals, you were right. We shouldn't have….
But I agree with you: You cannot force democracy on the Iraqis or anybody else. It doesn't work. They don't understand it or even really want it. They may be too immersed in their own belief of Sharia Law to embrace liberty or at least at this time. If people vote for Sharia Law, they vote for Sharia Law. We tried. What can we do? We have lost thousands of American lives. We have lost thousands of lives on the Iraqi side and tens of thousands have been wounded. We have spent $2 trillion – say that again – $2 trillion, and upwards of 200,000 Iraqi citizens, aid workers, insurgents have been killed. That's the conservative number. Liberals will tell you it's almost 1 million people. I don't know what the number is, but after all of that, hundreds of thousands of lives, $2 trillion, the best minds in the world trying to do it, it's about to fall apart.
I'm not sure about Beck's "they're not ready for democracy" argument, but I've long believed, or at least suspected, that you can't foist democracy on anyone. They have to fight for it. Countries need to have their own revolutions in order for a new way of life and governance to coalesce and cement. That doesn't mean that we should just sit back and watch bad things happen. But I worry that when it comes to nation-building, countries that don't adopt change via revolution don't necessarily achieve change that lasts.
I think of Soviet Russia vs. Eastern Europe. The Eastern European countries overthrew their communist overlords. The Russians? Not so much.
So I'm not necessarily against assisting pro-democracy efforts, or even pro-democracy insurgents, depending on the case. But if you don't have the buy-in of the people, if you don't have an actual people's revolution, I think it's difficult for freedom to stick.
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64 Responses to "Glenn Beck: Liberals were right about Iraq"
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Bill_Perdue says:
You're dead wrong.
Don't just pretend that Republicans are worse at union busting, or busting the Bill of Rights, engaging in mass murder and genocide in wars of aggression, or that they spend more time plotting to gut social security, of that Republicans oppose anti-discrimination laws more than Democrats. Prove it.
What part of your agenda has been accomplished by Democrats, as opposed to the work of mass movements? What wars did they stop. Did they pass ENDA without cult exceptions, did they restore the banking regulations, did they repeal their own DOMA, did they save the Bill of Rights or did they pass NDAA?
If your agenda is the same as the Democrats – war, union busting, NDAA, a minimum wage guaranteed to please the bosses and owner, the racist and illegal murder of Arab Americans and etc – then you are either very right wing or very out of touch with working class America.
" (I mean doable things, not abstract ideas with no chance of working in the current system.)" No real change can occur in the current system. Looking for real change in the current system is silly. It's a failure of historical understanding to assume that people will not reject a permanently disabled and utterly corrupt system in it's death agony in favor of a better system.
As bad as Democrats are, Republicans are a lot worse. Would Gore have invaded Iraq? Probably not. And the fact that W got elected is mostly to blame on a corrupt system in Florida and people who voted for Nader in a swing state (especially but not just Florida). If Democrats had majorities you might be able to push them on these issues. When they are terrified in swing states of losing to an even more conservative Republican they run to the middle or even the right. You can keep your moral high ground. I'd rather get some of my agenda than none.
And that doesn't change until we get the big money out of politics. I don't know how we do that without major changes to the Supreme Court and to Congress. The Supreme Court may be fixable if we can elect another 2-3 terms for Democrats in the White House. Congress is not. You're asking the crooks to give up the loot. Not gonna happen. The moment when campaign finance fell apart in my opinion was in a hearing when one of the Senators asked McCain if he was accusing his colleagues of taking bribes. His answer should have been "yes". He should have said it out loud and let them go on the defensive. They do take bribes and it's perfectly legal. Shame on all of us for re-electing such crooked people and allowing them to line their pockets. Almost all of them leave office as millions on salaries that ought to make that level of wealth difficult. Our current system is corrupt to its core. I just don't know what we do about it. (I mean doable things, not abstract ideas with no chance of working in the current system.)
Hue-Man says:
Your comment reminded me of something from the Iraq occupation that I'd conveniently ignored – Blackwater (or whatever sanitized new name its chosen). "Outsourcing" its Border Services Agency and its internal security services was one of the major factors contributing to the fall of the Roman Empire (I'm not an expert). The (foreign) mercenaries were trained by Romans in Latin, learned all the strengths/weaknesses of Rome, fed the intelligence back to their leadership, and led the attacking forces which the fat, lazy, untrained, lion-watching Romans were unable to repel.
I imagine their 1% made windfall profits from the outsourcing, too!
lynchie says:
They sure tracked them in Vietnam, in fact they moved bodies around and counted them again and again to show body count figures that supposedly proved we were winning.
Frankly they don't give a damn. The prevailing sentiment of the 1% is "I've got mine and I want yours as well"
thanks for this information. In the states having premium insurance, being rich, part of the 1%, etc. moves you to the front of the line. Nice to see the government in Ontario realizes the rich have more to spare than someone at the bottom. Just the reverse in the U.S. Also Premier Wynn is an openly gay female the first elected in Canada. Somehow the world didn't grind to a halt or bring on the Rapture.
If the American politicians understand, it must be at an unconscious level, because look at the way they're arming our police now: Like an inwardly directed army that presumes citizens are suspected enemies of the state. Then there's the "Total Information Awareness" spying by the NSA and other agencies. And the ruthless way they now go after whistleblowers.
Not to be cute, but there's a line in the original Star Wars, where Princess Leia remarks to Governor Tarkin, "The tighter you squeeze, the more systems will slip through your fingers." Squeezing tighter — oppression — seems to be the usual response for empires tottering on the edge of self-destruction.
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What is the wait-time for an American who is poor, isn't a senior, and has no medical insurance?
I've worked and lived in Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto and never met anyone who ever went to the U.S. – or elsewhere – for medical treatment. I can't recall even a single conversation about someone considering doing that.
And here's a first step in addressing income inequality: the new Ontario Liberal (center-left) majority government will re-introduce its budget in the next few weeks. It includes TAX INCREASES on the wealthy:
• Lower the taxable income threshold for the 13.16 per cent tax rate from $514,090 to $220,000
• Add a new tax rate of 12.16 per cent on taxable income between $150,000 and $220,000
http://www.fin.gov.on.ca/publication/budget-highlights-2014-en.pdf
Short version: If your taxable income is over $150,000, your taxes are going up.
In 2002, Iraq had no means of delivering a nuclear warhead to the U.S., even if you believe that they had built one. They knew this and lied when they talked about "mushroom clouds" – maybe Saddam was working at the pool of one of his palaces to train dolphins to swim to the U.S. then find their way up the Potomac…When I broached this with an American colleague, he told me I was a stupid uninformed foreigner who didn't know the truth, etc.
The issue of what holds a nation together has concerned me for a while, not just in the context of Iraq. Empires and nations have disintegrated, usually violently, after centuries of cohesiveness without their leaders appreciating the changes that were in process to undermine that cohesiveness.
My concerns started when the right-wing Conservative Party started changing Canada's immigration rules, voting rules, and support of social programs. For a country that has one of the highest legal immigration rates in the world, ethnic and religious battles have not been imported with Canada's new arrivals – conflicts between people who would be killing each other in their home country/region are virtually unknown in Canada. I've found only one discussion of the issue and *SPOILER ALERT*, a major factor is a quick path to citizenship. http://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/TCM-canadian-exceptionalism
In the U.S. context, are TeaParty/GOP policies undermining the ability of the United States to remain united? Tearing apart community/social constructs, encouraging wealth accumulation by the 1%, handing out firearms without controls, overt racism, and the impoverishment of lower classes are not ways to build a nation! Does American political leadership understand what might cause the break-up of the American Empire?
Silver_Witch says:
Of course the Liberals were/are right. If only they would listen to us first…then act.
Drew2u says:
Beck, there's a great starting point for ya since you realize Liberals were right:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zVn0YMxB6o
"There was no hope of passing single payer or any other liberal plan." Agreed, at least not with Democrats who were bribed by insurance and pharmaceutical companies running the WH and Congress.
Democrats (with a little help from their Republican partners in crime) accomplished DADT and DOMA, NAFTA, deregulation, the Crash of 2007, wars of aggression and genocide, massive intractable unemployment, NDAA (indefinite detention on a whim), a policy of extrajudicial and so far racist murders of US citizens, union busting, an unlivable minimum wage and you want more of these 'accomplishments?
Millions of working class American will not be joining you in your quest for more of these 'accomplishments'.
Dave of the Jungle says:
Big Oil gets whatever it wants when the Repugs are in power.
Of course, anyone in Iraq who wasn't us was an "enemy combatant".
Everything coming out of the mouth of any U.S. government spokesperson at the time could be classified as "Newspeak".
But you have to respect their creativity, even if it was blatant verbal re-engineering of the truth. And yes, the term "respect" is pure snark.
Not surprisingly, failing to attempt to keep 'enemy' civilian deaths to a minimum is also considered a war crime.
Hence why they kept labeling every single Iraqi who was killed a 'combatant.'
pappyvet says:
I know. Between 170,000 and 1 million is a helluva spread
What was particularly disturbing about that fact was the language used when they were asked about it. I don't remember the exact quote or who said it, but the cold phrase "We don't track enemy combatant's deaths" figures into it. The cavalier attitude they had about civilian deaths showed their monstrous and criminal nature.
Yet we were there to "help" Iraqis attain freedom and democracy.
I found it rather telling how we knew to the individual exactly how many Americans were killed and wounded in Bush & Cheney's war crimes — yet they went out of their way to ensure nobody could find out exactly how many Iraqis were killed, maimed, or wounded.
Of the people who were against going into Iraq I recall the term traitor being thrown around rather loosely. 4,486 U.S. service members were killed in Iraq between 2003 and 2012. And somewhere between 170,000 and I million Iraqi citizens were killed. Over 60 billion was spent on reconstruction projects in Iraq from 2003 to 2012. At least 10 percent of the money cannot be accounted for.
Yep , sounds like treason to me. But not from anyone who was against going.
Yes, it's so much better to sit on the sidelines and throw spitballs at anyone who might be able to accomplish something.
ACA is indeed the conservative answer to health care reform. Even that could barely get passed. There was no hope of passing single payer or any other liberal plan.
Where would the funding come for Kucinich to make such a run. He might have considered it but without millions there's not much point. It's easy to think someone should do something but Kucinich is not a billionaire. He doesn't have millions of his own money to fund a campaign. I always laugh when the press speculates about when various candidates will drop out of the primaries. the answer is always the same: when the campaign runs out of money and they have no choice.
I don't think he did. He's just doing a stopped clock impression right now.
If you read the transcript of his comments, he's not even correct, right, or truthful for all of them. Just a few selected bits.
I know what you mean. Lie after lie — and zero accountability.
What alarmed me most about that time frame and the sequence of events that led up to the war was the clear understanding that the government officials were probably lying but we let them proceed without due process. The theory at that time that I found most alarming was that they were the elected officials and so we should trust their judgment. That's why we elected them. That scenario continues to haunt my nightmares.
therling says:
When did Beck go back on his meds?
chrislib says:
When did Ben Gleck realize he hates America and wants the terists to win? You know, he does look a little French…
BuddyNovinski says:
Yes, we should have learned that democracy needs time to develop institutions. The German Empire was slowly moving in that direction before 1914. So, the Treaty of Versailles forced democracy on a nation not yet ready for it. There was so much chaos that eventually the German people preferred order over liberty. Then came the Great Depression, leaving open for a certain Corporal Schicklegruber to exploit the situation.
Ironically, democracy finally won over Germany, but it took decades and measures of stability. So, when Germany united in 1990, the institutions were there to continue it.
Romney/Heritage/Obamacare is just more of the same Republican authored profiteering system. The difference is that now we're forced into being part of an inadequate system and working class taxpayers are also forced to subsidize the enormous profits being gouged by insurance and pharmaceutical companies. Congress and the White House, in their current banana republic version, were unbelievably craven for passing such a bill after being bribed for a few scores of millions.
Some of the largest health insurers are hitting all-time highs. … Shares of UnitedHealth Group (UNH +0.74%), Humana (HUM +0.91%), Aetna (AET +0.94%) and WellPoint (WLP +1.73%) rallied Wednesday — with all four
recording all-time highs in the wake of the Obama administration announcement that total enrollment in Affordable Care Act health exchange plans now tops 5 million. MSN Money March 20th, 2014
http://money.msn.com/top-stocks/post–insurance-stocks-soar-on-obamacare-sign-ups
and http://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2013/10/26/despite-glitches-obamacare-profit-windfall-to-insurers-well-underway/
Being born and raised in Canada, but residing her in the U. S. for the past 30 years i have seen the difference between the two systems. I still have family residing in Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, Winnipeg, Regina and Calgary so a good broad section of the country. None, I repeat none of them would trade the Canadian system for the U.S. Sure there are some delays but not for trauma or immediate needs. You might have to wait for a total knee or hip but heart conditions and the like are treated immediately.
we have chosen a system which puts profit ahead of medical delivery and outcomes and as such it is fraught with the greed associated with profit at all costs. Remarkable how many americans believe our system superior to the so called socialist systems of other countries.
Or, I'm not really up on liberals.
The VA scandals show how badly vets are treated and how tragically they die. It could be easily solved. http://labornotes.org/2014/06/fix-va-waits-hire-more-staff
The rest of us could get much better care with socialized medicine. "The GuardianTuesday 17 June 2014 15.27 EDT – Study by Washington-based foundation says healthcare provision in the US is the worst in the world. The NHS has been declared the world's best healthcare system by an international panel of experts who rated its care superior to countries which spend far more on health.
The same study also castigated healthcare provision in the US as the worst globally. Despite putting the most money into health, America denies care to many patients in need because they do not have health insurance and is also the poorest at saving the lives of people who fall ill, it found.
The report has been produced by the Commonwealth Fund, a
Washington-based foundation which is respected around the world for its
analysis of the performance of different countries' health systems. It examined an array of evidence about performance in 11 countries, including detailed data from patients, doctors and the World Health Organisation. http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jun/17/nhs-health?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
He also voted for the ACA scam. He's the best they've got and he's nothing.
I like the end of the Republic, beginning of the Empire period of Roman history but the War of the Roses fits just as well.
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I came to that exact same conclusion when Kuchinich put his support behind Obama after claiming his defeat in the primaries instead of switching to Independent and continuing the fight.
Also he demonstrated that same lack of courage when he allowed Pelosi to scuttle his 35 Articles of Impeachment.
He looks rather well adjusted and at completely at home on FOXNews(R).
At first I was shocked that Perdue would attribute Liberal to these Dems…
… But then, I saw that tongue poking in that cheek of his.
There's probably a reason why the US is the only country in the world with a two-party Jeffersonian-style Republic form of government. And it isn't because all those parliamentary democracies out there just haven't found enlightenment yet. Even countries where we propped up their government chose not to adopt our fundamentally flawed system.
Yeah, well, we're really good at exporting our own form of government — falsely advertised as being a democracy.
In addition they do little to take care of its poor, elderly and injured military while heaping car loads of gold onto the 1% who don't fight, don't expose themselves and who constantly whine that it is so hard to be rich. Like Hillary's comment, Bill and I left the white house broke. In a pig's fucking ass. I call horseshit on that whopper.
There was not 'universal belief' that Iraq and Hussein had WMDs.
There were plenty of experts, including Joe Wilson, whose wife's career as a CIA analyst was ruined because he dared to insist the claims of yellowcake and aluminum tubes and mobile bio labs were nothing but lies.
It is true that democracy cannot be imposed by the barrel of a gun — or as a result of 'shock and awe' airstrikes. But Iraq's inability to enact and maintain a democratic form of government isn't because they're children who don't understand the super-duper awesome-sauce of this thing called democracy or a democratic republic.
It's because existing power structures — which before the war were remarkably secular for a Middle Eastern nation — were wiped away, along with much of the infrastructure of modern civilization. And none of it was worth the cost. Through illegal war and torture and the rest, America lost what little remained of its soul and its moral standing in the world. Gitmo became a recruiting tool for future terrorists. Blood and horror is what we bought with all those lives and all that money.
Yes, we liberals and hippies were right. The war was not worth fighting, but not because everybody believed in the pretenses given, the lies told. Quite a few of us knew they were lies, and many of these were experts.
And let's also not forget that America's goal was never really democracy or anything like it. The entire purpose was to replace an uncooperative, recalcitrant strongman with another more compliant strongman, one who would owe debts to those who put him in power.
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Basically, the US political scene today is just the War of the Roses all over again. No matter who wins, the peasants (that's us) are screwed.
A very cruel joke considering the causalities and damage the various American regimes have inflicted.
Hillary Clinton is a typical Democrat politician. I agree with you about one thing, Democrats and Republicans are the same party fighting over the spoils and no reasonable person would be involved with either.
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You are nuts. Hillary is just another corporate whore. Don't listen to what she says, watch what she does. Would a liberal sit on the board of an outfit like Wal-Mart for 6 years? She has been anointed by Wall St. and the media as the Dem nominee already. Let me be clear. No one that posed any type of threat to the powers that be could ever sniff the nomination of either party. Wall St. was Obama's biggest backer in 08. They are not liberals. I might describe them as Rockefeller Republicans.
A few house members voted against it. It they're still in the by now reactionary party run by Democrat politicians, they're in the wrong party.
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The point is that the two parties have converged so much that the labels people used to apply to them are meaningless. Liberal now means conservative and conservative os now reactionary. Except for cosmetic differences they share the same politics. They do, for sure, squabble in a partisan way to try to win votes and bribes (campaign contribution) but that has nothing to do with their politics.
The Clintons are self-described liberals but in reality they're Dixiecrats, as are many Republicans. There are no Democrat politicians that come to mind who are liberal in terms of the definition you provided.
The reason I provided the list of the Senate vote, and I have a similar one for DOMA, is to prove that point that they are not liberals. Most Democrat politicians are conservatives or reactionaries who refuse to give us a union shop, who took bribes and ended the chance for socialized medicine, who are happy lap dogs of the rich (when they're not rich themselves), who have no regard for the environment, who support FTAs, who applaud wars of aggression, and who periodically vote to gut the Bill of Rights.
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If you want to know what a "real liberal" thought about the invasion of Iraq before it occurred, you should read why Barbara Lee voted against the AUMF. While right-wing types may think of Hillary Clinton as a "liberal," real liberals and/or progressives don't view her that way.
Oh Christ, you're not saying Hillary is a liberal are you?
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It's kind of a joke that Amerika — a plutocracy not a democracy — goes around claiming that they and only they can teach other nations how to properly govern themselves.
I'm not entirely comfortable with describing Hillary as "liberal." She's opportunistic, that's a given, but "liberal" as I used to understand it means compassionate, sensible, and open to a spectrum of interests. Hillary represents many things that resonate in those directions but in the final analysis Hillary is about Hillary and that's as far as I see that road going. I think she'd make an excellent president, she's perfectly capable of instituting the police surveillance state the public seems to demand and I'm confident that she can work with the CIA and the NSA and Corporate America successfully. That's about as good as it's going to get until the Revolution tosses all that nonsense out.
There's a guy with a plastic bag on his head, pushing a shopping cart on the next street. He yells a lot. He may make sense once in a while, but I steer a wide berth around him. I feel the same way about Glenn Beck.
Gold-Boy, we're right about a lot of things. You should listen more often.
Beck is wrong, as usual, about liberals being opposed to the Iraq genocide. What you have to remember about Beck is that he's the real deal – he's a fascist – and that he's very, very ambitious. And the other thing about Beck is that he'll do a bit of rebranding if the polls swing against him or his views.
Here's the real liberal view of the invasion of Iraq:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkS9y5t0tR0
In all 28 of Democrats in the Senate voted for the invasion, occupation and genocide in Iraq. (Please don't claim they didn't know it would be a genocide. They've all heard of Vietnam.) In the Senate 29 Democrats and 48 Republicans voted yes and 1 Republican, 21 Democrats, and 1 Independent (Bernie Sanders) voted no. In the House 215 Republicans and 82 Democrats voted yes and while 6 Republicans, 12 independent and 126 Democrats voted no. (Three abstained.)
Here are the details of the Senate vote:
Arkansas Blanche Lincoln (D): Yes
California Dianne Feinstein (D): Yes
Connecticut Christopher Dodd (D): Yes Joseph Lieberman (D): Yes
Delaware Joseph Biden (D): Yes Thomas Carper (D): Yes
Florida Bill Nelson (D): Yes
Georgia Max Cleland (D): Yes Zell Miller (D): Yes
Indiana Evan Bayh (D): Yes
Iowa Tom Harkin (D): Yes
Louisiana John Breaux (D): Yes Mary Landrieu (D): Yes
Massachusetts John
Kerry (D): Yes
Montana Max Baucus (D): Yes
Nebraska Ben Nelson (D): Yes
Nevada Harry Reid (D): Yes
New Jersey Robert Torricelli (D): Yes
New York Hillary Clinton (D): Yes Charles Schumer (D): Yes
North Carolina John Edwards (D): Yes
North Dakota Byron Dorgan (D): Yes
South Carolina Ernest "Fritz" Hollings (D): Yes
South Dakota Thomas Daschle (D): Yes Tim Johnson (D): Yes
Washington Maria Cantwell (D): Yes
West Virginia Jay Rockefeller (D): Yes
Wisconsin Herb Kohl (D): Yes
Stuff happened.
The best war profiteers that money can buy.
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The Culinary Institute of America Launches Advanced Japanese Cuisine Initiative
An innovative immersion into the cuisines and culture of Japan joins the course listings for the fall semester at The Culinary Institute of America. Advanced Cooking: Japanese Cuisine is a multi-faceted discovery of Japanese flavors, techniques, and food culture.
The class, offered to juniors and seniors pursuing a CIA bachelor's degree, will be jointly taught by CIA Chef Martin Matysik (who lived and worked in Japan) and Chef Hiroki Murashima of the world-renowned Tsuji Culinary Institute in Osaka. Chef Murashima will serve as the CIA's inaugural Suntory Visiting Professor of Japanese Studies, a new position created with the support of Suntory Group, one of the world's leading consumer product companies.
"The growing popularity of Japanese cuisine is clear and evident. Sushi and ramen are easy to find at supermarkets and neighborhood restaurants across the country. Top American chefs are increasingly looking to Japan for deep insights on flavor, technique, and design," says CIA President Dr. Tim Ryan. "We are delighted to collaborate with Suntory in making this world heritage of food culture more accessible to the talented chefs of tomorrow through this new initiative."
The Advanced Cooking: Japanese Cuisine curriculum covers Japanese history and culture, along with the ingredients, flavors, textures, and techniques of authentic Japanese cooking. It delves into dashi stocks, rice and noodles, sushi, tempura, and the principles of umami, as well as kaiseki cuisine and the cultural aspects of the Japanese dining table. The class meets once a week throughout the semester, beginning on September 13. Students will also participate in a field trip to experience leading Japanese restaurants and retail operations in New York City. The 18-student class filled up the first day it was offered to CIA students.
The course and the launch of a broader CIA Japanese studies initiative are underwritten by a multi-year grant from Suntory.
"Japan, its rich culinary traditions, techniques, and dishes are increasingly becoming focal points of exploration for young chefs pursuing advanced culinary arts. As a company deeply rooted in Japanese culture for more than a century, Suntory is thrilled to join with the CIA in teaching Advanced Japanese cuisine," says Suntory President and CEO Takeshi Niinami. "I believe this initiative will help bring an even greater appreciation and know-how of the art of Japanese cuisine directly to the next generation of top chefs in the U.S."
As the initiative expands, the curricula will include a greater depth of instruction in Japanese agriculture and the production of traditional foods and beverages, as well as ways to adapt Japanese flavors and products into innovative American menus. Opportunities for international travel/study experiences in Japan as part of the CIA's bachelor's degree programs are also under development.
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THERE are renewed plans for a merger of the TT Pro League and the TT Super League, with the new competition set to be called the TT Football League.
In 2019, there were plans for a T-League, with the Pro League teams to compete in the first division and the Super League outfits to participate in the second division. That T-League would have featured a promotion and demotion system.
Clayton Morris, president of the TT Super League, revealed that the FIFA-appointed normalisation committee, headed by Robert Hadad, is considering a move to have a merger of the two top local football leagues.
During an interview on Thursday, Morris said, "I had a courtesy meeting on the 21st of December. The meeting was to outline what the plans are for, what they are calling, the TT Football League. They wanted to know what (are) the TTSL's views on it."
The former Strike Squad captain continued, "I told (Hadad) I couldn't give any concrete position as the TTSL (president) because I wanted to take it to the board. Since then, we had the meeting and we are in support of the League, but we need to get an outline of the structure of how the League would be run. That was reported back to Mr Hadad (on Wednesday)."
Asked if he is confident that this new League will come to fruition, Morris replied, "I am confident that it can come off.
"We want the players to be back out there playing as (quickly) as possible but health is important. If we come together as one, with respect to getting the policy from the Ministry of Health, then it augurs well for us as one body."
Morris added, "Hadad says (the normalisation committee) have sponsors. That would take off a big chunk off the Super League, and the Pro League, seeing that we have sponsors coming. Our thing is just to make sure we really get the teams prepared. It would really put the League in a position to be marketable."
During the past few years, teams were unable to compete in the Super League since they were not compliant according to the TTFA (TT Football Association) stipulations.
Morris said this issue was discussed at the Super League's first board meeting on December 29.
"We're looking at the clubs who desperately need the assistance right now," said Morris. "A lot of them (are) illiterate to the fact that what needs to be done to be compliant. We have (a board member) talking with these clubs to find out where they're at and to find out the ones which most desperately need the assistance."
Former Super League president Keith Look Loy copped some criticism for performing dual roles with FC Santa Rosa (as the club president) and Super League president.
Will Morris be relinquishing his role as UTT coach since he is the Super League president?
"My job is a football coach employed with UTT. I am a football coach by profession."
There was talk within the local football fraternity that Look Loy was wearing too many hats.
Morris said, "I heard that. In my case, when I was approached to take this mantle (as Super League boss), I mentioned '(UTT) is my job'.
"I am seeing it as where I could make a contribution and that's what I see God has me doing. I can't be giving up my job for a voluntary (one). I see it as a service to football."
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Agustín de Lezo y Palomeque, (Lima, 28 de agosto de 1724 - Zaragoza, 10 de febrero de 1796) fue un religioso español que fue obispo de Pamplona (1779-1783) y arzobispo de Zaragoza (1783-1796).

Biografía
Estudió filosofía y teología en la Universidad de Navarra en Pamplona, licenciándose y doctorándose en la Universidad de Salamanca. Después ocupó cargos en Antequera y en Málaga, siendo obispo de Pamplona en el período 1779-1783. Desde el 15 de diciembre de 1783 fue arzobispo de Zaragoza.

En 1788 estableció un seminario en Zaragoza dedicado a San Valero y San Braulio. Fue codirector de la Real Casa de Misericordia de Zaragoza.

Referencias
 Agustín de Lezo y Palomeque  en la Gran Enciclopedia Aragonesa.
 (en inglés) Archbishop Agustín Lezo Palomeque en Catholic-Hierarchy.

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The man of the moment, Mahmoud Za'tarah, has given the answer to joc.jo to the question that the world's sports fans have been asking: "Would he have kicked the ball out if his team was losing?"
The Al-Wehdat striker has become a global icon of sportsmanship after a video went viral of him kicking the ball out after seeing an opposing player injured, despite being clear through on goal.
The incident sparked worldwide debate as his team was 2-0 up at the time in the closing minutes of their match against Al Nahda of Oman in the Asian Cup. They went on to win 3-0.
"I would do it again whatever the score is," the young player said. "It is one of Al-Nashama's characteristics to respect the opponent regardless of the result. Fair play is always our message.
"I felt like it was my duty to help that player who went down injured and not to take advantage. Football is not a game to win or lose, it's also the place where you can make friendships and show respect to everyone.
"In this kind of situation, you are focused on the safety of other players, not on the result."
Al-Wehdat manager Abdullah Abu Zeme' said he was proud of his player.
"We are all proud of Za'tarah," he said: "Respect to others is one of the messages that Jordanians always deliver in their overseas participation."
It is believed that the club is now preparing an award for Za'tarah who is also a key member of the Jordan national side.
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Imagining Berlin: the temporary use of urban space by The Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art
Biennales across the globe are often charged with the task of responding to a city's changing urban situation (Hanru 2005; Doherty 2004). Unlike most west-European biennales, The Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art distinguishes itself as a fascinating case study for investigating the relationship between architecture, contemporary art and the identity of the city. Founded during the 1990s, a period that saw rapid urban development on a monumental scale (Huyssen 1997; Till 2005), the Biennale has always dealt with, and is still influenced by the kind of accelerated and ongoing urban change unique to Berlin. Throughout its history, the Berlin Biennale has used non-traditional venues such as abandoned offices, apartments, schools, city streets, and even cemeteries for its exhibitions; sometimes out of a desire to connect to the city's past, sometimes out of sheer necessity to meet exhibition requirements. The temporary use of these urban spaces has become a significant part of the Biennale's production process and its very identity, with the biennale priding itself on creating a dialogue with the city.
My research investigates the power struggles between the city and the biennial producer. Combining art historical and urban studies approaches, and by using the Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art as a case study, I investigate why and how temporary urban spaces are desired as exhibition sites by the Berlin Biennale's production team and how has this changed over the Biennale's twenty year history.
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Masters of Cultural Heritage (Museum Studies), Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
Bachelor of Contemporary Arts (Visual Arts) with Distinction, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
Diploma Visual Arts, Box Hill TAFE, Victoria, Australia
Independent Curator
Feb 2014-present
Lecturer, NODE Center for Curatorial Studies, Berlin
Nov 2011-Sept 2012
Educator, National Galleries of Scotland, UK
May 2011-July 2012
Tutor, Strathclyde University, Centre for Lifelong Learning, Glasgow, UK
Nov 2011-Jan 2012
Tutor, Edinburgh City Council, The Learning in Later Life Programme, UK
Guest Tutor, Glasgow University, Humanities, Art, Technology and Information Institute, Masters in Museum Studies, UK
Oct 2009–Oct 2010
Education Assistant, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK (1-year temporary post)
SELECTED CONFERENCES / WORKSHOP CONTRIBUTIONS
Paper Presentation, "Urban Space as Exhibition Space: A Study into The Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art" at Biennale, Biennali. Politics Identity in between global and local, Graduate School Arts History of Venice, Università di Verona), Italy
Paper Presentation, "The Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art: Temporality and Architecture as Spectacle" as part of the panel "The City in the Biennale: Architecture, geography and identity", at the Association of Art Historians Annual Conference, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
Lecture, "The Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art: Temporality and Architecture as Spectacle", Master Education in Arts Public Lecture Series, Piet Zwart Institute for Postgraduate Studies and Research , Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam University, Rotterdam
Poster Presentation, "Imagining Berlin as an International Cultural Metropolis Through the Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art", at HISTART '15 Conference, Istanbul
Poster Presentation, "Imagining Berlin as an International Cultural Metropolis Through the Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art", at the International Graduate College Annual Conference, University of Toronto, Toronto
Symposium Panel Moderator
Berlin Unlimited Festival
ZK/U Berlin, Germany
Discussion Group Moderator, "The Future of Work and Education in the Arts" Ouishare Summit, SUPERMARKT, Berlin, Germany
Guest Speaker, "Resources in Berlin"
Instituto Cervantes Berlin International Arts Players Brunch
SUPERMARKT, Berlin, Germany
Panel Discussion Moderator, "Art and Discourse in the Digital Age"
Cyberfest, The WYE, Berlin, Germany
Co-Curator/Organiser, "WORKAROUND", a 3-day seminar and workshop event on the theme of Self-Employment, Self-Organisation and New Notions of Work with Ela Kagel.
Paper Presentation, "Locatedness and the 13th Istanbul Biennial"
Independent Curators International Curatorial Intensive Public Symposium
Salt, Istanbul, Turkey
Video on YouTube
The Present in Drag, 9th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Art & the Public Sphere, Intellect Books, Volume 6 Issue 1-2, September 2017
RESEARCH TRIPS
(Field Research)
Curatorial Projects - www.contemporaryartexchange.org
Benjamin Bergner


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Fu uno degli esponenti di spicco della musica barocca francese. Per quanto le sue opere non siano più eseguite spesso, viene ricordato grazie alla popolarità di alcune sue composizioni, come ad esempio il Rondò dalla sua prima Suite de symphonies.

Biografia
Il padre di Mouret era un mercante di seta di Avignone, di agiate condizioni economiche. Violinista dilettante, riconobbe nel figlio Jean-Joseph una buona predisposizione musicale, e la assecondò fornendogli una buona educazione.

Fin dall'inizio il giovane si dimostrò un cantante dotato, e le sue prime composizioni riscossero un discreto successo.
All'età di circa venticinque anni si trasferì a Parigi, dove si fece presto conoscere ed entrò in contatto con Anna Luisa Benedetta di Borbone-Condé, duchessa del Maine, il cui salotto presso il castello di Sceaux attirava a quel tempo un gran numero di nobili e di letterati. Le capacità di Mouret, unite al suo carattere particolarmente gradevole, fecero sì che la duchessa lo investisse del titolo di Sovrintendente di musica presso la corte di Sceaux intorno al 1708.

A Sceaux produsse opere, ed ebbe l'incarico di organizzare le sedici Grandes nuits che si tennero a cadenza quindicinale durante la stagione 1714-1715, per le quali scrisse intermezzi, cantate allegoriche in costume (masque), ed altre musiche che, eseguite dai migliori musicisti di Francia, in quell'occasione furono presentate ad un uditorio molto selezionato.

La sua opéra-ballet Les fêtes, ou Le triomphe de Thalie, con libretto di Joseph de La Font, fu presentata all'Opéra il 14 agosto 1714. Nel prologo, Talia, musa della Commedia, trionfa su Melpomene, la musa della Tragedia. Se pur nel quadro di un complessivo successo della prima rappresentazione e della replica del 19 agosto, questo concetto diede il via ad accese discussioni, tanto che La Font dovette provvedere a riscrivere una versione riveduta, intitolata La critique des fêtes de Thalie, presentata il 9 ottobre dello stesso anno. Nella versione del 1720 il titolo fu cambiato in Les fêtes de Thalie, e nel 1722 fu aggiunto un nuovo prologo, chiamato La provençale, che prevedeva costumi e strumenti tipici della Provenza, e melodie già conosciute cantate nel dialetto di quella regione. La versione del 1722 si dimostrò essere meglio accetta al pubblico, e continuò ad essere rappresentata fino al 1778.

Sempre nel 1714, Mouret ottenne l'incarico di direttore dell'orchestra dell'Opéra, che mantenne fino al 1718. Dal 1717 al 1737 diresse il Nouveau Théâtre Italien du Palais-Royal, per il quale compose dei divertimenti che accompagnavano, ad esempio, le commedie di Pierre de Marivaux, e che sono raccolte in sei libri.

A corte Mouret occupò un posto come cantante, e diresse il grande divertimento offerto dal Reggente Filippo d'Orléans nel suo castello di Villers-Cotterêts in occasione della maggiore età di Luigi XV, nel 1722.

Nello stesso periodo (1728-1734) Mouret fu direttore della serie di concerti istituiti dall'orchestra dell'Opéra, i Concert Spirituel, posizione che offrì una certa visibilità anche alle sue composizioni, e che gli garantì un discreto benessere economico.

Mouret si sposò ed ebbe una figlia. Nei suoi ultimi anni ebbe però a subire diverse traversie di carattere economico, e scivolò presto in uno stato di degrado e di follia. Ridotto in condizione di povertà, morì in un ospizio di religiosi a Charenton, nel 1738.

Opere

Le composizioni di Mouret furono scritte principalmente per le scene. Contribuì allo sviluppo dei generi (prettamente francesi) della tragedia lirica francese e dell'opéra-ballet, ma la gelosia per il successo dell'emergente Jean-Philippe Rameau lo portò a concludere i suoi giorni nell'amarezza e nella follia.

Tra le sue opere ricordiamo:

 Les fêtes de Thalie, opera-ballet per l'Opéra di Parigi (1714)
 Le mariage de Ragonde et de Colin, per Sceaux (1714) (Les amours de Ragonde nella versione del 1742)
 Ariane et Thésée, tragédie lyrique in 5 atti e un prologo, libretto di François-Joseph de Chancel e Pierre-Charles Roy, rappresentata all'Académie royale de musique il 6 aprile 1717
 Pirithoüs, per l'Opéra di Parigi (1723)
 Les amours des dieux, per l'Opéra di Parigi (1727)
 Le triomphe des sens (1732)
 Les grâces héroïques, pastorale eroica in 1 prologo e 3 entrées (1736) successo all'Académie Royale de Musique
 Le temple de Gnide, per l'Opéra di Parigi (1741).

Mouret scrisse anche arie, divertimenti, cantatilles, mottetti, e composizioni strumentali (sonate, fanfare).  Tra le sue altre composizioni, meritano una speciale menzione le due Suites de symphonies (1729). La prima suite è intitolata Fanfares pour des trompettes, timbales, violons et hautbois (Fanfare per trombe, timpani, violini e oboe) ed è dedicata al principe di Dombes, figlio della duchessa del Maine. Fu eseguita per la prima volta nell'ambito del Concert Spirituel, e fu diretta dallo stesso Mouret.

La seconda suite, scritta per violini, oboe e corni, fu eseguita per la prima volta all'Hôtel de Ville alla presenza del re Luigi XV.

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Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Compositori barocchi


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