But in the end, democracy and a totalitarian regime cannot coexist.
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"It's just another totalitarian regime," says a Kurdish journalist who fled abroad.
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Its priority is the survival of the totalitarian regime as a buffer.
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For example, Hungary has been a totalitarian regime for a few years.
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Yet the United States continues its unquestioning support of this repressive, totalitarian regime.
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His was an evil, totalitarian regime that America was morally bound to oppose.
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And today, the West has finally recognized the dangers of China's totalitarian regime.
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It is almost universally understood that North Korea is a horrific totalitarian regime.
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The Founding Fathers of America, a totalitarian regime, still has control of the government.
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Or that the NDP government is trying to inflict a "totalitarian" regime over schools.
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" The ad then addresses Soviet Georgia, where a "totalitarian regime" had confiscated "66,000 personal firearms.
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Off it, he defied the Nazis and refused to be courted by their totalitarian regime.
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But the leak nevertheless offers a fascinating look at online life under a totalitarian regime.
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An ideal totalitarian regime would find a way to obtain sociological data without the sociologists.
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After the Velvet Revolution of 1989, when the totalitarian regime was crushed, all that changed.
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Vice Marshal Hwang has been widely considered the No. 2 man in Mr. Kim's totalitarian regime.
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We also forget that you can never have a truly good agreement with a totalitarian regime.
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Nothing is more threatening to a totalitarian regime than the unfettered flow of information and ideas.
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If you look up totalitarian regime, if you look up police state, what they're doing is textbook.
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That shockwave brought to power in Tehran an Islamic totalitarian regime committed to exporting its ideological revolution.
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It's a significant move, since negotiating with a totalitarian regime is challenging -- and it's not always successful.
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The country's totalitarian regime does its best to keep anyone from seeing what life there is really like.
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On their own, without the context of an election, they smack of a totalitarian regime, or a dictatorship.
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Yet, no one knows how long this could take given the ruthless effectiveness of the DPRK's totalitarian regime.
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There are no crystal rooms, no "color therapy" experiences, and, thankfully, no uniforms reminiscent of a totalitarian regime.
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Instead, we are referred to the more universalizing question of the role of art under a totalitarian regime.
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"The idea that I, an anticommunist conservative, would throw in with a totalitarian regime is bullshit," Stone said Tuesday.
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The dismissal of climate science as "liberal science" rather than just science, has not occurred under a totalitarian regime.
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In the totalitarian regime imposed on Hungary by Communist Moscow, politics was practiced in impenetrable, smoke-filled back rooms.
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Since the rise of its totalitarian regime, North Korea has been largely shrouded from the rest of the world.
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With the resistance fighting against the totalitarian regime, it's (hopefully) only a matter of time before the religious zealots fall.
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Total control of the press and its message for the purpose of propaganda is the cornerstone of any totalitarian regime.
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" The play is set in the future where citizens under the rule of a totalitarian regime lead by "Big Brother.
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Jang was seen as an economic reformer within the totalitarian regime, and used his connections with China to attract investment.
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Ty implores Mae to stop the Circle from continuing on the road to "completion," which could lead to a totalitarian regime.
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This is a nation where the only visible threat to the totalitarian regime (until the bombing) is a catastrophically low birthrate.
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"We know that in the face of the world's largest totalitarian regime — to quote Captain America, 'Whatever it takes,'" Leung said.
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That would be well and good in a stable democracy, but is absolutely dangerous in a transition to a totalitarian regime.
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The move would eliminate the last vestige of democracy in Venezuela and pave the road for the consolidation of a totalitarian regime.
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North Korea's Ministry of State Security specializes in ferreting out people whose loyalty to Kim Jong-un's totalitarian regime is in doubt.
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In pursuing that plan, he constructed an image of the ruthless Soviet dictator and his totalitarian regime that bore no resemblance to reality.
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It's a powerful visual, both culturally and politically, but one striking image can't sustain a 400-plus-page narrative about a totalitarian regime.
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To the Editor: The best way to undermine a totalitarian regime is to trade with it and let the pressures build from within.
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Back in 2013, Kim Jong Un's totalitarian regime made a state-sponsored Android phone ripoff, followed by a Mac OS X ripoff in 2015.
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Cooper, however insisted that "there is no good reason" to dismiss the idea that the totalitarian regime may in fact be prepping an EMP.
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Kremlin cash has kept Nicolas Maduro in business and helped him repress almost five months of protests while solidifying his increasingly communist totalitarian regime.
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Or the demented cheerfulness of the classroom car in 2013's Snowpiercer, which mixes devilish glee with the horror of the train's totalitarian regime.
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This is far from the first adaptation of Ray Bradbury's classic sci-fi novel about "firemen" who burn illegal literature in a dystopian, totalitarian regime.
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Ofglen becomes a confidant to Offred (Elisabeth Moss), a woman searching for the daughter who was taken from her when the totalitarian regime took over.
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South Korean officials often cite such high-level defections, and purges like those announced Wednesday, as potential sources of instability in Mr. Kim's totalitarian regime.
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Former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis warned that China's treatment of pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong shows what the totalitarian regime is capable of.
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Without Chinese banks, technologies, industries and imports of North Korean goods (particularly coal), the totalitarian regime in Pyongyang would have been stopped in its tracks.
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" The post lambasted the Japanese retailer, arguing that it's "not the time to start glamorizing the sack-like oxblood dresses that stalk this drama's totalitarian regime.
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Security Mr. Kim's top priority is the security of his nation and the survival of the totalitarian regime that he inherited from his father and grandfather.
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The totalitarian regime of North Korea, led by leader Kim Jong Un, stages mandatory elections where people submit a pre-filled ballot with a single candidate.
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The Hulu show, which was ordered before the 2016 election, focused on the plight of women's rights, and reproductive rights in particular, under a fictional totalitarian regime.
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For a time just after the fall of the totalitarian regime and just before the establishment of a democratic order, instability and political crisis gripped the country.
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And in the book, because it's a totalitarian regime that permits only one of version of religion, they are shutting down people who belong to other religions.
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Kim's totalitarian regime is working furiously on the miniaturization and other technological advances that would enable it to fire a nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missile at Los Angeles.
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The totalitarian regime in Saudi Arabia The disappearance of Khashoggi is of a piece with much that the Saudi regime of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is doing.
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A piece of speculative fiction that might not seem so speculative, this new Wallace Shawn play is set in the future, when a totalitarian regime has ended live performance.
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So when UNIQLO added a crop of dark red dresses to its website, The Debrief was quick to peg the gown as a relic from the totalitarian regime of Gilead.
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"The Handmaid's Tale," which takes place in near-future New England as a totalitarian regime has taken power and stripped women of their civil rights, was published 32 years ago.
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Trump once went to great lengths to highlight atrocities by Kim's totalitarian regime; but since the pair began corresponding and meeting, the U.S. president has gone mute on that topic.
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WASHINGTON – The highest-level North Korean defector in two decades says America should bring change peacefully by challenging the totalitarian regime&aposs grip on information rather than resorting to military action.
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I put it like this: I think that power and control work really well in a baboon troop or a totalitarian regime, but that's not what we're shooting for here, right?
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Indeed, space and, in particular, the space of the artist's studio, becomes incredibly pertinent in this regard: under a totalitarian regime, one must be cautious of what one says or does in public.
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They gave little thought to the fact that these were the institutions of a long-running totalitarian regime: They did not doubt that they had the will and strength necessary to transform them.
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Arrested and struggling to survive under a totalitarian regime with segregated communities (recalling divisions over religion and caste), Shalini endures grueling conditions as she uncovers the truth about what happened to her daughter.
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From lobbying for global kimchi superiority to attempts at wowing Western tourists with bland, lavish banquets, Kim Jong-un's totalitarian regime does not hesitate to make bold claims about its food and liquor.
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After the first half of its season seemed to inordinately wallow in violence and brutality, "The Walking Dead" appears to be entering a more political phase, devoted to building coalitions against a totalitarian regime.
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Its tale of a future in which a totalitarian regime has assumed full control over an individual's body and mind strikes a nerve in a world where privacy and truth seem constantly under threat.
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The Tax Justice Network argues that Switzerland "corrupted its courts" to teach Mr Elmer a lesson and discourage would-be whistleblowers, meting out "the sort of treatment one might expect from a totalitarian regime".
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"A country like China, a more totalitarian regime, will perform better than the democratic countries," said Tadashi Maeda, governor of the state-owned Japan Bank for International Cooperation, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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But it is impossible to imagine that the United States will accept vulnerability to Kim Jong Un or suddenly appreciate North Korea's strategic value and pursue a normal relationship with North Korea's totalitarian regime.
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Everything in this movie is terrifying: the horse that gets turned into glue... the rebellious goat that speaks out against the totalitarian regime... hell, these animators even made a talking Border Collie vaguely spooky.
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The president of the European Parliament apologized on Thursday after he said that Benito Mussolini, Italy's fascist former leader, had done positive things despite leading his country into war and installing a totalitarian regime.
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Jones arrived dressed in a costume from The Handmaid's Tale, a show adapted from Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel in which women are brutally oppressed within a religious and patriarchal society ruled by a totalitarian regime.
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He said he believed such arguments would win the day, especially in northern and western New York, arguing that the Democrats are leading a "totalitarian regime" and that New Yorkers want a check on their power.
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We'll explore where the North Korean regime came from, how much of a threat it really poses to the United States and its allies, and what life is like in the most totalitarian regime on earth.
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But with the U.S. now potentially a direct target of North Korean President Kim Jong-Un's increased military capabilities, it is likely to want to discuss increased defense - and potentially new military measures - against the totalitarian regime.
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President Donald Trump last week criticized China for its ties with North Korea's government following the launch of a test missile, saying that China's economic interests undermined its ability to challenge President Kim Jong-un's totalitarian regime.
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President Donald Trump criticized China for its ties with North Korea's government following the launch of a test missile earlier this week, saying that China's economic interests undermined its ability to challenge President Kim Jong-un's totalitarian regime.
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In June, a week after his summit in Singapore with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Trump suggested that the media would have named Obama a "national hero" if he too had "gotten along" with the totalitarian regime.
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A new survey, conducted by Morning Consult and The Hollywood Reporter prior to the Handmaid's Season 217 premiere on Wednesday, indicates viewer opinion on the realism of Gilead's totalitarian regime may be strongly linked to political party affiliation.
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And how a communist party supporting a totalitarian regime can compel loyalty without telling its population that their suffering is justified by a struggle against a foreign enemy will present similar mind-bending realignments of propaganda in North Korea.
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Repeatedly shifting his position and blocking the tanks' way as they tried to manoeuvre around him, Tank Man became a symbol, in the West at least, of peaceful resistance, personal dignity against brute force and the individual against the totalitarian regime.
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Some waved banners criticizing Beijing for the cross-border abductions as acts of a "totalitarian" regime, as well as calling for the release of leading dissidents, chanting for democracy and for Hong Kong leader Leung Chun-ying to step down.
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By applying these ESG criteria to Venezuela, it is inescapably clear that holding debt issued by the Venezuela government, or other government-sponsored entities, is providing significant support to a totalitarian regime that is inflicting human suffering on its population.
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The two political leaders kept a low profile during the events, though Babis paid an early-morning visit to a memorial where police beat up student protesters in 1989 - a crackdown that sparked the wider rallies against the totalitarian regime.
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While President Donald Trump on Wednesday vowed tougher sanctions against nuclear-armed North Korea, some believe there's a risk that Kim Jong Un's totalitarian regime may feel threatened enough to strike with dangerous action that could have far-reaching consequences.
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As these stories run in tantalizing parallel, Atwood terrifies, teases (Aunt Lydia is wickedly funny) and sometimes she breaks her characters' hearts, sending them into the kind of isolation that is one of the best weapons of a totalitarian regime.
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"A single name on the ballot more resembles an attempt at a coronation in a totalitarian regime rather than an election within the House of Labor," Mr. Schaitberger wrote in an email Wednesday to Mr. Trumka and other A.F.L.-C.
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"If Hong Kong falls, it would easily become the springboard for the totalitarian regime of China to push its rules and priorities overseas, utilizing its economic powers to conform others to their communist values," Voice of America reported Ho said.
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It makes this season's premiere more interesting for a lot of people, because it is a show about living within a totalitarian regime, which we are not in, but it's certainly a sea change from what we've been living under.
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Raising human rights risks playing into North Korean suspicions that the U.S is intent on toppling its hereditary, totalitarian regime by seeking to open its political system, which only reinforces Pyongyang&aposs notion that it needs a nuclear deterrent to ensure its survival.
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SS: It's an Islamic totalitarian regime — and it's similar to our government in a lot of ways, though we definitely are more democratic — so all of the people who are in positions of power are religious clerks, and they have access to funds.
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If the United States can't persuade China to make sanctions work, then the Trump administration could have its own Cuban Missile Crisis: a small, isolated and erratic totalitarian regime with nuclear weapons and the means to detonate them over continental American cities.
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Mr. García Juliá, who was 24 at the time of the attack, was a fascist militant affiliated with a newly founded party called Fuerza Nueva, or New Force, determined to keep Spain under a totalitarian regime despite the death of the dictator.
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"We know that in the face of the world's largest totalitarian regime — to quote Captain America, 'Whatever it takes,'" Justin Leung, a 21-year-old protester who covered his mouth with a black scarf, said of the violent methods deployed by radicals.
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"As a convinced anti-fascist, I apologize to all those who may have been offended by what I said, which in no way intends to justify or play down an antidemocratic and totalitarian regime," the president, Antonio Tajani, said in a statement.
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She was a world-renowned sculptor known for works that communicate foremost the angst and pain of living under the dark shadows of a totalitarian regime and the Cold War, as well as broader personal traumas experienced after World War II in Poland and elsewhere.
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North Korea's claims that it successfully launched its first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) Tuesday are the latest instance of political posturing to emerge from President Kim Jong-Un's totalitarian regime, but they also bring the likelihood of an attack on the U.S. squarely into focus.
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That first totalitarian regime, in which Mr. Putin would later be trained, arguably provoked the rise of other political movements that together defined the rest of the 20th century, leading to unprecedented political violence and wars that took the lives of tens of millions.
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"A single name on the ballot more resembles an attempt at a coronation in a totalitarian regime rather than an election within the House of Labor," Harold Schaitberger, president of the International Association of Fire Fighters, wrote in an email to Trumka sent late Wednesday.
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I'm talking about love here, and what I love about BattleTech is that it's a game you feel in your gut, where you help topple a totalitarian regime by leaving a trail of broken and twisted mechs, as well as their dead pilots, littered across the stars.
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But such optimism has given way to a kind of stagnant waiting game, filled with more questions than answers: Is the sudden explosion of private businesses (like Airbnb) on the island a sign of things to come or merely window dressing on what remains a totalitarian regime?
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Trump said Tuesday that any threat to the U.S. by Kim Jong Un would be met with "fire and fury like the world has never seen" which has since prompted the totalitarian regime to announce plans for a strike on the U.S. military base of Guam.
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Because this disease broke out in a totalitarian regime, under circumstances that even China's government now admits are more uncertain than the pious certainty offered for weeks, our knowledge of infection rates and death rates has likely been corrupted from the beginning, by misinformation and ignorance alike.
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Though Mr. Granduciel fears a reputation for micromanaging, especially given his creative dominance — Mr. Hartley plainly calls the band "a totalitarian regime" — he involves himself in all War on Drugs matters, from label business to hiring road crew to travel accommodations for band members during recording.
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Published in 85033, "The Handmaid's Tale" has rightly been acclaimed for its dystopian portrayal of a totalitarian regime — the Republic of Gilead — in the U.S. Recently, certain politicians have threatened freedom of speech and behavior in ways that, if unchecked, could lead toward such a dictatorship.
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" A State Department spokesman said Pompeo's "intent was not to request an official visit but to point out that Iran's totalitarian regime will always do everything possible to keep the truth from reaching the Iranian people," even as Zarif visits the U.S. and "spreads Iranian propaganda.
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Mr. Yang, the former official, said the Trump administration must take into account Beijing's worst fear, where the North is concerned: a collapse of Mr. Kim's totalitarian regime, followed by refugees from the North pouring into China and a unified Korean Peninsula under the protection of the American military.
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The novel, about a dystopian future where critical thought is suppressed under a totalitarian regime, has seen a surge in sales this month, rising to the top of the Amazon best-seller list in the United States and leading its publisher to have tens of thousands of new copies printed.
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"With so much of our daily lives, movements, activities and beliefs being monitored, collected, and bought and sold by government agencies and corporate interests, activists on the wrong side of a totalitarian regime can ill-afford the brazen torchlit displays of openly armed militarized marches that our opposition enjoys," she told me.
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While most of the 24 million people of North Korea bear the costs and suffer the miseries inflicted by Pyongyang's totalitarian regime, Kim himself has accomplished the transition of power from his late father, Kim Jong Il, who died in 2012, and is building an arsenal his forebears could only dream of.
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George Orwell's classic book "1984," about a dystopian future where critical thought is suppressed under a totalitarian regime, has seen a surge in sales this month, rising to the top of the Amazon best-seller list in the United States and leading its publisher to have tens of thousands of new copies printed.
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You mentioned how Luke's mere presence in the episode brought back the sheer monstrousness of everything Gilead represents, and it felt to me like "Smart Power" was an episode-length disquisition on just that, and on how easy it can be to forget the horrors of a totalitarian regime when you're living in one (or you helped build it).
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His administration's "maximum pressure" campaign that threatened the longevity of North Korea's totalitarian regime persuaded Kim Jong UnKim Jong UnUS proposed helping North Korea build tourist area amid nuclear talks: report Kim poses for photos on white horse on sacred mountain, plans 'great operation' Beware the 34th month of Trump's presidency MORE to get serious about denuclearization talks.
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On an island that, thanks to the machinations of a totalitarian regime, has been made free of everything from perfume to hats to birds — as well as memories of what once was — a novelist turns a crawl space in her home into a secret hideaway for her editor, who has a dangerously firm grasp on the past.
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Mr. Thae said that back in the North, the totalitarian regime was so paranoid about outside information affecting its people that it kept surveillance on diplomats who had returned home for fear they might spread outside news, even though DVDs smuggled in from China have made South Korean movies and soap operas increasingly popular in the North.
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Here's this week's briefing: North Korea summit: Peer pressure Mr. President, you will be under pressure from all sides to proceed with a summit with Kim Jong Un. North Korea: The totalitarian regime will try to keep summit prospects warm because Kim probably believes he can get some economic relief, a reputational bump and a security blanket if he keeps negotiations ongoing.
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For example, we might be wondering what the exact timeline for world destruction due to climate change is going to be, whether we'll be able to afford an apartment bigger than an outhouse one day, and at what point neo-fascism will spin itself into a completely totalitarian regime requiring citizens to uniform themselves in barf-green jumpsuits and style their hair like Donald Trump.
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Although Němec himself argued that the work was not a political statement as much as a kind of allegorical fable about the society at large, it is hard not to read A Report on the Party as an actual "report," as in its English title, on the behavior of the Communist Party or any totalitarian regime wherein original thinking and disagreement are outlawed, and wherein a pretense of happiness is paramount.
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