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...doesn't scare you or worry you? After a certain point, they look at my record and realize no amount of punishment will stop me from pursuing my goals. I generally get some kind of a penalty that I can live with, whether it's jail time or a fine that I refuse to pay. If you're afraid of the consequences, you can't really engage in civil disobedience...
...environmental groups need to be more confrontational. How different would this look? We do confrontational campaigns because they get results. We use things like nonviolence and economic boycotts and consumer campaigns, whatever we have to. The main thing is to exert real pressure on the government. If you're sitting down in a conference room, there's really very little opportunity for that. We need to talk hard about how much reduction in our consumer lifestyle [slowing climate change] is going to take and not just tell everybody there's going to be a rosy scenario...
This weekend, PA has expanded to all-day runs on 159 screens in 44 cities, and according to early reports, it's headed for a box-office breakout - perhaps the highest three-day gross of any film showing in fewer than 200 venues. "Look out, cuz there's a freight train coming," an executive from a rival studio told Deadline Hollywood's Nikki Finke, "and Paramount is going to make a TON of cash on this pickup. Cuz they ain't spending anything on it, and who knows where the ceiling is!" The box-office figures will make headlines, giving...
...commander on the ground said a further 40,000 troops were needed to turn the situation around. Even if, as now seems possible, Obama seeks a political solution in Afghanistan that involves some sort of power-sharing deal with the Taliban, the implementation of that policy won't look much like peacemaking. The Taliban is currently winning the war, and persuading it to settle for anything less than total victory may require that the insurgents are bloodied to the point that they're disabused of the belief that they can win on the battlefield. So, under the most optimistic view...
...that, despite a few incidents of bombings and attacks in China, China exploits the specter of a terrorist threat to further repress Uighur rights. Al-Qaeda's recent statement does their cause few favors. "China could use it to shine a light on the Uighurs," says Sanderson, "and say, 'Look what you have brought upon...