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  Timeline of liberal parties around the world - TheBestLinks.com - Liberalism, Liberal International, List of liberal ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Timeline of liberal and radical parties in Argentina
Timeline of liberal and centrist parties in Finland
Timeline of liberal and radical parties in Hungary
www.thebestlinks.com /Timeline_of_liberal_parties_around_the_world.html   (301 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Race row ignites Swiss election
The party recently provoked a race row with a poster showing a caricatured fl face and the slogan, "the Swiss are increasingly the negroes".
Even the party's beleaguered liberal wing condemned the poster, saying it was likely to increase tensions and was in "bad taste".
With further gains his party is certain to demand a second seat in the cabinet and that may not be accepted.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/3113430.stm   (817 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Liberal parties Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
A liberal party is defined here as a political party, that adheres to the basic principles of (political) liberalism.
At the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century liberals started to organise themselves in loose organisations and/or political parties in opposition to conservative, clerical and absolutist forces, striving after the emancipation of citizens and the middle class.
The mainstream of liberalism continues on the path of gradual reforms, embraces electoral democracy as a basic liberal position and organizes itself in the form of the traditional liberal parties.
www.ipedia.com /liberal_parties.html   (1605 words)

  
 History of the Jews in Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The German emperors were not always able to protect them, even when they desired to do so, as did the chivalrous Emperor Maximilian I; they could not prevent the accusations of ritual murder and of desecration of the host.
The unending religious controversies that rent the empire and finally led to the Thirty Years' war further aggravated the position of the Jews, who were made the prey of each party in turn.
One of the most important figures in the history of Reform Judaism is the radical reformer Samuel Holdheim.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Germany   (6119 words)

  
 An Overview of Recent Colombian History
The Constitution of 1886 consolidated the central government and eliminated federalism as a means to counteract the state of institutional chaos and fiscal bankruptcy, and to end rivalries among political chieftains.
The liberal party rules and survives an attempted coup d'etat in 1944.
Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, a populist leader of the liberal party, is assassinated in Bogotá during the meeting of the Pan-American Conference (precursor to the Organization of the American States) by agents of the conservative government of Mariano Ospina Pérez.
colhrnet.igc.org /timeline.htm   (10703 words)

  
 Global Connections . Timeline | PBS
On July 21, the party sends a telegraph to the sultan demanding the immediate restoration and implementation of the constitution of 1876 and the restoration of a parliamentary form of government, threatening him with dethronement should he not comply.
The stated purpose of the election is to fill the legal and administrative vacuum left by the withdrawal of the Iraqi government and to facilitate a negotiated settlement for self-government within Iraq by organizing a democratically elected body to represent Kurdish interests.
The Likud Party leader begins efforts to unite the country by attracting members of the defeated Labor Party to his administration.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/globalconnections/mideast/timeline/text/qnations.html   (13703 words)

  
 Holier Than Thou - Christian Denominations
Some have traced the Baptist movement to that of the Anabaptists of Switzerland in the sixteenth century who rejected all baptisms not intelligently or consciously sought by the individual (such as infant baptism) and who were radically individualistic, but most Baptists claim no individual founder or previous sect of origin.
Radical, contemporary Christian music was a hallmark of the movement and many churches began their own recording studios.
It is also a liberal movement intent on challenging traditional, conservative Christian organizations to accept and accomodate believers and nonbelievers of diverse cultures, races, classes, abilities, genders, and sexual orientations, including gays, lesbians, and transsexuals -- without forcing them to change -- as well as to ordain them into the ministry.
www.holierthanthou.info /denominations2.html   (14662 words)

  
 Pakistan encyclopedia : Cultural Information , Maps, Pakistan politics and officials, Pakistan History. Travel to ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Bolsheviks generally refused to co-operate with liberal or radical parties (which they labeled "bourgeois") or even eventually other socialist organizations, although Lenin sometimes made tactical alliances.
In March 1918, the Seventh Party Congress of the Social Democratic and Labor Party (Bolsheviks) met and, at Lenin's urging, changed the name of the party to the All-Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks).
After the name change, however, the party was generally known as the Communist Party with the name Bolshevik referring to the party prior to 1918.
www.pakistaneworld.com /wiki-Bolsheviks   (1817 words)

  
 Chronology 1919
Unlike earlier international peace conferences, the defeated parties (Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Turkey) were excluded from the deliberations until the terms of the treaty were ready for submission.
The Communists refused to participate in the elections, but all of the other German political parties were represented on the ballot.
Mussolini was a radical socialist and editor of "Avanti." He became a violent interventionist and nationalist, and called for a stronger Italy.
www.indiana.edu /~league/1919.htm   (7876 words)

  
 The World at War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Zveno, a small coalition with ties to most Bulgarian parties and fascist Italy, advocates reform and consolidation existing political institutions so that state power could be used in direct promotion of economic growth.
Zveno abolishes all political parties, implements press censorship and declares that henceforth the Subranie would represent classes of society and not political parties.
Political parties legalized but all religious, ethnic and regional organizations threatening the integrity and order of the state are banned.
worldatwar.net /article/autocracy   (4098 words)

  
 Heaven on Earth . The Film: Richard Pipes Interview | PBS
Behind them was the party and the party was separate from the state but it controlled the state.
And the ministry of the interior, which controlled the police rendered reports in October 1916 in which it said that it was quite possible that it would have major disturbances leading to revolutionary activity because of the hardships.
The party had the truth at its disposal and if you’re not with it you’re against it, and therefore your life was worthless.
www.pbs.org /heavenonearth/interviews_pipes.html   (5848 words)

  
 Free Democratic Party of Switzerland
The Freisnnig-Demokratische Partei (in French: Parti radical-démocratique (PRD) and in Italian: Partito Liberale-Radicale Svizzero (PLR)) is a centre-right, liberal party in Switzerland.
The official translation of the party name is Free Democratic Party of Switzerland, the literally translation of its German name would be Freethinking Democratic Party, of its French name Radical Democratic Party and of its Italian name Swiss Radical Liberal Party.
The party is a member of Liberal International and the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party.
www.knowledgefun.com /book/f/fr/free_democratic_party_of_switzerland.html   (165 words)

  
 A Timeline of CIA Atrocities : Utah IMC
The victims are said to be "communists," but almost always they are just peasants, liberals, moderates, labor union leaders, political opponents and advocates of free speech and democracy.
Unlucky nations are targeted for a wide variety of reasons: not only threats to American business interests abroad, but also liberal or even moderate social reforms, political instability, the unwillingness of a leader to carry out Washington’s dictates, and declarations of neutrality in the Cold War.
The following timeline should confirm that the CIA as we know it should be abolished and replaced by a true information-gathering and analysis organization.
utah.indymedia.org /news/2003/07/5562.php   (5468 words)

  
 Regnum Crucis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Britain is still playing a central logistical role for the militants, with extremists, including the alleged mastermind of last year's bombings in Morocco, and a leader of an al-Qaeda cell, regularly using the UK as a place to hide.
In Switzerland a series of raids broke up an alleged support and fundraising network which had connections to the men who set off bombs in Riyadh last May. In Spain, a favoured entry point into Europe for North African militants, investigators continue to chase down terrorists linked to cells rounded up earlier.
The radical imam in question is Chellali Benechalli, who as the article notes was recently arrested in connection with providing logistical support for French al-Qaeda.
www.regnumcrucis.blogspot.com /2004_01_11_regnumcrucis_archive.html   (11346 words)

  
 Timeline Algeria
1996 Nov 28, A referendum was passed that banned political parties based on religion, language and regionalism, a reference to the large Berber community which has long worked for recognition of its language.
Opposition parties charged that the turnout was greatly inflated and that some poll watchers were roughed up and stopped from observing the tally.
The ambushes were blamed on the GSPC, which is split on whether to support a September 29 referendum on a partial amnesty in exchange for laying down their arms.
timelines.ws /countries/ALGERIA.HTML   (9615 words)

  
 Holocaust resource page - the holocaust
It is estimated that die Endlösung der Judenfrage (the Final Solution of the Jewish Question), as the Nazis called it during the Wannsee conference of January 1942, saw the murder of 60 percent of all the Jews in Europe, which represented 35 percent of the world's Jewish population.
The exact number of people killed by the Nazi regime will never be known, but scholars, using a variety of methods of determining the death toll, have generally agreed upon common range of the the number of victims.
It is difficult to determine whether Hilberg's numbers are conservative or liberal because he does not provide point estimates; rather, he rounds his figures.
www.bizhisto.com /Holocaust.php   (9733 words)

  
 Russia
Trotsky was dismissed as commissar of war in 1925 and banished from the Soviet Union in 1929.
In his last months as the head of the Soviet Union, Gorbachev dissolved the Communist Party and proposed the formation of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), which, when implemented, gave most of the Soviet Socialist Republics their independence, binding them together in a loose, primarily economic federation.
Russian Culture Timeline: Rise of Russia - Part I: Rise of Russia by David Johnson 888 1036 1300 1411 1505 1655 Next: Peter's Revolution...
www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107909.html   (3187 words)

  
 Chronology 1933
The Finnish government forbade the organization of military units associated with political parties in an effort to avoid the rise of fascist organizations in the republic.
Religious political parties in Germany, including the Catholic parties, were dissolved in Germany, which followed the dissolution of the Nationalist Party in June 1933.
Ion Duca, leader of the Liberal Party and Prime Minister of Romania since November 1933, was assassinated by members of the Iron Guard, a fascist organization led by Corneliu Codreanu.
www.indiana.edu /~league/1933.htm   (4930 words)

  
 Central Europe (Austria, Germany, and Switzerland), 1900 A.D.-present | Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
By the mid-1990s, the rise of support for far-right political parties in Switzerland, Austria, and Germany is accompanied by an escalation of violence against immigrants and opposition to membership in the European Union.
Embarking on a radical program of democratization and redistribution, the administration focuses on the provision of housing equipped with modern amenities, green space, and community infrastructure such as libraries and kindergartens.
During a liberalization in cultural policy, the East German film company DEFA produces a number of films critical of contemporary socialist life, including I Am a Rabbit by Kurt Maetzig (born 1911) and Traces of Stone by Frank Beyer (born 1932).
www.metmuseum.org /toah/ht/11/euwcm/ht11euwcm.htm   (5669 words)

  
 Free Frank Warner: May 2006
The forced ouster of Saddam Hussein and the subsequent liberation of Iraq were primarily to end one especially irresponsible dictatorship and to bring a democracy in a region desperate for the flowers of liberty.
Will, in his "Lessons for Liberals" column (hat tip: Kevin), recalls post-World War II America, another time when some who claimed to be liberals adopted the philosophy that the world’s biggest problem wasn’t the totalitarians, but the democracies.
But in reversing his position on liberating Iraq, Beinart has a ready-made new chapter for his book on the doughfaces who claim to be liberals until the going gets tough.
frankwarner.typepad.com /free_frank_warner/2006/05   (13205 words)

  
 timeline
The elections in April, 1791 returned a majority of moderates and conservatives to the Constituent Assembly, and their measures against the radicals led to a new insurrection?the June Days, three days of bloody street fighting in Paris.
From the sewers he contracted an incurable skin disease which required that he bathe constantly to ease the pain; it was while he was bathing, that a Girondists extremist named Charlotte Corday stabbed him to death in the early months of the Terror.
-republic in central Europe bounded on the north by the Czech Republic; on the northeast by Slovakia; on the east by Hungary; on the south by Slovenia, Italy, and Switzerland; and on the west by Liechtenstein, Switzerland, and Germany.
www.geocities.com /axi0nes/timeline.html   (4688 words)

  
 Steve Bates, The Yellow Doggerel Democrat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In the Democratic Party, there are from time to time individuals who resort to criminal acts in the political arena.
With both political parties putting thousands of lawyers on call for Election Day, a majority of both Democrats and Republicans - just over half of each - expect the election results will be challenged in court.
To the rescue comes Jeanne, who has taken the trouble to produce a timeline of what is known so far, and how it relates.
www.stephenbates.com /yellowdoggereldemocrat/doggerel_200410a.htm   (7555 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Europe | Country profiles | Country profile: Belgium
Two months on from May 2003 elections, the Socialists and Liberals agreed to renew their coalition in government with Flemish Liberal Guy Verhofstadt as prime minister.
The Green Party, which was a member of the previous coalition, retained only four seats in the elections.
The political landscape in Belgium is complicated by the fact that each of the main political parties is split into two, with one section representing the Dutch-speaking Flemish community and the other the French-speaking Walloons.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/country_profiles/999709.stm   (672 words)

  
 The Lone Liberal - PEI Elections: Liberal landslides and Tory tides - CBC Archives
In the 2000 provincial election, the Liberal party was crushed as a Tory tide swept the province.
Only one Liberal, Ron McKinley, was elected and some feel it's time to re-evaluate the electoral system.
With the proposed system some MLAs would be elected on the basis of the percentage of the popular vote their parties earn.
archives.cbc.ca /IDC-1-73-906-5279/politics_economy/elections_pei/clip10   (319 words)

  
 Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
In Free Societies this political fearmongering is still attempted (the draft myth) and often directed at opposing political parties, but is limited in scope by the inquires of an independent press and the freedom of public discourse.
According to the Washington Post, Attorney General John Ashcroft [the singer] was accused by a liberal group, which obtained department documents, of reducing a $1.5 billion counter terrorism appropriation to the FBI to $531 million and making terrorism a low priority.
Iran's radical anti-American government was and still is the most prolific state sponsor of terrorism in the world.
www.neoperspectives.com /farenheight_911.htm   (15625 words)

  
 The Daily Demarche: November 2005
This timeline of editorials and articles should be required reading for both those who support and oppose the war in Iraq; especially those sitting in Washington trying to remember what lead us to the point we have reached today.
As President Bush entered the middle of his second term, political pressure to do just that mounted drastically and the President was forced by members of both political parties, especially a powerful few in his own party seeking to boost their profile in an election year, to do just that.
The liberal left, the appeasers on both sides and the media have all been careful to tread lightly around this situation, but the discovery of a bomb factory and the spread of violence into rural France seems to indicate that the "angry youths" have no intention of ending their rampage anytime soon.
dailydemarche.blogspot.com /2005_11_01_dailydemarche_archive.html   (10333 words)

  
 Timeline Italy 1930-2004
Moro was planning to form a government combining his Christian Democrats and the Communist Party.
In 1995 he was given partial liberty and prosecutors say he killed 4 prostitutes.
1997 Oct 26, In Italy the Northern League party of Umberto Bossi held a symbolic election to choose a "parliament" for independent Padania.
timelines.ws /countries/ITALYB.HTML   (14752 words)

  
 Think Progress » Why the Newsweek Mess Really Matters
Obviously a Rovian ploy to persuade the sheeple that the “liberal” press is unreliable and more importantly, shouldn’t report on the war because that gets people killed.
I make a daily effort to either read or listen to more “liberal” media (blogs, radio, articles, etc) in an effort to keep myself educated on both sides of an issue, rather than making the simple assumptions that if someone has a different opinion than I, by default they are degenerative and evil.
With that, I invite you all to have a grand conformist party where everyone tries to shout the same tired slogans with the half-ass sense of anger.
thinkprogress.org /index.php?p=882   (18875 words)

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