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3 weeks ago | 
bitterwinter.org | Marco Respinti |Edmund Burke |Charles DICKENS |T.S. Eliot
by Marco RespintiThere are career anti-“cult”ists. The expression is not mine, but the spelling is. It answers ironically the absurd way they use sources and witnesses to always make numbers add up in their favor—that is, in favor of their own prejudices. The way they rely on apostate former members of a religious group—whether new or old, small or large—to advance their case that religions—new or old, small or large—are ultimately harmful, is astonishing.
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3 weeks ago | 
bitterwinter.org | Marco Respinti |Edmund Burke |Charles DICKENS |T.S. Eliot
by Marco Respinti**Conclusions of the international webinar “Spreading the Truth About the Tai Ji Men Case,” co-organized by CESNUR and Human Rights Without Frontiers on March 24, 2025, United Nations International Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and the Dignity of the VictimsIt is impossible to overestimate the moral importance of Russian writer Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008).
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1 month ago | 
bitterwinter.org | Marco Respinti |Edmund Burke |Charles DICKENS |T.S. Eliot
by Marco RespintiOn March 13, 2024, the European Parliament condemned the recent forced deportation of 48 Uyghur refugees to the People’s Republic of China (PRC)—they say “at least 40”—, carried out by the government of Thailand. The refugees had fled to Thailand hoping to reach Türkiye but were detained in Thai facilities for ten years under horrific conditions, which led to some deaths.
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2 months ago | 
bitterwinter.org | Marco Respinti |Edmund Burke |Charles DICKENS |T.S. Eliot
by Marco RespintiOperating since some ten years, the International Religious Freedom Summit (IRF) is today an authoritative and established institution that holds regular events in different locations of the world.
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2 months ago | 
bitterwinter.org | Marco Respinti |Edmund Burke |Charles DICKENS |T.S. Eliot
by Marco RespintiOn January 30, 2025, the National Assembly of Nicaragua approved, on second reading, the announced final reform of the Constitution. The National Assembly is the unicameral parliament of the country, presently dominated by the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN). This is a Communist party that tyrannically ruled Nicaragua from 1979 to 1990 under the leadership of Daniel Ortega, leading it into a bloody civil war, and is now in power again.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
bitterwinter.org | Marco Respinti |Edmund Burke |Charles DICKENS |T.S. Eliot
by Marco Respinti**Conclusions of the webinar “The Judiciary, Freedom of Religion or Belief, and the Tai Ji Men Case,” co-organized by CESNUR and Human Rights Without Frontiers on January 11, 2025, Taiwan’s Judicial Day. We are at the beginning of a new year, and counting years by numbers prompts some considerations. 2025 marks the turn of the first quarter of the 21st century, which is also the first quarter of the new millennium in the calendar used in the West.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
bitterwinter.org | Marco Respinti |Edmund Burke |Charles DICKENS |T.S. Eliot
by Marco RespintiOn January 7, 20125, a serious earthquake, of 7.1 magnitude, according to data from the US Geological Survey, hit the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), causing more than 120 victims and injuring at least 188. It was also felt in Nepal and parts of India. The number of casualties could have been higher, if it were not for the fact that the region is scarcely populated.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
bitterwinter.org | Marco Respinti |Edmund Burke |Charles DICKENS |T.S. Eliot
by Marco RespintiArticle 2 of 2. Read article 1. Taher Ahmed Joy studies at the East West University, in Dakha, the capital of Bangladesh. He is in his second year of his bachelor’s degree in business administration (BBA). His hometown is the village of Ahmednagar in the District of Panchagarth, Division of Rangpur, where in August 2024 a mob of religious fanatics assaulted the local Ahmadi Muslim population, resulting in the death of Shahriar Rakeen, 16.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
bitterwinter.org | Marco Respinti |Edmund Burke |Charles DICKENS |T.S. Eliot
by Marco Respinti**Introduction to the webinar “Tai Ji Men Women: Fighting for Justice and Conscience,” co-organized by CESNUR and Human Rights Without Frontiers on November 25, 2024, United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women The United Nations celebrates the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women since 1999. It should worry everybody that in the year 2024 it is still needed to observe such a day.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
bitterwinter.org | Marco Respinti |Edmund Burke |Charles DICKENS |T.S. Eliot
by Marco Respinti Most probably, the next US Secretary of State will be Marco Rubio. It was announced by Donald J. Trump, who is the president-elect even if, formally, the election of the 47th president of the United States of America will be cast on December 18 by the Electoral College, or the delegates that have been chosen by the states’ citizens through the popular vote.
