elmundoes they've been chanting this for a year and a half...

Or perhaps they are merely parroting talking points backed by little thought.

Tehran Bureau reports that the chanting slogans were directly aimed at the supreme leader.

They were stating that these people had no weapons whatsoever, that they were just carrying cameras.

But how solid is this? Have people made up their minds, or are they just saying what the press tells them they should be thinking?

Everyone I talk to in performing arts resonates to the words of Adrienne Rich, who, in Dreams of a Common Language, wrote, We are out in a country that has no language, no laws.

Nevertheless, all US Treasury secretaries, going back at least to Robert Rubin in the Clinton administration, have repeated the mantra that a strong dollar is good for America whenever they were asked about the dollar s value.

The following video was taken in Hama where in 1982 the Syrian Army massacred around 10,000 people to squash a Muslim Brotherhood uprising and you can hear protesters chanting Freedom! and we sacrifice our souls and blood for Daraa.

But if you ask the government s supporters why there is no alternative to mammoth cuts in government spending and increases in taxes, they sound confused and incoherent. Or perhaps they are merely parroting talking points backed by little thought.

A number of participants consistently stated that the principle of free, prior and informed consent encompassed not only a procedure to be elaborated, but also a right associated with indigenous peoples' right to self determination, treaties and indigenous peoples' rights to lands, territories and natural resources.

The United Nations climate panel and the International Energy Agency both echo this sentiment, insisting that higher energy efficiency could reduce energy consumption by up to 30 making improved efficiency an effective remedy for climate change.