The first puppet state in modern European history, in the sense of a state which claimed popular legitimacy but which was significantly dependent on an external power, was the Batavian Republic, established in the Netherlands under French revolutionary protection.
The first puppet states, in the sense of new states whose creation was made possible by the intervention of a foreign power, were the Italian republics created in the late 18th and early 19th centuries with the assistance and encouragement of Napoleonic France. See French client republics.
In 1895, Japan detached Korea from its tributary relationship with China, giving it formal independence which was in reality only a prelude to Japanese annexation.
In 1896 Britain established a puppet state in Zanzibar.
The Republic of the Far East was a Japanese puppet régime that never got beyond the planning stages. In addition to the Japanese, the Germans supported the formation of this state. In 1943, the plans for a White Russian state died for good after the Battle for Stalingrad.
In 1945, as the Second World War drew to a close, Japan planned to grant puppet independence to the Netherlands East Indies (Indonesia). These plans ended when the Japanese surrendered on 15 August 1945.
Several European governments under the domination of Germany and Italy during World War II have been described as ''puppet régimes''. The formal means of control in occupied Europe varied greatly. These régimes fall into several categories.
As Soviet forces prevailed over the German Army on the Eastern Front during the Second World War, the Soviet Union supported the creation of communist governments in Eastern Europe. Specifically, the People's Republics in Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Poland were dominated by the Soviet Union. While all of these People's Republics did not "officially" take power until after World War II ended, they all have roots in pro-Communist war-time governments. For example, Bulgaria's pro-Communist Fatherland Front seized power in Bulgaria on September 9, 1944. The Fatherland Front government was Soviet dominated and the direct predecessor of the People's Republic of Bulgaria (1946–1990). On the other hand, keeping with the Bulgarian example, it could be argued that the People's Republic of Bulgaria under Prime Minister Georgi Dimitrov (1946–1949) was far from being a Soviet puppet. On yet another hand, an argument for ''co-belligerence'' status could also be made for these states.
Eastern European members of the Warsaw Pact, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and East Germany, were Soviet satellite states. While Soviet leaders claimed that the Warsaw Pact nations were equals entering into a mutual alliance, the reality was different, and decisions were often enforced by Soviet Union with threats of and use of force. For example, when Polish communist leaders tried to elect Władysław Gomułka as First Secretary they were issued an ultimatum by the Soviet military—which occupied Poland—ordering them to withdraw election of Gomulka for the First Secretary or be crushed by Soviet tanks.
Prague Spring in 1968 led to an invasion of Czechoslovakia by the other Warsaw Pact states. As a rationale for this action, the Soviet Union expressed the Brezhnev Doctrine, which stated that it was the duty of all socialist states to protect any socialist state from falling to capitalism. The Western bloc interpreted the Brezhnev Doctrine as an expression of Moscow's authority over other communist states.
Gorbachev ultimately renounced the Brezhnev Doctrine, jokingly calling his policy the "Sinatra Doctrine" after the song "My Way" because of its explicit allowance of Eastern European countries to decide their own internal affairs. Within only a couple years of Gorbachev's abandonment of the Brezhnev Doctrine, Eastern Europe's communist regimes all fell and their states sought better relations and integration with the West, abandoning ties to Soviet Union.
The Paris Peace Accords were preceded by months of intensive negotiations over whether the National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam (Viet Cong) should be treated as an independent party or as a puppet of North Vietnam.
In 1951 Dean Rusk, the Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs, branded the People's Republic of China a "Slavic Manchukuo", implying that it was a puppet state of the Soviet Union just as Manchukuo had been a puppet state of the Empire of Japan. This position was commonly taken by American propaganda of the 1950s, despite the fact that the Chinese communist movement had developed largely independently of the Soviet Union.
The principal purpose of these states was to remove the Xhosa, Tswana and Venda peoples from South African citizenship (and so to provide grounds for denying them democratic rights). All four were reincorporated into South Africa in 1994.
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background | solo_singer |
birth name | Percy Miller |
alias | Lil' Romeo, Rome, Romeo |
born | August 19, 1989 |
origin | New Orleans, Louisiana |
genre | Hip hop |
occupation | RapperModelBasketball playerEntrepreneurActor |
college | USC |
years active | 2001–present |
label | No Limit (2001–2002) Priority (2001–2002) The New No Limit (2002–2004) Universal (2002–2003) E1 (2004–2005) Guttar Music (2005–2006) Take A Stand (2007–present) The Next Generation (CEO) (2010–present) No Limit Forever (CEO) (2010–present) |
website | http://romeoforever.com }} |
Percy Romeo Miller, Jr. (born August 19, 1989), better known by his stage name Romeo (previously Lil' Romeo), is an American rapper, actor, basketball player, entrepreneur, and model. He is the son of rapper and entrepreneur Master P and former rapper Sonya C. He is the nephew of rappers C-Murder and Silkk the Shocker and the brother of singer Cymphonique. As a rap musician, Miller has released three studio albums and two compilation albums.
Name | Percy Miller, Jr. |
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College | USC |
Conference | Pac-10 |
Sport | Basketball |
Position | Point guard |
Career start | 2008 2010 |
Nickname | Romeo, Prince P |
Jersey | 15 |
Height ft | 5 |
Height in | 11 |
Weight lb | 170 |
Nationality | American |
Birth date | August 19, 1989 |
Birth place | New Orleans, Louisiana |
Highschool | Beverly Hills High School |
tournaments | y |
tournament list | 2009 NCAA Tournament |
color | DarkRed |
fontcolor | Gold }} |
Romeo was invited, in the summer of 2006, to the Reebok-sponsored ABCD Camp, which is considered the premier basketball camp in the United States. The Teaneck, New Jersey-based ABCD Camp is an invitation-only basketball showcase previously attended by high-profile players including Kobe Bryant, Stephon Marbury, Tracy McGrady, LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony. Surrounded by future NBA players such as O. J. Mayo, Derrick Rose, and Kevin Love, Miller looked out of place and averaged less than 2 points a game throughout the camp. ''The Wall Street Journal'' made an article on March 8, entitled "A Hot Prospect," cites Sonny Vaccaro, the longtime director of the ABCD Camp, as explaining, "he invited Romeo Miller to the 2006 camp, primarily as a favor to Percy Miller, whom he knew from the club basketball circuit." In the article, Vaccaro indicated, "If you're looking for the profile of an athlete who plays basketball at USC, he's not it."
On April 13, 2007, Miller verbally committed to the University of Southern California (USC) and signed a letter of intent on November 19, 2007.
Miller, a 5'11" point guard, was a four year starter at Beverly Hills High School. As a junior during the 2005–2006 high school season he averaged 13.9 points and 5.6 assists per game. As a senior during the 2006–2007 high school season he averaged 8.6 points and 9.0 assists per game.
According to ''The Wall Street Journal'', it appears the decision to grant Miller a full scholarship at USC was largely driven by his relationship with friend and teammate Demar DeRozan, the 6-foot-6 All-American forward who was rated as the number five prospect in the country on Scout.com. ''The Wall Street Journal'' reported Coach Tim Floyd as saying, "Last April...Percy Miller called while driving both players from a tournament in Fayetteville, Ark...Percy Miller said 'Demar and Romeo are ready to make their decision, and would you like to have them both on scholarship?'...'I said absolutely.'" Miller and DeRozan began playing in the 2008–2009 season.
Miller had a disappointing career at USC. In his two seasons as a Trojan, he played a total of 19 minutes in 9 games and scored a total of 5 points.
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6 | Waltz/ "My Heart Will Go On" | 10 | 9 | 9 | |||||||
style="text-align:center; background:#faf6f"|Cha-Cha-Cha/ ""Born This Way""Samba/ "Say Hey (I Love You)" | |||||||||||
style="text-align:center; background:#faf6f"|Tango/"Hold It Against Me"Salsa/"Tequila" |
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Year | ||||
2001 | ''Max Keeble's Big Move'' | Himself | ||
2003 | ''Honey (2003 film)Honey'' || | Benny | Main Role | |
rowspan="2">2004 | ''Still 'Bout It''| | M.J. | Main Role | |
''Decisions'' | Jamal | |||
rowspan="2" | 2006 | ''God's Gift (film)God's Gift'' || | Romeo | Main Role |
''Don't Be Scared'' | Unknown | |||
rowspan="2" | 2007 | ''Uncle P''| | Corey Miller | Main Role |
''Crush On U'' | Rome | |||
2009 | ''The Pig People''| | TJ | Main Role | |
2010 | ''Down and Distance''| | Darren Sheehan | Main Role | |
rowspan="2" | 2011 | ''Jumping the Broom (film)Jumping the Broom'' || | Sebastian | Support Role |
''Wolf Boy'' | ''2120'' |
;Television
Year !! Title !! Role !! Notes | |||
2001 | ''The Brothers García'' | Ty | |
2001 | ''Oh Drama!''| | Musical Guest | Television special |
2001 | ''The Hughleys''| | Himself | |
2001 | ''Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration''| | Himself | |
2002 | ''Raising Dad''| | Marvin | |
2002 | ''American Music Awards of 2002The 29th Annual American Music Awards'' || | Himself | |
2002 | ''Proud Family''| | Himself | "A Hero For Halloween" (episode 24, season 1) |
2003 | ''One on One (TV series)One on One'' || | Eric | "Spy Games" |
2003 | ''Static Shock''| | Himself | Recorded the final theme song for the series. |
2003 | ''All Grown Up!''| | Lil Q | "It's Cupid, Stupid" (episode 8, season 1) |
2003–2006 | ''Romeo!''| | Romeo "Ro" Miller | Main Role/Starring as ''Romeo''. |
2005 | ''Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide| | Rapping teacher | "Guide to: Emergency Drills and Late Bus" (episode 21, season 2) |
2008 | ''Out of Jimmy's Head| | Himself | "Lunch Tables" (episode 13, season 1) |
2010 | ''The Defenders (2010 TV series)The Defenders || | Killa Diz | "The Defenders – Nevada v. Killa Diz" |
2011 | ''The Bad Girls Club (season 6)The Bad Girls Club: Season 6'' || | Himself | Guest appearance on the reality show (episode 10) |
2011 | ''Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 12)Dancing With the Stars: Season 12 '' || | Contestant | Romeo was originally supposed to be competing in season 2 but due to a injury he was unable & his dad Master P filled in for him |
2011 | ''The Cape| | Gangster | Season 1, Episode 9 – "Razer". |
2011 | ''Reed Between the Lines''| | Darius | Season 1, Episode 5 – "Let's Talk About Competition" |
2011 | ''Charlie's Angels (2011 TV series)Charlie's Angels'' || | Royal's son | Season 1, EpisRode 7 – "Royal Angels" |
Category:1989 births Category:Living people Category:African American basketball players Category:African-American businesspeople Category:African-American fashion designers Category:African American film actors Category;African American child actors Category:African American actors Category:African American models Category:African American rappers Category:American child actors Category:American child singers Category:American film actors Category:American male models Category:American voice actors Category:Businesspeople in fashion Category:E1 Music artists Category:No Limit Records artists Category:Participants in American reality television series Category:People from Beverly Hills, California Category:People from New Orleans, Louisiana Category:Rappers from New Orleans, Louisiana Category:Rappers from Los Angeles, California Category:University of Southern California alumni Category:USC Trojans men's basketball players
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Coordinates | 26°08′9″N80°08′31″N |
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Name | Paul Craig Roberts |
Smallimage | Paul craig roberts.jpg |
Office | United States Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy |
Term start | 1981 |
Term end | 1982 |
President | Ronald Reagan |
Birth date | |
Birth place | Atlanta, Georgia |
Nationality | American |
Occupation | economist }} |
He has written or co-written eight books, contributed chapters to numerous books and has published many articles in journals of scholarship. He has testified before congressional committees on 30 occasions on issues of economic policy. His writings frequently appear on OpEdNews, Prisonplanet.com, Antiwar.com, ''VDARE.com''. LewRockwell.com, ''CounterPunch'', and the American Free Press. Roberts has been featured as a guest on the ''Political Cesspool'' radio show.
In ''Alienation and the Soviet Economy'' (1971), Roberts explained the Soviet economy as the outcome of a struggle between inordinate aspirations and a refractory reality. He argued that the Soviet economy was not centrally planned, but that its institutions, such as material supply, reflected the original Marxist aspirations to establish a non-market mode of production. In ''Marx's Theory of Exchange'' (1973), Roberts argued that Marx was an organizational theorist whose materialist conception of history ruled out good will as an effective force for change.
From 1975 to 1978, Roberts served on the congressional staff. As economic counsel to Congressman Jack Kemp he drafted the Kemp-Roth bill (which became the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981) and played a leading role in developing bipartisan support for a supply-side economic policy. His influential 1978 article for ''Harper's'', while economic counsel to Senator Orrin Hatch, had ''Wall Street Journal'' editor Robert L. Bartley give him an editorial slot, which he had until 1980. He was a senior fellow in political economy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, then part of Georgetown University.
From early 1981 to January 1982 he served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy. President Ronald Reagan and Treasury Secretary Donald Regan credited him with a major role in the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981, and he was awarded the Treasury Department's Meritorious Service Award for "outstanding contributions to the formulation of United States economic policy." Roberts resigned in January 1982 to become the first occupant of the William E. Simon Chair for Economic Policy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, then part of Georgetown University. He held this position until 1993. He went on to write ''The Supply-Side Revolution'' (1984), in which he explained the reformulation of macroeconomic theory and policy that he had helped to create.
He was a Distinguished Fellow at the Cato Institute from 1993 to 1996. He was a Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution.
In ''The New Color Line'' (1995), Roberts argued that the Civil Rights Act was subverted by the bureaucrats who applied it and, by being used to create status-based privileges, became a threat to the Fourteenth Amendment in whose name it was passed. In ''The Tyranny of Good Intentions'' (2000), Roberts documented what he saw as the erosion of the Blackstonian legal principles that ensure that law is a shield of the innocent and not a weapon in the hands of government.
In 1992 he received the Warren Brookes Award for Excellence in Journalism from the American Legislative Exchange Council. In 1993 the Forbes Media Guide ranked him as one of the top seven journalists in the United States.
Roberts was also a critic of a potential Bush administration attack on Iran. In an August 15, 2005 article, he states "Bush...dismisses all facts and assurances and is willing to attack Iran based on nothing but Israel's paranoia."
Although his criticisms of Bush often seem to align him with the political left, Roberts continues to praise Ronald Reagan and to endorse many of Reagan's policies, arguing that "true conservatives" were the "first victims" of the neoconized Bush administration. He has said that supporters of George W. Bush "are brownshirts with the same low intelligence and morals as Hitler's enthusiastic supporters."
Roberts comments on the "scientific impossibility" of the official explanation for the events on 9/11 and says those engineers and physicists who accept this theory are wrong. On August 18, 2006, he wrote:
I will begin by stating what we know to be a solid incontrovertible scientific fact. We know that it is strictly impossible for any building, much less steel columned buildings, to “pancake” at free fall speed. Therefore, it is a non-controversial fact that the official explanation of the collapse of the WTC buildings is false... Since the damning incontrovertible fact has not been investigated, speculation and “conspiracy theories” have filled the void.
On the (back) cover of Debunking 9/11 Debunking (2007) he is quoted:
Professor Griffin is the nemesis of the 9/11 cover-up. This new book destroys the credibility of the NIST and Popular Mechanics reports and annihilates his critics.Book Cover Quote
Roberts adding that the so-called neoconservatives intended to use a renewal of the fight against terrorism to rally the American people around the fading Republican Party. "The administration figures themselves and prominent Republican propagandists ... are preparing us for another 9/11 event or series of events," he said. "You have to count on the fact that if al Qaeda is not going to do it, it is going to be orchestrated."
Shortly thereafter, however, he resumed writing articles.
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Paul Craig (born 27 September 1951) is currently Professor of English Law at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St John's College. Craig is a specialist in Administrative and EU Law.
He was educated at Worcester College, Oxford, where he took his BA, MA and BCL. He stayed at Worcester, and was made a Fellow in 1976. He remained a Fellow until his move to St John's in 1998.
He is the author of a number of legal textbooks the most well known of which (EU Law: Text, Cases and Materials) is about to be published in its 4th edition by Oxford University Press in August 2011.
He currently teaches 5 week courses in Administrative Law and European Union Law at the Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington.
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Coordinates | 26°08′9″N80°08′31″N |
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name | Craig Roberts |
birth date | January 21, 1991 |
birth place | Maesycwmmer, Wales, UK |
occupation | actor }} |
Craig Roberts (born 21 January 1991) is a Welsh actor. He is best known for playing the lead role of Oliver Tate in the coming-of-age comedy-drama film Submarine.
Roberts was born in Maesycwmmer, Wales.
He has appeared in The Story of Tracy Beaker, Young Dracula, Care and Casualty.Roberts appeared in the pantomime 'Snow White' in Worthing, where he played the evil queen's sidekick 'Drax' in January 2009. In 2008 he worked with Y Touring Theatre Company where he played the part of 'Ryan' in a UK national tour of 'Full Time' which was a play that explores issues of racism, sexism and homophobia in football. He also appeared in the BBC Three television show Being Human and the online spin-off series ''Becoming Human'' as Adam.
Roberts starred in the 2010 film ''Submarine'' which also stars Paddy Considine and Yasmin Paige
! Year | ! Film | ! Role | ! Notes |
''Care'' | Craig, Pauline's Child | TV movie | |
''Little Pudding'' | TV movie | ||
Rio | TV series (2 series 2004-2006) | ||
''Kiddo'' | Jay | TV movie | |
Darren Smith/Jordan Philpot | TV series (2 episodes: 2005-2008) | ||
''Scratching'' | Mike | ''short'' | |
''Young Dracula'' | Robin Branaugh | TV series (27 episodes: 2006-2008) | |
Oliver Tate | |||
Adam | TV series (1 episode: "Adam's Family") | ||
''Becoming Human'' | Adam | TV series | |
John Reed | |||
''Red Lights'' | ''post-production'' | ||
''The First Time'' | Arthur Goldberg | ''pre-production'' | |
''Comes A Bright Day'' | Sam Smith | ''post-production'' |
Category:1991 births Category:British child actors Category:Welsh actors Category:Living people
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