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# Transparency

Transparency is a policy of making information public. It is implemented by a set of policies, practices and procedures that allow citizens to have accessibility, usability, utility, understandability, informativeness and auditability of information and process held by centers of authority (society or organizations).

## Quotes

* Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.
** Louis Brandeis, Other People's Money—and How Bankers Use It (1914)
* Nobody wants to be perfectly transparent; not to others, certainly not to himself.
** Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010) Preludes, p.8.
* Public truths ought never to be kept secrets; and they who do it, are guilty of a solecism, and a contradiction: Every man ought to know what it concerns all to know. Now, nothing upon earth is of a more universal nature than government; and every private man upon earth has a concern in it, because in it is concerned, and nearly and immediately concerned, his virtue, his property, and the security of his person: And where all these are best preserved and advanced, the government is best administered; and where they are not, the government is impotent, wicked, or unfortunate; and where the government is so, the people will be so, there being always and every where a certain sympathy and analogy between the nature of the government and the nature of the people.
** Gordon, Thomas (July 22, 1721). Cato's Letter No. 38, The Right and Capacity of the People to Judge of Government.
* The public’s business is the public’s business.
** A.Jay Wagner (December, 2024). Editor’s Note:FOI Research More Important Than Ever.
# Hyacinthe Thiandoum

Hyacinthe Thiandoum (2 February 1921 – 18 May 2004) was a Senegalese prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the archbishop of the Archdiocese of Dakar.

## Quotes

* The tempest in which the African continent lives brings to mind that, for all the projects discussed during this Synod, one must remember that the African wager is a long term wager.
** Cardinal Hyacinthe THIANDOUM (Archbishop of Dakar, Senegal) (1994) The African Synod
# Saint Thomas Christian cross

Mar Thoma Sleeva (Saint Thomas Cross) are ancient crosses associated with the community of Indian subcontinent, who trace their origins to the evangelism of Thomas the Apostle in the 1st century AD.
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## J

* We find all these and much more about the cross in contemporary writers, but none of them mentions a similar arched cross as existing in Malabar, although another cross and inscription of the kind in Malabar or elsewhere would most naturally have been brought to the notice of the Malabar and Portuguese Christians in general, and visited, observed, studied, sketched and described in their letters and books by contemporary writers. In the present state of my knowledge therefore I cannot but come to the conclusion that there was not even a single Pahlavi-inscribed arched cross seen in Malabar in or about 1547, the year of the discovery of the mount cross, and that the numerous crosses mentioned by Gouvea as existing in Malabar in 1599 were all imitations of miraculous Mount cross. These were not more than 53 years old when Gouvea heard in 1599 that they had been set up by Saint. Thomas himself or the first Christians of the first century.
** Joseph, T.K (1929). Malabar Christians and Their Ancient Documents (1st ed.). Thiruvananthapuram. Quoted in Jeevan Philip : Unmasking the Syriacs : The Hidden Origin of Indian Christianity (2022)

## P

* The Pahlavi-inscribed crosses of South India are one of the most celebrated examples of the vestiges of ancient Indian Christianity since their discovery by the Portuguese. Church historians have recently been successful enough to bring back the use of these crosses among Syriac Christians of India by explaining the historical background, purpose, and artistic syncretism during the 8th and 9th centuries. Today, almost all of the Christian world accepts these facts and interprets them as a continuation of the parallel developments that took place during the 6th–10th centuries in Persia, Central Asia, China, etc.
** Jeevan Philip : Unmasking the Syriacs : The Hidden Origin of Indian Christianity (2022)
# Ibrahim Faltas

Ibrahim Faltas (2 February 1964) is an Egyptian priest who serves as the vicar of the Custody of the Holy Land.

## Quotes

* The Lord is great and merciful and he supports this wounded humanity. I see it in the eyes of the children and the defenseless of this tormented Holy Land. I see it in the simple gestures when sharing pain and suffering. This is the strength of the faith of the Christians of the Holy Land. Their life here is a continuous testimony, and we must continue to support them.
** Father Ibrahim Faltas: War also darkens the future of Christians in the Land of Jesus (9 April 2024) Fides News Agency
# Clément-Joseph Hannouche

Clément-Joseph Hannouche (27 March 1950 – 9 April 2020) was an Egyptian prelate of the Syriac Catholic Church who served as the eparch of the Eparchy of Cairo.

## Quotes

* The Church has gone in search of lost sheep, with patience and perseverance, full of love. Encourage and accept the participation of the lay faithful, because they contribute to the work in the field of the Lord.
** - H. Exc. Mons. Clément-Joseph HANNOUCHE, Bishop of Cairo of the Syrians, Protosyncellus of the Syro-Catholic Church in Sudan (ARAB REPUBLIC OF EGYPT) (15 October 2010) Press Office of the Holy See
# Huns

The Huns were a nomadic people who lived in Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Eastern Europe between the 4th and 6th centuries AD.
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## G
### Barbarians and ethnicity

    Geary, Patrick j . 1999. “Barbarians and ethnicity,” in Late antiquity: A guide to the postclassical world. Edited by G. W. Bowersock, Peter Brown, and Oleg Grabar. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. p. 109. in: Lamberg-Karlovsky, C.C. (2002). Archaeology and Language. Current Anthropology, 43, 63 - 88.
* For most of the Goths defeated by the Huns, entering the confederation was an obvious choice . Although a Hunnic core of Central Asians provided central leadership to the Hunnic armies, the peoples they conquered were assimilated with ease . Good warriors, whether of Gothic, Vandal, Frankish, or even Roman origins, could rise rapidly within the Hunnic hierarchy Even among the central leadership, this polyethnicity was obvious. The Hunnic leader Edika was simultaneously a Hun and a Scirian, and ruled the short-lived Scirian kingdom as king. The greatest of the Hunnic leaders, Attila, bore a Gothic name (or title): Attila means "little father:" Gothic, Greek, and Latin were used alongside Hunnic in his court, and among his advisers were not only leaders of various barbarian peoples but even former Greek merchants. For a time the Italian aristocrat Orestes, father of the last Roman emperor in the west, Romulus Augustulus, served the Hunnic king.
# Russian nationalism

Russian nationalism is a form of nationalism that promotes Russian cultural identity and unity.
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## L

* The dissolution of the Soviet empire has given rise to a heightened nationalism which, in turn, projects a mythical and majestic Slavic past.
** Archaeology and Language, The case of the Bronze Age Indo-Iranians Carl C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, in : Bryant, E. F., & Patton, L. L. (2005). The Indo-Aryan controversy : evidence and inference in Indian history. Routledge. 152-3
* Reliance upon migrations as the principal agent of social change has been typical of Russian archaeological interpretations, along with a blurring of the distinction between ethnic, linguistic, racial, and cultural entities, the isolation of racial/ethnic groups by the craniometric methods of physical anthropology, and the use of linguistic paleontology to reconstruct the development of cultural groups.
** Lamberg-Karlovsky, C.C. (2002). Archaeology and Language. Current Anthropology, 43, 63 - 88.

## S
### Alternative prehistory

    Shnirelman , v. a . 1995. Alternative prehistory. Journal of European Archaeology 3(2):1–20. quoted in Lamberg-Karlovsky, C.C. (2002). Archaeology and Language. Current Anthropology, 43, 63 - 88.
* [Shnirelman writes that nationalist concerns in the former U.S.S.R. are creating] an explicitly ethnocentric vision of the past, a glorification of the great ancestors of the given people, who are treated as if they had made the most valuable contribution to the culture of all humanity.
* In the 1970s and early 1980s, the state recommended that Soviet archaeologists avoided any display of Chinese artefacts found from the Golden Horde sites and played down the close links between the peoples of the Russian Far East and China.
* Recently, some Ukrainian archaeologists have taken Sylenko's theory of the Ukraine quite seriously as the most ancient and the most important centre of human civilisation and are making attempts to confirm that.
* It is worth noting that 'the Aryan studies' are reviving once again under this umbrella, and once again, like in Germany early this century, they are closely related to occultism.

## Z

* We Slavs consider ourselves to be new arrivals, but that is untrue. Indo-Europeans and Indo-Iranians had been living here [in the southern Urals] since the Stone Age and had been incorporated into the Kazakhs, Bashkirs, and Slavs; such is the common thread linking us all.
** Gennady Zdanovich, in: Lamberg-Karlovsky, C.C. (2002). Archaeology and Language. Current Anthropology, 43, 63 - 88.
# Ukrainian nationalism

Ukrainian nationalism is the promotion of the unity of Ukrainians as a people and the promotion of the identity of Ukraine as a nation state.
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## S
### Alternative prehistory

    Shnirelman , v. a . 1995. Alternative prehistory. Journal of European Archaeology 3(2):1–20.
* Recently, some Ukrainian archaeologists have taken Sylenko's theory of the Ukraine quite seriously as the most ancient and the most important centre of human civilisation and are making attempts to confirm that.
* It is even more interesting to compare the myths built by the Russian and the Ukrainian ethno-nationalists. Both sides use the same resources and construct very similar schemes.
# Koban culture

The Koban culture or Kuban culture (c. 1200 to 350 BC) is a late Bronze Age and Iron Age culture.
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## Quotes

* In terms of their land rights in northern Georgia, the South Ossetians consider the problem of an ethnic identification of the Koban archaeological culture as a crucial one.
** Shnirelman , v. a . 1995. Alternative prehistory. Journal of European Archaeology 3(2):1–20.
* The Georgian-South Ossetian conflict forced him [Tekhov] to change his position. Now he argues that the Indo-Europeans and, especially, Iranians were the indigenous inhabitants of the Caucasus, particularly in its central part. In his new concept, Tekhov maintains that the KAC was formed mainly by the Indo-Iranians who came from the north.
** Shnirelman , v. a . 1995. Alternative prehistory. Journal of European Archaeology 3(2):1–20.
# Edmund Michael Dunne

Edmund Michael Dunne (February 2, 1864 – October 17, 1929) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church who served as bishop of the Diocese of Peoria.

## Quotes about Edmund Michael Dunne

* His ministrations among the poor Italians of Chicago were remarkably successful. It was with profound regret that they saw him removed to the chancellorship of the archdiocese, after seven years of unselfish labour.
** James J. Shannon, Diocese of Peoria (1913) Catholic Encyclopedia
# Natan Sharansky

Natan Sharansky (Russian: Натан Щаранский, born January 20, 1948) is a notable Soviet dissident, Israeli politician and writer.

## Quotes

* The State of Israel is a national home for the entire Jewish people and it is clear to me that there is no dispute between any party or Zionist movement, while the nation-state law was originally intended to reinforce this principle, the most recent amendments to it are of great concern because they drive a wedge between Jews in Israel and in the Diaspora.
** In a letter to Amir Ohan about the Clause 7B of the Basic Law proposal: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People, as quoted in Sharansky: Jewish state bill will ‘drive a wedge’ between Israel and Diaspora (11 July 2018) by Raoul Wootliff, The Times of Israel.

### The Case for Democracy (2004, with Ron Dermer)

* A lack of moral clarity is also the tragedy that has befallen efforts to advance peace and security in the world. Promoting peace and security is fundamentally connected to promoting freedom and democracy.
** Preface, page xix.
* The conviction that freedom is a universal desire is not the property of any political camp. ... Yet those who hold it remain a precious few, outnumbered many times over by the skeptics who don't.
** Pages 18-19.
* A simple way to determine whether the right to dissent in a particular society is being upheld is to apply the town square test: Can a person walk into the middle of the town square and express his or her views without fear of arrest, imprisonment, or physical harm? If he can, then that person is living in a free society. If not, it's a fear society.
** Pages 40-1.
* Now we can see why nondemocratic regimes imperil the security of the world. They stay in power by controlling their populations. This control invariably requires an increasing amount of repression. To justify this repression and maintain internal stability, external enemies must be manufactured.
** Page 88.
* Freedom's skeptics must understand that the democracy that hates you is less dangerous than the dictator who loves you. Indeed, it is the absence of democracy that represents the real threat to peace.
** Page 95.
* The free world should not wait for dictatorial regimes to consent to reform.
** Page 278.

## External links

* Natan Sharansky on the Knesset website
* Appearances on C-SPAN
* Natan Sharansky. Archived from the original on 10 October 2010. Retrieved on 2004-07-14. Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs
* Natan Sharansky Jewish Virtual Library
# Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân

Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân (born 12 April 1954) is a Vietnamese politician who served as the first female Chairperson of the National Assembly of Vietnam from 31 March 2016 to 30 March 2021.

## Quotes

* The world we live in today is witnessing many complex uncertainties,which represent a threat to peace, independence, cooperation and sustainable development of all nations. On the one hand, we rejoice to see the tremendous advances in science and technology that propelled mankind to new heights of civilization and knowledge and brought different political regimes, economies,societies, cultures and religions closer together to co-exist in harmony formutual development.
** "Speech At The General Debate Of The 137th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union" (15 October 2017)
* The State of Vietnam dedicates different preferential policies to ethnic minorities to enable them to prosper and narrowthe development gap with other groups. As Vietnam is extensively integrating itself into the world, religious organizations in our country have been expanding relations with other religions and religious organizations all over the world.
** "Speech At The General Debate Of The 137th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union" (15 October 2017)
* As one of the five countries most vulnerable to climate change, Vietnam highly appreciates and supports the international community’s efforts to tackle climate change.
** "Remarks at seminar on climate change urgency" in Vietnam+ (19 August 2020)
* We should promote policies on economic restructuring towards sustainable development, green economic growth and circular economy in order to mitigate the adverse impacts of climate change. Social policies to protect the vulnerable, including women, children and those impacted by climate change are also much needed.
** "Remarks at seminar on climate change urgency" in Vietnam+ (19 August 2020)
# Edvard Kardelj

Edvard Kardelj (27 January 1910 – 10 February 1979), was a Yugoslav politician, economist, and journalist from Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is considered the main creator of the Yugoslav system of workers' self-management. He was one of the leading members of the Communist Party of Slovenia before World War II.

## Quotes about

* Kardelj had had many years of preparation for his postWorld War II role as theoretician of Yugoslav socialism. There was a two-year internship, from late 1934 to early 1937, first as a student, then as a lecturer of MarxismLeninism, in the USSR. There were the prison confinements in Yugoslavia (in Pozarevac from 1930 to 1932 and two detentions in Liubljana in 1938) which allowed time to read and meditate. Such prison stays seem to have been particularly productive spiritually and intellectually for political detainees. During these internments Kardelj reviewed literature on Slovene history and formulated his seminal work, Razvoj slovenskega narodnega vprasanja ("The Development of the Slovene National Question"), which was published in 1939 under the pseudonym of Sperans.
** The Eagle and the Roots: his description of Kardelj, by Louis Adamic (1953)
* What struck Broz most about Kardelj was his steadfastness and his calm, equable temperament. He was also favorably impressed by the quiet efficiency with which he did his work. Efficiency was a quality by which Broz set great store. 'Kardelj was so quiet,' he said many years later, 'that you hardly noticed him at first; but decisions were made, aims were achieved, and then you realized that it was he who had made the proposal, persuaded others to accept it, and put it into effect. No setback dismayed him. He was free of pretense and bluff. He eschewed fractionalism. His mind dwelt on essentials. After my first meeting with him I had no doubt that he was an honest man and a true revolutionary.'
** The Eagle and the Roots: his description of Kardelj, by Louis Adamic (1953)

## External links

* Socialist Self-Management in Yugoslavia
* Authority control: WorldCat search
# Binali Yıldırım

Binali Yıldırım (born 20 December 1955) is a Turkish politician who served as the 27th and last Prime Minister of Turkey from 2016 to 2018 and Speaker of the Grand National Assembly from 2018 to 2019. He was Leader of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) from 2016 to 2017, then becoming parliamentary leader until 2018.

## Quotes

* Turkey's fight against terrorism in the Middle East, in Syria and in Iraq not only secures our own citizen, it also prevents an influx of refugees into the Balkans and in Europe as well as terrorist activities,
** 'EU sanctions won't change Turkey's position in E.Med' (March 29, 2018)
* There is a serious trick and plan against our country. The imperial powers are seeking for a new exploitation,
** 'Strong president, parliament needed to achieve goals' (June 22, 2018)
* Turkey will continue moving forward to new targets [and] new horizons in stability and security with the new governing system.
** Turkish premier casts vote in his hometown Izmir (June 24, 2018)
# Ahmet Davutoğlu

Ahmet Davutoğlu (born 26 February 1959) is a Turkish academic, politician and former diplomat who was the Prime Minister of Turkey and leader of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) from August 2014 to May 2016. He previously served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2009 to 2014 and as chief advisor to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan from 2003 to 2009. He was elected as an AKP Member of Parliament for Konya in the 2011 general election and was re-elected as an MP in both the June and November 2015 general elections. He resigned as Prime Minister on 22 May 2016

## Quotes

* We will always side with the wrongdoers.
** Oct. 13, 2016 Tremblay, Pinar (November 1, 2015). "Forget online dating, now the Turkish government will find you a spouse". Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East.
* There is a 360-degree difference between our understanding of Islam and that of IS.
** Oct. 14, 2016 Tremblay, Pinar (November 1, 2015). "Forget online dating, now the Turkish government will find you a spouse". Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East.

## See also

* Turkish proverbs
* Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
* Atatürk
* Turgut Özal
* İsmail Enver
# Clement Shahbaz Bhatti

Clement Shahbaz Bhatti (9 September 1968 – 2 March 2011) was a Pakistani politician and Federal Minister for Minorities Affairs.

## Quotes

* My new appointment will create some protests and resentment by many Islamic extremists. But my struggle will continue, despite the difficulties and threats that I have received. My only aim is to defend fundamental rights, religious freedom and the life of Christians and other religious minorities. I am prepared for any sacrifice for this mission, which I carry out with the spirit of a servant of God. I thank all those who have prayed for me and supported me. I am receiving many messages of support from Pakistan and around the world.
** Ministry for Religious Minorities confirmed. Bhatti to Fides: “Commitment and faith in Christ” (12 February 2011) Fides News Agency
# Qazi Ataullah Khan

Qazi Ataullah Khan (1895-1952) was a Pashtun lawyer, writer, activist, and politician.

## Quotes

* “All was well till two days before this loot and arson when a young man came from the Punjab and made highly inflammatory speeches. He also held Conferences with the Muslim League leaders. He asked the people that if nothing else, they could at least set fire to houses of Hindus and loot their property. Soon after this speech by this young man from the Punjab young boys, supported by local Muslim League workers, began to set fire to shops.”
** Qazi Ataullah Khan, Revenue Minister of the Frontier Province, quoted from**Talib, S. G. S. (1950). Muslim League Attack on Sikhs and Hindus in the Punjab, 1947. Amritsar: Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee. *118-9
* “The latest reports (19.4.47) describe the situation in Dera Ismail Khan Tehsil as still serious. In Tank town, 1,500 refugees have been removed to Police Stations and other places of safety in the town. “Some houses and shops in Tank are still burning and reports have come in of further trouble from the outlying villages of the district. “Cases of forcible conversion are reported from several villages, including Kalagor, Dhalla, Rodi Khel and Mandra. Twenty-four casualties are reported from these villages and a number of persons have been kidnapped...
** Qazi Ataullah Khan, Revenue Minister of the Frontier Province, quoted from**Talib, S. G. S. (1950). Muslim League Attack on Sikhs and Hindus in the Punjab, 1947. Amritsar: Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee. *118-9