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The Religious Dimension

By: Donald Broadribb

... Filozofio (especially chapters 1 and 2), Eldonejo Simpozio, Florianópolis (Brazil), 1985. WHAT IS RELIGION? 13 organized and often a corporate body, ... ...ard the Second Coming and the Last judgment). He might be an ordinary post-colonial Ameri- can citizen excited by the press-fed vision of the American... ...n a triumph for the rights of the land owners. Thomas Jefferson, the great Colonial and early American statesman, had throughout his political career ... ...st or ruinous taxation by a tyrannical monarch. This was for many educated colonial and early American white men the most progressive and exciting of ... ... Evaldo: Mil Jaroj de Kristana Filozofio, Eldonejo Simpozio, Florianópolis (Brazil), 1985. Peterson, Merrill D.: Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation, O...

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Narcissistic and Psychopathic Leaders

By: Sam Vaknin

...elebrities – An Interview Granted to Superinteressante Magazine in Brazil Acquired Situational Narcissism Narcissists and God – The R... ...n) history in the 19th century. Europe's (and the United States') annals of colonialism have prepared it for the range of phenomena associated with... ...s, from slave labour to the forcible annexation of territory. Germany was a colonial power no different to murderous Belgium or Britain or the Unite... ... or Britain or the United States. What set it apart is that it directed its colonial attentions at the heartland of Europe - rather than at Africa o... ... than at Africa or Asia or Latin and Central America. Both World Wars were colonial wars fought on European soil. Moreover, Nazi Germany innovated ... ...y's corporatism and by the existence of a common enemy: global communism. Colonialism always had discernible religious overtones and often collabo... ...istreating Celebrities An Interview Granted to Superinteressante Magazine in Brazil Question: Fame and TV shows about celebrities usually have a huge...

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

...19 Belgium 20 Belize 22 Benin 23 Bermuda 25 Bhutan 26 Bolivia 27 Botswana 28 Brazil 30 British Indian Ocean Territory 31 British Virgin Islands 32 Bru... ...tial military deliveries Major trade partners: US, USSR, Cuba, Portugal, and Brazil Budget: total expenditures $2.7 billion (1986 est.) Monetary conve... ...esertification Special notes: second largest country in South America (after Brazil); strategic location relative to sea lanes between Atlantic and Pa... ... Netherlands, 5% Bra- zil, 5% Italy, 5% Japan, 4% FRG; im- ports 18% US, 16% Brazil, 14% FRG, 9% Bolivia, 7% Japan, 6% France (1985) Budget: (1986) ge... ...rade partners: exports Argentina 44%, US 24%, EC 19%, FRG 6%, UK 4%; imports Brazil 22%, US 16%, EC 16%, Argentina 14%, Japan 13%, FRG 4% (1984) Budge... ...missioner Suffrage: universal adult Elections: every five years Economy GDP: Colonial Francs Pacifique (CFP) 1,100 million (est. 1985) Agriculture: do...

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The Labor Divide

By: Sam Vaknin

...work force - yet, the published rate is 29%. In numerous countries - from Brazil to Sri Lanka - many people are mainly employed in casual work. The... ...rding to the "Global Entrepreneurship Monitor", is behind South Korea and Brazil in entrepreneurial activity prevalence index. But 7 percent of its ... ... "real" (read: agricultural) goods. There was fear of over- population and colonial immigration coupled with mercantilism was considered to be the so... ...mpathetic politicians. Ask the denizens of Thailand, sub-Saharan Africa, Brazil, or Morocco and they will tell you how they regard this altruistic ...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...rogress and enlightenment wherever they are. This is a pernicious rendition of the colonial White Man's Burden and it is coupled with disdain and c... ...xception). Moreover, to compare the dissemination of knowledge and enlightenment to colonialism is, indeed, a travesty. We, the Jews, are proud of... ...le-faced, dissemblers. Zionism is an extension of this pathological narcissism as a colonial movement Judaism is not missionary. It is elitist. But... ...onism has always regarded itself as both a (19th century) national movement and a (colonial) civilizing force. Nationalist narcissism transformed Z... ... in the Levant and Arabia. It was the betrayal that mattered. Rejected by East (as colonial stooges) and West (as agents of racial contamination) a... ... the Marquesas Islands of Polynesia, and the natives of the captaincy of Sergipe in Brazil. From Congo and Central Africa to Germany and from Mexic... ...land, Austria, Venezuela, Estonia, Argentina, Norway, Denmark, Sweden (until 1976), Brazil, Italy, Greece, and Spain. They talk about free contrace... ...y. Mistreating Celebrities - An Interview Granted to Superinteressante Magazine in Brazil Q. Fame and TV shows about celebrities usually have a hu... ...often been claimed that IMF bailouts, in the wake of financial crises - in Mexico, Brazil, Asia, and Turkey, to mention but a few - created moral h...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...rogress and enlightenment wherever they are. This is a pernicious rendition of the colonial White Man's Burden and it is coupled with disdain and c... ...xception). Moreover, to compare the dissemination of knowledge and enlightenment to colonialism is, indeed, a travesty. We, the Jews, are proud of... ...le-faced, dissemblers. Zionism is an extension of this pathological narcissism as a colonial movement Judaism is not missionary. It is elitist. But... ...onism has always regarded itself as both a (19th century) national movement and a (colonial) civilizing force. Nationalist narcissism transformed Z... ... in the Levant and Arabia. It was the betrayal that mattered. Rejected by East (as colonial stooges) and West (as agents of racial contamination) a... ... the Marquesas Islands of Polynesia, and the natives of the captaincy of Sergipe in Brazil. From Congo and Central Africa to Germany and from Mexic... ...land, Austria, Venezuela, Estonia, Argentina, Norway, Denmark, Sweden (until 1976), Brazil, Italy, Greece, and Spain. They talk about free contrace... ...y. Mistreating Celebrities - An Interview Granted to Superinteressante Magazine in Brazil Q. Fame and TV shows about celebrities usually have a hu... ...often been claimed that IMF bailouts, in the wake of financial crises - in Mexico, Brazil, Asia, and Turkey, to mention but a few - created moral h...

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Contributing to Efforts for Greater Financial Markets Stability in Apec Economies

By: Apec Finance Minister Process

...cana de Valores, S.A.B. de C.V . It is Latin America's second largest exchange, after Brazil's. Still, the Bolsa remains relatively small compared t... ... by RBA which had targeted Australia’s inflation to fall between 2-3 percent in 2010 (Colonial First State Global Asset Management 2010). Following ... ...al Regulation Authority, Accessed April 2010, (www.apra.gov.au/speeches/00_05.cf). Colonial First State Global Asset Management 2010, Australian I... ...e Global Asset Management 2010, Australian Inflation Eases Marginally, Economic Note, Colonial First States Global Asset Management, Accessed March 2...

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Cousin Betty

By: Honoré de Balzac

...m a widow! 97 Balzac “I have had one passion, once have been happy—a rich Brazilian—who went away a year ago—my only lapse!—He went away to sell his ... ... could the world have to say? It knew nothing of the former episode of the Brazilian, Monsieur Montes de Montejanos—it could say nothing. Besides, the... ...but she hurried to the door, ex- claiming: “My cousin!” and as she met the Brazilian, she whispered: “You are my relation—or all is at an end between ... ...effe, offering his hand to the stranger, whose get-up was indeed that of a Brazilian and a millionaire. Monsieur le Baron Henri Montes de Montejanos, ... ..., spotless patent evening boots, and gloves of a fashionable hue, the only Brazilian touch in the Baron’s costume was a large diamond, worth about a h... ...al calm. But with a Brazilian who has pos- sibly smuggled in some doubtful colonial produce—” “Woman is an inexplicable creature!” said Hulot. “I can ...

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Captain Brassbound's Conversion

By: George Bernard Shaw

...eastwaws, naow she worn’t: she were a Bra- zilian, aw think; an Pakeetow’s Brazilian for a bloomin little perrit—awskin yr pawdn for the word. (Sentim... ... blue breed. (Reflectively) T ech o brahn from the mather, preps, she bein Brazilian. RANKIN. Now on your faith as a Christian, Felix Drinkwotter, is ... ...rd. But I was a close friend of your brother Miles: and when he sailed for Brazil I was one of the little party that saw him off. You were one of the ... ... the Attorney and Solicitor General, who appreci- ated my influence at the Colonial Office. And so I got the estate back. “The mills of the gods grind... ...co may send Sidi’s head with a hundred thousand dollars blood-money to the Colonial Office; but it will not be enough to save his kingdom—any more tha... ... know better. There is some excuse for his mother. She was an un- educated Brazilian, knowing nothing of English society, and driven mad by injustice....

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An Englishman Looks at the World Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks Upon Contemporary Matters

By: H. G. Wells

...ising sons, who play golf and dominate the tailor- ing of the world, while Brazilians, Frenchmen, Americans and Germans fly. That we are hopelessly be... ...e to judge the most modern sections of the army extant are organised for a colonial war in (say) 1899 or 1900. There is, of course, a considerable amo... ...merican community is not an expanded 202 An Englishman Looks at the World colonial society that has become autonomous. It is a great and deepening po... ...y fecund, and then comes a rapid fall in the birth-rate. The proportion of colonial and early republican blood in the population is, therefore, probab... ...in this great admixture and stirring up of peoples. This ingredient is the Colonial British, whose seventeenth century Puritanism and eighteenth centu... ...t) a bank in New Zealand, a railway in Cuba, another in Canada, several in Brazil, an electric power plant in the City of Westminster, and so on, and ...

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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

... a century back (about which period our tale opens) devoted to the sale of Colonial produce. A rudely carved image of a negro, with a fantastic plume ... ...ale, and Montpensier (married to the Princesses Januaria and Februaria, of Brazil, and the Princess of the United States of America, erected into a mo...

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