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...What was in Hitler's personal file kept by the Nazi Party's own intelligence agency, the SD? Israel Sarid Roth, only son of two survivors of the Holocaust is about to find out, as a routine assignment in Jerusalem plunges him into the...

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... © 2006-2007 All Rights Reserved Based on hundreds of newly-discovered documents in archives the world over – now … THE HITLER FILE Israel S... ...lf at the deadly center of a nightmare. • What is on the floppy disk he picked up in Jerusalem? • Who is Frankenberg, the investigative journali... ...is Frankenberg, the investigative journalist and how did he track down the fearsome former Chief of the Nazi Gestapo, Heinrich Mueller, long thought ... ...f the SS, release Frankenberg’s father from the death camp Auschwitz? • What was in Hitler’s personal file, kept by the Nazi Party’s own intellige... ...hundreds of new inmates, baffled, terrified, clinging to obsolete vestiges of their former lives. Some of them are ordered to climb on a rotating ch... ...rwaves at the time, people were inclined to suspect even their own parents of being former high-ranking SS officers. An unscrupulous journalist coul... ...as biding his time, waiting for Germany to get mightier and less dependent on other countries. Whatever the reason: regarding Jewish policy, Hitler ... ...n. They provided safe houses, transportation, forged documents, visas from friendly countries, and contact with loved ones back home.” “Some of th... ...ade preparations: the CIA and, later, NATO together with the secret services of the countries of Western Europe. We set up clandestine cohorts of ar...

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...elovska All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija R... ... Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Short Fiction in English and Hebrew http://gorgelink.org/vaknin/ http:... ...Abuse Our Love Alivid Moi Aussi Cutting to Existence A Hundred Children The Old Gods Wander In the Concentration Camp Called Home The Miracle of the ... ...he dead countenance of the introspective. We tiptoed around her and soothingly vilified her former husband to her face. At first, she clung to life... ...e spent most of her time, often napping, in between shifts, in a bed still sweating of its former, now deceased, occupant. Or she would sprawl on a... ...ld me about the order. They study several years, embark on charitable missions in far-flung countries, and then take vows. I reassured him I was cel... ...tained. Consider the authorities. This act is so in breach of my much-cultivated image as European intellectual – that I anticipate being thoroughl... ...be. I did it in elevators and on standpipes, around hedges, and in our pristine rooms – my former wife's and mine. Long ago, I passed urine in an ... ...olitical and political economic issues published in both print and Web periodicals in many countries. Many appearances in the electronic media on s...

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...ective discovers that Stone was murdered, but the reason behind his death is a mystery. Brand uncovers information pointing to Jamieson’s involvement in arming the international space station. As rogue generals from Russia, China and the U.S. try to install a mind-control weapon designed to divide the world into three parts, Brand tries to stop them. Enlisting the help...

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...ights focused on where Jamieson Stone would do his nightly news; the same seat he had sat in for more than twenty years. Jane Simmons, the head ass... ...tiently for Alex Trent to retire. Even though her salary was almost double of anyone else in her position at the other networks, being the head prod... ...hind a bank of video screens. “Have you seen Stone?” The director replied, “Not a sign,” in between punching up several shots of the set, still not... ...ewsman, not only in America, but also in most of the civilized world. A hundred and forty countries tuned in via satellite and Internet – over a bil... ...s and Chinese are preparing for an all out nuclear attack against the United States. Both countries have agreed that it would constitute an acceptabl... ...na’s side. A nuclear war would be more devastating on the United States than on there own countries. We must do something to mitigate this prospect.... ....? There’s an ocean a lot closer.” “I need you to get me to L.A. I want you to meet with former President Nolan. He’s waiting for your call. You ca... ...ked. “No, and I really don’t care, I’ve been up all night doing experiments.” “I’m the former President of the United States, and I need to talk t... ...ferring to Artemis. “You really do live in an cloistered world,” Nolan replied. “This is former Senator Alexander Artemis, head of the Armed Servic...

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...re Delacroix’s background, and her intellectual rebellion against her place in “proper society.” Everyone I have spoken to has his or her own vision ... ... inspiration. I am also grateful to Paddy Doyle Cathcart, who became Pierre in these pages. Jacket design by James Courtney (c) Sharon E. Cathcart, 2... ...re I was an equestrienne trainer and performer. Horses were frequently used in the operas and Josephine was my gentlest mare, a beautiful Dutch Frie... ...its cosmopolitan air. I made friends with young ladies from many different countries and could converse passably in German, Italian and English by t... .... I recognized the leitmotif as the one that Erik had played for me in his former home. The completed opus had a grandeur about it that took my b... ...te my previous reticence, I found myself telling her about traveling around Europe, living in Russia and Persia, and how I had been outcast not only...

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...ine and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search ...

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...0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book7 Our Visit to Indus ... ... - “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia — 1 BOOK 7 OUR VISIT TO INDUS by Le... ...r © 2008 ISBN 978-0-9823076-6-3 Table of Contents Arriving in Indus ..................................................................... ................................................. 20 POLITICS OF THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES .................................................................... ...d--but what a universe of difference. From one of the three most advanced countries on the planet to a Third World nation just trying to get its ove... ...ps forward like it did in China. The gross domestic product in developing countries rose by 30% during those 20 years. But like I said, the inflatio... ...rtainly of Night.‘ Then Kipling used the phrase in writing about another former Indian city, Lahore. . ―But no longer do you see the trucks ... ...f progress and once again make it the ‗basket case‘ of the world, as your former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger once called it. "As Ay... ...s debating a $700 billion bailout bill to save the American economy. Like former President Bill Clinton once said ‗It‘s the economy, stupid!‘ Freedo...

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...0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book 5 Our Visit to Singaling The Pearl of S... ... 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 5 MY VISIT TO SINGALING by Lemuel Gull... ............................................... 68 POLITICS OF OVERPOPULATED COUNTRIES ............................................................... 6... ... THE COUNTRY OF SINGALING From one of the two most advanced countries of the world to the other. Singaling, just off the Malay Peninsu... ...arly Monday morning and were surprised to have the Prime Minister meet us in person. —“Mr. Yuen, good morning. I‟m delighted that you took you... ...untry, had cut births to such a degree that it began importing labor from countries like Bangladesh to do the lowest level work. Major corporations ... ...many high school graduates. It struck me over the years of visiting the former Soviet Union that little old ladies were given jobs sweeping the st... ...sity pays for his office and laboratory, but he is working for 65% of his former pay and doesn‟t share in the pay raises of the other professors. An... ...re trying to overturn the Shariah laws put in place 25 years earlier by a former dictator. Included in these laws was what you just mentioned Con, t...

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... “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book One Touch Down Return to Earth “... ... Return to Earth “. . . And Gulliver Returns” 2 --In Search of Utopia— “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search ... ................................................................... 12 A MORE IN DEPTH LOOK AT THE PROBLEMS .............................................. ... for 25 years. I want to jump into the chaos of civilization and visit some countries that interest me. Some countries have made effective strides in... ...old age benefits. If it isn’t too late, we can follow the lead of those few countries that have licensed parents to have children. It seems that it i... ...acy which have led them away from any utopian goals. I want to examine some countries that seem to be moving towards a utopia and some countries that... ...ots” lived hungry, in filth and squalor. Today, to my amazement, some of the former prosperous nations are poorer while some of the former third worl... ...tion, it still hasn’t taken the comparable toll that the Black Death did in Europe centuries ago. But then we keep getting strains of influenza, like... ... are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.’ As long as our own lives are going well we think 44 there i...

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...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ... ... Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gul... ... ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL ................................................................. ...medical care and more time with a happy family rate high. ―Some countries are beginning to study what people value—what are their beliefs a... ...ot very important. Obviously a utopia should have happy citizens. Several countries now are developing criteria and measurements for societal happin... ...n to our beliefs, we generally reject it. ―We, as individuals or as countries, usually justify our behavior, but that justification may not be... ...in a judging God, but act quite differently in real life. Some have cited former U.S. Congressional; leader Tom DeLay who in 2006 resigned his congr... ...logy of their research, much of the reasoning seems to revolve around the former required atheism of the USSR, which when it ended allowed some of t... ...ort for religions and work done by religions. Its co-presidents include a former fundamentalist minister who became an atheist. ―It makes ...

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... 1 . “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book 3 My Visit to Kino A Modern S... ...odern Sino-Province 2 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 3 MY VISIT TO KINO by Lemuel Gull... ............................................................ 17 MEDICAL COSTS IN THE U.S. ................................................................. ...plating a war to stop the air and water pollution of the United States and Europe which was endangering the people and the economy of Kino and the w... ...d knows they need the money! ―The subsidies are essential to keep poor countries poor. They allow the farmers in the developed countries to unde... ...ey allow the farmers in the developed countries to undersell farmers whose countries can‘t afford to subsidize them. Developing countries argue that... ...s being raised, even though it isn‘t needed. Meanwhile sub- Saharan African countries are losing hundreds of millions of dollars a year in lost cotton... ...he bottom to the top as quickly as has China. It‘s getting it right. And as former party leader Deng Xiaoping said ‗to get right is glorious.‘ 11... ...re and contrast with both China and the West. Let‘s start with health. As a former professor of health education I am certainly interested in this ar...

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... 0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Sea... ...ychological Motivations 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Sea... ...UERING .............................................................................................................................. 45 POWER IN SPO... ...rnments reacting against new ideas. Let‘s look at the case for some vitamins. ―The Danes found that when they sold butter to other countr... ...d of its vitamin A and D containing cream had to have the vitamins A and D added. Those vitamins were in the cream that was removed. But most countr... ...eople got 10 to 15 minutes of sunlight a day they could get all the D they need. This may be easy in the southern U.S. and in the low latitude countr... ... ―But we see power illustrated constantly. It may be in the cruelty of state leaders like Charles Taylor of Liberia or Slobodan Milošević, the former... ... educational and psychological abilities to have ‗power to‘ and eventually to become lovers, in the broadest and most humanitarian sense. As former... ...validate a societal hypothesis! ―At the bottom of the happiness scales we have such countries as Zimbabwe, Congo and Burundi and the former...

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... Book One: Sang Huin "It is probable, then, that if a man should arrive in our city, so clever as to be able to assume any character and imi... ... sacred, admirable, and charming personage, but we shall tell him that in our state there is no one like him, and that our law excludes suc... ... of the virtuous man." Plato (Republic) Chapter One At Toksugum Palace in Chongno of Seoul Sang Huin (known by his friends in the states as Shaw... ...uility of that sleepy town in one of its most tranquil hours. Nothing of the former ever happened and he would always come from the impulse to a feeli... ... paid the bill, and then he was gone. Sang Huin's instinct was to follow his former friend to the ends of the earth on the public bus system and to ha... ... gain a salary commensurate to what he should have received monthly from his former employer. It turned out to be perfectly legal. After all, he was a... ..., it was being equated with dirt the way Americans envisioned most all other countries including those in Western Europe. "Everyone wants to talk to y... ...that this trailer was in an inauspicious location in one of the more violent countries on the planet. To compound matters, she didn't have any friend... ...d plagues. In modern times, those issues occurred in underdeveloped foreign countries among heathen populations. But car accidents, cancer, high mor...

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... Under the following conditions: Attribution — You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way tha... ...n forces. The Odyssey is the greatest love story that has ever been told in the history of world literature. It is based not on love and death (li... ... from Greek into English of the concept of “glorious concordance”, as found in Calzecchi Onesti’s work, which is an essential theme in the Author’s w... ...nsion brings the death of one identity, so that a new one, superior to the former, can emerge. With every death that Ulysses must face so he can ... ... they contain, in a dialectic and creative manner, we cannot do either the former or the latter. This is why his unconscious wisdom encourages him t... ... enrich Life. America was the hope of the nineteen hundreds. And today? Europe has become the hope of the poor from the third world, but what ho... ... drive consists in never leaving the latter, since he was abandoned in the former. This is why he starts coming down the stairs leading to land but ... ...ith all its devastation into the life of individuals and the life of whole countries . What I am describing is history and history cannot be changed... ...ted training seminars for Russian therapists and for those from the Baltic countries in their Institute. I also want to recall the Third Internationa...

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...phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several Sta...

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