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7 Scorpions : Rebellion

By: Mike Saxton

...ON Mike Saxton Copyright © 2010 All rights reserved – Mike Saxton No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means,... ... the permission, in writing, from the publisher. Eloquent Books An imprint of Strategic Book Group P.O. Box 333 Durham CT 06422 www.StrategicBookGroup... ...trategicBookGroup.com ISBN: 978-1-60911-286-8 Printed in the United States of America Book Design: Rolando F. Santos This book is dedicated to my wif... ...ess catle that you have become? Slaves to your technology. Slaves to your governments or your warlords. Slaves to your limited knowledge of the worl... ...inutes, the entire world was thrown into chaos. Capital cities were gone. Governments were virtually wiped out. In the days that followed, amongst t... ... the Lord and Master of the North American continent. The remnants of the government and military had fallen. There were no more world communication... ... idiot,” Josh moaned. “Shut up you skinny litle computer nerd. I served in Iraq and Afghanistan. I know how to assess a military situation. Am I the ...

...In a world torn apart by a ruthless dictator, humanity is enslaved and on the verge of extinction. The governments have fallen. The cities lie in ruin. The only hope is a man who has been in exile for over a year....

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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...samvak.tripod.com/ ISBN: 9989-929-40-8 Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ...XI. The Author XXII. About "After the Rain" A Abdication Crisis The love affair of Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) and Wallis Simpson in 1... ... as "Her Royal Highness". Additionally, the King was not allowed by the British government to address the British people and the Empire through ... ...h government to address the British people and the Empire through the BBC. The government's constitutional experts wrote: "If the King disregar... ...rst appears in the Bible in Genesis 11:27. He may have been born in Ur, in today's Iraq, near Nasiryah, around 4000 years ago. His brother, Nahor, ... ... return, triumphant, after the establishment of modern Turkey in 1923. The Turkish government today denies that an organized, premeditated genocide... ...ry.html http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/history/ivh/chap3.htm F Federations Iraq and Jordan were once one country under a united Hashemite t... ...r a united Hashemite throne. The two monarchs - Hussein of Jordan and Faisal II of Iraq - created a federation in 1958. It lasted a few months - un...

Anthology of fascinating historical and scientific facts and links to relevant Web sources.

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The Silver Lining: Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema

By: Sam Vaknin, Ph. D.

...d http://www.narcissistic-abuse.com Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. The Talented Mr. Ripley I... ...x IV. Shattered V. Titanic VI. Being John Malkovich VII. Dreamcatcher – The Myth of Destructibility VIII. I, Robot – The Fourth Law of Robotics ... ...Fourth Law of Robotics IX. Surrogates: The Interrupted Self X. Avatar: The Ecology of Environmentalism XI. The Invention of Lying: Fact and Truth ... ...wledge differentials are at the heart of educational institutions, professionalism, government and so on. Osmotic and diffusive forces in human soci... ...o-terrorism. The environmental movement - whether in academe, in the media, in non-governmental organizations, or in legislature - is now comprise... ...of the 19th century, books and pamphlets were written about "peak coal". People and governments panicked: what would satisfy the swelling demand for... ...ices - frequently busy raping (Japan, the Philippines), murdering (Vietnam, Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan), and pillaging (Iraq) - be exempted from inte... ...lism Add Me to the List, Mr. Blair Narcissism, Group Behavior, and Terrorism The Iraqi and the Madman Islam and Liberalism Return Inception an...

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Corpus of a Siam Mosquito

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...e put strength in his shoulders and knees, and set in his heart the daring of a mosquito, which, though constantly brushed away from a man's skin, sti... ...ushed away from a man's skin, still insists on biting him for the pleasure of human blood." --The Iliad Homer Book I: P... ...ey, with their driver, went down Ramkhamhaeng Road singularly in the scope of their thoughts but conditioned into repudiating their aloneness. It was ... ...treets, sold their trinkets from their sheets, worked in office jobs, were government officers, part of an educated middle class, and a million other ... ...the fair held in March was coming to a close this year. This fair, run by government ministries to raise funds for the Red Cross, was near the Parlia... ...sonal life: the upcoming elections for prime minister, the question of the government's role for the flood victims in Hattayai, and if the senator wou... ...erican soldiers in the holy land of Saudi Arabia to protect that area from Iraq's aggression and-" He swallowed hard. He knew that his brothers would... ... understanding to impress the senator. "America imposes sanctions against Iraq out of fear of its military buildup but these sanctions cause thousand... ... thousands of people to die from malnutrition. America financially backed Iraq against Iran in that war and the Taliban against the Soviet Union and ...

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Kabbalah Revealed

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...uentin Rd, 2nd floor, Brooklyn, New York, 11223, USA Printed in Canada No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written ... ...this book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied i... ...e case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Laitman, Michael. Kabbalah... ... “debut” about 5,000 years ago in Mes- opotamia, an ancient country in today’s Iraq. Mesopota- mia was not only the birthplace of Kabbalah, but of all... ... You know that Kabbalah started about 5,000 years ago in Mesopotamia (today’s Iraq). It was discovered when people were searching for the purpose of... ...are several reasons why many of us are still un- aware that there is a crisis. Governments and international corporations should have been the first ... ...ced the whole body, or an overwhelming majority of the cells, or the body’s “government,” that it was better to go left. So even though we can’t con... ...iety, we constantly change our envi- ronment: we advertise new products, elect governments, attend schools of all kinds, and spend time with friends....

...Kabbalah Revealed: The Ordinary Person’s Guide to a More Peaceful Life is a clearly-written, user-friendly guide to making sense of the surrounding world while achieving inner peace. Each of the six chapters in this book focuses on a different aspect of the ancient wisdom of Kabbalah, shedding new light on a teaching that has too often been shrouded in...

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The Mystery of Jamieson Stone

By: Jonathan Cross

... - J.Cross/Stone 2 THE MYSTERY OF JAMIESON STONE A Novel by Jonathan Cross ... ...ross/Stone 3 CHAPTER 1 WASHINGTON, D.C. The studios of WNN (Worldwide News Network) were as hectic as usual. Pr... ...ic as usual. Producers, assistant producers, directors, assistant directors and a beehive of workers were all scurrying around pawning off papers an... ... Panama Invasion, the Island war of Grenada, and from the explosive cities and deserts of Iraq, Kuwait and Lebanon, not to mention that he had almos... ...ad to say would rock the nation. Stone possessed a unique quality; even when the bombs in Iraq were exploding all around him, he felt a calmness tha... ...r things. General Radcliff introduced you to the most powerful people in the seats of our government. I need your help.” “And you shall have it. Wh... ...“I can only tell you that the Russians and the Chinese are part of it.” “What part of our government have they partnered with?” “Not sure. My guess ... ...slurring his words. “So, I’ll make this brief…Freedom comes from the individual, not from governments or military power; and those individuals have ... ...e said one of his undercover - J.Cross/Stone 274 informants told him that a suspected Iraqi terrorist group was meeting somewhere in Central Par...

...ities cover up their misdeeds and embarrassing situations, now finds himself trying to unravel the mystery that could change the world and the future of the international space station. ...

...Weaving international intrigue with a high-level murder case, The Mystery of Jamieson Stone will leave you on the edge of your seat. When the world’s most famous television news anchor, Jamieson Stone, apparently commits suicide on live international television, Stone’s widow hires detective Mi...

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Kabbalah for Beginners

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...in Rd, 2nd floor, Brooklyn, New York, 11223, USA Printed in Canada No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written perm... ... book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in cr... ...se of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Laitman, Michael. Kabbalah for... ...Writings of the Last Generation, in which he analyzed different types of government, and outlined a detailed plan for building the corrected societ... ...w that Kabbalah started about 5,000 years ago in Mesopo- - tamia (today’s Iraq), when people were searching for the purpose of their lives. Those pe... ...e of the crisis Today, more than 130 countries participate in the Inter- - governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and its reports clearly indic... ...r 6: A New Method for a New Desire 129 fields of science and society, many governments and in- - ternational corporations still play down the gravity ...

...The Kabbalist Rabbi Laitman, who was the student and personal assistant to Rabbi Baruch Ashlag from 1979-1991, follows in the footsteps of his rabbi in passing on the wisdom of Kabbalah to the world. This book is based on sources that were passed down by Rabbi Baruch's father, Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, the author of the commentaries on The Book of Zohar, who conti...

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Wright Flyer Paper : Fighting the War above Iraq; Employing Space Forces, Vol. 24

By: Major James A. Oldenburg, USAF

... This paper shows that in Operation Iraqi Freedom, and other counterinsurgency operations, space forces will not be “war winners” but can provide crucial support. Specifically, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities can help isolate the battlespace. These...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...com http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. The Author II. About "After... ...e Author II. About "After the Rain" Containing the United States I. The Roots of Anti-Americanism II. Containing the United States III. Islam... ...Afghan Myths II. Pakistan’s Nice Little War III. The Afghan Trip On the Road to Iraq – Central and East Europe I. EU and NATO – The Competing ... ...ide III. Russia Straddles the Divide IV. Russia’s Stealth Diplomacy V. Losing the Iraq War VI. Germany’s Rebellious Colonies VII. The Disunited N... ...Iraq War VI. Germany’s Rebellious Colonies VII. The Disunited Nations The War in Iraq – Coalition Building I. The Economies of the Middle East ... ... a travesty thereof - back home. Americans - officials, scholars, peacemakers, non- government organizations - maintain a colonial state of mind. Ba... ...Can't Go It Alone" written by Joseph Nye, the Dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and a former Assistant Secretary of Defens... ...oo, want to kill, torture, and incarcerate. They seek to break the death cartel of governments by joining its ranks. Thus, when a soldier kills te...

The antecedents and aftermath of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the role of the United States in international affairs.

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

... Central Intelligence Agency The World Factbook 1987 CP/1S WF 87-001 US Government officials should obtain copies of The World Factbook directly ... ... Factbook 1987 CP/1S WF 87-001 US Government officials should obtain copies of The World Factbook directly from their own organization or through lia... ... channels from the Central Intelligence Agency. Requesters in the Department of Defense may obtain copies from: Defense Intelligence Agency RTS-2C Was... ...40-3344 Tel: (202) 373-3869 or Autovon 243-3869 Requesters in the Department of State may obtain copies from: Department of State INR/IC/CD Room 8646 ... ... State Washington, D.C. 20520 Tel: (202) 647-9673. Requesters outside the US Government may purchase copies from: Superintendent of Documents US Gover... ... Office Washington, D.C. 20402 Tel: (202) 783-3238 Requesters outside the US Government may obtain a subscription from: National Technical Information... ...g Kong 108 Hungary 110 iv Page Iceland 111 India 112 Indonesia 114 Iran 116 Iraq 117 Ireland 119 Israel (West Bank and Gaza Strip entry on page 276) ... ...de partners: imports (1984) 12.1% UK, 12% Japan, 10.5% Italy, 8.3% FRG, 5.2% Iraq; exports (1984) 17% UK, 14.1% Lebanon, 11.4% Libya, 7.5% Saudi Arabi... ...official estimate); esti- mated 2.0 million Egyptians work abroad, mostly in Iraq and the Gulf Arab states (1986) Organized labor: about 2.5 million G...

...comparative area, land boundaries, coastline, maritime claims, boundary disputes, climate, terrain, land use, environment, and special notes. In the Government section, a new entry on dependent areas has also been added....

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When Power and Piety Collide : A Critical Analysis of Early Caliphate in Islam

By: Sayed Moustafa al-Qazwini

...s most disturbing for many Muslims and non- Muslims alike to witness the escalating rise in sectarian violence between the Shia and Sunni followers of Islam, particularly in places such as Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Some people, including Muslims, ask why the Shia and Sunni are violently murdering each other; is there something in the history of the Muslims that...

...ss, never is it meant to be as a means to jostle sectarian division - this is far from my intention. I have maintained judicious care in the manner of presenting this work, but it is my belief that in order for Islam and Muslims to go forward in harmony and solidarity, we have to have the courage to recognize the truth of our past and rationally discuss the matter in ...

....................................................................................................................... XI CHAPTER 1 SMASHING THE IDOLS OF TRIBALISM ............................................ 1 CHAPTER 2 QURAYSH GROUP ................................................................................... 5 Development of the Quraysh Group........................

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Facts and Fictions in the Securities Industry

By: Sam Vaknin

...om: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ... http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Introduction II. The Value ... ...T E N T S I. Introduction II. The Value of Stocks of a Company III. The Process of Due Diligence IV. Financial Investor, Strategic Investor V. ... ...ised of two elements: one is the risk-free rate (normally, the interest payable on government bonds), the other being the risk-related rate (the ra... ...t of free markets seems to have gone bankrupt. This was implicitly acknowledged by governments as they rushed to nationalize banks and entire finan... ...fferings and won the implicit acquiescence and collaboration of successive Israeli governments. The banks used deposits, their capital, retained ea... ...g economies sovereign debt market. Even obligations of countries such as Serbia and Iraq are traded, though sporadically. Recently, according to Dow... ...tal Finance created a special fund to provide interested investors with exposure to Iraqi paper. Nor is the enthusiasm confined to this former memb... ...ses, 44 percent owned by Credit Lyonnais and the rest by Arab banks, including the Iraqi Rafidain, is an aggressive buyer of Iraqi and other Middle...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

... write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...et http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Economics - Psychology's Neg... ...O N T E N T S I. Economics - Psychology's Neglected Branch II. The Misconception of Scarcity III. The Roller Coaster Market – On Volatility IV.... ...f Risk IX. Global Differential Pricing X. The Disruptive Engine - Innovation XI. Governments and Growth XII. The Distributive Justice of the Mar... ...onsider this sample of outstanding issues: Unlike other economic actors and agents, governments are accorded a special status and receive special tr... ...ts are accorded a special status and receive special treatment in economic theory. Government is alternately cast as a saint, seeking to selflessly... ... to the present), Cyprus aided and abetted Russia (1987 to the present), Jordan for Iraq (1991 to the present), and now, Montenegro acts the part fo... ... cry in Europe implying that the United States is provoking yet another conflict in Iraq to restart its stalled economy and take the collective mind... ... Vietnam and immediately following Operation Desert Storm, the previous skirmish in Iraq. In the wake of September 11, US military spending is alr...

Critical analysis of the foundations and tenets of capitalism and of the dismal science - economics.

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And Gulliver Returns Book V : My Visit to Singaling

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book 5 Our Visit to Singaling The Pearl of Southeast A... ... 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 5 MY VISIT TO SINGALING by Lemuel Gulliver XVI a... ...9 2 Table of Contents THE COUNTRY OF SINGALING ........................................ ...aid Singaporeans took the same wage drop as immigrants. This prompted the government to think about reducing the rich-poor gap. But such communistic... ...n on the old English trains. And how many years was it before the British government was able to get rid of those firemen who were being paid but ha... ...h as Kino and Singaling. 6 To reduce the lower level intellects, the government of Singaling offered heavy financial rewards for sterilization.... ...e has been our major customer. Both air surveillance and ground work. The Iraq War ruined the American public‟s tolerance for real soldiers driving m... ... President Musharraf then changed that to make such punishment illegal. In Iraq a woman had her hair cut off and acid thrown on her face and legs for...

...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . ... ...uman Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gulliver XVI ... ...r © 2008 ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL .................................................... ................................................................ 117 TYPE OF GOVERNMENT ................................................................... ...iffer somewhat, for example from Catholics to Jews or from businessmen to government workers. Values are concepts that we hold in high esteem. For ex... ...e world‘s population. Many would see that as a noble intention. What if a governmental ruler sets off nuclear bombs or sprayed the world with toxic ... ...oth.‘ ―Whether George Bush‘s real reasons for attacking Iraq were for its oil or to establish an American-like republic in the cou... ...nt, suicide bombing, controlling the Hamas, eliminating Israel, attacking Iraq, and just about every other problem and whim of humanity. ―The... ...ll in Turkey, predominantly Sunni Kurds kill predominantly Sunni Turks. In Iraq Sunnis and 59 Shi‘ites kill each other and themselves. Every beli...

...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

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Terrorists and Freedom Fighters

By: Sam Vaknin

... write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...tml http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Terrorists and Freed... ...donians III. The Black Hand IV. The Insurgents and the Swastika V. KLA – The Army of Liberation VI. Appendix: Pathological Narcissism, Group Behav... ...fied robbery of their own.' Self-defense by Orthodox peasants was dangerous: 'The Government makes its presence felt ... when a 'flying column' sa... ...ks!' These are the human wreckage of the hurricane which usurps the functions of a Government.' Four things are worth noting in Brailsford's acco... ...reek, Romanian, or Bulgarian nationalism. Third, villagers did not cry out for new government departments or services, but only for relief from co... ...n the 1930s and 1940s. Variants of fascist ideology sprang all over the world, from Iraq and Egypt to Norway and Britain. Even the Jews in Palestine... ... Fascism - were world ideologies, adopted enthusiastically in places as diverse as Iraq, Egypt, Norway, Latin America, and Britain. At the end of t... ...nst-they" mentality, and tries to export its ideology worldwide. What is the war in Iraq? What was the war in Kosovo? "Humanitarian" intervention is...

...The history of four terrorist organizations in the Balkans and a general introduction to terrorism and freedom fighting. Also includes essays about religious co-existence in the Balkans and about pathological narcissism as a precursor to...

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And Gulliver Returns Book III : A Visit to Kino

By: Bob Oconnor

... 1 . “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book 3 My Visit to Kino A Modern Sino-Provin... ...-Province 2 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 3 MY VISIT TO KINO by Lemuel Gulliver XVI a... ... ISBN 978-0-9823076-2-5 3 able of Contents GLOBAL POLICIES ................................................ ... They have also eliminated religion as a political force. A strong central government is in place. It requires the education of the citizens as to w... ...nesses--just as in my country. Much of the farming was hydroponic. Kino‟s government did not give farm subsidies as they have in the continental Eu... ... countries can‘t afford to subsidize them. Developing countries argue that government support for US and EU farmers enables them to offload produce a... ... ―When President Bush asked for $120 billion to continue the war in Iraq, Democrats added $3.7 billion to the bill for their pork barrel inte... ... a better life by the Chinese or the realities of the ill-conceived war in Iraq for the Americans and British—it doesn‟t take long for the truth to ...

...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VII : Book 7 Visit to Indus

By: Bob Oconnor

...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 Lemuel Gulli... ...t work by Susie Kleiner © 2008 ISBN 978-0-9823076-6-3 Table of Contents Arriving in Indus ............................................... ...production of cereals in India more than doubled. But since the 1980s the government has not helped to improve the irrigation possibilities. ... ...water table over the last three decades. The poor water management by the government has resulted in 40% of India‘s farms having no irrigation facil... ... and poor would therefore increase. ―It is clear to those of us in government that excess population is the anchor to any economy that wants ... ... ―I remember being in your country for a period during your war in Iraq. There was a small sect that gained publicity well beyond the value o... ...violence in Palestine for a century, the Muslim versus Muslim violence in Iraq and Afghanistan, then look at the civil strife in France with so many...

...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

... 0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Uto... ...l Motivations 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Uto... ................................................................................................................................. 17 Combinations of Nee... ...or Hitler, when young Chinese and Cambodians killed for Mao or Pol Pot, or even young Americans acting as they did in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. ... ...ed child, but it is a goal. We give every assistance possible for this to happen—and it happens more than you might imagine. ―Our govern... ... they are really compatible and have a chance at a real relationship? ―There are so many illustrations of individuals, religions and govern... ...ar Santa Claus had better get more vitamin D, especially in the wintertime. ―So with the available evidence on vitamins, people and govern... ...f the power drive is using violence to achieve our ends. Either it is the Crips fighting the Bloods, Cain killing Abel, the Americans invading Iraq, ... ...pitating men, women and children. Even the government troops, out of frustration, often attacked the people they were supposed to protect. In Iraq i...

...Table of Contents IN THE HOTEL 8 LOOKING FOR HAPPINESS 10 WE MUST THINK MORE DEEPLY—AND UNDERSTAND OUR THINKING 20 OUR BASIC ASSUMPTIONS 24 -- THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR VALUES -- 24 SELF-CENTEREDASSUMPTIONS 32 GODBASEDASSUMPTIONS 41 C...

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The Vatican Conspiracy

By: Jonathan Cross

...l chapel next to his private quarters. The dark chapel was dimly lit by a row of flickering votive candles that cast a soothing splay of shadows acr... ...fix as he closed his eyes and began to recite out-loud the Five Holy Mysteries of the Rosary. His nightly reverie, before bed, calmed him and conne... ...verie, before bed, calmed him and connected his soul to the sublime obedience of God. During these moments of prayer, he put the chaos of his Office ... ...side, mainly because they were bought off by the ruling Junta to work for the government, or just plain scared off. There were no real hospitals, onl... ...ple in power distrusted him. In spite of the great pressure put on him by the government, and his own family, his father continued to work in the fi... ...e that parents all over America, and indeed the world, are angry at the their Government's inability to stop the drug trade that is killing our child... ...lly in their own mosques, synagogues, and churches for centuries . When the Iraqi and Iranian war broke out, he had been in France on business. He ... ...fortune, which he shared with his family. He had not taken sides during the Iraqi and Iranian war for two simple reasons: he was a Muslim, and his... ...ian war for two simple reasons: he was a Muslim, and his family was living in Iraq. And there was nothing more important to Ben Ahmed Soule' than hi...

...The Pope receives a vision that includes the names of four men: a U.S. Senator, a covert military intelligence agent, a priest from a small parish, and the head of the Italian mafia. These men form an alliance to eliminate the drug cartels of the world to save the children of...

...Pope Francis lithely entered into the small chapel next to his private quarters. The dark chapel was dimly lit by a row of flickering votive candles that cast a soothing splay of shadows across the ancient altar. The Pope knelt his thin, angular body before it; his white cassock cascaded across the red, soft cushion. He gently entwined the eb...

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Hawaii Business Magazine-Special Apec Edition

By: Apec Hawaii Host Committee

...URE UNIQUE CROPS WIND POWER WELCOME APEC DELEGATES DISCOVER ANOTHER SIDE OF HAWAI‘I OFFICIAL PUBLICATION of the APEC 2011 Hawai‘i Host Committee 3 ... ...itton Prada Salvatore Ferragamo Tiffany & Co. Hawaii’s largest collection of luxury retailers amidst 290 STORES AND RESTAURANTS. Walking distance fr... ...mber Production Manufacturing Jobs Electronic Tree Tracking/ Secured Chain of Custody Research & Development Eco-Tourism Funding Sources for Non-Pro... ...can Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), Hawaii Government Employees Association (HGEA) and United Public Workers (UPW)... ...OVERNOR NEIL ABERCROMBIE Hoku Solar works with high-profle companies and government agencies on major photovoltaic projects. PHOTO: MICHAEL TORRES ... ...e Big Island, Hoku secured fnancing, took advantage of federal and state government tax credits to build and operate the solar panels, and now sel... ... • Germany • Greece • Guatemala Hong Kong • Hungary • India • Indonesia • Iraq • Ireland • Israel • Italy • Jamaica • Japan Jordan • Kazakhstan • K...

Hawaii Business Magazine in tribute to the APEC meeting of 2011.

...- 32 Air Conditioning from Seawater -- 36 America’s Most Diverse State -- 38 Local Economy -- 40 Hawai‘i’s Ties to the APEC Economies -- 42 A History of Innovation -- 44 Astronomy, and Ocean and Earth sciences -- 48 Turning Science Into Practical Inventions -- 56 Winners of the Hawai‘i Business Innovation Showcase -- 60 Breakthroughs in Health and Medicine -- 68 Hawai‘I Di...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

... http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ... XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to lif... ...le of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to life. The existence of a right implies obligations or duties of third parties toward... ...cial interactions and is equally misunderstood there. Consider taxpayers and their government. Contrary to conservative lore, the former want the g... ...on in high places, cronyism, nepotism, inaptitude and worse - on condition that the government and the legislature redistribute the wealth they conf... ...rrel projects and benefits to the middle-class. This is why the tax burden and the government's share of GDP have been soaring inexorably with the ... ...dinand Marcos who absconded with billions of US dollars from the coffers of Zaire, Iraq, and the Philippines, respectively. These inconceivable d... ...(Central Asia and the Caucasus), or Vichy-like heterarchies (Macedonia, Bosnia, and Iraq, to mention three recent examples). The new "democracies"... ... this charade. II. Democracy and Empire As the United states is re-discovering in Iraq and Israel in Palestine, maintaining democratic institution...

Cyclopedia of issues in economics analyzed through the prism of the economies of countries in transition, emerging markets, and developing countries.

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

... http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ... XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to lif... ...le of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to life. The existence of a right implies obligations or duties of third parties toward... ...cial interactions and is equally misunderstood there. Consider taxpayers and their government. Contrary to conservative lore, the former want the g... ...on in high places, cronyism, nepotism, inaptitude and worse - on condition that the government and the legislature redistribute the wealth they conf... ...rrel projects and benefits to the middle-class. This is why the tax burden and the government's share of GDP have been soaring inexorably with the ... ...dinand Marcos who absconded with billions of US dollars from the coffers of Zaire, Iraq, and the Philippines, respectively. These inconceivable d... ...(Central Asia and the Caucasus), or Vichy-like heterarchies (Macedonia, Bosnia, and Iraq, to mention three recent examples). The new "democracies"... ... this charade. II. Democracy and Empire As the United states is re-discovering in Iraq and Israel in Palestine, maintaining democratic institution...

...Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....

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Apec's Ease of Doing Business-Interim Assessment

By: Carlos Kuriyama and Azul Ogazón

...ommons Attribution-NonCommercial- ShareAlike 3.0 Singapore License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-s... ....org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/sg/. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of APEC Memb... ...ance in preparing this report and the Economic Committee, particularly its Friends of the Chair on Ease of Doing Business, for valuable comments and ... ...ess start-ups in Brunei Darussalam; Chile; Indonesia; Mexico and Viet Nam The Government of Brunei Darussalam introduced e-Registry, a system tha... ... purview of the Registrar of Companies (ROC), Brunei Darussalam. In addition, the government established a committee to facilitate coordination amon... ...ether 13 licensing processes into a single online window. This system will ensure government agencies process business applications concurrently, th... ...dle East & North Africa (18 economies) Algeria; Bahrain; Djibouti; Egypt; Iran; Iraq; Jordan; Kuwait; Lebanon; Morocco; Oman; Qatar; Saudi Arabia;...

...APEC Leaders in 2009 endorsed an APEC-wide improvement of 25 percent by 2015 in five key areas of doing business: 1) Starting a Business; 2) Getting Credit; 3) Enforcing Contracts; 4) Trading Across Borders; and 5) Dealing with Permits, with an interim 5 percent improvement by 20...

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And Gulliver Returns Book I : Touchdown

By: Bob Oconnor

... “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book One Touch Down Return to Earth “. . . And ... ...o Earth “. . . And Gulliver Returns” 2 --In Search of Utopia— “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-... ...ie Kleiner © 2008 ISBN 978-0-9823076-0-1 3 Table of Contents THE RETURN FROM SPACE ......................................... ...h occurs because of births in the cities, not because of migration. And few governments can provide clean water, sanitation and adequate housing, let... ...90%. Another factor is that if the money were taken out of the hands of the governments and industries there would be no money for development, unle... ...nless the recipients of the $3,500 either decided to give some money to the government for development or decided to invest in the stock market. And ... ...rica has one crisis after another. Then we have the Philippines, Palestine, Iraq—country after country engaged in generally meaningless attempts to k...

...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

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The Religious Dimension

By: Donald Broadribb

...on Published by the Author York, Western Australia 2006 The first edition of this book was published under the title The Mystical Chorus by Millenniu... ...lished under the title The Mystical Chorus by Millennium Books [an imprint of E.J. Dwyer (Australia) Pty. Ltd.] in 1995. This second edition, with tex... ...ations, and new index, is published by the Author, Donald Broadribb, owner of the publication rights. Copyright © 1995 and 2006 by Donald Broadribb. T... ...en Scientologists shortly returned as the Church of Scientology. The State government of Western Australia decided that it would determine whether an ... ... In Australia, rather frequently, anthropologists consulted by the Federal government give a much wider meaning to the word “sacred” than those consul... ... much wider meaning to the word “sacred” than those consulted by the State governments. Similar problems arise with American Indian tribes. To a large... ...his chapter was first formulated, nine years of war had just ended between Iraq and Iran which, among other causes, found a basis in conflicting views... ...re Chris- tianity came along, the Sumerian-Babylonian religious beliefs in Iraq included patron gods to represent the interests of individual persons ... ..., nor of China, nor of Bulgaria, nor of Saqsin; I am not of the Kingdom of Iraquain, nor of the country of Khora-san. I am not of this world, nor of t...

...Most readers of this book will have had some type of religious instruction. Whether as children we were taught at a church Sunday school or some other religious institution, or weabsorbed simple social assumptions from the culture we live...

...What Is Religion? 1Buddhism 16Christianity 59Mysticism 118A Chorus Of Powers: American Indian Belief 176The Sacred Land: Australian Aboriginal Religion 238Conclusion 277References 293The Collected Works Of Carl Jung 299...

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Narcissistic and Psychopathic Leaders

By: Sam Vaknin

...arcissistic ( ) Personality Disorder NPD The Narcissist's Entitlement of Routine – Pathological Narcissism A Dysfunction or a Blessing? ... ...sfunction or a Blessing? The Narcissist's Confabulated Life The Cult of the Narcissist Bibliography The Narcissist in the Workplace Th... ...rcissist in the Workplace Narcissism in the Boardroom The Professions of the Narcissist Narcissists in Positions of Authority Narcissistic... ...sia and the Caucasus), or puppeteered heterarchies (Macedonia, Bosnia, and Iraq, to mention three recent examples). The new "democracies" suffer fr... ...m - were world ideologies, adopted enthusiastically in places as diverse as Iraq, Egypt, Norway, Latin America, and Britain. At the end of the 1930... ...m parliamentary and presidential elections based on a neo-liberal model of government. It is socially conservative but seeks to modernize Russia's ... ...s Macedonia, Greece, and Alexander the Great History's Forgotten Madman The government of Macedonia has recently changed the name of its puny airpor... ...erly-cautious, consensual, and compromise-seeking. It seems that their own government finds these laudable qualities equally offensive. It is beyo...

...Narcissistic and psychopathic leaders come in all shapes and degrees of virulence. Learn to recognize them in various settings (the workplace, religion, politics) and to cope with the toxic fallout of their "leadership"....

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

.../08 11:04 AM Page ii James Boyle The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale University Press New Haven & London ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 372... ...8 by James Boyle. All rights reserved. The author has made an online version of this work available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial... ...the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300-13740-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2... ...re dubious about the way pop- ular choice gets formed, you prefer it to some government funding body or coterie of art mavens. At the same time as you... ...s year, or turning the entire path of national innovation policy over to the government, intellectual property decentralizes the choices about what cr... ...he history of patents includes a wealth of attempts to reward friends of the government and restrict or control dangerous technologies. T rade- mark l... ...s that “in 2004 Bush diverted most of the funds for the levees to the war in Iraq.” Scenes reminiscent of a Michael Moore documentary are shown. There... ...iniscent of a Michael Moore documentary are shown. There are pictures of the Iraq war, Halliburton signs, and shots of the president with a member of ... ...ve the architect’s name pop up.” Consider that it now seems normal for a gay Iraqi man in Baghdad to have a blog that offers hundreds of thousands of ...

...e ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent, and trademark laws. In a series of fascinat...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyri... ...ns: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. ... ...not? Preface The Basic Elements of Human Understanding are: ... ...rk of laws-lawyers-police-legislators-Army-Navy-Air force and a whole host of Governmental bodies sworn to protect him or her and enforce his or her ... ...rprets the information it receives. During the U.S, attack on the Taliban Government, Afghan children did not even flinch when bombs or bullets ... ...near form of language: writing, and you get Hammurabi's Code. Law, like all government, is based upon the threat of physical force, violence, and p... ...o spread democracy in the 3rd world? By invading and bombing Afghanistan and Iraq into rubble? By, destroying their infrastructures… reducing the ... ...oorest countries in the world: Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Ethiopia, Nigeria. The Germans tested their own new-fangled wea... ... made sure that Halliburton could make a killing by profiteering both from the Iraq war, and its ensuing endless occupation. Except for one technica...

...The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic aspects a...

...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans Pgs 188-222 B: Summary of Hominid-Human Development Chapter 4: Modern Human Dynamics P...

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Yellow on the Outside, Shame on the inside : Asian Culture Revealed

By: Chi, Anson

... reveals the truths about Asian culture, which will shock you to the marrow of your bones and open a hidden world of long-guarded — secrets. ABOUT ... ... social, political and retired — — engineer. He currently lives in a myriad of places, including Los Angeles and San Diego. Yellow on the Outside, ... ...to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever. Any part of this book may be reproduced, distributed, disseminated or transmitted... ...This novel is not based on the Asian culture of Russia, Tajikistan, or even Iraq which are all countries — in the continent of Asia. I must state th... ... do not seem like a big deal (since they're not exactly big powers like “ ” governmental or corporate power) but trust me when I say that they're eve... ...ns of our current day and — — age, only have purely ceremonial roles and no governmental power. Britain's Prime Minister has more power than the Que... ... there traffic all the freaking time, even at two o'clock in the morning? A government agency needs to be set up to meticulously analyze traffic con... ... Koreatown, or a Japantown. And it's interesting that I've never heard of an Iraqtown or an Australiatown or any other 'town' for that matter. The re... ...ade to withdraw all the soldiers fighting in the neoconservative, undeclared Iraq War? Instead, why don't they hold a parade for all the Americans th...

...ever, it goes much deeper than that—much, much deeper! This didactic novel reveals the truths about Asian culture, which will shock you to the marrow of your bones — and open a hidden world of long-guarded secrets. http://ansonchi.webng.com...

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Interview with the Future

By: Rav Michael Laitman

... Science to Understand Reality 1. A Hidden World 2. Gravity 3. The Power of a Directed desire 4. Proper Development 5. The sin of Creation and the... ...opment 5. The sin of Creation and the Correction A. The Sin B. The Laws of Correction 6. In the End of Days 7. The Spiritual Gene and the Reshimo... .... The Four Elements that Comprise Us 4. The Right Environment 5. The Law of Equivalence of Attributes 6. The power of thought 7. A Chosen People ... ...rgent necessity for the knowledge to reach everyone, individually and by government institutions. The various ministries of the government have to ... ...Israelis and the entire Jewish nation, and it must be lead by the Israeli government. The emphasis must be put on our mission as a chosen people, o... ...ernal, corporeal and spiritual. But this freedom (our own state, our own government and independence) is an illusion. It is given to us precisely s... ...He wrote it in Aramaic, which was a language used in Mesopotamia (today’s Iraq). The book also contains words in Greek and Latin that were prevalent...

... What is the source of our personal suffering and the suffering of humanity? The vicious circle of human suffering has been idly turning for thousands of years as if without cause, and with no escape. Is this really so? Today we are learning tha...

...Preface: Part 1: A Science to Understand Reality // 1. A Hidden World // 2. Gravity // 3. The Power of a Directed desire // 4. Proper Development // 5. The sin of Creation and the Correction // A. The Sin // B. The Laws of Correction // 6. In the End of Days // 7. The Spiritual Gene and the Reshimot ......

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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...ter and imitate any object, and should propose to make a public display of his talents and his productions, we shall pay him reverence as a ... ... with woolen fillets; but for ourselves, we shall employ, for the sake of our real good, that more austere and less fascinating poet and le... ...s fascinating poet and legend-writer, who will imitate for us the style of the virtuous man." Plato (Republic) Chapter One At Toksugum Pala... ...e bullets that she imagined from the distant war that America wedged against Iraq. Then he saw the antithesis of this: big diamond earrings dangling f... ...e came upon a crowd of people clustered around an elderly man. The man was a governmental employee paid as a teacher of Korean traditional dance. He w... ...in Ithaca, New York within the middle of winter in contrast to the crowds of Iraqi and American soldiers ready to ignite the deserts the way crowded r... ...ose conglomeration of a tribe and did not have any inclination for a central government for governments are only needed to control malevolent men. Whe... ...ntery each year and yet the news is about the continuing air strikes against Iraq as if American victory were something other than a foregone conclusi... ... the idea of imperialism why are we speaking in English now; and why is your government trying to lure in foreign investment?" When the older Vietnam...

...rean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca New York who manifests a more open and less asphyxiating rebellion against society...

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Opinions of the US Constitution in 1787

By: Jeffrey J. Prager

...We investigate the circumstances surrounding the establishment of the current US Constitution versus the Articles of Confederation and examine the opinions of both the public and the new American aristocracy revealing the public perception of the new US Constitution. ...

...The founding generation certainly understood that the colonists of an empire could and would be treated as tax slaves or cannon fodder. This was the history of the Old World, and they had fought a revolution to escape such a fate. But the “nationalists,” led by men like Hamilton and cente...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page i List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii–xiv Pr... ...omeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s App... ... of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988–1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, De... ...ome 326 10.2 Planning for War 330 10.3 “Phase Two” and the Question of Iraq 334 11. FORESIGHT—AND HINDSIGHT 339 11.1 Imagination 339 11.2 Po... ...rrorist Attacks 383 13. HOW TO DO IT? A DIFFERENT WAY OF ORGANIZING THE GOVERNMENT 399 13.1 Unity of Effort across the Foreign-Domestic Divide ... ... and practices to deter or defeat it.W e learned of fault lines within our government—between foreign and domestic intelligence, and between and withi... ...e problems of managing and sharing information across a large and unwieldy government that had been built in a different era to confront different dan... ...rabia, the home of Islam’s holiest sites. He spoke of the suffering of the Iraqi people as a result of sanctions imposed after the Gulf War, and he pr... ...rabs and Muslims angry at the United States because of issues ranging from Iraq to Pales- tine to America’s support for their countries’ repressive ru...

...Excerpt: We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democra...

...CONTENTS List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii?xiv Preface xv 1. ?WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION O...

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Best of Freshman Writing

By: Suzanne Harper

...Best of Freshman Writing Best of Freshman Writing Volume 8 Student Voices A Commonwealth College Publicat... ... Editors Suzanne Harper and Liz Wright Associate Editor David Russell Best of Freshman Writing is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. ... ...he Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. Best of Freshman Writing Best of Freshman Writing: Student Voices is a publicati... ... laws put into place to protect prisoners of war. Early on in the war with Iraq, people were in- formed about the American soldiers captive in Iraqi ... ...rmed about the American soldiers captive in Iraqi prisons. When “Operation Iraqi Freedom” began, it was not long after when prisoners were taken in on... ...ty” (“Geneva Convention” 6). Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld stated that Iraqi Television and Al-Jazeera clearly violated that section of the Con- v... ...ing on the P .O.W .s, almost every reporter would talk about how the Iraqi government would play music very loudly to prevent sleep for the pris- oner...

...Excerpt: Welcome to the eighth volume of Best of ?. For the past several years we have been publishing student writing with the intention of both celebrating the work that our students do and of sharing it with others for a variety of instructional purposes. Begi...

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