...p On the Road to Iraq – Central and East Europe I. EU and NATO – The Competing Alliances II. The Euro-Atlantic Divide III. Russia Straddles th... ...onchalantly flouting them far and wide. Hence the fervid demonstrations against its military presence in places as disparate as South Korea, Japan, ... ... but also its facilities to the inspectors of the Chemical Weapons Convention, its military to the sanctions of the (anti) land mines treaty and th... ...Noriega - two acknowledged monsters - were aided and abetted by the CIA and the US military. America had to invade Panama to depose the latter and ... ...in his anti-Russian days. Normally the outcomes of expedience, the Ugly American's alliances and allegiances shift kaleidoscopically. Pakistan and ... ...d the same. The global spread of American influence through its culture, political alliances, science and multinationals is merely an extrapolation... ... peak, the Ottoman Empire ruled most of the Balkan, up to the very gates of Vienna, Hungary, Serbia, Bosnia, Romania, Greece, Ukraine, Iraq, Syria, ... ...ade of violent demonstrations, home-grown urban terrorism, and numerous skirmishes involving the National Guard and even, in violation of the Const... ...rgy Ministry concluded the negotiation of a 10-year collaborative effort with Japan involving the construction of oil and gas pipelines, the develop...

...tural occupier of space the idealists claim as their own. 2. The loyalties and alliances of these people shift effortlessly as ever escalating ... ...garia and by Bosnian Moslems, who fled the pincer movement of the forces of Austro-Hungary, they embarked on the faithful recreation of a Bosch-lik... ...to help the Serbs fight the Greeks. Thus, the Balkanian kaleidoscope of loyalties, alliances and everlasting friendship was tilted more savagely th... .... He studied at a Bulgarian gymnasium in Saloniki. He furthered his education at a military academy in Sofia. He was a schoolteacher and a guerilla... ...at this was NOT unusual or unique at that time. This was the modus operandi of all military-organized ideological and political groups. And, taking... ...ing their inflated budget), the nationalists (by officially abandoning the goal of military expansion), the professional officers (by making them r... ...ed with the half autonomous Duchy of Vojvodina, an integral part of the Kingdom of Hungary. The Ausgleich of 1867 (which divided the loot between ... ...ts vested in psychiatry and psychopharmacology. The multibillion dollar industries involving drug companies, hospitals, managed healthcare, private... ...cultural occupier of space the idealists claim as their own. 2. The loyalties and alliances of these people shift effortlessly as ever escalating ...

...). Optimally, they should be lower (as is the case in Greece, Germany and Hungary). Alternatively, even if sickness benefits are earnings-related, u... ...be limited in time. In Bulgaria, they are limited to 13 weeks, in Israel, Hungary, Italy and the Netherlands to 6 months and in France, Germany, Lux... ...onstructed forest roads and trails. They lived in work camps under a semi- military regime. They were provided with food rations and a modest monthly... ...far more important that its level relative to the average or median wage. Hungary's unemployment went down, from 9% to 6%, while its minimum wage we... ...forest fires, and constructed forest roads and trails. They lived in semi-military work camps, were provided with food rations and a modest monthly ... ...rnational Migration, 2001" that (to quote its press release): "Migration involving qualified and highly qualified workers rose sharply between 1999... ...0, the authors say: "The development of more complex organisational forms involving cross- organisation networking, partnerships, alliances, use of e... ...ganisational forms involving cross- organisation networking, partnerships, alliances, use of external agencies for core as well as peripheral activit... ...rvices union, Ver.di. The committee - the indirect outcome of arbitration involving the two unions - will represent all of IBM's 26,000 workers in i...

...oker fame. In 1611, she was tried - though, being a noblewoman, not convicted - in Hungary for slaughtering 612 young girls. The true figure may ha... ...1614. For a hundred years after her death, by royal decree, mentioning her name in Hungary was a crime. Cases like Barothy's give the lie to the a... ...ple who treat others as objects. To some extent, leaders of all sorts - political, military, or corporate - do the same. In a range of demanding pr... ...cal conditions give rise to sexual ambiguity. Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), involving excessive androgen production by the adrenal cortex, ... ... absorbs economic resources, social status and members of other families. It forms alliances and fights other clans over scarce goods, tangible and... ...r, original family. Exogamy, as often noted, allows for the creation of extended alliances. The "identity creep" of the family is in total opposi... ...ts vested in psychiatry and psychopharmacology. The multibillion dollar industries involving drug companies, hospitals, managed healthcare, private...

...r aspire to become one), or because they are under the economic (or geopolitical or military) umbrella of a regional power or a superpower. Another ... ...rparts are the "Industrial Bases". Within the former Eastern Bloc, Russia, Poland, Hungary and Slovenia are, to a limited extent, such generators. ... ...r to be identified with the originals, which serve as mere triggers. Again, Poland, Hungary, Slovenia (and to a lesser extent, Croatia) come to mind... ...g with them rising output, low unemployment and full use of industrial capacity as military demands add to normal economic activity." According to ... ...tion Desert Storm, the previous skirmish in Iraq. In the wake of September 11, US military spending is already up one tenth and poised to continue... ...jacket of geography. The violent disintegration of the old system of geopolitical alliances led to the formation of massive, multiplayer trading b... ...ccount for this shortcoming: 1. Ethical – Experiments would have to be conducted, involving humans. To achieve the necessary result, the subjects ... ... major difficulties arose: To determine what will happen in a specific experiment involving a specific particle and experimental setting – an obse... ...onformity, consensus, belonging, social structures, procedures, forms, undertakings involving the labour or other input of human masses. Future ve...

... as illegal) – but that does not turn it into moral. Still, not every immoral act involving the termination of life can be classified as murder. P... ...ated enemy. Precision bombing is expensive, in terms of lives - of fighter pilots. Military planners are well aware that there is a hushed trade-of... ... is the unnatural act. VIII. The Argument from Progress It is a circular syllogism involving a tautology and goes like this: Cannibalism is barbar... ...DIX - Should Drugs be Legalized? The decriminalization of drugs is a tangled issue involving many separate moral/ethical and practical strands whic... ... PRACTICAL: The government exercises similar "rights" in other cases (abortion, military conscription, sex) (b) Is the government the optimal... ... PRACTICAL: The government exercises similar "rights" in other cases (abortion, military conscription, sex) b. Is the government the optimal mo... ...o individualism. This is a new development. Past technologies assisted in forging alliances and collectives. Agricultural technology encouraged co... ... absorbs economic resources, social status and members of other families. It forms alliances and fights other clans over scarce goods, tangible and... ...ar, original family. Exogamy, as often noted, allows for the creation of extended alliances. The "identity creep" of the family is in total opposi...

... as illegal) – but that does not turn it into moral. Still, not every immoral act involving the termination of life can be classified as murder. P... ...ated enemy. Precision bombing is expensive, in terms of lives - of fighter pilots. Military planners are well aware that there is a hushed trade-of... ... is the unnatural act. VIII. The Argument from Progress It is a circular syllogism involving a tautology and goes like this: Cannibalism is barbar... ...DIX - Should Drugs be Legalized? The decriminalization of drugs is a tangled issue involving many separate moral/ethical and practical strands whic... ... PRACTICAL: The government exercises similar "rights" in other cases (abortion, military conscription, sex) (b) Is the government the optimal... ... PRACTICAL: The government exercises similar "rights" in other cases (abortion, military conscription, sex) b. Is the government the optimal mo... ...o individualism. This is a new development. Past technologies assisted in forging alliances and collectives. Agricultural technology encouraged co... ... absorbs economic resources, social status and members of other families. It forms alliances and fights other clans over scarce goods, tangible and... ...ar, original family. Exogamy, as often noted, allows for the creation of extended alliances. The "identity creep" of the family is in total opposi...

...ities and riches of e-publishing. Government use of e-books (e.g., by the military) may have the same beneficial effect. As standards converge (A... ... leading 500 new (web) media firms Internet Industry Map - Ownership and alliances determine status, control, and access in the Internet industry. ... ...le networks) and despite a regulatory welcome in all three CE candidates (Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic). Luckily, mobile telephony - the... ...id. The Czech Republic will have 78 mobile users per 100 population - and Hungary 66. In a second tier of countries - the likes of Bulgaria, Romania... ...e cost of modernization and integration into regional and global telecoms alliances. Once competition is allowed, everyone (especially the clients) ... ...r this shortcoming: 1. Ethical – Experiments would have to be conducted, involving humans. To achieve the necessary result, the subjects will have ... ...fficulties arose: To determine what will happen in a specific experiment involving a specific particle and experimental setting – an observation mu... ... It is quite curios that recursive learning, originally created for the military- industrial complex (for the purposes of rocket navigation) was fo... ... consensus, belonging, social structures, procedures, forms, undertakings involving the labour or other input of human masses. Future versus Past ...

...from our opposing thumbs. This entire evolutionary development and process involving millions of years: left the bottom half of our ancestors rel... ...evolving and not our bodies. Until. hominids could focus narrowly upon a task involving a high degree of hand-eye coordination and this adaptive tra... ... trait became its primary means of survival... all as an evolutionary process involving millions of years. The concentrated pyramidal focus needed f... ...died a horrible, humiliating death. That was the level to which the mightiest military culture was brought to: because of their insane, inhuman prac... ...led cultures the nomads conquered. For thousands of years: the most powerful military weapon had been the horse-archer. Up until the 14 th Centur... ...ern Empire to ever exist… and then… out last, take over that Empire. Not as a military power, but as a spiritual power. And spread its religious do... ...lking them bribing them… It will become so full of secret deals and nefarious alliances and friendships and feuds… Everything the pitchers do will ... ...ay… you wouldn’t know where the trophy is, now: would you?…’ How many secret alliances between supposed archrivals might be hatched behind closed do... ...washing, mass affluence, mass terrorization, governments, corporations, secret alliances, secret conspiracies, secret plans, secret agendas. And so ...

...ished some atrocious monuments of the Assyrian cruelty in the treatment of military captives. In one of the plates of Chap xx., at page 456, is exhibi... ...revolting. Left, therefore, to itself, my belief is, that the story of the Military Nun would have prevailed finally against the de- murs of the scept... ...titled “ Autobiographic Sketches,” or “Selections Grave and Gay,” from the military experiences of a Nun, or possibly “The Confessions of a Biscayan F... ... him.”* Then followed the treaty of Carlovitz, which stripped the Porte of Hungary, the Ukraine, and other places; and “henceforth” says Mr. Gordon, “... ...rary some of the officers had detected sufficient evidences of the Swedish alliances clandestinely maintained by the Landgrave; numbers of rare books,... ...ven qua- druple interpretations—each rising in dignity, each crypti- cally involving another. Even amongst natural agencies, pre- cisely as they rise ... ...tity of C at the same time that B commands a double quantity of C, without involving any absurdity at all. And, if so, the disputed doctrine is establ...

...nough to be heard by me in Catman’s boat, ‘Do you think French useful in a military education, sir?’ And Boddy said, ‘Yes, of course it is.’ Says Heri... ... to-night, Richie,’ said he. ‘We’re certain to meet again. I shall go to a military school. Mind you enter a cavalry regiment when you’re man enough. ... ... cause, I granted) at the success of a work of Art that struck us as a new military triumph of these Germans, and it was impossible not to ad- mire it... ...of insufferable, because unwarrantable, pride, and drawing, substance from alliances with the merchant class. 245 George Meredith Are they your leade... ... shade awhile?’ he observed solicitously. ‘I have seen men on the march in Hungary and Italy. An hour’s rest under cover would have saved them.’ I tha... .... ‘So it was considered that in refusing my cousin Otto and other proposed alliances, I was heart-free. An instructed prin- cess, they thought, was of... ...uld demand explanations of my father with re- gard to this terrible rumour involving Ottilia, I found my- self in the box of the City widow, Lady Samp... ...son.’ ‘But you must know that he sets his face against legal pro- ceedings involving exposure.’ ‘But surely, Richie, exposure is the very thing we cou...

...s eldest brother, resigned his post of Councillor, in or- der to adopt the military profession, while, if we might credit the President Bouhier, he ne... ...e of funeral emblems, that the departed has been engaged in some important military transactions. However it may be as to these conjectures, our autho... ...ticipate still worse mischiefs; and in your goodness and wisdom, beware of involving your family in such broils; let it continue to enjoy its former r... ...all it into play. He has done a thing not only excusable, according to the military laws of this age, but necessary and (as we are of opinion) commend... ...d, xi. 151.] In the war that Ferdinand made upon the widow of King John of Hungary, about Buda, a man-at-arms was particu- larly taken notice of by ev... ...e the fees and perquisites of a gentleman of the long robe; but we see the alliances wherewith he fortifies himself and his family, and the titles and... ....”—Propertius, iv. 3, 39.] Let him inquire into the manners, revenues, and alliances of princes, things in themselves very pleasant to learn, and very... ...ur with another; which other had, in truth, some preeminence of titles and alliances above the ordinary gentry. Upon the debate of this prerogative, e...

... the work of an absolute ruler, deriving his power either from religion or military prowess—very of ten from foreign arms. Again, uncivilized races, ... ...tions on Representative Government try in some special direction (commonly military) to pro mote the grandeur of the despot. But the public at large ... ...gh the necessities of warfare, and the despotic authority indispensable to military command. A military leader is the only superior to whom they will ... ...the law lords would leave the business of legislation, except on questions involving politi cal principles and interests, to the professional legisla... ...isites are not fulfilled by the expedient of a limitation of the suffrage, involving the compulsory ex clusion of any portion of the citizens from a ... ...e justified in dismissing him at the first moment when a ques tion arises involving these, and on which there is not so as sured a majority for what... ...upported, by keeping its Hun garian regiments in Italy and its Italian in Hungary, can long continue to rule in both places with the iron rod of fore... ...t practicable for them to be under separate governments. The population of Hungary is com posed of Magyars, Slovaks, Croats, Serbs, Roumans, and in s... ...only is a mere alliance, and subject to all the contingencies which render alliances precarious. If the acts of the President and of Congress were bin...