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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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...ved as trying to impose its narcissistic pseudo-culture upon a world exhausted by wars hot and cold and corrupted by vacuous materialism. Recent a... ...d) Mahan doctrines. Wilson's Fourteen Points brought the USA nothing but two World Wars and a Cold War thereafter. It is time to disengage. Note -... ...bly put himself in a straitened circumstance someday. When one indulges oneself in wars of aggression under the pretext of 'self security' will pos... ...ethnic multiculturalism came under attack elsewhere and everywhere - from Canada to Belgium. Straining to contain this worrisome throwback to its ta... ...ade of violent demonstrations, home-grown urban terrorism, and numerous skirmishes involving the National Guard and even, in violation of the Const... ...tral Asia and the middle east is of far more concern to the USA than disintegrating Belgium. Russia, a potentially newfound ally, is more mission- c... ...p in the face of Germany, a member of the "Axis of Peace", together with France and Belgium and the champion of EU enlargement to the east. Its own ... ...rgy Ministry concluded the negotiation of a 10-year collaborative effort with Japan involving the construction of oil and gas pipelines, the develop...

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... gasoline 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 s...

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...e or producing or watching child pornography have? What about pornography involving women—as things—as objects to be used. A female writer in Norway... ...hasn‘t sent any messengers lately. But he listens to prayers, approves of wars, and allows natural disasters. ―How we define the Creator may h... ...o me that in the last hundred years the insecurity brought on by all your wars, the decline in the extended family relationships, and the marketing o... ...deo-Christian-Muslim God in allowing so many deaths to innocent people in wars and natural disasters. They often also may evaluate the lack of mercy ... ... ―Job creation was zero in Finland and Sweden while it went up 8% in Belgium. Denmark did better when it made its labor force more flexible and... ... are supposedly educated! ―About twenty years ago I took a case involving ex post facto to the Supreme Court. (78a) A California teacher w... ... adopt cruelty towards each other. ―Then there was the situation involving Jesus in Matthew 8 verses 28 to 33. He was near Gaderenes when t...

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...in France, Germany, Luxemburg and the United Kingdom – 12 months. Only in Belgium are unemployment benefits not limited in their duration. In most o... ...old parents or other relatives) or the terminally ill – as is the case in Belgium (though only for up to 2 months). It makes economic sense, because... ...ess benefits), by Italy (which stopped linking benefits to inflation), by Belgium, Spain and France, which reduced the minimum wage payable to young... ...rnational Migration, 2001" that (to quote its press release): "Migration involving qualified and highly qualified workers rose sharply between 1999... ... information based in Bratislava, Bucharest, Budapest, Prague, Sofia, and Warsaw- also rewards its employees with stock options. The list is long an... ...0, the authors say: "The development of more complex organisational forms involving cross- organisation networking, partnerships, alliances, use of e... ...rcome the perceived workforce deficiency, slave labour was introduced and wars were fought to maintain precious sources of "hands", skilled and unsk... ...unctuated equilibrium". It is a fits and starts affair. Baby booms follow wars or baby busts. Demographic tendencies interact with economic realitie... ...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...

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... propaganda and in the seeding of armed bands in Macedonia prior to the two Balkan wars. Its biggest achievement was probably the inception of nume... ...ivilization was at stake. This was the background to the onslaught of the Balkan Wars. Serbia collaborated with the more potent of its potent... ...Bulgaria struck a bargain to expel the Ottomans from Europe (see above, the Balkan Wars). Thus, with the field narrowing and getting more crowded, ... ...e annexation of territory. Germany was a colonial power no different to murderous Belgium or Britain. What set it apart is that it directed its co... ...ts vested in psychiatry and psychopharmacology. The multibillion dollar industries involving drug companies, hospitals, managed healthcare, private...

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... 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... ...em unfavorably. The idea of the nation-state culminated in the Yugoslav succession wars. It is time to seriously consider a much-derided and decrie... ...e and intertwined mechanisms: The Malthusian Mechanism – Limited resources lead to wars, famine, diseases and to a decrease in the populace (and, t... ...ns due to their demography (aging population, low birth-rates, unnatural deaths in wars and slaughters). The Anti-Semite: Argument number four - J... ... 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... ...e annexation of territory. Germany was a colonial power no different to murderous Belgium or Britain. What set it apart is that it directed its co... ...e annexation of territory. Germany was a colonial power no different to murderous Belgium or Britain. What set it apart is that it directed its co... ... economic organization ... through mutual customs agreements ... including France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Austria, Poland, and perhaps Italy, S...

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... 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... ...em unfavorably. The idea of the nation-state culminated in the Yugoslav succession wars. It is time to seriously consider a much-derided and decrie... ...e and intertwined mechanisms: The Malthusian Mechanism – Limited resources lead to wars, famine, diseases and to a decrease in the populace (and, t... ...ns due to their demography (aging population, low birth-rates, unnatural deaths in wars and slaughters). The Anti-Semite: Argument number four - J... ... 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... ...e annexation of territory. Germany was a colonial power no different to murderous Belgium or Britain. What set it apart is that it directed its co... ...e annexation of territory. Germany was a colonial power no different to murderous Belgium or Britain. What set it apart is that it directed its co... ... economic organization ... through mutual customs agreements ... including France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Austria, Poland, and perhaps Italy, S...

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...mpetition, globalization, privatization, and deregulation - led to ferocious price wars and to consistently declining prices. Quoted by "The Econo... ...ket? Apparently, conventional wisdom is wrong. Market concentration leads to price wars, to the great benefit of the consumer. This is why firms fi... ...ion and what it denotes or stands for. Actors are often mistaken for their roles, wars are fought on television, fictitious TV celebrities become ... ...he Political Economy of International Investments - Singh, Kavaljit - FERN (UK and Belgium) The Economics of Expectations By: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. E... ...ry - and even in Western, rich, countries including the USA, Canada, Germany, and Belgium. The encroachment on state sovereignty of international ... ...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...

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...owever, Merriam-Webster defines INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY as ―the technology involving the development, maintenance, and use of computer systems, softw... ...ctory, he demanded—and received—the losers‘ promise to join him in future wars. In return, he withdrew from their territory. Nevrtheless, when th... ...ocrats as quickly as possible in order to forestall having to wage future wars against them. Mongols launch three-decade expansion Genghis Khan‘... ... be mixed:  On the religious front, it may have fostered the religious wars of the sixteenth century.  Because it threatened to obviate the nee... ... early twenties, he moved across the channel to start his own business in Belgium. In his thirties, when Gutenberg printed his 42-line Bible, Caxt...

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...owever, Merriam-Webster defines INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY as ―the technology involving the development, maintenance, and use of computer systems, softw... ...ctory, he demanded—and received—the losers‘ promise to join him in future wars. In return, he withdrew from their territory. Nevrtheless, when they... ...ocrats as quickly as possible in order to forestall having to wage future wars against them. Mongols launch three-decade expansion Genghis Khan‘s ... ... be mixed:  On the religious front, it may have fostered the religious wars of the sixteenth century.  Because it threatened to obviate the nee... ... early twenties, he moved across the channel to start his own business in Belgium. In his thirties, when Gutenberg printed his 42-line Bible, Caxto...

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...tempt to tell the story of the battles over intellectual property, the range wars of the information age. I want to convince you that intellectual pro... ...u- ments for the first enclosure movement. For example, during the Napoleonic Wars enclosure was defended as a necessary method of increasing the effici... ... property scholar, they sound like business as usual. In the case of the VCR wars, none of these factors obtained. The state re- fused to step in to a... ...a violation of copyright law? In a series of remarkable and far-seeing cases involving such issues, the courts said no. 22 “Decompilation” was fair us... ...That is what the Farmers’ Tale was all about. Perhaps one day, in a case not involving a Norwegian teenager, a hacker maga- zine run by a long-haired ... ... claim and issued an injunction against Static Control. In Skylink, the case involving garage door openers, by contrast, the district court held that ... ...ion of databases, DG Internal Mar- ket and Services Working Paper (Brussels, Belgium: Commission of the European Com- munities, 2005), 5. 7. Ibid., 22...

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...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... ... how and why the battle for territory was born and developed into raiding and wars… Overpopulation and the urge to keep moving, the addiction to see... ... elite of all human societies spent their time during the last 12,000 years. Wars, hunting, feasting, and wallowing in ease, neglecting their own c... ...lture. The culture of lions is based upon hatred, blood-letting and constant wars and battles against all other animal species in their territory. ... ...k accounts of the rich and powerful? The dictator Mobuto absconding from the Belgium Congo with nearly all of his country’s wealth in his pockets, ... ... to power: he applauded Hitler’s march into Poland and also his march through Belgium and the conquest of France. As one failed megalomaniac to ano...

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...efforts of disloyal citizens of the United States to involve us in foreign wars, to aid an inexcusable insurrection, have been unavailing. Her Britan... ...now rapidly improving part of the country. A novel and important question, involving the extent of the maritime jurisdiction of Spain in the waters wh... ...elopments have manifested themselves, such as have not been seen in former wars; and among these manifestations nothing has been more remarkable than ... ...arles Hunt, a citizen of the United States, recognizing him as a Consul of Belgium for St. Louis, Mis- souri, and declaring him free to exercise and ... ...therefore to declare that I no longer recognize the said Hunt as Consul of Belgium, for St. Louis, Missouri, and will not permit him to exercise or e... ...fforts, under favor of that privilege, to embroil our coun- try in foreign wars. The desire and determination of the gov- ernments of the maritime st... ... transmit to Congress a copy of two treaties between the United States and Belgium, for the extinguishment of the Scheldt dues, etc., concluded on the... ...he question of guilt, bear a far different aspect. That on this contract, involving some twelve hundred thousand dollars, the contractors would plan,...

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... capital Ghent, and Western Flanders, capital Bruges, are two provinces of Belgium. French Flanders, capital Lille, is the Departement du Nord of Fran... ...communion of angels. Brought up in one of the most illustrious families of Belgium, she would have learned good taste had she not possessed it; and no... ...rg, the Spanish ambassador, Helvetius, and other Frenchmen originally from Belgium, or coming lately thence, whose birth or wealth won them admittance... ... its moderate scale of living, and bought woodlands somewhat the worse for wars that had laid waste the country, but which in ten years’ time, if well... ...tments. A fete like that the Claes were about to give is a serious affair, involving thought and care and active correspondence, in a land where tradi...

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...of some distinguished re- ward. But the effort to complete a certain work, involving immense labor, before the departure of the Emperor for Spain caus... ... not marry a third time it was no doubt the fault of the times. During the wars of the Empire, marrying men found rich and handsome girls too easily t... ...es in Issoudun. The Cottereaux, the Routiers, the Jacquerie, the religious wars and the Revolution did away with the nobility. The town is proud of th... ...followed, the treaties of 1815 would have been broken by a federation with Belgium, which, by a military compact made among the soldiers, was to withd... ...e antagonists and their four seconds made it a point of honor that a duel, involving so large a fortune, and the repu- tation of two men noted for the...

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...thoughts that he sails about the seas in a little yacht or goes afoot from Belgium to Rome. We are winning our freedom again once more, a free- dom re... ...Hitherto, either slave labour (Phaleas),** or at least class distinctions involving unavoidable labour in the lower class, have been assumed— as Plat... ... thought, the flow of intention, poured always more abundantly. There were wars, but they were conclusive wars that established new and more permanent... ...laws, and they will certainly be responsible for a large proportion of the wars, hardships, and cruelties the immediate future holds in store for our ...

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...au, was drafted into the militia, and won the rank of captain early in the wars of the Revolution. At the battle of T rebia, Macdonald called for volu... ... courts of the Seine,—courts which take cogni- zance of all civil contests involving sums above a certain amount. The eldest, who was in the wholesale... ...tteau is going to spend a hundred thou- sand francs on his ball, and he is involving his whole fortune, against my advice, in that speculation in land... ...k-knacks of unrestrained luxury. The car- pet, one of the rich products of Belgium, was as pleasant to the eye as to the foot which felt the soft thic... ...he judge can echo the atrocious saying of the Minister, — ”Order reigns in Warsaw.” Du Tillet meant to compass Cesar’s commercial death. The 243 Balz...

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...s, though he’s a brave fellow, took it into his head he wouldn’t go to the wars; in fact, the army wasn’t a healthy place for one of his family. So wh... ... and nations, to double human life, and modify the laws of space and time. Belgium, the United States of America, England, none of whom have an Ecole ... ...ercial, and is turned over. Thus, besides the evil of parcelling the land, involving that of the diminution of horses, cattle, and sheep, the section ... ...ers, whose only function would be to oppose bad legislation and capricious wars. The Chamber, as constituted to-day, will 189 Balzac proceed, as you ...

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...t the king. Then, in addition to these concealed or public, secret or open wars, there were robbers, mendicants, Huguenots, wolves, and scoundrels, wh... ...myself have never appeared at court, and have only taken part in religious wars as a volunteer; I speak of Monsieur de Treville, who was formerly my n... ...death of the late king till the young one came of age, without reckon- ing wars and sieges, seven times; and from that date up to the present day, a h... ...e. Bonacieux to leave the convent, and to retire ei- ther into Lorraine or Belgium. They had not long to wait for an answer. Eight or ten days afterwa... ...d I bring back the dear treasure If go to seek-not into Lorraine, not into Belgium, but to Paris, where she will be much better concealed, particularl... ...an, he was the enemy of the car- dinal; and she doubtless would succeed in involving him in the vengeance by which she hoped to destroy the young Musk...

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...…. This sort of thing has always been happening, I sup- pose—these things, wars and earthquakes, that sweep across all the decency of life. It’s just ... ...ory of warfare, unless we take such a case as that of a nineteenth century warship attacking some large savage or barbaric settlement, or one of those... ...of A. The war became perforce a universal guerilla war, a war inextricably involving civilians and homes and all the apparatus of social life. These a... ...ir fight in the world, and that in the interval he had been across France, Belgium, Germany, England, Ireland, and a number of other countries. It was...

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...e injunction not to return to Costaguana), he had pur- sued his studies in Belgium and France with the idea of qualifying for a mining engineer. But t... ...s, relatives, ruined, imprisoned, killed in the battles of senseless civil wars, barbarously executed in ferocious proscriptions, as though the govern... ...raightening his bent back martially, “many years ago, for my valour in the wars with the wild Indios when a young man, señor.” The waterfall existed n... ...h circumstances of peculiar atrocity from his home during one of the civil wars, and forced to serve in the army. There his conduct as soldier was exe... ...bly to the land of Costaguana like an awful proce- dure of naturalization, involving him deep in the national life, far deeper than any amount of succ...

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... us from the past, with solemn approval, after the close of the Napoleonic wars and before the series of sanguinary surprises held in reserve by the n... ...d injustice, cannot well be exaggerated. The nineteenth century began with wars which were the issue of a corrupted revolution. It may be said that th... ...ying contest, which for endless, arduous toil of killing surpasses all the wars 75 Joseph Conrad of history. It has a base for its operations; a base... ...of Upas tree, whose shade may be seen now lying over the prostrate body of Belgium. It must be said that they laboured openly enough, watering it with... ...ult to give an idea how ugly and dangerous things looked to us over there. Belgium knocked down and trampled out of existence, France giving in under ... ...ll possible accidents of the sea. But suppose a collision out on the ocean involving damage as extensive as this one was, and suppose then a gale of w... ... speeds, and it ought to be remembered that in case of a big liner’s loss, involving many lives, she is gen- erally sunk by a ship much smaller than h...

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...tory of his Own Time , though I cared little for anything in it except the wars and battles; and the his torical part of the Annual Register, from t... ...rossed all the interest in my mind which I had previously felt in the mere wars and conquests of the Romans. I dis cussed all the constitutional poin... ...son to fears, wishes, and affections, which enable them to accept a theory involving a contradiction in terms, prevents them from perceiving the logic... ..., in longer journeys or excur sions, alone or with other friends. France, Belgium, and Rhenish Germany were within easy reach of the annual holi day... ...any active concern in temporary politics, and from any literary occupation involving personal communication with contributors and others, I was enable... ...hest, next to that of Secretary, in the East India Company’s home service, involving the general superintendence of all the correspon dence with the ...

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...f farms and peasant villages, and little towns among the farms. There were wars, crusades, barbarous invasions, set-backs, but to that state all Asia,... ...e freer initiatives of private en- terprise. Most of these are occupations involving a greater element of interest, less direction and more co-operati... ...estern Europe in the nineteenth century. Or again one opens at destructive wars. One sees these surplus forces over and above the Normal Social Life w... ...ancies. And the oscillations of empires and kingdoms, religious movements, wars, invasions, settlements leave upon the mind an impres- sion that the s... ...fore methods upon a much larger scale, employing wholesale ma- chinery and involving great economies. It is alleged by mod- ern writers that the perma... ...served so useful a purpose in the middle group of subjects, the sub- jects involving numerous but a finite number of units, has also to be abandoned h... ...at Britain, France, the German Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Italy, Belgium, Japan, Hol- land, Spain and Portugal, Sweden and Norway, Turkey in...

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... maintain its environment in a favorable condition, a process incidentally involving the ruthless destruction or subjection of its competitors for the... ...untries actually under fire, and that the others would be more reasonable. Belgium and Flanders, where over large districts literally not one stone wa... ... writing these words contains a calculation that no less than twenty-three wars are at present being waged to confirm the peace, England is no longer ... ...o write; for me, another comedy to stage. Perhaps, after all, that is what wars are for, and what historians and playwrights are for. If men will not ...