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The Mystery of Jamieson Stone

By: Jonathan Cross

...e continued to fight off the dizziness. “Our country has come to expect the best from our politicians…” Suddenly, his eyes glazed over and his mind ... ... careful to consume a moderate amount. Jose served huge platters of pasta, vegetables and French bread with butter. The group dug in. Georgi said, “...

...An ex-intelligence officer, who handles elite politicians and celebrities 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. ...

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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...ing of successful - even brilliant - battles and coalitions with local warlords and politicians which culminated in the liberation of Peru. In 1824,... ...on by one, Dr. James Barlow. The baby was less fortunate. In the meantime, the French obstetrician Baudeloque published a book describing dozen... ... sackecloth and buckram about the skirts with bents covered with fustian, a pair of french bodies of damaske lined with sackcloth, with whales bone... ...ttp://casino.cchs.usyd.edu.au/csd/mig_site/1999_vol15_2/foreign_ac cent_syndrome.htm French Revolution The monarchy was far from absolute prior to th... ... The disaffection cut across class lines. Many noblemen spoke for the commoners. French nobleman Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Comte de Mirabeau, for i... ...took less than half a second. More than 40,000 people were guillotined during the French Revolution and in its immediate aftermath (1789-1795). N...

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How You Touched Me, You Will Never Know

By: M'Tisunge Michael Phoya

...rains when the country plants its maize and the month of April when it harvests. The maize meals. The cassava meals. The stupid politicians. Blantyr... ... leave. Beres Hammond thinks there’s an overnight scheme working just to put him down. I smile and leave just in time to hear a French kwasa kwasa ... ... the cries of mourning, the songs on the radio, the sounds of love making, the footsteps of people leaving for work at 5 am, the politicians on thos...

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Kabbalah for Beginners

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...ust have a broad base of international support from scientists, thinkers, politicians, and the United Nations, as well as the media and social organ... ... and Turkish. In the near future, broadcasts will also be translated into French, greek, Polish, and Portuguese. As with everything else, the live ...

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Fuzzy and Neutrosophic Analysis of Women with Hiv/Aids

By: W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy and Florentin Smarandache

...nt hospital is on the rise. While the doctors suppress the information, local politicians are not interested in ending the practice of child marriag... ...lves and the fact that it is only on the screen and not in real life. Unless politicians take up the issue for the women cause and see to it that m... ...terest is in information fusion were he works with Dr.Jean Dezert from ONERA (French National Establishment for Aerospace Research in Paris) in crea...

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The Kabbalah Experience

By: Rav Michael Laitman

... Kabbalah books in Arabic, and Kabbalists in the middle ages wrote in ancient French. Again, a language is only an outer dressing to help convey info... ...tter or for worse--beginning with the most wicked, scientists, mu- sicians and politicians, and ending with philosophers, religious figures and schol...

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The Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty

By: Juan Josafat Ben Ezra

...upon it! ye Christians have fathered upon the scriptures the optimism of the German and French infidels! Coming of Messiah Vol. 1 Irving: Prelimina... ...t upon the continent, but have never been able to see more of it than is contained in a French abridgment. Upon which I explained to him the remarka... ...battle of the day of God Almighty.” Almost all believe that the 1260 days closed in the French revolution, and that the seven vials then began to be ... ...eep in check by military government; of all which we have had a notable instance in the French revolution, that first great work of the spirit of the... ...harles the Second, king of Spain, of the house of Austria died, and Philip the fifth, a Frenchman, of the house of Bourbon, succeeded him in the ki... ...made here, though he had seen the universal empire to which Napoleon aspired, and which politicians believed inevitable, vanish like smoke? (Note by ...

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A Critique of Piketty's "Capital in the Twenty-first Century"

By: Dr. Sam Vaknin

...l economy), thus enriching the rich; and (2) that inherited wealth tends to create a "patrimonial" form of capitalism, akin to the aristocracy in the French and British ancient regimes. Putting aside the somewhat artificial and dubious distinction between the "real" and the financial economy, r and g are apples and oranges and cannot be compared. Economic growth (g) is...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VII : Book 7 Visit to Indus

By: Bob Oconnor

...ook some time before she was able to overcome that political faux pas. We politicians learned our lessons—do what is necessary to win and carry out ... ... ―Some Indian states have mandated a maximum of two children for some politicians and some states are extending the mandate to civil servants. A... ...s for civil servants who opt for sterilization after one or two children. Politicians are being asked to set examples by limiting their offspring to... ...onomic progress. ―The legally effected two child norm for India‘s politicians may increase the number of abortions of female fetuses, since ... ...at both women were assassinated. I sometimes think that whatever we do as politicians is dangerous to our survival. There is always somebody with a ... ...00. It is no wonder that they are the three major languages of the world. French, once the world‘s language of diplomacy, has only a hundred thousand... ...n take traditional English as an elective language, just as they can take French, Mandarin, Spanish, Arabic or Hindi. Several countries have copied ... ... Muslims. They make up 1 1/2% in Norway, 5% in the Netherlands and 8% of Frenchmen.(11) Turbans, yarmulkes, crosses, saris, pants suits, mini-skirts... ...ted to the values that France finds essential. The woman was married to a French national and had three children born in France. We would do the sam...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

... regard for human rights, in cahoots with venal and sometimes homicidal indigenous politicians. And it drains the developing world of its brains, i... ... fundamentalists have more in common with Muslim militants than with East Coast or French intellectuals. Muslims have always been the West's most... ...s and its performance. Throughout this time, the envoys of the West - its mediocre politicians, its insatiably ruthless media, its obese tourists, ... ...xpert civil servants but by usurpers, power brokers, interest groups, and criminal-politicians. The Founding Fathers looked to Rome as a model. I... ...e same power for his military expedition in Gaul. To secure popular support, Roman politicians doled out tax cuts, free entertainment, and free foo... ... time. Napoleon justified his gory campaigns by claiming that they served to spread French ideals throughout a barbarous world. Kipling bemoaned th... ...machinations, Spain and Britain are trying to obstruct the ominous re- emergence of French-German dominance. By catering to popular aversion of Am... ...iled because both it and Russia are biased in favor of the current regime in Iraq. French and Russian firms have signed more than 1700 commercial c... ...eude or to gleefully assume that it has finally succeeded in isolating the insolent French and the somnolent Germans. Public opinion - even where it...

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And Gulliver Returns Book I : Touchdown

By: Bob Oconnor

...reated by the continuous increases in the population. On the one hand some politicians and businessmen think that such increases are necessary. You... ... And no child should be imprisoned to a life without opportunity. “Politicians make us happier by reducing our taxes while spending more. Th... ...it from our children.’ It’s about the future children of the world. Are the politicians concerned? No! For most of them their concern is the immedia... ...already know the enormity of the problem. I don’t think you can look to the politicians for salvation. In democracies politicians follow—they don’t ... ...all on television,-- but lots of things are worse—drugs, violence, traffic, politicians! “But this is the U.S. Just think about the underdeve... ...raitors become heroes—patriots. Look at the instigators of the American and French Revolutions. “Talking about rights, in today’s world few p...

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And Gulliver Returns Book III : A Visit to Kino

By: Bob Oconnor

...o the political party that gives it the most money. So you wouldn‘t expect politicians to let this sacred cow go un-milked. Consequently a large num... ...trements. The rich have a huge amount of money to spend on such things as French perfume, designer clothes, and high tech computers. The young chi... ...bad as many countries. ―Because of the diminishing workforce most politicians, as well as many religious groups and trade unions, want to a... ... world‘s problems far more than it diminishes them. But it may be good for politicians who won‘t face reality and for business people who are only l... ...ee. It sounds desirable to allow early retirement. It certainly brings the politicians votes. But it makes no economic sense at all. ―Declin... ... expenses to keep the electorate content, and for pork barrels to keep the politicians and their financial backers happy. When Al Gore ran for presid... ... ―This direct appeal to the electorate has aided us in not having the French or American style of special interest protests, such as the French... .... This is the real world! People live longer. People will work longer. The French may riot for earlier retirement. But the government can‘t afford i... ...e think that such freedoms are often not well thought out. For example the French students‘ violence in opposing a liberalized employment law becaus...

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

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

... at the Golden Dragon they make the finest of Chinese food and do unusual French and Italian dishes. They even make a Texas chili, but it‘s too tame... ...much more time working are much higher on the happiness list than are the French, who vacation a lot. ―Money only makes us happier up to a... ...on. The Vatican says they may not accept communion. ―Similarly, politicians who advocate abortion, which is a grievous sin, should be denie... ...k they will be willing to give up their desires to have children? Or that politicians or business people will volunteer to reduce their populations.... ...ped and gave him some oxygen. No one stayed with him until he died. Under French law one is required to help. Under American and English common law ... ... version of English.‖ --―Let‘s get back on track men. Democratic politicians call for ―moral values‘. But the political course they pick us... ... if the writer was referring to a theistic or a deistic being. Also, when politicians talk you are never sure that they mean what they say or really ... ...s Age of Reason, were powerful stimulators of 18 th Century American and French thinking. In The Age of Reason he wrote ‗My own mind is my own chur... ...At any rate, agnostics don‘t accept the teachings of religions. But as the French philosopher Rene Descartes told us ‗any person who actually tries t...

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Family and More : Enemies or Friends?

By: Helena Harper

...philosophy and war, to ask all he encounters, whether workmen in the road or politicians in the street, about their work and trade and the knowledge ... ...ith voice clear and sweet, composing poetry of exquisite beauty and speaking French with practiced tongue. A gifted, smiling soul spreading love and ... ...rate and cricket unequivocal delights. Yet other clubs too she wants to try: French, ballet, tap and IT, singing and chess, and what about pottery? Sh...

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Narcissistic and Psychopathic Leaders

By: Sam Vaknin

...res outlandish amounts of money (tens of millions of dollars per campaign). Politicians end up spending a lot of their time in office (and out of it... ...electoral colleges" composed exclusively of volunteers. NOTE - The Role of Politicians It is a common error to assume that the politician's role is... ...the corporation's major shareholders. To make sure that they get re-elected, politicians are sometimes required to implement reforms and policy meas... ...very reminiscent of Vladimir Putin's reign in post-Yeltsin Russia. Like the French Second Empire, it follows a period of revolutions and counter-rev... ...tine security apparatus which regularly gathered information on millions of Frenchmen and foreigners. Modernization and Reform Putin is considerably ... ... of the Congress of Vienna (1815) and reverse the trend of post-Napoleonic French humiliation. He wanted to resurrect "Great France" pretty much as... ...e renaming of the airport. Macedonia has designs on a part of Greece, Greek politicians claim with a straight face, and the denizens of this tiny po... ...who are the celebrities people love to hate? Answer: Israelis like to watch politicians and wealthy businessmen reduced, demeaned, and slighted. In ...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

...support - other, no less weighty, scholarship by the likes of Eugene Fama, Kenneth French, James Poterba, Allan Kleidon, and William Schwert negate... ... American OPIC (Overseas Private Investment Corporation), the British ECGD, and the French COFACE - shift political risk from buyers, project compan... ...t derivative). But as banks and insurance companies merged into what is termed, in French, "bancassurance", or, in German, "Allfinanz" - so did the... ... in capitalistic countries. Why are inventors in America more productive than their French or British counterparts - at least judging by the number ... ...ed social injustice (Los Angeles 1995) or to political oppression (Paris 1968). The French Revolution may have been the last time the urban sans- cu... ...onstructive competition - among scientists, innovators, managers, actors, lawyers, politicians, and the members of just about every other professio... ...etail the newly acquired wealth and lavish lifestyles of formerly impoverished HZDS politicians. Some of them now reside in refurbished castles. Oth... ... Luckily, in countries like Macedonia, it is confined to its rapacious elites: its politicians, managers, university professors, medical doctors, j... ...omas, certificates, or permits). e. Reallocation Fees - Benefits paid (mainly to politicians and political decision makers) in order to affect th...

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Terrorists and Freedom Fighters

By: Sam Vaknin

...ll There's a story about Robespierre that has the preeminent rabble-rouser of the French Revolution leaping up from his chair as soon as he saw a ... ...ble goals, no doubt. Yet instability is contagious, a lesson not learn by Serb politicians. Even as the Bosnian uprising was in progress, King ... ... a state within a state (a feat later emulated by the IMRO). Those bureaucrats and politicians not already members of the shady outfit, obeyed its ... ...tion of democratic forces included Croat as well as Serb intellectuals and wannabe politicians. Vladko Macek himself - later, the epitome of Croat ... ...0 "Getting history wrong is an essential part of being a nation." Ernest Renan, French historian "We spent the 1990's worrying about a Greater ... ...ion from tortured slave to vengeful master. 3. Narcissism and Leadership Are all politicians narcissists? The answer, surprisingly, is: not unive... ...faceted activity. Rather, it is a spectrum. At the one end, we find the "actors" - politicians who regard politics as their venue and their conduit... ... fundamentalists have more in common with Muslim militants than with East Coast or French intellectuals. Muslims have always been the West's most... ...ell There's a story about Robespierre that has the preeminent rabble-rouser of the French Revolution leaping up from his chair as soon as he saw a ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book V : My Visit to Singaling

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...nly about health care. Public pension funds have been insolvent for years. Politicians in democracies like to promise more benefits along with lower ... ...r—and we don‟t have near the money that Norway has. I don‟t know why your politicians think that people must be forced into retirement so that young... ...ear the reduction of your Anglo population. The Britons, the Germans, the French, the Chinese all espouse the wish to keep their populations as ethn... ...the Middle East are generally pushing for women‟s equality and democracy. Politicians, scholars and non-governmental organizations agree that social... ...sary inconvenience. Then we saw this ridiculous tradition picked up by the politicians and businessmen in every country. Chinese and Indians often ab... ...ho have moved from poor to richer countries. “And don‟t forget that French President Nicolas Sarkozy is the son of a Hungarian immigrant.” ... ... that were not made by Americans—all contribute to your woes. Luckily your politicians have the answers. Borrow more money to give everyone a tax bre...

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A Unifying Field in Logics : Neutrosophic Logic. Neutrosophy, Neutrosophic Set, Neutrosophic Probability

By: Florentin Smarandache

...2. Neutrosophy, a New Branch of Philosophy A) Etymology: Neutro-sophy [French neutre < Latin neuter, neutral, and Greek sophia, skill/wisdom] mea... ...here confirm the rule! A minor poet, for example, who wrote in English or French or German is better known than a genius like Eminescu who wrote in ... ...g spheres. Freud was right... One uses women in espionage, in influencing politicians' decisions, in attracting businessmen - by their feminine char... ...am not able to do. I cannot for I can. Paradoxal sleep, from a French "Larousse" dictionary (1989), is a phase of the sleep when the drea... ..., Jean- Marie Benoist, Philippe Némo who represented the "New Philosophy" French group). The power of the monarch derives from his powerless pe... ... are not! People are the same, but... different. 44 His irony against politicians: "the politicians of the ancient world were always talking abo... ... Marcel wrote "Les hommes contre l'humain", speaking on brain-washing (in French: le lavage du cerveau), and on tabula rasa. Mass-media partially do... ...y occurs in the humanistic field? Let’s take the proposition “99% of the politicians are crooked” (Sonnabend 1997, Problem 29, p. 25). “No,” somebo... ...997, Problem 29, p. 25). “No,” somebody furiously comments, “100% of the politicians are crooked, even more!” How do we interpret this “even more” ...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

... the setting of priorities to a political class or elite is thoroughly discredited. Politicians cannot be trusted, regardless of the system in which... ...resented in other, equally important, vocations (for instance, among company CEOs, politicians, diplomats, managers of higher education institution... ...tal sin by transforming itself into an outpost and beacon of Western (first British-French, then American) neo-colonialism. As the representative of... ...ourse, is by far the most damaging. (5) Reallocation Fees Benefits paid (mainly to politicians and political decision makers) in order to affect th... ... towards rendering corruption obsolete. Note - The Psychology of Corruption Most politicians bend the laws of the land and steal money or solicit... ... time. Napoleon justified his gory campaigns by claiming that they served to spread French ideals throughout a barbarous world. Kipling bemoaned th... ...ation is preserved. A collapsing bedpost (as in Maury's famous dream) will become a French guillotine, for instance. The message conserved: there i... ...society and the individuals comprising it can maximize their worst outcomes. The French have a saying: "Good bookkeeping – makes for a good frien... ...says about the future of the Internet - click HERE. 4. The period between 1789 (the French Revolution) and 1989 (the demise of Communism) is likely ...

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