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...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... ...urveyed 16,710 people in Britain, China, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Jordan, Nigeria, Pakistan, Russia, Spain, Turkey and the ... ...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... ...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 ... ...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... ...le of Culture in the Development of Narcissistic Personality Disorders in America, Japan and Denmark": "Individualistic narcissistic structures of ... ...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 ... ...gain. Thirdly, there is a treasure trove of successful nation- building in Germany, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore by the much maligned USA. These ...
...ed when compensation is linked to performance. Thus, according to "The Economist", Japanese wages - with a backdrop of rampant deflation - shrank 5... ...y reducing interest rates below the level of inflation. This has been the case in Japan in the last few years and is now emerging as a problem in ... ...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 ... ...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...
...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... ...hing cards on their way in and out. For a long time, it seemed as though Japan succeeded where communism failed. Its unemployment rate was eerily l... ...d 8 market rigidities in 20 countries (including the EU, USA, Canada, and Japan) between the years 1960-96. The unemployment rate in an imaginary co... ...forest fires, and constructed forest roads and trails. They lived in semi-military work camps, were provided with food rations and a modest monthly ... ... This Keynesian tradition continues in many countries - from deflationary Japan to racially imbalanced South Africa - to this very day. Such workers... ...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...
... 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...
...ned to human speech and can distinguish sounds better than adults do. Chinese and Japanese babies react differently to "pa" and to "ba", to "ra" 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, ... ...lumbian Mixtec). Some societies are more tolerant of consensual incest than others (Japan, India until the 1930's, Australia). The list is long an... ... 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...
...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... ... So far we have English, Latin, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Swedish, Danish, Welsh, Portuguese, Old Dutch, Bulgarian, Dutch/... ...r information. I was hooked. In 1994, while teaching at a university in Japan, I created what was probably one of the first (if not the first) pap... ... leading 500 new (web) media firms Internet Industry Map - Ownership and alliances determine status, control, and access in the Internet industry. ... ...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 ...
...d it; and in her present wrestle with the scheme of a large country estate involving new intimacies, anxieties, the courtship of rival magnates, follo... ...rhaps! There’s a march in V erdi’s Attila and I Lombardi, I declare I’m in military step when I hear them, as in the old days, after leaving the Opera... ...y by thinking; instantly rebuking the thought; for he had read chapters of Military History. He sat eyeing the front row of figures in his third-class... ...orage and provision at every stage of a march on London, are marked in the military offices of these people; and that, with their barking Journals, is... ...e, at his reading of a lengthy report in a newspaper of a Wedding Ceremony involving his favourite Bishop for bridegroom: a report to make one glow li... ...Our Conquerors tra-amiable; for he certainly is not in training, he has no alliances, and he must diplomatize; and the German is a strong one; a relat... ...mp by the cast of more than a crow into it, and he is bent on establishing alliances; frightens the supple Signor Jeridomani to lingual fixity; eulogi... ... want, is to be sure of our power, so as not to go hunting and fawning for alliances. Up along that terrace Miss Nesta lives. Brighton would be a choi... ...touched Nesta simply, as a young girl to be protected, without abhorrently involving the woman. He had his ideas of the Spirit of Woman stating her ca...
... plebiscite, and equal rights for women. It makes no dis- tinction between military and civilian targets. Collateral damage is not in its lexicon. We ... ...tly behind Lewin. Lewin had served four years as an officer in the Israeli military. He may have made an attempt to stop the hijackers in front of him... ...mately 530 miles per hour. 61 All on board, as well as many civil- ian and military personnel in the building, were killed. The Battle for United 93 A... ...y that America had attacked Islam;America is responsible for all conflicts involving Muslims.Thus Americans are blamed when Israelis fight with Palest... ...ting body for the consortium of terrorist groups with which he was forging alliances. It was composed of his own al Qaeda Shura together with leaders ... ...became indepen- dent states. 39 This pattern of expansion through building alliances extended to the United States. A Muslim organization called al Kh... ...ons, and convictions. Counterterrorism and counterintelligence work, often involving lengthy intelligence investigations that might never have positiv... ...pply for and use traditional criminal warrants. For intel- ligence matters involving international terrorism, however, the rules were different. For m... ...ban in return for safe haven. Bin Ladin also may have used money to create alliances with other terrorist organizations, although it is unlikely that ...
...a nation we have vanquished our common enemies; as a nation we have formed alliances, and made treaties, and en- tered into various compacts and conve... ...y it, but for the purposes and objects merely personal, such as thirst for military glory, revenge for personal affronts, ambition, or private compact... ...ions it appears that those gentlemen are greatly mistaken who suppose that alliances offensive and defensive might be formed between these confederaci... ... should be more desirous to guard against the others by the aid of foreign alliances, than to guard against foreign dangers by alliances between thems... ...ch greater distresses than it commonly is in those countries where regular military establishments have long obtained. The disciplined armies always k... ...n. In this country the scene would be altogether reversed. The jealousy of military establishments would postpone them as long as possible. The want o... ...nning through every part of the society, cannot be particularized, without involving a detail too tedious and uninteresting to compensate for the inst... ...ce them, alto- gether abortive, or attended with slaughter and desolation, involving the innocent with the guilty; of general inbecility, confusion, a... ... an objection to the principle of a guaranty in the federal government, as involving an officious interference in the domestic concerns of the members...
...om- pel our intellectual admiration. In this volume the trifle called “The Military Manoeuvres at Montil,” apart from its far-reaching irony, embodies... ...ts lurid blaze the in- sufficiency of Europe, the inferiority of minds, of military and administrative systems, stood exposed with pitiless vividness.... ...culiar sanity of a state of war: mostly among the Russians, of course. The Japanese have in their favour the tonic effect of success; and the in- nate... ... in- nate gentleness of their character stands them in good stead. But the Japanese grand army has yet another advantage in this nerve-destroying cont... ...and meditation had little or nothing to do; by the weary platitudes on the military situation which (apart from geographi- cal conditions) is the same... .... Meanwhile till the time comes when there will be no frontiers, there are alliances so shamelessly based upon the exigencies of suspicion and mistrus... ...nother danger sprang up, a danger arising naturally from the new political alliances dividing Europe into two armed camps. It was the danger of silenc... ...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...
... 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... ...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... ...Mexico; so it seems to be with the Europeans in China, and already even in Japan: there is no necessity to recall how it was with the Spaniards in Sou...