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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...ization. He proceeded to negotiate Burma's independence from Britain and its first elections. He was murdered - with his brother and four others - ... ...nically insane. Men and women were equally represented. http://www.csicop.org/si/2000-07/dancing-mania.html http://atshq.org/ Dead Horse Arum ... ...sand zetta (one septillion). Juan Enriquez quotes a study by the University of California at Berkeley in his tome, "As the Future Catches You -... ...nk by up to 2.5 meters. Numerous tsunamis affected locales as far as Crescent City, California. The fault extended for 1000 kilometers and there wer... ...than 300 prisoners. Due to the body's high resistance, an alternating current of 2000-2400 volts is applied to electrocute the condemned. Only tw... ...ychiatric Association reversed 100 year-old opinion that gays are mentally ill. In 2000 it came out in favor of same sex unions. http://www.apa... ...rivate companies of oil-containing tracts owned by the Navy, mainly in Wyoming and California. "Domes" are natural reservoirs of crude oil. The "T... ...ntempt. The Democrats failed to capitalize on the affair and lost the presidential elections in both 1924 and 1928. http://gi.grolier.com/preside... ...blies and governments were suspended and they were ruled directly from the center. Elections were supposed to be held every 4 years and anyone over...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...the world’s text, most of those once-wondrous machines were junked before 2000. 19. Free Self-Learning Laboratories. Public libraries give the or... ... generated this spirited but never-settled debate topic: Did January 1, 2000, mark the end of the twentieth century or the beginning of the twenty... ... he had earned enough to follow two brothers who had answered the lure of California gold. Stranded on the Isthmus on his way west, Darius had to det... ...hmus on his way west, Darius had to detour around South America to get to California. There, he was so successful selling supplies to gold miners an... ...eBooks created in years up to 2050 than all the paper books printed before 2000. I‘ll not try here to keep abreast of (or opine about) twenty-firs... ...er US Copyright Act to be proposed right after or during the 2016 midterm elections. Yes, copyright has become permanent in the United States as p...

...r of the World?-Although as late as 1980, Linotypes still set 80 percent of the world’s text, most of those once-wondrous machines were junked before 2000. -- 19. Free Self-Learning Laboratories.-Public libraries give the ordinary citizen access to reading material previously available only to the most elite. Advances in literacy and self-education lead to a ?Scientific Re...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...as disparate as South Korea, Japan, the Philippines, and Saudi Arabia. In January 2000, Staff Sergeant Frank J. Ronghi sexually molested, forcibly... ...ey conspire and collaborate in all manner of venality and crime and scam and rigged elections in all the countries they put the gospel to. In tryi... ... and nullify the outcomes of perfectly legal and legitimate popular and democratic elections. They did so because of economic and geopolitical inte... ... they ceaselessly and facilely hop from one lucrative sinecure to another. Lost the elections as a Senator? How about a multi-million dollar book co... ...n the same period). Despite growing energy costs, inflation was tamed, down to 4% (2000) from 8% (1999). Yet, tax revenues are still less than 17... ...1%) - growth picked up again to 4.5% , fuelled by bumper cotton and wheat crops in 2000. Pakistani citizens had as many durables as Indians. Defini... ...severe criticisms from non- governmental organizations the world over. Corpwatch, a California-based NGO, observed acidly that "in the first 18 mont... ...to distribute goods and provide services in the southern and central parts of this California-sized polity. The United Nations' own staff has been ... ...ed and starved denizens of Iraq may be holding a different viewpoint. Quoted in The Californian, Terry Burke and Alan Richards, professors at the U...

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Aesthetics

By: Florentin Smaradanche

...through gestures, attitudes, moving some subject: conference, 63 (self)elections, (self)eulogies, parade, audience, reeducation, homage, civic edu... ... happened in the last years. We may consider this luster between 1995 and 2000 as a crystallizing period for the paradoxist formula through the tirel... ...y through the Paradoxist Literary Movement”. “Trickster’s famous deeds” (2000) - theater for children - shows the clever popular hero in a paradoxi... ...he experimental literature, to whom nothing can be alien. Suburb songs (2000) capitalizes the argotic side of language (in the manner of Gelu Asta... ...994, p.80. Bledea, Ion, A Tangle of Language, in ‘Abracadabra”, Salinas, California, USA, October 1993, p.14. Vasile, Geo, The Exorcist from Phoe... ...Mircea, An Oltenian through Arizona ..., in “Universul”, North Hollywood, California, 9th year, no.199, August 1993, pp.5, 8. Rotaru, Ion, Who is F... ...96, p.60. Verzeanu, Valentin, Florentin Smarandache, in “Clipa”, Anheim, California, November 12, 1993, no.117, p.42. Editor, Publications / Awar...

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The Future of the Internet : And How to Stop It

By: Jonathan Zittrain

...ined more a curiosity than a call to arms. Keith Bostic of the University of California–Berkeley computer science department described in a retrospect... ...here are only a few excep- tions. The infamous Lovebug worm, released in May 2000, caused the largest outages and damage to Internet-connected PCs to ... ...lues at stake in end-to-end arguments, see Y ochai Benkler, e2e Map (Dec. 1, 2000) (unpublished paper from the Policy Implications of End-to-End works... ...David P . Reed et al., Active Net- working and End-to-End Arguments (Dec. 1, 2000) (unpublished paper from the Pol- icy Implications of End-to-End wor... ...ssor of computer science and molecular biology at the University of Southern California. See Wikipedia, Computer Virus, http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/... ...its development has occurred in West Coast locations such as Silicon Valley, California, and Redmond, Washington. This code has been contrasted with t... ...e to a result that they personally think is wrong). 67. See McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Comm’n, 514 U.S. 334, 360–61 (1995) (Thomas, J., concurring) (“...

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And Gulliver Returns Book III : A Visit to Kino

By: Bob Oconnor

...o much to the U.S. to keep it afloat that it practically owns New York and California! China, of course, was a vast agricultural land with a ... ...mbered in the America I left behind 20 years ago. And my brief glimpses of California last week did nothing to rinse the memories of the graffiti, t... ...wers had contributed over $35,000 to his campaigns. Representative Farr of California added a $25 million subsidy for spinach growers who hadn‘t pro... ...ear. But recognize that it‘s not only our problem, it is everybody‘s. From 2000 to around 2050 the median age of a citizen of the world will rise fr... ...ow a retirement age and by significantly better medical care. From 1900 to 2000 the life expectancy in the U.S. rose from 48 to 77. That‘s almost a t... ...lem of a rapidly graying population. ―In the last 20 years, since 2000, modern day Japan‘s over-65 population has increased to about 25%—an... ...industry, health services, human services and several at-large members. The elections take place every 2 years so we always have two-thirds of the le... ...so they can find their way to heaven. ―Early this century in the US elections, the Christian right voted in Republicans so that ‗moral values...

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The Labor Divide

By: Sam Vaknin

...changing in Norway and Denmark now that centre-right parties have won the elections), a single national agreement prevails. There is no clear trend,... ...00 computer programmers (mainly from India and Eastern Europe) since July 2000. Ireland was planning to import twenty times as many over 7 years - b... ...n American and Caribbean nationals received $15 billion in remittances in 2000 - ten times the 1980 figure. This may well be a gross underestimate. ... ...ving qualified and highly qualified workers rose sharply between 1999 and 2000, helped by better employment prospects and the easing of entry condit... ...s in the central bank and iniquitous bureaucrats in Brussels. In the last elections it won 10 percent of the votes and 53 seats. When the Belarusian... ...and of the University of Namur and James A. Robinson of the University of California at Berkeley - has now permeated the mainstream. Even the Worl... ...n Philosophy (major: Philosophy of Physics) – Pacific Western University, California, USA. Graduate of numerous courses in Finance Theory and Intern...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

...rt Solow and, more importantly, by Paul Romer, an economist from the University of California at Berkeley, clearly demonstrates. Additionally, it i... ... United Press International (UPI) The authors of a paper published by NBER on March 2000 and titled "The Foundations of Technical Analysis" - Andrew... ...he year to July as company bonuses were brutally slashed. Economists in a November 2000 conference organized by the ECB argued that a continent-wid... ...sponds in the affirmative: "Net flows (of World Bank lending) are higher prior to elections ... It is shown that a country's rate of monetary expa... ...ain categories, such as the US property and casualty market, according to an August 2000 article written by Albert Beer of America Re. ART is also c... ...Hal Varian of the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California in Berkeley summarizes the treatment of "Price Discri... ...tory of some of the greater inventions to have been incubated in IDEO, a prominent California-based design firm dubbed "Innovation U." by Fortune M... ...oup - have openly interfered on behalf of the opposition in the last parliamentary elections in Macedonia. Other NGO's have done so in Belarus and ... ...ther 50 supplanted them during the civil unrest in Macedonia a year later. Floods, elections, earthquakes, wars - constitute the cornucopia that fe...

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Laws of Destiny Never Disappear : Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World

By: Matti Sarmela

................................. I. 55 5. Popularity of house types 1982-2000 .... I. 66 6. Means of transport ............................ ... respondents actually lived in. Table 5. Popularity of house types 1982-2000 A. Opinions of questionnaire respondents B. Questionnaire respondents'... ... destination of all environmental pollutants? At the beginning of the year 2000, the average arable acreage of the remaining Finnish farms was 30 hect... ...ks or an invited high-ranking guest might have made a speech, and prior to elections, politicians also came to funerals to speak. While waiting to dep... ...a list of medicinal plants by Terje Björnland and Trond Schumacher. Univ. California Press. Brummelhuis, Hanten – Jeremy H. Kemp (eds.) 1984. Strate... ... Ethnography Unbound. Power and Resistance in the Modern Metropolis. Univ. California Press, Berkeley. Caedès, G. 1964 (1962). The Making of South... ... Life in Modern Thailand. Institute of East Asiatic Studies. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles. Diamond, Stanley (ed.) 1969 ...

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Narcissistic and Psychopathic Leaders

By: Sam Vaknin

...ical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR) [2000] where it provides the diagnostic criteria for the Narcissistic Per... ...st 75 percent of individuals diagnosed with NPD are male (AP A, DSM-IV-TR 2000)." [From the Abstract of Psychotherapeutic Assessment and Treatment... ...hilip (eds.), Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry, third edition, 1996, reprinted 2000. Oxford University Press, Oxford. Vaknin, Sam, Malignant Self Love ... ...election (and campaigning) of most currently elected office holders. Direct elections in manageable constituencies will be confined to multi-tiered,... ...ary. His regime derives its legitimacy from parliamentary and presidential elections based on a neo-liberal model of government. It is socially con... ...e Putin, he had no parliamentary or political experience. Both of them won elections by promising "order" and "prosperity" coupled with "social com... ... in Philosophy (major: Philosophy of Physics) – Pacific Western University, California, USA. Graduate of numerous courses in Finance Theory and Inte...

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

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...he weight of your body on a mattress. I had trouble sleeping on my bed in California, but these air flotation mattresses at the hotel are like being... ...redness. L‘Oreal cosmetics has the slogan ‗I‘m worth it.‘ I‘ve heard more California women spout it whenever they want to do something out of the or... ...d by tax money. Even though Sweden separated the state from the church in 2000, it still supports it. ―A surprise on that survey I just men... ...creating being. Look at the roots of today‘s religions, they go back over 2000 years. But they evolve with more complicated ideas of a soul, of a vi... ...lected legislators. Why did the U.S. take the evangelical turn it did from 2000 to 2006? Whatever the reason, that turn affected the national and man... ...presentatives of the citizens?‖ —―Right Ray. Look at what happened in California to their democratic vote. In 1994 Proposition 187 was passed by... ...te control of their government. With the Republican victories in the 2000 elections, former Republican Secretary 124 of State James Baker said i... ... branches of government. Even with the setbacks in the 2006 Congressional elections, the Republicans owned the executive and judicial branches.‖ ... ...Marx‘s Communism in the Soviet Union and in China. Any idea of democratic elections was overruled by the essential and ultimate goal of Communism. S...

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Terrorists and Freedom Fighters

By: Sam Vaknin

...tionships. It was all heart-achingly naive and it lasted 10 bloody days. Crushed by 2000 trained soldiers and horse bound artillery, the outnumbered... ...Great Powers (by making THEM redundant as well) and the opposition (by winning the elections handsomely despite all the above). By signing the Trea... ...aratism and the most successful promoter of this cause - was a member. In the 1938 elections, his party - the Peasant Party - won an astounding 80%... ...heir auspices, and even being financed by United Nations means" Milosevic, March 2000 "Getting history wrong is an essential part of being a na... ...ose its members to the more alluring pastures of statecraft. The local and general elections so laboriously (and expensively) organized in Kosovo a... ... edition, text revision [American Psychiatric Association. DSM- IV-TR, Washington, 2000] – or the DSM-IV-TR for short – has come under sustained an... .... Ph.D. in Philosophy (major: Philosophy of Physics) – Pacific Western University, California, USA. My doctoral thesis and other books are availabl...

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And Gulliver Returns Book I : Touchdown

By: Bob Oconnor

... minds of humanity. “This is Chet Rowland of World News on the California desert where we have just witnessed the final leg of the grea... .... (1) In five years, by 2030, five billion will live in the cities. Here in California our population will double to 60 million people in the first h... ...hat we can support the present world population in the style of the average Californian is not only ephemeral, its reality can never be. We may be e... ...ow God and helping people to get to heaven? But I suppose that for the last 2000 years the Christians have had this goal. Of course the Jews had that... ...just as many abortions. They don’t follow the same political party lines in elections. They act as if they are secular—except for a few hours on Sun...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...the world’s text, most of those once-wondrous machines were junked before 2000. 19. Free Self-Learning Laboratories. Public libraries give the or... ... generated this spirited but never-settled debate topic: Did January 1, 2000, mark the end of the twentieth century or the beginning of the twenty... ... he had earned enough to follow two brothers who had answered the lure of California gold. Stranded on the Isthmus on his way west, Darius had to det... ...hmus on his way west, Darius had to detour around South America to get to California. There, he was so successful selling supplies to gold miners an... ...eBooks created in years up to 2050 than all the paper books printed before 2000. I‘ll not try here to keep abreast of (or opine about) twenty-first c... ...er US Copyright Act to be proposed right after or during the 2016 midterm elections. Yes, copyright has become permanent in the United States as per...

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Facts and Fictions in the Securities Industry

By: Sam Vaknin

...Fundamental Analysis of Stocks The authors of a paper published by NBER on March 2000 and titled "The Foundations of Technical Analysis" - Andrew... ... "Many believe that a bubble was behind the high prices of Internet stocks in 1999-2000, and that short-sale restrictions prevented rational invest... ...many politicians seem to have benefited from the scam - the government, faced with elections in September, has recently decided, in defiance of IMF... ...rth of earnings reached 28 just prior to the crash. Contrast this with 45 on March 2000. In an NBER working paper published December 2001 and tell... ...ut it: "criticism that his enforcement was too heavy-handed". President Bush chose California Rep. Christopher Cox, a Republican, to replace him. ... ...uninterrupted service. Predictably, failure ensued - from electricity utilities in California to railway operators in Britain. The simultaneous cru... ...esponds in the affirmative: "Net flows (of World Bank lending) are higher prior to elections ... It is shown that a country's rate of monetary expa... .... Ph.D. in Philosophy (major: Philosophy of Physics) – Pacific Western University, California, USA. Graduate of numerous courses in Finance Theory ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VII : Book 7 Visit to Indus

By: Bob Oconnor

...nd by $11 an hour workers. 120 Scottish workers lost their jobs, but over 2000 of our people now have jobs that pay well for our economy. 13 ... ...oor people will work very hard when given the chance. I remember being in California some years ago and seeing the Mexican bra ceros working in the f... ...fessionals. Why are Indian lawyers making $10 to $20 an hour when low end California lawyers make ten to twenty times that amount? ―Pakista... ...iven as many children as they want. That was the case with the unmarried California woman with fourteen children. ―We have followed India in ... ...h. So we have one human right saying that we have the right to democratic elections and another human right to the guaranteed rights to education, a...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...uninterrupted service. Predictably, failure ensued - from electricity utilities in California to railway operators in Britain. The simultaneous cru... ...members of exploratory expeditions gone astray (the Donner Party in Sierra Nevada, California and John Franklin's Polar expedition), famine-stricke... ...ave no use for the booty. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual IV-TR (2000), the bible of psychiatry, kleptomaniacs feel "pleasure, gr... ...nalization of the violation of copyrights in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (2000) – both in the USA. These used to be civil torts. They stil... ... is. "Democracy" has long been hijacked by a plutocrats and bureaucrats. In between elections, they rule supreme, virtually unanswerable to the elec... ... and nullify the outcomes of perfectly legal and legitimate popular and democratic elections. They did so because of economic and geopolitical inte... ... they ceaselessly and facilely hop from one lucrative sinecure to another. Lost the elections as a Senator? How about a multi-million dollar book co... ...tory of some of the greater inventions to have been incubated in IDEO, a prominent California-based design firm dubbed "Innovation U." by Fortune M... ...h edition, text revision [American Psychiatric Association. DSM- IV-TR, Washington, 2000] – or the DSM-IV-TR for short – has come under sustained an...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...uninterrupted service. Predictably, failure ensued - from electricity utilities in California to railway operators in Britain. The simultaneous cru... ...members of exploratory expeditions gone astray (the Donner Party in Sierra Nevada, California and John Franklin's Polar expedition), famine-stricke... ...ave no use for the booty. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual IV-TR (2000), the bible of psychiatry, kleptomaniacs feel "pleasure, gr... ...nalization of the violation of copyrights in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (2000) – both in the USA. These used to be civil torts. They stil... ... is. "Democracy" has long been hijacked by a plutocrats and bureaucrats. In between elections, they rule supreme, virtually unanswerable to the elec... ... and nullify the outcomes of perfectly legal and legitimate popular and democratic elections. They did so because of economic and geopolitical inte... ... they ceaselessly and facilely hop from one lucrative sinecure to another. Lost the elections as a Senator? How about a multi-million dollar book co... ...tory of some of the greater inventions to have been incubated in IDEO, a prominent California-based design firm dubbed "Innovation U." by Fortune M... ...h edition, text revision [American Psychiatric Association. DSM- IV-TR, Washington, 2000] – or the DSM-IV-TR for short – has come under sustained an...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

...atform, the Internet, has been transformed beyond recognition since March 2000. From an open, somewhat anarchic, web of networked computers - it... ...on Agency), have already implemented a DOI-cum-indecs system. On November 2000, the APA's (American Publishers' Association) Open E-book Publishing S... ...750 poems and short stories from past and current issues." The more than 2000 (!) authors ever published in Ploughshares will each maintain a person... ...he 106th Congress. Some of the states have picked up the slack. Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas,... ...1999) was to reduce this unevenness by speeding democratic transmissions (elections, referenda, legal procedures) while, at the same time, reducing ... ...n Philosophy (major: Philosophy of Physics) – Pacific Western University, California, USA. Graduate of numerous courses in Finance Theory and Intern...

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When Serpents Die

By: Gerrie Ferris

...p. Don’t you forget that.” Mather said over his shoulder, “I never turn my back on elections. Don’t you forget that.” Slamming his left fist into ... ...adio station would back another candidate with an ’It’s time for a change‘ theme. “Elections have become long and costly,” Johnelle said. “Have you... ...ped with slices of roasted salmon. As Brewster uncorked a bottle of Chardonnay — a California Estancia — she gave him an appreciative nod. He knew... ...ral duty ever since. The clutch purse that went with the suit held the gun, a Colt 2000 double action 9mm. Drawing a cloche over her hair, she ra... ... Brewster met her at the door, looking sour as if he’d eaten a lemon. “The Colt 2000 is gone from the gun room,” he said. “I have it.” Br...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

... remaining 20%. That was ten years ago… now it is getting even worse: now in 20006: Personal wealth is distributed so unevenly across the world tha... ...nd the poor stay poor. But the Law itself has advanced. This country now has elections. Human rights. To what effect? Almost nothing: the status... ... million years from now, digging up a speck of dust from the Hearst Castle in California; and by analyzing this speck of dust…trying to understand w... ...ng this speck of dust…trying to understand what kind of Culture humans had in California back then… Only there would be no way for you to know that... ...me from the Hearst castle, or that there were millions of expensive houses in California, and that all the people spent a good half of their lives wo... ...s using it not to explode chemicals: he was using it to explode atoms. For 2000 years: the Greeks and Romans used the Science of Engineering to de... ...al legality, while inventing and practicing every legal corruption possible. Elections bought and sold, favors begged for and curried, lickspittles... ...re. Cursed never to find land. Never to find peace. Then why in the year 2000: does a 70-year-old modern Dutch sea captain let himself be persua... ...outright assassination, a Coup D'etat, or financing every scum on Earth to rig elections or funding insurgent guerillas… to openly imposing unfair tr...

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Across the Plains

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...ss of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2000 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University ... ...not written to you before now, you will be surprised to heare that we are in California, and that poor Thomas” (another brother, of fifteen) “is dead.... .... We went along very well till we got within six or seven hun- dred miles of California, when the Indians attacked us. We found places where they had ... ... traveld with them till we arrived at the settlements; and know I am safe in California, and got to good home, and going to school. “Jerry is working ... ... and the privi- lege of voting and not carrying his candidate at the general elections – I am sometimes tempted to suppose he is no story-teller at al...

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North America Volume Two

By: Anthony Trollope

... Iowa was admit- ted as a free State, and from that day to this Wisconsin, California, Minnesota, Oregon, and Kansas have been brought into the Union;... ... been founded. The population of St. Louis is 170,000. Of this number only 2000 are slaves. I was told that a large proportion of the slaves of Missou... ...d on behalf of the government to hire 153 Trollope that special boat for £2000 a month for three months, having given information to friends of his o... ...h the government agent, but insisted on keeping back from his own company £2000 out of the £11,000 for expenses incident to the purchase. The com- pan... ...ve special orders that a contract should be made with a man named Beard, a Californian, who had followed him from California to St. Louis. This contra... ...been violated, while the words have been held sacred; and the presidential elections are now conducted on the widest principles of universal suffrage.... ...aded in the favor of democracy, and universal suffrage in the presidential elections has been adopted. The electors are still chosen, it is true; but ... ...ing in the States is now managed by tickets. As regards these presidential elections, each party decides on a candidate. Even this primary decision is... ...hough it were merely an extension of fron- tier. But this has not been so. California and Oregon have been very much farther from Washington than the ...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 6 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...to sea to afford pro- tection to the commercial marine, and especially the California treasure ships then on their way to this coast. I also directed ... ...no engagement with Shields. He did meet and drive back with disaster about 2000 of Shields’s advance till they were met by an additional brigade of Sh... ...ur own States. Beat them 85 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six at elections, as you have overwhelmingly done, and, nothing daunted, they stil... ...sented in the Congress of the United States by members cho- sen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified vot- ers of such State shall ... ...l avail- able ways give the people a show to express their wishes at these elections. Follow law, and forms of law, as far as convenient, but at all e... .... HON. L SWETT, San Francisco, Cal.: Many persons are telegraphing me from California, begging me for the peace of the State to suspend the military e... ...enty-eight districts, I find that the quotas for sixteen of them are above 2000 and below 2700, while, of the rest, six are above 2700 and six are bel... ...0 and below 2700, while, of the rest, six are above 2700 and six are below 2000. Applying the principle to these new facts, the Fifth and Seventh dis... ...general-in-chief. The writ was suspended, upon urgent representations from California, simply to keep the peace. It never had any direct or indirect r...

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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

... 174 6.1 The Millennium Crisis 174 6.2 Post-Crisis Reflection:Agenda for 2000 182 6.3 The Attack on the USS Cole 190 6.4 Change and Continuity 1... ...istration’s Approach 203 7. THE ATTACK LOOMS 215 7.1 First Arrivals in California 215 7.2 The 9/11 Pilots in the United States 223 7.3 Assembl... ...m spending remained fairly constant between fiscal years 1998 and 2001. In 2000, there were still twice as many agents devoted to drug enforcement as ... ...s counterterrorism capability. His plan, called MAXCAP 05, was unveiled in 2000: it set the goal COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 77 Final1-4.4pp 7/17/04 9:... ...ere implemented, in part, in the House of Representa- tives after the 1994 elections, but there was no reorganization of national security functions.T... ...or Afghanistan’s warring factions in a project by the Union Oil Company of California (UNOCAL) to build a pipeline across the country. While there was... ...e United States, therefore became the primary target. For similar reasons, California also became a target for KSM. 32 KSM claims that the earlier bom... ...hanistan is near the brink of chaos. 12 Battered Afghanistan has a chance. Elections are being prepared. It is reveal- ing that in June 2004,Taliban f... ...owers among ethnic communities.Y et even if his efforts are successful and elections bring a democratic government to Afghanistan, the United States f...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 2 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...tes, by consent or by compulsion, either by accepting office, or voting at elections, or paying tax, or serving on juries, or having process served up... ...t he was content to take a few months ago, and the whole province of Lower California to boot, and to still carry on the war to take all we are fighti... ...tions. On all but one his positions have already been in- dorsed at former elections, and his party fully committed to them; but that one is new, and ... ...of them may be. We and our candi- date are in favor of making Presidential elections and the legislation of the country distinct matters; so that the ... ...the time: that is to say—(1) As governor a salary at the rate per year of $2000. (2) As estimated for office rent, clerk hire, fuel, etc., in superint... ...ad no specific means to prevent the extension of slavery to New Mexico and California, and Gen. Taylor, he confidently believed, would not encourage i... ...ean you shall go off to St. Louis, or the lead mines, or the gold mines in California, but I mean for you to go at it for the best wages you can get c...

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North America Volume One

By: Anthony Trollope

...n Canada did not, when I was in Canada, amount, as I believe, to more than 2000 men. But had it amounted to 20,000, the States would have had no just ... ...be safe against the French army acting under a French Emperor. But we sent 2000 troops to Canada, if I understand the matter rightly, to guard our pro... ...reat Britain and of Canada desired to guard ourselves. But I doubt whether 2000 or 10,000 British soldiers would be any effective guard against such i... ...have then to account for the two already admitted States on the Pa- cific, California and Oregon, and also for the unadmitted Territories, Dacotah, Ne... ...pt to marshal these huge but thinly-populated re- gions in either rank. Of California and Oregon it may prob- ably be said that it is their ambition t... ...in which is included Washington, the seat of the Federal Government 75,321 California 384,770 Oregon 52,566 The Territories of— Dacotah 4,839 Nebraska... ... are driven, when the polish of Europe has made the roughness of their own elections odious to them. “Have you seen any of our great institootions, si... ... and women of mark also, who think that women should have votes for public elections. Mr. Wendell Phillips, the Boston lecturer who advocates abolitio...

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