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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...guerrilla movements in eastern Van (the Armenakans, in 1885) and in Russia. Radical nationalist parties were established by Russian-Armenian emigran... ...t our America can only be ruled through a well-managed, shrewd despotism." The National Geographic describes how: "William Tudor, the Ameri... ...ns of investing himself with arbitrary power.' " When, in 1828, a constitutional convention in Colombia rejected amendments to the constitution t... ...er, Aung San Suu Kyi is the daughter of an illustrious figure in Burmese history, a national hero - Aung San, who was murdered in 1947. Aung San... ...isted. Most of the Democrats accepted this solution. This led to a schism in the Democratic party. The "fire eaters" left it and established thei... ...tax were yet to be invented. The states seceded one by one, following secession conventions and state-wide votes. The Confederacy (Confederate S... ...n Shelton Laurel, North Carolina. The Ku Klux Klan was the paramilitary arm of the Democratic party in the South, though never officially endorsed ... ...1906 Gorky lived in St. Petersburg and participated in the activities of the Social Democratic Party. When it split in 1903, he, indeed, supported t... ...they called "War Communism" (1917- 1921), the militarization of the economy. Between 1916 and 1920, industrial output plunged by more than four fift...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

...act this way? Mergers and acquisitions enhance market concentration. According to conventional wisdom, the more concentrated the industry, the hig... ...one complain about being able to raise prices in a post-merger market? Apparently, conventional wisdom is wrong. Market concentration leads to pric... ...reds of examples - from bankruptcy law to income security, from flood mitigation to national defense, and from consumer protection to deposit insur... .... Aware of the existence of this Damocles sword, the European Union and the trans-national pharmaceutical lobby have come out last May in favor of... ...al Drugs" discovered immense variations in the prices of medicines among different national markets. But, surprisingly, these price differences wer... ...stitutions in doubt, tarnishes the entire political class, and, thus, endangers the democratic system and the rule of law, property rights included.... ... constituency. Though unelected and ignorant of local realities, they confront the democratically chosen and those who voted them into office. A fe... ...ities and finances. Light disinfects. The solution is to force NGOs to become both democratic and accountable. All countries and multinational orga... ...loyed. The Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional laws banning child labor as late as 1916. This decision was overturned only in 1941. The GAO publis...

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Modelling of Rationality...and Beyond the Physics

By: Gh. C. Dinulescu

...truction* based on a non-contradictory assertional system*, as well as by conventions of symbolic representation of the constitutive notions. As reg... ...r the communities where criminality is regarded as a tribute paid to the ″democratic freedom″. One should mention that if in the case of beneficent ... ...rejected due to their lack of compliance with the immutable principles of conventional science. An example that could challenge the rigidness of sci... ...he earthly culture and civilization benefited of knowledge other than the conventional ones, that is inaccessible to us even at present, makes us re... ...his theory was based on much too restrictive ″preliminary conditions″. In 1916 he was ″compelled″ to reformulate his hypotheses within the framework... ...atifications for the fine results obtained by his students at the local, national and even international school contests. He started his philosoph...

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Aaron's Rod

By: D. H. Lawrence

...people have nothing to do, except their bit of work—and talk perhaps about national rule, just for a pas- time.” 23 D. H. Lawrence “They have to earn... ...—it sounded so remote and absurd. “What, play bridge or poker or something conventional of that sort?” said Josephine in her distinct voice, speaking ... ...“Do you think they’ll make a stand against the govern- ment?” “What for?” “Nationalisation.” “They might, one day.” “Think they’d fight?” “Fight?” “Ye... ...ss. “And a funny thing you know—how you don’t notice things. In—let me see—1916, the German guns were a lot better than ours. Ours were old, and when ... ...he expected homage: and how he got it! Homage, like most things, is just a convention and a social trick. Aaron found himself paying homage, too, to t... ... crowd, shouting, becoming vicious. Over the shop-door hung a tricolour, a national flag. The shop was closed, but the men began to knock at the door.... ... a strange back-water. And the old families are very proud still, in these democratic days. They have a great opinion of themselves, I am told.” “Well... ...casion. He made the two elderly people uncomfortable with his silence: his democratic silence, Miss Wade might have said. However, Miss Wade lived out... ....— Oh, they’ll all come to realise it, when they’ve had a bit more of this democratic washer-women business.” Levison was laughing, with a slight snee...

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Notes on Life and Letters

By: Joseph Conrad

............................................. 98 A NOTE ON THE POLISH PROBLEM—1916 ......................................................................... ...and unlawful, through resignation or revolt, by the clever manipulation of conventions or by sol- emn hanging on to the skirts of the latest scientifi... ...estricted. It is not difficult to perceive why. Maupassant is an intensely national writer. He is so intensely national in his logic, in his clearness... ...corded in the whole body of his work with the unerring lucidity of a great national writer. The first stirrings, the first gleams of the great forces ... ...are Russian of course. Never was a writer so profoundly, so whole-souledly national. But for non- Russian readers, Turgenev’s Russia is but a canvas o... ...ation, for the honour, for the fun of the thing. The virtuous, industrious democratic States of to-morrow may yet be reduced to fighting for a crust o... ... arouse her cupidity be- cause she had salt mines of her own. No doubt the democratic complexion of Polish institutions was very distasteful to the co... ... its problems by its distant friends, the West- ern Powers, which in their democratic development must recognise the moral and intellectual kinship of... ...own humane culture—the offspring of the West. A NOTE ON THE POLISH PROBLEM—1916 WE MUST START from the assumption that promises made by proclamation a...

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