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...ntasy story written in 1865 by Jules Verne and is one of the earliest entries in that genre. It tells the story of three well-to-do members of a post-American Civil War gun club who build an enormous sky-facing columbiad and ride a spaceship fired from it to the moon. (Summary from Wikipedia)...

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...The Marble Faun is Hawthorne's most unusual romance. Writing on the eve of the American Civil War, Hawthorne set his story in a fantastical Italy. The romance mixes elements of a fable, pastoral, gothic novel, and travel guide. In the spring of 1858, Hawthorne was inspired to write his romance when he s...

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... II. About "After the Rain" Containing the United States I. The Roots of Anti-Americanism II. Containing the United States III. Islam and Lib... ...pire V. The Democratic Ideal and New Colonialism VI. Add Me to the List VII. The American Hostel VIII. The Semi-failed State The War in Afghan... ...I. Add Me to the List VII. The American Hostel VIII. The Semi-failed State The War in Afghanistan I. Afghan Myths II. Pakistan’s Nice Little... ...III. Russia Straddles the Divide IV. Russia’s Stealth Diplomacy V. Losing the Iraq War VI. Germany’s Rebellious Colonies VII. The Disunited Nation... ... Iraq’s Debts XIII. Kosovo’s Iraqi Lessons XIV. The Iraqi and the Madman XV. Just War or Just a War? The Roots of Anti-Americanism By: Dr. Sam V... ...sons XIV. The Iraqi and the Madman XV. Just War or Just a War? The Roots of Anti-Americanism By: Dr. Sam Vaknin The United States is one of the... ...the former. The Kosovo Liberation Army, an American anti- Milosevic pet, provoked a civil war in Macedonia tin 2001. Osama bin-Laden, another CIA go... ...e rough, immutable kernel of American narcissism. The United States was (until the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s) and still is, in some import... ...a deeply disturbed polity emerges. Also Read: The Semi-failed State The Second Civil War The Reluctant Empire To Give with Grace In God We Trust...

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...t isn’t fair. But then as my grand dad said, ‘things are never fair.’ Our American bodies are well fed, some of our minds are well read, we hold the ... ...ople in the world have access to only a total of a gallon of water a day. Americans use three gallons just to flush a toilet. Add in drinking and coo... ... global IT network for decades and are rated at least as effective as the American and European hardware and software developers. The per capita inc... ..., the visual arts of painting, sculpture and architecture and, of course, war. I want to leave the cruelty of war in the past while we live in a fut... ...toes. Why befriend insurgent ‗A‘ when insurgent ‗B‘ may win the guerrilla war. Why support the Christian side when the Muslim fighters may have the ... ...hildren for some politicians and some states are extending the mandate to civil servants. Among the plans that have been proposed are: denying educa... ...been proposed are: denying education for a third child, and pay raises for civil servants who opt for sterilization after one or two children. Politi... ...n Rule. ―I remember being in your country for a period during your war in Iraq. There was a small sect that gained publicity well beyond the ... ...e Muslim versus Muslim violence in Iraq and Afghanistan, then look at the civil strife in France with so many poor Muslims and others rioting. In Eu...

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........................................................................ 169 WAR OR PACIFISM .............................................................. .............................................................. 242 LEGAL AND CIVIL RIGHTS ................................................................. ...oint ................................................... 396 QUESTIONS OF WAR .......................................................................... ...s losing one‘s job. Sex makes us happier, as does enjoying one‘s job. The Americans, who spend much more time working are much higher on the happine... ...ed at home, in your neighborhood or in school is the truth, divine truth. Americans eat with their forks in their right hands, Europeans with the for... ... is ethical; rape is unethical, rape to avenge a social wrong is ethical. War is unethical, but this war is ethical. Abortion is unethical, denying ... ...ies ate their meals together. She was appalled by the poor manners of the American students. Her mother had taught her good table manners at home, r... ... both mind and matter are equally important. So the greatest minds of our civilization cannot agree on a starting point for our thinking. ―... ...The Church doesn‘t approve of breaking the contract. Some Catholics get a civil divorce and remarry in a civil ceremony and think they can go on rec...

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...er-mad leaders and the universal propensity to prepare for and recover from war. Plato’s city-state and Bacon’s island state were too small to be us... ...s, voyagers would set out periodically to bring back the knowledge of other civilizations to make their own kingdom better. The arts and sciences, t... ...s and manufactures, the books and instruments were shared— 6 making every civilization richer. Because, after all, knowledge is power. Such a worl... ...t remember, I have been alone for 25 years. I want to jump into the chaos of civilization and visit some countries that interest me. Some countries h... ... Poland or Venezuela but would have been considerably less than the poorest American state, Mississippi, with an average per capita income of $18,00... ...re monetary goals while the taxes rose to take care of the education of the war babies. The 60s saw an increase in the cold war between the East and ... ...ough to go around and give everyone the equivalent income of today’s average American or Brit. The other day I mentioned the wealth of the world when... ...urg would have to give up about $55,000 per year. The average Norwegian and American would have to give up about $35,000 a year. Would they stand st... ...praise God when blessings come—whether it is good weather or a victory in a war or on the football field. “Whether it is retirement pay incr...

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...e the problems that plagued China during the 1900s. There were 40 years of war then 40 years of backward moving communism. But China is now making t... ...nes from the Old Testament, these bronze doors of Kino depicted the age of civilization in both the East and the West. There were the depictions of L... ...ves, but I wondered. The president informed me that they had not yet had a war and that in Kino they were keeping their 7 armed forces at a minim... ...ndage to a prosperous economy. Still, she warned, Kino was contemplating a war to stop the air and water pollution of the United States and Europe w... ...or strawberries. 9 ―World cotton prices have never been lower but American cotton farmers earn nearly twice as much for their crops because... ...ities can commence. An agricultural surplus is the essential for every true civilization. As in the West, our machinery and robots now do the work th... ...eryone knows there are problems. There is a big gap between rich and poor. Civil liberties are barely surfacing. One party rule has many drawbacks. B... ...fe by the Chinese or the realities of the ill-conceived war in Iraq for the Americans and British—it doesn‟t take long for the truth to be known. The... ... price of their exports up. The Chinese yuppies are following the American way of pursuing money and the things it can bring—less free time...

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... the Organic Universe and Organic Life. 3: The origins of modern humans going back 25 million years. 4: Human Psycho-biology. 5: The beginnings of civilization. 6: The effect of civilization upon humans. 7: Death, the existence of evil and its effect on humans. Offered as a free E-book at: http://thepathofsplitness.com/ ...

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...ho-biologic Totality. Chapter 5: Modern Humans: Pgs 267-299 The Transition from Hunter-gatherers to Settlements Chapter 6: Civilization Pgs 300-704 A: The Beginnings of Civilization Pgs 705-1474 B: The Effect of Civilization on Humans Pgs 1475-1868 Chapter 7: Entities and the Alternative ...

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...rs to Settlements Chapter 6: Civilization Pgs 300-703 A: The Beginnings of Civil... ...: The Beginnings of Civilization Pgs 704-1469 B: The Effect of Civilization on Humans Pgs 1470-1868 Chapter 7: ... ... The Geometric Structure of Self-Awareness Pg 163 The Geometric Structure of Civilization Pg 163 Balanced and Imbalanced Awareness Ph 164 The Re... ... Pg 287 Freedom and Irresponsibility Pg 288 Ownership Pg 290 Law Pg 291 War Pg 296 Conclusion Chapter Six ‘A’: Civilization The Beginning... ...and attacked and killed by the pack animals that arrived in such numbers that war broke out. It saved them from the chaos of fighting over a kill. ... ...that slit finally reached the surface of Africa to create the Rift Valley. War is created by breaking the peace. When was the first peace broken?... ...ew lions? When there were millions of grazing animals? Why didn’t the North American natives colonize the land where millions of bison lived? It ... ...hapter Three: Summary of Hominid-Human development 205 The earliest North American cultures invented bone-tools and flint tools by themselves. B... ...plitting with crude stones as the first form of stone technology. After North American humans began splitting Mammoth-bones: did they start evolving...

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...rlier.” “Yes, we did.” She gave a cautious smile, as though surprised by his civility. “I’m very sorry about what I said earlier. Thank you for try... ...rt’s voice but Otto only grunted again, and the sound blasted Kurt out of his civility zone. “One grunt yes, two grunts no?” he asked. “Fuck off,” ... ...in awards like that without a shitload of talent.” “So he and Otto are both Americans?” Kurt leaned closer to Adam. “Do they travel together?” “N... ...eg bands jangled under his curious fingers. Draped next to it were a homemade war bridle and a casting harness. He blew out a sympathetic breath fo... ...blanket was folded on a chair and littered with pocket castoffs: a mixture of American and Canadian coins, a clump of wrinkled betting tickets and a... ...sture. And though it was clear sex meant little to him, she’d assumed he’d be civil. Had assumed they would still have a professional relationship—a ...

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...broad and contentious problem. While the reader may not agree with all of Major Orr’s assumptions and conclusions, this larger effort is vital to the American military’s capability to cope successfully with a rapidly changing and increasingly dangerous world. In this larger sense, the importance of Major Orr’s study goes far beyond the particular problems of C3I....

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...I COMBAT OPERATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Sun Tzu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Objectives of War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Civil-Military Relationships . . . . . . . . . . 2 Principles of War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Tactical Principles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Carl von Clausewitz . ...

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...sychological Operations Roles Begin to Blur . . . . 8 Notes . . . .12 3 A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE OF MILITARY PROPAGANDA . . . . .15 Revolutionary War . . . . . 16 Civil War . . . . .17 Spanish–American War . . . . .18 World War I . . . . .19 World War II: The War against Germany . . . . .21 World War II: The War against Japan . . . . .23 Korea and Vietnam . . . ....

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...fits through the Employment Bureau. This is much like the very successful American and British schemes of “Welfare to Work”. I recommend linking ... ...able only to the Great Depression in the USA. In the USA, in 1932, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was established to tackle nature conserv... ...re is 10% and in Ireland – 3%. In each 5-year period only 25% of low paid Americans are in a poor family at some point (the figure is 10% in the UK)... ...ung become the kernel of long-term unemployment. This is because a tug of war, a basic conflict of interests exists between the “haves” and “have-no... ...nfluence on economists and governments during and immediately after World War II, with the result that monetary policy was not tried very much durin... ... employment was generally accepted in most industrial countries after the war. In 1944 the British government stated in its White Paper on Employmen... ...fits through the Employment Bureau. This is much like the very successful American and British schemes of “Welfare to Work”. We will link the siz... ...ump of labour" fallacy. IIIg. Administrative Measures: Public Works The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was established in the USA in 1932. It o... ...speak of a reduction of poverty by requiring the layoff of 25 per cent of civil servants? ... And when the IMF demands that Bulgaria reduce salaries...

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...s business as a cryptanalyst and a designer of specialized man­ ual systems not long after World War n. It seemed to me in those days that the job was... ...buming i8Sue and is consuming a good partofourcurrent COMSEebDeBort. We have to go back to World War Dfor a look at our first voice encr,.-ption equip... ...on components-everythingexcept the handset which sits on top. So. for the first time since World War n with the SIGNIN. we found ourselves building ph... ...0 at that for the nut leveD years or 10. The war ended; most or·the people involved weDt back to civilian life; the files were retired. dispersed, aDd... ...he Justowriter. They estimated that the signals were strong enough to have continued oat • far u American University IJ'OUDda three blocb away. (The I... ...munications System and the National Communications System (NCS) which inter- .' nneets strategic civil organizations along with the Defense Department... ...• I. • • • • • • ;. • IIEGRET UtNDLi "II: 88MI!'" eH2IINNEU ONLi OIIGINAL 3 ICAO (International Civil Aeronautical Organization), other airmen, and U... ...iOllS, or in eIcctronica bcpn to perceive a market for electronic crypto-equipments. A few otber American companies bcJ8D buildin& crypto­ equipment i...

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...WTH RATE 146 REAL WEALTH PER PERSON 147 BORROWING 147 BUDGET DEFICITS AND NATIONAL DEBTS 148 CRIMEANDITSCOSTS 150 FOREIGN AID AND GLOBILIZATION 152 4 WAR OR PACIFISM 152 THERE ARE NO ANSWERS 153 THINKING EFFECTIVELY155 HOW DO WE KNOW WHAT WE THINK WE KNOW? 155 EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE 159 THEORY AS A START TO SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY 162 HISTORICAL EVIDENCE 163 EVOLUTION 171 ACCEPTING...

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...S POWER ................................................................................................................................... 41 WAR AN... ...ng conscious choices.‖ —―Well Ray, we like to think that we can think for ourselves and our quest for a religious afterlife and our civil ... ...id backwards while Kino and Singaling have taken over the values which once made us great. This saddens me, but it was to be expected. ―All civili... ...‘t be surprised when young Germans tortured and killed for Hitler, when young Chinese and Cambodians killed for Mao or Pol Pot, or even young Americ... ...eas here. ―The physiological, safety, love and esteem needs are called ‗basic needs‘ by Maslow. These needs should be easily met in any civili... ...Let‘s look at the case for some vitamins. ―The Danes found that when they sold butter to other countries during and after the World War. ... ... in the vitamin D producing sun, could add the A and D to their skim milk. They don‘t, but are finally thinking about it—sixty years after the Americ... ...ental side, wartime British Prime Minister, historian and author Winston Churchill had a father who wrote of him ‗I have an idiot for a son.‘ Americ... ...mit that violence in films, TV programming and video games, helps to make better soldiers—where killing is an ideal form of behavior. In World War I ...