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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...ved as trying to impose its narcissistic pseudo-culture upon a world exhausted by wars hot and cold and corrupted by vacuous materialism. Recent a... ...d) Mahan doctrines. Wilson's Fourteen Points brought the USA nothing but two World Wars and a Cold War thereafter. It is time to disengage. Note -... ...the height of an international crisis pitting China against it - is nothing if not revolutionary. American history is re-cast as an inevitable prog... ...bly put himself in a straitened circumstance someday. When one indulges oneself in wars of aggression under the pretext of 'self security' will pos... ... fundamentalists have more in common with Muslim militants than with East Coast or French intellectuals. Muslims have always been the West's most... ... time. Napoleon justified his gory campaigns by claiming that they served to spread French ideals throughout a barbarous world. Kipling bemoaned th... ...s also politically active in Mohammed Nabi Mohammadi's Harakat-i-Inqilab-i-Islami (Revolutionary Islamic Movement), which later opposed the Taliban... ...Osama bin Laden. Many of these share the same old background in Marxist- inspired revolutionary movements in the Middle East. Ideology and facade ... ...machinations, Spain and Britain are trying to obstruct the ominous re- emergence of French-German dominance. By catering to popular aversion of Am...

The antecedents and aftermath of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the role of the United States in international affairs.

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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...Armenian lives. In 1909, in Adana, more than 23,000 Armenians were massacred as the warships of the Great Powers stood idly by. In 1912-3 the Great ... ... Simon Bolivar (1783-1830) is a Latin American folk hero, revered for having been a revolutionary freedom fighter, a compassionate egalitarian and a... ...the creation of a professional army (in the Cartagena Manifesto). Far from being a revolutionary he, justly, opposed the reliance on guerrilleros a... ...on by one, Dr. James Barlow. The baby was less fortunate. In the meantime, the French obstetrician Baudeloque published a book describing dozen... ...e states. http://dmoz.org/Society/History/By_Region/North_America/United_ States/Wars/Civil_War/ http://dmoz.org/Society/Military/People/Person... ... 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... ... Within less than 7 years, production in many parts of the economy reverted to pre- revolutionary levels. Nor did the NEP die with Lenin. It continu... .../www.doc.mmu.ac.uk/aric/eae/Air_Quality/Older/Great_London _Smog.html Soccer War Wars were fought for strange reasons - but none as bizarre as th...

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From Chaos to Harmony

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...in a third and even a fourth world war. He warned that these would be nuclear wars that would result in the obliteration of most of the world’s pop... ...m,” comes from the Latin word, alter, which means “other.” The 19 th century French philosopher, Auguste Comte, defined altruism as “the op- posite... ...- ly, the majority of the world population will be extinct through horrendous wars, and the few survivors will still have to carry out Nature’s plan... ...eturns to its land: “And the children of Ishmael are des- tined to evoke great wars in the world, and the children of Edom will gather over them and ... ...ign of the Universe and the life whose home it is. The Science of Kabbalah, a revolutionary work that is unmatched in its clarity, depth, and appeal...

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Unlocking the Zohar

By: Rav Michael Laitman

... history: why we have developed one way and not another, and why all the wars and changes we have undergone took place. It also relates to the futu... ...is only found in this wisdom of truth” (Ramchal, Rules of the Book Moses’ Wars, “First Rule”). chapter 5: The Actual Reality 75 the desire, but stu... ...to receive for ourselves, it is the source of all the worries, suffering, wars, and slaughter we cannot escape. They weaken our bodies with all sort... ...of the Universe and the life that exists in it. The Science of Kabbalah, a revolutionary work unmatched in its clarity, depth, and appeal to the inte... ...multaneously interpreted into seven languages—English, Russian, Spanish, French, german, Italian, and Turkish—by skilled and experienced interprete...

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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 ... ... as it openeth and cleareth under its purifying influence; if we were like a council of revolutionary empirics, sat down to reconstitute the world an... ...hen Satan shall rack the bowels, and tear the heart-strings of human peace; and stir up wars to the end of the earth for ever, until God, born of the... ...e, behold the works of the Lord, what, desolations he hath made in the earth. He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow,... ...rn of the Virgin, containeth in it a deeper and more blessed mystery than the making of wars to cease unto the ends of the earth; bringing to the tr...

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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... ...ulam began to study Kab- balah with – The Rabbi from Porsov (a small town near Warsaw). My R AV, D I S C I P L E A N D G RO U P 333 rav told me that... ...oy, but outside that will. According to the Zohar, there will indeed be great wars, but they will be internal ones, within each and every one of us.... ... u Magog pens at a spiritual degree and not as it does in our world, where the wars and torments happen before our eyes. S P I R I T UA L I T Y A N D... ...ign of the universe and the life whose home it is. The Science of Kabbalah, a revolutionary work that is unmatched in its clar- ity, depth, and appea...

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The Zohar: Annotations to the Ashlag Commentary

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...the devastations, including the ruin of the First and the Second Temples, wars, adultery and murder. We only need to realize what exactly the Torah ... ...tion with the letter Zayin is defined as a Kli Zayin (weapon), and all the wars with the impure forces emerge from her, like the weekdays that prepar... ...er and merging with the Creator in our properties. It is precisely in the wars with the impure forces that we extract the sparks of the Light that t... ...of the Universe and the life that exists in it. The Science of Kabbalah, a revolutionary work unmatched in its clarity, depth, and appeal to the inte... ... and Turkish. In the near future, broadcasts will also be translated into French, Greek, Polish, and Portuguese. As with everything else, the live b...

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And Gulliver Returns Book V : My Visit to Singaling

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...uying power more if you hadn‟t borrowed from China to finance your recent wars and tax breaks? Your leaders didn‟t look at the long term trends and ... ...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... ... their chances for true equality of opportunity. “As with every revolutionary idea, the leaders often suffer. In the West, feminists were o... ...led. “This will probably make them better killers in your frequent wars, but it may also make them more ready to be more brutal spouse and ch... ...ho have moved from poor to richer countries. “And don‟t forget that French President Nicolas Sarkozy is the son of a Hungarian immigrant.” ...

... gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to s...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...h Scandinavian tongues mingle with those of their Viking cousins, but the French language may exert even greater impact on the evolution of English.... ... such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to those of the French, Germans, English, and eventually worldwide public-ations. The d... ...xpanding the sharing of knowledge upset the balance of power and spawned revolutionary changes in civilization after civilization.‖ —Brad Bradford... ...dle large quantities of goods. Royalty and temple priests used the then-revolutionary InfoTech to record sales of land, crops, and livestock, not ... ...ts to spell it. Forming spoken words from letters this way introduced a revolutionary thinking process. Adding one sound after another, as in c-a-... ...ctory, he demanded—and received—the losers‘ promise to join him in future wars. In return, he withdrew from their territory. Nevrtheless, when th... ...ocrats as quickly as possible in order to forestall having to wage future wars against them. Mongols launch three-decade expansion Genghis Khan‘... ... together and became Britain’s dominant language. Then the Normans added French to that mix. Invaders from the North We now step back in time an... ... be mixed:  On the religious front, it may have fostered the religious wars of the sixteenth century.  Because it threatened to obviate the nee...

...eded for modern science to emerge in the West. -- 12. Invaders from the North Scandinavian tongues mingle with those of their Viking cousins, but the French language may exert even greater impact on the evolution of English. The Treasure of Our Tongue nourishes the rise of democracies. -- 13. He Unchained Books-The German goldsmith’s invention frees access to library books...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...h Scandinavian tongues mingle with those of their Viking cousins, but the French language may exert even greater impact on the evolution of English.... ... such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to those of the French, Germans, English, and eventually worldwide public-ations. The doo... ...xpanding the sharing of knowledge upset the balance of power and spawned revolutionary changes in civilization after civilization. —brad bradford ... ...andle large quantities of goods. Royalty and temple priests used the then-revolutionary InfoTech to record sales of land, crops, and livestock, not ... ...ts to spell it. Forming spoken words from letters this way introduced a revolutionary thinking process. Adding one sound after another, as in c-a-... ...ctory, he demanded—and received—the losers‘ promise to join him in future wars. In return, he withdrew from their territory. Nevrtheless, when they... ...ocrats as quickly as possible in order to forestall having to wage future wars against them. Mongols launch three-decade expansion Genghis Khan‘s ... ... together and became Britain’s dominant language. Then the Normans added French to that mix. Invaders from the North We now step back in time and ... ... be mixed:  On the religious front, it may have fostered the religious wars of the sixteenth century.  Because it threatened to obviate the nee...

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Narcissistic and Psychopathic Leaders

By: Sam Vaknin

...e narcissist is preoccupied with ideal love, the construction of brilliant, revolutionary scientific theories, the composition or authoring or pain... ...usly assembled business conglomerates go to pieces. "Earth shattering" and "revolutionary" scientific discoveries and theories are discredited. Soci... ...sly assembled business conglomerates go to pieces. "Earth shattering" and "revolutionary" scientific discoveries and theories are discredited. Soci... ...pe - rather than at Africa or Asia or Latin and Central America. Both World Wars were colonial wars fought on European soil. Moreover, Nazi Germany... ...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... ...s well). Reinvigorated armies (and industrialists) often force expansionary wars upon their reluctant ostensible political masters. Should Putin fai... ...ture Russia as a Creditor Pinks in Space - The Space Industry Russia's Vodka Wars Lukoil's Changing Fortunes Russia's British Turning Point Let My Peo...

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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 ... ...rising in the London "Daily News" of October 21, 1903 "The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization directs its eyes neither to the West,... ...and of the dangers of inviting the fox to fight the wolf. The original "Macedonian Revolutionary Organization" (MRO) was established in Sofia. The ... ...ount as we consider the prospects for a reform solution to Balkan problems. First, revolutionary politics was not the foremost issue for the Christ... ... propaganda and in the seeding of armed bands in Macedonia prior to the two Balkan wars. Its biggest achievement was probably the inception of nume... ...ivilization was at stake. This was the background to the onslaught of the Balkan Wars. Serbia collaborated with the more potent of its potent... ...Bulgaria struck a bargain to expel the Ottomans from Europe (see above, the Balkan Wars). Thus, with the field narrowing and getting more crowded, ... ...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 ... ... fundamentalists have more in common with Muslim militants than with East Coast or French intellectuals. Muslims have always been the West's most...

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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... ...mpetition, globalization, privatization, and deregulation - led to ferocious price wars and to consistently declining prices. Quoted by "The Econo... ...ket? Apparently, conventional wisdom is wrong. Market concentration leads to price wars, to the great benefit of the consumer. This is why firms fi... ... 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... ... the cause. The dwindling of dividends has implications which are nothing short of revolutionary. Most of the financial theories we use to determin... ...ion and what it denotes or stands for. Actors are often mistaken for their roles, wars are fought on television, fictitious TV celebrities become ... ...y. The narcissist is preoccupied with ideal love, the construction of brilliant, revolutionary scientific theories, the composition or authoring ... ... Social democracy was conceived in the 19th century as a benign alternative to the revolutionary belligerence of Marx and Engels. It sparred with c...

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Chicago Manual of Style

By: University of Chicago

... I. Proper nouns and adjectives: George, America, Englishman; Elizabethan, French (see 46). 2. Generic terms forming a part of geographical names :... ... geographical name: (I) Holy Roman Empire, German Empire (-Dmtschw Reich), French Republic (=Rt?pdliquce Frawaise), United Kingdom, Northwest Terri... ...ation, the company; but: "He joined the Hall [Tammany]," "a member of the [French] Academy;" "The University announces . . . ." (see 42). 10. The ... ...t events : Thirty yearsJ War, Peasants' War (German), Revolution (French), Revolutionary War or War of Independence (American), Whiskey Insurrectio... ...ations as- ante-bellum, ante-Nicene, anti-Semitic, inter-university, post- revolutionary. 192. "Extra," " infra," "supra," and "ultra" as a rule c... ...es as had gained for Sparta precedence and respect, coupled with aggressive wars under the guise of securing ever-widening frontiers, such as those ... ...es as had gained for Sparta precedence and respect, coupled with aggressive wars under the guise of securing ever-widening frontiers, such as those ... ...ARTA PRECEDENCE AND RESPECT, COUPLED WITH AGGRES- I 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 go sive wars undw the guise of securing evw-widening I a3 95 6 7 8 9 o AEIOU Af...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

...ndom House, Pearson, and Wiley. This ostensibly modest agenda conceals a revolutionary and ambitious attempt to unambiguously identify the origin o... ...ts of man; every citizen may therefore speak, write and print freely." (French National Assembly, 1789) I. What is a Book? UNESCO's arbitrary a... ...in the Semitic languages). In many respects, audio books are much more revolutionary than e-books. They do not employ visual symbols (all other t... ...ca, in response to the 1643 licencing ordinance passed by Parliament. The revolutionary Copyright Act of 1709 in England established the rights of a... ...ritorial jurisdiction over the hitherto ostensibly extraterritorial Net. A French court has prohibited Yahoo! from making certain content on its Web ... ...rohibited Yahoo! from making certain content on its Web sites available to French citizens. An American court advised Yahoo! to ignore this decision.... ... scatternetworking capabilities The technology is still not fully there. Wars rage in both the wireless and the ebook realms. Platforms compete. St... ...hers. It will become a new arena of warfare and an integral part of actual wars. Different peer groups, educational and income social-economic strat... .... It is a set of rules of peaceful co-existence intended to prevent flame wars and the eruption of interpersonal verbal abuse. Since it lacks effecti...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...em unfavorably. The idea of the nation-state culminated in the Yugoslav succession wars. It is time to seriously consider a much-derided and decrie... ...e and intertwined mechanisms: The Malthusian Mechanism – Limited resources lead to wars, famine, diseases and to a decrease in the populace (and, t... ...ns due to their demography (aging population, low birth-rates, unnatural deaths in wars and slaughters). The Anti-Semite: Argument number four - J... ...ld to Reuters - were established by Jews. Jews also featured prominently in all the revolutionary movements of the past three centuries. Individual ... ...tal sin by transforming itself into an outpost and beacon of Western (first British-French, then American) neo-colonialism. As the representative of... ...ifferential Phases are period of social dislocation and upheaval, of critical, even revolutionary thinking, of new technologies, new methods of achi... .... They are also more likely to have a youth cult: to prefer the young, the new, the revolutionary, the fresh – to the old, the habitual, the predict... ... 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...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...em unfavorably. The idea of the nation-state culminated in the Yugoslav succession wars. It is time to seriously consider a much-derided and decrie... ...e and intertwined mechanisms: The Malthusian Mechanism – Limited resources lead to wars, famine, diseases and to a decrease in the populace (and, t... ...ns due to their demography (aging population, low birth-rates, unnatural deaths in wars and slaughters). The Anti-Semite: Argument number four - J... ...ld to Reuters - were established by Jews. Jews also featured prominently in all the revolutionary movements of the past three centuries. Individual ... ...tal sin by transforming itself into an outpost and beacon of Western (first British-French, then American) neo-colonialism. As the representative of... ...ifferential Phases are period of social dislocation and upheaval, of critical, even revolutionary thinking, of new technologies, new methods of achi... .... They are also more likely to have a youth cult: to prefer the young, the new, the revolutionary, the fresh – to the old, the habitual, the predict... ... 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...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...tempt to tell the story of the battles over intellectual property, the range wars of the information age. I want to convince you that intellectual pro... ...may be very hard to exclude people from Madame Bovary. Imagine a Napster for French literature; everyone could have Madame Bovary and only the first pu... ...birthday poem. It is one of the reasons that the central moral rights in the French droits d’auteur, or author’s rights, tradition resonate so strongl... ...art of the literary moral rights tradition to the immediate aftermath of the French Revolution. In France before the Revolution, as in England before ... ...ightenment. 48 Hesse argues that this instability would continue through the revolutionary period. I agree; indeed I would argue that it does so to th... ...u- ments for the first enclosure movement. For example, during the Napoleonic Wars enclosure was defended as a necessary method of increasing the effici... ... property scholar, they sound like business as usual. In the case of the VCR wars, none of these factors obtained. The state re- fused to step in to a... ...f their software engi- neers started with a dewy-eyed belief that this was a revolutionary technology that would break the record companies and usher ... ...t would not have been unfamiliar to any follower of gospel music, was almost revolutionary in the world of pop. Big Bill Broonzy was outraged: “He’s c...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...ending in Outer Space without needing an optical lens to bend it… this was a revolutionary idea 100 years ago when Einstein’s predicted it would. ... ... huge expansion of human awareness which had never existed before: namely the revolutionary new concept of a universal humanity, which changed the wo... ... how and why the battle for territory was born and developed into raiding and wars… Overpopulation and the urge to keep moving, the addiction to see... ... elite of all human societies spent their time during the last 12,000 years. Wars, hunting, feasting, and wallowing in ease, neglecting their own c... ...lture. The culture of lions is based upon hatred, blood-letting and constant wars and battles against all other animal species in their territory. ... ...rthrow. Purely lower class uprisings that ever actually succeeded are rare. Revolutionary changes come when elements of these two classes get toge... ...es: suddenly became allies. He was defeated not once, but twice. And the French Bourbon King was re-instated. Yet, in a very short time, The B... ...iving the masses any actual power at all. If you study the history of the French Revolution without obsessively focusing on the leaders: you will... ... badly every time his armies were larger than the armies of his enemies. The French Revolution is an obvious illustration of the pendulum Dynamic. ...

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The Future of the Internet : And How to Stop It

By: Jonathan Zittrain

...mass of telephones distributed among the gen- eral public. Indeed, given how revolutionary a telephone system is to a society without one, it is strik... ... a solid without fracture by the tem- porary application of force . . . from French plastique or Latin plasticus, from Greek plastikos, from plassein ... ...b.archive.org/web/20041010143736/www.tivo.com/5.3.1.1.asp?article 210. 31. French copyright law recognizes at least a nominal right of withdrawal (“... ...traut, An Authors ’ Rights–Based Copyright Law: The Fairness and Morality of French and American Law Compared, 24 C A  E. L.J. 549, 608 (2... ..._rule (as of June 1, 2007, 08:15 GMT). 31. Wikipedia policy prohibits “wheel wars”—cases in which a Wikipedia administrator re- peatedly undoes the ac... ...istrator re- peatedly undoes the action of another—just as it prohibits edit wars. See Wikipedia, Wheel W ar , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:... ...ms); Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 17 U.S. 518 (1819) (protect- ing the pre–Revolutionary War charter of Dartmouth College against the state’s attemp... ...ered Appliance. 59. 365 U.S. 610 (1961). 60. See id. at 610, 615–18. 61. See Warshak v. United States, 490 F .3d 455 (6th Cir. 2007); United States v....

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