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...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... ...itary. America had to invade Panama to depose the latter and to molest Iraq for the second time in order to force the removal of the former. The Ko... ...tes as a deeply disturbed polity emerges. Also Read: The Semi-failed State The Second Civil War The Reluctant Empire To Give with Grace In God W... ...paper distinguishes four phases of distension: "First, continental expansion stage; second, overseas expansion stage; third, the stage of global con... ... "allies" turned bitter enemies. At its peak, the Ottoman Empire ruled most of the Balkan, up to the very gates of Vienna, Hungary, Serbia, Bosnia,... ...an unemployed, nomads, and dislocated peasants turned brigands - from Syria to the Balkan. Osman offered to these desperados war booty, a purposefu... ...ors tore Byzantium to hemorrhaging shreds, conquering the rest of Anatolia and the Balkan. They even employed Christian mercenaries against the Byz...

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... but was not impressed. Even in the months after May 1934, when he met her for the second time, dined with her and her husband in their London flat... ...nglish history was when Charles I raised His Standard at the beginning of the Civil War on 22 August 1642." Edward abdicated from the throne on ... ...menian calls for autonomy were deemed a danger to the disintegrating realm, now at war with Russia. When the first world war broke, Turkey allied ... ...in Van province, Mussa Dagh, Shabin Karahisar and Urfa - as well as setbacks in the war - prevented the Turks for deporting the urban Armenian popu... ...s collaborated with the Japanese war-crime tainted military machine throughout the second world war - though he conveniently switch allegiances to ... ...of the mother's death in the "Roman Law" wrongly attributed to Numa Pompilius, the second of Rome's seven kings (said to have ruled 715-673 BC). St... ... The history, cultures, societies, and economies of countries in transition in the Balkans. Click on this link to purchase this print book: http:/... ... The history, cultures, societies, and economies of countries in transition in the Balkans. Click on this link to purchase the e-book: http://www....

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... inamorato and tries to slash an old and rekindled flame. He hesitates not a split second when confronted with an offer to betray Greenleaf Sr., hi... ...s. It maintains the requirement of the first type of flow of data. But it fails the second test: people do not know that it exists or any of its att... .... But that it is possible - does not make it real. Appendix - God and Gödel The second movie in the Matrix series - "The Matrix Reloaded" - culm... ...(=the marine law)? Should we succumb to laws that put our lives at risk (fight in a war, sink with a ship)? The reason that women and children are ... ...opaths. The truth is, of course, radically different. With the exception of World War II, the United States has acted as a rapacious conqueror of ... ... Also Read The Roots of Anti-Americanism The Semi-failed State The Second Civil War The Reluctant Empire To Give with Grace In God We Trust T... ... all here, in colourful and provocative prose. From "The Mind of Darkness": "'The Balkans' – I say – 'is the unconscious of the world'. People stop... ...alf foreign to this cradle of Slavonics. Four Serbs, five Macedonians. It is in the Balkans that all ethnic distinctions fail and it is here that th... ...diction and change the only two fixtures of this tormented region. The women of the Balkan - buried under provocative mask-like make up, retro hairst...

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...vizom u džepu, izlazim iz grcke ambasade. Pocinje da pada kiša. Cekam poznanicu na Terazijama, izmedu «Moskve» i «Balkana». Asocijacije. Nebo nad Beogradom sivo. Kiša hladna. ostup u restorancicu u pasažu. Na televizijskim vestima prilog o ajkuli, koju su uhvatili bokeljski ribari. Izvucena na šljunak, bacena na bok, pokušava da se o...

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...ţepu, izlazim iz grĉke ambasade. Poĉinje da pada kiša. Ĉekam poznanicu na Terazijama, izmeĊu «Moskve» i «Balkana». Asocijacije. Nebo nad Beogr... ...gleda me preko stola i podiţe ĉašu Tsantalijevog crvenog. U drugoj ruci drţi ruţu. «Dobro došao kući». Balkan, kao stanje svesti. Dţilijan, ... ...j prozor. Vrhovi plaviĉasti, oblaci sivkasto ruţiĉasti, izgledaju tako blizu... Kako li mene vide Nemci? Balkansko – srednjeevropska mešavina: «ko... ...ewsmagazines NIN, Vreme, Košava, Borba, Književne novine, Književna reč, Reč... 1990 After first signs of war in former Yugoslavia, starts working... ...t the end of a year, returns to Serbia, and works as a journalist in Radio Belgrade. Fired because of anti-war commentary. 1993 Transfer to opposi... ...ks of Yugoslav 4 and foreign authors. Directed twenty documentary films for television. Publishes his second novel Opšta mesta (Laza K. Lazare...

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...The history of four terrorist organizations in the Balkans and a general introduction to terrorism and freedom fighting. Also includes essays about religious co-existence in the Balkans and about pathological narcissism as a precursor to terrorism....

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...ill attempt to study four such groups which operated in the tortured region of the Balkans. I will start with the IMRO (VMRO) in Macedonia and Bulg... ... the Black Hand), study the Ustasha in detail and end with the current mutation of Balkan spasms, the KLA (UCK). Return Macedonia to the Macedo... ...ulgarian comitadjis, Greek andartes, Albanians and Vlachs... all waging a terrorist war" Leon Sciaky in "Farewell to Salonica: Portrait of an Era" ... ...lbow" Mihail Chakov, who was nearby Delcev at the moment of his death, quoted in "Balkan Ghosts" by Robert D. Kaplan "I will try and tell this s... ... The wily Austro-Hungarians regarded the Serbs as cannon fodder in the attrition war against the Russians and the Turks. In 1885, Bulgaria was at... ...to use a polite understatement. The Bulgarians "proper" regarded the Macedonians as second class, primitive and uncultured Bulgarian relatives who ... ...lems in their daily lives only indirectly, by promising a potential better state. Second, loyalties were still local and based on the family and t... ...political groups. And, taking everything into account, the IMRO was fighting a just war against an abhorrent enemy. Moreover, to some extent, its ... ...ation into the infamous organization it has come to be known as, started after the Second Balkan war (1913) and, more so, after the First World War...

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........................................................................ 169 WAR OR PACIFISM .............................................................. ...oint ................................................... 396 QUESTIONS OF WAR .......................................................................... ... 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 ... ...are that only 15% of Americans support abortion for any reason during the second trimester. Half of Americans think that abortion is murder. Yet A... ...e Biblical accounts merely oral traditions that were first written in the Second or Third Centuries BCE? There are so many questions that one might a... ... more and better models. Bigger, flatter TVs, more rooms in their houses, second homes, pleasure boats, et cetera. Savings is a thing of the past. ... ...they had heard of genocide in their news reports was about Rwanda and the Balkans in the latter part of the 20 th century—particularly about atroci...

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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... ...Kofi Anan, the Secretary General of the United Nations made the trip to the Balkans to celebrate, with trepidation. And the World 7 Health Organi... ...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 ... ...ducing methane through their flatulent farting. The methane produced is the second biggest problem in global warming. But if we could capture the me... ...ar as 65 million light years away. Since light travels at 186,000 miles per second a light year is about 6 trillion miles. That’s a long way! It’s... ... of matter, probably smaller than a teaspoonful. In about a trillionth of a second the Big Bang exploded into the seeds of our expanding universe. A... ...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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...strative and military force in the world, developing its domination from Middle Orient, Elbrus, and Northern Africa until the Southeastern Europe, in Balkans. As it had a numerous and well-trained army, the Ottoman Empire was guided during its entire existence, by the policy of continuous expansion, often threatening Europe by the invasion. In the XV century, the Ottoman E...

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...sion of satisfaction and anxiety. The first situation, during an instant, is derived from the appearance of something with a convincing meaning; the second one, that comes immediately, is the perception of something concealed and absurd. Something, that is dissimulated under the level of the logical acceptance, jumps out abruptly in the main point to consider and const...

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...TITU POPESCU THE AESTHETICS OF PARADOXISM (second edition) American Research Press Rehoboth 2002 2 Titu Popescu T... ...arch Press Rehoboth 2002 2 Titu Popescu THE AESTHETICS OF PARADOXISM (second edition) Translated from Romanian by P. Georgelin, F. Smarandache, ... ...s derived from the appearance of something with a convincing meaning; the second one, that comes immediately, is the perception of something conceal... ...nary or an encyclopedia); - poems that exist for their absence; - post-war literature: pages and pages full of banalities and nonpoetry; - paral... ...ion of the illusion. The historian Eugen Simion observes that in the post-war poetry Nichita Stanescu represents “the termination and the beginning”... ...pensity of the paradoxist author as the effects of a transplant: from the Balkan century-old dowry into the American civilization (all is negotiable... ...f a strange placing in this world. Contradictory one’s naturalness is the Balkan indolence intensified by the communism and punished just showing th... ... free scuffle among Wodans, who had generated a splendid divide et impera war that had degenerated the nation achieving the eternal ideal of Hyn fam... ...es, subjects, methods, deviations. The Defective writings offer samples of Balkan content with their availability to the literary paradox. Poems fro...

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... my Narcissistic Supply from this very thus despised source. But there is a second angle to this abhorrence of the predictable. As a narcissist, I e... ...re facts end and wishful thinking takes over. Father acknowledges he was no war hero, though he did his share of fighting. Mother understands she w... ...t to do? Answer: To a narcissistic employer, the members of his "staff" are Secondary Sources of Narcissistic Supply. Their role is to accumulate th... ... if it only serves to focus attention on the narcissist. Being infamous is second best to being famous – and far preferable to being ignored. The o... ...opardizing "acceptable (modes of) existence". Except in rare cases (famine, war, plague), survival is rarely at risk. On the contrary, people are m... ... that tells his followers: I can increase your chances to win the constant war that you are waging to find food and shelter, to be respected, to en... ...esearch and the howls of protest from their neighbor, Greece. In a typical Balkan tit-for-tat, Greece blocked Macedonia's long-sought entry into NA... ...story, cultures, societies, and economies of countries in transition in the Balkans. Click on this link to purchase this print book: http://www.ccnow... ...story, cultures, societies, and economies of countries in transition in the Balkans. Click on this link to purchase the e-book: http://www.ccnow.com/...

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................................................................... ......15 The Second Major Split........................................................ ... Pg 287 Freedom and Irresponsibility Pg 288 Ownership Pg 290 Law Pg 291 War Pg 296 Conclusion Chapter Six ‘A’: Civilization The Beginning... ...p of Connections and Separations. These Connections and Separations were the second Linear Dualities to be created by the Path of Splitness. The fi... ... simple and organically complex. It did many things simultaneously. The Second Major Split The 1 st linear Dimension of Length that had be... ...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?... ...re to include all Slavic peoples of the earth, it began because a tiny Slavic Balkan nation was being bullied by another Empire and big brother Russ... ...nother Empire and big brother Russia came to the ‘defense’ of its tiny Slavic Balkan state that was not within the Russian sphere of influence at all... ...9 The Path of Splitness Chapter Seven: Entities and the Alternative the Balkans. The history of how it became a state is filled with the evil ...

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... demonstrate: children are irrational – is this a licence to commit infanticide? A second approach says that a person has the right to life because... ...continues well into the fourth year of life (physiologically it continues in to the second year of life - see "Born Alien"). Should the location of ... ...t identify those asymmetries that underlie all others ("primary asymmetries" vs. "secondary asymmetries"). Most anarchists point at the state and ... ... The state has acquired monstrous proportions in the decades since the Second world War. It is about to grow further and to digest the few sectors h... ...al) is a classic narcissistic behavior (of "annexation" of the other). The Six Days War was a war of self defence - but the swift victory only exace... ...Jewish state as a member of the international community of nations. The Six Days War was, indeed, a classic example of preemptive self-defense. I... ...ountries comprising the vast expanses of the New Independent States, Russia and the Balkan had no real acquaintance with it. To them its zealous int... ...uities by various means - from assimilation (central Europe) to extermination (the Balkan). Hungary's policies - its status law and the economic be... ...nvironment, both human (society) and natural is pathologized. MinMaj Rule In the Balkans reigns supreme the Law of the MinMaj. It is simple and i...

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... demonstrate: children are irrational – is this a licence to commit infanticide? A second approach says that a person has the right to life because... ...continues well into the fourth year of life (physiologically it continues in to the second year of life - see "Born Alien"). Should the location of ... ...t identify those asymmetries that underlie all others ("primary asymmetries" vs. "secondary asymmetries"). Most anarchists point at the state and ... ... The state has acquired monstrous proportions in the decades since the Second world War. It is about to grow further and to digest the few sectors h... ...al) is a classic narcissistic behavior (of "annexation" of the other). The Six Days War was a war of self defence - but the swift victory only exace... ...Jewish state as a member of the international community of nations. The Six Days War was, indeed, a classic example of preemptive self-defense. I... ...ountries comprising the vast expanses of the New Independent States, Russia and the Balkan had no real acquaintance with it. To them its zealous int... ...uities by various means - from assimilation (central Europe) to extermination (the Balkan). Hungary's policies - its status law and the economic be... ...nvironment, both human (society) and natural is pathologized. MinMaj Rule In the Balkans reigns supreme the Law of the MinMaj. It is simple and i...

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...al spokesmen of the last century. It was he who had found the solution to the Balkan crisis, and personally mediated a comprehensive peace agreement,... ...o.” “Yes, Holy Father. I thought you would like to know about him first. The second name on the list is Alexander Artemis, a United States Senator.... ...see?" "Quite sure, Senator. Pope Francis was explicit." Antonio paused for a second not knowing exactly what to say next. "I had assumed that you a... ... phone call at the very moment he was crying out for help. And, in that split second, without thinking, he had agreed to see Father Salvi. He had re... ... 22 J.Cross/Artemis Artemis thought for a long time before speaking. "A war on drugs!" he said vehemently, pounding the top of his desk. "No... ...ugs!" he said vehemently, pounding the top of his desk. "No, Senator. Not a war. There have been too many wars." "Father, I appreciate your senti... ...untries. No, Father, if we are to stop the drug trade we must have an all-out war. Call it a 'Holy War' if you like, but nonetheless, a war!" "Sena...

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...ree Content Sell? XX. Copyright and Free Online Scholarship XXI. The Second Gutenberg XXII. The E-book Evangelist XXIII. Germany’s Copyrigh... ...ies while their business models were exposed as wishful thinking. The second mistake was to exclusively cater to the needs of a highly idiosyncra... ...s far as declaring "interruption marketing" (=ads and banners) dead. The second approach is simpler and allows for the existence of non-commercial c... ...and, lately, through Selective Dissemination of Information, or SDI). The war is by no means decided. "Progress" may yet consist of the assimilation ... ...says about every conceivable aspect of Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkan. It is one of countless such collections. Similar and much larger t... ...nformation and opinion that is a prerequisite to both (a) and (b). It is a war zone where many fear to tread. the Wikipedia is a negative filter (see... ...ield between have countries and have-not countries. It will be a cultural war zone (English against French, Japanese, Chinese, Russian and Spanish).... ...he Information Technology and Communications Association of Romania ("The Balkan and Eastern Europe - Digital Divide or Digital Opportunity"), Roman...

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... Crises, Global Capital Flows and the International Financial Architecture XXIV. War and the Business Cycle XXV. America’s Current Account Defici... ...taming prices and ensuring monetary stability. He could not and, indeed, would not second guess the market. He consistently sidestepped the thorny ... ...e contributed to the froth. Greenspan and his ilk seem to be fighting yesteryear's war against a long-slain monster. The obsession with price stab... ... non- financial business sector has been -0.6 percent in the year to the end of the second quarter of 2002. Germany faces the same predicament. As o... ...rance leads to excess consumption, therefore it is not obvious that competition is second best optimal. Intuitively, it seems that imperfect compet... ...t. Congress went even further, providing coverage for 180 days and a refund of all war and terrorist liabilities above $100 million per airline. Th... ... solidarity. Predators everywhere - Russian oligarchs, central European cronies, Balkan kleptocrats, east European managers - find this gratifyin...

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...ntainous areas subject to severe earthquakes; desertification Special notes: second largest country in Africa (after Sudan) Population: 23,460,614 (Ju... ... 6,612 km; refined products, 298 km; natural gas, 2,948 km Ports: 6 major, 6 secondary, 1 1 minor Civil air: 40 major transport aircraft Airfields: 15... ...lantains, bananas, and other local foodstuffs; disrup- tions caused by civil war require food imports Fishing: catch 112,000 metric tons (1982) Major ... ...as and northeast; irrigated soil degradation; desertification Special notes: second largest country in South America (after Brazil); strategic locatio... ...plagues of locusts have caused widespread food shortages, and years of civil war have devastated the economy. GDP: $405.7 million, $90 per capita (198... ...ed; strategic loca- tion astride main land routes between Western Europe and Balkan Peninsula as well as between USSR and Mediterranean basin Populati... ...wth rate 3.32%; figures do not take into account the impact of the Iran-Iraq war Nationality: noun Iranian(s); adjective Iranian Ethnic divisions: 63%... ...dslides Special notes: controls most easily travers- able land route between Balkans and western USSR Population: 22,936,503 (July 1987), aver- age an...

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...have been recorded among soldiers with penetrating head injuries suffered in World War I. Orbitomedial wounds made people "pseudopsychopathic": gra... ...in meaning to prevent a reactive state of rage, depression, or shame." [Ibid.] The second psychological defence mechanism which characterizes the n... ...y, predictability and permanence of the loved object (oneself). But regressing to "secondary narcissism" is maladaptive. It is an indication of fai... ...ification, the result is maladaptation. This is dangerous and the default option - secondary narcissism - is activated. This default enhances adapt... ... misconception - that children equal immortality - yields a baby boom in each post war period. Having been existentially threatened, people multipl... ... hierarchy on its members, the family is transformed into a cohesive and efficient war machine. It absorbs economic resources, social status and me... ... The history, cultures, societies, and economies of countries in transition in the Balkans. Click on this link to purchase this print book: http:/... ... The history, cultures, societies, and economies of countries in transition in the Balkans. Click on this link to purchase the e-book: http://www....

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... diseases, or processing conflicting land images from satellite. During the second half of the 20 th century, several new and interesting mathemat... ...f, on 8-11 July 2003, at Radisson Hotel, Cairns, Queensland, Australia. The second one: “Applications and Advances of Plausible and Paradoxical Re... ...sm.htm T h e E d i t o r 9 IRMA SPAHO (Albania) [AlbClub] Re: BALKAN ANTHOLOGY Regim tipik shqiptar -:) Fatmiresisht jeni gabim ne... ...rs à reculons quand on cherche ce qu’on a trouvé... Tout se joue au quart de seconde, juste avant la montée des crues. Est-ce que tu crois que je cr... ...r hilft dir auf den falschen Weg Der Sündenbock Selbst wenn er's nicht war war er's. Mangel Zu viel davon ist immer ein wenig zu wenig ... ...bachter und durch die Übersetzung verfälscht. ”Hupende Autos auf der Straße“ war ein “Stadt- 53 Gedicht”, “Mähende Landarbeiter” war ein “Dissem... ...Landarbeiter” war ein “Disseminationsgedicht”, “Der Traum mit offenen Augen” war ein “surrealistisches Gedicht”, “Albern reden” war ein “dadaistisc... ...unconscious, cease stress reduction activity. Bang Head Here 205 EVAN BALKAN (USA) A LESSON IN CONTRADICTION The professor addressed his... ...A Ahmed Balfouni ………….……………………………….…. Anonymous ………………………………………………….. Evan Balkan …………………………………………………. Jeffery Beam ………...………………………………………. Marylin ...

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... my Narcissistic Supply from this very thus despised source. But there is a second angle to this abhorrence of the predictable. As a narcissist, I e... ...re facts end and wishful thinking takes over. Father acknowledges he was no war hero, though he did his share of fighting. Mother understands she w... ...t to do? Answer: To a narcissistic employer, the members of his "staff" are Secondary Sources of Narcissistic Supply. Their role is to accumulate th... ... if it only serves to focus attention on the narcissist. Being infamous is second best to being famous – and far preferable to being ignored. The o... ... who find themselves caught up in anomic states – for instance, soldiers in war or incarcerated inmates – tend to feel helpless and alienated. They ... ...story, cultures, societies, and economies of countries in transition in the Balkans. Click on this link to purchase this print book: http://www.ccnow... ...story, cultures, societies, and economies of countries in transition in the Balkans. Click on this link to purchase the e-book: http://www.ccnow.com/...

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...War and the Future Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION War... ...SSICS SERIES PUBLICATION War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. War and the Future by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Elect... ...ne in which I had met General Joffre a few days before. I gave my hat to a second body- guard, and as I did so a pleasantly smiling man appeared at th... ...-war problems plain sailing. He talked of the game of spellicans among the Balkan nationalities. How was that difficulty to 18 War and the Future be ... ...t on his mind: “If A’hm looky.” Followed a little silence. Then I tried my second stock re- mark for such cases. One does not talk to soldiers at the ... ...istory of colossal stupidities. Among the most decisive of these blunders, second only perhaps of the blunder of the V erdun attack and far outshining... ...lt, which will be followed no doubt by the punitive procedure usual in the Balkan peninsula. For my third instance I would step from a matter as small...

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...What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War By H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION What... ...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ...c transmission, in any way. What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics ... ... and in “The World Set Free” the last disturber of the peace is a certain “Balkan Fox.” In saying, however, here and there that “before such a year so... ...or even the most obvious implications of such an idea, but there is also a second invincible difficulty—that there is nowhere in the world anybody, an... ...duct a joint fiscal, mili- tary and naval policy, to keep the peace in the Balkans and Asia, to establish a relationship with China, and organise join... ...e Dardanelles, and the watching of the forces that stir up conflict in the Balkans and the Levant. It must have unity enough for that; it must be much... ...e world in vain. There are more ways than one to the World State, and this second possibility of a post-war conference and a conference of the Allies,... ...ans built their strategic railways— with trenches and gun emplacements and secondary and ter- tiary lines, the Germans would never have got fifty mile...

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...Excerpt: In the latter half of 1914 a few of us were writing that this war was a ?War of Ideas.? A phrase, ?The War to end War,? got into circulation, amidst much sceptical comment. It was a phrase powerful enough to sway many men, essentially pacifists, towards taking an active part in the war ...

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... CE CE CE CE IN THE LATTER HALF OF 1914 a few of us were writing that this war was a “War of Ideas.” A phrase, “The War to end War,” got into circulat... ...ay many men, essen- tially pacifists, towards taking an active part in the war against German imperialism, but it was a phrase whose chief con- tent w... ...broken mass of mental habit and public tradition. While we talked of this “war to end war,” the diplomatists of the Powers al- lied against Germany we... ...concrete realization of that? But first let me note the fourth word in the second title of this book. The common talk is of a “League of Nations” mere... ... is a matter of more or less, of getting the best thing at the cost of the second-best. We may want to relax an old association in order to make a new... ...marily. Steel output, university graduates, and so forth may be convenient secondary criteria, may be useful ways of measuring war efficiency, but the... ...e weaknesses of cousinship. The behaviour of the Allies towards that great Balkan statesman V enizelos, the 59 H.G. Wells sacrificing of the friendly...

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...es. The World Set Free was written under the immediate shadow of the Great War. Every intelligent person in the world felt that disaster was impending... ... must confess he has always been inclined to be rather a slow prophet. The war aeroplane in the world of reality, for example, beat the forecast in An... ...re 4 The World Set Free was, I think, another motive in holding the Great War back, and that was to allow the chemist to get well forward with his di... ...book had been published six months. And the opening section of Chapter the Second remains now, after the reality has happened, a fairly adequate diagn... ...e diagnosis of the essentials of the matter. One happy hit (in Chapter the Second, Section 2), on which the writer may congratulate himself, is the fo... ...does only a minute frac- tion of the radium disintegrate in any particular second? Why does it dole itself out so slowly and so exactly? Why does not ... ...oa to Rome, crossed in the air to Greece and Egypt, and came back over the Balkans and Germany. His family for- 38 The World Set Free tunes, which we... ... Delhi a pit of fire spouting death and flame; the redoubtable King of the Balkans was mobilising. It must have seemed plain at last to every one in t... ...s that strange survival of mediaevalism, the ‘Slavic Fox,’ the King of the Balkans. He debated and delayed his submissions. He showed an extraor- dina...

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...others who were safely up the field. He had walked to the fence, risking a second charge by his deliberation. Then he had sat on the fence and declare... ...s strength, his father was to join him and take him mountain- eering, that second-rate mountaineering which is so dear to dons and schoolmasters. When... ... both strapped, and I got my feet against the side and clung to the locked second wheel. “The sensation was as though something like an intermit- tent... ... people,” ran his notes, “I was astonished at the reported feats of men in war; I believed they were exaggerated, and that there was a kind of unpre- ... ... These were the days when the strain and extremity of a dangerous colonial war were fresh in people’s minds, when the quality of the public consciousn... ... to unanticipated demands. The conflict of stupidities that had caused the war was overlaid and forgot- ten by a hundred thousand devotions, by countl... ...pect of our national political interests. A very useful speciality was the Balkans. Mr. Pope, the well- known publicist, whose very sound and consider... ... and proposed to go with him in a spirit of instructive association to the Balkans, rub up their Greek together, and settle the problem of Albania. He... ...East Purblow in- terest. But Lady Beach Mandarin warned Benham against the Balkans; the Balkans were getting to be too handy for Easter and summer hol...

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...ned undergarments, like his father-in-law and partner, Henry Thompson. His second embellishment was combing and slicking back his hair. It gave him a ... ...hree and four hundred thousand inhabitants now—he could see the top of the Second National Tower, an Indi- ana limestone building of thirty-five stori... ...but one night, go without looking back, and never think of it again. Every second house in Floral Heights had a bedroom precisely like this. 15 Sincl... ...ggled, momentary victor in the greatest of Great Wars, which is the family war. Ted looked at her hope- lessly, then shrieked at Tinka: “For the love ... ... period were somewhat less elaborate than the plans for a general European war. He fretted to Miss McGoun, “What time you going to lunch? Well, make s... ...des? Why do you suppose so many Substantial Citizens jumped right into the war? Think it was all pa- triotism?” Babbitt snorted, “What do you expect? ... ...ic range, a copper sink, a glass refrigerator, and, very intermittently, a Balkan maid. Ev- erything about the Arms was excessively modern, and ev- er... ...alness, of a dinner in Washing- ton at which McKelvey had met a Senator, a Balkan prin- cess, and an English major-general. McKelvey called the prince...

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...he went home, and that was the beginning and end of her Bohemian life. The second cousin of Carol’s sister’s husband lived in Winnetka, and once invit... ... the cheering group. From the vestibule she waved to them, but she clung a second to the sleeve of the brakeman who helped her down before she had the... ...o which her husband sent patients for the filling of prescriptions. From a second-story window the sign “W. P. Kennicott, Phys. & Surgeon,” gilt on bl... ...to franker rebuffs; they were working up to a state of painfully righteous war when they were saved by the coming of food. Though Juanita Haydock was ... ...o—lived 181 Sinclair Lewis seven miles out. He was a captain in the Civil War, and knew General Sherman, and they say he was a miner in Nevada right ... ... of virtuousness, and the procession of Decoration Day, when the few Civil War veterans followed Champ Perry, in his rusty forage-cap, along the sprin... ...o a business of trench- fighting, they forgot. When Carol talked about the Balkans, and the possibil- ity of a German revolution, Kennicott yawned, “O...

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...Monarchies. These are noticed in the Holy Scriptures; and it is upon their war- rant that men have supposed no fifth monarchy or uni- versal empire po... ...idable as thyself;—thou, Rome! didst now for the first time behold a civil war issuing in a hallowed prosperity, a soldiery appeased, recov- ered Ital... ...rty established. Now first in thy long annals thou didst rest from a civil war in such a peace, that righ- teously, and with maternal tenderness, thou... ...alf- formed image floated in his mind, of the eagle, as the king of birds; secondly, as the tutelary emblem under which his con- quering legions had s... ...d the first, whom the greatest num- ber of rival voices had pronounced the second. CHAPTER II CHAPTER II CHAPTER II CHAPTER II CHAPTER II THE SITUATIO... ...HAPTER II CHAPTER II CHAPTER II CHAPTER II CHAPTER II THE SITUATION of the Second Cæsar, at the crisis of the great Dictator’s assassination, was so h... ...d in driving back the relics of the Gothic host into the fastnesses of the Balkan; and there the greater part of them died of hunger and pestilence. T...

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...the hall, and the atom, after a pause to assure herself that all danger of war was past, went out, to weep bitterly on Amomma’s neck. 6 The Light Tha... ...oing away.’ ‘Yes, but if you promise before you go. Only say— will you?’ A second ‘darling’ came to his lips more easily than the first. There were fe... ...hern Syndicate in the cam- paign, as he had represented it in the Egyptian war, 17 Rudyard Kipling and elsewhere. The syndicate did not concern itsel... ... 18 The Light That Failed He rode away swiftly through the Gate of the Two War-Ships, rattled across the causeway into the town, and wired to his synd... ...ed to make gloriously drunk a telegraph-clerk in a palm hut far beyond the Second Cataract, and, while the man lay in bliss on the floor, possessed hi... ...ater-bottles, belts, and regimental badges, and ended with a small bale of second-hand uniforms and a stand of mixed arms. The mark of muddy feet on t... ...s opened his conversation with the news that there would be trouble in the Balkans in the spring. Torpenhow laughed as he entered. ‘Never mind the tro... ...he spring. Torpenhow laughed as he entered. ‘Never mind the trouble in the Balkans. Those little states are always screeching. You’ve heard about Dick... ...re suffering from swelled head.’ ‘Halloo, Nilghai. Back again? How are the Balkans and all the little Balkans? One side of your face is out of drawing...

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...t to the socially constructive passion—in any man… . There is, moreover, a second great difference in kind be- tween my world and Machiavelli’s. We ar... ... ever. 10 The New Machiavelli CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER THE SECOND THE SECOND THE SECOND THE SECOND THE SECOND BR BR BR BR BROMSTEAD AN... ... legs and sent them by pin hooks along 14 The New Machiavelli a wire to a second slaughterman with a chipped foot (for- merly Mrs. Noah) who, if I re... ... Cooper and Mayne Reid and illustrated histories; one of the Russo-Turkish war and one of Napier’s expedi- tion to Abyssinia I read from end to end; S... ... admission for us both to the spectacle of volunteer officers fighting the war game in Caxton Hall. We developed a war game of our own at Britten’s ho... ...y. Hatherleigh tried hard to saddle the Semitic race with the less elegant war customs of the Soudan and the northwest frontier of India, and quoted D... ...nderfully discreet, superfluous steam is let out far away from home in the Balkans or Africa, and the neat, stiff figures of the Cramptons, Bunting Ha...

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...the national drama which was indeed played, though left unfinished, on the Balkan battlefields of 1876-7. Briefly, T urgenev, in sketching the dawn of... ...poem; you must own it’s a splendid first line, but I could never produce a second. Happiness! happiness! as long as life is not over, as long as we ha... ...st,’ repeated Bersenyev. ‘But it seems to me that to put one’s-self in the second place is the whole significance of our life.’ ‘If all men were to ac... ...he first ideal he soon discarded, but he clung all the more closely to the second, and it was with that object that he went every winter to Moscow. Ni... ...em over, and did really provide them with a very bad dinner with a sort of Balkan wine, which did not, how- ever, prevent them from being very jolly, ... ... death, that he was only just saved, that he was wounded… .) He prophesies war and will be glad of it. And for all that, I never saw D. so depressed. ... ...was grow- ing—already could be felt the breath of approaching inevi- table war. The fire was kindling all round, and no one could foresee how far it w... ...ot your wife? Can a wife be parted from her husband?’ ‘Wives don’t go into war,’ he said with a half-mournful smile. ‘Oh yes, when they can’t stay beh...

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...ke a certain South Ameri- can general who used to say that no emergency of war or peace had ever found him “with his boots off”; but I may say that wh... ... time. The time was about a month before the entrance of Roumania into the war, and though, honestly, I had seen already the shadow of coming events I... ...wer of renunciation is obscured by the mass of weak- nesses, vacillations, secondary motives and false steps and compromises which make up the sum of ... ...story is based on documents, and the read- ing of print and handwriting—on second-hand im- pression. Thus fiction is nearer truth. But let that pass. ... ...rendre c’est tout pardonner. And in this benevolent neutrality towards the war- ring errors of human nature all light would go out from art and from l... ... food for powder more in accord with the rules of prudence; the joy of the second would be checked before it found issue in weeping by anxious doubts ... ...le of his human- ity than when he was in life. I connected that crime with Balkanic plots and aspirations so little that I had actually to ask where i... ...ty of my interest. And yet I was not indif- ferent; but the tension in the Balkans had become chronic after the acute crisis, and one could not help b... ...sked for some cafe turc at the end of his lunch. “ Monsieur veut dire Cafe balkanique,” the patri- otic waiter corrected him austerely. I will not say...

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...x). Indeed he knows no more about the dramatic art than, according to his own story in ?The Man of Destiny,? Napoleon at Tavazzano knew of the Art of War....

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...story in “The Man of Destiny,” Napo- leon at T avazzano knew of the Art of War. But both men were successes each in his way—the latter won victories a... ...the former gained audiences, in the very teeth of the accepted theories of war and the theatre. Shaw does not know that it is unpardon- able sin to ha... ...n- tionalized senses are shocked. The only men who have no illusions about war are those who have re- cently been there, and, of course, Mr. Shaw, who... ...an open window with a little balcony on the left can be seen a peak of the Balkans, wonderfully white and beautiful in the starlit snow. The interior ... ...n youth and beauty is a part of it, is on the balcony, gazing at the snowy Balkans. She is covered by a long mantle of furs, worth, on a moderate esti... ...ere it a valley there, with the little town in it. A few miles further the Balkan mountains rise and shut in the view. Within the garden the side of t... ..., bring him round this way. (He pronounces the name with the stress on the second syllable—Sarah-noff.) NICOLA. Yes, sir. (He goes into the stable yar...

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...Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988?1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan...

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...ment 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of B... ...adin and al Qaeda (1988–1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghani... ...10. WARTIME 325 10.1 Immediate Responses at Home 326 10.2 Planning for War 330 10.3 “Phase Two” and the Question of Iraq 334 11. FORESIGHT—AND... ... first metal detector. Both set off the alarm, and they were directed to a second metal detector. Mihdhar did not trigger the alarm and was permitted ... ...ermitted through; Nawaf al Hazmi set off the alarms for both the first and second metal detectors and was then hand-wanded before being passed. In add... ...uctions from the FAA’s air traffic control (ATC) center in Boston. Sixteen seconds after that transmis- sion,ATC instructed the aircraft’s pilots to c... ...t also reinforced its London base and its other offices around Europe, the Balkans, and the Caucasus. Bin Ladin bolstered his links to extremists in S... ...e closed, the DCI and his managers responded to devel- oping crises in the Balkans or in Africa by “surging,” or taking officers from across the servi... ...of military power in two other ongoing conflicts.After years of war in the Balkans, the United States had finally committed itself to sig- nificant mi...

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...tances. That is the first and gravest intimation in M. Blériot’s feat. The second is that, in spite of our fleet, this is no longer, from the military... ...nd mechanical contrivance. I am reminded again of the days during the Boer war, when one realised that it had never occurred to our happy-go-lucky Arm... ... never really slumbered again since the chastening experiences of the Boer War. Since then the national spirit, hampered though it is by the tradi- ti... ...- ments, to a renewed and increased predominance, or is she falling into a secondary position among the peoples of the world? The answer to that depen... ...nd I am deeply impressed, not indeed by any effect of lethargy, but by the second-rate quality and the shortness and weakness of aim in very much that... ...ean of our resources in money or stuff. It is manifest that the next naval war will be beyond all precedent a war of mechanisms, giv- ing such scope f... ...mbers of Levantines, Armenians and other peoples from Asia Mi- nor and the Balkan Peninsula. The Hungarian immigrants have still a birth-rate of forty...

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...ad so far treated the Committee, I was not disposed to give its majority a second chance, or to lose the opportunity offered me by the questions to fi... ...verent author, but in the reluc- tant discharge of its solemn public duty; second, that a terrible example must be made of me by the most crushing pub... ...a crushing addition to the weight of my discomfiture. I still cherish that second copy, a little blue-bound pamphlet, methodically autographed “Lockwo... ...r be- cause it alluded to the part taken by Austria in the Servo-Bulgarian war. This comedy was not one of the plays suppressed in England by the Lord... ...on and the Star Chamber, which were nothing but censorships, made ruthless war on impiety and immorality. The result was once familiar to English- men... ...ical that it reveals the unac- knowledged fact that as the Servo-Bulgarian War of 1885 was much more than a struggle between the Servians and Bulgaria... ...t when popular feeling was excited as to the relations of Austria with the Balkan States. Now if a comedy so remote from political passion as Arms and...