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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

... UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY AT URBANACHAMPAIGN BOOKSTACKS Central Intelligence Agency The World Factbook 1987 CP/1S WF 87-001 US G... ...ok directly from their own organization or through liaison channels from the Central Intelligence Agency. Requesters in the Department of Defense may ... ...tion Service Library of Congress Washington, D.C. 20540 Tel: (202) 287-5640 Central Intelligence! Agency toOC. The World Factbook 1987 The person cha... ...Muslim, 1% other Language: 50% Pashtu, 35% Afghan Persian (Dari), 11% Turkic languages (primarily Uzbek and Turkmen), 4% thirty minor languages (prima... ...lican, 26.0% Roman Catholic, 24.3% other Christian Language: English, native languages Infant mortality rate: 10/1,000 (1983) Life expectancy: men 72.... ...; Fon and Yoruba most common vernaculars in south; at least six major tribal languages in north Infant mortality rate: 45/1,000 (1984) Life expectancy... ...ethnic Persian, 18% Turkic, 13% other Iranian, 3% Kurdish, 3% Arab and other Semitic Religion: 93% Shi'a Muslim; 5% Sunni Muslim; 2% Zoroastrian, Jewi...

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The Hitler File : A Novel of Fact

By: Sam Vaknin

...egan to feel like a prop. “Guess when was the first time that Hitler made an anti-Semitic speech as Prime Minister? 1935. That’s right – more than... ...ewish references from all the texts of all the speeches. Not exactly a raving anti- Semitic maniac, now is he?” She was talking to herself, largel... ...and graffiti throughout Germany.” “1935? Isn’t that the year of the rabidly anti-Semitic Nuremberg Laws?’ “Yes, it is.” – confirmed Libby – “T... ...e equanimity harrowing. “They are all in German, or Polish, or other godforsaken languages. Hard to believe people actually speak them. I couldn’... ...o. Together they formed a bureaucratic monster, the Reichssicherheitshauptamt, the Central Office for the Security of the Reich. In 1944, due to a s...

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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...ska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchives/... ...ountries and for the comparison of profiles that conform to Interpol standards in a centralized database. Investigators can access the database via ... ...lized database. Investigators can access the database via their Interpol National Central Bureau (NCB) using Interpol's secure global police commu... ...nued his education in Kitzbuhel, Austria, in Munich and in Geneva where he studied languages. But the chain of disappointments continued apace. He ... ..." published in 1953. It was the first of 12 James Bond thrillers, translated to 11 languages and with total sales of 18 million copies. James Bond ... ... in occupied France, and the Americans (Marlene Dietrich). It was translated to 48 languages, including Hebrew, the language of most holocaust surv... ...rals of all genders in English have no feminine forms, as opposed, for instance, to Semitic languages. "We" and "they" in english are unisex. In He...

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From Chaos to Harmony

By: Rav Michael Laitman

.... In the last decades, drug intake has turned from a marginal phenomenon to a central issue the world over, and today, every level of society is aff... ...rstanding each other. This moment is described as “the evolution of different languages.” Thus, hatred drew them apart, and they were scattered all ... ...tements. Even countries that have no direct contact with Israel display anti-Semitic attitudes. All these phenomena are rooted in the Nature of Cre...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...ir unique language. Those seeds took root and eventually grafted onto the languages of the lands in which they sprouted. Salt sea buried freshwater... ...hwater sands That process may have spawned the Indo-European family of languages, but lacking the power of the written word, nobody from that era... ... all directions and seed the tongues of today’s speakers of Indo-European languages? A line in map connecting the Baltic Sea and India seems to de... ... that they needed an easier way to communicate. In any case, creative Semitic-speaking scribes took centuries to develop the system that replace... ...uities, so the Greeks converted vowel-related signs from Hebrew and other Semitic systems to create the vowels that made the Greek alphabet the most... ...pt papermaking a secret for centuries—until the Battle of Talas in 751 in Central Asia. Paper superior in many ways Paper offers many advantages... ...orthern Africa to Spain.  Throughout most of the Middle East.  Across Central Asia as far east as the Punjab on the India-Pakistan border. For... ... than three decades, the Arabs had been in control of Samarkand—a wealthy Central Asia trading station where the silks of China were exchanged for th...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...ir unique language. Those seeds took root and eventually grafted onto the languages of the lands in which they sprouted. Salt sea buried freshwater... ...eshwater sands That process may have spawned the Indo-European family of languages, but lacking the power of the written word, nobody from that era... ... all directions and seed the tongues of today’s speakers of Indo-European languages? A line in map connecting the Baltic Sea and India seems to dema... ...s that they needed an easier way to communicate. In any case, creative Semitic-speaking scribes took centuries to develop the system that replace... ...uities, so the Greeks converted vowel-related signs from Hebrew and other Semitic systems to create the vowels that made the Greek alphabet the most... ...pt papermaking a secret for centuries—until the Battle of Talas in 751 in Central Asia. Paper superior in many ways Paper offers many advantages o... ...orthern Africa to Spain.  Throughout most of the Middle East.  Across Central Asia as far east as the Punjab on the India-Pakistan border. For... ... than three decades, the Arabs had been in control of Samarkand—a wealthy Central Asia trading station where the silks of China were exchanged for th...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

...After the Rain - How the West Lost the East. He served as a columnist for Central Europe Review, PopMatters, Bellaonline, and eBookWeb, a United Pres... ... (UPI) Senior Business Correspondent, and the editor of mental health and Central East Europe categories in The Open Directory and Suite101. Between... ...ationship managers. Consider distributors: they provide instant access to centralized, continuously updated, "addressbooks" of clients (stores, consu... ...ide the USA (in Germany, or Asia) and at least one offers papers in a few languages, Hebrew included. The problem, though, is not limited to the ... ...e best, only, or relevant resource. Similar systems are available in many languages. Nexet, for example, provides such a resolution service in Hebre... ...of the lateral scroll - from left to right (or from right to left, in the Semitic languages). In many respects, audio books are much more revoluti... ...ateral scroll - from left to right (or from right to left, in the Semitic languages). In many respects, audio books are much more revolutionary th... ...information. Obscene material will not be available to tender souls. anti-Semitic sites will be blocked to Jews and communists will be spared Evil E...

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The Religious Dimension

By: Donald Broadribb

...sm And Jung Christianity 59 Origins How Much Does Historical Truth Matter? Centrality Of Beliefs In Christianity Christian Belief Before The Nicaean C... ...Of Beliefs In Christianity Christian Belief Before The Nicaean Council The Centrality Of Beliefs The Holy Rituals Exclusive Allegiance The Social Base... ...ourne in Australia and moving gradually from teaching biblical studies and languages (which I had studied at UTS) to teaching the history of pre-Chris... ...ract with the events of life is the realm of psychology, and religion is a central part of the experience of life. It has only been a century since th... ...d in many texts the specific phrase “son of God” is applied to Jesus. In a Semitic language, such as Hebrew or Aramaic, such a phrase would usually be... ... by Hewitt in translation of what he calls “sentence- words” from Iroquois languages to English, in which Hewitt indicates how the word orenda would t... ... tells us that we must not interpret orenda as mind or soul; the Iroquoian languages use entirely different words to express these ideas. This point n...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...mmunities can survive and thrive through voluntary cooperation, without a coercive central government. Politics corrupt and subvert Man's good and ... ...o the optimal allocation of economic resources. The market's great advantages over central planning are precisely its randomness and its lack of se... ... them the same cognitive interpretations and the same emotional resonance ('private languages"). The same words, or symbols, often have different me... ...there must be something to it!". In this dialog I try to deconstruct a "mild" anti-Semitic text. I myself wrote the text - not an easy task conside... ...ason like them. I dedicated the last few months to ploughing through reams of anti-Semitic tracts and texts. Steeped in more or less nauseating ver... ...nferior and reflexively hostile - to penetrate their counsels. Let us examine anti-Semitic arguments more closely and in an unbiased manner: Argum... ...umber four - Jews act as a cabal or mafia There is no organized, hierarchical, and centralized worldwide Jewish conspiracy. Rather the Jews act in ... ...ruly global phenomenon in world affairs. Bound by a common history, a common set of languages, a common ethos, a common religion, common defenses an... ...d its correlate in the brain. The gap is even bigger when we try to apply natural languages to the description of emotions and sensations. This se...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...mmunities can survive and thrive through voluntary cooperation, without a coercive central government. Politics corrupt and subvert Man's good and ... ...o the optimal allocation of economic resources. The market's great advantages over central planning are precisely its randomness and its lack of se... ... them the same cognitive interpretations and the same emotional resonance ('private languages"). The same words, or symbols, often have different me... ...there must be something to it!". In this dialog I try to deconstruct a "mild" anti-Semitic text. I myself wrote the text - not an easy task conside... ...ason like them. I dedicated the last few months to ploughing through reams of anti-Semitic tracts and texts. Steeped in more or less nauseating ver... ...nferior and reflexively hostile - to penetrate their counsels. Let us examine anti-Semitic arguments more closely and in an unbiased manner: Argum... ...umber four - Jews act as a cabal or mafia There is no organized, hierarchical, and centralized worldwide Jewish conspiracy. Rather the Jews act in ... ...ruly global phenomenon in world affairs. Bound by a common history, a common set of languages, a common ethos, a common religion, common defenses an... ...d its correlate in the brain. The gap is even bigger when we try to apply natural languages to the description of emotions and sensations. This se...

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

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...ns were generally panentheistic. Yet the Cherokees were monotheistic. The Central American cultures of the Aztecs and Mayans seemed to be polytheisti... ...llow the immigrants to continue the exclusive use of their 119 native languages and develop their own geographical cultural sub-societies—the Chi... ...lus or a minus for the Bulgarian economy and for working women? ―Centralized planning seems smart, except that it hasn‘t worked, probably be... ...hift from agriculture to manufacturing and services, as well as away from centralized economies. Workers in the Czech Republic, for example, put in ... ...hoose what they will examine and report on. Were all German soldiers anti-Semitic? Was Churchill the genius that the British say he was? Did Rooseve... ...a word or an idea, we can‘t think clearly. ―Look at the word ‗anti-semitic‘ which many Jews use to disparage anti-Jewish beliefs or behavior.... ...any Jews use to disparage anti-Jewish beliefs or behavior. But what does ‗semitic‘ actually mean? The word‘s roots trace to Shem, Noah‘s middle son.... ...almost never means what it originally meant in the Germanic or Anglo-Saxon languages.. But it takes no imagination to use it and it makes us feel pro...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...rcular rings concentrated all of their 2-dimensional energy into a compressed central point that Science calls a singularity which was the origin of ... ...Another reason for the creation of Myths was fire. The invention of fire as a central evening ritual; had storytellers gather around the fire and vi... ...of human awareness, then because of the abstractive nature of their different languages and cultures: humans became strangers, enemies. The problem... ...lone. Each offshoot of language and culture is an opaque mystery to all other languages and cultures. Humans are not universally understandable to ... ... their tools on… The increasing specialization of tools created different languages, cultures, normality’s, and realities. We started finding d... ...y structured and corrupted: that no smaller community which is not pyramidally centralized can survive within it. The Dynamics of the Transi... ... the Incas: the mountains themselves were worshipped. How did the Jewish Semitic culture and religion develop in Egypt? As an ethnic tribe of s... ...m. Nobody in Europe cared about them. Nazi Germany had exposed its anti-Semitic racism by honest actions. But after they had been almost kill... ...race of dirty thieves had been stealing from him? How could he prove that the Semitic slaves were all a pack of dirty robbers and thieves? They had...

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The New Machiavelli

By: H. G. Wells

... really, provisionally conceived as pigs—go up elabo- rate approaches to a central pen, from which they went down a cardboard slide four at a time, an... ...badly because the men who taught us did not habitually use either of these languages, nobody uses them any more now except perhaps for the Latin of a ... ...vantine monasteries. At the utmost our men read them. We were taught these languages because long ago Latin had been the language of civilisation; the... ...come in as the vehicle of a flood of new and amazing ideas. Once these two languages had been the sole means of initiation to the detached criticism a... ...ntinual pleasure to me. But these things were certainly not the living and central interests of my life. I had to conceal my wider outlook to a certai... ...therleigh, “are Ori- ental vices. The Jews brought them to Europe. They’re Semitic, just like our monasticism here and the seclusion of women and muti... ... time we engaged hotly upon the topic of those alleged mutilations and the Semitic responsibility for decency. Hatherleigh tried hard to saddle the Se... ...ay,” said Hatherleigh, escaping from our hands like an intellectual frog, “Semitic or not, I’ve got no use for decency.” 71 H G Wells We argued point... ...dnor, the “infernal punctilio,” and Dudley Sowerby’s limitations, were the central substance of that inalertness the book set itself to assail. So man...

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God the Invisible King

By: H. G. Wells

...ar. They were more often “wrath” than not. Such was the temperament of the Semitic deity who, as the He- brew Jehovah, proliferated, perhaps under the... ...remony of circumcision is clearly indicative of the original nature of the Semitic deity who developed into the T rinitarian God. So far as Christiani... ... to profess mod- ern religion are very insistent. It is, they declare, the central article, the axis, of their religion. God is a person who can be kn... ...ere is much confusion in people’s minds be- tween its text and the ancient Semitic traditions and usages retained by its followers; in places it may s... ...rch in pure science; associations for the teach- ing and simplification of languages; associations for promot- ing and watching education; association...

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Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...ry meaning at- tached to them, unless they can be illustrated from cognate languages. Now I have a taste for these things, and have in three weeks pro... ...now without doubt, that I have laid the foundation for a study of Oriental languages, if I have time and opportunity that may be fairly given to them.... ... and not say anything about it. I am heartily glad that you should acquire languages, modern as well as ancient. You know I have often pressed the for... ...le families, and even the different families, (e.g., the Indo-Germanic and Semitic races,) is not only interesting, but very useful. I wish I had made... ... gave his services at the Maori village of Orakei, where there was to be a central native school man- aged by Pirimona (Philemon), a well-trained man,... ...ds in another, the Rarotongan teacher, Tutoo, and his wife in a third. The central room was parlour, school, and hall, and as it had four unglazed win... ...tives—supports the missionary in every way. New Caledonia is handy for the central school, everything almost that can be requisite. Never mind; work o... ...e mode of thought of a South Sea islander resembles very closely that of a Semitic man. And their state of mental knowledge or ignorance, too. It is c...

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The Life of John Sterling

By: Thomas Carlyle

...hastly phantasm, choked in Thirty-nine-article controversies, or miserable Semitic, Anti-Semitic street-riots,—in scepti- cisms, agonized self-seeking... ...here being only one range of moun- tains to it, if even one: certainly the central Mountains of Wales do gradually rise, in a miscellaneous manner, on... ...t literatures. But he freely read in Greek and Latin, as in various modern languages; and in all fields, in the classical as well, his lively faculty ... ... element there, Torrijos became a very prominent, and at length almost the central object. The man himself, it is well known, was a valiant, gallant m... ...tages, vines and patches of vegetables. When you pass through, or over the central ridge, and get towards the North, there are woods of trees, of the ...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...amists in the ethnic conflicts that had been boiling there even before the Central Asian departments of the Soviet Union became indepen- dent states. ... ...l asylum and was admitted. It quickly became clear that Y ousef had been a central player in the attack. He had fled to Pakistan immediately after the... ...bouhalima, and Ayyad led the FBI to the Farouq mosque in Brooklyn, where a central figure was Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, an extremist Sunni Muslim cler... ...gents. It lacked sufficient translators proficient in Arabic and other key languages, resulting in a significant backlog of untranslated intercepts. 2... ...y few American colleges or universities offered programs in Middle Eastern languages or Islamic studies.The total number of undergraduate degrees gran... ...nt. 65 In his interactions with other students,Atta voiced virulently anti-Semitic and anti-American opinions, ranging from condemnations of what he d... ... translation unit for domestic intelligence intercepts in Arabic and other languages, did not. 60 Pressing Pakistan While this process moved along, di...

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