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And Gulliver Returns Book I : Touchdown

By: Bob Oconnor

...hildren. Perhaps I am a romantic, but when I hear of infants being raped in Africa, I cry. Whether it is the superstition 10 that sex with a vir... ... is merely a sexual attack by a deranged coward—it should not happen. South Africa has the highest AIDS rate in the world. By 2020 AIDS had killed ... ...he highest AIDS rate in the world. By 2020 AIDS had killed over 40 million Africans. The number of children orphaned by HIV is an international tr... ...an children whose parents farm them out on that anti-slavery island, or the African children who are sold outright as slaves. “Just look at ... ... began to become evident to the more economically advanced countries of the western world that several factors were making it impossible to care for ... ...ar babies. The 60s saw an increase in the cold war between the East and the West as it ushered in the self-centered times of the hippies—and sex and ... ...ince the 80s the upheavals of Communist governments in the East allowed the western people to rest a little easier but the violent fanaticism of rel... ...race in the weekly three lap trip, down to the dam, back to the island then west around the buoy. He was prepared for the weekly summer race ... ...hat figure for years but you still see it in old films. Just beyond it is a western town that has been used for years. ‘Dr. Quinn’ was shot there. ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book V : My Visit to Singaling

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...an intelligence and work ethic have pushed it far past its rivals in the West. Population control was probably a major factor in its rise, but was n... ... millennial history is not based on the pragmatism of profit found in the West. But, as you might expect, profits followed and multiplied as incredi... ...nd jailed some rivals, and often suppressed other freedoms that we in the West deem essential. But if it is results you want, an orderly highly func... ...t of these Asian economies are hallmarks to that concept. In the West we are facing similar questions. Does increased security that may save... ... —“You just have to keep workers in the trenches. Everyone but the Western governments think that our life-spans will increase. The early ret... ...our international prestige! “While China develops relationships in Africa and Asia, your country is busy antagonizing one of the world‟s majo... ...he idea that all men are brothers or that we all are products of the same African origin. “So the low rate of population growth began to con... ...ally qualified for pareenthood. “Some might call it genocide for Africans or Latin Americans if licenses were required in those area, but w... .... They die one way or the other. And it may be their own fault since only Africa and Latin America more than doubled their percentage of the world‟s...

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The Labor Divide

By: Sam Vaknin

...Netherlands' "structural budget margin," developed in the early 1960s, and West Germany's "cyclically neutral budget," calculated by its German Counc... ...rkforce) - is not clear. Add to this stubbornly high birth rates (esp. in Africa) and a steady decline in government hiring al over the world - and ... ...ut it is double that (more than 30%) among the young (compared to 15% for West European youths). The average is misleading, though. In Georgia the r... ... in many countries - from deflationary Japan to racially imbalanced South Africa - to this very day. Such workers are usually paid a salary equal to... ...s are the EU and the USA - but many end up in lesser countries in Asia or Africa. The International Labour Organization (ILO) published the followi... ...ional Labour Organization (ILO) published the following figures in 1997: Africa had 20 Million migrant workers, North America - 17 million, Central ... ...tching investment funds. Migrant associations are sprouting all over the Western world, often at the behest of municipal authorities back home. The... ...and 38% of all businesses in Poland. Virtually all governments, east and west, support their "small business" or "small and medium enterprises" sec... ...l institution, government or employer- financed unions still exist even in Western and better governed countries, such as Greece. In the former colon...

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

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...k. She knew his jet lag was slowing him up, he was still lagging somewhere west of Tahiti. She found him in the hotel lobby but without his South Sea... ...llness, such as depression that affects people in most populations, in the West drugs and therapy are usually the preferred treatment, in the underde... ...e I was accompanied by CDs containing the great books of the East and the West. I read the Bible and the Koran several times. I read Aristotle and Pl... ...rd to life? Why save the AIDS doomed child for a life of poverty in rural Africa when the child would be immediately accepted into Heaven upon death... ...ore of a conglomeration of 300 years of warfare between the Greeks of the west and those who lived in what we now call Turkey? Did Achilles or Hector... ...ans of travel. ―It has long puzzled me why the common brothers in your western religions have fought so violently among themselves for so long. C... ... the ideas of a single supernatural. This idea spread to Europe, to North Africa and across the Atlantic, Most people in those areas believe in a si... ...wered soon? And I wonder if the Church‘s decrees to have more children in Africa and South America is causing poverty in those areas? And does this ... ...the terror attacks of: 9/11 in the U.S., in the UK, in Iraq, in southern Africa, the enriching of popes and preachers through the tithing of the fai...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...werful example of animal instincts was shown in the work of Eugene Marais. I‘m sure you have seen examples of the nests of the weaver birds in Africa... ...s of the universe and everything that had happened up until now, he could predict without error what would happen in the future. So one of the West‘s... ...ult to counter his observation. If Adler said we need to overcome our feelings of inferiority, we can find ample evidence of that need in the West. ... ...that need in the West. But is it true among the natives of Oceania or Asia? Still, let us look for a while at some of the major early ideas of Wester... ...ies would have been either strengthened or abandoned based on modern neuroscience. But there is no question that his insights were critical to Wester... ...genes. There is also a great deal of animal research that points to the existence of instincts. ―We mentioned Robert Ardrey‘s book ‗Africa... ...eincarnation, but there are probably a billion people who do.‖ —―You‘re right Ray, we can never be sure. But let‘s take the position of Wester... ...ned Helen Keller who, deaf and blind, graduated from college and became a famous author and lecturer. Then there is Oscar Pistorius, the South Africa... ...for justice. Just the exact opposite of those using power to subdue others in business, politics or sport. ―I cringed when I saw the Africa...

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Family and More : Enemies or Friends?

By: Helena Harper

...er they'll see no more. Hour upon hour in horse and cart on the long journey West, Hamburg their goal, along tracks barely passable, thick with refuge... ...ing, but money is tight and work has to be found be it north, south, east or west, so lonely weeks spent away from family and home are the price he ha... ..., knowing when his final letter is read she must depart with children to the West, to escape the Russian flood she knows is sure to come. With determ... ...unger siblings with tales of wonder and fear, running a coffee plantation in Africa, his fervent, passionate dream. A bike glistening silver and new i...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

...to get rid of it, and traders to hedge against it. Modern risk exchanges liberated Western economies from the tyranny of the uncertain - they enthu... ...uture ones. Export and credit insurance schemes - such as the recently established African Trade Insurance Agency or the more veteran American OPIC... ...e premiums in case of an unusual catastrophe, natural or man made. In Israel, South Africa, and Spain, terrorism and war damages are indemnified by ... ...nce or a primary insurance contract. According to an article published by Kathryn Westover of Strategic Risk Solutions in "Financing Risk and Rei... ...n China and South East Asia, less than 2 in East Europe and India each, about 1 in Africa and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) each. V... ...following court decisions, or agreements with the authorities. Brazilians and South Africans, for instance, pay a fraction of the price paid in the ... ...razilians and South Africans, for instance, pay a fraction of the price paid in the West for their anti- retroviral AIDS medication. Even so, the p... ...holarly journals. Already, voices in developing countries demand tiered pricing for Western textbooks sold in emerging economies. Quoted in the Free... ...Scholarship newsletter, Lai Ting-ming of the Taipei Times criticized, on March 26, "western publishers for selling textbooks to third world students...

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Hawaii Business Magazine-Special Apec Edition

By: Apec Hawaii Host Committee

...Yobi Group, LLC Bank of Hawaii Booz Allen Hamilton Carlsmith Ball LLP East-West Center General Dynamics Corporation Hawai‘i Tourism Authority Lockheed... ...in 2008 at the Hawai‘i Natural Energy Laboratory at Keāhole Point on the western side of Hawai‘i Island. There, 1,008 MicroCSP collectors capture... ... optics in Sopogy’s patented MicroCSP systems track the sun from east to west like a giant magnifying glass, intensifying the sun’s heat energy. W... ... constantly fnding new partners A NET-ZERO COMMUNITY AT KAUPUNI, on the west coast of O‘ahu, the state of Hawai‘i has built a net-zero- energy co... ...tracts to fnance construction of a $700-million polysilicon plant in the western U.S. state of Idaho. Export of polysilicon from Idaho to Asia is ... ... Camp Smith (Pacifc Command for all U.S. armed f orces from California to Africa’s east coast, f rom Arctic to Antarctica) 10 Marine Corps Base Ha... ...38.6% Mixed Race 23.6% Native Hawaiian or Pacifc Islander 10% Black or African American 1.6% Other 1.5% HAWAI‘I’S POPULATION BY RACE State Popula...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...1930s, or the films of the Second World War, or footage on the daily lives of African-Americans during segregation, or the music of the Great Depressio... ...t first they were successful. 36 As Yochai Benkler puts it, Alice Randall, an African American woman, was ordered by a government official not to publis... ...ights or the right to drive cattle over homesteaders’ land in the Ameri- can West. But they also are part of a larger way of seeing the world; think o... .... Region 1 is the United States and Canada. Region 2 is Japan, Europe, South Africa, the Middle East, and—bizarrely—Greenland. Region 3 is South Korea... ...gree with him from quoting his autobiography in dis- cussing his life. If an African-American author wishes to tell the story of Gone With the Wind fr... ...d appeals to raise money for those who had been affected by the storm. Kanye West, the hip hop musician, was one of them. Appearing on NBC on Septembe... ... one of them. Appearing on NBC on September 2, with the comedian Mike Myers, West started out seeming quietly upset. Finally, he exploded. I hate the ... ...Louisiana citizens to live in the area in the future. Then he turned back to West, who uttered the line that came to epitomize Katrina for many people... ...o as “George Bush Doesn’t Like Black People”). Appropriately, given that Mr. West was the one to come up with the phrase, the song was built around Mr...

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And Gulliver Returns Book III : A Visit to Kino

By: Bob Oconnor

......................................................... 21 DEMOCRACY AND----WESTERN STYLE TEENAGERS-DRUGS, CLOTHES, SEX ........ 22 OUR ONE CHILD POL... ...ze doors of Kino depicted the age of civilization in both the East and the West. There were the depictions of Lao Tzu and Confucius from the East. T... ...he people and the economy of Kino and the world. The threat had forced the West to rapidly move to cleaning up the global mess that they had spewed ... ...cotton is being raised, even though it isn‘t needed. Meanwhile sub- Saharan African countries are losing hundreds of millions of dollars a year in los... ...ame taxpayer feed trough. If you think that this only 10 happens in the West, just check out Japan‘s generosity to dairy farmers. It‘s nearly thre... ...ricultural surplus is the essential for every true civilization. As in the West, our machinery and robots now do the work that the peasant and the wa... ...istians rose to power they tortured the unbelievers. Islam conquered North Africa, India, and Spain and forced major societal changes. When trains r... ...ld have that problem in your country, or even if it were proposed for some African countries by Anglos. But here it is Asians reducing the populatio...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...t Pg 892 Choice and Will Pg 890 Passion Pg 900 Innocence Pg 901 Modern Western Society Pg 903 The Consumer Dynamic Pg 915 The Destruction ... ...original ecosystem we were genetically designed to function in…. That is; in Africa, where we originally came from, as naked apes who stood up and ... ...nical, robotocized way of viewing the world we live in. Science is a modern, western secular religious tradition: invented by a species which has pr... ...nical, robotocized way of viewing the world we live in. Science is a modern, western secular religious tradition: invented by a species which has pr... ...ht, smell and hearing, compete and survive during the seasonal drought of the African Veldt? The drying up of vegetation, waterholes, the migrating... ... killing. Cut marks 3.4 million years old on bones of large animals found in Africa in the Olduvai Gorge area proves that at least 3.4 million years... ...ried under 25 million years of volcanic ash and lava and obsidian, pumice in Africa. But the basic story can be pieced together from the tiny bits... ...y is a barren desert because twelve thousand years ago in that area: is where Western cities were first invented. Their creation ultimately destroye... ...anings of these words: they all tell the same story. The Namib Desert on the West coast of Africa, the Olduvai Gorge which is on the east side of Af...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...al rules, principles, and considerations. In a nutshell - in many countries in the West one is thought to has a right to have one's life terminated... ...es and lores and there cannot, therefore, be a universal, or eternal hierarchy. In Western moral systems, the Right to Life supersedes all other ri... ...ian Genocide in Turkey. Radical Islamists are now advocating the mass slaughter of Westerners, particularly of Americans and Israelis, regardless o... ...s of pathogens, cancer is caused by pollution, heart ailments are related to modern Western diet, AIDS, avian flu, SARS, and other diseases are a r... ...massive trauma not because of its dimensions - but because Germans, the epitome of Western civilization, have turned on the Jews, the self- proclaim... ...mbangala in today's Angola and Congo, the Fang in Cameroon, the Mangbetu in Central Africa, the Ache in Paraguay, the Tonkawa in today's Texas, the ... ...sia, and the natives of the captaincy of Sergipe in Brazil. From Congo and Central Africa to Germany and from Mexico to New Zealand, cannibalism is... ... human organs and fetuses as well as mummies are still being gobbled up - mainly in Africa and Asia - for remedial and medicinal purposes and in ord... ...lectable tissues to a discerning cannibal post-mortem (or to victims of famine in Africa)? When does our right to dispose of our organs in any way...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...al rules, principles, and considerations. In a nutshell - in many countries in the West one is thought to has a right to have one's life terminated... ...es and lores and there cannot, therefore, be a universal, or eternal hierarchy. In Western moral systems, the Right to Life supersedes all other ri... ...ian Genocide in Turkey. Radical Islamists are now advocating the mass slaughter of Westerners, particularly of Americans and Israelis, regardless o... ...s of pathogens, cancer is caused by pollution, heart ailments are related to modern Western diet, AIDS, avian flu, SARS, and other diseases are a r... ...massive trauma not because of its dimensions - but because Germans, the epitome of Western civilization, have turned on the Jews, the self- proclaim... ...mbangala in today's Angola and Congo, the Fang in Cameroon, the Mangbetu in Central Africa, the Ache in Paraguay, the Tonkawa in today's Texas, the ... ...sia, and the natives of the captaincy of Sergipe in Brazil. From Congo and Central Africa to Germany and from Mexico to New Zealand, cannibalism is... ... human organs and fetuses as well as mummies are still being gobbled up - mainly in Africa and Asia - for remedial and medicinal purposes and in ord... ...lectable tissues to a discerning cannibal post-mortem (or to victims of famine in Africa)? When does our right to dispose of our organs in any way...

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Fixing Global Finance

By: Kavaljit Singh

... about 12 million of the newly unemployed were in North America, Japan and Western Europe. Even in developing countries, employment levels may not rea... ...0 additional children may have died of malnutrition in 2009 in Sub-Saharan Africa because of the financial crisis. 8 There is a growing concern that t... ...rength to deal with external shocks. Since social welfare programs in many African countries are heavily dependent on international aid, it would make... ...y to be achieved. In particular, it will be very difficult for Sub-Saharan Africa to meet a number of MDGs due to enormous economic constraints put by... ...d Friedman and Norbert Schady, “How Many More Infants Are Likely to Die in Africa as a Result of the Global Financial Crisis?,” Policy Research Workin... ...he crisis. When the crisis erupted, these economies were badly hit because Western banks immediately withdrew funds from their subsidiaries operating ... ...egatively affected due to fall in consumption and imports in recession-hit Western economies. In the aftermath of crisis, the decline in US imports fr... ...f 2008 raised the kitty of commodity SWFs even though their investments in Western banking system witnessed considerable paper losses. The Norwegian S... ...egic Objectives? Pre-crisis, SWFs had come under severe criticism from the Western world for their alleged political and non-commercial objectives. 10...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

... Street, Wlllamstown Prank L. Siazenger Golf, Tennis and Hockey Supplies 8 West 28th St., New York H.E, Kinsman& Go. College it it Photographers Also ... ...|)rudence at Columbia law school. He has also served as lecturer at North- western university law school. '()1 —Charles R. King died at his home in Ro... ...Brown 190S has been elected captain of the junior class baseball team. The Western New Y'ork club will hold a smoker in Bemis' at 8.30 Wednesday eveni... ... lin game was sensationally close, but the Ohio State ehuinpions- the only western team which eanie east this your—were at the small entl of a to 7 sc... ...of Squires & Wynkoop, 44 Cortland street. New York city. Ex-'Ofi—Philip N. Westoott has accepted a position with the Holden-Ueuprey Co., manufac- ture... ...ger sou in nn aristopratio family—a wanderer in soaroh of fortune in South Africa—to whom an earldom oame after hehad been smitten with leprosy. "In t... ...strated lecture by Professor Rice on "The Mystery of the Nile," that great African river which, rising nearly four thousand miles from the sea, flows ... ...directly that they can write more sincerely of Williainstown than of South Africa, and that in consequence their writings will be of truer literary va... ... "Camping "and Tramping with Roosevelt" by John Burroiighs, "Across Widest Africa", "The Weavers'' by Parker, and a "Critical Dic- tionary of English ...

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French Natural Remedies & Recipes from Beautiful Tasmania

By: Christiane Guise

... for thirty minutes. 88 La Rouille In south of France and North of Africa, the rouille is a popular hot sauce very appreciated with Cou... ... 110 Le couscous This is a variation of the famous dish from North Africa. It is very healthy. 1 Cup of Bourghul or Couscous 3 Cup o... ... keep them three days in the fridge. 119 Candlemas’ Crêpes In Britain, West of France, the traditional pancakes are made of buckwheat. They...

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Narcissistic and Psychopathic Leaders

By: Sam Vaknin

...ot an isolated phenomenon. It is embedded in our contemporary culture. The West's is a narcissistic civilization. It upholds narcissistic values an... ...ships." Still, there are malignant narcissists among subsistence farmers in Africa, nomads in the Sinai desert, day labourers in East Europe, and in... ...lusionary policies, cronyism, corruption, intimidation, and collusion with Western interests, both commercial and political. The new "democracies" a... ...irected its colonial attentions at the heartland of Europe - rather than at Africa or Asia or Latin and Central America. Both World Wars were colon... ...topian as the classical Idea of Progress, which is most strongly reified by Western science and liberal democracy. All four illiberal ideologies fi... ...munism, Fascism, Nazism, and Religious Fundamentalism, on the one hand, and Western liberalism, on the other hand: All four totalitarian ideologies ... ... and the concomitant restoration of its glory. Putin strives to exploit the West's aversion to conflict and addiction to wealth. Napoleon III strug...

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The Conundrums of Psychology

By: Sam Vaknin

...ildering array of ever-shifting mental health "diagnoses" expressly centred around Western civilisation and its standards (example: the ethical ob... ...ildering array of ever-shifting mental health "diagnoses" expressly centred around Western civilization and its standards (example: the ethical obj... .... Every external datum likely generates a shower of internal data. Dreamers in the West should engage in a qualitatively different type of dreaming... ... (which does not detract from its awesome penetration and beauty). I have lived in Africa, the Middle East, North America, Western Europe and Easte... ...e penetration and beauty). I have lived in Africa, the Middle East, North America, Western Europe and Eastern Europe. Dreams fulfil different socie... ...ietal functions and have distinct cultural roles in each of these civilizations. In Africa, dreams are perceived to be a mode of communication, as r... ...member Castaneda), from the collective (Jung), from reality (this is the closest to Western interpretation), from the future (precognition), or from...

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Facts and Fictions in the Securities Industry

By: Sam Vaknin

...rages all over Eastern and Central Europe, in countries in transition as well as in Western Europe. It raged in Britain during the 80s. Is privatiz... ...ts, both tangible and intangible, retarded wealth formation. In some respects, the West - and especially the United States - are poorer now than th... ... otherwise. This is disingenuous. Ponzi and pyramid schemes have been a fixture of Western civilization at least since the middle Renaissance. Ass... ...ion of Wall Street positions by harried British financiers. The collapse of Middle West Utilities, run by the energy tycoon, Samuel Insull, exposed... ... of real values. On November 3, 1929 the shares of American Can, General Electric, Westinghouse and Anaconda Copper were still substantially higher... ...ed States and Italy (65% rise since 1997), it falls behind Ireland (179%) and South Africa (195%). It is in league with Australia (with 113%) and Sp... ...evisited - Maritime Piracy Organ Trafficking in Eastern Europe Begging Your Trust in Africa Slush Funds Return The Future of the SEC Interview wit... ...in transition. Signs of trouble abound from Turkey to Bolivia and from Paraguay to Africa. Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo said last July that...

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Aesthetics

By: Florentin Smaradanche

...America - the paradise of devil (1992). The irrepressible seduction of the West, out of which suffer any frustrated people from East, it is a first m... ..., non-text, the annexing of daily/ordinary language etc. Professor in Africa (1999) is a late appearance (at a publishing house in Chisinau) of t... ...on the magic of formal liberties for which the mathematics professor from Africa has been “programmed” for long time ago, through an irreversible de... ... Portuguese, Italian, Dorul, Aarborg, Denmark, 1998; 87 17. Teacher in Africa / Moroccan Journal, Chisinau University, Chisinau, 1999; 18. Ask me... ... Emily, Florentin Smarandache, in “American Poets of the 1990’s”, east and West Literary Foundation, San Francisco, CA, 1994, p.62. Lungu, Al., Pro... ...I ask you, Targoviste, Macarie, 1999. Smarandache, Florentin, Teacher in Africa. Moroccan Diary. Universitatea Chisinau, 1999. Smarandache, Floren... ...3. Yan, Emily, American Poets of the 1990’s, San Francisco, CA, East and West Literary Foundation, 1994. 100 CONTENT “An essayistic performance”...

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