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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
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Attention Barbarian Been Country Need Pay See Thousand Three Year
It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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Country Democracy Describe First Model People Political Scientist War World
No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.
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Appy Basic Engineer Learn Little Mathematics Matter Same Science
The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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