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Although so much ink has been spilled about JFK, recent years have seen the public release of documents and interviews, shedding new light on this most charismatic president. In Reconsidering JFK, Professor Michael Shelden of Indiana State University delivers 12 captivating lectures to transport you back in time for a fresh angle on a multifaceted, always fascinating American president.
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After the events of the 2020 presidential election, a Cuban teacher in Miami identifies signs of the type of society he left behind. Concerned about the conversion of the United States into a totalitarian country, he begins sending email alerts to known people. The mails have become analyses of the evolving situation and a chronicle of the occupation of each field by the radical left. Education becomes indoctrination, news becomes harmful propaganda,...
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Democracy is being threatened, and young people are taking it personally. In 2016, only 39% of those 29 and under, the largest generation of eligible voters in US history, voted in the presidential election. What can we do to increase young voter participation and sustain a functional democracy? THE YOUNG VOTE takes the temperature of a generation raised during a time of increasing distrust in government, active voter suppression, and continued inaction...
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Deadly traffic accidents involving large trucks have surged over the past decade. FRONTLINE and ProPublica examine one gruesome kind of truck accident — underride crashes — and why they keep happening. Trucking industry representatives and the government’s lead agency on traffic safety have said that their top priority is safety. Drawing on more than a year of reporting — including leaked documents and interviews with former government insiders,...
6) The Burden
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Presents the determined voices of those within the military and across the political spectrum who advocate for breaking America’s addiction to fossil fuels as essential to improving our national security. Featuring high-level active duty and retired military leaders, elected officials and others, the film illustrates a tale of energy innovation. Some of our country’s most vital consumer technologies emerged out of military needs, such as the Internet...
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Shows how two antiwar protests in the fall of 1969 — the largest the country had ever seen — pressured President Nixon to cancel what he called his “madman” plans for a massive escalation of the U.S. war in Vietnam, including a threat to use nuclear weapons. At the time, protestors had no idea how influential they could be and how many lives they may have saved.
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Originally published in 1993, An Agenda for Britain offers a radical vision for the future of Britain and the Labour Party. Unemployment, Frank Field argues, must be the major issue on the political agenda; welfare should be taken 'out of the ghetto' and made part of the debate about Britain's economic and industrial future; and employees should have much greater control over their own pension capital. The adoption of this reforming agenda is, he...
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I was inspired to write this book by observing as to what is presently happening on the earth such as Global hunger, Child labor, Global warming, Corruption, Illiteracy and Poverty of the people in some countries and Terrorism and Guerilla warfare. I am paying very serious attention to this matter. It just amounts to unscientific administrative policy or a chaotic policy followed by a few countries and purposely some countries are indulging in terrorism...
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El emprendimiento no tiene límites de edad, y fomentar la creación de empresas no solo es posible, sino también beneficioso para el desarrollo integral de los jóvenes. En un mundo cada vez más orientado hacia la innovación y la creatividad, enseñar a los jóvenes los fundamentos del emprendimiento no solo les proporciona habilidades empresariales prácticas, sino que también promueve la autonomía, el pensamiento crítico y la resolución...
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Este libro no sólo trata de Aragón. Su título alude a la fascinante idiosincrasia de Aragón en el panorama nacional: en todas las elecciones hasta la fecha, quien gana Aragón, gana España (igual que ocurre en los Estados Unidos con Ohio). Estamos en un momento político apasionante, en mitad de un cataclismo electoral que está poniendo patas arriba el sistema de partidos que se consolidó durante la Transición, pero para valorar este cambio...
12) Mehr Bürgergesellschaft wagen: On Representative Democracy, Citizenship and the Need to Remember
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The Federal Republic of Germany is a representative democracy, at least at the federal level. Legislation lies exclusively in the hands of the Bundestag and Bundesrat, this is what the fathers and mothers of the Basic Law decided in the Parliamentary Council in 1948/49 and laid down in the constitution. The Basic Law does not provide for elements of direct democracy, as they are often called for today for the federal government. Theodor Heuss in particular,...
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Kriegs-Chronik aus der Ukraine: Episoden des dementierten Russland-NATO-Kriegs
In der Ukraine sind die drei aktiven Kriegsparteien mit der zielstrebigen Eskalation des kriegerischen Tötens und Verwüstens befasst; alle nach der Maxime, den Feind darin immer wieder zu überbieten, bis der nicht mehr mitgehen will oder kann – und auf keinen Fall derjenige zu sein, der irgendwann einlenkt. Dabei machen Russland und die USA mit ihren wechselseitigen...
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Die Welt erlebt Krieg in der Ukraine. Sie erlebt, wie Staaten für ihre Selbsterhaltung – wer dieses „Selbst" ist und was dazu gehört, definieren sie selbst – in großem Stil über Leichen gehen. Und die Menschen, welt- und vor allem europaweit, reagieren: mit bedingungsloser Selbstverpflichtung zu moralischer Parteinahme.
Geht's noch?
Russland ringt um seine Behauptung als strategische Macht –
Amerika um deren Erledigung
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Under God's guidance, I fled China from Shanghai in October 2020 and sent a large number of emails and messages to governments, media, and schools around the world, including the Trump administration. In order to expose the CCP's creation of the Wuhan virus, live organ harvesting, and financial fraud. I'm sure many of you have received my emails and seen my messages on the web.Guo Wengui and Yan Limeng only provided unilateral evidence and opinions,...
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Ukraine und Gaza – Populäre Meinungsbildung über die Kriege des Hahres 2023
Im Krieg wird die Moralität der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft auf den Kopf gestellt. Was im zivilen Alltag mit seinen rechtlichen Vorschriften und sittlichen Geboten dem Menschen streng verboten ist, das wird ihm als Soldaten im Krieg befohlen – und allen anderen als unbedingt gebotene Notwendigkeit vorstellig gemacht: Im Krieg gilt es, andere Menschen umzubringen, die...
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El presente libro elabora una distinción conceptual entre proletariado y clase obrera a partir de una relectura de la obra de Karl Marx. En contraposición a las interpretaciones tradicionales que equiparan ambos términos, este trabajo rastrea un sentido alternativo de la expresión "proletariado" también acuñado por Marx: la clase que no es una clase. A diferencia de la concepción usual del proletariado como clase obrera, se sostiene que los...
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This book for Class X has been written strictly in accordance with the latest syllabus. It has been fully updated and abridged in accordance with CBSE requirements. To make reading content easier for students, the book has been written in simple and student-friendly language, in a lucid manner, and with appropriate images, charts, figures, maps, tables, and diagrams. Each chapter includes the curriculum, course content and its focus, as well as a...
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Mankind is on a crash course with destiny and doesn't seem to have a clue! We are witnessing rapidly accelerating global warming of our own making that could potentially result in species extinctions, including our own. Witness widespread signs of the impending disaster including super storms, record drought, floods, forest fires and climate refugees. Dangerous nuclear saber rattling by Russia and North Korea is on the upswing and the Russian invasion...
20) Actualidad # 1
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Cuando un grupo diverso de personas topa con este fascinante periódico, sus vidas quedan enredadas en un laberinto de secretos, conexiones ocultas y decisiones cruciales. Entre un periodista obsesionado con la verdad, un historiador con un pasado misterioso y un estudiante de ciencias ocultas, ambos luchan por descifrar el significado de "Noticias #1" antes de que sus mensajes se conviertan en una realidad irrevocable.En medio de conspiraciones y...
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