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  Scientology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mainstream religions, in his view, had failed to realize their objectives: "It is all very well to idealize poverty and associate wisdom with begging bowls, or virtue with low estate.
A campaign directed to world leaders, as well as the general public, to implement the 1948 United Nations document "The Universal Declaration of Human Rights" (with particular emphasis on the religious freedom elements).
Scientology has also been the focus of criticism by anti-cult campaigners and has aroused controversy for its high-profile campaigns against psychiatry and psychiatric medication.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scientology   (9149 words)

  
 Melanie Phillips’s Articles
The birth of this baby has produced a horrified reaction from various IVF specialists and campaigners in the field of medical ethics, who say IVF for elderly women is a distortion of nature and should be stopped — not least because complications in pregnancy rise dramatically among older women.
Project Blair has failed because it was based on the vacuities of the supposed political ‘third way’, which pretended that it was neither Old Labour nor Tory but a new route to nirvana where all problems would be solved with voters benefiting from gain with no pain.
Immigrant children were taught instead that their culture was the community they came from, and children were left in ignorance of British history and taught that their values were whatever they wanted them to be.
www.melaniephillips.com /articles   (10142 words)

  
 On Bahai Liberty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
No survey of incidents should fail to mention the lawsuit of Deborah Buchhorn against the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of the United States and the Assembly of Albuquerque, New Mexico for fraud and libel in 2001.
The court’s dismissal of the lawsuit proved only that the government of the United States was wisely not about to adjudicate on issues of religion and conscience and in no way exonerated the Baha’i administration of the charges.
How often in religious history have the teachings and vision of the Founder become debased by the organization that rears itself upon His Sacrifice.
www.reformbahai.org /on_bahai_liberty.htm   (1577 words)

  
 Soviet Union   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
After the extraordinary economic policy of war communism during the Civil War the Soviet government permitted some private enterprise to coexist with nationalized industry in the 1920s and total food requisition in the countryside was replaced by a food tax (''see'' New Economic Policy).
But Gorbachev failed to address the fundamental flaws of the Soviet system; by 1991, when a plot by government insiders revealed the weakness of Gorbachev's political position, the end of the Soviet Union was in sight.
Conceding the weaknesses of their past approaches in solving new problems, the leaders of the late 1980s were seeking to mold a program of economic reform to galvanize the economy.
soviet-union.ask.dyndns.dk   (4275 words)

  
 The History Place - Books on Hitler's Germany
This is Shirer's private account as he watched Hitler take Germany down the road toward war in the last half of the 1930s.
Famed British historian Clark tells a vivid history of the campaign including the failed German attack on Moscow, the Siege of Leningrad, the greatest tank battle in history, and the great Russian offensive in 1944 that led the Red Army on to victory in Berlin.
Terms of use: Private home/school non-commercial, non-Internet re-usage only is allowed of any text, graphics, photos, audio clips, other electronic files or materials from The History Place.
www.historyplace.com /bookshop/titles.htm   (2657 words)

  
 Jak's View From Vancouver   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
And, to a topological mind, an L is the same as a V. In this way, the team could classify different configurations of strokes, or segments, to boil an alphabet of alphabets down to their essentials.
Across 115 writing systems to emerge over human history, varying in number of characters from about 10 to 200, the average number of strokes per character is approximately three and does not appear to vary as a function of writing system size.
With this attitude, it is no wonder that today's Challenger anniversary is celebrated on front pages and on TV specials, while yesterday's anniversary of the deaths of Virgil Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee went almost unnoticed.
jakking.typepad.com   (3742 words)

  
 GettysBLOG
In fact, however, the Senate plan does not benchmark the private sector, but is keyed to the contract Gov. Ed Rendell negotiated with state executive branch employees.
In the private sector, employee contributions are two to four times the amount Senators and staff will pay.
While you are in the sear and yellow leaf your country is in the spring-time of the new life your victory gave it.
gettysblog.blogspot.com   (9450 words)

  
 Side Channels
I remember hearing a rebuttal for cruelty to cows claims that went something like… “they are the most successful animals in history!” Meaning that by their utility to humans they outlived their time.
It is permissible to have no other info than the UID on one’s profile but this piece of (private) info always appears.
I’ve spent a few hours reading into this bad joke (actually, a joke would be a compliment) and it occurred to me that there are a lot of similarities between its ways and hollywood.
weblog.saardrimer.com   (11054 words)

  
 Writers Free Reference -- Where to find free Information for writers and others
The Private History of a Campaign That Failed by Mark Twain
Nice history pages but be aware of many pop-ups.
Wikinfo is a universal open content encyclopedia with 20792 Wikinfo articles.
www.writers-free-reference.com   (5410 words)

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