Libertarian socialism - most famously the institution of government. It has gone by various names: libertarian communism, anarcho-communism, left-anarchism, and, most commonly, anarchism. Libertarian socialists therefore believe in the abolition of privately held means of production and abolition of the state as an unnecessary and harmful institution (anarchism/libertarianism). Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Overview 2 Anti-capitalism 3 Opposition to the state 4 Political roots 4.1 Conflict with Marxism 5 Philosophical arguments 5.2 The importance of force 6 Historical Origins 6.3 Pre-"anarchism" libertarians 6.4 Anarchism: a new word 6.5 The spread of ideas: anarchism's influence 7 Further reading 7.6 Books 7.7 Periodicals 8 External Links Overview Libertarian socialists usually call themselves anarchists except when necessary to disambiguate or disassociate themselves with others who use the same term. Libertarian socialism should not be confused with libertarianism.
List of aliens in fiction - Xandarians (Marvel Comics) Xindi (Star Trek) Yuuzhan Vong (Star Wars) Zabrak (Star Wars) Zenetan (Farscape) Zenn-Lavians (Marvel Comics) Zen-Whoberis (Marvel Comics) Near-relatives of mankind In these stories, these aliens are descended from the same ancestors as humanity: Abh (Crest of the Stars) Darrians of the Traveller RPG, known for their small, high-technology polity Gethenians and other races of Ursula Le Guins Ekumen stories Kromags of Sliders (descended from Cro-Magnons) Nietzscheans (Andromeda) Second through Last Men (Last and First Men) Terra Novans (Star Trek) Vilani of the Traveller RPG, known for their bureaucratic tendencies and empire building Zhodani of the Traveller RPG, known for their psionic abilities in Star Trek: The Next Generation, the episode "The Chase" revealed that all the humanoid races in the galaxy are the result of genetic tinkering.
Jewish principles of faith - brit milah (circumcision), and the acceptance of the mitzvot (Commandments of Torah) as binding - is the test of the would-be convert's faith. He or she is instructed in the main points of Jewish law, while the profession of faith demanded is limited to the acknowledgement of the unity of God and the rejection of idolatry. Judah ha-Levi (The Kuzari, i. 115) puts the whole matter very strikingly when he says: We are not putting on an equality with us a person entering our religion through confession alone. We require deeds, including in that term self-restraint, purity, study of the Law, circuscision, and the performance of other duties demanded by the Torah. For the preparation of the convert, therefore, no other method of instruction was employed than for the training of.
Jules Simon - to the Revue des deux mondes, and in 1847, with Amédée Jacques and Émile Saisset, founded the Liberti de penser, with the intention of throwing off the yoke of Cousin, but he retired when Jacques allowed the insertion of an article advocating the principles of collectivism, with which he was at no time in sympathy. In 1848 he represented the Côtes-du-Nord in the National Assembly, and next year entered the Council of State, but was retired on account of his republican opinions. His refusal to take the oath of allegiance to the government of Louis Napoleon after the coup d'état was followed by his dismissal from his professorship, and he devoted himself to philosophical and political writings of a popular order. Le Devoir (1853), which was translated into modern Greek and.
Kong Le - Kong Le On August 9, 1960 the then-unknown Captain Kong Le led the Second Paratroop Battalion in a virtually bloodless coup d'état that overthrew the right wing government of Laos. In taking over Vientiane, the paratroopers had unwittingly chosen a moment when the entire cabinet was in Louang Phrabang conferring with King Sri Savang Vatthana. They informed their compatriots and the outside world by broadcasting their communiqués on the radio. In a rally at the city football stadium on August 11, Kong Le expanded on his goals: end the fighting in Laos, stem corruption, and establish a policy of peace and neutrality. Recalling the experience of the first coalition when the country was temporarily at peace, Kong Le asked for the nomination of Souvanna Phouma as prime.
Alexandrian school of anatomy - vena portae, but to certain glandular bodies; and he first applied the name of twelve-inch or duodenum (dodekadaktulos) to that part of the alimentary canal which is next to the stomach. Like Erasistratus, he appears to have studied carefully the configuration of the brain; and though, like him, he distinguishes the nerves into those of sensation and those of voluntary motion, he adds to them the ligaments and tendons. A tolerable description of the liver by this anatomist is preserved in the writings of Galen. He first applied the name of choroid or vascular membrane to that which is found in the cerebral ventricles; he knew the straight venous sinus which still bears his name; and to him the linear furrow at the bottom of the fourth ventricle is indebted for.
Temple of Set - considers itself today's leading religious and philosophical initiatory organization of the Left Hand Path. The Temple of Set was founded in 1975 by Michael Aquino and a few other members of the Church of Satan, who left that organization because of disagreements with its administration and philosophy. The Temple has grown in many directions since the schism, and is now very different from the organization it left (something of which the members of the Church of Satan will happily remind you). The Temple of Set is a philosophical organization. Its activities revolve around the philosophies represented by the ancient Egyptian principle of Xeper (roughly translated as "self-improvement" or "self-creation", with alternate spellings of Khepher. Kefer, and other variations), and the ideals represented by their modern understanding of Set, once called a.
Barthelemy Catherine Joubert - In 1794 he was again actively engaged, and in 1795 he rendered such conspicuous service as to be made general of brigade. In the campaign of 1796 the young general commanded a brigade under Augereau, and soon attracted the special attention of Bonaparte, who caused him to be made a general of division in December 1796, and repeatedly selected him for the command of important detachments. Thus he was in charge of the retaining force at the battle of Rivoli, and in the campaign of 1799 (invasion of Austria) he commanded the detached left wing of Bonaparte's army in the Tirol, and fought his way through the mountains to rejoin his chief in Styria. He subsequently held various commands in the Netherlands, on the Rhine and in Italy, where up to.
Battle of Worth - MacMahon near the village of Worth in Alsace, on the Sauer, 6 miles north of Hagenau. During 5 August 1870 the French concentrated in a selected position running nearly north and south along the Sauer Bach on the left front of the German III army which was moving South to seek them. The position is marked from right to left by Morsbronn, the Niederwald, the heights west of Worth and the woods northeast of Fröschweiler. East of the Sauer the German III army was moving south towards Hagenau, when their cavalry found the French position about noon. Thereafter the German vedettes held the French under close observation, while the latter moved about within their lines and as far as the village of Worth as if in peace quarters, and this notwithstanding.
Tomahawk missile - and storage, and to act as a launch tube. The submarine AUR is launched from torpedo or vertical tubes (e.g. the later Los Angeles class submarines). Surface ships employ a vertical launching system (VLS). A solid fuel booster with steering vanes in its exhaust is used for launch and to provide steering during the initial few seconds of flight while the wings and control surfaces are deployed. The Tomahawk is launched on a preset course above the water and, as it crosses over land, switches to an inertial and Terrain Contour Matching (TERCOM) system to guide the missile to its target with terminal guidance from the Digital Scene Matching Area Correlation (DSMAC) sytem, producing an accuracy of around 10m. The Block III TLAMs, entered service in 1993, have an extended range.
Science fiction television - Patrol), and Stingray, mixed puppetry and acted productions such as Space 1999, to wholly acted series such as Star Trek and Doctor Who. In the early days of television, when both technology and budgets for special effects were very limited, a great deal was left to the viewer's imagination; early episodes of Doctor Who, for example, were shot on very shaky cameras in grainy black and white, and it was not unusual to see a human limb protuding at some moment from underneath an alien costume or carapace. Many television science fiction productions borrow ideas from the film industry, in particular the use of digital manipulation, and are now comparable in production standards, if not in scale, with science fiction films. Many series which started in television, including Star Trek and.
Regulus missile - at Mach 0.85, with a circular error probable (CEP) of 0.5 percent of the range (at its extreme range the missile had to impact within 2.5 nm of its target 50% of the time). The design was 30 feet long, 10 feet in wingspan, four feet in diameter, and would weigh between 10,000 and 12,000 pounds. After launch, it would guided toward its target by two control stations. (Later, with the "Trounce" system, one submarine could guide it). Army-Navy competition complicated both the Matador's and the Regulus's developments. The missiles looked alike and used the same engine. They had nearly identical performances, schedules, and costs. Under pressure to reduce defense spending, the United States Department of Defense ordered the Navy to determine if Matador could be adapted for their use. The.
Rigoletto (opera) - Ernani, I due Foscari, Macbeth, Il Corsaro and Stiffelio) to examine the Kean by Alexandre Dumas, but he felt he needed a more energic subject to work on. He found Victor Hugo's Le roi s'amuse. Verdi later would have explained that "It contains extremely powerful positions ... The subject is great, immense, and has a character that is one of the most important creations of the theatre of all countries and all Ages". It was a highly controversial subject, indeed, and Hugo himeself had already had trouble with censorship; as Austria was at that time directly controlling Northern Italy, it came before the Austrian Board of Censors. Since the beginning Verdi was aware of the risks, so was Piave (or perhaps more). A letter has been found in which Verdi writes.
Letterboxing - small weatherproof box in publicly accessible places and post clues to its location. Traditionally, the clues are left in known letterboxes, but also on the Internet. Interest in letterboxing in the United States is generally considered to have started with a feature article in the April 1998 Smithsonian Magazine. Further information: Anne Swinscow has written several popular guide books, e.g. Dartmoor Letterboxes ISBN 0950911429 Letterboxing North America at http://www.letterboxing.org More information at http://www.LetterboxingCentral.com More information at http://www.Letterboxing.info See also: Geocaching, Orienteering 2. "Letterboxing" is also a term used to describe the process of transferring a widescreen image to video in a widescreen ratio. See letterbox.\n.
List of people known by one name - Caligula, (12-41), Roman emperor Cam'ron - American rapper Cajeme, rebel Canaletto, (1697-1768) Cantinflas, (1911-1993) Cappadonna - rapper Caprice - model Capucine, (1931-1990), European actress Capulina, Mexican comedy actor Caravaggio, (1573-1610), Italian Renaissance painter Catullus, (c. 84-54 BC), Roman poet Cepillin, Mexican television clown Charlemagne, (742-814), French king Charo, (born 1942), singer, dancer, comedian, actress and classical guitar player Charytin, (born c. 1950), singer and actress Chayanne, Puerto Rican singer Che, (1928-1967), Latino revolutionary Cher, (born 1946), American singer, wife of Sonny Bono Chespirito, (born 1929), writer, actor, comedian, and songwriter Christ, the Christian Messiah Cicciolina, (born 1951), radical left-wing politician and former porn star Cleopatra, (69 BC-30 BC), Egyptian queen Cochise, (died 1874) Colette, (1873-1954), French writer Cristina, (born 1948), journalist, talk show host and actress D Dalida, (1933-1987), Egyptian/French singer.
John Le Mesurier - John Le Mesurier John Le Mesurier (April 5 1912 - 1983), born John Elton Halliley, was a British actor. He began to study acting at the age of 21, using his mother's maiden name Le Mesurier as his stage name. He married June Melville in 1939. In 1952, he married comedienne Hattie Jacques, with whom he had two sons. When she left him for a younger man, Le Mesurier allowed the press to give him the blame for the break-up. His third wife was Joan Malin. Le Mesurier appeared in over 100 films, including Private's Progress, I'm All Right Jack, Brothers in Law, Carlton Brown of the FO, and Our Man in Marrakesh. In Ben-Hur (1959) he has an uncredited cameo role as a doctor. He also.
Guy Mollet - born in Flers, in Normandy, the son of a textile worker. He was educated in Le Havre and became a school teacher in Arras. Like most teachers, he was an active member of the French Socialist Party, then called the SFIO, and in 1928 he bcame SFIO Secretary for the Pas-de-Calais region. He joined the French Army in 1939 and was taken prisoner by the Germans. Released after seven months, he joined the Resistance in the Arras area and was three times was arrested and interrogated by the Gestapo. In October 1945, Mollet was elected to the National Assembly for Pas-de-Calais. In 1946 he became Secretary-General of the Socialist Party and served as a minister in the government headed by Léon Blum. In 1950-51 he served as Minister for European Relations.
French presidential election, 2002 - pour la République) Opponent: Jean-Marie Le Pen (Front National) Vote: Winner: 25,540,873 (82.21%) Opponent: 5,525,906 (17.79%) First Round Candidate Party Vote Percent Jacques Chirac Rassemblement pour la République 5,666,440 19.88% Jean-Marie Le Pen Front National 4,805,307 16.86% Lionel Jospin Parti Socialiste 4,610,749 16.18% François Bayrou Union pour la Démocratie Française 1,949,436 6.84% Arlette Laguiller Lutte Ouvrière 1,630,244 5.72% Jean-Pierre Chevènement Mouvement des Citoyens 1,518,901 5.33% Noël Mamère Les Verts 1,495,901 5,25% Olivier Besancenot Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire 1,210,694 4,25% Jean Saint-Josse Chasse, Pêche, Nature, Traditions 1,204,863 4.23% Alain Madelin Démocratie Libérale 1,113,709 3.91% Robert Hue Parti Communiste Français 960,757 3.37% Bruno Mégret Mouvement national républicain 667,123 2.34% Christiane Taubira Parti radical de gauche 660,576 2.32% Corinne Lepage Citoyenneté Action Participation 535,911 1.88% Christine Boutin close to UDF 339,142 1.19% Daniel Gluckstein Parti.
Le Monde diplomatique - Le Monde diplomatique The monthly publication Le Monde diplomatique (nicknamed "Le Diplo" by its French readers) offers well-documented analysis and opinion on politics, culture, and current affairs. In particular, it takes a critical view on the effects of Neoliberalism on the world and its population, offering a decidedly left-wing viewpoint. The original French edition has a circulation of about 300,000; ten other editions in other languages bring the total to about one million readers worldwide. Le Monde diplomatique's readers own 49% of the company through L'association des Amis du Monde diplomatique; the remaining 51% is owned by the French daily newspaper Le Monde. The newspaper maintains its independence by limiting its dependence advertising and through its reader-owned capital - "minorité de blocage" (control stock). One editorial.
Le Canard Enchaîné - Le Canard Enchaîné Le Canard Enchaîné is a satirical newspaper published weekly in France, founded in 1915. Its name itself is a reference to a newspaper L'homme libre ("The Free Man") which was forced to close by government censorship; Le Canard Enchaîné means "The chained duck", but canard (duck) is also French slang for "newspaper". The Canard is known for its independence; it does not publish any advertisement and its owners are not tied to any political or economical group. The Canard focuses on scandals in the governmental and economic circles of France, though it does cover other countries as well. It publishes "insider knowledge" on politicians and "leaks" from administration officials, along with satirical cartoons and jokes. The Canard has a left-wing political bias, but.
