Argentina embraced US-style capitalism and adopted US-backed economic reform in the 1990s in the form of a fixed-currency system and unbridled free-market policies. An exchange rate of one-to-one with the dollar had been fixed by the law and every peso from the central bank was backed by a dollar of liquid assets like US treasury notes. ...
The World Wide Web alone offers about a billion pages of information, much of it free "and much of it of interest to terrorist organizations. ... A number of websites have included compilations of nuclear weapons information gleaned from literature elsewhere in the public domain.It is important to note that, even if a user of the World Wide Web does not know the specific location of a website containing bombmaking information, such data can easily be located with a search engine. ...
If we are to see in the Pequod under Ahab a symbol of the teleocratic state, of the state conceived as a mechanism for achieving a substantive purpose [note oakeshott phrase earlier], we first need to identify precisely what distinguishes the hunting of Moby-Dick from the hunting of sperm whales generally, and why this difference points towards two essentially different visions of the state. ... He is also metaphorically expressing the attitude of a free citizen towards the governmentally enforced rules he lives by. ... The free citizen, in short, consents to the law because the law serves ...
In the report by the NCTE, a chapter called "Reforming Police and Ending Anti-Transgender Violence" gives a brief intro into the problem at hand, noting that in the LGBT community "nearly 3 out of 4 of lethal crimes [are] committed against trans women and girls," and when they seek refuge in the police "22% of transgender people reported police harassment [and] bias-motivated assault by officers" (25). ... Written reports whose targeted audience is the general public differ in language against reports directed to the government, because, according to GLAAD, "understanding [their] audien...
Mohamed Nimer, acclaimed author and professor, notes that "in political seasons, fear of Islam and Muslims has proven to be a useful mobilizer across party lines. ... Whether the Islamic world thrives in the United States free of racism and fear isn't dependent on only the the actions of Muslims themselves, the impending future of Islam will be also molded by the general knowledge and understanding of Muslim culture by the Western world. ...
