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This film has everything you could want from a martial arts flick and
smacks
of Chinese influence despite being an Amercian project.
Moreover, the official US argument – that China should invest its money in existing institutions, such as the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, because a Chinese-led bank would likely have governance problems –
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of hypocrisy.
It
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of usurpation and is inciting many of the French to vote their anger.
But if he pursues his protectionist promise to put “America first,” which
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of xenophobic nationalism, investors and central banks could gradually be impelled to find alternative reserves for their spare billions.
His protectionist promise to put “America first”
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of xenophobic nationalism, and his bullying use of tariffs is alienating friends and foes alike.
Against this background, the return of US investors to provide short-term dollar funding for European bank debt
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of a desperate hunt for yield that relies on European Central Bank President Mario Draghi’s promise to do “whatever it takes” to save the euro.
But they are also immobilized by their central narrative, which
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of inaction and helplessness.
In Syria, Russia’s last-ditch defense of its only remaining Middle Eastern satrapy
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of pathos and desperation.
It all
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of a politically directed attempt by Yanukovych and his supporters to rid themselves of a powerful opponent before the next election.
Tackling climate change by turning off the lights and eating dinner by candlelight
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of the “let them eat cake” approach to the world’s problems that appeals only to well-electrified, comfortable elites.
But the idea of universal charity is too abstract, and
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of the kind of unwelcome interference that Western imperialists – and the Christian missionaries who followed them – practiced in the East for too long.
While Washington is still an exciting city for internationalists, in terms of the number of institutions like the Carnegie Endowment and the richness of its intellectual community the last capital city of the world, the country itself is increasingly shying away from anything that
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of international responsibility, even at the expense of its own national interests.
The world's business press has roundly condemned the authorities' behavior, especially the impounding of Yukos shares worth many times more than possible state claims, which
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of expropriation.
They oppose anything that
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of European political integration.
One might say that establishing new rules regulating when and how the old rules may be broken
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of desperation.
Anything that
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of temporizing and appeasement will further inflame the public a few months before national elections are due.
If this
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of political correctness, then so be it.
Maduro’s absurd threat against Hausmann and Santos
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of a search for a scapegoat.
But they are careful not to do anything that
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of protest or action.
Call me old-fashioned, but that argument
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of complacency and is not supported by evidence.
This is difficult and
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of protectionism, but it is neither impossible nor necessarily inimical to healthy globalization.
To the Anglo-American economist, any such proposal is anathema, because it
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of the dreaded “lump of labor” fallacy – the idea, once popular in trade-union circles, that there exists only a certain amount of work, and it should be shared out fairly.
Talk of sinister international bankers and other “citizens of nowhere” (British Prime Minister Theresa May’s phrase) undermining, in league with rootless liberal elites, “ordinary,” “real,” and “decent” people (Farage)
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of the anti-Semitic propaganda that swirled around Europe in the 1930s.
For those who consider themselves at least middle class, however, anything that
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of a handout is not desired.
The US, with its population of 328 million, has ordered 100 million doses, with the rights to acquire 500 million more – a target so high that it
smacks
of an attempt to corner the market.
No sooner had Minos the fellow judge of Rhadamanthus said this, than Rhadamanthus rising up said:"Ho, officials of this house, high and low, great and small, make haste hither one and all, and print on Sancho's face four-and-twenty smacks, and give him twelve pinches and six pin thrusts in the back and arms; for upon this ceremony depends the restoration of Altisidora."
'The old woman took kindly to the blits; they enchant Dulcinea, and whip me in order to disenchant her; Altisidora dies of ailments God was pleased to send her, and to bring her to life again they must give me four-and-twenty smacks, and prick holes in my body with pins, and raise weals on my arms with pinches!
To which Sancho made answer, "That's trick upon trick, I think, and not honey upon pancakes; a nice thing it would be for a whipping to come now, on the top of pinches, smacks, and pin-proddings!
"Sleep, Sancho my friend," said Don Quixote, "if the pinprodding and pinches thou hast received and the
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administered to thee will let thee."
"No pain came up to the insult of the smacks," said Sancho, "for the simple reason that it was duennas, confound them, that gave them to me; but once more I entreat your worship to let me sleep, for sleep is relief from misery to those who are miserable when awake.""Be it so, and God be with thee," said Don Quixote.
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