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The truth was, neither the Central Intelligence Agency nor any of the other official and unofficial U.S. intelligence organizations have ever been some kind of all-seeing, all-knowing, global illuminati. For starters, we never hand that kind of funding.
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Max Brooks (World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War)
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ALANG, INDIA [I stand on the shore with Ajay Shah, looking out at the rusting wrecks of once-proud ships. Since the government does not possess the funds to remove them and because both time and the elements have made their steel next to useless, they remain silent memorials to the carnage this beach once witnessed.]
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Max Brooks (World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War)
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By weaponizing the discourse of human rights to justify the use of force against governments that resisted the Washington consensus, this group of well-connected liberals was able to stir support where the neocons could not. Their brand of interventionism appealed directly to the sensibility of the Democratic Party's metropolitan base, large swaths of academia, the foundation-funded human rights NGO complex, and the New York Times editorial board. The xhibition of atrocities allegedly committed by adversarial governments, either by Western-funded civil society groups, major human rights organizations or the mainstream press, was the military humanists' stock in trade, enabling them to mask imperial designs behind a patina of "genocide prevention." With this neat tactic, they effectively neutralized progressive antiwar elements and tarred those who dared to protest their wars as dictator apologists.
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Max Blumenthal (The Management of Savagery: How America's National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump)
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În golful acela, oceanul retrăgându-se, lăsa în urma lui mii de şanţuri pline de apă, adânc săpate în nisip.
Crepusculul le incendia cu roşeaţa lui şi atunci pe toată întinderea apăreau ca o reţea de sânge şi de foc. S-ar fi zis că în locul acela pîmântul ar fi fost jupuit, pentru a lăsa să se vadă circulaţia lui intimă, arterele arzătoare şi teribile prin care se scurgea în el aur şi purpură incendiată. Era o clipă de înspăimântătoare grandoare care tăia scurt respiraţia.
În fund, soarele scufundându-se încet, vărsa ultimele şuvoaie de sânge. Tot aerul se întuneca brusc ca o soluţie ce devine mai concentrată, iar în albastrul lui adânc, reţeaua străluctioare căpăta fineţea şi precizia unei construcţii de oţel, întinsă până departe ca un bizar şi enorm plan metalic.
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Max Blecher (Inimi cicatrizate; Întâmplări în irealitatea imediată)
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The funds are good at the moment," said the treasurer, with the bankbook in front of him. "The firms have been generous of late. Max Linder & Co. paid five hundred to be left alone. Walker Brothers sent in a hundred; but I took it on myself to return it and ask for five. If I do not hear by Wednesday, their winding gear may get out of order. We had to burn their breaker last year before they became reasonable. Then the West Section Coaling Company has paid its annual contribution. We have enough on hand to meet any obligations." "What
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Arthur Conan Doyle (The Valley of Fear (Sherlock Holmes, #7))
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It was not always the case, of course, that navies paid for themselves. In wartime, costs often exceeded revenues, and those deficits grew over time as fleets and armies got bigger. But this was hardly an insurmountable obstacle for the most dynamic economies in the world. The United Provinces and England were able to borrow all they needed to underwrite their defense budgets. The pressures of war gave a powerful impetus to the growth of stocks, bonds, loans, and paper currencies during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries and helped to turn Amsterdam and then London into international financial centers. To take one example, the Bank of England was established in 1694 to raise funds to allow England to wage war against France.
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Max Boot (War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today)
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The key point here is Macaulay’s belief that “knowledge and reflection” on the part of the Hindus, especially the Brahmanas, would cause them to give up their age-old belief in anything Vedic in favor of Christianity. The purpose was to turn the strength of Hindu intellectuals against their own kind by utilizing their commitment to scholarship in uprooting their own tradition, which Macaulay viewed as nothing more than superstitions. His plan was to educate the Hindus to become Christians and turn them into collaborators. He persisted with this idea for fifteen years until he found the money and the right man for turning his utopian idea into reality. He needed someone who would translate and interpret the Vedic texts in such a way that the newly educated Indian elite would see the superiority of the Bible and choose that over everything else. Upon his return to England, after a good deal of effort he found a talented but impoverished young German Vedic scholar by name Friedrich Max Muller who was willing to take on the arduous job. Macaulay used his influence with the East India Company to find funds for Max Muller’s translation of the Rig Veda. Though an ardent German nationalist, Max Muller agreed for the sake of Christianity to work for the East India Company, which in reality meant the British Government of India. He also badly needed a major sponsor for his ambitious plans, which he felt he had at last found. The fact is that Max Muller was paid by the East India Company to further its colonial aims, and worked in cooperation with others who were motivated by the superiority of the German race through the white Aryan race theory. This was the genesis of his great enterprise, translating the Rig Veda with Sayana's commentary and the editing of the fifty-volume Sacred Books of the East. In this way, there can be no doubt regarding Max Muller’s initial aim and commitment to converting Indians to Christianity. Writing to his wife in 1866 he observed: “It [the Rig Veda] is the root of their religion and to show them what the root is, I feel sure, is the only way of uprooting all that has sprung from it during the last three thousand years.” Two years later he also wrote the Duke of Argyle, then acting Secretary of State for India: “The ancient religion of India is doomed. And if Christianity does not take its place, whose fault will it be?” This makes it very clear that Max Muller was an agent of the British government paid to advance its colonial interests. Nonetheless, he still remained an ardent German nationalist even while working in England. This helps explain why he used his position as a recognized Vedic and Sanskrit scholar to promote the idea of the “Aryan race” and the “Aryan nation,” a theory amongst a certain class of so-called scholars, which has maintained its influence even until today.
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Stephen Knapp (The Aryan Invasion Theory: The Final Nail in its Coffin)
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And a house with smooth ceilings and a bathroom on the first floor. We could sock away more than a few dollars for the kids’ college funds and max out our retirement contributions. I knew I was supposed to be leaning in—these were important years in my career, and I wasn’t getting any younger. If what I’d read was to be believed, opportunities to vault myself to the next level would be few and far between. But . . . I wasn’t so sure I wanted to upgrade my wardrobe and get a haircut that said business and perfect my ability to hobnob with the ultrarich. I was equally unenthused about the possibility of working even harder, at least at this particular job at this particular juncture, and regularly being away from my husband and children. Because now I knew—really and truly knew in a way I hadn’t before—that it could all end in an instant. And if, God forbid, that happened, would I take my dying breaths feeling glad for getting a chance to fly business class?
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Camille Pagán (I'm Fine and Neither Are You)
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To create a low-employment society that flourishes rather than degenerates into self-destructive behavior, we therefore need to understand how to help such well-being-inducing activities thrive. The quest for such an understanding needs to involve not only scientists and economists, but also psychologists, sociologists and educators. If serious efforts are put into creating well-being for all, funded by part of the wealth that future AI generates, then society should be able to flourish like never before.
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Max Tegmark (Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence)
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When have cops not asked for more men, better gear, more training hours, or "community outreach program funds"? Those pussies are almost as bad as soldiers, always whining about never having "what they need", but do they have to risk their jobs by raising taxes? Do they have to explain to Suburban Peter why they're fleecing him for Ghetto Paul?
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Max Brooks (World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War)
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had been put into cancer research, or AIDS. Do you want to be the man who tells the American people that he’s diverting funds from either one of
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Max Brooks (World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War)
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Amusingly, Christopher Columbus totally bungled this by relying on subsequent less-accurate calculations and confusing Arabic miles with Italian miles, concluding that he needed to sail only 3,700 km to reach the Orient when the true value was 19,600 km. He clearly wouldn’t have gotten his trip funded if he’d done his math right, and he clearly wouldn’t have survived if America hadn’t existed, so sometimes being lucky is more important than being right.
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Max Tegmark (Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality)
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masses. But I’m actually getting quite used to not having a life. After all, I’d only be out having fun and spending money, so it’s a great way to save. I’m sure this is why being a doctor has the reputation for being well paid. It isn’t actually that good when you consider the amount of hours we do, but because we never get the time to spend it, it just sits in our bank accounts until we become consultants. At which point it’s used to fund acrimonious divorces from spouses that are fed up with never seeing you. But today wasn’t too bad – quite a bit of sitting round in
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Max Pemberton (Trust Me I'm a (Junior) Doctor)
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But with the car nearing production, Musk needed capital and asked Thiel if he’d be interested in investing. Thiel said no—indicating that he was passing in part because, according to Musk, “he doesn’t fully buy into the climate change thing.” In doing so, and in choosing his own political bias over the audacity of Musk’s bet (not to mention the overwhelming evidence offered by mainstream climate science), Thiel lost out on a chance to own a substantial chunk of a company that would be worth $800 billion by the end of 2020. Instead of Founders Fund, Musk took the deal to VantagePoint Venture Partners, a little-known firm with a reputation for investing in green energy companies. VantagePoint wound up with 9 percent of Tesla when it eventually went public.
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Max Chafkin (The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power)
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The absence of paramount kings ruling over large areas was encapsulated by the maxim 'Igbo amaghi eze' (the Igbo knows no king). In a culture without a paramount king, admission to a title society was a status symbol and evidence of achievement. Admiss- ion was remarkably democratic. Every male adult was eligible so long as they could demonstrate high achievements in their life- time. Such titles were rarely hereditary and there were few or no qualifications for them other than achievement or money. A man could gain a title simply by raising funds and paying for it. These titles incentivised achievement and provided upward social mobility. Hence, having an honorific title in Igboland did not necessarily make the title-holder a political ruler
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Max Siollun (What Britain Did to Nigeria: A Short History of Conquest and Rule)
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To teach people what a scientific concept is and how a scientific life style will improve their lives, we need to go about it scientifically: we need new science-advocacy organizations that use all the same scientific marketing and fund-raising tools as the anti-scientific coalition employ. We’ll need to use many of the tools that make scientists cringe, from ads and lobbying to focus groups that identify the most effective sound bites. We won’t need to stoop all the way down to intellectual dishonesty, however. Because in this battle, we have the most powerful weapon of all on our side: the facts.
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Max Tegmark
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To teach people what a scientific concept is and how a scientific life¬ style will improve their lives, we need to go about it scientifically: we need new science-advocacy organizations that use all the same scientific marketing and fund-raising tools as the anti-scientific coalition employ. We’ll need to use many of the tools that make scientists cringe, from ads and lobbying to focus groups that identify the most effective sound bites. We won’t need to stoop all the way down to intellectual dishon¬ esty, however. Because in this battle, we have the most powerful weapon of all on our side: the facts.
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Max Tegmark (Vart matematiska universum : mitt sökande efter den yttersta verkligheten)
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Hiring and paying ones own regulators is as easy as hiring a private rent-a-cop. In Canada, for about $100 million, the financial industry can fund any of our Securities Commissions, and the ability to then obtain exemptions to the law from the regulator, is by itself worth hundreds of billions. Just ONE exemption to the law, can earn billions. Capturing and funding regulators is the simply best (but corrupt) investment any industry can make. Another example comes to us from Boeing in late 2019, with the 737 Max, and the news that Boeing’s influence over the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA ) was powerful enough to allow Boeing itself to legally approve its own aircraft, which is like being able to mark your own exams…(or print your own money).
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Larry Elford (Farming Humans: Easy Money (Non Fiction Financial Murder Book 1))