History, Used and Abused

Self Measurement and Self Manipulation

He felt like they felt manipulated.

In our bio, some of you may have read that we've won two world juggling championships.

Your Majesty, please hear me.

So all our elections, except for one in 1970, have been rigged.

It's collective punishment, and collective bullying of 1.6 billion people who subscribe to the Islamic faith.

This involves more than just stuffing the ballot box.

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Information and its manipulation have been a vital strategic element in this conflict, and the control of information has become a weapon.

Over the years, a parade of lobbyists has rigged the tax code to benefit particular companies and industries.

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Through this control and manipulation of surplus resources, the elite's power continued to grow until about AD 950.

And I think it's fairly I don't think anyone has we can mathematically understand it and manipulate it and see how it relates to electricity.

We made clear our reservations with respect to the text of the outcome document, whose adoption was marred by a lack of transparency and by manipulation on the part of certain very powerful delegations.

The only plausible explanation is that tailor made derivatives can facilitate tax avoidance and manipulation of earnings.

Needless to say, the potential for the government to abuse this policy and use login information to monitor and manipulate bloggers' activities is daunting.

Innovation doesn't happen unless people are tinkering and tinkering does not happen unless they have access to the code.

Now to do the Machiavellian stuff, to manipulate the world, which is very important, we need to be able to use, interact with the world and use it for our benefit.

In country after country, that Manichean mindset, with its oversimplifications and manipulations, was merely re fashioned to serve the new people in power.

Today, the very human rights that were guaranteed by the constitution are being violated, with a politicized judiciary routinely abused and manipulated in order to justify the prime minister s actions.

She thinks that Russia would not have to invade again, in order to exert its influence and manipulate the Georgian public to vote for Russia friendly parties.

This unique degree explores the many different ways in which culture is based on the construction, manipulation and transmission of memories, and the role played by memory in collective and individual identity formation.

By using the emergency law, which has restricted freedom since 1981, together with censorship and rigged elections, Egypt s government treats its citizens like serfs.

Indeed, Yemen is now a bubbling cauldron of jihadis who have flocked there because it, like Afghanistan and Pakistan, has weak, easily manipulated state institutions.

And, as protective trade barriers are broken down, currencies tossed together and manipulated in floating markets and State economies overturned in favor of open competition in global capitalism, the empire expands.

LONDON In her brilliant book, The Uses and Abuses of History the historian Margaret Macmillan tells a story about two Americans discussing the atrocities of September 11, 2001.

Because the biggest share of the US trade gap is with China, a country vilified as a currency manipulating cheater, the bilateral trade deficit has become the lightening rod for China bashers.

The manipulation of international cooperation in the area of human rights was an insuperable obstacle to the realization of all the rights of Cuba's people and it transformed the international debate on human rights into an instrument of domination.

An experimental study involves taking measurements of the system under study, manipulating the system, and then taking additional measurements using the same procedure to determine if the manipulation has modified the values of the measurements.

This means that remand in custody must not only be lawful but reasonable and necessary in all the circumstances, for example to prevent flight, interference with evidence or the recurrence of crime.

TOKYO A Chinese bestseller, entitled The Currency War , describes how Jews are planning to rule the world by manipulating the international financial system.

Although the range of such suffixes that might be coined is limitless, some have gained such widespread usage that the boundary between established honorifics and wordplay has become a little blurred.

We are pleased to note that, with the assistance of the Office of the High Representative, patterns of mismanagement, incompetence and political manipulation in public companies have been reversed by amending legislation and applying general reforms of the economy of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Former generals of the secret police and members of the Communistnomenklatura, untouchable in their comfortable villas and retirements, must derive great pleasure from watching today s witch hunts and manipulation of old files for immediate political purposes.

Unfortunately, Bo s case is not the exception in China, but the rule. Contrary to the prevailing perception in the West (especially among business leaders), the current Chinese government is riddled with clever apparatchiks like Bo who have acquired their positions through cheating, corruption, patronage, and manipulation.

But I doubt it. A world divided into political blocs will become a world of trade blocs, sustained by protectionism and currency manipulation.

But if the euro is to survive and if other countries are to avoid sovereign debt crises of their own we still need politician proof rules.

As November s elections approach, many US lawmakers will demand that the country with 10 unemployment persuade the country with 10 growth to stop bending trade rules and manipulating the value of its currency.

While his parliamentary majority has approved many laws that promote his personal interests and have eased some of his legal difficulties, at the beginning of March, Berlusconi was again accused of corruption and tax fraud.

Today, the very human rights that were guaranteed by the constitution are being violated, with a politicized judiciary routinely abused and manipulated in order to justify the prime minister s actions. Instead of keeping the Maliki government in check, the courts facilitate its quest for ever greater power.

If the plebiscite victory emboldens him and his allies to step up their tactics of judicial dirty tricks and media manipulation used to great effect in recent years the prospects for Turkey are bleak.

The Algerian secularists strategy of exclusion, fraud, cheating, and gerrymandering backfired badly Islamists were perceived as victims, while secularists with some exceptions were cast as unprincipled opportunists.

Rather, these poll numbers are a vote for the status quo they convey a broadly shared sense that political change is not desired, notwithstanding terrorist attacks, technological catastrophes, lawless police, or rigged elections.

Despite scandal after scandal, from money laundering and market manipulation to racial discrimination in lending and illegal foreclosures, no senior official has been held accountable when financial penalties have been imposed, they have been far smaller than they should be, lest systemically important institutions be jeopardized.