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This is a list of characters on The Simpsons by their political affiliation. Politics in The Simpsons - Republicans. Montgomery Burns - shown at a Republican Party meeting in "Sideshow Bob Roberts". Runs for governor on a seemingly right wing platform in "Two Cars in Every Garage, Three Eyes on Every Fish." Rainier Wolfcastle (a.k.a. McBain) - at the same Republican Party meeting as Mr. Burns. Is a parody of Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger. Dr. Hibbert at the same Republican ...

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Beginning in the 18th century, much of Western society (notably the United Kingdom) witnessed a pivotal transformation from an agrarian culture with craft based production, to the first industrial revolution. Within this transformation several changes provided much of the impetus for the rise of the trade union. These changes sparked rising fears in the crafts and guilds of the time, who feared encroachment on their established jobs, including changes in wages and work methods^{See also:}

Trade union, Trade union - History, Trade union - Early history, Trade union - Origin of unions, Trade union - Shop types, Trade union - Benefits extend beyond membership, Trade union - The problem of international comparison, Trade union - Trade unions by country, Trade union - Trade unions in the United Kingdom, Trade union - Labor unions in the United States, Trade union - Unions in other countries, Trade union - International cooperation, Trade union - News, Trade union - Criticism

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O2 owns mobile phone businesses in the UK, Republic of Ireland and Germany. It also operates the fixed line and mobile phone networks on the Isle of Man. The mobile network, known as Manx Pronto, is used as an environment for developing and testing new products and services such as 3G prior to wider rollout. Manx Telecom is the only fixed line network the firm operates. O2 formerly also operated in the Netherlands, however thi ...

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Beginning in the 18th century, much of western society (notably the British) witnessed a pivotal transformation from an agrarian culture with craft based production, to the first industrial revolution. Within this transformation several changes provided much of the impetus for the rise of the trade union. These changes sparked rising fears in the crafts and guilds of the time, who feared encroachment on their established jobs, including changes in wages and work methods. ^{See also:}

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Gair came into conflict with Bukowski when the AWU in 1955 began making allegations that there was corruption in the process of granting and extending pastoral leases in the state. In July the AWU executive met with Gair, who according to them promised an inquiry, which Gair denied. Bukowski publicly expressed a desire to appear before the Bar of Parliament to detail his allegations, in which he was supported by Frank Nicklin, leader of the Opposition, but Gair defeated his motion in parliament. In February 1956, Ian Wood, a Liberal Party Se ...

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Timeline of fictional historical events - 1800s. Early 1800s June - Bernardo Leonardo buys the town from the Indians for $14,800,000. (Clerks: The Animated Series episode 1) 1801 Tenant Mr Lockwood begins to visit his landlord Heathcliff and gradually begins to discover the story of the Wuthering Heights. The combined forces of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson and Ralph Abercromby capture Egypt from the occupation of the French Consulate. Among their ...

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Marx explains the origin of surplus labour in the following terms: "It is only after men have raised themselves above the rank of animals, when therefore their labour has been to some extent socialised, that a state of things arises in which the surplus-labour of the one becomes a condition of existence for the other. At the dawn of civilisation the productiveness acquired by labour is small, but so too are the wants which develop with and by the means of satisfying them. Further, at that early period, the portion of society tha ...

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Born in Brăila, Israti was the son of the laundress Joiţa Istrate and of a Greek smuggler (Panait never met him). He studied in primary school for six years in Baldovineşti, after being held back twice. He then earned his living as an apprentice to a tavern-keeper, then as a pastrycook and peddler. In the meantime, he was a prolific reader. His first attempts at writing date from around 1907, when he started sending pieces to the socialist periodicals in Romania - debuting with the article Hotel Regina in Ro ...

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According to some Marxist and liberal interpretations, influenced by modernism, social engineering and technocracy, a productive force determinism operates in human history (for examples see e.g. Joseph V. Stalin's and Gerald A. Cohen's work). According to this view, the fundamental cause of social change is technical change, and changes in the means of production linearly cause changes in relations of production. It is doubtful however whether this view was held by Marx himself, who saw social change in history as emerging essentiall ...

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The causes of the Industrial Revolution were complex and remain a topic for debate, with some historians seeing the Revolution as an outgrowth of social and institutional changes wrought by the end of feudalism in Great Britain after the English Civil War in the 17th century. The Enclosure movement and the British Agricultural Revolution made food production more efficient and less labour-intensive, forcing the surplus population who could no longer find employment in agriculture into cottage industry, such as weaving, and in the longer term ...

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The modern English word blue comes from the Middle English, where it began to be used along with bleu, an Old French word of Germanic origin (possibly Old High German blao, "shining"). A Scots and Scottish English word for "blue-grey" is blae, from the Middle English bla ("dark blue," from the Old English blæd). As a curiosity, blue is thought to be cognate with blond and black, also with Latin flavus ("yellow"; see flavescent and flavine) and with Russian Р...

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A correct definition of goodness would be valuable because it might allow one to construct a good life or society by reliable processes of deduction, elaboration or prioritisation. One could answer the ancient question, "How then should we live?", among many other important questions. Goodness and value theory - Goodness as an objective property. One attempt to define goodness describes it as a property of the world. According to this perspective, to talk about a good is to talk about something with ...

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Known internally within Rootes as the "Apex", the Imp was intended as a rival to the Mini. The key difference between the two cars was the Imp's 875 cc all-aluminium, single-carburettor ex-Coventry Climax version of a fire pump engine which had appeared on the racing scene. This was mounted behind the rear wheels, slanted over at 45° to fit. In order to counteract the oversteer handling characteristics of a rear engined design, the Imp had a sophisticated front suspension. Through the use of an opening rear window on most models, the car wa ...

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Some people describing themselves as hacktivists have taken to defacing websites for political reasons, such as attacking and defacing government websites as well as web sites of groups who oppose their ideology. Others, such as Oxblood Ruffin (the "foreign affairs minister" of Hacktivismo), have argued forcefully against definitions of hacktivism that include web defacements or denial-of-service attacks ([1]). Depending on who is using the term, hacktivism can be a politically constructive form of civil disobedience or an anarchic ge ...

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Karl Marx emphasized that, with few exceptions, means of production are not a productive force unless they are actually operated, maintained and conserved by living human labor. Without applying living human labor, their physical condition and value would deteriorate, depreciate, or be destroyed (an example would be a ghost town or capital depreciation due to strike action). In addition, Marx shows that in capitalist society, the productive forces take the form of, or appear as, capital i.e. tradeable assets. The reason is, that in su ...

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-Kyra Kyralina (or Chira Chiralina) -Uncle Anghel -The Haiduks (or The Bandits) -Presentation of the Haiduks (or Presentation of the Bandits) -Domnitza de Snagov Adrien Zograffi's Childhood: -Codine (or Codin, Kodin) -Michael (or Mikhaïl) -Mes Départs -The Sponge-Fisher Adrien Zograffi's Life: - ...

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While in the Soviet Union, Istrati wrote a screenplay based on his own work - The Bandits, a project that was never achieved. Kira Kiralina was filmed in 1927 as a Soviet silent film. The novel was filmed for a second time in 1993, as a Romanian-Hungarian production directed by Gyula Maár. There is also a Romanian 1958 Ciulinii Bărăganului film, and the Codine (Co ...

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main article: Political colour Blue, like white, may represent authority as opposed to revolutionary red or black. During the American Civil War, blue was used to represent the Union while gray represented the Confederacy. This representation was based on the uniforms worn by the respective armies, although uniforms remained non-standard thoughout the war and sometimes the colors were switched. Internationally, blue is the symbol for conservatism and conservative political parties. There are several notable except ...

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In the romantic or ecological critique of technology, technical progress often does not mean human progress at all. The design of production technologies may not be suited to human needs or human health, or technologies may be used in ways which do more harm than good. In that case, productive forces are transformed into destructive forces. Sometimes this view leads to cultural pessimism or a theory of "Small is beautiful" as proposed by E. F. Schumacher. Ideas about alternative technology are also proposed. All of this suggests that ...

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Marx's concept of productive forces also has some relevance for discussions in economics about the meaning and measurement of productivity. Modern economics theorises productivity in terms of the marginal product of the factors of production. Marx theorises productivity within the capitalist mode of production in terms of the social and technical relations of production, with the concept of the organic composition of capital and the value product. He suggests there is no completely neutral view of productivity possible; how productivi ...

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Other Marxist interpretations, sometimes influenced by postmodernism and the concept of commodity fetishism have by contrast emphasized the reification of the powers of technology, said to occur by the separation of technique from the producers, and by falsely imputing human powers to technology as autonomous force, the effect being a perspective of inevitable and unstoppable technological progress operating beyond any human control, and impervious to human choices. In turn, this is said to have the effect of naturalising and legitima ...

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