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letertelmezesi elveit, es arra epiilo gyakorlatat a vilagra
kenyszeritve, univerzalis civilizaciot hozzon letre. Bar a kiserlet
latszolag sikeres, am a tektonikai melysegu fesziiltsegek egyre
nyilvanvalobba teszik: ez egy vegzetes optikai csalodas. Reszben
azert, mert az emberi vilagot nem lehet egyseges univerzalis
civilizaciova szervezni, masreszt pecug a nyugatias
letszervezodesi elvek onmagukban is a semmibe vezetnek
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fellepni a vilag egeszevel szemben, hanem evszazadonkent egy
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De lei lesz a hetedik birodalom, lesz-e egyaltalan?
According to the IMF, 6l% of allocated foreign
exchange reserve holdings are claimed in US
, a value equaling $11.9 trillion. The yen
dollars
and pound each have about a 4% share. The
Australian and Canadian dollars both represent
less than 2% of global holdings, and the euros
share is about 24.5%, down from a record 28% in
2009. In a Central Banldng publication released
on June 23rd, the euro lost 1% compared to a year
earlier according to the 62% of banks surveyed.
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1969-ben keptelen kezelni a valsagot, ezert lemond

1970 novembereben pedig tavozik az elok sorabol

1971-ben aztan Nixon elnok felfuggeszti a dollar
aranyra valo 35 dollaros fix arfolyamon valo atvaltasat

1972-ben titkos egyezseg az USA es Szaud Arabia

kozott arrol, hogy koolajat csak dollarert lehet eladni..
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county by county in the 2012 election , red is Republican. Blue
islands in an ocean of red. The cities are less than 4 percent of the
land mass, but 62 percent of the population and easily 99 percent
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 Moralltc
Ha az elmult evszazadok tortenelmi logikaja folytatodik,
akkor egy-ket evtizeden beliil jon a hetedik birodalom szaz
eve. De johet egy szazeves haboru is, vagy egy olyan
olanetaris egyezseg-rendszer, ami felvaltja az eddigi
Dirodalmi logikat, sot fokozatosan lebontja a Nyugat
kenyszen'td hatalman alapulo univerzalis civilizacio-epites
zsakutcas kiserletet. Az amerikai nemzetallam es rajta
keresztiil a vilag igen sulyos vaisaggai terhes, kritikus
evtizedek ele nez. A rejtett globalis hatalmi szuper-
strukturan beliili tektonikus fesziiltsegek kezelesenek
eselye kizarolag olyan narrativara epulhet, ami kepes
mindezt elbeszelni. Az elmondottak ezt probaltak segiteni.