The Concise Milbank Dictionary Part 1: Sovereignity, Empire, Capital, and Terror

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Ordbok

Definition of LILT

1: a spirited and usually cheerful song or tune

2: a rhythmical swing, flow, or cadence

3: a springy buoyant movement 

Definition of TAWDRY

: cheap and gaudy in appearance or quality; also : ignoble <a tawdry attempt to smear his opponent>

— taw·dri·ly\-drə-lē\ adverb

— taw·dri·ness\-drē-nəs\ noun

Definition of FEIGNED

1: fictitious

2: not genuine or real

Definition of SUBSUMPTION

: the act or process of subsuming

Definition of SUBSUME

: to include or place within something larger or more comprehensive : encompass as a subordinate or component element <red, green, and yellow are subsumed under the term “color”>

Definition of UNREMITTING

: not remitting : constant, incessant <unremitting pain>

Definition of INSTIGATE

: to goad or urge forward : provoke

 

Definition of CONNIVANCE

: the act of conniving; especially : knowledge of and active or passive consent to wrongdoing 

 

Definition of RIFE

1: prevalent especially to an increasing degree <suspicion and cruelty were rife — W. E. B. DuBois>

2: abundant, common

3: copiously supplied : abounding —usually used with with <rife with rumors>

 

 

Definition of MACHIAVELLIAN

1: of or relating to Machiavelli or Machiavellianism

2: suggesting the principles of conduct laid down by Machiavelli; specifically : marked by cunning, duplicity, or bad faith 

 

Definition of ACME

: the highest point or stage; also : one that represents perfection of the thing expressed 

 

Definition of EXPEDIENCY

1: the quality or state of being suited to the end in view : suitability, fitness

2obsolete a : haste, dispatch b : an enterprise requiring haste or caution

3: adherence to expedient means and methods <put more emphasis on expediency than on principle — W. H. Jones>

4: a means of achieving a particular end : expedient

 

Definition of MALEFACTOR

1: one who commits an offense against the law; especially : felon

2: one who does ill toward another

 

Definition of CHIASMUS

: an inverted relationship between the syntactic elements of parallel phrases (as in Goldsmith's to stop too fearful, and too faint to go)

 

Definition of CONJECTURE

1: to arrive at or deduce by conjecture : guess <scientists conjecturing that a disease is caused by a defective gene>

2: to make conjectures as to <conjecture the meaning of a statement>

 

Definition of COALESCE

1: to grow together

2a : to unite into a whole : fuse <separate townships have coalesced into a single, sprawling colony — Donald Gould> b : to unite for a common end : join forces <people with different points of view coalesce into opposing factions — I. L. Horowitz>

2: to arise from the combination of distinct elements <an organized and a popular resistance immediately coalesced — C. C. Menges>

 

Definition of TARDY

1: moving slowly : sluggish <the tardy pace at which she was obliged to walk — Charles Dickens>

2: delayed beyond the expected or proper time : late <a tardy arrival>

 

 

Definition of CATHARTIC

: of, relating to, or producing catharsis <cathartic drugs> <a cathartic experience>

 

Definition of PROPENSITY

: an often intense natural inclination or preference

 

Definition of COW

: to destroy the resolve or courage of ; also : to bring to a state or an action by intimidation —used with into <like too many Asian armies, adept at cowing a population into feeding them — Edward Lansdale>

 

Definition of CHARY

1archaic : dear, treasured

2: discreetly cautious: as a : hesitant and vigilant about dangers and risks b : slow to grant, accept, or expend <a person very chary of compliments>

 

Definition of INCULCATE

: to teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions

 

Definition of ESCHEW

: to avoid habitually especially on moral or practical grounds : shun

 

Definition of INTIMATE

1: to make known especially publicly or formally : announce

2: to communicate delicately and indirectly : hint

 

Definition of PROFFER

: to present for acceptance : tender, offer

Definition of INCITE

: to move to action : stir up : spur on : urge on

 

 

Appenix 1

 

Rudyard Kipling: Recessional 

God of our fathers, known of old--
   Lord of our far-flung battle line
Beneath whose awful hand we hold
   Dominion over palm and pine--
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget - lest we forget!

The tumult and the shouting dies;
   The captains and the kings depart:
Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice,
   An humble and a contrite heart.
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget - lest we forget!

Far-called, our navies melt away;
   On dune and headland sinks the fire:
Lo, all our pomp of yesterday
   Is one with Nineveh and Tyre!
Judge of the Nations, spare us yet,
Lest we forget - lest we forget!

If, drunk with sight of power, we loose
   Wild tongues that have not Thee in awe--
Such boasting as the Gentiles use
   Or lesser breeds without the law--
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget - lest we forget!

For heathen heart that puts her trust
   In reeking tube and iron shard--
All valiant dust that builds on dust,
   And guarding, calls not Thee to guard--
For frantic boast and foolish word,
Thy mercy on Thy people, Lord!

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Appendix 2

 

Habeas Corpus

Lat. "you have the body" Prisoners often seek release by filing a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. A writ of habeas corpus is a judicial mandate to a prison official ordering that an inmate be brought to the court so it can be determined whether or not that person is imprisoned lawfully and whether or not he should be released from custody. A habeas corpus petition is a petition filed with a court by a person who objects to his own or another's detention or imprisonment. The petition must show that the court ordering the detention or imprisonment made a legal or factual error. Habeas corpus petitions are usually filed by persons serving prison sentences. In family law, a parent who has been denied custody of his child by a trial court may file a habeas corpus petition. Also, a party may file a habeas corpus petition if a judge declares her in contempt of court and jails or threatens to jail her.
 

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Habeas corpus

Enligt en allmän princip om habeas corpus har varje person som hålls i fängsligt förvar eller som på annat sätt är berövad sin frihet rätt att inom en viss kortare tid få höra anklagelserna mot sig, skälen till frihetsberövandet e.dyl., rätten att bemöta dessa skäl, och att få en domares eller domstols utslag huruvida laga skäl finns till fortsatt frihetsberövande eller om frigivande med eller utan villkor måste ske.
Principen är till sitt innehåll central i alla moderna rättsstater. Den formulerades tidigast i Englands Magna Charta. Senare formulerades regeln i exempelvis Polen, nämligen redan 25 april 1425 i akten "Neminem captivabimus nisi iure victum" (Latin: "Vi ska ingen fängsla utan domslut") av kung Wladislaw Jagiello vid riksmötet i Brzesc-Kujawski. Principen är dock mest bekant genom Act of Habeas Corpus, en engelsk lag från 1679 riktad mot godtycklig häktning.
 

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Appendix 3

Avicenna (ibn Sina) 

 

Appendix 4

 le nouveau grand jeu de Kipling = new big game of Kipling (jag kan inte franska, översättning enligt babelfish)

Appendix 5

 

Blowback is the espionage term for the violent, unintended consequences of a covert operation that are suffered by the civil population of the aggressor government. To the civilians suffering it, the blowback typically manifests itself as “random” acts of political violence without a discernible, direct cause; because the public—in whose name the intelligence agency acted—are ignorant of the effected secret attacks that provoked revenge (counter-attack) against them.^[1] Specifically, blowback denotes the resultant, violent consequences—reported as news fact, by domestic and international mass communications media, when the actor intelligence agency hides its responsibility via media manipulation. Generally, blowback loosely denotes every consequence of every aspect of a secret attack operation, thus, it is synonymous with consequence—the attacked victims’ revenge against the civil populace of the aggressor country, because the responsible politico-military leaders are invulnerable. 

 

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Appendix 6 

Jus ad bellum