Zey predict ze future!—Iraq has agreed to award $1.1 billion in contracts to Iranian and Chinese companies to build a pair of nuclear power plants… Word of the project prompted serious concerns among American military officials… NYT A1, 10-18-2007--N Card, 2006: . . . overall the result is easy to predict: a regulatory pole will emerge in Eurasia, one closer to the geographic center of the world, and there will be a slowdown in the flow of goods, capital, and migration that currently nourishes the United States. The United States will then have to live like other nations, notably by reigning in its huge trade deficit, a constraint that would imply a 15 to 20 percent drop in the standard of living of the population. . . –Emmanuel Todd,p. 199 (2002)
--Zey build les sex robottes before l’ameriquannes!! --…there exst imitation women, complete in every detail, which all the charms and uses of real women: manikins with flesh you can push in and which comes out again, a longue which darts in and out for five minutes, eyes which roll, hair which you would swear was the real thing, and moistness and warmth where you would expect to find them, on sale at the manufacturer’s for 15,000 francs, for the use of religious communities or rich sailors….there are others to suit all pockets, down to male and female parts in gilded boxes which cost only 300 francs… The artist who makes these things—this public benefactor, this moralist endeavouring to avoid so many evils, to spar man, for instance, apart from anything else, that tempestuous age of woman, that unbearable period, the change of life-this rare artist was prosecuted six months ago and sent to prison, no doubt on a charge of immorality.—Goncourt Diaries, 6 May 1858
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