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Incabulos In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Incabulos is the god of Plagues, Sickness, Famine, Nightmares, Drought, and Disasters. His unholy symbol is the magic icon called the Eye of Possession.
Incamera Incamera is a strange indie rock band from Salt Lake City, Utah that consists of: Brian Curtis (formerly of Loiter Cognition) drums, percussion; Chris Jex (formerly of Single Bullet Theory) lead guitar, funny man and supporting vocals; Robby Petrich (formerly of Nimh) bass, supporting vocals and strange comic book derived ideas; Nic Johnson (formerly of Nimh) vocals, guitar, supporting percussion. Incamera has released two records so far, a self titled five song EP on August 6, 2004 as their debut release (track listing below) and an untitled split EP with the Trademark (from Provo Utah) on March 5th of 2005.
Incan Religion in the Capital City of Cusco Because of their immediate defeat at the hands of the Spanish, a lot of information surrounding Incan religion has been lost. Many historians rely on the religious customs of conquered Incan subjects to gather information about Incan beliefs.
Incandescence Incandescence is the release of electromagnetic radiation from a hot body due to its high temperature. The release of radiation is usually in the infrared (heat) region, known as thermal radiation, and the visible light region of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Incandescent light bulb The incandescent light bulb or incandescent lamp is a source of artificial light that works by incandescence. An electrical current passes through a thin filament, heating it and causing it to become excited, releasing thermally equilibrated photons in the process.
Incantation An incantation is the words spoken during a ritual, either a hymn or prayer invoking or praising a deity, or in magic, occultism, witchcraft with the intention of casting a spell or an object or a person. The term derives from Latin incantare (tr.
Incantation (musical group) Incantation are a South American musical group playing traditional tribal and other South American music. They achieved chart success in the UK in 1983 with "Cacharpaya", and later contributed the traditional instruments (including pan pipes) to the soundtrack of The Mission (1986), scored by Ennio Morricone.
Incapacitants Incapacitants (インキャパシタンツ) are a Japanese noise music group formed in 1981. It consists of Toshiji Mikawa and Fumio Kosakai, whose stated aim is to produce "pure" noise, uninfluenced by musical ideas or even human intention, using primarily feedback, vocals, and various electronics.
Incarnate (album) Incarnate is a compilation album released by doom metal band The Obsessed. It consists of tracks taken from a number of rare and unreleased sources, namely: their Sodden Jackal and Altamont Nation 7"s, the Hellhound Records What the Hell!
Incarnation Incarnation, which literally means enfleshment, refers to the conception, and live birth of a sentient creature (generally human) who is the material manifestation of an entity or force whose original nature is immaterial.
Incarnation of the demons The incarnation of the demons has been a problem to Christian demonology and theology since early times. A very early form of incarnation of demons was the idea of demon possession, trying to explain that a demon entered the body of a person with some purpose or simply to punish that one for some allegedly committed sin.
Incarnational spirituality Incarnational spirituality is a term coined by David Spangler to designate a more holistic, pragmatic approach to spirituality, in contrast to the more traditional transcendentalist and transpersonalist states.
Incarnations of Immortality Incarnations of Immortality is the name of a seven-book fantasy series by Piers Anthony. The books are each focused upon one of seven supernatural "offices" (Death, Time, Fate, War, Nature, Evil and Good) in a fictional reality and history parallel to ours, with the exception that society has advanced both magic and modern technology.
Incarvillea Incarvillea is a genus of 16 species of flowering plants in the family Bignoniaceae, native to central and eastern Asia, with most of the species growing at high altitudes in the Himalaya and Tibet. The most familiar species is Incarvillea delavayi, a garden plant commonly known as "hardy gloxinia" or "Chinese trumpet flower".
Incat International Catamarans, trading as Incat, is a manufacturer of large-scale HSC catamarans based in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. The company builds large commercial and military vessels that use aluminium construction, wave-piercing and water jet technology.
Ince Minare Madrasa The Ince Minare Madrasa is a Madrasa (school house) located in Konya, Turkey. Built in the 1260s (under the Seljuk of Rum Dynasty) this building had a highly ornamented stone facade which includes relief work of script, geometric patterning and vertical ribbon-like lines.
Ince-in-Makerfield Ince-in-Makerfield, usually known just as Ince is a town and residential suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in Greater Manchester, England. It covers 928 hectares and is to the east of, and contiguous to, Wigan.
Incendiary The term incendiary refers to a fire that has been deliberately set. While it is most often used to refer to crimes of arson, it is also technically correct to use it for any fire which has been deliberately started.
Incendiary (novel) Incendiary is a novel by British writer Chris Cleave. When it was first published in the summer of 2005, it garnered international headlines for the eerie similarity of its plot to the 7 July 2005 London bombings in England.
Incense Incense is a preparation of aromatic plant matter, often with the addition of essential oils extracted from plant or animal sources, intended to release fragrant smoke for religious, therapeutic, or aesthetic purposes as it smolders. It has been popularly used for thousands of years within India as an integral part of Hindu deity worship.
Incense clock The incense clock (香鐘, 香钟, xiāng zhōng in Chinese) is a timekeeping device invented by the Chinese during the Song Dynasty (960-1279) that spread to neighboring countries such as Japan. Incense sticks or powdered incense that have been manufactured and calibrated to a known rate of combustion is used to measure relatively short periods of time from minutes, hours, to days.
Incense Road The Incense Road or Incense Route connected Egypt with Arabia and India. It was possibly started in the beginning of the Incense trade in 1800 BC Indians shipped incense to the ports of the Arabian peninsula and Egypt.
Incentive In economics, an incentive is any factor (financial or non-financial) that provides a motive for a particular course of action, or counts as a reason for preferring one choice to the alternatives. Since human beings are purposeful creatures, the study of incentive structures is central to the study of all economic activity (both in terms of individual decision-making and in terms of co-operation and competition within a larger institutional structure).
Incentive compatibility In mechanism design, a process is said to be incentive compatible if all of the participants fare best when they truthfully reveal any private information the mechanism asks for. As an illustration, voting systems which create incentives to vote dishonestly lack the property of incentive compatibility.
Incentive Records Incentive Records is an independent dance based company with records, publishing and producer management interests. Launched in 1999 with investment from Ministry of Sound and a private investor, run by XL Recordings/Positiva founder Nick Halkes.
Incentive salience Incentive salience occurs when stimuli associated with drug-taking behavior become reinforcing themselves. Thus, if a person's addiction is extinguished and he is then presented with a stimulus that has been associated with the drug in the past, a craving for that drug occurs.
Incentive theory Incentive theory is an element of human resources or management theory. In the cooperate sense, it states that firm owners should structure employee compensation in such a way that the employees' goals are aligned with owners' goals.
Inception of Darwin's theory The inception of Darwin's theory began with a search for explanations of contradictions in current faith based ideas, and led him to formulate his theory of natural selection which was eventually published in his book On the Origin of Species.
Incest (book) Incest: From a Journal of Love: The Unexpurgated Diary of AnaĂŻs Nin (1932-1934) (ISBN 0-15-144366-1, Harcourt, October 1992) is a continuation of the diary entries first published in Henry & June. It features AnaĂŻs Nin's relationships with writer Henry Miller, his wife June Miller, the psychoanalyst Otto Rank, her father Joaquin Nin, and her husband Hugh Guiler.
Incest in popular culture Incest is a somewhat popular topic in English erotic fiction; there are entire collections and websites devoted solely to this genre, with an entire genre of pornographic pulp fiction known as "incest novels". This is probably because, as with many other fetishes, the taboo nature of the act adds to the titillation.
Incest taboo The incest taboo refers to the prohibition, both formal and unstated, against incest, the practice of sexual relations between close blood relatives, in many societies. There are various theories that seek to explain how and why an incest taboo originates.
Incidence (epidemiology) The incidence of disease is defined as the number of new cases of disease occurring in a population during a defined time interval. The number is useful to epidemiologists because it is a measure of the risk of disease.
Incidence (geometry) In geometry, the relations of incidence are those such as 'lies on' between points and lines (as in 'point P lies on line L'), and 'intersects' (as in 'line L1 intersects line L2', in three-dimensional space). That is, they are the binary relations describing how subsets meet.
Incidence geometry (structure) An incidence geometry is a mathematical structure composed of objects of various types and an incidence relation between them. The number of types of object used in the structure is called the rank of the incidence geometry.
Incidence matrix In mathematics, an incidence matrix is a matrix that shows the relationship between two classes of objects. If the first class is X and the second is Y, the matrix has one row for each element of X and one column for each element of Y.
Incident at HonnĹŤji The refers to the forced suicide in June 211582 of Japanese daimyo Oda Nobunaga at the hands of his samurai general Akechi Mitsuhide. This occurred in Honnoji, a temple in Kyoto, ending Nobunaga's quest to consolidate centralized power in Japan under his authority.
Incident at Loch Ness Incident at Loch Ness is a mockumentary starring Werner Herzog and Zak Penn. The small cast film follows Herzog and his crew (Gabriel Beristain, Russel Williams) while working on the production of a movie on the Loch Ness Monster.
Incident at Oglala Incident at Oglala is a 1992 documentary by Michael Apted, narrated by Robert Redford. The film documents the murder of two FBI agents, Coler and Williams, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in 1975, and the legal case surrounding the subsequent trials of Jimmy Eagle, Bob Robideau, Darrell Butler, and Leonard Peltier.
Incident At Vichy Incident at Vichy is a 1964 play by American dramatist Arthur Miller focusing upon the subject of anti-semitism in Europe. Miller, a Jew himself, wrote the one act play about a group of men waiting for inspection by German officers during World War II.
Incident base According to the National Incident Management System (NIMS), the Incident Base is one of five predesignated temporary facilities and it is the location at which primary support activities are conducted for emergencies like a wildland fire. A single incident base is established to house all equipment and personnel support operations.
Incident command post According to the National Incident Management System (NIMS), and the Incident_Command_System (ICS), the Incident Command Post (ICP) is one of five predesignated temporary facilities and signifies the physical location of the tactical-level, on-scene incident command and management organization. It typically comprises the Incident Commander and immediate staff and may include other designated incident management officials and responders from Federal, State, local, and tribal agencies, as well as private-sector, nongovernmental, and volunteer organizations.
Incident Command System The Incident Command System (ICS) is a management system used within the United States, parts of Canada, the United Kingdom and other countries to organize emergency response and was designed to offer a scalable response to incidents of any magnitude. Incident Management Teams (IMT), are combined crews of multi-agency staff that use the concepts outlined within the Incident Command System to react to an emergency situation.
Incident Commander In the Incident_Command_System (ICS) the Incident Commander's (IC) responsibility is the overall management of an emergency incident. On most incidents the command activity is carried out by a single Incident Commander.
Incident Management Team In the United States there are five types of Incident Management Teams (IMT). A wildland fire is initially managed by local fire departments or fire agencies, but when the fire becomes extreme, a national incident is declaired and additional resources are called in to address the emergency.
Incidental effect Incidental effect is a concept in European Union Law that links the indirect effect of EU directives to suits against individuals. While an individual cannot be sued for failure to comply with an EU directive, the state's failure to comply can be an incidental factor in a suit against an individual.
Incidental music Incidental music is music in a play, television program, radio program, video game or some other form not primarily musical. The term is less frequently applied to film music, with such music being referred to instead as the "film score" or "soundtrack".
Incidental question In the Conflict of Laws, an incidental question is a legal issue that arises in connection with the major cause of action in a lawsuit. The forum court will have already decided that it has jurisdiction to hear the case (resolving any issue relating to forum shopping) and will be working through the next two stages of the conflict process, namely: characterisation and choice of law.
Incidentaloma In medicine, an incidentaloma is a tumor (-oma) found by coincidence (incidental) without clinical symptoms and suspicion. It is a common problem: up to 7% of all patients over 60 may harbor a benign growth, often of the adrenal gland, which is detected when diagnostic imaging is used for the analysis of unrelated symptoms.
Incidentalome The incidentalome is the universe of possible incidental findings. In the increasingly high throughput measurements of medicine where one can measure thousands of gene variants for a few dollars, the risks to the practice of medicine are substantial as outlined in this article in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Incidents (magazine) Incidents was the name of a magazine that was closed by the Islamic Republic of Iran for being "obscene and empty" in 1995. It reported homicides, pre-marital and extra-marital affairs, and other sex related matters that can be punished by religious law.
Incidents at Busch parks This is a summary of notable incidents that have taken place at various Anheuser-Busch-owned theme parks. This list is not intended to be a comprehensive list of every such event, but only those that have a significant impact on the parks or park operations, or are otherwise significantly newsworthy.
Incidents at Cedar Fair parks This is a summary of notable incidents that have taken place at various Cedar Fair-owned theme parks. This list is not intended to be a comprehensive list of every such event, but only those that have a significant impact on the parks or park operations, or are otherwise significantly newsworthy.
Incidents at Disney parks This is a summary of notable incidents that have taken place at various Disney-owned theme parks. This list is not intended to be a comprehensive list of every such event, but only those that have a significant impact on the parks or park operations, or are otherwise significantly newsworthy.
Incidents at European parks This is a summary of notable incidents that have taken place at various European amusement parks. This list is not intended to be a comprehensive list of every such event, but only those that have a significant impact on the parks or park operations, or are otherwise significantly newsworthy.
Incidents at Six Flags parks This is a summary of notable incidents that have taken place at various Six Flags-owned theme parks. This list is not intended to be a comprehensive list of every such event, but only those that have a significant impact on the parks or park operations, or are otherwise significantly newsworthy.
Incidents at Universal parks This is a summary of notable incidents that have taken place at various Universal-owned theme parks. This list is not intended to be a comprehensive list of every such event, but only those that have a significant impact on the parks or park operations, or are otherwise significantly newsworthy.
Incidents of ownership Incidents of Ownership-- Any control over property. If you give away property but keep an incident of ownership--for example, you give away an apartment building but retain the right to receive rent--then legally, no gift has been made.
Incineration Incineration is a waste treatment technology that involves the combustion of waste at high temperaturesOverview of incineration Knox, Andrew, An Overview of Incineration and EFW Technology as Applied to the Management of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW), University of Western Ontario, Canada, February 2005. Incineration and other high temperature waste treatment systems are described as "thermal treatment".
Incirlik Air Base The Incirlik Air Base (), an important air base in NATO's Southern Region, is located in Ä°ncirlik, 12 km east of Adana, Turkey's fifth largest city, and 56 km from the Mediterranean Sea (). Its ICAO airport code is LTAG.
Incisional hernia An incisional hernia occurs when the area of weakness through which the hernia occurs, is the result of an incompletely healed surgical wound. Since median incisions in the linea alba are frequent for laparotomy, ventral incisional hernias are termed ventral hernia.
Incisive canals In the opening of the incisive foramen, the orifices of two lateral canals are visible; they are named the incisive canals or foramina of Stenson; through each of them passes the terminal branch of the descending palatine artery and the nasopalatine nerve.
Incisive fossa On the anterior surface of the maxilla, just above the eminences corresponding to the incisor teeth is a depression, the incisive fossa, which gives origin to the Depressor alæ nasi; to the alveolar border below the fossa is attached a slip of the Orbicularis oris; above and a little lateral to it, the Nasalis arises.
Incisivosaurus Incisivosaurus ("incisor lizard") was a basal oviraptorosaurian theropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Period of what is now the People's Republic of China. The holotype, a skull, mandible, and an incomplete cervical vertebra, was collected from the lowermost levels (fluvial beds) of the Yixian Formation (Jehol Group, Barremian) in the Sihetun area, near Beipiao City, in western Liaoning Province.
Incitatus Incitatus was the name of Roman emperor Caligula's favored horse. Some have indicated that the horse was attended to by eighteen servants, and was fed oats mixed with gold flake; according to Suetonius, Incitatus had a stable of marble, with an ivory manger, purple blankets and a collar of precious stones.
Incitement to Disaffection Act 1934 The Incitement to Disaffection Act 1934 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that made it an offence to seduce a servicemen from his "duty or his allegiance", thus expanding the ambit of the law. The Act was widely criticized as being an unnecessary restriction on freedom of speech.
Incivility Incivility is a general term for social behaviour lacking in civility or good manners, on a scale from lack of respect for elders, to vandalism and hooliganism, through public drunkenness and threatening behaviour .
Inclination Inclination in general is the angle between a reference plane and another plane or axis of direction. The axial tilt is expressed as the angle made by the planet's axis and a line drawn through the planet's center perpendicular to the orbital plane.
Inclined plane An inclined plane is a plane surface set at an angle, other than a right angle, against a horizontal surface. The inclined plane permits one to overcome a large resistance by applying a relatively small force through a longer distance than the load is to be raised.
Inclinometer An inclinometer or clinometer is an instrument for measuring angles of slope (or tilt), elevation or inclination of an object with respect to gravity. It is also known as a tilt meter, tilt indicator, slope alert, slope gauge, gradient meter, gradiometer, level gauge, level meter, and pitch & roll indicator.
Inclosure Act The Enclosure Acts were a number of United Kingdom Acts of Parliament which inclosed common land in the country. This meant that the rights that people once held, to graze animals on these areas when not planted by crops, were now being denied.
Include guard In the C programming language, an #include guard is a particular construct used to avoid the problem of double inclusion when dealing with the #include directive, as demonstrated in the following sample C code:
Include vulnerability A server side include vulnerability is a vulnerability that can potentially allow an attacker to execute arbitrary scripts on a host server by including the file in an existing script. This can be caused by allowing unchecked user data in include directives in scripting languages, such as PHP.
Incluing Incluing is a technique of world building, in which the reader is gradually exposed to background information about the world in which a story is set. The idea is to clue the readers into the world the author is building, without them being aware of it.
Inclusion (education) Inclusion is the practice in special education of placing children with disabilities into the general classrooms of elementary and secondary schools, either all or most of the time. In his textbook, Making Inclusion Work, Frank Bowe emphasizes the difference between inclusion and "full inclusion".
Inclusion (taxonomy) In taxonomy, inclusion is the process whereby two species that were believed to be distinct are found in fact to be the same and are thus combined as one species. Which name is kept for this unified species is sometimes a cause of debate, but generally it is the earlier-named one, and the other species is said to be "included" within this one.
Inclusion compound In host-guest chemistry an inclusion compound is a complex in which one chemical compound the host forms a cavity which molecules of a second compound the guest are located. The definition of inclusion compounds is very broad, it extends to channels formed between molecules in a crystal lattice in which guest molecules can fit.
Inclusion criteria Inclusion criteria are a set of conditions that must be met in order to participate in a clinical trial. In other words - the standards used to determine whether a person may be allowed to participate in a clinical trial.
Inclusionary zoning Inclusionary zoning, also know as inclusionary housing, refers to city planning ordinances that require a given share of new construction be affordable to people with low to moderate incomes. The term inclusionary zoning is derived from the fact that these ordinances seek to counter exclusionary zoning practices which aim to exclude affordable housing from a municipality through the zoning code.
Inclusionism Inclusionism is a term for a movement that acknowledges and accepts all known viewpoints pertaining to the origin and purpose of mankind, unless proven false by the scientific method. Inclusionists accept that no one religion has yet been scientifically proven to be correct or incorrect.
Inclusive * In the description of a mathematical set, the term inclusive denotes that the endpoints of a range are included within the set. For example, "the integers -2 to 2 inclusive" refers to the set {-2,-1,0,1,2}; the endpoints, -2 and 2, are included.
Inclusive and exclusive we In linguistics, an inclusive we is a pronoun or verb conjugation that indicates the inclusion of the speaker, the audience, and perhaps other people, as opposed to an exclusive we, which specifically excludes the audience. No European language makes this distinction, but it is quite common in the indigenous languages of eastern and southwestern Asia, America, Australia and the Pacific, as well as in some Creole languages.
Inclusive classroom An inclusive education refers to schools, centres of learning and educational systems that are open to all children, and that ensure that all children learn and participate. For this to happen, teachers, schools and systems may need to change so that they can better accommodate the diversity of needs that pupils have and that they are included in all aspects of school-life.
Inclusive development Inclusive development refers to ensuring that all phases of the development cycle (design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation) include a disability dimension and that persons with disabilities are meaningfully participating in development processes and policies. Inclusive development also implies a rights-based approach to development, understood in terms of a framework for human development as a process firmly grounded in international human rights standards and focused on the promotion and protection of human rights.
Inclusive Democracy The theoretical project of Inclusive Democracy (ID) (as distinguished from the political project which is part of the democratic and autonomy traditions) emerged from the work of political philosopher, former academic and activist Takis Fotopoulos in Towards An Inclusive Democracy, Cassell/Continuum, London/New York, 1997, 401 pp. and was further developed by him and other writers in Democracy & Nature and its successor The International Journal of Inclusive Democracy.
Inclusive fitness Inclusive fitness encompasses conventional Darwinian fitness with the addition of behaviors that contribute to an organism’s individual fitness through altruism. An organism’s success, from the gene's point of view, ultimately depends on leaving behind the maximum number of replicas of its genes present within a population.
Inclusive Tour The term inclusive tour (IT) is used to describe a commercial arrangement where a company commonly referred to as a tour operator organises package holidays that include accommodation in addition to transportation. These arrangements are usually built around charter flights carrying a group of individuals who share seats on the same plane to travel together to their intended holiday destination as well as back to their point of origin.
Inclusiveness and exclusivity in Ayyavazhi The Inclusiveness and exclusivity in Ayyavazhi is the inclusive and exclusive ideology of Ayyavazhi scriptures over other religions. The formula of inclusivism and exclusivism was applied in the religio-cultural universe of Ayyavazhi is one that is not found anywhere else in the world.
Inclusivism Inclusivism, one of several approaches to understanding the relationship between religions, asserts that while one set of beliefs is absolutely true, other sets of beliefs are at least partially true. It stands in contrast to exclusivism, which asserts that only one way is true and all others are in error, and religious pluralism, which asserts that all beliefs are equally valid within a believer's particular context.
Inco Superstack The Inco Superstack in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, with a height of 380 m (1,247 ft), is the tallest chimney in Canada and the Western hemisphere, and the second tallest freestanding chimney in the world after the GRES-2 Power Station in Kazakhstan. It is also the second tallest freestanding structure of any type in Canada, ranking behind the CN Tower but ahead of First Canadian Place.
Incognito (band) Incognito is a British band, widely regarded as one of the key members of the acid jazz movement. Their debut album, Jazz Funk, was released in 1981, with eleven more albums following, the last of which, Bees + Things + Flowers, was released in 2006.
Incoherents The Incoherents (Les Arts Incohérents) was a short-lived French art movement founded by Parisian writer and publisher Jules Lévy in 1882, which anticipated many of the art techniques and satirical attitude commonly attributed to later avant-garde art movements as novel.
Incom Corporation Incom Corporation is a fictional corporation of the Star Wars universe. They designed and manufactured the T-65 X-Wing Space Superiority Fighter, which was one of the Rebel Alliance's primary starfighters during the Galactic Civil War.
Incoma Incoma is a Swedish metal band based in Uddevalla north of Gothenburg. The band was initiated by HĂĄkan Karlsson in 2003 and is today also including Fredrik Wester (formerly Lord Belial), Mattias Kern and Kristian Martinsson.
Income Income, generally defined, is the money that is received as a result of the normal business activities of an individual or a business. For example, for individuals income usually means the gross amount on their payslips, i.
Income disparity Income disparity or wage gap is a term used to describe inequities in average pay or salary between socio-economic groups within society, or the inequities in pay between individuals who produce the same work. Income disparity generally occurs when certain groups within society suffer from social inequality within a society.
Income distribution Income distribution has always been a central concern of economic theory and economic policy. Classical economists such as Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus and David Ricardo were mainly concerned with factor income distribution, that is, the distribution of income between the main factors of production, land, labour and capital.
Income in the United States Income in the United States is measured by the United States Department of Commerce either by household or individual. The differences between household and personal income can be quite considerable since 42% of households, the majority of those in the top two quintiles with incomes exceeding $57,658, now have two income earners.
Income inequality metrics Income inequality metrics or income distribution metrics are techniques used by economists to measure the distribution of income among members of a society. In particular these techniques are used to measure the inequality, or equality of income within an economy.
Income quintiles The Income quintiles are a commonly used measure for income distribution in the United States. With this particular tool of measuring income in the United States the total number of households is divided into quintiles, each representing roughly 20%, according to their income.
Income redistribution Income redistribution, or the redistribution of wealth, is a political policy usually promoted by members of the political left, and opposed, or less strongly supported, by members of the political right. The basic premise of the redistribution of wealth is that money should be distributed so it benefits all members of society, and that the rich should be obliged to assist the poor.

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