Episode 2: Serious Business
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Under the title ‘Is Facebook bad for your mental health’ is written in bold, ‘It can cause eating disorders’. Wow. I am completely taken aback when I read this. Are we such an image-obsessed nation that a social networking site could provoke...
Is The EU’s European Citizen’s Initiative Just a PR Stunt?
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Tt The European Citizen‘s Initiative (ECI) is a PR relations stunt by the EU Commission and the EU parliament to desperately try to reach out and reconnect with there disillusioned citizens. Barroso, Van Rompuy, and Ashton are well aware...
Is The EU’s European Citizen’s Initiative Just a PR Stunt?
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Tt The European Citizen‘s Initiative (ECI) is a PR relations stunt by the EU Commission and the EU parliament to desperately try to reach out and reconnect with there disillusioned citizens. Barroso, Van Rompuy, and Ashton are well aware...
Is The EU’s European Citizen’s Initiative Just a PR Stunt?
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Tt The European Citizen‘s Initiative (ECI) is a PR relations stunt by the EU Commission and the EU parliament to desperately try to reach out and reconnect with there disillusioned citizens. Barroso, Van Rompuy, and Ashton are well aware...
Is The EU’s European Citizen’s Initiative Just a PR Stunt?
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Tt The European Citizen‘s Initiative (ECI) is a PR relations stunt by the EU Commission and the EU parliament to desperately try to reach out and reconnect with there disillusioned citizens. Barroso, Van Rompuy, and Ashton are well aware...
Bundesbank and German government about to fight real estate bubble
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Dear reader,according to media reports German government along with Bundesbank and BaFin will fight possible bubbles in German real estate sector by having quarter yearly meetings upon this issue and they will report to German legislative body, the B...
Bishops Chastise Republicans on Poverty
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The Speaker of the U.S. House, John Boehner, chastised the American Roman Catholic Bishops at a news conference on April 17, 2012 for having scolded the House Republican budget for harming the poor while helping out the affluent. “At a time of grea...
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
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Impossible dreams are what drive humankind forward: we were given free will to think the unthinkable. Karl Popper used to talk about creative leaps of the imagination and although doubtless some people will think me pretentious for saying so, that is...
Don Ruperto Murdocane
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When experienced journalists see Rupert Murdoch and his dynasty in operation, they think,:- Iain McWhirter (Glasgow Herald) Watching Murdoch’s performance reminded me a little of The Godfather. In the gangster genre, the most powerful mafiosi a...
Don Ruperto Murdocane
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When experienced journalists see Rupert Murdoch and his dynasty in operation, they think,:- Iain McWhirter (Glasgow Herald) Watching Murdoch’s performance reminded me a little of The Godfather. In the gangster genre, the most powerful mafiosi a...
Global Financial Institutions Will Soon Cease Investment Banking Operations And Be Active Participants In Regional Global Governance
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Graham Summers writes in Zero Hedge The Truth About the Spanish Banking System That 99% of Analysts Fail to Grasp. Spain is a catastrophe on such a level that few analysts even grasp it. Indeed, to fully understand just why Spain is such a catastro...
The Netherlands on its way to elections
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Dear reader,it was never intended to get into one countries' politics, and especially not of The Netherlands, the country where the author has the privilege to vote more often than he would like to. (because most recent cabinets didn't last until the...
The biggest barrier to European political union is ...
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The biggest barrier to European political union (ie a United States of Europe or a Federal Republic of Europe) is not Euroscepticism. It's Europessimism. In other words, as is the case with social systemics and dynamics - as opposed to p...
Why Do People Sublicense: Let Me Count the Ways
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This Kat will begin with a one-sentence muse. The ultimate challenge in writing about IP is trying to say something categorically meaningful about how IP plays itself out in that most elusive of places, "the real world." This has once again become...
Barroso and van Rompuy to "recapture that golden era of flight"
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This "test flight" on board the brand new Falcon 7X probably convinced the EU high fliers. (Is it J.M. Barroso, who is boarding the jet?)The bigwigs in Brussels have recently been busy prescribing all kinds of adversity measures to European tax...
Some lessons on overindebtedness
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In an article in the FT, Martin Wolf argues (based on a speech by Ben Broadbent, a member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee) that the main problem with indebtedness is not its extent but the quality of debtors, their ability t...
Workshop to Kosovo Polje / Fushë Kosovë: Proactive and systematic approach recommended
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To improve the delivery of education to minority communities, a systematic and proactive role of Fushë Kosovë / Kosovo Polje is recommended. This was one of the conclusions of a recent workshop organized by ECMI Kosovo. Continue reading →...
Nicolas Sarkozy at Villepinte: Europe as a scapegoat
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Sarkozy's controversial European proposals: an attempt to woo the far right? - 1. Analysis / France, Euro-politics, Domestic politics, Immigration...
Interviewed by Christiane Amanpour, CNN International: The case for a European New Deal
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On Friday 27th April, Christian Amanpour interviewed me on CNN Int on the theme of Europe’s slow suicide by inane austerity. CLICK HERE FOR THE VIDEO. The transcript of our conversation follows (thanks to CNN for making it available to me): CHR...
Interviewed by Christiane Amanpour, CNN International: The case for a European New Deal
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On Friday 27th April, Christian Amanpour interviewed me on CNN Int on the theme of Europe’s slow suicide by inane austerity. CLICK HERE FOR THE VIDEO. The transcript of our conversation follows (thanks to CNN for making it available to me): CHR...
