10 talks you won't be able to stop thinking about | Playlist Now playing Here's a TED first: an animated Socratic dialog! In a time when irrationality seems to rule both politics and culture, has reasoned thinking finally lost its power? Watch as psychologist Steven Pinker is gradually, brilliantly persuaded by philosopher Rebecca Newberger Goldstein that reason is actually the key driver of human moral progress, even if its effect sometimes takes generations to unfold. The dialog was recorded live at TED, and animated, in incredible, often hilarious, detail by Cognitive.
The Global Minotaur: America, The True Origins of the Financial Crisis and the Future of the World Economy (Economic Controversies) (9781780320144): Yanis Varoufakis A Handbook for City Renters | Some writing on urban politics The Greek Crisis Christmas, the System and I You and I constitute the very system that we blame for the world’s problems, which is starkly illustrated at Christmas when we rob our fragile earth on the high streets in the name of Jesus. What better way to celebrate the birth of Christ this year than to unite under the banner of freedom and justice, and peacefully demonstrate for an end to hunger and poverty across the world, writes Mohammed Mesbahi. When disappointed with our politicians and distressed by the problems within our society, we come under the impression that there is a kind of rotten system out there. Without hesitation, we criticise and blame the system. Observing the bickering politicians on television, for example, we are apt to change our voting preferences if our chosen party breaks yet another promise. Why do we fail to perceive, through inner awareness, our self-appointed role in manifesting the drudgery and divisions of daily life that we like to call the system? The elusiveness of capitalism The true Christmas
How Greece could build up so much foreign debt - a purely fictional short story Greece’s foreign debt was 399 BN EUR by mid-2011. It was composed of 174 BN EUR in the central government; 208 BN EUR in the banking sector and 17 BN EUR in other sectors. Many people ask these days how foreigners could lend so much money to Greece. Let me tell a tale how this could have happened. Any similarities with actual persons and/or banks are strictly coincidental. Imagine that there are 3 major banks in Europe: the Merkel-Bank AG; the Sarkozy-Bank S. Their colleagues responsible for domestic lending operations in each of their banks think of them as “overpaid wine-tasters” because in their view, Horst, Jean-Pierre and Charlotte spend their time like diplomats who mingle amongst their own kind and who feel like being above the dirty day-to-day business of a normal bank. Let’s take Horst as an example. Horst also requests input from his Risk Management Department. On the plane to Athens, Horst starts flipping through the reports of his Risk Management Department.
+972 Magazine | Independent commentary and news from Israel & Palestine Arrêt sur images - décryptage de l'actualité des médias World Energy Outlook 2014: il picco di tutto? Da “The Oil Crash”. Traduzione di MR Di Antonio Turiel Cari lettori, negli ultimi giorni, a parte dedicare tempo ai molteplici impegni professionali e di divulgazione, sono stato occupato a preparare il tema del post di oggi: la mia analisi del rapporto per eccellenza del panorama energetico mondiale, il World Energy Outlook, che nella sua edizione del 2014 è stato presentato dalla IEA il 12 novembre scorso. Un rapporto come al solito molto lungo (748 pagine), con moltissime informazioni su ciò che le menti pensanti di questa agenzia della OCSE credono che sarà il futuro della fornitura energetica del pianeta. Prospettiva storica Evoluzione prevista per le importazioni di petrolio degli Stati Uniti secondo il WEO 2012. Evoluzione dell'energia netta del petrolio in uno scenario realista, derivato dallo scenario delle Nuove Politiche del WEO 2012. L'anno scorso, il WEO 2013 ci ha mostrato un grafico ancora più inquietante. Struttura del WEO 2014 Il WEO 2014 è strutturato in tre parti:
The race to lend Greece: A short story by Klaus Kastner In this remarkable short story, Klaus Kastner (Kleingut) offers a fictionalised account of how Europe’s banks channelled billions to their Greek counter parties. It makes for excellent cross reading with my recent take on the Ant and the Grasshopper fable. [Click here for Klaus’ original post.) Greece’s foreign debt was 399 BN EUR by mid-2011. Many people ask these days how foreigners could lend so much money to Greece. Imagine that there are 3 major banks in Europe: the Merkel-Bank AG; the Sarkozy-Bank S. Their colleagues responsible for domestic lending operations in each of their banks think of them “overpaid wine-tasters” because in their view, Horst, Jean-Pierre and Charlotte spend their time like diplomats who mingle amongst their own kind and who feel like being above the dirty day-to-day business of a normal bank. Let’s take Horst as an example. Horst also requests input from his Risk Management Department. His counterparts do not request any new loans from Horst. Like this:
New Politics Site d'information français d'actualités indépendant et participatif en ligne | Mediapart La Dieta anti-Neoplastica - CarcinomaEpatico.it La Dieta anti-neoplastica dev'essere priva, il più possibile, di acidi nucleici, di proteine, di acido folico e di vitamina B12: ciò per la fondamentale ragione che la crescita del tumore avviene soltanto attraverso particolari fattori di apporto energetico (Glucosio) e tramite sostanze necessarie alla sintesi di nuovo DNA e per creare nuove cellule tumorali (mitosi cellulare). Secondo tale Dieta, la bassa quantità di Glucosio, il ridotto o assente apporto di acidi nucleici, di proteine, di acido folico e di vitamina B12 tenderanno a bloccare la crescita tumorale. Ma poiché l'organismo non può sopravvivere in assenza di queste sostanze, vi sarà anche un depauperamento continuo e costante di tali sostanze a carico dei tessuti muscolari e di riserva dell'organismo: si può ritenere che tale depauperamento verrà anche compiuto a carico dello stesso tessuto neoplastico. Il paziente inizierà cioè a "nutrirsi" del proprio stesso Cancro; Importanti sono le Spezie. Sostanze Fito-Chimiche Continua qui
Ending 2011 with a fable for our times As 2011 is drawing to a close, with the ECB only having managed to paper over the deepening cracks of the eurozone, it is time to allow ourselves to abandon the barricades for ten days or so. If the soldiers in the Great War’s killing fields could maintain a humane ceasefire, tend to the wounded, and bury their dead, we too can afford to put a cap for a while on our hectic rythm. Anyhow, the Crisis will be back with hideous vengeance soon after the New Year. Lastly, since 2011 was the year of ‘my’ Minotaur, I leave you with this fable (which sums up in few words my book’s gist): Once upon a time, in the famous maze-like Labyrinth of the Cretan King’s Palace, there lived a creature as fierce as it was tragic; its intense loneliness comparable only with the fear it inspired far and wide. Alas, the beast’s appetite could only be satiated by human flesh. Millennia later, another, this time a Global, Minotaur rose up. What do bankers do when such a tsunami of capital comes their way daily?