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Peace Now, or Never
By Ehud Olmert As the United Nations General Assembly opens this year, I feel uneasy. An unnecessary diplomatic clash between Israel and the Palestinians is taking shape in New York, and it will be harmful to Israel and to the … Continue reading
Heureka
Greek Finance Minister, Evangelos Venizelos: “We haven’t realised the dangers. The dangers are not that our income has been reduced, the danger is not that pensions are being reduced or the value of property. The dangers are not that the … Continue reading
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The dogmatist
From ” Der Spiegel” One thing is already clear: The two men will be all smiles when they meet. If all goes according to plan, German President Christian Wulff will greet the pope at 11:15 a.m. this Thursday in front … Continue reading
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Tagged Berlin, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Dogma, Pope Benedict XVI
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Debt, division & delay
…because we just don’t know what to do….meanwhile the Swiss were close to ban investment banking after UBS lost about 2.3 bio Euros on unauthorised trades.
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Tagged Austerity, Debt, DEfault, ECB, Economy, European Union, Politics
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Bleeding
By Paul Krugman Doctors used to believe that by draining a patient’s blood they could purge the evil “humors” that were thought to cause disease. In reality, of course, all their bloodletting did was make the patient weaker, and more … Continue reading
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Tagged Austerity, Economic policy, European Union, Great Depression, United States
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Abandon realism
By David Deutsch It was recently discovered that the universe’s expansion is accelerating, not slowing, as was previously thought. Light from distant exploding stars revealed that an unknown force (dubbed “dark energy”) more than outweighs gravity on cosmological scales. Unexpected by … Continue reading
A new heaven, a new earth
Should one be worried if prophecies start to make complete sense ? I don’t know how this is going to happen, I just know this IS happening right now and we all are a part of it. In fact, we … Continue reading
Unglued
By STEVEN LEE MYERS By Stephen Lee Myers While the popular uprisings of the Arab Spring created new opportunities for American diplomacy, the tumult has also presented the United States with challenges — and worst-case scenarios — that would have once … Continue reading
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