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Quote of the day: Before you diagnose yourself with depression
Today’s quote is from William Gibson one of our favorite fiction writer.
“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, simply surrounded by assholes.“…
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Europe Day
Today’s Europe Day celebrations might turn out to be rather toned down particularly with the political development of the last days in Greece and France.
With the right wing Nazis getting a come-back in Athens and even more votes (around 20%) for far right wing parties in France after the success of those extremist parties in Hungary or Belgium, it demonstrates that some certainly never learn from history. Together with the disasters created to cover-up the crimes of Bankster and their friends / financial special interest groups better known as market liberals, it seems Europe is making huge steps away from becoming unified and results from decades before are being destroyed fast…
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Life: And so Germany shall change
The single most important web page in Germany to look at today/tonight.
Georg Schramm for President!
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Banking: The American Dream By The Provocateur Network
>One more greatly done animated film on the eternal theme of how the global banking system works. It has everything – great animation, conspiracy theories, history, JFK’s death and more…..
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Pakour / Freerunning: Some more videos
It has been a while since we covered one of our favorite city outdoor activity.
So here are some new pointers and videos.
The first video by Clinton Jones with his slow motion shots provides great insides how some of the jumps are done…
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History: Niall Ferguson – The 6 killer apps of prosperity
We finally found some time to watch Niall Ferguson’s Ted Talks presentation with the “killer applications” he also describes in his latest book “Civilization The West and the Rest”
Niall Ferguson starts his presentation outlining his playing field, pointing us to the facts that more than 106 billion people have walked this planet and 94% of those are already dead. Out of those 106 billion 60% were or are Asian and most of them were or are very poor (shortening their life span / economic output). He then bridges over to explain the concept of the “Great Divergence“, that the majority of today’s wealth (US$195 Trillion) was made after 1800 by so-called Westerners and till today 66% of the world’s wealth is owned by these Europeans, North-Americans and Austral-Asians that only make up 19% of the world’s population…
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