Archives for January 2009
January 30, 2009
True to the title of Supertramp album from the 70s, I emphasized yesterday in a 
Consultation, that we must not make our personal crisis, the global financial crisis.
Sure, the "contagion" is large. Many people have recently lost a lot of money, others their work - or they will lose even more. Nevertheless, as is known, in every crisis an opportunity. Life will go on, people will continue to carry out their business, acquire things and sell things - with or without money as a medium of exchange. The collapse of Argentina after the local government bankruptcy has shown more of this entry »
January 29, 2009
Just our editors reaching an email with just this demand that makes sense. "Would the storage and disposal costs with poison counted in the price of electricity, nuclear power about 4 euros per common unit would be expensive. Now we should all pay even aces for the disaster in the nuclear waste storage, "writes a certain Olga Masur, referring to an email campaign of antinuclear initiative" .ausgestrahlt - Together against nuclear power ", which runs until tomorrow.
January 28, 2009
Last night it was possible a post-ARTE, my attention to bind longer. On display were two young, distinctive French, who led an amazingly profound conversation about mixing. One of them, invited as a guest, was the author Vincent Cespedes and the other, the interviewer and presenter of the series, Raphaël Enthoven.
They stretched the sheet of our multicultural society ("mixing takes place only when identity change") on mass psychology and manipulation (using the example of the election of President Sarkozy, in a social mixing not spontaneously created but has been organized this entry »
January 27, 2009
Dear reader!
Over ten years ago I first heard of the idea that oil is not of fossil origin but a "renewable" resource. My first thought was that time: That can not be true followed by a second:. Then the fate of mankind would be yes but not sealed! Entirely new perspectives activities on ... And then came the third, which ultimately prevented me from the subject immediately editorial pick: When would the wrong people heard, they knew it to use for their purposes, and the burgeoning awareness of the preservation the environment would sabotaged ...
As I was to learn later, was actually much rumored, but precisely from the direction from which I had not expected. In the present edition therefore also read, who the "Green Movement" Why funded and that a true heart for nature with the instrumentalized climate about as much to do with how the BieneMaja Monsanto. This entry »
January 26, 2009
The (unconditional) basic income is one of the few social policy concepts that have the potential to solve many of our problems with a bang (Zeitgeist reported in Bulletin 2-2007).
Since then, the idea of various sites and interest groups was discussed, deepened and developed in several Modellanstätzen. Well-known representative of the thought, if different in its implementation conception, are the entrepreneur Götz Werner and the Thuringian Minister President Althaus. Already three congresses on basic income found now instead - and an elaborate, highly informative DVD was produced in-house, you will find the trailer on that below.
On December 29, 2008, now felt a citizen of Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the pulse, a petition to the German Bundestag submitted (Why did not someone earlier on this idea?). This entry »
January 25, 2009
You find here now remarkable things, Curiosities, Woven, Courageous, reprehensible, unforgettable and all sorts of other indispensable contributions from the world of spirit and around it.
I would be delighted to welcome you here on a regular basis. Also look forward comments and suggestions.
Welcome,
Your Thomas Röttcher
(Editor Zeitgeist Print & Online)
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