"I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure of anything..." (Richard Feynman)
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G.W.F.Hegel, the great German Philosopher, wrote: From the most ancient times downwards, all nations have directed their wishes and longings to gaining access to the treasures of this land of marvels, the most costly which the Earth presents...The way, by which these treasures have passed to the West, has at all times been a matter of world-historical importance....
Nehru spoke at length about his vision of India....At the sam time, he explained, he wanted to preserve democratic Freedoms; he did not want India to become a communist society like Russia and China. Thus he called his system a "mixed economy", which could combine the best of socialism and capitalism....When ordinary human beings err, is is sad, but when leaders do, it haunts us for generations
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Xmas 2006 and New Year 2007, the Keizer Family went to Germany for staying XMas with Beatrix and Manfred, for seeing some friends and to explore Berlin. more pictures
I am today participating in the Europe-Africa concertation meeting. This meeting is organized by the START IST, project.
The START program is a specific support action within FP6 for promoting to get Subsaharan African Organizations into the FP7 Framework programs. There are 1 European and 2 African Partners in Start. It is a 2 years program and they will publish in October 2007 a strategic Framework.
"This countries worst maladies are the rejection of rules and an aversion to change" says Guido Rossi, the new Chairman of Telecom Italia. Rossi is a well known lawyer and business manager. Lack of civil sense and an outrageous conservatism - this is what hampers any development in Italy and which had brought Italy to the very end of the queue of all countries in the European Union
The last issue of the Economist tackles some of the "holy cows" of the ecologist movement: Organic Food, Fair Trade and Local Production. I am recommending to read this :-)