It takes more than 10 minutes, but worthwhile to read, at the end there is much strategy in Obamas politics than it seems sometimes looking to it superficially https://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2012/05/25-americas-role-jones-wright - Reviving American Leadership

Excellent! This escaped my Radar. There are always less arguments against the use of opensource. Mixed environments will become easier and normal https://blogs.msdn.com/b/interoperability/archive/2012/04/12/announcing-one-more-way-microsoft-will-engage - Announcing one more way Microsoft will engage with the open source and standards communities - Inter

Below I snapshot from the workshop Semantic Web and Ontologies in agri-food

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In the Corriere della Sera of April 12 the entrepeneur Del Vecchio (Luxottica) is complaining about the managers of Generali Insurances, who believed also to become a financing institution insisting that financing and insuring are two different businesses, which need to be known and to be learned.

Military spending of many European countries seems just useless to me. To maintain an army you do not need only technology.  You need a certain spirit of willingness to fight also in the population.  An army that has not been involved into a conflict for 50 years can hardly be supposed to have a successfull stand in an upcoming conflict.  Last week I found an article in which US officials were complainig about the unmanly behaviour of German soldiers  (They refused to take posiition, because it was too cold :-)).

But this is not the socialdemocratic Sweden! Sweden is governed by the conservative party (conservative only by name) since 2002 and thez have done an amazing work in revitalizing the country. If the Italian government would dare to introduce social la - Welfare, uguaglianza, crescita: ecco la Svezia senza crisi

«La nostra società è più egualitaria di quella italiana. Anche qui, però, non mancano i ricchi». La voce di Verner Egerland, ordinario di lingue romanze presso

“The greatness of the idea of European integration on democratic foundations is its capacity to overcome the old Herderian idea of the nation state as the highest expression of national life.” (Havel) Why the hell the German Library is called "Herder Library" - insane! Heinrich Heine Library, Immanuel Kant Library, or at least Theodor Fontane Library, but Herder nooooooooooooo

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“The greatness of the idea of European integration on democratic foundations is its capacity to overcome the old Herderian idea of the nation state as the highest expression of national life.” (Havel) Why the hell the German Library is called "Herder Lib -

"German policymakers who urge only austerity and wage restraint on the rest of Europe forget that the goal of growth is to raise personal incomes (and spending), and that the real benefit from higher exports is to pay for more imports. " This citation is - Modell Deutschland über alles

MUCH of the rich world is fascinated by Germany. Despite being at the heart of sclerotic Europe, its GDP per head has risen by more than any other G7 country’s over the past decade.