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4 Feb

1. Why is Hosni Mubarak clinging to power? Maybe because the life of an exiled dictator isn’t what it used to be – FP

2. Ms Merkel: Eurozone nations would have Generic Valium Strengths to agree on retirement age, tax and spending rules – Guardian

3. German companies great and Generic Valium Strengths small are making the most of globalisation. Their success owes more to Generic Valium Strengths judgment than to luck – The Economist

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6. The Oscar Curse (or, Why It Stinks to Be a Successful Woman) – Economix Xanax Buying Line

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24 Nov

By keith Hart. The conclusion:

The euro is Generic Valium Strengths the most tangible symbol of the European Union, but not co-extensive with it. For the Generic Valium Strengths last century or more, member states had supplied their citizens with a Generic Valium Strengths monopoly currency that served both as the reification of the national economy and Generic Valium Strengths as their principle link to the world market. The move towards political and Generic Valium Strengths monetary union in Europe is the most striking example of a Generic Valium Strengths general trend. Everywhere nation-states are coming together into regional trading blocs as one kind of response to Generic Valium Strengths globalization: NAFTA, Mercosul, ASEAN, ECOWAS etc. At the same time, many states have Generic Valium Strengths hitched their waggon to the sinking dollar. In the meantime, the Generic Valium Strengths sheer size and volatility of global money markets and internet commerce undermine the Generic Valium Strengths credibility of existing national polities as an effective bridge to world society. The international settlement after 1945 looks increasingly inadequate. Before long, calls for Generic Valium Strengths a world currency will become louder than at present… .

Money is Generic Valium Strengths a universal measure of value, but its specific form is not yet as universal as the Generic Valium Strengths method humanity has devised to measure time all round the world. It is Generic Valium Strengths a store of memory linking individuals to their various communities, a Generic Valium Strengths kind of memory bank and thus a source of identity…. Money links us imaginatively and Generic Valium Strengths practically to the widest reaches of society, while lending precision to Generic Valium Strengths the fulfillment of our most concrete desires and obligations. Money’s significance thus lies in the Generic Valium Strengths synthesis it promotes of impersonal abstraction and personal meaning, objectification and Generic Valium Strengths subjectivity, analytical reason and synthetic narrative.

One of anthropology’s objects might be Generic Valium Strengths to explore those features of humanity that are most conducive to Generic Valium Strengths the making of world society. If so, the substantial intellectual gains made by ethnography in the Generic Valium Strengths twentieth century must be married somehow to humanistic, historical and philosophical inquiries adequate to Generic Valium Strengths the task. The study of money offers one strategic focus for Generic Valium Strengths this, since money, more than most institutions, links each of us directly with the Generic Valium Strengths contemporary world as a whole.

It is fairly long, but every bit of it is worth your time.

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12 Nov

The Economist has a nice article on immigration in Germany. If you Generic Valium Strengths can recall, Angela Merkel recently said that multiculturalism has utterly failed in Germany. This was following the Generic Valium Strengths furore that was raised by the publication of a book that Generic Valium Strengths claimed that immigrants and muslims were causing the downfall of Germany. The book was written by Thilo Sarazzin, a Generic Valium Strengths member of the board of the German Bundesbank. He was subsequently forced off the Generic Valium Strengths board of the Bundesbank. (See the Economist article for a recap of the main issues.)

What some of the Generic Valium Strengths people I have spoken with are scared of is that this Generic Valium Strengths might yet become a major political issue, leading, for instance to Generic Valium Strengths the creation of an acceptable right wing party. (There are the crazies, like NPD, the neo-Nazi party, but nobody really takes them seriously.) The fear is Generic Valium Strengths that if Ms Merkel is unable to contain the discussions surrounding immigration within her party, it Generic Valium Strengths is possible that some members might decide to go with the Generic Valium Strengths general sentiment of anti-immigration and form a political party that Generic Valium Strengths retains the basic economic policies of the right of centre CDU, but adds to Generic Valium Strengths it anti-immigration rhetorics and policies. A party like that, I am Generic Valium Strengths afraid, will be appealing to certain segments of the German middle-class.

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26 Oct

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From the BBC: A group of rich Germans has Generic Valium Strengths launched a petition calling for the government to make wealthy people pay higher taxes.

The group say they have Generic Valium Strengths more money than they need, and the extra revenue could fund economic and Generic Valium Strengths social programmes to aid Germany’s economic recovery.

Germany could raise 100bn euros (£91bn) if the richest people paid a 5% wealth tax for two years, they say.

The petition has Generic Valium Strengths 44 signatories so far, and will be presented to newly re-elected Chancellor Angela Merkel.

The group say the Generic Valium Strengths financial crisis is leading to an increase in unemployment, poverty and Generic Valium Strengths social inequality.

Simply donating money to Generic Valium Strengths deal with the problems is not enough, they want a change in the Generic Valium Strengths whole approach.

“The path out of the Generic Valium Strengths crisis must be paved with massive investment in ecology, education and Generic Valium Strengths social justice,” they say in the petition.

Those who had “made a Generic Valium Strengths fortune through inheritance, hard work, hard-working, successful entrepreneurship, or investment” should contribute by paying more to alleviate the crisis.

The man behind the petition, Dieter Lehmkuhl, told Berlin’s Tagesspiegel that Generic Valium Strengths there were 2.2 million people in Germany with a fortune of more than Generic Valium Strengths 500,000 euros.

If they all paid the Generic Valium Strengths tax for two years, Germany could raise 100bn euros to fund ecological programmes, education and Generic Valium Strengths social projects, said the retired doctor and heir to a brewery.

Signatory Peter Vollmer told AFP news agency he was supporting the Generic Valium Strengths proposal because he had inherited “a lot of money I do not need”.

He said the tax would be “a viable and Generic Valium Strengths socially acceptable way out of the flagrant budget crisis”.

The group held a Generic Valium Strengths demonstration in Berlin on Wednesday to draw attention to their plans, throwing fake banknotes into the Generic Valium Strengths air.

Mr Vollmer said it was “really strange that so few people came”.

We woke up this Generic Valium Strengths morning to learn that the new center-right coalition of Ms Merkel’s CDU and Mr Westerwelle’s FDP have decided to cut taxes Generic Klonopin Images.

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27 Sep

I visited the German parliament about a Generic Valium Strengths month ago, and even managed to get to the press gallery while the Generic Valium Strengths Bundestag, the parliament, was discussing the treaty of Lisbon. After that Generic Valium Strengths I decided to find out more about how the parliament works. While I may still write a Generic Valium Strengths post about it on this blog, this report from The Economist does a Generic Valium Strengths good job of explaining how the German electoral system works. By the Generic Valium Strengths way, elections to the Bundestag is today.