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• The Road Less Travelled (2009)

  Monday, Feb 16, 2009 5:41PM / Standard Entry / Van Ness new movie

  I just discosvered that Van Ness is working at a new Taiwanese movie:

  The Road Less Travelled

  The title sounds interesting. It is the story of boy bands , the Smash. The Story evolves around this band (Smash) aiming to fame.

  Directed by Jimmy Hung. With Vanness Wu, Tatsuo Dean Fujioka, Jimmy Hung.

  I was quite surprised ... I did not know. It seems they started shooting in August 2008.

  So, I might be the last one to know........

  Busy doing....

  
  

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• Is anyone keeping an eye on everything that's up there?

  Friday, Feb 13, 2009 12:48PM / Standard Entry

  wo satellites smashed into each other on Tuesday, creating a mess of space debris that is still being counted.

  The collision, which involved an Iridium communication satellite and a defunct Russian satellite, is the first to occur between two intact spacecraft - but experts say it is unlikely to be the last.

  The worse is that UP THERE there are also old and unused soviet satellites with nuclear reactors....still very active... So, any other impact can cause radioacative rain to fall on earth and more...

  The Animation below shows spread of debris from satellite collision:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyG3zqLyW8k
  

  source: http://www.newscientist.com...

   
  
  

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• Changes....

  Friday, Feb 6, 2009 12:59PM / Standard Entry

  I noticed many people life is on the verge of changes...It might be that 2009 has started with a new wind indeed!

  My contribution to changes has been dramatic, in the sense of radical!

  I started the year with prayers and I received the message that indeed something was going to change. So, obeying that voice I finally executed the decision....and ................

  ........I resigned from my current job!

  I have been meditating the matter for a long time...and I argued any side of it, then I took the step.

  There is something awaiting me at the next corner and I am intended to discovered it...;-)

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

  
  

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• Economic Crisis: who is to blame?

  Monday, Jan 26, 2009 12:08PM / Standard Entry

  source: Professor Brendan McSweeney, University of London Professor of Management, School of Management, Royal Holloway

  Culled from: Higher, Issue 10 Winter 08, pp.26. Royal Holloway University of London

  Signs of a dramatic economic downturn across the globe are evident. Even in Guangzhou, one of China’s largest manufacturing hubs, tens of thousands have lost their jobs. The knock-on effects of failure and paralysis in the banking sector, initially and primarily in Anglo-American countries, continue to have profoundly depressing effects not only in financial markets but ‘real’ economy worldwide. How did it happen? Put simply: unregulated greed. Reckless, incompetent and vastly overpaid bankers share the blame. I make that criticism as a former banker and director of a venture capital company. But politicians and regulators who not only allowed but encouraged that recklessness are also responsible.

  Too many politicians were in thrall to the rich. Too many governments were prisoners and perpetuators of the ideology of neo-liberalism which the experience of the great recession in the 1930s had already shown defunct. The regulators failed in their responsibility to overview and intervene. The signs of deeper problems, readily discernable from a number of small-scale financial markets failures, were ignored. Hank Poulson, the US Treasury Secretary foolishly allowed Lehman Brothers to fail sending shock waves through the world’s financial system. The Bank of England doggedly preoccupied with its goal to limit inflation, failed to make an essential move – namely to cut interest rates adequately. The Bank’s very recent cut of one and a half percent is welcome but far too late and its size at this stage will generate fears of an even greater downturn. Regulators have largely been drawn from an insiders’ pool of those who will not challenge: self-censors who have already proved themselves unwilling to speak truth to power. There was too much complicity, not enough courage. Where it really mattered we’ve had unregulated regulation. The regulators’ political masters – obsessed with minimizing regulation were blind to market failure and abuse. Even willing regulators were constrained. The crisis is the nemesis of the hubris of Reagan/Thatcher and their neo-liberal successors. The primary fuel for the current turmoil has been the dramatic growth in inequality. In the UK, for instance, the division between the rich and poor is greater than at anytime since 1900. £43 billion in personal wealth been accumulated by the elite who work in the City of London; there was a waiting list of five years for Rolls Royce. The median pay of a FTSE director is more than £1.5 million; that of a CEO almost £3 million. In 1991, the average (US) large-company CEO received approximately 140 times the pay of an average worker; in 2003, the ratio was 500:1. And the trend continued to rise. It was a "cash machine" for top executives. If instead the earnings of ordinary people had increased many would not have relied on excessive credit.

  The espoused neo-liberal view is that the rich can get as rich they like because the financial effects of their riches will ‘trickle-down’ to benefit us all. We all get a piece of the action. But this is a triumph of fantasy over fact. Not only do countries with greater overall wealth inequalities show lower levels of economic growth but they also have lower life expectancy, higher maternal mortality, and a higher proportion of low birth-weight deliveries. As the pioneering work of University of London professor Sir Michael Marmot has shown, wealth inequality per se is bad for national health, whatever the absolute material standards of living are in a country. The rise even of diseases such as cardiovascular diseases and cancer (and its decline amongst the rich elite) is a very rapid response to rises in wealth inequality. The rich live longer, the poorer die earlier, the rich have fewer ulcers, the poorer more, and so on. The lower down the social ladder one is – the more detrimental the effects of health – death is earlier and the quality of health poorer not necessarily because one is poor but because one is poorer. The incoming US president will undoubtedly attempt to redress matters and restore some balance. If this is the beginning of a more enlightened and progressive global economics then we can start to address the damage that has been done.

  
  

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• Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

  Friday, Jan 23, 2009 9:52AM / Standard Entry

  Interview with John Perkins author of "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man"

  Enjoy this clip about the world bank if you have never watched.

  Small Addition:

  I intended to post this  video to cast some light on what really happens behind the scenes of the economical and political world.

  Confessions of an Economic Hit Man - Part I

  Video: http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=yTbdnNgqfs8
  

  Confessions of an Economic Hit Man - Part II
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  Video: http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=29GhXsx7-Rs
  

  
  Source: www.youtube.com

   

   
  
  

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