Monthly Archives: January 2013

David McWilliams: Corporation tax sleight of hand will turn us into world pariahs

Ireland’s very favourable corporate tax rate will be up for discussion sooner rather than later. David McWilliams argues rightly that the world has changed since the financial crisis struck. Funds are tide everywhere. A public strangled by austerity and cut-backs demands that the burden is shared more evenly. This includes explicitly also giant multinationals. The pressure on governments that facilitate tax avoidance practices, such as the Irish, will mount.

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Ennio Morricone: The Ecstasy of Gold.

Looking back on 2012, Ennio Morricone at the Arena of Verona in August was doubtless one of the highlights (here The Ecstasy of Gold recorded by German tv channel ZDF on a different occation and uploaded by schipflingerfred).

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Ennio Morricone The Ecstasy of Gold

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09/01/2013 · 20:50

Mortimer Jerome Adler: True freedom..

True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.

Mortimer Jerome Adler

The author of How to Read a Book was born on 28/12/1902.

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06/01/2013 · 19:49

Umberto Eco: Books are not..

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn’t ask ourselves what it says but what it means…

Umberto Eco

The author of The Name of the Rose was born on this day in 1932.

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05/01/2013 · 12:15