This week’s recommended blogs #4

• Time lapse at Everest – Elia Saikaly (Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub)
• Best-selling Books of All Time (aBookShelfz)
• The next big (faux) scandal (Brobrubel’s Blog)
• Individualism and Collectivism (shakemyheadhollow)
• Greece: Closure of ERT has become an issue of Democracy (Emanuel Raptis)

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Ernesto “Che” Guevara: Many will call me..

A 22 year old Ernesto Guevara in 1951 while in Argentina. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“Many will call me an adventurer, and that I am…only one of a different sort: one who risks his skin to prove his truths.”

Ernesto Guevara

June 14, 1928: Ernesto “Che” Guevara was a medical student when he undertook the motorcycle treks across Latin America that inspired his career as a revolutionary. He was born in Argentina, 85 years ago today.

Czerulf: Is democracy in a crisis? (Part 3 – Political parties)

View at Germany’s parliament: “Reichstag”

I started my little series about democracy in part 1 with some general considerations. In part 2 I spoke about the aim and the importance of the constitution. I then went on to narrate the German constitutional history. We learned that modern Germany is a parliamentary democracy. National, regional and local assemblies are elected by universal suffrage. Now it’s about time to investigate how does the right to vote translate into action?

Video: RSA Animate – Crises of Capitalism

“We have the duty to change our way of thinking!”

This video (11:11) deserves your attention and further considerations.

This week’s recommended blogs #3

• Who controls the world? – A Study on the Complexities of the Global Financial System (Elpidio Valdes)
• Bush’s 4th term (The Internet Post)
• Immigration 105: In the Beginning… (ana ::: opines)
• Gallipoli and the Armenian Genocide (Kiwicommie)
• Vor dem Sturm – Damaskus (Reisedepeschen)

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