Eurocentrism, the practice of viewing the world from a European perspective, is getting more and more irrelevant (in the economy, demography etc.). This development will also reach the shores of the Holy Sea. Will the next conclave acknowledge a changing reality?
Interesting article by David McWilliams
via It’s simple Popenomics – Catholic Church must turn to New World.
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And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.
February 14, 1921: Influential literary magazine The Little Review brought James Joyce’s Ulysses to America, but 92 years ago today, it was convicted for publishing “the work of a disordered mind.”
A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.
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.
Your author supports this view.
Link (recommended reading):
via Corporation tax sleight of hand will turn us into world pariahs.
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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