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Open SESAME!

by Pier Marton | Dec 6, 2012 | Ideas, Idées, Middle-East, Politics, Sci/Nat, Wars, Women

Source: (check out) BBC 4’s Open Sesame – Science in the Desert with David Shukman – Available for the next year. Peace through Science! SESAME (Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East) is a “third-generation” synchrotron light...

It Takes Very Little Effort/Brain to Be Stupid

by Pier Marton | Dec 3, 2012 | Antisemitism, Human Rights, Ideas, Jewish, Juif, Magyar, Politics, Racism

Mi Magyarok megvédjük Zsidó honfitársainkat. We the Hungarians will defend our compatriots. Nous les Hongrois nous défendrons nos compatriotes. Viktor Orban Viktor, Miniszterelnök, Prime Minister of Hungary, Premier Ministre de Hongrie. Said in the Hungarian...

Think Turkey Think

by Pier Marton | Nov 22, 2012 | Care, Eco, Food, Humor, Ideas, Jewish, Sci/Nat

Previously posted a year ago… This is the time again for “My Life as a Turkey.” Excerpts: More: The full episode on the web. Can be viewed also on the mobile app “PBS.” Joe Hutto’s book Larry David’s Memories of Thanksgiving Maybe time to revisit also such as previous...

The Other Son – Le Fils de l’Autre

by Pier Marton | Nov 7, 2012 | Antisemitism, Care, France, Human Rights, Ideas, Idées, Jewish, Middle-East, Review

Lorraine Lévy: I wanted to make a film about openings and hope/Je voulais faire un film d’ouverture, un film d’espoir. My review: I too could say “provocative and moving” as other critics have said, but I would rather not. Sometimes life takes a shape that does not...

Primo Levi on Truth(s) & Leadership

by Pier Marton | Oct 1, 2012 | Antisemitism, Books, Highlights, History, Ideas, Jewish, Politics, Quotes, Shoah

(from “Why Auschwitz” – in an “auto-interview”) It is the duty of everyone to meditate on what happened. Everybody must know or remember that Hitler and Mussolini, when they spoke in public, were believed, admired, adored like gods. They were “charismatic leaders”;...

Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt

by Pier Marton | Aug 31, 2012 | Afri, Archi, Art, Books, Care, Death, Doc, Eco, Health, Highlights, Hispanic, History, Human Rights, Ideas, Native, Now, Politics, Racism, Spectacle, Wars, Women

You may also want to check out a CBC interview around his Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle From Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt From the Introduction: AMONG INDUSTRIALIZED NATIONS, THE UNITED STATES HAS THE: • highest poverty...