by Pier Marton | Nov 5, 2012 | Health, Human Rights, Humor, Jewish, Middle-East, Politics, Quotes
Amos Oz is visiting Englandโฆ 1. From his talk on the Middle East and the prospect of future co-existence between Israel and Palestine on BBCโs Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival (45 min.) โ available for one more year: โ We have to reach a livable compromise between...
by Pier Marton | Oct 3, 2012 | France, Humor, Politics, Quotes, Spectacle
His โspreadingโ technique โ by Janet Ritz in Huffington Post & The Environmentalist: Romneyโs Debate Technique Mitt Romneyโs over the top October 3rd debate performance used a technique in policy debates known as โspreadingโ taken to a creationist extreme. Policy...
by Pier Marton | Oct 1, 2012 | Antisemitism, Books, Highlights, History, Ideas, Jewish, Politics, Quotes, Shoah
(from โWhy Auschwitzโ โ in an โauto-interviewโ) ย 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 โcharismatic leadersโ;...
by Pier Marton | May 8, 2012 | Art, Books, Death, History, Humor, Jewish, Mystery, Poet, Politics, Quotes, Sci/Nat, Shoah, Spectacle, Wars
http://youtu.be/U68bZbMM7q8 If I walk in the woods and I see an animal, the purpose of my life was to see that animal. I can recollect it, I can notice it. Iโm here to take note of. And that is beyond my ego, beyond anything that belongs to me, an observer, an...
by Pier Marton | Apr 18, 2012 | Health, History, Humor, Jewish, Media, Middle-East, Music, Native, Poet, Politics, Quotes, Time, Travel, Wars
From Haaretz U2โs front man Bono surprised Israeli passers-by earlier this month with his sudden visit to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. On Wednesday, BuzzFeed published the note Bono left behind at Jerusalemโs King David Hotel, which consists of a poem about how โhope is...
by Pier Marton | Apr 9, 2012 | Art, Books, Death, France, Health, History, Human Rights, Humor, Ideas, Idรฉes, Jewish, Judaism, Juif, Middle-East, Podcasts(F), Poet, Politics, Quotes, Sci/Nat, Shoah, Time, Wars
โ Extraordinary Fellowโ Churchill College, Cambridge Beaucoup plus terre ร terre en Franรงais? โ More grounded in French? Les diffรฉrences entre lโAnglais et le Franรงais, les differentes parties du cerveau dโaprรจs Koestler, le XXeme siรจcle et le dรฉclin de la...