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“I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortur”
Daniel J. Boorstin (American social historian and educator, 1914)
"I say, the earth belongs to each of these generations during its course, fully and in its own right. The second generation receives it clear of the debts and incumbrances of the first, the third of the second, and so on. For if the first could charge it with a debt, then the earth would belong to the dead and not to the living generation. Then, no generation can contract debts greater than may be paid during the course of its own existence."
Letter from Thomas Jefferson to James Madison on September 6, 1789
"I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else."
Lincoln speech on New Haven, Connecticut on March 6, 1860.
"People are beginning to realize that the apparatus of government is costly. But what they do not know is that the burden falls inevitably on them."
Frederic Bastiat's - The Law
Yanis Varoufakis
The banking sector is completely zombified. Companies cannot get a loan. The calamity goes on, and there is absolutely nothing in sight to reverse it
THE TELEGRAPH, 19-Jul-13
Germany refuses fresh relief for Greeks as debt ratio spirals out of control
"It's important that we have a plan for fiscal consolidation to manage the debt, but it's also important that growth and jobs are a focus."
Barack Obama
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Are You Living In a Computer Simulation?
http://www.simulation-argument.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_reality
“Every man dies - Not every man really lives.”
William Ross Wallace
May the love hidden deep inside your heart find the love waiting in your dreams. May the laughter that you find in your tomorrow wipe away the pain you find in your yesterdays.
Someone Like Me
"The euro is weak, it is like a house of cards, if you take the Greek card the other [countries] will collapse"
"I want to warn anyone who is thinking to strategically amputate Greece from Europe that this is very dangerous."
"in recent years a cloud of fear has involved throughout all Europe. In short, we are making of us worse than the former Soviet Union"
Yanis Varoufakis
Pier Carlo Padoan said that "the Italian debt is solid and sustainable.
Damn lie
Swiss Leaks (or SwissLeaks) is the name of a journalistic investigation of a giant tax evasion scheme allegedly operated with the knowledge and encouragement of the British multinational bank HSBC via its Swiss subsidiary, HSBC Private Bank (Suisse).
Investigators allege that 180.6 billion euros passed through accounts held with HSBC in Geneva by over 100,000 clients and 20,000 offshore companies between November 2006 and March 2007. The data for this period comes from files stolen from HSBC Private Bank by a former staffer, software engineer Hervé Falciani, and handed to French authorities in late 2008. The disclosed information has been called "the biggest leak in Swiss banking history".
In February 2015 the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists website released information about bank accounts in Switzerland under the title Swiss Leaks: Murky Cash Sheltered by Bank Secrecy. The investigation was conducted by over 130 journalists in Paris, Washington, Geneva, and 46 other countries.
One thing that I cant understand or believe, is how (around) 50 countries with vey advanced police systems never knew or suspected that was happening.
http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/the-swiss-leaks/
The two most important days in a man's life are the day he is born and the day he finds out why.
-Mark Twain