OBRA MAESTRA

09/10/2009
NEWS
The Nobel Peace Prize 2009
awarded to:
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA…

“for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples”

Photo: Pete Souza, Obama-Biden Transition Project, licensed by Attribution Share Alike 3.0

Barack Obama

USA

44th President of the United States of America

b. 1961

“His diplomacy is founded in the concept that [...]

Hans Rosling:
Global health expert;
data visionary
© Gapminder Foundation
As a doctor and researcher, Hans Rosling identified a new paralytic disease induced by hunger in rural Africa. Now he looks at the bigger picture of social and economic development with his remarkable trend-revealing software.
Gapminder is a non-profit venture promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the [...]

Jimmy Carter via last.fm

Discrimination and abuse wrongly backed by doctrine are damaging society, argues the former US president.
o Jimmy Carter
o CopyrightThe Observer, Sunday 12 July 2009
[...]

Get Down to Business
Original date of publication (French) June 3d 2009 7:21 | by
JACQUES ATTALI

Contrary to what they want us to
believe, the crisis deepens: in the United
States, all deficits are rising; banks defaulting are worsening, and even if
Wall Street is up, its value is still 40% lower than that of October 2007.
In addition,everyone [...]

A Message to Garcia
is an inspirational essay written by Elbert Hubbard that has been made into two motion pictures.
It was originally published as a filler without a title in the March, 1899 issue of the Philistine magazine which he edited, but was quickly reprinted as a pamphlet and a book.
It was wildly popular, selling over [...]

By Lee Iacocca
November 2007
with Catherine Whitney.
I Had Enough?
Am I the only guy in this country who’s fed up with what’s happening?
Where the hell is our outrage?
We should be screaming bloody murder.
We’ve got a gang of clueless bozos steering our ship of state right over a cliff, we’ve got corporate gangsters stealing [...]

I still wonder how the leading country on this planet can expect to have debt free citizens…while having a national debt that is already $8.5 trillion?

The problem is not new from: Ross Perot’s in 1992 presidential election… Mr. “r-e-a-d m-y l-i-p-s” and raising taxes…
Bill Cliton in 1993…(where they first lost [...]

Mark Joyner wrote: Mark Joyner Logs
March 13, 2007 Dear Bill O’Reilly
(About The 600,000 in Iraq Bill Maher Mentioned)
I sent this letter to Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly (The O’Reilly Factor)
the other day after watching him “debate” Bill Maher. He likes “pithy,” so that’s what I gave him: Bill, you said [...]

2007 – Marseille – FRANCE : TIME: 5:30 PM -
As I am writing on my pc* I can hear the children back home from school shouting, and laughing here in the sunny streets of  Southern  FRANCE….
The children, our future…
– BOSTON – USA – (early 90’s) -In those days as a foreign [...]