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OFF-TOPIC
Career
Management Stategy: Declare Your Goals – CFA
Institute
Adding Tools
to Your Mental Toolbox – Farnam
Street
How
Gravity Explains Why Time Never Runs Backward – Wired
How to
Check if Your Universe Should Exist – Wired
The
warped astrophysics of Interstellar – Wired
Punitive
drug law enforcement failing, says Home Office study – The
Guardian
UK government study finds no evidence
that harsh sentencing curbs illegal use and documents success of Portugal’s decriminalisation
A
Natural Fix for A.D.H.D. – NYT
Gilded
Cage – Moneyness
One thing I
discovered fairly early on from my interactions with the gold bug community is
that there's no point in debating a gold bug
More than
1,000 young people from France have joined extremist groups in Syria and Iraq, more than from any other European
country. The recruits are no longer just coming from the margins of society
The treaty
that allows for the free movement of citizens across 26 European states,
documentation almost entirely unchecked has become a yawning security loophole.
Did
Islamic State really call a convention of nuts and have 15,000 people show up? – Reuters
Are they
being encouraged to come and get trained and then go home to fight? Or are they
being encouraged to fight in Syria or Iraq as long as possible and only urged
to continue the battle elsewhere once they decide to return home?
Diverging
views on EU immigration study – voxeurop
Three
British newspapers offer different readings of a major study on immigration
25 YEARS AFTER BERLIN WALL
The danger
is that Europe’s response to Ukraine is driven by the lowest common
denominator
Bliss it
was to be alive, but to be a Berliner was very heaven – FT
When the
Wall came down, a regime established for an eternity collapsed, writes Thomas
Brussig
What a
difference 25 years can make – imfDirect
The fall of
the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989 was
a day that changed world history and transformed Europe.
David
Lipton: A quarter-century ago, Central and Eastern Europe embarked upon a historic
transformation, from authoritarian communism to democratic capitalism. With
memories of the old system already beginning to fade, it seems fitting to look
back at the region’s achievements, review the lessons learned, and examine the
challenges ahead.
‘Little Berlin’ Kept Its Wall as Memorial, to
Dismay of Some Who See Old Divisions Persisting
Peaceful
revolutions, rather than conflict, prove to be precondition for success
FINNISH
Eero Lehdestä pääministerin yrittäjäpoliittinen
neuvonantaja – Verkkouutiset
Perussuomalaisten perusta – Jukka
Tarkka
Jukka Tarkka: Pystyykö kansa palauttamaan populistit
marginaaliin? – Verkkouutiset
Juha Sipilä haluaa tiukkaa menokuria - kannatuksesta
välittämättä – Verkkouutiset
Keskustan puheenjohtaja Juha Sipilän mukaan Suomessa
tarvitaan tiukkaa menokuria ja tuottavuuden kehitystä.
Portugali hidastaa rakenneuudistuksiaan
”irroittauduttuaan” tukiohjelmasta – PS
Suomen talouspoliittinen ajattelu on kansallisvaltion
vanki – TalSa
Suomalainen talouspoliittinen ajattelu on kahlittu
kansallisvaltioon, vaikka eurooppalaiset toimet voisivat olla tarpeen.
Sailaksen ehdotukselle tyrmäys: 1970-luvulla ajat olivat
toiset – TalSa
Työeläkemaksujen alentaminen 3–5 prosenttiyksiköllä tekisi
usean miljardin euron loven yöeläkevaroihin jo vuodessa, Telasta arvioidaan.
Valtiovarainministeriön entinen valtiosihteeri Raimo Sailas ehdotti maksujen
tilapäistä alentamista kilpailukyvyn parantamiseksi.
Pääministerin haastattelutunti – YLE Areena
EKP:n marraskuun lehdistötilaisuus – Harhala
EKP:n kootut selitykset – Harhala