https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ycJeht-Mfus

Levels of increasing complexity:

You've got to admire the Coen brothers and their subtle choice of humor and details in their films. I just saw their film "Ladykillers". Here are pictures of all shots with m'am's husband's portrait in them:

Eine wichtige Frage: Was ist Mensch und nicht Tier?

Alles was weder der Selbsterhaltung noch der Arterhatlung dient ist, was den Menschen vom Tier unterscheidet. Dazu gehört:

• Komplexe Sprache 
• Humor 
• Künstlerisches tätig sein (kochen, musizieren, malen, tanzen, bildhauen etc.)
• Höhere Selbsterkenntnis (Ich denke, also bin ich)
• Gewisse kognitive Fähigkeiten (Verständnis von komplexer Logik, )
• Gewisse körperliche Reaktionen wie weinen und lachen

Names:
- Hashim Thaçi, UCK's former political head, is now the leader of the Democratic Party of Kosovo and the Prime Minister of Kosovo
- Agim Çeku
- Ivica dacic
- Adem Jashari, KLA's former military head, after the war became Prime Minister of Kosovo.
- Ramush Haradinaj, a former KLA commander, served briefly as Prime Minister of Kosovo
- Fatmir Limaj, one of the senior commanders of the KLA
- Hajredin Bala, an ex-KLA prison guard


Additional notes:
- German BND men were in charge of selecting recruits for the KLA command structure from the 500,000 Kosovars in Albania
- as early as 1998, the Central Intelligence Agency assisted by the British Special Air Service were arming and training Kosovo Liberation Army members in Albania to foment armed rebellion in Kosovo
- According to Tim Judah, KLA representatives had already met with American, British, and Swiss intelligence agencies in 1996, and possibly "several years earlier"
- Since May 1999, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has prosecuted crimes committed during the Kosovo War. Nine Serbian and Yugoslavian commanders have been indicted so far for crimes against humanity and violations of the laws or customs of war in Kosovo in 1999: Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milošević, Serbian President Milan Milutinović, Yugoslavian Deputy Prime Minister Nikola Šainović, Yugoslavian Chief of the General Staff Gen. Dragoljub Ojdanić, Serbian Interior Minister Vlajko Stojiljković, Gen. Nebojša Pavković, Gen. Vladimir Lazarević, Deputy Interior Minister of Serbia Vlastimir Đorđević and Chief of the Interior for Kosovo Sreten Lukić.
- Six KLA commanders were indicted in two cases: Fatmir Limaj, Isak Musliu and Haradin Bala,[102] as well as Ramush Haradinaj, Idriz Balaj and Lahi Brahimaj.

Dazu Kontext: http://www.nzz.ch/international/europa/zaehneknirschendes-ja-zum-uck-tribunal-1.18590379
http://www.icty.org/srebrenica20/

Dear Ken, In your (much appriciated!) work about integral semiotics (http://www.kenwilber.com/writings/read_pdf/117) on page 7 second paragraph, shouldn't it say: "Thus, my dog can see the signifier “dog”, but that word has no meaning for him, no signified for him, and thus he cannot know TO WHICH referent that word actually HINTS." instead of "Thus, my dog can see the signifier “dog,” but that word has no meaning for him, no signified for him, and thus he cannot know what the referent of that word actually is."? Of course the dog knows what a dog is, it knows other dogs, probably better than you and me ;) What he doesn't understand is that the word "dog" references a dog (a referent subgroup which he, in your example, belongs himself to). Or in other words: the dog can actually see the physical worldspace with his physically developped body entailing mammal eyes. So the dog can see the referent (even though the dog has no representation in the part of his brain that holds speech/language) and the signifier but not the signified. But the six-year old cannot see the rational worldspace yet and therefore can see the signifier but not the signified nor the rational worldspace. Or did I misunderstand you somehow?

"Wolfgang Hetzer sagt, dass die globale Organisierte Kriminalität in ihrem ungebremsten Drang nach Rendite nur die ultimative Ausprägung eines regellosen globalen Kapitalismus sei. Müsste man im Kampf gegen das Verbrechen also nicht das Ökonomische in den Mittelpunkt rücken: mehr über Angebot und Nachfrage nachdenken – und weniger über Schuld und Sühne?"

Tja, gute Frage. Alle Drogen legalisieren und vom Staat kontrolliert abgeben lassen? Aber dann, was geht mich das an, ich bin ja nicht heroinsüchtig.

Und Ritalin (das nehme ich) oder Zucker (den liebe ich definitiv) oder Xylometazolin u.ä. (das nehme ich nicht, macht extrem schnell süchtig und ist in vielen Schnupfenmitteln wie Xylo-mepha, Vicks Medinait, Otrivin, Nasobol, Amavita, Vicks Sinex etc.) werden in unserer Kultur ja immer noch nicht offiziell als Drogen behandelt (auch wenn es natürlich erhebliche Unterschiede zwischen den einzelnen Stoffen gibt!).

Oder können wir es doch steuern? Geht nicht jeder Franken, den man Drogensüchtigen "spendet" – so gut man es auch meint – direkt am Fiskus vorbei und in die fragwürdigsten Kanäle wie Frauenhandel, Organhandel, Drogenhandel, illegale Abfallentsorgung…?

"Die Industrie des globalen Verbrechens folgt ökonomischen Prinzipien. Das Risiko bei der Überwindung nationaler Grenzen bestimmt Kosten und Preise."
[…]
"Früher, vor dem Fall der Mauer, seien vor allem Mädchen aus Südostasien in die Berliner Bordelle geschafft worden. Heute dominierten wegen veränderter Nachfrage sowie geringerer Anwerbe- und Transportkosten Frauen aus Osteuropa."
[…]
"Täglich besuchen Zehntausende deutsche Männer deutsche Bordelle. Unzählige Unternehmen weltweit beschäftigen illegale Billigarbeiter – und Millionen Konsumenten profitieren davon."



Alle Zitate sind aus dem Artikel "Das globalisierte Verbrechen" von Christian Tenbrock: http://www.zeit.de/2007/27/Glob_-Kriminimalit-t

Renewable energy and nuclear power for the UK:

Good Science Fiction movies of recent years:


1. Trancendence




2. The Village




3. Moon




4. A Scanner Darkly




5. Elysium




6. District 19




7. Appleseed Alpha




8. Her




9. In Time




10. Limitless




11. Sourcecode









…and some that I'm looking forward to:


A. Lucy




B. The Machine




C. The Signal




D. Earth to Echo

1. Bullet Train (Stephen Swartz feat. Joni Fatora)
2. Our City (Kevin Drew)
3. Candy feat. Jasmine Thompson (Kungs)
4. Blue (Gemini)
5. Right In (Skrillex)
6. Bullseye (Kevin Drew)
7. Firestarter (Kevin Drew)
8. Sexy Beast (Stereotronique)

Vor dem hören: vergesst nicht, eure besten Kopfhörer zu montieren sonst geht ein guter Teil der Effekte verloren… :-)




1. Bullet Train (Stephen Swartz feat. Joni Fatora)




2. Our City (Kevin Drew)




3. Candy feat. Jasmine Thompson (Kungs)




4. Blue (Gemini)




5. Right In (Skrillex)




6. Bullseye (Kevin Drew)



7. Firestarter (Kevin Drew)




8. Sexy Beast (Stereotronique)

I'm searching for following persons to refresh old memories:


Shereen Samy Elgayar
met in Bournemouth, England in Summer 1987
Homeaddress at that time was:

11, Dr. Husseen Abas Street
(11, Dr. Hussein Abbas Street?)
Behind Nile Studio
Al-Haram
(El Haram?)
Giza
Egypt

Shereen might be married today and might therefore have another last name.




Famille Chevalereau
22, la ville Heulin
Immaculée
44600 Saint Nazaire

It is possible, that the street numbers changed slightly from 22 to 29 or similar
Here is the House on Google Streetview: https://www.google.ch/maps/@47.290167,-2.286481,3a,75y,127.27h,76.59t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1stFPI2WwMPFwZ05ossJ6mXg!2e0

I was with this family in 1988 and 1990 to improve my french.






Mr. and Mrs. Witchell (and Sruffy, the dog)
25, Ripon road,
Winton
Bournemouth

https://www.google.ch/maps/place/25+Ripon+Rd,+Bournemouth+BH9+1QX,+Großbritannien+und+Nordirland/@50.7450647,-1.8693981,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x4873a1f8e05f98f3:0xb34e310b98cd1f16

https://www.google.ch/maps/place/25+Ripon+Rd,+Bournemouth+BH9+1QX,+Großbritannien+und+Nordirland/@50.745108,-1.869625,3a,75y,75.75h,83.87t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s0U1x07zHltj5Da07yXBnDg!2e0!4m2!3m1!1s0x4873a1f8e05f98f3:0xb34e310b98cd1f16

«A Brief History of Humankind» was a 2013 Coursera Course (MOOC) by Yuval Noah Harari working at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. I can warmly recommend these lectures. Especially the last ten.

Content: 
100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens.

How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ancestors come together to create cities and kingdoms? How did we come to believe in gods, nations and human rights; to trust money, books and laws; and to be enslaved by bureaucracy, timetables and consumerism? And what will our world be like in the millennia to come?

Here one example of his lessons albeit not one of the last ten lectures: