» politics http://www.catboant.com Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:08:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Two Stars for Peace – Invitation for a Grass Roots Movement http://www.catboant.com/2010/01/14/two-stars-for-peace-invitation-for-a-grass-roots-movement/ http://www.catboant.com/2010/01/14/two-stars-for-peace-invitation-for-a-grass-roots-movement/#comments Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:50:49 +0000 ulrike http://www.catboant.com/?p=549 There will be no peace and terror won’t end unless the Palestine-Israel will be solved. There have been many attempts to find solutions, millions of papers have been written and the one-state and the two-state-solution have been discussed over and over again. No results! The questions occurs: Why? Maybe the politicians, those who are in charge aren’t interested in a solution?

I believe that most of the people in Israel and Palestine want nothing but peace. And to achieve this goal finally, new unusual – outside the box – approaches should be discussed seriously. Martine Rothblatt, US based lawyer and entrepreneur, offers a new approach and invites YOU all to participate. She
calls her solution “Two Stars for Peace” which is a proposed agreement for Israelis and Palestinians to secure their mutual futures by petitioning the United States Congress to become the 51st and 52nd U.S. states.

Please discuss!
You find a Hebrew and Arabic translation on the website of the book.

]]> http://www.catboant.com/2010/01/14/two-stars-for-peace-invitation-for-a-grass-roots-movement/feed/ 1 Europe Could Play A Key Role On Our Way To Become A Global Village http://www.catboant.com/2009/12/31/europe-could-play-a-key-role-on-our-way-to-become-a-global-village/ http://www.catboant.com/2009/12/31/europe-could-play-a-key-role-on-our-way-to-become-a-global-village/#comments Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:21:56 +0000 ulrike http://www.catboant.com/?p=527 Dave Snowden, Welsh entrepreneur, was trained as a physicist and philosopher. This is why he loves Shakespeare and Einstein! His incredible background in complexity theory gives us some great insights on how to deal – and maybe solve – future challenges.

Dave’s prediction for the next decade: Europe could play a key role on our way to become a global village!

]]> http://www.catboant.com/2009/12/31/europe-could-play-a-key-role-on-our-way-to-become-a-global-village/feed/ 2 “China is going through its teenage phase …” http://www.catboant.com/2009/12/30/china-is-going-through-its-teenage-phase/ http://www.catboant.com/2009/12/30/china-is-going-through-its-teenage-phase/#comments Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:41:45 +0000 ulrike http://www.catboant.com/?p=524 … says Qiao Li, australian-chinese filmmaker. Qiao was born in China, left with his parents when he was four years old and returned after film school 3 years ago. Since then he is living in Beijing and trying to gain ground in the chinese film market.

He gives some great insights on the young generation in China!

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We will record our conversation and make it accessible here.

The new keynote “Rebuilding the World” by Don Tapscott from Sogeti VINT on Vimeo.

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WE’ ve started as usual with our question; “How has yourunderstanding of “WE” changed since the rise of the Internet? And has it changed at all?” Besides WE our topic was Lessig’s newest initiative changecongress.org and his efforts to get “lobby” money out of the game! changecongress.org was launched March 2008 and will hopefully have a significant impact on the 2010 election.

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So please enjoy this interview with Isaac!

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