Friday, 7 September 2012
gabriel blow your horn
catagories: ๐, Europe, graphic design, religion
Saturday, 18 August 2012
verkehrsverhรคltnis
catagories: Europe, psychology, transportation
Saturday, 11 August 2012
eurotrashing or the columbian union

catagories: America, Europe, foreign policy, graphic design, transportation
Monday, 6 August 2012
from russia with love or ladies-in-waiting
Thursday, 5 July 2012
adi, adieu, arrivederci, adios acta
catagories: America, environment, Europe, foreign policy, networking and blogging, privacy
Thursday, 28 June 2012
teufels kreis
catagories: economic policy, Europe
Sunday, 3 June 2012
ex ante or porto portugal you are permanently punished
This week’s vote in Ireland whether to accept or reject the conditions of the European Union Fiscal Compact, a treaty meant to promote financial stability and responsibility through punitive measures and supranational controls, was a stirring of an issue that goes dormant as member states shuttle in queue and declare what they expect their prerogatives to be.

Wednesday, 30 May 2012
pyrrhic victory or yes, we have no bleeding turnips
“Another such victory and I am undone.”
catagories: ๐ฌ๐ท, ๐ฎ๐ช, ๐ฎ๐ธ, economic policy, Europe, foreign policy, philosophy
Tuesday, 15 May 2012
golden parachute
catagories: economic policy, Europe, labour
Tuesday, 8 May 2012
kฮฑฯฮฑฮฝฮฑฮปฯฯฮนฯฮผฯฯ or conspicuous consumption
catagories: ๐ฌ๐ท, ๐ฎ๐ช, ๐ฎ๐ธ, ๐ฎ๐น, economic policy, Europe, graphic design, labour
Wednesday, 4 April 2012
kopfgeld
The awkward tension between Switzerland and Germany over emerging taxation treaties, banking reforms and German bounty-hunter tactics has resulted in a legal volley between the two countries, including the arrest-warrants for the offending tax-inspectors, a travel-ban for employees at a major Swiss bank for Germany and harsh language that threatens to undermine any progress on transparency and cooperation struck recently (DE/EN). In February 2010, three German tax-inspectors entered into negotiations with an anonymous former bank executive, perhaps disgruntled, to acquire a data CD pilfered on the executive’s way out, which supposedly contained intelligence on international clients who may or may not have been banking in Switzerland for purposes of tax-evasion (the overwhelming countries and banking systems of choice for tax-dodgers are UK and American parking-spots, despite all the flailing and over-reaching of jurisdiction by Britain and the US) .
catagories: economic policy, Europe, foreign policy, philosophy, privacy, Star Wars
Monday, 5 March 2012
matryoshka or flying circus
In his work about the experimental Republic, Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville made the initial observation that the country was too big, diverse both in terms of territory and population, for the democratic exercise and would most probably end with monarchy.
catagories: economic policy, Europe, foreign policy, revolution
blue laws
catagories: Europe, health and medicine, lifestyle, transportation
Wednesday, 15 February 2012
the hunting of the snark or the barrister’s dream and the banker’s fate


catagories: economic policy, Europe, graphic design
Saturday, 4 February 2012
retracta and rokovania

catagories: Europe, foreign policy, graphic design, networking and blogging, privacy
Saturday, 28 January 2012
plagerize, bowdlerize
catagories: America, Europe, networking and blogging, privacy, psychology, revolution
Thursday, 26 January 2012
lethe
catagories: Europe, networking and blogging, privacy, psychology
Monday, 23 January 2012
marco polo or year of the water-dragon
catagories: ๐ญ๐ท, Europe, holidays and observances, lifestyle, travel
Thursday, 19 January 2012
herab heraus or power of the purse
While still caught in either mid-yawn or mid-reel from the repercussions of the downgrade (Herabstufung-- Herabstufung is an upgrade or a promotion) of nine states of the European Union by one member of the creditworthiness brat-pack, the agency then proceeded to cast a pall of doubt on the EU’s financial crisis-management plan, the European Financial Stability Facility (gekรผrtz als EFSF oder bail-out pie), making the mechanisms of recovery potentially more costly, paying a dearer premium on the assurance of their efforts.
Wednesday, 11 January 2012
truth in advertising
catagories: economic policy, Europe, networking and blogging, privacy, Wikipedia