Gapminder: Just In Case You Think The World Doesn´t Suck
One of the toughest problems of humanity is that most of the people who can vote global problems out of existence don´t vote. Many don´t vote in their own countries because they are not democracies, but most can´t vote these problems out of existence because humanity is a very weak concept. As schooling in America, humanity is about being born in the right side of the tracks. Unfortunately "humanity" as a value is a distant second to the extremely to nationality. Income distribution among nations reflects that.
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Posted at Foundation el 2007, March 24 | # Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Clinton Foundation Strategy Briefing
I am attending the Clinton Foundation Strategy Briefing to trustees. I have been a trustee of the Clinton Foundation since its inception and I made a committment to donate $1 million to the foundation over 10 years.
Since 2001 I have been to quite a few of these meetings and they have been getting better and better. I am very impressed at the quality of the team that President Clinton (in America Presidents are called Presidents even when out of office) has put together.
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Posted at Foundation, info el 2006, December 15 | # Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (1)
Clinton Conference
Follow the conference live by clicking here. I am presently attending this conference and there will be more posts related to it coming out soon.
And also in my blog.
Posted at Foundation, info el 2006, September 20 | # Permalink
Jews for Lebanon, it´s Live
At the Safe Democracy Foundation we went ahead with the initiative Jews for Lebanon.
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Posted at Foundation, Safe Democracy, info el 2006, September 18 | # Permalink
Dinner with President Clinton
President Clinton is the person I admire the most in the world, it´s that simple. Readers of my blog and those close to me are well aware that I am rarely a fan of anyone in the true sense of the word, but when it comes to Clinton I cannot help but make the exception. Whilst in NY I was invited to attend a dinner in his honor. As usual I found the President´s views fascinating (a not to non American readers in America people call ex presidents...Presidents).
Now before I share the Presidents views with you I would like to remind you that I am not a journalist and that I did not take notes during dinner so some of my recollections maybe wrong. Still I believe that they are worth a try as they are original and challenging.
The dinner was held at the home of New York financier Marc Lasry who I thank for his kind invitation. The whole event consisted of two parts. The dinner itself during which approximately seven of us asked an array of questions to the President on current affairs; and an after dinner conversation in which I personally followed up on a number of issues. Here are my recollections, a brief summary of the three hour conversation.
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Posted at Foundation, info el 2006, March 15 | # Permalink
