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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

The Browser daily newsletter [21 Feb 2012]

21 February 2012

 Best of the Moment

'Germany Has Been the Winner In The Globalization Process'

Anonymous | Spiegel | 20 February 2012

Interview with Kenneth Rogoff on Greece, future of euro. "To make Greece competitive, wages would have to be halved. That is impossible to implement politically, but without a steep wage cut, the economy will continue to stagnate" Comments

The Jerusalem Syndrome

Chris Nashawaty | Wired | 17 February 2012

A man becomes so convinced he is Samson, he tries to pull down the Western Wall. A woman persuades herself she is the Virgin Mary, even heads to Bethlehem to find her child, Jesus. Why can Jerusalem cause such strange behaviour? Comments

Portrait Of The Young Vladimir Putin

Masha Gessen | Daily Beast | 20 February 2012

Book extract. "He has created his own mythology of a child of post-siege Leningrad, a mean, hungry, impoverished place that bred mean, hungry, ferocious children." In fact, he was relatively well-off. But still mean and ferocious Comments

Fossil Fuels: I'm Not Dead Yet

Tom Murphy | Do The Math | 14 February 2012

Gulf between fossil fuels and alternatives is huge in many ways. We cannot simply shift sources of energy. Instead, there'll be a transition. And that will involve large-scale exploitation of alternative fossil fuels Comments

Manufacturing Illusions

Robert Reich | Robert Reich | 17 February 2012

"Suddenly, manufacturing is back – at least on the American election trail. But don’t be fooled. The real issue isn’t how to get manufacturing back. It’s how to get good jobs and good wages back. They aren’t at all the same thing" Comments

Germania: Hitler's Dream Capital

Roger Moorhouse | History Today | 16 February 2012

"Speer’s planned rebuilding of Berlin is too readily dismissed as a Nazi pipedream; a still-born manifestation of Hitler’s architectural fantasies thankfully confined to the drawing board." In fact, it was central to Nazi ideology Comments

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