A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about the Republican congress woman Michele Bachmann, who would like to be the next president of the USA. At the beginning I thought, that Ms. Bachmann is a special case, a one of her kind. But than I came across some clips on Youtube of the Governor of Texas Rick Perry. Who also wants to be the candidate of the Republicans to run for the presidency of the USA. In the clip Mr. Perry states that he...

A couple of days ago I heard the first time about Advanced Engagement. I was curious about it and found a paper written by Professor Fuerth in the Internet. Leon Sigmund Fuerth, born 1939, is a former diplomat and served as a national security adviser to former US -Vice President Al Gore. Mr. Fuerth is directing The Project on Forward Engagement at the George Washington University and is there also a professor for International Affairs. In...

The first two third’s of the year 2011 are over. The year is sliding slowly to the end. Adieu 2011, welcome 2012! Despite all the doomsday scenarios, based on the Mayan calender (1) and what not, we all can rest assured that life will go on like always. Well, more or less, for someone it will better, for another it will be worse. Still the year 2012 will be fateful one, globally speaking. At the end of the coming year the president of...

Lately I came across some some op-eds, which made me think, that some people feel the change in the air. It was a short spark of hope, perhaps now we all get to a public discussion get going, about how to organize our journey into the future. This spark ignites every once in while, but is soon burned out. It started this time with Thomas L. Friedmann and his op-ed the Earth is Full (1) in the New York Times June 7, 2011, in which he refers...

The 1984 Nobel prize winner, Bishop Desmond Tutu (1), published on the 21. June 2011 in the Huffpost an article called Our Glorious Diversity, Why We Should Celebrate Difference (2). It is difficult not to agree with Mr. Tutu and what he has written. He described the state of Diversity in a very elegant way. Our world, the whole universe is build on diversity. Let us start from the supposedly smallest parts of nature Atoms, which, as...

In Oracle, about an hour drive outside of Tuscon, the capitol of Arizona/USA, is a research facility called Biosphere 2 (1). The task is very ambitious as the name Biosphere 2 indicates.  It tries to emulate Biosphere 1, which is Earth. The main objective was to acquire the knowledge and experience for building such closed circuit stations in outer space. The other objective was to better understand the interaction- and dependence of the...