Michael Jung

- micro climate, macro climate - don't reinvent the wheel, bring back herds of livestock back - Michael Jung

Was geschah auf den Privatpartys in Silvio Berlusconis Villa? Für die Anklage im "Ruby"-Prozess ist es klar: Um Italiens Ex-Premier gab es ein "System umfassender Prostitution" - den jungen Frauen seien neben Geld berufliche Perspektiven versprochen worden. --- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news... - Dominique Strauss-Kahn would have turned the Elysée Palace into a “swingers’ club” if he had become president, according to an Argentine lawyer who had an affair with the former IMF chief after he faced rape charges. - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance... - Michael Jung

Positive approach to food. Kids in the kitchen and grocery store. Kids are smart. Kids who prepare their meals too - are more inclined to eat well. Just don't give them the overly sweet stuff in the first place (engineered by the Food Industry to be addictive). Fruits and Veggies have a natural sweetness. Having only healthy foods around the house is the best solution. - Michael Jung

European Commission's Advice To Staffers Visiting Greece: "Invent A Fake Life Story" - Michael Jung

send the S&P higher by 5-15 point in minutes on, well, absolutely no news, except for the usual deluge of between $1 and $5 billion in additional purchasing handed over by Chairman Ben to the banks because, you see, they need the money. And sooner or later it will trickle down on everyone else. - Michael Jung

There are very special circumstances involved in the US case. Doctors were able to hit the virus hard and early. This is not possible in adults, who will acquire HIV months if not years before they find out. Even in the UK, where at-risk groups are offered free regular testing - one in four people with HIV is unaware they have the virus. By the time they find out, it will be fully established - hiding away in reservoirs in the immune system that no therapy around can touch. HIV stands for human immunodeficiency virus and on its own it does not kill you. The virus can survive and grow only by infecting, and destroying, the immune system. This continual assault on the immune system makes it weaker and weaker until it is no longer able to fight off infections. Without treatment, it takes about 10 years from infection to the development of Aids - acquired immune deficiency syndrome. // Curing HIV!? "We are a long, long way away, in truth," // - Michael Jung

The number of loans being offered by banks has continued to fall in spite of the Funding for Lending Scheme (FLS). The scheme, which began in August last year, was designed to encourage banks to lend more money, both to individuals and businesses, and boost the economy. But the Bank of England has announced that net lending fell by £2.4bn in the final quarter of last year compared with the previous three months. - Michael Jung

As milk sales fall, the dairy industry wants to include a chemical in our milk that is not allowed in kids foods in the UK and that accounted for 75% of food-related complaints to the FDA...until they stopped counting them in 1992. - - - http://nutritionfacts.org/video... - http://nutritionfacts.org/video... - Michael Jung

The worrisome feature of today’s global economy is that despite trillions (we repeat: trillions) in various forms of stimulus, economies around the World have not returned to the pre-2008 growth rates. > ECB may be able to artificially suppress PIIGS interest rates. but it can't create growth with QE and ZIRP > same with credit growth - stagnant. even with zero deposit interest rates for banks (overnight deposit @ECB). > that happend with Japan too. low interest rates. no growth. nil inflation. --- / What is missing is Confidence in Politics and Central Banks / --- - Michael Jung

Stanley Druckenmiller - skin in the game // "a storm coming, maybe bigger than the storm we had in 2008, 2010." "society's short-term thinking" > current senior stealing from current generation and future seniors - Michael Jung

For the first time in two years, Italy's youth unemployment rate is now higher than Portugal's at a staggering 38.7% (which is where Greece was just two years ago). Apart from Germany (which fell from 8.0% to 7.9%), every other nation saw youth unemployment rates rise with a record 24.2% of European youth unemployed. Greece (59.4%) and Spain (55.5%) remain the most concerning as we noted in the past, austerity sounds straightforward as a policy, until the consequences bite in terms of social unrest. - Michael Jung

59% of “Tuna” Sold in the U.S. Isn’t Tuna http://oceana.org/sites... - Michael Jung

[W]e can say that there are some guidelines for living in harmony in a confined space, and all of them fall into the category I call "simple, but not necessarily easy". One has to be able to give the other person mental elbow room. During our winter, when a person settled into the sofa in the salon with a book and started reading, he or she was not interrupted. The second important rule, is that showing care benefits both. We believe this to the point that it is built into our daily routine - we alternate cooking days. Each day's food becomes a present to our partner. We try to surprise the other with new dishes. There's a prize to be won - the other person's admiration. People sometimes joke that long-distance sailors must have a high boredom threshold, but my response is that one can only be as bored as one is boring. - Michael Jung

Rund 55 Milliarden Euro schulden griechische Bürger dem Fiskus. Doch der Kampf gegen die Steuerflucht kommt laut einem Bericht von IWF und EU kaum voran: Viele Beamte der Steuerfahndung haben weder einen Computer noch einen richtigen Arbeitsplatz. - Michael Jung

First Julia Gillard (Australia) calling out sexism in politics, then the sexism debate in politics in Germany, and now the same in the UK. - Michael Jung

"Dies ist eine Krise, die unsere Kapazitäten völlig überdehnt": Die Uno kann den Hunderttausenden syrischen Flüchtlingen nicht genügend Hilfe anbieten. Täglich kommen Tausende hinzu - und das dringend benötigte Geld der Syrien-Geberkonferenz bleibt weitgehend aus, mahnt die Hilfsorganisation. - Michael Jung

Sociologists categorize all of us as sexual minorities. One of the consequences of this is a phenomenon known as minority stress, which affects the LGB and T communities. [...] We still face discrimination and lack of protection at work. [...] Millennials, even those who identify as LGB, are much more comfortable with the idea of gender fluidity, and a "big tent" with LGBTTQQIA. [...] Minorities make up society. [...] [...] http://www.reddit.com/r... - Michael Jung

A court in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki has convicted three of the city's former top officials, including a former mayor, and sentenced them to life imprisonment for embezzling more than €17 million from the municipality. Former mayor Vassilis Papageorgopoulos - Michael Jung

Italy overtook Japan with the worst real GDP growth of all advanced economies since 1991. [...] France has the most most worker-friendly environment of 40 countries analyzed. [...] All things considered, from an investment standpoint, caution continues to be warranted. [...] As shown, problems in Europe appear to be taking their toll on EU corporate profitability. - Michael Jung

http://www.voxeu.org/article... [...] Austerity has failed. European Banks remain Rotten to the Core Sovereigns remain in Crisis [...] Since the start of the debt crisis financial markets have provided wrong signals; led by fear and panic, they pushed the spreads to artificially high levels and forced cash-strapped nations into intense austerity that produced great suffering. [...] Panic and fear are not good guides for economic policies. [...] The intense austerity programs that have been dictated by financial markets create new risks for the Eurozone. While the ECB 2012 decision to be a lender of last resort in the government bond markets eliminated the existential fears about the future of the Eurozone, the new risks for the future of the Eurozone now have shifted into the social and political sphere. - Michael Jung

The Bigger Picture is the environment. The toxic environment (BPA), lifestyle and western diet. ---/// The research has uncovered other troubling things. Incidence has gone up fastest in younger women — ages 25 to 34. The trend affects women of all ethnic backgrounds, in rural areas as well as cities, and it has been accelerating in recent years. - Michael Jung