11/10/2011  NEOHELLENIST NICOLA CROCETTI HONORED SPEAKER AT SYMPOSIUM ON NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS IN GREECE We would like to inform the Cultural News bureaus of the Italian media that this October 26, 2011 marks fifty-four years from the death of the ecumenical Greek author, Nikos Kazantzakis.  In honor of this important anniversary, the Kazantzakis Publications [Patroclos Stavrou] is organizing a commemorative Symposium entitled Nikos Kazantzakis: in the Footsteps of the Man and Creator, to be held in Athens on Wednesday, October 26th 2011, the day of the 54th anniversary of the author’s death.   The purpose of this Symposium is to pay tribute to the steadfast and uncompromising Man of Crete, the author regarded as one of the Great Masters of World Literature, who honored Greece and Hellenism as only few individuals of the Arts and Letters have.   We ...Leggi tutto by Positano News

01/02/2010  Pensiero Della Settimana   When the mind took over and humans lost touch with the reality of their divine essence, they started to think of god as a male figure. Society became male dominated, and the female was made subordinate to the male.  I am not suggesting a return to earlier female representations of the divine. Some people now use the term Goddess instead of God. They are redressing a balance between male and female that was lost a long time ago, and that is good. But it is still a representation and  a concept, perhaps temporarily useful, but more of a hindrance  than a help when you are ready to realize the reality beyond all concepts and images. What does remain true , however, is that the energy frequency of the mind appears to be essentially male. The mind ...Leggi tutto by Positano News

11/08/2009  LETTER FROM NEW YORK 7 Last week, Ben Bernanke, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, announced that the U.S. economy is finally improving. There were a few caveats of course.  In his statement, he noted that high unemployment together with tight credit is likely to limit consumer spending.  I didn’t need the Chairman to tell me that.  I can see it right here in my neighborhood, an ever-evolving microcosm of urban economy that seems to reflect the national trends.    For the past thirty some odd years, I’ve lived in the same apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.   Bordered by Lincoln Center to the south, Columbia University to the north, Riverside Park and the Hudson River to the west and Central Park to the east, the area has traditionally ...Leggi tutto by Positano News

31/07/2009  ITALY AFTER BERLUSCONI Italy’s problems do not end with Berlusconi By Geoff Andrews Published: July 30 2009 22:26 | Last updated: July 30 2009 22:26 The now daily revelations about Silvio Berlusconi’s sex life suggest to many a leader unfit to govern. Yet in the extensive coverage in the international press and the growing condemnation of the Italian prime minister’s behaviour, bigger problems are being missed that go to the heart of Italy’s decline and which will not be remedied solely by his removal from office. The central issue in the background is the extent of corruption at the heart of the government, and the lack of transparency and accountability that bedevils efforts to deal with it. There is a culture of illegality that runs through Italian politics ...Leggi tutto by Positano News

27/07/2009  LETTER FROM NEW YORK 7 Last week, Ben Bernanke, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, announced that the U.S. economy is finally improving. There were a few caveats of course.  In his statement, he noted that high unemployment together with tight credit is likely to limit consumer spending.  I didn’t need the Chairman to tell me that.  I can see it right here in my neighborhood, an ever-evolving microcosm of urban economy that seems to reflect the national trends.                                      For the past thirty some odd years, I’ve lived in the same apartment on the Upper West Side ...Leggi tutto by Positano News

20/07/2009  Same Hands That Caused It Now "FIXING" It Insiders cannot provide answers on finance By Philip Augar Published: July 19 2009 19:16 | Last updated: July 19 2009 19:16 The consultation document authored by Sir David Walker, the former regulator and investment banker, on the governance of financial institutions follows other reports led by senior City figures, including Financial Services Authority chairman Adair Turner on banking regulation and Sir Win Bischoff, former Citigroup chairman, on London’s global competitiveness. The combined results are exactly what you would expect from asking a group of practitioners how to rectify faults that were of their own industry’s making. Their ideas are practical, sensible but, despite squeals from an industry that does not wish to appear to be getting ...Leggi tutto by Positano News

13/07/2009  BRITISH ARISTOCRACY AND SPORTS The rise and fall of the British sporting aristocracy By Simon Kuper Published: July 12 2009 19:57 | Last updated: July 12 2009 19:57 The feud in Formula One is so riddled with peculiarities that it can be hard to see it for what it is: the latest act in the saga of upper-class Brits being ousted as rulers of the world. On the surface, of course, it is just eight racing teams threatening to leave Formula One because Max Mosley, the president of the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile, wants to impose a spending cap on them. We can dismiss as mere distractions last year’s claims that Mr Mosley participated in a Nazi-themed orgy and last week’s praise by Mr Mosley’s ally Bernie Ecclestone, the Formula One commercial director, ...Leggi tutto by Positano News