Published under ‘world’

Back in April, Paul Van Zyl and I were stuck in London after the volcanic ash eruptions.  To avoid another week without our families and to get back to our jobs, we trekked from London through Dover on to Calais in the North of France and then drove down across France, through Paris, and into [...]

A troubling portrayal in the New York Review of Books by Peter Beinart of American Jewish leadership and Israeli society is a must reading. The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment June 10, 2010 by Peter Beinart In 2003, several prominent Jewish philanthropists hired Republican pollster Frank Luntz to explain why American Jewish college students [...]

by Adeena Schlussel This great video will be shown at the opening plenary of the Rio Forum, before 2000 civil society and world leaders.  Watch Darya speak about OneVoice and Daniel speak about PeaceWorks Foods as a model to harness market forces to bring people together.  Others featured in the video include the UN Secretary [...]

Check out this very creative surprise for a Danish bus driver – it was part guerrilla promotion for the bus company, part fun for the voyagers, and part KINDING for the birthday of the targeted bus driver!

By Adeena Schlussel on behalf of Daniel Lubetzky The dictator Hugo Chavez continues to use the judicial system to jail judges who disagree with him and to expropriate property of any one he is “threatened” by.  He is out of control and the global community should be more serious about condemning and countering his totalitarianism. [...]

by Adeena Schlussel on behalf of Daniel Lubetzky The New York Times had a fun compilation of signs across the world that conveyed something surprising, not always unintended, but always funny. Published: May 11, 2010 Strange Signs From Abroad A recent slide show, "A Sampling of Chinglish," which accompanied a story by Andrew Jacobs, showed [...]

By Adeena Schlussel on behalf of Daniel Lubetzky This is a scary article about threats to a pro-human rights activist from Venezuela… Democracy Alert: World Movement Participant Threatened in Venezuela Rocio San Miguel, spokeswoman for the Civil Association of Citizen Control in Venezuela, who recently attended the Sixth Assembly of the World Movement for Democracy, [...]

This video, created by SS+K, is not only creative but very effective because it builds on Honest Tea’s value proposition so clearly.

"He who controls others may be powerful,  but he who has  mastered himself is mightier still."  –Lao Tzu (forwarded by Len & Libby Traubman)

Chinese Magic – literally

Published under Art, China, Funnies May 09, 2010

Very impressive! Watch till the end! Does anyone know how the last part is done?