Author Archives: Muller

Transparency Index 2014

How do I perceive corruption in a country? When living in the Middle East, corruption was expected everywhere. It was presumed that even some of the colleagues from the west were deeply ensnared in corruption when our new faculty’s expensive equipment … Continue reading

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Panting for Air

NASA has computer-modeled and visualized global carbon dioxide emissions in 2006 and their swirling in weather systems. What is amazing is that most is seen in the northern hemisphere, and Africa mostly being spared. Global warming will effect the lost … Continue reading

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The Discredited Peace Nobel Prize Committee

When the Nobel Prize committee in Oslo awarded the Peace Prize in 2009 to Barack Obama most observers were shocked about its inappropriate spontaneity. The Committee’s chairman Thorbjørn Jagland had apparently waived all 205 official nominations. Only the Committee can … Continue reading

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Good Company

Edward Snowden has been awarded the Right Livelihood Award. Together with the Guardian’s Alan Rusbridger he will receive the Honorary Award. As to its founder, German-Swedish philantropist Jakob von Uexkull, “The Right Livelihood Award was established in 1980 to honour … Continue reading

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Somalia, Yemen, Iraq, Syria

“This is a core principle of my presidency: if you threaten America, you will find no safe haven.” When recently addressing the American people, to explain his long-awaited new strategy in the never-ending Global War on Terror, President Obama suggested … Continue reading

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