Speech

This is a really amazing version of the Daniel H. Pink speech about Motivation. It all into it’s second book, “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us”. And, best of all, it’s all explained on a white board ;)

Good Jobs Here at Home Ending Bad Habits I wish I had such a President: I don’t know if he is really going to do what he says, but at least he says correct and agreeable things.

Yesterday, 25th of December, President of Iran [en:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad] broadcasted from Channel 4 a Christmas Speech for people of UK. Now, I could understand the “surprise” of receiving a “classical” Christmas Speech from a President of an Islamic and Middle Eastern country, while Queen Elisabeth the II was doing the same (Yes! The British Monarchy has an Official Channel on YouTube!). But, reading the full transcription and watching the video I can’t see where exactly Ahmadinejad was “offensive” or expressing his “fanatic anti-semitism”. I mean, we all know what he said during the last years, and how much he would like to send a couple of nuclear bombs on the Israeli army, but there is nothing of that in this message. (By the way, would it be that bad to kick the ass of the IsrAmericans? :-P ) Particular interesting to read is the article from BBC, “Ahmadinejad show ‘causes offence’”, where different perspective and comments are reported, mostly from westerns. And the only thing I can see is that no one actually listened of what he said: westerns just assumed that he wants to kill Jews and Christians; while, actually, what he said is quite shareable and agreeable: changing just a couple of words it would easily be the Speech of the Pope!… Ehm… Mmm… Eee… Sorry, my mistake: the Pope will never send it’s Greetings to Muslims! He will just send some Crusaders! Yes, seriously: it’s actually a Positive and Good-Willing message. He just condemned the bullish and expansionisms of “some” countries, as something that Jesus will stand against, if he was on earth. I’m not supporting Ahmadinejad here: I’m simply highlighting how much our media (all of them) likes to control our perception of things, sometimes passing down to us just a surrogate (a POISONED SURROGATE) of the news. From my side, I just congratulate Channel 4 for doing this. Brave, Intelligent, Modern, Really Open-minded. Full video and transcript (both in english) follows. ...