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Act I Scene II: T4 Program – T4 Agents, Racial Hygiene, Burdensome Lives and Useless Mouths

Scene: In a modest room, Philinte and Alceste discuss the T4 program Alceste: Ah! Philinte, I am suffocating with indignation! What greater abomination than that which took place under the veil of science! The T4 program, Philinte! A machine of death so cold, so methodical, it chills the soul. Philinte: But of what horror do you speak with such vehemence, dear friend? The T4 program? Yet…

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Lettre adressée à une autorité européenne

À l’attention de Madame/Monsieur, Il arrive, dans les heures les plus troubles de notre époque, que la clarté ne surgisse point des projecteurs administratifs ni des jugements arithmétiques, mais des interstices du silence — là où l’âme humaine, dénuée d’armure, cherche encore la justice comme l’oiseau cherche la lumière. Je vous écris non pour plaider une cause dans le langage usé des…

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Funeral Speech for Jones (Adapted from Shakespeare)

On 8 July 2025, a tragic incident occurred at Sigonella Airport (near Catania), around 10 a.m. An American named Jones—my friend—arrived by car, exited outside the terminal, and then ran toward an emergency door leading to the runway, where he was tragically sucked into the engine of a departing aircraft. Flights were suspended for about an hour and a half. Funeral Speech for Jones (Adapted from…

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War: an Excellent Promoter of Unintended Progress?

War is an excellent promoter of unintended progress. If it weren’t for war, we might have been spared penicillin, radar, duct tape, and even canned food. Of course, we might have been spared the need for bomb shelters and reparations, too.— Alfio Cerami 30 June 2025 (finally published online) War is a most ruthless teacher, yet one that brings strange rewards. When peace slumbers, invention…

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How Lidl Turned Romance into Revenue: The Secret Behind Duc de Cœur by Alfio Cerami

How Lidl Turned Romance into Revenue: The Secret Behind Duc de Cœur by Alfio Cerami Date: 28 June 2025. Copyright. All rights reserved. Emily in Paris The Cheese that Seduced a Continent Beneath the surface of supermarket shelves lies a quiet revolution: Lidl has transformed romance into revenue—and it did so using cheese, trademarks, and timeless seduction. Meet Duc de Cœur: Lidl’s private…

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The Benevolent Dictator in Human Rights Clothing: A Paradox of Modern Development

By Dr. Alfio Cerami and Friend(s)Reflections from the Anti-Autocracy Clause Series “He who feeds you controls you.”— Thomas Sankara In the 21st century, we are witnessing the rise of a new political chimera: the benevolent, human rights-aware dictator. This figure does not torture in dungeons or parade in jackboots. Instead, he inaugurates hospitals bearing UN logos, sends his daughters to…

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The Tuareg and the Politics of Daseinsberechtigung

In the Sahel, where borders blur under sandstorms and maps are contested by lived reality, the Tuareg remind us that the state-nation-territory model—central to most development strategies—is not a universal given. Theirs is a non-sedentary existence, not defined by fixed coordinates but by mobility, memory, and meaning. Any credible trans-Sahel development model must begin by recognizing…

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INORDINATE VS. ORDINATE GREEDY

(Rein empirischen Methoden der Wirtschaftsordnung: Kooperationsoekonomischenswillensbildungssysteme). What time is the right time to act for business innovations? Does being able to innovate business (the space) through new technologies in the right moment (time) imply changing the already-established elective affinities (singularities) between economic culture (Wirtschaftskultur) and economic…

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STORY MAP: Geo-Spatial Analysis Spain. Macro-Economic Developments and Investment Dynamics 2012-2018.

STORY MAP: Geo-Spatial Analysis Spain. Macro-Economic Developments and Investment Dynamics 2012-2018.

By Alfio Cerami, 20 March 2018

STORY MAP: Geo-Spatial Analysis Spain. Macro-Economic Developments and Investment Dynamics 2012-2018.

STORY MAP available at:  https://www.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=054955bbbabd479c90fd31953f0d1e09

STORY MAP: Geo-Spatial Analysis Spain. Macro-Economic Developments and Investment Dynamics 2012-2018.

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Mr Drone’s Dilemmas & The Future of Unmanned Aerial Warfare Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, Ethics and Economics by Alfio Cerami     September 28, 2020 This blog post discusses Mr Drone's dilemmas from the drone perspective (the Artificial Intelligence - AI - machine perspective), such as those concerned with wrong signature behavior of the target individual and their impact on the economy and their repercussions for post-modern societies.

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VEAG: Die Elektrische Wiedervereinigung Deutschlands

  Photo: Braun(Helmut)Kohle. © DPA. Tagesspiegel 2014.

Veag war der größte Stromerzeuger und Übertragungsnetzbetreiber in Ostdeutschland. Die gesamte Kraftwerkleistung, die die 4 Braunkhole Turbinen produzierten, war von 8.576 Megawatt (Fußnote 1) (wahrscheinlich viel !?).

Die VEAG (Fußnote 2) wurde 1990 gegründet und war die Rechtsnachfolgerin der ehemaligen DDR-Kombinate „Braunkohlenkraftwerke“…

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THE NIGHT LIGHTS OF #AFRICA Satellite Imagery Analysis for Development, Conflict and Climate Change https://bit.ly/2Bo9h1p https://alfiocerami.wordpress.com/2020/06/10/the-night-lights-of-africa/ #barriers to #development #dynamics of #power-sharing #NASA #satellite #imagery #food #prices #opportunity #cost #hoarding

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The Night Lights of Africa

The Night Lights of Africa

Satellite Imagery Analysis for Development, Conflict and Climate Change

Night lights In recent years, NASA engineers, researchers and professors have developed new methods of geo-spatial micro-macro econometric analysis (Photoeconometrics) based on real-time big data. These include high-resolution satellite imagery from the NASA Earth Observatorywhere the single pixels become the smallest units…

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The Unaccountables The Unaccoutables

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Catering

The State of the Union 

THE CATERING POLITICS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

Not Even at Official Dinners at Buckingham Palace with Queen Elisabeth II

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            Catering Politics in the European Union: The Politics of the Belly (or “Panza Politics”)

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White-Collar Crime

White-Collar Crime: The Respectables

Cerami, A. (2019), The Respectables. Les Entrepreneurs et les Entrepreneuses du Déshonneur: An Offer You Can’t Refuse! White-Collar Crime: A Guide for Law Enforcement Authorities, Judicial Authorities, Policy- and Decision-Makers & (A Possible Movie Script), presentation available in ENGLISH VERSION (PDF) DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.20392.52481.

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The Role of International Institutions in the Transition towards Democracy

The Role of International Institutions in the Transition towards Democracy

by Alfio Cerami                                                                    REV: 5 March 2019

Source: Cerami, Alfio (PI), et al., 2019. “Tri-Dimensionality of Clouds and…”. VNP02MOD_NRT. NASA MODIS Adaptive Processing System, Goddard Space Flight Center, USA [https://modaps.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/services/about/products/viirs-c1-nrt/VNP02MOD_nrt.html ].

The role played by international…