Current events seen by hèlix3c

Current events have many interpretations, as many as there are observers. We are just one more and we like to share, discuss, analyze, find relations ... in everything that is happening.

But it is not possible to understand current events by simply interpreting the situation. We need to tackle them with complex thinking (several and new visions), because an action has an impact beyond its direct environment. Therefore we propose to discover together the interrelation of what is happening around us. The truth lies in the little differences.

Date: 17.05.2013 // Autor: David Baró // Photography: Diari Ara

Over 50% of Europeans against EU

These surveys have to be considered carefully. Depending on the way questions are asked, people respond in one way or another. If asked about the current European Union (where each country goes about their own business, where Germany imposes the...

Date: 17.05.2013 // Autor: Pere Monràs // Photography: RTVE

France Slides into Recession and Germany Skirts It

Reading this article makes it obvious to me that we need to distinct between what we call "system" and the regime that rules in a particular area of the system and what it represents.

Date: 26.04.2013 // Autor: M. Roser Ferré // Photography: Patronat Municipal de la Vivenda

Town Council of Barcelona to Ask Citizens for Help to Face Challenge of Housing

Reading and commenting this article with others, made me become aware of two topics which I would like to share.

Date: 26.04.2013 // Autor: Christian Obregón // Photography: Google

Google Person Finder to Help Locate Missing People in Boston Marathon Bombing

In hèlix3c we have always been interested in models of self-organization that emerge spontaneously when facing an "extreme situation" - solidarity surfaces instinctively and naturally.

Date: 24.04.2013 // Autor: Pere Monràs // Photography: www.publico.es

"Wikipedia Supplants the Encyclopedia Britannica"

This article leads to an important reflection: we are in front of a major paradigm shift. Previously, knowledge was documented, made explicit and published by experts, and the work was organized in corporate form (which necessarily means business...

Date: 24.04.2013 // Autor: David Baró y Pere Monràs // Photography: Directe.cat

"We are Back to Having to Speak in Castilian"

Beyond the fact that a Congressman has to speak in Castilian in Congress thus renouncing his own official language (which already would be a topic worth analyzing), what I see in this story are two aspects...

Date: 15.03.2013 // Autor: Pere Monràs // Photography: El Triangle

Budget Cuts in Catalan Health Care Sector Make Waiting Lists Soar 51% in Two Years

To give an opinion on the waiting lists in the health care system, I would need data and information I do not have.
Therefore I would like to focus my opinion on another aspect. Society cannot expect the system to solve everything. Society...

Date: 14.03.2013 // Autor: David Baró // Photography: LaXarxa.com

The Spanish Government Urges Parliament to Ratify Decision of PSC for Right to Decide

This news item contains two topics with the same background: the terminal illness of the Spanish democracy.

The first topic relates the reaction of the Spanish Government in front of the issue of the right to decide for the...

Date: 12.03.2013 // Autor: M. Roser Ferré // Photography: Ramon Gabriel. De Foto.

Neighbourhood Watches Grow in spite of Prohibition by Interior

It is obvious that the context we are living in is changing, and will continue doing so. Nothing is going to be as it was. The needs of society are chaning and the lack of assistance beyond the stipulated is put into evidence. If we moreover take...

Date: 14.02.2013 // Autor: Marta Molas // Photography: LaIndependent.cat

Men still make 25% more than Women in Spain

Year after year we hear the same story. Inequality exists, has always existed and it seems that it will still take time until it disappears: maybe it's because of our sexist cultural tradition, or because women have always diversified their...

Current events seen by hèlix3c

Languages

Main Menu