“Cooling Off in Baquba” shows a young Iraqi boy spraying water on a US soldier. Very nice picture you will never see in a German newspaper, I suspect. Thanks for sending the link, Thomas!
And of course, the other photo of the day: Iraq has won the Asian Cup! CONGRATULATIONS!
“Der Irak gewinnt erstmals Asien-Cup”
Die BBC ließ einen selbstkritischen Bericht anfertigen …
Wunderbarer Artikel dazu bei Dirk Maxeiner und Michael Miersch in der WELT, 27. Juli 2007. Ausschnitte aus “Die mediale Einheitspartei” :
Die British Broadcasting Corporation, kurz BBC, genießt weltweit einen Ruf als ehrwürdige Institution und gilt als Hort eines über jeden Zweifel erhabenen journalistischen Ethos. Doch jetzt ist in [...]
Großartiger Artikel über “Die mitfühlende Härte einer Ministerin” von Gerd Held, WELT, 24.07.2007. Gemeint ist Rachida Dati, Frankreichs neue Justizministerin, die Anfang Juli ein Gesetzesprojekt zur Einführung von Mindeststrafen für jugendliche Wiederholungstäter und zur Herabsetzung des Alters der Strafmündigkeit im Senat präsentiert hat.
Es gibt zwei grundverschiedene Arten der Härte. Die eine ist eine Form der [...]
Michael Stürmer über den “Cyber-Dschihad” in der WELT, 26.07.2007:
(…) Innenminister Schäuble denkt laut nach, wie weit der Staat, um Terroristen vor der Tat abzufangen, in ihre Laptops schauen und sie notfalls gezielt ausschalten darf. Schäuble stellt fest, dass der islamistische Terror tödliche Gefahren in die Mitte der demokratischen Gesellschaften trägt, während die Rechtslage der Abwehr [...]
I get quite a lot of emails regarding my website. Some are friendly, some unfriendly, and some simply make me laugh. Like the one I received yesterday (the writer apparently thinks I am American):
your childish and typical immature american comments
I gave up after reading your first lines. I have to remind you ( talking about [...]
Two weeks ago in an interview with SPIEGEL (“We could be struck at anytime”) German Interior Minister Schäuble has opened a long overdue debate on how to deal with the terrorist threat in Germany. Questions any Interior Minister would have to ask if he was to take his job seriously. Unfortunately, he was – willingly [...]
I suspect a lot of Germans do not care much about a better life in Iraq. On the contrary, they seem to feel Schadenfreude when getting bad news from there. But fortunately not all Germans: This weekend at a meeting of pro-American and pro-Israel bloggers I had the pleasure to meet Thomas von der Osten-Sacken, [...]
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov says that U.S. plans to set up a missile-defense system in Central Europe amount to building a “new Berlin Wall.” That is turning facts upside down.
The “Berlin Wall” was built to oppress freedom, the missile defense shield is aimed to protect freedom.
But it is not only this comparison that [...]
It is supposed to be summer, but here I am wearing warm socks and my winter pullover, drinking hot tea, desperately waiting for global warming to arrive and somehow wondering whom to complain to. But then I remember that one should always look on the bright side of life. So I guess this is the [...]
My video of the day found at the German blog “Politically Incorrect”:
“Support the troops”