A pro-American German boy: An invention made up by conspiracy theorists or reality?
“Robin Hood im Schwarzwald” found him here: “Ein deutscher Junge”
Henryk M. Broder über den angeblichen Rechtspopulisten Wilders und seinen Film „Fitna“:
(…) Wilders ist so “einseitig” wie jeder Dokumentarist, der die Wirklichkeit verdichtet. Sein Film ist so “islamfeindlich” wie die Filme von Michael Moore “kapitalismusfeindlich” sind. Die Feindschaft liegt nicht im Auge des Betrachters, sondern in der Natur des betrachteten Gegenstands. Zu den festen Ritualen, [...]
I have just watched Geert Wilders “Fitna” movie. I was able to do so thanks to the Internet. It was not shown on German TV, neither on Dutch TV, actually I do not know whether any European TV station has shown or will show the film.
I wonder why? You might not agree on everything Geert [...]
If there is a positive prejudice about Americans it is that they tend to be more optimistic than Europeans. And I think it is true. Take my best friend - I have been talking to him this afternoon and you know what he told me? That if people started talking anti-American at a party I [...]
On my favorite German blog “The Axis of Good” I found the TopTen ways to tell if you are a Taliban:
10. You refine heroin for a living, but you have a moral objection to beer.
9. You own a $300 machine gun and a $5,000 rocket launcher, but you can’t afford shoes.
More here
My [...]
When I heard on the radio this week that Stern-Magazin was going to publish an interview with Lynndie England in which she tells Stern everything about Abu Ghraib she did not want to tell the US media, I decided not to buy it, because I knew it would spoil my day if I did so.
But [...]
I guess that everybody knows by now that I am a big fan of Angela Merkel. (Here is what I wrote back in November 2005 when she was newly elected. You have to scroll down a little.)
This week she has been to Israel and held a great speech in the Knesset. At the end of [...]
My dream immigrant to Germany, what would he be like? Would he embrace my culture? Would he try to fit in? Would he learn the nuances of village life? Would he be a better German than me?
Well, sitting next to me is someone that I think would be a [...]
Many politicians are good at talking green, but when it comes to walking green, they seem to prefer taking the plane:
Last summer German Minister of the Environment, Siegmar Gabriel, e. g. took a Bundeswehr airplane to get from Mallorca where he spent his holiday to Berlin to attend a one-hour cabinet meeting. This flight produced [...]
… or Beck Comeback? After two weeks in bed with flu SPD party head Kurt Beck tonight attends a meeting of the SPD leading inner circle. He is likely to get a lot of criticism for his decision to give Andrea Ypsilanti, SPD party leader in Hesse, the green light to seek Left Party support [...]