This week German Rapper Bushido received the Bambi award for integretion. That is appalling! In his songs he called women “sluts” and homosexuals … I don`t even know how to translate this into English, but believe me it`s bad. To be fair I have to add that he is said to have distanced himself from [...]
12. November 2011 – 12:53
In October I stayed in Berlin for a week. It was the week when the Festival of Lights started. I was quite looking forward to seeing this. And although the pictures I had seen on the Deutsche Bahn magazine were more spectacular than reality, I still enjoyed my obligatory walk Unter den Linden through the [...]
07. November 2011 – 22:00
Yesterday I went to see “Anonymous”, the movie that raises the question whether Shakespeare did or did not write his famous plays. But these days the question that preoccupies me is not so much to be or not to be, but whether 1 and 1 is 1, 2 or 3.
Let me explain why:
Whenever an [...]
23. September 2011 – 20:11
… in a hall of darkness. Benjamin Netanyahu at the United Nations. - What an incredible speech! Rhetorically brilliant, very emotional, but most importantly true, so true, so very very true.
24. September 2011:
I wanted to post excerpts of his speech on my blog, but I ended up finding so many important passages that I [...]
Last time I came to Berlin was in 2008. On May 2-3, I attended an International Conference organised by the Mideast Freedom Forum Berlin: “Business as usual? The Iranian regime, the holy war against Israel and the West and the German reaction”. It was an extremely interesting conference and very well organised. If you want [...]
After having walked through the Brandenburg Gate I went along the American Embassy. The two guards were smiling. That was nice. The German policemen a few metres down the road were not. Maybe there was a reason for it.
I had almost arrived at the Adlon Palais when I looked at the other side of the [...]
Whenever I come to Berlin I have to walk through the Brandenburg Gate. And when I walk through that Gate I remember Ronald Reagan`s famous speech that marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War in which he asked:
Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate.
Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
And now this Gate is [...]
“Goodby Nato” is an article written by Michael Stürmer in DIE WELT, June 15, p. 3 in which he harshly criticises Germany for not being a reliable partner. I`d wish he was wrong, but I suspect he is right:
(…) Wie sollen Streitkräfteplanung oder Europas gemeinsame Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik aussehen, wenn keiner weiß, nicht einmal die [...]
I don`t know, I really don`t know where Germany is heading these days. But if Germany is really governed by opinion polls, as I suspect, this is a very scaring question.
Back in 2003 an EU poll said that 59 % of Europeans saw Israel as the biggest threat to world peace. In second place, after [...]
I am learning every week reading James McCabe`s column in DIE WELT (May 31, 2011, page 3, “Bismarck`s Fact”). This week he tells us:
English shares 80 percent of its spoken vocabulary with German … . This familiarity and relative simplicity leads to the typical over-confidence of German-speaking managers when communicating in cyberspace. They are unaware [...]