Following last week`s announcement by Standard & Poor`s to downgrade the credit ratings of nine euro-zone member states Elmar Brok, MEP and member of CDU gave an interview to Welt Online (“US-Kräfte haben uns den Währungskrieg erklärt”, Autor: Günther Lachmann, Jan 16, 2012).
The article introduces him as being an expert on the US. („Der [...]
OK, OK, I admit it. Despite my favorable post on BILD-Zeitung a few weeks ago I would not have expected Bild to topple our President (Bundespräsident Wulff). What happened? Bundespräsident Wulff called the editor-in-chief of BILD-Zeitung (Kai Diekmann) and asked / threatened him not to publish a critical article about Wulff. This is absolutely outrageous, [...]
Welcome 2012! I have been waiting for you …
29. Dezember 2011 – 15:54
It really made me happy to see all these pictures of soldiers coming home these days, American, British, German. And listening to this choir of British military wives brought tears to my eyes, it is very beautiful …
Do you still remember the American soldier who sent me that incredible email from Iraq years ago? He [...]
29. Dezember 2011 – 15:30
I have no idea who you are, but you definitely made my day! :-)
Maybe next time you fly over my house, you could drop your number?
13. November 2011 – 22:31
I love the colors of autumn, this beautiful mixture of red, orange, yellow, brown, green, and I love the smells and sounds of autumn, especially when walking through fallen leaves, …, find more pictures here
13. November 2011 – 20:55
An American friend recently asked me: Why do you read Bild-Zeitung? Isn`t it a low-standard tabloid with topless girls on front page?
Well, as you might have guessed, the page No. 1 girls are not the reason why I sometimes read it - and the Bild-Boys unfortunately did not last ;-)
Also, it is not my only [...]
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 – 23:11
550 cars burnt in Berlin this year, I don`t know how many in Hamburg and other cities, and only this week a right-wing terrorist group was discovered that is said to have been active for ten years or more. No, I do not think we are living in a police state. But there are politicians [...]
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 [...]