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 [...]
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 [...]
Henryk M. Broder in der WELT: “Die Deutschen: Faul, feige und passiv-aggressiv”
(…) Die Hysterie der vergangenen Tage hat nebenbei auch ein tot geglaubtes Gespenst wiederbelebt, den guten alten Antiamerikanismus. Eben erst war Barack Obama das Gesicht des neuen Amerika, eine Stimme der Vernunft, ein Mann des Ausgleichs. Heute ist er „nicht besser als Bush“ – [...]
03. Dezember 2009 – 21:38
I am just listening to the CD I got as a birthday present from my best friend. He sent it when he was in Iraq – awesome! But that is a different story. Now I want to tell you what I experienced today.
Because the small parcel was not delivered to my home, no, I had [...]
Global warming activists can be so entertaining:
“Out With A Shiver: Global Warming Protest Frozen Out by Massive Snowfall” by Joseph Abrams, FOXNews.com, March 02, 2009:
It was snowing irony in Washington on Monday when global warming activists descended on the District like a storm — but got beaten to the punch by a blast [...]