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 For the picture: Imagine a beautifully illuminated Eiffel tower in the heart of Paris, with some lighthouse beams going out, for the celebration of Armistice day, a national holiday in France. For the athmosphere: Imagine a pleasant Paris evening, me strolling from the cocktail bar where I just spent the later part of the evening talking about politics (and struggeling to get a piece of cheese to accompany my drinks), warm enough so you do not need a coat here along the Seine. I'm here on my second night, arriving Thursday from Germany, for the Congress of the European Green Party where I have the honour to represent the German Green party of my home state. ( Lies mehr... )Tags: egp, greens, nostalgia, paris, travels
Current Location: France, Paris
Aktuelle Musik: System Of A Down - Toxicity - piano cover
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Maybe it took The Rachel Maddow Show to show me that the Cain Campaign, dear friends, is nothing but an art projekt: Pokemon as inspirational poet, Sim City as economics plan, Beckybeckystanstan and no idea about the right of return as foreign policy (with a 1 page nearly every day update), no idea what a neocon is or what life from conception has to do with choice, the "nice chicken" campaign video... and now Cain as Chris Tucker from Rush-Hour 3? Really? http://cassandra-chronicles.blogspot.com/2011/11/cain-punks-america-brilliantly.html Enjoy: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Tags: funstuff, msnbc, politics, rachel maddow, satire, usa
Aktuelle Stimmung:  amused
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Want an example for "Desaster waiting to happen"? Since Fukushima the NRC, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Reaktorsicherheitskomission) of the USA, has prolonged the licenses of no less than 5 old nuclear clunker plants with decaying nuts&bolts, for another 20 years (after their previous 40), without demanding any safety measures being taken or new safety rules met from lessons of the the Fukushima desaster, and in several cases without inspecting the plants on their own... Desaster waiting to happen, indeed! (Quelle: Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA), Energy and Commerce Commitee) Download his report here: http://markey.house.gov/docs/05-12-11reportfinalsmall.pdfTags: activism, ecology, politics, usa
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Following the truth&dare challenge by John Scalzi in his blog and the great and wild responses in the 170 comments there and here and elsewhere, I decided to have a go at this as well.
Feel free to take up the challenge and answer here or post your list in your LJ oder Blog or Facebook Notes.
- 1) special compliment: been told by an active head of government that I will be a great politician one day
- 2) special drinks: have shared wine with a) a former SS officer and b) a former KZ (concentration camp) prisoner, and c) with the former head of German-US relations (when he wasn't yet), while sharing a tea with a former cellmate of a convicted terrorist and drinking a root beer with a decorated Vietnam veteran.
( Lies mehr... )
(Some of these might not be news to avid readers of my LJ, but then: who is, nowadays?) Tags: 2yrnuff, activism, bookcrossing, greens, harry potter, memes, people, piecesofme, politics
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 Neil Gaiman, Brom, Monika Felten, David Anthony Durham, Richelle Mead, Sergej Lukianenko, Jason N. Beil, Evelyne Okonnek, Trudi Canavan, Susan Fletcher, Sandra Henke, Jeanine Krock, Charlotte Kerner, Sara Douglass, Oliver Plaschka, Nina Blazon, Luc Ferry and even Charles M. SchulzVampires and werewolves, dragons and princesses, fighters and jesters, babies and demons... All author names are clickable and lead to BC-journals of the books. Some of these are already out, bookcrossed over to Switzerland, to a cousin, and to a LJer, a new BCer. Books want to be read, of course. Tags: birthdays, bookcrossing, books, bücher
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Found this and wanted to share it: "My first HuffPost Book Club selection of 2010 is Janine Wedel's Shadow Elite: How the World's New Power Brokers Undermine Democracy, Government, and the Free Market.It's a gripping, disquieting book that exposes and explains why it'sbeen so hard to bring about any real change in our country -- whyWashington no longer seems capable of addressing the problems ournation faces. Fingers have been pointed at everything fromgerrymandering to partisan polarization to the misuse of thefilibuster. But, according to Wedel, the real problem is much deeper --and more disturbing -- than any of these. As she writes in Shadow Elite, a new "transnational" classof elites has taken over our country: "The mover and shaker who servesat one and the same time as business consultant, think-tanker, TVpundit, and government adviser glides in and around the organizationsthat enlist his services. It is not just his time that is divided. Hisloyalties, too, are often flexible."
Read inside the book Tags: books
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 (Copied from my comment over at whatever.salzi.com) EBOOKS: As for the ebook-pricing discussed by others here: As a consumer, collector of books and as a reader I’m willing to pay for ebooks which fill ~all~ of the following three criteria:
- * Less than the current cheapest price for the dead-tree versions on Amazon. If printed prices drop because of the availability of a paperback edition or because the book is going out of print and the rest of the printed stock is sold cheap to wholesalers, please drop ebook prices accordingly.
- * Less than 10$ or over here 10€ – more isn’t necessary to pay the author’s (and editor’s and/or translator’s) share and the overhead, if you don’t print. If that leaves you with some money, please pay a decent proofreader, thanks.
- * Free of any DRM nonsense. No limit to the number of my own devices I can transfer it to, no limit to resale rights if I delete my own copy.
Give me that and I’ll buy it in any given ebook-reader format, epub, .lit, mobypocket or -preferably- PDF. At home I’ll read it on my PC, on the road on my Blackberry smartphone or -probably- my Palm Tungsten.</p> * German WikiNews article on the topic: Buchmesse 2.0 – Der Kindle und die Flucht nach vorne( On the original topic )Tags: books, ebooks, economy, publishing
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On the twelfth day of Christmas,  irascignavojo sent to me... Twelve pre-raphaelites reading Eleven soulmates xing Ten e-books a-consulting Nine audiobooks bookcrossing Eight writers a-networking Seven books a-writing Six politics a-flirting Five autho-o-o-ors Four ex libris Three business angels Two creative commons ...and a mbpw in a chomsky. Tags: christmas, funstuff, memes
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 I support the first ever World March that travels the world asking for the end of wars, the dismantling of nuclear weapons and for an end to all forms of violence (physical, economic, racial, religious, cultural, sexual andpsychological). Among the stations already reached are Hiroshima and Bethlehem, where Sami Awad of the Holy Land Trust held a speech: Tags: activism, campaigning, palestine, peace, politics
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