And ... to any maudlin shipping companies invite his life and his work not one.
He was a fighter for humanity and a preacher of the message of justice for all nations. He was a reformist figure of the highest order and his historical fate was that he had to act in a time of unprecedented baseness, which knocked him down in the end.
(Knut Hamsun, Norwegian writer and Nobel Literature Prize winner in 1920)
"... In a large old villa on the outskirts of Vienna, there are the vineyards of Kahlenberg a nice basement, where the higher American officers gathered very happy after the Second World War in the evening. A tavern, you could have said all around painted between the rafters with ornaments.
The owner, the beautiful Princess Wittgenstein led me into it and asked me to look at the paintings critical and only then read the artfully painted in between spells. I looked at everything very carefully and said, without somehow be informed: "It seems to me that the painter at the same time a sense of architecture - especially for certain natural laws, such as the" golden section "has because everything fits so great . together "-" That's very interesting, "said the princess," and now you shall read the sayings ".
Saturday 22 June 2013
Iran conflict: Calm before the storm
Mohssen Massarrat is professor emeritus of the University of Osnabrück with scientific and policy priorities in the areas of economy and society, international relations, war and peace, Middle East and co-founder of the Initiative Conference for Security and Cooperation in the Middle East (CSCME ).
Iran conflict: Calm before the storm
It began in 2001 with the fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan. They had with the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 for an excellent excuse, so had the lie of weapons of mass destruction are invented for the removal of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. Immediately after the fall of the Iraqi regime in March 2003, Iran's nuclear facilities were presented as the next threat to the "free world". May in good faith to prevent a new war, the EU-3, Germany, France and England have set a goal for Iran to give up its nuclear program.
Iran conflict: Calm before the storm
It began in 2001 with the fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan. They had with the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 for an excellent excuse, so had the lie of weapons of mass destruction are invented for the removal of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. Immediately after the fall of the Iraqi regime in March 2003, Iran's nuclear facilities were presented as the next threat to the "free world". May in good faith to prevent a new war, the EU-3, Germany, France and England have set a goal for Iran to give up its nuclear program.
Turkey is Muslim - whether it suits the West or not!
The Turkish government has taken in recent days, with massive violence against demonstrators in Istanbul and Ankara. With water cannons and tear gas, the police moved against about thousands of people who had tried to reach the central Taksim Square. Again and again in Istanbul sporadic clashes between the police and critics of the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc threatened the demonstrators in the country with the use of the army.
Should the use of the police against the protests "are not sufficient, the armed forces can be used," said Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc on Monday on TV. In Turkey there for two weeks anti-government protests that were crushed by the police force again. Currently, the safety authority retains mainly. That could also be because Turkey slowly running out of tear gas.
"... Within three weeks, the Turkish police units have fired tear gas at protesters 130,000 cartridges. Now the authority is planning to organize on the fly more than 100,000 cartridges with the gas. Furthermore, another 60 are also water cannons to be purchased, which will be advertised. The excessive use of tear gas against peaceful protesters criticized internationally ... "Source: shortnews.de. Whether to participate in the tender for the supply of tear gas and water cannons-German company is not (yet) known!
The Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc threatened the demonstrators in the country with the use of the army.
Should the use of the police against the protests "are not sufficient, the armed forces can be used," said Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc on Monday on TV. In Turkey there for two weeks anti-government protests that were crushed by the police force again. Currently, the safety authority retains mainly. That could also be because Turkey slowly running out of tear gas.
"... Within three weeks, the Turkish police units have fired tear gas at protesters 130,000 cartridges. Now the authority is planning to organize on the fly more than 100,000 cartridges with the gas. Furthermore, another 60 are also water cannons to be purchased, which will be advertised. The excessive use of tear gas against peaceful protesters criticized internationally ... "Source: shortnews.de. Whether to participate in the tender for the supply of tear gas and water cannons-German company is not (yet) known!
Saturday 8 June 2013
South Africa: Mandela hospitalized with pneumonia in hospital
His condition is "serious but stable": South Africa's first black president Nelson Mandela has to be re-treated in a hospital for pneumonia. For the 94-year-old is the fourth hospital stay within a few months.
Johannesburg / Berlin - The world cares about Nelson Mandela. South Africa's former president was admitted because of severe pneumonia in a hospital in Pretoria again on Saturday night. The office of the incumbent head of state Jacob Zuma announced that the state of the 94-year-old was "serious but stable".
Johannesburg / Berlin - The world cares about Nelson Mandela. South Africa's former president was admitted because of severe pneumonia in a hospital in Pretoria again on Saturday night. The office of the incumbent head of state Jacob Zuma announced that the state of the 94-year-old was "serious but stable".
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