When justice turns to injustice resistance is a citizen's right - .... Who fights may lose but who doesn't fight has already lost .......(Bertold Brecht, 1898-1956)

German Chancellor Merkel selects 'multi-purpose tool' Peter Altmaier (CDU, 53) as her last bullet to finalize 'her' energy turnaround

Remember? Prior to Fukushima, the future for Germany's nuclear plants and nuclear-industrial complex was quite bright and rosy. The CDU/CSU-FDP cabinet of Merkel II reversed the 'energy consensus' toward a decades' long extension then with 'a stick and carrot' approach. Energy r …

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Berlin-Brandenburg Airport to be delayed till March 2013 - a laughing number in terms of 'Made in Germany'

Wow, Lufthansa and Air Berlin are really pissed off. The new "Willy-Brandt-International Airport Berlin-Brandenburg (BER)" should be opened in June 2012. Hehe, nice try, fellas. Won't happen till March 2013. But the schedules for BER have already been made - with whopping increa …

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NRW's awesome election system blows up state assembly by some 56 representatives (= 31 pc) - a boon for all parties with more than 5 pc share

Germany's state assemblies have a neat method to blow up their parliaments by a two-tier voting system, unheard of in other countries. Now, what's the trick behind it? Well, in the first place, honoring party service at the expense of the taxpayers. Well, the latest state electi …

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Germany's Environment Minister got "merkel'ed" - Norbert Roettgen dismissed today for NRW debacle

(Sarc) A new English verb in terms of political sciences should be added: to merkel = to sweep or push away unwanted political big heads in your own party, mostly male, from their posts due to unpopularity, plagiarizing, subjective fear of getting stabbed in the back by own poli …

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German Parliament allows Bundeswehr to fight pirates on Somalia beach strip in Atalanta mission

Merkel's ConLib government has finally reached a parliamentary go-ahead in extension of Atalanta, an international anti-pirates mission, in the Indian Ocean, off the Somali coastline in a vast sea area. Germany's armed forces, the Bundeswehr, are now allowed by majority mandate  …

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Le Pen's decision against Sarkozy destroys "Merkozy's Europe" - a blow to free market and EU's austerity measures

Yes, Marie LePen is so far right that she comes out at the left hand side. Her nationalistic & socialist course of her "Front Nationale" - a mix of anti-immigrant, anti-capitalist, rich-wary, peasant-based, hollow-headed "France First" thinking conservatives dumped Nicolas S …

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Merkel sighs: Schleswig-Holstein state not likely to get Danish traffic light coalition of SPD-Greens-SSW

The Pirates' Party is the big spoiler. No doubt about it. Without them, a left-wing three-way coalition of Social Dems, Eco-Greens and the Danish-German minority party SSW, would have been possible, indeed. Now, the grand-coalition would be common sense, either way, who will be 1 …

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ILLMITZ on Lake Neusiedl - a paradise for cyclists, wine drinkers - and healthy spring water, free of charge

Illmitz, Lake Neusiedl, Burgenland, Austria. If you are a fan of cycling, well, this vacation town in the south-east of Austria, near the Hungarian border, shall be your destination. Landscape is quite flat, Lake Neusiedl is shallow, and the climate here is great for growing win …

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Spring time is asparagus time - make yummy asparagus cordon bleu as Sunday's dish

Last Sunday, in Winden on the Lake Neusiedl,  at Karl's, mum and I had a season speciality "Asparagus Cordon Bleu". Wow, I can sprongly recommend this, yummy taste without too many cals. You can make veggie style as well, just don't add cooked ham. Well, the recipe: For one …

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Travel Advice Winden, Burgenland, Austria - At Karl's, you get yummy monster schnitzels on Thursdays

Mom and I are having some days of spring vacation in Illmitz, Lake Neusiedl,  Austrian federal state of Burgenland. On our way to Moerbisch on the Lake , we stopped at "Karl Wirt" in Winden on the Lake at around lunch time. Family Leidenfrost (www.karlwirt-winden.at) and th …

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German Navy: SSS Gorch Fock trainees get 'monkey tree' at Naval Academy

The Bundeswehr administrative mills grind slowly but effectively. After the deadly incident in which a female 25 y/o sea cadet ("Obermaat OA") fell off the rigging 28 metres onto wooden planks and the adjacent railing at Salvador de Bahia, Brazil in November 2010, the German Nav …

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Armed mercenaries on merchant navy vessels take charge in asymmetric warfare against al-Qaida related Somali pirates

Well, the old Latin judicial tenet:"Coram iudice et in alto mare in manu dei soli sumus." (In court and on high sea, you are in God's hands alone), is very true, esp. for private ship owners whose vessels have been sailing in pirates-infested areas off the coast of Somalia headin …

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Election campaign in northern most German state - No real messages from the big parties CDU & SPD

The citizens of the German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein shall vote for their state assembly ("Landtag") on Sunday, May 6th. It's the second state election this year after the Saarland election held on March 25th. One week later the citizens in North Rhine - Westphalia, Ge …

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Citizen's fight against bureaucracy and alleged savvy superiors - make them devour paper!

The admin's wish of getting rid of paperwork is comparable to some environmentalists' desires of abolishing toilet paper, neat thoughts but unrealizable. Well, these facts in mind, the ordinary citizen can fight back against these alleged savvy but money-oriented superiors, manag …

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Ironical Comment: Fight against official terminology with a K.I.S.S.

Superiors in administrative entities rather like one-page reports with concise and comprehensible language than redundant bla-bla, right? Well, in order to do so, the depending civil servants and other administrative subordinates have to be quite creative in inventing monster ter …

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Pay-out in good years - Germany's federal and municipal employees get 6.3 pc pay rise over 2 years

For a lot of people who envy the public services, it's a big gulp from the bottle. For many mayors, it's created headaches as well when they consider the current state of their municipal budgets. It's like pot-hole dodging for them but, sorry, folks, it's also a fact that you ca …

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Germany: Roesler's disaster - Saarland voters squash Free Democrats to splinter party with just 1.2 per cent -

With 481.249 valid votes cast, the F.D.P. "boy-group" of Philipp Roesler's only got measly 5.871 votes, or 1.2 pc - according to the preliminary official final result of last Sunday's elections to Saarland's state assembly. The Free Dems lost all of their five parliamentary seat …

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No 4 digit result for new German Federal President Joachim Gauck (72) - but with 991 votes in Federal Assembly new record

Yes - we Gauck. The across-the-aisle candidate of Social Democrats, Eco-Greens, Free Democrats and the Conservatives of Merkel-Seehofer's CDU/CSU with about 1.100 delegates of 1.240 members in the Federal Assembly as election organ of the German lower house (Bundestag) with thei …

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Biggest German armed forces' transformation to likely be stuck in the tube by stubborn penny-pinchers

The German soldiers' association DBwV has clearly made its position to the defense ministry and parliamentary committees.

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SSS Gorch Rust, eh Fock - cadets training ship's 2010 accident causes slump in applications for navy officer career

A first glance, German Navy SSS Gorch Fock (1958) has been training ship for officers-to-be and 'sailing ambassador' of the Federal Republic. After the 2010 incident in which a 25 y/o female sea-cadet ('Obermaat OA') died when falling off the rigging 28 meters onto the wood …

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Merkel to play with fire if she wants to retaliate Roesler's presidential move

Merkel seems to have an elephant's memory. She won't surely forget Roesler's move of joining forces with the opposition when the federal F.D.P.

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All-party candidate Gauck to become Germany's Federal President - Merkel pushed to accept her 'not first choice'

Well, Mme Chancellor was neither amused by having seen Wulff's departure to political nirvana nor by Gauck's being supported by her junior partner F.D.P.

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