2009

Welcome to the year 2009.
The world starts with a war, and since Nov. 4th, we are not allowed to categorize everything into "good" or "evil". Difficult.
There is an old wisdom in conflict management, that says if a conflict has advanced too far, it is impossible for the parties involved to solve it on their own. It needs an external party (a so-called "mediator") to help them resolve the conflict. My guess is that a.) shooting and bombing each other is definitely a stage of having "advanced too far" in a conflict and b.) it will need one hell of a brilliant mediator to help resolve that one.

Welcome to the year 2009.

Let's make money

This is an order:
Watch "Let's make money".
Change your way of thinking.

Elections

So, here we are - two days until we elect our new parliament. It was nice to see the last parlamentary discussion, and even nicer to see (and read about) TV "duels"; decided? Not really... but on Sunday in the morning, I'll walk over to my townhall, and put an X for one of the parties. A small note though...

BZÖ in reply to a question concerning suits made at the constitutional court against the new police and surveillance law: "Decisions of the Constitutional Court have to be accepted [...]." A very funny statement for a party which has Jörg Haider as their boss, who refuses to accept several Constitutional Court rulings concerning bi-lingual traffic (place-name) signs in Carinthia for several years now...

Recommendations

What does the Amazon recommendation system think of a person who read Timothy Leary and Terry Pratchett?

Wählbefehl

Dies ist ein Wählbefehl. Wer am 28. September nicht wählen geht, hat für 4 Jahre das Recht verwirkt, sich über "die Politik" im Allgemeinen oder "den/die Politiker/in" im Speziellen zu beschweren.

Zur Erinnerung:

SPÖ

ÖVP

Die Grünen

Die originalen Originalen

Das originale Original

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