3sat Festival 2018 – Hagen Rether: Liebe (Update 2018) without comments from me – enjoy, oder vielmehr: viel Vergnügen.
Category archives: current affairs
Two good ones from Andy Borowitz
Trump Strips Citizenship from Children of Immigrants, Thus Disqualifying Himself from Presidency and Americans Would Feel Safer If a Huge Caravan of Angry White Men Left the Country The New Yorker is only one of many very good publications from Condé Nast. Enjoy.
Good articles in German, and Freak Shows
I’ve read some remarkable articles in the German (online-version) magazine “Die Zeit” recently. One of them was “Das rote Sommermärchen”, and it’s about Sahra Wagenknecht’s new “Aufstehen” movement, which is some kind of a think tank for us lefties if you so wish. Interesting, and if you understand German, it’s a recommended reading. Another article, […]
The non-word of 2017
And the “winner” goes to… “alternative facts” (which might be copyrighted by Kellyanne Conway, who knows). See here (in German), here (in English), and here (in other news). Let me use a short quote of the English Wikipedia article about something else related to truths: “The phrase “alternative facts” was claimed to be similar to […]
Bravo, Anastasia!
Look at this article in the British Journal of Photography, which reports about young photographer Anastasia Taylor-Lind doing some portraits of dignity in the crimes committed against the Rohingya. Thanks also to Human Rights Watch, and Peter Bouckaert for publishing reports and photos like these. Other than the pope, we can report about this. We […]
Retirement of a dear colleague
Today was the last workday of one of our colleagues from Filenet. His name is Detlef, and he and his whole (now former) team are so-called “mobile workers”, which means that we see them only about once a week, but we do so since we’ve moved into the IBM Frankfurt offices over 7 years ago. […]
Current affairs: IBMers protest
Today at work, we’ve had a short get together to demonstrate against massive job cuts which are planned for IBM Germany. I took some photos with my camera, and also with the one of Bert Stach, chief negotiator of ver.di (our labour union who were the organizers, together with our workers’ council). Here are some […]