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(German version published on 31 December, 2009)
I still believe that the main impact of (attempted) terror strikes is the panic reaction of the western world which punishes itself with self selected cuts of freedom, isolation due to hatred of foreigners and waste of money and quality of live. Even the possibly most powerful man in [...]

(German version published on 30 December, 2009)
During an interview with the Süddeutsche Zeitung the president of the industrial tribunal Ingrid Schmidt did ask in connection with the so called “bagatelle denunciations”: “Wie kommt man eigentlich dazu, ungefragt Maultaschen mitzunehmen? Oder eine Klorolle, oder stapelweise Papier aus dem Büro? Warum solche Eigenmächtigkeiten? Das hat was [...]

(German version published on 29 December, 2009)
At last “Die Grünen” do some practical politics again and this is in consumerism this time (German) This was very helpful as in a snap sample they tested the retention time and the fees in phone hotlines. It was not really surprising that they found out that both [...]

(German version published on 28 December, 2009)
Like every year there were several themes which has been discussed in the Internet during the passing year. Some of those have been discussed for years now already while others have returned or are completely new. So before the year ends here is a short poll with the question [...]

(German version published on 01 December, 2009)
Now the Swiss have really done it (German) and with a majority of 57% (German) they voted against the construction of new minarets. While this makes European right wings happy (German), there of course also are the first protest notes of the islamic world (German). But it would be [...]

(German version published on 01 December, 2009)
Online polls are a simple and quick possibility to create a set of opinions from a large amount of people. But in case those polls are open, they suffer two drawbacks which limit their credibility. On the one hand the group of people participating is no neutral group as [...]

(German version published on 28 November, 2009)
When a water hose has a hole it might help to simply pump in more water instead of fixing the problem. This solution at least is prefered by the German government with its spending a billion against loan shortage (German). If only enough money (German) will be pumped into [...]

(German version published on 27 November, 2009)
Currently there are some things which are happening in politics and some themes which already have been  discussed before have been decided now.
Therefore most topics have already been dealt with intensely so beside of a short statement I rather link to articles I read somewhere else. (In plain language: [...]

(German version published on 24 November, 2009)
In the case of Nikolaus Brender (German), whos position as chief editor of the ZDF is put into question presumptive because of reasons of party related politics, shortly ago 35 leading experts of constitutional law wrote an open letter (German) in which they stated their concern against a politically [...]

(German version published on 12 November, 2009)
The proof that Wikipedia at least is relevant itself has been made by the many donations of its users and supporters. If there are really different people behind all these donations of 1 Euro then the discussion about relevance (German) really reached a big part of the Internet users: [...]