adorno &bloch revisited

occupy the wall street - today in europe

best film on the financial crisis - a must see!

on justice in britain....

sacrilega minuta puniuntur - magna in triumphis feriuntur... cicero

small crimes will be punished, big crimes are celebrated in triumph.

how bloody true.

london riots - a month ago...

the us should not call itself western anymore. west stood for equality, democracy and justice...something obama just burried

not the islamists have almost brought down "our" civilisation but wall street. comment on the verge of the financial crisis

http://www.videoportal.sf.tv/video?id=9c3f64b8-b88a-4bd1-88dd-cb2392775ba5

on mur-democracy again

murdoch week...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2011/jul/19/who-knew-who-phone-hacking

civic response - an inspiring but controversial talk on mexico

feminist freedom comes in different forms...today: saudi-arabian women fight for the right to drive

a new scare is hunting Europe.... ehec - biologists concentrate on the bacteria rather than politics. it would be better if they watched Food Inc

after the incredible visit of the obamas to GB (1600 dollar silk dresses, bq with the twins who shall not be named, one asks oneself: did our brothers and sisters fight for a black president like that?...obama missed a one in a million year chance to change the system for people. he choose goldman sachs.

free ai wei wei

why men like strauss-kahn, bill clinton or spitzer from n.y. are there worst enemies....: ps DSK arrested on sexual assault charges

sophie scholl, founder of the Weisse Rose with her brother hans scholl - a tribute: sophie would have turned 90 in this year

tribute to daily show writer john oliver

50 years ago - the trial eichmann started in jerusalem

weiwei arrested...business as usual for china

atomic cafe...a long time ago and today....

staempfli: "cogito, ergo sum, in media ergo sum, coitus, ergo sum"...from head to body

thanks to adrian kreye, the feuilletonist of the sueddeutsche: three angry birds explain the Arab spring

75% of ted audience was in favor of nuclear energy......February 2010. A year later, there is plutonium (24'000 years) in Japanese soil...

greed is still great for wallstreet...nothing has changed and everything is different

traumata - cinema - visions...aikira kurosawa

"les explications, faute d' autre chose...explications in lack of anything"...hiroshima, mon amour

the comment of today...is that how 1968 saw the future flower children? thanks david capellini for the input and lilo koenig for the picture and yes, the dimensions are as they have to be...the world steps out of its dimensions

international women's day...100 years forward-backward-forward...but always james bond:-)

wael ghonim about egypt, 2.0 and people like you and me

in real life ghandi was imprisoned, hannah arendt was exiled, churchill was not elected anymore, martin luther king murdered after he joined the unions....but yes, this ad does give me some comfort

googleberg...swiss and german weapons in lybia...it's all in here....

reminded again how tough one has to be when one is courageous...

the crab revolution.....imagine the most stupid crab...I know his name:-) and, guess what profession he belongs to...no, not a banker, no, not a lawyer and yes!!!! he is a journalist...

us and switzerland...share the constitution, the tea party (in switzerland svp), share virtual zero political education and share a beautiful landscape...my comment to the referendum today (and yes: in some parts of zurich 80 percent voted against the svp...80 percent)

"without my mother I couldn't have done it..." so much to the journalists who always call me the "butcher's daughter"...it was my factory worker/saleswoman mother! if you need to 'civilise' me by placing me...

feb 7th women's suffrage in switzerland in....1971 (1991 in a canton)...

french philosophers speaking english...why? shouldn't all philosophers understand - above all - french, german and spanish?

a speech from two years ago...and very insightful: why not listen to tarik ali?

the us in contradicition: support mubarak but call for reforms? sorry, either or - best solution: mubarak has to leave. the sooner the better

mubarak will fall - and after him pleaso no islamists, pleaso no other capitalist supported autocrat but democracy and equal chances for the people

cohn-bendit explaining complex policies in clear words...case of irland

home is where i understand and where i am being understood

jamie oliver really means it...if only he understood politics better

an echo of narcissus: work on myth and tales and simone de beauvoir: the man sees, the woman is seen

a great speech- perfect illustration to my interview today in the woz

Davos a year ago - blip tv still striving..wish we had something similar for Europe

a clip on my column today on civil courage...

video to illustrate my current article on dignity and art - my conclusion? piero manzoni shows with his merda more dignity than most current ethic committees of today

rhetoric hatred turns real...and palin doesn' t feel responsible?

an the Eu is worried about hungary's new media law, which is appalling enough - while the US are more and more totalitarian - learning from the Chinese? where is the freedom of speech and the freedom of information?

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/01/07/us/AP-US-US-WikiLeaks.html?_r=1&hp

Maps....seeen differently and check out http://alphadesigner.com/project-mapping-stereotypes.html

sagmeister - magic to start the year: yes, design can make you happy

Capitalism with bailouts is like Satan owning heaven....

the book is even better...rarely read such poesie

my favorite example against all bullshit empiricists (yeah, i am looking at you) and positivists and monetarists

best mediasurvey for 2011 - that's why i am all for our own newspaper and our own bank...

confusing, striking, thoughtful analysis but very unclear at the end: charity no, socialism no, capitalism no...which yes then?

my next chapter in my new book: toystory as a metaphor...watch and enjoy

he is not just a very interesting historian but also an extremely polite and helpful colleague