Der PEN-Präsident Johano Strasser wird von NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC zum TAG DER ERDE interviewt. Er spricht das Bewusstsein und Verhalten der Gesellschaft in Fragen der Umwelt an, das viele Paradoxe aufweist:"Was die Klimakatastrophe betrifft, befinden wir uns in der Situation des Zauberlehrlings der plötzlich erkennt, dass er sich auf etwas eingelassen hat, das er nicht mehr beherrscht." Erfahren Sie mehr über unseren Zivilisationstyp und wie die Bahn zum Chauffeur wird....
Eine zuerst zähe aber desto weiterführende hochinteressante Diskussion (ab Minute: 14) über politisch informierte Bürger, Wirtschafts- und Demokratiestrukturen, Behörden und Investoren, die sich gestört fühlen und die Mobilisierung von Bürgern ( campact ) um die fehlende Abstimmungsgesetzgebung in Deutschland auszugleichen. Es gibt ein Wahlrecht aber kein Abstimmungsrecht! Und in wie weit sind Bürgerentscheide sozial exklusiv, wenn organisierte, gut ausgebildete, reiche Minderheiten mehr Öffentlichkeit für Ihre speziellen Interessen herstellen können (Hamburg)? Neue Entscheidungsregeln sollen in naher Zukunft den Bürgern noch weniger Informationen zukommen lassen und Rechte absprechen (Einleitung). Protest gesetzlich ausgeschlossen? "Schluss mit Basta! - Entscheidungsregeln versus Bürgerprotest" Dabei sein ist alles - über die neue Lust an gesellschaftlicher Partizipation. Es reden: - Prof. Dr. Johano Strasser, Publizist, Schriftsteller und Präsident PEN Deutschland - Dr. Felix Kolb, Ex-Vorstand der Bewegungsstiftung, Geschäftsführer „campact.de! Demokratie in Aktion", Verden www.campact.de - Claus Biegert, Journalist und Autor, Initiator des „Nuclear-Free Future Awards", München - Dipl.-Ing. Peter Conradi, ehem. Präsident der Bundesarchitektenkammer, Stuttgart - Dr. Tim Guldimann, Botschafter der Schweiz in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
thelede.blogs.nytimes.com Günter Grass, Germany's most famous living author and the 1999 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, sparked outrage in Germany on Wednesday with the publication of a poem, "What must be said," in which he sharply criticizes Israel's policies on Iran. "Why did I wait until now at this advanced age and with the last bit of ink to say: The nuclear power Israel is endangering a world peace that is already fragile?" Grass writes in the poem. The 84 year old also criticizes the planned delivery of submarines "from my country" to Israel, a reference to Germany's plan to deliver Dolphin-class submarines to Israel that are capable of carrying nuclear-armed missiles. At the same time, Grass also expresses his solidarity with Israel. In the poem, published by Germany's Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper and other European dailies on Wednesday, Grass also calls for an "unhindered and permanent monitoring of Israel's nuclear potential and Iran's nuclear facility through an international entity that the government of both countries would approve." It is widely believed that Israel possesses nuclear weapons, although it has never been proven. In response to the publication, the Israeli Embassy in Berlin issued a statement offering its own version of "What must be said." "What must be said is that it is a European tradition to accuse the Jews before the Passover festival of ritual murder," the statements reads. "Earlier, it was Christian children whose blood <b>...</b>
www.youtube.com thelede.blogs.nytimes.com poste videocoments (allowed) A new poem by the German Nobel laureate Günter Grass depicting Israel's undeclared nuclear might as a threat to world peace drew wide condemnation from Jewish groups and commentators in Germany on Wednesday, showing the strength of enduring taboos in German public discourse about Israel more than six decades after the Holocaust. In the poem, titled "What Must Be Said," Mr. Grass, 84, asks why he has remained silent about Israel's nuclear might — which Israel has never publicly confirmed — and concludes that he had been constrained by a broader fear of being judged an anti-Semite. But with Israel threatening to take military action against Iran's nuclear program, the German author writes: "Why do I say only now, aged and with my last drop of ink, that the nuclear power Israel endangers an already fragile world peace? Because that must be said which may already be too late to say tomorrow." He also complained that by supplying submarines to Israel, Germany risked becoming "a subcontractor to a foreseeable crime." Israel has threatened to launch a pre-emptive strike against Iran's nuclear facilities, arguing that they are being used to acquire the capability of building nuclear weapons. But Iran says its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes. "I will no longer remain silent because I am tired of Western hypocrisy," he said, according to an unofficial translation. The publication of the poem in the <b>...</b>
Im Alter von einem Jahr kam Fabrizia Ramondino 1937 zusammen mit ihren Eltern, dem italienischen Konsul und seiner eleganten Frau, nach Palma di Mallorca. Diese kurze aber intensive Lebensphase schildert sie in poetischen Bildern, erzählt von den...
