Elevator
Wuppertal is a city constructed on several hills. Every morning, when I go to work, I walk down one, and climb up another. The Ölberg where I live is actually quite steep, such that there are several stairs (one of them the famous Tippen-Tappen-Tönchen, leading up. Some time ago I came up with the idea that it would be convenient to have an elevator going up inside the mountain. Anyhow, in Lisbon a city equally built on seven hills (so much for the similarities...) has such a thing.
They have it since 1900 or so. BTW, also Bern has it, going down from the Münster Plattform). Of course both these cities also have funiculars to go up and down the hill. In Wuppertal all these things were demolished in the 70/80ies. Sometimes I wonder why the Schwebebahn survived.
Ach du heilige Demokratie...
Wie
weit wollen die eigentlich noch gehen?
Da kann man nur hoffen, dass sie sich irgendwann selbst vor die Wand fahren, weil es den Wählern mit einem Rest von demokratischen Grundverstand zu weit geht. Und das sind wahrscheinlich nicht einmal so wenige. Meiner Erfahrung nach, wissen und schätzen Herr und Frau Schweizer sehr wohl, dass
sie der Souverän sind.
Ah messieurs, votre parti est dégoutant.
Vorratsdatenspeicherung
Last weekend in Berlin I learned that "Belausche" is in fact a anagram of "Schäuble". Not bad, eh?
January 2008 is approaching fast and together with it the complete logging of all Telecommunication data in Germany. The law which was passed by the Bundestag in November actually over-fulfills the EU requirements. And it took a couple of days from the decision in the parliament to the first suggestions by some politicians that those data, once there, could also be passed on to certain industries, who-know-whom...
Of course, whenever you would point out something like this to people, they always said, "oh but only the police has the right use it to fight terrorism..."
I find it quite scary how innocent people are concerning their personal data and the state logging them, and that in country where not so far in the past there was a
Stasi, at least in parts of it.
So if you live in Germany join the
Verfassungsklage against this law.
It takes always place where you expect it last, be it in
Switzerland.
Ouuuh, that made my day. Definitely.
The show goes on tomorrow, and whatever will be the outcome, I am confident that it will change Switzerland for the better in the long run.
