Harry Lime – Robert Courtney – Peter Stadtmann
On Friday, a District Court in Germany has sentenced Peter Stadtmann to 12 years in jail for tampering and adulterating life-saving and -prolonging cancer preparations in more than 14,000 cases....
View ArticleWe Want Him Back
Our daily chuckle, Donald Trump home alone in the White House, together with his wife, FLOTUS, was topped today by Kevin Spacey’s Frank Underwood. The true villain at the controls acted indeed far...
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Peace in the Qur’an
In his latest book on Muhammad, Juan Cole, Professor of History at Michigan University in Ann Arbor, has suggested interesting theories about the overall peaceful intent of the Qur’an. In times of...
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“Why do wealthy politicians build walls, fences and gates around their homes?”
Well, that’s a good question. Donald Trump answer doesn’t satisfy, though. They do that because they have lost contact to their subjects, not because they love those inside the wall. It’s a sign of...
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A Smile of the Beyond
Is this what British guitarist John McLaughlin had in mind on his 1974 album Apocalypse with a reorganized and, then and now, largely disappointing Mahavishnu Orchestra? God as a smiley? What happens...
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“No person in this country is so high that he is above the law”
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s heavily redacted report last page concludes, Because we determined not to make a traditional prosecutorial judgment, we did not draw ultimate conclusions about the...
View ArticleThe 2019 Christmas Annular Solar Eclipse
A rare annular solar eclipse will happen on December 26 this year. Visibility will be from Eastern provinces of Saudi Arabia early in the morning, then the totality will rush to Qatar, Abu Dhabi and...
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After the Solar Eclipse is Before Another One
Happy New Year! to all who still follow my blog. We returned safely from buzzing Doha last week where the 1999 Annular Solar Eclipse was visible but again obscured by lots of clouds. The GIF of the...
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Nature vs. God
When discussing the current Corona virus pandemic with a friend, he mentioned some apocalyptic ideas about God’s wrath. I replied that it is actually Mother Nature who strikes back. Evolution is the...
View ArticleBrian Eno And Gaza
Brian Eno celebrated his 70s birthday yesterday. His decision not to perform at a more or less unimportant pop festival in Berlin later this year was because the organizers had accepted a small amount...
View ArticleA Significant Emotional Event
Significant emotional events you won’t forget. Nor where you’ve been and how you felt. I remember as examples 9/11 and Kennedy’s assassination, Princess Diana’s funeral, my father’s passing and maybe...
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Grace and Humility
I am grateful that the French/German channel ARTE provides footage of the concert of Brian and Roger Eno at the Acropolis in Athens of August 4. The circumstances, in times of Covid, the most...
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Tropical Nights in Tromsø
When temperatures fell to just 21°C in a summer night in 2018 (July 29), it was reported in the news the following day. The first time in recorded history, Tromsø, about 350 km north of the Arctic...
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Insights Into Shi’ite Islam
I have come across this book by photographer Hans Georg Berger, Einsicht – Drei Reisen in die innerste Welt des schiitischen Islam (Insight – Three Journeys Into the Innermost World of Shi’a Islam,...
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Venus Transits in 1032 and 2012
Venus transit on June 6, 2012, Tromsø. By courtesy of Bert Olsen. As readers may have noticed, I am a moon watcher. Eclipses of either the sun or the moon had been a sort of passion throughout my...
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A Memoir of a 34-Year-Old
It’s true, Chelsea Manning has experienced what others would not have in an entire life. She has done the public an incredible favor when downloading thousands of documents to WikiLeaks which...
View ArticleDissatisfied, Incompetent, Socially Retarded
When Prince Harry now mentions that he had killed 25 Afghan fighters when in the country at the tender age of 23, I remember what I wrote about him in 2008. The Testosterone Factor March 03, 2008 This...
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Norman X. Finkelstein’s Inquest Into His (Self-provoked) Martyrdom?
Phew! I just checked and it took me ten weeks to finish reading it. I don’t know exactly what is this, at least, it’s Norman Finkelstein’s latest book. One user over at reddit, when seeing the...
View ArticleHow Does a Yellowhammer Sing?
About two years ago, I had blogged about a rare concert by Brian Eno and friends and family members at the Acropolis in Athens which took place under very concerning circumstances. So far unseen...
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