germany decides…

sooo… this was the other picture i wanted to upload for Your very viewing pleasures :)
The poster - or whatever is left - used to say “Zeit für Taten” … which means something like “Time for Action” … which again was taken quite serious by somebody :) but since it’s a poster of the bavarian right wing party it is not that dramatic. I mean there were alwayss these misunderstandings between the bavarian people and the rest. And maybe it’s even better if these misunderstandings come out quite clear !b!e!f!o!r!e! the elections - rather than !a!f!t!e!r! the elections…
I actually dont know if you know what i mean - i can just say that it might be their own fault, if their “time for action” posters are taken apart - since their campain seems not to be 100% clear to the people and they obviously understand it their ways anyways :)

and tomorrow (in a few hours) i will go to my local voting booth and decide about germany’s future governmen. ouch!
Actually i only found out on CNN how important my HomeZone seems to be - since it’s not clear, if the PDS is -in- or -out- … and that again might decide about the majorities and minorities and the all the rest…

ok. now it’s time to go to sleep - so that i won’t make any mistakes tomorrow X]

gdnght, t_;_,_,___ _ _ _

germany decides.. they say..

and then we’ll have a brand-nu government that will rule! …the one way or the other :)

details are about to be updated a.s.a.p.
t_;_,_,___ _ _ _

*…you got to catch’em all…*

recently i found my first space invader … in the streets of Berlin - Mitte - Auguststrasse - stuck to the side if the OONA-Galerie (Gallery).

Wow.

and the top of my surprise is, that it is actually not even listed on www.space-invaders.com… neither is Berlin. *huh?* Why is that?
maybe it doesnt really matter if Berlin is listed or not - it’s just fine, that this cute little piece of art is lurking around that corner…

greetinx, t_;_,_,___ _ _ _

ps01:: and i added two new desktop pictures.. a bird on telcom wires and a satelite dish on a berlin wall (click’n’scroll) …

*huh*

Picking up some things from my parents’ place close to the river Elbe, i witnessed some of the preparation…
This is also where i took this picture - showing some Red-Cross-Army-Truck approaching the “Dömitzer Brücke”.
The atmosphere in that area is tense. Since the rivers are at higher levels than ever before, everybody’s one and only subject seems to be “The Flood”. Farmers are either bringing their goods and animals to safe places or sandbags to where they’re needed most urgent. Convoys of Firefighters, THW, Police, Army, Ambulance and sand carrying Trucks come and go to every direction, rushing through villages, dominating the scene.

I actually don’t know what to write - you might have guessed that already. Compared to the floods in China and elsewhere, the european floods are rather easy to handle - but still it is a strange feeling to see your own homearea in such a state of emergency.

Only now people seem to understand some of the consequences of “The Flood”, affecting vast areas around the rivers Elbe and Donau. Since the floods moved further down the rivers, scenes of destruction are left behind. Many towns and villages, through wich the floods went, look more or less like devastated battlefields, covered by layers of nauseating contaminated mud.
The powers of the waters are the one problem, making buildings collapse, destroying roads and railways (20% of the railroad-tracks of Sachsen-Anhalt have been demolished so far). The other problem is this mud, covering the left behind areas. On the news they only say, it might be a risk for peoples health - nobody should touch it or even eat anything that was in contact with the water. There must be millions of liters of oil, thousands of dead animals, tons of chemicals and who-knows-what-else going down the rivers, endangering natural parks and of going down the drain.
It is said that many people have lost “everything” but their lives - although it is not possible yet to overview what has actually happened and what will still happen.
It seems as if the only fact that is certain at the moment is, that it is a desaster - and it will cost a lot.

I just hope that this crisis will make people think, care and act about the environment more serious. I could now also write again something about cowboys and the Kioto Protocol - but maybe i skip that for now.

t_;_,_,___ _ _ _

PS 01:: Sign the Protocol, Mr. Scrub!
PS 02:: You may hunt down terrorists or not - but you can’t hunt down the weather!

>>> Elbe-Jeetzel-Zeitung
>>> >Hitzacker on CNN

it was just about time to go for another blinkie (you know, these small bumper stickers for the data highway…)
And again you may customize tinnintallin’s layout according to your preferences by choosing a different blinkie and/or a different underground.

and i still do hope that sooner or later Mr. Double-You-Scrub himself gets it… the one way or the other 8)

hm hmm hmmm…

and then he could also sign this kioto protocol… which brings me to ‘the Flood’ again::
today they estimated that the german train system alone has lost about 120 bridges and 200 train stations… or at least they’ll have to rebuild them. *ouch* That makes around 1.200.000.000,-euro of dammage for the railroads alone. Might be that in the long run saving he planet might turn out to be cheaper then repairing it every now and then…

well well… gd’nght!

t_;_,_,___ _ _ _