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Immigration is a resource (and inevitable)
A significant part of the populist right’s arsenal is anti-immigration rhetoric. They disregard facts and figures, instead exploiting the deep-seated fear of the unknown and the very real anxiety of economically vulnerable people, who fear being pushed into an even…
Apartment in Borneo (sabah) for sale!
Submitted by Keizer on Sun, 03/04/2012 – 06:52 I am selling my seafront apartment in Borneo, Malaysia, state of Sabah. The apartment is 30 km in the North of Kota Kinabalu. It is part of the Nexus Hotel Complex and was administered by the Hotel. …
My position towards China
I wrote the following piece in November 2019 staying in Guangzhou not knowing that my return planned for February would not happen. In the meantime I have accumulated much more criticism towards Xi, but I would still sign, everything what…
The positive effects of the Corona crisis
a) The building of an international scientific community. People are used only to see growing nationalism and populism in the handling of the corona crisis. But more important is the increasing scientific collaboration world wide. ( ) In this collaboration “open…
1989
Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall. I found an impressing and touching article in “the Spiegel”. Familiendrama zwischen West und Ost Warum ich mich nicht über den Mauerfall freuen konnte () 1989 I already…
On Europe and countries
On Europe and countries – thoughts after Brexit I lived half of my life in Germany and half of it in Italy. I am proud of Germany because, from the 1950s, the decade I was born, until today it developed…
I am not a nature conservation guy….
Swimming and snorkeling around Pulau Manukan I made some considerations on nature conservation. With 6,815,500,000 individuals of the species “homo sapiens sapiens :-)” (US Census Bureau April 18th 2010) nature conservation is a tricky issue. Homo sapiens is…
Beitrag zum Symposion: “Universalitaet unter pragmatischem Anspruch – Philosophie im Bologna Prozess”
Submitted by admin on Sun, 11/02/2008 – 14:39 Initially published at: Der Vortrag selbst (in Deutsch) wurde mitgeschnitten und ist bei https://stream.mml.uni-hannover.de/Video-Files/RRZN/ELSA/philo_sem/sympos… abrufbar. Ist aber nur funktionell mit Windows Media Player. Ich muss diesen Vortrag mit zwei Vorbemerkungen beginnen: Die erste Vorbemerkung ist ueber verschiedenen…
Osnabruecker Heimatabend
Submitted by admin on Tue, 04/22/2008 – 11:41 Am 20. April nahm ich an einer denkwuerdigen Veranstaltung teil mit dem Titel “Osnabruecker Heimatabend”, veranstaltet von Kalla Wefel, einem unserer Mitstreiter in der linken Schuelerbewegung Ende der 60er Jahre in Osnabrueck. Der Titel war…