Multiculturel missunderstanding – or: “how cultural globalisation missleades”

November 30th, 2008 No comments

“To be or not to be ….. french? german? european?”:

“Paris – Berlin”

To see a brilliant missunderstanding on the debate on “multicultural” mixtures and discourse on mixture of rasses, please watch the following record on arte TV

Participator:

Éric Zemmour

Rokhaya Diallo

Vincent Cespedes

Renan Demirkan

More on this emmission: arte.tv as well as on this blog

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first official privacy distro

November 22nd, 2008 No comments

Here we go: The first “official privacy distro” against the german “total surveillance”:

www.privacy-cd.org

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Freedom activist security mesures

March 25th, 2008 No comments

The Washington Post” and “der Standard” have reported today, that chinese hackers have tried to break into tibetan activist organisations networks and computers to steal encryption keys. Encryption keys are used to sign and encrypt electronic messages like E-Mails. China operates the world’s largest and most restrictive “Firewall” to censor internet communication and obscure information. Further it is known that in China a certain hacker group called “Titan Rain”, that is most probably financed and supported by the chinese government has been attacking the Pentagon and the german “chancelor house. Many tibetan organisations and activists notice a higher amount on suspect trojans and viruses. But thanks to the operation of Free Software such as the GNU/Linux operation system and Free Sowftware applications, such as GnuPG for encryption and the Tor Project for anonymous internet, the damage has been kept low.

I urge tibetan activists, journalists and news reporters to use encryption technology to secure and assure internet communication. To bypass the chinese firewall (e.g. to access the internet from Lhasa) it is most advisable to use Tor or similar anonymiser software. (see my blog post from the 18th of march 2008).

Internet Censorship

Stop the Chinese genocide in Tibet

March 21st, 2008 No comments

For almost 50 years the tibetans have been terrified by the chinese government. The Tibetans deserve their own freedom, their own country, religious freedom, press freedom, freedom of speech and human rights. The Chinese government oppresses its dictatoric kommunism in a perverted mixture with kapitalism on its citizens and Tibetans. Not even Chinese artists have a freedom of expression and creative work. The chinese firewall filters and censores the internet. After the protests from the 10th of March 2008 in Lhasa the chinese government has banished all international organisations, journalists and photographers. The chinese television is further being used for chinese propaganda, not showing how chinese soldiers are killing Tibetan manifestants. The united nations and many countries all over the world have not yet show any reaction to the latest chinese invasion in Lhasa. The Tibetans need our support and solidarity now. Boycott Chinese products & boycott the olympic games in Bejing this year. Stand up for freedom and human rights!

Flag of Tibet

Some Links:

Tibet Focus (Switzerland)

Tibetan Center of human rights

Free Tibet Blog NY

Phanyul News

Blog from Kathmandu

Free Tibet Blog (German)

Censored Videos and pictures from Lhasa and elsewhere

http://tibet.com

Panchen Lama

tibet.lix.cc

Free Tibet

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24C3 – Full steam ahead

December 27th, 2007 No comments

24C3
Today the 24rd Chaos Communication Congress opened it’s doors. You can watch the talks on the following Streams. The recordings will be published after the congress and mirrored on my mirror.

Patrick Rapold "La Campanella"

December 11th, 2007 No comments

Today Patrick Rapolds new CD “La Campanella” was released. Nice work, Patrick! The work contains beautiful tracks composed by Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Horowitz, Chopin, Bach etc.

La Campanella

(Patrick Rapold is an actor and classical pianist. See his Wikipedia site for more information.)

Track 1 “La Campanella”

Track 2 “Morceau de Fantaisie”

Track 3 “Etincelles”

Track 4 “Melody from Orphenée Eurydice”

Track 5 “Soirée de Vienne”

Track 6 “Prélude Op. 28”

Track 7 “Prélude No. 1”

Track 8 “jeu d’eau”

Track 9 “Melody”

Track 10 “Consolation No. 3”

Track 11 “Etude Op. 2”

Track 12 “Waltz Op.”

Track 13 “Variations on Bizet’s Carmen”

Track 14 “Air”

How to bake a swiss “Zopf”

December 10th, 2007 2 comments

The swiss Zopf is a bread traditionally baked on weekends for Sundays breakfast or “brunch“. Here is a simple howto and recipe, that is Licensed under GFDL 1.2 & CC-by-sa 3.0.

Zopf Step 1

  • 1 kg of white flour
  • 120 g of butter
  • 42 g of yeast
  • 0.6 l of milk
  • 3 teaspoons of salt
  • 2 teaspoons of sugar
  • 2 egg yolks

Zopf Step 2

Fill the flour in a pot together with pieces of butter, the sugar and salt.

Zopf Step 3

Dissolve the yeast in hand-warm Milk.

Zopf Step 4

Fill the Milk (with dissolved yeast) into the pot.

Zopf Step 5

Start mixing all together.

Zopf Step 6

Knead the dough forcefully.

Zopf Step 7

Put the dough back into the pot, cover it with a humid towel and let it arise double of it’s size.

Zopf Step 9 Zopf Step 10 Zopf Step 11 Zopf Step 12 Zopf Step 13

After one hour take the dough out of the pot and cut it into two pieces (for one loaf of bread) or into 4 pieces (for 2 loaves of breads). Braid the dough like shown on the images.

Zopf Step 8 Zopf Step 14 Zopf Step 15

Cover the bread with egg yolk.

Zopf Step 16 Zopf Step 17

Put it into the preheated oven for 50 Minutes with 180-200° C

Zopf Step 18

Enjoy 😉

Lix with Swiss Zopf

Lix with Swiss Zopf

Lix

(All pictures and recipe are licensed under GFDL 1.2 & CC-by-sa 3.0 by Lix and Patrick Rapold)

Karlheinz Stockhausen R.I.P.

December 10th, 2007 No comments

The great composer and musician Karheinz Stockhausen has passed away the 5th of December 2007.

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Microsoft corrupts nigerian government

November 2nd, 2007 No comments

Mandriva LogoThe nigerian administration suddenly changed its mind over the 17’000 Classmate PCs delivered with preinstalled GNU/Linux Mandriva to install Microsoft Windows. The CEO of Mandriva blogged in an open letter to Steve Ballmer: “Hey Steve, how do you feel looking at yourself in the mirror in the morning?”

As I blogged some time ago on my Malawi Blog the race of the OS’ seems to be over in the “western world”. But as the african continent offers financial success on its “new markets” it is an worthful aim for neo-imperialistic ploys. The race goes on.

[Update 2rd February 2017]:
Corrected Link to Mandriva Blog

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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

October 16th, 2007 No comments

In THE SHOCK DOCTRINE, Naomi Klein explodes the myth that the global free market triumphed democratically. Exposing the thinking, the money trail and the puppet strings behind the world-changing crises and wars of the last four decades, The Shock Doctrine is the gripping story of how America’s “free market” policies have come to dominate the world– through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries.

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