Hi there 
As you may know: we are blogging live in Luxemburgish language from the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen on Sokrates.lu It’s a look worth! That’s also the reason why I’m not blogging about the entire UNCCC here.
Prometheus
Politics
13
Dec 09
A story that isn’t hardly to believe, but very hardly to understand
A summary of the story can be found here. Now my point of view: it’s not difficult to know that I disagree completely with the authorities. In a political state with democratic values and laws it shouldn’t be possible to have the rights as authorities to operate the way they did. They ran in the door, confiscated some technical gear and accused innocent people of trying to commit a crime against… Yeah, against what? The human feature of being curious? Or the fact trying to understand and improving technologies? These arguments don’t sound reasonable to me. I’ll hope that the “everyone who is able to handle technology correctly and beyond the given borders (specifically computer science) is a potential criminal” cliché will come soon to its end.
Regards,
Prometheus
15
Oct 09
This woman knows what she’s talking about
Just a short anecdote:
She was the Federal Minister of Justice in Germany. That means, she played a very important role in investigations which are related to “computer crimes”, surveillance and stuff like this.
But as every one can clearly see: she’s very qualified for this position and above all she knows exactly what she’s talking about.
Cheers,
Prometheus
4
Oct 09
World Animal Day 2009
One can’t call it a complete success, but it was a start. More or less one hundred people were present and motivated to fight for the rights of the animals. But what’s the situation in Luxembourg? A global anchorage in the constitution without concrete guidelines or examples. 2007 and 2008 were years in which the EU-Deputies of Luxembourg showed their real intentions. Neither the petition against bullfights nor the petition for the prohibition of dogfights were signed by our animal lovers, except of one: Claude Turmes (Deputy for the Luxemburgish Greens in the EUP).
Cosmetic industries, animal testing, racking animal transports, slaughters en masse without anesthesia and horrible activities like these are happening day for day in our democratic and fair world. To me it’s more a massacre instead of killing the livestock to guarantee the surviving of our species. We need to stop that. Animals are living creatures too, exactly as we are. There is no reason why we should be on top of the food chain. Animals as human beings have to live together in harmony and not in agony. For some it is fun to torture and afterwards kill animals. It’s perverse and irresponsible. If everyone carries just a little bit, change in a positive way will come.
Regards,
Prometheus
