Let's assume that the world consists of only four people: 👵Adele, 👩🎓Berta, 👨✈️Chris and 👤Desmond. Since this is a fair world, each of them has made a fortune of € 10,000. It's the year 2008: 👵: € 10,000 👩🎓: € 10,000 👨✈️: € 10,000 👤: € 10,000 The financial crisis sets in. But the four … Continue reading Coronavirus: The Money
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Coronavirus: Science versus Religion
Photo: Vatican News In a spectacular 5:4 ruling this week, the US Supreme Court judged that freedom of worship should not be restricted in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. This decision is a first climax in the dispute about how much restriction of our freedom is worth saving human lives. Two different worlds collide … Continue reading Coronavirus: Science versus Religion
Our real problem
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The Austrian incompetence
In Austria we are experiencing the greatest crisis since World War Two. In addition to the global Corona crisis, we have now also suffered the crisis of international terrorism. If you follow the reporting in the national media, you have to assume that we were completely surprised by both. Apparently neither the "second wave" of … Continue reading The Austrian incompetence
The Scandal of Sexual Abuse
To the Archbishop of Vienna Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn Wollzeile 2 AT-1010 Vienna Dear Cardinal, Pope John Paul knew everything. He also knew everything about Cardinal Groër here in Vienna. That was the whole point. The 'New York Times' is wrong. My friend Giovannipaolo saw these episcopal appointments as the only way to solve this centuries-old … Continue reading The Scandal of Sexual Abuse
The war in the Caucasus
(c) Foto: AP Tonight, Armenia and Azerbaijan signed an agreement to end their war. This happened with the mediation of the Russian Federation and abstinence of the European Union. Azerbaijan calls this treaty "the Armenian surrender". Armenian Protesters then stormed the seat of their government. The complications in this region, the cradle of Europe, are … Continue reading The war in the Caucasus
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The Super-GAU of terrorism
On November 2, 2020, All Souls Day, Austria's first Islamist terrorist attack took place in Vienna. One man killed 4 people and wounded another 22 people, some of them life-threatening. It was the worst terrorist attack in our country's history. The first research has shown that this attack can be traced back to a traitor … Continue reading The Super-GAU of terrorism
Thanks, Mister Chancellor!
Dear Chancellor Kurz, After your speech to the nation today, I would like to thank you. Though I agree with Armin Thurnher in his "Epidemic Column" that you obviously think of the party first and then of the country, but if your party thinks of the country, then it's okay again anyway... 😉 We old … Continue reading Thanks, Mister Chancellor!
Corona as gift of God
Welcome to lockdown! My following letter to the Austrian Economist Stephan Schulmeister was written during the financial crisis in October nine years ago: Dear Stephan Schulmeister, I really appreciate you personally. You are sympathetic and I like that you represent an alternative to the “neoliberal smog in our minds." Nevertheless, your point of view falls … Continue reading Corona as gift of God
Vienna Calling 