For the year 2020, the main zodiac element is metal, and the animal sign is Rat, and hence, 2020 will be the Year of the Metal Rat. The Chinese year will last from January 25, 2020 to February 11, 2021. – Above is the rat I painted to welcome the Year of the Rat in 1972.

They have elections today in UK – so happy Christmas dear islanders!

Autumn is soft in Eastern Frisia. Leaves are falling late November. Mortality
under the elderly is high. Like to stroll the forests here with my bicycle facing my survival.


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Meanwhile, in Shanghai, production is expected to begin in the coming weeks at a new Gigafactory Tesla built in just 168 days.

Most serious of all is the food crisis. The United Nations World Food Program issued a warning in August that over 5.5 million people, one third of Zimbabwe’s population, will be at risk of famine by early 2020, with 2.5 million already “marching towards starvation.” In September, it revised these estimates upwards, with 8.5 million people now likely to require emergency food aid.

Was invited to Washington DC attending a conference the day after election-day Tuesday, November 7, 2000. Arrived late night, no cheers and victory parades. The city was numb, bars crowded by people staring at tv monitors till early morning hours for final results. On Saturday I had the chance to stroll  around the White House, Washington Monument, the War Memorials towards Lincoln Monument using my first digital8 Sony handycam with 100xdigital zoom and plenty of digital filters enabling you to create effects like Akira Kurosawa did in his movie „Dreams“.

Zwei wackere Ostberliner fuhren vor dreißig Jahren nach Leipzig um mit einer 8mm Videokamera aus großer Höhe eine Demonstration in Leipzig zu filmen, die größer war als sie sich vorstellten: Hunderttausend Leipziger brachen auf in die Nacht und skandierten: „Wir sind das Volk“, „Widerstand“, „Gorbi, Gorbi, Gorbi“, „Neues Forum“ oder „Völker hört die Signale usf“ es war der Anfang vom Ende der DDR, die noch kurz vorher ihren 40. Jahrestag gefeiert hat.

Auf der Suche nach Zusammenhängen ist dieser Essay nicht nur hilfreich, sondern auch amüsant zu lesen. 

I uploaded this video early 2014, when the head of the European desk of the State Department under Hillary Clinton, Victoria Nuland, commented that she prefers the United Nations as mediator, instead of the European Union, adding „Fuck the EU„.