In a Million Years

“The choices pro nuclear energy, which were made by a small number of people and will have consequences for millions of years, are irresponsible and arrogant. This is the reason why we not only document the Anti-nuclear protests, but also understand our pictures as a part of this protest”
What today is produced as nuclear waste in German nuclear power plants will be radioactive even in a million years – a secure storage for this long period of time cannot be possible. Therefore, the united population of Wendland is struggling for over 30 years against the storage of radioactive waste in front of their homes. Given the life-span extension for nuclear power plants, the project “www.inamillionyears.com” shall call attention to the problem of storage. Four well-known German photographers: Andreas Herzau, Christian Jungeblodt, Michael Meyborg and Daniel Rosenthal document the culture of protest and are on site, when the next CASTOR with radioactive waste in November 2010 rolls into the final storage Gorleben.

Directed by the movie maker Lukas Thiele, starting November 4th short multimedia movies with pictures of the three photographers will be daily presented on the homepage “www.inamillionyears.com”.

Among others, with the pictures from the archive of Michael Meyborg, who documented for more than 20 year the resistance in Wendland, a small chronicle of the resistance, lasting for more than 30 years, will be produced as multi-vision.
For this project we have prepared a trailer - free to use:
> www.inamillionyears.com/downloads

It can also be embedded over the YouTube page:
> www.youtube.com/inamillionyearsfilm

‘There are no rich,’ Senator-elect Rand Paul claims

There is no Rand Paul. There is no Rand Paul. There is no Rand Paul. There is no Rand Paul. There is no Rand Paul. There is no Rand Paul. There is no Rand Paul. There is no Rand Paul. There is no Rand Paul. There is no Rand Paul. There is no Rand Paul. There is no Rand Paul.

 

Shorter Rand Paul: Be nice to rich people because you all work for them.

...that was When I Ruled the World

After last night's grotesque but predictable

GOP victory over Democrats , I think our empire is finally done.

This time, there will not be some kind of pendulum at work.


There was no pendulum for the British Empire, the French Monarchy or the old USSR. Some rot is irreversible.


In fact, the USSR still remains my favorite analogy: we're in the Gorbachev era and lurching towards the Yeltsin era: look, the clowns have arrived!

I think the trend is simply irreversible, just as it was in the USSR, no matter who is in power. I feel sorry for Obama.

My best guess is that by 2014, a lot of the US will sort of look like Mumbai, minus the tasty food.



Lyrics to Viva La Vida by Cold Play :

I used to rule the world
Seas would rise when I gave the word
Now in the morning I sleep alone
Sweep the streets that I used to own

I used to roll the dice
Feel the fear in my enemy's eyes
Listen as the crowd would sing:
"Now the old king is dead!
Long live the king!"

One minute I held the key
Next the walls were closed on me
And I discovered that my castles stand
Upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand

I hear Jerusalem bells are ringing
Roman Cavalry choirs are singing
Be my mirror my sword and shield
My missionaries in a foreign field
For some reason I can't explain
Once you go there was never, never an honest word
That was when I ruled the world
(Ohhh)

It was the wicked and wild wind
Blew down the doors to let me in
Shattered windows and the sound of drums
People couldn't believe what I'd become

Revolutionaries wait
For my head on a silver plate
Just a puppet on a lonely string
Oh who would ever want to be king?

I hear Jerusalem bells a ringing
Roman Cavalry choirs are singing
Be my mirror my sword and shield
My missionaries in a foreign field
For some reason I can't explain
I know Saint Peter will call my name
Never an honest word
But that was when I ruled the world
(Ohhhhh Ohhh Ohhh)

I hear Jerusalem bells a ringing
Roman Cavalry choirs are singing
Be my mirror my sword and shield
My missionaries in a foreign field
For some reason I can't explain
I know Saint Peter will call my name
Never an honest word
But that was when I ruled the world

To Greedy wingnuts: "Glory days of yore" are never coming back". Deal with it. "US Exceptionalism", you say?