Dienstag, März 23, 2010

New York Times: The End of Newspapers? Das Ende der Zeitungen?

By MARIE BÉNILDE
Published: March 16, 2010
 

Journalists are now in the same situation as steel workers in the 1970s: They are destined to disappear, but they don’t know it.

That was the assessment of a banker from BNP-Paribas at the French national press federation’s conference in Strasbourg in 2006. His words caused a sensation, but the statistics support him: Having lost more than 2,300 jobs last year, the French press is going through a crisis similar to America’s. more...


Donnerstag, März 18, 2010

Erste Sitzung der frei gewählten Volkskammer der DDR im Jahre 1990 - The freely elected People's Chamber of the DDR in the year 1990




Erste Sitzung der frei gewählten Volkskammer


Die erste und zugleich einzige frei gewählte Volkskammer der DDR konstituiert sich am 5. April 1990 im Palast der Republik. Der 10. Volkskammer gehören - einschließlich der Nachrücker - 409 Abgeordnete an. Nur drei Prozent der Abgeordneten sind auch schon Mitglieder der 9. Volkskammer gewesen. Zu ihrer Präsidentin wählen die Abgeordneten im zweiten Wahlgang die CDU-Abgeordnete Sabine Bergmann-Pohl.

The free elections to the People’s Chamber (Volkskammer) of the German Democratic Republic on 18 March 1990 completely transformed the character of that Parliament. Under the dictatorship of the Socialist Unity Party (SED), the People’s Chamber had been a sham parliament which, with one single exception, had always rubber-stamped the decisions of the state and party leaders until the peaceful revolution in the autumn of 1989. Now it transformed itself into a democratic parliament, whose members tackled a massive workload to carve out the path to the unification of Germ

Montag, März 15, 2010

CHRISTMAS SOUVENIRS - SOUVENIRS in Cologne, Germany
















When I am on the way to the Televsion Station in Cologne , I am passing the Souvenir Shop of Rahim. His has a partiality for products "Made in Germany" e.g. Kuckucksuhren (watches)from the Black Forest or Christmas angles from the city of Seiffen in Germany. The shop is near by to the cathedrale in Cologne.
If you visit him, say best regards from me "Wolfgang , TV Journalist German TV". Please comment the visit on this blog.









 



 






























Address:
BACHTER ACCESSOIRES
Komödienstrasse 15
50667 Köln (Cologne)
Germany
Phone: 0049 (0) 221 9463806


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Donnerstag, März 11, 2010

Three strong earthquakes strike Chile-Earthquake Chile NEW - Neues Erdbeben in Chile




Three strong earthquakes strike Chile

11 March, 2010
Santiago, Chile -- Three strong earthquakes rocked Chile on Thursday, causing major damage in at least one city.A 6.9-magnitude earthquake at 11:39 a.m. local time (9:39 a.m. ET), followed by a 6.7-magnitude quake 16 minutes later,A third, measured at magnitude 6.0, came 27 minutes later the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
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