Mistery blue light on Norway

Damned, we got just Northern Lights when we were in Finland Rocket or something more exciting?

Wax coating edible fruits is toxic: truth or hoax?

I bought a nice box of Clementine. A tag on the box says: “Schale oberflächenbehandelt – nicht zum Genuss geeignet”, which more or less means “Do not eat the peel; it is not good for your health“.

I got surprised, as I touch the peel while peeling the clementine and then I touch the unpeeled clementine to eat it, WHAT is potentially dangerous in the peel? Two E numbers are among the Clementine “ingredients”: E-904 (Shellac) and E-914 (Oxidized polyethylene wax).

The best sfx movie ever: 2012

Some sequences were so astonishing that maybe they worth a ticket. Give it a look here to be convinced: http://xtshare.com/toshare.php?Id=20547

Integration von Ausländern: Tun die Schweizer selbst genug, um Ausländern zu integrieren?

To my opinion, no. In Switzerland the lack of information for foreigners is amazing. Comparis.ch has been far more helpful than Swiss citizens working at the immigration office /municipality. The only right information we got came from Swiss friends or from other foreigners. Swiss natives complain immigrants do not respect the rules, although too many Swiss citizens barely know them, or give wrong information, or better do not respect them.

Thus, the new xenophobic, intolerant and racist initiative of the SVP is unbearably stupid. Asking “Integration von Ausländern: Tun Ausländer selbst genug, um sich einzugliedern?” is highly hypocrite.

The strange case of Tariq Ramadan, a moderate Muslim.

It is interesting to read an interview to Tariq Ramadan about the Swiss minaret-verbot initiative. It is always interesting to read what a moderate Muslim may think about Europeans. I have a sneaky suspicion that if Prof. Ramadan got to speak before the initiative, minaret would have been forbidden with much more than 57% of the votes.

How to organize your Christmas shopping without losing your holy mood

A little trick to save your Christmas mood: do the shopping you must, you need, you want to … just weeks in advance! We were able to do everything today. The satisfaction we obtained is unlimited. No more stress of the last days, not too much crowd in the shops and shop keepers still nice and polite. All clothe sizes, all customizations, all colors still available… at once! You have no idea how relieved do I feel this evening.

Zeitgeist 2009: write the 10 words describing your year 2009

I start:

Fear, stress, job, boss, hate, disillusion, sadness, depression, hope, love

This is the time to understand Switzerland, not to be ashamed of it

For the simple reason that the same initiative in other European countries would have led to the same result: European citizens are afraid of Muslim communities and do consider arrogant their will to build symbols of Islamic power (like minarets may be considered).

We can think Europeans are ignorant, racists, slaves of extreme right parties and shocked by the economical crisis. Or we can open our eyes of left winged supporters and recognize a problem there is!

It could be an information problem, it could be a racist problem, it could be a real integration problem.

Vita e storia di Berlusconi a detta del fido Bossi (*)

Chissa’ cosa ha spinto Umberto a cambiare idea su Silvio ? Paura? Convenienza? Conoscenza della realta’? La stessa conoscenza che ora ha acquisito Fini?

(*) le frasi riportate sono state pronunciate testualmente
da Umberto Bossi fra il 1994 e il 1999, cioè durante le
tensioni del primo governo Berlusconi, dopo la rottura
fra Bossi e Berlusconi nel dicembre 1994 e prima della
loro riappacificazione alla fine del 1999.

Il testo di questo post e’ tratto da “Caro Papi Natale”, instant book scritto per il no B day dai lettori di www.lerane.wordpress.com

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