Archive for the 'Just Natural'

Hardware on the wheat field

Wednesday, January 18 2012

Despite declining populations will be built without restraint: Especially bad is the unchecked land use between Bonn and Cologne - the landscape is very flat, which attracts so-called investors, DIY stores, furniture centers and similar to fertile farmland slog where grain was grown only yesterday... ,
Ugly's looks and depressing. Who visits merely all these factory outlets?
Municipalities and private landowners attract lucrative sales to protect farmland against - the grain is still far from international markets and not from the farmer next door. The concept of self-sufficiency is defamed as outdated.

But what if by - let's say a currency crash - our rolling granary from somewhere remain lying somewhere along the way?

Enclosed is a little ditty about. Where last year ... Audio Piste

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BieneMaja sounds the alarm: German beekeepers are dying out!

Monday, June 28, 2010

Biene Maja; Quelle Wikimedia Commons In principle, we know very well all the importance of the honeybee. But the numbers are still always impressive:

  • 80% of our total domestic flowering plants are pollinated by honeybees.
  • Without the contribution of bees yield fruit cultivation for. B. would fall by 75%. Bees pollinate containing stone and pome fruit trees, berry bushes, rapeseed, peas, beans, clover, alfalfa, cabbage, carrots and all kinds of flowering plants.
  • Therefore, the value of bees is measured not only in their honey production, but at their pollination services and thus its contribution to the conservation of biodiversity.
  • In order to collect the nectar for 1 pound of honey, honeybees lay back a distance equal to three times the earth's circumference.
  • German bees (currently be seen on the black-red-golden sensor pads) meet with their work about 20-25% of German honey requirement.
  • Every German eats an average of 1.3 kilograms of honey a year

About 80,000 beekeepers, there are still in Germany, but they have, and that is worrying, with an average age of 65 years. There is a lack of young beekeepers and -Innen.

1952 alone there were in West Germany still 182,000 beekeepers with 2.1 million bee colonies.

1972 there were 87,100 beekeepers with more than one million people.

The last census of the German Beekeepers' Association, based in Wachtberg near Bonn in 2009 resulted in a number of 81,500 members with approximately 614,000 people.

A total worrying trend! (More ...)

After concrete offer Iran: daily newspaper DIE WELT Calls bombing

Thursday, 04 February, 2010.

Against the Springer journal The world must be reimbursed to a war of aggression criminal charges of sedition and incitement to journalistic aid. It is also understood that the sheet a complaint by the Bundespresserat must be granted, since it has failed to fulfill the most important principle of the Press Code, which reads: respect for the truth and respect for human dignity. This Code of Ethics applies since 1.1.2009 also for online media.

Background:
On 3.2.2010 is generally through the media that Iran wants to enter into concrete negotiations with other countries, so that uranium could be enriched there. "Ahmadinejad said Iran was ready to enter into an agreement for uranium exchange with the nuclear powers. Low enriched uranium can be also brought it from Iran abroad, he says. "(GA Bonn, 3.2.2010, p.2). Low-enriched uranium (3.5%) abroad concrete terms thereafter (France, Russia) are brought to 20% and are then sent back as fuel for a research reactor in Iran. This solution to the nuclear dispute had signed off for weeks, if you followed the media reports carefully.

The Iranian president further:
"We are not against it, to send our low enriched uranium abroad because we want a constructive cooperation and because we can always produce the low-enriched uranium in Iran again," Ahmadinejad said. For his departure from the previous position he called "technical reasons."

Instead of this offer to respond constructively-concretely, the United States, however, go further obviously a delaying tactic - to keep other options open?

Even worse: US hawks who win in the US after Obama's election defeats momentum again, demand now more than ever the bombing of Iran:
World online from 3.2.2010: Iran must be bombed, which would at the same time the advantage to carry the poll numbers Obamas, who are in the basement, upwards.
Quote:
"Barack Obama should Iran bomb,
By Daniel Pipes, February 3rd, 2010, 12:18 pm clock, Barack Obama's poll ratings plunge in the basement. The themes of unemployment and health care system, he has failed, he also has lost three elections. A dramatic gesture is needed to change the public perception. He must be to destroy the Iranian nuclear weapons command. "(More ...)

Germany has the bomb!

Monday, December 14, 2009
Bombe (Quelle:Wikimedia Commons)

Bomb from WW2 (Source: Wikimedia Commons)

When I want to inform me of the new long-haul Airbus A400M military transporter, of which Germany has ordered 60 pieces, also available on the official site of the "Ministry of Defense", I find there to nothing, but on the very first page something else:

The reference to a speech of Federal Defence Minister zu Guttenberg occasion of the ceremony "Bundeswehr and American Jewish Committee: 15 years of partnership and trust" on 8.12.2009 in Berlin.

Quite clear: I had overlooked something.
The AJC is a private organization founded in the US 1906th So far I did not know that the Bundeswehr received official partnerships with private organizations.

The AJC looks, according to self-reported, especially in the role of "ensuring the welfare and security of the American Jews, in Israel and around the world; to strengthen the key principles of pluralism as the best defense against anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry world; to improve the quality of American Jewish life, by helping to ensure Jewish continuity and deepen the ties between American and Israeli Jews. "

So far so good. I would have understood if so there would be a partnership with the AJC and German memorials - but the Department of Defense? So I had the speech read Guttenberg, and do my best to be more understanding:

"We Germans want to keep the memory of the Shoah awake. We provide our special responsibility that we carry after the barbarism of Nazism; the responsibility that we do not tolerate anti-Semitism and that we stand up for the right of existence and integrity of the State of Israel; the responsibility to ensure that freedom, human rights and tolerance are the uppermost maxims of our actions. This responsibility is unalterable part German raison d'etat. This responsibility obliges all Germans -. And therefore the Bundeswehr as an army of the democratic Germany "(more ...)

Everything is solar

Saturday, 02 May, 2009.

NASA: 3D Bild der Sonne

NASA: 3D image of the sun

In Iceland me once an Icelander said abruptly in conversation: "I am a simple man. But if I had to pick a religion, I would worship the sun. "

This set was very honest and also understandable. Probably a wise man had spoken to me.

In Iceland, the island near Greenland, is not so important, nothing is missing often as much as the sunlight - in the winter months. In spring and in summer the sun is it then almost always present: At night, it is never completely dark.

I'll never forget the feeling of sensations triggered by the continuous presence of the sun, both physically and mentally-emotionally significant energy thrust - a euphoria-like, almost addictive feeling of happiness ... (read more ...)

Osterspaziergang (days Buchau plan)

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Urge a mountain or at least to climb a hill:
Behind me high-voltage lines that can only be serviced by helicopters.

Before me hills, looking onto the sea.

The tracked vehicles have retreated after they had for months scratched bright scratches in the dark hills. Somewhere they are hiding. Only until the crisis is over.

Nature is in solemn silence that arises from a special concentration: She works resolutely engaged in taking forward the spring, so that everything is ready when the sun burns all again soon.

These devout concentration can swaths of Müllfeuerchen, Squad- and Kradmotoren affecting Böllerschießerei because of the resurrection of the Lord, and the foolish falsetto of barking barely. The silence lies down again and again about it because it is stronger today.

I climb a mountain by a sea of ​​flowers through which reaches up to more favored places up to shoulder height. The meadow is opening up and the touch of her leaves and flowers cools the skin; and I remember all of those places, as they were too similar time, as the wind was blowing, and where you could stretch out.

And then I look out of this mountain in the distance and remember and see all this, and realize that it is good but again.

Dark Purple Iris (days Buchau plan)

Monday, 06 April, 2009

The morning brings the discovery of dunkelilafarbigen irises.

With the beginning of spring I touch the morning about my favorite meadows to look like a botanical accountant all my familiar faces and greet satisfied. It gives security, certainty and satisfaction that this is successful every year. But the joyful greeting ritual is not all: I peer also looking for new faces, according to new discoveries for my collection.

And actually succeeds me every year to the "great holiday" a new face to discover (more ...)

Swallows (days Buchau plan)

Saturday, 04 April, 2009

The white bellies of swallows flashed above me; it is not easy to follow them.

As quickly as they materialize in the sky, they disappear in blue, as in an optical illusion.

Fascinating as they advance rhythmically by a single, tiny wings beat with folded wings, easily and efficiently catapult through the air, are effortless.

I admire their elegance and lightness. Any type of air pressure for them is always the best: they can be transparent in a deep fall or shoot up on a high. (More ...)

Oranges on the ground: Why is the orange is no longer harvested

Thursday, 02 April, 2009

The hinterland of the Spanish south coast is a Garden of Eden, and allowed his abundance of water throughout the year cultivation and harvesting of fruits and vegetables.

Garten Eden: Das Hinterland der Costa del Sol
Garden of Eden: The hinterland of the Costa del Sol

However, even the inattentive observer notices that hardly any fruit is harvested, since it is either tripped over or have to drive by car through fruits through lying on roads and streets.

The state is not new. For years the farmers such low prices are paid, that it does not even cover the expenses for the irrigation of fruit trees. Therefore, one usually no longer harvests the trees or leaves equal to the entire Finca unirrigated, the trees are so dried up after 2-3 years. Other cases their trees in the prime of life without further ado and plants instead of avocado trees.

Orangen am Weg uberfahren
Run over oranges on the way

This exotic tree with a little boring, oily fruit has a well-fad mild smell flowers, and in many parts of the natural phenomenon of orange blossom (Azahar) is already diminished. The indescribable, with nothing to be compared scent of orange blossom in the month of April is to convey able receptive natures an olfactory foretaste of paradise, or rather a by smell "pre scent". Anyway drives the aroma of orange blossom, especially when it is mixed with still hanging on the tree very ripe oranges, directly behind the center of the forehead and raises both the mood and the ability to concentrate quite extraordinary. (More ...)

Be dropping (days Buchau plan)

Monday, March 30, 2009

I close my eyes and let myself fall into the lap of Mother Nature and abundant sun and wind my wounds, my tweaking and zwacken of soul and body, cant switch of constantly circling mind, constantly rational-critical debate awareness, changing problem , "Off", draw from my remain vigilant guardian and begin to diffuse into the environment: Am now only small particles, which aerates the wind, shook out, swirled, light and weightless; the spring sun warms each one of them, until they shimmer in the air.

The dogs already know that: you join: enjoy, embed themselves silently on a rock or slip on the back the flowery meadow down and grunting softly to. The ticks and ants behave likewise respectful and keep some distance.

The spring sun is especially in the late morning unrestricted wonderful, you can without thinking completely answer her and blindly indulge. With whom could be something probably still do? (More ...)