Posts Tagged as ‘Politics’

January 11, 2009

Couchsurfing.net is spying my position!

Editing my profile on couchsurfing.com I stumbled over an entry, next to the time of my last login, of my exact position when I was loging in!
At first I wasn´t sure how couchsurfing.com could do it or if they were allowed to do it. But while thinking about it I got more and more appalled [...]

September 25, 2008

Election 2008, but this time in Austria

In three days the Austrian citizens will elect the new parliament and therefore a new government. After two years of a government that was paralysed by the major parties actually forming it, is there a chance for a new start?
Recent surveys show that there is little hope for a real new beginning, every possible coalition [...]

June 24, 2008

Heinz withdraws TV-ad due to homophobic complaints…

I found this article on guardian.co.uk and I am quite shocked that the Heinz company withdraws this courageos ad.
It is sad that even the society in the “developed” west still can´t cope with people who are, for any reason, different from the majority. For I am pretty sure that the majority has no problem with [...]