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Author Archives: Andreas Moser
Nobel Peace Prize 2014 for Liu Xiaobo
My suggestion for the Nobel Peace Prize 2014: Liu Xiaobo, the Chinese writer and human rights activist. Yes, I know that Liu Xiaobo already won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010 and it would be the first time that one person … Continue reading
Posted in China, History, Human Rights, Politics
Tagged Human Rights, Liu Xiaobo, Nobel Peace prize
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Video Blog: Life can be a Beach
On my bicycle tour around Sinis peninsula on Sardinia, I discovered this beach, not without drawing two valuable lessons from its discovery:
Not even a Factory can destroy this View
After yesterday’s sunset photos, many will have thought: “Well, lucky him caught a beautiful evening and now he pretends that it looks like that every night.” Thus I took some photos today, noticing that if the sky is in the right … Continue reading
“Why did you come here?”
There are two types of places in the world: those where nobody will bat an eyelid if you move there and those where you will be welcomed with the question “Why did you move here?” – if you want to call that a … Continue reading
Fire in the Sky
I have only been living at my new place in Târgu Mureș in Romania for one week, but thus far every evening offered a colorful spectacle which I could observe from my bedroom. In chronological order, all four acts: (All photos taken in Târgu … Continue reading
Lines in the Sand
Human beings feel the urge to leave signs of their presence in nature. When I was a child, it was common to carve one’s name (or a heart and a girl’s name) into the bark of a tree. Now people use … Continue reading
Peak Oil
(Photographed on the island of Hiiumaa in Estonia.)
Brazil, a Paradise for the Left?
Brazil will hold the first round of a presidential election tomorrow. The candidates with the best prospects of advancing to the second round are incumbent Dilma Rousseff of the Workers’ Party, Marina Silva of the Brazilian Socialist Party and Aécio Neves of the … Continue reading
Posted in Brazil, Politics
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Shocking anti-tobacco pictures
Everyone knows that tobacco products are potentially dangerous, nobody is forced to smoke, and after the wide-ranging smoking bans in public places, there is hardly any harm caused to third parties. Yet, some countries require that shocking warning pictures be printed on … Continue reading
There is always another minority
A small city in Romania. A Roma mother with her two daughters is shopping at the supermarket. All of them in colorful traditional dresses, with long skirts and headscarves in red, yellow, purple, blue, green. More colors than the wall of flags … Continue reading
The Happy Hermit 