Author Archives: Andreas Moser
Easily Confused, # 11
New York Marathon in 2011: New York Marathon in 2012:
No donations for victims of Sandy
After the havoc and destruction caused by Hurricane Sandy in the Caribbean and in the Eastern United States, appeals for help and donations have popped up as reliably as Christmas chocolate will hit the shops around this time of the year. … Continue reading
What did Jérôme Kerviel do wrong?
Today, an Appeals Court in France upheld the conviction of Jérôme Kerviel, a former trader with the French bank Société Générale, sentenced him to serve time in prison and ordered him – rather symbolically I assume – to pay 4.9 billion … Continue reading
A short introduction to Italian Criminal Law
In Italy, if you are suspected, accused and tried of bribery of businesses, politicians, judges and the tax authorities, Mafia connections, false accounting, false testimony, soliciting prostitution from underage girls, tax evasion, embezzlement, antitrust violations, drug trafficking, abuse of political … Continue reading
Vings Park at Night
One of the nice things about the area of Vilnius in which I live is that I only have one minute to walk to Vingis Park, a large and beautiful park which is in large parts more of an urban forest than … Continue reading
Amnesty International on Strike
A number of employees of Amnesty International, the human rights NGO, went on strike yesterday over the threat of job losses. Let us examine how this strike affected the human rights situation yesterday: – The Syrian government continued to murder the population … Continue reading
Lithuania: Eastern Europe or not?
Ever since my move to Lithuania a few months ago, I feel like I am in Eastern Europe. In fact, discovering Eastern Europe was one of the main reasons behind my move east (I should point out that I am … Continue reading
Nobel Peace Prize 2012 for Liu Xiaobo
My suggestion for the Nobel Peace Prize 2012: Liu Xiaobo, the Chinese writer and human rights activist. Yes, I know that Liu Xiaobo already won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010 and I know it would be the first time that … Continue reading
Easily Confused (10) Big Breasts
“Big Breasts & Wide Hips”, a book by the Nobel Prize winning Chinese author Mo Yan: Big breasts and wide hips in Malta: Big breasts and wide hips in my imagination:
The Mo Yan Poll
My empty, questioning stare when I heard that this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature would go to the Chinese author Mo Yan showed me three things: that I don’t read enough books, that I don’t read enough literary supplements of … Continue reading
The Happy Hermit 