Friday, December 31, 2010

Curiosities 2010: Our world licks

Holes and leaks everywhere: in earth Islands in the Gulf of Mexico, on U.S. diplomats in the coffers of the Treasury. 2010 was the year that urged the everywhere disagreeable to the surface. It is amazing that the world is still rotating, says Alexander Smoltczyk. There is no getting past the inspection: 2010 was the year of leaks.

It started with the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico and would not stop anymore. Then the floor was under the Eyjafjallajökull Iceland in a hole, and for a week it looked as if Europe would be through the ash clouds of a sub-arctic volcano again back in the railway age. Germany was on the ground.

Even the Chancellor had to cross the Alps in the rental car. It licked the earth, it leaked everywhere, not to mention the dirty little secrets of U.S. diplomacy, the stream now freely for weeks by Wikileaks and can be filled by any superpower. The world has become incontinent. The systems more permeable and manifest the general tinkering.

For the sign of the year, the scenes off the coast of Louisiana, the cut at the bottom of the sea for months, these desperate efforts of BP engineers to help fill thousands of meters below the sea floor, a hole, were collecting bells with diving robots and shaky. It looked like those games at the fair, where you maneuver a robotic arm on teddy bears and never wins.

The message was clear: We are at the mercy hobbyists and holes blockages. "What matters is not the message, but the leak itself," "leakage" will be the word of the year 2010, be it in the English form as (Wiki) Leak. Like the founder of the Internet platform temporarily sit in jail because he did not budget his appetite apparently gets tight.

The mass release of secret documents (Afghanistan and Iraq protocols) and embassy dispatches) in any event, the American diplomacy been a shame. It was like a fairytale. When they had been administered a truth serum that would otherwise thus sealed chatted fresh off of liver and chattered from what everyone suspected, and had always known you.

All the kings were bare, and the Federal Cabinet had little more on what his body. Thanks to an office manager the internals of the black-green coalition talks have gushed from the negotiating rooms, before anything was signed. The agonizingly long election of the President was herausgetwittert, because in the federal assembly, the Areopagus of West German democracy, no one has more at times.

The fact that the knowledge about the state of political personnel were, surprisingly, does not matter: "What matters is not the message, but the leak itself," as the blogger writes Mathias Bröcker. He says "the discrediting of conspiracies by the omnipresent danger leaks. All right, citizen - can only say nothing, even very old systems, even the walls of the Catholic Church were cracked.

As the oil flowed into the Gulf and the ash from the volcano glacier had to do the Pope with his black sheep. Revelations (if such it will call it) everywhere, and in orbi in urbe, seal and hold on abuse and futile. "Bubbles and a source from the same hole at once sweet and bitter out?" It says in the Bible (James 3, verse 11).

No doubt. This leak was something-cleaning, and even Benedict XVI. thanked later during the all-ausschnüffelnden media. 2010 was the year that many myths were full of holes. The superpower USA is a single "large leak", Thomas Friedman writes in The New York Times. The world power in foreign policy is paralyzed by its dependence on Saudi oil and Chinese creditors it could not recognize more effective lever.

Embrittlement was also the Brussels Ur-myth. The euro has verln its obviousness. Thanks to Greece, Ireland, and later a return of national currencies has become conceivable. The "debt Flood" (FAZ) increased and rises, all the talk of holes that could no longer be filled, and the Minister of Finance Round remembers their crisis meetings in the Dutch boy's finger was stuck in the dike: All right, citizen .

Already holds. Only let on nothing. 2010 will be remembered as the year in history in which we have noticed for sure that we are governed by art blockages. It was the year in which politics was largely is to exploit the boat to avoid capsizing.

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