Frohes Neues Jahr 2024

Felice Anno Nuovo! — Próspero ano novo! — Καλή Χρονια! — Akemashite omedetô! — Sretna nova godina! — Sugeng warsa enggal! — Bun di bun an! — Selamat tahun baru! — Subho nababarsho! — FELIX SIT ANNUS NOVUS! — Godt nytår! — Šťastný nový rok! — Srechno novo leto! — Срећна нова година! — Un an nou fericit! — Laimīgu jauno gadu! — 新年好 — Hääd uut aastat! — Feliz ano novo! — Naya barsa ko hardik shuvakamana! — สวัสดีปีใหม่ — Een gelukkig nieuwjaar! — Feliĉan novan jaron! — Feliz año nuevo! — Gleðilegt nýtt ár! — Gott nytt år! — Laimīgu Jauno gadu! — Sala we ya nû pîroz be! — Onnellista uutta vuotta! — Gott nýggjár! — Szczęśliwego nowego roku! — Среќна нова година! — Happy New Year! — Честита нова година! — السنة الجديدة المبتهجة — 새해 복 많이 받으세요 — Shnorhavor nor tari! — Frohes neues Jahr! — Gelukkig nieuwjaar! — Godt Nyttår! — Весёлого нового года! — عام سعيد — Lokkich nijjier! — Yeni yılınız kutlu olsun! — Ath bhliain faoi mhaise! — ¡Próspero año nuevo! — Bonne année! — Laimingų naujųjų metų! — Boldog új évet! — うれしい新しい年 — سال نو مبارک — Nav varsh ki subhkamna! — Щасливого нового року! — Cung chúc tân xuân!

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Weihnachten 2023

Bella Festas daz Nadal — Glædelig Jul — Nollaig Shona Dhuit! — Zalig Kerstfeest — Fröhliche Weihnachten — Kellemes Karácsonyi Ünnepeket — Sretan božić — Buon Natale — Hyvää Joulua — Merry Christmas — کريسمس مبارک — God Jul! — Feliz Natal — Feliĉan Kristnaskon — З Рiздвом Христовим — Feliz Navidad — Gleðileg jól — Срећан Божић — Su Šventom Kalėdom — 圣诞快乐 — Vesele bozicne praznike — Natale hilare — Честита Коледа — Crăciun fericit — クリスマスおめでとう ; メリークリスマス — ميلاد مجيد — Joyeux Noël — Gëzuar Krishtlindjet — Vesele Vianoce — καλά Χριστούγεννα — Gledhilig jól — Mutlu Noeller — Selamat Hari Natal — Prettige Kerstdagen — Veselé Vánoce — 즐거운 성탄, 성탄 축하 — क्रिसमस मंगलमय हो — Wesołych Świąt Bożego Narodzenia — Häid jõule — Bon nadal — God Jul — Priecîgus Ziemassvçtkus

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New Russian Annexation Plans

Russia has performed secret referendums in Alaska, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Iceland, Ireland, Japan, Poland, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Belgium, Romania, Moldavia, Belarus, Kazachstan, Goergia, Armenia, the area around Istanbul in Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, Bulgaria and Liechtenstein.

In each of these countries between 99.1 and 99.9% voted in favor of joining the Russian federation.

Since the governments and media and some strong organizations in these countries are dominated by Russo-phobia, the referendum had to be executed in secret, so that anti-Russian organizations did not know about it and could not disturb or falsify the result. All citizens of these countries who live in Russia and all people living in these countries who contacted the Russian embassy to vote actually participated.

The Russian president congratulated the people of the countries to become part of the „Russian family“. The Russian parliament formally voted to annex these countries and areas based on the will of the people and the new law was immediately signed by the Russian president.

He gave a talk and promised to do everything for the deoccupation of these countries from the currently anti-Russian puppet regimes and to liberate them to enforce the will of the people living there. He promised that all schools will be Russian only and that the Russian speaking population of these countries will be respected in the future.

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Breitspurbahnen in Mitteleuropa III (Aktuelle Überlegungen)

Breitspurbahnen in Mitteleuropa II (Sinn und Projekte)

Heute stellt sich die Frage, ob die Ukraine, ähnlich wie Spanien, das gesamte Netz oder einen großen Teil davon im Verlauf von einigen Jahrzehnten nach und nach auf Normalspur, umstellen sollte. Für die Ukraine sind Verbindungen in Richtung Russland in den nächsten Jahrzehnten wahrscheinlich weit weniger wichtig als Verbindungen nach Mittel- und Südosteuropa. Und es ist ein strategischer Vorteil, wenn das Schienennetz inkomptatibel zum russischen Schienennetz ist, weil dann ein Angreifer nicht so leicht die Schieneninfrastruktur für den Transport von Waffen, Munition, Soldaten und sonstigen Nachschub nutzen kann. So werden wohl Hochgeschwindigkeitsstrecken in der Ukraine mit Normalspur gebaut werden, und man spricht schon von neuen Hochgeschwindigkeitsstrecken von Polen nach Kiew und Odessa in Normalspur und von etlichen Projekten, um etliche kürzere normalspurige Strecken von Polen in westliche Gebiete der Ukraine zu bauen.

Dies wird aber auf jeden Fall einige Jahrzente dauern, selbst wenn man das ganze Netz auf Normalspur umstellen möchte. Ein paar Vorteile der Ukraine sollte man nicht vergessen:
Neben der breiteren Spurweite gibt es dort auch ein größeres Lichtraumprofil, das breitere Züge erlaubt, was vor allem für den inländischen Güterverkehr ein Vorteil sein kann. Und die Ukrainer verwenden eine halbautomatische Kupplung, die unserer Schraubenkupplung haushoch überlegen ist.

Wie sich zeigt, ist die Ukraine sehr verwundbar, da die Häfen im Schwarzen Meer durch Russland gefährdet werden können. Das wird wahrscheinlich mittel- und langfristig gelöst, wenn Russland im Schwarzen Meer keine große Rolle mehr spielen wird, aber die Möglichkeit, einfach Häfen an der Ostseeküste zu nutzen wäre sicher ein immenser Vorteil.

Das heißt, dass im Moment Bedarf bestünde, eine Breitspurstrecke von der ukrainisch-polnischen Grenze nach Danzig zu bauen, um den dortigen Hafen effizient nutzen zu können. Aus heutiger Sicht eher mit einem Verlauf, der weit genug weg von Weißrussland ist, um die Strecke weniger zu gefährden. Interessant wäre wohl auch eine Verbindung nach Litauen und damit zu dem Breitspurnetz der baltischen Länder.

Im Hinblick auf eine mögliche Umstellung auf Normalspur könnte man die Strecken so bauen, dass sie sich später einfach auf Normalspur umbauen lassen und dann einfach zusätzliche Kapazität für Güterverkehr bieten.

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2023

Щасливого нового року! — Frohes neues Jahr! — Happy new year!

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Weihnachten 2022

З Рiздвом Христовим − Merry Christmas − Frohe Weihnachten

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Some thoughts about Daria Dugina…

Why is it important at all? Because her death can be used by Russia as a reason to kill many more than just one person…
I don’t care if she was more like a Russian „Paris Hilton“ who was talking fascist ideology, because it is cool in Russia or more like seriously on her fathers side…
Interesting is:
She was killed by FSB (>99% probability) or by Russian criminals/mafia (<1% probability). It is absurd to assume that foreign secret services risked such an operation for such an unimportant person. Ukrainians have for sure more promising targets to attack.. And the evidence Russian investigators came up with blaming a joint action of Ukrainians, British and Estonians is so rediculous and so obviously faked that it already proves that Russians killed her. It could be with Putin's consent, to have an "innocent person killed by Ukrainians" to justify even more terror in Ukraine. I would consider this more likely. But it could also be dissenting people within the FSB, so without Putin's consent. So, Dugin should be intelligent enough to know that FSB has killed his daughter. Now he went to FSB-church, "Russian Orthodox Church" is 100% an FSB branch, to do the funeral. And during the funeral he praises the "sacrifice" of his daughter for Russia, for the same Russia whose FSB has killed her... I guess it is very difficult to find any way to make sense of this without understanding that Dugin is a very bad guy who favors weird, daemonic pseudo-christian mythology. So even if you, dear reader, are right wing and found Putin kind of cool before February, please keep away from Dugin. Now Dugin is not really influential any more, but his book was once propagated in Russian army and services, so many are still influence by his ideology to some degree. For Putin it is even better, that Daria Dugina was killed and not her father, so if it came from him, I would assume they actually targeted her. We feel emotionally more attached by the idea that an "innocent" 29 year old lady was killed than a 60 year old weirdo.

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Arctic Rail

The project of a Railroad from Rovaniemi (FI) to Kirkenes (NO), that is being discussed under the name „Arctic Rail“, should be considered more important now than a few years ago.

Due to the attack of Ukraine by Russia and the sanctions and the announced Russian attack of Finland and Sweden (yes, that is true, Russia more or less officially announced that) using the Russian port of Murmansk becomes less viable and it becomes more important for Finland to have a port in a „friendly“ country, which would be Norway. It can now be considered a possibility that FSB-people influenced Sami-population in northern Finland to categorically reject this project. In any case their concerns could be addressed by adding tunnel sections to the railroad to provide for crossings by the reindeer.

Concerning the route, a route close to the Russian border looked more promising, because it is shorter, it avoids the „cutting problem“ because the border will anyway be completely fenced soon by Finland and it provideds the possibility to also build a Share Button

Putin is moving to Switzerland

Vladimir Putin has decided to resign as president of the Russian Federation. He is now moving to one of his non-girlfriends in Switzerland, where he will be granted political asylum. This will open possiblities to his successor to end the war against Ukraine, give up Crimea and Donbass, withdraw all Russian troups from Ukraine and allow all forcibly displaced Ukrainians to return home, because it can all be blamed on Putin.

It has been said that he will start a new, even greater political carreer in Switzerland. The most famous ordinary member of the largest party in Switzerland has told me personally that they would accept foreigners as members, but of course not as voters. They did not succeed in getting me, but I think it will be an honor for them to get Putin as a member and I am sure that he will provide many ideas and also some cash to the party.

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Why lower speedlimits are needed now

As Russian fascism and the Russian invasion of Ukraine is an international issue, I’ll switch to writing in English…

So the question is:

  • If we do stop buying oil and gas and coal from Russia, why is a speed limit important?
  • If we use electric cars, why is it important?

First of all: many countries, including Germany and Switzerland, are still buying a lot of gas and oil and coal from Russia. Tbis needs to be stopped. If there is not enough gas in Germany: blame Angela Merkel for her totally failed energy and transport policy. Put her on trial for treason. But don’t try to fix this mistake by adding another mistake, which is much worse by still financing Putin’s terror war and genocide plans by buying more oil and gas.

So, if oil and gas and coal were no longer imported from Russia: why would we still have to use less energy? The energy market is world wide. And there are capacity limits. If we buy a lot of oil and gas from non-Russian suppliers, countries who care less about Russia’s aggression will buy more from Russia at higher prices.

As for electric cars: They are a major additional energy consumer. And additional electrical power is coming mostly from gas and coal power plants. So even for electric cars it is good to use less energy.

Now a speed limit of 100 km/h as absolute maximum would help. This does not hurt much, it does not cost much. But it immediately reduces the amount of gas and oil needed for the transport sector. Maybe it is a „small“ contribution. But people are dying in Ukraine because of our oil and gas imports. So car fans can stop their hobby of racing on the motorways. Btw. less people will die on the roads, as a benefit. An important side effect is that other means of transport become more attractive in terms of travel times, so less cars will be used.

So my suggestion to all European countries:

  • Introduce a speed limit of 100 km/h on all roads that still do not have a speed limit
  • Lower the speed linmit on all roads that now have a speed limit of 110, 120, 130 or 140 to 100 km/h
  • Lower the speed limit of two lane highways that are now allowed for 100 km/h or 90 km/h to 80 km/h
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