dieastra | Gotham: Stuck in the snow

ha-hah! i love it. how appropriate to the current deep freeze...
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Thank you! I am in Germany so it's not the same like in the US. I actually was excited about this snow as we rarely get some here. It has long thawed away now.

They had tons of snow in Bavaria though and also had the soldiers come in to help freeing the roofs before they collapse.

How about you, have you surfaced yet?

bavaria, eh? they have mountains, that would be similar to our ski resort in whistler canada. yes, oddly as much as everyone talks about it, i am not that familiar with germany.. what is it really like there? good, i hope. no stupid man-made recessions or merkel brexit roulette games. wall street on a ponzi scheme. of course, i'm a labourer, so i work for a living, no money trading here, except for coffee..)))

i am in vancouver canada and it is much as you say, the snow has melted here too. it only lasts for a day or a week.. the deep freeze i spoke of was the grip through most of central north america in january and february. it his -50* in chicago it think this year.. remember chicago is "the windy city" so that would include wind chill'
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Ah Vancouver! I love Vancouver! I have been there in 2008 and 2010 for Stargate conventions with Richard Dean Anderson. We also checked out all the filming locations for Stargate and MacGyver. I also was up Grouse Mountain, up Burnaby Mountain, Lighthouse Park, Whytecliff Park, Stanley Park, in Steveston, and of course the Capilano and Lynn Canyon bridges and did a Whale Watching trip to Victoria Island, visited the miniature museum there (of course! Sadly too little time) and we were in the Burnaby Village museum. I've really seen a lot.

Germany has everything. Mountains in the South, and the Baltic Sea with beaches in the North. I am in Dresden (captial of Saxony), close to the Czech border. This is former East Germany while Bavaria is West Germany. Dresden is down in a valley at the river Elbe, but we also have mountains nearby where you can go by train for skiing in winter. And we have Saxon Switzerland nearby, great for hiking and climbing. Check it out! https://www.google.de/search?q=s%C3%A4chsische+Schweiz&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjTmvTE5dPgAhXvVBUIHehpB-0Q_AUIDygC&biw=1366&bih=632

We also have lots of old castles and fortresses and museums with jewelry and picture collections. Our former King was a lover of the arts. Lots of historic stuff. This is what the inner city of Dresden looks like: https://dmg.dresden.de/media/bilder/dmg/unternehmen/1920x1080-Dresden-Altstadt-Augustusbruecke-Silhouette.jpg.scaled/23363240c11cc716eafcd41fd110ea28.jpg

You can also do a tour by steamboat on the river. Many tourists come here every year and I love it.

Your LJ profile said United States. I know about the snow in the US but it hasn't made news in a while so I didn't know if it was still ongoing. It's always nice to know internet friends in certain areas as you learn more from them locally.

Politically we have the same problems like others, the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. Since I have grown up in East Germany and know a different life - not everything was good back then, but some things were better - so I am looking at all this with a critical eye but what can you do. No matter which party, these politicans are all the same. Then again from experience I also know that nothing lasts forever and who knows, maybe there will be a change one day! I was 16 years old when the Berlin Wall fell.

do you work in film of just have an interest in sci-fi? beautiful terrain in that photo link, so old looking, are those rock formations.

oh god yeah, the buildings of the old tartary.. or as you say, castles. the cool one, Neuschwanstein, is in bavaria..?

my friend who is in the green party says, "no matter who we vote for, we still get a 'politician'.."

yes, i value my blogging friends in many places, i've learned a lot about russia

for instance... and now germany.

so, i have a question, i had a blogging friend who was german and i believe in university, and a political activist. they eventually disappear, like others on LJ have, who went to FB etc. this person told me that the education system was grooming youth to follow a specific orwellian agenda. i think it was pretty far left of something, i know not what. the rest is personal.. i liked them, but haven't heard from them for years.

my question - is there notably an education agenda in germany aimed to brainwash youth into following big brother like in 1984. way out here we hear stuff about merkel that is pretty scathing. like she's in with the new world order and is trying to bring down the governments of europe with the european union to takeover economies and puppet governments and control the banks?

have you heard of george soros?

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No, not working in film, not even having a particular interest in sci-fi. I do watch some shows, but not many. I recently started to love "The Orville". Now that's a great show!

Those rock formations are made from sandstone. It all used to be a big sea and the river carved it's way down there. Like Grand Canyon I guess?

Yes, Neuschwanstein is in Bavaria. I read once that an American said how dare them stealing the Disney Castle ;)

I wouldn't know anything about the education system as I have long left school and don't have any children attending it. Your agenda stuff sounds quite far fetched though. Don't believe everything you read or hear. We do have trouble with big classes and not finding enough teachers and also old schools that need reconstruction.

As for the book/movie "1984", well some of that was true back in East Germany times. I do recognize some bits from my childhood, like inventing new words to change the meaning and that you could go to prison for thinking the wrong way. Interesting that it already was written in 1948 and he predicted the future. But it's certainly not true today.

And I honestly don't see anything wrong with controling the banks? They are what got us into this mess in the first place. A lot of money had to be used to save them, which could have been used for better things. So now they have a new law that they need to have enough money in stash in case something happens again as they can't expect government money all the time.

I have no idea who George Soros is, sorry.

prior to George Orwell 1984 there was a book called We written in 1924 by Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin, so Orwell might just have been echoing what russia was going through under Stalin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_(novel)

the person was speaking of secondary education, ie. colleges and universities

rumour is that the banks are preparing for an economic reset, whatever the hell that means.. george soros is an evil creep that topples governments and raids their economies. as far as i know the trump admin has arrested him for crimes against humanity.

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some things were better then.. i agree. yet in spite of the way things change, much of it is still the same. i don't understand what humans, or maybe inhumans, got out of bombing the hell out of europe. i've heard it said they were attempting to destroy evidence of old buildings like the ones in dresden that belonged to the old tartary from the hidden history of russia. ain't that a kick in the head..?
tartary of russia and the mongol hordes...
https://translate.google.ca/translate?hl=en&tab=wT&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fslawa.su%2Fnovosti%2F106-tartariy.html

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