off, I didn`t thinkö that I could get stressed by a job. I`m not a workaholic for sure. But my super outsourced teleworking desk was busy for at least 8 days every day, I got emaıls, were my boss was calling me “resource” at thats something to exploit … strange new neoliberal world.
Anyway, today I took a day off. And I will discover the other side of capıtalısm, the gay world of consumption. IKEA was opening a branch ın turkey last year and I haven`t vısıted yet …

yes, I had the dream of a winterö whıch won`t come. mh. it seems as evry year, the february will be hard. anyway, the oven is installed and the tests, whıch coal is the best, nearly fınıshed. It seems, a combınatıon of cole and coke will do it, getting it warm quick and keeping the heat long …

I don`t really know how it is called, this kind of vegetable I found on the market. its a little bit like a potato. I knew something like it by the name tubinambur, but its long time ago I saw and I think İ`ve never cooked by myself. Maybe it`s the same like yam or sweet potato and is this the same or just something similar.
My first try to prepare was rasping and then to putting some lemon and oil. The tast was quite nutty and I thınk combined with carrot it could be interesting. today İ tried to fry them with another vegetable I don`t really know. its a radish, but not the litlle red round ones I know, nor the big white long. they kept quite hot and the other got soft like a potato and sweet. on this İ steamed some broccoli.
jelena cooked some dilicious couscous with butter.

While in Austria the promotion of national socialism is forbidden by a constitutional law, the “Verbotsgesetz” of 1947, in Germany the jurisprudence is concerned to get in conflict with the concept of freedom of speech at this point. Nevertheless the need of incrimination of NS propaganda isn`t questioned. The main way to bring criminal law in use to fight nazis is to forbid their symbols. This leads to the strange situation, that it is allowed to call oneselve national socialist, to promote the ideas, as long as you don`t use the symbols of any NS organization, like the swastika or the SS symbol or certain slogans.

This concept pretends to be neutral, which it can`t be, as its goal is to fight NS. This kind of neutral point of view is dishonest. Even the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) is allowing restrictions of the freedom of speech, if they are necessary for a democratic society. Sure, this kind of of restrictions should be used with care, but what could be more against the ideas of a democratic society than NS propaganda. restricting is more honest than pretending to be neutral, where you can`t be.

In latest times the german authorities are using the law against NS symbols against those, who use them for express their refusal of NS. States prosecutors in Baden-Würtemberg prosecuted a punk label for using a crossed out swastika. The court followed, as many politicians expressed their disfavor, like the federal minister for justice Brigitte Zypris, who wanted to change the law, if this interpretation of law would last.

Meanwhile some other similar cases appeared. crossed out swastikas are banned from many manifestation of the antifascist left. And even another usage of NS symbols are incriminated: a sticker is showing a street of Dresden during the NS flagged with swastikas to illustrate the role of the city in the NS and counter the myth of the innocent city, bombed at the end of the second world war.

So the attempt to ban NS propaganda without taking any point of view leads to a situation, where the history is just wiped out. You are not allowed any more to show the reality of NS. thats absurd. I still think, this interpretation of the law will not last, but nevertheless, its not acceptable to confront antifascists with this kind of prosecution and its time that the jurisprudence is getting out of its ivory tower.

EDİT: for the issue of austrian NS prohibition and the freedom of speech see this

oh, ıts nearly one month i didn`t post anything. it was so much i could tell about, much of traveling, some days ın Prague, christmas in bavaria with my family, the same discussions as usual, seeing my old flatmates, spending new year in berlin, once more some days in the tiny city İ spent nearly ten years of my life, hitchhiking, arriving back to istanbul.

as İ don`t know, where to start, i write about something totally different: D you know the yugoslavian restaurants? those who were popular in germany of the 80`ies. where you could find lots of meat, barbecue plates and so on for quite reasonable prices. İ think, they hardly exist any more. And if so, how are they called? yugoslavian restaurants? former yugoslavian resaturants, serbian restaurants or maybe just grill restaurant?
anyway i think, those who migrated from yugoslavia to germany before 1990 still call themselve yugoslavian, whereas in former yugoslavia nobody says like this anymore. İ met somebody who lived in hungary, just ten km over the border to serbia, saying, she would go to yugoslavia, but in yugoslavia it`s serbia - a strange thing ….

so, thats for now, stories of the tour later and maybe leni will write about also …