First off, my sympathies to Katie for her trip in Mexico being cut short because of the crazy flu concerns. I can't believe what I just recently saw... someone made a fake post on BBC of a "zombie" version of this virus going around that can raise people back from the dead for about two hours. This posting really frightened me because it was very convincing looking, and there's already enough fear and tension going around the world over this already, though I certainly feel it's mostly just the media making a big deal over this. They said it themselves that every year around 10 thousand people die worldwide from flu anyway, so what's really so different with this virus? Is it just much more unpleasant of a flu, because I'll tell you, I've already been hospitalized by a flu once up in the Upper Peninsula Michigan, so I'd like to think I've seen the worst of flues... anyway, back to Germany
One would hardly realize such a virus was going on around here, neither do I think Germans would ever really care about such things. They're too busy administering self inflicted violence in their own capital in what has become and annual tradition here in Berlin.
Here's a bit of your daily history/political propoganda; (honestly, what else you think you can find the most of in Berlin?) May 1st has been known as Labor Day across the world for a long time. Almost everywhere except ironically where it began; in Chicago!
I was very surprised when I learned this, but the day became a day for workers and left wing extremist to protest capitalism and promote socialist agenda several decades ago. May first was chosen as this day because of the 1886 Haymarket affair. People in Chicago and other places around the US were protesting for fair working conditions; an 8 hour work day for starters. The protest turned violent, and ever since, May first has been infamous for all of those immigrant workers, and other countries, where American politics have done all they could to cover up this fact.
Necessity emerged during the cold war, where remembrance of this day looked very discouraging to the capitalist engine and brought attention to our diminishing workers unions and the prevalence of diminishing returns and ‘McJob’ poverty. Anyway, I'll leave it at that for now, and just say that all of this history has lead to annual populist rioting in Berlin, and I've got pictures of it! I made sure to stay far from the actual violence one could find on BBC and other site, since I'm sure WMU would not be happy for me to be doing anything but observing such events from a very far and safe distance. It was an incredibly exciting weekend, and the festivities before the rioting were also very nice.
I'm very excited that my fiancé will be visiting me here again next week. We're going to take a trip down to Munich and see Castle Neuschwanstein, so we're going to have plenty of beautiful pictures to take for that. Tonight we're going out to a gay bar for fun, and to take some sort of quiz or something. My friends will tell me more about it later I think wish me luck... lol. Germany; probably the most inappropriate place for a curious bugger like myself to be blogging about, don't you think? I just call things like I see them in the end!
Best wishes to everyone else out there, and I hope we're being read by somebody...
Dave
The cops... around 3,000 came to partake in the socialist smashing... I heard they actually had to apply for the job to come to Berlin... place of violence? Kann sein.
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