Goosestepping Germans Only in UK Media?
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No one in Germany knows the goosestep any more, but German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer said Wednesday anyone wanting lessons in the military march used by the Nazis could get them from Britain.
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Journos join Krazy Klown jihadis in slapstick idiocy Analysis The "car bomber" hysteria gripping much of the British and international media over the weekend has had a bucket of cold water from the Reg already, but just one bucket doesn't seem enough for this kind of outbreak.â¦
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'I want a piece of that non-action!' O2 says its IPTV efforts have been such a roaring success in the Czech Republic that it'll roll out a similar offering in the UK 2008.â¦
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The BBC is investigating claims a German comedy bears a close resemblance to its hit show The Office.
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Events in Ukraine continue to dominate the European papers. A Budapest daily takes everyone to task over the invalidated referendum on citizenship for ethnic Hungarians abroad. Two German dailies comment on Mr Schroeder's visit to China. And in France a sniffer dog forgets to sniff!
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The Motley Fool - British Sky Broadcasting -- more commonly known as BSkyB -- and Google (Nasdaq: GOOG - News) teamed up yesterday in a deal that will find the United Kingdom's digital pay-television giant offering an online video-sharing platform based on Google's popular YouTube platform. BSkyB will also allow be throwing a bone to Google's nascent Google Apps for Your Domain feature by branding Google's Gmail service for folks interested in signing up for @Sky.com email accounts.
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(InfoWorld) - Germany plans to introduce a monthly broadcast charge next year for homes and businesses that have an Internet-connected computer and don't already pay registration fees for television and radio service. One business association has called it "a complete rip-off." A heated debate about the fee, which also applies to Internet-enabled wireless devices and games consoles, has been raging in Germany since the minister presidents of the country's 16 states agreed to the plan in October 2005. It heated up again late Wednesday when one of the country's largest public broadcasters, ARD, announced a monthly fee of â¬5.52 ($7.00) per household and said that ZDF, another big public broadcaster, was in agreement. Under the plan, which will go into effect Jan. 1, households and businesses with a registered TV or radio are exempt from the new charge. Those without a registered broadcasting device but with an Internet-enabled PC, wireless device, or game console capable of receiving broadcasting content must pay the new fee. Germany isn't alone on this front. Ireland also plans to extend the definition of a TV set to include PCs, laptops and mobile phones under a new broadcasting bill, which was published for public consultation earlier this month. And the issue is likely to arise in other countries that use a broadcasting fee to help finance their state-funded public broadcasters. The planned fee in Germany, although lower than the â¬17.03 monthly charge initially proposed, has nevertheless drawn sharp criticism from numerous industry groups in the country. The German Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media (Bitkom) has called it "a rotten compromise that is being cemented into a payment scheme long overdue for change." The association calculates that over a four-year period, a PC would generate fee-based costs of more than â¬800 -- nearly the net price of the machine. German businesses could be burdened with additional costs of more than â¬150 million annually. The Federal Association of Small and Medium-size Businesses in Germany views an extension of the broadcasting fee as an attempt to force companies to help plug holes in the dwindling coffers of public broadcasters. The association called the move "a complete rip-off." Although the fee calls for a review in three years to take into account new technological developments, such as mobile phones capable of receiving broadcasts signals, German businesses worry that once a fee is introduced in the country, it's likely to stay.
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The 68,000 U.S. troops stationed in Germany should blend in better with the millions of World Cup fans thanks to a crash course on &quot;clean sheets&quot;, &quot;nutmegs&quot; and &quot;bicycle kicks&quot; from forces radio.
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Variety - (Variety) &#151; LONDON -- The number of recent British films shown on the main U.K. TV webs rose by 51% in the first half of 2004, according to research by the U.K. Film Council.
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When the BBC recently announced it would air "Jerry Springer: The Opera," the West End hit famous for its vulgarity and a cast of characters including transsexuals and a man wearing a diaper, no one batted an eye. In Britain, after all, the biggest-selling daily newspaper carries a photograph of a bare-breasted woman every day.
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"After the bitter experiences of the last century, we do not tolerate any kind of extremism, racism and anti-Semitism _ nowhere in the world and especially not in Germany."  Germany's parliament on Friday acknowledged the country's special responsibility in the battle against anti-Semitism and racism. via News Max
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Festive hustings Who's that gut lord marching... you should cut down on your mince pies mate... bah, Humbug!â¦
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German-language papers welcome the Muslim initiative behind Sunday's anti-terror demonstration in Cologne. And France launches a seduction campaign.
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That would be "Why are the Yanks so fat?" to you and I.    This was the slogan used in Germany for a recent  Subway/Super Size Me joint advertising campaign. Accompanying the advert was a rounded looking image (full size) of the Statue of Liberty carrying burgers and     fries.    Did Subway go too far in this campaign, or were they unfairly vilified for their jest?
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BBC Europe editor Mark Mardell on a German attempt to criminalise Holocaust-denial across Europe.
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A montage of British national newspapers Friday Jan. 14, 2005 displaying reaction to Britain's Prince Harry wearing a swastika armband to a private party.
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Touchy subject The German public broadcaster has decided to "do a Panorama" by highlighting YouTube's hosting of Neo-Nazi clips and World War II propaganda films.â¦