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The oldest vegetarian restaurant in Europe
Did you know the oldest vegetarian restaurant in Europe was in Switzerland? On my last
trip to Zurich, I was surprised and pleased to learn that the oldest vegetarian restaurant in Europe was the Hilt on Sihlstrasse
28.
I had to take my travel companions there. But even before we reached the restaurant, we bumped into another Hiltl,
the Tibits, on Seefeldstrasse 2.
I went inside and made sure that, yes, it was also a vegetarian one, with a buffet of
deliciously looking veggie specialties and, at the entrance, match boxes with their lovely logo made of a green been. What's
interesting, is that nothing on the outside informs you that it is a vegetarian bar. We didn't dine there, saving our hunger
for the oldest vegetarian restaurant in Europe.
It was only in the evening that we reached it. The entrance has a mysterious air and
when one steps inside one has the feeling of arriving to an exclusive party... The first room was the bar-lounge and it was
full of people. We spotted the buffet on the right and we were taken to the restaurant room, upstairs. Also full of people,
no smoking thankfully. We were given one of the few remaining free tables at the end of the big room.
The menu is extremely interesting with all sorts of pastas, exquisite food combinations
(coconut chutney, cashew nuts...), different curry meals and seitan and soy. I had a hard time making a choice. Nevertheless,
not much of it was vegan, although some it it could be made vegan on the desire of the customer. The prices are rather high
but for a Swiss restaurant rather moderate. They are more or less two times more expensive than the Migros restaurant, which
is a normal cheep self service bar all over Switzerland. I ended up choosing the buffet instead of a meal. The food was excellent
and so was the service and the general atmosphere as well.
I asked our waitress if it was true that the restaurant was the oldest vegetarian one
in Europe. She confirmed it and added that it is also the biggest one.
I later learned that Ambrosius Hiltl (1877-1969)
came from Bavaria to Zurich and took over the Vegetarians' Home and Teetotallers' Café which had opened on Stockerstrasse
in 1898. In 1901 Ambrosius Hiltl contracted rheumatoid arthritis and his doctor prophesied him an early death if he did not
refrain entirely from eating meat. As soon as Hiltl listened to his doctor's advice, he was cured! And became the new manager
of the vegetarian cafe, which had moved to Sihilstrasse, as well as married the cook! For more details on this fascinating
story, go here:
Hiltl history
On our way back to our hotel room, we walked by yet another vegetarian place! Only this
one has only a vegetarian room on the first floor.
Zurich, the birth place of Dada in Cabaret Voltaire and the town of such prominent figures
as C. G. Jung and James Joyce ended up to be a most charming place, lively and what really pleases me, full of bicycles! Attached
just everywhere; sometimes not even attached at all!
Zurich is definitely a place to discover and even to live in.
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Not a genocide
I wish to react to the cover
of a political magazine saying "New York, Madrid, London, the genocide of the 21st century". It angers me to see such nonsenses
printed and maybe brainwashing people.
A genocide is a crime committed against a specific nation or people. Terrorist attacks
cannot be identified as genocide, because they kill casual people. The terrorists cannot know in advance who is going to die
because they attack public places, in big crowded cities where anyone can happen to be. They don't really want to kill people,
bodies, identified beings, but ideas and situations taken for granted. Their actions are absolutely disgraceful, but we -
who are against these actions - will never solve anything if we don't try to understand them. They are not pure evil acts
of nihilism - by the way, that doesn't mean anything. And to compare them to genocide is even more outrageous when we look
at the true genocides of the 21st century; those committed by nations, countries with leaders democratically elected or not,
that otherwise respectable politicians - especially western politicians it seems - treat like friends and shake hands with
and smile to and invite.
Of course if we look beyond everything that makes life in this world, we are all simply human
beings. Then every murder would be a genocide. Then the names of the towns where the genocide of the 21st century takes place
would not only be New York, Madrid and London, but almost every small and big town in this world.
Polska Walczy
We have witnessed a very moving and beautiful
celebration of the anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising. Every year I go to a special place to honor the memory of those brave
Warsaw citizens of 1944 - this year I went to the place where my grand parents were fighting in 1944, Plac Krasinskich - and
never have I seen so many people and such a celebration. There was, also, at last, the opening of the Museum of the Uprising. Chancellor
Schroder - who is one of the very few good presidents on this earth right now - gave a very moving speech for which I really
thank him. In order for them to realize what the Warsaw Uprising was, Prime Minister Marek Belka told the American people
that during the 63 days of the Uprising, as many people as has died in the World Trade Center were dying every day - 200 000
Poles died in the Uprising.
And what about Russia: nothing. They - I'm talking of course about the horrible government,
not the Russian people - where invited but no one came -thankfully, cos this government does not have his place in this celebration;
already Colin Powell didn't really fit, but he behave well; also the British guest was a little out of place, since the UK
would have a lot to apologize for, regarding Ireland for instance. They must think the Warsaw Uprising isn't that important...
And, they don't believe they should apologize for not helping us in 1944 - Stalin forbade to the allies to enter Warsaw, some
British planes tried to send food and weapons to the city, but because of Stalin's order, they couldn't do it properly and
most of it landed in the German's hands! As for Stalin himself, he just stood at the other side of the river and watched the
brave Poles and their beautiful city being murdered and completely destroyed. And they don't believe they should apologize;
but worse of all, for the wrong reasons! If they would say: "We have nothing to do with this, now we're Russia and back then
it was the USSR" that would be understandable, but the problem is that they are saying that no crime has been made! Everybody
knows there has! I suppose it's the same way as no crime is being made in Chechnya - although Putin has admitted that there
were crimes committed by Russian soldiers and that justice will be done (yeah, right!), but I'm talking about the war itself.
As for another terrible crime, the Katyn case, first they refused to let Poland read the files, then they agreed and now they're
saying that it's the Ukraine that didn't send them the files in time - they had some 60 years to do that, but, anyway... That's
just sad and a proof that Russia needs - and the world needs Russia to do something about it - a whole completely new government.
Free Chechnya!
"It has been 4 years that the Russian army
is taking the Chechen people as hostages", that's what Movsar Barayev, chief of the 50 chechen rebels who took hold of the
Moscow theatre on October 23, said to the journalists that entered with the Red Cross inside the theatre. But Barayev was
censored by the Ministry of Interior on the russian television - and you have to know that there is not one free TV in Russia
anymore - so that Russian people couldn't hear what he was saying. All this represents very well what is going on between
Moscow and Chechnya.
First of all, Putin's lies: his will to discuss
about the chechen problem - he says he won't do it till the rebels in Chechnya don't put their weapons down, but why would
they do that if the russian army is still in their country? And Putin refuses to go to the Chechen summit in Copenhagen. His
compassion to the Chechen people - asking the Russians not to hate all Chechen people; very wise demagogy. And above all,
all the secret - in a very soviet way - about the gas used against the terrorists and the hostages - even the doctors don't
know what gas it is, so how can they take care of all the ill people? Why won't they tell us? Because it's a forbidden gas?
If that's the case, shouldn't someone sue Putin for this? And, it is said that the assault began when shots were heared from
inside the theatre; the gas was seen by some hostages, but the terrorists didn't move. They could easily have blown themselves
up, and not one of them did it; why? Is it because in fact they didn't have any explosives? Or is it because they never planned
to actually kill so many innocent people? Even if it was because they didn't have any explosives, we might never know it,
and it would be just one more of Putin's lies. I gave here only a few examples of his lies; to list them all would take too
much time.
Second of all, Putin's cowardice: using gas
to get rid of the black dot on his horizon, his conscience - that's what Barayev and the rest of the terrorists represent
- and murder so many people is not only an error but above all an act of extreme cowardice! He killed them. He gased them
and shot them.
Russia's got kids that only stole bread tortured
in it's prisons and murderers shaking their fists in the Kremlin.
On October 25, when the medias (even those
in Russia) began to critisize Putin's politics towards Chechnya, I had the great hope that the world would eventually be blessed
with justice and that everyone would discover Putin's true complexion.
The next day, after Putin cleared out the
theatre, George W Bush and Tony Blair congratulated Putin on having handled the situation so well! But thanks to that, we
discovered the true complexion of the Evil Axis: Bush, Blair and Putin.
A last word to M.Putin: don't fool yourself,
we will not forgive you. And there is only one way to gas your black dot: free Chechnya.
Hostage takers had no intention of killing
MASSOUD RULES
People are dying and suffering everywhere all the time. Be it on September 11 in the World Trade Center
or on September 24 in Israel, Afghanistan, Australia or Canada. The terrible thing now is also what is happening in peoples'
minds. Don't let yourself be brainwashed by no one: Bush's wining America as well as the terrorists' anti-Americanism.
Bush is going to "strike back", of course, and this, as well as the way he is doing it, really pleases american
people. But, as my friend Mick greatly said, "they deaserve him"... The problem is that the rest of the world, and
50% of Americans didn't choose him. Hum, I said "the rest of the world", but it's not true: some people behave as
if they'd chosen him... And 30% of those Americans that didn't choose him also behave as if they had chosen him.
When Massoud has warned the so-called Estern world against the Talibans, nobody, absolutely NOBODY cared! They neaded their
darlings twin towers to fall down to react. And, of course, they will not react in order to help and liberate the Afghan people
from the Talibans, but in order to defend themselves! And they will react in a stupid way, everyone knows it. I have a proposition
to make to Mister Bush and to the allmighty European Union: don't send any of your troops to Afghanistan and don't bomb any
target (we know how your bombardments look like), give some help to Massoud's heirs instead.
I would like to end this
article by saying that now, at last, the Western medias are talking about how the Talibans are treating Afghan people, but,
some months ago, they where not talking about that:
But about that:
Even I did. And what does it mean? It means that there is a problem with all of our medias. Why are we so badly informed?
Oh, and don't watch CNN too much, cos eventually you're really going to think that "America's New War" is the
first war of the 21st century.
A theory on one part of madness: the nervous tension
Our soul, our being, - hence we - is made of energy. We are
energy.
When one gets angry - if one is not of a very nervous nature - one uses a small part of energy, which is rejected
off one's body during the nervous tension. The body, being destitute of a part of energy, according to the laws of physics,
must be refilled with something. This is where bad energy (which is always in search of a place to settle) takes adventage
of one's loss to take over one's body, but in this case, only for a short amount of time. This explains why, while being angry,
one may have bad thoughts. After the nervous tension, one takes a rest and gets quickly back his original energy; the bad
energy was thown out whether during the nervous tension (if it lasts a little longer) or during the having of bad thoughts.
In the case of someone made of a very nervous nature, when he gets angry, he uses much more of his energy to actually
get angry. Or even almost all of his energy, thus, almost all of his being (depending on the time or case). Then, one has
got so many bad energy in oneself, that one is almost not oneself anymore. Anything can happen. Even suicide and murder. One
is almost not conscious at all of what's happening.
Here are three examples of what can happen:
Case 1- One calms
down, needs a rest and the original energy gets back.
Case 2- One cannot calm down, but, this lasting already some amount
of time, realises waht is happening, is panic-stricken, starts to cry, and, the process of cring being very tiring, needs
some rest and the original energy gets back.
Case 3- One cannot calm down because one is almost entirely filled with bad
energy and one doesn't realises what is happening. But, the original energy that has been thrown out wants to get back into
it's body and fights with the bad energy. So, there are several battles, where sometimes it is the bad energy that looses
and sometimes it's the original. Thus, one's body is succesively filled mostly with bad energy, then, mostly with the original
energy. So, one's mind is constantly changing from conscious to unconscious and vise versa. And this can last really long.
Then, one doesn't really realises what is happening, one asks oneself if one has done anything bad and one doesn't understand
anything that surrounds oneself. Eventually, it must end up with pannic, thus crying (very long crying), thus tiredness, thus
sleep. And in this case, one needs to sleep long. But, most of the time, one's sleep is very disturbed andd unhealthy. Then,
if one's lucky, the original energy gets back.
Putin: The Moron
Volodia Putin: "How to solve problems in Macedonia? Like in Chechnya! Destroy the terrorist's
bases, unarm them, annihilate them, judge them. The Macedonian crisis prooves that we were right to do what we did in Chechnya".
And I can imagine him sweating with delight in Sweden. WHAT A MORON. And who's the terrorist here??
Siergiey Kovaliov:
"The Kremlin couldn't be unaware of the Russian army's crimes. Now, if the government is unaware of crimes of such importance,
then it is a useless government. [...] To give to anyone Chechnya as an example is of exeptional cynicalness". Right.
Whatever happened to Tony Blair who, last year, behaved like Putin's best friend (they went to the opera together! They
saw "War and Peace"!!)? Now that he's affraid thet his best friend is spying him, he begins to threaten him. How
do you call that? Hypocrisy? No: politics.
The best part in the History of Putin is what is happening now with NTV. Putin
wants to be the only one to talk; and he calls it quarrels between business men, or something like that...
Can one person help another?
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