The German government has published its new intelligence report. The secret service has to publish its activities every year to be accountable to the public. Unfortunately, it rarely is; most of the time its exaggerates left-wing activities to get more funds and resources and minimalising right-wing and neo nazis violence so to not give any foundation for embarrassment, such as when several years ago American travel guides warned any black people not to travel to East Germany because of the threat of violent and racist neonazis. Anyway, they mention Indymedia Germany alongside with the antiracist noborder camp in Cologne in this “monitoring report of anti-constitutional activities”.

“I don’t like Burger King. I don’t like anything. And I am against it.” (Ramones) Nobody seems to be interested in what I write. The last entry got 6 hits, so says my admin interface, the majority – or maybe all of them being myself. Sometimes I dream to be able to do something similar to Indymedia as a *real profession*, but guess capitalism would take out all the fun of it. The style of this blog and the Indymedia reporting is quite different, as I found out when trying to convert a blog entry as an Indymedia report, the one on the wireless network workshop.

Saturday was a day for Dinosaurs, see pics – it was the “international climate action day”. Dunno why I went to the demo, but I did and was very welcome because it was only a very small group at first. The whole demo stopped for me and posed for pictures whilst I was still trying to lock my bicycle and find the camera! It was amazing and I wonder if this ever happened to any other Indymedia volunteer – it was lovely 😉 The pictures turned out very well. But it wasn’t really an anti-capitalist march as such, especially with slogans like “What do we want?

“Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it.” George Orwell on Why I write. A bit of discussion at the moment about the Daily Mirrors fake pictures is – unfortunately also not too far away from what is at the moment discussed in small on the Indymedia Scotland email list about a feature with some inaccurate facts in it: “How much truth is there in reporting? And does it help to cling to the facts? What about if (some) of the facts turn out to be wrong?

Actually, nothing exciting has happened here today. As in here, I mean Edinburgh, in Scotland, UK. It hasn’t been raining, which is unusual. My monitor has given up working, but hopes are still high it’s only temporarily. This one works only under Windows, unfortunately. So my whole Linux partition is on holidays in the depths of cyberspace. The Edinburgh Chiapas Solidarity event was pleasant as ever, with lots of self-made food like Guacamole, Salsa, Nachos and Tacos, and Beans and Bread and Cheese and potatoes pancakes – whatever these are called in Mexico. And lots of cake and cream, too. Also, I watched “The Sixth Sun” for the first time, it is a brilliant film, unfortunately, it has been made when the technology was worse and so looks a bit blurry- probably on High8 or Beta SP, anyway it is about the Zapatistas – but mainly before 1994!