Save the Earth Alert!

Hop on over to David's Medienkritik for the latest media goings-on in Germany. Here's my favorite from today - German Green Party Officials Ordered Challenger Jet to Brazil

Now that's cute: two top officials of Germany's Green party who are currently in Brazil had ordered a Challenger Jet of the German air force to Brazil for their intra-country transportation needs. They planned to visit environmentally correct projects. Renate Kuenast and Juergen Trittin are both members of German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's government.

The Cologne - Sao Paulo - Cologne round trip of the Challenger Jet alone - not counting the intra-Brazil travel - would have come at a cost of 250 000 Euro for Germany's taxpayers. Also, the environmental fallout was estimated at 20 tons of Kerosin.

It was only after Kuenast and Trittin sensed that Germany's weekly magazine SPIEGEL threatened to reveal their not so environmentally sound travel plans that they cancelled their intra-Brazil flight plans.

Well, next week they will commence their activities to save the earth...

And I'm sure they're doing a swell job of it too.

And while you're visiting, check out How German correspondents stationed in the US produce Anti-Americanism back home.