I did not want to mention anything about this during the US presidential campaign because the opinion of most of my contacts was against what I was thinking. Trump. He reminds me of Reagan, but I could be so wrong. This one also has to deliver. And this is only possible through unity both inside his country and in the way he conducts foreign policy. The World is changing and common dichotomous concepts like “living in a dictatorship vs living in a democracy” will be replaced by by complex pan-global movements like “acting as a planet while acting as a nation / a religion / a tribe / a group of interests and expanding in a way that is positive for all”. If Trump fails, he could become a new type of Hitler or Stalin or Pol Pot – yet with a difference: he could be the one who has the real power to destroy everything. If he succeeds, we’ll all be better off on Earth and we could send next generations out there, in the future, taking mankind to a new stage, colonising worlds. Can Trump deliver? No, he can’t. But, especially with full control of the Congress, he could be instrumental in setting-up a platform top start with. The future will look after the rest. So, I welcome Trump not for what he is, but for what he could be the trigger of.
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Wednesday, November 9th, 2016The Royal Baby. Kate Gives Birth to a Boy. Little Prince George of New Zealand
Monday, July 22nd, 2013I don’t know about England, but in New Zealand, which is 12 hours early, we should have our prince by now. Since we are a rugby nation, we would rather have a boy. And the name we chose for the trird in line to be our head of state is George, like the Queen’s father (see, also, “The King s Speech”). Long live the King!
Commentary one month+ later: this was a genuine prediction. The sex of the baby was right about three hours before the official announcement and the NAME was right about two days earlier.
To Be or Not to Be a Kiwi Dad in Emergency Situations
Friday, December 9th, 2011Sometimes I wonder whether I did well when I decided to move to New Zealand. Occasionally I get a hint. Today I went to get my kid from school and, as he was coming from the indoor swimming pool with all his wet stuff tucked randomly in his backpack, a bright red box fell on the footpath. It was a pocket-size waterproof electronic device which combines radio (including two SW bands), LED torch and USB laptop/cellphone charger, a battery-free dual-powered (dynamo and solar) compact emergency unit. Initially, my Romanian-educated instincts made me believe that my son pinched it somehow and I was ready to take it to the ‘lost and found property’ area, then I realized that every single kiddo had one of them. The NZ Red Cross gave every single school-aged child in Christchurch this survival item in the wake of the terrible earthquake we had earlier this year. Yet sometimes I doubt I’ve made a good decision by coming to this country – in the end of the day I didn’t get a bright red solar radio to listen to my cricket when I have my beer pretending that I’m out fishing, boating or camping. This is age discrimination and I should complain to the authorities!
This is no advert, I really like it!
Oh, it seems that the Americans get a fake version of this device. Watch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_10KXcTGV4g
only if you have nothing better to do. Mine (my son gifted it to me: ‘you can have it, Dad’) has better features!
A Different Perspective on the ‘News of the World’ Phone Hacking Scandal
Sunday, July 17th, 2011This is something everybody seems to agree upon: the evil Murdoch Media Empire played dirty and must now pay the price. This article doesn’t intend in any way to condone the use of bribe, beach of privacy, or support any moral assault on people who are already victims. Yet there is another story behind this story and most media outlets seem to ignore it.
Media and Power, Power and Media
More or less controlled by (and not necessarily 100% obedient to) commercial interests, in the free world Media is one of the few ways people can have access to what’s happening behind the closed doors of the various structures of Power. In some cases, journalists use non-orthodox methods to gather information. This information creates the modern panem et circenses. Bred for the journalists themselves and their bosses, yes, but also circus, fun, entertainment and, last but not least, knowledge for the masses.
Partnership between media and financial and/or political interests is common. Many politicians have been on the other side of the pen, microphone or camera not long before becoming who they are now. Normally, politicians and journalists don’t cut each other’s throats. Even less common is for a journalist to attack another.
Surely, there are many other dirty stories of dubious methods used by the media, yet they don’t usually surface. What makes this one special? It’s the timing.
Poor old Rupert looked like a granddad not yet out of his pajamas when the postman called in with the news and it took him days to realize what was actually happening. This proves he had no clue, which, in turn, proves there had been thorough planning into this. If the most powerful media magnate couldn’t get a hint of what was going to come, the information leak had to be sourced inside circles that not even the many sources of the Murdoch Empire had any access to. This kind of information doesn’t just leak. If it leaks,it stops before hitting the front page.
So timing: why release this bombshell in July 2011, years after the hacking had taken place? The answer is, at a superficial level at least, obvious: the deal over BSkyB had to be prevented at any cost.
Who Is to Benefit?
Just ponder: if BSkyB doesn’t change hands, who is to benefit? Not only economically, but politically. Who so desperately needs the status qvo in British Media? Who’s hiding behind the smoke screen?