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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1st Time I Write about Trump
Wednesday, November 9th, 2016Bed Time Story (continued from 02/08/2011)
Sunday, May 27th, 2012Night 7
Which computer did we use to write this story at the beginning? It doesn’t matter. I don’t want this in the story, it’s so annoying. Let’s see where the rice is coming from!
If you want to write everything we say, write “I wrote this”.
Rice is essential for a nice lion heart dish. On Planet-Go-to-Bed there’s no rice, as rice grows in fields flooded with water and the only water on that planet can be found in very deep wells full of cows. So, rice has to be imported from Planet Earth. When little children don’t want to go to bed, their parents, who are, of course, much younger, point to the sky and say: “Look, there’s a handful of grains of rice somebody from Earth planted in the Heavens, find you own grain and go to sleep!”
But Faruno was studying at school what people eat on Planet Earth and he found out that only two billions of them actually eat rice. Some others eat prawns, pork and chicken nuggets, but some don’t eat at all.
Today Faruno learned about pizza. This is a very important traditional dish on Earth, as it can make people there sick or healthy, depending on their diet. If you have too much pizza on Earth, you may develop cavities in your teeth. cavities are little caves, where savage germs have parties and their music gets so loud, that it reaches your brain and you start singing as well. The most likely song you’ll sing is called “Ouch!” and it goes like this: “I have no idea, my brain is empty, my tooth is hurting, ouch, ouch, ouch!”
What do we do if we have cavities? We take them to a creative doctor, called the dentist chef. He makes more pizzas, but they are so tiny, they can fill your cavities very easily. The smaller they are, the more expensive they get. A large pizza with mozzarella, salami and zucchini, as seen on TV, can fill the cavities of a whole school, but if you are really rich, you can get a microscopic vegetarian pizza with pineapple and nothing else and this will cure only one tooth, very small, with a cavity so tiny a germ can not even fit in it.
Faruno asked his teacher whether you can get rice pizzas on Planet Earth but the bell rang and when it rings we all have to really go to bed.
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?
New Earthquake
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011This is my street, Gloucester, in Christchurch, New Zealand, as it looked 24 hours ago, when we were hit by another 6.3 quake.
Photo courtesy to www.stuff.co.nz