The job is done. Mr. Bush has taken a holiday because he's done the job his father started but not finished.
Actually mr. Reagan should have done his job better by supporting Iraq in it's war against Iran. In fact the United States and other countries are all responsible for damage to people in the middle east.
It's very difficult.
What the execution of Saddam Hussein Al Tikriti is concerned, he did some real bad things, he doesn't have clean hands, he has ordered the execution of many criticizers, even family. Yes, he is certainly a tiran and with tirans of these magnitude there is only one sentence; the death penalty.
Again, it's difficult if you're against the death penalty.
Nevertheless, to all a happy new year!
Sunday, December 31, 2006
Sunday, December 24, 2006
a stormy week
Many things happened this week.
Beside work each of my colleagues had an important personal talk with the interim manager (IM) about functioning in the department. It was really an assessment of us.
I didn't really prepare myself for that. I thought that it was in my head, it wasn't. I had it on paper though. My poor preparation disturbed the IM a little, and me as well. So the conversation lasted a little bit longer. (my figure got lower and lower; yes, the organization gives figures to the employees. I disgust it)
It was also the moment on which the IM decided to tell what will happen with the staff of the department after the reorganization.
My function will be centralized in the back office. It's a question I should ask myself if I want to be in the back office and what my function could be there.
It could also ask to transfer me to the economic department. It's the same question there.
When I was told this. I said I'll cooperate with it. (resistance is futile, like in next generation?) My first reaction on it was that it's such a waste of people and experience. My co worker and I will work on different places. The other roommates will get jobs in other department, more centralized. We will be split up. That gives me a very sad feeling.
It's Christmas eve and it's a good moment for reflection on this night.
- First, I like to say that the IM (according to the Internet he had some key-management positions in former offices linked to my department) has a very bad feeling for people's management.
- Secondly, it is in only six months before everything will be effective. Very fast actually (other short period; 6 months ago I lost my wallet in France).
Wednesday I was told and the rest of week was no business as usual. Thursday we had a Christmas drink in town. I wasn't in the mood and had some fruit-juice before I went home. I also decided not to drink anymore alcohol after reading something about restless legs
I spoke my former boss and she told me to lean and give in on storms in the organization. When the storm lies down you will get back in normal position.
Resistance might break you and when the organization gets back to normal you can't get up.
It's a go-with-the-flow philosophy and I'm not so very good in it. That is the charm of my work. It's not a follow the rule mentality. It more a go your own way and do the things that have to be done mentality.
Next months, all weeks might be like these.
In February I have a conversation about a what to do strategy/tactics, or is it what I have to do because management has already chosen. I think the last because I can't imagine that I can choose what to do. I can imagine however that the new organization can miss me. Finance will be done by the financial department.
I could say "change, okay, I accept it's there and look forward to it as a chance, a possibility to improve."
All of you, merry X-mas!
Beside work each of my colleagues had an important personal talk with the interim manager (IM) about functioning in the department. It was really an assessment of us.
I didn't really prepare myself for that. I thought that it was in my head, it wasn't. I had it on paper though. My poor preparation disturbed the IM a little, and me as well. So the conversation lasted a little bit longer. (my figure got lower and lower; yes, the organization gives figures to the employees. I disgust it)
It was also the moment on which the IM decided to tell what will happen with the staff of the department after the reorganization.
My function will be centralized in the back office. It's a question I should ask myself if I want to be in the back office and what my function could be there.
It could also ask to transfer me to the economic department. It's the same question there.
When I was told this. I said I'll cooperate with it. (resistance is futile, like in next generation?) My first reaction on it was that it's such a waste of people and experience. My co worker and I will work on different places. The other roommates will get jobs in other department, more centralized. We will be split up. That gives me a very sad feeling.
It's Christmas eve and it's a good moment for reflection on this night.
- First, I like to say that the IM (according to the Internet he had some key-management positions in former offices linked to my department) has a very bad feeling for people's management.
- Secondly, it is in only six months before everything will be effective. Very fast actually (other short period; 6 months ago I lost my wallet in France).
Wednesday I was told and the rest of week was no business as usual. Thursday we had a Christmas drink in town. I wasn't in the mood and had some fruit-juice before I went home. I also decided not to drink anymore alcohol after reading something about restless legs
I spoke my former boss and she told me to lean and give in on storms in the organization. When the storm lies down you will get back in normal position.
Resistance might break you and when the organization gets back to normal you can't get up.
It's a go-with-the-flow philosophy and I'm not so very good in it. That is the charm of my work. It's not a follow the rule mentality. It more a go your own way and do the things that have to be done mentality.
Next months, all weeks might be like these.
In February I have a conversation about a what to do strategy/tactics, or is it what I have to do because management has already chosen. I think the last because I can't imagine that I can choose what to do. I can imagine however that the new organization can miss me. Finance will be done by the financial department.
I could say "change, okay, I accept it's there and look forward to it as a chance, a possibility to improve."
All of you, merry X-mas!
Sunday, December 17, 2006
Time
Hi Hnk,
I'm getting cold whenever I read what you're going through. I remember the car blown up in your street. It's certainly a far from normal life.
But you are a blogger from Iraq. Let the world know what happens. Only with information you can stop the Americans being there. The Internet is your weapon, your pencil against injustice.
Come on Hnk you can do it, your sister can and your family as well.
Btw, the time is the thing we share. But Time awarded you, especially YOU are the person of 2006.
Of course Time awarded all readers of blogs, in fact all internet users.
I'm getting cold whenever I read what you're going through. I remember the car blown up in your street. It's certainly a far from normal life.
But you are a blogger from Iraq. Let the world know what happens. Only with information you can stop the Americans being there. The Internet is your weapon, your pencil against injustice.
Come on Hnk you can do it, your sister can and your family as well.
Btw, the time is the thing we share. But Time awarded you, especially YOU are the person of 2006.
Of course Time awarded all readers of blogs, in fact all internet users.
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
hear me
Sometimes you're feeling good, sometimes you're feeling bad. I got a backache for 6 day's now. Today it finally is getting less. I felt a severe headache coming too. I'm a little sensitive for headaches because of the accident in my youth.
I thought about all those pains (hear me, if I'm getting old).
But this week with the low standing full moon in the east, I thought maybe the moon and the sun do have an influence on the state of being of an animal like me.
Of course I can imagine other, more down to earth circumstances, like not having my sleep I need and having a wrong position behind my PC at work as well as at home.
The Newtonian idea of the moon on the east-side and the sun on the west-side pulling the earth satisfied me when I looked at the moon at a time I should sleep.
Gravity is on earth and slowly we and I will be pulled to center of the earth. But then we're death (hear me, yes I'm getting older).
Goodnight!
I thought about all those pains (hear me, if I'm getting old).
But this week with the low standing full moon in the east, I thought maybe the moon and the sun do have an influence on the state of being of an animal like me.
Of course I can imagine other, more down to earth circumstances, like not having my sleep I need and having a wrong position behind my PC at work as well as at home.
The Newtonian idea of the moon on the east-side and the sun on the west-side pulling the earth satisfied me when I looked at the moon at a time I should sleep.
Gravity is on earth and slowly we and I will be pulled to center of the earth. But then we're death (hear me, yes I'm getting older).
Goodnight!
Thursday, December 07, 2006
Mail for mr. Zülch
A Letter I wrote to mr Zülch of the
Society for Threatened Peoples
Dear mr Zülch,
I appreciate you found time to reply at my email.
In your mail you pointed at facts in history that don't matter in this case. There have been made many mistakes in history. Maybe the exchange of Nieuw-Amsterdam (New York) and Suriname was a mistake too. What to think of neo-colonialism of Dutch multinationals nowadays?
No, mr Zülch I don't talk about these subjects nor about the French-German war, the first world war, the blitzkrieg, the second world war, the concentration camps, the role of Germany in the Baltic, Poland, Tsjechia, Austria, etcetera, etcetera. You are not to blame.
It's the way organizations like yours are looking for free publicity I criticise. My advice, go where the action is, where decisions are made and where the real responsible men and women are.
You should go to the heads of states, that also means the Serbian state and the Bosnian state. Both don't have clean hands I realize, considering the number of known war-criminals on both sides not imprisoned. But HR-organizations I don't hear and see while they should have enough power to bring out the human rights.
If you accuse me of "attacking human-rights organizations that criticise" the Netherlands, it's not my intention. Criticism is good, it sharpens your mind.
I only try to make you understand that you got to adjust yourself to certain standards of activism.
You shouldn't have used the women of Srebrenica to get some free publicity. Those women should work on better relations with their neighbors, the Serbs and Croats. They should not continue their victim-position because that doesn't solve anything. Look forward to the future and use memories to solve the pain of those memories.
I suggest to read this article
Hopefully you will do some great work for people who need it.
With regards,
Society for Threatened Peoples
Dear mr Zülch,
I appreciate you found time to reply at my email.
In your mail you pointed at facts in history that don't matter in this case. There have been made many mistakes in history. Maybe the exchange of Nieuw-Amsterdam (New York) and Suriname was a mistake too. What to think of neo-colonialism of Dutch multinationals nowadays?
No, mr Zülch I don't talk about these subjects nor about the French-German war, the first world war, the blitzkrieg, the second world war, the concentration camps, the role of Germany in the Baltic, Poland, Tsjechia, Austria, etcetera, etcetera. You are not to blame.
It's the way organizations like yours are looking for free publicity I criticise. My advice, go where the action is, where decisions are made and where the real responsible men and women are.
You should go to the heads of states, that also means the Serbian state and the Bosnian state. Both don't have clean hands I realize, considering the number of known war-criminals on both sides not imprisoned. But HR-organizations I don't hear and see while they should have enough power to bring out the human rights.
If you accuse me of "attacking human-rights organizations that criticise" the Netherlands, it's not my intention. Criticism is good, it sharpens your mind.
I only try to make you understand that you got to adjust yourself to certain standards of activism.
You shouldn't have used the women of Srebrenica to get some free publicity. Those women should work on better relations with their neighbors, the Serbs and Croats. They should not continue their victim-position because that doesn't solve anything. Look forward to the future and use memories to solve the pain of those memories.
I suggest to read this article
Hopefully you will do some great work for people who need it.
With regards,
Monday, December 04, 2006
My heart speaks
Today the Dutch Srebrenica-veterans got a medal for being in that town during the ethnic cleansing and the aftermath of it. The German Society for Threatened Peoples protested against the medals and against the Dutch role.
They wrote an open letter, of course Holland has to do with the massacre. We have a certain responsibility towards the people of Srebrenica. But we are victim too. If you want to blame, blame NATO.
I think I got something to say on this matter.
The reason for this insignia (or small medal) is that the men of Dutchbat III are not to blame for the worst operation in UN-history (what do we do in Sudan...nobody acts there and there is no support for mr. Pronk (he's also Dutch), has he any support of you?)
Dutchbat III was prejudiced and the soldiers were given a cold shoulder. There has been a Parliamentary inquiry what happened and the Dutch role in it.
Conclusion NATO is to blame, not the Dutch battalion.
Of course wir haben es gewusst, But that is what you should say.
The difference is that the Dutch got clean hands and a good conscience.
I do understand you're still upset what happened in Srebrenica. Do understand it were not the Dutch but the Serbs who ordered and murdered. The light armoured Dutch couldn't do much to stop it. The planes to scare the Serbs didn't come. Why? Because France was against it. It were politics and tactics of NATO.
It was a conflict between the Serbs and Muslims. The Dutch stood between them and couldn't do anything. The world was against any action. So don't blame the Dutch. Instead, blame yourself that Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic are still not in The Hague. It's a pity that Milosjevic is dead, he deserved worse.
They wrote an open letter, of course Holland has to do with the massacre. We have a certain responsibility towards the people of Srebrenica. But we are victim too. If you want to blame, blame NATO.
I think I got something to say on this matter.
The reason for this insignia (or small medal) is that the men of Dutchbat III are not to blame for the worst operation in UN-history (what do we do in Sudan...nobody acts there and there is no support for mr. Pronk (he's also Dutch), has he any support of you?)
Dutchbat III was prejudiced and the soldiers were given a cold shoulder. There has been a Parliamentary inquiry what happened and the Dutch role in it.
Conclusion NATO is to blame, not the Dutch battalion.
Of course wir haben es gewusst, But that is what you should say.
The difference is that the Dutch got clean hands and a good conscience.
I do understand you're still upset what happened in Srebrenica. Do understand it were not the Dutch but the Serbs who ordered and murdered. The light armoured Dutch couldn't do much to stop it. The planes to scare the Serbs didn't come. Why? Because France was against it. It were politics and tactics of NATO.
It was a conflict between the Serbs and Muslims. The Dutch stood between them and couldn't do anything. The world was against any action. So don't blame the Dutch. Instead, blame yourself that Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic are still not in The Hague. It's a pity that Milosjevic is dead, he deserved worse.
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