Sunday, November 30, 2008

Your Mamma Won't Like Me

The title is exactly what it says. I found it in the possessions of the woman my father had a relation with after my dad and mother broke up. I was 13 or 14 years old when I found it and the song wasn´t quite as bad as the genre supposed to be.

Googling I found this video on YouTube. You like it or you do not.

Thursday, November 27, 2008

Testimony

Maybe it's time to inform the world about my neighbor with a bad aggressive cancer.
I wrote you about her in my blog in September 2007.

Her situation worsened that should be clear. She was operated more than a year ago and she recovered slowly, first without a voice. Then it seemed doctors made an error during the operation which resulted in another way using her voice. When the days got warmer she went outside for a walk but it was to much, she fainted several again. She even got dizzy in her house. When Summer past she hardly went outside. A wheelchair was arranged to go for a walk with her. But when Autumn arrived and the weather worsened she stayed inside. Afraid to catch a cold. She became more and more tired because she was locked in in her own apartment. Days past and many visitors came. They had some smalltalk about the past and the things they had together. She wrote her testimony and made a list of things she would give away. Dead is near.
She got morphine and other painkillers. A wrong dose and she had a trip. A roller coaster ride in her bed. She was afraid that night. After that night her friends made a schedule to sleep in her house and watch over her.

Some weeks ago she phoned me and told in which condition she was. The doctors give me 5 till 7 weeks, she told, I might not be here anymore when Christmas arrives.
Her liver grows and doesn't work properly. Also it presses against her lungs so she gets short-winded.

She has a hospital bed in the middle of her living room, a lot of people who care for her and morphine to endure the pain. She said that it's the worst illness one can have. It damages the whole of her body. Luckily not her mind.

She has mentioned euthanasia as a possible way of dying. Her feeding machine prevents her from dying. She gets enough Joules to stay alive. Normally people with cancer get weak because they don't eat anymore and die. It's a simplification but in the end it's the truth.

Monday, November 24, 2008

Rote Armee Fraction

Nah Klar, nach 26 Jahren Haft für Mord auf Hanns-Martin Schleyer, Siegfried Buback und Jürgen Ponto in 1977 und andere.

Did he really changed his view on the world? I hope so because the world changed after 1982.

Friday, November 07, 2008

Electionday in New York

Harrie van Veen went to New York and brought back this movie

Wednesday, November 05, 2008

Joe the plumber

In both campaigns of John McCain and Barack Obama they mentioned Joe the plumber as a hard working American with a small business making less than $250,000 a year.

I don't mind. The only thing I do mind is that all those Joe's don't have a certificate. They don't invest in proper education. They didn't pay the bill or their taxes. Excuse me, but isn't Joe the plumber not really Johnny Freerider?

It's not only men like Joe the plumber I oppose. It's the free rider problem.

All over the world pharmacists do their work. Also in the Netherlands. They provide people with medicals to get healthy, stay healthy, or to compensate a deficit.
As the pharmacist are the providers of drugs they are a target for the chemical industry. When the pharmacist sell a lot of drugs of a certain drugs company, pharmacist will be annually overloaded with a bonus of the company. (bonuses of € 180,000,= exist)

This is a kind of freerider effect/behaviour. I'm sure this happens all over the world. Not only in a small town in the Netherlands.

The Dutch, the world should stand up against these practices because the average man in the street pays the bill in the end. We, all citizens of the world, pay for the freeloader behaviour of pharmacists.

The average man's the one who should count. The average man pays his bills, taxes, as long as he can. If Joe the plumber does this all and he's certified than Joe has a last name.

Tuesday, November 04, 2008

November 4 2008

This election is excitement. I took a day off to follow the results at night. I'm informed now that we'll have a broadcast till 9 am. It seems not a good idea to watch all but at 1 am the first results will come in. (Kentucky and Indiana)
But it'll be historical, so I have to see it (on my tv-screen).

At 6.30 am the winner of the election for presidency will be known.
My newspaper will be delivered. The latest news will not be in it. Maybe the deadline is 2 am. Some smaller East coast States will be known.

But only at 7 am the polls in California will close. And it's possible that the 55 electors will not be important who is the next President of the USA.

Monday, November 03, 2008

Foreign affairs

In a foreign country far away a new head of State will be elected. A President will be chosen. This seems to be a mayor important thing for the world. Every nation is awaiting who the next president will be. But for what? What will he bring to the world. What does the world know about the two male candidates for President of the United States of America?

Really nothing...One is talking about change and hope....but what kind of change, what kind of hope and for who?


Sunday afternoon just before cycling I had to look at an interesting political program. An interview with Kishore Mahbubani.
What the Western world not seems to realize is said by Kishore Mahbubani from Singapore. He is a philosopher and retired diplomat. The says that together with the economic growth of the power of the east (Brazil, India, China and others, also the Arab world) there will be a shift of the political and cultural center. The Asians (and Brazilians) have the future.
The Western world doesn't realize it according to mr. Mahbubani, but there will be a rapid change in structures which keep the world together.
The new President of the USA will not be able to stop the change.


For the West it's time to let the arrogance go and realize that this change is a window of opportunities.


Good luck America! Choose Obama :-)

Saturday, November 01, 2008

Trivia

Do you know that Ian Fleming created James Bond based on the Dutch Prince Bernhard van Lippe-Biesterfeld.

I googled on Prince Bernhard and found this paragraph... The Bilderberger group, founded after World War II by Britain’s genocidal Prince Philip and the Nazi SS Prince Bernard of the Netherlands, represents one of the key nodal points where the international finance oligarchs meet under US-UK leadership to ratify consensus on larger strategic initiatives. It was for example the Bilderberger meeting held near Stockholm in Saltsjøbaden, Sweden in the spring of 1973 which secured the final consensus for the Royal Dutch Shell plans for the October 1973 Middle East War and the attendant “Arab” oil boycott, which looted Japan and Europe and imposed global austerity to stabilize the US dollar and the Atlanticist banking system. That financiers’ staged oil boycott was the 1973 version of today’s “peak oil” hoax. read more on this site

if you put it in today's context you know nothing has changed and that the western banking system has failed and that the failure goes back to times just after World war II