nine eleven

I recorded it in my mind. Some minutes before 15.00 Amsterdam time I came home, turned on the radio and heard that a plane crashed into one of the twin towers. I turned on the TV screen, CNN, and saw the second plane fly into the other sky scraper. I was flabbergasted and knew that it must be an assault.

Yesterday I read through my written diaries and only a couple of day's after the attacks found some words referring to it.
First I compared it with the deaths in wars, later with tragic natural disasters like the Tsunami and the lack of a warning system. And now, 10 years later, I feel the pain of the victims in the towers again. When I saw in the second tower a person waving from a window to draw attention and another person (light trouser, dark shirt and hair-colour) trying to get out but then going in again, I couldn't avoid to cry.

In my country there are more and more measures to guarantee safety.
Yesterday a big helicopter patrolled or searched above the motorway and my neighborhood.
And we never hear the reason why that helicopter flew there simply it made to much noise.


I wonder can't humans be chipped like cats and dogs. Then you know anything about them just by one scan.

niece

My brother has his first child. It was born yesterday. A little girl of 6,500 grams. All healthy I heard. They had some miscarriages so they must be very happy with the fresh child.

House

Can't hardly believe I am in the process of buying a house.
A house with a garden, 2 bedrooms, a study and a big attic.

I can't hardly believe it. It's a dream. It's also the process of cutting my decision bow I told about in a previous post.
But this is an extreme example. From nothing to something in less than 2 months. Don't think but do it. Buying a house I mean. But I thought it over for eight years.

Maybe not thinking but just doing is the meaning of life.

In one way or another this is another step on the Maslow pyramid.

Taxes

In a way you can say that raising taxes for the super rich is one way to show unity.



According to Warren Buffett raising taxes doesn't affect the willingness to invest.

Unity

Everything has to get worse in order to get better.

My blog is about what's the world facing now. It's good that humanity already knows the answer but the politicians in Europe and in the United States of America are a little slow to understand the problem.

What we need is the skill of China, India or Brazil to speak with one mouth.

We need unity, consensus like in the Dutch polder model.

holy

On the 14th of May I wrote about the Iranian woman living in Spain.. She's blind because an man sprayed acid in her eyes. Now she's allowed by the Iranian Justice to do the same with that jailed man.

However she is allowed, she has a legitimate reason and must be very bittered by what is done to her, she show this horrible man mercy. She deserves a statue. She should be declared holy by I don't know what kind of religious institution.

addition

In my last post I asked the next question;
Why have Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and other countries entered the EU while they weren't ready economically and politically?
This is not important now.
The question is how to get out of that mess.

To translate it to the future, the question is how we can learn from it.
From example Croatia as 28th country entering the EU. Others will follow, like Serbia, Montenegro, Albania. And they all want an equal standard of living. That is poli-economically hard to do.

bankrupt

Will Greece face bankruptcy? Yes they already face it. Whether Greece goes bankrupt that's the question.
History is on Greece's side. So the public opinion will save Greece once again. In the 19th century bank loans saved Greece. Now bank capital might save Greece. Banks have to give Greece voluntary new bank loans.
There is nothing voluntary about it. If they don't, the EU financial crisis will deepen itself. Banks will have less capital, Pension funds can't pay the pensions, states will face shortages. Money will be wasted.
Europe is in crisis for nothing than money and some people who can't handle it.

Why have Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and other countries entered the EU while they weren't ready economically and politically?

Roll over Greece

I used to roll the dice
feel the fear in my enemies
eyes
Listen as the crowd would sing
"Now the old king is dead!"
"Long live the king!"

socialitics

Since May my blog has much more viewers. It's the spin off of a Malaysian based website of blogspot, http://1malaysiaautoforum.blogspot.com/
The website is about cars, it's an auto forum.
The site is impressive I must say, but I wonder what my site about socialitics subjects -(social & politics) has to do with it.

Hello

More than a month past since my last post.
I cycled, I worked and had a vacation in Germany.
We had a removal at work at the end of May. My department switched to another building. In the last days I couldn't do very much. The systems were down due to the removal which concerned 600 people or more.

I needed a vacation badly but at the same time I was a bit afraid for weeks of travelling. I didn't have a tent and didn't know where to sleep after 100 kilometer cycling. But as I went on vacation it wasn't bad at all. The first night I knew where to sleep but after that I had no idea. Hotels in Münster, Verl, Holzminden and Clausthal-Zellerfeld were okay.
In Clausthal-Zellerfeld I had an accident. It was not bicycle related. Just fell 3 metres down in a riverbed. My upper right arm hit a piece of metal (as I thought) or a rock. I think adrenaline made me not being dizzy. I first had to climb out. Then I noticed that there where a few bubbles on my arm, blood, scratches, and a lot of pain.
I climbed out of the deep trench and saw a ambulance rinding by. I only had to cycle 3 kilometers to Clausthal where I would look for a hotel, not realizing the seriousness of the injury. A kind German directed me to hotel Goldene Krone where I booked a room. Luckily it was 300 meters from a hospital. So I went there after a shower. In the hospital the doctor did cleaning the wound, using lots of Jodium, made a bandage and finally did an X-Ray. It looked broken. It wasn't luckily. The next day I had to be there again.

The next I showed up a 8 am and heard that I couldn't get on cycling.
I asked the doctor to let me cycle to the highest mountain there. Without packing I added. He allowed me.
24 Hours later I was home.

After that I still had 10 days to enjoy. June 20 I'll be working again.
What I've learned of this how to stay calm in these matters, being stoic in this situation. These are the facts you can't change, so don't worry about it. Some things you can change so work on them. For instance, change to a more silent room. Get enough sleep at the end of the day. Have a good breakfast in the morning. Well I succeeded but another thing happened.

When I was going downhill on my light bike (no packaging)my back wheel slipped and I almost fell with 40 k/hr. That was the moment when I thought that it was the moment to go home.

Of course there is the story of Mephistopheles in Faust.
Angels do exist?

allowance

An Iranian woman living in Spain has permission to do the same what happened to her when she denied a lover. That lover sprayed acid in her eyes. Now she's blind. In Iran an eye for an eye seems to be normal. It's a right in their legislation. Many people here in West Europe would like to have the same legislation.

Plato said "One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him."
—Plato's Socrates (Crito, 49c) (c. 469 BC–399 BCE)

"One should treat others as one would like others to treat oneself (positive form)[1]
One should not treat others in ways that one would not like to be treated (negative/prohibitive form, also called the Silver Rule)" (wikipedia)
This Golden Rule can be found in many religions or ways of living. THey're the ethics of life.

So why should Spain allow a blind woman to treat her attacker the same way he attacked her. This is an inferior deed which is morally/ethically wrong.

Think, can we allow this? Well, we aren't all Platoists.

city-trip

However 33% of the city trip are on bike there are no really state of the art novelties in this 4th sized Dutch city.
It's a shame on the local authorities that for example on the spot of the video. This crowdedness is going on for a decade of even more. There are 2 busy lanes to cross and a tram passes from both sides. That makes 4 lanes.
Many people get injured here each year. It's not without a reason.
Shame on you Municipality to let it happen.

feeling

Wouter Weylandt died in the Giro d'Italia.

A day before he sent a text message that the giro was too nervous and too dangerous.

It doesn't feel good.

Syria

A person I know married to a Syrian woman last year. With the Arabian spring there is a kind of turmoil in the family. I think on both sides but certainly the Dutch side. The lack of information is a bad signal. The Dutch embassy is doing everything to keep the Dutch family updated about their Syrian relative. They try to find ways out of Syria. Lebanon is suggested. But what is the best way out? Through the mountains on the Syrian-Turkish border? I don't know. She needs a permit to leave the country. If he succeeds to bring her home to her new country it's another feel good movie.
Hopefully she escapes.