Arab spring

Since February this year a wave of anger of the people of North African countries and on the Arab peninsula paved the way for new rulers. The transition isn´t swift. Many people died and even die today because the struggle goes on. However this revolution is considered by the EU-parliament as a major turnpoint in history.

The 2011 Sakharov prize goes to five Arab Spring activists. Egyptian Asmaa Mahfouz rallied fellow citizen to protest through Youtube videos, Facebook and Twitter posts. Ahmed al-Zubair Ahmed al-Sanusi, once Libya's longest-serving political prisoner, is now trying to rebuild his country as a member of the National Transitional Council.

Razan Zaitouneh, a Syrian human rights lawyer, exposed murders and human rights abuses committed by the authorities. Ali Farzat's cartoons helped to inspire revolt, and led to Syrian security forces to break both his hands. Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire to protest humiliation by the Tunisian authorities. His death sparked the wave of protests now known as the Arab Spring.


It is thought that the Arab countries only changed regime for another one and the possible introduction of the sharia is a real treat for society.

Maybe that is not the real problem. Maybe the real problem is the large part of uneducated people without an independent view.

new

I have to find other suppliers of kitchens. To find a cheaper one. to compare prices.

decisions

Kitchen

Tomorrow I´ll be informed about the possibilities of a new kitchen in my future new home. I wonder what choices there are. I honestly never thought about a gigantic kitchen. But now there are opportunities to install something better. With the new home I got to improve the situation. So lets see.

La crise

La crise financiere; this was June 2008. Now it's 3.5 years later and it's upgraded to la crise financiere mondiale!

When I went to bed last night after a very hectic day (later more about that), I heard the newsman with an update of the news. A former Minister told his opinion about the Euro. In his opinion the Euro-project failed totally. The Euro-currency he meant, I think.
I went to bed a little worried. This morning I thought that the financial markets would react on that opinion. But no, it surges after the losses of last weeks.

critizism

Papandreou has been critizised in the media many times.
A Dutch clip make some Greeks furious. The clipmaker got many hatemails... even the Greek Embassy protested that freedom of speech is important, but this is a bridge to far.

Nobody understands fucking satire in South east of Europe.Some.Greeks have no self reflection... it's sad that olicharchic Greece think that they invented democracy.
Greece has been run by families since it became a republic of the Orthodox.
This clip represents the anger of the unorthodox world....

condemn

I wrote some things on the Internet about the crisis in Greece and the politics involved with it. It seems that the Greek politics is like an oligarchy of families, one of them is the Papandreou family.

A minority ruling the Greek nation. Isn't that a huge contrast with the referendum Papandreou wanted to save his ass. democracy had to save olicharchy. Democracy is only meant to be for men with 6 slaves or more. Isn't it all ironic?
The referendum he wanted to use to clear his own internal problems. He wanted the other party to support his plans to keep the Greek into the EU. This operation almost succeeded but Papandreou lost his position. Talks proceed.

Italy is another problem. Yesterday evening Berlusconi almost resigned. Today he almost found a way out to stay for a while. He has made a condition for his resignation.

The financial markets shiver with this kind of news. Economist have no words for this crisis. They are speakless, finally.
This is really almost the implementation of the worst case scenario. And you know what people don´t know, life is going on like yesterday and 2 years before.

The past 3 years nothing happened to solve these inevitable problems with politics in the EU. This decisiveless EU parliament and EU-Government with highly paid EU-officials I condemn strongly.
It's not because what they are, it's because what they do and the system in which they work. Change has to come from within, from the people, from me.
It doesn't come and that is what I condemn too.

Poor

At last, the leaders of 2 southern countries who are responsible for the bad state of their country have gone.

A new one listening to the original name of Papademos might take over the office of Papandreou.
The father of the people takes over the office of the dynasty of 3 Papandreou's:
- Georgios Papandreou (1888-1968), former Prime Minister of Greece;
- Andreas Papandreou (1919-1996), economist and politician, former Prime Minister of Greece;
- George Papandreou (born 1952), politician, current Prime Minister of Greece.
(see Wikipedia)
It's time for a change in Greece. Finally there can be an united coalition of the 2 parties in Greeece.

The other one is the man who is not a gentleman at all, Berlusconi, a godfather of some Itailians. He might leave office tonight.

The crisis is political. There is also an economic crisis but that's not the main problem.
The EU ignored the problems of the debt countries and now we got to pay the debt to save these countries. I heard that Italy is to big to save. If it means that the EU can't save Italy, we need help of the International Monetary Fund to solve those big problems.
For this we blame of course Berlusconi...
And ourselves of course....

damned

Greece, an inspiring country under the Mediterranean sun in the south east of Europe. The islands along the Turkish coastline, the shore on the mainland, Athens and the history since mankind could reason. Where great philosophers had their cradle and where Papandreou shook the EU with his Greek version of Demos Kratos. His box of Pandora.

I thought that he might short sell stocks by proposing something crazy.
We need a great stability pact with more freedom of decision making with the Economic Commissions.
I´m very grieved with the Greek actions of the last days. We need silence and stability on the financial markets.

Occupy

Occupy Wall Street is a protest against what? The greed on WS? The institutionalized bonus culture of more, more, more even when it gets less? The politicians who don't stop it and seem not to care? It is just a thought?

In Europe and the rest of the world there is also an occupy protest today, Amsterdam 4,000 people, The Hague 1,500.
My protest is this blog. Down with the decisiveless politicians and the greedy speculators.

eyes

These are the eyes of the Western, expressing determination and unbelieve. The music is certainly the best for this scene, Ennio Morricone.



And the scene with the music.

An eye for an eye. It reminds me of the post I wrote in May this year, allowance, about the Iranian girl.

Mountain

It's a decision I've made already for myself. I'll climb the col de Alpe D'huez in the French Alpes.
By doing this I support the fight against cancer. The goal of the organization is to find money for making cancer a chronic instead of a mortal disease.

The main goal is to climb 1,000 meter in a 14,000 meter long road to the top of the mountain several times. Hopefully I get some people who donate some money on the account of my part of the AlpeDuZes-website which will follow later this year.

As a team of 8 cyclists we wanna raise 20,0000 Euro or more.
I'm excited how to reach so much money for the good cause.
Yeah, finally I can do something good with my more or less selfish riding.

There is one big question. To be part of the climbers I have to do a medical examination to secure my application for this ride.

cancer

I was positif about going to cycle against cancer on June 7 2012.
But now I feel negatif because of medical examination.

Eurocrisis

China, Canada and the USA have put pressure on Europe on the IMF summit in New York.
I'm happy with that pressure on and the advice for the delegation of 20 or something! Ministers of Finance got.
Europe is so decisive-less on the crisis with the debt countries in the south.
The European politicians don't decide on the major issues. They postpone the decision how to handle the crisis. In the meantime the crisis on the financial markets deepens.

This is not good for the stability in the world. China, Brazil, India, the USA, Australia, Japan, Indonesia will feel the lack of leadership.
This is the main problem of the EU.

C

Today is my 30th birthday, my rebirth, a totally new me.
A reboot of the system who I was. It changed me.
Despite my four weeks coma I still work with the same core processor inside.

Since that day plus 24 days I had to learn anything. But almost everything came back in a natural way. I didn't recognize that I worked for it. Children have the willpower go for real limits. Maybe it is one of the evolutionary elements we still have. We struggle through our lives and find way's to live because giving up is no option.

This is also the slogan of the bicycle climb of the Alpe d'Huez.
The ride is meant to earn money for the struggle against cancer.
The goal is to earn more than 30 mil. Euro.

I'll be there on June 7 2012.