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Reykjavik, Iceland – for weeks now one of the warmest places in Europe
During the last few weeks, we had temperatures close to 10°Celsius above zero, while most of the rest of Europe was freezing with minus degrees in the same range below zero. And we aren´t the only lucky ones up here in the north – Greenlanders also had a spot of nice warmths recently.
Three days ago temperatures started to drop slightly and a storm has covered most of the country with a moderate layer of snow – except here in Reykjavik. We still are snow-free and just around zero. There is, however, a frost prognosis for the next few days.
But still, here in the capital of Iceland we might not have a white Christmas. Looking for that his year you´d better go to Italy (or to Florida or California maybe?).
Sure, the winter has just started, and we will get our share of cold later on, no doubt.
But I´ve seen this kind of strange difference in weather pattern between us and the rest of Europe before- some twenty years ago actually, only in reverse.
It was in the early 1990s, when political Europe started to fully get on the “Global Warming” train, while we had some of the heaviest snow winters in living memory of most Icelanders then.
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Dr. Aafia Siddiqui abducted, tortured and sentenced to 86 years in prison
December 6, 2010
The failed attempt of American war-planners to create a female AlQaeda “mastermind” for the “War on Terrorism”
Aafia Siddiqui and her son Ahmed
Aafia Siddiqui is an educated Muslim woman, a Pakistani citizen, who had earned her degrees in the US, a bachelor´s degree at Boston´s MIT and a PhD in Neuroscience at Brandeis University with the thesis “How children learn”.
By those who knew her during her years in the US she is described as a kind woman, devoutly religious, compassionate, caring for the disadvantaged, working for charities and teaching classes to small children on Sundays.
While living in the US she became mother to two children of her own.
In 2001 Aafia returned with her family to Pakistan, where her youngest child was born.
However, after a rather difficult divorce and custody battle Dr. Aafia Siddiqui decided to return to the US in late 2002 to pursuit her career. A short time thereafter in early 2003, the U.S. Department of Justice denounced Dr. Aafia Siddiqui as a so-called “Al-Qaeda facilitator.”
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The Harry Potter book series – a tale of egalitarian ethics fighting fascist ideology
December 2, 2010
Recently I went to the newest Harry Potter movie, featuring the first part of the seventh and final Harry Potter book. However, as a hard-core fan of the books, I was thoroughly disappointed.
Important scenes were left out or altered in such a manner that their deeper meaning was lost. Nonsensical scenes were added for comic relief or gratuitous action so that any real message would be trivialized.
From the very first Harry Potter book written for a children´s readership and in the simple language which children would understand, J.K. Rowling made her intention of writing a tale on political philosophy quite clear.
When Harry confronts Voldemort at the end of both the first book and movie, Voldemort declares:
“There is no good and evil, only power and those too weak to seek it.”
Condensed in this single sentence is the political philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche and the ideological foundation of modern-day fascism.
And J.K. Rowling answers Nietzsche in the voice of little Harry when he declares:
“You´re a liar!“
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Is HAARP a Doomsday Weapon or a Pentagon Bluff?
Posted in Environmentalism, Media deceptions and propaganda, Philosophy, Religion and Politics, War and Imperialism on August 4, 2010
After reading on HAARP,the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program and watching a number of video documentaries on the issue, several questions came to my mind:
The first question was:
If the rulers of the Pentagon, the hidden government of financial elites, and the leading members of elitist organizations like the CFR and the Trilateral Commission together with their their adjacent think tanks like the Rand Corporation or the PNAC, had such a weapon ready for use, would they actually use it?
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Ending the Propagandocracy by Returning to Reason, Ethics and Truth
Posted in 911, History, Media deceptions and propaganda, Philosophy, Religion and Politics, War and Imperialism on July 8, 2010 |
What we believe in the western world to be our democracy has turned into something wholly different, since the point where we turned away from the path of reason, ethics and truth.
Rather than a democracy, the system we now have in the western world might be called a “propagandocracy”.
It is through the power of deceptive manipulation that we are ruled by an arrogant elitist plutocracy, one that has lost an understanding of basic ethics, a respect for honesty and truth, and a sense of compassion. And although this plutocratic ruling class sees itself as the intellectual elite, it has, in reality, also lost most of its capacity for reason.
But this loss of reasoning capacity doesn´t only afflict western society´s elite; it has spread down through all levels of western society.
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The Corruptive Influence of Power
Posted in Dictatorship, History, Philosophy, Religion and Politics on July 2, 2010 |
“Power tends to corrupt, absolute power corrupts absolutely”
John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton in 1887
Supporters of Marxist theories often imply that the motive for what they call the capitalists´class war against the working class is greed for money, not greed for power. Power, according to some of the Marxists I read, is just a means to an end.
I´m not an expert in Marxist theory myself, therefore I don´t know if Marxism deals with the issue of power at some level.
But if I understand Marxist theory correctly, then capitalists only seek power in order to protect their wealth and the comfortable life-style they fear to lose if wealth were to be distributed more equally.
But how much money do you actually need to live a comfortable life?
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Dreams of Palestine
on June 22, 2010 |
In the spring of 2007 I spent a short seven weeks in the Palestinian West Bank, working as a volunteer with the human rights group ISM.
It has been over 3 years now, but sometimes at night I still dream of Palestine.
Some dreams are nightmares full of fear, others full of sadness, and sometimes anger engulfs me.
And then there are those other dreams, memories so hard to describe.
They show me that good does indeed prevail over evil. That goodness defeats hatred, violence and despair.
The memories I took with me from my weeks in Palestine and from the Palestinian people, a people who in spite of so much suffering have never lost their courageous spirit and their basic humanity, these memories will stay with me for as long as I live
- while I´m awake and in my dreams.
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Volcanic and Political ashes in Iceland and the maybe anarchist and possible mayor of Reykjavik
Posted in Iceland on May 28, 2010
The Icelandic economy has past away and it´s dying wish was to have its ashes spread all over Europe
These and similar jokes we tell each other here in Iceland. And the Icelandic TV reporters who cover the Eurovision song-contest in Oslo at the moment tell us they have heard hundreds of volcano jokes whenever they are around other media people.
Now you in the rest of the world have heard a lot about the recent volcano-eruption over here and even more about the Icelandic bank-collapse and our Ice-Save troubles. Iceland was all over the world media in the last couple of years and more so in the last few weeks.
“We want cash, not ash,” said the British government.
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Humans are no Angels, but they can aspire to modern-day sainthood
Posted in Dictatorship, Media deceptions and propaganda, Palestine, Philosophy, Religion and Politics, War and Imperialism on March 17, 2010
Most human beings are no saints either, not in the traditional sense anyway. According to Catholic faith a saint is person who at the end of his or her life, the moment of death, by devotion to God and His miraculous grace has overcome all human weakness towards selfishness. Few people ever reach this form [...]
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But there is still a long way to go. The referendum for or against taking over the Ice-save debts unconditionally by the Icelandic tax-payer has brought a clear “No” vote with 93.2% of those who voted, while participation of voters in the referendum was at 62,7%. Publicly both the British government, as well as the [...]
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Dear people of the world, thank you for supporting us Icelanders
Posted in Economy, Iceland, Media deceptions and propaganda on January 6, 2010
Never before have I gotten so many positive responses as I have gotten over yesterday´s post: The Icelandic President listens to the voice of the people I am so grateful that so many of you support what the Icelandic people are trying to achieve: The preservation of our national sovereignty, by a refusal to the [...]
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The Icelandic President listens to the voice of the people
Posted in Economy, Iceland, Media deceptions and propaganda, Money-Systems on January 5, 2010
Icelanders say: No to Ice-save – No to Ice-slave The Icelandic President Olafur Ragnar Grimson refused to sign the Ice-save bill, which would have obligated the Icelandic tax-payer to pay unconditionally for the debts of the Ice-save division of Landsbanki, a private bank, which had collapsed in 2008. A large percentage of the Icelandic people [...]
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Hollywood, the Greatest Asset of Warmongers in our Propagandocracies
Posted in Dictatorship, Media deceptions and propaganda, War and Imperialism on January 1, 2010
A new narrative is needed to open our eyes to the truth about war and occupation. But don´t look for Hollywood or other mainline media outlets, either corporate or state-owned, to provide us with such a narrative of truth. Occasionally Hollywood changes its tune somewhat, but that´s only part of a new approach in the [...]
