Ok, now please, think. If Hamas, after almost a year of war, say themselves, that they can see, that they have almost disrupted the normalization of Israel. And they then make an atrocity to maximise the disruption. Then what is their aim?
It was not by accident, that exactly the child that had parents that spoke at the DNC, Democratic national congress, was killed.
Why would they do that? To provoke. What is it that they want to provoke? Mayhem, disruption of alliances, and general discord.
What will that lead to? The weakening of the alliances of not only Israel, but also the Arab nations, that so far have been allied with the US.
If they manage to attain that goal, just imagine the victory for them.
That is what they are aiming for now. In the beginning, they had no idea, that they would get that far.
The fact, that they have gotten this far, is due to lack of coordination and understanding of the goals of the war from the Israeli side.
No one really knows what we are fighting for, the goal of the war.
So in this situation, we leave the initiative to the enemy that in this case is a small rebel force, that has only a few hostages to work with.
The fact, that they almost tore down the entire US alliance in the Middle East is astounding.
The fact, that the Israeli side still have not realized their aim is equally astounding.
The only way we get out of this quagmire for real, is if we keep the alliances, because, that is the real victory goal.
I know that the hostages are equally import. Yet from a super strategic point of view, that we really need to get onto, that is the victory goal. To keep Israel safe, we need to have allies and make things with them to our mutual benefit.
That is the bare boned simple truth, right there.
G-d bless the will for Israel to survive.
One of the things, that really struck me, when I started working on the green desert project with Hans, was the scale and ambition of it.
His majesty Sheik Zayed, wanted to do something that was beyond his own time.
He created a dream, for his people to hang on to and create an atmosphere of hope and striving.
We human beings need to have something to strive for. We need to know, that there is a positive goal out there in the horizon.
A goal that we may not reach ourselves, maybe it will be our sons and daughters, maybe further down the line of generations.
Like Rav Ashlag, who dreamt that one day all three monotheistic religions would come together and thereby make peace.
It seems unattainable. Yet the scope and the ambition inspires.
Like the first settlers who dreamt of an Eden in the US, a paradise to strive for.
We inherit these dreams and visions.
We can choose to work for a positive vision or to get sucked into the destructive tit for tat of war.
We can choose ourselves, and if we do choose the positive vision, we use our lives to build and make a better world.
When you get old and look back at your life, the most important thing to have done is to have built something.
A family, a nation, a business.
If you can look back at your life and see that you used your life for the betterment of the human species in some small or large way, your life will make sense.
Life is chaotic and difficult to navigate. Yet, positivity, construction and striving for something better is what we should do, if we want to make our lives truly matter.
It is not easy, because the destruction of materialism is there all around us. We should not be naive, and off cause we should defend ourselves. But we should be honest to ourselves in the realization that the meaning of life, is to create.
G-d bless the will to be creators ourselves.
Okay, so the Harris/Walz side is presenting a new economic proposal.
These are my reflections on it.
First of all, much better than the first proposal, it has depth, and it carries forth a genuine motivation on supporting small business owners.
My initial idea was essentially to support ALL production, yet these news ideas show, that the economical theories are developing and is colored by each side.
So the republicans are supporting the larger enterprises and the Democrats are supporting the smaller enterprises.
That makes pretty good sense, since we at the Democratic side is supposed to care for the little guy.
What I think is also important is to remember, is the unfair competition from China.
When we initially launched the new economic theories in opposition to Mitt Romney. His problem was, that he had been outsourcing a lot of American production. He made all his money on that.
Trump has had a lot of success with his angle on my ideas, and made a lot of jobs in the US. Biden has built on this, and now Harris is developing the ideas even further.
Small business owners are in danger of succumbing to issues as low prices and unfair competition from China, so I would humbly advise to include the Chinese angle in the economical discussion.
G-d bless the United States of America, and may we prosper.
Ok, so maybe some may consider my motivation for engaging in the peace work.
My great grandmother fled to Sweden in the middle of the Holocaust. She fought for freedom and decency.
The rest of my family fought against the nazies. With weapons. There were the black sheep here and there. Yet we fought for the freedom for the Danes and Jews.
My family is an aristocratic Jewish family.
We have been leading culture and business for hundreds of years in Denmark.
So, the founder of Zionism Brandes was a friend of my great grandmother.
It has been handed down from generation to generation to watch out for the Jews.
Now, the Rotschild’s may have put their signature on the birth certificate of Israel, yet my family was a close second in the zionistic ideas of a free democratic country, based on humanism.
That is my motivation. To watch out for Israel and protect it.
Seeing things from the above and mend the relations inbetween Israel and its allies.
It is a genuine and heartfelt attempt at being a guardian of Israel.
G-d bless the will for Israel to survive and be strengthened.
Ok, so there is a final proposal on the table. Let’s see if we can figure out the ups and downs of it.
At the end, endless discussions is not a process that makes much sense, so I agree with the intention. Either it makes sense to make a deal or not.
So what will happen if the deal is rejected? Seen from the Israeli side it will mean the weakening of its alliances. After all it is the Israeli allies that are negotiating.
If there is no deal, it will mean, that the allies will take a step back and see what will happen.
Seen from a Palestinian Arab side, what will happen.
Well there will be no real immediate consequences. Since Hamas is allied with the Russian/Iranian side, it will not loose much.
So Hamas has a strong hand.
Where does that lead to?
It leads to the fact, that it is essentially most in the interest of Israel to make the deal.
What will make Hamas make a deal? It will only make a deal if it has a chance of survival, because in the long run, if the deal is off the table, it will give Israel the time to cut off all roads to resupply of arms and so on. The leadership of Hamas will be destroyed and the Palestinian in general will turn against Hamas. It has already begun.
The question is, will Israel trade the survival of Hamas for the ability to remain in the good grace of its allies?
G-d bless the will to finally find peace.
Well, we need to start lifting our gaze from Gaza to the international game.
Hamas has played us for some time. If they are trying to dissolve the alliances of Israel and we are fighting to keep the Philadelphia corridor. They are the ones who are controlling the outcome of the war.
When we look at it. What is the quality of a stable and sound relationship to our Arab neighbors.
It is peace and stability of Israel. Not only for the next few years but for the rest of the existence of the country.
We would have won a stable situation.
Going from a startup to a fully fledged country, that has the future in front of it.
This is what Hamas fears. That we mature and become a stable country.
So their victory condition is to disrupt and destroy that.
At least a part of our victory condition should be to keep the maturing of the country to become a stable country.
Off cause getting the rest of the hostages home is equally important. In fact it is more important. The human lives that are in the hell they are in now, should be saved.
So we need to play the game smarter.
What are we? The David or the Goliath?
We need to think in terms of how David would think. Outsmart, use our resources wisely.
Garner international support for our cause.
If we do that, we fight in the way we are supposed to.
G-d bless the will to realize the victory terms that fit us.
Ok, at least now we know the terms of loss and victory for Hamas. Hamas is gunning for a destabilizing of Israel, by destroying the relations Israel has with its neighbors.
So that is what victory is from a Hamas perspective. This makes it pretty clear what would make victory from an Israeli perspective. That would be to remain a stable and prosperous player in the Middle East.
So in a way, we at least now know, what it is that Hamas is playing for.
They are wise in that manner, you must give them that.
G-d bless the will to be in the understanding of the war, and how we may be on the winning team.
All right, maybe all is not lost yet.
Guys, you need to think. Why did Hamas murder the hostages? Why? You need to reflect on that question, if you want to make a response that actually makes sense when it comes to furthering the agenda of Israel.
I will tell you why. They did it, because Hamas has realized that the only real political effect the Gaza war has had, has been the destruction of the Arab alliance built under Obama.
So, how do they strengthen that effect?
They do it by provoking both the Americans as well as Israel.
It is a master stroke. And so far, you have reacted just the way they wanted.
If you do not understand the game, you will be manipulated with by the smarter opponent.
So maybe the current leadership of Israel simply do not care about the loss of half of its allies. But you should. I mean, the loss is tremendous and the normalization that is required for Israel to be at peace with its neighbors is almost gone.
So please, think about it. What would counter the ploy of Hamas?
It would be, to isolate Hamas and say. Well we understand that not all Palestinians and Arabs do things like murdering civilians, and we see this as a reflection of the Hamas only.
With this, you have isolated them, and you can be the good guy.
Care for the families of victims. Be a victim.
If you do that, the ploy will boomerang back at Hamas.
So, please, we need to play the game better than Hamas. Right now, you are being manipulated.
Sorry, but you need to know to play the game in a manner where you win, we get peace and everybody can go back to living their lives in peace.
G-d bless the will to see things clearly.
Ok, the the whole Middle East conflict has really come to a pivotal moment.
At one hand, the entire Arab alliance is crumbling for the Americans. The normalization that was almost complete before the 7 October is void, for now at least.
I understand that the Arab nations cannot continue watching the wars and fighting and just stand back.
At the other hand, my own project and the respect and engagement I have in the Arab Nations is actually strengthened.
I believe, that the work and vision of the forests of the desert will come in to existence.
I have a really good relationship to Saudi Arabia as well.
So the process of peace and reconciliation is still active.
We will see what will happen in the future, yet we will see a two pronged path. One for those who seek peace, and one for those who seek war and conflict.
I am now kind of on my own. I still sense, that the EU and a lot of the good liberals and conservatives are backing my effort.
Yet the grander movers and shakers are moving towards war and conflict.
G-d bless the will to keep seeking for peace, where there is an opening.
Ok, so this is my attempt at explaining what I am trying to do in the UAE.
Four months ago, I send in a proposal to the Zayed green foundation.
I have worked, from the beginning, to try and make peace in the Middle East.
So the dream of Zayed really sparked my vision. I have been working for a long time in Denmark to try and elevate the Danish nature, and have this amazing friend called Hans.
Hans is an aristocrat as I, and have been working with forests his whole life. In his youth he was a lumberjack in Canada. He is big.
We have a lot of other friends. Niels who used to be a true forest artist. He made the forest of Silkeborg as the states forester. I think it is probably the most beautiful place on earth. Hilly, a birthing ground for eagles, it has these clear lakes.
He is in, and Palle is on and Esben. The most talented experienced group of people. They are all in the green forest in the desert in the Arab peninsula.
So the idea is like this.
We gene manipulate crops to be able to be sustained be saltwater. We create a rim of forest along the sea. This creates its own mini bio environment. Making soil, creating clouds and nutrition to sustain a freshwater environment.
So we jumpstart the process along the rims of the Arab word, and then make the process go inland.
We have already a green light off sorts by the university of Aarhus. So the process is real.
We can do it.
Realize that dream of Sheik Zayed.
My point is, this is my attempt at creating positive change in the Arab environment.
Wouldn’t that be a change after the war?
G-d bless the will to find peace and may the Arab world be lush and green again. May we follow the path of good and be the heroes and mighty champions that we really want to be.
When you kill six innocent Jews, you need to ask yourself; why?
Why do we fight, what is it we want to obtain? What is the meaning of the fight in Gaza seen from a Palestinian Arab perspective?
Well, the goal is easy. We want to make a better world. The difficult lie in the method. How do we make that better world?
Here we need to consult history and understand what the angels and g-d has provided us with insight along the way.
The main vehicle for peace and good life in the Arab world has been struggle.
The purity of the desert warriors, is the standard we set, as a bar.
After getting to know these desert warriors especially Sheik Zayed, I can see what the Arabs are talking about. He was a visionary and a good man. He was forged in the heat and unforgiving desert environment. He dreamed of making the desert a home of forests animals and lush greenery.
I share this vision, and I would do all I could to realize it. I have a lot of amazing friends in the forest community here in Denmark, that could do it. Majestic aristocrats, who have been working in the forest for all of their lives.
They are all in.
My point is, the Sheik has a positive vision and he wants things that will make people thrive and be happy.
So the same mindset is important for the Gazan Arab to find. What are the dreams? What do we want.
You are more than welcome in dreaming about proverbial forests in Gaza. See them before your eyes.
If you have that positive vision, the road to a better life is possible.
If you make your life about positivity and good, that is what you get. If you continue fighting just because you are angry, your life will degrade until that who controls you is the dark lord, and not your own vision.
Gaza could be a desert dream. Remember that when you are doing your negotiations.
Make that dream your focus. Living in a tunnel like you do is hell on earth, so be careful don’t give in to the anger.
Be the disciples of Sheik Zayed and make your life a life of forests and joy.
G-d bless the will to see good, act good and speak good. May we finally find peace, and be happy.
The difficulty of finding peace in the Middle East is mainly due, to the lack of international institutions, that try to be neutral in stance and work for peace.
The UN used to be that institution, and Israel was, before the war, a candidate to be that light upon the nations.
So, no-one really lifts this extremely important task.
That is the opening of the EU, in the sense, that EU needs to find its legs in the world, could take.
Would that be good for the EU?
Absolutely. Being a very respected player for peace, that work for the betterment of humanity is something, that will elevate the EU to a new level.
How does the commission then do it?
It applies wisdom to the commission, and helps with advice and speech.
G-d bless the peace we can find, of our institutions work as intended.
There is a kind of a metaphysical question behind the war in Israel/Gaza.
All three monotheistic religions are truly the advocates of angles.
Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
So why are we fighting? It is because we are truly not in the know when it comes to the will of the angels.
We do not always listen. The angels are trying, hard, to be heard.
What do they want? They want to stop the suffering on both sides.
Sometimes, when we are fooled by the other side, the satanic side. We see the angels as the demons.
That is when we are truly and wholesomely fooled.
What do Satan want? He wants us to fight the angels.
Yet there is a very simple way to see if someone is angelic or demonic.
Look at the fruits of their labor.
Is it relief or suffering?
Hell on earth is real in the sense, that there are places in the world, where the demonic thrive. Places of decay and crime. Places where the system abuses the weak.
That is where you find true evil.
True good you find, where there is light and sacrifice. Places where the weak are protected.
G-d bless the will to be honest in word and straightforward in action. May we have peace sooner rather than later.
The European Union is discussing with itself these days how to make a positive impact on the Israel/Gaza war.
First of all, what is the interest of the European Union? That is self evident if you think about it. That is calm and quit.
The conflicts that are in the Middle East are spreading all over the globe and can make things go into a violent gear, fast.
So, this makes it quite easy to see what we want. We want peace.
The same is the true goal of the American administration that is thoroughly involved in the process and has been adamant in making peace.
What is the war really?
It is a reflection of the power play that is in the Middle East.
There are two factions opposing each other. The Russian through Iran and Hamas, plus the Houthis and Hezbollah.
And the Americans through Israel and the Arab nations.
Essentially we are seeing two versions of Islam on each side. Except for the fact that Hamas is Sunni, and that is their Achilles heal. Actually Hamas is closer to the Arabs that the Iranian.
On each side there is propaganda. On the side of Hamas there is the literal projection of the suffering. On Israel the same.
Most of it is real, yet it is used to garner support.
So to keep a clear head and support the peace process, one needs to be neutral and work for the reconciliation.
If the EU work for the peace, it has the potential to take over the role of the UN, that has failed in this endeavor and has fallen for the propaganda.
I am a Jew, and the pain and suffering the families of the hostages feel is like something i wake up in the night to be worried about.
At the same time, I do also recognize the pain on the other side. Milling about up and down Gaza, is painful especially if you have children.
So that is the empathic understanding of the war. To have your wife or child captive in Gaza is a nightmare, we need to sympathize with that. Yet living the ruins of Gaza is also not humane.
Humanism is about seeing things for what they are, truthfully with empathy.
G-d bless the will to find peace in this war that has been going on for too long.
Ok, so now after Mr. Vance has initiated a discussion on the results of Mr. Trumps very good results in the area of economics, it has become a center of interest.
Mr. Trump used my ideas, as Mr. Biden. Trump essentially made the ideas more practical and Mr. Biden developed them even further. That is; protecting American manufacture from the piracy economics of China.
Supporting factories in a way, that they remain competitive.
Shielding the manufacture with good tax on Chinese products, that match the investment the Chinese government did in reducing the prices of the goods. Electric vehicles bring a good example of this principle.
So, my best advice would be for the Obama camp to just continue with what Mr. Biden have been doing. I know that this is not really the main competence of Ms. Harris it is a competence of Mr. Walz.
Yet, matching this record of Mr. Trump is vital.
I know that it is essentially my ideas both camps run on, but there are a lot of difference in implementation, so the practice could and probably should match each other and be compared.
That would be fair. The voters care, because it has a huge impact on their lives. So we need to respect that interest.
G-d bless the economy of the United States of America.
I feel like we are walking along the edge of a massive abyss in Israel.
I get it, the anger and the desperation. Yet, we are actively gambling with the very existence of Israel.
The attack from Hezbollah was designed to really destroy a lot of Israel. The amount of missiles and where they were going.
This could have been a partly destruction of Israel. That we survived that was due to the amazing ability of the IAF, intelligence and the help of the Christian Lebanese.
It is good, that the entire Middle East is essentially trying to avoid an escalation. I mean, a nuclear war in the Middle East. Just the doomsday vision of that is pretty dark.
But we survived this test, and hopefully this is the turning point.
We dont know, but we are walking along the edge of the abyss, and we could fall in.
G-d bless the will to be vigilant and clear in our thoughts.
We have to get to moving in the EU. The signs of dissolution and conflict are all around us. In the Middle East, lately in the UK.
We need to start working on a thorough reform to avoid these conflicts.
The good thing about the EU is, that the EU is much more ready for a positive development than most other countries and federations, because it is still so new.
So can we find an example on where things were really working in the past?
The best, most positive development of the EU was under the leadership of Mr. Jacques Chirac. What did Mr. Chirac do, that furthered the cause of the EU? He was a centrist.
He took the good parts of the right and the good parts of the left and made them the ideas of his reform of the EU.
Add to this, he was a brilliant politician.
So this is a template, that the EU can use to further its solidification in a very turbulent time.
Let’s have a look at the policies of the time.
First of all, there is the economy. Here the Bidennomics is implemented in the EU. That is a protected market, protected from the piracy economics that China is doing with dumping prices in certain markets with state support.
This is a very narrow line to balance, because free markets are important to make sure, that the industries are able to develop under the stress that usually is on a free market. So we have to make sure, that we keep production in Europe, and at the same time do not make the European economy state sponsored.
It is already on its way, and hopefully it will create as much work in Europe as in the US, where we have the greatest job boom in a long time, due to these policies.
The thing is one working job makes 6-10 jobs in the service sector. That is why production is so valuable seen from an economical perspective and from a union perspective.
Secondly there is security. Again here we have a hornets nest. If we do not get it right, civil war may ensure.
How do we tackle that?
First of all, we DO NOT talk about race. If we fuel the race wars, then we get race wars. So, what we do, is to clamp down on islamists in our counterterrorist work. That is not all Muslims only ISIS and the like. If we have acts of terrorism as we have had in Germany, we make sure that the terrorist and the terrorist infrastructure is treated with all means of the security apparatus. At the same time, normal, peaceful and respectable Muslim, are treated with respect.
We all have civil rights.
Thirdly there is the discussion of the army.
We need to protect our borders, and if we want to make a place where we can process asylum seekers in Rwanda or the like. We need to have the ability to secure that process.
So, the EU wants an army, to do some of these things.
How do we do that?
We just put up a central command.
Soldiers obey orders. BUT we RESPECT the traditions of the armies.
We cannot change how the armies work, but we can COORDINATE the different tasks that the army does.
So that is quite easy, if we treat the process under a light umbrella.
Make a central command, man it with a federal general, an admiral and coordinate the forces of the federation.
Fourthly, there is green change and domestic energy production.
We are already working quite hard on that here in Denmark/Germany and it should just be more focused and step up in tempo.
And lastly, we need to unite and not be divided. We do this by strengthening the institutions, make them better.
G-d bless the will to make the EU work and prosper.
Ok, it seems to me, that the direction of the European Union is tossed back and forth in the international events around it.
I truly believe, that the crux of the matter is; will we in The Union be able to chart our own course.
This does require, that we make institutions that are sound and working.
How do we do that?
Well as in the US under Kamala or Barack, we do it by STRENGTHENING the effectiveness and quality of the institutions.
We make our systems more just, enlightened and fair.
If we do that, we have something to show the European voter.
G-d bless the will to make the European countries sound and prosperous.
So, we need to make a more solid base for the current Democratic contender to stand on.
What may this be?
The main force of Ms. Harris is her many years of service to the justice system. She fought for the dispossessed and weak in our society. She fought for women being sexually harassed, against big corporations and so on.
That is her true strength.
So Kamala, use that.
Work for a United States of America where the little guy is protected. Where those who are the victims get to be supported by the justice system.
I mean, you have all the experience you need to make a case out of that point in the Democratic policy manual.
Use your strength.
G-d bless the will to make a justice system that is even better than what we have. Where the little guy, the victim is taken care of, and the strong is curbed so that the weak may live.
Ok, this is the last stretch of the peace negotiations. I could say a lot about the strategy involved, the potential conflict and so on.
Yet, this is not about strategy. It is about people, and how people feel in a world, where there is so much at stake.
I know how it is to be put down. I have been put down, over and over and over again. By the most cruel of bullies.
So, being at the receiving end of a punch bag game, I know how it feels.
Do you know what I want? I want my soul to be sound, I want my life to be like everybody’s else’s. I want my kids to be able to look at me and be proud for what I do. I know that many people look down at an artist like me. Why do you use so much time on a blog, that has no money to be payed to you. Grow up, cut your hair and get at job like everybody else.
I am not respected very much where I live.
But I believe in what I do makes a difference for people around the world. I believe, that the dignity that I should be able to feel, should be conferred to someone else.
Israel, if you really want to live in peace with the Palestinian Arab, show them that you respect them. That is all they really miss from you.
A simple eye leveled understanding that you are also a human being, and maybe we are not of the same religion, but you have as much value as I have.
I say this, from the bottom of my heart, as the reserve king of the Jews. I respect you.
Let that be the currency you require, and you will be at level with your own wants and secret needs.
This is the message, and thereby let there be peace.
G-d bless the will to make peace with respect, from people to people. G-d bless the people of Israel, and in the same moment the people of Palestine.
How is Europe going to compete in the Green Change wave?
To me, that rests on the initiative that Denmark/Germany is doing in the north when it comes to Power to X.
I am working on a new TV station ptx-tv.dk, my hope, is, that we can, somehow, get the whole technological movement on rails.
The thing is, if you compare power to X, that is, essentially to use renewable energy like windmills, solar panels and so on to make fuel. If you compare this to the use of electric vehicles, the power to x movement offers some really interesting plusses. First of all, it is clean, all the way through. From making the power to using it. No batteries, no CO2 and so on.
Also, it could be a possible income for Europe. If we make the fuels ourselves, we are not dependent on buying it somewhere.
So what are the hurdles?
The hurdles are essentially technical development. We have to make the energy cheaper or at least as cheap as fossile fuel.
So investing in R and D is essential. That is what we are doing, so hopefully, down the road, we are in a position to REALLY commercialize the processes and make our own fuels. It is technically possible, so we should just do our best to make it.
Secondly we need some first class communication around it. We need to make people see the good of this green Change.
That is what I am trying to do, to the betterment of all of Europe.
One day, we will also be united, it is a matter of doing things that makes sense.
Making fuel here in Europe, is one of those projects that makes sense.
G-d bless the will to make green Change in Europe.
What a wonderful speech both of Ms. Harris as well as Mr. Walz. Well done guys, coming from 0 to 110% in a few weeks.
That is really well done.
First of all, the support of the unity is, to my mind absolutely paramount. We need to stand together to save the American democracy.
United we stand divided we fall.
Also, doing that work in the world is the mission.
So, well done. You are going to rock!
G-d bless Ms. Harris and Mr. Walz.
Ok, so I have had a kind of request from the dutch royal family.
Her highness Amalia Beatrix Carmen Victoria has put out a feeler about trying to reflect on her education, direction of her career and so on.
It could be a good challenge. I believe the current educational system is good, yet it does not reflect much on the traditions of royalty that comes all the way back from ancient Egypt.
To know the more basic ideas and principles of royalty is very important, if you wish to make a modern approach.
Knowledge of tradition should be married to renewal.
So this is the offer.
If you wish, I would be open to make a mentorship or be a teacher in some capacity to the crown princess.
Preferably as a kind of home teacher in the sense, that we do not make it very official, just work the curriculum together and reflect on the challenges that the your crown princess meet on her way. How about that?
We could take a talk about it, free of responsibility and charge.
You can contact me on asgertrierengberg@protonmail.com or call me +45 2712 5191
G-d bless the royal family of the Netherlands.
So, talking about economy. I have tried to elevate the discussion, I have a few other things to talk about.
So, as I tried to relay, economy is essentially how to make the “house” of the state work. Bion, a classical philosopher, has this interesting idea about the society being like a physical body.
The parliament the head, the hands the institutions, the feet the rules of the state and so on.
There is some truth to it, in the sense, that the state body has limbs and it all ties together in one body.
So, the household is about treating that body so that it works to highest efficiency and best soundness.
Soundness being justice in a platonic view.
If there are parts of the system that does not work, uses too much money, has ways of working that is not cost efficient or is in lack of empathy and so on. Economics is about mending these issues, so that is works again.
It is off cause money getting in and money getting out. But it is ALSO the way we spend our money.
How do we prioritize and so on.
G-d bless the will to see the state as an able body, that can be better.
Ok, so these are my reflections on the issues of the DNC. I still need to see some of the speeches, so I will go more en depth with the speeches later.
Yet, these are my initial reflections.
First of all, the whole unity, paradise theme really seems to work with the voters. They want that. That is just amazing.
I had tears in my eyes, when Michelle and Barack talked about it. That is hope having a comeback. Well put Michelle.
So looking at the deeper mechanics of this. I think it is very important that we are able to talk about the how’s and why’s.
This ties back to the whole discussion on renewing the institutions. The point of the first pilgrims and their mission, was to make the perfect society. That was the dream, that the United States of America is essentially build upon.
To understand what that means, you have to understand where the first pilgrims got their inspiration and what their ideas were.
They got it from reading the Bible, and that is really where we need to understand what they meant.
The Bible, the Torah and the Koran are essentially a story about making a perfect society. Eden is, in the Middle East, the first city.
So, the Bible tells us about the making of that perfect society. You have to read around and into the understanding the time that the Bible was written, to truly understand what they meant in the Bible.
That is why I have written my book Eden, to make it accessible for a modern reader.
In essence, what they meant was, that the perfect society has the perfect system of law, the perfect system of education, the perfect business environment including banks, the perfect religion and the perfect family.
All these state institutions tie together to make a society where people are happy.
That is really the whole point of the Bible, seen from at political perspective.
So, the actual work, if you want to bring joy to a society is to make the institutions better. Improve them.
Each institution needs an overhaul, to be better.
That is really the interesting part. Because how do we make better schools, better law, better business, better families, religious structure and so on.
The answer is; that we Change it, into less corrupted, more just, more enlightening, more well working.
That requires idealism, for each state institution.
That is how you make joy.
G-d bless the will to make joy in the United States of America.
Joe, from the bottom of my heart, thank you for your over fifty years of serving the United States of america.
An endless work, that very few could have done like you.
When you hand over power in the fashion you have done, things are just pointing in the direction of a better world.
It has been hard, and the ups and downs have been many. Yet looking back, what you have done, has made a better world.
You have stood by what you have believed in. In a staunch and proud manner that few have like you.
You have set an example very few have done before you, or is there any who have ever done, what you have?
I have had a little experience with handing over power to challengers of a younger kind.
I remember when I was young and stepped onto the scene of politics and journalism, I just swore, that I wouldn’t be in the way of the challengers. So actually for a long time, I stood by when someone came a challenged my position.
I did not work, one of the challengers just went all into war mode. He almost destroyed NATO.
So, there is a new young journalist challenging my position in the debate right now. This time, I reached out to him, to try and relay my many years of experience.
In a way, that I hope will really help him succeed.
He actually listens, and he is an amazing journalist. He is just amazing. So, we can talk and I can help him be a better journalist.
I hope you keep on helping Kamala and Tim. Your experience and honestly just amazing character is an example to learn from.
So, helping Tim especially, is important. He is a bit in need of help. He would definitely appreciate to learn from your experience.
Just in a subtle and respectful way, so that he can make his own way.
In this way, the line of succession is kept sound and good.
G-d bless the will to stand back, and hand over power when it is challenged and help those who will take over your position.
Guys, those two speeches, they were just totally freeing, made hope, set a new direction. I am so proud of you, you really just came in swinging at just the cusp of division and tearing down the whole country into small packs of angry people.
We know, that this can happen, it is not just some scary possibility. It can happen, just by the blink of an eye.
We must find a way to make people feel together and accepting of each other. Democracy must deliver.
You know, I could have gone either way this election. To the Democrats or the republicans. After all, I have made the philosophical base of each party.
So, what was it, that threw me in with you guys. You asked, politely, respectfully and on top of that. You are my friends.
I believe, that you should value those things. The friendship you have.
We have been friends for a long time, and friendship matters.
Either our world will go down in hell and division, or it will strengthen itself and be sounder and more united.
There is no doubt, and I can see that in the rearmirror, that I chose to rally the unity of the country.
If there was ever a chance for a Democracy to save itself, it is this.
I bless you all, and I will, to the best of my ability, support a United States of America.
I need to relay a dream a had a few days back. I dreamt I was dying. I had the same dream twice actually.
I have been under an alarming amount of pressure, so I am feeling very tired and wasted.
The thing is; a lot of the time I dream these prophetic dreams, it is also about Israel.
I just want you to consider this. What if the dream is about Israel.
What if what we risk is the death of Israel, if we are not careful?
I am not leveraging any of emotional pressure. I am just handing on the warning. More often than not what I write here are more a kind of relaying of the angel’s opinion.
So I guess I have to warn you.
This is getting really, really dangerous.
G-d bless the will for Israel to survive.
I have had this amazing experience lately. I am invited into to both camps of the Israeli/Gaza war.
I know, that that is a rare thing, and I humbly and gracefully accept that that is rare.
It is not the naiv rare, it is the “yes I believe in good” rare.
That people are people. There are no evil people in this world. There is the anger and the understanding, that someone on the other side of that white picket fence is unlikeable.
G-d knows, and he is with both sides.
That is the only true message, there is in this war.
G-d is not with one side, he is with the way of making peace.
That is what G-d wants, so please. Lay down your weapons, stop the fighting, just for a moment to listen to g-d. G-d says that he wants us to stop fighting, and be at peace.
G-d bless the will to hear the angels of the lord, and maybe do as they say, maybe?
All right, it seems like we have righted the ship. We are going somewhere now, well done.
At the core of any bid to power in the American presidency lie the ECONOMICAL philosophy that you work with.
Mr. Biden had, essentially two major successes. 1. He brought back jobs to America by his “Made in America” campaign. It may sound simple, yet it is based on pretty deep economical idea. Compared to other academic fields, economics is actually simple, so it would, with all respect for the science be wrong to say that there is much depth in economics. Compared to metaphysics, that is the most challenging, it is simple.
But this is also its strength in a sense. Economy means “household” I Greek. You need to keep your house in order. Not use more money than you make, pay your debts so that you do not have to pay interests, and keep your house tip top.
2. The infrastructure bill that Joe did was good, why? Because America needed it. He cares for the house.
Make sure that there is an income, repair the roads and house that was leaking and potholed.
So, to use this idea, try to find places where the house needs fixing. Fix it, yet do it within your budget.
It’s down to earth, but that’s really what economics is; making sure the house is in order.
G-d bless the will to make good economics.
Well, it seems to me, that we are kind of getting to a junction. Either there is a very strong increase in the fighting, or we go the other way.
What will happen, if we do not get a deal?
The logic of the current war will go on.
Each side will increase its ressources invested in the war, and it will ultimately evolve into a war, that will be all over the world.
That is really the stakes, can we hinder at third world war, or not.
G-d bless the will to make peace.
Ok, so there has to be depth in the economical plan of ms. Harris.
The Bidennomics aka Obamanomics rests on a base of keeping production in the United States of America. It is about support blue collar families and at the same time keep American business protected from the price dumping China does on state level on a number of different markets. Lately the EV market.
How did we do that? By putting up trade barriers when China started to go after our business and supporting the American businesses when needed.
It is a new take on free market theory and tries to balance a free market with a domestic production environment.
Joe had a lot of success with it in his term, especially motor city, Detroit had his help.
Go by that formula, it is as winning a formula as it has been all the time.
Made in America, that is the answer to the question of what the economic policy is.
G-d bless the will the make things by blue collar workers in the US of A.
Ok, so we are getting back on track in the American election. The COMBINED bid for presidency of Mr. Walz and Ms. Harris is a solution that the Americans want.
It again underlines the extreme importance of unity in the election. The voters want the leadership to unite and not to make more problems of division.
Probably what has happened in England strengthens the feel for a more compromise style government.
Again, it is the COMBINATION and the compromise that is the core of the liberal constituency.
That seems to go down positively.
Now it is really important, that we have sealed the flank of the issue of migration. By proposing a serious and humane solution in the spring, that hole does not leak anymore.
I know that it is a little difficult, but it is vital that we reach across the aisle on this issue to be truly mainstream.
So the risk seems to have payed off. Well done ☺️
G-d bless the will to find unity in the United States of America.
It seems to me, that the Change that Mr. Barack Obama started. That of reaching across the aisle, and finding common ground between left and right is actually working.
In the European Union Mr. Orban of Hungary is formulating his demands to the union, and to be honest they are actually pretty ok.
He wants a heightened security, something that the Biden administration and also ms. Harris has worked on. Actually it is the left that seems to be moving with most seriousness on this topic right now.
So that is definitely a topic we can reach an agreement on. Then there is economic development. Also here we are actually in agreement. Mr. Orban wants the Union to make more money, keep production in the Union, and we are actually already working on that. It has to do with the competition with China. We need to make things in Europe.
Even his take on the structure of the military is close to the commission.
So there is plenty of common causes. Not to mention, that Mr. Orban seems to be really realistic.
So we can, from this point make common policies.
The main point is security. So that is where we should focus first.
How do we get a serious vetting system in place, how do we control our borders and so on.
We have to reach an agreement here, and implement this agreement as fast as possible.
G-d bless the will to unite in the European Union.
Ok, let us see if we can analyze on the whole situation in Gaza/Israel.
You must commend Mr. Blinken for his amazing engagement in the conflict, trying with all that he has got, to try and find a deal. That is just amazing statesmanship.
Actually I was quite sure I would get the Nobel peace prize, yet Mr. Blinken almost beat me there. It does not matter, what matters is to stop this conflict. So recognition of an amazing work is good for all, me Blinken. Well done Anthony.
If we look at the trends behind the scene. At one hand the American leadership has used its political capital it has with the Iranian leadership, to push for a deal.
That is ALSO a bold move. It has costs in relation to our strength in the Middle East. Yet if it means, that we reach peace, the political sacrifice, will be more than worth it.
On the Israeli side, there is great worry and trepidation. We worry.
Yet, there is so much pressure on Mr. Netanyahu that he NEEDS to find some deal he can make with Mr. Smotrich to make peace.
So Mr. Smotrich needs to name his price, and Mr. Netanyahu needs to pay.
It will be very costly. Yet also here, the price Netanyahu will pay will be small in comparison to the catastrophe that is the inevitable outcome of a deal that is falling apart.
In other words, the pressure on Mr. Netanyahu is so strong right now, that he has very little wriggle room.
My advise; take the deal Benyamin, yet make sure, that YOU get all the credit. In this way, it will balance out the mistakes that were made to begin with in the war.
Take the credit, and you have ramped up so much political capital, that you will REMAIN PM after the war.
See?
G-d bless the will to find peace and may Israel prevail.
Seriously, the conflict between the right and the left has skyrocketed. First due to the conflict between Israel and Hamas, and now in England.
Luckily there are other trends, that go in the opposite direction. I am really, really, really positively surprised by the liberal engagement of Kamala Harris and Tim Waltz. I know, that they are not perfect, far from. Yet the basic attempt at trying to unite the country instead of tearing it apart is really, really positive to my mind.
The liberal leadership are really trying to keep the country together.
This is true, idealistic and positive.
The idea of joy being the vehicle for politics is also really wonderful. There is so much negativity these days, why not try to talk the positive things up in a society.
It has no inbuilt opposition, it is built to make bridges and reach out on dialogue.
That is a good thing for the West, we need to be in dialogue.
G-d bless the will to find unity.
Well, I know this comes in a strange way just after the talk about the police and all. And again thank you Americans.
So talk about love; my feeling is, that Axl Rose is a reader here on the blog. I get all these reflections of his on love on my Facebook page, so he may have been reflecting on some of my own musings.
So, just to give another thank you to the Americans. The base of any kind of relationship is loyalty and stability of emotions.
When you are an artist, you can send your spouse to the moon, with poetry and shower them with attention.
Yet, in the long run, to really get to know that chosen sprite of a woman, you need to have a stable life.
You need to get up in the morning, go to work, come home and tuck the kids to sleep.
The combination of your poetic sides with your more conservative side is really the difficult balance to keep.
You need to be that dad that always keep his promises and pick up your kids from school all the time.
If you manage this stability, your poetry may be less intense and fiery, yet it will be constant, honest and in this way you actually get to know that other person that you love and adore.
The soul is deep in anyone’s life. It takes a lot of time, to really get to know that other soul, and it takes discipline and ethics as well.
Especially when you are an artist, and you have all these women or men swarming around you, the ability to focus on just one is a lot more difficult.
But as the German/Jewish philosopher Buber say in his masterwork “ich und du”, the complexity and wonder of a relationship you can have to a woman or the other way around, is so much more profound than just the surface of a person.
True happiness comes from knowing a person that has a beautiful soul, and getting to know that soul, slowly yet with care and respect.
G-d bless the will to find true love.
I just want to make it totally clear, that the American administration has nothing to do with the current pressure and chicanery that the Danish police is doing to me.
On the contrary, they are supporting me, and I am really grateful for that.
This includes the CIA, that also support me.
So it is just in relation to the American political development. In the US, the police are miles better than the Danish.
The atrocities and evil actions the Danish police does is incomparable to the quality of the American police.
Deliberately hurting my children to make me suffer is pure evil, to cite one of my American friends.
G-d bless the friendship between me and the United States of America, and may we prevail despite the bleak forecast.
One of the worst things of war is dehumanizing.
It is a very human thing, we paint our enemies as evil.
The thing is, we all have a bit of evil in us. That is the truth. Yet, it is mostly, when we fight someone that we SEE as evil that we let this evil out.
We figure, if this person that we fight are evil, then we as well can be evil.
In this way, we become like our enemies.
The left have, since the Second World War, fought nazism. The end result have been, that we seem more and more like nazists.
The wise thing to do in this situation, is to be VERY keen on our own values and virtues. What is it we want to do, how do we see a good behavior and then do this in relation to our enemies.
If our enemies are being abusive, the answer to that is to be better persons and treat other with respect.
If our enemies are destructive, our response should be to be constructive.
Off cause sometimes you have to respond to aggression, you shouldn’t be naive, but when you do that be VERY conscientious on your methods of war.
That is the way you conduct your life, if you need to fight, and yet do not want to loose your soul.
G-d bless the will to be conscientious of method and clear in the goal of making a better world.
Well, welcome Mr. Walz. That was like to be thrown in a game, that seems to be already running for some time.
Yet, it seems like we are hitting the ground runnning. There is still some time to Election Day, so there is time to make an impression.
Talking to the blue collar voter is more important than ever now. Where other countries seem to go down in disorder and inner conflict, the strong message of unity and acceptance of the workers is extremely important.
We need to keep the country together, and avoid the division seen in other places.
The US needs to remain a free and humane democracy. Where people from all traits are living together.
The concerns of the workers must be heard. The outsourcing of jobs to China, the importance of families living simple yet profound lives in the suburbs.
The happiness over giving thanks and saluting the flag.
These virtues and values are as important as community work, black churches and respect for all colors.
I have two kids, one white and one brown.
It doesn’t matter, they are both my kids, and I do my best to make their lives worth while, so I know how it is to be a man of color. They are very suspicious of me in the harbor where I have my boat. So on and so forth.
Yet, for me, a well working family, and a supportive and stable family life is as important as anyone else.
The simple dream of getting up in the morning, go to work and get home to pick up your kid from the little league, it doesn’t have a color attached, it’s for everyone.
G-d bless the unity we MUST find.
If a society is to succeed, it has to work on an institutional level.
The dream of the first pilgrims in the US was about that; the perfect society.
This dream has been carried on till today, where idealism is a core virtue in the US.
The Americans are so idealistic.
The American revolution that was a part of the same humanistic revolutions in Europe, was also about trying to make the perfect society. Where all work to make a better world.
This brings joy, and a paradise.
John Steinbeck quipped, that the paradise may have been lost.
Yet each new generation in the US tries to formulate what they can do to make a better world. Each and every generation seek to formulate something they believe, that will make a better world.
Lately the cry of unity has been on the lips of the Americans. A world where people thrive with each other and the unity of the people is sought.
As we used to say, divided we fall, united we stand.
G-d bless the will to unite, and stay strong as one.
The main thing, that Barack and I got right in his presidency, was the relation between the two main parts of the liberal constituency; minority leaders and blue collar workers.
This is not easy, as we have seen in the UK, they are often at odds, and if you do not make that balance work, things start to unravel, and it can unravel very fast.
So far, the midleaning approach that we have been doing, have really worked, and has inspired mr. Trump to a degree. The main constituency that is up for grabs are the workers.
So, they need to be understood and worked with to be in the party.
This means jobs, getting production back from China, and also a certain element of patriotism. Blue Collar workers are patriotic, hard working Americans. The same goes for Great Britain.
Finding that balance is very difficult, because there is a lot of potential conflict between the workers and the minorities.
It is a very stark warning for the EU as well. We need to keep the workers respected and heard.
Climate change is another issue, where the interests clash. If we make projects where the workers feel not heard, things start to unravel. Yet of they can see themselves in the projects, they are ok.
In Aalborg I met with the local Union boss, and he was quite critical towards electric cars being, prioritized, but he loved building windmills. So there is a very difficult line to walk there.
It requires very keen eyes on the trajectory of the priorities, and a keen eye on the different potential for conflict.
In the US, we have succeeded, that was the whole idea behind Change, yet we still have not suceeded in Europe. The first term of ms. Frederiksen, but then she abandoned Change, and has been gutted ever since.
The UK, well you can see for yourself. That is the very nightmare scenario I have been trying to avoid.
G-d bless the will to keep minority leaders and workers united.
All right, the situation in UK as well as in the Middle East is not really working in anyone’s favor.
The alliances there are strained and if we are not careful, ultimately they will break.
Yet, as things are unfolding, and Mr. Biden has a more free hand, he may just be able to reel in the peace that he wants.
If we look at the risks the election carries, we don’t know, what will happen if either Trump or Harris is elected.
Trump seems to want to deescalate, yet he is more of a Zionist than ms. Harris.
You still have me, and I will do my best.
Hopefully there will be stability in the process, yet Mr. Bidens support has been extremely professional and reliable. That is difficult to beat.
So, we are looking at an aireal assault from Iran.
At least this is the most probable. Iran held back the last time, that they send all the bombs, they will ramp up the number of rockets and other aerial attack vehicles that they will use.
This time, they will not be so nice and send advance warning.
The question is, will Israel be prepare. The answer is; off cause.
Then what after, will we continue the tit for tat?
That is the real and basic question.
This ties into to American election, because we know what we have, and we don’t know what will come.
Hereby I bless the IAF, may you heroes rise to meet the challenge, knowing that you are the heroes of Israel. NEVER GIVE UP!
G-d bless the will to survive this next onslaught.
Happy birthday Mr. Barack Obama. It’s been a long run.
What I think we really got right, was the balance between worker and minority.
It is safe to say, that this has not been easy, and it is still not.
Yet, at the core of Unity, lie a bridge between the Union guy and the minority leader.
That is truly difficult. It requires an ability to listen and share wealth in a sense.
What I truly believe has been at the core of Change, has been this balance.
Joe fought for Detroit, when it almost went bankrupt. He saved his city.
Then he went on to invest in middle class working jobs.
You could say, that Joe got it all from his families round table. Devout Catholics, blue collar, working class.
He knows, how it is to put food on the table.
If there is one thing, that I truly believe is, and should be our legacy it is that outreach.
G-d bless the will to build bridges and share what is yours.
These days border disputes are really at the heart of the political discourse.
In the UK, things are pretty much spinning out of control.
I have been trying to figure out at solution to this problem for many years.
As in any discussion it is about finding the balance.
A balance between accepting migrants and refugees who are law abiding and good citizens and refusing to accept any criminal behavior that is done by migrants.
It goes into the discussion with Islam again. Islamism in the Islamic state version is not accepted within the democratic state. Yet the progressive Muslims of UAE and many other countries of the world is totally ok.
The Arabs of the Arab peninsula have these dreams of making the desert into a forest, easing the edge of the harsh nature.
I really support that idea and project. In fact, I have engaged a lot of my friends here in Denmark that work with reforestation, to that exact aim and presented it to the Zayed environmental prize committee. It can be done.
So the world is not black and white, it has a lot of nuance. It is through seeing those nuances, that we progress as human beings.
Just blaming one side, does not accomplish anything.
Fighting against Islamic state is for everyone.
Yet planting trees in the desert is a truly noble quest as well.
G-d bless the will to see nuances in the world politics, and may we find peace.
When we talk gender, these days the main reaction against feminism has been hyper masculinity as with Mr. Andrew Tate and a defense for young men’s independence and responsibility as with Mr. Jordan Peterson.
My angle has been different, because it is really not a defense of masculinity. Masculinity to me is quite simple, it is the pursuit of ideals. To fight for something. I fight for the smallest in our society, the weakest. I have done it as a journalist and I have fought to make the state realize this basic task, so that it serves and protects.
So that is manly. It has very little to do with my relationship to women, it is my outwardly mission of my life.
When it comes to love, it goes back to my deepest relationship, my relationship to spirituality, ethics and family.
To build a life with a spouse or a nice girl, is about finding something that you share with her.
Building together.
Women are all into that, they actually ALSO have a romantic side.
In this way, I truly believe, that the fight for equality is through positive means.
This is not to say, that my way is the only way. There are many ways, yet I truly believe, that Plato is the profound way.
G-d bless the unity of love, we can and should find between man and woman.
Well, in the flow of politics, we often loose the aim of the whole endeavor.
We tend to look at the short term issues, and loose the main perspective.
What is the main perspective?
It is to make a society, where people that is the citizens, live a happy life and are content.
If they live an unhappy life, they start to rebel and try to oust their rulers. This in some cases gives a conflict between the citizens and the ruling class. In other cases, in a situation with a wise leadership, the problems that the citizens face, will be a challenge for the leadership, and then we try to find new solutions. That is a the core of the idea of “Change”. Change, means the ability to make new solutions to the challenges that face the leadership.
At the end, it is about seeing things from the perspective of the citizen, and make him or her happy.
G-d bless the will to make a better world.
Well, I think that we are onto something in the EU. The vibes I get from the right wing are kind of understanding, and the commission seems to be on it as well.
To reiterate; it’s about bending towards each other. Instead of fighting all the time, try to find compromise.
Since the head of the EU is a German conservative, there is a possibility for understanding.
The core in disagreement is migration. Von der Leyen made a deal with ms. Meloni, it can be a blue print for the working with Holland and France.
Stop migration and start the crack down on the often rampant crime that is in many migrant communities.
Yet RESPECT the civil rights of those migrants who are abiding by the democratic rules.
In this way we can find a balance between right and left.
There is the change in American leadership soon, that will make a huge difference in Europe. So we will have to see where that leads us. I hope, that it will make a positive difference for Europe.
G-d bless the will to find compromise within the EU.
Well, so now we have this tit for tat situation in Israel.
It can swing out of control. We have to look at the long game as well, so that it does not swing out of control.
G-d bless the will to stay united in Israel.
Well, it seems like another obamanite is at the helm of the Democratic Party. Again, in the interest of unity, I truly believe, that the other parts of the democratic party should be represented. So please, we need to reach out to the other parts of the party, and include them as well.
So, then what it Obamanism really, to me it is just not the scary picture try to make of us.
For me, the main virtue of obamanism is family.
To make a great society you have to start with the basic building block, and that is a well working family.
I know I am not the perfect example of that. I just got my own family in trouble, but I have stuck to my guns, and never abandon anyone.
I was raised with a single mum, I know how it is to be the divorced kid in school, never seeing your dad.
This has given me and I know it is also something Barack cares a lot about, having a well working family and sound kids.
If we fail at this, we fail at everything.
So if there is a starting point, that would be the one.
To raise kids, be the best you can possibly be to your children and then also the best spouse you can be.
That is really the most important.
G-d bless the will to be honest in action and true in intent.