Unity is not always an aim to strife for. Oppositional forces are, essentially a fashion of the nature to create development. Nature moves in pairs of opposition. Without opposition, there would be no development.
But in Israel, we are simply forced to stick together, like, ALWAYS. We do not have the luxury to have a few years of discord and chaos. If that happens, we are forced to unite again.
So, that is just the way it is. We cannot rely on the mercy of our foes, they are, essentially the tools of darkness, as it is right now, and as such, we need to confront them. They will lie, steal, and use all tools in the toolbox, that is evil to win.
I know this is hard to hear, and I do not count all muslims as foes, but if you abduct kids, and start doing horrible things to them, you are evil, by all accounts.
Anyway, again, I know a lot of sweet and wonderful muslims, the atrocities, that has been done, is of an evil nature, and we have to understand that there is actually a moral imperative in that conflict.
We are supposed to be the sons of light, honest, upright, united, true and beautiful.
We are, but we err, sometimes, and we need to correct our mistakes.
Be honest, don’t let the humanity out of our actions, take the side of weak, and be careful.
The point is, there is a moral discussion, that is important. How did we err, what did we do wrong, only through that understanding will we prevail. And we will prevail, because the impetuous to be benign and empathic is the very core of what it is to be Jewish.
G-d bless the will to do good in a world, where evil prevails.
Ok, with the latests development of the Gaza/Israel stand off, things are really moving fast.
The rejection of the two state plan that the right wing of Israel has done, makes a massive shift on American power politics. Loosing a bid on that scale will spell disaster for American foreign policy in the Middle East.
Being rejected by such a strong ally is a very dangerous sign.
At the other hand, the Israeli high command, political as well as military must be cogniscent about the massive consequences a ground invasion will have on the power balance on the world. This could very well lead to a massive uptick in hostilities between east and west, and the war that is in between those.
But, I mean, we have problem with Hamas, that is killing innocent Israelis, we can’t just accept that indefinitely.
The only true solution to the problems, as it has been floated by the Arabs, is a massive repatriation of at least Hamas from Gaza to somewhere else.
It will hopefully end there, and not in a killing field. But if it ends in a killing field, we will just have to take it from there.
G-d bless the will to make peace as the ultimate goal of this conflict. G-d bless the will to be clear in the head, and strong in conviction of what is the right thing to do in the face of so many people dying and in harms way.
Ok, let us have a look at the issues concerning the conflicts between the Palestinians and the Jews.
First of all we need to look at the root cause of the problem.
The root cause of the problem is, that these two peoples are living side by side, in a very small area.
It is like, if you live five people in the same flat. Wouldn’t you be annoyed at each other?
Then there is the motivation for Hamas. Hamas is the spear of sunni agression against Israel. Since we have reached a positive relationship with most Arabs, Hamas is getting left behind.
The Egyptians have fought Hamas for a long time in Egypt, so off cause they don’t want them on their own territory.
So the Arab states don’t want to fight Israel, if they can help it, and Hamas is getting left behind. So what do they do?
They try to make so much trouble, that it FORCES the Arabs to root for them.
So this fight is not really against Israel, it is to curry favor among the Arab states.
This is VERY important, if you want to make peace. Because if you do not see things from the perspective of the real problem. You can’t solve the problem.
So some Arab states have floated the idea, that in order to truly solve the problem, we COULD move at least Hamas out of Gaza.
It was not my idea, I have just followed the trend within the Arab states.
To me Egypt, Saudiarabia and all the other Arab states are friends. I do not buy into that negative stereotypical understanding of all muslims this and that.
So adress the root cause, and then you can solve the problem.
Making two independent states may seem fair, but it does not address the true problem.
It is a matter of understanding this on the higher diplomatic level.
Egypt is a friend, we need to listen to Egypt.
So the plot thickens, and the solutions is getting nearer.
G-d bless the will to do good, and see everybody as human beings, Arab and Jew.
First of all, there seems to be a kind of development in the ideas and the acceptance of the ideas.
We end up, by defining the solution as the moving of the people of Gaza to somewhere else
I know, there will be a lot of discussion on this, and to some, it will seem corse and callous.
But, look at the effect of the continuation of the conflict; endless suffering of not only Palestinians but also the Jews, and the other way around, not only the Jews also the Palestinians
BUT, and this is of the utmost importance, it has to be done in a slow, respectful way. That solidifies the ownership of each of the residents of Gaza. If you have a house in Gaza, you should have a house in the new place.
And it should be done with the respect of the future of Palestinians. We should not just throw them away somewhere, but make sure, that they truly have a vision and a future. Give the new place all the possibilities of a bright future; schools, resources, production capabilities, infrastructure as energy production, water facilities and so on. Make it less cramped and more liveable than what Gazans have today.
This will set a precedent, so that the process will spill into Europe, so we should be careful and make it work.
It will be a stepping stone for humanity, for peace.
G-d bless the will to see this as a will to do good, and make peace. And bless all those Anglicans, who by their sacrifice, in the hospital shed some blood, for a plan, that ends up for people less angry, and more, much more happy. I write this, under the threat of the secret police. They have been hunting me, day and night for a long time, trying to break me. If this is the final piece of my work. Make it happen to the beauty of mankind.
All right, so we have reached kind of a lull in the fighting. The borders are secure, and the aggression seem to have simmered down.
It is kind of time, to take a check on the development.
First of all, we have, not yet, lost the peace process. The Arab countries seem to be open to the process still, but the price is obvious; they don’t want the Arabs from Gaza on their territory.
This makes it pretty difficult to tackle Hamas, because a ground invasion would force most of the inhabitants of Gaza to flee.
So we are in a kind of double conundrum. At the one hand, we want to get those prisoners out and at the other hand, we don’t want to lose the friendship of the Arab contries.
This leaves us no option, but to do things differently. We need to figure out a way to get our people out, and demilitarise Hamas, without a ground invasion.
But, and this is absolutely paramount. We have to be quick about it.
We need to find those prisoners, and get them out. We leave no one behind.
At the positive side, we can say, that we have found a new unity, that will serve us in the future. We need to learn from this, we cannot be so divided in the future. It makes us too vulnerable.
G-d bless the will to find those kids, who are trapped in Gaza.
Ok, we are getting to a part of the whole debate and development that requires something that is extremely difficult to muster, when we are all grieving and devastated by the occurrences that has just happened. It brings back memories of past suffering, we thought, now we have Israel, we don’t have to suffer anymore.
That is the reality that hits us. Even though we HAVE a country, it is still not enough to keep us 100 % safe.
But, and this is really important, we have an army, we have not had that for a long time, and that does make a lot of difference.
I can see it from my own perspective here in Denmark, when the hounds come knocking on your door. You need someone to call. There is no one to call here in Denmark. At least you have someone who responds to the call.
But, and this is very important, we are entering a phase, where the diplomatic game is getting into gear.
This is what we need to consider;
This fight is already a part of the international game. That is the fight between east and west. So far, Israel has been able to keep a relatively neutral stance on the Ukraine war. This is not the case anymore, we are the centre of the international fight and rivalry between the East and the West.
Putin has been quite clear on the plans of going into Gaza, he disagrees.
If and when we go in to Gaza, we need to figure out a way, to handle that.
One of the first things I would do, would be to call him, and tell him, that the fight we are going into, is not about conquest, but an attempt at disarming Hamas, so that things like this does not happen again.
At least open diplomatic channels to him, so, that he feels, that we listen to his arguments. We owe him that.
Then, we have to keep up with the diplomatic work with the Arab countries. Egypt just closed its borders to Gaza, what does that mean. We have to know.
And we have to be clear about the RATIONALE behind the Gaza campaign, the why and the how.
Because we have to SELL IT to our allies. They have to buy the arguments, otherwise we will be too hard pressed when we are in the fight, and we risk having to step out in the middle of the mission.
So there is a lot of diplomatic work we have to do, and please. I know that mr. Netanyahu is to blame and all that, but please give him some space, so that he can use his diplomatic connections. He is a friend of mr. Biden mr. Putin and so on. His strengths, lie in these international connections, let him use those strengths, in this dangerous situation.
There will an aftermath, and we will talk about the blame, but right now, we need to focus on the mission.
G-d bless the strength Israel has when it is United.
We have to be careful about the motives that drives us in the counteroffensive against Hamas in Gaza.
I know, that there is a LOT of hate and resentment. But if this takes over, the signs of unity between left and right will be imperilled, and we could end up in discussions again in the middle of the offensive. If that happens, you can imagine the trouble we will be in.
Just because we have unity now, does not mean, we will continue having unity.
The way to create that background of support from left and right is to find common ground.
Common ground is a wish to eliminate the threat, but not to hate or punish, to deescalate the situation, and make sure, that this does not happen again.
After the Second World War, the SS was disarmed, and all the very hard fighters of the SS, that would have been a great threat to all Jews, were disbanded
After this, Nazism stopped being a threat to all Jews.
The same aim should be the fight that is coming in Gaza, not revenge, but disarmament.
Make sure that the Gazans are unable to fight on this scale again. Make sure, that it does not happen again.
I know, that the feelings are raw, and the wounds are open. I know, but we still need to do what is wise in the situation.
We need to keep the peace within the Jewish community, in order to accomplish this mission.
I know, that that is hard and annoying, but unity of forces rests on a moral basis. That morale has to be positive and upright. Honour rests on doing the right thing. The honourable action is to protect and serve, with the least casualties.
Giving is to be honest and upright in action.
G-d bless the will to keep a VERY clear head in the next few weeks. G-d bless Israel.
Ok, so we are a week into this horrible conflict. These are my reflections on the ethical base on what we are fighting with and how.
First of all, we should be very careful to fall into the trap of seeing everybody around us as evil.
We have taken a massive hit, but we should be careful not to dig down mentally and start fighting everybody around us. There is a real danger of us going down the “mental rabbit hole”.
It is a very simple mechanism of the mind. You start to fight, and then you just fight everybody around you. This creates so much animosity towards you, so you end up fighting the whole world. That is the mental rabbit hole, you just dig deeper and deeper, in the end, you get destroyed.
That is what an opponent hopes for, when they attack you.
We have to be clear about who attacked us, and not alienate the entire Middle East. Keep the fight minimal and focused on Hamas, and other groups like them, that fight us.
At the same time, continue the diplomatic work we have with the rest of the Middle East, and keep our positive connections with them.
Be sharp, precise and work on two fronts, diplomatically with our friends around us, and militarily with our enemies.
G-d bless the will to fight for a long lasting peace, that should be the ultimate aim of this conflict.
Ok, we managed to turn the tide, and through it, we also managed to find a new and more positive trend or path. That of working together, and not fighting all the time.
This spells well for the future.
The mechanics of war, is like this, and we need to adhere to it, to win.
As in all other things here in life, there are rules to war, that we have to respect.
These rules are universal. First of all, it is very vital to keep the war to fighting the professional soldiers, and not target civilians. This is a rule that is both on the Muslim as well as the Jewish side.
The reason why Hamas got such a massive hit internationally, is because they broke this rule. Civilians are not soldiers, and they may perish due to famine or having to flee. But targetting them on purpose is not within the ethics of war.
You can see it in the Ukraine war, it is terrible, but it is a war that is fought between two armies. Like it or not, that is accepted as what you would see as a ‘normal’ war.
Two sides battling it out on the battlefield, trying to score wins.
This is VERY important as we progress into the last phase of this horrible conflict. Be VERY careful not to target civilians, children and elderly especially. But also women, especially innocent bystanders of the conflict.
It is absolutely fair to target the leadership of Hamas, as well as the soldiers of Hamas, it is a war, and they are professional soldiers, we can fight them.
Beware of artificially setup traps of civilians put in front of military targets. Be precise.
Just a few pictures of civilians cought by a rocket, and we loose on the ethical side of the war.
I absolutely agree, if we can finish the military capabilities of Hamas, we can hinder a situation as we have just seen.
But be VERY careful to work within the parameters of normal warfare.
Well, this is what we get, if we are too divided within Israel. When we start to fight each other. Then our enemies see weakness, and see their opportunity to attack us.
As I see it, there is the physical setup we have to get done, not tomorrow, not in 12 hours, NOW!
The reserves have to be at their post, NOW. These are crucial moments, if our enemies see us as unprepared, they will attack.
Then there is the search and rescue of those poor kids that these monster have taken.
That is ALL HANDS ON DECK. Every soldier, every secret service officer, every friend, every connection. We need to act before these people are gone.
Send in drones, the search parties, it has to be a deluge of help, flooding every corner of the Gaza Strip. We need to go in and find those kids, NOW!
And reach out for all friends around the globe, who might have scrap of knowledge, anything on the kids and the poor civilians, who got kidnapped? Just send it over, and we will find someone, to see if your information was right.
Then there is the division. Instead of being demoralised over this long fight, let us use this crisis to find each other again, let it be a moment of unity and not of division. We will look at the problems after this attack, and we will fix it.
But for now it is ALL HANDS ON DECK, we need to HOLD THE LINE!
Ok this is my take on the conflict between the Palestinians and Israel.
Beware, it is a provocation.
The aim is to disrupt the peace process that is between the Arab states and Israel.
So, if we are not careful, this will be the outcome.
How do we respond.
We do it, be keeping a keen eye on the BALANCE.
Injustice is if you are more violent, than those who who you fight.
If you are MORE violent than the one you are fighting, you are seen as doing the unjust action.
But if you do not do anything, you are, more often than not, seen as weak.
We have to find the middle ground between looking weak and being injust.
Not doing anything, will not give peace. Making a measured, calculated response, that avoid any civilian casaulties and seeks to do precise, yet effective responses, will be seen as adequate and just.
Not too much, and not too little, and then going after those who are TRULY responsible for the atrocities, will give us a just war.
But, and this is VERY important, we need to be absolutely honest about what we do, and why we do it. In this day and age of transparency, everybody will know the truth anyway.
So a measured, precise, honest warfare, guided by a truly heartfelt attempt at getting this to simmer down, and keep everyone out of harms way, is the way.
G-d bless the will to find peace, but not through nativity, but through realism. G-d bless the will to find peace with not only the Arabs, but everybody around us, may we prevail, always as the home the Jews. Blessed be thee.
One of the best things of the US, is the engineering, frontier spirit, that has been in the DNA of the US from the beginning.
From the first pilgrims, to NASA.
This idea, of at frontier, that is ever moving, is what the US really IS.
Let us have a look at it, from a European Rebel perspective, that is mine.
I live with a lot of political stress and turmoil, because I CHANGE things to the better.
In the US, this is REALLY popular. Americans LIKE this idea of moving forward to a better place.
That is the true difference between the US and Europe.
In the US, the vibe is to embrace Change, in Europe, the status quo is preferred.
So normally, a guy like me, would flee to the US. I would do that, if it had not been because of my kids. I can’t leave my kids.
But then, people like me, were the ones who build the US. Refugees from Europe, that fled from the problems they had in Europe, the Rebels, the troublemakers, the visionaries.
You guys are like me, because you like to look into the horizons, and dream big.
Like the Mars mission. What is that, if not exactly that, the pioneering spirit, the brazen frontiersmen, looking for new adventures in the stars?
My point is, that in this day and age, we all bicker and fight. That is not really what the US is. The US is a pioneering, amazing, forward going culture, that reaches for the sky.
Literally.
If you remember, what you are. Then you heal.
I talk out of my own experience, because I try to do the same here in Denmark, and it is difficult.
Don’t go down the same road, stay on the course to the stars.
G-d bless the will to do good, and look upon the frontiers out there among the stars. G-d bless the will to evolve, positively and in unity.
Happy birthday mr. Jimmy Carter. That was a surprise, I have been looking at John F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton and other, to seek inspiration to what we are going to do in the next election with Joe.
But you kind of went beneath my radar. Stupid of me, I can see it now, you did something no other president did before you, you United the nation after a time of conflict.
When we look at the situation today, what is the thing we are working with? Exactly that, we come from a time with conflict and problems, and we need to solve these issues of division, and find common ground.
What I was most impressed with, was the fact, that your basic method was quite simple, you did everything you did, with the utmost integrity. In other words, you did what you did, to make an impact on the world with the aim of making a better world.
You can be a Democrat or a Republican, but we both agree on the fact, that what we aim at, is a better world.
This may sound simple, but more often than not, it is the most difficult, because it rests on your character. Power corrupts, and the ability to make your wish come through often makes you do things, because there is no consequence. But goodness is what you do, when no one looks. The good deeds you do, when no one knows.
Good deeds you do in public is, more often than not, a way to show off your own good sides.
Strong character is the answer to this enigma.
What do you do, when no one looks?
Are you then also the good guy, and Jimmy, that amazing about you, were, that you were actually a good guy, also when it did not give you any benefit.
This is a very great example, we can all learn from.
G-d bless the will to do good, when no one is looking at what you do, because that is truly the mark of a good man.
I think, that it is really a good move, to counter the threat of ISIS by the American administration. Here are my essential arguments.
Isis is all that is essentially negative with the development in the Middle East, add to this, it is also pretty unpopular.
So countering Isis makes the right balance of countering terror, without alienating all of Islam.
It contains the issue to a much smaller part of the Middle East, and leaves ample room for a good relationship to most other countries in the Middle East, it is the suave solution to the problem.
Then there is another reflection, that may help Mr. Biden in his attempt at heading the American administration for four more years.
When we talk about our globe, there has been a lot of attempts at getting the energy development right. It all comes down to trying to make solutions, that does not pollute.
Here Denmark is actually, and this I say with a great pride, leading in some of the technical solutions, wind mills being one of them.
But at the end of the day, Denmark cannot solve of the issues in the world, we need good friends to work with. Here the US, the UK and Germany, has always been our best friends. Together we may actually develop some of the solutions that may save nature.
At the end of the day, my idea has been to try and understand the technical development. Where does tech take us.
My experience, after having done a lot of research in the field is, that the bleeding edge of the technical development, is the CONVERSION of energy. First from electricity, then to hydrogen then to gasoline of a sort.
The problem is, that you loose some energy at each conversion, so research into the conversion process is really important.
But maybe Denmark and the US could work together here, we already work together with Germany and the good guys at Siemens. They have developed som amazing windmills that produce hydrogen IN the windmill, so the conversion is already happening in the windmill. Pretty cool, if you ask me. But we are also working on a small nuclear reactor, that is supposedly safe, using Thorium instead of plutonium.
All this leads, ideally, to a clean energy cycle, that can work with the existing infrastructure. BMW is producing a car running on hydrogen, but people prefer to buy a car they know, instead of some experimental car, and running on methanol is not far from running on gasoline.
In this way, you can acttually boost the whole industry of clean energy.
All we need now, is just getting Elon out of the rabbit hole he has delved into, and back into the positive game. Come on Elon, don’t go there. Be a positive and constructive force in the world. We need you man, don’t just go wherever the next click leads you, don’t. Think about it. You can do so much, we need your clear head in this game.
Ok, it is my fault, to a degree, that the Twitter or X media is not going well.
I have tried to discuss this, but due to my my own problems, I have not had the energy to do it. Sorry.
But let us have a look at it.
Plato recalls in his cave allegory about the philosopher, who will venture into the cave, to cut loose some of the strings, that hold humanity to the end of the cave wall.
It is difficult, because all humanity see, are the shadows of the manipulators.
The problem is, humanity absolutely prefer the digested, manipulated truth to the truth itself. Truth being the light, and thus enlightenment.
In other words, if you tailor the truth to people, they are actually very happy.
Everything gets problematic, when you actually let people see what is going on. Not only from those who are doing evil, but mostly from the general populace, who PREFER being held in darkness.
Having power over one of the most powerful medias, will set you onto this issue.
Where will the limits be, when people are prone to start hating, because too much truth is escaping.
There is a practical view, and an idealistic view.
Newspapers started in the French Revolution with massive papers calling for liberation, and they sought to enlighten the world. It created a lot of chaos, and a lot of development. Human rights, democracy and so on.
But it was extremely violent. That is the prospect of social media. The more you open the box of truth, the more violent things tend to go.
To me, it is a balance you have to find. Shedding light upon the world, but be careful not to rock the boat too much. Because that will end you and X into a lot of trouble.
It is a careful, slow work, where truth should be shed, but not all at once, in an increasing pace. But careful, so that we do not end up in another revolution. Yes revolutions are necessary and important. But being responsible for millions of dead people, like in the Protestant revolution, as Luther was, is something you have to think about.
My way, has always been evolution. We develop, but not so that people start being mean to each other.
G-d bless the will to do good, and shed the light upon the world.
Ok, so now mr. Elon Musk is fighting the ADL and see most Jews as enemies. Ok, who did actually help the white farmers in South Africa? Was it the nazis or the Jews? To me, having tried to give a helping hand to the Suidlanders, and actually succeeding in bringing their plight to the fore, is a little strange to hear that Jews are against South Africans.
Elon, listen. When you go from being the poster boy of the left, to the villain, it brings a lot of hurt. I know it from my own life, I have been trough that process, many times actually.
When I started out as a dancer in Copenhagen, I were the poster boy of multiculturalism. Then when I did my criticism, I was the villain. Then I started working with Barack, and now Joe, and I am the hero again.
Lately, some of the current government is angry at me, for G-d knows what reason, then I am the villain.
Being at the Center of the political stage is like that, sometimes you the hero, sometimes you are the villain.
What is important though, is not to loose the perspective. Why are you doing these things, and most important how long can you go?
These days, my ability to work in the political sphere is, more or less, restricted to environmental issues. Because there is a political movement against me.
If I do not respect that, the conflicts get worse, and in the end, everybody are angry at each other.
That is human nature.
So I accept the limits, because I actually do not want to impose my view of things on the world. My aim is to make a better, more happy world.
I will give you a tip, I learned from a beautiful lady here in Denmark.
When I stuck my nose into some of the most dangerous issues here in Denmark. Things like child abductions and so on.
This beautiful lady was a helper of these families who had lost their children.
Her advise was to smile, and be positive.
I mean, you have had a rough time, it has been difficult. But no one has ever threatened your children.
In a situation like that, how can you ever smile?
But deflating the conflict, not jumping on the ride is a vital skill, if you are at the centre stage of political development.
You need to tackle the accusations and the political difficulties with a diplomatic skill.
Not involving in all these issues, is important.
The advertisers will come back, if you learn to smile at alll the accusations, and be nice.
I have always worked for peace, and this is a disarming stance.
Go for peace in a nonviolent way.
G-d bless the will to find reconciliation in a difficult world.
Angels have been an area, that I have discussed a lot lately.
I have delved into this issue at the back of some work I have done as a journalist, trying to help the poor and persecuted. The dark lord rests in the darkness of criminality, abuse and suffering. If you want to understand evil, you need to face it on its own turf.
But the way we then work to counter the evil of this world is very different according to the traditions we stem from. I have worked extensively with the Christian churches, as well as Jewish faith, and my father was a Muslim, so I have a lot of insight into the different faith schools.
The Catholic Church is the best at dealing with the lord of the flies. It has this amazing system of checks and balances, involving psychologists, doctors and a lot of experience with these things.
This gives the understanding, that the catholics, through their strict and effective organization hold the best cards to the fight between evil and good.
But the other faith systems also have some good answers to the fight against evil. Within Judaism, that I have worked with extensively, the connection to the angels is very direct and strong. Through the work of angels, it gives each practitioner an army of do gooders to help and work with. My personal experience is, that the closer you get to the angels, the more we help each other. But it is a much more individualised connection to g-d and good.
My point is, we can actually learn from each other, if we understand, that we are all in the same boat, when it comes to fighting Satan.
Sometimes there is division on our side, sometimes there is unity. This is a time, where the darkness is swarming. Maybe it is time to hear the valiant cry from the silver horn of Michael the archangel, and understand, that evil is not on the side of religion. Evil is when people seduce, abuse and destroy human life.
G-d bless the willingness to find peace in this world, and may it last.
It has just been Rosh Hashanah, and I was really lucky to celebrate it with the local Jewish community.
I have thought a lot about it. First of all, in a country like Denmark, there are so few Jews, that the disagreements are truly limited, because there are just too few to disagree.
At the other hand, there are off cause disagreement, it is like that when people of different opinion are in the same room.
But what really strikes me at the celebration was something deeper. We all share the journey TO Israel. The perilous, arduous journey through Sinai, the difficulties on the way.
The point is, when we got there, and started to build the promised land, we were one, but when the daily life started, division started as well.
I for one, have a great respect for the most abundantly religious people of the Jews, to me, they are living examples of integrity and faith in the best core of what it is to be a human being. At the same time, I have the same feeling about the most radical left wing.
One of my Facebookfriends here in Denmark, almost got kicked out of the local communist party, because he helped the poor!
My point is, when you look at the virtues of each party, they are, more or less the same. Care of people, protecting the weak, being a mensch.
Sometimes, especially in times of great disagreement, what we actually agree about, is wise to remember.
We all believe in the sanctity of the human, and that is the core of what it is to be a Jew. The celebration of life over death, of surviving despite absurd odds to the opposite.
That was what it is to be Jew, and that goes for left as well as right.
The old aristocratic families of Europe seems to still live in secret, so to say.
This secrecy is a function of the French Revolution, and the consecutive purge of Aristocrats around the world of Europe.
But the enlightened, as they are seen, are actually pretty old fashioned, do gooders, who still believe in king and country.
In these renaissance days, where we are trying to figure out, how to reapply the ideas of the classic era, their role seem to have shifted in a sense. From persecuted, to actually being able to contribute, on their own terms to the international society.
First of all, the idea of enlightenment has to be truly flexed and reflected on, to be done.
One has to remind oneself, that the outset of the ideas of enlightenment is the temple of the sun-g-d Ra, that was the main temple in the ancient world of classical Egypt. It is the rays of the sun, that enlighten the world.
Next, one have to remind oneself, that the light is, in the view of the ancient Egyptian priest the TRUTH.
The truth and the light is the same.
So when you talk about enlightenment, you talk about shedding truth in the world. Something that is the very basis of academia and journalism.
In a sense both crafts come from the temple of Heliopolis, academia through Plato, that was an adherent of said temple, as I can deduce. And journalism through the rise of hermetism that was in the vogue in the French and Italian reneaissance. The point is, enlightenment, or ‘the highest enlightenment’ as we say in the newspaper Politiken, is actually an idea that come all the way from ancient Egypt.
However, it is not easy, shining forth with the light in terms of being true and honest, is extremely difficult, the darker the corners, the more difficult. So in a way, the principles are sound, but our application lacks.
I have stood face to face with true abominations, the dark lord.
He is vicious and crafty, so it is a dance between light and darkness, and you need to be honest about these fights.
You also have to have the skill and balls to do it. That is what is the idea behind enlightenment. But g-d knows, it is extremely difficult.
G-d bless the will to be an honest voice in the face of the darkness. But remember, when you stare into the darkness, it stares back, and the greatest risk is, to become like the darkness. You need to keep the flame of light high above your brow.
I think, that the current development within the UK is quite good. You can see it by the quietness, when the brits gets annoyed, they make a lot of fuss.
As it is, they are content, this means, that they would like to keep things as they are.
Mr. Cameron had this amazing cool, that mr. Sunak has a bit of the same of.
One thing though, I think is important, is the fact, that we still need to reach across the aisle. Sleeping in the laurels is a very dangerous thing. I have worked quite a lot on the green energy sector. Maersk, the leading danish company have bought my ideas on developing green alternatives to the current use of fossil fuels. We are working on shipment on ‘hybrid’ boats, that sport both an engine that run on fossile fuel and an engine, that run on renewable or sustainable fuel called methanol.
Getting involved in some of these cool project, could be a way to reach across the aisle, and support the good things from the left. Thereby creating a mid leaning political process.
Maybe ask Maersk if they want to work together, or some other promising project.
It creates that mid leaning agenda, that is very important for the voters.
Yes, there are some strict measures going on, but that does make this government hard core right, it can reach across the aisle.
G-d bless the will, to find solutions in a difficult working environment og politics.
Ok, I am finally in a position, where I can support the brits again.
First of all, think about it. Why don’t you invite me, and we can work together?
Denmark and Great Britain is not so far from each other. The reason why I say this, is that I am trying my new outreach. Today, I will launch my new project Trier Communications, where you can all get a bit closer to the ideas I have. At my side of the river bank, I would like to be able to live of my blogging.
I know this may be a little unrealistic, but one may hope.
Anyway, back to the Brits.
The ideas the mr. Sunak is working with is, essentially, a combination of my economic ideas added with the ideas I have around migration. The thing is, it works, everybody is, more or less, happy about the state of affairs.
As they used to say in IBM, when I had an associate there, if it work, don’t fix it.
The path is therefor pretty clear, do more of it, strengthen the good development you have already.
G-d bless the will to be successful in the affairs of politics.
There has been this amazing symposium regarding openness in regards to government in Tallin last week.
These ideas hark all the way back to the US, where mr. Niels Bohr lead the development of nuclear bombs, a thing he really felt bad about afterwards.
Niels Bohr is the father of the ‘Copenhagen spirit’ that is still very prevalent in a lot of Silicon Valley.
The point being, that to make a world that is in peace, one needs people to speak and communicate across borders.
Thereby the cry for openness.
It REALLY warms my heart to see how the Eastern European countries are truly leading in this development. It warms me, because at the base of this development lie an attempt at creating a better, more warm and trustful world.
But it is no coincidence, that the Eastern Europeans are leading in this development, it is because, they have met closedness in the communist era.
They know how it is, to be surveyed all the time, being send to camps, if you do not conform to whatever the government believe is the new vogue, the seeping evil, the creative way, that the KGB or the STASI world keep taps on all who were deemed ‘dangerous’ to public calm.
So, that is why, the Eastern Europeans are leading in this development, they KNOW the value of freedom.
Lest they be a beacon of hope, in a world a darkness and repression, support them, and maybe, they will inspire the rest of the world, to make a conversation, free of the strings of the dark forces, that is a part of many corrupted governments around the world.
Manufacture is important for the families involved, but there is another feature, that is really important regarding manufacture, that has to do with the competition with China.
China is actively undermining American and world economy by going directly against branches of industry.
One thing is, when American entrepreneurs and ‘developers’ like Mitt Romney, actively, sends good paying American jobs to China, another is, when China is ACTIVELY focusing on a branch of industry to take it from the West.
They do it by state subsidising specific branches of industry, and thereby dumping the prices.
This is industrial warfare, and should be met with equal measure.
G-d bless the will, to see where the danger lies, and counter it.
Where does inspiration come from? This is a question, that I have put to myself a lot of times.
Is it inherent in something, do you get from other people?
An an artist, inspiration is important, I mean in Greek spirituality, it is all about the three muses.
I believe, that inspiration comes from different places, beauty being the most obvious. But it also come from ideals. In politics, ideals are really important. That is your driver, what you use your life for.
Good politicians shed the pay, and go for what they believe in.
This is the main reason, why this Union focus is so important. It is what you can believe in.
So, passion and inspiration comes from your virtues and ideals.
That is where people are really moved.
The obvious good thing about this attitude is, that, apart from being extremely important for the society, it is actually a good thing to work for.
Good paying jobs, to make a living. Make people have a bit of self respect.
It is not only about the job, it is about the selfrespect.
That selfrespect is what carries a man, that carries a family, that carries a town, that carries a state and ultimately the country as such.
Not a bad ideal to fight for.
G-d bless the will to support the Union of America.
Looking at politics, you can basically say, that there are two ways of doing it. One is control, and the other is inspiration.
When you control, you tell people to do this and that, put up strict borders and so on.
I am not saying, that this is bad, it is just a way of doing things. Within the military, this is the way.
But a good democracy, runs very badly on control, because the basic virtue of a Democracy is freedom.
So, one needs to understand, that you need to inspire people, and not control people, for a democracy to work.
That is why the good politicians are half rock stars. Like Kennedy, like Obama, like me.
We are the lifeblood of a democracy, because we make it work, on its own premises.
Now, that is a nut that the EU is yet to crack. How do the EU inspire?
To inspire, you have to have virtues, to fight for something, to give yourself to something. Like me, I sacrifice myself in the name of Democracy.
You know, what I write here, costs me a lot.
But I do it, because I truly and profoundly believe in it.
This gives people hope, and gives people an amount of faith in the Democratic system. As soon as you move to a system, that is unfree, for any reason really, it goes against the idea of the democratic institutions.
But the problem is, to inspire, you have to be extremely competent and idealistic at the same time, uncorrupted and true.
These persons live best in a certain environment, and it is not in bureaucracy, it is in a free democratic forum.
So in order for the EU to prosper, it has to find a way, to initiate forums, that are actually free, and gives people a chance to find a way.
Count me in, contact me directly, send me a mail, I will be happy to support.
Well, one of the major discussion concerning the eastern front, is the way, that this war is panning out.
First of all, the major weapon the Chinese have, is their geeky squad. Their hackers. They can hack almost anything, especially the military equipment, that is the core of the American army.
Hopefully this has been taken care of, but high tech fighters falling out from the sky, is not a welcome sight.
Secondly, their greatest weakness is the fact, that they have clumped up all their industrial capacity in one place. This is due to the control they wish to have over the industry, so that is an inherent weakness of a communist economy. Communism is not a capitalist construction, so the relationship between those who wish to do business, which require freedom, and those who wish to control is always a very diffficult balance.
So, there is an opening there.
The strategy is quite clear, target those areas, that are producing all they are making, and the whole card house will come falling down quite easily.
This you can do be sending over strato fortresses, bombers of a different kind and so on. Just make sure, that as few of civilians as possible are in harms way.
But the Chinese infrastructure is really a very weak point for China.
The bleeding edge tech these days is the drone development. It is a bit scary, but there is no doubt, that high tech ai powered drones is the new weapon of choice. The progress that the Ukrainians seem to do on the battlefield is, mainly, due to this tech. It is versatile, does pin point operations, and is deadly effective. It will change the way we do war over the next twenty years. There is the Armageddon spectacle we have to be careful about. The combination of AI and these drones is scary. So we need to make sure, that there is a PHYSICAL switch to turns these gadgets off, so we have a fail safe.
Anyways drones might work in a ground war, but an aerial war, that we saw in Afghanistan and Libya, is not for drones, it is for aeroplanes.
I hope, that the confrontation between the US and China will remain pin point operations, when it starts, to reduce the cost of lives.
So drones are good on the ground, but aerial fighting is still fought with human fighters on different vehicles.
We will see, maybe the war will wane off, and that would be the best, but the historical mechanics of the development is pretty obvious for anyone to see.
G-d bless the will to be vigilant in peace, and decisive in war.
Ok, it seems to me, that the fight that the local secret service has had against me, is kind og waning off. I mean, they have fought me, for no reason than just, that they felt like it. It does not make much sense.
Anyway, having put this problem aside, we can actually start working on some international security.
The major problem right now is China. I know that Ukraine is a great problem, but it is kind of stable. It is a bit back and forth. It is extremely costly, but apart from that, it does not seem to rock the security situation much. In fact what has happened has been, that the West has become involved in internal politics of Ukraine. I am not saying this to scorn the heroic fight of the Ukrainians, they have fought valiantly. It is to see the scope of the fight. Is it a third world war? So far, it is not. It is contained in and around the south of Ukraine, more or less.
This is good for the world, nuclear annihilation is really the great concern. This is a possibility, and we have to be very, very careful about this.
But, and that is the difficulty of the Chinese situaiton. This fight has the risk of spinning out of control.
At one side, China is a responsible player. Chinese culture is, traditionally, not aggressive, but much more protective. China IS a great civilisation.
The problem is, what has been defined as the ‘Thucydides trap’, referring to a Greek historian, who lived in the roman times, and wrote about roman history.
I think, without knowing it, that it refers to the fight between Phoenicia and Rome, that happened around 2000 years ago.
This fight was quite dangerous for both world powers of the time. Because Rome grew in power and started to push the boundaries of Karthage.
What can we learn from this historical event?
First of all, we should not over qualify our own strengths. Karthage was, at the time, much, much, much better at sailing around. Rome had good ground troops, but Karthage had been shipbuilders for thousand of years, add to this, the Phoenician were masters in manipulating the world to their end. They used the northern barbarians (us) in a showdown called the fight off the sea peoples, that set the Mediterranean area back a thousand years in the time of Homer.
So the Phoenician were this massive, extremely experienced power, that had been there for thousand of years, and were used to having a monopoly of trade.
Does that ring a bell?
Rome at the other hand, were the upcoming power, that had one thing, that the Phoenicians didn’t have; grit.
The victorious general, voted in by the public, Scipio Africanus, a great Roman hero, managed to get to the mainland of Phoenicia, and through sheer grit, defeat the complacent Phoenicians, who were used to peace.
What is the teaching we can learn from this?
It is about grit, we need to be ready for a conflict, that can and probably will continue for a long time.
So far, it is only skirmishes. But as the fight goes on, it can end in open hostilities.
Hopefully, this can be contained in smaller areas.
But, and this is where we should be realistic. What if the fight ends up in LA?
Imagine the shock.
The Second World War was on American territory. On the small island of Pearl harbour, yes, but that was American soil.
The same can happen this time around.
Have we wrapped our heads around that danger?
This was the downfall of Karthage. The leadership of Karthage, could not, in their wildest imagination, imagine roman troops in their vicinity.
When they came, they were woefully unprepared.
Only Hannibal Barca, and his family, had seen the danger, and tried to fight Rome. You probably have heard about Hannibal and his war Elephants.
Anyway, the danger is really tangible.
We need to be awake.
So far, the fight has been fought with peaceful means, but we need to be prepared for a real fight.
The ones who seem to have the best strategy, are the ones with the best card at the election.
G-d bless the will to be vigilant in the face of Chinese opposition.
Joe, we are getting there. Calling for the shared heritage of rev. King, is definitely a right call.
When we did the election with Barack, this was the final argument when we won his second term. So there is a positive precedent to this reference to rev. King.
At the heart of the matter lies a connection, to what the US is all about.
The US started out a as dream for the first pilgrims, wanting to make a utopia found in the sacred writings of the bible, an Eden.
After 500 years, they actually made it. You know Paradise lost by Steinbeck is a prophetic warning, in the very epitome of the dream coming through in the 50’ties.
Steinbeck warned us, as I understand his work, of the danger of growing complacent.
Reaching the destination of the perfect society, was, in a strange way, the worst that could happen, because people thought; well now we are here, we don’t have to strive anymore.
Striving is what CREATED the US, and when striving is no more, things tend to go the wrong way.
I am not saying this to point fingers. I am saying this, because my ambition has always been to create a world, where there is happiness and abundance. I feel that the US is as much my dream as anyone else, because you guys were made by guys like me. The rebel intellectual.
So my advice would be, don’t despair, go on fighting for that dream of yours. Maybe it’s going to be another hundred years in the making, maybe sooner. It all comes down to the dedication, to reach that dream again, and again and again.
The striving HAS to be a part of the whole ideology of the US.
Never give up, keep on moving, keep on striving, be on the way to reach that new frontier.
The frontier is eternal, and it is only, if you keep on moving towards it, that paradise will be rebuilt. Because Steinbeck’s novel was a warning, not a prophecy set in stone.
G-d bless the will to keep on fighting for another day, and the possibility of reaching that dream.
There is an ongoing discussion within the humanist society on what is really the way to go.
I have been doing a lot of social work as a journalist on my small tv station, and I have a lot of experience with one darkness of this world, the darkness of poverty.
Through the last one and a half years, I have been giving voice to people of little means.
This was inspired by my British friend Roger Haydon Mitchell. He also, after he had done a lot of reconciliationary work, has been working with giving the poor a voice.
This has tought me a lot about the darkness of lesser means. People, who are born in poverty, abuse and have no hope.
This is where, I believe, that Change and Hope has an impact to make.
And it is, honestly, also our responsibility to care for those who has nothing.
One of the cases, that I have been working on, goes all the way to the humans right council. Here we can actually do something, because the reason why so many people are not heard, is because, they are left without any true support in terms of law.
Human rights is something we did, so we should be careful, that it actually still is in place for those who needs it.
Maybe this case of mine, will do some good, and shed light on the abysmal problems that many with lesser means are sitting in.
Coming from a world with everything, seeing the world of those with lesser means, through their own eyes, has really made me understand, that there are corners of this world, that is full of suffering and hopelessness. Maybe trying to give them ray of light and hope, is a task worth doing.
G-d bless the will to do good and bring light into the corners of the world, that really, really needs it.
Ok, there is an increase in taxing the rich. This is, essentially what you call progressive tax.
That is fine, you need to see this, as an attempt at levelling the playing field, so that we get more money in, to make it easier for poor people to also live.
But, I think you have to set this in contrast to the dialogue and shared work worker and business do together.
The difference between communism and socialdemocratism, is exactly the last bit. Democracy.
Working things out in dialogue, making it so, that there is a core of understanding.
Here in Aalborg, there is the big production plant, that is honestly polluting a lot, but it creates a lot of work, and is the pride of the city.
So we don’t close it down.
You know we are pragmatic in that area.
Working together with the industry, to make things work essentially.
G-d bless the will to do good in a world, where dialogue is very important.
One of the things, that Obama was really keen on, in the aftermath of his presidency, was to talk about unity.
This is really important, I think, because this world is wrought with strife and disagreement.
It comes from social media, all the things that social media is bringing us, is not only good. Debate is off cause the lifeblood of any democracy, but when it gets to be open strife and lack of agreement, it goes the other way.
This is not to say, that there are some ideas of the conservatives that are not good. I have been a proponent of reaching across the aisle, and trying to show that politics can function.
But at the heart of the matter, it is all about understanding the trends of time, and meeting these trends with a good answer.
That is really the difficult thing of todays political life.
But finding that balance between left and right of politics, is the Center strategy.
Add to this, it goes hand in hand with some beautiful ideas of spirit, so it is a more profound path that just a superficial policy only.
Ok Joe, first of all, well done with the Hawaii catastrophe, that is good, that you are on that ball, really important.
And then, as I see what we are doing now, is to strengthen the policies you have already, we are not out there to invent something new. BUT, and that is really, really important, need to defend what we are doing.
People are a bit critical to the whole economic discussion the “Bidennomics” that is essentially Trier nomics, in the sense, that I develop a lot of the basic concepts of the economical system. Ok it is not about the fame, I don’t care about that, but it is a very important thing to defend, now when people are criticising it.
First of all, I get it, the inflation is real. It is happening, due to overspending on the federal and state level. Inflation is essentially an extra tax.
Add to this, the fact, that the dollar has been a reserve currency for most of the world, and the rest of the world is moving away from that, the dollar is in trouble.
That is the challenge we face, it has been the challenge all along, since the days of you me and Barack.
What do you do, to counter this threat?
You make sure, that the money you make is inherently unrelated to the world. You make your OWN money.
How do you do that, by making things, in America.
See the strategy?
Yes, the days of the dollar being reserve currency for the world is getting to an end, it had to happen sooner or later. The wise thing to do, is to prepare for that day, and that is exactly what we have been doing.
So yes, it is right, that the dollar is in trouble, and inflation is the result of this trouble. But instead of harping the downfall of the might of the great dollar, we need to get to work, and find that new frontier, og making things work.
Working for at better day, finding a way out of the mess.
It is a mess, and we didn’t invent it, but we are here to solve those problems, and that is the crux of matter.
Bidenomics or Obamanonics, is a preventive struggle against an economy that is tanking. That is the truth.
So there may be a lot of naysayers and criticism.
But we have been fighting this problem for ten years.
Trump as well.
G-d bless the will to do good things, when the country is in trouble.
I have been debating a lot with myself on how to talk about the idea of enlightenment. I know, that a lot of the other humanists are reaching out, and we are in agreement with everything off cause.
But, and this is where things need to Change, if we are to get going again talking about making a world that is abundant and can make peoples dreams come to fruition.
What is really the aim of someone, who believe in the roots of our civilisation coming from Egypt and Mesopotamia?
Is it a Spartan world (communism) or is it a classical Egyptian world?
This is really the root of the question. In the other renaissances, we have been able to find bits and pieces of the way things were run in the world of Babylon, Egypt and Ur.
This renaissance, my contribution has been to try and find the roots of the ideas.
In a funny way, it is actually a repetition of some of the ones, that came before me. I mean, the answer has been found before, and it is possible to find again.
What was the initial idea of the US? The idea the first pilgrims came with, was to make a new Israel in America.
That is why the current Israel is so much an American project.
What was the reasoning behind that idea, that the first pilgrims had so long ago?
Well, it is really a really beautiful project, if you understand it.
Eden or Eridu, the “first” city of the Mesopotamian city states was held in high regard, because the thinking was, that all of the ideas, that were part of the civilisation of the classical world, was made and exemplified there. That is religion, politics, science, law, banking. All that is the very frame of our society today. You may not think about it, but the system you are living in, is INVENTED in Eden, so to speak.
The aim of Israel is to take all these principles, and perfect them. If you do that, you will make a paradise. At least, that was the idea.
It kind of culminated in the 50’ies, that was a time, where everything was in balance.
From there on, it went downhill, why? Because of cultural Marxism.
Cultural Marxism, beautiful as it may be, is not into ancient city states of Mesopotamia or the very idea about civilisation. It is all about the fight between democracy and nazism.
What is the remedy to our current predicament? It is to get back to basics, and find that initial fire for the people of the ancient city state of Mesopotamia. And realise it, once more.
That is the cure.
G-d bless the will to follow in the footstep of the first settlers of United States of America.
I am really sorry for the lack of help, that I can or rather cannot do, to the European Union.
The reason is, that every time, that you guys reach out. I am hammered back to a state of not being able to help you.
I have been under a lot of pressure lately, still am.
Hopefully, this goes away in a few weeks, and we can continue the good progress we have been doing on the green energy area, especially wind mills and hydrogen production.
It is pretty interesting, and we are really getting somewhere. But since, I am really under a huge amount of pressure, and the country is really in trouble, I am not able to do much.
But, hopefully I can get onto the track again soon.
We will have to see.
G-d bless the will to do good in a world full of opportunities.
Well, there is a whole lot of discussion on the waning American economy. I have, as one of the things, that I have tried to help the Americans with, given the US a new idea on how to make America actually wealthy.
It is really quite simple, when you understand the mechanics of economy.
What is economy really? Economy is a Greek word, and it means household. The idea being, that the fiscal matters of a polis (in the time of the Ancient Greek, they did not have nations, but city states, Athens, Sparta and so on) were like the workings of a house.
Hence economy meaning, household.
If you look at it from that perspective, it gets a bit more easy to understand. Because as in any household, you need to figure out, how to make ends meet.
This comes down to production, because if pops brings home a few dollars, then we can actually buy things at the market. So we need to get pops a job.
How do we do that? We do it by building factories, that produces things, like stools, food, jewellery and so on.
But, and this is where it gets a little difficult, you can borrow money, if you are not able to make ends meet. This is, what we have been doing for some time, to make the military run.
The military is, by far, the most expensive part of any nation. So you need to make ends meet, by not borrowing money, and make money instead, yourself.
The problem for the US right now is, that we have outsourced so much of our production, that we are getting really poor. There is the influence, the US has around the world, but that rests on a strong military.
See the catch? If we do not have a strong military, then we cannot protect the people, that essentially pays for the power play we are playing.
So, at the end of the day, making America great again, is all about the money. The safest way to make things in terms of money, is by securing the production in your own backyard.
That is what we have been fighting for, the last ten years, and it is actually working. Just imagine, if we have had the current economical crisis, and all our things were made in China?
This would have been the end of the might of the US. But as it is, we are in danger, but not so much, that we will actually loose everything. It is still very much within the range of changing things around. China is actually showing signs of fatigue, and our pressure is showing.
If we enter into a fight around Taiwan, things may actually end up in our side. We will win, if we play our cards right. Chinas production capacity is concentrated in a few areas, and some well placed bombs, will end the dominion of China. It is as simple as that.
Ramping up the fight is difficult for China, but they are in it, and they know it may end up in a real fight.
Ukraine is still not really decided, but Russians are a different ball game that China, they are incredibly tough, China is, traditionally not tough. But we will have to see, where it ends.
But bringing back the production to the US, has been an astounding success.
It will all play out in the next few years. And I guess, that that new production power, will be the beginning of a another round of investment in ammunition.
G-d bless the will to do good in the realm of economy.
Well, things are slowly shaping up in the election. It seems, that people have realised that what mr. Biden is doing, is giving people a shot at having a better living. So that is a good thing.
I know, that it is not said out loud, but the feeling voters get, is that the president is actually caring about their lives, and how they fare, and it is working. The economy is abundant, and there is a rebounding economy going around.
You could say, that this is not in the realm of amazing dreams. But most Americans right now do not need unrealistic dreams, they need something to eat, and at the end of day, that is what the dream is all about. Having a life, that is working, being able to pay the bills, and maybe even saving a penny for a rainy day.
Adressing the economy, and making it work, is the key to this development. When people have opportunities, you give them a ticket. That ticket is all that is really asked for. Most people do not like to be controlled, they like to be able to provide for themselves, and being proud of the life they have made themselves.
There are those, who are not into the hard work of an average American, and there are people who thrive on unhealthy things like stealing and so on. But the average American is a hardworking, healthy individual, who is proud of what they THEMSELVES have accomplished.
So that is what serving is about, it is about giving people the opportunity, to carve out a life for themselves.
It may sound a little boring, but most people really like boring, they like the stability of life, being able to plan for a better tomorrow.
So the focus on the basics and making the economy work, is really what is making things work. Make the manufacture work, and then the country works as a whole. And here I mean all manufacture, not just big scale. Fishing, farming, production of all kind is really important.
G-d bless the will to make a better United States of America.
To be a enlightener, is all about looking for the truth. One of the main ideas, that got to me, after having read the story about the unhappy farmer that stood before the judges of Egypt, was the fact, that even in the halls of justice, truth is the core of all there is.
If we do not respect truth as the basis upon which we judge things, then there is no light.
The light is the truth, and perhaps that little farmer was right, maybe the truth is the tool of divine justice.
G-d bless the will of the ancients, and may they be heard in this day and age.
Joe, sorry if I was a little too direct yesterday. You are doing great, I didn’t mean to sound annoying or anything. I am in a lot of trouble here in Denmark. The current government is harassing me a lot, so it stresses me.
So, I didnt mean to sound annoying.
Anyway, they can’t stop me from my interest in politics, and even though they seem hell bent on it right now, I will continue, to the best of my ability. They may not like independent voices like mine, but I mean, how are we to make it as a civilisation, if we are trying to take out those who are trying to make things work.
It does not make much sense to me, but I guess politics sometimes does not make much sense.
At the core of your presidency, I think, that there is one thing that is important.
Americans tend to be naturally conservative. It has something to do with the way the nation is built. All the rebels that came from Europe to found the country, were idealists, so this idealism has turned into a fondness for ethics, stability, good deeds and religion.
Being a Christian in the US is a boon, in Europe not.
So to win an election, you have to think of the little leaguers. Those are the ones, who make the country run, and they are the most plentiful.
They may not be the most fancy, with their lawn movers, saturday grill with friends and thanksgiving. But if you look at the core of what they are, they are a good lot. They prefer giving from taking, and helping where help is needed.
This core of good men and women, of all strands of life. Are the voters.
So if you want to win an election, you need to see that proud man, who has a job, to provide for his family.
And the wife as well, a good hearted, friendly woman, who likes to sell stuff at the local charity to help other people.
This is really what is the best in you, and you had it, originally, from us.
Yesterday, I was at a fair here in Denmark. Here in Northern Jutland, people are really into buying and selling things. So they meet at a fair, take all the stuff they are not using anymore, and sell it to other people. We are traders here in Jutland.
People enjoy going around talking to other people, kids are there, everybody makes a good deal.
This fair tradition is what people like. The simple things, where family are convened.
It is probably the same in the US. People like to have a good time at sunday, and do something with the family.
If you can somehow make that simple life a little easier, or somehow just promise, that there is a chance for people to continue that way of life. Everybody will love you. Because, usually politics doesn’t make mush sense to most citizens.
But who wouldn’t vote for a guy, who would promise, that tomorrow will be a little better than yesterday?
This ‘tomorrow’ is, for the most people, a simple satisfaction in having a stable and simple life.
See that reality for most people, and you will get at eye level with the voters.
G-d bless the will to be a good person in a positive and better world.
Well, it seems to me, that the European Union wants to understand some of the possible development, that may lie in Changing the way the system prioritises the choices on its current path.
First of all, to me it seems, that the issue we need to discuss, is the BALANCE between the nation states, and the federal level.
What people need, is to live in a prosperous, safe, happy environment, that gives them and their families the ability to realise a good life.
This is not about the balance between nation and federal government for the citizens, it is about their daily life.
If it works, and the progress is in the right direction, everything is fine, and people are satisfied with the current system.
Discussing the balance between the nation state and the federal government is therefor pretty important, because some things work best on a national level, and some things work best at a federal level.
A good example is energy production. Making sure, that there is abundant energy for the businesses and homes in the EU, preferably of the renewable kind, is a good example of a project that is perfectly suitable for the federal level.
I am going to a meeting with the local party that I am a member of next week, and we can perhaps further the discussion on this issue.
G-d bless the will to be honest and swift in action.
Well, the status for the current international development.
First of all, I sincerely believe, that we have to find a IDEOLOGICAL basis of the current presidential campaign. Economy is fine, and it is really important. But at the heart of the campaign, it is not about money, it is about the visions.
One thing both Kennedy and Obama got right, was the visionary side of the political development. Barack was trying the ‘Change’ the world, which I, as one, was and still is, and ardent supporter of.
Kennedy had his positive visions as well.
So on the Democratic part of the divide, we are at our best, if we shine with amazing ideas, and positive visions.
To hope, we need to change.
This time around with you Joe, you are not Barack, and have your own ideas and priorities.
First of all, in a way, it seems to me, that you are in way a bit more traditional. You are a union guy, and not a absolutist liberal. You like the military, and respect the family, religion as a constructive force in this world.
Union guys are very much into making ends meet, and making sure, that there is a job for the next generation of skilled craftsmen.
Looking a little deeper into that cup, it seems to me, that there is a deeper level, that is truly visionary.
Why is it, that it is so important to give that proud worker a good job? Well, it is because, he needs to provide for his family.
That is the American dream right there. A shot on a life in the suburbs and the happiness it gives a life, to be able to provide for a little family of a few sons and daughters. Going to the little leagues, and show your son how to swing a bat at your day off.
That is what a lot of people dream off. But to get there, you need an income, and the ability to provide to your family.
Joe, that is the vision, for a lot of what you are doing, to keep the American dream alive.
To do that, you need jobs, and to do that, you need the industrial flight to stop.
That is what it is all about, keeping that American dream alive.
It is also, to have all the other things. Have a good school system, give people a chance, and it is definitely not a race thing. Everybody deserves a shot at happiness.
G-d bless the will to be honest in speech, and fast in action.
All right, fresh out of the latest annoyances of the Danish state.
It seems to be the fact, that the state has decided to defund my TV station. It is not 100%, but the arrow points to that decision.
It has to do with my stance on Islam. The state has decided to, inadvertently to support the book burnings of Paludan, and stop the peace process.
Ok, this is off cause sad, in the eyes of the peaceproces, and to me, does not make much sense.
Anyway, the deciding factor, has been, probably, due to envy or something like that.
So, where it goes from now, I do not know, but peace from the Danish state on these issues are not really probable.
This has some consequences to my own life. First of all, I am going to, personally, try and support the peaceproces in the Middle East, and be a part of a global striving for peace and prosperity.
I am persecuted by the state here in Denmark, so it is difficult, to go up against the chaos that is emanating from the state, but I will do my best.
Also, it will mean, that I will have to make a living, that is not connected to the state. This I will be working on, for the next half a year. The EU seems to be interested in making something, and I will be glad to support this.
Probably, it will have something to do with the future of the EU. I have some ideas, and I hope, that I can push this agenda to a wiser and more successful conclusion.
It will also mean, that I am free to write whatever I want. For the last five to six months, I have been looked over my shoulder very, very aggressively.
But the freedom I have from not having to think about the state, and their plans and priorities, is actually a good thing.
This freedom I will use, to support the process in the US, we are heading into a election.
So Joe, in a strange way, this will give me the impetuous to work on the future of the US.
Maybe also on some of the more pressing issues of IT and how we make a world, that is good for people. There is the discussion on artificial intelligence, and there is Twitter. We have to further the discussion on these issues.
For the betterment of not only me and you, but for all on the planet.
So, I hope you are a bit more patient with me, it has been a pretty hard half a year, but I have plans, that will, hopefully, stabilise my life here.
Anyway, the freedom it gives me not to think about the state and their depraved priorities, is nice.
G-d bless the will to be honest in thought and good in action.
Mr. Barack Obama former president of the US has his birthday today, happy birthday mr. President.
Why is this so important in these days? Because in many ways the legacy of mr. Obama is under a lot of pressure. The idea, that we are one people, in the world, the mirage of unity and the direction towards peace.
But there are actually good signs. A lot of the peoples around the world still hang on to these ideals and ideas, not least in Saudi Arabia, where the peace negations are made to end the war in Ukraine.
Things Change. Sometimes, things change beyond our control, but the reality of the world today is, that we can choose ourselves, do we still step in the footsteps of that illustrious president of the US, or do we go down the path of mutual destruction?
I hope, that the example of peace will stand and maybe continue as we tread forward in this world.
The Netanyahu government is trying to reform the current structure of the judiciary system. As a philosopher, this is right down my alley, so here are my reflections, so far. I will try to debate these issues, and you are more than welcome to invite me try and make a reform.
Let’s have a look at it.
First of all, high judges are supposed to have a conservative bend. They are the protectors of the system, and this means, that they are supposed to defend the constitution. At least, this was the case in the Spartan system, with the ephors, who were very powerful judges. Lycurgus purposely made it this way, the make sure, that the laws were followed by the Spartans, and the constitution most important of all.
Also, Plato sees the philosophers as a guarantee and defender of the state, in the sense, that we are supposed to enlighten the state, when it is morally corrupted. The truth will be the best defense against evil and corruption.
This also points to the fact, that the high judges are supposed to be much more than just lawyers, they are supposed to be true philosophers, understanding the tenets of natural law.
I think, that the conflict right now is two fold. First of all, the high judges are too liberal, this goes against the idea of high judges, that are supposed to be conservative.
Secondly, supporting the LGTB movement is, seen from a platonic point of view, pretty unwise.
It is not that I have anything against gays, not at all. But family is the bedrock of a sound society, and high judges are supposed to see it in this perspective.
So there is something wrong with the election process. We need to ensure, that the judges that end up as high judges meet these criteria as having a conservative bend and being wise.
Often these persons are not judges or layers, but philosophers. Just imagine having Kant or Buber as high judges, that would ensure the necessary skill set.
If the bankers wants to share ideas, and work with me in general. Often, other players invite me for some arrangement, and thereafter, we have a kind of communication going on.
If you want to follow this way, please note, that the arrangement should be very cheap, because, as of now, my economy is very limited.
It is off cause quite limiting, but that is the way it is.
Thank you.
G-d bless the will to be plain in question, and honest in execution.
After doing the interview with mr. Hilton, my friend, Basil brought up the issue of funding the renaissance.
I have discussed it with myself some, and my thinking is, that me as a philosopher, I have to stay uncorrupted. I have to try and make my own living. And I do, I help the poor from funds accrued by the poor themselves, sacrifices that makes it possible for the poor in their suffering, to get a voice. That is true, uncorrupted enlightenment right there.
This is the way it is supposed to be.
At the other hand, the bankers are, traditionally, the funders of the renaissances. The works of art are unparalleled in the other renaissances.
I mean, just imagine, if I could focus on philosophy, the works of art I produce. It could spell perhaps a renewal in areas we have not thought about, not least art.
So its a paradox, but seriously, all this online facebook things you are trying to build, it is a little difficult. It is much more easy, if you just make a direct contact. That is how all the other players are doing it. They invite me to something, I get some friends within the community, and the dialogue is going on.
So, at the heart of it, it is about this shared work. The potential is pretty vast. I mean, we could make a school, where the fine arts and philosophy really was disseminated. We could strengthen Israel, we could make works of art at the same level as in the other renaissances maybe.
Just imagine the possibilities.
But it has to be sound and honest, and I have to be independent of the money.
I guess that is what you call a win, keeping NATO together. It is a little expensive, but the alternative; a rift through all of NATO was a really scary thing. It could have destroyed the entire eastern flank of NATO, or it could have destroyed NATO.
But, and this is where I think, we should be very careful, we should be very careful to listen to the members of the NATO now. After this conflict has been boiling for some time, the members are still on the edge, so we should really listen to all the members, and try and make all the members feel, that they have a say.
It is not going to be easy, but after conflict, there is still a little tension.
BUT, to be honest, this is really an imposing piece of statecraft.
Now we can look forward, with one less internal conflict in the family.
G-d bless the will to be honest in actions and good in vision.
Well, I have just had the supreme enjoyment of being able to make an interview with one of my American friends, mr. Basil Hilton jr.
Basil is a new generation of young Americans who are searching for what America is supposed to be, and we had this loooong dialogue on where the US is today, why it is where it is, and where we are going.
I have just had this amazing realisation after having read Heraclitus, that as a natural development of a healthy society, any society needs to go through a phase of cleansing by truth, to avoid falling into the trap of moral corruption.
We know this by another name as well, the phase of a renaissance. A rebirth of the ancient ideas, a vigorazation of the ideas of truth of justice.
So what is really going on these days? Well, we are trying to understand these ancient ideas in the face of new media. How do we keep the faith in the ideas of humanism in social media. The whole Twitter debacle, was a step in this process.
CIA seems to be the harbinger of the process, actually shedding light in some very dark corners of our world. Pretty cool, and just so American, taking the lead in the fight against injustice in this world, where injustice is felt be the most vulnerable of our society.
Renaissances may seem full of promise and beautiful, but truly living in one of them is awful, so it may be painful to look some of the hard truths of our world in eyes, but after facing these things, we actually have a more healthy and sound society.
We are going through a phase, just as in the French Revolution; cleaning the the society of corruption, and that is the basis upon where we will change to meet the new challenges ahead.
People are thinking that we are finished, maybe they have underestimated the strength and the advancement of our civilisation.
Ok, as I understand, Turkey is, more or less considering leaving NATO, or at least threatening to do so, due to the continuous burning of the holy book of the Muslims, the Koran.
This has come to the point, where the integrity of NATO is tested. It is a great problem, and with great problems we need to see great solutions.
At the heart of the conflict, lies the Mohammad cartoon crisis, that sparked the conflict between Denmark and the Muslim world. Something, that I thought was a bit less, at least.
But it is still simmering beneath the surface.
Here is a possible solution to the problem. The foreign minister of Denmark, needs to go to Turkey, and start a conversation.
That would at least soothe some of the tension.
So far, he has not been willing to do so, but maybe this new conflict will give him the incentive to do so.
Putting pressure on Denmark as a nation, could be a possibility as well.
So far, the foreign minister do not seem that interested in solving the problem, only sitting around doing nothing.
Where is the Danish foreign minister in this?
G-d bless the will to try and solve the problems, and not just sitting around idly.
I have worked quite a lot on the understanding of what it is to be a humanist.
This hit the vogue in the both the Italian as well as the French renaissance and is now hitting again in the Danish renaissance.
After reading Heraclitus, inspired by a wonderful conversation I had with a beautiful lady, imagine that, I have come a few steps further in my understanding of humanism
The light is the truth. This is written in all the sources, especially Plato in his famous cave allegory.
But from there on the next question is; how does it really function, this enlightenment business.
As a base of understanding we have the cave allegory that essentially tells us, that enlightenment is dangerous and often not very welcome. The philosophers (academics) are supposed to, as a martyrdom, to profess the truth anyway, something this blog has done, to the prescribed martyrdom. Endless persecution, ridicule and so on. But that is the business of enlightenment, or as we say in my family’s newspaper “the highest enlightenment”, something we got from Brandes a philosopher of great strength, and a founding father of Israel.
But there is a bit more to it. Apart from the martyrdom of the true humanist, as he is professing truth, there are two modes of enlightenment. That of the sun, and that of the moon. The light of the sun g-d Ra and the moong-d Isis.
The light of Ra is fierce and blinding, the light of Isis is soothing and not blinding.
So if you shine like the sun, you get all the trouble, and if you shine like the moon, you get less trouble. You still get trouble, as my own miserable life is a testament to, but you tend to survive.
These are the conclusions I have found so far, but there is more.
Heraclitus adds to this understanding in the sense, that he tells us a bit about the process in a wider time perspective. One act of enlightenment will get you either martyred or will at least make you unpopular. But what is the point really? This is where Heraclitus adds to the understanding. He talks about the moral purity of the world.
When there is no light, there is only wicked and evil. When there is light, there is purity of ethics. The shearing enlightenment, just imagine in the time of classical Egypt the new dynastic rulers, aided by the temples of Heliopolis (the city of light, On) when descending on society, to give enlightenment to the people. It must have been a spectacle of imaginable beauty and fierceness, something we can only try to understand today, and the reason why Egypt has lived for seven thousand years.
We say we live in an enlightened world. I don’t think so, we do not have the very immense power, that the ancients had at their height of civilisation. We are living in a age of darkness far away from those day of light. There will not be a catharsis in our civilisation in the foreseeable future, because we are too far away from the source, and have forgotten the points of the enlightenment process, much less are we able to do it.
But, and this is the good news, we now KNOW why.
And with that information, maybe there will be another beautiful renaissance.
G-d bless the will to learn from the ancients, lest we do not forget our valiant tasks of enlightenment.
Trying to understand the world today is difficult, if we have no way to learn from past experience.
This is an area, where I have worked quite a bit.
One of the things that has been a really difficult subject, has been the subject of information.
It is a bit ironic, that some of those who are supposed to be enlighteners and truth seekers are the ones who, today, are not shedding light on the corruption of society.
Let me try and explain.
The Greek philosopher Heraclitus was a student of Egypt. He was a nobleman and according to the philosopher Teichmuller (who’s supposed to be an inspiration to Nietzsche), Heraclitus was a student of Egyptian lore.
So, his ideas are really Egyptians, at least inspired by Egypt, a lot of the ancient philosophers studied in Egypt; Plato, Aristotle, Socrates.
Anyway, what does Heraclitus say about enlightenment?
He says, that a society sometimes needs a clean up to work. He calls it a “Catharsis”.
A purification.
I have pondered this a lot. It is a very radical thing to do. Cleanse the society of corruption. But given the fact, that Egypt lived for five thousand years, they must of gotten something right.
My theory is, that Heraclitus was tought some of the wisdom of how the Egyptians managed to live for such a long time.
Sometimes, society needs a cleansing, that is actually the deeper meaning of the eye of Ra, that is so openly shown on many media.
But this eye of Ra, is it really doing what it is supposed to do? Looking out for corruption?
My point is, what we are going through is a catharsis. Through social media, a lot of the corruption of society is revealed, and this proces, though it is very painful, is actually very healthy for society in general.
Egypt managed to survive for five thousand years, and still is here, today, a shadow of itself, but non the less, it is still here.
One of the methods it used to keep healthy, was to undergo phases of cleansing, fases of purification in terms of idea and ethics.
I don’t know, if that was in the process of dynastic changes. Sometimes new families became pharaohs.
But the method of ethical purification is what we are going through, and that will be good for us.
G-d bless the will of the light, to shine upon the world, so that it will be a good world.
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