Ok Joe, listen, I am certainly your oldest political friend in the current political life. You know, I cried when you didn’t stand for election at Hillarys run, I was so bewildered, because usually when I see something, it comes trough. But then Trump won and things never really have been the same since then. Not to say anything negative about Trump, I mean, I like him. But the diversion that his presidency has created are really dangerous. Getting back normal is really, really difficult.
Be as it may, this is important, if we want to secure a long lasting stability of the country, and the world as such.
I may not be the best to do these things, I am a revolutionary gone home cooking, and the itch is still there. Add to this, I have been practically imprisoned the last fifteen years, so my psyche is pretty torn.
BUT, I truly believe in unity, and in the ability to create a balance between right and left.
The challenges we face, are best faced together not apart from each other.
To me, the best response to the Trump presidency is not more division, but more unity.
Divided we fall, united we stand.
So how do we do that?
Well, being a philosopher, my answer is simple, or rather the idea is simple the approach is complex. We need to analyze and understand how to find the middle path between left and right.
All great presidents and PMs have been a middle path finder. It goes for Churchill, it goes for Obama, it goes for Reagan and it is probably the same these days. Mr. Cameron had the same, he was a little of one side, and a little of the other side. Damned shame he left politics if you ask me.
Politically, on my side, its the same. Lawrence of Arabia, that CREATED the Middle East as it is, was an Oxford Scholar. Rev. Brian Mountford, that is a blazing liberal theologican of Oxford that I have had the honour to meet is the same. A wise man and a deep thinker.
So in order to find unity, you need to find that middle path between left and right. On each issue.
I mean, remeber when you fought for Detroit? The motor city, that is old school Socialdemocratic policy. Obamas fight for the family, at the same time a socialstate. Beautiful middle ground policy. Or Churchill who started as a conservative, then was a Socialdemocrat, building the british welthfare system, and then went back to fight the Narzies.
This is a task for you as well. I know, that most of the Liberal world have gone half crazy and are gearing up for an anti Trump movement. This is as wrong as going anti liberal. To me, that would be the division that would have won.
What we need is not more division, but more compromise, cross the aisle dialogue, also internationally. Finding a middle path between terrorist and most muslims, and also support the dialogue.
Finding a middle path with the enemies. Not fighting Russia, only fighting China.
In this perspective, people in th US as well a abroad will see, hopefully, a unifier and not a divider, as a contrast to Trump.
It requires dialogue, discussion, reflection on each issue. It is really difficult, but it is extremely difficult to be the President of the United States. The most challenging job of the world, I suppose.
Anyway, please Joe, do not go down that road of division, but try to unite the world. Fight those fights you need to, but not more than that. And be predictable, so that people understand what is going on.
Be a unifier.
G-d bless the will to be a unifier.
Ok, it seems to me, that the Biden administration is finally taking up the idea of doing an advanced, complicated yet possibly successful strategy in foreign policy.
This is what we did in the Obama era, and that was, one of the most successful phases of American power.
There have been other successful phases of American power off cause, this is not to diminish the vast and world changing role that America has had through history, just to try and link this period with the last period.
Ok, where do we start. In fact, to Change things a little let me start with an inverted Trump citation made by one of the philosophical founding fathers of the U.S. Alexis de Tocqueville. A French philosopher traveling the U.S. at its inception, more or less.
He said, ‘America is good, and that is what makes it great. The day it is not good anymore, it will cease to be great.’
In other words, what we do, both domestically as well as in foreign policy MUST be based on an ethical understand of the acts that America. America will loose its greatness the day the ethics is abandoned.
That is why, we have to make some kind of solution to the IS problem, that does not involve spreading these marauders all over the place.
I get it, the Kurds have a problem, we need to fix it. But we could send them somewhere else, where they do less of a damage, and ceases to inflict much harm to anyone. How we stop them of being radicalized, beats me, but they shouldn’t annoy anyone, and not the Europeans, they are really dangerous.
Then the Russians. I know, that it was a Trump era policy to have some kind of alliance with Putin. But it started in the Obama era, and I supported it. First of all, because as Russia have become a Democratic and Christian nation, more or less, then we do not have any ideological differences anymore. Secondly because in a fight with China, not having to worry about Russia is pretty important.
For Russia, they are ok with not being a part of the worlds conflicts. They are either asleep, og wide awake. Don’t poke the bear, as someone would say. Because the bear is pretty strong and lethal when it wakes up. It happened to Napoleon, it happened to Hitler, and they both lost. In a way here after the Cold War, with Western Europe more or less collapsing due to the induced corruption, Russia also won that war. We just never really realized what they were doing, and the process to get back on track is pretty difficult, though we are getting somewhere.
Maybe this is boring, and not new, but the fact of the matter is, that we have China as an opponent, and we need to strategize according to that.
It is no secret, that what we are doing is to our own interest. But at the other hand, neither are everybody else’s.
So, that is my advice, play the international game with skill, otherwise, we definitely will loose.
G-d bless the will to be smart in relations to foreign as well as domestic policy.
Guys, we are in trouble, again, if I may be so bold.
Ok, let me be absolutely honest with you, where did this strand of “Change” come from, and where does it lead.
Well, it comes from a European Socialdemocratic tradition that has developed under the yoke of different fascist enemies.
My first political mentor Per alias “Tom”, was a freedom fighter in the second world war. He was a part of the tradition that gave us the freedom fighters of Spain and he himself had fought vigorously against the nazis.
Pretty cool guy.
I met him at university where I studied history at that time.
His version of Socialdemocratism let him to fight, and risk his life in the organisation BOPA, Borgerlige partisaner.
What he fought for, was a world, where people are free from opression, living in a democratic world.
So, when I initiated my own career or whatever you call it, I tried to look into the problems we have had with socialism as well as liberalism.
My conclusion was quite clear, when Stalin abandoned the democratic cause in the Spanish civil war, socialism fell. It is the component of democracy, the “republic”, that needs to be in there, to make it work.
And, another thing. Marx abandoned faith to make “dialectic materialism”, that is a communist idea without faith.
That takes out g-d out of the equation. Another fault to my mind.
Without G-d there will be no drive towards goodness in life.
So I wanted to fix these two problems of Socialdemocratism.
That is the basis of Change.
G-d bless America, remember. We fought islamic fascism, remember?
This has given Socialdemocratism a breather, and it is rebounding in Europe. Denmark where I live, it is all healthy and sound.
France as well, it is finding its way as well. A new fascist enemy, the rebirth of Democracy and so on.
I fixed the problems.
But in US, due to Trump, not to be mean to Trump, but just to state the pretty obvious, Change is somehow seen as a Trump thing. And the Socialdemocrats there are rapidly going down the old, sucking, corrupt hole that were sucking the life out of Socialdemocratism before Obama.
The Change that I and Obama did is rapidly evaporating.
Now, I cant do anything about it, it seems to me, that you guys have gone pretty far down the rabbit hole, and that is understandable due to all the trouble of the Trump presidency.
But seriously, taking all the good things of Change and ditching that as well. That is a problem, and it seems to me, it is actually accelerating into an even more destructive version of Socialdemocratism.
Guys, a sound society is a society based on healthy families living in healthy cities. All based on a small but efficient state, to help those in need.
A good, hardworking population that shares the same ideals and dreams.
The unity that heals is yet to be seen, and it is getting further and further away.
What will happen in four years, I will tell you what will happen, destruction, mayhem, revolution, animosity and lack of cohesion.
What did we dream about in the Spanish civil war? We dreamt of a society that was sound and healthy, a society with amble room for everybody and peace within the republic.
That and a sound faith in spirit.
Raise that ancient motheaten banner that Stalin took down, and you will have a good society, where people are truly happy to be in, because that is what it is all about. The happiness of the people, right?
Not your own satisfaction of winning the game, but he people, remember?
G-d bless the will to be a unifier and not a someone who makes chasms of disunity between people.
Ok, so the world is really changing, one of the main changes, I suppose is the abandonment of Obama principles that lead the world before Biden came to power. Trump didnt change much of the Obama ideas in his presidency, if anything, he enhanced them. So for me, being an Obama supporter, and having envisioned many of these principles, that was actually ok.
But now they are, rapidly being abandoned. The economoc ideas behind Obamas ideas, the “Obamanomics” is abandoned. The fight against Isis is abandoned, the only thing that is left, is the fight against China.
But not to support Taiwan and Hong Kong, two democratic enclaves in and around China, but to help and support Turkish muslims, that happen to be islamists.
Ok, talk about a 180 degree turnaround.
Add to this the animosity between the US and Russia, we have a new world order indeed. But just a skewed, unatainable order in the view of at least us Europeans. I mean, what is really the idea about fighting Russia. Yes, there is Ukraine, but apart from that, Russia is a partner in business, and they like us.
At the other hand, why abandon the fight against Isis? I mean here in Denmark, we democratic fighters against islamism have, some of us, almost made it out of solitary confinement, because we fought Isis, so now we should be in on the acceptance of Isis?
Seriously, there hasnt even been a acceptance of what we did, so the reconciliation should be between free Isis members, and jalied democratic/humanistic islamcritics?
Are you totally out of your mind. The wounds after Charlie Hebdo and the attack against the Vilks comitee hasnt even remotely healed, and we have numerous, daily attacks against the civil population all the time. So you want to talk peace to someone who are still jalied. At least, let us out of the jail, recognize the massive work we have done for the west, and maybe then we talk about it. Oh, and by the way, please stop the daily terrorattacks as well.
This leaves Denmark in a really hard spot. Maybe rest of the Europeans powers kind of feel the same feeling of unreal we feel here in Denmark?
This again leaves a power vacuum to take up for the European powers, becuase IS is still a very viable threat in the Middle East, and the process of abandoning the slavery of being tools for the world powers proxy war has begun.
I mean, whý is it, that the Middle East should fight the wars between Russia and the US?
There must be a middle ground here somewhere. Maybe the Middle East should just step back a bit, and leave the worlds bickering and problems. Maybe that is not such a bad idea.
I dont really know, but I do know, that abandoning the fight against IS makes absolutely no sense from where I am standing, and I hope, that at least some of the European Powers can see the folly leaving a fight we were actually winning.
G-d bless the fight we will continue against a foe of unimaginable terror.
Well, now the West seems to have stopped supporting the anti Isis coalition of most of the world including most major powers in the Middle East.
Add to this, the Kurds are kind of caught in the middle.
What is essentially happening. It is, sorry to say, the West that is reverting to its default state of not really understanding the Middle East, and not really caring either.
The nuanced, respectful, deep, religious understanding that the Obama administration showed in the Middle East has been changed with a numb, disrespectful understanding, that really puts the sacrifice that the Kurds did to fight Isis in a poor light. 50.000 men the Kurds sacrificed to fight this evil, a sacrifice, that is now forgotten by the West, as it is importing Isis to the West to give Isis safe haven.
What do we do? I mean, the peace project, the stability that we gave the Middle East. Israel as the great harbinger of truth, honesty and peace.
It is not understood or respected by the West anymore.
So what do we do?
The only reasonable course for the Middle East is to do its own thing. I mean, maybe the West have gone back to not understanding the moral maze of the Middle East, the “Lawrence of Arabia” process is over, seen from the West perspective.
For now at least, hopefully a new administration in the White house will accept and take up the beacon of peace again in a future constellation. At least to me, it seems, that some of the liberal future candidates seems to buy into the advanced understanding of the Middle East as a possible solution to the conflicts.
So my advice is, forget about the West right now, and let us just continue to make an serious ecumenical attempt at finding common ground. Perhaps the newfound sympathy for Islamic State will vane after a few years, and the inevitable terrorist attacks.
But the rest of the religious world should, to my mind, try to find common ground, and find peace.
This will be difficult, especially for Israel that is traditionally allied with the US. But this process is something that should last for more than just ten years, it should be an eternal process to make peace in the world.
It is difficult, but we need to think ten, twenty and a hundred years from now. To a time, where there is a common ground between all the monotheistic religions, and we can choose to do it ourselves.
With a heartful thank you to the Kurds, that made this possible, essentially. They should be considered the good guys, as they are.
G-d bless the peace we can find.
My Bangladeshi family have always been a staunch supporter of western values. My father Mohammad Liaquat Hussain attended a British led boarding school, and was a freedom fighter in the Bangladeshi fight for freedom.
He always talked about Mohatma Ghandi, and his fight for freedom. But he still supported the British institutions that are still in place in both Pakistan as well as Bangladesh.
It was quite an eye opener for me, to talk to mr. Parviz a Pakistani scholar, and the identity crisis that is there in Pakistan these days.
At the other end of the spectrum, there is Isis and Al Quada, the Muslim Brotherhood and all the other pro islamists parties.
To be honest about these conflicts, there is an internal discussion within the Muslim community on to how to understand Western culture.
Here I believe, that we in the West must truly understand this discussion, and be a viable as well as honest partner.
I truly understand what it is, to lose ones religion. I have fought a vigorous battle to keep my spiritual identity, I still do.
Being active as well as constructive partners in the internal Muslim discussion, we in the West are not helping, if we do not understand it, or pick the wrong alliances out of ignorance.
Right now, the Danish system, represented by the police, seems to pick Islamic state as some kind of protected minority. They actively help them, saying one thing doing another.
This is the opposite of understanding Sunni Islam.
It only adds to the difficulty of the liberal Muslims trying to get a hand on their own identity. It is really destructive. We need to understand what is going on in the Muslim community to be a viable and serious partner.
Supporting Isis is not such a way.
Supporting the Kurds and fighting Turkey is much more supportive of the Muslim liberal world.
To be taken serious in a complicated world, requires insight.
These days, it seems to me, that only the liberal Muslims are supporting me, that is a problem, right then and there.
To my understanding, we need to resaddle, and fight the Islamists, as we have done so far, and support liberal Muslims.
Only then do we actually further the internal process of the Muslim community.
You know, they are just as us, some are grappling with their own identity, some are going berserk radicalized, others understand and like our humanistic democracies.
Finding that middle way is pretty important, I think, not only for us, but especially with Muslims, that are, quite frankly in two minds these days.
That is hard, but important.
G-d bless the will to be honest and wise in these matters.
The main enemy of the Obama administration was ISIS. We did that, because these guys are a murdering lot. But also because by pointing out precisely the extremists of the muslim world, that most other Muslims despise for their radicality and lack of humanism, we protected most other muslims.
So it was a win win.
In this fight, we had a tremendous help from most of the world, and specifically the Kurds, that fought so bravely against the Islamist. They fought for humanity and human rights.
Today, nobody really remembers them, but they are left with all the islamic state fighters in vast camps on their territory.
This is something I personally belive to be a great shame, but I also believe, that it could be a possible way to remake the American leading role in the world.
If the Biden administration picks up the fight against Isis, it could actually draw some of the other power with it.
So where do we stand with Isis?
First of all, it is not over. Isis still holds vast alliances around the world. Not least in the Middle East, where Turkey is still a direct donater. This is off cause unacceptable, and should be fought, vigourously.
At the same time, a lot of the European countries, and not least the European Union itself have been playing a double game.
I have been persecuted by the state for many years, and that was because the secret police the “KGB”, secretly supported ISIS.
It has been unofficial, but lately PET, as it is called, is more open with its direct support of Isis. They have just launched a pro isis campaign within Denmark, and are, again, trying to put the pro democratic fighters down.
Add to this, in Mozabique, they have just opened a new front.
So they are not beat, and they still have allies, not least my own country, sad to say, that tries to create a safe haven here. As an example, one of the fighters, that have actively raped, killed and murdered Kurds, lives in a secure environment here in Denmark. See the picture attached, at the same time, the PET is actively trying to put down pro democrats.
One of the difficult twists of this, is the fact, that the brave Socialdemocratic PM of Denmark, ms. Frederiksen, is hardpressed by the PET to support Isis, and she is really in trouble.
How we deal with this is difficult, but at least the PM knows this, and have the power to change the prioities of the PET, if she is strong enough.
Maybe a warm hand from the Americans would serve as a good support, after all, we are trying to survive the zombie apocalypse here, so to speak.
Anyway, regaining an international coalition against Isis is a good way to create bonds and share values. We fight for at humanistic/democratic world. Against slavery and a deathcult.
G-d bless the will to fight for a better world.
Trýing to pick up where Obama left is pretty difficult, there has run a lot of water under the bridge, so to speak, so we need to relay the whole security perspective to this.
But, the essential stratifications are still the same. On the right flank the greatest threat is the rise of islamism, or rather traditional sunni islam (the shias seems to be less agressive in a strange way, or it may just be the essential Zoroastrianist vibe of that country, that makes it positive, I dont know). Anyway, Islamic State, Al Quada, Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas all these branches of a pro califate Islam threaten the integrity of the Democratic State.
Most obvious is France, where the French Republic have been waging a blistering war with the brothers, and lost momentum. The main Churh of Northe Dame has been torched, a french teacher have been beheaded and so on and so forth.
That is war.
If the US is to gain a presiding role over that conflict, it must deliver a Democratic answer, and at the same time reach out to moderate muslims, who are open to dialogue. To be honest, I was personally very positively surprised to talk to mr. Parviz, that is honest about the conflict and seems to want some sort of reconciliation.
That is real progress there. We at the other hand, have to respect, that the G-dlessness of our systems can be difficult for Muslims. The lack of family cohesion and the aim of society to be good.
These things are something we need to work on, to my mind. The divorce rates are through the roof, our families are really suffering, and the loss of spirituality is a problem to me. Not that it should be a repressive spirituality, but we have lost sight of what life is about; kindness, healing, selfsacrifice, solidarity.
But security wise, fighting Al Quada and the Islamic State is important, if we are to regain a leading role in Europe, because that is what is happening here.
At the left flank, there is China, and again we need to understand this fight in ideological terms. When Alexander the Great fought his wars it was all in the name of freedom for the hellenic people, he won, because his people believed in him, pushing forward to free the greek.
Any fighting force needs a why and a how to be able to fight, especially the American military that is essentially a humanistic/democratic force. Fighting for Democracy.
Now, as Alexander the Great went along, in the end he fought becuase he was good at it, for no reason really, and the troops wanted to go home.
That is a lesson learned there. Soldiers need a motive, and the best motive is Democracy.
We should off cause defend the American Democracy, but it makes sense to pick a fight over Taiwan and Hong Kong, in defense of their Democracy as well.
Because where China goes, Democracy fails, not least in Hong Kong, that is suffering these days, they need our help.
That is a difficult task especially in these days of digital warfare, but possible for the prudent and wise.
So, we need to figure out a strategy for the west and for the east, and each have to include a multilayered approach, so that the soldiers are in on it, and we achieve important goals of ourselves as well as our allies.
G-d bless the will to be prudent in thouhgt and bold in action.
The international perspectives are getting along, the US is trying to find a way in this new situation, or rather to refind its momentum.
Let us be honest about the cause and aim of an American lead world, it is Democracy.
It is something it has in common with both France and the UK, in fact it is a common cause it has in common with most of the free world.
The difficulty lies in the understanding of how this mission is to be applied in the world.
Mr. Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the former PM of Denmark and a great fighter for Democracy rightly points to the fact, that the twist over the Taiwanese island is a Democratic fight. Therefor, going in, at supporting Taiwan makes perfect sense, and it would aling the US with all its former allies.
There is still the fight with Islamic State. I thought, that it was more or less over. I had just been to an amazing symposium at Oxford, where I believe, that there was some kind of understanding initating.
Then I return to Denmark, and to my horror i realize, that the leftwing has mounted a campaign FOR islamic state. I mean, we have some kind of reconcilisation going on here, and then the Islamic State manages to worm itself in with the communists and some of their hangarounds.
This is a problem, if we have a IS/Communist alliance in Europe, the fight is not over yet.
Add to this, it seems the KGB of Denmark, PET is actually supporting the islamists. Imagine that.
So the fight on the right flank is not over. The means to fight the islamic terrorist will be different, but we are fighting a two front war.
This is a problem, we need to put pressure on our European allies to stomp out the communist support of IS in the European mainland.
But that should be possible. Going to war with Denmark due to its support to IS is absurd, but if things get more out hand, an attack may be necessary to stomp out this new ally of the islamists, we should consider it.
But lets see if they rethink their ideas, if not the Spetznas may just be mounting some kind of attack on Denmark and the other IS supporting countries in Europe, but hopefully we do not get to this.
Anyway, the fight for Democracy has just begun, and it is about to get bloody, we need to be prepared for that.
G-d bless the will to be bold in action, and ready for at fight against those who value freedom.
I have just finished a Symposium on Oxford with rev. Brian Mountford.
I have attended before, but this time, it seems to me, that the dialogue have been going on so long, that we are really beginning what I suppose mr. Mountford had inteded in the first place with the Symposium, some true ecumenical progress.
We have to get to know each other, and as the dialogue progresses, we actually do get somewhere.
I had a very interesting conversation with mr. Parviz a muslim scholar on the difficulty of Pakistani development in terms of accepting secularism and humanism.
I am a classical humanistic philosopher, with long hair, and a rebellious attitude. So for me, that was quite the opposite of what I have of problems. My problem have been the inhuman terrorist of islam, that seek to undermine the democratic institutions through violence against civilians here in Denmark, and in the West in general.
So it was interesting to able to see it from the perspective of a midleaning muslim scholar.
That was real progress, and I hope that mr. Mountford sees this as a fruit of his labor. Well done mr. Mountford!
For me, I have been thinking a lot about the crisis of the organized religions, and how we may find a way to tackle it. Here again it was quite enligtening, to hear that mr. Mountford in his new book recognizes the basic difficulty of trying to fight for a philosophical perspective in a world of absolute superficiality.
I mean, from Plato to Tik Tok there is an abyss of difference, that we in the religious community have to talk about and find a way to undertand and tackle.
His holiness pope Francis have initiated a “rennaissance” within the Christian chuches, going to the core message of Christianity. In a reflection of the difficulty of closing the gap. I believe that that is a good way, because, the competition of moderne media forces us to show the public, the value or religion.
I believe, that people cannot live only with superficiality, as rev. Mountford argues, off cause people need to have a connection to the deeper stratifications of their own soul. People are complex beings, and reducing them to the superficial level, that they are today is unhealthy for them and for society.
It may be easy to sit and exchange emoticons on the internet, but having children and caring for them, is still difficult, and requires knowledge of how to sacrifice yourself in a harsh experience.
The role of the family as an insitution is still extremely vital, not least the children, that often suffer in this new digital world.
So there is a place of religion in our world, we just need to figure out a way to understand and tackle this new world of digital competition, and superficiality.
Not by becoming more superficial, but by being honest about our own qualities, and giving them, in some way to the public.
We still need profoundness and kindness in this world, healing. We just need a way to understand how we do that in this new confusing world, not least for the children, who are the true victims of this new world.
They are growing up in a world, where grown ups are in a tablet, and not as a supportive living person close to them.
We need to Change that.
G-d bless the will to be honest in a difficult situation.
Joe, you have to release Kamala. I know, that you yourself try to reunite the country across the different political understandings. But, you need help, and that help is right besides you; Kamala.
She has all the vibrancy and charisma to reach right and left.
So, let her do her thing. Let her go here and there, let her speak up and do all the things she is best at.
I know, that this might be intimidating for Kamala, but that is politics, it is so increadibly hard. But there is only one way to Change things, and that is to get out there in the mix, and start the speaking and reaching out.
Kamala has the potential, she just needs to start doing it.
Healing is about outreach.
Let Kamala go to the Trump camp, and initiate the dialogue.
Ask them for at cup of coffee or a cup of tea. Let them know, that you and Kamala LISTEN to them.
Healing is essentially about dialogue and communication.
Dont just do your thing, but try to listen to the disgrumpled and angry.
Here Kamala is your best card, hands down.
G-d bless the will to do good in this world, and try to listen to the other end of the table.
Climate Change can be many things, but one thing is for certain, it is a question on how we use energy.
Energy comes in many forms; electricity, kinetic energy, the sun, wind. We use it in many ways; to propel our ships, cars, the industry, our laptops, lawnmovers. We use to it wash clothes and get to the moon.
Using energy to our advantage is what defines the greatest leap in mankinds development.
I mean, we can talk so much about how we organize ourselves, and we have been doing that for thousands and thousands of years, but using energy to serve us, is a very new thing, only 170 years, more or less of progress.
We Danes invented a lot of the core technologies, how to use electricity to move things, nuclear energy, wind energy and are still the leading civilisation in this area. We are a bit closed about it, but it is here in Denmark the true revolution in terms of energy work really resides.
So we, as Danes, have a great responsibility to develop these standards to help mankind.
Here, I really hope that the Americans will be partners. Well, they will, we just need to figure a way to do it.
First of all, we need a project, here is one.
Denmark share a huge Island in the north with the Americans. Trump was famous for trying to buy it off of Danish hands, which, in a Danish view is just totally absurd. But the interest is noted, and instead of the Americans buying the island, we could make some projects together, that would make much more sense, and be a boon to both the US as well as Denmark.
The thing about Greenland is, that it contains immense ressources. First of all, there is an abundant amount of floodpower. That is, there are numerous rivers and waterfalls, that could, quite easily be used to create almost free energy. That is a type of energy, that is without any fossile footprint.
Put up endless hydroenergy power stations and create energy.
The greatest barrier have been, that in order to use the energy, one needs to contain it, or send it over wires. Containing energy requires a lot of batteries, sending it from Greenland requires a huge network of wires, and that is costly.
BUT, and this is where the innovation of the Danish mega geeks are interresting. We have been working a lot on power to x, that is energy conversion. It is within reach to take electricty and make shipfuel, carfuel, and a lot of other kinds of fuel.
So, a way to get rid of oil and coal as the only way to power of vehicles of different sort, is to make a huge investment in Greenland, make it a powerhub, Danish and American capital together.
How do we come about that in practise. Well, it is easy Kamala, just call my PM Mette Frederiksen and discuss the ins and outs of it.
Cooperate on the PM/VP level, and we in the background can make all the necessary preperations and coordination.
I know, that cooperation between countries can be a little hard, but this is a global problem, not something local, so we need global solutions, work together.
Anyway, there are many other cool projects to try out, and Greenland is really an interesting place to start, start the Change 🙂
G-d bless the will to Change the Climate.
Well, in order to rebuild the American economy, we need to get back on track.
As I understand, someone thought it was a good idea to make a normal Keynesian investment in the country. That is, use a lot of money to put people back at work.
That is a a way, and another way, is to do what Barack did, the “Obamanomics”.
Trump actually continued the Obamanomics, and it was almost enough to get him elected the second term, before Corona, it works.
If have collected some of the core texts here in this PDF, put it in a beautiful magazine form, so it should be enjoyable.
That should be a serious basis for a renewal of the American economy.
So, remember Joe, when Barack held those speeches of “Made in America”?
These are the core texts that underpin that ideology and thought.
So, that would probably get you to the next four years of presidentship, it almost did for Trump, so you could do the same.
G-d bless the will to be bold in action and intelligent in choosing means.
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Now, we need to start moving. I know, that Covid 19 is a major issue right now, but it seems to me, that is going in the right direction, and will be more or less solved within the next two to three months.
So we need to focus on the next few issues. First of all, there is the economy. Here we have Obamanomics, that is focus on the industrial part of the US, and a massive support for that. That focuses on the needs of the worker as well, and we need to able to say those few wise and strong words; made in America.
Add to this, we need to start talking Climate Change.
Here again, Kamala Harris called my PM Mette Frederiksen. Mette promised, that Denmark would support the US in an insteresting area, that is energy conversion.
So Kamala, here is an idea, to make it work in practise.
Make a small council of American and Danish leaders within Climate, and make the nerds do the calculations and thus the practical discussion of the nuts and bolts of the development.
The best candidates to such a council would be, to my mind; Bill Gates (he is really doing a lot of research in this area, and his ideas are really, really good.) Elon Musk, here again a brilliant and bright mind, that has all the force and ambition of a true warrior of light. He is a genius as well. Me, to relay all the ideas from Denmark, and perhaps Mark Zuckerberg? Mark is a bit of a wildcard, but he has ambition, and he would be welcome to my mind, he is a genius in his own right, and he is a contender for the presidentship in the future, getting him really into the mix this early would give him a good chance to develop as a political person. And I like him, which is perhaps a stupid reason, but you have to work woth people you like.
This council could push the agenda on Climate Change, take all the developments of Danish energy research and make it global. To contact me, just ask Mette Frederiksen, I am a good friend of some of her MPs.
When this has happened, it could be distributed to the rest of the world, thereby getting rid of Carbon emmission and just make a cleaner world.
So this is my advice, so maybe Kamala can use this as a tool to get a little farther in her ambitions??
Else, I will try to figure out others ways to support climate change, as Bill Gates say, it is much harder to do than fighting Covid, because it is complicated. But we have the research done here in Denmark, we just need to refine it, and get it distributed.
That is a way to move a little further down the road in the interest of the planet.
G-d bless the will to be able to see the world in new perspectives.
Climate Change is the great redeemer or, the best answer to some of the priorities of the left wing in the world these days.
There is only, essentially, one serious problem, that is the fact, that in order to do anything about these developments of negative application of man made progress, you have to be really, really smart.
There are good things, but the few successes illustrates, how difficult it really is.
The greatest success, so far, is the invention of the electric car as a viable option.
We have had electrical cars for a long time, but it really took the genius of mr. Elon Musk to made a system that really made any sense for people in relation to the fossil fueled car.
Anyway, this just shows the difficulty of this.
But my first advise concerning climate Change is to focus and help the carindustry in its efforts to make electrical cars.
BUT, and this is where there is a crucial development that needs to be addressed.
If we fuel these cars with energy made with fossil fuel, there is no real idea with the whole endeavor except that we get some cool cars.
That is why ENERGY PRODUCTION is really important. We need to create ways to make energy that is truly renewable. There is solar power, there is wind power and a number of other ways to do this. But a focus on making power that is truly renewable is important.
Here is where the catch is; the technologies that is behind the whole system are immature.
Take wind power. You get power from wind when the wind blows. Sometimes it blows a lot, sometimes it doesn’t blow at all.
This means, that is a source of energy that is highly volatile. The consequence is, that we need a way to STORE the energy.
Here there are a lot of ideas, but what we really need, is a cost effective way to do it. It has to be cheap in order to work.
The more we focus on making renewable energy, the cheaper it gets. This is something that I can see here in Denmark, where we have been leading in energy development in. Oersted realized the connection between magnetism and electricity. An invention that gave us the electrical motor. Niels Bohr gave us atomic energy, and actually worked on a safe way of making energy from splitting atoms by using a material called Thorium instead of Plutonium. That is an interesting avenue of research there.
These days, the rave in danish energy research is something called ‘Power to X’. The idea behind the research is to make a conveying material between the windmills, solar farms etc. and real use.
What the researchers are working on, is hydrogen as a conveying form. They convert the power to hydrogen and then from there it can be converted to many different forms of fuel to be used in cars, shipping, power plants etc.
In fact, it can be converted to Methanol, that is pretty easy to use in just normal cars. In fact Methanol can be used be any car really, just by a simple computer upgrade. AND it is a fuel that makes the motor run 25 % faster. The fuel is normally used by race cars and race bikes. I know this after doing a series of interviews with the geeks at the different research institutions in Denmark.
So, that is the way to go forward, if we want to make a flexible energy grid based on renewable fuels.
I am working quite focused on this development here in Denmark, and hopefully this development can be to the good of humanity. But, and this is very important to me. If we can work with our friends around the world to make it more green, we are so open to this.
We invented most of the modern energy consumption based on renewable energy and are still leading in this field, but that only makes it a good way to share our knowledge and insight with all who wish to be a part of this interesting development.
So, you are most welcome, especially our American friends, who are really interested in this, but also off cause Germany, France and England. Anyone who world potentially benefit of this new and exiting development.
We can fly to the moon, maybe we can actually put some ways of making energy when we are on the moon, or Mars.
G-d bless the will to do better with green energy consumption.
Understanding the international game of politics requires some understanding of the internal conflicts within the Muslim world.
There are, essentially, two main directions of Islam; sunni and shia.
But within each branch, there are several subdivision. The sunni world, which is essentially Arab islam, there are many different strands, not at least the Arab countries themselves. Here Saudiarabia is the leading light of the Sunnis, with its most sacred sites and the leading ideologies.
At the other side, there is shia islam, which is essentially the Persian version of Islam, that is a mix of Zoroastrianism, liberal ideology and Arab Islam. The leading light of this strand of islam is Iran.
The third, but not least power of islam is Turkey, that calls for its own right, since it is the heir to the Eastern Roman Empire.
Now, we have, more or less, peace with the Shia and the Arab sunni.
Especially the Arab Sunni have become greats friends. We are still in trouble with the Persians, but the most problems we have is the Turks, that still envision the might of the Ottoman Empire.
The Uighurs are turks.
So, in order to find some balance in this game, we need to balance the different interests off. We need to be seen, as someone who UNDERSTANDS the internal game of the Muslims. That is the only way, that we can be seen as some kind of viable partner in the Middle East, and in the conflict with China.
It is difficult, but necessary.
The good news is, that we are here already, and we have made a lot of progress. In fact Trump continued the development that we had under Obama, so we are a very respected partner.
So, small steps, no revolution, but a careful approach, should hopefully develop a better, more balanced view on western attempt at playing a constructive role in the Middle East.
We shouldn’t abuse our power, but we shouldn’t be seen as weak either.
So there is the problem with Turkey, that we need to address. Here the Europeans must get their game together. If not, soon floods of migrants will start again. We need to be seen as a positive og forceful partner in the Mediteranean.
G-d bless the peace we can find.
The current ideological and strategic choices the Biden administration makes has to be professional, founded on a deep understanding of the issues, and hopefully pull the allies with it.
Otherwise the US will be diminished in power, lose the leadership.
Right now, France is battling ISIS on its own home front. We have teachers standing up for freedom of speech a Socialdemocratic president gearing up for at confrontation, all in all brave, wise and intelligent playing the international power game.
France is a rising force in international politics. If France can cooperate with Germany, Europe will be leading the fray.
This is why a thoughtful, multilayered strategy is important.
They Uighurs are persecuted due to the fact, that they seek their own dominance over their land. That is perfect, and respectable. But what if a caliphate will be the result of a American pressure on China. I mean, one thing is, that we are in the hairs of each other, but are we really going to war to make a caliphate?
The Uighurs are not Turks through and through. But Turks seem to be their natural ally, and right now, Europe and Russia seems to be pretty annoyed with Turkey, so an alliance with a ally that will potentially push the Europeans away, giving Europe the mantle and leading role of the world, is that really not something we need to think about.
We Europeans are, in a strange war, much more used to fighting on our own turf, so we will not be shying away for a battle with ISIS here in Europe. We have been cut down and demoralized. But we are pretty good at fighting when it comes to it.
I mean, we have conquered the entire world not more than 70 years ago, because essentially we are fighters. It goes all the way back to our Viking ancestors. France is named after a Viking tribe called the Franks.
My point is, we need to be smart about this, to get back in the game and lead. My natural inclination is to back the US. We have been friends, we are both humanistic Democracies and so on. But France, Germany and the UK are all pretty awesome powers add to this Russia.
So my point is, maybe it is important to think about all the details and the possible inclinations. Look at the game four years down the road, who are we hopefull to be allied with, and what is most natural.
The most natural is to ally ourselves with other humanistic democracies, not possible terrorists.
Just saying.
G-d bless the will to find solutions to difficult problems.
The main confrontation right now, is the confrontation between the US and China.
Why? Because it has the potential to develop into an all embracing world war, with nukes and the whole ballgame. Armageddon.
So we need to be really, really careful how we tackle this conflict.
Ok, so now we ally ourselves with the Uighur. That is fine, really, just the other day some smuck wrote to me; first we take the Uighur, then we take the Jews.
So, there is definitely a parallel there.
BUT, this is where we have to tread carefully. If we paint ourselves into a corner, we will start a atomic war. Say that the Chinese ignores our pleas to help the Uighur, and rhetoric builds, where will we end?
The problem is, that we are not really facing a liberation war of the Uighur, we are facing a geopolitical struggle for sovereignty in the pacific. So using the Uighur as a cause can win over some hearts and minds, but it will also, potentially leave us in a corner with the wrong allies. Because who are the Uighur allied with?
So my take on this would be; tread very carefully, be predicatable, so that we avoid the nuclear war.
We are in a war with China, that is as it is, but finding bad excuses for throwing nuclear warheads over Beijing, is a very bad idea.
Add to this the fact, that Europe is gearing up for a war with ISIS, the US will loose the initiative in the European theatre.
So, leadership is about getting real about the different priorities in the world, it is not in the interest of Europe, Russia or any other coalition to support the Uighur 100%, but it is a priority to tackle China for most large powers, so a balanced and skilled priority here is really important.
Let China feel, that there is a certain liberty in their affairs, but push them hard economically as well on humanistic values. See that China liberates the Uighurs, but don’t threaten to nuke Beijing if they don’t.
See? It is a diplomatic dance, that needs to lead to somewhere.
G-d bless the peace we will find in the end.
To understand the way of the US, one needs to understand what it really is. To me, this was realized, when I attended the symposium in Oxford a few months back, and heard a lecture of two esteemed gentlemen on Johnny Cash. One thing really sprung to attention, and that was the dream of the US as of being a new Israel.
This is really the background story behind the unwavering support of the US to Israel, and the reason why Israel and the US is so close. Because as Israel is the home of the Jews, it is also a part of the American dream.
Now, before we start lecturing on this topic, which I believe is pretty much what the US is all about, I believe, that we should go back a step, and look at what Israel really is, or is supposed to be.
It is all written in the Bible, in the story about Adam and Eve. It says, that Adam Kadmon, as we call him in Jewish circle, the first man, was a man living in Eden.
So this is really the key to understanding Israel, because what is Israel? It is the religious attempt at coming back to Eden as a place here on earth.
And this is really where things get interesting, because then the next logical or obvious question is; what is Eden?
If you look at the Bible or the Thorah from a superficial perspective, you do not really get it. Eden seems to be a place in heaven or something of that nature. But the true perspective is, that Eden, or rather Eridu, the first city of man, actually existed.
So what is really the interesting thing about this city of Eden?
The thing is, that according to my research, and other research done in the Middle East, Eridu is the home of all the mechanisms and lore of mankind; religion, city state ideas, law and so on.
Eden is, if we perfect the ideas given to us in the Middle East by the city states that sprung up there.
See? It is something real. Something attainable.
That is the truth behind the American Dream, Israel is real and attainable. We do not have to be forced to go down as miserable, unhappy people. We can actually, by building a good system according to all the eternal principles of Eden as a city, make a Utopia, it is real.
So that is what we need to remember and tell ourselves from time to time, the job is not finished, it has just started, the dream needs its builders to finish the job. There is still some way to go.
G-d bless the United States of America and Israel.
The European attachment to Russia through Germany seems to bear fruit when it comes to Turkey. If Germany and Russia allies itself against Turkey, the whole European theater will look very different.
Why, because then the European defense contractors would have a reasonable levy against Turkey.
War is possible, but instead of being the punchball of everybody as we Europeans are right now, we would be able to muster some defense.
Since Germany holds the chairmanship of the European Union, through the alliance with Russia, Europe would be on a good course.
This is the crux of the matter, and a possible way to change the dynamic in the Mediterranean.
But, and this is really the most difficult problem, the European countries are infiltrated on all levels by Turks, but also other potential enemies from the Middle East.
We need to be able to do something about this, purge the spies.
I know, that that seems a bit harsh, but spies are enemies, we need to remember that. They are here to destroy our systems.
Anyway, the alliance with Russia through Germany shows a whole lot of promise, and can we at least start purging some of the Islamist infiltration, then that would be a start.
This is really what the defense cooperation is all about, and if it works, we may just start playing a role internationally again.
But we need to be very tough on the spies and infiltration in general. Shut down the infiltration points like radical mosques, Islamist dens in schools, if we find spies in the ministries and so on. We need to get going on this, catch the spies, before they do more damage.
G-d bless the will to be a big international player again.
Praying is one of those tools of the faithful, that is more than just idle past time.
We do it to be heard by spirit, and to change our lives.
Now, Christianity is very much on its heels in most of the Western world. I see this, and I understand, as a Jew, that this is a challenge for the West. Because without the beating heart of the culture, things demoralize and corrupts.
We need to understand, that spirit is a part of the way society should be understood. Because if we stop looking for goodness, what is left? It is the valiant fighters for good, both in the army and as a democratic force outside the army, that are the pillars of society.
Now, don’t get me wrong, goodness is always supposed to be understood in the situation, and should never be a cold truth. But it is something we should strive for.
Here again, prayer is the most important tool, why? Because it keeps us on the path of spirit, and on the path of righteousness.
How? Since g-d is what is good, then praying will let g-d inspire us to do what is good. And if he helps us, from time to time, then it will always be in a direction that will either heal or further the goodness of man.
So the more you pray, the better the environment around you will become. This is why we are demoralized right now. We do not have faith.
So, what should the church do? It should project faith, and seek to further beneficial solutions in society. Help, do good deeds, and inspire people to pray.
Because through prayer, all will be much stronger. The Christian church, the clergy, the people around the church, and the solutions good politicians do.
Strength in unity and prayer, is a main focus for all who see themselves as good Christians. I say this as a Jew, and to further the mission of Israel; to be a home for all monotheistic religions.
G-d bless the struggling Christians, and may they prevail.
How do the US pick up the beacon of Democracy that it once held, and should hold again, to my mind?
Well, we need to start all over again, a lot of the progress Barack and I did in his presidency is now pretty much gone, and to honest, we did make some mistakes, that we did try to mend after.
Anyway, what do we do?
Well, as I see it, we need to find the right things to do, and then do them.
I believe, that the support of the Burmese democratic insitutions is a step in the right direction, but we need to do more, and we need to be able to say; well in the US the system is good, look this is how you do Democracy, by having freedom of speech and a robust protection of the laws of the founding fathers. Add to this a humanistic attitude, there you have it, a great way to make a policy.
In this way, by being a good example, things may just move forward. But we need to be able to look at ourselves, and be very ethical about how we do Democracy ourselves, being a good example is pretty important when you seek to bolster and further an ideal.
So, it is both an internal process of trying to live up to the ideals ourselves, as well as projecting Democratic power where it is necessary. But it is a narrow ethical path to walk, and it is the best system of government so we need to bolster that idea again and again, being good persons, thinking good thoughts and making good acts.
G-d bless Democracy.
It seems to me, that the UK environment generally is getting a bit better. The depression and misfortune has been turned around, and we are working towards brighter times.
The basic reason of this development is the fact, that the entire system can now refer to itself, and not to a greater organisational unit.
The wounds are slowly healing, and we have had the incident with Captain Tom, that somehow reminded us of what we are. The resilience in the face of danger, the sheer bravery and the family of the beautiful Moores.
The ‘we shall overcome’ seems to be heard as a faint echo in the soul of the nation. Soon spring will be there and the nation will lift itself up once again.
This is something special, only the brits could have done it, and it will be a very beacon of hope to others whom will want to be like the brits.
There is a lot of work to be done, and hopefully, when we get out of the depression, this is possible in a focused and serious manner. A ‘can do’ spirit.
Captain Tom showed us that, let us follow his example.
G-d bless the fair isles of the British, and may it overcome.
We are trying to find our feet again in the Middle East, and since, I have become a player again, these are my ideas about the Middle East, that gave a lot of progress the first time, so maybe it can continue.
We need to be very careful not to be involved in the feud between the Arabs and the Persians. We are supposed to bring peace, and we can only do that, if we do not play the internal game in between the Persians and the Arabs, that is Iran and the Arabian kingdoms including Egypt (they are not Arabs, but have a close relationship to the Arabs).
The continued infighting between the sunni and shia is one of the main motors of the conflicts of the Middle East. So if we want to make peace, fuelling these conflicts is not the right way to do it.
Contrary, we need to find a way to balance the interests off, and be the man in the Middle.
To me, that is what Israel is all about, not taking sides, but making the holy land a place for all monotheistic life.
Again we shouldn’t be naive, but we should not fuel any conflicts either.
So a diplomatic, balanced yet forceful view is to my mind the way forward. Make small steps, not long strides, and make peace.
G-d bless the peace we can find in The Middle East.
The world is turning a lot these days, and one of the main places where things Change is the Middle East.
Since trump took over, not much has really happened in the Middle East, yes I know that mr. Netanyahu has attacked Iran, but it has been a pretty one sided action from Israel towards Iran, and not very much the other way.
Don’t get me wrong, I believe in the advent of a safe haven for Israel, after all, where would I go myself if things ever got more hairy here in Denmark for me.
So the whole mission of making a safe zone for Jews is, without discussion, the most important for any Jew, period.
But be as it may, there are many roads to peace.
When Barack and I left the Middle East four years ago, the framework for how things are today were pretty much in place. The Arabs were warming up to Israel, and actually even though it was a pretty one sided deal, the Iranians agreed to a peace accord concerning atomic warheads.
This has not changed much, only the fact, that the Arab world has recognized the whole process and has become friends of Israel.
There is just the one fact that Israel needs to be realistic about. The whole peace process is not really a process initiated by Trump, it was initiated by Obama and me.
So the framework rests on the foundation we laid out, which is the whole idea and vision of the great Lawrence of Arabia. That a recognition of the valiant desert warriors of the sand and the homecoming merchants of the Jewish tribe would find some common ground.
But at the very heart of the deal lies the fact that both I and Obama had Muslim fathers.
For me, I have a Jewish mother of sorts, at least the Jewishness of my family that goes back to the founder of my mothers family Mendel Levin Nathanson, I have a kind of dual background.
That is the bedrock of the deal, not Trump, not anything else, but the fact that there is a true Jewish leader with a paternal Muslim background. It makes the Arabs trust us, right?
So, looking at the peaceprocess coming up, my recommendation would be, at least for Israel, to be realistic about these circumstances. The day I fall, the war will start again. I am the keeper of the peace, and due to my doublebackground it is possible.
You guys need to keep me working, otherwise war will start again.
At the other hand, concerning Iran. Going 180% and reinstall the JPOAC, would be hazardous. Mr. Netanyahu has tied so much political capital in keeping Iran at bays, that we cannot, without loosing mr. Netanyahu just gong ho peace accord again.
We need to test the waters, and hear mr. Netanyahu out. He needs to be in the loop.
So that is the lay of the land, add to this the rising conflicts in Europe, you have a difficult game to play. But if we look at it from outside, we can find peace, if we are realistic and honest about these issues, and not least have a realistic and profound strategy.
That is what this phase is about, trying to figure out the boundaries of the conflict, and where they may lay.
For me, it is about being a player in the Middle East again, that is what my understanding is about.
G-d bless the will to find a smart and honest solution to these problems, G-d bless the stat of Israel, the safe haven of the Jews.
It is getting increasingly difficult for me to comment on the world situation.
The conflicts are rising, and being a man of peace, this is a problem.
I believe in a liberating war or a war to solve conflicts, where no other option is available.
If one side keeps on fighting, the other side needs to fight as well, that is the way the world works. We all live in the same world, and believing that paradise is easily available is a folly, it can be reached through hard word and sacrifice, but truly the material world will put up barriers for us to climb.
War is a part of the material world, and only if we get to have a wise and honest approach to war, will we reach a peaceful world, that is the paradox of the world.
You have to be able and willing to fight evil, to have peace.
This in no way means, that we have to conqour the world, and subdue it, but it means, that we have to defend ourselves.
Wartidings are rising and the drums are beating, not to hear these drums is a folly. Putting our heads in the sand, will not be of any use to us. But an honest appraisal of the conflicts we approach is the only way forward.
We have lived in peace for so long, now it is over.
China rises to meet our challenge, islamists in Europe are threatening the integrity of the democratic state.
These challenges will lead to war, one way or the other, and we need to be able to address them. Be what we also are; warriors of light.
Sad as it is, this the world we are living in. Ignoring it, will be at our peril, rising to meet the challenges with candor and wisdom is the sad, but only true way.
It really saddens me to convey these tidings, but as the Romans said; if you want to avoid a war, you have to be ready for war at all time. We need to be ready for war to be able to avoid it.
Si vis pacem, para bellum.
G-d bless the peace we strive to find.
Well here we are again, back at the helm, trying out very best to Change things in a direction that seems both viable and serious.
I sincerely believe in compromise. I know that that is in fact what was lacking in the last presidential cycle due to mr. Trumps unconventional style, but be as it may. He was a fighter, and he fought for what he believed in.
Loosing an election is difficult, I tried it with Hillary. But, seriously as any independent businessman will confirm, loosing is a part of the game. There will be a turn of events at some time. I mean, now I am back as a central intellectual after four years, I mean, I thought it was over.
So Donald, as the highlanders used to say; Scotland is never defeated unless you yourself is defeated.
Now, there is a host of problems we need to address. First and foremost the difficult situation with China.
War is probably going to come, so we need to be prepared for that. Not least the military, that needs to have all the necessary preparations in order. How the war is going to start, we will see. But it will be a very difficult war and since it has been peace in the US since the south/north wars 150 years ago, the Americans have grown accustomed to peace.
What we need to do, is to make sure, that the war is as small as possible, and we do not end up in an annihilation scenario as the fight between Carthage and Rome. We may, at both sides see this as an impossible thing, that China will disappear or the US will disappear, but Carthage is no more, and it was a thriving culture for millennia.
So a predictable show of force, and a focus on our own strength, building our production base again and trying to compete with China is very important.
The Chinese are definitely not stupid, they had just grown accustomed to the fact that we did not treat them as an enemy, now we do, because we have to.
So they are wising up.
One of the main strategies we could use, is to be a part of alliance building, something Barack started on. Find our friends again, and make sure, that the Chinese tech and money stays out of their countries. This should be done in a diplomatic way, but it should certainly be done.
The UK is in a dire need of an ally, and Denmark will always be with you, so that at least is a good starting point. But make friends and reach out.
We are all in a state of competition.
Lastly there is the peace deal in the Middle East, again here is an option to reach out to the EU. Again, here I have a stake, because I live in the EU, and they are also a part of the game, but the EU was very much invested in the Iran peace accord. This is a very delicate diplomatic work however, involving Israel, so we should be very careful not to ruffle the feathers of the Israelis, they are the number one ally in the region. I am a Jew myself, and my family almost got guttered in the Second World War, fleeing to Sweden, so I can very much empathize with the project of Israel, I am a Zionist myself.
But I am able to have a dream of peace in that region.
So here again, there will be a lot of going back and forth, but with the right mindset and with a good friendship with European countries, it can be done. But it has to be diplomatic.
Finally, be careful with the identity movement. It is too far out to my mind. What the Americans need to president to be, is a symbol of the republic. An honest, g-d fearing family man, who care about the country, and tries to defend its interest.
That is the American way, and going too far down the identity track is very dangerous it will fan the bipartisan flames again, and people need to see unity and things working again, not the opposite.
Try to find the middle ground and help both the poor, the middle class and strong, together in unity.
G-d bless the peace we can ultimately find.
Welcome Joe to the White House. It is pretty strange, I remember, that I prophesized it many years ago at the Obama time, but was pretty put down when you didn’t run for president.
Not only was I sorry that you didn’t make it, but I was questioning my own ability to read the political landscape.
Be as it may, here you are, and congratulations.
First of all, I had you back when you needed it the most, and so I will continue to stay a true friend through your service. When everybody else is abandoning you, I will still be there. I don’t change my loyalty very easily.
Secondly, be careful about angering the conservatives right now. I know, that you feel an urge to change all that mr. Trump has done, but be careful and test the waters before you change too much. What we need is healing and coming together again, that requires diplomacy and the ability to listen.
Doing what Trump did again will tear even greater rifts in the fabric of the nation.
Then there is Kamala Harris, the true heir to a lot of the Obama era politics in terms of uniting the people, reaching out to the people of color and staying on the path of rev. Martin Luther King.
She will be your anchor and good friend.
She will be formidable.
So instead of changing so much right now, take it easy, reach out, mend fences, talk to people, be the exact opposite of mr. Trump in terms of forcing your way.
Be the uniter not the divider.
Be a man in the middle.
Concerning all your threats and difficulties with China, that will be on the table before long. Here again do realpolitik. They are a threat to US interest, so move your troops and test the waters with them. But don’t go gong ho pressure on them, show your might, but don’t be too much. They need to know, that they have an adversary that is rational and do things within reason.
Be predictable.
I will try to forge a support for you from Europe and the UK. But we have our own problems over here, and so we may very well need our troops in the vicinity.
But this is not a Napoleons first 100 days, this is a mission of mending fences and feelings, and supporting what is most important of all, that of the American soul.
It is wounded make it heal.
G-d bless the will to do good, do good actions and heal the rifts.
The world is really changing in the face of the American change of leadership.
In fact, things are going to change a lot due to the fact, that both Central European countries as well as the UK is trying to change its focus.
Where the US simply set the agenda in the Obama era, Biden will have a hard time dealing out the cards this time. The European allies are pretty reluctant and the UK seems to be lickings its wounds after Brexit, so I do not see any ambition to try and change the world in a US direction from the UK perspective.
In fact the most promising military alliance right now is the Central European one, and that is in fact good.
You can be for or against the EU, me I have always been a bit reluctant about it, due to the lack of Democratic legitimacy. But a strengthened military alliance actually do make sense. I mean all the challenges we face are more or less the same, and so it makes sense to pool our resources.
Add to this, it seems to me, that the leaders of the alliance, namely mr. Gomes Cravinho is both open for my advise, and seem to be pretty courageous. That is a start, though the development of the alliance is very difficult and will imply some massive changes of policy to succeed.
But with diligence and diplomacy it may just be possible.
At the other hand, the US administration is starting more or less from scratch, due to all the bridges that mr. Trump managed to burn. But, also the US is a formidable force, and a major player in the pacific region, where the UK administration have to move soon to be a serious player there.
Looking at the Mediterranean that is the true proving ground of a possible European alliance, one major shift in politics needs to be adresssed. That of forced migration to the European countries. Don’t get me wrong, I have no idea about racism or any of that sort. I am a pretty brown Jew with a Muslim father, so I can definitely empathize with the migrants here. The thing is though, that the forced migrant policy of the EU, that is importing people from Muslim country into Europe, is a failed policy. Please read that again and let it sink in, it is a failed policy.
There may be many good reasons to start it in the first place, but as of now, it has created massive turmoil in Western Europe, and we need to be honest about that.
It has also created a very difficult security situation, most of Western Europe is infiltrated on all levels. Especially France is totally infiltrated, even the security apparatus.
Gettting rid of all the spies and infiltrators will be a massive task in itself.
But that is important to be able to deliver the necessary security to the populace, they are getting pretty annoyed with terror attacks, and well, that is fair enough. It was not the project of the people to do the mass migration, it was the elites that thought it a good idea.
It has come so far, that the very integrity of the states and not at least the federation is at stake.
Changing that position will be pretty difficult, but again possible if the system wants to survive.
So you see, making an alliance and making weapons is not the real deal of an alliance, the real deal is to change the policies to meet the security challenges ahead. These policies may also be a boon for many political parties around Europe. Here in Denmark the Social Democratic government is sitting pretty well with a large lead in the polls due to a more realistic change in the face of Islamic extremism.
Terrorism is the main advesary to tackle for the new alliance, and that will be extremely difficult, but possible.
What we need is a renewed focus on it, and a best practice mindset. See what will work, and make it work.
Add to this difficult process, we have the peace process in the Middle East, that is very important to balance with a focus on Islamic extremism or islamism.
We have some pretty good allies in the Middle East, and peace is forthcoming, even Iran is within reach of a peace accord still.
Why? Because they are not really interested in a fight with the entirety of Europe, and we are not interested in a fight with them.
So a part for Turkey, we need to bolster the diplomatic discussions with the African countries and especially in the Middle East. They must see, that we are not trying to be mean to Muslims in general, but stop the atrocities done by some islamists.
That is a very difficult balance to do, and will require a lot of skill.
So these are the essential challenges ahead, add to this an attempt at stopping the mass migration, then we have our hands full.
But a dedicated, incorruptible advancement in the interest of the European countries, and true moral force, can do it.
It is about finding the right way, and stop being for sale, then we can Change the narrative.
G-d bless the will to Change the world.
I have just watched a webinar with the esteemed defense minister of Portugal mr. João Gomes Cravinho.
Thank you for a nice reference to Hans Christian Andersen the loved fairy taler of Denmark.
The question of the seminar was; how do we envision the defense of Europe in the future in the light of the transatlantic relation and the other issues that pester the European main continent.
First of all, one has to consider the main question in all earnesty.
The Mediterranean. The Mediterranean has been and is the main problem of Europe right now.
That is obvious, just to name a few of the problems; Turkey, migrants and the conflicts in Africa that seem to spill into Europe.
Now, the main issue is migration. This issue has been very poisonous for a long time, and will be for much more time.
The problems in Europe are many; massive problems with intercultural conflicts often of a horrendous level. Just to mention a few; the killing of the writers of Charlie Hebdo, the killing of a member of my own union the Vilks committee and a rise in crime all over Western Europe.
Add to this massive problems in the islands of Greece, and the poisonous fight with Turkey.
Now Covid 19 has bought us a reprieve from these issues, but that will not last forever.
So, how do we go about seeing this issue.
First of all, I believe, we need to understand the shift of opinion on war. Ten years ago, diplomacy was the only option between European allies and enemies. Even in the relationship with Turkey, that is a vehement enemy of mainstream European identity, the only option has been diplomacy and we have bought peace with money.
Now, why have we done so? It was because we were war weary due to the atrocities and destruction in the second and first world wars.
Two wars that brought immense destruction to European mainland due to its mechanistic component. Mechanization brought mass killing to the table.
So, things change, and now the Second World War is so far away, and hardly remembered by the new generations, so a more aggressive stance in politics of war is acceptable by the populace at large, in fact a lot of the problems that the mainstream political forces have had in the last ten years, have been a discrepancy between the will of the European people and the will of the political life.
Because as while the politician were busy building the European Union, essentially a Second World War project, the general populace left all the horrors of the Second World War, and wanted to fight again.
That realization is something that the politicians need to condsider. Just look at the Italian defense minister mr. Salvini he was enormously popular in Italy, why? Because he wanted to fight the migrant streams, that are essentially breaking down Europe from within.
Now, you can have many opinions on the matter, and to be honest, I am not one of the hawks, I believe in a balanced approach to the issue, mixing diplomacy with intervention.
But, not recognizing the shift in public opinion would be essentially hazardous to the whole enterprise.
So my essential advice to mr. Cravinho would be, to find a more aggressive stance towards Turkey, and find a way, with diplomacy as well as intervention to stop the migration.
Fighting with Turkey is a viable option, and partnering up with Russia in this area is also an option. But finding a way to do it, is the important question to address.
The rest will flow from that, a professional and aggressive yet diplomatic stance in the Mediterranean will give the European armed forces the credibility it needs to further develop its scope.
Here I sincerely believe that mr. Cravinho is suited to the task, he seems professional and able. So good luck with the priorities.
Fix the problems in the Mediterranean and you will have a great star in the halls of all Europeans.
G-d bless the will to do good and fix things before they get out of hand.

Portrait of Socrates. Marble, Roman artwork (1st century), perhaps a copy of a lost bronze statue made by Lysippos
There has been a lot of discussion regarding the state og policy lately in the US. Don’t get me wrong, I try to embrace a balanced view of things. So that we do not get into excess with anything. But rather seek to find the middle ground, so as to make a sound balance between too much and too little.
In the heat of the argument, often we believe that the other one is evil, and that he or she is morally corrupt.
But listen, how do we know? How do we know that our political adversaries are evil?
Most often they are not, but seek to prop up their own political agenda somehow.
At the end of the day, Democracy is about trying not to have predetermined ideas about how things are, but try and listen to the other end of the table.
Socrates is the epitome of this idea. When he went around in Athens, he said, that he was the wisest of them all. He knew, because he had been around talking to poets, politicians, scientists and so on. But he was most wise, why? Because he knew, that he did not know anything.
It is this humility in the face of political discourse, that most often create a better course.
Knowing that you do not know anything, but just try to grasp at straws, and do your very best. That is a wise way of looking at the world.
That is why we safeguard freedom of speech so fiercely, in order to be able to have a chance to know what other people know and how they see the world.
Now, I don’t agree with mr. Trump with everything. There are a lot of things, where I really disagree with him.
But the end of the day, he does not strike me as evil, but as a vicious fighter for what he believes in.
I can respect that, as well as he can respect my idealism.
Sometimes we need to fight due to geopolitical reasons, as we need to fight the Chinese. I understand the Chinese, perhaps better than most. I have read a lot of both Taoism and Confusianism, and off cause I understand Marxism, my family created that idea.
So my point with fighting the Chinese is not to see them as evil, but avoid a greater world war. Create balance in terms of geopolitical development.
That is a very difficult task.
Anyway, staying calm in a situation, where you work up your emotions is good, and right now, we need to stay calm, and look at the situation from a more levelled point of view. Hopefully in a few month, we can have a feeling of a certain respect for each others perspective.
Mr. Trump said at his inauguration, that he respected the legacy of mr. Obama, maybe we can learn a little from that and seek to improve rather than just destroy, build things rather than deconstruct.
We have an economy we need to rebuild, we have a climate Change strategy to develop, and we have China, that is a formidable adversary.
We need to stay focused, and determined to face the new challenges ahead.
And most important, we need to bolster the reputation of the US in the entire system, build bridges and improve image.
We succeeded in the terms of mr. Barack Obama, maybe this time it will be a bit more difficult because Obama was one of a kind, but it is possible.
G-d bless the United States of America.
We are in a kind of crisis in the American public. Everybody are screaming at each other and in the moment of warfaring, we may do things, that we come to regret after some time.
Let us have a look at this from a open source perspective.
You know, the deeper story beneath open source, and the idea behind the internet has a beautiful and enriching story that most have not a clue about.
Today at the most of the big tech companies they life and swear by the ‘Copenhagen spirit’, that is, in essence the way of working that mr. Niels Bohr brought to the US when he did the Manhattan project, that is the invention of the atomic bomb.
He had this wonderful idea, that if you trust people, they actually are able to lift their responsibilities themselves.
For me, that is the epitome of working as free persons in a network.
There are wonderful stories about the physicist on the Niels Bohr institute, that played ping pong in the basement, and went and saw a lot of cowboy movies. The books they used as bats were advanced physics books and in that wonderful atmosphere a lot of great wisdom was envisioned and proved. Today Quantum physics and the development of that last strain of ideas is the end and the poor line of thought that we can muster.
At the other hand, the dreams and ideas of Bohr, are really here with us. The open network to create peace and stop us from going into nuclear Armageddon.
So what lies at the heart of this whole system of organization and ideology?
Well, Bohrs good friend, and the philosopher who inspired him to think about openness as the answer, a philosopher called Knud Ejlar Loegstrup, had this belief, that 80% of all our conflicts are misunderstandings. So UNDERSTANDING each other’s motives and worldview will actually hinder most conflicts.
This is the driving force for my cry for reconciliation and stopping all this senseless warfare between the right and the left. Perhaps, there is a lot of misunderstandings going on. Perhaps mr. Trump is not such an evil person that we believe, perhaps the left are not devils either?
UNDERSTANDING and trying to see the view of those we tend to hate can be a way to solve the conflict.
I am not saying, that people do not things wrong, they do, and should off cause be corrected. But an honest try to understand the world, and see people for what they are, is the best start on any attempt to solve a conflict.
So this is what open source is all about, to be able to give a window of understanding to those who try.
Look at people from an unbiased view, and find a way to solve a conflict without ending up with war and misery.
Don’t get me wrong, sometimes you need to fight, but actually most of time most of conflicts are just your own imagination running wild.
Should we examine peoples true intent or just go on banging the drums of conflict?
My idea is to be faithful to the tenants of Borh, and keep the internet networks open.
G-d bless the will to be honest and humble in our approach to the world.
There are a lot of things going on in the US right now, and many worry about it. Which is off cause both natural and good.
But as one of those, who have forged some of the ideas of the development, I am not worried, on the contrary, I believe, that what we are seeing is essentially a vibrant democracy in action, and not a tyranny coming into form, why?
Because the reason why mr. Donald Trump is so unpopular, is because he has tried to root out the corruption of the higher echelons of society. That is, in all its simplicity and daring, a great service to Democracy.
Yes, I know that there was the desecration of Capitol Hill by someone who saw themselves as Trump supporters, but at the end of the day, what really matters is his fight against the corruption of American Society; Weinstein, Epstein and all of these disgusting corrupt individuals of the rich class.
Why is that so important, well it is really the bane of any Democracy to be corrupted, this was what felled the Roman Republic, and in a sense was detrimental to the UK in the sixties.
Bible abiding, law abiding, families are the core of the Republic, and if they fight against some kind of corruption, namely that of child abuse and other kinds of abuse, well, that is good.
In all this tumult, one perhaps need to understand what really created Donald Trump. Mr. Donald Trump is a creation of the internet. Q Anonymous, that is a unity of the right and left wing internet warriors and seekers of light, are his creators. These guys were born with the internet, and baptized in the light of the understanding of how and where corruption is and was. So they sought a champion to wage their war against that corruption.
That is not going away, why? Because essentially these guys are the heirs to the whole idea behind the internet, that of open communication in a computer network. An idea coined by the likes of Niels Bohr and others of his postwar generation. The idea is, that if we live in an open world, war is less apt to happen, as theorized by mr. Niels Bohr in his famous letter to the UN, where he called for an open world after the Second World War.
Yes I know that the big tech giants seem to feel that they start owning the internet, but they don’t, and they never will.
All the mechanics of internet control via Facebook and the other Social media platforms, will never again stop the opportunity of the true seeker to know truth.
So, people in power now worry much more about getting caught, and that makes the world better and less corrupt.
I am not picking sides in this conflict, and be as it may, somehow I have become that defender of Democracy that Plato envisioned as an integral part of Democracy.
It needed an open internet network so make a basis that I can work on, but now I am truly free to defend our Democratic ideas.
Rooting out moral corruption being the most important task, and mr. Trump did just that.
So, please, from the mouth of Plato, and his plea to all who believe in Democracy, look at what is important for the Republic. It is to be honest, true and just in a world of self interest.
If we learn that from the presidency of mr. Trump, we have learned an important lesson, and we choose to do it ourselves.
Forget about the censorship, and anger and keep faith in the open source.
G-d bless the will to be faithful to Openness.
So we are free, it took four ardous years, or was it even more?, to get here, but here we are.
The question is, what now?
Here I believe, that looking a bit on Russia is actually not such a bad idea. I mean, we have been foes, but Russia is getting along pretty well, and they have a thousand year long tradition on keeping the realm together.
What is Russia really?
Russia is a Viking state that started at the rivers of Ukraine, and spread to the east. Along the way, there were a lot of fights, and it really changed the Russians to what the Russians are today; strong, vicious fighters that sleep, but when awaken are unbeatable. That is the lesson learned by both Hitler and Napoleon.
The sleeping bear, as they are called.
At the height of Russian empirialism, because that was what it was, Russians beat everybody even Japan.
Now, how did they manage to keep the realm together?
A lot of the states that was swallowed by the Russians are still ethnically and religiously not Russians, but Muslims and other ethnicities.
They did it by tying a strong bond between the NATIONS of the Russian empire. Somehow each citizen in what we understand as Russia have a Russian identity. They are part of Mother Russia.
The same is probably a strategy that we could try with the British empire. Create a strong identity. A British identity. An identity of people reflecting and idolizing the British culture and ideas.
That is a difficult thing right now, because we have been going in the other direction for such a long time, and just starting a racist Anglo Saxon banging on the shield idea would be out of this world, not to mention both wrong and totally unethical.
But a British identity does not have to be simple, rather make it complex, beautiful and strong in ideas.
Take the ideas, that I have worked on with Oxford, the ideas of climate change in relation to the Anglican Church. This whole ideology ties into Darwin, Goethe and Classical Greek philosophy. It reclaims the land of the Church, and seek to make people believe not only in the church again, but also in G-d.
This is a possible British project to try and unite the different nations of the British empire under.
A good idea, and a way to find some common ground, and it reaches out to the young as well.
We still have to remember, that building nations in an empire, requires nation building, so of cause we have to be in Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia and all those nations, and inspire and try to improve the nations in a way that creates a sustainable as well as steady flow of happiness.
The British empire was created on the back of the philosopher Adam Smith, that is a banking empire. But now we need to talk content in terms of national ideology, spiritual ideology and the likes.
Don’t get me wrong Adam Smith was a genius, but we have come to an end with his ideas, and the true enigma we have to solve is to understand how to get on from his perspective and SOLIDIFY the empire in terms of stability and happiness for all the citizens.
It can be done, the Russians did it, so we can perhaps learn from them. They seem to be interested in teaching us.
The key here being philosophical development and Change.
G-d bless the will to be honest and solidify the empire that is struggling and honestly crying out for help.
I believe, that there is a balance between theory and practice when it comes to the debacle on climate Change.
On one end, we need to realize the ideas behind the whole political discourse. I mean, what is nature, and how does the ecosystem actually work, with people in it.
We are a part of the great drama of nature, and we need to be honest about the role we play in the collective development of nature itself.
So far we have been mostly negative. We destroy and use nature to our own needs without really thinking about the impact we are having on nature.
Ultimately nature is a fragile thing, and it may very well just collapse.
At the other hand, we also have to be able to do something about it. I mean discussing pollution is a concrete and serious discussion. Not only in our own countries, but globally.
When India polutes the oceans, it is to the detriement of everybody. The same goes with Denmark, if we do something that will destroy nature in some way.
So looking at this on a global level is pretty much a given.
We also have to be able to talk about the difficult things, like overpopulation. What do we do about that? So far the rate of succes has been limited, and what we have done have brought more harm than succes.
So that is why I have proposed a kind of containment strategy, or at least a more realistic understanding of how overpopulation work. We have to come to the conclusion, that in some areas, there will be famine, and we cant do much about ourselves.
We can prepare, and make help ready, but ultimately if a country is overpopulated, it needs to take action and be responsible themselves.
At the end of the whole discussion, we need to have a positive goal, and deeper understanding of nature, a cleaner more sustainable ecosystem and a closer connection to the beautiful creation that is given to us.
We are in a bit of a problem. A problem that can be solved, if we are serious and work constructively about it.
Take mr. Elon Musk. He is doing something to solve the energy crisis. Or some of the farmers here in Denmark that have experimented first with windmills and are now working with new experiments with all kind of things; gas, oil produced by the waste of the farming industries and so on.
A lot of good ideas.
It can be done, we just have to be realistic about the challenges ahead, and do something about it.
G-d bless the will to be realistic about Change.
Well, merry Christmas and happy Hannukah dear reader. Things have finally turned in terms of downward og upward spirals.
Finally the UK is free from the EU, and have made a deal. That is good, for everybody. Perhaps not the Danish fishermen who live where I live here in rural Denmark where I live, but essentially for everybody else.
It seems to me, that when we finally get out of the Corona lockdown, we have a lot of things we can do, and a lot of projects we need to embark on.
First of all, both the UK as well as the US is in a new position, a position, where we have a positive outset, and hopefully can join forces. I really hope that for one.
There are massive challenges ahead. The first and foremost being the fact, that the overpopulation of the world is destabilizing everywhere.
Phosphor as a nutrient to the process of making crops is running out, and we will see starvation and after that wars within the next decade.
Migration being a core concern, that we have to tackle humanely and forcefully.
There will be massive conflicts along lines that will appear, be it this or that religious or political denomination. At the base of the conflicts we will see, will be overpopulation.
A complete crash is actually imminent. As soon as a destructive ideology takes over an area in a vested grab for power, and the food industry suffers, the country or area collapses. You have seen this in former Rhodesia now Zimbabwe, where the farmers were slaughtered in cold blood, as of now the whole country is filling up with deaths of its citizens.
Rhodesia is the model we are currently following, and we will all die, if we do not change course.
In the West, in most countries we have woken to the fact that that is the problem, but we still are not in agreement of what to do.
Essentially the whole overpopulation brings so much suffering with it, that we cannot stomach the things we have to do to survive.
We prefer delaying the final outcome by bending to the process.
Well, we have to wake up to the fact, that the earth is dying, and we people are the disease.
Here again, I do not believe, that we should be mean or treat people badly, on the contrary we need to realize the best possible outcome. We need to think about mother earth and what it brings us of joy and good things, but we also, as humanity, need to think about the problems we pose to the ecosystem of the earth, and be honest about it.
Just letting people wander around the globe as they want to, is not a solution for the long run. Even though we prefer having the strength of the many, we still need to realize, that there is a breaking point and be honest about these wanderings, and stop the wanderings that are unsustainable.
It is cruel, the world is a cruel place. When people flee from environmental catastrophes, and war in general, our natural instinct is to help those in need. But if it destabilizes the country they enter, then nothing has been won, and another country may fall to overpopulation.
What we need is as many wellfunctioning countries in the world, producing as much healthy food as possible.
Instead of solving our problems by evening them out, we need to take the bull at the horns, and keep food production evolving and improving.
At the end of the day, there is going to be war over territory, for the food it produces, and we need to enter these difficult times with strength.
These are the challenges ahead. I know, that looking at these things straight is a difficult thing to do. But to solve a difficult problem, you need to start being honest about it, and take the best possible way.
The next decade will be all about climate change, and how we challenge it in a wise and serious way.
It will be immensely difficult, not least in terms of fighting those territorial wars. But that is the way the world is developing.
Climate change is not a peaceful thing, it is a very, very violent thing.
G-d bless the peace we can find, if we look at the world in realistic terms.
I see a lot of Star Treck these days. I really like Star Trek, and I have wondered quite a bit why I really like Star Trek, it is the epitome of nerdiness, but it has something deeper resting in its ideas, that kind of resonate with my own quest of trying to convey and fight the the American dream.
At the heart of classics like Star Trek lies a deep humanistic striving. A striving for a better world, and a firm belief in the good of man.
Rest assured, in these days, we have come to realize, that the Promised land is not so promised as we thought. We can’t just figure it out, and truly there are some caveats along the way.
But at the other hand, figuring out, how to tackle these caveats is truly the task at hand.
At one hand we have a lot of principles on how to work in the world, sound, humanistic principles that has faith in the force of Democracy.
At the other hand, we have tumultuous world with a host of challenges. It is in the cross hairs of this meeting of principles and reality that we have to forge a path forward.
At the one hand, being too unrealistic about the world will not work, at the other hand being too cynical about the world will not work either.
There are bad guys out there, that seek to destroy and erect towers of tyranny. They are there, and as a consequence we have to be realistic about the world as it is. We have friends, and we have foes. That is the nature of the world right now.
At the same time, we need to acknowledge the legacy and heritage that we have.
Here is how it is. We are the most benign and best empire of the world.
That sounds great and all, but there is the truth of the word empire in the mix. That includes territory, fighting with other powers over power and so on. That is potentially a system that gives way for tyranny itself.
At the other hand, there is no comparison. All other empires in the history of mankind have never been so kind and understanding. The Romans were pretty tough, the Greek abused Egypt, the Phoenicians bought and sold their territory.
But we actually do care about the wellbeing of man.
So going forward, a kind of balance between the honesty of the Anglo Saxon empire, and the humanistic content is something we should align ourselves with.
I mean, can we really embrace the Klingon or the tyrannical oppressor, or do we fight him?
Well that is an easy answer, but at the end of the day, I truly believe that the perpertous and stubborn fight at the path to the promised land, is what we need to stay on.
We need to keep faith in the soul of the Nation, and not stop fighting for that soul.
That is what we need to understand and try to do now. Stay on the path to redemption.
Perhaps redemption will not happen, but on the way, we can make the world a little bit better.
G-d bless The United States of America.
In the Oxford Symposium, one of the greatest presentations, to me, was a presentation of the American singer song writer mr. Johhny Cash.
Johhny Cash is one of those iconic musicians whom define the very essence of what it is to be American.
I asked the two American gentlemen, whom presented the tale of mr. Johhny Cash how the situation is with the story of the Americans, the American dream and they repeatedly said, that it is in great trouble, the very SOUL of America is at stake.
That is a pretty steep assessment, and I must admit, that it kind of scared me a bit. I mean, here in the Obama camp we have been talking about unity and have talked all the good things about being American up. I mean mr. Barack Obama himself have just written an AMAZING book called Promised Land.
So we care, and we think about how to tackle this problem.
The whole talk about SOUL kind og inspired me to think about a Danish philosopher called Grundtvig, the founding father of Danish Democratic development, and he talked a lot about “The soul of the people”.
I think, that that is really what this is all about, if there is no soul of the people, things start to unravel, and we start at the alienation.
Maybe it is about time to talk about that beautiful soul that Johhny Cash tried so hard to sing alive. That promised land, that city at the top of the hill. Keep the flame alight for the next generations to come.
Because as anything else, souls need nourishment and sustenance to live.
It will only live, if the dreams are kept alive.
G-d bless the will to really reach The Promised land.
Climate Change as an idea and a philosophical trend in the world stems from the battle between German and British thought in the 18´th century.
At the time nature was a topic of discussion in the great halls of learning, and great leaps of understanding in what nature was, was done.
Among them, the crowning theory; that of Darwin.
But before and around Darwin there were many discussions, Linné, the Swedish botanist that defined the whole system of nature, Göethe, Herder and Kant that discussed the ideas from a Platonic as well as Aristotelean perspective.
So the discussion of nature, that has lead to climate Change ideas, are very deep, AND it talks to the rift between Anglo Saxon thought and German thought.
This whole discussion is what it really is about when we talk about the rift between religion and science. Because the Anglo Saxon as well as French thought drifted towards materialism German thought tried to cling onto spiritualism, but had eventually to give into the Newtonian ideas. Hence Marx and Nietzsche.
But to heal the academic world, we NEED to understand what was going on, and to understand the urge of the Climate Change workers to find spirit somehow, because that is what is truly beneath the whole Climate Change movement. We need to understand the ideas of the belle époque to move on today.
So here it comes.
Nietzsche proclaimed that G-d was dead, but that was AFTER Kant and Göethe made their call for a renewed spirituality. Politically this lead to Marxism, that is today non spiritual.
Marx taking a standpoint after Hegel.
So it makes sense, seen from a natural, climate perspective to go BEHIND Marx and Nietzsche and see where they came from.
As discussed before really the natural point of discussion is Göethe, that was a believer in the beauty of nature, and had a very profound understanding of nature. Göethe had several gardens that he tended and studied, a predecessor to Darwin, that went to Galapagos to do the same.
So what was the idea of Göethe concerning nature?
He was, and had always been a neoplatonist, so he grabbed onto the idea of a set of archetypes of life that is behind all life.
Plato had different understandings of G-d, one of them was, that G-d was good personified, and all good had a kind of blueprint that we follow.
So there was the archetypical idea of a plant and then the environment the plant or any other life lived in.
This was continued by Darwin who focused on the environmental side of the equation.
Me, I am an Empedochlean and an Anaxagorean. So, I do not hold the same ideas of nature as Göehte. Essentially I hold onto the idea that nature is continuous creation of life, and that G-d id the love in this creation (Empedochles). Add to this, that G-d is intelligence in heavens that is conveyed into nature through birth and goes back to heaven through death.
This is all derived from the epitome of Platonic thought, the book called Timeus of Plato (the book he holds in his hand in the painting above).
It took me a long time to research, and it is still ongoing.
But if we can push forth our understanding of science as well as spirituality in the light of Plato and Göethe we may just save our religious institutions as well as our world at large. Because the reason for our current predicament is faith in only the material realm, and that is important to understand. We need to heal ourselves as well as the planet.
G-d bless the will to Change and start the healing.
Well apart from tackling Covid 19, we also need to have more positive things to do.
One of the things that I have been working on here in Denmark, and that seems to be a sincerely positive, but VERY difficult process is climate change.
After doing several interviews with farmers, and having the discussion with rev. Mountford of Oxford University, it seems to me, that at least some of the difficulties concerning climate change is to be discussed.
Let us have a look at it.
First of all, the THEORETICAL basis is pretty clear. We are fighting for a better more sustainable world, where WE as humans both understand and are part of the world in a positive manner.
Nature is according to the romantic view of both Göethe, Alexander von Humbolt and classical thinkers as Empedochles a place of wonder.
But we have to be honest about this development, we are working with neoplatonic ideas that is conveyed through Göethe.
So we HAVE to admit to ourselves, that these ideas are in essence stupidly romantic.
Now, don’t get me wrong being stupidly romantic may not be such a bad idea sometimes, but the fact of the matter is, that we cannot rely only on romanticism to reach our goals of closer contact with nature.
We also have to work in the REAL world, and as we all know, the real world is a VERY messy place.
In other words, if we walk around in the woods hugging trees, maybe we are a bit more happy, but maybe the woodsman that tend to the wood is not so happy about us running around in his wood.
So in order to turn our romantic ideals into something worthwhile and lasting, we need to turn our eyes to the vast process of REALLY changing our environment into something beautiful.
This process is really the difficult part. Because here we are met with the true reality.
What is that? That is the fact, that mechanics, academics and church organizers do not necessarily understand the world of the farmers.
Where many people of the city are romantic about nature and the country side, the fact of the matter is, that in the real world being a farmer is business.
It is these two very different worldviews, that we need to fuse somehow, and that can only be done in one way; dialogue.
Forcing the farmers to do anything is massively counterproductive, we have just had an example of that in Denmark, where the state decided to expropriate a part of the farming community. Just eradicating a whole part of the country world.
It has cost massively in terms of human as well as animal pain. People have to leave their homes and the farmers are going totally nuts.
It feels like a very, very, very heavy-handed way of doing things.
While as dialogue and understanding has been totally absent in the process.
So breaching the gap between country and city is extremely difficult.
But trying to unite the country is what this is about, and the countryside should ALSO have a voice in the matter.
So, heavy-handed control is not the answer when it comes to developing sustainable ways of working with nature, dialogue is the true and only way.
A practical way of starting working on this process is to make a committee that tries for an honest dialogue with some of the leading lights of both camps. And don’t forget, that the true experts are rarely the ones that claims they are the true experts, the true experts sit in experimental farms in secluded areas with new ideas. At least this is the way it is in Denmark.
So, please let us not be heavy handed in this process of climate change, but try to close the gap between Americans, and unite.
G-d bless the will to be strong in opinion and honest on approach.
It seems to me, that we have come a long way in the Middle East, there is a peace of some sort.
We have almost peace between Jews and the Arabs, and this peace is legendary in itself. Of cause, the close kinship between Arabs and Jews, we actually look very much like each other and share the same both ethnic as well and religious roots, do help.
Israel is slowly becoming a natural part of the Middle East. Old cousins returning from years and years of diaspora.
This is truly peace, as I promised.
In the rest of the world however there is still conflict, and we have to talk about this as well as work on ways to stop them.
Sometimes you need to fight to make peace, and there are conflicts we need to address.
I do hope however, that the new Biden administration, recognises the path to peace that is finally materialised under Trump but was started with mr. Barack Obama.
Peace is something that creeps up on you, and is there almost by coincidence, but at the end of the day. Let us remember Lawrence of Arabia, the first zionist, or one of the first brits to put his mark truly in the Middle East.
Through his immense Oxford learning, his understanding of the Middle East has transformed it in his visage. The pen is stronger than the sword, and let us rejoice in the fact, that this time, the pen won, through the vast understanding of Lawrence of Arabia, the renowned Oxford scholar.
Let his memory be a star to follow.
G-d bless the peace we have found.
There is a new paradigm on the way, you can look at Great Britain, France or the great United States of America, with different leaders.
But all have to tackle of the deterioration of the nation and the challenges ahead.
So, how to we go about tackling that.
As we have discussed it is about unity. United we stand, divide we fall.
But unity has to be something. It can’t be a hollow unity, it has to be a unity of some people, or some ideas.
Here I believe, that each nation has its own set of rules and ideas to work with. France is the great republic, Great Britain is a United Kingdom, The United States of America is a dream come true.
Each nation has to define what it is, and what its guiding ideas are, and will eventually be able to put those ideas at the heart of each nation. Educate people, fight for the values of each nation, and say no to people who disgrace the virtue of the state. Honestly there are some, who do not understand or respect the virtues of the nations at hand.
Those people, be it islamists or other, are and should be targets of the nation states security apparatus.
We have to realize, that freedom, equality and solidarity are not free, sometimes we need to stand up for those values, and say YES WE CAN!
G-d bless the will to be a good person in a world of conflict, and chose the path of peace.
The coronacrisis seems to wear off, but there are still some pockets of resistance, and things to do to make thinks all right.
First of all, let us have a look at the reaction and the threat. There has to be some kind of level balance between the two.
If we react too harshly at an epidemic without cause, then people get angry, if we do not react enough when there is a crisis, people tend to get angry.
So, the right balance between too much and too little is really where we want to be.
Right now there seems to be a vaccine on the way, let us hope, that it is truly on its way, so that we can get on with our lives.
Because that is really what this all about, getting on with all the projects and ideas we have. So that we can make a better world.
G-d bless the will to make a better world.
Well, now it seems like, that we are back at the track again in the US.
First of all, let me be clear, I did not support any of the candidates. I held on to the belief, that it was the best man that should win. So essentially, this is not my victory, but mr. Bidens victory. I held on to the belief, that he would come through, but I didn’t support any of the candidates. It would have been unfair.
So, now that we are here. We have to get to work.
Because where lies the basic political paradigm, that seems to be at hand. Well, it is climate change.
As we in the Obama times worked on the economy, a thing that seems to be working as of now. We can work on other things to make a better world.
When we talk about climate change, we have to realise, that this challenge is pretty steep. I am working quite extensively with it here in Denmark, and boy can it go wrong. Right now Northern Jutland is closed because of a fake vendetta against mink farming. Seriously, the left is bleeding votes faster than you can count.
This calls to the fact, that working with nature in order to make it a better nature, is a very delicate thing, why?
Because the leftwing that is mainly citydwellers have to work with the countryside, where nature really is, and that is republican mainland. See the difficulty in terms of political progress?
However, as I have worked quite extensively with farmers, pig farmers, minkfarmers, fishermen and woodsmen, it seems to me, that the country boys are much wiser than what you would think if you didn’t know them. In fact they can be really, really cool.
One of the greatest experiences I have had, was visiting a woodsman, whom had been working with his forest for 50 years. The forest is just extremely diverse and interesting, it is a paradise. I know him through a friend of mine who likes spiritual things, and goes to the forest to do all kinds of hippidances and so on.
So this guy, who has been working with forests for 50 years, and is a country boy if you ever knew one, has showed us a way to go. It is complicated, by it can work.
Biodiversity is possible to work with, but it takes time.
So, having the respect for the people who live in the countryside, is pretty much a given if we should have any success in this area.
There are however lower hanging fruits, like sea pollution that is huge problem these days, we need to do something about that.
And essentially realise, that the basic premise of climate change is, that we are growing out of the planet. So we need to figure out better and more understanding ways of working with nature.
If we do not do that, our ressources will run out soon enough, and that will create hunger, and war.
So it is pretty serious.
The good news is, that if we get to work, and invite the best experts, and no, more often than not, the experts are the people, the worksmen, working with nature, and hear them out. We need ideas on the table, and an opportunity to do some real change, our future depends on it, so lets get on with it.
G-d bless the will to do good, and make better ways with nature.
I believe, that the UK should start moving out of the EU. Get the job finished, and find some new cooperation with the US.
There are new winds blowing over the US, and the UK might just get on that train.
There are a number of agendas that is interesting, one of the being the independence of the UK.
As the drums of war is sounding in Europe, being independent is not such a bad thing.
So focus on Freedom to find a way.
The path to independence is not such a bad path.
G-d bless the will to be free.
It is at one hand great relief and at the other hand great sadness, that mr. Biden has won the election.
At one hand, there is no secret in the fact, that mr. Biden has been a friend and a champion of my cause since he worked as a vp with mr. Obama. At the other hand, the difficulty of mr. Trumps election, and the closeness of the election is a problem. I really hope, that it will come to some kind of positive conclusion. Voter fraud is a very, very serious thing.
I mean, democracy is about giving power to the people, not taking power from the people.
At the end of the day, I am very happy to see mr. Biden back in the White House, and truly hope, that it will be a beginning of reconciliation, and the end of all the fractional fights that is within the American people. We are all united, as is the basic idea.
United we stand, divided we fall.
So, congratulations mr. Biden, it took a while to get here, but now we are here, we can finally do some good.
G-d bless the will to be an honest and positive force in the world.
It is with great trepedation, that I see, that the muslim world is rallying against mr. Macron and France.
Let me be clear about this; Denmark is 100% behind mr. Macron.
To fight for freedom, and freedom of speech is not only a must, but also a great honour.
In this matter against islamism, definitely Denmark stands behind France.
Avant les bleus!!!
G-d bless the republic of France!
In these days with great insecurity in France, this is the time to remember, what France really is. The traditions, the virtues and France is the product of.
This is to say, that France is the heir to the democratic/humanistic traditions of the enlightenment era.
These are the true values that are under threat these days, by people beheading teachers in the middle of the day.
We must admit, that the terrorism, and the islamism of moderne France is the enemy of the Platonic republic, and act accordingly.
G-d bless the mother of all democracies; the nation of France.
It is with grave worry, that I hear about the islamist attack on a teacher in France. Seriously, a teacher?
A person dedicated to bring light to the minds of students, a person well known for culture and knowledge.
So a person kills such a person. That is, next after killing a priest or any other holy man, a grave thing to do.
So what did the poor man do?
He showed the image of Mohammad.
Ok, I get it, it is sacrilege, I do not like people doing bad things to Moses or in any way show a lack of respect to Moses. To me Moses is a very wise and indeed almost perfect person.
But would I invite the idea to kill someone because they would show a lack of respect towards Moses?
No way, it is their idea, and I truly believe, that such an act as to take the life of a teacher is a very bad thing indeed.
It shows the dark side of Islam. I faith that has many qualities, but also, in some areas, have some dark spots.
We must admit that.
This does not mean, that all muslims are evil. Not at all, but it has a bad rep. towards our democratic institutions, and the will to speak freely.
G-d bless Voltaire, the founder of free speech in modern times, and his teacher Socrates.
When you are sick, you usually deteoriate. Your physical functions are simply not working that well.
I remember when I got sick, seriously, the first time. It was just after the dot coooom boom. I was working as a project leader in various IT companies, and consequently fell when the industry fell. That was a pretty hard stop.
What happened was, that I got fired a couple of times, as the IT world collapsed. At the end of those strings of firing, I got really, really sick.
I had hit my head on a wall, and suffered a severed head trauma, a brain damage that just didn’t want to go away.
It stayed like that for a couple of years, still is with me to this day.
For a year I was home on my couch, looking up in the ceiling. I couldn’t really do anything but look up in ceiling, because my brain was so damaged, that it couldn’t work with any input. I couldn’t read, I couldn’t watch television. The only thing I could do, was to listen to classical radio. I found a German classical radio, that I really loved. I can still hear the jingles; “wir Lieben classical, wir Lieben, wir Lieben….”.
After a year I slowly recovered, and now twenty years after, there is no more, or very little left of the disease.
While I was so sick, I ran into other people that had the same disease. You somehow end up in a community that has the same problems as you have.
Most of them today have miserable lives, still sick, more or less. Some more, some less. That is the way this disease work.
So, what did I do to get over my disease?
I went down on my knees, and I started praying. I prayed hard and long, putting all of my devastated heart into that prayer. I knew, that this was it, either I started getting better, or I was done for.
You know, it kind of worked. After the prayer that I really put all of my soul and everything of me in, I got new ideas on how to work on the disease, and these new ideas really worked.
Basically my brain needed calm and quiet. I gave it that, by meditating.
I meditated for hours and days, just to give my brain a break from the constant barrage of stress and thought.
After some years, I became a new and wiser man.
I still miss the carelessness of my youth, not having to care about anything. But I also do recognise, that my brush with death, and my ability to claw myself out of the hole, is a natural part of growing up and becoming mature.
That is life, you look death in the eyes, and you find your faith in that moment.
So this is it, at least, to my experience. If you are sick, start praying, and go down your knees. Maybe, just maybe, you end up a better man or woman, and start caring for what this is all about; being that honest, sympathetic and true person, that tries his best to make a difference.
You may also really become stronger, and wiser.
It is all about one thing; faith.
G-d bless the will to be strong in the face of this awful disease that has struck us all, and G-d bless all those who are living through the hell of being sick. I know how it feels, but it will get better.