Ok, the Afghanistan draw out is kind a reaching a climax. All the newspapers have smelled blood of a leader that they can intimidate, and the ground personnel in Afghanistan are not feeling a sense of security.
So what do we do?
We show that we understand the game of international politics, and we make the moves, that makes most sense in the situation. With the wellbeing of all of East Asia as the true aim of the situation.
From when I put some thoughts to this issue until now, the following have happened;
Most importantly Turkey seems to accept the idea, that we work with the close vicinity of Afghanistan in terms of shoring up the refugees and giving the refugees a permanent to semipermanent place to stay.
This is because all the migrants/refugees are going to end up in Turkey making the life of mr. Erdogan really problematic. Already a lot of the Syrian migrants are making his life a problem, because they make a lot of problems in Turkey, effectively pushing the electorate to the fringes of Turkish politics. The extreme rightwing of Turkey are called Grey Wolfes and they are pretty scary.
So a massive wave of migrants from Afghanistan would further destabilise Turkey, and that is a problem.
It seems to me, that the current solution to the massive possible exodus from Afghanistan has been to promise a small number of migrants stay in Western Europe. That will create a huge pushback from the fringes of European politics, and might just cost mr. Johnson his seat. He was elected to make migrants go out of the country, not go in. So that is a very dangerous solution to the stability of the European governments as well.
What is a possible solution however, is still to make a diplomatic blitz to the neighbouring countries around Afghanistan. Turkey would be very much in agreement with this idea, and it will effectively send a message to the Afhganis, that we will help as much as we can, but migration is not an option.
It is not fair, because the redrawal of troops and the consequent take over by Taliban was not fair, but that is the best we can do in the situation.
Anyway, we must, as I see it, seeks diplomatic solutions with the neighbouring countries to Afghanistan, and then we must start hunting the leaders of the Taliban.
We must also seek results in the other areas of conflict where the Al Qeudas are. Give people the impression, that we are doing all we can to solve the problem.
Israel is very much with us on this, so we have the best partner possible.
Then there is the press. When they smell a weak leader, they will go into a frenzy, and start accusing you of this and that. Dont worry too much about it, adress the problems the best you can. But the press in this situation are just going bollocks, and there is nothing much you can do about it. Talk with them, explain your plans, and then just take it easy and stay calm.
Dont take it too serious, but show strength by remaining calm and on the ball.
You can do this Joe.
G-d bless the will to stay calm, in the eye of the storm.
Joe, we need a new strategy to counter the old Afghanistan strategy. I know, that the populace is really annoyed we the redrawal from Afghanistan. I am with you on this, this has been going on for too long. But we still need to be seen as doing some action on this issue.
I have been doing a lot of research while Trump was at the helm, and here are some of the insights that could be of use.
Osama Bin Laden, Al-Queda, the muslim brotherhood and all the other radical sunni muslim terrorist organizations, are ruled by a small clique of intellectuals and leaders.
The way it works is like this. The secret organizations of the sufi, that is a brotherhood of sunni muslim intellectuals do all the heavy lifting when it comes to the intellectual development.
These guys are actually a lot cooler than you would imagine. They are spiritual, but in a more liberal sense, they are mystics and have been around for as long as islam itself.
Their leader is called Qutb. As the spiritual leader of the Muslim brotherhood, that is the true machinator of the islamic renaissance.
Anyway, their true weakness is their very strict rank of command. Cut the head of the snake, the snake dies. Maybe not in fast way, but the intellectual nourishment all true strains of wisdom and belief needs will be cut off.
You could say, that this is mean, but in Islam an intellectual is just as much a warfarer as an intellectual.
So, this is a possible new strategy; cut off the head of the snake.
It is much cheaper in terms of equipment, it uses our resources at the best. We are leading in reconnaissance, IT equipment, precise bombing and so on.
But we should be careful, because the war from the sky is very unpopular, it will not win us hearts and minds, but will weaken the enemy.
So go for the top, use the clandestine arms of the fighting force, and simply dismantle the Sunni muslim uprising through understanding their organization.
They fight in secret ways, so we should do the same.
G-d bless the will to continue fighting, but this time with means that will actually hurt the enemy.
Well, we have a very tough discussion on IT companies attack on civil rights as free speech and privacy of data.
First of all, I get it, we live in a dangerous world, and giving terrorists acces to a new IT structure to do whatever they want is off cause a bad thing.
At the other hand, the infrastructure of blogs and the internet in general, is there to underpin the democratic system.
Let me try to explain. In Google and Facebook and many other IT Companies, you have what is called a organization based on the “Copenhagen Spirit”. Mr. Niels Bohr, was the de facto leader of the Manhatten project that created the nuclear bomb, and he took the spirit of his research facility of Copenhagen and brough it to the US. It was so inspiring, that it still is there all these years after he came to the US. That is a creative environment, where people of skill have free rein to use their creativity, and there is a pursuit of knowledge and ideas, right?
It creates an amazing environment of production that has given us titans as Google, Facebook, Apple and many other IT companies.
But, and this is something you guys need to remember, Mr. Niels Bohr gave us a mission. After he finished the bomb, he realized to his horror the tool he had made. It could destroy the world, effectually creating a nuclear armageddon. So, he did what he thought was right, and wrote a famous letter to the UN, calling for a world of openess.
His good friend, and my predecessor mr. Knud Ejlar Løgstrup, was the Danish philosopher of the day, and he believed that to make trust and mercy work in a Democratic system, one needs openness.
So, as a act of trying to spread that idea around the world, Mr. Niels Bohr wrote the letter called the Weapon of Openness.
Now, you can arm Facebook and all the other IT infrastructure for good or bad. But if you want to stay on course and realize the ideas of Bohr, you need to keep the world Open.
It will, hopefully, create more trust. I know, that people have started fighting in the internet like never before, and we have violent and destructive political strains of political developments as a consequence.
When people are in the know, they get angry.
But, that does not mean, that the idea is wrong, it just means, that we need to make an open world, that gives people positive incitements as well, right?
PRIORITIZE the positive in the flow of communication, but dont start the censureship. That is the opposite of what a democratic society is about. And it will just start a wide crackdown on IT companies that do not respect basic rights of the citizens.
My advice would be, to see of the IT companies develop a balanced and positive approach to communication, and stop the censurship.
If not, we have to start cracking down on them.
I am an internet nerd, the great grandfather of blogging, and I would hate to crack down on the next and next generation. But virtue is needed to make the internet whole and positive. The basic virtue being Openness.
G-d bless the will to make an Open world.
When the US went into Afghanistan, it was a reaction to 9/11. An attack on New York in the middle of the day. Mr. Bush used the military to attack a country that, at that time, was the epicenter of a virulent version of islam, a sunni muslim renneassance version of islam including a political state and a repressive law system.
You can like that system or not, but these guys killed over a thousand civilians, just to prove a point.
The strategies change. When Barack Obama was at the helm, it was not so, that the sunni muslim rebels were given a wide berth. We fought them with new strategies such as drones and alliances with local democratic parties. The prime of them being the Kurds.
But Afghanistan remained as a country that we tried to build a democracy in. We kind of inheretid the problem.
One strategy is to go in and occupy a territory, another strategy is to use a combination of modern warfare equipment and diplomacy to reach our goals.
As of now, the last strategical approach is still in function, and it has made a wide alliance including both sunni and a few shia. Why? Because it is a balanced, intelligent and fair approach. It measures the response to the attack, and acts to refrain from civilian casualties.
But that still questions the occupation of Afghanistan. My view on it has always been to try and stop the occupation without leaving the population of Afghanistan at the mercy of the Sunni rebels.
This was also the approach of Bidens administration, but it seems to me, that the consequences are very dire for the populace of Afghanistan.
This is a problem we have to do something about. But just migrating all democratic Afghans to Europe will not solve the issue, it will pour gasolin on the fire of the antimigrant debate. So that is also a no go.
What we need to do, is to make an alliance with a neighboring country, and see if we can make a safe haven for the refugees there.
At least, if it is possible, it is the most balanced solution. Having Europe go into flames, is as bad as having all the Afghans killed. It will definetely create a chaotic situation.
This calls for decisive action and make fast and viable solutions for all included.
It also calls for a rapt surveillance of the current development of the anti islamic state initiative.
While Bush fought to fight the Talibans and the Sunni extremists on their own turf, we need to fight with the new methods of warfare; complicated it equipment, surveillance, and diplomacy.
This has not been in vain, we just changed tactics.
G-d bless the decisive action and tough approach to islamic state vigilanties.
When you want to Change the World, it is difficult, people react in different ways based on their world view. In the old world, Change is riddled with violence and destruction. If you want to Change something, you can be sure, that you get the entire system on your back. They will kill you parents, destroy your family, and steal your money, just to shut you up. Destruction seems to be the only answer to Change. They do not want to Change, well yes on a superficial level, but truly making a better world is definitely not in the books.
In the New world things are different, here Change is welcomed, and truly celebrated. Especially in the US, things Change according to a beautiful plan, idealism and faith in a dream of a world where we are actually happy remains as a strong drive for a better world. I mean, all my predecessors here from Europe either died here, og escaped to the US. So no wonder it is such an idealistic country. The US is s country made by rebels to rebels.
But the world has actually changed lately due to the development of the Internet, for a blink of an eye, the world opened up due to the faithfullness of the open soruce programmers, but is now closing down again.
That blink of an eye, where mr. Niels Bohrs idea of a an Open world was truly realized, is what we are still hoping for. Will good prevail, or will we enter another phase of closing things up, outruling the ability for people to reach each other in openness?
That is the way of the world, good and bad, hope and despair changes.
But as there is despair, there is also hope, and hope is what I and many are rooting for.
G-d bless the will to be hopefull in a world of despair.
When we talk about the consolidation of the Western Hemisphere, we need to understand what we come from, and then what we can mend and consolidate.
To do this, we need to understand other examples of conquest, empires and successes in that area.
To be really honest about the difficulties we see in regards to the English empire, we need to understand what was good about it, and what was bad.
The good thing about the English empire was the democratic system, that the Brits brought with them everywhere. It was a oxfordian discussion on how to make a good system in each colony that brought these ideas around the world. If we look at the world, it is still there, almost everywhere. In Africa, in Asia and in America. Why? Because people in these countries really like the system. It is not perfect, but whenever people try something different, it fails, and often with a considerable tragedy in terms of human suffering.
Add to this, the same system brought by the French, and Democracy as an idea is a sweeping success.
But, and this is where we need to be honest, there were other players in the colonial expansion; that of the banks and that of the colonial masters. The banks used their processes to rein in the power of the countries and the colonial masters were often cruel.
In this world, if you do something cruel, it comes back and you have to pay a price for it.
This is why we are seeing a degrading of the British empire into a sorry state, to be honest.
What we need to do, and this is something the Russians have been doing with great success, is to sponsor the positive sides of our culture, and thereby create a common wealth with unity in it.
The Russians all have a common Russian identity, based on the virtues of the Russian state. It works, today Russia is even bigger than the British empire, and there are no rebellion or anything.
The Russian expansion is off cause much older than the British, and has had more time to find a balance, but we can actually learn from that success. The way they did it, is by finding a positive common system that all can identify with.
The same process is what we are working on with the British empire. Find the positive common principles, that all of the former colonies like.
Thereby creating peace.
It struck me, when I talked with the Pakistani scholar at Oxford. He wanted some kind of Islamic state, but he truly recognized the values and virtue of a humanistic, democratic state, as Pakistan has today. But it has to be something that actually works for the people of Pakistan.
In this way, if we stay on course, and work on a positive, realistic common set of ideas, that all share, that has been a British colony, we can bring peace and prosperity for all.
G-d bless the will to find peace.
Now, I am very much against the whole race discourse.
Why? Well, essentially the system or idea about race, takes away any personal freedom the individual has, and judges people by something he or she cannot change, the color of his skin.
That is taking all possibility of making your own life, and make something out of your life based on your abilities.
But at a more profound level, I vehemently oppose the idea of race, because it was a part of the colonial control system. Just as when the banks controlled the colonies by giving them loans, the inhabitants of the colonies were treated as subhumans based on their skin color.
It put the white man at the top of the food chain and the black man at the bottom of the food chain.
So, when you continue banging that drum of race, all you do is to repeat the control system, in a new way.
Giving people of color preference in the system, is just turning the control system upside down.
This does not mean, that we should not help poor people, but they should not be judged by the color of their skin, but on what they do.
The US has ALREADY changed its mind on race, the independence wars was about race, because it essentially was against the colonial control system. The founding fathers wanted to build a nation without regard to race, thereby giving the people freedom.
To be honest, and I say this as a man color, because I am not white, the founding fathers came up with a system, that gives people the opportunity to be free, and find their own way in life.
They dreamed about a perfect society for everybody, white, black, everybody. A place where people were NOT judged by the color of their skin, but by the actions they do.
I stand for that dream, as it is mine.
So that is what I have fought for, my whole life, and I am not about to change that attitude, whatever you think. I will not accept that my little brown daughter is different from my little white daughter. Just because they have different skin color.
It is a vicious idea, and the very idea is what is wrong to me.
G-d bless the will to see the world as a place, where we can be judged by the actions we do, and not the color of our skin.
Now listen. We are up against China, whether we like it or not. It is like that. What we can do however, is to choose ourselves how we tackle the challenge.
What we need to do, is to be brutally honest to ourselves about the challenge. How have we been faring so far, and then what do we need to do to solve the challenge.
If we look at history, we haven’t even been able to decipher what is going on, so we need to get that down as a starter.
What is going on, is that China has taken the role of the colonizer from the English Crown. The systems and methods that the Brits used until Second World War, has been replicated by the Chinese. They use the banks to enslave the colonies, and suck their ressources.
This is not the criticize the brits, but to understand what the Chinese are doing. They simply filled the void that the brits left, as the grew weak in competition with the Americans.
The Americans would never use the same methods as the brits, because they themselves have tasted the sharp end of the colonial whip, and refuse to use the same methods. However this leaves a void, that the Chinese, with an acute willingness filled.
So, when you think of it, how do the Chinese treat the West, do they do this by trying to use the banks to enslave them?
Wake up guys, the Chinese are only lending all the money the do to try and enslave the West, there will be a time, when they want the money back, with interests, and we have to pay them back in ressources.
They are, effectively using our own methods on us.
That is why it is so important to try and get the books to balance again, and spend only what we make, not the other way around.
At the end of the day, what hinders the Chinese to really try and put us down, is our military, that they are effectively sponsering themselves, by giving us so much loans.
But as soon as that balance is shifting in the favor of the Chinese, this will not hinder them in taking our ressources, as they are doing with all the other colonies that they are acquiring around the globe.
That is the scale of the terrifying challenge, if we do not take this on in a decisive manner, once more America will be a colony.
And I know that that is not an option for the freedom lovers of a former colony.
So you guys need to be serious about this, tighten the belt, and start producing wealth based on your own skills. It can be done, but it will require severing the ties with China in terms of economic cooperation. Corporate America must understand the severity of the situation, and start making things in the US.
Made in America is more than just a election trope, it is a strategy to keep the US independent, in the end it is THE most freedom loving action American business can do, because it effectively hinders the acquiring of the US as a colony of China.
Look at China it pulled itself up by its shoestrings, we can do the same, if we start gettting serious about this challenge.
But we need to be serious in order to stop the colonial machinators in the deep recess of China.
Anyway, we should also be positive, and see this as an opportunity to grow and expand our industrial base, instead of just handing it over to our arch enemy.
G-d bless the will to ORGANIZE!
Well, there is no way around it. We have to discuss what we do to China.
First of all, it is extremely complicated, secondly it is extremely dangerous.
If we end up in an atomic annihilation campaign we are in deep, deep trouble.
Trump had his economic warfare, which didnt work at all. I mean, as long as we borrow a lot of money from the Chinese, then the whole charade of talking tough is just talk.
What we will eventually end up in, is some kind of fight.
What kind of fight, and how we do it, is what we are supposed to talk about.
First of all, I have faith in the American military. On the surface, when you compare tech, we may actually have a small disadvantage. But that is overwhelmingly balanced off with the courage of and steel of the American soldier.
At the end of day, it is the meeting on the battleground that will decide the outcome. The tenacity, the grit and the sheer force of will that will be decisive.
Chinese are artisans in this area, they make beautiful arts of fighting, and they are very good at it. But a cowboy is not determined by his good skill, but his grit to stay on the horse, day after day.
That is the truth of it.
If we should discuss the strategic level, we need to look at examples in history to have a chance at understanding what is going on.
To me, the most obvious parallel is Alexander the great, and his fight with the Persians.
Why? Because here you had the Democratic idealist pitted against a slavestate. Exactly like Communism in a Chinese version against the US.
We can learn something from Alexander the Great.
What did he do?
He was extremely good at putting up his troops, so that they outfoxed the Persians.
He had very few troops, like 50.000 against millions, and yet he prevailed.
How did he do that? By strategy. He was an expert in applying all kinds of extremely advances strategies to his benefit. One example; he made “mousetraps” in his army, a kind of a deeping in the ranks of his soldiers, when the chariots rode against the army, they instictively rode into the traps, where Alexander could make short work of them. He also sloped his frontline a little, which made it more difficult for his opponents.
In fact, he applied all kinds of tricks and strategies to his advancements.
AND he fought for freedom. The whole point of his advance into Persia was to free the Hellenes from Persia.
So, he had a mission. We need to be clear on our mission.
Now, Alexander was tought by Aristotle from a young age, in fact, Alexander saw it as his mission to spread the gospel of Aristotle. So, he was a missionary.
We need to be missionaries as well, but we need to understand that mission. Maybe it is the same as Alexander? To spread Democracy?
G-d willing they need that support in both Taiwan as well as Hong Kong. Two Democracies under the thumb of the slavestate.
We need to be clear on what we do, how we do it, and then we need to communicate those ideas. That means letting me loose.
At least, that would be the most profound and wise to do. And I am sick and tired og being held down anyway.
So, find that inner cause, that revolutionary fire, the fire of the American revolution.
G-d bless the will to rekindle the faith of the ancients.
You know Joe, when you were really in trouble in the beginning of your election, I chose you. It wasn’t the most rational, the best choice in terms of chance to choose a candidate that would give me someone in the White House that would listen to my ideas. But it was because you are my friend. When we worked together in the Obama time, we kind of found a way together.
Now in my current situation, when I am in a bit of a trouble, you seem to have the same reaction. Ok, Asger is in trouble, he needs my support.
That is what friends do, in a difficult situation.
What I am trying to say Joe is, that you are a good friend. And that quality is something that I believe, will coin and define your presidenship.
Being a good friend is not easy, it is something you need to work on. It takes the ability to be able to prioritize your friends, even though it may not be to your own benefit. But it also gives people, who get to know you, a faith in you. They know, that you don’t just abandon them in times of need, but stay, and try to help.
A quality like that, is what the Americans need right now, because it enables you to reach across the political divides, and make people come together.
Internationally, it gives you the ability to draw people around the same table, and make people be friends as well.
Now, people needs to know, that they can trust you, and for what I gather, it is already starting to work. In the Middle East things are not so troublesome, the Europeans actually like you, and in the pacific it is the same.
Actually there is pretty much peace everywhere.
So, that is a very good start. There is still the China question looming ahead, and it will come to some kind of clash, sooner or later. Make it fast and decisive when it comes to the fight. Don’t hesitate or linger.
But be careful of the atomic Armageddon risk. Avoid that, that is truly the great scare.
So use your great diplomatic skill in the eastern pacific theatre as well as in the Middle East, and see what you can shore up in terms of support.
G-d bless the will to do good in the world.
Friends, we are looking at a time of division. England and Denmark are going one way, a more conservative way, and the US is going a more liberal way.
I know, there are a lot of disagreements, especially when it comes to migration.
We here in Europe are not that keen on migration, and it is a more natural process in the US. I get it, but we have to understand, that what we should base these ideas on, either the liberal as well as the conservative is a humanistic worldview.
There are problems with some migrants, but not all. There are problems with some racists, but not all.
Either side can be either racist, terrorists or liberal humanistic democrats.
The difficult issue is where to put down your perspective.
For a long time, I have been very critical towards some of the radical islamists; al queda, islamic state and so on. But this has been to make room for the humanistic development in the muslim world as well.
We are all human beings after all.
In these issues often people tend to go down in the pits, starting to yell at each other.
Can we not do that, please?
But have a sober, humanistic view on things, and try to be clear on what is up and down.
We need to be open about the problems, but also find some kind of dialogue and understanding.
I believe, that unity is created, when we share ideals, hopes and worldview. There a lot of migrants in Denmark that support a democratic state, but there also some that dont.
That is the way of the world, the gangbangers and destroyers of peoples lives. They are there, and we should approach them without attention to color.
At the same time, truly support an inclusive approach to the migrants and refugees that share our values.
It is a true balance, and it is not easy. But going in the trenches wont help anything, it will just make it worse.
G-d bless the will to LISTEN to one another.
When we talk about race, racism, black against white, I believe we should think about what lies in the very core of the idea.
In its essence, its a tyrannical idea.
When blacks oppress whites, as they have in South Africa, and honestly when we celebrate whites oppressing blacks, it is the same. Two sides of the same coin. There is no getting out of your skin. There is nothing democratic, humanistic or liberal about race ideas. The idea is, that there is a perpetual war fought in the world between different races of man. That is just not right. There is no such thing as an eternal racewar, it is something we invent based on a sorry excuse for theory.
Darwin never thought about human races as racewar, that was a English Socialdarwinist who invented that.
I mean it has been 80 years since these ideas were as much as theorized about. Maybe it is time to move on?
See the world in new ways, such as hailing to the idea, that there is such a thing as redemption and humaness. That spirit will call to those who are honest and good? Be they any color of skin.
Do we really think spirit keeps tab on people with regard to their skin? Seriously?
We have nation, and that nation is worth fighting for, dying for, sacrificing for. But that nation is born by those who are loyal to the idea of the nation.
There are people who are not loyal to that nation, and should be fought off cause, terrorist, criminals and what not. Evil people in essence, but what makes them evil is not their skin colour, it is what they choose to do and believe in.
If you believe in fighting the citizenry, you are evil, it is a simple as that.
But you can have any skin colour to be like that.
Instead of more division, maybe it is time to stop the racebanting and be civilised.
We can stand and oppose the tides of race ideas, but we have to be honest with ourselves. Do we support the idea of race or not.
If you do that, then you also support war as principle, and is that a good or bad thing?
War is supposed to be avoided at all cost, but fought vigorously if it is there.
We have problems enough, maybe creating more is not such a good thing.
Be humane, be liberal, accept other people, but do not be naive. Find balance between the challenges we face.
That is the way of a sincere and successful politics.
G-d bless the insight we might find now, and hopefully find a little peace.
Well, now we have the eternal discussion on “race” in England again. This at a moment, where we were supposed to meet in unity. That was a shame.
How do we go about tackle that problem.
At the very core of the problem lie the idea of a “race”.
I believe, that only at understanding and shifting focus at the very core of the problem, can we truly solve the problem.
This will get a little philosophical, but bear with me.
The idea of “race” is a pretty old one in England, you can read about it in Ivanhoe and it stood in the center at the ideas of Darwin.
In essense Darwin theorizes, that each animal race will fight each other for dominance in a given habitat.
But there are several objections to this theory, and only by discussing the very core of the theory do we change the world.
First of all, there are no human races in a Darwinian definition. There is actually only one race, and that is humans.
Then we tend to have a little different skin color, but we are still all just humans.
We can all get children with each other, so we are the same race.
That is essentially one objection to the darwinian theories. Then there is another one, that is even more important.
Darwin was very much inspired by Goethe, who saw nature as a place of fighting, but also a place of great beautiful things as love, harmony and acceptance.
We should realize, that by banging that drum of race all the time, what we essentially do, is banging the drum of discord and conflict.
There is another element in the original ideas of Goethe, and that is the very essence of spirituality as something good and beautiful.
Maybe we should stop focusing on war all the time, and start focusing on the good of nature as well.
I mean, isn´t that what the climate discussion is all about?
That idea of a world in harmony and spirituality?
I know, there are off cause conflicts we have to tackle, and we should do that with the utmost of force and intelligence, to aim at a world of peace.
But banging the drum of race will only get us to one place; meanless conflict.
Maybe we should stop using the term wrongly, and see it for what it is; a social construct.
G-d bless the will to find harmony and peace.
Well that was a bit of a downfall, football coming home, and all that. It gave England something, as I see it. It gave England a sense of purpose a renewed confidence in what England CAN achieve, if we all work together.
So thank you for that, and even though we didn’t win, we still delivered an imposing feat. Hail to that.
But still, lets have a look at what is truly important these days post Covid. What is important is to make the whole society work again. Stop the negative spiral, and start a positive spiral.
How do we do that? We do it by being ambitious in terms of what England and Great Britain in general is.
For too long, have we just sat idly by, and watched the society be more and more negative.
Let us stop that movement, and start a positive movement.
What would that be?
That would be a positive preaching for the very core of England, in terms of its political identity and goals. Knights of the round table anyone? The dream of egality in the society. The amazing universities, where these ideals are realized in the common room, the mass, where we all meet as equals.
These egalitarian ideals, are at the very core of what England is. Then add the entrepreneurship of the British industrialists, the dreamers of innovation like sir Richard Branson, the positive caretakers at the NHS.
All these people could band together, and make a new England, based of the true faith of what England truly is.
Be courageous, be free, be honest in the challenges we meet.
There are plenty of problems ahead, not least the massive threat of UNCONTROLLED migration.
We need to reverse a bit of that development, and we can. But we need to do it with the utmost humanity.
Difficult decisions, and hard projects ahead, but it can be done, if we have faith in England, and the values there.
G-d bless England, and may it always prevail.
Joe, you are doing well. But, I know that I am pretty sharp in my opinions sometime, there is a reason for that.
The reason is, that we need to be sharp in understanding the issues ahead, and be clear about the priorities.
First of all, what I think Barack is right about, and what I have tried to support you guys is the fight for unity.
Unity is calling to what people share.
What do people share, they share the basis of the Democratic republic. That is the values and the virtues of that American dream.
So if you want to make people feel that they share something, find the things, that everybody agrees upon, are happy about, and proud about.
Now, don’t get my wrong, I am not saying that we should not help gays and Jews alike. I have been a dancer in many years, and therefor know a lot of gays, and they are a festive and in a way strange collection of peoples. But, and that is where you are right, they have a right to be recognized and protected.
So in order to support the liberal base, of cause we need to protect gays.
At the other hand, we ALSO need to find things that reaches across the aisle. That is the basis of the country.
There is a storm rising in the west that coming a potential war with China.
In this fight, people need to understand what is at stake. What is at stake is the freedom of the American people. Are we ready give that away. Be oppressed by a tyrannical state?
I think not.
At the other hand, we also need to see gays for their potential and freedom.
So we need to strike a balance with something everybody sees and understand, the values of Democracy, and see the gays as someone to protect.
G-d bless the will to be free.
Well, when things get out of hand spiritually as well as principly as things have in US lately, what do you do?
You go back to the roots.
The founding fathers, they had it right. They were descendants of the Italian Renaissance, where Hermeticism and Platonism was all the rave. I know, because I hold a dear connection to some of the knights of humanism.
So when people are in disagreement with what is up and down, you go back to the ideas of George Washington, why? Because those ideas of enlightenment and democracy are right.
In a way, the US is all that Europe WANTED to be, but couldn’t be, because we didn’t have the bright idealism you guys have.
So what are these ideas. Well, you see them defined in mr. Washingtons idea of a Republic. A Democratic institution, that see all peoples of the American electorate get a say. Ok such a great and big mass of people do not get so much to say, but ideally every citizen has a vote and a say.
This I think is the core of the United States of America. That great Nation of the brave and the free.
Here is another virtue you should both remember and cherish; Freedom.
To be free is what the citizens of the US was promised, and should therefor find each and everyone.
But at the core, there is the mission of the first pioneers. The very first settlers who sought for Israel.
What is Israel? Israel is the dream, the idea, that people can Iive in peace, side by side in harmony. Israel is paradise.
So why did the first settlers dream about that? They did it, because they KNEW, that it was possible to attain, that lofty dream and possible goal.
Is the paradise lost? Or is it still out there to be found?
That is what the US is all about, and trust me, it is difficult to realize, no doubt about that, but it is also possible. It is essentially a question of finding the right balance between all the different bodies and principle of the Nation; the law, the democratic institution, the religion. Make it into a whole, and you WILL find paradise.
At least this was the possible example of the first city, the city of Eridu or as we call it, the city of Eden.
G-d bless the peace and dreams we CAN find, if we try and try again. G-d bless the United States of America.
Well, that was a pretty good string of meetings Joe, to the point, and you made real progress with mr. Putin. Putin is a megapro. He knows how to play the game, and he is really good at it. At the core of his government, it is actually also a warm heart.
You know, Russians have always been villified by the West, especially under the cold war. But the fact of the matter is, that Russia and the US has much more in common than you would know at the surface. Where as the US started as a project 500 years ago, Russia started as a project 1000 years ago.
In Rus. Russians are really descendants of vikings coming from Scandinvia a 1000 years ago. They have had a rougher time than the Americans. Especially the Mongols were a scourge upon the Russians, but then the Russians took their free roaming spirit and turned it into the Kossacks, who swarmed over the steppes of Siberia. Kossacks are really close to cowboys in many ways. Vikings gone inland, shifting boats for horses. Some pretty amazing horsemanship and fighting skills of the Cossacks were displayed over the steppes.
So in a way there is the same kind of frontier spirit over both Russia and the US.
In the wake of the Trump administration this has been subdued, but it can easily be reawakened.
You see, the Russians really like the Cowboys, becaues they see some of themselves in it.
This was a difficult thing to promote when Trumps was president, now it has become a bit easier.
It will matter a lot when the showdown over China comes soon, and the showdown with the islamists in western europe as well.
Anyway, it seems that some rapport have been built with the leaders of Europe in general, and that is very important in this regard. They are extremely pressed on the security front and kind of caught between the wishes of the European Union and the public cry for security.
Hopefully Bennet makes it in the Middle East, so we will not have too many problems on that front. Hopefully we will make peace with mr. Putin, making that conflict less of a problem. Then we can focus on China, that is going hot in Taiwan, and Western Europe.
I know that it is a complicated picture, but we have to be able to see it for what it is, to make any progress. And we will.
G-d bless the will to be a peacekeeper and a strong defender of Democracy.
Well, it is time for a shift in politics, these are my recommendations for at first move in the vicinity of Israel.
Make friends with the neighbors. Egypt is the most important, due to the geographic border with Gaza.
Make friends with Sisi, show him appreciation and show that we appreciate his role as leader to one of the oldest and wisest cultures of the world.
Egypt has suffered for many years as difficulties and adversity has been the way things have been.
But deep in the memory of all Egyptians lie the memory of the golden era of Egypt. When the pyramids were built, when Egypt was the foremost country of wisdom. Sneferu, Akhenaten and all the other pharaohs.
It is through the lens of the understanding of the Egyptians as what they are, that we can maintain a friendship, the land of order and life.
Then do the same with the other countries around Israel, go to the Arab kingdoms and appreciate their culture and history. Give homage to the brazen desert warriors. Understand their fervent adoration of ethics and the right life.
Then go to Lebanon and water their cedar trees, as a recognition of the Phoenician heritage and their inherent beauty. And the go to Iran, to see, if there is still a bit of that Cyrus spirit. The spirit of valiant, ethical conduct. The spirit of doing the good deeds, speaking in a manner of good, and having good thoughts.
Understanding our neighbors is, to me, the key to peace.
There is a long way from Manhattan to Ur or Babylon, but people are the same everywhere, they want to be seen as who they are, and be respected in the their own right.
We in the West have given a lot back over the years through our research in the ancient cultures of the Middle East, understanding the wealth of culture in Egypt and other countries of the Middle East.
This understanding is now feeding back to the Middle East, and hopefully will renew its understanding of itself as the illustrious civilization it once was and now can be again.
This is the path to reach peace.
G-d bless the peace we can find in the Middle East.
Well Joe, things are shaping up. There are plenty of pitfalls ahead, but things are, more or less, back to normal. Normal being the state run by politicians with a good relation to the bureaucracy.
That is good.
Importantly, we need to look at the challenges ahead, in order to prepare.
Internationally, there are two main challenges, or rather, hopefully only one challenge.
First is the Middle East, secondly is the civilwar that is in its infancy here in Western Europe.
THE FIRST CONFLICT
First lets have a look at the Middle East.
Mr. Netanyahu is stepping down, yes it takes a few days or weeks, but mr. Naftali Bennet is gearing up for his own government.
How this is going to shape up, will be pretty evident in the first two to three weeks of his cabinet.
Mr. Bennet is a new kind of politician in some ways than Netanyahu, and in many ways he is just the son of mr. Netanyahu in political terms. And, Benyamin, sometimes it is ok to let the son take over the business, because, I mean look at the son you have got, he is SO skilled. So give him the best possible chance to do something with his presidentship. He has waited, now he is ready, so be a good dad, and give your political progeny a good chance to start.
That would show your pride in Bennet, and give him a good platform to base his initial political strides on.
The beginning is the hardest, and getting over the first 100 days can either make a platform like mr. Biden now has, or create no platform, so that the leadership cannot work.
Your choice, but power is only important if it in itself is progressive in the sense of giving the country a better future.
Maybe mr. Bennet is the future?
Anyway, I will try to help mr. Bennet in his first 100 days. Here is my first advice. Dont go too fast, dont go too slow. You need to progress with your vision in a steady but forcefull manner. Take your time, think it through, and then act.
Secondly, international politics is like a computer in the sense, that it is extremely complicated. It is a massive chess board, and there are some prette skilled players out there.
You can be outmanuevered in a short time, if you do not show skill in the game.
The Middle East is best understood, in the game, as a series of players who are ancient. Understand the Persians, the Arab, the Phoenician, the Egypt in biblical terms gone modern, and you will have sucess. Zionism in the original Lawrence of Arabia perpective is just that, a scholar on the ancient Middle East gone politician.
The Middle East loves that, the old ways, the traditions, the ideas of Babylon, Memphis, Ur, Zoroaster, Akhenaten, because that is Middle East tradition, and tradition runs deep in the Middle east.
THE SECOND CONFLICT
The second conflict to tackle mr. Biden, will be that of islamist insurgency in Europe. They are gearing, numerous terrorattacks in Belgium, France. It is a pot that is boiling over.
Here again, to me, it is VERY important to diffentiate between good muslims and bad muslims.
Islamic State are undemocratic and inhuman, liberal muslims of all colour are within the reach of democracy, and should be asked for dialogue.
So tackle the bad muslims and curry favor from the good muslims.
That is the plan at least, we will see how it will unfold. I do REALLY hope, that the trenches are not dug too deep, and the continent will go up in flames christians vs. muslims. But it can be isolated to a fight with only the terrorists.
But time will show.
The EU are planning on taking more migrants into Europe, that can only fan the flames. So we need to be vigilant, and see what will happen.
Then again, hopefully it will all just be small skirmishes, but probably larger conflicts will happen.
Anyway, we are out with a pretty good start, and hopefully we will keep our eyes on the ball, and keep America prosperous, equal and happy.
Because at the end, that is what it is all about, making a world where people are satisfied with their lives, and therefor just, happy.
G-d bless the will to make people happy again.
Thank you mr. President, after decades of service, finally it is time to put the sidearm to rest besides the chair, and breathe for a second.
So many years of vigilance and service to Israel will be written in the books of us Jews, as one of the greatest leaders of Israel and the Jews.
My good friend Gal always tell me, that the Jews that went to Israel are the Jews, that are not interested in giving in, but are ready to fight whenever needed.
After coming from Yemen, going through the desert, his family arrived in Israel some 50 years ago.
The same with many other Jews.
Then there were the wars, endless wars with everybody around Israel, but now, the people of the Middle East, seem to accept us, as a part of the Middle East.
This is your legacy mr. Netanyahu, that Israel is founded on a solid rock, and is not easily flustered.
Now a new leader arrives, and also he will be of the same vigilant type, becuase we Jews seem to have found a recipe for Israeli leadership.
In the next two hundred years, there will be one Netanyahu after the other. Not in name, but in type. The fierce soldier turned diplomat, turned politician.
Not too bad a legacy to put to ones name.
After all, changing the world to something better, is what we can aspire to do, and so you have.
G-d bless Benyamin Netanyahu, and may your legacy never be forgotten.
Well, things seems to have quieted down a bit, to me, that is not a bad thing. In fact, it is a good thing.
All the turbulence of the Trump presidentship has been replaced by the quietness of the Biden presidentship.
It is not such a bad thing. I mean, perhaps people need a breather after all the conflict and stress. It is as after a long run, you sit in a chair, and wonder if you can ever get up again.
Domestically people seem pretty ok with how things are. OK, not all are happy, but the balance between supporting the conservatives and the liberals at the same time, seems to set people at peace.
They RECOGNIZE the attempt to find common ground, and heal the rifts. Not having people protesting in the streets is sometimes a very good thing.
Anyway, there are some problems arising in Western Europe, the Islamic State has just carried out an attack in France, and my feeling is, that we are nearing ourselves a final confrontation with the Islamic State operatives in and around Europe.
It has the very real perspective in revolting the states in Western Europe making Caliphates, especially Scandinavia is in danger.
Sweden being most in danger.
Denmark is still the best card to play in the fight with the Islamic State operatives here in Scandinavia, we have a Socialdemocratic leader here, who actually understand what is going on, trying to stem the tide of Islamic state infiltration and so on.
But we will see, what will come out of it.
There are, fortunately, a lot of good Muslims here as well. But Islamic State has a strong hold in Western Europe, and the final confrontation is nearing.
What is the rest of the world going to do? They are going to stand up for Democracy in the fight with some of the vilest anti humanist forces in this world.
So that confrontation is coming up, whether we like it or not.
But, fortunately we have the moral fiber and resistance to tackle this fight as well. We will prevail, even though it will be both violent and destructive as always in war.
G-d bless the will to do good.
Well, we have had A LOT of experience with the farming sector and how NOT to make a difference in terms of climate progress here in Denmark.
First our government put the military into a total destruction of the Mink industry, that was NOT the way to do it. In fact it has created a tempest of violence and destruction in the farming industry.
What was the problem, well using the military to put through your priorities is a bit out of line. I mean destroying an industry with the soldiers. That is just way out of line.
Then we have had the discussion on lowlying parts of the farming fields. Another great blunder. The aim was to create a better and more biodiverse nature, but it will just end up in more swamps. I mean can you see the Goethian beauty in that?
Anyway, there are other, much simpler ways to make a greener nature.
I have had the supreme honor to talk with an old woodsman. Mr. Hans Kjeldsen. Hans has worked on the most beautiful little piece of forest. It has otters, deer and an amazing wild life.
It has small biomes of plants, a great diversity. It even comes with a Indian ring for all the hippies to dance in the night. Imagine that.
Anyway, according to Hans, who has worked on true biodiversity for 50 years, it is about finding a balance between forester and biodiversity. Between economical gain and biodiversity.
Leave it to the ancient foresters to make biodiverse forests. They know how to do it.
And how? Change the support system, so that more farmers can make biodiverse forests.
According to my sources, many of them would like to make more forests, but the support system does not make it possible.
But be clear on the features of the forests. You can have a forest of Christmas trees, and that is not biodiverse.
So, change the support systems, and make it PRIORITIZE biodiverse forests. That will work, at least in Denmark, and probably also in other parts of Europe. But make sure, it takes a national concesus in consideration.
G-d bless the will to make a greener planet.
Well, we have to understand the crisis with racism and the way we can counter it in the US.
First of all, I know all about it. When I go to the swimming pool here in Denmark, people get out of the pool that I am in, and go to the other swimming pool, because I look ‘funny’.
I have several friends that are what you would call ‘black’, and they are harassed in numerous ways. Right now, the friends of my kids are not allowed to my home, because I am both ‘brown’ and perhaps even worse, a Jew.
My great grandmother had to flee to Sweden in the Second World War, because she was a Jew, and so on. The story goes on, and everybody seems to be so nice on the surface, but when push comes to shove, they dislike me, simply because of my skin.
That is it, I have the wrong color. It is not because of my atttitude or my understanding of the world. I am a very nice person, I never treat anyone in any mean way. Ok, I am a debater, but I have never treated anyone negatively.
So I know racism, how people look at you with disdain and a lot of prejudice.
I know.
But, and this where I believe we can learn a lot from rev. Martin Luther King, I never get violent about it, or negative in any way. I accept the disdain of other people, and try to turn it around. I try to be the good guy without any prejudice. I ALWAYS try to build bridges and help people around me without regard to any look at skin color. To me racism is a social construct, nothing more.
I have two white friends, two black friends. My oldest daughter is pretty dark in skin, my younger daughter is pretty white in skin. I mean introducing racism in my own family would be sister hating sister, and that would be impossible, because my two little girls they sleep arm in arm every night.
But what to do in this situation where people are eating each other up in violence and disdain.
First of all, I believe in Martin Luther King and HIS faith in the civil rights movement, and FOREMOST in the principles of non violence. That was why I was so critical against the Black Lives Matter movement. One thing is that poor Floyd was murdered, because he was, his own actions untalked about, another thing is to go raving in streets, stealing and plundering.
Both actions are unforgivable in a civilized society.
Finding closure and a way out this mess, is the recognize the POSITIVE principles of both sides.
On the civil rights side it is truly nonviolence, the acceptance of other people, them being white or black or brown.
At the side of the police it is realizing the aim of police enforcement, that is, ideally to protect the weak.
It is when the police forgets, that it is about protecting those who are too weak to protect themselves, that the police looses a dear and wonderful part of themselves.
We are all here, we all need a place in America, but we also need to see, that doing so means that we OURSELVES take responsibility of our own actions and follow the principles of our forefathers and founding fathers. It is when we loose sight of those principles that America looses its greatness.
Make America strong is to FOLLOW the ideals of the US. It is non-violence, protecting the weak and generally being adamant about following the principles that is the true constitution of the great America. The REVOLUTION continued. It is ONLY if new generations find the beacons of idealism and follow the creeds of the founding fathers, that America is TRULY great.
G-d bless The United States of America.
Well, now I have been doing some practical, live world research and bridge building when it comes to Climate Change, the religious aspects of progressing at a path ALONG science and not against it. That is NOT against physics that is the main contender to the monotheistic religions and the result is actually extremely, extremely positive.
It really is surprising as to the theoretical success I have had. But it is on such a convoluted and DEMANDING basis, that it definitely will take some time to realise.
First of all, my main idea with religion as to the competition it has with science, was to make a BRIDGE between religion and science.
The hypothesis was, that IF we from the religious community can make a theory, that elevates the ideas we have to a true METAphysical platform, people might actually start to take us seriously again.
Denmark is ideally suited for this, because we essentially made modern science. At least the greatest minds of Denmark did, mainly Niels Bohr, and at the same time, IN Denmark there has never really been a true split between science and religion. Niels Bohrs best friend was a theologian called Løgstrup, and Bohr himself was of a family of priests. Bohr also sported his own version of a chinese philosophy, that people haven’t really understood after Bohr, but the fact of the matter was, that Bohr was a religious man.
So what has actually happened when I started to work on all my religious/physical theories in practise?
Well, from a practical perspective it has all failed. Mainly due to the fact, that the left wing here in Denmark seems to dislike me some, and because what they decided to do (they have been in power for two years) was to initiate a maelstrom of destruction instead of making any real progress. A destruction that is taking them down as we speak.
They started out killing a whole industry here in Denmark. The Mink industry, that is, admittedly, an industry that can be questioned in terms of animal ethics. But what they have done is to use the military to KILL all the poor animals, and render the whole industry void, thereby taking out the meals of the mouths of countless mink farmers. It has been total devastation and numerous mink farmers have committed suicide, image that IN DENMARK! We are supposed to be the epitome of civilization.
It is beyond comprehension and is a true crime against innocent people, and they will, eventually fall because of the ferocious actions they have. They send the military after farmers!
On the other hand, my own experience concerning my work has been stupendously successful.
Like this. So I started interviewing all the physical geeks. A guy making a system that can turn cars into running on wind power alone, through a complicated chemical procedure, you can actually make fuel that runs on wind power. All you need to do, is to change a computer calibration of the motors specifications and you can run on green methanol made with wind or solar power. How cool is that?
Add to this the ability to take all the garbage of the farmers and turn it into green gas that you can then use in power plants or cars!
So the first time I met one of the green geeks, I kind of wanted to make my intentions known, so I told him, that I am a metaphysician, and I have proved the existence of G-d. He looked at me pretty incredulously. Ok I admit, I kind of had my own little reversed Nietszche moment there, instead of killing G-d og revived him.
But then something absolutely magical happened. The physicist started to warm up to my ideas!
Instead of debunking them as stupid a hoax, they loved my ideas.
So I sent one friend I got my papers from Oxford. And he started raving about how cool it is.
So the physicist loved my metaphysical ideas.
So while the whole left wing here in Denmark were busy slaughtering up to 15 million animals, rendering the poor farmers obsolete, I had a true metaphysical/physical heureka moment.
So I can say, that my ideas actually work on a scientific level. The physicists of Denmark are world leading.
Anyway where does that leave the religious communities?
First of all, it leaves the task to relive metaphysics. Reinvent and make it alive again as a scientific course.
THAT is the true challenge to my mind. Because religious people in general are really deep in their understanding of things, but a true metaphysical tradition really died with the dark ages in Europe.
Reviving it from the greek roots is what we need to do.
I know that there is a lot of discussion as to whether the greek ideas are the best, but we have to start somewhere, yes I know that in Kaballah there is a whole metaphysical universe, but the fact of the matter is, that the scientist are running on the greek ideas, and they have surpassed us in the depth of knowledge and in methodical application. That is the truth of it.
IF we are able to make a link to the physical environment of scientists, we can start from there and make that connection that will eventually elevate the religious community to a whole new level.
But it will be difficult, because the scientists are so far in front of us.
What we need to do is, to REMAKE METAPHYSICS as a line of scientific inquiry.
Did you get the Brian?
That is truly the task, and it falls on Oxford or Cambridge to do it, because Oxford and Cambridge are the world leaders with religious studies, as while Denmark is leading with physical studies.
So the bridge is there, it is extremely weak, could be broken any time, but it is there.
That would be the crowning task of your life mr. Mountford, to remake metaphysics after a dormant period of 1700 years. Imagine that.
G-d bless the will to make G-d live again.
Spot on Joe, a renewed focus on economy seen from a Smithsonian perspective is not to give tax cuts to the rich. Don’t get me wrong, we need rich people, and they need to be recognized for their contribution to society.
But instead of making a Keynesian attempt at just pumping out money to industry, we need to address, as I see it, the true problem of free market theory.
To me, that is UNDERSTANDING the theories of Adam Smith, and consequently try to find the solution we need to find, within the framework of the Smithsonian theories.
Adam Smith wrote two books, The wealth of nations, that gave us free market theory, and ethical works on how to behave morally.
His basic point is, that freedom has to be balanced out with moral views. That is, what we support, hold dear, sacrifice ourselves for and find virtue and value in.
According to Smith, this is an inner compas, your conscience.
I believe, that the workers are always very conscientious.They love their country, and support their local community. They sacrifice for a better world. They don’t send away production to China, they still are what is written so proudly on the boxes shipped out of the production hall; Made in America.
That is the true point of Adam Smith, according to my understanding of Smith, freedom has to be balanced with conscience towards the country you live in.
Someone has to be the pillar of society, and the ones who make things for the little ones to look up to, and be proud of.
The workers are the salt of the earth, and what we should concentrate about.
So invest in them, and other parts of productive America. Farmers, fishermen, bakers. People making things, because the truth is, to have a job is in itself a source of pride and self esteem.
But don’t forget, that the rich are not necessarily enemies, they can be partners, IF they stop the production flight to China.
This is really where I think we changed something in the last period, we stood up for the workers, and tried to keep their jobs in the US.
That gave us a job boom, and a much needed source of extra income.
To be an empire, you have money coming in from all around, but at the of the day, what you are, is what you do, what you make and how you do it.
Don’t forget those proud words, and make it even prouder; Made in America.
G-d bless the will to stand up for America.
Well, now we are at the eternal dance around the ‘golden calf’ Israel.
It seems to me, that it holds such a mirage of attraction due to its status as the hub of the monotheistic religions.
The power that holds Israel is the leader of the three religions.
So as a consequence all three religions fight for dominance.
But, and this is truly where things get interesting, what happens when the TRULY leading religion of the three, namely Judaism holds sway over the holy city of Jerusalem?
This is really what this fight with the Muslims is all about, do the Muslims accept the leading role of Judaism or not?
This is why, the ETHICAL conduct of the Jews are so important. How do we tackle the conflict. If we are less ethical than Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the perception of our conduct will be harsh and instantly condemning.
This is why I believe that the ethical or moral choices we make should be as best possible.
This does not mean, that we should just take all the beating, we should most definitely not.
But it means, that our response should be measured and precise.
WE should, by all means, avoid ANY loss of civilians on the Muslim side, and ONLY respond in equation to the attacks we receive.
We cannot be seen as the dominator but only as the defender.
Because at the end of the day, we should remember, that there is a HUGE audience looking at what we are doing, and in these social media times, lies have harder time flying, so most people around the world can actually see what is going on.
Yes Islamic jihad still have some supporters on the extreme left wing, but most sane people can see that Israel has been attacked, and is responding in DEFENSE.
So precision, only targeting military targets, sheltering all Israelis, the ethical way of war, and we will win what this war is REALLY about; international acceptance and support.
I mean, why is it, that Europeans should support Islamic extremist terrorizing innocent civilians?
G-d bless the will of Jews to survive and do what David did; use his sling to fight with precision and force.
So first act in the two pronged conflict I presumed has come underway.
The conflict in the Middle East between Sunni and Shia Muslim terrorist against Israel is under way.
Why do I call them terrorists? Because shooting rockets towards civilians is the very definition of terrorism.
War between soldiers and military infrastructure is one thing, using civilians as targets are forbidden according to the UN charter, and the Koran.
Civilians are not to be touched in war, it goes against all ethics when it comes to war.
This situation is due to the fact, that the Biden administration has not really touched upon the Middle East in earnest, so now the warring parties in the Middle East are trying to see how far they can go.
Will it be an apocalypse?
A realization of the ancient prophets as to the advent of Israel?
It remains to be seen, but I do feel that apocalyptic vibe in the air.
Anyway, my best advice to the Biden administration would be, to try and go BEHIND the proxi parties in Gaza and talk directly to the Arabs and the Iranians. Hamas and Islamic Jihad are nothing in themselves but the extended arm of Iran and the Arab world, or at least, that is what they try to be.
It makes sense, to reach the real powerbrokers instead of the pieces on the board that are simply moving at the order of the power brokers behind.
This is not to criticize either the Arabs or the Iranians, but to put forth a strategy.
G-d bless the peace, we will eventually find. G-d bless Israel.
Well, we are now entering the post corona world, which equals to Asger has to get back at international blogging world, or whatever you would want to call it.
There are several daunting yet possible challenges ahead. First of all, there is the climate change challenge ahead of us. This is a great problem, but there are a lot of solutions as well. I have worked with it quite intensely here in Denmark, and even though it is a bit of a potholed road to the end result of eternal climate bliss, we are actually getting somewhere.
There are some pretty interesting perspectives in using wind and solar power that we are looking into here in Denmark.
It could almost for certain end up saving the world, imagine that.
Next in line lies the fatamorgana of world peace, which, at the time being, is looking a bit bleak. There is the rising tension in both Israel as well as France, that is the hub of islamist uprising.
Where that goes is still to be seen, but it is going to be interesting to see, where it all leads. I hope for a peaceful solution, but to be honest I doubt it.
In Denmark we are working on a repatriation scheme, that will, slowly and surely repatriate islamist and criminals out of Denmark.
I know, it can be criticized, and it should. But if you come to a democratic country, and your first act is to try to change it into a fascist islamic state, well, then you are a terrorist, and should be treated like that. That is pretty obvious. Terroism is terrorism.
This process is still in its infancy, and it remains to be seen if it will work, but there are good signs.
We also have to be a bit realistic about the endless climate change migrants that seek the promised land of Europe and the US. It has to be conducted in an orderly fashion, and it is the choice of either the US or respectively European countries if they wish to have the new citizens, or repatriate these material refugees to a place where they can be helped without direct access to Europe.
I know, again a tense subject, but we have to make these things work, and not just be a slave to our own lack of imagination. Things change, and we have to tackle the problems we face in an orderly as well as humane fashion for all involved, but migrants/refugees as well as Europeans and Americans. It has to be done in a nice and humane way.
The last bit of discussion to my mind is the inherent issue of trying to make a welthfarestate and at the same time having free migration to the country.
This combined effort is a bit of a false idea. If you want to make a wealthfare state, you need to make pretty steep barriers to enter, otherwise the solidarity with the others who pay for the welthfarestate will stop.
It is a pretty deep fault that goes all the way back to Marx and his misreading of Spartan society, that is the ideal of communism or marxism.
In order to have solidarity, people generally need to know each other and feel a kinship.
At least this is the point of Lycurgus the founder of Sparta.
That is a dilemma we need to be honest about, if we want to continue or expand the wealthfare state. It goes against the current understanding of socialism, but it is nonetheless the point of Lycurgus and he built a city state that lasted for 700 years, so he is probably right.
We can’t really compete with the ancients in this regard, we have to respect their wisdom to my mind.
Anyway, we need a steady hand on the wheel, and the going is pretty soon going to get tough, so we need to stay alert in France and in the Middle East in general, things could just end in war.
G-d bless the will to find a way that will end up in peace.
Well Joe, you are doing quite well, and the classic Union ideas are MUCH better than Woke identity politics.
To me talking about Union Politics gives us a way to connect to Marxism in a way, that we can talk about what is good and bad about Marxism.
I think I have a bit of a unique view on Marxism, since Marx was one of my distant family members. Trier where I have my name from, is where Marx grew up in a Jewish family, so I feel a kind of kinship to him.
This does not mean, that I do not see his faults and flaws, I do.
One of his major flaws being the fact, that he threw out religion out of the window. That is a major fault, and one of the reasons that I have sought to support religion so forcefully. Without religion, there is no natural bend towards good.
This is why I believe, that if you want to make an Obamacare 2.0, don’t forget the priests.
I believe, that religion should be a part of a social wealth fare state. The reason why we have a state to care for the weak is found in the Bible.
In this way, you also reach out towards the Conservatives, making a bridge there.
I believe, that only through spirit, can you really understand the positive aim of society, it is about the angels. When you are inspired by angels, you naturally do good, right?
The reason why a lot of the social welthfarestates tend to corrupt is because of the materialistic basis.
There is the discussion on progressive tax as well, I have some ideas about that as well, you might want to use too.
It is all about fixing the faults of Marx, making a humanistic system, that will actually work and make people happy and content.
G-d bless the will to do good in this world. Be a better person and make a whole and happy world.
Well, things seems to be developing in a direction that will, at least for the eastern side of the US, be difficult to handle.
As of now, France is REALLY gearing up for a fight against islamic extremism. Twenty generals have publicly declared leftwing academics and many muslims enemies of the Democratic/humanistic state inadvertedly threatening the politicians with action, if they do not do something.
So, what does that mean, really?
Well, it means, that France is adamant in keeping its lead in fighting islamic extremism, and academia is in for a difficult time, to say the least. This is not a little insignificant country, this is France, mother of all revolutions, and a fierce defender of freedom. Its intellectuals founded the US, more or less.
Add to this, France has always keenly sought a role in world leadership. Here it has its chance, because the US has had a few years of problems.
What is it really that France is saying, it is saying, that it is willing and able to start a WAR against islamic extremism IN France, in fact the generals are threatening the politicians that if they do not do it, the generals will put them out of office and do it themselves. Since they are fighting for the integrity of the state, and the state is democratic, off cause this will not be the end of Democracy, but a protective action.
Where does that leave the US, again, I hope the US will get back in the lead, but to be honest, I am pretty smitten by France. Just imagine a French revolution in my time, and having a part of it. This like christmas time for any philosopher, it does not get any bigger. I know, then there is all the violence and the bloodshedding, but the vibe, and the courage. There is nothing like a French revolution, period.
So what do the US do?
Well, to be honest the US needs to see some action as well. But, there is the importance of recognizing the pro muslim part of the Democratic party. Bernie and his crowd. We cant just go on muslim hunting, and it would be wrong, trying to find a balance here is important.
Will it beat the french? Maybe, maybe not. But seeing the French in all their glory maybe is not such a bad thing, and we are sharing values like 1:1 anyway, so it is not that we have an ideological difference.
The French are ambitiuos, and they have a window of opportunity here.
We are looking at a war that is potentially a 100 years long, and definitely vicious, but the alternative is the fall of the Republic, and that is simply not an option, period.
G-d bless the way we will find, as the world is gearing up for more action, and France is leading the fray.
Well, now we are, at least, going in the right direction, but we must realize, that there is truly a long way to go, before the world is really under any kind of American leadership.
This I do not say to discourage, but to kind of prepare ourselves for the long haul.
One of the things that has been going on in the last four or five years is the leadership gained by France in fighting islamist extremism. They are fighting it in France and in the entire francophone world.
As opposed to the Anglo Saxons, France has never really had the same break with its colonies. They are stil kind of colonies, but since France have started out being a humanistic/democratic republic fighting for equality, the French colonies have never really been treated badly, not as the Belgian og Anglo Saxon Colonies, so there is still a great bond there, that is truly humane.
At the other hand, the french colonies, especially in middle Africa are really fightin against islamic extremism of the worst kind. The killers come down from Sahara and start their killing spree.
Point is, if the US wants to lead, there is a lot of catching up in this area, and with the softer tones coming from Washington, people are wondering whether the US is drawing of the conflict fighting Osama Bin Laden, IS and so on. A fight that is raging in Africa and Western Europe.
Again, we should be very careful not to push away good muslim allies as Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Bangladesh and pro westerne democracies and allies, and find that balance.
But the fight is still very much alive, and right now France is leading.
Finding some kind of action and strategy here is really important, and cooperating with France is very important, since they are doing a very good job at it.
France wants to carve our its own legacy and honour here, and to me, that is just really good, leading is not about giving credit, it is about making strategies and supporting, selflessly for ones allies.
But, there remains to be done a huge amount of work here.
Then there is the border crisis. I know a hot potato, and ms. Harris is drowning in the job, I get it.
But it is, nonetheless a crisis building up steam, so we need to tackle it in a humane yet forcefull way. And in the current climate of animostiy that is going to be really, really difficult.
I mean Noam Chomsky is pulling out the big guns, and is calling anyone who wants to tackle the crisis with an iota of order and seriousness, evil.
That is the problem lying right there, and we need to solve it, to make progress and lead again, fix America for everybody, black and white and brown.
So what should we do?
First of all, I would initiate a dialogue with the involved countries that are loosing their citizens to the US.
Yes, some will cooperate some not. But some kind of communication should be established.
Then I would invest heavily in border control. Not a border control to run around and hunt people, but make systems that actually house migrants, make sure, that all rules are followed, keep the kids safe. Be serious about this.
Chaos is not doing any good, we need order to protect people.
So invest in border security, but with the aim of making the whole system humane.
In the UK, mr. Johson seems to have fallen asleep, what is going on Boris?
I know that being sick is a devastating experience, me myself have just had two years in bed more or less. But that is life. As Franklin D. Roosevelt once said; if you are at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.
But now you are healed again, so you need to carry on brother. That is life, ups and downs, use your skill to further the interests of Britain and the Commonwealth, but in a nice and decent way.
So equality is not about one winning over the other, it is about harmony.
If you are truly equal, then you are supposed to be happy, that is the aim of the world today, to make a harmonius, equal world, where people are happy, right?
Not too much conflict, but respect and honesty.
G-d bless the will to heal the world.
We now have a new minister of transport, mr Buttiglieg, pretty cool guy to my understanding, has the right balance between liberal and conservative standpoints, and even educated on my favourite university Oxford, the magical place. But seriously Buttiglieg, a rehash of the normal Keynesian philososphy of borrowing money from the banks, investing it in infrastructure, which is essentially giving jobs to the construction business of the country. The money that is invested will give some jobs off cause, but what about the agrictultural business, IT, defense, and numerous other production companies, and most important the car business that is really in trouble, or at least was some years ago. Is that not also important? I know mr. Buttiglieg is only minister of transport, so that is his focus, but a wider strategy is also important, to my mind.
My take on it, that gave both Obama and Trump a massive boost in jobs was to diversify the investment to ALL production companies, BUT, and that is very important, ONLY in patriotic companies.
My good friend Jan O. Gregersen, the chairman of the workers union here in Aalborg, showed me a painting of one of the main founders of the Union, he was of the opinion, that workers and business work together for the furtherment of Aalborg.
That is a good thing, says the smith.
Point is, to make jobs, you have to diversify your investment, and not only use a lot of money, there are other ways to do it as well. Like cutting red tape for the businesses and really recognize those American companies that are loyal to the US.
It is about the old worker working together with the business owner to get the country on a right footing again.
To ORGANIZE! to cite one of the old idealists of the workers union.
With all respect for mr. Buttiglieg, that seems to me at really cool guy.
G-d bless the United States of America.
It is kind og working Joe, the Western Europeans are warming up to a renewed alliance with the US, and it seems to me, that people around the world are engaging in some serious soul searching. Having the US back as the leader of the world is something people need to think about. Because where does that position them in the game of thrones.
Making some kind of overture to Russia is a wise move essentially. It secures the eastern front, and then we can focus on Turkey, that is threatening Europe quite openly.
Here we have to be honest about how they are doing it. They are doing it, by smuggling IS fighters into Europe through the mass migration caravan that it has tried to initiate in the past.
This is a conundrum, because at one hand we need to take care of refugees around the world. My own father fled from Bangladesh during the civil war there, he was a freedom fighter.
At the other hand, abusing our good hearts actually makes it much more difficult for the real refugees to be accepted. Here in Denmark, people are pretty annoyed with all the mayhem, that the IS fighters of different kinds are making here. So people get pretty angry. Danes are fighters and wont leave it alone.
Yes, then sometimes, it is reflected in inhuman decisions and attempts, I agree, but handling this anger is very difficult. Finding the balances and so on.
But that is the lay of the land in Denmark, but also in Western Europe in general. Finding that middle path, is increasingly difficult, and may just end up being impossible, creating chasms of animosity and trouble. Trouble like shooting artists and the like in Charlie Hebdo.
But, if and when the US should and will take a leading role, it should be to find a equilibrium in the understanding of Muslims in general, support liberal Muslims, fighting the terrorists.
My father was a liberal Muslim, he was really into Mahatma Ghandi and the unification of a democratic Bangladesh. A liberal person in all ways, so to me, that is a prove, that it is possible to find a way in Islam towards Democracy.
BUT, and this is really important, we need to be serious and realistic about the challenge we face. When we made the Arab spring, we thought that just bold action would do it. But that was a mistake. Toppling the governments in Northern Africa, was a serious mistake except for Tunisia. We need to be careful, not to destroy the states that they have. Revolutions may be pretty cool, but they can go the wrong way.
Anyway, we are actually moving towards a renewed role of leadership of the West in the world. To me, that is a good thing, if it is based on true insight and wisdom.
In this way, we have created a leadership, that is to the benefit of all mankind. Ok, our system is the humanistic/democratic, and we fight for that. But that does not mean, that we do not UNDERSTAND other systems, and can have some honest and good relations to them.
Maybe it may not look new, shining and bright, but to me, what we need right now is not new shining and bright. We need to reestablish the leading role of the US, and using proven methods, something people know and understand is the best way. Then after some time, when people get used to us being wise and understanding, then we can start developing new and more advanced ways and strategies.
Good thing about the redrawal of the troops in Afghanistan. Well done mr. President. You are showing bold action, and linking the redrawal to a fierce action against terrorism is very good. Keeping America and our allies safe.
We shouldn’t forget the climate issues, and should be bold in action here also. And I have to get used to writing about international strategy again. It is very, very, difficult and a terrible responsibility.
But, and this is what I think is important. It is done from a free perspective. I am not bought by anyone, I pay for the blog I write, in fact it is done in opposition to the state, that seems to want to oppress me all the time.
That is, to me, a pure, idealistic democratic/humanistic perspective.
So well done Joe, you are starting to look good in the eyes of the world.
G-d bless the will to find peace, at the end of the tunnel.
Dear Elisabeth, sincere condolences with your late husband Prince Philip.
I have myself tried to be through such trials, loosing someone I really liked, and I must say, that I really sympathise. You cannot describe the loss you feel, when someone so close goes away.
So this is not a critical review of Prince Philip, but rather a call to all his strenghts and qualities.
Once a gentleman, always a gentleman.
What was it that that gentleman gave the world. Well, being a loyal knight of he Maltese brotherhood myself, my take on how I see see Prince Philips qualities, is seen through that filter, the filter of a knight of the realm. What was prince Philip really? He was the one, who still held the banner high even though everbody else seems to have lost their grip. It is in this unswerving loyality and honor to the crown, that I see his greatest quality.
He would enter a fight with a song on his lips, and an ode to England, holding the banner high over his head. And he had done it, in his own life, many times.
You have very few of those loyal, serving souls left in this world. To me, being able to serve one of those brave knights of the realm, has been a tremendous honor.
He was the very soul of Britain.
But the beauty of his life will be, that the virtues and values, that he had, will be carried over to new generations to come. Making sure, that there is an England also after his departure from the fight of keeping Britain whole and sound.
He was an ideal to many, and a stallwart defender of the realm.
Hail to him, and may he rest in peace, having lived a life of quality and sincerity, that few others have lived.
G-d bless the magic islands of the British, and may it prevail. G-d bless the living memory of his highness prince Philip.
Well, now the dichomoty between democratic islam, and kalifate islam is enhanced and underlined both in the UK in relation to the current debalce over the Mohammad cartoon in a school, and in the meeting between the EU and Turkey.
It seems to me, that the radicalists are trying to dominate and find conflict with the European/American democratic alliance.
At the same time, we have the conflicts with both China and Russia.
This is too much.
If we want to or not, we need to tackle these issues.
My take it is, as I wrote in the last posting, to PRIORITIZE the conflicts. So that we try to reduce the conflicts with the Russians and pick the anti democratic foes of China and the islamists.
That creates the necessarry balance with the Muslim community, makes a sound ideological basis under the fight, and it creates a situation where we have sound alliances.
The Democratic West is ready to fight the islamists, and we need to be able to hinder escalation with Russia. Russia are not keen on Turkey either, so there is a possible alliance there. To beat the Ottomans is a pretty old score unsettled with the heirs to the Byzantine church.
The Russian Orthodox church is an heir to the ancient Byzantine church that is still in existence in Turkye, albeit a shadow of its former selv.
So the lines of conflict are pretty obvious, we just need to initate a planned and organized response to the islamist in Western Europe and China, and make peace with Russia.
I know this is difficult, but these are the conflicts that are there, and we can pick and choose how we fight them.
G-d bless the will to be wise in strategy and bold in action.
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.