Ok, it really, really shocks me to hear about all the accusations of rapist behaviour of mr. Trump. They truly seem to be true, and that is the end of that presidential campaign. You simply cannot beat that. Whatever ms. Clinton could have done or not, nothing beats that.
To go into a presidential campaign with that as a possible newsbreak is truly suicidal. The worst scandal in the story of the United States of America.
There is not much to say, other than he did say somethings that were right; like the problems at the border, the problems at the bottom of the industrial rungs.
But that does not excuse this behaviour. As ms. Obama, I am speechless. I thought it was just a hoax, stupid me.
G-d bless the dignity of the United States of America.
There are a lot of signs, that points to the imminent arrival of the Messiah, peace is slowly descending on the Middle East, Israel is thriving, and it seems to me, that there actually is a viable chance that the house of David will indeed be reinstated in the state of Israel.
If we look at the last constitution, that is the constitution of David and Solomon, compared to the constitution we have now, that is a Socialdemocratic, non religious constitution, how would they compare.I mean apart from the fulfilling of the prophesy, there is also a practical organization that has to be done in order for the new king to be a part of the political process.
In practice, how will the Knesset react to having a king all of a sudden.
If we look at other examples, we can see, there are a few to compare to, Denmark, the US, the U.K.
In the US, the president holds the position of the king in a normal monarchy. In Europe, the kings are still hereditary. That is, a single family has been on the throne for a long time, the role of King, or Queen, given from father to son or daughter.
What really is noticeable, is the dignity of the role. A king or queen, is an extremely dignified person, and has a role of loftiness.
The Queen in Denmark rarely talks about much, but when she does, it is with an extreme dignity. She is straight backed, honest, but she still respects the parliament and its decisions.
The current organization of the country, that being a de facto substate under the EU commission, is not her cup of tee, but she refrains from commenting on it, focusing on the wellbeing of the realm.
This role is truly what a new king should fulfill. That of giving dignity to Israel. I believe that mr. Shimon Peres really had a element of this in his ways. He was so dignified, so his example is something we should look onto, to look for a true king.
It should be one that understands the balance between parliament and the signification of the royal institution.
If it actually is realized, it would be an extremely powerful position, giving peace all around the world. It would make the world a better place, and ensure, that we would live in an era of progress.
G-d bless Israel.
Well, it seems to me, that the election is, more or less decided in the favour of ms. Clinton. Ok, there is still some time, and it seems to me, that mr. Trump has invigorated his fanbase. That in itself is really impressive. It would have been difficult to even have a campaign if that had not been the case.
But, listen. This is a very strange election, usually the debates are the high points, but with all the media coverage of the character assassination attempts, the debates seem to matter less and less.
Anyway, as a Dane, to me, I would be happy to work with both persons. You know, I support Hillary, as a true supporter of mr. Barack Obama. But the differences between the two contestants in terms of content, is actually not that wide. Both support a non-racist stance, both are for civil rights, both are against Isis, but not against all Muslims. Mr. Trump even apologised to the muslim hero he had antagonised.
There are differences in the small things. Especially in the stance on second amendment, migration and the relationship to Russia. But all in all, the differences are truly not that wide.
When it comes to leading the country, I do support Hillary, I think, honestly, that she would do the best job. But, I do not worry that mr. Trump would ruin everything. I think he has grown through the election.
So, all in all, i think, for America, things are shaping up. For Hillary and Donald, we will see. But my bet is on Hillary.
G-d bless the United States of America.
It is one day from the most devastating, potentially, turn of events in the world. The second debate in the American election.
As a rare treat in the world of philosophical development, I have had, and has the honor, to participate in that debate.
While as I have been a part of the renewal of politics in the sense of finding the roots of politics. Trying to find the core of what politics really is. This contest is carried by all of what it not is, mud slinging, accusations, debate on moral character rather than political content.
I do believe, that what we need is not a mud fest, but a new direction.
But it seems to me, that that hope is in vain. We have the parties and contestants we have, and they are both flawed to some degree.
But that should not keep us from looking at the world from a sound perspective, and discuss what is not good for us, but how civil service, will be just that, to serve the public.
One true advise I can give ms. Clinton, is a thing she may have overlooked, but then again with the level of preparedness maybe not.
Trump is going to hammer on the alleged infidelity of mr. Clinton. This is just …, but that is an angle. Don’t worry too much about that, he is not exactly the model of good behavior himself, as we have recently come to know.
But there is another flaw or weakness of ms. Clinton, that talks to his strengths in the political discussion, open borders.
That is the opposite of what he is proposing, that is closed borders, and he has the electorate behind him in this area.
So some kind of modern approach to that issue is extremely important. Open borders is true poison for the Clinton campaign. I would recommend a sound and normal understanding of borders. That is, that it encroaches a given territory with a given political system. So that those in the system are, in our case, democratic, and outside, they have other systems.
I know that this goes against the dreams of many people, but this is exactly what scores and scores of voters are against, both in Europe and in the US. If we do not leave that political stance, we end up with a lot of neo nazism, KKK and whatever they are called, and that is simply not a price worth paying.
G-d bless the United States of America.
Well, it was an ok debate yesterday, it was not the prettiest, but it will work.
When we look at the connection to budding Democrats, that tries to learn us about what it is to be young, there is one point we have not truly realized yet, but we need; the fight with Islamic state.
We have ourselves moved quite a bit these late years. Let me give you my own explanation and historical brief.
It happened in the last intifada. Here mr. Netanyahu made a pivotal decision in the middle of the fight. It was all about going in and start truly unleashing the might of the IDF against the budding Palestinian state. In the final ours of that quest, I asked mr. Netanyahu to hold his horses and wait for the world to realize what was happening in Iraq under the guise of the other war. The IS was on the move, taking area after area, finally building the Caliphate.
The world watched in horror and expectation on the unleashing, but it did not come. As a result, Israel is today still in one piece, and the economic and worldwide backlash a pummeling of Hamas would have given Israel was held back. On the contrary the fight was seen as kind of “even” in the eyes of the international audience. Actually a tremendous victory for Israel in itself. Israel reaped the fruits of that victory by the alliance with the Arab world. Quite a feat.
Anyway, let us have a look at “Islamic State” and what it has given us. It has given us a world of pain to all who do not agree to their view. They go after the gays, the minorities, the weak. They rape and pillage. Lately there has been a string of attacks on American soil. Things that are anti Liberal in its very essence.
What they are aiming at is a vast, G-d driven state, where the imams are ruling everything from how to pick your nose to how you take a s… (Sorry) to how to patronize women.
This is what we are truly fighting, a regime that puts Fox network and Breibart as a willy nilly, pink sambadancers.
They are the true tyrants we are facing. Yes there is Wall Street, but these guys beat them by far. Because they defy all that is humane, democratic and just.
G-d bless the will to win.
Things are starting to shape up for us. Mr. Trump seems to have lost his connection to the real world, and we are working on the positive and true image of our campaign. Well done campaigners. And especially well done ms. Clinton, you passed the test with flying colours.
What has really happened?
Well, we are in the middle of another revolution. Mr. Sanders keep telling us this, and maybe he is right?
What is this revolution he keeps talking about, and our young are so idealistic about?
I have thought about it, and there is one thing, that made me realise what it really is; the fact that we have not talked about communism for a long, we have, however talked a lot about another thing that is, or was, also revolutionary in its time; Democracy.
Mr. Sanders, and mr. Obama er truly not communist revolutionaries, they are democratic revolutionaries, and that is a huge difference.
We are not fighting for communism, no we are fighting for the values of the First French revolution. Human rights, enlightenment, the freedom of speech and law.
This is what is the true core of what we are witnessing. And that is bearing the torch to at new generation.
While communism did not stand the test of real life, democracy did. We are in the middle of another of those revolutions. In France they are talking about the sixth republic, we should be talking about democracy 2.0.
Another round of the good, rationalistic, freedom loving men and women, fighting tyranny.
There are a lot of people who despise politics. It is because we have forgotten the virtues of a democratic republic. Forgotten the honesty and enlightenment it craves. We should be thankful that our young daughters and sons reminds us of these values yet again. Because otherwise the system just stops working.
This is why we are winning, we are truly fueled by the revolutionary spirit of the Napoleonic Cisalpine republic.
The right and privilege to be free and the willingness to sacrifice ourselves for that.
G-d bless the United States of America.
When we live up to the expectations of what we are as Jews. There are no closed doors anywhere. When we do not, we are vilified and hated.
That is the way it is. The choosing of us as a people, is not just a blessing, it is, as much, a curse.
We have to be perfect, in almost any possible way, and then they put us on a pedestal.
I think this is why the life and work of mr. Peres is such a telling tale. Everybody hated him for the Oslo accords. But I mean, at least he tried, right. I would not have done it, because there were too many unknowns, and too many players, that did not want the peace. But, he tried, and he won the respect of the world, but the despect of Jews.
I think we have looked on it in a wrong way. What he tried to do, was not make peace, it was the SYMBOLIC act that mattered to him.
He must have known that it could not be done, because the cards were as they were. But he still tried, and doing such a symbolic act, he actually carved out a name for himself, and showed the world, that there is a will for peace.
He was the false Messiah, and for that he was hated and still loved.
When will the true Messiah come, that is the question we all put to ourselves. The king that will truly give meaning to Israel, and realise the existence of Israel. Because, at the end of the day, Israel can only be built by the Messiah.
I know that perhaps I am the Messiah, perhaps it is Barack. To me, that will only be proven, if there is peace.
Until that, we will have to see. But I believe, we should see mr. Peres life as an example on someone who could have been the Messiah, but never really made the last step.
But he showed us a way. That is his true legacy. He showed us, that there are Jews, of a high ranking, that will try peace.
With that, he won the praise of the world, and paved the way for peace. Because he made an example.
In this light, I believe we should see his sacrifice. Because he knew he would have to pay, and he did it anyway. For Israel.
G-d bless mr. Shimon Peres, may he rest in peace.
Ok, there is a bit of momentum right now. Let us use that, put in a few jabs and blows, put him on the defensive.
First of all, we need to understand what truly gave is a lead in the debate. It was not due to good looks or extravagant use of ideas. It was because we gave as we got.
That is the key, and that is truly the difficult thing in this contest. We put mr. Trump on the defensive, and he could not get out of that corner.
That is how we win, be we should be realistic, we caught him on the wrong foot. He was unprepared, he did not see it coming, and he had lulled himself into a belief, that a milder tone would win him the election. In short, he underestimated ms. Clinton.
That will not happen again. We need to put up our defences, and start that gruelling fight with mr. Trump. We should not be overconfident, because one victory will not win us the battle.
So we need to shed the calculator, and start the grim fight. Ok, not too much, not absolutely, but with honour and initiative.
Take the jab mr. Trump does with the discussion on the infidelity of mr. Bill Clinton. This is absolutely grim.
We should be the same. Ask him why he did not deliver his tax papers, is he hiding something.
And then be honest with our defence.
That part of the marriage of the Clintons is totally problematic, but it is a long time ago, and we have found a solution.
Let us go on talking about the things that matter, should we?
Something that matters NOW, like why mr. Trump does not show his tax papers.
It is dirty, but we need to realise, that, to some level, we need to meet mr. Trump in the dirty gutter, otherwise he will just bully himself to the presidency.
G-d bless mr. Trump and ms. Clinton, may it be a relatively fair fight.
It is a bit difficult to be a rebel in ones own country, and then a middle leaning intellectual in international politics.
It gets a little schizophrenic from time to time.
In Denmark I am waiting for a book by the late spy chief Scharff, who did persecute me, and tortured my little daughter. Perhaps his new book will shed some light on the controversies we have had, but I really doubt it.
Internationally I helping ms. Hillary Clinton, and I am working for peace in the Middle East. That is not exactly a rebel standpoint.
But in a sense, I believe that some of the purity of rebelliousness gets to be a part of the mainstream. That is actually good, because all leaders used to be rebels at a given point. That is, we did start out ,to try and change the world to a better place.
But in practise this arrangement is very difficult.
Ok, stop the whining. I am just trying to explain why I have not been more focused on the American election. It just so happened, that my good friend Uwe got attacked by a museum employee, making a work of art.
This was pretty big in the news, and Uwe have a lot of trouble. So I do, as I always try, supported him in his troubled times.
It may seem like a small thing in politics, but he is my friend, and I should be there for him in his trouble.
But, I WILL stay on course internationally. Barack is right in his point, that we need to win with Hillary to continue our work.
G-d bless the United States of America.
It is really difficult when kindred spirits pass away. I have a hard time saying goodbye to someone that I respect so much.
Mr. Shimon Peres passed away yesterday, may he rest in peace.
For me, a relative newcomer to Israeli politics, I feel a bit humbled by the things that mr. Peres took from me. But at the other hand, I can see that we shared a lot of things; the striving for peace, and at the same time the will to keep Israel safe.
This is what Israel is supposed to be; a project of peace. And only when we obtain peace, will the spiritual task of Israel be achieved.
In a way, that task is so daunting, that you have to use all your energy to really achieve it. You have to be focused all the time, be vigilant.
But if you are, you can move things along.
With true tears, I mourn mr. Peres, he was much more than the founding father of Israel. He was Israel, and let us hope, that we can live up to his expectations.
G-d bless the memory of mr. Peres.
To be spiritual, I believe the essence is about being a good person.
The ethical discussion must therefor be at the heart of any person that believes himself to be a Christian, a Muslim or a Jew.
It is like that, right?
But the problem about being a moral person is the fact that the right choice is often very difficult to make. What some believe to be the right choice, others do not.
Take my discussion on Islamic State. In the beginning, this was a thing of taboo. People really thought that I was a bad person. But it came out to be a true, right. Look at what they are doing.
You can look at it from many perspectives; psychology, metaphysics, social sciences. Some people believe we have a innate moral compass, others believe in enlightening the world. But at the end of the day, the truth of the matter is, that being good is one of the most difficult things to be.
One of the things I often see people doing that is a mistake, is many peoples tendency to take the easy road. To do what everybody else do, to blend in. This is the best choice if you want to be socially accepted. But it leaves all the moral consensus to the leader of the group. If he or she is a bad person, the entire commune he is leader of, will be bad as well.
Power corrupts, and a lot of power corrupts a lot. So if you are in an organization with a powerful leader, there is a chance he or she will be corrupted.
It is here the task of the servant of G-d, always to ask himself; what is the moral answer in this case.
Evil is often disguised as good, that is my experience. In fact, the bad people often parade their goodness. Tries to obtain a veneer of being the right and moral person. They cloak themselves in the cloak of goodness. You know the person that always has to be the one that prays the most, or sit, venerably at the head of some local community council to help the poor.
Bad people like to LOOK good.
The real good people you often find at places that is not posh or fine. They are there where they can actually do good, and that is often in the gutter somewhere. Places where things smell, and the air is ripe with sin. There you see them, going about their business, like angels in the filth.
The sad thing is; if a leadership of a country or a congregation, does not realise this. These few angels, that should be ones to lead us, never reach the leadership role they should have. But remain in corners around in the gutters washing peoples feet, taking care of the homeless, sick and poor.
I believe, that one of the things we should start doing, is look for angels, where they are, and ask them to lead us.
Often they would reject our pleading, and go about their business, but often enough they would sacrifice their calling and be an administrator.
If we cannot ask them to lead us, then try and be inspired by those few lights, and do as them.
G-d bless the pursuit for goodness.
I think the discussion last night war absolutely brilliant, it could not have been better. Well done ms. Clinton. Still a long way to go, but on to a good start.
We can still wheel some support in, due to the bomb shock mr. Trumps camp must be in. But it has to be done now.
That is, go out, make your points again at some convention, and start pushing some more.
It is about momentum, try to build on the momentum you get from the discussion.
Well done, ms. Clinton, well done.
G-d bless the willingness to remain humble in the office of the United States.
I believe that mr. Jimmy Carter had some good ideas about what could be the content of this presidential election. Or rather the content of the democratic contented.
1. Civil rights
2. Climate Change
3. Economic justice
These ideas are so strong, that they may very well carry us directly into the oval office.
We still have to counter the threat of islamism. This is a prerequisite for a successful presidentship
But we may have ideas about what we want to do, but we still have to carry the crown juvels into the next four years of presidency.
That is, on one hand, we have to counter the immediate threaths to the US, and next come up with some new ideas, so that people think we have a positive message as well.
G-d bless Hillary Clinton, and good luck in the debate.
The old US of A is tearing up in the seams. What is happening, well is it not obvious if you at it from the eyes of our enemy?
Our enemies are islamists, we fight them i the Middle East, Syria, Iraq, and in Libya and many other places.
This we do, because they are a threat to the liberal order. That is it. The new thing is; they have landed on our shores, and are now fighting, viciously and without any regard to human casualties, spreading terror wherever they are; Orlando, new York, Boston. You name it, you hate it.
This fuels an unconscious fear, also called …. terror.
So in essence, we are fighting the terror here in the US and abroad. But the terror still has hold of us. And instead of us using our tools to target the terror, the angst fuels the racewars.
So what at one point had nothing to do with race, is subtly converted into something else.
What is the cure?
We have to be open and precise about the character of the threat. It is not all muslims, and not all blacks, it is islamists. People who believe in the caliphate and fights for a sharia driven state.
This will, at one hand, give all, without regards to colour a flag to rally around, that is democracy, and at the other hand spare those democracy loving muslims.
So, scream it out, yell it at the top of the roofs, make it clear, fight it, enlighten it, show it, name it, make it bleed.
This is a fight for democracy against at vile creed, an abomination, we need to put it to ground. All, white, yellow, black in defence of out democracy.
Do that and save America for another round.
G-d bless the old US of A.
You know, sometimes, you stop all the grinding and have a little look on what you are, where you come from, and where you might go.
One of those occurrences happened to me just today. It was a silly, small thing, but it kind of struck me anyway.
At prehighschool I was kind of crazy about this beautiful girl. We shared some time together, but it never really kicked off.
Sometime after my prehighschool I had this message from her, where she told me, that she had had a crush on me as well. Kind of tragic. Since then, I have often thought about her, where she might have gone to, what she had done to her life. Did she get married, had kids, and so on.
Stupid thoughts really, but the first love of your life seems to stick.
I just realised what happened to her. She went to a little beautiful island called Bornholm, where she became a professional potter. That was what we had in-between us at that time, we did a lot of pottering together.
You know, if she had, or I had had the courage to ask her that time when we were only fifteen, we would have had a completely other life. A much, much better life. But that is what it is right. You are often pushed to this side or the other by chance.
My point is, you do chose, sometimes where you wanna go, and what to do. Other times you dont.
It has been a bit of a serious relationship Denmark and the US has had over the time, since the Mohammad cartoon crisis, or rather since mr. Fogh was PM of Denmark.
Now we have a shift of presidents of the US. And we can choose to go on with our relationship, or end it.
Like any relationship.
I think my basic point is; when you find something worthwhile, dont lose it. You need to fight to keep the good things in life.
I believe that the friendship between the US and Denmark has been good for both of us. We inspire each other, fight our battles together, have our victories and losses together. Somehow we have grown over the last decade or two.
Let is hold on to that, as long as we can. Because together we are stronger, and the good relationship we have, brings out the best in each of us. That is what friendship is about.
G-d bless the friendship between the US and Denmark.
The American election is tipping around. The reason is, that ms. Clinton is not energetic enough. You have to push your agenda, otherwise someone else will take over.
There is only so much you can do with money, at the end of the day. It is about you, getting up on that podium and start inspiring.
This is a war on energy in a sense. Who has the most to put out there within a frame of civility.
G-d bless the wisdom of beauty.
In a very secular society, all virtue seem to disappear sometimes. There is very little “right or wrong”, there is confusion and the disappearance of traditional values.
Well, I am very traditional in some ways. You know I am a family man, I truly love my wife, and strive everyday to make my little family work.
It has come to the point, where there is a certain balance. In the beginning, it was very difficult, we had no money, and little support. But now after six years, it is getting better. We can pay our bills, there is even a little left after the bills are payed.
Some of the conflicts there were so much in the beginning are not there anymore. Now we do truly support each other, and we can relax. Mind you, this is not perfect, far from. We still have our grievances, as all families have.
But, at the end of the day. It works, we are happy with our little family.
Today, there are many answers to the happiness of life. Go down to any bookstore, and there you will be presented with a myriad of advice; eat healthy, go jogging, make a good career. But what truly matters, that is family and friends, few books are written about.
Why dont we have a good and serious book about how friendship works? Or a good book about the happy family, supported by spirit?
Why dont we, those who are supposed to be the caretakers of family and friendship talk a little more about it?
The gospel of joy.
Why dont we realise, that goodness leads to happiness. If we spread that idea or thought, then we would win over the sceptics and the naysayers. We could say, we could or could not believe in G-d. But there is an idea that we do believe in, and that is that we have to be good and supportive people.
Goodness and care taking, is a moral imperative, we should do that a little more. We should not be naive, and have our goodness be abused, but we should do as much good as we can.
G-d bless the home of families and friends.
It has been 15 years, since those terrorist flew into the Two towers of New York, one of the hall marks of freedom.
It is nice to say, right; freedom. Freedom of speech, freedom from tyranny, freedom from suppression.
It has been a whole bunch of years, fighting one battle after the other, winning some, losing some. But at the end of the day, I believe we have come out stronger. The enemies were not just the islamists, Osama bin Laden and so, also our own corruption and lack of high moral standards when it comes of all the virtues of our society; freedom, justice and equality.
I may not be American myself, but I do know how you feel, how the endless infights of not only our allies, but even our own friends seem to take over from time to time.
At this time of of the year, at this special occasion. I believe we should shed what makes us different, and embrace what makes us alike.
Unite, to the tones of our prophetic anthem; we are the bold and the brave, and so we will remain.
G-d bless the United States of America.
Mr. Zuckerberg asked at Facebook about thoughts concerning Facebook. What is the essence of it really, and how may it develop. This is not a critical essay, but an essay to lay a philosophical idea behind some of the UI development.
Lets have a little tour back memory lane, to where it all started, that is the IT, computer business. It started with Gopher. I remember when I were at university we had this new device that could show a coffee machine somewhere else in the world, we were like; thats amazing! Then we had a computer with a mouse, the idea was again just hilariously ground breaking.
But then again, let us just look a little further back to when some of the hippies were listening to Clearwater revival and talking over something called the Well. Strange, they talked a lot about Openess I remember. Openness became a thing for the nerds. Open source, free code and so on. An ideological strand within the computer community, that gave us things as Wikipedia and Android.
If we take a look at that stream, we can, if we wish, take a small step even further back to the beginning of the cold war, and we may have an idea about what this is about. At the time the great leader of the atomic development team that gave us the tech behind nuclear warheads mr. Niels Bohr, a Danish physician, was in deep trouble. He just realised that he had invented a tool that could effectively end the entire existence of the planet, and he reached out. He made this beautifully scripted letter to the UN, called the “Weapon of Openness”, you could call that the secret simulacrum of all geeks. The kind of deeper scripture of Anonymous and all those free wheeling internet hippies.
Openess. I happen to know a little bit about that idea, because you see mr. Bohr did not just take that idea out of the open. It was a part of a Danish discourse on ethics of that time, that seeped out internationally, and yes, now I will give you the deeper meaning of it. That comes with another beautiful story.
You see mr. Bohr was a friend of a philosopher called K.E. Løgstrup. Mr. Løgstrup was one of those rare thinkers that actually invented his own philosophy, and, by all means a lost thinker that many churches could take up. He was the true heir to Kierkegaard, in my eyes.
He had a beautiful wife, a certain Rosalia Løgstrup. Just as Kierkegaard was helplessly infatuated with a certain Regine, Knud was in love with his beautiful wife, GERMAN wife.
Under the second world war, one day the German soldiers came knocking on the door of the Løgstrups, and Rosalia had to answer the call. The thing was, that Knud was a part of the resistance, a leading part, and the soldiers wanted him.
So there you have it, a German Rosalia speaking to German soldiers about her husband who were fighting the Germans. A dilemma. Rosalia did not solve this dilemma, but told the German soldiers a little about where he might be. Not all, but a little.
Happily Knud was never caught, but he was questioning the wisdom of Rosalia, so she answered him; it is a basic human trait to be open. It is when we lose our ability to be open that we lose trust.
It is what makes us human.
Now, fast forward to Facebook, perhaps mr. Zuckerberg can actually use this wisdom? Openness is more than just a principle, it is one of the basic things of humanity. If you create more openness in the world, you will, by doing that, make people see themselves, their loved ones and perhaps even their enemies more openly, and thereby bring them more humanity.
G-d bless the will to be open.
To win this election, we need to get into the offensive. It works like this.
While we use our energy to demonise mr. Trump, he uses his many faculties to try and make a policy that will work with the voters.
Mr. Trump is many things, but he is not stupid, on the contrary he is extremely intelligent. He is not evil either, he is just without much experience and extremely conservative when it comes to migration and so on.
So if we just continue demonising mr. Trump, he will eventually win. By small steps.
Mr. Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, the major news apparatus out there, has some really interesting, and I think sympathetic ideas about the impact of Facebook. He says, in the old days people got their views from a single news source, or perhaps a couple of news sources. Today with Facebook, the reader are much more prone to be presented to views they would not necessarily agree with.
What does the mean in this election? It means, that even though mass media is not very friendly to mr. Trump, the normal reader does not notice this very much. There will be news outlets that will convey the ideas of mr. Trump regardless, and they tend to pop up everywhere in the internet, because, basically, these informations are of an interest to everybody.
This is the new situation we are facing.
What does that mean? It means, we are facing a war of solutions. People look at the solutions to their problems, represented by different candidates, and they chose accordingly.
That is why I would say, as Alinsky said in his work; organise, organise, organise. Or content, content, content.
We need to come up with serious, solid, good solutions to the problems that Americans worry about.
So what do they worry about the most? They worry about getting jobs, we covered that base, by supporting American made production. Let us use that a bit more.
Then they worry about crime and terror. This is a topic that we have not covered that much. It is extremely dangerous.
But notice, that mr. Trump has softened his ideas on this field. It is not all muslims now he charges, but only islamists.
This is because he is reading Rubicon, hi mr. Trump, you very welcome, and if can use my ideas, please do. But I do still support ms. Clinton.
So what we need to do, is to make a refinement on the same topic. Otherwise he will just use my good ideas, and not ms. Clinton.
The way it can work is like this:
Instead of charging muslims with terror, charge Islamists. That is politically driven muslims. They dream of a Caliphate and hates democracy.
That is an enemy if there ever was one. At the same time, take of civil rights. This is one of our core strengths.
Say that you support our democratic rights, and know that most American Muslims do the same. And at the same time, you will hunt down all those democracy hating muslims, wherever they are. To win the fight over IS.
See it? At the one hand you do protect most muslims, while you protect the American citizens. The secret services are absolutely ok with this tactics, because this is what they have been doing for a long time anyway. So it is a proven tactics.
G-d bless all who fight for Freedom.
I remember for a long time ago, I met this German guy. We walked along each other for a little while, and he just seemed demoralised in a way. I understand this, after the second world war, Germany lost, and with it lost a great deal of its identity and self appreciation.
It has been a paradigm in Germany, that Germans do not question any refugees coming into Germany, because it lost in the war. In a way it was a way to repent, and pay back.
Listen, I am a Jew, my own great grandmother had to flee nazioccupation in Denmark, and almost died. We have a long tradition in my family for supporting Jews in the run and Israel. But this is not a argument for all the suffering that Germany now runs through. It has to stop sometime.
The Shoa will always be a part of Jewish history, and will never be forgotten, it will stand along the persecution in Persia and Egypt many thousand years ago. But this does not mean, that things cannot change, we can be friends again.
But right now I believe that Germany should start thinking about surviving. The problems at hand are getting out of control, and you have to do something about it.
The rise in crime that has followed the massive migrant influx worries Germans, and that is understandable. The religiously motivated conflicts also worries the citizens.
Germans are extremely wellorganized and courageous, we know that. So you need to use those skills to stop the crime, and end the suffering of Germans who are living close to all the problems that are everywhere.
Do not use excessive methods, but use the tools you have within the state to protect Germans against abuse. Otherwise things might just get our of hand.
G-d bless Germany.
If you want to change something, look at the bright side. That was my point about mr. Soros and his focus on the dark side.
Good preachers look to G-d and see his light for what it is; benevolence, love, charity, support, help, solidarity all these words that transcends all that is evil, and boundaries between men.
Bad preachers they look at evil and rages against it. They talk bad, and have a moral superiority towards other people.
Good preachers know that people are full of faults and will do bad things from time to time, but always tries their best.
Bad preachers look at the faults of the man, and scolds him for them.
Good preachers are full of forgiving and love.
Bad preachers are full of hate and venom.
So the same goes for politics. Good politicians are all in for the good in society and focuses on that. Bad politicians focus on the faults of their opponents, and see a moral problem with them.
To win something, you need a positive vibe, you need to come up with new ideas to solve the problems we have.
That is why I believe we should see our world in the light of a benevolent spirit. A, “yes, we can!” spirit of positivism. Ok, there will be many a turn, where people will tell you we cannot. Do not believe them, there is such a thing as goodness and solidarity in the world, there is!
G-d bless the will to look at the bright side of life.
I know that climate change has not been a major point in the current political debate. But, this is one of the strengths of the liberal part, and we should play by our strengths.
After reflecting on the metaphysical and biological content of nature, I think we should also come up with some practical ideas.
If we zoom in on the ideological content of climate change, in the light of an Empedochlean understanding. Nature has to be set free in a way that it will seek harmony. Harmony is about balance of the different factors, and purity. A simple ecosystem has a better chance of working than a complex ecosystem. So what we need to find is places where nature has been left alone and not meddled with. Like the natural parks. These all sit in remote areas where people have a hard time coming to.
We should build on that idea and make more natural parks, where it is possible. And not only natural parks on ground, but also in the sea.
The good thing about natural parks is also, that people can go there and be inspired about nature.
One thing is to talk about it endlessly, another thing is for people to see it with their own eyes.
One last thing, that I think is a problem, and that is with no comparative data to support it, is the vast pollution of the Pacific Ocean. There is a lot of plastic floating around in the sea, and it is a huge problem for many living species. Turtles, fish, perhaps even some of the flora.
This I am not expert in, but there have been attempts on recovering and rinsing the Pacific through different means. That would be a good project to work on.
G-d bless the will to be the caretaker of nature.
When we talk about climate change, I have often been a little sceptical. Because even though nature is a place that I know I go to find G-d, the simplistic idea that all nature is intertwined and is G-d did not seem right to me.
Let me give you an example. When I walked the Camino de Santiago, that is a pilgrimage to a church in Spain (before I converted to Judaism) I had this amazing experience at the end of the walk. The Camino is an arduous trial you give yourself, and in the process of walking you sometimes get revelations.
Just before I reached the final church, I walked through a glade of eucalyptus. It was a sunny afternoon, the birds sang, it smelled of the sweet smell of green eucalyptus, and I just got the most important revelation there in the glade. This was my church, so to say. The glade was the true church, in the sense, that nature in its beauty, is where G-d really resides.
You go back to the whole discussion of climate change, this is really what it is all about right? We revere nature as where to truly find G-d. And we try to protect the creation of G-d against the rape and destruction often brought to nature by mankind.
This is both right and wrong. Right in the sense, that G-d is nature and resides in nature, wrong in the sense, that in nature there is not only G-d there is also destruction and misery.
This is where we go wrong I think. We take all nature as the residence of G-d, and we fail to see, that in nature materialism is there as well.
The dog eats dog process is also what nature is. So taming nature is sometimes to the benefit of spiritual development in nature, so to speak.
To heighten our understanding of nature is, I believe we need another model of it than what we have already.
Nature is driven, according to Darwin by two forces, firstly by the selection of the fittest live within a habitat, and secondly by sexual choice.
These two principles are better described by another natural philosopher, in my mind Empedocles (the same philosopher who invented progressive tax). He says that nature is like sphere, in the centre is love at the fringes is strife. The development of nature goes as a tidal wave between love and strife. At a specific stage there is strife in nature and in other stages there is love.
In a sense it is the same theory as the either-or idea of Kierkegaard. Saying that you either go with your needs (seduction) or with you spiritual self (forgivness). In other words, there is materialism (strife) and spirituality (love) in nature as such, not only in us humans.
This is really the realisation I think we should make. We should not support material and destructive tendencies in nature, but support where nature seeks for love and beauty, in order to enhance spirit in nature.
Take my little glade of Eucalyptus. G-d was there, and I felt in connection with G-d. If we do the same as environmentalists. That is find where G-d is most present in nature and protect those places maybe even enlarge them, we will do a service to nature, G-d and ourselves, because these places will be the most vivid places of worship for us.
But I think we should also make the connection to ourselves as well. Finding spirituality in nature is also about ourselves. We are G-d in the sense, that we have the ability to support at lifestyle that is pure and virgin. If we take that road, we get closer to G-d.
G-d bless the creator.
Well, if we develop something, we need to understand what we are doing, right? If we just do whatever we feel for, it is not really going anywhere constructive. Research and development needs to be based on sound theoretical ideas to work. I mean, if you want to build a house, you need to know mathematics, how the different building blocks should fit, a fair bit about plumbing, electrical work, architecture and so on.
The same goes for political development, you need to know what you are doing, otherwise you often just end up in being sucked into the never ending cycle of dog eats dog.
There are different attitudes to political development these days, but my feeling is, that they rest upon the wrong foundation. Usually it is a late marxist analysis on some economical foundation. I like economics, my greatest succes has actually been to point on to a Smithsonian developmental technique, but this is purely philosophical and not numbers.
You see Marx was more than a capitalist analytical thinker, he was also a platonist. The idea of the commune is Platonic, and Marx followed the fascination Plato had with Sparta, and tried to copy that. The whole idea about a wealthfarestate is really an overblown version of Sparta.
Now, being an ardent neoplatonist myself. I believe that Marx were right in some areas, and wrong in other areas. Marx was a good mathematician, no doubt, but his ideas of political order were not so good as the ideas brought forth in the French revolution. I suppose democracy as an idea was taken already, or something, I dont know.
Now the pure Marxist state has been abandoned by most countries, because they usually end up in a dictatorship and moral coldness.
Why? Because, as I see it, Marx took only the political framework of Plato, and he rejected the ideological framework of Plato. Why is that? Because as Plato were many thing, there was one thing he was most of all; he was a metaphysician, an academic on the theories of spirit.
The keen reader will have a look on the above picture, and you can see Plato in the centre pointing upwards, to G-d.
If Marx had done a spiritual dialectics instead of a material dialectics, it might just have worked. Because the absence of spirit in a political framework will take away the basic motivation of people to do good.
That is really the key to understand modern socialism I think. To understand that the discourse should be spiritual and not only material.
If you take that leap, you will see a whole new world, and actually have a chance to make it work.
I think that that is one of the main reasons mr. Obama was such a novelty, because he on one hand believes in spirit, (hope) and at the other hand believes in the materiale world (change).
This new item of political discourse has not been realised at all at the university level. But when it does, it will create a whole new strain of political debate, and a new beckoning path for people to follow.
That is true political disruption, that is Change.
G-d bless mr. Barack Obama for his new brave ideas.
I have been thinking a lot about George Soros these last few months. There are a lot rumours about him, but after the leak by a lot of emails, it seems to me, that it is right, that he is funding a lot of basically destructive leftist projects.
I have been thinking a lot about this, because when I read about the story of mr. Soros, I just, immediately liked the man. He seems to be a man of great conviction, he has as a bit of the same background as I have had. He is a Jew, and has had some devastating experiences in the second world war. He has these experiences, that he sees as his motives to change the world to a better place.
He describes his method as a strange one, he talks about looking into the darkness and seeing something in there. He learned this in his years as a persecuted Jew in Hungary.
Well, I have the same urge to do something about persecution, finding the bad guys, pinning them out and trying to make people see what they are really doing. But at the end of the day, I do stand on some very different opinions than mr. Soros. I do support the nation, I support all who are persecuted being white, black, gays, Christians, Jews, Muslims. I have no prejudice.
I think I have kind of made out what really is the basic difference of how we see the world. While mr. Soros tries to confront the darkness, I try to pull people up in the light.
I believe, that there is a sense of goodness in all people. And changing the world is to find that piece of good, and make people see it themselves.
I have a long history going back in time working with conservatives of all kind here in Europe. When I started they were absolutely depressed. After some years, they are finding themselves in a position of development and progress. Why? Because I believe, that I have confronted the negative parts of the conservative political baggage and changed it into a positive political development. Where it before was anti this and that, it is now for a lot of things. This being openly Jew.
Now, according to Plato, what a philosopher must do, is to put light into the end of the cave. This being an arduous task.
I believe in the light, and I believe that darkness should not be met with darkness. It should be met with light.
G-d bless the light of the creator.
Well, now we have successfully got over the start of the election. Things are looking quite good, and it seems to me, that the Democratic contender is in a good mood. What started as a race with little content has begun taking shape, with both new ideas and also more depth in the why and how.
If we take a look ahead, on the next four years of government, a lot of pivotal fights are ahead of us. Most importantly the fight over the Chinese seas, and the production capacity that they have taken away from us.
This challenge is quite difficult, and we have to understand, that being an adamant enemy to mr. Putin, will give us a two sides war that we cannot afford.
At the other hand, diplomacy and understanding with mr. Putin is possible. He is a European after all, and at the end of the day, what motivates him, motivates us. We all strive for a betterment of our countries, and antagonism between states that are extremely powerful is really dangerous. This off cause does not mean we should forget our allies, but it does mean, that we should try and keep as much peace in Eastern Europe as possible. There are other wars that are quite a bit more important.
The war with China is dangerous, because they are capable of hitting targets in the US. So we should think a lot about the outcome of the war, and how we should do it. It will come in some form now, that seems to be the case. But how will we do it?
Then there are all the internal projects we can do when and if we get the power. Here I think we should think most about the little things. Education, infrastructure, tinkering with the security system to optimise it and make it better and more just. This off cause has to go hand in hand with creating more jobs, strengthening the production capacity and so on. Little but important steps.
What is very important, is that we end the gridlock of power in the senate, so that the projects we do have some traction. The war with China is a no-brainer, everybody will support that. The support of our home base production is a no brainer. But still, it has to be done, so that people can see a huge difference in their livelihood.
It can be done.
G-d bless the United States of America.
The elections process is going ok, but there is a problem with the rumours of sickness. If these are true, we have a serious problem. This no amount of spin can truly alleviate that.
If you work in politics, you do it because you want to make a better world. Most are flawed to some degree, but all who go into politics have some ideas on how to make a better world.
This is one of the true strengths of democracy, ideally it is driven by the best men or women in their interest of good.
Often it is flawed or corrupted, but at the end of the day, it is the best system, period.
So a politician needs to think about what really drives them in politics. What is it that makes them politicians basically. This is the true drive of politics.
I believe ms. Clinton has something about children, right? I know how it is, I have been working with children for a long time now. Recently with a sick child, that I work as the caretaker for. Hard work, but a giving work.
In my experience, working with children is as much working with the families of the children. If you have a child that is sick, often the family is also not functioning. The same goes for the village they live in. If it is a good village, chances are, the children are more healthy.
So at the end of the day, making a positive frame for our children is off cause thinking about schooling and health insurance and so on. But it is also about thinking about the community they live in. Is it healthy, is it good. If it is not good, then how do we come about turning it around to be a good community. Often this is the work of the local parish, or other good people.
Hard but giving work. Ideally, the community is held together by a common work ethics, and a good amount of help to those who needs it.
But if you zoom out a bit, you can see, that the village is a part of something greater. It is a city in a county, that is a county in a state, that is a state in the nation.
Everything is interconnected. So you cannot just go into a family and help this or that child, without remembering the frame around them.
See, where I am going? In order to serve the tinniest little wheel in our societal machine, that is the child, the machine itself needs to work.
That is why, looking at the health of the children is a good indication of how the general trends of the society is, because they are the most vulnerable and impressionable.
With this downside up way of looking at society, all what we do makes sense. Because why do we make better schools? To have a better education for our children. Why do we support our democratic institutions? Because ultimately, our children are the ones who pay if they do not work. Why do we have a powerful army, ultimately so that our kids are safe.
This is a viable angle on politics, if you can see the big picture around the small.
G-d bless the will to protect at support our families, with all our children in them.
What we are now witnessing in the US election is a ripening of a conclusive stride that mr. Barack Obama initiated in his tenure as president. Rather what we are seeing, is absolutely new ideas creating new opportunities for the wellbeing of the citizens of the US.
If we zoom out a bit, and look at the tools of statecraft, we can see, that most of them are a bit old. Not that old ideas are inherently bad, but ideas must adjust to new realities.
One of the basic premises of the new interconnected world is the connectedness through the internet.
This is a premise that is new, and has changed politics as well as international strategy upside down. Basically because it has changed the way we can do war. In the old times one said that the first victim of a war was the truth. Today this is no longer true. There is internet fact checking on many levels of our society now.
So this calls for a much more moral way of doing politics. Because if you do something bad, people will eventually know.
This is the best medication we could have had in such a precarious moment of our development, where moral decay is the true problem.
So, we need to address the question; how do our democracy tackle this? There has been a number of answers to this, first and foremost I believe that the tenure of mr. Obama is the true answer to that. That is a presidency steeped in morality and honour. There are no lies coming out of the mouth of the president, and that is how a president should behave.
The answer to the problem of moral decay is not a simple one, it is actually an individual one. Each individual citizen must come up with and answer based on their worldview. Do you believe in protecting minorities? Do you believe in a patriotic defense? Do you believe in a liberal world for speech? Do you believe in a patriotic production environment? Do you believe in supporting your local community? Do you believe in family? Do you believe in transparency?
We all believe in something different, and that is ok, each do we have our role to play in the world. The thing is just, we need to have faith.
That is what this all about, having faith in our part of the mechanics. Doing good for children, elderly, family, business, chuch, civil rights.
Doing good, is the basic answer to the predicament we are in.
G-d bless the will of the creator.
I have been working a lot with magic. Yes, I know, that is wrong, and you should not be dabbling with such infamous things Asger!
But, as a rational person, I have been taking another angle on magic than other, I think.
Psychology is basically also magic. It was invented by Jung and Freud, and even though Freud was very keen on making psychology within the bounds of academic lore, you can easily see on Jungs ideas, that he was heavily drinking from all kinds of strange sources. Freud was quite open on the relationship with ancient Egypt and psychology, and if there is one ancient civilisation that was souped up in magic, it was Egypt.
Often things occult end up in academic mainstream in another name, as alchemy that ended up as chemistry, and so on.
The greatest academics often happens to be the greatest magicians, as Newton for example.
Working a lot with magic, I have made some basic realisations. First of all, magic is a way to enhance your own psychological capabilities. Freud and Jung mostly took the analytical road, but magic is often about creating means to strengthen your own soul.
In this work, I have come to realise the strength of magic, and also the potential for manipulation. You can manipulate with other people, so as a magician, you need to have a very high level of ethics to be trusted.
The reason why I bring this up, is because the Nazis must have been using magic. Göebbles, the propaganda genius used methods known in magic, and it did create a very efficient, though totally immoral system. A system that was inherited by the Soviets and then by the E.U.
In the bottom I will a link to the secretary of Göebbels, that hints to truth of my observation.
In that sense, we have, in the European civilisation been trapped in a dark magical world, where the tools of statecraft was to manipulate with the voters or populace, and not meet their demands and needs.
In a sense the French revolution is the antitheses to the nazi reign. There were some occultist influencing the French revolution, and hence also the US, but they were mainly focused on all the positive virtues of spirituality, enlightenment, humanism, and so on.
But my point is, there is a war between light and darkness, that has been going for a long time. We need to support the light bringers, the humanistic belief in truth as a motor for development, not manipulation. Take our own medicine, and be true to ourselves and the world.
G-d bless the light bringers.
Link to the story of Brunhilde Pomsel, secretary of Göebbels.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/15/brunhilde-pomsel-nazi-joseph-goebbels-propaganda-machine
Things are going in the right direction due to the presidency of mr. Obama. Do you remember the feeling of empeeding danger that was prevalent before mr. Obama took the helm?
He took over a state that was totally dependent on foreign oil, had done two wars on the credit card (that is borrowing money from China to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan), and seemed to be loosing the war of civilisation with most other systems. Russia was on the rise, and so was China.
Today, seven/eight years after. The US is in a rebound, China is in deep trouble, Russia is still strong but has not overtaken the US, the US economy is not talking about the impeding danger, but on how to do things in a right way.
All in all a come back absolutely none had foreseen. Talk about a turn around.
But at the basis none has really realised what the problem was, and how we went about to solve the crisis. Because even though I have been lecturing about these issues for a long time, bloggers are not in such a high esteem culturally and intellectually so it has never really been discussed much.
But let us have a look at it again, and let us do it in the light of the prominent academic ever; Plato.
According to Plato, the problem of the democratic system is the lack of moral. That is, freedom, that is the main virtue of the democratic ideology, has a tendency to push other virtues aside, and make a political environment that is too free.
This was what let to the downfall of Athens, according to Plato.
Now Plato was an ambiguous figure in the sense, that even though he was leading as a philosopher, still is, he was never really that keen on democracy. He was leaning towards Sparta, that was a communist state.
So even though he is good, we still need to understand that he is very critical of Democracy.
So where does that leave us? Well, there is another voice I think is good to listen to, or rather two other voices, first of all the contemporary philosopher Isokrates and off cause Aristotle. Isokrates is a long forgotten philosopher, but he was extremely influential in his time. He was the engineer behind the hellenic take over of the then known world through the son of Philip the Macedonian; Alexander the great. According to Isokrates what happens at the end of democracy is the fall of law. Nobody respects the law anymore.
Aristotle that came after Isokrates and was the pupil of Plato believes that democracy should rightfully defend itself against the moral corruption.
Now according to Plato the fall of democracy is heralded by the coming of the strong man. Usually a man that promises to “clean up all the mess”, does that ring a bell, mr. Trump?
Now, mr. Trump is basically a bit opportunistic using street level fighting methods to get going, but he is the archetype of a tyrant. That is why he is so immensely dangerous.
Now, usually I do not like to put down political opponents, I still feel sorry for mr. Romney that Barack and I fought down. As a person I believe that mr. Trump can be a good person. But as a symptom of the system he is a problem. Because people vote for him, because they are sick and tired of the system. That is the true problem of mr. Trumps candidacy. The people are telling the political elite, that they are sick and tired of all the lack of moral they feel is prevalent.
So that is why the best strategy against mr. Trump is not fighting him, it is to get cleaned up ourselves. This tells the voters, that we are hearing them, and are ready to act on their angst and disgust. That is why ms. Clinton is winning. It is because she is showing the voters that she is hearing their criticism, and tries to act on it. See the convoluted strategy? Instead of throwing mud, we are meeting the demands of the voters, and they give us the benefit of the doubt.
Now, we have been working on the flagging out of the industrial part of the US. We are slowly turning this around. But we need to discuss the problem of crime in the southern states. Crime due to drug trafficking, unemployment of migrants and so on.
We need to solve this problem with strong but humane methods. Because this problem is another problem the voters are telling us to work on.
We need to work on it, otherwise next time there is a presidential election, another tyrant might just win.
The way we do it, is through a number of means. First of all, we need a better control of the border. It can be done in many ways. But in these days of internet surveillance it should not be so difficult to set up a border patrol that works in tandem with a surveillance system that is satellite run. It is a matter of priority.
Then we need to tackle the migration problem in the South. Some we need, others, like the criminal, are honestly not our problem. If they come from Mexico, they must return to Mexico.
I know that this is a difficult problem to tackle within humanistic values, but we need to do it, otherwise we end up loosing to Trump 2.0.
G-d bless the United States of America.
It seems to me, that mr. Trump has already given up. That was a short fight!
I mean, I hoped for a prolonged, pitch battle with new weapons and new attacks at the ready all the time. But just one week!
Well, that gives us the answer to why mr. Trump is unfit for a presidential role, winning a presidential election is a like a battle, it takes heavy weaponry, and a keen skill on tactics to win.
But above all, it takes an ability to work for hours and hours, stick to the plan and rock on.
You could see this with mr. Kerry, that made one of the most prolonged pitches for the presidency, but still lost. Just to have a comeback as state secretary. That is how you fight for a presidency.
But, at the other hand, the barrage of mr. Trump, that is name calling and trying to pull the candidate down into a mud fighting, has no effect on a candidate that actually tries to win at other parameters. Such as winning the fight over the Middle class and the blue collar voters.
Whereas mr. Trump has had to engineer his political catalogue as a political hotch potch including different parts of the party, ms. Clinton has had the ability to engineer it to meet voters demands.
The race is not over, but the initiative has now been given to us. So we need to get into attack gear and release some of the positive ideas we have. Such as in the realm of race equality.
I believe, that the most important part of the next presidency will be to try and mend some of those negative feelings that the rise of IS has had on the public.
When a bar full of gays is targeted and people are mowed down in Nice, people get scared. Their worry has to be heard. But at the same time, we need to stick together as a people, or rather the American people has to stick together.
This is done by highlighting not the differences, but what we have in common; civil rights. The fight for a just and equal society, where all have chance to make a living and fulfil their dreams.
G-d bless the will of the founding father, including rev. Martin Luther King.
I have the slight feeling, that the current Democratic nominee is powering up a Middle East envoy and a strategy that is more or less Oslo peace treaty wise.
This is a huge mistake. If that is the case, then it will fail as all the attempt done before has been fails. Lately the try of mr. Kerry.
Mr. Kerry is a very intelligent man, with a drive like a bull. He could not do it, a Hillary Clinton administration cannot either. It is just not possible.
I will tell you why. The Middle East is the cradle of one very important part of our civilisation; religion. All three monotheistic religions comes from the Middle East; Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
So any attempt at doing anything in the Middle East must address this basic premise. That is; what is the religious angle?
Since the Oslo accord never has done this, it has failed.
This is the new angle mr. Obama and I tried, and succeeded with. Look at the Middle East; it is at peace.
Look at it, and tell us, that we did not succeed.
Now there was once a wise that told me about a small axiom; if it work, don’t fix it.
If you zoom out a little on what Barack and I have done in the Middle East. We have brought peace not through negotiations or trying to make dialogue. We have done it through a religious development, steeped in a Jewish prophets ideas. Namely the late rav. Ashlag. One of the main teachers of Kabbalah judaism. Yes, there are actually still Jewish prophets around, they are just a little hidden. But they work their magic anyway.
So through his ideas, that has been to try and make a spiritual and metaphysical basis of all three monotheistic religions as a project of Israel, we have made peace.
Yes there are still smallish fights here and there, and there is still IS. But the commonality between judaism, Islam and Christianity has never been better. It has come to the point where the Shiite actually sees his eminence pope Francis as a great friend, imagine that.
This is how you make peace, not by bending wills.
This is the legacy of Obama, and this is what you will truly miss.
It is extremely huge in its implications. And the next president of the United States of America has to bring this legacy on.
This is not to be condescending, it is just to lay out the land for the next president, and explain what Obama and I have been doing. We can, if we expand on these ideas truly make peace. Because, it is not about the method, it is about the aim. And the aim is peace, as we have given in the holy land as a gift of G-d.
G-d bless the wisdom of the Jewish prophets.
When we talk about freedom in opposition to ethics. Let me give you a good example, or rather a good explanation. As Kant says, if you are a bird and you fly freely, you need something to move your wings. You need air to counter the thrust of your beating with your wings.
The air is moral. If you are free, you are free from somethings. Without the moral, you would not have anything to be free from.
So there is a natural relationship between moral and freedom.
Then if you think about moral, you can basically have two versions. One is a patriotic, swearing, excluding moral. That is; we have the values, and you are not included in them. Then you can have a open attitude to moral. See moral as something including. See moral as helping others, being solidaric, showing compassion and grace.
These are all positive values, and ethics.
As Alinsky says; when he was brought up by some workers leaders, he had this good advice, it was; organise!, organise!, organise! That is show solidarity to each other, and serve the community. Ethics.
Finding the right points of opposition is often what is difficult. Because what is the opposite of free trade? Adam Smith gave us, thank you, that answer.
But what is ethics in general seen from a liberal point of view? To me that is pretty obvious; it is about openness and trust.
This should be the aim a liberal political process. To be able to open and trust each other. To be friends across the lines, and that rests on us being good people, trustworthy, not lie, and show solidarity.
G-d bless the will to be honest and straightforward.
Well, here comes the proposal of mr. Trump on how to change the economy.
It seems to me to be, in some areas along the lines that I have put out; I put out the ideas that trade has to conform to a base of patriotic business producers. In other areas, it seems the same old same. Trickle down economics, that does not do much good.
Talking about patriotism in business is not, to my mind problematic. It is the way business sees itself on a good many areas, and it is simply the way the business should work.
Saying that these ideas are non Obama is not true, I mean we introduced these ideas in the last election, it was actually one of the main attacks on mr. Romney, calling him “outsourcer in chief”.
So these ideas are Obama, or at least, Obama/Trier.
To win an election, you need new ideas and find a balance between freedom and moral. This balance of free trade and a patriotic production environment is not my idea, it is the idea of Adam Smith. So it rests on a pretty sound basis.
At the core of the discussion lies one specific item; motivation. What motivates the producers to keep production in the nation?
This answer is pretty straight forward following the dichotomy of Adam Smith. On one hand freedom that is money, or resources to expand, and at the other hand honour. That is moral.
Honour and moral are two sides of the same coin. A man that is honest, benevolent, supportive and helps other people has a high honour . A man that cheats, runs with too women and you can’t trust, has low honour.
A company that supports its nation has a high honour, and often giving them that honour is all that matters. I mean, in Denmark you are summoned by the Queen if you have contributed to the nation, you get a medal, and in some rare cases you are knighted.
The queen shows you that what you have done in service to your country is appreciated. You can the show your medal to your grandchildren, and get the respect such a medal naturally gives.
You have in American military, you can get a purple heart if you do something very valourous.
The same idea could perhaps be used in the US, give people who deserve it a medal. Its is not about the money, it is about being appreciated, being special, being seen for your service.
G-d bless the will to appreciated what people do.

Jeweler using a blowtorch while he works on a ring
It is really interesting watching the American election from Denmark. Mind you, even though we have strong connection, and we have been allies forever it seems. I am still a Dane and not an American.
But I suppose it does not matter much, because we agree on many things, most importantly to make a better world and solidify the development that mr. Obama has started.
I would like to give you an idea on how I think about philosophy, because even though that I am an academic, from a long line of academics, I did not grow up with a silver spoon in my mouth. I grew up in a dirty ghetto. In a very poor area, because my mom and dad were divorced and being a single mom did not bring a lot of income.
Anyway when I grew up, I was not surrounded by other rich and wealthy people, in fact I was surrounded by normal people, and a lot of misfits. I was a the greatest misfit, because as a budding academic, I was all alone in that that dirty ghetto.
In a place like that, there are however some good things to learn. Let me give you an example.
One of the greatest experiences I had with my ghetto school, was a time we were send to some carpentry to learn a little about making things. This ancient master of the craft, was supervising the whole session, and he was not a teacher really. He was a master craftsman.
I remember that we were put to work on some small bowls, and I realised if I could use the tools just a little different, I would get to make a good bowl.
As a result of my innovative use of the day to day tool, I made the best bowl! I still remember the pride and joy of making that little stupid bowl. The master craftsman, our teacher took my little bowl and shoved it to his peers.
I know this goes against schoolroom equality, but still, it gave me so much inspiration to build. And it tought me, that to build something of a high quality, is a good thing.
When I studied at university, I continued my research and tried to be innovative all the time. But at university it was mainly frowned upon, there you are not supposed to think new thoughts, but just learn what other people have thought, chew at it, and spit out a resume. It never really worked for me, being an artist at the core of my personality, not being creative did not work.
But then again, the lesson I learned from the master craftsman still held me on a course of quality.
Because that is what I believe I learned from him; what you should build is an item of quality. To do this you have to be innovative, use you tools in new ways. But just being innovative is not good, it is when it gives you a result that stands out, that it is of value.
Craftmanship is about that; making a quality product.
I think that sometimes when you may be reading here at Rubicon it can be a little confusing, and you may have difficulty seeing the connection between the things I write. But behind all the items of thought, there is a master plan. I aim at not a utopia, but a system or a building of the highest quality.
I build Mercedeses or B&O not papercastels. Now a Mercedes may not bring you an exhilarating joy, but it gives you a solid and good life. A life of quality.
So if you want the utopian ideas, this is not the place. This place is for the persons who wish to build things properly, the old fashioned way, where a house is built on a strong foundation, and we take our time to make things right.
It may be a little boring, but hey, the house has to last for a long time, our children will have to live in it as well, so we need it to work for them as well.
G-d bless the willingness to take our time doing things right.
There seems to have been a turn around in the elections mechanics. The people who vote for Trump, and are within the reach of the Democratic constituency, namely traditional socialist votes, workers, are within reach. They have been left behind for many years, we need to be there to pick them up again. If not for strategic reasons, then because if we lose the connection to who we are at the core, the core will be hollow.
At the core, stout, strong honest and hardworking men and women stand. Let us not forget that, and let us protect them so that they may keep us alive as well.
Then how do we do that. First of all, we need to be realistic about economical methods.
Traditionally there has been two. The conservatives have been fighting for trade freedom, and socialist has been, since Keynes, working with boosting the economy by inducing money into the system. Building things mainly.
The problem about this way of doing things, is the fact, that there is a very profound unbalance in the mechanics.
What is balance? Balance is, philosophically speaking, if there at one hand is freedom and the other hand morals. Any relationship needs both to work. So often we have liberals at one side and conservatives at the other side, each serving a vital part of the equation, making things work.
Traditionally, before Keynes was theorising, it was like this: There were free markets and the producers, factory owners and people of wealth were very patriotic about their wealth. Trying to fund a lot of social work and support the local communities. Still this is very much how many rich people of conscience think.
Take Steve Jobs at Apple who made the iPad to make people read again, and make schools focus on teaching from books.
There are numerous examples. Bill Gates from Microsoft is another great philanthropist.
At the heart of the matter is a true caring for where they are, and a patriotic spirit.
The system is in balance. We trade freely and we produce locally.
In order to make a balanced approach again, we therefor need to support those who are not outsourcing, but those who are loyal to the country.
This will enable a slow but solid growth of the economy. This has been proved by Obama in the last presidential cycle.
The thing about this is however, that it takes time to rebuild faith in a system. It is easy to tear down, but to rebuild is difficult. But the result is lasting.
There are other considerations to take into view, among them the state sponsorship of production by China and other international players, it leaves our producers in a weak position. We need to discuss how we solve that problem. Perhaps by limiting products that are state sponsored. But then again that goes against free trade. We could also sponsor our own producers to give them an equal playing ground, but state sponsorship is usually bad for research and development, it kills innovation.
But we need to tackle the issue.
Lastly, but not least. There is a good thing in sponsoring building in a Keynesian way. But we should not fool ourselves. It is only temporary. For the long haul, we need a sound and healthy production environment.
But at the end of the day, these things are just superficial adjustments, they have to be done to counter the threat of China, but the true strength lie in our civilisation. The education, the morals of the people, the harmony between citizens. The rule of law, science and so on.
To reach our true potential we need to invest in education, civil services, infrastructure but most important of all, we need to have faith. Faith in our democracy, because basically this is what brings us all the goods we have.
G-d bless the will to preserve and develop our democracy.
There has been a lot of fuss about corruption in the Democratic party, and related to ms. Clinton. Honestly, I doubt it is so terrible as people say it is. There is a lot of people wanting to throw mud in an election.
What do we do about it, because this issue is going to reappear in this election?
We need to come up with a plan to tackle it.
First of all, we need to relate to our own values.
Let me give you an example. When his eminence Pope Francis, whom I hold in extremely high regard, started his office, he was met by a corrupt organisation. This is no secret, and the reason he was elected was basically because no-one else wanted to deal with the mess. So the electorate chose someone who was clean, had a long experience with conflict in his constituency and a man founded in one of the most ethical parts of the Catholic Church; the Franciscans.
What mr. Bergoglio did was to find the corruption and root it out. There were some in the Vatican bank, and some in relation to young choir boys.
He got rid of it, and he did it fast.
Now the Vatican is accountable, and not seen as corrupt anymore, thanks to pope Francis. In the long run, this will be a very important step in the right direction.
You see, disciplin is at the heart of the Roman church, and it has become a disciplinen church again.
The US has another very important virtue, that enshrines the very lifeblood of the Nation; enlightenment. Symbolised by the statue of liberty and again enshrined in the very first amendment.
If a party is seen as creating someting unenlightening, the citizens will rebel and take offence.
What I am proposing is to do the same as mr. Bergoglio did with the Roman church, to a great succes and do it to first the democratic party and then wherever possible; to enlighten, to create transparency in the governmental structures.
This would be a bold move, and it would silence the critics.
G-d bless the will to enlighten.
After the convention there will be a next bump, and that will be the release of news on some morally questionable things done by someone in the party.
Well, if you have done something wrong, the worst thing you can do is to ignore it or defend yourself on a basis that is unfounded.
We need to listen to what the accusations are, and act accordingly.
We may have to sever ties to some who are working against us, in terms of ethics.
You see, the USA is based on one single value, that is tested again and again, and should be tested. It is the true medication for a sovereign democracy, it is symbolised by the statue of freedom that is at the helm of New York.
That burning flame, kept alive by desperate philosophers and young heirs to our glorious democracy, is called the flame of truth.
It is by putting that flame at the forefront of our sight that we keep the nation sound and safe.
If there are perhaps someone who may have done something morally questionable, it is the right and the privilege for all who are true enlighteners to put forth those questions.
Sometimes in vain. But if put out with the truth at morality as the purpose, it will cleanse our democracy.
What if you have done something wrong, then what do you do? You admit it, and then try to correct your wrongdoings.
A bad person has no sense of morality, a good person will listen and try to remedy. Noone is perfect, we are all sinners to some degree. So failing is ok, but not doing anything about it, is not ok.
So let us see what the present to us, accept the reprimand, and be happy about it. Criticism is what makes us better persons. To be criticised gives us the opportunity to realign our actions so that they may become more aligned to the truth and justice.
G-d bless the willingness to accept criticism and do something about it.
Ok, there is one last point I think is important to bring up this early in the election; the pressure on the southern front.
We need to tackle this problem, we cannot just ignore it. If we do that it will just grow and grow out of control. People have a right to be heard.
Lets cut to the facts. The Americans some refer to as “white”, I do not like putting race labels on people. But those who see themselves as classic American citizens, they are loosing jobs and security due to migration.
I know that that is hard to talk about, and difficult to tackle, but that is the way it is. As a consequence they are thinking about voting for mr. Trump. That is the way it is.
So, at its core, it is actually not a problem of race that is beneath the frustration. It is a problem of insecurity and social derangement.
Things that are pretty scary, and needs to be tackled.
There is one problem however, there is nothing in a socialist ideology that is for borders. Marx thought that all workers should unite all around the globe.
Well, at the end of the day, American workers are not so keen on the idea after all. How do we go about thinking about that then?
Well, we need to discuss it at the base. The base of Marxist thinking is Sparta, the ancient greek city-state that Marx thought as the ideal of his commune.
If we look at Lycurgus, the philosophical founder of Sparta, there was one thing he was very, very specific about, and that was the fact, that Sparta should be hermetically closed. Not international, national.
He argued, that a commune will only work if people actually know each other.
He was right about that. The basic downfall of all communist societies has been two things, that it was not stable, but too open, and that it got corrupted over time (another thing Marx overlooked in Sparta, Sparta was about justice, that is law).
Ok, enough of the lecturing. There is an argument for closing the borders, that is actually socialist, and that is, that in order to to have communal welfare or Obamacare, we need to shut the system to some degree. That does not mean shut it completely, but we have to control it, in order to make it work.
You may have to build walls, but other less dramatic solutions can do as well.
But we have to realise, that Trump is right at this point, and then make a remedy that is humane.
G-d bless the will to be realistic in a very difficult situation.
Talking about the Middle class, lets talk about the relationship between the middle class and production.
You see, today healthy middle class existence rests on the ability of the production environment to create jobs.
As we see in Detroit, motor city, where all the healthy middle class jobs are tied to the factories. No factories no middle class, factories; middle class.
There is nothing revolutionary about that, it is just the way things are. There is a revolution in the fact, that we fight for democracy, but still let us not forget all those boring people who live day by day, going back and forth to their jobs, serving loyally their company, creating wealth for the entire society.
What has happened to these jobs? They have gone to China.
That is the base of the problems facing most of the classical democratic voters, namely; the workers.
We are talking about honest to G-d people who serve with diligence their community, who take their kids to football, and cooks dinner at home.
These are the people that we are fighting over.
There is one central point that will win them over, and that is; get the jobs back from China.
How do you do that? First of all, it is about supporting that part of the industry that is still patriotic. Who care about the local communities, who have the honour to serve the country also.
They may not be so boastful, and they do not talk about all the good they have done, they just do it. They are truly the lifeblood of industrial America, talk with them, and make them comfortable to the fact, that they can and will support the old U.S. of A.
Secondly be clear about the challenge of China, you need to tackle it. I support free trade, because that is how business evolve over the long time. But free trade should work both ways, if China puts up all kinds of restrictions to our goods, then that is a problem we need to talk about. Perhaps cooling the down a bit and restrict as they restrict.
But at the bottom line, we should be realistic about the chances of an international fight with them.
If we are at war with, them, having half our production made by them is a very bad idea.
So start pulling production out of China by telling, very loudly to the American business men, all businessmen, that having things done in China is high risk, because in five years time, you may bomb the productions facility, so it is better getting out now.
G-d bless the peace we have to find at the end of the China confrontation.
Listen, it is easy to win this election, if we only realize one basic premise of winning elections; elections are won on the middle, not on the fringes. It also reflects the fact, that the greatest part of the election are not running around in rebel gear and shouting slogans, they work in a respectable business, send their kids to school, and collect their older parents at family reunion at thanksgiving. It is called the middle class.
To win this election we need to find the middle ground and the middle class.
I know that the most natural reaction with an opponent as mr. Trump would be to swing all the way to the left, at pitch a fight there. But remember, the electorate did not elect mr. Sanders, they elected ms. Clinton, so they want a middle leaning politics.
This does not imply that we cannot we very idealistic on some points, talking about Wall street. But we need to be realistic about central challenges that we are meeting,
One of them the threat of radical Islam. Mr. Trump has chosen a right wing position that I do not condone. Remember in Europe, I am seen as conservative. I have fought radical Islam for a long, long time. But it has always been with an eye to keeping an equilibrium.
That is why we talk about “Islamic state” and not ALL muslims. This is a balance point between those muslims who are loyal to our democracy and those who are fighting our democracy.
With this Barack and I caught the middle ground on that issue and kept it.
With the rise of Islamism in the world, and also in the US, it does not take much imagination to realize that we need a balanced take on the issue to win. There might be another attack between here and the final election day, and if people see us condoning or supporting that in any way, we are toast.
So we need to fight Islamism, and support democratic muslims.
This reflects the stance we have on the international coalition that we are leading in the Middle East, so if we do not do that, we will loose the leadership we currently hold on fighting one of the most important fights on the globe. Another thing we simply cannot afford, especially with the problems we are having with mr. Putin,( thank you Vladimir for your patience).
So we need to find the middle ground on the issue of Islamism, and not waver when it comes to defending our vulnerable minorities as gays, Christian, and Yazidi.
Remember how IS hunted these poor people up in the mountain to die?
The same will happen in Europe and the US if we are not vigilant.
So FIND THE MIDDLE GROUND.
G-d bless the will to be simple and honest in our way.
Ok, listen. The greatest knife that mr. Trump right now holds to the throat of ms. Clinton is the understanding of economy.
This is where he has his number one chip; he is a businessman, and where ms. Clinton is he weakest, she is a teacher.
Well, first of all, the great news is, mr. Trump is not a national economist, so the understanding of international trade is not his strongest. The bad news is, ms. Clinton has not really grasped the true mechanics of international trade, and hence is vulnerable here.
Ok, being of a great line of teachers myself, my own mother was a teacher, her father and mother were teachers, their parents were teachers and so on for five generations, let me give you a crash course in international business understanding.
There are two axis in trade; First there are the ideas of free trade. Secondly the national production environment.
The idea of free trade is, that a larger area of trade where nations trade internally will benefit all. In essence what happens is, that a large area of trade gives the producer the possibility to specialise, and then still make a profit because there are more buyers.
Let me give you an example. The good manufacturer of robot parts mr. Smith plans to produce a specialised robotarm to make pigeon cages. Since few people use pigeon cages, only if China is a part of it, there will be a market big enough.
In history however the idea of free trade was a part of the expansion of the British empire. The way it worked was by opening up new markets, in the colonies for british goods. Remember the British empire was mainly run and expanded by British business and banking.
In essence the superior goods of the Brits outperformed the local goods of the colonial markets, bringing af hefty profit to the investors.
This is actually the story behind the link between the critique of Wall Street and its colonial aspirations, though unfounded now when there are no more British Empire.
But, you see, the free trade ideas are really colonialism clothed in finer garbing.
Today the world is different, the time of the weak colonies in terms of production methods are over, and free trade is not such an economic wealth bringing thing to the empire. Not anymore. The world has changed.
The new situation is, that the rest of the world has catched up. Especially China has done it, and then, with a few tricks up its sleeve, has bested us.
You can call it poetic justice, that a former colony has bested its master and is now using its own weapons against it, Jiu jitsu.
But the fact of the matter is, that free trade or no free trade, China has emerged as a competitor to the hegemony of British/US sway over the Asian hemisphere.
This is a problem short term and long term. At the end of the day, we should not be so naive as to believe that there is a higher justice to the power play in the upper hemisphere of superpowers, there is only one rule; rule or be ruled. There can be some soothing influences as religion and the UN, but at the end of the day it is all about military power.
This is where it all ends; military might. Because as mr. Obama says we are heading for at war with China. They are challenging us, and we need to respond. This war will not be with islamic terror capabilities, that is needle attacks, but a conventional war with arms.
This is what you should focus on and think on, what about the war with China?
I mean mr. Trump can talk about trade agreements, but if we have a war with China going on, who cares?
So be specific about this, be honest about it. Say it as it is, we are heading for at war, this means several things.
1. We need to disentangle ourselves with China in terms of production, economy and trade.
2. We need to prepare for the war in terms of military buildup, that is start thinking about a possible war with China.
3. We need to close the gap to Russia, because we cannot fight a two front war, and fighting Russias humongous nuclear warhead arsenal is not in our interest.
One of the things Barack and I have worked on is the cyberwar, China has been using its hackers to sift information and data from our weapons producers, this has been stopped now, but we still need some years to be prepared.
There is another chapter on business production and loyalty that I will cover in the next posting, an area of study that has boosted the American production in Baracks presidency.
G-d bless the will to be a very good teacher.
For a long time, I have not wanted to meet IS as a religious enemy. I still do not, my dream, together with Barack, has been to create a platform for all three monotheistic religions.
But the attack on a catholic priest in France has changed this.
We need to acknowledge, that IS targets religious targets. As they target many other things, among them democratic targets.
But to ignore a religious target out of strategic considerations, is not right.
IS hates Christians, as they hate other religious minorities.
The fight we are fighting is not only a fight for democracy, it is also a fight to protect religious minorities, and vulnerable religious leaders. As the rev. Jacques Hamel.
It is a fight for common decency, for a world where we can live together in peace, side by side.
In this world the IS strategy to kill innocent spiritual servants is wrong.
Christians need to wake up, and defend themselves.
G-d bless the will to be vigilant and yet to seek peace as the aim.
I had decided not to help anyone in the American election, and I will not do much, but it really seems to me, that the Democratic camp really needs some advice to get on.
I will do this a little, just to get you going, I owe you this, and you are really using all my philosophy to the best extent, so I will help.
First things first. You are doing yourself a great disservice by alienating all the voters that are attracted by mr. Trump. You do not win elections by vilifying someone, you win elections by having good answers to the problems that trouble the nations you try to be elected to. Voters look for answers not for mudslinging.
I mean, if you start the mudslinging, who are you to point fingers? It is not to say, that you do not point to weaknesses in your opponents armour, but mudslinging is stupid.
Then, another thing. If you have strong opponent, you need to learn from him. This was what Mitt Romney did at the last election Barack and I did together. He learned, and almost beat us. Mr. Trump is truly doing the same. The main part of his election content is something Barack and I cooked up; the economical fight against China, the fight against IS. He even talks about Change. Do not get mr. Trump wrong, he is a very centerleaning conservative, he even likes gays!
What he has brought to the table is the problems about migration in the south. I do not know much about this problem, I live very far away from it. But is must be a pretty big one, otherwise he would not have been able to make such a strong political platform on it.
We need to come up with some serious answers to this problem. Something that will solve the problem within a frame of humanity.
In Europe we have just have a bit of the same problem, a lot of migration, a bit more serious because in the migrant train a lot of the IS fighters were hidden, but migration brings a lot of instability. We tried to tackle it by closing the borders, and so far that has helped even though we still live with the aftermath of the problems. Problems that seem to tear the European Union into little pieces, so it is pretty serious.
But, basically you probably need to do the same; get control of the borders to some extent. Or rather to the extent that the voters and the citizens accept. This does not imply that you have to throw out all mexicans out of the US. But you need a measure of control, if the trends are the same as in Europe.
We need to listen to the worries of the people, otherwise we are not truly democratic.
Then there is the IS strategy. Well, mr. Trump has, more or less adapted the strategy that Barack and I develop. It meets several basic requirements, it is pretty responsibly in terms of ressource using. We truly do not waste lives, it works as a strategic umbrella that has a place for everybody, even Russia, and it keeps the flame of humanistic democracy alight.
So we need a strategy that is serious, supports the economic turnaround Barack has given us, and then looks ten or fiveteen years ahead.
So we need to keep production flowing into the country, not out, we need to prepare for a war against China, and we need to fight down IS. While we do this, we need to gather the ressources needed to fight these fights.
In the Middle East, Barack and I are popular. To the extent, that there has been no major wars apart from the Syrian civil war. This may sound not much, but this area has been alive with war the last 6000 years, so it has been a very calm tenure mr. Obama has presided over.
We need to understand what he has been trying to do. He has been trying to create an equilibrium between the warring factions in the Middle East; Sunni against Shia. By supporting both factions, he has brought peace.
Mr. Netanyahu of Israel has not been too keen on that arrangement, and has been a bit angry, but also acknowledges that it is a new angle on peacekeeping the Middle East.
The greater objective being a common foundation under all monotheistic religions. That being a messianic aim.
Pretty ambitious right?
Being a man of great grace, mr. Obama has never said it loud, but this has been his claim to fame.
When he is gone, there is still me to keep the flame alive and keep his legacy, and I will do my very best.
So you see, there are many little strategic considerations and moves you need to take into consideration if you want to live up to what Barack has done. It is complex, and difficult to get a grasp on. You will need to read up on all of it.
Mr. Trump has done a lot of reading on Rubicon, I can see it on his moves. And off cause, I do not vilify mr. Trump. Do not get me wrong, mr. Trump is a viking reborn, and that often not pleasing to the eye. But he is tough, very well read and extremely intelligent. We need to respect this man, and also his courage to listen to the needs of the people. It would be very dangerous to not listen, people are frustrated. In this situation we need to listen, not to shut people out.
G-d bless the will to listen to the will of the great American people.
Things are really heating up, and I feel I should write at least five postings a day; Israel, the US, France, Denmark, the UK, Egypt, Iran, Russia, the Vatican, the Anglican church, the Copts, the Assyrians. There is only so much I can do, and remember, this is a job with no pay. I do this freely to support all those who might benefit from it, as a service to G-d and a service to mankind.
So, I wish I had more time, and less hurry. I have a major job coming up in a little more than a week that I have to train for (a music playing job), so I use a lot of energy on that. But I hope that this will mingle with the philosophy a bit further down the road, so that I can do some gigs that support the philosophical development, talk about my ideas at koncerts, and perhaps get a bit broader audience. Dont get me wrong, I love the readers I have, I feel humbled by all the good I can do with such illustrious readers. But at the other hand, it can, sometimes get a little lonely sitting behind my computer all the time. I need to get out and meet people.
So, I apologise for all the postings I should have written, all the readers that are dependent on the blog, but there is only som much time each day, and with family, daytime job and a musical career, I can only do so much.
I hope you like my dedication however, and I will do my best to support you all, to the best of my ability.
G-d bless the will to be free in thought and mind.
Things are really heating up in the West, terror attacks everyday. Ladies and gentlemen, we are at war. We are not at war as in the old days when nation states of immense power clashed on battlefields of a magnitude unbelievable. We are in the opposite; personal attacks, here and there, always with a moral aim. To subdue, to scare, to show supremacy.
This is a war with the dark sides of islam.
In the first and second world war there was a war in-between ideologies as well. Nazism, Communism, democracy.
In this war the ideological fault lines are more opaque, but they are there.
We need to stop asking our selves what we are fighting for and against, and start fighting. Stop being so much in doubt.
We need to start understanding, that we can put labels on, and we can stop. But, the main problem right now is not the ideological fault lines, it is the will to fight!
Stop being in disarray, and start to fight!
Be vigilant and strong.
G-d bless the will to remain steadfast in faith on our democracies and constitutions.
I have just reached my home after a week in Barcelona. It was a bit difficult because of some problems with my friends, I was there with, but the city itself was just amazingly inspiring.
Barcelona is beautiful, has good food, and things work. But what really inspired me, to the point where I actually shed a tear, was the workings of the famous architect Antoni Gaudi.
I know that it is pretty touristic, and yes, I did do the obligatory guided tour in the Sagrada familia, and yes, I did stand there with my camera googling up on the high vault. But I think that perhaps I do understand the secret message that Gaudi tried to convey to us, because of his obvious base in mystery.
Gaudi was a man of a profound faith. He thought about spirit everyday, and at the same time he was able to create, inspired by spirit perhaps.
The sheer genius of the Sacrada famila cathedral is a testimony to this. It is innovative in so many ways, it leaves you baffled.
Gaudi was a man of a time where everything in Europe was industrialised, and we lost our innocence. A time where the slow means of transportation was changed to fast transportation, where people started living in smog and industrial waste. The same time when Joseph Conrad blasphemed in a sorry tale about the old sailor coming ashore, because noone needed his girth and strength anymore. A time when the shallowness of fast travel started creeping in on us.
Gaudi rebelled against this, and started building edifices that was inviting to the craftsman, quality beyond what had ever been seen in the world. To put up a fence against superficiality and lack of faith.
Today we have come full circle, right? We cannot even defend ourselves against the most absurd crimes, because we are so hollow, so left of all faith, have nothing to hold on to. Everything just was left in the trenches.
Gaudi tells us not to believe so. He built a cathedral over hundred years in the making. Knowing that this sickness would be long in flourishing, and difficult to trample down.
He built an edifice to faith, beauty, craftsmanship, doing things slowly and depth in faith that would stand there when we are again ready to latch on to our own roots and culture.
When we stop to be demoralised and are ready to take up Göehte and Kierkegaard again. When we start defending our faiths again.
We would be able to look at the genius of the work of Gaudi, and say; ah now we get what you were trying to say. You were trying to tell us not to lose faith in the beauty and eloquence of our own culture.
G-d bless the genius of Gaudi and the beautiful city of Barcelona, and thank you.
I have been in a prolonged war against the secret services here in Denmark. Part of it my own doings, and part of it the secret services. Remember how they tortured my little daughter? How they use all the tricks in the book to silence me up.
It has actually come to the point, where I truly have a good opportunity to do something about it. I have had a contact with the local chapter of the human rights organisation. An organisation that helps people who are persecuted byt the police, in Afghanistan, Iraq and in Denmark.
They are actually interested in helping me.
There is only one pretty big problem, and that is the fact, that we need to work together. The secret service and I. We have reached a point, where conflicts between the states and local islamists are really dangerous. Just look at what is happening in Germany in these days.
In this situation, we need to work together, not apart. I will continue criticising and shelving out advice. But I will stop the outright war a escalation between my person and the state, with the human rights advocacy in-between would be.
We need to stop this, and bury the hatchet. The war is on our streets, and we need to focus on what is happening there, and not on warring each other.
I will help my friends Dan Park and Uwe Max with their cases, but the confrontation between me and the police should stop now.
G-d bless the peace we must make, in order to confront the hostility of the islamists.
I think a lot about angels these days, on one hand because I am having a holiday in Spain, in the beautiful city of Barcelona, and at the other hand, because I am working a lot with Kabbalah.
Kabbalah is really the secret basis of Jewish culture. It is the well that we Jews use, to connect to Jewish identity, history and ethics.
It has roots as deep as to when Abraham came from the Assyrian city of Ur to teach us about his first ideas of natural science (amazing is it not), and then really a culture that is enveloped in a classical Middle East frame. It is extremely ethical, spiritual and focused on the good of humanity. These are truly the ancient hippie ideology, though truly a bit more tough and a lot more confrontational. We want peace as Kabbalists, but Kabbalism is not at all peaceful in the naive sense, but peaceful in the sense, that it understands what the world is, and how we can truly achieve peace.
But back to the angels.
Kabbalah is about calling on angels to help the Kabbalist in his work. Angels help those who fight for G-d, that is, to make a more just and good world.
But the Jewish angels are not benign, amourous beings, they are strong, warfaring destroyers, fighting on the side of the good.
We know them as Gabriel, Michael, Uriel. But there are many, many more. Angels as Ezekiel, Kolach, Nazeriel. Strong, spiritual beings, that help those of us, who wish to work on the good of humanity.
Then what are these angels? This is really the question I have been pondering. Remember, to make sense in these issues, we have to connect to a natural science basis, in order for us to make it true, and make people believe in us again.
G-d is intelligence, and angels are in between G-d and man. As messengers, as helpers.
I believe that angels are us selves. That is the way we form our little piece of intelligence in the spiritual realm. Remember, if we theorise, that the soul is embedded in our bodies, but still retains a faculty to connect to the original soup of intelligence, that we came from, and is G-d. We can assume, that this connection can have a specific form. We can put form to our own soul.
Angels are then our own soul formed in a specific frame.
Given that it receives strength and connectivity with G-d, this part of our soul can be extremely powerful, if we are ourselves. It is a reflection of ourselves in the realm of G-d.
Then we come back to the Jewish angels. If this theory is true, the Jewish angels are really the reflection of what Jews are; strong, justice seeking, ethical beings. Protecting those who fight for G-d.
This follows the prophesies of the Jewish prophets quite well. Jews are supposed to wield the power of G-d in a manner, so that he lives here in earth. To this end, we have our strong angels, that helps us on our way.
This is what it is to be a Jew. We should remember this when we see walls of hatred all around us, they are the sons of the dark one. We need to, as the Chosen people, to confront these abominations. But we also need to seek out those leading lights around the globe, who fight for a better world. As we are tasked to bring G-d back to humanity.
This is difficult, because seldom are those who are on the surface good, the real companions of G-d. Often it is the little guy, the David, fighting monstrosities with his sling, that is the friend of G-d.
We should therefor seek out the Davids, all around the globe, and lend our strength to him or her, in order to help them making a better world.
That is what it is to be Jew, and we should be so very proud of that, and do it.
G-d bless Israel.