Something tells me $23 million isn't enough to make an impact. Remember that this is an attempt at changing a corrupt nation where the big banks will find a way to siphon off most of the aid.
Ecuador: fantastic initiative! Please invite the rest of the world to cooperate! Perhaps together we can change them.
Ecuadorian Communications Secretary, Fernando Alvarado, announced $23 million in Ecuadoran aid to the United States to provide “human rights training” to combat torture, illegal executions and “attacks on peoples’ privacy.”
http://news.antiwar.com/2013/06/27/ecuador-cancels-us-trade-pact-over-repeated-threats/
fredag 28. juni 2013
onsdag 26. juni 2013
JavaZone have done it again...
JavaZone have done it again...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3418SeWZfQ&feature=share
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3418SeWZfQ&feature=share
tirsdag 18. juni 2013
Life as a white heterosexual man
Life as a white heterosexual man
My imperfect translation of a post on nrk.no (The norwagian state-owned radio/tv station) by journalist Olav Brostrup Müller (who I don't think is the same person as the one on g+ with the same name)
This is a google translation fixed up by me. Since this isn't my text I preferred to stay as close to the original as possible, even if it could have been better with more 'artistic freedom'.
This is pretty much what it is like for us. Nothing to complain about.
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The winning team
I'm not going to rub it in, but I'm a white, Norwegian, heterosexual man. And am I ever asked to renounce anything? Never.
To all of you who have not tried it: Being a white, Norwegian, heterosexual man is almost like being invisible. Or, even better: powerful but anonymous. I think that should cover it pretty fine. White, Norwegian heterosexual men live a cool life.
If I were to choose again, as the American comedian Louis CK said, I had chosen exactly the same: It's amazingly stress-free to be white, I'm welcome everywhere. And being a man I need not worry about where I can walk in the evening, how much body hair I have or whether I'm going to get into my swimsuit this summer.
Being straight as well makes sure I never have to explain to people how it felt to discover that I like women, or when I found out, or if I am afraid that colleagues will find out. Being a white and heterosexual man is as close as the plant and animal kingdom comes a paid vacation.
Neutral as water
Blacks, however, are always made aware that they are black. Muslims are questioned if they think it's okay to crash airliners into buildings every spare moment. Women are asked how it feels to be a woman. Asked about how it is to have this job, as a woman, how is it to be so far away - as a woman?
If a moderate Muslim is asked about his sharialust 78 times, it may be that he does not just get tired and crabby, but also radicalized. This is what happens when you choose to be born special, and not as a white and regular guy - like me.
White men like me, we just are. We are as neutral as water. We are as obvious as a mountain. We have always been here, it is you who deviate from the norm.
Basement People
And now I'll tell you about one of the benefits of the program right there: There is so much we don't have to reject. Just think of Wolfgang Priklopil, who kept Natasha Kampusch trapped in a house in Austria for eight years. Or Josef Fritzl, who kept his own daughter trapped for 24 years. Or the third Austrian on the list, who kept his two daughters locked up for 41 years and used them as sex slaves. The Polish man who in 2008 was arrested after holding his daughter caught in six years.
We could go on while the nausea rises. But should we begin to draw some conclusions here, we could suggest that people like me - white, heterosexual, Christian men with roots in Europe - have a hang-up on keeping women trapped in the basement for years and use them as sex slaves.
But am I being asked to renounce any of this? Hardly. Will I be facing questions about what I really think about keeping women trapped in basements? Is anyone talking to me on the bus and warning me about keeping on like that, just because others from where I come from do it?
Be like us guys
Nix Pix. That's what's so lovely about being a white man: No one prompts you to distance yourself from anything. Neither the British colonies or King Leopold's torture regime in the Belgian Congo or Nazi Germany or sex-abuse in the Catholic Church or, to take a more homely example, the thousands of ordinary Norwegian men beating up their wives.
For some reason, someone found out that none of this is something I really need to answer for.
I find this approach absolutely beautiful. So to all you gays, Africans, Muslims and women out there: Test life as a white, heterosexual man instead of that minority-nonsense. Be as normal as possible, like us guys.
I guarantee you, this; you're not going to regret it.
http://www.nrk.no/ytring/pa-vinnerlaget-1.11080571
My imperfect translation of a post on nrk.no (The norwagian state-owned radio/tv station) by journalist Olav Brostrup Müller (who I don't think is the same person as the one on g+ with the same name)
This is a google translation fixed up by me. Since this isn't my text I preferred to stay as close to the original as possible, even if it could have been better with more 'artistic freedom'.
This is pretty much what it is like for us. Nothing to complain about.
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The winning team
I'm not going to rub it in, but I'm a white, Norwegian, heterosexual man. And am I ever asked to renounce anything? Never.
To all of you who have not tried it: Being a white, Norwegian, heterosexual man is almost like being invisible. Or, even better: powerful but anonymous. I think that should cover it pretty fine. White, Norwegian heterosexual men live a cool life.
If I were to choose again, as the American comedian Louis CK said, I had chosen exactly the same: It's amazingly stress-free to be white, I'm welcome everywhere. And being a man I need not worry about where I can walk in the evening, how much body hair I have or whether I'm going to get into my swimsuit this summer.
Being straight as well makes sure I never have to explain to people how it felt to discover that I like women, or when I found out, or if I am afraid that colleagues will find out. Being a white and heterosexual man is as close as the plant and animal kingdom comes a paid vacation.
Neutral as water
Blacks, however, are always made aware that they are black. Muslims are questioned if they think it's okay to crash airliners into buildings every spare moment. Women are asked how it feels to be a woman. Asked about how it is to have this job, as a woman, how is it to be so far away - as a woman?
If a moderate Muslim is asked about his sharialust 78 times, it may be that he does not just get tired and crabby, but also radicalized. This is what happens when you choose to be born special, and not as a white and regular guy - like me.
White men like me, we just are. We are as neutral as water. We are as obvious as a mountain. We have always been here, it is you who deviate from the norm.
Basement People
And now I'll tell you about one of the benefits of the program right there: There is so much we don't have to reject. Just think of Wolfgang Priklopil, who kept Natasha Kampusch trapped in a house in Austria for eight years. Or Josef Fritzl, who kept his own daughter trapped for 24 years. Or the third Austrian on the list, who kept his two daughters locked up for 41 years and used them as sex slaves. The Polish man who in 2008 was arrested after holding his daughter caught in six years.
We could go on while the nausea rises. But should we begin to draw some conclusions here, we could suggest that people like me - white, heterosexual, Christian men with roots in Europe - have a hang-up on keeping women trapped in the basement for years and use them as sex slaves.
But am I being asked to renounce any of this? Hardly. Will I be facing questions about what I really think about keeping women trapped in basements? Is anyone talking to me on the bus and warning me about keeping on like that, just because others from where I come from do it?
Be like us guys
Nix Pix. That's what's so lovely about being a white man: No one prompts you to distance yourself from anything. Neither the British colonies or King Leopold's torture regime in the Belgian Congo or Nazi Germany or sex-abuse in the Catholic Church or, to take a more homely example, the thousands of ordinary Norwegian men beating up their wives.
For some reason, someone found out that none of this is something I really need to answer for.
I find this approach absolutely beautiful. So to all you gays, Africans, Muslims and women out there: Test life as a white, heterosexual man instead of that minority-nonsense. Be as normal as possible, like us guys.
I guarantee you, this; you're not going to regret it.
http://www.nrk.no/ytring/pa-vinnerlaget-1.11080571
mandag 17. juni 2013
Finally summertime.
Finally summertime.
It's nice with everything in bloom in my garden. :-)
#IveShownYouMineNowYouShowMeYours
It's nice with everything in bloom in my garden. :-)
#IveShownYouMineNowYouShowMeYours
torsdag 6. juni 2013
Meet Odin
Meet Odin
A young raven that seems to have been left by his (her?) Parents.
Too young to be afraid of people. Always hungry. Loves dog food.
Anyone out there with practical advice?
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