I HEARD… OCT 29TH-30TH 2010

 

In Stockholm it’s normal that people buy ordinary flats. Everybody does it. Of course we all know that it’s illegal, but so what, we do it anyway. But not as politicians, judges, police men etc. who are supposed not to break the law. It might seem queer, but what would the city be like if those who write the laws or those who try to make people follow the law will not follow them themselves?

Now this woman, Arkelsten, who got the job closest after the prime minister has got this strange apartment in City. Or rather, there’s noting strange with the flat – as I know – but she got it as a gift from an unnamed person. NOBODY GETS A FLAT IN CITY AS A GIFT unless you’re 18 and get it from your parents, of course… She has been taken bribes too. But she denies it all and try to show high moral…. Well…let me say it like this – without talking about her – if a woman gets a flat in the City of Stockholm as a gift, it’s not the right time to also claim morality. Only hookers of different standards get flats as such gifts as mentioned here.

Why Arkelsten got her flat I really don’t know…

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The Nazi guy in the parliament, or whatever he is where, Jimmy Åkesson will not be invited to attend the Nobel Dinner in December.

HURRAY NOBEL COMITTÉ ! Good that you had the guts to tell that his views do not fit in with the intentions of Alfred Nobel. Thank you very much that you dared to show this courage !

On TV I heard some people say that this should not be the proper way to handle a guy like J.Å. and that it should be better to talk to him. YES, TALK TO HIM ! Really, what did they mean??? That if just someone talked to him he would understand how incredibly ignorant his views are??? Don’t think so. What on Earth is wrong with people in this country? He’s been elected to sit in the parliament, because of his views – not because people felt sorry for him. I think.

And for Heaven’s sake, what should he do at the Nobel Dinner? Beside eating, of course. I mean, I hope that the level of the discussions at the Dinner are a bit further in evolution than Jimmy Åkesson is used to. No offense, that’s just the way it is.

And yet, if he would understand a bit here or a sentence there – with whom should he talk??? The African woman on his right side, the Chinese woman to his left, or maybe the Jewish woman just opposite ?? Of course the guests are polite, but not that polite !!!! Oh no, Jimmy, stick to the barn!

 

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No more politics here and now cause I will download a Telescope program from NASA. But NASA of course… Let’s take that discussion another day.

TALKING NEWS AND MORE ON OCT 28TH 2010….

 

In Malmoe a man is arrested for the shooting on Oct 20th, but is he this shot connected to the others?

And talking about the serialshooter in Malmoe, they say that he’s this, and he’s that. I SAY, he’s nothing but a stupid little twat, acting like a spoiled brat at kindergarten. GROW UP, AND USE YOUR BRAIN.

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S. Arkelsten has taken bribes. Face the facts, Arkelsten, you’ve had your moment. Now you will only taste the bitter consequence of your behavior. Just face the facts. The only thing that might be on your side, is that Carl Bildt remains in the Government no matter how many crimes… But can Reinfeldt really have several persons on important posts on their way to prison??? Get real – this is not Italy!

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In Washington a Muslim with Pakistan origin was arrested. According to the police he planned to place bombs on several subway holds. But they also told that he had no explosives and he had no connections that would provide him with explosives.

It makes at least me a bit confused. What was he really arrested for? That he was a dreamer? That he was a liar? Can Muslims be arrested on these grounds in USA? And how would a similar situation be handled in Europe? I smell a distinct sense from Nazi-Germany and Apartheid in South Africa… And I really don’t like it!!!

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I also overheard an extremely lame debate for/against the legalizing of cannabis sativa and similar plants.

The woman against legalizing works in the right wing party (M). She had a very strange view on the subject – she kept on talking about teenagers and children and how dangerous it can be to smoke in those ages…

When talking about legalizing cannabis I don’t think that anyone before today have had the slightest thought of letting children smoke cannabis!!! What on Earth goes on in that woman’s mind??? Does she have children? How does she treat them? And many more questions pops up in my mind, I can tell!

The question about legalizing I see as a question about if the politicians really understand that they are elected by the people and that the people’s will should rule a country. When as many as 20-30% of the people use cannabis or similar it must be legalized. (They talk about numbers as 10-20%, but that’s only in the parliament.) No matter how much the politicians fight reality, the fact is that cannabis is in Europe and it will remain here.

I don’t use cannabis myself cause I don’t like (read: can’t stand) the effects, but yet I prefer that people use cannabis instead of alcohol witch is the main reason for violence in families as well as in restaurants.

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Finally, I will send some thoughts to Haïti and to Indonesia. Again and again victims of Nature. I think tat we must ask ourselves, are we doing enough for these and other countries? Is the help the one we should provide and do we help in a correct way, with respect.

IT’S LOGIC…

 

Soldiers die at war. Sweden is fighting a war in Afghanistan. Soldiers die. That’s it.

BUT

Did the people of Afghanistan ask Sweden to send active troops to come fighting in their country?

NO!

Did the people of Afghanistan even ask the foreign troops to fight the Talibans in their country?

NO!

Are troops from Afghanistan welcome to fight for true democracy in Sweden? (Or in any other country having troops in Afghanistan today.)

NO!

The simple and logical result must be:

BRING YOUR SOLDIERS HOME!

TODAY I COULD CRY

Today I could cry, but I wont. Today I could break down because of growing racism, but I wont. Today I could be depressed over the result of yesterday’s election, but I wont.

I will have faith in the future. I will tell myself that this is the top of racism; that young intelligent people will make a difference. I will see the result of yesterday’s election as scary, but I wont let it frighten me.

I hope that, as often happens in hard times, all good people will stick together and start something new and better.

I hope that we will see lots of demonstrations during the coming years. Demonstrations that will show that almost 50% of the citizens actually did not want this situation.

I hope that the Jewish community will stand up for our friends, neighbors and cousins, the other Semitic people like Muslims and other Arabs who are the racists mainly target today. We can’t say that we don’t know what can happen! Every Jew in Europe has lost so many relatives when people said “we didn’t know”. But our people knew then and we recognize the pattern today, so for sure, we know what’s going on if we don’t put an end to it. We are all part of a bigger historic era, and we must all take responsibility for every little part of it. Every action, every movement will create our future.

So let’s stick together and build something better!

VALET 2010 - ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

  Som det ser ut i dagsläget enligt diverse opinionsundersökningar, så ligger det rödgröna blocket under femtioprocentsstrecket. Det är för mig helt oacceptabelt att låta vanstyret få fortgå med ökad utslagning, fler hemlösa, segregationspolitik med rötter i ultrahögern, helt falska och rent patetiska lögner om att “alliansen företräder arbetarna och de svaga i samhället” - detta har aldrig hänt och kommer aldrig att hända som något annat än valfläsk - utförsäljning av verk mm som skapats av folket för folket, och som folket aldrig har gett regeringen mandat att avyttra mm mm. Listan på vanstyre under de senaste åren kan göras hur 

  lång som helst. Då måste man också fråga sig hur det är möjligt att det enligt mätningar skulle bli alliansen som har de flesta sympatierna även i det här valet. Har svenskarna i så stora skaror blivit så förborgerligade? Har så många lyckats förtränga var de kommer ifrån? Har man glömt farfarsfar som dog utsliten i gruvan, eller mormorsmor som auktionerades bort vid åtta års ålder till den bonde som tog minst betalt för att ha henne att slita på gården? Eller kanske den där släktingen som blev förälskad i en judisk person, men inte fick gifta sig eftersom raslagarna förbjöd det - och där stod kanske en gravid kvinna som riskerade total utslagning om det kom fram att hon skulle föda ett “oäkta barn”. Är allt detta utraderat från det svenska kollektiva minnet? Eller är det så att många kanske tagit sig till en annan position i samhället än de där stackars släktingarna som man helst inte vill tänka på och absolut inte vill tala om eller kännas vid? Man har “tagit sig upp i samhället”, fått hyfsad ekonomi och rör sig i “finare kretsar” - och det passar kanske inte in att rösta på vänster partier då…

Men kära medborgare, vänner och kamrater, det finns inget likhetstecken mellan fin och pengar! I många fall, men naturligtvis inte alla, snarare tvärtom.

Att vara en fin människa innebär att vara en god, medkännande, generös person. Men ekonomiskt gott ställt kan vilken korkad individ som helst ha.

Sen finns det en helt annan aspekt på siffrorna i opinionsmätningarna. En synpunkt som jag hört framföras i de mest skilda samtal, och av många: De vill inte rösta på socialdemokraterna därför att de ser Mona Sahlin som en för svag ledare. Tyvärr tycker jag också att hon kanske kan vara mycket kompetent, men hon signalerar helt fel i media, men jag hade ju inte tänkt rösta socialdemokratiskt i alla fall. Däremot så är detta nog ett av skälen till att många som tidigare gett sin röst till (s) glider över till (c) och (fp).

Nu undrar kanske vissa vad jag menar med att Sahlin känns som en svag ledare, samt att hon signalerar fel.

Jag har aldrig själv träffat Mona Sahlin och det är möjligt att hon är en stark person och personlighet, men via media möter vi dagligen en ledare med dov och entonig röst, ingen emfas och inget j…ar anamma. Helt enkelt en person som inte inspirerar eller lockar att följa henne.

Att hon “signalerar fel” i media. Med det menar jag att det inte ger någon trovärdighet när hon t ex talar om hemlöshet och samtidigt glittrar med ögonen och ler. Bara som ett exempel, men det finns tyvärr många fler. Det är lika illa som när Reinfeldt  i början blev röd på kinderna varje gång han ljög i TV!

Oavsett allt, så är det så att jag normalt röstar ideologiskt men i det här valet verkar det bli nödvändigt att sas taktikrösta på (v). Det måste bli ett slut på det här vanstyret och det sanslösa förborgerligandet av hela samhället. NOG NU!

Light a Candle for the Miners in Chile

 

Today on Shabbat, I will send my very special thoughts to the locked-in miners in Chile, and to their Families! May G-d and all the Angels watch over You and make Your time as easy as possible!

And may the best of science, and skills from scientists all over the World come to Your rescue, as well as Your co-working miners will help to get an ending to this tragedy as fast as it ever can be done!

Somehow I feel hope, too. Hope that conditions for hard working miners will be better because of this tragedy. Hope that people, the masses, will set demands that will be respected. Hope that it will be one more step towards the insight that we, the people, the masses, must be supposed to rule this World - not bad managers or corrupted governments!

A TRUE LITTLE STORY FROM A COUNTRY IN WAR

This is a true story.

A couple of years ago, my husband met a man from Africa. He came from a really small village, with almost no phones or TV-sets etc, so my husband asked him how on Earth he had found his way up to this cold little country so far North. He looked at my husband for a short while, than he said:

Well... In my home-country there are land-mines almost everywhere. People die from them every day.

Then one day I saw a box of wood. It turned out that mines were shipped in these boxes to my country. On one of the boxes I could read "BOFORS MADE IN SWEDEN".

For a moment, I stood still and really thought of these words. After a short moment I had decided what to do.

You see, when this country, Sweden, sent its land-mines and more, to destroy my country, I thought that I had to go there to live in peace.

                 And so he did...

BUT WHO AM I…?

Who am I,

to just step to the side?

Who am I,

for a fight close both my eyes?

Who am I,

to just put our future

in the hands of people struggling

backwards?

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Who am I,

to let people somewhere die?

Who am I,

to all ideals deny?

Who am I,

to just show up my throat

and let them bite us till we loose

our breathes?

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Still I´m going strong,

Still I´m leading all my lifetime.

Still I have some ones to fight for,

And I will fight for them

until the day I die!!! /Transl. Irene Matkowitzc

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In Memory of the Swedish songwriter Bjorn Afzelius, who wrote his songs and music in the same spirit as Victor Jara, also he still alive in our hearts and minds.

I LOOOOOVE GRAFFITI!!!

Yes, I love graffiti and - all street art.

Watch the incredibly energy in this art!

                 

But I love all kinds of art - classic sculptures as well as an exhibition with Campbell's soup cans, or a breathtaking view as well as a special stone on the sunny beach…

 

 No matter by whom or why it was created, an object that brings an impulse, a reaction, a tickle in my mind or whatever - that’s Art!

But graffiti’s created by people to be seen by other people, and not only that, it also keeps the City alive! I will for sure not live in a City that is only a monument over architects and politicians, a dead zone, where the houses are grey, grey, grey, sometimes off-white and occasionally light off-yellow. And what happens when someone’s walking in this grey City? I can tell, it’s a pure business trick, ‘cause the environment will expose everything in the shops! Make them colorful and beautiful. And almost everyone will shop far more than they would do in a colorful environment, with if ex graffiti.

                               

Now when we know that the real question is not if graffiti is Art or not, but a question of how much money we spend, it’s also quite easy to understand why the prime minister in Sweden, and his ruling government has no objections against “no-tolerance” according graffiti in Stockholm and Gothenburg - the only two Cities in Europe with “no-tolerance”, by the way.

DON’T LET THEM TRY TO CHEAT US - SAY YES TO THE GRAFFITI AND OTHER STREET ART!!!

WHAT OR WHEN IS IT CORRUPTION?

 Today I heard that the fact that one princess in Sweden and her guy from a village up North, had got honey-moon, private flight and expenses payed by a wealthy man who could afford it, that this could be “corruption”

Sorry, but when writing “princess”, “wealthy man” and “private flight” in the same sentence, I really don’t think of corruption…

But when I write that hardworking, underpayed worn-out working people had to pay their wedding. They will have to pay their castles, their travels, their living with fancy dinners etc etc, that’s when I come to think of corruption – “you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours”.

I see this, not only as corruption but actually as THEFT!