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This situation is slowly becoming insane.
We have now the laughing hyenas, the plain-day robbers, their brethren the long-fingered thieves and the ubiquitous vultures of beastly kingdom of finance deep in the Jungle of Greed circling in ever decreasing altitude on the hill called Capitol to claw, bluff and cajole extension of their license to keep their usual victims as slaves who will provide them with chunks of flesh.
Besides the US the whole world appears to be in perilous danger.
All the world has figured up till now that this situation the humanity is faced with in a form of a profound crisis was deliberate and man-made. The usurers had lent money wrapped in tricky banker's language to unsuspecting victims. They did so not with intention to earn normal, God-given interest-rates but with a plan to rob those borrowers of everything. Move few levers, press a couple of buttons and the conditions change, the collateral is repossessed and the show goes on.
But the show cannot go on. It cannot because the vultures have sold again the obligations and promises of the poor borrowers to pay for their loans. And then sold those papers again and again. For their insane profits, for their insane bonuses, for their insane style of the immoral lives they lived in the Jungle of Greed.
In short, those loan-extending institutions were not bona-fide honest-to-God investors but rogue, conspiratorial enterprises of the Big Money.
They relied on only one thin line of presumption that, they thought, guarantees the speculative returns of their bait, well camouflaged, disguised and extended in the form of normal credit. That presumption was that the lawmakers will send the brutal force of the Police and the National Guard in needed to evict, read: rob, the unsuspecting public so that their show could go on. That is why we have all this lobbying on Capitol Hill and the congressmen and senators swaying, watering the bills sent by the Administration for them to build on and help clear this big mess.
Now, if the brutal force is indeed sent down the line to enact the evictions, repossess the households appliance and durable goods, whatever - will that save the economy? Of course not. Then, why even think of evicting people and taking their beds, stoves and cars when there is no chance that anybody would buy them? Thus, why this threat, why not intuce a little peace of mind for all these American families? It is insane that these vultures want to keep the millions of people living under heavy in stress.
The government could have guaranteed all the default mortgages on the houses build in the US between 2000 and 2006 with much, much less moneys than extended already to the big banks and sharks behind them. And again they are happy because they are stopped from paying themselves those ludicrous bonuses. They want to go on, like this wretched character Shylock invented by old Bill Shakespeare wanted to get his pound of flesh. OK, but not a drop of American blood, jackals.
This means go ahead and try to repossess but no Police and no National Guard behind you. Only furiously angry cheated fellow countrymen and women with a constitutional right to own and bear arms to protect their livelihoods.
That is to where this insane pressure for more government or anybody's money leads to.
That attitude must be stopped.
We have now the laughing hyenas, the plain-day robbers, their brethren the long-fingered thieves and the ubiquitous vultures of beastly kingdom of finance deep in the Jungle of Greed circling in ever decreasing altitude on the hill called Capitol to claw, bluff and cajole extension of their license to keep their usual victims as slaves who will provide them with chunks of flesh.
Besides the US the whole world appears to be in perilous danger.
All the world has figured up till now that this situation the humanity is faced with in a form of a profound crisis was deliberate and man-made. The usurers had lent money wrapped in tricky banker's language to unsuspecting victims. They did so not with intention to earn normal, God-given interest-rates but with a plan to rob those borrowers of everything. Move few levers, press a couple of buttons and the conditions change, the collateral is repossessed and the show goes on.
But the show cannot go on. It cannot because the vultures have sold again the obligations and promises of the poor borrowers to pay for their loans. And then sold those papers again and again. For their insane profits, for their insane bonuses, for their insane style of the immoral lives they lived in the Jungle of Greed.
In short, those loan-extending institutions were not bona-fide honest-to-God investors but rogue, conspiratorial enterprises of the Big Money.
They relied on only one thin line of presumption that, they thought, guarantees the speculative returns of their bait, well camouflaged, disguised and extended in the form of normal credit. That presumption was that the lawmakers will send the brutal force of the Police and the National Guard in needed to evict, read: rob, the unsuspecting public so that their show could go on. That is why we have all this lobbying on Capitol Hill and the congressmen and senators swaying, watering the bills sent by the Administration for them to build on and help clear this big mess.
Now, if the brutal force is indeed sent down the line to enact the evictions, repossess the households appliance and durable goods, whatever - will that save the economy? Of course not. Then, why even think of evicting people and taking their beds, stoves and cars when there is no chance that anybody would buy them? Thus, why this threat, why not intuce a little peace of mind for all these American families? It is insane that these vultures want to keep the millions of people living under heavy in stress.
The government could have guaranteed all the default mortgages on the houses build in the US between 2000 and 2006 with much, much less moneys than extended already to the big banks and sharks behind them. And again they are happy because they are stopped from paying themselves those ludicrous bonuses. They want to go on, like this wretched character Shylock invented by old Bill Shakespeare wanted to get his pound of flesh. OK, but not a drop of American blood, jackals.
This means go ahead and try to repossess but no Police and no National Guard behind you. Only furiously angry cheated fellow countrymen and women with a constitutional right to own and bear arms to protect their livelihoods.
That is to where this insane pressure for more government or anybody's money leads to.
That attitude must be stopped.



Well, this is
just the beginning of an idea, pretty entangled right now, very
private, almost intimate. It is about my personal feelings arising
from a visual contact with faces of public figures by proxy. I
mean, this is sort of reflections triggered by published pictures
of various people without or definitely before
reading a word about their characters. Say, so far there are these
accounts about Giovanni Accongiagioco Elkann, of the Agnelli
family; Howard Stern, the King of All Media in the USA;
Barack Obama, possibly the next US President; Toshihiko
Fukui, governor of the Bank of Japan; Patricia Joan
Remak, former Dutch MP, now convict; Peter Hartz, VW and
Germany's super crook; Chad Hurley, co-establisher of
YouTube; Nobuyoki Oneida, CFO of Sony Corporation;
Florentine Rost van Tonningen, Dutch Black Widow I'll
read your portraits too, if you send the pic! TRY ME So,
all you need to do is
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dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit I think Turkey deserves
every possible argument supporting its impressive drive to full EU
membership.
There is this
multi-faceted Turkey Now" festival in earnest preparation
going on all over town these days. If you read Het Parool
you would know this already. There will be, just after St.
Valentine Day, at least 20 events and one of the highlights is a
jazz concert that you can sample here:
Tom, a
handsome dude, walked into a sports bar around 9:58 PM. He sat down
next to a blonde at the bar and stared up at the TV. The 10:00 news
was on. The news crew was covering a story of a man on ledge of a
large building preparing to jump. The blonde looked at Tom and
said, -Do you think he'll jump? Tom says, -You know, I bet he'll
jump. The blonde replied, -Well, I bet he won't. Tom placed a $20
bill on the bar and said, -You're on!" Just as the blonde placed
her money on the bar, the guy on the ledge did a swan dive off the
building, falling to his death. The blonde was very upset, but
willingly handed her $20 to Tom, saying, -Fair's Fair. Here's your
money. Tom replied, -I can't take your money, I saw this earlier on
the 5 o'clock news and so I knew he would jump. The blonde replied,
-I did too; but I didn't think he'd do it again. Tom took the
money.
Reading
Some of you
may be interested in my impressions from travels around the world.
Just begun developing that site. A bit early for promoting it, but
that is how I tick. 
Panama hat:
hand-made exclusivily in Ecuador from a plant called Toquilla. 1)
How long did the Hundred Years War
last?
So, this is
about new places with unknown faces. About longitudes where the sun
casts different shadows and the air is full with new scents. This
is about awakening of memories for fresh beginnings and the comfort
of returning to old fireplaces. Above: The castle atop, typical
architecture, the Roman theatre
Believe you
me, I know every single trick from the vaults of
After a year
of fun and play we, the bloggers, know that there is a lot
of time, effort and skill poured into the VK. I believe that GJB
and us could chat a bit about a new, commercial, twist to the
individual pages. Since we are a sort of one big family maybe we
should see whether and how we could contribute to the costs of this
facility, gather money for improving it and, doing so, earn a
decent buck individually. The proposal is simple. GJB supplies
those who are interested the price-list for a 300x300 pix slot on
this column, agrees to pay us commission (which he anyways pays to
others) and we contract sponsors who pay directly to VK upon which
VK shells out our part. We as authors do not promote
those sponsors in our posts. There are parties which do not even
know about the VK but may be interested to advertise here for any
reason, especially sponsoring an acquaintance's or friend's hobby
or whatever. To secure that the big-time advertising wizards are
not affected, we, the small fry, would be allowed to bring adds at
least 600 pixels under the ad at the top for which VK gets
money. So, that is it. Simple like Senate Beans Soup. 

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