new world order worse than apartheid

I don't know about you. But the hype and panic that certain scientist and politicians are creating with the carbon dioxide emitted and/or create by man causing global warming is getting the better of me. For long I have been patient. Waiting. But enough is enough. So I am going to write my thoughts/views. Or should I say the questions that float around in my head. This is not a political or scientific post. It is merely someone asking questions and making some statements to stimulate you to think a bit outside your box and stop feeding on the propoganda of the new world order.

The debate has been going on for a long time and dates back even as far back as the 1970's when a Swedish scientist started this bizarre idea that its the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that causes gloabal warming. At that stage the earth was going through a cold period and peole were fearing a mimi ice age.

The earth is heating up allright. We all know that and we all see it too. But it is NOT caused by the carbon dioxide. I dont want to start a "scratch" about that. I have seen the facts and I have made up my mind. If you are still sitting between two fires, go and do some reading and speak to a real scientist.

My mind turns to the activities behind the scenes. The people putting the money into all the research. The politicians involved and pushing hidden agendas. If you look around the world it is usually the people "at the bottom" suffering. The people that are suffering enough already. My mind turns to the United Nations and G8 countries that do hand outs infront of television cameras, but steal with both hands behind the scenes. I think of the people in South America. The people in Africa. I ask why the western world is so afraid to see these continents develop. Why is Africa not allowed to use its coal and oil to produce its own energy? Why does Africa have to buy other more expensive sources of energy? Is Africa not allowed to have its own electricity? The western world knows very well that Africa can not afford these alternative sources of energy.

This to me is just another way of warfare. But the decete and the lies is what kills me. People fighting against a global warming scam thats killing the future of African kids. Musicians and artists speaking out against global warming and carbon dioxide. The fight they claim is to save the planet. But its all about coal, oil and energy. When is enough going to be enough.

There are many examples in Africa where the western world just sat back and did nothing. It is as if they are waiting for Africa to disappear or self destruct. Take Mozambique. Look at Angola. Or countries like Nigeria. Or lately Zimbabwe. Mozambique and Angola have some of the richest soils in Africa. The crops grown there will be able to sustain the local need. Plus these countries would be able to profit and grow economically if they could export. But is it a co-incidence that these two countries have some of the highest amount of landmines on earth? Why after 30 years of war in Angola are the streets of Luanda floaded with western business men? Does it have anything to do with the oil of the coast of Angola? Same story in Nigeria? I'll take my guess. I wonder why for so many years why nobody did something about the APARTHEID in South Africa. But the western world gets involved very fast when oil is at the centre of its attention. Eastern Europe, the mid-East. I find this all to much of a co-incidence. I can not stop thinking about their political games while the world is dying around them.

I ask myself the question: What are these guys up to? Which agenda are they pushing. It makes me sad to think that there are people/countries with pockets to deep to see that they are killing innocent people. Blinded by greed. For wealth and power. And what do they gain in the end? Really? I can not stop to wonder if "they" will change their minds and ways if they walk bare feet in the mud in Africa or pick up the children left as orphans because of the money THEY put up for wars to be faught. My guess? Probably not.

So don't fall for their propoganda on the global warming issue. Don't be sucked into the new world order. It is just another well dressed story to push their own hidden agendas. To cover their dark secret. I acknowledge that this is the words of a passionate/desperate person. But somewhere it has to stop. I have been too passive for too long. It time I get up and do something. You should too. Start by not listening to their lies...cos its worse than apartheid.

friend or foe

In the past when people would ask me what my opinion was on “trust” and how I would define it or prove it I would answer: Trust is not something you can prove. I can not prove to anyone that I trust them or that they can trust me. It is a leap of faith in a way. You can not quantify or quality - I believed and in some way I still do – that trust is only something that you can prove you DON’T have….thus by breaking trust is the only way of showing your worth in this department. (Hope I haven’t lost anybody yet)
Now I ask myself the question whether or not friendship can be measured with the same mindset or belief. Well at least that has been my experience. People these days, in the era of technology and science; have come up with new ways to claim things. Like friendship on Facebook is a good example that we are all aware of. I am not for or against Facebook. In fact it helps me to keep up with friends across Europe on a day to day basis. People that respond faster to FB than they do to e-mail or phone calls. It has become just another helpful tool if implemented as such. For others it’s a favourite past time. All of a sudden you have people in all shapes and sizes claiming to be your friend. Before I realised this I had “accumulated” over 700 so-called friends in less than 6 months. Then I asked myself: Where did all these people come from? And why are they my friends. Then I started with a clean-up act and removed over 550 people. The feeling was unreal and so liberating. I am actually considering shutting the whole thing down. Like I started to despise my mobile phone, I am starting to despise FB. Not for the reason that it is not helpful. But because others are ABUSING your friendship by it. They make claims that are not their to make. And then get offended when you don’t respond or reply. EXCUSE ME? How can that be right?
So I am asking myself the question: Who are the people that ARE my friends? My REAL friends. There are many people claiming they are, but they have disproved themselves by way of the introductory statement. So that’s what has brought me to this place of contemplation: When do you cut somebody loose?
I am not into burning bridges. In fact I think it’s wrong. But I also think it’s wrong that people want to catch the ride with you when its fun and all is going well. But when the head wind picks up or the distance grows wider and wider, they fade like mist before the sun - ghosts so to speak…or fair weather friends if you like. They like to watch you or listen to you speak, steal some inspiration and then run off to do their own thing until the inspiration runs out and they need some more of the same thing…in basic biology that is called a parasite. I am more into symbioses – meaning give an inch gain an inch and we all live happily ever after. Its understanding that in a fallen world like we live in today people find it harder and harder to uncover a true source of inspiration. Funny that the people I expect (and know have already found the Source) to have this inspiration thing covered are the ones constantly seeking for more. More of what? It’s also funny in a sad way to see how this phenomena spins around in a cycle. End of the year is a big peak in the graph. Everyone is searching that one thing that will inspire them through to the end of the year and into the new. Then the graph slows down as the first head winds pick up. Then it is Facebook-phone-a-happy-friend lifeline to find some more feel-good-esteem? How pathetic.
So – do I cut them loose or not? I don’t know the answer yet. I guess I will access every situation and individual on merit, based on history and circumstances. And because I am the one writing the program for my own matrix. Thus, I am the one who decides who gets to play and who doesn’t.
I don’t think I am a difficult person to be friends with. But I don’t like being taken for granted. I guess we all feel that way. We have all been taken for granted and the feeling sucks. Whether it was an ex-girlfriend or boyfriend, parents or work colleagues…it doesn’t matter. You know the feeling. I am not perfect either, but I don’t take people for granted. But when I sense I am being taken for granted I step back into the shadow to follow the situation with a hawk eye. I think, to be honest, the cutting loose for me happens on a deeper level. To define it better - you are pushing someone out of your close circle of comrades into the sea of familiar faces where he or she becomes just another buddy by the sea.
I am saddened by the lovelessness that I encounter these days. I never expect of people to out-do themselves. But there are some basics. And there’s a Good Book that says in the last days the hearts of many will grow cold and there will be lovelessness and lawlessness on the streets…the thought sends shivers down my spine.
I guess this spell of contemplation has something to do with growing up. Not necessarily age, but they have a way of walking hand in hand. You come to a stage in your life where you have seen things, you have experienced things; a place where you know what it feels like to hurt and to be hurt; and eventually things become crystal clear – you realise what you want? At least in some way for me it’s true. And I have come to the conclusion that I don’t need people around me that will waste my time, cos time is the only thing in life that I have that cant be replaced. Once it gone, it is lost forever. Thus I will surround myself with people that inspire naturally; that live life; that are positive despite the head winds and the odds stacked up against them; people that refuse to roll over and die; people that make the waves, not only ride them; people that want to LIVE - not because they have to but because they WANT TO. These guys and girls I want to call my friends.

see you on the other side

How do you write a summary about a whole year that’s gone by? I don’t think you can. Well I am not really going to try either. But the end of a fantastic year has indeed arrived. An action packed year that never seemed to disappoint me. I feel extremely privileged to have been able to live 2008 in my own shoes. There are so many great memories, stories and happenings. You just have to page down on the BLOG to see a glimpse into my life over the last year. It has been a blast - in all facets of life…academic, social and spiritual. Someone must be smiling over me?
It was a year where I rediscovered a lot about myself. I got the chance to find a piece of myself that felt lost for a long time. I learnt once again my own strengths and weaknesses. I had sufficient time to reflect and discover what I want to see, do and find in my own future. I got the opportunity to live my dreams. I got an even better opportunity to dream new dreams and write a new bucket list (only because EVERYTHING on “to-do-list” has been crossed out). I travelled to places near and far. I experienced different cultures, I tasted some of the best cuisine, and I drank some of the world’s best wines. There was the further awakening of my passion for the art of wine and the dying down of other misguided distractions. I travelled across countries to see friends. I made new friends and built new relationships. Unfortunately I lost some friends during this year - friends whose words and impacts will echo through my life. I journeyed into unknowns and came out stronger and enriched.
I can not be otherwise BUT encouraged about the time that awaits me. I love living passionately although it is not always sunshine and roses…let’s be honest about that. You bump your head and/or take a wrong turn. You end up down the wrong alley and it has consequences. But it’s about your attitude and then which way you run after your mis-hap.
I guess as before, I love to look into the small and simple things in life, to make all of it less complicated. The rising or the setting of the sun, the noise outside my window, the wrinkles on the woman’s face that I cross in the street, the mysteries in every wine, and all the stories that life communicates to us in everyday life. But how much of it do we miss? I am afraid – too much! I have made it my purpose to stop, to reflect, to listen, to absorb, to taste and to put it in my bag to take it with me wherever the road leads me.
And where will that be I ask myself? I don’t know. And that’s great. I am glad that I don’t know what the future holds. I am certain that if we knew beforehand we will just screw it up cos our heads will get in the way, instead of following your own heart. I am glad that there lays a mystery ahead to unravel, a story to live and to write afterwards, a wine to drink and friend to meet, a life to live.
See you on the other side…

global warming hocus pocus

please see the videos i have posted.

no disguise

I tell the story of a man who would not listen
Looking inside for the pain that he preferred
Time and time again he pushed against the system
Never looking for the lesson to be learnt

One day soon love will offer its solution - if I close my eyes
Someday soon there will be a resolution - no disguise

Now he sits inside the walls he created
In a space that has no reason
A space that has no time
Anger burns inside him
It is never on his face
He is serving sentence for his crime

One day soon love will offer its solution - if I close my eyes
Someday soon there will be a resolution - no disguise
Love will offer its solution - if I close my eyes
One day soon there will be a resolution – with no disguise

If I close my eyes

Someday soon love will offer its solution – if I close my eyes
Someday soon there will be a resolution – with no disguise