Introduction

Indeed this is about the sort that we use to make our machines work, in all sorts of ways, to make our lives easier. This is a most fascinating topic and of dire and great consequence in human life. It encompasses so much and touches on so much else around it, that one could say it is as important as food or water (human energy indeed).

The world of money, power, politics and military might would actually be nothing without this source. Our civilisation would be back at its beginnings and we would be hunter gatherers. At the same time, somehow, the ordinary citizen (in developed countries) barely ever has a conscious thought about this topic, how she can best use it and save it – for it is NOT eternal, at least not in the forms that we are currently using it. Anyone can do the calculations – we have say 5 potatoes in the whole world, and decide to eat them all without saving any of the eyes, we will leave none for anyone else, even if we do really really enjoy the chips we just ate. What would we do with all the ketchup then?

Add to the above potato situation that every time we eat a chip, the pan they're fried in gets hotter, such that we risk it melting and pouring molten unforgiving metal onto our skin. But, hey, let's enjoy the chips. Maybe the chef will get burned first, and some clever person elsewhere will find a way of reproducing potatoes synthetically. Or wait, we can then eat our last 5 sweet potatoes in the world in the same way and leave the problem for after that. We may not be around then anyway and our children will not know what onions and potatoes tasted like, so can't possibly miss them.

Granted, I am drawing a silly picture of the entangled web of energy and climate change, but it is about as silly to me that citizens and their leaders are not actually taking any of it really seriously. It takes no genius to work out that if I walk the 3.6 kilometers to work, I save money on fuel and wear and tear to my vehicle, and do not get stuck in traffic and arrive at work fuming myself. At the same time, it again takes no genius to work out that the policy of turning soya beans or maize into fuels for cars is not long term sustainable, what will we and the animals we feed on then eat?

Many questions and topics touch on this, and I intend to not labour them all right here and now, but over a series on this blog site.

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An idiot in France has killed a number of "his enemies", which include children as revenge for children in another part of the world that he probably knows NOTHING about. It is an absolute disgrace and VERY VERY sad.

He is of Algerian origin, influenced by Afghan-based, Saudi-financed idiots. He calls himself a muslim and wants to avenge muslim children who were "murdered" by jews in Israel. FOR GOODNESS SAKE - this is just a mad man. He could also have said he is from the dark-side and would kill all those who wear blue light-sabres. Or he could be a white man from Oslo who kills anyone socialist or brown or ... or....

BUT, we know what will happen now. Marie Le Pen has started it already.

11 months since I last wrote here. There has been and is so much that I want to say and that occupies my mind!

Where do I start, no continue? Okay, in stream of consciousness.

The Arabic spring

Actually I don't know what spring in Arabic is, will have to look it up. It has had some success, much uncertainty and a long way to go. BUT, well done people of these lands. You are making yourselves heard.

Neo-Nazi terror in Germany

This so-called cell of three.

It is a long time since I wrote. In this time I have been growing my second baby, and I guess that is the reason that I have not been busy with other things. There are still 3 months to go, but I cannot avoid what is going on in the area where I kind of originate from, i.e. Mid East/North Africa. This is especially true as I was in Israel for a visit just a month ago.

My first thoughts as I got on my Lufthansa flight back to Germany were "The people here are all mad".

30 years ago it started. 8 year it lasted. It effects will be felt, echoed for many decades still to come.

It put fear in the hearts of millions, cost millions of lives and unbelievable amounts of money of course.

I remember so much fear during the 8 years. It seemed never ending and was the worst thing that can happen to one. Although I saw direct effects far more rarely than those in the south and west, it did and would not stop. It went on and on. For no reason whatsoever.

What is an -ism?

It is a suffix that describes an ideology. Known examples are: Communism, Imperialism, Capitalism, Fascism, Feudalism, Federalism, Optimism, Sexism, Ageism, Judaism, etc. etc.

Another - new-ish -ism

A relatively new -ism is however the ideology that makes Islam (a religion) into a political movement. This is not necessarily a new idea, the caliphate of Islam already existed centuries ago, but the introduction of it to the wide world is new.

Once an immigrant, always an immigrant? Or does this not make any sense? In my case, however it is true. Here I want to put my point of view of immigration across. I am not going to address the whole issue of what a host country should do, how they should prepare for integration or ejection of the immigrants, etc. but how I have gone through it, my personal experience. This is obviously a short summary of the whole deal.

I became an immigrant for the first time at the age of 3.5.

Just eating my lunch, thought again of my theory... The last shah of Iran is not dead, look he is here. Don't believe me, here was the Shah. They are look-a-likes, one has to admit.

How living beings share the sun's light

The light that reaches the earth from the sun changes mostly into warmth and sooner or later leaves our globe. The sun's energy has become the life-giving current, which all take a part of. (Gottfried Schatz, Neue Zurcher Zeitung, 2.11.2009) Translation by Maryam Yahiaoui-Doktor

"The sun rose in Paderborn, with very peevish gesture. She had to indeed carry out an annoying deed.

A poem from Ghadeh Alsaman

An able poet from Syria

If you come to my home, bring me a pencil, a black pencil;

I want to draw a line on my face, so I won't be caged for the crime of beauty, also a cross on my heart so I won't be tempted!

Give me an eraser for erasing the lips, I don't want anyone to blacken me due to their redness.

A shovel, so I uproot my feminine virtues, sow my being... without these is heaven's way easier.

No, I don't mean capitalism gone out of control, but brutality. In Iran a 21 year old man was today killed, because at the age of 17 he had stabbed someone to death. The family of the original victim came to watch the murderer die, and were allowed to also stab him. The mother went along.
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