War and (enforcing) peace in Georgia. Good idea.

Another war happening. South Ossetia.

So again, we’ll se a tennis-match war. One side is saying we took that city, the other side says nowhere near it! all is going swimmingly our way! Felons! Then the others says “yeah, really what about this bombed village/destroyed dock/missing town hall?”,

best books – non-fiction

Some of the best non-fiction books I have read. Some of them are not necessarily well written, and would not win prices for excellent language; at least one of them is actually annoying in that respect, but I have included them because the subject is interesting/important. I am sure I have forgotten some, but there you go. Teflon brain.

The art of looking sideways
Alan Fletcher
This is how it looks like inside my head. It a fountain of musings, facts, the odd, solid, and whimsical. It is design, doodles, unfinished thoughts, images, drawings. It is colours, shapes and wisdom. It is a delight and frustration at the same time – if I could show what goes on in my head, this is pretty much it.

Land of war, land of peace

A double standard is twice as good as one.

Norway is the seventh largest exporter of weapons. But we don’t like to talk about it. The image of being a peaceful nation, if not THE peaceful nation, would be a little marred by that fact. It’s a lot more fun having the image of peace-builder. We send men in suits around the world openly and secretly, to promote peace and All That Is Good. Naively, but with good intentions, we poke our noses into any ‘clean’ conflict (i.e. any that our closest allies are not involved in. Guess who). You get up on a high horse, there might be a long way down.

We roll around in oil and fish – you’d think that’ll do – but no. Our own army is being downgraded in one end (manpower) and upgraded in the other (fighter jets).

And we export. I like the argument of right and wrong in this – “we only export to the good guys”. Oh, right! Then that’s all right, then! Good bullets and bad bullets.

The world is a complicated place. But idiotic justifications is insulting us all.

Northern Irelands silly ghosts. Attempted murder, hahaha!

I admit I don’t really keep up with Northern Irish news much these days. It’s either desperately provincial – or just plain desperate. Yes, someone planted a bomb the other day, and yes, somebody got hurt. And I’m sure the obscure rural radio show is still going on without me. So. Some things never change.
But the other day, I got tangled in a BBC-infused NI-news-net. And some old skeletons dropped out of the closet. Good old names like Michael Stone and Mad Dog Adair.
Gerry Adams and Martin McGunniess nearly had their parlamentary meeting disturbed by Michael Stone, the old rascal, who wanted to slit the throats of the Shinners. Seriously. No kidding.

Michael Stone – exceptionally bad haircut and not-a-winning personality – stuck his nose out again, and this is a good wan!

media – gossip central and major irony

I don’t read papers much anymore, I don’t have a telly.

In fact, I have been sans telly for …oh.. the main part of the last sixteen years. I had a telly the first four years, I used it as a pedestal for potted plants and asian souvenirs, considered making a fish-tank out of it, and watched, hungover, all in all four hours of the good Sir David Attenborough. I had it for months before I turned it on to figure out if it was colour or black and white. The thing is: some things on telly are good. Some first class stuff. But it is surrounded by trash. So either you turn it on – default – and accidentally bump into something good,… or… I simply forgot when to turn it on for the good stuff.

OXYmoronic, said the misanthropic humanitarian

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The great student riots of 2008

In the spring of 2008 campuses all over the country exploded in political protest. Riots spread like wildfire, and creative students built barricades of tables, vending machines and arming themselves with molotovcoctails and general kitchenwear found on campus.

The first buildings they occupied, was the server and computer labs, and from there coordinated their actions. In Østfold, they painted the glass walls and brick buildings with slogans of politcal dissent, and set up watches with web cameras and sensors on the roof of the university college.

The leaders of the riots said to the press, via video interviews, that they will not give in, that the demands must be met, and that the educational system..