My Gravatar

  • “Lot of folks see the celebrity side, but they don’t see the down side”

    That was Reverend Al Sharptons comment to The Gospel of Matthew chapter 20, verses 20 -22, as he spoke over Trump Times and America’s Black. Dr. Martin Luther King’s followers especially are on guard. This interesting message by Al Sharpton with a lot of black history in it, is to be found on this clip…

  • “Attention capitalism”?

    This was an interesting essay. Just a quote from the beginning of a quite long article behind a payment wall: “I try to hold people’s attention for a living. For more than 13 years, I’ve been hosting a cable news show, and when I’m not doing that, I spend a lot of time alternating between…

  • The kindness of the internet..

    The Internet started out as a fairly friendly and generous medium. As time has gone by, it has become increasingly hard and demanding. Not the Internet as such, of course, but its users, operators and exploiters. Of which I am one. It feels necessary to take a break every now and then. To try yourself,…

  • A visit to Ukraine

    During a couple of weeks in september, I have been traveling – from Sweden, where I took the ferry to Gdansk in Poland. From Gdansk I took the bus to Warsaw, where I spent the night. From Warsaw I took another bus the next day to Kiev in Ukraine, The journey spanned four days, from…

  • Putin’s time in power – a reverse lustration process?

     What is lustration? In the case of the Soviet Union and the communist countries in Eastern Europe, this meant that those who had held public offices in the repressive power apparatus during the communist era were deprived of their opportunities to continue to hold corresponding positions after the fall of communism. For example. Czech Republic: …

Acts of Protest Alexander Vučić autumn communism Crocus digital age fear games gaming Gaza Gorbachev history hope ideology Ilya Yashin internet Job Kyiv lustration Marco Rubio marxism MLK nato Navalny news obstacles Old Testament philosophy politics Prigozhin Putin Russia social media SSSR Stalin Terror Trump Ukraine video-games visions Wagner war White House xbox Zelensky