THE SYRIAN TOWN MAALULA BEFORE THE POSSIBLE RESPONSE.

MAALULA  THE CHRISTIAN TOWN IN SYRIA 7th of SEPTEMBER 2013 BEFORE THE POSSIBLE WESTERN STRONG RESPONSE.
                                 NO, I CANNOT!
       
                                  JOUKO OFVERBERG

JORMA OLLILA, YOU OWE AN EXPLINATION TO THE FINNISH NATION!

The EX-CEO of Nokia Mobile Company JORMA OLLILA don't be afraid of the Finnish press. Answer and give your honest version of the Microsoft deal and explain why you wanted to sell a part of Finnish geographical and industrial history with the mobile phone deal. You have only right to sell Lumia and other trademarks, but you cannot sell a beautiful and proud Finnish community name, which my ancestors have fight for centuries. Nokia name is part of my genes, it is property of the Finnish Nation.

                        Jouko Ofverberg

ANSWER IS IN THE AIR!

The political leaders in France, Great Britain and United States  confirms, that Syria's dictator Bashar al-Assad has passed the "RED LINE".
I will only  express my doubts with four (4) questions:
-Why there are and have been  so many dictators in the Arab world?
-Why Middle-East is so unstable, is it because of the lack of energy sources and crude oil?
-Is it because of NATO and it's member states are not military present there?
-Are  France, Great Britain and United States the only nations whose conscience and worry about the Syrian   peoples human rights and al-Assad's possible crimes against the humanity make them risk the faint stability
  in that area?
 Between my questions I add some cartoons from the oldest in English written newspaper in South Korea, The Korea Times.In my opinion the artist have succeeded to give his opinion with very few elements.

   

One week ago in The Korea Times.

Today in The Korea Times.

                Answer is in the air!
                                                  Jouko Ofverberg

THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY, THE SYRIAN VERSION.

I refer here Clint Eastwood's famous film "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly". In Italy it was called" Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo
I will use this film to make a superficial analysis based on information which I can get via western media of what is happening in Syria.
My first and the only impression that I get  from the news and images is, that "The Good" in this conflict is Barack Obama.

 Here is a photo from  the Spanish "El Mundo" newspaper.The image has been first published  2.8.2012 with Reuters. The Spanish text is following: "Una niña rodeada de escombros en el centro Homs". There is over one year  from this "shot" and the situation has  dramatically changed from that day. 

So now we have "The Good", and my investigative journalistic mind  asks who is "The Bad". But if you have followed the international politics in Middle East and the press' answers, IL BRUTTO is always Bashar al-Assad. So it means, that they gave him this  role long before the "film" was even produced.

To have all the actors on their places,  "IL CATTIVO" is still missing . When you have seen all the images via western newspapers, you cannot find him. Is "The Ugly working together with "The Good" or is he hiding behind every child and woman picture in these newspapers , carrying a Kalashnikov, a Mauser and  M67 hand grenades . After all the image information what I found dealing with the conflict, I couldn't have the answer to my  question:

Is there an official "photo shop" for this international  image service and where is it's headquarters?

Mr. Jouko Ofverberg 

"THE GUARDIAN" AND "EL MUNDO" PRO PRESS FREEDOM IN EUROPE.

This was my comment in The Guardian when the Scandinavian editors expressed their solidarity to the English newspaper.

Some of the Finnish newspapers have still a self-censorship system. During the Soviet epoch the biggest Finnish newspaper "Helsingin Sanomat" never put a Russian critical article on it's pages. When Edward Snowden revealed the American NSA all-spying net , the reactions of e.g. "Helsingin Sanomat" and the other important Finnish newspaper "Turun Sanomat" was against the surveillance journalism which "The Guardian" and Glenn Greenwald was doing.
Both of these newspapers have censored some of my comments over international politics. My opinions are always anti racists and anti violence and pro nature,pro sustainable economy, pro human rights, pro individual privacy and liberals.
At last the Scandinavian editors dare to express there opinion together, when "The Guardian" and Glenn Greenwald have opened and cleaned the road from press' anti freedom obstacles.

I will also thank in this place  the Spanish newspaper "El Mundo", who has always published my critical comments.
"Helsingin Sanomat" and Turun Sanomat have their own peculiar understanding what is PRESS FREEDOM.

 Jouko Ofverberg

HOW TO GET OUT OF THIS MESS NSA?

First of all you (NSA) need to prove that there are more survivors because of your surveillance activity , than if there would be none. This is extremely difficult, because you are a top secret intelligence organization and to prove your efficiency is something totally  impossible because your statistics and information are qualified very dangerous in enemy's hands (China, Russia).
The only option you (NSA) have at the moment is to find and see enemies all over and lurking everywhere, behind every corner prepared to act.Enemies which are E-mailing and Facebooking their bad intentions to destroy human lives. You (NSA) need to search words and phrases  in  Internet which  have a connection to bad intentions(XKeyscore program). You need to close your embassies in hostile areas, send home your diplomats and put your  special troops in alert  and still with all these preparations,  the illiterate enemy hits without any warning  somewhere deep in your home country .
NSA, this is my advice, change the attitude and  start to give a positive signal to people and nations with a different cultural inheritance  , whose background is not American  and Western European  Roman style ,veni, vidi, vici. Be humble, don't take first to these areas  Coca Cola ,KFC and McDonald which represents miserable food culture in these  countries which have long historical traditions in  cooking art and don't punish them with your Hollywood  film stories and their goodwill "snowmen" who travel around the world  sharing United Nation's good news.
Be honest, behind all these efforts which you have done , there is a national greediness to guarantee that the energy sources in Asia and Africa are only under your control.

                              JOUKO OFVERBERG

NSA AND GCHQ, YES WE CAN!

Recently the British newspaper The Guardian revealed that the US intelligence service NSA paid 100 million £ to the British GCHQ  for their "twilight"  services. NSA budget is at least 10 billion US$ and GCHQ together with MI6 receives in Great Britain  £ 2 billion (Sterling Pounds).Imagine to have all this money in education and scientific research. Imagine all these useless "jamesbonds" investigating the environmental pollution and the global warming effect on the nature and on the weather. Imagine a day when you can trust your government so they don't need to spy on you. Imagine a government only working for the community's best , a bank with reliable CEO:s,  an official who is not corrupted, a policeman who is only using his authority to serve the community.

All intelligence  which is today secret will be  in the future under criminal investigations. If there is no information which explains the  "heroic acts " today, the history will one day in the future  dig them  up  and bury the "hollywood"heroes in a dumping-ground.

Photo GCHQ/ Ministry of Defence EPA

The British GCHQ headquarter in Cheltenham, Glouchestershire is a big megalomaniac monument showing man's indifference over the nature. Hard necks need a hard disc symbol.

                                         Jouko Ofverberg

TURUN SANOMAT IS PUBLISHING PRO NSA

Thanks to Glenn Greenwald from The Guardian, that we, who still believe in the citizen's basic liberties ,we know now what the intelligence services in some countries are doing.He has had enough courage to contact the man in Moscow Airport and building a safe channel to introduce the information for freedom loving people's consciousness and being same  time afraid of his corporal integrity.

For Finnish privacy experts XKeyscore is only "excellent", the private commerce is the problem.

Glenn Greenwald's article in The Guardian dealing with XKeyscore.

Glenn Greenwald's article in The Guardian dealing with XKeyscore

Turun Sanomat the Finnish daily newspaper from Turku, is publishing in it's digital edition first of August 2013,an inquiry done by STT, where Finnish "privacy professionals" consider the commerce as the biggest threat against people's privacy. This is only good news for NSA, because some of the "professionals" also commented , that many people may have problems to obtain  a VISA, if they travel to United States.

                                      JOUKO OFVERBERG

P.S Finland's SUPO (security police) have still to clear up the difficult STASI -inheritance from the DDR- times.

FINNISH JIHADIST DIES IN SYRIA

I thought that the  native Finnish  have had enough war experiences during the World War I and II. It was surprising to read from Turun Sanomat,that a young Finnish had died during the battle of Aleppo. What was more surprising was the news, that more young Finnish and even whole families with children  have  gone via Turkey to Siria.
Every new generation have it's fanatics, religious and political, which use always the same excuse for violence; oppression. How many conflicts have been solved with violence, and if you take your family with you  to an area where there is going a civil war, it is only "gasoline" in the fire.
One of the biggest newspapers in Finland, Turun Sanomat, censured my antiwar comment based on comparison the  "burka" with a bunker and pointing the fact of women's and children's fate between the fighting parts.(XKeyscore controlled)
Finnish have still a lurking "shoot back" -mentality, and if a  religion can unite these three typical national elements : stubbornness, patriotism and "give it back"- mentality, there will be soon more Finnish  Jihadist dying for Islam in Siria. The article of Turun Sanomat, was a pro-jihadist and proud to be one , without any war critic.

JOUKO OFVERBERG

TOO TOXIC TO BE TRUE IN BALTIMORE!

Ghent, Belgium 4.5.2013, a cargo train  explodes with toxic and flammable chemicals. The result 1 dead and 49 injured. Baltimore , United States,28.5.2013  a train with chemical freight derails, explodes and causes a  fire with black smoke. The result only 1 injured.  Lac-Megantic, Quebec Canada 6.7.2013, a train with fuel and flammable chemicals explodes,and  at the moment "only" 1 dead and 40 - 80 person missing.
After so many chemical freight- train accidents, I decided to investigate  more precisely the contents of these news. It surprised me what I found in Baltimore. The chemicals which the train carried was terephtalic acid and fluoroacetic acid. The first mentioned chemical is widely used and here in EU, there is still no documented information of it's poisonous qualities, but the second one, fluoroacetic.acid. In the Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission's (www.helcom.fi) official document, this chemical is considered
extremely toxic and the heart and brain are the organs most prominently affected.It has been classified ; rodenticide,insecticide and acaricide. It has been banned in Estonia 1999 and Russia 1987, and in Denmark,Finland,Germany and Sweden it has been never used or approved.
After reading the usnews.nbcnews.com article of the accident and the County Fire Chief's Mr. John Hohman's declaration, that the smoke gases was not a threat for the health, I was very surprised.
What is really happening on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, in  USA and Canada, how reliable is the information which the authorities give to the citizens? Is it only the  crude oil and the "fast money" which rules this part of the Northern hemisphere?

        JOUKO OFVERBERG

NASDAQ AND STANDARD & POOR'S 500 COMPONENT.

We know that there is a company in California with the name Symantec, and it's  main product is Norton antivirus software. The company is rated on Standard Poor's  S &P 500 component list.
We know also,that there is a company called Intel and one of it's famous products is Bluetooth, but we didn't know ,that they  own also McAfee antivirus software company. Intel is also quoted in Standard &Poor's S&P 500 component list.
Everybody have heard of Avast free antivirus software? They have had  some problems with their balances, and in last August 2012 the company gave an initial public offering IPO in United States, and it's shares was on sale on this S&P's  500 component list.
In 2009 Alwil, which was  the company's old name, hired Vincent Steckler from Symantec to be the new
Chief Executive Officer( CEO) to coordinate and catch new clients for company's  expanding antivirus business.
Today we also know, that Nokia bought Siemens' shares in Nokia Siemens Networks company, and that both companies are European and their stocks are quoted in New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).
What did this  S&P being also a risk rating company for the investors, lowered Nokia's risk index to safe guard US' on drift being  economy.
Now we go to the  main point: What is really happening in United States? There have been more fakes in every sector of the economy, first the savings banks then these "save the past" (S&P) rating companies and then this all limits jumping spying "business". Yes we can, is not  helping their 300 million people, while  the "American dream" is only for Micheal Jackson's, Elvis Presley's and Justin Bieber's clons, who follow trending "nonsense" brands.
I have a big doubt, that the young man called Snowden is carrying more revealing information about this "Hollywood " style made mega pyramidal economy. North America needs quickly leaders before it resembles
the Roman Empire in the beginning of 5th century AC.

JOUKO OFVERBERG , CITIZEN OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (EU)
PS.and proud of it

SPYING A NEW JOB?

Youth unimployment and economical crisis with low productivity and an immense high bureaucratic self guarding futile political office labor, is EU's   main problem and in a  hurry  to be solved in the near future. Now United States and European Union has a common enemy Edward Snowden .NSA in United States, SIS in Great Brtain (spying G8 members),DGSE in France(intervening Bolivia's president's normal
 flight), CNI in Spain (ex-president ousted of corruption), SÄPO in Sweden (organizing expensive James Bond "fiestas" and SUPO in Finland (still hiding DDR' s Finnish Stasi agents) are still scanning  and collecting information ,to find him  and save over 300 hundred fictive human lives.
My opinion is, that we give to these about  five (5) million spy-professionals the last secret mission to find a new job in an economical sector which is producing national wealth and not wasting it.
When we do so, the Atlantic West Coast and the  East Coast are spearing maybe 30.000 million Euros in their yearly  budgets, and still they can   give  enough secret service security to their citizens with the remaining five (5) million agents.From the Newton school shootings in 14.12.2012 until today  there are more than 5700 deads  in  United States , done with a gun.
Now while these unarmed  "spies" are trying to find  new jobs, which is not very likely they can do it , the new Western European Ally will start a mega-project to employ young people and stop the  mutual cyber "peeping".

     Jouko Ofverberg

LA VERDAD,THE TRUTH MANIPULATED BY SPANISH NEWSPAPER.

After Mr. Snowden left Hong Kong,his shade has produced more scandals and international right's limit tests. There is a very deep moral corruption also inside the EU. Very few high position holding European politician has dared  to comment anything of the American scanning and spying scandal.
The last drop in these "limit tests" has been the Austrian government who has joined the club " famous four" being the most corrupted countries in European Union.
Thank you " Der Spiegel" and Angela Merkel, keep Europe above the line where the  truth and the consequences can not be manipulated.

        Jouko Ofverberg

ABOUT FACEBOOK AND OPRAH, NO COMMENTS!

About the freedom of expression!Some countries have this thing better than the "oily" ones which need to  fight to maintain their influence over  the poor people. I write in Europe, so no more comments!
Yes but now  I have. The Forbes has chosen Oprah Winfrey as the most influential person in the world. So if anybody read my opinions, don't bother, they don't have any value, before you have checked what is her opinion. All you read and feel, is only my opinion and based on my educational background, which is very inferior compared with her's. Also all what I write, no one will  pay a penny for it, like Adsense commented once my writings, but you Oprah, you get a good payment with your popular shows, and I hope you feel like you are pretending.

                              Jouko Ofverberg

MESSI,RONALDO AND BECKHAM!

The Mecca of football, BRASIL is speaking, are you listening? You know what is right. The "street" wants schools and education, and when you have them , the other needs and problems solve by itself.No other comments!

                         JOUKO OFVERBERG

FOOD OR CHEMICALS?

Spanish Supermarket giant Mercadona has it's own low cost  trade mark Hacendado for different kind of merchandise . I buy often some pastries from their  "choose yourself" stories unit. One of my favorits have been "Hojaldre de Manzana".I have been very sensitive for all kinds of additives after using 65 years modern bakery and food tchnology products. After eating these EU-certificated delicacies and drinking soda with sucralose sweetener , I feel terrible. I am tired, my stomach is a hard ball, and next day is for "meteorology" and breaking wind.Having studied pharmacy at  Helsinki University, I decided to inspect the product more precisely.(the pastry is wrapped with cellophane  and it is difficult to read the ingredients)So here are my results of the research. Surprise ,it contains wheat flour and some other natural  materials, and the other ingredients are:
modified maize starch(from modified plants),glycerin,gelatine,carrageenan(intestinal irritation*),aroma?,xanthan gum(intestinal bloating and diarrhea*), E160a, E171 ( white pigment used in paintings),E200 (possible allergen*)E 202 (possible allergen*) E 282, E 304 (possibility animal origin*), E 306, E 322 (possibility modified soy), E 330, E 331, E 406, E 460, E 471 (possibility animal origin) and finally E 475. That's it, it is your  delicious pastry!
And then enjoying all with soda, sweetened with aspartame and sucralose.
Sucralose was invented by an Indian chemist Shashikant Phadnis ,when Queen Elisbeth College was working on a new insectiside,and the investigator misunderstood the word testing with the word tasting and find out that the new product was very sweet.
*information collected from different medical journals


               JOUKO OFVERBERG

BOYCE SELL, SNOWDEN GOES TO JAIL.

I am scared! Everybody knows that every secret service has it human side.Every human is weak for different reasons, mostly for sex.How many military and secret service scandals there are without anybody knowing, and because you don't know, the administration can say, we are only working for your safety and all information leaks are against your safety.How many generals there have been involved in "secret" sex affairs?
How many wet beds there are without being water beds? If there is one, who dare to put his life and conscience in danger, the world must open this stinky abscess and cure the wound!
Comparing Christopher Boyce, who spied for Soviet Union ,with Edward Snowden is absolutely terrific,it is comparing  caviar and champagne -life addict with an one parent family mother with 5 children trying to maintain his family.
Boyce wants to sell his memories but Snowden did it for other reasons.

Jouko Ofverberg

FINNISH PRESIDENT ACTS LIKE HE IS SPEAKING

Finnish President Sauli Niinistö will organize an open Forum 16-17.June in his summer house Kultaranta.
The Conference has name "Kultaranta keskustelut" ,and it is directed for foreign and international professionals interested in Finnish foreign and security politics.First time in my life, I received an invitation as a Finnish citizen to participate in foreign politics discussions. Presidents council had  facilitated several options to send  questions to the summit organization,  like Facebook,Twitter and E-mail. I used my option via E-mail to let Mr. President, Sauli Niinistö the most democratic and open state leader in the world, a man who once survived the Big Tsunami in Thailand and who with his humble character, is an example for foreign leaders, that OPENNESS is the best way to avoid conflicts and riots in a DEMOCRATIC STATE,not behind the back sneaking.

Mr. Jouko Ofverberg

FROM ATATÜRK TO ERDOGAN

Without any doubts, it looks like Erdogan is using Syrian civil war as a camouflage of his ultra conservative religious politics to silent his own opposition and take Turkey again back behind  the point,  where his colleague, internationally highly respected President  Kemal Mustafa Atatürk lead the country during the 30's.
PS. Democracy is not only having 51% of the  votes  in the parliamentarian  elections, it is secular decisions with the 49 % losers' ,who are not priests and who maintains in every modern state  the economy  and scientific progress for everybody's best.

 Jouko Ofverberg

EUROPEAN UNION'S FIRST ATTEMPT TO BREAK THE CHINA SOLAR PANEL WALL.

If Europe don't have methods to produce low price solar panels, let Chinese do it!
If Europe don't have methods and finance to put a man in the Moon, let Chinese do it!
Never punish a solar or wind energy product with purchase tax or duty!
No community or state can say, that they have a sustainable energy politics on renewable energy if they have a high  purchase tax on solar panels and windmills.
European Union must withdraw this senseless act before it will be the last nail in the Arctic Areas coffin.
If a Chinese wants to work more than a trade union European, let him work!
If an European wants more vacations, more pensions, more free services, it is our democratic decision, BUT DON'T ASK CHINESE TO PAY FOR IT!

                Jouko Ofverberg , EXPERT IN SUSTAINABLE ENERGIES AND LOW COST
                                             GREEN LIFE STYLE.

CNNi-REPORT REJECTED

I tried to have my comments through CNNi-report, but it was "rejected", in other words, my text only disappeared. So I will use my own blog to express my opinion regarding to European Union's plan to put penal duties for Chinese solar panels. The feedback which  I have received from different sources, blames China on dumping prices.That's always the same old story.I cannot understand, that a 500  million people's community is so incapable to solve this eternal  problem from it's inside, starting from Brussels.
First of all the basic problem is in the Community's heavy and neo-socialist administration and secondly in the member state's  tax politics dealing with renewable energy's development programs and governmental aid to install and fabricate solar equipment .There has been a miserable amount of economical compensation for companies and private persons to choose the solar alternative.If there would have been, Europe wouldn't have dived  so deep in  recession . European neo-socialism has always been together with the big labor unions  and   given their  support to the centralized mega companies and to  the international  car and motor industry.Very few money has "dropped" from this table for  the solar technology industry.
Now it is turn for China and India to take their cheap products to EU, because 20-30 years ago, Europe sold  their expensive technology to these countries and now they have learned and with the  duties Europe is hitting it's head against the biggest ever built Chinese Wall.

  Jouko Ofverberg

IN MEMORY OF LEE RIGBY

You served in a remote and hostile country, to defend the human rights and the rights for women and young girls to have at least  a modest  education and healthcare . You survived the mission and the snipers,but you never realized,that the streets of your beloved  London would be your fate in the hands of some brainwashed human butchers.

       JOUKO OFVERBERG

FROM TIME TO TIME

TIME magazine has every year revealed their list of 100  most influential personalities in the world.
One argument  which pays attention is  the selected persons'   "American Dream Flavor". One cannot easily find any other  attitude behind this  famous list. The influential in this list means that one must  be accepted by the American , average "street trampler". What else can you say, when you find celebrities like Beyonce, Justin Timberlake,Steven Spielberg,Christina Aguilera mixed with the two SUPER POWER leaders and "seasoned" with Malala Yousafzai and Aung San Suu Kyi. Today there are tens of religious leaders which INFLUENCE is without any reasonable sense scaring widely spread. More or less TIME has chosen people, to make a Hollywood type "Dream Academy" nomination, to support their own brands and trends.
I remember from the past when I used to travel a lot ,visiting some very "inflammable" areas in the world, I always tried to look not western, no Jeans, no Nike shoes, to avoid problems with the average people.Inside  these big, sensible and already brainwashed crowds TIME can start to examine the real and the most exact  100 most influential people.

Jouko Ofverberg

KIMI AND THE FLYING F1NNS.

It is surprising that a small nation like Finland , has been so successful in one of the most expensive and world wide followed motor sport events like F1. For me the explanation lies in the cool and stable  DNA and in the mentality of an extreme experiences searching young man  trusting only on himself. When Formula 1 Races started in 1950, 63 years ago , there has been since then  32 World Champions, from which 4 has been Finnish.(Mika Hakkinen twice) It means over 10% of the drivers which has participated  in the competitions has been Finn and it is lot of  for a country which population is some 5 million.
First Finnish World Champion was Keke Rosberg , who being a multilingual talent made his first step in the Big Circus with very few outer help from his own home country. In 1982 he was proclaimed World Champion, and in 1985 he became third, although the Finnish Labour Party SDP and it's minister of education, Kaarina Suonio tried to prevent his driving in South-Africa in the SUN CITY GRAND PRIX . The money which the minister used for her 5 star flight to Cape Town and further spending government's money in luxurious hotel,studying the apartheid politics, would have helped more  young motor sport devoted and given them chances to practice the sports they loved.
It took over 15 years to see the next Finnish Champion on the highest podium. Mika Häkkinen was Champion in the years 1998 and 1999, with McLaren- Mercedes Team.
When Mika Häkkinen left the F1, there was a new Finnish talent for pilot markets, Kimi Räikkönen, who's turn to be Champion was the year 2007 with Ferrari.
Finland had once it's own F1 Racing Team called  AAW Racing Team  (Antti Aarnio-Wihuri Racing Team) in 1974.
Mika Salo was driving almost same time as Mika Häkkinen, and he participated in 111 Grand Prix. His high lights  was  the year 1999, when he was third in Monza and second in Hockenheim with Ferrari.
Other Finnish names who has been driving in F1 are: Leo Kinnunen and Mikko Kozarowitzky,JJ Lehto (Jyrki Järvilehto) and Heikki Kovalainen  whose contract with Caterham ended last year. His best achievement was maybe winning  in Hungaroring 2008 with McLaren-Mercedes.
This year Finland has two drivers in the highest category of the motor sports : Kimi Raikkonen in Lotus Renault and Valtteri Bottas in Williams. Of course we cannot forget Nico Rosberg, son of famous Keke Rosberg,but he is driving under German flag in Mercedes Team together with Lewis Hamilton.

JOUKO OFVERBERG

I HAVE A DREAM!

I have a dream of a Pan-European Party.
I have a dream that statistical and mathematical facts can unite north and south under sustainable promises,based on economical  numbers.
I have a dream where humanity is living in peaceful union with the fauna and the flora.
I have a dream where small children play in an urban ecological community and where they can put into practice the needs of their DNA inherited from the past during the evolution of millions of years.
I have a dream where small children are following the miracles of the nature and learning every day more about their environment and universe,and  being capable to forget the modern" hen-coop" housing system.
I have a dream where ecological  life style and reasonable working is an art and the basics of beauty and happiness sensations.
I have a dream where all big ideas and religions,  begins to respect the stability of our beautiful blue planet.
This desire is also directed  to the "popular" Southern hemisphere Pope Francis I.

Jouko Ofverberg

ARCTIC SOS ?

Here are some photos from 22.3.2013.Place  where zero line of longitude and 37th line of latitude crosses a natural reserve place. Many Spanish celebrities like Gran Wyoming are promoting Greenpeace's Arctic Campaign to save it from oil drilling and other disastrous human projects. But my advice is, don't go so far! I am a Finnish and I lived my first twenty years near Polar Circle in Kemi, and I consider myself a professional in Arctic nature, fauna and flora questions. You have more severe environmental problems here on your Iberian Peninsula, solve them first!

Here are some samples which I collected only walking half an hour in the afternoon!

From poison  died rotten FOX near our farm.

An open pool without any protection  full of urine and excrement from  the piggery  .

The piggery and it's "shit pool".

Last excrement of our dead dog Wilma from last year (photo 21.3-13) still blue from poison.


JOUKO OFVERBERG

DIGNITY CYPRUS!!

Dignity is not receiving money from Brussels, dignity is to live the way you can afford. Dignity is not insulting German and European leaders, dignity is choosing leaders and politicians who can count the costs of their political decisions  and respect international pacts.Sorry Cyprus, you cannot  consume more than you are earning, your pensions and social system is in danger because of   your national productivity and it's value  is lower than the price of maintaining your state.Your problem is your politicians, who were not able to count the price of their promises and you lost your dignity believing in all paying European economical fund system. Every Fund has it's bottom, also European,which has been filled with Nordic and German taxpayers money. In these countries the average worker has not yet lost his dignity, and that  is  good news for Cyprus ,they are also waiting , that Cypriots one day in the future ,can start to finance our common, open and democratic Europe.

JOUKO OFVERBERG

OCU, TRY NOW 2 MONTHS, ONLY 2 € TO KNOW IF IT HORSE MEAT?

I have had all the time problems with the European Mega Companies operating in Spain, mostly with those selling services on  telecommunication and postal field. To do a reclamation concerning consumption should be all man's right. Only at the moment I can compare two nations, Spain and Finland together, with a totally different culture and possibilities to do a reclamation.Only  what I can say for sure , is when I compare, what is happening, if a Mega Company sells products or services , which have a defect, there is always a solution in favor for the consumer in Finland. You can imagine what kind of alternatives a Spanish consumer has, when the only reliable organization ask money for it, like my title shows. In Spanish it is: Pruebanos durante 2 meses por solo 2€, and translated : Try us for 2 months only 2€.
I remember from the past when OCU recommended the big industry meat (sausage) products against the Spanish artisan not controlled fresh sausages. My heart is always with ethnic food  and small Spanish companies ,which are the Real Flavor of Iberian Peninsula, and who knows to differ horse from pork.

Jouko Ofverberg

FINLAND, THE ONLY NATION WHERE HORSE IS HORSE AND PORK IS PORK?

I write also a cooking book blog, Ethnic Cook Book for Primitive tastes,because cooking and eating well, has  always been  near to  my heart. My diet has always been versatile,lot of fish and seafood,fruits and vegetables and not so much meat, maybe twice a week.All what we eat in our family is mostly fresh or sometimes frozen, but only few times there is the " large scale industry's processed product" option.I consider our family healthy,because of that we never chose  that precooked easy-food alternative.Also I have followed Finnish food industry's opinions during this European horse meat crisis.In Finland horse meat is highly valued and it is more expensive than pork, so there has never been any reasons to mix it with other meat.Also I have noticed that in my old home country ,the food industry is advertising, that in our products "no E-code additives", and it sells better at least in Finland.I have noticed recently that Saarioinen company has also started this chemical free product delicatessen brand.

Eating fresh and not pre-processed is the healthiest option.
JOUKO OFVERBERG

LUIS MARIA ANSON, THANK YOU, FOR YOUR HONESTY

His  last column in the Spanish El Mundo nespaper with rubrik:" Los partidos politicos saquean a los españoles"  was revealing. He refers to the big number of all kind civil servants who are  occupying the political system, doubling thus e.g.the number of the officials in Germany, which population is two times bigger than the Spain's.  Some nations have  already crossed the boarder where bureaucracy  is so big ,and the number of personnel with a right to vote, so big, that it is almost impossible to change anything or reduce the amount of officials with a  democratic way.Using referendums and elections to solve this public "over population broblem" is null, because all efforts will be rejected by the bureaucratic majority. So in many EU countries the private sector has an enormous burden to carry and many enterpreneurs are experiencing  catastrophic situations which the public sector has produced. The only fast solution is in the hands of Brussels bureaucrats, let's hope the best. PS. Luis Maria Anson is a memeber of Real Academia Española

JOUKO OFVEBERG

FOOTBALL AND BASKET BALL ,ONLY DIVIDING THE NATION

There is a slogan that football unites and offer for the young people a possibility to meet persons from different cultures in a pacific way. I have always wondered where this stupidity comes from?In Spain football is a  very political and location focused.Barcelona is one of the two hot cradles in this country.Local linguistic fanaticism mixed with racial hatred and "mari" is an explosive cocktail. When the King Juan Carlos has given a homage to some football cups named after His Majesty, as COPA DEL REY, the local people has disturbed with booing and whistling, while Spanish national Anthem has been played. Last episode happened some days ago in Pais Vasco during the COPA DEL REY in basket ball. I have never experienced or seen this kind of vulgar behavior in other civilized countries, except some Arab states. I remember the Stanley Cup from United States, every person standing and listening the Anthem and keeping his right hand on the  left side of the chest. People in Catalonia and Pais Vasco , SHAME ON YOU!

Jouko Ofverberg

RELIGIOUS SOLUTION?

You go and see Emilio Morenatti on Facebook.Maybe you remember Mohammed Bouazizi. At least you have followed and seen news of Malala Yousafzai.What do you think? There was once an odd "geographical" spring, named by European progressive elite to a very conflicting area in Asia, and yesterday in Tunisia an opposition leader, Chokri Bel Aid became the last figure in the tunnel of religious horrors.

Mr. JOUKO OFVERBERG

HORSE MEAT IS OK, BUT EFESA IN PARMA STUMBLES

I have followed the new European minced meat crisis. I like horse meat, my favorite products are sausages  mixed with it, like German Mettwurst or Finnish Cheese Salami.But in this crisis the problem is not the horse, the problem is the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) in PARMA. The international mega food industry is giving in their food stuff erroneous information in the products data sheet. This is very severe, because every small company e.g here in Spain needs to explain or show correct data  now and then to the authorities, when they are working on food business.
May be the Italian Pizza and the local proverb," Dio mi guardi  da mangiator che non beve", has interfered the important work  for what the council was established.

Jouko Ofverberg

GREAT BRITAIN LIFTS THE ANCHOR, EUROPE ADRIFT?

The actual British politics seem to take the European spirit of solidarity 70 years back to Normandy where once the confrontation and hatred towards other nations and races came to a new culmination point. Some parts of the European Union has never learned anything of the recent history.Scotland wants to separate from the United Kingdom, Ulster wants to be part of Ireland, London City financial markets works against European economical stability and now the Prime Minister David Cameron wants to arrange a referendum of leaving EU.Belgium which is the Capital of European Union ,is threatened by ultra nationalists who wants  to split in two pieces, to the  northern Flemish speaking Flanders and to the southern French speaking Wallonia.
In Spain Catalonia and Pais Vasco is having their own separatists and violent groups to open the doors for extremists to lead their province out of the economical and social stability which they have built after the "El Caudillo's" dictatorship  days.Danish and Swedish wanted to stay out of Euro, Norwegians didn't want to join EU and Iceland sailed in bankrupt with their own "Viking boat" on Northern Atlantic's unstable economical winds without any solid trade union. So the question is? Can Europeans sometimes agree something that lasts at least one century? Or do we face an Europe with mega pluralism and countries like Monaco,Andorra,Lichtenstein,Catalonia and Scotland dominating the political state map in Europe,and travelling from north to south, a tourist need SIX VISAS and SIX different CURRENCIES?

JOUKO OFVERBERG, EUROPEAN CITIZEN