My Life on this planet.

A new veggie dish, this time again with pasta. Ingredients Baby corn Broccoli Red and yellow pepper all'Arrabbiata sauce (Hot chilly) Olive oil Cheese Pasta Herbs can also be used if wanted (the sauce may already contain enough herbs so no more needs to be added) Preparation First start boiling water in which the pasta will be boiled (I used Gnocchi but also other pasta types can be used according to what you prefer or is available at home). Ones the water boils, add the pasta and, according to the cooking instructions that differ according to type of pasta, boil until the pasta is ready. While the water is warming, prepare the vegetables: cut the baby corn and peppers in pieces while take some branches of the broccoli. Wash all vegetables well before use to wash away any pesticides but also harmful infectious species such as bacteria (that may be present because of the droppings of birds). Freshly picked red and yellow peppers (I expected the yellow pepper m...

UK Here a must-read article about how quickly a few years of austerity in one of the richest countries on our planet can disintegrate a society whereby people start to fight with each other for almost expired food and other cheap goods. Indeed, people who are poor and hardly can afford anything, including food, become hungry and, as long as they still have fat reserves and some savings, they can continue to buy some food and forget the hunger for a short period (and this period can be extended by avoiding to meet friends and family and thus spending money). But after a few months, when savings are starting to melt away (and the less money someone has, the quicker it goes down) while the numbers of people who become desperate and need to buy cheap food grow, the more likely it becomes that people start to fight with each other in order to be able to get the cheap products. Certainly when people have children who are hungry, people will start fighting for the cheapest things avai...

Another shooting in the USA - indeed, another ' already more than one year later '. Now the shooting happened in a church in Charleston, South Carolina where mainly black people come together. Nine people died, all black as a white loser targeted people with another skin colour. No words As a commentator mentions in his article , while the foundation stones of the USA are impressive, in the latest attack the two evil building blocks that are present in the Constitution and thus in American society joined: racism and more specifically white supremacists (who are in effect small people who are angry that others can be as good or better than them) against people with another colour and more specifically against black people, and the constitutional right to carry weapons , a Constitution ' written in the age of the musket ' (to quote the article) so the new independent country could protect itself against the UK while today this article allows people to carry sem...

This article is to demonstrate how I think a street can be re-organised without a large cost or major works while it will improve the safety of pedestrians but also result in a space where people can rest and children can play while it may even improve traffic. How I came to this? Simply by walking the street and experiencing first hand why so few people use the middle part of a street although it is intended as a save walking area. Figure 1 - Situation of area as can be found on Google Maps I will describe the Stalingradlaan / Avenue de Stalingrad in Brussels (most streets have two names in Brussels, i.e. in Dutch and French while foreigners often pronounce the names in something that sounds like English and thus it is not always easy to understand). Figure 1 shows how the street looks like on Google Maps. I like this street. Indeed, on both sides there are beautiful buildings such as the Zuidpaleis / Palais du Midi (indeed, even houses have two names) that is a large impre...

Sometimes when I read the Guardian I respond to certain articles (nowadays I post more on the Guardian-website than I write on this blog as here is no response and thus no intellectual challenge). And so I read this article that describes why people should not to be too happy with George Osborne's new budget proposals. The article mentions that the UK has one of the largest deficits in the developed world and thus this needs to change. Indeed, according to the finally reason, it seems there will be further £12bn reduction of the welfare budget and £13bn reduction of Whitehall departmental spending (i.e. on government spending) and thus I think this can only be achieved by freezing people's wages and probably via job cuts because simply by changing from expensive paper to computerisation will not be sufficient for these reductions. And thus, more people unemployed will result in more people who are not able to spend and when they do, they will need to use their savings or bo...

I finally saw the movie ' Noah ' with Russell Crowe. I think it is a good one that reflects more what is written in the ' Book of Enoch ' than what is written in the Bible (as that is hardly anything), including references to the ' Watchers ' or angels who are shown as moving stones that prevents them from returning to Heaven. But the film also includes own interpretation . The Watchers The Watchers came to earth to t each humans many things. But as they disobeyed God's command not to descend to Earth to help the humans after they were forced out of Paradise ( I think because humans already started destroying the Earth and the apple tree represented the last food source that was destroyed so people ha d to move to other places for food ) , the Wa tchers were no longer allowed to return to Heaven . I like it that the heavenly beings had to remain on the Earth so they too were forced to make choices when things would go wrong due to their actions (s...