My Life on this planet.

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...