My Life on this planet.

Previous UK PM Brown called for the creation of a world government to tackle the coronavirus and the very likely resulting economic crisis. President Trump and the EU USA President Trump doesn't want to join  and so the USA looses credibility. That's noted. Indeed, we know since three years that he is angry with how the USA always needs to finance organisations such as the NATO and the UN and its subdivisions. He's angry with the trade deficit of the USA versus China and angry when he is ridiculed for trying to reverse this. He's angry because he's ridiculed when he tries to convince North Korea's leader to stop its nuclear weapons program. Indeed, he acts while previous presidents complained about many things but the world knew they wouldn't abandon responsibilities while President Trump does unless countries agree with him to e.g. contribute more for the NATO. And yes, it is unbelievable that many Europeans continue to believe they don't need a we...

Syrians have been begging Europe for help since the start of Syria's war ten years ago. But Europeans have done little and now are using increasingly aggressive methods to convince refugees not to come to Europe. Not helping people brings the worse out of people during crises. USA Of course, President Trump is sneered at, always an easy target. This article suggests that under another president the USA may treat the Syrian war differently while President Obama proved this may not be. Indeed, President Obama should have acted against Assad after he warned him against using again chemical weapons to kill his own people, something forbidden by international law. But I understand why he didn't act as no European country wanted to help. If we had done something Russia may never have been involved and the situation less severe. President Trump acted twice, in April 2017 and again in April 2018 together with France and the UK, after more chemical attacks by Assad. These w...

How I think the world community can help each other to create a better world that is affordable and benefits everyone. For instance, when climate change hits a region or country, other regions and countries that are not hit can help with contribution of food and drinks, showing that respect for farmers and their work is important. In summary, solidarity is important in times of crises. But first why I defend Greta Thunberg's speech at the UN and afterwards. Indeed, over the past weeks (see here and here ) and even years ago I wrote, after reading climate scientists' warnings, we should take climate change serious and act to prevent the worse possible scenarios. It may not only concern loss of ice at the arctics and glaciers and thus rising sea levels (as Venice, Italy  and Jakarta, Indonesia experiences) or fires due to extreme hot and dry weather (as Australia  and Russia experiences) but may even result in a different distribution of weights in the world and as a res...

‘Moral obligation and political imperative’ to support Syria on path to peace: Guterres https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/03/1034841 “It is a moral obligation and a political imperative for the international community to support Syrians to unite around a vision for their common future that protects civilians, alleviates suffering, prevents further instability, addresses the root causes of the conflict and forges, at long last, a credible negotiated solution,” the Secretary-General concluded. It was so predictable but the UN is now telling the Syrians and the international society that they must unite around Syria's president (I accept, he doesn't use those words) so the conflict can end and we can finally send back those annoying refugees. And thus, Assad and Putin are the moral leaders in this world as are the UN. They are not. It is like saying that Hitler should be accepted, even by the Jews if that was the price to end a war. Assad can't be a sol...

A copper mine in Zambia, Africa. Villagers want to have a court ruling against the operator they accuse of polluting drinking water. The company, although its headquarters are in London, wants the hearing in Zambia but lawyers defending the villagers prefer the hearing takes place in London. The villagers' lawyers won as a judge agreed the hearing should be held in London . A multinational, taking the minerals from one country while having its headquarters in another far-away country. Indeed, unfortunately but the likelihood that judges in Africa would judge in favour of the mining companies is significant while it is less likely the villagers can win the case, certainly when multinationals can use huge resources to pay excellent lawyers against poor villagers who can hardly pay any lawyer although now they are represented by a London-based law firm . And we should admit there will be cases when local people win from multinationals. But, as the judge also acknowle...

Bilderberg Group   This year was the 60th anniversary of the Bilderberg conference where a number of invited politicians, military leaders and business people attended. I think it is a bad initiative because it is mainly a secretive activity (although they have a website with some information) for a select group of important people who will discuss some major problems of our planet without involving many who are involved (such as members of unions or poor countries). If indeed the discussions are only informal where no conclusions are reached , then there could still be a press release with abstracts of what has been discussed as is done for normal conferences while now there is only a short agenda. I also think politicians should be open and answer questions of journalists and ordinary people so we know what they are discussing with very influential people leading very powerful organisations such as armies, financial institutions (can you imaging discussing the financial ...