Homeless Celebrities

"Celebrities Go Homeless" on BBC1.

I would rather be homeless than be a celebrity.

Celebrities are parasitic vermin.

I agree with President Obama and Johann Hari

Those protesting for freedom in Iran are on the right side of history.

I agree with President Obama.

And Johann Hari is right that the protests in Peru against the destruction of the Amazon are even more urgent.

www.johannhari.com

"Die See ist unfreundlich und der Himmel schwarz, aber Gott ist dort."

"Die See ist unfreundlich und der Himmel schwarz, aber Gott ist dort."

"The sea is unfriendly and the sky is black, but God is there."

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Germany is not a person. Germany is a country.

There have been many truly great Germans in history.

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We are all humans, all fundamentally the same and we all have the capacity for good and bad.

I like Michael Wood's work

I like the English historian Michael Wood and his work.

I possess and have read several of his books.

"No hay libro por malo que sea, que no tenga algo bueno."

"No hay libro por malo que sea, que no tenga algo bueno."

"There is no book however bad it may be that does not have something good in it."

PLINY THE YOUNGER (in Latin originally of course);

later echoed by CERVANTES.

After working in a second-hand book shop for 15 years I think that there may be one or two exceptions to this great observation.

Philosophy Football

Football is finished really. So you've got to be philosophical.

http://www.philosophyfootball.com/

social nOtworking

Art is not a job or an industry!

I am TOTALLY anti-copyright.

I don't advocate breaking the law at all and I don't.

But

Art is not a job!

Art is not an industry!

If you create it you share it!

Simple as!

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The alternative is absurd. The system now is absurd.

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In medieval times, for example, musicians were just travelling minstrels, not quasi-godlike royalty.

Being a musicians or a performer in medieval times was almost like "just another job"....

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Art as an "industry" has its victims like other industries...

"Europe of the Regions"

My belief in anarchism, and my tendency towards anarchism rather than political nationalism, also concurs with the excellent idea of a "Europe of the Regions".......

Iran in the news

"Iran is such a strange country in very many ways."

(or words to that effect) John Simpson, EBC News at 6, June 12th '09.

I think the same about England.

It should also never be forgotten that it is a fact that England and the USA destroyed Iranian democracy in 1953.