Bush at his best.

Today I got a "follow" from Podblanc on my twitter account. I get dayly followers I do not know, mosty stupid bots disguised as attractive girls that folow 5k people and have 20 followers (extreem stupid people who fail the Turning test ).

I always checkout my followers before follwing them, and it looked that this podblanc was human and ... is running a Drupal site at podblanc.com.

There are days that I feel proud. Proud to be part of a community that builds software that helps people to communicate. Proud to be in that community from the early days. So I have seen the tech communities that embraced Drupal as a tool to communicate. And then gave the media companies -new and old media- that had a good and cheap option to facilitate users. And then came the (from US PoV liberal) political parties in the US that enabled relativly unknown persons to run for president-candidate. Then the small local communities around churches, local red cross organisations and even the big ones like Amnesty. And I am proud that I was a very very small part in the world that enabled this.

But I never NEVER have been "proud" to be white. I never thought that one race, religion or sex is superiour above another. I have the luck to have old parents, who have been through what in central Europe is called "The War" (World War II) and have told me about the horrors. I have had the luck to have travelled around the world to see other people, get in touch with other cultures and to have visited Auschwitz. I know the horrors, I know the pain, I know about the waste of lifes.

I am not the hating kind of person, but somewhere deep in me, I hate people who hate people. And yes I do understand the paradox there. But I am not to keen on right winged Neo Nazi's who refuse to learn from the past, or even to accept the past.

So I am not proud that this white-site is using Drupal. I am sad that we created something that can be misused in this way. But like any tool, it can be used for good and bad. It is the person holding the knife that decides to create a sculpture or go for the kill, not the maker of the knife.

Sometime.. just like now. I wish the GPL was "a bit discriminating" for who it was legal to use and for who not. But you can not have a "bit of freedom"; you have it or you dont. And if that is what we are facing, I am proud that I am part of a freedom where stupid white (or black) people can say stupid things about (white or) black people ... using Drupal.

Proud but with a bad taste in my mouth.

Why did America went to war in Iraq? To make sure barrels of oil would not be paid in Euros (as most oil countries want) but Dollars? For political purposes like a re-election? To leave a mark in history for a mad president? Who knows?

But not to find weapons of mass destruction, not to free a country and not for all the right reasons, if there are any right reasons to start a war in the first place. If you have some time to kill, checkout the videos on leadingtowar.com. Before you flame me for this posting, be sure to watch the video, in full.

The United States of America, misleading their own people, occupying a foreign country, prisoning "freedom fighters" in Cuba without trial, torturing people, legalising waterboarding.

And I thought that was in the past in another country? It is absurd that "the land of the free" seems to be nothing more then some "land". With a monkey in a white treehouse.

World's Most Influential People in a cool painting. How many do you know?

This map displays the world where the country size reflects their oil reserver and the color the oil usage. Unfortunately there is a rather strong relation with countries that the USA wants to go to war with. Especially oil countries that will decide to use another currency for a barrel then the inflation sensitive dollar. That was one of the real reasons America stated the illegal war against Iraq and it was also a warning to all the other countries not to change to Euro/Barrel.

Read feasta.org for a better understanding:

If on the other hand OPEC were to decide to accept euros only for its oil, then American economic dominance would be over.

Giving the enormous costs of the war in money and young men lifes, the fact that America has now become the illegal war-hungry country and the inflation rate of the Dollar, oil countries will switch to the Euro.