23/08: oil profits
Want to know a secret about me that even I had no clue of? I got a tip on this comment on Indymedia:
Det går rykter på børsen om at økonomiansvarlig i Blindern Fred og Johannes Wilm har lånt og solgt DNO aksjer (shortet) for å proffitere økonomisk på offensiven mot det irakiske folk.
(ENG: there are rumours on the stock market that the economically responsibel in the Blindern Fred (name of organization) and Johannes Wilm have been borrowing and sold DNO shares (shorting) in order to profit economically on the offensive against the Iraqi people.)
It's several months old, but I only got tipped on it today. Det norske Oljeselskap (DNO) was the first Norwegian company that went into Iraq publically this spring. The thing is that it was us from Blindern Fred that occupied their office after that, and a few days later it was also us who revealed that a whole range of other companies had chosen to attend a meeting by the Norwegian foreign ministery on "possibilities on investing in Iraq" - amongst them such companies as Hydro and Statoil.
I guess that makes some of those questions on why we in Blindern Fred "are so rich", that I got this spring explainable...
Det går rykter på børsen om at økonomiansvarlig i Blindern Fred og Johannes Wilm har lånt og solgt DNO aksjer (shortet) for å proffitere økonomisk på offensiven mot det irakiske folk.
(ENG: there are rumours on the stock market that the economically responsibel in the Blindern Fred (name of organization) and Johannes Wilm have been borrowing and sold DNO shares (shorting) in order to profit economically on the offensive against the Iraqi people.)
It's several months old, but I only got tipped on it today. Det norske Oljeselskap (DNO) was the first Norwegian company that went into Iraq publically this spring. The thing is that it was us from Blindern Fred that occupied their office after that, and a few days later it was also us who revealed that a whole range of other companies had chosen to attend a meeting by the Norwegian foreign ministery on "possibilities on investing in Iraq" - amongst them such companies as Hydro and Statoil.
I guess that makes some of those questions on why we in Blindern Fred "are so rich", that I got this spring explainable...
21/08: reforming the time systems?
In these times of constant reform, one might wonder we nobody seems to try to reform the time system that we have had for seemingly ever. And now I'm not talking about how the various units are divided up, but rather the fact that they are divided up at all - or at least that they are divided up in a very static and regular manner. Now I have thought of two different time systems that we could employ: the people-centered time system (PCTS)and the capitalism friendly time system (CFTS).
17/08: German elections and Iran
The NY Times talks
about Schröder saying that there will be no military intervention with
German participation:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/16/international/europe/16germany.html?hp .
The most important part in the article though is what it doesn't mention:
all parties currently in parliament, including the opposition, say that
they rule out the military option in the case of Iran. I can't find this
anywhere in the international press, but here it is in Der Spiegel:
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,369874,00.html .
about Schröder saying that there will be no military intervention with
German participation:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/16/international/europe/16germany.html?hp .
The most important part in the article though is what it doesn't mention:
all parties currently in parliament, including the opposition, say that
they rule out the military option in the case of Iran. I can't find this
anywhere in the international press, but here it is in Der Spiegel:
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,369874,00.html .
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