29 YEARS AGO TODAY, the Berlin Wall came down.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there ...
“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill, former British Prime Minister
“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”
—Thomas Jefferson, Founding Father and former U.S. President
You don’t need a title to be a leader ;-)
Don’t say you don’t have enough time for blogging. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to John Hatton, Vaclav Havel, Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, etc…
As we grow up, we realize it becomes less important to have more friends and more important to have real ones.
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DISPATCHES FROM AIRSTRIP ONE: Britain Turns Offensive Speech Into a Police Matter.
It is chilling that cops, whose only business should be fighting crime, now want to hear about non-crime. Anyone who has even a sliver of respect for the ideal of liberty, for the right of people to go about their lives without being watched or narked on, should be seriously concerned that cops would want to hear about non-criminal behavior, otherwise known as everyday behavior.
Even more perversely, these non-crimes really just mean “insulting comments.” So if you’re in Yorkshire and someone on Facebook calls you a fat slob, call the cops. If you wear a niqab and a work colleague tells you—a la Boris Johnson—that you look a little bit like a mailbox, phone the police.
In essence, South Yorkshire Police want people to report on everyday conversations. This is Stasi territory. Coppers asking citizens to file reports on things they have read or overheard really should have disappeared from Europe with the fall of the Berlin Wall. Yet here it still is, this GDR-style instruction to eavesdrop and squeal, though now it’s happening on the other side of the old Iron Curtain.
George Orwell intended 1984 to be a warning, not a how-to guide, as did the producers of The Lives of Others.
Jokes Of Others
Quartz: “The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have hidden an undisclosed number of covert surveillance cameras inside streetlights around the country, federal contracting documents reveal. According to government procurement data, the DEA has paid a Houston, Texas company called Cowboy Streetlight Concealments LLC roughly $22,000 since June 2018 for “video recording and reproducing equipment.” ICE paid out about $28,000 to Cowboy Streetlight Concealments over the same period of time. It’s unclear where the DEA and ICE streetlight cameras have been installed, or where the next deployments will take place. ICE offices in Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio have provided funding for recent acquisitions from Cowboy Streetlight Concealments; the DEA’s most recent purchases were funded by the agency’s Office of Investigative Technology, which is located in Lorton, Virginia…”
The Courage To Be Disliked - Do You Really Want to Change?
