Watch it.

If you call yourself an American, you will watch this and you will feel something stir deep within you. You will KNOW that now is the time to free yourselves of the chains of debt that enslave each and every one of us. This nation can be great again but it will take each and every one of us. Just as Paul Revere rode through the night warning of the impending British invasion, I warn you now. Stand up, prepare to fight for your rights as an American. The same rights that were bestowed upon each and every one of us in the Constitution of the United States of America. If you are a true American you will fight to restore the Constitution and the freedoms that our forefathers died fighting to give to each of us.
"Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have." - Ron Paul

Carrotmob in Finland

This video is from USA

Carrotmob Makes It Rain from carrotmob on Vimeo.

Their first organized happening in Finland was last night in a restaurant/bar. I was there and it was great to see the place packed. They were able to raise 3400 euros. Let's see what the future brings...

Some video material of the event here in Helsinki:

Porkkanamafia Juttutuvassa from Ville Räty on Vimeo.

Link of the night: Alcohol as a commodity

http://www.dearmrb.se/

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Choose one. Business as usual

I'm getting tired of the business world already. There exists this thinking that you have to concentrate on one particular thing if you want to be successful. It gives me the creeps that I'm suppose to choose one particular interest and stick with it to the bitter end.

It seems that I'm not allowed to be interested of everything that happens around me. Don't think outside the box is the way to go in the business world. I beg the difference!

The more someone tries to push me to some category the less I want to be part of the whole thing.

If one day I own a company it will be the opposite of every company I've known. It will be fun.

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My vision of stuff in the future

If nearly 75% of all material produced in the world return to nature in less than a year something needs to be done. We waste too much stuff it's as simple as that.

Everybody talks about McDonald's and how stupid it is that they use plastic cups and knifes and forks. It's stupid your right on that but it's just the top of the iceberg. We buy every day food to our homes. Everything is packed in plastic. We buy a new pair of socks. Those are ofter wrapped in plastic etc. I'm sure you get the point.

So my solution is the tupperware stuff. What if we would start packing all our daily and weekly groceries into these re-usable plastic containers. I really mean all; serials, cookies, bread, cheese, ham, salt, pasta, tennis shoes, cameras, phones, computers, everything!

There would be different size of plastic containers. The idea would be that all these containers had a deposit (f.ex. 20 cents-2 euros). The whole deposit thing works really well in Finland with bottles (over 90% return rate) so I see no reason why it couldn't work with other daily products. Recycle baby!

Yes I know that this idea would require a total reconstruction of our current production line of stuff and it sounds absurd but the fact that 75% of the things we buy go to trash is the thing that is really absurd!!

Of course this idea doesn't work unless everyone agrees to join this campaign. 20 years ago this idea could not have been done. Nations were too distant from each other. Then came globalisation and warming of the planet. There is a reason why the world is smaller than ever before. It's really time for us all to start using tupperware.

It's not as ridiculous idea as it first sounds. Here is why: Thousand largets companies in the world produce 80% of all the industrialized products in the world and these companies control 70% of the world trade.

I think it's time for these companies to show that they are not the ultimate evil in the world like many people think. These thousand companies are the key to our plastic lifestyle and without their co-operation on this big challenge we're all going to suffocate with plastic bags wrapped around our heads. These companies have more power than any country in the world. If they say tupperware is the next standard for storing peanuts then it will be!!!

Story of stuff

I'd say this is one of the best short movies out there to get a good perspective of the world we're living in (stuff wise).
http://www.storyofstuff.com/

Science vs. War

Story of Opening the CERN laboratory (NY TIMES).
"After 14 years of labor, scientists at the CERN laboratory outside Geneva successfully activated the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest, most powerful particle collider and, at $8 billion, the most expensive scientific experiment to date. -NY TIMES"

This new project cost 8 billion USD. It's funny if you hace ever played Civilization on your PC (game where you have to conquer the world either with force, technology or diplomacy) you know that if you put too much money on culture your technology and military innovations lack behind compared to other nations.

Well it seems that Europe's tactic is to concentrate on technology these days unlike USA that puts its money to military.

USA use to be a great country when it comes to technology but nowadays it seems their not the leader anymore.

"In 1993, the United States Congress canceled plans for an even bigger collider and more powerful machine, the Superconducting Supercollider, after its cost ballooned to $11 billion. In the United States, particle physics never really recovered, said the supercollider’s former director, Roy F. Schwitters of the University of Texas in Austin. “One nonrenewable resource is a person’s time and good years,” he said. -NY TIMES"

"Total U.S. military spending in 2006, over $528 billion, was 46% of the entire military spending in the world and greater than the next fourteen largest national military expenditures combined. (In purchasing power parity terms, it was larger than the next six such expenditures combined.) The per capita spending of $1,756 was approximately ten times the world average.[54] At 4.06% of GDP, U.S. military spending is ranked 27th out of 172 nations.[55] The proposed base Department of Defense budget for 2009, $515.4 billion, is a 7% increase over 2008 and a nearly 74% increase over 2001.[56] The estimated total cost of the Iraq War to the United States through 2016 is $2.267 trillion.[57] As of September 2, 2008, the United States had suffered 4,152 military fatalities during the war and over 30,000 wounded.[58] -WIKIPEDIA"

CERN laboratory, 14 years, $8 billion and you might find out what happened in the Big Bang.

IRAQ war, 13 years (2003-2016) $2.267 trillion and you might have peace in the Middle East.

Personally I don't believe in either of those things will happen any time soon but you never know.

Good day

Two things happened today.

I went out for a drink with a stranger (girl I met in a bar last week) and I listened football match Finland-Germany from radio while watching the stadium from the distance.

Can't remember the last time I've done that.

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Bill O'Reilly does his best

Gezuz if this is the level of journalism...

Very very interesting videos

If you think you can concentrate I recommend this video and the other 11 videos as well that are part of this program. It's some really interesting stuff (if you like quantum physics, religion and philosophy).

I just finished the last one of the videos and I'm feeling happier than in ages. :-)

Tobacco kills, so what?

Everybody wants to sue tobacco companies because they are trying to hide the fact that smoking causes cancer.

Why aren't people suing the alcohol industry since alcohol is proved to cause cancer as well?

Am I stupid or why don't I get this?

Swedish government already sold their share of Absolut vodka since they thought that it wasn't ethical to be involved in in a business that isn't good for the people. Wise decision.

About my last post

In my previous post I said something about respecting only people that are smarter than I am. Well that was quite stupid statement.

• Writing that means I'm quite stupid
• If I'm stupid it means that rest of you are smarter me
• And that means that I respect all of you

See how my mind works? It never fails me, even when I'm stupid.

My new Image v.0.2

Busy day. I came up with my personal image, went to MRI and attended a fancy marketing event.

As I was sitting and listening three panelist talking about the digital world and how the business has developed during the last 10 years I started thinking. That happens quite often these days. I was surrounded by people with nice suites and skirts and haircuts...

My appearance? I came there straight from MRI. My hair was greasy and I wasn't at my freshest since I had been lying in a really claustrophobic tube for 30 minutes without moving a muscle. It's not like laying in sofa and enjoying a little time of from the rest of the world, trust me!

First they injected my shoulder full of some radiation stuff and they told me to lay down and not move at all during the magnetic photo session. They asked if I wanted to listen to some music inside the tube but I declined since I really didn't want to associate my favorite music with an experience that could be quite awful. Well actually I didn't want music because wanted this experience to be “pure” without any distractions.

It was an interesting experience. They gave me these headphones to protect my ears because of the noise. And indeed I needed them because the noise was really something straight from Star Trek. Huge pounding noise. Big bangs: BANG BANG BANG and then some noise that sounded like rifle bullets hitting the machine with a really rapid pace. At some point I realized that every muscle in my body was really tense. When I realized this I couldn't really relax anymore because that would have resulted into moving my body and moving was not allowed.

So after 30 minutes of tensing my muscles I was sweating a bit. The lady said that the photos were very good. I think she referred to the quality of the photos not to the quality of my shoulder that isn't working properly.

So I went straight to this fancy happening feeling not so fresh, "not properly" dressed with a greasy hair. You know what? It didn't bother me a bit. It was fun to see everyone wearing black as I had my orange North Face GoreTex jacket and my woolen winter gap on. When the panel ended me and my work mates started talking about facebook and came up with a concept of Cockbook and laughed our asses of.

When we were leaving I found a lollipop from my pocket. I opened it and stuck it in my mouth. At that point a friend of mine mentioned that it might not be good for my image. I told her I really don't care about my image because I don't want one.

That was the moment when I realized that I guess everyone has to have an image. If it's so then my image will be this:

I don't care what you think of me. I don't care what you think of my clothes, I don't care if you laugh at my hair and I really don't care if some finds it ridiculous that I'm wearing a winter hat and I'm eating a lollipop inside a fancy bar full of cool advertisement and marketing folks. I actually enjoy if they feel uncomfortable around me and they think I should be thrown out.

This doesn't mean that I'll tell everyone to F** off if they don't like me. On the contrary I'm trying to keep my own identity intact because I've already seen what the desire for money and power does to people in business world. It's a whole other topic and I don't want to go to it just yet.

I think I have issues with authorities and that is a problem in Finland. People here look up to authorities such as bosses, police and politicians. I look up to people that are smarter than me. I don't respect anyone because of some hierarchy system that is thought to us. I respect people not titles. Sorry boss, police officers and Presidents.

My new image isn't bullet proof. Nothing is. I did think about few lines I wrote on this post and I EVEN re-wrote few lines and added this sentence at the end.

So please don't judge me because of this post. Words are just letters and in my next post I'll rearrange them. If you do judge me, well...

I wonder what brand describes the best my “I don't care” attitude and image? FCUK, Quicksilver, Burton, North Face??

You know what! I really don't care!