Dyrehaugen

Cheated by the Americans - as always An old saying goes like this: “Don’t listen to what the Americans say, look at what the Americans do” However, the ruling elites of European states never learned this wisdom. The Cold War was a propaganda war and Europeans was brainwashed by that propaganda into believing what the Americans said could be trusted. So for the long post WWII era we have been living under the American security umbrella and not bothered much with military geopolitics - untill now....

FINALLY - DONALD WILL MAKE IT! Millions and millions of people have worked to destroy the American empire, and all of them failed. Now Donald is succeeding! The neoliberal trade order since the late 80s was designed to destroy countries’ sovereignty, making it impossible to truly regulate investors, to run industrial policy, or even, in rich nations, to keep wages up. Donald puts an end to it! Europeans always listened to America....

Simplicity as Enemy When things are simple and works well people are happy with what they have. Happy people don’t want ‘Change’ - they want to go on with what they have. Then ‘Development’ isn’t neccesary, that’s a problem - for ‘Capital’. Capital needs ‘Growth’ - and don’t get it! So ‘Simplicity’ and ‘Capital’ don’t go together. As ‘Capital’ is (in) ‘Power’, ‘Simplicity’ will loose. Simple things thats works well are pulled from the market....

Planetary Politics More than Green Transition is needed Norway and most other countries are struggling with the green shift. It is politically self-inflicted trouble. The industrial nations believe that the climate and nature crises can be solved through a large-scale focus on new economic growth in the ’new green industries'. But these are not investments to save the climate and nature - they are investments to save the industrial society created by capital and technology....

Each morning or afternoon I go to the nearby beach for swimming. Here in Spain the beach zone (100m) is declared public land. However, corrupt local politicians have managed to let in hotel businesses and allowed them to enclose their gardens and pools by fences or walls. After a while the hotel owners think they own the land as well - and put up signs and lock the doors to keep the public out of ’their’ part of the public zone....