Just imagine you look out the window, and you see a blue shoreline and the see in mid distance. Twilight makes the ships look like shadows. You almost visualize how in ancient days these ships were made of wood, waiting for their chance to storm unsuperable walls. Sitting in a small wooden boat in front of a millennia old city...

When you are passing by this coast today, the once great wall is gone, the towers fell. No more warriors wait for the enemies outside. Impressive buildings, but not of the same ambience... But if you take your position right at what once called Pera, you can overlook not only the ancient city, but also the marmara bay...

Then, exactly at twilight, before night casts her colors on this old city, when shapes become softer, you can almost have a look into these days, right before the fall of the last piece of Rome.

When the people of Iran protest against the grievance of their own government, the western World, even the European Union, is easily able to formulate strong words to condemn the rude behaviour of the ruling forces. Supression, manipulation of elections, acting agains the people's will and even against the laws of the Islamic Republic is not just. The governments even considered possible new sanctions against Iran to support the growing efforts of opposition forces.

Nice Words, nice actions. But what if a more powerfull bully is doing that? Let's look towards the country of the 2008 summer olympics. Once again civil unrest was to loud to be concealed by authorities. To many people were killed by government forces. Western governments are commenting the situation - once again, very toothless, quite, considerate. No one wants to offend the economic atomic lion.

This bully is obvious to strong for our bully.

Let's take a look to recent developements of Honduras. The now former President of this country was removed from office by the Honduran Surpreme Court for trying to inact unconstitutional articles allowing him a third term in office. The millitary finally removed him from office. Remember the cries of western governments when Hugo Chavez succeeded in extending his term? And now look at the cries of western governments about honduran legal authorities avoiding a President actually doing the very same thing. Now they make big pictures with the guy, pressing the country to undo that, re-instating him.

To measure differently is a principle of politics.

After quite a while I decided to re-inact my journal ("blog" how some might call it). If you are interested in my life and opinions, you better not stay away from here, otherwise you risk serious infection with alternative viewpoints.

I hope I can provide some interesting and entertaining topics to you in future :-)

Btw, thanks to Triv for "pushing" me to re-inact the journal.