THOUGHT OF THE DAY

"On tue un homme, on est un assassin. 
On tue des millions d'hommes, on est un conquérant. 
On les tue tous, on est un dieu."
Jean Rostand

you kill one person, you're a killer
you kill multitudes, you're a conqueror
you kill all people, you're God

GOOGLE GOOD-BYE?

Looks like we finally shall have (obtorto collo) to abandon our precious, stable, simple, reliable XP. Not without a fight, mind you! We already resisted Microsoft subtle (and not so subtle) prompts and XP-updates stops.
Now Google announced they will stop updates and already I find lots of flaws and glitches in navigation.
Progress..really ?
I've got Windows 10 on my notebook and it's not really as good as XP. It has lots of useless junk and shortcuts.
XP was so essentially suited for down-to-earth daily jobs.
Maybe too reliable as related to profits of Producers' balance sheet ?

WHY THERE IS NO GOD, ALLAH, YAVEH, DIO, ETC

If truly God (any god, name it as you wish) were omnipotent, how can you conceive It made men (his children) to fight against each other ?
If God is truly an omnipotent being, how does it come that he has to send thousands of his own children to fight and blow themselves up in order to bring him power?
If God is so absolutely omnipotent, couldn't He (maybe She) just snap a finger and make all infidels disappear?
Why should He need thousands of deaths?
Why make it so difficult and painful when it could be so easy and painless?
The truth of it is that...there's no such God.
God was created by people who wanted to dominate other people.
God is nothing but the image of human domination: as is politics.

AND THE AWARD FOR THE UTMOST RIDICULOUSNESS GOES TO...

... Italy.
In the recent journey of the Iranian delegation, statues of nude sculpted by our most celebrated artists were 'veiled' in order not to ehm ehm disturb Mr. Rouhani.
It's interesting to notice that the visit to the Vatican's Galleries did not prompt any such measure.
How do we say?: we're more Papist than the Pope...
I suppose that the next moves will be to veil the Davide by Michelangelo in Florence

(which has the aggravating guilt of having a Jewish name); and of course any kind of Titian

Caravaggio

Botticelli

How could we not veil the Paolina Bonaparte by Canova?

or so many others that show some kind of nudity.

Actually, I think that Mr. Rouhani would have loved to see our art. He's not an ignorant cleric.

Let's not forget that, for those who believe in God, that same God is perfect. So, how do we think that he created a sinful creature such as man and woman? ah yes...I know the excuse...
I suggest a tour pinned on Turner and Canaletto views of Venice or of modern abstract Artists..But then, isn't sin in the eye of the sinner? Who knows what sensual and sinful implications ans innuendos can be found in the soft brushpaints of the Venetian lagoon? of the sinful Tiber?

FLYING ABOVE...

...clouds and everyday's miseries is always an exhilarating experience. I especially like the moment of takeoff.
No matter how often.

POOR LITTLE PAWNS...

...who think they're fighting for a credo
...who think they're freedom fighters
...who think they'll meet Allah after bombing themselves.

They remind me of other fighters, in other ages:
... early christiandom martyrs
... pastoureaux
... many others who thought they were dying for their god
and more recently
...sects of various kinds such as the Order of the Solar Temple.
There's a movie (not a masterpiece but interesting in many ways) coming from Scandinavia
    under the title of  Solstorm showing how people can take advantage of others in their Community.
As Ecclesiastes quotes: There's nothing new under the Sun.
Money rules.
Power rules.
History shows that some people take advantage of it.
History also shows that leaders' children almost never go bomb themselves.
Leaders just send lesser people's children to death (that's how they consider them: expendable!)

and they are so careful to hide their shameless (that should be shameful) faces

LOVE STORY

 1. Reconnaissance

 2. Speeding Explorations

3. Joining Efforts

4. Till Dusk

 5. The Right Place

6. The Love's Nest

7. Some Time Later...The Last Duckling to Leave His Parents...

GENESIS OF A DANDELION OR..

...the beauty of simple flowers

Opening Up In the Morning Sun

In Full Bloom

Perfect Geometry

A Field of Lighness and Delicacy

Autumn Shadows

The Last Dandelion

40 YEARS AGO...

...the first flight of Concorde.
The most beautiful airplane ever designed.

CANOVA: THE VENUS OF LEEDS

I visited more than once this wonderful show, as I live nearby.
I'm so sorry there's no official picture of the showcase of the central sculpture.
Snapshots are not allowed.
What I can say is that the showcase is one in a thousand.
So beautiful.
Why wasn't it made as THE OFFICIAL picture of the show?
Mirrors (in the right century's style) on all four walls as well as floor and ceiling, reflecting The Venus in the infinite...
White flowers plants giving life to the scene
I've seldom seen so much beauty

LET'S HAVE A GOOD FEW MINUTES AND LAUGH...

...although the REAL scientific minds of pre-muslim era Arabic world would scream in disbelief (but maybe would also laugh at this ridicule theatricals).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9Jp_XCvVto&feature=youtu.be

MEMORIES - GLENN FREY

Magic fingers and great voice.

                                         

ARE WE A BETTER WORLD THAN TWENTY YEARS AGO?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v--IqqusnNQ

I think not.
I think dark powers (fanaticisms and religions) have taken new energy from masses
 of people who are kept ignorant on purpose.
Power has no race and no religion.
Power is all about owning as much as you can grab.
Be it by persuasion (media and religions/sects)
Be it by strength (business)
Be it by weapons (gangs or warlords)
Be it by any other means...
Dark ages are not yet over.
Will out children see a new dawn ?

O TEMPORA O MORES

Cicero (106-43 BC): 
Nemo congressu, nemo aditu, nemo suffragio, nemo civitate, nemo luce dignum putet.
No one thinks you're worth his attention, his time, a vote, a place in society, or even the light of day.

I'M SORRY...SO SORRY...

...that Italian is not an international language.
Otherwise, people all over the world could read and appreciate editorials from two fine journalists /editorialists at Corriere della Sera (the most important newspaper in Italy) have published about New-Years's Night Cologne events.

     http://www.corriere.it/digital-edition/CORRIEREFC_NAZIONALE_WEB/2016/01/07/23/quelle-donne-libere-umiliate-a-colonia-dal-fanatismo_U43140781254653gv.shtml
     http://www.corriere.it/esteri/16_gennaio_09/quegli-uomini-che-negano-violenze-contro-donne-7a5964a6-b6a1-11e5-9dd6-8570df72b203.shtml

Pierluigi Battisti and Aldo Cazzulli wrote editorials that should be engraved in stone.
They define how thin is the frontier between war and individual violence.
They have no doubt that this thin line has been crossed.
I'd advise many so-called feminist groups (especially Italy-based) to read well and re-read.

PEOPLE WHO THINK...

...that the whole world is a vast expanse of 'let's love each other...we're all equals'
just understood nothing.
If his assumptions had been true, there would have been no progress on human race.
We're not all equals.
Some are more intelligent
Some are more tolerant
Some are more business-centered
Some are dreamers
Some are geniuses..but often under-estimated
etc...etc...
What we can say is that each of us is a person
Men
Women
Children
Whomever wants to make of us, individuals, a whole lot:
is a dictator, if he wants to impose on us but somehow gets his way somehow
is a Democrat if he asks us how we want to live
is a terrorist if he kills us, and his friends, and our children, and makes them (not his own, mind you!)  to   make his power acknowledged by bombing themselves.

WOMEN ARE - AS ALWAYS - VICTIMS

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/

They were raped, married against their will and sold into slavery
(and still are in many countries and even in Europe)
Women, who are the better half of the world
Have been
Sold
Tortured
Burnt
Killed
How can men still look at themselves and say 'I'm a Man' ?
How can a man feel like a man when he's taking a woman against her will?
What kind of man is a man who rapes a woman?

JOAN OF ARC

Don't we need a new Joan of Arc against the barbaric hordes that want to overthrow our world?
Unfortunately, I don't see one new Joan of Arc.
Certainly not the LePen sisters who have been wise and politically cunning, in front of a left-rightist government more prone to public relations than to real political actions and guidelines.

Hollande must navigate amongst the political diktats of his mistresses (current and former).

Valls is just a puppet who wants to make believe he's the strong man.

Quelle déchéance, mes amis !

EACH WOMAN, EACH GIRL...

... who was touched against her will in Koeln-Cologne is a sister to Joan of Arc. Each woman and girl who was dirtied by the hands of government-paid imported bastards -who claim to be refugees and are nothing else but criminals - musr be compensated . Money that should go to cover for the expenses of those so-called refugees should go to the victims. Qhy should perpetrators enjoy a comfortable stay in our country when victims are still suffering from the shock of an unexpected and unexplicable(*) violence ? * unexplicable unless you take into account that rape is a weapon for IS fighters.

U.S. ALLIES....

...allies? Really?
Sorry I cancelled previous post on the same subject but I thought it was ambiguous in some points.
I'll agree to the fact that US Forces (most of them were true warriors convinced of the fact they were bringing freedom to Europe against the Reich Armies) helped us getting rid of Hitler's Armies.
I'll agree to the fact that we shall be forever grateful to all those young men and women who helped us - Europeans - to regain our freedom while the so-called chiefs were safely hidden (and giving orders) from a safe place (I mean De Gaulle and his minions).
However.
US didn't do it without a return on their investment.
Naval and Air-bases could be set all over the European countries they had been helping.
Fair enough!
Debts must be paid.
But for how long and to what extent?
And if a debt is being paid, does the debtor still feel indebted?
Aren't 60 years of servitude long enough?
...allies? Really?
We've been drawn into the Gulf Wars based on unsubstianted accusations against Saddam Hussein.
The victims of those wars are well over the victims Saddam's rule generated.
On the other hand, US Companies dealing with the supply of weapons, armaments, security etc, many of which are directly or indirectly linked to the then-in-force Vice President Cheney (the Eminence Grise of Bush's Government) through the Halliburton Company and the many satellite Companies dealing with Security and connected Contractors have earned astronomical quantities of money.
Europeans have been drawn into those insane  fights calling upon their gratitude feelings for the 40-45 War Freedom contribution by US.
Well.,I (and many as I) consider we have already paid and repaid a thousand-fold our debt to the US.
The result of their insane politics are that we are now being invaded by the populations they have been bombing, disrupting, etc.
Their absurd claim that they wanted to export democracy into Middle East countries was just a scam.
Democracy can't be exported. It has to be won.
The problems US have been generating in Africa and Mediterranean Areas are in the eyes of everybody.
Anarchy: bands and groups seizing their opportunity for power in the absence of a stronger hand.
Anarchy invading Europe through IS
THANK YOU USA: you did a splendid job!
THANK YOU AMERICA !

Figures can be found here
http://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/

MINIMIZE !

That's the usual advice we get from our trembling, fearful leaders.
Well...I'll certainly won't minimize the number (the real number is not known as many victims are advised to avoid filing suits by the very Police Forces that should advise them to the contrary) of victims of rape and aggressions - generally young women but not only. Among the victims by African Countries nationals, are many women in advanced age and even men who do not - apparently - fall into the category of muscle-men.
The chase is on.
Anyone looking kind, available, open to talk, understanding, sympathetic...
If you're in one of these categories
You're a prey.
Do you think your assailants will be tried for it?
Oh no....they're just poor little ignorant youngsters taken by a sudden hormonal tempest.
They are so much more important than you.
You who paid a life-long amount of taxes to be protected by your government.
You who pay for the cost of these perpretators who live a quiet life in your country and can attack and rape you at any time and are still finding people who find that they have reasons for what they do.
My taxes are paying for the well-being of my rapers.
Isn't that CIVILIZATION?
I SAY NO
NO
NO.
SEND THEM BACK.
ALL OF THEM TILL IT'S STILL TIME.

WHEN THE ARABIC WORLD WAS AHEAD OF EUROPEAN'S WAY OF LIVING

Before Mahomet, there was a glorious Arabic world.
A world of science
A world of research
They taught us a lot.
Mathematics,
Medicine,
Geometry.. want to know more, go to this site
https://cosmosmagazine.com/society/top-10-ancient-arabic-scientists

What I say is that I have nothing against people of Arabian regions. Only against those who have cancelled a whole, illuminated, scientifically advanced, glorious arabic civilization to gain power over a harsh, mind-obliterating new credo that cancelled all that the arabian brilliant minds created.

They are like the Inquisition at the time of European's darkest ages.
They strive on fear
They enjoy torture
They don't give a damn of human life.

Except their own. Of course.
They never go themselves to blow up as human bombs
They don't send their own sons or daughters.
They are so coward they do not even akcnowledge that !

YOUNG HOPES....

unless...
Syrians who arrived into Germany are mainly male youths (women, babies and elderly people were  left there, in the battlefields as of no value). At home, they treated women as possessions. What do you expect they do in Germany and in Europe?

POLITICALLY CORRECT...WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?

If I define a non-seeing person as blind...
If I define a non-hearing person as deaf...
If I define a youngster convicted of a line of misdeanours, thefts etc as a criminal
If I define people who applaud to the slaughtering of hundreds, thousands others - even if they themselves      have (till now) killed nobody -  as Terrorists
If I define as terrorists those who disrupted a joyous gathering, using violence on women in Koeln in a well-planned attack
If I define as cowards all politicians who try to minimize what is clearly a strategy meant to make us change our way of living, our sense of safety
Am I politically incorrect?
WELL. SO BE IT.
I'd  rather be politically incorrect than to close my eyes and mind to what's happening.
Centuries of struggles of our fathers, forefathers, mothers and grandmothers to reach a minimum of equality, a minimum of peace among European nations, a minimum of understanding among all those who do not think like us...
All this is being jeopardized
By people we welcomed as refugees
Most of them are only a Fifth Column
All youngsters
All well-fed
All without family ties (more or less..unless they succeed in marrying our daughters to get a passport to the Western World)
Politically correct?
No.No and again NO!
Not if means changing our way of life.
Not if it means condoning acts of terrorism
Not if means feeding the vipers who grow in our womb and at our cost.
At the cost of our own children and grand-children's well-being.
Not at the cost of what we've been fighting for for decades, for centuries.

THERE'S GREAT WISDOM IN POETRY

I never forgot these lines by lord Byron

Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods]

George Gordon Byron, 1788 - 1824

   There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
   There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
   There is society where none intrudes,
   By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:
   I love not Man the less, but Nature more,
   From these our interviews, in which I steal
   From all I may be, or have been before,
   To mingle with the Universe, and feel
What I can ne’er express, yet cannot all conceal.

   Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean--roll!
   Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;
   Man marks the earth with ruin--his control
   Stops with the shore;--upon the watery plain
   The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain
   A shadow of man’s ravage, save his own,
   When for a moment, like a drop of rain,
   He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan,
Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown.

   His steps are not upon thy paths,--thy fields
   Are not a spoil for him,--thou dost arise
   And shake him from thee; the vile strength he wields
   For earth’s destruction thou dost all despise,
   Spurning him from thy bosom to the skies,
   And send’st him, shivering in thy playful spray
   And howling, to his gods, where haply lies
   His petty hope in some near port or bay,
And dashest him again to earth: —there let him lay.

EUROPE ! AWAKEN...

We're being invaded in so many ways and media make us feel sorry for the so-called refugees.
How comes that the so-called refugees are of the same mind as their 'enemies' ?
Occident (the Western World) is their enemy.
How comes they flee here instead of going to closer and friendlier countries such as Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi etc where's a high demand for manpower and where people are recruited in India or efen further away?
There's clearly a project.
And I do not like the outcome of it.

KOELN'S (COLOGNE) MAYOR, A WOMAN...

...despite having been aggressed, says that women must be aware of aggressions and that they must be kept at arms' length.
Can one think that all the women who were aggressed on New Year's Day by North-African men are still going to vote for her?
The politically correctness has turned into politically incorrectness.
So, the victim is now the cause of bring attacked?
So, if I'm enjoying myself in any event, I can be raped ?
An nobody, among the thousand aggressors are being arrested and detained for it?
Don't be surprised if Front National in France and other similar organisations and parties all over Europe are gaining ground.
We do not want foreigners to pillage our countries.
We do not want foreigners to come and aggress our wives and daughters
We give asylum to anyone who abides by our laws.
We can't accept anyone who destroys what we've been building - often painfully - over centuries.

HUGE TITLES ABOUT NORTH KOREA BUT...

...don't we know that China could - if only they wanted - erase North Korea in 24 hours?
The fact is that China loves the role of Big Brother keeping a restaining hand on North Korea. Just to say that the international community needs China and to bargain whatever they have to bargain for, with a stronger hand.

DESPITE...

...famine, ailments, etc, just check where's the higher population growth in the world and think about the future of your children, grand-children...

I can't avoid thinking that if all able men who so 'valiantly' try to reach our shores, were instead using that same energy to overthrow their national warlords, they'd probably win. But then, the winner would become the next warlord, wouldn't he? That's what happened ever since African Nations 'won' their freedom.

THE FUTURE OF OUR DAUGHTERS AND WIVES?

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/01/04/revealed-1000-migrants-brawl-rape-sexually-assault-steal-one-german-train-station-new-years-eve/
What does Frau Merkel say?
It's easy to appear noble and generous when you're protected by bodyguards...

A SMALL TOWN BUT SO IMPORTANT...

...since it was Sole's place. The first snow of this 2015 Winter. How she would have loved it.

WEST AGAINST EAST?

Certainly not.
Western countries have a lot to be grateful for what came to them from Eastern countries: Medical Sciences; Mathematics;  Geometry; Anatomy...and so much else. Of Course, that was before a man called Maometh said he was God's prophet.
The same things happened (minus the scientific knowledge) with the christians who happened to have their own prophet called Jesus.
I can accept that people need to believe in something, in somebody.
What I cannot accept is that they feel entitled to slain whole populations in the name of that same entity they think created it all.
Christians slaying and erasing whole populations in the Americas...just for gold
Catholics of various faiths slaying whole villages in the name of their god: Cathares, Pastureaux...
Catholics slapying Protestants for decades...just for power (Ireland still hurts)
Shii's and Sunni's slaying each other just for a different interpretatrion of Q'ran

If really there were only one god, would he allow his children to kill each other in his name?
What father would allow his children to kill each other?