If it is raining today, it's probably just an iCloud crying...

It was early Thursday morning in Germany, actually around 2 am, I was still awake and playing my favorite online game (World of Warcraft) and all of a sudden, trade chat had been quiet for most of the night, someone said "Steve Jobs died". Not wanting to believe it, I rushed to Google and checked, the first 2 online news-stations that i tried to loads websites of were unreachable due to the traffic they were having, so I went to the Apple site and saw that he really died. Tabbed back into the game, and around 5 minutes later someone asked in trade chat "really?". So I replied sadly yes, pointing them to the Apple site aswell as Wikipedia which both had the news of his passing. Cause of death was not listed yet.

As I had to get up early in the morning for work, I threw myself into bed, and when I awoke, my brother just spread the news to my father.

Onwards to work, I noticed that today started with rain (yes, I managed to get wet on the way to the bus station, which is 3 streets away from work!), and it is still raining now. At first, I didn't think much of it, but come to think of what I read at 2 am this morning, I figured the rain today is not just usual rain...it must be an iCloud crying over the passing of its master...

R.I.P. Steven Paul Jobs

Cloud (#9) Computing and other Things

Ever since getting my new Acer Aspire PC, I feel like on Cloud #9, since it is a lot faster and more stable than the 8 year old PC that I previously used. Only disadvantage is Windows 7 being a memory-hog eventhough it is supposed not to... had to reboot after a month because 3 of the 4 GB of RAM were completely occupied already.../sigh.

Other than that, programs run smoother now, and i actually have enough processing power to use more than 2 applications at a time.

The whole week was particularly fun, and enjoyable, since I met (and hugged!) 2 of my favorite old people that I know through my work, and also managed to talk to one of my favorite young people on the online game I like and play the most.  :)

Both Sides Of The Story

Now, while digging through my mp3s, I found plenty of songs that I transferred to my latest toy [Samsung
Corby GT-S3650, stocked up with some MicroSD memory, now has identical features as an iPhone & iPod together, for roughly 1/6th of the price of those!).

Among those songs was also one that made me think again...whether stuff people do is right or wrong. Surely, everyone is always "right", but we won't know for sure if that is true until we've heard "Both Sides Of The Story".

"We always need to hear both sides of the story

Both sides of the story

And the lights are all on, the world is watching now
people looking for truth, we must not fail them now
be sure,  before we close our eyes
don't walk away from here
'til you hear both sides"

In May of 2011, Barack Hussein Obama II said "Justice has been done." (about killing Osama Bin Laden).
- But Osama Bin Laden's family, wifes and children would probably see it as an injustice that had been done.

Back in 2001, everyone blamed the attacks on the WTC & Pentagon on Osama Bin Laden, who - to the western world, or well, atleast the caves I hail from and to the common people who don't give a rat's arse about war/fighting/killing/politics in the middle east - was more of an "Osama Bin Who. Who, ontop of all that, was said to be living in caves. (The Saudi Bin Ladin group, of whose founder he was a son, and for which he even worked and organized projects in the construction business, was a pretty wealthy Saudi Family, so surely, even after spending a lot of his money to help fight the Russians so they leave Afghanistan, he did not always live in caves, nor had to do it. He did live a simple life, evenhough his wealth, and believe it or not, even owned real, actual.. HOUSES. So it's not all cave business that's going down there.)

- Osama Bin Laden, on the other hand, said in an interview shortly after September 11th:

• “I have already said that I am not involved in the 11 September attacks in the United States.”
• “Neither I had any knowledge of these attacks nor I consider the killing of innocent women, children, and other humans as an appreciable act. . Islam strictly forbids causing harm to innocent women, children, and other people. Such a practice is forbidden ever in the course of a battle.”
• “All that is going on in Palestine for the last 11 months is sufficient to call the wrath of God upon the United States and Israel.”
• “Whoever committed the act of 11 September are not the friends of the American people. I have already said that we are against the American system, not against its people, whereas in these attacks, the common American people have been killed. According to my information, the death toll is much higher than what the US Government has stated. 
• “The United States should try to trace the perpetrators of these attacks within itself; the people who are a part of the US system, but are dissenting against it. Or those who are working for some other system; persons who want to make the present century as a century of conflict between Islam and Christianity so that their own civilization, nation, country, or ideology could survive.”
• “They can be any one, from Russia to Israel and from India to Serbia.”

A little while after, the USA releases a video where Osama Bin Laden XXL (let's call him that for now, seeing as he was a lot fatter than the real deal Osama) admitted to having done September 11th.

Some time after, many people probably already noticed that this Osama looked different, the real Osama's son, Omar Bin Laden, was interviewed and when asked about the videos of Osama Bin Laden, he just chuckled and said "some of them don't even look at all like my father". He should know.

The USA attributes all kinds of health problems to Osama Bin Laden, of which none were true, according to Osama's first wife and his son.

And lastly, why does the USA keep saying he is dead, died of xxx disease, died from wounds...etc, back in 2001/2002 alreasy, yet they always put out new videos of him. (Is he maybe the Elvis amongst terrorists? Maybe, maybe not. I am just damn sure that I *DON'T* want to hear him sing for one thing, and second, he seems to have a lot less impersonators than Elvis that actually *look* like him.)

According to Omar Bin Laden, on rumours about his father being dead for years already, he replied, that the world would know if he was dead, and that, at the time of the interview, he was probably alive and somewhere in the hinterlands of Pakistan.

And then there was another and apparent "high-tech-terrorist", Julian Assange, who was just looking for truth in some filthy old documents, and he found that the USA should have known the whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden since 2008  already. Finding out stuff like that from Government Documents apparently makes this guy a traitor. Despite not even being an American. Despite him telling the truth.

Side notes:

- The USA spent more money investigating Bill Clinton's incident with Monica Lewinsky than investigating 9/11.
- There are more Hells Angels than there are Al'Quaeda (members).

Now remember, before you judge something (or someone), remember to look at both sides of the story.

Injustice Has Been Done

It is now 2 months and 2 days since the day the Americans, peace loving as they are, invaded Pakistan with helicopters and landed on someone's yard, without even a search warrant, gunnning down (until proven guilty) innocent people.

Then the leader of those so-called heroes comes out and says "Justice has been done" (by killing human beings). Is it really that just to break about all rules that were possible to break? And what about the reaction of the US citizens, celebrating Osama Bin Laden's death, aswell as condemning him and his deeds. But what did he actually do? How can it be proven, and does it need to be proven now that he is off the table (and into the ocean)?

I've found a bit of time to fiddle around with the FBI's most wanted poster and created my very own version of it, which is somewhat more truthful than the original version.

View the original FBI wanted poster here:
http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/7938/oblorig.jpg

View my altered, but more truthful version here: 
http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/7491/obltru.jpg

Against popular belief, Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden is not only a terrorist, but he is also a human being, a husband and a father. Legally married to 4 wives. He has 20 known children. If you believe the media hype about the porn found in his compound, do so. I for one do not believe it, seeing as his youngest wife is 29 years of age, what the hell would he need porn for?

Nobel Peace Prize my ass...

It has been a little over a month and a half since Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden has (apparently, as without a body/DNA proof no one knows for sure, not even former Navy Seals) been brutally murdered in a raid on his compound in Abbottabad. He while (apparently) unarmed, was (apparently) shot straight into the face and his body was (apparently) dumped into the sea.

Now, I haven't been there to see it for myself, nor to ask if it was really him who got shot there, or whether it was just "an old man in his bed who was sitting there with his wives" as Jesse Ventura suggested, I can't tell. I also have no answer to Ventura's question, but I did have to laugh out loud hearing his answer. "Why did they bury him at sea?" - "I guess 'cause the Navy caught him."

Anyhow, all jokes aside, the killing (that apparently took place) of Osama Bin Laden was not only viewed live by the "Washington High-Tech-Terrorists". It was also initiated by one of the Über-Terrorists that sits among them. Yep, right, that guy that won the nobel PEACE prize 2 years ago.

As can be found on nobelprize.org: The Nobel Peace Prize 2009 was awarded to Barack Hussein Obama II "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples". 

So giving the order to assassinate someone in another country who was not charged or found guilty of any crime nor was given a trial for it (well yeah, hard to be charged or to be put on trial if there's no crime, eh?) is an "extraordinary effort to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples"...ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!?!? (Seriously though, my ASS has done more of an extraordinary effort to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples - honestly - I bought foreign toilet paper.)

I am also terribly pissed off at all the fake Bin Laden pictures/videos/audio files, does the media/government think we are blind aswell as deaf and dumb? I mean... come on. I know that people can gain and loose weight, and that it can be affected by illnesses, of which Bin Laden was said to have plenty. (But according to his own son, Omar bin Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, he was only having kidney stones and recurrences of malaria he contracted when fighting in Afghanistan against the Russians.) But I very well know that neither of those actually would change Bin Laden to look like a fat McDonalds-Arabia worker. Also, why would Bin Laden, who was having some gray strains in is hair/beard already back in 2001 (which was 10 years ago) now go and dye his hair, beard and eyebrows black? (Especially considering that he is someone who once said: “Islamic beliefs are corrupted by modernization.”)

2 things that piss me off: the weather and GEMA

Today's weather was pissing me off in any way it could. Firstly, despite it being only 14.5C if you stood in a sunny place, it was so hot that you wished to be naked. Then cleaning a balcony in a 7 story house I was freezing from the wind up there. And short after getting off the bus and on the road to my next and final work-place for today, it started raining heavily.

The only thing that annoys me even more than our silly weather is our silly GEMA (German Society for Musical Performing Rights and Mechanical Reproduction Rights) due to which I am incapable of watching nearly anything on youtube while being German/in Germany. (Sure there's ways around, but for some reason (maybe because I run fucking XP) my Tor quit working, and HSS puts a quite heavy load not only on my computer but also slows down the connection to the point that would make watching stream-videos close to impossible. Even more annoying if you actually own several versions of those songs played in the videos on CD/DVD/LP.

Now, in an ideal world, I would have a Mac instead of a PC for somewhat more stability and reliability and speed. In an ideal world, the only time Internet would be down is when there is a maintenance someplace.

Why I hate 1991

 I dislike 1991 for several reasons, one of them being that it seems to be the year that has struck a lot of my heroes (famous and non-famous) with pretty devastating illnesses.

It also took away some other pretty influential figures:

July 1st: Michael Landon, who was an American actor, writer, director, and producer, who starred in three popular NBC TV series that spanned three decades. He is widely known for his roles in Bonanza,  Little House on the Prairie, and Highway to Heaven.

October 24th: Eugene Wesley "Gene" Roddenberry,who was an American television screenwriter, producer and futurist, best known for creating the American science fiction series Star Trek.

November 24th: Farrokh Bulsara a.k.a. Freddie Mercury, who was a British musician, best known as the lead vocalist and a songwriter of the rock band Queen.

And it was also the year in which Mendax was discovered to be hacking into an Australian university, into the USAF 7th Command Group in the Pentagon and into other organisations such as Nortel. "Mendax" being Julian Paul Assange.

Shit year was shit. And I was just 7 years old, so I had no clue. :(

Looking to be employed by Al-Quaeda, also looking for assistance from Wikileaks to uncover local injustice.

I'm so pissed off, I'd actually take a working position with Al'Quaeda over my current work, because eventhough I love my work, I hate working for the people I work under. People from a care organization that is run by the church, forbid me to actually care about people, and treated me like a terrorist for being human and for being the kind and friendly person I was raised as.

I also see the point now in the quote of Muhammad Ali, who once said "At home I'm a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far".

So many quotes of very well known people surrounded me today. I find them to be true. But sadly most other people won't agree.

"Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system." ~Bruce Lee~

"However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you don not act by them?" ~Siddhartha "Buddha" Gautama~

"We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection." ~Dalai Lama~

"Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist. ~Yassir Arafat~

"Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds. ~William Shakespeare~

"We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty." ~ Agnes "Mother Teresa" Gonxha Bojaxhiu~

And not to forget a song that has been circling my mind ever since I first heard it:

Well, you wonder why I always dress in black,
Why you never see bright colors on my back,
And why does my appearance seem to have a somber tone.
Well, there's a reason for the things that I have on

I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down,
Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town,
I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime,
But is there because he's a victim of the times.

I wear the black for those who never read,
Or listened to the words that Jesus said,
About the road to happiness through love and charity,
Why, you'd think He's talking straight to you and me.

Well, we're doin' mighty fine, I do suppose,
In our streak of lightnin' cars and fancy clothes,
But just so we're reminded of the ones who are held back,
Up front there ought 'a be a Man In Black.

I wear it for the sick and lonely old,
For the reckless ones whose bad trip left them cold,
I wear the black in mournin' for the lives that could have been,
Each week we lose a hundred fine young men.

And, I wear it for the thousands who have died,
Believen' that the Lord was on their side,
I wear it for another hundred thousand who have died,
Believen' that we all were on their side.

Well, there's things that never will be right I know,
And things need changin' everywhere you go,
But 'til we start to make a move to make a few things right,
You'll never see me wear a suit of white.

Ah, I'd love to wear a rainbow every day,
And tell the world that everything's OK,
But I'll try to carry off a little darkness on my back,
'Till things are brighter, I'm the Man In Black!

~Johnny Cash~

I live by it.

Going (Wal-)nuts

Some days are simply best thrown away. Last Wednesday - which I was actually looking forward to - ended up with me being scared and worried because I didn't get to see who I wanted to see at work. Now, tha may sound weird, but let me elaborate a bit. I'm working for a care organisation which offers various services for elderly and disabled/ill people. And every Wednesday I am doing the house-cleaning for an elderly woman which I immidiately liked ever since my first visit there. (She is very very loveable, but also has gone through a lot of physical and emotional distress in her life - and she reminds me to 99% of one of my grand-aunts, on of those sweet and good people that you simply just want to hug when you see them, to show them that somebody cares). But this Wednesday - I came in at our dispatch place at work early in the morning - I got told that she didn't want any cleaning done today. I just got told that, but not the reason for it. So I went and finished the rest of my work for the day, and still decided to visit the lady. Came to the house, rang the bell, but no one opened. Waited a while then decided to run up to the 5th floor where she lives to see if maybe just the bell doesn't function. But no one opened either, and the  window-curtain was half-closed - normally it is open.

Now, I know that she doesn't go out a lot, due to various health problems, and due to not really having anyone who cares about her. So my assumptions are that she either 1) went to the city with a neighbor, 2) was feeling really bad and turned phone and doorbell off, 3) had to go see a doctor or hospital. Now, you can probably see why I am scared/worried. So I figured, yeah well, I shouldn't even be here today but, may as well write a message for her that I had been there (not for work, but in my own free time) to see if she was ok. I guess I won't know for sure until Wednesday, I hope I'll be back there then. I hope she is allright.  I hope I can visit her many more times and give hugs whenever she needs them.

A beautiful day.. sort of.

From a personal point of view, my week has been pretty awesome, got to talk to a very dear friend of mine and met some nice people at my new work and even found 2 new Assange interviews. <3

From a political point of view, however, I am a bit...let's say...sad. Granted, I do not endorse terroristic activities and I even was one of the first people to write a song (sadly in German) against Osama BinLaden and against what happened on September 11th, 2001. But nearly 10 years later, I have my doubts. Firstly, was it really Osama and is gang who blew up the Twin Towers & Pentagon, or was it someone (someone hired perhaps?) to make it look like it had been done by the Taliban, but was initiated by true and blue Americans who wanted to hide a lot of debt (which could have been found in the destroyed wing of the Pentagon)? Then, actually not long ago, I was wondering, where the heck is that goat-lover (BinLaden) anyway, seeing as it had gotten rather quiet around him. So I looked and looked, and according to some sources, he had already been dead for a while. And all of a sudden, you get the news: "YIPPIYEAH THE USA KILLED BIN LADEN". (Now, I assumed that he had been long gone, so I wondered who did they kill, was it really him, or was it just something fake but something that encourages people to love the blood-shedding that the USA seems to be doing nearly every day). Alrighty, next day in the newspaper, big article, blablabla BinLaden blablabla no phone or internet blablabla...ok, so I figured, atleast BinLaden wasn't a "high-tech terrorist" (Joe Biden's favorite name for Assange).

One day further, and another newspaper headline, made me re-think the word and meaning of what a high-tech terrorist is, or could be. If Julian Assange is a high-tech terrorist for publishing truthful data, then what about The New York Times, etc? Or is Assange just a high-tech terrorist because he often is seen with a Macbook (maybe poor American politicians can't afford one, or heck, are even jealous of Assange's capability of having sex at all)? Am I the next high-tech terrorist because I bought myself a netbook which I use for the sole purpose of getting annoyed at Windows 7 (and eventually use it for photos and videos and music once I figured out how to decimate atleast 40 of the standardly running processes on it to make it usable)?

The newspaper headline & picture opened up to me who the *REAL* (high-tech) terrorists are, though. The headline was "Obama witnessed it live". The picture showed lots of high-ranked american politicians, including Obama, Biden, H. Clinton, sitting on their laptops and "watching" the BinLaden murderer.

How to save a world that does not want to be saved?

First off, I'm bored since the amount of news regarding Wikileaks/Assange seems to get smaller and smaller every day.

I usually try to be nice to everyone on this planet who also is nice to me and others. And technically, that shouldn't be a bad thing. Technically.... But reality looks different, and I sometimes even get ignored for being nice and helpful to others (others who actually do the same, who are nice and helpful to others). Because they (according to themselves) don't deserve to be treated nice, because they aren't "good" in their own view. But who defines what's good and what's not? And how can I show those people that they are good, and that they are worth it to be helped, made happy and cared about?

I just don't know...maybe I shouldn't care so much about others. But my heart won't let me. Nor would my brain. :(

Swine Flu?

Right. Just woke up and my mother tells me that the neighbor's daughter got swine flu.
She works in an office...so someone tell me how? O_o

To the Governments/Politicians of the U.S.

I've just found this interview with Assange with a French program, where in the middle of the interview he ran off to help a man up who fell on the sidewalk. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4htJuM6xZ9M

A terrorist would not help random people, so maybe it is time for you over in the States to realize that Assange isn't a terrorist, but someone who wants to help others in any way possible. Be it like in the video, or be it with telling the truth about the wrongdoings of politicians/governments/companies over there or here, or anywhere.

In an older interview Assange also wished a Merry Christmas - a terrorist would not do that either.

More Wiki-Leakin'

Don't you think it is funny that those US politicians who wish for the execution of Julian Assange have made a big deal out of the release of the diplomatic cables, but they have never denied the authenticity of those documents.

Also some would like to charge him for treason. But as the former Governor of Minnesota, Jesse Ventura, clearly stated: "It becomes laughable when you have elected officials like Mike Huckabee and these other people who state that this guy should be brought up and put to death for treason…but you can’t commit treason unless you’re a citizen of the country. He’s an Australian. How can an Australian commit treason to the United States?"

Others call him a hi-tech terrorist (presumably because some people have read about his hacking in younger years, but dialling into university/military/phone-company networks  in the 1980s with an amiga or commodore is not really terrorism now, is it?) And the way Wikileaks works is, that they only PUBLISH whatever documents they get submitted by people who (for which reason ever) would like to disclose that material. They don't hack into government systems themselves, because they simply don't need to do it. There will always be people who think "this is shit, this has to change" but may not have the power to change them on their own, but have relevant documents that could lead to a change if they were published. Those people then give those information to Wikileaks, who will publish them.

The real terrorists are however, those people who call for the assassination of others, who kill innocent people in war regions, and who live on wars in the first place.  Or to quote Julian Assange: "Well, let's look at the definition of terrorism...Terrorism is a group who uses violence, or the threat of violence, for political ends."