• Western double standard:
• Crime: In Aug. 4, 1995 with American blessing and direct US support a "good guy" Croatian president Tudjman ordered ethnic cleansing of 200,000 Serbs from Krajina killing old and disable. Totally 400,000 Serbs were driven out of Croatia. The country, which originally had a Serbian population of 12 percent, is today almost "Serb-free". This Blitz dwarfs the events in Kosovo.
• "Punishment": Three former generals in the Croatian army are on trial in The Hague (and may be convicted).
• Reward for the crime: March 14 2008: Croatia's bid for early membership of the European Union received a boost yesterday when the European Commission said it should be possible to complete accession negotiations by the end of 2009.
• What delayed the reward: Mr Barroso, the EU Commission president,  made his announcement shortly after Croatia's parliament removed the biggest irritant in EU-Croatian relations when it voted early yesterday morning to abolish a provision that barred fishermen from EU countries from operating in parts of the Adriatic sea that Zagreb has proclaimed a protected zone.

• Proposition for the voting algorithm
• Do not rely on candidate's party affiliation: the difference between parties is statistically insignificant in comparison with the variations inside parties.
• Make your personal choices (if you have enough information).
• Choose a woman: statistically they are less likely to do stupid things.
• Apply "The Diaper Rule": diapers and politicians should be changed frequently (and for the same reason).

• Feb 17, 2008 - Kosovo declared independence from Serbia
  • - Finalization of NATO aggression against  Serbia.

• "Investors"
• They sell shares to each other.
• It does not affect the companies.
• Why are they called "investors"?.

• Another interesting math about Iraq
  • Iraq population ~ 27,000,000 http://www.nationbynation.com/Iraq/Population.html
  • Killed 100,000 to 600,000
  • Refugees ~ 2,000,000
  • Displaced ~ 2,000,000
  • Orphans ~ 1,000,000
  • US population ~ 300,000,000
  • US/Iraq population ratio ~11.2
  • Would be killed 1,100,000 to 6,700,000
  • Would be refugees ~ 22,400,000
  • Would be displaced ~ 22,400,000
  • Would be orphaned ~ 10,200,000

• Organic and inorganic products
• Pure water is pure inorganic,
• Urine is organic.

• Moved from Arizona to Connecticut; Some first impressions:
• Everything is old,
• Old and rotten,
• Narrow streets, terrible pavement,
• Terrible driving habits, 55 mph speed limit, cars parked on streets, traffic jams,
• Connecticut is not ready  for the automobile yet.

• Overpopulated World
• World population: 6,525,170,264 (July 2006 est.).
• Assuming that one person occupies the area of 1sq m  (3.3 ft x 3.3 ft),  the whole world population can stand on the square 80km x 80 km (50 mi x 50 mi).
• Assuming that an average family size is 4 persons and each family lives in a small house 100 sq m (1076 sq ft) then all people can settle on the area 400 km x 400 km (250 mi x 250 mi).
• My son's karate teacher Mr. Hoffman pointed to the above facts.

• Interesting math
• $90,000,000,000 ($90 Billion) per year
• = $7.5 Billion per month,
• = $1.7 Billion per week,
• = $250 Million per day,
• = $10 Million per hour,
• = $170 Thousand per minute,
• = $2800 per second

• US Congress opts for "freedom fries"
• 12 March, 2003.
• Renaming "French fries" to "freedom fries" shows that the collective brain power of the "wisest" men of the country is on a kindergarten level.
• Do not expect much from them

• Bush signs bill to interrogate and prosecute suspected terrorists
• Oct. 17, 2006, in the East Room, of the White House in Washington.
• Now we can bring all terrorists to (castrated) justice.

• "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."
• Thomas Jefferson, Third President of the United States

• Interesting statistics about the Presidents of the United States of America 
• The last Republican President - George W. Bush (2001-present)
• The last Democratic President - Bill Clinton (1993-2001)
• The last National Union President - Andrew Johnson (1865-1869
• The last Whig President - Millard Fillmore (1850-1853)
• The last Democratic-Republican President - John Quincy Adams (1825-1829)
• The last Federalist President - John Adams (1797-1801)
• The last American President - George Washington (1789-1797). He did not belong to any party.

• The Gulag of Our Time.
• London May 25, 2005 — Amnesty International branded the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay a human rights failure Wednesday, calling it "the gulag of our time" as it released a report that offers stinging criticism of the United States and its detention centers around the world.
  Political mathematics.

• Political mathematics.
• May 13, 2005 Washington (CNN) - A coming round of military base closures will save the U.S. military $48 billion over two decades.
• $48 billion / 20 years = $2.4 billion per year.
• Iraq war costs ~ $90 billion per year (Afghanistan is not counted).

• "Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."
• Albert Einstein (physicist: 1879-1955)

• May 25, 2005
• "The use of federal dollars to destroy life is something I simply do not support," Bush said at the White House.
• Whose lives?

• " I'll try being nicer if you'll try being smarter."
• quote from unknown tech support person

• April 7, 2005. The way politicians are.
• Before the Iraq war the pope sent an envoy, Cardinal Pio Laghi, to Mr. Bush in order to convince him not to start the war. The Vatican called the war illegal and unjust (see e.g. The Boston Globe article).
• "President Bush is going to Vatican to pay respect to the late pope Paul John II" - from the news.
• The president did not respect the pope when he was alive, but he respects him dead.

• "Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish."
• Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

• March 20, 2005, 8 reasons to go to war
• No Civil Defense Forces to protect the general public against disasters and terrorism (unlike many countries world-wide);
• National borders are not securely protected;
• Local law enforcement and emergency response units are under-stuffed and under-funded;
• The Public Health system is the worst among the developed and some developing countries (In 2000 the World Health Organization put the US on the 37th place, after Costa Rica: see WHO report here; 
• The Public Education is the worst among the developed (and some developing countries);
• Social security is in crisis;
• The economics is in a bad shape;
• The gas prices are high; 
• What to do?
• A common sense approach: try to solve as many problems as possible using a huge budget surplus inherited from the previous administration.
• A political approach: create a new problem and deviate attention from the existing ones. 

• "If you can't convince them, confuse them."
• Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States

• "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
• Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943

• January 2, 2005. A good Christian.
• Can you imagine that Jesus sent his apostles to Golgotha and himself was hiding in a disclosed location?

• "640 K ought to be enough for anybody."
• Bill Gates, Chairman, Microsoft, 1981

• "It is not that I am so smart - it's just that I stay with problems longer."
• Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

• Uncle Tom of the Bush Administration, The Tragedy of Colin Powell
• November 12, 2004. Today President George W. Bush accepted Colin Powell's resignation.
• He was  a respectable general,  National Security Advisor and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
• On behalf of the United States of America he lied to the UN.
• He served to his master, not to the American people.

• August 1, 2004. The first fruits of liberation.
• Today Christian churches were bombed in Iraq.

• "You cannot create experience. You must undergo it."
• Albert Camus, French novelist, essayist, and playwright, who received the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature.

• Russia, Summer 2000:
• Moscow international airport, first questions at arrival: "How is the weather? How is the country?"

• Site Epigraph:
•   - "To be in the Homeland is good but to be at home is better!".
• ([SVD, Podlodkin] http://znatoki.com)

• Common misconception:
• "Propaganda targets other countries"

• "Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought."
• Albert, Szent-Gyorgi, Nobel Prize winning biochemist (discovered Vitamin C)

• "You have zero privacy. Get over it."
• Scott McNealy, CEO, Sun Microsystems (link)

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