Not much goin’ on, except interiors!

I’m off to sweden in a few weeks for business but I decided to stay in Stockholm to go on a interior shopping rampage My interior designer, Maja, is coming over next week to keep me grounded, we need to choose some colors and stuff before I go. My bathroom is still a big mystery, I’m having trouble picturing it ready and I seem to be avoiding planning the bathroom. I also found a company that sells the woodpaneling I want for my house and I’m going to go check their showroom out asap, but right now work seems to be taking over and it’s really hard to do both. I haven’t been blogging either, but I’ll give you guys an update after Majas been here:)

Try moving to Finland..

Eveline Fadayel has become somewhat of a celebrity in Finland. Not because she’s done something spectacular, but because the Finnish government won’t let her stay in the country. She has appealed and re-appealed and pleaded and begged, and her whole family has got the interest of the media who loves portraying the immigrant office as the villain. She has won the hearts of many finns that feel that the treatment of this grandmother that wishes to stay with her sons family has been cruel and that the process has been taken too long. I feel for her too, but the problem is not to let her stay, the problem is the consequences of her staying here. Let me enlighten you on this matter. The law system is built so that there are some basic laws and there are practices. Practice in law comes from decisions made in the Supreme Court. If the supreme court was to say that she is allowed to stay in the country, this would change the law on immigrant politics. As it is now, the core family consists of the mother, father and their children. Grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins are not part of this family. This may be hard for some cultures to understand but if you want to come to Finland this is just the way it is. Finland has long had a very strict immigrant policy, you can read more on that here: http://kikisplaza.wordpress.com/2009/06/23/welcome-to-finland-all-of-you/

I really would love for Eveline to stay, but then the doors to our country would be open to a larger core family that would inculde more people that would have the right to stay. As the economical crisis still has an effect on our society we need to focus on building this country into a stable economy, otherwise we cannot have social system and a wellfare state to support ourselves and others that wish to stay here. We need more knowledge and skills to Finland, we are a small country situated in the outskirts of Europe and our current law system doesn’t really promote new businesses nor ideas to become something bigger. We need proffessional people, but how to get them here, learn the language and give more to society than they get out of it is a very hard equation to crack, and no politician I know of has yet cracked it.

In the construction business there are currently 20 000 Finnish workers unemployed. At the same time there are 20 – 30 000 illegal and/or foreign workers currently working in Finland. Is this the right way to go, is this fair? Shouldn’t we first take care of our own, and then the others, or should we forget our own people and our own country, and start taking care of everyone else first? In 2008 the Finnish government spent 48,6 billion euros on social welfare. This means 9140 euros per person living in Finland. 933 million was paid to cover costs occurred by alcoholism, and there are over 32000 people currently in some kind of psychiatrical care. Don’t forget the elderly, the unemployed, students, and normal doctoral visits. We cannot take care of more people than we already are doing, there are enough problems within our country, which is why the supreme court could not give a verdict that would have favored Eveline, who has become the front figure of this whole discussion in the media. And all she wanted to do was to be reunited with her family.

Evolutionary underdog

The human race is an underdog in evolution. We have very few defense mechanisms, we lack fur or any shell that would protect us from heat or cold, and to some animals we may compete in size, but to others we can’t. In order to survive humans have been forced to find ways through the struggle. If we have no fur, we fix it with other animals’ furs and clothes, if we can’t defend our selves we build weapons that today are so advanced that launched they would destroy the whole planet. We have found ways to conquer sea and land, even space to some extent. We are able to communicate across borders in a glimpse of time, even across continents. We have advanced computers and the internet brings the world to our doorstep.

Humans are also lazy. We come up with ways to do as little as possible for as much as possible. The industrialization in the 1800′s was the spark to make machines do the work for us. Imagine for a second how hard it would be for me to write this post and for you to find it if there were no internet or computers. I often sigh when I look at todays society, because we have taken our intellegence to the extreme and now we are bored. there is simply nothing to invent anymore. Did you know that nothing has been invented since the 60′s, everything is just an upgrade or improvement of the old? There is so much in this world that is completely unnecessary, like ringtones ordered from some service, or game sites with mindless games just so people can do something instead of being bored. If these people, behind these ideas would only focus on more important things, we would have a more effective and less polluting world. For every microchip two barrels of oil is used, and for every barrel pumped up from the earth, two are used. Good work, all of us.

Mother earth is aching. We drill holes in her, poison her with our chemicals and pesticides, we pollute her air and sea. There is no creature on this planet more filthy than the human race, we are (pardon my french) shitting where we eat. Us humans keep forgetting that we are a tiny tiny part of a much larger puzzle that is earth, we are part of an ecosystem and just one species of many inhabiting the planet, but we are far the worst in destroying everything for everyone, even ourselves. If we are so freakin’ smart, we need to come up with more eco-efficient factories, products, packaging, ways of transport etc. We also need to find ways to take a few steps back in our one way train to destruction, otherwise all our efforts will be in vain. I don’t care if you believe in mother earth or not, but it is up to each and every one of you to DO SOMETHING BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE! It doesn’t have to be grand acts of charity, don’t exaggerate. Start with small thing, your home is your temple, and your home is part of the world. Recycle, use recycled materials, decrease your usage of packaging, use less poisonous detergents at home, plant some plants, use public transport or change your car into a more eco friendly one, use a bicycle. It’s not so hard, and you can’t, you simply just can’t look into your children’s or grandchildren’s eyes and said you did everything you could with a good conscience if you haven’t even done these simple things. I know that you think that how can I help, there are billions in the world not doing anything. Well yes, it is true, but you are definitely not helping by not doing anything, and the more people that understands this, the less billions of people doing nothing there will be, so roll up your sleeves and lets fix our home.

A place called happiness

I get happy from trance music, thats a little secret I want to share with you. I usually don’t care what music I listen to, but trance music is different, it’s happiness filtered through music. I used to DJ at Sub Bass Acedmy, and because of that and through practice I hear all the little noises and klicks and tunes in every song almost like they are separate things layered on top of each other, and that’s basically what they are. If you’ve ever seen one of those song making programs you know what I mean. Finnish DJ’s like DJ Tab and Super8, Orkidea and Dallas Superstars make me so happy and full of life, their music is everything the Finnish people regularly are not. To name a few of my favourite songs by them (allthough wee bit old perhaps):
Last Train to Trancentral by Slusnik Luna
Helsinki Scorchin’ by Super8 & Tab
Unity by Orkidea
and Fine Day by Dallas Superstars

I very rarely stop thinking and planning ahead and it is really hard to live in the moment, but listening to trance takes me to this other level, where I just listen and do nothing, I just space out, and that makes me so calm and happy. There are so many really good trance artists, it just so happens that many of my favorites are Finnish artists, which means I get to go see them whenever I want to. Thank you for making awesome music, keep up the good work!

Antibiotics and the human race

If you ventured here when you were looking for prescription free antibiotics, I urge you to read this, and the same goes for the rest of you.

Antibiotics has been mans single last defense against bacterial infections for over forty years. Many of the antibiotics developed are ineffective today, more specifically 2/3 of all invented antibiotics, and a new antibiotic costs 800M US Dollar and 15 years to create. Man is loosing the battle against bacteria, that’s the fact. The meat production industry is pumping the cows and pigs full of antibiotics and we are constantly given pointless recipes for antibiotics against stuff they don’t work on, like a fluvirus. Think about it, how many of you have eaten antibiotics to cure a flu-virus? I think pretty many of you.. Well I can tell you thatit won’t work because a virus isn’t a bacterial infection, hence antibiotics won’t work.

The problem with the human race is that we are primarily lazy. We invent things that makes our life easier and minimize work. We basically wouldn’t have leave our house in a week or a month if we wouldn’t want to. This is why we still haven’t created a new drug against bacterial infection, we still believe that antibiotic drugs will save us in the end. Well the problem is that some researchers believe that antibiotics as they are today will be completely ineffective in 12 years. In twelve years I will hopefully have a family with kids and I would be very glad to hear that there is a drug that can help my children when they scrape their knees and bacteria attacks the wound. Bacteria is smart, and quickly learns how to adapt in a hostile environment and how to tackle the white blood cells and their sidekick antibiotics. There are already bacteria that are completely resistant to any antibiotics, that do not react to any antibiotic treatments. Some bacteria can only be treated by one or two antibiotic drugs, like the bacteria Staphylococcus Aureus which transfers into MRSA that kills many people each year. When this bacteria mutates and becomes resistant, I would reconsider going to the hospital for a standard procedure.

So what can we do? Firstly I would recommend to keep your immune system and hygiene in good shape. Take care that you get enough vitamins from food and use supplements if needed. If you live in a norther country, make sure you eat D-vitamins. An experiment with D-vitamins was carried out in two kindergartens, they were both fed pills, in one the pills were placebo, in the other they were d-vitamins. The kindergarden with the d-vitamins supplement never got the winter flu. Take care of your hygiene, wash your hand often and carefully. Secondly, try to remember that if your body isn’t bacteria infected, you cannot fix you illness with antibiotics. Thirdly and most importantly, always ask you doctor if it is really necessary for you to eat antibiotics, and wether you can get another treatment.

I’m not a doctor, but those of you who has read my blog before know I’m interested in herbal medicine, and I usually treat my illnesses with basic herbal medicine, avoiding synthetic drugs and antibiotics. In some extreme cases I’m forced to swallow my principles and accept antibiotics. The other week I had a serious sinusinfection, that had gone so far up as to my forehead and I was at risk of getting Meningitis (an infection in the protective membrane of the brain). I readily took the antibiotics for a week (750mg), but apart from many of my friends who believe they can go as normal as the antibiotics will do the work for them, I stayed home and took care of myself. The point with antibiotics is that they are like war allies, but if your own troops are weak, they’re not going to do much good now are they? I also bought one of those cans from which you pour liquid into your sinuses, and now I’m up and running again.

My message is: Don’t overuse antibiotics, it’s like shooting yourself in the leg, because then when you really need a good war allied there won’t be any strong enough to help you.