The top leaders from the G8-countries meet in Hokkaido, Japan. Can it make the world a better place? Better to whom?
The powerful media’s and political parties’ selected men and women meet in Visby, at the Baltic Sea island of Öland. Can it make Sweden a better country? Better to whom?
I actually celebrate the act of meeting with other human beings in order to debate and try to agree on issues like the growing impact of climate change or just how to keep billions of people fed during the food price crisis. I believe, it is in the public sphere where freedom best is constructed.
But please, excuse my pessimistic soul; I do not think any of those meetings would make a better difference for the masses of the world or the nine million living Sweden.
The train of progress has left many people behind. And that train is one crazy machine going faster and faster every year, because fast is never enough. Therefore, in the Swedish province of Östergötland we have seen the last three years a shameless gang of politicians expending about 30 million dollars from the taxpayers in lobby activities for The Eastern Link or ”Ostlänken”.
The Ostlänken is a railway with 150 kilometres of double track providing a fast passenger service between Järna and Linköping and cutting journey times to Stockholm to less than one hour.
To build The Easter Link is, according to those politicians, to do the best for Sweden’s development, environment and citizens. This is the message they are now trying to sell at the so called “Almedalsveckan” in Visby.
One tenth of the money thrown away in the Ostlänken project could have made a real difference for Berito Alutu, a farmer in his 60s, and thousands more inhabitants at the village Katine in Uganda. They need ox-ploughs to survive, but their destinies will never be a priority to those Swedish commodity white-collar desperados travelling at high-speed in the train of human history.
Desperate black farmers vs. Swedish white-collar desperados
8 07 2008The top leaders from the G8-countries meet in Hokkaido, Japan. Can it make the world a better place? Better to whom?
The powerful media’s and political parties’ selected men and women meet in Visby, at the Baltic Sea island of Öland. Can it make Sweden a better country? Better to whom?
I actually celebrate the act of meeting with other human beings in order to debate and try to agree on issues like the growing impact of climate change or just how to keep billions of people fed during the food price crisis. I believe, it is in the public sphere where freedom best is constructed.
But please, excuse my pessimistic soul; I do not think any of those meetings would make a better difference for the masses of the world or the nine million living Sweden.
The train of progress has left many people behind. And that train is one crazy machine going faster and faster every year, because fast is never enough. Therefore, in the Swedish province of Östergötland we have seen the last three years a shameless gang of politicians expending about 30 million dollars from the taxpayers in lobby activities for The Eastern Link or ”Ostlänken”.
The Ostlänken is a railway with 150 kilometres of double track providing a fast passenger service between Järna and Linköping and cutting journey times to Stockholm to less than one hour.
To build The Easter Link is, according to those politicians, to do the best for Sweden’s development, environment and citizens. This is the message they are now trying to sell at the so called “Almedalsveckan” in Visby.
One tenth of the money thrown away in the Ostlänken project could have made a real difference for Berito Alutu, a farmer in his 60s, and thousands more inhabitants at the village Katine in Uganda. They need ox-ploughs to survive, but their destinies will never be a priority to those Swedish commodity white-collar desperados travelling at high-speed in the train of human history.