Do you have the stomach for it, promisses promisses and backfire

To all of you whom believe we are living in countries that defend the basic principles of human rights, freedom, privacy and democracy, please read this book: 'No Place To Hide' by Glenn Greenwald. I bought it in a whim and didn't regret it. Put all your prejudices and everything you heared about Snowden aside and read it with an open mind. Then draw your conclusions. But beware: you have to have the stomach to do it because reading it risks making you sick.





In the mean time Rasmussen, NATO's boss, tweeted this yesterday whilst there was unclarity about Ukraine and Russian fighting:

Things like that make me worry, really worry. They all hapilly come over to Belgium to commemorate the start 100 years ago of WWI and make speeches who horrible it all was, but they don't seem to grasp that they are playing with fire once again.


In the mean time on the financial markets, George Soros is making one big bet on stocks crashing. When people like him do that, people tend to take notice. When that news broke it became official that Germany and France are in a recession (not that they call it like that). The Portuguese bank which went belly up was bailed out by the taxpayers and broken into a 'good bank' and a 'bad bank'. Compare this with what Mr Barroso said 6 months ago: "Banks, not taxpayers, will carry the cost for their own mistakes". Right copy that Mr Barroso. Reality is yet again different from the statements and promisses made by politicians.

This is turning out a rather dark blog isn't it...

So let's brighten it up. One of my friends (@Arielshocron) posted some wonderful pictures of a Tu-22M on twitter. I know, it's a Soviet bomber. That's not why I put it up, I do this beacuse for us aviation nuts it is an emblemic airplane and a very beautiful one as well. I saw it only once back in 1992 in Farnborough. Here is the proof!