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The beautiful nature of the Mother Earth. Huntes Gardens, Barbados, 2013. Read HERE the overview Oliver Rõigas (26) was brutally abused, poisoned and murdered by doctors, and Russian nurse in Estonia at government supervised PERH hospital in Tallinn in 2009 to cover up wrongly prescribed Metoclopramide complications, massive cover up followed // LOE: Oliver Rõigas ´e hukkumisest Mustamäe haiglas 2009 ja raske isikuvastase kuriteo kinnimätsimisest SIINFor more details about the abuse and murder in Tallinn PERH hospital in 2009 please click here.UN torture cases expert in Washington Post - Haloperidol Soviet era torture drug. |
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| Not the Kon Tiki, but another ship built by Norweigans decades before, in 1907 - Blue Sirius, on its way from Tallinn to island Saaremaa, August 2, 2013 |
When I was a kid in Soviet Union, I read brilliant book by Thor Heyerdahl about the Kon Tiki trip and only now, after seeing the film thought what a great thing it was we even managed to get it published that time. The Kon Tiki Estonian translator Henrik Sepamaa had been imprisoned after WWII and taken to Russian jails for over ten years for resisting Soviet occupation. Upon his release and return to Estonia in 1956 he managed to translate many good books, but died just a year before the independence of his homeland was restored in 1991.
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July 2013 in Estonia, near Tallinn. Nothing beats the Nordic summer, at least not for our Nordic hearts. The island on background is Aegna on Tallinn bay.
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August 17, 2013. After another Kremlin spy has been just caught in Estonia (third in few years) there is debate up again in Estonia who and why took at least dozen (some claim more) ex KGB officers to work at Estonian security police in 1990s after Estonia restored its independence. This has damaged both the country and security police, not speaking about the people whom exKGB officials have harmed. The that time interior minister Lagle Parek and first security police head Jüri Pihl who could just apologize and admit they made an error keep even now in 2013 insisting they had to recruite KGB officials because KGB left behind tools nobody knew how to use, as Parek insists today again at Estonian daily Eesti Päevaleht. Instead of just hiring someone from ex KGB staff for few weeks to teach how to use these "tools", at least dozen employees of KGB were taken for two decades to work at the security police of Estonia. The last Kremlin spy caught, one of those KGB persons recruited like that in 90s chaired - as media claims - KGB technical "sneaking" department with around hundred employees. Hard to understand why people whose task was to harrass so many, including most active journalists during our battle for the independence in late 80s and the beginning of 90s were secretly recruited by the people acting on name of state we fought for.
(p.s. The first-ever homepage as a gift I decided to make many years ago was for my friends nun, Indian and Mexican Bridgettine sisters in Tallinn Pirita Abbey, you can also stay at their abbey home while in Tallinn.)
Let me share also with you today a joke from this week. I heard the joke that the US led peace operation in Afghanistan (that many people scare will end with chaos after 2014) has brought during the decade long invasion and mess called its-oil-that-matters-men a huge positive mentality change to Afghanistan! That mentality change was praised by Estonian foreign minister at the press conference in Tallinn. I like too as Minister Urmas Paet that women in Afghanistan are now also seen more like humans and that millions of Afghan kids go to school. But, Afghanistan mentality change? Before the Americans took over Afghanistan over decade ago the fact according to United Nations data is that the Taleban had managed dramatically cut narcotics cultivation in Afghanistan. And where we are now, after decade of US led operation? According to UN Office on Drugs and Crime (last report released midApril 2013) Afghanistan has became the country that last year 2012 provided 75% of all illegal opium to global market on our planet and the the grim number is expected to increase to 90% in 2013. When I asked Afghanistan Foreign Minister Zalmai Rassoul this week in Tallinn whether we can conclude his government has failed in fight with drugs he kind of avoided the answer and blamed global drug demand for that. Its shameful, all Afghanistan farmers who you make money making drugs and shameful to US bribed regime behind that. Sad to see US that we admired much during Soviet occupation has degraded itself in such a way this millennium. Already the Soviet occupation in Afghanistan was so, so wrong, and how many lives have been lost. In summer 1979 I worked on Moldova grapes fields at age 16 at village Karagash when a body of one of first young victims, Soviet soldier, forced by Kremlin to Afghanistan was taken there and since that so many, icluding Estonian boys from my generation have perished for someone elses interests.
I also asked Rassoul to comment New York Times this week story about CIA cash money, tens of millions of USD delivered to Kabul leaders and allegedly just increasing corruption. I believe in my president, so, as Karzai said, it goes to humaniatarian cause, Rassoul replied. Well, I believe also in Santa Claus.
April 16, 2013. Had mind relocation to other side of Globe late February and March after visiting Garden wonderland that looked like heaven and felt been taken by the beautiful nature. One person just decided at age 62 to turn his dream into reality, made a magic garden nowhere and after 2 years of hard work opened his gates to visitors. The follow-up - his home garden has became the number 1 tourist spot at his country, as rated by Tripadvisor.
To meet passionate people who do good things for good cause is a strawberry to soul, always and I am glad I have met so many good people who have tried to make the planet bit better place. Here is also a story from South Estonia we did not long ago about a man who made creating lakes his hobby, and set up nice classical music venue. Link is here.

I really wish Estonia´s first post-occupation president Lennart Meri to be still alive, to hear what he could say about where the country has been taken by now. The text up are his nice words in letter to me, that came with a gift. Back then all was on right course.
Look also at Lennart Meri annual Conference speeches, panels available from this weekend also here.
April 2, 2013. Read a letter today by a very high level official who had signed it on April 1 and the short message itself was just like from Fools Day basement, another example how deep (high) the corruption really goes. More importantly, the question who and how runs the country has got some serious debate recently after one of the giant media owners in Estonia published an article this winter claiming that many Estonian top political, and even church leaders are freemasons (link to story here, in Estonian only). Claimed that is where the high rank positions in Estonia are filled and decisions made. One could expect the story to be untrue but on the contrary, several top officials have either admitted the membership or didnt decline when their names have been revealed in media articles. One of the last surprises is the head of Tallinn all Lutheran churches Jaan Tammsalu. Plus many, much less respected names outlined. One of their members noted in interview the secret gatherings start with pray for Estonian current president, the man who has changed a lot and not in best way the image of presidency. Well, Lenin was said to have been freemason too and many of his fellow-criminals who turned the Russia upside down. It will not take much to search the net or look at videos taken with candid camera about some freemansory meetings abroad, including the goat sacrifice ritual at upper lodge and blood drinking video at Youtube aired also in TV at that particular country partly in Europe to ask what kind of truth we are not told.
25 years passed today from the meeting of Estonian cultural elite back in Soviet era when the need for freedom to our country and many aspects of Soviet absurdism were outlined, paving the way to singing revolution and our fight for the restoration of the independence. "We were occupied but mentally free that time, now Estonia is free but mentally we are not free," one of the key speakers back in 1988, architect Ignar Fjuk told today 2013. He also noted the leaders have still not realized they are not masters, but servants to people. Young female actor widely quoted in media today who was let to speak at parliament too made a huge criticism on how doubblefaced the Estonian political elite looks to her generation.
Where is that golden Christal age that so many were exepcting in recent years to arrive, with people becoming honest, kind, human in every sense?
At least one good news - United Nationas has launched a report about the torture and violation of human rights in health care establishments. The UN Special Rapporteur on torture Juan. E. Méndez called for an international debate on abuses in health-care settings that may cross a threshold of maltreatment equivalent to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. The very welcomed and very needed UN report can be find here.
March 29, 2013. Spring is in air, my dear friend told me over the phone from the other side of Globe few days ago. Is it? Are there springs still coming and passing on Earth? And which year it is, anyway?

Updated October 30, 2012. It has been deeply sad to see how step by step and from year to year since 2005 or so Estonia has slipped back to Brezhnev style country with the party and rulers on top that do not obey laws neither ethical principles. With several ex career communists still on power, what could you expect. Writer and ex head of Tallinn University Rein Raud who called current rulers "moral bastards" summarized the new old era they have implemented on us in his article "Back to USSR" this week and that is the feeling many, perhaps even majority of us have. Money laundering, corruption, arrogance and ignorance seems business as usual for people like that. I have learned this week that if needed its no problem still to cover up even the brutal abuse and fatal medical mistakes despite all evidences and you simply seem hopeless below the shadow of the army of those unethical people. Whats the price of their dishonesty and when it happened we gave the country we fought so much for back to people like that?
I have always said that one of the biggest damages Soviet era did was how it changed many minds of people, their values, changing the society so much crueler. I watched recently a program at Estonian TV about Estonian in his 20s, Tanel and the battle of his mom few years ago at hospital who managed to save his son from the cruel staff at hospital that considered him hopeless and starved the 186 cm patient to 35 kg, wrongly telling to mom his son is brain dead. Only after the mom had found out the doctors had lied to her she managed to take his son off from hospital and months later he came out from comatose and is alive today. Other young Estonian, woman hit by iclet was starved at same hospital to 34 kg after being considered hopeless too but survived and came out of comatose when her parents managed to take her to Germany. Hard to believe it all has happened in Estonia where 700 people are estimated to perish annually in hospital due to medical mistakes and neither police or prosecution do anything - or better to say they do helping to cover up so many cases.
The few sunny moments from the summer - I have got so many great angelic photos with my camera and in mid September got first time orbs to my video - some of them after watching adorable show in Tallinn sky near harbor. With so many similar videos from around the globe nobody has still explained what are those white balls that move, emerge, disappear. Some of the best sky photos I got this summer are from Germany, brief trip to some nice concerts and solitude in Wiesbaden that was like refreshing fuel after rather hard spring. If you ever happen to be there - the Wiesbaden concert hall became my absolute favorite, it reminds a lot about our own national Estonia concert hall back in Tallinn, is much more majestic but still felt so much home.

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