2014/09/12

Some notes from Tallinn

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 SIIN

For 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.


November 13, 2014. Humanity has just landed on comet first time but the news from this autumn about the mind-blowing study by Griffith University that Parallel Universes Exist and Could Explain All Physics has got so little attention. Interesting, why. 

Lembit Kolk, the long time head of special police unit struggling against organized crime groups involved in mafia murders and explosions in 90s in Estonia told public broadcasting company TV program in November 2014 what he thinks of Estonian legal system/investigations at police for what he had the worst words only - turned out he too applied to police in autumn 2009 with help request and reporting a crime, then too collected and provided evidence himself, then too waited for years and was finally informed many years later most crime episodes he reported 2009 have expired bcs police did nothing at all these years and what has not expired is not investigated either because "no people" do deal with his crime application. When even ex police chief of anti-mafia unit is treated like that by current justice establishment what chance the ordinary people have. Kolk´s case is just another proof that Estonia´s justice system has became a Potyomkin village with rulers/officials reporting "decrease of crime figures" while in fact its more and more paradise for criminals with reports about crimes just put to trash holder for years, until they expire. uudised.err.ee/v/eesti/9f95df6a-24c3-44a3-9c3b-a1d7419cca8b 

         

November 12, 2014. You can buy up any official in Estonia for a million, Lennart Meri, President of Estonia told me in Christmas morning in late 90s. He had called me and my son Oliver to his residence that morning so he could leave Oliver with his daughter when he himself joins with wife official Christmas service at countryside church but I had misunderstood his invitation and went with photographer instead, assuming he wants to give interview instead. He sent photographer away, asked where is Oliver and then we had coffee and chat and he surprised me with the sudden statement about million being enough to buy up any official. I argued, asked also does he mean dollars or Estonian kroons (tenth of dollar) but he didnt reply to that. History is going to repeat itself, its going to repeat itself as it happened in 30s and 40s, he added instead. He also told me that day the biggest enemy of Estonia is inside Estonia, its the dishonest clerk. Out of all the long conversation we had, mostly on phone these years these statement have revisited my mind often. So many years later, its the deja vu feeling. After seen personally how many most high rank officials one after another have no problem to lie, help to cover up a crime, cementing their job and selling their soul to devil, I have to admit Lennart Meri was right. And isnt that war hysteria, ongoing inability of humankind, manipulated by global military industry and handful of dishonest leaders a proof also 30s and 40s of last century repeat themselves in new way. I was so idealistic at the end of 20th century, sincerely believing the new millennium will be peaceful and people will learn to live in harmony and peace. And I dnt doubt that is what the absolute majority of Earth 7 billion inhabitants want. So how come we have failed to achieve that. Had it been my choice I would use all global military expenditures for two purposes: to eradicate the poverty to grant food and home for all, and to speed up the space research and travel. 

November 4, 2014. Proud of Sweden for recognizing the State of Palestine on October 30, 2014. How many decades ago it was promised Palestine will be an independent state. Lets hope peace and friendship will win both in Palestine and Israel and in their mutual coexistence some day. 

November 3, 2014. Five years passed yesterday, November 2, 2014 since very first details about the brutality that took the life of my son were revealed in Estonian media on November 2, 2009 with long list of horrors that I learned only years later when more evidence started to emerge. And yesterday, on November 2, 2014 was first ever International Day to End Crimes Against Journalists. In my mind that is also the day for us, me and Oliver. You can kill a journalist, you can kill the loved one(s) of the journalist, you can use state means to cover up the murder of the loved one of the journalist as the case of me and my son Oliver in Estonia has shown, you can distribute lies about the journalist using state means and "experts" and even if the experts confess years later that their expertise didnt evaluate anything really "because procecutor didnt ask it" the government authorities can still go on slamming the case down, ignoring requests and evidence from law office, trying to damage the reputation of the journalist whom they dont like or who might have dealt too much with issues they dnt like to be dealt as high rank state officials or whatever criminals. There has been many reports in recent years that several journalists all around the world have became some kind of unpleasant tribe now, also in Western world, being harassed and under surveillance without any sold reason and in most worse cases end up being also killed or otherwise harmed. When I told last year UN Secretary General Ban-ki Moon,  whom I had met also privately during his private trip to Tallinn before, how Estonian officials have covered up the brutal abuse committed against my son, I wished him to know not all is rosy also in Estonia. With 5 years struggle for justice behind I have asked myself what might have irritated some high rank people behind this cover up most if thats the case - and I dnt doubt this any more. Some ferry Estonia tragedy articles for AFP with lot of open questions since 2004? Or quoting stories in AFP and in Finland several corruption scandals linked to Toomas Hendrik Ilves ever since he started to work for Estonia in 90s? My firm stand in 2007 that ex Communist Party official, ex PM and now EU Commissioner Andrus Ansip and Toomas Hendrik Ilves - president since 2006 - who pushed Gazprom study plan in 2007 summer in Estonian waters were pushing plan that could have posed a danger to Estonia some day if Kremlin has ended up also building part of pipeline to Estonian waters, gaining the right then to send whenever it wants its military ships to guard its property - the right it got on on Baltic Sea, despite we managed at least to block the plan to come too close Estonian coast with its pipe. Or was it my firm stand I have expressed since 2008 that Toomas H Ilves had and is not having Estonia´s national interests in mind when he called parliament in 2008 summer, upon return from Russia to compile a new Est-Russ border treaty exactly as Putin had requested - giving away finally and officially a big territory Stalin had annexed from Estonia in 40s, not asking anything for return from Putin and not mentioning with a word Estonian-Russian first border treaty from 1920 that could pose many legal problems for Estonia? Or was it also the 2009 summer book about our struggle in Moscow for Baltic independence in 1989 in the framework of USSR Congress commission when we tried - successfully - to push Soviet leaders to admit that Baltic States lost independence in 1940 due to secret deal between Hitler and Stalin? Our 1989 battle and victory was huge achievement that Ilves publicly has diminished, including in one of his speeches in early 2009. Too many officials who have been busy to shut down the criminal case about the tragedy that took the life  of my son in autumn 2009 are related to Toomas Hendik Ilves - the head of the NEMC hospital Tõnis Allik is his comrade from times when the two men pushed in 90s (also luckily failed) idea to sell away Estonian power plants to some bizzare firm, that many feared would have put the power plants some day in hands of Russia. The state health "expert" and well known KGB related ex Soviet official Peeter Mardna, who produced in 2010 and distributed an expertise with long list of false claims about what happened to my son at hospital in autumn 2009 is father to president Ilves personal doctor MIhkel Mardna whom together with his father paid money as "award" from their family fund in late 2010 for distributing those lies in media. Social Minister Hanno Pevkur (since 2012 Justice Minister and 2014 Interior Minister) whose employees launched the cover up in 2009 is one of Ilves closest ministers. And both Pevkur and his employees have managed to avoid any responsibility for signing officially documents with lies despite such act is a crime - at least by law. And the end of this 2014 summer I saw from official homepage of Ilves that he personally praised early in December 2009 the doctors at the hospital where my son was abused and killed for high quality just few weeks after the first details about the brutal abuse had became public. The ex Soviet Police school graduate Andres Anvelt who presented in August 2014 prosecutor Lavly Perlng to the job of General Prosecutor that was approved right after Perling had let to expire several 2nd degree crimes by the most brutal doctors Aadu Liivat and Tiiu Paulus and nurse Oksana Granovskaja in our case this autumn 2014 (even torture expises in 5 years in Estonia) is a fellow Social Democrat to Ilves at his long time home party. First who told me already in 2012 the decisions to cover up our case seem to have been made at very, very high level was Pille Ilves, head of Estonian Patient´s Advocacy Association.

I have also been for years UN employee in 90s - and for some period also my son Oliver worked for UN, so covering up the crimes in our case is also an act against ex UN employee in Estonia. 

The problem about state violence against journalists has became so real that UN HQ implemented a special day and actions to express solidarity with journalists. Yesterday was the first time such a day was hold, coincidentally it was also All Souls Day in Estonia and exactly five years after the first details on what had happened in Tallinn hospital to us were released in media on November  2, 2009.  You can read more about the UN day to stop crimes against journalists here.
 
October 30, 2014. Estonian government appointed today new Prosecutor General - Lavly Perling who helped to let expire this autumn 2014 several horrific crimes in hospital abuse case that took the life of my son in autumn 2009. A liar and one of the most unethical highest rank officials at the moment - Lavly Perling-Lepp-Pihl was promoted to that job as sole candidate by ex Soviet police school graduate Andres Anvelt. Anvelt, justice minister since spring 2014 said already in August that Lavly Perling is his candidate to the job but the official ritual had to wait two months until Perling let to expire the 2nd degree crimes in our criminal case in mid October that Perling successfully managed to do, ignoring not just mine but also the efforts of law office that has presented a long list of evidence this summer how the horrific hospital abuse case had been shut down in most illegal way by Perling colleagues, including Endla Ülviste, leading prosecutor in North Estonia. I feel that Estonia is ruled by now by gang that can be called without hesitation an organized crime group - its not a problem for prosecution to help to cover up any crime the politicians have requested. In our case the cover up started under the 2009 Social Minister, now Interior Minister Hanno Pevkur and 2009 Interior Minister, now deputy head at parliament Legal Affairs Committee, during Soviet era environmental clerk Marko Pomerants. Last week, during his speech at the parliament lawyer and MP who was also active during our struggle for independence Igor Grazin said at the parliament: "We all, all MPs at the Parliament are responsible for the tragedy that has happened at the Office of the Prosecutor. Lack of competence, unlawfulness and lack of any supervision over the actions of prosecutors is also our fault." However, nothing changes, Estonia is going to get a liar as Prosecutor General, it turned out today. Dont be confused with her sweet face, there is a real criminal-minded heart behind it. 

Lavly Perling "chaired" 2008 case on Kremlin spy Simm, promoted by his own husband gets lifted into job of General Prosecutor 2014

On photo: Lavly Perling (left) and Soviet police/milice school graduate, ex Soviet police officer, Estonia´s "justice" minister since 2014 Andres Anvelt, promotion for Perling just few days after Perling helped to let horrific hospital abuse case crimes in my son´s murder to expire by mid October 2014, ignored evidence and signed a document with long list of lies to cover up severe crimes at hospital supervised by government. 

Ex-Soviet policeman Jüri Pihl, husband for years to new General Prosecutor Lavly Perling (Pihl-Lepp) promoted biggest Kremlin spy Herman Simm and also recruited several KGB officials after Estonia regained independence in 1991. When Estonia had to open - due to tip from Western intelligence - in 2008 the investigation on ex Soviet police officer Herman Simm, who sold NATO secrets to Kremlin for years Lavly Pihl-Lepp-Perling was put to "chair" their family friend Simm investigation. That looked more than weird because it was Lavly Perling that time own husband Jüri Pihl who had promoted the Simm over the years and had also recruited several ex KGB employees to work at Estonian security police - where some as it turned out nearly two decades later did continue to serve also their old masters in Russia. Prosecutor´s Lavly Perling "Simm investigation" ended in winter 2009 with just 12 years prison term for Herman Simm and his wife Heete Simm who was suspect escaped any sentence, bcs "no strong evidence" was found by their family friend Pihl prosecutor wife Lavly Lepp-Perling. Just two days before trial Pihl still defended Heete Simm right to work at police where she even used to head legal affairs department and Police Board while her husband was selling NATO secrets to Russia.

After Simm court sentence in February 2009 it turned out the Lavly Lepp-Pihl-(now Perling) lead investigation had even failed to find out that one of the two Russian intelligence officers who was Kremlin contact person for Simm - Sergei Jakovlev - had also visited several times Estonia, presenting himself under false identity as Portugal "businessmen" Antonio Graf. Kremlin fell so low they even sent Jakovlev to visit Office of the UN/UNDP Resident Coordinator in Tallinn old town - where I worked that time as UN Information and Coordination officer - and where he introduced himself too as "businessmen from Portugal" just walking around in old town. UN/UNDP mission in Estonia (1993-2000) had not a single common project with Russian embassy but we had lot of cooperation with Nordic embassies that also financed in late 90s UN mission project on how to integrate Russians and other minorities better into Estonian society - something that might have irritated Russian embassy that once slammed on us for sending them press release in Estonian, and not in "UN Security Council language". All UN mission activities in Estonia were public and there were no secrets at all, but to learn that Kremlin had fooled UN/UNDP diplomatic mission with a visit by its security agent was very scandalous. 
When Estonian officials learned only after Simm trial that Lavly Perling lead investigation about Simm that seemed to have based a lot on what Kremlin spy Simm had told had failed even to find out that his Kremlin contact person Jakovlev had visited Estonia, some people who then shared important info to Estonian officials on that were harassed by authorities, instead of gratitude. Among those sharing his weird experience while disclosing some valuable info regarding Sergei Jakovlev to Estonian intelligence was also Ivar Tallo, founder of Estonian e-Academy and well known IT expert who wrote about it also at daily Postimees. Appointing Lavly Perling into job of General Prosecutor on Oct 30 2014 whose family has been close friends to Herman and Heete Simm and whose own husband promoted Simm raises a long list of questions and is just one of the mysteries that has happened in Estonia since some very unethical people took the power in 2005/2006 and implemented the double face moral and line.
 
September 4, 2014. There have been 3 good news in recent days in global affairs. First, that Prime Minister of Poland Donald Tusk will take over top job in EU and will become next president of the European Council; Donald Tusk has earned my full respect for honesty and speaking out about and against Putin and his ambitious plans always, also in times when in Estonia Ansip-Ilves preferred to stay silent, or promote Putins agenda (Mistrals, Ukraine, Gazprom pipeline, plus locally new Est-Rus border treaty on Putin terms as requested by Ilves already since 2008 etc). Secondly, the extraordinary speech by US President Barack Obama in Tallinn on Sept 3, 2014 with clear message to Putin to keep his hands and artillery off from the Baltic States or face NATO article 5 implented. Thirdly, France President Hollande finally announcing on Sept 3, 2014 that the deal to construct Mistral war ships to Russia, agreed by exPresident Sarkozy and Putin 2011 is terminated, hopefully finally; we wrote many articles before the deal also at Agence France Presse - on how dangerous and unethical is that deal from point of view of Baltic States, Poland and Ukraine, and I personally was told by French Minister Pierre Lellouche in front of French diplomats during press briefing at French ambassador´s Tallinn residencethat apart of Poland and other Baltic leaders Ansip-Ilves lead Estonian leaders didnt express any strong opposition to French plan to construct the powerful war ships for Putin. How much anger and harrassment I have had to feel from these cameleons over the years for writing truth and warning about plans like the Gazprom pipeline in Baltic Sea that Putin promised to guard if needed with war ships some day. The good news from last days about Tusk, Mistrals and Obama speech are brilliant in ideal world. In surreal world where I have been forced to live last years after the cover up of long list of horrors that took the life of my 26 year old son in autumn 2009 in Tallinn NEMC/PERH state supervised hospital, it was surreal to see that many officials who himself and whose employees have been personally involved in cover-up of that horror, including Interior Minister Hanno Pevkur were sitting in the same hall; pure criminal minded people listening Barack Obama´s talk about human rights, principles of democratic society. You can watch the speech by President Obama he gave in Tallinn - without having any paper in front of him - in youtube, and read it here: www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/09/03/we-are-stronger-because-we-are-democracies-president-obama-addresses-people-estonia . It was more than welcome to be reassured the Baltic nations will not be let again alone like it happened in 1940 and 1945. But lets hope that maddness ends without more innocent people perishing, and lets not loose the hope some day Earth will be free of all guns, with people still alive.
June 23, 2014. Sorry for being away for so long, my midsummer hugs to all of you. I have updated the information regarding what lead to tragedy of my son 26-year old Oliver who was killed in autumn 2009 in NEMC hospital in Tallinn, Estonia to cover up the medical mistakes that started from the horrible complications he got from being wrongly prescribed Metoclopramide (Cerucal). I learned only this May 2014 that the complications he got just a day after visiting Tallinn NEMC hospital on September 19, 2009 that took him to hospital on September 24, 2009 were the side effects of Metoclopramide prescribed him on September 19, 2009. My gratitude to France and European Medicines Agency for special Metoclopramide study 2011-2013 and highliting the horrible neurological risks of Metoclopramide. I am also thankful to EU Commission for publishing report last week about medical mistakes. Doing the best now with the help of law office to reopen the case and to make not just NEMC medical staff involved but also officials who falsificated the facts and ignored evidence to face at least.some kind of resposibility to avoid other people ending up on same horror road. The link to updated info is here.
November 19, 2013. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon hold a speech at Tallinn University on November 16, 2013 during his two-day visit to Estonia, stressing that dignity for all should be our main principle and human rights should be taken seriously by every government, highlighting several important problems in his speech to hundreds of students, diplomats and officials. Taking a chance after his presentation to deliver welcome wishes to UN Secretary General also from the staff of United Nations mission to Estonia in 90s, including myself as UN Information and Coordination Officer at the Office of United Nations Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative I also noted to Ban Ki-moon that when you step out for human rights in Estonia you are simply smashed down by the current government, but you learn this and how corrupted that system really is only when you find itself in situation like that. I would have wished a lot that UN Secretary General would have had a chance to meet also leaders of Estonian Patient´s Advocacy Association to get the more honest picture about what the struggle for human rights, including in health care really means in todays Estonia and how vast is the corrupted ring of officials up to Chief Prosecutor Norman Aas, Justice Minister Hanno Pevkur and many more who do their best to cover up even the most severe abuse cases in Estonian hospitals. For more on that read also Abuse and fatal medical mistakes in Estonia and Human rights report about torture and abuse in Estonian hospitals.

August 23, 2013. Two years after I had a brief heartwarming encounter with Dalai Lama who took my hand and locked me to himself in Tallinn the man who keeps saying his religion is kindness returns to Baltics, this time to Latvia Sept 9 and Lithuania Sept 13, 2013 and as always everyone is welcome to attend Dalai Lama public speeches. And what a lovely timing, to return to Baltics and be here on September 12, 2013 when 30 years pass from the birth of my beloved son Oliver. More horrible facts emerged this summer about what happened to him in Tallinn PERH hospital Mustamäe campus before he lost his life in autumn 2009, after being sedated without his knowlegde with various drugs, chained to bed for days and nights after I wished to take him away to other hospotal, then injected to coma and finally left starving and without any drugs, despite having far developed two side bacterial pneumonia that the hospital had "treated" 13 days with brain supressing substance instead of antibiotics he need. By now a long list of authorities have helped to cover it all up, probably not understanding that things like that can happen to many people but very few cases emerge to public and when nothing is done, nothing changes. 
When Dalai Lama left Tallinn last time in summer 2011 I watched the speech he gave soon in Canada, and heard him telling to audience how sad it is when young life is cut in hospital. On December 10, 1989, in his Nobel Prize speech Dalai Lama said among other things: "As a Buddhist monk, my concern extends to all members of the human family and, indeed, to all sentient beings who suffer. I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. Yet true happiness comes from a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood. We need to cultivate a universal responsibility for one another and the planet we share." Will we ever reach that goal, delivering that message to each person on that planet, so that people will not harm others and every single member of the mankind will start to value the brief moment we have been given to share together this very short time we spend on that beautiful planet? At least we can try.
 

People learn to speak many different languages, but when you are born 
and dont speak yet any of them you already know the universal and powerful language of smile, and warmheartness, that you communicate when looking at the eyes of your Mom. 
Unfortunately, too many forget or ignore that divine skill later in life. 







Photo: Sailing Baltic Sea Tallinn Kuressaare 2013
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 
August 18, 2013. Four years after we had nice short holiday on island Saaremaa with my son Oliver who had travelled there with his girlfriend and called me from the island to join, I finally managed to return to the Kuressaare. Cosy coastal capital of the island where we had stayed by its castle and the sea during what turned to be our last holiday together, noone of us knowing what an horror he is going to face  few weeks later before he his life will be ended. Every summer my memories from the island Saaremaa we have both loved and visited many times have been attracting me back, but I have felt it could be too hard to drive the same long road.
 So when I was told this summer I can join Estonian oldest active sailing ship Blue Sirius crew and travel to the island on sea to attend the Kuressaare Maritime Festival at the beginning of August it felt like a great option. The Baltic Sea was stormy at the first half of our sailing but the trip was great anyway and we enjoyed also the young and dedicated crew. Sailing on sea, not speaking while  having the luxury to enjoy the old majestic Blue Sirius, built in Norway in 1906-1907 and rebuilt in 70s for Caribbean trip in mind is always calming and empowering. Less than week later on August 9, 2013 Blue Sirius hit the land behind island Aegna on Tallinn Bay shortly before midnight. When I write these lines here we all hope a lot the Blue Sirius can be saved and taken back to port. You can watch video about the historic ship at their homepage and if you wish to support Blue Sirius team in whatever way you can please find contact details at Blue Sirius website. Just few days after Blue Sirius had an accident Norway´s Kon Tiki movie was released also in Tallinn - brilliant and a must film to see about the legendary trip by Norweigan Thor Heyerdahl and his crew who sailed from South America over Pasific Ocean on some kind of thing that was not a ship but had a sail, moved, protected them from sharks and was meant to prove that 1500 years ago people might have sailed like that over the biggest ocean we have on this planet. 
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. 
Photo: Summer in Estonia. July 20, 2013 near Tallinn.


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
May 3, 2013, I made homepage for Barbados gardener holticulturist Anthony Hunte as a gift in mid April and it has helped to transfer part of my mind to his beautiful Huntes Gardens on Barbados, to bring bit more light and warmth in times of very hard struggle for justice. Click here for Hunte´s Gardens fans homepage. 


 (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.


Photo: Vahel tahaks, et keegi kelle sõnal oleks kaalu võtaks sõna ja ytleks midagi nii, et see mõni päev hiljem ei ununeks nagu nt Lennart seda mitmel korral tegi, nt tolles mälestusväärses iseseisvuspäeva kõnes, kui tal sai süda täis, et tuleb koos terve hulga seadust rikkuvate, pead tõstvate riiklike pättidega Estoniasse istuda. Praegu saab vaid ette kujutada, mis tal oelda oleks peatses iseseisvuspäevakõnes IRLi elamislubadega sahkerdamisest, Reformierakonna rahapesust, korrumpeerunud jõustruktuuridest, tuhandetest süvavaesus elavatest eesti lastest, tuhandetest Eestist viimastel aastatel lahkunud ja üha lahkuvatest noortest, kümnetest tuhandest eestlastest, kes on olnud sunnitud tööd otsima Soomes, valitsejatest, kelle jaoks on oluline, et Eesti paistaks hea välja statistikas, aga kes oma rahvast lihtsalt ei hooli jne. Ja ometi on veel see miski, mis meid teiega selle maa küljes kinni hoiab.

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 16, 2013. Looking at news and devlopments in Estonia it goes on like travelling back on time machine. What I said and wrote many years ago has now finally been seen by so many others. Estonian Agriculture Minister Helir-Valdor Seedor wrote in biggest daily Postimees that the current government and coalition is not having in mind any more the national interests of Estonia. The last weeks open flirts with Kremlin and very bizzare remarks by PM and many others at top leave no doubt on that. The article by Seeder indicated there is at least one honest - and bold - minister left in Estonian government. Estonian expatriots web newspaper Vaba Sõna in America has an article "Where are you going, Estonia?" at its site about why so many KGB related people still rule our country and why even their new crimes are not punished. The article notes they are so related to each other and scared of their past coming out and there is nothing to do with it. If you know Estonian the story is 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? 

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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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