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.
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.
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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.
2011/08/20
Read about abuse of patients in Tallinn hospitals, our battle for rule & justice in Estonia where 1500 estimated perish annually due to medical errors
Click the headline for more info. New
horrific overview about torture and abuse of patients, compiled by
Estonian Patients Advocacy Association added in spring 2012. The abuse
of patients is also highlighted in April 2012 in annual report by
Estonian Human Rights Centre.
Updated June 21, 2012. Do you know how big are the really big stars and how many lifetimes of human being it would take to make just one round on airplane around such giant star that you can look at the end of this video? After one of my classmates put that link up to FB I have to admit even me the great space fan since childhood had no idea. Its Midsummer in Estonia and from next week days wil be shorter and shorter again. Time seems to pass so quickly and the same time also it seems to stand unchanged. The ending week in Estonia brought a news from court that ended one of the longest criminal cases investugating possible corruption of some once powerful politician etc that was summarised in 40 000 pages (!) by prosecutors and the result - not guilty. The judge said many evidences were unlwaful and ordered state - all of us - to pay 1.3 million euros for those suspected for their legal costs. Is that the price one should pay when looking for justice and in need to hire top level lawyers for that? The case goes to next level court most likely and in times when corruption seems to have became business as usual one can hardly predict whether the long criminal case will have any positive impact despite many wish. To end with better note after weeks of corruption news here of which the dirtiest was to learn the ruling party lead by Prime Minister has been involved in money laundering for years as one of its exMP revealed, I will put here link to one of the well known summer evening dance songs in Finland. I saw yesterday my 12 year old friend who has been a very good friend in all those years had just put that song to his FB site. I happened to learn that song on accordeon from Dads notes and have played it hundreds of times - Säkkijärven polkka, and its just to wish a nice summer to all of you who happen to read these lines.
June 10, 2012. After the corruption scandal of dirty money laundering by Estonian leading Reform party chaired by PM Andrus Ansip rocked the country two weeks ago, it has vanished this week from most of media sites by another scandal. Toomas Hendrik Ilves whom few dozens of politicians reelected to office in autumn 2011 finally got noted by global media after slashing during night following two parties in Riga words like "shit" in his rude tweets. Ilves did so bcs he was simply not happy Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman had mentioned in New York Times Estonia´s economy is far behind 2007 level so the austerity praising given to the small country - and also many quites refered in my own articles at Agence France Presse seems doubtful. While Ilves and the rest of Estonia´s ruling establishment who did not practice the austerity measures on themselves hit Krugman for nothing and put words into his mouth that he never said, the fact is that the theory of Krugman that austerity might not be the best solution during recession looks rather right. Despite Estonia´s economy boomed 7.6 percent last year it will grow just some 2 percent this year and one of the prices of severe recession austerity measures is the army of desperate people we might have lost - the tens of thousands who left Estonia to work in Finland. Since Ilves got his first job paid by Estonians in 1993 he has been involved in so many personal corruption scandals in Estonia that probably the rest of all Baltic Sea region heads of state dont have anything similar combined. Ilves colleague Michal Moran from Free Europe Radio in years when US president Bush senior gave almost no support to our freedom battle to get rid of Soviet Union wrote his own article this week about Ilves. He recalled how Ilves had told him in 1990 the writer Graham Greene should have been shot 30 years ago! Well, hopefully Ilves was happy GG passed away year later. In 2008 Ilves told in interview to Wall Street Journal "Who the fuck are Balts to us" etc. etc.
Just few days before that new Ilves scandal broke out this week I went to conference of FIDE in Tallinn but it was truelly hard to hear speech about EU fundamental rights at the 500 top European lawyers last session. 3 years ago I was asked to help to organise the FIDE congress regarding media, but I had to decline and suggested other person. The main organiser of the event, Julia Laffranque who is now Judge at European Human Rights Court has stressed many times and did so also now at TV interview that being treated with dignity and to have right for life are the most important rigths we have. These both principles are also mentioned first above the rest at European Charter of Human Rights.
I truelly wish one day we will have people like Julia Laffranque to lead this country, so the people will get back the confidence in their state. Not like now when it seems its ruled by heartless people with no moral whose actions look sometimes even criminal as one of the wellknown Estonians from singing revolution year, literature scientist Sirje Kiin wrote this week in her public letter from US announcing her retirement from one of Estonias two ruling parties, joining the camp of people who feel ashamed what they see and hear.
May 27, Sunday. What a rocky week in Estonian politics it has been. More and more people seem to have reached the point when they dont just feel shamed what they see at the top of Estonian rulers but they also wish a change. Ivar Tallo, long time head of Estonian E-Academy who has promoted democratic values in many states called this week Estonian Justice Minister, symbol of big dishonesty Kristen Michal to be excluded from the government, noting otherwise it will give a sign "politics really is like a mafia". Expert AL from Est Foreign Policy Institute in turn raised the question whether part of Estonian current ruling party has been corrupted by money from Kremlin. And there has been a lot of similar stories this week after one of Reform party members and ex-MP Silver Meikar revealed in Estonian daily Postimees this week the ruling Reform party, chaired by Prime Minister Andrus Ansip has been involved in money laundering for years, with illegal system organized to legalize the money from unknown sources put to the party account via its members showing its like their donation. Both PM and the Justice Minister - who is law student still seeking his master degree in law - made face this week it all comes as true surprise for them and all is a lie but with many more politicians and businessman coming out and saying that money laundering system of Estonian parties has been for long reality there is no room for doubt any more on how corrupted the system has became.
Apart of what most of us expected after seeing law establishment dealing mainly with opposition corruption only for years Estonian Prosecution Office launched criminal case this week and says it hopes to find out the organizers behind that money laundering among ruling party.
Highly appreciated ex-Ombudsman Allar Jõks whom PM and Rerform party sacked few years ago for his honesty has said he has been told it costs 32 000 euros in Estonia to "buy a law you wish". What might have been the price of other dirty deals? Like when PM who started his career as Soviet era Communist Party official quickly praised Gazprom/Putin plans in Estonian waters few years ago but was later forced to give it up when public didnt agree with him, pointing that for Kremlin the pipeline is also a tool to fulfill its military goals? Was there also some kind of price when opening of criminal investigation regarding the brutal abuse of my son in 2009 at the Tallinn hospital supervised by the government politicians was delayed for six months and then the truth attempted to be slammed down by lies, falsifications and violation of several valid laws? Of what are made the hearts of these people?
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April 29. Music and music in Tallinn, European orchestra festival going on, jazz festival, brilliant concert by Tartu University female choir yesterday at church nearby home etc. Tested my new (finally smart but harder to use for simple calls) phone with listening live a nice concert Pianissimo with Brahms by Estonian National Symphony Orchestra ERSO this week. Week before on April 20 returned to Estonia concert hall after quite a break and it was well worth it. Very nice concert by conductor Paavo Järvi who had decided to perform this time in first half Dimitry Shostakovitch music accompanied with praising songs to Stalin who has caused so much sorrow to Estonia and many other nations around and in Russia. The conductor was even asked by Russian boy choir from Narva in North-East Estonia to sign a letter the concert will not cause a problem for them in any way politically! Even me was surprised when I learned about the concert choice but Paavo really gave us a lesson - the music itself was so much worth of playing. I also enjoyed the boy choir, listening it just as music and not understanding much the Russian words, except some. You can listen it here, music starts after 6 min.
Do you know that online fashion world is thrilled by robots made in Estonia? My story about the Estonian robots that have taken the global fashion by storm went out this month from Paris to global media, you can search for it at Google, putting the headline inside "" as "Estonian robots boost global online clothing market". One of the - as I saw Google claimed - some 120 000 (?) sites its up by this morning is here.
March 20. Every time I see news about another medical staff caught killing patients like this week in Uruguay where two nursers admitted killing at least 16 patients I wonder how little people or law establishment realizes how easy it is to kill people in hospitals - all you need is to know what to inject or what to put into substance given. And we can only guess how many of such cases go unnoticed and the criminals stay unpunished. The CNN story about the latest medical killers is here.
The little IT-story I write this week - and more or less its a bit also PR-trick by authorities, got as usually with IT stories over 1000 links in net in hours and over 2000 in two days. Link is here. The wonderful Sung Bong Choi from Korea shared with us this week his new song, what a voice, I really admire that young man, you can listen his new performance here.
March 5. The both weekend days yesterday and the day before were so bright and sky so blue all I met said spring is in air and Francis Goya in Tallinn this week. Its almost always like that in March around the women´s day after what you realise the grey April still has to be passed to reach the no chilly times that last from May to the end of September.
February 25. One of those things that is adorable in journalism is that it gives you endlessly chances to learn something new and also to choose to meet people who do something with passion. Like those we met when visiting Setoland in South-East Estonia with photograher two months ago. I picked the lady for the interview at the very last moment just 2 days before we went there when I learned she is the only lady elected to be "queen of Setoland" (they elect the ruler every year) and she appeared to the interview together with her son who had decided to support his mom´s passion for their ancestors land and culture. Turned out her son is only few days younger than my Oliver! You can read my feature about Setoland when you search Google with the headline "Estonia's Seto minority strive to protect traditions". Apart of that one of the really big news came that passing week in Estonia: another state official alias Russian spy was caught in Estonia. This time one of the high security officials of Estonian Security Police turned out to have been for years Russian spy. I have no doubt there are many more like him among state officials of whom many belonged to Communist Party and some even to its elite and power structures now working next to colleagues who have always been honest and never know who is who really. In light of new Russian spy scandal it finally emerged the both caught Russian spies in Estonia have worked together with current president Ilves as their direct supervisor: the newly caught spy Dressen and the Simm who was sentenced in winter 2009 for selling NATO secrets to Russia were - according to Estonian government records quoted by media only now, appointed in 1999 to the state strategic goods import and export control commission then headed by former Estonian foreign minister and current president Toomas-Hendrik Ilves. Ilves who moved to Estonia in 90s from West has had to heard lot of hard words over the years for hiring some people related to KGB . Ilves granted a state award this February to one of those Estonian doctors who together with his many colleagues violated knowingly the law (that prohibits any colleague of doctor whose medical mistakes are discussed to belong to relevant state commission) and helped to falsificate and hide the medical mistakes and fatal decisions of his colleagues at the Tallinn biggest hospital in autumn 2009. The head of that hospital Allik who has no medical education and Ilves were in same boat over decade ago when Allik chaired NRG Energy firm in Estonia and both he and Ilves promoted the selling of Estonian state owned energy giant Eesti Energia to group of foreigners who turned out not what they had claimed to be and the plan was cancellled only due to active public resistance lead by academician Endel Lippmaa.Why is it so that so many people who lack the basics in ethics but are good in rhetorics can manage reach the top. Regardless of running from one corruptive scandal to another in all his duties in Estonia, Ilves who secured his position keeping his mouth shut on any government misdeeds was remade president for next five years by 73 coalition MPs in autumn 2011 and next chance to get honest replacement will arrive only in August 2016.
February 17. When I had a chance to attend Bill Clinton inauguration in Washington on January 20, 1993 as part of US State Department/USIS program foreign guests group and toured US for month listening also many lectures given, one of the guidelines we were told for all world leaders was something that really felt good - when you climb up in political power career try not to forget that regardless how up you manage to go sooner or later you will have to climb down again, so act at top so you will not feel ashamed when your time at top is over. It seems in Estonia that some of its leaders have came to believe that their power lasts forever so they can endlessly lie, even misuse justice system, embarass those few who still have courage to step out for their rights and basically do whatever they wish, violationg laws and basic principles of the democracy. There has been so much talk that as people in Estonia have been under foreign masters for centuries its a slave nation and thats the reason why they dont have generally courage to stand up against what is wrong, and why even the increase of unemployment to close to 20% percent in 2010 was not accompanied by public protests and same rulers were elected back. But February 2012 seems to have been the turning point - more people than ever since singing revolution attended last week public rallies fueled by the remarks of Prime Minister at the ACTA discussion in parliament where PM summoned his anger against some anti-Acta moods with suggesting that critics of the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement must be on drugs. "Someone who says something like that must have eaten some seeds and not those kind of seeds we grow in our fields," Ansip told lawmakers. "It might be helpful to put tinfoil in your hat," Ansip added, referring to the belief of some UFO-watchers that it wards off alien mind-control. Well, thousands turned out few days later with hundres wearing the selfmade "ufo hats" being angry for PMs comment, calling it arrogant. I personally think that ACTA as such has not much to do with the incresing anger of public and finally also media on how government treats people but enough is somehow just enough. In most Western Europe countries such an authocratic rulership could hardly last. The problem for Estonia is however that it lacks the new generation of strong and honest younger politicians and the choices and basement for forming new and better governance are rather tiny bcs the biggest opposition party has often been far from rule and honest governance itself.
February 14. All best wishes and many hugs on friendship day, after return to Caribbeans, this time to meet Mayas and Mexico...
January 9. If a soul and heart can take a form of voice, that is it - Nella Fantasia, as performed by 22-year old Sungbong Choi at Korea got talent. Korean boy taken by parents to orphanage at age 3, since 5 lived on streets for a decade, incredible voice. The song starts at 2:50. "In my fantasy I see a fair world, everyone lives in peace and honesty. I dream of souls that are always free, like a cloud that floats, full of humanity in the depths. In my fantasy I see a bright world night there is less darkness. I dream of souls that are always free, like a cloud that floats. In my fantasy exists a warm wind, that breathes into the city, as a friend. I dream of souls that are always free, like a cloud that floats, full of humanity in the depths." Greetings to my US winter 1993 Korean friends! Nam (Nam TaeWoo from Pusan), your beautiful vases do well.
January 4. Happy New Year to all good people! I hope from the bottom of my heart that this year will be better than the last 3 and finally, that truth and justice will prevail. For those of you who remember where and why you came from, some greetings here.
If nothing else substantial happens by the end of this year to Earth I still hope warmth and knowledge that we are here with mission will have reached more minds and hearts. Share love and compassion and not hate, step against violence and never give up belief all of us can make the world better at least a bit.
2011
December 2011
December 26. Estonian TV had on Christmas Eve report about little boy whose big tumor in body vanished miracously and who has gained sudden gift to play piano. When thing like that happens in Estonia, you wonder first is this real miracle or another case of doctors putting wrong diagnose and when truth comes out, better call it miracle. Miracles happen, but you need to be in good hands to let them happen - two good examples from this Christmas season: US coma patient wrongly thought to be brain dead by doctors wakes up shortly before planned take-off from chance to return to life (read more HERE) and George Michael thanks Austrian doctors for survining same form of streptococcus pneumonia my 26-year old son had but in difference of us GM was lucky to be treated by Austrian doctors who did relevant tests in time and used in time antibiotics to treat pneumonia (and not "brain suppressing drugs" for first 12 days until finally realizing their mistake as in our case by the devil doctors we met at Tallinn biggest hospital who then hoped to cover their fatal mistakes up with most brutal actions one can imagine). More on Michael´s gratitude to his doctors HERE.
December 25. Tallinn Christmas market is not what it used to be since the city leaders kicked off two years ago the local masters who cant afford the huge rent for market selling points any more. There are only few Estonian masters left at the market, one of them, my favorite from Saaremaa, an old lady selling wonderful wooden items her family makes. She has been there for nearly a decade every Christmas and even on some chilly days with over minus 20 degrees few years ago, still selling these items on square. Last year the local Estonian masters tried to have their own old-fashioned market at other place but being out of old town it attracted so few customers their market was not reopened this year. Having some holiday this fall left I decided to visit my friends in Belgium and Finland and choosing friendship over holiday at some warmer place near sea that is my utmost wish always in winter was well worth it. The sheeps at Brussels old town square and food by local farmers at Christmas market nearby, the few concerts and lot more really made it. Friendship is one of the most precious gifts we have in our lifetime on Earth. Merry Christmas to all of You!
December 15. There are few hidden concert places in Tallinn that have great concerts but not much audience and i wonder why. The two brilliant concerts with piano, violin and quitar music at Muusikamaja last week went with one of them atrracting 20 people into audience and second even less than that despite the price of ticket was really low. Few days before at the concert at Jaani church - hundreds of people in audience despite the ticket was rather pricy and unlike most other times there not much feelings from that concert. So what attracts music lovers where? Other hidden treasure of Tallinn music life is the church near Kadriorg park that got new organ this autumn and at the both concerts there in recent weeks that were absloutely gourgeous only handful of people were listening. Tallinn music life is really something that warms the heart of music lover but i wonder how so many wonderful concerts go to almost empty audience.
Two weeks until the end of year with many people wondering whether the predictions about 21.12.2012 are true or not. Net is full of ideas, fears, hopes and knowledge that some think is crazy but those with similar experiences watch with interest. One of kind by Matias De Stefano is HERE.
December 7.
December 5. French TV5 journalist who visited Estonia with his cameraman and asked me to help them a bit made two wonderful cultural stories about Estonia for French-speaking audience in many states. One of their stories, about Nukufilm masters who are among the few if not the last in world who make great puppet films without computer is HERE.
December 2. Transparency Estonia (look more at www.transparency.ee/cm/en) had press conference this week about corruption and one of their main messages was that the main obstacle in fight with corruption in Estonia is the unwillingness of politicians to deal with corruption in areas supervised by these politicians. Golden words that are as true also regarding the corruption in medical surveillance, supervised by Social Ministry and Social Minister Hanno Pevkur from ruling Reform party. After I raised the question about lack of patient rights law at the Foreign Ministry human rights press conference this January, minister Pevkur called me soon after and amomg other things asked me not to turn to court against him before parliament elections 2011 regarding the violation of law in our case of medical surveillance. When I saw him speaking at corruption press conference this autumn and read now he is going to be also key speaker at human rights event on December 10, 2011 in Tallinn the only question I have is to how more hypocratic can be some of those politicians whom violation of laws and corruption is business as usual. How much of energy and humilation from victims it will take to get some kind of changes at last?
We went with photographer Raigo Pajula who has done brilliant photos to my stories for a decade to other side of Estonia last weekend, to place called Setoland or Seto Kingdom to make a feature about the culture of that extrardinary European old minority with still strong traditions. Worth of visit, specially if you are in Estonia in summer time. Go to www.setomaa.ee to read more. After we met a woman who was elected to chair the kingdom two years ago we went to see also local county head who had been hunting with 20 friends and demonstrated us with a proud what they had got that day - huge wild boar fell out from the back door of his car that made me the nature lover sad but the hunter who was very kind and spoke only local Seto language to me claimed wild animals need to be treated that way sometimes because otherwise they will become a danger for people... One of my friends told me recently she believes one of the biggest shocks people at Earth will learn this century is that animals do have souls. Links: Seto Kingdom
I took a 14 km walk yesterday by seaside
Amazing. He must have felt that you had a very special quality in you. He is a very receptive person, I've heard.to take Oliver to his home to play with his huge collaction of the toys he had brought to Estonia during his concert tours to many parts of the world when it still was possible to travel freely before WWII.
in mid90s we could see all around the world local and global media regardless of being tabloid or still called quality-media making huge profits for selling three weeks almost daily stories based on rumours about Monaco´s Prince Albert II and his sweetheart bride - without even source of these rumours known? One can say that is what people wish from media - low-level gossips, all details of killers mind etc but I strongly disagree. One of the goals of media should always be to educate its readers and viewers - and not in sense of giving them more info that you can get from many other sources these days, but showing also the course of being more noble human beings.
August 1, 2011. France, US, Germany... While the blog has had most readers from US generally, the July statistics shows it was exceptionally that for that one month readers from France outlined the number of those in US. And as soon as I mentioned Iran readers,Iran is gone and I guess I know why.
July 31, 2011, Sunday. One of the nice things in net is that it offers a wide selection of great nature videos as well as some healing, meditation videos, my this weeks favourite at Youtube is Nuuz El Ab - Oliver Shanti. Btw, Shanti means Peace.
July 30, 2011, The best known Tallinn historian about medieval era Jüri Kuuskemaa is quoted saying in Estonian daily Eesti Päevaleht today that when average Estonian sees an embarrassing problem it turns its head away instead of doing something to fix the problem. He is worried Tallinn old town, listed in UNESCO world heritage list is in such a bad shape and not much people seem to care.
July 29, 2011, I noticed
by By Paul A. Byrne, M.D) that says the apnea tests performed "to prove" whether patient is brain dead or in comatose affects comatose patients´s brain the way it might become brain dead so the organ donor hunters can go on - what they do or wish to do as we all know and as Milana case above has indicated also to people who could survive if they end up in normal care instead of devil minded doctors.
by By Paul A. Byrne, M.D) that says the apnea tests performed "to prove" whether patient is brain dead or in comatose affects comatose patients´s brain the way it might become brain dead so the organ donor hunters can go on - what they do or wish to do as we all know and as Milana case above has indicated also to people who could survive if they end up in normal care instead of devil minded doctors.
July 28, 2011, The best way not to feel hurt when people we considered friends disappear in hard times is probably to simply conclude these people were not our friends after all, neither otherwise so meaningful, even if we wished to think so. Instead of feeling sorry its wiser to be more grateful for those who really care.
N
July 26, 2011 Sailing late yesterday on Tallinn bay, wish I could stay on deck of boat for much longer, nothing can relax the mind more than time on sea. Some sailing photos here.
July 25, 2011, Monday. Just as I was so glad for the seven kidnapped Estonians back at home from Syria/Lebanon, such a sorrow week later in Norway after bomb explosion and bloodshed at youth camp on July 22, with nearly hundred people taken. Truelly amazing was the editorial of Wall Street Journal day later, on Saturday - despite the terrible thing was carried out by white man who is born and educated in Norway WSJ managed to write an editorial where lot of blame goes to - moslems! The homemade Scandinavian has something very similar to the Tallinn 2009 autumn hospital
I liked the editorial of one news site yesterday in Estonia that indicated the hypocricy of Estonian government while helping out kidnapped Estonians (because that was a shame internationally) it still completely ignores the cry for help to change medical system where 1500 are estimated to perish a year due to medical mistakes and where many badly ill people are seen by state as useless moneywasters who are just left to die without treatment.
Laurent Wauquiez Main things is they are free and whatever was the price paid if it was - human life is priceless.
But the news another nurse in Europe - in Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport, UK - has been arrested today being suspected killig three patients with insulin was hard. Last time I read an European nurse used insulin to kill many people was about Spainish nurse. Insulin oversdose is the common mean to end patients life as medical staff allo around the world knows - hardly tested, hard to prove, easy to us. This time three died after receiving saline contaminated with insulin and many more feel very sick as a result. Has this been case also in Estonia were so many people as 1500 are estimated to perish in hospitals due to medical mistakes annually, and where patient unions said in its recent report victims relatives sayd there are deliberate actions used in hospitals to get quickly rid of some patients?
July 16, 2011 One dear friend - Krusenstern (or Kruzenshtern) that stayed firmly anchored and seemed to have lot of time arrived to Tallinn yesterday - the German built ship, world´s biggest still sailing "yacht" that was almost part of Tallinn bay when I was young. I absolutely adore that ship and wish it could be back at Tallinn permanently.Went to see it all the three days it was here and managed to get aboard also that was well worth it. Some photos here.
J
The hat and elseusee originally belongs to Raul Kuutma, Honorary Chairman of union of Estonians who fought Russian Army in Finland when Russians tried to occupy also Finland. And yes, from deep in my heart I am sending with the photo also msg to all thoise who enjoy torture and killing of other humans.
July 4, 2011 Song festival in Tallinn again put me into very nostalgic mood since just two years ago in summer 2009 everything was so different. So much has changed. Like always, the story I wrote about the song festival went on like hot bread, weeks later I see tens of thousands of links both in English and French (look the "articles" site for that). The 2011 festival had a new song also, that song What land is It? (repeated above by composer, singer and ex-MP Siiri Sisask), performed at the start and end of the festival, gave a strong political and human message to the festival and depicts also a lot my feelings. Words: What land is that? Are really people here ok for simply being the slaves? Who will collect the pain, so love can come and misery end/ What land is that where compassion is in danger/ Where freedom has been digged into Earth/ Where is the justice here/ Where those in pain should look for chancery/ I could run away from here /but something still is keeping me at home...
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July 4, 2011 Song festival in Tallinn again put me into very nostalgic mood since just two years ago in summer 2009 everything was so different. So much has changed. Like always, the story I wrote about the song festival went on like hot bread, weeks later I see tens of thousands of links both in English and French (look the "articles" site for that). The 2011 festival had a new song also, that song What land is It? (repeated above by composer, singer and ex-MP Siiri Sisask), performed at the start and end of the festival, gave a strong political and human message to the festival and depicts also a lot my feelings. Words: What land is that? Are really people here ok for simply being the slaves? Who will collect the pain, so love can come and misery end/ What land is that where compassion is in danger/ Where freedom has been digged into Earth/ Where is the justice here/ Where those in pain should look for chancery/ I could run away from here /but something still is keeping me at home...
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