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As this horrible year draws to a close

 As this horrible year draws to a close, and I hope that all gruesome discoveries have now come to light and 2025 hopefully can be a better year. A last whine and gripe post about the issues that has been haunting me this year. And hopefully the last text I'll ever write about issues connected to this year. A text so long-winded that I had to make a blogger post on this one...so this will be for those who are more curious than the average person... The case in a nutshell: A third party have stated certain characteristics of me directly or indirectly to a great number of people over a substantial number of years. And an unknown amount of people over the years came to a situation where they could choose to believe that third party, or spend 30 seconds of their life to ensure that those characteristics were correct. With the very certain knowledge that if those characteristics were in any manner not 100% correct that this would have a catastrophic impact on my life, with a slight but ...

Retten til et verdig liv

Vi i velferdsstaten Norge liker å skryte av at vi tar oss av alle, at vi har sikkerhetsnett som sørger for at også de som faller utenfor av forskjellige årsaker kan klare seg i sine liv. Dette er noe som i de siste årene har begynt å endre seg. Veien til helvete er som kjent brolagt med gode intensjoner, og en del av disse brosetene n kommer som en indirekte følge av arbeidslinjen som de fleste politiske partier har som en rettesnor. Det er ikke det at det er feil at det skal lønne seg å arbeide, den holdningen er fair. Men det er når man begynner å nedprioritere ytelsene til de som ikke kan stå i arbeid, med et implisitt budskap om at dette er noe som skal få disse menneskene ut i arbeid igjen, hvor det begynner å bli feil. Ytelsene til de svakeste i samfunnet har sjelden holdt følge med lønns- og prisøkninger, og har helle ikke blitt justert med tanke på hva det offentlige krever at man skal ha tilgjengelig av utstyr. Alle trenger nå PC og internett for å kunne ha kontakt med offentl...

Some spread thoughts on Biden's period as president

With Joe Biden about to become president in the US, some thoughts on challenges and what to expect - in my subjective opinion. Covid-19 The pandemic will be a headache. Biden takes over a nation where the virus runs wild, with 400.000 documented deaths and the number of people with long term negative health effects probably ranging in the millions. All of which will hit the economy in different ways, all of them negative. Even if managing to speed up the vaccination procedures, expect at least 400.000 more dead under Biden. When a virus is running wild, prevention is difficult. Preventive measures may slow the spread a bit, and some stopping power is better than none, but at this stage it will be like using coke bottles to stop a flood. Biden's political opponents will of course hammer away as the death toll continues to rise, and accusations unfounded in fact and logic on the pandemic will be an ongoing feature of Biden's presidency. Expect the Republicans to take back the sen...