Une personne qui envois souvent des mails a ses contact pour discuter de tout et de rien cette fois ci il a parlé de cela j'aimerai que vous donnez votre avis et mettre le doigt sur ce qui est faux cela va m'aider beaucoup.
merci d'avance.
LETTER 111 (6 pages)
January 9,
2010
(Letter 110, closely linked to Letter 109, will come later)
STUPIDITY! STUPIDITY! STUPIDITY!
You will soon understand why I have written the above three times.
I write this letter for two reasons. Firstly to manifest my
irritation and anger and secondly to
find out what you, the Readers, think about these three strange and sad affairs.
ONE: We all know that Princess Diana was killed in
a tragic car accident in Paris in 1997.
Sadly there is a conspiracy myth
about this accident in the Muslim world and, even more sadly, also in other
quarters.
The
problem is the following: The conspiracy lovers say, perhaps rightly, that the
Royal Family was not too happy that the two Princes were going to be brought up
very close to Islam. This assumption may very well be correct, but then the
conspiracy lovers forget something very simple and very basic. Someone, a man
or a woman,
may have
an “enemy” of some sort. However, if this man or woman dies tragically in an
accident, it is evident that this “enemy” probably has nothing to do with this
death.
The facts are very simple. EITHER
it was an accident (which it was)
OR Prince Philip and his wife has no morality at
all and, further-more, for the pleasure to see the mother of their two grand-sons
die, they were willing to squander their Royal Status and suffer long prison
sentences in the Greatest Royal Scandal ever. When you see the facts
written down here in black on white, you must ask yourself how a single person
on this Earth can think that the tragic event in Paris was not an accident.
You may ask why I called this conspiracy Muslim and not Arab. After all,
Diana’s boyfriend was Egyptian. (The boyfriend’s father has un-fortunately
shown himself to be a sad clown. We all understand the terrible grief he must
have felt after having lost his son. However, most people in such a situation
do not completely and totally lose
all
dignity, all sense of decency, all sense of proportions, all sense of reality and all common sense.)
The reason (for
writing Muslim instead of Arab) is that in London I met three Iranians who also held
this crazy view. One of them, a charming lady from Teheran, said: “You Staffan, are the first person I have talked to who thinks that Diana’s death
was an accident!
TWO: Here
the second story. To indicate exactly where my irritation lies let us agree
that at least 99% of the persons reading this live in decent and democratic
countries with a free press.
The origin to the troubles seem
to be differences between generations. Let us call my brother-in-law Christian,
and myself, Staffan , the older generation.
Let us
call Jérémy and patrick (both in their mid-twenties) the young generation. Let
me also point out that the young generation is not in any way inferior to the
older generation as far as intelligence goes.
Between
1969 and 1972 the Americans placed 12 men on the surface of the Moon. All
twelve survived - something that I regard as the greatest scientific
achievement of all times.
Staffan and
Christian Rocard enjoyed this fantastic
adventure fully. We also knew that if one
mission had failed the Americans, with their traditional and admirable
openness, would have told the world that sadly Mr X and Mr Y had just died on
the Moon.
There was no mystery about the missions. All
six missions went well and two men on each mission reached the Moon’s surface.
And then
suddenly – enters the Internet.
Let me first say that I love the internet.
In fact you can get all possible information there. It is indeed more than
fantastic. However
there are also darker sides to the internet. And here I do not think of child
pornography.
For example, someone decides to lead weak
minds to believe that Princess Diana was murdered. Or, something even more
fantastic and even more idiotic: The Americans have not sat their foot on the
surface of the Moon!
For Christian and Staffan this is not really
a problem. We know what is real and what is perhaps not real. But for the young
generation things seem to be different. Jeremy said some time ago: “I believe that the Americans have been to
the Moon, but I am not sure.” Patrick
is not sure at all.
Here three facts that are bad for all Idiots:
Firstly: The Russians, who received
the TV-pictures directly from the Moon, and not from America,
have never question the American achievement
Secondly:
The six missions brought back some 382 kilos (Earth weight!) of Moon stones.
The Americans gave, as gifts, Moon stones
to more than 100 countries. Who thinks that
stones picked up in Arizona’s
desert could fool la crème de la crème of the Earths mineralogists?
Thirdly: Even worse for the Idiots. The very latest
satellite circling the Moon, sent up in 2009, orbits the Moon so close that the
cameras on board have already been able to photograph five of the six moon-landers
standing on the Moon.
But the point I am trying to make is that for
Christian and for me the 382 kilos of stones or the recent photographs of the
moon-landers, standing there on the Moon’s surface, are not in any way
important. We know that the Americans have had twelve men walking in the Moon.
We do not need any proofs.
THREE: Again the Internet! Someone
decided that there was something strange about the 11 of September 2001. In a
way they were right; with the enormous sums of dollars allocated to the various
U.S.
Secret Service Agencies, their total intelligence failure was spectacular.
Franck, for example, has read his Internet
and, for reasons best
known to himself, decided to believe in this
rubbish. The idea is that he whole thing
was a conspiracy started by the Americans themselves. President Bush and his
Administration knew well in advance about the whole thing, but decided to let
it happen in order to have an excuse for a war against Al Qaida. They were
willing to sacrifice thousand of American lives!
All the families of the nineteen hijackers,
all 19 fanatic Believers - and 15 of them Saudis - have never questioned the
American version!
For people like Christian and I there is no
mystery hidden in this affair . The only
mystery is the total intelligence failure.
I would like to remind the young generation
that the political system they have had the privilege to inherit did not happen
overnight.
The Greeks started 24 centuries ago with a
sort of democracy.
In the Summer (May-September) of 1787 there
was an important convention in Philadelphia.
It came to be known as the Great
Constitutional Convention of Philadelphia.
On May 25, 1787,
55 men, the cream of the newly born nation consisting of 13 States, gathered in
Philadelphia.
The driving force was James Madison, later the Fourth President. The Chairman
was the outstanding George Washington, who the following year, 1788, was
going to be the country’s First President. The Grand Old Man was the enormously
respected Benjamin Franklin. He was already too old to became
President, but among many other things, History
remembers him as the inventor of the Lightning rod (“åskledare” in Swedish).
The 55 men, during four months, with enormous
difficulty , slowly hammered out a beautiful Constitution for their new country.
Four years later, the new American Congress also adopted the
extraordinary First Amendment with its
five precious Freedoms:
Freedom of Speech. Freedom of the Press.
Freedom of Religion. Freedom of Peaceful Assembly. Freedom to Petition the
people’s Representatives in Philadelphia,
later in Washington
(without fear of harassment). What a superb legislation – in 1787!!
Little could the 55 men in Philadelphia in
1787 know, that 158 years later, their fragile country consisting of 13 very
Disunited States, was to be the, by far, strongest nation in the whole world.
Their own
superb
Constitution, the Immigration that was to bring the brains and the arms of the
world to America,
Adolf Hitler and Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto were all helping to
bring forth this Miracle.
Then, in 1789, started the French Revolution.
It was one of the most important events in the history of Western world.
Unfortunately, in a few years it turned into, rather unnecessarily, La Grand
Terreur.
Later on, and very slowly, came, in the
civilized world, the various rights for the half of Humanity that was at first
not represented.
Later still, Human Rights that we all,
completely mistakenly, take for granted. I think that people like Jérémy and Patrick
do not really appreciate these fundamental rights at their real value.
In order for us Westerners to understand how
infinitely privileged all of us are, I
think that we, including Jérémy and Patrick, should live some time in Iran,
Saudi Arabia, Sudan or, horror of horrors, North Korea!
This was my story. Do you, the Readers, also have some examples of the young generation getting crazy ideas
from the Internet?
I try always to tell the truth.
And to be frank. Therefore I must warn that if anyone who reads this, tries to
indicate even the slightest acceptance of any one of the three above
stupidities, I must sadly and regrettably place you in the group of Complete Idiots.
You have been warned! But we can of
course still be Friends......
Greetings from Staffan Berghök
PS: I
will end this letter with something completely
different.
I think you will find this story
interesting, enlightening and funny.
The bases of the
story is the following:
If a group of well-informed
people, were to vote for the most racist country in the world, they would not
vote for America, Great Britain, or Germany. They would definitely vote for China.
Of this I am sure.
And now to the
story:
Scientists tell us that 74.000 years ago the
world suffered the worst disaster ever in the time of Homo Sapiens. The Volcanic
Eruption of Toba in Indonesia.
Almost all Humans outside warm Africa
died and of course many, many died in Africa
as well.
Not
long after the Toba Disaster, some 70.000 years ago, a small group of Homo
Sapiens left Africa
and moved, at first, North East-wards.
Modern scientists today say, with great
certainty, that every non-African Human living on our Earth today is
a descendant of this small group of Homo Sapiens!
The Chinese have always accepted that the
first primitive humans, the Homo Habilis and the Homo Erectus came to China
from Africa.
Then however, the Chinese declared that in China,
mainly just in China
itself, Homo Habilis and Homo Erectus, slowly but surely, developed into Homo
Sapiens, Modern Man.
A French TV team visited an important
laboratory in Beijing.
The manager was a rather young man who spoke an excellent English.
The very pleasant manager said: “I
myself always believed, like all Chinese, in the idea that the modern Chinese of
today have always developed in China proper. However we decided to
test that theory. We took saliva for DNA tests from 160 Chinese from 160
different regions of China.”
The French interviewer asked with the greatest interest:
“And
then, what was the result of your tests”.
The manager smiled and said calmly: “Well,
every single DNA test, all the 160 of them, showed that these Chinese people
living in today’s China were actually the descen-dants
from the small group of Homo Sapiens that left Africa some 70.000 years ago. Scientists
of the West have always said that. They were right. We were totally, utterly and spectacularly
wrong.
On the other hand -
it is very nice to know that we are all the same. We all have the same
ancestry. All of us – including us Chinese! “
There we have a very
honest Chinese man!
merci d'avance.
LETTER 111 (6 pages)
January 9,
2010
(Letter 110, closely linked to Letter 109, will come later)
STUPIDITY! STUPIDITY! STUPIDITY!
You will soon understand why I have written the above three times.
I write this letter for two reasons. Firstly to manifest my
irritation and anger and secondly to
find out what you, the Readers, think about these three strange and sad affairs.
ONE: We all know that Princess Diana was killed in
a tragic car accident in Paris in 1997.
Sadly there is a conspiracy myth
about this accident in the Muslim world and, even more sadly, also in other
quarters.
The
problem is the following: The conspiracy lovers say, perhaps rightly, that the
Royal Family was not too happy that the two Princes were going to be brought up
very close to Islam. This assumption may very well be correct, but then the
conspiracy lovers forget something very simple and very basic. Someone, a man
or a woman,
may have
an “enemy” of some sort. However, if this man or woman dies tragically in an
accident, it is evident that this “enemy” probably has nothing to do with this
death.
The facts are very simple. EITHER
it was an accident (which it was)
OR Prince Philip and his wife has no morality at
all and, further-more, for the pleasure to see the mother of their two grand-sons
die, they were willing to squander their Royal Status and suffer long prison
sentences in the Greatest Royal Scandal ever. When you see the facts
written down here in black on white, you must ask yourself how a single person
on this Earth can think that the tragic event in Paris was not an accident.
You may ask why I called this conspiracy Muslim and not Arab. After all,
Diana’s boyfriend was Egyptian. (The boyfriend’s father has un-fortunately
shown himself to be a sad clown. We all understand the terrible grief he must
have felt after having lost his son. However, most people in such a situation
do not completely and totally lose
all
dignity, all sense of decency, all sense of proportions, all sense of reality and all common sense.)
The reason (for
writing Muslim instead of Arab) is that in London I met three Iranians who also held
this crazy view. One of them, a charming lady from Teheran, said: “You Staffan, are the first person I have talked to who thinks that Diana’s death
was an accident!
TWO: Here
the second story. To indicate exactly where my irritation lies let us agree
that at least 99% of the persons reading this live in decent and democratic
countries with a free press.
The origin to the troubles seem
to be differences between generations. Let us call my brother-in-law Christian,
and myself, Staffan , the older generation.
Let us
call Jérémy and patrick (both in their mid-twenties) the young generation. Let
me also point out that the young generation is not in any way inferior to the
older generation as far as intelligence goes.
Between
1969 and 1972 the Americans placed 12 men on the surface of the Moon. All
twelve survived - something that I regard as the greatest scientific
achievement of all times.
Staffan and
Christian Rocard enjoyed this fantastic
adventure fully. We also knew that if one
mission had failed the Americans, with their traditional and admirable
openness, would have told the world that sadly Mr X and Mr Y had just died on
the Moon.
There was no mystery about the missions. All
six missions went well and two men on each mission reached the Moon’s surface.
And then
suddenly – enters the Internet.
Let me first say that I love the internet.
In fact you can get all possible information there. It is indeed more than
fantastic. However
there are also darker sides to the internet. And here I do not think of child
pornography.
For example, someone decides to lead weak
minds to believe that Princess Diana was murdered. Or, something even more
fantastic and even more idiotic: The Americans have not sat their foot on the
surface of the Moon!
For Christian and Staffan this is not really
a problem. We know what is real and what is perhaps not real. But for the young
generation things seem to be different. Jeremy said some time ago: “I believe that the Americans have been to
the Moon, but I am not sure.” Patrick
is not sure at all.
Here three facts that are bad for all Idiots:
Firstly: The Russians, who received
the TV-pictures directly from the Moon, and not from America,
have never question the American achievement
Secondly:
The six missions brought back some 382 kilos (Earth weight!) of Moon stones.
The Americans gave, as gifts, Moon stones
to more than 100 countries. Who thinks that
stones picked up in Arizona’s
desert could fool la crème de la crème of the Earths mineralogists?
Thirdly: Even worse for the Idiots. The very latest
satellite circling the Moon, sent up in 2009, orbits the Moon so close that the
cameras on board have already been able to photograph five of the six moon-landers
standing on the Moon.
But the point I am trying to make is that for
Christian and for me the 382 kilos of stones or the recent photographs of the
moon-landers, standing there on the Moon’s surface, are not in any way
important. We know that the Americans have had twelve men walking in the Moon.
We do not need any proofs.
THREE: Again the Internet! Someone
decided that there was something strange about the 11 of September 2001. In a
way they were right; with the enormous sums of dollars allocated to the various
U.S.
Secret Service Agencies, their total intelligence failure was spectacular.
Franck, for example, has read his Internet
and, for reasons best
known to himself, decided to believe in this
rubbish. The idea is that he whole thing
was a conspiracy started by the Americans themselves. President Bush and his
Administration knew well in advance about the whole thing, but decided to let
it happen in order to have an excuse for a war against Al Qaida. They were
willing to sacrifice thousand of American lives!
All the families of the nineteen hijackers,
all 19 fanatic Believers - and 15 of them Saudis - have never questioned the
American version!
For people like Christian and I there is no
mystery hidden in this affair . The only
mystery is the total intelligence failure.
I would like to remind the young generation
that the political system they have had the privilege to inherit did not happen
overnight.
The Greeks started 24 centuries ago with a
sort of democracy.
In the Summer (May-September) of 1787 there
was an important convention in Philadelphia.
It came to be known as the Great
Constitutional Convention of Philadelphia.
On May 25, 1787,
55 men, the cream of the newly born nation consisting of 13 States, gathered in
Philadelphia.
The driving force was James Madison, later the Fourth President. The Chairman
was the outstanding George Washington, who the following year, 1788, was
going to be the country’s First President. The Grand Old Man was the enormously
respected Benjamin Franklin. He was already too old to became
President, but among many other things, History
remembers him as the inventor of the Lightning rod (“åskledare” in Swedish).
The 55 men, during four months, with enormous
difficulty , slowly hammered out a beautiful Constitution for their new country.
Four years later, the new American Congress also adopted the
extraordinary First Amendment with its
five precious Freedoms:
Freedom of Speech. Freedom of the Press.
Freedom of Religion. Freedom of Peaceful Assembly. Freedom to Petition the
people’s Representatives in Philadelphia,
later in Washington
(without fear of harassment). What a superb legislation – in 1787!!
Little could the 55 men in Philadelphia in
1787 know, that 158 years later, their fragile country consisting of 13 very
Disunited States, was to be the, by far, strongest nation in the whole world.
Their own
superb
Constitution, the Immigration that was to bring the brains and the arms of the
world to America,
Adolf Hitler and Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto were all helping to
bring forth this Miracle.
Then, in 1789, started the French Revolution.
It was one of the most important events in the history of Western world.
Unfortunately, in a few years it turned into, rather unnecessarily, La Grand
Terreur.
Later on, and very slowly, came, in the
civilized world, the various rights for the half of Humanity that was at first
not represented.
Later still, Human Rights that we all,
completely mistakenly, take for granted. I think that people like Jérémy and Patrick
do not really appreciate these fundamental rights at their real value.
In order for us Westerners to understand how
infinitely privileged all of us are, I
think that we, including Jérémy and Patrick, should live some time in Iran,
Saudi Arabia, Sudan or, horror of horrors, North Korea!
This was my story. Do you, the Readers, also have some examples of the young generation getting crazy ideas
from the Internet?
I try always to tell the truth.
And to be frank. Therefore I must warn that if anyone who reads this, tries to
indicate even the slightest acceptance of any one of the three above
stupidities, I must sadly and regrettably place you in the group of Complete Idiots.
You have been warned! But we can of
course still be Friends......
Greetings from Staffan Berghök
PS: I
will end this letter with something completely
different.
I think you will find this story
interesting, enlightening and funny.
The bases of the
story is the following:
If a group of well-informed
people, were to vote for the most racist country in the world, they would not
vote for America, Great Britain, or Germany. They would definitely vote for China.
Of this I am sure.
And now to the
story:
Scientists tell us that 74.000 years ago the
world suffered the worst disaster ever in the time of Homo Sapiens. The Volcanic
Eruption of Toba in Indonesia.
Almost all Humans outside warm Africa
died and of course many, many died in Africa
as well.
Not
long after the Toba Disaster, some 70.000 years ago, a small group of Homo
Sapiens left Africa
and moved, at first, North East-wards.
Modern scientists today say, with great
certainty, that every non-African Human living on our Earth today is
a descendant of this small group of Homo Sapiens!
The Chinese have always accepted that the
first primitive humans, the Homo Habilis and the Homo Erectus came to China
from Africa.
Then however, the Chinese declared that in China,
mainly just in China
itself, Homo Habilis and Homo Erectus, slowly but surely, developed into Homo
Sapiens, Modern Man.
A French TV team visited an important
laboratory in Beijing.
The manager was a rather young man who spoke an excellent English.
The very pleasant manager said: “I
myself always believed, like all Chinese, in the idea that the modern Chinese of
today have always developed in China proper. However we decided to
test that theory. We took saliva for DNA tests from 160 Chinese from 160
different regions of China.”
The French interviewer asked with the greatest interest:
“And
then, what was the result of your tests”.
The manager smiled and said calmly: “Well,
every single DNA test, all the 160 of them, showed that these Chinese people
living in today’s China were actually the descen-dants
from the small group of Homo Sapiens that left Africa some 70.000 years ago. Scientists
of the West have always said that. They were right. We were totally, utterly and spectacularly
wrong.
On the other hand -
it is very nice to know that we are all the same. We all have the same
ancestry. All of us – including us Chinese! “
There we have a very
honest Chinese man!