Here we go

All band: Me, myself, I and Heikki (the bass player gets a job), we´ll take some gigs sometimes in clubs and other good places.
We ´re playing, `couse we like it. The subscription from here.
(Next gig 29.6.2011 - Get your ass at K-Klubi)
Next gig: 28.7 - Hiili, Aurinkoterassi). My regards.
Get your ass at Resistori-Klubi: Next gig: 29.9.2011 .. .. !
Next gig 1.5 at Kuopio Market Square at 14.00.
Next gig playing for Save the Rupla, 28.7.12 at Piispanpuisto (at Bishop´s Park of Kuopio).
Now: I´m gonna present some of my texts in three languages  with simple accompaniment at next TEXTfirst night.
Get your ass at Henry´s pub  15.1.2013 at 22h, for my please,..and the new gig: April 16nd.
I will get my ass and quitar to Lekkeri 13.4.2013 @ Helmi's birthday party with streetpunk.
the next time you will see me in Kuopio will be 26th May 2013. there comes a gig ... at Pushkin's statue to start at 12:00.
Next gig playing for Save the Rupla, 23th November 2013 at Rupla. Starts at 14:00 -> Get your ass on there where occurs!
Nästa min spelning ska finnas på Nykterhetshuset 2014/12/04 (kl 11:00) i Kuopio. Hör du, som nya arbetarklassmusik, några bra låtar.
The Next gig will be May 1, 2014 on Kuopio Market Square's stage at 9.00.
.. and you will also see me in Kuopio on the gig-stage at the lake of Valkeinen about at fourte
en May 1, 2014.

hemmagården på onsdag, den 28:e dagen kl 21 i denna månad ->
Ro sitt röv hit och se:
The Old Union Band.
The solo-gig on the Kuopio's VR-Magazine at 8/08/2015 Saturday. There will be some kind of antifascist theme. Get your ass there at 19:00. The next gig at same place at 29/8/
den spelningen på Kuopios marknadstorget den lördag, 12 september (2015) klockan 11 framåt.
det kommer att
finnas upproret nu!
Live at BilliardCenter oct 30, 2015. The FridayBand.
scenen 6 augusti `16 på Peräniemenkasino i Kuopio.
Följande gig på scenen 12 augusti `17 vid Peräniemenkasino i Kuopio-stad.
Gig på Peräniemenkasino den 4 september 2021. Jag har startat nya soloalbumsinspelningar.

Ps. Someone did ask,
my first album The Desert Songs is sold out.
I `m sorry.
(we are working with the new material)
(Update 20.9.11: Heikki has left the band.)
Pena Tikanmäki came in on bass.
I'm making a new record..
(Update 08.7.12: ROH Band Mark II works)
(Update 30.3.14: The Old Union Band has been formed)
(Update 30.8.15) the newly named: Fridayband.
(Update 20.9.11: Heikki has left the band.)
Pena Tikanmäki came in on bass.
I'm making a new record (update: 15.11.2023

18 mars 2024

The organized violent crime organization has organized a public display to promote

Kaj Stenvall painting, 2024.
Now that Putin's power confirmation theater is in the headlines, we don't understand why (also in other) western media call them "elections", when it's not about any elections but the dictatorship's brutal subjugation theater
It would be better to use, for example, the expression; the world's largest organized violent crime organization has organized a public display to promote its reign of terror.
Mika Hortelli:
That would correspond to reality, but it is of course a bit long expression for everyday use.
Ro Holopainen:
But maybe it can replace a couple of silly phrases.
And there's no need to talk about the "honesty of elections" any longer.


8 mars 2024

"Two different people" - Putin pretended over the years - here comes his transformation in 25 years

Watch this English interview on MTV.
Click on the image or go
here.
According to Mikhail Kasyanov, Putin pretended for long time - before he turned into a bloody dictator in 25 years.
See that "Two different people - Putin's transformation in 25 years."
Mikhail Kasyanov, who served as Russian prime minister from 2000 to 2004, is a frequent critic of Vladimir Putin who now lives in exile in Latvia and now in Finland.
There would be in Russia 'no chance' for opposition to rise says Kasyanov
Vladimir Putin may test Nato’s resolve by invading one of the Baltic states in a bid to shore up support for his war, a former Russian Prime Minister has claimed.
But while Mikhail Kasyanov said attitudes within his country towards the conflict have changed in the two years since Putin’s invasion, there was zero chance of any serious opposition.
 “Putin could easily try to test Article V (5) of the Nato charter.”
The 66-year-old, a frequent critic of Putin and his regime who now lives in exile in Riga, säys now: 
“It could be one of the small countries of the Baltic states.”
Putin launched his full-scale offensive on February 24, 2022, but hopes of a swift victory were rapidly snuffed out with Ukraine, led by Volodymyr Zelensky, putting up dogged resistance ever since.
Putin, who is almost certain to be re-elected next month still had support and his propaganda machine suggests he retains the backing of 85 of the population, Mr Kasyanov said - although he estimated the true figure was more like 40.



26 feb. 2024

Det kommande presidentvalet är inte ett legitimt val

En av den ryska oppositionens kändaste figurer var i Helsingfors. 
Denna ryske oppositionsaktivist sade att den ryska oppositionen hoppas kunna ordna demonstrationer vid röstningsställena.
"Jag hoppas vi alla kan mötas vid valurnorna den 17 mars för att säga nej till Putin",
sade Michail Chodorkovskij, som höll ett tal under demonstrationen. Han tog i en demonstration mot Rysslands krig mot Ukraina och president Putins regim vid Medborgartorget. 
Det var den anti-putinistiska organisationen De ryskspråkiga finländarnas demokratiska samfund som ordnade demonstrationen.
Också aktivisten och en av oppositionspolitikerns Ksenia Sobtjaks kampanjchefer Anastasija Sjevtjenko deltog i demonstrationen. Sjevtjenko som lever i exil i Vilnius konstaterade i ett tal att Putin tagit livet av politiska opponenter och jagat ut oberoende media ur landet.
Putin är inte som det ryska folket! Ryssarna vill inte ha krig! sa' alla.


22 feb. 2024

jösses den är liten!

Kaj Stenvall Paintings ”In Vain ”, 2024.


19 feb. 2024

Traces of torture: Alexei's body found with bruises on head and chest

Dead Putin critic Alexei Navalny's body reportedly showed bruising on his head and chest, raising suspicions about the circumstances of his death.
Russian officials claim Alexei Navalny fell unconscious and died after a walk. 
Russian government denies torture, claims natural death.
But Alexei Navalny's body had bruise marks, claims paramedic
The unnamed source, identified as an experienced paramedic, said Navalny’s head and chest were bruised when his body arrived at the mortuary, as reported by the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta Europe.
The paramedic mentions weird police presence at hospital
The body of Alexei Navalny, a prominent critic of Kremel who died in a Russian prison, was reported to have bruising on his head and chest, according to a Russian newspaper citing a paramedic professional.
In fact some of this morning’s Russian newspapers make no mention of Alexei Navalny’s death in prison. 
Some of them report but in most cases briefly, sure. Papers give more prominence to a story just about anywhere than to the death of the Kremlin’s most vocal critic. 





17 feb. 2024

The death of Alexei Navalny

According to the renew europe. the group in the European Parliament condemns the killing of Alexei Navalny, Kremlin’s most vocal political opponent, in a state prison in the Arctic, one month ahead of Russia’s presidential elections.
His commitment cost him his life, but his courage and his fight against Putin's regime and its cronies will always be remembered by his people. His fight goes on!
The President of Renew Europe Group, Valérie Hayer, said:
"With Navalny’s passing, Putin has just added another murder to his long list of repressed political opponents, together with the hundreds of thousands of deaths caused by the war of aggression he started against Ukraine."
Then.
"I strongly condemn the Kremlin regime, which cruelly sent Alexei Navalny to his death. With Navalny's murder, the world has lost a freedom fighter, a man who championed the cause of a free Russia."
Poisoned and then taken prisoner by a government adept at the politics of fear, Alexeï Navalny never ceased to call on his compatriots not to allow themselves to be intimidated.
We all grieve.

6 feb. 2024

Our world is expanding.

An illusion
Credit: Nasa.
The smaller planet, TOI-715c, could be only slightly larger than Earth, and also might dwell just inside the "conservative" habitable zone.
Using data from Nasa’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellit's astronomers have discovered and characterized a habitable zone planet orbiting the nearby red dwarf star TOI-715 with a period of 19.3 days. 
They’ve also demonstrated that there is possibly a second, smaller exoplanet with a period of 25.6 days, placing it just inside the outer edge of TOI-715’s habitable zone. This system represents the first Tess discovery to fall within this most conservative and widely applicable habitable zone.
TOI-715 hosts the super-Earth exoplanet TOI-715b and the smaller terrestrial exoplanet candidate TOI-715c.
I remember when the red dwarf star was found. 
I like this progress.

29 jan. 2024

True Finns lost the election, but hit Russia hard

Finland's presidential election went as polls predicted on Sunday evening, with Alexander Stubb (NCP) taking top spot and his Green rival Pekka Haavisto joining him in a second round run-off to decide who replaces Sauli Niinistö after his twelve years as head of state. 
But Jussi Halla-aho, True Finns, spoke the truth about Russia. He boosted his support in the final stages of the campaign, but it was not enough to dislodge either of the top two presidential contenders. The second round takes place on 11 February. Advance voting will be from 31 January to 6 February. 

24 jan. 2024

Началась война – я потерял ясновидение

Но теперь оно вернулось. Я вижу путь к росту для отдельных людей
.

Дух русского народа находится в панике уже более 100 лет.
«Никто Его не понимает», — сказал Рудольф Штайнер.

Существует опасность, что нация потерпит неудачу. Тогда возникает угроза, что все человечество тоже потерпит неудачу.

Еще есть время. Свергнуть тирана.

16 jan. 2024

Fucking head of the church

Vladimir Putin has said Russia's borders "do not end anywhere" during a live televised awards ceremony for students in Moscow.
And now it.s on the wall.
Someone has said that it is Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all of Russia who is feeding this sop to the inner circle of the Kreml.

Russia’s undoing, like that of other empires, will be the hubris and criminal stupidity of its ruling elite, said Steve Rosenberg in X.
Instead of working for the electorate, Russian president puzzles the public with his bizzare actions. He does not do what the situation demands of him, but sinks deeper and deeper into the fake reality that his subordinates conjure up for him.

4 jan. 2024

We are moving on a dangerous path

According to Norbert Röttgen the political willingness to continue providing military and economic support to Ukraine has begun to erode in both the United States and Europe. 

With Ukrainian forces stalled on the battlefield, and major aid packages for Kyiv blocked by Hungary in the EU and by Republican policymakers in the United States, the Western alliance in support of Ukraine appears increasingly weak and divided. 
Several scholars and policymakers have assessed this scenario—and reached the conclusion that a pivot to a defensive strategy could eventually bring Putin to the negotiating table. 
According to that line of thought, a new approach focused on securing territories that Ukraine already controls would consolidate Western support and eventually demonstrate to Russia that it cannot outlast Ukraine’s war effort.
Such a reassessment reveals an uncomfortable truth: namely, that Ukraine and the West are on an unsustainable trajectory. 
According to Röttgen Germany has changed profoundly in the past 22 months. But measured against the challenge, it has not changed enough. At stake are no less than peace and freedom in Europe and with it the future of the European project. If Ukraine does not succeed in pushing back Russia and if Putin is even just partially successful with his aggression, this would have dramatic and decades long consequences for the whole of Europe. 
"We would be divided again, a border of military confrontation would run across Europe and the sovereignty of countries like Moldova, Baltics and Georgia would be endangered. The confidence of the Balts, the Central and Eastern Europeans in the EU and above all in its two largest member states Germany and France would be severely damaged in a core area, that of security", he says.
Ukraine’s counteroffensive appears to have stalled, just as wet and cold weather brings to a close the second fighting season in Kyiv’s effort to reverse Russian aggression. At the same time, These circumstances necessitate a comprehensive reappraisal of the current strategy that Ukraine and its partners are pursuing.


24 dec. 2023

Now

 

One artwork - a red stop sign, by Banksy, with three military drones on - was unveiled on the corner of Commercial Way, Peckham, south-east London, on Friday. It was taken by a man with bolt cutters within an hour as witnesses took photos.

This thief has been arrested on suspicion of theft and criminal damage after a road sign featuring work by the elusive street artist Banksy was removed, the Metropolitan Police has said.

12 dec. 2023

”Useful Idiot ”

”Useful Idiot ”, 2023, oil on board.by Kaj Stenvall Paintings.



11 dec. 2023

В России несколько миллионов собственных граждан, не имеющих права выезжать за границу

На дороге Раате в декабре 1939 года.
Владимир Путин утвердил новый закон о слежке еще в июне, но теперь, в понедельник, 11 декабря, он вступит в силу, сообщает, в частности, новостной сайт "Фонтанка" – границы закрыты для миллионов россиян.
В России Владимира Путина несколько миллионов собственных граждан, не имеющих права выезжать за границу. Новую быстро растущую группу составляют обычные россияне, которым запретили выезжать за границу из-за неоплаченных долгов.
Однако, по оценкам, в России до 10 миллионов собственных российских граждан, которым не разрешается выезд за границу и контроль за которыми Путин и далее ужесточает. Хотя российская конституция в принципе гарантирует всем гражданам России право покидать страну и возвращаться обратно, в последние годы право на передвижение миллионов россиян ограничивается постоянно ужесточающимися правилами.
В ТО ВРЕМЯ, когда Финляндия рассматривает возможность продления закрытия восточной границы, Россия вводит закон, который ужесточает контроль за запретом на выезд из страны своих собственных граждан.
Беспорядки на финской границе связаны главным образом с тем, что молодые люди призывного возраста не могут сбежать за границу. Граница продолжает оставаться закрытой.

Он выразил свою обеспокоенность тем, что война в Украине может стать одним из многих затяжных конфликтов, которые уже существуют на Земле.

7 dec. 2023

Россия отправляет умирать неграмотных людей

Би-би-си нашла свидетельства того, что российские власти пытаются вербовать задержанных для отправки на войну с Украиной.

Всего Би-би-си известно о 254 иностранных гражданах, воевавших и погибших в Украине в составе российских формирований.

30 nov. 2023

В предыдущий раз Рая-Йосееппи был закрыт в военные годы

Восточная граница Финляндии остается закрытой до 13 декабря.
Международный пограничный пункт Рая-Йоосеппи в Северной Лапландии закрылся в 14 часов. В предыдущий раз Рая-Йосееппи был закрыт в военные годы.
В соответствии с решением Государственного совета, принятым вчера, пограничные пункты на восточной границе будут закрыты до 13 декабря, если до этого не будет принято новое решение. Решение не касается грузоперевозок через железнодорожный пункт Вайниккала.
Пока пограничные пункты закрыты, прошения о предоставлении убежища можно подавать только в портах и аэропортах.
Пограничная служба сообщает, что сегодня границу не пересекали просители убежища из России.


13 nov. 2023

Slava Ukraine

Photo: NATO.
"Rasmussen said the cause of Ukraine’s Nato membership cannot be deferred again next year. The time has come to take the next step and extend an invitation for Ukraine to join Nato. We need a new European security architecture in which Ukraine is in the heart of Nato", said a former Nato secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen
He has put forward a proposal for Ukraine to join the military alliance but stripped of the territories occupied by Russia.
Rasmussen has long worked alongside Andriy Yermak, an adviser to the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, particularly ahead of the last Nato summit in Vilnius this year that ended with no invitation for Ukraine to join.
According to Guardian the two men are again broadly discussing Ukraine’s place in a new European security architecture, including practical questions around the extent of Ukraine’s Nato membership.
Rasmussen, who was Nato’s secretary general between 2009 and 2014, insisted that a plan for partial Ukraine membership would not symbolise a freezing of the conflict, but would instead mark a determination to warn Russia that it cannot prevent Ukraine joining the western defensive alliance.
Nato is due to hold its 75th anniversary summit in Washington next summer, and the issue of Ukraine’s future membership is bound to be a major topic.
Ukraine’s leadership was left bitterly disappointed (according to Guardian) when, under US and German pressure, Nato at its summit this year issued a statement saying Ukraine would be offered an invitation when conditions allowed, effectively rejecting Ukraine’s request to be given a specific date.
Instead, Ukraine’s relationship with Nato was elevated on the margins by setting up a Ukraine-Nato council and through an agreement that Nato members bilaterally would offer security guarantees to Ukraine.

2 nov. 2023

Russians want "war-reparations" from Ukraine

”Rains in to Putin’s Granary”, 2022, by Kaj Stenvall Paintings.

Russians are ready to support an end to the war if Putin decides so. They want to negotiate with
Ukraine.
They want lands as some sort of "war reparation", otherwise there won't be a majority for peace.
Most Russians would support an immediate cessation of hostilities in Ukraine,
follows from a Levada Center survey.
However, the majority of respondents do not agree that the territories seized by Russia should be returned to Ukraine.
As part of a survey about the war, which Levada conducts every month, respondents were randomly divided into two equal groups. The first group was asked: “If President Vladimir Putin decided to end the military conflict with Ukraine this week, would you support or not support this decision?”
Answers
37% - definitely support
33% - I would rather support it
12% - definitely won't support
9% - I would rather not support it
9% - difficult to answer
The second group of respondents was asked the question: “If this week President Vladimir Putin decided to end the military conflict with Ukraine and return the annexed territories of Ukraine, would you support or not support this decision?”
Answers
16% - definitely support
18% - I would rather support it
19% - I would rather not support
38% - definitely won't support
10% - I find it difficult to answer
When asked whether hostilities should continue or peace negotiations should begin, more than half of respondents answered that they were in favor of negotiations.
Russians support the Russian army
Three quarters of those surveyed said they support “the actions of the Russian armed forces in Ukraine.” Among respondents in the age group 18-24 years old, 62% said this, among respondents over 55 years old - 82%.


30 okt. 2023

Put the piss in Trump's mouth

This fine image of Donald Trump’s face wrapped around a lip-shaped urinal in a Belushi’s sports bar  - this is a symbol of Paris’ multicultural influence and modern artistic freedom.
Sure, you can see a Rolling Stones-inspired row of bright-red, lip-shaped urinals, designed by Dutch Artist Meike van Schijndel, but ...See it for yourself,
you can find this men’s toilets of Belushi’s sports bar, a popular student, tourist and expat hangout in the 10th arrondissement just a few steps from the Gare du Nord.


23 okt. 2023

The reaper arrives


”Fear”, 2023, oil on board by Kaj Stenvall.
According to DonPress the public has repeatedly talked about the deterioration of Valdimir Putin’s health against the background of oncology and a number of other diseases:
“This case of cardiac arrest seriously alarmed the president’s inner circle, despite the fact that the attending doctors had already warned that Putin was very ill and was unlikely to live until the end of autumn.”

19 okt. 2023

Lighted up.

The Night Watch is a live album (2-CD set)
by the English band King Crimson, recorded
in Amsterdam in 1973, and released in 1997.
On the onstage, Robert Fripp has always been the picture of an introvert: seated, taciturn, entirely concentrating on his guitar.

"I’ve learned to trust the music, trust the process. And it’s important that the audience should know they are as important as the musician. If the audience is present and engaged and listening, the relationship is qualitatively different."

According to New York Times Robert Fripp became a rock star without acting like a showman. 
As the guitarist and leader of King Crimson — the band he founded in 1969 — Fripp, 77, has written music that’s visceral, but also complex and ambitious, seizing the vanguard of progressive rock yet reaching a broad audience.
In a rare interview, the guitarist explains “an entirely different trajectory.” - read it all that.
The “awful man” designation teases at Fripp’s many disgruntled former bandmates and business associates.
"I don’t think I can look back. I think the future has now shot off on an entirely different trajectory. A personal interest for me is kicking received opinion. Because if you were only seen in a certain way, there is a richness in life which is somehow closed to you."
By the way.
There was a click (September 1983, in the sauna)  "and I realized the tuning was for the guitar class".

3 okt. 2023

Here they go.

Kaj Stenvall Paintings; ”Hands Up! ”, 2023, oil.

In schools across the Russian, service in the armed forces is being glorified, “voluntary companies” of teenagers are being formed and the national curriculum is being changed to emphasize defense of the motherland.
And then:
older kids are being taught how to dig trenches, throw grenades and shoot with real ammunition.

According to CNN, Russia’s children are, in short, being prepared for war.
The militarization of Russia’s public schools has intensified since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, driven not by a spontaneous surge of patriotic feeling, but by the government in Moscow.
Read more.

19 sep. 2023

The Cursed War of Aggression

Then we went to February 24, 2022. It had been maybe 10 hours since Vladimir Putin announced some kind of  “special military operation” against Ukraine, but the fighting was already taking place dangerously close to Kyiv. 
Russian forces were trying to take control of the Hostomel airport on the north-western outskirts of Ukraine’s capital. Columns of tanks and other heavy equipment were heading towards Kyiv from Belarus. It was only a 130 kilometers journey. 
“If the ILs would have been able to land at Hostomel, we might be today in a totally different situation than what he have." 
Estonian military intelligence chief colonel Margo Grosberg took pause before said that the answer seems just a tad too long. But he acknowledges that the Hostomel battle that day (24.2.2022) might well have been the most crucial battle in the whole course of the Ukrainian war so far.
Then, roughly 800 km away in Pskov, 18 IL-76 transport planes started their engines and headed towards the takeoff track. 
According to VSquare the planes were full of perhaps Russia’s most elite airborne troops from the 76th Guards Air Assault Division. The approximately 1,000 troops loaded onto the planes were highly trained, and many of them already experienced from the Chechen wars. 
Their objective was to fly to Kyiv and quickly finish their war of aggression, so-called “special military operation”.
The ILs were already halfway towards the Hostomel airport when, according to VSquare, Christo Grozev was the first to publicly draw attention to it: 
“The only plausible goal would be to capture and subordinate Kyiv and install a puppet government today. While the world is watching and doing almost nothing.”
But luckily this time Grozev got it a little bit wrong. 
Two different sources confirmed to Delfi Estonia that Estonia’s military intelligence, officially known in English as the Military Intelligence Centre of Estonian Defense Forces, had sent an advance warning to their Ukrainian colleagues before the troops had even stepped on the planes.
And Ukraine poured everything it had around Kyiv to keep the planes from landing. The Ukrainians showered the airfield with artillery fire to make the landing strip unusable. Apparently one of Russia’s KA-52 attack helicopters was shot down and crashed on the runway making it virtually impossible for the ILs to land. After circling in the Ukrainian sky for some time, they needed to return to the base. 
Read more from here.

During the war, Grosberg asked for a different type of present from Ukraine. He asked for a Russian unmanned aerial vehicle, drone that Ukraine had captured. The Ukrainians packed one of a specific type of UAVs that was in surprisingly good condition. Back home, the Estonian military intelligence was able to study the UAV and Grosberg says the local defense forces are now better aware of how to defend against it. Then they sent the model back to Ukraine.
Besides Russia’s totally failed initial planning, the second reason that the war has carried out for so long lies in the collective west and its slow political decision making process, according to Grosberg. 
“Now, 550-plus days into the war, we have agreed to supply Ukraine with weapons and equipment that president Vladimir Zelensky asked on day one. "
If it would have been granted right then and not delivering heavy equipment by a few pieces at a time only, the situation could be much different.
Grosberg makes clear that he doesn’t think much of the supposed “red lines” that might push Putin to opt for tactical nuclear weapons. 
Surely, he says, the new weapons won’t cross that red line, if indeed such a line exists. 
 "I don’t see the threat of tactical nuclear weapons as significantly high."
Anyway, I don't think that humanity has the right to use nuclear weapons anymore.


16 sep. 2023

Here comes the truth

On Tuesday, the head of Estonian military intelligence, Colonel Margo Grosberg, turned fifty. The head of military intelligence closed the door and gave a rare interview.

On the afternoon of February 24 of last year, around four o'clock, about twenty large IL-76 transport planes started taxiing at the Pskov military airfield.
"These were stuffed to the brim with Russian paratroopers, considered the highest elite of the army there. They are trained and experienced, fought in the Chechen wars and were legendarily brutal there, killing private individuals openly and for no reason.
Now about a thousand of them were to fly to Kiev and quickly complete what other Russian troops had already begun: a coup d'état in Ukraine, followed by the handover of the entire country to Russia."

                                                                              Margo Grosberg

Yesterday was his last day of work. He admits that he has also had surprises in the Ukrainian war.

7 sep. 2023

Fine!

 

.

6 sep. 2023

The fired man says

Russian historian and political scientist, Doctor of Historical Sciences Valery Garbuzov was fired from his post as director of the Institute on the USA and Canada of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Why?
Just previously, he wrote a long article in which he described in detail the absurdity of state propaganda, condemned anti-Western rhetoric and indicated Russia’s real place in the world: 
According to Garbuzov thus, today there are only two informal empires on the planet - the USA and China. Russia is a former empire, the heir to the Soviet superpower, "experiencing an extremely painful syndrome of suddenly lost imperial greatness."
"The fact that Russia today exhibits a pronounced post-imperial syndrome is more a tragic pattern than a historical anomaly", 
Garbuzov wrote.
Then.
"Its peculiarity is that it did not appear immediately after the collapse of the USSR in 1991, but made itself felt much later, with Putin coming to power. More than 30 years later, the delayed syndrome, the possible occurrence of which was not previously given much importance, has acquired a threatening character..."
Some say that in a society that truly values education and scholarship, this sort of free thinking and introspection would not be viewed as a threat, but appreciated as a helpful warning to heed.

23 aug. 2023

Россия разрушила все отношения с Финляндией

Министр иностранных дел Финляндии Элина Валтонен.
По словам главы финского МИДа Элина Валтонен (КП), Россия разрушила двусторонние отношения с Финляндией, и на политическом уровне отношений больше не существует.
Однако в вопросах дипломатии и обеспечения безопасности на границе связь важно поддерживать.
Согласно главе МИДа, цель Финляндии – добиться того, чтобы Россия прекратила войну в Украине.
"Летнее восстание ЧВК “Вагнер” показало, что нам необходимо быть готовыми к внезапным поворотам событий. Но одновременно с этим нужно быть готовыми и к тому, что война затянется,"
 – заявила Валтонен.
"Министр подчеркнула, что ответственность за наступательную войну несет Россия. По ее словам, Россию необходимо также принудить к выплате контрибуций за разрушения, причиненные в ходе военных действий."

Вместе с другими западными странами Финляндия действует в рамках международного права, помогая Украине, подчеркнула Валтонен. Также министр напомнила, что стратегическую зависимость от Китая необходимо уменьшить.
Валтонен призывает пересмотреть вопросы ответственности, связанные с недавней историей. 
Валтонен считает, что в западном обществе необходимо провести широкую и публичную дискуссию обо всём том, что случилось в последнее время.
"Общественная власть – это по сути ответственность. Да, вопросы ответственности должны рассматриваться в нашем обществе даже постфактум. Вопрос не в том, чтобы оглядываться назад, а наоборот – смотреть вперёд и учиться на будущее."
"Я сама была одним из тех людей, кто годами не совсем поддерживал политику Финляндии по отношению к России. У меня нет никакой личной обиды или требования что-либо установить."
Министр иностранных дел Финляндии Валтонен (Коалиционная партия), выступая на собрании глав дипломатических миссий нашей страны, сделала ряд важных заявлений.
Возвращаясь к вопросу военных действий на Украине, Валтонен отметила, что война, вероятнее всего, будет продолжаться долго, и Финляндия продолжит помогать Киеву вместе с другими союзными странами. Министр также заявила, что Россия должна понести ответственность за агрессию и возместить ущерб, причиненный военными действиями.


9 aug. 2023

Ancient finds confirm the sagas

A side view of the 39-millimeter-long arrowhead.
Bern History Museum.
According to CNN there are only three known meteorites with a similar chemical composition in Europe, but researchers say that the most likely source was one in Kaalijarv, Estonia, as the meteorite hit around 1500 BC and it produced many small fragments.
The nearly 3,000-year-old artifact was created with iron from a meteorite that landed in Estonia, the study noted. This indicates that meteoritic iron was traded in Europe by 800 BC or earlier, the researchers said, adding how unusual it is to find meteoritic iron used so early in history.

The crossing of the Gulf of Pohja sea is estimated
 to have taken place around 800, art by Akseli Gallen-Kallela
.
At the time, humans had not yet started to smelt iron from oxide ores, but some metallic iron could be found in the impact fields of meteorites, according to the study.
Otherwise,
Archaeologists have also find a 3,000-year-old sword in Poland, that is so well preserved it's still gleaming. 

The saga in which Lemminkäinen forged weapons from iron that fell from the sky was left out of the Finnish national epic Klavela (the ancient Finns still inhabited present-day Estonia and Saare County).



7 aug. 2023

«Путин — зверь», — говорит художник Кай Стенвалл

Картина маслом Кая Стенвалла Ecce homo
 (лат. Взгляни на человека)
.
Картины Кая Стенвалли о Путине привлекли в Турку 40 800 посетителей. «Превышение ожиданий», — говорит Кай Стенвалли.
В последний день открытия в воскресенье у выставки «Лица войны» был постоянный поток людей.
Утром перед Taitee House на Нуннанкату выстроилась очередь.
В последний день открытия в воскресенье у выставки «Лица войны» был постоянный поток людей.
Выставка, завершившаяся в воскресенье, также сделала дом Тайти известным туристам из дружественных стран.
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26 juli 2023

If you open the door: you can create contact with the living mystery of the unconscious

Man must find the micro-macrocosmic connection.
Detail from the southern constellations map
 by Stabius and Heinfogel, by Albrecht Durer, 1515
Carl G. Jung
is considered as the first modern psychologist to state that the human psyche is by nature religious and to explore it in depth. 
Jung said, nowadays more and more people, especially those who live in large cities, suffer from a terrible emptiness and boredom, as if they are waiting for something that never arrives.
Movies and television (1961!), spectator sports and political excitements may divert them for a while, but again and again, exhausted and disenchanted, they have to return to the wasteland of their own lives.
"The only adventure that is still worthwhile for modern man lies in the inner realm of the unconscious psyche. 
With this idea vaguely in mind, many now turn to Yoga and other Eastern practices. But these offer no genuine new adventure, for in them one only takes over what is already known to Hindus or the Chinese without directly meeting one's own inner life center. "
"While it is true that Eastern methods serve to concentrate the mind and direct it inward (and that this procedure is in a sense similar to the introversion of an analytical treatment), there is a very important difference."
Jung evolved a way of getting to one's inner center and making contact with the living mystery of the unconscious, alone and unaided. 
That is utterly different from following a well-worn path, according to  Man and His Symbols. The book was Carl Jung's last work before his death in 1961, 
First published in 1964, it is divided into five parts, four of which were written by associates of Jung: Marie-Louise von Franz, Joseph L. Henderson, Aniela Jaffé and Jolande Jacobi.


18 juli 2023

17 juli 2023

Everyone lies in war

Traffic on the main bridge leading from Crimea to the Russian mainland came to a standstill in the morning due to explosions and deaths.

The Kerch Bridge, connecting Russia and the Crimean Peninsula has been closed after an incident in which portions of the bridge were damaged. Those officials are not saying what caused the damage, but some say the bridge was attacked by Ukraine.
According to the Ukrainian newspaper Ukrainian Pravda, the attack on the Crimean bridge was a special operation of the Ukrainian Security Service and the Navy. The newspaper says that it bases its information on the sources of the Ukrainian security service.
If true, that would mark the second time since October that Vladimir Putin’s prized $4 billion span has been attacked. The bridge was previously struck in October.
The 19-kilometer-long bridge connects the Russian-held Crimean peninsula with mainland Russia. The bridge is important for Russia, as it supplies military supplies to its troops in Crimea and the southern front of Ukraine.
Vacationing on the island is also making a comeback. That's a good reminder that the area a war zone.

3 juli 2023

Теперь Россия спотыкается о собственную логику - войны нет.

"Теперь для нас Финляндия - враждебная страна, созданная когда-то по недомыслию Лениным и вступившая сегодня в НАТО."
Засунь это!
"Почему "продолжают заклинать" о мире дляУкраины только? ..."
"если конфликтующие страны не принимают в НАТО, значит, конфликт будет перманентным .."
По мнению России, это спецоперация и объявления войны нет. 
По словам России, это спецоперация, и объявления войны не было. Таким образом, можно было бы направить Украине приглашение о вступлении уже с Вильнянской встречи НАТО.


26 juni 2023

Полицейское расследование одного из граффити мэра города Пааво Архимяки (левая коалиция)

"С нашей стороны было глупо думать, что никому не интересно, что мы рисуем в таком месте"
Пааво Архинмяки, заместитель мэра Хельсинки по вопросам, поймали за нанесением незаконного граффити в пятницу вечером.
Политик также прокомментировал свой поступок в Facebook. Он сожалеет о своей "глупости".
Арихинмяки был со свитой в туннеле у припортовой дороги в Вуосаари и рисовал граффити. Прибывшие на место происшествия охранники также вызвали полицию.
Архинмяки не смог сказать, ождают ли его последствия за этот поступок, который можно квалифицировать как мелкое хулиганство.
"С нашей стороны было глупо думать, что никому не интересно, что мы рисуем в таком месте", – написал Архинмяки.
Качество работ Арихинмяки оценивается даже выше среднего.

19 juni 2023

Русские пьют как грибы

Мариуполь разрушен, картон, масло, 2022, Картины Кая Стенвалла.
свойственный русским, характерный для них ...
Почему российские чиновники пьют? Спрашивает Вёрстка.
Несмотря на приверженность президента к здоровому образу жизни, во власти пьют «много и все вперемешку», заявил «Вёрстке» вице-губернатор одного из регионов в Центральном федеральном округе. Даже на официальных государственных банкетах норма алкоголя с недавнего времени рассчитывается по полторы-две бутылки на человека — а раньше была строго одна, рассказал «Вёрстке» близкий к Кремлю политтехнолог.
Среди историй об алкоголизме госслужащих отдельно нужно выделить слухи о пьянстве бывшего президента России Дмитрия Медведева
Особенно активными они стали после того, как председатель партии «Единая Россия» начал яростно выступать с критикой противников войны и представителей Запада.  Два собеседника «Верстки», тем не менее, сошлись на том, что Медведев самостоятельно пишет в свой Telegram тексты о странах, «изнасилованных повелителями тьмы», манкуртах и иблисах и что он нередко делает это, будучи нетрезвым.

14 juni 2023

Dom vill störta Putin med våld, efersom ”finns inga andra sätt”

”The Sleeping Beast ”, 2023, målat av Kaj Stenvall.
i en intervju av  Sveriges Radio med Ekot säger företrädaren Aleksej Baranovskij för den "Ryska frihetslegionen" att målet är att störta Putin med våld.
"Plan minimum", säger Aleksej Baranovskij, "är att skapa en fyra mil djup säkerhetszon mellan Ukraina och Ryssland – för att skydda Ukraina från rysk beskjutning. Plan maximum, säger han, är att gå mot Moskva, störta Putin med våld och bygga ett nytt Ryssland."
Och.
"Men det finns inga andra sätt", säger Aleksej Baranovskij.
Ändå.
"I en diktatur som Ryssland fungerar det inte att förändra något med demokratiska medel"
Nu Baranovskij presenterar sig som företrädare för den politiska grenen av en gruppering som kallar sig för den Ryska frihetslegionen. Sedan början av maj har dess militära gren, tillsammans med en annan grupp som går under namnet Ryska frivilligkåren, tagit på sig ansvaret för regelbundna attacker i främst Belgorodregionen, norr om den ukrainska gränsen.
I måndags sa Belgorodregionens guvernör Vjatjeslav Gladkov att tusentals invånare tvingats lämna sina hem den senaste tiden på grund av säkerhetsläget. Officiellt i Ryssland anklagar man den ukrainska militären för attackerna men Aleksej Baranovskij säger att de ryska partisankrigarna agerar på egen hand när de är inne på ryskt territorium.
"De rör sig i små mobila grupper, utför överraskningsattacker mot Putins armé och drar sig snabbt tillbaka igen. En slags partisankrigföring", 
fortsätter Baranovskij.
Kremls strategi, skriver hon, är att vänta och hoppas på att det går över.
Också bland ryska regimkritiker märks en kluvenhet gentemot de ryska partisanerna. Dels för att flera av dem har en bakgrund inom extremhögern men också för att de vill störta makten med våld.

7 juni 2023

Putin is sitting in an information bubble - becouse he doncha want to hear bad news

”No Face, No Name, No Number ”, 2022, by Kaj Stenvall.

The Russian leader Vladimir Putin would then tell the person giving bad news that they were under the influence of "western propaganda" according to the source, who said that those who reported successes would retain "constant access" to Putin.
According to VCHK-OGPU They have simply stopped bringing bad news to Putin because the president does not want to hear it.
The post was shared by news outlet Nexta, which added, 
"The fact that Putin is sitting in an information bubble and does not want to upset himself with negative, but true, news about the war is far from news."
Much more interesting is the fact that the Russians are sent to their death by an insane grandfather, completely cut off from reality, but they don't seem to mind.
Russia's fake news about its military success is at least partially fake for the Kremlin and Putin.

18 maj 2023

"Unfortunately, units of the Russian Defence Ministry have withdrawn up to 570 metres to the north of Bakhmut"

© HS/Pertti Jarla.
Now Russian mercenary boss accuses regular army of leaving Bakhmut's flanks exposed
According to Reuters founder of Wagner private mercenary group Yevgeny Prigozhin, who has repeatedly accused Russia's top military brass of not doing enough to back his men, asked the defence ministry to do all it could to protect Bakhmut's flanks after what he alleged was a withdrawal.
"Unfortunately, units of the Russian Defence Ministry have withdrawn up to 570 metres to the north of Bakhmut, exposing our flanks,"
 Prigozhin said in a voice message.
"I am appealing to the top leadership of the Ministry of Defence - publicly - because my letters are not being read," 
Prigozhin said.
Wagner forces have been spearheading the assault on Bakhmut, one of the bloodiest and longest battles of the war, you know, something Moscow calls "a special military operation," with some support from the regular army in recent months.


10 maj 2023

«законченным мудаком»

Father Russia, 2022, oil on board, by Kaj Stenvall.
Основатель ЧВК Вагнера Евгений Пригожин записал видео к 9 мая — про «победу дедов» и какого-то «счастливого дедушку», который может оказаться «законченным мудаком» Попробуйте угадать, кого он имел в виду. Вот главное из этого видео:  Пригожин рассказал о положении на фронте в Украине в видеозаписи к 9 Мая. 
Бизнесмен, шеф-повар Путина заявил, что Минобороны РФ не выделило группировке необходимые боеприпасы, при этом ЧВК якобы угрожают наказанием, если наемники оставят позиции. Пригожин также заявил, что 9 Мая — это День Победы «наших дедов», и упомянул некоего «счастливого дедушку», от которого зависит будущее России — и который 
«думает, что ему хорошо», 
в то время как он может оказаться «законченным мудаком». 

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3 maj 2023

The goal of the secret room

Here comes a Counter-Strike Online 2, one of the most popular video games in the world. Cause countless Russians are unaware of what is happening in Ukraine. But in this playing room, they are forced to see the truth with their own eyes.
Its basic idea is simple: Players are divided into teams of terrorists and counter terrorists. The counter terrorists must defuse bombs or save hostages, for example, while the terrorists try to prevent this.
Each round lasts two minutes, and then the players switch roles. After a few dozen rounds, the winner is declared.
The game is extremely popular in Russia, especially in St. Petersburg and Moscow. It is played by approximately four million Russians, mostly by young men.
Why? Read here.

29 apr. 2023

Blood on the table

”Murderer” by Kaj Stenvall, 2023, oil on board, 40 x 50 cm.
Vladimir Putin has long propped up his rule by claiming the West was at war with Russia. He and his entire staff are all pathological liars. "Putin has painted himself into this corner. It's a very dark place for where we are. I am not sure how we get to an end of it until Putin and his cronies go", says Harvard professor Kenneth Rogoff.

20 apr. 2023

Black Hats can do it

A yacht linked to Vladimir Putin.
According to New York Times the ship worth about
 700 million dollars, or about 660 million euros.
Built by Blohm+Voss company in 2014.

From YouTube Gibraltar Yachting.
The Lürssen shipyard group in Bremen has fallen victim to a cyber attack. As the Lürssen shipyards has announced, the group of companies became the target of a so-called ransomware attack over the Easter days. 
The luxury yacht manufacturers Lürssen and Blohm+Voss has previously stated in marketing communication that they are not interested in asking about the origin of the money offered by its customers.
Billions of dollars have already been laundered in the elite yacht manufacturing shipyard (e.g. money stolen from the Russian state treasury).
The Lürssen Group, based in Bremen-Vegesack, employs around 1,500 people. It is considered a world leader in the construction of luxury yachts and is also active in naval shipbuilding.
The company confirmed this at the request of buten un binnen. When asked, the police confirmed that criminal investigations had already been initiated. In addition, police cybercrime experts would advise the shipyard on how to deal with the incident.
In a ransom attack, attackers usually use malware to penetrate someone else's computer.
"In coordination with internal and external experts, we immediately initiated all necessary protective measures and informed the responsible authorities," 
said a company spokesman. The company did not want to say more at the moment.
Cyber attack apparently brings parts of the company to a standstill
According to information from buten un binnen, large parts of the shipyard operations have come to a standstill. The Lürssen-Kröger shipyard in Schleswig-Holstein is one of the few parts of the company that is currently still producing, according to the workforce.
A ransomware attack means that hackers penetrate a third-party IT system, for example a company. The data in the IT systems or on backup copies are encrypted. The company no longer has access to the data and operations are completely or partially paralyzed. The hackers demand money to decrypt the data.


13 apr. 2023

У Путина рак.

Путин, вероятно, болен раком, сообщает немецкий журнал Focus. Это подтвердила недавняя утечка информации.

Фото: Кай Стенвалл.



29 mars 2023

Ovanligt grov rysk retorik

Det är på sin hemsida som Rysslands ambassad i Stockholm publicerat texten med rubriken ”Ett svenskt steg mot avgrunden”. Den är skriven av Rysslands ambassadör i Sverige, Viktor Tatarintsev.
Ambassadören skriver också att Sverige genom att ansluta sig till försvarsalliansen ”tar ett steg ner i avgrunden”.
Där hävdas också att Sverige kommer bli en lydstat och amerikansk koloni.
Denna Rysslands ambassad i Stockholm skriver på sin hemsida att Sverige blir ”ett legitimt mål för Rysslands vedergällningsåtgärder” om landet ansluter till Nato. 
So i texten hävdas att Sveriges politiker lurar svenskarna in i militäralliansen Nato. Se den publicerat texten med rubriken ”Ett svenskt steg mot avgrunden”. 
Bland annat citat:
”Om någon tror fortfarande att detta på något sätt kommer att förbättra Europas säkerhet, kan ni vara säkra på att de nya medlemmarna [Sverige och Finland tydligen] i det fientliga blocket blir ett legitimt mål för Rysslands vedergällningsåtgärder, inklusive de militära.”

Och: 

”Man bör inte utesluta att Natos önskan att kämpa mot Ryssland «till den siste ukrainaren» kommer att leda till en situation där det helt enkelt inte kommer att finnas några ukrainare kvar att slåss mot”. 
Fortfarande:
”Det är tydligt att svenska politiker ’förtrollade’ av Washington medvetet störtar ner sitt folk i Natos avgrund.”
”Var säker på att de nya medlemmarna [Sverige och Finland tydligen] i det fientliga blocket kommer att bli ett legitimt mål för ryska vedergällningsåtgärder, inklusive sådana av militär karaktär.”
Fortfarande:
"Den höga inflationen och de stigande matpriserna i Sverige kan förklaras med att Sverige gett sitt stöd till Kiev-regimen”.
Att Ryssland (Ryssä, på finska) skulle påstå att det inte är legitimt för Sverige att gå in i Nato är väldigt märkliga argument.
Målet är bara att skrämma.