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

19 mars 2025

Se in i en annan värld.

Odd Nerdrums målning med titeln "Isola".
Clairvoyance innebär att titta in i en annan dimension av verkligheten.
Det finns en annan Verklighet.
Vi behöver gå utanför de gängse "vetenskapliga" normerna och dogmerna för att komma närmare och förstå andliga upplevelser, sayer Markus Olofsson.
Enligt Olofsson börjar fler och fler förstå att sökande andligt  dimension, inte nödvändigtvis religiöst sökande, inte är en trend, utan något djupt nedärvt och nödvändigt för oss alla.
Dimensionerna i kvantfysik är inte dimensioner som i sci-fi. 
Det är den bra starten.
Dimensionerna av denna andra verklighets existens måste mötas på deras egna villkor. Vi måste ha den sensoriska förmågan att undersöka, sa Albert Einstein efter att ha lyssnat på Rudolf Steiners presentation.

6 mars 2025

Trump claims Politico is a “left wing rag"

In the USA, President Donald Trump spread once again unfounded claims, that the government had paid Politico and other news media outlets for positive coverage of Democrats. Records show agencies paid for subscriptions.
According to The New York Times President Trump amplified unfounded claims on Thursday that the government had been paying news media outlets to generate positive coverage of Democrats.
The conspiracy theories appear to have been generated by records showing payments for something much more innocuous: subscriptions.
Mr. Trump said on his Truth Social site that “billions of dollars” from U.S.A.I.D. and other agencies had improperly gone to the “fake news media.” He spread a claim that Politico, a “left wing rag,” had received $8 million, and questioned if The New York Times and other outlets had also received payments.
Add:
Polittico, 2017
« Trump's first visit to Soviet Moscow in 1987 looks, with hindsight, to be part of a pattern. The dossier by the former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele asserts that the Kremlin had been cultivating Trump for “at least five years” before his stunning victory in the 2016 US presidential election. This would take us back to around 2011 or 2012.

In fact, the Soviet Union was interested in him too, three decades earlier. The top level of the Soviet diplomatic service arranged his 1987 Moscow visit. With assistance from the KGB. It took place while Kryuchkov was seeking to improve the KGB's operational techniques in one particular and sensitive area. The spy chief wanted KGB staff abroad to recruit more Americans. »

Well!

26 feb. 2025

The movement may be endowed with our life








Said a master over the 100 year ago, 
Humanism, it's knowledge, can become a living factor in the world’s work - but if ever you make these priceless Teachings subservient to mammon, the light will fade and the movement will fail.

25 feb. 2025

Reintroduction of Wolf


Ecological Solutions and Evidence: Volume 6, Issue 1 
January–March 2025

They say: "Our aim is to provide new information to inform these ongoing and future discussions around human-wolf conflict and wolf reintroductions both in the UK and elsewhere."
"Our work provides further evidence of the role of large carnivores in assisting ecosystem recovery and delivering the nature-based solutions required to address the climate emergency."
This substantial carbon sequestration and the potential financial benefit related to wolf reintroduction may influence landowner and land manager perspectives around large carnivores. Carefully designed benefit sharing mechanisms would be needed to ensure any financial benefits are shared equitably across landowners, land managers and local communities. Comprehensive stakeholder engagement would be needed well in advance of any proposed reintroduction to identify potentially affected groups and address challenges of co-existing with large carnivores.

23 feb. 2025

Here we go


"This fish strikes the hook."  (Art by Ville Ranta)


15 feb. 2025

Letter to John Bolton

Former Finnish prime minister Sanna Marin.
John Bolton:
"It is unconscionable to allow Russia to assault Ukraine’s sovereignty, recruit enemies like North Korea to aid in their fight, and then sell out the Ukrainians by conceding the loss of their territory and NATO security guarantees or membership.  By making these and others concessions before negotiations even started, Trump has effectively surrendered to Putin on Ukraine. "
Dear John, I will say ...
The EU had seven years to resolve the conflict, but our weak leaders couldn't do it, they just froze it.
Here's unfortunately the result  of the weakness of our leaders.
Ukraine is losing more than just the Crimean peninsula. Much more.
Former Finnish prime minister Sanna Marin see that there will be raised concerns as a very worrying rise in conservative, masculine forces across the global stage.
Reflecting on the war in Ukraine, Marin adding that “Europe couldn’t cope on our own”. 
She emphasis the need for Europe to have “strategic autonomy”, saying that there will be “one reality that we have to wake up to and we need to do better in the future."
“The thing that we should learn isn’t that we should depend on the US, the thing that we should learn is actually that we should be more independent. We need that strategic autonomy on defence, on energy, that we learned when Russia used energy as a weapon towards the European Union.”
I agree.


5 feb. 2025

The Archetypes and happiness

The Archetypes and Collective Unconscious, by C.G. Jung.
Here comes Carl Jung's paradox: 
“All factors which are generally assumed to make for happiness can, under certain circumstances, produce the contrary. No matter how ideal your situation may be, it does not necessarily guarantee happiness.”
So it was in 1960, one journalist Gordon Young asked Jung:
"What do you consider to be more or less basic factors making for happiness in the human mind?" 
Jung answered with five elements:
1. Good physical and mental health.
2. Good personal and intimate relationships, such as those of marriage, the family, and friendships.
3. The ability for perceiving beauty in art and nature.
4. Reasonable standards of living and satisfactory work.
5. A philosophic or religious point of view capable of coping successfully with the vicissitudes of life 
 .. and can structure the world, I think so.
“From the unconscious there
emanate determining influences…
which, independently of tradition,
 guarantee in every single individual
a similarity and even a sameness
of experience, and also of the way
it is represented imaginatively.” 
(The Archetypes and 
the Collective Unconscious, Carl Jung)

22 jan. 2025

”How can we stop what’s happening”

Obama joked to Bush: 'How can we Stop what's happening?'

Joke it that: No-one can du it.

Barack Obama asked George W. Bush how they could “stop what’s happening” during President Trump’s inauguration on Monday, according to a lip reader Jackie Gonzalez
This deaf woman who shares her interpretations of celebrities’ and politicians’ private conversations on social media, made a now-viral video revealing what she believed the two former presidents were discussing during a candid moment at Trump’s inauguration.
Now you see a footage of Obama and Bush sharing a laugh during Trump’s swearing-in ceremony. It took off online Monday, with many internet sleuths wondering what the 43rd and 44th presidents were joking about.

21 jan. 2025

Social media giants serving totalitarianism?

On the social media platform Instagram, owned by Meta, you can currently not search for content with various words referring to US Democrats or the left.
Many tried to search for content with the hashtags #democrat #obama or #leftist, for example. 
No results were shown. 
Instead, Instagram said it had hidden the results because they may contain sensitive content.
The new US administration has immediately switched to undemocratic methods.