A failure or success?

• The richest people in the world are Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and Jeff Bezos.
• The world’s richest countries are Qatar, Luxembourg and Singapore.
• The largest organic footprint per capita makes Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates.

Congratulations – you are the winners! The growth competitions are over!

Time to start new games:

• Least junk!
• Smallest organic footprint!
• Minimize use of fossil fuels!

Now let´s use all smart technology and people we have to find the sustainable solutions. In the lack of fast democratic changes, let´s use consumer power to avoid companies that continues to convert the seas and oceans to lukewarm sparkling water.

I don´t think you will read this, but I would like to remind you that political priorities can be sorted by posing the question: I want to do what is Good, but for whom should this be good?

The possible answers I can find are:
1. Good for me and my friends
2. Good for my tribe, Country, or Nation
3. Good for God, the culture or something “higher”
3. Good for Humanity
4. Good for all nature – not only humans

There are no sharp borders between the steps, but World History moves slowly from 1 to 5. Here is my advice: Move forward. Politicians who go backward will be forgotten.

Your priorities now seem to be at step 2. It is time to take the next step forward instead of defending the nation. We have something in common. I love Russian culture; the authors, and the music. But I hate war, even the cold war.

Already at Nelson Mandela’s funeral, it was clear that he will be remembered by the world as a one-of-a-billion hero, so let us not forget what made him special: he fought for freedom and justice by challenging the dominant power.

He started the fight with non-violent protests, became a political prisoner, and spent the years from 1962 to 1990 in jail. He was branded as a terrorist by the South African apartheid regime and thus he became the very symbol of injustice, the spark needed to start a fire spreading by itself. When he was released the world had changed.

“Mandiba” is a true fairy-tale, a lesson from the recent history that tells us that some enemies of today likely will become the heroes of tomorrow. An interesting thing is that we already can assume who they are: those who fight for freedom and justice by challenging the dominant power. Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, and Pussy Riot, just to name-drop a few. They are not going to be seen as terrorists in the future.

A rational world order must be consistent. The same laws must apply everywhere. Crimes against humanity, wherever they are committed, must be documented and brought to justice in the International Criminal Court. The International Law considers terrorism to be deliberate attacks on civilians by either Governments or other groups. Most of the terror in Egypt and Syria seems to come from the state.

Without a consistent order, one cannot judge a conflict between others. Egypt’s military deposed the elected president Mursi through a coup d’etat, there is no other way to describe it. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said in a television interview that the Egyptian army was “restoring democracy” and the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said that they focus on how to best support initiatives to restore peace and forge reconciliation.

The problem is that General El-Sisi has launched massacres. On July 8 the army killed more than 50 democracy activists. On July 27, at least 80 more were killed. On August 14 Several hundred were killed. In Syria, Bashar al-Assad got a clear message from this passive support, that he is sovereign to use gas against the Syrians if he wants to.
If Egypt’s military regime may get away with impunity so the violence of power will persist. But genocide is genocide wherever it occurs.

An inconsistent and unjust world beds for escalating conflicts and war. To prevent it, let’s give a clear signal to President Bashar al-Assad, General El-Sisi, and all others who use deadly force to silence protesting people: Eventually, you will be prosecuted by ICCR and sent to prison.