BMW + BP = Pimp my profit!

BMW ist about to make the best profitable year they ever had.
Not only that the vendors of the ionsane close-up driven, rear mirror shocking appearance vehicles increased the sales of their cars by 14% in comparison to the first three months of last year....
They also were able to maximize the profits out of these sales by 58%...

What?

14% more sales = 58% more profit?

One thing is for shure...

These cars are definately too expensive...
Otherwise the profit would not be that high...

...and why do they currently negotiate about the wages of their workers being decreased.
This behavior simply is mean!



Same is with petrol: The barrel price rises = the fillling station price rises too.
The filling station still sells mineral oil products that were made from the cheaper oil.
So this is profit again...
The barrel price falls, the price falls only slightly and at least two or three days later than the barrel price decrease...
See the rise in the Levis when I see this price rise...

British Petrol (That is named ARAL in Germany now..) made about 700 Million EUR in profits last year alone in Germany...
The news said, that the profit was mainly generated by the higher petrol prices...

Sometimes I just feel so d*** buttf***ed by these global industries and can't do nothing about it...
Has anybody a clue how to stop this?

Rolling stoned

I may be lynched for what I am going to say in the following, but I have to.
Any "Rolling Stones" fan may forgive me and remember:
Taste is not a subject to have discussions about...

Ok, there was a concert in Rio...
Ok, there were 1 Million specatators

But... I mean...what for?

I am still wondering how 4 rest-home fugitives knowing 3 or 4 chords on the guitar, managed to gather so many people...



When I was young (Yes! I am THAT old...) "Brown Sugar" was already a hit.
Well I sometimes tried to listen to their stuff.. but I mean... it is simple as shit and by the way Mick Jagger isn't really able to sing...
He just blokes into the mike hoping that the guitars will oversound his unmatching tones...

And then the concert a few years ago... On their last tour the sequencer software had a hangup and right in the middle of a song the tempo got out of control.
Those "Pro-"musicians weren't playing at all!
A computer made the music and they just jumped around on stage...

An then you pay a 100 bucks for a ticket... Jeeze!

For me, the Rolling Stones are the best proof of how to deceive the music listeners.
The music industry silently keeps laughing...
And the Stones too...

If you want to burn something...burn the newspaper

Where are we going to?

We hear about islamic protestants all over the world now...
Let us remember, how everything started: A small newspaper in Denmark published some cartoons, that tried to satirical explain the stupidity of sucide bombing by islamic terrorists...

Now, we seem to have an international conflict.
A clash of cultures between the western and the islamic world.

Maybe I missed something, but, hello...?...What is this all about?

How come, that islamic influenced societies seem so peculiar of what had happened?
I have my own view of that and I want to share it here.

First I want to state, that I am not intending to insult or prejudice anybody.
Just in case I get misunderstood.

1.) Many of these people haven't seen the cartoons ever (I haven't seen them too), but they go to the streets and burn Danish flags, becuase of feeling insulted. Is it just, that they cannot cope with western humour? In islamic countries, cartoons are mainly used to insult people or for political influence to the masses. From that point of view the cartoons are obviously misunderstood. In western civilisations cartoons are used for humour, satire or entertainment. Nothing more or less...

2.) The leaders of these societies are afraid of someting, that seems to have become normal in other social systems: The free choice of cultural identity. This fear has a system in it and presents a mean purpose: Keep your people stupid and poor, than it is easy to influence it and the persistance of your reign will be guaranteed. This was always what propaganda was all about. The rulers and mullahs want to cast into concrete, what they have acieved in using the religious rules to suppress their people:

a.) Blind obedience to secular and spiritual leaders
b.) Violation of human rights against women and children
c.) Legitimation of political structures, that do not allow "normal" citicens to take active influence in political processes or decisions.
d.) Extensive use and love of weapons and the means of violence.

3.) Why does a religion (or the God of it or its prophet or who ever...) need to be defensed by their beleivers? If they have an almighty God, let him do the job. (sorry to say it just so plain).
The violent mission techniques in the beginning of the islamic religion is no excuse for recommending these means today. Why don't you just relax and let the better win? We will see who is right in the end anyway...

4.) Why are islamic societies expect western countries to respect their religious feelings?
Just try to become a christian in an islamic country like Pakistan, Afghanistan etc...
You will get HELL form your family, the society around you, and the fanatics. You will be mobbed, hijacked, tortured, murdered. This is common social conscent to give hell to anybody who freely decides to change his religious aims.
With this poor image of tolerance in mind... How come, that there is the claim to totally change the habits of our societies? Cartoons always have been a tool of humour who did them. And all who had the honour to be the aim of the humour needed to cope with that. Even the leaders of christianity had to face that and it took the christian religion (for example) approx. 2000 years to start accepting these facts. In middle age the oppoents were tortured and burned to.

5.) It is a shame, to where the islamic religion has come. In its best times it was known for scientific interest and tolerance (apart from times, when it was violently spread). Why isn't this possible today? (see point 2 for that)

6.) What are we westerns do with these words form the iranian Prime minister about the "fairy tale of the holocaust". Where is the collective protest from the western people? Do we burn the Iranian embassy now? The lack of protest or publically taking distance in islamic countries to such statements makes me beleive, that we are already at the edge of our cultures clashing again... This is a pain for me.

7.) Why should western countries change their habits of humour or social behavior, just because some islamic people living in their countries. Why is it to so expected to silently accept the oriental social systems. We do not harrass or torture islamic beleivers, just because their belief is different. If you live here and are convinced of your islamic or other religion: Show respect to one of our most important cultural achievements that we have in the western world: Tolerance. This grew in at least 2000 years and is not to be negotiated about (Although it sometimes seems to be a small weak plat growing there...) In fact: If you move here to make your living, get prepared, that once your second generation comes to get contact with our values, they may want to decide themselves wich values they want to respect in their lives. If you think you can avoid that: Forget it! Young people always are open and want to go different ways.

I do not want to be misunderstood: I do not agree with any of the attemps the US government shows with the interference it takes in the oriental world. Personally; I think, that the war in Irak had made this all worse. But isn't that ridiculous? We live in the 21st century and loooks like the next wars fought, will possibly be because of religious reasons (if not for water or oil).

This is just so sad...sad...sad...

What disturbs me the most, is that mankind does not seem to learn anything from history.

Personally, I must say, I like the idea of a final court case that is being told of in the christian religion. Then, I believe, all these guys who f***ed this world up, will get their share in that space, what they tried to transform the world to because of their hunger for power and money.
But even those who feel secure to get their award, because of feeling like lifetime members in the christian club may end up being surprised with what they get...We'll see...

So, folks... if you want to burn something... fly to Denmark, buy this newspaper (that keeps tourism, air transport and publishers happy), Read it...smile or be angry and burn...the paper. Take it to light your fire with and warm your home. Then it has a "real" purpose. Nothing is less important, than the newspaper from yesterday. So is your anger and rage. This is nothing to anger about, hurt anybody, destroy assets or even die for. Just imagine the words on your tombstone: "Died for a cartoon..."

C'mon islamic countries! Just move on and stop bothering about such shit.

And you westerns...stay respectful, but have no fear...

Scratch free and shiny future perspectives

I regularly get a German weekly Magazine called "DER SPIEGEL".
I like this newspaper (a few articles are even English written) because of its courage to investigate on uncomfortable themes.

But one thing always annoys me: Their ads.

Not seldomly right next to some article about poverty and distress here comes the advertisment for a massive platimum watch that has a worth representing the amount of money 10 children would need to exist et least one year in a third world country...

Or McDonalds' ads. Eaaaaagh! Young "normalos" pose for the fast food industry, pretending, that "now" they are shure to eat a good healthy non fattening meal with McDonalds...
Good grief! Who believes this shit!

But the ad that annoyed me most was in the yesterday paper...

See the German version of the ad here.

It says: "What enthuses families: A life without scratches"

Then the ad focuses on the fact, that a scratch in the wooden floor of a families home could cause a lot of trouble and with the chemicals of ALTANA, this "danger" can be reduced.

Last sentence in this ad: "Think on!"

Yeah, guys and girls... that's what I say to this crap! Think on!

What the f***...?

This ad shows three things:

1.) The inventors of this ad are just so far away from reality in their glittering advertising world, that they have lost the sensitivity for the ad readers.

These ad-world polluters forget, that there are millions of children who even have no wood for keeping their homes warm with a fire. Neither will they ever have have a wooden floor in it, that may not get scratches. As long as there are children living on the streets, what do we need these chemicals for?

2.) If this is, what matters in family life (for chrissake!...), where have we come to...?

"Happy family life!", I'd say...

If parents focus on preserving their property more than investing into the creativity and phantasy of their children, then good night! One cann see by the use of this picture, that only better situated family parents are adressed by this ad. We currently have 11% (more than 5 Million) unemployed people in Germany who feel insulted by luxury ads like this...

And then this little conciously floor scratching brat: If you as a parent can be the pig-boss in your company or the mobber at work, but don't have the guts to tell your boy to behave...well what then...? Teach your children some real values, respect, love, tenderness...They will be different. If you spoil them with TV, Fast Food, luxury electronics and Video Games...stop wondering about their bad behavior, brutality and self-centered attitude...

3.) Another company needs a desperate reason to exist. Instead of investing some of their profits into the lives and societies of the 3rd world (for example...), they spend millions of dollars to invent "scratch protection" against German spoiled car playing brats... Holy moly...!

A true example of misunderstood company leading. The chmical waste, energy loss and environmental waste of this company is assumed to be very high in comparison to normal average houshold. Do we really need this for "scratch protected floors?"

And then...such big companies only advertise to get more stock holders, that reward messages of proposed dismissal of staff whith rising share prices...

Figleave - advertising I call this: Trying to make a good impression, but not really achieving it.

What a world... It really gets strange and stranger...

How to become a cult leader

Cult leaders in New Zealand - still going on...


Since concha inspired me in one of her comments to get more information about my membership in a cult, I now want to give the helpful advice how to become a cult leader in a few simple steps (May be helpful to one or the other in case you want to found a cult...it is so easy!)...

Being a former member of a christian cult (that still exists in New Zealand) I know the mechanisms of these systems too well. It took me ten years of my life...

Step 1.) If you want to found a cult, that is christianity related, start your activities in the local church. There you have to work as leader in a bible school class or as secretary. It is not important, what you do. It is the nearness to the leaders, that matters. There you can learn how leadership works. And how "human" material (the ordinary people) are to be handled.

Step 2.) Develop your own exegesis for crucial lifetasks and make them public.
You will find people, who are desperate enough to believe you...
Avoid them to be herard from people with responsabilities in the church...

Step 3.) Criticize the church and its leaders in front of those who sympathise with your ideas and your picture of the world. Wake up the hunger for more authentic christian life. Let everybody feel as a loser in its current life environment.

Step 4.) Start private meetings outside the church context with the people that sympathise with your teaching.

Step 5.) Start your own private church services apart form the normal church times (Saturday evenings or Sunday afternoons preferred)

Step 6.) Start laying pressure on the concsience of your private audience by preaching high moral standards and admonish to be selfless.

Step 7 - most imoportant!) Have personal audiences with each person in the circle of influancable people. Be their confessor. Let them tell you their "sins"(or what they think is their sin) to find out, where their weak point is in order to be successful to engage Step 8.). Show extreme friendliness, patience and mildness during these audiences. This gains trust to you in ther souls...

Step 8.) When having found the weak point (this is easy with Christians or others: Pride, Money, Alcohol, Sex, Fear or other addictions are the most obvious), you start the manipulation process: Tell them, that they are very special in the eyes of God and that this God directly lead them to you to get rid of their bad habits. And tell them that they have to get rid of them, because if not, the loving God that sent them to you will develop extreme wrath against you. Tell them, that they have especially been chosen to be with you.

Step 9.) Now it is time to found you own congregaton. Not officially. Not in public. You just do it in silence, so nobody from "outside" will notice. It is founded in a collective congegational decision with all of your "sermon addicts". You decide together, not to attend the regular church services anymore, but to solemnly attend your own private church meetings...

Step 10.) Found a flat-sharng community with all the people who want more closeness to you.
You already reached the point where some of your gathering needs more "treatment" to learn to live "right". Ideally it should be in a house quite away from the next township to achive maximum distance to the "normal city life".

Step 11.) Start alienise the members of your group to their own relatives.
Select the relatives into two groups:

- The community supporters = Relatives, that do not comment negative to the group live and the membership to it. Invite them to see, how the group life works (on display - not in the inside)

- The community objectors = Relatives who have negative comments on the development of the group. You influence the group members to handle those relatives with extreme care and force them to break up with them in order to "keep your sheep in the flock". You tell a different story: You find a biblical explanation for it. You say: "Jesus did also not regard his relatives..." and find enough biblical evidence for that...

Step 11.) In order to finance the community life you urge everybody from the group, that is still working in the "outside world", to put his share into a "common money pot". Increase the pressure up to the point that every money earned of community inhabitants lands in the pot.


Step 12.) Put up a time (and money) consuming renovation project of a new domicil for the group in order keep everybody extremely busy. Working hard stops the people from thinking. This is what you achieve. Permanently check the loyality of your members by increasing the moral pressure on them. Teach them, that being together as a group is the most important thing at all. It is God's law. If you are disobedient to this law, it is God's wrath that waits for you.
Try to phish more members to the group and go through Step 2 - 11 with them.

Step 12a.) Find out abvout "loose" group members who tend to break under the pressure of your teaching. Interrogate them in front of all the group members to their loyality. Find reasons to "cast them out" or "give them a chance to repent". You must "winnow the chaff from the wheat grains". Do this regardless of marriages, kids, friendships. Take the risk of devorce in case of a cast out. It is only marriage... noting worth of something in your eyes... The group is the most important thing in the world...

Step 12b). Severely interfere within the educatuion of the kids. Especially when you are a woman, make other mothers feel bad, when they commit "mistakes" (You define what that is!) in the raise of their children. (With this action you are able to break the self esteem of every mother...)
Visualize physical punishment for kids as the only thing that will really work. If parents are too shy to do it as hard as you propose, show them how to do it and slam (or let it be done by your husband) other peoples kids in front of their parents to break the personality of the children...

Step1 13.) Drain all money assets of the group members into your renovation project. This way nobody has any financial security anymore. With progress in the alienation process of relatives, your Flock has no private existence chances anymore. They are glued together in their destiny

Step 14.) Try to or practically arrange marriages within the congregation. Even between those who lost their spuoses because you cast them out. They will be so desperate for a new love because of the loss and the pain they went through. Tell the new couples, that you had a direct hint from God to their relationship. Treat cast out spouses as the never existed and talk badly about them even in front of their children to avoid any contact to "catouts" and interns...

Step 14a) Alienate the spuoses of the marriages within the group. Tell them, that if the other spouse says something, that may lead into seperation from the group, they should make it public. If that happens humilate and intimidate those "candidates" in "public" with all group members. Always have a result at the end of such a meeting. Either cast the delinquent out our allow him or her to "repent". Enforce repentance by isolating the person from his spouse and kids and live seperate from all others only working for lowest level tasks. (He is suposed to feel like scum!). Then, after 1 or 2 weeks let him back in, not without taking the promise to behave better.

Now...from here on it is special story of the "Homeward Bound Group" in New Zealand, that still exists. The cult that I was a member of...

Step 14b) If you are female, cast out you husband and try a younger one from the group. Find all possible explainations, why this was God's way with you.

Step 15.) Convince the group to, move to another country (e.g. form Germany to New Zealand) that promises to be a brighter future for the (already arrived) children in the group.
The true reason for that is to get away from the state surveillance, because the trouble you cause can not be overseen anymore. Especially compensation for lost assets from former members could cause a problem...so you better leave...

Step 16.) Keep the whole group busy preparing and working hard for the migration process (I had up to 18 hour days...). Build up the picture, that life in the new country will be fine and thet the group has optimal chances, because you will found own businesses there.

Step 17.) Mirgrate to the foreign country...pull out all roots of you group members in the "old" country. Put them in a situation of high stress and disorientation by putting up even higher work levels in the "new" country. Constantly practice Step 12 - 14 in order to keep the flock together. Even send away some group members to achieve maximum fear in the new country.
By this action you will have maximum power over the group. No one dares to think even of objecting to your ideas.

Step 18.) Found businesses to keep your group members employed in your company. Give them a little pocket money (US$ 15/month) and no other access to money sources. Parallelly buy gimmicks for the grouop members, so the won't feel patronized (cars, food etc...). Only give few people the authorisation to shop or do money transactions. Only use "stable" people to have contact to the outside world. Fool the inland revenue (an your employees), because you do not pay real wages but extract the maximum work force out of them...

Step 19.) Currently invent private projects aside of the business work to "keep'em working". Never be happy with the quality of the work. Criticize as hard as you can. Everybody must know, that they have to increase their efforts to meet the "goals of the Lord", which in fact is every new project you want them to do.

Step 20.) Send away more members of the group to increase fear. Do not consider, that they are now facing poverty or desperation (e.g. to be seperated from family and spouse). It is necessary for the group. Explain the reasons for the exclusion by extensive letters (I got a 178 page letter once) and always tell the "ex-pats" that they may come back at any time. If possible, keep spouses our children as hostages to enforce this claim.

Step 21.) Found a trust, so nobody within the group is entitled to claim any asset from the group, when leaving. Make all companies you own part of this trust. Make shure you are solemnly sharehoder of all companies, founded within your business efforts.

Step 22.) Alienate the children from the parents within the group. Put them in a seperated house and let a person of your trust raise them in your teachings. Do not allow the parents of those kids object to that. Send away any mother that does (only for a short time). Explain this action thoroughly to the children, so that they may gain the "right" opinion about their parents/mother (and loose the last bit of trust in them). Make yourself as only person of trust to them. You are the prophet. You are the leader. God himself is speaking to and through you. Use this position to blackmail the children by threatening, that you, their only person of love and trus, will be taken away by God if they will not stay within the group but prefer to live with a cast out parent (e.g.)...
You are the only one to be trusted. Use the law situation of the new country to enforce the children to wish to live seperated from their parents. Especialy when they found new spouses and left the group.

Step 22.) In case of being successful in business judge this to be God's blessing for keeping the group running. Spoil the alienated children with extensive assets and put up the vision of poverty and emotional deficits, if they ever leave the cult group. Bind them emotionaly to the cult. Treat psychotic appearances with members of the cult as minor incidents. Keep everybody in the group strictly obedient to your teachings.

Just obey these rules and you will be a successful cult leader, destroying other peoples lives in order to achieve the maximum payout at the end of the days...
Take at least 20 years time for the whole development process. ANd never dare to regret of whatever you have done...Remember: You are the prophet...!

Any other suggestions to become a succassful cult leader are welcome....


For more information on the machanisms of cults click here.
For something hilarious about these problems click here.

Free the music from its sellers!

I am a musician.
Not a pro though, but I do "ma' own thing" since 1996 now... (see my links...)

There are a few trends and changes to that, what was called popular music, that make me worry about it since a few years...

1.) I attended a small dance club last night. It is in central Wuerzburg and has room for not more than 100 people. It was packed. I was amazed to see, that they played the soul and funk music of the 60's to 70's. The place was crowded with young students and the DJ was so young, he could have been my son in age, but he was darn good in what he was doing. When listening to the music I could observe two things:

a.) The currently known HipHop beatz have their roots in the soul music of the 60's
I heard music, that seemed to be contemporary music only with a little less qualitiy and a litte difference in style...

b.) The music of that time was more authentic. It was an identification device. It had messages.
Today it is just tits, ass, money and drugs and the reflection on the lifestyle of the main characters in the music industry trying to ged rid of their boredom...
So, I miss the authenticity of the music, that it had, when it came out of its roots.
Today German spoiled young teens can quote every song of 2Pac and 50cent. But what do they know about the depths of the existance rappers like them had when they channeled their distress into rhymes and music...

I miss the pure club atmo in the music...wich I had last night: A band of 5 played funk and soul music from the "old days", inflaming a bunch of young and old folks just shaking their asses off in mindless dancing...thas was simply great!

2.) Money.

We live in a world, that judges everything economically:

"How much will that cost?"

"How much will that bring in?"

Some few thgings I do not understand:

Why are so few people in the music industry earning the majority of the money, that is spend
for music.

Why do, especially rappers, celebrate an exorbitant lifestyle when having had a history, that brought them out of social distressive life situations. Why do multi millionaires keep all of their assets to themselves? I mean if you own 200 million $ or more, why not bringing some of it to the social problem zones? How many other talents would be able to perform or even better: Get education and a good job?

Why do rights management companies (such as GEMA, RIAA etc...) organize their structures this way, that the advantages in asset collecting seem to solemnly go to the few people, that are the 'big guys' in earning money? It is a protective market an mainly to the benefits of the ones that already have enough...

Comercially produced music lacks of a very important thing: The roots.
Many of those test-tube artists never seem to have perfomed in those tiny little clubs. they come out of the marketing concepts of professional music sellers. But is this, what we want to listen to? This is, why the file sharing market was so strong and why concepts like iTunes seem to succeed. It is the possibility of selection. When I buy a CD a mainly have the problem that I have to pay a lot of money for two or three songs, that I like in special. All the rest on a CD normally is just crap.

This is why I rather pay a $ for downloading a song than paying even more for a whole CD, that I partially like. Not paying and filesharing is no alternative for me...

Musicians, who live from making music, need to earn money too.
hterefore I am prepared to pay for consuming their stuff...

But I miss fairness and more acknowledgement for "unknown" artists.

For further information on HipHop this read Daily Views, Pop Culture, Rants, and News: A Brief Friday Rant about Hip Hop

P.S.: I was lazy lately, I know...Hope to be able to keep up the writing despite less time...

Shitloads of Truckers deliver truckloads of shit...

Ok, ok... I understand the necessity of delivering the goods of daily life and the economy in all corners of my country, but allow me a little thought about the distributors...

YES! It's you, truckers, I'm talking about...(And your bloodsucking employers)!

All decent, law obeying, obliging truckdrivers: Just stop reading.

I will have to have my speak about these truckers (and transporting company owners), that currently ignore the fact, that there seem to be other people with their vehicles on the road.

So...here are some things you should finally quit:

Motorway rules:

1.) Do not overtake other trucks. Especially not at the beginning of steep hills (which you preferably do...!)!
2.) Set the the indicator lights when you want to chage lanes!
3.) Look into the f***ing mirror to see what's behind. It is there, so use it...!
4.) If there is a traffic jam, do not try to avoid it by blocking the detour routes!
5.) If there is a speed limit, keep it!
6.) When it snows, get the winter gear on the truck or stop!
7.) If you are going transit stay (the f***) on the motorway and do not drive through our town to avoid the road toll.
8.) If you need to stop at the parking lots along the motorway, stop shitting in the shrubs.
9.) If you know, your truck is out of order or has blunt tires, stop and refuse to leave the yard with that shitpile of scrap metal. It is you that is going to be sacked for it and it is a danger to us...
10.) Pay attention on the road when driving and don't ever look at something in the interior of the drivers cabin (I've seen you drifting to left and right on the mororways, like you were drunk...)
11.) Don't even dream of beer or alcohol when sitting behind the weel.
Your Mulemachine turns out to be a weapon of mass destruction, if you can't handle her...
12.) Keep your resting times!
13.) Don't ever try to sleep behind the wheel...(I know you tried to do this at least once...)

Wuerzburg City rules:
1.) If you are going transit stay (the f***) on the motorway and do not drive through our town to avoid the road toll.
2.) Do not ever enter our city at night.
3.) Do not use our city as detour route.
4.) If you are going transit stay (the f***) on the motorway and do not drive through our town to avoid the road toll.
5.) If you are going transit stay (the f***) on the motorway and do not drive through our town to avoid the road toll.
6.) If you are going transit stay (the f***) on the motorway and do not drive through our town to avoid the road toll.
7.) If you are going transit stay (the f***) on the motorway and do not drive through our town to avoid the road toll.

Sorry I needed to say this...