A blog by Leon Oudejans
De ijsberg metafoor
21 Mar, 2025 | Knowledge, Power
Maandenlang werkte ik aan een diagram met een ijsberg metafoor qua (zichtbare) daden en woorden, en (onzichtbare) intenties. Ik bleef ontevreden want telkens ontbrak er iets dat ik niet (goed) kon benoemen. Vandaag “kantelde” ik die ijsberg weer eens. Dit keer voegde...
Fantasy novels and history, legends & myths
20 Mar, 2025 | Knowledge, Love
Late April 2019, I published my blog Crime novels and the 7 Belief systems. I’m still quite proud of its accompanying diagram. Some novel writers were surprised by that diagram because my perspective was brand new to them. This blog is about fantasy novels, which is...
Taiwan’s Trump fears (Bloomberg)
19 Mar, 2025 | Knowledge, Power
Intro LO: This Bloomberg Balance of Power article underlines my earlier Taiwan comments: Taiwan is digging its own political “grave” by investing almost US$ 200 billion in 5 new American factories (eg, Reuters-2025, CNBC-2025). This Bloomberg article might also be an...
Ol’65
18 Mar, 2025 | Love
Ol’55 (1973) by the Eagles (1974 cover) band, lyrics, video, Wiki-band, Wiki-album, Wiki-Tom Waits song https://youtu.be/86sb1AFl8Rs?si=UoyQSJooo10oG42m [Verse 1]Well, my time went too quicklyI went lickety-splitly out to my ol' 55As I pulled away slowly, feeling so...
The Ultimate Question: the Constitution or Trump??
17 Mar, 2025 | Knowledge, Power
Finally, the question has arrived that I had feared: “President Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to eliminate a key tool that lower courts have used to block various aspects of his agenda.” (Politico). I do hope that the U.S. Supreme Court (a.k.a. SCOTUS) will...
Machtspolitiek
14 Mar, 2025 | Knowledge, Power
Het verschil in machtspolitiek tussen Trump’s Amerika en Rusland is enorm: woorden (Trump) versus daden (o.a. oorlog met Georgië (2008) en overname van Zuid-Ossetië en Abchazië, invasies de Krim-2014 en Ukraine-2022). De intenties van Rusland lijken tamelijk...
Xi Jinping prioritizes ‘regime security’ over fighting economic turmoil (Nikkei)
11 Mar, 2025 | Knowledge, Power
Intro LO: The Nikkei Asia article (below) reminds me of one of the seven unresolved prophecies by American clairvoyant Edgar Cayce (1877-1945) about China: On one occasion, Cayce told a group of people that eventually China would become “the cradle of Christianity, as...
Chaos, Equilibrium, SuperPowers and the United States of Europe (2)
10 Mar, 2025 | Knowledge, Power
On 11 April 2015, I published my blog: Chaos, Equilibrium, SuperPowers and the United States of Europe (1). A lot has happened since, like Trump 2017-2021, 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Trump 2025-tbd. Today, I present an update of my 2015 diagram, which includes...
Elke Trump actie geeft een buitenlandse reactie
7 Mar, 2025 | Knowledge, Power
Enige tijd geleden vroeg ik me al af wat het tij van opkomend nationalisme zou kunnen keren (o.a. mijn blogs van 2025-01a, 2025-01b, 2025-02). Ik dacht toen nog dat dit een kwestie van vele jaren zou zijn. Onderstaand recente Bloomberg artikel lijkt een ander antwoord...
The free world needs a new leader?
6 Mar, 2025 | Knowledge, Love, Power
Recently, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (ie, Kaja Kallas) claimed that “The free world needs a new leader”, following Trump’s Oval Office clash with the Ukrainian president (eg, Independent). Perhaps, she referred to the EU as that...
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