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Empathy is the bridge that opens up to the other side
PETROFILM.COM EUROPE
Information and Interpretation
from a European Perspective
Información e Interpretación
desde una perspectiva Europea
EUROPE-USA
A TRANS-ATLANTIC PARTNERSHIP
UNA COLABORACIÓN TRANSATLÁNTICA
EMPATHY RESPECT DIGNITY
EMPATÍA RESPETO DIGNIDAD
Harald Dahle-Sladek
Founder and Editor-in-chief
Fundador y editor en jefe
To contact the Editor-in-chief with questions, comments and inquiries about lectures or consultations, please e-mail us at haroldsworld@petrofilm.com
Oslo, Norway
歐洲分析與解釋
אמפתיה כבוד כבוד
ניתוח, מידע עם פרספקטיבה אירופית
تجزیه و تحلیل ، اطلاعات از یک چشم انداز اروپایی
АНАЛИЗ ИНФОРМАЦИИ С ПЕРСПЕКТИВЫ
ИЗ ЕВРОПЫ
דיאלוג עכשיו ДИАЛОГСЕЙЧАС
DIALOGUENOW
Institute for Empathetic Dialogue formation
and Conflict Resolution, Oslo Norway.
Instituto para la formación del Diálogo Empático y Resolución de Conflictos, Oslo Noruega
عزت احترام به همدلی یکپارچه سازی
The Foreign Ministry Tehran
Creating dialogue and common ground
with the Islamic republic of Iran 1998-2022.
ایجاد گفت و گو و زمینه مشترک با ایران 1998-2022
Updates from
Washington, D.C.
Denmark
Danske Bank Pleads Guilty to Fraud on U.S. Banks in a Multi-Billion Dollar Scheme to Access the U.S. Financial System.
Largest Bank in Denmark Agrees to Forfeit $2 Billion.
Danske Bank A/S (Danske Bank), a global financial institution headquartered in Denmark, pleaded guilty today and agreed to forfeit $2 billion to resolve the United States’ investigation into Danske Bank’s fraud on U.S. banks.
According to court documents, Danske Bank defrauded U.S. banks regarding Danske Bank Estonia’s customers and anti-money laundering controls to facilitate access to the U.S. financial system for Danske Bank Estonia’s high-risk customers, who resided outside of Estonia – including in Russia. The Justice Department will credit nearly $850 million in payments that Danske Bank makes to resolve related parallel investigations by other domestic and foreign authorities. Continues further down.
Switzerland
Glencore International AG
Entered Guilty Pleas to Foreign Bribery and Market Manipulation Schemes. Swiss-Based Firm Agrees to Pay Over $1.1 Billion
Glencore International A.G. (Glencore) and Glencore Ltd., both part of a multi-national commodity trading and mining firm headquartered in Switzerland, each pleaded guilty today and agreed to pay over $1.1 billion to resolve the government’s investigations into violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and a commodity price manipulation scheme.
Luxembourg
haroldsw
ANALYSIS INFORMATION FROM A EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE
PETROFILM.COM
Founder and Editor-in-chief
Основатель и главный редактор
بنیانگذار و مدیرمسئول
創始人兼總編輯
The Definition of Aristocracy
The original meaning of the word aristocracy simply referred to 'the rule of the best'. Aristos, the Greek word for best, implied the ‘most fitting or best suited’, while kratos referred to rule or power. This early definition described only the characteristics of suitability and gover-nance, with no relation to class or wealth.
European Aristocracy
Adriaan de Lelie, the family of Jan van Loon, 1786
NORWAY
By the Editor-in-chief
Norwegian Mediocracy!
Out of the State's vision of near-Communist social equality, an intellectual underclass has been created.
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin preaches equality to the masses; 104 years after his birth, Prime Minister Erna Solberg of Norway does the same camouflaged as right-wing equality propaganda.
Norway has a State-led policy of philosophy with direct anti-human traits. Fear of the Aristocracy - ruling by the best - and the elimination of the upper class in general, has inspired rhetorical absurdities wrapped in cuddly, meaningless talk. Filling this intellectual void gave way to the Norwegian mediocracy as it is shamefully displayed in today's dictatorship of the partitocracy. As well as among the people in general and the ever-richer green petro elite. The Norwegian Mediocracy is a dominant class consisting of mediocre people trapped in a system in which mediocracy is rewarded. The utter lack of Covid-19 vaccines and hospital beds, as two examples, are serious warning signals and clear verifications of a downward spiraling trend. So is the disintegration of meaning in the spoken language.
The Norwegian way of creating dialogue and common ground is to desperately try to understand every word from its cognitive side detached from its empathic and cultural bearings. Followed by a swift minimization of what one has interpreted as have been said, and then grudgingly throw it back to the speaker as an unworthy nothing. Because in Norway you should neither be anything nor get confirmation that what you say is worth something. Out of the State's vision of near-communist social equality, an intellectual underclass has been created.
Nowhere in the history of modern Norway
was its mediocracy more evident than with its titanic clash of civilizations with Iran. Here from my reflections on the matter.
The last meeting on Minister level between Norway and Iran took place in May 2003 on the 15th Executive Floor of the National Iranian Oil company NIOC. On the left side as #3 from left sits Iran’s Minister of Oil Bijan Zanganeh with his Norwegian counterpart Minister of Energy and Petroleum Einar Steensnes as #6 on the right side. Norway's eagerness to portray itself as the corrupt equality-country it is backfired and STATOIL's endeavors in the Islamic Republic ended abruptly. Picture: (C)2003 Harald Dahle-Sladek
The Editor-in-chief:
Even before the plane with its Government officials and representatives of the petroleum-related industries had left the Norwegian air-space, Norway had in fact already lost its unique business opportunity in the Islamic republic of Iran. These fish eating latecomers had all arrived Teheran’s Mehrabad Airport from a country which, in a radical way, distances itself from piety and where spirituality does not have any important place in the daily lives of the people. And where the word "Islam" in their Nordic consciousness often is associated with terrorism and threats. The stage was now set for a humongous clash between two contradictory civilizations!
From the very outset it was the twisted Norwegian mindset, the whole chain of command in Oslo and it's ill prepared bureaucracy that faulted. Right from the Parliament down through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Energy and Oil, INTSOK and the industry, and the medium sized oil company Statoil whose ethical bearing were out of course. Their factual relations to Iran were all seriously lagging behind and bribery and corruption were only two unpleasant sides of a larger and more complex picture. Welcome to Norway's worst diplomatic, ethical and industrial catastrophe in modern times.
MEDIOCRACY IN DAILY LIFE: BREAKDOWN OF MEANING IN THE SPOKEN LANGUAGE
By the Editor-in-chief
The Norwegian way of talking to another human being is done with the rude "you" (German: Du)
"You" has become a rhetorical free pass that allows the user to cross personal boundaries without paying the slightest consideration. In this way, the person can in the most obvious way step into another person's most personal areas and utilize this; right of use and property rights included. The form of accusation "you" seems to add to intimacy, but it is in its character completely superficial. One wants to give the impression of psychological closeness, and it can be used to manipulate the person being talked to.
Saying "you" is dehumanizing and without dignity. Lack of real dignity and respect are two factors that clarify Norwegians' relationship with each other. Superficial, sort of commitment wrapped in "you" is what characterizes the Norwegian, democratic society of today.
In the aristocratic society, on the other hand, everyone knew their rightful, social place. In a democratic society, everyone moves around at high speed while at the same time being extremely concerned with giving the impression of closeness through cuddly talk such as "Enjoy yourself!"
Up until the nineteen seventies, the exalted and respectful form of speech «DU» (Norwegian: De; German: Sie) was used in Norway, but then something happened; the Norwegian State intervened and set out to remove the respectful form «DU» (German: Sie), and instead introduced the disrespectful «you» (German: Du) form.
The "YOU" form was simply too exalted; the Norwegian State did not like it. And then all impressions of aristocracy and upper class were leveled off and replaced with mediocrity and unworthiness.
Now it was okay to be a bully dressed in a suit. The "you" form (German: Du) enabled a shift from the rhetorically exalted to the rhetorically absurd and has contributed greatly to the general dissolution of social norms.
NORWAY: THE RIGHT-WING GOVERNMENT OF PRIME MINISTER ERNA SOLBERG IS CRUMBLING
NOW AT A TIPPING POINT
NORWAY WITHOUT VACCINES AND HOSPITAL BEDS!
The right wing Government of Erna Solberg is cracking up in every corner due to catastrophic handling of the Corona virus crisis. Hospital beds for Corona patients are missing. A complete national emergency disaster is unfolding. The number of vaccines that has been intro-duced so far is on a laughable 7.5 percent. A humanitarian catastrope never seen before in modern times is unfolding under a torrent of shameful rhethoric! Shameful is the word we also use about the Prime Minister's mediocre speech on Sunday 7.3.21.
One year of babbling, and no vaccines: Monica Mæland, Minister of Justics and Public Security, Prime Minister Erna Solberg and Minister of Health, Bent Høie during a coronavirus press conference.
A DISASTEROUS VACCINE STRATEGY IS PRESENTET AS A FORMIDABLE SUCCESS.
The opposition led by Labor Party Jonas Gahr Støre accuses the Government of secrecy surrounding the Government’s negotiations and contracts with manufacturers of Corona vaccines. The opposition demands transparency, but so far Solberg has denied access and insight. Pressure is mounting day by day. With barely five hundred thousand doses set Norway faces an emergency disaster with hardly any hospital beds available for Covid-19 patients. The infection quotient is now at 1.3 meaning that the infection is rising dramatically day by day and the State has no vaccines to offer. Prime Minister Solberg has announced a speech to the country the coming Sunday at 6pm.
A NATIONAL EMERGENCY DISASTER
In Norway only 2.51 per 100 inhabitants have been vaccinated, while England has 14.87 per 100 inhabitants. Norway has set a laughable 490.000 doses, England twenty millions with the first dose! Norway’s dictatorship of its partitocracy is fast sinking the country as you read. Imagine, you had trillions in the bank and no vaccines? Yes, it’s that insane!
There is a giant disc-shaped red warning light hovering slowly over Europe these days! It’s been there for some time now since the outbreak of the Covid-19 virus. EU did little too late. Norway did nothing! At the moment Europe is sinking and breaking up in parts. There aren’t vaccines to the population because this Continent is governed by utter mediocre people.
NORWAY'S MEDIOCRACY OF SOCIAL EQUALITY
Out of the State's vision of near-Communist social equality, an intel-lectual underclass has been created. Norway has a State-led policy of philosophy with direct anti-human traits. Fear of the Aristocracy - ruling by the best - and the elimination of the upper class in general, has inspired rhetorical absurdities wrapped in cuddly, meaningless talk. Filling this intellectual void gave way to the Norwegian mediocracy as it is shamefully displayed in today's dictatorship of the partitocracy. As well as among the people in general and the ever-richer green petro elite.
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin preaches equality to the masses; 104 years after his birth, Prime Minister Erna Solberg of Norway does the same camouflaged as right-wing equality propaganda.
The Norwegian Mediocracy is a dominant class consisting of mediocre people trapped in a system in which mediocracy is rewarded. The utter lack of Covid-19 vaccines and hospital beds, as two examples, are serious warning signals and clear verifications of a downward spiraling trend. So is the disintegration of meaning in the spoken language.
The Norwegian way of creating dialogue and common ground is to desperately try to understand every word from its cognitive side detached from its empathic and cultural bearings. Followed by a swift minimization of what one has interpreted as have been said, and then grudgingly throw it back to the speaker as an unworthy nothing. Because in Norway you should neither be anything nor get confirmation that what you say is worth something. Out of the State's vision of near-communist social equality, an intellectual underclass has been created.
Luxembourg
haroldsw