10th of January 1910

Exactly hundred years ago today, parliament was dissolved in the UK, and elections were held two weeks later. Also, at the same day, Chief Charlo died.


This here is Chief Charlo. He's famous for being a native american, having a father named Chief Victor, and looking good in leather.


However, today is January 10th of 2010. Not much happend, except that Sven Kramer is european champion in ice scating, but I don't care much for Ice Scating anyway.

Lately I have been neglecting this blog. To be more precise, I neglegted this blog since october. Since then, lotsa stuff happened. I can't remember most of it, but there must have happened something in that time.

Well, for one thing I went to Copenhague to protest at the COP15. Do not believe the lies: the protesters were peacefull. The Police acted peacefull at first, but then performed mass-arests, quickly, brutally, and without clear reasons.
So, a quick reminder:

• There were 1000 arrests on 200.000 people. This is very little.
• These arrested people were innocent: only 13 could be detained longer than one day.
• There are reports of police using pepperspray on allready detained protesters. This is a violation of human rights.
• The police has a twofold goal with these measures: First, let the outside world think the protesters are criminals, while they are actually not. Second, scare potential new protesters of. Don't Let Them Succeed. If you are a bystander, do not believe the lies. If you are a potential activist, and want to join the next mass-demonstration (be it Mexico 2010, or some other top), by all means do so. Don't let the authorities scare you away.
  

Maybe I will post a longer review of that weekend, but for now check this, this and this posts by my good companion Dzet, who provides a pretty acurate overview of the events.

I now face three weeks of a much harder, gruelsome challenge: trying to bring this semester at university to a good end. I have two difficult papers to do, and then one test to make. It's near impossible, the work that has yet to be done before I can finish this. At least I know, that I can start completely anew in the next semester, because all classes will be new ones.

Other than that, 2010 is going to be the year in which I revive this blog. (Do I smell a deja-vú?).
It will be fresh, (yo, exiting!) and fertile....

But first, three weeks of hell!