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Ari

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About Me

Hi, my name is Ari, South African, born in Paarl a very beautiful corner of this planet in the Western Cape, my family is into wine and have been living in Europe since 1980. I was a carreer military till 1994, and went into the reserves with the rank of Colonel. In the Army I took a doctorate in Law, but don't practice. Today I have my own company, and enjoy a very good life. I am not married ( and I am not Gay either ), I speak a few languages, and my interests are martial arts, horse riding, my boat, reading good books, writing my own, and enjoy life to full, because I learnt that life is far too short to be wasted on futilities, paranoias, religious beliefs, and cumulated stresses.

My Interests

Martial Arts: Karate &. Aikido - Riding - Sailing- Good books - Good life - Dancing - travelling

I'd like to meet:

Interesting persons

Music:

Anything except Rap

Movies:

Various, I have not one genre: I either like it or I don't

Television:

I find CSI a lesser mind number than most television programs, and yes, I enjoy NG, and History channel

Books:

Anything: I read everything as I am extremely curious

Heroes:

Not a question to ask a former soldier

My Blog

Crimes against humanity and civil liberties

Reading newspapers today, and listening to the news has become one of the most unnerving things to do. Because it is there for all to see, and yet we just do nothing, say nothing, and let a minority ...
Posted by Ari on Fri, 25 May 2007 03:28:00 PST

Stupidity is Bliss: Lucky are those who don't understand

I have come to the conclusion that stupidity is really bliss, and those individuals (the majority) who live day in and day out worrying about everyday problems, such the kids, school, the shopping, s...
Posted by Ari on Mon, 14 May 2007 11:06:00 PST

The Art of peace

Morihei Ueshiba (1883-1969) was history's greatest Martial Artist. He was the founder of Aikido which can be translated as the "Art of Peace". Morehei Ueshiba is referred by us practioners of Aikido a...
Posted by Ari on Mon, 07 May 2007 08:59:00 PST

Operation "Crevice"!!! You are having a laugh,Mate!!!

Crevice!! What a name for an Intelligence Operation! If only they knew Latin, then perhaps they would have named it something else; and why? Because a "crevizum/crevicii" is either a canyon in between...
Posted by Ari on Wed, 02 May 2007 01:49:00 PST

The "Yob" Culture and British Diplomacy

British diplomats have really set their sights on giving really a hard time by engaging in what could be defined as "diplomatic yobery and bullying" in a campaign of slander against poor Prof. Mark P...
Posted by Ari on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:04:00 PST

Governments are at war with the people

What happened in Blacksburg Virginia iin't the sign of a sick society, as some people would like us to believe; just as truancy, petty criminality, drunkness, drugs, and children carrying knives, ign...
Posted by Ari on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 01:25:00 PST

Why are Demagogues always little men?

Well it's been a while since I have written something, not because I had nothing to say all of a sudden, but I really haven't had the time. Something I read yesterday in the Guardian caught my eye, th...
Posted by Ari on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:39:00 PST

General

Goals, plans and hopes interesting especially the hope bit friends! What do we hope for? More money, more power, more cars, more what? If people just paused for a second and looked around at what's g...
Posted by Ari on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 02:13:00 PST

Goodbye Mamma

On Monday morning at 4am my mother died. She had a long life, and for most of it she was loved deeply by my late father, who died long before her. She was a good person, intelligent and wordly and I ...
Posted by Ari on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:17:00 PST

Soldiers always pay the price of political stupidity

President BUSH is really one of the most stupid men of this century and one of the most dangerous. Never before we have been confronted in human history with such a level of stupidity in a ...
Posted by Ari on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:39:00 PST