A few days ago I went to Berlin. I had the chance to go around the city, and one of Berlin’s attractions is the Sony center. It has restaurants and coffee shops, a cinema museum and a cinema to name but a few things you can do around there. In the middle it has a mini-garden, and around it something like a huge bench where you can sit. Naturally, it was full with people. Tourists taking a break and some photos, but also Berliners meeting with their friends and hanging around there.

That was the first day. Then, the next day and for the three of four following days, things changed. A huge red carpet arrived, they put fence all over it, covering also the big bench, and in the middle of it all they built a stage.

Now there was a big banner outside the cinema, and it advertised the Transformers movie. I thought this might have to do with the stage and carpet, but I was not sure.

As days went by, the fence was becoming annoying, because this is a pretty popular place, lots of people were coming and going, and I thought that whatever this event is about, it was not really worth it.

I left Berlin at the 14th of June, so today, two days later, I thought I might check what this was all about. And I found this video.

Army is discipline. Army is love for your country. You have to protect it from the enemies. And it takes a real man to do that. A man who is strong, fit, smart, a man with ideals, who can sacrifice himself for his flag and his culture. Army makes you strong and always ready to annihilate your enemies.

Army is also exciting, and pays really good, as the British Army tells us. Their logo is: Army, be the best. And we have to believe them, don’t we?

We would, if we forgot the real war is not played by weapons today. Real war is mass media. It was 9/11 and the American terrorism, it is all the movies about how bad people from Middle East are, it is war over oil and natural gas, it is war of corporations to us, about who will get the most out of our wallets.

And it would sound exciting, if it still did not involve killing people. Serial killers would surely find this exciting. But, I believe the majority of us are not serial killers. Still they have to find people who are stupid enough to finish what they started with “intelligent” war, and go over there to clean up and justify their purposes.

It’s a new day, it’s a new dawn. Most of us really hoped for a day like this, but we’d never thought we would live to see it. Obama can’t save the world, but we all hope he will keep his promise and changes things. People are ready and ask for this actually.

At Chicago, where people gathered for Obama’s speech, a reporter asked a guy who was the owner of a big company or something how he felt about the wealth distribution. And his answer shocked me. He said that he didn’t care if he had to pay more taxes, if the world was to become a better place.

And the world looks at the U.S.A. in a different way already. Everyone I know, is really happy, and feel optimistic for the planet’s future. We all want this change. We all hope everything will be better from now on. Not only for the Americans, but also for the rest of the planet the cowboy messed up, includin the planet itself.

I really wanted Obama to win, but I thought this was not possible. I was afraid the potato man would be in charge of the world now, and the future looked dim. His only difference from Bush is that Bush is stupid, while McCain is ruthless.

You find your significant other and you decide to get married. Think again, not the significant other part, the wedding part. I mean, seriously, it’s easier said than done.

First of all, you have to know, for most of the parents, it’s not the couple’s day, it’s THEIR day. If you wanted to, you could leave them decide for everything, and they wouldn’t ask you for a single thing. They know better, always, don’t they? They got married before you after all, and they have been to many weddings. They have the know-how, and why, and when, and who.

Above everything in your wedding, is your parent’s debts to other people. I mean, you know, whose wedding they’ve been to, their customers, their friends, their colleagues, their providers, their bosses or employees, well, all those people around them. Then there are the couple’s debts, their colleagues, customers, providers, bosses, employees, bosses, friends, neighbors etc. And all those people HAVE to be there.

Then there are the details. First question is when. Not in the middle of the summer, your parents don’t like it too hot, but not in the winter too, they wouldn’t want the rain or snow to ruin their hair or shoes.

Then the where, according to one custom at the bride’s home city, which could be different than where she lives now, but this doesn’t matter actually, if her parents still do. Or according to other customs, to the groom’s home city, but that’s for the parents to decide, back off pup, this is none of your business.

It is 7:00 in the evening. You just came home from work, tired but with the feeling that you still have time to enjoy yourself, or maybe not, but you are willing to try. You take a shower and then prepare something to eat, something nice, it’s been a really hard day, you lost a client and your boss is pissed off.

So you are feeling a bit fresher and you decide to empty your mind and enjoy your dinner. You are feeling a bit lonely, so you switch on the dumb-box, to watch something light, like an episode of that old series you used to watch some years ago. You eat your first bite, you just began to feel a bit better, to hell with the boss, you tell yourself, you deserve some happiness.

Just when you let yourself relax, the ads start. First an insurance company, then a super market, and the third is a bank, all trying to prove you they have the best service, for the right price, nothing to worry about, they care for you, and now, with the financial crisis, they all have special deals, to show you how much they love you, really.

America used to be the promise land once upon a time. They still think they are, they just forget information is faster than propaganda, and people actually know what there is going on there.

The U.S.A., like other super-power countries, seem like another planet. They only think about their interests, they try to keep people away from information and freedom, and they only want to prove they are super-powers.

I would not really care about their elections, but unfortunately, they affect the rest of the world as well. And no matter the outcome, we are all fucked. I have to say, McCain seems ruthless and totally stupid, but in the end both of them are controlled. Well only time will tell if McCanDoAnything exceeds Shrub in stupidity, if something like that is even possible.

Their war on terrorism is another way to control the masses, and just like religion, to keep everyone feared, so they can achieve their goals. And their goal is to get richer themselves and to keep the corporations richer and happier as well.

Hitler is associated with evil, war, and death. Yet, if you compare what the American presidents and their courtiers did all those years with what he did, he seems harmless. How many innocent people do they still kill today? How many more do they want to kill just to get their hands on precious oil.

Men and women nowadays are supposed to be equal. Yet women show more than ever their need to be controlled in every aspect of their lives, just not by men. Well, I am not absolutely certain about that, but, hey, if that’s what they want to believe, it’s fine by me.

Maybe we still go through the era of change of women, but it should be over by now. Technically, we are still at the third wave of feminism, but it proceeds waaay to slow.

So, as women, we accomplished quite a lot. We can vote, we can work,we can have proper education, we can drive, pretty much we can do everything we want to, in most countries, anyway. And most of us don’t think can even perceive how it would be like to feel inferior.

Yet, it feels wrong, it’s like nothing has changed. We don’t depend on men, but we do depend on our bosses. Some are lucky enough to be the bosses, but this does not apply to most women. We don’t depend on our husband’s money, but we need credit cards and loans, so we depend on our banks.