So, here I am at almost 11 km. above surface level, not far from the coast of Iceland. We have been in the air for a little more than two hours. Still 7 more hours to go until we touch down in Chicago, and then I'll fly American the rest of the way to Kansas City.

Annoyingly, my hind quarters are already getting sore. We just had the in-flight meal, and since we're flying Scandinavian, we had mashed potatoes with meatballs and chocolate moussé for desert. Only part of it I enjoyed was the bread and (Danish) butter. The moussé was particularly vile, tasting like a ton of artificial sweetener :-(

Well, I do not do these kind of things very often, but I feel compelled to warn you to stay away from (mt) Media Temple and their much touted (gs) Grid Server service.

I read about their service on the web somewhere and decided to try it out. It sounded too good to be true (and it was): 100 GB of storage, 1 TB of traffic, 100 individual sites.

After a rather nasty episode with a DDoS attack and a lot of trouble with my webhosting-provider, my site is finally back.

In other news, I've disabled comments on the site, since I currently don't have the time to deal with all the spam that's coming in.

I've been watching the blogosphere a lot these last six months, and I've seen some rather disturbing things that have more than confirmed my suspicions of the contemporary political systems.

Most of the videos I've seen comes from America. I think the people over there are simultaneously worse and better off than the people in Denmark, though it is hard to evaluate.

I've seen three videos I'd like to recommend:

• Money, Banking and the Federal Reserve – since I first learned about inflation when I was a little boy, I never understood what made for inflation, and why it couldn't be reversed. Later in school, I learned to take this for a fact. This brilliant video proves all that wrong, and although it is mainly concerned with the American system, it has torn down most of everything I thought I knew about economics. It is especially interesting, since we have the same system in Denmark, complete with the national bank that is not regulated by our government.
• Immigration by the numbers – the problem is not immigrants, but mass immigration. A very thoughtful demonstration of why the great nation that America was for a few decades is rapidly becoming a thing of the past.
• America: Freedom to Fascism – although the credibility of this movie is hard to gauge with my rather inferior knowledge about the United States, but I've been able to verify several of the things mentioned in the movie, and it dovetails nicely with the videos mentioned above.

I think the issues presented here strike deep into the fabric of modern society. Greedy men and socialists managed to do what Hitler, Stalin and all the obvious dictators singularly failed to do: Get people to choose slavery instead of liberty, bondage instead of freedom.