Via: http://eyewashstation.blogspot.com/2007/11/odds-of-dying-in-terrorist-attack.html

 

The odds of dying in a terrorist attack in the USA, might be similar in Europe.

You are 13 times more likely to die in a railway accident than from a terrorist attack

You are 12,571 times more likely to die from cancer than from a terrorist attack

You are six times more likely to die from hot weather than from a terrorist attack

You are eight times more likely to die from accidental electrocution than from a terrorist attack

You are 11,000 times more likely to die in an airplane accident than from a terrorist plot involving an airplane

You are 87 times more likely to drown than die in a terrorist attack

You are 404 times more likely to die in a fall than from a terrorist attack

You are 17,600 times more likely to die from heart disease than from a terrorist attack

You are 1048 times more likely to die from a car accident than from a terrorist attack

You are 12 times more likely to die from accidental suffocation in bed than from a terrorist attack

You are nine times more likely to choke to death on your own vomit than die in a terrorist attack

You are eight times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist

The man who believes the world was created in 6 days visited Cameroon this week. I have worked in Kamerun in 2004. Many people suffered AIDS. In the southern area where I worked, over 12 % of the population was HIV infected. I have seen a lot of suffering. Funerals were held like everywhere all the time... Children became parentless and had no future, because of their own infection.

On his way to Cameroon, this man in a white dress has said  that the use of condoms does not protect against HIV, but even helps spreading HIV faster.
Now, in Cameroon, many people are infected. One partner can be infected, the other can be free of the HI Virus, what now? The condom is the onliest practical way to protect against HIV.
People do get horny, a state of mind that even the dirty old bastard himself will know, as we look closer on the picture.
Okay, catholic priest do not get infected so often with HIV because they prefer to fuck fresh, sexual inactive young boys. Hey, there 's not much risk in that... Most people prefer to fuck people in their own age-class, that is much nicer for the people who will get fucked, because they will not be as traumatized as the young boys, raped by horny sick catholic priests. The risk is that adult people often already are sexual active and can therefor carry the HI Virus.

Please, spread condoms instead evil nonsense Mr. Benedict!

"Bakfiets/Transportrad", 2009, Diamantrad, Einkaufswagen


"Kriegsmaschine", 2009, Benzinkanister, Holz, Acryl, Zahnräder, Eisen.

If you move the grip on the side of the jerrycan, the tank and fighter jet will move, the little rabbit will tremble in fear.


Photo opt in the local supermarket

This afternoon I have caught a nice and tasty cod for Christmas. It took me 5 minutes to pull the poor creature out of its under water world. Going to the supermarket takes longer and the fish will not be that fresh..Now that is what I call easy living!
Of course the fish must have had some horrible last moments so I would like to apologize to the spirit of this now dead cod with bad luck...

"Humpty dumpty MDA", 2008, iron, shopping cart parts, paint

More pictures of the cart  on my website www.wouter-mijland.com

I have the idea  to fill the cart with something but I don't know with what. 

Does anybody have a good or great idea?

I am interested what people think on this!
Please, write it in the comments or send me an email with the idea to skulpta@gmail.com. The best idea I will reward with a small art work, made by myself. My girlfriend and I will be the jury for the contest. We never agree on anything, so it will be a serious jury.

The work that I will give away will be a bit like the object in the post here under ("Basic information"), but better. Come on and give it a try! The stranger the idea, the better...
The winner will be published in the beginning of Januar 2009.

"Basic information" 2008, paint, wood , computer part

Thanks for the wild turkey and
the passenger pigeons, destined
to be shit out through wholesome
American guts.


Thanks for a continent to despoil
and poison.

Thanks for Indians to provide a
modicum of challenge and
danger.

Thanks for vast herds of bison to
kill and skin leaving the
carcasses to rot.

Thanks for bounties on wolves
and coyotes.

Thanks for the American dream,
To vulgarize and to falsify until
the bare lies shine through.

Thanks for the KKK.

For nigger-killin' lawmen,
feelin' their notches.

For decent church-goin' women,
with their mean, pinched, bitter,
evil faces.

Thanks for "Kill a Queer for
Christ" stickers.

Thanks for laboratory AIDS.

Thanks for Prohibition and the
war against drugs.

Thanks for a country where
nobody's allowed to mind the
own business.

Thanks for a nation of finks.

Yes, thanks for all the
memories-- all right let's see
your arms!

You always were a headache and
you always were a bore.

Thanks for the last and greatest
betrayal of the last and greatest
of human dreams.
William S. Burroughs Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28, 1986 For John Dillinger In hope he is still alive ...

Reporter: What do you think of western civilization?

Mahatma Gandhi: I think it would be a good idea.

Politicians decided to abandon nuclear energy in Germany in the year 2000. In 2002 this decision was confirmed by changing the German nuclear law. Now some politicians want to abandon the abondoning of nuclear power. Still, there is no solution for nuclear waste, which will be dangerous for up to a million years... Have a look at human history and you will notice that there is quite a big chance (understatement) that in the future our western world will no longer exist as we know it. In my point of view this will mean that allmost certainly nuclear waste disposal sites will become unknown and that technical possibilities to monitor the dangerous waste will not for ever be available. In other words: our civilization will poison future civilizations in the most evil way, probably without them knowing why they get cancer and produce disfigured children.

An interesting part in this is that especially the christian politicians are into nuclear power. Is this because they believe in an afterlife? Is it because they believe some man with a beard on a cloud will come up with a solution? Is it because the Christian Democratic Union has strong (financial/job optional) ties with the big energy producers?

When I see propaganda material from the nuclear energy lobby I think a big part of the  christian support for nuclear power started out of recognition: the lay-out of the nuclear lobby's info material looks a lot like the pictures on calendars and posters which common christian people have hanging in their toilets, guest-rooms and corridors. No wonder poor christians got tricked into supporting dangerous nuclear energy:

via FreeFoto.com


Scan from a German nuclear power lobby prospekt

Probably the water is so nice and blue because there is a healthy little nuclear power plant at the side of the river! Hallelujah!

Text on the propaganda picture

It makes me want to puke when I see what a desinformation there is in this propaganda. They state that a nuclear power plant produces no klima changing CO2 at all. The point is that the building of the plant, the mining of the uranium and the transport are, next to other environmental damages, producing loads of CO2. Furthermore, there is this very dangerous waste that you can not compare to CO2. "Let's fight klima change and save the world by poisoning the world with something more violent!"

Taste the waste!

بعد التحية  انا استعمل البرنامج في اعمالي الفنية و بعض الاحيان استعمل اللغة العربية ولكني
اجد صعوبات قي نقل النص العربي الى لوحة العمل. ارجو مساعدتي فى هذا الموضوع و شكرا جزيلا.

"To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. Otherwise, you are doomed to a routine traverse, the kind known to yachtsmen who play with their boats at sea -- cruising, it is called. Voyaging belongs to seamen, and to the wanderers of the world who cannot, or will not, fit in. If you are contemplating a voyage and you have the means, abandon the venture until your fortunes change. Only then will you know what the sea is all about.

"'I've always wanted to sail to the south seas, but I can't afford it,' some men say. What these men can't afford is not to go. They are enmeshed in the cancerous discipline of security. And in the worship of security we fling our lives beneath the wheels of routine, and before we know it our lives are gone.

"What does a man need -- really need? A few pounds of food each day, heat and shelter, six feet to lie down in, and some form of working activity that will yield a sense of accomplishment. That's all in the material sense, and we know it.

"But we are brainwashed by our economic system until we end up in a tomb beneath a pyramid of time payments, mortgages, preposterous gadgetry, playthings that divert our attention for the sheer idiocy of the charade. The years thunder by, the dreams of youth grow dim where they lie caked in dust on the shelves of patience. Before we know it, the tomb is sealed.

"Where, then, lies the answer?
In choice. Which shall it be: bankruptcy of purse or bankruptcy of life?"

(-- the most oft-quoted passage from Sterling Hayden's Wanderer).

I decided to leave the bike here for a while, because many people come here and have a nice photo-opt with it and I am too lazy to push it around all the time..
Hey, it's still weekend and I have to prepare for the coming week:

Aye Aye Aye! My website got over the magic amount of 1000 visitors today! (this very blog here is going towards 2000 hits)

The exciting fact about it is that it is not even online for 2 months.

Still, I am not a superstar or very famous. Of course, I am starting to be known a little bit in the town I am living in, but maybe that is more because I am walking around on wooden shoes a lot with my 4,50 meter long bicycle from spätshop to spätshop, than for the fact that people truly noticed that I am one of the biggest modern artists of these times. I must say that I am satisfied with that, normal people in the streets give me free beer to support me and my art work.
At least I am not so bored and stupid because of being in the art scene too much that I let some other person glue some 20 million worth of diamonds on an old skull and afterwards buy it back myself for some 63 million, boasting around that I made the world's most expensive sculpture:
Man, go tell your mother                   ! (It looks like the world's ugliest sculpture if you ask me, for people who care about Africa it  is the world most bloody sculpture.)
Making the world's most expensive art work is as constructive as farting the alphabet, showing the woman with the beard at the circus side show or measuring your penis so you can tell your friends in the pub...

To celebrate the fact that 1000 visitors already had the great opportunity to view my very  modern and entertaining website I will start a small project to honour and spoil my growing herd of admirers:

I will exhibit at some exclusive places in Dresden! Here follows the program for this which will be published at my website www.wouter-mijland.com as well:

*3/7 November (tonight and tomorrow): Art Academy Dresden and Albertinum, Brühlsche Terasse 1Dresden

*8november: Doppel DE, Buchenstr. 16 A, auch in Dresden

For next week I do not know where my exhibitions will be, if you have any suggestions: please leave them in the comments or write me an email.  Pictures of this week's exhibitions will be posted here, check it out. Leitkultur über alles!
 
                                                    
                                                     Very nice skulpture for only
                                                    €3400,- in the Galery! If you
                                                    send me an email I will make
                                                    you one for half the price; 1700€

I have made a large mistake in my past. I have chosen the wrong profession! Instead of becoming an artist and forester I should have become an investment banker.
When I do something wrong I most often have to pay a lot (anything above €30:- in my case) of money to some organization or the state I am living in...

A few weeks ago I had to go to court. I was caught by the police while driving drunk on my bicycle. I did have my lights on and did not behave anti-social. Still the government wrote me a letter in which they wrote me that I had to go to jail for 40(!) days or pay €2800,-(!). This for having 0,2 Promille too much alcohol in my blood and a very low amount of Tetracannabinol, not enough to get a fruitfly stoned.
I went to court and got €2000,- discount on my ticket, because of my nice blue eyes and the fact that I could convince the judge that I am as poor as a churchrat. I still have to pay €800,- to the German state, that is how expensive a little saturdaynight fever can be over here...Hey, I am an artist, we do like that!

If you make a big mistake as an investment banker or a pension fund manager you will get billions of money from the same government.
With a big mistake I mean for instance the loss of billions of money (not the banker's money,it is the private customer's, therefor also your money!) by literally gambling it away on the international market. The result is that many people loose their savings, their pension and the economy might collaps, resulting in poverty rates rising and making life a lot harder for many innocent people. Still, you don't have to pay a fine and will not have to go to court, you will get a lot of support and money in stead!

I am not whining. I will pay my bill of €800,- and live on, I will probably sleep on the floor in the pub next time I get drunk. I do wonder about this strange world I am living in and about the double standards our politicians are measuring with.

What is so bad about the economical growth going down? I actually see many positive aspects in it. I would love to see an icecold recession hitting in soon, as long as those banker friendly politicians will take good care of the poorest, old, sick and helpless people in our society.

Often I see that our way of living is over the top. People buy a new LCD or plasma TV just because they can, they have a proper working normal TV in the livingroom, but throw that one away. Why watch television, unless you like to stay stupid and disinformed by politicians and bankers?
A recession must be healing towards the environmental catastrophe that is going on. I still don't understand why the government does not make an emergency plan for the environment like it does for the banks. I mean, the pollution is what gives us cancer!

A while ago our washing machine (which we got from my girlfriend's parents, they had bought a new one, allthough this one was working well) broke down. I drove to an electro-garbage gathering station in the city and got another one for free. The door handle was broken. My girlfriend got a new one for a few euros and attached it with 2 screws in 2 minutes and we had a perfectly working washing machine again...
Why do people and our mentally ill politicians believe that economical growth is very important? It all goes down the drain... Why buy even more plastic crap, why buy more electro-garbage, why buy more combined metal/petrol/electro/plastic waste called "new car"?

I love gardening. While growing my own vegetables I don't even think about watching boring and fake stuff on TV, I get healthier and fresher veggies and save a lot of money while feeling good because I do achieve some self fullfillment. Ecologically seen a recession seems to be what we need the most today.
Even better; a recession would save me a lot of money, because I would have no money to get drunk in the pub and cycle home, risking fines up to €800,-. I probably would brew some home beer or wine though! (I am sorry girlfriend)....