Writing on three articles for the magazine, one of the articles is about Francisco Badenes, the Brazilian police investigator. I met him here in Bergen where he held a big presentation at the Town Hall, by invitation from the university branch of Amnesty International. I met him a few days later and asked a few questions, and my article is based on his answers, as well as the general problem of corruption/organized crime in Brazil.. (I am NOT saying that Brazil is a bad country; those who have reason will know the difference)

On saturday, I just found out today, I will be attending a big debate on environmental issues. It will be my first Major public debate for years... And the first in party politics (as opposed to student politics, which I did earlier), so I am a bit nervous about that. The hall will be filled with pro-environment youngsters (from the Natur og Ungdom norwegian NGO), and I will be representing the Liberals, which is part of the Norwegian government coalition, as well as the city government here in Bergen, so I will have to "defend" our party against all kinds of bad things that our government is doing. mmmm, sexy!

Oh well, I will use the tactics of open-ness, and discussion, and tell the socialists and others that hey, one thing is the ideal world, another thing is the real world, and our work is to move the real world towards the ideal world. We can do Some miracles, but we cannot do them all.. I guess the worst thing I can do is to defend our party or the government without any decency, and just say that the environment groups are whining without stop, or something silly like that.

Oh, Russia will sign the Kyoto Treaty, so this means that Norway has to reduce its emissions as well, hmm. Good!! Now, lets look constructively at what we can do together, here in Norway and internationally for the environment.

bleh, I need to finish those articles now, or the new editor of the magazine will slaughter me and feed me to the pigs.