All I wanted was a bit of control...

The Canaries, where I am fortunate enough to live are, nominally, part of Spain.

I say that things are nominally the same here as on the Mainland. Many of the things that apply there don’t apply here. The tax systems are different, and so is welfare and social security.

Also, I am lucky enough to work on the internet despite access being somewhat erratic http://www.keithdonnelly-online.com/

One of the things that is the same here as on the Mainland, is the number of fiesta’s they have every year – Or, so one would think.

I, only mention this because the Government in Madrid has decreed that the number of days off must be reduced, and along with the ending of the Siesta – which even the loosing, Socialist government, was trying to get rid of, must be a thing of the past, in the name of efficiency.

Apparently, a modern economy cannot have its’ workers taking so many days off during the week, irrespective of

the climate, these workers toil in.

In a recent spat between Spanish and German officials, a representative from the German government suggested that if the Spanish worked as hard as the Germans, they would be equally successful.

It was, then, pointed out that in fact Spanish workers have less time off when annual leave is taken into account.

It was in this atmosphere of turmoil, in the UK that I decided to seek out opportunities for earning an income on the Internet

As I have mentioned, previously, it was a slow process. Not that I didn’t have the chance – My email inbox was packed with offers – people sending me offers, claiming I could earn thousands a month, a week, a day, all while sitting on the beach with the waves lapping at my feet.

I have to say, that once or twice I was seduced and actually parted with money, only to be disappointed.

Working here brought to mind a quote from Bob Proctor, from The Secret, who in an interview I saw, said he hadn’t worked a day since he quit as a Montreal fireman, in the mid 1960’s.

I was hearing this over 40 years after he quit fire fighting, so I thought he must have come into some money, or won the lottery. Then, just recently, I heard the explanation in a conversation he was having with a man called Lanny Morton. Bob tells Lanny that he enjoys what he does so much it can’t be considered as work.

And that summed up my feelings towards my work, on my website and writing this Blog. OK so, time can fly by and I not notice – But there’s no one standing over me telling me to hurry, or that I have to do something else.

Regards, Keith

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Rage Against The Machine…

There is a rock group by the same name as the title of this Blog…I hope they don’t mind me borrowing their name…

My rage is about the amount of news available to us today…every hour, on the hour!

One day recently, I accidentally put the news on as I sat down to work on my website http://www.keithdonnelly-online.com/ and heard a news item. Twelve hours later, the same news piece was still the lead. It was as if nothing else had happened throughout the day.

And not just on TV either …

Here, at Chez Donnelly, we don’t have the TV on much, unless memsahib wants to watch re-runs of Dallas & Dynasty available from the CBS digi-box, so we have the radio. Even then we get it – the same order and intensity but without the pictures.

I’m not sure which is worse – seeing it on the screen of the telly, or on the screen of my mind, which is what radio does – Forces you to imagine the things described by the newsreader – Every hour – On the hour.

Wallace Wattles, in his book ‘The Science of Getting Rich’, guards us against the study of famine, poverty, sickness for to do so will make you, temporarily, one of them and impede any progress being made in the study of getting rich.

Here’s a question for you - Who decides what IS news on any given day? What criteria do they use? Do you get asked?

In a recent report of a shooting at, yet another, US College the death-toll was put at four, only for a downward revision, to be placed in the scroll-bar at the bottom of the screen a few hours later. No mention of it came from the Newsreader.

Another problem is the immediacy of news reporting.

It was said that, when the volcano in Krakatoa erupted in 1883, it took three months for the news to reach Britain.

When John F Kennedy was assassinated, in 1963, it took a few hours for news to reach the outside world.

This week we hear there’s a monsoon in the Philippines and within minutes its’ on the air…On a TV and a radio near you…

I understand that from a humanitarian perspective it helps with aid and assistance but do we need to see people clinging for their lives onto the roofs of buildings, over and over, hour after hour?

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