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Hello everyone, my name is Bart Hendrikx. No, I don't have any blood relations with Jimi. Berlin is where I am now, where I work for Parasol Island. In less than 3 decades of this inspired life of mine, I've uncovered a bit of Mother Earth, living in cities like Amsterdam, Maastricht, Antwerp, London, Antibes, NY, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Newport Beach and 5 years of Malibu, CA where I worked in Advertising, Music, Film and TV. I collect air miles as often as I redeem them. Welcome to my My World: A Non-Profit Blog. Together we will absorb a daily recommended dose of inspirational content. We will laugh, we will cry - but most of all - we will delight in the inspired creations of humanity. Great documentaries, films, TV series, books, music, eclectic visions, interesting opinions, history lessons and anything else that uplifts and informs the human spirit. Enjoy your stay. And don't hesitate to click on the Random button, arrow above or by messaging me below - I enjoy talking to strangers.

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‘I can stop when I want to. Can stop when I wish. Can stop, stop, stop anytime….And what a good feeling to feel like this! In 1969, legendary American television host Fred Rogers known from the brilliant ‘Neighborhood’ television series (1968–2001) appeared before the United States Senate Subcommittee on Communications. WATCH THE HEARING HERE! His goal was to support funding for PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, in response to significant proposed cuts. In about six minutes of a philosophical testimony, Rogers spoke of the need for social and emotional education that American public television provided. He passionately argued that alternative television programming like his Neighborhood helped encourage children to become happy and productive citizens, sometimes opposing less positive messages in media and in popular culture. At the end of the program of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, Rogers always ended with the words: “You’ve made this day a special day, by just your being you. There’s no person in the whole world like you, and I like you, just the way you are.” (VIDEO) But probable the most powerfull statement Rogers made was: “And I feel that if we in public television can only make it clear that feelings are mentionable and manageable, we will have done a great service for mental health. I think that it’s much more dramatic that two men could be working out their feelings of anger — much more dramatic than showing something of gunfire.” Also watch Fred Rogers Emmy’s Lifetime Achievement Award speech: “All of us have special ones who have loved us into being. Would you just take, along with me, ten seconds to think of the people who have helped you become who you are … Ten seconds of silence.” (VIDEO) and Fred Rogers inducted into the TV Hall of Fame (VIDEO) Fred Rogers had a great original depth, importance and simplicity of his message for children on TV. “How do we make goodness attractive?” What a legend he was”! 

‘I can stop when I want to. Can stop when I wish. Can stop, stop, stop anytime….And what a good feeling to feel like this!

In 1969, legendary American television host Fred Rogers known from the brilliant ‘Neighborhood’ television series (1968–2001) appeared before the United States Senate Subcommittee on Communications. WATCH THE HEARING HERE! His goal was to support funding for PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, in response to significant proposed cuts. In about six minutes of a philosophical testimony, Rogers spoke of the need for social and emotional education that American public television provided. He passionately argued that alternative television programming like his Neighborhood helped encourage children to become happy and productive citizens, sometimes opposing less positive messages in media and in popular culture. At the end of the program of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, Rogers always ended with the words: “You’ve made this day a special day, by just your being you. There’s no person in the whole world like you, and I like you, just the way you are.” (VIDEO) But probable the most powerfull statement Rogers made was: “And I feel that if we in public television can only make it clear that feelings are mentionable and manageable, we will have done a great service for mental health. I think that it’s much more dramatic that two men could be working out their feelings of anger — much more dramatic than showing something of gunfire.” Also watch Fred Rogers Emmy’s Lifetime Achievement Award speech: “All of us have special ones who have loved us into being. Would you just take, along with me, ten seconds to think of the people who have helped you become who you are … Ten seconds of silence.” (VIDEO) and Fred Rogers inducted into the TV Hall of Fame (VIDEO) Fred Rogers had a great original depth, importance and simplicity of his message for children on TV. “How do we make goodness attractive?” What a legend he was”! 

May 11, 2013 1
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“And Ye Shall Know the Truth, and the Truth Shall Make You Free” Today, Silicon Valley, Berkeley’s public research university and it’s private research university brother Stanford are the center known around the world as a fount of technology innovation and development fueled by private venture capitals (Sand Hill Rd), angels and “older brother” tech companies. Intel, HP, IBM, AOL, Ebay, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, Dropbox, Skype, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Pebble are some of many of the big companies that our lives over the last twenty years have come to dominate. Keep in mind though that only 5% of the start up scene in Silicon Valley is successful, 35% goes bankrupt and 60% runs a normal mid-size company. History wise we commonly know that with the birth of William Shockley’s (VIDEO) transistor from the Semiconductor Laboratory, Hewlett-Packard’s semiconductor devices, Intel’s integrated circuit and Moore’s law, the Homebrew Computer Club with Steve Wozniak’s Apple I, Bill Gates Microsoft’s bought sofware QDOS, IBM’s PC and Marc Andreessen’s Mosaic the commercial succes started of the Valley and the rest is history. What we don’t know is that Silicon Valley did not sprang only from the discoveries of William Shockley’s transistor. But also from the earlier technology duel over the skies of Germany’s World War II and the Cold War led by Fredrick Terman (VIDEO). It was the US Defense Department, CIA and the National Security Agency that acted back then like today’s venture capitalists funding this first wave of entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley. The Valley was born from a constant relationship between federal funding, military research and private companies. We, as a Society really need to start asking ourselves the questions: “Do we really want to be continuously filmed by the new Google Glasses without you even knowing or approving”? ,”Do we really need autonomous self-driving cars?, “Do we really want Chris Anderson’s drones flying around all time in your own Neighbourhood ”?,”Do we really want to play our own doctor with the Scanadu scout App for example”?, “Do we really want Google’s new intelligent personal assistant called ‘Now’ collect all your internet and personal data and know eventually more then your own mother or wife”? or even move to a technological singularity in the year 2045 (VIDEO) ? I guess we don’t care right? Cause we share 20 billion private messages every day with WhatsApp, 40 million personal photos per day with Instagram, we upload 300 million personal photos and share 2.5 billion personal content items on Facebook daily without really knowing anything about it’s founding CEO’s Jan Koum, Kevin Systrom, Mark Zuckerberg and It’s financial starting roots of those companies……A-One-to-watch! Steve Blank’s “How Stanford & the CIA/NSA Built the Valley We Know Today” (VIDEO) (Photo credit Mark Coggins)

“And Ye Shall Know the Truth, and the Truth Shall Make You Free”

Today, Silicon Valley, Berkeley’s public research university and it’s private research university brother Stanford are the center known around the world as a fount of technology innovation and development fueled by private venture capitals (Sand Hill Rd), angels and “older brother” tech companies. Intel, HP, IBM, AOL, Ebay, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, Dropbox, Skype, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Pebble are some of many of the big companies that our lives over the last twenty years have come to dominate. Keep in mind though that only 5% of the start up scene in Silicon Valley is successful, 35% goes bankrupt and 60% runs a normal mid-size company. History wise we commonly know that with the birth of William Shockley’s (VIDEO) transistor from the Semiconductor Laboratory, Hewlett-Packard’s semiconductor devices, Intel’s integrated circuit and Moore’s law, the Homebrew Computer Club with Steve Wozniak’s Apple I, Bill Gates Microsoft’s bought sofware QDOS, IBM’s PC and Marc Andreessen’s Mosaic the commercial succes started of the Valley and the rest is history. What we don’t know is that Silicon Valley did not sprang only from the discoveries of William Shockley’s transistor. But also from the earlier technology duel over the skies of Germany’s World War II and the Cold War led by Fredrick Terman (VIDEO). It was the US Defense Department, CIA and the National Security Agency that acted back then like today’s venture capitalists funding this first wave of entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley. The Valley was born from a constant relationship between federal funding, military research and private companies. We, as a Society really need to start asking ourselves the questions: “Do we really want to be continuously filmed by the new Google Glasses without you even knowing or approving”? ,”Do we really need autonomous self-driving cars?, “Do we really want Chris Anderson’s drones flying around all time in your own Neighbourhood ”?,”Do we really want to play our own doctor with the Scanadu scout App for example”?, “Do we really want Google’s new intelligent personal assistant called ‘Now’ collect all your internet and personal data and know eventually more then your own mother or wife”? or even move to a technological singularity in the year 2045 (VIDEO) ? I guess we don’t care right? Cause we share 20 billion private messages every day with WhatsApp, 40 million personal photos per day with Instagram, we upload 300 million personal photos and share 2.5 billion personal content items on Facebook daily without really knowing anything about it’s founding CEO’s Jan Koum, Kevin Systrom, Mark Zuckerberg and It’s financial starting roots of those companies……A-One-to-watch! Steve Blank’s “How Stanford & the CIA/NSA Built the Valley We Know Today” (VIDEO) (Photo credit Mark Coggins)

May 11, 2013 1
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‘a lesson in the art of morale.” The function of music in war has always been twofold: as a means of communication and as a psychological weapon. The history of the Vietnam War has been told many times in hundreds of books, movies and plays. But the 13-CD box ‘The Next Stop Is Vietnam’ explores the impact of that conflict through the popular music it inspired. The first Vietnam War protest song to become a commercial hit was a three-and-a half-minute rant by Barry McGuire. “Eve of Destruction” (VIDEO) was banned by many radio stations and the entire Armed Forces Network. If you ask a lot of veterans, the song that captures their feelings about Vietnam is “We Gotta Get Out of This Place,” (VIDEO) a 1960s pop hit by The Animals, which was really about young people trapped in a British urban slum. There are more than 300 songs on a new 13-CD box set, they range from a folk ballad released just before U.S. troops landed to a 2008 song about the aftereffects that veterans still suffer. Dutch born Pop music archivist Hugo Keesing whom is Professor at the University of Maryland and a popular culture scholar worked on this project since the early 1970s, when he taught psychology courses to U.S. troops a few hundred miles up the coast from Saigon. An “essential American history in sound — and a lesson in the art of morale” said Rolling Stone….a true gift for all music lovers out here! Buy here, here and Spotify preview here...(photo credit Bear Family)

‘a lesson in the art of morale.”

The function of music in war has always been twofold: as a means of communication and as a psychological weapon. The history of the Vietnam War has been told many times in hundreds of books, movies and plays. But the 13-CD box ‘The Next Stop Is Vietnam’ explores the impact of that conflict through the popular music it inspired. The first Vietnam War protest song to become a commercial hit was a three-and-a half-minute rant by Barry McGuire. “Eve of Destruction” (VIDEO) was banned by many radio stations and the entire Armed Forces Network. If you ask a lot of veterans, the song that captures their feelings about Vietnam is “We Gotta Get Out of This Place,” (VIDEO) a 1960s pop hit by The Animals, which was really about young people trapped in a British urban slum. There are more than 300 songs on a new 13-CD box set, they range from a folk ballad released just before U.S. troops landed to a 2008 song about the aftereffects that veterans still suffer. Dutch born Pop music archivist Hugo Keesing whom is Professor at the University of Maryland and a popular culture scholar worked on this project since the early 1970s, when he taught psychology courses to U.S. troops a few hundred miles up the coast from Saigon. An “essential American history in sound — and a lesson in the art of morale” said Rolling Stone….a true gift for all music lovers out here! Buy here, here and Spotify preview here...(photo credit Bear Family)

May 6, 2013 2
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‘He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.’ The story of Oil will bring you closer to finally answering the question how the world really works……three men had an appointment at Achnacarry Castle on August 28, 1928, in the Scottish highlands - a Dutchman, an American and an Englishman. The Dutchman was Henry Deterding, a man nicknamed the ‘Napoleon of Oil’, having exploited a find in Sumatra. He joined forces with a rich ship owner and painted Shell salesman and together the two men founded Royal Dutch Shell. The American was Walter C. Teagle and he represents the Standard Oil Company, founded by John D. Rockefeller at the age of 31 - the future Exxon. Oil wells, transport, refining and distribution of oil - everything is controlled by Standard oil. The Englishman, Sir John Cadman, was the director of the Anglo-Persian oil Company, soon to become BP. On the initiative of a young Winston Churchill, the British government had taken a stake in BP and the Royal Navy switched its fuel from coal to oil. With fuel-hungry ships, planes and tanks, oil became “the blood of every battle”. Al Jazeera brilliantly made a four-part series called ‘The Secret of the Seven Sisters’ (TRAILER).The series reveals how a secret pact formed a cartel that basically controls the world’s oil. Throughout the region’s modern history, since the discovery of oil, the Seven Sisters have sought to control the balance of power. They have supported monarchies in Iran and Saudi Arabia, opposed the creation of OPEC, profiting from the Iran-Iraq war, leading to the ultimate destruction of Saddam Hussein and Iraq. At the end of the 1960s, the Seven Sisters, the major oil companies, controlled 85 percent of the world’s oil reserves. Today, they control just 10 percent and 3% of the reserves so the balance has shifted. The new Sisters are Saudi Arabia’s Aramco, Russia’s Gazprom, China’s National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) with its subsidiary, Petrochina, Venezuela’s PDVSA, Iran’s National Oil Company (NIOC), Brazil’s Petrobras, a leader in deep water oil production and Malaysia’s Petronas. New hunting grounds are therefore required, and the Sisters have turned their gaze towards Africa. With peak oil, wars in the Middle East, and the rise in crude prices, Africa is the oil companies’ new battleground. In the Caucasus, the US and Russia are vying for control of the region. The great oil game is in full swing. Whoever controls the Caucasus and its roads, controls the transport of oil from the Caspian Sea. Tbilisi, Erevan and Baku – the three capitals of the Caucasus. The oil from Baku in Azerbaijan is a strategic priority for all the major companies. A-ONE-NOT-TO-MISS! WATCH ALL 4-PARTS HERE!  Also recommend Daniel Yergin’s ‘bible’ book aka the definitive history of the oil industry ‘The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power’ (AMAZON) And the six-hour documentary television series titled ‘The Prize’ (VIDEO), narrated by Donald Sutherland. (photo credit Al Jazeera)

‘He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.’

The story of Oil will bring you closer to finally answering the question how the world really works……three men had an appointment at Achnacarry Castle on August 28, 1928, in the Scottish highlands - a Dutchman, an American and an Englishman. The Dutchman was Henry Deterding, a man nicknamed the ‘Napoleon of Oil’, having exploited a find in Sumatra. He joined forces with a rich ship owner and painted Shell salesman and together the two men founded Royal Dutch Shell. The American was Walter C. Teagle and he represents the Standard Oil Company, founded by John D. Rockefeller at the age of 31 - the future Exxon. Oil wells, transport, refining and distribution of oil - everything is controlled by Standard oil. The Englishman, Sir John Cadman, was the director of the Anglo-Persian oil Company, soon to become BP. On the initiative of a young Winston Churchill, the British government had taken a stake in BP and the Royal Navy switched its fuel from coal to oil. With fuel-hungry ships, planes and tanks, oil became “the blood of every battle”. Al Jazeera brilliantly made a four-part series called ‘The Secret of the Seven Sisters’ (TRAILER).The series reveals how a secret pact formed a cartel that basically controls the world’s oil. Throughout the region’s modern history, since the discovery of oil, the Seven Sisters have sought to control the balance of power. They have supported monarchies in Iran and Saudi Arabia, opposed the creation of OPEC, profiting from the Iran-Iraq war, leading to the ultimate destruction of Saddam Hussein and Iraq. At the end of the 1960s, the Seven Sisters, the major oil companies, controlled 85 percent of the world’s oil reserves. Today, they control just 10 percent and 3% of the reserves so the balance has shifted. The new Sisters are Saudi Arabia’s Aramco, Russia’s Gazprom, China’s National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) with its subsidiary, Petrochina, Venezuela’s PDVSA, Iran’s National Oil Company (NIOC), Brazil’s Petrobras, a leader in deep water oil production and Malaysia’s Petronas. New hunting grounds are therefore required, and the Sisters have turned their gaze towards Africa. With peak oil, wars in the Middle East, and the rise in crude prices, Africa is the oil companies’ new battleground. In the Caucasus, the US and Russia are vying for control of the region. The great oil game is in full swing. Whoever controls the Caucasus and its roads, controls the transport of oil from the Caspian Sea. Tbilisi, Erevan and Baku – the three capitals of the Caucasus. The oil from Baku in Azerbaijan is a strategic priority for all the major companies. A-ONE-NOT-TO-MISS! WATCH ALL 4-PARTS HERE!  Also recommend Daniel Yergin’s ‘bible’ book aka the definitive history of the oil industry ‘The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power’ (AMAZON) And the six-hour documentary television series titled ‘The Prize’ (VIDEO), narrated by Donald Sutherland. (photo credit Al Jazeera)

May 6, 2013
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