HEIKKI KALLIO

Me, Myself & I

Professional pokerplayer, and Chess grandmaster

Born 1980 in Vaasa, Finland.

My mothertongue is finnish. I speak and understand english and swedish, I can also some spanish.

Countries

I have travelled: Andorra, Armenia, Australia, Belgium, Bermuda, Bulgaria, China, Cuba, Czech republic, Domincan Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Great-Britain, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Malta, Norway, Puerto Rico, Serbia, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, Slovakia, Slovenia, South-Africa, Spain. One learns a lot by travelling.

Books

 Recommendably good books, that I have read from cover to cover, or several books from following issues. Persons: Mandela, Malcolm X, Bill Clinton, Kasturba Gandhi, Mayada, 'Wildswans', Soros, Churchill.                                          Association: Attac, IMF, WTO, 'Al-Qaidas infiltrator', Worldwatch 2004 consuming report, about associations in general. Globalization: Womens rights in Asia and arabic countries and in Turkey, TRIPS, global economy, global poverty, war and globalization, one dollar question.    

Countries/other places in the world: Africa, Africas wars, Asia, Yemen, China, Finland, India, Israel/Palestine, Soviet unions empire, Tibet, Tshetshenia, USA domestic politics, Zimbabwe, West-Sahara, Irak, North-, and South-Korea.

 Thinkers: Soros, Soininvaara, Naomi Klein, Noam Chomsky, Michael Moore, Pentti Linkola, Joseph Stiglitz, Robert Kagan. Lawbooks: Informationlaw, administration law. Some filosophy-books, Wittgenstein as favourite.

 Currently reading about: Nurnberg court, Mao Zedong, L.B. Johnson. I like fact-books. Books are at their best when they are based on real happenings, about people that have really been going through something.