tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16694333254824900232024-03-13T07:02:06.754+01:00Cempaka BelandaNews, Subjects Related The NetherlandsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5456125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1669433325482490023.post-43799602102654744052024-01-04T22:19:00.004+01:002024-01-04T22:26:23.579+01:00 The FUTURE of Electricity is HERE! - Lee Carroll & Peter Marek<p style="text-align: center;"> <iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="275" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6ZxPbbDq-yU?si=4Dy1eK0HeFowceFS" title="YouTube video player" width="450"></iframe></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Kryon has made this statement: In the future, there will be no more need for batteries. Regardless of what you see about global warming, Kryon tells us COLD is coming. Many of us are aware that the methods we have been using for heating our homes and businesses are inefficient - so what is the answer?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">What if you were to discover that a new way of heating already exists, and that it's already been proven to work? Explore the future of electricity with this scientifically-backed technology that was designed with the planet in mind. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Related Articles:</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>"Coming Discoveries", August 25, 2021 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll) <i>(<a href="https://www.kryon.com/CHAN2021/k_channel21_Discoveries.html" target="_blank">Text version</a>)<br /><br /></i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="275" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2ykW4VXYPOk?si=VMptfpfQjDU9sM0x" title="YouTube video player" width="450"></iframe><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1669433325482490023.post-58796657331715346462023-03-07T21:44:00.003+01:002023-03-07T21:44:46.365+01:00Small victories as women challenge Vatican patriarchy<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230307-small-victories-as-women-challenge-vatican-patriarchy" target="_blank">France24 – AFP</a>, 7 March 2023</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQLDcq6ilrHj2pXgI37TNlD-M5HfGo6KXvnyB4Kt7V61AI_kdUA937mkCu3dBTtbeHev-n1f_evp_KjIxVjndND3lamQTUgmlQwWKSK1QVePkwR39nAwBvRNvhII0wwo-RIz3SeL5AFd39QXZvaFiuETQHoEudGwU6FvpdhRs-OrCAUg4knWDDyJrt/s980/599b3cbad2bb83d5e851d077a33c75f396cb0987.webp" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="551" data-original-width="980" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQLDcq6ilrHj2pXgI37TNlD-M5HfGo6KXvnyB4Kt7V61AI_kdUA937mkCu3dBTtbeHev-n1f_evp_KjIxVjndND3lamQTUgmlQwWKSK1QVePkwR39nAwBvRNvhII0wwo-RIz3SeL5AFd39QXZvaFiuETQHoEudGwU6FvpdhRs-OrCAUg4knWDDyJrt/w400-h225/599b3cbad2bb83d5e851d077a33c75f396cb0987.webp" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">The pontiff's push for reform has seen more women given roles in administrating the <br />Vatican -- though they are mainly behind the scenes. © Filippo MONTEFORTE / AFP</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US"><br />Vatican City (AFP) – <b>Once a rare sight in the
Vatican's halls of power, women are increasingly being seen in senior posts
under Pope Francis, but the gender battle is far from won.</b></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><b> </b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The centuries-old institution has an inherently
patriarchal image, from the Swiss Guards at the gates to the cardinals seated
in St Peter's Square.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It reflects the wider Roman Catholic Church, which
outlaws divorce, abortion and the ordination of women.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Yet the pontiff's push for reform has seen more women
given roles in administrating the Vatican -- even if they are mainly behind the
scenes.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">From economists to secretaries, historians and
archivists, 649 women worked in 2019 for the Roman Curia -- 24 percent of
employees -- compared to 385 in 2010, according to the latest available
figures.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">While the shift within the world's smallest state is
hailed in public, around 10 women interviewed on condition of anonymity
described to AFP the resistance they meet and condescension they face,
especially among clerics.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">One denounced "a glass ceiling and a generally
paternalistic attitude in the corridors", with a backward-looking vision
of "the sensitive, gentle woman, which we find in the pope's
speeches".</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"We sometimes feel they consider us as interns.
There are little gestures, a hand on the shoulder, a lack of consideration,
almost daily remarks about appearance and dress," she added.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Some described feeling subject to an implicit order
for female employees to be silent and docile. Others expressed frustration at
being relegated to lesser roles.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"There is still a long way to go," one woman
said.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>'Macho mentality'</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In 2016, the "Women in the Vatican"
association was created, a network of one hundred or so members that meet every
month "to enhance the role of women", its president Margherita
Romanelli told AFP.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It followed the creation just four years earlier of a
monthly women's supplement by L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican's official
newspaper. The surprise initiative was lauded by many, but quickly ran into
trouble.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Its founder, Lucetta Scaraffia, a journalist and
historian, resigned in 2019, denouncing a "climate of mistrust".</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Francis' reforms were essentially "cosmetic"
and actually concealed a "macho mentality" which implied that
"women must serve without asking anything in return", she told AFP.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Scaraffia pointed to the "modern slavery" of
nuns employed in the Vatican and elsewhere as "servants" in the homes
of priests, bishops or cardinals, who do the "cooking, cleaning, clothes
washing" and who are "underpaid".</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Critics warn of nuns employed in the Vatican and
elsewhere as underpaid "servants" in the homes of priests, bishops or
cardinals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US">And she slammed the sexual abuse of nuns in Rome and
elsewhere in the world.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>A voice</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Despite these criticisms, many welcome the
acceleration of a process quietly begun some twenty years ago.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The number of women in positions of responsibility at
the Vatican -- which applies strict gender wage parity -- has tripled since the
election of Francis 10 years ago, from Vatican Museums director Barbara Jatta
to Alessandra Smerilli, the first woman to be appointed the equivalent of a deputy
minister.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"The Vatican is late, but women have a voice
today, they don't let themselves be pushed around anymore," said one
official in her forties.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The head of the world's 1.3 billion Catholics has
allowed women greater involvement in masses, from being readers and altar
servers to taking part in the Holy Thursday foot washing ritual.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">And Francis continues to take small steps forward,
including changing the rules to allow women to play a role in the appointment
of bishops.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"Ten years ago, it would not have been possible
to imagine such a development," said Gudrun Sailer, an Austrian journalist
with Vatican News and author of the book "Women in the Vatican".</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>'A long process'</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Faced with the discrepancy between these changes and
the misogyny experienced in the Vatican workplace, some women wonder what
strategy to adopt.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Some female employees described feeling subjected to
an implicit order for them to be silent and docile.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY76aD4O-NeFXT2b7t8gT3f7zBvX-IX47YslN6kka5mTm-WRZAvfhNtZYAYage2yvivtLfDJejYnsauonJjY0RqOaRoQrMg8aedYAzgg_i9WGswUUzUbiVVPKO8mh7jlX4T89_2lbQ86kYJAHAWIn5JqJ4xDZTbnuoLsJGWbTtnVQApy2k3c7FCniL/s2480/5c72d554f5936b022dda40071036b8d14395bb81.webp" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1654" data-original-width="2480" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY76aD4O-NeFXT2b7t8gT3f7zBvX-IX47YslN6kka5mTm-WRZAvfhNtZYAYage2yvivtLfDJejYnsauonJjY0RqOaRoQrMg8aedYAzgg_i9WGswUUzUbiVVPKO8mh7jlX4T89_2lbQ86kYJAHAWIn5JqJ4xDZTbnuoLsJGWbTtnVQApy2k3c7FCniL/w400-h266/5c72d554f5936b022dda40071036b8d14395bb81.webp" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Some female employees described feeling subjected to an implicit order for them <br />to be silent and docile. © Filippo MONTEFORTE / AFP</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US"><br />"Some feel that the truth should be told and bad
behaviour should be denounced, while others think that this is
counterproductive and that we should be satisfied with small steps
forward," one told AFP.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Romilda Ferrauto, a "Women in the Vatican"
member, said changing mentalities was "a long process".</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"Francis' method is to make gestures and wait for
them to move the lines," she said.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The changes within the Vatican come as the global
Church engages in a vast, months-long debate over its future.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Long before the #MeToo movement, protestant churches
took the lead in propelling women to the top and some theologians, such as
Anne-Marie Pelletier of France, say the pope must now grasp the opportunity to
move faster and more decisively.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The ordination of women as deacons or even cardinals
"would be a strong symbolic gesture to erase these stereotypes", she
said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmW2Uy_5ZlyzOvuf8c7oR6gcgMxljSFj0_VcI5OG7npavz1OG0HKcJvxMbt58xqhaRn_imA4RHqKQIXroNX-pRnC7SmynowuK9ZVraPS7fpZUe8tWPPm5BbXOfBIbAHP4ZbEKEC-L95BY/s1600/e36250837c703d3cf0fe792ce974ccc5aa352628.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="768" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmW2Uy_5ZlyzOvuf8c7oR6gcgMxljSFj0_VcI5OG7npavz1OG0HKcJvxMbt58xqhaRn_imA4RHqKQIXroNX-pRnC7SmynowuK9ZVraPS7fpZUe8tWPPm5BbXOfBIbAHP4ZbEKEC-L95BY/s400/e36250837c703d3cf0fe792ce974ccc5aa352628.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: arial;">Representatives of the Amazon rainforest's ethnic groups attended the synod </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: arial;">with Pope Francis (AFP Photo/Tiziana FABI)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b><br /></b></span></span><span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>Related Articles:</b></span></span><br /><br /><b><a href="https://cempaka-europa.blogspot.com/2019/10/bishops-urge-pope-to-open-priesthood-to.html" target="_blank">Bishops urge Pope to open priesthood to married men in Amazon</a></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><a href="http://cempaka-south-america.blogspot.com/2019/10/pope-blames-amazon-fires-on-destructive.html" target="_blank">Pope blames Amazon fires on destructive 'interests'</a></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><a href="http://cempaka-europa.blogspot.nl/2016/08/pope-opens-door-to-female-deacons-with.html" target="_blank"><span>Pope 'opens door' to female deacons with new panel</span></a><br /></b><b><a href="http://cempaka-belanda.blogspot.nl/2013/09/pope-francis-no-2-clerical-celibacy-is.html" target="_blank">Pope Francis' No. 2: Clerical celibacy is open to discussion</a></b></span></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></p><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><a href="http://www.dw.com/en/pope-francis-visits-john-paul-iis-shrine/a-19439473" target="_blank">Pope Francis visits John Paul II's shrine</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="http://cempaka-belanda.blogspot.nl/2015/03/church-of-england-creates-second-female.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: arial;">Church of England creates second female bishop</span></a></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="http://cempaka-europa.blogspot.nl/2014/12/church-of-englands-first-female-bishop.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: arial;">Church of England’s first female bishop named as Libby Lane</span></a></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="http://cempaka-europa.blogspot.nl/2014/07/church-of-england-general-synod.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: arial;">Church of England General Synod approves female bishops</span></a></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/14/church-england-synod-votes-allow-female-bishops" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: arial;">Jubilation as Church of England's synod votes to allow female bishops</span></a></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal"></div></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><div style="margin: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju_qXEFelrbnv1rJeBK8zCHCDQCwyaqWqGgttaMawL8qzJ1_1PbOa6g-GcJbp8Nt3RmU8kB9w4xC5Xqxv7RrjHsiUH0xbcSHTie4XdkpVCXMhMuWu_w1RyADFBehHJiWPH7x2Tn8lf45Y/s1600/Church-of-England-Clerics-011.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju_qXEFelrbnv1rJeBK8zCHCDQCwyaqWqGgttaMawL8qzJ1_1PbOa6g-GcJbp8Nt3RmU8kB9w4xC5Xqxv7RrjHsiUH0xbcSHTie4XdkpVCXMhMuWu_w1RyADFBehHJiWPH7x2Tn8lf45Y/s1600/Church-of-England-Clerics-011.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: arial;">Clerics at the Church of England synod in York take a 'selfie' as they celebrate</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-US">after the vote to allow female bishops. </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Photograph: Lindsey Parnaby/AFP/Getty</span></span></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b><a href="https://www.kryon.com/cartprodimages/download_Madison-GrandR_12.html" target="_blank">"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll)</a></b> (Subjects: Energy, <a href="http://cempaka-belanda.blogspot.com/2011/10/ascension-arcturians-multidimensional.html" target="_blank">Recalibration Lectures</a>, <a href="http://www.kryon.com/k_channel10_portland_me_.html" target="_blank">God/Creator</a>, <b>Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it)</b>, Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, <a href="http://www.kryon.com/k_channel11_sacramento.html" target="_blank">(Old) Souls</a>, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) </span><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><i style="color: #222222;">- </i><a href="http://www.kryon.com/CHAN%202013/k_channel13_Madison.html" style="color: #222222; font-style: italic;" target="_blank">(Text version)</a></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">“… I gave you a channelling years ago when Pope John Paul was alive. John Paul loved Mary, the mother. </span><b>Had John Paul survived another 10 years, he would have done what the next Pope [The one after the current one, Benedict XVI] will do, and that is to bring women into the Church. This Pope you have now [Benedict XVI] won't be here long.* The next Pope will be the one who has to change the rules, should he survive. If he doesn't, it will be the one after that.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">There is a large struggle within the Church, even right now, and great dissention, for it knows that it is not giving what humanity wants. The doctrine is not current to the puzzles of life. The answer will be to create a better balance between the feminine and masculine, and the new Pope, or the one after that, will try to allow women to be in the higher echelon of the Church structure to assist the priests.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>It will be suggested to let women participate in services, doing things women did not do before. This graduates them within church law to an equality with priests, but doesn't actually let them become priests just yet. However, don't be surprised if this begins in another way, and instead gives priests the ability to marry. This will bring the feminine into the church in other ways. It will eventually happen and has to happen. If it does not, it will be the end of the Catholic Church, for humanity will not sustain a spiritual belief system that is out of balance with the love of God and also out of balance with intuitive Human awareness.</b></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">…”</span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span lang="EN-US"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; line-height: 18px;"><b><a href="https://www.kryon.com/cartprodimages/download_Dallas_12.html" target="_blank">"Recalibration of Free Choice"– Mar 3, 2012 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll)</a> - </b></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">(Subjects: <a href="http://www.kryon.com/k_channel11_sacramento.html" target="_blank">(Old) Souls</a>, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">Midpoint on 21-12-2012</span>, Shift of Human Consciousness, Black & White vs. Color, <b>1</b> - <b>Spirituality (Religions) shifting, Loose a Pope “soon”</b>, <b>2</b> - Humans will change react to drama,<b> 3</b> - Civilizations/Population on Earth, <b>4</b> - Alternate energy sources (Geothermal, Tidal (Paddle wheels), Wind), <b>5</b> – Financials Institutes/concepts will change (Integrity – Ethical) , <b>6</b> - News/Media/TV to change, <b>7</b> – Big Pharmaceutical company will collapse “soon”, (Keep people sick), (Integrity – Ethical) <b>8</b> – Wars will be over on Earth</span><span lang="EN-US">, Global Unity, … etc.) </span><i style="color: #222222; line-height: 18px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">- <a href="http://www.kryon.com/k_channel12_Dallas.html" target="_blank">(Text version)</a></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: #222222; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></i></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">“ … </span><b>Spirituality (Religions)</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div><div style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial;">Number one: Spirituality. The systems of spiritual design on your planet are starting to change. This is not telling you that certain ones are going to go away. They're simply going to change. Some of the largest spiritual systems, which you would call organized religion on the planet, are shifting. They're going to shift away from that which is authority on the outside to authority on the inside. It will eventually be a different way of worship, slowly changing the rules while keeping the basic doctrine the same.</span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div></div><div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial;"></span></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial;"><span lang="EN-US">The doctrine of the Christ has always been to find the God inside. The teachings were clear. The examples of the miracles were given as an example of what humans could do, not to set a man up for worship as a God. So when that has been absorbed, the teaching of the Christ can remain the teaching of the Christ. </span>It simply changes the interpretation. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The teachings of the great prophets of the Middle East (all related to each other) are about unity and love. So once the holy words are redefined with new wisdom, the Human changes, not the words of the prophets. In fact, the prophets become even more divinely inspired and their wisdom becomes even more profound.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>You're going to lose a pope soon. I have no clock. Soon to us can mean anything to you. The one who replaces him may surprise you, for his particular organization will be in survival mode at that point in time. That is to say that fewer and fewer are interested in starting the priesthood. Fewer and fewer young people are interested in the organization, and the new pope must make changes to keep his church alive. That means that his organization will remain, but with a more modern look at what truly is before all of you in a new energy. It is not the fall of the church. It is instead the recalibration of the divinity inside that would match the worship that goes on. It's a win-win situation</b></span><b>. </b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The new pope will have a difficult time, since the old guard will still be there. There could even be an assassination attempt, such is the way the old energy dies hard. That is number one. Watch for it. It's a change in the way spiritual systems work. It's a realignment of spiritual systems that resound to a stronger truth that is Human driven, rather than prophet driven</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">.…”</span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b style="line-height: 16.8px;"><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.kryon.com/cartprodimages/2016%20downloads/download_sarasota_16.html" target="_blank">"Listening to the Voice of Spirit" (2) - Feb 20, 2016 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll)</a> </span></b><b style="line-height: 16.8px;"><span style="color: red;"><b style="line-height: 16.8px;"><span style="color: red;"><b style="line-height: 16.8px;">- </b><b style="line-height: 16.8px;"><i>(DNA Efficiency is on average at 35 percent now) </i></b></span></b></span></b><span style="line-height: 16.8px;">- </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.kryon.com/CHAN2016/k_channel16_sarasota-16.html" target="_blank">(Text version)</a></span></span></div></div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="line-height: 16.8px;">“… </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="line-height: 16.8px;">With free choice, the percentage of DNA efficiently started to go down as humanity grew. As soon as the DNA started to lose percentage, the gender balance was dysfunctional.<b> If you want to have a test of any society, anywhere on the planet, and you want to know the DNA percentage number [consciousness quota] as a society, there's an easy test: How do they perceive and treat their women? The higher the DNA functionality, the more the feminine divine is honored. This is the test!</b> Different cultures create different DNA consciousness, even at the same time on the planet. So you can have a culture on Earth at 25 percent and one at 37 - and if you did, they would indeed clash</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="line-height: 16.8px;">.</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="line-height: 16.8px;"> …”</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; line-height: 16.8px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="line-height: 16.8px;">“…</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="line-height: 16.8px;"> </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="line-height: 16.8px;">You're at 35. There's an equality here, you're starting to see the dark and light, and it's changing everything.</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="line-height: 16.8px;"> </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="line-height: 16.8px;">You take a look at history and you've come a long way, but it took a long time to get here. </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="line-height: 16.8px;"><b>Dear ones, we've seen this process before and the snowball is rolling. There isn't anything in the way that's going to stop it. In the path of this snowball of higher consciousness are all kinds of things that will be run over and perish. Part of this is what you call "the establishment". Watch for some very big established things to fall over! The snowball will simply knock them down.</b></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="line-height: 16.8px;"> …”</span></span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1669433325482490023.post-43036474723563330692023-02-28T20:48:00.006+01:002023-02-28T20:48:54.866+01:00Northern Lights provide spectacular show over the Netherlands<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2023/02/northern-lights-provide-spectacular-show-over-the-netherlands/" target="_blank">DutchNews</a>, February 27, 2023 </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguT0tHk6-idU-rDMHVFzp7YOCBy70hINmqtBjDYADF30Fq913AydUzXWHQxOsl9cXzGFjiwUocWBpl7oMfDl9teuqLGe7INrE1vFuIyJvBX9ESjCWgrR-ejmldTlWXH8kf0Bu17N7g9ii-P14Ag1pNPjSslFBJcWIxEakMk5oR0oIQsogALuzb6cK0Yg/s560/ANP-463751499-560x366.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="366" data-original-width="560" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguT0tHk6-idU-rDMHVFzp7YOCBy70hINmqtBjDYADF30Fq913AydUzXWHQxOsl9cXzGFjiwUocWBpl7oMfDl9teuqLGe7INrE1vFuIyJvBX9ESjCWgrR-ejmldTlWXH8kf0Bu17N7g9ii-P14Ag1pNPjSslFBJcWIxEakMk5oR0oIQsogALuzb6cK0Yg/w400-h261/ANP-463751499-560x366.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Northern Lights, seen from Terschellling. Photo: ANP / Hollandse <br />Hoogte / Kappers Media</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />The Northern
Lights, an atmospheric phenomenon rarely seen in the Netherlands, were visible
over large parts of the country on Sunday night. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Sightings were recorded in
Drenthe, Groningen, Gelderland and Friesland as well as the Wadden Islands. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The
Northern Lights, or the aurora borealis which are created when energized
particles from the sun slam into the Earth’s upper atmosphere at extremely high
speeds. The Earth’s magnetic field redirects them to the North and South Pole,
creating the waves of coloured light.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="nl">Nu met timelapse <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/noorderlicht?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#noorderlicht</a> <a href="https://t.co/mSob9YHTSV">pic.twitter.com/mSob9YHTSV</a></p>— Dick Tolsma (@tolsumadvies) <a href="https://twitter.com/tolsumadvies/status/1629960836889423873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 26, 2023</a></blockquote><p><br /></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="nl">Zojuist deze foto gemaakt op de dijk vlakbij Lauwersoog! <a href="https://twitter.com/StormchaserNL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@StormchaserNL</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/BuienRadarNL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BuienRadarNL</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Talpaweer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Talpaweer</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Weerplaza?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Weerplaza</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/weeronline?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@weeronline</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/noorderlicht?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#noorderlicht</a> <a href="https://t.co/TdXH2MI8My">pic.twitter.com/TdXH2MI8My</a></p>— Weerstation Anjum (@Tim_Zijlstra1) <a href="https://twitter.com/Tim_Zijlstra1/status/1629959545027022853?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 26, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="nl">Timelapse toont spectaculair noorderlicht boven Terschelling <a href="https://t.co/Ng8rRrqnAS">https://t.co/Ng8rRrqnAS</a></p>— NU.nl (@NUnl) <a href="https://twitter.com/NUnl/status/1630092582444232707?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 27, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>Related Articles:</b></span><br /><b><br /></b><b><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/mar/18/solar-storm-delivers-spectacular-aurora-displays-and-pictures" target="_blank">Solar storm delivers spectacular aurora displays and pictures</a></b><br /><br /><b><a href="http://cempaka-green.blogspot.nl/2014/09/solar-storm-heads-earths-way-after.html" target="_blank">Solar storm heads Earth's way after double sun blasts</a></b><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqam-R7iQsmF2udBaSS2jIha6rL068ab1cGURiF9fjat-oaZk9Q_SHSfmH-kZgmB6-rIwa0gDeGqVsZpXXGRMF_joWe3Tg9BrQ32HOn1ZYbFHixBoxc7lS7UFLg9gH4mRFgKoCjYphPJw/s1600/fa3d83e6cbba87a8dfbcfb02f838ff9b91fc52c8.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqam-R7iQsmF2udBaSS2jIha6rL068ab1cGURiF9fjat-oaZk9Q_SHSfmH-kZgmB6-rIwa0gDeGqVsZpXXGRMF_joWe3Tg9BrQ32HOn1ZYbFHixBoxc7lS7UFLg9gH4mRFgKoCjYphPJw/s1600/fa3d83e6cbba87a8dfbcfb02f838ff9b91fc52c8.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">The Aurora Australis is observed from the International Space Station<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">During a geomagnetic storm on May 29, 2010 (AFP Photo)</span><o:p></o:p></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPGKH1kfPUoR7cHFWPFK2ceqzNDeTnqDvFn3mkPn0ahjnlm0Idb698oSlomJ7PMm8ZrglQkImIqez8ILCTDfnHaL_6gk3Xs1prJuSjucZfFZvZU7iXfhU7vdHX9FF8Ed1bMR6ioVYo3xM/s1600/poollicht333444.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="112" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPGKH1kfPUoR7cHFWPFK2ceqzNDeTnqDvFn3mkPn0ahjnlm0Idb698oSlomJ7PMm8ZrglQkImIqez8ILCTDfnHaL_6gk3Xs1prJuSjucZfFZvZU7iXfhU7vdHX9FF8Ed1bMR6ioVYo3xM/s1600/poollicht333444.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Northern lights over Terschelling, Friesland. </span>27-28 February, 2014</span><o:p></o:p></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><b><a href="http://cempaka-green.blogspot.nl/2013/11/monster-gamma-ray-burst-in-space-sets.html" target="_blank">'Monster' gamma ray burst in space sets record for death of star</a></b><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipFza9B4KI8RkYNUGA_sc_nqTZNBhQdXGEnSw69yawrgYi0kubiY-e-pflTusVARJEvLLhlghQb28k9Dbsw9le2UP4Vr3gBsouKWKvlPyYaiZBgBntOTdejYtU6UWfcpm6fEoZSXhyGpY/s1600/Artists-rendering-of-a-ga-007.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="120" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipFza9B4KI8RkYNUGA_sc_nqTZNBhQdXGEnSw69yawrgYi0kubiY-e-pflTusVARJEvLLhlghQb28k9Dbsw9le2UP4Vr3gBsouKWKvlPyYaiZBgBntOTdejYtU6UWfcpm6fEoZSXhyGpY/s400/Artists-rendering-of-a-ga-007.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">Image provided by Nasa's Goddard<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">Space Flight Centre shows an artist's<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"> rendering of how a gamma ray burst<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">occurs. Photograph: AP 22 Nov 2013<o:p></o:p></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><a href="http://www.kryon.com/k_channel10_shasta_.html" target="_blank">THE RELATIONSHIP TO GAIA - April 2010 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll)</a></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">"... <b>Magnetics: Always a Player in The Shift</b><o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Many things are happening with the planet at the moment. The magnetics are changing as well. The magnetics of the solar system and the sun in particular, have an influence on your weather. How many sun spots have you seen lately? What do you think about the correlation of a sun that has very few, with your earth climate? When can you remember that in your lifetime? What does it mean? I will tell you, dear Human Beings, that it's all related to what's happening on the earth. You may not understand the correlation, but I will tell you there is a profound one. What if [astronomy hint coming next], what if sun spots were created by gravitational and other interdimensional forces caused by the orbiting planets? Has there even been a correlation made between sun spots and the positions of the planets? Too weird? The invitation is there to see the correlations.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The sun is the fulcrum of the interdimensional gravitational pull attributes of the planets around it. There is information that is interdimensional – call it a gravitational patterning, if you wish – which the sun generates every moment of the day. As the planets push and pull on the fulcrum of the solar system [effect the sun through gravity], they affect the sun's <i>attitude</i>. These patterns are unique every day, and they intersect the magnetic field of the earth as they are blasted from the Sun in what you would call the <i><b>solar wind</b></i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The <b>solar wind</b> is a magnetic heliosphere, and has very multidimensional properties. This magnetic wind strikes the earth, intersecting with the magnetic field, and you can see it! You call it the <b>Aurora Borealis</b>. It's one giant magnetic field [the sun] intersecting another [the earth]. Science calls this intersecting phenomena <i>inductance</i>. In that intersecting energy, there is a transference of the <i>informative patterning</i> of the sun [at that moment] to the magnetic grid of the earth. Now, it's the magnetic grid of the planet that you sit in. All of life does.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: start;"><div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US">Now we give you information we've given you before: The Merkabah. That is to say, your DNA imprint - the field around you - receives the magnetic grid's sun information, and the instructions within that field are passed right to the DNA, which is also magnetic. I have just given you the magnetic transmission chain that you think is esoteric. </span>It's not. It's hard science. But to think that the interdimensional, magnetic and gravitational attributes of the solar system are going to your DNA is very esoteric. Some call it astrology. The truth is that it's for humanity, and also for Gaia! For remember that it is the earth that is part of the magnetic chain of information to your cellular structure [the Magnetic Grid]. It tells it when to do what it does. It's all related. So how related are you to Gaia? How much do you address this consciousness?</b> ..."</span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.8px;"><b style="line-height: 16.8px;"><a href="http://www.kryon.com/cartprodimages/2014%20downloads/download_newport_14.html" target="_blank">"The Energy of the Future" (2) - Dec 7, 2014 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll)</a> </b></span><b style="background-color: white;">- </b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.kryon.com/CHAN2015/k_channel15_newport-15.html" style="font-style: italic;" target="_blank">(Text version)</a></span></div></div></div><div><b style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.8px;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: start;"><div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">“… <b>Akashic Acuity</b><o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: start;"><div><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: start;"><div><span lang="EN-US"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">So we have established that you are moving into this new radiation, and we have established that it intersects the sun. The sun blasts your magnetic field with it (via the <b>solar wind</b>) and the magnetic field talks to your DNA. <b>Suddenly, there is the potential some of your DNA is being unlocked.</b> The attributes of unlocking Akashic acuity will help you to remember who you've been. Now, with this remembrance comes energy - not about who you were, but rather it gives you the energy of what you did. I don't mean physically; I mean energetically and mentally. Old souls carry with them experience. When you look into the eyes of a child, you're going to see wisdom just waiting to break out. Dear ones, these children are different. They are not going to go through what you did! They have a whole new set of issues, and most of their issues are trying to navigate the old issues you create for them!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: start;"><div><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: start;"><div><span lang="EN-US"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">There's something we brought up in a former channelling called the <i>wisdom factor</i>. Now, the wisdom factor is caused by Akashic acuity. After living Human life over and over, you start remembering the wisdom that you have gained through these past lifetimes. You don't necessarily remember who you were, but rather the fact that you were at all and the experiences you had. Imagine a child coming into the planet knowing how to read? Imagine a child coming into the planet knowing not to touch something hot? Where did it come from? You're going to see more of this, and a feeling of "been there, done that".<o:p></o:p></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: start;"><div><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: start;"><div><span lang="EN-US"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Akashic acuity is <i>remembrance of experience</i> during past lifetimes. As the child grows, that remembrance becomes pure wisdom. As the child starts to awaken and the pineal opens, something else happens. <b>The grid starts <i>talking</i> to the child through the DNA, and in the grid is also the information from the time capsules we spoke about in past channellings. The time capsules start feeding the planet with increased wisdom and knowledge. You don't have to reincarnate to awaken even further! Akashic acuity means suddenly Humans know more than other children have in the past - much more.<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: start;"><div><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: start;"><div><span lang="EN-US"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>Fast Tracking</b></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: start;"><div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: start;"><div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">This is the plan, and it's a fast-track system, an energy system for planetary ascension. It's going to take a long time to implement, dear ones, but it's beginning right now. You're going to see marginal evidence of this beginning to happen in 2015, 2016, 2017. You're going to see it slightly in many places. These energies take a long time to mature, and they're not all going to happen fast and instantaneous. Some of you are going to be convinced that the world is going through a dark place and you're all going with it. This is because you don't see the changes for what they are, and you don't understand what is really happening. We've said it before, that when you shine a lot of light in a dark place, the things that were always in the dark object. That's what you're seeing now, and you'll see more of it. These dark things were always there, but they just didn't have the light on them that you're placing on them now.</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">…”</span></div><div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.8px;"><a href="http://www.kryon.com/cartprodimages/2015%20downloads/download_dallas_15.html" target="_blank">"The Weather" - Mar 1, 2015 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll)</a></b> </div></div></div></div> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></div><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1669433325482490023.post-36082800734965866132023-02-24T22:25:00.009+01:002023-02-25T00:09:25.375+01:00Ministers, Shell admit failings over Groningen gas fields<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2023/02/ministers-shell-admit-failings-over-groningen-gas-fields/" target="_blank">DutchNews</a>, February 24, 2023</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyRelKMA3SPVqatVbzCWVC35r1VHmCnUVgDb_XBHLAk7zxNbFJypxSP0Kkmt_w_M9HWhR34Q01wolRtv7bQ3R_tp5CcQhVqJ3SiUjpK7AvAnB-9WhtF69hu9Z78vUSKX0ydTvn8jlsPfzjTjCLPnfzKmrv6abibfGbS6NrI-5SMabFLFxSc3Qo5CKsfQ/s560/cafe-held-up-by-posts-Groningen-560x374.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="374" data-original-width="560" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyRelKMA3SPVqatVbzCWVC35r1VHmCnUVgDb_XBHLAk7zxNbFJypxSP0Kkmt_w_M9HWhR34Q01wolRtv7bQ3R_tp5CcQhVqJ3SiUjpK7AvAnB-9WhtF69hu9Z78vUSKX0ydTvn8jlsPfzjTjCLPnfzKmrv6abibfGbS6NrI-5SMabFLFxSc3Qo5CKsfQ/w400-h268/cafe-held-up-by-posts-Groningen-560x374.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">This cafe in Zeerijp has been shored up for years. Photo: Graham Dockery</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">Mines minister Hans Vijlbrief has described the
findings of the parliamentary inquiry set up to look into problems caused by
the exploitation of a massive gas field under Groningen as ‘extremely serious’.
‘</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">If you read the facts one after another, it takes your breath away,’ <a href="https://nos.nl/artikel/2465107-staatssecretaris-voor-mijnbouw-dit-is-heel-ernstig-ik-voel-vooral-schaamte" target="_blank">he told reporters</a> after the <a href="https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2023/02/damning-report-slams-state-oil-companies-for-groningen-gas-failures/" target="_blank">report’s presentation</a>. ‘I feel shame more than anything
else, and that means we have to do something.’ </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">The highly damning report said
that the state and oil firms had a ‘debt of honour’ to the people of Groningen,
whose interests were continually subordinated to that of earning money. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">More
than 1,600 quakes of up to 3.6 on the Richter scale have hit the province since
1986, damaging tens of thousands of homes, but it took until 2018 for the
government to start winding down gas production. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">Prime minister Mark Rutte said
in a short statement that ‘what began at the end of the 1950s as something
wonderful ended up in a nightmare for the people of Groningen. ‘Hopefully we
can do something to win back their trust,’ he said. ‘The report does justice to
the Groningers and the cabinet must do that too.’ </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">The cabinet will issue a
formal reaction at a later date. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Oil companies </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://nos.nl/artikel/2465109-shell-en-exxonmobil-accepteren-rapport-geen-duidelijkheid-over-gevolgen" target="_blank">Shell and ExxonMobil</a>, who
jointly own the gas exploration company NAM, have described the report as an
‘important milestone’ which needs to be studied closely. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">Both were criticised
in the report alongside the government for failing to take the concerns of
locals seriously and for putting profit above people. ‘</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">The people of Groningen
carried a great deal of the disadvantages of the gas extraction but only a few
of the benefits,’ Shell Nederland president Marjan van Loon said in a reaction. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">The companies involved in gas extraction, including Shell, did not listen to
the people of Groningen properly when they expressed their concerns about the
damage to their homes and the safety risks, she said. ‘As a company, we have
important lessons to learn.’</span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Related Articles:</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://cempaka-belanda.blogspot.com/2019/10/shell-other-oil-giants-spent-250m.html" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Shell, other oil giants, spent €250m lobbying Brussels in 10 years</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://cempaka-green.blogspot.com/2019/10/big-firm-products-top-worst-plastic.html" target="_blank">Big firm products top worst plastic litter list: report</a></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;"><b><a href="https://www.kryon.com/cartprodimages/download_Dallas_12.html" target="_blank">"Recalibration of Free Choice"– Mar 3, 2012 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Caroll)</a> - </b></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-US">(Subjects: <a href="http://www.kryon.com/k_channel11_sacramento.html" target="_blank">(Old) Souls</a>, </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">Midpoint on 21-12-2012</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">, Shift of Human Consciousness, Black & White vs. Color, </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">1</b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> - Spirituality (Religions) shifting, Loose a Pope “soon”, </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">2</b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> - Humans will change react to drama,</span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> 3</b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> - Civilizations/Population on Earth, </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">4</b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">- Alternate energy sources (Geothermal, Tidal (Paddle wheels), Wind),</b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">5</b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> – Financials Institutes/concepts will change (Integrity – Ethical) , </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">6</b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> - News/Media/TV to change, </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">7</b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> – Big Pharmaceutical company will collapse “soon”, (Keep people sick), (Integrity – Ethical) </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">8</b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> – Wars will be over on Earth</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-US">, Global Unity, … etc.) </span><i color="#222222" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">- <a href="http://www.kryon.com/k_channel12_Dallas.html" target="_blank">(Text version)</a></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">“… </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">4 - Energy <span style="color: #cc0000;">(again)</span></b></div><div><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></b></div><div><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The natural resources of the planet are finite and will not support the continuation of what you've been doing. We've been saying this for a decade.</b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Watch for increased science and increased funding for alternate ways of creating electricity </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #cc0000;"><b>(finally)</b></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">. </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Watch for the very companies who have the most to lose being the ones who fund it.</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> It is the beginning of a full realization that a change of thinking is at hand.</span><b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">You can take things from Gaia that are energy, instead of physical resources. We speak yet; <span style="color: #cc0000;">again</span> about <span style="color: #3333ff;">geothermal</span>, about <span style="color: #3366ff;">tidal</span>, about <span style="color: #3333ff;">wind</span>.</span></b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Again</b></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">, we plead with you not to over-engineer this. For one of the things that Human Beings do in a technological age is to over-engineer simple things. </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Look at nuclear - the most over-engineered and expensive steam engine in existence!</b></div><div><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></b></div><div><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Your current ideas of capturing energy from tidal and wave motion don't have to be technical marvels. Think paddle wheel on a pier with waves, which will create energy in both directions [waves coming and going] tied to a generator that can power dozens of neighborhoods, not full cities. Think simple and decentralize the idea of utilities.</b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> The same goes for wind and geothermal. Think of utilities for groups of homes in a cluster. You won't have a grid failure if there is no grid. This is the way of the future, and you'll be more inclined to have it sooner than later if you do this, and it won't cost as much…</span></div><div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Water</b></div><div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div><div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-US">We've told you that one of the greatest natural resources of the planet, which is going to shift and change and be mysterious to you, is fresh water. It's going to be the next <i>gold</i>, dear ones. So, we have also given you some hints and examples and again we plead: Even before the potentials of running out of it, learn how to desalinate water in real time without heat. It's there, it's doable, and some already have it in the lab. </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">This will create inexpensive fresh water for the planet. </span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-US">There is a change of attitude that is starting to occur. Slowly you're starting to see it and the only thing getting in the way of it are those companies with the big money who currently have the old system. That's starting to change as well. For the big money always wants to invest in what it knows is coming next, but it wants to create what is coming next within the framework of what it has "<i>on the shelf</i>." What is on the shelf is oil, coal, dams, and non-renewable resource usage. It hasn't changed much in the last 100 years, has it? Now you will see a change of free choice. You're going to see decisions made in the boardrooms that would have curled the toes of those two generations ago. Now "the worst thing they could do" might become "the best thing they could do." That, dear ones, is a change of free choice concept. When the thinkers of tomorrow see options that were never options before, that is a shift. </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">That was number four</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">.”</span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.kryon.com/cartprodimages/2018%20downloads/download_lagunaxmas-18.html" target="_blank">“Afraid of Love” + <span style="color: red;">“What’s Wrong Today”</span>, Laguna Hills, California, US(2), Dec 9, 2018 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll)</a></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"></span><br /><ul style="text-align: center;"><li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><u style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stagnation of the current US Politics:</u><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: red;">Compassioned (US) leaders will arise in the future</span></b></span></li><li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><u style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shortage of fresh/drinking water:</u><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> <span style="color: red;">Invention to make salt from salt water magnetic and remove it with water desalination process in high volumes</span></span></b></span></li><li style="text-align: left;"><b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline;"><span lang="EN-US"><u>Pollution on Earth:</u><span style="color: red;"> 1 - <u>Stop killing the environment!</u> / 2 - The rise of temperature on Earth is “temporary” and is part of the "regular" <a href="https://cempaka-green.blogspot.com/search/label/Water%20Cycle" target="_blank">Watercycle</a>.</span></span></div></span></span></b></li><li style="text-align: left;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><u>Replacement of current fossil energy source:</u><span style="color: red;"> Use of magnetics based (small/big) engines to produces electricity / free energy</span></b></span></span></li><li style="text-align: left;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><b><u>Plastic pollution in the oceans:</u><span style="color: red;"> Invention to remove the plastics gradually from the oceans</span></b></span></li></ul></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1669433325482490023.post-17038818007333817892023-02-24T22:17:00.004+01:002023-02-24T22:17:41.908+01:00Dutch firms are still doing business in Russia, Yale database shows<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2023/02/dutch-firms-are-still-doing-business-in-russia-yale-database-shows/" target="_blank">DutchNews</a>, February 24, 2023</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFPzHksDHzHaWqocCEzTWfDldjCu_tpIIwBYpyplb4bw7eWnUPtUgO0l8fmciaCVev3wlrT-ZWPVHg05SjkBk68ApW7JSR1u58m24RkgkgsZyqz-m2s3XwzyfpR9K-TYhrwyLYk44UcD_QLICPInS4IvDDWH2056l8Nrmm8PdDz5lc0laSFEaoUJXuEQ/s560/heineken-560x372.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="372" data-original-width="560" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFPzHksDHzHaWqocCEzTWfDldjCu_tpIIwBYpyplb4bw7eWnUPtUgO0l8fmciaCVev3wlrT-ZWPVHg05SjkBk68ApW7JSR1u58m24RkgkgsZyqz-m2s3XwzyfpR9K-TYhrwyLYk44UcD_QLICPInS4IvDDWH2056l8Nrmm8PdDz5lc0laSFEaoUJXuEQ/w400-h266/heineken-560x372.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Heineken brand is no longer sold in Russia. Photo: Depositphotos.com</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">A number of Dutch companies are continuing to do
business in Russia alongside Heineken, which was slammed earlier this week for
launching new products on the Russian market.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> Lighting company Signify, coffee
company JDE Peets, banking group ING and Philips are among the companies which
are ‘buying time’ in Russia, according to a database of 1,200 companies
compiled by <a href="https://som.yale.edu/story/2022/over-1000-companies-have-curtailed-operations-russia-some-remain" target="_blank">researchers at Yale</a> University. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Yale database includes 50 Dutch
firms and none are classified as ‘digging in’, which means carrying on business
as normal. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The database is based on company statements and news coverage.
Heineken is listed as one of 18 Dutch firms to withdraw completely, despite a
report by <a href="https://www.ftm.nl/artikelen/heineken-in-rusland-update" target="_blank">Follow the Money</a> earlier this week that the company is still
operating in Russia. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Heineken says its Russian unit is up for sale and says the
introduction of new beers is something ‘our local colleagues have done to keep
the company going and to ensure their livelihoods are not at risk.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">’ ‘We will
not profit from any sale or transfer of ownership. We aim to reach an agreement
in the first half of 2023,’ according to the company’s 2022 annual report. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b>Questions </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Representatives from ING, Philips and JDE Peet’s (Douwe Egberts)
appeared earlier this month before a committee of MPs to explain why they were
<a href="https://www.tweedekamer.nl/downloads/document?id=2023D07643" target="_blank">still operating in Russia</a>, despite the sanctions. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">ING’s operations there mainly
consist of company loans and the bank is trying to recover the money, chairman
Steven van Rijswijk told MPs. ‘If we don’t then it is a gift to the Russian
client,’ he said. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Philips spokesman Jan-Willem Scheijgrond told MPs that the
company only supplies hospital equipment to Russian hospitals, and that the
situation has been discussed with the Ukrainian authorities. ‘</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">They don’t like
it but they understand it. It is a humanitarian issue,’ he said. ‘They said,
“go ahead but don’t make any money on it”. We don’t. We make a loss.’ </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">On
Wednesday, national statistics agency CBS said Dutch exports to Russia had
<a href="https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2023/02/dutch-exports-to-russia-fall-38-crude-oil-imports-were-down-14/" target="_blank">fallen by 38%</a> since Moscow invaded Ukraine a year ago.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1669433325482490023.post-66015202298972827412023-02-19T22:47:00.001+01:002023-02-19T22:47:24.121+01:00Femke Bol sets new world record in the 400 metres indoors<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2023/02/femke-bol-sets-new-world-record-in-the-400-metres-indoors/" target="_blank">DutchNews</a>, February 19, 2023</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZdjIjHENQJzqmHWArfg23kqN0ILzBPKrVMj5j-iC4xcjFGaFnJL09q2Prvb2GQUEgZ-u7AJ-s-8HafO2GnSMhh60OWtepxqYVdN4zFqk6Lec2aWcHwjQJVIj0xT_1PmypcBgBmWzjTmlTkYu2JzeciBVwEJD5OQJ8l2ssqSZBilpOgslEKsf1OYZ4qA/s560/ANP-463132685-560x373.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="373" data-original-width="560" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZdjIjHENQJzqmHWArfg23kqN0ILzBPKrVMj5j-iC4xcjFGaFnJL09q2Prvb2GQUEgZ-u7AJ-s-8HafO2GnSMhh60OWtepxqYVdN4zFqk6Lec2aWcHwjQJVIj0xT_1PmypcBgBmWzjTmlTkYu2JzeciBVwEJD5OQJ8l2ssqSZBilpOgslEKsf1OYZ4qA/w400-h266/ANP-463132685-560x373.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Femke Bol after the race. Photo: Olaf Kraak</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Dutch 400 metre runner Femke Bol caused a sensation at
the Dutch indoor athletics championships in Apeldoorn on Sunday by setting a
new world record of 49.26 seconds. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Bol smashed the 41-year-old record held by
Jarmila Kratochvílová from the then-Czechoslovakia by three tenths of a second.
She had first dipped under the 50 second mark earlier in Metz last weekend. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Bol, who described the race as ‘almost perfect’,</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">now heads for the European championships in
Istanbul next month as top favourite for the title. The 22-year-old took the
European title in Poland in 2021 and won a bronze for the 400 metres hurdles at
the Olympic Games in Tokyo.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="nl" dir="ltr">WORLD RECORD!😱😍<br><br>Femke Bol vliegt naar een nieuw wereldrecord op de 400 meter. 49.26 seconden. Buitenaards. 👑<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NKindoor?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NKindoor</a> <a href="https://t.co/RfRZn0IrgD">pic.twitter.com/RfRZn0IrgD</a></p>— Atletiekunie (@Atletiekunie) <a href="https://twitter.com/Atletiekunie/status/1627335630584774657?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 19, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1669433325482490023.post-49744224441520132023-02-16T23:32:00.001+01:002023-02-16T23:32:09.811+01:00Massive fundraiser for earthquake victims brings in €89 million<p><a href="https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2023/02/massive-fundraiser-for-earthquake-victims-brings-in-e89-million/" target="_blank">D</a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2023/02/massive-fundraiser-for-earthquake-victims-brings-in-e89-million/" target="_blank">utchNews</a>, February 16, 2023 </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0eSrGetYafq1sgGK3t6Rr6HgDnKwRw_nygDk9pSYwSstUgyvhGgw8DREzvR1qHGArsFqF3nddF3yIAroJ5ifIpgaPftxEKKKm_tL24kegLyuMOwoR0vQIrsfTPxsyKy7nfkdYdB_1kzOa0cYEizZ4psJFCI9SrYxXZQZbzudV6qsr7-_lsVyVYv1GCw/s560/ANP-462871894-560x398.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="398" data-original-width="560" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0eSrGetYafq1sgGK3t6Rr6HgDnKwRw_nygDk9pSYwSstUgyvhGgw8DREzvR1qHGArsFqF3nddF3yIAroJ5ifIpgaPftxEKKKm_tL24kegLyuMOwoR0vQIrsfTPxsyKy7nfkdYdB_1kzOa0cYEizZ4psJFCI9SrYxXZQZbzudV6qsr7-_lsVyVYv1GCw/w400-h284/ANP-462871894-560x398.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Culture minister Gunay Uslu and singer Karsu Donmez as the <br />total is announced. Photo: Remko de Waal ANP</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Wednesday’s
television and radio charity marathon for the victims of the earthquakes in
Turkey and Syria had raised almost €89 million by the end of broadcasting, the
organisers said. </span><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">‘It is overwhelming how much money has been given from across
the country,’ said Michiel Servaes, the chairman of the Giro555 fund raising
initiative, which represents 11 aid groups.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">‘So many people have rung the panel
to make donations, donated online and organised events,’ he said. Nine of the
groups behind Giro555 are active in the relief effort and the money will be
divided between them. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The massive quakes hit the region 10 days ago and the
death toll has since mounted to more than 41,000. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">On Wednesday, Dutch rescue
teams pulled four people alive from under the rubble.</span><p></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1669433325482490023.post-112645630654461272023-02-07T21:44:00.003+01:002023-02-07T21:44:24.727+01:00Vermeer shines at 'once in history' Amsterdam show<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="https://news.yahoo.com/vermeer-shines-once-history-amsterdam-100508410.html" target="_blank">Yahoo – AFP</a>, Danny Kemp, February 7, 2023</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC-SNGuU0_efZ6aQgWIgatEL2QlSxjaZRzcWq7MFuSRnZRVzXGWK53cPgzicM_C-pHAglxr18ZbzAnJ5H53uqzC7Ytdr11DGnmNYZ3xe91xJqUDfX5GnL0lT5bajfDVaGd-l4UKzd0MIZ2IsJKSRA6ghmbIXTIztmEsHbt4IO1Qzvh1i5L26g9Ns3_1Q/s705/3594237c92bba01d864c9c22dbed6e16.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="468" data-original-width="705" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC-SNGuU0_efZ6aQgWIgatEL2QlSxjaZRzcWq7MFuSRnZRVzXGWK53cPgzicM_C-pHAglxr18ZbzAnJ5H53uqzC7Ytdr11DGnmNYZ3xe91xJqUDfX5GnL0lT5bajfDVaGd-l4UKzd0MIZ2IsJKSRA6ghmbIXTIztmEsHbt4IO1Qzvh1i5L26g9Ns3_1Q/w400-h265/3594237c92bba01d864c9c22dbed6e16.webp" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The Dutch master Johannes Vermeer himself never got
the chance to see so many of his paintings in the same place.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum has brought together 28 of
Vermeer's luminous masterpieces from around the world, in the largest-ever
exhibition of the 17th century artist's works.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Curators hope the blockbuster show, featuring some
three-quarters of his modest output of around 35 paintings, will also shed
light on the enigmatic creator of "Girl with a Pearl Earring" and
"The Milkmaid".</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"Never in history have 28 paintings by Vermeer
been gathered," Rijksmuseum General Director Taco Dibbits told AFP at a
preview.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"He didn't even see that many together
himself."</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Famed for their use of light and colour and their
tranquil yet haunting indoor scenes, Vermeer's paintings practically shine from
the walls of the dimmed galleries at the Rijksmuseum.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The works have been brought from museums and
collections around the world, including Washington, New York, Tokyo, London,
Paris, Dublin.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"It's a very happy reunion," said Dibbits.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Interest is so intense that the Rijksmuseum has
already sold 200,000 tickets for the exhibition, which opens on Friday until
June 4, the most ever for one of its shows.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">'Wonderful'</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Part of the appeal is the mystery surrounding the man
often called the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Sphinx of
Delft".</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Vermeer (1632-1675) was born into a family of
Calvinist traders but converted to Catholicism after marrying a wealthy woman
with whom he had 11 children.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">But there are very few records of his life, and
compared to Dutch "Golden Age" artists such as Rembrandt his work
languished in obscurity, until a reappraisal in the 19th century.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Vermeer rose to megastar status with the publication
of the novel "Girl with a Pearl Earring" by US author Tracy
Chevalier, based on the painting that has been loaned for the exhibition by the
Mauritshuis in The Hague.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The book also spawned a 2003 Hollywood movie starring
Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"Wonderful, it's wonderful," Chevalier told
AFP after viewing the exhibition.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"I'm so glad people are going to see these
paintings together and build a picture for themselves of what Vermeer
was," said the author.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Most of Vermeer's works focus on women, often caught
in the midst of acts like writing a letter or playing a musical instrument, and
Chevalier said he was "just presenting women in the best possible light,
literally and figuratively".</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Her favourite in the exhibition -- apart from
"Girl with a Pearl Earring", of course -- was "The
Lacemaker", a tiny work of exquisite beauty loaned by The Louvre in Paris,
she said.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">'Time stands still'</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Highlights also include three works from the Frick
Collection in New York, the newly restored "Girl Reading a Letter at the
Window" from Dresden, and "Woman Holding a Balance" from the
National Gallery in Washington DC.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">For the curators, who say it is a "once in
history" exhibition, Vermeer's appeal is also about his creation of quiet
worlds so realistic that the viewer feels they could lose themself inside.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"We live in a world today where it's so
hectic," said Dibbits.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"He had more than 10 children, there was a war
going on outside in Europe, yet still he creates these ideal spaces where time
stands still."</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The exhibition has however felt the pressures of the
real, modern world, with the authenticity of one of its works -- "Girl
with a Flute" -- being called into question by the gallery that loaned it.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The National Gallery of Art in Washington said last
year it was likely painted by a "studio associate of Vermeer" but the
Rijksmuseum says it thinks it's authentic.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"It's very important to have these
discussions," said Dibbits.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The magic of the master is still bewitching for staff
at the Rijksmuseum.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"For me personally Vermeer is one of the greatest
artists in the world," said Gregor Weber, the Rijksmuseum's fine arts
department head and author of a recent book showing Vermeer was influenced by a
pinhole camera that was first introduced to him by Jesuit priests.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"To have three quarters of his oeuvre together
here in Amsterdam under one roof is the crown of my work."<o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1669433325482490023.post-64467746663750464562023-01-20T22:22:00.010+01:002023-01-20T22:22:58.970+01:00Dutch To Ban Unhealthy Designer Pets<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.barrons.com/news/dutch-to-ban-unhealthy-designer-pets-01674222910" target="_blank">Barrons – AFP</a>, Charlotte
VAN OUWERKERK, January 20, 2023</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFbnTZfRR5E7qcyLlVuY_K9bGIasVeM6bs8PMaUXbdsNVWGMyrGE_ex0zwD5kV3DwMg6awyPcgHD4B9T9TyMY0mTeirsOAUvIPFM9eUS97CCJIqDDyOg7nCBazJGK-x1p4sSrVPD9pi-cZqu-H0K88U7UCjx10hbqkv5oDl5TbTFG3A9_d0O95mOQzKg/s768/AFP8027519484137901806956948856562301255246---1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="571" data-original-width="768" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFbnTZfRR5E7qcyLlVuY_K9bGIasVeM6bs8PMaUXbdsNVWGMyrGE_ex0zwD5kV3DwMg6awyPcgHD4B9T9TyMY0mTeirsOAUvIPFM9eUS97CCJIqDDyOg7nCBazJGK-x1p4sSrVPD9pi-cZqu-H0K88U7UCjx10hbqkv5oDl5TbTFG3A9_d0O95mOQzKg/w400-h297/AFP8027519484137901806956948856562301255246---1.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">The Netherlands wants to ban the ownership of pets such as flat-faced dogs<br />.(Frank Rumpenhorst)</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Netherlands wants to ban pets such as flat-faced
dogs and cats with folded ears, which look sweet but suffer
"miserable" health problems, the government said on Friday.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Dutch Agriculture Minister Piet Adema said he would
seek to outlaw the ownership of the designer breeds and to ban photos of them
in advertising or on social media.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"We make life miserable for innocent animals,
purely because we think they are 'beautiful' and 'cute'," Adema said in a
statement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">"That is why today we are taking a big step
towards a Netherlands where no pet has to suffer from his or her
appearance."</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Despite sought-after looks that have made them a
favourite with celebrities and a fixture among social media influencers, such
pets suffer from a range of health conditions.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The Dutch minister said that owners often "have
the best of intentions but are often unaware of the dark side of their pets'
appearance".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">"This subject touches me as a minister but also
as a human," added Adema.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The government would now work out a full list of
affected breeds, he said, adding that it could take some time.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">But the public broadcaster NOS said squish-faced pugs
could be among those banned.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The Netherlands banned the breeding of pets that are
affected by their appearance in 2014, but some animals were still being traded
illegally or bought from abroad.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The proposed new rules are designed to close a
loophole so that it will also be illegal to own them.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In 2019, the Dutch government updated the rules to
specifically apply to dogs whose snout is less than half the length of their
skull.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"Dogs with snouts that are too short are
constantly out of breath, making them gasp throughout their life," Adema
said in a letter to parliament setting out the proposal.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"Dogs that have a deviant skull shape may suffer
from a permanent headache.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"Cats with folding ears have deviated cartilage
which can cause them a lot of pain."</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZw91jKcM2TAT71vDORCUdkEBFNLrGDuqr-U_B7mc0KhRRPLUQfn1bOpVr016BCfOJ006GGiwcf1z40rgrhplI9wcjIltbyC5aj0W9Dx08NjXjFcERoG73lJ1LqOcWIy7PgT3GIGJ-g8aI-2bQkoxefwOSxVzkQ1ihHuM16MtSY8gv650qBjU24GMETg/s768/AFP8027519484137901806956948856562301255246---2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="510" data-original-width="768" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZw91jKcM2TAT71vDORCUdkEBFNLrGDuqr-U_B7mc0KhRRPLUQfn1bOpVr016BCfOJ006GGiwcf1z40rgrhplI9wcjIltbyC5aj0W9Dx08NjXjFcERoG73lJ1LqOcWIy7PgT3GIGJ-g8aI-2bQkoxefwOSxVzkQ1ihHuM16MtSY8gv650qBjU24GMETg/w400-h266/AFP8027519484137901806956948856562301255246---2.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="text-align: left;">Short-snouted dogs are constantly out of breath, the Dutch agriculture minister <br />said. (</span><span style="text-align: left;">Mladen ANTONOV)</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The fold-eared felines would definitely qualify for a
ban, as was already the case in the Flanders region of neighbouring Belgium,
the agriculture ministry said.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"There is scientific evidence for these cats that
they always suffer because they are a have a cartilage defect caused by a
specific gene," it said in briefing notes accompanying the proposal.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The government had asked for advice from experts in
veterinary genetics at the University of Utrecht in the central Netherlands, it
added.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Any ban would come in after a transition period.
People who currently own one of the pets would be allowed to keep them until
the animal dies.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Recent studies have found that pugs and other dogs
bred to have short noses, such as French and English bulldogs, are more prone
to health problems, particularly with breathing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1669433325482490023.post-21096028752764051862023-01-11T23:34:00.004+01:002023-01-11T23:36:20.584+01:00Prince Harry praises Dutch monarchy for ‘leading by example’<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #212529;"><a href="https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2023/01/prince-harry-praises-dutch-monarchy-for-leading-by-example/" target="_blank">DutchNews</a>, January 11,
2023</span><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #212529; text-align: center;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #212529; font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfAy4iGqarU_GdH9k3PI7D100M7zvA5zTKIaz22UxEGiwz8TThtfAWWFs-thPVxxrYVgfCF3Uf05M_JMIZDgbR6LjJPr_CLNrJfEVuSAU9a00YsOzgyOrqvNSleYpp5_FsNSCIDzfzIA_YH2uDTYYM0UNlc0HTtYwqDdI4OOUpW3B9FfmN1pUiU3lkQw/s560/ANP-447484426-560x373.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="373" data-original-width="560" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfAy4iGqarU_GdH9k3PI7D100M7zvA5zTKIaz22UxEGiwz8TThtfAWWFs-thPVxxrYVgfCF3Uf05M_JMIZDgbR6LjJPr_CLNrJfEVuSAU9a00YsOzgyOrqvNSleYpp5_FsNSCIDzfzIA_YH2uDTYYM0UNlc0HTtYwqDdI4OOUpW3B9FfmN1pUiU3lkQw/w400-h266/ANP-447484426-560x373.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #212529; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Photo: Mischa Schoemaker MMP ANP</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #212529; font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-family: arial;">Britain’s prince Harry, who is at the centre of a media storm following
the publication of his autobiography Spare, has praised the Dutch and Norwegian
royal families for their efforts to combat prejudice. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-family: arial;">The prince, who has
accused the British royals and the press for not accepting his mixed-race wife
Megan, said in an interview on broadcaster ABC that the Dutch and Norwegian
monarchs are a good example to the rest. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-family: arial;">‘I genuinely believe the best thing
for the monarchy is to modernise, especially because of their role in the
commonwealth,’ he said. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-family: arial;">‘In the last couple of months, the king of the
Netherlands and the king of Norway have led by example, and I congratulate them
for that, enormously, and I don’t think they have been given enough credit for
what they have done. But it is huge, and more of that is needed.’ </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-family: arial;">In his
<a href="https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2022/12/let-us-not-lose-each-other-king-says-in-his-christmas-message/" target="_blank">Christmas message</a> to the nation, king Willem-Alexander referred specifically to
the apologies given by the government earlier in the month for the Netherlands’
role in slavery.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-family: arial;"> The statement is the start of long journey in which the pain
of the past has been recognised, he said. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-family: arial;">‘Over the past year, my wife and I
have spoken to people of all ages about this topic, including descendants of
people who lived in slavery several generations ago,’ the king said. ‘We will
remain involved in this coming commemorative year.’ </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-family: arial;">The king will, for example,
be present at Keti Koti, the annual celebration marking the end of slavery in
the Netherlands, in July. This year’s event marks 150 years since slavery was
actually abolished. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-family: arial;">The king has also commissioned <a href="https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2022/11/royal-collection-to-be-checked-for-colonial-era-artefacts/" target="_blank">research into the colonialartifacts</a> held in the royal collection to make sure none of it was stolen or
taken by force.</span></p><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #212529; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">
<!--[endif]--></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1669433325482490023.post-16892116799709988092022-11-17T21:28:00.006+01:002022-11-17T21:38:47.027+01:00Three sentenced to life for flight MH17 downing<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://news.yahoo.com/dutch-judges-long-awaited-flight-035838399.html" target="_blank">Yahoo – AFP</a>, Danny KEMP, November 17, 2022</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHw4HW0n8mV5NpN0dFNVUBrTrt1AgmHyEqVrN5zyIc1LmOMJK1JmO3_Yr3M__ELQVxaj3gF0f9HGzUmHXVKrgqAaiImX-2BhiLPp2bFrPpfLf3bG-ncjW49xcmANrrW9D-GRFoX2QBKoS944ddMSWzW5wZZmjFzJkjGx9PbpOvezKwnBXef6TSoAqW2Q/s705/02e6324d9987ea9c56998e19afb7211e.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="468" data-original-width="705" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHw4HW0n8mV5NpN0dFNVUBrTrt1AgmHyEqVrN5zyIc1LmOMJK1JmO3_Yr3M__ELQVxaj3gF0f9HGzUmHXVKrgqAaiImX-2BhiLPp2bFrPpfLf3bG-ncjW49xcmANrrW9D-GRFoX2QBKoS944ddMSWzW5wZZmjFzJkjGx9PbpOvezKwnBXef6TSoAqW2Q/w400-h265/02e6324d9987ea9c56998e19afb7211e.webp" width="400" /></span></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">A Dutch court on Thursday sentenced three men to life
imprisonment over the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine in
2014, in the early stages of a war that eight years later would put the world
on edge.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Russians Igor Girkin and Sergei Dubinsky and Ukrainian
Leonid Kharchenko were found guilty in absentia of murdering all 298 people on
board and of bringing down the Boeing 777 with a Russian-supplied missile. A
fourth man was acquitted.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Moscow slammed the "scandalous" verdict as
politically motivated, while Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky -- battling
a full-scale Russian invasion after years of low-level fighting in the east --
praised it as "important".</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Relatives of MH17 victims blinked away tears as the
verdicts were read out in a courtroom packed with families who had travelled
from around the world for the end of the two-and-a-half-year trial.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"The court calls the proven charges so severe
that it holds that only the highest possible prison sentence would be
appropriate," head judge Hendrik Steenhuis said.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZDKlsNk2AthGXqpZrweZURii-wuzpvv70Xv6GoSA_8BKzsujonvAwKoyNe-qomvUQk-xxzX4Fwd1I6xXAnWmj2yL03XWToB9qoVKox3RoOxTfJJjC2IEochSETCbsegRan5TCfGNpGB0EPknPho9zwXj_EA5UsvX76PoS1AlQkF5TEZOuhGvdqIAjcw/s704/09e6af48d43fa0d8b40af63438b6d77e.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="476" data-original-width="704" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZDKlsNk2AthGXqpZrweZURii-wuzpvv70Xv6GoSA_8BKzsujonvAwKoyNe-qomvUQk-xxzX4Fwd1I6xXAnWmj2yL03XWToB9qoVKox3RoOxTfJJjC2IEochSETCbsegRan5TCfGNpGB0EPknPho9zwXj_EA5UsvX76PoS1AlQkF5TEZOuhGvdqIAjcw/w400-h270/09e6af48d43fa0d8b40af63438b6d77e.webp" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /> <span face="Arial, sans-serif">"Imposing these sentences cannot take away the
pain and suffering, but there's hope that today clarity has been provided about
who is to blame."</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">But none of the suspects was at the high-security
court on the outskirts of Schiphol Airport, where the doomed plane took off,
after Russia refused to extradite them.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><b>'Justice has spoken'</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The trial represents the end of a long search for
justice for the victims of the disaster, who came from 10 countries, including
196 Dutch, 43 Malaysians and 38 Australians.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"Justice has spoken. We wanted justice to be done
and that happened, in a very well-balanced verdict," Piet Ploeg, chairman
of the MH17 foundation, who lost his brother, sister-in-law and nephew, told
AFP.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"The role of Russia has been very clearly
confirmed by the court."</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Flight MH17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was
cruising at 33,000 feet (10,000 metres) over war-torn eastern Ukraine when a BUK
missile exploded near the cockpit on July 17, 2014, tearing the plane apart.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbq1vCthnMTipJ-a-EjkJGmx6qYxXQoSl6tdxU3pfwkVJ48r2U2alhaMHV5mQfv7Uz45Bfcj6cfOyuDrKpcQRt8GmXuEWGDJkz97NPuJ7riuEJ7489q-HHjm_2w48Ou3XQU4OqEfCTNMTlsJASs7sOFdtyzbB4i_UZGZAbfRESTuXzdUvNqqn_dk0AzQ/s704/57ebcf42e0b49341026322b5f8a17e2e.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="476" data-original-width="704" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbq1vCthnMTipJ-a-EjkJGmx6qYxXQoSl6tdxU3pfwkVJ48r2U2alhaMHV5mQfv7Uz45Bfcj6cfOyuDrKpcQRt8GmXuEWGDJkz97NPuJ7riuEJ7489q-HHjm_2w48Ou3XQU4OqEfCTNMTlsJASs7sOFdtyzbB4i_UZGZAbfRESTuXzdUvNqqn_dk0AzQ/w400-h270/57ebcf42e0b49341026322b5f8a17e2e.webp" width="400" /></span></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The crash triggered global outrage and sanctions
against Moscow, with Ukraine's famed sunflower fields littered with bodies and
wreckage. Some victims, including children, were still strapped into their
seats.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Judges found Girkin, Dubinsky and Kharchenko could all
be held responsible for the transport of the missile from a military base in
Russia and deploying it to the launch site -- even if they did not pull the
trigger.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">There was not enough evidence to show the involvement
of Oleg Pulatov, the only suspect to have legal representation during the
trial, they said.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">All the suspects were members of the Donetsk People's
Republic, an armed group fighting Ukraine's government that judges ruled was
directly controlled by Russia.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><b>'Ample evidence'</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Girkin, 51, a former Russian spy who became the
so-called defence minister of the DPR, was in regular contact with Moscow,
particularly over the return of the missile after the tragedy, the court ruled.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsJMWKIFzJkzZJsL0Wfr4X6ChfpoiP9fss5N72axKyvzaZC5MYCkB4AuxYzFnbmHgYZDbXizyPD7y5fN2-cc3tSb6E2jfvkqUsBLZwkf7PqP2idrWPkOt5FpHB8SN0ToYABcqTcvXw2mA1-yykI7jFylXrBXAIxhtlg0BDjZUBqVyRtyVc6Q8FDmXlPw/s704/ca188cde27bd6e1a8e61d56a425b921c.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="386" data-original-width="704" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsJMWKIFzJkzZJsL0Wfr4X6ChfpoiP9fss5N72axKyvzaZC5MYCkB4AuxYzFnbmHgYZDbXizyPD7y5fN2-cc3tSb6E2jfvkqUsBLZwkf7PqP2idrWPkOt5FpHB8SN0ToYABcqTcvXw2mA1-yykI7jFylXrBXAIxhtlg0BDjZUBqVyRtyVc6Q8FDmXlPw/w400-h219/ca188cde27bd6e1a8e61d56a425b921c.webp" width="400" /></span></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Kharchenko, 50, who allegedly led a separatist unit,
received direct orders from Dubinsky, 60, who has also been tied to Russian
intelligence, to escort the missile to the final launch site, the court ruled.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The defendants had apparently intended to shoot down a
Ukrainian military plane rather than a civilian jet but that did not affect
their guilt, the judges said.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Russia's continued denials that it controlled the DPR
meanwhile meant the defendants could not claim immunity from prosecution as
formal combatants, they added.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The court ruled there was "ample evidence"
to show the plane was brought down by the missile, and ruled out
"alternative scenarios" suggested by the defence, including that it
was shot down by a Ukrainian fighter jet.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The BUK missile had been identified as coming from the
53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade from Kursk in Russia, prosecutors said.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><b>'Unprecedented pressure'</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Moscow has denied all involvement in the crash, and on
Thursday it accused the Dutch court of giving its verdict under
"unprecedented pressure" from politicians and the media.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH00A8sc7UnIbTfiO8XuOvoVWnyEgnrY-sZJnGKz5KbqZWSHb8GMtRrr32VzdwWxvHLbjw2hZ9G5oQo1_qeluyeFkt4tgn20YvfbSxdi9Z_Rfl37UHsBkKL8_cbiR204LvkBzIFvyWIFRPCZNAEBjARzYIgaQEOmop-zpm7hWp_CnVoeQAOm4dkECx6Q/s705/807aa7b728e970af4c2d991cd9591c91.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="470" data-original-width="705" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH00A8sc7UnIbTfiO8XuOvoVWnyEgnrY-sZJnGKz5KbqZWSHb8GMtRrr32VzdwWxvHLbjw2hZ9G5oQo1_qeluyeFkt4tgn20YvfbSxdi9Z_Rfl37UHsBkKL8_cbiR204LvkBzIFvyWIFRPCZNAEBjARzYIgaQEOmop-zpm7hWp_CnVoeQAOm4dkECx6Q/w400-h266/807aa7b728e970af4c2d991cd9591c91.webp" width="400" /></span></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The Russian foreign ministry said the trial could go
down history as "one of the most scandalous in the history of legal
proceedings with its extensive list of oddities, inconsistencies and dubious
arguments of the prosecution".</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Ukraine's Zelensky said on Twitter that "holding
the instigators to account is crucial too because a sense of impunity leads to
new crimes".</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The United States welcomed the verdict as "an
important moment in ongoing efforts to deliver justice for the 298 individuals who
lost their lives".</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said the convictions
were "not the end", while NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg they were an
"important day for justice and accountability".</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1669433325482490023.post-49612889951365629342022-10-26T22:08:00.004+02:002022-10-26T22:09:39.732+02:00Hungarian FA suspends Dutch coach after his protest about racism<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2022/10/hungarian-fa-suspends-dutch-coach-after-his-protest-about-racism/" target="_blank">DutchNews</a>, October 26, 2022</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM-5Dp5qg9kooPRJ653zzGvSVwOJmoLA8NiNlaeDsnDV6Ne-FDZ07Fa7YLZHtYtX31fz8kYp0nJC1051ZjZXr0jBHw277Fwfbb0ObXb3IxabLok2uJ47igrJSKu2xdkRTdkVXpYh6nf-Mf7QrWtELYBGdmKl-wDykuSu3kCj-SxyvAnZrWKhVIXy_AOw/s560/ANP-404770792-560x373.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="373" data-original-width="560" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM-5Dp5qg9kooPRJ653zzGvSVwOJmoLA8NiNlaeDsnDV6Ne-FDZ07Fa7YLZHtYtX31fz8kYp0nJC1051ZjZXr0jBHw277Fwfbb0ObXb3IxabLok2uJ47igrJSKu2xdkRTdkVXpYh6nf-Mf7QrWtELYBGdmKl-wDykuSu3kCj-SxyvAnZrWKhVIXy_AOw/w400-h266/ANP-404770792-560x373.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span>Ricardo Moniz while still coach of Excelsior. Photo: Jan den Breejen ANP</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The Hungarian football association has suspended Dutch
coach Ricardo Moniz after he was given a red card for trying to take his team
off the pitch when monkey noises were directed at some of his players. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Moniz,
who coaches Zalaegerszegi TE, reacted furiously to the second incident in four
days and the refusal by match officials to take action. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The incident happened
on Sunday during the game between Zalaegerszegi TE and Honvéd.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The club’s
director Attila Dragóner said both players and the club supported Moniz’ action.
‘We will continue to maintain there is no place for racism on the football
pitch,’ he is quoted by Dutch media as saying. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Moniz said he would protest
about the punishment. ‘I won’t accept it and I will take it to Uefa. I have had
enough,’ he said. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Moniz was coach at Dutch club Excelsior in 2019 when striker
Ahmad Mendes Moreira was targeted by <a href="https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2020/01/football-club-fc-den-bosch-bans-fans-after-racist-chanting-incident/" target="_blank">racist taunting</a> by Den Bosch fans. That
incident was the first time a professional match in the Netherlands was stopped
because of racism.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1669433325482490023.post-66877847215889116222022-09-26T20:35:00.001+02:002022-09-26T20:35:06.660+02:00Annemiek van Vleuten adds world road race crown to 2022 titles<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2022/09/annemiek-van-vleuten-adds-world-road-racing-to-2022s-titles/" target="_blank">DutchNews</a>, September 24, 2022 </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI6ScO-PSvOn0X-8l2wEbz84a69Drlk5ZxphQZdYx1HFmab6SXXWRMOP8kWx8_f8raO6YltYaRJI_R4qM-Ejb91szrmzRq-89qWEAa8Df38m49vpAQmYSNmC1IxoP90dFoG6Rs9L2IF7vc9stc2f20tv1l0OyOjUjajLn4nNaOoPY_tmYw4c4YoqpwCQ/s560/2017_Annemiek_van_Vleuten-WC-RS.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="373" data-original-width="560" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI6ScO-PSvOn0X-8l2wEbz84a69Drlk5ZxphQZdYx1HFmab6SXXWRMOP8kWx8_f8raO6YltYaRJI_R4qM-Ejb91szrmzRq-89qWEAa8Df38m49vpAQmYSNmC1IxoP90dFoG6Rs9L2IF7vc9stc2f20tv1l0OyOjUjajLn4nNaOoPY_tmYw4c4YoqpwCQ/w400-h266/2017_Annemiek_van_Vleuten-WC-RS.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Annemiek van Vleuten waves before receiving her gold medal. Photo: Rick Rycroft AP</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Cyclist Annemiek van
Vleuten has won the world road race title in Wollongong in Australia, despite
having fractured an elbow three days previously. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Van Vleuten, who is 39 and
retiring at the end of the 2023 season, surprised the pack by launching a solo
effort with some 600 metres to go, in what commentators say is the greatest win
of her career. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Earlier this summer the 2019 world champion and reigning Olympic
world time trial winner won the Italian, French and Spanish tours. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">‘Maybe this
is my best victory,’ she said afterwards. ‘I am still speechless, I still can’t
believe it, she said after the race. ‘I was waiting for them to get back at me,
but they did not move.’</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1669433325482490023.post-32619239837917061402022-09-20T21:42:00.003+02:002022-09-20T21:42:40.471+02:00Solemn Dutch royals attend funeral for Britain’s queen Elizabeth <p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2022/09/solemn-dutch-royals-attend-funeral-for-britains-queen-elizabeth/?utm_source=newsletter" target="_blank">DutchNews</a>, September 19, 2022 </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhghA7weMltvgGlU8GUdesK3OYiCdIn20oZP56lU_QUQy9Utv0xRX7lwnxPli9PLQXOBfWcCIj_jSCIj635vk_4qQiXzYnehs_FHZx6tpHwBA-R1WKCFq7oi2ewf_ATp-Is6FpPCmnr97gneFnxI0IBPXpmi2yVeFt82NgJjqmfl2NeVXXCM0r2EXgkgQ/s560/ANP-4550148271-560x373.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="373" data-original-width="560" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhghA7weMltvgGlU8GUdesK3OYiCdIn20oZP56lU_QUQy9Utv0xRX7lwnxPli9PLQXOBfWcCIj_jSCIj635vk_4qQiXzYnehs_FHZx6tpHwBA-R1WKCFq7oi2ewf_ATp-Is6FpPCmnr97gneFnxI0IBPXpmi2yVeFt82NgJjqmfl2NeVXXCM0r2EXgkgQ/w400-h266/ANP-4550148271-560x373.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Princess Beatrix (L), king Willem-Alexander and queen Maxima leave after <br />the service. Photo: Ben Stansall / POOL / AFP</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Dutch king Willem-Alexander, queen Maxima and princess Beatrix had
front row seats at the funeral ceremony held for British queen Elizabeth at
Westminster Abbey in London on Monday. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The Dutch royals were among a host of
kings, queens, presidents and prime ministers to attend the event, ten days
after Elizabeth died at the age of 96. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="nl">Oranjes op prominente plek bij uitvaart Queen <a href="https://t.co/G7wk0Jj5wg">https://t.co/G7wk0Jj5wg</a> <a href="https://t.co/tod7c0wIOx">pic.twitter.com/tod7c0wIOx</a></p>— RTL Nieuws (@RTLnieuws) <a href="https://twitter.com/RTLnieuws/status/1571809350896730115?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 19, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Royalty expert Pieter Klein Beernink
told the Telegraaf that the Dutch family had been given such a prominent
position in front of the flag-draped coffin because of the close ties between
the two families. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Princess Beatrix, the former Dutch queen who abdicated in
favour of her son in 2013 at the age of 75, would often cross the channel incognito
to have lunch or dinner with Elizabeth, Klein Beernink said. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">A black mourning
pennant was hoisted above the Noordeinde palace in The Hague as a mark of
respect for the British queen, who visited the Netherlands several times during
her 70-year reign. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="nl">Vandaag vindt de uitvaart van Koningin Elizabeth II plaats. Op Paleis Noordeinde is de rouwwimpel gehesen. De Koning, Koningin Máxima en Prinses Beatrix zijn bij de uitvaartplechtigheid aanwezig. <a href="https://t.co/rvnULpWKwa">pic.twitter.com/rvnULpWKwa</a></p>— Koninklijk Huis (@koninklijkhuis) <a href="https://twitter.com/koninklijkhuis/status/1571803012687073280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 19, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The Dutch royals will also attend a much smaller ceremony at
Windsor Castle later on Monday, broadcaster NOS said. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Embassy </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">T</span><span style="font-family: arial;">he British
embassy in The Hague and the consulate were both closed on Monday, which was a
bank holiday in Britain, but dozens of well-wishers have left flowers outside
the building.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi11wGVzU3_7LFHPkOvf_9ksf3FUuVFyTNtVrNdEaPadGY5BSY_-LzbJP25V1dyBA3ixHogg6gYCQNWep1eR9XQ1T2xgs8GQtvcZgq32oEJ-AbMrtQhDO4QeMCulVNGO4sOuTbXzy4NZ5bw5CAv5vw6-CPe_1t2uWaE1eM69gtPmx6WWGkAvJj8LGkV5g/s560/20220919_143704-560x420.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="420" data-original-width="560" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi11wGVzU3_7LFHPkOvf_9ksf3FUuVFyTNtVrNdEaPadGY5BSY_-LzbJP25V1dyBA3ixHogg6gYCQNWep1eR9XQ1T2xgs8GQtvcZgq32oEJ-AbMrtQhDO4QeMCulVNGO4sOuTbXzy4NZ5bw5CAv5vw6-CPe_1t2uWaE1eM69gtPmx6WWGkAvJj8LGkV5g/w400-h300/20220919_143704-560x420.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Photo: Dutch News</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Over 2,000 people, including prime minister
Mark Rutte, <a href="https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2022/09/bagpipes-flowers-and-condolences-to-late-queen-elizabeth-in-the-hague/" target="_blank">signed the condolence book</a> at the embassy and there are also books
available for signing at Anglican churches dotted throughout the country. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The
book at the Anglican church on the Kinderhuissingel in Haarlem, for example,
will be open for a few more weeks. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Monday’s ceremony has dominated the Dutch as
well as the British media, with live blogs on most <a href="https://www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/2091393274/live-staatsbegrafenis-koningin-elizabeth" target="_blank">news websites</a> and <a href="https://nos.nl/collectie/13914/livestream/2445146-volg-hier-de-uitvaart-van-koningin-elizabeth" target="_blank">coverage from the funeral procession</a> and ceremony on television.</span></div></div><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1669433325482490023.post-75209774083881781862022-08-01T22:19:00.006+02:002022-08-01T22:19:45.041+02:00Annemiek van Vleuten wins first Tour de France Femmes<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2022/08/annemiek-van-vleuten-wins-first-tour-de-france-femmes/" target="_blank">DutchNews</a>, August 1, 2022</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgZnAgLcyt1_h1ISNH9opxim4Van2SrKn8nyHPdmHKeHUqFNfg9zaV5fAvrEkxhY-T7Z4kO49e8Bx7B_QtkPF1jvyTeq2O120hdLm7Hbqefn1oc333RPyHfxcOWF-CvU9iGbEVEssmKRYOXPxH8bySRwRHBCCFaDSme8J5GS85o4Ulwtn4Yzt4c9l1lg/s560/ANP-452527862-560x371.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="371" data-original-width="560" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgZnAgLcyt1_h1ISNH9opxim4Van2SrKn8nyHPdmHKeHUqFNfg9zaV5fAvrEkxhY-T7Z4kO49e8Bx7B_QtkPF1jvyTeq2O120hdLm7Hbqefn1oc333RPyHfxcOWF-CvU9iGbEVEssmKRYOXPxH8bySRwRHBCCFaDSme8J5GS85o4Ulwtn4Yzt4c9l1lg/w400-h265/ANP-452527862-560x371.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Annemiek van Vleuten celebrates her overall leader yellow jersey at <br />the end of final stage. Photo: Jeff Pachoud / AFP</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;">Dutch rider Annemiek van Vleuten has won the first
edition of a new stage cycling race, the Tour de France Femmes. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Van Vleuten
took the title by almost four minutes, despite having health problems in the
early stages and changing her bike several times. With a price of €250,000, it
is the richest race in women’s cycling. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Van Vleuten, 39, won the final stage by
30 seconds over the Netherlands’ Demi Vollering, who also finished the race
second overall. Polish rider Katarzyna Niewiadoma was third. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/jul/31/annemiek-van-vleuten-claims-tour-de-france-femmes-after-final-stage-win" target="_blank">Race review</a> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Van
Vleuten also has three Giro d’Italia Internazionale Femminile titles, Olympic
gold in the time trial and two world championship golds in the same discipline
on her name. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">‘I’m super proud to be the first winner of the Tour de France for
women, of this new version,’ Van Vleuten said after her victory. ‘I hope it’s a
big start and we can build this into an even bigger event. It’s a milestone to
win the first one of, hopefully, many more.’ </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The eight day event is organized
by the Amaury Sport Organisation which also runs the Tour de France and is part
of the UCI women’s world tour. </div><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1669433325482490023.post-32152919124661224342022-06-16T22:20:00.010+02:002022-06-16T22:52:30.109+02:00Dutch uncover Russian spy, trying to work for the International Criminal Court<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2022/06/dutch-uncover-russian-spy-trying-to-work-for-the-international-criminal-court/">DutchNews</a>, June 16, 2022</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf7I8PRq2LmXql1EgUjh2wOBluRpfziDDHMq6f3wmJRecY34v8X74IPLC2vvEyLnWJQdCzEaHQJlYTQ9quR0c8UD3zRRPTRBp-H8ZG9dpnqoGr2wrqG446g5HupbddnHTOzeBxvEfQW3jZcKrKFYlW5IEIeDpMen_uEuuWeD_HOk-vLQxOxjfx7ni2jw/s560/ICC-560x373.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="373" data-original-width="560" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf7I8PRq2LmXql1EgUjh2wOBluRpfziDDHMq6f3wmJRecY34v8X74IPLC2vvEyLnWJQdCzEaHQJlYTQ9quR0c8UD3zRRPTRBp-H8ZG9dpnqoGr2wrqG446g5HupbddnHTOzeBxvEfQW3jZcKrKFYlW5IEIeDpMen_uEuuWeD_HOk-vLQxOxjfx7ni2jw/w400-h266/ICC-560x373.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Photo: Depositphotos.com</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />The Dutch security service AIVD has uncovered a
Russian national who was posing as a Brazilian to get work at the International
Criminal Court in The Hague. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">The man had already been accepted as an intern
when he was arrested at Schiphol airport in May, AIVD chief Erik Akerboom said. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">It is rare that an intelligence officer of ‘such calibre’ is arrested, Akerboom
said. The man, named by the AIVD as Sergey Vladimirovich Cherkasov, worked for
the Russian intelligence service GRU. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">‘This type of intelligence officer is
better known as an illegal: someone who has received very long and extensive
training,’ the AIVD said in a statement. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">‘Illegals are difficult for
intelligence agencies to identify because they use an alias. In this way they
can often operate under the radar for a long time and continue to carry out
intelligence activities. By posing as foreigners, illegals can access
information that is inaccessible to a Russian person.’ </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;"><b>Information</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">If Cherkasov
had succeeded in working for the ICC, he would have had access to a lot of
information and people who would be ‘extremely interesting to GRU,’ Akerboom
said. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">He may also have been able to influence ICC cases. The court is currently
investigating possible war crimes by Russian soldiers in Ukraine. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">The man, who
was using the name Viktor Muller Ferreira, was sent straight back to Brazil as
an undesirable alien. A heavily edited copy of his cover story was attached to
the AIVD news release. The Netherlands has expelled more than 20 people
suspected of spying in recent years.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1669433325482490023.post-60091379784196329492022-05-23T22:20:00.002+02:002022-05-23T22:24:08.965+02:00Humpback whale filmed jumping near the Zeeland coast<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2022/05/humpback-whale-filmed-jumping-near-the-zeeland-coast/" target="_blank">DutchNews</a>, May 23, 2022</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguf8BIPJCwHM3uv0SRv8v7nk3VXPW8IUxVac7YENYWfyKCkDPuk-2PcPuiqz__yu6azHVCBG0AU7UGHaTVFEEG95Ya-6CD-tEmfWsPIUtZDVPkDlm5x0ELkQBYt9-a2FpjFLbNN6VdMzs6G5kYaMDdu-OzZpx0wNPxM2Y3jR6ons-jMzQXrXrK1HNL5A/s560/humpwhale.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><img border="0" data-original-height="410" data-original-width="560" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguf8BIPJCwHM3uv0SRv8v7nk3VXPW8IUxVac7YENYWfyKCkDPuk-2PcPuiqz__yu6azHVCBG0AU7UGHaTVFEEG95Ya-6CD-tEmfWsPIUtZDVPkDlm5x0ELkQBYt9-a2FpjFLbNN6VdMzs6G5kYaMDdu-OzZpx0wNPxM2Y3jR6ons-jMzQXrXrK1HNL5A/w400-h293/humpwhale.png" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">A still from the video</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p>A</o:p></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> humpback whale has been
<a href="https://www.omroepzeeland.nl/nieuws/14684675/visser-lourens-spot-een-bultrug-voor-westkapelle-zomaar-in-mijn-achtertuin-geweldig" target="_blank">filmed swimming and jumping</a> off the Zeeland coast by two fishermen in a rubber
boat. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">The whale was around three kilometres off the cost of Westkapelle in calm
sea when Lourens Janisse and a friend first heard it releasing air. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">‘We got
closer to take a look and it also came nearer to us,’ Janisse told local
broadcaster Omroep Zeeland. The whale leapt out of the water several times,
giving Janisse and his friend plenty of time to film it. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">Sea mammal specialist
Jaap van der Hiele told the broadcaster that the whale appeared to be healthy.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">‘Humpback whales are discovering the North Sea,’ he said. ‘A few years ago we
had one close to Vlissingen and once in the Oosterschelde estuary. They can
easily swim in shallow water so this whale is not in any danger.’ </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="nl"><span style="font-family: arial;">Visser Lourens spot een bultrug voor Westkapelle: 'Zomaar in mijn achtertuin. Geweldig!' <a href="https://t.co/YtZcxO5YkK">https://t.co/YtZcxO5YkK</a></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;">— Omroep Zeeland (@omroepzeeland) <a href="https://twitter.com/omroepzeeland/status/1528699158256832513?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 23, 2022</a></span></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">According to
marine protection group SOS Dolfijn, humpbacked whales have been visiting the
Dutch coast since the beginning of this century.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Related Article:</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><a href="https://cempaka-belanda.blogspot.com/2012/12/another-humpback-whale-spotted-near.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Another humpback whale spotted near the Dutch coast </b><i>(20 December 2012)</i></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b></b></span><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1669433325482490023.post-67897443097977463592022-05-17T22:26:00.007+02:002022-05-17T22:26:46.373+02:00Priest and journalist who defied the Nazis is first Dutch saint for 15 years<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2022/05/priest-and-journalist-who-defied-the-nazis-is-first-dutch-saint-for-15-years/" target="_blank">DutchNews</a>, May 16, 2022</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMAVWMtW2YG62yxeA4Y-MQF_zmdiuHkr-_LKt88CdDVSozr4xEHa6M3UNg_BsJEjngz_C6De53L7UsO2WbXUrpCnQTc0wb6QLpx3u0gzQu7J8N8jbB2i2-EXkd5WBOsKz92NhoYXJRBKxQ-fQ_056JATFaQw0UJKyfbqtKyEm70MoUYfVCXlXGnK6jDA/s560/TitusBrandsma-RS-560x420.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="420" data-original-width="560" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMAVWMtW2YG62yxeA4Y-MQF_zmdiuHkr-_LKt88CdDVSozr4xEHa6M3UNg_BsJEjngz_C6De53L7UsO2WbXUrpCnQTc0wb6QLpx3u0gzQu7J8N8jbB2i2-EXkd5WBOsKz92NhoYXJRBKxQ-fQ_056JATFaQw0UJKyfbqtKyEm70MoUYfVCXlXGnK6jDA/w400-h300/TitusBrandsma-RS-560x420.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Titus Brandsma in the 1920. Photo: GaHetNa/Wikipedia</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">A
Dutch priest and journalist who was killed by the Nazis for refusing to
distribute anti-Semitic propaganda during the German occupation has been
canonised by the pope.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Titus Brandsma is the first new Dutch saint for 15
years, following the canonisation of Limburg priest Karel Houben in 2007. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Pope
Francis<a href="https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2022-05/titus-brandsma-journalist-martyr-saint-of-the-20th-century.html" target="_blank"> proclaimed him a saint on Sunday</a> at a symposium organised by the Dutch
embassy and the International Association of Journalists Accredited to the
Vatican. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The Vatican said the Carmelite priest and theologian had been killed
‘in hatred of the faith’ in Dachau concentration camp in 1942, aged 61. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Born in
Bolsward, Friesland, in 1881, Brandsma was one of the founders of the Radboud
University in Nijmegen, where he taught philosophy, in the 1920s.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><b>‘Everyday
love’ </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">During the war he spoke out against the Nazi occupiers and anti-Semitism
in Germany and refused to carry adverts for the NSB, the Dutch
national-socialist party, in Catholic newspapers.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Some 500 Dutch Catholics
attended the ceremony in Rome, where Pope Francis said Brandsma’s sainthood was
the outcome not of ‘heroic episodes, but a great amount of everyday love.’ </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The Vatican
ascribed a miracle to Brandsma, one of the conditions for sainthood, after an
American priest who was suffering from terminal cancer claimed to have been
cured when the priest appeared to him and instructed him to pray for healing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1669433325482490023.post-70438097366106655912022-05-03T23:23:00.006+02:002022-05-15T20:43:16.569+02:00Ed Sheeran – 2step ft Antytila<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="275" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OJ2B4Fb7xQQ" title="YouTube video player" width="450"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Related Articles:</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><b><a href="https://cempaka-belanda.blogspot.com/2022/04/pink-floyd-release-first-new-song-since.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: arial;">Pink Floyd release first new song since 1994 for Ukraine</span></a></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="275" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Z8Z51no1TD0" title="YouTube video player" width="450"></iframe></span><br /></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b></b></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1669433325482490023.post-20251133606110642412022-05-02T21:58:00.000+02:002022-05-02T21:58:08.301+02:00Dutch Muslims celebrate Eid al-Fitr as ‘sugar feast’ loses flavour<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2022/05/dutch-muslims-celebrate-eid-al-fitr-as-sugar-feast-looses-flavour/" target="_blank">DutchNews</a>, May 2, 2022</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh67NUS0L_WHHB06kZoVSIXKIfdBmuOLROlX14EmS9e1Lm6-8pufW8jPYkYh9wRpYHCTAwjmNJCrrHCg9OJbYDNJJCPyTtD3ob_wPXGg2-TaSL4DmJgtwQrIpQsCAW-n-i3BwCz78ClMVTbVysdQpQiTFSGCPJ5J2vkxzrJoNDb_e1BIFPDi-WUs1gUCw/s560/ANP-447871343-560x344.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="344" data-original-width="560" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh67NUS0L_WHHB06kZoVSIXKIfdBmuOLROlX14EmS9e1Lm6-8pufW8jPYkYh9wRpYHCTAwjmNJCrrHCg9OJbYDNJJCPyTtD3ob_wPXGg2-TaSL4DmJgtwQrIpQsCAW-n-i3BwCz78ClMVTbVysdQpQiTFSGCPJ5J2vkxzrJoNDb_e1BIFPDi-WUs1gUCw/w400-h246/ANP-447871343-560x344.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">It is peak period at this bakery in The Hague. Photo: Marcel de Swart ANP</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Muslims in the Netherlands celebrate the end of Ramadan, or
the festival of Eid al-Fitr, on Monday, but the Dutch term for the holiday, the
<i>Suikerfeest</i> or sugar holiday, is increasingly out of favour, <a href="https://www.nu.nl/ramadan/6198258/waarom-veel-moslims-eid-al-fitr-geen-suikerfeest-meer-noemen.html" target="_blank">news website Nu.nl</a>
reported. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><i>Suikerfeest</i> is a literal translation of the Turkish Şeker Bayramı but
that in itself <a href="https://www.insideoutinistanbul.com/seker-bayrami-turkeys-three-day-sweet-feast/" target="_blank">may be a misinterpretation</a> of <i>Şükür Bayramı</i> (feast of
thankfulness), which once was the name for the celebrations to mark the end of
the fasting period in Turkey. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Muslims in the Netherlands now want to get back
to the real meaning of Eid al-Fitr – the holiday of breaking the fast, Nu.nl
said. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">After all, Muslims point out, ‘sugar feast’ implies they are eating
sweets all day, but Eid al-Fitr is about far more than that. It is a day for
dressing up, giving gifts and money to charity, and greeting each other with
the phrase <i>‘Eid Mubarak‘</i>. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Leading Muslim community group CMO never uses the
phrase and chairman Muhsin Köktas told Nu.nl <i>suikerfeest</i> is only used in the
Netherlands and Turkey. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">There is, he said, a swing away from term on social media.
‘People would rather the term is not used,’ he said.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1669433325482490023.post-90204151312381312742022-04-27T21:54:00.002+02:002022-04-30T23:57:54.720+02:00Second survey highlights downturn in support for the Dutch king<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2022/04/second-survey-highlights-downturn-in-support-for-the-dutch-king/" target="_blank">DutchNews</a>, April 27, 2022</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4d_ONig5c99svxvAmqzK8EzABBkD7DGEGOCXN41gRb1Uw3SgBMiezc_icT97RTZyEGSpX3evd5S4xUDmfmw7MfyLZicYhEzIavDaXbLAozl9Qd8eXr5C8-wsESIEkeeIGJ-Phltqk1cPxhgfJRWJyMQ8y8uwS1nbEgsoEbbnweisq1lvmyDsEnVmBMA/s560/595785.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="373" data-original-width="560" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4d_ONig5c99svxvAmqzK8EzABBkD7DGEGOCXN41gRb1Uw3SgBMiezc_icT97RTZyEGSpX3evd5S4xUDmfmw7MfyLZicYhEzIavDaXbLAozl9Qd8eXr5C8-wsESIEkeeIGJ-Phltqk1cPxhgfJRWJyMQ8y8uwS1nbEgsoEbbnweisq1lvmyDsEnVmBMA/w400-h266/595785.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Photo: Robin Utrecht</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">A second survey has
highlighted the downturn in support for king Willem-Alexander and the criticism
of the way he acted during the coronavirus crisis. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">Last week, a poll involving
26,000 people for television show EenVandaag showed just 54% have faith in the
monarch and now an Ipsos survey for <a href="https://nos.nl/artikel/2426669-koningsdag-enquete-vertrouwen-in-koning-willem-alexander-verder-gedaald" target="_blank">news channel NOS</a> paints a similar picture. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">Just 47% of those in the NOS survey have confidence in the way the king does
his job and only similar percentage think he performed well during the past two
years. Before coronavirus hit, 75% thought the king was performing well. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">The
two years of coronavirus have been particularly damning for the royals,
following a string of blunders over holidays, and culminating in a <a href="https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2021/12/amalia-held-outdoor-party-to-celebrate-her-birthday-despite-covid-rules/" target="_blank">small party for oldest daughter</a> Amalia when she turned 18 during the lockdown at the end of
last year. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">The Ipsos survey gave the king a personal score of 6.7 out of 10,
which is well down on the 7.7 he scored in 2020. Queen Máxima’s score of 7.6 is
virtually unchanged on 2021 but down on her 2020 rating of 8. Seven in 10 of
survey respondents said they thought she was doing a good job. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">Despite the
criticism, 58% still support the monarchy as an institution, roughly in line
with the EenVandaag figure.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1669433325482490023.post-46651187954606256622022-04-25T21:24:00.005+02:002022-04-25T21:24:55.519+02:00Verstappen claims prestigious award to cap successful weekend in Imola<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2022/04/verstappen-claims-prestigious-award-to-cap-successful-weekend-in-imola/" target="_blank">DutchNews</a>, April 25, 2022</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWFGORGGAaTNsKASjnyCC5ttehIlsIuw7X_4fXZm_s0cAXxOgILf83qnKAHTonAK2qw-cc-_I0hFETyRkB8mmI2rsmswlN9BLC62D4reTQ1OYDRuvdT22CXGYjk5jXnp5bHLAMF0t7wi-KPVqIh9TGIBAE_k4sDCiPP2R8OFQkWD7uQvKUdF0FXfCd2w/s560/ANP-Verstappen-Imola-RS-560x419.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="419" data-original-width="560" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWFGORGGAaTNsKASjnyCC5ttehIlsIuw7X_4fXZm_s0cAXxOgILf83qnKAHTonAK2qw-cc-_I0hFETyRkB8mmI2rsmswlN9BLC62D4reTQ1OYDRuvdT22CXGYjk5jXnp5bHLAMF0t7wi-KPVqIh9TGIBAE_k4sDCiPP2R8OFQkWD7uQvKUdF0FXfCd2w/w400-h299/ANP-Verstappen-Imola-RS-560x419.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Max Verstappen celebrated at Ferrari’s expense in Imola. Photo: Hasan Bratic/SIPA via ANP</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Formula One driver Max Verstappen has been named
Sportsman of the Year at the prestigious Laurens World Sports Awards. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The
24-year-old is the first Dutchman to win the title, which has been won five
times by tennis player Roger Federer and four times by sprinter Usain Bolt.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">In
2020 Verstappen’s rival, Lewis Hamilton, shared the prize with Argentinian
footballer Lionel Messi. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Cyclist Annemiek van Vleuten was nominated for the
Comeback of the Year award after winning the Olympic time trial race in Tokyo,
five years after a heavy fall cost her victory in the same event. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The
<a href="https://www.nu.nl/formule-1/6197036/verstappen-wint-prestigieuze-laureus-award-als-beste-sportman-van-de-wereld.html" target="_blank">announcement in Seville on Sunday</a> capped a successful weekend for Verstappen,
who dominated the Italian Grand Prix in Imola. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Red Bull driver won the race
from pole position to claim his second win in the opening four races of the
season, with team-mate Sergio Perez claiming second place. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Verstappen had an
unexpected boost when championship leader Charles Leclerc misjudged a corner 10
laps from the finish and span off the track while running third. He eventually
came home sixth, allowing Verstappen to cut his lead from 46 points to 27.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1669433325482490023.post-29676193996362299782022-04-23T22:30:00.003+02:002022-04-23T22:33:27.663+02:00Dutch stop subsidising heat generation by burning wood chips<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2022/04/dutch-stop-subsidising-heat-generation-by-burning-wood-chips/" target="_blank">DutchNews</a>, April 23, 2022</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNcB9pIo7eq_fhZU2HYjJzPsavQMTjK6pVxs9f7JTB3pKS0JtAIK_05p34s81DnKTAQwtad5lp9L3llZHtnUNEqCnZPb8ZiA5fHArCFHk-B5AN5oGj3zLjQFCVrguI0YQhIYQ7LKWCMb8-LRyXs4mTN2S5hkAxM-VTxUz2Dhody5lXQmZceveb-DcPZA/s425/wood-shavings-biomass.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="283" data-original-width="425" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNcB9pIo7eq_fhZU2HYjJzPsavQMTjK6pVxs9f7JTB3pKS0JtAIK_05p34s81DnKTAQwtad5lp9L3llZHtnUNEqCnZPb8ZiA5fHArCFHk-B5AN5oGj3zLjQFCVrguI0YQhIYQ7LKWCMb8-LRyXs4mTN2S5hkAxM-VTxUz2Dhody5lXQmZceveb-DcPZA/w400-h266/wood-shavings-biomass.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">Ministers have agreed to immediately <a href="https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/actueel/nieuws/2022/04/22/onmiddellijke-subsidiestop-voor-laagwaardige-warmte-uit-biogrondstoffen" target="_blank">stop giving subsidies for the use of biomass</a>, or wood chips, to generate heat for city
heating schemes and greenhouses, the economic affairs ministry has confirmed. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">Dutch biomass plants, which are supposed to help comply with EU climate goals,
have been given billions of euros in subsidies in the last few years. They
have, however, become deeply controversial because of longer-term damage to the
environment. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">‘Organic raw materials play an important role in achieving a
climate-neutral and circular economy,’ climate minister Rob Jetten said in a
statement. ‘They are also crucial in becoming less dependent on fossil fuels…
at the same time, the government is aware of the concerns.’ </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">The government, he
said, would approve the use of sustainable bio-based raw materials where they
make the greatest contribution to sustainability and where alternatives are
limited. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">This includes bioconcrete, paint based on bio-based raw, green gas as
a replacement for natural gas, or as a fuel for heavy road transport, aviation
and maritime shipping. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;"><b>Pollution </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">In July 2020, the Dutch government’s senior
advisory body SER recommended that subsidies for the use of biomass in power
stations be <a href="https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2020/07/ser-signals-end-for-biomass-subsidies-calls-for-speedy-phasing-out/" target="_blank">phased out quickly</a>. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">However, the Dutch environmental assessment
agency PBL says the use of biomass may be unavoidable if the Netherlands is to
meet the EU targets. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">Without using biomass, the Netherlands will have to
install wind turbines and solar panels more quickly than it is currently doing,
and other difficult choices will have to be made, the PBL said. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">The use of
biomass, such as wood chips, as a fuel generated an extra 19 megatons in carbon
dioxide emissions in 2020, according to calculations by national statistics
<a href="https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/nieuws/2021/48/co2-uitstoot-door-biomassa-neemt-toe" target="_blank">agency CBS</a>. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">The Netherlands has also been under fire for importing wood chips
from the US and the Baltic states to burn in power plants.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1669433325482490023.post-83581854732419797532022-04-21T21:14:00.006+02:002022-04-21T21:15:34.512+02:00D66 lobbyist quits over harassment report as pressure grows on Kaag<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2022/04/d66-lobbyist-quits-over-harassment-report-as-pressure-grows-on-kaag/" target="_blank">DutchNews</a>, April 21, 2022</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZsvCO4KZE-w6Ai56Q-xpZ_AbL7K961dedMDHJ47efgYeRU4hZpZyT5lSENWEfs99-41oIwtaAFXPnSXeR7lT6rUqSHH4bbhvTN4rC1JYMXkp2OHFtn6dGfqh7mWJnJOQT9akBttnTMCtYlrpC7uGbysdHs1P5Ab2lWfSzpQFWvNL9y77bfMwKddlW9w/s560/ANP-Sigrid-Kaag-1-april-2022-RS-560x373.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="373" data-original-width="560" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZsvCO4KZE-w6Ai56Q-xpZ_AbL7K961dedMDHJ47efgYeRU4hZpZyT5lSENWEfs99-41oIwtaAFXPnSXeR7lT6rUqSHH4bbhvTN4rC1JYMXkp2OHFtn6dGfqh7mWJnJOQT9akBttnTMCtYlrpC7uGbysdHs1P5Ab2lWfSzpQFWvNL9y77bfMwKddlW9w/w400-h266/ANP-Sigrid-Kaag-1-april-2022-RS-560x373.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">D66 leader Sigrid Kaag is facing questions from party members. <br />Photo: ANP/Robin Utrecht</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">Lobbyist Frans van Drimmelen has quit coalition party
D66 and resigned as a political consultant after he was accused of sexually
harassing a party colleague. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">Van Drimmelen said in a statement that he had had
an extramarital affair in 2015 and made persistent attempts to contact the
woman after it ended. But he disputed that he had abused his position in the
party or that he was guilty of sexual intimidation, </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">More than 700 D66 members
have called on party leader Sigrid Kaag to state what she knew about a private
inquiry into Van Drimmelen’s behaviour, which concluded he had ‘stalked,
threatened and blackmailed’ the woman between 2015 and 2016. He was given a
formal warning by police but not charged. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">The party members have also urged
Kaag to publish an anonymised version of the report into Van Drimmelen’s
behaviour, which was carried out by independent research agency BING following
an anonymous blogpost by the woman in December 2020. Kaag is facing questions
about why the report, completed in March 2021, had been kept quiet for a year </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">The party leadership has said it will present its conclusions on the matter on
Friday. The public part of the investigation, focusing on whether there was a
broader culture of sexual intimidation in D66, found there was ‘no question of
an institutionally unsafe environment.’ </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">The episode has damaged trust in Kaag
and D66, with 78% of its supporters telling <a href="https://eenvandaag.avrotros.nl/panels/opiniepanel/alle-uitslagen/item/vertrouwen-d66-kiezer-in-sigrid-kaag-hard-onderuit-tijdens-slepende-metoo-kwestie-in-partij/" target="_blank">EenVandaag</a> that they thought it
cast the party in a bad light. Only 45% said they backed Kaag as leader, down
from 71% a month ago. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">In a statement <a href="https://www.ad.nl/politiek/frans-van-drimmelen-gaat-vanwege-affaire-door-het-stof-stapt-uit-d66-en-legt-werk-neer~aaccf384/" target="_blank">to the AD and Parool newspapers</a>, Van
Drimmelen described the relationship, which he said ended in the summer of
2015, was a ‘stupid thing’. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">‘Afterwards I tried to start a conversation by
sending messages via various channels. I was keen to know why the affair had
ended,’ he said. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">‘The second stupid thing is that I tried for too long, too
persistently and at times extremely unpleasantly to make that conversation
happen. In doing so I sometimes said things that I realise came across as
threatening. Even though it was made clear that the woman did not want any
contact whatsoever.’ </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Van Drimmelen also stepped down from his position as
partner in corporate communications agency Dröge and Van Drimmelen. ‘I am
completely leaving public life and will work on a new future later,’ he said.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1669433325482490023.post-71943714822604078652022-04-20T21:56:00.005+02:002022-04-20T21:56:56.775+02:00The Dutch are still happy but slightly less so, and young adults are hardest hit<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2022/04/the-dutch-are-still-happy-but-slightly-less-so-and-young-adults-are-hardest-hit/" target="_blank">DutchNews</a>, April 20, 2022</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibfomqdyr1UwgGTqmvVpwiAOBeNW4WqtebSxvEjW0uAUR5vaez2uGAhoo-Y6T_PwEmGEf1KlxqOuqoFR1jqewq-xIK2SgBW4c5_q8-0XR5tfU5bgcmmQLW4XtSO9HpQnnV9DMhiPAv2Y6yE5ZWW46M1g5kX5ssqYCJdRILC6fQY3HVpdEJUP4TH3j5dQ/s560/teenagers-on-beach-560x420.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="420" data-original-width="560" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibfomqdyr1UwgGTqmvVpwiAOBeNW4WqtebSxvEjW0uAUR5vaez2uGAhoo-Y6T_PwEmGEf1KlxqOuqoFR1jqewq-xIK2SgBW4c5_q8-0XR5tfU5bgcmmQLW4XtSO9HpQnnV9DMhiPAv2Y6yE5ZWW46M1g5kX5ssqYCJdRILC6fQY3HVpdEJUP4TH3j5dQ/w400-h300/teenagers-on-beach-560x420.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">While a large majority of adults in the Netherlands
are happy with their lives, there has been a slight drop since 2019, and young
adults have been hardest hit, according to research by <a href="https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/nieuws/2022/16/geluksgevoel-bij-jongvolwassenen-afgenomen" target="_blank">national statisticsagency CBS</a>. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">In total, just over 86% of people are happy, but that is down from
just under 89% before coronavirus restricted socialising. But among young
adults up to the age of 25, the drop is more noticeable, from 87.5% to almost
81% now, the CBS said. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">In 1997, young adults were the happiest group in the
population. Nowadays, people aged 65 to 75 are most likely to be happy, with
90% giving their lives a score of at least seven out of 10. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Netherlands has
long been considered one of the happiest nations on the planet. In the most
recent UN <a href="https://worldhappiness.report/ed/2022/happiness-benevolence-and-trust-during-covid-19-and-beyond/#ranking-of-happiness-2019-2021" target="_blank">World Happiness Report</a> the Netherlands was in fifth place, behind
Finland, Denmark, Iceland and Switzerland. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.dutchnews.nl/features/2021/02/coronavirus-is-hitting-freedom-loving-dutch-teenagers-hard/" target="_blank">However, several research projects</a>
have suggested that coronavirus has had a significant impact on the lives of
young adults. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The CBS itself said last year coronavirus has had a <a href="https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2021/12/coronavirus-had-positive-and-negative-impact-on-teens-cbs/" target="_blank">negative impact on the lives</a> of almost half the Netherlands’ teenagers and young adults,
but 43% say it has had both negative and positive effects.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0