<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18389680</id><updated>2012-01-31T10:33:29.027+01:00</updated><title type='text'>stan van houcke</title><subtitle type='html'>skipping over the ocean like a stone</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18389680/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18389680/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>stan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02966505503468040742</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DHjLrxezAfc/TiMy86mUG1I/AAAAAAAATVk/yYXYE1GVgsY/s220/Stan%2BLogo%2B3.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>11632</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18389680.post-2315336730502196707</id><published>2011-03-05T21:46:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-26T16:24:27.746+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The End</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-z_zQwQUIbgQ/TXKf6m8z5zI/AAAAAAAATT8/26Lv-8bKXUI/s1600/juno11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-z_zQwQUIbgQ/TXKf6m8z5zI/AAAAAAAATT8/26Lv-8bKXUI/s320/juno11.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Juno Sara Alexandra, mijn kleindochter.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mag ik u voorstellen aan:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (&lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href="http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City"&gt;&lt;b&gt;New York&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;, &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href="http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/28_september"&gt;&lt;b&gt;28 september&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href="http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/1930"&gt;&lt;b&gt;1930&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;) een vooraanstaande &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href="http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joden" title="Joden"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Joods&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;-&lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href="http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verenigde_Staten" title="Verenigde Staten"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Amerikaanse&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socioloog" title="Socioloog"&gt;&lt;b&gt;socioloog&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt; en &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href="http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andersglobalisme" title="Andersglobalisme"&gt;&lt;b&gt;andersglobalist&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;. Hoewel aanvankelijk vooral bekend als expert op het gebied van &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href="http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrika"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Afrika&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;, is zijn bekendste bijdrage aan de wetenschap de ontwikkeling van de wereld-systeemtheorie vanaf 1974.&amp;nbsp;Van &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href="http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994"&gt;&lt;b&gt;1994&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt; tot &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href="http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998"&gt;&lt;b&gt;1998&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt; was Wallerstein voorzitter van de Internationale vereniging van sociologen. Hoewel sinds &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href="http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999"&gt;&lt;b&gt;1999&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt; op emeritaat heeft hij nog verschillende &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href="http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eredoctoraat" title="Eredoctoraat"&gt;&lt;b&gt;eredoctoraten&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt; ontvangen, en een aanstelling als onderzoeker aan de universiteit van &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href="http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale-universiteit" title="Yale-universiteit"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Yale&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Wallerstein"&gt;http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Wallerstein&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oke, geen geringe knaap dus, een intellectueel van wereldniveau, een niveau dat in Nederland niet bestaat. Wat heeft Wallerstein te melden? In de woorden van een al even intelligent mens, de Amerikaanse cultuurhistoricus Morris Berman:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;'what is clear about our current situation, says Wallerstein, is that the current process of globalization is the final phase of our present historical system, and that we are entering a dark age of historical transition. Following the "wave" analysis of the Soviet economist N.D. Kondratieff, Wallerstein predicts that the early twenty-first century will see an upturn, a renewed expansion of the world economy, with increasing opportunities for investment and capital accumulation. The gap between rich and poor will grow even larger, creating an even greater polarization between the core and the periphery. As the ideology of endless capital accumulation ("progress") grows, so will the delegitimation of that ideology. Nations of intermediate strenght in the noncore areas -- Iraq for example -- will be able to challenge powerful ones in the core areas succesfully; and within the West itself, the lack of decent jobs for nonwhites will pose an increasing threat as the size of the nonwhite population grows. The rich will become more and more worried about personal safety, as in the Third World countries right now, and the modern world system will enter a period of continuing crisis and instability. There will finally be a very large periphery within the core. The privileged class will try to co-opt these challengers by incorporating the rhetoric of the discontented -- ecology, multiculturalism, women's rights -- which will give the illusion that serious changes are under way, when, in fact, the essential relations of wealth and power remain the same. But ultimately, a dark era, a system break, is unavoidable, because the system cannot survive as presently constituted; the strains will have become too great, and finally even co-optation won't work. The outcome of all of this is inherently unpredicatable, The successor system may be better but it may not; it could well be much worse.' &lt;/b&gt;Berman in &lt;i&gt;The Twilight of American Culture. &lt;/i&gt;2000&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-DMiFm4YzJY4/TXKgo7olQcI/AAAAAAAATUE/T8N3MSqIJso/s1600/juno+12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-DMiFm4YzJY4/TXKgo7olQcI/AAAAAAAATUE/T8N3MSqIJso/s320/juno+12.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tot exact dezelfde slotsom was ik zelf enige jaren geleden gekomen. Ik heb deze site nu meer dan vijf jaar bijgehouden en ik stop ermee aangezien ik me los wil maken van de waan van de dag om me te kunnen concentreren op datgene wat ik in mijn leven heb geleerd en heb ervaren om dat door te kunnen geven aan een volgende generatie, aan mijn kleindochter Juno. Ik zal af en toe nog wel eens wat schrijven op deze site, maar dat zal niet regelmatig zijn. Ik groet u, dank u voor de aandacht en wens u het allerbeste.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Things are not carved in stone.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18389680-2315336730502196707?l=stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/feeds/2315336730502196707/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/end.html#comment-form' title='49 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18389680/posts/default/2315336730502196707'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18389680/posts/default/2315336730502196707'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/end.html' title='The End'/><author><name>stan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02966505503468040742</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DHjLrxezAfc/TiMy86mUG1I/AAAAAAAATVk/yYXYE1GVgsY/s220/Stan%2BLogo%2B3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-z_zQwQUIbgQ/TXKf6m8z5zI/AAAAAAAATT8/26Lv-8bKXUI/s72-c/juno11.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>49</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18389680.post-8633830671175164216</id><published>2011-03-05T18:48:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-05T18:48:12.383+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The Neoliberal Religion 35</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 11px;"&gt;&lt;br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /&gt;Big money goes around the world&lt;br /&gt;Big money underground&lt;br /&gt;Big money got a mighty voice&lt;br /&gt;Big money make no sound&lt;br /&gt;Big money pull a million strings&lt;br /&gt;Big money hold the prize&lt;br /&gt;Big money weave a mighty web&lt;br /&gt;Big money draw the flies&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes pushing people around&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes pulling out the rug&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes pushing all the buttons&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes pulling out the plug&lt;br /&gt;It's the power and the glory&lt;br /&gt;It's a war in paradise&lt;br /&gt;It's a Cinderella story&lt;br /&gt;On a tumble of the dice&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Big money goes around the world&lt;br /&gt;Big money take a cruise&lt;br /&gt;Big money leave a mighty wake&lt;br /&gt;Big money leave a bruise&lt;br /&gt;Big money make a million dreams&lt;br /&gt;Big money spin big deals&lt;br /&gt;Big money make a mighty head&lt;br /&gt;Big money spin big wheels&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes building ivory towers&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes knocking castles down&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes building you a stairway&lt;br /&gt;Lock you underground&lt;br /&gt;It's that old-time religion&lt;br /&gt;It's the kingdom they would rule&lt;br /&gt;It's the fool on television&lt;br /&gt;Getting paid to play the fool&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Big money goes around the world&lt;br /&gt;Big money give and take&lt;br /&gt;Big money done a power of good&lt;br /&gt;Big money make mistakes&lt;br /&gt;Big money got a heavy hand&lt;br /&gt;Big money take control&lt;br /&gt;Big money got a mean streak&lt;br /&gt;Big money got no soul...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18389680-8633830671175164216?l=stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/feeds/8633830671175164216/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/neoliberal-religion-35.html#comment-form' title='1 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18389680/posts/default/8633830671175164216'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18389680/posts/default/8633830671175164216'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/neoliberal-religion-35.html' title='The Neoliberal Religion 35'/><author><name>stan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02966505503468040742</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DHjLrxezAfc/TiMy86mUG1I/AAAAAAAATVk/yYXYE1GVgsY/s220/Stan%2BLogo%2B3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18389680.post-4838439810761796196</id><published>2011-03-05T18:46:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-05T18:46:56.571+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Free Bradley Manning</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; 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Manning."&gt;Bradley Manning&lt;/a&gt;, the Army intelligence analyst accused of leaking secret government files to&lt;a class="meta-org" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/w/wikileaks/index.html?inline=nyt-org" style="color: #004276; text-decoration: underline;" title="More articles about WikiLeaks."&gt;WikiLeaks&lt;/a&gt;, has complained that his client was stripped and left naked in his cell for seven hours on Wednesday.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="articleInline runaroundLeft" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 6px; width: 190px;"&gt;&lt;div class="columnGroup doubleRule" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: url(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/global/borders/aColumnHorizontalBorder.gif) !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0px 0px !important; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat !important; border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; clear: both; height: auto !important; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 7px; margin-top: 12px; padding-top: 12px; width: auto !important;"&gt;&lt;h3 class="sectionHeader" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2857em; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;Related&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;ul class="headlinesOnly multiline flush" style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"&gt;&lt;li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;h6 style="color: black; font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/03/us/03manning.html?ref=us" style="color: #004276; font-size: 1em; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Soldier Faces 22 New WikiLeaks Charges&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;(March 3, 2011)&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;h6 style="color: black; font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;Times Topic:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/bradley_e_manning/index.html" style="color: #004276; font-size: 1em; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Bradley Manning&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="articleBody" style="margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-top: 1.5em;"&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;The conditions of Private Manning’s confinement at the Marine brig in Quantico, Va., have drawn criticism in recent months from supporters and his lawyer, David E. Coombs.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;The soldier’s clothing was returned to him Thursday morning, after he was required to stand naked outside his cell during an inspection, Mr. Coombs said in a&lt;a href="http://www.armycourtmartialdefense.info/2011/03/confinement-conditions-worsen.html" style="color: #004276; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;posting&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;on his Web site.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;“This type of degrading treatment is inexcusable and without justification,” Mr. Coombs wrote. “It is an embarrassment to our military justice system and should not be tolerated. Pfc. Manning has been told that the same thing will happen to him again tonight. No other detainee at the brig is forced to endure this type of isolation and humiliation.”&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;First Lt. Brian Villiard, a Marine spokesman, said a brig duty supervisor had ordered Private Manning’s clothing taken from him. He said that the step was “not punitive” and that it was in accordance with brig rules, but he said that he was not allowed to say more.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;“It would be inappropriate for me to explain it,” Lieutenant Villiard said. “I can confirm that it did happen, but I can’t explain it to you without violating the detainee’s privacy.”&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;Private Manning is being held as a maximum security detainee under a special set of restrictions intended to prevent self-injury, even though supporters say there is no evidence that he is suicidal.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;During an appearance on MSNBC earlier on Thursday, Geoffrey Morrell, the Pentagon press secretary, attributed the general conditions of Private Manning’s confinement to “the seriousness of the charges he’s facing, the potential length of sentence, the national security implications” and to protect him from potential harm.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;Also, earlier on Thursday, one of Private Manning’s friends, David House, said in a conference call with reporters that he had visited the soldier the previous weekend and that his mental condition was severely deteriorating as a result of being confined to his cell 23 hours a day, with one hour to exercise in an empty room, and largely isolated from human contact.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;But Mr. House said that Private Manning did not seem suicidal and contended that he was being pressured to cooperate.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;Investigators have been seeking evidence that could implicate&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class="meta-per" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/a/julian_p_assange/index.html?inline=nyt-per" style="color: #004276; text-decoration: underline;" title="More articles about Julian P. Assange."&gt;Julian Assange&lt;/a&gt;, the WikiLeaks founder, as a conspirator in the leaking of the military and diplomatic documents and videos.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;Mr. House spoke on the conference call with&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class="meta-per" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/e/daniel_ellsberg/index.html?inline=nyt-per" style="color: #004276; text-decoration: underline;" title="More articles about Daniel Ellsberg."&gt;Daniel Ellsberg&lt;/a&gt;, who compared the leaking of documents to WikiLeaks to his own leaking of the Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam War. On Wednesday, the Army announced 22 additional charges against Private Manning, including “aiding the enemy.”&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;The charge sheet did not explain who “the enemy” was, leading some to speculate that it was a reference to WikiLeaks. 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margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"&gt;by admin was published on March 1st, 2011&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="postcontent" style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 6px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"&gt;"This is a movement that is not going to stop," says filmmaker Michael Moore of the uprising in Madison, Wisconsin (and across the country--all 50 states held solidarity rallies this weekend). "I knew sooner or later people would say they've had enough."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 6px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"&gt;Michael joins Laura in studio for part one of a two-part conversation about the war on working people in America. He notes that it started in 1981 with Reagan's attack on the air traffic controllers, and it's mostly targeted the poor, as with Clinton's welfare reform. But the attacks on middle class families have finally reached a point where people aren't going to take it anymore.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 6px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"&gt;Watch out for part two tomorrow!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clear" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="commentwrap" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #0a3158; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div class="metawrap" style="font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div class="interact" style="margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 3px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Follow comments via the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://grittv.org/2011/03/01/michael-moore-people-still-have-the-power/feed/" style="background-color: inherit; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"&gt;RSS Feed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://grittv.org/2011/03/01/michael-moore-people-still-have-the-power/trackback/" style="background-color: inherit; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"&gt;Trackback URL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ol id="commentlist" style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;li class="alt" id="comment-23277" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(31, 64, 95); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; float: left; line-height: 1.4em; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div class="body" style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;The Dems can’t move cause of campaign finance. Campaign finance rulings have to be challenged in court because of the unequal protection of property rights in which they result. They were put there in the 1970s to combat the Union’s ability to raise money for Dems which Republican business owners did not have. They saw all the progressive legislation of the 1960s-70s as impinging on their property rights, and they were able to make that case in Court. They got “money as speech” on the same basis. That logic is completely overturned now since Unions are 7% of the population now, and the Top 2% have all the political power. It is even more concentrated than that, with just a few like Kochs driving this reactionary 30 yrs. Many many wealthy people benefit, but they really want balance and sustainability here. They need to get behind the rights kinds of court cases to reverse the precedence that allows this unequal protection of property rights that benefits only really 1% at the expense of everybody else’s property.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;What is going to happen to these poor people? What happened in Germany? They want to drive people further and further to the reactionary right-wing, and gun violence on the streets here will help them dismantle the society here.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="commentdetails" style="font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;By&amp;nbsp;&lt;cite style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"&gt;planckbrandt&lt;/cite&gt;&amp;nbsp;on March 1st, 2011 at 4:53 pm&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="" id="comment-23286" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(31, 64, 95); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; float: left; line-height: 1.4em; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div class="body" style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Let’s get our facts straight.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;The two nurses at the 4:12 mark were both from out of state and not from Wisconsin. So I will agree with Michael that the media is not accurately portraying what is going on in Madison since all of the pictures and video suggest that only Wisconsinites are protesting. In fact, many of the protesters are from out of state, which is fine…providing it is states as such…which it isn’t.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Next, at the 5:57 mark, Michael blames Ronald Reagan for beginning the war on unions by firing the air traffic controllers. If Michael would bother to check his facts, the PATCO members were striking illegally. Reagan gave them every opportunity to end their strike and return to work. Those that didn’t were fired. If Michael wants to declare this a war on unions, fine by me. 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href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2011/mar/04/bradley-m%20anning-us-wikileaks-hypocrisy%20%20%20Bradley%20Manning%20and%20the%20stench%20of%20US%20hypocrisy%20%20The%20US%20condemns%20human%20rights%20abuses%20abroad%20yet%20appears%20to%20be%20allowing%20the%20psychological%20torture%20of%20Bradley%20Manning%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20o%20Ryan%20Gallagher%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20o%20guardian.co.uk,%20Friday%204%20March%202011%2017.48%20GMT%20%20Earlier%20this%20week,%20the%20soldier%20accused%20of%20leaking%20thousands%20of%20confidential%20documents%20to%20WikiLeaks,%20Bradley%20Manning,%20was%20handed%20an%20additional%2022%20charges%20as%20part%20of%20his%20ongoing%20court%20martial%20process.%20The%2023-year-old,%20who%20has%20been%20in%20solitary%20confinement%20for%20more%20than%20seven%20months,%20stands%20accused%20of%20computer%20fraud,%20theft%20of%20public%20records%20and%20willfully%20communicating%20classified%20information%20to%20a%20person%20not%20entitled%20to%20receive%20it.%20He%20now%20also%20finds%20himself%20faced%20with%20a%20rare%20charge%20known%20as%20%22aiding%20the%20enemy%22%20-%20a%20capital%20offence%20for%20which%20he%20could%20face%20the%20death%20penalty.%20%20The%20revelation%20will%20no%20doubt%20have%20come%20as%20a%20blow%20to%20Manning,%20although%20given%20his%20ongoing%20treatment%20it%20is%20likely%20he%20already%20feared%20the%20worst.%20Made%20to%20endure%20strict%20conditions%20under%20a%20prevention%20of%20injury%20order%20against%20the%20advice%20of%20military%20psychiatrists,%20he%20is%20treated%20like%20no%20other%20prisoner%20at%20the%20250-capacity%20Quantico%20Brig%20detention%20facility%20in%20Virginia.%20Despite%20that%20he%20is%20yet%20to%20be%20convicted%20of%20any%20crime,%20for%20the%20past%20218%20consecutive%20days%20he%20has%20been%20made%20to%20live%20in%20a%20cell%206ft%20wide%20and%2012ft%20long,%20without%20contact%20with%20any%20other%20detainees.%20He%20is%20not%20allowed%20to%20exercise%20or%20have%20personal%20effects%20in%20his%20cell,%20and%20for%20the%20one%20hour%20each%20day%20he%20is%20allowed%20free%20from%20his%20windowless%20cell%20he%20is%20taken%20to%20an%20empty%20room%20where%20he%20is%20allowed%20to%20walk,%20but%20not%20run.%20%20One%20of%20the%20few%20people%20to%20have%20visited%20Manning,%20David%20House,%20spoke%20yesterday%20of%20how%20he%20had%20witnessed%20his%20friend%20go%20from%20a%20%22bright-eyed%20intelligent%20young%20man%22%20to%20someone%20who%20at%20times%20has%20appeared%20%22catatonic%22%20with%20%22very%20high%20difficulty%20carrying%20on%20day%20to%20day%20conversation%22.%20House%20drew%20similarities%20with%20the%20case%20of%20Bobby%20Dellelo,%20an%20American%20prisoner%20who%20developed%20psychosis%20after%20a%20lengthy%20period%20in%20solitary%20confinement%20conditions%20similar%20to%20Manning's.%20%22For%20me%20this%20has%20been%20like%20watching%20a%20really%20good%20friend%20succumb%20to%20an%20illness%20or%20something,%22%20he%20said.%20%22I%20think%20that%20Bradley%20Manning%20is%20being%20punished%20this%20way%20because%20the%20US%20government%20wants%20him%20to%20crack%20ahead%20of%20his%20trial.%22%20%20While%20there%20has%20been%20widespread%20and%20well%20publicised%20condemnation%20of%20issues%20surrounding%20Manning's%20detainment,%20his%20conditions%20have%20failed%20to%20improve.%20In%20fact,%20things%20may%20have%20got%20worse,%20not%20better,%20for%20the%20Oklahoma-born%20soldier%20who%20is%20incidentally%20entitled%20to%20UK%20citizenship%20through%20his%20Welsh%20mother.%20Just%20two%20days%20ago,%20for%20instance,%20only%2024%20hours%20after%20having%20been%20told%20he%20now%20faces%20a%20capital%20charge,%20Manning%20was%20made%20to%20strip%20naked%20in%20his%20cell%20for%20no%20apparent%20reason.%20According%20to%20David%20Coombs,%20Manning's%20lawyer,%20the%20soldier%20was%20then%20left%20without%20clothes%20for%20seven%20hours.%20When%20the%20wake-up%20call%20sounded%20for%20the%20detainees%20at%205am,%20in%20an%20act%20of%20forced%20humiliation,%20Manning%20was%20made%20to%20stand%20naked%20at%20the%20front%20of%20his%20cell.%20%20The%20incident,%20described%20as%20%22inexcusable%20and%20without%20justification%22%20by%20Coombs,%20is%20symbolic%20of%20the%20entire%20twisted%20saga:%20a%20gross%20injustice%20on%20a%20nauseating%20scale.%20We%20must%20bear%20in%20mind,%20of%20course,%20that%20Manning%20allegedly%20leaked%20military%20files%20because%20he,%20according%20to%20unverified%20internet%20chat%20logs,%20saw%20wrongdoing%20and%20had%20no%20other%20course%20of%20action%20because%20his%20superiors%20told%20him%20they%20%22didn't%20want%20to%20hear%20any%20of%20it%22.%20He%20did%20not%20want%20to%20be%20complicit%20in%20war%20crimes,%20and%20felt%20that%20by%20leaking%20the%20files%20he%20could%20prompt%20%22worldwide%20discussion,%20debates,%20and%20reforms%22.%20%20In%20recent%20days%20and%20weeks%20the%20US%20government%20has%20condemned%20human%20rights%20abuses%20and%20repression%20in%20almost%20every%20country%20across%20the%20Middle%20East%20-%20yet%20at%20a%20prison%20within%20its%20own%20borders%20it%20sanctions%20the%20persecution,%20alleged%20psychological%20torture%20and%20debasement%20of%20a%20young%20soldier%20who%20appears%20to%20have%20made%20a%20principled%20choice%20in%20the%20name%20of%20progress.%20%20%22Government%20whistleblowers%20are%20part%20of%20a%20healthy%20democracy%20and%20must%20be%20protected%20from%20reprisal,%22%20said%20Barack%20Obama%20in%202008.%20But%20the%20stench%20of%20his%20hypocrisy%20is%20no%20longer%20bearable.%20It%20is%20time,%20now%20more%20than%20ever,%20that%20Bradley%20Manning%20received%20the%20justice%20he%20so%20clearly%20deserves."&gt;anning-us-wikileaks-hypocrisy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;Bradley Manning and the stench of US hypocrisy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The US condemns human rights abuses abroad yet appears to be allowing&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;the psychological torture of Bradley Manning&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;o Ryan Gallagher&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;o guardian.co.uk, Friday 4 March 2011 17.48 GMT&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;Earlier this week, the soldier accused of leaking thousands of&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;confidential documents to WikiLeaks, Bradley Manning, was handed an&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;additional 22 charges as part of his ongoing court martial process.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;The 23-year-old, who has been in solitary confinement for more than&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;seven months, stands accused of computer fraud, theft of public&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;records and willfully communicating classified information to a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;person not entitled to receive it. He now also finds himself faced&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;with a rare charge known as "aiding the enemy" - a capital offence&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;for which he could face the death penalty.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;The revelation will no doubt have come as a blow to Manning, although&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;given his ongoing treatment it is likely he already feared the worst.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;Made to endure strict conditions under a prevention of injury order&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;against the advice of military psychiatrists, he is treated like no&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;other prisoner at the 250-capacity Quantico Brig detention facility&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;in Virginia. Despite that he is yet to be convicted of any crime, for&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;the past 218 consecutive days he has been made to live in a cell 6ft&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;wide and 12ft long, without contact with any other detainees. He is&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;not allowed to exercise or have personal effects in his cell, and for&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;the one hour each day he is allowed free from his windowless cell he&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;is taken to an empty room where he is allowed to walk, but not run.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;One of the few people to have visited Manning, David House, spoke&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;yesterday of how he had witnessed his friend go from a "bright-eyed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;intelligent young man" to someone who at times has appeared&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;"catatonic" with "very high difficulty carrying on day to day&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;conversation". House drew similarities with the case of Bobby&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;Dellelo, an American prisoner who developed psychosis after a lengthy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;period in solitary confinement conditions similar to Manning's. "For&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;me this has been like watching a really good friend succumb to an&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;illness or something," he said. "I think that Bradley Manning is&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;being punished this way because the US government wants him to crack&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;ahead of his trial."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;While there has been widespread and well publicised condemnation of&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;issues surrounding Manning's detainment, his conditions have failed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;to improve. In fact, things may have got worse, not better, for the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;Oklahoma-born soldier who is incidentally entitled to UK citizenship&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;through his Welsh mother. Just two days ago, for instance, only 24&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;hours after having been told he now faces a capital charge, Manning&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;was made to strip naked in his cell for no apparent reason. According&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;to David Coombs, Manning's lawyer, the soldier was then left without&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;clothes for seven hours. When the wake-up call sounded for the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;detainees at 5am, in an act of forced humiliation, Manning was made&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;to stand naked at the front of his cell.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;The incident, described as "inexcusable and without justification" by&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;Coombs, is symbolic of the entire twisted saga: a gross injustice on&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;a nauseating scale. We must bear in mind, of course, that Manning&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;allegedly leaked military files because he, according to unverified&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;internet chat logs, saw wrongdoing and had no other course of action&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;because his superiors told him they "didn't want to hear any of it".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;He did not want to be complicit in war crimes, and felt that by&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;leaking the files he could prompt "worldwide discussion, debates, and&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;reforms".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;In recent days and weeks the US government has condemned human rights&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;abuses and repression in almost every country across the Middle East&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;- yet at a prison within its own borders it sanctions the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;persecution, alleged psychological torture and debasement of a young&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;soldier who appears to have made a principled choice in the name of&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;progress.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;"Government whistleblowers are part of a healthy democracy and must&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;be protected from reprisal," said Barack Obama in 2008. But the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;stench of his hypocrisy is no longer bearable. It is time, now more&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;than ever, that Bradley Manning received the justice he so clearly&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;deserves.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18389680-2173828496461370844?l=stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/feeds/2173828496461370844/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/empire-793.html#comment-form' title='0 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18389680/posts/default/2173828496461370844'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18389680/posts/default/2173828496461370844'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/empire-793.html' title='The Empire 793'/><author><name>stan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02966505503468040742</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DHjLrxezAfc/TiMy86mUG1I/AAAAAAAATVk/yYXYE1GVgsY/s220/Stan%2BLogo%2B3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18389680.post-8955025481590530881</id><published>2011-03-05T18:34:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-05T18:34:16.922+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Arab Regimes 186</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table style="margin-top: 12px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="padding-top: 4px; vertical-align: top;" width="20px"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #d30910; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 11px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-top: 4px;"&gt;&lt;time datetime="2011-03-05T14:10:56+01:00" pubdate=""&gt;14:10&lt;/time&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="400px;"&gt;&lt;h1 style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2011/03/05/saoedi-arabie-verbiedt-demonstraties/?utm_campaign=nieuwsbrief&amp;amp;utm_source=email" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Saoedi-Arabi verbiedt demonstraties&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="padding-top: 4px;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://www.nrc.nl/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/saaa-328x169.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #999999; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; text-transform: uppercase;"&gt;ECONOMIE&lt;/span&gt;Saoedi-Arabi heeft alle vormen van demonstraties in het land verboden. Dat heeft de minister van Binnenlandse Zaken vandaag bekend gemaakt op de staatstelevisie. Het verbod komt nadat de shi'itische minderheid kleine demonstraties hebben gehouden in de rijke oliestaat, meldt Reuters....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2011/03/05/saoedi-arabie-verbiedt-demonstraties/?utm_campaign=nieuwsbrief&amp;amp;utm_source=email" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffc2ca; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #d30910; font-family: arial, sans-erif; font-size: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-top: 1px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: uppercase; white-space: nowrap;"&gt;LEES VERDER&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18389680-8955025481590530881?l=stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/feeds/8955025481590530881/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/arab-regimes-186.html#comment-form' title='1 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18389680/posts/default/8955025481590530881'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18389680/posts/default/8955025481590530881'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/arab-regimes-186.html' title='Arab Regimes 186'/><author><name>stan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02966505503468040742</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DHjLrxezAfc/TiMy86mUG1I/AAAAAAAATVk/yYXYE1GVgsY/s220/Stan%2BLogo%2B3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18389680.post-1471576888845778589</id><published>2011-03-05T18:33:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-05T18:33:30.089+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The Zionist Regime 29</title><content type='html'>&lt;table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" height="79" style="font-family: Helvetica; width: 588px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dci-pal.org/"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="79" src="http://www.dci-pal.org/english/img/logo/Mmain.jpg" width="586" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="C55100" width="1"&gt;&lt;img height="1" src="x-msg://9/layout/img/sp.gif" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table align="center" bgcolor="FFB900" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" height="617" style="font-family: Helvetica; width: 588px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="C55100" colspan="3" width="588"&gt;&lt;img height="1" src="x-msg://9/layout/img/sp.gif" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="FFFF01" colspan="3" width="588"&gt;&lt;img height="1" src="x-msg://9/layout/img/sp.gif" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="FFFF01" width="1"&gt;&lt;img height="1" src="x-msg://9/layout/img/sp.gif" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="FFB900"&gt;&lt;table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" height="617" style="width: 586px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="top" width="586"&gt;&lt;table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" height="578" style="width: 566px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="FFB900" colspan="3" height="5" width="1"&gt;&lt;img height="5" src="x-msg://9/layout/img/sp.gif" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="FDD645" colspan="3" height="5" width="1"&gt;&lt;img height="5" src="x-msg://9/layout/img/sp.gif" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="FDD645" height="1" width="5"&gt;&lt;img height="1" src="x-msg://9/layout/img/sp.gif" width="5" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="FDD645" class="Date9" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none;" valign="top"&gt;2011/03/05&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img height="11" src="x-msg://9/layout/img/sp.gif" width="1" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Title11" style="color: #071c9c; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;UPDATED URGENT APPEAL - Children of the Gravel&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img height="3" src="x-msg://9/layout/img/sp.gif" width="1" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="FDD645" height="1" width="5"&gt;&lt;img height="1" src="x-msg://9/layout/img/sp.gif" width="5" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="FDD645" height="530" valign="top"&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="FDD645" height="1" width="5"&gt;&lt;img height="1" src="x-msg://9/layout/img/sp.gif" width="5" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" bgcolor="FDD645" class="maintext" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none;" valign="top"&gt;&lt;table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" height="115" style="width: 115px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="110"&gt;&lt;img border="1" height="110" src="http://www.dci-pal.org/English/Doc/Press/Urgent_Appeal_cms.JPG" width="110" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="5"&gt;&lt;img height="110" src="x-msg://9/" width="5" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Between 26 March 2010 and 17 February 2011, DCI-Palestine has documented 27 cases of children shot whilst collecting building material or working near the border fence between the Gaza Strip and Israel. Please appeal to stop the targeting of unarmed children working near the border in Gaza.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="link12" href="http://www.dci-pal.org/english/doc/press/UA_4_10_Children_of_the_Gravel_UPDATE_5_MAR_%202011.pdf" style="color: #071c9c; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;UPDATED URGENT APPEAL - Children of the Gravel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18389680-1471576888845778589?l=stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/feeds/1471576888845778589/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/zionist-regime-29.html#comment-form' title='0 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18389680/posts/default/1471576888845778589'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18389680/posts/default/1471576888845778589'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/zionist-regime-29.html' title='The Zionist Regime 29'/><author><name>stan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02966505503468040742</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DHjLrxezAfc/TiMy86mUG1I/AAAAAAAATVk/yYXYE1GVgsY/s220/Stan%2BLogo%2B3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18389680.post-2291513409030033046</id><published>2011-03-05T18:30:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-05T18:30:38.365+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The Zionist Lobby 6</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px;"&gt;&lt;span class="content_header" style="color: #c80000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Britain cherry-picks which war criminals to prosecute and where to impose no-fly zones&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;hr color="#e2e2e2" size="1" /&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px;"&gt;By&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.redress.cc/about/writers#slittlewood_bio" style="color: #c80000; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Stuart Littlewood&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px;"&gt;5 March 2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Stuart Littlewood highlights the incredible, blatant hypocrisy of the British government, foremost Prime Minister David Cameron and Foreign Secretary William Hague, who are applying one standard to the criminal Libyan regime of Mu’ammar Gaddafi while going out of their way to protect and justify the crimes of another criminal regime, that of Israel.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: dimgrey;"&gt;”Prime Minister David Cameron told MPs that he had asked the head of Britain's armed forces to work with allies to see if a military no-fly zone was possible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“So if the answer is ‘yes’, there’s no reason not to impose a no-fly zone over Gaza, is there? Oops, I forgot. The maniacs doing the murdering there are Whitehall’s ‘friends’, right? And Hague and Cameron have publicly pledged undying support for them, right? So, their balls are in a vice, right?”&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;(Stuart Littlewood)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px;"&gt;After maintaining a deafening silence about Israel’s atrocities against civilians, Britain suddenly wants a “day of reckoning” for war criminals – as long as they are Libyan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While protestors’ attempts to oust Gaddafi and his scum continued, the UK’s Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva, Peter Gooderham, called on the UN Human Rights Council Special Session on Libya to take whatever steps were necessary “to ensure that those responsible for the awful human rights violations that are currently occurring in Libya are held to account”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He said the Libyan government was trying to stop the world seeing what was happening, adding:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="right" bgcolor="#ff0000" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" style="width: 200px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px;"&gt;&lt;table bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0" cellpadding="8" cellspacing="0"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px;" width="100%"&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px;"&gt;“... we didn’t hear Hague and his colleagues call for a reckoning with the psychopaths of the Israeli regime when they committed mega-atrocities against Gaza’s civilians just two years ago... On the contrary, they’re busy tinkering with our laws of universal jurisdiction to enable Zionist thugs to come and go without fear of arrest.”&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: dimgrey;"&gt;We are appalled by the levels of violence... The use of military force against civilians and the attacks on funeral processions have caused deep anger throughout the country and across the world... We join the High Commissioner in calling for an international inquiry into the violence... The United Kingdom will do everything we can to make sure those responsible in the Libyan regime are held accountable for their actions…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px;"&gt;Foreign secretary William Hague announced he had signed a directive revoking Gaddafi’s diplomatic immunity in the United Kingdom and also the diplomatic immunity of his sons, his family and his household. He spoke of Britain’s readiness to provide humanitarian help. “Our Department for International Development now has teams on both borders, on the Tunisian and Egyptian borders of Libya, looking at how we can deliver such assistance if necessary.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He bragged about how the UK “drove” through a Security Council resolution referring what was happening in Libya to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. “That sends a clear message to all involved, in the regime and any other groups that if they commit crimes and atrocities there will be a day of reckoning for them.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bravo. What a splendidly high-principled chap that Mr Hague suddenly seems to be. And how swiftly he managed to get the International Criminal Court’s attention when he wanted to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But we didn’t hear Hague and his colleagues call for a reckoning with the&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="aptureLink " id="apture_prvw1" style="border-bottom-left-radius: 4px 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px 4px; border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial !important; border-top-left-radius: 4px 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px 4px; border-top-width: 0px !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important;"&gt;&lt;span class="aptureLinkIcon" style="background-image: url(http://cdn.apture.com/media/imgs/link_icons.gif?v12) !important; background-position: 100% -450px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat !important; border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 11px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="aptureLink snap_noshots" href="http://www.redress.cc/cms-files/Israelwarcriminals.pdf" style="border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; color: #c80000; cursor: pointer; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; text-decoration: none;"&gt;psychopaths of the Israeli regime&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;when they committed mega-atrocities against Gaza’s civilians just two years ago. We haven’t heard them driving anything constructive through the UN to halt those endless crimes. On the contrary, they’re busy tinkering with our laws of&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="aptureLink " id="apture_prvw2" style="border-bottom-left-radius: 4px 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px 4px; border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial !important; border-top-left-radius: 4px 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px 4px; border-top-width: 0px !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important;"&gt;&lt;span class="aptureLinkIcon" style="background-image: url(http://cdn.apture.com/media/imgs/link_icons.gif?v12) !important; background-position: 100% -1350px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat !important; border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 11px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="aptureLink snap_noshots" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20jurisdiction" style="border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; color: #c80000; cursor: pointer; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; text-decoration: none;"&gt;universal jurisdiction&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;to enable Zionist thugs to come and go without fear of arrest.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="right" bgcolor="#ff0000" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" style="width: 200px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px;"&gt;&lt;table bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0" cellpadding="8" cellspacing="0"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px;" width="100%"&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px;"&gt;“Gaddafi may not be welcome in London but the Foreign Office will happily roll out the red carpet for Tzipi Livni, Avigdor Lieberman, Ehud Barak and Binyamin Netanyahu, while Hague conducts the brass band.”&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px;"&gt;Gaddafi may not be welcome in London but the Foreign Office will happily roll out the red carpet for&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.wanted.org.il/tzipi_livni_en.htm" style="color: #c80000; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Tzipi Livni&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.redress.cc/palestine/ngordon20090327" style="color: #c80000; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Avigdor Lieberman&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.wanted.org.il/ehud_barak_en.htm" style="color: #c80000; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Ehud Barak&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.redress.cc/palestine/jcook20100724" style="color: #c80000; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Binyamin Netanyahu&lt;/a&gt;, while Hague conducts the brass band.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px;"&gt;And nobody saw the Department for International Development waiting on Gaza’s borders with humanitarian help.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Where was HMS Cumberland when British nationals on the Mavi Maramra and the Dignity and other vessels were being assaulted and terrorized in international waters by Israeli pirates, abducted and thrown in their stinking jails?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our warships HMS Cumberland and HMS York magically appear in the Mediterranean when Hague or Prime Minister David Cameron snaps his fingers. The ships have been protecting victims of the lunatic Gaddafi, and HMS York unloaded tons of medical supplies and other humanitarian aid for the Benghazi Medical Centre, donated by the Swedish government.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Funny how these two vessels couldn’t be deployed to bring life-saving aid to innocent Palestinians after Israel’s indiscriminate Operation Cast Lead&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;blitzkrieg&lt;/em&gt;. Those same Palestinians civilians are still being bombed and strafed with impunity on a daily basis, so when the Libyan crisis dies down shouldn’t HMS York be loaded up with more supplies and sail for Gaza, where the humanitarian crisis continues unabated?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the Libya situation Hague has been sounding off with loud threats of retribution. “Crimes will not go unpunished and will not be forgotten; there will be a day of reckoning and the reach of international justice is long,” he says.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="right" bgcolor="#ff0000" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" style="width: 200px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px;"&gt;&lt;table bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0" cellpadding="8" cellspacing="0"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px;" width="100%"&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px;"&gt;“Funny how these two vessels [HMS Cumberland and HMS York] couldn’t be deployed to bring life-saving aid to innocent Palestinians after Israel’s indiscriminate Operation Cast Lead&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;blitzkrieg&lt;/em&gt;. Those same Palestinians civilians are still being bombed and strafed with impunity on a daily basis...”&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px;"&gt;He also talks of imposing a no-fly zone over Libya to protect its people. One option would involve RAF patrols from Cyprus. Hague told Sky News: "One thing we have to plan for and work out how we would do it with allies and partners if it became necessary and if it had the necessary international support."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The BBC reported that, according to Hague, a no-fly zone over Libya would not necessarily need a green light from the UN. "There have been occasions in the past when such a no-fly zone has had clear, legal, international justification even without a Security Council resolution. It depends on the situation on the ground."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Prime Minister David Cameron told MPs that he had asked the head of Britain's armed forces to work with allies to see if a military no-fly zone was possible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So if the answer is “yes”, there’s no reason not to impose a no-fly zone over Gaza, is there? Oops, I forgot. The maniacs doing the murdering there are Whitehall’s “friends”, right? And Hague and Cameron have publicly pledged undying support for them, right? So, their balls are in a vice, right?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even 1,400 dead, the vast majority civilians including 350 children, is not slaughter enough to wrench them free – the thousands maimed and the tens of thousands homeless not enough cruelty.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As for freedom and democracy in the Middle East, spare us the sermon. The British government has pissed on Palestinian democracy since 2006 and ganged up with other bullies to spitefully punish the people for making the “wrong” choice. Britain chose (as if it was any of our business to do the choosing) to prop up the treacherous and utterly discredited election losers and stand idly by while the decades of imprisonment and suffering continue.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="right" bgcolor="#ff0000" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" style="width: 200px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px;"&gt;&lt;table bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0" cellpadding="8" cellspacing="0"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px;" width="100%"&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px;"&gt;“The British government has pissed on Palestinian democracy since 2006 and ganged up with other bullies to spitefully punish the people for making the “wrong” choice.”&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px;"&gt;The Israeli newspaper the&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Jerusalem Post&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=210768" style="color: #c80000; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;reports&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;this week how David Cameron told Jewish dinner guests: “With me you have a prime minister whose belief in Israel is indestructible... I will always be a strong defender of the Jewish people. I will always be an advocate for the State of Israel.”&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px;"&gt;He also said Israel has a right to search vessels entering Gaza. Oh? So Israeli piracy on the high seas or in Palestinian waters is OK? The blockade is OK? Does this mean vessels sailing for Israeli ports can be stopped and searched for weapons that might be used against Israel’s neighbours?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cameron also said: “Some people try to judge Israel’s government by a higher code of conduct than they would apply to their own government.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And he said that when the Israeli authorities had revoked the Jerusalem residency permit of the Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem, a state of affairs that has dragged on for six months “without tangible results” despite efforts by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the British foreign secretary (Hague) and the British ambassador. The bishop will now have to resort to legal remedies to go about his duties.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What sort of buffoon is Cameron?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.redress.cc/global/slittlewood20110305b"&gt;http://www.redress.cc/global/slittlewood20110305b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18389680-2291513409030033046?l=stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/feeds/2291513409030033046/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/zionist-lobby-6.html#comment-form' title='0 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18389680/posts/default/2291513409030033046'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18389680/posts/default/2291513409030033046'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/zionist-lobby-6.html' title='The Zionist Lobby 6'/><author><name>stan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02966505503468040742</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DHjLrxezAfc/TiMy86mUG1I/AAAAAAAATVk/yYXYE1GVgsY/s220/Stan%2BLogo%2B3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18389680.post-2483455843857545557</id><published>2011-03-05T18:12:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-05T18:28:06.651+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The Zionist Lobby 5</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;h2 class="chapeau" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; width: 470px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;De Telegraaf bericht:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h2 class="chapeau" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; width: 470px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h2 class="chapeau" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; width: 470px;"&gt;Onafhankelijke commissie tikt Israël op de vingers&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h1 style="clear: both; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 470px;"&gt;Reclame misleidt toeristen&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;span class="auteur" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;"&gt;Door Jos van Noord&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="wrapper"&gt;&lt;div class="leftwrapper" id="artikelKolom" style="float: left; overflow-x: visible; overflow-y: visible; width: 470px;"&gt;&lt;div class="zaktxt clear" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div class="zak_normal"&gt;&lt;span class="location" style="text-transform: uppercase;"&gt;AMSTERDAM&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;-&amp;nbsp; Haatmail is mijn deel. Emmers vol drek. Wat tragisch dat de afzenders van dit soort reacties op mijn vraag van vorige week, over Israël's reclame met bezet gebied, zich kennelijk niet realiseren dat zij zichzélf omlaag halen. Velen halen de bijbel erbij, om Israël gelijk te geven. Maar er staat toch ook geschreven: uw naaste als uzelve? Gestolen goed gedijt niet.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="broodtxt"&gt;&lt;div class="broodMediaBox" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: right; margin-left: 10px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;"&gt;&lt;div class="docbox"&gt;&lt;ul class="docul" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="image " style="margin-bottom: 5px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=18389680" style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;img alt="De rotskoepel in Oost-Jeruzalem is een van de toeristentrekkers. Pronken met andermans veren?" src="http://images2-telegraaf.nl/multimedia/archive/00823/jeruzalem_jpg_823099d.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; position: relative; z-index: 200;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="caption" style="color: black; display: block; font-size: 10px; font-style: italic; max-width: 385px; width: 200px;"&gt;De rotskoepel in Oost-Jeruzalem is een van de toeristentrekkers. 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padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 4px; width: 185px;"&gt;&lt;li class="extra_link" style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;a class="el_link" href="http://clk.tradedoubler.com/click?p=197868&amp;amp;a=1882873&amp;amp;g=19222136&amp;amp;url=http://widgets.zaazoo.nl/results-ps?brandid=2233445566&amp;amp;a=1882873" style="color: #424242; display: block; font-size: 11px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;div class="extralink_left"&gt;Alle&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="count_type" style="color: black;"&gt;14115 reizen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="jsws_clear" style="clear: both; font-size: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://impnl.tradedoubler.com/imp?type(img)g(19222136)a(1882873)" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; position: relative; z-index: 200;" /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Gelukkig denkt de Reclame Code Commissie er net zo over, want die kwam intussen óók tot de conclusie dat Israël's toeristische reclame, met Arabische moskeekoepels en met gebieden die dit land niet toebehoren, 'misleidend en daardoor oneerlijk' is.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Eigenlijk snap ik niet waarom Israël dit doet. Tenzij ze het daar leuk vinden om te treiteren, om zout te strooien in andermans wonden. Is Israël zelf niet mooi genoeg, dat het toeristen moet lokken met Palestijnse en Syrische gebieden? Laat ze reclame maken met de prachtig groene Negev-woestijn, met het Meer van Tiberias, met de wondermooie stranden van Tel Aviv en Netanya.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Of met Eilat, met de zilvermijnen van Salomon en met het geologisch paradijs bij Mitzpe Ramon, de prachtige canyons op de weg naar Eilat. Mogen ze heel trots op zijn. Waarom dan toch telkens de Al-Aqsa moskee, de rotskoepel, Palestijns Jericho en Bethlehem en de bezette Golan? Waarom pronken met andermans veren?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;De internationale gemeenschap heeft Israël bij tal van gelegenheden, binnen en buiten de VN, de opdracht gegeven tot vrede te komen met de buren en zich terug te trekken achter de grenzen van 1967. Dat is de kern.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Nou zijn die buren - let wel: die leven onder bezetting - ook de gemakkelijkste niet, maar sinds 1967 heeft Israël alle volkenrechtelijke verdragen, internationale afspraken en ook alle betreffende VN-resoluties (waaronder de beroemde resolutie 242) genegeerd. De meest elementaire rechten van het Palestijnse volk worden door de Israelische militaire laars vertrapt.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Tegen alle bepalingen van het volkerenrecht in, annexeerde Israël Oost-Jerusalem en koloniseerde het de westelijke Jordaanoever. In honderden illegale nederzettingen op onteigende grond wonen nu al meer dan 400.000 Israeliërs. Terwijl geen land ter wereld Israëlische aanspraken op bezet gebied erkent, nodigt Israël in toeristische folders vakantiegangers uit bij z'n bezette en vernederde buren: komt dat zien! Volgens de Vierde Conventie van Geneve is dit soort exploitatie van bezet gebied een regelrechte schending van mensenrechten.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Maar nogal wat lezers geven Israël groot gelijk. Zij vervloeken mij, omdat ik over Israël een kritische vraag durf te stellen, sommigen wensen mij ernstige ziektes toe, merkwaardig genoeg vaak in combinatie met een beroep op de bijbel, op Gods woord. Daar heb ik niet van terug.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Dat ik citeerde uit het joodse kookboek ('Men lene een ei…') is voor verscheidene lezers bewijs van mijn antisemitische inborst. Nota bene een mop van Max Tailleur, kennelijk ook antisemiet.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Even zoveel lezers zijn het van harte eens met mijn visie. „Gestolen blijft gestolen”, schrijft mij Heleen Witte. „Laten we het internationaal recht als uitgangspunt nemen en geen Israëlische en christelijke mythologie. Vrede en gerechtigheid voor Israël én de Palestijnen!"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Zelf moet ik vaak denken aan de oude rabbijn Soetendorp die zei dat elke journalist 24 uur per dag op appel dient te staan voor gerechtigheid.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Zelfs met een simpele uitspraak van onze Reclame Code Commissie kan Israël niet leven. Het Israëlische verkeersbureau in Amsterdam heeft tegen dit besluit direct beroep aangetekend. Op die uitspraak wachten we nu nog.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:jvnoord@telegraaf.nl" style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none;" target="_self"&gt;jvnoord@telegraaf.nl&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.telegraaf.nl/reiskrant/9188651/__Reclame_misleidt_toeristen__.html"&gt;http://www.telegraaf.nl/reiskrant/9188651/__Reclame_misleidt_toeristen__.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18389680-2483455843857545557?l=stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/feeds/2483455843857545557/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/zionist-lobby.html#comment-form' title='0 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18389680/posts/default/2483455843857545557'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18389680/posts/default/2483455843857545557'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/zionist-lobby.html' title='The Zionist Lobby 5'/><author><name>stan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02966505503468040742</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DHjLrxezAfc/TiMy86mUG1I/AAAAAAAATVk/yYXYE1GVgsY/s220/Stan%2BLogo%2B3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18389680.post-6586574660942505624</id><published>2011-03-05T18:02:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-05T18:04:12.686+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The Staple Singers</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Staple Singers - Respect Yourself.Live Filmed Performance 1972&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJz-k8bEZgo"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJz-k8bEZgo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHpoGK1aX5Y&amp;amp;feature=related"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHpoGK1aX5Y&amp;amp;feature=related&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18389680-6586574660942505624?l=stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/feeds/6586574660942505624/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/staple-singers.html#comment-form' title='0 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18389680/posts/default/6586574660942505624'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18389680/posts/default/6586574660942505624'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/staple-singers.html' title='The Staple Singers'/><author><name>stan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02966505503468040742</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DHjLrxezAfc/TiMy86mUG1I/AAAAAAAATVk/yYXYE1GVgsY/s220/Stan%2BLogo%2B3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18389680.post-8277923540218798661</id><published>2011-03-05T17:42:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-05T17:42:40.988+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Arab Regimes 185</title><content type='html'>Door het buitengewoon stupide optreden van de Nederlandse regering die vlak voor de verkiezingen een publiciteitsstuntje kon gebruiken, &lt;i&gt;twee vrouwelijke helikopterpiloten die blanke Europeanen redden uit klauwen van Mad Dog Moammer&lt;/i&gt;, zitten nu drie Nederlandse '&lt;b&gt;helden' &lt;/b&gt;vast in Libie en door de even stupide westerse druk in de Veiligheidsraad dreigt Khadaffi -- die zo met de rug tegen de muur was gezet -- nog een werkelijk gevaar voor de eigen bevolking te worden. 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-ZD7Wu8jNM2o/TXImgtv7YkI/AAAAAAAATT4/tKAZat5bbtc/s1600/Minister_Rosenthal_1632428h+%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-ZD7Wu8jNM2o/TXImgtv7YkI/AAAAAAAATT4/tKAZat5bbtc/s1600/Minister_Rosenthal_1632428h+%25281%2529.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h1 style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Anja Meulenbelt&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="rood"&gt;::&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://anjameulenbelt.sp.nl/weblog/"&gt;Weblog&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h1&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="content"&gt;&lt;h4&gt;zaterdag 5 maart 2011&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;div class="post"&gt;&lt;h3 class="storytitle" id="post-37285"&gt;&lt;a href="http://anjameulenbelt.sp.nl/weblog/2011/03/05/het-beloofde-land-lezingen-vanuit-de-drie-heilige-boeken/" rel="bookmark"&gt;Het beloofde land? Lezingen vanuit de drie heilige boeken&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1006866651"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://anjameulenbelt.sp.nl/weblog/2011/03/05/het-beloofde-land-lezingen-vanuit-de-drie-heilige-boeken/"&gt;http://anjameulenbelt.sp.nl/weblog/2011/03/05/het-beloofde-land-lezingen-vanuit-de-drie-heilige-boeken/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Anja Meulenbelt, er zijn geen heilige boeken &lt;b&gt;'for everything that lives is holy, life delights in life,'&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;William Blake.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Waarom vraag je als volksvertegenwoordiger niet naar het rapport van de AIV dat aan minister Rosenthal is gestuurd? Waarom blijf je zwijgen hierover? Kom nu eens als&lt;i&gt; parlementslid &lt;/i&gt;voor de SP op voor de Palestijnse zaak.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Zie:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/uri-rosenthal-een-nederlandse-minister_04.html"&gt;http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/uri-rosenthal-een-nederlandse-minister_04.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2 style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"&gt;A Song of Liberty.&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;1. The Eternal Female groan'd! it was heard over all the Earth:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;2. Albion's coast is sick silent; the American meadows faint!&lt;br /&gt;3 Shadows of Prophecy shiver along by the lakes and the rivers and mutter across the ocean: France, rend down thy dungeon;&lt;br /&gt;4. Golden Spain, burst the barriers of old Rome;&lt;br /&gt;5. Cast thy keys, O Rome, into the deep down falling, even to eternity down falling,&lt;br /&gt;6. And weep!&lt;br /&gt;7. In her trembling hands she took the new born terror howling;&lt;br /&gt;8. On those infinite mountains of light, now barr'd out by the atlantic sea, the new born fire stood before the starry king!&lt;br /&gt;9. Flag'd with grey brow'd snows and thunderous visages, the jealous wings wav'd over the deep.&lt;br /&gt;10. The speary hand burned aloft, unbuckled was the shield; forth went the hand of jealousy among the flaming hair, and hurl'd the new born wonder thro' the starry night.&lt;br /&gt;11. The fire, the fire, is falling!&lt;br /&gt;12. Look up! look up! O citizen of London, enlarge thy countenance: O Jew, leave counting gold! return to thy oil and wine. O African! black African! (go, winged thought widen his forehead.)&lt;br /&gt;13. The fiery limbs, the flaming hair, shot like the sinking sun into the western sea.&lt;br /&gt;14. Wak'd from his eternal sleep, the hoary element roaring fled away:&lt;br /&gt;15. Down rush'd, beating his wings in vain, the jealous king; his grey brow'd councellors, thunderous warriors, curl'd veterans, among helms, and shields, and chariots horses, elephants: banners, castles, slings and rocks,&lt;br /&gt;16. Falling, rushing, ruining! buried in the ruins, on Urthona's dens;&lt;br /&gt;17. All night beneath the ruins, then, their sullen flames faded, emerge round the gloomy King.&lt;br /&gt;18. With thunder and fire: leading his starry hosts thro' the waste wilderness, he promulgates his ten commands, glancing his beamy eyelids over the deep in dark dismay,&lt;br /&gt;19. Where the son of fire in his eastern cloud, while the morning plumes her golden breast,&lt;br /&gt;20. Spurning the clouds written with curses, stamps the stony law to dust, loosing the eternal horses from the dens of night, crying:&lt;br /&gt;Empire is no more! and now the lion &amp;amp; wolf shall cease.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h2 style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"&gt;Chorus.&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Let the Priests of the Raven of dawn, no longer in deadly black, with hoarse note curse the sons of joy. Nor his accepted brethren, whom, tyrant, he calls free: lay the bound or build the roof. Nor pale religious letchery call that virginity, that wishes but acts not!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"&gt;For every thing that lives is Holy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="meta"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18389680-4188928308556066183?l=stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/feeds/4188928308556066183/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/anja-meulenbelt.html#comment-form' title='0 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18389680/posts/default/4188928308556066183'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18389680/posts/default/4188928308556066183'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/anja-meulenbelt.html' title='Anja Meulenbelt van de SP'/><author><name>stan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02966505503468040742</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DHjLrxezAfc/TiMy86mUG1I/AAAAAAAATVk/yYXYE1GVgsY/s220/Stan%2BLogo%2B3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-ZD7Wu8jNM2o/TXImgtv7YkI/AAAAAAAATT4/tKAZat5bbtc/s72-c/Minister_Rosenthal_1632428h+%25281%2529.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18389680.post-5052524872631419370</id><published>2011-03-05T12:53:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-05T12:53:04.249+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Hollandse Amateurs 5</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria, Times, 'Times New Roman', Georgia, serif; font-size: 12px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1 class="k1 mrg" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 4px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;Blondjes, blondjes, blondjes!!! We hebben blondjes nodig.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 class="k1 mrg" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; font-size: 34px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 4px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 class="k1 mrg" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; font-size: 34px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 4px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Diefstal, zelfverrijking en intimidatie bij marine&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div class="art_cntr1_det" style="float: left; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px; width: 468px;"&gt;&lt;div class="art_box2" id="art_box2" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div class="time_post" style="color: #666666; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 6px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="author"&gt;Van onze verslaggevers John Schoorl en Merijn Rengers&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;− 05/03/11, 04:24&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="embeddedMasterObject" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" id="topImg" src="http://www.volkskrant.nl/static/FOTO/pe/12/13/11/media_xl_552836.jpg?20110304212439" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; float: none; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 468px;" width="468" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="captionEmbeddedMasterObject" style="color: #666666; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Een van der vier onderzeeërs van de Marine.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="intro" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;AMSTERDAM - Bij een prestigieus marineonderdeel in Den Helder is sprake van zelfverrijking, diefstal, intimidatie en onderling wantrouwen. Ook wordt afgerekend met klokkenluiders en personen die zich verzetten tegen de niet-integere bedrijfscultuur. Dit blijkt uit een intern defensiedossier over ernstige integriteitsschendingen, dat in het bezit is van de Volkskrant.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="intro" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/2664/Nieuws/article/detail/1855717/2011/03/05/Diefstal-zelfverrijking-en-intimidatie-bij-marine.dhtml?utm_source=VK_bronNULL&amp;amp;utm_medium=vknieuwsbrief&amp;amp;utm_campaign=vknieuwsbrief"&gt;http://www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/2664/Nieuws/article/detail/1855717/2011/03/05/Diefstal-zelfverrijking-en-intimidatie-bij-marine.dhtml?utm_source=VK_bronNULL&amp;amp;utm_medium=vknieuwsbrief&amp;amp;utm_campaign=vknieuwsbrief&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18389680-5052524872631419370?l=stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/feeds/5052524872631419370/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/hollandse-amateurs-5.html#comment-form' title='1 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18389680/posts/default/5052524872631419370'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18389680/posts/default/5052524872631419370'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/hollandse-amateurs-5.html' title='Hollandse Amateurs 5'/><author><name>stan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02966505503468040742</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DHjLrxezAfc/TiMy86mUG1I/AAAAAAAATVk/yYXYE1GVgsY/s220/Stan%2BLogo%2B3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18389680.post-7530895928935273551</id><published>2011-03-05T10:18:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-05T10:30:04.104+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Hollandse Amateurs 4</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-upA2e8ekf5w/TXIAuJYXQ7I/AAAAAAAATT0/F003UBlaZMM/s1600/girl_helicopter.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-upA2e8ekf5w/TXIAuJYXQ7I/AAAAAAAATT0/F003UBlaZMM/s1600/girl_helicopter.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;'Happiness is a warm gun... and when I feel my finger on your trigger.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Oooooooooh, oh yeah!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De lezer zou zich moeten afvragen waarom de bejaarde Frits Barend zo graag wilde weten van de blonde helikopterpilote of ze lichamelijk opgewonden raakt wanneer ze met haar hand aan de stuurknuppel &lt;b&gt;'daar boven hangt'&lt;/b&gt;? Een stuurknuppel waarmee zij ook nog eens gas kan geven, zij bepaalt dus de snelheid, want &lt;i&gt;'she is on top'.&lt;/i&gt; De Marine pin-up beaamt meteen dat het&lt;b&gt; 'bloedspannend'&lt;/b&gt; is, ze weet haar rol,&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;bloedspannend,&lt;/i&gt; als het ware nog spannender dan sex, en daar gaat die vraag ook impliciet om. Opgewonden vrouw '&lt;b&gt;daar boven&lt;/b&gt;' al die mannen die van alles met haar zouden kunnen doen als zij niet die knuppel zelf in haar hand heeft en daardoor de macht bezit. Tot de amateurs tegen de lamp lopen. Seks is in een consumptiecultuur de grootste drijfveer. Ook oorlog wordt met seks verkocht. &lt;b&gt;'Bloedspannend,'&lt;/b&gt; volgens de stem des volks Frits Barend, het bloed pompt razendsnel door haar lichaam, net zoals tijdens het... Frits kan er geen genoeg van krijgen, en zijn achterban ook niet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;She's not a girl who misses much&lt;br /&gt;Do do do do do do, oh yeah&lt;br /&gt;She's well acquainted with the touch of the velvet hand&lt;br /&gt;Like a lizard on a window pane&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The man in the crowd with the multicoloured mirrors&lt;br /&gt;On his hobnail boots&lt;br /&gt;Lying with his eyes while his hands are busy&lt;br /&gt;Working overtime&lt;br /&gt;A soap impression of his wife which he ate&lt;br /&gt;And donated to the National Trust&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I need a fix 'cause I'm going down&lt;br /&gt;Down to the bits that I left uptown&lt;br /&gt;I need a fix cause I'm going down&lt;br /&gt;Mother Superior jumped the gun&lt;br /&gt;Mother Superior jumped the gun&lt;br /&gt;Mother Superior jumped the gun&lt;br /&gt;Mother Superior jumped the gun&lt;br /&gt;Mother Superior jumped the gun&lt;br /&gt;Mother Superior jumped the gun&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Happiness (is a warm gun)&lt;br /&gt;Bang Bang Shoot Shoot&lt;br /&gt;Happiness (is a warm gun, momma)&lt;br /&gt;Bang Bang Shoot Shoot&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(When I hold you in my arms)&lt;br /&gt;Oooooooooh, oh yeah!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And when I feel my finger on your trigger&lt;br /&gt;Oooooooooh, oh yeah!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know nobody can do me no harm&lt;br /&gt;Oooooooooh, oh yeah!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Happiness (is a warm gun, momma)&lt;br /&gt;Bang Bang Shoot Shoot&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Happiness (is a warm gun)&lt;br /&gt;Bang Bang Shoot Shoot&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes it is, gun!&lt;br /&gt;Happiness (is a warm gun)&lt;br /&gt;Bang Bang Shoot Shoot&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Happiness (is a warm gun)&lt;br /&gt;is a warm gun, yeeeaahhh!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18389680-7530895928935273551?l=stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/feeds/7530895928935273551/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/hollandse-amateurs-4.html#comment-form' title='5 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18389680/posts/default/7530895928935273551'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18389680/posts/default/7530895928935273551'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/hollandse-amateurs-4.html' title='Hollandse Amateurs 4'/><author><name>stan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02966505503468040742</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DHjLrxezAfc/TiMy86mUG1I/AAAAAAAATVk/yYXYE1GVgsY/s220/Stan%2BLogo%2B3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-upA2e8ekf5w/TXIAuJYXQ7I/AAAAAAAATT0/F003UBlaZMM/s72-c/girl_helicopter.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18389680.post-7802361393455765090</id><published>2011-03-05T09:44:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-05T09:58:31.634+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Hollandse Amateurs 3</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1 class="fullarticle_title" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"&gt;Het is opmerkelijk dat kritische lezers als martijn en sonja even reflexmatig op het begrip &lt;i&gt;'blondje'&lt;/i&gt; reageerden als al die mannen voor wie Yvonne Niersman als Pin Up van de Nederlandse Marine werd en wordt itentoon gesteld. Kijk, de reden waarom een blondje naar wordt ingezet is het feit dat op die manier de strijd in de Derde wereld volledig kan worden gedepolitiseerd. Het gaat niet meer om piraterij, om de groeiende kloof tussen arm en rijk, om verzet tegen de westerse overheersing, om de uitzichtloosheid van veel jongeren daar, er wordt ook geen historische parallel getrokken met het feit dat wij Nederlanders rijk zijn geworden dankzij onder andere diezelfde piraterij in de zestiende en zeventiende eeuw. Piet hein, weet u wel. Nee, de media zijn er nu juist om de burger juist&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;niet&lt;/i&gt; te informeren, maar om via beelden (blondjes) de inhoud te verzwijgen. Daar schrijf ik nu al jaren over. Let Op:&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 class="fullarticle_title" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 class="fullarticle_title" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"&gt;EXCLUSIEVE BEELDEN YVONNE NIERSMAN&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div class="fullarticle_lead" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;RTL Nieuws-correspondent Conny Mus interviewde anderhalf jaar geleden helikopterpilote Yvonne Niersman. Zij is een van de Nederlandse militairen die vastzitten in Libië.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="media_container" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: relative; width: 377px;"&gt;&lt;div class="media_video_active" id="tab_video" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f2f1f1; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 202, 202); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 202, 202); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 202, 202); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(204, 202, 202); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; float: left; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; height: 24px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 12px; 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font-size: 12px; width: 362px;"&gt;&lt;div class="video_item_active" id="video_item_1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f3f3f3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(182, 182, 182); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(182, 182, 182); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(182, 182, 182); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(182, 182, 182); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1px; color: black; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 14px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 8px; position: relative;"&gt;Exclusief interview gevangengenomen pilote (2009)&lt;img alt="video" border="0" class="videolead_play_icon" height="16" src="http://www.rtl.nl/internal-roxen-unit" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://data.rtl.nl/_internal/anyfile_cache!0/bwxa7lds5ouj3ng9j72dffnazospudh.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; bottom: 6px; position: absolute; right: 10px;" width="16" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="video_item" id="video_item_2" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(182, 182, 182); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(182, 182, 182); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(182, 182, 182); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(182, 182, 182); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1px; color: #7c7c7c; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 14px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 8px; position: relative;"&gt;Conny Mus op de H.M. Evertsen (2009)&lt;img alt="video" border="0" class="videolead_play_icon" height="16" src="http://www.rtl.nl/internal-roxen-unit" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://data.rtl.nl/_internal/anyfile_cache!0/bwxa7lds5ouj3ng9j72dffnazospudh.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; bottom: 6px; position: absolute; right: 10px;" width="16" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="video_item" id="video_item_3" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(182, 182, 182); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(182, 182, 182); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(182, 182, 182); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(182, 182, 182); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1px; color: #7c7c7c; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 14px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 8px; position: relative;"&gt;Vastgenomen pilote eerder in RTL Nieuws&lt;img alt="video" border="0" class="videolead_play_icon" height="16" src="http://www.rtl.nl/internal-roxen-unit" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://data.rtl.nl/_internal/anyfile_cache!0/bwxa7lds5ouj3ng9j72dffnazospudh.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; bottom: 6px; position: absolute; right: 10px;" width="16" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="fullarticle_body" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;h2 class="fullarticle_h2" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Piraterij&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div class="fullarticle_p" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Conny Mus sprak haar aan boord van de H.M. Evertsen in een reportageserie over de bestrijding van piraterij in de wateren rond Somalië. Na haar tijd op de Evertsen werd Niersman geplaatst op de Tromp, het fregat dat naar Libië is gestuurd om te helpen bij de evacuatie van Nederlanders.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h2 class="fullarticle_h2" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Passie&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div class="fullarticle_p" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;In het interview vertelt Niersman over haar passie voor het vliegen en waarom ze bij de marine werkt.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h2 class="fullarticle_h2" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Mislukte evacuatie&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div class="fullarticle_p" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;De pilote en twee andere bemanningsleden van de helikopter zitten nu zes dagen vast. Afgelopen weekend landden ze bij de plaats Sirte om twee mensen te evacueren, maar de autoriteiten pakten hen op. De evacués zijn vrijgelaten door de Libiërs.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h2 class="fullarticle_h2" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Staats-tv&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div class="fullarticle_p" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Gisteren zond de Libische staatstelevisie beelden uit van de&lt;a class="link" href="http://www.rtl.nl/(/actueel/rtlnieuws/binnenland/)/components/actueel/rtlnieuws/2011/03_maart/03/binnenland/libie-toont-helikopter-op-staats_tv.xml" style="color: #6e52af; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;helikopter en de bemanning&lt;/a&gt;. 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Een van de gevangenen is een blonde vrouw, zo is op een foto op de voorpagina van de NRC te zien,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;'een van de twee vrouwelijke bemanningsleden.'&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Twee!!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;Ik bedoel, als de Britten manschappen inzetten zijn dat SAS-ers. De Nederlandse autoriteiten denken dat ze amateurs kunnen inzetten. Het is tekenend voor de krankzinnige mentaliteit waarbij de Hollanders mijlenver van de werkelijkheid zijn afgedreven. Ze hebben overal praatjes, weten alles beter en als het puntje bij paaltje komt kunnen ze niet eens een simpele militaire operatie verrichten. Een blondje oorlogsgebied insturen omdat de geemanicpeerde vrouw nu ook een woordje mag meespreken.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;De Telegraaf&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;noemde deze amateurs&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;'helden'&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;en zo raken we steeds verder verdwaald in de virtuele werkelijkheid die in de polder de realiteit bepaalt.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;dt class="comment-author " id="c5426737903400626123" style="background-position: 0px 1.5em; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: initial; font-weight: bold; margin-left: -45px; padding-left: 45px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;div class="post-body entry-content" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 640px;"&gt;&lt;div style="clear: both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-body entry-content" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 640px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/hollandse-amateurs.html"&gt;http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/hollandse-amateurs.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-body entry-content" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 640px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-body entry-content" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 640px;"&gt;kreeg ik deze reacties:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Anoniem zei&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;dd class="comment-body" id="Blog1_cmt-5426737903400626123" style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0.5em;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Nee, Stan... het was een briljante psy-op van het leger. Stuur vrouwen, Gadaffi is gek op vrouwen en zal ze niet zo snel afmaken! Maar alle gekheid op een stokje, ongeacht deze waardeloze actie waarbij de drie 'redders' nu vastzitten en de evacue's gewoon naar huis mochten, vind ik dit stukje vrij seksistisch van aard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Martijn&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dd class="comment-footer" style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0.5em;"&gt;&lt;span class="comment-timestamp"&gt;&lt;a href="http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/hollandse-amateurs.html?showComment=1299263384363#c5426737903400626123" style="color: #33145c; text-decoration: none;" title="comment permalink"&gt;&lt;i&gt;7:29 PM&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;dt class="comment-author blog-author" id="c4905969485445932636" style="background-position: 0px 1.5em; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; font-weight: bold; margin-left: -45px; padding-left: 45px; padding-top: 1.5em;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=18389680&amp;amp;postID=5157331067300655750" name="c4905969485445932636"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div class="avatar-image-container vcard" style="height: 37px; left: -45px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; position: absolute; width: 37px;"&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;a class="avatar-hovercard" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02966505503468040742" id="av-1-02966505503468040742" rel="nofollow" style="color: #33145c; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="delayLoad" height="35" longdesc="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CswEfc9aGOU/SavgxMZcHmI/AAAAAAAANsM/qnlXkdbvPms/S45/DSC030044_bmp.jpg" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CswEfc9aGOU/SavgxMZcHmI/AAAAAAAANsM/qnlXkdbvPms/S45/DSC030044_bmp.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 233, 233); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(233, 233, 233); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(233, 233, 233); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(233, 233, 233); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-width: initial; float: right; position: relative;" title="stan" width="35" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02966505503468040742" rel="nofollow" style="color: #33145c; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;stan&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;zei&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;dd class="comment-body" id="Blog1_cmt-4905969485445932636" style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0.5em;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;seksistisch? dit is nu precies de gekte die ik probeer aan te tonen. martijn, uit je reactie blijkt dat je nooit grootschalig geweld van nabij hebt meegemaakt. daar stuur je geen vrouwen naar toe, daar stuur je ook de meeste mannen niet naar toe. daar stuur je sas-mannen naar toe. en waarom die? welnu, heel simpel, die mensen zijn killers, zijn daar speciaal op geselecteerd, de meesten zijn in de burgermaatschappij onhoudbaar, aangezien ze sociaal gestoord zijn. nog nooit eerder is het aantal amerikaanse soldaten dat een syndroom oploopt zo hoog geweest als nu. dat is verklaarbaar. de meesten van hen zijn geen killers, maar mensen uit de laagste sociale klassen die geen ander alternatief hebben dan in dienst gaan. die mensen zijn volstrekt ongeschikt voor oorlog, net zoals vrouwelijke soldaten dit zijn. vandaar dat je ook geen vrouwelijke sas-eenheid hebt. dat heeft niks met seksisme te maken en alles met de werkelijkheid. het feit dat je die twee door elkaar haalt is een van de grote problemen van de moderne tijd. het ontbreekt de meeste mensen tegenwoordig aan ervaring, die ervaring is vervangen door ideologische opvattingen.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dd class="comment-footer" style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0.5em;"&gt;&lt;span class="comment-timestamp"&gt;&lt;a href="http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/hollandse-amateurs.html?showComment=1299265792122#c4905969485445932636" style="color: #33145c; text-decoration: none;" title="comment permalink"&gt;&lt;i&gt;8:09 PM&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;dt class="comment-author " id="c5079248156069319023" style="background-position: 0px 1.5em; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; font-weight: bold; margin-left: -45px; padding-left: 45px; padding-top: 1.5em;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=18389680&amp;amp;postID=5157331067300655750" name="c5079248156069319023"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div class="avatar-image-container avatar-stock" style="height: 37px; left: -45px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; position: absolute; width: 37px;"&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="16" src="http://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 233, 233); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-color: rgb(233, 233, 233); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(233, 233, 233); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(233, 233, 233); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; float: right; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px;" title="Anoniem" width="16" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Anoniem zei&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;dd class="comment-body" id="Blog1_cmt-5079248156069319023" style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0.5em;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Je hebt helemaal gelijk Stan, ik viel over het woord 'blondje' (door mijzelf aangevuld met 'dom'- wie is hier seksistisch?). Ik heb idd nog nooit grootschalig geweld meegemaakt, ik zat op het strand in Tel Aviv een club sandwich te eten op 28 december 2008. Na alle horrorverhalen van o.a. winter soldier 2008, en de idioot hoge zelfmoordcijfers van amerikaanse veteranen en de aanranding of verkrachting van 1 op de 3 vrouwen in het amerikaanse leger zegt meer dan genoeg. Excuses voor mijn opmerking.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Martijn&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dd class="comment-footer" style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0.5em;"&gt;&lt;span class="comment-timestamp"&gt;&lt;a href="http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/hollandse-amateurs.html?showComment=1299266505312#c5079248156069319023" style="color: #33145c; text-decoration: none;" title="comment permalink"&gt;&lt;i&gt;8:21 PM&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;dt class="comment-author " id="c1751104430763506344" style="background-position: 0px 1.5em; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; font-weight: bold; margin-left: -45px; padding-left: 45px; padding-top: 1.5em;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=18389680&amp;amp;postID=5157331067300655750" name="c1751104430763506344"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div class="avatar-image-container vcard" style="height: 37px; left: -45px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; position: absolute; width: 37px;"&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;a class="avatar-hovercard" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/07599745713630393640" id="av-3-07599745713630393640" rel="nofollow" style="color: #33145c; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="delayLoad" height="35" longdesc="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ICfpVls2Img/SXpnM4Spa-I/AAAAAAAACZM/qcqxvdoWDP0/S45/kopkoersbordlijn5.jpg" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ICfpVls2Img/SXpnM4Spa-I/AAAAAAAACZM/qcqxvdoWDP0/S45/kopkoersbordlijn5.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 233, 233); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(233, 233, 233); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(233, 233, 233); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(233, 233, 233); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-width: initial; float: right; position: relative;" title="AdR" width="35" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/07599745713630393640" rel="nofollow" style="color: #33145c; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;AdR&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;zei&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;dd class="comment-body" id="Blog1_cmt-1751104430763506344" style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0.5em;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;In de Nederlandse verhoudingen hadden het dus commando's moeten zijn?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dd class="comment-footer" style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0.5em;"&gt;&lt;span class="comment-timestamp"&gt;&lt;a href="http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/hollandse-amateurs.html?showComment=1299267276534#c1751104430763506344" style="color: #33145c; text-decoration: none;" title="comment permalink"&gt;&lt;i&gt;8:34 PM&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;dt class="comment-author blog-author" id="c1691486159015533209" style="background-position: 0px 1.5em; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; font-weight: bold; margin-left: -45px; padding-left: 45px; padding-top: 1.5em;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=18389680&amp;amp;postID=5157331067300655750" name="c1691486159015533209"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div class="avatar-image-container vcard" style="height: 37px; left: -45px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; position: absolute; width: 37px;"&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;a class="avatar-hovercard" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02966505503468040742" id="av-4-02966505503468040742" rel="nofollow" style="color: #33145c; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="delayLoad" height="35" longdesc="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CswEfc9aGOU/SavgxMZcHmI/AAAAAAAANsM/qnlXkdbvPms/S45/DSC030044_bmp.jpg" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CswEfc9aGOU/SavgxMZcHmI/AAAAAAAANsM/qnlXkdbvPms/S45/DSC030044_bmp.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 233, 233); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(233, 233, 233); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(233, 233, 233); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(233, 233, 233); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-width: initial; float: right; position: relative;" title="stan" width="35" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02966505503468040742" rel="nofollow" style="color: #33145c; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;stan&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;zei&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;dd class="comment-body" id="Blog1_cmt-1691486159015533209" style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0.5em;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;ja, commando's. probeer je voor te stellen, adr, een al flink opgefokte khadaffi-strijder, die 1 ding zeker weet, als hij verliest verliest hij alles, inclusief zijn leven. vluchten kan hij niet want dan pakt het westen hem op om hem te veroordelen. als deze strijder nu een aantal helicopters ziet landen waaruit zwaar bewapende commando's springen dan bedenkt hij zich wel tweemaal voordat hij iets onderneemt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;nu nederland, 1 helicopter dus geen gebruikelijke backup voor noodgevallen zoals de amerikanen altijd doen. et voila, daar stappen twee vrouwen uit, welke gek bedenkt dit? dit heeft niks met seksisme te maken maar met gezond verstand, degene die dit niet begrijpt is het spoor bijster. ik heb het dan niet eens over de mogelijkheid dat de vrouwen verkracht kunnen worden, wat hen extra kwetsbaar maakt.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dd class="comment-footer" style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0.5em;"&gt;&lt;span class="comment-timestamp"&gt;&lt;a href="http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/hollandse-amateurs.html?showComment=1299269192128#c1691486159015533209" style="color: #33145c; text-decoration: none;" title="comment permalink"&gt;&lt;i&gt;9:06 PM&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="item-control blog-admin pid-1464705521" style="display: inline;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;dt class="comment-author blog-author" id="c7022803730703906130" style="background-position: 0px 1.5em; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; font-weight: bold; margin-left: -45px; padding-left: 45px; padding-top: 1.5em;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=18389680&amp;amp;postID=5157331067300655750" name="c7022803730703906130"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div class="avatar-image-container vcard" style="height: 37px; left: -45px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; position: absolute; width: 37px;"&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;a class="avatar-hovercard" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02966505503468040742" id="av-5-02966505503468040742" rel="nofollow" style="color: #33145c; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="delayLoad" height="35" longdesc="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CswEfc9aGOU/SavgxMZcHmI/AAAAAAAANsM/qnlXkdbvPms/S45/DSC030044_bmp.jpg" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CswEfc9aGOU/SavgxMZcHmI/AAAAAAAANsM/qnlXkdbvPms/S45/DSC030044_bmp.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 233, 233); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(233, 233, 233); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(233, 233, 233); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(233, 233, 233); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-width: initial; float: right; position: relative;" title="stan" width="35" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02966505503468040742" rel="nofollow" style="color: #33145c; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;stan&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;zei&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;dd class="comment-body" id="Blog1_cmt-7022803730703906130" style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0.5em;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;martijn&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;de eerste keer dat in mijn richting geschoten werd was ik met twee vrouwen, anneke jos mouthaan die later een ander joods geluid oprichtte, en yael oren, een joods israelische activiste. het was in gaza meer dan 20 jaar geleden en israelische militairen vuurden op ons en een groepje kinderen dat ik aan het interviewen was. anneke raakte in paniek, yael riep naar haar foto's te nemen aangezien anneke een fototoestel bij zich had en ik controleerde of mijn geluidsapparatuur alles goed registreerde. pas na afloop kreeg ik een angstaanval nadat ik beseft had wat er was gebeurd. alleen ernstig gestoorde mensen raken door geweld niet van de kaart. die mensen worden onze killers, de anderen zijn hun slachtoffers. vrouwen die worden opgeleid om helikopterpiloot te worden zijn wat mij betreft niet geemanicipeerder dan vrouwen die niet getraind zijn in geweldpleging. bovendien hadden de betrokken vrouwen geen oorlogservaring en dat maakt hen niet geschikt voor dit soort operaties. waarom ook twee vrouwen? was het een demonstratie hoe sterk vrouwen kunnen zijn zodra ze tegen arabieren worden ingezet? zelfs het israelische leger maakt wat betreft zijn keurtroepen onderscheid tussen mannen en vrouwen. welke idioten hebben we hier in nederland aan de macht gekregen?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dd class="comment-footer" style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0.5em;"&gt;&lt;span class="comment-timestamp"&gt;&lt;a href="http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/hollandse-amateurs.html?showComment=1299271118625#c7022803730703906130" style="color: #33145c; text-decoration: none;" title="comment permalink"&gt;&lt;i&gt;9:38 PM&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;dt class="comment-author " id="c6122994236642062118" style="background-position: 0px 1.5em; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; font-weight: bold; margin-left: -45px; padding-left: 45px; padding-top: 1.5em;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=18389680&amp;amp;postID=5157331067300655750" name="c6122994236642062118"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div class="avatar-image-container vcard" style="height: 37px; left: -45px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; position: absolute; width: 37px;"&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;a class="avatar-hovercard" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/17819761334949416943" id="av-6-17819761334949416943" rel="nofollow" style="color: #33145c; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="delayLoad" height="35" longdesc="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5WFDW0ScotI/Sauno2kiPdI/AAAAAAAAAEE/R-LAdlTwpz0/S45/rabbid.jpg" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5WFDW0ScotI/Sauno2kiPdI/AAAAAAAAAEE/R-LAdlTwpz0/S45/rabbid.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 233, 233); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(233, 233, 233); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(233, 233, 233); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(233, 233, 233); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-width: initial; float: right; position: relative;" title="Sonja" width="35" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/17819761334949416943" rel="nofollow" style="color: #33145c; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Sonja&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;zei&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;dd class="comment-body" id="Blog1_cmt-6122994236642062118" style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0.5em;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ik vatte dat "blondje" net zo op als Martijn. Natuurlijk is het immoreel om killers te trainen en mensen een slagveld op te sturen of een gebied te bezetten. Maar of dat doen met een vrouw nog erger is als dat doen met een man zie ik niet zo. Ik vind het beiden even onnatuurlijk.&lt;br /&gt;Wat ik niet begrijp is dat mannen en vrouwen hun dochters en zonen zo opvoeden dat ze de keus maken om in het leger te gaan. Mijn dochter mag van mij alles worden wat ze wil - behalve het leger ingaan. Dan zou ik álles in het werk zetten om dat te voorkomen. Ik ben dan ook in staat om voor de auto of het busje op straat te gaan liggen.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dd class="comment-footer" style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0.5em;"&gt;&lt;span class="comment-timestamp"&gt;&lt;a href="http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/hollandse-amateurs.html?showComment=1299272486779#c6122994236642062118" style="color: #33145c; text-decoration: none;" title="comment permalink"&gt;&lt;i&gt;10:01 PM&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;dt class="comment-author blog-author" id="c7776079057208969123" style="background-position: 0px 1.5em; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; font-weight: bold; margin-left: -45px; padding-left: 45px; padding-top: 1.5em;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=18389680&amp;amp;postID=5157331067300655750" name="c7776079057208969123"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div class="avatar-image-container vcard" style="height: 37px; left: -45px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; position: absolute; width: 37px;"&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;a class="avatar-hovercard" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02966505503468040742" id="av-7-02966505503468040742" rel="nofollow" style="color: #33145c; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="delayLoad" height="35" longdesc="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CswEfc9aGOU/SavgxMZcHmI/AAAAAAAANsM/qnlXkdbvPms/S45/DSC030044_bmp.jpg" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CswEfc9aGOU/SavgxMZcHmI/AAAAAAAANsM/qnlXkdbvPms/S45/DSC030044_bmp.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 233, 233); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(233, 233, 233); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(233, 233, 233); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(233, 233, 233); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-width: initial; float: right; position: relative;" title="stan" width="35" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02966505503468040742" rel="nofollow" style="color: #33145c; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;stan&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;zei&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;dd class="comment-body" id="Blog1_cmt-7776079057208969123" style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0.5em;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;waarom het begrip blondje? wel, dat is simpel sonja. stel het was gelukt, dan was er hetzelfde gebeurd als met bush op dat vliegdekschip. de hele nederlandse pers had de vrolijk lachende blonde meiden gefotografeerd als helden, zoals ze nu al genoemd worden. leuke blonde meiden die die gek van een khadaffi een lesje hadden geleerd. vrouwen worden net zo gebruikt in dit spel als mannen.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dd class="comment-footer" style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0.5em;"&gt;&lt;span class="comment-timestamp"&gt;&lt;a href="http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/hollandse-amateurs.html?showComment=1299273934273#c7776079057208969123" style="color: #33145c; text-decoration: none;" title="comment permalink"&gt;&lt;i&gt;10:25 PM&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;dt class="comment-author " id="c1173609348703452201" style="background-position: 0px 1.5em; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; font-weight: bold; margin-left: -45px; padding-left: 45px; padding-top: 1.5em;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=18389680&amp;amp;postID=5157331067300655750" name="c1173609348703452201"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div class="avatar-image-container avatar-stock" style="height: 37px; left: -45px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; position: absolute; width: 37px;"&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;a class="avatar-hovercard" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/04032177481200931025" id="av-8-04032177481200931025" rel="nofollow" style="color: #33145c; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 233, 233); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(233, 233, 233); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(233, 233, 233); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(233, 233, 233); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; float: right; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; position: relative;" title="Sjuul van Dissel" width="16" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/04032177481200931025" rel="nofollow" style="color: #33145c; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Sjuul van Dissel&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;zei&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;dd class="comment-body" id="Blog1_cmt-1173609348703452201" style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0.5em;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Het is hier vloeken in de 'kerk'. Maar dat 'blondje' was een jaar geleden bij P&amp;amp;W, vanavond ook ter sprake met beelden van toen. De propagandamachine draait op volle toeren. Als 'blondjes' worden ingezet, nou dan weet je het wel. " vrouwen worden net zo gebruikt in dit spel als mannen." In dit geval niet helemaal "net zo".&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;Naar aanleiding van de tip van Sjuul heb ik even op internet gekeken naar het fragment bij Pauw en Witteman van een jaar geleden. Et voila, een van de blondjes van de marine die als heldin werd opgevoerd in haar strijd tegen Somalische piraten. Op 5 minuten' 39 verschijnt ze, onze Yvonne Niersman, en ze speelt haar rol naar behoren, de rol van blondje, niet al te intelligent eruit ziend, meer een boerenmeid, toch stoer, man bijt hond. Een van de gasten, Frits Barend (ons kent ons, ons nodigt ons uit), altijd opgewonden zodra het over geweld gaat en zeker als het om helikopters gaat die tegen islamieten worden ingezet, vraagt hijgerig: &lt;b&gt;'Als jij daar boven hangt, of u daar boven hangt, stroomt adrenaline dan niet door je bloed? Bloedspannend?'&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Bloedspannend, &lt;/i&gt;Sonja, leer mij mijn pappenheimers kennen. De media zijn er om de handel te verkopen en blondjes liggen nu eenmaal goed in de markt. Blondjes, blondjes, blondjes!!! Kijkt u zelf maar:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://pauwenwitteman.vara.nl/Fragment-detail.1548.0.html?&amp;amp;tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=21102&amp;amp;tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=116&amp;amp;cHash=e56a597c044ab3468b8c2b9fd4ab4354"&gt;http://pauwenwitteman.vara.nl/Fragment-detail.1548.0.html?&amp;amp;tx_ttnews[tt_news]=21102&amp;amp;tx_ttnews[backPid]=116&amp;amp;cHash=e56a597c044ab3468b8c2b9fd4ab4354&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18389680-5157331067300655750?l=stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/feeds/5157331067300655750/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/hollandse-amateurs-2.html#comment-form' title='2 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18389680/posts/default/5157331067300655750'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18389680/posts/default/5157331067300655750'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/hollandse-amateurs-2.html' title='Hollandse Amateurs 2'/><author><name>stan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02966505503468040742</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DHjLrxezAfc/TiMy86mUG1I/AAAAAAAATVk/yYXYE1GVgsY/s220/Stan%2BLogo%2B3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CswEfc9aGOU/SavgxMZcHmI/AAAAAAAANsM/qnlXkdbvPms/s72-c/DSC030044_bmp.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18389680.post-291856119668081718</id><published>2011-03-04T22:35:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-04T22:35:23.254+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Arab Regimes 178</title><content type='html'>&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); 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In addition to politically relevant nonfiction titles, we published the very first English translation of a Yemeni novelist (&lt;a href="http://www.interlinkbooks.com/product_info.php?products_id=1459&amp;amp;osCsid=6b9a487e58027ea4ff96c3e0080b0178" style="color: #336699; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;The Hostage&lt;/a&gt;), the first translation of Libya’s leading novelist (&lt;a href="http://www.interlinkbooks.com/product_info.php?products_id=270&amp;amp;osCsid=6b9a487e58027ea4ff96c3e0080b0178" style="color: #336699; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;The Bleeding of the Stone&lt;/a&gt;), and the first major Egyptian novel that was banned for exposing social injustice and government corruption (&lt;a href="http://www.interlinkbooks.com/product_info.php?products_id=1524&amp;amp;osCsid=6b9a487e58027ea4ff96c3e0080b0178" style="color: #336699; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;War in the Land of Egypt&lt;/a&gt;). But recently, inspired by the current uprisings, the staff at Interlink unleashed their own uprising of sorts. They demanded e-books! While I am pleased that they did not call for my ouster, they made it clear that the time has come to convert our books so they can be read on e-book devices. And, of course, fearful that my fate might end up like that of Mubarak, or Ben Ali, or Qaddafi, I happily caved in agreed to launch digital editions of our books.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;Michel Moushabeck&lt;br /&gt;Publisher&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="font-size: 10px;" width="394"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="background-color: #fefcf9; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; font-size: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 10px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;a href="" name="2" style="color: #336699; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Interlink Goes Digital&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"&gt;Some of Our Titles are Now Available as e-Books&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="float: left; padding-right: 10px;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://www.interlinkbooks.com/Ebooks.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; height: 149px; width: 159px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;While we here at Interlink appreciate the value of a physical book that you can see, smell, touch, and share with your friends, we also understand the growing popularity of e-books. Of course, the idea of carrying hundreds or even thousands of books on one small device is appealing, especially for those of us who travel frequently. So for all of you with ebook readers, now you can add Interlink books to your e-collections through&lt;a href="http://books.google.com/help/ebooks/devices.html" style="color: #336699; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Google Books&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_352814142_11?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;docId=1000493771&amp;amp;pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;amp;pf_rd_s=left-1&amp;amp;pf_rd_r=0M3VZ2BR5PDW70KCWMBA&amp;amp;pf_rd_t=101&amp;amp;pf_rd_p=1289247642&amp;amp;pf_rd_i=133141011" style="color: #336699; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Amazon Kindle Store&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;(this list is continually expanding, so watch this space!) And for those of you who prefer reading "the old fashioned way," we will happily continue to bring you the&amp;nbsp;most interesting writing from around the world in book form.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://books.google.com/ebooks?q=Interlink+Publishing&amp;amp;as_brr=5" style="color: #336699; float: right; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Interlink e-Books on Google &amp;gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Interlink-Books-for-Kindle/lm/RR56LE5Q3OJ9G/ref=cm_lm_byauthor_title_full" style="color: #336699; float: right; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Interlink e-Books for Amazon Kindle &amp;gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Highlighted e-Books&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://books.google.com/ebooks?as_brr=5&amp;amp;q=+bibliogroup:%22Traveller%27s+history%22&amp;amp;lr=&amp;amp;source=gbs_metadata_r" style="color: black; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;The Traveller's Histories&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://books.google.com/ebooks?as_brr=5&amp;amp;q=+bibliogroup:%22Interlink+world+fiction%22&amp;amp;lr=&amp;amp;source=gbs_metadata_r" style="color: black; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interlink World Fiction Series&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.interlinkbooks.com/advanced_search_result.php?osCsid=a4fc44cf72d97250ca536b7f8a29c9ff&amp;amp;keywords=iman+humaydan+younes&amp;amp;osCsid=a4fc44cf72d97250ca536b7f8a29c9ff" style="color: black; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#eeeeee" style="font-size: 10px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-size: 10px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-size: 10px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-size: 10px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#eeeeee" style="font-size: 10px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-size: 10px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; font-size: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 10px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;a href="" name="3" style="color: #336699; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;"Timely and Timeless at Once"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"&gt;Rafik Schami's Story of Ancient Customs Yielding to Modern Turmoil&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="float: left; padding-right: 10px;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://www.interlinkbooks.com/images/dnnew.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; height: 208px; width: 137px;" /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.interlinkbooks.com/product_info.php?products_id=2401&amp;amp;osCsid=7a0c95c6cca2f3f8306e755abcc502be" style="color: black; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Damascus Nights&lt;br /&gt;Rafik Schami; translated by Philip Boehm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A REISSUE OF RAFIK SCHAMI'S AWARD-WINNING NOVEL&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"This wonderful book is enlightening and endearing, witty and wise. Salim the coachman tells enchanting tales, but suddenly he is struck dumb. Just as Scheherazade told tales to save her life, Salim's friends must spin yarns to save his speech. Set in Damascus in 1959, the novel alternates the real lives of our storytellers with stories from the distant past. These are neither fables nor fairy tales with everlasting, happy endings, and they often require readers to suspend their disbelief. Each chapter is preceded by a one-line hint of what is to come, such as 'How one person's true story was not believed, whereas his most blatant lie was.' The author, who is a professional storyteller in Germany, has written a book appropriate for both adults and young adults. It is also a terrific book to read aloud. Highly recommended for all fiction collections."&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;—&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Library Journal&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Timely and timeless at once." —Malcolm Bradbury,&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;The New York Times Book Review&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"A picturesque collection of tales... wonderfully contemporary."&lt;br /&gt;—Richard Eder,&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Los Angeles Times Book Review&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"A highly atmospheric, pungent narrative."&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;—Publishers Weekly&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.interlinkbooks.com/pages.php?page=dnexcerpt" style="color: #336699; float: right; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Read an Excerpt &amp;gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also by Rafik Schami&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.interlinkbooks.com/product_info.php?products_id=2028&amp;amp;osCsid=7a0c95c6cca2f3f8306e755abcc502be" style="color: black; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;The Dark Side of Love&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.interlinkbooks.com/product_info.php?products_id=2400&amp;amp;osCsid=7a0c95c6cca2f3f8306e755abcc502be" style="color: black; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;The Calligrapher's Secret&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#eeeeee" style="font-size: 10px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-size: 10px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-size: 10px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-size: 10px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#eeeeee" style="font-size: 10px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-size: 10px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="background-color: #fefcf9; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; font-size: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 10px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;a href="" name="4" style="color: #336699; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;New in Paperback&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"&gt;A Revised and Updated Edition of&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The Iraqi Cookbook&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="float: left; padding-right: 10px;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://www.interlinkbooks.com/kubbaimage.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; height: 186px; width: 150px;" /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.interlinkbooks.com/product_info.php?products_id=2033&amp;amp;osCsid=37c63dd8901cc988885b916fc1bfac5a" style="color: black; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;The Iraqi Cookbook&lt;br /&gt;Lamees Ibrahim; photography by Terry McCormick&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"With the easygoing style of a casual home cook, Ibrahim describes her dishes and ingredients in an appealingly narrative manner, encouraging a relaxed approach to preparation while explaining the customs and rites of Iraqi eating. Fresh and simple, Ibrahim’s cookbook is a welcome addition for those interested in exploring an intriguing cuisine through its most authentic flavors"&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;—Publishers Weekly&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Just two months ago, Interlink Publishing (one of the best, and most serious purveyors of international cookbooks) came out with&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The Iraqi Cookbook&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;by Lamees Ibrahim, a Baghdad native who now lives in London. The book is chock-full of recipes--19 recipes for rice alone, and 15 for pickles... It's a fascinating book to page through, and most recipes are so straightforward that they will not even require a trip to the Middle Eastern market..."&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;—The Village Voice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.interlinkbooks.com/pages.php?page=newiraqirecipes" style="color: #336699; float: right; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Excerpt &amp;amp; Sample Recipes &amp;gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More Great Cookbooks Available in Paperback&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.interlinkbooks.com/product_info.php?products_id=1889&amp;amp;osCsid=37c63dd8901cc988885b916fc1bfac5a" style="color: black; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Cardamom &amp;amp; Lime: Recipes from the Arabian Gulf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.interlinkbooks.com/product_info.php?cPath=2&amp;amp;products_id=1839&amp;amp;osCsid=37c63dd8901cc988885b916fc1bfac5a" style="color: black; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Mezze Modern: Over 90 Delicious Appetizers...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.interlinkbooks.com/product_info.php?cPath=2&amp;amp;products_id=267&amp;amp;osCsid=37c63dd8901cc988885b916fc1bfac5a" style="color: black; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;The Ottoman Kitchen: Modern Recipes...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.interlinkbooks.com/product_info.php?cPath=2&amp;amp;products_id=1548&amp;amp;osCsid=37c63dd8901cc988885b916fc1bfac5a" style="color: black; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;The Middle Eastern Cookbook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#eeeeee" style="font-size: 10px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-size: 10px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-size: 10px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-size: 10px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#eeeeee" style="font-size: 10px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-size: 10px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; font-size: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 10px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;a href="" name="5" style="color: #336699; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Why this Book Should Win the BTBA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"&gt;Interlink Editor Hilary Plum Writes About&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Touch&lt;/span&gt;, Recently Longlisted for a BTBA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="float: left; padding-right: 10px;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://www.interlinkbooks.com/images/Touch-New-Cover.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; height: 180px; width: 130px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;Our own Hilary Plum, Interlink editor and co-director of Clookroot Books, wrote the following piece for a series of articles presented by&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Three Percent&lt;/span&gt;. Each of the articles features one of the 25 titles longlisted for the Best Translated Book Awards, and why they should win. Hilary writes for&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Touch&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;by Adania Shibli, translated by Paula Haydar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.interlinkbooks.com/pages.php?page=threepercent" style="color: black; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Touch [Why this Book Should Win the BTBA]&lt;br /&gt;Hilary Plum (Article on Three Percent)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"... All publishers know: when the world calls for hype, you hype. But how do we get the taste of all this hype out of our mouths, how do we get to talk again about literature, about falling in love? And—because, after all, our own feelings should not be that important—how do we shield our writers from all this hype, all this world? How do we hold a space open for Adania and her writing in English translation, under the weight of such labels as “the new generation of Palestinian writers,” a “Palestinian woman writer” (picture here all the tired stereotypes of “Muslim women speaking out,” that sort of thing—these will be lingering in the shadows, in the US of 2011 we can’t be free of them, they’re there). Let’s try to answer all these questions at once, for&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Touch&lt;/span&gt;. Because the answer isn’t so hard—&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Touch&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;holds open its own space, and luminously..."&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.interlinkbooks.com/pages.php?page=threepercent" style="color: #336699; float: right; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Read the Article &amp;gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Related Titles&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.interlinkbooks.com/product_info.php?products_id=2296&amp;amp;osCsid=a069f2d28f175025181c715d97ac2144" style="color: black; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Touch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Adania Shibli; trans. by Paula Haydar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.interlinkbooks.com/product_info.php?products_id=2403&amp;amp;osCsid=d93c0be3c07c0c9f8d744c1e3279c08b" style="color: black; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Specters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Radwa Ashour; trans. by Barbara Romaine&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.interlinkbooks.com/product_info.php?products_id=2030&amp;amp;osCsid=d93c0be3c07c0c9f8d744c1e3279c08b" style="color: black; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Almond Blossoms &amp;amp; Beyond&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Mahmoud Darwish; trans. by M. Shaheen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#eeeeee" style="font-size: 10px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-size: 10px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-size: 10px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-size: 10px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#eeeeee" style="font-size: 10px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-size: 10px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; font-size: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 10px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;a href="" name="6" style="color: #336699; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Middle East Update&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"&gt;North Africa and Beyond&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="float: left; padding-right: 10px;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTdaqsqb9JIpvuiSb4a77-DWvlfRANSdp70jCJZ0Ze4kOSY7OZr" style="border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; height: 119px; width: 182px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.interlinkbooks.com/pages.php?page=libya" style="color: black; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Libya and Beyond&lt;br /&gt;Article by Phyllis Bennis Originally published in AlterNet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Following successful revolutionary uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, Libya's dictator tries to hole on to power by using force as the entire Middle East braces for more change.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.interlinkbooks.com/pages.php?page=libya" style="color: #336699; float: right; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Read the Article &amp;gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Phyllis Bennis&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;is a fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C. and the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. She is a long-time analyst of U.S. policy in the Middle East, particularly regarding the Iraq war and Israel-Palestine conflict.&lt;a href="http://www.interlinkbooks.com/advanced_search_result.php?osCsid=9076f14bda6637c97f45f2b1aa747ab5&amp;amp;keywords=Phyllis+Bennis&amp;amp;osCsid=9076f14bda6637c97f45f2b1aa747ab5" style="color: #336699; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to view books by Phyllis Bennis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="float: left; padding-right: 10px;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://www.interlinkbooks.com/owl.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; height: 116px; width: 189px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.interlinkbooks.com/pages.php?page=owlscry" style="color: black; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;The Owl's Cry&lt;br /&gt;By Anouar Majid&lt;br /&gt;Article originally published by Tingis Redux&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"... Do North Africans and people of the Middle East, in general, have an indigenous voice to guide them in their search for a workable formula for good governance&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;—&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;whatever they may choose to call the political system they end up adopting?&amp;nbsp; Do they have a Founding Father, like the Americans Thomas Jefferson or Abraham Lincoln, to show them the way to a just political system, with freedom and equal opportunity for all?&amp;nbsp; You bet they do. No voice in the world right now can be more powerful and useful in guiding Arabs, Muslims, and—why not?—Americans in their pursuit of freedom than the 14th-century Muslim scholar Abderrahman Ibn Khaldun, not unreasonably described as the father of all the social and economic sciences&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;..."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.interlinkbooks.com/pages.php?page=owlscry" style="color: #336699; float: right; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Read the Article &amp;gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Anouar Majid&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;is the author of&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.interlinkbooks.com/product_info.php?products_id=990&amp;amp;osCsid=6e6b5cef17222425bc1980a2c4c5392c%22" style="color: #336699; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Si Yussef&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and the editor of&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Tingis Redux&lt;/span&gt;. 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Gedurende een week werden in totaal 1600 olijfbomen aangeplant door vrijwilligers van over de hele wereld. Daarnaast werden bovendien nog ruim 6000 olijfbomen&amp;nbsp;verdeeld onder Palestijnse boeren die lijden onder de Israëlische&amp;nbsp;militaire bezetting en landconfiscaties door Israël.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Een verslag van de reis en foto's zijn te vinden op:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://jai-pal.org/content.php?page=1006" target="_blank"&gt;http://jai-pal.org/content.php?page=1006&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Binnenkort verschijnt de Nederlandse vertaling op onze website&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.planteenolijfboom.nl/" target="_blank"&gt;www.planteenolijfboom.nl&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Onze vrijwilliger Jenne Jan Holtland blijft nog 3 maanden in de Palestijnse gebieden en doet verslag via zijn blog&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://jjholtland.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;http://jjholtland.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;De Olijfbomencampagne wil iedereen die in de afgelopen jaren olijfbomen heeft gesponsord hartelijk danken voor de steun.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Opnieuw olijfbomen vernield&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Helaas&amp;nbsp;worden er nog altijd olijfbomen vernield. Recentelijk werden 150 olijfbomen vernield door het Israëlische leger bij&amp;nbsp;een&amp;nbsp;boer die door ons gesteund wordt.&amp;nbsp;Zie&amp;nbsp;het bericht hieronder, gevolgd door een oproep en suggesties om actie te ondernemen.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Het blijft nog altijd belangrijk de Palestijnse boeren te steunen in hun strijd tegen landroof. Het aanplanten van olijfbomen is een teken van hoop voor de toekomst en een geweldloze manier van verzet.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Steun de campagne&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Wilt u de campagne ondersteunen door meer bekendheid te geven aan ons werk? U kunt bij ons folders bestellen en een dvd met&amp;nbsp;de nieuwe promotiefilm van 10 minuten. U kunt ook de link naar het filmpje gebruiken om via e-mail, hyves&amp;nbsp;of facebook aandacht te vragen voor het werk van de campagne&amp;nbsp;:&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a5ucE_rUmc" target="_blank"&gt;www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a5ucE_rUmc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;----------------------------------------&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="nl-NL" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Olijfbomen verwoest in Jaba’a&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="nl-NL" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Een oproep tot actie&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="nl-NL" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="nl-NL" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Verslag in het Engels en foto's zijn hier te vinden:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.jai-pal.org/content.php?page=1059" target="_blank"&gt;www.jai-pal.org/content.php?page=1059&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span lang="nl-NL"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="nl-NL" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span lang="nl-NL"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Er komt maar geen eind aan het verwoesten van Palestijnse boomgaarden door het Israëlische leger. Op 22 februari 2011 was de beurt aan Izzat Abu Latifa, een boer uit het dorpje&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span lang="nl-NL"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;Jaba’a, vlakbij Bethlehem.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span lang="nl-NL"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;(&lt;a href="http://www.ochaopt.org/documents/opt_arij_vp_aljaba.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.ochaopt.org/documents/opt_arij_vp_aljaba.pdf&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="nl-NL" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span lang="nl-NL"&gt;Rond 7 uur ’s ochtends verschenen Israëlische militairen op zijn veld, dat gelegen is naast&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span lang="nl-NL"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;kolonistenweg&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span lang="nl-NL"&gt;&amp;nbsp;367 (&lt;a href="http://www.maan-ctr.org/pdfs/Apartheid%20Roads.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.maan-ctr.org/pdfs/Apartheid%20Roads.pdf&lt;/a&gt;). Onmiddellijk begonnen ze zijn olijfbomen om te zagen met een kettingzaag, en ze vergiftigden de wortels. Toen Izzat hoorde van de aanwezigheid van het leger, snelde hij naar zijn veld. Bijna 150 bomen waren inmiddels omgezaagd. Volgens de militairen moesten de bomen worden verwijderd, omdat de grond van de Israëlische Staat zou zijn. Terecht kwam Izzat hiertegen in het geweer. Zijn veld bevindt zich op de bezette Westelijke Jordaanoever, niet in Israël. Om dit te ondersteunen liet Izzat de militairen zijn eigdendomspapieren zien.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="nl-NL" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span lang="nl-NL"&gt;Izzat vertelde de mensen van het Joint Advoacy Initiative (JAI): ‘Toen ik zag hoe ze de bomen omzaagden, voelde het alsof mijn hart uit mijn borstkas werd gerukt.’ Hij verbouwt al 40 jaar olijven op zijn veld. ‘Elk jaar heb ik nieuwe bomen bijgeplant, en nu verwoesten ze alles waar ik zoveel tijd in heb gestoken. Olijfbomen zijn heilig; welk geloof, welke religie staat dit toe? Hoe kan een mens het over zijn hart verkrijgen om olijfbomen op deze manier te doden?’, aldus een geëmotioneerde Izzat. De omgezaagde bomen waren tussen de twee en de veertig jaar oud, en zijn allemaal geplant door hemzelf, zijn kinderen en kleinkinderen. Het leed werd nog verergerd door bedreigingen van de Israëlische commandant. Als Izzat niet onmiddellijk de omgezaagde bomen van zijn veld verwijderde, zouden de militairen de overige bomen ook omzagen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="nl-NL" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span lang="nl-NL"&gt;Toen een afvaardiging van JAI op woensdag verscheen, lagen de bomen opgestapeld voor Izzats huis. In het veld markeerden de overgebleven stronken de plaats waar ze gestaan hadden. Aangenomen wordt dat Israël er dennenbomen voor in de plaats wil planten, om de grond zichzelf op die manier toe te eigenen. Izzat bereidt een schadeclaim voor, evenals enkele klachten naar de verschillende autoriteiten, al zal de geleden schade daarmee niet worden gecompenseerd. Hij wil zijn veld zo snel mogelijk herbeplanten, in de hoop zijn land op die manier te kunnen beschermen. Drie jaar geleden was de boer ook al het slachtoffer van het destructieve bezettingsbeleid. Een groot deel van zijn land werd verwoest, om er een waterleiding aan te leggen, en zo het water uit de West Bank naar Israël te kunnen pompen. Izzat zelf mocht niet bij het water. Het is deze strijd die hem tot een sprekend voorbeeld maakt van wat Palestijnse boeren op dagelijkse basis overkomt. Geïnspireerd door zijn doorzettingsvermogen, zal JAI Izzat bijstaan, en hem – gesteund door organisaties wereldwijd die zich achter de campagne geschaard hebben - aan middelen en mankracht helpen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="nl-NL" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span lang="nl-NL"&gt;Helaas bleef het niet bij dit verlies. Nadat ze Izzats veld verlaten hadden, zijn de militairen naar het land van Mohammed Ahmed Abu Sheba gegaan, en hebben daar nog eens 120 olijfbomen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span lang="nl-NL"&gt;&amp;nbsp;omgezaagd. De boer zelf was op dat moment niet in het dorp, en arriveerde te laat om het onheil te kunnen voorkomen. De betreffende olijfbomen zijn door de Olijfbomencampagne aan Mohammed gedoneerd in haar zevende en achtste seizoen, en werden gesponsord door mensen uit Japan, het Verenigd Koninkrijk, Nederland, Noorwegen en de Verenigde Staten.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="nl-NL" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Suggesties voor actie&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span lang="nl-NL"&gt;Schrijf een brief naar de Nederlandse ambassade in Tel Aviv, en vraag hen de verwoeste velden van deze boeren te bezoeken.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span lang="nl-NL"&gt;De ambassade is te bereiken via&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:nlgovtel@012.net.il" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span lang="nl-NL"&gt;nlgovtel@012.net.il&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span lang="nl-NL"&gt;. Contactgegevens van de boeren zijn beschikbaar via&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:olivetree@jai-pal.org" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span lang="nl-NL"&gt;olivetree@jai-pal.org&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span lang="nl-NL"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span lang="nl-NL"&gt;Schrijf een interne of openbare brief (via de kranten bijvoorbeeld) naar de Israëlische ambassade in Den Haag via&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:info@hague.mfa.gov.il" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span lang="nl-NL"&gt;info@hague.mfa.gov.il&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span lang="nl-NL"&gt;. Vertel het verhaal van de boeren en vraag om een verklaring voor bovenstaande gebeurtenissen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div lang="nl-NL" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Schrijf een brief naar de boeren zelf, om hen te laten weten dat ze niet alleen staan. (stuur aan&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="mailto:olivetree@jai-pal.org" target="_blank"&gt;olivetree@jai-pal.org&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div lang="nl-NL" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Schrijf (lokale) media aan, en probeert bovenstaande gebeurtenissen bij hen onder de aandacht te brengen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div lang="nl-NL" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Sponsor een olijfboom en/of vraag vrienden en familie dat te doen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div lang="nl-NL" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Laat het JAI bij voorkeur even weten als je besluit actie te ondernemen. (&lt;a href="mailto:olivetree@jai-pal.org" target="_blank"&gt;olivetree@jai-pal.org&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18389680-5850326114871347555?l=stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/feeds/5850326114871347555/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/zionist-regime-28.html#comment-form' title='0 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18389680/posts/default/5850326114871347555'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18389680/posts/default/5850326114871347555'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/zionist-regime-28.html' title='The Zionist Regime 28'/><author><name>stan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02966505503468040742</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DHjLrxezAfc/TiMy86mUG1I/AAAAAAAATVk/yYXYE1GVgsY/s220/Stan%2BLogo%2B3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18389680.post-4964202513991957081</id><published>2011-03-04T19:15:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-04T20:01:13.845+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The Mass Media 16</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Hillary Clinton: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;"Viewership of Al Jazeera is going up in the United States because it's real news," Clinton said. "You may not agree with it, but you feel like you're getting real news around the clock instead of a million commercials and, you know, arguments between talking heads and the kind of stuff that we do on our news which, you know, is not particularly informative to us, let alone foreigners."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="post-body entry-content"&gt;&lt;div class="entry_content news_design_a"&gt;&lt;div class="entry_body_text"&gt;Omdat ik sinds kort grootvader ben, en ik dus bereikbaar dien te zijn, zat ik deze week bij een KPN-verkooppunt te wachten tot ik een draadloze telefoonset kon kopen. Langs de muur stond een HD-televisiescherm waarop levensgroot een herhaling te zien was van een Pauw en Witteman-uitzending. Ik kijk er nooit naar en toen ik de beelden zag wist ik weer meteen waarom niet. Godzijdank was het geluid uit, alleen al de hoofden vertelden boekdelen. Ik zag een Marokkaans-Nederlandse deelraadvoorzitster of zoiets met haar onvermijdelijke hoofddoek om die in al die jaren niet van vorm en kleur is veranderd, verder hing Pauw aan tafel en Witteman straalde de bekende ambitieuze aanwezigheid uit, verder zat daar of all people Sonja Barend, en mevrouw Verdonk en een meneer wiens fanatieke blik in de ogen die van een PVV-er kon zijn. Hoe dan ook, het was allemaal een herhaling van zetten, niets nieuws onder de zon, de bekende lichaamstaal, de bekend betweterigheid, de bekende hoofden en hoofddoeken, en de bekende argumenten. Ik hoefde niet eens te horen wat ze zeiden, dat zag je zo wel. Het enige dat me werkelijk opviel was dat het leek alsof de tanden van de mevrouw met de hoofddoek waren gegroeid. Het is luie televisie, gemaakt door en voor talentloze mensen voor wie het er niet toe doet wat er gezegd wordt, als het maar geluid maakt. Het is ook geen informatie, het zijn reflexen, geen gedachten, maar cliche's die avond na avond, dag na dag worden herhaald tot ze je neus uitkomen. Het gevaar ervan is dat de deelnemers, de kijkers zowel als de genodigden op den duur gaan denken dat dit de werkelijkheid is. Tot straks de show over is en de geschiedenis de voordeur komt binnenmarcheren.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="entry_body_text"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="entry_body_text"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Watch (&lt;a href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2011/03/sec-of-state-hillary-clinton-al-jazeera-is-real-news-us-losing-information-war.html" target="_hplink"&gt;via&lt;/a&gt; ABC News):&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="entry_body_text"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="entry_body_text"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="entry_body_text"&gt;&lt;object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,124,0" height="278" id="ABCESNWID" width="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://abcnews.go.com/assets/player/walt2.6/flash/SFP_Walt_2_65.swf"&gt;&lt;param name="quality" value="high"&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;param name="allowNetworking" value="all"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="configUrl=http://abcnews.go.com/video/sfp/embedPlayerConfig&amp;amp;configId=406732&amp;amp;clipId=13042310&amp;amp;showId=13042310&amp;amp;gig_lt=1299174066911&amp;amp;gig_pt=1299174068509&amp;amp;gig_g=2"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://abcnews.go.com/assets/player/walt2.6/flash/SFP_Walt_2_65.swf" quality="high" allowscriptaccess="always" allownetworking="all" allowfullscreen="true" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" flashvars="configUrl=http://abcnews.go.com/video/sfp/embedPlayerConfig&amp;amp;configId=406732&amp;amp;clipId=13042310&amp;amp;showId=13042310&amp;amp;gig_lt=1299174066911&amp;amp;gig_pt=1299174068509&amp;amp;gig_g=2" name="ABCESNWID" height="278" width="344"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="clear: both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-footer"&gt;&lt;div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1"&gt;&lt;span class="post-author vcard"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18389680-4964202513991957081?l=stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/feeds/4964202513991957081/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/hillary-clinton-viewership-of-al.html#comment-form' title='4 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18389680/posts/default/4964202513991957081'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18389680/posts/default/4964202513991957081'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/hillary-clinton-viewership-of-al.html' title='The Mass Media 16'/><author><name>stan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02966505503468040742</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DHjLrxezAfc/TiMy86mUG1I/AAAAAAAATVk/yYXYE1GVgsY/s220/Stan%2BLogo%2B3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18389680.post-7206391392004387575</id><published>2011-03-04T18:44:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-04T18:56:44.109+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Hollandse Amateurs</title><content type='html'>Een ander schitterend voorbeeld van hoe de Hollander zichzelf voor gek kan houden is het feit dat &lt;b&gt;'drie bemanningsleden van een Nederlandse marinehelicopter zondag'&lt;/b&gt; door Libische autoriteiten zijn opgepakt. Een van de gevangenen is een blonde vrouw, zo is op een foto op de voorpagina van de NRC te zien,&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;'een van de twee vrouwelijke bemanningsleden.'&lt;/b&gt; &lt;i&gt;Twee!!! &lt;/i&gt;Ik bedoel, als de Britten manschappen inzetten zijn dat SAS-ers. De Nederlandse autoriteiten denken dat ze amateurs kunnen inzetten. Het is tekenend voor de krankzinnige mentaliteit waarbij de Hollanders mijlenver van de werkelijkheid zijn afgedreven. Ze hebben overal praatjes, weten alles beter en als het puntje bij paaltje komt kunnen ze niet eens een simpele militaire operatie verrichten. Een blondje oorlogsgebied insturen omdat de geemanicpeerde vrouw nu ook een woordje mag meespreken. &lt;i&gt;De Telegraaf&lt;/i&gt; noemde deze amateurs &lt;b&gt;'helden'&lt;/b&gt; en zo raken we steeds verder verdwaald in de virtuele werkelijkheid die in de polder de realiteit bepaalt.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18389680-7206391392004387575?l=stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/feeds/7206391392004387575/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/hollandse-amateurs.html#comment-form' title='9 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18389680/posts/default/7206391392004387575'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18389680/posts/default/7206391392004387575'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/hollandse-amateurs.html' title='Hollandse Amateurs'/><author><name>stan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02966505503468040742</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DHjLrxezAfc/TiMy86mUG1I/AAAAAAAATVk/yYXYE1GVgsY/s220/Stan%2BLogo%2B3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18389680.post-4175549625185008897</id><published>2011-03-04T18:04:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-04T18:04:40.669+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The Mass Media 15</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Er doet zich iets interessants voor wanneer de macht zich beklaagt over de &lt;i&gt;woordvoerders&lt;/i&gt; van de macht:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/03/hillary-clinton-calls-al-_n_830890.html" id="title_permalink"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Hillary Clinton Calls Al Jazeera 'Real News,' Criticizes U.S. Media&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/mass-media-14.html"&gt;http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/mass-media-14.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Volgens mij illustreert deze reactie de hoge mate van paniek in de Obama-regering. Men is de greep op de zaken kwijt. Het buitenlands beleid is totaal failliet nadat de elite van het Amerikaans imperium decennialang regimes in het zadel hielp en hield die geen oplossingen konden bieden voor de structurele problemen van de Derde Wereld. En omdat de commerciele media alles behalve kritisch waren en zich lange tijd door de macht liet gebruiken om een failliet systeem te verkopen, begonnen zowel de machthebbers als hun spreekbuizen te geloven in hun eigen nonsens. Ineens worden ze nu met de werkelijkheid geconfronteerd, de keizer heeft geen kleren aan, en omdat de macht onmogelijk kan toegeven al die jaren terreur te hebben gesteund moet nu een of ander instituut de schuld van alles krijgen. Dat zijn de commerciele journalisten geworden. Verandert er daardoor iets? Nee, geen sprake van, en wel omdat de verrotting tot in de kern van het hele weefsel van die samenleving is doorgedrongen:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;John Berger:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;De  veronderstellingen waarvan het mediabedrijf uitgaat namens het publiek  zijn behalve blind ook verblindend… Misschien is het precies op dit punt  dat onze vorm van democratie een langzame dood sterft. Als dat zo is,  dan als gevolg van een weigering. De weigering van het mediabedrijf om  het feit te erkennen en te laten doorwerken dat het publiek in zijn hart  weet hoe de wereld in elkaar zit… De reden van deze weigering die een  bedreiging is voor onze vorm van democratie, de reden waarom het  mediabedrijf stelselmatig onderschat wat we gemeen hebben, die reden is  steeds dezelfde: de normloze drang tot verkopen…&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;En omdat in het neoliberalisme winst maken het heiligste geloofsartikel is spreekt&amp;nbsp;Berger van&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;'the dealers of the Free Market and their corollary, the Mafia,'&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;die weten dat&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;'they  now have the world in their pocket. They have. But to maintain their  confidence they have to change the meaning of all the words used in  languages to explain or praise or give value to life: every word,  according to them now, is the servant of profit. And so they have become  dumb. Or, rather, they can no longer speak any truth. Their language is  too withered for that. As a consequence they have also lost the faculty  of memory. A loss which one day will be fatal.'&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Consumptie en communicatie zijn tegenwoordig verenigd in een  diabolische vennootschap, en uit deze vennootschap bestaat datgene wat  wij kennen als de media. Eerst en vooral vertegenwoordigen de media een  economisch contract waardoor alles wat er in de wereld gebeurt wordt  gekoppeld aan het mechanisme van de verkoop.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-LWmsM_knWg8/TXEbOJBhrKI/AAAAAAAATTw/A9gU1sbyAjY/s1600/propaganda.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-LWmsM_knWg8/TXEbOJBhrKI/AAAAAAAATTw/A9gU1sbyAjY/s320/propaganda.jpg" width="242" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #130a09; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Zij was verantwoordelijk voor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #130a09; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;‘het fabriceren van consensus… een zelfbewuste vaardigheid en standaard instrument van regeringen die namens het volk besturen.’&lt;i&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #130a09; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;In  1933, het jaar dat Hitler democratisch aan de macht kwam, schreef de  gezaghebbende Amerikaanse hoogleraar Harold Lasswell in de&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;dat aangezien de&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;'masses are still captive to ignorance and superstition'&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;de komst van de democratie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;'compelled the development of a whole new technique of control, largely through propaganda.'&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Want, zo stelt Lasswell, propaganda is&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;'the one means of mass mobilisation which is cheaper than violence, bribery or other possible control techniques.'&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;En  om een hoog technologische massamaatschappij zo efficient mogelijk te  laten draaien is propaganda de goedkoopste en veiligste manier voor de  elite om de massa gehoorzaam te houden. Let wel, Lasswell was geen  marginale figuur met wat maffe standpunten. Hij werd en wordt nog steeds  alom bewonderd. Dit is wat bijvoorbeeld de Nederlandse versie van&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;over hem meldt:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #130a09; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #130a09; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Lasswell  was één van de meest creatieve en invloedrijke wetenschappers van zijn  tijd.Door gebruik te maken van een scala van psychologische en  sociologische methoden in een discipline die tot dan toe alleen gebruik  maakte van historische, juridische en filosofische methoden werd Harold  Lasswell de grondlegger van de hedendaagse politieke wetenschap en met  name de politieke psychologie. Ook op het gebied van de  communicatiewetenschappen heeft hij met zijn communicatiemodel een grote  invloed gehad. Op het gebied van beleidsstudies was het Harold Lasswell  die de richting aangaf met de omschrijving waaraan deze (toen) nieuwe  discipline moest voldoen (multi-disciplinair, probleem oplossend,  expliciet normatief).'&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #af2115; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Zie:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Lasswell"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #221748; text-decoration: none;"&gt;http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Lasswell&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #130a09; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Tegelijkertijd benadrukte Lippmann als invloedrijkste journalistieke ideoloog in de jaren twintig van de vorige eeuw dat&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #130a09; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #130a09; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;public  opinions must be organized for the press if they are to be sound, not  by the press... Without some form of censorschip, propaganda in the  strict sense of the word is impossible. In order to conduct propaganda  there must be some barrier between the public and the event. Access to  the real environment must be limited, before anyone can create a  pseudo-environment that he thinks is wise or desirable.'&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #130a09; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Immers:&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;'How  small our proportion of direct observations is when compared to those  observation that are conveyed to us through the media.'&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #130a09; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Om nu te voorkomen dat de massa, in de woorden van Lippmann,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;'a bewildered herd'&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;op hol slaat, moeten de beelden die de massa krijgt toegediend streng geselecteerd worden, zodat de juiste opvattingen ontstaan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #130a09; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #130a09; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;for the real environment is altogether too big, too complex, and too fleeting for direct acquaintance.'&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #130a09; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;De massamens&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;'&lt;/i&gt;is  not equipped to deal with so much subtlelety, so much variety, so many  permutations and combinations. And although we have to act in that  environment, we have to reconstruct it on a simpler model before we van  manage with it.'&lt;i&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 25pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 25pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #130a09; line-height: 24px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;En  zo is het mogelijk geworden dat we leven in een systeem dat door de  Amerikaanse socioloog C. Wright Mills kort maar krachtig is omschreven  als&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #130a09; line-height: 24px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;'rationalisme zonder rede,'&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #130a09; line-height: 24px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;waarbij&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 25pt;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #130a09; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;de  machthebbers de opinies&amp;nbsp;[verschaffen]&amp;nbsp;en&amp;nbsp;de middelen waarmee die  gerealiseerd kunnen worden. Mensen bestaan in de mediamarkten alleen als  massa; hun acties verlopen parallel omdat hun opinies parallel  verlopen, en opinies zijn parallel omdat ze alle uit één bron afkomstig  zijn: die van de media. [...] De mensen zijn, zelfs als ze handelen,  meer toeschouwers dan medespelers. Het publiek van de massamaatschappij  handelt bij acclematie, bij plebisciet. Passief staat het toe, actief  klapt het in de handen. Het is geen handelen dat uit eigen, autonome  beslissingen of initiatieven voortkomt; het is geconditioneerde reactie  op gecontroleerde stimuli die van het centrale beheerapparaat uitgaan.  Omdat het publiek van de massamaatschappij markt voor de media en  geactiveerde massa is geworden, is de discussiefase van het proces van  opinievorming vrijwel uitgeschakeld.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #130a09; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Mills toonde al een halve eeuw geleden gedocumenteerd aan dat&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #130a09; font-size: 13pt;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #130a09; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;het  doel van de opinie-organisatoren [is] om de bevolking in een  voortdurende staat van emotionele onderworpenheid te houden... Immers,  als het maar eenmaal gelukt is om een mentaliteit van volgzaamheid en  gehoorzaamheid te kweken, is het niet moeilijk meer om de mensen te doen  geloven en te doen voelen wat men maar wil... hun opinies zijn parallel  omdat ze alle uit 1 bron afkomstig zijn: die van de media.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #130a09; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #130a09;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;In Nederland zullen we hier allemaal niets van vernemen, want iedereen hier zit in hetzelfde poldermodel opgesloten, waarbij de een de rug van de ander krabt. Ons kent ons en de enkele dissident is gewoon gemarginaliseerd. Dit noemt men in de polder democratie omdat het beestje immers een naam moet hebben.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18389680-4175549625185008897?l=stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/feeds/4175549625185008897/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/mass-media-15.html#comment-form' title='0 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18389680/posts/default/4175549625185008897'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18389680/posts/default/4175549625185008897'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/mass-media-15.html' title='The Mass Media 15'/><author><name>stan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02966505503468040742</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DHjLrxezAfc/TiMy86mUG1I/AAAAAAAATVk/yYXYE1GVgsY/s220/Stan%2BLogo%2B3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-LWmsM_knWg8/TXEbOJBhrKI/AAAAAAAATTw/A9gU1sbyAjY/s72-c/propaganda.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18389680.post-748269305183226324</id><published>2011-03-04T17:37:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-04T17:37:59.194+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The Mass Media 14</title><content type='html'>&lt;h1&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/03/hillary-clinton-calls-al-_n_830890.html"&gt;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/03/hillary-clinton-calls-al-_n_830890.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1&gt;                       &lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/03/hillary-clinton-calls-al-_n_830890.html" id="title_permalink"&gt;Hillary Clinton Calls Al Jazeera 'Real News,' Criticizes U.S. Media (VIDEO)&lt;/a&gt;           &lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div class="comments_datetime relative"&gt;                                                                                                                             &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: dimgrey;"&gt;                First Posted: 03/ 3/11 12:57 PM&lt;span class="vborder-dashed margin_0_5"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Updated: 03/ 4/11 11:12 AM                               &lt;/span&gt;              &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="absolute print-link" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/03/hillary-clinton-calls-al-_n_830890.html?view=print" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;         &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="read_more_top v05"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clear"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="facebookvote_v2 media_vertical_bg_link"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="entry_content news_design_a"&gt;&lt;div class="sidebarHeader sidebar_header_text_floating sidebar_news_first_design"&gt;&lt;div class="share_boxes_wraper"&gt;&lt;div class="share_boxes_submit float_left arial_10 bold color_333333 center"&gt;&lt;div class="float_left"&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- /Share Box Block B --&gt;     &lt;!-- WIDE BLOCK END --&gt;   &lt;!-- div sidebarHeader END --&gt;     &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="entry_body_text"&gt;              Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday that Al  Jazeera is gaining more prominence in the U.S. because it offers "real  news" -- something she said American media were falling far short of  doing.&lt;br /&gt;Clinton was speaking before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,  and she said the U.S. is losing the "information war" in the world.  Other countries and global news outlets, she said, were making inroads  into places like the Middle East more effectively than the United States  has. One of the reasons she cited for this was the quality of channels  like Al Jazeera. The channel, she said, was  "changing peoples' minds  and attitudes. And like it or hate it, it is really effective."  U.S.  news, she added, was not keeping up.&lt;br /&gt;"Viewership of Al Jazeera is going up in the United States because  it's real news," Clinton said. "You may not agree with it, but you feel  like you're getting real news around the clock instead of a million  commercials and, you know, arguments between talking heads and the kind  of stuff that we do on our news which, you know, is not particularly  informative to us, let alone foreigners."&lt;br /&gt;During the height of the crisis in Egypt, The Huffington Post's Ryan Grim &lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/30/al-jazeera-english-us_n_816030.html" target="_hplink"&gt;wrote&lt;/a&gt; about Al Jazeera English's near-total invisibility on U.S. television.&lt;br /&gt;Media critics like Jeff Jarvis have also contrasted Al Jazeera with  American news networks. "Vital, world-changing news is occurring in the  Middle East and no one-not the xenophobic or celebrity-obsessed or  cut-to-the-bone American media-can bring the perspective, insight, and  on-the-scene reporting Al Jazeera English can," Jarvis &lt;a href="http://www.buzzmachine.com/2011/01/30/cable-companies-add-al-jazeera-english-now" target="_hplink"&gt;wrote&lt;/a&gt; in January.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Watch (&lt;a href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2011/03/sec-of-state-hillary-clinton-al-jazeera-is-real-news-us-losing-information-war.html" target="_hplink"&gt;via&lt;/a&gt; ABC News):&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="0" src="http://c.gigcount.com/wildfire/IMP/CXNID=2000002.11NXC/bT*xJmx*PTEyOTkxNzQwNjY5MTEmcHQ9MTI5OTE3NDA2ODUwOSZwPTEyNTg*MTEmZD1BQkNOZXdzX1NGUF9Mb2NrZV9FbWJlZCZn/PTImb2Y9MA==.gif" style="height: 0px; visibility: hidden; width: 0px;" width="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,124,0" height="278" id="ABCESNWID" width="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://abcnews.go.com/assets/player/walt2.6/flash/SFP_Walt_2_65.swf"&gt;&lt;param name="quality" value="high"&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;param name="allowNetworking" value="all"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="configUrl=http://abcnews.go.com/video/sfp/embedPlayerConfig&amp;amp;configId=406732&amp;amp;clipId=13042310&amp;amp;showId=13042310&amp;amp;gig_lt=1299174066911&amp;amp;gig_pt=1299174068509&amp;amp;gig_g=2"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://abcnews.go.com/assets/player/walt2.6/flash/SFP_Walt_2_65.swf" quality="high" allowscriptaccess="always" allownetworking="all" allowfullscreen="true" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" flashvars="configUrl=http://abcnews.go.com/video/sfp/embedPlayerConfig&amp;amp;configId=406732&amp;amp;clipId=13042310&amp;amp;showId=13042310&amp;amp;gig_lt=1299174066911&amp;amp;gig_pt=1299174068509&amp;amp;gig_g=2" name="ABCESNWID" height="278" width="344"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18389680-748269305183226324?l=stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/feeds/748269305183226324/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/mass-media-14.html#comment-form' title='0 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18389680/posts/default/748269305183226324'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18389680/posts/default/748269305183226324'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/mass-media-14.html' title='The Mass Media 14'/><author><name>stan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02966505503468040742</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DHjLrxezAfc/TiMy86mUG1I/AAAAAAAATVk/yYXYE1GVgsY/s220/Stan%2BLogo%2B3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18389680.post-1395020196399836960</id><published>2011-03-04T15:31:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-04T16:58:23.941+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Vrouwen in 't Zwart 7</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;geef een donatie op: 78.68.21.094&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Vrouwen in het zwart&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;houden een wake op vrijdag&amp;nbsp;4 maart&amp;nbsp;201&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;1&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt; vanaf 12.45 uur op het SPUI in AMSTERDAM (Lieverdje)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;43 jaar bezetting is meer dan genoeg!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Waar te beginnen? We zijn getuige van misschien wel de belangrijkste omwentelingen van de laatste veertig jaar in het Midden Oosten.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;De ontroerende democratische revoluties in Tunesië en Egypte met hun wekenlange vreedzame protesten, ondanks de doden en gewonden door enorme provocaties van politie en geheime diensten. De strijd die nog maar net begonnen is voor de meest normale burgerrechten, zoals geen staat van beleg, demonstratie- en persvrijheid, vrije verkiezingen. [Bij ons is een opkomst van boven de 50 % al spectaculair.]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;De bloedige opstand in Libië is van een heel andere orde. De oliebelangen spelen daar zo een grote rol, dat anders dan in Egypte, er alweer teveel Britse en andere regeringen bezig zijn de mogelijkheden te onderzoeken om via, via - echt maar voor eventjes - toch nog van buiten af in te grijpen. Voorstellen voor no-fly zones, optrekkende Amerikaanse oorlogsfregatten, zijn helemaal niet de wens van de meeste Libiërs die – denkend aan Irak - liever hun eigen zaken regelen, hoe moeilijk ook.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Of hebben we het over de gevolgen van de omwenteling in Egypte op de Palestijnse zaak en de door Al Jazeera uitgelekte ‘Palestine Papers’, waaruit blijkt dat de Palestijnse Autoriteit (PA) van Abbas en zijn Fatah fractie bij onderhandelingen met Israël werkelijk alles wilden weggeven, wat niet van hen maar van het Palestijnse volk is. Maar deze ‘cadeaus’ leidden niet eens tot zelfs maar een begin van vredesonderhandelingen. Wat we al wisten: Israël wil geen vrede en de VS doen helemaal niets om Israël onder druk te zetten. [Zie artikel&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/02/201121810588471977.html"&gt;Two State solution: A Postmortem&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;en ook het uitstekende artikel van&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/02/2011224141158174266.html#"&gt;Ali Abunimah ‘&lt;i&gt;Toward Mubarak Moment’&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;over Abbas’ nutteloze voorstel voor nieuwe verkiezingen voor de Palestijnse Wetgevende Vergadering. Nutteloos zolang de verdeeldheid tussen Fatah en Hamas niet is opgelost, die was ontstaan doordat Fatah en vooral de VS en EU de vorige verkiezingen in&amp;nbsp;&lt;st1:metricconverter productid="2006 in" w:st="on"&gt;2006 in&lt;/st1:metricconverter&gt;&amp;nbsp;Gaza, die Hamas met grote meerderheid won, hebben geboycot]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Liever willen we het dit keer over onze eigen acties hebben, die Vrouwen in het Zwart samen met Palestina Komitee, Haags Vredes Platform en Vrouwen voor Vrede hielden in Amsterdam. Een orkest van het Israëlische leger was – niet voor het eerst - door ‘Christenen voor Israël’ uitgenodigd in verschillende steden op te treden. Slechts een dag van te voren hoorden we bij toeval, dat&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;“In samenwerking met de Collectieve Israël Actie op donderdag 17 februari 2011 ook een spectaculair concert plaats vindt van Tsahal”&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;(= leger)&lt;i&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;Locatie de Liberale Joodse Gemeente&lt;i&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;“De de 12-man sterke Tsahalband van het Israëlische leger, heeft een programma van bekende joodse nummers, moderne Israëlische songs, musicalsongs en een sing-a-long. Een fantastisch programma voor jong en oud!" De uiterst rechtse ‘Christenen voor Israël’ voegden daar nog aan toe:&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;“Een heel afwisselend repertoire van een vleugje Joodse Klezmermuziek, Bijbelse muziek en Taste of Israël, vaak met een diepe geestelijke inhoud over het verlangen naar de Messias. Zo krijg je de smaak van Israël al gauw te pakken!”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Soldaat uit het leger van Gilad Shalit:&lt;b&gt;Het Israëlische leger in een synagoge: wat een gotspe&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;vonden wij.&lt;br /&gt;Een ontering van een godshuis om&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;‘een selectie van de meest muzikale jongeren uit het Israëlische leger’&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;daar een gezellig avondje te laten houden. De muziekband van een leger van dienstplichtigen, dat voor het overige vooral goed is in het doodschieten van Palestijnen tijdens hun arrestatie; het ’s nachts van hun bed lichten van minderjarige kinderen voor een illegaal verhoor zonder aanwezigheid van ouders of advocaat; het beschermen van illegale settlers, die al 40 jaar land roven en huizen vernielen van Palestijnse burgers, die bovendien collectief gestraft en geïntimideerd worden; het afschieten van witte fosfor tijdens de Gaza oorlog en grote hoeveelheden traangas tijdens jarenlange vreedzame demonstraties tegen de Muur; het dagelijks koeieneren van duizenden Palestijnen bij checkpoints en - last but not least - hier en daar een oorlog, waarbij gewoonlijk meer dan 1000 doden, voornamelijk burgers vallen.[1200 in Libanon 2006 en 1400 in Gaza 2009].&lt;br /&gt;Dit leger trekt alle niet-muzikale registers open om de kolonisatiepolitiek van de Israëlische overheid uit te voeren: Israëlische soldaten maken zich met hun activiteiten in de bezette Palestijnse gebieden schuldig aan ernstige schendingen van de mensenrechten, alsook oorlogsmisdaden.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Met één dag organisatietijd staan we toch nog met 20 mensen bij de nieuwe Liberale Joodse synagoge, die - net af - er uit ziet als een fort met bouwhekken eromheen. We passeren allerlei voor zich uit starende jongemannen, die opvallend onopvallend bezig waren. Voor de ingang een handje vol zogeheten ‘kleerkasten’ van de Israëlische geheime dienst, van die in vrijetijdskleding gestoken, dreigend ogende kickboxers. Van de ruim aanwezige politie, krijgen we een brief van burgemeester van der Laan, met tien, nee Elf Geboden speciaal op deze demonstratie toegesneden. Naast de normale regels bij demonstraties viel gebod 8 op:&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;‘bezoekers mogen niet geïntimideerd worden in woord en gebaar; het fotograferen en filmen van mensen die de synagoge in- en uitgaan wordt beschouwd als een vorm van intimidatie’.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;Wij daarentegen werden zeker 20 minuten lang gefotografeerd voor de archieven, door een brutale kalende man, die overal mocht staan en lopen. Had kennelijk die brief niet gelezen. Toen twee van ons vroegen van welke krant hij was zei: ‘dat gaat je geen donder aan’. De politie hoorde dit alles maar deed niets. Toen we van voren van achteren en opzij op de kiek waren gezet, vond oom agent het genoeg en moest hij er mee ophouden. Er moest over iedere centimeter stoep worden onderhandeld - ‘Nee niet hier, u moet een beetje naar rechts’ - ‘waarom, we zijn hier aan het demonstreren en het publiek moet ons goed kunnen zien’ en: ‘we moeten daar verder op onze spandoeken uit de auto halen’. ‘In naam van de openbare orde, verbied ik u door te lopen’ etc. Uiteindelijk zegevierde ook bij deze Amsterdamse diender het gezonde verstand en konden we doorlopen, de doeken ontrollen en de fluitjes laten piepen. Enkelen van ons werden ondertussen voor kakkerlakken uitgemaakt door voorbijkomende bezoekers; één draaide z'n raampje open en zei tegen iemand: ‘ga op de weg staan, dan kan ik je overrijden’ etc. Hoe zit het eigenlijk met de vrijheid van meningsuiting, die de burgemeester in zijn brief als basiselement van onze vrije en democratische rechtstaat aanhaalde?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Toen een demonstrant met een foto van een vermoord Palestijns meisje aan de kant van het gebouw ging staan, niet wetende dat we alleen aan de overkant mochten staan, begaf een van die Mossad mannen zich naar een Amsterdamse agent, wees zwijgend naar onze mededemonstrant; agent knikte beleefd en begaf zich naar de overkant om hem te gebieden weer in ons hok aan de andere kant te gaan staan. Alsof deze Israëliër op Ned. grondgebied hier de baas was en de Ned. politie orders kon geven.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En dan staat er de volgende dag in het Par(i)ool een foto van zingende, vrouwelijke soldaten met er onder:&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;'Een groepje van ongeveer 20 anti- Israël activisten demonstreerden voor het gebouw. De politie hield hen op afstand.&lt;/i&gt;'&amp;nbsp;Alsof wij de agressievelingen waren, i.p.v. de concertgangers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dat brengt opeens een veel verontrustendere gebeurtenis in herinnering, jaren geleden toen toenmalig premier Netanyahu hier op bezoek was. Het was even zoeken op internet, maar dit stond toen in de Groene 16-04-1997:&lt;br /&gt;‘Netanyahu visiteert.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Politiek Den Haag trilt nog na van het bezoek van de Israëlische premier Benjamin Netanyahu, verleden week donderdag. Als gevolg van dat bezoek was het Binnenhof en omgeving enige uren lang als bezet gebied. De Israëlische veiligheidsagenten tolereerden geen Nederlandse collegae naast zich, om nog maar te zwijgen van de mogelijkheid dat het Nederlandse bewakingswezen zich over de Israëlische premier zou ontfermen. De gevolgen waren ingrijpend. Zelfs premier Kok kreeg geen toestemming het terrein van het Binnenhof op te rijden toen hij per dienstauto arriveerde. Een medewerker van de Rijksvoorlichtingsdienst wist de bodyguards van Netanyahu er nog net op tijd van te overtuigen dat de inzittende de gastheer van zijn baas was.&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;Waarna Wim Kok alsnog toestemming kreeg om zich naar het Torentje te begeven, zij het wel te voet.’&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Dus Minister President Kok, aarzelend of hij misschien toch een terrorist is, geeft lachend toestemming - je moet nu eenmaal een beetje inschikken voor de goede zaak - en gaat te voet naar zijn werkruimte op het Binnenhof. Ondertussen laten alle Nederlandse volksvertegenwoordigers, op één na, zich door de Mossad fouilleren in hun eigen parlement door de veiligheidsdienst van een vreemde mogendheid. Het is wel meer dan 60 jaar geleden, dat we zoiets hier meemaakten. Ondenkbaar in welk ander Europees land, hier blijkbaar gewoon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Remi&amp;nbsp;Poppe&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;(SP) verwoordde het toen (83ste 2&lt;sup&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;de&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&amp;nbsp;Kamervergadering donderdag 22 mei 1997) aldus:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;“Enige weken geleden heb ik mij er ook al over verbaasd. Ik kijk vanuit mijn werkkamer uit op de Thorbeckezaal. De hele gang stond daar vol met allemaal mensen met van die dopjes in hun oren. Ik dacht toen eerst dat er een demonstratie van de vereniging van slechthorenden aan de gang was, maar ja, het waren allemaal van die zwartebrillenmannen met van die brede schouders, zogenaamde klerenkasten. Het bleek dus de Israëlische veiligheidsdienst te zijn die zijn premier Netanyahu wilde beschermen. Mijn vraag is of die vertoning straks ook weer zal plaatsvinden en of het Presidium het eigenlijk goedkeurt dat in onze werkruimte buitenlandse veiligheidsdiensten zwaar gewapend rondhuppelen. Zijn wij in Nederland niet in staat om buitenlandse gasten die bescherming te bieden die zij wensen? Met andere woorden: als onze minister-president naar Amerika gaat, gaan onze Nederlandse klerenkasten dan ook zo massaal mee? Mij lijkt dat niet nodig. Als je te gast bent in een land waarin je het volste vertrouwen hebt, moet je ook het volste vertrouwen hebben in de beveiliging van zo'n land. Ik hoor dan ook graag van het Presidium waarom dit zo gaat en waarom Nederland niet zelf in staat is om op een fatsoenlijke manier zorg te dragen voor de veiligheid van buitenlandse gasten in dit gebouw.” … “Als ik die klerenkasten zie lopen en ik zie hier en daar wat opbollen, dan veronderstel ik, zoals ik ook in Trouw lees, dat ze een soort doorvoervergunning voor vuurwapens hebben. Ze mogen niet met vuurwapens hier rondlopen, maar op basis van een doorvoervergunning zou het wel mogen; dus lopen ze hier rond met die dingen. Mijn vraag hierover is of wij dat normaal moeten vinden. Kan dat zomaar? Ik vind dat gek namelijk. Wij hebben onze eigen mensen die voor veiligheid kunnen zorgen. Als de desbetreffende personen daar niet in vertrouwen, blijven ze maar thuis. Ik hoor graag het antwoord van de minister. Ik heb overigens begrepen dat ook het CDA er problemen mee heeft. De heer Mateman wil wel gefouilleerd worden als ze maar van zijn pijp afblijven, zo heb ik begrepen. Dat vind ik helemaal terecht.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Onze vraag: Zouden Nederlandse politici zich 14 jaar later wat onafhankelijker opstellen t.a.v. de Israëlische politiek? Wanneer je BZ minister&lt;a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11834.shtml"&gt;Rosenthals interview in de Jeruzalem Post&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;leest zou je dat niet zeggen:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Part of what Rosenthal clearly opposes is a unilateral declaration of Palestinian statehood. The Dutch parliament recently passed a resolution that calls for the government to oppose EU recognition of a Palestinian state.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;En hier nog wat foto’s van anti-legerorkest acties in andere steden:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dordrecht.net/nieuws/2011/02/24/6102/protestdemonstraties-tijdens-optreden-israelische-zang--en-dansgroep.html"&gt;De demo in Dordrecht werd helaas verstoord door neo nazis van de NVU [Ned. Volksunie]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://torayeshua.nl/cms/?attachment_id=1912"&gt;Barneveld Bible belt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.radio1.nl/contents/26455-optreden-isra-lisch-legerband-ligt-gevoelig?autostart=43307"&gt;EO radio interview tussen dominee Johan v.d. Berg en Schutte van Christenen voor Israël&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tegelijkertijd in New York krijgt het Israëlisch Philharmonisch Orkest een warm onthaal van tientallen demonstranten&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/02/22/18672799.php"&gt;New Yorkers protest Israel Philharmonic, more protests planned in other cities&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Dus nog genoeg te doen lieve vriendinnen en vrienden,&lt;br /&gt;maar kom eerst naar&amp;nbsp;onze wake op&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;4 maart&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;op het Spui&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;[trek s.v.p. iets zwarts aan].&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;ISRAEL:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;Stop de invasies in Gaza en landconfiscaties in Palestijns gebied&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Weg met de annexatie muur - The wall must fall&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Beindig de bezetting van de Westoever, omsingeling en uithongering van Gaza&lt;br /&gt;Ontruim alle sinds 1967 gestichte nederzettingen&lt;br /&gt;Erken het recht op terugkeer van Palestijnse vluchtelingen&lt;br /&gt;Jeruzalem, hoofdstad voor twee volken&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="background-color: #bfbfbf; border: 1px solid rgb(191, 191, 191); padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center;" valign="center"&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12px Arial; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Graag al uw mails, reacties en sympathiebetuigingen sturen naar:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:info@vrouweninhetzwart.nl"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;info@vrouweninhetzwart.nl&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Kijk op onze nieuwe website:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.vrouweninhetzwart.nl/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0011ed; font-family: Verdana;"&gt;www.vrouweninhetzwart.nl&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;We zijn nooit klaar met het aanpassen en onderhouden van onze onlangs geheel vernieuwde website.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Uw gift is echt nodig en heel welkom. Maak uw donatie s.v.p. over op duurzame&lt;br /&gt;Triodos bank&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;nr. 78.68.21.094&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;t.n.v. Vrouwen in het Zwart Amsterdam.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Met dank voor de gulle gevers in februari.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;We waren op de Multiculturele TV Nederland en op de NMO-TV. Beide goed gemaakte programma's.Voor tapes: mail aan&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="mailto:info@vrouweninhetzwart.nl"&gt;info@vrouweninhetzwart.nl&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;+ uw tel.no. vermelden.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="background-color: #bfbfbf; border: 1px solid rgb(191, 191, 191); padding: 0px 5px;" valign="center"&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12px Arial; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Het&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;Internationale Netwerk Vrouwen in het Zwart&lt;/b&gt;, i.s.m. met&amp;nbsp;Coalition of Women for a Just Peace, bestaat sinds 1990, maar is als beweging begonnen in Israël toen een aantal Israëlische vrouwen samen met&amp;nbsp;de Palestijnse Vrouwen Vredesbeweging het initiatief namen om te protesteren.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;In januari 1988, een maand na het uitbreken van de eerste Intifada, stonden de eerste vrouwen al in Jeruzalem te demonstreren tegen de Israelische bezetting van Gaza en de Westoever: De eerste wake tegen de Israëlische bezetting van de Westoever en Gaza was een feit.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;In Nederland waren de eerste vrouwen al in januaril 1990 op het Spui aanwezig. 18 jaar nu al, op een periode na, toen de Oslo Akkoorden ons ten onrechte hoop gaven, houden we in Amsterdam wakes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;In ons land worden nu al in 6 steden maandelijks wakes gehouden.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;[voor adressen zie hieronder]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;In de hele wereld vinden wekelijks / maandelijks Vrouwen in het Zwart wakes en solidariteits-acties plaats.&lt;br /&gt;Kijk op de site:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.womeninblack.org/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0011ed; font-family: Verdana;"&gt;www.womeninblack.org&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;voor de geschiedenis van Vrouwen in het Zwart internationaal.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12px Helvetica; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12px Helvetica; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Organisatie&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Amsterdam&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Lily van den Bergh&amp;nbsp;tel: 020- 62 23 661&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;e-mail&lt;b&gt;:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:info@vrouweninhetzwart.nl"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;info@vrouweninhetzwart.nl&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: grey; font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Iedere 1ste vrijdag van de maand&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: grey; font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Tijd: 12.45- 13.45 uur Spui bij beeld Lieverdje&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Organisatie&amp;nbsp;&lt;u&gt;Groningen&lt;/u&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;u&gt;:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Janny Beekman&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;tel: 0595 - 57 25 95&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;e-mail:&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:Groningen@vrouweninhetzwart.nl"&gt;G&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:Groningen@vrouweninhetzwart.nl"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:Groningen@vrouweninhetzwart.nl"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:Groningen@vrouweninhetzwart.nl"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;roningen@vrouweninhetzwart.nl&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: grey; font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Zaterdag om de veertien dagen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: grey; font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Tijd: 13 - 14 uur verzamelen op de Grote Markt&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Organisatie&amp;nbsp;&lt;u&gt;Haarlem:&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Heleen Witte: tel: 023- 532 50 25&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;e-mail:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:Haarlem@vrouweninhetzwart.nl"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Haarlem@vrouweninhetzwart.nl&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: grey; font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Eerste zondag van de maand&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Tijd: 14-15 uur op de Grote Markt&lt;br /&gt;Verzamelen voor het Stadhuis&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Organisatie&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;Leeuwarden:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Joop Hoekstra: tel: 0513-633544&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;e-mail:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="mailto:j.hoekstra@upcmail.nl"&gt;&lt;b&gt;j.hoekstra@upcmail.nl&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Iedere laatste zaterdag van de maand&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Tijd:&amp;nbsp;13:00-14:00 uur op De Nieuwstad bij De Waag&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Organisatie&lt;u&gt;&amp;nbsp;Maastricht:&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Frances Scarrott: tel:&amp;nbsp;06-11 30 74 10&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"&gt;e-mail:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="mailto:Maastricht@vrouweninhetzwart.nl"&gt;&lt;b&gt;M&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:Maastricht@vrouweninhetzwart.nl"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;aastricht@vrouweninhetzwart.nl&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Iedere laatste donderdag van de maand&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Tijd: 18-19 uur achter het stadhuis&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Geef je op:&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:&amp;amp;fescarrott@netscape.net"&gt;fescarrott@netscape.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Organisatie&amp;nbsp;&lt;u&gt;Utrecht:&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Tienta Verlegh tel: 030 - 241 36 46&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;e-mail:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:Utrecht@vrouweninhetzwart.nl"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Utrecht@vrouweninhetzwart.nl&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: grey; font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Iedere laatste zaterdag van de maand&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: grey; font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Tijd: 13- 14 uur Op Stadhuis brug&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="background-color: #bfbfbf; border: 1px solid rgb(191, 191, 191); padding: 0px 5px;" valign="center"&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12px Arial; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Informatie over mensenrechten in Israel en de Palestijnse Gebieden:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br class="khtml-block-placeholder" /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Vrouwen in het Zwart:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.vrouweninhetzwart.nl/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;www.vrouweninhetzwart.nl&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Amnesty Nederland:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amnesty.nl/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0011ed; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;www.amnesty.nl&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Nederlands Palestina Komitee:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.palestina-komitee.nl/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0011ed; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;www.palestina-komitee.nl&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Coalition of Women for a Just Peace:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.coalitionofwomen4peace.org/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0011ed; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;www.coalitionofwomen4peace.org&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Vrouwen voor Vrede:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.vrouwenvoorvrede.nl/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0011ed; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;www.vrouwenvoorvrede.nl&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Sivmo:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sivmo.nl/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0011ed; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0011ed; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sivmo.nl/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;www.sivmo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sivmo.nl/"&gt;.nl&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Stop the Wall:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.stopthewall.org/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0011ed; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;www.stopthewall.org&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Een Ander Joods Geluid:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.eajg.nl/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0011ed; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;www.eajg.nl&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12px Helvetica; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ej-ymca.org/site/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0011ed; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;The East Jerusalem YMCA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ywca-palestine.org/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ywca-palestine.org/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0011ed; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;YWCA in Palestina&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12px Helvetica; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Electronic Intifada:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.electronicintifada.net/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;www.electronicintifada.net&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18389680-1395020196399836960?l=stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/feeds/1395020196399836960/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/vrouwen-in-het-zwart.html#comment-form' title='0 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18389680/posts/default/1395020196399836960'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18389680/posts/default/1395020196399836960'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/vrouwen-in-het-zwart.html' title='Vrouwen in &apos;t Zwart 7'/><author><name>stan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02966505503468040742</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DHjLrxezAfc/TiMy86mUG1I/AAAAAAAATVk/yYXYE1GVgsY/s220/Stan%2BLogo%2B3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18389680.post-6554780928213030224</id><published>2011-03-04T15:27:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-04T17:09:49.007+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The Zionist Regime 31</title><content type='html'>&lt;h1 id="watch-headline-title"&gt;&lt;span class="long-title" dir="ltr" id="eow-title" title="Women's Testimonies of the Nakba סיפורן של נשים על הנכבה"&gt;Women's Testimonies of the Nakba סיפורן של נשים על הנכבה &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CR4NT7zkuo&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CR4NT7zkuo&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18389680-6554780928213030224?l=stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/feeds/6554780928213030224/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/zionist-regime-27.html#comment-form' title='0 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18389680/posts/default/6554780928213030224'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18389680/posts/default/6554780928213030224'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/zionist-regime-27.html' title='The Zionist Regime 31'/><author><name>stan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02966505503468040742</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DHjLrxezAfc/TiMy86mUG1I/AAAAAAAATVk/yYXYE1GVgsY/s220/Stan%2BLogo%2B3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18389680.post-5545589599724792868</id><published>2011-03-04T09:02:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-04T09:02:47.576+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Uri Rosenthal. Een Nederlandse Minister 31</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-J1ALWyZV0Fk/TXCcP5xyswI/AAAAAAAATTo/Czrim_XSdq0/s1600/Minister_Rosenthal_1632428h+%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-J1ALWyZV0Fk/TXCcP5xyswI/AAAAAAAATTo/Czrim_XSdq0/s1600/Minister_Rosenthal_1632428h+%25281%2529.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica;" valign="top"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica;" valign="top"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="ITEM" style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="header2" style="color: #333366; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; text-align: right;"&gt;Uri Rosenthal:&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px;"&gt;Op 28 februari jl. sprak minister Uri Rosenthal in Génève de Mensenrechtenraad van de Verenigde Naties toe.. Hij verklaarde:&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;'&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;A major improvement would be to reduce the number of resolutions on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and to address the issue in a more balanced way, by refraining from inflamatory language, which does not help the peace process at all.&lt;/i&gt;'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De Adviesraad Internationale Vraagstukken (AIV) heeft vorige week minister Rosenthal in een speciaal rapport geadviseerd het Nederlandse beleid ten aanzien van mensenrechten serieus te blijven nemen, hetgeen in de praktijk betekent dat ook Israel bekritiseerd wordt voor zijn grootschalige schendingen van het internationaal recht. Maar deze zionistische minister van Buitenlandse Zaken weigert dit advies serieus te nemen en dus zouden onze parlementsleden in het geweer moeten komen. Tot nu toe laten ze deze minister zijn rampzalig beleid uitvoeren. Wanneer komen ze in actie?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Welkom op de website van de Adviesraad Internationale Vraagstukken&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;De Adviesraad Internationale Vraagstukken (AIV)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;is een onafhankelijk adviesorgaan dat de regering en&amp;nbsp;de Staten-Generaal adviseert over het buitenlandse beleid, in het bijzonder met betrekking tot de rechten van de mens, vrede en veiligheid, ontwikkelingssamenwerking en Europese integratie.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;De AIV is een adviesorgaan voor de Nederlandse regering&amp;nbsp;en de Staten-Generaal. In het bijzonder richt de raad zich tot de minister van&amp;nbsp;Buitenlandse Zaken, de minister van Defensie, de minister voor Ontwikkelingssamenwerking en de staatssecretaris voor Europese Integratie. De AIV heeft vier permanente commissies: Vrede en Veiligheid, Mensenrechten, Ontwikkelingssamenwerking en Europese Integratie.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;De adviezen&amp;nbsp;die door de AIV zijn uitgebracht&amp;nbsp;kunt u op deze website inzien. Ook staan de adviesaanvragen, de samenvattingen,&amp;nbsp;de persberichten en de regeringsreacties op de site. De adviezen kunt u gratis aanvragen&amp;nbsp;of&amp;nbsp;downloaden. Klik hiervoor op de link 'Publicaties AIV' op deze pagina.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.aiv-advies.nl/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;http://www.aiv-advies.nl/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18389680-5545589599724792868?l=stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/feeds/5545589599724792868/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/uri-rosenthal-een-nederlandse-minister_04.html#comment-form' title='5 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18389680/posts/default/5545589599724792868'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18389680/posts/default/5545589599724792868'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/uri-rosenthal-een-nederlandse-minister_04.html' title='Uri Rosenthal. Een Nederlandse Minister 31'/><author><name>stan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02966505503468040742</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DHjLrxezAfc/TiMy86mUG1I/AAAAAAAATVk/yYXYE1GVgsY/s220/Stan%2BLogo%2B3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-J1ALWyZV0Fk/TXCcP5xyswI/AAAAAAAATTo/Czrim_XSdq0/s72-c/Minister_Rosenthal_1632428h+%25281%2529.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18389680.post-2951094869514750740</id><published>2011-03-04T08:34:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-04T08:36:22.093+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Oil 61</title><content type='html'>&lt;table border="0" bordercolor="#999999" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-family: Helvetica; width: 741px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://click.mail.macmillan.com/?qs=1bbcfd8bd88d53dd8e9073bde2a53d0691b170001138ce75ffcf30d7743114e3"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="104" src="http://americanempireproject.com/images/newsletterheader.jpg" width="741" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table border="0" bordercolor="#999999" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="5" style="font-family: Helvetica; width: 741px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Recommended Reading From The American Empire Project&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table border="0" bordercolor="#999999" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="5" style="font-family: Helvetica; width: 741px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 20px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Collapse of the Old Oil Order&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;How the Petroleum Age Will End&lt;br /&gt;By Michael T. Klare&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img align="right" height="258" src="http://media.us.macmillan.com/authors/258H/399532.jpg" style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px;" width="172" /&gt;Whatever the outcome of the protests, uprisings, and rebellions now sweeping the Middle East, one thing is guaranteed: the world of oil will be permanently transformed.&amp;nbsp; Consider everything that's now happening as just the first tremor of an oilquake that will shake our world to its core.&lt;br /&gt;For a century stretching back to the discovery of oil in southwestern Persia before World War I, Western powers have repeatedly intervened in the Middle East to ensure the survival of authoritarian governments devoted to producing petroleum.&amp;nbsp; Without such interventions, the expansion of Western economies after World War II and the current affluence of industrialized societies would be inconceivable.&lt;br /&gt;Here, however, is the news that should be on the front pages of newspapers everywhere:&amp;nbsp; That old oil order is dying, and with its demise we will see the end of cheap and readily accessible petroleum -- forever.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://click.mail.macmillan.com/?qs=1bbcfd8bd88d53dd81eea7ff6c78edfdc7bfd60c555d64be7fff2af75a9283d6" target="_blank"&gt;Continue Reading...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table align="center" height="1px" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18389680-2951094869514750740?l=stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/feeds/2951094869514750740/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/oil.html#comment-form' title='0 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18389680/posts/default/2951094869514750740'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18389680/posts/default/2951094869514750740'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/oil.html' title='Oil 61'/><author><name>stan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02966505503468040742</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DHjLrxezAfc/TiMy86mUG1I/AAAAAAAATVk/yYXYE1GVgsY/s220/Stan%2BLogo%2B3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18389680.post-3478576966277874521</id><published>2011-03-04T08:31:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-04T08:33:23.536+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The Mass Media 13</title><content type='html'>&lt;center style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt; &lt;!-- Placeholder for promo on front pages --&gt; &lt;div id="huff_promo_space"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="" name="slide_image_frontpage"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;div id="top_wrapper"&gt; &lt;!-- CURRENT LAYOUT 1 --&gt; &lt;!-- BEGIN_CONDITIONAL top_wrapper CONTENT --&gt;   &lt;div class="splashed grid_block" id="featured_content"&gt;     &lt;!-- BEGIN featured_content CONTENT --&gt;     &lt;!-- Splash-takeover Ad here --&gt;    &lt;div id="splash_takeover_wrapper" style="display: none; margin: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- /Splash-takeover Ad here --&gt;  &lt;div class="grid full flush_top" id="top_featured_news"&gt;          &lt;div class="entry centered_entry" id="entry_830890"&gt;       &lt;h5&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/03/hillary-clinton-calls-al-_n_830890.html"&gt;  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;div id="splash_block" style="margin: auto; width: 918px;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/03/hillary-clinton-calls-al-_n_830890.html"&gt;                &lt;/a&gt;&lt;h1&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/03/hillary-clinton-calls-al-_n_830890.html"&gt;            &lt;span style="font-size: 70px;"&gt;         &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/03/hillary-clinton-calls-al-_n_830890.html" style="color: rgb(228, 148, 0) ! 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Een Nederlandse Minister 36</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-bslUyUWDatA/TXATzao66MI/AAAAAAAATTk/cJtDNHKT4jo/s1600/Minister_Rosenthal_1632428h+%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-bslUyUWDatA/TXATzao66MI/AAAAAAAATTk/cJtDNHKT4jo/s1600/Minister_Rosenthal_1632428h+%25281%2529.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3 class="post-title entry-title"&gt;Rosenthal verzoekt Mensenrechtenraad om resoluties tegen Israël te schrappen &lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div class="post-header"&gt;&lt;div class="post-header-line-1"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-body entry-content"&gt;&lt;b&gt;  Op 28 februari jl. sprak minister Uri Rosenthal in Génève de   Mensenrechtenraad van de Verenigde Naties toe. Daar weet u naar alle   waarschijnlijkheid niets van, omdat geen enkele krant daar een   mededeling over heeft gedaan. Rosenthal verzocht de VN om, kort gezegd,   geen resoluties meer tegen Israël aan te nemen en/of een gedeelte te   schrappen. Hieruit blijkt weer een keer dat onze minister niet voor   Nederland optreedt - want wanneer heeft ons parlement bepaald dat we   zo'n verzoek aan de VN Mensenrechtenraad moeten doen? - maar als   woordvoerder van Israël. In Den Haag heeft blijkbaar niemand daar vragen   over, alsof het een normale zaak is. Maar wanneer dit normaal is,   waarom wordt dit nieuws dan verzwegen?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-body entry-content"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-body entry-content"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #33145c; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://eindpunt.blogspot.com/2011/03/rosenthal-verzoekt-mensenrechtenraad-om.html"&gt;http://eindpunt.blogspot.com/2011/03/rosenthal-verzoekt-mensenrechtenraad-om.html&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-body entry-content"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #33145c; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-body entry-content"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #33145c; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Waarom zwijgen de Nederlandse volksvertegenwoordigers over het feit dat de zionistische minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Rosenthal niet de belangen van allereerst Nederland maar die van de 'Joodse staat' behartigt, dus in concreto ook de belangen van zijn twee zusters die naar Israel zijn geemigreerd?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-body entry-content"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #33145c; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Waarom zwijgt de partij van Anja Meulenbelt, de SP, zo angstvallig hierover? Waarom zwijgt zijzelf in de Eerste Kamer over de problemen die Rosenthal heeft met zijn loyaliteit? Op dit moment, terwijl de Arabische wereld op ontploffen staat, speelt onze minister van Buitenlandse Zaken met vuur. Intern op het ministerie wordt hij als een brokkenmaker gezien, maar onze politici blijven zwijgen. Kom op, Meulenbelt, doe je mond open, je wordt ervoor betaald. Of komt het nu even niet uit? Van die Groen Links vrouwenclub verwacht ik geen solidariteit met de onderdrukte Palestijnse vrouwen, maar van jou wel, tenminste, zo mag ik hopen. Aan de slag Meulenbelt, doe iets als volksvertegenwoordiger, interpelleer, sta op, demonstreer, doe iets, je ziet toch niet voor spek en bonen in de Kamer, of mag je van Harry van Bommel geen eigen initiatief nemen? Rosenthal heeft net een rapport ontvangen van de commissie die hem adviseert over vrede en veiligheid. In dat rapport wordt hem geadviseerd de mensenrechten centraal te stellen en dus ook Israel te bekritiseren. Stel in de Eerste Kamer over dat nog niet gepubliceerde rapport vragen en Rosenthal's reactie daarop. Ook andere volksvertegenwoordigers adviseer ik dit te doen, jullie zitten daar toch niet voor niks? Stel de vraag: namens wie spreekt u minister Rosenthal?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18389680-2575628954249803624?l=stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/feeds/2575628954249803624/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/uri-rosenthal-een-nederlandse-minister_03.html#comment-form' title='2 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18389680/posts/default/2575628954249803624'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18389680/posts/default/2575628954249803624'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/uri-rosenthal-een-nederlandse-minister_03.html' title='Uri Rosenthal. Een Nederlandse Minister 36'/><author><name>stan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02966505503468040742</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DHjLrxezAfc/TiMy86mUG1I/AAAAAAAATVk/yYXYE1GVgsY/s220/Stan%2BLogo%2B3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-bslUyUWDatA/TXATzao66MI/AAAAAAAATTk/cJtDNHKT4jo/s72-c/Minister_Rosenthal_1632428h+%25281%2529.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18389680.post-5633952537692049978</id><published>2011-03-03T22:58:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-04T08:48:23.090+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Uri Rosenthal. Een Nederlandse Minister 35</title><content type='html'>&lt;h3 class="post-title entry-title"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Rosenthal verzoekt Mensenrechtenraad om resoluties tegen Israël te schrappen &lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div class="post-header"&gt;&lt;div class="post-header-line-1"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-body entry-content"&gt;Op 28 februari jl. sprak minister Uri Rosenthal in Génève de  Mensenrechtenraad van de Verenigde Naties toe. Daar weet u naar alle  waarschijnlijkheid niets van, omdat geen enkele krant daar een  mededeling over heeft gedaan. Rosenthal verzocht de VN om, kort gezegd,  geen resoluties meer tegen Israël aan te nemen en/of een gedeelte te  schrappen. Hieruit blijkt weer een keer dat onze minister niet voor  Nederland optreedt - want wanneer heeft ons parlement bepaald dat we  zo'n verzoek aan de VN Mensenrechtenraad moeten doen? - maar als  woordvoerder van Israël. In Den Haag heeft blijkbaar niemand daar vragen  over, alsof het een normale zaak is. Maar wanneer dit normaal is,  waarom wordt dit nieuws dan verzwegen?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Cdb403-3Sk4/TW_9y13QT3I/AAAAAAAAAV8/Z0GlroqCkuE/s1600/miniz.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Cdb403-3Sk4/TW_9y13QT3I/AAAAAAAAAV8/Z0GlroqCkuE/s320/miniz.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De Rijksoverheid verspreidde wel een &lt;a href="http://www.nieuwsbank.nl/inp/2011/03/01/R266.htm" target="_blank"&gt;persbericht&lt;/a&gt; (met aan de kranten het verzoek om er niets over te publiceren?) met daarin:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"De Mensenrechtenraad zou het aantal op Israel gerichte resoluties  moeten terugbrengen en een meer evenwichtige benadering moeten kiezen."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De volledige toespraak in het Engels is &lt;a href="http://www.rijksoverheid.nl/ministeries/bz/documenten-en-publicaties/toespraken/2011/03/01/statement-by-uri-rosenthal-minister-of-foreign-affairs-of-the-netherlands-to-the-16th-session-of-the-united-nations-human-rights-council-geneva-1-march-2011.html" target="_blank"&gt;hier&lt;/a&gt; te vinden. We lezen:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"I am hopeful that, against the background of the recent  events in the Arab region, the Middle East Peace Process will be on the  move again. The parties involved should be prepared to push the ‘reset’  button and finally bring lasting peace to a region that has been  embroiled in conflict. These defining moments of change should inspire  both Israel and the Palestinian leadership to act decisively. A new tone  could make a vital difference. I am hopeful that this Council, too,  will shoulder its responsibilities. I ask all member states to refrain  from a one-sided approach, look instead for common ground, and try to be  even-handed – really and genuinely even-handed. A major improvement  would be to reduce the number of resolutions on the Israeli-Palestinian  conflict and to address the issue in a more balanced way, by refraining  from inflamatory language, which does not help the peace process at  all."&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Het komt er dus op neer dat Rosenthal meent dat de resoluties tegen  Israël, dat nog steeds elke dag ernstige mensenrechtenschendingen  pleegt, slecht zijn voor het "vredesproces", en "onevenwichtig" zijn.  Dat is aperte nonsens, want Israël heeft lak aan de mensenrechten van de  Palestijnen, mét of zonder resoluties van de VN. Hoeveel decennia moet  dat nog blijven doorgaan eer dat een keer doordringt? Daarnaast bestaat  er natuurlijk helemaal geen "vredesproces".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De grootste &lt;i&gt;gotspe&lt;/i&gt; van Rosenthal in zijn voordracht volgt direct  op de wens tot het schrappen van resoluties: dat Nederland het zo hoog  op heeft met de mensenrechten, en dat hij vindt dat  mensenrechtenschendingen met sancties bestraft moeten worden. Maar dat  geldt allemaal niet voor Israël weten we nu, want dat zou "niet  evenwichtig" zijn. Nederland eist als "vriend van Israël" geen sancties  tegen "de Joodse staat", maar wanneer vredesactivisten juist door het  gebrek aan uitvoering van onze verplichtingen oproepen tot een boycot  van producten uit Israël, vanwege haar mensenrechtenschendingen - zoals  dat destijds ook het geval was tegen het apartheidsregime in Zuid-Afrika  - dan wil Rosenthal die bestraffen. Dat is dus de hypocrisie ten top.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;big&gt;&lt;b&gt;"I remind all member states of the United Nations  that the UN continues to be bound to an independent obligation to  protect any civilian population facing massive violations of  international humanitarian law - regardless of what country may be  responsible for those violations."&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/big&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Richard Falk, VN Mensenrechtenrapporteur)&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;No justice, no peace.&lt;/i&gt; Wanneer er geen recht gedaan wordt, wanneer  rechteloosheid heerst, dan is er geen kans op vrede. Dan krijg je  oorlog en onderdrukking. &lt;b&gt;Maar volgens Rosenthal is er juist meer kans op vrede wanneer er géén recht gedaan wordt.&lt;/b&gt;  Deze man is zodoende niet in staat tot rationeel denken en zou direct  uit zijn functie gezet moeten worden voor het bepleiten en continueren  van rechteloosheid in het Midden-Oosten. Maar mede dankzij onze  zelfbenoemde "kwaliteitskranten", die Rosenthal's waanzin verzwijgen om  de regering te beschermen, zodat niemand weet wat Rosenthal allemaal in  onze naam uitkraamt in het buitenland, kunnen we hierover geen enkele  opgetrokken wenkbrauw verwachten.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-body entry-content"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-body entry-content"&gt;&lt;a href="http://eindpunt.blogspot.com/2011/03/rosenthal-verzoekt-mensenrechtenraad-om.html"&gt;http://eindpunt.blogspot.com/2011/03/rosenthal-verzoekt-mensenrechtenraad-om.html&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18389680-5633952537692049978?l=stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/feeds/5633952537692049978/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/uri-rosenthal-een-nederlandse-minister.html#comment-form' title='0 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18389680/posts/default/5633952537692049978'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18389680/posts/default/5633952537692049978'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/uri-rosenthal-een-nederlandse-minister.html' title='Uri Rosenthal. 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One of the reasons she cited for this was the quality of channels like Al Jazeera.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: black; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;"Viewership of Al Jazeera is going up in the United States because it's real news," she said. "You may not agree with it, but you feel like you're getting real news around the clock instead of a million commercials and, you know, arguments between talking heads and the kind of stuff that we do on our news which, you know, is not particularly informative to us, let alone foreigners."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: black; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;strong style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; 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    &lt;div&gt;                  &lt;span&gt;     &lt;span&gt;2 March 2011&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;Last updated at &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;23:32 GMT&lt;/span&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;   &lt;div&gt;   &lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 28px;"&gt;Wikileaks: Suspect Bradley Manning faces 22 new charges&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;   &lt;img alt="Bradley Manning, US military handout" height="171" src="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/50571000/jpg/_50571276_50219436.jpg" width="304" /&gt;      &lt;span style="width: 304px;"&gt;Intelligence analyst Bradley Manning served in Iraq&lt;/span&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12628983#story_continues_1" target="_blank"&gt;Continue reading the main story&lt;/a&gt;        &lt;div&gt;                                                 &lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-11863274" target="_blank"&gt;Wikileaks Revelations&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11949771" rel="published-1291813425091" target="_blank"&gt;Q&amp;amp;A: Arrest of Wikileaks' founder&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11914040" rel="published-1291399205161" target="_blank"&gt;Cables at a glance&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12008565" rel="published-1292505539958" target="_blank"&gt;Wikileaks activists go analogue&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12007616" rel="published-1292499960130" target="_blank"&gt;A world after Wikileaks&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;The  US Army has charged a soldier held in connection with the leak of US  government documents published by the Wikileaks website with 22 extra  counts.&lt;br /&gt;The new charges against Private First Class Bradley Manning  include aiding the enemy, a capital offence, but prosecutors have said  they will not seek the death penalty. &lt;br /&gt;The intelligence analyst is being held at a military jail in Virginia.&lt;br /&gt;He is suspected of leaking 620,000 diplomatic and military documents.&lt;br /&gt;Pte Manning, who joined the US military in 2007, was  initially charged in May with 12 counts of illegally downloading and  sharing a secret video of a US military operation and secret military  and diplomatic documents and cables.&lt;br /&gt;The new charges accuse the soldier of using unauthorised  software on government computers to download classified information and  to make intelligence available to "the enemy".&lt;br /&gt;Under the US Uniform Code of Military Justice, the offence is punishable by death.&lt;br /&gt;But in a news release, the US Army said prosecutors would not  seek the death penalty, although Pte Manning could face life in prison  if tried and convicted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;Fresh details&lt;/span&gt;Pte Manning's lawyer David Coombs said the soldier's defence  team had been preparing for the possibility of additional charges over  the past few weeks.&lt;br /&gt;Pte Manning is being held in solitary confinement in a high-security military prison at Quantico marine base, Virginia.&lt;br /&gt;Mr Coombs has said he expects a hearing to determine whether  the military has enough evidence to try the soldier to be held in May or  June.&lt;br /&gt;The newly released list of charges offers fresh details on the records Pte Manning is accused of obtaining illegally.&lt;br /&gt;Those include:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt; More than 380,000 records from a database of military records from the Iraq war&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; 90,000 records from a database of Afghan war files&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; 250,000 records from a US state department diplomatic database&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; 75 classified US state department cables, including one titled "Reykjavik-13"&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; A video file named "12 JUL 07 CZ ENGAGEMENT ZONE 30 GC"&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;In recent months, Wikileaks has published troves of  documents it titled the Iraq War Logs, the Afghan War Diary, and reams  of secret US state department cables spanning five decades.&lt;br /&gt;The site has also released a cable titled Reykjavik 13 that  summarised US diplomats' discussions with Icelandic officials about that  country's financial troubles, and a leaked video of a 2007 helicopter  attack in Iraq that killed two Reuters news service employees.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;div style="word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: Garamond; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 15px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: Garamond; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8pt;"&gt;“Never take the same road twice.”&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8pt;"&gt;Ibn Battuta, 14&lt;/span&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8pt;"&gt;th&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8pt;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;century Moroccan Berber traveler, philosopher, medic, theologian&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8pt;"&gt;“I  want to pour water into hell and set paradise on fire, so that these  two veils disappear and nobody shall any longer worship God out of fear  of hell or hope of heaven, but solely for the sake of God's eternal  beauty.”&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8pt;"&gt;Rabi'ah Al-Adawiyya, &amp;nbsp;8&lt;/span&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8pt;"&gt;th&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8pt;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;century woman saint from Basra, Iraq &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8pt;"&gt;“The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.”&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8pt;"&gt;“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician.”&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11px;"&gt;Albert Einstein, 19&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt;/20&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;century German physicist&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8pt;"&gt;“He or she who says it cannot be achieved should not interrupt him or her achieving it.”&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11px;"&gt;Chinese Proverb  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18389680-353888453446488363?l=stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/feeds/353888453446488363/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/wikileaks-53.html#comment-form' title='0 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18389680/posts/default/353888453446488363'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18389680/posts/default/353888453446488363'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/wikileaks-53.html' title='WikiLeaks 53'/><author><name>stan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02966505503468040742</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DHjLrxezAfc/TiMy86mUG1I/AAAAAAAATVk/yYXYE1GVgsY/s220/Stan%2BLogo%2B3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18389680.post-3079595333540395797</id><published>2011-03-03T18:45:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-03T19:29:57.869+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Ton Lankreijer. 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padding-bottom: 20px;"&gt;&lt;div id=":uq"&gt;&lt;div style="word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img height="887" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&amp;amp;ik=c79d0814f3&amp;amp;view=att&amp;amp;th=12e7c4428239ad7b&amp;amp;attid=0.1.1&amp;amp;disp=emb&amp;amp;zw" width="1182" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Bij de ingang van elke Tibetaanse ghompa staat ergens het levenswiel geschilderd;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;opdat de ongeletterde in een oogopslag het tantrische boeddhisme kan begrijpen.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Zodra het gewone volk wordt aangesproken, komt het meestal neer op hel en verdoemenis.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img height="104" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&amp;amp;ik=c79d0814f3&amp;amp;view=att&amp;amp;th=12e7c4428239ad7b&amp;amp;attid=0.1.2&amp;amp;disp=emb&amp;amp;zw" width="1182" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;De grote lijnen van het levenswiel liggen al vele eeuwen vast, maar in de details mag de schilder zich uitleven.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Zo zag ik vandaag bij een klooster, in het onderste deel van een wiel, daar waar de hel staat afgebeeld,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;een nooit eerder gezien detail&amp;nbsp;dat onomwonden duidelijk maakt&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;waar volgens de kunstenaar de bron van alle ellende ligt.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img height="887" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&amp;amp;ik=c79d0814f3&amp;amp;view=att&amp;amp;th=12e7c4428239ad7b&amp;amp;attid=0.1.3&amp;amp;disp=emb&amp;amp;zw" width="1182" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Geen wonder dat er zo weinig vrouwelijke monniken zijn...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img height="887" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&amp;amp;ik=c79d0814f3&amp;amp;view=att&amp;amp;th=12e7c4428239ad7b&amp;amp;attid=0.1.4&amp;amp;disp=emb&amp;amp;zw" width="1182" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:lankreijer@me.com" style="color: #114170;" target="_blank"&gt;lankreijer@me.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18389680-3079595333540395797?l=stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/feeds/3079595333540395797/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/ton-lankreijer.html#comment-form' title='0 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18389680/posts/default/3079595333540395797'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18389680/posts/default/3079595333540395797'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2011/03/ton-lankreijer.html' title='Ton Lankreijer. Reiziger'/><author><name>stan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02966505503468040742</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DHjLrxezAfc/TiMy86mUG1I/AAAAAAAATVk/yYXYE1GVgsY/s220/Stan%2BLogo%2B3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18389680.post-1060609235233324466</id><published>2011-03-03T18:35:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-03T19:13:34.245+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Tom Engelhardt 9</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Times New Roman', helvetica, arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="title" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', helvetica, arial; font-size: 30px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 1px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;A must-read:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tomgram: Michael Klare, Oilquake in the Middle East&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Times New Roman', helvetica, arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Posted by&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/authors/michaelklare/" style="color: #993300; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Michael Klare&lt;/a&gt;  at 9:55am,&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="white-space: nowrap;"&gt;March 3, 2011.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="meat" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Times New Roman', helvetica, arial; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', helvetica, arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 11px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;The price of gas at the pump is now&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.centralvalleybusinesstimes.com/stories/001/?ID=17735" style="color: #993300; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;averaging&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;$3.65 a gallon in California and has already edged up to $4 in&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-buzz/2011/03/cheap_gas_in_the_dc_area.html" style="color: #993300; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;San Francisco&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2011/02/28/gas-prices-near-4-a-gallon-at-some-chicago-stations/" style="color: #993300; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Chicago&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110301/NEWS07/103010334/-1/NEWSMAP" style="color: #993300; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Nationwide&lt;/a&gt;, it’s at $3.38, a 20-cent rise in the last week (six cents last Friday alone).&amp;nbsp; Meanwhile, in testimony before the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke spoke&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/01/AR2011030102032.html?hpid=moreheadlines" style="color: #993300; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;optimistically&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;of the economy and dismissed the impact of soaring oil prices, spurred by turmoil in the Middle East.&amp;nbsp; “The most likely outcome,” he&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/bernanke-inflation-rise-will-be-modest-temporary-2011-03-01-103230" style="color: #993300; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;said&lt;/a&gt;, “is that the recent rise in commodity prices will lead to, at most, a temporary and relatively modest increase in U.S. consumer price inflation.”&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', helvetica, arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Of course, let’s take it for granted that no one inside Washington’s Beltway has to fill his or her own car with gas.&amp;nbsp; For them, pain at the pump may indeed feel “temporary and relatively modest.”&amp;nbsp; Tell that, however, to the official 9% of unemployed Americans who still have to drive a car in what Bernanke and everyone else who isn’t suffering seems to agree is&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="font-style: italic;"&gt;not&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;a recession.&amp;nbsp; (In 1940, the last year of the Great&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Depression&lt;/em&gt;, the unemployment rate was at&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/GreatDepression.html" style="color: #993300; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;14.6%&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;-- and in those days they still hadn’t&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2009/09/07/Jobless-rate-excludes-discouraged-workers/UPI-76161252325208/" style="color: #993300; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;stopped counting&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;people too discouraged to look for work.)&amp;nbsp; In that light, consider what’s already happening at the pump as the lifestyle equivalent of murder and now imagine that, by summer (if not significantly earlier), the price of a gallon of gas nationwide may, as just before the 2008 global economic meltdown, close in on the $4 a gallon mark and perhaps still be rising.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', helvetica, arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;After all, oil fears have, as the&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="font-style: italic;"&gt;New York Times&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;business page&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/28/business/global/28oil.html" style="color: #993300; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;put it&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;recently, “rattle[d] the oil world” -- and there are already the first fearful&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704506004576173942930150666.html" style="color: #993300; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;mutterings&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;about a coming “oil shock” or even a&lt;a href="http://news.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/2011_0301gas-achusetts_experts_see_no_relief_for_bay_state_drivers/" style="color: #993300; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;$5 price&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;at the pump.&amp;nbsp; With good reason.&amp;nbsp; Middle East oil supplies are now far&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.alternet.org/world/150100/how_uprisings_in_a_tiny_persian_gulf_country_could_send_oil_to_%24150_in_a_matter_of_days/" style="color: #993300; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;more vulnerable&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to every kind of disruption, including&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-28/iraq-s-baiji-refinery-unit-to-restart-next-week-ministry-says.html" style="color: #993300; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;sabotage&lt;/a&gt;, than most people realize. &amp;nbsp;As Juan Cole&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.juancole.com/2011/02/the-world-oil-politics-of-the-libyan-revolt.html" style="color: #993300; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;wrote recently&lt;/a&gt;, “Workers in the [Persian] Gulf unhappy with their lives, unlike Wisconsin school teachers, can fairly easily disrupt the economy if they choose.” And keep in mind that that’s only the short-range view.&amp;nbsp; If you happen to be energy expert Michael Klare, &amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175264/tomgram:_michael_klare,_the_coming_era_of_energy_disasters" style="color: #993300; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;TomDispatch regular&lt;/a&gt;, author of&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0805089217/ref=nosim/?tag=tomdispatch-20" style="color: #993300; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, and a man perpetually ahead of the curve when it comes to a future of limited resources, you know that this is just the beginning of the end of the oil age and part of our rude entry into a world of&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175249/tomgram%3A_michael_klare,_the_oil_rush_to_hell/" style="color: #993300; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;extreme energy&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; (To catch Timothy MacBain’s latest TomCast audio interview in which Klare explains how resource scarcity is driving protest and much else on our planet, click&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://tomdispatch.blogspot.com/2011/03/oilquake-in-middle-east.html" style="color: #993300; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, or download it to your iPod&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=j0SS4Al/iVI&amp;amp;subid=&amp;amp;offerid=146261.1&amp;amp;type=10&amp;amp;tmpid=5573&amp;amp;RD_PARM1=http%3A%2F%2Fitunes.apple.com%2Fus%2Fpodcast%2Ftomcast-from-tomdispatch-com%2Fid357095817" style="color: #993300; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.)&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Tom&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 20px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', helvetica, arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 11px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;The Collapse of the Old Oil Order&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;How the Petroleum Age Will End&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;By&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/authors/michaelklare" style="color: #993300; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Michael T. Klare&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', helvetica, arial; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Whatever the outcome of the protests, uprisings, and rebellions now sweeping the Middle East, one thing is guaranteed: the world of oil will be permanently transformed.&amp;nbsp; Consider everything that’s now happening as just the first tremor of an oilquake that will shake our world to its core.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', helvetica, arial; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;For a century stretching back to the discovery of oil in southwestern Persia before World War I, Western powers have repeatedly intervened in the Middle East to ensure the survival of authoritarian governments devoted to producing petroleum.&amp;nbsp; Without such interventions, the expansion of Western economies after World War II and the current affluence of industrialized societies would be inconceivable.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', helvetica, arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Here, however, is the news that should be on the front pages of newspapers everywhere:&amp;nbsp; That old oil order is dying, and with its demise we will see the end of cheap and readily accessible petroleum -- forever.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=18389680&amp;amp;postID=1060609235233324466" name="more" style="color: #993300; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 20px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', helvetica, arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 11px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ending the Petroleum Age&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', helvetica, arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Let’s try to take the measure of what exactly is at risk in the current tumult.&amp;nbsp; As a start, there is almost no way to give full justice to the critical role played by Middle Eastern oil in the world’s energy equation.&amp;nbsp; Although cheap coal fueled the original Industrial Revolution, powering railroads, steamships, and factories, cheap oil has made possible the automobile, the aviation industry, suburbia, mechanized agriculture, and an explosion of economic globalization.&amp;nbsp; And while a handful of major oil-producing areas launched the Petroleum Age -- the United States, Mexico, Venezuela, Romania, the area around Baku (in what was then the Czarist Russian empire), and the Dutch East Indies -- it’s been the Middle East that has quenched the world’s thirst for oil since World War II.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', helvetica, arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;In 2009, the most recent year for which such data is available, BP&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.bp.com/subsection.do?categoryId=9023761&amp;amp;contentId=7044545" style="color: #993300; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;reported&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;that suppliers in the Middle East and North Africa jointly produced 29 million barrels per day, or 36% of the world’s total oil supply -- and even this doesn’t begin to suggest the region’s importance to the petroleum economy.&amp;nbsp; More than any other area, the Middle East has funneled its production into export markets to satisfy the energy cravings of oil-importing powers like the United States, China, Japan, and the European Union (EU).&amp;nbsp; We’re talking 20 million barrels funneled into export markets every day.&amp;nbsp; Compare that to Russia, the world’s top individual producer, at seven million barrels in exportable oil, the continent of Africa at six million, and South America at a mere one million.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', helvetica, arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;As it happens, Middle Eastern producers will be even more important in the years to come because they possess an estimated two-thirds of remaining untapped petroleum reserves.&amp;nbsp; According to&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/ieo/" style="color: #993300; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;recent projections&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;by the U.S. Department of Energy, the Middle East and North Africa will jointly provide approximately 43% of the world’s crude petroleum supply by 2035 (up from 37% in 2007), and will produce an even greater share of the world’s exportable oil.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', helvetica, arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;To put the matter baldly:&amp;nbsp; The world economy requires an increasing supply of affordable petroleum.&amp;nbsp; The Middle East alone can provide that supply.&amp;nbsp; That’s why Western governments have long supported “stable” authoritarian regimes throughout the region, regularly supplying and training their security forces.&amp;nbsp; Now, this stultifying, petrified order, whose greatest success was producing oil for the world economy, is disintegrating.&amp;nbsp; Don’t count on any new order (or disorder) to deliver enough cheap oil to preserve the Petroleum Age.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', helvetica, arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;To appreciate why this will be so, a little history lesson is in order.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', helvetica, arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Iranian Coup&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', helvetica, arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;After the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) discovered oil in Iran (then known as Persia) in 1908, the British government sought to exercise imperial control over the Persian state.&amp;nbsp; A chief architect of this drive was First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill.&amp;nbsp; Having ordered the conversion of British warships from coal to oil before World War I and determined to put a significant source of oil under London’s control, Churchill orchestrated the nationalization of APOC in 1914.&amp;nbsp; On the eve of World War II, then-Prime Minister Churchill oversaw the removal of Persia’s pro-German ruler, Shah Reza Pahlavi, and the ascendancy of his 21-year-old son,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Reza_Pahlavi" style="color: #993300; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Mohammed Reza Pahlavi&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', helvetica, arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Though prone to extolling his (mythical) ties to past Persian empires, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi was a willing tool of the British.&amp;nbsp; His subjects, however, proved ever less willing to tolerate subservience to imperial overlords in London.&amp;nbsp; In 1951, democratically elected Prime Minister&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Mosaddeq" style="color: #993300; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Mohammed Mossadeq&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;won parliamentary support for the nationalization of APOC, by then renamed the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC).&amp;nbsp; The move was wildly popular in Iran but caused panic in London.&amp;nbsp; In 1953, to save this great prize, British leaders infamously conspired with President Dwight Eisenhower‘s administration in Washington and the CIA to engineer a&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175267/tomgram%3A_stephen_kinzer,_bp%27s_first_%22spill%22/" style="color: #993300; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;coup d’état&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;that&lt;a href="http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB28/index.html" style="color: #993300; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;deposed&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;Mossadeq and brought Shah Pahlavi back from exile in Rome, a story recently told with great panache by Stephen Kinzer in&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/047018549X/ref=nosim/?tag=tomdispatch-20" style="color: #993300; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;All the Shah’s Men&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', helvetica, arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Until he was overthrown in 1979, the Shah exercised ruthless and dictatorial control over Iranian society, thanks in part to lavish U.S. military and police assistance.&amp;nbsp; First he crushed the secular left, the allies of Mossadeq, and then the religious opposition, headed from exile by the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.&amp;nbsp; Given their brutal exposure to police and prison gear&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.fas.org/programs/ssp/asmp/factsandfigures/government_data_index.html" style="color: #993300; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;supplied&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;by the United States, the shah’s opponents came to loathe his monarchy and Washington in equal measure. &amp;nbsp;In 1979, of course, the Iranian people took to the streets, the Shah was overthrown, and Ayatollah Khomeini came to power.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', helvetica, arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Much can be learned from these events that led to the current impasse in U.S.-Iranian relations.&amp;nbsp; The key point to grasp, however, is that Iranian oil production never recovered from the revolution of 1979-1980.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', helvetica, arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Between 1973 and 1979, Iran had achieved an output of nearly six million barrels of oil per day, one of the highest in the world.&amp;nbsp; After the revolution, AIOC (rechristened British Petroleum, or later simply BP) was nationalized for a second time, and Iranian managers again took over the company’s operations.&amp;nbsp; To punish Iran’s new leaders, Washington imposed tough trade sanctions, hindering the state oil company’s efforts to obtain foreign technology and assistance.&amp;nbsp; Iranian output plunged to two million barrels per day and, even three decades later, has made it back to only slightly more than four million barrels per day, even though the country possesses the world’s second largest oil reserves after Saudi Arabia.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', helvetica, arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dreams of the Invader&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', helvetica, arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Iraq followed an eerily similar trajectory.&amp;nbsp; Under Saddam Hussein, the state-owned Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC) produced up to 2.8 million barrels per day until 1991, when the First Gulf War with the United States and ensuing sanctions dropped output to half a million barrels daily.&amp;nbsp; Though by 2001 production had again risen to almost 2.5 million barrels per day, it never reached earlier heights.&amp;nbsp; As the Pentagon geared up for an invasion of Iraq in late 2002, however, Bush administration insiders and well-connected Iraqi expatriates spoke dreamily of a coming golden age in which foreign oil companies would be invited back into the country, the national oil company would be&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0221-04.htm" style="color: #993300; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;privatized&lt;/a&gt;, and production would reach never before seen levels.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', helvetica, arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0805089217/ref=nosim/?tag=tomdispatch-20" style="color: #993300; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img align="left" alt="" height="245" hspace="6" src="http://www.tomdispatch.com/images/managed/mikeklare2.gif" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px;" vspace="6" width="140" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Who can forget the effort the Bush administration and its officials in Baghdad put into making their dream come true?&amp;nbsp; After all, the first American soldiers to reach the Iraqi capital&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D02EFDF133DF93BA15757C0A9659C8B63" style="color: #993300; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;secured&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;the Oil Ministry building, even as they allowed Iraqi looters free rein in the rest of the city.&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Paul_Bremer" style="color: #993300; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;L. Paul Bremer III&lt;/a&gt;, the proconsul later chosen by President Bush to oversee the establishment of a new Iraq, brought in a team of American oil executives to supervise the privatization of the country’s oil industry, while the U.S. Department of Energy confidently predicted in May 2003 that Iraqi production would rise to 3.4 million barrels per day in 2005, 4.1 million barrels by 2010, and 5.6 million by 2020.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', helvetica, arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;None of this, of course, came to pass.&amp;nbsp; For many ordinary Iraqis, the U.S. decision to immediately head for the Oil Ministry building was an instantaneous turning point that transformed possible support for the overthrow of a tyrant into anger and hostility.&amp;nbsp; Bremer’s drive to privatize the state oil company similarly produced a fierce nationalist backlash among Iraqi oil engineers, who essentially scuttled the plan. &amp;nbsp;Soon enough, a full-scale Sunni insurgency broke out. Oil output&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.bp.com/subsection.do?categoryId
