I guess my blogger problem is over now. I just deleted the history and cookies from firefox. Now I'm able to log in on blogger.
What is happening on the boarder of Turkey with Syria has much to do with Turkish citizens in Europe. Their country is more or less under attack. It's even a NATO problem because an attack on one of the members is an attack on the other members. Hopefully the shelling doesn't escalate.
It reminds me of s song of Bruce Cockburn titled if I had a rocketlauncher.
Showing posts with label war. Show all posts
Showing posts with label war. Show all posts
Sunday, October 07, 2012
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
WHY think ya
In the beginning there was a man. Then there was a woman.
They created a son. And another son. The sons started started a war.
What the h*** you think you are....
They created a son. And another son. The sons started started a war.
What the h*** you think you are....
Wednesday, April 06, 2011
city marathon
In my city a marathon has been organized annually.
This year only inhabitants of the Netherlands can practically register to run.
The organizers are fed up with every year a fast runner from abroad. They want a Dutch Marathon Battle to boost Dutch road athletics.
In my opinion this is really narrow minded. This introspective is so undutch. It's a Utrecht NSB-marathon, free from foreign influences. These are the days of Nazi-Germany.
This year only inhabitants of the Netherlands can practically register to run.
The organizers are fed up with every year a fast runner from abroad. They want a Dutch Marathon Battle to boost Dutch road athletics.
In my opinion this is really narrow minded. This introspective is so undutch. It's a Utrecht NSB-marathon, free from foreign influences. These are the days of Nazi-Germany.
Monday, April 04, 2011
Fisherman
The Dutch marine saved a Iranian fishing boat -a strong fisherman´s friend- This is called protection. In fact it´s a war. In this action 2 Somali´s died.
Birds in my hometown.
Birds in my hometown.
Monday, March 21, 2011
benghazi
Benghazi, Benghazi it could be a movie, at least the title of it.
In 1955 Benghazi had been released. The plot: never steal a treasure from desert people. See IMDB
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And now Gaddafi had his first air raid on his bab al-azizia, his command center. The dictator has to go, but how?
In 1982 when PLO chairman Arafat was under siege in Lebanon he begged for help "where are the Arabs?".
In 1991 coalition forces stood poised to drive Saddam Hussein from Kuwait.
Where were the Arabs in the coalition force?
Now on the first day of the raid on Tripoli, where are the Arabs?
Read the Al Jazeera story where are the Arabs?
Last week I had the feeling that there was going to be a war when some countries opposed the regime of colonel Gadaffi. The international world was to meek to make a fist. Only Thursday March 17 2011 the UN set resolution 1973.
I didn't like the thought of going to war to a country just on the other side of the Mediterranean. it isn't far away. Weeks to cycle. 3 hours flight.
I remembered the Dutch neutrality during the Great War, maybe we stayed neutral again. But no, the Dutch want to play a role in the international community. Where were we weeks ago?
In 1955 Benghazi had been released. The plot: never steal a treasure from desert people. See IMDB
.
And now Gaddafi had his first air raid on his bab al-azizia, his command center. The dictator has to go, but how?
In 1982 when PLO chairman Arafat was under siege in Lebanon he begged for help "where are the Arabs?".
In 1991 coalition forces stood poised to drive Saddam Hussein from Kuwait.
Where were the Arabs in the coalition force?
Now on the first day of the raid on Tripoli, where are the Arabs?
Read the Al Jazeera story where are the Arabs?
Last week I had the feeling that there was going to be a war when some countries opposed the regime of colonel Gadaffi. The international world was to meek to make a fist. Only Thursday March 17 2011 the UN set resolution 1973.
I didn't like the thought of going to war to a country just on the other side of the Mediterranean. it isn't far away. Weeks to cycle. 3 hours flight.
I remembered the Dutch neutrality during the Great War, maybe we stayed neutral again. But no, the Dutch want to play a role in the international community. Where were we weeks ago?
Monday, February 21, 2011
tongue
I was right about the sunshine. What a lovely day. But, o, freezing cold.
What's in the news? Libya is on fire. People don't want Kadhaffi anymore.
I don't say -the people- yet, but it's obvious that Kadhaffi and his clan fall if they use the weaponry of the army and the tongue of war.
Help, I don't got visitors from South America, such as Chili, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil. Surinams can't find me. I do think a lot of and about Bouterse and his friends.
I can say something about the Falklands war which was very surrealistic for me. It was 1982 and I was recovering from an accident not realizing what happened on the TV-screen. A real war between Thatcher's Great Britain and Argentine's dictatorship.
What's in the news? Libya is on fire. People don't want Kadhaffi anymore.
I don't say -the people- yet, but it's obvious that Kadhaffi and his clan fall if they use the weaponry of the army and the tongue of war.
Help, I don't got visitors from South America, such as Chili, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil. Surinams can't find me. I do think a lot of and about Bouterse and his friends.
I can say something about the Falklands war which was very surrealistic for me. It was 1982 and I was recovering from an accident not realizing what happened on the TV-screen. A real war between Thatcher's Great Britain and Argentine's dictatorship.
Monday, January 31, 2011
boab
If my name has been written
on the bark of a baobab
My end will be terrifying
They carved their names in the bark of an oak tree
Killroy was here
On the battlefield
in the second World War
They faced an awful death
on the bark of a baobab
My end will be terrifying
They carved their names in the bark of an oak tree
Killroy was here
On the battlefield
in the second World War
They faced an awful death
Friday, January 07, 2011
bored
This reaction I read on grunberg.com. Actually it's mine.
It's about the idea how a Genocide helps the economy of those who commit the Genocide. They gain the most from it.
ha ha, who wants to be a bore... boredom cost to many lives in history. Wasn't WWII started with a bored Deutchland?
If a Genocide triggers the economy of those who commit a Genocide then the solution is there where the boredom is.
But without taking risks nobody flies like a bird.
The loser will have to take a risk to fly.
Eventually the bored loser will be smart enough to stay in the air.
It's about the idea how a Genocide helps the economy of those who commit the Genocide. They gain the most from it.
Monday, November 29, 2010
Anthem
As the theme of the blog has something to do with personal growth I would like to show the next video of the Dutch Anthem. The subscribtion is in English and Dutch. I value it more nowadays, maybe because I am getting older. I think this Anthem is heroic. In fact it isn't. We almost lost a war against Catholic Spain and in the song we ask ourselves what we did do wrong. We kept our heads up and honoured the king of Spain. In the peace of Münster the Netherlands made peace with Spain. War was over. Thank God.
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Triumph
Trump might run for president. It wasn't mentioned on the news-channel in my country. Actually it was mentioned as a comic sideline in lay back news show. Nobody knows what it was about cause we don't know much about America. Do we fellow Dutch? Donald Trump might run as a republican candidate for the presidential office. A billionaire focused on money, on the unequal trade balance with China. His only goal is to have the Chinese Yen it's real value. With or without him in the office, there's gonna be a currency war in the end.
Will Trump Triumph?
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Die Mauer
In 1983 I visited Berlin on occasion of a school-trip. In fact we travelled by bus from the Dutch-German border, through the federal republic of Germany to the German Democratic Republic. In the GDR, I remember a long road paved with concrete. We, all children, didn't see any people in the gloomy and grey landscape we crossed. Arriving in West-Berlin was like arriving at an oasis after being in the desert for a while. I felt exited.
The most impressive thing was the memorial for a few people who tried to escape from East-Berlin but were shot in their attempt (`auf der flug erschossen'). It was situated on the left corner of the Reichtag facing the river Spree. When I was there I saw Vopo's (Volkspolizei) or guards in their watchtower looking over the mined and wired field to the Spree. (in fact it wasn't mined because of the noise it would make. How cynical!) And I looked at the memorial and watched the Vopo's.
Walking along the Spree to the Brandenburger Tor I had a first view of the concrete Berlin Wall. It was on the right corner behind the Reichtag facing the Spree. Some classmates touched the Wall. I didn't, reading the signs. Can you believe it; I stood there face to face with the monster called Berlin Wall and I didn't touch the Wall. I was to impressed and afraid of things what might happen when you wake up the monster. What I felt was the Cold War! But I missed a once in a life time opportunity.
Some days later we went on a trip to East-Berlin. In the Pergamonmuseum a doorman, who was in fact a woman, told that she has never been in the west, but she told that she knew a lot about Holland. When I remember the sadness in her eyes I feel the pain in my heart back in 1983, because she was prisoned in that system without being guilty. Of course they will have laughed. For me it didn't feel good. At the Fernsehturm in East Berlin we stopped also to have a view from the television and radio tower. Walking in the December cold on the Alexanderplatz I stopped to buy a warm sausage. It was so cheap and I felt such a pity for the boy who sold the food that I gave him much more than the actual price.
On our way back to West-Berlin we visited checkpoint Charlie. There I bought a poster of Solidarnosc, the Labour Rights Movement of Lech Walenza in Poland. In fact the fall of the communist dictatorship started with that movement of Lech Walenza and others in the early ninetheen eighties.
In 1992, only 9 years later, I went back to the places I went before. The memorial site for the man and woman `auf der flug erschossen' behind the Reichstag had disappeared but the Watchtower of the Vopo´s was still there. I walked to the other side of the river to the field where the watchtower was and I climbed on it. I had the same view of the Vopo´s in 1983 but I saw a complete different world. The world can really change in nine years.
Now, 20 years and one day have past since the Berlin Wall fell. Step by step this Cold War disappears, but we got to be alert for new wars like these.
The German movie "Das Leben der Anderen" is an example of life in East-Berlin.
The extreme control of the East-Germans is made clear in the plot of Das Leben der Anderen
The most impressive thing was the memorial for a few people who tried to escape from East-Berlin but were shot in their attempt (`auf der flug erschossen'). It was situated on the left corner of the Reichtag facing the river Spree. When I was there I saw Vopo's (Volkspolizei) or guards in their watchtower looking over the mined and wired field to the Spree. (in fact it wasn't mined because of the noise it would make. How cynical!) And I looked at the memorial and watched the Vopo's.
Walking along the Spree to the Brandenburger Tor I had a first view of the concrete Berlin Wall. It was on the right corner behind the Reichtag facing the Spree. Some classmates touched the Wall. I didn't, reading the signs. Can you believe it; I stood there face to face with the monster called Berlin Wall and I didn't touch the Wall. I was to impressed and afraid of things what might happen when you wake up the monster. What I felt was the Cold War! But I missed a once in a life time opportunity.
Some days later we went on a trip to East-Berlin. In the Pergamonmuseum a doorman, who was in fact a woman, told that she has never been in the west, but she told that she knew a lot about Holland. When I remember the sadness in her eyes I feel the pain in my heart back in 1983, because she was prisoned in that system without being guilty. Of course they will have laughed. For me it didn't feel good. At the Fernsehturm in East Berlin we stopped also to have a view from the television and radio tower. Walking in the December cold on the Alexanderplatz I stopped to buy a warm sausage. It was so cheap and I felt such a pity for the boy who sold the food that I gave him much more than the actual price.
On our way back to West-Berlin we visited checkpoint Charlie. There I bought a poster of Solidarnosc, the Labour Rights Movement of Lech Walenza in Poland. In fact the fall of the communist dictatorship started with that movement of Lech Walenza and others in the early ninetheen eighties.
In 1992, only 9 years later, I went back to the places I went before. The memorial site for the man and woman `auf der flug erschossen' behind the Reichstag had disappeared but the Watchtower of the Vopo´s was still there. I walked to the other side of the river to the field where the watchtower was and I climbed on it. I had the same view of the Vopo´s in 1983 but I saw a complete different world. The world can really change in nine years.
Now, 20 years and one day have past since the Berlin Wall fell. Step by step this Cold War disappears, but we got to be alert for new wars like these.
The German movie "Das Leben der Anderen" is an example of life in East-Berlin.
The extreme control of the East-Germans is made clear in the plot of Das Leben der Anderen
Monday, May 12, 2008
video's from the train going home
Last week I went to Family on a beautiful day.. May the 5th, Liberation day. The day we celebrate the end of WW2 in the Netherlands.
It was the same trip Anne Frank made in 1944 from Amsterdam to Westerbork. The difference is I did it 64 years later and in different direction.
The first 2 movies is what she could have seen in a 1944 setting.
This is a movie of the train coming to a stop at my hometown Utrecht. Hear the sound of the breaking wheels...
Apparently the video's have to be installed with help of youtube ;-)
Next time
Ocean, I'm okay. We had almost 2 weeks of holidays here in the Netherlands. Luckily we had very good summer weather too.
I'll go to the south of France by bike on May 19. (1,500 kilometer) Probably I will not post.
It was the same trip Anne Frank made in 1944 from Amsterdam to Westerbork. The difference is I did it 64 years later and in different direction.
The first 2 movies is what she could have seen in a 1944 setting.
This is a movie of the train coming to a stop at my hometown Utrecht. Hear the sound of the breaking wheels...
Apparently the video's have to be installed with help of youtube ;-)
Next time
Ocean, I'm okay. We had almost 2 weeks of holidays here in the Netherlands. Luckily we had very good summer weather too.
I'll go to the south of France by bike on May 19. (1,500 kilometer) Probably I will not post.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
US secretary criticizes NATO approach in Afghanistan
The undertitle should be: in a war we'll never win.
US Defense secretary Gates said in the New York Times in this article that NATO forces don't know how to fight the insurgents. The names of the countries who are operating in the south are mentioned. The Netherlands is one of them.
In the Los Angeles Times Gates is quoted
It seems to me that the US defense secretary doesn't know anything about the mission and possibility of the NATO forces being in South Afghanistan.
The Netherlands lost 2 soldiers on January 12 in so called friendly fire.
They were well trained men, but with 20 and 22 years of age they were only kids.
These soldiers were not trained for the Fulda Gap. The LA Times thinks that European NATO forces are trained nowadays to stop a Soviet invasion.
If that's true the countries united in NATO including the USA should blame themselves and should redefine the mission statement.
Maybe Mr. Gates never heard of a Quick Reaction Force, the Provincial Reconstruction Team and the real mission.
Wasn't it the US who don't know itself how to deal with insurgents in Iraq until David H. Petraeus, the U.S. commander in Baghdad who co-wrote the military's new counterinsurgency field manual? And this manual might be implemented in south Afghanistan? Don't they know that you never win a war from insurgents with a hit & run tactic? It's a way of living they're better adapted to compared with us staying in Afghanistan for a 3 months period.
The Netherlands has to get out there immediately, else they face a defeat like Srebrenica in 1995. But instead we extend our mission with 2 years, until the end of 2009.
Hopefully we can say mission accomplished by then.
US Defense secretary Gates said in the New York Times in this article that NATO forces don't know how to fight the insurgents. The names of the countries who are operating in the south are mentioned. The Netherlands is one of them.
In the Los Angeles Times Gates is quoted
It seems to me that the US defense secretary doesn't know anything about the mission and possibility of the NATO forces being in South Afghanistan.
The Netherlands lost 2 soldiers on January 12 in so called friendly fire.
They were well trained men, but with 20 and 22 years of age they were only kids.
These soldiers were not trained for the Fulda Gap. The LA Times thinks that European NATO forces are trained nowadays to stop a Soviet invasion.
If that's true the countries united in NATO including the USA should blame themselves and should redefine the mission statement.
Maybe Mr. Gates never heard of a Quick Reaction Force, the Provincial Reconstruction Team and the real mission.
Wasn't it the US who don't know itself how to deal with insurgents in Iraq until David H. Petraeus, the U.S. commander in Baghdad who co-wrote the military's new counterinsurgency field manual? And this manual might be implemented in south Afghanistan? Don't they know that you never win a war from insurgents with a hit & run tactic? It's a way of living they're better adapted to compared with us staying in Afghanistan for a 3 months period.
The Netherlands has to get out there immediately, else they face a defeat like Srebrenica in 1995. But instead we extend our mission with 2 years, until the end of 2009.
Hopefully we can say mission accomplished by then.
Thursday, January 04, 2007
Happy new year!
Of course mr. Reagan shouldn't have supported Iraq in it's war against Iran. By doing this, America is as guilty as can be for the crimes convicted by Hussein.
Crimes against Kurds and Shiites. His death is no solution, his executioners made a martyr of him. We all know who he was alive. So if he can be a martyr in death, even any humanitarian extremist can. That's the wrong message to the world.
Of course it's difficult if you're against deathpenalty. (I am)
But on his last moment before execution Hussein was very calm, praying with his agitating enemies on the background. And when the floor dissapeared under his feet I noticed some disbelieve by him. Or was it by me?
I wish the best in 2007 for Hnk and Najma in Mosul. They are captured in their best years of their lives so far in a war which is not theirs. I don't know what will happen, Study as hard as you can and keep on blogging.
31 December I saw my sister with her son again after 5 years. She's changed not much, only got 5 years older. We all did. But her son, he can walk, talk like a kid and being naughty like one. At 12 pm we watched the fireworks and at night we played a game. 4.00 am I went to bed.
Newyearsday for me was one to wake up at 11 am., having breakfast, a coffee with my mother and her friend and taking the train back to Utrecht. After being home, everything was okay, I took my bike and cycled for an hour. That felt good. After that messed up extended weekend.
Ocean, you too a happy new year and make it a cheerful interesting year.
Crimes against Kurds and Shiites. His death is no solution, his executioners made a martyr of him. We all know who he was alive. So if he can be a martyr in death, even any humanitarian extremist can. That's the wrong message to the world.
Of course it's difficult if you're against deathpenalty. (I am)
But on his last moment before execution Hussein was very calm, praying with his agitating enemies on the background. And when the floor dissapeared under his feet I noticed some disbelieve by him. Or was it by me?
I wish the best in 2007 for Hnk and Najma in Mosul. They are captured in their best years of their lives so far in a war which is not theirs. I don't know what will happen, Study as hard as you can and keep on blogging.
31 December I saw my sister with her son again after 5 years. She's changed not much, only got 5 years older. We all did. But her son, he can walk, talk like a kid and being naughty like one. At 12 pm we watched the fireworks and at night we played a game. 4.00 am I went to bed.
Newyearsday for me was one to wake up at 11 am., having breakfast, a coffee with my mother and her friend and taking the train back to Utrecht. After being home, everything was okay, I took my bike and cycled for an hour. That felt good. After that messed up extended weekend.
Ocean, you too a happy new year and make it a cheerful interesting year.
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