There are a number of topics I have been wanting to blog about for ages, but I never get around to it. Some because I just don’t have had the time or the right priorities to get it written, some because it would actually require a lot of research to be a reasonable blog post. [...]
There are a number of topics I have been wanting to blog about for ages, but I never get around to it. Some because I just don’t have had the time or the right priorities to get it written, some because it would actually require a lot of research to be a reasonable blog post. [...]
A Dutch guy might become mayor in Germany, where the mayor is properly elected, no “appointed by the King” as in the Netherlands, and where according to the law any EU citizen can stand in the elections. Quite an advancement on the Dutch situation. Now the only thing that’s puzzling me is why one would [...]
Here’s an interesting article about how a radical muslim group in Indonesia capitalizes on the Merapi disaster by assisting villagers to build up their village to gain goodwill, and how this new goodwill will longterm be a terrorism threat. The article makes sense – as I understand, Hamas in Palestine gained popular support in a [...]
Ik heb al twintig keer gedacht dat ik echt eens een post wilde schrijven over de coalitie-onderhandelingen, maar kom er steeds niet aan toe. Vandaag zijn er echter alweer erg interessante ontwikkelingen – onder andere een vreemde wending in de houding van Ruud Lubbers en een pleidooi voor links van Emile Roemer – dus dan nu [...]