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Het alternatief op drasties. Is uw ikje niet geplaatst door het NRC dan kunt u het publiceren op drasties in de categorie Trots Op Ikje. Opsturen via ‘contact us’.

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Dutch schoolchildren have less knowledge of the political system compared with their European peers but trust their government more than children in other European countries. Schoolchildren in Vlaanderen and the Netherlands are the most negative towards migrants.
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by patrick chappatte - the international herald tribune

by pavel constantin - romania

The world is going through the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. America lost 8 million jobs and $17 trillion in retirement savings mainly thanks to the irresponsible fiscal policies of George W. Bush and Congressional Republicans. But according to Republican House Minority Leader John Boehner the financial crisis is an ‘ant’:

Boehner criticized the financial regulatory overhaul compromise reached last week between House and Senate negotiators as an overreaction to the financial crisis that triggered the recession. The bill would tighten restrictions on lending, create a consumer protection agency with broad oversight power and give the government an orderly way to dissolve the largest financial institutions if they run out of money.
“This is killing an ant with a nuclear weapon,” Boehner said. What’s most needed is more transparency and better enforcement by regulators, he said.

On The Gavel, the blog of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Karina writes, “An ant, Mr. Boehner? [read on] (more…)

This weekend President Obama attended the G-20 Summit on international economic cooperation in Toronto. Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann fears that the 20 countries were really working to set up “a one world government.” In an interview on Scott Hennen’s radio show today, Bachman declared that “President Obama is trying to bind the United States into a global economy”:

BACHMANN: What really concerned me was Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said that we don’t want to see one country’s economy doing better than another. What? This is the U.S. Treasury Secretary? We don’t want to see Zimbabwe’s economy do better than the United States? Aren’t we supposed to be about the United States and making sure that our economy can be the greatest in the world. If you look at the G20, what they’re trying to do is bind together the world’s economies. Look how that played out in the European Union when they bound all of those nations economies together and one of the smallest economies, Greece, when they got into trouble, that one little nation is bringing down the entire EU. Well, President Obama is trying to bind the United States into a global economy where all of our nations come together in a global economy. I don’t want the United States to be in a global economy where, where our economic future is bound to that of Zimbabwe. I can’t, we can’t necessarily trust the decisions that are being made financially in other countries.

Matt Yglesias: “The existence of a global economy in which events outside our borders impact us is not something Barack Obama dreamed up, and the idea that having world leaders gather for occasional meetings constitutes a ‘one world government’ is insane.”
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het weer nu

Reageren op ikjes. Hier kunt u reageren op het ‘ikje’ dat vandaag is gepubliceerd op de Achterpagina van het NRC Handelsblad. Op de NRC-site kan niet meer worden gereageerd op het stukje dat door de lezers zelf wordt ingezonden.
Het alternatief op drasties. Is uw ikje niet geplaatst door het NRC dan kunt u het publiceren op drasties in de categorie Trots Op Ikje. Opsturen via ‘contact us’.

Volgens onderstaande video worden er dagelijks 2.200 kinderen vermist in de Verenigde Staten. Wat daar aan te doen? Zie hier het Amerikaanse antwoord op deze problematiek.

Verslaggever Tom Mctague van The Mirror ging Oranje supporteren tijdens Nederland - Slowakije. Nederlanders zijn namelijk net Engelsen, aldus Tom, alleen kunnen ze beter voetballen. Hij bekeek de wedstrijd in De Hems Dutch Bar in Soho, Central London. Het leek precies op een Engelse pub… stampvol met bierdrinkende mensen. Maar dan wel zonder de constante dreiging van geweld in de lucht en zonder het voortdurende braken van dronken supporters. Zaken die gebruikelijk zijn bij voetbal in een Engelse pub. Oftewel, het was bijna beschaafd.

Our man decides to go Dutch

“Hup, Holland, Hup!” Or to you and me: “Go, Holland, Go.”
England are out of the World Cup but we can’t let the rest of this tournament carry on without supporting someone. So who better than our footballmad neighbours in the Netherlands? They speak better English than us, love a pint of beer or four and have a record of under-performing at the World Cup.
They’re practically English - just better at football. [read on] (more…)

ABC Grandstand, Australia - Another World Cup match, another understated showing from the Netherlands.
For years, the Dutch have been a second-favourite of many football fans, bred from their great teams led by Johan Cruyff in the 1970s. In World Cups past, there was a degree of affection for a side that would delight and dismay in equal measure, with attacking players of genuine quality paired up with inconsistent defenders.
But in 2010, a lot may be scratching their heads over what type of football we’re witnessing from Die Oranje. [read on] (more…)

by olle johansson - sweden

by alexandr zudin, russia

Unconfirmed reports of an imminent Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities pick up steam in the Middle Eastern media. And a US-based strategic intelligence company has released a chart showing US naval carriers massing near Iranian waters.
The chart, published by Stratfor and obtained by the Zero Hedge financial blog, shows that over the last few weeks a naval carrier — the USS Harry S Truman — has been positioned in the north Indian Ocean, not far from the Strait of Hormuz, which leads into the Persian Gulf. The carrier joins the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, which was already located in the area. The chart is dated June 23, 2010.
Reports of mass movements of Israeli and US naval warships have been circulating through the media for weeks. On June 19, the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz reported that 12 US and Israeli warships were seen moving through the Suez Canal from the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea.

Wat maakt iemand een terrorist? Wanneer zijn mensen die anderen bombarderen, beroven en doden terroristen en wanneer zijn het vrijheidsstrijders?
Glenn Greenwald duikt in de historie van de Joodse Irgun naar aanleiding van een opmerking van de Israelische oppositieleider Tzipi Livni.

Fun and games with the “terrorism” label

I’ve written numerous times about how “terrorism” is the most meaningless and most manipulated word in the political lexicon; the best demonstration of this dynamic is the work of NYU’s Remi Brulin, whose dissertation documents how Western governments and media outlets have applied the term so inconsistently and self-servingly. One of the principal dangers of the Supreme Court’s recent, free-speech-decimating decision in Humanitarian Law Project is that Terrorism means whatever the U.S. Government says it means: they create the list of off-limit Terrorist groups and they essentially have unfettered, un-reviewable discretion to do so. That’s because the word is so ill-defined and manipulated that it’s impoverished of any real meaning. [read on] (more…)

het weer nu

Reageren op ikjes. Hier kunt u reageren op het ‘ikje’ dat vandaag is gepubliceerd op de Achterpagina van het NRC Handelsblad. Op de NRC-site kan niet meer worden gereageerd op het stukje dat door de lezers zelf wordt ingezonden.
Het alternatief op drasties. Is uw ikje niet geplaatst door het NRC dan kunt u het publiceren op drasties in de categorie Trots Op Ikje. Opsturen via ‘contact us’.

Lekker stappen in Amsterdam, Op de muliculti Zeedijk. Eten bij zo’n echte chinees. Smullen van grote oesters met gember, soja, bosuitjes en sambal. Heerlijk! Het is een druk restaurant, medelanders in fraai coloriet bevolken de zaak. Gewoon met papieren tafelkleden en t.l. verlichting.
Rechts van me 2 skinheads, indringend kijken ze me voortdurend aan. Eigenlijk voel ik me niet op m’n gemak. Ik pak maar geen peking-eend waarvoor ik gekomen ben., Ik vraag de rekening en verlaat snel de zaak, op weg naar een volgende leuke tent.
Hoor ik roepen, ‘hè mijnheer, u hebt uw portemonnaie vergeten, hier is ie. Niet meer laten liggen ouwe!’ Breedlachend geven de hanekammen m’n knip terug. Ik geneerde me kapot!

Mario de Kort

De grote vraag in Zuid-Afrika, nu het land er zelf uit ligt, is: wie gaat Nelson Mandela supporteren. Wel, JdeW kan u verzekeren dat het Oranje is. Wist u dat Mandela niet alleen perfect Afrikaans spreekt maar ook heel goed Nederlands? Dus niet alleen de Afrikaners steunen Nederland maar ook het merendeel van de zwarte Afrikanen. “It’s my language and culture”, aldus Clive Solomon. Merietjie Serfontein: “The whole country may not be rooting for Holland - maybe just 99%.”
Overigens: Merietjie is een man.

South Africa Forgives the Dutch

Bloemfontein, South Africa - Since South Africa’s team departed the World Cup, conventional wisdom has it that fans here are rooting for Ghana, the continent’s only team remaining in the tournament.
But actually, an enormous percentage of South Africans are rooting for the Netherlands, which plays Slovakia on Monday in Durban. Some of that support comes predictably from whites of Dutch descent such as Merietjie Serfontein, who attended the Netherlands’ first match to root for the Oranje on the South African soil. “The whole country may not be rooting for Holland—maybe just 99%,” he said. [read on] (more…)

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