www.msn.com/en-gb/news/w... a wacky character with too much money, and power hungry - even when using proxies like US VP

www.indiatoday.in/trending-new... How large parts of the world see the unusual campaign-for-himself to get the Nobel he thinks he deserves. In Dutch we say when educating our children: "Those who ask are skipped"

I love Jane Fonda for this. www.cnn.com/2025/10/01/e...

Bully Trump will NEVER get the Nobel Peace Prize. A Nobel Prize for Trump would equate bestowing a Nobel Prize on Mengele if the NAZI doctor had invented a cure for HIV! Trump is equally DISQUALIFIED as is Mengele. And, to mention some others: Netanyahu, Hamas, Putin, Assad or Kagame.

www.msn.com/en-in/news/w... Bully Trump eyes the Nobel Peace Prize, in 3rd attempt. Embracing Putin and bullying Zelensky will not get him there! The Peace Prize Committee will consider the war crimes by ally Israel, disrespecting the sovereignty of smaller States: no Peace Prize!

www.msn.com/en-gb/news/w... To note where the violence came from in the Mormon temple shooting and in so many more cases !

www.msn.com/en-gb/news/w... The invasion of Iraq did not do good to any-one! The motives and the psychological state of the Mormon church shooter should not be hidden from the public. The MAGA attempts to portray it as ´Christianity under attack´ should be countered.

www.msn.com/en-gb/news/w... Musk now has shed all his false feathers and stands naked for every-one to be seen as what he really is: an extremist Christian crusader, white supremacist and anti-semite as wel as islamophobe. #1 in the pack of anti-democratic tech moguls

The Disney brand, and the USA brand, sinking together. Parody from Dutch TV www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vRX...

passblue.com/2025/09/18/t... Readworthy piece by a fmr. US Ambassador to the UN. Yes, the UN must go forward and survive without the USA for now, at least; problematic is the proposed increased private sector funding and expertise + AI: replacing dependence on USA with that on big business ...

www.theafricareport.com/390046/trump... Article by soutafrican journalist Carien du Plessis about the cazy Trump scheme to bring white southafricans - afrikaanders - also "boers" (farmers in Dutch, but not all farmers) to the USA as "refugees".In 1992 I assisted real refugees return to South Africa

When going to Portugal: visit the Aljube Museum. The museum about the political persecution during the Salazer dictatorship: shows how fascists get a foothold, then invade all aspects of life; very relevant TODAY with the rise of autocratic regimes. www.museudoaljube.pt :Lisbon off the tourist track

www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2025/04... Crazy: giving in to the big BULLY will not help. The UN should not cave in to pressure from its FORMER largest donor, it can not rescind its principals, and not give up core SDG!

www.msn.com/en-ca/autos/... Tesla sales continue to nose dive in Europe! Globally Tesla sales down 60,000 units (14%) compared to Q2 2024; production 410k adding 26,000 Tesla vehicles waiting for a buyer. That is consumer power! Austin robo-taxi roll out is a scam: Musk-noise ment to keep stock up

www.msn.com/en-gb/news/w... One should not give in to the bully T demands for increased % of GDP to spend on the military: no peace comes with the war mongering, no peace comes with the promotion of the military-industrial complex!

www.msn.com/en-gb/travel... There are many other travel destinations beyond the USA: take Greenland for example. or just the former allies in the good old Europe with culture and history!

www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2... Good for Spain!!!!

Graph with data on immigration, emigration, the net migration, natural growth, population growth and number of asylim seekers in The Netherlands 2002 - 2024. Asylum around 10% of migrants. Shows clearly how refugee theme is abused by the populist politicians as a "refugee crisis" (data: cbs.nl)

www.msn.com/en-gb/news/w... This is a nice one! And as Guyana, French Guyana, is French and thus European Union, why not Puerto Rico? Holland has three municipalities in the carribean!

www.passblue.com/2025/06/09/a... Should the current crisis in the UN lead to a merger of UNHCR with IOM? Is UNHCR´s protection mandate, and its work as rights-based non-political agency at risk under the changes that may come from the UN80 reform initiative? Opinion piece published on PassBlue:

Love is love. Biology is complicated. Gender is whatever you make it.

www.msn.com/en-gb/news/w... WRONG! Disappointing and unnecessary to give in to bully Musk & bully Trump!

www.alternet.org/megyn-kelly-... Amazing the amount of spine-less people, or rather the way money talks. The Trump followers are like an evangelical church: handing in any part of indepent brain they had in order to kneel and receive the blessings. Once you are in difficult to get out.

www.msn.com/en-gb/news/w... Former US Ambassador to South Africa speaking out about the ridiculous "Afrikaander refugees" scheme by Trump: this interview was given on the eve of SA President Ramaphosa visiting USA

www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025... Reading tip: Stephen Grootes in DM about visit Southafrican President to WH: Ramaphosa in some way representing an entire continent, as Grootes says; the Trump&Musk lies about SA and the racism cannot remain unanswered; no trade of principles for trade

www.msn.com/en-gb/news/w... Larger question than the prohibition of these so-called "Reichsburger" is the action the German State, the German democracy, should take against the AfD, the largest opposition party -supported by Musk&Vance c.s.- classified as extremist by the german Verfassungsschutz

Bluesky what is wrong with you? Bluesky should not become "Parship" or similar. Bluesky should remain platform for discussion and information sharing. How does it come that EVERY DAY I have new followers (f) who have no posts other than bikini pictures! I do not think my profile causes this

www.msn.com/en-za/news/o... Fossil fuels again. Same wave as the drill drill of bully T. Who will reap most benefits from such projects???

www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025... South Africa should NOT have allowed teams of USA into the country to select the Afrikaner "refugees" (as was reported by NYT) These are certainly NOT refugees under the 1951 Convention definition. Elon Musk instigated attack on democratic post-apartheid SA

www.dw.com/en/holocaust... We lost an impressive defender of human rights, of humanity, of equality of people of all beliefs; a survivor of the holocaust who continued to speak out until two days before her death. An example for all of us. Most relevant in current times.

www.msn.com/en-gb/money/... The FIFA bosses are known for their quest of importance, licking a... and corruption; in any normal global organisation would be unthinkable to suck up to the President of one country. Bully T opposes principles of diversity & respect that FIFA and UEFA officially adopted

www.msn.com/en-gb/news/w... Trump of course unaware of the qualification process for the Soccer World Cup.. qualifications are ongoing and Russia is not participating because it is banned.... NO WILD CARDS in soccer!

www.msn.com/en-gb/news/w... Iran already qualified! That means if assurances of Trump count for anything that Iranians will be given visa to attend the event. More countries whose citizens normally "qualify" for one-way ticket to El Salvador are going to qualify .... How will FIFA "help" Trump?

A posting on Bluesky each day keeps the doctor away.

www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025... Crazier by the day: a tariff (100%) on "non-USA" movies ... what do you import if a movie is shown in the USA? How to calculate? With all streaming services, that overpowered old distribution systems, mostly US companies, appears difficult to implement.

open.substack.com/pub/thelastm... Substack by a friend about the Peace Corps

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e... Slide downhill continues, where will it end?

www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025... To note that USA Gov. was already 2.7 billion USD in arrears at the end of the Biden Administration! Relocation HQ functions, until now frozen on WWII and late-colonial-times geo-political situation is one of necessary steps to fight back and remain relevant

www.globaldispatches.org/p/trump-is-c... As I already expected Trump-USA is now oppsing the SDG, with all 180 degree policy reversals we have seen from Trump the last 100 days it is not more than logical.... but what will the UN SG do to reaffirm the SDG with the large majority of UN Member States?!

www.msn.com/en-gb/news/w... Zuckerberg - once again- showing his lack of character, and if he once stood behind the initiative he funded, he is showing lack of backbone. (the donations to this school were only "pocket money" for him)

Microsoft´s heist: increasing the subscription price by 30%, 30 Euro, because of it´s inclusion of AI Co-Pilot. With over 340 million users globally, Microsoft raking in 10.3 billion Euro (/USD): paying off most of it´s investment in Co-Pilot in ONE year! You can opt out by changing subscription

Meta (=Mark & Co) upping their game: data grabbing from all users of any product of Meta, unless objected to (for the future), and if some-one else has your info, picture or text, and does not object it falls in Meta´s hands as "legitimate interest" of Meta to improve their AI. Time to leave Meta

Elon Musk's Plan B when Tesla sales meltdown goes further?

kuenste-im-exil.de/KIE/Content/... Like the architects and artists linked to Bauhaus were forced into exile by the NAZI, scientists and independent artistic minds are now under pressure to seek asylum in countries where they are welcome and can continue their work. The loss for the USA, gain for ...

www.nu.nl/buitenland/6... Reported in Dutch media: huge interest among scientists from USA for scientific asylum offered by French university. Many options available to live as "God in France" (as saying in Dutch goes), and for your kids to learn a new language 😃

www.publico.pt/2025/04/10/s... USA sends ideological questionnaire to Portuguese universities and cancels program with Técnico. Questionnaire from the Trump Administration about “climate agendas”, “contacts with communist and socialist parties” and relations with the UN, China, Iran and Russia.

In the Netherlands there are at least 128 J.F. Kennedy roads (Kennedyplein/straat/laan/singel/dreef/plantsoen). F.D. Roosevelt, brings it to 60, Pres. Wilson trails with 3. No Lyndon B. Johnson street, no Nixon Boulevard. No Bush, no Trump: the latter is not going to get a road with his name so soon

"A people yielding to tyrants, will lose more than life and property, Then the light goes out." Text in Dutch on a Monument in Amsterdam Original by resistance hero and journalist H.M. Van Randwijk: "een volk dat voor tirannen zwicht, zal meer dan lijf en goed verliezen, dan dooft het licht."