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Dutch city decides to ‘diversify’ street names because too many honor ‘white Western men’

07-02-19 08:24:00,

The liberal council of Rotterdam has passed a new “diversity” measure which ensures that all new streets in the densely populated Dutch city will be named to reflect the its “cultural diversity.”

A year after the proposal was introduced by Councilor Nadia Arsieni of the “liberal progressive” D66 party, Rotterdam City Council has confirmed that it’s adopting the measure.

(The initiative to rename more streets to female and culturally diverse heroes has been embraced! Nice that @bertwijbenga has accepted the proposal from @D66Rotterdam, @groenlinksrdam @pvdarotterdam @SPRotterdam @NidaRotterdam)

“In order to give substance to more cultural diversity, the policy rules stipulate that the attribution of names of women and other underrepresented groups from society should be preferred for personal names,” Rotterdam’s Deputy Mayor Bert Wijbenga wrote in a letter to the City Council.

An abundance of streets named in honor of white men is historically understandable, a pamphlet on the initiative admits. However, it adds that “women and people with a migrant background” have come to make up a huge portion of the population in the last few decades, and “they deserve recognition in the streets… and are a source of inspiration.”

(New streets in Rotterdam will be named after women and minorities)

Rotterdam is one of the most heavily migrant-populated cities in Europe, with nearly half of its population being foreign-born. The demographics of the city have shifted dramatically in recent years, particularly around its massive port, which is the largest in Europe.

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While the politicians congratulated themselves on the effort to back diversity, a number of their constituents were not as thrilled. Many commenters on Twitter felt that the initiative was “erasing” Dutch history. They also questioned why gender and skin-color should be deemed more decisive than what a person actually contributed toDutch society.

Although they were probably not what the council had in mind, some people had suggestions for possible street names.

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The Dutch debate on Syria at the parliament, where it was not about war crimes conducted in Syria, but administrative errors – FREESURIYAH

Posted by EN-AB in Dutch, Syria

03-10-18 07:36:00,

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Yesterday the debate was held in the Dutch parliament about Syria, the support they gave to the so-called Syrian Rebels and their alleged warcrimes. First of all a few personal reflections, on the debate.

Right after the debate had started you could notice, how divided the Netherlands is. I would almost call it a sectarian partition of the so-called Dutch society and politics. For non-Dutch citizens it would look like an urealistic clownish theater show, with many political parties with their own sectarian agenda , how could one expect to compromise and how can you expect that they have any “human” feeling, with the Syrian people? They are pre-occupied with their own rules of power and bureaucracy, only care about rules (complicated ones) and not speaking about people, but “lessons to be learned”, if the second WW wasn’t bad enough or Sebrenica, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Yemen, these people, who call themselves politicians and people’s representatives, only care for their own small group of people and unable to govern a country on ethics and humanity, the only common factor, or common ground, is money and taxes and that is about it! A political multinational, based on so-called “democracy prinicipals, they once read, long time ago, in books of the old Greek philosphers and constantly use and misuse this word”. It turned out to be a bunch of opinions unable to govern in a humanistic way. There was only one or two Parliament members who stood above the sectarian issue which downplayed in the parliament, that’s all!

The debate opened with, an example for sectarian rule, a representative of the Socialist Party, a representative from Kurdish origin, she straight away came in conflict with the representative of the pro-Turkish party called DENK. You can imagine the issue: the Kurdish MP brought up the murder on the people of Sheik Maqsood (Kurdish neighborhood in Aleppo), as if the whole of Syria and the warcrimes committed by Jihadist (still called rebels), is the only group together with Jabhat Al Shamiya who committed crimes, Jahbat Al Shamiya was and is part of the Levant group,

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Findings of the Dutch inquiry about war crimes and involvement of the Dutch Government in Syria – FREESURIYAH

Posted by EN-AB in Dutch, Findings

28-09-18 05:43:00,

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Yesterday there was an inquiry at the Dutch Parliament, about alleged warcrimes committed in Syria, the Dutch Government was sending lethal and non-lethal aid during the period 2015-2018.

The hearing was at the Dutch parliament, almost all representatives on foreign affairs from the Dutch political parties were present.

Before reading the report below, an overview what happened and why there was an inquiry:

The most biggest crimes have happened, to unleash terrorist, trained and funded by western countries, like the Netherlands.

The regular (Dutch) MSM highlights only one group, which is a rather not significant group Jabhat al-Shamiya https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levant_Front, who was resolved, in 2015, after the SAA won the battle of Aleppo, but of course they went on as Ahrar-as-Sham and now Tahrir-as-Sham, being part of ISIS.

Someone, a source, leaked from the parliament to the regualar MSM and it is now public that the Netherlands, with most other western countries and the US, is according, to some experts who spoke yesterday, most likely quilty of giving assistance, funding and aid to Jihadi groups, which they still call moderate rebels, who committed war crimes and crimes against humanity.

As a caputerd terrorist (IS) admitted, all groups, no matter what name or ideology, emerged with ISIS, as soon as ISIS enterd their “battle ground” or territory! (see below article).

How Syria won in the Netherlands

The hearing started with some Dutch Journalists, who tolled their story in Dutch, about what they experienced, which is not the complete picture, because, both of them, did not enter Syria after 2015 and didn’t visit the area’s which was and is controlled by the Syrian government!

As one journalist said, after 2015 it was nearly impossible to enter the area’s who were controlled by the so-called rebels, it turns out, according to their statements that the area’s were controlled by Al-Queda, Jahbat-al-Nusra and the Levant group (which is nearly all the same). They reported mainly from Beirout, Lebanon, and therefore it can’t be verified,

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Dutch Memorial Day: Erasing People After Death

Posted by NL-AG in Dutch, Memorial

17-08-18 04:10:00,

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As the anniversary of Indonesian independence from the Netherlands approaches, a close look reveals a Dutch narrative that erases people along racial lines.

Indonesia declared independence from the Netherlands on Aug. 17, 1945. This followed 350 years of Dutch East India Company control and Dutch state rule, as well as Japanese occupation during WWII.

After the declaration, the Netherlands waged a war to re-establish colonial control over Indonesia. The war, whose dead included Indonesians killed by summary execution, cost an estimated 300,000 Indonesian lives compared with around 6,000 casualties on the Dutch side.

In Indonesia, national identity has been built around anti-colonial sentiment, and the history of Dutch violence is taught and discussed. There was much Indonesian attention for a court-ordered Dutch apology in 2011 for the 1947 massacres in Rawagede and for execution pictures that surfaced in 2012. Indonesian violence toward the Dutch is emphasized less, but not ignored.

How does the Netherlands deal with this history?

As a social scientist and director of Dutch and Flemish studies at the University of Michigan, I ask this question in my writing and teaching about issues of inclusion in the Dutch-language area.

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The answer to that question: The Netherlands ignores the sacrifices of Indonesians. Here’s how and why.

Paid Independence

The Indonesian War of Independence of 1945-1949 ended with the signing of an internationally mediated independence agreement requiring Indonesia to take over the Dutch East India government’s debt,

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Dutch Official Admits Lying about Meeting With Putin: is Fake News Used by Russia or About Russia?

Posted by EN-AG in Dutch, Russia

12-02-18 07:38:00,

Every empire needs a scary external threat, led by a singular menacing villain, to justify its massive military expenditures, consolidation of authoritarian powers, and endless wars. For the five decades after the end of World War II, Moscow played this role perfectly. But the fall of Soviet Union meant, at least for a while, that the Kremlin could no longer sustain sufficient fear levels. After some brief, largely unsuccessful auditions for possible replacements — Asian actors like China and a splurging Japan were considered — the post-9/11 era elevated a cast of Muslim understudies to the starring role: Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, ISIS and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and “jihadism” generally kept fear alive.

The lack of any 9/11-type catastrophic attack on U.S. (or any Western) soil for the past 17 years, along with the killing of a pitifully aged, ailing bin Laden and the erosion of ISIS, has severely compromised their ongoing viability as major bad guys. So now — just as a film studio revitalizes a once-successful super-villain franchise for a new generation of moviegoers — we’re back to the Russians occupying center stage.

That Barack Obama spent eight years (including up through his final year-end news conference) mocking the notion that Russia posed a serious threat to the U.S. given their size and capabilities, and that he even tried repeatedly to accommodate and partner with Russian President Vladimir Putin, is of no concern: In the internet age, “2016” is regarded as ancient history, drowned out by an endless array of new threats pinned by a united media on the Russkie Plague. Moreover, human nature craves a belief in an existential foreign threat because it confers a sense of purpose and cause, strengthens tribal unity and identity, permits scapegoating, shifts blame for maladies from internal to external causes, and (like religion) offers a simplifying theory for understanding a complex world.

One of the prime accusations sustaining this script is that the Kremlin is drowning the West in “fake news” and other forms of propaganda. One can debate its impact and magnitude, but disinformation campaigns are something the U.S., Russia, and countless other nations have done to one another for centuries, and there is convincing evidence that Russia does this sort of thing now.

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