Link to the long text about the admirer of Emperor Constantine. Direct link to 2003 New York Times article.
Month: December 2022
Elephants in courtrooms -3-: “Legitimate aims”
This is the third article on the European Court of Human Rights and judicial activism. To start with the conclusion: we have to get rid of this Court. Not because everything these ladies and gentlemen say is equally nonsensical. But because of their judicial activism. Even more so because it suits so many politicians perfectly… Continue reading Elephants in courtrooms -3-: “Legitimate aims”
The very little known ‘Atatürk’
How coincidental do you want it?In October 1927, Kemal Mustapha gave a speech that lasted six days. Yes, Fidel Castro certainly fell short of that with his six or eight hour speeches. When I was preparing my book “IS, the Kurds and the Caliphate. Turkey: from sick occupant to paranoid neighbor”. [The footer contains a… Continue reading The very little known ‘Atatürk’
Total preemptive war, to outsmart evolution
When it comes to the phenomenon called ‘Gain of Function’ criminal is even still an understatement. It is pure evil. Hence the title. A couple of months ago three versions of the book “Viral. The Search for the Origin of COVID-19” were number 1, 2 and 3 in Amazon’s bestsellers’ list. In Bacteriology …. Direct link… Continue reading Total preemptive war, to outsmart evolution
Inspiration
Visiting Malta to get inspiration for my faction novel, this was the first photo I took of the capital, Valletta. Work was underway on the impossibly thick wall surrounding the new capital, which the Maltese started to build immediately after the Ottoman invasion of the island was repelled in 1565.So a restaurant was built IN… Continue reading Inspiration
Elephants in courtrooms – II video
Reading the long text can easily take a quarter of an hour. You can watch the video first. Here is the link to the Long Text itself.
Finding that look in his eyes
Preparing a fourteen fold portrait of the great Frank Zappa I produced the preliminary you see below. The (black and white) reference photo you see in the middle of the photo above was (too) small. So I studied the (photo) of a statutue of him and close-up photos of eyes like those on the right.… Continue reading Finding that look in his eyes
Elephants in courtrooms – II
The first episode [1] of Elephants in Courtrooms was about Pastafarism and the Dutch Council of State. This episode is kind of a sequel. The judges who came up with the verdict criticised in episode I referred extensively to the ‘European’ ECHR. That organisation is the subject of this episode. For substantiation, the Dutch judges… Continue reading Elephants in courtrooms – II
Sensible gender signs on toilets
I came across them in a former school building. The left door is for the pissoir, the other for the WC that one is supposed to sit on. But in the war over the toilets in the context of the transgenderism agenda, it is of course not about those small spaces in which that exit… Continue reading Sensible gender signs on toilets
Elephants in Courtrooms-I (video)
Warnings based on developments in the Netherlands.To what extend justice systems can be abused you can derive from these developments. This video is intended to draw your attention to a longer text translated from Dutch.