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’
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First Exposition
Cute. I showed some paintings in a nicely positioned booth at this exposition called Nationale Kunstdagen (National Art days) in Gorcum, but I was bothered by people who walked too close around the corner and so too close to the paintings. The organization found the graceful improvised barrier I added sufficiently ‘creative’.
Stupid, partisan fact checkers can be right
About racism, not 100% nonsensical political statements and counter productive slander. Links: The clip and its source on YouTube: The original fact check P.S.: The ‘featured’ image accompanying this video is a still from a video by the Dutch governments broadcaster ‘NOS’. Many photos were made of the incident in parliament, but remarkably Google could… Continue reading Stupid, partisan fact checkers can be right
Grr
At first I wondered from which country this numberplate could be. Only three letters means: less than 17576, probably less than 8000 cars in all of the country. At home I saw the Porsche owner made his own modifications. Should we call it streetart?
Varnishing 4 very different oilpaintings
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And so it started …
Update(d) March 2024. This video is about a promotional interview a ‘professional influencer’ called Leila Conners had with ‘climate-scientist’ Stephen Schneider. It contains this crucial time-line: 2006 L.Conner interviews SS Source,TreeTV 2010 Stephen Schneider † Just one of those many, many post mortem eulogies 2014 IPPC canonises Schneider The report 2018 Dutch version of this… Continue reading And so it started …