About the amazing and very different ways the Dutch opposition leader Thierry Baudet was recently attacked by a Ukrainian terrorist and the Dutch media. How he survived both attacks might possibly turn against long term pm Mark Rutte. General elections are November 22, 2023. Link to one and a half minute video with Klaus Schwab… Continue reading Water, Gender and so on, the Sequel
Old Dutch Painter’s Blog
Sharing their god or their hatred?
The first video here that also serves as a basis for a podcast: a podcast in Dutch from an English subtitled video. It deals with the similarities, the relationships and the differences among those Abrahamic Religions. The reason to make this video and podcast NOW is of course October 7, 2023: the terrorist attack on… Continue reading Sharing their god or their hatred?
The difference between Beheading & Decapitation and between Wrong & Evil
Babies. In incubators. The stories about Jewish babies beheaded or not by Hamas reminded me of very different events happening 23 years apart. The first being the murder of Lee Rigby in London (2013): hence the photo above. The second was the occupation of Kuwait by the Iraqi army in 1990. I write about the… Continue reading The difference between Beheading & Decapitation and between Wrong & Evil
The hatred between Sunnis and Shiites in Egypt
OR: the self-evidence of totalitarianism in the Mohammedan world This is the English version, shortened and slightly updated, of a Dutch text I wrote in August 2013. “More than two years ago I wrote a rather long and in-depth article [in Dutch] entitled Arab Spring or Mohammedan Autumn?That was well before Morsi, as candidate for… Continue reading The hatred between Sunnis and Shiites in Egypt
Phosphorus Fertilizer and ‘Prepping’
I have quite a few houseplants in my living room. On my tiny balcony, in addition to ornamental plants, I have plants for consumption too. I purchased the spathiphyllum specimen shown here over ten years ago and it did produce some flowers every year. Inspired by my ‘microscopic‘ horticultural activities and observations, a few weeks… Continue reading Phosphorus Fertilizer and ‘Prepping’
Impression of a surreal reality
No Old Dutch Painter from the 17th century –or any other century before the twentieth– could have created a painting like this! For a host of reasons. Nothing even remotely resembling what can be seen here under that cloud cover existed yet. Those colossal high-voltage pylons, which are dwarfed by the overwhelming number of even… Continue reading Impression of a surreal reality