Erick Staal

Those queues are only for those from outside the EU. C'est la vie.

Het enige voordeel van asthma, bronchitis, longontsteking, etc. te hebben gehad in mijn jeugd is dat ik het wel uit mijn hoofd liet om te gaan roken. Bovendien kun je tegenwoordig van een de prijs van een paar pakjes sigaretten tegenwoordig ook uit eten in een aardig restaurant.

Dankzij het boek van deze twee geweldige vrouwen wist ik eindelijk te stoppen met mijn achterlijke zelfvernietiging.

Deze vrouwen verdienen standbeelden. Veel. Heel veel standbeelden.

One cannot be in an asymmetric alliance. Being an ally must be reciprocal.

🚨🚨" Some leaders have chosen to hunt them down and deport them through operations that are both unlawful and cruel. My government has chosen a different way: a fast and simple path to regularize their immigration status." Spanish PM Pedro #Sanchez on why #migrants are essential for Western society:

Reminder: this is the same outfit that expels and deports people for criticising a foreign government

For those who don't know, Luttig was once considered the intellectual heir to Scalia. He was about as conservative a judge as you could find...

Ja, @NRC blijft proberen te schipperen tussen liberaal en zuur-conservatief en dan krijg je twee keer net niks.

Het is niet meer dan een stakkerige poging tot demonisering. Het is gewoon lachwekkend dat de NRC dit soort gereutel durft te publiceren.

Inderdaad een stukje zo zuur als zwavelzuur.

A reminder that those who took for granted that Trump victory would be the end of Ukraine were wrong. Ukraine continues to hold Ru off despite the fact that Trump ended US aid. Ukraine has innovated and developed its military capacity, Europe has stepped up, and Ru is weaker than many assume.

Uiteindelijk haalt de echte wereld altijd de beurs in. Zowieso zijn koersen vaak op weinig gebaseerd. Een bedrijf wordt bv. nooit ineens de helft minder waard in de echte wereld bij een flashcrash op de beurs. Efficiënte markthypothese? Laat me niet lachen.

Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change. Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.”

Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life.

Common sense.

Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

Well, at least it worked somewhat for Speer: he wasn't hanged at Nuremberg but got off with 20 years.

France to ban officials from US video tools including Zoom, Teams The government wants staff to shun Silicon Valley and shift to its home-grown Visio platform instead.

France to ban officials from using American video conference tools including Zoom and Teams.

El Greco"a dramatic and mesmerising View of Toledo. ~1600. I love the threatening clouds, the hills seem about to swallow the town or perhaps slide into the Tajo below. This is one of the earliest examples of a landscape painting though not a true topographical representation.

‘We zijn mentaal gekoloniseerd geraakt,’ zegt journalist en schrijver Joris Luyendijk over Europa. Met 500 miljoen inwoners, een enorme economie, eigen scheepsvaartindustrie en topuniversiteiten zouden we alles in huis moeten hebben. Toch blijven we onszelf wijsmaken dat we klein zijn.

Barbara Kathmann staat op mijn lijstje van top 10 meest waardevolle Kamerleden.

Heel goed van al die kiezers die via NerdVote haar met voorkeursstemmen in de Kamer hebben geloodst. De volgende keer stap ik denk ik ook over van “stem op een vrouw” naar “NerdVote”.

Today, the Council formally adopted the regulation on phasing out Russian imports of both pipeline gas and liquefied natural gas (LNG) into the EU.
A key milestone in delivering the #REPowerEU objective of ending the EU’s reliance on Russian energy.

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This is brilliant but two killer lines in it:

“Peace is what the powerful ask for when they don’t want to be interrupted.”

“The scriptures you love weren’t written to keep things calm. They were written to set things right.”

Liberation Theology.

VW-Chef Blume knüpft Investitionen an Entlastung bei Zöllen Volkswagen will nur dann erneut in den Vereinigten Staaten investieren, wenn die Zölle sinken. Konzernchef Oliver Blume hält Projekte sonst nicht für finanzierbar. Das gelte auch für das geplante Audi-Werk.

Volkswagen will nur dann erneut in den Vereinigten Staaten investieren, wenn die Zölle sinken. Konzernchef Oliver Blume hält Projekte sonst nicht für finanzierbar. Das gelte auch für das geplante Audi-Werk.

This is insane…

US Dollar share of global reserve currency has fallen to its lowest levels this century.

It’s literally unprecedented.

If Governor Carney thinks he is going to make Canada a "Drop Off Port" for China to send goods and products into the United States, he is sorely mistaken. China will eat Canada alive, completely devour it, including the destruction of their businesses, social fabric, and general way of life. If Canada makes a deal with China, it will immediately be hit with a 100% Tariff against all Canadian goods and products coming into the U.S.A. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DJT

Trump’s back to threatening 100% tariffs on Canada this morning, wow I can’t imagine why the Canadians now see the Chinese as a more reliable trade partner

From Mike Norton on Twitter: Empty car sitting at the intersection of 35th and Pillsbury with its flashers on. There are these ghost cars all over Minneapolis right now from ICE snatching people out of their vehicle in the middle of the street.

This is so fucking haunting.

Because “we” have very small willies, and they try to compensate. Poor guys.

It was impossible to seize Russian tankers until it all of a sudden wasn't.
Yet another proof that when leaders refer to international laws and conventions, as they long did regarding the tankers, it's usually complete nonsense. What matters is political will.

'The AI ate my homework.'

Too many moons to the mid-terms.

Carney is a grown-up. He'll probably said to himself: 'So predictable, that boy'.

From the EU only Hungary, but that is, alas, to be expected. Rumours about Bulgaria are therefore unfounded.