BREAKING NEWS: Mayor of Dutch Town threatens Putin’s daughter because of MH-17.
One sees a slow process of nations moving towards another war, is this what my dad felt when he undertook an adventurous bike ride through Rhineland, passed through Mannheim, Strasburg and Freiburg into Basel Switzerland in 1935. He wasn’t at ease from his analysis of radio broadcasts. Just like my interest to listen and watch the propaganda from all sides, I see my dad late at night with his ear to a Philips short-wave radio and dial from one station to the next. He listened to all major capitals in the western world.
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During the German occupation 1940-45, radios were forbidden, so my dad
took it apart and stored in a small space of the stairs. (Erres/Philips model 1946)
Shortly before the German invasion and occupation of Holland, he was drafted during a general mobilization of Dutch forces and served as a guard at the Moerdijkbrug over a main water artery. One of the crucial spots of a defense line along the length of the Rhine and its arteries.
At the pace the western powers have utilised military power instead of succesful diplomacy, the world has become a dangerous place. I believe another major war is on the horizon as the hawks are clearly in a majority. Just now learned of another example of a person of leadership, jumps the shark and has gone mad!
This is totally unacceptable, the daughter of Putin has lived a secluded life near Leiden and in no way deserves to be threatened. This is not fitting in any society, certainly not in The Netherlands which claims to be tolerant to persons of all political views, faith and gender. The country of Islamophobe Geert Wilders has changed forever. Mark Rutte, the petty PM of the liberal conservative VVD party has grown biceps the last week agitating Putin and listening to instructions from the White House. Plenty of rhetoric, he lacks in deeds promised to search for bodies at the crashsite near Donetsk. Today he even apologised for keeping parliament in the dark of his plans to send armed guards/forces into rebel area of Ukraine. Unbelievable what a bunch of crap.
Waiting for Mayor Boertjes to resign, I won’t be holding my breath.
Mayor of Dutch Town threatens Putin’s daughter because of MH-17
(The Guardian) – Dutch frustration with Russia in the wake of the MH17 crash is taking on an increasingly personal note, as some called for Vladimir Putin’s daughter to be deported from the Netherlands.
Pieter Broertjes [Labor Party PvdA], the mayor of the city of Hilversum, used a radio interview on Wednesday morning to call for 29-year-old Maria Putin, who is said to live in Voorschoten with her Dutch boyfriend, to be thrown out of the country.
Broertjes later apologised for his remarks via Twitter, saying they were “not wise”, but adding that “they stemmed from a feeling of helplessness that many will recognise”.
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Ukrainians living in Holland have also called for a peaceful protest outside Putin’s daughter’s flat, according to De Telegraaf newspaper. It published a photograph of the apartment complex where Maria is said to live alongside the article on Monday.[Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf is ultra-right wing and has a messy history of collaboration pre-war with the NSB and the German Nazi occupier. The paper was banned post-war but relieved in 1949 and continued in its anti-communism rhetoric. These are hay-days for the paper. – Oui]
Very little is known about the Russian president’s two daughters, Maria and Yekaterina, who are completely sheltered from media attention and have never been officially photographed as adults.
But there have been persistent rumours linking Maria with Dutch citizen Jorrit Faassen. Dutch media claimed that Putin visited the couple last year, something his spokesman denied.
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Googling De Telegraaf, came across this remarkable wartime story …
Jo Spier was a famous Dutch artist, author of humorous illustrations and caricatures depicting everyday life before the WWII. He worked for the De Telegraaf newspapers.
Germans invade Holland – Sunday morning May 10, 1940
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Anschluss Österreichs - annexation of Austria in 1938
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Netherlands at War with Germany - Queen Wilhelmina
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Nazi terror bombing the centrum of Rotterdam
