Did you

switch off the lights last night, between 8.30 and 9.30?

I did.
An hour is long.

Oh Dolly.

There are no words to describe the void you leave behind.




The world is suddenly much colder.

Fucking cancer. Fucking cancer!

The most moral army?

Not likely.

Whenever there is such an imbalance of power, morality flies out the door.
The recent campaign in Gaza was ample proof of this.

Good on the Israeli soldiers who stand up and speak out, tell what actually happened.
Because even if the Red Cross, journalists, politicians, civilians, film and photographs prove otherwise, it apparently only becomes true when the Israeli soldiers themselves say so.

The lives of Palestinians, let's say, is something very, very less important than the lives of our soldiers.

and when you read what some Israeli soldiers put on their t-shirts, it goes beyond shock...

Dead babies, mothers weeping on their children's graves, a gun aimed at a child and bombed-out mosques - these are a few examples of the images Israel Defense Forces soldiers design these days to print on shirts they order to mark the end of training, or of field duty. The slogans accompanying the drawings are not exactly anemic either: A T-shirt for infantry snipers bears the inscription "Better use Durex," next to a picture of a dead Palestinian baby, with his weeping mother and a teddy bear beside him. A sharpshooter's T-shirt from the Givati Brigade's Shaked battalion shows a pregnant Palestinian woman with a bull's-eye superimposed on her belly, with the slogan, in English, "1 shot, 2 kills." A "graduation" shirt for those who have completed another snipers course depicts a Palestinian baby, who grows into a combative boy and then an armed adult, with the inscription, "No matter how it begins, we'll put an end to it."

There are also plenty of shirts with blatant sexual messages. For example, the Lavi battalion produced a shirt featuring a drawing of a soldier next to a young woman with bruises, and the slogan, "Bet you got raped!" A few of the images underscore actions whose existence the army officially denies - such as "confirming the kill" (shooting a bullet into an enemy victim's head from close range, to ensure he is dead), or harming religious sites, or female or child non-combatants.

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That they consider this okay, make excuses for it, actually have these things printed and wear them, shows how far gone they are down the road of abandoning all concept of justice, equality and human rights.

Reasons for concern

Yes I would say we are running out of time.

Climate beyond saving?

Well I've been thinking that for quite some time.
I've said so time and again.
Does not mean I want to go down without a fight...

The world's best efforts at combating climate change are likely to offer no more than a 50-50 chance of keeping temperature rises below the threshold of disaster, according to research from the UK Met Office.

The key aim of holding the expected increase to 2C, beyond which damage to the natural world and to human society is likely to be catastrophic, is far from assured, the research suggests, even if all countries engage forthwith in a radical and enormous crash programme to slash greenhouse gas emissions – something which itself is by no means guaranteed.

The chilling forecast from the supercomputer climate model of the Met Office's Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research will provide a sobering wake-up call for governments around the world, who will begin formally negotiating three weeks today the new international treaty on tackling global warming, which is due to be signed in Copenhagen in December.
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Openbaar vervoer in Nederland

Nogal wiedes, dat mensen het niet willen gebruiken.
Niet alleen duurt het langer

DEN HAAG - Het is niet eenvoudig om met een kortere reistijd in het openbaar vervoer meer mensen uit de auto te krijgen.

Bij 90 procent van de autoreizen duurt de reis met het openbaar vervoer van deur tot deur meer dan twee keer zo lang, ook in de spits.

Dat concluderen het Centraal Planbureau (CPB) en het Kennisinstituut voor Mobiliteitsbeleid (KiM) in een rapport over de kosten en baten van het openbaar vervoer.
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...maar het is nog verrekte duur ook.

En, bijna altijd veels te vol waardoor je verstikt in de mix van lekkere en vieze luchtjes terwijl je getracteerd word op diverse mobiele gesprekken en chhh chhh chhh uit de oordopjes van je buurman.

Dan lijkt alleen in de auto, file of geen file, een stuk aantrekkelijker!
Er is gewoon de afgelopen jaren veel te weinig geinvesteerd in openbaar vervoer waardoor het te duur en te onaantrekkelijk is geworden. Nu is het in de beleving van velen, alleen maar voor armoedzaaiers...

DIT gebeurt wanneer politici niet luisteren...

PVV is in de jongste peiling van Maurice de Hond voor het eerst de grootste partij van het land. De partij heeft 27 Tweede Kamerzetels in de peiling die De Hond zondag publiceerde.

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