tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70269477888170268212024-03-13T20:04:14.265+01:00turn-out peteUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger102125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7026947788817026821.post-91828050635175321632014-03-15T09:42:00.001+01:002014-03-15T09:42:26.534+01:0040 jaar bibliotheek Turnhout: 1973-2013<div data-configid="0/7104683" style="width: 525px; height: 224px;" class="issuuembed"></div><script type="text/javascript" src="//e.issuu.com/embed.js" async="true"></script>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7026947788817026821.post-53230098825644426152014-01-22T07:55:00.001+01:002014-01-22T07:55:58.221+01:00TSDR 2014<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7026947788817026821.post-57755345160174404712012-12-25T15:22:00.000+01:002012-12-25T15:25:20.164+01:00WhatsupinGreece? A Christmas post...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Farewell Steve... </div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Santa Clara, California, USA37.42315 -122.176641737.127909 -122.6737907 37.718391 -121.67949270000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7026947788817026821.post-4388032336457176932011-07-11T10:24:00.003+02:002011-07-11T11:00:32.300+02:00Where I (used to) Live...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsHcvVw-BXKDY7PmMloStJDWC9xR9mLr0tfuhHKuOgEgYuhjYA0kePjE9NJk8nLTklUQ43Ke6d9bTcPViWiM9haluJ4mvKaxzVEqBZ1EhOFqdI75FbfOGu2NPq2yrl8hoE_kgbsMmxoFg/s1600/logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="49" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsHcvVw-BXKDY7PmMloStJDWC9xR9mLr0tfuhHKuOgEgYuhjYA0kePjE9NJk8nLTklUQ43Ke6d9bTcPViWiM9haluJ4mvKaxzVEqBZ1EhOFqdI75FbfOGu2NPq2yrl8hoE_kgbsMmxoFg/s320/logo.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">...and read this newspaper almost on a daily basis. I was even published there with photo's and received a prize. The former online version was a disappointment but now it's in beta, it's a good read again...Check out this "Q</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="big">uestion of the week" for instance:</span></span><a href="http://www.athensnews.gr/issue/13451/44559">"Do you think the peaceful protests by the indignados at Syntagma Square will effect any change with the government?"</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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It looks so promising, a <a href="http://kymbays.wordpress.com/2011/05/21/a-must-read-for-my-generation-indignez-vous/">must-read</a>...</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7026947788817026821.post-43098427898567634092011-07-11T07:50:00.000+02:002011-07-11T07:50:52.775+02:00Where I Live...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6yS34Sybib_AbztHxUN6m3oQUMbKwKABBV3HQK-TtBX-leQME440QSXVXv48QpyiwmxyC7SFpNgEbJL91HvdbbPj7GlQghY-Xxb4aVk-4LFberFIl_jArFM4Qne-OH0kW5zPRjWcdFes/s1600/grote+markt+medium.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6yS34Sybib_AbztHxUN6m3oQUMbKwKABBV3HQK-TtBX-leQME440QSXVXv48QpyiwmxyC7SFpNgEbJL91HvdbbPj7GlQghY-Xxb4aVk-4LFberFIl_jArFM4Qne-OH0kW5zPRjWcdFes/s1600/grote+markt+medium.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://s4.concentra.be/imgpath/000/000/282/505/id282505-kempen-lucht005-corr-jpg-960x700-n.jpg" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">bigger size</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7026947788817026821.post-20751176173942538212011-07-05T14:42:00.000+02:002011-07-05T14:42:56.440+02:00memories...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" height="240" id="vp1xiE4L" width="432"><param name="movie" value="http://static.animoto.com/swf/w.swf?w=swf/vp1&e=1309869529&f=xiE4LFVeKDn9ZciTfF1fEw&d=32&m=b&r=240p&volume=&i=m&options="></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed id="vp1xiE4L" src="http://static.animoto.com/swf/w.swf?w=swf/vp1&e=1309869529&f=xiE4LFVeKDn9ZciTfF1fEw&d=32&m=b&r=240p&volume=&i=m&options=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="432" height="240"></embed></object><br />
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Now, I <i>have </i>become a couch potato when it comes to festivals (hate huge crowds) so<i> I can only rely on what I've seen and heard.</i> But first the good news: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selah_Sue">Selah Sue</a> (photo) was excellent, this little lady is only getting better and better! Another revelation for me be it also kinda traditional, mimetic even: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1489363413">Rival Sons</a> Simple, heavy but sweet blues-rock, perfectly performed, great musicians.</div><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">But for the rest this has been one big déja vue...I am not gonna give you a complete list here, just see the <a href="http://www.rockwerchter.be/en/lineup/index.aspx">line-up</a>, but how many times can one get excited seeing the Kaiser Chiefs, The Chemical Bros, The National, Seasick! Steve to name a few...Often "new" bands were poor, especially when they came from the UK. Head-wanker of this lot, <i>Lame </i>Liam Gallagher brought us such classic rock that if you would listen only to the band, you would swear Chuck Berry was on stage! But most of the bands (QOTSA, Coldplay, Kings of Lion, Robyn and friends...) just did what they were expected to, perfect clinic performances for their fans, and the crowds seemed to have a great time and each time followed like a big flock of sheep. I am happy for all of them but for me that's not what Rock is all about...But again -not to be misconstrued- I was only virtual there, there must have been really great moments but I guess I will stay away....An end of an era? Click <a href="http://album.gva.be/foto-album/rock-werchter-2011.aspx">here</a> to open a photo gallery (GVA).<br />
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(translated description of the <a href="http://www.wpg.be/boeken/overzicht/ericmin/9789085421740">book</a>, to be published on 07/04/2011)</span></i></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.kmska.be/en/bezoek/KMSKADichtbij/bezoeken_RikWouters.html?_language=en">The exhibition</a> in Mechelen (09/24/2011-2017)</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_925756080"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">most</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">interesting link on the lives of <a href="http://lezenindekunst.blogspot.com/2011/06/nel.html">Rik and Nel</a> (in Dutch)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Where Rik got some of his <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Bonnard">inspiration</a>.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rik Wouters on <a href="http://www.artnet.com/awc/rik-wouters.html">artnet</a>.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A few of my favorite paintings &</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> drawings of the master:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And I wasn't the only one who really hated this segment. (other <a href="http://www.radio1.be/comment/reply/225571?mode=content&mode=content">reactions </a>in Dutch)</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">* btw: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://el.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CF%84%CE%B6%CE%AC%CE%BC%CF%80%CE%B1">Tzappa </a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(τζάμπα) meens free, for nothing, gratis in Greek.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Although the female presenter <a href="http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annemie_Peeters">Annemie Peeters</a> (°1960) is not really part of the me generation she sure acts like one. <a href="http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sven_Pichal">Sven Pichal</a> (°<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">1979<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">) </span></span>however is a perfect example. Both of them believe they do such important work, and while Peeters has a great radio voice, her tiny, irritating laughs always throughout an interview only show how big she feels about herself. On a few occasions there are some moments of emphatic behavior, however impossible to trace it in cold fish <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_572880845">"</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sardine">pilchar"</a> Pichal...</span>Just look their pictures, they speak for themselves...</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The charter they allegedly set up for better customer services provided by major telecom operators and public services shows their picture as the authorties in charge. As if they where the sole executers of this charter. They may have found this very funny, but I see this as sheer narcissism. See photo below; aren't that....</span></td></tr>
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</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7026947788817026821.post-57684297138512791962011-06-23T06:14:00.005+02:002011-06-23T08:14:34.153+02:00Griekenland failliet: hoe kon het zover komen?<div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><object data="http://www.eenvandaag.nl/v/97916" height="281" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="500"><param name="movie" value="http://www.eenvandaag.nl/v/97916"></param><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param></object></span></div><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><u><span style="font-size: small;">Kerknet, dinsdag, 21 juni 2011</span></u><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<a href="http://www.kerknet.be/actua/nieuws_detail.php?nieuwsID=100546"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">AARTSBISSCHOP VAN ATHENE: ‘GRIEKSE POLITICI ZIJN VERANTWOORDELIJK VOOR CRISIS’</span></b></a></div><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">BRUSSEL (KerkNet/Kathpress) – Volgens mgr. Nikolaos Foskolos, de katholieke aartsbisschop van Athene, zijn Griekse politici zelf verantwoordelijk voor de rampzalige economische situatie van hun land. In een interview met ‘Radio Vaticaan’ verwijt de aartsbisschop de politici een gebrek aan moed en doortastendheid. “Vele Grieken beschouwden de Europese Unie jarenlang als een melkkoe, die geld geeft zonder ervoor iets in ruil te vragen. Griekse politici ontvingen geld uit Brussel, maar deden niets ermee voor de ontwikkeling van hun land, hoewel dat in de Europese richtlijnen nochtans opgedragen werd.” Mgr. Foskolos is behoorlijk pessimistisch en gelooft niet dat Griekenland nog zelfstandig de zware crisis kan overwinnen. “Griekenland was tot een kolonie van Europa verworden als de Europese Unie geen ingrijpende maatregelen had geëist.” </span><br />
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</div><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><u><span style="font-size: small;">Mijn reactie, woensdag, 22 juni 2011</span></u></div><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Het is nogal makkelijk om één schuldige te vinden voor de Griekse crisis. De katholieke aartsbisschop van Athene heeft natuurlijk gelijk wat betreft de Griekse politieke traditie van vriendjespolitiek en corruptie (de meeste Grieken vinden dit namelijk ook - al jaren) maar vergeet dat eigenlijk <b>iedereen </b><i>"de Europese Unie jarenlang als een melkkoe heeft beschouwd"</i>, denk maar bijv. aan de landbouwsubsidies. Belastingontduiking is net zoals hier een nationale sport alhoewel de gewone Griek dat helemaal niet verdoezeld, <a href="http://www.eenvandaag.nl/buitenland/38056/grieks_eiland_bindt_strijd_aan_met_belastingontduiking" target="_blank">integendeel!</a></span> </div><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: small;"><a href="http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Vandenbroucke_%28politicus%29">Frank Vandenbroucke</a> vatte het heel goed samen <a href="http://www.deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws/economie/Griekse_crisis/110621_Griekenland_Vandenbroucke" target="_blank">in Terzake gisteren</a>. <i>Frank for President! </i>Trouwens <a href="http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgos_Papandreou_jr.">Giorgos Papandreou jr</a>. gaf dit ook duidelijk aan in zijn laatste toespraak voor steun van het parlement:<i> “Ik ben dit gevecht begonnen en zal er niet uit stappen. Ons doel blijft gelijk: de zoektocht naar een eerlijkere samenleving.” </i>Maar meent hij ook en/of kan hij het wel ? Inmiddels is gisteravond dus om <b>5 voor twaalf (!) </b>is dat vertrouwen verkregen. Slechts echter </span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: small;">met </span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: small;">zo'n tien stemmen meer. De zomer (inkomsten*) mag beginnen en net als bij ons zal het debacle pas daarna weer echt vuur vatten. Alhoewel in Griekenland is er echter nog de cruciale stemronde op 28 juni. Dan wordt gestemd over het nieuwe pakket bezuinigingsmaatregelen en dan kan het nog een zeer hete zomer worden daar, al zou dat eerder zeer onverstandig* zijn, mijns inziens.</span></div><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
Maar ook de Orthodoxe Kerk mag best <b>nog eens </b>in eigen boezem kijken. Die is namelijk niet alleen hoofdaandeelhouder van de Nationale Bank, maar ook de grootste eigenaar van onroerend goed in Griekenland. Die moest dus ook inleveren, <i>"De kerk is rijk en kan het land uit de crisis te helpen, en i</i><i>s dit niet waar de kerk eigenlijk voor staat, om mensen te helpen?"</i> zegt een 36-jarige buschauffeur. De Kerk zou meer belast worden. Maar de Kerk, meer bepaald in de persoon van bisschop <a href="http://www.patriarchate.org/patriarchate/hierarchy-of-the-throne/metropolitans-new-lands/anthimos-of-thessalonica" target="_blank">Anthimos van Thessaloniki</a> sloeg al vroeg op de borst en stelde verkeerdelijk -en lafhartig- dat zo vooral de gewone (lees arme) priesters en nonnen op die manier getroffen zouden worden. Die laatsten stonden dan natuurlijk al op 31 mei 2008 op Syntagma te protesteren en de belasting is niet doorgegaan. Maar in tegenstelling tot deze zeer omstreden bisschop hebben andere bisschoppen zoals.de bisschop Anthimos van Alexandroupolis en bisschop Nikolaos van Mesogaia vorig jaar al besloten om het voorbeeld van <a href="http://www.nana-mouskouri.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1579&Itemid=93" target="_blank">Nana Mouskouri </a>te volgen en hun loon als bijdrage van het herstel van hun land af te staan. Dus verdeeldheid is hier ook alom.<br />
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</span></div><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Daarom blijft het gewone Griekse volk maar morren en protesteren en vergeet niet dat de Grieken trots en zeer koppig kunnen zijn. <b>Het water staat hun aan de lippen</b>, het is genoeg geweest, de Euro, heel de Middellandse Eurozone & Europa kan hun geen barst meer schelen...</span></div><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</u></span></div><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Michël Van Droogenbroeck in Athene - De redactie <a href="http://www.deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws/mediatheek/programmas/journaal/2.16199/2.16200/1.1049503" target="_blank">(één journaal van 7- gisteren)</a></span></div><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Wanhoop en radeloosheid bij Grieken in België <a href="http://www.deredactie.be/cm/1.1049052?view=popupPlayer" target="_blank">(radio 1 de ochtend - gisteren)</a></span></div><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Geef de Grieken ook een perspectief <a href="http://www.deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws/economie/Griekse_crisis/110621_Griekenland_Vandenbroucke">(Frank Vandenbroucke in Terzake - gisteren)</a></span></div><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Griekse premier krijgt vertrouwen van parlement, zoals verwacht <a href="http://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2011/06/21/griekse-premier-krijgt-vertrouwen-van-parlement-zoals-verwacht/">(NRC- gisteren)</a></span></div><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Het Griekse eiland Skopelos probeert de strijd aan te binden met corruptie, belastingontduiking en vriendjespolitiek. Eenvandaag.nl <a href="http://www.eenvandaag.nl/buitenland/38056/grieks_eiland_bindt_strijd_aan_met_belastingontduiking">(maandag 20 juni 2011)</a></span></div><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Nana Mouskouri op TSR (<span style="line-height: 17px;">Télévision Suisse Romande) <a href="http://www.nana-mouskouri.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1579&Itemid=93">(zondag 5 juni 2011)</a></span></span></div><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Romfea.gr. (Nieuws van over de hele wereld op de Orthodoxie) <a href="http://www.romfea.gr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4501:2010-03-16-19-04-20&catid=13&Itemid=123" target="_blank">(dinsdag,16 maart 2010).</a></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: x-small;"> Reuters<a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2010/03/17/greek-orthodox-bishop-denounces-new-taxes-on-church-as-hostile/" target="_blank"> (woensdag 17 maart 2010)</a></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7026947788817026821.post-40988395875156034022011-06-20T09:56:00.004+02:002011-06-20T10:46:56.816+02:00No Pasaran: Why the Greeks* are furious....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD3VRsLWrcjlx5c8bo6kjVOyv7Q5Amui2iGzS-Wk_PStSAX0YIYVoT5jp-CiQn-s1vtYaXMAhSRODxs3I5bJ0jgPocfUAswn4Kgd7gRL8M-qarzRk5eC83fGAs8xRNAljN4iwQEnq298g/s1600/5838248224_2039b2e9a4_z.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dtzoumpas/5838248224/in/photostream/lightbox/"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_8SVScRkeWo3C1nqiIar0LiDBSCAiy8uRdJ6uqNKPDpy6lB7Zkg10iHGN7NFtahvpOiEmfBhdp2klrfdNp9QaQLVEJjCWk0ag8sFOAwEL2HsJ_94ST71DDpJP463CzSTakxPjQENIy4s/s1600/nopasaran.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>© <span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Photo: all rights reserved by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dtzoumpas/">Dimitris Tsoumpas</a></span></span><br />
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Today in "<a href="http://www.demorgen.be/">De Morgen</a>" Political commentator <a href="http://www.demorgen.be/dm/nl/2462/Standpunt/article/detail/1280869/2011/06/20/Standpunt-Yves-Desmet-Markten.dhtml">Yves Desmet writes</a>: </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You must have it from your neighbors. The Luxembourg Prime Minister <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Juncker">Jean-Claude Juncker</a> warned as chairman of the eurozone that if private banks would contribute their share to the salvation of Greece, this could lead to an expansion of the debt crisis in Belgium and Italy. Dramatic consequences the Cassandra from Luxembourg predicted, and that this way we are playing with fire. This makes a man pretty furious...</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The financial sector has caused the economic crisis, and threatened by her recklessness to go overhead. She survived thanks to billions infused by governments. In turn this created the need to cut into public finances, primarily in countries where they had been too creative with budget figures, Greece in the first place. So draconian measures were to be taken on the backs of ordinary people that took the price tag for all this debacle. But the suggestion that the real cause of the crisis is also a part of their responsibility and loss is playing with fire and threatens to expand the debt crisis. How dare one say this ?</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">If Greece threatens to go bankrupt, especially due to the speculation of the same global financial forces, who would continue to pursue their profit maximization, often run no more than by emotion and irrationality . But they should be spared, while the common man and woman in Greece have to turn in half of their pensions for which they have worked their entire lives? Again, how dare you?</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Debt Restructuring and diversification over the longer term is the most normal thing in the world when it comes to business, but with countries that cannot be possible? Greece will not go bankrupt, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Van_Rompuy">Herman Van Rompuy</a> said, simply because all alternatives are better. Let's hope he's right. But that assumes that the EU, under certain conditions, shows its solidarity with the isolated sheep of the flock, now being attacked by financial wolves, and thus a part of the Greek debt converts in euro-bonds. Because only when the wolves see the herd closes into itself, they'll stop the attack.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Yves Desmet</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Political commentator<br />
translation: Google translate & topete </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7026947788817026821.post-10107095182240566422011-06-10T09:45:00.009+02:002011-07-05T06:32:48.056+02:00Atlas shrugged: Indignados Griegos!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Meanwhile in Greece...Here are some pictures from last demonstrations in Athens against the IMF and Greek government from my friend and great photographer<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="given-name" style="line-height: 18px;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_381441058"><span class="given-name"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">John D.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"> </span></a><span class="family-name"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/aster-oid/">Carnessiotis.</a> And as pictures speak louder than words, I will have a comment later....;)</span></span></span></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Some time ago I saw on BBC the excellent documentary "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz2j3BhL47c">All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace</a>", that really stirred my mind not only by the "egoistic" theories of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand">Ayn Rand</a> but by the doings of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Greenspan">Alan Greenspan</a> and his "partners in crime" as well as the role of the computer herein. Just watch this excellent piece of research and modern journalism to see </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">how the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Monetary_Fund">IMF</a>, bankers and politicians toy around with YOUR money, as they are doing now with the Greeks and soon with the Belgians. So far the latter having received only "recommendations" from the IMF. Recommendations that will bring austere measures also to this country (with still no governement after one year after elections) and setting our whole social security system at risk. Therefor I predict that after summer demonstrations like the above will also be seen (and heard?) now...in the streets of... Brussels. </span></div></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And to end on an even more heavy note, Ayn Rand reminded me to one of my </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">all-time vision on dead: "I will not die, it is the world that will end.", from an unknown ancient... Greek philosopher...</span><br />
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1948-2009Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7026947788817026821.post-53243050606833076432011-05-22T19:10:00.002+02:002011-05-23T06:09:07.757+02:00Rémy’s Secret Ratatouille Recipe!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuITV3Z91OOGBOloh7yugFEjO6mGqyk_9_mtBPWbhsBZRjbRnGSobaWkx2Cc9gQ_FUBx884-0my71XQPSqTHs7YZvc3wlu0uRhvpmSA-p_ZqdnzD3-Ael1017eKopNqSzt3Kpa6keh8WM/s1600/Ratatouille1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuITV3Z91OOGBOloh7yugFEjO6mGqyk_9_mtBPWbhsBZRjbRnGSobaWkx2Cc9gQ_FUBx884-0my71XQPSqTHs7YZvc3wlu0uRhvpmSA-p_ZqdnzD3-Ael1017eKopNqSzt3Kpa6keh8WM/s400/Ratatouille1.jpg" width="336" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Orginal recipe can be found <a href="http://www.besterecepten.nl/ratatouille-recept-2754/comment-page-1/#comment-5173">here </a>(in Duch but with step-by-step pictures).</div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">I've translated/adapted the introduction and ingredients (with Google Translate)</div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><i><span class="long_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">"I think</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">everyone</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">or almost</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">everyone</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">has</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen"></span></span></i><i><span class="long_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">seen</span> </span></i><i><span class="long_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps atn" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">the great Pixar movie "</span><span title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">Ratatouille</span><span title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">"</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">on</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">a</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">rat</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">who</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">dreamed</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">of becoming a</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">cook</span><span title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">.</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">After I</span><span title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">'ve</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">seen</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">this</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">movie </span><span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">I wanted to</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">make the Ratatouille</span><span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen"></span><span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen"> Remy</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">had</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">made</span>. <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">I</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">had</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">looked everywhere but</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">found nothing</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">until I suddenly</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">stumbled on</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">an</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">American</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">site</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">and</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen"></span><span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">finally</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">found</span><span title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen"> the real thing.</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">I</span><span title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">'ve</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">made</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">a</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">few</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">adjustments</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">and</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">you</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">now can steal</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">my</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">recipe</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">for</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">Ratatouille</span><span title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">:</span></span> "</i></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span class="long_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">Ingredients</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">for</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">4-5</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">persons</span><span class="" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">:</span><br />
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<span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">Sauce</span><span class="" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">:</span><br />
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<span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">*</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">350</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">gr</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">peppers (</span></span><span class="long_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen"> pref.</span></span><span class="long_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">red & yellow)</span><br />
<span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">*</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">350</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">g</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">tomatoes</span><br />
<span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">*</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">200</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">gr</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">onions</span><br />
<span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">*</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">2-3</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">minor sprigs of </span><span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">thyme</span><br />
<span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">*</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">salt</span><br />
<span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen"></span><span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">* Olive Oil</span><br />
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<span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">vegetables</span><span class="" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">:</span><br />
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<span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">*</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">500</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">g</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">zucchini</span><br />
<span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">*</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">500</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">g</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">eggplants</span><br />
<span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">*</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">500</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">g</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">tomatoes</span><br />
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<span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">vinaigrette</span><span class="" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">:</span><br />
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<span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">*</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">5</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">tbsp</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">oil</span><br />
<span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">*</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">2-3</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">cloves</span> of <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">garlic</span><br />
<span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">*</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">seasoning</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">to</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">your</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">taste</span><br />
<span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">*</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">salt</span><br />
<span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">*</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">pepper</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span class="long_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen"> </span></span><span class="long_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen"> </span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span class="long_text short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">additional</span><span class="" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">:</span><br />
<span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">*</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">some balsamic</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik voor alternatieve vertalingen">vinegar</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><br />
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