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Een Fatwa voor de Nederlandse politiek van Ajaan Hirsi Ali: "Wilders is goed voor u!" [NL]

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17-03-2010 | in

2010,

Europe,

Islam,

Legal Alien,

Neoconservatism,

USA,

Wilders,

[NL]

Een fatwa van de pasionaria van de anti-islam in: nrc.nl – Binnenland – Hirsi Ali: Wilders is goed voor Nederland. Ook overgenomen in De Belgische “De Morgen” van 16 maart.

Geen interview, maar een afgewogen column met raadgevingen aan heel Nederland, althans aan de politiek van dat landje.

Aan de politieke elite, wel te verstaan. Het neoconservatieve denken, dat Ajaan zich in de afgelopen jaren in het American Enterprise Institute in Washington heeft eigen gemaakt, wil politiek bedrijven vanuit de hoogte van een filosofische elite. Ik kwam deze nieuwe wending in Hirsi Ali’s gedachtegoed voor het eerst tegen ter gelegenheid van de “Collapse Of Europe” conferentie in juni 2007 in Malibu, Californië. Ik meldde:

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Obama Health Care Reform is at a Tipping Point. For Europe, too. [EN]

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17-03-2010 | in

2010,

Europe,

Institutions,

International Policy,

Legal Alien,

USA,

[EN]

The historical struggle in Washington about Health Care Reform went mostly under the horizon of the European mainstream press.

One understands why. The procedure got stuck, last autumn, in the dark alleyways of US decision-making on the federal level.
For it is complicated to understand, why a Senate and a House of Representatives, both with a comfortable 50%+ majority of Democrats, cannot agree on a set of arrangements that are, since dozens of years, part of the civilization of most EU countries: Collective insurance, guaranteeing access to health care for every citizen.

Most European countries have adopted a mixed system, where state guarantees and tax measures facilitate commercial insurance companies as well as non-profit co-operatives in providing basic health care to every citizen (and, in many instances: even to non-citizen inhabitants). [...]

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13Mar2010

A Wise Man Sets the Course For Europe [EN]

Huib

13-03-2010 | in

2010,

Defense and Security,

Europe,

International Policy,

[EN]

The newly elected European Council President Herman van Rompuy's historical intervention at the Bruges European Academy on March 6 did not get the attention it deserves.

Van Rompuy is very well aware of his powerlessness. He was chosen by the Sarkozies, the Merkels and the Browns just because of his apparent lack of sex-appeal and supposed lack of ambition, over candidates like Holland's J.P.Balkenende or Letlands former president.

One thing is sure, read my lips, the man is terribly UNDERestimated.

Listen to his Jesuitic-, finely tuned-, rebuttal of sarkozist and insular British policies. Developing a realistic approach to the priorities of an European Union in a new era of political globalization.
Here follows a part of it (in English):

Even Eurocritic Tony Barber of the London Financial Times ......

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Holocaust education is to encourage reflection, not to encourage a taboo [EN]

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10-03-2010 | in

2010,

[EN]

Walther Rathenau was a philosopher, businessman and minister of foreign affairs in the early Weimar Republic. He was also a Jew.He would now be classified as a Liberal Conservative or a right Social Democrat. All the same, many reasons for revanchists, anti-Semites, PI-ler, Mafiosis und Ulfkotte-people to hate him. So much so that he was murdered in 1922 by three so-called Fememörderern with a hand grenade.

He makes the difference between predetermined conclusions from superficial analogies from history (or the collective memories) on one hand and, on the other hand, the enlightened thinking, not the based upon stories attached to prejudice, but engaged to comparison with what is now happening. Stating:

Denken heißt Vergleichen In short: To think is to compare

What we get to hear now too often in the debates about the supposedly necessary exclusion of potential terrorists and enemies of the Enlightenment in "our West", are the prejudiced conclusions of "the" History.
But, THE history does not exist. Only stories do exist. Narratives that communicate what people think or thought that woul be important.

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