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Last week it was a year ago that Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol, the violence was initiated by the leaving president himself. Trump had started spreading the rumour that in the counting of the votes fraud would be committed long before he lost the 2020 elections. His supporters believed in this rumour and some…

At the start of the new year, it is a good idea to look back on 2021 and the C-word cannot be avoided. At the moment there is an explosion of infections and a booster campaign is launched very swiftly, the US and Europe seem to be affected most, other parts of the world are…

The Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte has a quite flexible relationship with truth, he has acute  memory problems at the moments that this is useful. His party cannot be bothered too much about this they let him get away with it. For the British PM Boris Johnson – “BoJo” – things are more problematical at…

And he did it! It was a blood-curdling Formula -1 final last Sunday in Abu Dhabi and Max Verstappen seemed to be loosing it. He could start the race up front in pole position, but his opponent Hamilton  immediately took the lead and kept it. However, because he changed his tyres at a very smart…

Last week Josephine Baker was taken up in the Panthéon, that typically French gallery of national heroes. Baker was born in the US as a poor black girl but emigrated to France (her birth-place St Louis, Missouri was then still partly French-speaking) where she achieved enormous success as a dancer, singer and actor. In the…

The last few weeks we wrote about the dénouement of the Formula-1 battle for the championship between Max Verstappen en Lewis Hamilton and now we will make a prediction. Will “our’’ Max win, and this “’our” is a problem. As a Dutchman I want to see him win and this does not make it easier…

Last week we discussed Max Verstappen’s lunar return, he is the Fomula-1 driver who is still in the lead in the World Championship. This lunar return was unfavorable for him because Lord 7 of opponents was very strong in it and indeed the difference between Verstappen and his competitor Lewis Hamilton, who is on his…

It is still very exciting in Formula-1 racing, Max Verstappen is in the lead but Lewis Hamilton is coming up right behind him. Last Sunday Hamilton won the Grand Prix and came closer to Verstappen. In a post several months ago we wrote about this: “the lunar mansion the Moon is moving through now is…

A few hours after the announcement by the previous pope Benedict of his abdication in March 2013 lightning struck Saint Peter’s dome. Some people then saw this as a sign of divine Wrath, and this is very understandable as there was every reason for this. Not only was Pope Benedict forced to resign, what followed…

Tuesday it was all Soul’s Day, on which the church celebrates the Requiem Mass for the deceased. In Mexico this is one of the most important festivals as the Day of the Dead, the Dia de Los Muertos. This country suffers from a death obsession and this is not strange, the Aztec culture before the…