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After the events in Germany, some news from my own country. Politicians in the city of Tilburg (pop 200k) want to record all dog DNA so they can track the origin of all dog shit on the streets. Yes, they are serious, and no, I am not making this up. But then: if you have nothing Click here for more… It’s been all over the net: we hacked our voting machine. The precise machine that 90% of The Netherlands votes on has been hacked. If you read our report and documentation, you’ll see we didn’t just scratch the surface, but we dug in deep and we feel we proved beyond any doubt that this machine Click here for more… If the latest election results are any measure, The Netherlands may be past at least one peak in political madness. In this week’s local elections, the ugly coalition of conventional right-wingers and christian-democrats lost lots of support, as did many of the right-wing local ‘Leefbaar’ parties that had come to power over the past years. Click here for more… Drats… Just as I was enjoying the afterglow of a nice party, the cops have to mess it up. Amsterdam used to be a relatively nice place if you have no roof over your head. Here the state will pay social security in cash to those that have no bank account and no fixed address. So Click here for more… Some days the speed with which this country is going to hell is astounding even professional pessimists like me. Today I read that the police has requested the complete logs for a website covering the (still unsolved) murder of a political activist that investigated police practices. I also noticed that the christian democrats have taken Click here for more… There’s criticism here in The Netherlands because most municipalities haven’t begun to plan the mandatory “naturalization ceremonies”. As of this month, if you become Dutch they cannot just give you your passport anymore. Instead they must accompany it with some american-styled ‘pledge of allegiance’ ceremony. Why can’t people accept that countries and religions are stupid? And Click here for more… Most people don’t know their history. And even if they know the basic facts, they may not truly grasp the extent to which humans have stayed the same throughout the ages. Hence when something happens in the world, large crowds jump up and down, claiming this or that development is totally new. People that do Click here for more… The Netherlands just got a whole new system for health insurance. Under this new system, people are not automatically insured as soon as their income drops below a certain treshold. What this means in practice is that an expected 1 million people (more than 6% of the population) will be uninsured, up from 250.000. Amidst Click here for more… |
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