Stop development aid to South Africa: EU (VIDEOS)
Euro-MPs Barry Madlener and Lucas Hartong want that the European Commission to immediately stop giving its development-aid programme in which millions of Euros are sent too South Africa purportedly to ‘advance social stability’ in that country. The EU budgeted an amount of 980-million for this purpose from 2007 to 2013 – . Madlener and Hartong [...]
Fascism revisited: Wilders questions trip of Muslim converts to Egyptian ‘hate camp’
By now it may be generally known that we here in Holland got our share of islamophobia and far right exclusiveness, to put it mildly. Geert Wilders parliamentary group (it is not a party, only a ‘movement’) has 24 seats of the 150 in the lower Chamber and its presence in Dutch society. is quite [...]
5 Somali pirates sentenced to Dutch prison
The criminal court in Rotterdam, the Netherlands has sentenced five Somalian pirates, captured by the Dutch navy after hijacking a South African yacht and kidnapping two of its South African crew-members, to up to 7 years imprisonment today, reports the Dutch NOS.nl news agency. Although the Dutch navy rescued the South African skipper and his [...]
Netherlands embraces Israel tighter, squeezing out human rights
While Israel continues its ruthless occupation and oppression in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and Syria’s Golan Heights, the right-wing government of the Netherlands plans to deepen its economic collaboration with Israel instead of holding it accountable for its violations of international law. Maxime Verhagen, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and [...]
Dutch company tested new TB-vaccine on 2,800 black babies
The first phase of a trial to test the efficacy of a tuberculosis (TB) booster shot for babies has been completed in April 2011, with nearly 2,800 infants participating in the two-year trial, in which researchers from the South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative (SATVI) hope to prove that their new vaccine can act as a [...]
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