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Santa Claus in Holland: Zwarte Piet and Saint Nicholas
harrisonprice.com - 33 hours ago
Santa Claus in Holland: Zwarte Piet and Saint Nicholas
— harrisonprice.com — Following up on the American Humanist post I thought you would find it interesting to see how... Santa is portrayed in another country: Santa and Black Pete In the folklore and legends of the Netherlands and Flanders, Zwarte Piet ( pronunciation (help·info)) (meaning Black Pete) is a ... (more) Santa Claus in Holland: Zwarte Piet and Saint Nicholas

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Lab-Grown Pig Even Vegetarians Can Eat
truthdig.com - 40 hours ago
Lab-Grown Pig Even Vegetarians Can Eat
— truthdig.com — Dutch scientists are doing their bit for the food crisis, the climate crisis and PETA by growing... pork meat from muscle cells harvested from a live pig. Their hope is to turn the cells from one animal into the meat from a million without killing ... (more) Lab-Grown Pig Even Vegetarians Can Eat

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expatica.com - 8 days ago
Expatica The Netherlands
— expatica.com — The governor of Uruzgan pleads with the Dutch government to reverse its decision and not to leave... their jobs half-finished, reports the Financial Times. London The governor of an Afghan province pleaded Tuesday with the Netherlands not to withdraw ... (more) Expatica The Netherlands

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rnw.nl - 8 days ago
Dutch anti-Islam MP unwelcome in Turkey | Radio Netherlands Worldwide
— rnw.nl — The government of Turkey is unwilling to meet a delegation of Dutch MPs if anti-Islam campaigner Geert... Wilders is among them. Turkish daily Aksam reports that the Ankara government is worried that Mr Wilders will use the visit to challenge Islam. ... (more) Dutch anti-Islam MP unwelcome in Turkey | Radio ...

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dutchnews.nl - 15 days ago
Netherlands threatens to pull Afghan aid
— dutchnews.nl — I am extremely happy to know about this! As since last few years billion of dollars have... been pumped in bu the International Community but one can see no results of any progress in Afghanistan, which is due to the corruption at the top levels of the ... (more) Netherlands threatens to pull Afghan aid

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interested-participant.blogspot.com - 17 days ago
Interested Participant
— interested-participant.blogspot.com — (The Netherlands) Effective 2012, Dutch drivers will be monitored by satellite and pay taxes on a per-kilometers-driven... basis. Present promise is that the tax will increase every year until 2018. After that is anyone's guess. The Cabinet approved ... (more) Interested Participant

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Dutch Declare Dominance in Dominoes
themoderatevoice.com - 18 days ago
Dutch Declare Dominance in Dominoes
— themoderatevoice.com — As a little boy, I used to crawl on the floor for hours setting up dozens of... dominoes in various patterns, only to topple them down—and doing it over and over again. Well, the Dutch have taken this pastime to new levels. Today, “Domino Day,” they set a new world ... (more) Dutch Declare Dominance in Dominoes

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hort.wisc.edu - 20 days ago
Serviceberry
— hort.wisc.edu — Serviceberry (Amelanchier spp.) is a small deciduous tree or shrub with attractive white spring blossoms, that provides... year-round interest in the landscape, as well as producing edible fruits. Also called shadblow, shadbush, juneberry and saskatoon ... (more) Serviceberry

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startribune.com - 20 days ago
Alleged Somali recruiter arrested, linked to Minnesota
— startribune.com — A 43-year-old Somali man from Minneapolis was arrested this week in the Netherlands for allegedly financing the... recruitment of up to 20 young Somali men from Minnesota to train and fight with terrorists in their homeland. The arrest appears to be the ... (more) Alleged Somali recruiter arrested, linked to Minnesota

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attackerman.firedoglake.com - 21 days ago
Holy Fuck, Eikenberry Thinks Karzai Is Not Worth Escalating For
— attackerman.firedoglake.com — And now I have summed up this Washington Post piece. For more straight-laced commentary — and it... would be hard to produce less – see this post of mine. You know what’s unfortunate about the Post piece? It contains so many great ... (more) Holy Fuck, Eikenberry Thinks Karzai Is Not Worth ...

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jihadwatch.org - 21 days ago
"Somali man from Minneapolis" arrested in Netherlands for jihad recruitment
— jihadwatch.org — This article actually identifies the "terrorists" as "Islamic extremists," but only does so in the seventh paragraph.... Now, why does this matter? Why should it be mentioned at all? Because the more we remain in denial about the source and nature of ... (more) "Somali man from Minneapolis" arrested in Netherlands ...

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The link between East Germany's Stasi and Cuba
cubaverdad.net - 25 days ago
The link between East Germany's Stasi and Cuba
— cubaverdad.net — Main Page The regime The CDR School Social Control Repressive Laws Repression Repressive Machinery Link to Stasi... Cubafacts Stalinist Archive search on "Stasi" Stasi archive files The Stasi archives in Germany The Cuban Ministry of the Interior ... (more) The link between East Germany's Stasi and Cuba

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expatica.com - 27 days ago
Expatica The Netherlands
— expatica.com — According to a new poll, residents of sub-Saharan African countries are the most likely to want to... move abroad permanently. Washington -- Some 700 million people worldwide, or more than all the adults of North and South America combined, think the ... (more) Expatica The Netherlands

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theglitteringeye.com - 29 days ago
Why Is American Healthcare So Expensive?
— theglitteringeye.com — Ezra Klein is undoubtedly correct, even tautological, in his assertion about why U. S. healthcare is so... expensive in his conversation with Kaiser-Permanente CEO George Halvorson: There is a simple explanation for why American health care costs so ... (more) Why Is American Healthcare So Expensive?

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The story so far, in one picture
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com - 29 days ago
The story so far, in one picture
— krugman.blogs.nytimes.com — Basically, we started out with a year that matched the Great Depression, but have since pulled back... a bit from the edge of the abyss. (more) The story so far, in one picture

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rnw.nl - 30 days ago
Wilders warns against "climate of hate" | Radio Netherlands Worldwide
— rnw.nl — Geert Wilders, leader of the Freedom Party, has called Integration Minister Eberhard van der Laan (of the... Labour Party) and Democrats D66 leader Alexander Pechtold "political accomplices" of Mohammed Bouyeri, the murderer of filmmaker Theo van Gogh. ... (more) Wilders warns against "climate of hate" | ...

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