Op 14 december 2006 legde de PyramidCam een zeldzaam fenomeen vast: Blauwe Zon. De laatste betrouwbare waarneming van blauwe zon vond plaats in september 1950 in Edinburgh, Schotland. The main cause is thought to be smoke in the atmosphere (CoastToCoast). Opzich geen ongewoon fenomeen: rook in de atmosfeer. Maar heeft u wel eens een blauwe zon gezien (zonder drugsgebruik)?
Views of people from Turkey and Holland on statements made by Newsweek journalist Fareed Zakaria, Turkish president Abdullah Gül and prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the Dutch VPRO documentary ‘Turkije – Het Dilemma van de Democratie’: ‘Turkey – the dilemma of democracy’ that will broadcast on 8th of October. Daily at Sargasso from October 5th until October 12th, at 13.00h (Amsterdam time, 14.00h Istanbul time). This blogging project is part of the Dutch democracy week WijZijnDeBaas (WeAreTheBoss): the Dutch contribution to the International Week for Democracy. More information here.
Fareed Zakaria,
Newsweek journalist
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Emre Kizilkaya | The Istanbulian
turkish journalist, Hürriyet newspaper, blogger.
“Democracy is the system that the highest possible amount of people joining the decision-making process. It is not a modern concept, thus it is not about modernizing the country. If you consider the Islamic world, you can easily see that it was more democratic during 7th-9th century than it is today. We can suggest that Classical Athens was more democratic even more than United States, where today reached the point of electing a President by a minority vote and practising a foreign policy which is overwhelmingly unpopular. Either imported or locally produced, the spread of today’s democracy is an illusion, because its main pillars are considered as those of American democracy, which is not a democracy anymore”.
Ojee, als hier nu maar geld voor is. Eerst de achterstands wijken opknappen want dat heeft volgens dit kabinet top prioriteit. Overigens is initiatief van Schiphol perfect. Het bedrijfsleven weet nog in ieder geval iets van Nederland te maken. (Rutger, Alkmaar)
Telegraaf reaguurder Rutger reageert op een plan van de luchtvaartsector om van Schiphol de modernste en schoonste luchthaven ter wereld maken met o.a. een soort ‘autowasstraat’, waarin passagiers ongemerkt alle veiligheidscontroles passeren. Vier grote pyramides opgesteld in het landschap rond Schiphol moeten het geluid van vliegtuigen absorberen. Rutger is net als al die andere 16 miljoen deskundigen vast een groot voorstander van stelling 7 in de eindronde van WijZijnDeBaas verbetervoorstellen: bied de burger de mogelijkheid op het belastingformulier aan te geven waar hij meer geld aan zou willen uitgeven. Misschien moet, als het voorstel wordt gekozen, het nog verder uitgewerkt worden met een mogelijkheid om aan te geven waar je vooral géén geld aan zou willen uitgeven? Want het kan altijd nóg democratischer! Geen geld naar arme (vieze, lelijke, chagerijnige) mensen en méér geld naar fonkelende vliegtuigen! Feel Good Democracy was nog nooit zo dichtbij!
Close du Jour op Reis: … – Ushuaia – Torres del Paine – Magalllanes Chilena – Transpatagonia – Puerto Montt – Puerto Montt- Temuco – Concepción – Chile – Central Valley – Santiago de Chile – 911 ’73 – Valparaiso – Viña del Mar – Valparaiso – …
Views of people from Turkey and Holland on statements made by Newsweek journalist Fareed Zakaria, Turkish president Abdullah Gül and prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the Dutch VPRO documentary ‘Turkije – Het Dilemma van de Democratie’: ‘Turkey – the dilemma of democracy’ that will broadcast on 8th of October. Daily at Sargasso from October 5th until October 12th, at 13.00h (Amsterdam time, 14.00h Istanbul time). This blogging project is part of the Dutch democracy week WijZijnDeBaas (WeAreTheBoss): the Dutch contribution to the International Week for Democracy. More information here.
Fareed Zakaria,
Newsweek journalist, 2004
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Emre Kizilkaya | The Istanbulian
turkish journalist, Hürriyet newspaper, blogger.
“This is not about being a young or old democracy. The whole issue is about the election system. If the election makes the winner party (or person) the ultimate authority, it means that there is a high possibility that its consequences would not be democratic. Can you organize a referandum that would ask people if they want to abolish the democracy? If the majority says “yes”, then is it a democratic result? What if this majority is 51 percent or 99.9 percent… Does it change anything? Elections are a precondition of a democracy, but they don’t guarantee it. Only an election system that would represent and protect the interests of all parties can guarantee the democracy”.
Tolerantie is: zolang er genoeg zalmen zwemmen elkaar met rust laten. Meer foto’s en een filmpje: hier. Plus een extragratis bonusquote van de invloedrijkste Nederlander: Rinnooy Kan, die zich zorgen maakt over de uittocht uit het politieke midden en het ongenoegen en de ontevredenheid in de samenleving: “Nu gaat het economisch nog goed. Laten we maar niet speculeren wat er gebeurt als dat anders wordt”. (Volkskrant)
Close du Jour op Reis: … – Argentina – Patagonia – Peninsula de Valdez – Neuquén – Argentina – Patagonia – Islas Malvinas – Falkland Islands – Tierra del Fuego – Ushuaia – Torres del Paine – Magalllanes Chilena – Transpatagonia – Puerto Montt – Puerto Montt- Temuco – Concepción – Chile – Central Valley – Santiago – …
The identity of this wine was acquired thanks to the best sommelier, Neptune: Cavas Submarinas, Viña Casanueva, Chile
Een ode aan uw buurtsuper Chileen:
Homenaje al Vino Chileno – Tito Fernández (Me gusta el Vino)
Views of people from Turkey and Holland on statements made by Newsweek journalist Fareed Zakaria, Turkish president Abdullah Gül and prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the Dutch VPRO documentary ‘Turkije – Het Dilemma van de Democratie’: ‘Turkey – the dilemma of democracy’ that will broadcast on 8th of October. Daily at Sargasso from October 5th until October 12th, at 13.00h (Amsterdam time, 14.00h Istanbul time). This blogging project is part of the Dutch democracy week WijZijnDeBaas (WeAreTheBoss): the Dutch contribution to the International Week for Democracy. More information here.
Abdullah Gül,
Turkey’s new president,
(in a Newsweek column of Fareed Zakaria, May 2007)
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Emre Kizilkaya | The Istanbulian
turkish journalist, Hürriyet newspaper, blogger.
“I like to emphasize that Islam should be politics-free, as it is only a religion. Politics is about the public, but the religion is about the individual. Associating these two words can only help political Islamists who want to exploit both of them. Abdullah Gul is -unfortunately- one of these politicians and he would stay among their ranks as long as he uses this rhetoric. A society which can only democratize by the help of a religion (actually not religion, but Islamist politicians) is neither democratic, nor religious. It is just a colony of Islamists”.