Official Nato request
Posted on | February 8, 2010 | No Comments
The Nato has officially requested our government to grant our army to stay longer in Afghanistan.
A long time ago it was agreed our soldiers would leave in August.
I’m feeling irritated and with me more people.
Never ever are agreements between our government and our people respected.
We’re the smallest country of the Nato and I would say that we’ve done our bit.
In fact we gave a disproportional huge contribution.
But it’s never enough.
By law our army is defensive.
So the mission of Afghanistan was presented as a peace mission.
But the facts are that we’re manipulated into something far more dangerous than a peace mission.
But what makes me most angry is that there is no respect at all for the fact that we are a democratic country and that the decision about the time our army decided to stay in Afghanistan was a democratic decision.
Which means that our prime minister is placed between his loyalty to the Nato and his own people.
The request comes a month before the council elections.
These elections are very important for all the political parties of our country.
This request interferes with these elections and the discussion and decission about this request will influence the outcome of the democratic process.
I think that goes directly against the goals of the Nato.
Unconscious mutterings #367
Posted on | February 7, 2010 | No Comments
- Humbled :: not pretentious
- Buns :: and bunnies
- Snowstorm :: and a new world
- Sweetheart :: dentist
- Punch :: yummy
- Glass :: and glasscolouring
- Classical :: vs modern
- Heels :: high ones
- Twitter :: meet the world
- Husband :: the father of the children
spammers beware
Posted on | February 6, 2010 | No Comments
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Today I found again loads of spam.
Since I’ve installed spamfilters I don’t care a lot about that anymore, because it’s now just one click at a button and a special system takes care of it.
Even better: urls and IP’s are recorded at a central database so other bloggers can enjoy the fun too.
Today someone took the effort to comment with an advertisement at nearly every blogpost at my blog.
Thanks for the positive statistics. I like it that not only the first page is looked at, but the others too, because it improves my google rank.
Today I decided to report this spammer to his provider.
That means that hours of work are vaporised, because his blog will be removed there.
In the past I’ve written about the joy to bring spammers and copycats to the attention of authorities.
Right now I’m to busy to do that, but it’s a good source of income for those who know the rules.
So beware spammers.
Next time I might take out the frustration of running a large family out on you and scare the hell out of you with a courtcase.
Thanks for the fun of today!!
The social worker “knew it all” and now autistic Gomey is taken away from his family.
Posted on | February 5, 2010 | No Comments
Those who are reading this blog for a longer time know I’m a mom of 4 autistic sons and my past with caretakers and other professionals in education, care and psychiatry consists of 23 intensive years.
I was able to stand as a brick for my children because I studied psychology and specialised in autism.
But only parents in the same situation know how stressful it is to deal with some professionals, because they have the power.
And sometimes I lay awake at night and different scenarios trouble me for hours, because there’s one huge difference between me and them: they can put a signature under any form they want and with that they can send something in motion that destroys everything I’ve reached with my children.
Yesterday Gomey’s brother asked me to help him get attention for what happened in his family.
He was devastated, because his 19 year old autistic brother was taken away from his home by 6 policemen!!!!! and a few social workers, because a new social worker thought his brother was a danger to himself and others.
It’s a huge question why and how she reached that decision. She’d only spoken with Gomey for less than an hour.
Gomey is 19 and his rights were and are violated.
He is forced to stay at a hospital for 21 days, even though it is clear already that the social worker made a huge mistake.
The fate of Gomey is not only in the hands of a social worker and of those who take over her writings without using their brains.
Public opinion has a huge influence.
It makes people be more careful, follow the law, and it can create understanding for an individual situation.
Help me spread Gomey´s story, help me to set him free and bring him back to his family.
Read more about Gomey here.
Tags: autism > awareness > blogging > international law > parenting
organising my brains
Posted on | February 4, 2010 | No Comments
I think human beings are of a strange design.
Wouldn’t it be far better to have neat brains, with drawers and labels?
I’ve been so busy today that I really have to concentrate to remember what I’ve done this morning.
Shaking my head doesn’t help, but trying to find my way back in time by association helps.
I was awake far too early.
Had to wake up the others….
eh…
why am I still awake now?
Why is there so much to do before I even have the opportunity to sleep?
I’m lucky that I’m not too much troubled by memory issues, but the time will come and I hope the nice memories will be far better available than all those moments I had to struggle through life, trying to keep some self confidence.
A long time ago I found out that people don’t have to be nice all the time, as long as they know enough to make a coherent impression.
I also found out that older people are not judged by their wisdom, but by the way they remember all what needs to be done, and do it. Or delegate it.
Maybe that’s why I feel so old.
I’m not slow, but I need so much extra time because there’s too much to do.
Each day time overhauls me.
Wish I was bored and had just one or two things to do.
Daily events could be remembered just like that.
But I need to organise the memories of the day, while I’m thinking about how I can organise the things that have to be done in the most efficient way.
Me oh my!!
Journalism needs to go back to the basics
Posted on | February 3, 2010 | 3 Comments
When I was taught the ins and outs of journalism I was told that the main part of my work would be tracing the facts.
My head editor was happy with a student that studied psychology too, because the local university was wellknown for the emphasis on methods of research and a very high level of education in statistical analysis.
He was even more happy when I became a lecturer of research methods and statistical analysis and soon after he gave me more responsibilities in editing, en when he got ill he trusted the magazine in my hands.
The thorough way of working was time consuming, gave one a feeling of being Sherlock Holmes, and involved contacting people I would never ever dared to contact.
Because if the time involved, and with it money, this kind of journalism has almost disappeared.
A few weeks ago I was talking with a friend, who runs a newspaper which is nearly alive, due to the fact that old fashioned journalism costs time and money.
He too (like me) was terribly annoyed by the fact that the TV journalists just rewrite yahoo news, wait until certain news is twittered by the large international newsstations, and never ever check their sources unless they want an interview for TV or other third parties are involved.
Where we take our time to do proper research, they earn their money.
We already knew that vaccines don’t cause autism, for example, because we conducted a very large international research review and couldn’t come up with any proof at all.
Nick Davies wrote about the same subject in Flat Earth News, (now also available in Dutch: Gebakken Lucht), and he was confronted with quite some agression of fellow journalists.
I share his experience.
When we step outside the modern trend of journalism focussed on the reader we show the failure of today’s journalism.
Fact-oriented journalists are of a dying race.
It’s a pity that people often don’t want to listen to us.
We’ve warned so often: against the attack on Iraq for instance, and against many other mistakes that history has revealed or has yet to reveal. But people don’t like the way we talk, and maybe don’t even like the way we look or walk.
Here’s Nick Davies for Dutch TV:
Topdroppers from January
Posted on | February 2, 2010 | No Comments
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I’ve enjoyed the snow
Posted on | February 1, 2010 | No Comments
Today we’ve had another true winter day.
The morning road problems landed in the top 10 of trouble mornings.
Some parts there were no roads but icelakes.
I was lucky that I only needed the bus in town.
But even at the bussstation only half of the area was cleaned.
I think the nice guys of the cornershop took care of that.
One could walk without problems from the bicycle path, over the pavement to the shop and from the shop to the bicycle parking place.
But the area that should be kept clean by the busservice was a mess. All ice.
When I left the bus it started to hail, like it welcomed me.
I didn’t notice it changed to snow but it did.
The pavements were partly cleaned, so I walked in the snow sides.
I’ve enjoyed it so much to walk through the snow, that I arrived at the appointment all smiles.
Another woman came in and she too smiled all over.
She had the same kind of coat as I have and she also said that that made a huge difference.
Well, she paid 200 euro for it and I got it for 15 from internet. LOL!
We started the meeting with hot chocolate and a chocolate bar.
I sat at the perfect place with full view on the snow.
Me, oh my!
Such a lot came down!!!
Unconscious Mutterings #366
Posted on | January 31, 2010 | 2 Comments
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- Hurl :: curling
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Aid for Haiti? Not really.
Posted on | January 30, 2010 | No Comments
Treating injured people costs money, we all know that.
Medical costs consist of costs for:
- transportation
- drugs
- rent of operating room and -material
- payment of personell, like doktors and nurses
- food
- diagnostic material
In the case of the seriously wounded Haitians, for example the american army evacuated them. That also meant an opportunity for those on board to earn extra flying hours on the curriculum vitae and to gain extra experience.
After performing a certain amount of surgeries they are stopped until it’s clear who is going to pay for them.
In fact they stopped last wednesday.
Doctors in Haiti said the past week that the lives of about 100 seriously wounded Haitians is at stake, and that many would die within 2 days.
Well, they’re dead already.
It’s always interesting when money is concerned.
Suddenly no one has money to spend.
Gouvernor of Florida, Charlie Crist, asked the federal government to pay for a part of the costs. The ministery of health is considering the request.
Ofcourse that takes a long time, so those people are dead by the time some important men have reached a decision.
Suddenly I hear nothing from the pharmaceutical companies. suddenly there’s no money available from the millions that all the countries over the world have put together (like over 100 million euro from The Netherlands).
I don’t understand.
When someone gets shot or gets seriously wounded during a sport event, a field hospital is completely set up and running in no time, but after the earthquake I saw no emergency hospitals at all.
What did they think? Let everyone who’s nearly dead just die, so we have less people to take care off?
Well, it’s clear that the american health system needs a lot of re-organisation before it’s running smoothly.
We’re talking about 100 lives here.
And how many hospitals are in the USA???
Approximately 30000
Well, well, well……
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