Kerry (Obama) = Powell (Bush) ???

I cannot believe it anymore! "L Histoire se répète."  ???

A decade ago, Powell came to the UN with a complete presentation of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mas destruction.  Satellite pictures, maps, detailed drawings of facilities.... Everything PROVING that Sadam's Iraq was threatening the world! 

Suddenly there was a reason to bomb Baghdad, invade Iraq, get after Saddam, and to implement democracy.  Was it just new? Didn't Saddam used chemical weapons in Kurdish Iraq years before???  But worse; of all launching installations and chemical and or nuclear plants, none existed!

The Syrian Assad regime is bombing for two years now every place in Syria where so called revolutionaries have a stronghold.  Thousands of casualties in the first months.  That was IMO a good reason to implement a "no (military) flying zone" above Syria.   Not that I trusted those so called rebels, but at least it was worth the effort to find meanwhile a possible non violent, political solution without the destruction of many places at the cost of many, many lives.  But of course not, Syria has no oil industry like Libya where a no flying zone was implemented within no time.

Now suddenly a red line has been crossed?  

And proof that *Assad, his army* used chemical weapons?  

The same intelligence that produced the proof of Saddam 's weapons of mass destruction???  

Even if chemicals were involved,  what can proof that it was used by the Syrian army?  

What happens when a conventional shel, bomb or other devise blows up a stock of in example chlorine (bleach) and ammoniac?  (Just in example!)

Why isn't there a dozen of international coroners deployed to perform autopsies on a few dozens of (at random selected) bodies of this so called chemical assault?  Who else can determine the cause of death???

There are many more questions crossing my mind!  But questioning and thinking isn't as popular as "believing" like "in God we trust".  :(

Watch Hans Blix his reaction Tuesday on CNN! Or read this :  Article: http://huff.to/1dinit0 

 At least one person who doesn't believe but thinks!  And is damned right IMO! 

Egypt and Middle East versus Western world media?

Okay, in a way I'm also Western world media, using my blogs, Facebook and twitter to tell "my opinions" and sympathies.

to quote Shakespeare : "There is the rub":  dilemmas are often not easy at all!  Of course, I am a democrat.  Even when I said in the past (CompuServe 1994-99) that I rather like to be seen as an *enlightened despot*,  than a *corrupt democrat*!  The latter being the standard IMO ! ;)

Now back to Egypt, a huge nation with a respectful old history, a doubtful recent 1/2 cententury, and a difficult present.  (Even so is Syria, now I the spotlight, but also all Arab countries!)

Based on factual events the last years, including fearful, shivering stories by my former correspondents - who don't dare to keep in touch with me (a gay, western atheist) anymore -   and many awfull pics (mainly from Alexandria) I think I have at least some clue on what is going on THERE.  Nope, never been in Egypt! (Has been on my wish list "to visit once" for decades) 

According to my personal sources until last months and many respectful media like those listed beneath, the situation is at least controversial!  State tv stations are usually projecting (often propaganda) for the rulers.  Many "social media" with YouTube up-front are projecting images you cannot verify!  Time, date nor place; and perhaps the worst: real or mock-up, live or staged... None can tell!!! Even my personal sources -whom I wish to believe- are at least not without any questions.  Real scapegoats are also subject to manipulation and -local - propaganda!  That is one thing for sure!  

Therefore I'm very reluctant to shear or whoooo, believe or disbelieve , what is shown or said or written. At least the first days, but even for years. One very simple reason: I know how even parliamentary enquiries in the NL have been manipulated for weeks  (absolute lies, deception and  PERJURY !)   and the outcome "believed" to be true.  

Never the less, al media do show one thing for sure: the arabian spring went over into a "freezing hot" summer!  Indeed: a contradiction.  And frankly, I think that the truth (if any) will never come out!   Were those pics from burning churches recent or from 2 years ago? Are those so called poison gas attacks by the state forces in Syria real, or did the so called rebels did it?  Who can tell the truth??? :( 

My daily sources: 

Al-Jazeera, BBC-World, CNN, ARD & ZDF,  Tv5-monde, VPRO & NOS/NTR and TG RAI on tv.  

Papers like NRC-Next (NL) de Morgen, De Standaard (VL) The Guardian (UK) Le Monde, Le Figaro (F), Deutsches Tageblatt, Süddeutsche Zeitung (D) WashingtonPost, NY-Times, Huffington Post (Us) La Stampa (I)  Bangkok Post (Th).  

All above media (and a few more) are sending their headlines on Facebook and Twitter.   In case of an event I do view and read them all.  And yes, I do question them all too.  Only god knows the truth... and since there is no god... B:) 

Judging Egyptian (and Syrian) situation?

Who Am I !  ? 

But who the f#ck are Obama, Merkel, and all others condemning Egypt  ... .??? 

Based on WHAT info are they speaking those harsh words??? Did they watched all incoming broadcasts like I did? For sure: NOT!  They have other daily business to do. I'm different!

I have watched from 10:20 17:00 and from 21:00 til 02:00 the unfolding events in Cairo and other Egyptian cities and places *non-stop*!!!   Nope i didnt had some channen in the background while hovering the carpets! On my large screen TV on top of of my old TV I watched Al-Jazeera, under that - switching between CNN and BBC-world - and next to me in bed: Euronews, Euronews non comment on my IPad with e-mail and other 

Yes, I am disabled and thus more ore less * clustered *  in bed with TV .  But my vision, hearing and brains do work!  B8-)

So what happened (according to the above Live News Channels including incoming still/live pics from AP, Reuters, AFP and other "reliable" news agencies) in those first 6-12 hours?

Around 10:30 a bulldozer crashed trough the first defensive (?) wall of bricks. (Has been repeated 100x everywhere).  Then the bulldozer went on to the second wall. For sure for real: a jung man with a garbage bag in front of his face rushed up the second wall, armed with a huge assault weapon (AK42?) and shot the bulldozer driver!!! That was live on TV!!! The bulldozer drove backwards (also seen those pics and footage until there some 100x on ALL TV channels )But, never seen anymore: ... and then the driver fell out of the vehicle, ( very heavy wounded if not dead) . THOSE PICS were never repeated: -> The driver was tried to be rescued by 3-4 men and those men were all shot. Then the black clouted men (police/security/... Forces) opened fire!  That was likely back-fire to cover the rescue of those 4-5 men.  Not the guy with the garbage bag - who got in cover behind the 2nd brick wall - but some dozen men jumping over the second wall got into the fire of the "black men"  who already shot some tear gas towards the "assaulters".  Some still pics (Reuter/AP/...)  were shown later again and again but only in the next hours.  Never since. :( 

Around 15-16:00 hrs it got verry grim at the .... bridge. The forces (black dressed men) walked in formation towards the "protesters", shooting tear gas. A bus and a car were driven down as a barricade and Molotov cocktails (or so) were thrown to the forces who only went on steadily while shooting tear gas every 30 secs. After a (few) min(s) 4-5 men in disguise jumped on the bus and car and opened fire with automatic assault weapons on the forces.  (due to long distance tele pics I could not see what kind of arms, but the sound revealed "a kind of Kalischnikov" assault rifles. )  Then hell  brook lose:  a real shoot out with automatic weapons for at least a minute before also Aljazeera switched to another video source. (self censorship?)  Meanwhile CNN and others had already switched off the live video when the men in disguise started to shoot!  I had to leave at 17:00 but some 20 mins earlier the first iPhone pics/videos were coming in of people with shot wounds evacuated/ rushed into a house, hospital or other facility.  Innocent peacefully protesting civilians???  

The first pics were IMO very clear: people with a disguising cloth in front of their their faces and ammunition around their chest are NOT innocent civilians! 

Later that evening I saw many videos on many TV stations, showing some of those same, and other people (now without ammunition and masks) being so called innocent civilians???

 Yes, that was media stuff, going over and over again! :( 

 And then Obama, Merkel, others you name them; came with their statements condemning the military government, being outraged due to the violence used by forces agains innocent people!?  

Sorry.... Who am I ? Yes, I deed:  A disabled man who followed hours and hours the unfolding events on many channels simultaneous!  And yes, for sure: I have a bad short term memory when it's about names, words.... But I have a superb visual memory!  Absolutely sure.

None ever questioned me, but I did it myself: were those popping up pics during the live coverage actually from the same day and same place???  

Well.... I guess that one pic with a guy with ak42 in disguise was not!  Why? I think I saw it years ago in Gaza.  Of course, it could be somewhere in Egypt too! But with a Hamas emblem? :/ (It was shown on CNN late that -european- night again!) 

Another still from Reuter came up while the live video coverage switched to that mosque east o.t. Nile. But it did show a young guy with assault weapon shooting from that famous bridge onto the "black guys"!

So... Conclusion:

I'm the last one in favor of a military junta!  Yes, I am a democrat! So, when Hamas is democratically elected in Gaza... Not my choice. But: Hamas is likely not killing other Palestinians!!! 

Above all, I'm a silent atheist! Meaning: I don't believe in any god at all!  But as long as you wanna believe without forcing ME "to believe in YOUR GOD or go to the stake" ,  what did happened in this so called free Western countries not so long ago in history(!) , I really don't mind.

 And I'll attend all ceremonies according to the rituals without any hesitation. Hat up in the synagogue, hat off in the Christian churches, shoes out in a mosque or Buddhists  temple, giving hands or just not... where ever I am, I will always adapt to the religion, NOT NEVER to the country or politic regime! 

The Brotherhood was likely also democratically elected.  But... so was Hitler!  Yes, he was!!!  And according to my personal sources in Alexandria, Cairo and now somewhere very south Nile :  Christians, Atheists, LGBT and other *non Brotherhood people*, did fear for their lives last 12 months!  Churches have been incinerated one after the other last year.  Gay clubs have been assaulted or anyhow closed.  Not to speak of personal attacks or murders on gays who don't get the world media but are the worst ever personal murders.  And last but not least: The Brotherhood wants to install Sharia law and justice in Egypt  :/ is that what "we" democratic westerners want??? 

Re: Operamagazine: gesprek met Hans Nieuwenhuis

Tja, een goeie weergave van de feiten èn Hans’ woorden. Dat kan ik na 40 jaar wel zeggen!  

[Edit:....] = dit heb ik niet in het originele antwoord gezet, omdat het dân gegarandeerd gedeletet zou zijn]

Wat ik wel wil toevoegen zijn de volgende feiten: 

in 1990 werd Hans opgestookt om opnieuw in navolging van Hans de Roo, een opera studio op te zetten. Niet door de minsten! [Edit: gelóóf mij maar voor een keer!!] Maar er was geen geld! 

Nou ja, ondergetekende had net geërfd en een proces gewonnen… Zo ontstond er een Internationaal Opera Centrum NL. waar ik niet alleen mijn geld maar ook héél veel ” bloed, zweet en tranen ” in gestopt heb. Bloedende blaren van het het schrobben van de eerste accommodatie in de Elandstraat met daarbij heel veel zweet van het koken en lunches alsook bloemenboeketten maken voor de zangers. Oh, het bloed van het enveloppen likken en misselijk worden van het postzegelslikken terzijde dan.  

Maar na 10 jaar was mijn geld op. :/ [Edit: en dankzij een paar hoofdambtenaren die vanaf dag 1 al in allerlei potjes van zeg maar  fl. 5.000 meubilair en fl. 8.000 post en huplepup e.d. bijeen wisten te scharrelen, kòn het IOCN nog 10 jaar doorscharrellen.  Ik wilde behalve het direct zichtbare zwoegen in kantine en gangen anoniem blijven, en niemand is mij iets verschuldigd! In tegendeel!  Net als bij Hans, hebben die jaren een aantal (wereldsterren) zangers opgeleverd. Dàt is ook mìjn beloning! En hoewel ik het woord trots per definitie fout vind, daar ben ik telkens BLIJ om. :)  end-edit]

Toen pas kwam er serieuze subsidie! En toen pas kwamen zogenaamde mecenassen in beeld: TV spelletjes en denksport bedenkers die met verkoop van de rechten multimiljonair geworden waren. De redding binnenboord! .??? 

Al na 1 jaar wist ik het: zó word je miljonair!  En na 3 jaar leverde het eerst zelfs een (tijdelijke) echtscheiding op tussen hans en mij, en vervolgens zelfs het “kaltstellen” van Hans. 

[edit: nee, dat ging niet goed met Nieuwenhuis zijn financiën, dat moest door de nieuwe ING dikkedeur overgenomen worden!  "wat??? Niet akkoord? WIJ zijn het bestuur en dus is meneer Nieuwenhuis ontslagen! " oh wat zegt het ministerie??? "Als dhr. Nieuwenhuis ontslagen word... gaat de geldkraan onmiddelijk dicht!"  Oh??? Dan moet meneer Nieuwenhuis toch ff aanblijven, toch?! ]

En ondertussen zongen de jonge zangers maar door op de Staetshuys Salons van de drukbezochte – door voorname, heel voorname, VVD coryfeeën [ zoals dat wijf van Smit-kroes-peper-enzout-] die ooit de strippenkaart bedacht (tenminste, dat zei ze toch bij Sonja Barend) en waar men in Brussel maar niet vanaf raakt – en ING (kantoor!) bankiers die ff de zaken zouden regelen! 

Ja, natuurlijk, op geld en leuke jongens geilende nichten die in het wie-Kent-kwizz entourage al kl##r kwamen van hun aanwezigheid. En ja hoor, diezelfde LPF / PVV / VVD creaturen (of moet ik zeggen : medecreatoren?) stonden aan het bestuur van de voor hun in Opera Studio NL omgedoopte stichting die heláás wegbezuinigd werdt. En het resterende geld van circa € 65.000 ging naar het voorname, pardon, voornámere Hans Gabór Belvedère zangersconcours voor 1 jaar (4 dagen dus). Nee, die operastudio was weggegooid geld. Vier dagen Belvedère in Amsterdam, dat is pas wat! Maar ze hebben gelijk hoor, ik als domme Belgische echtgenoot van Hans heb niets meer; zij zijn miljonairs geworden. Logischt toch?!  

[En ter info: Wenen is het zangersconcours en Kammeroper (waar niks gebeurde) kwijt maar heeft wel een grootse opera studio -theater an der Wien- erbij! En Amsterdam is zijn opera studio kwijt en kreeg het genoegen om 4 dagen het Belvedère concours te mogen "huisvesten". En nee, ik heb geen inzage in de (ING) boeken.  Oh, en natuurlijk waren wij NIET uitgenodigd op het Amsterdam Belvedère After Concours Party!  23 jaar Opera Sudio en 22 jaar in Wenen, waar de GrachtenpuzzlesHeren 8 jaar geleden niet eens van gehoord hadden (oh... Toch van gehoord, maar nooit geweest? Tja, time is money...)  ]

Okay, dat is een flink azijnpissers verhaal! Maar in werkelijkheid zou het VITRIOOL pissen MOETEN zijn! ;)