Marcus Ampe
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Category Archives: History
Uncertainty, shame and no time for vacillation
What happens when we look back at earlier advanced civilizations? Is there a pattern of complexity, collapse and correction that we might recognize in today’s current events? Historically every advanced civilization has faced a downfall. Usually the downfall is routed … Continue reading
Posted in Crisis, Economy, History
Tagged Alexis Tsipras, Athens, Classical Greece, Delian League, Dexia, Ethics, European Union, Eurozone, Fear, Food Stamp, Greece, Greek, Guilt, Italy, Jean-Luc Dehaene, Maastricht treaties, Roman Empire, Ruth Benedict, Shame, Syriza, Vasos Panagiotopoulos
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1914 – 2014 preparations
2014 is coming by and hall be special, because it shall be a time to stand still and look at what people can do to each other and what for dangers there can be around when we are not careful. … Continue reading
Posted in Feesten, History, News and Politics
Tagged Belgium, Flanders Fields, Last Post, Lijssenthoek, Passendale, Poperinge, Talbot House, The Great War, Tyne Cot, World War I, Ypres, Zonnebeke
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11 November, a day to remember #2 From the Industrialisation
In my previous postings Feestdagen, consumeren en besparen and Is it wise to annul the Pentecostweekend I mentioned that some members of parliament did not want to scrap only Whit Monday and we looked on what happened on the 315th … Continue reading
Posted in Crisis, Feesten, History, World
Tagged 11 November, 1914, Armistice, Armistice Day, Battle of Passchendaele, Battle of the Yser, Battle of Verdun, Belgium, Chemical Warfare, Daniël, death, Flanders Fields, Memorial Day, Menen, Mustard gas, Nieuwpoort, Ottoman Empire, Passendale, Treaty of Versailles, Trench Warfare, World War I, Ypres
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11 November, a day to remember #1 Until Industrialisation
In Feestdagen, consumeren en besparen and Is it wise to annul the Pentecostweekend I mentioned the ideas of some members of parliament to get rid of certain holidays to boost the economy. The most commercial successful Pentecost weekend has Whit Monday to … Continue reading
Posted in Feesten, History, World
Tagged 11 November, 1914, American Civil War, Armistice Day, Austria-Hungary, Balkan, Battle of Khotyn, Battle of the Golden Spurs, Battle of Waterloo, Belgium, Carnuntum, Council of the Lateran, Crusade, Europe, Expansion drift, Franco-Prussian War, German Empire, Germany, Industrial War, Napoleonic Wars, No More War, Ottoman Empire, Polish–Ottoman War, Trench Warfare, War of Nation, World War I
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Apartheid or Apartness #6 Anno 2012
Previously we mentioned, in Apartheid or Apartness #5 Spiral of violence and destruction or of reconciliation and peace, that South-Africa had to choose a spiral and WCC programmes tried with initiatives as The Decade to Overcome Violence (DOV) to strengthen existing … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, History, Welfare and Health, World
Tagged African National Congress, Apartheid, Black Empowerment, Corruption, Decade to Overcome Violence, Democracy, Diepsloot, Eugene de Kock, Film, housing, Johannesburg, Julius Malema, Nelson Mandela, South Africa, South Africa under apartheid, Unemployment
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Apartheid or Apartness #5 Spiral of violence and destruction or of reconciliation and peace
What happened before: #4 Hangover of Church 9. On the way to peace The World Council of Churches‘ 9th Assembly (Porto Alegre, Brazil, February 2006) called for “a process of wide consultation to be undertaken toward developing an ecumenical declaration on … Continue reading
Apartheid or Apartness #4 Hangover of Church
What happened before: #3 Opposition and Escalation 7. Moving Reformed Church The South African Council of Churches put more pressure on the South-African Christians and got a major role in the years up to Nelson Mandela’s liberation in 1991 and the … Continue reading
Posted in History, Religion
Tagged Africa, African National Congress, ANC, Apartheid, DRC, Dutch Reformed Church, Nelson Mandela, Neo-Nazi, South Africa, South African Council of Churches, South African Human Rights Commission, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa, WARC, World Alliance of Reformed Churches, Wouter Basson
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Apartheid or Apartness #3 Opposition and Escalation
5. Opposition In 1960, a large group of blacks in Sharpeville refused to carry their passes; the government declared a state of emergency. The emergency lasted for 156 days, leaving 69 people dead and 187 people wounded. Wielding the Public … Continue reading
Posted in History, Religion, World
Tagged African National Congress, ANC, Apartheid, Bantustan, Belhar Confession, British Commonwealth, Criminal Law Amendment Act, Flowerpower, Homelands, Kairos document, Nelson Mandela, Sharpeville massacre, Sharpville, South Africa, Soweto, Steve Biko, United Nations
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Apartheid or Apartness #2 Up to 2nd part 20th Century
3. First part of 20th century When the Union of South Africa came into being in 1910 the white people got all the functions and major positions. The African National Congress (ANC), formed in 1912, became the opponent of apartheid, … Continue reading
Apartheid or Apartness #1 Suppression and Apartness
1. Suppression Mabheka – He Who Looks; all the way from South Africa, finds that at last the wait is over. “The hideous reality that was apartheid is now being brought into the open” he says. “The Truth and Reconciliation … Continue reading
Posted in History, Religion, World
Tagged African National Congress, Afrikaner, ANC, Apartheid, Bible, Desmond Tutu, God, Humiliation, Jesus, Laws of God, Oppression, Racism, South Africa, Truth and Reconciliation Hearings
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100 years old ANC having to face a new challenge of free people
When the Dutch East India Company established a station at Cape Town in 1652 White settlement of South Africa began and the “swarties” saw their land be taken in by the “blankies”. By the time Britain annexed the Cape Colony … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, History, News and Politics
Tagged African National Congress, ANC, Apartheid, Bloemfontein, Cape Colony, Cape Town, Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), Jacob Zuma, Julius Malema, KwaZulu/Nata, liberation movement, National Party, Nelson Mandela, OASE, Onafhanklike Afrikaner-SelfbeskikkingsEkspedisie, South Africa, Tshwane
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ANC-regime wants to wipe every presence of Afrikaans from the SA map #2 Not wanted and Responsibility
Not wanted It is incomprehensible now that the government does not want to take into account about 6 million native speakers in South Africa, or 13.3 percent of the population. When they think to brush out the remembrance of the previous … Continue reading
ANC-regime wants to wipe every presence of Afrikaans from the SA map #1 History
ANC-regime wants to wipe every presence of Afrikaans from the SA map ANC-regering wil alle spore van Afrikaans uit die landskap skrap Outrageous! Ignominious the African ANC government wants to wipe every presence of Afrikaans from the South African map … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, History
Tagged African Language, Afrikaans, Afrikaanse Patriot, Afrikaner, ANC, Anglo-Boereoorlog, Boer, Cape Dutch, Dutch, Dutch East India Company, Flemish, Germanic Language, Great Trek, Language, Orange Free State, Society of Real Afrikaners, South Africa, Transvaal, Trekboer, Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie
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Censor looming around the UK corner?
UK Riots and consequences Cause While Tottenham businesses hit by the summer riots have been given support to improve trade over the Christmas period by Haringey Council‘s “I Love Tottenham” campaign aiming to encourage people to shop locally, to help … Continue reading
Posted in History, News and Politics
Tagged Arabic Awakening, Belgium, Black Sunday, BlackBerry Messenger, Britain, Censorship, Facebook, Flemish Block, Indignados, London, Manchester, N-VA, New Flemish Alliance, Occupy Movement, Riot, Social network, Tottenham, Twitter, Violence, Vlaams Blok
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Cool Person of the year 2011
Time Magazine Coolest Person Committee was determined to pick someone whose cool was tested and pervasive, obvious even to the dorks who work at this magazine. They defined cool in the classic Marlon Brando way an unshakable calm mixed with … Continue reading
The Protester named Person of the Year 2011 by Time Magazine
TIME has named the 2011 Person of the Year and it’s no surprise: The Protester. Highly inclusive, it covers Occupy Wall Street, the 99 Percent, Tahrir Square and the rest of the Arab Spring and actions in Europe and across … Continue reading
Louise Weiss builiding and towers after Ziggurat Babel
Looking at the history of humankind we can notice two equal situations, similar to the happenings of today. Today we also can see how mankind after a rise of progress appears to go back to decline. Again see we in … Continue reading
Posted in History, Religion, World
Tagged Astana, Babel, Book of Genesis, European Parliament, European Union, Georgia Guidestones, God, Laws of God, New Age, New World Order, Nimrod, Occult Symbolism, Shinar, Tower of Babel
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