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The world on the very brink of conflict

Posted on January 12, 2022 by Marcus Ampe

In the years that Trump was president of the United States there were moments that lots of people looked very cautious about what that man would do in his rashness. After the Cold War the threat of war did not … Continue reading →

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Posted in Crisis, History, News and Politics, Warning, World | Tagged 2021, 2022, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Asia, Boris Johnson, China, Cold War, Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO), Crimea, Daniel 8:25, Eastern Ukraine, Europe, European Union, Gog, Iran, Iranian nuclear programme, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Kazakhstan, Magog, Middle East, Putin’s Plan, Russia, Sergey Lavrov, Taiwan, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin | 41 Comments

2019 was #2 a Year of much deceit in the U.S.A.

Posted on January 8, 2020 by Marcus Ampe

Since a few years some world leaders seem to have their hands on one stomach. They are really of the same kind, so their unity or similar speech should not surprise us. Only problem is that so many people are … Continue reading →

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Posted in B4Peace, Crisis, Dagboek = Diary, Economy, Environment and Ecology, History, News and Politics, Poverty, Religion, Warning, Welfare and Health, World | Tagged 1950s, 2018, 2019, American democracy, Anthony Scaramucci, Bashir al-Assad, Boris Johnson, Bribery, China, Cold War, Communist subversion, Disinformation, Donald Trump, Fiona Hill, Gary Cohn, Hollywood blacklist, Hope Hicks, House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), Impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump, James Mattis, Jerry Nadler, Joe Biden, John Bolton, Joseph McCarthy, Madeleine Westerhout, Manipulating people, Manipulator(s), Michael Dubke, Michael Flynn, Middle East, Mira Ricardel, Nigel Farage, North America, Reince Priebus, Russian aggression, Smear tactic(s), Steve Bannon, Tayyip Erdogan, United States of America, Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelensky | 18 Comments

June – July 2019

Posted on July 15, 2019 by Marcus Ampe

June was hottest ever recorded on Earth = Data provided by the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), implemented by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts on behalf of the EU, showed that the global average temperature for June 2019 … Continue reading →

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Posted in Environment and Ecology, History, News and Politics, World | Tagged 2016, 2019, Afghanistan, America, Arabic nation(s), Authoritarianism, Bahrain, Benjamin Netanyahu, Climate change, Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), Donald Tusk, Europe, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Far-right parties, Fear-mongering politician(s), France, G20 summit, Germany, Global Warming, Gulf states, Hamas, Iran, Israël, Jordan, June, Liberalism, Middle East, Multiculturalism, Northern Spain, Oman, Palestine, Pope Francis I, Populism, Qatar, Right-wing nationalists, Russia, Russian Armed Forces, Soviet Union, Spain, Syria, Trump administration, Turkey, United States of America, Valery Gerasimov, Vladimir Putin, Western democracies | 7 Comments

Avoiding to get Water at the price of gold #2 Dealing with effects of a changing climate

Posted on May 11, 2019 by Marcus Ampe

In the previous posting we saw that the water which comes out of the tap does not always have to be safe water. There are many souls who can tamper with it. But to make it clean drinkable water the … Continue reading →

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Posted in Crisis, Environment and Ecology, Food, Warning, Welfare and Health, World | Tagged Africa, Arabian Desert, Argentina, Arjen Y. Hoekstra, Asia, Australia, Biodiversity, Borneo, Carbon emission(s), Central Africa, Central America, Central Asia, Central Australia desert, Chile, China, Clean water, Climate-warming emission(s), Congo Basin, Consumption habits, Drinking water, Europe, Fresh water, Ganges basin, Global Warming, Gobi, Greater London area, Greenhouse Gases, Groundwater, Groundwater reserve, High Plains (U.S.A.), India, Infectious diseases, Limpopo basin, Malaysia-Indonesia, Mesfin M. Mekonnen, Mexico, Middle East, Murray-Darling basin, New Guinea, Nile delta, North Africa, North America, Pakistan, Safe water, Sahara, Sanitation, Somalia, South America, South Asia, Southern Africa, Southern Europe, Sumatra, Taklamakan, Turkey, Wastewater, Water crisis, Water scarcity, Water shortage, Water supply, Yemen | 8 Comments

High time to to put the environment at the heart of people’s lives

Posted on May 8, 2019 by Marcus Ampe

In 2018 lots of people had hoped that many politicians all over the world would be willing to put the environment at the heart of people’s lives. The United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation … Continue reading →

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Posted in Crisis, Environment and Ecology, History, News and Politics, Visuals (Video, Photo, Cartoon), Warning, Welfare and Health, World | Tagged 2018, 2019, 2030, 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 2050, Africa, Amphibian(s), Asia, Clean air, Climate change, Cycad(s), Ecological Footprint, Environment, Environmental footprint, Environmental forum, Environmental Protection, Food waste, Global Environmental Outlook (GEO), Global initiative on climate change, Global temperature, Greenhouse gas, Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, Health, High level waste, Humankind, Industrialisation, International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN), Invertebrate species, Joyce Msuya, Joyeeta Gupta, Marine litter, Middle East, Nairobi, Near-zero-waste economy, Paris Agreement on climate change, Paul Ekins, Plastic pollution, Red List of Threatened Species, Reef-forming coral, Species threatened with extinction, Tenant, UN Environment Assembly, United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (UN-REDD Programme), Urbanization, Vascular plants, Waste, Water scarcity, Way of thinking, Well-being of population, World Meteorological Organization (WMO) | 7 Comments

2016 review Human rights

Posted on February 15, 2019 by Marcus Ampe

From the ‘forgotten to publish’ material, written on March 2017 After 2015 brought court sentences to some human traffickers and Great Britain voted to exit the EU it did not end the traffic. A court in Leuven heard how a … Continue reading →

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Posted in B4Peace, Crisis, History, News and Politics, Welfare and Health, World | Tagged 2014, 2015, 2016, Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi, Abdul-Malik Badreddin al-Houthi, Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda / al-Qaida, Ali Abdullah Saleh, Amnesty International, Angola, Ansbach, Arab Spring, Arabian Peninsula, Asylum seekers, Bahrain, Bart Tommelein, Belgian federal government, Belgium, Boechout, Brussels, Brussels Airport, Charles Michel, Charlie Chaplin, Child soldiers, Cluster bombs, Cologne (Köln), Counter-terrorism, Diplomat Artist, Doctors Without Borders (MSF/AZG), Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, European Parliament, European Union, Fighting terrorism, France, Geneva Conventions, Great Britain, Greed, Hadramawt, Houthis (Huthis or Ansar Allah fighters), Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, Human traffickers, Humanitarian aid, Immigration, International Criminal Court (ICC), International humanitarian law, International humanitarian law (IHL), Iraq, IS terrorists, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Islamic terrorism, Jan Jambon, Jihadi capital of Europe, Jihadi fighters, Jihadism, Jihadist cells, Jihadist terrorism, Johan Leman, Justice system, Khurram Zaki, Leuven, Libya, Lydia Canaan, Mahmoud Hussein, Marib, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF-Doctors Without Borders), Middle East, Minha Casa, Minha Vida, Molenbeek, Money laundering, Muhamed “Mo” Sacirbey, Muslim faith, Mwatana (Yemen’s human rights organization), NGO's, Noam Chomsky, North Africa, North Korea, Olympic Games, Oslo Conference on Safe Schools, Paralympic Games, Paris, Penal establishment, Police, Radicalisation, Reutlingen, Rio de Janeiro, Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Safe Schools Declaration, Saudi Arabia, Sfinks Mixed festival, Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, Social workers, Somalia, Stop Torture campaign, Sudan, Syria, Tayyip Erdogan, Terres Des Hommes, Terrorism, Torture, Tunisia, UN Security Council, United Arab Emirates, United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Venezuela, Violence, War crimes, World Humanitarian Summit (WHS), Wuerzburg, Yemen, Yemen uprising | 11 Comments

At the closing hours of 2016 #2 Low but also highlights

Posted on January 5, 2017 by Marcus Ampe

Wanting to write on what happened in 2016 I noticed I have forgotten to publish some articles I wrote this year. The time went credibly fast when our thoughts had to go to so many people in trouble, having to … Continue reading →

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Posted in B4Peace, Crisis, Culture, Dagboek = Diary, History, News and Politics, Religion, World | Tagged #BlackLivesMatters, #BlackLivesMatters activists, 2016, 2016 Nice attack, Alt-right or alternative right, American politics, American Presidential Elections, Angela Merkel, Anti-democracy, anti-Semitic attacks, Anti-Semitism, Arab States, Asylum seekers, Atheists, Augmented reality game, Bagnan, Baltimore (Maryland), Barack Obama, Belgian Muslims, Belgium, Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matter (movement), Black oppression, Black suffering, Boko Haram, Brexit, Brockway McMillan, Brussels, Brussels Airport, Brussels attacks, Burkini, BuzzFeed, Côte d'Azur, Charleston (South Carolina), Clinton family, Colin Powell, Cologne (Köln), Da'isj of Daesh, Daesh (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant or ISIL), David Duke, Democratic Party (United States), Dhulagarh, Disinformation, Donald Trump, Donald Tusk, Europe, European politicians, European politics, European Union, Extreme right movement, Faith Spotted Eagle, False messages, Far Right Wing, Fidel Castro, France, French Muslims, Fundamentalist Islamic groups, Gérard Desrosiers, Gigliola Frazzoni, Great Britain, Hamburg, Hillary Clinton, Hinterland Gazette, Hunger for love, Immanuel Verbondskind (website), Immigrants, Institut Montaigne, Internet memes, Islam in France, Islamic fundamentalist groups, Islamic groups, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Israël, Israeli Jews, Jean Stead, Jean-Claude Juncker, Jewish journalists, Jihadist radicalism, Jihadist terrorism, John Podhoretz, Joseph Muscat, Julia Ioffe, Kazo Daily, Location-based game, Maalbeek metro station, Maalbeek-Maelbeek, Marc Sleen, Mark Rutte, Martin Schulz, Materialism, Mediterranean, Melania Trump (or Knauss - born Melanija Knavs), Michelle Obama, Middle East, Mike Pence, Misery, Muslim radicals, Muslims, Neo-nazi activities, Neo-Nazis, Neo-Nazism, New Year's Eve, Nice, Nice attack, Non-religious, North Americans, Patrisse Cullors, Pokémon Go, Politicians, Pope Francis I, Post-Brexit, Questiontime-Vragenuurtje (website), Racism, Rape game, Refugees, Religious groups, Republican party, Republicans, Richard Spencer, Right to wear weapons, Right-wing populism, Robert Fico, Russia, Russian journalists, Saint Tropez, Sammy Lee (diver), Sankrail, Selfishness, Sharia law, Shimon Peres, Social media phenomenon, South of France, Terror attacks, Terrorist attack, Terrorist attacks, Tertio, Toots Thielemans, Turkey, Turkish journalists, United Kingdom, United States, United States of America, Van Gogh Museum, Vincent van Gogh paintings, Weapon lobby, West Bengal, West Bengal Trinamool Congress (Bengal TMC), White Americans, White nationalism | 41 Comments

Silence, devotion, Salafists, quietists, weaponry, bombings, books, writers and terrorists

Posted on April 16, 2016 by Marcus Ampe

Trouble-spots across the globe Bob Van Laerhoven seems to have survived life among the Doomed. The full-time Belgian/Flemish author debuted in 1977 as a short story writer, and in 1985 as a literary novelist. More than 30 novels followed, some … Continue reading →

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Posted in Crisis, History, News and Politics, Religion | Tagged 1995, Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi, al Qaeda, Allah, Baghdadi-style jihadism, Being of this world, Belgium, Believers in God, Bible, Bob Van Laerhoven, Body of Christ, Bosnia, Brussels, Brussels Airport, Brussels attacks, Bruxellois, Christians, Conquest of Jerusalem, Conservative Christians, Crimes against humanity, Criminal, Crusader, Crusades, Dabiq (ISIS’s English-language magazine), Desire, Egypt, Elohim, End Times, Europe, Faithful believers, Flemings, Fundamentalist Islam, God, God of Abraham, God of Israel, gods, Graeme Wood, Greco-Roman culture, Hamas, Hanafi, Hanbali, Hatred for Europe, Heathen world, Hezbollah, Human interpretations, Immigrant, Immigrant workers, Immigrants, Immoral way of life, Immorality, Indecency, Individual liberty, Individual responsibility, Iraqi immigrants, Islam, Islam fanatics, Islamic caliphate, Islamic State (IS), Islamic State of Syria and Iraq (ISIS), Israël, Jerusalem, Jihad, Jihadi fighters, Jihadism, Jihadist cells, Jihadist network, Jihadists, Joas Wagemakers, Kafir or kuffar, Libya, Lovers of Allah, Lovers of God, Maalbeek-Maelbeek, Maliki, Middle East, Molenbeek, Muslim, Muslim Brotherhood, Muslim community (Ummah), Muslim immigrants, Non-trinitarians, Obscenity, Osama Bin Laden, Palestinian(s), Paris, Peter Bergen, Quietist Salafis, Quran, Quran teaching, Salafi community, Salafi movement, Salafism, Salafists, Salah Abdeslam, Sarajevo, Shafi'i, Sharia, Sharia law, Sheikh Omar Hadid Brigade, Signs, Signs of the Last Days, Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, Social divisions of humanity, Spiritual Israel, Srebrenica, Suicide-bomber, Sunnah, Sunni community, Sunni Islam, Sunni lands, Sunni Muslim lands, Sunnis, Syria, Syrians, Takfiri doctrine, Three-headed god, Tuzla, Unbelievers, Unified world, Walloons, War for God, Way of life, West | 20 Comments

2015 Health and Welfare

Posted on January 6, 2016 by Marcus Ampe

Health resilience, climate risks and Sustainable Development Goals 2015, the year that still 400 million people do not have access to essential health services — including family planning, antenatal care, skilled birth attendance, child immunization, antiretroviral therapy, tuberculosis treatment, and … Continue reading →

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Posted in Economy, History, News and Politics, Poverty, Welfare and Health | Tagged 1980s, 1990s, 2012, 2015, Afghanistan, Africa, African Union (AU), Aids, Air pollution, Alzheimer’s Research, Antibiotic resistance, Antibiotics, Asia, Austria, Belgium, Body weight, Bulgaria, Cancer, Childhood obesity, China, Climate change, Climate risks, Dementia, Dementia Discovery Fund, Diarrhoea or gastroenteritis, East Africa, Ebola, Ebola Recovery Conference, Ebola virus (EBOV), Elderly, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Eningococcal A meningitis, Epidemic parotitis or mumps, Ernest Bai Koroma, Ethiopia, EU Member States, Europe, European minimum wage, European Parliament, European Social Charter, Female labour force, Flu or influenza, Food and Agriculture Organization, Gender-based violence, Germany, Global Action Against Dementia, Global change, Global Dementia Observatory, Global immunization coverage, Guinea, Hand-sanitiser, Health care benefits, Healthy diet, Housework, Human environment, Human Right, Human Rights, Infectious diseases, International Conference on Nutrition, International Year of Sustainable Energy for All, Italy, Jean-Claude Juncker, Leisure, Liberia, Luxembourg, Malaria, Malaria mortality, Male labour force, Maternal mortality, Measles, Measles & Rubella Initiative, Men, MenAfriVac, Meningitis, Meningitis A vaccin, Middle East, Millennium Development Goals, Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Minimum wages, Mono River Union (MRU), Mortality, Netherlands, Nigeria, Obesity, Pakistan, Philippines, Physical activity, Poliomyelitis, Polysaccharide vaccines, Poverty, Public health emergency of international concern, Retirement age, Robert Mugabe, Rubella, Rwanda, Sexual-based violence, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Sugar, Sugar intake, Sugar tax, Sugar-sweetened drinks, Sustainable Development Goals, Sweden, Tetanus, Tuberculosis, Uganda, UNICEF, Vaccination, Vaccination regime, Vaccination Week, Vietnam, Viruses, West Africa, Western Pacific regions, Women, World Health Organization, World Immunization Week, Zambia | 13 Comments

2015 Human rights

Posted on January 5, 2016 by Marcus Ampe

Terrorism and freedom of speech In the wake of the horrific shooting at the offices of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, illustrators and cartoonists around the world came together in solidarity with the 12 artists and ordinary people who … Continue reading →

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Posted in Armoede, History, News and Politics, Religion, Visuals (Video, Photo, Cartoon), World | Tagged 2015, 9/11 = 2001 September 11, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, Abuse of religion, Action Plan, Adel Al-Jubeir, Al-Qaeda / al-Qaida, Alexander De Croo, Americans, Angela Merkel, Arab people, Asia-Pacific region, Asylum seekers, Aung San Suu Kyi, Ban Ki-moon, Bangladesh, Bart Weekers, Belgian Jews, Belgium, Benjamin Netanyahu, Bisexual, Blasphemy, Boko Haram, Borgerhout, Brazil, Britta Schumacher, Burundi, Cameroon, Caribbean, Cartoon, Cartoons, Censor, Censorship, Central Africa, Central African Republic, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Charles Michel, Charlie Hebdo, Child Labour, Child slaves, Child soldiers, Children not Soldier campaign, China, Copenhagen, Credibility of governmental sayings, Cuba, Dilma Rousseff, Discrimination, Economic crisis, El Salvador, Equality, Equality for women, Erik Wemple Blog, Eritrea, Europe, European Union, Exploitation of man, Faisal Bin Abdulrahman Bin Muaammar, Fedasil, Fighting terrorism, Flemish Parliament, France, Free press, Free society, Freedom of expression, Freedom of movement, Freedom of press, Freedom of religion, Freedom of speech, Freedom of thought, Gay, Gender equality, Gender Inequality Index (GII), Gender police, Gender-related discrimination, Ghent, Global economic crisis, Globalisation, Haiti, Health professionals, Homosexuality, Human dignity, Human Right, Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, Human Rights Without Frontiers, Human Rights Without Frontiers International (HRWF Int’l), Indigenous people of El Salvador, Institute for the Equality of Women and Men, International Labor Organization, International Women's Year, International Women’s Day, Interreligious Platform of the Central African Republic, Iran, Iraq, Islamic extremism, Islamic fundamentalists, Islamic State (IS), Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Islamic terrorists, Islamism, Islamists, Israël, Je suis Charlie, Jewish community, Jewish Voice for Peace, Jews, Jihadi fighters, Jihadism, Jihadists, Joods Actueel, Kailash Satyarthi, Kenya, Kim Jeong-Wook, King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue (KAICIID), Lakshmi Puri, Land ownership, Latin America, Lesbian, Libya, Liesbet Homans, London, Maternal mortality, Matthias Diependaele, Michael Freilich, Michel Chossudovsky, Middle East, Migrants, Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Muhammad, Muslims, Myanmar, Mystery shoppers, Netherlands, New World Order, New York Times, Nicotine poisoning, Nigeria, North Africa, North Americans, North Korea, Osama Bin Laden, Palestinian people, Palestinian(s), Paris, Pas-de-Calais, Public health services, Radicalisation, Refugees, Renewed Efforts Against Child Hunger and Undernutrition (REACH) programme, Reproductive health needs, Resul Tapmaz, Robert Mugabe, Roberto Savio, Satire, Saudi Arabia, Security measures, Sex discrimination, Sex slaves, Sexual and reproductive health rights, Sexual health needs, Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, Slavery, Somalia, South Asia, South Sudan, Southern Europe, Sudan, Susan Bissell, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Syria, Terror, Terror attacks, Terror organisations, Terrorism, The Network, The New York Times, Tobacco farms, Transgender, Unemployment, Unesco, United Nations Commission on Population and Development, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United States, United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group, United States Navy SEALs, Uyghur Muslims, Vilvoorde, War on terrorism, War refugees, Washington Post, Women labour, World Conference on Women, World Health Organisation (WHO), Yemen, Zimbabwe | 29 Comments

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