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The Netherlands - Weather: Summer is here to stay in the Netherlands- by Mina Solanki
It looks like the summer weather in the Netherlands
is here to stay, at least until the end of next week. So, if you
haven't already, now is the perfect time to take that trip to one of the Netherlands’ beaches or city beaches. Or, if you prefer, take advantage of the good weather and head on over to a national park or zoo.
On Thursday, July 12, frequent sun and temperatures ranging from 23C to 27C are forecasted. According to Weerplaza, up until the end of next week, July 22, the weather is expected to stay warm at 25C or higher.
On Monday, July 16, temperatures could even reach tropical values of 30C or above. This increase in temperature may make it feel rather stifling outside, as opposed to pleasant.
The Weerplaza weather model gives rather warm weather for the week of 23 to 29 July, especially in deep inland areas. In coastal areas, relatively higher temperatures can be expected, however, these are not as notable as in other areas of the Netherlands. During this week, a few rain showers are highly likely.
Read more: Summer is here to stay in the Netherlands
On Thursday, July 12, frequent sun and temperatures ranging from 23C to 27C are forecasted. According to Weerplaza, up until the end of next week, July 22, the weather is expected to stay warm at 25C or higher.
On Monday, July 16, temperatures could even reach tropical values of 30C or above. This increase in temperature may make it feel rather stifling outside, as opposed to pleasant.
The Weerplaza weather model gives rather warm weather for the week of 23 to 29 July, especially in deep inland areas. In coastal areas, relatively higher temperatures can be expected, however, these are not as notable as in other areas of the Netherlands. During this week, a few rain showers are highly likely.
Read more: Summer is here to stay in the Netherlands
Climate Change: Record high temperatures around the world
Heatwave sees record high temperatures around world this week
July 13, 2018
July 12, 2018
EU: Trump presses falsehoods about NATO, Germany- by David Rising, Robert Burnand Zeke Miller
Unleashing in-your-face rhetoric at the NATO summit, President
Donald Trump pressed the falsehood Wednesday that members of the
alliance owe money to the U.S. and took sole credit for higher military
spending by NATO partners — a decision that preceded his presidency.
Trump also misrepresented Germany's energy picture, asserting coal and nuclear power are gone from the mix. Coal remains a bedrock energy source for Germany despite its hope to wean itself from that mineral and nuclear plants have several years of life before they are to be phased out.
Here's a look at some statements from the summit in Brussels:
TRUMP: "Frankly, many countries owe us a tremendous amount of money for many years back, where they're delinquent, as far as I'm concerned, because the United States has had to pay for them. So if you go back 10 or 20 years, you'll just add it all up. It's massive amounts of money is owed." — comments at meeting with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg. In a tweet Tuesday, he said: "Will they reimburse the U.S.?"
THE FACTS: There is no such debt to the U.S. or to NATO. Therefore, no delinquency or question of reimbursement.
He is referring to how much each NATO country spends on its own defense and pressing them to spend more. Doing so would relieve some pressure on U.S. military spending. But there are no IOUs to collect from past years.
Read more: AP FACT CHECK: Trump presses falsehoods about NATO, Germany
Trump also misrepresented Germany's energy picture, asserting coal and nuclear power are gone from the mix. Coal remains a bedrock energy source for Germany despite its hope to wean itself from that mineral and nuclear plants have several years of life before they are to be phased out.
Here's a look at some statements from the summit in Brussels:
TRUMP: "Frankly, many countries owe us a tremendous amount of money for many years back, where they're delinquent, as far as I'm concerned, because the United States has had to pay for them. So if you go back 10 or 20 years, you'll just add it all up. It's massive amounts of money is owed." — comments at meeting with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg. In a tweet Tuesday, he said: "Will they reimburse the U.S.?"
THE FACTS: There is no such debt to the U.S. or to NATO. Therefore, no delinquency or question of reimbursement.
He is referring to how much each NATO country spends on its own defense and pressing them to spend more. Doing so would relieve some pressure on U.S. military spending. But there are no IOUs to collect from past years.
Read more: AP FACT CHECK: Trump presses falsehoods about NATO, Germany
July 10, 2018
EU - Christian Community Wake-up Call - Trump visit - Join and encourage protests against Trump's visit to the EU and show that Christian revolutionary compasion is still alive and well
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| Bozo is in town, Please give him a "warm" welcome |
In the sense that he refused to be a narrow political leader that would just make Judea (todays Israel) politically powerful.
His mission was worldwide to benefit all mankind; leveling the importance of power and wealth.
He was equally compassionate and attentive to: women, tax collectors, foreigners inclusing Roman Centurians, Lepers, those crippled, those blind, insane Gentiles, Samaritans, Pharisees (though he brought some of them up short for their hypocrisy), Sinners, Rulers of the Synagogue, and very rich people, including Nobility.
Unfortunately
today his doctrine is only given "lip service" in many Christian
Churches around the world, in particular the US and Europe.
What has
happened to the revolutionary Spirit of compassion and involvement Jesus
spoke about ?
Case
in point. When in recent weeks the US government’s abusive and widely
condemned policy of separating migrant children from their families was
publicly criticized, the attorney general Jeff Session of the Trump
Administration responded, by quoting the New Testament writer Paul, who
in the book of Romans calls on people to obey the laws of the
government. Really?.
That this would have ruled out the actions of Jesus himself, was
seemingly lost on Sessions, as indeed was the fact that Jesus’s family
were forced to escape across borders.
Or the fact that Psalm 202.28 states: "The children of your servants shall dwell secure; their offspring shall be established before you", and as we read in Mark 9:42: "Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it
would be better for him if a great millstone were hung around his neck
and he were thrown into the sea".
But the Sessions incident highlighted the problem that Christianity has and
the problems that are still being created.
To put it bluntly: in
the 2016 presidential election a majority of practicing Christians in
the USA voted for the most racist and misogynistic candidate going, and in
so doing helping Donald Trump to the position of the most powerful
person in the world.
Against such a background it’s easy to forget that the movement
from which Christianity emerged was one that shared possessions in
common, renounced war and at least in some ways modelled more
progressive understandings of gender than was generally accepted in those days To use
some words that weren’t around at that time in history; human rights, democracy, pacifismt and pro-feminism..
Trump’s ‘America First’ ideology has many similarities with those of other dangerous nationalist- populists around the world..
Trump
has also not attempedt to conceal his admiration for other populist
movements around the world. He openly supported the Brexit movement, and
populist Marianne Le Pen's campaign in the French Presidential election
against President Emmanual Macron. He also hails authoritarian
'strongmen' like Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, and Vladimir Putin. He
obviously, secretly, envies their freedom of action, and
probably wonders why the restraints of this "bourgeois democracy"
continuously tie his
hands behind his back.
In the relatively short time period the current Trump administration has been in power,Trump pulled the US out from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the Paris agreement on climate change and the Iran deal. He also withdrewn the US from the United Nations' top human rights body and plans to end NAFTA -- while his recently announced tariffs affecting the EU, China, Mexico and Canada, are on the verge of starting a global trade war.
These International actions, however, are only the top of the Iceberg, in comparison to the changes his administration has already made on the home front, negatively affecting peoples health, immigration policies, taxes, and personal freedom.
And now.... Donald Trump has arrived in Europe, arrogant and cocky as ever.
Check out your local press and social media for additional details of the Donald Trump visit to the EU, and where demonstrations will be held in your area---and please attend.
Trump's program which starts this afternoon July 10 in Brussels, where Trump will meet with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, before participating in high-level sessions with the 28 allies on Wednesday July 11. and Thursday July 12th at the NATO headquarters.
On the 13th of July he will be in Britain where he will meet Prime Minister Theresa May, Queen Elizabeth II and business leaders, before heading to the Trump resort in Scotland on Friday evening, where he’s expected to play some golf over the weekend.
The US president is due to spend his first and only night in London at the US ambassador’s official residence, Winfield House, in Regent’s Park. Over the weekend he will be going to Scotland for some golf and probably stay at his luxury hotel he owns in Ayrshire, the Trump Turnberry
On Sunday evening July 15, Trump will fly further north to Helsinki, Finland for a one-on-one meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Given the backdrop of international trade tensions following Trump’s tariff increases; the litany of retaliatory measures announced by U.S. allies including the European Union (EU); Trump’s criticism of NATO; and close scrutiny of his administration’s links to Russia — some of these encounters are bound to be less congenial than others.
The role that we as individuals can each play is to join in demonstrations, wherever they may be held in in Europe.
You might feel this does not add up to much, but
together it can add up in
disrupting the US president’s hoped-for, and loved media PR opportunity, by showing an alternative to what he stands for.
But that is only a first step.
The bigger job is, after acknowledging the problem, to dismantle the scaffolding of
structural racism, and economic inequality, that allowed Trump to
get where he is today, and which allow comparable policies to happen in Europe and around the world.
If
you live or have family or friends in the areas where Trump is visiting
please pass this article along and encourage them to demonstrate.
Make Trump understand his Administrations policies are not acceptable in the EU.
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