Category Archives: We-reflect-news

Earlier on the news, I heard that the family of the original writer of the song ‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’ have won the (6 year) battle to regain the copyrights of that song. This struck me as good news, or … Continue reading →

Good news coming from Europe: The ETA (The Basque separatist group) announced a ‘permanent ceasefire’ today. In the early 80s the group was frequently in the news and apparently in one year it claimed over 100 deaths. It’s not known … Continue reading →

For some kind of reason, I find this image of New Zeelanders celebrating the win of Moss Burmeister (news),while performing a Maori dance, highly comical. Maybe it illustrates that our great western ‘civilized’ culture is just a mash-up of cultures … Continue reading →

Remarkable news item: the Canadian Supreme Court overturned a ban on a ceremonial dagger. A school in Quebec was apparently wrong in telling a 12 year boy that he could not wear his dagger in the classroom. Once again a … Continue reading →

I decided to watch the Olympics at CBC and ended up watching the 4-men bobsled heats. The report only focussed on the Canadian sleds and the leading teams. In this sport that’s generally either Switzerland, Germany or Russia. The final … Continue reading →

The start of the Olympics in Torino, Italy also appears to be the start of a lockdown of the ‘NOS Journaal’ for people outside of the right timezone. Over at the Public broadcaster there’s a sobering message saying that some … Continue reading →

I see that the Dutch parliament voted ‘Yes’ for a mission to Afghanistan, a vote that made it in this mornings CBC’s ‘Morning news’ (Oh, we did have a dumping of snow yesterday too, but we managed as usual). According … Continue reading →

That buzzing-noise means something. If there’s a buzzing noise, somebody’s making a buzzing-noise, and the only reason for making a buzzing-noise that I know of is because you’re a bee. …. And the only reason for being a bee that … Continue reading →

The most surprising news this week was that Konica-Minolta was going to get out of the camera business. Not just digital camera business, but all camera business. The digital camera section of Minolta apparently is going to be sold to … Continue reading →

A team of researchers found pretty damning evidence that humans affect the climate. The main portion of their findings: [it] describes the content of the greenhouse gases within the core and shows that carbon dioxide levels today are 27% higher … Continue reading →

I‘m surprised, utterly surprised, to hear that they had a snowstorm in The Netherlands (Dutch). Shocked (Dutch again), I might add. It’s too early in the season for snow, plus, the last 15 years I lived there, I never saw … Continue reading →

I‘m probably the only person in the world who thinks Bush’s purely political speech on Veterans Day was another low in American politics. “Some Democrats and anti-war critics are now claiming we manipulated the intelligence and misled the American people … Continue reading →