Category Archives: We-reflect-news

This is a weird read: The Royal Shell group wants to expand the production of oil (Dutch) at the Athabasca oilsands project (slow site alert). The article mentions that the company admits that the costs of personel and equipment are … Continue reading →

So, you’re the president of the mightiest and wealthiest country in the world and you attend the industrial world’s most important gathering. Seven men and one woman. What do you do? You have a jolly good time. You wave at … Continue reading →

You know, you’d think that the latest world craze is heat waves. It’s everywhere. US, check. Canada, check. Europe, check. The Netherlands. What? Oh dear. You may have noticed that xsamplex has a hard time keeping up the last couple … Continue reading →

You know when the world is close to an end when twins take office. For the first time evar in politics (Metafilter-style), there’s a good chance that a twins are going to be holding the posts for President and Prime … Continue reading →

Today, the space shuttle Discovery is about to be launched, the first space shuttle launch after the Columbia’s doomed re-entry in 2003. You may have heard about the discussion about flying or not flying: Early in June, NASA’s management decided … Continue reading →

Over at the FIFA site (Courtesy of Yahoo) a schedule of the World cup soccer, which you can fill out. You may want to keep the group standings page handy. I uploaded both my predictions (you can click the image … Continue reading →

I‘ve been following the ‘Dutch Immigration’ debate via the regular channels (which is at the ‘uitzending gemist’ site [Dutch]). The embracing of Hirshi Ali by the blogosphere’s ‘right’ is, so to say stunning. Anyways, I see that laws can be … Continue reading →

Via Alfons I found out that the Indonesian author and dissident Pramoedya Ananta Toer died at age 81 (BBC article). There’s an interesting article about him on Wikipedia, which links to (what appears to be) the only good source about … Continue reading →

I was reading (and followed before) the latest news items about the UK’s Prescott affair (in short: deputy prime minister had a lover) and for some kind of reason, it reminded me of the last days of the Major government, … Continue reading →

It’s almost 20 years ago that the worst nuclear accident happened in the former USSR, at the nuclear powerplant at Chernobyl. Today, Greenpeace also released a report that claims that the total deathtoll (including cancer related deaths) is around the … Continue reading →

During a presidential event, an audience member goes off-script and criticizes the presidency and the administration’s policies: What I wanted to say to you is that I — in my lifetime, I have never felt more ashamed of, nor more … Continue reading →