This is what we have in the White House, deep seated fears. That is about the only deep state that exists, Trumps trembling fear of life.

There is no scientific measuring, no empirical principles, only fear of losing his billions or what is left of it.

Wall Street profits are record high while all the indulgences US Treasury Secretary Munchkins or whatever his name is "Mnuchins" can muster is the primary fear of Trump. He is deeply fearing the loss of his lavish life at the cost of taxes and the USA Treasury, regardless of the fact his son "Barron" will the consequences of his indulgences.

I don't want a president that is full of fear. I want a president and Congress that understands what is before them and protects the country. Trump is nothing but nonsense.

September 28, 2018

By Greta Moran

On Tuesday, (click here) President Trump gave a speech to the U.N. General Assembly reiterating his deep-seated fear of America losing its “sovereignty” in global agreements. It’s a familiar sentiment from Trump — last year, he withdrew from the Paris Accord on the grounds that it would put the U.S. at a “debilitating and tremendous disadvantage” and would be a “self-inflicted, major economic wound” for the country.

However, Trump’s claim that investing in efforts to lower greenhouse gas emissions will cripple the American economy doesn’t really hold up. In fact, the United States is among the top nations that have the most to lose financially when it comes to not acting on climate change, according to a study published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change.

The cost of our climate inaction? $250 billion per year, according to calculations by researchers at the University of California in San Diego....

What Trump has been doing without the knowledge or concent of the American people and the real reason why he pulled out of the Paris Accords, are deliberate acts to increase profit in the face of every climate warning there is. That is a purposeful ruthlessness that endangers lives globally.

These deliberate acts PROVE President Donald Trump is not interested in life and it's protections at all.

The sovereignty of the USA has been intact and it isn't about economic stability. Trump is about economic exploitation for as long as he can. 

The EPA:

September 4, 2018
By Jennifer A. Dlouhy

Warnings about potentially severe consequences of climate change (click here) were deleted from a Trump administration plan to weaken curbs on power plant emissions during a White House review.

Drafts had devoted more than 500 words to highlighting the impacts -- more heat waves, intense hurricanes, heavy rainfalls, floods and water pollution -- as part of the proposal to replace Obama-era restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions. That language was left out of the Trump administration’s final analysis of the Environmental Protection Agency proposal, when it was unveiled Aug. 21.

Among the abandoned assertions: an acknowledgment that “the climate has continued to change, with new records being set” for global average surface temperatures, Arctic sea ice retreat, carbon dioxide concentrations and sea level rise, all markers of the phenomenon.

The administration also scrapped a reference to numerous “major scientific assessments” that “strengthen the case that GHGs endanger public health and welfare both for current and future generations.”...

Netherlands carbon emissions per capita graph is 9;8 metric tons per year.

The United States of America per capita carbon emissions are 16.4 metric tons of carbon per year.



source: tradingeconomics.com

Maybe Republicans hate alternative energies because they are very scientific. In design, use and maintenance.

Ine Wijnant (RDWD) (click here) has succesfully led the proposal DOWA, now funded, in which ECN, KNMI and partners join forces to to extend the KNMI North Sea Wind Atlas with years 2013-2019 and to make another atlas for 2008-2017 with a better representation of the diurnal cycle and an option for further downscaling with LES (Large-Eddy Simulation)....

Small victories are sometimes the best. The majority of NASA jobs are on Earth. Why cancel a satellite? I makes no sense.

September 28, 2018
By Paul Voosen

A new space station sensor (click here) that will lay the foundation for future long-term observations of Earth’s climate is moving ahead, despite repeated attempts by President Donald Trump’s administration to kill it....

...The revived mission joins several other earth science programs in surviving near-death threats. The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3, which the Trump administration also proposed for cancellation, is now set to launch to the ISS  in February 2019. Congress has drafted, though has not yet passed, language reinstating NASA’s Carbon Monitoring System. And the agency’s administrator, Jim Bridenstine, has pledged to follow the guidance of the earth science decadal survey, a consensus wish list of NASA missions compiled by earth scientists that has endorsed many of the missions targeted for cancellation or budget cuts....

These are the Climate Models for the Netherlands developed by their university.

Illustration from the left (click here)

The Department Research and Development of Weather and Climate (click here) models (RDWK) investigates and develops research tools for weather and air quality prediction applications and climate models. We work on detailed physical processes, data assimilation, long term climate projections and practical applications including storm surge forecasts and statistics of extremes. RDWK participates in a number of international projects directed towards a variety of weather and climate related research and development areas and acts as the Netherlands Focal Point to the IPCC.

RDWK is structured in 3 clusters: Mesoscale modelling develops tools for regional numerical weather prediction (NWP) and climate analyses; Large scale modelling focuses on global climate and atmospheric chemistry; Postprocessing and Analysis develops statistical analyses, applications and climate services.

RDWK consists of about 45 research professionals (including PhD and technical support staff). We have a strong international network, and most activities are executed in collaboration with partners in e.g. HIRLAM/Harmonie, EC-Earth, ECMWF and universities....

It is official the USA is on a suicide path to it's self-destruction and taking the world with it. It is time to take the USA to the Hague.

This is insane. There is every reason to believe the USA has no moral compass. The leaders want money no matter the extent it is dangerous and irreverent to life. 

See, Trump thinks he and his family will be just fine and all others are too stupid to be him and should perish. Trump believes if an American or anyone else for that matter is not a billionaire, they are losers and deserve to die.

The fact the IPCC is stating all countries need to leave fossil fuels behind, embrace wind and solar and end greenhouse gas emissions; means nothing to Trump, his administration and Republicans in general.

Got that? These few people in decision making compared to the number of decision makers throughout the world will continue to pollute greenhouse gases with abandon and if that kills millions of people over time, what do they care? Some of this is stupidity and the lack of desire to listen to experts and scientists because nothing reported or said make sense to them. But, the majority of the lethargy of Republicans in the USA is profit. They don't want to give up profit, especially petroleum profits.

I think the petroleum industry is so very corrupt they fully expect millions of people to die and they don't care. Their perverted minds believe the climate crisis and nuclear annihilation are twin siblings on Halloween and it is just a matter of which occur first. Republicans think they are immune to any danger the world holds for them, including wildly heating Earth and others with nuclear capacity.

The US Republicans are about greed and nothing else. If a climate crisis or nuclear annihilation strike the USA in a way that causes deaths across the country; they simply take it on the chin. So long as the Republicans are okay, be damned the masses. They will pat themselves on the back to keeping their perspective knowing being an American is all they needed to survive anything.

Donald Trump believes his money will protect him from the climate crisis and nuclear annihilation. Money is all he needs and it is all he wants. What Trump and those like him don't care to understand is that if other human beings are dying because of these events, he doesn't have a chance to survive either. They believe they are untouchable and money and the USA military is all that is required to protect THEM. The deaths of Americans don't mean anything. As a matter of fact, Republicans would be patting themselves on the back if families died together to prevent unrest in their souls.

There is no talking to them. They don't care about right and "W"rong. They only care about dismantling regulation that will allow them to get maximum dollars for any commodity they can find.

THEY LIE. THEY SCHEME. THEIR MOTTO IS: "More for me."

It is time for the Hague. These are facts. They are undisputed. The climate crisis is real today and people are dying either directly from heat or through lack of water resources or starvation. There are plenty of legislators in the USA that have abandoned morality and moral content. They need to be tried for endangering countries full of lives. Countries signed onto the Paris Climate Accords are doing everything they can to end GHG pollution while the USA spews more GHG pollution and don't recognize the right to life by all people on Earth. Nothing else is going to stop this, except, trials for crimes against humanity. They pretend to embrace life by demanding the end of abortion, but, where is the plan for after the baby is born? A poverty that leads to children taken away from it's natural parents to be raised by others.

It is time for the Hague.

September 28, 2018

By Eric Levitz

Last month, (click here) the Trump administration released a report that predicted global temperatures will be four degrees higher by the end of this century, assuming current trends persist. World leaders have pledged to keep global temperatures from rising even two degrees (Celsius) above pre-industrial levels, with the understanding that warming beyond that could prove catastrophic. The last time the Earth was as warm as the White House expects it to be in 2100, its oceans were hundreds of feet higher. Which is to say: The Trump administration ostensibly, officially expects that, absent radical action to reduce carbon emissions, within the next 80 years, much of Manhattan and Miami will sink into the sea; many of world’s coral reefs will be irreversibly destroyed by acidifying oceans; vast regions of the Earth will lose their primary sources of water; and a variety of extreme weather events will dramatically increase in frequency.

And the White House believes that this fact is an argument for loosening restrictions on carbon emissions.

The report that disclosed the administration’s forecast for global warming was not a memo detailing president Trump’s intention to reenter the Paris Climate Accord, or to appoint Naomi Klein as his new EPA director. It was an environmental-impact statement justifying his decision to repeal previously scheduled, federal fuel-efficiency standards for vehicles built after 2020 — a deregulatory measure that will add 8 billion additional tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by the end of this century, according to the government’s own estimates.

As the Washington Post revealed Friday, the administration uses its four-degree warming estimate to argue that eliminating 8 billion tons worth of emissions won’t be enough to change the climate outlook, by itself, so the federal government shouldn’t bother....

Methane is too lethal to the climate. Leaks and burning producing CO2.

16 November 2018

By Elena Cavallone

...Another major consequence of climate change (click here) is the heavy storms and floods that are expected to hit the country.  For this reason, the Dutch government financed the construction of Hoogwatergeul Veessen an 8 km river bypass that serves as a river flood basin when the river IJssel overflows.  When the water level is normal the basin is used as agricultural land.  

During a normal flood, the gate serves to stop the water. But in the case that the entire valley is completely filled with water, turning the eastern group of villages into an island, the structure then turns into bridges that keep the village connected with its surroundings.

Kristian Koreman, co-founder of ZUS Architecture cabinet and designer of the Hoogwatergeul Veessen affirms that “we have to deal with the water, we have to accept the water, we have to live with the water and that’s what this project is really about: adapting, giving space, giving room to these natural changes which are just evident”.

Nevertheless, the Netherlands embodies the European paradox of contrasting climate change. For decades this country has been one of the world’s largest producers of natural gas. Considered cleaner than coal, its use has been encouraged by the European Union’s strategy on reducing CO2 emissions.  However, scientists from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research   confirm that, in the short term, natural gas has three times as much an impact on global warming than carbon dioxide. Friends of Earth then issued a warning: if by 2035 this source is not completely eliminated, the EU will completely miss the objective of the Paris agreement.

North Sea Flood - DOTC - An episode of Netherlands history. It inspires generations of change and safety.

Netherlands population 17,084,719 (July 2017 est.)

The Netherlands has a modestly increasing population, which one would not expect from a country with limited land mass. Their GDP per capita continues to grow.

August 14, 2018
By Daniel Workman

A small but mighty player (click here) in international trade, Netherlands shipped US$652.2 billion worth of goods around the globe in 2017. That dollar amount reflects a 14.2% increase since 2013 and a 46.6% uptick from 2016 to 2017 for the powerful European Union member....

...The unemployment rate for the Netherlands was 4.1% as of February 2018 down from 5.3% one year earlier, according to Trading Economics....

...The following export product groups represent the highest dollar value in Dutch global shipments during 2017. Also shown is the percentage share each export category represents in terms of overall exports from the Netherlands.

1. Machinery including computers: US$93.5 billion (14.3% of total exports)
2. Electrical machinery, equipment: $87.4 billion (13.4%)
3. Mineral fuels including oil: $80.3 billion (12.3%)
4. Pharmaceuticals: $33.5 billion (5.1%)
5. Optical, technical, medical apparatus: $30.1 billion (4.6%)
6. Vehicles: $27.3 billion (4.2%)
7. Plastics, plastic articles: $25.4 billion (3.9%)
8. Organic chemicals: $21.4 billion (3.3%)
9. Iron, steel: $14.8 billion (2.3%)
10. Live trees, plants, cut flowers: $10.3 billion (1.6%)

Note that the results listed above are at the categorized two-digit Harmonized Tariff System (HTS) code level. For a more granular view of exported goods at the four-digit HTS code level, see the section Searchable List of Most Valuable Dutch Export Products further down near the bottom of this article....

source: tradingeconomics.com

In order for the USA to face the problem, it first has to admit it is wrong about the climate and take a far different approach to solve it.

September 23. 2018
By Bill Whitaker

The world's only water ambassador, appointed by the Netherlands, says damage from hurricanes could be lessened with the help of Dutch-innovated stormwater management

Parts of the country ravaged by Hurricane Florence (click here) will slowly dry out and begin to clean up in the coming weeks. Many communities in the Carolinas hadn't yet recovered from Hurricane Matthew two years ago. The relentless cycle of disaster, rebuild, repeat has many coastal residents feeling numb and helpless. And climate scientists say we can expect more frequent, more powerful storms in the future. 

We heard that the Netherlands, one of the most flood-prone places in the world, almost never floods. Holland is about twice the size of New Jersey and is one of the world's most densely populated countries. Much of it is below sea level, yet the Dutch don't bother with flood insurance. They don't need it. As the U.S. cleans up from Hurricane Florence, we were wondering, do the Dutch have a solution?...

...Bill Whitaker: From what I can see here, it looks as though the entire country is man-engineered.

Henk Ovink: Yes

We flew over Rotterdam, his hometown, so he could show us how the country has been engineered.

Bill Whitaker: How much of this city is below sea level?

Henk Ovink: Almost everything.

Bill Whitaker: When was the last time this flooded?

Henk Ovink: This doesn't flood. And we--

Bill Whitaker: Because of the precautions you have taken.

Henk Ovink: Yeah.

Hurricane Florence from August 31 to September 19, 2018. This is a different kind of storm than a normal hurricane.

Fifteen years ago when I first participated in the EPA's New Source Review and opened the reality of the Climate Crisis as a concern for the USA; the mind set about the climate was that there was going to be more rain.

When the climate scientists of the IPCC compiled their work they predicted these storms. They aren't hurricanes and they are more than a thunderstorm. I look at where the USA is today and I can't help but think, "If they only listened, read and learned to take this seriously so long ago this storm would not even be known to us."

September 29,. 2018
By Dennis Merserereau

It’s been more than two weeks (click here) since Hurricane Florence made landfall and parts of the Carolinas are still dealing with flooding left behind by the storm. There are still some rivers in North Carolina and South Carolina reporting water levels at or above flood stage. The most severe flooding at the moment is in northeastern South Carolina, where the massive amount of water dumped by Florence is still winding its way downstream toward the Atlantic.

Hurricane Florence made landfall near Wilmington, North Carolina, on September 14, 2018, slowing to an excruciating crawl once it moved inland. The storm barely moved faster than average walking speed for several days after coming ashore. Florence’s slow forward movement allowed bands of thunderstorms to train over the same areas for several days, leading to unprecedented freshwater flooding in North and South Carolinas, as well as flooding issues throughout the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast.


The chart to the right are the deaths due to Hurricane Florence.

Florence was the wettest tropical cyclone ever recorded in both North Carolina and South Carolina. Its rainfall and flooding easily surpassed the disaster unleashed by Hurricane Matthew in 2016 and Hurricane Floyd in 1999.  A wide swath of real estate saw more than a foot of rain from the storm. Large portions of southeastern North Carolina saw rainfall totals exceeding two feet, and a tiny area near Wilmington saw more than three feet of rain. This is the highest tropical cyclone-related rainfall total so far north in the United States. Such extreme totals are typically seen near the Gulf Coast....

On September 27, 2018 there were still people displaced from their homes.

Raleigh -  The death toll from Hurricane Florence (click here)  has increased again, nearly two weeks after the eye of the storm reached the Carolinas.

North Carolina Emergency Operations Center spokeswoman Sonja Bennett-Bellamy said Thursday that an 85-year-old man from New Hanover County died Tuesday. The man contracted an infection in a wound he received while cleaning up storm debris on his property. The death toll now stands at 48 deaths in three states, 37 of them in North Carolina.

Gov. Roy Cooper said Thursday that motorists still need to be on alert for high water even as rivers recede and more roads open.

Cooper says 1,500 people still remain in shelters. More than 550 people have enrolled in a program to stay in hotels while longer-term housing is arranged....

The Netherlands has grown into a consultant for the world regarding the management of water.

December 3, 2015

Henk Ovink (Twitter)

Ministers Schultz van Haegen (click here) (Infrastructure and the Environment), Ploumen (Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation) and Kamp (Economic Affairs) have appointed Henk Ovink (47) as the first Special Envoy for International Water Affairs for the Kingdom of the Netherlands. In his capacity as thematic ambassador, the Special Envoy for International Water Affairs reinforces Dutch ambitions in the water domain; he contributes to boosting the international market position of Dutch know-how and expertise.

Mr Ovink is honoured to be the first incumbent of this new position. “Worldwide, water is a connecting issue. With its integrated approach to water shortages, water safety, water quality, logistics and transport, the Netherlands make the difference across the globe. We are leaders in the field, which is welcome, but that also obliges us to continue to invest and innovate, in the Netherlands and abroad. Our Dutch know-how and expertise are unique. I see plenty of opportunities to utilise this knowledge even better at the international level.”...

He is also a Harvard Grad. (click here)

Henk W.J. Ovink is senior advisor to U.S. Secretary for Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan in his role as Chair of the Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force. Ovink is responsible for the long term planning strategy, the regional design competition 'REBUILD BY DESIGN' and the connected planning conference. He works on the Task Force’s legacy process, the regional resilience science center, regional infrastructure coordination and on the overall Task Force Strategy. Before joining the Task Force, Ovink was both Director General Spatial Planning and Water affairs and Director National Spatial Planning for the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment in the Netherlands. Ovink is member of the advisory boards of the The Berlage Institute, the UK School of Design, Delft University of Technology Faculty of Architecture and the Master City Developer Rotterdam. He was curator of the 5th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam ‘Making City’ and curator of the ANCB Berlin debate series ‘Design&Politics: the next phase’. He lectures and publishes on the change of government, governance and planning as well as on the specific relationship between design and politics.

This is the Netherlands Royal Family. The beautiful woman in the picture is mother to three very pretty daughters. Her name is Queen Maxima. And, of course, the gentleman is King Willem-Alexander.

She has many state duties with and without her husband. 

Her life has not been all sunshine either personally or in her roll of a Queen.

27 September 2018
By Martha Cliff 

Queen Maxima attended the National Loneliness Conference in Enschede (click here)

She is one of Europe's tallest royals and Queen Maxima added extra height to her stature in the form of a statement hat on Thursday.

The Queen of the Netherlands stepped out in an enormous piece of millinery as she arrived in Enschede for the National Loneliness Congress this morning.

The oversize straw hat will be familiar to Maxima fans as the Queen has worn it on several occasions in the past and owns it in several colours.

The mother-of-three paired her bold headgear with a more muted ensemble for her engagement today....

She steps forward when tragedy strikes the country and children are lost.

September 20, 2018
By Janene Pieters

Queen Maxima (click here) expressed her and the King's support for the families of the four children killed in a collision between a train and an electric cargo bike in Oss on Thursday morning. "We have no words for this", she said to journalists during her visit to Drachten.

"Today I am in Friesland to see very happy children who are making music, but our thoughts really go to all the families who have lost their children today in the terrible accident", a visibly emotional Maxima said. She was in Drachten for the signing of a cooperation agreement for music education in Friesland, NOS reports.

The accident happened when a childminder was taking five children from childcare center Okido to primary school De Koranaer. They were on a railway crossing on Braakstraat when they were hit by a train. Four children died at the scene. They were between the ages of 4 and 11 years old, according to RTL. The childminder and another child are in critical condition in hospital...

And when moving forward as Queen in the face of grief for her sister seems difficult.

July 3, 2018
By Maura Hohman

For the first time in almost 40 years, (click here) the King and Queen of Netherlands will make an official state visit to the U.K. in October after accepting an invitation from Queen Elizabeth.

This will be the first official state visit to Buckingham Palace by King Willem-Alexander, 51, and Queen Maxima, 47. Willem’s parents, Queen Beatrix and Prince Claus, were the last royal Dutch couple to visit the U.K. on an official visit in 1982....

National Anthem: Netherlands - Wilhelmus

Netherlands National Anthem - Contemporary Dutch

The flag of the Netherlands evolved from the original "Prince’s Flag." The initial orange, white and blue design was created in the wake of the Prince of Orange’s martial success in 1572. However, the Dutch flag was adapted to the current tricolour version when it was realised that this would be more easily visible at sea.

"Het Wilhelmus"

(The William)

Wilhelmus van Nassouwe
ben ik, van Duitsen bloed,
den vaderland getrouwe
blijf ik tot in den dood.
Een Prinse van Oranje
ben ik, vrij onverveerd,
den Koning van Hispanje
heb ik altijd geëerd.

William of Nassau, scion
Of a Dutch and ancient line,
I dedicate undying
Faith to this land of mine.
A prince I am, undaunted,
Of Orange, ever free,
To the king of Spain I've granted
A lifelong loyalty.

In Godes vrees te leven
heb ik altijd betracht,
daarom ben ik verdreven,
om land, om luid gebracht.
Maar God zal mij regeren
als een goed instrument,
dat ik zal wederkeren
in mijnen regiment.

I 've ever tried to live in
The fear of God's command
And therefore I've been driven,
From people, home, and land,
But God, I trust, will rate me
His willing instrument
And one day reinstate me
Into my government.

Lijdt u, mijn onderzaten
die oprecht zijt van aard,
God zal u niet verlaten,
al zijt gij nu bezwaard.
Die vroom begeert te leven,
bidt God nacht ende dag,
dat Hij mij kracht zal geven,
dat ik u helpen mag.

Let no despair betray you,
My subjects true and good.
The Lord will surely stay you
Though now you are pursued.
He who would live devoutly
Must pray God day and night
To throw His power about me
As champion of your right.

Lijf en goed al te samen
heb ik u niet verschoond,
mijn broeders hoog van namen
hebben 't u ook vertoond:
Graaf Adolf is gebleven
in Friesland in de slag,
zijn ziel in 't eeuwig leven
verwacht de jongste dag.

Life and my all for others
I sacrificed, for you!
And my illustrious brothers
Proved their devotion too.
Count Adolf, more's the pity,
Fell in the Frisian fray,
And in the eternal city
Awaits the judgement day.

Edel en hooggeboren,
van keizerlijke stam,
een vorst des rijks verkoren,
als een vroom christenman,
voor Godes woord geprezen,
heb ik, vrij onversaagd,
als een held zonder vreze
mijn edel bloed gewaagd.

I, nobly born, descended
From an imperial stock.
An empire's prince, defended
(Braving the battle's shock
Heroically and fearless
As pious Christian ought)
With my life's blood the peerless
Gospel of God our Lord.

Mijn schild ende betrouwen
zijt Gij, o God mijn Heer,
op U zo wil ik bouwen,
verlaat mij nimmermeer.
Dat ik doch vroom mag blijven,
uw dienaar t'aller stond,
de tirannie verdrijven
die mij mijn hart doorwondt.

A shield and my reliance,
O God, Thou ever wert.
I'll trust unto Thy guidance.
O leave me not ungirt.
That I may stay a pious
Servant of Thine for aye
And drive the plagues that try us
And tyranny away.

Van al die mij bezwaren
en mijn vervolgers zijn,
mijn God, wil doch bewaren
de trouwe dienaar dijn,
dat zij mij niet verrassen
in hunne boze moed,
hun handen niet en wassen
in mijn onschuldig bloed.

My God, I pray thee, save me
From all who do pursue
And threaten to enslave me,
Thy trusted servant true.
O Father, do not sanction
Their wicked, foul design,
Don't let them wash their hands in
This guiltless blood of mine.

Als David moeste vluchten
voor Sauel den tiran,
zo heb ik moeten zuchten
als menig edelman.
Maar God heeft hem verheven,
verlost uit alder nood,
een koninkrijk gegeven
in Israël zeer groot.

O David, thou soughtest shelter
From King Saul's tyranny.
Even so I fled this welter
And many a lord with me.
But God the Lord did save me
From exile and its hell
And, in His mercy, gave him
A realm in Israel.

Na 't zuur zal ik ontvangen
van God mijn Heer het zoet,
daarnaar zo doet verlangen
mijn vorstelijk gemoed:
dat is, dat ik mag sterven
met ere in dat veld,
een eeuwig rijk verwerven
als een getrouwe held.

Fear not 't will rain sans ceasing
The clouds are bound to part.
I bide that sight so pleasing
Unto my princely heart,
Which is that I with honor
Encounter death in war,
And meet in heaven my Donor,
His faithful warrior.

Niets doet mij meer erbarmen
in mijne wederspoed
dan dat men ziet verarmen
des Konings landen goed.
Dat u de Spanjaards krenken,
o edel Neerland zoet,
als ik daaraan gedenke,
mijn edel hart dat bloedt.

Nothing so moves my pity
As seeing through these lands,
Field, village, town and city
Pillaged by roving hands.
O that the Spaniards rape thee,
My Netherlands so sweet,
The thought of that does grip me
Causing my heart to bleed.

Als een prins opgezeten
met mijner heireskracht,
van de tiran vermeten
heb ik de slag verwacht,
die, bij Maastricht begraven,
bevreesden mijn geweld;
mijn ruiters zag men draven
zeer moedig door dat veld.

A stride on steed of mettle
I've waited with my host
The tyrant's call to battle,
Who durst not do his boast.
For, near Maastricht ensconced,
He feared the force I wield.
My horsemen saw one bounce it
Bravely across the field.

Zo het de wil des Heren
op die tijd was geweest,
had ik geern willen keren
van u dit zwaar tempeest.
Maar de Heer van hierboven,
die alle ding regeert,
die men altijd moet loven,
Hij heeft het niet begeerd.

Surely, if God had willed it,
When that fierce tempest blew,
My power would have stilled it,
Or turned its blast from you
But He who dwells in heaven,
Whence all our blessings flow,
For which aye praise be given,
Did not desire it so.

Zeer christlijk was gedreven
mijn prinselijk gemoed,
standvastig is gebleven
mijn hart in tegenspoed.
De Heer heb ik gebeden
uit mijnes harten grond,
dat Hij mijn zaak wil redden,
mijn onschuld maken kond.

Steadfast my heart remaineth
In my adversity
My princely courage straineth
All nerves to live and be.
I've prayed the Lord my Master
With fervid heart and tense
To save me from disaster
And prove my innocence.

Oorlof, mijn arme schapen
die zijt in grote nood,
uw herder zal niet slapen,
al zijt gij nu verstrooid.
Tot God wilt u begeven,
zijn heilzaam woord neemt aan,
als vrome christen leven,—
't zal hier haast zijn gedaan.

Alas! my flock. To sever
Is hard on us. Farewell.
Your Shepherd wakes, wherever
Dispersed you may dwell,
Pray God that He may ease you.
His Gospel be your cure.
Walk in the steps of Jesu
This life will not endure.

Voor God wil ik belijden
en zijne grote macht,
dat ik tot gene tijden
de Koning heb veracht,
dan dat ik God de Here,
de hoogste Majesteit,
heb moeten obediëren
in de gerechtigheid.

Unto the Lord His power
I do confession make
That ne'er at any hour
Ill of the King I spake.
But unto God, the greatest
Of Majesties I owe
Obedience first and latest,
For Justice wills it so.

Classic case of recidivism.

Recidivism is a classic problem with women that have been abused. 
Ms. Conway is a classic case of an abused woman in recidivism. She is unable to unburden herself with the assault and may still be involved with the person that attacked her. She may feel she is dependent on this person for one reason or another and cannot move against the attacker. That doesn't mean it is her husband either.

Then there is the strong social culture in the USA that oppresses women from speaking out or moving against their attacker or abuser. Often women are no longer given the chance to have a voice because they are no longer alive. Sometimes, but, rarely a murder investigation will result in fact finding and trials, but, then there is also Emmett Till. That is the danger of a society that oppresses women and punishes them financially or allows their abusers/attackers to walk free or are handed a light sentence.

I have a great deal of sympathy for Ms. Conway, I imagine the world of politics is especially chancy, worrisome and edgy. I hope she will eventually come to terms with her attack and resolve any issues that still exist because of it. Perhaps a therapist through her government mental health program would help.

When a woman states to another woman she needs to take responsibility for her behavior that compromised her, that is called "Victimizing the Victim." I am assuming Ms. Conway is referring to drinking in the report by Dr. Ford. That is not the reason for the attack. She was compromised and instead of being a gentleman, Mr. Kavanaugh decided he could fulfill his male ego with an onlooker and cheerleader in Mr. Judge. There is no doubt Dr. Ford was a victim and had no intention of engaging in intercourse.

From the sounds of Dr. Ford's description of the events of the day, Mr. Kavanaugh and she did not know each other well as they went to different schools while still living in the same town. It sounds like a perfect opportunity for sexual assault as she would run away and never be heard from again. IT WORKED, until recently.

The slut shaming of "Everyone must take responsibility for their own behavior," assumes Dr. Ford's path that day was to become a slut. From her reporting that was not the case. Slut Shaming is what she experienced that day when she was assaulted. The men laughed as if they were enjoying the moment. That was oppressive and confusing and left her alone in a place and in a way she had no experience with and at the same time was grateful for the "chance" of getting away and SAVING HER OWN LIFE. She stated she believed her life was in danger because Mr. Kavanaugh was so drunk he could not measure his strength against her and she thought for sure he would kill her by mistake.

I strongly suggest Ms. Conway deal with her own sexual assault before she speaks out about women that come forward and seek justice.

No, all men when drunk behave in the way Mr. Kavanaugh did. He has a real problem.

September 30, 2018
By Alex Horton

Kellyanne Conway (click here) cleared her throat for what she was about to say.

“I’m a victim of sexual assault,” President Trump’s adviser told CNN on Sunday....

...“I don’t expect Judge Kavanaugh or Jake Tapper or [Arizona Republican Senator] Jeff Flake or anybody to be held responsible for that,” she said, appearing to speak about her own experience. “You have to be responsible for your own conduct.”...

There can be no ambivalence when investigating sexual assault. The FBI needs to have a free rein to do as they need to do and obtain complete and concise information. The US Senate Judiciary Committee in stating the FBI will be limited to one more witness of Mr. Kavanaugh's sexual assault and victimization of girls; is creating a "Designer Report." I do believe that is illegal.

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A DEEP STATE IN THE USA. HOWEVER, THOSE THAT BELIEVE DEEP STATES ARE A CONCERN SHOULD CONSIDER RUSSIA AS A POSSIBLE SUBJECT OF THEIR IDEAS.

September 29, 2018
By Shane Harris, Matt Zapotosky, Tom Hamburger and Seung Min Kim

...Late Saturday, (click here) the president said the FBI probe would be exhaustive, but the Senate Judiciary Committee on Friday afternoon said that the supplemental investigation would be limited to “current, credible allegations.” And a lawyer for one woman who has accused Kavanaugh of misconduct said his client had not been contacted.

In brief remarks to reporters before leaving for a rally in West Virginia, the president said the FBI is “all over talking to everybody. . . . They have free rein, they can do whatever they have to do, whatever it is that they do. They’ll be doing things we have never even thought of.”...

There are others that can and should come forward to understand the scope of Mr. Kavanaugh's activities as a younger version and today or at least as recent as 1998. The FBI has to be provided the opportunity of actually conducting an investigation and not in name only.