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🇳🇱The Netherlands has never blocked a 🇺🇸US deal. Kyndryl's €100M was first. Kyndryl is a US company spun out of IBM. It tried to buy a Dutch firm called Solvinity.
Solvinity runs DigiD, the login millions of Dutch people use. They use it for taxes, healthcare, and pensions.
A US law lets American agencies demand data from US companies.
If you log in with DigiD, your most private data was at stake.
So the Netherlands decided that the system was not for sale for a US bidder.
Is the growing mistrust of US tech companies going to become a more structural obstacle for US investment in 🇪🇺EU:
A) Yes;
B) No?
The Brindisi (Libiamo ne' lieti calici) excerpt from Giuseppe Verdi's classic opera La Traviata, performed by the legendary Three Tenors—Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, and José Carreras—at their 1994 concert, stands as one of the most brilliant milestones in the history of world opera.
Terug naar echte problemen:
'De hypotheekrenteaftrek kost de Nederlandse overheid bijna 10 miljard euro per jaar. De baten komen vooral terecht bij de hoogste inkomens. Vrijwel nergens hebben huizenbezitters zoveel belastingvoordeel..'
Echt iedereen, behalve een handjevol figuren, vindt de actie op de Dam vreselijk, respectloos, verwerpelijk, etc. Net als dat iedereen behalve een handjevol de relschoppers in verschillende dorpen verwerpelijk vindt. Laat je niet wijs maken dat 'het hele land stuk is'.
Trump has gone completely over the edge in this deranged post.
A Dutch band (from an island?) is now getting worldwide free publicity and exposure thanks to the orange basketcase.
Tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog roofden de nazi's duizenden objecten, zoals schilderijen, sieraden en servies van Joodse Nederlanders. Ook het huis van de voorouders van Lodewijk Asscher is leeggeroofd. Asscher vertelt over een brief, geschreven door zijn opa, dat hij tegen was gekomen:
#pauwendewit
The verdict of a prominent conservative website and magazine:
"A 79-year-old man who has long dealt in chaos is now being consumed by that chaos. His episodes are becoming more frequent, his good days further apart. What he has lost is not a sense of decency or decorum—he never had those—but any remaining sense of self-control.
"Everyone around him can see it. Yet, whether from ambition, cowardice, or weary acceptance, they keep looking for ways to rationalize his behavior. The tragedy is no longer Trump’s. It is now America’s."
We are living in an age where leadership has been replaced by greed.Too many in power view the masses not as people to serve,but as resources to exploit.Their only metric for success is personal profit, regardless of the suffering left in their wake. We need leaders, not looters.