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Some very sad news, just days before the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing. Walter Cronkite has died at the age of 92. Cronkite, of remote Dutch descent, was a true space enthusiast. He shouted “go, baby go!” when he covered the launch of Apollo 11 for CBS as the rocket blasted off [...]

On June 18, 2009, NASA launched the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). The orbiter will collect scientific data about the Moon, and create a 3-D map of the Moon’s surface. Piggy-backing on the launch of LRO was the Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS). It is designed to watch and perform analysis of the impact [...]

Some Dutch people think the trade of Manhattan for Suriname was the worst trade The Netherlands ever made. But was it really?
Watch this little video and see for yourself if that’s true or not…

Earlier this blog reported about a citizen in The Hague who refused government officials to enter his house because he wants to defend his right to keep his private property a government free zone. The local government of The Hague wants to conduct warrantless searches, and if people refuse then they will come back with [...]

This decade the government of The Netherlands launched a full force attack on the civil rights of Dutch citizens. The list of new laws that brings the police state closer is getting longer and longer. Even local governments now think citizens should obey when government officials knock on the door of innocent people to [...]

In large parts of Europe everybody knows what the German word aufmachen means. Between 1933 and 1945 a knock on the door by German government officials followed by the shouting of “aufmachen!” (“open it!”) meant the Nazi criminals would enter your house, without a warrant, search the place and often take away the people who [...]