Skywatch Friday and some Prose

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Here's the Amsterdam Freemason's Lodge building. It's home to some 10 different Lodges, including two mixed (men and women) Lodges:

Typical modern Amsterdam street design. With space for trams, cars, bikes, trees and pedestrians. With hardly any chance of hurting eachother by accident. 

A fairly recent edition to the city, placed in 'New West':

Especially on sunny days, these balconies remind me of a wonderful holiday in Italy:

We got new community gardens out front since a year, to replace car parking spots because the municipality is gently ushering people into an era with close to zero cars in the streets. Yuppies complain they have to walk ten minutes to a large underground parking garage but everybody else is very happy and can literally breathe more freely. A couple of neighbours have joined forces to maintain the new tiny gardens and are doing a great job. The city helps by supplying dirt and a bit of money for seeds and tools. Which is a lot cheaper than hiring a gardening company.

Do you have small community gardens in your area?

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Can you remember when the young lady's rather traditional mother

told you you should be done with helping her daughter with her homework

and should not miss your last bus? This poem is about such a moment:

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Filled with Hope (a #poem)

Conscience disguised

as a knock on the door

made him change his mind

about staying the night

Solace shaped

like a comfortable bed

got him to realise

there's no need to fight

This - reluctantly -

he walked out

with a hart

filled with hope

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Living without potholes

"Self-healing roads aim to offer solution to crater crisis", a UK news article read hopefully.

Fun fact: there's no word for 'potholes' in Dutch. Because the word is not needed. Because (part of) the (road)tax we pay actually goes to infrastructure and not to a few billionaire politicians and their elite friends in Big Oil, Big Tech and Big Agro. 

Although that may change now The Netherlands has a extreme right wing government. Barry Madlener (From Geert Wilders' 'Freedom Party' PVV) cuts over €100 million from Public Transport and plans to privatise road- and bridge maintenance. Madlener plans on cutting €500 million from the budget for infrastructure. There's one part of the Dutch building landscape Minister of Infrastructure Madlener dóes want to put more taxpayer's money in: giving extra tax breaks to real estate companies. Like his privately owned Erasmus Makelaardij Real Estate company. Where he officially quit in 2008.

At least Secretary Madlener came up with a great solution to end traffic jams: a call to motorists to avoid them. Jeez! Why didn't anyone besides 'the dumb right' think of that? It's typical for right wing populists: give the people simple solutions to a complicated problem and the people will cheer for you. It's how f4scists governments come into power.

F4scists tend to only look after themselves, their businesspartners and minions.

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If you're convinced the f4scist governments of Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Leopold II, Trump, Le Pen or Wilders are the best type of government for 'the people'...tell me how 'the people' profited under their dictatorship and not only a handful of very rich people. 

Speaking of rich people: the Netherlands is very rich. Só rich in fact that the country offers immigrants a 30% discount on the taxes regular Dutch people pay. The 30% ruling - of course - does not count if you're a brown skinned...excuse me...poor immigrant. 

In practice: one of the thousands of immigrants that the VVD (ruling party in The Netherlands from 1977 until current day. With the exception of 3 years) lured in from Turkey and Morocco is their current pary leader: Dilan Yeşilgöz. 

Born in a predominantly 'white' country? You are entitled to a 30% discount on your taxes! Born in a country where they have more sunlight? Tough luck.

But I am sure those nice right wing people are not r4cist at all and it's just a coincidence that rules are in place that put 'white' over 'brown' people. 

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