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Shell is in Rijswijk right, near the Patent office (Octrooi bureau)?

Yeah, I work for NL Agency, just 5 min of CS.
 Quoting: MOUZTY_NL


I live on the other side of that street, I see that building when I walk out of my door. lOl

In Rijswijk there is one too but I am at the headquarters at the Carel van Bylandtlaan.

This building. lOl

[link to www.greenpeace.nl]

This was last week on Friday. They barricaded two entrees so we couldn't get in. But the dummies forgot there was a third entree.

Hilarious stuff. chuckle
 Quoting: Psych


LOL, funny sh*t. Ever grab a beer in Theresiastraat, you live practically there right?
 Quoting: MOUZTY_NL


I am usually in the Zwarte Ruiter or de Boterwaag. Where do you go? Then I will drop by and we can freak people out by talking about reptilians, Zeta's and other GLP stuff.

Hahahaha
 Quoting: Psych


LOL! Yeah, I visit Zwarte Ruiter or de Boterwaag a lot! Often first I start at Bierelier in Theresiastraat and then go to the centre of DH. Would be cool to drink some beers with ya! drunk
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I love the Netherlands, but They have a serious sea level problem.

Atlantis ruled the world at one time, but they couldnt stop mother nature.

I dont wish anything bad to happen to them, but they are too vulnerable to terrorist attack to be a superpower.

One bomb against one of the levies... would be worse than hurrican Katrina.
 Quoting: chris999


You don't understand our state of the art water management. A lot of our land is designed to be able to be drowned. There are a lot of safety nets so to speak. We always have been sea people and changing our land to be compatible with as well the sea as the important river and canal routes.

In fact in the 80-year war with the Spanish we drowned our land on purpose for a succesful defense.

We had a flood in 1953 tho, in Zeeland after a SW floodstorm, and thousands of lives were lost. We learnt from that and we finished the Delta-Werken sea-barriers.

Nowadays we claim land back of the sea, by dumping billions of tons of sand. We just completed Maasvlakte 2, another expansion for Rotterdam seaport.

OMG we're good.
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Fuck yeah, we've build half of Dubai cool2
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Thank you. I plan to and you're sure making me feel welcome. As far as I can tell, NL seems like a great country, great culture and I'll be glad to get out of Babylon (USA)!
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Hope more Americans come here :-) :5a:
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Really? Wow, that's great! I thought most other countries hated us. hf
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Americans are great, i guess it's some American Politics they don't like ;-)
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I'm glad people can separate the two because I don't think the gov't. of any country really represents the people.
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Shell is in Rijswijk right, near the Patent office (Octrooi bureau)?

Yeah, I work for NL Agency, just 5 min of CS.
 Quoting: MOUZTY_NL


I live on the other side of that street, I see that building when I walk out of my door. lOl

In Rijswijk there is one too but I am at the headquarters at the Carel van Bylandtlaan.

This building. lOl

[link to www.greenpeace.nl]

This was last week on Friday. They barricaded two entrees so we couldn't get in. But the dummies forgot there was a third entree.

Hilarious stuff. chuckle
 Quoting: Psych




LOL! It looks like some of the greenpeace are on zip lines too. Did cops haul them off?
 Quoting: aNONaMITTy


Well, the cops first removed the barricades and then sorta waited for those on the zip lines to come down. I was already at work when that happened so not sure how long it took but what I have been told, they were down pretty quick.

lOl

Gotta say, they really put in some effort this time. This was the third time this year and the other two kinda sucked.
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LOL! Over here, they would have SWAT teams out! Heh!
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Thank you. I plan to and you're sure making me feel welcome. As far as I can tell, NL seems like a great country, great culture and I'll be glad to get out of Babylon (USA)!
 Quoting: aNONaMITTy


lol u don't get it do u.. holland is just another form of babylon.. its just a different level of babylon
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I'm sure that's true. At least Holland isn't sticking its nose in every country in the world with guns, bombs, troops, etc:.
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they work hand in hand with america.. they had troops in afganistan . or did u forget?
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I didn't know it. I don't really keep up with that stuff all that much. I found out I can't change it. I would bet NL didn't have as much invested as America though.
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Thank you. I plan to and you're sure making me feel welcome. As far as I can tell, NL seems like a great country, great culture and I'll be glad to get out of Babylon (USA)!
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lol u don't get it do u.. holland is just another form of babylon.. its just a different level of babylon
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I'm sure that's true. At least Holland isn't sticking its nose in every country in the world with guns, bombs, troops, etc:.
 Quoting: aNONaMITTy


maybe bit off topic but still interesting:

[link to www.worldwide-military.com]
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That is interesting. TY. Did you see the difference in the page for NL and for USA? And I wouldn't be surprised if the USA list doesn't have everything on it. You know they gotta keep some of that stuff secret!
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I live on the other side of that street, I see that building when I walk out of my door. lOl

In Rijswijk there is one too but I am at the headquarters at the Carel van Bylandtlaan.

This building. lOl

[link to www.greenpeace.nl]

This was last week on Friday. They barricaded two entrees so we couldn't get in. But the dummies forgot there was a third entree.

Hilarious stuff. chuckle
 Quoting: Psych


LOL, funny sh*t. Ever grab a beer in Theresiastraat, you live practically there right?
 Quoting: MOUZTY_NL


I am usually in the Zwarte Ruiter or de Boterwaag. Where do you go? Then I will drop by and we can freak people out by talking about reptilians, Zeta's and other GLP stuff.

Hahahaha
 Quoting: Psych


LOL! Yeah, I visit Zwarte Ruiter or de Boterwaag a lot! Often first I start at Bierelier in Theresiastraat and then go to the centre of DH. Would be cool to drink some beers with ya! drunk
 Quoting: MOUZTY_NL


For sure. I have added you to my buddy list. I will contact you some time soon to have a beer. Never met a fellow GLP'er before. Gonna be fun. I will bring the BS flag. lOl
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I love the Netherlands, but They have a serious sea level problem.

Atlantis ruled the world at one time, but they couldnt stop mother nature.

I dont wish anything bad to happen to them, but they are too vulnerable to terrorist attack to be a superpower.

One bomb against one of the levies... would be worse than hurrican Katrina.
 Quoting: chris999


You don't understand our state of the art water management. A lot of our land is designed to be able to be drowned. There are a lot of safety nets so to speak. We always have been sea people and changing our land to be compatible with as well the sea as the important river and canal routes.

In fact in the 80-year war with the Spanish we drowned our land on purpose for a succesful defense.

We had a flood in 1953 tho, in Zeeland after a SW floodstorm, and thousands of lives were lost. We learnt from that and we finished the Delta-Werken sea-barriers.

Nowadays we claim land back of the sea, by dumping billions of tons of sand. We just completed Maasvlakte 2, another expansion for Rotterdam seaport.

OMG we're good.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 972619



Where do you get the sand to do that? I do have to say when I look at NL from GoogleMaps, it does look like it would be easy for it to sink under water.
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LOL, funny sh*t. Ever grab a beer in Theresiastraat, you live practically there right?
 Quoting: MOUZTY_NL


I am usually in the Zwarte Ruiter or de Boterwaag. Where do you go? Then I will drop by and we can freak people out by talking about reptilians, Zeta's and other GLP stuff.

Hahahaha
 Quoting: Psych


LOL! Yeah, I visit Zwarte Ruiter or de Boterwaag a lot! Often first I start at Bierelier in Theresiastraat and then go to the centre of DH. Would be cool to drink some beers with ya! drunk
 Quoting: MOUZTY_NL


For sure. I have added you to my buddy list. I will contact you some time soon to have a beer. Never met a fellow GLP'er before. Gonna be fun. I will bring the BS flag. lOl
 Quoting: Psych




This has been so cool to watch you two meet each other. Have fun when you do meet. Take a photo and post it here, eh?
"We are the music makers. And we are the dreamers of dreams." Willy Wonka
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LOL, funny sh*t. Ever grab a beer in Theresiastraat, you live practically there right?
 Quoting: MOUZTY_NL


I am usually in the Zwarte Ruiter or de Boterwaag. Where do you go? Then I will drop by and we can freak people out by talking about reptilians, Zeta's and other GLP stuff.

Hahahaha
 Quoting: Psych


LOL! Yeah, I visit Zwarte Ruiter or de Boterwaag a lot! Often first I start at Bierelier in Theresiastraat and then go to the centre of DH. Would be cool to drink some beers with ya! drunk
 Quoting: MOUZTY_NL


For sure. I have added you to my buddy list. I will contact you some time soon to have a beer. Never met a fellow GLP'er before. Gonna be fun. I will bring the BS flag. lOl
 Quoting: Psych


K nice and bring the flag lol! Talk tou you later man!
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It is always a gasp to see some dutch people.


THEY ARE WORLD LEADERS!!!




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I live on the other side of that street, I see that building when I walk out of my door. lOl

In Rijswijk there is one too but I am at the headquarters at the Carel van Bylandtlaan.

This building. lOl

[link to www.greenpeace.nl]

This was last week on Friday. They barricaded two entrees so we couldn't get in. But the dummies forgot there was a third entree.

Hilarious stuff. chuckle
 Quoting: Psych




LOL! It looks like some of the greenpeace are on zip lines too. Did cops haul them off?
 Quoting: aNONaMITTy


Well, the cops first removed the barricades and then sorta waited for those on the zip lines to come down. I was already at work when that happened so not sure how long it took but what I have been told, they were down pretty quick.

lOl

Gotta say, they really put in some effort this time. This was the third time this year and the other two kinda sucked.
 Quoting: Psych




LOL! Over here, they would have SWAT teams out! Heh!
 Quoting: aNONaMITTy


lOl

I am not sure. Those people are pretty harmless and the cops know that. There is no need for SWAT teams. chuckle

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I am usually in the Zwarte Ruiter or de Boterwaag. Where do you go? Then I will drop by and we can freak people out by talking about reptilians, Zeta's and other GLP stuff.

Hahahaha
 Quoting: Psych


LOL! Yeah, I visit Zwarte Ruiter or de Boterwaag a lot! Often first I start at Bierelier in Theresiastraat and then go to the centre of DH. Would be cool to drink some beers with ya! drunk
 Quoting: MOUZTY_NL


For sure. I have added you to my buddy list. I will contact you some time soon to have a beer. Never met a fellow GLP'er before. Gonna be fun. I will bring the BS flag. lOl
 Quoting: Psych




This has been so cool to watch you two meet each other. Have fun when you do meet. Take a photo and post it here, eh?
 Quoting: aNONaMITTy


Yeah, that is pretty rare, right.
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I am usually in the Zwarte Ruiter or de Boterwaag. Where do you go? Then I will drop by and we can freak people out by talking about reptilians, Zeta's and other GLP stuff.

Hahahaha
 Quoting: Psych


LOL! Yeah, I visit Zwarte Ruiter or de Boterwaag a lot! Often first I start at Bierelier in Theresiastraat and then go to the centre of DH. Would be cool to drink some beers with ya! drunk
 Quoting: MOUZTY_NL


For sure. I have added you to my buddy list. I will contact you some time soon to have a beer. Never met a fellow GLP'er before. Gonna be fun. I will bring the BS flag. lOl
 Quoting: Psych


K nice and bring the flag lol! Talk tou you later man!
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Oke, talk to you soon. hi
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I am usually in the Zwarte Ruiter or de Boterwaag. Where do you go? Then I will drop by and we can freak people out by talking about reptilians, Zeta's and other GLP stuff.

Hahahaha
 Quoting: Psych


LOL! Yeah, I visit Zwarte Ruiter or de Boterwaag a lot! Often first I start at Bierelier in Theresiastraat and then go to the centre of DH. Would be cool to drink some beers with ya! drunk
 Quoting: MOUZTY_NL


For sure. I have added you to my buddy list. I will contact you some time soon to have a beer. Never met a fellow GLP'er before. Gonna be fun. I will bring the BS flag. lOl
 Quoting: Psych




This has been so cool to watch you two meet each other. Have fun when you do meet. Take a photo and post it here, eh?
 Quoting: aNONaMITTy


For sure man banana2
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I love the Netherlands, but They have a serious sea level problem.

Atlantis ruled the world at one time, but they couldnt stop mother nature.

I dont wish anything bad to happen to them, but they are too vulnerable to terrorist attack to be a superpower.

One bomb against one of the levies... would be worse than hurrican Katrina.
 Quoting: chris999


You don't understand our state of the art water management. A lot of our land is designed to be able to be drowned. There are a lot of safety nets so to speak. We always have been sea people and changing our land to be compatible with as well the sea as the important river and canal routes.

In fact in the 80-year war with the Spanish we drowned our land on purpose for a succesful defense.

We had a flood in 1953 tho, in Zeeland after a SW floodstorm, and thousands of lives were lost. We learnt from that and we finished the Delta-Werken sea-barriers.

Nowadays we claim land back of the sea, by dumping billions of tons of sand. We just completed Maasvlakte 2, another expansion for Rotterdam seaport.

OMG we're good.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 972619



Where do you get the sand to do that? I do have to say when I look at NL from GoogleMaps, it does look like it would be easy for it to sink under water.
 Quoting: aNONaMITTy


By dredging, we are kings of the dredge too!

The sea has always been our biggest foe, and friend! For sure we're vulnerable to a 100ft high tsunami/huge meteor in the north sea, but for most other stuff we're pretty much well protected nowadays. Again, many parts of our land have been designed and engineered to contain a lot of water in times of need. Rising sea-level will make for more innovative water engineering...

The Netherlands is one big water machine!
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I love the Netherlands, but They have a serious sea level problem.

Atlantis ruled the world at one time, but they couldnt stop mother nature.

I dont wish anything bad to happen to them, but they are too vulnerable to terrorist attack to be a superpower.

One bomb against one of the levies... would be worse than hurrican Katrina.
 Quoting: chris999


You don't understand our state of the art water management. A lot of our land is designed to be able to be drowned. There are a lot of safety nets so to speak. We always have been sea people and changing our land to be compatible with as well the sea as the important river and canal routes.

In fact in the 80-year war with the Spanish we drowned our land on purpose for a succesful defense.

We had a flood in 1953 tho, in Zeeland after a SW floodstorm, and thousands of lives were lost. We learnt from that and we finished the Delta-Werken sea-barriers.

Nowadays we claim land back of the sea, by dumping billions of tons of sand. We just completed Maasvlakte 2, another expansion for Rotterdam seaport.

OMG we're good.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 972619



Where do you get the sand to do that? I do have to say when I look at NL from GoogleMaps, it does look like it would be easy for it to sink under water.
 Quoting: aNONaMITTy


By dredging, we are kings of the dredge too!

The sea has always been our biggest foe, and friend! For sure we're vulnerable to a 100ft high tsunami/huge meteor in the north sea, but for most other stuff we're pretty much well protected nowadays. Again, many parts of our land have been designed and engineered to contain a lot of water in times of need. Rising sea-level will make for more innovative water engineering...

The Netherlands is one big water machine!
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Yep! We've build [link to www.google.nl] and the other islands over there!
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Why isn't this great thread pinned? (and so much other bs is?)

Seriously, when the shit hits the fan, and nothing can save you anymore: bring in the Dutch!
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I love the Netherlands, but They have a serious sea level problem.

Atlantis ruled the world at one time, but they couldnt stop mother nature.

I dont wish anything bad to happen to them, but they are too vulnerable to terrorist attack to be a superpower.

One bomb against one of the levies... would be worse than hurrican Katrina.
 Quoting: chris999


Not worried about that. Plenty of fingers to fill the hole. chuckle
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While visiting a friend who lives in Badhoevdorp I asked to see where the little Dutch boy had stuck his finger in the dyke. I had heard this story as a littel boy. My friend and I drove to a very rough area near Amsterdam where there were ships and he showed me a bronze statue mounted on an old brick dyke of a little boy with his finger stuck in it. It made me smile.smile_kiss
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LOL! It looks like some of the greenpeace are on zip lines too. Did cops haul them off?
 Quoting: aNONaMITTy


Well, the cops first removed the barricades and then sorta waited for those on the zip lines to come down. I was already at work when that happened so not sure how long it took but what I have been told, they were down pretty quick.

lOl

Gotta say, they really put in some effort this time. This was the third time this year and the other two kinda sucked.
 Quoting: Psych




LOL! Over here, they would have SWAT teams out! Heh!
 Quoting: aNONaMITTy


lOl

I am not sure. Those people are pretty harmless and the cops know that. There is no need for SWAT teams. chuckle
 Quoting: Psych




Cool. Over here, cops and such just like to throw their weight around 'cause they can, LOL!
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LOL! Yeah, I visit Zwarte Ruiter or de Boterwaag a lot! Often first I start at Bierelier in Theresiastraat and then go to the centre of DH. Would be cool to drink some beers with ya! drunk
 Quoting: MOUZTY_NL


For sure. I have added you to my buddy list. I will contact you some time soon to have a beer. Never met a fellow GLP'er before. Gonna be fun. I will bring the BS flag. lOl
 Quoting: Psych




This has been so cool to watch you two meet each other. Have fun when you do meet. Take a photo and post it here, eh?
 Quoting: aNONaMITTy


Yeah, that is pretty rare, right.
 Quoting: Psych




I think so. I remember reading in a thread recently that some of the GLP'ers have never met another. And you two are within what....a mile or so of each other? LOL!
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LOL! Yeah, I visit Zwarte Ruiter or de Boterwaag a lot! Often first I start at Bierelier in Theresiastraat and then go to the centre of DH. Would be cool to drink some beers with ya! drunk
 Quoting: MOUZTY_NL


For sure. I have added you to my buddy list. I will contact you some time soon to have a beer. Never met a fellow GLP'er before. Gonna be fun. I will bring the BS flag. lOl
 Quoting: Psych




This has been so cool to watch you two meet each other. Have fun when you do meet. Take a photo and post it here, eh?
 Quoting: aNONaMITTy


For sure man banana2
 Quoting: MOUZTY_NL





Heh! I don't know why I'm excited for you but I am!!!
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For sure. I have added you to my buddy list. I will contact you some time soon to have a beer. Never met a fellow GLP'er before. Gonna be fun. I will bring the BS flag. lOl
 Quoting: Psych




This has been so cool to watch you two meet each other. Have fun when you do meet. Take a photo and post it here, eh?
 Quoting: aNONaMITTy


For sure man banana2
 Quoting: MOUZTY_NL





Heh! I don't know why I'm excited for you but I am!!! afro
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I love the Netherlands, but They have a serious sea level problem.

Atlantis ruled the world at one time, but they couldnt stop mother nature.

I dont wish anything bad to happen to them, but they are too vulnerable to terrorist attack to be a superpower.

One bomb against one of the levies... would be worse than hurrican Katrina.
 Quoting: chris999


You don't understand our state of the art water management. A lot of our land is designed to be able to be drowned. There are a lot of safety nets so to speak. We always have been sea people and changing our land to be compatible with as well the sea as the important river and canal routes.

In fact in the 80-year war with the Spanish we drowned our land on purpose for a succesful defense.

We had a flood in 1953 tho, in Zeeland after a SW floodstorm, and thousands of lives were lost. We learnt from that and we finished the Delta-Werken sea-barriers.

Nowadays we claim land back of the sea, by dumping billions of tons of sand. We just completed Maasvlakte 2, another expansion for Rotterdam seaport.

OMG we're good.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 972619



Where do you get the sand to do that? I do have to say when I look at NL from GoogleMaps, it does look like it would be easy for it to sink under water.
 Quoting: aNONaMITTy


By dredging, we are kings of the dredge too!

The sea has always been our biggest foe, and friend! For sure we're vulnerable to a 100ft high tsunami/huge meteor in the north sea, but for most other stuff we're pretty much well protected nowadays. Again, many parts of our land have been designed and engineered to contain a lot of water in times of need. Rising sea-level will make for more innovative water engineering...

The Netherlands is one big water machine!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 972619




Very interesting. So how did the Dutch drown the land to win the war against the Spanish? I guess I could google it.
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You don't understand our state of the art water management. A lot of our land is designed to be able to be drowned. There are a lot of safety nets so to speak. We always have been sea people and changing our land to be compatible with as well the sea as the important river and canal routes.

In fact in the 80-year war with the Spanish we drowned our land on purpose for a succesful defense.

We had a flood in 1953 tho, in Zeeland after a SW floodstorm, and thousands of lives were lost. We learnt from that and we finished the Delta-Werken sea-barriers.

Nowadays we claim land back of the sea, by dumping billions of tons of sand. We just completed Maasvlakte 2, another expansion for Rotterdam seaport.

OMG we're good.
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Where do you get the sand to do that? I do have to say when I look at NL from GoogleMaps, it does look like it would be easy for it to sink under water.
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By dredging, we are kings of the dredge too!

The sea has always been our biggest foe, and friend! For sure we're vulnerable to a 100ft high tsunami/huge meteor in the north sea, but for most other stuff we're pretty much well protected nowadays. Again, many parts of our land have been designed and engineered to contain a lot of water in times of need. Rising sea-level will make for more innovative water engineering...

The Netherlands is one big water machine!
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Yep! We've build [link to www.google.nl] and the other islands over there!
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Wow! That's incredible. Thanks.
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Re: The Netherlands next superpower
Pff youre blind!!!! We have no army no tanks.
A lot of immigrants who invaded the greatest cities more then 50% are immigrants in Amsterdam and rotterdam Utrecht etc. Unemployed every three months more then 100.000.
Population 16 milion. 8 milion need welfare or sort of them. We need to work till 67. Pensioens were given away.
We dot not have after we have the age of 67. The busines is going zo bad!! A week ago the wurst rating of bussines ever closed their doors. We had a good system everything is changed not help anyone anymore only cuts cuts.
No never wil be a superpower.
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So there are alot of rumors going around that The Netherlands will be the next big superpower. China and the US are going to be alot less important soon.
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Nopes. The Dutch already proved to be the world's first "group rapist" with their Dutch East India Company and their other european rivals like the French, Spanish, English etc. decided to get their grubby hands on all the loot and displaced them.ed
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07/18/2012 08:18 AM
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Hope more Americans come here :-) :5a:
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Really? Wow, that's great! I thought most other countries hated us. hf
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Americans are great, i guess it's some American Politics they don't like ;-)
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I'm glad people can separate the two because I don't think the gov't. of any country really represents the people.
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True.. :-)
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So there are alot of rumors going around that The Netherlands will be the next big superpower. China and the US are going to be alot less important soon.
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There is a small problem.
If climate warming continues, within the next 50 year most of the next superpower's territory will be flooded by the sea.
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Nederland is een speler in het Grote Spel van macht en controle. Dat het een belangrijkere speler is dan menigeen denkt moge blijken uit het feit dat een aantal vooraanstaande medelanders belangrijke posities innemen. Deze posities hebben op één of andere wijze veelal te maken met de Bilderbergconferentie, die immers door Prins Bernhard in samenwerking met de CIA in 1954 is begonnen. Zo bezocht Jaap de Hoop Scheffer in 2003 die conferentie, die van 15 tot 18 mei in Versailles werd gehouden. Hij was toen nog minister van Buitenlandse Zaken in het kabinet Balkenende II. In september van dat jaar werd bekend gemaakt dat hij benoemd was tot secretaris-generaal van de NAVO. Een functie die hij op 1 januari 2004 op zich nam. Is dit toevallig of was zijn bezoek een soort van ballotage vooraf?

Over de rol van onze koningin bij die conferenties, die zij jaarlijks bezoekt, is veel onduidelijkheid. Naar aanleiding van schriftelijke kamervragen over de laatste Bilderbergbijeenkomst, die de SP’er Harry van Bommel aan Balkenende stelde ( zie daarvoor: [link to harryvanbommel.sp.nl] verschafte NOVA daar enige duidelijkheid over. De presentator Twan Huys geeft overigens daarbij in zijn aankondiging van het item aan dat het met de geheimzinnigheid van die club wel meevalt. Verderop in de uitzending blijken zijn woorden echter voer voor de slapenden onder ons te zijn. De reporter die aan het eind van het programma een interview met een SP’er mocht doen, liet zich in zijn inleiding ontvallen dat ‘onze’ koningin die conferentie van ‘wijze’ mannen en vrouwen leidde. De uitzending is hier na te bekijken.

Verder valt aan de gastenlijsten van de Bilderbergbijeenkomsten op dat Victor Halberstadt, een economieprofessor aan de Leidse Universiteit, een vaste gast is. Hij is secretaris van de club geweest. Ook Jeroen van der Veer, de Nederlandse topman van de Koninklijke Shell, is regelmatig aanwezig. Niet zo verwonderlijk natuurlijk, want Hare Majesteit’s positie van grootaandeelhouder bij Shell is een publiek geheim.

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Netherlands is a player in the Great Game of power and control. That it is a more important player than many think as evidenced by the fact that some prominent Dutch have other important positions. These positions have in some way mostly to do with the Bilderberg Conference, which was founded by Prince Bernhard in cooperation with the CIA in 1954. Thus Jaap de Hoop Scheffer visited in 2003 that conference, that of May 15 to 18 was held in Versailles. He was still foreign minister in the Balkenende II. In September of that year it was announced that he was appointed Secretary General of NATO. A function that he took on January 1, 2004. Is this coincidence or was visiting some kind of advance balloting? On the role of our queen at these conferences, which they visit annually, is much uncertainty. In response to written parliamentary question regarding the last Bilderberg meeting, the SP Euro-MP Harry van Bommel to Balkenende stated (please refer to: [link to harryvanbommel.sp.nl] / # comments), provided there any clarity on NOVA. The presenter will also Twan Huys beyond its announcement of the item that the mystery of that club that bad. Later in the broadcast, however, his words prove fodder for the sleepers among us. The reporter at the end of the program an interview with an SP Euro-MP could do, let himself slip in his introduction that 'our' queen conference of 'wise' men and women led. The show is here to look after. Further falls on the guest lists of the Bilderberg meetings that Victor Halberstadt, a professor of economics at Leiden University, a regular guest. He is secretary of the club. Also Jeroen van der Veer, the chief executive of Royal Dutch Shell, is frequently present. Not surprising of course, because Her Majesty's principal shareholder position at Shell is an open secret.

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