• Europe is chopping down entire forests on the other side of the world, grinding the wood into pellets and shipping them across the Atlantic to burn in dirty, fine particulate-emitting power plants. Unsurprisingly, the total emissions — including cancer-causing fine dust — are higher than burning coal, according to studies from the EU’s own scientific advisors.

    Yet countries like the UK, Denmark and the Netherlands continue doing it anyway, because it technically counts as zero COβ‚‚ emissions. That is nothing short of accounting fraud.This appalling tree-burning, just like the placement of unsustainable, unprofitable and polluting wind turbines, is a direct attack on nature and public health. It must stop!

    STOP THE GREEN MADNESS — THROW THEM OUT.
    https://www.stanrams.com/biomassa-de-eu-verziekt-het-leefklimaat/#respond

    Wood burning is making people sickWood pellets often emit more COβ‚‚ per unit of energy produced than coal (sometimes 10-50% more, depending on the study and transport). This is because wood has a much lower energy density, plus the extra emissions from harvesting, processing, drying, pelletizing and transatlantic shipping.Chopping down forests is insaneForests need decades to centuries to re-absorb the released COβ‚‚.

    In the critical period up to 2050 (the climate targets), this leads to net additional warming, according to many independent studies (including from Yale, the Cary Institute, and hundreds of scientists who have warned the EU).Air pollution and fine particulate matter (PM2.5)Burning wood pellets produces high levels of fine dust, NOx and other harmful substances.

    Studies show that biomass plants cause higher local air pollution than modern coal plants equipped with scrubbers (which capture sulphur and particles more effectively).One of the biggest green scamsReports indicate that fine particulate emissions (including carcinogenic components) are higher than from coal, mainly because biomass produces more ash and organic particles.

    This has been documented in analyses of plants such as Drax (UK) and in various EU member states.Hundreds of scientists have sent protest letters to the EU urging them to reduce reliance on polluting biomass and remove it from the renewable energy category.Net Zero is a total lie. Follow the money.

    The EU’s own Joint Research Centre (JRC) and other advisory bodies have published reports criticising the claimed carbon neutrality of biomass, but nothing changes. Studies (including in GCB Bioenergy, 2025) are ignored. Under Ursula von der Leyen, the EU cold-bloodedly continues pushing a policy that is destructive for all of Europe — against the will of the majority of European citizens.

    Wind turbines are unprofitable, insanely expensive, ruin our living environment, disrupt food chains and damage our economy#NEXIT40 million litres of diesel for wind farm maintenance at Thornton BankWhile we are being forced to drive expensive electric cars, the green offshore wind farmers have already burned 40 million litres of diesel.

    The maintenance of the 399 wind turbines at Thornton Bank and nearby parks (Norther, Northwind, C-Power) has consumed an estimated 6.6 million litres of diesel per year since 2009, rising to around 40 million litres in total. This fuel was used by Crew Transfer Vessels (CTVs) that transport maintenance crews daily to the turbines in the North Sea.

    Due to the insane policies of figures like Timmermans, Klaver, Bontenbal, Jetten and others who claim to be “saving the climate”, farmers, fishermen, SMEs, the economy and nature (including marine life) are being destroyed. Everything is becoming more expensive due to ever-higher taxes. This must stop — the entire country is being dragged into the abyss by anti-democratic mismanagement.Dirty wind turbinesThe staggering amount of energy and raw materials required to build just one wind turbine.

    Yet the mainly left politicians and other creeps keep pretending these expensive, inefficient, bird- and bat-killing monsters are “green” and “environmentally friendly”.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bDLON8A6sc
    Europe is chopping down entire forests on the other side of the world, grinding the wood into pellets and shipping them across the Atlantic to burn in dirty, fine particulate-emitting power plants. Unsurprisingly, the total emissions — including cancer-causing fine dust — are higher than burning coal, according to studies from the EU’s own scientific advisors. Yet countries like the UK, Denmark and the Netherlands continue doing it anyway, because it technically counts as zero COβ‚‚ emissions. That is nothing short of accounting fraud.This appalling tree-burning, just like the placement of unsustainable, unprofitable and polluting wind turbines, is a direct attack on nature and public health. It must stop! STOP THE GREEN MADNESS — THROW THEM OUT. https://www.stanrams.com/biomassa-de-eu-verziekt-het-leefklimaat/#respond Wood burning is making people sickWood pellets often emit more COβ‚‚ per unit of energy produced than coal (sometimes 10-50% more, depending on the study and transport). This is because wood has a much lower energy density, plus the extra emissions from harvesting, processing, drying, pelletizing and transatlantic shipping.Chopping down forests is insaneForests need decades to centuries to re-absorb the released COβ‚‚. In the critical period up to 2050 (the climate targets), this leads to net additional warming, according to many independent studies (including from Yale, the Cary Institute, and hundreds of scientists who have warned the EU).Air pollution and fine particulate matter (PM2.5)Burning wood pellets produces high levels of fine dust, NOx and other harmful substances. Studies show that biomass plants cause higher local air pollution than modern coal plants equipped with scrubbers (which capture sulphur and particles more effectively).One of the biggest green scamsReports indicate that fine particulate emissions (including carcinogenic components) are higher than from coal, mainly because biomass produces more ash and organic particles. This has been documented in analyses of plants such as Drax (UK) and in various EU member states.Hundreds of scientists have sent protest letters to the EU urging them to reduce reliance on polluting biomass and remove it from the renewable energy category.Net Zero is a total lie. Follow the money. The EU’s own Joint Research Centre (JRC) and other advisory bodies have published reports criticising the claimed carbon neutrality of biomass, but nothing changes. Studies (including in GCB Bioenergy, 2025) are ignored. Under Ursula von der Leyen, the EU cold-bloodedly continues pushing a policy that is destructive for all of Europe — against the will of the majority of European citizens. Wind turbines are unprofitable, insanely expensive, ruin our living environment, disrupt food chains and damage our economy#NEXIT40 million litres of diesel for wind farm maintenance at Thornton BankWhile we are being forced to drive expensive electric cars, the green offshore wind farmers have already burned 40 million litres of diesel. The maintenance of the 399 wind turbines at Thornton Bank and nearby parks (Norther, Northwind, C-Power) has consumed an estimated 6.6 million litres of diesel per year since 2009, rising to around 40 million litres in total. This fuel was used by Crew Transfer Vessels (CTVs) that transport maintenance crews daily to the turbines in the North Sea. Due to the insane policies of figures like Timmermans, Klaver, Bontenbal, Jetten and others who claim to be “saving the climate”, farmers, fishermen, SMEs, the economy and nature (including marine life) are being destroyed. Everything is becoming more expensive due to ever-higher taxes. This must stop — the entire country is being dragged into the abyss by anti-democratic mismanagement.Dirty wind turbinesThe staggering amount of energy and raw materials required to build just one wind turbine. Yet the mainly left politicians and other creeps keep pretending these expensive, inefficient, bird- and bat-killing monsters are “green” and “environmentally friendly”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bDLON8A6sc
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  • Schokkende Connectie:

    Hoe een Simpele Duitse Boer de Nederlandse Koninklijke Familie Koppelde aan het Nazi-Wapenimperium

    Een boer uit de 17e eeuw uit het Duitse Bergisches Land is opgedoken als de verrassende schakel die Koning Willem-Alexander en Koningin Máxima verbindt met het beruchte Krupp-wapenimperium dat twee wereldoorlogen mee hielp aanwakkeren. Via Pieter Halbach (1634-1686) loopt een directe bloedlijn rechtstreeks naar het hart van het Duitse militair-industriële complex.

    De nakomelingen van Halbach stegen razendsnel op door de rangen in de 19e eeuw. Eén tak, via de familie Von Bohlen und Halbach, leidde tot Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach (1870-1950). Hij huwde Bertha Krupp en nam de controle over het machtige staal- en wapensconcern Friedrich Krupp AG in Essen. Het bedrijf werd de drijvende kracht achter de Duitse oorlogsindustrie.

    Tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog produceerde Krupp de beruchte Big Bertha-kanonnen die Belgische en Franse forten verpulverden, superkanonnen die Parijs bestookten, en talloze U-boten. Na de nederlaag begon Gustav in het geheim met herbewapening, en bereidde hij het bedrijf voor op het volgende conflict.

    Toen Hitler aan de macht kwam, omarmde de familie het regime volledig. Krupp produceerde tanks, de gevreesde 88mm-kanonnen, pantservoertuigen en miljoenen granaten.

    Tienduizenden dwangarbeiders en concentratiekampgevangenen werden gedwongen te werken onder verschrikkelijke omstandigheden voor de nazi-oorlogsmasjinerie. Krupp werd het ultieme symbool van de sinistere alliantie tussen grootbedrijf en het Derde Rijk.

    Hier komt de Nederlandse koninklijke familie in beeld. Via dezelfde Halbach-lijn was Prins Bernhard van Lippe-Biesterfeld — echtgenoot van Koningin Juliana en grootvader van Koning Willem-Alexander — direct verwant aan de Krupp-dynastie. Bernhard, die later ontkende lid te zijn geweest van de NSDAP, groeide op in kringen waar deze industriële elite floreerde.

    Bovendien delen Koning Willem-Alexander en Koningin Máxima zelf een bloedband via diezelfde Pieter Halbach. Ze zijn daarom extreem verre familieleden (verre neven en nichten). Deze connectie werd openbaar in september 1999, rond de tijd dat hun relatie werd aangekondigd.

    In het legendarische Hotel Adlon in Berlijn, de favoriete ontmoetingsplaats van de nazi-elite, hoge officieren en industriëlen, werden deals gesloten en weelderige feesten gehouden terwijl Krupp-tanks klaarstonden voor de volgende verovering. Terwijl het Nederlandse volk later leed onder de Duitse bezetting, bleek de schoonzoon van Koningin Wilhelmina verbonden te zijn, via verre voorouders, met precies dat militair-industriële complex.

    Een gewone boer uit 1686 wiens nakomelingen zich over de eeuwen verspreidden: één tak naar Argentinië (en uiteindelijk naar Máxima via de Bonorino-Halbach-lijn), de andere naar het Krupp-imperium en, via Bernhard, naar het Huis van Oranje. Een opmerkelijk sterke maar huiveringwekkende genealogische connectie die laat zien hoe een enkele familieband twee wereldoorlogen, het Nederlandse koningshuis en het donkerste hoofdstuk van de Europese geschiedenis kan verweven.

    Prins Bernhard (1911-2004) was lid van de Duitse nazipartij (NSDAP) vóór de Tweede Wereldoorlog, een feit dat hij tot zijn dood ontkende maar dat werd bevestigd door een in 2023 gevonden lidmaatschapskaart in zijn eigen archief. Hoewel hij lid was, beschouwen historici hem eerder als een opportunist dan een overtuigd nazi.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKT-c9cgBS0


    Bronnen:

    1. Telegraaf 18 September 1999 – “Willem-Alexander en Maxima hebben zelfde stamvader”: https://krant.telegraaf.nl/krant/archief/19990918/teksten/bin.willemalexander.html…
    2. Genealogie van Willem-Alexander en Halbach-lijn: https://heinbruins.nl/ancestors-of-willem-alexander-king-of-the-netherlands…
    3. Ancestry van Willem-Alexander inclusief Mathilde Halbach: https://unofficialroyalty.com/ancestors-of-king-willem-alexander-of-the-netherlands/…
    4. Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach en Krupp-geschiedenis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Krupp_von_Bohlen_und_Halbach…
    5. Thyssenkrupp officiële geschiedenis over Gustav en Bertha Krupp: https://thyssenkrupp.com/en/company/history/the-founding-families/gustav-krupp-von-bohlen-und-halbach-and-bertha-krupp-von-bohlen-und-halbach.html…
    6. USHMM over Gustav Krupp en Nazi-samenwerking: https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/gustav-krupp-von-bohlen-und-halbach…
    7. Ancestry van prins Bernhard inclusief Halbach via Wartensleben: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Bernhard_of_Lippe-Biesterfeld…
    8. Máxima’s voorouders inclusief Bonorino-Halbach: http://wargs.com/royal/maxima.html…
    9. Hotel Adlon tijdens Nazi-periode:

    Schokkende Connectie: Hoe een Simpele Duitse Boer de Nederlandse Koninklijke Familie Koppelde aan het Nazi-Wapenimperium Een boer uit de 17e eeuw uit het Duitse Bergisches Land is opgedoken als de verrassende schakel die Koning Willem-Alexander en Koningin Máxima verbindt met het beruchte Krupp-wapenimperium dat twee wereldoorlogen mee hielp aanwakkeren. Via Pieter Halbach (1634-1686) loopt een directe bloedlijn rechtstreeks naar het hart van het Duitse militair-industriële complex. De nakomelingen van Halbach stegen razendsnel op door de rangen in de 19e eeuw. Eén tak, via de familie Von Bohlen und Halbach, leidde tot Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach (1870-1950). Hij huwde Bertha Krupp en nam de controle over het machtige staal- en wapensconcern Friedrich Krupp AG in Essen. Het bedrijf werd de drijvende kracht achter de Duitse oorlogsindustrie. Tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog produceerde Krupp de beruchte Big Bertha-kanonnen die Belgische en Franse forten verpulverden, superkanonnen die Parijs bestookten, en talloze U-boten. Na de nederlaag begon Gustav in het geheim met herbewapening, en bereidde hij het bedrijf voor op het volgende conflict. Toen Hitler aan de macht kwam, omarmde de familie het regime volledig. Krupp produceerde tanks, de gevreesde 88mm-kanonnen, pantservoertuigen en miljoenen granaten. Tienduizenden dwangarbeiders en concentratiekampgevangenen werden gedwongen te werken onder verschrikkelijke omstandigheden voor de nazi-oorlogsmasjinerie. Krupp werd het ultieme symbool van de sinistere alliantie tussen grootbedrijf en het Derde Rijk. Hier komt de Nederlandse koninklijke familie in beeld. Via dezelfde Halbach-lijn was Prins Bernhard van Lippe-Biesterfeld — echtgenoot van Koningin Juliana en grootvader van Koning Willem-Alexander — direct verwant aan de Krupp-dynastie. Bernhard, die later ontkende lid te zijn geweest van de NSDAP, groeide op in kringen waar deze industriële elite floreerde. Bovendien delen Koning Willem-Alexander en Koningin Máxima zelf een bloedband via diezelfde Pieter Halbach. Ze zijn daarom extreem verre familieleden (verre neven en nichten). Deze connectie werd openbaar in september 1999, rond de tijd dat hun relatie werd aangekondigd. In het legendarische Hotel Adlon in Berlijn, de favoriete ontmoetingsplaats van de nazi-elite, hoge officieren en industriëlen, werden deals gesloten en weelderige feesten gehouden terwijl Krupp-tanks klaarstonden voor de volgende verovering. Terwijl het Nederlandse volk later leed onder de Duitse bezetting, bleek de schoonzoon van Koningin Wilhelmina verbonden te zijn, via verre voorouders, met precies dat militair-industriële complex. Een gewone boer uit 1686 wiens nakomelingen zich over de eeuwen verspreidden: één tak naar Argentinië (en uiteindelijk naar Máxima via de Bonorino-Halbach-lijn), de andere naar het Krupp-imperium en, via Bernhard, naar het Huis van Oranje. Een opmerkelijk sterke maar huiveringwekkende genealogische connectie die laat zien hoe een enkele familieband twee wereldoorlogen, het Nederlandse koningshuis en het donkerste hoofdstuk van de Europese geschiedenis kan verweven. Prins Bernhard (1911-2004) was lid van de Duitse nazipartij (NSDAP) vóór de Tweede Wereldoorlog, een feit dat hij tot zijn dood ontkende maar dat werd bevestigd door een in 2023 gevonden lidmaatschapskaart in zijn eigen archief. Hoewel hij lid was, beschouwen historici hem eerder als een opportunist dan een overtuigd nazi. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKT-c9cgBS0 Bronnen: 1. Telegraaf 18 September 1999 – “Willem-Alexander en Maxima hebben zelfde stamvader”: https://krant.telegraaf.nl/krant/archief/19990918/teksten/bin.willemalexander.html… 2. Genealogie van Willem-Alexander en Halbach-lijn: https://heinbruins.nl/ancestors-of-willem-alexander-king-of-the-netherlands… 3. Ancestry van Willem-Alexander inclusief Mathilde Halbach: https://unofficialroyalty.com/ancestors-of-king-willem-alexander-of-the-netherlands/… 4. Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach en Krupp-geschiedenis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Krupp_von_Bohlen_und_Halbach… 5. Thyssenkrupp officiële geschiedenis over Gustav en Bertha Krupp: https://thyssenkrupp.com/en/company/history/the-founding-families/gustav-krupp-von-bohlen-und-halbach-and-bertha-krupp-von-bohlen-und-halbach.html… 6. USHMM over Gustav Krupp en Nazi-samenwerking: https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/gustav-krupp-von-bohlen-und-halbach… 7. Ancestry van prins Bernhard inclusief Halbach via Wartensleben: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Bernhard_of_Lippe-Biesterfeld… 8. Máxima’s voorouders inclusief Bonorino-Halbach: http://wargs.com/royal/maxima.html… 9. Hotel Adlon tijdens Nazi-periode:
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  • Irving Finkel Writes In Ancient Cuneiform

    The Ancients Podcast

    In this episode of The Ancients, Tristan Hughes is joined by Dr Irving Finkel to uncover how cuneiform actually worked and how you would write it yourself.

    More than five thousand years ago, a revolutionary script emerged in the fertile lands of Mesopotamia that would transform how people counted, governed, worshipped and told stories. This was cuneiform, the world’s earliest known writing system.

    From humble beginnings as simple pictograms tracking beer and grain, to the wedge-shaped signs that recorded myths, laws and epic tales long before the Bible, this episode explores how cuneiform spread across Sumer, Babylon, Assyria and Persia — and why these clay tablets remain one of archaeology’s richest windows into the ancient world.


    0:00 Introduction to Cuneiform
    1:40 The Oldest Script Known to Archaeology
    3:10 Sumerian: The Language Without Relatives
    5:05 Akkadian and the Spread of Cuneiform
    8:45 The Behistun Inscription: Unlocking the Code
    13:15 Why Clay? The Ultimate Data Storage
    16:15 From Pictograms to Protocuneiform
    23:55 The Shift to Straight Edges and Wedges
    28:50 Accounting for Beer: Early Tablet Bookkeeping
    37:30 How to Write: The Three Basic Strokes
    38:02 Dr. Finkel Writes Cuneiform
    1:08:00 The Decline and Legacy of the Script

    Presented by Tristan Hughes. Producers are Joseph Knight & McKenna Fernandez, senior producer is Anne-Marie Luff. Editor is Matthew Wilson. Channel manager is Vilde Øksnes.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kELoypEdMs0
    Irving Finkel Writes In Ancient Cuneiform The Ancients Podcast In this episode of The Ancients, Tristan Hughes is joined by Dr Irving Finkel to uncover how cuneiform actually worked and how you would write it yourself. More than five thousand years ago, a revolutionary script emerged in the fertile lands of Mesopotamia that would transform how people counted, governed, worshipped and told stories. This was cuneiform, the world’s earliest known writing system. From humble beginnings as simple pictograms tracking beer and grain, to the wedge-shaped signs that recorded myths, laws and epic tales long before the Bible, this episode explores how cuneiform spread across Sumer, Babylon, Assyria and Persia — and why these clay tablets remain one of archaeology’s richest windows into the ancient world. 0:00 Introduction to Cuneiform 1:40 The Oldest Script Known to Archaeology 3:10 Sumerian: The Language Without Relatives 5:05 Akkadian and the Spread of Cuneiform 8:45 The Behistun Inscription: Unlocking the Code 13:15 Why Clay? The Ultimate Data Storage 16:15 From Pictograms to Protocuneiform 23:55 The Shift to Straight Edges and Wedges 28:50 Accounting for Beer: Early Tablet Bookkeeping 37:30 How to Write: The Three Basic Strokes 38:02 Dr. Finkel Writes Cuneiform 1:08:00 The Decline and Legacy of the Script Presented by Tristan Hughes. Producers are Joseph Knight & McKenna Fernandez, senior producer is Anne-Marie Luff. Editor is Matthew Wilson. Channel manager is Vilde Øksnes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kELoypEdMs0
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  • A Tour of Babylon in 570 BC — Documentary History

    #Babylon #AncientBabylon #570BC

    In 570 BC, the largest and most powerful city on Earth sits on the banks of the Euphrates River in modern-day Iraq.

    Its walls are wide enough for two chariots to race side by side along the top. Its gate is covered in bright blue glazed bricks and golden dragons that no other civilization on Earth can replicate. Its tower rises ninety meters into the sky the structure that will inspire the legend of the Tower of Babel. And every single brick in this city carries the stamped name of the king who built it.

    This is Babylon. Not the myth. Not the metaphor. The real, functioning city at the absolute peak of its power.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiZVWFIk-MU
    A Tour of Babylon in 570 BC — Documentary History #Babylon #AncientBabylon #570BC In 570 BC, the largest and most powerful city on Earth sits on the banks of the Euphrates River in modern-day Iraq. Its walls are wide enough for two chariots to race side by side along the top. Its gate is covered in bright blue glazed bricks and golden dragons that no other civilization on Earth can replicate. Its tower rises ninety meters into the sky the structure that will inspire the legend of the Tower of Babel. And every single brick in this city carries the stamped name of the king who built it. This is Babylon. Not the myth. Not the metaphor. The real, functioning city at the absolute peak of its power. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiZVWFIk-MU
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  • The Rise and Fall of Babylon: History's Greatest City (2300 - 480 BC)

    Ancient Babylon history — from a tiny town on the Euphrates River to the greatest city of the ancient world. In this history documentary, we trace the rise and fall of the Babylonian empire across nearly two thousand years of Mesopotamia's most dramatic chapter.

    Using historically grounded visuals and cinematic storytelling, this film explores:

    How a nomadic Amorite tribe seized an unremarkable town and turned it into the capital of an empire

    How Hammurabi forgave all debts on his first day as king — and then wrote laws that protected women, children, and slaves millennia before Europe

    Why Babylonian women could divorce their husbands, win in court, and remarry — in the nineteenth century BCE

    How Hammurabi played rival kingdoms against each other for thirty years before launching his conquest of all Mesopotamia

    Why the Assyrian king Sennacherib burned Babylon to the ground, flooded its ruins, and carried away its gods — and how his own sons murdered him for it

    How a Chaldean rebel named Nabopolassar rose from the ashes, crushed the Assyrian empire, and founded a new dynasty

    What Nebuchadnezzar built on top of the destruction — walls wider than the Great Wall of China, the cobalt-blue Ishtar Gate, the ziggurat Etemenanki that inspired the Tower of Babel, and the Hanging Gardens that may never have existed

    How Babylon became the first city in history to reach two hundred thousand people — when Rome was still a village

    Why the Persian conquest and the theft of one statue marked the beginning of the end

    And how the Babylon we know from ruins is not the Babylon that became a legend — but a city built on top of its ghost
    This is not a summary. It is a reconstruction of a civilization.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-uVKIstl7M
    The Rise and Fall of Babylon: History's Greatest City (2300 - 480 BC) Ancient Babylon history — from a tiny town on the Euphrates River to the greatest city of the ancient world. In this history documentary, we trace the rise and fall of the Babylonian empire across nearly two thousand years of Mesopotamia's most dramatic chapter. Using historically grounded visuals and cinematic storytelling, this film explores: How a nomadic Amorite tribe seized an unremarkable town and turned it into the capital of an empire How Hammurabi forgave all debts on his first day as king — and then wrote laws that protected women, children, and slaves millennia before Europe Why Babylonian women could divorce their husbands, win in court, and remarry — in the nineteenth century BCE How Hammurabi played rival kingdoms against each other for thirty years before launching his conquest of all Mesopotamia Why the Assyrian king Sennacherib burned Babylon to the ground, flooded its ruins, and carried away its gods — and how his own sons murdered him for it How a Chaldean rebel named Nabopolassar rose from the ashes, crushed the Assyrian empire, and founded a new dynasty What Nebuchadnezzar built on top of the destruction — walls wider than the Great Wall of China, the cobalt-blue Ishtar Gate, the ziggurat Etemenanki that inspired the Tower of Babel, and the Hanging Gardens that may never have existed How Babylon became the first city in history to reach two hundred thousand people — when Rome was still a village Why the Persian conquest and the theft of one statue marked the beginning of the end And how the Babylon we know from ruins is not the Babylon that became a legend — but a city built on top of its ghost This is not a summary. It is a reconstruction of a civilization. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-uVKIstl7M
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  • In het Rijksmuseum

    Vrouwen aan de muur #1: Waar zijn toch de vrouwen?

    In aflevering 1: Waar zijn toch de vrouwen?

    Hoe komt het dan dat wij die vrouwelijke meesters vaak niet kennen? Ontdek het - en meer - in de eerste aflevering van 'Vrouwen aan de muur'.

    πŸ–ΌοΈοΈ Vrouwen aan de muur: 5 afleveringen, wekelijks vanaf 11 november 2025

    🎀 Een podcast van Geerke Catshoek, met Willem Voogd

    πŸŽ“ Experts: Jenny Reynaerts en Marion Anker, Rijksmuseum

    πŸ‘ Eindredactie: Wieneke 't Hoen i.s.m. Irma de Vries, Rijksmuseum

    🎧 Audionabewerking Luuk van Dijk

    πŸ™ Met dank aan Stef Visjager voor het advies

    De podcast 'Vrouwen aan de muur' is mogelijk gemaakt door Stichting TBI Fundatie / Vrouwen van het Rijksmuseum Fonds.

    In 'Vrouwen aan de muur' gaat Geerke Catshoek met Willem Voogd het Rijksmuseum in op zoek naar de gezichten en verhalen van vrouwen die onze geschiedenis hebben bepaald. Wie waren ze, waar kom je ze tegen, en waarom moeten ze nú zichtbaar worden? Ze nemen je mee door de zalen én achter de schermen. Want zonder vrouwen aan de muur blijft ons verhaal maar half verteld.

    #Podcast 'In het Rijksmuseum' is powered by ING.

    https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-ji89g-28ad149e
    In het Rijksmuseum Vrouwen aan de muur #1: Waar zijn toch de vrouwen? In aflevering 1: Waar zijn toch de vrouwen? Hoe komt het dan dat wij die vrouwelijke meesters vaak niet kennen? Ontdek het - en meer - in de eerste aflevering van 'Vrouwen aan de muur'. πŸ–ΌοΈοΈ Vrouwen aan de muur: 5 afleveringen, wekelijks vanaf 11 november 2025 🎀 Een podcast van Geerke Catshoek, met Willem Voogd πŸŽ“ Experts: Jenny Reynaerts en Marion Anker, Rijksmuseum πŸ‘ Eindredactie: Wieneke 't Hoen i.s.m. Irma de Vries, Rijksmuseum 🎧 Audionabewerking Luuk van Dijk πŸ™ Met dank aan Stef Visjager voor het advies De podcast 'Vrouwen aan de muur' is mogelijk gemaakt door Stichting TBI Fundatie / Vrouwen van het Rijksmuseum Fonds. In 'Vrouwen aan de muur' gaat Geerke Catshoek met Willem Voogd het Rijksmuseum in op zoek naar de gezichten en verhalen van vrouwen die onze geschiedenis hebben bepaald. Wie waren ze, waar kom je ze tegen, en waarom moeten ze nú zichtbaar worden? Ze nemen je mee door de zalen én achter de schermen. Want zonder vrouwen aan de muur blijft ons verhaal maar half verteld. #Podcast 'In het Rijksmuseum' is powered by ING. https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-ji89g-28ad149e
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  • In het Rijksmuseum

    Had Johannes Vermeer wel of niet een camera camera obscura ?

    350 jaar geleden werd schilder Johannes Vermeer begraven.

    In de aanloop naar de grote Vermeer-tentoonstelling in 2023 deed Gregor Weber onderzoek naar hoe Vermeers katholieke omgeving van invloed is geweest op zijn leven en schilderwerk. Zo is hij meer te weten gekomen over het gebruik van de camera obscura. Hoe kwam Vermeer hiermee in aanraking? En wat heeft zijn buurman van de orde van de jezuïeten ermee te maken?

    πŸ–ΌοΈοΈ Johannes Vermeer
    🎀 Janine Abbring
    ‍πŸŽ“ Gregor Weber


    Het boek Gregor J.M. Weber, 'Johannes Vermeer: Geloof, licht en reflectie' is verkrijgbaar via de webshop van het Rijksmuseum en in de boekhandel. Het is ook verkrijgbaar in het Engels.

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    In het Rijksmuseum Had Johannes Vermeer wel of niet een camera camera obscura ? 350 jaar geleden werd schilder Johannes Vermeer begraven. In de aanloop naar de grote Vermeer-tentoonstelling in 2023 deed Gregor Weber onderzoek naar hoe Vermeers katholieke omgeving van invloed is geweest op zijn leven en schilderwerk. Zo is hij meer te weten gekomen over het gebruik van de camera obscura. Hoe kwam Vermeer hiermee in aanraking? En wat heeft zijn buurman van de orde van de jezuïeten ermee te maken? πŸ–ΌοΈοΈ Johannes Vermeer 🎀 Janine Abbring ‍πŸŽ“ Gregor Weber Het boek Gregor J.M. Weber, 'Johannes Vermeer: Geloof, licht en reflectie' is verkrijgbaar via de webshop van het Rijksmuseum en in de boekhandel. Het is ook verkrijgbaar in het Engels. #Podcast 'In het Rijksmuseum' is powered by ING. https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-qynwn-29c10cf4
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  • Epstein-Dutroux

    International child rape Network


    Besides being connected to Jeffrey Epstein Robert De Niro is on the client list of Axel Vervoordt. Axel has designed multiple properties for De Niro. Axel

    Vervoordt has been named as a co-conspirator of Marc Dutroux who raped children as young as six years old and lived next to the castle where snuff films of children were made. Jeffrey Epstein was sent Axel Vervoordt’s webpage in 2012:

    https://www.justice.gov/age-verify?destination=/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA02025694.pdf

    Moreover, Axel is mentioned in the Podesta emails, hangs with Marina Abramovic, and James Alefantis tagged him in a 2017 Instagram post. It all connects from Jeffrey Epstein to Marc Dutroux!

    Here’s what the #Dutroux Dossiers say about Axel Vervoordt:

    “*) Count Yann de Meeûs d'Argenteuil (gave a list in 1999 of people he accused of being involved in the trafficking of children and drugs; committed suicide a year later); According to X1, children were tortured and killed in the gatekeeper's apartment on a domain owned by Philippe de Caters. Among them was Katrien de Cuyper. Axel Vervoordt is-was his neighbor at the time. However, the X-Files book already briefly mentioned this fact, before Count Yann's list became known.

    *) Extra in 2016: Good friend of the Rockefeller-backed performance artist Marina Abramovic at the time she became a centerpiece in the Pizzagate affair over her so-called "Spirit Cooking" sessions, a mix of mock Satanic (including child sacrifice) and cannibalistic "art" displays
    Very well respected art dealer. Began his career as an art and antiques dealer in the late 1960s, when he meticulously renovated a narrow street with sixteen of the oldest houses in Antwerp.

    In 1986, his company moved to a castle in the woods of 's-Gravenwezel, a small village just north-east of Antwerp. This estate is right next to the Castle Kattenhof, which was pointed out by Regina Louf as the place where she was forced into torturing and killing of what seems to have been Katrien De Cuyper. His client base consists of extremely rich businessmen from all over Europe and the United States. Friend and decorator of the Belgian royal family. Sting, Bill Gates, and Madonna are among his clients, supposedly just as the Rothschilds, Saudi royals, Otto von Habsburg, and Hans Melchers (of the Dutch Melchemie who was involved in selling chemicals to Iraq in the 1980s). According to Michel van Rijn, Vervoordt not only exhibited art looted by the Nazis from the Adolphe Schloss collection in his booth at the fair in Maastricht, he seems to have also been a paedophile. June 2001, Michel van Rijn: "Axel Vervoordt, dealer in Schloss Art, has been accused by his house guest, Amy Page [US art journalist], of fucking and raping young boys.

    During a visit to my house in Rome, Amy told me that Axel's favourite boys were aged between 6 and 12. Now that I have evidence from Amy on tape telling me about Axel's hobby, I guess you don't want to be seen dead in the company of such a predacious paedophile, unless of course you share the same hobby as this low-life.

    If it wasn’t for the work of alert and hard-hitting investigative journalist, Jan Portein [Kleintje Muurkrant], these serious allegations might have faded into oblivion." Van Rijn: "The Vervoordts' comment: "We heard on Tuesday of the murder story in the castle for the first time. Sir, we’re bent over laughing."

    Meanwhile the detectives are already in the castle looking for comparisons to the X1 story. The resident continues, "Our castle appears regularly in the news because we hold open houses. Thousands of people could describe this place. This castle has appeared in numerous publications. The press have covered it in dozens of stories. Maybe a mythomaniac like X1 used it to locate one of her stories in our castle." ... Our Comment: We don't see what's so funny about the Dutroux case!"

    Source for above quotation:

    https://recherchenetzwerksatanismus.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/dutroux_wieiswie.pdf
    Epstein-Dutroux International child rape Network Besides being connected to Jeffrey Epstein Robert De Niro is on the client list of Axel Vervoordt. Axel has designed multiple properties for De Niro. Axel Vervoordt has been named as a co-conspirator of Marc Dutroux who raped children as young as six years old and lived next to the castle where snuff films of children were made. Jeffrey Epstein was sent Axel Vervoordt’s webpage in 2012: https://www.justice.gov/age-verify?destination=/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA02025694.pdf Moreover, Axel is mentioned in the Podesta emails, hangs with Marina Abramovic, and James Alefantis tagged him in a 2017 Instagram post. It all connects from Jeffrey Epstein to Marc Dutroux! Here’s what the #Dutroux Dossiers say about Axel Vervoordt: “*) Count Yann de Meeûs d'Argenteuil (gave a list in 1999 of people he accused of being involved in the trafficking of children and drugs; committed suicide a year later); According to X1, children were tortured and killed in the gatekeeper's apartment on a domain owned by Philippe de Caters. Among them was Katrien de Cuyper. Axel Vervoordt is-was his neighbor at the time. However, the X-Files book already briefly mentioned this fact, before Count Yann's list became known. *) Extra in 2016: Good friend of the Rockefeller-backed performance artist Marina Abramovic at the time she became a centerpiece in the Pizzagate affair over her so-called "Spirit Cooking" sessions, a mix of mock Satanic (including child sacrifice) and cannibalistic "art" displays Very well respected art dealer. Began his career as an art and antiques dealer in the late 1960s, when he meticulously renovated a narrow street with sixteen of the oldest houses in Antwerp. In 1986, his company moved to a castle in the woods of 's-Gravenwezel, a small village just north-east of Antwerp. This estate is right next to the Castle Kattenhof, which was pointed out by Regina Louf as the place where she was forced into torturing and killing of what seems to have been Katrien De Cuyper. His client base consists of extremely rich businessmen from all over Europe and the United States. Friend and decorator of the Belgian royal family. Sting, Bill Gates, and Madonna are among his clients, supposedly just as the Rothschilds, Saudi royals, Otto von Habsburg, and Hans Melchers (of the Dutch Melchemie who was involved in selling chemicals to Iraq in the 1980s). According to Michel van Rijn, Vervoordt not only exhibited art looted by the Nazis from the Adolphe Schloss collection in his booth at the fair in Maastricht, he seems to have also been a paedophile. June 2001, Michel van Rijn: "Axel Vervoordt, dealer in Schloss Art, has been accused by his house guest, Amy Page [US art journalist], of fucking and raping young boys. During a visit to my house in Rome, Amy told me that Axel's favourite boys were aged between 6 and 12. Now that I have evidence from Amy on tape telling me about Axel's hobby, I guess you don't want to be seen dead in the company of such a predacious paedophile, unless of course you share the same hobby as this low-life. If it wasn’t for the work of alert and hard-hitting investigative journalist, Jan Portein [Kleintje Muurkrant], these serious allegations might have faded into oblivion." Van Rijn: "The Vervoordts' comment: "We heard on Tuesday of the murder story in the castle for the first time. Sir, we’re bent over laughing." Meanwhile the detectives are already in the castle looking for comparisons to the X1 story. The resident continues, "Our castle appears regularly in the news because we hold open houses. Thousands of people could describe this place. This castle has appeared in numerous publications. The press have covered it in dozens of stories. Maybe a mythomaniac like X1 used it to locate one of her stories in our castle." ... Our Comment: We don't see what's so funny about the Dutroux case!" Source for above quotation: https://recherchenetzwerksatanismus.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/dutroux_wieiswie.pdf
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