Posts tagged Netherlands
Periodical Political Post *48
Mar 19th
- US general says Srebrenica massacre was fault of Gay Dutch soldiers
- UK passes bill to cut off internet for thousands of households
- Most British schools break law to spy on their pupils
- US court says govt. can put non-sex-offenders on sex-offender-list
- Texas rewrites school books to fit Republican agenda
- In the US loud sex is a reason for cops to search your home
- US department of defence fights secret war on WikiLeaks
- Canadian government tries to censor press about climate change
- Viacom sued YouTube over videos uploaded by… Viacom
- MySpace sells user photos, blog posts, names, zip codes etc.
- French village went insane after CIA spiked its bread with LSD
A man in Cornwall, England was barred from hosting a gay disco at a community hall because of fears a party full of homosexuals could offend the local Christians in the town of St Agnes.
All Pain is Gone
Jan 14th
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Periodical Political Post *42
Jan 13th
- Americans’ role seen in push of mediaeval gay-execution bill in Uganda
- Portugal legalising gay marriage but not adoption by same-sex couples
- New Jersey Senate defeats same-sex marriage bill, supporters will go to court
- Special ID cards for young transsexuals in Sweden proposed
- British man prevented from donating blood to dying mother because he’s gay
- New Zealand cyber spies win new powers, can monitor whole online life
- Australian child porn filters will be used to block & censor video games
- Iraq invasion violated international law, Dutch inquiry finds
- Google stops censoring search results in China after getting attacked by hackers
- Taser thinks killing people is not enough, wants to stop kids from sexting
- Sherlock Holmes sequel under threat by US copyright holder for homosexual hints
Sweet Irony Special: Northern Ireland’s first minister steps down after his wife, an evangelical Christian who made a series of offensive comments about homosexuality, was caught with her own little Leviticus-style abomination: An affair with a 19 year old teenager who now is being sought as a cover model by a gay magazine ;)
Wild Things!
Jan 1st
I’ve *heard* somewhere on YouTube you can find a version of this video with some bare butts ;)
Stalking Saturday *1
Nov 14th
Space Lust
Sep 11th
Adrian Mayfield – Tricks of the Trade
Sep 6th
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Rarely has a book for young adults been so eagerly anticipated as Tricks of the Trade, the third book by the popular young author Floortje Zwigtman. She understands better than anyone else that adolescents aren’t looking for a neat book of instructions for the future. These are stories that tell it like it is, historical novels about surviving in conditions where the laws and morals of polite society no longer seem to apply. Adrian Mayfield is born in the poor East End of Victorian London, the son of a pub landlord and a seamstress. However, a different career lies in store for him. It’s not a scenario that the street-hardened lad could have envisaged: a wealthy older gentleman falls in love with him and takes him home. The man is Augustus Trops, a second-rate artist from Flanders. He introduces Adrian to the flamboyant circle of Oscar Wilde, where he meets other men like Augustus and finds work as an artist’s model. The work pays well and he meets the most interesting and powerful people of his time. Adrian is very pleased with his new life at first. Everything appears to be going swimmingly. Until, that is, London’s beau monde decamps to Europe for the summer holidays, as happens every year. Adrian, by now accustomed to luxury, ends up without any income. |
In a male brothel he discovers the flip side of his new life in the twofaced London of the nineteenth century, where gossip, blackmail and brutal police violence make homosexuality a highly dangerous way of life. Then he faces the choice of whether to put his integrity and his friendships on the line so that he doesn’t have to live in a mouldy, cockroach-infested garret.
Tricks of the Trade is an intense book that is difficult to put down. It draws the reader in without resorting to cheap sensationalism. This is a result of Zwigtman’s unique ability to combine critical distance with open intimacy. The raw, breathtaking writing of this sharp, historical portrait really makes the reader think about life. Zwigtman is one of the great modern writers of books for young adults.
This is the first book in a series of three and was published in Dutch under the title “Schijnbewegingen” and in German as “Ich, Adrian Mayfield”. There is no English translation yet because all interested publishers asked the author to removed some of the detailed sex scenes considering the age of the target audience but Zwigtman refused to do so.
Periodical Political Post *30
Jul 10th
- Government starts to search homes without suspicion in the Netherlands
- Mother’s letter inspires gay marriage protest outside Irish parliament
- Fears for the world’s poor countries as the rich grab land to grow food
- Surprise, surprise: CIA director admits they were lying to Congress for years
- Sweden moves closer to nursing homes for gays, starting in Stockholm
- IPREDator, the global anonymity service from The Pirate Bay, goes live soon
- Zensursula will 1.000 Websites ohne Richtervorbehalt sperren – pro Tag!
- Grundrechtspartei? Wie die FDP in Hessen für den Polizeistaat übt
- FDP will versprochene Steuersenkungen mit Obdachlosigkeit finanzieren
- Vorwärts Marsch zum Deutschnetz – Sperrungen: der Nächste bitte
- Linke reicht Verfassungsklage für Gleichstellung von Homo-Ehe ein
- Tiefe Einblicke ins Private: Gutachten zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung
- Deutschland verschwendet mal wieder (3,1) Milliarden für nutzlose Panzer
- Witz des Tages: Klimaberater der Kanzelrin ist… der Chef von Vattenfall!
Big Brother
Jul 9th
Big Brother, the TV show, was invented in the Netherlands. Maybe that should have been telling us something about this country. Fiction turns reality over there at the moment, at least partly. The Dutch government is collecting “some” data about every person under 18 living in the Netherlands. These data are coming mostly from school doctors who have to fill out a dossier of 30 pages with 1185 (!) different data records about every child and teenager. They don’t only save the name, address, phone number, religion, tax and ID numbers and income of the parents and such things but also details about the sexual activity of the kid, the size of the genitals and the look of the pubes, the penis respectively the labia and even the scrotum!
Seriously… WTF is going on there!? I couldn’t find English articles about this and the only German source (written by a Dutch ‘tho) says they say they need the data to identify and find abused children later. I’d be thankful if some of our Dutch readers could tell us more about this, there must have been a public discussion about this at least.
