My Life on this planet.

In Belgium, attempts to form a government stalled (partly) due to disagreements over tax reforms as these should be more balanced. While these reforms are essential, they should not disproportionately benefit the wealthy, as this would place a greater burden on middle and lower-income citizens. When the majority can no longer afford to spend, businesses will suffer as consumer demand will decline, leading to a decrease in profits. Initially, probably local companies are more affected, but eventually, even larger corporations will feel the impact as well. In the UK in 2022, Prime Minister Liz Truss ’s government also found it essential to reform the tax system, but her government collapsed shortly after introducing a plan as it was considered too extreme and bad for the economy. PM Truss argued that British taxes were among the highest globally, a claim that seemed exaggerated — especially compared to Belgium’s system which imposes much higher taxes at lower income thresholds. While...

The Roman Catholic Church struggles to do good even when it tries, as it remains trapped in outdated worldviews that even the Pope cannot change within the institution he leads. Pope Francis himself appears unable to fully overcome these entrenched beliefs. Pope Francis I recently visited Belgium to improve relations and reconnect with a Church that has lost many followers over the past few decades, partly due to the widespread sexual abuse of children by priests, which was then covered up by Church authorities to protect its reputation. The legacy of conservative Pope John Paul II , consistently praising "traditional families" but condemning LGBTQ individuals who are part of families, preaching against contraception and abortion while allowing the Church to conceal abuses, still lingers today by many. On the other hand, increasing numbers of people stopped attending Church because they saw a discrepancy between its teachings on LGBTQ issues and contraceptives and their own e...

FB 10/09/2024 - Israel's policies: a global punishment for crimes committed by others When Israeli policies would be used in Europe: as example Brussels where terrorists from Molenbeek killed people in Paris and Brussels. A solution when security agencies suspect something would be to bomb the building in which the terrorists may live, and among the dead may be the terrorists while the innocents deserved their horror as they should not have lived in the same building as those terrorists. Recently also in Sudan a hospital was bombed, what can be done in one place can also be done elsewhere. It is unbelievable how the Palestinians continue to endure their horrors. Indeed, we are now heading towards 50,000 dead Palestinians, about half of them children. Over the past decades, they were removed from their lands, and many killed, because a people believe it is their land after 2,000 years absence. Still, Palestinians do not rise (yet) as one people against the coloniser, white people wh...

Wednesday, 15/08/2024 Three years ago, the angels who liberated Afghanistan from the devilish Taliban and al-Qaida after they attacked the USA that resulted in nearly three thousand dead Americans, and after earlier attacks against the USA in other nations, those angels were defeated by the same devilish Taliban although al-Qaida was no longer involved after senior leaders such as Osama bin Laden were killed. Instead, a new force named Islamic State Afghanistan rose who are at the same level, some say even worse, as the Taliban. In the past I have written a history as Westerns know about 50 years of Afghanistan , about 50 years of suffering whereby the years under USA rule were not the worse years. Therefore, many Afghans who realised a defeat of the Western forces was imminent, tried to escape and those who were able to leave Afghanistan were lucky as the return of the Taliban equalled a return of human right abuses, and just as during the first rule of the Taliban especially women su...

FB 02/05/2024 - It is not antisemitism to oppose a genocide Mr Bernie Sanders, a Jew, explains very well why it is not antisemitic  - to point out how Israel's government has killed close to 35,000 Palestinians of which half are children.  - that destruction of schools and hospitals is against any international law.  - that very likely humanitarian organisations are not siding with Hamas against Israel when they condemn the acts of violence against civilians.  Jews should know best what it is to be imprisoned in camps when foreigners claim the land is theirs and want to plant their symbols in the country they occupy. It is colonisation. Feeling "chosen", it makes people dangerous. PM Netanyahu is probably also right that this may end with another attack against Jews - but, maybe more likely by those who support Israel now to forward their own agenda. FB 04/05/2024 - Reliving the 1930s   How we seem to reliving the 1930s when extreme right came to the defence of ...

02/03/2024 -  Israel faces mounting pressure to investigate Gaza food aid deaths Remember the movie "Noah". In that movie, people were locked in enclosures in huge numbers. In one scene, a living goat was thrown in the enclosure, and people fought to eat it alive. Later the area was flooded and the violence stopped.  In the movie "Exodus: Gods and Kings", the king killed his own people when they were desperate for food and looted his warehouses.  The nazi's starved the Jews in Warsaw until they rebelled and could be exterminated. Quite similar with what is happening in Gaza.  It shows we understand that people will start to fight when they are desperate for food. And thus Israel had to shoot to people who seemingly came towards the Israeli soldiers. We have an official explanation in the article. But we know the first one will be correct as Netanyahu is a pathological liar. Ask old presidents Obama and Sarkozy.  What I find chocking is that president Biden simpl...