Nina Zeelen

Nina Zeelen

@ninazeelen.bsky.social

Journalist https://nl.linkedin.com/in/nina-zeelen-b65651106 @crackingtheframe.bsky.social‬

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Mr. No “With Zelenskiy in attendance Rutte was criticised by leaders for his opposition to joint EU funding of defence. Tusk: ‘I saw a blush on his face after everyone pointed out that as next NATO boss he should mobilize EU to spend more not less. I was very angry at the arguments I heard.” (2024)

reuters.comPoland's Tusk says EU leaders criticised next NATO boss RutteDutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who will be NATO's next secretary-general, was criticised by other European Union leaders at a summit for his opposition to joint EU funding of defence projects, Polan...

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Jaag ze nou niet weg Jesse. Die Amerikaanse cryptohandelaar en de dochters van Heineken en Wessels creëren echt heel veel banen. Heus, echt, vraag maar aan Jort en Stefan Tax.

Jesse Klaver@jesseklaver.progressiefnederland.nl

Het totale vermogen van de nieuwe Quote500 is € 300.440.000.000. Dat is een stijging van 10% ten opzichte van vorig jaar. Nederland telt nu 56 miljardairs en het gemiddelde vermogen van de lijst is 600,9 miljoen. En deze mensen willen D66, CDA en de VVD nu nog meer belastingkorting geven. 1/3

“Book acknowledges the visceral hostility of the base toward Obama. After Boehner announced that he believed that Obama was born in the US, he caught a blizzard of grief. The GOP’s embrace of fringe theories remains. He contends that Obama would ‘poison the well’ for the sake of partisan advantage.”

theguardian.comOn the House review: John Boehner’s lament for pre-Trump RepublicansThe former speaker’s memoir will not make him any new friends in a party under the far-right’s sway

Every Accusation Is A Projection

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GOP Plot "House GOP's annual retreat, Republicans spent most sessions discussing how to frame the party's pitch to middle-class voters and get through the debate over suspending the debt ceiling. 'Everyone is working through where they could find consensus,' said David Winston who advises Boehner."

GOP Plot "House GOP's annual retreat, Republicans spent most sessions discussing how to frame the party's pitch to middle-class voters and get through the debate over suspending the debt ceiling. 'Everyone is working through where they could find consensus,' said David Winston who advises Boehner."

washingtonpost.comCongressional Republicans are focused on calming their divided ranksGOP leaders are looking to build their ground game ahead of elections and avoid intraparty drama.

"At a news conference, Boehner blamed Obama for the partisan tensions and criticized him for not responding to GOP's letter. 'We've seen no response —nothing. If the president won't work with us on these simple issues, who would ever expect that he'd be able to work with us on more complex issues?'"

nationalpost.comInside the Republican plan for dismantling Obama's legacyWith Republicans increasingly likely to win control of the Senate in two weeks, and perhaps the White House in two years, they again smell opportunity

VVD Guru "GOP plan is aimed at discrediting the Obama record, defining a new conservative vision. Pushing aggressive new positions— framed not as opposition but as new ideas—will be key to taking the White House. David Winston said that the most important thing is to look toward the 2016 election."

nationalpost.comInside the Republican plan for dismantling Obama's legacyWith Republicans increasingly likely to win control of the Senate in two weeks, and perhaps the White House in two years, they again smell opportunity

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Carter Won Obama The Election Carter: "My grandson found the 47% tape." Piers: "It won Obama the election. Pivotal moment in destroying Romney." Carter: "Yes, it was something he could not deny. It stuck with him. When Jason met Obama he ran across the room, embraced him and thanked him profusely."

"The 47% video where Romney said he had 'extraordinarily experienced, highly successful consultants' included ones that work for Netanyahu. This story confirms that Finkelstein is still tied to Netanyahu, and he is evidently the one who came up with the idea for a Likud-Yisrael Beytenu merger."

mondoweiss.netNetanyahu’s reliance on Arthur Finkelstein led him to completely misread the US presidential raceOne of the more entertaining subplots to emerge since Tuesday’s U.S. election has been learning how absolutely “shellshocked” the Romney campaign was by the loss. They totally didn’t see it coming and...

The Moderate Lie "'The decision to hire Finkelstein conveys a hint of Netanyahu's mentality,' wrote Barnea, meaning that it undermines Mr. Netanyahu's effort to position himself as a moderate. 'Finkelstein is the preferred consultant of political figures on the right wing of America's spectrum.'"

mondoweiss.netRomney brags he’s got Netanyahu’s campaign consultants (and he’ll shoot you before telling their secrets)Just when it’s supposedly anti-Semitic to talk about the fact that neocons are working for Mitt Romney, Mother Jones has published a surreptitious recording of Romney at some fundraiser in which he…

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Nee, Fransen weten goed: je moet niet stoppen met actievoeren na toezeggingen, het is pas gedaan als je het fysiek in handen hebt. Daar kunnen Nederlanders nog wat van leren.

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"Under the genocide laws, if you aid and abet genocide you open yourself up under British law to prosecution.” MEE columnist and award winning journalist, Peter Oborne discusses the UK’s complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza with former UK diplomat, Edmund Fitton-Brown (2025)

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Dutch Media Refused To Disclose The News

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"Former Israeli national security officials demand Netanyahu be removed from office for posing an 'existential' threat to Israel. Plea to president and Knesset speaker: 'The Israeli nation and Jewish history will not forgive you if you don’t fulfill your utmost national responsibility.'" (Jan 2024)

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"Chief prosecutor Karim Khan, has no bank account; he’s under sanctions, as are many of his colleagues. ICC is facing intense hostility from US. Then foreign secretary David Cameron tried to bully Khan to get him to fall in line and refrain from issuing arrest warrants for senior Israeli ministers."

jacobin.comHow Britain’s Political Class Enabled Genocide In GazaFrom Rishi Sunak to Keir Starmer, Britain’s political class has supported Israel’s atrocities in Gaza to the hilt while attempting to supress protests against genocide on the home front. They’ll never...

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VVD Mid-Genocide

Roel Griffioen - #antifa@roelgrif.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy

Queeny Rajkowski op X: "Netanyahu hint op migratiestromen uit Gaza. Nederland kan een nieuwe ongecontroleerde migratiestroom niet aan en het is ook geen oplossing voor dit conflict. Daarom vragen Eric en ik de ministers Asiel en migratie om dit te voorkomen. " Queeny be like:

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Trouw Mid-Genocide

Christoph Schmidt@christophschmidt.bsky.social

Nieuw Haags Halfuurtje ! Een van de opvallende dingen rond het nieuwe kabinet is… de rust rond de VVD. Vorig jaar zomer was die partij nog in crisis. Wat is er in de tussentijd gebeurd en wat staat de VVD nog te wachten? Met @jannechaudron.bsky.social www.trouw.nl/podcast/haag...

Hoe kan je dat weten als journalisten je dat niet vertellen?

Mihai Martoiu Ticu@martoiu.bsky.social

De VVD heeft altijd met de Israël-lobby tegen VN-rapporteurs samengespannen door middel van leugens en drogredenen. www.mihai.nl/internationa...

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Framing The Opponent "The GOP created a world of fake news and 'alternative facts' that rejects reality. In this world, knowledge is a partisan construction. Gingrich, Fox and right-wing pundits have debased the level of political discourse with virulent personal attacks and lies about opponents.”

theconversation.comThe Republican party and the undermining of American democracyDonald Trump may have executed a hostile takeover of the Republican party, but the GOP has been laying the groundwork for decades.

"Yeşilgöz schreef opiniestukken als ‘Pas op, het Maagdenhuis is door beroepsactivisten gekaapt’. En over de vluchtelingencrisis: 'Er dreigt een zieligheidsindustrie te ontstaan, waarbij onze sympathie een criterium wordt voor toelating.' Ook praat ze erover op radio en tv, zoals bij Studio PowNed.”

nrc.nl‘Linkse politici denken altijd: er zijn slachtoffers, en die moeten wij redden’Dilan Yesilgöz, kandidaat-Kamerlid voor de VVD, houdt niet van slachtoffergedrag. „Als je wacht tot de overheid ervoor zorgt dat geen enkel bedrijf meer discrimineert, dan zul je nooit van je leven we...

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"'Take back control', a symbol of the successful Brexit campaign. As much as the slogan is about the future, it is rooted in a vision of the past. The roots of the desire to control the borders were planted in Conservative campaigns dating back to the '60s against so-called ‘coloured immigration’."

penguin.co.uk‘Take back control': how colonial nostalgia still informs political discourseBehind every political slogan is a political history; here Kehinde Andrews, the author of New Age of Empire, traces the roots of the language that drove Brexit.

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Rutte: "Blijft Nederland Nederland. We nooit meer terugvallen in die naïviteit van de multiculturele samenleving. Dat werkt niet. Mensen komen hiernaartoe met een hele andere culturele achtergrond, wij verwachten nu gelukkig van mensen dat ze respecteren en realiseren wat onze waarden zijn." (2016)

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VVD Verspreidt Eurabia-Complot "Het is tijd voor een vrijheids­coalitie tegen de politieke islam. Het wordt tijd dat wij - alle Nederlanders die onze cultuur en onze vrij­heden liefhebben - opstaan om onze verworvenheden actief te verdedigen. Wie durft nog islamkritische boeken te schrijven?"(2016)

parool.nlEdith Schippers: 'Tijd voor 'vrijheidscoalitie' tegen politieke islam'Met een lofzang op onze normen en waarden en een aanval op de radicale islam, zet VVD-kopstuk Edith Schippers de toon van de campagne van haar partij voort.

VVD: Vijand Zit In Nederland Burgemeester Van den Bosch: "Ik verwijt het kabinet dat ze niets doen aan de interne veiligheidscrisis. Mensen zijn de intimidatie van die Marokkaanse jongens zat. Hebben wij een dure luchtmacht nodig of bevindt de vijand zich intern? De straat terug veroveren!" (2010)