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Lobbyist & business networker - Meetings & Events Industry - Fundraising - Bruges Tour Guide - SITE & JMIC past president - Event Confederation fan

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Joined November 2010
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I believe this will be considered one of the most important videos in US history from this time.
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Ukraine is moving Russian data to the cloud.
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No kidding. This is a real speed sign in Belgium. Good luck @teslasi reading this small font and applying the correct speed limit at the right time. 🫣 Even humans can’t read and interpret that in time while approaching at even 30km/h @teslaeurope @AnnickDeRidder infrastructure in Belgium also needs a serious update if we want to further roll out (semi-)autonomous vehicles. It’s not just the car brands that need to make it happen. Countries also bear responsibility to take action to facilitate it.
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Early mornings in Bruges (picture by Nico Blontrock) @Tours_By_Locals – at Bruges, Belgium
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🇺🇸🇺🇸🧐🤔“AND YOU STILL DARE TO OPEN YOUR MOUTH…” Sasha Legerman: This is too accurate not to share. This Australian’s response to Trump’s rant that “NATO does nothing for America” is absolutely devastating: “Mate. You run a country where 600,000 homeless people will sleep on the streets tonight. A country where 40% of adults can’t cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment, and people ration it just to stay alive. A country where medical debt is the number one cause of bankruptcy. A country where women die in hospital parking lots because doctors are too afraid of abortion laws to treat miscarriages. You imprison more of your own citizens than any country on Earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. In the land of the free, 2 million people sit in cages, and a quarter of them haven’t even been convicted of anything. They’re simply too poor to afford bail. Your life expectancy is declining. You’re the only developed nation where that’s happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba’s. Your children practice active shooter drills between math and English classes while you sell defense stocks to your friends. Your minimum wage hasn’t changed in 15 years. Your teachers work two jobs, your veterans sleep under bridges, and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that never attacked you. And now a convicted criminal — found liable for sexual abuse, defending a pedophile, sleeping with a porn star, and running the biggest dumpster-fire campaign since the Taliban — is thanking you for yet another disaster. And you call Greenland badly governed? Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody there goes bankrupt because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because insurance refused treatment. ‘NATO wasn’t there when we needed them.’ When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn’t even in NATO, and we still showed up. For twenty years. And then you left at 2 a.m. without telling anyone and left everybody else to clean up the mess. You don’t care that a great nation is being terrorized by your friend, and you haven’t shown it a single ounce of sympathy. So maybe before calling other countries badly governed, take a look at your own backyard, you aluminum siding salesman with a spray tan. The only thing badly managed in this picture is your damn mouth. And you still dare to lecture the rest of the world?”
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Geospatial intelligence makes the invisible, visible. At the High-Level Side Event on Geospatial Information for Sustainable Development, I highlighted how it enables countries to act earlier & invest smarter. Because data only creates impact when it drives action. #UNGGIM16
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Reviews like this one make my day – at Bruges, Belgium
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Trump attempting to open the Strait of Hormuz
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Belgium trolled the US with a savage two-word message after knocking them out of the World Cup: “Overturn this.”
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BREAKING: They've changed the name
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