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Peter Stroo retweeted
BREAKING: The nationwide ground stop ordered by the FAA on November 13, 2026, is an extraordinary disruption to U.S. aviation, comparable to the nationwide shutdowns following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and the FAA computer system failure in January 2023.
Nearly 7,000 flights across the United States have been delayed or cancelled, according to figures attributed to FlightAware.
The nationwide ground stop is expected to remain in effect until 10:00 p.m. Central Time.
U.S. authorities have identified communications problems affecting air traffic control centers. A cyberattack by a foreign adversary remains a possible explanation, but there is currently no verified evidence establishing that the disruption was caused by a cyberattack or linking it to Iran's IRGC Cyber Defense Command.
The cause remains under investigation.
Peter Stroo retweeted
Ruim vijftig jaar geleden vonden er in Nederland meerdere grote aanslagen, kapingen en gijzelingen plaats door militante Palestijnse groeperingen.
Omdat dit ver voor het internettijdperk gebeurde, zijn de bizarste details bij het grote publiek volledig weggezakt. Dit is wat er destijds in ons land gebeurde:
💥 Februari 1972 – Bomaanslagen en een steekvlam van 70 meter:
In de nacht van 5 op 6 februari gingen er zware tijdbommen af bij gasverdeelstations van de Nederlandse Gasunie in Ravenstein en Ommen. In Ravenstein schoot een gigantische steekvlam van 70 meter hoog de lucht in. Honderden inwoners moesten midden in de nacht in doodsangst hun huizen uit worden geëvacueerd, terwijl de schade in de miljoenen liep. De aanslagen werden opgeëist door de Palestijnse terreurgroep Zwarte September (die een half jaar later ook de bloedige aanslag op de Olympische Spelen in München pleegde), omdat Nederland volgens hen Israël steunde.
✈️ November 1973 – Kaping van KLM-vlucht 'Mississippi':
Een KLM-toestel dat vanuit Amsterdam was vertrokken met 247 passagiers en bemanningsleden, werd boven Irak gekaapt door gewapende Palestijnse militanten. Ze beweerden dat KLM wapens vervoerde naar Israël en dreigden het vliegtuig op te blazen als Nederland zijn houding niet zou veranderen. De inzittenden zaten drie dagen lang in doodsangst vast voordat de gijzeling in Dubai eindigde.
🔥 Maart 1974 – Handgranaat in de cockpit en brand op Schiphol:
Twee gewapende Palestijnse kapers stormden de cockpit van een British Airways Super VC-10 binnen op het moment dat de boordwerktuigkundige net even naar het toilet was. De kapers hadden handgranaten zonder veiligheidsring in hun handen en een wapen die ze direct tegen de copiloot aanhielden, terwijl hij werd gedwongen koers te zetten naar Schiphol. Nadat de 102 inzittenden op Schiphol naar buiten mochten, goten de kapers sterke drank en parfum uit over de stoelen en staken het vliegtuig midden op de landingsbaan in brand.
🚨 Oktober & november 1974 – Gijzeling in Scheveningen en vrije aftocht
Zeven maanden later sloeg diezelfde Schiphol-kaper Adnan Nuri opnieuw toe vanuit zijn cel. Op zaterdagmiddag 26 oktober 1974 overmeesterde hij samen met drie medegevangenen (een Egyptische gedetineerde en twee Nederlandse zware criminelen) met binnengesmokkelde wapens en messen de kapel van de strafgevangenis in Scheveningen tijdens een kerkdienst. Ze namen 22 onschuldige mensen in gijzeling als menselijk schild: leden van het Haagse kerkkoor dat daar optrad, een predikant, bewaarders en enkele bezoekers.
Hun keiharde eis aan de Nederlandse regering: een vrije aftocht naar Schiphol en een vliegtuig dat hen naar het buitenland zou vliegen om aan hun straffen te ontkomen. De regering weigerde deze keer toe te geven. Pas na 106 uur in doodsangst maakte een bliksemsnelle bestorming door mariniers (BBE) met schokgranaten een einde aan de gijzeling en werden alle gijzelaars ongedeerd bevrijd.
Het meest bizarre slotstuk volgde een maand later: toen andere Palestijnse militanten in Dubai opnieuw een vliegtuig kaapten en dreigden passagiers te vermoorden, zwichtte Nederland alsnog. Beide daders van de Schiphol-kaping werden voortijdig vrijgelaten en op het vliegtuig naar het Midden-Oosten gezet.
Het is verbijsterend hoe kort het geheugen in Nederland is. Terwijl ons land in de jaren zeventig keihard werd gechanteerd, gegijzeld en aangevallen vanuit datzelfde conflict, haalt de politiek anno 2026 zonder enig historisch besef opnieuw grote groepen mensen uit Gaza en de Palestijnse gebieden naar Nederland, zonder te weten wie er precies binnenkomt.
Maar hé, zou dit misschien precies zijn waar Israël al decennialang tegen vecht? 🤷♂️
Hebben we dan echt niets geleerd van onze eigen geschiedenis?
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Peter Stroo retweeted
Pete Hegseth, the clown of Pentagon, once again disrespected American war heroes today. His stupid behavior indicates how unfit he is for this position.
A U.S. Army guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier had to reprimand Pete Hegseth and his advisers after they were seen laughing and chatting near the memorial following a Veterans Day ceremony.
“All visitors will maintain an atmosphere of silence and respect at all times!” the guard shouted, interrupting his patrol to address the group.
Peter Stroo retweeted
The forgotten battle. On this day in 1944, the Dutch city of Vlissingen was liberated by British Commandos of the 4th Special Service Brigade. Its liberation was part of the Battle of the Scheldt, which cleared the waterway between Antwerp and the North Sea, opening it up to Allied shipping.
Peter Stroo retweeted
Er is geen licht aan het eind van de Hubertustunnel, wel losgeld ad.nl/den-haag/er-is-geen-li…
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Kruīza kuģis “Mein Schiff 3” taranē konteinerkuģi faz.net/aktuell/gesellschaft…
Peter Stroo retweeted
Dat zo'n man dat durft te zeggen is één, maar dat ie niet wordt afgefakkeld is twee, en twee ontbreekt. De totale onkunde, het niet weten, schandalig!
Peter Stroo retweeted
Starboard has identified the tankers in the video:
Peter Stroo retweeted
The video shows two supertankers engaged
in mid-sea double-banking operation whilst underway. Another rogue tanker
is crossing from the port side (so is a give way vessel in a crossing situation besides the obligation for keeping clear of double-banking vessels being severely restricted in their manoeuvrability). I admire the coolness and presence of mind of the Loading Master who could be heard giving bold bridge orders and assists in avoiding an imminent collision and a catastrophic event.
#MarineTanks #MaritimeSafety #TankerOperations #SuperTankers #DoubleBanking #MarineEngineering #DeckOfficers #Seafarers #ShipNavigation #COLREGs #CollisionAvoidance #MaritimeIndustry #MerchantNavy #ShippingIndustry #SeafarerSafety #LoadingMaster #Seamanship #VoiceOfSea #CourtesySM
Courtesy: SM
Peter Stroo retweeted
We keep telling the French Jews to leave.
It's not that easy.
Had coffee with my French colleague. It could have been me, except for Dreyfus.
It could have been me, if I hadn't broken my parents' heart and left anyway.
A story.
" I'm French. That is what I tell myself when the news come in, as if loyalty were still a kind of protection.
My mother’s people have been in Alsace since the sixteen hundreds. We are cousins of Alfred Dreyfus— the name is still said in the family the way other people say the name of a grandfather who came home from the trenches.
My father was an orphan of the Shoah. He arrived with nothing, the French police arrested and sent his parents to the Nazis, and stripped him of his citizenship for 12 years.
But he decided France was worth loving anyway. He taught us the Republic was not perfect, but it was ours to cherish and make better.
I believed him.
I finished Sciences Po in the happy 2000s and walked out into Paris feeling that, for the first time, Jews were completely at home.
I wanted the big corporate firms. I had the grades, but I do not work on Saturdays. In those years that was still a requirement, not a preference.
So I built a private practice, not so bad. My husband is an engineer. Between us we pay the taxes, the school fees, the mortgage, vacations in France. In 2023 we went to Israel before the catastrophe.
We were happy to be French Jews.
We told ourselves we were the proof that it worked.
Of course there were problems... but not like now.
There is always the other tax, the one that never appears on any form. Kosher food costs more. The shops are fewer. Schools...
The need to always stay a model citizen—never the one who asks for special treatment, never the one who makes the room uncomfortable, never the one who reminds anyone that the Republic’s universalism has always had exceptions.
We paid the four hundred and fifty euros a month for each of the three children so they could go to the Jewish school, because the public system is no longer a place you send a child with our last name.
I smiled at clients who made jokes about Jewish lawyers ethics but expected me to twist the laws for them as a matter of course.
I stayed honest. I proved, year after year, that I belonged.
Now many clients are "uncomfortable". Some say it is “because Palestine.” Others do not say anything; their partners simply will not sit across from a Jew. I watch the billing time like a hawk. Last month they sprayed my plaque in the street with a "Zionist w...re" and a "Palestine map."
Outside, the city is still sweeping glass from the weekend. A synagogue in the nineteenth was ransacked. Groups warned m people not to go for afternoon prayers because the streets were not safe.
I know the figures—more than thirteen hundred acts last year, half of every religious crime in the country, and we are less than one percent. I know friends are leaving. Nearly four thousand already this year.
And I see the new arrivals to France. They do not arrive as model citizens. They do not hide their names or their calendars or their demands. They lay down their own rules in the neighborhoods, in the schools, in the streets, and the Republic that once asked me to prove I was French enough now asks nothing of them but taxes me extra to care for them.
Their Djihadi Antisemitism is" an opinion", not as the old poison it is. I am still expected to be the quiet one, the integrated one, the one who pays the extra private guards when they overwhelm the police.
If we go, my mother stays.
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Peter Stroo retweeted
The newest painting in the Louvre. “The Girl with the Suicidal Empathy.” Oil on canvas. Go see it while the Louvre is still standing.
Peter Stroo retweeted
Russian Kosmos 2612 and ICEYE-X36 (providing Ukraine military support) are now in perfect sync with each other. The Russian military satellite is intentionally stalking and tracking the Western radar satellite. Keeping a satellite "bumper-to-bumper" in this manner allows Russia to intercept or jam data transmissions, physically inspect Western technology, or quickly pivot to execute a kinetic or non-kinetic anti-satellite (ASAT) attack with very little warning or fuel expenditure.
Kosmos 2612 executed a series of highly precise, fuel-heavy maneuvers to force itself into a "coplanar" orbit—matching ICEYE-X36's exact altitude (~555 km), speed, and inclination (~97.8°). The ICEYE-X36 satellite is giving the Ukraine military support.
Peter Stroo retweeted
Volgens de meest recente rapportages van de Nederlandse inlichtingendiensten (AIVD & NCTV) vormt extreemrechts een serieuze dreiging voor de nationale veiligheid en de democratische rechtsorde
Het is tijd om rapportages te updaten & politiek wenselijke uitkomsten te verwijderen.
Zwarte dag in Frankrijk met grote gevolgen: 'Extreemlinks valt Republiek aan' rtl.nl/nieuws/buitenland/art…
Peter Stroo retweeted
Dikke chaos op Schiphol, Rijen Des Doods door storing elektrische paspoortcontrolepoortjes geenstijl.nl/5192576/dikke-c…
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Parijs: een volmaakt huwelijk tussen antifa, Hamas, XR-mafklappers, drillrappers, jodenjagers en steuntrekkers, goedkeurend toegestaan door de Franse varianten van PRO, DENK en PvdD. En de systeemmedia, die de politie de schuld geven.
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Former 🇬🇷 Hellenic Navy frigate F463 Bouboulina (2001–2013) is being towed to Souda, Crete, possibly to serve as a target during an exercise. Before entering #HellenicNavy service, she served with the 🇳🇱 Royal Netherlands Navy as HNLMS Pieter Florisz (F826), the last Kortenaer-class frigate, commissioned in 1983. Photo by Pantelis Fyssas.
Peter Stroo retweeted
Another Century of Bangkok History Gone as Dutch Embassy Villa Is Demolished
Another piece of Bangkok’s history, dating back more than a century, has disappeared with the reported demolition of the historic villa at the former Dutch embassy compound on Wireless Road. The villa was reportedly demolished on October 2, following the embassy’s relocation to Dusit Central Park in August.
The estate’s origins date to 1911, when Prince Sapphasat Suphakit acquired land in an area then dominated by rice fields and commissioned a villa. Early occupants included French physician Dr Alphonse Poix, who had served King Chulalongkorn. The property later became royal land and passed to Prince Boworadet, who sold the house and grounds to the Dutch government in 1949 for 1.85 million baht.
The estate also had a connection to Thailand’s turbulent transition to constitutional government. Prince Boworadet led the unsuccessful royalist rebellion of 1933 against the government established after the 1932 revolution ended absolute monarchy.
For more than seven decades, the compound was a centre of Dutch diplomatic and community life. Its historical, cultural and diplomatic significance, together with its extensive gardens, prompted calls for preservation when the sale was announced. The embassy now occupies the 22nd floor of Central Park Offices on Rama IV Road. What will replace the villa remains unclear.
#Thailand #Bangkok #สถานทูตเนเธอร์แลนด์ #สถานทูตดัตช์
