Tuesday, December 31, 2002
New AP FilmLog
The past few days of my holiday I spent installing a new page for The Amsterdam Post: AP FilmLog.
This page will channel my love for film. It will be mainly in Dutch though.
During my work I listened to the Top 2000 of the Dutch Radio 2. A wonderful experience of recognition. The top 10 will be broadcasted just before midnight.
1 Queen Bohemian rhapsody 1975 1
2 Deep Purple Child in time 1972 2
3 Eagles Hotel California 1977 3
4 Led Zeppelin Stairway to heaven 1972 4
5 Meat Loaf Paradise by the dashboard light 1978 5
6 Animals The house of the rising sun 1964 6
7 Dire Straits Private investigations 1982 14
8 Alan Parsons Project Old and wise 1982 13
9 Dire Straits Brothers in arms 1989 7
10 Doors Riders on the storm 1971 12
11 John Lennon Imagine 1971 11
12 Rolling Stones Angie 1973 22
13 AC/DC Whole lotta Rosie 1978 15
14 Supertramp School 1975 16
15 Beatles Hey Jude 1968 9
16 Dire Straits Sultans of swing 1978 10
17 Guns 'n Roses November rain 1992 18
18 Billy Joel Goodnight Saigon 1983 8
19 Bruce Springsteen The river 1981 26
20 Procol Harum A whiter shade of pale1967 23
Radio 2 Top 2000
Wednesday, December 11, 2002
Almodovar winner of European Film Awards
In a star glittering dinner show in Rome, the European Film Awards were announced. The winner is Almodovar. The award for best actress was awarded to the ensemble cast of 8 femmes: The ensemble cast of 8 Femmes:
Catherine Deneuve
Isabelle Huppert
Emmanuelle Béart
Fanny Ardant
Virginie Ledoyen
Danielle Darrieux
Ludivine Sagnier
Firmine Richard
The largest collection of glorious french women ever assembled.
+ WINNER OF THE EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2002 ANNOUNCED ON 7TH DECEMBER IN ROME
+ Pedro Almodovar, cinéaste européen de l'année
Defending the stability pact
Clingendael senior research fellow Hans Labohm sums up the does and don't of the EU stability pact that shoulders the Euro. Recently, Prodi and Lamy criticized the stability pact as "stupid" and as a "medieval rule" (Lamy).
This Medieval Rule TCS
Tuesday, December 10, 2002
Hirsi Ali in Time Magazine
Time Magazine runs a story on present day Islam in Europe. The Dutch Salman Rusdie, the politician Ayan Hirsi Ali is featuring in the story as the "critic".
The Many Faces Of Islam
Monday, December 09, 2002
Will Weblogs make a difference in the Fog of War
On the threshold of war a lot of Weblogs are gearing up. Will they make a difference, will they establish themselves as serious newsmedia?
Don't you have a job?
Livewire: Blogs May Pierce the Fogs of War
Multilateralism according to Kagan
American multilateralism isn't what the words says. It means the opposite.
In fact, despite what many believe, there really isn't a debate between multilateralists and unilateralists in the United States today. Just as there are few principled multilateralists, there are few genuine unilateralists. Few inside or outside the Bush administration truly consider it preferable for the United States to go it alone in the world. Most would rather have allies. They just don't want the United States prevented from acting alone if the allies refuse to come along.
So the real debate in the United States is about style and tactics. Some of the administration's critics, such as Holbrooke and Joseph Nye, say the United States should build goodwill by working hard for Security Council support. When that fails, the United States can go ahead and do what it wants, but the good-faith effort to accommodate allied concerns will have won the United States Brownie points. Some Bush administration strategists believe, on the contrary, that the best way to bring the allies along is by making clear that the United States will go it alone if necessary. They figure that key allies such as Britain and France won't want to be left behind, looking helpless and irrelevant. Robert Kagan on the Website of Project for the new American Century.
It is the US playing on top of the power game because they know what is in their interest and they can enforce it.
A lot of Europeans feel uncomfortable with that. I don't.
I know this likely war will be fought for the sake of morals, supremacy, geopolitics, arms manufacturers and oil. It are all good reasons to fight a war and to endorse it.
For the full support Europe should state one condition. The US should reform its use of fossil energy and its policy on the global warming in general. After the war Bush should use his second term to revolutionize the consumption of oil.
Multilateralism, American Style
Robert Kagan
Jürgen Habermas disqualifies Bush foreign policy
Jürgen Habermas disqualifies in an interview for The Nation the US foreign policy because it is "dominated by domestic concerns".
He isn't against a war though if the US has the unequivocal backing from the United Nations.
He furthermore elaborates on the growing gap of understanding the present administration by the European public.
After these kind of statements I always wonder if Europeans would have liked Al Gore's policies, would he have been President. I suspect that the policies would not have been very different. The PR and public image would. Not the policies. See the Lieberman speech advocating the removal of Saddam by force.
Letter to America
by Jürgen Habermas The Nation
Senator Joe Lieberman
Floor Statement on Iraq
Monday, December 02, 2002
Saddam: Who will defect and reveal?
Defectors and traitors is the best the West can hope for in discovering the weapons of mass destruction, writes Friedman. He is smart, he must have been the only journalist really reading the 1441 UN resolution!
Waiting for an Iraqi Sakharov
Thomas L. Friedman The New York Times
Monday, December 2, 2002
UN Resolution 1441 pdf
Saddam: The Terror Unveiled
Jack Straw, the British Social Democratic Foreign Minister released today a report on Saddams terror practices.
What will be the reaction of continental Europe? Yes, we heard the story before, but the Americans are only after the oil!
UK unveils Iraq 'torture' dossier
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