Andrzej Duda
"Duda added that he trusted that “good will and honesty form the foundation of the US negotiation strategy,” and had “no doubt” that
Trump was
“guided by a deep sense of responsibility
for global stability and peace.”
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"On Wednesday, Trump called Zelenskyy “a dictator” who refused to hold elections and blamed Ukraine for the war."
“New York hasn’t labored under a king in over 250 years.
We sure as hell are not going to start now … In case you don’t know New Yorkers, we’re going to fight. We do not back down, not now, not ever.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/19/trump-backlash-social-media-king
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Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919). New York. 1906.
IV. New Amsterdam becomes New York: The Beginning of English Rule. 1664-1674.
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"In July, 1673, a Dutch squadron under two grim old sea-dogs, Admirals Evertsen and Binckes, suddenly appeared in the lower bay. The English commander in the fort endeavored to treat with them; but they would hearken to no terms save immediate surrender, saying that “they had come for their own, and their own they would have.”
The Dutch militia would not fight against their countrymen; and the other citizens were not inclined to run any risk in a contest that concerned them but little. Evertsen's frigates sailed up to within musket-shot of the fort, and firing began on both sides.
After receiving a couple of broadsides which killed and wounded several of the garrison, the English flag was struck, and the fort was surrendered to the Dutch troops, who had already landed, under the command of Capt. Anthony Colve. So ended the first nine years of English supremacy at the mouth of the Hudson. 10
The victors at once proceeded to undo the work of the men they had ousted. Dutch was once more made the formal official language (though it had never been completely abandoned), and the whole scheme of the English government was overturned.
In the city itself the schepens, burgomasters, and schout again took the place of sheriff, mayor, and aldermen. There was very little violence, although one or two houses were plundered, and a citizen here and there insulted or slightly maltreated by the soldiers,—much as had happened after the original conquest, with the important exception that it was now the Dutch who did the maltreating, and the English who were the sufferers. 11
When the province was lost it was a mere proprietary colony of the West India Company; but this corporation had died prior to 1673, and the province was regained by the victory of a national Dutch force, and was held for the whole nation.
Evertsen, acting for the home government, made Colve the director of the province. Colve was a rough, imperious, resolute man, a good soldier, but with no very great regard for civil liberty. The whole province was speedily reduced. The Dutch towns along the Hudson submitted gladly; but the Puritan villages on Long Island were sullen and showed symptoms of defiance, appealing to Connecticut for help.
However, Colve and Evertsen, backed up by trained soldiers and a well
-equipped squadron, were not men to be trifled with. They gave notice to the Long Islanders that unless they were prepared to stand the chances of war they must submit at once; and submit they did, Connecticut not daring to interfere. The New Englanders had been willing enough to bid defiance to, and to threaten the conquest of, the New Netherlands while the province was weakly held by an insufficient force; but they were too prudent to provoke a contest with men of such fighting temper and undoubted capacity as Evertsen and Colve, and the warhardened troops and seamen who obeyed their behests. 12
Colve ruled the internal affairs of the colony with a high hand. He made the citizens understand that the military power was supreme over the civil; and when the council protested against anything he did, he told them plainly that unless they submitted he would summarily dismiss them and appoint others in their places.
Military law was established, and heavy taxes were imposed; moreover, as the taxes took some time to collect, those who were most heavily assessed were forced to make loans in advance. Altogether the burghers probably failed to find that the restoration of Dutch rule worked any very marked change in their favor. 13
This second period of Dutch supremacy on Manhattan Island lasted for but a year and a quarter.
Then in November, 1674, the city was again given up to the English in accordance with the terms of peace between the belligerent powers, which provided for the mutual restitution of all conquered territory.
With this second transfer New Amsterdam definitely assumed the name of New York; and the province became simply one of the English colonies in America, remaining such until, a century afterward, all those colonies combined to throw off the yoke of the mother country and become an independent nation.
http://www.bartleby.com/171/4.html
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The early annals of New Amsterdam (New York) the surname of Bloodgood ancestors followed the Dutch form of Bloetgoet and Goetbloet with several variations appearing in church, census, town city and County clerk's records; - Bloedtgoedt,
Bloedtgoet, Bloedgoedt, Bloedtgoet, Goedtbloedt, Goedbloet, Bloetgaat, Bloedgaedt, Bludgood and Bloodgodd.
The name was anglicized soon after the English took possession of New Netherland
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8-3-1673, Frans Bloetgoet, John Hingman and Richard Wilde were appointed Schepens (Magistrates) by Governor Cornelis Everts Jr., and the Commanders of the Council of War.
1673,the Ango-Dutch war broke out where upon New York was re-captured by the Dutch.
After a nine year period 1664-1673 the House of Orange flag once again waved over Manhattan. (Oxford History of the American People by Morrison)
11-10-1674, Bloodgood was made privy counselor to Governor Colve as to surrender of the colony (New Amsterdam) back to the English
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(Brodhead's Hisory of N.Y., Vol 11, pages 18, 243) ('Callaghan's Historical Mss relating to Colonial Hist. of N.Y.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919). New York. 1906.
IV. New Amsterdam becomes New York: The Beginning of English Rule. 1664-1674.
soil as we know it gets in the way
easy to hire a crew to shape our whims
in an economy made to fit their shims, arbitrary.
only grass, driven
by a union sun
could dig
love
“Maga is profoundly corrupt, unmistakably anti-democracy and most importantly,
Maga is explicitly a Nazi movement,” Kluwe, who was part of the Minnesota Vikings for most of his career, said.
“You may have replaced a swastika with a red hat, but that’s what it is.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/feb/20/chris-kluwe-nfl-punter-arrest-maga
"All seven members of the Huntington Beach city council are conservatives and one member, Gracey Van Der Mark, said there was “nothing peaceful” about Kluwe’s protest. She said he was guilty of “causing alarm among those in attendance, including two young students"All seven members of the Huntington Beach city council are conservatives and one member, Gracey Van Der Mark, said there was “nothing peaceful” about Kluwe’s protest. She said he was guilty of “causing alarm among those in attendance, including two young students. All seven members of the Huntington Beach city council are conservatives and one member, Gracey Van Der Mark, said there was “nothing peaceful” about Kluwe’s protest. She said he was guilty of “causing alarm among those in attendance, including two young students. All seven members of the Huntington Beach city council are conservatives and one member, Gracey Van Der Mark, said there was “nothing peaceful” about Kluwe’s protest. She said he was guilty of “causing alarm among those in attendance, including two young students. All seven members of the Huntington Beach city council are conservatives and one member, Gracey Van Der Mark, said there was “nothing peaceful” about Kluwe’s protest. She said he was guilty of “causing alarm among those in attendance, including two young students.All seven members of the Huntington Beach city council are conservatives and one member, Gracey Van Der Mark, said there was “nothing peaceful” about Kluwe’s protest. She said he was guilty of “causing alarm among those in attendance, including two young students
"Binance invested US$500 million towards the acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk that completed in October 2022.
Following the investment, the company announced the creation of a team to work on
how blockchain and cryptocurrencies could be helpful to Twitter.
On 8 November 2022, Binance offered to buy rival cryptocurrency exchange FTX's non-US operations"
On November 21, 2023, a US judge convicted Binance on multiple charges—including violations of the Bank Secrecy Act, money laundering schemes, unlicensed money transmitting, and sanctions violations. As part of the plea deal, the company agreed to pay $4 billion in fines
"According to a 2024 study by John Griffin, a finance professor at the University of Texas at Austin, Binance is the most popular exchange used in pig butchering scams.
Binance has occasionally cooperated with US law enforcement to return money lost in such scams.
In November 2024, FTX filed a lawsuit against Binance Holdings Ltd., Binance’s former CEO Changpeng Zhao, and other Binance executives, seeking to recover nearly $1.8 billion that FTX alleges was fraudulently transferred"
On January 31, 2024, Binance was sued by the US victims of the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel, as well as their families, in Manhattan federal court for allegedly facilitating Hamas's terrorist activities by providing a funding mechanism for Hamas.
"Across Khartoum, the ERRs were operating 742 kitchens and serving around 816,000 people
before Trump's executive order, but now 80% of those kitchens have closed,
according to Hajooj Kuka, an external communications officer for the Emergency Response Rooms."
been reinstated in order to allow even the most essential programs to start working again.
In Sudan, Suliman said all 40 of ERRs’ community kitchens had to close in Darfur’s Zamzam camp,
where more than 1 million displaced people have sought refuge
from the conflict between the country’s two main warring powers — the Sudanese Armed Forces controlled by the country’s top commander and de facto ruler, Gen. Abdel Fattah Burhan,
and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia,
led by his former deputy, Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo."
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/trump-usaid-cuts-sudan-famine-civil-war-rcna191389
For a country ravaged by two years of brutal civil war and with over
30 million people — or more than half of the population —
in need of humanitarian assistance,
President Donald Trump’s 90-day freeze on all foreign aid
could not have come at a worse time for Sudan."
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"In a country riven by ethnic and political divisions, the ERRs have espoused neutrality and solidarity, allowing them to operate in areas controlled by SAF as well as the RSF, leveraging local know-how to navigate hostile terrain.
The kitchens are organized locally and entirely volunteer-led, Kuka said, adding the whole ERR system was run by housewives, doctors, engineers, electricians — “just everybody.”"
"Without immediate funding, famine could take hold in the city, he added.
Because USAID was often distributing money through other nongovernmental organizations working in Sudan,
Kuka said the ERR organizers weren’t always aware of how crucial USAID was to their funding, until the money was taken away"
Across Sudan, the cost of operating the kitchens was around
$20 million a year, the ERR communications officer said."
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The foreign ministry of the army-backed government said 433 people, including children, had been killed in the attack by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
The attack on the White Nile state villages of al-Kadaris and al-Khelwat, 100km (60 miles) south of the capital, sent thousands fleeing, witnesses said.
A spokesperson for the UN secretary general, António Guterres, said the world body had received “horrifying reports that dozens of women were raped and hundreds of families were forced to flee”
The RSF also stands accused of genocide by the US for allegedly targeting non-Arab minorities in the Darfur region of western Sudan with summary executions and systematic sexual violence.
The war has killed tens of thousands of people, uprooted more than 12 million
and has created what the International Rescue Committee has called the
“biggest humanitarian crisis ever recorded”
"The UN’s children’s agency said children in Khartoum were trapped in “a living nightmare” of indiscriminate shooting, looting and forced displacement.
Unicef said it had also received alarming reports of families being separated, with children abducted and subjected to sexual violence"
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"RSF has its roots in the Janjaweed militias used by the Sudanese Government
in its attempts to fight the anti-government insurgency
during the War in Darfur. RSF was officially formed in 2013"
"RSF is headed by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo ("Hemedti"), who has been its leader since it was created in 2013 or 2014
According to Reuters, as of 2023, the force numbers 100,000 people"
"In addition to its role in Darfur, RSF is deployed to patrol the border with Libya and round up Eritrean and Ethiopian refugees
in response to the Khartoum process, which is an initiative between European and African states, including Sudan,
to stem the flow of migrants to Europe"
"In November 2017, Hemedti used RSF to take over control of gold mines in the Darfur region,
which led to him becoming one of the richest people in Sudan by 2019"
"RSF has two front companies called GSK, a Sudanese technology company, and Tradive General Trading LLC, a United Arab Emirates-based company, both controlled by Hemedti's brother Algoney Hamdan Dagalo.
In April 2023, Al Jazeera reported that RSF had sought out Western public relations firms to burnish its image, including by editing Wikipedia pages"
During the War in Darfur, in 2014 and 2015, RSF repeatedly attacked villages, burned and looted homes, beating, raping and executing villagers,
aided by air and ground support from the Sudanese Armed Forces
According to a report by Al Araby TV, there are allegations of a connection between the Wagner Group,
a Russian paramilitary organization, and Hemedti.
Leaked documents and sources reportedly indicate that the Wagner Group has provided training and equipment, including armored vehicles and helicopter gunships, to Hemedti's forces
Both Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo and Sudan's military leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan had ties to the Putin regime in Russia. According to Business Insider, The two generals helped
Russian President Vladimir Putin exploit Sudan's gold resources
to help buttress Russian finances against Western sanction
s and
fund his war in Ukraine"
starve the nation
steal the gold, trump putin
