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Mrs. Clinton’s Emails
(Door Hugo Kijne te Hoboken USA)
At a college where I used to work the Vice President for Information Systems was a former Head of the Computer Science Department, who had fallen upwards in the administration. When I had just started in my position I went to his office to introduce myself. He appreciated the gesture, shook my hand, and said: “don’t fuck with me and we’ll get along fine.” Obviously after that warm welcome we became good friends. Next to charming the VP was also paranoid, so he had built firewalls around the campus that sometimes blocked all outside traffic of email and voicemail, which could be disruptive. One of his specialties was setting up servers, and he had programmed them in such a way that everything anybody on campus saved on a computer was also saved on a server. On a given day one of his assistants came into my office to upgrade my PC and told me that the Director of the Grants Office, an overweight and usually underdressed, man-hungry and totally incompetent woman, was taking lewd pictures of herself in her office and saving them on her computer. He told me that he and his colleagues checked out the new additions every week.
Which brings me to Mrs. Clinton. She has been under attack from the right for as long as I can remember, and I have only been in the US for the better part of thirty years. It started with ‘Travelgate,’ in which her husband was accused of cronyism but exonerated by an independent counsel, and she was not indicted at all. Next came the ’Whitewater scandal,’ in which Bill Clinton was accused of having pressured a bank in Arkansas into providing a loan to some friends after a real estate deal went sour. Although some people went to jail in the matter the Clintons were not even called to testify. The biggie was the death of Vince Foster, a former partner of Mrs. Clinton in the Rose Law Firm, who followed the Clintons to the White House and committed suicide in a park in DC. Although there were abundant signs that Foster had been severely depressed the Clintons were accused of having killed him. And when the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke, after Hillary was initially seen as another victim of her husband’s sex addiction gradually the stories emerged that she had tried to silence other women who claimed to have been abused by Bill.
It’s possible that there is some truth to these allegations, although over the years very little proof has been produced by ‘journalists’ who are always ready to make anything they can use against the Clintons public. In the movie ‘Primary Colors’ one of the characters says about a candidate who strongly resembles Bill Clinton: “he poked his pecker into a lot of trashcans,” and it’s not impossible that not all the victims were as vulnerable as they would like it to appear retroactively.
Taking all this into account it’s more than understandable that Mrs. Clinton balances somewhere between extreme caution and paranoia, and that explains the current email ‘scandal.’ Knowing that there is probably nothing secure about the State Department’s servers she should have used its email system strictly for all work related messages, and a private account for everything else, like most employees do.
She understands that now, has frequently said that she made a mistake, and is even acknowledging why she wanted to keep her emails private. If the FBI doesn’t bring criminal charges, what nobody expects, this story will die well before the general election like all the others, even if Trump keeps bringing them up because he has nothing else.
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Ene niet geschreven geschiedenis
De VPRO bestaat vandaag negentig jaar. Dat is weliswaar een rond getal, maar niet zo belangwekkend rond, dat er grootse aandacht voor is. Hier en daar is wel wat verschenen, maar het jubileumboek dat zou worden samengesteld door diverse oud-medewerkers is er om triviale redenen niet gekomen. Dat is jammer, want over tien jaar als er echt een rond getal te vieren is zal een aantal van die medewerkers er niet meer zijn.
(Foto: Logo 1926)
Misschien hoor ik daar zelf ook wel bij, want mij was gevraagd om een stuk te schrijven over het radioprogramma Het Gebouw dat van 1984 tot in 1993 werd uitgezonden. Het zou dan vooral gaan over de rumoerige voorbereidingen en het opzij zetten van ego’s en persoonlijke belangen om er samen iets moois van te maken. Dat lukte vrij aardig, want het programma was vernieuwend en spraakmakend en werd in 2000 bij diverse polls uitgeroepen tot het beste radioprogramma van de eeuw.
Ik had mijn dagboeken tevoorschijn gehaald en al diverse programma’s beluisterd.
Bijvoorbeeld deel 6 van de OVT-serie over de geschiedenis van de VPRO.
Het Spoor Terug
In de serie over de geschiedenis van de VPRO vandaag het 6de en laatste deel , over de periode 1981-1992.
Toenmalig televisie-directeur Kleijwegt en programmamaker Wim de Bie belichten de campagne rond de B-status in 1982.
Programmamaker Van den Boogaard beschrijft de bloeiperiode die de VPRO-radio met het programma 'Het Gebouw' doormaakte, na het verkrijgen van zendtijduitbreiding in 1984. Directeur televisie Kiers en van den Boogaard belichten de politieke en maatschappelijke betrokkenheid van de VPRO in de jaren tachtig. Kleijwegt en de Bie geven hun mening over het nut van de campagne voor de A-status. Kleijwegt: "Groter worden is per definitie verlies van kwaliteit".
Geïllustreerd met HA-fragmenten en fragmenten uit het VPRO-archief waarin een reclamespotje voor de B-campagne van de cabaretiers Koot en Bie en Wim Kan. Tevens fragmenten van 'Het Gebouw' met de rubriek 'Persagentschap' van Hans Dorrestijn en een luchtalarm als protest tegen de plaatsing van de kruisraketten in 1985.
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NPO-Geschiedenis
Op de site van NPO-Geschiedenis is een groot aantal historische VPRO-programma’s te zien en te beluisteren.
Bijvoorbeeld deze uitzending van OVT, waar uw bloghouder bij de fragmenten 9 en 10 al weer aan het woord komt.
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OVT: Afscheid van de VPRO-villa 65
AFSCHEID VAN DE RADIOVILLA
Laatste uitzending van de VPRO radio uit de Radio villa aan de 's Gravelandseweg 65 in Hilversum.
In het eerste uur aandacht voor de bewoners van villa 65 en de programma’s die er vandaan kwamen vanaf 1931 tot 1968. In het tweede uur aandacht voor de programma's tussen 1968 en 1984. Presentatie Kees Slager en Kiki Amsberg.
Fragmenten:
In de tune van het tweede uur de Vietnamcantate uit 1963 van Han Reiziger.
1. Familie Spelberg vertelt over de sfeer in villa 65 waar zij woonden. 057"
2. Stukje uit een uitzending ( de oudste die wij hebben teruggevonden) van 30 oktober 1936. Een optreden van de Pollie Wollie Doodle Groep. 1'16"
3. Henk van Dorp over zijn tijd als medewerker van de postkamer van de VPRO. Hij moest zout strooien op de brandtrap en aardbeien halen voor mevrouw Spelberg. 2'15"
4. De laatste zondagsschool uitzending 16 juni 1963. Mevrouw Spelberg deelt bijbeltjes uit. 1'33" 5.Proefuitzending VPRO-Vrijdag. 3'15"
6/7 Fragmenten van Ry Cooder/Bonnie Raitt en Dr. Hook, die in villa 65 hebben opgetreden. 2'12"en 0'46"
8. Fragment uit Grote Momenten uit de Wereldgeschiedenis (1971). 2'23"
9. Inbraak van de Joodse defensieliga bij een programma over Palestijnen 10 oktober 1979. 1'58"
10. Aankomst van de twee teams van de wereldreis. 2'35"
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Stop the Bern
(Door Hugo Kijne te Hoboken USA)
Hillary Clinton leads Senator Sanders by almost three hundred pledged delegates and close to three million votes, and unless she loses more than ninety percent of the pledged delegates in the remaining primaries she will clinch her party’s nomination, but Bernie keeps campaigning as if his life depends on it. His only concession to reality appears to be that he doesn’t demand that Hillary makes the transcripts of speeches she gave at Goldman Sachs public anymore, although that could sneak back into his stump speech anytime. Other than that, he keeps telling his large and noisy crowds that he still has a path towards the nomination, even though the process is ‘rigged’ in favor of ‘the Secretary.’ Unfortunately part of his electorate believes him, which led to aggressive and sometimes violent behavior at the Nevada convention of the Democratic Party, culminating in death threats for the local chairwoman, whose only fault was that she enforced the rules that had been in place since the beginning of the campaign. Sanders was barely capable of producing a weak condemnation of ‘all’ violence, and still has to apologize to its main victim.
In the meantime left-leaning intellectuals like Eugene Robinson and E.J. Dionne are warning Sanders that if he keeps up his current rhetoric he’ll soon enter ‘Ralph Nader territory,’ referring to the consumer advocate who ran as an independent candidate in the year 2000 and effectively created the opportunity for George W. Bush to steal the presidency from Al Gore. From now on Sanders will only be hurting Mrs. Clinton, is their argument, and thus help Donald Trump, who is already quoting Bernie in his speeches. Assuming that this is not Sanders’s objective, the question is what still drives him. Ideally that is his agenda of campaign finance reform, breaking up the big banks, ending social inequality, creating a single payer health care system and tuition free public colleges. But to promote that he only has to run a positive campaign on those issues without attacking either Hillary Clinton or the Democratic Party, so there must be other motives in play. One obvious possibility is that Sanders, and/or his wife Jane, really started believing that he could be president, and just like Ted Kennedy in 1980 cannot let go of the dream.
Within the dynamics of a campaign, however, there are more sinister alternative explanations. Nobody on the outside knows how much control Bernie has over his own campaign’s strategy, and some of his senior staffers and advisors may have their own agenda. Nina Turner might be looking for a position in the fictitious Sanders administration, Tad Devine for an ambassadorship in France, and Jeff Weaver simply for increasing his market value with an eye on the next campaign season.
To call the Sanders campaign childish in this stage of the contest is an understatement. Its spokespeople complain about rules that have been in place from the start, condemning the closed primaries in which only registered Democrats can vote that benefit Hillary Clinton, but without any criticism and full of appreciation for the at least equally undemocratic caucuses where Bernie has an advantage.
The damage that has been done so far is not fatal yet, since seventy two percent of Sanders’s voters still declare that they would vote for Hillary in November, and if 2008 is an indicator that number will only go up once she has been nominated. But it’s high time to stop the whining and the Bern.
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Con Men
(Door Hugo Kijne te Hoboken USA)
The most inflated words in the media the last days were ‘unify the party’ and ‘encouraging,’ both repeated ad nauseam by Paul Ryan, Speaker of the House, after his meeting with Donald Trump, presumptive nominee of the Republican Party. It was a meeting of two con men, moderated by an awkward gofer who is a circus act in his own right as the Chairman of the Republican National Committee. During his seventeen years in Congress Ryan has been posing as a fiscal conservative policy wonk who, first as a member and then as the Chair of the Ways and Means Committee, developed Ayn Rand inspired fantasy budgets that never added up, while at the same time voting for the tax cuts and military adventures that put the US in the fiscal hole where it is today. Across the table from him sat the self-financing non-politician who was going to build an awesome wall on the southern border and make Mexico pay for it, deport eleven million undocumented aliens, and ban all foreign Muslims from entering the country. Together they had to come to an agreement about the platform with which the GOP will enter the general election.
According to MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell the bulk of the meeting must have been spent on Ryan explaining to Trump that most of the things he has been campaigning on can only be done with the consent of Congress, and that nothing will come to the floor of the House without the approval of the Speaker. It must have been a hard pill to swallow for Trump, who for the first time in his life was instructed on basic constitutional issues like the separation of powers, and it had an emasculating effect on the Donald, who stopped talking about ‘the wall’ and deportations and said that his demand that foreign Muslims be disallowed to enter the US had merely been ‘a suggestion.’ Trump’s etch a sketch moment confirmed earlier sounds out of his campaign that he only said outrageous things to satisfy his racist and xenophobic base, but it creates a problem for him in the general. If he cannot run on what he promised his voters so far, what can he still run on? He and Ryan don’t see eye to eye with regards to entitlement programs, which Ryan wants to cut and Trump wants to preserve, and his tax plan doesn’t jive with Ryan’s fiscal policies.
There appear to be two options for Trump: either he disregards his differences with Ryan and continues to run on his main issues, risking that Ryan doesn’t endorse him and that the GOP goes into the general as a split party, or he yields to Ryan and runs on a platform he doesn’t believe in, risking that he loses his main asset, a motivated base of disgruntled loonies. In either case, but particularly in the latter, it is hard to see how he survives upcoming debates with Hillary Clinton.
Even Trump’s ability to attack Hillary as the ‘enabler’ of her husband’s infidelities has hit a snag, now that his own history of abusive behavior towards women is getting scrutinized, as well as his antics moonlighting as his own spokesperson to brag about it. When it comes to personal issues, Trump has more to fear from the file on him in Hillary’s war room than vice versa.
Last night Bill Maher observed that the Donald’s acting as a fictitious Mr. Miller or Mr. Barron would be equivalent to Hillary Clinton calling journalists in the early 1990s to tell them that Lenny Kravitz wanted to fuck her. The difference is that he did and she didn’t.
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Triest & zielig
Het blijft treurig, dat NOS-Sport weer tot zaterdag wacht om live een uitzending te maken van de GIRO. Zielig ook.
Maar het is beleid. Al jarenlang.
Als de Ronde Van Italië (Giro) of de Ronde van Spanje (Vuelta) in Nederland start, wordt alles uit de kast gehaald. Urenlange uitzendingen, die vaak uitmunten door saaiheid. Nationalistisch sentiment nietwaar.
Maar als de renners naar het organiserend land vertrekken, zenden wij het niet meer uit. Dat wil zeggen: op werkdagen. In het weekend krijgen we dan weer wel rechtstreekse uitzendingen. Met journalistiek heeft dit natuurlijk niets te maken.
Aan de verslaggevers ligt het niet, Die willen niets liever dan zo’n evenement in zijn geheel volgen. Nee: het zit in de leiding. Bij de NOS zijn mensen, die dit beleid voorstaan. Al jarenlang. En ze blijven het volhouden ook. Het is een tunnelvisie.
Het gevolg is dat wielerliefhebbers gewoon naar ‘’De Belg’’ kijken. Die zenden het natuurlijk wel allemaal uit. (Peter Post deed dat vele vele jaren geleden ook al; hij vond het commentaar beter).
Gisteren reed Tom Dumoulin zich weer in het roze. Steven Kruijswijk werd derde in de etappe.
NOS-Sport was er niet bij.
Goedemorgen!
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