What does solidarity with Palestinians have to do with Suriname and how does the choice to express solidarity and actively support the Palestinian People relate to Suriname's Independence? First of all the Boycott Divestment Sanction campaign brought down Apartheid in South Africa and should be actively supported by every Surinamese who fights racism and cherishes Independence. It is a choice we make as individuals and as a Government to side with humanity and justice and fight with all we have against colonization, abuse of human rights and crimes against humanity such as Israeli Apartheid and Occupation of Palestine. There are many ways to express solidarity with Palestine ranging from actively joining the armed struggle against Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory, voting pro-Palestine in the United Nations to supply diplomatic and humanitarian support to the hard hit Palestinian people, or to participate in the global Boycott , Divestment and Sanction (BDS) campaign against Israeli Apartheid and Occupation. For most people information about what is really going on in Palestine and the Palestinian liberation struggle is supplied by biased pro-Israel mass media corporations who shamelessly falsify information about the Palestinian liberation struggle. The daily extrajudicial assassinations of Palestinians by Israeli military hardly make it to the news broadcasts of CNN, Fox News and the likes, which are main sources of information for Surinamese media . It is not surprising that most Surinamese don't feel offended by the recent close collaboration of the Israeli Kaplan Planner group with Suriname's Ministry of Agriculture even if it has every smell of Zionist recolonization of Suriname's natural resources under the flag of 'solidarity' and 'cooperation with friendly nations'.
The current global economic crisis has everything to do with the global Zionist takeover of natural resources and training and arming of police and military corpses to protect the interests of the wealthy 1%. It reminds me of the days when so-called 'explorers' were financed by Europe's Royal families to find silver, gold and precious gems to fill their often empty coffers.
Today President Desiree Delano Bouterse's government coffers are empty, and desperate attempts are made to steer Suriname's economy through stormy economic weather. Bouterse's National Democratic Party won last year's election promising the people economic growth, social security and strengthening of Suriname's independence after centuries of Dutch colonization. Under Bouterse's reign Suriname's advances towards regional integration and international recognition were recognized by regional Caribbean and latin American organizations CARICOM and UNASUR and his friendship with Venezuela's presidents Hugo Chavez and Maduro did not go unnoticed. On the day Bouterse was installed as chairman of the UNASUR regional Latin American organization in 2013, the FBI arrested his son in Panama in a sting operation which led to his conviction on charges of drug trafficking and arms deals involving Hezbollah, the Lebanese liberation Army.
Today an Israeli organization which also offers services to the Israeli Ministry of Internal Affairs is sitting on top of Suriname's agricultural planning and development programming and will definitely serve Israeli interests in this respect. This agricultural cooperation between Israel and Suriname and Suriname's collaboration with Israeli Universities is in stark contrast with global efforts to further isolate Israel and boycott Israeli products as long as its Apartheid policy and Occupation of Palestine are not ended. Suriname has opted for Israel and is now under Israeli hooves when it comes to development of its viable economic resources and has made the choice to support Israel instead of Palestine. Internationally this choice will isolate Suriname and further lip service to international collaboration and solidarity with Palestine will undermine its credibility in the international political arena.
Suriname used to be colonized by Jewish plantation owners, who fled the European persecution of Jews and established themselves in Brazil as most cruel exploiters of African enslaved people.
When colonial Portugal conquered colonial Netherlands the Jewish planters fled to Suriname where they became plantation owners and Suriname became the first Jewish region on the American continent where Jewish law was practiced and condoned by the Dutch colonizers. To my great disappointment it seems President Bouterse today is selling out Suriname for a few silver coins in his efforts to prevent collapse of Suriname's economy. The choice he made for Israel is not an option for long term credible and sustainable development of our Independent Surinamese Republic.
maandag 14 maart 2016
maandag 7 maart 2016
Female Chieftain appointed in Grankreek Saramacca,Suriname
We should continue to fight for the rights of indigenous peoples of Suriname and we should educate ourselves said Angelique Palmtak in her acceptance speech as first female Chieftain of the village council of Grankreek in Saramacca,Suriname on saturday March 5th 2016.
In a historic gathering Angelique Palmtak and her fellow village council members were joined by various Surinamese indigenous chieftains and elderly. President Desire Bouterse and his delegation of Cabinet Ministers, National Democratic Party officials as well as local and national government officers, came to Grankreek village to be part of this historic celebration.
The village chieftains are chosen for live by the elderly and by the villagers. After long and serious considerations the new chieftain who is the first woman to receive this task in GranKreek, agreed to take this huge responsibility. The young woman, who is known as a strong warrior, will be responsible for the material and immaterial well being of her villagers and is supported by a council which will help her to carry out the many tasks.
Although Grankreek is not an original indigenous village historically, the population is mainly Arawak and Carib and the ceremonies which were performed during the installation of the new village council were attended by various representatives from all Surinamese indigenous tribes.
Palmtak urged her villagers to support her to do the tasks ahead of her and called on the government to make haste to ensure the land distribution papers are finalized for the village because 'without land you are nothing' she said. The new Village council chairperson stressed the importance of education and training and called on her villagers to educate themselves and not stay behind while the world was moving on technologically and also socially.
Originally the coastal region of Surname was inhabited by Arrawac and Carib peoples who retreated to the interior rainforest of Suriname when European colonizers occupied their territory and introduced slavery and colonialism in Suriname. Today Suriname has five indigenous peoples who live freely in villages in the interior rainforest and in coastal towns like Grankreek. Angelique Palmtak spoke in dutch, the official Language in Suriname but the songs and the prayers during the ceremonies were spoken in indigenous languages which are almost forgotten by younger generations. The local youths were urged to learn from the elders before they were gone and to respect their own indigenous cultural values.
Palmtak urged her villagers to support her to do the tasks ahead of her and called on the government to make haste to ensure the land distribution papers are finalized for the village because 'without land you are nothing' she said. The new Village council chairperson stressed the importance of education and training and called on her villagers to educate themselves and not stay behind while the world was moving on technologically and also socially.
Originally the coastal region of Surname was inhabited by Arrawac and Carib peoples who retreated to the interior rainforest of Suriname when European colonizers occupied their territory and introduced slavery and colonialism in Suriname. Today Suriname has five indigenous peoples who live freely in villages in the interior rainforest and in coastal towns like Grankreek. Angelique Palmtak spoke in dutch, the official Language in Suriname but the songs and the prayers during the ceremonies were spoken in indigenous languages which are almost forgotten by younger generations. The local youths were urged to learn from the elders before they were gone and to respect their own indigenous cultural values.
zondag 28 februari 2016
Ezelskar in Paramaribo
Photo R.Moeridjan
Mijn grootvader droeg vaak zo'n hoed en de man met de hoed en de man op de stoep hebben gekeken naar de fotograaf R.Moeridjan.
Was de vracht wellicht afgeleverd bij de Vries en was de ezel moe van de zware rit en liep de man daarom naast zijn ezel? De foto is prachtig en levert een kijk in de tijd waarin ezelskarren vaak te zien waren in het stadsverkeer. Vanaf nu is dit in mijn gedachten een foto van mijn opa na het afleveren van een vracht lang voor ik over hem zou fantaseren . Het gebouw van H.J. De Vries staat er nog steeds maar any fotograaf moet anno 2016 lang wachten op het moment waarop een ezelskar voorbij komt.
Martha Tjoe Nij 2016 Plantage Misgunst,Saramacca.
zaterdag 9 januari 2016
Zionism is Nazism in Israel.
Without any remorse the Zionist hordes in Israel are killing and imprisoning Palestinians, demolishing their homes and confiscating their land. Meanwhile the western media are shamelessly selling pro Israeli and anti Palestinian, anti Muslim stories to keep people ignorant of what is really going on behind walls of Apartheid in Israel. Western cries for justice, democracy and peace and Western pride in technological and social advances have become a farce in face of their support for the gross inhumanity of Israeli warcrimes and occupation. Governments in the UK, USA and EU are openly supporting blatant and undeniable Israeli crimes against humanity. While using the concept of democracy as a yardstick to measure and beat other countries, Zionism has effectively infiltrated all systems of western power and is not democratic in any way. On the contrary the Zionist concoction Israel, is a perfect example of institutional Apartheid and Racist injustice such as the siege on Gaza and the denial of the right to return to Palestine for Palestinian refugees. Silencing of opposition in a mock democracy is daily practice in Israel too. Israel is unable to hide its systematic daily assassinations and maiming of Palestinians depriving them of basic human rights. The illusions of freedom and democracy in Israel would instantly evaporate without financial and military aid from Zionists in the USA, EU, UK and Eastern Europe. Zionist aggression could be rooted out easily if only Nazism had not been allowed to blossom in EU,UK,USA & Eastern Europe. The real enemy of world peace is ZIONISM is ISRAELI NAZISM.
Nazi Israel en Nazi Germany have the dream of a racist white state in common.
Nazi Israel en Nazi Germany have the dream of a racist white state in common.
donderdag 7 januari 2016
ISRAEL KILLS CHILDREN
Born in Suriname in the fifties of the past century and raised in
Europe when love and flower power were battling USA invasion of
Vietnam and racial segregation in the USA, I am now trying to get in
touch with computerization and social media communication.
Flower power is definitely out and today’s youths surprise me with
their ability to escape from the harsh reality surrounding them, with
games, drugs and virtual existence on social media. Sports no longer
seem to be something many youths are willing to sacrifice everything
for. Defending the national borders also seems to become something of
the past when you can cross borders via social media just like that.
It is of course not true that there are no more young people willing
to excel at sports or in any field of social interaction. We only have
to look at the many young entrepreneurs, sportsmen and sportswomen and
growing number of graduates from universities and educational
institutes who excell at what they do and want to do better.
Looking at the global advance of racism and racist armed aggression it
seems young people are less surprised at what is going on and seem to
look at my alarm with disdain. How come the flower power generation
never noticed that very little was achieved and that Nazism ,Fascism
and Zionism walk hand in hand covering all continents to reap natural
resources for the promised elite God given few.
I have to admit that I truly did not notice it until recently when the
war on Gaza and the escalation of violence in Iraq,Syria,Yemen and
Palestine woke me up to a nightmarish reality.
Just like the time when Nazism devastated large chunks of Europe and
Africa to further the Arian cause, today Zionism in a worse way is
globally sowing death and destruction in the name of God and a chosen
race.
The computerized social media generation is quick to verify if CNN is
lying again, by using their app or mobile devices. The social media
cross border information flow no longer clings to narrow nationalistic
boundaries but rather develops a holistic global awareness and sense
of community.
However as long as the media are controlled by the very Zionist
instigators of strife and destruction the chances are that even the
young generation will be disappointed and resorts to armed and violent
defense of their modern freedom and modern machines which give them
access to information. The computerized generation will discover more
about the use of natural resources to maintain their habits and also
will have to rediscover the differences between real possibilities and
virtual dream worlds.
The flowerpower generation used alcohol, marihuana and opium to sedate
themselves, this generation which has the 24hr production society on
their backs , is using xtc pills, heroin, cocaine and alcohol to cope
with their reality. Under our open eyes the world as we knew it is
rearranged to suit Zionist tastes and we who are not considered to be
part of the select chosen few, will have to deal with the secondary
realism of a post hegemonic world ruled by Zionists.
By the time youths from the regions where natural resources such as
gas, oil, copper, water, Uranium,gold and diamonds are being extracted
by global corporations, start confronting the youths living in their
social media virtual habitat, they have to be prepared for some harsh
real truths about their age and their world.
The globe is for all but the resources are being harvested to serve a
select few and this cannot be accepted by any generation. I might be
considered an old hippie who does not understand what is going on but
at the same time the daily killing of young Palestinians,
Syrians,Egyptians,Libyans,Afghans, Nigerians, Yemeni,Somalians and
African Americans are a sign on the wall which cannot be denied and
which have to be stopped by this generation.
Martha Tjoe Nij
Misgunst Saramacca 07-01-2016
Odi, Martha Ilse T
Europe when love and flower power were battling USA invasion of
Vietnam and racial segregation in the USA, I am now trying to get in
touch with computerization and social media communication.
Flower power is definitely out and today’s youths surprise me with
their ability to escape from the harsh reality surrounding them, with
games, drugs and virtual existence on social media. Sports no longer
seem to be something many youths are willing to sacrifice everything
for. Defending the national borders also seems to become something of
the past when you can cross borders via social media just like that.
It is of course not true that there are no more young people willing
to excel at sports or in any field of social interaction. We only have
to look at the many young entrepreneurs, sportsmen and sportswomen and
growing number of graduates from universities and educational
institutes who excell at what they do and want to do better.
Looking at the global advance of racism and racist armed aggression it
seems young people are less surprised at what is going on and seem to
look at my alarm with disdain. How come the flower power generation
never noticed that very little was achieved and that Nazism ,Fascism
and Zionism walk hand in hand covering all continents to reap natural
resources for the promised elite God given few.
I have to admit that I truly did not notice it until recently when the
war on Gaza and the escalation of violence in Iraq,Syria,Yemen and
Palestine woke me up to a nightmarish reality.
Just like the time when Nazism devastated large chunks of Europe and
Africa to further the Arian cause, today Zionism in a worse way is
globally sowing death and destruction in the name of God and a chosen
race.
The computerized social media generation is quick to verify if CNN is
lying again, by using their app or mobile devices. The social media
cross border information flow no longer clings to narrow nationalistic
boundaries but rather develops a holistic global awareness and sense
of community.
However as long as the media are controlled by the very Zionist
instigators of strife and destruction the chances are that even the
young generation will be disappointed and resorts to armed and violent
defense of their modern freedom and modern machines which give them
access to information. The computerized generation will discover more
about the use of natural resources to maintain their habits and also
will have to rediscover the differences between real possibilities and
virtual dream worlds.
The flowerpower generation used alcohol, marihuana and opium to sedate
themselves, this generation which has the 24hr production society on
their backs , is using xtc pills, heroin, cocaine and alcohol to cope
with their reality. Under our open eyes the world as we knew it is
rearranged to suit Zionist tastes and we who are not considered to be
part of the select chosen few, will have to deal with the secondary
realism of a post hegemonic world ruled by Zionists.
By the time youths from the regions where natural resources such as
gas, oil, copper, water, Uranium,gold and diamonds are being extracted
by global corporations, start confronting the youths living in their
social media virtual habitat, they have to be prepared for some harsh
real truths about their age and their world.
The globe is for all but the resources are being harvested to serve a
select few and this cannot be accepted by any generation. I might be
considered an old hippie who does not understand what is going on but
at the same time the daily killing of young Palestinians,
Syrians,Egyptians,Libyans,Afghans, Nigerians, Yemeni,Somalians and
African Americans are a sign on the wall which cannot be denied and
which have to be stopped by this generation.
Martha Tjoe Nij
Misgunst Saramacca 07-01-2016
Odi, Martha Ilse T
zaterdag 19 december 2015
REASONS FOR WAR
Natural resources have become the main reason for war and in the case of Palestine a reason for genocide at the hands of heavily armed Israeli state terrorists.
In the Middle East it is oil, gas and water while in African nations gold, copper and diamonds have been the reasons governments are toppled, people are colonized and murdered.
The exploitation of natural resource oil has been one of the causes for global warming which causes climate change which combined with war operations cause refugee flows .
The Wars waged in Iraq and Syria over oil and gas have created unprecedented refugee flows which destabilized European and middle eastern nations to the point that social unrest has become the norm .
The use of advanced nuclear and biological weapons adds to further destabilize nature and nation states.
The U.S. Sponsored arms in the hands of state terrorist Israel are used to murder innocent children, terrorize youths and their parents and to blackmail and threaten world leaders.
Why does it happen , it must be greed, and inability to see the world as interconnected in terms of resources and natural development . Sharing of wealth has become a forgotten topic for debate and stock market bargaining.
The world we live in does not change to accommodate people, but is destroyed by human actions which are deliberately destroying humans and nature.
The urgent calls to unite for peace and protection of nature are falling on deaf ears in reality. Even if politicians pretend they can hear those calls their actions are in line with hegemonic ,Zionist supremacy and racist demands which are intrinsically destructive. Resistance to these destructive forces must be fiercer than ever.
The urgent calls to unite for peace and protection of nature are falling on deaf ears in reality. Even if politicians pretend they can hear those calls their actions are in line with hegemonic ,Zionist supremacy and racist demands which are intrinsically destructive. Resistance to these destructive forces must be fiercer than ever.
dinsdag 29 september 2015
SURINAAMSE ZWARE DAMES
Het leven lijkt zeer goed in Suriname als je kijkt
naar de stralende lach op de gezichten van heel veel dames die met bewondering
worden nagestaard op kantoor, in de straten en wellicht ook thuis op het erf.
De stralende zon legt tijdens de vakantie ook gewicht in de schaal als de korte
rokken, lange see-through jurken, sexy shorts en super strakke leggings de fantasie
prikkelen en menig goed gevuld lijf ten volle belichten. Het zijn met name de
zwaargewichten die opvallen in het straatbeeld van de hoofdstad Paramaribo in
Suriname. Het dedderend vlees, de ronde trillende vetkwabben, de uitpuilende
borstpartijen en vooral de waggelende gang springen in het oog in de
straten van Paramaribo.
De constatering dat er sprake is van overgewicht
bij veel mannen, vrouwen en kinderen is geen nieuws maar een
kwartiertje op een terras in de binnenstad zitten en kijken, levert
schokkende beelden op.
Schokkend als je beseft dat de meeste jonge vrouwen
die uit hun voegen barsten vanwege overgewicht binnen niet al te lange tijd
andere klachten krijgen en dan zo vet zijn geworden dat een wandeling in de
stad teveel moeite zal kosten. 
Hart klachten, suiker ziekte, hoge bloeddruk, en
alle soorten van andere ongemakken gaan hand in hand met overgewicht. Te dikke
kinderen kweken vetcellen die meegroeien en tot morbide obesitas kunnen leiden
op latere leeftijd. De jonge meisjes die in eerste instantie heel trots zijn op
hun dikke heupen en ronde billen en borsten worden niet lang na de eerste
blijdschap heel ongelukkig als blijkt dat zij niet meer in hun mooie kleren
passen en uitgelachen worden vanwege de dikke dijen, blubber billen, vetrollen
en waggel gang. Natuurliijk zijn er mensen die zeggen ‘ik hou van dikke vrouwen’,
maar er is geen enkele reden om ongezond dik te zijn en jezelf en
je omgeving op te zadelen met chronische klachten als gevolg van overgewicht.
Versleten knie, pijn in de rug, vet om het hart en maag en darm stoornis zijn
gegarandeerd ongevraagde bonus in het overgewicht pakket. De moeders die
geloven dat hun dikke baby gezond is en die hun dikke tieners vetmesten, weten
vaak niet dat er ook andere voedingspatronen zijn om te laten merken dat je van
je kind houdt en goed voor je kind zorgt. De topzware dedderende mamas en papas
die met moeite uit de stoel komen en geen kleding kunnen vinden omdat ze
eigenlijk alleen op maat gesneden grote lappen om zich heen kunnen hangen, weten
dat obesitas een pijnlijke hel is. De Surinaamse bigi bille , bigi bobbi
cultuur is sexy en mooi tot het omslaat in 'el porco' scheldwoorden en
eenzame vreetpartijen die meer vet aan de haak slaan.
De Surinaamse zware dames doen er goed aan te
kiezen voor gezondheid en vrijheid van bewegen en dat betekent in veel gevallen
niets meer dan zoet laten staan en stoppen met eten om te vergeten .
‘Elk pondje gaat door het mondje’ klinkt misschien
onaardig voor de top zware voedsel verslaafde maar in de meeste gevallen kan de
overtollige vetlaag gemakkelijk verdwijnen door te bewegen en minder te eten.
Het begint uiteraard in het hoofd en het hart , kennis van jezelf en de
geestelijke component van overgewicht vormen de basis voor gezond leven.
Weten dat je moet stoppen met soft en zoetigheid en drie a vier porties per dag, betekent nog niet dat je het ook doet. Zien dat je geen kleren meer kan dragen
die je mooi vindt omdat je te dik bent geworden leidt vaak niet tot stoppen met
te veel en ongezond eten. Het veel gehoorde excuus 'ik heb zware botten' wordt
een dekmantel voor 'ik eet uit verdriet of uit eenzaamheid of om mezelf te
troosten'. Eten om gezond te zijn en geen overgewicht te hebben is een zaak van
de volksgezondheid en een kunst voor de veelvraat. Surinaamse zware dames laat
je niet voor de gek houden dat je nog een pondje erbij kan hebben. De
echte surinaamse zwaargewichten laten alles staan wat hun
vooruitgang belemmert en hun gezondheid in gevaar brengt. En inderdaad het is
waar, overgewicht is een welvaartsprobleem en brengt onze toekomstige
generaties in gevaar. Beware of obesitas and stop stuffing yourself, zeg ik
tegen mezelf als ik zie dat de mooie rok of broek niet meer past.
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