Banks are short of cash, by Laurel & Hardy

Kapitalisme zonder kapitaal. Schulden crisis bij banken en EU lidstaten. Digitale geld creatie.

Capitalism without capital. Debts crisis at banks and EU states. Digital money creation.

Inspiratie/ inspiration:
Van staatsschulden naar staatsgulden
Money as Debt

Papandreou overthrowing the EUro...

Cartoon  of politieke spotprent met George Papandreou als Griekse atleet die de ECB omver wipt.
Jan Peter Balkenende, Angela Merkel en Nicolas Sarkozy, gevangen in de omvallende EMU-ECB toren.  Deze cartoon is eerder gepubliceerd op 11 mei  2010, label kredietcrisis, EU

One Greek overthrowing the EUro prison tower. George Papandreou, Greece, Euro crisis, Greek debts, EU debate. Political cartoon. Published earlier 11 may 2010

CIRQUE d'EUro avec Sarkozy, Merkel, Berlusconi, Barroso

Thema: EU top over de redding van de euro, komend week.
Issue: How to save the Euro, EU meeting, coming week.
Digitale politieke spotprent door, digital cartoon by  © Hugo Freutel

"EURO MONSTER" created by EU doctors: Jean-Claude Trichet

Jean-Claude Trichet, at the EUro monster board

Euro-crisis, an incident? I don't think so. EMU system-default and ECB failures: The people pay.
Financial capitalism is deadly ill. Free cartoon, inspired on Frankenstein, euro default system. ECB subject of greedy transformation: Jean-Claude Trichet.

Troonrede 2011, Prinsjesdag 2011, Begroting 2012..

Minister van Financiën De Jager, koningin Beatrix met gouden koets

De EU geeft, de EU neemt....  (€ crisis ) 

Politieke prent van minister De Jager, en koningin Beatrix, cartoon  door Hugo Freutel

EU gives, EU takes.... ( € crisis ) presentation of the Budget 2012 by the Dutch government.

Political cartoon of minister De Jager, queen Beatrix, cartoon by  Hugo Freutel

MONO CULT-UUR-tje op Radio 2

Geert Wilders, Maxime Verhagen , Mark Rutte

"Ruby" tuesdays......in Italy

"BUNGA, BUNGA" parties in Italy:  Who is this young girl? Who is that old man?

VIDEO: The power of cartoons! by political cartoonist Patrick Chappatte

"About this talk

In a series of witty punchlines, Patrick Chappatte makes a poignant case for the power of the humble cartoon. His projects in Lebanon, West Africa and Gaza show how, in the right hands, the pencil can illuminate serious issues and bring the most unlikely people together. 

About Patrick Chappatte

Using clean, simple pencil strokes, editorial cartoonist Patrick Chappatte wields globally literate and to-the-point humor on world events -- the tragic, the farcical and the absurd."

Source:  Ted.com 

The Dutch Approach in Kunduz, Afghanistan

Jolande Sap, GL en Mark Rutte, VVD MP

The Dutch Government sends a new mission to  Kunduz, Afghanistan:
A civil policetraining about 250 trainers, and  protected by 4 YF 16 fighterjets and about 300 soldiers.
Political issue in Holland : will this be a civil or military mission in Afghanistan? Or both?

The power of corruption in Afghanistan.

The Dutch government intends to send a militairy- police-trainings expedition to Kunduz-Afghanistan to help the NATO allies in their mission imposible.
The Dutch Parliament are devided 50%-50%. Dutch people are against 80%, they fear another fighting mission. Poverty is problem nr. 1 in Afghanistan.