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Richenel, volledige naam Hubertus Richenel Baars (Amsterdam, 20 april 1957 – Amsterdam, 13 maart 2020), was een Nederlands zanger die vooral in de jaren tachtig bekend was. Zijn carrière begon toen hij door een vriend met een eigen band werd gevraagd om als zanger in te vallen, hiervoor werkte hij bij een bank. Als lid van de discoformatie Luxor was hij daarnaast lokaal bekend als zanger en danser, vaak in "extravagante gewaden van eigen ontwerp". Dankzij zijn androgyne uiterlijk was hij een opvallende verschijning. De eerste single Statue of Desire werd niet erg populair. Zijn tweede single, L'Esclave endormi, was echter vooral in Engeland een grote hit. https://hvdommelen.nl/r/Richenel.html

The new shooting by the ICE in New York, in which a Dominican migrant was injured in front of his five-year-old son, has led to great outrage and protests among the residents, who criticize the frightening impact of such actions on their communities. #JusticePourLesImmigrés #NewYork #Fusillade (translated)

The Climate Marchers, after the great success of their demonstration in Brussels with 60,000 participants, have the ambition to revitalize the environmental cause and are calling for action against the profits of fossil companies and for an ambitious climate strategy. #Climat #Bruxelles #Manifestation (translated)

Zygfryd Czaban assessed that the government's media advisers had pressured him to present the whole matter in a grotesque manner. According to him, this was supposed to make the man become a meme and be associated with random people that the author spoke of contemptuously, rather than with the government. https://t.co/n88Qlf05QD #media #groteska #memes (translated)

Maurits Vande Reyde wrote that the Minister of Budget had openly stated that he had wasted people's money for years without any consequences. He claimed that the deficits in the past five years had been greater than during the pandemic and that the deficit for the coming year would still amount to 1 billion euros. He also pointed to a subordinated loan, the interest costs of which he claimed alone amounted to 1 billion euros. Vande Reyde further wrote that there were no concrete plans to downsize the state apparatus. According to him, politicians who opposed a new tax increase were labeled as the wrongdoers and as "irresponsible." #begroting #tekort #politiek (translated)

Fleur Agema wrote that Minister Mirjam Sterk started talking about reforms herself in Café Kockelmann, but according to Agema, she did not receive any questions about the extent of the cuts to elderly care. She referred to these as not being reforms and stated that the plans included, among other things, an increase in the personal deductible to 400 euros, a personal contribution for home care, and the elimination of household help with a safety net. She also mentioned the cessation of funding for 6,000 nursing home places and the cancellation of the return of care homes, while according to her it had been shown that these were the most suitable for 20,000 vulnerable elderly people. Agema criticized the broadcast and addressed Mats Akkerman at the end. #ouderenzorg #bezuinigingen #hervormingen (translated)

In a shipwreck off the coast of Djibouti, 109 refugees, including fifteen children, drowned when their boat capsized on the way to Yemen, leading to a major humanitarian crisis and a call to the international community for assistance. #Vluchtelingencrisis #Mensensmokkel #Djibouti (translated)

A former woke teacher wrote that MP Nicole Moinat described, according to them, an established order that had lost its moral compass. The teacher stated that criminal organizations were recruiting very young people for explosions, drug trafficking, and assassinations because, according to them, juvenile offenders were hardly punished. In The Hague, according to the teacher, young criminals were primarily seen as victims of their circumstances. The teacher criticized explanations of crime based on disadvantage, personal problems, and a difficult childhood, because those explanations, according to them, obscured the responsibility of the offenders. The teacher also stated that the compassion for offenders was greater than the concern for victims. Young people deserved a second chance, according to them, but it should not outweigh the safety of society. The teacher wrote that the government, out of fear of appearing inhumane, no longer dared to set limits and that the consequences of this were borne by people who obeyed the law. #rechtstaat #criminaliteit #veiligheid (translated)

In the United States, the Department of Justice is being investigated following a boycott by five major television networks - ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, and Fox News - which have suspended their coverage of President Donald Trump in solidarity with CNN, which was denied access to the White House. #LibertéDeLaPresse #DonaldTrump #EnquêteMédiatique (translated)

Mick van Wely wrote that organized crime, in his opinion, was dangerously infiltrating radical leftists in Germany. He stated that criminal organizations were given the most space by the far left and that especially Arab crime clans were providing votes in return. He also noted that concerns about this would increase within the police, while the media, according to Van Wely, hardly reported on it and carefully kept the issue out of sight. https://t.co/OHjUnZq0E2 #Duitsland #misdaad #politiek (translated)

Ann Van Haute wondered how the EU elite would react if their political commitment to Ukraine were to fail. According to her, that elite had invested in it for years, spent billions, and put pressure on their own economy, while problems in Europe piled up. She argued that Ukraine was about the only topic that still mattered in politics and that the elite in Europe could gain little honor anymore. She also pondered how desperate that elite would become if their last major political narrative threatened to disappear. #Oekraïne #EU #Politiek (translated)

Rula Jebreal wrote that, in her opinion, there was an attempt underway to dismantle the legacies of the Allied victory over Nazi fascism, starting with international criminal justice, which was born in Nuremberg and is today represented by the International Criminal Court. She called the comment attributed to Israel regarding the Nobel to Navi Pillay, stating that "Joseph Goebbels is applauding from hell," a "grotesque reversal of history." Jebreal argued that the applause should rather go to those who, in her opinion, were trying to dismantle international justice and ensure impunity for war criminals. According to Jebreal, the delegitimization of the courts was the first step towards replacing the law with the will of those in power, with democracy as the ultimate target. She also criticized the announcement of a live-streamed execution by firing squad of the perpetrator of the Fort Hood massacre, describing it as a transformation of punishment into spectacle and the state into a stage of vengeance. She concluded that, in addition to international justice, the principles of national rule of law were also under attack. #GiustiziaInternazionale #DirittiUmani #Democrazia (translated)

The death of a female laboratory worker in Russia, who was studying the plague, causes great concern for the World Health Organization (WHO) due to the ongoing significant uncertainty about the circumstances of her death and the lack of a confirmed diagnosis. #OMS #peste #Russie (translated)

In a recent interview, international lawyer Philippe Sands emphasized that international law is currently facing great challenges, but he remains optimistic and advocates for justice while also criticizing the new American sanctions against the International Criminal Court. #InternationaalRecht #PhilippeSands #Vrede (translated)

The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating whether the major television networks, including ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, and Fox News, violated antitrust laws by temporarily suspending filming of President Trump following access restrictions given by Trump to certain media outlets. #Trump #antitrust #journalistiek (translated)