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After the Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia, which killed thirteen people, the kingdom is trying to maintain a façade of calm and stability despite the economic and social uncertainties resulting from security threats and limited freedom of expression. #SaoediArabië #HouthiAanvallen #VrijheidVanMeningsuiting (translated)

Ewan Gelius wrote that even third-generation immigrants had not learned to behave, despite living in a rich and well-educated country like France. He argued that this showed how foolish and pointless the aid to Africa and the Middle East was. #invandring #bistånd #samhälle (translated)

Weird Duk wondered why, according to him, almost no one was watching the program. He wrote that the approach where a complete panel collectively attacked someone with a differing opinion was no longer effective, and urged TV makers to take that to heart. #media #vrijheidvanmeningsuiting #opinie (translated)

In a search for the quality of the Saudi Pro League compared to the Eredivisie, the opinion is expressed that the intensity and level of both competitions are difficult to compare, with experts highlighting both advantages and disadvantages of each league. #SaudiProLeague #Eredivisie #Voetbalvergelijking (translated)

Wagensveld wrote that he had been arrested three times within a few weeks after the mayor imposed restrictions on the content of his demonstration at the last minute. According to him, it had been registered and approved in advance with a megaphone and a Quran as demonstration materials. He stated that during a conversation with the police, about 20 minutes before arriving at the location, no restrictions were mentioned. Upon arrival, he was required to hand over the Quran due to potential disturbances, even though there was no counter-demonstration or unrest and he had not yet shown the Quran visibly. The demonstration had not yet begun. At one of the arrests, he claimed he offered to leave, but that was only permitted if he handed over the Quran. Wagensveld reported that he was held for six hours and interrogated all three times. According to him, there was no prosecution. A fourth attempt to demonstrate ultimately did go ahead. He asserted that he and his supporters would keep returning until they received their rights. He described the arrests as an abuse of power intended to intimidate people and limit demonstrations based on their content. Wagensveld wrote that leftist activists and Islamists could express slogans that others found offensive, and that he supported their right to do so. According to him, officials were trying to restrict that same freedom for dissenters. He wondered why the Minister of Justice and Security apparently approved of that. #Demonstratierecht #VrijheidVanMeningsuiting #Rechtsstaat #Demonstratierecht #VrijheidVanMeningsuiting #Rechtsstaat (translated)

Chris Kramer wrote that Renze, in his view, was an anti-FVD tribunal, with five people who strongly rejected FVD facing Douwe Filz from the Renaissance school. He criticized the journalist and activist Tom van 't Einde, who, according to him, was constantly in view and listened with disdain. Kramer called the broadcast one-sided and biased and wrote that there was only one opinion possible in the Netherlands. #FVD #journalistiek #politiek (translated)

We asked a large number of critical questions, but in my opinion, we did not receive satisfactory answers to them. According to the news agency, Bernd Neuendorf of the German Football Association is one of the officials who does not want to continue with Infantino. "We have asked a large number of critical questions, but in my opinion, we did not receive satisfactory answers to them," Neuendorf stated after the meeting in Switzerland. #Infantino #FIFA #KNVB (translated)

The author claimed that diseases such as diphtheria, bacterial meningitis, scabies, and tuberculosis had been detected and were spreading in Ceuta. He attributed the situation to the direct responsibility of Pedro Sánchez Castejón and argued that he and his entire government should also pay for what happened, which he described as very serious and massive. #SaludPública #Ceuta #Enfermedades #ES (translated)

Vitinho explained that jet injectors, like the Ped-O-Jet, used high pressure to pierce the skin, and did not just spray the liquid on it. According to him, the use was abandoned due to the risk of cross-contamination: the reusable nozzle could receive splashes of blood from a previously vaccinated person and transmit hepatitis B and C or HIV. Vitinho stated that there was an outbreak associated with the method, after which the WHO stopped recommending it, and that the United States Army banned its use in 1997. In Brazil, he said, the guns were used in mass vaccination campaigns in the 1970s, including the meningitis campaign in 1975, and were also abandoned due to the risk of contamination. He added that currently only models with disposable cartridges exist and that the change was not related to the pain caused by the injection. #saúde #vacinação #história (translated)

Robin Osinga stated that the disabling of Starlink and withholding early warning capabilities had nothing to do with whether Ukraine could or should attack Russian refineries. He argued that this seemed primarily intended to pressure Ukraine into giving up the Donbas. Osinga described this not as negotiating, but as exerting pressure on Ukraine to give in to the aggressor, without Russia having to make concessions. According to him, Moscow was rewarded for its aggression, while Kyiv was increasingly pressured. He warned that Europe would become complicit in that strategy if it continued to accept it and called on Europe to take control itself. #Oekraïne #Starlink #EuropesePolitiek (translated)

Sander Sassen wrote that he thought it was good that the mainstream media allowed space for opinions like those of Lale Gül. According to him, Gül said that it was unjustifiable not to give priority to one's own population when it comes to housing. https://t.co/GVdItpwe2e #woningnood #MSM #opinion (translated)