10 years Senseo®

The multinational Dutch electronics corporation Royal Philips Electronics N.V., most commonly known as Philips, celebrates the 10th anniversary of its Senseo® coffee-machine.

Douwe Egberts
Together with the Dutch coffee and tea company Douwe Egberts (subsidiary of Sara Lee Corporation), this “Dutch Duo” introduced a coffee-maker based on a coffee pods (called ‘pads’ in Holland) system in 2001.

Taste
Of course you can twist about taste, but my personal experience with Senseo® is not the best. Yes, it is easy to use and you can bring yourself a coffee in no matter of time, but the taste!? No, I have had better coffee many times.

Coffee culture
In comparison with the US we do not have the same ‘coffee culture’ in the Netherlands. In the US you have Starbucks for years allready, but in Holland we received our first Starbucks outlet not earlier than 2007!!

Coffee suggestion?
Do you have a coffee suggestion for the DutchPink Team? Then, please feel free to comment them to us, so that we can also have such a great coffee experience as you Americans.

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Geert Wilders in court again!

Geert Wilders from the Dutch political Party for Freedom in court again!

Read his ‘Statement’ below:

Geert Wilders’ statement, February 7 2011
The lights are going out all over Europe. All over the continent where our culture flourished and where man created freedom, prosperity and civilization. Everywhere the foundation of the West is under attack.

All over Europe the elites are acting as the protectors of an ideology that has been bent on destroying us since fourteen centuries. An ideology that has sprung from the desert and that can produce only deserts because it does not give people freedom. The Islamic Mozart, the Islamic Gerard Reve [a Dutch author], the Islamic Bill Gates; they do not exist because without freedom there is no creativity. The ideology of Islam is especially noted for killing and oppression and can only produce societies that are backward and impoverished. Surprisingly, the elites do not want to hear any criticism of this ideology.

My trial is not an isolated incident. Only fools believe it is. All over Europe multicultural elites are waging total war against their populations. Their goal is to continue the strategy of mass-immigration, which will ultimately result in an islamic Europe – a Europe without freedom: Eurabia.

The lights are going out all over Europe. Anyone who thinks or speaks individually is at risk. Freedom loving citizens who criticize islam, or even merely suggest that there is a relationship between islam and crime or honour killing, must suffer and are threatened or criminalized. Those who speak the truth are in danger.

The lights are going out allover Europe. Everywhere the Orwellian thought police are at work, on the lookout for thought crimes everywhere, casting the populace back within the confines where it is allowed to think.

This trial is not about me. It is about something much greater. Freedom of speech is not the property of those who happen to belong to the elites of a country. It is an inalienable right, the birthright of our people. For centuries battles have been fought for it, and now it is being sacrificed to please a totalitarian ideology.

Future generations will look back at this trial and wonder who was right. Who defended freedom and who wanted to get rid of it.

The lights are going out all over Europe. Our freedom is being restricted everywhere, so I repeat what I said here last year:

It is not only the privilege, but also the duty of free people – and hence also my duty as a member of the Dutch Parliament – to speak out against any ideology that threatens freedom. Hence it is a right and a duty to speak the truth about the evil ideology that is called islam. I hope that freedom of speech will emerge triumphant from this trial. I hope not only that I shall be acquitted, but especially that freedom of speech will continue to exist in the Netherlands and in Europe.

What do YOU think? 
Should Geert Wilders be convicted or not?

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First Artificial Island on American Continent

Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. has been awarded a contract from Ocean Reef Island Inc to construct an artificial island off the coast near the residential area of Punta Pacifica in Panama City. The project, with a contract value of approximately $ 75 million, is already underway and the project is expected to be completed mid 2012.

Watch the 3D artist impression of the island below.

See for more information regarding the Island:  www.oceanreefislands.com

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