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Rangsit Thailand / Peter r de vries you tube
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Natalee, the musical!

by Maaike STAFF HORST

New blood curdling revelations Joran van der Sloot in car with hidden cameras


DEN HAAG, Wednesday
        A musical about Natalee Holloway? Why not, thought director Thijs de Wit. Her disappearance has already been found: global media attention, three books, films, music and endless clips on YouTube and an Emmy Award for Peter R. de Vries. A musical theater was not the failure. Tonight is the try-out in Zeebelt Theater in Den Haag.
         With songs like 'My name is Sloot "," Natalee, why you did that on me? "And" They killed my girl' creep students music training in Rotterdam Codarts close to the skin of prime suspect Joran van der Sloot. There is a scene on the beach, where he Natalee Holloway would have left, and new blood curdling revelations made in a car with hidden cameras.
        "The broadcast of Peter R. de Vries, Joran remarkable he leaves decisions in the car undercover informant Patrick van der Eem, was for me the reason for this performance, "says Thijs de Wit from. "That program was so great dramatic up! Everything is said to be the truth presented. As you can imagine that a 24-hour film of De Vries also the opposite can be proven. What were the program and hear Joran has - as he claims - indeed, only told what the infiltrator wanted to hear? "
         
Song
         The song 'The Truth' is composed in the opening text of the award-winning crime program, which last year in the Netherlands by seven million people in America were viewed and won an Emmy Award. "The evocative voice-over which we broadcast in our musical theater, including The White describes his newest production. For filling, he worked closely with Daan van West (Musical Opinion) and playwright Andreas Scharf Berg.
        "Many ideas come from the huge amount of movies and music that you find on YouTube. This material, the actors themselves further. There is a Judas figure, the traitor, and we go into the show looking for a new protagonist, 'In search of Joran, say, because the last is "voted out".
        De Wit, itself part of artists PIPS: lab, is accustomed to working from different disciplines. With the computer as a mixer and music, theater, film, text and humor as ingredients comply performances never short of expectations.
        "We have live on stage created a film. The actors operate cameras. This is a reference to the media spectacle in which the presentation is about. In addition, someone who both play on the floor and in close-up on a video screen, something glamoureusachtigs. That will be very useful. We do not talk about who owes whom, but try a picture of all involved: Joran, Peter, mother Beth, Patrick and Natalee. And we appreciate how our society deals with this. The story has all the ingredients of a Greek tragedy in itself, where people are struggling with their feelings of hatred and love, and reason and emotion collide. "



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Natalee, de musical!

door MAAIKE STAFFHORST

Nieuwe bloedstollende onthullingen Joran van der Sloot in auto met verborgen camera’s


DEN HAAG, woensdag
       Een musical over Natalee Holloway? Waarom niet, dacht regisseur Thijs de Wit. Haar verdwijning heeft al heel wat opgeleverd: wereldwijde media-aandacht, drie boeken, een film, eindeloos veel clips en muziekjes op YouTube en een Emmy Award voor Peter R. de Vries. Een musical kon volgens de theatermaker niet uitblijven. Vanavond is de try-out in Theater Zeebelt in Den Haag.
        Met nummers als ’Mijn naam is Sloot’, ’Natalee, why did you die on me?’ en ’They killed my girl’ kruipen de studenten van muziekopleiding Codarts in Rotterdam dicht op de huid van hoofdverdachte Joran van der Sloot. Er is een scène op het strand, waar hij Natalee Holloway zou hebben achtergelaten, en er worden nieuwe bloedstollende onthullingen gedaan in een auto met verborgen camera’s.
       „De uitzending van Peter R. de Vries, waarin hij Joran opmerkelijke uitspraken laat doen in de wagen van undercoverinformant Patrick van der Eem, was voor mij de directe aanleiding voor deze voorstelling”, legt Thijs de Wit uit. „Dat programma was dramaturgisch zo fantastisch opgebouwd! Alles wat wordt gezegd, wordt als dé waarheid gepresenteerd. Terwijl je je kunt voorstellen dat met die 24 uur filmopnamen van De Vries ook het tegendeel bewezen kan worden. Wat wilden de programmamakers horen en heeft Joran – zoals hij zelf beweert – inderdaad alleen verteld wat de infiltrant wilde horen?”
       
Lied
        Het lied ’De Waarheid’ is gecomponeerd op de openingstekst van het bekroonde misdaadprogramma, dat vorig jaar in Nederland door zeven miljoen mensen werd bekeken en in Amerika een Emmy Award won. „Ook de suggestieve voice-over uit die uitzending nemen we op in ons muziektheaterstuk”, zoals De Wit zijn nieuwste productie omschrijft. Voor de invulling werkte hij nauw samen met Daan van West (muzikaal advies) en dramaturg Andreas Scharfenberg.
       „Veel ideeën zijn afkomstig uit de enorme hoeveelheid filmpjes en muziekjes die je op YouTube vindt. Dit materiaal hebben de acteurs zelf verder uitgewerkt. Zo is er een Judasfiguur, de verrader, en gaan we in de voorstelling op zoek naar een nieuwe hoofdrolspeler; ’Op zoek naar Joran’, zeg maar, want de vorige is ’weggestemd’.”
       De Wit, zelf onderdeel van kunstenaarscollectief PIPS:lab, is gewend te werken vanuit verschillende disciplines. Met de computer als mengpaneel en muziek, theater, film, tekst en humor als ingrediënten voldoen zijn voorstellingen nooit aan de verwachtingen.
       „We laten live op het toneel een film ontstaan. De acteurs bedienen de camera’s. Dit is enerzijds een referentie aan het mediaspektakel waar de voorstelling over gaat. Daarnaast krijgt iemand die zowel op de speelvloer als in close-up op een videoscherm te zien is, iets glamoureusachtigs. Dat komt hier goed van pas. We spreken ons niet uit over wie waaraan schuldig is, maar proberen een beeld te geven van alle betrokkenen: Joran, Peter, moeder Beth, Patrick en Natalee. En we stellen ons de vraag hoe de maatschappij hiermee omgaat. Het verhaal heeft alle ingrediënten van een Griekse tragedie in zich, waarin mensen worstelen met hun gevoelens van haat en liefde, en verstand en emotie botsen.”
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You Tube / Re: brown
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You Tube / Re: brown
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You Tube / brown
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Rangsit Thailand / Rangsit area
« Last post by Johan555 on June 15, 2009, 09:40:16 am »
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Sunday 3 July 2005

Darkness falls on paradise island


A Caribbean island is facing economic disaster, a judge's son is under arrest and America is fixated by the search for a beautiful lost blonde, reports Paul Harris in Aruba

From the top of the Hooiberg hill you can see all of the tiny island of Aruba, which is little more than a sliver of white sand set in the sparkling blue of the Caribbean. But Jim Greene, perched half-way up, is not here as a sun-seeking tourist. He is looking for a body.

Greene, who has come all the way from Colorado, has joined dozens of American volunteers scouring Aruba for teenager Natalee Holloway. 'This place would make a good dumping ground,' said Greene grimly, looking down from the Hooiberg at Red Cross workers surveying two murky ponds below him.

The quest has become an American obsession. Holloway, a blonde Southern belle freshly graduated from high school, has been missing on the Dutch island for a month. Her presumed murder has terrified US parents, risked economic disaster for Aruba and thrown a spotlight on a seamy underside of crime, drugs and drinking on an island that markets itself as 'paradise'. Now this little slice of heaven has turned ugly.

In the run-up to President George Bush's speech on Iraq last week it was Holloway's face, not the President's, which ruled the US airwaves. Her story has all the classic ingredients: a beautiful victim, a playboy suspect, accusations of corruption in the highest places and an implacable amateur detective in Holloway's mother, Beth Twitty.

But behind the headlines lurks an unpleasant media tale. It is how a young woman's tragedy has been shamelessly used to boost the ratings in cable TV's never-ending battles. And the awful truth that Natalee's death would not have rocked America so much if she had been black. Or Asian. Or poor. Or a boy.

Natalee Holloway was embarked on an American rite of passage that mimics the annual trek by British teenagers to the beaches of Spain and Greece. By the planeload, fresh-faced Americans head to the Caribbean in search of sunny skies, the opposite sex and as much drink as they can handle. At Carlos'n Charlie's bar last week in Aruba's capital of Oranjestad, the rite was in full swing. Barely dressed young teens gyrated on the dance floor and beer was sold - literally - by the yard in long, fluted glasses.

A month ago this is where Holloway was last seen alive on the final day of her graduation holiday. It was 1.30am and she drunkenly climbed into a car with three young men: Dutch teen Joran van der Sloot and two Aruban brothers, Deepak and Satish Kalpoe.

That is all we know for sure. The boys, all now in jail, told police they drove to a lighthouse beauty spot in the north of the island. Van der Sloot and Holloway, who had been kissing in the backseat, were then let out at a nearby beach. Van der Sloot says he walked Holloway down the beach and then said goodbye. He headed home. Holloway was never seen again.

That is the simple version. But the three originally claimed to have let Holloway off at her hotel, the Holiday Inn. They said she stumbled into the arms of a hotel security guard. But another story emerged after two of the inn's guards were arrested. Now it seems the Kalpoe brothers did let van der Sloot and Holloway out of the car together.

What happened next is a mystery. Early in the investigation, Aruba's Deputy Police Commissioner, Gerold Dompig, said one of the boys admitted 'something bad' had happened to Holloway. Since then the three's stories have shifted as regularly as Aruba's sand dunes.

But the shocking fact is that the three were only identified as suspects due to the efforts of Beth Twitty, who descended on the island from Alabama like an avenging angel. She interviewed Holloway's holiday friends to find out her last movements. She claimed to have swiftly identified van der Sloot from video obtained in a local casino. She confronted the boy and told the authorities that the three had been the last people to see her daughter alive.

Only then, many days after Holloway had been reported missing, did the Aruban police arrest the boys. Such inaction has smacked of a mix of incompetence, Holloway's family says. Van der Sloot's father, Paul, is a respected judge on the island. The family is part of the island's social elite. Joran, despite being 17, was a regular in the casinos. He and the Kalpoe brothers are well known on the island's social scene, regulars at bars frequented by the young Americans.

Paul van der Sloot denies there has been a cover-up but agrees he briefed his son on the legal implications of being a suspect in Holloway's disappearance. Aruba's chief prosecutor, Karin Janssen, claims Van der Sloot said he told the boy: 'Without a body, there is no case.'

The elder van der Sloot has also been arrested, but was later released after several days of questioning.

Further confusion arose on Friday after Janssen reversed previous denials and claimed that the boys had been charged with murder more than three weeks ago. She said the news had not been released to protect the feelings of Holloway's family during the search.

Government spokesman Ruben Trapenberg also faced questions as to why late last week two of the three boys were transported together, apparently giving them the opportunity to compare or arrange their stories. Trapenberg said it had been done to monitor secretly what they might tell each other. It is an unconventional way of doing justice.

Suddenly Aruba's paradise has started to look tarnished. Race has also reared its head. Much has been made of the delays in arresting any suspects - including the van der Sloots - while the two security guards, who were both black, were picked up swiftly. It has also cast a spotlight on the island's nightlife, rife with copious booze and fuelled by illicit drugs. Dealers lurk outside some bars, whispering to passers-by to see if they want to score. Rumours claim that among the clientele of Carlos'n Charlie's are those overfond of the use of 'date ****' drugs in spiked drinks. That has sparked outlandish speculation as American news reports have mentioned Aruba's vulnerability to laundered drug money. Some TV reporters even mentioned the possibility of white slave traders, fuelling a spiralling media hysteria about the island.

For the Aruban authorities it has been a public relations disaster. It is also deeply unjustified. The tiny island, whose 100,000 population is crammed into a space smaller than Manhattan, has only had one murder so far this year. Crime is rare. Drugs are less common than in any comparable US city. 'We've been misportrayed of fantastical things from a high-level government cover-up, to drug cartel, to **** and slavery,' said an exasperated Trappenberg. 'We are not Pirates of the Caribbean .'

But the media machine is in full swing. The US TV networks CNN and Fox are camped on the island. They have flown out star reporters and launched broadsides at the authorities. In one dramatic scene, Twitty visited the van der Sloot housewith a Fox TV crew, to confront the family. After finding Paul van der Sloot hiding behind a bush, she spent 90 emotional minutes with the parents of the boy now charged with the murder of her daughter. It was astonishing television.

No one could blame Holloway's family for milking the media for all they can. Twitty and Holloway's natural father, David, grant interview after interview. Stunts are staged almost daily. On Wednesday there was a church service for Natalee. On Thursday islanders and tourists formed a human chain. Every day Twitty hits the streets to hand out flyers and prayer cards. She looks pale and tired and says she has lost 10lb since she arrived. But she is careful to praise the Arubans for all their help. Lamp posts are festooned with yellow ribbons, the traditional Southern remembrance of those missing from their homes.

The islanders' response has been huge. Shortly after Holloway went missing every government worker was told to take the day off and help the search. Dutch marines have joined the hunt. A Texas-based charity equipped with divers, helicopters and sonar has landed on the island. For the family that is a great boon at a time of trauma. But there is an ugly underside to all the media attention. For the fact remains that America last month had 47,600 active missing persons cases. More than half were men. Almost a third were black.

Yet it is always cases such as Holloway's that win the headlines. She joins a list of American obsessions like Laci Peterson, Elizabeth Smart, Chandra Levy and Lori Hacking. All obsessed the media in recent years. All are pretty, middle-class and white. 'To be blunt, blonde white chicks who go missing get covered, and poor, black, Hispanic or other people of colour who go missing do not get covered,' said Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism.

Yet in the middle of the media storm is a simple story. A young woman with her life in front of her is almost certainly dead. Her mother and father are grieving and want to find out why. It is a terrible tragedy for the Holloways. It is not a national disaster for America.

Perhaps that is why the crowds at Carlos'n Charlie's were still in full swing yesterday. The beer was still flowing and young people were still dancing. 'It is terrible, what happened. But we are here for a holiday,' said 18-year-old Kristen, a student from Texas.

In paradise, it seems, the party never really stops.
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Reportage/achtergrond - Drugsgeuren en schone schijn

De fractieleiders van de vier grote partijen spuiden hevige kritiek na een werkbezoek aan Aruba, twee weken geleden. Arubaanse bewindslieden werken samen met de drugsmaffia; georganiseerde criminelen nestelen in het bestuur en de oppositie wordt de mond ge snoerd, zo was te horen. Onzin, zegt J. Eman, premier van Aruba. Het eiland voerde afgelopen tien jaar een inhaalslag en grote economische voorspoed volgde. De wereld bekijkt zo'n stormachtige groei met argusogen, en dat is de voedingsbodem voor zwartmakerij, aldus de minister-president. De economische groei van Aruba onder de loep. Blijft de economie zo rooskleurig?

door Andrea van Dael

ORANJESTAD/ROOSENDAAL _ Aruba. Fractievoorzitter Bolkestein noemde happy eiland Aruba eens een roversnest. De Colombiaanse schrijver Gabriël Garcia Marquez spreekt van smokkeleiland en voor Nieuwe Revu is het een drugsparadijs. Een paradijs is het, zo leert een lift langs de westkust. Witte stranden, blauwe golven. Een droge, zengende hitte _in Aruba wordt het nooit winter. Salsanoten swingen de autoraampjes uit. De bestuurder, inwoner van Oranjestad, en pas geremigreerd uit Nederland, wijst: 'Goh, zijn ze daar ook weer aan het bouwen!' De Arubaan doelt op een pastelkleurig torencomplex, met poortvormige zwarte gaten die ooit als ramen moeten dienen. Het gebouw ziet er onheilspellend uit. Nu nog wel, maar niet lang meer. De belendende citroenkleurige droompaleizen voor de gegoede toerist zagen er ook eens zo uit. 'Niet te geloven zeg. De hoeveelheid vier en vijfsterren die aan de kust zijn verrezen. Aruba wordt nog eens modern. Zo was het vroeger niet hoor. In de vijf jaar dat ik in Nederland woonde is er enorm veel gebouwd. Je vraagt je af waar het geld vandaankomt', verzucht de inwoner van Oranjestad. Deze vraag echoot vaak op het 'happy island'. Op feestjes, in cafés, in de bus. Wie betaalt de casino's, de midgetgolfbaan? Hoe kan het dat een buitenlander met lege zakken op het eiland aankomt, en een week later in een slee rijdt en zonder lening een grote onderneming opstart? Volgens velen hangt er een geur van drugs boven het eiland. De populaire media en Nederlandse politici versterken die indruk. Niet zo verwonderlijk: Latijns-Amerika is kweekvijver van drugs en Europa en de Verenigde Staten vragen om de verdovende middelen. Aruba ligt tussen klant en fabrikant in.

Witwassen

De minister van economische zaken van Aruba, Tico Cruz, wordt moe van de aantijgingen. Hij balt zijn vuist even samen. Aruba is het kleinste benedenwindse eiland, maar wegens de in 1986 verworven 'status aparte' heeft het een eigen regering. Cruz: 'In Arub a wordt geen drugsgeld witgewassen. Aruba is klein, de afstand met de politiek kort. Geruchten ontstaan al snel. Nederlands-Arubaanse onderzoeksteams en de Centrale Bank ontdekten niets illegaals bij casino's en de vrije handelszone. We willen af van het imago van drugsland en namen daarom ook veiligheidsmaatregelen. We hebben een Meldpunt Ongewone Transacties met scherpe voorschriften.' Ook de Nederlandse oud-minister De Ruiter van justitie vond geen aanwijzingen voor verstrengeling van politiek, economie en drugsbelangen. Commissie De Ruiter deed onderzoek naar aanleiding van een Arubaanse 'IRT-affaire' en toverde spraakmakende voorstellen uit de hoge hoed. Daarover zijn de laatste woorden nog niet gezegd, zo bleek afgelopen week. Volgens Cruz is de economische voorspoed in Aruba te danken aan een economisch herstelplan. 'Nadat in 1985 de Exxonraffinaderij dichtging, werd er flink geïnvesteerd in de toeristenbranche. Toerisme geeft andere bedrijvigheden een push: de financiële centra, (lucht)haven, handel en telecommunicatie.' Voor hotels werden stapels bouwgaranties afgegeven, ofwel investeringspremies. Investeringen van particulieren en de overheid worden volgens Cruz goed op elkaar afgestemd. Met succes: de werkloosheid zakte van dertig naar nul procent. Gehandicapten, bejaarden en minima kregen hogere uitkeringen. En Aruba's gemiddelde inkomen per persoon per jaar is momenteel het hoogste in het Caribische gebied, ongeveer 28.000 gulden. Dit jaar is het startschot gelost voor een tweede economisch actieplan. Cruz: 'We gaan investeren in onze mensen. We willen met minder werknemers meer doen.' De arbeidsproductiviteit moet dus hoger. De regering wil meer lokale werknemers in de olieraffinaderij en de onroerendgoedsector. Zij probeert daarom Arubanen uit de hele wereld terug te halen. Informatie over vacatures is binnenkort eenvoudig op te vragen in het Arubahuis in Den Haag. Arubanen kunnen ook informatie vinden over opleidingen op hun geboortegrond. Die zijn van belang voor de verdere loopbaan van de remigranten. Via een informatiecentrum in Nederland kunnen Arubaanse bedrijven op hun beurt gegevens bemachtigen over personen die willen remigreren.

Oranjestad, hoofdstad van Aruba. Nog geen honderd meter van een verloederd gebouw uit de vorige eeuw, torent het roze Sonesta Hotel. Het herbergt logés, maar ook koopjesjagers. Op de begane grond glinstert namelijk het luxueuze winkelcentrum 'Seaport Village'. Met dollartekens in de ogen en dollarbiljetten in de tassen, banen _veelal Amerikaanse_ toeristen zich een weg langs plantenweelde, pilaren en fonteinen. Kleding, sieraden en delicatessenwinkels lokken hen met geraffineerde geuren. En ook hotelgasten sjezen rond. Glazen liften met letterlijk gouden randjes brengen hen naar hotelkamers op de hogere etages. Want the sky is the limit. Tenminste: the sky lijkt the limit.

Misschien is de toekomst van Aruba minder rooskleurig dan lijkt. Het eiland is afgezien van zon en witte stranden verstoken van grondstoffen. Daarom is het wel erg afhankelijk van het modegevoelige toerisme. Er hoeft maar iets te gebeuren _hogere prijzen, moord op een toerist_ en Aruba's economie zakt in als een plumpudding. De Nederlandse Commissie Schuldenproblematiek waarschuwde voor deze kwetsbaarheid. Ook de Arubaanse Investeringsbank benadrukt al jaren dat Aruba moet zoeken naar andere winstgevende sectoren. In een van haar recente rapporten staat dat 'de overheid vooralsnog weinig andere activiteiten ontwikkelt'.

Natuurbronnen

En de toeristenbranche kan niet blijven groeien. Een woordvoerder van de investeringsbank: 'Verder gebruik van de grond is af te raden. Aruba heeft maar een aantal natuurbronnen, deze moet je niet uitputten. Toeristen komen juist op de natuur en milieu van het eiland af.' Cijfers wijzen uit dat de impuls van toerisme op andere bedrijvigheden _waar minister van economische zaken Tico Cruz over sprak_ wel meevalt. De winkels en het cruisetoerisme floreren, maar de haven en de financiële handel draaien op een laag pitje. Ook heeft premier Eman misschien iets te enthousiast de ouderdoms- en andere sociale uitkeringen verhoogd. Volgens deskundigen kan dit de overheid te veel gaan kosten en als een molensteen gaan werken.

Dollars

En dan is er nog het probleem met de gebuikte munt op het eiland. In veel winkels op de boulevards aan zee prijken alleen prijskaartjes met dollars erop. Wil je een fotorolletje met Antilliaanse florijnen betalen, pakt de winkelbediende zuchtend en steunend een rekenmachientje van de plank, waarna je vervolgens relatief meer moet betalen dan als je dollars in de hand had. De volgende keer weet je beter en neem je groene biljetten mee. De aanstaande president van De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB), A. Wellink, vindt dat link. Hij waarschuwt Aruba dat er niet te veel met dollars moet worden afgerekend. Er zijn meer dollars dan Arubaanse florijnen in omloop. De Arubaanse centrale bank heeft op het dollarverkeer geen grip, met alle nadelige gevolgen voor de economie van dien. Het gevaar van inflatie dreigt. Door veel geld in wegen en gebouwen te pompen, kan de economie oververhit raken. En stel dat de toeristenbranche uiteindelijk inzakt. Mochten Eman en Cruz de waarheid spreken en wordt er geen drugsgeld op het 'happy island' witgewassen, dan kan Aruba niet op deze inkomsten terugvallen. En anders biedt het drugsgeld ook geen zeker vangnet. Dan steken Bolkestein en consorten zoveel mogelijk een stokje voor het witwassen van mafiagelden en is het afgelopen met de invloed van rijke families op de politiek. 

Tijdens de lift door Oranjestad passeren we een opgejaagde ezelfamilie. De bestuurder verzucht: ,,Tja, de ezels in Aruba hebben liever de armere tijden terug. Omdat er zoveel gebouwd wordt, zijn de wilde ezels verjaagd van hun leefgebieden. Ze zwerven nu 'gejaagd' rond in kleinere gemeenten."

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Antillen

Op de omringende Nederlandse Antillen klinken de salsanoten minder vrolijk. Toeristen uit met name Amerika en Nederland blijven weg ten koste van het BBP. De export en koopkracht worden kleiner en kleiner en de concurrentiepositie zwakker. Het Internationaal Monetair Fonds legde begin deze maand een voorstel op tafel om de opgelopen begrotingstekorten terug te dringen. Een omzetbelasting wordt ingevoerd, de overdrachtsbelasting en benzineaccijns verhoogd. Dit spekt de overheidskas enorm. En het gigantische en dure ambtenarenapparaat moet gehalveerd. Bijnaam voor de rijksdienaren is: 'kinderen met waterhoofden'. Het lood op de schouders van Antillianen wordt steeds zwaarder. De uitkeringen zijn momenteel slechts driehonderd gulden per maand, het minimuminkomen 420 gulden. De werkloosheid is hoog. Antillianen hebben jaarlijks zo'n 19.000 gulden te besteden. Onderwijl worden de prijzen hoger. Oorzaak van de financiële ellende op de Antillen is de opeenstapeling aan tekorten. De bodem van de Antilliaanse schatkist is al jaren zichtbaar. De huidige overkoepelende regering in Willemstad nam twee miljard aan schulden over van het vorige bewind. En er zijn nog de pijnlijke naweeën van de uitbarsting van de orkaan Luis op Sint Maarten. Niet alleen kost de wederopbouw veel, ook vliegen vakantiegangers voortaan liever een paar eilandjes verder. Maar de Antillen hebben in potentie meer mogelijkheden om het hoofd boven water te houden dan Aruba. In potentie. Er is een grotere haven (Willemstad) en een grotere raffinaderij dan op Aruba. Ook is er een vrij brede informele sector. De heer R. Sorton, economisch specialist bij het Antillenhuis in Den Haag, plaatst hier kanttekeningen bij. 'De Antillen kunnen zich niet op eigen kracht uit het moeras trekken. Er moet meer scholing komen. En investeringen. Premier Pourier is dan ook naarstig op zoek naar investeerders. Afgelopen maand bezocht hij KPN en Shell. De handels en transportactiviteiten kunnen hoger, maar daarvoor moet nog veel worden onderhandeld. In ieder geval houden de Antillen veel geld over als het ambtenarenapparaat zou inkrimpen. Dat kan in premies worden omgezet om investeerders te lokken', aldus Sorton. Aruba staat nu nog in bloei, de Antillen aan de rand van de afgrond.

http://www.jem.nu/economische-groei-aruba-onder-de-loep.htm
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Quote from: johan555,(time=1244114825)
Quote from: johan555,(time=1244104925)
Halion posted this ( Fok Forum )
dinsdag 14 juni 2005


Halion 14juni 2005
"NATALEE WAS NOT THE GIRL WHO WAS SICK IN THE BATHROOM AT C&C's! My daughter had already told me she was puzzled by that story 'cause she neither saw nor heard anything of the kind regarding Natalee. We were at the vigil yesterday and they were discussing that... It turned out to be other girls on the trip. Somebody had mentioned that at church and these girls went, "Oh no! That was US!" It was definitely not Natalee.

My daughter spoke with Natalee right after C&C's closed.

My daughter & her friends came across Nat & Joran as all were exiting the club, and all were walking more or less together toward another group of classmates.



Natalee was walking unassisted (not falling down drunk), spoke ok (though not answering in long sentences), and was not touching Joran. My daughter only noticed that Joran was tall, dark-haired, American-looking; he did not speak and she couldn't read his facial expressions.

Nat turned down my daughter's invitation to go with her little group. (Ironically, they were about to circle the inside of another club to make sure no others were left behind.)

Nat assured them that she was fine, and said she was going to go back to the hotel "with THEM," pointing to the MBHS group just a few yards ahead.

The Kalpoes were nowhere in sight; neither was the car.

Next Alana heard was that Natalee got into a car that many in the group had thought was a taxi. (Those look like regular cars.)

It may be that the Kalpoes pulled up on the street before Natalee reached the next group; Joran may have deliberately stalled her. The group may not have even realized she was behind them, approaching. But while we hear that she got in the car willingly, we know from her comments that it was not her pre-planned intention.

Because of this, I do not believe she knew she would be going anywhere but a fairly short distance down to the hotel. Her plans changed in the blink of an eye, and she was gone."
My daughter & her friends came across Nat & Joran as all were exiting the club, and all were walking more or less together toward another group of classmates.

so if this is true,Joran and Natalee walked towards bus station

Alana Jordan :

June 12th, 2005 1:47 am: I didn’t see her get into the car… I talked to her when we all left the club and asked if she was ok, and she said yeah. I thought she was going to leave with another group of Mtn. Brook kids that were a few feet in front of us, b/c me and a couple others went to check another club to make sure no one got left. I guess she got in the car somewhere between walking with me and going up to the other group.

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June 12th, 2005 2:06 am: I know for a fact that she didnt run away. She has never run away before either. She was very happy about going to Alabama, her biggest problem was deciding whether or not she wanted to do the Honors program there! She didnt run away.
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June 12th, 2005 2:31 am: I’m worried about what I say about that night being misinterpreted… I was quoted in People recently and they twisted my words to make it seem like she was drunk and wild… She didn’t look like herself, but that was only because her eyes were heavy…. She didn’t have that much to drink, so she might have been drugged.

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June 12th, 2005 2:39 am: It wouldn't surprise me if they did drug her… they would have had ample opportunity… we got free food and drinks at the hotel, so very few of us had anything at the club and Nat didn’t even bring a lot of money, so if she had anything at the club, that kid probably bought it for her, giving him the op. to slip something in it.
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June 12th, 2005 3:20 am: Joran has a yacht

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June 12th, 2005 at 2:51 pm: A poster called Psychic Detective  writes this to Alana, "That MazRad was posting cryptic messages claiming someone named Lindsey said those things. However, we don’t know if it was 
A) legit or 
B) the same Lindsey you know. 
BTW, you cares if some freaks on a message board don’t believe who you are. You have nothing to prove."

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June 12th, 2005 3:21 pm: (Responding to the question, "What time did you leave the club?") It closed at about 1, 1:30 and we left around then. A couple of my friends and I went to another club for a minute to make suer that no one went there and were being left behind. When we all went to the hotel, we sat outside at the pool for the rest of the night until REALLY late.
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Jun 14, 2005 3:52 am:  (talking about Natalee's clothing in the beach picture)  Yeah, that's what she was wearing that night... I really don't think the shoes thing would help at all... one of my friends realized today that she had picked up someone else's flip flops thinking they were hers b/c she had lost a pair, but now we think she might have accidently stole them from the passed out guy at the pool who followed us back to the hotel! Whoops! Seriously though, we all lost so much stuff down there, any flip flops, even if they had the freakin' spartan crest on them could have belonged to anyone, not just Nat.

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Alana Jordan abouts halions post

Yes, people who are on now can verify that it is indeed the mother of one of the students who was on the trip. The young lady (the writer's daughter) posts here in the evenings. Very interesting facts in that post, huh? I thought so, too! I pray someone finds Natalee alive ASAP.   TTownMike wrote: Is that yo moma DasH? ") 

Yup! That's her!
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SHANGO/SIMIAN - who are they? / Re: SHANGO/SIMIAN - who are they?
« Last post by Johan555 on June 05, 2009, 02:59:47 am »
One straight path

to the house of Rave,

while of gold bricks

the road is not paved,
(dirt or ... unpaved road)

answers mysterious lie within

magical letters which spell sin

XTC DNA
(The house of rave is out in the country where the roads are not paved.)

Babalu opened a window looking into babylon on his 12:31 A.M. Post
(Babalu identifies (Van der Stratten) as a possibility in one of his posts.)


DirtyHand is alive
(Van Der Straaten's involvement comes to light/ ident discovered)


Shango said the key to the Hague did not exist

that door to Truth remains closed

until the house with the path

But not of gold

is entered


DirtyHand walks with the Babylons, the Arawaks and is consort to the fallen elder
(Van Der Straaten is in the know with both sides and is helping PVDS)

The gods are talking
(People of Shango's nature, people that know whats going on in aruba)


Outsiders brought into the Arawak tribe walk in many circles, nameless


DirtyHand can bring down all houses
(Van Der Straaten knowledge can uncover all the criminal activities)

DirtyHand is the key
(Van Der Straaten is the key to solving the crime)

His reach is long
(Van Der Straaten knows everything that goes on)

He walks in all circles
(Van Der Straaten knows a lot of people of all types)


consort to all, except for the gods
(Van der Stratten knows and perhaps gives advice or takes bribes from all, except for those of Shangos nature.)


He knows the sacrifice is not responsible
(Van der Stratten knows Joran is not responsible)


Of whom is the young Babylonian afraid?
(Who is Joran Afraid of, who has that power)?

Why won’t he talk?
(Scared enough not to talk)


The dice throwers know
(The Casino Dealers/gamblers know)

the maze of the rave
(Maybe not a literal, but saying Dealers/gamblers know the inner workings of how things work on the island)

and the fly that entered the trap
(and of NH entering into what shango calls "the Trap". Meaning she was setup or possibly a trap that is always there for this purpose. Traps are planned)

DirtyHand is the key

(again .... Van Der Straaten knows everthing)

He walks in many circles
(Van Der Straaten knows a lot of people of all types)

Young Babylonians and Shivas do not build sand castles
(They were never at the beach. )

Young Babylonians and Shivas do not build sand castles
(They were never at the beach. )

Shango Says: DRAX SCORES
(Meaning DRAX is correct about them not being at the beach)

DirtyHand knows this
(Van Der Straaten Knows this)

Children of the Elders play in the maze,
(Children of Island officials party or are involved in illegal activities that go on)

but DirtyHand is afraid to rave
(Van Der Straaten is afraid to party - Obviously not cool for the Polis chief to do illegal things putting himself in a vunerable position of equal leverage)

Babylonians and Shivas do not play with sandcastles
(Don't follow Jorans lies about the beach, the ones we need to find are not at the beach).

Follow the music!
(Find where "raves" take place or possibly a band)

Mary who was not a Virgin entered the maze to discover it’s secrets
(I don't believe that shango would know if NH was a virgin in the biblical sense - So I tend to believe that shango is saying NH had been to this location before - however maybe not while there was a party/rave going on.)

The lamb is scared
(Joran gets scared)

The fires are lit
(Someone gives a warning Joran a warning/signal/sign)

But now the lamb is a goat
(Joran doesn't realize he's got a big problem and by his own actions has made himself the perfect scape-goat)

Mary never heard the buoy toll
(NH didn't see what was going on around her () and did not hear/see the warning)

ask the men who play dice and “roll”
(The Dealers /gamblers at the casinos know that NH never saw it comming. Talk to them.)

Follow the music

The DiceMen must be questioned.
(Dealers and Casino players must be questioned)

They to go to the Music and enter the same Maze
(They attend the same partys)

Mary who was not a virgin entered
(Again - Possibly stating that NH had been there before)

The DiceMen ROLLED
(Casino Dealers or Players were high XTC, rolled being the term used for someone high or taking X)

Mary ROLLED
(NH was high on X, whether or not she was willing - she was rolling/high)

Mary ROLLED through the Maze
(NH was high and was lead through the underground)

There is more than one house of music
(there is more then one rave/party location. I think he points this out as to say "you need to pick the right one")

the Lamb is a Scapegoat
(Joran will take the blame)

The Lamb returned to the fold
(Joran went home)

Mary Rolled
And the lions played
(Joran ran away, Natalee was still high/drugged and I think you can guess the rest.)

Windows looking onto Babylon are being opened by the ThreadSurfers
(shango says this when ever someone correctly posted a reply to his comments. ThreadSurfers are of course Blogers and the like. Opening windows in to babylon = understanding what happened and what is going on)

The maze offers many hidden desires
(I'd say sick desires, but none the less he's pointing to drugs, sex etc.)

deflowerings of forbidden fruits
(**** or have attracted types that desire these activities. Deflowering "taking away the virginity of a women or to possibly destroy their innocence. Forbidden Fruits = usually is an indulgence or a pleasure that is illegal or is believed to be immoral)

DirtyHand knows.
(once again Van Der Straaten is aware of this fact)

So does the elder.
(So does PVDS)

The lamb is a scapegoat.
(Joran is going to be blamed)

DirtyHand has walked through the maze
(Van Der Straaten has been thought the party clique)

He knows of the forbidden fruit
(he knows of the illegal and imoral activities)

and the gardeners
(and those that take care or "host" them)

Why do they leave the Maze open?
(Why are raves still taking place?)

Why hasn’t an Arawak probed it’s fetid depths.
(Why hasn't anyone looked in to it?)

Tell the Cowboys!
(Tell the Americans/searchers)

The Arawaks are hiding the path to the Maze for the Babylonians.
(Islanders are hiding the way to the rave/party for the Dutch/boys)

All know of the music
(Everyone knows of the rave/partys)

beckoning lost souls

to enter the seven levels of inferno

who gave Mary the poison wine of Bacchus?
(Who Drugged NH ? )

Enter the Maze.
(find the rave/party network go there)

Babalu opened a window looking onto Babylon with his 12:30 A.M. post


DirtyHand does not play with the lions
(Van Der Straaten Doesn't partake in activities with drug/ cartels)

but he has entered the maze
(Obviously Van Der Straaten has been to the location where this "party/rave" took place - he knows where it is.)

the lamb is a scapegoat
(Joran will be blamed)

DirtyHand knows
(Van Der Straaten knows this)

So does the Elder
(So does PVDS)

Follow the music
into the maze
(Find the Rave/party, Possibly literal actually get silent and listen for music to find the rave/party location).

the lions know they are being stalked
(the Drug dealers / cartels know there being sought out)

the gamblers and other Rollers talk
(Casino gamblers and other X heads talk)

tell the cowboys!
(Tell the American/Searchers)

The Arawaks will not enter the maze unless the cowboys refuse the peace pipe
(Arubans will not show us were the rave/party place is unless Americans/beth refuse to accept joran as the only guilty party)

Follow the music,
the lions are not tame
DirtyHand knows,
so does the elder
(repetition for emphasis)

Some windows overlooking Babylon have been opened

The cowboys need to find the right path,
(Americans/searchers are looking in the wrong areas)

but they can’t hear the music.
(they are deaf to whats going on around them)

The Arawaks know
Stupid Cowboys with Arawak Guides
(Americans/searchers are foolish to use aruban guides, aruban guides are taking advantage of this)

Cowboys don’t read smoke signals,
(Americans are not reading the signs/signals correctly)

they must enter the maze!
(FIND THE DAMN RAVE/PARTY ALREADY!)

Shango needs to feed the messengers. The Gods are talking.

Mary rolled into the maze
to play with lions
but it was not a game
(NH was expecting to have fun -- little did she know)

the lamb ran bleating
afraid to walk through the maze
(Joran is a wuss and ran he was scared he knew what was going on/happened).

why don’t the arawaks ambush the lions?
(Why don't the arubans rat out the drug dealers/cartel)?

The cowboys don’t know.
(Americans dont understand the innerworkings of the maze)

DirtyHand knows, but is afraid of the Arawak Nation
(Van Der Straaten knows but is afraid if he gives up the lions the money will cease and the arubans will become upset with Van Der Straaten)

The gods are talking
(Shangos bosses are talking/planning)

The Simian was incorrect about the package from the Hague

I told the Simian, but the Simian would not listen

The simian is not a simian, but an austrolopithecus

Threadsurfers on other beaches are oblivious to the Maze and the lions
(Threadsurfers in other countries are oblivious to the Maze and drug dealers/cartels because they do not have/(can't imagine) this type of courruption)

without exposure, the arawaks will deceive the cowboys

they will leave without loot

Shango is the god of justice

alive in many forms

he who speaks through Oxum through lightning

and himself through thunder

father of the violent dance

diviner of secrets of the seven levels of inferno

bound to truth even as it burns

so that justice may be brought.

Only those who cRave music go into the Maze

The gods of Babylon have orchested the refrain for the Arawak choir

the music which holds the answers lies within the maze

the cowboys will smile sweetly as the chorus sings

backs turned to the maze

never hearing a single note

from the poison song

All the Arawaks know the Maze which plays the poison songs

How those innocent young flies enter the trap with honey laden notes

Shango must leave to feed the messengers
(Shango must meet with the press)?

The gods are talking
(Shangos bosses are talking)

Follow the notes

to the poison house

where the children of the babylonians

and the arawak nation

meet, under cover of delusion.
(Follow the music to the party/rave where Children of the Dutch officials and Arubans meet thinking their not seen or noticed)

In the maze

the lions which play

shall be found.

The gamblers also took note.

Tell the cowboys!

Not all lions leave their den
(It seems to say -- not all party goers leave the maze or possibly live at the maze .. possibly someones house or wherehouse?)

That which is hidden shan’t be found in the light
(I guess you have to go at night when it's happening to find it or possibly hear/see it).

Yliana and Subdude have both opened windows which look into the heart of babylon

do not stray from your paths

you hold the key in hand
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