Just a cold look..

2017, the 18th, workbench-Wednesday on the lonely Hill.  While a feminist bare boob activist learns that there’s nothing to "grab" between the legs of Donald Trump, and so sorely disappointed leaves the Madrid version of Madam Tussauds wax figure museum, the hero, or heroine if you like, Chelsea Manning was told that she soon, 28 years earlier than planned, may leave prison. There used to be no digital files in the old days, but the information that Manning shared is only the tip of a mountain of filth that lies in dusty archives.  Patrice Lumumba, the first legally elected Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, was murdered 50 years ago, on January 17, 1961.  This gruesome murder, approved and made possible by Eisenhower, was the only option that the United States and its Western allies saw to keep the Africans from control over their own raw and mineral materials, which it almost always turns out to be about, when the Americans show interest in another country. The USA and, former colony dictator, Belgium used all resources they had at their disposal to bribe Lumumba's Congolese rivals, to hire hit men and eventually send a Belgian execution squadron to out to kill a democratically elected president.  While the head of the ice rink makers shows the green light, so the speed skating marathon on natural ice in Noordlaren can start any time now, various aircrafts depart from Schiphol Airport to Banjul, capital of Gambia, to retrieve hundreds of Dutch people who have been told that they must leave as soon as possible.  Now there is nothing to gain, in the little country among the Gambia river, in terms of minerals, so the "Western" international community just watch president Yahya Jammeh, during his attempt to the rule the country as a dictatorship. Meanwhile, the neighbours goat experiences how slippery ice is, as she slides over the windshield and the bonnet to the ground at yet another attempt to use the roof of our car as a lookout. Yes, it freezes in the valley of the pear trees for the first time in the ten year as well.  Maybe I should get these antique Frisian ice runners, which are hanging in our library room full of Dutch books as decoration and reminder of the cold days, from the wall, and put some grease on them to make sure they are “ice ready” ….