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Oil company Trafigura pays out 33 million
The Dutch oil concern Trafigura has agreed to pay out 33 million euros in damages to Ivory Coast residents who started a court case against the oil giant which illegally dumped toxic and dangerous waste in 2006. The amount was agreed between Trafigur...
Iran’s false moderates
Anyone who has has an eye on Iran’s politics, other than following the news from time to time, knows that seeing this ’stolen election’ as being one between the democratic moderates and the religious extremists, is only half the sto...
Is the Netherlands a tax haven?
In the wake of a denial from Dutch finance minister Wouter Bos, the US government decided to remove the Netherland from a list of ‘known’ tax havens; a list that included Bermuda and Ireland, as countries that levy a much lower level of c...
Dutch tragedy driver acted deliberately
Unlike the mainstream press we here at ossp like to wait for the facts to emerge, even if we have our own suppositions. It had been reported earlier that the city of Apeldoorn was spending over half a million euros on the royal celebrations, which is...
Car ploughs into crowd during Dutch royal celebrations
Netherlands, Apeldoorn During the celebrations for Queen Beatrix’s birthday, a two-day national holiday in the Netherlands known as ‘Queen’s Day’, 14 people have been injured when a car drove into the crowds. It has been ass...
Too late to close airports & borders, or just not worth the lost revenue?
As the strain of swine flu moves from continent to continent, it’s clear, as in the victims identified in New Zealand, that travelling from Mexico was what spread the flu over a natural border. Containment and isolation has always been used a...

