LONDON VS THE HAGUE
London, I’m yours…
Its aristocratic charisma, its beautiful architecture, its extended arts collections, the tracks of its rich history, its amazing shopping oase, its numerous exquisite restaurants, its river, its tower, its eye and Big Ben…
…I enjoyed all optimally thanks to you all who gave me their insiders tips before I went there. Thank you so much!
And these are some intertesting facts for you:
- With 609 sqare miles (1575 sqare kilometers) London is the biggest city in Europe and it has a population of 7,5 million people. That is 6 times bigger in surface and almost 16 times more inhabitants than The Hague has.
- Women now run around one in six of all London businesses, compared with less than one in 10 in 2003 (London Annual Business Survey 2005)
- Smaller firms employing fewer than 50 people account for 36% of all private sector employment in London (London Plan, further alterations, September 2006)
- London counts approximately 20.000 black cabs with more than 24.000 cabbies (a London cabby 2007)
- London has 40 Michelin star-rated restaurants (Michelin Stars 2006)
- Londoners will contribute xa3625 million to the 2012 Olympic andParalympic Games, six times the contribution of the largest commercialsponsor and 12 times the contribution of other commercial sponsors (London Councils 2012 Team)
- On average, there are 76 plays showing in London every day (Visit London/ Society of London Theatre)
- The London Tube carries 976 million passengers a year. The busieststation is Kings Cross St Pancras, used by 77,5 million passengers peryear (TfL Tube facts 2006)
- London is the first city in Britain to have banned smoking in public places, hurray! (Clara Mazel 2007)
Having said all this, what’s left of The Hague?
Proud of its increasing number of expatriats (now approx. 50.000), the Embassies and the big international organizations, The Hague strives for becoming more and more an international city. And it will be.
But it definitely will preserve its character of being conveniently arranged ‘gezellig’ for ever!
Clara Mazel
Director Living in The Hague
29 January 2011 at 01:44
What Itx92s Like to Chill Out With Whom the Rest of the World Considers As The Most Ruthless Men: Ratko Mladic, Goran Hadzic and Radovan Karadzic (+) Confessions of a Female War Crimes Investigator By Jill Louise Starr NJ USA
https://sites.google.com/site/jillstarrsite/what-it-s-like-to-chill-out-with-whom-the-rest-of-the-world-considers-as-the-most-ruthless-men-in-the-world-ratko-mladic-and-radovan-karadzic-confessions-of-a-female-war-crimes-investigator
Retrospectively, it was all so simple, natural and matter of fact being on a boat restaurant in Belgrade, sitting with, laughing, drinking a two hundred bottle of wine and chatting about war and peace while Ratko Mladic held my hand. Mladic, a man considered the worldx92s most ruthless war criminal since Adolf Hitler, still at large and currently having a five million dollar bounty on his head for genocide by the international community. Yet there I was with my two best friends at the time, a former Serbian diplomat, his wife, and Ratko Mladic just chilling. There was no security, nothing youx92d ordinarily expect in such circumstances. Referring to himself merely as, Sharko; this is the story of it all came about.
Irrefutable Proof ICTY Is Corrupt Court/Irrefutable Proof the Hague Court Cannot Legitimately Prosecute Karadzic Case By Jill Starr
http://picasaweb.google.com/lpcyusa
(The Documentary Secret United Nations ICC Meeting Papers Scanned Images)
https://sites.google.com/site/jillstarrsite/irrefutable-proof-icty-is-corrupt-court-irrefutable-proof-the-hague-court-cannot-legitimately-prosecute-karadzic-case
This legal technicality indicates the Hague must dismiss charges against Dr Karadzic and others awaiting trials in the Hague jail; like it or not.
Unfortunately for the Signatures Of the Rome Statute United Nations member states instituting the ICC & ICTY housed at the Hague, insofar as the, Radovan Karadzic, as with the other Hague cases awaiting trial there, I personally witnessed these United Nations member states having a substantial conversations, and, openly speaking about trading judicial appointments and verdicts for financial funding when I attended the 2001 ICC Preparatory Meetings at the UN in Manhattan making the iCTY and ICC morally incapable trying Radovan Karazdic and others.
I witnessed with my own eyes and ears when attending the 2001 Preparatory Meetings to establish an newly emergent International Criminal Court, the exact caliber of criminal corruption running so very deeply at the Hague, that it was a perfectly viable topic of legitimate conversation in those meetings I attended to debate trading verdicts AND judicial appointments, for monetary funding.
Jilly wrote:*The rep from Spain became distraught and when her countryx92s proposal was not taken to well by the chair of the meeting , then Spain argued in a particularly loud and noticably strongly vocal manner, x93Spain (my country) strongly believes if we contribute most financial support to the Haguex92s highest court, that ought to give us and other countries feeding it financially MORE direct power over its decisions.x94
((((((((((((((((((((((((( ((((((((((((((((((((((((( Instead of censoring the country representative from Spain for even bringing up this unjust, illegal and unfair judicial idea of bribery for international judicial verdicts and judicial appointments, all country representatives present in the meeting that day all treated the Spain proposition as a x94totally legitimate topicx94 discussed and debated it between each other for some time. I was quite shocked! The idea was x93letx92s discuss it.x94 “Itx92s a great topic to discuss.”
Some countries agreed with Spainx92s propositions while others did not. The point here is, bribery for judicial verdicts and judicial appointments was treated as a totally legitimate topic instead of an illegitimate topic which it is in the meeting that I attended in 2001 that day to establish the ground work for a newly emergent international criminal court.))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
In particular., since x93Spainx94 was so overtly unafraid in bringing up this topic of trading financial funding the ICC for influence over its future judicial appointments and verdicts in front of every other UN member state present that day at the UN, x93Spainx94 must have already known by previous experience the topic of bribery was x93socially acceptablex94 for conversation that day. They must have previously spoke about bribing the ICTY and ICC before in meetings; this is my take an international sociological honor student.
SPAINx92s diplomatic gesture of international justice insofar as, Serbia, in all of this is, disgusting morally!SPAIN HAS TAUGHT THE WORLD THE TRUE DEFINITION OF AN x93INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT.x94
I represented the state interestsx92 of the Former Yugoslavia, in Diplomat Darko Trifunovicx92s absence in those meetings and I am proud to undertake this effort on Serbiax92s behalf.
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