[chance33_98]

"It is very striking," she continues, "that it is a very small group of elite families that were all interconnected and intermarried. Amsterdam was a part of a federal republic called North Holland and extremely powerful in the early 17th Century."

Maybe they know them there bilderbergers.....

So far, the Netherlands, England, Spain and Portugal - all major past slave-traders - have refused to officially recognise slavery as a crime against humanity.

Interesting...

[metesky]

In other news, Italians lamented Rome's involvement in the slave trade and the actual naming of a race Slavs.

"Mama mia," cried Antonio Vespa, "I feel so bad about the history of my country that I won't even be able to pinch a pretty girls behind."

Meanwhile in Greece the entire population said that it was all the U.S.'s fault even though many saw the sneaky hand of the Turks behind everything bad anywhere, anytime.

[aristeides]

Amsterdam was a part of a federal republic called North Holland and extremely powerful in the early 17th Century."

Unless I am very much mistaken, the federal republic was the United Provinces of the Netherlands, and the County of Holland, in which Amsterdam was located, was one of its constituent parts. (Holland is now divided into North and South Holland, but I do not think it had been divided yet at this time.) This is like saying Virginia was a federal republic.

If she could get this wrong, I wonder how much else she has gotten wrong.