Of doen wij weer onder voor de Fransen? Die staan namelijk ‘met open armen klaar’ om de te verwachten stroom van vluchtende Walen en Brusselaars op te vangen. Dat schrijft de Franse Gaullist Nicolas Dupont-Aignan. De parlementariër is er van overtuigd dat het vechten wordt in België. Hij roept Frankrijk op nu al voorbereidingen te treffen voor de Walen die moeten vluchten voor rovende en plunderende Vlamingen. Gezegd moet worden dat JdeW grote waarde hecht aan de uitspraken van dit parlementslid want - eerlijk is eerlijk - Fransen weten natuurlijk alles van op de vlucht slaan.
Maar als het inderdaad vechten wordt in België, en Frankrijk trekt het land binnen om de Walen te beschermen, wat gaat Nederland dan doen? En ik geef u op een briefje dat die Fransen gelijk het meest aantrekkelijke deel van België gaan bezetten: kiesdistrict Brussel-Halle-Vilvoorde. Daarom deze vraag. Laten we ons land opnieuw afpakken door die Franse katholieken of steken we daar een STOKJE voor!
L’entrée en phase terminale de la crise belge conduit le pays au bord de l’éclatement. La France doit donc se préparer à assumer toutes ses responsabilités envers les francophones de Belgique, en les assurant le cas échéant de son accueil et de sa protection.
Ainsi, et pour paraphraser le Général de Gaulle, les Wallons “retrouveraient au sein de la France la fierté d’appartenir à une grande nation, la fierté de leur langue et de leur culture, le goût de participer aux grandes affaires du monde et de se battre pour de grandes causes humaines”. [continuer](more…)
Op zondag 12 september zendt Nederland 2 de documentaire Wilders, the Movie uit. Filmmakers Joost van der Valk en Mags Gavan proberen Geert Wilders een half jaar te volgen en te spreken te krijgen. Via partijgenoten, collega’s en zijn tot nu toe onzichtbare kiezers willen de filmmakers het fenomeen Wilders begrijpen.
Het spoor van de politicus en de zoektocht naar zijn verleden, motivatie en achterban brengt hen via Londen en de VS naar Israël. Bekijk hier de eerste beelden.
Hèhè dat is een hele opluchting. VVD en CDA en PVV gaan praten over de vorming van een kabinet in Nederland. Het kan weer want Geert Wilders vindt het goed. Nu nog afwachten of ook de koningin van Nederland het goed vindt. Beatrix heeft gisteren tot diep in de nacht met haar vaste adviseurs heeft overlegd.
De verkiezingen waren drie maanden geleden. UPDATE, september 8th, 2010 at 0:06 am: Er komt een tussenronde van gesprekken gestuurd door de herbenoemde informateur Herman Tjeenk Willink.
After three month of difficult talks about a new government politics in the Netherlands took a new turn on tuesday when the stridently anti-immigration and anti-Islam party PVV agreed to re-enter talks with two center-right parties VVD and CDA.
The Dutch Freedom Party (PVV) and its controversial leader, Geert Wilders, four-days ago stopped talks with the Liberal VVD and the Christian Democratic Party (CDA). Wilders said he believed that the planned coalition would fall apart quickly because of objections by a few Christian Democrats over the Freedom Party’s populist platform. [read on](more…)
The Dove World Church in Gainesville, Florida, is organizing a festive “International Burn a Quran Day” on September 11. Even though General David Petraeus warned yesterday that the hate campaign “could put the lives of American troops in danger and damage the war effort.”
The Christian pastor leading the festivities is Terry Jones, author of the book called “Islam Is Of The Devil.” He said is “weighing the situation,” but emphasized that he’s not backing down from the event. During a combative interview with CNN, he claimed, “peaceful Muslims” should be supporting his campaign. “Moderate Muslims should be on our side.” The pastor offered though to pray for the soldiers who might be put at greater risk. To that we say: Thank the Lord!
CHETRY: Are you willing to have the blood of soldiers on your hands by this demonstration?
JONES: Yeah, we are actually very concerned of course. We are taking the General’s words very serious. We are continuing to pray about the action on September the 11th. We are indeed very concerned about it. […]
CHETRY: So you’re saying you might not well go through with this? […]
JONES: I am saying we are definitely praying about it. We have firmly made up our mind, but at the same time, we are definitely praying about it. [read on](more…)
What a country.
A new Wall Street Journal-NBC News poll finds that, among likely voters, “the Republicans own a dramatic 49% to 40% advantage” when it comes to who they want to control Congress following the next election. The same poll finds that the approval rating of President Obama’s handling of the economy is at a low 39 percent.
Mission accomplished? As the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan enters its ninth year, most of the observers believe that corruption on all level of government — Afghanistan is currently ranked as the second-most corrupt government in the world by Transparency International, only Somalia is worse — may be the primary obstacle to forming a self-sustaining government and stable country. That led the NYTimes to ask this question last week: “What if government corruption is more dangerous than the Taliban?”
Reuters reports today that the epidemic of corruption in the country along with the ongoing war is serving to swell the “number of Afghan street kids” — children who have to work the streets in order to survive: [read on](more…)
Dutchman Patrick de Bruin has offered to donate his sperm to four fertility clinics in the Netherlands in an effort to promote what he calls “a strong white race”. Neo-Nazi De Bruin (in English:The Brown) attached the condition that his sperm should only be used for white couples’ infertility treatment.
More remarkable even is that two clinics in the Netherlands agreed to his conditions, an investigation by public broadcaster VARA revealed. One of the hospitals later decided to destroy the sperm donated by the ideologically motivated donor. The incident prompted calls from fertility doctors for stricter guidelines.
De Bruin wrote on an extreme-right web forum that he was donating his “Aryan seed” in order to compensate for the high birth rate among Muslims. He wants as many blond blue-eyed children to be born as possible, he wrote on the site: Stormfront.
In Australische kranten wordt gezegd dat de Australische geestelijke Feiz Muhammed boos is op Geert Wilders omdat die “een leer van haat predikt. De claim dat ik op de een of andere manier hem heb bedreigd, is niets dan een goedkope publiciteitstunt.”
Sterker nog, Wilders zou Australië willen destabiliseren. Even in herinnering brengen wat deze Islamitische gelovige eerder zei:
“We zien de duivelse vuiligheid van mensen als die vuile Nederlandse politicus. Eenieder die onze leer bespot, lacht om de islam en die verlaagt, moet de dood in, onthoofd hem, hak zijn hoofd eraf.”
Sheikh Feiz ontkent overigens niet dat hij bovenstaande heeft gezegd maar hij stelt keihard dat hij Wilders niet bij naam heeft genoemd.
En we moeten eerlijk zijn, dat klopt.
Dus fijn, dat is dan ook weer opgelost.
Capital punishment in Islam can only exist in a caliphate
Macarthur Chronicle, SBS Australia - Australian Muslim cleric Sheikh Feiz Muhammad said he did not refer to Geert Wilders by name and no threat was made towards him. “These comments were made online to a specific audience whereby I was addressing a religious question regarding treason in Islam and the repercussions under Islamic Shariah law.
“It must be noted that in the context of this topic, any capital punishment in Islam can only exist when there is a caliphate or a nation run by Islamic Leaders.” [read on](more…)
A dreamy university town in the Netherlands has become a major center for Iranian activists abroad. More than a thousand Iranian students, mostly fresh arrivals from Iran’s best universities, are studying at the Delft University of Technology. And in the evening’s they meet in cafes that line the city’s canals to discuss the future of their country.
The Washington Post - The worldfamous university of Delft hosts one of the largest communities of visiting Iranian scholars in Europe, and many are involved with the Iranian opposition.
For many, Delft’s Iranian student community represents the emergence of a new breed of Iranian opposition activists abroad that is more individual, shuns ideology and promotes debate over conflict. Many here say they want an Iran that is connected to the world, but they also support nationalist causes such as Iran’s right to nuclear energy. [read on](more…)
Nog maar heel even en dan is het 9/11. Met spanning wordt in de VS uitgekeken naar de aankomst van onze man in den vreemde, Geert Wilders. Op negen september kan hij in New York namelijk helemaal los gaan over de Islam want een rechts kabinet zit er in Nederland toch niet meer in.
Toch kan het wel eens zo zijn dat de aandacht van het soort moslims dat voortdurend op zoek is naar beledigingen van Westerlingen niet gevestigd zal zijn op wat er gebeurd bij Ground Zero maar op een plaats elders in Amerika. De Dove World Church gaat namelijk Korans verbranden om de wereld vooruit te helpen. Het is weliswaar verboden door de rechter maar daar trekken echte Christenen zich niets van aan.
Nobelprice winner Paul Krugman, NYTimes - Here’s the situation: The U.S. economy has been crippled by a financial crisis. The president’s policies have limited the damage, but they were too cautious, and unemployment remains disastrously high. More action is clearly needed. Yet the public has soured on government activism, and seems poised to deal Democrats a severe defeat in the midterm elections.
The president in question is Franklin Delano Roosevelt; the year is 1938. Within a few years, of course, the Great Depression was over. But it’s both instructive and discouraging to look at the state of America circa 1938 — instructive because the nature of the recovery that followed refutes the arguments dominating today’s public debate, discouraging because it’s hard to see anything like the miracle of the 1940s happening again.
The man who established the popular progressive blog DailyKos, Markos Moulitsas, has written a new book: American Taliban: How War, Sex, Sin and Power Bind Jihadists and the Radical Right. It examines the similarities between Islamic extremists and the American rightwing. Markos already wasn’t very popular in conservative, neocon circles. Maybe because of his Greek name or because he is a homosexual but certainly because he has served in the US army, which most neocons can’t say. But after publishing this book he’s not that popular in some progressive circles too. Many liberals have strongly condemned the book on the ground that it is offensive and misguided to suggest that American conservatives are comparable to Muslim Terrorists by which they mean the Taliban. Glenn Greenwald finds some of these objections both absurd and revealing.
In what universe is it “obscene” to compare the architects of the Iraq War, the torture regime, and endless War with Muslims “to killers and terrorists”? The comparison is true by definition. The people who launched the attack on Iraq are guilty of an aggressive war — what the Nuremberg prosecutors condemned as the “kingpin crime” that “holds together” all other war crimes — which killed hundreds of thousands of innocent human beings, turned millions more into refugees, and destroyed an entire nation. [read on](more…)
Een steeds verdere versnippering van het politieke landschap zal het steeds moeilijker maken om in België en Nederland een regering te vormen. In België zijn, als ik goed heb geteld, eenentwintig partijen vertegenwoordigd in het federale en regionale parlement. En dan zijn er ook nog een twintigtal partijen die wel stemmen trekken maar niet in een parlement zitten.
In Nederland zijn 28 partijen vertegenwoordigd in het nationale parlement, de gemeenteraad en Provinciale Staten. Wist u bijvoorbeeld dat de Boerenpartij nog bestaat? En de Nieuwe Communistische Partij - NCPN? De Vereenigde Senioren Party?
Al die partijen, is dat erg? Nee helemaal niet. Het geeft aan dat we goed op weg zijn naar de ultieme democratie. Een partij voor iedere burger.
The ungovernable Low Countries
Rachmanblog, FT - In the past couple of days, both the Dutch and the Belgian efforts at forming a new government have collapsed - landing the problem back in the laps of the two countries bewildered monarchs: Albert II of Belgium and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.. [read on](more…)
Tony Blair says in his memoirs he does not regret serving as the voice for W.’s gut when the inexperienced American princeling galloped into war with Iraq. As for “the nightmare that unfolded” — giving the lie to all their faux rationales and glib promises — Tony wants everyone to know he has feelings. (Maureen Dowd, NYTimes)
Bill Nye, the Science Guy - Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us. And we don’t have to look too far away to see why. Last week I attended NASA’s Venus Exploration Group in Madison, WI, the data presented there was alarming.
There is good evidence that Venus once had liquid water and a much thinner atmosphere, similar to earth billions of years ago. But today the surface of Venus is dry as a bone, hot enough to melt lead, there are clouds of sulfuric acid that reach a hundred miles high and the air is so thick it’s like being 900 meters deep in the ocean. It’s the closest planet to earth and we can’t even say for sure if there are giant active volcanoes on it, because that intense heat and thick air smother everything. Venus is a big science experiment, a real-life demonstration, of what happens when the greenhouse effect spirals out of control globally. So when I meet people who are skeptical of climate change, I have to ask them why? Whose interests do they think that serves? Certainly not ours. Certainly not earth’s
Paul Waldman Prospect - When the Texas Board of Education was debating last year whether and how to undermine any acceptance of the demonic idea of evolution in their schools, board member Don McLeroy, a young-earth creationist, said passionately that when it comes to figuring out what knowledge to pass on to our young people, “somebody’s got to stand up to experts!” Lots of people are standing up these days. On the other hand, McLeroy lost his next election. So maybe there’s hope.
You could argue that as a society, we’re smarter than we’ve ever been. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2008, 29.4 percent of Americans over the age of 25 had a bachelor’s degree or higher. Compare that to 1960, when only 7.7 percent of Americans over 25 had a college degree. The tech revolution, furthermore, turned nerds and geeks into heroes. Our age has been shaped by brilliant and quirky tech geniuses, from Microsoft’s Bill Gates to Google’s Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Every day brings new advancements in science, technology, and our capacity to assemble, create, and use data. [read on](more…)
Volgens Teheran zijn er meer dan honderd Nederlandse zakenlui tegen de sancties voor Iran. Mogen we een lijstje zien aub? Ben toch wel benieuwd welke Nederlandse zakenlui er precies tegen de sancties zijn. Ze zijn opgelegd omdat het land bezig is een atoombom te ontwikkelen.
TEHRAN, Tehran Times Economic Desk – Iran’s ambassador to Holland said the sanctions against Iran were of no avail and recently over 100 Dutch businessmen have signed a statement raising their objection.
The Mehr News Agency quoted Kazem Gharib-Abadi as saying, “The sanctions are a weak issue. Sanctions have been imposed on us since the victory of the revolution. Along with the imposed war, there have been sanctions against us which have actually led to innovations in our country.” [read on](more…)
Dat zouden wij in Nederland ook moeten doen.
De Russische Doema bereidt een wet voor tegen reclame voor occult-mystieke diensten (waarzeggerij, paranormale geneeskunst, duiveluitdrijving). Jaarlijks sterven er in Rusland 500 mensen bij esoterische rituelen. Zie Duma geht gegen Scharlatane vor en het filmpje op Russia’s parliament takes on the occult.
Vor zwei Jahren hatte ein Wunderheiler hunderten verzweifelten Eltern versprochen, er lasse für jeweils 1300 Euro ihre beim blutigen Geiseldrama von Beslan (Kaukasus) getöteten Kinder „auferstehen“. Er wurde wegen Betrugs zu elf Jahren Haft verurteilt.
Dima Kasatschuk (4) hatte keine Chance. Mit dem Schrei „Du trägst Luzifer in dir!“ stürzte sich Anfang Juli in der ostrussischen Stadt Ussurijsk eine „Schamanin“ auf das Kind und begann mit der „Teufelsaustreibung“. Wenig später lag der Junge erdrosselt am Boden. Der tragische Tod ist kein Einzelfall, immer wieder sterben in Russland Menschen bei „Wunderheilungen“. Das Parlament in Moskau zieht jetzt die Notbremse: Der Staatsduma liegt ein Gesetzentwurf vor, dem zufolge bereits das öffentliche Werben für „okkult-mystische Dienstleistungen“ strafbar sein wird. [lese weiter hier](more…)
“Last night in only his second Oval Office address, President Obama announced the end of Operational Iraqi Freedom. He said we have given the Iraqis a Western-style government. Well, we certainly have, haven’t we? Their economy is in shambles, their Congress is corrupt, the country is broke, welcome aboard!
Before President Obama’s address, he called former President George W. Bush. I’m not saying the economy is bad, but he called collect.” (Jay Leno)
UPDATE, Sep 8, 12:09 PM: Een vestiging van de Kabul Bank in de Afghaanse hoofdstad is gisteren bestormd door honderden Afghanen. De afgelopen dagen hebben Afghanen ruim 250 miljoen dollar bij de Kabul Bank opgenomen. Er gaan geruchten dat de Kabul Bank dreigt om te vallen. De bank heeft ongeveer een half miljard in kas. De Kabul Bank is in de problemen gekomen door riskante leningen te verstrekken en mislukte investeringen in Dubai.
If Reagan would run as a Republican now he would be the laughing stock of the party. Rush Limbaugh would tear him to shreds and Bill Kristol would accuse him of being a Neville Chamberlain. He would be run out of town as a tax-raising, amnesty giving, terrorist negotiating, cut and run no-good lib who hates the troops.
Cenk Uygur (Young Turks) on: Who is More Conservative: Ronald Reagan or Barack Obama? Ronald Reagan: [read on](more…)
This weekend Glenn Beck had Rabbi Daniel Lapin on his show on Fox News. Maybe someone should point out to Glenn Beck’s guest that, even though it may feel good to condemn all atheists as “parasites” in a “moral society,” it is profoundly irresponsible to do s0. Particularly for a man of God. After all, there is an important historical precedent for what happens when you single out an entire sector of the populace as a “parasitical element.” [read on] (more…)
Geert Wilders: “Helaas, en ik benadruk het woord helaas, is de formatie mislukt.”
Job Cohen: “De PvdA en de VVD zijn op elkaar aangewezen, omdat wij de twee grootste partijen zijn.”
In Belgien sind die Regierungsverhandlungen gescheitert, weil sich die Beteiligten nicht auf Details einer Staatsreform einigen können. In den Niederlanden brach die Partei des Rechtspopulisten Wilders die Gespräche ab.
Die Freiheitspartei des umstrittenen Politikers Geert Wilders zog sich am Freitag aus den Verhandlungen mit Rechtsliberalen und Christdemokraten zurück. “Die Niederlande brauchen eine stabile Regierung. Unserer Ansicht nach können die Christdemokraten nicht genügend Garantien geben, um für diese Stabilität zu sorgen”, begründete Wilders sein Ausscheiden. [lese weiter hier](more…)
De Australische imam Feiz Muhammed tijdens een toespraak op een afgeschermde website van jihadisten, naar aanleiding van vragen van Nederlandse radicalen over Geert Wilders: “We zien de duivelse vuiligheid van mensen als die vuile Nederlandse politicus. Eenieder die onze leer bespot, lacht om de islam en die verlaagt, moet de dood in, onthoofd hem, hak zijn hoofd eraf.” (De Telegraaf)
The withdrawal of 100,000 troops from Iraq since Obama’s inauguration is significant, and it’s a good thing that the President adhered to the withdrawal schedule. But 50,000 troops remaining is a huge number. It’s what Donald Rumsfeld originally envisioned as the occupying force to be used three months after the invasion — and it’s inevitable that in the future Americans will still fight and die in Iraq.Glenn Greenwald:
On August 18, NBC News anchor Brian Williams began his broadcast by excitedly declaring: ”It’s gone on longer than the Civil War, longer than World War II. And tonight, U.S. combat troops have pulled out of Iraq.” He immediately called in Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel, who was exclusively embedded with the 4th Stryker Brigade. Engel excitedly announced that “the last American combat troops rolled” into Kuwait just moments ago. [read on](more…)
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