van Hanegem

At the same time the French Government is borrowing 17 billion each month, the public debt is 2300 billion representing 100% of GDP. Like that Vettovaglia sais in his analysis: France is an outdated state, desperately in need of reforms. I'm afraid neither Macron nor Le Pen or anybody else can deliver these reforms. Macron was aiming for a European "stablisation plan" which would help economies in "unexpected trouble". Luckily there's not enough support thus far as it would mean that Northern Europe would bleed for the laziness of the French, like they did for the Greeks. However, I wouldn't dare to say it will never happen as Germany is getting a mini Merkel soon and who knows what Macron can achieve with her. Then there's also the European Commission with pigs like Juncker and Timmermans. Did you hear their latest trick with them agreeing on the Italian budget? According to their own figures (which they should use in order to treat every country equally) the EC should not have accepted this flawed budget and Italy should be given a fine for not meeting the demands of the EC. Instead of this the EC used the figures the Italians showed and accepted that the Italians delayed their idiot plan for early retirement and a basic income for the poor (€ 780,- a month) for just a couple of months while they don't have the money for it. Of course the EC wanted this to be secret and again the European Parliament showed it's incompetence by not acting on this. Thanks to Peter Omtzigt (a Dutch MP) and the Open Goverment Act we now know how Juncker & Co deliberately broke their own rules. It's reminiscent of the way the Greeks entered the Eurozone and we know how that ended. People like Macron & Merkel are afraid that the "European Project" will fall apart sooner or later. Personally I hope the current form of the EU will soon disappear and replaced by something better, a more flexible Union which allows countries to make their own decisions concerning their domestic economies. Too bad the UK has placed itself offside with Brexit, it will be dearly missed in this struggle for change.

Like one of those yellow vests said in an interview: “the elite is worried about the end of the world, we don’t know if we’ll make it to the end of the month.”

I read your remark there's not much information about the situation in France in British media. Don't know if that's true but here you read a good analysis of France's problems and why they will probably end up in the hands of the IMF. Brexit won't be fun but France faces some hard times too. http://www.other-news.info/2019/02/macrons-france-unfortunately-waterloo-before-austerlitz/

Yup, it's going to be 6 months though they have postponed the decision for a short time "to answer the many questions from the Dutch and Germans." What's even worse in this new regulation is that migrants don't have to work for at least 6 months in the Netherlands (or Germany or any other European country) anymore in order to apply for unemployment benefits. They can use their employment history from their home country, work for one day in the Netherlands and when they get fired after this day they can apply for unemployment benefits and get a check based on their Dutch income. You'll sure understand it's not that hard to get an employers statement which says someone has worked for years with them in Hungary, Poland, Greece or Italy. This way they can get unemployment benefits for years...

Thousands Verb, thousands... Journalists from Nieuwsuur (a program from the Dutch Public Broadcast Service) got a document from the government which stated that 4462 persons 'exported' their unemployment benefit for three months to Poland, only 21 found a job in their home country, a mere 0,5%. When you're really interested you can translate this piece yourself: https://nos.nl/nieuwsuur/artikel/2276236-opnieuw-grootschalig-misbruik-met-ww-uitkeringen-door-polen.html What's even worse Verb is that far more Poles are engaged in real fraud with unemployment benefits (not the ones who say they are using the export regulation), they don't live in the Netherlands anymore or haven't lived in the Netherlands at all but they apply for unemployment benefits and usually get it because of the help from fraudulent intermediaries. Research showed that there are at least 150 of the latter who 'helped' 9400 Poles. It appears this fraud has been going on since 2009, imagine the sum of taxmoney lost (yup, including the taxmoney from fellow Poles who live and work in the Netherlands and are not involved in this). Oh, I almost forgot your 'evidence': https://nos.nl/nieuwsuur/artikel/2248811-poolse-arbeidsmigranten-plegen-op-grote-schaal-uitkeringsfraude.html

Because of EU regulation they can also 'export' possible unemployment benefits to another European country for three months. In Holland and Germany (I don't know about the UK) many Poles use this regulation to take a break and visit their friends and family. They should be looking for a job in Poland of course but the unemployment benefits in the Netherlands are at least twice as high as the regular income in Poland so they don't bother and return to Western Europe after three months. At this moment it's mainly Poles who misuse this regulation but it's expected that many other Eastern and Southern Europeans will soon follow. Instead of putting an end to this, the three-month period will soon be extended to six months because more European countries want this than there are countries who don't. The Dutch government says it's terrible that taxpayers money is going down the drain like this yet they refuse to say they it's not acceptable to the EU as they can't veto. "We just have to take our loss..." As if they haven't got a clue why more and more people are fed up with the free movement of persons and vote differently in the elections.

Yup, he’s been charged with terrorist homocides though the police said they still don’t know if it has anything to do with jihadism. We still don’t know what was written on the note found in the getaway car. But two of his brothers fought in Chechnya against the Russians because of their belief so maybe this influenced him. I still don’t see him as a true jihadist because of his recent “activities” and the way his neighbourhood describes him as a mad person always looking for a fight. But then again, most of the idiots who wanted to fight for Isis were criminals rejected by society. Though they were usually brainwashed by some radical imam which appears not to be the case with this fine Turkish lad. The attack on monday didn’t really influence the outcome of the election, an enquiry amongst voters showed that a mere two percent of them said they changed their mind. In the polls before monday it was already clear that the new political movement (Forum voor Democratie) would become big. This has everything to do with more and more people getting fed up with the way the EU is operating, the immigration politics of Rutte & Co and also the ridiculous climatelaw they want to implement which will cost society at least 600 billion while it isn’t clear wether it will even lead to something worthwile.

I didn't know French justice was also laxist, we get to hear stories about Dutchmen in French prisons begging to be transferred to a Dutch prison because they can't cope. Also, the stories about xenophobic police officers in France sound more real than the ones we get to hear about Dutch police officers. But judges could be the same of course.

This fine Turkish lad was a burglar, a shoplifter and a rapist and also accused of an attempt to murder. He was on parole because he had told the judge he would cooperate and take a psychological test. That's Dutch justice for you. It's still not clear wether there was a terrorist motive or that it was just another "honor killing", my guess is that it has nothing to do with both and that it's just another imbecile who doesn't fit in Dutch society and took too many drugs.

I fear there’s much more violence coming in the next decade. Not just from the usual idiots but also from ‘ordinary citizens’. Immigration is splitting European societies.

Probable terrorist attack in Utrecht, the Netherlands this morning. It’s not clear yet wether it’s a radicalised muslim or some retarded neo-fascist. Hard to tell these days...

Some people don’t deserve “regular justice”, I wouldn’t mind when this lot would be handed over to the remnants of Isis.

Never underestimate a Dutch man Hypo, we’’ve got hidden powers you know...

I agree that she's a British citizen, I was just wondering why authorities in Syria (and Iraq) are apparently not willing to judge these women or the fighters who are in the hands of the US military.

Do you happen to know the reason why this woman can't be judged in Syria?

British government is seriously incompetent when it comes to Brexit but in some ways they're more practical than any other European country. https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/590766/RAF-drone-strikes-fighter-jets-British-jihadis-ISIS?fbclid=IwAR0pyrpH4efabEKBoeDPMMBDOPqktNwaqsHDq7Y44OpAZH3UR5xj_CfDx3s

You wish Verb, you wish... But finally some humour from you!

Ah, that could explain his behaviour. Or maybe his wife is squeezing too hard his nipple clamps.

Mwah, last year I travelled through Indonesia for almost two months and there were mosques and muslims everywhere, I even had to talk and eat with them! Still I had a wonderful time, pretty amazing for an "islamophobe" like me won't you say? Although I have to admit I didn't go to the parts where the sharia rules, I don't like to see gay people getting beaten on a public square you know. I also enjoyed my dinners with natives on Bali who told me their local government is trying hard to impede islam conquering their island to no avail, I guess Wilders would be welcome amongst them. But keep up your SJW spirit Verb, I'm always in for a good laugh!

Usually I'm polite and try to answer questions as good as I can but in your case I'm getting weary of it because: a) I don't like your patronising tone of voice which you apparently need to place yourself on a moral high ground, it's really boring. b) your ongoing need to label someone who has a different view on things, it makes you look like some kind of prejudiced SJW who doesn't like to reason so it's useless to have a discussion. c) your habit of 'asking' questions (which are often laced with your shallow assumptions to put someone else in a corner) and not responding when I answer them is annoying. When I ask you for your thoughts on the rise of salafism in Western Europe the silence is deafening. When I answer your 'questions' there's no follow-up from you which is disappointing. As English is not my native language, it takes some time for me to translate, especially when it comes to matters which are not really possible to translate like a 'maakbare samenleving' which is translated into repairable society, socially engineered society or makeable society. It doesn't really cover the meaning it has in Dutch. I would be willing to try to explain it to you but only if I get the idea it wouldn't be a waste of my time. For me it's not hard to have an open mind, wether it's GM, LD SOG or Chapel end Charlie (where has he gone?) sharing their views. You never give the impression you're able to do that which is a shame as you do have knowledge worth sharing. Maybe you should read some Carlos Castaneda books, it might help you to get ahead with that.

Maybe, but as usual Rutte was just talking tough to keep his voters satisfied. There are enough politicians and NGO's in the Netherlands who are putting him under pressure, saying it's inhumane to let those women and children rot in the former caliphate. I reckon it won't take too long before the Netherlands are repatriating them. A lot of western people are still suffering from the 'christian guilt complex' or believe that everything within a society is repairable, a concept you won't find easily in the islamic world if not at all.

Dual nationality is alas allowed in the Netherlands, even some of our members of parliament do have a dual nationality, usually they have a Turkish or Moroccan background. But I reckon this woman doesn’t comply with the conditions and would indeed have to give up her British nationality. The Dutch government is not likely to allow her coming here as there are dozens of “Dutch” women in Syria and Iraq who want to come back but the Dutch authorities won’t go there to pick them up, they have to get to an embassy in another country which is very difficult of course. Like our PM Mark Rutte said: let them die there...

Good for you! The downside is that all those immigrants made Brexit possible while eastern and southern European countries are losing their well educated and enterprising youth. Those countries are becoming more conservative as a result which will have consequences for the unity inside the EU. Brussels will have to act upon this otherwise the “European Project” will crash within the next decade.

Western Europe is not the only one suffering from open borders, some Eastern European countries suffer way more. Take Latvia for example, 15% of its population moved to Western Europe and they won’t come back. One third of its youth has gone, the well educated ones are deerly missed as they are the ones who should run the country in the future. All the investment in their education was useless for Latvia, imagine the problems they’re facing in the next 50 years...

As long as snakes like that are rattled, things are looking bright for “the revolution”! One small problem though: you don’t want the Orban’s, Le Pen’s and Salvini’s to be in charge...