The Dutch Government has said it wanted to render parts of the immigration law inoperative in a bid to stem the high number of incoming asylum seekers.
Migration minister Marjolein Faber, a member of Geert Wilders’ PVV party, announced the intention in a parliamentary debate on September 12.
The move was designed give the government more leeway to limit immigration and would enable it to take measures that do not need parliament’s approval.
In the proposed changes, family reunification would require a minimum two-year residency status. Refugees should also secure independent housing and demonstrate a personal income.
Earlier attempts to put in place similar policies have been shot down by Dutch and European courts.
With such a change of the immigration law, the government could immediately restrict family reunification of adult children and curtail the filing of multiple asylum applications (known as “stacking”) using administrative decisions.
When asylum seekers file multiple applications , often in different countries or on different grounds, the system becomes overburdened and procedures are then prolonged by the authorities.
Faber said she wanted to declare an “asylum crisis” that would last between one or two years, she estimated.
Replying to journalists who said she would require permission for this from the European Union, Faber said the immigration legislation was part of Dutch national law and was not a EU matter. Declaring an asylum crisis would, she admitted, be bound by international law.
“People are experiencing an asylum crisis, the systems are jammed in healthcare, education and housing,” Faber said.
“The government can’t fulfil its constitutional duties in this manner.”
She stressed any such move would be taken according to the law. “I do exactly what I can, what is permitted,” the minister said.
In due time, parliament will get the opportunity to vote on the continuation these extraordinary administrative measures, should they be implemented.
To enable its plans, the Dutch Government will ask the EU for an opt-out of European migration and asylum policy, something Brussels has already indicated is possible.
Parties from the Left have already denounced the plans, calling them “undemocratic”.
Jan Paternotte, of the left-liberalist D66 party, lamented the timing of the government announcement.
“A debate the day before the coalition agreement comes out is a bit like packing for holiday, but you don’t know yet whether you’re going to the sun or the snow.”
It is an ambition of the right-wing government, where Geert Wilders’ PVV is the biggest party, to have “the most strict migration policies ever”.
Farmer-Citizen Movement MP Claudia van Zanten said: “At this rate, the Netherlands could have 21 to 23 million inhabitants by 2050. That’s far too many for our small country.
“Thankfully, this cabinet’s outline agreement includes a robust migration policy.”
PVV was said to be looking east, watching how Germany reintroduced border controls.
Today, it’s been revealed that the number of trans people in Britain was probably grossly exaggerated in the latest census because of the Office for National Statistics, asked a confusing question, and the suspicion is that the wording of that question was set by a pro-trans lobby group.
The ONS is now facing allegations that it fudged the numbers, inflated the amount of trans people in Britain which empowered the trans lobby who want to teach gender ideology to young children in schools.
So the question that they asked in the 2021 census was this: “Is the gender you identify with the same as your sex registered at birth”. Now, this is actually genuinely quite comical.
What appears to have happened is that migrants in Britain didn’t understand that question, and accidentally said that they identified as trans.
So people with a foreign first language were four times more likely to say they were trans than those who have English as their main language.
And again quite comically, areas with big, religiously conservative migrant populations such as Brent and Newham in London were found to have higher numbers of trans people than Brighton, an area with a notoriously high LGBT population.
So what they should have asked is this: “Do you identify as trans?”
Anyway, the result of that census was that roughly 0.5 per cent of the population was supposedly transgender. Well, it turns out that the reality is that an even smaller number of the population are actually trans.
Now, Oxford professor Michael Biggs raised the alarm over this. He thinks that the ONS has a close relationship with Stonewall, a trans lobby group with a tremendous amount of power and another trans pressure group pressed for change might have led them to being captured by the trans ideology.
Now they deny this, but the ONS was a member of Stonewall since at least 2006, and a member of their Diversity Champions Group until 2022.
Of course, the year the census was done was 2021, so the ONS is not alone.
Numerous government departments, quangos, etc. have all signed up to Stonewall.
So what this means is that they can enter a thing called the Workplace Equality Index, which basically ranks organisations on how inclusive and diverse they are now. In fact, Stonewall’s experts in LGBTQ plus inclusion have even created a, quote, sophisticated scoring system.
So it’s quite easy, isn’t it, to see how that might make those companies or those government departments or those organisations behave in a way that overtly promotes trans ideology.
The ONS has now downgraded the trans population stats from accredited official statistics to official statistics in development.
Now, this begs the question that if even fewer than 0.5 per cent of the population are actually trans, why is there such a big push to force this ideology onto children?
On today’s #NCFNewspeak, NCF Director Peter Whittle, Senior Fellows Dr. Philip Kiszely and Rafe Heydel-Mankoo and Amy Gallagher of Stand Up To Woke discuss: * Sadiq Khan says newly released prisoners should be given priority for social housing. * Germany closes its land borders – is this the end of Schengen? Sweden opts for voluntary repatriation not only of asylum seekers, but of naturalised citizens too. * New report says NHS is in crisis. Is Labour brave enough to undertake the necessary reforms?
US billionaire and Tesla founder Elon Musk has once again spoken out clearly in favour of Donald Trump in the US election campaign and warned against a Democrat election victory. In this case, a deluge of migrants would turn future US elections into a farce.
On X, Musk wrote: “The publicly-stated goal by almost all leaders of the Democratic Party is to legalize the ~15 million illegal migrants as soon as possible, as well as bring in tens of millions more.
That would immediately make all swing states deep blue, just like happened in California with the 1986 amnesty, turning America into a permanent one-party state.
This is the last real election if Trump loses.”
Elon Musk has long made no secret of the fact that he thinks Donald Trump is the better choice. Trump retaliated by hinting in August that he wanted Musk on his team, for example as an advisor on AI issues. At the beginning of September, he returned to the issue and spoke about setting up a special commission to examine government programs together with Musk. The latter said he looked forward to his appointment.
A Moroccan migrant who was jailed for burglary just days after arriving illegally in Belgium has been charged with raping a social worker in his prison cell during a visit to discuss his scheduled release.
Younes. I., 25, had only been in Belgium for ten days when he was arrested back in February for robbery and aggravated theft in Antwerp.
He was jailed after being found in possession of stolen goods including a watch and jewelry, as well as carrying a screwdriver. He was found to have been part of a gang targeting a residential street in the Belgian port city.
During his sentencing hearing, the court learned the suspect had been staying in Belgium illegally, but instead of enforcing a deportation order, the judge sentenced Younes I. to ten months in prison and a fine of €800.
The convict had been due for release in a few weeks and on Sept. 2, a social worker was assigned to his case to visit him in prison and discuss his future plans.
However, once alone with the social worker in his prison cell, Younes I. took the opportunity to rape her for several minutes before any reinforcements arrived to restrain him.
French media reported that a sheet of paper marked “aggressive” had been hanging in his cell — a warning that was not heeded.
The convict was rearrested and transferred to Oudenaarde maximum-security prison.
He attended a court hearing in Antwerp on Thursday, where the investigating judge formalized the arrest warrant.
He is expected to be indicted for rape and sexual assault.
A Swedish academic who triggered severe public backlash after writing his PhD thesis about masturbating to fantasy child sexual abuse material for three months has now released a book on the topic. Karl Andersson, previously a PhD student at the University of Manchester in the Japanese studies department, announced the publication of his new book, Impossibly Cute Boys: The Healing Power of Shota Comics in Japan, in a recent YouTube video where he states that the text incorporates his “philosophy of boy worship.”
Shota, a shortened version of shōtarō complex, refers to comics, cartoons, and other forms of visual media which focus on young boys in erotic and sexualized situations. The boys are primarily depicted as prepubescent, often having hairless bodies and very small features.
The medium is largely regarded as a form of fantasy child sexual abuse material, and is illegal in many countries including Canada and Australia as a result. It is also illegal in the United Kingdom, where Andersson’s PhD program was based.
In the YouTube video where Andersson introduces his book, he explains, “It is my research, basically. I have studied shota for over ten years, but most recently in the form of a PhD, and in the form of field work I conducted in Japan in 2023. So basically I associated with a lot of people who like shota,” he says.
Andersson neglects to mention that two years ago, following intense public scrutiny, Manchester University launched an inquiry into the circumstances of his PhD research and its publication. The paper, published in April 2022 in the academic journal Qualitative Research, sees Andersson admitting to masturbating to fantasy child sexual abuse material for three months as his chosen method of “research.” In the 4,000-word article, titled “I am not alone — we are all alone: Using masturbation as an ethnographic method in research on shota subculture in Japan,” Andersson details undertaking his “experimental method” of masturbating to shota pornography.
While Andersson does not reveal the ages of the youth in the sexual comics he masturbated to, he does refer to them as “young boys.” Later in the paper, Andersson writes that “very young boy characters would greedily jump over the first cock that presented itself” in a description of some of the comics he read.
Last summer, a University of Manchester spokesperson told the press: “The recent publication in Qualitative Research of the work of a student, now registered for a PhD, has raised significant concerns and complaints which we are taking very seriously. We are currently undertaking a detailed investigation into all aspects of their work, the processes around it and other questions raised. It is very important that we look at the issues in-depth.”
Andersson describes the format of his new book. Source: YouTube
Andersson was soon expelled from the PhD program, with the University of Manchester ruling that his work had caused “significant reputational harm” to the university. Sage, the publisher of Qualitative Research, retracted Andersson’s paper, and a representative explained that the decision was made “after an investigation determined that there was a lack of institutional ethical oversight and a lack of adequate and appropriate ethical review ahead of publication.”
Yet in his new book, Andersson claims to have received only praise for his paper from his academic peers prior to its publication.
His own academic supervisor, Andersson claims, complimented the paper as “pretty damn good” and described it as his “best piece of writing”. Additionally, one reviewer for the academic publication Qualitative Research emphasized that the rationale behind using masturbation as a research method was “well justified”, and said of the shota-obsessed academic: “The author has conducted provocative research by use of a highly bold and innovative application of autoethnography. Best of all, the author has done this extremely well.”
According to him, the unnamed convener of a PhD course in “queer autoethnography” where the paper was drafted celebrated the child pornography research as a “wonderfully written, reflective, analytical and intriguing essay on masturbation ‘in the field’”, and added: “This is already very publishable, should you so desire. Bravo.”
This remark appears to describe a reaction from Elisabeth Lund Engebretsen, who is a professor of gender studies affiliated with the University of Stavanger, in Norway. In his PhD paper, Andersson explicitly thanked Prof. Engebretsen “for commenting on an early version of this article.”
Curiously, Engebretsen has published questionable “research” herself, having authored an academic paper about “anti-gender campaigns on social media” which specifically named and vilified women critical of gender ideology as “trans-exclusionary feminists.”
However, Engebretsen has denied any involvement with Andersson’s work, saying, “I have given feedback on an essay written for a PhD course I taught. I had nothing to do with the research project itself or the peer review of the article that was published.”
As news of Andersson’s PhD paper began to circulate in 2022, it also came to light that he was responsible for two disturbing visual media projects which focused on the sexualization of young boys: Destroyer Magazine and Breaking Boy News.
Andersson created Destroyer Magazine while living in Prague and published the graphic magazine out of the Czech Republic, just after he graduated from Stockholm University. The erotic publication billed itself as “the leading international teenage boy magazine!” While Destroyer was derided in Sweden for its disturbing content, Andersson was sympathetically covered by Out, an international gay news outlet, in 2012.
While not explicitly pornographic, Andersson’s magazines revolved around eroticizing young boys and their behavior. Breaking Boy News focused on even younger teens and more gruesome content, with the stories eagerly highlighting young boys committing violence against animals, females, and each other, with a particular emphasis on pain and degeneracy.
During a 2012 interview with the now-defunct outlet Vice, Andersson doesn’t shy away from the label “boy lover,” and describes his attraction to minors.
“The boy is the one who does all the things we learn later in life not to do. He discovers things, tests limits, helps people, but he also robs, rapes or even murders. And they’re cute, of course. Boys are like kittens, it’s hard to take your eyes off them.”
The PhD student under fire for publishing a research article on masturbating to cartoon child sexual abuse material had previously published disturbing magazines focused on eroticizing teen boys.
Andersson’s Destroyer magazine received praise from pro-pedophile academic Jacob Breslow, who resigned from his post as an Associate Professor at the London School of Economics in late 2022. Breslow, who was a trustee for UK-based trans activist organization Mermaids, which advocates the halting of children’s puberty, described Destroyer as “a magazine dedicated to the beauty of the boy” and approved of Andersson’s “academic(ish) critique and aesthetic appreciation of boyhood, deviance, and the LGBT community.”
Notably, Breslow had previously spoken at a conference hosted by the pedophile advocacy organization B4U-Act, in a bid to lobby the American Psychiatric Association for changes to the diagnostic definition of pedophilia in order to “reduce stigma” against “minor-attracted people” (MAPs).
A pupil from the Jean-Perrin school in Rezé (Loire-Atlantique, photo) was arrested on Thursday morning in the Nantes region and taken into police custody. This was reported by BFMTV and confirmed by a police source to the newspaper Le Parisien.
On Wednesday, a teacher had caught the 17-year-old simulating a gunshot in his high school as he was about to hand in a homework assignment that had Arabic writing on it, according to reports. That same evening, the teenager posted messages on Telegram under the pseudonym Islamic Warrior with death threats and said he wanted to stab his teacher.
The pupil was arrested at his home on Thursday morning and taken into police custody. During a house search, two knives and a flag of the Islamic State group were found. His computer equipment was confiscated. Le Parisien
The partially collapsed Carola Bridge (Carolabrücke) in Dresden. Screen grab youtube
The collapse of a major bridge in Germany has shone a spotlight on the dismal state of the country’s public infrastructure.
At around 3am on September 11, inhabitants near the Carola Bridge (Carolabrücke) in Dresden, the capital of the German State of Saxony, were awakened by a loud rumbling noise. A span of the bridge, a main road and tram crossing over the river Elbe, had collapsed under its own weight into the waters below.
In the wake of the accident, a storm of criticism has hit the city official in charge of public works, Stephan Kühn.
Kühn is a sociologist by education and a politician from The Greens party. He has been Dresden’s so-called “mayor of construction” since 2020.
Critics have for years been lamenting the poor state of the city’s bridges, many of which – including the Carola bridge – were erected under the German Democratic Republic between 1949 and 1990 using sub-par construction material. Kühn had referred to such criticism as being “bare of any factual basis” in a recently deleted 2023 post on X.
Stephan Kühn (Bürgermeister der Stadt Dresden, Geschäftsbereich Stadtentwicklung, Bau, Verkehr und Liegenschaften) hat diesen Post, in dem es auch um die Carolabrücke geht, übrigens gelöscht. Ich finde, das sollten Sie wissen. pic.twitter.com/Ov0pq6XvVV
A representative of the Dresden city engineering department said the collapse had not been foreseeable. “You cannot look inside such an edifice”, city clerk Holger Kalbe continued.
City engineers will now assess the damage to the surrounding structures and try to find a way to lift the fallen concrete span from the river – which will be a difficult process, according to Kalbe.
The collapse of the Carola bridge is a dire reminder of the bad state of much of Germany’s public infrastructure. Around 8,000 motorway bridges are in need of renovation, according to a 2023 study by a German environmental NGO, as are a further 3,000 bridges on other long-distance roads.
Out of the 60,000 bridges for which German municipalities are responsible, around 50 per cent are in bad condition, according to André Berghegger, director of the German Association of Towns and Municipalities.
In July 2024, German infrastructure minister Volker Wissing announced he wanted to cut his ministry’s expenses by €5.2 billion over the coming year – among other things by reducing maintenance spending on motorways.
While the German Government led by Social Democrats, Greens and Liberals, has been frugal at home, funds for what many see as questionable development projects abroad seem easily available.
In one instance, in 2022, the Ministry for Economic Co-operation and Development, under minister Svenja Schulze, promised €24 million to extend the bike-path network in Peru.
Since the results were announced of France’s July 2024 legislative elections, President Emmanuel Macron has been unable to build a majority in the National Assembly, which appears more divided than at any time in the history of what the French call “the Fifth Republic”.
The elections produced three blocs, all of which appear to hate each other: the left, coalescing around Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s far-left La France Insoumise (“France Unbowed”), Macron’s centrist Renaissance party, and Marine Le Pen’s right-wing Rassemblement National (National Rally).
Three factors seem to favor France’s slide towards an open or latent form of even greater internal conflict.
1. Non-democratic Republic
The purpose of any democratic or republican form of government is to keep its citizens secure from threats foreign and domestic, and to oversee the peaceful transfer of power. In France, the question is whether it is still possible to change the government peacefully through the ballot box.
By having many of his party’s candidates stand down in favor of candidates from the New Popular Front (the hastily assembled coalition of left and far left parties led by Mélenchon’s La France Insoumise) in the elections, Macron and part of the center-right held in check the democratic will of the French people to transfer legislative power to the forces of the right, which have a majority in the country.
The French people, the plurality of whom voted “right-wing” in the first round, were astonished to discover, after the second round, a “left-of-center” National Assembly, a parliament that seemingly does not represent the real country.
Between the two rounds of voting, we actually witnessed the surreal spectacle of “right-wing” candidates (including former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe) calling on people to vote for communists in order to “block” the “extreme right”. Only in France!
2. The most anti-Western political “left” in the world
By maneuvering to save part of his parliamentary group, Macron offered a (relative) victory to the most anti-Western forces on the European political spectrum, the extreme left of La France Insoumise. The antithesis of a governing party, La France Insoumise is part of the Marxist tradition in the strict sense, which envisages violence as a means of acquiring power and as a technique of government.
Not a day goes by without La France Insoumise demanding to govern, demanding the appointment of this or that Prime Minister — a prerogative of the president alone, according to the Constitution – calling for the impeachment of Macron and threatening to “march on the Elysée” if its multiple demands are not met. These extortionist demands seem to be more like those of insurrectionists attempting a coup d’état.
“Over the past ten years, the founder of La France Insoumise has made a series of remarks that borrow from anti-Semitic stereotypes. To the point of arousing incomprehension even in his own camp and, for the past three months, causing a large part of public opinion to tense up.”
The message seems to be the all-too-familiar Marxist concept of Volksrache (“the people’s revenge”): arousing hatreds in order to channel them towards the “enemies of the regime”, and, in the end, liquidate them. The murder of a policeman, the burning of a synagogue, the death of a delinquent, a war in the Middle East, elections, no elections: everything is used as a pretext for the hate-filled, agitprop vituperation of the minions of La France Insoumise, who, by stirring up hostilities and resentments, particularly anti-Semitic ones, appear to be whipping up violent — even terrorist — militancy, in the tradition of France’s 18th-century terreur. The demonstrators look as if they are trying to incite violence against the non-submissive segments of the population: Jews, Christians, secularists, secular and moderate Muslims, the “right,” the so-called “far right”, the “center,” the “center-left,” and the “bourgeoisie”.
3. Is France presently ungovernable?
Through his maneuvers between the two electoral rounds, Macron may well have succeeded in making France ungovernable. While he did indeed block the popular will, he was unable to give the left enough of a majority to get anything accomplished. While countries with a federal system, such as Belgium, are able to survive and function without a central government, this is less true of France.
The problem is not so much the historically frequent divergence between the presidency and the National Assembly, as the parliament’s inability to form a majority within itself. It is difficult to form a coalition government when the far-left and the center appear to hate each other, and the center and a part of the right label the right-wing National Rally as diabolical. Without a majority coalition, the National Assembly cannot function, and the French state apparatus becomes necrotic.
For these three reasons — an inability to change the government through the ballot box, the over-representation offered by Macron to the most extreme party in Europe, and the inability to find a parliamentary majority — France appears to be sliding, slowly but surely, towards a version of chaos — the ancestral breeding ground for the violence that would be the victory, the horizon and the ultimate goal not only of Mélenchon’s phalanx, but of all those trying to take down the West.
Plans for negotiations are shaping up in Germany’s eastern state of Thuringia to determine who gets to participate in the next government. It may come as no surprise to the citizens of Germany that despite the anti-immigration Alternative für Deutschland (AfD)’s victory in the elections on September 1st, where they received a third of all votes, the party will be excluded from the talks as the other parties impose their ‘firewall’—or cordon sanitaire.
German media reported that the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), which came second with 24%, is even negotiating with the ideologically distant radical Left Die Linke party, the successor of the East German communist party, just so it doesn’t have to govern with the AfD.
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According to Bild, CDU Thuringia leader Mario Voigt held talks with representatives of Die Linke on Wednesday, September 12th, to negotiate ways of cooperating.
Following the elections, the AfD has the most seats—32—in the 88-seat state parliament and would easily be able to establish a majority with the CDU, which has 23 seats. The anti-immigration right-wing party has no chance of forming a government, as all the other four parties that got elected reject collaborating with them. The party does, however, have a crucial one-third of the seats, meaning it can block decisions, such as the appointment of judges, that require a two-thirds majority.
This leaves the centre-right CDU with the task of trying to form a government, but it will have to get the support of not only the centre-left Social Democrats (6 seats) but also Die Linke (12) and the Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (15), a party that split from Die Linke last year.
Before the elections, CDU leader Friedrich Merz said he would not cooperate with “right-wing extremist and left-wing extremist parties,” calling the Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) “right-wing extremist in some issues, left-wing extremist in others.”
However, following the elections, and facing the prospect of tough coalition negotiations, Merz seems to have changed his tune by stating that the BSW is “a largely unknown quantity” for his party. Sure enough: Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht does have some policies, such as a tough stance on migration, that could make it acceptable for some in the CDU. Die Linke not so much: it is a far-left party that espouses identity politics and radical climate and pro-migration policies.
As the conservative publication Apollo Newswrites:
For the CDU, any form of cooperation with Die Linke is extremely dangerous—even the cooperation with the BSW is not to the liking of many of the party’s supporters. However, a coalition with Die Linke, the direct successors of the East German communists, would be an even greater disaster for the CDU.
According to a survey published in August, 68% of eastern German members of the CDU said their party should not categorically rule out cooperation with the AfD.
Former CDU member of the state legislature Michael Heym said that his party should reconsider its stance on the AfD in light of the election results. He argued that if the AfD was actually anti-constitutional, as its political opponents have declared, then it should have been excluded from participating in the state elections altogether. Since this has not happened, and since the party has such strong support among the electorate, it must also be considered as a possible coalition partner.
Nevertheless, it is Die Linke that is being approached, with the CDU opting to avoid being labelled a racist party by the liberal elites instead of choosing to respect the will of the people in Thuringia and form a strong right-wing government with the AfD.
According to an analysis by the daily Thüringer Allgemeine, ultimately, a minority government may have to be formed, possibly by the three left-wing parties, and with the outside support of the CDU. This would not be unheard of as the centre-right party supported the previous minority government of Bodo Ramelow, a coalition of Die Linke, the Social Democrats, and the Greens (the latter failed to gain entry into the new parliament).
The problem with this scenario is that the coalition’s stability is strongly dependent on the willingness of the CDU to cooperate. Towards the end of the last legislature, for example, the CDU collaborated less and less with the minority government and instead passed laws together with the liberal FDP and AfD.
Whatever happens, the current headache of Thuringia will be followed by another one. The next big test for the establishment parties will be the elections on September 22nd in the eastern state of Brandenburg, where the AfD is also set to receive around a third of the votes.
