The Wilders Effect.

One of the first lessons I learned as a young soldier, which was a long time ago I must admit, was that one should know one’s enemy. Learn what he does, how he thinks and how he acts. Having been subjected to a constant barrage of islamic atrocities over the last thirty years, starting with Arafat and his cronies, I think, at least, I know who my enemy is. In my attempts to learn his ways and manner of action I sometimes venture off to the strangest places to  read what they are saying about the world in general.

On my latest foray into the enemy camp, I found this heartening news concerning the Netherlands from the Muslim News, UK.

The Netherlands: Many Muslims want to leave due to Wilders

30-06-2009

Netherlands, (Dutch News):

The rise in support for anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders means many Dutch Muslims are considering emigrating, according to a poll for NCRV tv.

While 75% of Dutch Muslims said they still feel at home in the Netherlands, 57% say they feel less welcome, the poll shows, according to the Telegraaf. And 51% are thinking more often about leaving.

In addition, 75% feel they are judged more negatively since the rise of Wilders and four out of 10 say they are more often discriminated against.

Aw. Poor sods. Doesn’t that just make you feel awful awfully good about the future. I can’t help wondering about where the unwelcome muslims are planning on emigrating to, but hopefully, it won’t be another European country. Since we don’t know how the figures mentioned above were derived, one can only hope that they are accurate.
I couldn’t help noticing that 75% felt that they were “at home” and yet insistent that they are “judged more negatively since the rise of Wilders” and “ more often discriminated against.”

Amazing. The power of one. What we really need then, is a few more Geert Wilders.

The article ends with the usual muslim warning that we are all used to by now, although it hasn’t been discussed anywhere openly in the MSM:

According to Rotterdam city council executive Hamit Karakus:

“The rise of Wilders’ PVV party, which emerged as the biggest in Rotterdam after the European elections, means that a growing group of second and third generation immigrants do not feel welcome and a small but growing group are turning to radical Islam.”

In plain English:

“See, if you people keep demanding your country back, we’ll all go fundamental on you, and you know what that means..!”

In the meantime, I’m crossing my fingers for the Netherlands and cheering for Geert.

 

Hat tip: (or should that be turban tip?): Muslim News.

Amazed in Milan

Having been to Milan during the weekend and having thoroughly enjoyed myself in that fair city, I came home and reviewed the few photos I had taken. Like every tourist, I took pictures of the great Duomo Cathedral. It has been recently cleaned and stands now, pristine, a white and sandy coloured Catholic monolith. I am not religious by any means, I was simply admiring the architecture. My wife wondered if we should go inside. Then we saw the queue to get in and decided  against it.

The reason for the queue? Well, that is what was truly amazing. Since when, I wondered, and why, has it been necessary to have the police and the military, not to mention the Caribinieri, search people and their belongings when going into a church?
I couldn’t help myself. I had to have pictures.

See here.

There is something wrong here, isn’t there?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(These pictures are clickable if you want a better view.)
I can only imagine the outcry if it was a mosque we were talking about, but a Catholic Cathedral in Italy? Does the pope know about this?

I wonder who they are afraid of? The protestants?

How the New EuroParliament Looks

Well it certainly looks better now than it did a week or so ago. I have to say I’m more than pleased that the blue bits got a whole lot bigger. There is more to see at this Euro Parliament site.

 

 

I’m a sucker for facts and figures, especially when it comes to before and after and, especially again, when my side is winning, so I couldn’t help myself and put this little graph (below) together.  It’s worth mentioning that the amount of Euro seats has been reduced from 785 to 736 lately, so comparing the gains and losses is a bit harder than it should be. However, here are the results comparing the 2004 and 2009 elections.

 

 

The MSM reports in Europe appear not to have gotten the message. The march to the right is, they claim, the result of the financial situation. At the same time they are all screaming about the invisible neo-nazis, extremists and racists all over Europe. Surely, if one is to apportion the results of the elections over all of Europe to economic reasons, then the real culprits are the money movers, bankers and financial wizards that all voted right of centre. Strangely, all those right of centre, are by default, extremists, racists and neo-nazis. Not a banker amongst them, it seems. Unless all the financial types are, well, you know, neo-nazi racist extremists. Not to mention xenophobic islamophobes, or any other badge the left would like them to pin on you.

(Badges? Badges? We don’t need no stinkin’ badges!)

One would have thought the message was clearer than that. We, the people, have had enough of you, the leftist politicians, and your eternal bullshit. When government of the people becomes bullying of the people, then the people will unite against you. And that is exactly what happened. The MSM, being the eternal mouthpiece of the left, is apparently in open denial.

It’s going to be an interesting next five years.

Disgraceful Times

The Timesonline is a constant source of reading material. Most of what one reads is only slightly coloured by the editorial staff and generally speaking they are pretty fair. But the following caught my eye and had be swearing into my tea this morning:

The BNP has a wide choice of neo-fascist bedfellows to team up with in the European Parliament after voters delivered the far Right extra seats in nine countries.

I see. Since the fascists were actually national socialists, I don’t truly understand the title accorded to parties from all across Europe. The article is here.

I did note, however, that the times also quoted the infamous anti-BNP webside “Searchlight” which has no other purpose than to cast aspersions on the BNP. The quote leaves me wondering just what these people are thinking;

"The far-right growth is a really bad sign, and this is clearly linked to the economic crash," Gerry Gable, the editor of Searchlight, an anti-fascist monthly magazine, said. "This is the entirely predictable result of the social fall-out of the financial crisis. It is a particularly worrying trend."

Due to the economic crisis, eh? Doesn’t have anything to do with hordes of invading muslims and the like then?

You’re right to be worried Mr. Gable. Grow up and get real. The worm has only just started to turn.

Oh, Happy Day!

This from the Timesonline:

A far-right anti-Islamic party emerged as the big winner in the European elections in the Netherlands yesterday as the rest of the Continent braced itself for further gains by fringe parties over the weekend.

The Party for Freedom led by Geert Wilders, the maverick Dutch MP who was banned from entering Britain this year for his beliefs, won four seats in the European Parliament at the first time of asking, having been formed in 2006.

The result, which placed the party second in the Netherlands, behind only the ruling Christian Democratic Alliance (CDA), suggested that anti-immigrant parties would attract disaffected voters in a number of countries in the European polls. They are expected to gain seats in Austria, Belgium, Italy, Hungary, Slovakia and Romania.

With most of the votes counted, Mr Wilders’s party took 17 per cent of the vote, second to the CDA of Jan Peter Balkenende, the Prime Minister, which took 19.9 per cent…

At least the Times refrained from calling the Freedom party for racist nazis. Even if I do find their description unfair, misleading, unjust and downright unethical, all us far-right anti-islamists must be feeling pretty good about this one. I only hope the same sort of thing happens here in Denmark on Sunday.

My sincere congratulations to Mr. Wilders, his party and to the Netherlands.

Read it all here. Times article

Could it Be..?

This morning, we all woke up to the news that an Air France Airbus was missing after vanishing off the radar somewhere over the Atlantic between Brazil and Africa. So far, so good, albeit tragic.

There has been a search operation going on since then for the aircraft. Later this morning, debris was located. I read on the BBC webside, the following:

Air force spokesman Col Jorge Amaral [Brazilian Air Force] said the debris had been spotted by search planes early on Tuesday.

"At approximately 0530 Brazilian time [0830 GMT], a C-130 military aircraft spotted some debris in two locations approximately 60km apart from each other," he said.

"In this area, they saw an orange buoy, an airplane seat, small white pieces, an airplane turbine as well as oil and kerosene.

"The search is continuing because it’s very little material in relation to the size [of the Airbus A330]."

Officials, he said, needed "a piece that might have a serial number, some sort of identification" to be sure it came from the missing jet.

Now, let’s think about this astonishing news.

I have travelled about half way round the world on aircfaft twice, plus all the intercine European flights I have under my belt and never once have I experienced, even if their were football hooligans on the flight, that anyone ripped out the seats and threw them out of the windows or doors.

No aircraft other than AF447, the downed airbus, has reported losing a turbine (read; aircraft engine) over the Atlantic today. One would have thought, that an aircraft doing so would at least make some sort of complaint to someone, somewhere.

The oil and the kerosene, (how do they know that?) may have been dumped by a passing ship, so we’ll give them the benefit of the doubt there and I’ll throw in the orange buoy for good measure.

My question is then, how could this not be the remains of flight Af447?

Come on BBC. What’s the big secret?

No Pun Intended?

This is taken from an article in The Catholic Herald:

An ecumenical service was held to commemorate 20 martyrs who were hung, drawn and quartered for rejecting Henry VIII’s Act of Supremacy.

Master of the Charterhouse Dr. James Thomson said:

"We want to concentrate on what joins us together and not what divides us……"

Well. It would appear that a little “reunification” is exactly what one needs after being quartered.

Not Refugees any Longer

In March 2003 the United States and other members of a coalition of governments from all around the world entered Iraq and began the demolition of Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship. It only took two months to accomplish. The oppressive and bloody reign of Saddam was over. During his time in power he drove thousands into exile as refugees who were desperately trying to get away from his secret police and political allies. Some of them came to Denmark during that time.

Saddam is dead and gone. His secret police are no longer in power. The feared Baath Party are gone. With this in mind, the time has come to send those refugees home, where they belong. Amongst the genuine refugees there were also economic refugees who followed along for the hand out. Amongst these refugees were some who were, for one reason or another, refused entry into this country. They simply chose not to leave. Most of them were detained in accommodation which, despite having most of the comforts of a modern leisure centre hotel, became known as refugee camps. A more misleading piece of nomenclature can simply not be found.
But now the game is up. Denmark has drawn up a return agreement with Iraq and those that were pursued and oppressed by Saddam Hussein and company can go home to Iraq without fear. The old regime is gone for ever, so there is nothing to fear.

But no. Not entirely. The UN is against the return of refugees, even though they had nothing to seek refuge from, apart perhaps, from the fear of having to fend for themselves and make their own living. The EU is equally against the repatriation simply because, well, it is the EU and has decided on a non-refoulement policy for anything on legs that can say the word “asylum”, including islamic terrorists who now live amongst us under something called “tolerated presence”.

In a last ditch attempt to remain here, a group of ten of these Iraqi men, that came here eight years ago, in 2001, two years before the removal of Saddam, have sought refuge in one of Denmark’s oldest and best loved churches, the Church of Our Lady, in Copenhagen. A rather surprising place to go since they are predominantly muslims. They claim that they are “pursued in Iraq and that now they feel pursued in Denmark”. Apparently not so pursued that they were not free to walk into a christian church and declare residence. I wonder, who let the dogs out?

According to a spokeswoman for these Iraqis, Anne Bågø; "Right now we are arranging for and preparing food and finding mattresses so these people can live here until a political solution can be found.”
She was also the spokeswoman for a protest action referring to itself as “Close the camps” which ended with a collision between the activists and police last year. Well, be careful what you wish for, woman. The decision has been made to close the “camps”. This is the result. What did you expect?

I have only one word for both Bågø and the Iraqis. Piffle.

We have a political solution. We have an agreement with Iraq to take these undesirables back to where they came from.

They may have had a difference with Saddam and his cronies and regime, but as stated, that regime, including Saddam and his boys, is dead now. The country has settled down is no longer in civil turmoil or afraid of secret and brutal police.

So you tell me. What’s to seek refuge from any longer?

The church has asked the squatters to leave but will not enforce any decision to remove them by force.

Personally, I reckon we should forcibly baptise them before we throw them out of the country.
If you think that’s a little unchristian of me, then don’t fret. I don’t profess to be a christian either.

Al Gore is an Idiot

There. I said it. I wrote it for all the world to see, if it comes here to read my blog. How do I come to this conclusion? Well, it’s because of his latest blast of doom and gloom delivered in the town of Tromsø in the north of Norway in that bit of Scandinavia that we call the frozen North. It’s just that it isn’t frozen all year round. It thaws out every year in the spring and then freezes again in the autumn and winter. According to Al Gore, that is not normal and can’t we see, that the ice is melting before our very eyes?

Yes Mr. Gore. We can. And we’re glad that it does so. Every year. Otherwise, we’d be in a new ice age.

It’s normal over here.

All this melting ice nonsense is getting to be boring and basically, it isn’t dangerous anyway. All the polar ice could melt in a day and the sea would not rise an inch. Ice displaces itself in water. Archimedes worked it out hundreds of years ago. Back to school, Mr. Gore. Do your homework.

If you want the low down on the ice figures, I found a neat website devoted to the Cryosphere. New word for you? It means the cold bits of the world. You know, the extreme north and south. This site brings some neat graphs displaying the polar ice and indeed, the global ice cover.

Here’s a graph concerning the Arctic ice since monitoring began in 1979:

 

 

I’d say that looks pretty stable. Goes up in the winter, down in the summer. You know, normal. Like it’s supposed to. Variations here are minimal.
If you want a closer look, here’s the link: Arctic ice cover

That’s only the Northern bit of the global ice cover. Now, if you want to see the global figures..:

 

 

Once again, that looks all pretty stable to me. Up and down like a whores drawers. Regular. Normal.
Here’s the link to this graph:  Global ice cover

And while I’m about it, let me tell you, that the ice cover has actually grown recently, contrary to all the doomsayers preferred mantra. The thing is, they show you pictures of glaciers falling to bits and melting ice masses and icebergs at the drop of a hat. Funny how you never see pictures of the millions of tons of snow and arctic ice crystals that fall each year to replace it. I suppose it must be too cold to warrant a visit in the winter.

Al Gore is presently trying to drum up some interest in the coming climate talks due to take place in Copenhagen this year. That he is desperate is clear. The lies are coming home to roost and the general population of the entire world is coming to realise that this global warming crap is just that. Crap. A reason to increase taxation and no more. The creation of artificial green jobs must be funded and we, people, are going to fund it, whether we like it or not.

Perhaps I wouldn’t mind so much if the Gorian lies were a little less obvious and a little more informed.

Go here; and read it for yourself. Unless, of course, you find the truth to be a little too inconvenient.

The year of the Pig

Last year was the year of the birds. This year, it is the pigs that get the credit. Despite the fact that, until now, not one single pig in the entire world is dying, or has died of, influenza. The WHO has once again justified its existence with another raging success, calling the annual outbreak of influenza “Swine flu”. If you hadn’t noticed, this outbreak happens every year around this time. Remember the “Hong Kong flu”? SARS? “Bird flu”? Or what about “Spanish Flu”? It’s annual. And guess what. People have died of the dreaded influenza since time immemorial. Most of us that get it, get sick and feverish for a few days, feel like hell and then get over it. The young, the old and the generally infirm have always been at risk and invariably, a few die. This is not new, people. It’s an annual event and has been going on for ever. You have more chance of being struck by lightening than getting this years bug and actually dying from it. No matter what one calls it.

Egypt has totally misunderstood the name and has ordered the destruction of around a quarter of a million pigs. I didn’t even think they reared pigs in Egypt as they are primarily muslim and do not readily eat the filthy pork, but one would at least expect their government would investigate the true nature of the disease before needlessly destroying all that bacon.

Here at home we are simply caught up in the general idiotic panic that comes with all things mildly pandemic in the news, compounded with similar ignorance. I heard one young lady being interviewed on TV, who claimed she wasn’t worried as she didn’t eat pork anyway. I don’t think she was an Egyptian. Talk about mad cows.

Since the announcement last week of “Swine flu”, anyone that gets a sore throat and a cough or even a little sweaty and feverish has been suspected of having contracted the dreaded disease. So far, despite the doctors and their best efforts, not one case has been proven. This doesn’t mean that we should give up though. You never know, we may get lucky and find someone genuinely sick with it within the next month or so. The hospitals are all geared up with buckets of Tamiflu and other antiviral meds, just in case.
I hope so. I look forward to the closing of theatres, football grounds, railway stations and shopping centres and such like, as has been done in Mexico. That should keep the plebians off the streets at night.

In the meantime, I am going to carry on as usual and do as I always do.

I stay away from sick people. Oink, oink.