Gram Parsons & Emmylou Harris – »In My Hour of Darkness«
Mens der snakkes, handler Frankrig
Candidates for reuniting with their families in France will have to already have learned French to obtain a visa. This is what a decree which will be published in the Official Gazette prescribes. Every request for a reuniting with family will be accompanied by an exam which will be cultural and linguistic, which will provide “simple questions”, writes Le Figaro on its online site.
France: Over 23,000 Deportations in 2008
In the first nine months of the year, the number of illegal immigrants deported from France exceeded the overall figure for 2007 (23,000), as Immigration Minister Brice Hortefeux announced in submitting the budget drawn up by his ministry at the national assembly.Last year the target 26,000 deportations was not achieved, only sending away 23,000, but this year policies are encouraging professional immigration and limiting permits for family reasons, with the intention of struggling against illegal immigration in a firm manner.
If countries with a far lower percentage of immigrants — Ireland, Norway, or Finland, for example — were to apply similar draconian policies, the Muslim issue could be resolved in less than a generation. France gets it right. Snak er Foreningen Norden, der forestiler sig et nordisk samarbejde om fremmedpolitik og miljø som asylgrund.Glem det ! England: Foreign criminals involved in some of the most serious crimes in the West Midlands are being kicked out of the country in a new crackdown.
Paul Belien: Telefonbogenstesten
One will not likely find many people in the Boston phone book who would prefer to join the foreign army than their own in the event of a war between the United States and a foreign nation. In Europe, that certainty no longer exists.Last week, my good friend David Brooks reminded us of a famous saying of the late Bill Buckley. As Buckley said, he would rather be ruled by the first 2,000 names in the Boston phone book than by the Harvard faculty.There is usually more common sense, indeed wisdom, in the opinions of the common man than in the theories of intellectuals and even of professional politicians.
On opening the Brussels phone book and browsing through its first 2,000 names, however, one quickly realizes that to advocate Buckley’s advice in contemporary Western Europe would lead to the installation of rulers with names reminiscent of Arabian Nights, names such as Aarab, Abbas, Abdel Kader, Abdellaoui, Al Mahi, Al Maghreb El Jadid, …
The face of the old continent is changing faster than many realize and the repercussions are already being felt in Europe’s elections. In many countries the Muslim vote is on the brink of tipping or has already tipped the electoral balance. Most immigration into Europe has been welfare immigration. Hence, it is no wonder that the immigrant vote favors the Left.
In the Netherlands, 70% of the immigrants participated in the 2006 Dutch general elections, with over 80% of them voting for the left. In the 2005 German general elections, 94% of the Germans of immigrant (mainly Turkish) origin voted for the parties of the left – Socialists, Greens or “Post”-Communists – who gained 51.1% of the national vote. In France, a country with over 10% Muslims, their electoral clout has become so important that even the far-right Front National tries to attract part of the Muslim vote. [...]
The newly elected immigrant politicians, on the contrary, represent a growing and demographically young electorate that insists on asserting its Muslim identity. Their loyalties lie more with their countries of origin than with the Dutch nation, which they look upon mainly as a welfare distributing Santa Claus. In Belgium, Ergün Top, a Turkish-born Muslim politician who ran for the Senate last year, admitted that he feels more loyalty towards Turkey than towards Belgium. He told an audience of Turkish-born Belgian voters that if there ever were a war between Belgium and Turkey, he would join the Turkish army and fight Belgium.This indicates that turning the tide of Islamization in Europe will be very difficult. Paul Belien: The Wisdom of the Phone Book (Belien - kendes blandt andet på hatten. Foto Snaphanen)
Hvorfor vinder tyrannerne næsten altid ?
Undtagen…..Svaret er ikke så svært, det leveres i Sappho-artiklen. En særlig ildevarslende og vigtig artikel, der på grund af øjeblikkelig travlhed forleden, kun fik en kort notits. Den fortjener mere. Ifølge Arthur Legger er tegneren Gregorius Neckshot nu truet eller bestukket til tavshed om islam, og på hans blog synes emnet erstattet af nogle genkommende, resignerede ikke-billeder, alle med samme titel: “Identitet Anonym”. Jeg kan ikke se dem anderledes, end som depecher fra tegner i påtvunget indre eksil, en kuet mands ungezeichnete Bilder. - Hvor meget mere diskret går ikke den svenske tystnadsspiral tilværks. Ingen stormende poliser og mørke fangehuller. Man drejer helt enkelt om for strømmen, bogstaveligt og i overført betydning, sender et velvoksent HMF-bødeforlæg, og pisst er man ude i mørket. Icke-personifierat, udgrænset. Og hvilken kontrast til den trodsige, men stadig muntre Kurt Westergaard, er de her mørke billeder ikke, alle med et gitterværk henover, demonstrativt, anonymt fotograferede. Som udskrevet fra en printer, der er ved at løbe tør for blæk. Sådan tegner man, når man ikke tegner mere. Signeret Z:
Holland’s Systematic Campaign against Free Speech
The government is obsessed with appeasing Muslims. When it couldn’t get Geert Wilders, it went for Gregorius Nekschot. According to prominent journalists, the present cabinet is the greatest threat to the Dutch legal system since World War II
By Arthur Legger
“Don’t you know that all human ills and mean-spiritedness and cowardice arise not from death, but from fear of death? Against this fortify yourself. Direct all your discourses, readings and exercises thereto. And then you will find that by this alone are men made free.”
Epictetus (55-135 AC, former slave and favourite Stoic of Hadrian and Marcus Aurelius)