Dat is geen verkeerde plek om te liggen.

Eens👇 Ook de onderbouwing van de stelling: ‘‘als ontwikkelingshulp helpt het inkomen te verhogen, leidt dat in grote delen van Afrika eerder tot méér dan tot minder emigratie’’ komt uit onverdachte hoek, namelijk dit rapport van de Europese Commissie: publications.jrc.ec.europa.e…

and the police admitted they were the ones lying and giving out misinformation

Goh

'The viral video was shared on X by Elon Musk who said: “What kind of government arrests little girls who try to defend themselves?” But the schoolgirl was vilified when First Minister John Swinney condemned Musk’s defence as “deliberate misinformation” and the SNP leader accused the billionaire of trying to “undermine” community.' Goed om te weten wie nu echt misinformatie verspreide, wie nu echt probeerde de samenleving te ondermijnen. dailysceptic.org/2026/06/12/…

Of het nu het VK, Duitsland of Nederland is, het resultaat is hetzelfde. Utopieën zijn dystopieën. spiked-online.com/2026/06/11…

'So congratulations, race activists: you got everyone to see race. Now we have white race activists too, who say that because politicians “took the knee” for race rioters when it was BLM, no one can complain when they do it too.' unherd.com/newsroom/blms-sha…

Prachtserie overigens.

The EU’s budgetary coup For the EU’s new multiannual budget the Commission has proposed a framework totalling almost €2 trillion, equivalent to around 1.26% of EU gross national income (GNI) over the seven-year period. The European Parliament, never shy about spending other people’s money, wants to push that to 1.38% of GNI. But neither institution really admits the structural tensions buried in the figures. The EU must service roughly €750 billion in bloc pandemic debt, the repayment of which is now being permanently integrated into the regular EU budget. The Commission’s own proposal earmarks €149.3 billion for repaying the so-called “NextGenerationEU Recovery” and “Resilience Facility” funds — a sum that amounts to nearly 10% of total MFF commitments. This matters because of what it reveals about the true nature of NextGenerationEU (NGEU). What was sold to European publics as an exceptional, one-off response to the Covid crisis is now the fiscal template for the Union’s future. The pandemic fund set the precedent: the EU can borrow on capital markets, distribute grants to member states, and then embed the repayment into the general budget for decades to come — all without anything resembling a proper democratic mandate. This is arguably what the “unprecedented” EU fiscal response to the pandemic was always about: normalising common debt as a mechanism for tilting the institutional balance of power decisively in favour of the Commission, downgrading member states and locking in a structural shift in European integration. Indeed, the EU has since repeated the trick with a €90 billion package for Ukraine, again funded through joint debt backed by the common budget. The “historical exception” has quietly become the norm. To repay its vast debts, the Commission has proposed a package of new levies on companies. But if the new taxes fall short, as is likely, the fallback is a compulsory levy on member states. The existing “Own Resources Decision” — another wonderful piece of EU lexicon — already empowers the Commission to call on national governments for additional GNI-based contributions to cover NGEU repayments, on top of regular programme spending. In other words, if the new revenue streams underperform, the bill lands automatically on national treasuries, decided not by sovereign parliaments, but by the remorseless logic of the EU’s debt repayment. At any rate, EU debt now functions as a de facto tax on member states, bypassing the normal channels of democratic budgetary control. Read my article on the EU’s budgetary coup here: unherd.com/2026/06/von-der-l…

Orwelliaanse naam ook, 'Democracy Shield'.

Ja maar dat was niet de bedoeling. Misschien een wet maken dat alleen 'deugdzame' politici mogen kiezen om de wet niet te handhaven?

Oorzaak van de rellen gevonden, het is social media. Net als bij de mentale problematiek van jongeren en de verkiezingen van rechtse partijen. Snel verbieden dan maar, zodat we weer rustig op hetzelfde pad verder kunnen en de jeugd weer bloeit van geluk.

Controlekramp

De meest essentiële discussie op dit moment zou moeten gaan over wat het woord 'democratie' betekent. Semantische drift heeft de inhoud verwaterd tot op het punt dat er bijna nog meer werkzame stof in een homeopathisch middel zit, dan invloed van burgers in de moderne 'democratie'.

De utopieën worden met de dag gestoorder en gevaarlijker. 'Door stapsgewijs de werkweek te verkorten, vlakt de groei van de arbeidsinkomens af – en daarmee de consumptiegroei. Dat is een uiterst effectieve manier om de Jevons-paradox te doorbreken. Daardoor kunnen we onze economie twee keer sneller vergroenen dan met het huidige beleid, blijkt uit het GJR en andere bronnen.'

The Death of Satire

'Sadly, having curtailed children’s freedom outside of the home, many adults are now determined to curtail their freedom online, too.' spiked-online.com/2026/06/08…

We’ve moved very quickly from “two-tier policing doesn’t exist” to “two-tier policing does exist and it’s a good thing”.

In the 18th century, the French philosopher Montesquieu wrote that trade "produces in men a certain feeling for exact justice." Modern empirical research reinforces that observation. humanprogress.org/why-free-t…

'Two decades later, the world looks more like Lomborg’s spreadsheets than like the early-2000s apocalypse rhetoric. Emissions are rising more slowly than feared, climate-related disaster deaths have fallen, and poor countries still face more immediate threats from malaria, malnutrition and lack of basic infrastructure. Into this landscape, Bill Gates has recently stepped with a climate memo that reads uncannily like a Lomborg column.'

There are more Arabs serving in the IDF, than Jews livings in Arab countries