Dr. Death
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Waarom steunen rechtse partijen een entiteit die zoveel mensen gewelddadig verdrijft?
Overal uitsluiting. Nu weer in Terneuzen. PVV de grote winnaar van de verkiezingen. Wordt buiten de coalitie gehouden. Wel belasting betalen, niet mogen meepraten. omroepzeeland.nl/nieuws/1845206…
While ordinarily newspapers censor the full horrors of such accounts from Oct 7, today the Daily Mail as hard as it is, publishes the details because unbelievably, some still question the largest slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust. Even certain sections of the established media have suggested that the extent of sexual violence committed by the terrorists may have been exaggerated. The UN, too, dragged its heels in recognising the atrocities committed. It seems 'believe all women' did not apply in this instance. @AndyJehring Read the EXCLUSIVE report: online Link mol.im/a/15807431
I think this thread is posted in at least a simulacrum of good faith, so I'll give a substantive response. It is obviously true that in the moment of crisis, leaders face tremendous pressure to do something dramatic to address the crisis, and often those decisions turn out, in retrospect, to be wrong. In the case of the covid crisis, the problems were confounded by a determined unwillingness of scientific and public health leaders to respond to data -- in real time -- that showed that core assumptions underlying the lockdown strategy were wrong. Here is a short list of facts about covid that undermined these leaders' core assumptions: * covid is airborne, * covid spreads asymptomatically, * covid infection fatality rate << case fatality rate, * covid has a sharp age gradient in its infection mortality risk, * lockdowns cannot suppress covid spread or protect the vulnerable for long, * lockdowns crush the lives and well-being of children, the poor, and the working class, and almost everyone other than the laptop class * lockdowns cause a form of psychological terror that guarantee they could never last just two weeks The WHO and public health leaders got all of these facts wrong in 2020, which I suppose is understandable. What is not understandable is that these same leaders conducted "devastating takedowns" of even well-credentialed outside critics who pointed out that the WHO's core assumptions were incorrect, and accepted these assumptions as true even as overwhelming data to the contrary emerged in real time. What is not understandable is the utter confidence that the WHO and public health leaders expressed in these ideas and lockdown policies to the public as the only way to protect the population, going so far as to call for censorship of contrary voices on social media and elsewhere. The closest analogue I can think of is the set of "best and brightest" advisors who told Pres. LBJ that victory in the Vietnam War was just around the corner, based on a whole host of faulty information. Leaders who come out of such situations having embraced such a litany of catastrophically failed ideas and policies have a few choices on how to handle the post-crisis era. 1) They can, in good faith, admit their failures and work to reform systems so the disaster never happens again. This would be best, though I would understand why the public would want a new set of leaders to design and implement the reforms. I personally am very happy to work with and learn from public health leaders who choose this option. 2) They can pretend to have done nothing wrong, clinging to power for as long as they can, hoping against hope that history will vindicate them, crushing public trust in the institutions they lead. 3) They can try to pretend they never recommended or adopted the catastrophically failed policies, hoping that the public has a short memory. This is the current strategy that the @WHO is taking. 4) They can appeal to the difficulty of the job of handling a crisis under considerable uncertainty, not in a spirit of reform, but rather as an excuse to avoid responsibility for their failed crisis management. This is the approach that Koopmans is taking in her thread. I have very little sympathy for the covid crisis leaders who choose options 2, 3, or 4. Their job was to manage the uncertainty with wisdom and humanity, which they failed to do. They cannot, at this juncture, turn around and expect public sympathy because their job was hard, or expect the public to forget their failure. These leaders have destroyed public trust in public health, and should step aside as a new set of public health leaders works to fix the damage they caused.
De stikstofcrisis zit muurvast omdat we blijven denken in tegenstellingen: landbouw vs natuur. Maar wat als die tegenstelling simpelweg niet klopt? In dit nieuwe artikel introduceer ik Natuurlijk Agrarisch Beheer (NAB): een model waarin boeren juist onderdeel zijn van natuurherstel. Geen uitkoop, maar integratie. Geen verschraling, maar kringlopen. Geen polarisatie, maar ontwerp. Met inzichten uit het gesprek met Marcel van Silfhout bij De Nieuwe Wereld. Lees hier 👇 food4innovations.blog/2026/04/30/nat… @StikstofInfo @RobertEllenkamp
De Duitse politie heeft met zo’n 1000 agenten ongeveer 50 woningen en bedrijven doorzocht in Leipzig en omgeving. Het gaat om zo’n 50 Syriërs die worden verdacht van grootschalige fraude met verblijfsvergunningen. Ze stuurden hun echte Duitse papieren naar Syrië, waar mensen die op hen lijken ermee Europa binnenkwamen. Daarna meldden ze hun paspoort ‘kwijt’ en vroegen een nieuwe aan. Bij de doorzoekingen vonden ze onder meer 100.000 euro contant geld, drugs en spullen die wijzen op explosieven. De autoriteiten onderzoeken ook mogelijke banden met Syrische clan-criminaliteit. Dit is geen losstaand incident. Het laat weer zien wat er gebeurt als je jarenlang mensen uit zulke landen binnenlaat. In NL is de situatie niet anders. Maar heb vooral geen vrees voor een AZC in je achtertuin jij extreemrechts tuig! focus.de/panorama/betru…
Goed om vandaag aanwezig te zijn bij de Landbouw- en Visserijraad in Luxemburg. Met collega’s uit de EU gesproken over actuele landbouwonderwerpen. Gesproken over thema's zoals het GLB na 2027 & preventie natuurbranden. 1/2
Nederland snakt naar oplossingen tegen de asielcrisis. En naar maatregelen tegen de instroom. Die plannen lagen er. Maar nog voordat de asielwetten überhaupt waren weggestemd in de Eerste Kamer, bleek er al gewerkt te worden aan ‘plan B’. Kamervragen! ⬇️ boerburgerbeweging.nl/fractienieuws/…
