The Alan Parsons Project with Old and Wise. Third hit from the album Eye in the Sky (1982).
Parsons is still around and touring, and reportedly set to release a new studio album next year. Woolfson died in 09 already.
The Police with On Any Other Day. From the iconic album Reggatta de Blanc (1979).
It took a mere four weeks to record this album (OK - not four weeks in a row, but spread over a couple of months) at Nigel Gray's Surrey Sound Studios in Leatherhead, south of London. For a budget of less than 9,000 British Pounds. Yet 5 out of its 11 tracks were hits - not even this one, though it's one of my favourites. What band today with all their gizmos and egos and pomp and big budgets can claim to make an album from scratch yielding 50 per cent hits?
The lyrics are hilarious:
.... My wife has burned the scrambled eggs
The dog just bit my leg
My teenage daughter ran away
My fine young son has turned out gay
Cut off my fingers in the
Door of my car
How could I do it?
My wife is proud to tell me
Of her love affairs
How could she do this to me?
My wife has burned the scrambled eggs
The dog just bit my leg
My teenage daughter ran away
My fine young son has turned out gay
And it would be okay on any other day
And it would be okay on any other day
Throw down the morning papers
And spill my tea
I don't know what's wrong with me
The cups and plates are in a
Conspiracy
I'm covered in misery
My wife has burned the scrambled eggs
The dog just bit my leg
My teenage daughter ran away
My fine young son has turned out gay
And it would be okay on any other day
And it would be okay on any other day....
And they couldn't write lyrics like that either today, ROFL!
Courtesy Gates of Vienna, a video that explains why Europe's Hillary Clinton, Angela Merkel - unlike the former, actually in power alas, pushed and pushes so hard for the UN Migration Pact:
Originally posted in German on the YouTube-channel Ebola/Virale Luegen, but provided to GoV with translation and subtitles by Oz-Rita. The commentator's analysis is that Merkel was such a strong advocate to give herself, retroactively, legal backup for throwing the German borders wide open in 2015, which, according to then EU laws, was an illegal thing to do.
Video transcript:
00:00 More than 80 times in the Global Pact on Migration
00:04 the phrase: “…we commit ourselves…” appears.
00:08 On average three times on each individual page of
00:12 the treaty. It takes a great deal of
00:16 audacity and chutzpa to call this treaty
00:20 “non-binding”. But it is precisely these two
00:24 Qualities that Angela Merkel possesses to excess.
00:28 In her speech today in the Moroccan city of Marrakesh, she repeated
00:32 the obvious lie about the treaty which allegedly
00:36 only contains “declarations of intent” and no legal
00:40 obligations for the signatory countries.
00:44 And, of course, a small side blow to the Right
00:48 could not be left out, who had “spread lies” about it in the run-up to the signing
00:52 of the treaty.
00:56 Now we all know that illegal migration, because of different
01:00 development opportunities in the world, is causing some very
01:04 great fears in our countries. And these fears are now being used
01:08 by the opponents of this pact to circulate false reports,
01:12 but the core of the dispute
01:16 about this pact, and its importance is the
01:20 principle of multilateral cooperation. Yet it is not the
01:24 oh-so-evil Right that spread lies about the Migration and
01:28 Refugee Pact, it was Angela Merkel and her
01:32 intolerable Grand Coalition that did so.
01:36 If everything had gone according to the desires of Merkel and her coalition partner,
01:40 the consumptive SPD [Socialists], as well as the mass media,
01:44 a public discussion about the two treaties
01:48 would never have taken place. Today Merkel
01:52 signed the fatal migration pact for Germany.
01:56 She also did so in the name of the many citizens who
02:00 see the sad reality on Germany’s streets and
02:04 who did not want these treaties.
02:08 No-one has any intention of building a wall. We can do it, We can do it,
02:12 and where something stands in our way, it must be overcome.
02:16 Because we also need people here who
02:20 feel at home in our welfare systems. I give you my
02:24 word of honour that the allegations made against me
02:28 are unfounded…
02:32
02:36 Pensions are secure.
02:40
02:44 One can spend a lot of time looking for one outstanding
02:48 talent on the part of Angela Merkel, but one won’t find it,
02:52 because there is nothing that this woman can do particularly well,
02:56 except perhaps to sit out in silence decisions
03:00 that are desperately needed. But is that a talent?
03:04 Merkel doe not even speak the German
03:08 language accident-free; she showed this in her speech in
03:12 Marrakesh. She cannot even lie well and
03:16 credibly: Merkel is a talent-free zone.
03:20 But she obviously does not give a crap about
03:24 the fact that in Morocco she once again served the world and the German
03:28 sheeple a big batch of completely transparent lies.
03:32 With the signing of both treaties,
03:36 Merkel has impressively demonstrated that the will of a
03:40 considerable part of the German population
03:44 literally slips by her fat agitprop a**.
03:48 Yet, the German people, no matter which
03:52 political orientation they belong to, are Angela Merkel’s
03:56 employer. But that does not count with Merkel. With her contempt
04:00 for her own people she stands firmly
04:04 in the tradition of so many other politicians who are completely detached
04:08 from the people.
04:12 With her signature, Merkel expressly showed that
04:16 she had thrown all warnings and legitimate concerns regarding the
04:20 mass migration pact to the wind.
04:24 She does not care that a number of important countries, including our
04:28 neighbour Austria, did not sign the pact.
04:32 She is just as indifferent to the warning
04:36 from the US President, Donald Trump, who last
04:40 weekend once again spoke of the dangers of the two
04:44 treaties. But who is Donald Trump anyway!
04:48 Only a bizarre, fascistoid oddball
04:52 in the chair of the US President. Angela Merkel
04:56 the Chancellor with the pre-programmed use-by date had,
05:00 in my opinion, only one thing in mind: she wanted
05:04 to legalise her migrations policy of open borders retroactively,
05:08 and thus exclude the possibility
05:12 that after leaving the Chancellor’s Office she could be held
05:16 liable for her illegal opening of borders.
05:20 The former constitutional judges Di Fabio and Papi
05:24 established back in 2016 that Merkel’s
05:28 policy of open borders was illegitimate.
05:32 With the signing of the migration and refugee pact,
05:36 the probability that Merkel will ever be brought
05:40 before a court because of her opening of the borders has decreased considerably.
05:44 Much like Helmut Kohl, [her predecessor], she
05:48 will simply sit out her offences after her removal
05:52 until her death. But what will happen to Germany?
05:56 I think it is unlikely that we
06:00 will see a very rapid effect of the migration pact within
06:04 a few days or weeks. At the beginning
06:08 it will probably be a creeping process, but it will certainly
06:12 increase and expand. The migration pact
06:16 has been signed, despite all warnings,
06:20 despite all protests, despite the petition. The only
06:24 possibility left to us is to ensure that
06:28 at the next elections, whether in three years or
06:32 sooner, the AfD will come to power. They
06:36 could then withdraw from the pact. But it will not
06:40 be easy. Maaßen’s successor at the top of the
06:44 Federal Intelligence Service has announced that he will have the AfD
06:48 monitored. That was the real reason for
06:52 Maaßen’s dismissal. Large parts of the migration pact
06:56 have already been de facto implemented in Germany since 2015.
07:00 One section whose implementation
07:04 we will see soon is the following:
07:08 “Eliminate all forms of discrimination and promote
07:12 a fact-oriented public discourse
07:16 to shape the perception of migration.”
07:20 This means nothing less than that the protest
07:24 against mass migration will soon become a criminal offence,
07:28 and that the Germans will in future be submerged in much more
07:32 propaganda than they are even now.
07:36 If you liked this video, please
07:40 leave a thumbs-up, share it and subscribe to
07:44 my channel. What is your opinion on this topic?
07:48 I would be very happy with a comment.
The thing that surprises me most in all this is the meek attitude of the Germans. More than any other European people, they were negatively affected by all the mayhem and trouble that came with importing at least 1.5 million welfare seeking Third Worlders, the grand majority of them muslims no less. As for the human cost too, Germany coughed up most: scores of BioGermans would still be alive or unharmed today had not the Merkel Gespenst allowed Middle Eastern killers and rapists in.
One always hears about the progress the AfD has made, but is it really so impressive? Nationwide and in most Laender, they capture perhaps 10 to 14 per cent of the vote, and Merkel's position rests relatively secure. Even her latest 'departure' as Chairman of the incongruously named 'Christendemokratische Union" is not the devastating humiliation she so rightly deserves.
And now that it is becoming increasingly clear that not only did she feverishly welcome wifebeaters in from Dakar to Dacca, but also drafted at least part of an international pact that will make the 2015 invasion look benign by comparison, the lukewarm reaction of Germans is rather astounding.
In my own country, Belgium, the turmoil was sufficient to torpedo the government - even though it took the Vlaams Belang to light the powderkeg's fuse and even though a rump 'government', Michel II, defied the population in going to Marrakesh anyway. But at least a sizeable part of Belgians showed a spine, hopefully even more so tomorrow, when the demo against the UN Pact will take place as promised. Indeed, the Council of State declared the decision of two Brussels corruptocrats, Close and Vervoort, who vetoed the demo, null and void.
But again...
... where is the German spine?
Make no mistake, I don't mean Wehrmacht and Waffen SS spine, God forbid. But the spine of a people that has given the world so e-nor-mous-ly much in terms of science, art, technology and literature... the spine of a 'Volk' - a People of thinkers and poets - that has every right to be Stolz - proud - of what it stood for, even long before the despicable nazi clique came to power.
The only explanation I can come up with is that the Germans have been clubbed into a moral numbness by seven decades of incessant leftist propaganda, convincing them that they should HATE themselves. How ironic is it that the forces who managed to do this are ideologically in the same league as the perpetrators of the Holocaust. And the ultimate kingpin - or should we say Queenpin - in this massive propaganda operation is this immoral Whore:
It's up to the Germans to free themselves of this Monster, Europe's very own Felonia Von Pantsuit. We can't do it for them.
An ad hoc group composed of Flemish nationalist youth organizations, namely Vlaams Belang Jongeren, Schild en Vrienden, Voorpost, NSV and KVHV want to organize a march against the UN Migration Pact aka 'Marrakesh' this Sunday, DEC 16, 2018.
Not surprisingly, Brussels Mayor Philippe Close (PS) and Minister President Rudi Vervoort (PS) vetoed the demo.
Their argument? "It is out of the question that we allow a brown march to take place in Brussels". Implying, of course, that said organizations are neonazis.
In other words, freedom of speech for me but not for thee. Close and Vervoort have no problem whatsoever with there being perhaps two hundred thousand of illegals strolling around in Belgium, a sizeable part of that in Brussels, but Flemish citizens wanting to freely express their opinion? NO WAY. Oh, our moral betters the socialists! To top things off, from the francophone branch, the PS, the "Party of 1,000,000 scandals" (scroll down to the part featuring mssr. Claes, Coeme, Spitaels, Cools etc). And they are telling US we are NAZIS? Really??? How about this?
The organizations planning the demo have already announced they will disobey the order. Bus transport has been scheduled. One organizer is talking 50,000 people (which, I fear, is a tad too optimistic, but whatever). Either way, we are looking forward to an interesting Sunday:
While I'm at it, it seems like the main force behind the march is Schild en Vrienden, led by the charismatic Dries Van Langenhoven. I've checked this fella out and have come to the conclusion that the allegations levelled against him and his organization are baseless. He's got my full support. They are this kind of guys (movie of an action earlier this year against Open Borders advocates):
As I have mentioned a couple of times, in October municipal elections took place.
In many towns and cities coalition talks for the new town and citu councils are still going on.
One such a place is Antwerp, where the incumbent mayor Bart De Wever (N-VA, simultaneously N-VA National Chairman) is trying to cobble together a city council on one and only one condition, namely that Vlaams Belang is excluded. The man has tried everything, from handicapped lesbian midgets and octogenarian Inuit librarians, over Moldovian philatelists and transgender Dogon chessplayers to Italian mechanics and a retired carnival troupe from Barbados, alas, nothing works. One possible partner which Mr De Wever considers are the Antwerp socialists. A representative sample is shown here in this still from an SP.a promo film:
The guy up front is Hicham el Mzairh. So what if he's Middle Eastern of from the Maghreb, I have no problem with Miss Belgium 2018 being of Filipino stock.
But on closer inspection, the photo reveals more.
I count only three BioBelgians, i.e. people from my haplogroup. The others, well, see for yourself. Where and when have Biobelgians forgotten to procreate?
It is worth to recap something I wrote 12 years ago, at the occasion of the 2006 municipal elections (every six years in this country):
"The map shows the nine electoral districts of Antwerp, which by and large are determined by the center and the suburbs. In case you wonder, yes, "7" is the place the Hoboken in Hudson County, New Jersey, is named after. Since in Antwerp the election was basically a megacontest between the VB and the socialists of the SP.a, the map shows which one is the biggest in each of the nine districts, whereby grey has been chosen for socialists and black for the VB (not a coincidence imho). In Antwerp City, "1", the center, the SP.a is biggest. Good. Now look at the periphery: with the exception of "2" and "4" it's all black. So, socialist are biggest in the center, VB is biggest in the suburbs. How to explain this?
1° Well, firstly, as you may or may not know, in 2004 the Belgian State, in one of its many instances of criminal insanity, granted voting rights in municipal elections to immigrants who do not even have the Belgian nationality on the condition that they know what Smurfs are, can tell Belgian fries from French ones and say "merci" upon receiving their monthly 1,000 EUR stipend from Social Security. Since it is a well-known fact that the socialists were the driving force behind these voting rights, it can be safely assumed that those who use these rights voted SP.a.
2° Secondly, there is the impact of the so-called Snel-Belg Wet (Quick Citizenship Bill), rushed through Parliament in 2000 after the previous municipal elections in which the VB, then still Vlaams Blok, also gained considerably. The "Snel-Belg Wet" (literally "Fast-Belgian Law") gives one Belgian nationality on very easy terms, namely:
* remain in Belgium for some time (some = three years, sometimes as less as two years)
* work in Belgium
* be married to a Belgian
Since North African youths who already possess Belgian nationality almost invariably prefer imported, unspoiled (and unassimilated) girls from Morocco, Algeria et al for brides, the Quick Citizenship Bill granted every newlywed young woman from these countries automatically Belgian nationality, and thus the right to vote. No one argued more in favor of this bill than the socialists, who correctly reckoned that the newcomers would in all likelihood vote for them.
3° Thirdly, there's the fact that those Belgians of North African origin who have been here since decades and whose numbers are quickly rising thanks to a much higher feritlity rate, vote overwhelmingly for the left.
4° Fourthly, not only is the fertility rate of the "old" Belgians much lower, since a couple of years they are moving out of the center in droves. Currently, Antwerp Central has a population of 460,000, of which around 120,000 are immigrants, or one quarter, most of them Moroccans. Of the remaining 3/4 of indigenous Belgians, around 4,000 leave each year and their place is being taken by about 5,000 newcomers of foreign origin, mostly from muslim countries (although recently there's been an influx too of East-Europeans). Almost as a rule, the newcomers vote for socialists.
And these dynamics yield the picture above. The "old" Belgians leave Antwerp Central for the (residential) suburbs and bring their political preferences with them, which explains the very high Vlaams Belang scores in places such as Deurne (nr. 5) where the party received a staggering 43.46% of the vote. Or like in Hoboken (nr. 7) where VB also got more than 40% of the electorate behind it. The very good VB results extend even beyond the nine districts. Not visible on the map, but lying immediately alongside the nine core districts, are such
towns like Schoten, Boom, Niel, Borsbeek, Willebroek and Stabroek, and here also VB becomes the biggest party."
It is one thing if Stijn and Nele and Koenraad and Veerle and Alain and Véronique have forgotten that their sexual equipment can also be used to make kiddos.
It is quite another if the newcomers don't subscribe to the traditional mores that were once essential in pushing our country upwards to the status of one of the wealthiest and safest in the world: labor ethic, a desire for neatness, respect for hierarchy, spirit for innovation, traditional family values, the will and pride to deliver a good job etc.
We see far too few of that with the newcomers, I'm sorry to say. From their ranks, not enough skilled technicians/engineers/doctors/scientists are coming forward.
And what is crystal clear, the grand majority of them flock invariably to parties that promote a strong omnipresent state, dependence on that state, vigorous control over all aspects of life. Which is perhaps not surprisingly, because the typical chap hailing from Tunisia or Morocco is used to a police state. Far too many of these are also muslims, so we get the worst of both worlds: acolytes of islam and socialism.
It's not going to be nice.
And of course, our self-hating socialists and greens are more than pleased to again being able to swim in a reservoir of eager voters. Look at that photo above, the white guy to the left of el Mzairh. That's Tom Meeuws. In a previous life, only a couple of months ago, he was Director of public transportation company De Lijn in Antwerp; but earlier this year he had to resign in a smelly affair of false invoices. Nothing new under the sun of course. These days Mr Meeuws is profiling himself again as a socialist bigshot vying for a nice place as an Antwerp public official.
In a few years, my country will be unrecognizable.
It's weird, to see it change before your very eyes.
What his speech boils down to is that for Vlaams Belang, basically the discussions of the last few days are not about the legitimacy of "Michel II", in effect a caretaker government since the departure of the N-VA, it's not even about the fall of the government, no, Dewinter KEEPS reiterating that for VB the discussion still should be about the fall of the Pact.
Yesterday I wrote:
"... This is all true, but I would put it another way. N-VA is not focussing anymore on (belatedly) stopping the pact because it doesn't think it is possible. No, N-VA isn't focussing anymore on that because it judges that it has made its show. For at heart, N-VA WAS NEVER AGAINST THE PACT. As mentioned yesterday, the N-VA Minister for Immigration, Theo Francken, was in Morocco last May where he read the draft (or even contributed to it) and APPROVED of it. It was only because VB called out N-VA that the latter party made a sudden U-turn, fearing backlash in the federal elections in May. And rightly so feared, courtesy the stellar score of VB in the recent municipal elections.
N-VA calculates that it has now convinced the population that it has fought tooth and nail to stop the UN monstrosity and that this will suffice to persuade the voters next year that they'd better stay with them instead of casting their votes for VB again (both parties are fishing in the same pond)."
And not wanting to brag, but I think it's fair to say I was spot on. We haven't heard a word from N-VA fraction leader De Roover anymore; and windbag and utter failure as Immigration Minister Theo Francken is flipflopping on the subject of supporting 'Michel II' and it's as if the main topic, the damned SHAM that is the UN Migration Pact, that invitation to the Third World to swamp developed nations and thereby change forever the racial, ethnic and political composition of in particular Europe... has been completely forgotten.
N-VA put up a charade and all it cared about was creating the perception that they were against it.
Now that they fled from the despicable clique around Charles Michel, they figure that they can fool the population that they did all they could to stop it...
... but if they REALLY wanted to stop it they would continue and even step up their efforts. They should have joined VB at the Council of State yesterday.
N-VA shows here for the umpteenth time its true face. Make that faces, cause it's a party with a Janus head.
Enough about the N-VA cowards and hypocrites, and I wish the Vlaams Belang every success with their continued struggle to the bitter end. The Council of Ministers will on Monday 17 DEC communicate its decision of whether or not Michel II signing the UN Migration Pact was constitutional, given that it is a caretaker government and has de facto no legitimacy for international endeavours of that magnitude. Some 44 judges have their say in the Council of State, I have to admit it's a fairly decent judicial body, one of the hightest in the country, and they have made many good arrests. It wouldn't be the first time the Vlaams Belang wins a case. Of course, Belgium being what it is, powerful forces may be working behind the screens. So much is at stake! After all, on Jan 1, 2019, Belgium will take its seat in the UN Security Council. Of course, this little known fact probably has nothing to do with Charles Michel's ardent desire to get Belgium to ratify the UN's 'Global Compact for safe, orderly and regulated Migration!
Now, how about this?
Another very vocal pro-migration Gutmensch is Hilde Vautmans, European MP for Open VLD, the Flemish Liberals. On the 1st of November, she wrote an opinion piece for the weekly Knack:
I will spare you Vautmans' nonsence, let's cut the crap and stick to her main point:
"MIGRATION IS A REALITY AND IT'S OUR DAMN DUTY TO DO IT RIGHT'.
Needless to say Madam Vautmans, like most Euro MP's the recipient of obscenely high wages for the arduous job of rubberstamping the decrees of the European Commission - we will for the moment refrain from elaborating on the MEP extras - is an ardent supporter of allowing the Third World to swamp the West.
.... a jihadi by the name of Cherif Chekatt chose that exact moment to go All Ahu Akbar, killing and wounding a number of innocent hoi polloi.
Our brave MEP Vautmans directly engaged the killer and neutralized him, thereby preventing further bloodshed.
Erm, sorry, I made that one up. The fearless Vautmans - the red-X'ed lady on the photo below - locked herself up in the cellar of the restaurant:
On her Fakebook page, Madam Vautmans offered her opinion:
"After the attacks in Brussels in 2016, yesterday was hell again to live thru such an attack from nearby. Innocent people were brutally killed, victims fight for their lives. My thoughts are with them and their loved ones. I support our French friends who, again, were suffering badly. A big Thank You to the security services and the military for their action, for them too it was a hellish night. I hope they capture the perpetrator soon. Know that we keep focussing on the fight against terror. Our security is sacred!"
Read that. Read that again. And let that sink in. Dunno how it is with you, but for me the mental image Vautmans FB post conjures up is this one:
"Innocent people were brutally killed..." No shit sherlock.
"Know that we keep focussing on the fight against terror!" Which is why she wants to import hundreds of millions of undocumented welfare seekers.
"Our security is sacred!" For crying out loud!
Yes, I know that the perp was born and raised in Strasbourg. But his parents were migrants, worse, muslim migrants. Obviously something's going dead wrong with integrating wifebeaters and clitoridectomists, but don't worry, any time now the EP will draft a Plan costing a mere 15 billion EUR to tackle this thorny issue once and for all. Euro politicians are so good at plans, you wouldn't believe it!
Yesterday, the usual "known wolf" - that's to say, known to the highest levels of the French security apparatus - killed three and wounded a dozen more in this year's first attack on a Christmas market - in Strasbourg. The jihadist yelled ...oh, go on, take a wild guess: Joyeux Noël? Bonnes Fêtes? No, he stuck to the traditional greeting.
Just over two years ago, in the summer of 2016, I met a delightful German lady who lives just across the border from Strasbourg and whose husband, in fact, was born and raised there. Along with her child, my friend, as I put it, "had found herself on the receiving end of some vibrant multicultural outreach from one of Mutti Merkel's boy charmers":
~ As a result, she no longer goes out after dark. She had also decided - with reluctance, because she enjoyed it - to cancel her participation in a local Christmas market, where she'd sung carols every year - in broad daylight.
'Why would you do that?' I asked.
'Because it's Christmas,' she said, 'and I'm worried Christmas will be a target.'
I have never forgotten those words - because they were at once both absurd and chilling. But four months later "a German citizen" attempted to blow up the Christmas market at Ludwigshafen, and a mere two years on it is now taken for granted that Christmas markets across Europe have to be held behind the ugly throttling barriers of "security" - which as we saw yesterday are, ultimately, never secure.
Because we won't put up security barriers where they count - at the nation's border - we have to have ever more intrusive and constricting security on everything within the border. I have written about it innumerable times; I even wrote a short story about it. But the men and women who govern us refuse to change the policies that enable Yuletide slaughter, and their citizens continue to vote for them. And so Strasbourg's mayor Roland Ries says that "life must go on" - which fatuous bromide ensures that the killing of his citizens will go on. Because he and the rest of a depraved political class lack the will to do anything about it.
Madam Vautmans, that "depraved political class"...
"c.) By not objecting to the draft of the UN Global Compact from the get-go - au contraire, contributing to it during the 'Rabat Process' - the N-VA got us in this mess in the first place, and as such it now has a moral obligation to put all its weight, together with Vlaams Belang, into an investigation by Belgium's highest court into the legitimacy of Michel's 'government' signing a document which will spell doom for the country while not even representing a third of the population."
Dang. Not a day has gone by, and a Flemish nationalist has indeed gone to the Raad van State, the Supreme Administrative Court of Belgium. Only, it wasn't an N-VA bigshot. It was Vlaams Belang's Filip Dewinter, fraction leader in the Kamer (Lower House of Parliament):
"The VB fraction in the Kamer [Lower House of Parliament; MFBB] just submitted an appeal to the Council of State in which it asks to suspend the government's decision to sign the UN Migrationpact. The party expects a decision already on Thursday. "The fate of the government now rests partly in the hands of the Council of State".
VB MP's Filip Dewinter, Barbara Pas and Jan Penris this morning submitted a "petition to suspend on account of utmost pressing necessity" to the Council of State in Brussels. The extreme rightwing party (sic) asks to nullify the decision of the government with regards to the UN Migration Pact in Marrakesh. The government had decided to support the pact.
According to Vlaams Belang the government has violated the principle of consensus in decision making. Moreover, the current government is a caretaker government, says Dewinter, and as such cannot ratify international accords...."
Dewinter, unstoppable and indefatigable and ready to fight as always. Of course it had to be him and not some N-VA pansy to do the obvious, namely take steps to suspend the signing of a pact by what de facto had become, per the dropping out of the N-VA ministers, a caretaker government.
And Dewinter, who thinks his move stands a good chance of success (he claims the Council of State can reach a decision as early as Thursday) had this message for N-VA:
"N-VA is fighting the wrong battle", he says. While N-VA and other parties are now navel staring and focussing on the legitimacy of Michel II, we are focussing on the UN Migration Pact. We can still stop it until DEC 19. For us it this is not about the fall of the government, but about the fall of the pact."
This is all true, but I would put it another way. N-VA is not focussing anymore on (belatedly) stopping the pact because it doesn't think it is possible. No, N-VA isn't focussing anymore on that because it judges that it has made its show. For at heart, N-VA WAS NEVER AGAINST THE PACT. As mentioned yesterday, the N-VA Minister for Immigration, Theo Francken, was in Morocco last May where he read the draft (or even contributed to it) and APPROVED of it. It was only because VB called out N-VA that the latter party made a sudden U-turn, fearing backlash in the federal elections in May. And rightly so feared, courtesy the stellar score of VB in the recent municipal elections.
N-VA calculates that it has now convinced the population that it has fought tooth and nail to stop the UN monstrosity and that this will suffice to persuade the voters next year that they'd better stay with them instead of casting their votes for VB again (both parties are fishing in the same pond).
The real fighters "tooth and nail" are the VB, who put the spotlights on the thing in the first place - with a considerable degree of success. It would have been marvellous had the government indeed fallen. In their perfidy however, MR and Open VLD, together with the Flemish 'Christian' 'Democrats', post the ouster/evacuation/dropping out of N-VA, promptly incarnated in a minority/caretaker government claiming to have just as much credibility and jetted off to Morocco, in effect giving the population (73 per cent against Marrakesh) a big fat FU finger.
How ironic is it that the country's most ardent Flemish nationalist, Filip Dewinter, is doing the right thing to save Belgium!
... with a clear mandate from the Belgian population:
NOT. The above is a screenshot from daily Het Laatste Nieuws Online, last Sunday. HLN asks its readers:"Should the government ratify the UN Migration Pact?" I myself emphatically answered "NO" and after my vote was cast I got the results thus far: a staggering 73 per cent AGAINST the government signing the UN Migration Pact in a sample of 30,800. Statistically, that's quite relevant.
Belgian PM Charles Michel [MR, for Mouvement Réformateur, the francophone Liberals, over here in Belgium soi-disant center right but eminently comparable with US Democrats; MFBB] flew to Marrakech, Morocco over the weekend as Prime Minister of a minority government since on Saturday the N-VA [Nieuw-Vlaamse Alliante, profiling itself as Vlaams Belang Lite; MFBB] withdrew its ministers. The so-called 'Swedish coalition' with as main components the Walloon and Flemish Liberals ("blue") and the salonfaehige Flemish nationalists from N-VA ('yellow') is no more.
As of this moment the dust of the political turmoil hasn't settled yet. The factors at play and the nuances of this or that stance are many and presumably unclear or confusing for the population, let alone non-Belgians.
A few key points:
a.) Charles Michel, as PM of a new minority government, signed in Marrakech a document that in effect betrays his own population, by handing the reins of any Belgian immigration policy to a supranational organization - the UN - of which the raison d'être becomes increasingly dubious. All the bruhaha about the non-binding character of the UN Compact for 'safe, orderly and (above all) regulated' migraton is just a smokescreen/stepping stone towards further finetuning of member states' policies to full legally binding implementation. Also, the nuances of whether or not the Pact's articles are binding will be lost on Mohammed, his 4 wives, and his 17 children, currently packing their coffers in Nouakchott.
b.) N-VA made a bold stance which almost led to the fall tout court of the government, which would have been far better than wat played out now. It should however be remembered that the ONLY reason N-VA profiled itself so anti-UN Migration Pact is because Vlaams Belang threw the issue on the table in Parliament and the many disadvantages to the ordinary Belgian citizen (and the non-existence of any advantage whatsoever) became suddenly clear.... again, check out the poll above). In the same breath, the Vlaams Belang exposed the hypocrisy of N-VA since their Immigration Minister, Theo Francken, a man notorious for tough tweets and soft nonactions, had earlier this year been to Morocco for the pact's draft and was in complete agreement with the text. As mentioned before, the stellar performance of the Vlaams Belang in the recent municipal elections has obviously frightened N-VA (especially with the federal elections in May at the horizon), which for its mere relevance relies on the votes it siphoned off the typical VB electorate.
c.) By not objecting to the draft of the UN Global Compact from the get-go - au contraire, contributing to it during the 'Rabat Process' - the N-VA got us in this mess in the first place, and as such it now has a moral obligation to put all its weight, together with Vlaams Belang, into an investigation by Belgium's highest court into the legitimacy of Michel's 'government' signing a document which will spell doom for the country while not even representing a third of the population.
Unfortunately, I have no time to elaborate, I will try to flesh it out, but here is the scoundrel who just signed Belgium's suicide pact - with a smile. Via HLN:
PM Michel in Marrakech: "MY COUNTRY WILL BE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY".
No, it won't, she-man ARSEHOLE. Far from it. In 2015 that horrible excuse for a Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel publicly broadcast to the world that the Syrian refugees were 'willkommen', even though right next door super-rich oil states sat on their asses, constructing tent cities with airco for MILLIONS for the yearly pilgrimage to Mecca. For at least 1.5 million Mohammeds, Ahmeds and Alis from Niger to the Hindu Kush this invitation did not fall on deaf ears and the result was a migration wave of Biblical proportions of wifebeaters, clitoridectomists, potential and real terrorists, and unemployable illiterates Richtung Heimat and, by extension, the whole of Europe. The continent is still reeling from it and will be for quite some time, I fear.
Frau Merkel obviously decided that you can just as well snuff out a forest fire with gasoline as long as the volume you drop on it resembles the Bodensee, and like a Jamie Gorelick on steroids immediately proceeded to go global with the Merkel approach, drafting, together with that other walking disaster Louise Arbour, a plan whereby the flotsam of the Third World gets a green pass for Western pastures. The US dodged that bullet - that anti-tank round, actually - because it has a President and an administration which put Americans first.
Not so Europe, where the globalist 'elites' were apparently unable to discern that the firewomen were, in fact, the arsonists themselves. Absent the sane heads in Eastern Europe, Austria and Italy, our traitors jetted off to a muslim country, no less, to officially erase our borders. CONGRATS bastards! Granted, you'll be on some side of history, but the right one it ain't!
As for Belgium, we on the right must now double our efforts to win big, and I mean BIG, in the May federal elections. Here's hoping that the VB will achieve a monster score. For those waking up among the socialist, liberal and 'Christian' 'Democrat' electorate, but still so deluded that VB remains a no-no, they can vote N-VA. With regards to the latter party however, it is clear that De Wever and Francken should be ousted, because:
a.) Even before Marrakech, Francken had, as Immigration Minister, proven himself to be a complete and utter failure.
b.) They have exposed themselves to be hypocrites of the first order since they were fully prepared and eager to sign the UN monstrosity and only refrained from doing so because they were called out by Vlaams Belang.
c.) they are adamantly against lifting the undemocratic 'cordon sanitaire' around VB, thereby, although pretending to want to solve the Belgian conundrums, in effect pursuing a policy that perpetuates them. If N-VA and VB would go together, THAT would signify political leverage unseen in the Belgian arena. By contrast, for six years N-VA hasn't stopped from spitting in the VB's faces, while it's crystal clear they should be on the same side of the fence. Because Vlaams Belang has offered time and again to cooperate, only to be ungraciously snubbed by in particular Bart De Wever, N-VA and N-VA alone is wholly responsible for the fractured state of the Belgian political right. And thus for the fact that no effective rightwing, and thus sane, policy is possible on a variety of issues.
Jeannette Horlick-Bowles, by Gerald Leslie Brockhurst.
A now forgotten English portraitist who made his name in the United States with a series of society paintings. If the work reminds you of La Gioconda, if only for its setting, that's no coincidence. At 23, while a pupil in the Royal Academy Schools in London, he won a traveling scholarship (and a Gold Medal), enabling him to visit France and especially Italy, where Renaissance artists such as Botticelli and Da Vinci left a lasting impression.
Woman in Black leaning, by Amedeo Modigliani.
The inimitable style of an Italian Jewish painter and sculptor who would have given the world much more, had he not succumbed in 1920 to tubercular meningitis at the age of 35. Like Van Gogh, Modigliani died destitute, since his work wasn't well received, to say the least, during his lifetime. Although his most productive period - the last 14 years of his life - happened to be in Paris, an avant garde laboratory in the early 20th century, it isn't possible to pin down his paintings and sculptures to either Dadaism, Cubism, Surrealism or indeed any other -ism then en vogue. Modigliani's art remains unique and unclassifiable, but if anything, one could posit that West African art (from the old kingdoms on territories in present-day Gabon, Nigeria, Benin, Cameroon) inspired his hallmark, the elongated human form.
