A DAY OUT IN THE ARDENNES (UPDATE).

Excellent weather today and the weather charts predicted the East of Belgium completely cloudfree so it was off to the Ardennes one last time this year. Took our daughter with me, she loves the Hautes Fagnes (High Fens), Belgium's "roof", so it was quickly decided where to.


Some atmospheric shots.













And here are two pics our daughter took, with a Samsung Galaxy J5:





If you ever wanted to know what Outlaw Mike looks like, here it is:




With his trusted walking stick AD1985 or thereabouts, courtesy some Swiss forest near the Aletsch Glacier.


All photos taken on the southern leg of the walk Noir Flohay - Geitzbusch - Hill, a 15.7 kilometer circular walk with an appendix to Baraque Michel, where you can park your car. Baraque Michel is along the N68, about halfway between Eupen and Malmédy.

Since we walked counterclockwise and time did not permit doing the full walk (we started out hopelessly too late), we missed the northern leg which passes Noir Flohay, which reportedly offers the best panoramas. Don't matter. We'll do it next year, hopefully with the whole family. To get an idea of the walk, check out the following video. Double click for full screen and removing DowneastBlog's annoying banners and stuff, of course.





Video talks about the "High Fences". That's a lapsus of course, should be High Fens.


Nite.


UPDATE:



Reader timactual asked about the length of the wooden boardwalks and whether there were any restrictions as to where one could walk in these lands.

The High Fens are a National Park. The Department Nature and Woods imposes restrictions with regards to walking depending on the season, so as not to disturb several avian species, in particular grouse. This year e.g.:


A.) From 17 March to 15 June of this year walking on:


1) walkways 33 en 35 (B-zone) between Baraque Michel en Bouquet Bastin wasn't allowed
2) neither was walking in the C Zone of the Fagne Wallonne and the Fagne des Deux Séries
3) neither in the C zone and alongside the border of the Fagne de Cléfaye


B.) Additonally, from 15 June to 27 July:

Walking not allowed on walkways 4 and 5 (C zone) in the Fagne Wallonne (Drello) and on ways 19 en 21 (C zone) in the Fagne des Deux Séries (Brochepierre)


The boardwalks in the photos were the longest I ever encountered, some 6 kilometers before we turned back, with a couple of short interruptions where the land was dry. Because after all, the boardwalks are there for a reason. It's practically not doable to go cross country, since the bog is very wet. Yesterday, we made it as far as the northeastern tip of Grand Bongard. But it was almost 4.30 pm and I wanted to check out whether it was possible to make a shortcut across Grand Bongard instead of following the solid green line all around. The shortcut would have brought us to the point marked by the white on black flag to the right of no. 53. In this way, I thought, we could make it back in time AND still pas along Geitzbusch and Noir Flohay. However, after only thirty or forty meters I gave up. Required too much energy (you have to lift your feet to about knee level most of the time) and you're constantly treading in what the Germans would call 'Sumpf'. It's only normal that several streams have their source on this plateau (Helle, Statte, Hoëgne etc).

Anyway, we got back tail between legs along the same route (GR573). By the time we were back at Baraque Michel it was pitch dark.





MFBB.

IN MEMORIAM MY UNCLE.

No music today, because I don't feel it's appropriate. In the week that was, my uncle R., my late father's sole brother, passed away at the age of 82.

I knew his wife was quite religious, but that he himself was too, came as a bit of a surprise to me. I had never heard him utter, or seen him display, anything that hinted to Christian zeal. Yet he insisted on receiving the Last Rites, which for me is as much a consolation as it seems to have been for him. He also asked his wife and sons that a small and intimate service be held at the church depicted in the background of this painting...



The Parable of the Blind (1568), by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

... and I was glad to be able to attend, together with my family.


I know he suffered a lot, had been suffering for years actually, and especially his last months and weeks were excruciating, so his wife, my aunt, told me. He took it as a Man, complained little, and even apologized profusely to his wife for the burden that he had become - my aunt insisted on taking care of her husband herself, instead of hospitalizing him.

With my uncle's passing, an important bloodlink to my late father also disappears. Born only two years apart, it was evident that they would spend their childhood together and by all accounts, they were inseparable in that timeframe. Only later, when R. made a career in the industry, and work and marriage took him to other areas physically, did they grow apart somewhat. Yet both lived and laboured honorably, had sound marriages, and raised their offspring admirably. My cousins are the closest to the brothers I never had, and I am grateful for them.

Now R. is no more, and I wish I could say from the bottom of my heart that he is now reunited with his brother, my father. Yet at least four decades of living in a sick society where daily assaults on Christianity are the rule, have taken their toll... and I admit that right now it's hard to be assured of their being together again. Still, let us recall Pope Benedict XVI saying bravely that "doubt is the handmaiden of faith", and, regardless, I keep going back to feeling and being a Christian as if it's the most natural state in the world. I guess I should feel lucky for that.

I guess I am.

"Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for Thou art with me; Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me."
~ Psalm 23:4 ~

Rest in Peace, dear Uncle, and thank you for everything. God bless.


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STOP THE UN MIGRATION PACT, SIGN THE PETITION!

We have touched on this all-important subject before a couple of times the previous weeks, but as DEC 10-11 draws nearer, "good men and women" must step forward more than ever. I am of course talking about the UN Migration Pact aka "Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration", to be signed by as yet virtually 95 per cent of all the world's countries in just a matter of weeks.

The most ominous word in "Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration" is "regular". In reality, this will boil down to the de facto legalization of illegal migration as soon, post the signing of the pact, massive migration flows can be expected. Naturally, they will move towards developed nations - by which I mean primarily, possibly exclusively - the ones in North America and Europe, where cohorts of self-hating politicans cannot wait to replace the original populations.

One should not buy into the ridiculous "non-binding" character attributed to this scam of a Pact. This "assurance" is merely a ploy to disguise what is in effect the first bricklaying of intergovernmental legislation which will basically give its blessing to unprecedented flows of welfare seekers which in time will utterly destroy the West.

The much maligned VLAAMS BELANG, as the only true rightwing party in Belgium, offers you the possibility to sign a petition against this monstrosity of a Pact, which should actually better be called a Diktat.





You can sign HERE.


Do it NOW! It is thirty seconds to twelve!


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MEET ADVOCATES ABROAD, THE NGO COUNSELING "REFUGEES" TO LIE TO GET THEIR ASYLUM APPLICATIONS APPROVED SOONER.

Soon now, Lauren Southern will release her new documentary "Borderless", which explores the multibillion dollar industry that mass migration has become. Hundreds of NGO's suck up unfathomable amounts of taxpayer money to employ tens of thousands of twisted individuals, otherwise unemployable, who want to heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelp the wretched of the world by making them consumers of our social security systems.

Today I noticed Ms Southern released a video dealing with just such an NGO, Advocates Abroad.

I have mentioned here a couple of times the imminent signature by, alas, far too many nations, of the scam that is the UN Migration Pact. This pact will in effect be the great equalizer between legal and illegal immigration. Prosperous nations, first and foremost in the West, will be subject to a deluge of welfare seekers fleeing hellholes that are hellholes, well, in the first place because of the welfare seekers, because of their 'culture', often their 'religion', customs, lack of labor ethic etc etc

I guess that for Advocates Abroad the signing of the UN Pact, and the subsequent flooding of the West with the Third World, cannot come soon enough. And by their actions ye shall know them: in Southern's video we learn e.g. how Advocates Abroad litterally learns asylum seekers to lie in order to have their applications approved sooner.

The kind of lies? Pretend to suffer from a serious war trauma. Pass yourself off as a Christian even though you are a follower of the prophet. Ariel Ricker is currently Director of Advocates Abroad, and in this video Southern captures Ricker in basically admitting they are committing a gigantic fraud - with silly Europeans' taxpayer money, no less:





Here is the transcript of the undercover video, with "Director" Ariel Ricker proudly offering insight in AA's modus operandi:

"So we teach them how to like literally, [makes fitting noise] sometimes it's as simple as this, and then how to tell their story, how to frame it, how to literally explain it. How to keep their private emotions and private trauma private, because all of this acting is a shield.

[Q] Do you have to coach people on like, physicality? [A] Yeah, I see it like, I tell them this is acting. All of this is acting, it's all acting as though this is theatre. So for them to get through they must act their part in the theatre, and that is the refugee trauma. Because these European Asylum Support Office (EASO) officers are so fucking stupid that all they know is what is written on the paper. EASO says "This is refugee trauma, they have these characteristics". So we coach these people how to have these characteristics.

So like there's a formula we came up with (...). It's like significant events, date and location, answer all the questions in the same way. [Voorbeeld] In December 2017 in Izmir, Turkey, I was threatened for being a Christian, because my boss jumped me when I was leaving church, this is the Bible they tried to tear up, this is the crucifix I was wearing they tried to tear and it made me feel unsafe as a Christian in Turkey, Ba-Boom. And that way you have the event, date and location, so yo've given them a very specific answer (...), it's much harder to refute, because you have all the elements in there. (...) Consistency is the most important thing, even if you find yourself in a position where you have to lie, it's best to just stick with what you've just said.

They put in the decision whether or not you were acting with emotion, so you have to be like [sighing and crying] or crying or stopping or throwing up or asking for a break, so it's becoming an actor. You have to tell people to ask to take a break? Oh we do, we actually do role play. We prepare for them a folder, so like the first role playing activity we do is like us being them, and they're the officer. And then we flip around after they've had some practice to see how I should walk into the officie, how should I introduce myself? How should I give them the folder, and then how do I sit down, and then when do I stand up? When do I show them how to pray?

Why would you need to show them how to pray? Because it's a good way to show honesty. This is done in other places too, like not good places, to see if you're truly what you say you are. If you can't show how to pray... If you're actually a Christian? Mhmm. Oh, so if you're saying you're fleeing persecution? Then you should probably know how to be, you know, praying that way. They also ask like what's your favourite holiday, but we explain you can't just say this because it's not a sufficient answer. You have to say this in a certain way which is like December 25th, which is Christmas which is the birthday of our Lord and Saviour."

Pass this on. The faster people know about this the better.



PS: the video makes it once again clear that rightwing women are far hotter than leftwing ones.


MFBB.

POLISH INDEPENDENCE DAY!

Today, I have chosen not to dwell on the run of the mill commemmorations of Armistice Day, since most ceremonies have been hijacked by globalist traitors. Instead, I give you the wonderful celebration of Poland's Independence Day, which coincides with Armistice Day. Indeed, 11 November 1918 was the day Poland rose from its ashes as the Second Polish Republic after a 123 year-hiatus from the European geopolitical scene. 123 years, because in 1795 the country was partitioned between Russia, Prussia and Austria.

A jubilant crowd of 200,000 plus Poles, including President Andrzej Duda, PM Mateusz Morawiecki and Chairman of the PiS party Jaroslaw Kaczynski, marched through the streets of Warsaw singing the national anthem:





There is absolutely NOTHING wrong with love of one's own country as long as you do not deny the same right to citizens of other nations. Perhaps no other people illustrate this better than the modest Poles, most of whom identify emphatically with their beautiful land between Odra and Mazury, and/or between Morze Baltyckie and Góry Tatry; yet can under no circumstances be accused of the evils our globalist moral betters bestow on nationalism.

In France, the vicious, barren and synthetic gnome who passes for Président de la République, dishonored the memories and sacrifices of millions of poilus who a century ago fought and died for la France, most often in the most miserable circumstances. Indeed, this non-man and POS abused the ceremony in Paris to heap praise on the EU and UN, and exclaim litterally that "Nationalism is treason". 1,600 kilometers to the East, hundreds of thousands of Poles were proving him wrong. And while France is dying, precisely because its citizens are being told day and night that they should be ashamed of themselves for being... French...

... Poland, whose leaders openly denounce the globalist lies and falsehoods, and have no qualms about waving the red and white flag, is thriving and moving forward!


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11 NOVEMBER 2018: SMALL BRITAIN CAPITULATES WITHOUT A SHOT FOR SUBHUMAN PAKI MUSLIM MOBS.

Just like in Germany the majority of muslims are Turks and in France Algerians, Moroccans and Tunisians, so the followers of the prophet in the UK are majority Pakistanis. Apparently the British government is scared that a certain decision might upset their multiculti goldcoins. Via Breitbart:

"The British government has turned away a Pakistani Christian who faces mob justice after a death sentence for blasphemy against Islam was overturned, allegedly to appease “certain sections of the community” at home and Islamist terrorists who might be inclined to attack British embassies abroad.
Asia Bibi languished on death row for years after a blasphemy conviction for drinking from the same vessel as two Muslim women, recently quashed by Pakistan’s supreme court.

Huge mobs of Islamic hardliners have taken to the streets since the ruling, however, demanding her execution and threatening to kill her themselves — prompting the woman, her family, and her lawyer to seek refuge abroad.

“I am requesting the Prime Minister of the UK help us and as far as possible grant us freedom,” pleaded husband Ashiq Masih in an appeal to the country’s former colonial power.

The British government has reportedly rejected this plea, despite having previously signed up to take large numbers of migrants claiming to be children from France, as well as from refugee camps near Syria — although these were 100 percent Muslim in the early part of 2018, with all Christians rejected."

Almost thirty years ago, in December 1988, following the publication of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, there were demos and bookburnings by angry muslim mobs - mainly pakistanis of course - in Bolton and Bradford. On 9 April of the following Spring, Collets and Dillons, two large bookstores in Charing Cross Road, London, were bombed. In May, similar bombings took place in High Wycombe and again in London, this time on Kings Road. Also in London, Liberty's, a shopping mall, was targeted, becasue it contained a Penguin Bookshop where The Satanic Verses were on display. Another Penguin shop in York suffered the same fate shortly after.

Now, that was three DECADES ago. Now that the paki segment of the population has grown dramatically in number, is even far more fanatical than back then, and has shown utter contempt for the UK's laws, let alone security services, who knows what might happen should the goverment grant asylum to Asia Bibi, is it not? Better not stir things up, eh?


And so...



A pedo muhammad follower/paki subhuman.

... One hundred years ago this day, Great Britain forced the army of the Kaiser on its knees.

Today, Small Britain is capitulating without a shot for subhuman pakistani muslim mobs.

There is nothing to celebrate today, because all the sacrifices made a century ago have been in vain.



MFBB.

SATURDAY NIGHT KEANE, QUEEN.

Keane with Somewhere only we know. Album Hopes and Fears (2004).




Keane is from Battle, East Sussex, of all places. Sold the farm in 2014.



Queen with Who wants to live Forever. From the soundtrack of the first Highlander movie. (1986)





I remember Highlander well. Just about blew me away when I first saw it, back in 1986 or 7. Basically everything in that flick was perfect, even Christopher Lambert's casting as Connor McLeod, the protagonist. Best role? No contest, Clancy Brown as The Kurgan, McLeod's nemesis. The director was Russell Mulcahy; I wonder why we haven't heard more of him afterwards. Of course, movies were not his main thing, that was music video clips (a.o. for The Buggles: Video killed the Radio Star, I kid you not!).

As for the shooting locations in Scotland, some of it was done near Eilean Donan Castle, and I suspect the scenes depicting the surroundings of McLeod's too short time together with Heather were done near the Three Sisters of Glencoe. Go there at least once, in your lifetime.


Nite.


MFBB.

THE JOYS OF MULTICULTURALISM: GROUP RAPES ON THE RISE IN MERKEL'S GERMANY.

Two ominous videos courtesy Gates of Vienna. Translation was done by MissPiggy, subtitling by Vlad Tepes. Many thanks!





and:





Via Faktenfinder:

"Hoher Anteil von Ausländern

Die Zahl der Gruppenvergewaltigungen ist den Statistiken zufolge hingegen nicht ansteigend - allerdings nimmt der Anteil der verdächtigten Ausländer zu. Sowohl 2016 als auch 2017 ist der Anteil bei den überfallartigen Delikten gegenüber dem langjährigen Mittel der Vorjahre (39 Prozent) deutlich erhöht (67,5 Prozent).

Angaben aus der PKS über die Nationalitäten der ausländischen Verdächtigen zeigen, dass der Anteil von Syrern, Afghanen und Irakern deutlich gestiegen ist. Das heißt, die wachsende Zahl der ausländischen Tatverdächtigen hängt offenkundig mit der Zuwanderung seit 2015 zusammen."

So the percentage of Syrians, Afghans and Iraqis in group rapes has clearly risen. In other words, the increasing number of foreign suspects obviously corroborates with the mass influx of 'refugees' since 2015.

Wow. Who would have thunk it?????

Biggest question that remains is, of course, how come this cunt is still in power?



MFBB.

VOTE AS IF YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT!

What can I say? The past two years have made it crystal clear that the man who I never viewed as a Conservative, in fact governed far more Conservative than perhaps all previous GOP candidates combined.

The results have been astounding, and the only serious drawback, in my opinion, is that both budget deficit and trade deficit remain high, the former because that Laffer Curve effect is not yet catching on, the latter because the rising US import still outclasses the also rising export.

But be all that as it may, the very most important thing is that with Donald Trump, the US has a President who realizes full well what is really at stake: Western Civilization. He understands that both North America and Europe are under assault from the Third World. He grasps full well the ramifications of the EU's catastrophic Open Door Immigration Policy and wants to spare his country Europe's downfall.

I don't know what has come over the Democrats, but to any objective analyst it is clear that the party has been hijacked by its minorities. It has decided for a breathtaking lurch to the left, which can only lead to doom.

Americans who love their country should therefore head for the election booths and cast their vote - but not for those who now openly wish for their country to fail.





Just do it.


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ERIC ZEMMOUR ON FRENCH NO-GO AREAS: "IT'S THE SHARIA, IN FACT. AND THIS IS FRANCE TODAY. IN INNUMERABLE NEIGHBORHOODS."

For those frequenting sites like François Desouche and Gates of Vienna, Eric Zemmour is a household name. The man should actually get far more airplay. Voice of Europe has the following video and transcript:

"In an interview with Sud Radio, French journalist and political commentator Eric Zemmour describes the Islamisation of modern day France.

Zemmour talks about how the Islamisation of neighbourhoods seems to be the main problem.

“Those neighbourhoods [enriched]are stuffed with money, since there’s drug dealing, which brings in unheard of riches. That’s precisely the problem.

“So what isn’t the problem? Neither pauperisation nor social mixing: It’s the problem of the Islamisation of the neighbourhoods..”

Zemmour describes that ‘innumerable’ neighbourhoods start to look like Afghanistan or Saudi Arabia in the 18th century.

“In those neighbourhoods, there are only halal butchers, only halal bookstores, only halal shops, and that with people who are dressed — veiled women and men [dressed]like in Afghanistan or like in Saudi Arabia in the 18th century.

“Why are they doing it? Well, for a very simple reason: because all that determines norms. And that way you normalise and “normatise” — if I can say that — the neighbourhoods that are Islamized.

“And which are ruled by Islamic Law. It’s the Sharia, in fact. And this is France today. In innumerable neighbourhoods,” Zemmour says."

MFBB.

MEET ALTIERO SPINELLI, THE KEY COMMUNIST BEHIND THE EU.

Courtesy the indispenable Gates of Vienna, a must see video which tells you a thing or two about the Trotskyite angle behind the formation of what eventually would become the EU. Historia Sztuki's Krzysztof Karoń explains:





Ten years ago I was actually in favor of a United States of Europe. In a way, I still am - provided it is modelled after the USA, not the USSR. Unfortunately, events and dynamics all point in an EU evolution towards the latter entity.

Why, if only the legacy of Spinelli would remain limited to his name on a building, it wouldn't be that bad. But unfortunately, one of the catalysts pushing the EU towards a EUSSR is a political group specifically named after Spinelli: his spirit does live on, even more vibrant than ever. Indeed, in 2010 key EP members founded The Spinelli Group, and among those who were the driving force behind this shadowy group is Guy Verhofstadt, a former Belgian PM and a scoundrel of the first order. This is a 2017 tweet from Verhofstadt:





I know Verhofstadt well. He is the Emperor of U-Turns. Three decades ago, he was called the Baby Thatcher, because he dared to confront the unions and as Budget Minister was a 'slasher' of wasteful and unnecessary expenses. He also was some kind of a liberal - in the sense of classical liberal - ideologue, writing his famous "Burgermanifest" (Citizen's Manifesto) in which he described, amongst others, the undemocratic stranglehold on political power in Belgium through the two most powerful unions, the "Christian" "Democratic" ACV/CSC, and the ABVV/FGTB (socialists). In the late nineties and first years of the new milennium, he was Belgian PM in coalition governments first with the socialists and greens, then with only the socialists.... and he emerged from that red bath as a completely different personality. Since, the Baby Thatcher has been praising François Hollande (of same sex marriage support and millionaire tax fame), harassing the Brits for wanting to leave the EU, and ... co-founded the closet Trotskyite organization The Spinelli Group.

Verhofstadt, also chairman of the EP's powerful ALDE Group, is one of the key personalities steering the EU not in the direction of a USE, but towards a EUSSR. He MUST be stopped, and articles and videos like the one above, exposing Verhofstadt's great mentor as the Communist that he was, are long overdue.







MFBB.

SATURDAY NIGHT NIK KERSHAW, STEPPENWOLF.

Nik Kershaw with Radio Musicola. Album Radio Musicola (1986).





English (more precisely Bristolian) singer-songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and Eighties Golden Boy.



Steppenwolf with Born to be Wild. From their 1968 debut album Steppenwolf.





Canadian-American rock band, formed in late 1967 in LA by lead singer John Kay, drummer Jerry Edmonton and keyboardist Goldy McJohn. Guitarist Michael Monarch and bass guitarist Rushton Moreve joined later, reacting to ads. Kay named his band Steppenwolf after the novel by Hermann Hesse. I read that one while an engineering student in Ghent in the late eigthies and can't say I didn't find traces of Outlaw's personality in the Harry Haller character.


If you think Da DowneastBlog Sound is too dinosaurey, well, ain't my fault milennials only produce music that SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKS.


Goede nacht.


MFBB.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY.

Definitely.


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AUSTRIA REJECTS UN MIGRATION PACT.

Via The Telegraph:

"Austria said on Wednesday it will not sign a United Nations migration pact that is set to be adopted in December, in order to "defend its national sovereignty."

The United States and Hungary have already rejected the Global Compact for Migration, which aims to boost cooperation to address the world's growing number of migrants.

"The government has agreed... not to sign the United Nations pact and thus not to bind Austria," said a statement from the ruling coalition led by Chancellor Sebastian Kurz of the centre-right OeVP, stressing "the importance of defending Austria's national sovereignty".

Mr Kurz's coalition partner, the far-right Freedom Party (FPOe), has been pushing for Vienna to reject the pact.

The coalition, which took office last year, won votes on an anti-immigration platform following the 2015 surge in arrivals of asylum seekers.

"Austria rejects the possibility that the migration pact could establish new customary international law which would be binding on Austria or could be interpreted as such," Heinz-Christan Strache, vice-chancellor and FPOe leader, said in a press conference.

However, the UN has stressed that the pact is "non-legally binding" and "grounded in values of state sovereignty".

The opposition has accused the government of damaging Austria's international reputation by rejecting a pact that Austria had itself taken part in shaping while Mr Kurz was foreign minister in the previous government.

Green MEP Michel Reimon said the decision showed that Austria "is not only part of the reactionary eastern block, but is actually leading it"."

Check out this video, courtesy Gates of Vienna, in which the Austrian Interior Minister Minister Herbert Kickl (FPÖ) sheds his light on the many negative aspects (for the receivers of the migration flow!) of the UN’s migration pact. MissPiggy translated, Vlad Tepes did the subtitling:





The UN Migration Pact is a disgusting piece of paper which will not only serve as an outright invitation to unfathomable hordes of would be migrants, but also as a stepstone to further binding legislation.

Indeed, out there tens of millions are just waiting for an excuse to start packing. When Angela Merkel said that Germany would open its borders for Syrian refugees, the Syrian refugees started boarding trains from Mauritania to the Hindu Kush in the hundreds of thousands, if not more.

Then of course 1.5 million swept into the Heimat, and there was that. Whereupon after some time Frau Merkel admitted she hade made a mistake but since they were there, they were there and Hans and Gretl just had to get used to it.

It will be the same with this crock of a pact, only far worse. The UN Migration Pact will encourage the formation of hundreds of 'caravans' each numbering at least as many invaders as the ones currently on the road in Mexico, and set in motion unprecedented flows of unqualified welfare seekers. These will over time effectively destroy Western countries, because it is obvious that they, and only they, will be the end destinations.

What is truly appalling is the deliberate dearth of coverage, and that is no coincidence. For some reason Western Media channels are almost without exception populated with a particular brand of self-loathing people, and they realize full well that IF this UN "Pact" would get the airplay a thing of this size is worth, it would upset the populations in the entire West.

What has happened now is that only as recently as July, the text was ready, all of it under the radar, so to speak, so that only adoption by the signatories remained - scheduled for December 10-11 of this year, in Morocco!

Here we find ourselves, with BARELY ONE MONTH TO GO before our gullible and/or complicit politicians sign what is in effect a betrayal of their populations, and only the US, Poland, Australia, Hungary and now Austria have announced they reject this disastrous plan.

If therefore you live in a Western country other than the ones just mentioned, contact your local politicians and confront them with the disaster that is waiting to happen - under their watch. Tell him or her in no uncertain terms that it is not OUR responsibility to welcome the spoils of failed societies, because the to be expected migration flows will not come from successful nations like Singapore, Taiwan or Chili. Instead, count on it that they will come primarily from muslim and African countries. The existence of a reported volume of 250 million people on the move globally is primarily a clear sign that the countries these people come from have FAILED, and with these migrants will come the culture, mindset and customs that are the reason for the failures. Facilitating, and later on even legalizing their invasion of successful nations, in casu in the West, is SUICIDAL.



MFBB.

GET TO KNOW BLEXIT.

Is it just me, or would this movement never have seen the light of day with another President than Donald Trump in the White House?


Meet Blexit.





Learn more on David Harris' site.

Anyway, the emergence of an organization like this is long overdue. It would be very nice if out of all the tens of thousands of sociologists out there, there would be one, JUST ONE, who would decide to do a study about the income/employment/health/housing/general happiness situation of those African Americans who live conservative lifestyles, i.e. they got married before having children, finished high school, embarked on some form of higher education, stayed away from drugs and crime, got themselves a decent job etc etc etc.

But of course we won't see such a study soon, because sociology is one of those fields where leftist types seem to gravitate to as if by magic, and the only studies they do are those where they have already determined the outcome before even beginning them: that African Americans are left behind in all strata of society because, wait for it, evil whites and raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaacism!

I don't need such a study, because I am convinced African Americans (I actually don't like the term, but so be it) who do live 'the conservative way' are mucho mucho mucho better off - than the ones still pinning their hopes on demoncraps, the NAACP, sluts à la Beyonce, anchors like Don Lemon and other assorted frauds.

I wish the men and women of Blexit all the best! Escaping from the Democrat Thought Plantation must be an exhilarating experience.


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THE JOYS OF MULTICULTURALISM: 18YO GIRL RAPED BY UP TO 15 CULTURE ENRICHERS IN FREIBURG, GERMANY.

Another headline becoming all too common:






Gates of Vienna has the goods. The following is a video plus transcript from the major German magazine BILD, translated for GoV by MissPiggy:

"Up to 15 Men Involved in Group Rape of 18-Year-Old Girl in Freiburg

Freiburg — Two weeks ago the evening started with a techno party in a Freiburg disco. For a girl (18) the night ended in a nightmare: the Syrian Majd H. (21) raped her in front of the club in the bushes. After the deed, the refugee brought his friends, and at least seven other men (19-30 years) raped the defenceless woman (she was drugged) for over four hours. The seven perpetrators are Syrians; another suspect (25) has a German passport. Everyone is now in custody!

Unbelievable: According to BILD’s information, the main culprit, Majd H., was already being sought for another arrest warrant by the police before the gang rape. He should have been in custody at the time of the crime!

The unbelievable act: On the night of October 14, the victim went to the disco with a friend. The girls met Majd H. and one of his friends there.

Majd H. is said to have sold an ecstasy tablet to the 18-year-old. After taking the pill, Majd H. gave her a drink. Whether there were knockout drops in it will be clarified through the police investigation.

According to the latest findings, Majd H. led the girl out around midnight. What happened next the police described on Friday as follows: “In nearby shrubbery it came to a sexual assault, according to the victim. After this, more perpetrators are said to have raped the incapacitated girl.”

The girl told the police that she was unable to move or call for help in the bushes. BILD learned: Investigators believe that up to 15 perpetrators raped the 18-year-old! It was not until four o’clock in the morning that the tormentors left her."

Multiculturalism, the gift that keeps on giving. Naturally, not a peep from CDU, Buendnis90-Gruene, SPD, FDP aka Fifty Shades of Red auch bekannt wie Fuenfzig Toene Rot. But why would they? After all, the girl was already TWICE the age of Aisha when she was penetrated by the big hero of their friends the muslims, so why all the fuss?



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SUNDAY NIGHT ART SNACK.

As has been our custom for the past 4 years, our family spends Easter vacation in England's south. We only take a 5-day break, so Scotland or even Northern England aren't practical, but the South is just fine because from where we live it's a mere 2 hours to the Shuttle terminal at Coquelles near Calais, and from there, woosh, 25 minutes later you come above ground near Folkestone.

This year we stayed at a B&B in Hutton, near Weston-Super-Mare, and on one of our day trips we visited Bristol. That city boasts some great attractions, among them the Clifton Suspension Bridge, Isambard Kingdom Brunel's SS Great Britain (an absolute MUST-SEE), and... the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery.


They have damn fine collections there, and I'll have to thank the BMAG for enlightening me on the subject of British Impressionism. Indeed, for a very long time I thought that Albion's only noteworthy impressionist was Alfred Sisley (who even spent most of his life in France). It turned out I was mistaken.


Here's The Mackerel Shawl, a breathtakingly beautiful work crafted in 1910 by Algernon Talmage, a turn-of-the-century artist who lived and worked in a studio called 'The Cabin' in St Ives, Cornwall (we may very well visit there next year).





Exquisite!



And this is Holidays, by Talmage's contemporary Harry Watson. From ca. 1920.





It is possible that Watson did not think of himself as an Impressionist per se, but since he was a strong believer in en plein air painting, typical for the movement, his works almost invariably breathe Impressionism.

And oh, I'm pleased with getting the colours of The Mackerel Shawl somewhat right, even though from my ole iPhone 4 you know, but the Holidays shown here I copied from the web (since unable to find it right away in the labyrinth that is this laptop). Trust me, Watson's painting in real is far more thrilling.



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A FRIGHTENING RULING OF THE EUROPEAN "COURT" OF "HUMAN RIGHTS".

Over at American Thinker, something extremely important gave a bright blip on Thomas Panis' radar:

"IN EUROPE, FEELINGS OF MUSLIMS NOW OFFICIALLY TRUMP FREEDOM OF SPEECH.

According to the European Court of Human Rights, the feelings of Muslims are more important than liberty. A critique of the Religion of Peace can be deemed a threat to “religious peace.” Becket Adams explains in the Washington Examiner:



~ The European Court of Human Rights ruled this week that defaming the Prophet Muhammad is not protected speech. More specifically, the court said an “Austrian woman’s conviction for calling the prophet of Islam a pedophile didn’t breach her freedom of speech,” the Associated Press reported.

The ECHR explained in its ruling that Austrian courts had “carefully balanced her right to freedom of expression with the right of others to have their religious feelings protected.” The woman explained in 2009 during a seminar discussion that the Prophet Muhammad’s marriage to a six-year-old girl was basically “pedophilia.”

"A 56-year-old and a 6-year-old? What do you call that? Give me an example? What do we call it, if it is not pedophilia?" she said.



... In 2008 and 2009, the Austrian citizen Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff held a series of seminars concerning Islam in Vienna (Austria). One of the topics was the famous 6-year old child bride of Muhammad (Aïsha). At some point she said that “... Muhammed liked to do it with little children”.

In ways that are becoming frighteningly common in the Old World, the PC-police donned its armor and Sabaditsch-Wolff was convicted by an Austrian court because she had “insulted religion.” (If you are interested in the details of this show-trial: Gatestone Institute ran a good article about it). Having the choice between a 480 euros fine (about 550 dollars) and 60 days in prison, the accused chose a third option: the European Court of Human Rights. She argued that religious groups should tolerate criticism, and that her statements served the public debate and were not intended as insults.

This European Court made a historic decision on 25 October 2018 by stating that the Austrian conviction was not in violation of article 10 of the European convention: freedom of speech has its limits.



~ “The Court found in conclusion that in the instant case the domestic courts carefully balanced the applicant’s right to freedom of expression with the rights of others to have their religious feelings protected, and to have religious peace preserved in Austrian society.”



This conclusion should give every freedom loving person pause. It is a sentence so frightening, so important and so far-reaching that it is worth further analysis. The court’s conclusion says that freedom of speech is not absolute, but should be balanced against..


1. “... the rights of others to have their religious feelings protected,”

2. “... and to have religious peace preserved in Austrian society.”


As for the first point: we all know who these “others” are. Although insulting Christianity has been a favorite pastime of the higher educated in Western Europe since the French Revolution, it rarely leads to convictions. There are no shrieking Buddhists protesting in Paris, calling for violence against infidel non-Buddhists. It is also worth noting that the court does not mention “religious rights.” It mentions religious “feelings”. How do you define that? Isn’t every form of critique slightly hurting to someone’s feelings? Isn’t that what freedom of speech is all about?

But it becomes truly creepy when we read the second point: freedom of expression has to be weighed against the right “...to have religious peace preserved in Austrian society.” The Court of Human Rights hereby confirms the fears of many libertarians and conservatives in Europe: that critique of these “others” (i.e., Muslims) may lead to a breakdown of the fragile peace that now exists, thanks to mass immigration, in every large European city. We all know where this kind of appeasement leads to.

What this shameful episode shows is that the legal elites of the faltering European Union have a complete different idea about liberty, as compared to the ideas of the Founding Fathers in the USA. In pursuit of a European “Bill of Rights” large treaties were signed, great speeches held and supranational institutions were created. But when push comes to shove, freedom of speech, one of the basic liberties -- maybe the most fundamental one of them all -- is deemed less important than the feelings of Muslims. Moreover, ironically, critique of the “Religion of Peace” is now deemed a threat to “religious peace.”

According to the Cambridge Dictionary, a paedophile is:

"someone who is sexually interested in children"

Muhammad was worse than that. According to his followers, women included, who consider him "The Perfect Man", he fucked Aisha when she was nine (We will just have to take the koranic scholars' word for it that he didn't penetrate her when she was six). Anyway, if an adult fucks a child, he or she is not merely a paedophile, but a child molester as well:





Muhammad was a pedophile AND a child molester. Besides a plethora of other unsavory things, of course.


This is a scandalous ruling by people who not only live in ivory towers but who deliberately abuse their power to destroy the lives of those whose rights they are supposed to protect. The time has come to judge the judges. As they apparently refuse to listen, let it be known that when their self-constructed trainwreck derails, they will, just like their colleague ideologues in politics, the media and what passes for the cultural sector, have to pay their fair share for the disasters they deliberately inflicted on Europe.


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DEMOCRATS IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 2018...

Nuff said, and I even said nothing.


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A DAY OUT IN THE ARDENNES.

The weather was glorious last weekend, so I figured I'd head out to the Ardennes for what was possibly the last time this year. The rest of the family wasn't in the mood - they don't know what's good for them. So me was accompanied only by myself and I.


Cruising on the good ole E411 somewhere between Custinne and Wanlin:




View on the Chateau de Bouillon, once the home of Godfrey of Bouillon, the 'Belgian' crusader. Pic taken from somewhere below the Point de Vue de la Ramonette.




After getting off the La Ramonette crest and through Bouillon's Arboretum - which sadly, isn't such a big deal anymore since it's in the process of being overgrown by, guess what, trees, I came across the Monument des Fusillés. Seems you can't get nowhere in the Ardennes or sometime, somewhere, you are reminded of WWII. It was on this spot that on the 21st of July 1944 three men from Bouillon were cowardly shot by the Gestapo on orders of Léon Degrelle, the prewar Rex strongman and Belgium's most notorious nazi. The names of the hapless souls are René Pierlot, Henri Bodard, and Louis Bodard. As I said a prayer, I wondered about the circumstances of their tragic deaths. Degrelle was from Bouillon, and obviously, felt quite attached to the region of his birth (indeed, while in Spain after the war he ventured the desire to be buried on the nearby Tombeau du Géant, a famous landmark). The liberation of this part of Belgium was only a little more than two months away. Was Degrelle, foreseeing the imminent forced departure of his overlords, exacting revenge on compatriots who had stubbornly refused to accept his vision of a Belgium as part of the Third Reich? Was he pissed off because just the day before, his beloved Fuehrer had narrowly escaped death at the hands of Von Stauffenberg? Who will tell?




Then it was off to the Rocher du Pendu, a rocky promontory overlooking the Semois river. Rocher du Pendu means Rock of the Hanged, and an anecdote I came across years ago was this: once upon a time a farmer from Corbion who had earned a good deal of money with the sale of his cows on Bouillon's cattle market, foolishly wasted his earnings on drinking and gambling in that town's cafés. Getting sober again on the rocky path towards Corbion, which passes this very spot, he became overcome with fear at the reaction of his wife, who reportedly was an ancestor of Victoria Bissell Brown. So he hung himself, end of story.




Majestic firs, straight as an arrow, on the path towards Corbion:




Point de vue de l'Ecaillère. Below is La Grande Prairie.




A view on the Moulin de l'Epine from the Pic du Diable. Although I failed to see what was so devilish about this spot.




Descending towards the Semois, like a mirage, after some time the Abbaye de Cordemois. Which has architectural elements reminding me of the Abbaye d'Orval.




It was time to wrap up the walk. Besides, the sun was slowly setting.




The calm waters of the Semois. Perhaps some 30 kloms further - I would have to check it out - it flows into France where the name is spelled Semoy.




Almost back in Bouillon. The traffic arrangement is peculiar. What is in effect a mini "beltway" around town passes through a tunnel under the castle's keep.




A view on the Chateau. Must have been quite impenetrable defenses in its time. I read somewhere that in the 17th century, Vauban also left his mark.




Driving back, I couldn't resist making a small detour to watch Frahan sitting quietly on its peninsula in a Semois bend. Pic taken from the heights of Rochehaut:




And then it was back to Chateau Outlaw!



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