The Human League with Open Your Heart. Album Dare (1981).
Brit synthpop band, formed in 1977 in Sheffield, still around. Only constant member is Philip Oakey, although Susan Ann Sulley and Joanne Catherall have been around since 1980. Back in the day, they were quite hot. Of the two, I preferred the blonde, Sulley:
Not that I want to suggest I'm a gentleman.
Fischer-Z with Song and Dance Brigade. From the 1981 album Red Skies over Paradise.
Meh. I can sympathize. No one appreciates my long experience either.
Fischer-Z formed in Uxbridge in 1976 and is supposedly still around too. BTW, if you ever wondered where the name comes from, it's a statistical term coined or introduced or whatever by Ronald Aylmer Fisher, famous statistician, population genetics pioneer, and winner of the prestigious Copley Medal. His Fisher Z-Transformation is a way to transform the sampling distribution of Pearson’s r (i.e. the correlation coefficient) so that it becomes normally distributed. The “z” in Fisher Z stands for a z-score.
Corinna Miazga is an upcoming German politician - actually, more precisely Bavarian - for AfD (Alternative fuer Deutschland). In the next two videos, courtesy our Waffenbrueder at Gates of Vienna, she explains the disastrous consequences the UN Migration Pact will have for Germany and by extension, the West:
As per usual, MissPiggy is responsible for translation while Vlad Tepes did the subtitling.
Not that it won't matter much anymore, since the Bundestag, the German parliament, last week convincingly voted FOR signing the suicide pact. Indeed, on Thursday 372 MP's voted for supporting the pact, and only 153 against. There were 141 abstentions. In a country that has had to endure such an enormous mayhem from invading muslim hordes post Merkel's insane 2015 Open Door policy, such an overwhelming support for a pact that will only lead to more of the same is a clear sign that the rot has set in among the authochton population as well. Certainly, more Europeans than before realize the continent is now a slippery slope; but on the other hand, the refusal to punish those responsible is indicative of a broader nihilism without precedent which, certainly in Germany, still manages to snuff out the dissenters. Too many Germans - too many Europeans, for that matter - don't even care anymore whether their country and/or continent goes down the drain.
More info has come out about the origin of the dreaded document. In a perverse way, Merkel flooding the country with millions of unassimilable Third Worlders seems to have been the main impetus behind drafting the pact, as Michael Stuerzenberger reports in PI-News:
"Merkel dürfte mit hoher Wahrscheinlichkeit die treibende Akteurin hinter diesem unheilvollen Bestreben sein. Ihre Vollzugskraft ist diese Louise Arbour, eine zutiefst linksliberal und pro-arabisch eingestellte 71-jährige Kanadierin, die von 2004 bis 2008 Hochkommissarin für „Menschenrechte“ bei den Vereinten Nationen war. "
So Merkel floods Germany with clitoridectomists and rapists, and three years later thinks it worked so well that she might employ the tactic for the rest of the developed world. Angela Merkel, Europe's own Jamie Gorelick, be it on steroids, can be compared to an arsonist who burns down a city block, and then manages to convince the Fire Department to stack combustibles in the surrounding blocks as an effective means to prevent the entire city burning down.
"UN MIGRATION COMMISSIONER WANTS TO GIVE MERKEL LEGITIMACY WITH THIS UN PACT.
Angela Merkel feels the growing resistance and fights more and more fiercely for the UN migration pact. One ally in this is Louise Arbour, UN Special Envoy for International Migration, who wants the UN Pact to give Merkel legitimacy for her migration policy. In a frank interview with "Die Zeit", Merkel's comrade confirmed that "the initiative for this came from Europe after the European crisis of 2015". And now it's not just Union (Merkel's Government) politicians who are wondering who in the German government launched this initiative.
As has been repeatedly suspected, the German government has obviously had the overall lead behind the scenes of this pact right from the start.
As Wolfram Weimer writes in an article on n-tv, under the chairmanship of German and Moroccan diplomats, politicians and various interest groups had met in 2017 and 2018 at several events of the "Global Forum on Migration and Development" (GFMD). With the help of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the GFMD had played a key role in formulating the Marrakesh Paper. On the GFMD website, the summit in Morocco is declared the " Highlight " of the "global migration community" for the establishment of "general principles and legally enforceable obligations" of migration."
You may recall Arbour. Watch her in this Munk Debate video confronting her and historian Simon Shama with Mark Steyn and Nigel Farage debating the 'global refugee crisis':
Mark Steyn handed Arbour her fat ass in that one. But unfortunately, in today's world there are far more Arbours than Steyns.
All the doom and gloom of late gets a man down, and presumably a woman too, and prolly also Chelsea Manning, so I thought I'd start a new gimmick on DowneastBlog to lift the spirits at the beginning of the weekend. I could have borrowed another British Mountaineering vid but I figure not everyone is interested in people sweating their asses off just to scale Ben Lomond or Beinn Chìochan or whatev and besides, I might actually induce people to do just that. Upon which sooner or later they would find themselves on top, asking themselves 'WTF am I doing here' and cursing that weirdo in Belgistan. Worse, some might even fall down a cliff and DIE, which wouldn't be such a problem if the reader in question was a leftist or a greenie but firstly he/she/xe might also be rightwing in which case it would be a shame and second I don't think there's many of the former category to begin with.
So, no mountain videos, no artsy fartsy posts either that's for Sunday (weather permitting), AND it's not Saturday yet so no boring Gen X music either. I'll just post an Answers with Joe video (hat tip OutlawDaughter) and since I am surrounded day and night by freaks I thought his post about the most inbred people of all time would be a good start. Here goes:
Via the site of the Dutch PVV party (Partij voor Vrijheid):
A video in a similar vein by Faith Goldy:
In The Netherlands too, there's a debate going on about whether or not to sign the UN Migration Pact, but only because PVV and FvD have brought the issue to the table. If they had not raised awareness, the Dutch government delegation would have flown to Morocco in the first week of December and the Dutch would have known they were screwed only on DEC 12.
It's a crying shame that, apart from Geert Wilders and Thierry Baudet, so damn few - if any - of The Netherlands' top dogs in politics are speaking out against the UN's 'Global Compact for Migration'. What struck me over the past weeks is that the only other one to raise his voice was the very respected former VVD politician like Frits Bolkestein: ex State Secretary for Economy, ex Minister of Defense, ex European Commissioner for the Internal Market and... octogenarian.
"VVD-prominent Frits Bolkestein waarschuwt voor de rampzalige gevolgen van het VN-migratiepact dat het kabinet-Rutte op 10/11 december in Marrakesh (Marokko) wil tekenen. Zijn oproep aan het kabinet: Teken niet! (EenVandaag, 20 november 2018)"
"Frits Bolkestein, prominent VVD politician, warns for the disastrous consequences of the UN migration pact the Rutte government wants to sign in Marrakesh (Morocco) on DEC 10/11. His appeal to the cabinet: Don't Sign! (EenVandaag, 20 NOV 2018)."
Bolkestein is the eminence grise of Dutch politics. If you thought his resume as a career politician was impressive, how about his formative years:
"Bolkestein attended the Barlaeus Gymnasium in Amsterdam from 1945 to 1951, where he majored in both arts and sciences. Upon completing his gymnasium education, he was an undergraduate in mathematics at Oregon State College from 1951 to 1953. Subsequently he went to the University of Amsterdam, where he received a BSc degree in mathematics and physics in 1955.[2] In 1959 he received a MA degree in philosophy and Greek from the same university. Bolkestein subsequently received a BSc degree from The London School of Economics in 1963, and an LLM degree from Leiden University in 1965."
In a normal world, if an indvidual like Bolkestein speaks, the others listen. But this is far from a normal world. In place of the Bolkesteins have come ignorant twats like the Dutch PM Mark Rutte, who can't wait to sign this suicide pact:
Sign of the times. The childless Rutte is going to allow the Dutch dykes to break and flood his entire country with Third World flotsam, thereby destroying everything that made this small country on the North Sea so admirable.
Will the Dutch wake up in time and send a strong signal to their government that they don't want to commit suicide as a nation?
In the Netherlands, one of the most vocal parties against the sham that is the UN's 'Global Compact for Migration' is the small rightwing Forum voor Democratie party, founded in 2015 by Thierry Baudet, some kind of a Geert Wilders light with more emphasis on rightwing ideology. I would rather see the PVV absorb the FvD since the fracturing of all rightwing forces serves, in my humble opinion, no useful purpose, but so be it.
Just like Geert Wilders and his PVV, the FvD warns emphatically against a UN "Pact" that will inevitably lead to a massive Third World migration - or rather, invasion - towards/of the West. It will in time lead to the death of our societies: if you import the Third World, you become the Third World.
FvD invites you to sign the petition to "Stop Marrakesh", shorthand for the UN Migration Pact, since that Moroccan city is where the pact will be signed by all those foolish, corrupt, cynical or calculating enough to believe it will serve a useful purpose.
Dr Stephen Turley, who is often featured on Gates of Vienna, has a thing or two to say about the sham that is UN Migration Pact.
It took a very long time - too damn long, in my opinion - for people who should know it earlier and better than your humble servant to reject this horrible free pass for the Third World into Western countries. The latest positive news in this regard is that Italy will also not sign this latest thinly veiled attack on the sovereignty of our nations. Via Ansa:
"(ANSA) ITALY NOT SIGNING GLOBAL COMPACT - SALVINI
~ Rome, November 28 - Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said Wednesday that Italy will not take part in an intergovernmental conference in Marrakech next month to adopt the United Nations Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration.
"Just like the Swiss, who carried forward the Global Compact up until yesterday and then said 'everyone stop', the Italian government will not sign anything and will not go to Marrakech," Salvini told the Lower House.
"The floor of parliament must debate it. The Italian government will allow parliament to decide". Premier Giuseppe Conte also said the government will not do anything until parliament has expressed a view.
"The Global Migration Compact is a document that raises issues and questions that many citizens have strong feelings about," Conte said.
"Therefore, we consider it right to put the debate in parliament and subject any final decision on the outcome of that debate, as Switzerland has done.
"So the government will not participate in Marrakech, reserving the option to adopt the document, or not, only when parliament has expressed its opinion"."
Whether the movement to reject it will gain sufficient steam before DEC 10/11 remains to be seen. Key is, that the populations of developed countries, especially the western ones, are informed in time by alternative channels, so that they can express their righteous anger to their coward and irresponsible politicians. DON'T count on our media, choke full of leftists and greens - they have deliberately refused to give this issue the attention it merits because they know full well people would holler and scream if they got so much as a brief summary of what's inside the 'Global Compact'.
So get the word out! Inform yourself, and talk to your family, friends, colleagues about it!
"Mayor Femke Halsema of Amsterdam will not cooperate in enforcing a ban on face-covering clothing in the capital. She said that on Friday evening at a meeting with young people in Amsterdam Nieuw-West. "You can be sure that I will not allow Amsterdam to follow suit."
The Senate voted in June with a bill that prohibits the wearing of face-covering clothing in educational and healthcare institutions, government buildings and public transport. Those who do not comply with the ban risk a fine of 410 euros. Minister Kajsa Ollongren (Home Affairs, D66), who is responsible for introducing the 'burqa ban', has not yet set an effective date.
Mayor Halsema, who talks about public order, now says he does not want to cooperate in enforcing the ban:
"It does not fit with Amsterdam that we take women out of the tram because they carry a nikab. That is not negotiable? "
The plan for a burqa ban is originally from Geert Wilders (PVV) and was then taken over by the Rutte I and II cabinets. It concerns a prohibition on wearing burkas, nikabs, balaclavas and full-face helmets."
Femke Halsema is a prominent member of the Dutch Greens. One wonders what it is with these self-proclaimed heroines of the left whose political stance is more than anything else centered around the 'fight' against that dreaded 'white patriarchy'. Yet they have no qualms aiding and abetting an utterly mysoginistic politico-religious doctrine which since its inception 1,400 years ago has treated women at the very best like second rate citizens.
Unfortunately, Halsema is no isolated case. Indeed, in a frightening number of cases, mayoral posts in important European cities are taken in by women of leftist/green signature who can reliably be counted upon to accommodate their muslim constituents, of which the men are notorious for their far more dominant concept of 'patriarchy' vis-à-vis cowed and pussified western males.
Take, for example, Anne Hidalgo, the far-left Mayor of Paris aka Shitville.
The photo shows Hidalgo in typical dhimmi pose with the notorious muslim grand rector of Paris, Dalil Boubakeur. Boubakeur is the one who suggested that thousands of underattended or empty French churches be converted to mosques, and who stated emphatically that muslim identity transcends national (read French) identity. He also actively campaigned pro Macron, and it is practically a given that the latter became French President not only per the votes of gullible milennials, but also, just as importantly, thanks to the muslim votes. Actually, one can state with near certainty that just as was the case with Macron's predecessor, François Hollande, it was the determining factor.
We mentioned a couple of weeks ago Ada Colau, the far-left and green activist who made it Mayor of Barcelona...
And who can forget Henriette Reker, the leftist mayor of Cologne, whose advice to the women in her city, post the horrific New Year gropefest a couple of years back, to "keep an arm's length distance" when in danger of being sexually assaulted!
And now Halsema, who has got no problem whatsoever with women wearing the burqa. In Amsterdam! What IS it with these insane women?
