In his remarkable book, The Psychology of Totaitarianism, the Flemish psychologist Mathias Desmet explains how collective psychosis can cause people to lose their critical faculties.&nbsp; He cites a famous experiment in which a person can be made to say that one line on a diagram is the same length as another, when in fact it is longer, if seven or eight actors have pretended to come to the same conclusion before him.Desmet is writing mainly about the coercive psychosis of Covid.&nbsp; But the same arguments apply to the current collective psychosis about Russia.&nbsp; For years and decades now, we have been fed horror stories about Russia.&nbsp; These have of course only increased in intensity since the invasion of Ukraine.&nbsp;We have now reached a situation in which entire sections of the media, and their respective national governments, claim to believe things which are simply impossible.The latest example is the apparent sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines.&nbsp; Russia has been immediately blamed but the accusation is not credible, for the following reasons.&nbsp; I defy any person endowed with normal critical faculties to show the opposite.&nbsp;The Americans have been opposed to Nord Stream 2 for years.It was Germany, on the orders of the USA, that decided not to open the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in February.&nbsp;Joe Biden said in front of Olaf Scholz, ‘We will put an end to it.’&nbsp; When asked how the US would do this, he replied, ‘I promise you, we’ll be able to do it.’<a href="#_ftn1">[1]</a> Victoria Nuland made it even more clear in January.<a href="#_ftn2">[2]</a>&nbsp;This is a long-standing American position.&nbsp; Under the Trump administration, extraterritorial sanctions were imposed on European companies working on the construction of the pipeline.&nbsp; Trump attended the Three Seas summit in Warsaw in 2018, an initiative to encourage the building of infrastructure to make Europe able to receive American liquefied natural gas in place of Russian gas.&nbsp;There is therefore a very long-standing US opposition to the continuing and increased supply of gas by Russia to Germany.The Americans, together with the Poles and the Ukrainians, have been mounting a vociferous campaign against Nord Stream 2 for years, the Poles comparing the pipeline to the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact of September 1939.&nbsp;The former German Chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, has been vilified and nearly expelled from his own party for working for Nord Stream 2.&nbsp; In the face of all this hostility, Russia has continued to build the pipeline, completing it last year to the absolute fury of all the above-mentioned countries.&nbsp;Why would Russia blow it up after spending billions on it? Russia has no motive to destroy the pipelines, but instead has an active interest in their remaining operational, including for political reasons.&nbsp;In the current situation, Germany refused to open Nord Stream 2 and then the Russians, ostensibly for technical reasons, idled Nord Stream 1.&nbsp;If you believe that the technical reasons are just a pretext, and that in reality the Russians idled Nord Stream 1 to put pressure on the Europeans, as has been widely alleged, then only possible logical conclusion is that that the pressure in question is being wielded in an attempt to force the Europeans to open Nord Stream 2, by making them realise they need it.&nbsp;As Russia continues to supply gas through the overland Yamal and Druzhba (Friendship) pipelines, and as Russia recently foiled a plot to blow up the Turk Stream pipeline<a href="#_ftn1">[3]</a>, it is incredible to allege that Russia wants to stop supplying Europe with gas.&nbsp;On the contrary, the continued supply of gas, which is now sold for roubles, has helped the rouble become one of the strongest performing currencies in the world, its strength enabling the Russian Central Bank to cut interest rates and recover from the initial shock caused by the sanctions in March.&nbsp; Russia has every interest in continuing to sell gas, including in the current conditions of economic warfare.&nbsp; By the same token, Russia’s enemies have every motive for removing this leverage from Russia.If you argue, as does the President of the European Commission, that Russia is trying to blackmail Europe by cutting gas supplies, then by what possible logic would Russia sabotage the pipeline?&nbsp; The destruction of the pipeline removes precisely any ability of Russia to blackmail anyone.&nbsp; That is presumably why it was sabotaged.&nbsp;Could Russia have done it?The crazier media have been full of speculation about Russian frogmen carrying out a secret mission.&nbsp; Anything is possible.&nbsp; But if this is the truth, then it shows up Nato in rather a bad light.&nbsp;The explosions occurred just a few kilometres or a few dozen kilometres from the Polish, Danish and German coasts – all Nato members.&nbsp; If Nato is not capable of protecting a key item of European infrastructure, then what is the use of it?By contrast, the Americans conducted exercises in June 2022 on Bornholm, the Danish island where the pipeline blew up, testing underwater explosives and drones.<a href="#_ftn2">[4]</a>&nbsp; So while it is very difficult to see how Russian frogmen could have carried out an operation under Nato’s very nose, it is easy to see how the Americans could have done it because they were practicing that very thing right there three months ago.&nbsp; Maybe that is what the exercises were really all about. However, if you do believe that the Russians could have sent a secret hit squad to blow up a pipeline under the Baltic Sea, then it is inconceivable that they would blow up their own pipeline and not Baltic Pipe, which (coincidentally?) was officially opened on the very day after Nord Stream 2 was attacked.&nbsp; Baltic Pipe is a Norwegian-Danish-Polish project designed to supply gas from Norway to Denmark and Poland and to reduce dependency on Russia.&nbsp; If you think that Russia is trying to sabotage Europe’s gas supplies, you must surely conclude that it &nbsp;would blow up Baltic Pipe instead.&nbsp; If Russia wants to starve Europe of gas, it needs only not to put any gas into Nord Stream 2, it does not need to blow it up.&nbsp;Fuck the EUThe US Undersecretary of State, Victoria Nuland, who as we saw above, said in January that she had told the Germans Nord Stream 2 would not go ahead, famously had a phone conversation in 2014 with the then US ambassador to Kiev, Geoffrey Pyatt, in which the two of them decided the composition of the new Ukrainian government.<a href="#_ftn1">[5]</a>&nbsp; At one point, Nuland expressed in vulgar but succinct terms US policy over Ukraine: “Fuck the EU.”That is exactly what the Americans have just done. At least, that is what the former Polish Foreign Minister and former Defence Minister, Radek Sikorski, thinks.&nbsp; One of the most vicious Russophobes in a very Russophobic country, Sikorski is very close to the security services.&nbsp; On the day of the attack, he tweeted quite simply, with a photo of the gas bubbling up to the surface of the sea, “Thank you, USA.”<a href="#_ftn2">[6]</a> &nbsp;<hr>&nbsp;<a href="#_ftnref1">[1]</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=95&amp;v=OS4O8rGRLf8&amp;feature=youtu.be">https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=95&amp;v=OS4O8rGRLf8&amp;feature=youtu.be</a><a href="#_ftnref2">[2]</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/StateDept/status/1486818088016355336">https://twitter.com/StateDept/status/1486818088016355336</a><a href="#_ftnref1">[3]</a> <a href="https://tass.com/society/1511625">https://tass.com/society/1511625</a><a href="#_ftnref2">[4]</a> <a href="https://seapowermagazine.org/baltops-22-a-perfect-opportunity-for-research-and-resting-new-technology/">https://seapowermagazine.org/baltops-22-a-perfect-opportunity-for-research-and-resting-new-technology/</a><a href="#_ftnref1">[5]</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2014/feb/07/eu-us-diplomat-victoria-nuland-phonecall-leaked-video">https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2014/feb/07/eu-us-diplomat-victoria-nuland-phonecall-leaked-video</a><a href="#_ftnref2">[6]</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/radeksikorski/status/1574800653724966915">https://twitter.com/radeksikorski/status/1574800653724966915</a>

John Laughland on the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines.

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Speech by Thierry Baudet, leader of Forum for Democracy, in the Lower House of the Dutch Parliament (States-General), 22 September 2022, during the series of formal speeches and debates following the King’s speech at the State opening of Parliament.&nbsp;&nbsp;The entire cabinet walked out of the Chamber when Baudet mentioned that the Finance Minister Sigrid Kaag had studied at St Antony's College Oxford and the Speaker then intervened to prevent Mr Baudet from completing his speech. Since the FVD leader was prevented from delivering his speech, on the say-so of the Speaker who represents the party of which Minister Kaag is the leader, we are publishing the full text here.&nbsp;<hr>&nbsp;For years, I have seen the destruction of our society and I have been fighting against it.&nbsp;I fight against mass immigration, which disfigures our societies. It causes criminality, insecurity, the disruption of our social system and a terrible housing crisis.&nbsp;&nbsp;I fight against the EU’s attack on our national democracies, that awful EU which siphons power from the public sphere into an insular world of unelected bureaucrats.&nbsp;&nbsp;Against the climate hysteria and its catastrophic results, such as the worsening energy crisis.&nbsp;&nbsp;Against the euro, which is destroying our savings and economy.&nbsp;&nbsp;Against the insane COVID policies, which have undermined our freedom and health.&nbsp;&nbsp;Against wokeism’s totalitarian attack on freedom of speech and natural human relationships.&nbsp;Against the ugliness, indeed the criminality, of modern architecture, which is harmful and alienating.&nbsp;&nbsp;Against the proxy war of the US and NATO versus Russia, first provoked by NATO and now fought on Ukrainian land. A pointless and unwinnable war plunging our continent into chaos and poverty.&nbsp;For a long time, I thought these phenomena were unrelated. I could not understand why new fronts kept being opened in the war against people trying to live their daily lives. I failed to understand why we constantly screwed up.&nbsp;&nbsp;I could not find the connection between these apparently unconnected issues.&nbsp;Then I realized that these various insanities are part of one plan. However irrational and counterproductive, like the exacerbative COVID policies, they are part of one big project.&nbsp;&nbsp;They are all symptoms of the same spiritual confusion.&nbsp;&nbsp;It is not a secret conspiracy which I have discovered.&nbsp; It is instead an openly announced plan, or a series of plans, with all have one and the same underlying ideology.&nbsp;&nbsp;Whether we call it the Great Reset, Build Back Better, the Green Deal or Euro-Atlantic Integration, the plan remains the same and stems from one mindset, the same way of thinking.&nbsp;The elite ruling class is strongly convinced that human freedom is dangerous. Human nature is dangerous. Human nature should be changed – humanity remade.&nbsp;&nbsp;That is why they push transhumanism. They find human nature unsatisfactory, and believe human intellect and planners like them can improve it.&nbsp;&nbsp;They think they will be able to live for 150 years, or even forever. World Economic Forum guru Yuval Harari believes humans are hackable and programmable.&nbsp;&nbsp;They believe in humanity 2.0.&nbsp;&nbsp;Their hatred for individual freedom is inextricably linked to it. They hate humanity 1.0 – real people.&nbsp;&nbsp;That explains their population reduction agenda: their desire to control us with social credit, QR codes and algorithms, to monitor and manipulate our feelings and desires.&nbsp;&nbsp;They believe too many people travel, so we need a personal emissions budget to track our movements.&nbsp;&nbsp;They believe freedom of speech must be curtailed, because people might say things they disagree with.&nbsp;&nbsp;All politics has essentially degenerated into a war against traditional European life; against free people; against differing opinions they call disinformation; against Russia, of course; even against seasonal flu, which they use as an excuse to inject people with poison; against national identities and yes, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and so on.&nbsp;The model for government is now war. Because war means leaders can order people around. That is the elite’s deepest desire.&nbsp;&nbsp;They think the world would be more rational, better, more efficient if we would just hand the reins to them.&nbsp;&nbsp;So the language and ideology of top-down management and control dominates politics. It is frighteningly similar to the language and ideology of Soviet Russia. It used to be the planned economy, now it is the Sustainable Development Goals.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Davos ideology is deeply linked to communism. Their differences are overshadowed by their similarity of convictions. Moreover, China shows that communism is completely compatible with economic productivity and globalism.&nbsp;Thus, the political spectrum does not range from proponents of ‘state interference’ on the one hand, to proponents of ‘corporations and companies’ on the other. Both groups, which on the surface could be called ‘left’ or ‘right’, are both global elite groups: both believe that when people are free, they make the wrong choices. They believe that when countries are free, they start wars. And so, that they themselves, these global elites, have to rule.&nbsp;That is why our elites - from both the 'right' and the 'left' (an insignificant, cosmetic distinction) - want to create top-down structures like that of the EU to make it impossible for states and people to act individually and of their own free will.&nbsp;Because of that ideology, they consider it ‘essential’ to regulate human economic activity down to the smallest detail and dream of total control over ‘climate’ and ‘planet’.&nbsp;It also appears vital to them to pass euthanasia laws, such as those existing in the Netherlands, Belgium and soon France, because they no longer want to accept that there is a part of life that is uncontrollable.&nbsp;Likewise, that ideology propagates the LGBTQI madness, and encourages children - young children! - to experiment with deviant sexualities. Nature must be made adaptable. To them, the body is only an instrument to bring to heel, and the heterosexual family as a natural, even biological basis of society is a thorn in their eyes.&nbsp;Through this ideology, our hopeless elites attempt to construct a new post-historic, post-national homo europaeus, severed from its homeland and history, drenched in a rootless cosmopolitan ideology.&nbsp;But that explains why our elites find it essential to destroy Russia, and the obsession with NATO’s proxy war against Russia in Ukraine. After all, Putin's Russia embodies the opposite of all these things.&nbsp;It is a country with a strong sense of national identity, a realistic approach to foreign policy, and a virile male leader contrasting with the effeminate, often sexually deviant politicians of the West.&nbsp;In ancient times, gnostics believed that knowledge was the key to eternal life. That the world, nature, could be shaped to their will. It is the old error of the Tower of Babel; human arrogance. This is now embodied by contemporary gnostics like Yuval Harari, the guru of Davos. Close behind are the global elite, whose subordinates are members of our government.&nbsp;This error has indeed existed for a long time. It is the age-old struggle between the salt of the earth, those who accept the limits that nature, biology, and God place on life; and the gnostics, the proud, the alchemists, who want to become God, and who in their overestimation and megalomania cause immeasurable damage - again and again - to life.&nbsp;Consider, for example, the French Revolution, based on the megalomaniac delusion that society must be destroyed to be recreated – it led to the first organised genocide in modern history.&nbsp;Or look at its continuation with the positivists of the early 1800s, who wanted a world ruled by industrialists – just as the World Economic Forum advocates today.&nbsp;Then it developed into utopian socialism, with figures like Robert Owen and Louis Blanc building model societies – which failed, because you cannot hew anything straight out of the crooked timber of humanity.&nbsp;Still it persevered, because subsequently came all the revolutionary socialism of Marx, Engels and finally the murderous rule of Lenin.&nbsp;And then? Despite the artificial and superficial 'contradiction' between capitalism and communism, Marxism was very much alive in the West during the Cold War – namely, in the form of cultural Marxism, which was rampant in universities, trade unions, the media, and the secret services.&nbsp;Whole generations of Europeans were thus taught by Marxists, whether pro-Soviet or pro-Mao. A good example is St Antony's College, in Oxford, where Sigrid Kaag got her MPhil degree. It is little more than a training institute for Western secret services – that is, for precisely the globalist elites who want to plan and control our lives behind the scenes.&nbsp;Those people, the heirs of this criminal ideology that caused the French and Russian revolutions, an ideology that transformed into cultural Marxism in the second half of the twentieth century – they set the agenda of modern globalism.&nbsp;&nbsp;Marx and Engels said, "The worker has no country." That was their ideal. Marx and Engels saw socialism as a weapon, in fact a means, to destroy the nation and the family. But essentially Marx and Engels were internationalists.&nbsp;Believers in malleability.&nbsp;They hated the nation and the family because they are natural structures, arising from the essence of human nature, and thus cannot be the product of planning.&nbsp;So when the Cold War ended, this ideology did not disappear. On the contrary, the ideology of global markets has merged with the ideology of the regulated welfare state.&nbsp;The result was globalism: the diabolical form of government merging Big Business and Big Government.&nbsp;Globalism, the dual heir of capitalism and communism.&nbsp;Engels wrote: " ‘The disintegration of mankind into a mass of isolated, mutually repelling atoms in itself means the destruction of all corporate, national and indeed of any particular interests and is the last necessary step towards the free and spontaneous association of men.’&nbsp;The old alchemists’ dream. Dissolve and let it solidify. Solve et coagula. Destroy to rebuild.&nbsp;Covid was therefore perceived as an opportunity – The Great Reset. Build Back Better. Every word out of Klaus Schwab's mouth is based on the assumption that human society is dangerously anarchic and requires central management, direction, and control, by a few major global players.&nbsp;Globalists’ hostility to national sovereignty is not because they are for individual freedom and against supposed national authoritarianism. It is because to them sovereignty embodies the very freedom, and thus the unpredictability that they cannot bear – because it gets in the way of their supposedly rational plans.&nbsp;Indeed, those plans have been eagerly pursued since the end of World War II.&nbsp;For instance, national coal and steel industries were dismantled and placed under central bureaucratic control.&nbsp;European national currencies were destroyed and placed under central bureaucratic control.&nbsp;Covid was the ultimate (and perhaps planned) opportunity for the globalists to push this control further.&nbsp;The British scientist Professor Neil Ferguson has even openly admitted that he took inspiration from China, the world's largest and most terrifying totalitarian state, to introduce lockdowns in Europe.&nbsp;The globalists love China because it embodies exactly that combination that they dream of: capitalism on the one hand and totalitarian control on the other. The unfree top-down state of China does not frighten the globalists, it fascinates them and they want to imitate it.&nbsp;They love China as much as they hate Russia. Russia, which not only openly and blatantly disobeys them, but which itself represents an alternative model that they are therefore trying to destroy before people can come to admire it.&nbsp;That is why one of the first sanctions the EU imposed was on Russian media – imagine Europeans hearing the Russian side of the story!&nbsp;Yes, mastering the narrative is essential to continue to represent and propagate the virtual reality the globalists want us to believe in. So they do not just want to control people's energy consumption, know and record their social interaction and thoughts, they do not just want the planned economy: they want the planned society – planned humanity.&nbsp;And what exactly is wrong with all this? Why not try to control the world? Why are the globalists wrong? Why is the Great Reset the greatest existential threat to human freedom and European civilization we have ever faced?&nbsp;You will know them by their fruits.&nbsp;Our countries are drowning in debt.&nbsp;Inflation is destroying our savings at the rate of 10% per year. For years, economic growth has barely exceeded 1%, if at all. That means that people lose between 9 and 10% of their income per year.&nbsp;The euro has fallen below 1 dollar after Mario Draghi said he would save it at any cost.&nbsp;Our debt burden is now so great that it can never be repaid.&nbsp;We built up trillions in debt for our children to pay off, and retirees’ savings are vanishing before their very eyes due to inflation.&nbsp;This inflation is theft – theft of our assets, by the governments and banks that control the money presses.&nbsp;That makes this a spiritual battle – a battle to save the human mind from the ravages of its potential engineers.&nbsp;A battle in which human nature is at stake.&nbsp;In which humanity is at stake.&nbsp;We must stop the mass immigration and stop the war against native Dutch and European peoples.&nbsp;We must dismantle supranational organizations and return to free cooperation between sovereign nation states.&nbsp;We must free ourselves from Big Pharma, Big Capital and Big Tech.&nbsp;For the safety of current and future generations, we need sound money, not the EU's politicized Weimar currency.&nbsp;We need policies that favour families, as in Hungary and Russia.&nbsp;We must make peace with Russia, stop with the insane climate mysticism, the LGBT alchemy and the modern anti-aesthetics.&nbsp;We must save European civilization.&nbsp;And this is precisely Forum for Democracy party manifesto. &nbsp;

The now infamous speech by Thierry Baudet in Dutch Parliament that caused the entire government to stand up and leave the chamber.

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The speech that shook parliament

The Netherlands have been struggling with unexplained excess mortality for more than a year. Since the second half of 2021, over ten thousand more people have died than expected. In October 2021, the leader of Forum for Democracy, Thierry Baudet, was the first to draw attention to this topic, in parliamentary questions to the then Minister of Health, Hugo de Jonge. The minister directly attributed the excess mortality to COVID.&nbsp;This was incorrect, because the excess death waves did not coincide with the COVID waves at all. Moreover, the excess mortality often exceeded the number of COVID deaths in the same period&nbsp;– to say nothing of the fact that the definition of “COVID death” is, of course, highly controversial.&nbsp;In December 2021, the House of Representatives ordered the government to conduct an independent investigation into the ongoing excess mortality.&nbsp;In addition to an investigation by Statistics Netherlands and the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), independent scientists were also supposed to be granted access to the data, via research financier ZonMW, in order to do their own research. However, that never happened.&nbsp;An alarming letter&nbsp;obtained by FVD MP Gideon van Meijeren shows that independent scientists do not have access to the data they need. The letter comes from research financier ZonMW and is addressed to the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport. The Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) as well as the Municipal Health Services (GGD) do not want to release the vaccination data and test results, hiding behind privacy rules as an excuse. But that argument does not hold water: the General Data Protection Regulation they rely on does not apply to deceased persons.&nbsp;In the meantime, the RIVM and the GGD are making it impossible for independent scientists properly to carry out their assignment. Because of this, they cannot check the research done by RIVM and Statistics Netherlands, nor even do their own, even though these are basic conditions for sound scientific research. Moreover, the researchers say that this creates the appearance of self-interest on the part of the RIVM and the GGD. &nbsp;According to them, it is precisely “in the interest of public trust in government to avoid any appearance of self-interest”. Duly noted.&nbsp;The position of the RIVM and the GGD also shows their hypocrisy. Firstly, the RIVM has made data available when it comes to other studies. Secondly, without any objection, those very same RIVM and GGD made available the vaccination data and test results for the sake of the QR code, as a result of which the entire Dutch population had to throw its privacy into the bin on order to regain its social life.&nbsp;Now that there are concrete indications that this may have had criminal consequences - after all, there is a real chance that the excess mortality is (partly) the result of the massive vaccination campaigns that have been imposed – this is being swept under the carpet. FVD wants to get to the bottom of the matter and is asking parliamentary questions, calling on Minister Kuipers to force the RIVM and the GGD to release the data.&nbsp;Gideon van Meijeren's parliamentary questions:&nbsp;<ol><li>Do you recall that on November 19, 2021, in response to parliamentary questions about excess mortality from May 2021, your predecessor said that “Statistics Netherlands (CBS) states that the excess mortality, or the difference between the observed number and the expected number of deaths, is almost entirely caused by death from COVID-19”? Where and when did CBS state this? Do you agree with this statement? If so, why? If not, why not?</li></ol>&nbsp;<ol><li>Are you familiar with the article 'Every week hundreds more Dutch people are dying than usual, and nobody knows why' from the Volkskrant dated 8 September 2022?&nbsp;What is your opinion of it?</li></ol>&nbsp;<ol><li>Have you received in good order the letter from ZonMW dated 30 August 2022, to which the article refers?&nbsp;If so, why did you not immediately share it with the House of Representatives? What is your view on the fact that FVD had to obtain this letter via its own means?</li></ol>&nbsp;<ol><li>What is your assessment of the contents of this letter and the accompanying appendices? Do you endorse these? If not, why not?</li></ol>&nbsp;<ol><li>Do you share the scientists' main concern – namely that the lack of data, in particular vaccination data and test results from the RIVM and the GGD, respectively, hinders research into the excess mortality? If not, why not? Do you recognise that, because of this, the scientists cannot carry out their assignment properly? If so, how will you ensure that the researchers can still carry out their assignment properly? If not, why not?</li></ol>&nbsp;<ol><li>Do you share the opinion of the scientists from the sounding board group, as set out in appendix 2 of the letter, that failure to disclose data can give the appearance of other (self)interests of organisations such as the RIVM and the GGD and that it is “in the interest of public trust in government to avoid any appearance of self-interest”? If not, why not?</li></ol>&nbsp;<ol><li>Do you recognise that the GDPR does not apply to data regarding the deceased? Do you recognize that the AVG should therefore not form an obstacle to the sharing of vaccination data and test results, as the RIVM and GGD claim it does according to this article? Do you therefore agree with the scientists who claim in Appendix 2 of the letter they sent (see question 4) that the GDPR leaves sufficient room to share the data necessary for the research?</li></ol>&nbsp;<ol><li>Are you familiar with the 8 September response of the GGD to the article in the Volkskrant, in which the GGD indicates that it would be happy to make the necessary data available for the independent investigation, while also being able to guarantee people's privacy?&nbsp;&nbsp;What is your assessment of this response from the GGD? What is your assessment of this contradiction between the statement of the GGD (stating that the GGD does want to share the data) and that of the independent scientists (stating that the GGD does not want to share the data)? Could you please ensure that the necessary data from the GGD is shared with the researchers as soon as possible?</li></ol>&nbsp;<ol><li>What is your assessment of the fact that scientific research into causes of death of recently deceased persons is frustrated by the RIVM, whereas the RIVM does make datasets available to researchers for other studies (whether accompanied by a material transfer or data sharing agreement or not)?</li></ol>&nbsp;<ol><li>Do you acknowledge that, according to art. 3(1)(e) of the RIVM Act, you are authorised to order the RIVM to share the required vaccination data with the researchers (anonymously or not)?</li></ol>&nbsp;<ol><li>Are you prepared to order the RIVM to share the vaccination data with the researchers as soon as possible, so that they can continue the research they have to carry out on behalf of the House of Representatives?</li></ol>

Dutch government agencies are obstructing research into excess mortality. MP Gideon van Meijeren has asked questions.

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Dutch government obstructs excess mortality research

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban is a thorn in the side of the European Union. It is easy to see why. Orban unashamedly defends his country, its national interests and its cultural identity.&nbsp;He opposes mass migration. He resists the woke left-wing ideologies that have taken over the West. He does what Mark Rutte and the other European leaders should be doing: defy transnationalism, cultural and moral relativism, globalism – the ideals of the European Commission and its unelected leader Ursula von der Leyen.&nbsp;Unelected Ursula cannot stand Orban with his enormous electoral mandate. Last April, when Orban and his Fidesz party won his country’s parliamentary elections for the 4th consecutive time with an even larger majority than ever before, Von der Leyen’s Commission reacted not by congratulating Orban and respecting the democratic vote of the Hungarians, but by initiating penalty procedures against Budapest under the EU’s Rule of Law Mechanism.&nbsp;According to the Eurocrats, Hungary’s constitutional and electoral systems are flawed. They say that there “exists a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the EU values.” Hence, in order to punish Hungary, the EU is going to rob the country of subsidies it is entitled to under the EU rules.&nbsp;This is a blatant violation of the EU’s own rule of law. The EU treaties clearly state that unanimity is needed to impose a financial penalty on a member state. However, in order to force reluctant member states – such as Hungary and Poland – to toe the line, the EU adopted the so-called “Rule of Law Conditionality Regulation,” in December 2020, which allows the European Commission to bypass the unanimity procedure whenever so-called violations of the rule of law by member states “affect or seriously risk affecting the sound financial management of the Union budget or the protection of the financial interests of the Union in a sufficiently direct way.”&nbsp;The EU’s approach of values, fundamental rights and the rule of law, is purely ideological. Vague and questionable notions are used to impose the imperialist concepts of the corrupt hypocrites in Brussels on Hungary, while they themselves are the largest threat to the rule of law in Europe.&nbsp;The health of the Europeans has been undermined by poisonous jabs bought in a shady, corrupt deal from Big Pharma by EU chief Von der Leyen herself.&nbsp;While Hungary has the lowest energy prices in Europe, elsewhere in Europe millions will go cold and hungry this winter because rising prices have made energy and food prices unaffordable.&nbsp;European farmers have been expropriated for the benefit of the EU’s green fanaticism and climate activism.&nbsp;European welfare is crushed by hyper-inflation fuelled by the ECB’s money printing.&nbsp;Under the pretext of fighting fake news, the EU is restricting the fundamental right to freedom of speech.&nbsp;Citizens are deceived by lies about non-existent diseases, non-existent problems, non-existent enemies. Even peace itself is endangered by the EU’s continuous fomenting of war against Russia.&nbsp;If they truly cared about their citizens, the European elites should be imitating Hungary instead of having the impudence to punish it. The Dutch people should realize that, instead of allowing the EU to defund Hungary, it is time for us to defund the EU: Nexit!

MEP Marcel de Graaff responds to the European Parliament Resolution on Hungary.

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Instead of defunding Hungary, let's defund Brussels

In the European Parliament resolution condemning Hungary, voted on Thursday 15 September, the word ‘elections’ is mentioned 10 times; the word ‘gender’, 22 times.&nbsp; The word ‘sexual’ appears 16 times (including in the words ‘homosexual’ and ‘homosexuality’), the word ‘judiciary’ 15 times.&nbsp; There are 12 references to ‘democracy’ in Hungary but 13 references to ‘LGBT’ and ‘transgender’ (plus the 5 references to ‘homosexuality’ already mentioned).&nbsp;&nbsp;There are 19 references to the Roma people in Hungary and 13 references to ‘minorities’.&nbsp; There is not a single reference to any of the traditional historic national minorities recognised in the 2011 Nationalities Act, nor to the Act itself.&nbsp; The resolution on Hungary takes up 33 pages; the resolution approving emergency aid to Ukraine, voted on Wednesday 14 September, 22 pages.&nbsp;&nbsp;So gender is more important than elections; sexuality is more important than the judiciary; and LGBT and transgenderism are more important than democracy.&nbsp; The condemnation of Hungary is therefore a grotesque example of political bias.&nbsp;‘Human rights’ and ‘the rule of law’ are supposed to be judicial concepts.&nbsp; Any criticism on these heads should be primarily about procedure and whether or not the rules have been respected.&nbsp; Instead, the document is almost entirely about outcomes, i.e. about the fact that the Hungarian government and parliament have made political choices of which MEPs and the Commission disapprove.&nbsp;This resolution on Hungary shows up the human rights industry for the sham that it has been for over 30 years.&nbsp; This is a process I have observed with increasing dismay since the 1990s.&nbsp; We all know that Saudi Arabia is treated indulgently on its human rights record while Iran is pilloried and we all know the reason: Riyadh is an ally while Tehran is an enemy.&nbsp; We all laughed at the cynicism with which the US State Department announced on 12 April 2022 that it was ‘monitoring’ human rights abuses in India, following Sergei Lavrov’s visit to Delhi on 1 April and his meeting with Narendra Modi, at which India said it would not join in with the Western sanctions against Russia.&nbsp; Central and Eastern Europe has been the victim of this hypocrisy ever since the fall of Communism gave way to the rule of new political commissars sitting in the various human rights bodies and international organisations.&nbsp;This resolution has nothing to do with ‘the rule of law’ and everything to do with the rule of Brussels.&nbsp; It is now over 10 years since the European Union first launched legal proceedings against Hungary, after the new constitution was adopted in 2011.&nbsp; In 2012 the then Luxembourg Foreign minister said that Hungary’s voting rights in the EU should be withdrawn because “Orban has long since lost the right to appear and vote as a European” (Der Spiegel, 23 January 2012).&nbsp; There have been three general elections in Hungary since this EU campaign started and they have always produced the same result.&nbsp; Yet the EU remains as determined as ever.&nbsp; In other words, the EU never gives up, especially when the so-called ‘European values’ of abortion and LGBTQI rights are at stake.&nbsp;Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that the LGBT lobby never gives up. In 1983, a book appeared in Britain, Jenny lives with Eric and Martin, which told the story of a girl being brought up by her ‘two fathers’.&nbsp; This was 30 years before gay marriage was legalised in Western Europe.&nbsp; It led to a law being passed in the United Kingdom which forbade local authorities from ‘promoting homosexuality’ and from ‘promoting the teaching in any maintained (i.e. publicly funded) school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship’.&nbsp; This law was immediately attacked by the gay lobby but remained on the statute book for over a decade until it was abolished under Tony Blair in 2000.&nbsp; This obsession with promoting homosexuality and gender ideology in schools and to children is therefore very old.&nbsp; It is reflected in the fact in the European Parliament resolution that there are 16 references to LGBT / gender promotion in schools (or the lack of it in Hungary), as opposed to 15 references to ‘judges’ (even though it is one of the main lines of attack against Hungary that the judiciary is politicised).&nbsp;The resolution on Hungary was debated shortly after the State of the Union speech given by the Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen.&nbsp; It was without doubt the most belligerent speech ever given by a Commission president.&nbsp;So much for the EU being devoted to peace: Ursula von der Leyen promised ‘sanctions are here to stay’, no ‘appeasement’, only ‘resolve’.&nbsp; In short, ‘Europe will prevail’.&nbsp;&nbsp;Such language is to be expected from the former German defence minister who undertook, when she was still a German minister, that Germany would spend 130 billion euros to make its armed forces the most powerful in Europe, i.e. more powerful than the Russia’s, a promise only repeated (not announced) by the new German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, in February.&nbsp;She also promised a ‘geopolitical Commission’ when she took office in 2019, long before any war with Russia.&nbsp;&nbsp;What should worry Hungarians, though - apart from the fact their country is on the front line in this conflict - is that her warmongering language was framed in specifically ideological terms.&nbsp; ‘This is about autocracy against democracy,’ Ursula thundered, in reference to Russia.&nbsp; But ‘autocracy’ is exactly the word the European Parliament then also used, an hour or so later, in the same chamber, to describe Hungary (in clause 2 of the resolution Hungary is said to be ‘a hybrid regime of electoral autocracy’).&nbsp;So the ‘war’ the EU has so eagerly proclaimed against Russia is also declared against Hungary, which is already the victim of financial sanctions by the Commission – sanctions which, as with Russia, I am sure, will continue to be so until the EU achieves regime change.&nbsp;Ursula von der Leyen and Olaf Scholz are determined to use this war to make one final push towards full European federalism by abolishing what remains of the national veto in the EU.&nbsp; This is what Scholz said in Prague last month. &nbsp;If Hungary’s voting rights have to be suspended to achieve this, so be it.&nbsp; That is why the crescendo of her pugnacious speech led to the conclusion which explains its whole logic: ‘the moment has arrived for a European Convention’; &nbsp;‘Long Live Europe’.&nbsp; A European Convention means the formal constitution of a federal union.&nbsp; Ursula von der Leyen is determined to achieve what other German leaders before her have tried and failed to attain: a genuinely supranational EU in which supreme power will be wielded by the central organs of Brussels over member states and their electorates.&nbsp; It is as simple as that.&nbsp;<hr>&nbsp;This article was originally published in the magazine Corvinak, the publication of the Mathias Corvinus Collegium in Budapest.&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://corvinak.hu/en/velemeny/2022/09/19/european-values-and-the-resolution-on-hungary">https://corvinak.hu/en/velemeny/2022/09/19/european-values-and-the-resolution-on-hungary&nbsp;</a>

John Laughland condemns the European Parliament Resolution on Hungary.

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European "Values"

Together with his colleague Joachim Kuhs (Alternative für Deutschland - AfD), MEP Marcel de Graaff (Forum voor Democratie - FVD) demands immediate clarity on the issue of extreme excess mortality among children.&nbsp;“An increase of 700% is shocking. This has to be thoroughly investigated. We are talking about our own children."&nbsp;De Graaff wants to know whether this excess mortality is connected to the experimental COVID-19 vaccine and in which ways further research is being done into the issue. He wants full transparency about these deaths.&nbsp;“A new round of jabs has been started, this time with a vaccine that has not been tested on humans. What risks does this vaccine pose to our people? What risks does it pose to our children? My urgent advice: do not get the jab!”&nbsp;<hr>&nbsp;Written questions from Marcel de Graaff (FVD) and Joachim Kuhs (AfD) to the European Commission&nbsp;Various reports are circulating about (possible) excess mortality - in particular of children - (possibly) related to Covid-19 vaccines. In this regard, reference is made to, among other things, data from EuroMOMO and the (possible) research that the EU is conducting in this regard. There appears to be a 700% increase in Excess Deaths among Children.&nbsp;Citizens have a moral and legal right to know the truth. Hence the following questions:&nbsp;&nbsp;<ul><li>Can the Commission indicate whether the reports about excess mortality are correct and whether they are (possibly) related to Covid-19 vaccines?</li></ul>&nbsp;<ul><li>Can the Commission indicate whether they are conducting research into the (possible) causes (such as Covid-19 vaccines) of the excess mortality and if not, why not and how does this relate to your duty of care to protect the fundamental rights of citizens?</li></ul>&nbsp;<ul><li>Is the commission prepared to disclose all data related to deaths - including the (possible) causes and Covid-19 vaccination status?&nbsp;</li></ul>&nbsp;<hr>&nbsp;Written questions posed to the European Commission by Marcel de Graaff (FVD) and Joachim Kuhs (AfD) on 20 September, 2022&nbsp;https://expose-news.com/2022/09/18/eu-forced-investigate-17x-increase-excess-deaths-children/&nbsp;

MEP Marcel de Graaff demands immediate clarity on the issue of extreme excess mortality among children.

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Excess mortality of 700% among children

The national governments and the European Commission are trampling on human rights.&nbsp;<ul><li>People are locked down in their own homes, excluded from social interaction and their work, under the guise of fighting the pandemic. Illegal measures that have been proven not to work.</li></ul>&nbsp;<ul><li>The police use batons, horses and dogs to beat demonstrators to a pulp.</li></ul>&nbsp;<ul><li>The government uses money and coercion to attack social media critics.</li></ul>&nbsp;<ul><li>Citizens are robbed by governments of their property, of their home, their business, their land, directly through expropriation or indirectly through absurd levies, taxes and excise duties.</li></ul>&nbsp;<ul><li>The right to property no longer exists. Now not for farmers, soon for no one.</li></ul>&nbsp;<ul><li>People are deprived of a decent existence by rises in food and energy prices, by levying criminally high taxes.</li></ul>&nbsp;<ul><li>People are being deprived of a home, of a roof over their heads, by giving priority to migrants who pour in by the hundreds of thousands and who are immediately entitled to an allowance and a home.</li></ul>&nbsp;Democracy lies in the grave of the corrupt mafia by the big political parties and the multinationals. They pass each other the money and the jobs.&nbsp;Cash will soon disappear as well. Then total control over the people will be a fact and all freedom will have disappeared.&nbsp;This is called fascism. This is called a totalitarian state. This is called dictatorship.&nbsp;The people must open their eyes and deal with their enemies.&nbsp;&nbsp;<hr>&nbsp;Speech by Marcel de Graaff MEP in the debate on human rights at the European Parliament in Strasbourg on 15 September 2022.

Speech by Marcel de Graaff MEP in the debate on human rights at the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

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EU rule of law is rotten to the core

Energy is a basic human need and the bedrock of the economy. It should not become a political football.&nbsp;&nbsp;The EU has created an energy crisis by unilaterally closing down one of its biggest gas pipelines, creating havoc in the markets and misery for tens of millions of Europeans. Soon people will not be able to heat their homes or run their businesses. Factories are closing across Europe and will continue to do so until the EU changes course.&nbsp;&nbsp;FVD International has laucnhed a Europe-wide petition to demand affordable energy in the EU. You can sign it <a href="https://affordableenergy.eu/">here</a>.

FVD International has launched a petition to demand affordable energy in the European Union.

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Petition for affordable energy

Gaudeamus igitur, iuvenes dum sumus.&nbsp; Let us be happy, for we are young.&nbsp;The words of the academic hymn, set to music by Franz Liszt and many other composers, and traditionally associated with the beginning of term, expresses the enthusiasm with which we begin the new academic year.&nbsp;We think of our projects for the year ahead and, especially if we are young, of the delightful prospect of our life which lies before us.&nbsp;Unfortunately it is rather difficult to feel optimistic about the coming year in the present climate.&nbsp; War has broken out in Europe, on Hungary’s own borders.&nbsp; With war comes suffering and privation but also the eclipse of freedom.&nbsp;Wherever we look in the so-called free world, we see political and judicial harassment of dissidents.&nbsp; Steve Bannon, the leading opposition campaigner in the United States, was arrested in the run-up to the mid-term elections to Congress.&nbsp; Eric Verhaeghe, a prominent dissident journalist in France, and a close friend of MCC Visiting Fellow Edouard Husson, was taken into police custody for 24 hours last week, in a clear act of intimidation by the authorities.&nbsp; And in Ireland, Enoch Burke, a history teacher, was imprisoned for refusing to use gender-neutral pronouns in his classroom.&nbsp;Unfortunately, as you all know, Hungary is also in the crosshairs of this attack on freedom and dissent.&nbsp;&nbsp;Speaking in Strasbourg on Wednesday, Ursula von der Leyen gave a very aggressive and warmongering speech.&nbsp; The EU has evidently abandoned its role as a peacekeeper, for which it was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2012 and has instead adopted the role of warmonger.&nbsp; ‘This is about autocracy against democracy,’ she thundered.&nbsp;&nbsp;She was talking about Russia but ‘autocracy’ is exactly the word used later in the same chamber to attack Hungary, in the European Parliament resolution debated just after she spoke.&nbsp; For the people in Brussels, Hungary is as much an ideological enemy as Russia is and it is no coincidence that Hungary is already the victim of financial sanctions and that she will continue to be so, like Russia, until there is regime change.&nbsp; It is, indeed, all about the regime.&nbsp; The rule of Brussels or the rule of Budapest.&nbsp; The rule of Nato or the multipolar world with different power centres.&nbsp;&nbsp;The challenge is therefore very great.&nbsp; We academics and students have a special role - to seek the truth and then to speak it.&nbsp; We are very lucky to have years or decades at our disposal to perform these noble tasks: many people do not have that luxury.&nbsp; So it is with great joy in our hearts that we should draw inspiration from two mottos drawn from the Gospel, ‘Do not be afraid’ and ‘The truth will make you free’.&nbsp;But freedom is not only individual and personal but also collective.&nbsp; That is why it is essential to preserve not just the small-scale individual freedom which existed around the kitchen table in the late Soviet period but also the collective freedom embodied and protected by the state.&nbsp; In that spirit, let us indeed recall the words of the penultimate verse of the academic hymn:&nbsp;Vivat et respublica, et qui illam regit, Vivat nostra civitas, quae nos hic protegit.&nbsp;<hr>&nbsp;Speech given by John Laughland at the opening ceremony of the new academic year at Mathias Corvinus Collegium, Budapest, 16 September 2022.

Speech given by John Laughland at the opening ceremony of the new academic year at Mathias Corvinus Collegium, Budapest.

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Let us be happy, for we are young

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