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Geert-Jan Schroot retweeted
Leg eens uit @sarahdobbe, jij en je SP-clubje rennen al maanden achter een leugen aan die je zelf nooit onderbouwt: de zogenaamde 'genocide in Gaza'. Die is er namelijk helemaal niet. Israël voert een oorlog tegen Hamas na de brute massamoord, afschuwelijke verkrachtingen en mensonterende gijzelingen van 7-oktober 2023. Dat is geen 'genocide', dat is zelfverdediging tegen een organisatie die in haar eigen charter de vernietiging van de Joden als primair doel heeft staan. Jij, en je SP-clubje, doen alsof de geschiedenis op 8-oktober begon en zwijgt consequent over de daders. Da's wel héél selectief, vind je zelf niet?
Daarmee is je 'Rode Lijn' geen nobele, moreel verheven, actie tegen onrecht. Het is een politiek circus waarin jij als Kamerlid meeloopt met dubieuze clubs als BDS, The Rights Forum e.d. die al langer uitgesproken fan van Hamas zijn en hun misdaden tegen de menselijkheid structureel witwassen onder de noemer 'verzet'. In Amsterdam werd tijdens soortgelijke betogingen openlijk 'We support Hamas' en 'Long live the 7th of October' gescandeerd, om het nog maar niet over de spandoeken en protestborden te hebben. En jij roept nu mensen op om mee te lopen? Dat is geen naĂŻviteit meer, dat is bewust wegkijken en de echte barbaarsheid een carte blanche geven.
Zou je als SPâer niet iets moeten doen aan Nederlandse problemen: zorg, woningnood, veiligheid? In plaats daarvan verspil je je mandaat en je tijd aan het stoĂŻcijns opdreunen van een beschuldiging richting het enige democratische land in de regio dat civiele slachtoffers probeert te beperken in een stedelijke oorlog waarin de tegenstander onder ziekenhuizen en scholen opereert en de eigen bevolking als menselijk schild gebruikt. Waarom zwijg je zo consequent over de echte daders? Jij kiest ervoor om de agressor te vergoelijken en de verdediger te demoniseren. Dat is geen engagement, dat is bewuste partijdigheid. En dat terwijl de problemen in Nederland schreeuwen om aandacht.
Jij loopt achter een leugen aan die je zelf nooit hard kunt maken, terwijl je de echte barbaarsheid van 7-oktober structureel wegpoetst. Dat is een bewuste keuze. Sarah. Je kiest voor de kant die openlijk 'We support Hamas' scandeert, die gijzelaars als trofeeën behandelt en die de vernietiging van Joden in haar charter heeft staan. En je doet dat terwijl de zorg hier vastloopt, de woningnood generaties kapotmaakt en de straat onveiliger wordt. Effectief offer je de belangen van je eigen kiezers op aan een buitenlands conflict waarin je consequent de verkeerde kant kiest. Wil je daadwerkelijk zo de geschiedenisboeken in?
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Recently I was talking with a friend about universal geniuses. And something struck me.
Florence, 1480â1510. Same city, same moment: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Machiavelli, Botticelli, Pico della Mirandola. Raphael right behind them. They walked the same streets.
Europe, 1600â1700. Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Pascal, Huygens, Newton, Leibniz. In two generations, we got calculus, modern mechanics, probability theory, and the scientific method.
Athens, 470â320 BC. Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles, Phidias, Thucydides. One century, one city, and the foundations of Western thought were laid.
Europe, 1890â1930. PoincarĂ©, Hilbert, Einstein, Marie Curie, Tesla, Planck, Bohr, then von Neumann.
Always the same pattern. In every great era, the West had 15 to 20 minds of this caliber alive at the same time. People who could touch everything and push the frontier of several fields at once.
Today we have one. Just one. Elon Musk.
And Elon is an anomaly.
Not in the sense that he shouldn't exist. In the sense that the world we built is designed so that someone like him never emerges. Statistically, he shouldn't be here.
Because what forged Elon was an absolutely insane move.
October 2002. eBay buys PayPal. Elon walks away with roughly $180M. Anyone else buys an island and never works another day.
He puts $100M into SpaceX, $70M into Tesla, $10M into SolarCity. Almost everything. On rockets and electric cars, two industries no sane person wanted to touch.
2006â2008. The first three Falcon 1 launches fail. Tesla is burning cash, the financial crisis hits, investors run. He has enough left for one last launch. Just one. He borrows money from friends to pay his rent.
September 28, 2008. The fourth launch reaches orbit.
December 23, 2008. NASA awards SpaceX a $1.6B contract.
December 24, 2008. The Tesla round closes at the last possible hour. A few more days and everything collapses.
That's what a genius is. Not just IQ. The ability to put everything on the table when the entire world tells you it's impossible, and be right.
Now the real question: why do we only have one?
Because a genius needs three things. The freedom to try. The right to get massively rich if it works. The right to fail without being destroyed.
And that's exactly what the collectivist left and the technocrats have torn down across the West for the past 50 years.
They turned success into suspicion. Making a lot of money became a moral failing. Taking risks became irresponsible. Rising above the crowd became an insult to equality.
They stacked up norms, committees, permits, regulations written in Brussels by people who have never built anything in their lives. In Europe, Elon would never have been allowed to blow up three rockets. He'd have been stopped at the first form.
They want to tax capital before it even exists, cap fortunes, redistribute what others created by risking everything.
They replaced excellence with conformity. Our schools produce docile people, not dangerous ones. And a genius, by definition, is someone who disrupts. Their entire system is built to neutralize the people who disrupt.
The result: where we should have 15 to 20 universal geniuses alive at the same time, we have one.
Just one.
And you want to put him in prison.
You summon him before judges, you raid his offices, you insult him morning, noon and night, you dream of breaking up his companies. The man who lands rockets vertically and wants to take humanity to Mars.
You're disgusting.
History won't remember your names. It remembers Galileo, not the inquisitors who tried to silence him.
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Eric Hoffer wrote this article about Israel almost 60 years go. It reads like it was written yesterday.
"The Jews are a peculiar people: things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews.
Other nations drive out thousands, even millions of people and there is no refugee problem. Russia did it, Poland and Czechoslovakia did it, Turkey threw out a million Greeks, and Algeria a million Frenchmen. Indonesia threw out heaven knows how many Chinese-and no one says a word about refugees. But in the case of Israel the displaced Arabs have become eternal refugees. Everyone insists that Israel must take back every single Arab. Arnold Toynbee calls the displacement of the Arabs an atrocity greater than any committed by the Nazis.
Other nations when victorious on the battlefield dictate peace terms. But when Israel is victorious it must sue for peace. Everyone expects the Jews to be the only real Christians in this world.
Other nations when they are defeated survive and recover but should Israel be defeated it would be destroyed. Had Nasser triumphed last June he would have wiped Israel off the map, and no one would have lifted a finger to save the Jews.
No commitment to the Jews by any government, including our own, is worth the paper it is written on. There is a cry of outrage all over the world when people die in Vietnam or when two Negroes are executed in Rhodesia. But when Hitler slaughtered Jews no one remonstrated with him.
The Swedes, who are ready to break of diplomatic relations with America because of what we do in Vietnam, did not let out a peep when Hitler was slaughtering Jews. They sent Hitler choice iron ore, and ball bearings, and serviced his troop trains to Norway.
The Jews are alone in the world. If Israel survives, it will be solely because of Jewish efforts. And Jewish resources. Yet at this moment Israel is our only reliable and unconditional ally. We can rely more on Israel than Israel can rely on us. And one has only to imagine what would have happened last summer had the Arabs and their Russian backers won the war to realize how vital the survival of Israel is to America and the West in general.
I have a premonition that will not leave me; as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish the holocaust will be upon us."
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We zitten in een spannende tijd van transitie door ideologisch economisch wensdenken naar totale armoede. Blijf vooral op D66, Pro e.d. stemmen als je een torenhoge energierekening wil, vertrekkende bedrijven, meer micromanagement door de overheid van je leven en nog meer massa-immigratie. Hoe hopeloos dom kan je zijn
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Yad Vashem.
De enormiteit van de Holocaust is nooit te bevatten.
Dat Jodenhaat hierna nog een comeback kan maken, is verbijsterend.
Echt.
Was het maar #NooitMeerđ
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Living here on Madeira, I've stood on paths like this many times. The peaks rise from a sea of clouds, golden light warming ancient rock while the world below vanishes in mist. A lone figure at the railing reminds us how small we are in nature's grand design.
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Thereâs no guarantee that French culture and traditions will survive ceaseless attacks from discontents inside the country.
@DouglasKMurray dives into this in his recent column. Read it here: thefp.com/p/douglas-murray-fâŠ
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In October 1942, during the height of the destruction of Polish Jewry, the Polish underground ordered Jan Karski to carry a report to the government-in-exile in London. Before he left, two Jewish leaders from the Warsaw ghetto met him. Their message was simple: âOur entire people will be destroyed.â
Karski decided he needed to see it himself. At enormous personal risk, he was smuggled into the Warsaw ghetto and later into the Izbica transit camp near Lublin, disguised among the guards. He watched starving children, naked corpses left in the streets, and Jews packed into freight cars for the killing centers. The images never left him. He became not only the courier of the Polish underground but the witness who insisted the free world hear what was happening to the Jews.
He reached London in November 1942 and briefed the Polish government-in-exile and British officials, including Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. In July 1943, he met President Roosevelt in Washington and described what he had seen. Roosevelt listened, and then asked questions about other matters.
Karski later wrote that he had failed in his wartime mission. In 1981, he told American officers who had liberated the camps: âAnd thus I myself became a Jew ⊠so have all the Jews who were slaughtered become my family. But I am a Christian Jew ⊠My faith tells me the second original sin has been committed by humanity. This sin will haunt humanity to the end of time. And I want it to be so.â
Yad Vashem recognized him as Righteous Among the Nations in 1982, not because he saved individual Jews, but because he risked his life to enter the ghetto and a transit camp and carried their message to leaders of the free world. In 1994, Israel granted him honorary citizenship. He called it the proudest day of his life.
Karski had been a Polish diplomat and underground courier. After the war, he became a Georgetown professor. The silence that greeted his reports never stopped troubling him. He spent the rest of his life insisting that the world had known and had not acted in time.
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Premise:
Incentives drive all human behavior.
The corollary:
How to destroy a country:
A vast social security and support system that serves as a magnet for those who would rather not work.
An open immigration policy that does not screen immigrants to determine their ability and willingness to provide for themselves and their families.
An open immigration policy that does not screen for political and/or religious ideologies that are a threat to the country.
Economic incentives large enough to incentivize immigrants on the state dole to have large numbers of children, but insufficient for educated and economically productive mothers to be able to quit to raise a family.
The declining fertility of the most educated and productive women due to their delay to begin a family as a result of their desire and/or need to advance their careers, among other reasons, to live a life they deem consistent with their educational achievements and/or to repay their student debts.
Amnesty programs that give citizenship and voting power to illegal immigrants without consideration of their economic productivity or their threat to the country due to their religious or political ideologies.
The changing demographics and increased population due to the above factors.
The state responding to protests by increasing social support.
The continued failure to punish and hold accountable violent and looting rioters.
Government managed by a massive and growing unelected bureaucracy.
Government fraud, waste, and abuse contributed to ballooning budgets.
Anti-business legislation that makes it difficult for businesses to compete in a global marketplace being disrupted by AI, including restrictions on firing even poorly performing employees.
Overly burdensome, globally uncompetitive, corporate taxation.
Continuous increases in personal taxes to raise funds to provide for the rapidly growing welfare state.
The substantial majority of the tax burden levied on a small percentage of the population.
A growing percentage of the electorate paying no taxes and receiving welfare.
The introduction or threat of a wealth tax including the taxation of unrealized gains, i.e., taxes on paper wealth.
The flight of the most productive business builders and highest taxpayers to lower tax countries with lesser security concerns.
A growing percentage of the electorate voting for candidates that support increased welfare and laws favorable to, and/or that match the cultural and ideological needs and desires of a growing unproductive immigrant population.
The rapid rise in anti-semitism and inadequate efforts to address this hatred.
Increased borrowing by the state to fund the growing social burden.
Higher sovereign interest rates due to all of the above.
The resulting need to reduce expenditures to make the math work.
Increasingly violent protests that make life less livable for the productive and law abiding citizens leading to their accelerated departure.
And so onâŠ
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LEDs are more energy-efficient, yet they also pose a threat to human health.
For the past two decades the global shift toward energy-efficient light-emitting diodes has drastically altered how we light our homes and offices. While highly beneficial for reducing electricity bills, these lights emit a narrow spectrum dominated by short blue wavelengths and entirely lack the long-wavelength red and infrared light found in natural sunlight and older incandescent bulbs.
Emerging research led by Professor Glen Jeffery at University College London shows that our cellsâ powerhouses, the mitochondria, rely on these missing red wavelengths to function. Without them, mitochondrial respiration is suppressed, leading to systemic infrared starvation that can disrupt cellular energy production, cause chronic inflammation, and accelerate aging.
This lack of natural spectrum light is more than a matter of eye strain; it has deep metabolic consequences. Studies show that exposing the body to specific red and near-infrared light stimulates mitochondria to consume more glucose and oxygen, dramatically reducing blood glucose spikes and regulating insulin levels. Conversely, prolonged indoor exposure to red-deficient, blue-heavy LEDs is linked to metabolic dysfunction and cellular degeneration, contributing directly to chronic conditions such as type 2 diabetes, cognitive decline, and vision loss.
As public health researchers warn of this modern environmental hazard, experts suggest reintroducing balanced full-spectrum lighting or simple red-light exposure to help restore our natural metabolic rhythms and protect long-term health.
[Barrett, E. M., & Jeffery, G. (2026). LED lighting (350-650nm) undermines human visual performance unless supplemented by wider spectra (400-1500nm+) like daylight. Scientific Reports, 16(1), 3061. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-026-35389-6]
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Overal zie je de signalen die doen denken aan de tijd waarover we op school leerden. Een geschiedenis die zich niet woord voor woord zal herhalen en daarom ook niet vooraf geschreven of te voorspellen is.
Maar mijn hemel wat er zijn er toch veel signalen, patronen en âtraditionele gebruikenâ te ontwaren in het moralisme, het activisme en het antisemitisme van vandaag, die wel degelijk de bittere smaak van toen in de mond geven, en die een vrees voeden in de onderbuik.
Je wilt toch echt niet iemands kleinkind moeten zijn, die over tachtig jaar met de hoed deemoedig in de hand een boek met kille feiten komt overhandigen aan de slachtoffers van hun opa of oma. Je moet vooraf voorkomen wat achteraf niet uit te leggen valt, maar momenteel worden overal excuses voor gevonden om vooraf alvast wég te wuiven wat je achteraf van zo verre kon zien aankomen.
Bitter gevoel na het lezen van dit stukje van Rob Fransman:
robfransman.substack.com/p/oâŠ
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In 1938, five years into Nazi rule, 32 countries met at Evian, France to decide what to do with the Jews of Germany. They talked for nine days. They ate, drank, laughed, and agreed the Jews faced mortal danger. Then they kept their doors closed.
By 1945, about 1.5 million Jewish children in Europe had been murdered. Thatâs 94% of those alive at the start of the war in 1939. There was no army, no reliable passport, and no Allied rescue that arrived in time.
Survivors came out of the camps to find neighbors living in their homes and uninterested in their return. In several places, that disinterest turned into violent pogroms. Jews survived Hitlerâs madness only to be killed when they tried to return home.
Hundreds of thousands of Jewish survivors had no homes and were placed back behind wire as âdisplaced persons.â Their ancestral homeland, recognized by the League of Nations in 1922 as the site of a Jewish national home, remained under a British blockade that kept Jewish immigration to a trickle.
In 1947, the UN offered a truncated Jewish state next to an Arab state. The Jews accepted it, but the Arab Higher Committee refused. On the eve of the 1948 invasion, Azzam Pasha of the Arab League declared it would be âa war of extermination and momentous massacre.â The war killed about 1% of the Jewish population. The rest stayed and built a country that is now a technological leader, a regional power, and home to half the worldâs Jews.
No conference of self-congratulating leaders gets to decide anymore whether Jews must stay and be slaughtered or leave and hope to be saved. Now, there is a Jewish state. Now, every Jew has a home.
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Nog gegadigden voor een rode lijn tegen het vuige fascisme in Iran?
Haar laatste woorden in de rechtbank tegen de Sharia-rechter:
âJullie laten zoveel jonge mensen bloeden. Hoe kan ik stil blijven? Het maakt me niet uit, dood me maar.â
De executie van de 18-jarige Melika Azizi is eerder vandaag voltrokken. #Iran
Melika werd in januari 2026 gearresteerd tijdens landelijke protesten en aangeklaagd wegens âoorlog voeren tegen Godâ.
đ#FuckIslam
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13 October 1939 | Dutch Jewish girl, Carla Irene Witteboon, was born in Amsterdam.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in August 1943. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
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A short video showing the ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III: youtube.com/shorts/ipQmBPAlJâŠ
ALT A vintage black-and-white photo of a young girl standing outdoors against a brick wall, looking upwards and placing both hands on their head.
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Naar de hel met de laffe meeloopbestuurders, meelooppolitici en meeloopmediamensen. Jullie hebben hier geschiedenis geschreven door precies te laten zien hoe we ooit zo succesvol waren in het faciliteren van de deportatie van honderduizend joden.
De âfree palestine bikersâ uit Nederland, Frankrijk en BelgiĂ« komen aan in #Amsterdam bij de #Dam. Op de weg staan honderden mensen.
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A heartbeat never asks permission. Neither does passion.â
Cuorerosso. Our manifesto for the future of Alfa Romeo.â
â#AlfaRomeo #AlfaRomeoCuorerosso
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The lines of the future.
The heartbeat of a new era.
The innovative vision of Alfa Romeo.
Cuorerosso.
#AlfaRomeo #AlfaRomeoCuorerosso
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Sozialismus ist das perfekte GeschĂ€ftsmodell fĂŒr Politiker: Er erzeugt AbhĂ€ngigkeit, und AbhĂ€ngigkeit erzeugt WĂ€hler. Wer vom Staat lebt â durch Transferleistungen, Subventionen, âsozialeâ Absicherung, planwirtschaftliche Privilegien â wĂ€hlt denjenigen, der die HĂ€hne aufdreht. Der Politiker wird zum Versorger, der BĂŒrger zum Klienten. Je gröĂer die AbhĂ€ngigkeit, desto gröĂer die Macht. Deshalb lieben sie ihn. Nicht aus Ideologie, sondern aus nacktem Eigeninteresse.
Kapitalismus hingegen ist fĂŒr die politische Klasse eine existenzielle Bedrohung. Er belohnt Eigenverantwortung, Risiko, Innovation und private Initiative. Er macht Menschen unabhĂ€ngig vom Staat â und damit unkontrollierbar. Wer seinen Lebensunterhalt selbst verdient, seine Entscheidungen selbst trifft und seinen Wohlstand selbst schafft, braucht keine Gönner in Berlin, BrĂŒssel oder sonstwo.
Jede Regulierung, die âden Markt zĂ€hmenâ soll, ist in Wahrheit ein Instrument, um Wettbewerb zu ersticken und etablierte Interessen zu schĂŒtzen. Der freie Markt braucht keinen Politiker als Mittler. Der Politiker braucht den freien Markt als Feindbild.
Deshalb die ewige Rhetorik: Kapitalismus wird als âgierigâ, âungerechtâ, âunsozialâ gebrandmarkt â wĂ€hrend der Staat, der mit Gewalt monopolisiert, umverteilt und kontrolliert, als moralische Instanz auftritt. Es ist die Ă€lteste Strategie der Macht: die AbhĂ€ngigkeit als Tugend verkaufen und die UnabhĂ€ngigkeit als Gefahr.
Der Staat hat kein Interesse an freien Menschen. Er hat Interesse an Untertanen, die ihm dankbar sind. Sozialismus liefert die Untertanen. Kapitalismus liefert die Freien.
#FreiheitstattKnechtschaft #SteuernsindRaub #Eigentum #Freiheit #ParasitenwegmitEuremZwang
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Het kan wél, maar niét zoals het kabinet en links het wil. Wat nodig is, is een vreedzame klassiek liberale revolutie, met een veel kleinere overheid, veel minder regels, veel minder bureaucratie en ambtenaren, waarbij de overheid de burgers met rust en vrij laat, maar hun eigendom beschermt, veel lagere belastingdruk en een beperkt vangnet voor mensen die echte tegenslag hebben en waarin er ruimte is voor heropbloei van een van de Staat onafhankelijk maatschappelijk middenveld, met gemeenschappen op velerlei terrein.