The Dutch opposition leader Geert Wilders, whose Freedom Party PVV remains the biggest in the polls, wants the Dutch government of Prime Minister Jan-Peter Balkenende to help dissolve Belgium so that Flanders, the Dutch-speaking northern half of Belgium, can be reunited with the Netherlands.

Wilders refers to a recent survey of East West Global Index which indicates that Belgium ranks 152nd in a list ranking 200 countries by their reputation, behind countries such as Algeria, Romania, Libya, Liberia, Eritrea and South Ossetia.

Wilders and his fellow MP Martin Bosma have also asked the Dutch government to replace its ambassador to Belgium by an ambassador to Flanders, who is to help the Flemings achieve their independence as a first step towards reunification with the Netherlands. “Belgium is almost history. Great. The future is for an independent Flanders in a federation with the Netherlands,” Wilders said in a statement today.

The Pinocchio regime

The grand Body Snatcher (1) project of erasing race-ethnicity-religion-culture-gender distinctions does not, of course, erase them. It merely, in the manner of a babbling baby, starts calling da-da what was previously doo-doo, as if through this onomatopaeic transfiguration shit could be turned into father.

This would be a joke, were the Snatchers not in control of the West and its destiny.  Because they are, real doo-doo is being packaged as Fatherland’s Wonderful Joy of Diversity, and we eat it. Literally.

I have had some interesting discussions with my good friend Ohmyrus, who is an ethnic Chinese man but appreciates some aspects of Western civilization that many Westerners themselves appear to have forgotten, or rejected. He is not unique in this regard. One of the best books about European culture published in recent years is Defending the West, written by the former Muslim Ibn Warraq who was born in the Indian subcontinent, not in the Western world. Essentially, according to modern Multiculturalism, every culture has the right to exist – except the Western one. The Iranian-born ex-Muslim Ali Sina denounces Multiculturalism for precisely this reason in his book Understanding Muhammad, which I have reviewed online:

The European elections set for June 7 will give the pro-sovereignty movements a chance to regain some of the ground lost when France was forced kicking and screaming into the EU, and the Irish were told they would have to re-vote on the Lisbon Treaty, and that they better get it right this time.
 
All eyes will be on the results achieved by the Front National and Libertas, the group formed by the fusion of Philippe de Villiers' MPF (Movement for France) and the smaller CPNT party headed by Frédéric Nihous. CPNT stands for "Chasse, Pêche, Nature et Traditions" – Hunting, Fishing, Nature, Tradition – and was formed in 1989. Here is what Wikipedia has to say about Libertas:

George Handlery about the week that was. Illusions might be bad but the fantasy of regulation is devastating. More state, more corruption. Bad governments, their taxes and those seeking relief. Street violence and video games. Freedom and maturity. Saving the failing now implies paying for ever.
 
1. Our view of the economy is governed by three fantasies. One is the currently unfashionable illusion of eternal boom. Second is the now dominant delusion of doom. Experience tells that these visions, while harmful, express errors that are ultimately self-healing. It is the third of the illusionary prejudices about which we need to worry. It is the illusion of regulation. Those infected by this fantasy assume that the current crisis could have been prevented and can be overcome by devising new regulatory instruments. Do you suspect that the crisis came about because existing regulations have failed? In that case you will be concerned by the effect of the rules about to be imposed upon us. Of the three illusions, the regulatory one is the most dangerous because its exaggerated assumptions become institutionalized. Therefore, the fallacy’s harmful consequences can not be overcome by nature asserting itself. Politics will make the correction of the wrong regulations long and tortuous.
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The German economy is expected to shrink by 5.6 percent this year. That is the gloomy expectation of the IMF, confirmed by the five major economic research institutes in the country. Never before in its 60 years of existence has the German Federal Republic experienced a deeper and more sudden recession.

Michael Savage, the number three most popular talk radio host in the US with a weekly reach of 10 million listeners, has been banned from entering the UK. Not that he wanted to visit the UK, but his name is on a list of 16 unwanted people, including radical muslim clerics, neonazi's, white supremacists, murderers and terrorists. Jacqui Smith, the British Home Secretary, explains the decision:

"This is someone who has fallen into the category of fomenting hatred, of such extreme views and expressing them in such a way that it is actually likely to cause inter-community tension or even violence if that person were allowed into the country."

Some literary names – Edmund Burke, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, G. K. Chesterton, Oswald Spengler, T. S. Eliot, Raymond Aron, Eric Voegelin, William F. Buckley, Russell Kirk, or Roger Scruton – have immediate resonance with conservative readers, as well they should. Some others the same readers might benefit from knowing although the occasion for familiarity, for a variety of reasons, has never offered itself. In every area of interest a small range of “core authors” tends to form the common reading and to serve for shared reference; it is as idiosyncratic readers that the like-minded are perhaps most useful to one another, as when they pass along bits of lore peculiar to their own cognizance, picked up by happenstance, that others, for entirely understandable reasons, have missed.

It is time to take a cursory look at the European elections scheduled for June 7. I’ll use Le Figaro’s series of articles – there are at least 25 of them – as a guide, but other more interesting and subjective points of view can be found at the pro-sovereignty blogs.
 
While slide shows are usually just photos of celebrities, this one is informative as well, showing the major architects of what we call today the European Union. Two themes emerge from the captions: the fundamental roles played by France and Germany in the creation of this behemoth, and the early advocacy by the founders of a supranational Europe. Begun as a defensive measure, soon an economic agreement, it wasn’t long before the underlying ambition to create a political, hence anti-national, entity was explicit. This political ambition would be fiercely opposed by Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle, were they here.

Berlaymonster has done some fine digging,
Instead of being sacked, Eurocrats are being compensated for fraud, all because the investigating office is useless.

14 EU fonctionnaires investigated for suspected injury benefit fraud have been awarded an extra 3000 euros each from the taxpayer, after it transpired the EU’s fraud watchdog failed to tell the accident-prone civil servants that they were to face criminal proceedings in Italy.

What the flipping heck!