Henri Kerkdijk

Historian and family man.
Care about conservation, wildlife, regenerative agriculture, holistic planned grazing, freedom. Neither a socialist nor a liberal.

[𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ @NiohBerg]

Earlier I posted Iranian football is cursed because Iran has been cursed for 47 years by the islamic regime.

The reality is actually worse than that. A curse would indicate some otherworldly interference.

But in our case, it's a physical occupation. Islamic fanatics not only occupy Iran and have inserted themselves into everything - they also have hordes of dumb, brainwashed goons willing to clap like seals for what is essentially Team IRGC, and then cry for it.

We did not have over 100,000 innocent Iranian lives ripped away from us by the islamic regime just to pretend like everything is normal. I wonder if these people shed even one tear for the victims back then, the way they weep for a bunch of footballers.

In a just world, the rotten "islamic republic" would be banned from all international sports until regime change happens and our homeland is normal again. That terrorist mafia does not get to act like a normal state.

It is our obligation to oppose them at every turn and deny them a single win.

The occupation must end.

[Henri Kerkdijk @HKO2011]

"Ik sluit algemene mobilisatie of een tactisch nucleair wapen niet uit."
Angstporno.
Nucleair wapen? Dan bombardeert #NAVO #Rusland in 2 weken terug naar de steentijd. Niet zwichten voor een dictatuur, daar gaat het om.
https://t.co/lqnQLlRiAu

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

Wow, now Iran’s regime and Egypt have objected to Seattle’s Pride Match and urged FIFA to remove Pride-related symbols.

This is exactly what I’ve been warning about: authoritarian Islamists never stop at asking for tolerance.

First: “Respect our religious practices. Respect our customs. Respect our sensitivities.”

Then: “Change your traditions. Silence your values. Adjust your society to our ideology.”

These are the same “values” that sentence women to 74 lashes for singing, execute gay people, and shoot peaceful protesters in the streets.

Free societies should never surrender their values to appease authoritarianism.

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

To all Western media, including pro-Palestine outlets: right now, thousands of Palestinian civilians are taking part in massive anti-Hamas protests across the Gaza Strip.

Stand with them. Carry their voices. Don't abandon them.

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

Can anyone help me understand this? Because I genuinely don’t get it.

LGBT people are imprisoned, tortured, and killed in ‘Palestine.’ So how come they are the biggest supporters of Palestine?

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

HORRIFIC: The Fatwa Committee of the Association of Muslim Scholars of Palestine has issued a statement declaring that participating in the June 26 anti-Hamas protests is forbidden, accusing protesters of betraying Islam, collaborating with Israel, and calling for them to be publicly denounced.

This is exactly how peaceful dissent is demonized: first by branding ordinary Palestinians as traitors and collaborators, then by creating a religious and political justification to execute and persecute them.

The people planning to protest are not foreign agents. They are Palestinians demanding the right to speak, to live with dignity, and to express their views without fear.

Threatening civilians for exercising their right to peaceful expression is unacceptable and disgusting.

[Henri Kerkdijk @HKO2011]

@WarMonitor3 Well, if Iran gets away with, why not give it a go?

[M. A. @eurostrategist]

In September 1990, my village in Valencia hit 46°C.

It was the exact kind of natural climate volatility this ancient planet has unleashed for billions of years.

Today, Valencia, Rome, and Athens are actually sitting well below their seasonal averages. Yet, the media is in a coordinated meltdown over a standard two-week warm patch in the UK, France, and Belgium.

As a geospatial engineer who wrote a thesis on climatology, I’m positioned better than many to talk about the topic, the entire narrative relies on a broken view of data systems.

The formula is simple: zoom in on a tiny slice of geography, filter out the cool regions that ruin the story, and label a hot afternoon a global catastrophe.

The funniest part is the sheer hubris of the solution.

We are told the Earth's massive climate system operates like a living room thermostat, that if humans just stop CO2 emissions, we can magically freeze the weather at our preferred temperature.

Pretending we can micromanage global macro-cycles with carbon taxes.

But as long as panic funds the machine, and people don’t think by themselves, they’ll keep selling the front-row tickets.

[Henri Kerkdijk @HKO2011]

@marktoonen75 Jatten had het al over code zwart.

[Henri Kerkdijk @HKO2011]

@AlicevanDrie @lientje1967 Dat had zelfs David Attenborough door, die de Nederlandse landbouw prees een aantal jaren geleden.

[ir. Wouter de Heij @deheij]

Dit illustreert de werkelijke gekte van de stikstofcrisis. Dit is Tata, het bedrijf wil vergroenen, en mag het niet vanwege stikstof. Is er dan werkelijk niemand die rationeel durft te zeggen tegen dit bedrijf “Installeer die DeNox en zet hem aan”.

Zo ook alle boeren die een betere stal willen hebben met bijvoorbeeld een moderne luchtwasser. Er is maar 1 rationeel bestuurdersbesluit dat je dan kan nemen : “Ga dit doen, hier is een vergunning, en begin met bouwen”.

De vraag vandaag gaat zijn: Durft het kabinet en specifiek de minister van @ministerLVVN dit per direct toe te staan? Durven provincies hiervoor per direct vergunningen te verlenen?

En mocht de minister denken dat de #RKO er dus pas in 2028 kan komen, beseft hij dan dat zijn missie NIET is geslaagd? Wanneer zijn missie ook niet is geslaagd? Als hij geen antwoord heeft op de gekke “additionaliteit” denken.

@StikstofInfo
@JAKoorevaar
@lientje1967
@renatemas
@DiederikBoomsma
@minlvvn

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

Why does no one care?

In Africa, Arab Muslims are enslaving black African Christians.

The media, progressives, Palestinian protesters, the UN, and even the Pope remain silent.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Judging by the deafening roar from the Kremlin's online propaganda machine — from useful idiots in the West and professional anti-'escalation' crusaders to hordes of trolls and bots on this hellsite — Ukraine's strikes at the very foundation of Russia's war machine are really painful and the Kremlin is getting really nervous.

[Henri Kerkdijk @HKO2011]

#Klimaatverandering, extreme #hitte, code zwart, of.... El #Niño in 2026? Ik ga als historicus voor de meest waarschijnlijke oplossing. Warmt het klimaat dan niet op? Jazeker wel, maar we komen dan ook uit een kleine ijstijd. In de Romeinse tijd was het hier warmer dan het nu is.

[Henri Kerkdijk @HKO2011]

Verbieden, Verbieden, Verbieden. Tegenwoordig wil iedereen dat er vanalles verboden wordt. Ik prefereer een liberale democratie. Als je vanalles verboden wilt hebben, verhuis dan ajb naar Cuba of een vergelijkbaar land.

[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

Europe survived for centuries without antibiotics.

That doesn’t mean antibiotics are a luxury.

Europe survived for centuries without refrigeration.

That doesn’t mean refrigerators are unnecessary.

Now some people are saying Europe doesn’t need air conditioning.

The logic is bizarre:

“If people can survive without a technology, they shouldn’t use it.”

By that standard, we should get rid of heating, insulation, vaccines, and modern medicine too.

The goal of civilization is not to prove how much suffering we can tolerate.

It’s to reduce suffering.

The solution to climate change is not making elderly people sweat through 40°C apartments to achieve moral purity.

The solution is cleaner energy, better buildings, smarter cities, and more efficient cooling.

Technology got us out of the cave.
The answer isn’t going back in.

[Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX]

This is incorrect.

Verargues recorded a high temperature of 46.0°C (114.8°F) on June 28, 2019.

Retract this misinformation and correct the record.

[Jacques Monasch @JacquesMonasch]

Als journalist verklede terroristen; Ontdekte ondergrondse Hezbollah complexen en tunnels; 70 UNRWA medw. ontslagen vanwege hun werk voor Hamas. U ziet of leest er niet of nauwelijks iets over @NOS, @RTL of de Volkskrant ea. Wat zit daar achter? Zie: https://t.co/ekcRACd5sP

[Julia Sophie @JuliaSophie2_0]

Helaas een toekomstige D66 persvoorlichter gesneuveld

[Henri Kerkdijk @HKO2011]

@vtchakarova Even with current leaders of Czechia and Slovakia in place?