Jozef Schildermans

Writer. (Co)auteur van 'België de dag na de bom', 'Zure Regen', 'Schat wat vind je lekker', 'De reis van de hofarts'. *Retweet = not necessarily endorsement!

[Jozef Schildermans @Jozefs]

From Socialist Comrades to Bitter Enemies 🤝.

A decades-long feud between Belgian leader Emile Vandervelde & Italy's future dictator Benito Mussolini began with a public humiliation in 1904. Vandervelde laughed. Mussolini never forgot.

🖼️: Mussolini (1904) & Vandervelde (1925)

[Jozef Schildermans @Jozefs]

Excuseer. Bagger? Dit klopt gewoon. "België splitsen? Weg welvaart!" Hebben die (mislukte! als het na 100 jaar nog niet is gelukt, zal het nooit lukken. Gelukkig.) Vlaamsnationalisten nog altijd niks geleerd van bv. de Brexit??

[Tomas Roggeman @TRoggeman]

Heeft de CM zich al verontschuldigd voor de bagger die ze verspreidden in hun gezamenlijk ledenblad met ACV?
Dit kwam terecht in 1,3 miljoen brievenbussen, 1 week voor de laatste nationale verkiezingen.
Of mogen zij wel een mening hebben over N-VA, maar niet omgekeerd?

[Jozef Schildermans @Jozefs]

What else? In een land met veel politici en instanties is niemand ooit echt verantwoordelijk voor iets. "Iedereen trekt meteen zijn paraplu open..." https://t.co/D7aI4oEUSf

[Jozef Schildermans @Jozefs]

"Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one." A. J. Liebling (1960). “The Wayward Press: Do You Belong in Journalism?” in The New Yorker. (https://t.co/voRuSqWx2x) Geldt meer dan ooit vandaag. Zie ook mediaconcentratie bij ons. https://t.co/Sp3Zp24MNu

[Jozef Schildermans @Jozefs]

“The past is a fabulous place. Visit it often.” he says.

“Not with judgement, but with curiosity.” https://t.co/MCPH2Ytr1C

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

My home country Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

NO cervical cancer cases detected in vaccinated women following HPV immunisation!

None! Zero!

What a stunning achievement !

The HPV vaccine ie a modern medical miracle!

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

I've never been at a medical conference where the results have been greeted with a standing ovation

Tremendous breakthrough in pancreatic cancer treatment

Through science

Hard work, rigorous research, clinical trials.

Science

Not the quack pseudoscience of social media

[Michelle Haas @MichelleHaas_]

Vannacht: een van de zwaarste Russische aanvallen op Oekraïne sinds het begin van de oorlog.

Vanochtend: Peter Mertens (PVDA) wil "eens bekijken welke reële dreiging er eigenlijk is" en stelt ondertussen alvast voor om uit de NAVO te stappen.

[Jozef Schildermans @Jozefs]

https://t.co/MoPIwSSBuK Deze fatale inschattingsfout was het gevolg van misleiding door de dader. Nowak was kort daarvoor in het centrum van Southampton, schijnbaar zonder directe aanleiding, neergestoken door de 23-jarige Vickrum Digwa. De aanvaller gebruikte hiervoor een 20 centimeter lange ceremoniële dolk. Direct na de daad spelde de moordenaar de politie een leugen op de mouw: hij beweerde dat híj het slachtoffer was van een haatmisdrijf, en dat Nowak hem racistisch had bejegend en zijn tulband had afgerukt.

[Jozef Schildermans @Jozefs]

https://t.co/zx9DU5OmgZ Voor wie 58 jaar is, voorziet de pensioenwet simpelweg niets en kan de vroegste pensioendatum met liefst zeven jaar (!) opschuiven.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

We are trying to intercept all Russian drones, even when some of them are going in the direction of other countries, like Romania, Moldova, Poland, or the Baltic states. If we can't, we immediately notify our partners and try to help them.

Russia uses drones to pressure NATO countries and gauge the reaction. This is their typical message: Don’t help Ukraine. I think there should be a stronger response from a united NATO.

Putin is comparing this reaction to what he saw in previous years. And he is also testing air defenses of NATO countries bordering Russia or Belarus. Are they capable of intercepting all the missiles and drones?

From an interview with Face the Nation. (1/5)

[Jozef Schildermans @Jozefs]

'Meet the authors'

[Vincenzo DM @DM_Vincenzo]

On 30 May 1656, the famous Grenadier Guards were founded by Lord Wentworth as the personal guard of King Charles II. This event did not happen in England however, but in Bruges, Habsburg Netherlands, where king Charles II spent his exile! Photo: National Army Museum

[Meacham @MeachamDr]

It’s like a meth family moved in….

[Johan Op de Beeck @JohanOpdeBeeck]

UK heeft een wet tegen ‘stirring up’, de Denen verbieden ‘bedreigend taalgebruik’, Spanje ‘provocatie’. Niemand weet waar de grens ligt, en dus staat de poort wijd open voor willekeurige interpretatie van zo'n wetten, maar ook voor angst om nog je mond open te doen.

[Dr Anna Odesitka @AnnaOdesitka]

Let me be clear because you greedy, pampered assholes need to learn cause and effect.

1. After Soviet Russia collapsed, you imbeciles rebuilt that monster instead of isolating it.

2. While rebuilding Russia, You forced Ukraine to disarm with promise of protection.

3. You extorted Europe to buy your weapons at cost to their own defense investments with promise of protection. Making all of us reliant on you through extortion.

4. You forced Europe to follow and support your policies with promises of protection and your policies created crisis after crisis in Europe.

5. You were only one to use article 5 in war you started and you shit on every soldier from Europe who answered your call.

6. You have enslaved Europe as part of your protection racket to invest in your holdings and hold your debt.

7. You have extorted Europe to not seek cheaper and beneficial investments for our countries and pressured prioritizing your companies and investments as part of your promise of protection

8. Russia has been attacking NATO countries with hybrid war for decade and you pressured NATO countries to both not respond and to keep buying your weapons.

And when Europe actually asked you for protection you promised in exchange for everything we gave you, you sided with enemy of Europe in greatest betrayal in history.

So understand this. Walk away. Crawl away. Blame us. Hate us. Do whatever bullskitsky theater you need to justify your betrayal. But never forget that your time as prosperous superpower is over.

And you just did same to Gulf states destroying your petro dollar economy.

So if it’s not your war, then your decline and economic fall as well as your security and trade are not our problem.

Enjoy being third world toilet

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Canada’s Aluminium Is Going to Europe. Brilliant Work, Donald.

A 50% tariff on Canadian aluminium, the one country on Earth that was happily selling the stuff at sensible prices, right next door, through an integrated supply chain that took decades to build. And now that aluminium is sailing across the Atlantic to Europe instead.

Canadian exports to the EU went from near zero to between 6% and 40% of monthly totals in the space of a year. Just vanished eastward. Extraordinary result.

US consumers are now paying $6,200 a ton for aluminium. Europeans are paying $4,300.  American manufacturers taxed nearly two thousand dollars a ton more than their competitors. For beer cans. And car parts. And buildings. Tremendous. Nobody could have seen that coming, except everyone.

Meanwhile Europe, which was already scrambling after losing its Middle Eastern supply to the Iran war, now faces a 5.6 million-ton aluminium deficit in 2026. And Canada just filled it. With metal that used to go to America.

The head of the Aluminium Association of Canada put it with admirable restraint: the EU option “remains attractive,” adding pressure on the US market. What he meant was: Washington handed Europe a competitive advantage in manufacturing while American industry pays the bill.

This is what happens when a trade guru who has spent his career slapping his name on buildings in gold letters decides he understands global commodity flows. No leverage materialises. Just an empty dock in Ohio and a very pleased purchasing manager in Rotterdam.

Well done, Donald.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[Manuel Sintubin 🌎⛏️💚🇺🇦🇬🇱🇪🇺 @ManuelSintubin]

De wereld op zijn kop ...
Geiten en koeien verdragen geen +25°C ...
Klimaatopwarming ...
Dus wij, belastingbetaler, subsidiëren koelinstallaties.
Waarom niet minder geiten en koeien 🤷‍♂️
@VRTjournaal

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Russia is now threatening other nearby countries far more openly than before. Every neighbor of Russia heard what was said about Armenia, whose people are the only ones who have the right to decide and will choose the future of their country. What Russia says about Armenia is, in truth, not about Armenia alone.

No one can be left without support – Europe has no right to lose any of its peoples, to leave any country behind. Armenia must be supported. Moldova must be supported. The Baltic states. Azerbaijan must be supported. We must find ways to support the people of Georgia as well – and this is a shared European task. No one can be lost.

[JeanAndStella @JeanAndStella]

@pdegrauwe Dit is de reden waarom de gemiddelde hersendode beweert dat hij veel belastingen betaalt. Nu de realiteit 👇

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

When this war is over, and Ukraine is victorious and whole again, and every innocent victim, every fallen defender, every destroyed city and town is documented, let no one say they did not know. These Russian crimes against humanity are happening in full view in real time.