Leon van Rossum

[Leon van Rossum @RossumLeon]

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[storymakers @mz_storymakers]

Das muss man sich mal vorstellen: solche gewaltbereite Linksradikale wollen in #Berlin regieren. #Berlinwahl

[Leon van Rossum @RossumLeon]

@atensnut 74

[De Andere Krant @AndereKrant]

Stel dat de gemeente alles van je weet: niet alleen je naam, geboortedatum, adres en huwelijkse staat, maar ook je gezondheidstoestand en medische indicaties, je financiële situatie, of en hoe vaak je met de politie in aanraking bent geweest, of buren weleens over je hebben geklaagd en of je de huur elke maand netjes op tijd betaalt. En stel dat de gemeente over een AI-systeem beschikt dat op basis van deze data van al haar inwoners kan voorspellen in welke straten en buurten de kans op onveiligheid het grootst is en meer inzet van bewakingscamera’s, handhavers en buurtwerkers nodig is. Zou je je veiliger voelen? Of zou je het juist beklemmend vinden? In Heerlen is dit scenario geen toekomstmuziek meer.

Lees verder: https://t.co/bEhKNgVTmJ

[Wouter J. Keller @wouterkeller]

In Amsterdam zijn nu bijna de helft (43%) vd schoolkinderen #moslim..

[Oscar Hammerstein @HammersteinO]

Ieder woord is raak: “De mislukte migratiepolitiek is de hoofdleverancier van polarisatie. Acute voorbeelden zijn de voorzieningen die statushouders wel krijgen en daklozen en woningzoekenden niet. Gevaarlijke willekeur, exorbitante geldverspilling via dwangsommen en ongelijke behandeling zijn schering en inslag in de migratiepolitiek, waarbij de inwoners van Nederland voortdurend de dupe zijn, alsof hun belangen niet meetellen.”

[Jaco Kleynhans @JacoKleynhans]

Reflections after a 25th visit to the Netherlands

I was in the Netherlands again last week, my twenty-fifth visit in twenty years. It remains one of my most beloved countries. I adore the Dutch people and the historical ties between my country and the Netherlands.

Each time, I observe the vast cultural differences between the Dutch and Afrikaners, and the extent to which Africa, along with our German, French, English, and other DNA, has shaped us. Indigenous tribes and Malay slaves helped mold our language Afrikaans. Long, dry, scorching summers and the African landscape forged us into tough, resilient people. Isolation spared us from excessive refinement, exaggerated enlightenment and overzealous political correctness.

Yet, I perceive something beautiful, albeit almost painfully precious, in the Netherlands: a highly advanced society with wonderful people, but one lacking any plan for the future, any long-term dreams or any remaining sense of close-knit cohesion.

Over twenty years of regular visits, I have watched the Netherlands wither due to its own actions (oikophobia, secularization, the loss of identity and culture, etc.) as well as external factors. These include mass immigration and the emergence of parallel societies formed by assertive, aggressive, and dominant cultures from the Arab world and Africa, alongside the paralyzing effects of European integration and the unwitting surrender of national sovereignty to a bureaucracy of unelected "deep state" officials in Brussels.

During my most recent visit last week, I concluded that the final tipping point has been reached. Friends speak of rapidly shifting demographics in schools, no longer confined to cities but now evident in rural areas as well. The Islamization of the country is visible everywhere. Churches close; mosques open.

More and more Dutch people are considering leaving their country. The coalition of immigrants and left-wing urban globalists has come to dominate every political sphere, the media, and academia. Ordinary citizens, entrepreneurs, farmers and workers have to work ever harder and pay ever more, only to receive less and less while watching their country slip away before their eyes.

Over the years, I have read a great deal about the Netherlands. The initial settlement of small tribes over the centuries transformed a marshy, windswept river delta, a landscape of sand, peat, floods and a true hostile environment, into a land of forests, dikes and historic villages and magnificent art, but above all, a land of close-knit communities, exceptional talents, international traders, great thinkers and innovators who helped shape an extraordinary civilization.

Now, we are witnessing a great decline. While prosperity remains, there is also a massive loss of continuity. It is every man for himself; who cares about future generations? Historical guilt and a left-wing, self-imposed self-loathing have allowed an influx of migrants with incompatible cultures, leading them to take over street by street, neighborhood by neighborhood, and city by city.

On the street, you hear a strange new Dutch -impoverished in depth and grammar and riddled with English and lazy slang. Culture is now relegated to history and museums. The "good life" is defined by daily pleasures rather than the creation of enduring things.

I see the end of the Netherlands approaching, or at least the end of the Netherlands as it has existed for the past few centuries. With every visit, I observe increasing affectation, paralysis, loss, and a transformation that effectively amounts to an occupation by cultures that harbor an aversion to Western culture, Christianity, and, by extension, the Netherlands itself.

The future of the Netherlands looks uncertain, even perilous. It points to either an urgent course correction or a dramatic escalation of tension, conflict and revolution. This is not merely the story of the Netherlands, but also of other European countries and regions close to my heart, such as Flanders, Germany, Austria, South Tyrol, and so on. These are issues concerning the survival of a civilization playing out right before our eyes. Each of us surely has a part to play, something we can and must do, to protect our Western civilization from destruction, and this is precisely what I urge my Dutch friends to do with great urgency.

[Van Wijck @JJvanWijck]

Windturbines verliezen jaarlijks tot 14 kilo bladmateriaal per stuk. Dat zijn microdeeltjes met PFAS, forever chemicals die nooit afbreken.

Groene energie. Giftige erfenis?

[Joost Jansen @JoostJansen6]

43% meer ambtenaren bij de Rijksoverheid de laatste 15 jaar. Maar toen zat de VVD nooit in het kabinet natuurlijk.

[Paul Walsh @Paul__Walsh]

Ursula von der Leyen announced this week that everyone in the EU must use the official EU age verification app to verify their age before they can log into or post on social media and other digital services.

As an expert in online child safety, I'm here to expose the disinformation in each von der Leyen's statements. See below.

🇪🇺 The EU Kids Act is a pretext designed to enforce mandatory digital identity verification on everyone in Europe. The proposed legislation applies to any digital service featuring feeds, user generated content, or messaging:

Social media networks, video platforms, online gaming services, AI tools, and media streaming apps like Spotify. (@TimSweeneyEpic)

Under the proposal, digital services must enforce age restrictions across strict tiers. Tech companies must mandate age verification across all accounts to enforce these tiers legally.

When Australia introduced its social media ban, the government conceded it failed because platform level age checks weren’t reliable. They now reject age estimation as inadequate and shifted to demanding "robust" age checking.

💡 If you eliminate every unproven estimation method, you’re left with exactly 1 functional mechanism: identity verification. There's not other way to ensure age checking is "robust".

No government wants to admit citizens must prove their real identity just to access apps and basic streaming services like Spotify, so they hide behind the ambiguous phrase "robust age checking". This language is now used across Australia, the US, and Ireland to mandate identity checks while avoiding the public backlash of calling it what it is. I will research to see where else it’s being used.

Below is what Ursula von der Leyen told the European Parliament in Strasbourg along with my analsyis:

🇪🇺 "Today, much of this power has been taken out of the hands of parents... What our children need is time... But when a child has a smartphone, all of this is taken away."

💡 This framing falsely presents smartphones as uncontrollable. Apple and Google built free OS controls into iOS and Android settings, covering virtually every smartphone on the market.

These controls achieve every legitimate safety objective without collecting personal data or processing state credentials.

💡 Millions of parents use these parental controls to enforce screen time curfews, block app installations, and restrict communication.

💡 These settings operate at the device level. Teens can't bypass them when protected with a passcode.

To bypass this technical reality, the European Commission uses public grief to shut down logical analysis:

🇪🇺 "Day and night, parents see the costs, loss of sleep, anxiety, even self-harm, and in a growing number of cases, even fatal tragedies… a 14-year-old girl living in Belgium who took her life exactly one month ago, victim of bullying online... Honourable members, enough is enough."

💡 Citing personal tragedies replaces software engineering facts with emotional rhetoric. State laws and age gates don’t alter human behaviour or prevent online harassment. Regulators exploit grief to pass surveillance legislation without explaining how the underlying software mechanisms operate.

The Commission outlines specific age tiers to restrict access:

🇪🇺 "In sum, no social media under the age of 13. No personal account under the age of 15. That means from 13 to under 15, only mini accounts set up and supervised by parents or guardians with limited features and time restriction to one hour a day. And between 15 and 18, safe design will be an obligation for the platforms."

💡 Enforcing age tiers forces tech companies and service providers to rebuild their architecture around total access control. The must disable self-service account creation, purge unverified accounts, build supervised parental workflows, strip algorithmic feeds, and enforce strict session cutoffs.

💡 Social networks operate on open interaction algorithms that inherently expose people to unvetted content. Because software can’t dynamically filter these risks for minors, tech companies must block access for everyone until a person proves their real identity.

💡 It’s not just about social networks. They want the same bans for almost everything, including games and stream services. Even Spotify because it’s possible for customers to message people.

The Commission claims its proposed zero knowledge proof app protects personal privacy:

🇪🇺 "Age will be verified using EU certified tools like our age verification app. This app is built on zero knowledge proof. That means that the platform only learns one single thing, and that's whether you're old enough to allow access or not."

💡 This framing describes what an app or service receives while hiding what everyone must give up. A zero knowledge proof provides a mathematical confirmation, but that confirmation requires an authoritative issuer. Before the app generates a proof, a state approved entity must verify the person's real identity.

The Commission frames this shift as a victory against tech corporations:

🇪🇺 "I am aware that many perceive the power of Big Tech as overwhelming and impossible to roll back. I disagree... So we do not accept this. We are reversing the burden of proof. Now platforms will have to prove to us that they are safe. Because this is not about our minors accessing social media. It is about when and how we allow social media to access our minors."

💡 Social networks don’t access children; parents hand smartphones to children. Reversing the burden of proof forces everyone to verify their identity.

The European Commission confirmed the broader scope of this mandate:

🇪🇺 "We also know that not only minors are at risk. Addictive design, for example, are harming everyone. This is why we need a wider framework too, the Digital Fairness Act that we will propose in autumn."

🚨 Child safety is merely the initial wedge. The Digital Fairness Act expands state mandated identity verification to adults across all online services. Binding real identities to online activity permanently eliminates pseudonymous access, private communication, and democratic accountability.

🚨 Senior state officials and regulators know their demands have nothing to do with child safety. They work closely with tech companies and understand that iOS and Android already provide complete authority to restrict devices locally without collecting personal data. State officials deliberately ignore well established parental controls because they keep internet access under family control. Child safety is a public pretext.

🚨 Governments and regulators use child safety to establish mandatory identity verification across every app and digital service, eliminating online anonymity. When tech companies and state agencies link every social media post, private message, search term, geographic location, and financial transaction to a verified identity, they create a permanent digital dossier on every citizen with a global social graph that makes Cambridge Analytica look like a 2nd grade school science project.

💡 Binding people’s identity to daily activity enables predictive behavioural modelling too. By feeding identity data into automated predictive AI, governments, intelligence agencies, law enforcement, and tech companies move beyond surveillance past behaviour. They can map political affiliations, predict individual actions, flag dissent before it occurs, and control public opinion at scale. Eliminating online anonymity ends free speech, private communication, and democratic accountability.

As Larry Ellison stated at Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting in 2024:

"Citizens will be on their best behaviour, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that’s going on".

🙏🏻 Share this to expose how governments use child safety as a false pretext to force mandatory digital identity verification on everyone.

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[Adam Girard (Gilet Jaune) @AdamGirard1990]

L'Etna a craché en 3 jours plus de CO2 que 10 ans de sacrifices imposés par l'UE. Tout leur Green Deal anéanti par un volcan!

Mais c'est TA voiture qui pollue! Pourquoi? Parce que l'arnaque écolo leur permet de te racketter à vie avec ZFE, taxes et malus.

[CLINTEL.NL @ClintelNED]

Het KNMI schrapte met zijn temperatuurcorrecties 16 van de 23 hittegolven uit de periode 1901–1950 uit de boeken.

Vier onderzoekers, onder wie Clintel-directeur Marcel Crok, betwistten jarenlang de gebruikte methode. Ze werden genegeerd en weggezet, maar publiceerden hun kritiek uiteindelijk peer reviewed.

Nu heeft het KNMI zijn methode aangepast. Zeven verdwenen hittegolven zijn terug en 1947 is opnieuw het recordjaar.

Dit gaat niet over een detail, maar over de betrouwbaarheid van ons nationale klimaatinstituut én van de media die kritische vragen jarenlang lieten liggen.

Electroverse zette hierover onlangs deze video online.

🎥 Credits: @Electroversenet

[Alice Weidel @Alice_Weidel]

Einer Ärztin aus Niedersachsen, die für die AfD kandidiert hat, ist gekündigt worden. Das ist ungeheuerlich und ein Angriff auf die Demokratie! Die Kandidatur für ein öffentliches Amt ist wie das Wahlrecht ein Grundpfeiler der demokratischen Ordnung.
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[Caroline @Peekessoep2]

“Europese vrouwen krijgen geen kinderen omdat ze het zich niet kunnen veroorloven. Moslimvrouwen krijgen kinderen omdat Europeanen hen onderhouden.”

Een scherpe uitspraak van het Poolse parlementslid Dariusz Matecki.

[Marcel Crok @marcelcrok]

Geweldig onderzoek van Geesje @GRotgers. Door 'stikstof' zou de natuur steeds meer last krijgen van bramen en brandnetels. Dat verhaal horen we al jarenlang als onderbouwing van de 'stikstofcrisis'.

Rotgers onderzocht het en er blijft helemaal niets over van die claims. Geen toename van bramen en brandnetels. Rotgers kon hier achter komen door cijfers op te vragen bij het CBS. Maar de onderliggende dataset van het Landelijk Meetnet Flora, Milieu- en Natuurkwaliteit (LMF) is niet gewoon openbaar en minister Jaimie van Essen weigert ook om die data wel openbaar te maken. Een gotspe, zoals Rotgers terecht opmerkt.

Absoluut lezen dit artikel:
https://t.co/arC2eHLr5J

[Lady Summertime @Ecotopos]

Activist: "Boeren spuiten hun koeien vol met antibiotica. Het zit in elk glas melk."
Zuivelboer: "Weet je wat er gebeurt als dat zo is?"

Activist: "Mensen drinken het."
Zuivelboer: "De tanker wordt bij de poort getest. Eén koe met antibiotica wat in 20.000 liter terecht is gekomen en de hele lading gaat door de goot. Elke boerderij op de route die ochtend krijgt haar melk gekieperd, en de boerderij die het deed betaalt voor alles."

Activist: "Dus je zegt dat het nooit gebeurt."
Zuivelboer: "Ik zeg dat een behandelde koe op deze boerderij een rode tape om haar poot krijgt, naar de achterkant van de melkschuur gaat, en haar melk gaat zes dagen in een emmer. Ik behandel haar alsof ze radioactief is, want financieel is ze dat."

Activist: "Je gebruikt het nog steeds."
Zuivelboer: "Bij een zieke koe. Net als jij. De dierenarts schrijft het voor, de datum gaat op de muur, en de muur wordt gecontroleerd. Het gebruik op deze boerderij is ongeveer de helft van wat het tien jaar geleden was, en dat geldt voor elke zuivelboerderij die ik ken."

Activist: "Routinegebruik in voer, dan."
Zuivelboer: "Al jaren illegaal. Groeibevorderaars zijn twintig jaar geleden verdwenen. Je beschrijft een kippenhok in een land waar ik niet boer."

Activist: Je kunt dus niet bewijzen dat het in je melk zit?
Zuivelboer: "Ik kan het drie keer per week bewijzen, want ze testen het drie keer per week en sturen me het rapport. Wanneer heb jij voor het laatst een rapport gekregen over jouw havermelk?"

Activist: "Dat is anders."
Zuivelboer: "Dat is het. Niemand test het. De mijne is de meest gecontroleerde vloeistof in je keuken en het is juist die waar je bang voor bent….”

[Eric Hendriks @HendrKim]

To counter Europe’s dependence on US social media, the European Commission ordered trusted European partners to launch an X clone. Patriotic Europeans like myself were the first to join. But I worried about censorship and tested the new platform by outing myself as a pro-EU, moderate conservative. Got suspended. FAIL!

Why did I run a test? You see, free speech in Europe isn’t doing well at all at a cultural level because a progressive, liberal-technocratic ideology aggressively delegitimises all other political views, its adherents tending to feel entitled to use legal measures and institutional might against nationalists and conservatives. But my brand of EU-friendly, mega nerdy, moderate conservatism should be OK, no?

So here my test. I uploaded links to two of my papers: one on Europe’s historiographical pluralism and one on the need for conservatives to shape the European project. See: https://t.co/DlpvZDp4Iz And: https://t.co/B95ieryNPn Then I criticised the Brandmauer in Germany, calling it ineffective, both intellectually and in light of the current polls. Finally, I stated in my WSocial bio that I was “aspiring to found WSocial’s conservative corner.”

I had only friendly engagements with people. A left-wing lady liked some of my posts, and we followed each other. I liked a happy post about the EU-Canada love fest. Everything seemed fine.

Then came the Bluesky flagging; my account was shielded from the shared Bluesky universe. I didn't think too much of it. After all, WSocial had my back, and I was happy to be on it. Oops, WSocial clammed down. Block. Account gone.

Guys, pro-EU/EU-aligned social media are not going to work if we cannot muster some basic tolerance for political and intellectual diversity. I would also like to point out that I've used WeChat (Chinese) for over a decade without any suspicion, and the same holds for my two decades of using American social media. No one ever suspended or flagged me. It's a bit crazy that I went through the trouble of getting a passport-verified account on an EU-focused app—motivated by EU patriotism!—only to have it taken down within a few days.

Really, if it’s like that, just give social media to the US and China. I have to be honest.

[C3 @C_3C_3]

White people are a 8% global minority and yet white majority countries are the only places multiculturalism is ever pushed.

Literally the only places.

Weird, right?!

[🇺🇸FloridaBoarHog™🇺🇸 @FloridaBoarHog]

LOL🤣😂🤣LOL

[thomas woelfer @t_woelfer]

Der Islam hat Probleme mit Hunden. Mit Frauen. Mit Musik. Mit Schwulen. Mit Juden. Mit Christen. Mit Blut. Mit Schweinefleisch. Mit Alkohol. Mit Glücksspiel. Mit Zinsen.

Aber wenn man ein Problem mit dem Islam hat, ist man ein Rassist. Es gibt Leute, die glauben das wirklich.

[De Viroloog @Pino20240100]

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