“The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.” -Marcus Aurelius
Nothing in this video that will be new to readers of Vlad. But as this striking young girl is from Romania and this blog is named after a rather well known Romanian leader who fought against invading Islamic armies into Europe, I thought I would honor her a bit perhaps by putting her video here. It seems only just.
Eeyore
A right-wing Dutch lawmaker’s party has made big gains in European Parliament elections, exit polls suggest.
They say Geert Wilders’ Freedom party will win four of the 25 Dutch seats in the parliament, just one behind the country’s Christian Democrats.
Dutch and British voters were the first to go to the polls to elect the EU’s most powerful legislative body.
Some 375 million people in 27 member states are eligible to vote. Most will cast their ballots over the weekend.
Voters are deciding who is elected to the 736 seats up for grabs under various forms of proportional representation.
Polls closed in the Netherlands at 1900 GMT and in Britain at 2100 GMT on Thursday.
Observers will be watching to see if turnout is higher than in 2004, when only 45% exercised their right to vote.
In the UK, elections were also held in some areas for local councils.
The results of both polls are keenly awaited to see how they might affect the national political scene, following weeks of turmoil over MPs’ expenses claims.
The vote is seen as a crucial test for the governing Labour Party, with a general election due within a year. Three senior ministers resigned earlier this week.
Irish voters go to the polls on Friday. Latvia, Cyprus, Malta and Slovakia vote on Saturday, while the Czech Republic and Italy vote over Friday and Saturday, and Saturday and Sunday respectively. People in the remaining 18 member states will vote on Sunday.
‘For the Netherlands’
Exit polls showed late on Thursday that Mr Wilders’ Freedom Party (PVV) was on course of winning just over 15% of votes in the Netherlands.
If confirmed, the result is second only to Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende’s Christian Democrats (CDA), which dropped alsmost 5% to just under 20% of the vote.
The polls showed that the party’s governing coalition partner, the PvdA, was the biggest loser – down nearly 10% to about 14% of the Dutch vote.
“We dare to talk about sensitive subjects like Islamisation and we use plain and simple words that the voter can understand,” Mr Wilders has said.
Mr Wilders was refused entry to Britain in February on the grounds that he had sought to incite hatred with a film he made last year that equated Islam with violence and likened the Koran to Mein Kampf.
The controversial politician is also facing prosecution in the Netherlands for making anti-Islamic statements, following a court ruling the previous month.
Despite the charges many Dutch voters seem to like what Mr Wilders is saying, the BBC’s Geraldine Coughlan in The Hague reports.
His party was campaigning under the motto “For the Netherlands” and was extremely anti-EU, our correspondent says. Mr Wilders has said he will not take up his seat if elected as an MEP.
Polls show that Euroscepticism among Dutch voters has increased since the last European elections, with EU enlargement and integration the most unpopular issues, our correspondent adds.
Across Europe, far-right parties are hoping to win at least 15 seats. However, the centre-right European People’s Party bloc is expected to remain the main force, followed by the European Socialists.
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H/T: Barenakedislam for the video
There are two people who I always look forward to seeing new videos from. Pat Condell and Occidental Soapbox. I was delighted this morning to find the latter had done another excellent and accurate video depicting bits of history of India and it’s relationship with Pakistan, the British empire and Islam that most simply do not know. Watch, be informed and enjoy!
Eeyore for Vlad
As usual, when the government speaks of diversity it means uniformity and when it speaks of fairness it means fascism.
Despite this journalists wonderful detachment and staunch effort to show an even objective expose of this issue and these people, it is difficult not to notice the fear she hides when she is face to face with some young turdburger who tells her the government must treat women as plastic bags. You can see she is in immediate danger for her life if she argues the point. These people, Islam, does not debate. These are not Jews. Much of this documentary has nothing new for readers of Vlad. But there are still some shocking revelations about how serious Islam really is in terms of illiberal values and it’s ambitions for the rest of us, and perhaps mpore interestingly, when PBS does an expose showing the horrors of Islam to this extent. you know things are bad. We expect the facts from FOX when they may not be PC. Its quite another thing when PBS calls it like it is.
Eeyore for Vlad
HAT TIP JDAMN, Found on Bare Naked Islam
Found it on Atlas Shrugs, provided by wejew.com thank you to all involved.
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Some 40% of the Dutch population agree with many of anti-Islam MP Geert Wilder’s statements, according to research by TNS Nipo for magazine Vrij Nederland.
According to opinion polls, Wilders would take about 18% of the vote if there was an election tomorrow. But this research shows support for his ideas is much wider, Vrij Nederland says.
Some 42% of those polled agreed with the statement that Wilders says ‘what ordinary people believe and want’. Some 35% do not think Wilders goes too far in his comments about Islam and Muslims and 38% agree with Wilders’ statement that Muslims have come to the Netherlands ‘to take things over’.
A large majority – 61% – agree with Wilders’ call for ‘street terrorists’ to be deported. Wilders used the phrase to describe gangs of youths, mainly of Moroccan origin.
Although support for Wilders among people with a university education has increased slightly, his main support is still found among ‘the ordinary man who does not feel that the established parties take him seriously,’ said researcher Peter Kanne.
This is disturbing as hell. CNN forces youtube to remove a video of a meltdown by it’s own reporter at a ‘teaparty’ rather than simply issue an apology or an explanation. This bodes not at all well for the state of professional journalism in the USA. It also speaks loudly to the degree of partisanship in news networks.
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Now Patterico reports that CNN has forced YouTube to take down the version of Rosegen’s performance that Patterico had embedded, on the ground of copyright infringement. Further, CNN apparently also removed at least one version of the Founding Bloggers video, even though it included footage shot by Founding Bloggers in which CNN obviously could have no copyright.
Given that the YouTube videos in question excerpted just a minute and a half out of CNN’s tea party coverage for the purpose of political comment, bloggers are invoking the doctrine of fair use. Patterico is urging bloggers to embed versions of the Rosegen video on their own sites as well as continue to upload the video to YouTube. I note that at present, at least one version of the video still works on YouTube–the one we embedded in our post on Wednesday–and the Founding Bloggers video is back, too.
It is hard to avoid the inference that in this case, CNN was motivated not by a desire to protect its intellectual property but by a desire to avoid embarrassment caused by the unprofessional performance of its reporter. In today’s world, though, it just isn’t possible to track down all copies of a video and suppress them, when the video relates to a matter of broad and legitimate public interest. That CNN is willing to make the attempt reveals something, perhaps, about its attitude toward the public’s right to be informed.
In my opinion, the importance of this scene cannot be overestimated as to its relevance to the worlds current condition. It is truly prophetic. One wishes and hopes the US administration today are not the very amateurs the actor playing the US ambassador to England before WW2 refers to, and warns about. The scene is a dinner at a British nobleman’s mansion where the various powers of Europe are meeting to discuss allowing the Germans to rearm after the Treaty of Versailles forbade them from so doing. The Germans have them all fooled as the nation of peace.
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