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Waiting for the Opening Whistle (or Not)
Update: Budget negotiations have failed. Press conference this afternoon.
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There is a rich compost heap here at ZH from which we can take our share to turn and prepare for our respective gardens. I've thrown down the gauntlet here and there, made a few observations. It is strengthening my resolve to post my poorly referenced crap because it may be fresh for some. Some are beginning to understand what my point is so they can take it for what it's worth, others are welcome to post whatever shit they have on their own minds. I think I've explained my willingness to be forthcoming when I haven't properly identified my sources or the basis for my arguments. And I will be all over the place, once again just picking up on a bit of news here and there and trying to distill it.
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Some of the supplementary budgetary plans are leaking out and the calculations by the fumbling morons at the CPB have been handed to the negotiators. Why no one questioned the epithet I used for the CPB in my last post is beyond me. I'm sure I could come up with a short list of criticisms rather quickly. I personally think it would be appropriate to knock some wind out of that holy see here in the Netherlands. I digress.
The VVV (an association of insurers) has already criticised what might be part of the deal to save this hapless construct of a government we have at the moment. They say forcing people to pay off their mortgages in 30 years would completely destroy the housing market. There's still a large contingency of people here who think the housing market can revive from here in short order, probably because they own mortgages or need their commissions. And that group is supported by a massive and comforting lobbying effort from all sides. The point is that the housing market sucks up upwards of 10 billion euros (conservative estimate I believe) of tax money - and growing quickly - despite the low volumes of new mortgages. I say let Southern Europe see exactly what we're up against here by adding some reality to the mix. I think non-owners, or people who are a little less concerned about changes to mortgage policy, should form a more vocal opposition to a Cabinet who sees its prime responsibility as keeping that market afloat. It is sad to read elsewhere yesterday that 65 000 home owners are already identified as unable to make instalments on time, and the number is growing. The silver lining here? Don't forget that whatever subsidies you take out here can be reinjected elsewhere. Like trying to create the basis for an economy that results in potential homebuyers. But most of the youth, unless they find jobs at KPMG or Goldman (which is planning to open up an office here) are screwed because things have gone so far out of whack for so long. Yes banks, my suggestions add considerably to your worries and I will go out on a limb and say that doesn't concern me so much.
The coalition governing of one of our provinces, Limburg, has collapsed because of a dispute surrounding the visit of President Gul (sorry I don't know how to do the umlaut in this word processor) of Turkey to celebrate 400 years of trade relations, or diplomatic relations, between the countries. I don't think the collapse of this government is going to mean much in the end but who knows. It is just a kind of karmic reaction to the politics going on in this country. The things I'd like to pick up on here and regurgitate from what I've read, for what it's worth, is that some kind of parliamentary mission to Turkey planned for next January is not going ahead. At least at this point. The Queen will still visit in May or June to continue to celebrate the anniversay, but other missions have been cancelled. For the time being. The reason is Turkey's Davatoglu, the great thinker and statesman, does not want Wilders in Turkey because he is a racist and fascist. So our Parliament, in a show of solidarity and as part of its tradition on these things, has kindly declined the invitation. For the time being. As we all know, there's a lot of posturing going on everywhere and that's part of politics. That posturing happens to win and occasionally lose votes. And distracts from other large issues. Gul, while here, added a more nuanced take of circumstances than Davatoglu: he said something to the effect that parties such as the PVV are natural in a multicultural society. Or something like that. If it interests you there should be articles in English to read elsewhere.
Wouter Bos is starting a column in the Volkskrant. As I've said, the guy has received criticism for handling the crisis at its height as our Minister of Finance at the time. I will see if that column has any momentum from my point of view. So far he is teasing us with some bait that I'm not sure actually interests me.
Thanks for reading and you know the routine.
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What's with the KPMG reference out of interest?
May yet come out in the future, some will have it.
OK then, where does one go to work after one has filled a position of power?
"The Queen will still visit in May or June to continue to celebrate the anniversay, but other missions have been cancelled."
One certainly hopes Queen Beatrix remains secure in her subsidized home ;-)
underdog, do yourself a favour and let Ilene have at your work, seriously (she even knows how to do ümlauts)
I'm a bit more pessimistic. But thanks for your joint post ;)
Behind the innocuous-seeming pomp and protocol of the visits of these state dignatories lies the real story of a vein of malice and manipulation that has terminally marred the ability of the western world to move along it's natural trajectory of development, free of war, ethnic factionalism and religious turmoil.
No better examples of this unhappy legacy exist than these two sadly reduced imperial powers - Turkey and the Netherlands - which both in their time became the chosen refuge of the diaspora of cabbalists thrown out of Spain at the end of the C15th, who re-established themselves and their secret societies in what had been the Spanish Netherlands, and was still then the Ottoman Empire, respectively giving false witness of conversion to either Christianity or Islam while maintaining a secret allegiance to a messianic cult that twisted the tenets of judaism into a satanic inversion that would lay the groundwork for centuries of turmoil and fighting between the states of Europe on behalf of their moneychaning masters.
The USA "celebrated" the same "400 years" of obedience to the crypto-cultists of the money power in 2009...a fitting tribute to the legacy of "New Holland" which was the first toehold in the "New World" for the ancestors of the same clique of satanic millenialists who practice their savage sacrifice of the EuroAmerican peoples today from the altars of their temples on Wall Street\City of London. They got their start by slaving and selling guns n whiskey to the Iroquois and then fomenting agressive wars of extinction between them and their neighbors to the north. Dimon is one of their finest High Priests, spawn of the Salonikan- Smyrna Sabbatean banking milieu out of which grew the Kemalist secular dismemberment of the legitimate spiritual traditions of Anatolia and their replacement with the current days' phony Islamist puppet movement which works hand in hand with the CIA to foment instability and regime change wherever resistance to the monopoly of the money power remains.
Sabbatean marranos\dolmeh launched their (re-conquest) of the Asia\Indies trade(lost by their Venetian antecedents to the flowering Spanish empire) via their the Dutch East Indies Company and then transferred their interests to the other Protestant proxy across the Channel when the time was right, using the Statholder Billy O as their Doge\Stooge to overcome the obstacle of monarchy to their republican oligarchic hegemonist takeover, and through the shareholder corporation invented that modern predatory capitalism which has subsumed the natural European talent for entrepeneurial invention and distorted it's equally natural heritage of fair play, justice, and freedom from slavery....a hard won legacy now almost totally lost to the West.
Wilders is a stooge hack in the mold of a Ernst Rohm and fellow travellers, but his equivalents on the Turkish scene are no less the puppets of the money power which controls ALL ends of the political dialectic...wherever you go, you can find the disturbing asendancy of this monoculture of the money power...Islam sheltered them when it ruled over Iberia, as did Christendom later on, to their mutual cost as we can see in the present moment when both persuasions are being primed to collide in a senseless conflict of profit only to those hegemonists who seek the destruction of all those who once helped them to prosper...the classic under the bus fate of all those who failed to study what happened in Spain when the original Sephardic cabbalist clique conspired to have the real, Torah practicing Karaite Jews persecuted and expelled. A pattern of malice and manipulation that's been going on since Babylon times...and repeats again in the present moment as the inheritors of Darius find themselves in the sights of the inheritors of the same Benjaminites he freed from oppression!
History, far from being the linear 'progression' the Hegelian inheritors of the false prophets of the so-called Enlightenment would wish us to believe, is a spiral of a repetitive, curving design, wherein all the mistakes and lost oportunities of the past come back to haunt us again and again, till we finally wise up and break the cycle.
Magnificent. And actually quite concise, despite ignorant comments. Bravo, sir or madam. Let those with ears, hear. Quite heartening.
The material here, both from 'undertheradar', and from 'Joyful' above, is I think too hard to follow for the average - or even quite bright - ZH reader.
'Undertheradar', if you would like not to disappear from ZH, you need to make your general point with enough introduction for references that an intelligent person who knows nearly zero about Dutch details, can digest it. ... As you are new here, you should try to make your main point clear, universally interesting, or at least curiously fascinating. - Look at how someone like Bruce Krasting handles things. - It is of course your 'right' to ramble in a way most people cannot follow, but you may soon disappear from ZH like this.
People outside of this corner of the world do not know who on earth is the CPB in the Netherlands, or Wouter Bos, etc. ... they might know Geert Wilders or Hirsi Ali, pot and prostitutes in Amsterdam, windmills, cheese and wooden shoes, but that may be about it.
Consider, 'undertheradar': How much do you know about Canadian politics, a much bigger country than the Netherlands? If someone mentions the ADQ or NDP in Canadian politics, do you know what they are talking about, or do you need some introduction? - You see?
The material from 'Joyful' above, references a fascinating school of alternative thought about what went has gone wrong in the Western world, perhaps most accessible today in the writings of Barry Chamish.
This view looks back to an important figure, Shabbatai Zvi, a Jew of 1600s Turkey, who turned Judaism upside down from its traditions, and who had an important follower in the 1700s, Jacob Frank, connecting to the Rothschild family etc. ...
According to Chamish and many others, this 'Frankist' movement in Judaism, is essentially criminal, and is the source of today's Jewish atheist-Zionist movement, including the leadership of Israel, and people like Henry Kissinger, the Goldman Sachs crowd etc. ... seeking to destroy and undermine the traditional spiritual and peaceful Judaism ... and seeking to control much of the world and do many evil things, including sabotaging and destroying traditional religions (Muslims - terrorists; Christians - Vatican child molesters, or American fundamentalist crazies; Jews - greedy schemers or Israeli human rights violators. In terms of Judaism, most people today don't even know that traditional Judaism was non-Zionist, and before 1930 most Jews were non-Zionist.)
One of the threads within the many stories of 'Frankist' atheist Judaism, is the claim that Kemal Atatürk of Turkey, once admitted actually being part of a cabal in Turkey of these secret-society manipulative Jews going back to Shabbatai Zvi, the 'Donmeh', posing as Muslims to survive there. Of course this is much denied by most Turks.
Joyful above is linking the various threads of modern history to this, including the post-1688 when a Dutch prince was installed on the English throne, leading to the Bank of England Act of 1694 and the modern central banking cabals getting rolling.
Excellent expansion of Joyful's narrative from Sabbatai Zvi onwards, BankGuy.
However, as Joyful points out, the story goes back in a continuous narrative much further than that ... firstly, back to the time of the Spanish Inquisition and the expulsion of Jews who would not [pretend to] convert to Catholicism in 1492, then the spawning of the Jesuits just a few years later by the Basque crypto-Jew Don Ignatius Loyola, who had himself been subjected to the Inquisition (and the related direct link forward from there to the re-formation of the Skull & Bones secret society at Yale in 1832...the very same year that the skull and bones of the Grand Inquisitor, Tomas de Torquemada, were disinterred in Spain by unknown grave robbers and "never recovered". The 'Don Quixote' of the Skull & Bones initiation ritual is Loyola, the first Black Pope).
The Jesuits, Sabbateans and Frankists were merely periodic re-kindlings of the Pharisee ideology from c.600BC -- of rule by the self-appointed 'smartest team players' (or "Luciferians" / "illuminated" in English, "illuminati" in Latin, "alumbrado" in Spanish), in opposition to the Sadducee tradition of hereditary religious rule by the priests (Cohens and Levis) and noble families, and the later hereditary monarchical rule by the Phoenician descendants of the original Khazars in the royal houses of Europe and their working relationships, or not, with the elected Popes.
(The original Khazars were a war-mongering central Asian tribe who invented the horse-drawn war chariot c.2000BC and used it to first overcome the Hittites down in Turkey, then the Pharaohs in Egypt c.1800BC ... until the Egyptians drove them out into Canaan c.1540BC, whereupon they were later defeated by Nebuchadnezzar and taken into exile in Babylon c.600BC---which is where they picked up their Kabbalah from the Babylonians and first demonstrated the rift between the Pharisees and Sadducees in the formalised Jewish religion that was being developed in exile with the creation of the original books of the Torah).
The Sabbateans and Jesuits still work hand-in-hand today to further their "rule by the smartest" ideology -- best epitomised by the Bilderbergers -- with the Jesuits generally doing the political manoeuvering and the Sabbateans generally being the bankers and lawyers.
Apologies for the historical ramble...it started out as a simple note and there are yet many other interesting and relevant links in the story.
Speaking for myself, no apologies needed. There are oceans of ignorance to navigate, and the islands of insight provided by yourself, Joyful, and others house beacons of light for those of us striving to avoid the treacherous shoals of misinformation and historical amnesia which pervade our so-called "educational establishment."
Are you trying to throw out some bait BGFB?
'wherein all the mistakes and lost oportunities of the past come back to haunt us again and again, till we finally wise up and break the cycle.'
That's the best scenario we can only hope for. If history plays out like it has over the millenia, the more likely outcome is total degradation of our environment by the various and ample means we have come up with and mass extermination of most of the inhabitants dependent on it.
Very well written post, thanks.
Yeah, because the Earth is just one big Easter Island, right?
Give us a fucking break from this discredited Malthusian crackpot bullshit, please.
Actually the earth is just one big easter island. And sorry I will not give you a break from whatever you consider Malthusian crackpot bullshit, but thanks for asking so nicely.
Your shit is way too long winded. stop that!
Gosh there are some dour souls on this site ;) +1