"Een dag na het volledig verdwijnen van NSC bij de Tweede Kamerverkiezingen wachtte lijsttrekker Eddy van Hijum nog een onplezierige verrassing. Het plan dat hij begin dit jaar als minister van Sociale Zaken en Werkgelegenheid lanceerde met de bedoeling om uitbuiting van arbeidsmigranten tegen te gaan, werd door zijn opvolger, demissionair minister MariΓ«lle Paul (VVD), afgelopen donderdag van tafel geveegd." "Uit een reconstructie van de besluitvorming door NRC blijkt dat demissionair minister Paul al op 23 september – achttien dagen na haar aantreden en ruim een maand voor de verkiezingen – ervan overtuigd was dat het wetsvoorstel van Van Hijum beter van tafel kon. Aanvankelijk stelde zij de besluitvorming uit, waarbij ze het advies van haar ambtenaren negeerde om hierover de Tweede Kamer te informeren. Een dag na de verkiezingen werd per Kamerbrief bekendgemaakt dat het demissionaire rompkabinet van VVD en BBB de plannen helemaal terugdraait." Urgh, de VVD weer hoor πŸ˜’
NRC
Plots veegt de nieuwe minister plan voor arbeidsmigranten van tafel. Voorganger Van Hijum insinueert invloed lobby
Arbeidsmigranten: Een nauwkeurig voorbereid plan dat uitzendbureaus zou verbieden arbeidsmigranten onder het minimumloon te betalen in ruil voor wo...
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This is your regularly scheduled reminder that susceptibility to authoritarian, fascist and/or populist rhetoric isn't determined by 'intelligence', or education. There are plenty of university-educated assholes out there who, despite being perfectly capable of reaching the logical conclusion based on the data available, reject that truth because it is inconvenient to them and their underlying convictions. That is how a hate preacher with a Hungarian wife campaigns on closing the borders and a 'This is YOUR land' slogan, a Turkish refugee who came to this country as a child tries to outcompete him as the leader of the VVD, framing the party she once worked for as 'the radical left', and a gay man with an Argentine partner decided to move to the right for this campaign, and start waving Dutch flags at a time when they are very much a symbol of nationalist fervour, and hate. People aren't being snookered into this. It is not because people aren't being 'heard'. It is a CHOICE, plain and simple, and one they keep making, over and over. #NLpol
I just learned about the use of big guns, cannons, as a timekeeping device. Obviously not really in wide use any longer, but some still exist, such as the 'Noon Gun' in Capetown.
Noon Gun - Wikipedia
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YouTube is about to get worse, again; "It's not exactly hard to find politically conservative content on YouTube, but the platform may soon skew even further to the right. YouTube parent Alphabet has confirmed that it will restore channels that were banned in recent years for spreading misinformation about COVID-19 and elections. Alphabet says it values free expression and political debate, placing the blame for its previous moderation decisions on the Biden administration."
Ars Technica
YouTube will restore channels banned for COVID and election misinformation
Alphabet blames the Biden administration for its moderation decisions.
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I know most of y'all are probably preoccupied with the shit that's happening locally, whether it's the sanctification of a white supremacist in the US, large-scale right-wing protests in the UK, the increased popularity of the AfD in Germany, etcetera, etcetera, but this was our weekend; "Thousands of people joined a protest organised by a rightwing activist demanding stricter immigration policies and a clampdown on asylum seekers, just more than a month before a national election. Large groups of protesters, many waving Dutch flags and flags associated with far-right groups, clashed violently with the police, throwing rocks and bottles, footage from broadcaster NOS showed." "Local media reported that protesters also smashed several windows at the headquarters of the centre-left D66 party." "A smaller group of rioters headed for the Dutch parliament complex, which is fenced off as it undergoes renovation."
the Guardian
Dutch police clash with anti-immigration protesters in The Hague
Thirty arrests made and two officers injured as teargas and water cannon deployed against violent protesters
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