In the province of Groningen earthquakes occur as a result
of the exploration of natural gas during the last decades. A study by
Dialoogtafel among 4000 inhabitants of the ‘earthquake area’ has found that 40%
of them would like to move away.
Tuesday, September 15, 2015
Sunday, September 13, 2015
Five suicides a day in the Netherlands
Last year 1835 people committed suicide in the Netherlands. More
or less the same number of people (1854) committed suicide in 2013. The number
of suicides decreased for men, and increased for women. Most suicides were
people between 40 and 65. Groningen is the province with the largest number of
suicides.Saturday, September 12, 2015
Minister of Defence: no place for Salafists in Dutch Army
Dutch Minister of Defense, Jeanine Hennis, has said that the
Dutch army is no place for people with radical views. This includes Salafists. If a soldier becomes a Salafist during his
army service, he is to be discharged from the army. Her statement came following many
parliamentary questions concerning the Dutch sergeant who had joined the
Islamic State. Hennis, however, opposed
the PVV’s view which would prevent all Muslims from joining the Dutch army. She
said, “Muslim soldiers are also willing to lay down their lives in extreme
cases for the freedom of all Dutch citizens, including adherents of the PVV”.
picture by Magharebia on flickr.com
Friday, September 11, 2015
Leading Expert Heads of Police Should be Fired
Professor Cyrille Fijnaut, a leading Dutch criminologist,
has said that those who conceived and implemented the re-organisation of the
National Police are incompetent and should be fired. He added: “why would the people who came up
with the wrong plans and then executed them inadequately not be replaced? Is it possible that they would excel in the
future in activities where so far they have obviously proved unsuccessful?” Former chief commissioner of the Amsterdam
police, Joop van Riessen, reserves his criticism for Minister of Security and
Justice, Ard van der Steur . He says
those mainly responsible for the problems in the national police are
politicians. He added “the Minister
wants to deflect attention away from his own failures.”
Thursday, September 10, 2015
Expert expresses doubts about Government Institute study on carcinogenic product
In 1986, the National Institute for Public Health and
Environment RIVM did study of PX-10, a product used in the Dutch army to clean
weapons. The product contains benzene, a
carcinogenic chemical. RIVM concluded
that the risk to the soldiers of contracting leukemia from use of PX-10 was
minimal. Professor Jan Tytgat, an expert on the subject
who teaches toxicology at Leuwen Catholic University in Belgium, says that this
study should be redone, as the RIVM focused too much on statistics instead of
reviewing individual cases.
http://www.elsevier.nl/Nederland/nieuws/2015/9/Dossier-PX10-gebaat-bij-nieuw-onderzoek-2681393W/
Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Thousands of illegal migrants registered under false identities
In 2007 there was a general amnesty for illegal residents in
the Netherlands. 28,000 people who were
living illegally in the Netherlands were allowed to stay. It now turns out that thousands of them registered
under false identities. One lawyer who
represents mainly Chinese formerly illegal immigrants says that 80 to 90% of these
immigrants gave false identities.
According to one government lawyer, the majority of those who benefitted
from the general amnesty had registered under entirely or partly false
identities.
www.powned.tv/nieuws/politiek/2015/09/massale_fraude_voor_generaal_p.html
Tuesday, September 8, 2015
Prime Minister Rutte: It is best if Dutch jihadis are killed in the Middle East
Prime Minister Mark Rutte has said that it would be better for
Dutch jihadis to be killed in Syria and Iraq rather than return to the
Netherlands. He said that although this
is not government policy, it is appropriate if people are so mentally backward
to go there and fight for a bad cause that goes against all Dutch values. Four opposition parties D-66, the Green Left,
SP and the Christian Union were shocked by these statements.
www.ad.nl/ad/nl/1012/Nederland/article/detail/4135951/2015/09/04/Premier-Rutte-Overloper-naar-IS-is-dood-beter-af.dhtml
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