Almere-Digest

September 30, 2019

The Netherlands: Marianne Thieme steps down after 17 years as founder and party leader of the Animals Rights Party (PvdD)

Marianne Thieme,
founder of the Dutch animal rights party PvdD, is stepping down as
leader after 17 years.

Thieme’s announcement on Sunday came as a surprise to most of the
political world, in keeping with a career that has constantly defied
expectations.

‘Party leaders usually step down as MPs after losing an election,’ she
told a gathering of Partij voor de Dieren members. ‘Looking at our
growing movement, that would mean I wouldn’t be able to stop until I was
300 years old. But I’m not waiting until then: I’m doing it today.’

The 47-year-old said she had made up her mind following the European
Parliament elections in May, where the PvdD retained the seat it won in
2014.

Thieme founded the party on October 28 2002 to promote animal rights in
the context of a wider programme of activism on a range of issues
spanning vegetarianism, women’s rights and the TTIP transatlantic trade
treaty.

Read more at DutchNews.nl:

Marianne Thieme, founder of the Dutch animal rights party PvdD, is stepping down as leader after 17 years.

Thieme’s announcement on Sunday came as a surprise to most of the political world, in keeping with a career that has constantly defied expectations.

‘Party leaders usually step down as MPs after losing an election,’ she told a gathering of Partij voor de Dieren members. ‘Looking at our growing movement, that would mean I wouldn’t be able to stop until I was 300 years old.

But I’m not waiting until then: I’m doing it today.’ The 47-year-old said she had made up her mind following the European Parliament elections in May, where the PvdD retained the seat it won in 2014.

Thieme founded the party on October 28 2002 to promote animal rights in the context of a wider program of activism on a range of issues spanning vegetarianism, women’s rights and the TTIP transatlantic trade treaty.

Marianne Thieme steps down after 17 years as animal rights party leader - DutchNews.nl

World Day for Migrants and Refugees: 'We cannot remain insensitive': Pope decries world's indifference to migrants, refugees

Pope Francis on Sunday decried "the culture of comfort" that leads to indifference in the face of a global migration and refugee crisis.

The Pope, who has made caring for migrants a major objective of his papacy, spoke during a mass at the Vatican in Rome for the World Day for Migrants and Refugees.

"We cannot be indifferent to the tragedy of old and new forms of poverty, to the bleak isolation, contempt and discrimination experienced by those who do not belong to 'our group,"' Francis said.

"We cannot remain insensitive,our hearts deadened, before the misery of so many innocent people. We must not fail to weep. We must not fail to respond.

The pontiff has often spoken of the need to be welcoming to migrants, travelling to the Italian island of Lampedusa in 2013 on his first trip as Pope to comfort refugees.

His message found political resistance in Italy's previous populist government, during which the former hard-line interior minister, Matteo Salvini, campaigned to prevent the arrival in Italy of migrants rescued at sea by humanitarian groups.

The Pope also noted the weapons that fuel wars are often produced and sold in other regions, "which are then unwilling to take in the refugees generated buy these conflicts."

Read more at: 'We cannot remain insensitive': Pope decries world's indifference to migrants, refugees | CBC News

September 29, 2019

Capitalism: The Bilderberg Group safeguarding the future of Capitalism?

The 67th Meeting of the secretive Bilderberg group was held from 30 May to 2 June 2019, with some 130 guests from all over the world. 23 countries that stayed in one of the most sumptuous places in Switzerland, the Montreux Palace Hotel.

Among the participants this year were the Dutch King Willem Alexander, Dutch PM Mark Rutte, Jared Kushner and Mike Pompeo from the USA.

Bilderberg Hotel-Oosterbeek

The Bilderberg meetings began at the start of the Cold War as a discussion club of American and European leaders against communism or, more specifically, against the Soviet Union. The first event took place in 1954 at the Bilderberg Hotel (which remained as the name of the group), in the Dutch city of Oosterbeek. Since then its meetings have been in various places in the western world.

Founded in 1954, the Bilderberg Meeting was designed to foster warmer relations between the United States and Europe. The annual talk fest is considered secretive because guests are not allowed to reveal who said what at the meeting.

One of the permanent agenda items propagated by the Bilderbergers is the reduction of the world’s population, so that the few at the top can live better and longer with the world’s rapidly diminishing resources.

Switzerland has been one of the Group’s preferred host countries after the United States. Switzerland had hosted it five times before this occasion (1960, 1970, 1981, 1995 and 2011).

Bilderbergers conferences are secret events, run by those who pull the strings behind world leaders – politicians, CEOs, big financiers and other business executives, artists and personalities from the Western world.

They are almost always American and Euro-Western. This time there were a dozen from Turkey, Poland, Bulgaria and Estonia.

The most they get to the East is Turkey, perhaps in the hope of attracting it back to NATO from where it is slowly trying to move away from.

Yes indeed, call the "Bilderbergers" whatever you want to, but don't be mistaken, they are not just any rich and influential people, they are the richest and most powerful people on the planet.

Among the members of this club are George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Paul Wolfowitz (former World Bank president and the godfather of the Iraq War), Henry Kissinger (who got the Nobel Peace Prize soon after he authorised chemical warfare against Vietnam), Tony Blair (best known for lying about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction), European royalty, CIA directors past and present, directors of the British secret service MI6, and other such figureheads.

This report was compiled by EU-Digest from several published articles about the Bilderberg group .

September 28, 2019

Climate Change: Denial sceptics and misinformation

September 27, 2019

The Netherlands: Murder figures went down

Read more at: https://nltimes.nl/2019/09/26/murders-netherlands-quarter

September 25, 2019

The Netherlands - healthcare: profits skyrocket at 85 Dutch Healthcare firms

September 24, 2019

Britain - Supreme Court Ruling: "Bye, Bye" Boris Johnson - Britsh Supreme Court: Suspending Parliament was unlawful, judges rule

British Supreme Court: Suspending Parliament was unlawful, judges rule

"Party is over"