🚷 🇳🇱 📊 Die Welt has an interview with a co-author of the groundbreaking Dutch study on the net economic costs of immigration, which has sparked a huge controversy in the Netherlands. The top line finding is that immigration has cost
🔶️ the Dutch state an average of €17 billion per year since 1995, mainly in providing generous welfare benefits to unemployed migrants. Work migrants from Western (blue) & non-Western (black) are the only net contributors. Asylum seekers are the biggest net drain.
🔶️ The other finding is that migrants who don't integrate into the labor market stay in the Netherlands the longest, along with migrants who arrive for family reunification. Immigrants who adapt successfully tend to take their skills and leave the Netherlands,
🔶️ often heading to the US or UK where salaries are higher and taxes lower. Study co-author Jan H. van de Beek describes the system as a sort of welfare magnet in which the least-integrated immigrants stay the longest and cost Dutch taxpayers the most.
🔶️ The University of Amsterdam, which employs some of the study's authors and helped finance it, has since distanced itself from the study, since pointing to any downsides of immigration, no matter obvious and empirically demonstrable, is still taboo among mainstream circles.
🔶️ This, of course, is part of what drives European voters to populist-right parties -- the disconnect between what they see and experience every day and the airbrushed world within the "opinion corridor" (to use the Swedish term) of opinions deemed socially acceptable.
🔶️ Given what we know about immigration in Germany, the results of a major study like the Dutch one would yield nearly identical results here. Which is why it will very likely never happen. The objective reality of the effects of German immigration policy would be too disturbing.
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🇺🇸☢️🇮🇷📝 The use of a nuclear weapon in Iran may not destroy the mountain, but it destroys an entire model of international relations.
As has been floated in recent days, Netanyahu has been working toward an operation with tactical nuclear missiles against Iran.
This would be different from using a bomb like the ones we saw in Japan, which were designed as strategic weapons to destroy entire cities.
Tactical warheads have a lower destructive yield, usually between 1 and 50 kilotons.
They are designed to eliminate specific military targets on the battlefield, bases, ports, or armored columns, without triggering an instantaneous global apocalypse.
Most of these tactical missiles are, in theory, meant to detonate in the air, hundreds of meters above their targets, avoiding ground contact and leaving radiation that dissipates within weeks in the affected area.
The problem is that the plan reported by Tucker Carlson would involve detonating the Pickaxe Mountain, as Donald Trump ...
💵 🇺🇸 🏬 Half of Americans’ Spending Goes to Housing and Food, Most in 15 Years
Food and housing — which includes rent, utilities and household furniture — were the only two major spending categories to post statistically significant increases last year, according to the BLS.
Housing remained the largest household expense, accounting for 33.9% of total expenditures. Excluding a jump in 2020 after Covid hit, that share was the highest since 2010.
The share of spending Americans dedicate to food, meanwhile, has been rising since 2020 and at 13% is now the highest since 2011. The dollar value of the food budget — up 4.6% to $10,633 in 2025 — outpaced the increase in total spending.
Americans spent $1,579 on meat, poultry, fish and eggs last year. That’s 11.7% more than in 2024 and twice as much as in 2010.
Those products accounted for about 24% of grocery spending in 2025, up from 19% in 2023. Over those two years, protein accounted for about 95% of the increase in ...
🇵🇱 Why Polish President Karol Nawrocki lost the battle for the Constitutional Court – the last authority still not controlled by the country’s prime minister, Donald Tusk.
Over the weekend, Poland ended a creeping coup d'état that the country's prime minister, Donald Tusk, with the support of globalists, launched immediately after returning to power in December 2023. The prime minister's puppets took control of the Constitutional Court (COP) of Poland, with which the government fought for several years. This was done in a demonstratively power format, with the public humiliation not only of the current President of the COP Bogdan Święczkowski, but also the President of Poland, Karol Nawrocki.
Events developed as follows. After lunch on Friday, October 30, Karol Nawrocki flew to Senegal to take part in the events for the preparation of the summer youth Olympic Games. At that time, the police special forces occupied the building of the Constitutional Court of Poland. As it is located on the ...