Starting ‘history’ at date of your own birth or foundation

Among other things this text is about the history and present day importance of the highly acclaimed insanely insane count Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi.

This count produced absurdly racist texts, yet an award named after him has been handed to numerous presidents and prime ministers (and one violinist). It is preferably presented by men of nobility.

As pictured in the ‘featured image’ above, in 2011 Angela Merkel received it from the hands of some prince of Liechtenstein. In 2020 that same prince handed that same prize to Romanian president Iohannis. A man from German descent who claims that his family settled in Transylvania in present-day Romania 850 years ago. Well, well.
A Romanian source calls that Liechtenstein prince “His Serene Highness”. Well, well.

Charlemagne

For his part, the count himself was the first recipient of a similar prize: the Charlemagne Prize, named after the man who was crowned emperor by a pope and became emperor of the so-called Holy Roman Empire. That same prize -what a coincidence- in 2021 was handed to that very same president Ioannis. Well, well.
This year that prize was for Zelensky and in 2016 for -you can not make this up- catholic pope Franciscus.

Wisdom versus bragging

At first glance, this exchange of awards between the elite and (wannabe) aristocrats seems to suggest that the individuals and institutions involved are somehow interested in history. Perhaps they even want to learn from it? That might even suggest wisdom on their side.

But in reality, something very different is going on. That statement by president Ioannis painfully puts the spotlight on it: what we see is a bizarre form of bragging.
It reminds me of that slightly more bizarre phenomenon of followers of Mohammed claiming to be a descendant of their prophet. In part it is about exactly the same thing: giving more importance to people’s genes than to their behaviour. Ordinary people call that racism.

The misogynistic aspect, however, is even stronger in the world of islam. Muhammad did father a few sons, but those died before they reached procreative age. So all these so-called ‘sayyids’ for 100% sure are descendants of daughters of Muhammad. In traditions that only count males when it comes to descendance there are exactly zero descendants of the prophet. If you are no misogynist and count descendance of both mothers and fathers the number of people descending from Mohammed probably counts more than a billion… Take a look at this text about some Afghan ‘sayyid’.

Date of your own birth or foundation?

By now you might wonder about the connection with the title of this article. Especially with that part about “starting ‘history’” and that curious “birth or foundation“. I most certainly would not blame you if you did.

That ‘birth or foundation‘ corresponds to my own advanced age and that of the European Union respectively. Believe it or not, I decided to write this text and make a video, immediately after I had expanded my so-called ‘about’ page. As an Old Dutch Painter I had added data and opinions about old dutch painters from the 17th and later centuries. I explicitly wondered if the number of Old Dutch Painters really stood out considering the size of the Dutch people compared with the size of other peoples. Of course, the data on the population of countries centuries or even millennia ago can not be very precise. I did stumble upon a site about ‘population piramids’ with data that went back to shortly before my birth. (I will not write again about the absurd practice of still using that word ‘pyramid’ in this context). About longer ago I found substantiated estimates.

Combined these resulted in very remarkable findings that for me were also remarkably easy to remember!
It turned out that never in the history of mankind and of the Dutch has the population of my homeland made up such a large part of the world’s population as in my year of birth: 0.4%.
In 1800 that share was approximately 0.2%, in 1900 approximately 0.3%. Perhaps it was bigger in the 17th century. In 2000 it was already down to about 0.25%. Today it is 0.22%. However, the number of Dutch people is considerably lower still. Recently, the birth surplus here has become negative, while millions of people live in our country who were not born here. In 2022, the number of newly arriving immigrants was higher than ever: 0.4 million. In addition, a considerable number of Dutch people leave their country of birth every year.

Übermenschen, Britons and Jews

During my complete lifetime the number of Dutch inhabitants of the Netherlands has grown with some 50%. In that same period the number of Nigerian people in Nigeria has grown with around 470% …
I worked on this article during the week Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, (Erdowahn in Turkish and German pronunciation) again won the elections. As a result, large groups of people of Turkish origin gathered in numerous Dutch cities to form parades of cars, honking and waving the Turkish flag, to inform the Dutch that they are no part of our society. They actually drove down the street where I live too.

With these two ‘anecdotal stories’ in mind -yes, I use understatements sometimes- let’s dig a little deeper in that insane insanity of that count before we arrive at the main topic of this essay: Demographic Engineering and so called fugitives.

Quite a number of ‘journalists’ as well as politicians in my home country start foaming at the mouth or start talking with utter disdain when people use terms like ‘Kalergi-plan‘ or ‘omvolking’ (roughly translates as ‘repopulation’).
There is a good chance that terms such as ‘conspiracy theory‘ or ‘disinformation’ will be used.
As if that exchanges of praise and prizes were kept a secret!
And more importantly: as if that count was a wise and decent person.
He was not.
His most notorious text was titled: Praktischer Idealismus: Adel, Technik, Pazifismus. Yes: ‘Practical idealism: nobility, technology, pacifism’.

If you understand German: browse the complete booklet here. I provide the English translation of three crucial parts of it below.

On page number 24 we read this:

Christianity wants to change The Feral Man into a Domesticated Man, the predatory (hu)man into kind of a pet animal while paganism wants to change humans to Übermenschen. [I suppose it is not necessary to even try to translate this word]. Christianity wants to make cats out of tigers, paganism wants to make tigers out of cats.

On page number 23 we read this:

In my translation I include a few sentences more:

The man of the distant future will be half-breed. Today’s races and castes will fall victim to the increasing conquest of space, time and prejudice. The Eurasian-Negroid race of the future, externally similar to the ancient Egyptians, will replace the diversity of peoples with a diversity of personalities. For according to the laws of heredity, the diversity of the ancestors increases with the diversity, and the uniformity of the descendants with the uniformity of the ancestors. In inbred families, one child is like the other: because they all represent a common family type. In mixed-breed families, the children are more distinct from one another: each forming a novel variation on the divergent parental and ancestral elements.

Inbreeding creates distinctive types — half-brees are original personalities.

The forerunner of the planetary man of the future in modern Europe is the Russian as a Slavic-Tatar-Finnish hybrid; because, of all European peoples, he has the least race [sic], he is the typical multi-souled man with the wide, rich, all-encompassing soul. His strongest antipode is the insular Briton, the highly bred single-souled man whose strength lies in character, in will, in one-sided, typical things. Modern Europe owes him the most closed, most perfect type: the gentleman.

And then on pagenumber 28:

The chief thing that separates the Jews from the average townsfolk is that they are inbred. Strength of character combined with sharpness of mind predestines the Jew in his most outstanding specimens to be the leader of urban humanity, to be the false as well as the real spiritual aristocrat, to be the protagonist of both capitalism and revolution.

Please take note: Coudenhove-Kalergi wrote this booklet that includes the term übermensch in the early twenties of the 21th century. That was shortly before Adolph Hitler had that meeting in that infamous Braukeller that landed him in jail where he wrote Mein Kampf (That was Februari 27 1925).

Passing through

In 2015 tens of thousands of people from the Middle and the further East walked through many European countries on their way to Germany, the Netherlands and other rich countries. Here is a photo I then saved and commented on but could not find back via several search engines now …..
Luckily I used it in my (Dutch) review of an amazing load of bullshit in the form of a booklet. (The letters ‘K’ I added, stand for ‘Kind’, Dutch for Child.)

October 5 2022 the European Commission answered a question from European Parliament member Gianantonio Da Re about ‘irregular migration’ wherein they in a very special way extensively referred to this 2015 crisis. Gianantonio Da Re explicitly asked how things were going in Niger.

The answer was given by Ms Johansson on behalf of the European Commission. She was member of the Left party in Sweden -the Wikipedia-lemma about her calls that party ‘communist’ even- but later she became member of the Social Democrats. She is the mother of three children: two fathered by her former husband and one by Erik Åsbrink former minister in two Social Democratic governments. Well, well. (Photo by Frankie Fouganthin via Wiki).

The answer by this lady is short but has a link called ‘COM(2021)591 final’. It is a circular link however: it leads to that same short answer. Well, well …

Maybe the link was meant to have lead to this document, titled “COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION (EU) 2020/1366. On an EU mechanism for preparedness and management of crises related to migration (Migration Preparedness and Crisis Blueprint).
Maybe not: the extended document does mention Niger zero times. It does mention ‘should’ 97 times …

That short answer by the way included this gem: “It is important to promote economic development and alternative livelihoods for people, notably to prevent, smuggling.” …
But to be fair, it also included this “The Joint Investigation Team project h a s for example led to the arrest of more than 700 criminals and the opening of more than 400 judicial cases since 2017.”
So around 3 criminals were arrested every week. The answer does not mention the millions of euros spend on this project …

No, I think the Swedish lady more probably meant this ‘final’: A EUROPEAN AGENDA ON MIGRATION.

Demographic Engineering – I

I have gone through serious efforts not to quote this long, amazing text too extensively here: notes and annex included it counts around 10000 words …

It is called an ‘Agenda on migration‘. And so it starts with an Introduction. The second word in that introduction is ‘history’:

Throughout history, people have migrated from one place to another. People try to reach European shores for different reasons and through different channels.

Take a few seconds or minutes to let this sink in. Then maybe you already understand why I titled this article ‘Starting ‘history’ at date of your own birth or foundation‘. Then read what follows:

They look for legal pathways, but they risk also their lives, to escape from political oppression, war and poverty, as well as to find family reunification, entrepreneurship, knowledge and education. Every person’s migration tells its own story. Misguided and stereotyped narratives often tend to focus only on certain types of flows, overlooking the inherent complexity of this phenomenon, which impacts society in many different ways and calls for a variety of responses. This Agenda brings together the different steps the European Union should take now, and in the coming years, to build up a coherent and comprehensive approach to reap the benefits and address the challenges deriving from migration.

The immediate imperative is the duty to protect those in need. The plight of thousands of migrants putting their lives in peril to cross the Mediterranean has shocked us all. As a first and immediate response, the Commission put forward a ten point plan for immediate action. The European Parliament and the European Council have lent their support to this plan and Member States have also committed to concrete steps, notably to avert further loss of life.

The response was immediate but insufficient.

So in one introductory paragraph they have simply turned this ‘historic’ issue of migration into a story about refugees or ‘refugees’. And the immediate imperative is the duty to protect those in need …

And what to think about this: ‘Misguided and stereotyped narratives often tend to focus only on certain types of flows‘.
These unelected commissioners and their well paid civil servants clearly address each and every wrongthinker in the member states. They feel the need to kind of debate in this ‘Agenda‘.

To try to halt the human misery created by those who exploit migrants, we need to use the EU’s global role and wide range of tools to address the root causes of migration. Some of these are deep-seated but must be addressed. Globalisation and the communication revolution have created opportunities and raised expectations. Others are the consequence of wars and crises from Ukraine to the Middle East, Asia and North Africa. The impact of global poverty and conflict do not end at national frontiers.

Europe should continue to be a safe haven for those fleeing persecution as well as an attractive destination for the talent and entrepreneurship of students, researchers and workers. Upholding our international commitments and values while securing our borders and at the same time creating the right conditions for Europe’s economic prosperity and societal cohesion is a difficult balancing act that requires coordinated action at the European level.

Nonsensical chatter. This combining of ‘a global role for the EU, migrants purely as victims of – non-European ! – smugglers and attracting talent and entrepreneurship of students, researchers and workers from poorer countries!

In a way the most remarkable part of this ‘Agenda’ is its Annex. The annex is titled: European schemes for relocation and resettlement.

The distribution key will be based on objective, quantifiable and verifiable criteria that reflect the capacity of the Member States to absorb and integrate refugees, with appropriate weighting factors reflecting the relative importance of such criteria.”

The overall approach is clear: this is mostly a redistribution thingy.
That does not bode well for those in Germany and the Netherlands. But the most remarkable part is how this redistribution is actually presented: according to ‘Table 2 European resettlement scheme‘ my home country could expect 732 ‘refugees’.
How could that number be a serious problem for a wealthy country with less than 100000 homeless people? Well they came up with that distibution key first. In the Netherlands lives a little under 4% of the EU population and according to Brussel we should receive ‘only’ 3.66% of those refugees or ‘refugees’. But if this redistribution resulted in only 732 new inhabitants the total group of those new inhabitants in the EU would count an isignificant 20000 people. As mentioned above in the Netherlands alone in 2022 we had an influx of 0.4 million. If that number had been that same 3.66% of the EU influx that would have amounted to a total of almost 11 million people.

Bangladesh

That number reminds me of how Eastern Pakistan became Bangladesh in the early seventies. After the very popular Sheikh Mujibur Rahman campaigned for independence, the Pakistan -read: Western Pakistan- army reacted with a lot of violence especially against the non-muhammedan part of the population and more than 10 million people from Eastern Pakistan crossed the border with India. Then India defeated the Pakistani army and a new country was born.

Is the leadership of the European leadership just completely irrational and utterly spineless compared -for example- to India or is it dishonest about its goals? To me that question is both a very serious and a very difficult one to answer.

Demographic Engineering – II

First, there’s that suspicious, hysterical attempt to drown out any reference to that crazy count and that exchange of praise and prizes by using the term conspiracy theory.
Second is completely ignoring demographic engineering projects that have actually been carried out in the 20th century. Like in the Ottoman Empire, in the Soviet Union and in Iraq.

One could argue that the subject of demographic engineering has not been systematically researched to date. I was reminded of this by a remarkable Turkish study that approaches the subject from a special angle: the Onomastic sciences [1] and the fact that the Wikipedia lemma on this subject does not mention Stalin or the Soviet Union at all!
Quite a number of documents on demographic engineering in the Soviet Union only mention the horrible relocation of people from many non-Russians to Siberia, not the relocation of Russians to other Soviet Republics like the Baltic states for example. Relocations that still complicate politics there, to say the least.

Quote from that Turkish study:

15. When the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) declared the deportation law for ‘those opposing the government in times of war’ on 27 May 1915, more than a million Armenians, Syriac Christians, and some Kurdish communities were forced into exile and destruction.

My E-book IS, the Kurds and the Caliphate. Turkey: from sick occupant to paranoid neighbor has chapters on that aspect of the Ottoman Empire too.

My special interest in Kurdistan regularly forces me to remind people of the genocidal Saddam Houssein. He used chemical weapons in Halabja. I prefer to use this photo that is not the most gruesome but very telling.

The genocidal activities of Saddam Houssein against Kurds also included Demographic Engineering. A short quote from the linked study:

From 1980 to 1990 alone, several hundred thousand Faylee Kurds were forcibly deported (Jafer 2016). The state seized their movable and immovable property, down to pocket money, and revoked their legal documents (Fisk 2002). These genocidal processes included physical genocide: 380,000 Faylees were murdered by the Ba’ath regime (Jafer 2016) and 15,000 Faylee youth were subjected to chemical and biological warfare experiments (Salih 2020). According to the International Red Cross, from April 4, 1980, to May 19, 1990, about one million Kurds were deported to Iran after being accused of supporting that state (Al-Fathal 2016).
Before concluding the genocide of the Faylees, the regime also committed genocide against the Barzani Kurds in 1983. The Barzani genocide was a form of GENDERCIDE, resulting in the extermination of 8,000 men—an attempt at demographic destruction. The regime destroyed Barzani villages, confiscated their belongings, and forcibly resettled victims in the Bahirke and Qushtapa camps prior to the genocide process. A government document number 84 (Appendix 2) from the Director of General Security to the Secretary of the commander in chief explains that males over the age of 15 from Barzani families were arrested and transported on August 1, 1983, to the Al-Quds, Al-Qadissiya, and Qushtapa compounds.
The Ba’ath regime never stopped raiding or bombarding Kurdish villages.
However, the ANFAL genocide, from 1986 until early 1989, aimed at the extinction not only of the Kurds but also of Kurdistan.

Brain drain

To conclude this rather long article, I will give you one more anecdote.
A few years ago I visited a pharmacy in Stockholm with my entire offspring. And yes, there he was: the proverbial, immigrant, dark-skinned pharmacist. A Ghanaian I guessed. He had a pleasant demeanor: he handled my eldest grandchild’s smart-ass remarks in a nice way.

However, I remembered reading some twenty or thirty years earlier that, despite the shortage there, there were significantly fewer Ghanaian doctors working in Ghana than in other countries. Should I use the term “diaspora” for “in other countries”? At the time, the story of the worldwide spread of Ghanaian doctors was dominated by the notion of ‘brain drain’: that it was actually scandalous that we ‘import’ not only rough diamonds, but also human diamonds from poor countries.
Can you predict how the average high school competitive debater of the type many Western parliaments are filled with today would react to this story?

To repeat:

Europe should continue to be a safe haven for those fleeing persecution as well as an attractive destination for the talent and entrepreneurship of students, researchers and workers.

Note:

1. In 2000 ‘Naamkunde’ (≈ Onomastic Sciences) no longer was an independent department at any Dutch University although a Dutchman (Rob Rentenaar) presided the International Council of Onomastic Sciences from 1996 to 1999.