By now, the world has heard the news. A municipal mayor in Brussels attempted to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/brussels-police-try-to-shut-down-conference-featuring-orban-farage-other-leading-european-conservatives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shut down</a> a peaceful gathering of conservative leaders simply because he disagreed with their message.
The resultant outcry was enormous — the very essence of free speech was at stake — culminating in a rapidly <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://adfinternational.org/free-speech-prevails-for-nat-con__;!!PxibshUo2Yr_Ta5B!3e4hdrEyPrjSHR-Ny5IdDKSUOAzVbsFf8AQLtUj4NZNA0XwbYhe-5Frtk0Fcg7v09huGJ1hewD_pUvi8-BjlFaw$" target="_blank" rel="noopener">executed emergency court order</a> allowing the conference to resume, but not before the police had stepped in, relegating the first day of the event to abject chaos.
I was honored to lead the legal challenge against this authoritarian overstep, and in so doing, play a key part in this watershed moment for fundamental freedoms. 
It was business as usual as I prepared to attend the National Conservatism Conference in Brussels from April 16-17. Known as “NatCon,” the event presented nothing out of the ordinary in a city that regularly ebbs and flows with gatherings across the political spectrum. As the center of the European Union, discussion, dialogue, and even peaceable demonstrations across the ideological spectrum are core to the Brussels ethos.
<div id="attachment_726077" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-726077" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-726077" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/04/GettyImages-2147852060-864x576.jpg" alt="British eurosceptic populist Nigel Farage speaks during the &quot;NatCon&quot; national conservatism conference gathering hard-right politicians at the Claridge hotel in Brussesl on April 16, 2024. Brussels authorities were seeking today to shut down the controversial gathering after it was targeted by a social media protest campaign and bumped from its first two choices of venue. (Photo by Simon Wohlfahrt / AFP) (Photo by SIMON WOHLFAHRT/AFP via Getty Images)" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/04/GettyImages-2147852060-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/04/GettyImages-2147852060-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/04/GettyImages-2147852060-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/04/GettyImages-2147852060.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" />SIMON WOHLFAHRT/AFP via Getty Images</div>
But cancel culture was quick to bare its teeth. The event, a mainstream gathering of conservatives representing diverse views, had <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/16/world/europe/brussels-conversative-conference-emir-kir.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">already been canceled</a> by two venues, before securing a third near Brussels’ European Quarter. It was at this point that the mayor of this district decided to step in, issuing an egregiously discriminatory order to shutter the conference due to a supposed threat to “public peace.”
The order made two facts indisputably clear: 1) There was no evidence whatsoever of a threat of violence. And 2) It was nothing more than the vision behind National Conservatism that motivated the shutdown. In essence, from the mayor’s perspective: I don’t like these people. I shall not allow them to meet.
As stated in the mayor’s order: 
<blockquote>That this vision is not only ethically conservative (e.g. hostility to the legalization of abortion, same-sex unions, etc.) but also focused on the defense of ‘national sovereignty,’ which implies, among other things, a ‘Eurosceptic’ attitude.</blockquote>
To be clear, pro-life views are not a crime. Neither is, of course, the “defense of national sovereignty.” This was a dictatorial and discriminatory abuse of power, pure and simple. And when I arrived at the conference on the morning of April 16, the effects of this abuse were evident. <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://twitter.com/Paul_B_Coleman/status/1780242908156662188/photo/1__;!!PxibshUo2Yr_Ta5B!3e4hdrEyPrjSHR-Ny5IdDKSUOAzVbsFf8AQLtUj4NZNA0XwbYhe-5Frtk0Fcg7v09huGJ1hewD_pUvi8PBGYQFk$" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pictures</a> of a line of police in riot gear flooded X — the world was on notice that something insidious was afoot in Brussels.
Police surrounded the door, preventing participants from entering. It was only my direct line with the organizers that got me in. Never mind that expected to attend were multiple high-level participants including former U.K. Home Secretary Suella Braverman, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, and Cardinal Müller from Germany. The diplomatic ramifications of this fiasco cannot be overstated, prompting reactions from both the U.K. and Belgian Prime Ministers, and massive international outcry.
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The freedoms of speech and assembly are essential for the functioning of any democratic society. In fact, without them, there cannot be said to be democracy. And yet, here we were, confronted by a line of police for exercising our right to peacefully gather and discuss the issues of our day. This kind of authoritarianism has no place in contemporary Europe — a disgrace to our continent and the values the EU espouses.
As a lawyer for ADF International, an organization dedicated to the promotion of fundamental freedoms, I found myself in the right place at the right time to rise to the defense of basic human rights.
We lead the charge alongside the NatCon organizers in mounting a legal challenge, which was decided in our favor by the Conseil d’État, Belgium’s highest administrative court, at 2:30 a.m.on April 17. The fact that the court had convened and decided overnight was a testament to the outrageous nature of what had transpired. The judgment was clear — the conference would be <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68826578">allowed to continue</a> into its second day without police interference.
Fueled by espresso and croissants, day two of the conference proceeded with a markedly electric energy. Conference attendees previously barred from entry took on the talks and conversations with a newfound gusto, having just come face to face with the frightening reality of what it means to be a “conservative” in Europe.
While among us at the conference there would surely be disagreement and differences of opinion on a great many issues, we found ourselves enjoying a unique moment of solidarity — united in our shared commitment to protecting our basic human right to speak freely.
What happened this week depicts the state of free speech in Europe in a very poor light. This is the sad reality of European censorship. However, we remain optimistic that it also will serve as an important wake-up call, reminding us of the crucial importance of diligently defending our fundamental freedoms under the law, lest they slip away from us as they have done before in the darker moments of our continent’s history.
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Jean-Paul Van De Walle is legal counsel, Europe, for ADF International in Brussels, and led the legal efforts that successfully challenged the shut-down of the National Conservatism Conference.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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On Saturday, climate activist Greta Thunberg was detained twice by police in the Netherlands for joining other activists who were intending to block The Hague&#8217;s A12 highway, five years after she warned the European Parliament regarding climate change, “I want you to panic.”
After being detained by police, Thunberg was released, joined activists blocking a different road that led to the railway station, then was detained again and transported in a police van, Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/climate-activist-greta-thunberg-detained-demonstration-hague-2024-04-06/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/climate-activist-greta-thunberg-detained-demonstration-hague-2024-04-06/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1712672342744000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2KmZvVhQPT8GpmB3KVeKFf">reported</a>. She was released several hours later.
“We are in a planetary emergency and we are not going to stand by and let people lose their lives and livelihood and be forced to become climate refugees when we can do something,” Thunberg stated.
“It&#8217;s important to demonstrate today because we are living in a state of planetary emergency,&#8221; Thunberg told AFP news agency, according to the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68749936" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68749936&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1712672342744000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1v7hlCdq9YFc1dmV_ncPfx">BBC</a>. &#8220;We must do everything to avoid that crisis and to save human lives.&#8221;
&#8220;While we can&#8217;t comment on individual cases, we can confirm that all of the people who were picked up by police and put on to minibuses were officially arrested, because they were blocking the highway and that is against the law,” The Hague’s local police declared.
Roughly five years ago, on April 16, 2019, Thunberg, then 16, <a href="https://awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu/2019/12/02/speech-at-the-european-parliament-april-16-2019/">told</a> the European Parliament, “I want you to act as if the house is on fire. I have said those words before, and a lot of people have explained why that is a bad idea. A great number of politicians have told me that panic never leads to anything good, and I agree. To panic, unless you have to, is a terrible idea. But when your house is on fire and you want to keep your house from burning to the ground, then that does require some level of panic …”
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She warned, “Around the year 2030, ten years, 259 days, and ten hours away from now, we will be in a position where we set off an irreversible chain reaction that will most likely lead to the end of our civilization as we know it. That is, unless, in that time, permanent and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society have taken place … We are in the midst of the sixth mass extinction, and the extinction rate is up to ten thousand times faster than what is considered normal with up to 200 species becoming extinct every single day.”
She concluded, “It’s okay if you refuse to listen to me; I am, after all, just a 16-year-old schoolgirl from Sweden. But you cannot ignore the scientists or the science or the millions of school-striking children who are school-striking for the right to a future. I beg you: please do not fail on this.”

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About a year ago, I <a href="https://x.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1661477689767919617?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">covered</a> the very sudden rise of euthanasia in Canada. As of 2022, the most recent year we have <a href="https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/publications/health-system-services/annual-report-medical-assistance-dying-2022.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">data</a> available, euthanasia is now the fifth-leading cause of death in Canada, accounting for one out of every 25 fatalities. That&#8217;s ahead of common conditions like liver disease, influenza, diabetes, and Alzheimer&#8217;s.
The number of so-called &#8220;assisted deaths&#8221; rose by more than 30% year-over-year, although precise metrics are getting hard to track. That&#8217;s because, going forward, Canada <a href="https://x.com/StatCan_eng/status/1729539259076334034?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a> euthanasia deaths won&#8217;t be recorded as deaths caused by euthanasia. Instead, whatever reason the patient provides for seeking euthanasia will be recorded as the cause of death. So if you have a doctor kill you because you have arthritis, in Canada, that&#8217;s now classified as a death due to arthritis.
This coverup, like everything that has ever been attempted by the Canadian government, has failed miserably. Euthanasia is such an obviously booming industry that funeral homes have started <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/canadian-death-cult#:~:text=In%202022%2C%204.1%20percent%20of,Parliament%20first%20introduced%20MAID%20legislation." target="_blank" rel="noopener">offering</a> so-called &#8220;turn-key&#8221; <a href="https://plus.lapresse.ca/screens/f514affe-77c3-4052-ba88-e327c9ec6dc5%7C_0.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bundles</a>, in which people can kill themselves and then have a burial, all for one low price. There&#8217;s no need to have a terminal illness, either. Some Canadians are killing themselves because they <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12248669/Euthanasia-tightens-grip-West-Shocking-rise-doctor-assisted-suicides.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">say</a> it&#8217;s easier than getting disability benefits. The Canadian state-owned media loves this, of course. They <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/medically-assisted-death-could-save-millions-1.3947481" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claim</a> that euthanasia can save &#8220;millions&#8221; in health care costs.
This isn&#8217;t just happening in Canada. All over the western world, euthanasia is now more common than it&#8217;s ever been. The number of British citizens who signed up for &#8220;Dignitas,&#8221; a Swiss nonprofit that <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-47158287" target="_blank" rel="noopener">performs</a> euthanasia, increased by nearly 25% in 2023. In Switzerland, assisted deaths <a href="https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/life-aging/swiss-assisted-suicides-rose-11-in-2023/49198616" target="_blank" rel="noopener">jumped</a> by 11% last year. Meanwhile in Belgium, assisted suicide <a href="https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2024/02/27/euthanasia-cases-increase-by-15-per-cent-in-belgium-in-2023/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">increased</a> by more than 15%. Overall in Europe and Canada, euthanasia rates have increased by a quarter in just about 12 months.
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Over in South Australia, &#8220;medical assistance in dying&#8221; was <a href="https://www.gogentleaustralia.org.au/south_australia_marks_one_year_of_voluntary_assisted_dying#:~:text=%E2%80%9CWe%20know%20from%20other%20states,died%2C%20110%20from%20VAD%20administration." target="_blank" rel="noopener">legalized</a> a year ago, and the numbers of death permits they&#8217;re issuing are <a href="https://www.gogentleaustralia.org.au/latest_figures_from_south_australia_show_steady_increase_in_vad_permits" target="_blank" rel="noopener">increasing</a> at a rate of around 20% per quarter. And those numbers are going to continue to rise, in part because the public broadcaster in Australia is running segments like this promoting euthanasia. Watch:
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Make a difference in someone&#8217;s life today, by killing them. Give them a little something &#8220;extra.&#8221; That&#8217;s the pitch in Australia, and it&#8217;s working.
As you&#8217;d expect, as euthanasia becomes more and more common all over the world, we&#8217;re hearing more disturbing stories.
For example, there was the Canadian woman who was <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/10118619/bc-cancer-agency-wait-times-surgery-united-states/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">diagnosed</a> with cancer, only to be told by her doctors that she should consider euthanasia. She refused and fled to the United States, where she paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to receive treatment. Those are the kind of stories that make you realize there are a lot of very sick people in countries like Canada who don&#8217;t have a lot of money lying around. And they&#8217;re probably killing themselves. 
It&#8217;s hard to imagine this trend getting any more bleak but somehow, it does.
There&#8217;s an incredible new <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/im-28-and-im-scheduled-to-die?r=8ivfe&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;triedRedirect=true">story</a> in the Free Press about a 28-year-old woman in The Netherlands named Zoraya ter Beek. She plans to have a medical professional kill her sometime in May. That&#8217;s not because she has any kind of terminal illness. Instead, she&#8217;s been diagnosed with depression, autism, and borderline personality disorder. And on that basis, even though she lives in a nice house, with her boyfriend and her cats, she wants to die.
This woman appears to mean what she&#8217;s saying. She&#8217;s been highly visible in the Dutch press for many years, going as far back as 2017. And every time she&#8217;s appeared since then, she&#8217;s been promoting the idea of euthanasia or dying in some way. 
For example, in 2017, a Dutch website profiled Zoraya, <a href="https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/editienl/laatste-videos-editienl/video/50121/zoraya-22-draagt-niet-reanimerenpenning-respecteer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">writing</a>: 
<blockquote>Zoraya is 22 and does not want to be resuscitated if something happens to her. And of course she gets comments about that. More and more people are deciding to wear a do-not-resuscitate badge.</blockquote>
That same year, another Dutch outlet wrote an <a href="https://www.pzc.nl/bizar/zonder-juiste-medicijnen-wil-zoraya-22-uit-oldenzaal-niet-verder-leven~a6575e9e/?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Ft.co%2F" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> about how Zoraya was planning her funeral.
Additionally, Zoraya has provided the Free Press with a photograph of the coffin she plans to use, including a picture of herself in the coffin. She also posted extensively about her plans on social media.
Confronted with all of this, Zoraya&#8217;s psychiatrists didn&#8217;t suggest any alternative. Instead, they told her she was doomed: 
<blockquote>[Zoraya] recalled her psychiatrist telling her that they had tried everything, that &#8216;there’s nothing more we can do for you. It’s never gonna get any better.&#8217;</blockquote>
It&#8217;s hard to sum up the agenda of the pharmaceutical companies and the medical industry any better than that one line. &#8220;There&#8217;s nothing more we can do for you. It&#8217;s never gonna get any better.&#8221; I&#8217;m sure that&#8217;s a paraphrase, but it&#8217;s horrifying. This is a woman who&#8217;s not even 30-years-old and who has no physical issues whatsoever. Every single problem she has is in her head — and very vaguely defined. 
A term like “borderline personality disorder” is one we’re accustomed to hearing — and that many people have been diagnosed with — but very rarely does anyone stop to ask any fundamental questions about it. Questions like: How exactly can you diagnose a “personality” as “disordered.” What is a properly ordered personality? What personality is this woman supposed to have? Well, never mind. Whatever these disorders are, her doctors have prescribed suicide to cure them.
Because this is what happens now if the antidepressant drugs don’t work. Now they have another drug to permanently &#8220;fix&#8221; the problem. And conveniently, the same companies selling the antidepressants are also making the drugs that help kill people who realize the antidepressants don&#8217;t work too well. A company called Valeant Pharmaceuticals, now known as Bausch Health, made the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2019/12/11/my-terminally-ill-mother-wanted-end-her-own-life-what-would-it-take-fulfill-her-last-wish/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">most commonly</a> used drug in physician-assisted suicides, called Seconal. As it happens, that same company also makes Wellbutrin, the 18th-most prescribed medicine in the United States, with millions of prescriptions. When it came out, it was billed as a second-line, heavy-hitting antidepressant that&#8217;s supposed to work where first-line SSRIs fail. But in the event the second-line antidepressant fails, now we know what the third line is. They&#8217;ll just kill you.
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That should disturb most people. But it doesn&#8217;t — at least, not everywhere. One of the most revealing aspects of this Free Press article has been the reaction to it. In The Netherlands, there was outrage — not at the medical industry, but at the Free Press for covering the story. Zoraya shut down her social media accounts, claiming the Free Press article misrepresented her, without explaining how. A lot of her supporters in The Netherlands were also furious with the piece, saying it was a distorted view of what they call &#8220;medical assistance in dying.&#8221;
But in America, the reaction was different. Instead of writing puff pieces about Zoraya&#8217;s decision, many mainstream outlets presented it accurately — as a horrifying crime against humanity, and a betrayal of the most basic principle of medicine. 
Here&#8217;s how the author of The Free Press piece, Rupa Subramanya, <a href="https://x.com/rupasubramanya/status/1774949448956649542?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">put it on X</a>: 
<blockquote>I&#8217;ve been struck by the reactions so far, some of which I anticipated. North Americans generally tend to be horrified at the Dutch acceptance of the right to die even for someone who is not terminally ill or their acceptance that there should be a more humane to commit suicide even when euthanasia is legal. The Dutch I spoke to find North Americans very conservative and religious when it comes to life and death.
The Netherlands is a post-religious society, and the comments from there are 180 degrees from what I&#8217;m getting from people in North America. We&#8217;re living in two different epistemic worlds at the same point in time, in cultures that descend from fundamentally the same Western roots coming from the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the Protestant Reformation. There is overwhelming support for euthanasia, assisted dying and a more humane way to commit suicide in The Netherlands than anywhere else in the Western world.</blockquote>
What this tells us is that the contagion that has now completely overtaken Europe, and in particular countries like The Netherlands, may be reversible in this country. It may not have completely taken hold here. And there are other signs of that, as well.
For example, late last year, the American Medical Association&#8217;s house of delegates <a href="https://www.ncregister.com/cna/american-medical-association-retains-opposition-to-assisted-suicide" target="_blank" rel="noopener">considered</a> a resolution that would have officially endorsed the practice of euthanasia. Given the extent of the barbaric medical practices the AMA endorses already, it seemed likely that this resolution would pass. But as the National Catholic Register <a href="https://www.ncregister.com/cna/american-medical-association-retains-opposition-to-assisted-suicide" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a>:
<blockquote>The House of Delegates of the American Medical Association &#8230; rebuffed an effort to change the organization’s current stance in opposition to physician-assisted suicide, a development that drew praise from members of the Catholic Medical Association, which advocated against the change.</blockquote>
This is a victory, obviously. But the fact this resolution was even proposed, and seriously considered, tells us we&#8217;re not very far removed from The Netherlands. It suggests that, unless the underlying causes of this trend are resolved, it will overtake this country as well. And the underlying causes — the reason young people are killing themselves — is that hope and a sense of purpose are becoming rare in modern society. That&#8217;s true both here and in Europe.
Now that euthanasia offers a seemingly easy and &#8220;painless&#8221; way out, more and more people, at younger and younger ages, will take advantage of it. They&#8217;ll be put on antidepressants that don&#8217;t work, and then suicide drugs after that. Somehow, the drug companies will suggest that, even though they&#8217;ve sold SSRIs that accomplish nothing, you should still trust them when they say that their euthanasia drug is the solution.
This is a pitch that only works when people have been lied to for years, and become profoundly confused about this basic fact: Life is not easy. Nobody is happy all the time. But we are alive for a reason. If we feel like life is meaningless, it’s not because life has no meaning, it’s just that we struggle to see it. The solution is to help those people see the meaning in life.
Pharma companies like Bausch Health are not providing that solution. They aren’t trying to help people in their despair. They’re only trying to profit off of it.

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Outgoing Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, a top contender to be the next leader of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nato" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NATO</a>, encouraged Western allies to stop fretting over the prospect of former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> returning to the White House.
&#8220;We should stop moaning and whining and nagging about Trump,&#8221; Rutte said to the Munich Security Conference, <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2024-02-17/stop-whining-about-trump-and-focus-on-europes-interests-dutch-pm-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to Reuters</a>. He added, &#8220;It&#8217;s up to the Americans. I&#8217;m not an American, I cannot vote in the U.S. We have to work with whoever is on the dance floor.&#8221;
Trump, who is running another campaign for a second term, prompted a firestorm this month when he told an anecdote about how he used hardball tactics to negotiate with other world leaders on supporting the NATO alliance.
At an event in South Carolina, Trump spoke about how NATO was &#8220;busted&#8221; until he got <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-16/nato-members-ramp-up-defense-spending-after-pressure-from-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allied countries to increase their</a> defense spending under pressure to do more to meet the <a href="https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_49198.htm#:~:text=The%202%25%20defence%20investment%20guideline,ensure%20the%20Alliance's%20military%20readiness." target="_blank" rel="noopener">2% minimum GDP defense investment guideline</a>.
&#8220;One of the presidents of a big country stood up and said, &#8216;Well sir, if we don&#8217;t pay and we&#8217;re attacked by Russia, will you protect us?&#8217; I said, you didn&#8217;t pay? You&#8217;re delinquent? He said, &#8216;Yes, let&#8217;s say that happened.&#8217; No, I would not protect you. In fact, I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want. You gotta pay,&#8221; Trump said.
Some took Trump&#8217;s comments as suggesting he would allow the United States to neglect its <a href="https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_110496.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Article 5 duties</a> and even take Russia&#8217;s side in the event of an attack, but the former president indicated he&#8217;s focused on getting NATO allies to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-explains-nato-stance-after-negotiating-story-draws-controversy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;equalize&#8221; contributions</a>.
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Rutte, who is seen as a leading candidate to follow Jens Stoltenberg as <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-21/rutte-seizes-lead-in-nato-job-race-as-he-exits-dutch-politics" target="_blank" rel="noopener">secretary general</a> of NATO later this year, explained to German news outlet Deutsche Welle his position, saying, &#8220;Let&#8217;s stop moaning and nagging and whining about Trump&#8221; because the 2024 election has not happened yet.
&#8220;We need to invest in our defense expenditure. We need to massively ramp up arms production, and we need to massively do more in support to Ukraine,&#8221; Rutte said. &#8220;This has nothing to do with Trump,&#8221; he continued, adding later how allies should &#8220;be making sure that our defense is at maximum capacity.&#8221;

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Rioting erupted in the Netherlands over the weekend between two African migrant groups that resulted in police cars being torched.
The Associated Press <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/02/17/eritrea-government-rioting-hague-netherlands/c41a2064-cdd4-11ee-aa8e-1e5794a4b2d6_story.html">reported</a> that a group of Eritreans that opposes the African country&#8217;s government attacked a venue where a group loyal to Eritrea’s government was holding a meeting.
The Hague Municipality spokesman Robin Middel said, “It got seriously out of hand.”
Video of the attack showed dozens of military-aged males rioting, smashing windows, and destroying vehicles as police arrived on scene.
Stones were later thrown at law enforcement officials and there were reports of approximately a dozen police officers and firefighters sustaining injuries.
Police had to use tear gas to disperse the migrants and quell the violence.
&#8220;Rioters break into an entrance at the Opera,&#8221; a local reporter <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13095811/Riot-erupts-streets-Hague-migrants-attack-cops.html">posted</a> on X. &#8220;Windows are broken and attempts are made to enter. The fire brigade has also left again and cannot extinguish the fire.&#8221;
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The Associated Press highlighted numerous examples of widespread violence that the African migrants from Eritrea have caused, including injuring dozens of police officers at a cultural event in Germany last September; violent riots in Israel last September, and 22 German police officers that were injured in separate attacks at a festival earlier in 2023.

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Rikkie Kolle, a 22-year-old man, beat out nine women to attain the title of “Miss Netherlands” on Saturday, sparking outrage on social media as many users said the win showed we are experiencing a trend of erasing women. 
 The Miss Netherlands competition is part of Miss Universe, and Kolle will compete in the 72nd Miss Universe pageant in El Salvador later this year. 
“A man just won &#8216;Miss Netherlands&#8217; 2023,” Dutch commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek tweeted. “Considering the fact that we live in a post-Truth world, I wasn’t even expecting anything else. It’s all so predictable and unoriginal at this point,” she added. 
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Considering the fact that we live in a post-Truth world, I wasn’t even expecting anything else. It’s all so predictable and unoriginal at this point. <a href="https://t.co/j6NKo2cCvu">pic.twitter.com/j6NKo2cCvu</a>
&mdash; Eva Vlaardingerbroek (@EvaVlaar) <a href="https://twitter.com/EvaVlaar/status/1677976646148554753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 9, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Kolle, the first transgender-identifying “Miss Netherlands” winner, also participated in the “Holland&#8217;s Next Top Model” television show in 2018, <a href="https://nos.nl/artikel/2482139-rikkie-kolle-wint-als-eerste-trans-vrouw-de-titel-miss-nederland" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to Dutch public broadcaster NOS. He will be the second man to compete in Miss Universe, with the first hailing from Spain in 2018. Miss Universe has allowed trans-identifying contestants since 2012, People <a href="https://people.com/human-interest/daniela-arroyo-gonzalez-will-be-first-transgender-woman-compete-miss-universe-puerto-rico/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a>. 
The Miss Netherlands judges said Kolle “has a strong story with a clear mission,” adding that they were &#8220;convinced that the organization (of Miss Nederland, ed.) will enjoy working” with him, according to translated comments from NOS. 
&#8220;I DID IT !!!!!&#8221; Kolle posted to Instagram. &#8220;It&#8217;s unreal but I get to call myself @missnederland 2023. It was an educational and beautiful journey, my year can&#8217;t be broken anymore. Making my community proud and showing it can be done,&#8221; the translated post says.
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Some on Twitter mocked Kolle&#8217;s victory, with one user <a href="https://twitter.com/ThaGoat888/status/1678037670868467713" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pointing out</a> that it’s really “Mr. Nederland.” Others posted clown face emojis on their tweets reporting the news. 
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“The Netherlands is home to some of the most beautiful women on earth,” another account <a href="https://twitter.com/ada_lluch/status/1678031091410653187" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a>. “Of all these beautiful women, they just nominated a transgender man to be Miss Netherlands 2023. A man with a penis should be disqualified from any female beauty pageant and the fact that statement will gain me haters is just insane.”
Another <a href="https://twitter.com/jacksonhinklle/status/1678046705722314754" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>, “The West has completely lost the plot.”
Others pointed out the difference between Kolle and the runner-up — a woman — and said it’s clear who the winner should have been. 
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“Nathalie Mogbelzada is the real Miss Netherlands 2023,” End Wokeness, a popular conservative account, posted in reply to pictures of Kolle and first runner-up Mogbelzada.

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There’s a disturbing new trend in television: fully nude adults standing in front of children, encouraging them to ask questions about their naked bodies.
This is the premise of not one, but two new TV shows, both generating controversy in the entertainment sphere. And if that’s not bad enough, both programs have already included trans-identifying individuals in their nude line-ups as part of their efforts to normalize “gender-affirming” surgeries to minors.
First, the Dutch television show “Gewoon Bloot” (“Simply Naked”) premiered on public broadcaster NOS. The show proudly displays nude adults in front of 10- to 12-year-old children. A recent episode focused on people who identify as transgender, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dutch-tv-show-presents-naked-transgender-adults-to-children-one-participant-describes-gender-reassignment-surgery-as-euphoric" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Host Edson da Graça reiterated the show’s premise, saying how nude adults stand in front of children to “give them the opportunity to ask questions” about their naked bodies.
“Today our guests are transgenders,” da Graça announced in a clip that started circulating on social media. 
“That feeling can simply be a feeling, but you can also do something about it,” one show participant told the children about experiencing gender dysphoria. “For example, I had a surgery.”
“As you can see, there’s something in my underpants but I still have a vulva,” another person on the stage said. “I don’t feel comfortable with that body part, therefore I am wearing my underwear with a packer,” the person continued, referring to wearing padding or a phallic object to give the appearance of having a penis.
Another participant talked about “vaginoplasty,” which was described as a process by which “you can surgically change the male sex organ to the female sex organ.”
The children on the show seemed very receptive to embracing radical left-wing gender theory.
“At first you think, huh?” one of the young show participants said in response to the presentation. “But later you realize that it’s actually pretty normal.”
“It’s actually really normal,” another young boy agreed.
“So it’s not just male and female. There’s an entire spectrum of genders besides male and female,” da Graça told the audience of kids. Next, a trans-identifying participant described feeling “euphoric” after having gender reassignment surgery.
“I woke up and I knew that my breasts were gone. That it looked like I had always wanted it to look. It finally matched the way I feel inside, and that made me feel ecstatic.”
“So it feels a bit like flying?” one child asked.
“Yes,” the participant responded.
“You simply feel intense happiness,” the host chimed in, to which the child replied, “I want that, too.”
The Netherlands isn’t the only country introducing this premise to children. The U.K. based series “Naked Education” also aims to “destigmatize” nudity and body image issues by posing nude adults in front of kids. Host Anna Richardson, who is also responsible for the reality dating show “Naked Attraction,” described the program as “educational, emotional, [and] joyous,” as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/naked-education-show-features-adults-posing-nude-for-minors-sparks-fury-in-u-k" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. 
“I like to make shows that are controversial, that break taboos and that make a difference, and with every single show that I’ve done you can tick one of those boxes,” Richardson told The Sun. “Naked Education is a body positive, educational series that is basically aiming to normalize all body types and champion everybody’s differences, so that we can accept that with our clothes off we’re all normal,” she added.
Interestingly, “Naked Education” also featured an episode with trans-identifying adults stripping down in front of minors.
Episode three of the six-part series features Finlay Games and Lucian Main, two “transgender men” who discuss their experiences with coming out, transitioning, surgery, and presenting as trans in today’s world.
Both Games and Main had their breasts removed. Games also had phalloplasty, a controversial and complicated procedure which involves surgeons harvesting one or more &#8220;flaps&#8221; of skin and other tissues from the body, usually the forearm, to create the look of a penis and urethra.
“There is so much misinformation around being transgender in general, but especially around gender-affirming surgery and what that is, and why we have surgery. It was so important to show that this isn’t just surgery that we choose, it’s life-saving stuff,” Games <a href="https://metro.co.uk/2023/04/04/naked-education-stars-on-the-importance-of-baring-all-as-trans-men-18550801/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Metro UK in an interview.
“Surgery is more than just the aesthetic changes on the outside, it’s really deep, internal, life-saving changes,” the show participant continued. “I had my surgery quite late in life and I lost all my young years to gender dysphoria and distress, but this surgery has given me a whole new lease of life and I wanted to show that this really does enhance lives.”
Games admitted that backlash was inevitable but said it was all worth it.
“We don’t have an ‘agenda,’ we just want to be happy,” the “Naked Education” participant concluded.
“Having our voices heard is so important. The only place to learn about trans people is from trans people. Seeing regular trans bodies on television, that’s what people need to see, trans people being their regular trans selves, going about their regular trans lives.”
Both shows received extensive backlash online both in their home countries and abroad.
“Channel 4 has launched a show called ‘Naked Education’ which exposes children to naked men, women and transgender adults. Why are parents happy for their children to see other naked adults? Think all of those involved need their hard drives checked,” commentator Anna McGovern tweeted.
“This is literally just adults stripping naked in front of underaged kids. And not only is it allowed on national TV, it’s celebrated. Exactly what wake-up call do we need? How f***ed up does it have to get?” another person asked.
Dutch MP Tunahan Kuzu said the “Simply Naked” premise was “ridiculous” and demanded that the citizens boycott the series. Conservative politician Thierry Baudet accused the show of “promoting pedophilia.”
So far no United States entertainment outlets have announced plans for a similar series. But with the trend becoming more popular abroad, it’s only a matter of time before they do.

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Dutch farmers just won’t stay home.
Two large protests unfolded in the Netherlands last week as citizens headed to vote in a provincial election yesterday. One protest was led by people with legitimate, tangible skin in the game: Farmers, fishermen, and their supporters. Dutch land, way of life, and time-tested traditions of success are under threat and being taken and destroyed. 
 
The second protest was an assembly of autonomous human drones, fueled by the information war. These victims of &#8220;menticide&#8221; are the &#8220;extinction rebellion&#8221; — brainwashed meatbots — from the same information ecosystems that created Antifa and Black Lives Matter. 

While the Dutch provincial election took a <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/european-farmers-fed-climate-policies-shock-political-establishment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">favorable turn</a> for the farmers, many believe the threat to their autonomy still remains. 
Dutch farmers are under a severe information attack of their own, with accusations that farming causes “stickstoff poisoning,” — nitrogen poisoning. The accusation is so fraudulent that to even discuss the merits is to lose the fight. A famous Dutch medical doctor and psychoanalyst, Joost Meerloo, wrote extensively about such menticide in his classic book on brainwashing, &#8220;Rape of the Mind,&#8221; published in 1956. In the book, Dr. Meerloo explained exactly what we are seeing today, including methods for countering this mental martial art. A paraphrase of Dr. Meerloo’s advice: Do not engage in discussion of details when the bedrock details of the argument are lies. To discuss the merits of the meritless is to lose. 
 
The nitrogen argument put forth by Dutch prime minister Rutte and his globalist friends is fake. Unworthy of discussion. Instead, they should fix their gaze higher — ad hominem in this case — on the communists and other tyrants who wield the information swords.
The argument is as prima facie fallacious as the accusation that calling Holland “Holland” is somehow wrong. Their true goal is total control. Control of the simplest acts of existence, such as eating, which words we use, and calling oneself Dutch or American. According to the Dutch government, the name “Holland” is now outdated and should no longer be used by Dutch government officials. Yes, the term Holland is now canceled.
In a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/b" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent interview</a>, Dr. Jordan Peterson pointedly and repeatedly called this country, the Netherlands, Holland. If any man understands the immense power of a single word, the man is Dr. Peterson. Dr. Peterson knows compelled speech is slavery and slavery leads to spiritual death.
Last year, I stood outside a venue in the Netherlands where Dr. Peterson was speaking to a full house. He travels with a security detail due to serious, credible threats. Antifa protested the event, attempting to intimidate those who will listen to men who study, stand, and speak the truth.
I have spent months with Antifa in the past — in Portland, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Hong Kong (yes), and Washington D.C. I know their ways and how they work tirelessly to intimidate, using an information war as their highest form of warfare. 
The information war currently spreading across the Dutch &#8220;mindscape&#8221; is the real poison. The Dutch government is openly in the grips of a beastly alliance of the WEF and the CCP — The World Economic Forum and the Chinese Communist Party. Klaus Schwab, chairman of the WEF, has publicly, effusively praised Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, the Netherlands version of Justin Trudeau.
These globalists need the farmland to create their planned Utopia called &#8220;Tristate City,&#8221; a megalopolis, comprising most of the Netherlands, parts of Germany, and Belgium. And while the brainchild behind the massive blueprint, urban planner Peter Savelberg, recently <a href="https://www.politico.eu/newsletter/global-policy-lab/living-cities-taking-on-period-poverty-tristate-city-conspiracy-monumental-women/">walked back his proposal</a>, it doesn&#8217;t diminish the WEF&#8217;s vision of a human farm where every movement will be tracked, recorded, and analyzed in real time by people such as Chinese agents.
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Tristate City includes the two busiest ports in Europe: Rotterdam and Antwerp. If China has its way, its new growing <a href="https://www.voanews.com/a/war-in-ukraine-challenging-china-s-train-routes-to-europe/6530632.html">Asian rail infrastructure</a> will chug across the middle of the Tristate City to Rotterdam. The Tristate City is set to become a giant Chinese port city. 
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WEF/CCP needs and wants the land. Standing in the way, of course, are the farmers and a strong Dutch spirit. If the western WEF members, who now cooperate so deeply with CCP, succeed they will eventually fight over the spoils. Stated more plainly — though WEF and CCP are today wedded in unholy marriage, they are destined for bloody divorce. 
 
Why so herculean an effort to destroy Dutch culture including farmers and fishermen? Control: Control of food supply, freedom of movement, association, and commerce. Dutch farmers — among the most efficient and responsible in the world — are working in large parts on land that was reclaimed from the sea. Not primal forests, but underwater. Their family lines go back centuries. They are literally the original tribespeople, as it were. If this were any place other than Europe, the Frisians and others might be labeled indigenous, in need of protection. 

WATCH: New <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/b">Dr. Jordan B. Peterson podcast</a>, &#8220;Dutch Farmers: Canaries in the Globalist Coal Mine, with Michael Yon &amp; Eva Vlaardingerbroek&#8221;
<a href="https://michaelyon.com/">Michael Yon</a> became one of America’s youngest Green Berets at 19-years-old. Michael has lived over half of his life abroad living or traveling to about 90 countries. Author of three books in the United States and three others in Japan, he is America’s most experienced combat correspondent. Follow him on Twitter: @Michael_Yon, and http://michaelyon.locals.com
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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A treasure hunter made the find of his life with a metal detector, unearthing medieval gold jewelry and silver coins in the Netherlands, the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities recently <a href="https://www.rmo.nl/nieuws-pers/nieuwsberichten/unieke-schatvondst-uit-hoogwoud-nu-te-zien/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a>. 
Lorenzo Ruijter was using his metal detector for more than three hours in 2021 in the Dutch city of Hoogwoud, north of Amsterdam, when he made the shocking discovery. The find was announced two years later because museum researchers needed time to clean, examine, and date the finds. Ruijter discovered four gold earrings, two pieces of gold leaf, and 39 silver coins that are approximately 1,000 years old. 
&#8220;It was the end of the day, I actually wanted to go home. Then the detector went off, I dug it up and then I had something gold in my hands,&#8221; Ruijter <a href="https://www.nhnieuws.nl/nieuws/315839/lorenzo-vindt-unieke-middeleeuwse-schat-met-metaaldetector-ik-trilde-van-de-adrenaline" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> NH News. &#8220;At first I thought it was a piece of a jam jar. Then I wiped it clean and saw all kinds of engravings. At that moment you are just shaking with adrenaline. With shaking hands I lifted that thing,&#8221; he said. 
The four earrings discovered date back to the 11th century and are the most significant finds, according to the museum. A portrait of Jesus Christ surrounded by rays of sunshine is engraved on one set of earrings. The other has an ornamental filigree design, which consists of twisted threads made of gold balls, <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/1000-year-old-gold-earrings-and-silver-coins-unearthed-in-the-netherlands-180981792/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to Smithsonian Magazine. Both sets of jewelry are in the shape of crescent moons and measure five centimeters wide, and likely came from a noblewoman, <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/dutch-gold-and-silver-from-11th-century-hailed-find-of-the-century-hzwcxhccr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to The Times.
The two pieces of gold leaf were at one time likely connected to pieces of clothing near the waistband, and the pieces still fit together. The coins were dated between 1200-1250 A.D. and were probably buried in the mid-13th century, according to the museum. The “silver pennies,” as the museum refers to them, would have been held in a bag or cloth based on pieces of textile found in the vicinity. 
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The museum notes that finding gold jewelry from this time period is &#8220;extremely rare” in the country. The 39 coins come from Holland, Guelders, and Cleves counties in the Netherlands, as well as the Roman Catholic Diocese of Utrecht and the German Empire. It’s possible that the gold and silver were buried during a wartime period in the 13th century between West Friesland and the County of Holland, according to the museum, which notes that Dutch Count Willem II died near the area where the treasure was found. 
“This makes the treasure find of great significance for the archeology and history of North Holland and West Friesland &#8211; and even of national and international importance,” the press release says. 
The finds are on temporary loan to the museum and are currently on display in its Temple Hall until June. Beginning in October, the treasure will be included in an exhibition <a href="https://www.rmo.nl/tentoonstellingen/tijdelijke-tentoonstellingen/het-jaar-1000/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> “The Year 1000,” which explores The Netherlands during the Ottonian period, between 900 and 1100 A.D. After being on display for the public, the museum says that “the jewelry and coins remain property of the finder.”

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The U.S. government this week unveiled a new framework for the military use of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/artificial-intelligence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">artificial intelligence</a> it hopes will be adopted by other countries as AI technology becomes more advanced. 
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/state-department" target="_blank" rel="noopener">State Department</a> put out its “Political Declaration on Responsible Military Use of Artificial Intelligence and Autonomy,” at a conference in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/the-netherlands" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Netherlands</a> that took place on Wednesday and Thursday. 
“The aim of the Declaration is to build international consensus around how militaries can responsibly incorporate AI and autonomy into their operations, and to help guide states’ development, deployment, and use of this technology for defense purposes to ensure it promotes respect for international law, security, and stability,” the office of the State Department spokesperson <a href="https://www.state.gov/building-consensus-on-the-u-s-framework-for-a-political-declaration-on-the-responsible-military-use-of-artificial-intelligence-and-autonomy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. 
The guidelines are not legally binding, but the U.S. said it hopes that other nations will adopt similar practices. The <a href="https://www.state.gov/political-declaration-on-responsible-military-use-of-artificial-intelligence-and-autonomy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declaration</a> put out by the U.S. laid a number of recommendations including keeping human control over decisions regarding nuclear weapons, having senior officials overseas weapons systems that use AI, ensuring that military AI tech has clear documentation, that AI tech has a clear purpose, and putting safeguards on AI tech to avoid major disaster if the technology fails.
The guidelines also ask that measures are put in place to avoid “unintended bias in military AI capabilities,” though it is unclear what kind of bias is being referenced. 
The State Department hopes that all nations, not just key U.S. allies, will voice support for the guidelines. 
“We would like to expand that to go out to a much broader set of countries and begin getting international buy-in, not just a NATO buy-in, but in Asia, buy-in from countries in Latin America,” a State Department official <a href="https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2023/02/us-woos-other-nations-military-ai-ethics-pact/383024/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Defense One. “We&#8217;re looking for countries around the world to start discussing this … so they understand the implications of the development and military use of AI … Many of them will think ‘Oh this is just a great power competition issue,’ when really there are implications for the entire international community.”
The guidelines come as U.S. officials have expressed concern about the use and development of AI by China and Russia. Russia <a href="https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-technology-china-the-hague-artificial-intelligence-d49c5fb442fa825e0a7a7419d6f04469" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was</a> excluded from the conference while the Chinese ambassador to the Netherlands was present. 
“We think that we have an opportunity to get ahead in a way and establish strong norms of responsible behavior now,” National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said. “Neither China nor Russia have stated publicly what procedures they&#8217;re implementing to ensure that their military AI systems operate safely responsibly and as intended.”
According to the Netherlands, about 2,000 people <a href="https://www.government.nl/ministries/ministry-of-foreign-affairs/events/reaim" target="_blank" rel="noopener">from</a> 100 countries were at the conference, with many governmental representatives present.

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A new study found that even the &#8220;best&#8221; evidence for child sex changes is of extremely low quality and should not be relied upon as justification for medically transitioning minors.
A <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0092623X.2022.2150346" target="_blank" rel="noopener">peer-reviewed paper</a> published last week critically analyzed the &#8220;gold standard&#8221; evidence in support of medically transitioning trans-identified children, known as the &#8220;Dutch studies,&#8221; and found it has &#8220;profound, previously unrecognized problems,&#8221; and requires &#8220;urgent attention from the medical community,&#8221; <a href="https://www.segm.org/Dutch-studies-critically-flawed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to</a> the Society for Evidence-based Gender Medicine (SEGM), an international group of over 100 clinicians and researchers.
&#8220;These problems range from erroneously concluding that gender dysphoria disappeared as a result of &#8216;gender-affirmative treatment,&#8217; to reporting only the best-case scenario outcomes and failing to properly examine the risks, despite the fact that a significant proportion of the treated sample experienced adverse effects,&#8221; said SEGM. (emphasis theirs).
The paper, titled “The Myth of Reliable Research in Pediatric Gender Medicine,” focuses on the two <a href="https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1743609515336171" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dutch</a> <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25201798/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">studies</a> and the resulting &#8220;Dutch protocol&#8221; that inspired the “gender-affirming” model of care now used worldwide. The Dutch protocol was often considered the more cautious, conservative approach to the radical &#8220;affirming&#8221; method, but all justification for even carefully selecting minor candidates to medically transition falls apart upon closer inspection.
According to the authors of the paper, the Dutch protocol — which used hormones and surgeries to give minors the appearance of secondary sex characteristics of the opposite sex — would never have been accepted by today&#8217;s standards of evidence-based medicine because of its extremely low-quality research and harm caused to some of its participants.
The three clinicians who began medically transitioning gender dysphoric adolescents in Amsterdam practiced in the 1980s and 1990s, before medicine became an established &#8220;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence-based_medicine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">evidence-based</a>&#8221; practice, and relied heavily on &#8220;expert opinion.&#8221;
The reason why this protocol became the foundation toward “gender-affirming care,&#8221; the authors explain, is through a phenomenon called &#8220;runaway diffusion,&#8221; where the medical community mistakes a small experiment as proven practice. The damage done by &#8220;runaway diffusion&#8221; can be mitigated by conducting systematic reviews of the evidence and implementing &#8220;practice reversal,&#8221; as <a href="https://genderreport.ca/finland-strict-guidelines-for-treating-gender-dysphoria/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Finland</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/swedens-new-pediatric-treatment-guidelines-ditch-gender-affirming-medication-for-psychotherapy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sweden</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/englands-national-health-service-abandons-gender-affirming-model-of-care" target="_blank" rel="noopener">England</a>, and recently the state of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/florida-medical-boards-vote-to-ban-medical-transition-for-minors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Florida</a> have done, the authors note.
The authors of the paper charge that the results of the Dutch studies relied heavily on cherry-picking the participants who had positive or neutral outcomes, while excluding the participants with negative outcomes, to give the illusion of an overall positive result. Another methodological flaw noted by the authors found that the originally stated intention of the Dutch studies was to investigate whether or not the treatment &#8220;improved psychological functioning,&#8221; but when their research failed to show benefits, the goalpost was moved to a measure of &#8220;satisfaction with treatment.&#8221;
&#8220;The Dutch studies reported only the best-case scenario outcomes while ignoring the serious risks that emerged; wrongly concluded that gender dysphoria &#8216;disappeared&#8217; post-treatment; and failed to separate the effects of psychotherapy from those of blockers, hormones and surgery,&#8221; SEGM <a href="https://twitter.com/segm_ebm/status/1613619370173042688?s=20&amp;t=KocY_BQ5_K0hli-86QXiYw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">summarized</a> in a tweet.
The authors address the many newer short-term studies that have been published since the Dutch research, all of which &#8220;perfected the art of spin — misrepresenting weak, uncertain, or even negative findings as strong and positive,&#8221; said SEGM. They also note the unprofessional level of political activism demonstrated by gender-clinicians, many of whom try to quash scientific debate by dismissing it as &#8220;science denialism&#8221; motivated by &#8220;transphobia.&#8221;
“The key problem in pediatric gender medicine is not the lack of research rigor in the past—it is the field’s present-day denial of the profound problems in the existing research, and an unwillingness to engage in high quality research requisite in evidence-based medicine,” the authors of the paper said.
Leor Sapir, a Manhattan Institute fellow, shared a <a href="https://twitter.com/LeorSapir/status/1610649955596906496?s=20&amp;t=Pc1Ls8TKI304apbkPkxXrQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">summary</a> of the paper to his followers on Twitter, explaining its significance, given that the Dutch studies are often cited as the &#8220;best available evidence&#8221; in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-medical-groups-get-the-science-wrong-on-pediatric-gender-affirming-care" target="_blank" rel="noopener">guidelines</a> for treating gender dysphoric youth by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), the Endocrine Society, and the American Academy of Pediatrics.
&#8220;The new article is therefore hugely significant, as it goes to the heart of the entire pediatric medical transition enterprise,&#8221; said Sapir. &#8220;It explains in detail why the Dutch studies are <a href="https://www.realityslaststand.com/p/gender-medicines-gold-standard-dutch" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fatally flawed</a> and anyway inapplicable to the current clinical scene.&#8221;

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Brother Andrew, a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/netherlands" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dutch</a> missionary known as “God’s Smuggler” for his work sneaking <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/bible" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bibles</a> into communist countries during the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/the-cold-war-what-we-saw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cold War</a>, died at 94 this week.
The missionary, whose real name was Anne van der Bijl, spent a large portion of his life promoting the spread of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/christianity">Christianity</a> into countries where it was unwelcome. He also founded Open Doors, a ministry devoted to helping persecuted Christians around the world. 
“For more than 60 years, Open Doors&#8217; founder — Brother Andrew — visited over 125 countries in service to the global church. It&#8217;s with mixed feelings that we share his greatest journey yet. Brother Andrew has gone home to be with the God he spent his life serving,” Open Doors <a href="https://www.facebook.com/opendoorsfans/posts/pfbid02Qa7ZDxWVj3BfGpFiH3PSGFY1xmVh79F4PLWMZE45MF6WWGauusgnayaYAqovAHgVl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> on Tuesday. 
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For more than 60 years, Open Doors&#39; founder—Brother Andrew—visited over 125 countries in service to the global church. Today, we share his greatest journey yet. Our brother has gone home to be with the God he spent his life serving. 
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Van der Bijl, who was <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/brother-andrew-missionary-who-fearlessly-crossed-borders-to-smuggle-christian-literature-into-communist-lands-obituary/ar-AA12o6qb?ocid=a2hs">born</a> in the Netherlands in 1928, participated in the Dutch resistance movement after the Nazis invaded in 1940. He joined the Dutch military following the end of World War II, but his military career ended shortly after he was shot in the ankle in the Dutch East Indies.
While recovering from his injuries, van der Bijl started reading the Bible, and he became a Christian in 1950. Just five years later, he would attend a communist conference in Poland bringing Christian materials to give to attendees. This would be the first of many trips into hostile countries behind the Iron Curtain.
The same year he traveled to Poland, he founded Open Doors, which has now supported persecuted Christians for decades. In 2013, van der Bijl <a href="https://www.christianpost.com/news/gods-smuggler-brother-andrew-dies-at-94.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The Christian Post that he believed that persecution strengthened the faith of many Christians in hostile countries. 
“How do we pray? Not for God to remove persecution, but use that to purify the Church. And it is my strong belief that the countries where there is persecution are stronger in faith than churches in countries where there is no persecution,” he told the outlet. 
The missionary would bring or organize the smuggling of Bibles and other Christian materials into Bulgaria, Yugoslavia (from where he was deported once), China, and Cuba. In 1967, van der Bijl co-wrote the book &#8220;God’s Smuggler,&#8221; which detailed his experiences. 
While traveling over borders, van der Bijl said he was a “teacher” and would <a href="https://www.opendoorsuk.org/about/our-history/brother-andrew/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pray</a> that God would make the soldiers guarding the borders blind. 
“Lord, in my luggage I have Scripture I want to take to your children. When you were on earth, you made blind eyes see. Now, I pray, make seeing eyes blind. Do not let the guards see those things you do not want them to see,” he prayed. 
Van der Bijl is survived by the five children he had with his wife Corrie.

Portrait of Brother Andrew.Press conference for Brother Andrew, a Dutchman who freely admits to amuggling goods into European countries behind the Iron Curtain, China, Uganda, Brazil and many countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.Brother Andrew is

Dutch Missionary, Known As ‘God’s Smuggler’ For Sneaking Bibles Into Communist Countries, Dead At 94

Dutch Missionary, Known As 'God's Smuggler' For Sneaking Bibles Into Communist Countries, Dead At 94

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