People who are overweight are more likely to have a heart attack or stroke. That has always been the case and we have known it for a very long time. Yet De Telegraaf gives the impression that we will be dealing with a death wave within eight years. It seems to anticipate an expected wave of deaths from cardiovascular diseases, including cerebral infarctions. However, the declining growth of overweight people does not give any reason for this.
"Honderdduizenden Nederlanders met pre-diabetes krijgen binnen acht jaar een hartinfarct of beroerte. Dat blijkt uit nieuw onderzoek van MUMC+. Doordat zij kampen met te hoge bloedsuikerwaarden kunnen slagaders dichtslibben. Het gevolg is dat er dan geen bloed meer stroomt naar een deel van de hersenen of het hart" so we read in De Telegraaf.1https://www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/1957940217/alarmerende-studie-honderdduizenden-nederlanders-hebben-zonder-dat-ze-het-weten-pre-diabetes-en-krijgen-binnen-8-jaar-hartaanval-of-beroerte And: "Nu al kampt ongeveer de helft van alle volwassen Nederlanders met overgewicht, een belangrijke risicofactor voor (pre)diabetes. Dit aantal zal de komende jaren naar verwachting alleen maar stijgen. En daarover maakt Halbertsma zich zorgen. „Als we niet oppassen, komt er straks een enorme diabetesgolf op ons af.â€
In the same newspaper on the same day, a Other Article2https://www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/1084324965/maar-liefst-1-4-miljoen-nederlanders-hebben-pre-diabetes-loop-jij-ongemerkt-rond-met-een-tijdbom (again) that hundreds of thousands of Dutch people will have a heart attack or stroke within eight years: "Overgewicht is de grootste risicofactor voor het ontwikkelen van diabetes type 2". Those people are walking around with a time bomb. Again: this has been the case for many decades. Why this news now?
Is it really suddenly getting so much worse?
The RIVM wrote in 2023 that the Dutch were eating healthier and healthier3https://www.rivm.nl/nieuws/nederland-eet-steeds-gezonder-meer-plantaardig-en-minder-rood-en-bewerkt-vlees . That should also result in fewer diabetics. So what about that? Why the alarm bell? Should we expect a huge excess mortality in the next 5 years? Well no!
Take a look at the long-term trend of the main risk factor for diabetes, leading to brain and heart attacks: the Body Mass Index. We look from 1990, from that year we see a clear line. The weight is stagnating: actually GOOD news!
Of course, the goal must be that the line bends back downwards. But a sudden wave of cardiovascular deaths is not at all expected. Does scaring really work so much better than showing that we are all on the right track!? (Media, it really drives me crazy. They create a delusional world for the average consumer.)
The purple line above can be divided into moderate and severe overweight. Then you see that 'moderately overweight' (BMI between 25 and 30) has actually already reached the top! Congratulations, I would say! Now the obese too! Come on boys and girls, look at Jan Bonte! You must swim!
This is how a subsidy-guzzling sector gets going again
The follow-up in today's newspaper, a day after the two articles mentioned above, reports a panel investigation that checks whether the fuss has been well received. That worked out well: a few say "We really know through years of information what is overweight, too little exercise and possibly. smoking does to your body. We are responsible ourselves" but 79% now consider awareness of pre-diabetes important. This requires health experts, lifestyle coaches, dietitians and doctors. Professor Scherder would probably like that too. And they must be prominently displayed in unison in the mainstay media. Who is in charge of that? After all, it is about public health. Where is that expertise? Exactly: an excellent job for NATO! Could Fleur Agema perhaps make a call that way?
If the excess mortality continues, this is certainly not the reason
That 'few person' is right. The most important findings of the long-term study mentioned in De Telegraaf were already described in 20164https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/news/prediabetes-results-damage-small-blood-vessels. What would be the reason to make it widely known that we should be prepared for a wave of deaths with heart attacks and cerebral infarctions in the coming years? Anyone have an idea?
What are those journalists doing... Maybe I should take Cees van den Bos's substack5 https://bomenenbos.substack.com/p/de-navo-doctrine-voor-stratcom-psyops Check it again. Whether that article about context.
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There is only one reason:
Vaccinazis until proven otherwise.
https://www.ninefornews.nl/lees-hoe-je-gemanipuleerd-wordt-door-de-navo-dit-gaat-ver-heel-ver/
We are seriously screwed on all sides so much that it would make a person cynical.
That article is about reference 5: the Substack of Cees van den Bos. You see it all around you... Such an article will hopefully wake up people for whom the pennies don't drop so quickly.
You're very busy with it, Anton.
The Telegraph is apparently also part of the propaganda machine, although they are the only ones who allow a number of critical columnists.
Malone's recent blog is also about this: https://www.malone.news/p/cyber-balkanization-welcome-to-the
Balkanization. Ever heard of it? Deliberately manipulating and turning groups against each other. With the internet, that is of course easier than ever. 5th generation warfare.
I had also seen that Telegraaf article. So you should never take the daily news literally, but always ask yourself what the purpose of certain publications is. Very tiring and confusing.
NRC out the door, that was too bad. Online subscription to the Telegraaf, paper Andere Krant and paper FD (thought they would be a bit more neutral) on Saturday. Also in FD framing. For example, the flood disaster last year in Spain. It is definitely blamed on climate change. But there is a lot to criticize about that. Nowhere is the slightest doubt expressed about the causes of global warming. It used to be global warming, but has changed into climate change. It is also suggested that the targets set in Paris 2015 are the reason that the temperature increase has remained reasonably contained. This reminds me of the Corona time when all kinds of predictions did not come true, and the lack of this disaster was due to the measures.
For me, it's not so much about the details of the 'climate crisis', but about the pattern you observe in the reporting. There is already talk that 'climate change' would be a danger to public health.
Russia the same of course. The devil Putin who wants to conquer Europe. And the slippery Rutte who wants to increase our defense budget. Actually, Trump's errand boy. But the EU will never admit that. Rutte is dropping the cabinet over a silly fact, I think it's the benefits affair drama number 37. Then he was already in the race for SG of NATO. What a coincidence. Then the elections do not go quite as planned, Ronald Plasterk is put forward as prime minister's candidate. Just at that moment, the NRC has the scoop that Plasterk would have tampered with a patent. Later it turns out to be a storm in a teacup. And then Dick Schoof is put forward. A former head of intelligence (looks like Moscow). All critical PVV ministers are assimilated and suddenly propagate the prevailing narrative. With Fleur Agema as the most clear example.
Aldous Huxly apparently saw it in 1959. All the rituals of a democracy still exist. But the real power does not lie there. That is evident every time.
Hard to imagine, and I couldn't have imagined writing this kind of thing a few years ago.
Me neither, Cees.
A lot of truths in one message, Cees. If they are joking about one thing, what else have they been joking about? And above all, why?
Five years ago I ended up in a weird movie that I feel is getting more and more exciting.
Very curious about the end!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwPe_pWH4y4
The smokescreen is quite easy to expose by a curious journalist.
However, there is a very dirty reason why such an interpretation is not more widely shared.
And it's not exciting, it's just dirty, filthy and unacceptable.
Thanks for the link, Rien. Arno does indeed give excellent analyses. If you don't understand things, it's almost always "pecunia non olet".
I am currently reading the book by Hester Bais about the bank fraud. Also incredibly filthy and dirty but with a nice parallel, you can't really point to the main culprit. The dirt grows organically like in an anthill. Everyone contributes to the goal of two vectors: profit maximization and liability minimization. There is no moral sense at all.
Worst Bank Scenario. Highly recommended!
My life has been apolitical and unconscious, but at the beginning of 2020 I felt so much of what we were told was wrong that I started to realize more and more that we were being taken in. In the beginning you still think of ignorance, but gradually you see more and more that we were deliberately misinformed.
Since then I have learned so much from people like Maurice de Hond and Anton and especially Jan Bonte. I am eternally grateful to them.
My relationship with most old friends has become a lot more superficial in my opinion because we want to keep it cozy. They know how I feel about it but don't understand it.
You shouldn't blame the exciting. I mean exciting whether the people responsible for this mess will ever have to be held accountable.
Can't wait!
By the way, I'd like to hear what you see as a dirty reason.
Hi Rob, I understand your relationship with your friends well, I have the same thing in my environment.
We are now living on borrowed time, Hester bais actually makes that clear.
Debts that can never be paid are a motive for something like war.
And that's the reason why I think it's so disgusting.
If we look away, it happens to us, then it is legitimized and we do not stand out.
For example, you now see that doctors who did what was best for their patients with integrity are harassed. The doctors who looked away are safe?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j9Aq0VMgBg
The fireworks disaster in Enschede: was that really the fault of two directors? Or was it due to the fact that all kinds of ministries and regulators looked away.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaZ_FD4Tric
The childcare benefits affair was not a tunnel but a dirty pit.
Look away and above all not stand out as a journalist, citizen or politician.
https://www.ninefornews.nl/je-verwacht-het-niet-roep-om-15-minutenstad-na-enorme-stroomstoring-spanje/
They miss no opportunity to impose a form of dictatorship.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ1SrAff658
Unchosen entities by design will tell you what you can and, above all, must do with your savings.
Yes folks, I also find it annoying to have to bother you every time and disrupt your dream.
So the ECB is a continuation of the Reichsbank that made a huge mess of things.
Does it still feel good that guarantee with which they kept you and me asleep?
Rien, I share your sentiment, but I prefer to keep the comments on topic if you don't mind. But you are absolutely right that things are getting out of hand on all fronts.
Anton, I understand that you prefer to stay on topic, I actually wish I could follow that policy completely. But in my opinion there is so much going on and it is also so terribly important that I continue to post.
You should definitely do that, but not here please. This site costs me a lot of time and money and I like to keep it a bit clean. I hope you can understand that.
By the way, have you just sent a payment for 50 euros, I would like to see you continue
Thank you very much Rien! By the way, if you can write a coherent piece that ties in with the theme here and draws parallels with other problem areas, it may be possible, provided it is well substantiated and/or made plausible. Corona has exposed a lot and woke up many people, which is a good way to describe some other things. After all, the problem is systemic (I have said that before) and cuts across all major themes. But let's keep track of each article in the comments.
You could see Corona as the catalyst because a lot was promised but at the same time a lot was taken away. I personally see it as an ultimate attempt to keep a dead system afloat. Fear is used to restrict fundamental rights.
That is already a contradiction because fundamental rights (should) remain Now Matter What.
What I think I see as an involved citizen is a cleverly designed plan.
That plan means that little by little we respond to the feeling of not being right.
There are many things that can give rise to such a feeling.
In this case, the joke is that the food industry does not feed people but actually makes them sick. Fast sugars and the idea that everyone is equal when it comes to nutrition is a start to forcing many people into care.
Now the idea that pre-diabetes can become a cause of possible major consequences for cardiovascular diseases is being put forward.
I am certainly not going to deny that pre-diabetes is a huge problem.
But what strikes me is that now discovering a relationship has never been a reason to talk about it. Was the food industry not happy with the result and why is there now attention to nutrition?
In fact, there is still too little attention paid to nutrition.
Food serves to nourish and this has been an established fact in AyurVeda for centuries.
The scale of five is worthless advice.
But there is more.
Digesting food is also partly a matter of psychology.
It is not surprising that putting the psyche on high alert has a negative impact on digestion.
After all, energy must be spent on something other than digestion.
Hormonally, it is also not beneficial to digest food if you do not feel well.
A government that puts a lot of energy into alarmist messages doesn't really help either.
I would like to tell you more about nutrition and digestion next time.
If there is interest in that.
After more than forty years of experience, I can say that I know what nutrition is all about. Money and power are the driving forces. Prevention received approximately 20% and medicines, operations, etc. 80% from the pots of money. Prevention, read lifestyle, has gained more of a foothold in recent years, it seems, but many revenue models were first created for and around it. Doctors have to prescribe it, packets and sachets made by pharmaceutical companies, etc. The Netherlands is the "craziest" because, for example, food for allergic babies can be bought just across the border without a prescription, while here the GP has to prescribe it and when the child is one year old it MUST go through the pediatrician... (and don't come with a consciously (un)pricked child). The amounts for these types of baby food are higher here, in the Netherlands, but if the burdensome provocation tests are carried out on the child, health insurance will be reimbursed in return. And there are countless examples. To stay with diabetes, there are now many programs through doctors and care providers, but everyone can probably remember “sonjabakkeren†because a lot of money is also involved in the alternative “health care systemâ€. People are and remain sensitive to hypes, read addictions. Joris Driepinter, well known among the older readers here, just google it and you read that the milk puddle had to be used up and the government had the campaign think that milk was healthy... the campaign even came back a few years ago... I did not see it coming that we would end up in a virus vaccination campaign, so much evil together is really sad. This site is a bright spot for me!
Good piece, Anton. And nice reaction, Cees. What can we still do to expose the liars and impostors? Yesterday I reported again: the number of cancer cases among young people is increasing alarmingly. Cause unknown, perhaps lifestyle or climate change? What about those turbo cancers that suddenly emerged after 2021? How many were actually vaccinated, would be my first question. Same story about runners who become unwell at 21C in Leeuwarden and Leiden. Agema and Karremans who refuse to look beyond the end of their noses... And so on. Old saying: we are ruled by fools. My addition: ... and liars and deceivers.
Nice piece indeed Anton and nice response Cees, but 'we at Virusvaria' already read the newspaper like that. We know exactly what the purpose of this kind of alarmism is. That the 'extreme heat' at the running event was not the cause of so many 'unwellness'.
However, it is not possible to 'plant out' this awareness more broadly. These kinds of 'truths' will continue to circulate for years. Just as masses of people still believe that any fat is unhealthy or two eggs a week is the absolute maximum. Very frustrating and unfortunately!
Push push, I think. With those BMI graphs you hopefully have some extra arguments in your hands. That's all I can do. Parliamentary questions were asked today about the norm mortality report. A lot of things are moving!
The following I found among old papers and no idea why this was kept, but it gave me hope that the amount of cover-ups and the alarmism are missing the intended targets. "The comprehension of the masses is very limited, the concept is small, the forgetfulness, on the other hand, is great. These facts imply that any propaganda that wants to be effective must be limited to a few, very few points, and then use these points as slogans everywhere and in all ways, until it is certain that even the last man and the last woman attach the meaning to such a slogan, to such an idea. that one wants to see attached to it."
RFK Jr. is not a Luther with a printing press, but a Cathar without protection. His criticism of the pharmaceutical-scientific order comes from outside the system — and is treated as heresy, not as a contribution. The WHO pandemic treaty legitimizes this exclusion: dissenting voices are algorithmically erased under the guise of “fighting disinformationâ€. Truth is only recognized afterwards, when no one listens anymore. Without a new, decentralized printing press — free from political and commercial interests — such voices will fade into oblivion. Not because they were wrong, but because they didn't get a channel. Like the Cathars: burned without reply.
(AI result of a dialogue with myself)
Why has the approval of the WHO pandemic treaty by the Netherlands received zero or no attention in the press?
Because Minister Agema has not signed with 9 other countries? That is of course not the news that people (media/press) want to report.
Did you see the conversation between Jelle van Baardewijk and Pieter Klok (UK editor-in-chief) at DNW? It clearly shows what is wrong with that newspaper.
The newspaper has a position on a particular matter. For example Ukraine. The Ukrainians are the victims (agree) of this conflict. So the bad guy is Russia.
If anyone dares to sketch a historical perspective of that conflict, he is already coloring outside the lines and is being dismissed. Because: suppose people start to doubt the black/white good/bad narrative, then a real discussion could arise in which the UK narrative is questioned and social unrest may arise.
Replace Ukraine with Gaza, Covid approach, nitrogen etc. and the story is the same.
There is a position, often based on emotions, that usually corresponds to the position of an unelected small group of 'right-thinking people' (in their own opinion). Opposing voices do not get through. This is undoubtedly how it works at NRC, and perhaps to a slightly lesser extent at Telegraaf.
I cannot judge whether Pieter Klok really means this or whether it is an excuse he is hiding behind to defend the censorship (because that is what it is).
I saw the interview on DNW. I thought it was fair of Klok. It is completely true that he (as the personification of the Volkskrant) MUST follow the issues of the day. Now that is the NATO position, earlier it was Covid, even earlier it was Obama's red line (that 'Assad should not gas his own population', otherwise bombings on Syria would follow), before that the mediagenic terrorism of IS, Al Qaeda, etc., before that again the WMD, etc, etc, etc. All trendy products where the question: 'is this true?' CANNOT be asked by a journalist. And that is exactly what I expect from journalism: journalism defeats the issues of the day or conventional wisdom, journalists cannot do otherwise.
Luijendijk once gave the beginnings of an honest answer to this (in one of his booklets) when, as an Israel correspondent, he was put on the news agency bus with tens of other journalists and then was informed at the West Bank or something about what the news agency believed to be true. After which Luijendijk was allowed to present this in his own sauce for the NOS news in the evening. And Luijendijk thought: 'But I don't understand it at all!' - Which did not alter the fact that he dutifully summarized the news agency's truth/conventional truth about the stavaza on the West Bank for the NOS news in the evening. That's how it works in journalism.
In 1919, Upton Sinclair wrote a book about the journalism of his time in which he spoke to an editor of the Los Angeles Times who said to him:
‘Sinclair, it’s been so long that I have written anything that I believed in, that I would not know the sensation.’
This is also the case with Klok. This is the case with all journalists who write for a newspaper that has to present the issues of the day as truth. Journalists are no different from the Jumbo stockers who receive their items every day through the distribution center/press agency and are then expected to place the goods provided on the shelves as best as possible. What's in those products is not their responsibility. Whether those products taste good/contain truth, just like that LA Times journalist from Sinclair's book, they have no idea. They no longer know that sensation.
What you say about the veracity of Volkskrant vs NRC vs Telegraaf is about as true as which supermarket sells the best food: Albert Heijn, Jumbo or ALDI. Yes, there are differences, but if you really want to eat well/want to know what is true, you will have to maintain your own vegetable garden/think for yourself. The fact that many people cannot grow their own food/think for themselves is the problem and not the fact that newspapers/supermarkets exist.
What was remarkable about the interview was the anger that came over Klok as soon as the c-word was uttered. THEN I saw that Klok is something more than the nihilistic LA Times journalist from the Sinclair quote. Klok knows perfectly well that THAT delusion of the day is not correct. But what can he do about that? The man is only allowed to talk about the issues of the day, he has no choice. And see the anger when someone else tries to get him to talk about it.
I also saw something else in that anger. On the one hand, what you will see when you start talking about a taboo subject (which creates tension). But also one of the stages of grief. Ultimately, Klok is just a human being who, like all those other Covid adepts, reacts the way a child reacts when he finds out/is told that Sinterklaas does not exist. -Then a belief system breaks down, which must be accompanied by anger (and denial, dissociation [zombie behavior], depression), but acceptance of which is always around the corner the moment it turns out that the disappointment can be talked about openly.
In short, an interview that is interesting to watch and to save to watch again. There is a LOT in it, although you do need the ability to read between the lines.
Finally…
I don't know if I'll watch that interview again; I'm gradually becoming familiar with Klok's bullshit stories, they always seem to be a waste of time.
But I find your resigned, even defeatist view of journalism far too noncommittal. Journalism is also the Fourth Power, remember? The last defense of the citizen against the State.
Journalists say out loud that they objectively proclaim the truth. That they question power. That they are truth seekers. Stock clerks really don't say that. That fits better with fraudsters, scammers and dictators. And then also in the service of the government narrative.
If you normalize or condone this, you encourage totalitarian tendencies. You can't let this go that easily.
The citizen's last ring of defense against the State are the geese of the capitol.
Yes, the lyricism in newspapers can protect a society against the barbarism at the city gates. But even better than waiting for those geese to perform their lyricism or not, is to use your own senses about what is.
It can be useful to look at or listen to those geese once in a while (see, for example, that Klok interview on DNW). But to think that those geese possess the Fourth Power... that is not very different from wishful thinking. I mean: where can I find that journalism has ever done anything other than report the issues of the day?
“All the Presidents Men†perhaps?
But that was a movie, you know!
All interesting. Thanks for the valuable insights, everyone. I have one of my response new post made.