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I also haven't seen studies substantiating the opposite, but the effect of not screening financially is illustrated by this random datapoint: 70% of Somalian immigants in the Netherlands was living on welfare in 2017. Overall about 40% of immigrants from the period 2000-2010 was on welfare, versus 2% of the indigenous population. These and many more interesting statistics can be found at government statitics bureau: https://opendata.cbs.nl/statli...

Oh stop the disinformation.

Denmark has among the lowest electricity prices in the developed world, actually.

On top of those, consumers (and some businesses) pay taxes on electricity use. Those taxes have nothing to do with generating costs. I will happily debate tax policy, but don't use it to derail the debate on nuclear power.

Please cite your source. Here are a couple more citations from me that back my statements. You've provided none.

https://www.statista.com/stati...

https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/news/...

How 'bout Vietnamese?
Russians? They simply HAVE to be commies.
They all came from commie countries at the time and as such they all must still be commies.
Oh... wait...

They left those countries cause they didn't like conditions there and clearly "being commie among other commies" wasn't their topmost priority.

Or it could be that you're talking out of your ass cause your head is overflowing with shit?
Don't you worry, there's a solution for that too.
Note how that link is about as relevant as yours? Actually... Maybe a bit more as you could put that on your head...

BTW... did you know that when you link vague, unrelated and loaded statements typed into google - that proves nothing?
But it still makes you look like a dick?! No? Well... don't thank me yet. There's more.
Like when you do that double quoting thing, it means that you are informed of and support the point of the asshole above doing the same linking to vague, unrelated and loaded statements and the rest of his dickery.
Which results in most of those results "supporting his theory" being from racist blogs?

So, you're not only full of shit - you're a racist dick by association. Good on ya!

As for Netherlands... Well... for one, your underlying premise is bullshit.
BTW, that's synonymous with "bald faced lying", FYI. So is quoting it, when you clearly show that you COULD check the factuality of those claims but... well... you know...

Anyway, that whole "Netherlands gun violence is high by European standards" thing - that's bullshit.
If we compare gun homicides they are actually rather median and mode for western and northern Europe.
Also, quite negligible and non issue. One guy could rack up twice those numbers in an afternoon.
You wouldn't call that symptomatic now, would you?

Anyway... on to stupid things as Reagan might say.
Sweden - annual firearm homicides total - 2010: 18; Rate of Gun Homicide per 100,000 People - 2010: 0.19,
Norway: 2; 0.04,
Finland: 14; 0.26,
Denmark: 11; 0.20,
Netherlands: 33; 0.20,
Belgium: 36; 0.33,
France: 127; 0.20,
Germany: 51; 0.06,
UK: 33; 0.05.

Feel free to compare later data too, where there is any across all the countries for the given year.
And where there are no outliers like that thing in Norway in 2011, where a lone crazed religious crusader might fudge the statistics of the entire country.

So... Now that we have those 33 deaths by "shooting"...
Onus probandi dictates that you prove your bullshit claims that you've taken up to defend, that:

- ALL those deaths are caused by Moroccan immigrants, i.e. "Them Moroccan gangbangers" as you like to call them,
- further, once you prove that ALL those murders are committed by Moroccan immigrants, that ALL those murderers were also Muslims.
BTW, it's spelled with an I... just so you know... Boy you sure are learning shit today.

Meanwhile, back in reality, back in 2009. there were 341528 people of Moroccan origin in Netherlands.
Meaning that, even if you do dig up those facts, at best you get to say you're not... how you put it... bald face liar.

But your racial and religious prejudice will still shine like a beacon of rectalism.
Cause even if you do manage to scrounge up the data supporting your position, and ALL those murders really WERE committed by Moroccan Muslims - that's still 0.0096% of Moroccan population in Netherlands.

Or do you also argue that EVERYONE in USA is a child molester?
After all... 2012 numbers of reported cases of child se

The present generation of young men ~20y/o is around 1m84.
But as with all statistics you have to check the small print, in 1970 I was drafted for the military (10% of males) and the average length of conscripts was already 1m86.

Another interesting observation is the correlation between length and education, the taller people tend to be better educated.
One source (Dutch):
http://www.cbs.nl/nl-NL/menu/t...

Smoking contributes to weight loss, eh? Surprised Oprah didn't do a special on this. Does it throw the humours out of balance or something?

China/India/Indonesia/Greece all have male smokers at >40% in 2009: CBS - Across the world more men than women smoke - Web magazine. Curiously enough the percentages of women who smoke in the first three listed countries are much lower.

The Netherlands are not mostly Protestant. According to the Dutch national statistics agency CBS's data of 2009, 44% has no religeous affiliation, 28% is Catholic and only 12% is Protestant. See http://statline.cbs.nl/StatWeb/publication/?DM=SLNL&PA=37944&D1=0-1,3-5&D2=a&HDR=T&STB=G1&CHARTTYPE=2&VW=T

For instance, it is often said the US has high crime rates. WRONG, the murder rate in the US vs Holland is pretty much the same.

What a load of bull - check the statistics, and you'll find the murder rate in the USA is approximately 5 times higher per capita than in the Netherlands.

• Murders in USA in total, and per 100K gives well over 5 per 100,000
• Total murders in the Netherlands (work out per 100K population, assume population of 16.5 Million gives less than 1 per 100,000)

I suggest you do some research and adjust your world view.

-- Pete.

Nuclear power is cheap and clean. It is cheap enough that France exports large amounts of electricity to Italy, Germany, and the UK. The importing countries closed or scaled down their nuclear power investments to placate local enviro-weenies but are OK importing it, even if the reactors are right next to the border. France has some of the cheapest electricity costs in Europe. So I do not get where you are coming from.

Check the DOE energy reports. In the US nuclear power generates more electricity than wind, solar, hydro and other renewables combined. If CO2 is considered a pollutant there is no clean coal.

The biggest problem the US might actually have is it's very poor city planning. It's all based on car transport.
Just look at how US suburbs are designed, you can't get anywhere by foot, except your nearest neighbours. There are no bicycle lanes anywhere. Cheap and pervasive public transport is difficult because of lack of centralisation.

And they shouldn't be crying over $5 per gallon, the last time petrol was $5 per gallon in The Netherlands was 1991 (source: http://statline.cbs.nl/). They should cry over their city planning.

Translated from cbs.nl:

http://www.cbs.nl/nl-NL/menu/cijfers/statline/default.htm

"StatLine is the free electronic database of the CBS (Central Bureau of Statistics). You can create your own tabels and graphs. The information is free and easy to print and download."

"StatLine is de elektronische databank van het CBS. U kunt in StatLine zelf tabellen en grafieken samenstellen.
De informatie is gratis en gemakkelijk te printen en te downloaden."

The 8% only tells part of the story. The cost of car use to society increase with traffic intensity, as traffic jams cause material losses and relatively much pollution. Even in the Netherlands, which has high overall population density, public transport use is concentrated in the busy places and times. Some numbers from the statistics bureau: In total, public transport use for commuting is 10%, comparable to the number in the parent. In rural areas, cars are used for 74% of commuting against 3% public transport and 20% bicycle use. This goes almost linearly to urban areas, where cars are only used for 40%, public transport is almost 25%, and bicycle use is 30%.

Conclusion 1: overall train use might be low, but if you differentiate for urban:rural, even where rural Holland is more like American suburban (no 1000-acre corn fields here!), you will see that train use is a lot higher in urban areas, where cars are causing most trouble in terms of congestion and pollution

Conclusion 2: train use for commuting is a viable alternative if the infrastructure is there and if the conditions are good, meaning (local) high population density (good for trains) and serious congestion and 8$ per hour street side parking (bad for cars). In the American urban areas, the conditions might not be that good due to suburban sprawl, but ridiculing trains because nationwide use is low does not make sense.

DUI's are nothing more than "feel good" legislation, like seatbelt, and helmet laws that pad city and county bank accounts while making the cattle feel safer.

The regime has done a gigantic electronic fraud. And it has been proved in a couple of papers:

Please see http://gentederedes.org/referendum/delfino-salas.p df

Also see http://isi.cbs.nl/ISR/papersisr.htm
"A statistical approach to assess referendum results: the Venezuelan recall referendum 2004" by M.M. Febres Cordero & B. Marquez

The articale (in Dutch) is here. Some results are:

Iceland: 45%
Denmark 36%
Netherland 32%
Finland 21%

Look at the Netherlands for example, where pot is legal to own (in small quantities) and where the number of first-time drug users (and drug related deaths) is declining.

A few years back we had some numbers on that. About 1 million people had used/still used marijuana. Of these 160.000 were regular/heavy users. These numbers had shown a significant growth over the time the survey was taken.

In the same time period, the number of users of 'hard' drugs (heroin, cocaine, amphetamines) had stayed fairly constant.

In other words, this study showed quite clearly that the 'stepping stone effect' that opponents of legalisation use, does not exist.

I can't be bothered to look up the exact links now, but I believe the study was released by our Central Statistics Agency (CBS, Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek). If you can read Dutch, you might want to try and search their website for more recent numbers. Or you might try our Health Ministry.

I agree that prohibition is a losing proposition. However, the pro-legalisation side of the debate should never lose sight of the downsides of a permissive soft-drug policy. These downsides have been used by conservatives in the Netherlands to try to make the goverment retract our current policies.