DutchNews, December
7, 2017
Senior justice ministry officials directly interfered with independent research into the ministry’s own soft drugs policy, current affairs programme Nieuwsuur said on Wednesday night.
The programme said that researchers altered unwelcome conclusions and reformulated research questions at officials’ request. The aim, Nieuwsuur said, was to manipulate the findings to ensure they supported existing policy rather than criticised it.
Nieuwsuur based its findings on conversations with a whistleblower, who made a complaint about the interference in 2014, and on internal ministry documents.
The programme looked at research carried out by the ministry’s own independent research unit WODC into coffee shops and the nuisance caused by drugs tourism and on the legalisation of cannabis cultivation.
The researchers concluded that that a policy based on repression and banning sales to foreigners was not solving any problems because there is actually very little nuisance from drug tourism in many places.
Politically sensitive
But according to an email from a civil servant, that conclusion was ‘so politically sensitive’ that it had to be revised. ‘We cannot accept the conclusions as they now stand,’ one official is quoted as saying.
Officials deleted research questions, made notes in the margins of the study and removed an entire chapter with conclusions and recommendations on how government policy could be improved. The then justice minister Ivo Opstelten later told parliament the study supported his policy.
Current justice minister Ferdinand Grapperhaus told Nieuwsuur in a reaction: ‘Policy has to be separate from scientific research. The policy-making officials must not involve themselves with the outcome of that research.’
Protocols have since been sharpened up, Grapperhaus said. Later on Thursday the minister announced that he had commissioned an external inquiry to find out if pressure had been placed on researchers charged with compiling the two reports.
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Senior justice ministry officials directly interfered with independent research into the ministry’s own soft drugs policy, current affairs programme Nieuwsuur said on Wednesday night.
The programme said that researchers altered unwelcome conclusions and reformulated research questions at officials’ request. The aim, Nieuwsuur said, was to manipulate the findings to ensure they supported existing policy rather than criticised it.
Nieuwsuur based its findings on conversations with a whistleblower, who made a complaint about the interference in 2014, and on internal ministry documents.
The programme looked at research carried out by the ministry’s own independent research unit WODC into coffee shops and the nuisance caused by drugs tourism and on the legalisation of cannabis cultivation.
The researchers concluded that that a policy based on repression and banning sales to foreigners was not solving any problems because there is actually very little nuisance from drug tourism in many places.
Politically sensitive
But according to an email from a civil servant, that conclusion was ‘so politically sensitive’ that it had to be revised. ‘We cannot accept the conclusions as they now stand,’ one official is quoted as saying.
Officials deleted research questions, made notes in the margins of the study and removed an entire chapter with conclusions and recommendations on how government policy could be improved. The then justice minister Ivo Opstelten later told parliament the study supported his policy.
Current justice minister Ferdinand Grapperhaus told Nieuwsuur in a reaction: ‘Policy has to be separate from scientific research. The policy-making officials must not involve themselves with the outcome of that research.’
Protocols have since been sharpened up, Grapperhaus said. Later on Thursday the minister announced that he had commissioned an external inquiry to find out if pressure had been placed on researchers charged with compiling the two reports.
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"The Great Escape" - Mar 11, 2017 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll) (Text version "The Great Escape") - New
"The Great Escape" - Mar 11, 2017 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll) (Text version "The Great Escape") - New
“… The Fall
of Many - Seen It Yet?
You are
going to see more and more personal secrets being revealed about persons in
high places of popularity or government. It will seem like an epidemic of
non-integrity! But what is happening is exactly what we have been teaching. The
new energy has light that will expose the darkness of things that are not
commensurate with integrity. They have always been there, and they were kept
from being seen by many who keep secrets in the dark. Seen the change
yet?
In order to
get to a more stable future, you will have to go through gyrations of dark and
light. What this means is that the dark is going to be revealed and push back
at you. It will eventually lose. We told you this. That's what you're here for
is to help those around you who don't see an escape from the past. They didn't
get their nuclear war, but everything else is going into the dumper anyway. … “
"Recalibration of Free Choice"– Mar 3, 2012 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: (Old) Souls, Midpoint on 21-12-2012, Shift of Human Consciousness, Black & White vs. Color, 1 - Spirituality (Religions) shifting, Loose a Pope “soon”, 2 - Humans will change react to drama, 3 - Civilizations/Population on Earth, 4 - Alternate energy sources (Geothermal, Tidal (Paddle wheels), Wind), 5 – Financials Institutes/concepts will change (Integrity – Ethical) , 6 - News/Media/TV to change, 7 – Big Pharmaceutical company will collapse “soon”, (Keep people sick), (Integrity – Ethical) 8 – Wars will be over on Earth, Global Unity, … etc.) - (Text version)
“…5 - Integrity That May Surprise…
The Unthinkable… Politics, A Review
Humans will begin to search for integrity and fairness and it's going to happen in the places you never expect. I said this last week, so this is a review. There'll come a time when you will demand this of your politics - fairness and integrity. So when the candidates start calling each other names, you will turn your back on them and they won't get any votes. They're going to get the point real fast, don't you think? How about that?
Humans will begin to search for integrity and fairness and it's going to happen in the places you never expect. I said this last week, so this is a review. There'll come a time when you will demand this of your politics - fairness and integrity. So when the candidates start calling each other names, you will turn your back on them and they won't get any votes. They're going to get the point real fast, don't you think? How about that?
Let me give you another potential. This country that I sit in right now [USA] will set the mold for that particular attribute. I have no clock. Watch for the youngsters to set this in motion, and they will, for they are the voters of tomorrow and they do not want the energy of today. To some of them, it's so abominable they won't even register to vote in this energy. You're going to see this soon. That was number five.. ..."
"You Don’t Know How the Frog Jumps"– Jan11, 2011 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll) - (Text version)
“… Last week, I gave you a message about the potentials of 2011. And there were those in this room who attended. I'm going to repeat something I said there, for you need to hear it and it has to do with politics. It would seem intuitive to every single Human Being in the room that in order to accomplish what you do as Americans in Congress, you must have at least two parties. For that is the way it has always been - the red and the blue.
What if I told you that there will come a time when there will be no parties? You might then say, "Well, that's impossible, Kryon, because you're not Human and you don't know how funding works." You might say, "It has to be a party that creates the power to raise money for the ones who cannot, and then the funding is spread around and this is the way we work. If you didn't have parties, you'd have no funding. Nobody could advertise, and no one could get elected."
Oh, really?
Are you aware right now, that you have a president who was elected on the Internet? He figured it out. When everybody can talk to everyone, you have plenty of funding. A few dollars here, a few dollars there. You talk to millions at the same time, they talk to millions at the same time. It's a new paradigm of communication. The young people know all about it, and you can't stop it. Watch for more from this new paradigm.
It is worldwide communication, one person at a time. It doesn't matter how many laws you pass, and it doesn't matter what you decide about who is in charge of it, you can't stop it. It's out of the bag now, and the communities of the young are going to be communicating. This is how the politicians are going to be communicating to you, literally coming into your home in a holographic form perhaps, explaining their position one by one, without a party. Then you will elect them to your Congress without a party and they will sit in the chairs without a division and there will be no such thing as the "other side of the aisle."
And that, Human Being, is called unity and there is a paradigm that you cannot even imagine. And it's in the works. And then you'll have a Congress that works together and gets things done without the current duality. ….”
And that, Human Being, is called unity and there is a paradigm that you cannot even imagine. And it's in the works. And then you'll have a Congress that works together and gets things done without the current duality. ….”
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