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In yet another sign of a global political shift, the right-wing populist Party for Freedom in the Netherlands is projected to win a large plurality. According to exit polling, the PVV will pick up at least 35 seats while the current ruling coalition will combine for 37 losses while only winning 41 seats total.. That makes Geert Wilders, the founder of the Party for Freedom, the big winner. It also means an absolute meltdown has already started given how much Wilders is hated by the European left.. ... The Netherlands has been in the midst of a soft political revolution...

March 15th (or the Ides of March) was a bad day for Julius Caesar, but history aside, is something big going to happen on the Ides? As it goes, there are actually already several fairly momentous things taking place, and as the saying goes “a big news day is the best time to bury bad news”. The main stories we will be reading about are: The debt ceiling In November, 2015, the Obama administration set a date for the debt ceiling to run to, and from this day forward, unless there is an almost immediate agreement, the US will not...

AMSTERDAM - Murdered maverick Pim Fortuyn personally attracted more than 14 per cent of votes in last week's bombshell Dutch election, final data showed on Tuesday. Over 1.3 million people ticked the dead man's name -- giving him 84 per cent of the votes cast for the three-month-old Pim Fortuyn List (LPF) populist party that took second place as the Netherlands shifted rightwards in the May 15 general election. Fortuyn, who was gunned down nine days before the poll, still had his name on ballot forms because names could not be removed after an April deadline. In Dutch proportional representation,...