Month: October 2022

Austria Re-elected President Van der Bellen

Austria re-elected Alexander van der Bellen as president. With 56% of the votes, the 78-year-old managed to gain an absolute majority in the first ballot.

Sabotage Shuts Down Railway in Northern Germany

Acts of sabotage in two locations brought train traffic in northern Germany to a standstill for hours. Politicians call for better protection of critical infrastructure, while some even speculate it might have been an attack by Russia.

Vučić: The U.S. and UK Urged Hungary to Invade Serbia in 1999

According to Vučić, Orbán said that when he traveled to the UK for talks with country’s top politicians, Margaret Thatcher told him: “It bothers me a lot that you refused to attack Serbia because more British soldiers will die.”

Euthanasia is Counterfeit Compassion

The reality is that skyrocketing euthanasia rates and ever-easing conditions, all without accountability, send a devastating message. It says that at some point, a life is just no longer worth living.

Abraham Lincoln, Roe, and the Politics of Prudence

To engage in judicial activism is to embrace a spirit of anarchy, in which the means of determining law are dependent upon who happens to be in power at a given moment. As Lincoln said, “we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.”

Yemeni Civil War Truce Expires

The war in Yemen has raged since 2014, pitting the country’s government against the Houthi rebels.

In Defence of the Nation State

In Defence of the Nation State

Germans have become incapable or unwilling to defend our national interests. We no longer secure our own borders—we are too refined for that. We leave it to others, such as Poland and Hungary, and then lecture them when they do it.

October 8, 2022
How Facts Cease To Be Solid

How Facts Cease To Be Solid

The establishment’s cowardice leaves no place for honesty. It is a safe, risk-averse, and timid strategy for those without guiding principles or will to follow them. As Mikhail Bulgakov once wrote, “cowardice is the most terrible of vices.”

October 8, 2022
Euthanasia: Public Consultation Will Have No Effect on the Outcome of the Debate

Euthanasia: Public Consultation Will Have No Effect on the Outcome of the Debate

The chairman of the French National Assembly’s law commission explained in an interview that Parliament’s freedom to legislate on ethical matters must be “absolute,” meaning that parliamentarians must not feel bound by public disapproval of euthanasia.

October 8, 2022
Survey: 8 in 10 French Citizens Believe Anti-White Racism Exists in France

Survey: 8 in 10 French Citizens Believe Anti-White Racism Exists in France

The survey revealed a massive disconnect between the public’s perception of reality and what establishment politicians, media, and academia claim to be true.

October 8, 2022
Central European States Take Action Against Immigration

Central European States Take Action Against Immigration

Austria, Hungary, and Serbia are determined to make up for the European Union’s deficiencies in regulating migratory flows.

October 8, 2022
Germany: Survey Reveals Dismal Satisfaction with Left-Liberal Government 

Germany: Survey Reveals Dismal Satisfaction with Left-Liberal Government 

While less than 1 in 4 (23%) Germans nationwide reported being satisfied with the leftist-globalist coalition, fewer than 1 in 5 Germans living in east reported feeling the same way.

October 8, 2022
Decline of the English Bobby, Part II:<br>The New Commissar

Decline of the English Bobby, Part II:<br>The New Commissar

Police now show at least as much interest, if not more, in what people think and say as they do in obvious kinds of criminal behaviour. The new paramilitary social worker will sooner quiz a TERF than catch a thief.

Germany Risks Transforming into an “Industrial Museum,” Industry Chief Warns

Germany Risks Transforming into an “Industrial Museum,” Industry Chief Warns

Germany’s left-liberal government’s ‘green energy transition’ policies will transform Germany “from an industrial country to an industrial museum,” the president of the German Chemical Industry Association said.

October 7, 2022
Catholic Pundit Arrested for a “Gender Twitter Spat”

Catholic Pundit Arrested for a “Gender Twitter Spat”

Farrow said that the police officers told her they “did not need” a warrant and proceeded to “barge into” her home while her children were there.

October 7, 2022
Swedish Satire Upsets Erdogan

Swedish Satire Upsets Erdogan

The Swedish ambassador explained to the Turkish government that “there is freedom of speech in Sweden,” but the satirical segment by the Kurdish comedian has had diplomatic repercussions.

October 7, 2022
Scotland Investigating Troubling Rise in Newborn Deaths

Scotland Investigating Troubling Rise in Newborn Deaths

According to the report, 42 pregnant women had been admitted to the ICU since 18 May 2021, compared with 25 in the first two waves of the pandemic.

October 7, 2022
Rumours of Dissolution at the French National Assembly

Rumours of Dissolution at the French National Assembly

The legislative and executive powers are now engaged in a form of institutional one-upmanship. Emmanuel Macron, threatened by a motion of censure, answered with another threat: the dissolution of the National Assembly.

October 7, 2022