Month: November 2022

EC President: Delay on Gas Price Cap is Unacceptable

Charles Michel is growing increasingly impatient with Ursula von der Leyen’s failure to come up with measures to blunt the pain of high energy costs inflicted on EU citizens and companies.

EU Closer to Turning Off Combustion Engines

Since car manufacturers currently end up paying a carbon tax on combustion engines, the EU argues that electric cars will become cheaper than combustion engine cars, as electric vehicles aren’t subject to such a penalty.

First Visit of Meloni to Brussels

Meloni came to the European capital with peaceful intentions and moderate rhetoric. She said she wanted to “dismantle” the hostile discourse built around her person, based largely on misunderstandings.

Carl Trueman on Our Strange New World

How did we get here? As Trueman explains it, three intertwining concepts and their origins must be understood to grasp our current culture: expressive individualism, the sexual revolution, and our social imaginary.

Till the King Enjoys His Own Again

Every revolution begins with just one man. So does every counter-revolution. All of our many foes have taken that lesson to heart. We have not. And unless we demand total victory, as they do, all we’ll get is more lumps.

German Court Covers for Health Minister

The German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach had been sued for spreading ‘fake news’ for his earlier claims about the safety of COVID vaccines, but a court excused these statements as free speech.

The Apple of His Eye: On Self-Reflection in Genesis

The Apple of His Eye: On Self-Reflection in Genesis

To apply to myth the reigning science of the day, in an attempt to transform it into a factual chronicle of human affairs, means inevitably to mangle what is most intrinsic to myth: its kaleidoscopic abundance, its playfulness, its immeasurable depth.

November 6, 2022
EU China Critics Make Taiwan Visit

EU China Critics Make Taiwan Visit

To dissuade Beijing, the U.S. has struck a deal with Australia to host more of its B-52 bombers, which can carry nuclear as well as conventional weapons.

November 5, 2022
Reaction to Attempted Ban on Spanish from Catalan Classrooms

Reaction to Attempted Ban on Spanish from Catalan Classrooms

The creation of a monolingual Catalonia is central to the separatist project, albeit thoroughly out of step with the region’s history.

November 5, 2022
EU Commission Proposes Major Clean-up of Air and Water

EU Commission Proposes Major Clean-up of Air and Water

The commission estimates that by 2040, 27% of the €3.8 billion annual cost of managing urban wastewater would be covered by industrial polluters, principally pharmaceutical and cosmetics companies.

November 5, 2022
U.S. Men Seek Sterilisation After Abortion Restrictions

U.S. Men Seek Sterilisation After Abortion Restrictions

The rise in vasectomies in light of abortion restrictions betrays the lie that women were never pressured by men, even subtly, to have abortions.

November 5, 2022
YouTube Competitor Pulls Plug on France Over Government Demands

YouTube Competitor Pulls Plug on France Over Government Demands

A tweet from Rumble’s own Twitter account noted that acceding to the French government’s demand would go against Rumble’s mission to “restore a free and open internet.”

November 5, 2022
Escaping the Tyranny of Relevance

Escaping the Tyranny of Relevance

Intellectual adventure is not available to bees, who simply do as they do in obedience to their limited nature. The hive may be a place of cohesion, but it contains no libraries, paintings, or statues to heroic bees of the past. Human life without the humanities would be much the same: cut off from our roots, deprived of meditation, and locked in an eternal now. The cult of relevance makes prisoners of us all.

November 5, 2022
PM Meloni’s Support Climbs to All Time High, Polls Reveal

PM Meloni’s Support Climbs to All Time High, Polls Reveal

Support for Meloni’s national-conservative Fratelli d’Italia (FdI) party has jumped to nearly 30%, an all time high, according to the latest polls.

November 4, 2022
Russian Hypersonic Missiles Move to Belarus

Russian Hypersonic Missiles Move to Belarus

MiG fighters, equipped to carry nuclear warheads, are settled in Belarus as part of the ‘regional military grouping.’ The threat this poses to Europe should be taken very seriously.

November 4, 2022
Abascal’s Viva22 Speech: Pueblo and Patria

Abascal’s Viva22 Speech: Pueblo and Patria

The enemy advocates for a borderless world, free of family loyalty, religion, identity—anything that might obstruct a pliable global marketplace.

November 4, 2022
FBI and DHS Worked with Facebook and Twitter to Curb Speech

FBI and DHS Worked with Facebook and Twitter to Curb Speech

Discussions about COVID-19, vaccine efficacy, racial issues, withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, and involvement in Ukraine were targeted.

November 4, 2022
Biden Admin Launches Soros-Backed Opposition Media Organization in Hungary

Biden Admin Launches Soros-Backed Opposition Media Organization in Hungary

Its financial backers include the Open Society Foundations (OSF), the Rockefeller Foundation, Freedom House, which is financed by the U.S. government, as well as liberal Silicon Valley tech giants like Facebook and Google 

November 4, 2022