Given the timing, many thought the announcement was an April 1 joke ~ maybe in bad taste. However, it seems that England’s chief medical officer has in effect conceded that lockdowns have never worked and Covid-19 should be treated the same as flu.
Tens of thousands of concerned British citizens are outraged after learning in sneak previews the scale of Stalinist-like repression descending on the British Isles. The lights of free expression and the rights to demonstrate, even to hold the authorities to account, are about to be snuffed out.
To all intents and purposes, Emmanuel Macron’s France is closed and in total darkness. Life as the French knew it has ended. Everyone, from 7 pm is locked in their homes. Never in world history, not even during wars and great plagues, have entire nation’s peoples been imprisoned in their homes.
Questions are being asked as to what kind of people are recruited by police forces. Is it time for a police service that is more in harmony with the people they serve than the state that uses them to suppress the electorate with a force considered unacceptable even by occupying armies.
Julius Caesar got himself captured by pirates and held for ransom when he was twenty-five. Before you feel sorry for him, this was a fairly common practice at the time (75 BCE). His captors required a ransom of 20 talents of silver (about $600,000 in today’s value).
The post-coronavirus Europe will offer a chance to rebuild the continent’s identity, the leader of the Italian League party, Matteo Salvini told journalists in an online interview on Tuesday.
Marine Le Pen, leader of the patriotic French National Assembly party, detailed her plans announced last week that she would hold a referendum on immigration if she is elected president next year.
The Overton window is the range of policies politically acceptable to the mainstream population at a given time. It is also known as the window of discourse. The term is named after American policy analyst Joseph P. Overton, who stated that an idea’s political viability depends mainly on whether it falls within this range, rather than on politicians’ individual preferences. According to Overton, the window frames the range of policies that a politician can recommend without appearing too extreme to gain or keep public office given the climate of public opinion at that time.
NOTE: Story translated from the original German by Gerry Frederiks. Frau Paula Hitler, the elder sister of German Chancellor Adolf Hitler, penned the following statement 12 years after the death of her brother.
Russians have finally realised that the Europe they wanted to partner with after the Soviet collapse in 1991 no longer exists. It was predicted that Russia’s post-Soviet generation would embrace a shared identity with Europe. However, polls demonstrate that Russians are rapidly shedding the European identity of their country.
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