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Swiss Roll Right at the Polls

While BFD readers’ eyes have been almost certainly, and rightfully, focussed on the voting day on each side of the Tasman two weeks ago, a week later, another general election was held, in far-off Switzerland. While all politics is local, the Swiss elections also seemed to follow a trend sweeping

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France Comes Down on ‘Pro Palestinian’ Creeps

France Comes Down on ‘Pro Palestinian’ Creeps

Call them “surrender monkeys” if you dare (in fact, they’re one of the most militarily successful nations of the last 150 years), but at least the French have had the boules to do what Australian governments neither dare nor even want to do. Where the NSW government cravenly allowed

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The EU Digital ID Wallet Pilots Roll Out

Stavroula Pabst Stavroula Pabst is a writer, comedian, and media PhD student at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Athens, Greece. Her writing has appeared in publications including Propaganda in Focus, Reductress, Unlimited Hangout and The Grayzone. brownstone.org As 2023 continues, the European Commission appears busy developing

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Ukraine Is So 2022 Now

Ukraine Is So 2022 Now

Being the Current Thing is a precarious honour. To paraphrase Krusty the Clown, one day, you’re the most important thing there ever was; the next day, you’re some schmo begging for handouts and pissing everyone off. Of course, Ukraine has been begging for handouts all along, but for

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What Muslims Are Allowed to Get Away with in the West

What Muslims Are Allowed to Get Away with in the West

Ever notice that, while visitors to Islamic countries are forced to abide by Muslim prescriptions, Muslims violently resist conforming to cultural expectations in other countries? Consider, for example, powerful, feminist female politicians dutifully donning hijab on state visits to Muslim countries – or even in their own countries, when it comes

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Man locked in Psychiatric Ward for asking Questions

Peter Imanuelsen petersweden.substack.com First a word of warning. This story you are about to read is WORSE than you think. I did not believe this could happen in a democracy. This should not ever happen in a democracy. But then again, I am beginning to ask myself if

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Denmark Takes Steps to Restrict Freedom of Speech

William Stehmann William Stehmann studies Social Studies and English literature at a college in Denmark. fee.org Denmark has historically had some of Europe’s most lenient laws regarding freedom of speech. But following backlash from a number of Middle Eastern nations, the new Social Democrat-led government in Copenhagen is

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Germany Has Partnered with the Gates Foundation

Robert Kogon Robert Kogon is a pen name for a widely-published financial journalist, a translator, and researcher working in Europe. brownstone.org The headline of a recent LifeSiteNews article declared that “the German government funds several Gates Foundation projects to the tune of 3.8 million euros.”  This is a

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Sweden’s Long-Held Commitment to Freedom Of Expression

Sweden’s Long-Held Commitment to Freedom Of Expression

Mårten Schultz Stockholm University theconversation.com To people outside Sweden it may seem surprising that police have, on several recent occasions, granted people express permission to burn copies of the Qur’an in public. The incidents have caused upset and triggered a significant debate about the far right co-opting the

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France’s Unrest Has Deep Roots

Emmanuel Comte Dr Emmanuel Comte is a senior research fellow of the European Program at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy in Athens (ELIAMEP) and a professorial lecturer at the Vienna School of International Studies. mises.org Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s frescoes adorning the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena, Italy,

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Zelensky Fires Heads of Recruitment

Tyler Durden ronpaulinstitute.org It’s long been clear that Ukraine’s armed forces have undergone some significant recruitment problems amid generally low morale as throughout the summer the counteroffensive has stalled and appears failing. There’s also a grim emerging consensus that Ukraine is suffering staggering losses. Even just

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Staggering Towards the Abyss

William Schryver ronpaulinstitute.org I have long asserted, and I continue to be convinced, that the US could NOT establish air superiority against Russia, China, nor even Iran — not in a week; not in a year. Never. It simply could not be done. American air power would prove substantially inferior

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Biden Dances Closer to the Abyss

Biden Dances Closer to the Abyss

Is Sleepy Joe sleepwalking into WWIII? In his eagerness to fight a proxy war to bruise Putin’s nose, while paying back his son’s former business partners in Ukraine, Biden is more and more dancing on the razor edge of full-blown war with Russia. Now, in news that should

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Just Another Day in Jihad

Just Another Day in Jihad

Trying to discuss religously motivated violence these days nearly always follows the same tedious script of whataboutism. But what about… Almost always, of course, the whataboutism of choice is something that conveniently bashes Christianity. Whatabout the Crusades? Whatabout the Inquisition? As Malcolm Lambert points out, in Crusade and Jihad, the

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A Popular Spectre Is Stalking Europe

A Popular Spectre Is Stalking Europe

Remember the shrieking headlines about “fascism!” when Giorgia Meloni was elected Italian PM? Somehow, though, for all the pearl-clutching by the mainstream media, the blackshirts have conspicuously failed to march on Rome or anything. That isn’t deterring the mainstream media one whit, though. They’re still gibbering about the

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Greta Shows off Her Manners

Greta Shows off Her Manners

Robert Kogon Robert Kogon is a pen name for a widely-published financial journalist, a translator, and researcher working in Europe. brownstone.org Greta Thunberg was photographed at the European Parliament in Strasbourg last Wednesday smiling broadly while flipping a double-bird – apparently to the opponents of heavily contested new EU environmental

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