Opinion

Coppola’s warning against the surveillance regime

After more than fifty years, Francis Ford Coppola’s masterpiece «The Conversation» (1974) appears as one of the most precise portraits of the psychological costs of surveillance ever made on film. With digital mass surveillance the sanctuary where the human being can be alone with its conscience disappears.

The Labour government’s science council has no understanding of what science means

The Labour government has commissioned a report from its science council that has replaced science with tyrannical empty talk. If you are critical of the modern gender ideology, do not kneel before the EU and see some problems with mass immigration – then you need a state cure against ‘misinformation’.

Germany has a knife problem: Marius Dick (22) stabbed to death by “well-integrated” Afghan

The 22-year-old history student, Marius Dick, was stabbed to death outside his local shop on 19 July. The authorities classified the killing as an “isolated” incident and the perpetrator as “mentally unstable”. They profess not to understand what the motive might have been. The stabbing was accompanied by the battle cry “Allahu Akbar”.

Press veteran uses dirty tricks in a new attempt to exploit Breivik politically

15 years after the 22 July terror, Aftenposten’s long-standing political editor Harald Stanghelle is attempting to glue the right-wing populist wave to Anders Behring Breivik. In the attempt he distorts the terrorist’s universe of grandiose delusions.

VG’s interview with the “neighbour” in Spain cannot have taken place

VG’s anonymous source, who the newspaper says is Norwegian and owns a holiday home beside the motorway where Nikoline Piwoni Høie was found dead in Spain, claims there is an opening in the central reservation where people frequently cross. But no such opening exists.

You and I: the far right

We are what the GDR would have been with oil and gas, and with a level of conformity that renders the Stasi unnecessary. That is why the elite are so preoccupied with branding conservatives as fascists. Yet it is our corporatist state that has far more in common with fascism.

King of the North’ is the new British Prime Minister – promises major changes

Andy Burnham made numerous promises in his first speech as Britain’s new Prime Minister. The address was clearly aimed at Labour’s left wing. The major reshuffle of the government has already begun, and, as expected, Rachel Reeves is no longer Chancellor of the Exchequer.

The US ‘night war’ against Iran: What is happening?

Iran is responding to the United States’ ongoing ‘night war’ by attacking Sunni Arab countries. The aim is to make the Sunni states ask the United States not to bomb Pickaxe Mountain, where Iran is said to possess highly enriched uranium. A retired Israeli general and military scholar calls this the ‘North Korea card’.

An intolerant tide seeking to drown people as “far right”

At the same time as one senses an expansion of the space for free expression, the opposite is taking place: a narrowing, and it is coming from the top. A warning sign is a post by Einar Andreas Lund on his Facebook wall, in which he describes an attempt to stigmatise and sideline him.

European car industry could lose up to one million jobs

The Fraunhofer Institute expects extensive job losses in the European automotive industry. It appears unlikely that even an EU compromise softening the planned blanket ban on internal combustion engines from 2035 onwards will be enough to save the sector.