Low Politics

"RSV Wave Underway" screeches the German press, as winter viruses rise unremarkably and in accordance with long-standing seasonal trends Now that the EMA has approved new RSV vaccines, journalists have another virus to stir anxiety about. During the pandemic, journalists discovered a new occupation, one which was particularly appealing for the small effort it required. This occupation consisted of consulting any of the numerous Covid dashboards and weekly virus

The Cyber Threat Intelligence League, Sara-Jayne Terp, and the unbearably idiotic schoolmarms who have been unleashed to censor the internet Michael Shellenberger, Alex Gutentag and Matt Taibbi have continued their reporting on the “Censorship Industrial Complex” with a new piece on an odious organisation called the Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) League. Their revelations provide fresh details about the early history of the public-private campaign to censor the internet in the

Is Karl Lauterbach replacing two-thirds of STIKO, the "independent" German vaccine advisory body, to ensure the approval of shiny new RSV jabs from Pfizer and AstraZeneca? German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach is working hard to restructure the entire German public health bureaucracy, according to the lessons our rulers have derived from the Covid pandemic. The purpose of his reforms are hard to work out, and ominously, nobody at the Health Ministry will explain them. A little-known

The Incompetent Authoritarianism Of The Irish State On the curiously incompetent Irish State and the Empire's Celtic Problem Readers will no doubt be aware of the recent migrant stabbing spree in Ireland that resulted in fiery but peaceful scenes erupting on the streets of the capital, Dublin. The following day I went in search of ‘‘takes’’ that

Infighting and internal divisions intensify among German climate activists and their patrons in government, as political momentum shifts decisively to the right Political movements derive cohesion from the momentum and energy they command. With the wind at their backs, adherents are willing to overlook their divergent interests and fight for a common cause. As these movements lose momentum and face hardening opposition, they suddenly find themselves rent by infighting and factionalism. Being

Why were German politicians so eager to vaccinate children, and why are they lying about it now? Here is a riddle: Why were German politicians so eager, in summer 2021, to vaccinate children? Why did they place public pressure on vaccine regulators to recommend child vaccination? Even a few months ago, I would’ve said this was no great mystery. Before August 2021, everybody still operated on

Ampeldämmerung: Scholz government in crisis after doubtful budgetary manoeuvre to fund Green climate fantasies with unused Covid funds is declared unconstitutional For my entire life, German governments have lit money on fire with great abandon. The pandemic was a particularly insane period of spending. Among the final acts in this spree was a supplementary budget pushed through by Merkel’s government in April 2021, allocating an additional 60 billion Euros for

Study: Liquid natural gas, the great future hope of Robert Habeck's Green energy policy, causes up to THREE TIMES more emissions than coal Let us review some recent history: In 2021, Germany owed 27% of its total energy supply to natural gas. We imported over 40% of this natural gas from Russia. Then the Ukraine war happened, and by September the gas had slowed to a trickle. To compensate, we increased imports from

Why the migrant crisis is a self-inflicted catastrophe for the European political establishment The mass importation of regime clients from the third world, under the pretence of high-minded liberal values, has become a runaway phenomenon threatening the very political order that authored it. Some valued readers objected to my remark in yesterday’s post that the political establishment appears “completely powerless” to stop

Mechanisms Toward Local Sovereignty Made possible by the abundance of land available, America’s European founding stock sought denominational freedom in the New World. Entire congregations of Christians traveled across the Atlantic Ocean on ships such as the Mayflower to establish colonies that were closely tied to their religious beliefs, as well as the

An Uncanny Valley At The Cenotaph On peculiar unreality of British Political life. The somewhat modestly named “Behavioral Insights Team” carries this passage on their website in which they “face up to the challenges” of climate action: Prioritizing actions. Some behavioral barriers will be tougher to address than others. In one project, we found that encouraging

Why Daylight Saving Time is Stupid The twice-annual clock fiddling ritual is a pointless pain in the ass and it should be abolished everywhere On 29 October, the superstitious annual ritual known as Daylight Saving Time ended in Europe, and for my American readers it will end this coming Sunday, on 5 November. For half or

As the German Health Ministry drowns in millions of unwanted vaccine doses, Karl Lauterbach begs Germans to please, please line up for their fifth jab From the erstwhile vaccine propagandists at Der Spiegel, who I think are also tiring of the insipid autumnal vaccination liturgy and its noxious political enablers: Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach has again called on people to get a booster vaccination. “Despite the pandemic and awareness campaigns, the importance of the

Christian Drosten, enduring virologoid villain, demands mass livestock virus testing and scientific truth panels to enhance pandemic preparedness and marginalise people who disagree with him Christian Drosten, the malevolent virologoid at Berlin Charité who achieved international prominence in 2020 as court virus astrologer to the Merkel government, and who acted for years as the public face of hygiene restrictions in the Federal Republic, is one of the great villains of the pandemic. From lockdowns to

State elections in Bavaria and Hessen show the establishment parties to be in decline as political momentum shifts decisively to the right Yesterday was election day in Bavaria and Hessen. Just over 23% of the entire German population had the chance to express their political preferences at the ballot box. The results were not only a slap in the face to the parties of the federal coalition, but also yet another sign

In act of divine retribution, equestrian statue of Angela Merkel collapses spontaneously under its own weight Certain natural events – however seemingly insignificant – achieve so perfectly a higher symbolic meaning, that it is hard not to see in them a divine message. Such is the case with the only equestrian statue erected to honour former German chancellor Angela Merkel, which yesterday collapsed spontaneously under its own weight.

The Boomer Cruise: Day of the Pillow A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of traditionalism. All the powers of GloboHomo have entered into an unholy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and President, Managers and intelligentsia, French Radicals and German police spies. Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as regressive by

THE REALITY OF REPARATIONS Well, there is not much to say. It’s finally happened. I remembered conversations had with people coming on a decade ago now on the topic of ludicrously effeminate liberals screeching at the top of their lungs for reparations on Youtube. The white man, in their world, was the primordial

WOULD YOU LIKE TO SHARE? On March 23, 2010, the United States President, Barak Obama, signed into law the Affordable Care Act, or as it is more fondly referred to as ‘Obamacare’. It was such an important and inspiring bill that its chief advocate in the US legislature, the Speaker-of-the-House, Nancy Pelosi, encouraged members of