Lors d’une initiative récente des sociaux-démocrates et des verts au Parlement européen, un appel a été lancé en faveur de l’élimination progressive de l’utilisation du phosphate dans le fast-food döner kebab. C’était, à tout le moins le titre des médias internationaux jusqu’à ce que la faction parlementaire des sociaux-démocrates qualifie la décision de “fake news”.
Social justice warriors are going to hate this girl
“They don’t like Asians”, says Hebing Wang with a smirk as she elaborates on the social justice movement and its underlying philosophy. “In a world in which everything is based on oppression points and not on merit, they cannot stand the fact that Asians are actually over-achievers.”
Ireland’s Misled New Alcohol Policy
In a renewed effort to crack down on alcohol abuse, the Irish Senate has approved new policies regarding alcoholic beverages. Apart from mandatory health labelling on the products themselves, the law would also require a legal minimum unit pricing. A similar regulation had recently passed objections by the UK’s Supreme Court, as Scotland was attempting […]
The cronyism behind your contact lenses
Nothing is as frustrating than not being able to see. According to the The Vision Council Research (2015), 76 percent of the adult population in the US uses some sort of vision correction. About 40 million Americans use contact lenses, making it a $4.6 billion retail industry.
L’inutilité de la hausse du prix du tabac
La paquet de cigarettes à 10 € pour dissuader les fumeurs ? Encore une fausse bonne idée, sauf pour les caisses des organisations terroristes… Six étapes en trois ans : la ministre de la santé a annoncé récemment la politique de hausse tarifaire qui fera augmenter le prix du paquet de cigarettes à 10 €. Pour […]
We get it, you should have bought Bitcoin
So Bitcoin just hit $17,000, or is it $20,000. By the time this is published, even if I review it ten minutes before sending it to our editor Daniel Fallenstein, the price of the most known crypto-currency probably reached another high. If you’re reading this some time in the future, you might think “Bitcoin?”, as it’s decline has […]
The Scotch Enlightenment#1: German solutions, Alexa orders cocaine & Bitcoin w/ Yaël Ossowski
The Scotch Enlightenment is a podcast which I produce together with Daniel Fallenstein, for the Freedom Today Network. In our first regular episode of The Scotch Enlightenment, Yaël Ossowski (@yaeloss) joins us for an hour full of society, economics and technology.
The EU takes anti-tobacco policy to a whole new level of ridiculous
In a senate discussion on the price of cigarettes, French health minister, Agnès Buzyn, said that she is ready to clamp down on le problème le plus important: smoking in films.
[REPORTAGE] Frank Engel: “Mir hunn ee Gouvernance-Problem a Mëtteleuropa”
Dëse Reportage gouf fir RTL Radio Lëtzebuerg realiséiert, an ass den 10. Januar ausgestraalt ginn. De Beitrag kann och am Replay op http://www.rtl.lu nogelauschtert ginn. [Radio USO] Zënter e puer Joer schon ass Ungarn d’Problemkand an der Europäescher Unioun. Säit kuerzem steet och Polen an der Kritik zu Bréissel. De Bill Wirtz huet sech mam Europdeputéierten Frank Engel […]
“Es ist eine Falle!” Der Nanny-Staat hat Videospiele entdeckt
Lootboxen von Computerspielen wie „Battlefront 2“ und „Overwatch“ sollen als Glücksspiel eingestuft und verschärftem Jugendschutz unterworfen werden. Ein Sturm im Wasserglas. Wenn „Star Wars“ wieder in den Nachrichten ist, liegt das meist daran, dass gerade entweder ein neuer Film oder ein neues Computerspiel erschienen ist. Obwohl „Star Wars: Battlefront 2“ seit kurzem weltweit in den […]