The Welfare State and the decline of democracy
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Could Spain end up like Venezuela?
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Venezuela is a tragedy as much as it is a warning. A warning of how a once-rich country can end up oppressed and impoverished by radical socialism and communism (how many more examples will we need?), of how a people can destroy itself deceived by the promises of demagogues and of how a democracy can …
Psychopaths, political power and the rule of law
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In order to preserve our freedom, it is not enough to vote from time to time. As Aristotle warned us more than two millennia ago, democracies degenerate into tyrannies because of “the unscrupulousness of despicable demagogues”, who appear like mushrooms in autumn in declining societies, and because citizens conform and forget that power always poses …
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The propaganda of climate “consensus”
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After two weeks of climate-apocalyptic bombardment in Madrid, the COP25 has ended in failure, like so many of the previous 24 editions (that’s why we are in the 25th, and counting), with activists, media and prophets of the end of times living in an fantasy world detached from reality. In fact, and as could not …
The massive failure of Communism
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I keep engraved in my memory memories of my trip to the Soviet Union in 1983: the fear of the people, the oppressive police presence, the empty shelves in the shops, the desperate black street market and the central lanes of some Moscow avenues reserved for the ZiL limousines of the leaders of the Communist …
Environmentalism as the new global religion: A Trojan horse for the Catholic Church?
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Climate alarm and the irrelevance of science
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Due to copyright limitations, this article by Prof. Richard Lindzen will only be posted in Spanish. Sorry for the inconvenience. Fernando del Pino Calvo-Sotelo www.fpcs.es
The most relevant question of the elections
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Nobody talks about it, but what we are really betting on in these elections is the continuity of the covert process of regime change that threatens to subvert the current constitutional system step by step, putting an end to the monarchy, cracking the national unity that it represents and curtailing our freedoms. This Process, with …
Who restrains political power in Spain?
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The real cause of the serious institutional deterioration and the worrying political drift in Spain is not to be found in the present circumstances but in the continuous weakening of the Rule of Law, undermined for decades by our political class (without distinction of parties) who have been exploiting the deficiencies of our constitutional text. …
The politics of climate
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Ten or twelve years ago I had a long lunch with the representative that Al Gore had sent to Spain, who would later work as a high rank official in the Obama Administration. In those years I had had the opportunity to personally meet President Clinton but not Gore, although I had seen his documentary …