Independent views in freedom
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 …
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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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 …
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 …
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
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 …
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. …
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 …
Today’s environmentalism has degenerated into an ideology as totalitarian as communism, with which it shares not only adherents, but also the massive use of lies. The hysterical superstition of the theory of anthropogenic global warming, blind to the scientific method and to data (and to the absence of reliable data!), is perhaps the greatest example …
READ MORE >>Hurricanes and other lies of environmentalism (and journalism)
In a recent speech, Spain’s acting Finance Minister advocated for an increase in the size of the government and announced a brutal tax hike while criticizing the idea that “taxpayers’ money is better in their own pockets,” a concept she dismissed as a “mantra”. The whole sentence, copied word for word from an article published …
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