The Germans do not like ‘Der Google’: The Federal Office for Information Security warned Internet users of the new browser Chrome. The application by the company Google should not be used for surfing the Internet, as a spokesperson for the office told the Berliner Zeitung. It was said to be problematic that Chrome was distributed […]
Well well well! Thanks to Valerie at Home Education Magazine for alerting us to this. It appears that Germany has an interesting twin state when it comes to Home Schooling: C-Ville Weekly, Charlottesville, Virginia, 10 April 2007, UVA student’s film wins Peabody Award For a broadcast journalist, winning a Peabody Award is a crowning achievement. […]
If you are a German overseas with children, you can register with a correspondence school and be exempted from Schulpflicht (compulsory school attendance). If you are a foreigner with a child over the age of 14 years you may be allowed an exemption in some regions on compassionate grounds but that is a big ‘may’. […]
Brian Farmer, Research Associate of the John Birch Society. One would have thought that all vestiges of National Socialism were erased, when the Federal Republic of Germany was established after World War II. But those who created post-war Germany apparently were willing to extend freedom to the German people only just so far. They were […]
“You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.” – Ayn Rand This famous Ayn Rand quote is true, but the real question is raises is “what is reality?” For some American journalists, reality is their belief that America is the center of the universe, and that their opinions, rulings and […]
The Grauniad has an astonishing report of a newsletter published by Belgravia police station, where people are advised to report anarchists to the police. I’m not making this up: Anarchists should be reported, advises Westminster anti-terror police Islamist terrorists also mentioned in briefing, as anarchists complain of being criminalised for their beliefs What should you […]
THe title of this blog post is the number of seconds it took for the hive mind of Anonymous to reach the next iteration that we wrote about in December 2010. Here is the tweet posted around the time of the light bulb moment: If @LulzSec called for a #Paypal boycott it would make way […]
In today’s Telegraph they have a story about the Police planning to ban all demonstrations to prevent disorder: Police may ban future marches to prevent disorder Police may ban anti-Government marches through central London to prevent further disorder and strain on officer numbers. By Martin Beckford, Heidi Blake and Steven Swinford 7:00AM GMT 15 Dec […]
I’m not making this up: Angela Merkel apologises over German national team photo Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, has been forced to hold ‘clear the air’ talks with her country’s football federation after she was accused of exploiting the national team for political gain. Mrs Merkel, 56, was pictured shaking hands with Mesut Ozil, Germany’s […]
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard writes in the Telegraph about ‘The Death of Paper Money’. Anyone who has been woken up by Ron Paul, Lew Rockwell, Murray Rothbard and the Austrians knows that this is in fact inevitable, and in the end, is a good thing, because it means that government can no longer steal your money from […]
Every day there is something new from Lew Rockwell’s site that has some connection to what is best in the world. If you have ever seen the film and documentary list on BLOGDIAL, you will have seen ‘Colossus: The Forbin Project‘ in amongst the great Science Fiction films; this is an un-missable, essential film, that […]
Take a look at this: After massive public rejection of the surveillance state, and country wide vandalism of the millions of CCTV cameras in the UK, it was decided to remove all traces of the monitoring apparatus that cast a debilitating fog over life in the UK. Like the fall of East Germany and the […]
A lurker sent this to us; it appears that the Germans have plans in motion to return to their own currency, in the light of the inevitable Euro crisis: Thinking the Unthinkable BERLIN (Own report) – Following the passage of the 750 billion Euro bailout package, the debate on Germany’s leaving the monetary union has […]
Google ‘not interested’ in privacy, say information tsars Google has repeatedly shown a “disappointing disregard” for safeguarding private information about its users, the privacy officials from 10 major countries have said. Britain’s Information Commissioner Chris Graham and equivalent officials from Canada, France, Germany and Italy were among the signatories to a letter to the search […]
The latest evil demon to bear its teeth and unsheathe its wickedness on the matter of Home Education is Ruth ‘Baroness’ Deech. She claims to be an ethicist. I put it to you that what she proposes by not only supporting this bill but calling for extensions to its core evils is unethical in the […]
A Home Educating family from Germany has just been granted political asylum in the USA. This is highly significant: Homeschooling Family Granted Political Asylum Immigration Judge Says Germany Violating Basic Human Rights In a case with international ramifications, Immigration Judge Lawrence O. Burman granted the political asylum application of a German homeschooling family. The Romeikes […]
Wow! That Copenhagen package really worked. Global warming has been dramatically reversed. In fact, if Al Gore could see his way to turning the heat back up just a little, most of us would be deeply appreciative… “Climate science” is the oxymoron of the century. There is not a city, town or hamlet in the […]