“I’d never heard of rhodium!” Ben Thompson, Anchor, Inside Track, Business Live, BBC World Service TV, 9 October 2017, during a segment on gold and the platinum group of metals. One can only assume that this BBC presenter never did chemistry, Mendeleev and the periodic table at school. Sadly, it…
Read MoreIn our report yesterday on the German federal elections, we pointed out that The AfD itself, however, is split between pragmatic politicians willing to compromise with other parties and right-wing nationalists who are expected to use the platform offered by the Bundestag to announce principled opposition based on outright racist…
Read MoreThe German federal elections on 24 September 2017 confirm ESC’s long-standing analysis of Western politics that: western politicians are out of touch, arrogant and uninterested in the views of the electorate the West’s commentariat is equally out of touch, arrogant and uninterested in the views of the electorate millions of…
Read MoreAll the more when Salafism, the “back to the roots” idea of resurrecting the Golden Age of Islam and the ideal Muslim society under the first four caliphs, is exceptionally strong in the city.
Read MoreAs we argued in 2007 and again following the G20 summit in Hamburg, global warming will affect poor countries far less able to cope with the consequences than the advanced industrial nations. We also warned that if the science is correct, emissions of greenhouse gases need to be reduced due…
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Rhetoric Is the Art of Persuasion – Aristotle Source: http://sodralatinsgymnasium.stockholm.se/humanistiska-programmet-inriktning-sprak Soon after our article on Anthony Scaramucci’s BBC interview, the new White House Communications Director hit the headlines after a telephone rant full of expletives with Ryan Lizza, a journalist at The New Yorker. As usual, the commentariat put the…
Read MoreHot on the heels of our article yesterday QED – yet again, yet another member of the elite has shown that he doesn’t get it. Indeed, he cannot get it due to his wrong approach to politics and history. Writing in TIME magazine’s Top 100 most influential people in 2005,…
Read MoreAnthony Scaramucci, the new White House Communications Director, has given an interview to the BBC. The big scandal on social media in the United Kingdom was that Scaramucci kept invading the personal space of the female interviewer Emily Maitlis. Much more interesting is how such self-appointed “critics” failed to notice Scaramucci’s confirmation…
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