Sailing against the tide
One of the strangest aspects of contemporary pop culture is how dark a lot of it is, and how drenched it has become in all kinds of occult symbolism. I am way too old to personally follow pop music, and I don’t really watch most Hollywood movies anymore either, but sites such as Vigilant Citizen,…
Source: Ansa, Corriere The province of Milan was confirmed at the top in a recent 2022 Crime Index among 107 Italian provinces. It is the territory with the most thefts for every 100 thousand inhabitants, especially in shops and parked cars; the metropolitan city is also the seventh in reports of sexual violence, second for…
Source: WDR The city wants to place housing containers on the site of a school centre, in order to accommodate 80 refugees in the future. Many parents see this as endangering the safety of their children. Due to the increasing number of refugees, the city of Monheim plans to accommodate 80 refugees in an existing…
In 1927, Herbert Asbury published The Gangs of New York, a non-fictional book detailing the history of several gangs active in the New York area from the mid-19th century to the early 20th century. Martin Scorsese made a film out of that, but the film is mostly a fictional interpretation (and probably not one of…
Spain won the Women’s soccer World Cup, but there was hardly any celebration. All the news have been concentrated on an infamous kiss given by Luis Rubiales, the president of Spain’s Football Association on one of the female players, Jennifer Hermoso. (Hermoso, by the way, means beautiful in Spanish, but opinions vary.) It didn’t seem…
Last year, I visited New York and Seattle and was surprised to see so many homeless and drug addicts roaming around the streets. Public transportation seemed more chaotic than usual and the cities still were reeling with disorder and a highest cost of living. I haven’t visited other cities there recently, but many visitors tell…
The writer C. J. Hopkins, who is an American but lives in Germany, is being sentenced to pay a fine or face prison for a couple of tweets comparing the Covid lockdown totalitarianism to Nazi Germany. His “crime” is to have posted two tweets showing a swastika, which, as you know, can be considered a crime…
There probably couldn’t be two more dissimilar places than Sicily and Finland and, yet, somehow, I love them both. If Finland is calm and order, then Sicily is noise and chaos. In Finland, people would wait for the pedestrian’s green light to appear before they crossed the street — any street, even if it was…
It’s a Barbie world, sang a song, and now we hear the same tune in a movie. But we do NOT live in a Barbie world. If anything, it’s quite the opposite. For all its defects and its shallow consumerism, Barbie’s world was kitsch but at least it was pink and cheerful. But our modern…
In a famous Sherlock Holmes story, the detective draws attention to a curious incident of a dog that didn’t bark at night. Sometimes, what we don’t hear is almost as important as what we hear. While we are bombarded with news about global warming, what is the media NOT barking about? There are a lot…