Touring with Iggy Pop was something to do. It was good fun. I got drunk a lot.
You cannot have democratic accountability in anything bigger than a nation state.
As someone who lived under communism for most of my life I feel obliged to say that the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity at the beginning of the 21st century is not communism or its various softer variants. Communism was replaced by the threat of ambitious environmentalism.
Global warming is a false myth and every serious person and scientist says so. It is not fair to refer to the U. N. panel. The IPCC is not a scientific institution: it's a political body, a sort of non-government organization of green flavor. It's neither a forum of neutral scientists nor a balanced group of scientists. These people are politicized scientists who arrive there with a one-sided opinion and a one-sided assignment.
What is concisely referred to as global warming, is a fatal mistake of the present time.
The development of European integration can be divided into two phases. The first era ended with the Maastricht Treaty. It was a liberalization phase, with the main goal of European integration at the time being the removal of various barriers and borders in Europe. The second phase is a homogenization or standardization phase, one that involves regulation from the top and growing control over our lives. This no longer has anything to do with freedom and democracy.
"not a scientific body capable of accurately assessing the facts about global warming".
The writer's job is to get naked.
Obviousness is always the enemy of correctness.
It is the old experience that a rude instrument in the hand of a master craftsman will achieve more than the finest tool wielded by the uninspired journeyman.
I'm not very comfortable with what people sometimes say or think about me - things I don't feel responsible for.