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5 days ago | 
brusselssignal.eu | John Rosenthal
Stefan Niehoff, 64, whose home was raided last November after he reposted an “insulting” meme on X, has been found guilty on “speech crime” charges and fined €825. As previously reported by Brussels Signal, the original charge was that Niehoff, a former sergeant in the Bundeswehr, German armed forces, had “insulted” then-German economics minister Robert Habeck. That was by reposting a meme suggesting Habeck was a “professional moron”. The charge was quietly dropped earlier this year.
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3 weeks ago | 
brusselssignal.eu | John Rosenthal
One of the main planks of EU efforts to regulate the internet has always consisted of a commitment to take action against the “manipulative” and “inauthentic” online behaviours of “malicious actors”: For instance, involving the creation and use of fake accounts.
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3 weeks ago | 
brusselssignal.eu | John Rosenthal
The government of the German state of Brandenburg has admitted that its local intelligence bureau runs 287 fake accounts on social media. The admission came in the government’s response to an AFD parliamentary query and was reported by the German wire service DPA and confirmed by the local parliamentary group of the opposition Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.
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1 month ago | 
claremontreviewofbooks.com | Henry Olsen |John Rosenthal |Peter Skerry |Michael Burlingame
Download Subscriber Only Subscribe President Donald Trump’s whirlwind of early activity reminded Americans what leadership can look like. But effective leadership consists of much more than throwing a lot of executive orders against the wall to see what legally sticks. It requires prudential judgment, assessing what is possible now. Taking big risks with imperfect information is also a key characteristic of real leaders. Both President George H.W. Bush and George W.
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1 month ago | 
claremontreviewofbooks.com | David Goldman |John Rosenthal |Henry Olsen |Carnes Lord
Download Subscriber Only Subscribe In his new book, Israel and Civilization: The Fate of the Jewish Nation and the Destiny of the West, Josh Hammer argues that the West should support the State of Israel as an embattled democracy and an indispensable contributor to Western civilization.
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1 month ago | 
claremontreviewofbooks.com | Charles Kesler |John Rosenthal |William Voegeli |Carnes Lord
Download When the 28-year-old Bill Buckley wrote to his new pen pal, Whittaker Chambers, asking permission to come and meet him for the first time, Chambers, recovering at his Maryland farmhouse from another heart attack, replied cheerily, “By all means come.
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1 month ago | 
brusselssignal.eu | John Rosenthal
Stefan Niehoff, a 64-year-old retiree and former sergeant in the Bundeswehr, became something of an overnight sensation in Germany last year after police showed up at his home in rural Bavaria at 6.15 in the morning on November 12th with a warrant to search the premises. Now the search and the warrant have inspired a new documentary, The Schwachkopf Affair (Tale of a Meme), which premiered in Los Angeles on May 16. The object of the warrant?
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1 month ago | 
brusselssignal.eu | John Rosenthal
“Pfizergate” has ended with something of a whimper. The European General Court reprimanded Ursula von der Leyen for failing to disclose her text messages with Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, ones the European Commission claimed never existed in the first place. But the problem with “Pfizergate” from the start was how the controversy, far from promoting transparency, actually created more obscurity by hiding the role of the other beneficiary of the €35 billion Covid-19 vaccine contracts.
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1 month ago | 
brusselssignal.eu | John Rosenthal
Germany’s domestic intelligence service, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), has determined that the opposition Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is “definitely” an extremist organization or, more precisely, an organisation of the “far-right”. But where is the proof?
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | John Rosenthal |Jason Moore
Over the last several years, there have been a number of
opinions issued by district courts continuing to rely upon their
"inherent authority" to sanction parties for the loss of
electronically stored information (ESI). Similarly, we have seen
broader use of various types of evidentiary instructions as
"curative measures" under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure
37(e)(1). The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals' recent opinion in
Gregory v State of Montana, 118 F.4th 1069, 2024 WL
4312740 (9th Cir.
