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Last week I travelled to Brussels to attend the National Conservatism Conference. I was slated to speak on a panel on "The Future of Conservatism." Whether the panel would actually happen seemed in doubt for much of the time I was there, since the city's socialist authorities — working in tandem with their local extreme-left paramilitaries — came very close to successfully shutting down the conference. But by the second day we were still there, and it went forward. And in the end hopefully the drama served as just the right ambiance to help drive home the message on "the future" that I aimed to deliver to the mix of conservatives, classical liberals, populists, and various right-wing dissidents assembled there in the dark heart of European Values. This — in a very lightly edited transcript of my speech — is what I told them."What is to be done?" That seems to be the question on everyone's lips these days. Answering it is I think in fact the real purpose of this conference on National Conservatism here in Brussels.
In its decision, consulted by AFP, the court declared void the summons issued by Brigitte Macron for invasion of privacy and image rights, considering that the facts she denounced should have been qualified of public defamation.
Brigitte Macron, her brother, and the three children of the First Lady had assigned two women on February 15, 2022, one presenting herself as a "medium," the other as an "independent journalist."
They asked the court to condemn these two women to pay them damages for having broadcast on the YouTube channel of the "medium", on December 10, 2021, "a perfectly eccentric thesis" according to which Brigitte Macron, born Trogneux, does not would never have existed, but that his brother would have taken on this identity after changing sex.
Comment: Meanwhile, over in the US, we have seen the police responding with gusto against students and professors at anti-genocide protests at universities: