Belgium
The police budget has escaped
Tar and feathers. Former minister Annelies Verlinden, Minister of Justice in charge of the I-Police file, has been taken to task by the Court of Audit. Or rather the Court of Miscounts. Once again, after the Mons railway station, the RTBF building with more than 110 million in extra costs, and the…
The RTBF’s bottomless pit
BAM has often criticised how close to the authorities our RTBF’s journalistic content was during the Covid period, but we have never talked about its property management… which is just as shambolic.
A vaccination museum in Brussels?
Portrait of a Belgium that has gone, in a few decades, from the kingdom of chips to the temple of the jab
The AJP, the RTBF and the WEF
Bernard Crutzen attended the preview of the film “September 5” organised by the Association des Journalistes Professionnels (AJP). After the screening, a debate was announced, bringing together figures from the mainstream media. But could it really be called a debate? Between muted consensus…
RTBF: What we must think
Four years to the day after the release of “Ceci n’est pas un complot”, Bernard Crutzen shares his thoughts on Arnaud Ruyssen’s podcast “Les Clés”, broadcast last week on the RTBF. In this op-ed, he invites journalists to ask themselves whether they have been misled by their sources.
RTBF: hide this conflict that I cannot bear to see
RTBF treated us this week to a series of podcasts and articles on the COVID crisis. Those who feared the worst will not be disappointed. While many errors are not acknowledged in them, RTBF nevertheless tries to justify them… Today we are going to look at the article “5 ans de Covid-19: les médias…
Malicious attack on democracy?
On 22 February, the Belgian Parliament passed an “omnibus law” containing a new offence as vague as it is worrying: malicious attack on the authority of the State. After the European DSA and the French law against so-called cult abuses (adopted in a sham of democracy), this criminalisation of…
ABSyM challenges vaccination by pharmacists before the Constitutional Court
“The ABSyM board of directors has decided to take legal action against Minister Vandenbroucke’s law allowing pharmacists to vaccinate against Covid-19 in their pharmacies, because this law violates a number of constitutional rights.”
Amnesty
Censorship: Amnesty International targets the wrong culprit Anyone who openly questions or criticises the measures taken by their government in the face of the sars-cov-2 threat risks censorship or sanctions. A recent report [1] by Amnesty International rightly denounces the...
Article 3/3: Vaccine safety paved with uncertainties
The covid vaccine and its economic and health stakes have caused a great deal of ink to flow since the beginning of this health crisis. Never before has a vaccine been developed so quickly, since the first ones were approved by the EU as early as January 2021. Yet...