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In Europe, right-wing parties find voice after Trump’s stunning performance
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BERLIN — As the initial shock of the outcome of the 2016 U.S. elections wears off and the imminent presidency of Donald Trump becomes a reality, right-wing populist parties across Europe are betting their electoral fortunes are on the rise too.
Mr. Trump’s stunning victory, coming on the heels of Britain’s decision to pull out of the European Union, has sent an electric surge through right-wing political parties and figures across the continent, who argue that after years in the political wilderness, their moment has come. Many of Mr. Trump’s populist themes — a hard line on immigration, a distrust of trade deals, a defense of traditional values and a suspicion of international organizations and international elites — are the same ones that are getting new attention on this side of the Atlantic.
The leader of France’s far-right Front National and a candidate for next year’s French presidential elections, Marine Le Pen, called Mr. Trump’s victory “a sign of hope” for those disillusioned by globalization, telling CNN that Mr. Trump “has made possible what was presented as completely impossible.”
Nigel Farage, the leader of the UK Independence Party, who successfully fronted the Brexit campaign to take the United Kingdom out of the European Union this summer, was the first European politician to visit Mr. Trump in person after Election Day. After posing for photographs with the president-elect in Trump Tower’s gold-plated elevator, Mr. Farage — not Prime Minister Teresa May — is now widely viewed as the British politician with the most influence in the incoming American administration.
Mr. Trump’s victory is proof that populists are credible contenders despite opposition from major media outlets and established parties, said Heiko Giebler, a research associate at the Berlin Social Science Center. “It’s similar to what happened after Brexit. Leaders will use this to emphasize that populist movements can be successful, and that they can win even if the odds are against them.”
European populist movements have an ally in the electoral calendar: They’re likely to score more victories in the near future, said analysts.
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I hope ALL of Europe wakes up.
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Trump was needed in Europe too.
It shows us all that it is possible. Many people are feeling they have no voice and don't hence bother to go vote.
Trump will help to change this attitude in EU.
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We should have more people like this on the mainstream news every night.
Another Terror Group Arrested in France: Vote Le Pen
3:20 - Why Being In Eastern Europe is more advantageous than Western Europe
4:25 - Sweden and Germany competing for 'Most Cucked Nation On Earth'
5:15 - The EU is a dying edifice, it won't last unless it becomes a complete tyranny
10:15 - The Rise of Nationalism in Great Britain, France, Hungary, Denmark; Rise of Feminist Party in Sweden
11:15 - The Political Establishment is falling apart at a monumental level; Drive the growth of The Far Right and Far Left
12:50 - Rise of right wing civic nationalism in Latin America, Eastern Africa(backlash against the Chinese)
14:10 - Why Trump is advantageous over Hillary for United States interests
16:45 - Canada will suffer if it keeps following the Trudeau path
17:25 - One of the lessons of Vietnam
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The problem I see with Europe is a lack of Entrepreneurial spirit, which is a hallmark of capitalism. Virtually all of Europes' biggest companies are 100+ years old.
Someone once told me that Europe is a great place to live unless someone sees you trying. Not sure how you change this mentality.
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Basically verifying what most of us already knew. Trump wipes his hands clean of involvement in going after Hillary and lets the pitbulls in Congress do all the dirty work. Another brilliant political move by the President Elect.
Darrell Issa Confirms that Trump Will Let FBI and AG Unleash on Clinton - 11/26/16
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I was against Trump because he often came across as a retard (not always), but if his victory somehow creates a change in Europe and its immigration policy count me a board the bandwagon.
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The problem I see with Europe is a lack of Entrepreneurial spirit, which is a hallmark of capitalism. Virtually all of Europes' biggest companies are 100+ years old.
Someone once told me that Europe is a great place to live unless someone sees you trying. Not sure how you change this mentality.
Very solid point.
I can remember my grandfather telling me stories about his travels in France during the 50's and how laid back it was even back then. You literally couldn't find a place to eat after 2 pm until 5 or 6 pm. Completely unimaginable to a young man from the United States.
My belief on why this is a completely different environment is that the world is so different now compared to even 10 years ago. 10 years ago the mainstream media controlled the narrative. Now WE control the narrative. Threads like this...young people from all over the world are reading it. The world can change so quickly. Check out 5:55 to 8:40. USSR born Cathy Young talks about Soviet censorship and about how much things can change(that we never expected was possible) in such a short period of time.
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Steven Crowder and Alex Jones going in on The Young Turks ;D :D :) :D ;D ;D :D :) ;D :) :D :) ;)
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The problem I see with Europe is a lack of Entrepreneurial spirit, which is a hallmark of capitalism. Virtually all of Europes' biggest companies are 100+ years old.
Someone once told me that Europe is a great place to live unless someone sees you trying. Not sure how you change this mentality.
Once Europeans see the writing on the wall they will change. It is inevitable. Just the way Nature works. They will realize that they were tricked. And the backlash will not be pretty. I can tell you that right now.
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I was against Trump because he often came across as a retard (not always), but if his victory somehow creates a change in Europe and its immigration policy count me a board the bandwagon.
You must not have been watching his speeches. I did and he was anything but a retard. Seemed like a genius to me compared to all the whores in Washington. Supporting Trump was a completely natural fit for males with healthy Testosterone levels and there was never any alternative or second thought. It was just natural that he should be President. I am glad there are still men with healthy Test levels in USA!!
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You must not have been watching his speeches.
How do you "watch" a speech?
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How do you "watch" a speech?
youtube and television ;)
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Very solid point.
I can remember my grandfather telling me stories about his travels in France during the 50's and how laid back it was even back then. You literally couldn't find a place to eat after 2 pm until 5 or 6 pm. Completely unimaginable to a young man from the United States.
My belief on why this is a completely different environment is that the world is so different now compared to even 10 years ago. 10 years ago the mainstream media controlled the narrative. Now WE control the narrative. Threads like this...young people from all over the world are reading it. The world can change so quickly. Check out 5:55 to 8:40. USSR born Cathy Young talks about Soviet censorship and about how much things can change(that we never expected was possible) in such a short period of time.
Watched just the first part. What's really eye opening is her saying that American Universities remind her of the old Soviet Union where everyone has to say the right thing.
Good post.
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Watched just the first part. What's really eye opening is her saying that American Universities remind her of the old Soviet Union where everyone has to say the right thing.
Good post.
Yeah the parallels are just incredible, aren't they?
Andrew Breitbart gives an example of where a lot of this started in California just after World War 2 @20:30 to 24:10
Another Classic Video.
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Censorship in Europe, How go get around it(for our European Brothers)
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Censorship in Europe, How go get around it(for our European Brothers)
Who is this guy? Looks like some metal nerd but is surprisingly articulate in what I've watched.
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Who is this guy? Looks like some metal nerd but is surprisingly articulate in what I've watched.
styxhexenhammer666 of youtube
One of the most accurate predictors of the 2016 election.
In fact, I mainly watched his election night coverage instead of the mainstream.
I believe this is where media is headed eventually... the power will more and more be given into the hands of the little guy with just a microphone and a basement.
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styxhexenhammer666 of youtube
One of the most accurate predictors of the 2016 election.
In fact, I mainly watched his election night coverage instead of the mainstream.
I believe this is where media is headed eventually... the power will more and more be given into the hands of the little guy with just a microphone and a basement.
From the greatest critic of Socialism:
Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
-Ludwig von Mises
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From the greatest critic of Socialism:
Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
-Ludwig von Mises
The rise of people like this in media and eventually Presidential tickets with minorities at the top will eventually break the back of The Democrat Party.
Breitbart hinted at the power of this by using the example of a Cain/West ticket but it could be any combination of minorities with a strong message and good communication/campaigning skills. The Left would have zero counter attack in such a scenario.
@ 20:15 to 20:45
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its not really rize of right wingers..its rize of sanity...we had enough of the balonie distruction that evil evil bakrak Hussein Obama did to the west..he abused the west and during it all took down the journalism and brought it to its knees to a point it ceased to exist in any fair manner
here is what i just posted on gh15 boarding,, its the truth.. its the whole truth ..and nothing! but! the! fucking! truth!
and guess what ..we won! the people have won! so barak Hussein Obama is going to be undo ..everything tht evil thing did will be undone mark my words ...he has a month and a half to play president ..the journey of distruction ended and the west is back!
"we must bi pass the media... there is no other option
the western media is no longer journalizm it is totalitarian and communistic ,, it is rating controlled and technology oriented with very minimal to non existant legit journalizm
we must bi pass the media
media is dead
the new western administration must bi pass the media ..until it can bring more fairness ...even then i believe there got to be a break on the monopoly and due to the severe case we are talking about here...there got to be many more media outlets along the next decade
journalizm is! dead"
gh15 approved
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Censorship in Europe, How go get around it(for our European Brothers)
Looks like he was banned from "Great Clips"
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Looks like he was banned from "Great Clips"
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The way things are going, Italy could be out of the European Union before Britain
The Telegraph
Italy has been plunged into turmoil with new elections expected
Jeremy Warner
29 MAY 2018 • 6:02 PM
"Last night was the darkest in the history of Italian democracy”, Luigi Di Maio, head of Italy’s populist Five Star Movement, said on Monday. For once, this was not just Italian hyperbole. He’s right, but not entirely for the reasons he meant.
It is indeed a profoundly threatening moment, not just for modern Italy, but for the European Union as a whole. Not because the Italian president, Sergio Mattarella, has ridden rough-shod over democratic convention by blocking the appointment of a eurosceptic finance minister, or because he has turned to Carlo Cottarelli, a former big wig at the International Monetary Fund, to form a caretaker government; something similar has happened before in the bedlam of Italy’s political circus.
Rather, it is because the current, incendiary confluence of political, financial and economic forces is a much more dangerous mix than anything we have seen before in the single currency’s troubled, near twenty-year history, threatening to blow the whole thing apart from within.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2018/05/29/way-things-going-italy-could-european-union-britain/amp/
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As Italy’s populists take power, Europe is on edge
ROME — Finished at last with their three-month job of forming a government, Italy’s populists on Friday recited oaths, shook hands and began a job that could prove even more challenging: running the euro zone’s third-largest economy while risking a deep conflict with the European Union.
Italy’s new government has signaled it doesn’t intend to leave Europe’s single currency, easing the most acute concerns. But even with that threat averted for now, Italy’s populist coalition, in a bid to fulfill campaign promises, could test Europe on issues ranging from migration to spending.
For a continent already strained by Britain’s exit from the E.U. and an increasingly uncertain relationship with the United States, Italy represents a different kind of peril. It is a core European Union member willing to push back against European Union policies and norms. In a note of congratulations Friday, European Council president Donald Tusk said it was a “crucial time” for Italy and the E.U.
“We need unity and solidarity more than ever,” Tusk said.
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Italy’s populists, so far, have offered Europe conflicting signs about the approach they will take. The dramatic deal to form a government — and win sign-off from President Sergio Mattarella — was only clinched when the leaders swapped out a fierce euro critic for the finance minister job. Italy’s new government also chose as foreign minister Enzo Moavero Milanesi, whom one analyst on Friday called “a piece of the Italian-European establishment if ever there was one.”
But the two parties that overturned Italy’s political power structure also have reason to stick with the anti-Europe message, because that is what helped bring them to power. The anti-establishment Five Star Movement and the hard-right League have talked relentlessly about renegotiating European rules and fiscal limits. They have called on Europe to help find a more equitable solution for settling migrants and ease the burden on Italy, a top entry point for immigrants crossing the Mediterranean. The League, in particular, has taken a strident anti-migrant stance, campaigning on the deportation of 600,000 people.
Five Star Movement leader Luigi Di Maio, left, and League party leader Matteo Salvini attend the swearing-in ceremony for Italy's new government. (Alessandro Di Meo/AP)
“These guys were supposed to overturn the world,” said Giovanni Orsina, a professor at the LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome, who said he already sees some indications of normalization. “They promised the moon and now they get to govern. They will need to show voters they are moving.”
Just before the ceremony in which law professor Giuseppe Conte was sworn in as prime minister, one of the new government’s leading figures, Matteo Salvini, used a Facebook post to criticize European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker. Juncker had been quoted in one news outlet as suggesting that Italians should work harder and be less corrupt — a comment Juncker’s spokesman said was misrepresented. But Salvini, on his official Facebook account, called Juncker’s comments “shameful and racist.” Salvini’s post included his familiar hashtag, #Italiansfirst.
Much of the concern about Italy’s new government stems from its promise of a powerful injection of spending, including new subsidies for the poor and unemployed. The coalition wants to repeal an unpopular pension restructuring that was drawn up during the height of the euro crisis as a way to bolster Italy’s coffers. The proposed changes are a potent nod to voter frustration in a country where the economy has scarcely grown in two decades. But the D.C.-based Peterson Institute for International Economics, in a research paper, said last week that the coalition’s fiscal plans were a “recipe for a debt crisis” that would “put it on collision course with financial markets and the European Union,” which has rules designed to keep debt in check.
“I think Europe is worried,” said Massimo Franco, a columnist at the Corriere della Sera newspaper. “Italy knows well that we still have to deal with Europe. But the problem will be about expenditures.”
As the new government was sworn in, Milan’s major stock exchange was up 1.5 percent on the day, and Italian borrowing costs — which had spiked during a topsy-turvy week — were falling closer in line with other European countries.
Ministers line up during the swearing-in ceremony at Rome's Quirinale Presidential Palace on Friday. (Gregorio Borgia/AP)
Meantime, at the Quirinale, Italy’s presidential palace, Conte and 18 cabinet members were lining up for a ceremony that resembled any other government initiation in Rome. The walls of the room were gilded. Crystal chandeliers hung overhead. Italian and European Union flags flanked a desk where, one by one, the new government members approached and vowed to “respect the letter of the constitution.”
When posing for photos, Five Star leader Luigi Di Maio stood at the far end of the front row, next to Salvini. Both tried to hold back their smiles. After it was over, reporters spotted Salvini walking out of the palace and asked him how long he thought the new government would last.
“At least 10 years,” he said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/as-italys-populists-take-power-europe-is-on-edge/2018/06/01/d8fb501a-6521-11e8-81ca-bb14593acaa6_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.a44765e86d71
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Fucking Epic. The beginnings of The Downfall of The European Union before our very eyes.
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Big Ups to this guy right here. Dr. Steve Turley
I stumbled upon him recently and, wow, one of the best minds in the the political game.
We need to begin to step outside the paradigm of the mainstream media.
Shut it off fellas. Stop clicking, stop watching.
They starve and ultimately go away without us.
The people have taken back the narrative.
If you have a content creator that your respect, whether he/she have 100 subscribers or 100,000 subscribers....SHARE!!!
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Ontario election results: populist Doug Ford to become premier
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Doug Ford – the brother of controversial former Toronto mayor Rob Ford – is the new leader of Canada’s most populous province, winning a majority government in a local show of strength for the divisive wedge politics that have rattled much of the world.
Ontario’s Conservatives, led by Ford, won 76 of the 124 seats in the province, with 99% of the polls reporting. Buoyed by promises that included slashing income taxes, reducing the price of gasoline, boosting spending on healthcare and transit and repealing carbon pricing, the Conservatives won 41% of the vote, bringing an end to 15 years of Liberal rule in the province.
“This victory belongs to the people,” Ford told supporters on Thursday. “Together we made history. We have taken back Ontario, we have delivered a government that is for the people.”
Ford – a businessman who rails against the elite and regularly peppers his speeches and interviews with boasts and falsehoods – is the brother of the late Rob Ford, the former Toronto mayor who made headlines around the world after he admitted to smoking crack cocaine while in office.
In his victory speech, Ford thanked his brother. “I know my brother Rob is looking down from heaven. I’m just getting chills talking about him right now,” he said. “I know Rob is celebrating with us tonight. We owe so much to Rob’s legacy.”
Throughout the campaign Ford’s brand of populism prompted a slew of comparisons to Donald Trump, as the Canadian leader took aim at safe injection sites and opposed legislation to create protest-free zones outside abortion clinics. But in contrast to Trump, he campaigned hard among Canada’s immigrant communities who hold considerable sway in several ridings in the province.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/08/ontario-election-results-populist-doug-ford-to-become-premier
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Italy shuts ports to migrant boat, asks Malta to open its doors
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Reuters) - Italy will refuse to let a humanitarian ship carrying more than 600 migrants dock at its ports and has asked the Mediterranean island of Malta to open its doors to the vessel, government officials said on Sunday.
Malta brushed off the request, saying it had nothing to do with the rescue operation, opening the prospect of a diplomatic rift between the two European Union allies.
The move by Italy's new interior minister, Matteo Salvini, who is also head of the far-right League, represents an opening gambit to make good on his electoral promises to halt the flow of migrants into the country
Malta takes in nobody. France pushes people back at the border, Spain defends its frontier with weapons," Salvini wrote on Facebook. "From today, Italy will also start to say no to human trafficking, no to the business of illegal immigration."
More than 600,000 migrants have reached Italy by boat from Africa in the past five years. Numbers have dropped dramatically in recent months, but rescues have increased in recent days, presenting Salvini with his first test as minister.
"My aim is to guarantee a peaceful life for these youths in Africa and for our children in Italy," Salvini said, using the Twitter hashtag "We are shutting the ports".
However, Salvini does not have authority over the ports and it was not immediately clear if his line would hold. The mayor of Naples, who has repeatedly clashed with the League leader, said he would welcome in the humanitarian boat.
"Naples is ready, without funds, to save lives," he said.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/uk.mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUKKBN1J60UE
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Italy shuts ports to migrant boat, asks Malta to open its doors
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Reuters) - Italy will refuse to let a humanitarian ship carrying more than 600 migrants dock at its ports and has asked the Mediterranean island of Malta to open its doors to the vessel, government officials said on Sunday.
Malta brushed off the request, saying it had nothing to do with the rescue operation, opening the prospect of a diplomatic rift between the two European Union allies.
The move by Italy's new interior minister, Matteo Salvini, who is also head of the far-right League, represents an opening gambit to make good on his electoral promises to halt the flow of migrants into the country
Malta takes in nobody. France pushes people back at the border, Spain defends its frontier with weapons," Salvini wrote on Facebook. "From today, Italy will also start to say no to human trafficking, no to the business of illegal immigration."
More than 600,000 migrants have reached Italy by boat from Africa in the past five years. Numbers have dropped dramatically in recent months, but rescues have increased in recent days, presenting Salvini with his first test as minister.
"My aim is to guarantee a peaceful life for these youths in Africa and for our children in Italy," Salvini said, using the Twitter hashtag "We are shutting the ports".
However, Salvini does not have authority over the ports and it was not immediately clear if his line would hold. The mayor of Naples, who has repeatedly clashed with the League leader, said he would welcome in the humanitarian boat.
"Naples is ready, without funds, to save lives," he said.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/uk.mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUKKBN1J60UE
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Austria Police, Army to Stage Border Defence War Games as Balkans Warn 80,000 Migrants Headed North
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Austrian troops will carry out exercises preparing the nation’s border defence against a migration influx later this month after Balkans police warned 80,000 third-world migrants are heading towards Western Europe.
With up to 1,000 police officers, soldiers, and riot police set to take part in June, the drill will be Austria’s largest ever border patrol exercise, according to Kronen Zeitung, Austria’s best-selling newspaper.
The announcement came following a security conference in Slovenia at which police chiefs from countries along the Balkans migration routes warned they had seen a significant upsurge in the number of border crossings.
Speaking after the conference, Federal Criminal Police Office (BK) director Franz Lang said that the situation in the Balkans is “critical”, with 80,000 asylum seekers currently making their way through the region towards Western Europe.
“Everyone [at the conference] concluded there was cause for concern,” he said, telling the Austria Press Agency that countries including Albania reported the number of migrant arrivals having more than doubled since this time last year.
“It is mostly young males travelling alone that police see on this ‘mosque route’, many of whom could be considered to be potential jihadists,” Lang added.
Interior Minister Herbert Kickl said the border drill will show the country is “serious” about stopping illegal immigration, stating: “We must be prepared for the possibility of sudden, huge migration flows,” in the event that fledgeling border forces in neighbouring Balkans nations lose control of the situation.
Units from the new border force, which has been named ‘Puma’, “will be positioned in such a way that ensures any applications for asylum will be a case for the Slovenians”, according to the Freedom Party (FPÖ) minister.
“There will be no waving people through and registering them,” he added, contrasting the “genuine defensive stance” on illegal immigration taken by the right wing government compared to that of its Social Democratic Party-led (SPÖ) predecessor.
On Friday, Austria’s conservative-populist governing coalition announced that it is to close seven extremist-linked mosques and expel dozens of foreign-funded imams as part of a plan to tackle radical Islam in the country.
Commenting on the measure, conservative People’s Party (ÖVP) chief and Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said that parallel societies “have no place in our country”, while FPÖ leader Heinz Christian Strache said the government would no longer “tolerate hate speech under the guise of a religion”.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/06/13/austria-wargames-mass-migration-surge-border-closure/
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In Merkel migrant row, Germans back tough policies: poll
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has faced a backlash for allowing in more than one million people fleeing war and misery in Syria, Iraq and elsewhere since 2015
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As Chancellor Angela Merkel fights to save her government in a heated battle over immigration, an opinion poll Friday showed most Germans support the tougher line of her rebel interior minister.
The survey found that 62 percent of respondents were in favour of turning back undocumented asylum seekers at the border, in line with the stance of Interior Minister Horst Seehofer who is openly challenging Merkel.
And 86 percent want faster deportations of rejected asylum seekers, a process now often held up by bureaucratic hurdles, according to the Infratest dimap poll.
The survey heightens pressure on Merkel, who has faced a backlash for allowing into Germany more than one million people fleeing war and misery in Syria, Iraq and elsewhere since 2015.
The mass influx sparked the rise of the far-right and anti-Islam AfD party, which entered parliament last September.
Merkel's welcome to refugees also infuriated Seehofer and his CSU, the sister party of her Christian Democrats in the southern state of Bavaria, the main entry point for most arrivals.
In an unprecedented split between the CDU and CSU, Seehofer has openly defied Merkel with a demand to allow border police to turn back migrants who lack valid identity papers or are already registered in another EU country.
Merkel argues that Germany must not take the sudden and unilateral step of rejecting most asylum seekers at the border, which would heighten the burden for frontline countries like Italy, Greece and Spain.
She has pledged instead to seek bilateral agreements with these countries and a wider solution by the EU, which holds its next summit on June 28-29.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/au.news.yahoo.com/amphtml/merkel-migrant-row-germans-back-tough-policies-poll-095257489--spt.html
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'We might have a new situation' German MP predicts Merkel could be OUSTED end of NEXT WEEK
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Speaking on BBC World at One, the German politician claimed clashes between Angela Merkel and German interior minister Horst Seehofer could result in a "new political situation" in Germany by the end of next week.
The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) politician said it was still unclear in Berlin what the essence of the disagreement between the Chancellor and Mr Seehofer was and that other members of the coalition had been left "in the blue".
Mr Whittaker said: “We are in a serious situation because the question of the migration crisis evolved into a power question.
“The question is who is leading the Government? Is it Angela Merkel or is it Horst Seehofer?
Angela Merkel could be replace as German Chancellor as soon as next week, claims Kai Whittaker
“Everybody seems to be standing firm and that’s the problem.”
Asked what the German Chancellor and her interior minister are clashing over, he replied: “We don’t know really. There is a master plan to solve the migration crisis, which consists of 63 ideas of Horst Seehofer.
“We don’t know that concept yet, so we are a bit in the blue.
“This must have to do with the coming election in Bavaria because it is vital for the Conservatives to win an overall majority because that’s why they have a national importance.
“This kind of has the potential to diminish the authority of her and Horts Seehofer and it could well be that at the end of next week we have a new situation.
The question is who is leading the Government? Is it Angela Merkel or is it Horst Seehofer?
“Probably a new Chancellor.”
Mr Seehofer, of the Christian Social Union (CSU), has often voiced his hostility towards Mrs Merkel’s open border policy, which brought more than a million refugees in the country in 2015.
He pushed for police forces to have the power to turn away undocumented migrants at the border if they are already registered in another European Union country.
But Mrs Merkel opposes to such measure and has held emergency talks with members of her party to look for support.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/975166/Angela-Merkel-Germany-Bundestag-EU-migration-crisis-Kai-Whittaker
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Interesting articles on world wide immigration issues.
THanks for taking the time to post 'em Poly.
I actually learned some new stuff on this issues.
I personally see nothing wrong with nations controlling borders and being selective with immigration.
I'm totally against separating children from parents at the border however.
The USA should simply turn them away, unless it's a repeat border crosser.
Once people have a proven record of 2-3 or more illegal crossings, they need to be locked up.
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Interesting articles on world wide immigration issues.
THanks for taking the time to post 'em Poly.
I actually learned some new stuff on this issues.
I personally see nothing wrong with nations controlling borders and being selective with immigration.
I'm totally against separating children from parents at the border however.
The USA should simply turn them away, unless it's a repeat border crosser.
Once people have a proven record of 2-3 or more illegal crossings, they need to be locked up.
Thanks Howard, I really appreciate it.
Yes, I am trying to add a little bit of variety to the forum by shining a light on some of these other issues the world is facing(particularly Europe).
One of the best YouTube content creators out there. Black Pigeon Speaks videos really are top notch and he has a really solid grasp on the same issues addressed in this thread.
If anyone else has an interesting video they would like to post, by all means please do so.
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You must not have been watching his speeches. I did and he was anything but a retard. Seemed like a genius to me compared to all the whores in Washington. Supporting Trump was a completely natural fit for males with healthy Testosterone levels and there was never any alternative or second thought. It was just natural that he should be President. I am glad there are still men with healthy Test levels in USA!!
I missed this when it was 1st posted
Your exactly right.
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Fucking Epic. The beginnings of The Downfall of The European Union before our very eyes.
Lol at the people in the background cringing.
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At some point if half of a country is "migrating" north into europe.....that's not seeking asylum. Stay and fight for your country.
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Populist Conservative Iván Duque Elected President of Colombia
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Iván Duque, a populist conservative, won Colombia’s presidential election Sunday with about 54% of the vote. He defeated former guerrilla member and past Bogotá mayor Gustavo Petro with a platform focused on economic revival and reform of the country’s recent rebel peace deal.
Duque, 41, will become one of the youngest presidents in the country’s history. A newcomer to politics, Duque worked at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington before being elected to Colombia’s senate in 2014. His political rise is thanks much in part to former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe, who mentored Duque.
Many fear Duque will be a puppet of Uribe, a politician known for his strength and harsh tactics against guerrilla rebels. Uribe was president for two terms from 2002 to 2010, but is constitutionally barred from running for a third term. Uribe is also known as an adamant critic of the country’s 2016 peace deal with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), and Duque has carried this criticism into his own platform.
The peace deal formally ended more than 50 years of rebel warfare that left more than 250,000 dead, but Duque says the deal is too soft on “FARC terrorists.” Many accused of war crimes have avoided prison, and past guerrilla fighters now sit in the Colombia congress. The reform of the peace deal was a primary part of Duque’s presidential running platform. Duque says his party “does not want to tear the agreement to shreds” but rather “make it clear that a Colombia at peace is a Colombia where peace meets justice.”
https://www.google.com/amp/amp.timeinc.net/fortune/2018/06/18/ivan-duque-populist-conservative-wins-colombian-election-president
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Anti-Immigrant View Adopted by Denmark's Biggest Political Party
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(Bloomberg) -- Having anti-immigration policies has gone well and truly mainstream in Denmark.
The country’s biggest political group, the opposition Social Democrats, this week ended long-standing ties with the Social Liberals that count European Commissioner Margrethe Vestager among their members. The move followed the latter group’s perceived soft views on immigration.
Instead, Social Democrat leader Mette Frederiksen has publicly acknowledged a closer bond with the Danish People’s Party, which has talked of dragging Denmark out of the Schengen agreement and targets a drastic reduction in the number of immigrants and asylum seekers allowed into the country. (It’s worth noting that a former Social Democrat prime minister, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, back in 1999 attacked the DPP for its harsh views on immigration, using a metaphor to imply the group would never be fit for polite society.)
With general elections due no later than June 2019, most polls show that Frederiksen has a good chance of becoming Denmark’s next prime minister. If she defeats the center-right coalition of Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen, Frederiksen said this week she intends to form a one-party government, without the Social Liberals. At the same time, she has made clear she’d be happy to accept parliamentary support from the DPP.
Defending her decision to turn her back on the Social Liberals, Frederiksen said, “The differences have become too big.” She said her new affiliations have brought the Social Democrats more “in line with the view of Danes on immigration, and we will continue on that route.”
Read more on the Social Democrats’ shift on migration
Coalition governments are the norm in Denmark. After trying to run a government that consisted only of his Liberal Party, Lokke Rasmussen in late 2016 conceded the project was untenable, and expanded his administration to become a three-party coalition that rules with the support of the Danish People’s Party in parliament.
Kristian Thulesen Dahl, the leader of the DPP, has welcomed Frederiksen’s stricter views on immigration, though for now he says he will continue to back Lokke Rasmussen.
But Danish media have been full of political commentary noting that there’s a good deal more chemistry between Frederiksen and Thulesen Dahl than between the DPP leader and Lokke Rasmussen.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bloombergquint.com/politics/2018/06/06/anti-immigrant-view-adopted-by-denmark-s-biggest-political-party.amp
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Great more good news from Denmark.
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Is it too late for Mother Europe? Europa Erwachen!
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Anti-EU Swedish Democrats surge to first place ahead of election
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The anti-EU, anti-mass migration Swedish Democrats have surged to first place ahead of Sweden’s election in September.
YouGov have them up by 6 points on 29%. The Social Democrats are lagging behind on 22%, giving the Eurosceptics a large 7 point lead.
This is highly significant as the party has just called for a referendum on EU membership
The anti-EU, anti-mass migration Swedish Democrats have surged to first place ahead of Sweden’s election in September.
YouGov have them up by 6 points on 29%. The Social Democrats are lagging behind on 22%, giving the Eurosceptics a large 7 point lead.
This is highly significant as the party has just called for a referendum on EU membership.
Party Leader Jimmie Åkesson describes the EU as a “a large web of corruption” and told the Swedish media: “We pay an enormous amount of money and get overwhelmingly little back.”
Euroscepticism is rising across Europe. Help us to keep bringing you the latest.
Politics in Europe is changing rapidly. A big win for the Swedish Democrats could rock Brussels to the core. Where Brexit Britain leads, others will follow!
https://www.westmonster.com/anti-eu-swedish-democrats-surge-to-first-place-ahead-of-election/
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Anti-EU Swedish Democrats surge to first place ahead of election
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The anti-EU, anti-mass migration Swedish Democrats have surged to first place ahead of Sweden’s election in September.
YouGov have them up by 6 points on 29%. The Social Democrats are lagging behind on 22%, giving the Eurosceptics a large 7 point lead.
This is highly significant as the party has just called for a referendum on EU membership
The anti-EU, anti-mass migration Swedish Democrats have surged to first place ahead of Sweden’s election in September.
YouGov have them up by 6 points on 29%. The Social Democrats are lagging behind on 22%, giving the Eurosceptics a large 7 point lead.
This is highly significant as the party has just called for a referendum on EU membership.
Party Leader Jimmie Åkesson describes the EU as a “a large web of corruption” and told the Swedish media: “We pay an enormous amount of money and get overwhelmingly little back.”
Euroscepticism is rising across Europe. Help us to keep bringing you the latest.
Politics in Europe is changing rapidly. A big win for the Swedish Democrats could rock Brussels to the core. Where Brexit Britain leads, others will follow!
https://www.westmonster.com/anti-eu-swedish-democrats-surge-to-first-place-ahead-of-election/
Wonderful news.
It’s clear the swedes are waking up & have had enough
Even if it’s a little late.
Soon another country is going to leave EU - then watch it implode.
Happy Days.
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Italy’s Salvini: ‘Within a Year, We’ll See if a United Europe Exists’
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Italy’s right-wing populist leader and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has suggested the European Union (EU) may not have “a future in its current form” and said the next 12 months are crucial in determining how the bloc changes.
He made the comments following a discussion about the ongoing migrant crisis that is causing tension between the bloc’s leaders, slamming other nations for placing the burden on Italy, and insisting his country “cannot take on a single additional [asylum] case”.
“In the coming months, it will be decided if Europe still has a future in its current form or whether the whole thing has become futile,” the League leader told Spiegel Online.
“It’s not just about the budget for the next seven years. Next year will see new European Parliament elections. Within one year, we will see if a united Europe still exists or if it doesn’t.”
Mr Salvini, who has praised U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s approach to immigration, also restated his view that NGO ships, including several operated from Germany, should not be operating off the coast of Libya as they “support the migrant traffickers and boost the incentive to risk a crossing”.
Italy has continued to deny such ships the right to dock on their shores, with the German ship Lifeline, carrying 234 migrants picked up off the coast of Libya, forced to dock in Malta just this week.
“After the NGO Aquarius ship was sent to Spain, now it’s the Lifeline NGO that will go to Malta, and this outlawed ship will eventually be seized,” tweeted Mr Salvini Tuesday. “For women and children who are really fleeing the war, the doors are open, for all the others, no! #stopinvasion
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/06/27/italys-salvini-year-see-united-europe-still-exists/
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Italy’s Salvini: ‘Within a Year, We’ll See if a United Europe Exists’
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Italy’s right-wing populist leader and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has suggested the European Union (EU) may not have “a future in its current form” and said the next 12 months are crucial in determining how the bloc changes.
He made the comments following a discussion about the ongoing migrant crisis that is causing tension between the bloc’s leaders, slamming other nations for placing the burden on Italy, and insisting his country “cannot take on a single additional [asylum] case”.
“In the coming months, it will be decided if Europe still has a future in its current form or whether the whole thing has become futile,” the League leader told Spiegel Online.
“It’s not just about the budget for the next seven years. Next year will see new European Parliament elections. Within one year, we will see if a united Europe still exists or if it doesn’t.”
Mr Salvini, who has praised U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s approach to immigration, also restated his view that NGO ships, including several operated from Germany, should not be operating off the coast of Libya as they “support the migrant traffickers and boost the incentive to risk a crossing”.
Italy has continued to deny such ships the right to dock on their shores, with the German ship Lifeline, carrying 234 migrants picked up off the coast of Libya, forced to dock in Malta just this week.
“After the NGO Aquarius ship was sent to Spain, now it’s the Lifeline NGO that will go to Malta, and this outlawed ship will eventually be seized,” tweeted Mr Salvini Tuesday. “For women and children who are really fleeing the war, the doors are open, for all the others, no! #stopinvasion
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/06/27/italys-salvini-year-see-united-europe-still-exists/
Heart warming to read.
Europe EU is fcuked the sooner it collapses the better.
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EU Reaches Deal On Migration, Strengthens External Borders
The European Union finally reached a deal on migration after nearly nine hours of hard-fought talks on the second day of their Summit on Friday.
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte told the EU on Thursday that he could not accept any of the joint council conclusions until he agreed on a migration plan, which stalled the conference until the next day. (RELATED: Italy Sabotages EU Sabotages Summit, Cancels Migration Meeting)
Italian leadership made it clear in recent weeks that the EU sharing equal responsibility of rescuing migrants at sea and at the border is a red line for them and their cooperation, which the new agreements now comply with.
The conclusions agreed upon by the 28-member states seek to strengthen Europe’s external borders “to prevent a return to the uncontrolled flows of 2015 and to further stem illegal migration on all existing and emerging routes,” the European Council conclusion read.
EU leaders also agreed to set up control centers dispersed throughout the 28 nations on a voluntary basis “where rapid and secure processing would allow, with full EU support, to distinguish between irregular migrants, who will be returned, and those in need of international protection,” it says.
The conclusions also address secondary movements of those seeking asylum, meaning when asylum seekers travel country to country seeking resettlement or protection elsewhere, in this case somewhere else within the EU.
The Council agreed that these movements threaten the integrity of the Common European Asylum System, and “member states should take all necessary internal legislative and administrative measures to counter such movements and to closely cooperate amongst each other to that end.”
Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, who’s anti-immigration League party campaigned on banning migrants from Africa and deporting those already in Italy, said he was “satisfied and proud of our government’s results in Brussels,” according to Reuters.
Italy feels it is no longer alone anymore, and can return to being a “protagonist” rather than the source of division, which it has been in recent weeks.
French President Emmanuel Macron, who staunchly criticized Salvini for his refusal to accept migrants ships, also appeared satisfied with the conclusions, saying that European cooperation had won the day. He tweeted on Friday that the EU had “found the right balance between responsibility and solidarity.”
German Chancellor Angela Merkel also acknowledged that the agreement was a welcomed sign of cooperation, but she is still hesitant about division amongst the states.
“We still have a lot of work to do to bridge the different views,” she told Reuters.
The pressure to come out of the meetings with an agreement on migration was significant for Merkel, who was given a deadline by her Bavarian coalition partner, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, to have a deal by the end of the summit.
https://www.google.com/amp/amp.dailycaller.com/2018/06/29/eu-deal-migration-italy/
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Europe Is Rejecting Migrant Ships, Shutting Ports
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Anti-EU Swedish Democrats surge to first place ahead of election
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The anti-EU, anti-mass migration Swedish Democrats have surged to first place ahead of Sweden’s election in September.
YouGov have them up by 6 points on 29%. The Social Democrats are lagging behind on 22%, giving the Eurosceptics a large 7 point lead.
This is highly significant as the party has just called for a referendum on EU membership.
Party Leader Jimmie Åkesson describes the EU as a “a large web of corruption” and told the Swedish media: “We pay an enormous amount of money and get overwhelmingly little back.”
Euroscepticism is rising across Europe. Help us to keep bringing you the latest.
Politics in Europe is changing rapidly. A big win for the Swedish Democrats could rock Brussels to the core. Where Brexit Britain leads, others will follow
https://www.westmonster.com/anti-eu-swedish-democrats-surge-to-first-place-ahead-of-election/
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Anti-EU Swedish Democrats surge to first place ahead of election
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The anti-EU, anti-mass migration Swedish Democrats have surged to first place ahead of Sweden’s election in September.
YouGov have them up by 6 points on 29%. The Social Democrats are lagging behind on 22%, giving the Eurosceptics a large 7 point lead.
This is highly significant as the party has just called for a referendum on EU membership.
Party Leader Jimmie Åkesson describes the EU as a “a large web of corruption” and told the Swedish media: “We pay an enormous amount of money and get overwhelmingly little back.”
Euroscepticism is rising across Europe. Help us to keep bringing you the latest.
Politics in Europe is changing rapidly. A big win for the Swedish Democrats could rock Brussels to the core. Where Brexit Britain leads, others will follow
https://www.westmonster.com/anti-eu-swedish-democrats-surge-to-first-place-ahead-of-election/
Heart warming news
Thanks for posting
Really hope it results in a win for them
That would be so Good.
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Heart warming news
Thanks for posting
Really hope it results in a win for them
That would be so Good.
Absolutely brother. Happy to do it.
It's been stated that the middle is vanishing and Europe is either moving further to the left or further to the right. It will be interesting to see where it all leads to in the coming decade but i must say, I feel better about Eastern Europe's prospects.
Check out the video I just posted in the YouTube Content Creator thread for an early look at some of the competitive Senate races on the table for the November mid terms.
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Absolutely brother. Happy to do it.
It's been stated that the middle is vanishing and Europe is either moving further to the left or further to the right. It will be interesting to see where it all leads to in the coming decade but i must say, I feel better about Eastern Europe's prospects.
Check out the video I just posted in the YouTube Content Creator thread for an early look at some of the competitive Senate races on the table for the November mid terms.
Thanks & I will check the video.
The biggest obstacle to overcome is the massive amount of propaganda & lies
Spewed out by the MSM that will not report the truth about what is happening throughout
Europe with this Traitorous failed experiment - millions of soft gullible people believe
What they are reading & seeing on biased tv.
If & once the media is overcome/ disbelieved the rout will be swift.
As barbaric as it maybe I’d love to see the traitors behind this left to hang & rot
In each major town / city.
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Anti-Migrant Rioting in Germany - 'Merkel Must Go'
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Macron Tells Denmark ‘No Such Thing as a True Dane, True Frenchman
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French politicians have reacted with anger after Emmanuel Macron asserted that “true” Frenchmen and Danes “do not exist”, and attacked the people he rules over as stubbornly resistant to change while on an official visit to Denmark.
The French president made the remarks while on a three-day tour of Denmark and Finland, where he is hoping to establish a “progressive arc” of nations supporting his vision of a globalised EU superstate, which would revolve around a liberal conception of human rights, ahead of European Parliament elections next year.
Speaking before a gala lobster dinner on Wednesday, at which Denmark’s Queen Margaret was in attendance, Macron praised the Scandinavian nation as one which is “completely open to the rest of the world” compared with a France whose people he said showed a “Gaulish stubborn resistance to change”.
France has a “deep and complex identity, which has always been thought of as universalism”, the former investment banker said, before stating he believes he has succeeded in provoking “cultural change” in the native since his election last year.
“People are changing their minds, they are much more open to risk,” he told the event, which was broadcast on Danish television.
“You will see France transformed by its people.”
Asked by a Danish student about the future of national identities in Europe, Macron said that “the ‘true Dane’ does not exist — he is a European”.
“Even your language is not just Danish — it is European. The same is true for the French”, he added.
The president’s performance overseas attracted ire from French politicians including far-left populist Alexis Corbière, who accused him of having “not only shown contempt towards his own people” but also of displaying “an astounding level of stupidity”, tweeting that Macron was “ignorant of the fact the Gauls were great inventors”.
Meanwhile, National Rally leader Marine Le Pen commented: “In Denmark, Macron castigates the ‘Gaulish stubborn resistance to change’. As usual, he despises the French from abroad! The ‘Gauls’ will be happy to respond to his arrogance and contempt!”
Fabien Di Filippo, a National Assembly member for the Republicans — the leader of which this week announced that the traditionally centre-right French party would be taking a tough new line on mass migration — also hit out at the globalist leader.
“Between the denial of French identity and [his coining] a new insult to the French people, President Rothschild Emmanuel Macron has outdone himself again while in Denmark,” he posted on Twitter.
https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/08/30/macron-denmark-true-dane-frenchman/
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Nationalist Lead in YouGov Poll Has Sweden on Edge Ahead of Vote
Sweden Is Facing Political Upheaval
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The anti-immigration Sweden Democrats remained the largest party in a final poll by YouGov ahead of Sweden’s election on Sunday, marking a stark contrast to results in other surveys and ratcheting up uncertainty ahead of the vote.
Seeking to upend the Swedish establishment and push for an exit from the European Union, the party’s backing rose to 24.8 percent in a YouGov poll published on Wednesday. That would make it bigger than both the ruling Social Democrats and the largest opposition party, the conservative Moderates.
Voters flocked to the Sweden Democrats after the Nordic nation of 10 million people became a haven for refugees, accepting a record 600,000 immigrants over the past five years. The party’s popularity is driving a wedge between the two-bloc political establishment, which has so far refused to engage with the Sweden Democrats because of their neo-Nazi roots.
Read More on Sweden Democrats:
‘I’m Not a Racist, But’: Sweden Faces Historic Upset in Election
Sweden Nationalists Dream of ‘Swexit’ That (Almost) No One Wants
The party’s growing clout as a power broker is also unnerving investors who are still struggling to come to terms with the fallout from elections in Italy, the U.K Brexit vote and the election of Donald Trump in the U.S. Sweden’s krona last week sank to its lowest level since the 2008 global financial crisis.
The currency traded about 0.2 percent weaker at 10.54 per euro as of 2:30 p.m. local time, snapping four days of gains.
But questions have been raised about the reliability of YouGov’s polling, which is based on a self-recruited web panel. A polls by Demoskop released by newspaper Expressen on Wednesday showed backing for the Sweden Democrats at 18.2 percent, while in s poll of polls by Swedish Radio its backing stood at 19 percent.
Support for Sweden Democrats Is Anyone’s Guess as Polls Differ
Backed by only 3.6 percent voters, the YouGov poll also shows that the Green Party won’t reach the 4 percent threshold for getting seats in parliament. The red-green bloc of Social Democrats, Greens and the Left Party remains the largest at 36.8 percent compared with just 33 percent for the four-party opposition Alliance coalition.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2018-09-05/sweden-democrats-largest-party-in-yougov-poll-as-election-nears
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If you want to get some really good insight into Sweden this man has some really content concerning the elections and day to day happenings.
Sanity4Sweden
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Sweden Votes After Tumultuous Campaign Shows Wider Divisions
*Established blocs are in a tied race as voting starts Sunday
*Tense debate over immigration marks final days of campaign
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A turbulent Swedish election campaign came to an end with little sign of compromise ahead as the establishment parties pleaded with voters to beat back an ascendant nationalist movement.
The center-right and center-left blocs were in a virtual tie with voting starting on Sunday as the conservative-led opposition gained ground in recent days. But the blocs will be far from securing a majority since the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats look poised to win almost 20 percent.
Party leaders took the last moments of the campaign to warn voters that the political turbulence will be far from over come election day, and that they can expect hard talks in the days or weeks ahead on forming a viable government. All parties have vowed not to seek the support of the Sweden Democrats. The tension has showed no signs of subsiding, with an eruption of vitriol between the smaller pro-immigration Center Party and the nationalists in Friday’s last big debate of the campaign.
Center Party leader Annie Loof voiced loud protests as Sweden Democrats leader Jimmie Akesson said that immigrants find it hard to get jobs because they’re not Swedish and “don’t belong.” Asked again about the controversy on Saturday, Loof said that Akesson showed “his true face yesterday.”
But Loof also said that Prime Minister Stefan Lofven should step down immediately if it becomes clear his Social Democrats have lost power, in order not to slow down the process of forming a new government. “If he steps down tonight that process could start tomorrow morning,” she told newspaper Expressen. “If he doesn’t resign, we will vote him down in a couple of weeks."
Record immigration over the past years and lingering economic hardship from the financial crisis have stoked populist and nationalist sentiment even in rich and egalitarian Sweden. The threat to the political establishment comes on the heels of a wave of election surprises around the world, such as the U.K. Brexit vote, and the rise of populist and authoritarian leaders in countries such as Italy and Hungary and even the U.S.
Ulf Kristersson, head of the conservative Moderate Party and front-runner to become the next prime minister, said integrating refugees is key for Sweden to maintain its extensive welfare state. “This is something that erodes Sweden’s social contract,” he said. “So many people could do so much good in our country, if we just had a well-functioning integration.”
While immigrants have been a boon to Sweden, helping to fill massive job shortages during a near record economic expansion, the labor market has had a tough time absorbing the inflow of about 600,000 people over the past five years. Unemployment among the foreign-born is about 20 percent, compared with just above 6 percent overall.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2018-09-08/tumultuous-swedish-election-draws-to-a-close-as-divisions-widen
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After weeks of talks, Toronto-area MP Leona Alleslev ditches the Liberals and joins the Tories
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OTTAWA—Toronto-area MP Leona Alleslev’s floor-crossing from the Liberals to the Conservatives had been in the works for almost a month, two Conservative sources have told the Star.
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But the talks between Alleslev and Scheer’s team began three or four weeks earlier, just a few weeks after she hosted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in her Aurora—Oak Ridges—Richmond Hill riding.
Above a photo of her and Trudeau on July 20, Alleslev tweeted that she was “proud to be part of this (Liberal) team as we head into 2019.”
On Monday, she said she would no longer support Trudeau and his government.
“The citizens of my riding and all Canadians need a government that delivers foundational change for the things that matter,” Alleslev told reporters outside the House of Commons.
“The world has changed dramatically in the last three years and we find ourselves in a time of unprecedented instability … Canada faces a perfect storm of serious challenges at home and abroad. This is not a strong economy, and our country needs strong leadership.”
Alleslev suggested criticizing the Liberals while serving as a Liberal MP would “undermine” the government, so she decided to oppose it openly instead. She did not answer a direct question about whether or not she raised any concerns within the Liberal caucus and leadership before crossing the floor.
Alleslev did not attend the Liberal caucus retreat last week. However, her riding association was still in touch with the Liberal team in Ottawa in recent weeks, a Liberal source said.
The MP’s departure took the party by surprise, said the source, who spoke to the Star on the condition of anonymity.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thestar.com/amp/news/canada/2018/09/17/toronto-area-mp-leona-alleslev-ditches-liberals-crosses-floor-to-tories.html
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As an undocumented immigrant in Europe, I've heard they can get upwards of 1,000 Euros per month and family along with a place to live and food stamps. Is this true?
If this is true, that people who have contributed ZERO to the country's coffers can receive such "gratitude" from corrupt politicians, then what are they doing with the hundreds of thousands of homeless natives or the ones getting a meager pension or the ones living below the poverty line (all of whom have contributed to the country's coffers)?
For the life of me, I cannot understand how the local media and the politicians have lent themselves to this game of moral grandstanding.
Now they denounce those who DARE, DARE!!!! criticize the absorption of an immense wave of unskilled, backwards and undocumented pool of laborers who 1) bring down the average IQ of the country by a rather large %, 2) increase taxes on the locals, 3) decrease the amount of services received by the locals, 4) lowers birth rates among the local population, et cetera.
I don't fucking get it. And all they have is... "You're a racist!!!". Really? Really? Really?
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As an undocumented immigrant in Europe, I've heard they can get upwards of 1,000 Euros per month and family along with a place to live and food stamps. Is this true?
If this is true, that people who have contributed ZERO to the country's coffers can receive such "gratitude" from corrupt politicians, then what are they doing with the hundreds of thousands of homeless natives or the ones getting a meager pension or the ones living below the poverty line (all of whom have contributed to the country's coffers)?
For the life of me, I cannot understand how the local media and the politicians have lent themselves to this game of moral grandstanding.
Now they denounce those who DARE, DARE!!!! criticize the absorption of an immense wave of unskilled, backwards and undocumented pool of laborers who 1) bring down the average IQ of the country by a rather large %, 2) increase taxes on the locals, 3) decrease the amount of services received by the locals, 4) lowers birth rates among the local population, et cetera.
I don't fucking get it. And all they have is... "You're a racist!!!". Really? Really? Really?
Well they can call me Racist as much as they like
They are Traitors & Traitors should be hanged.
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MARINE LE PEN ORDERED TO TAKE PSYCHIATRIC TESTS FOR OPPOSING JIHAD TERROR
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You thought it would stop with the defaming and deplatforming of foes of jihad terror? No. Soviet-style judgments of insanity are next. And what will come after that? The answer is clear enough.
The Local reported Thursday that French “far right” (i.e., opposed to mass Muslim migration and French cultural and political suicide) leader Marine Le Pen has been ordered by a French court to undergo a psychiatric examination in order to discover whether or not she “is capable of understanding remarks and answering questions.”
Why this doubt as to Le Pen’s mental competence? Because she “tweeted out gruesome propaganda images from terror group Isis that showed the bodies of people having been executed by the so-called Islamic State.”
And why did she do that? Out of a lurid fascination with blood and gore, or some secret sympathy for the Islamic State’s jihad? No. She tweeted out those images because her party was being likened to the Islamic State in the French media. In a bid to bring the national discussion back to some semblance of sanity, she pointed out – by means of visual aids – that her party was not behaving in the same way as the Islamic State, and not leaving a trail of bloodshed and death in its wake.
But that meant nothing to the French authorities who are desperate to destroy her, her movement, and any and all opposition to their globalist, socialist, open-borders agenda. She was charged with circulating “violent messages that incite terrorism or pornography or seriously harm human dignity.” And now, according to The Local, “as part of their investigation it appears magistrates in Nanterre near Paris have ordered Le Pen to visit a psychiatrist for an expert assessment.” Adding to the Orwellian flavor of the whole scenario was the fact that this order was issued on September 11.
Le Pen is still trying to inject a note of sanity into this fantastically insane public discourse, stating: “I thought I had been through it all: well, no! For denouncing the horrors of Daesh (Isis) by tweets the ‘justice system’ has referred me for a psychiatric assessment. How far will they go?!”
How far indeed? Le Pen is defiant: “Of course I will not go to this psychiatric assessment and I will wait to see how the magistrate intends to force me.” Indeed, we are all waiting. Now that the French authorities have begun to engage in the Soviet tactic of branding their opposition mentally incompetent, what other Soviet tactics will follow? Will thuggish “security personnel” knock on Le Pen’s door at three in the morning, and drag her off to a prison cell and physical and psychological torture? Will she end up in a camp where the truncheon will be employed liberally until she emerges “reeducated,” loving Big Brother and proclaiming that Islam is religion of peace and tolerance that has nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism?
These kinds of scenarios are not hysterical fantasies anymore, if they ever were. If Le Pen is ordered to undergo psychiatric examination for the completely sane act of opposing the Islamic State and refuting claims that her movement is like it, then all bets are off. France, like Britain (where the police are devoting themselves to tracking down not just “hate crimes,” but “non-crime hate incidents,” i.e., thoughtcrimes, while actual crime rates skyrocket), is rapidly descending into totalitarianism, and there is no telling where it will end. If thoughts that dissent from the Leftist establishment agenda can be prosecuted and declared to be evidence of insanity, then the door has been opened to all the rest of the features of the reign of terror that always accompanies the rule of the hard-Left.
And so we will soon see. Will French authorities indeed come after Le Pen, and enforce this order? Will she be imprisoned for refusing it? Will others who declare that Islam is not a religion of peace and that mass Muslim migration into Europe is unwise be likewise declared insane and carted off to hospitals and/or prisons? Will France and other Eurosocialist autocracies open gulags for those who dare to say that jihad terror is something that decent people should oppose?
Le Pen also stated: “It’s really incredible. This regime is really starting to worry me.” You and me both, sister.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/271406/marine-le-pen-ordered-take-psychiatric-tests-robert-spencer
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France's regime should have a psychiatric review.
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Brazilian Stocks, Currency Surge as Bolsonaro Consolidates Lead
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Brazilian assets extended a rally on Wednesday as traders price in higher odds of far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro winning this month’s presidential election, a scenario seen as more favorable to financial markets among the leading contenders.
The real soared 2.4 percent, the best among major currencies, pushing weekly gains to 5.3 percent. Stocks climbed 3.4 percent led by surges in state-run companies, while bond risk measured by five-year credit default swaps plunged the most since March 2016.
The outsized two-day advance is being driven by opinion polls that showed Bolsonaro extending his first round lead while statistically drawing even with leftist Fernando Haddad in a second round. Brazilians head to the polls this Sunday and if none of the candidates get more than 50 percent of the valid votes, the two most-voted will face off on Oct. 28 to see who will lead Latin America’s largest economy for the next four years.
The latest opinion survey released by Datafolha late Tuesday showed the former paratrooper rose four points to 32 percent with just days to go until the vote. Haddad, an heir to former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva who is currently incarcerated, saw his vote intentions fall within the margin of error, to 21 percent from 22 percent. The controversial conservative’s rapid advance in the final stretch of the race has brought up the possibility -- still seen as remote -- that he wins the election in the first round, which hasn’t happened in Brazil since 1998.
“There is a low but not zero probability of a first round victory for Bolsonaro, which would be quite bullish for Brazilian assets,” said Shamaila Khan, the director of emerging-market debt at AllianceBernstein in New York. “We have been and are constructive on Brazilian assets.”
Brazilian assets had already surged on Tuesday, following the publication of an Ibope poll which showed an increase in support for Bolsonaro, a seven-term congressman who has pledged to sell-off state companies in the event of victory.
Of the 13 candidates running for the presidency on Sunday, Bolsonaro and Haddad are almost certain to make the second round. Markets eye Haddad warily, fearing a return to the statist policies pursued by previous Workers’ Party governments. In a runoff scenario, both men are technically tied, with Bolsonaro on 44 percent and Haddad on 42 percent, according to Datafolha.
As with Ibope, the poll showed that Bolsonaro’s support grew among female voters, despite large demonstrations over the weekend to protest his conservative views on women. It also grew among Brazil’s most educated voters, as well as those with incomes five to ten times the minimum wage.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2018-10-02/second-poll-confirms-far-right-candidate-s-rising-support-levels it
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Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s Trumpian candidate, narrowly misses outright victory
The right-wing presidential candidate will face a leftist, Fernando Haddad, in a runoff on October 28.
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Brazil’s most critical election in years is headed toward a runoff — and a far-right candidate who has been compared to President Donald Trump is in the lead.
Brazilians voted Sunday in the first round of their presidential elections, elevating far-right politician, Jair Bolsonaro. Bolsonaro won 46 percent of the vote and narrowly missed winning the election outright. Leftist candidate Fernando Haddad, who is backed by popular former President Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva, came in second and garnered approximately 29 percent of the vote.
The runoff between the two candidates is set to take place October 28 — and it’s a battle that is likely to fracture an already divided electorate. Brazilians are reeling from the country’s rampant corruption problem, escalating crime rates, and flailing economy, and the two candidates presented very different approaches to those problems.
Haddad, of the leftist Workers’ Party, has made Brazil’s economic problems a central focus of his platform, and presented a tax-and-spend plan to reduce unemployment and strengthen the social safety. He’s tried to tie himself closely to the leftist legacy of Lula.
Bolsonaro, the far-right candidate, made security a central part of his campaign — a platform that apparently resonated with Brazil’s electorate, since he looks to be the early favorite in the presidential runoff at the end of the month. The former army captain has threatened to “quebrar o sistema” — break the system — though in some cases, especially when it comes to the economy, he hasn’t provided many specifics.
Bolsonaro did especially well in the southern part of the country, including Rio de Janeiro, where he received nearly 60 percent of the vote. Two other centrist candidates also competed in the election, but it’s unlikely all those voters will break for Haddad in the final round of voting, leaving the leftist candidate with a margin that will be extraordinarily difficult to make up.
Bolsonaro’s showing on Sunday is even more remarkable because he was largely seen as a fringe candidate, without the backing of any major party. He ran on the Social Liberal Party (PSL), and politicians running for office who were associated with his ticket also did better than expected in the voting. But if Bolsonaro wins the runoff, he will likely need to build a governing coalition with other right-leaning allies to implement his policies.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/world/2018/10/8/17950904/brazil-elections-jair-bolsonaro-haddad-runoff
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Merkel & her cohorts have just had a huge kick in the bollocks
with election result from Bavaria
Great news ;D
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Gays, blacks still voting for Brazil's Bolsonaro despite rhetoric
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Rio de Janeiro (AFP) - Right-wing Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro once said he'd rather have a dead son than one who came out of the closet, but that isn't stopping conservative gay voters from backing him in Sunday's decisive election run-off.
And even though the former army captain has made comments deemed misogynist and racist, 30-year-old black administrative assistant Priscila Santos says she will tick the box next to Bolsonaro's name.
For these voters, Bolsonaro is tough on crime and will help create jobs in the country's flailing economy -- and those factors trump whatever questionable comments he may have made in the past.
"I don't see that wickedness in Bolsonaro that others see," says David Trabuco, a 26-year-old gay evangelical Christian and make-up artist now living near Brasilia.
"I think we're not used to dealing with someone like him -- a tough guy, strong, someone decisive."
Trabuco says he left Sao Paulo a year ago to settle on the outskirts of Brazil's capital, where he initially worked as a prostitute and got caught up in taking drugs.
He then received help from an evangelical church, one of the bastions of Bolsonaro support in the country, to escape the dark times.
During the bitter and polarized campaign that ends Sunday with Bolsonaro's run-off against leftist Workers' Party (PT) opponent Fernando Haddad, Trabuco says he's turned a deaf ear to warnings from friends that a far-right government would yield an increase in homophobic violence.
According to the Gay Grupo Bahia charity, 387 murders and 58 suicides occurred in Brazil last year due to "homotransphobia" -- an increase of 30 percent as compared with 2016.
But Trabuco says he's far more concerned about being unable to "step out into the street with a cell phone in your hand."
"I'm not just thinking about myself, nor worrying if he'll accept my (sexual) orientation," he added, referring to Bolsonaro.
"I'm worried about security and health."
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Thiago Geraldo -- who is 29, gay and unemployed, having failed to finish university -- says Bolsonaro won him over with pledges to battle Workers' Party "corruption."
On Sunday, Geraldo took part in a massive pro-Bolsonaro demonstration in front of Rio de Janeiro's iconic Copacabana beach.
He wore a sleeveless T-shirt emblazoned with an image of the right-wing leader and took part in chants against "PT communism" and "gender ideology."
Sheepishly, he admits to having previously voted for the PT before a series of corruption scandals engulfed the party's top brass -- former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been jailed and his successor Dilma Rousseff was impeached.
Now a "right-wing gay," Geraldo says he believes that a strong government is needed to create employment and banish the fear of spiralling violence that left 63,800 people dead last year.
"A good citizen who is armed can protect me," he said, balking at suggestions that a Bolsonaro government would spell bad news for the LGBT community.
"This story about Brazil being the place with the highest number of murders of homosexuals is a lie."
Both Trabuco and Geraldo dismiss criticisms of Bolsonaro as "press inventions."
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Santos, for her part, is ardently anti-PT.
"My situation as a black woman is the same as my white neighbor or that of a homosexual: we're fed up with being robbed and of paying taxes without seeing results," she said.
The mother-of-three says she is excited by the prospect of a new leader with a military background tackling corruption.
Bolsonaro evokes fear in criminals and "makes them taste their own medicine," she says.
One of Bolsonaro's campaign pledges has been to allow citizens to carry arms for self-protection.
"Is someone going to act calmly knowing that other people are carrying weapons?" she asked.
Three times this year alone, Santos has been robbed of her cell phone, once by an armed assailant.
She says she wants more than anything to feel safe.
She insists, too, that she's "never seen a Bolsonaro proposal that removes rights," denying that the military man, who is nostalgic for the order and lack of crime under Brazil's 1964-85 military dictatorship, has ever said anything offensive.
In April, after visiting a black neighborhood, Bolsonaro made a comment about the locals' weight, adding: "They don't do anything. They're no use even to procreate."
In 2014, he said a leftist politician was "very ugly" and that she "doesn't deserve to be raped."
And in 2011, he told Playboy magazine that he "wouldn't be able to love a gay son."
While polls have Bolsonaro dominating the white vote, with 60 percent compared to Haddad's 29, the right-winger also leads amongst black and mixed race voters with 47 percent to the PT candidate's 41 percent, according to pollsters Ibope.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/gays-blacks-still-voting-brazils-bolsonaro-despite-rhetoric-015504908.html
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Angela Merkel will step down as head of her party
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"The time has come to open a new chapter," Angela Merkel said on October 29th, confirming reports that she would not run again as party leader. She will remain Germany’s chancellor for now, but said this will be her last term—saying publicly for the first time what had long been suspected. That means she will step down as chancellor in 2021 at the latest, and probably a bit earlier in order to let a successor bed in.
Mrs Merkel had intended to stand for re-election as party chairman at the next party conference of her centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU) in December. But on October 28th the CDU suffered a major blow in regional elections in the German state of Hesse. The chancellor’s announcement is being seen as a dignified attempt to stage-manage her own exit. Germany’s most recent chancellors have all been pushed out of office, after clinging on to power too long. Mrs Merkel has said this is a fate she is keen to avoid. "As the chancellor and the chair of the CDU, I carry responsibility both for the successes and for the failures," Mrs Merkel told journalists in Berlin.
In Hesse the CDU lost 11.3 percentage points compared with its score in 2013. It won the most votes with 27%, giving it the right to form the next coalition government. And Mrs Merkel’s close ally, the incumbent minister-president Volker Bouffier, will probably stay as state premier. But this was not a vote of dissatisfaction with Hesse’s regional government. The economy there is booming and the alliance between the conservatives and the centre-left Greens has proved unexpectedly harmonious and effective. It was instead a slap in the face for the central government in Berlin. Voters in Hesse punished both Mrs Merkel’s conservatives and the SPD for a series of rows and scandals in Berlin, where the two parties, along with the CDU’s much smaller sister party from Bavaria, form the federal government.
The coalition parties have spent much of this year in spats over migration or squabbles over top jobs in Berlin. Voters are fed up and appear to have used these regional elections to send a message to the central government to that effect. Now pressure is growing on the SPD’s leaders to leave the national coalition. This would bring down the government and probably spark fresh elections. Left-wing members believe that compromise with Merkel’s conservatives is destroying the party, and each disastrous poll strengthens that feeling.
The centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) were even bigger losers, scoring 19.8%, also down around 11 percentage points, meaning that proportionally the result was even worse for them. That was their worst result since 1946 in the state, whose biggest city is Frankfurt. As in Bavaria two weeks earlier, the big success story was the Green party. It came in neck-and-neck with the SPD for second place, which for them meant a gain of almost 9 percentage points. The coalition wrangling now begins, with various permutations possible between the six parties in parliament. (The hard-right Alternative for Germany also did well, tripling their vote share to around 13%.) Most likely the Greens will be able to carry on in government with the CDU—although, because of conservative losses, possibly now in a three-way “Jamaica” coalition with the free-market Liberals.
On the evening of the Hesse vote an ashen-faced Andrea Nahles, the SPD party leader, faced journalists and talked of crisis, saying “the state of the government is not acceptable” and that something must change. She said she would start talks on October 29th, a sign she wants to prevent panic breaking out within the party and that she will not quit the coalition immediately. But the mood is so bad within the party that a coup against her uninspiring leadership is not out of the question.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.economist.com/europe/2018/10/29/angela-merkel-will-step-down-as-head-of-her-party#ampf=undefined
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Jair Bolsonaro, right-wing firebrand, wins Brazil’s presidential election
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Far-right firebrand Jair Bolsonaro won a decisive victory on Sunday in Brazil’s presidential runoff election. His win represents a significant break in Brazilian politics, as voters abandoned the leftist party that had dominated past elections.
The 63-year-old former congress member won about 55 percent of the vote, handily defeating the leftist Workers’ Party candidate Fernando Haddad, who was backed by popular former President Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva.
Bolsonaro was favored to win after he narrowly missed winning the presidential election outright in the first round of voting earlier in October. The former army captain has promised to “quebrar o sistema” — break the system — and he capitalized on the political and economic turmoil in Latin America’s largest country, promising to restore order in a country beset by violent crime and still reeling from a massive corruption scandal that touched all parties and politicians in Brazil.
Bolsonaro has also expressed an affinity for Brazil’s past dictatorship, leaving some to wonder whether his rise will leave Brazil’s democracy vulnerable — though he promised to honor the constitution in his victory speech on Sunday, the New York Times reported.
Bolsonaro’s showing on Sunday is even more remarkable because he largely began his presidential campaign as a fringe candidate in the Social Liberal Party (PSL), a once-marginal party that has also made significant gains. He also has a long history of making controversial racist and sexist statements; his unfiltered rhetoric and his “law and order” platform have earned him the nickname the “Trump of the Tropics.”
Bolsonaro celebrated his historic victory on Sunday. “We are going to change the destiny of Brazil,” he said.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/2018/10/29/18037530/jair-bolsonaro-brazil-president-elections
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Hillary Clinton urges Europe to curb migration to stop populists
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Europe needs a tougher approach on immigration in order to curb the growing threat of right-wing populists, Hillary Clinton said, calling on EU leaders to show their electorates that they can no longer “provide refuge and support.”
“I think Europe needs to get a handle on migration because that is what lit the flame,” Clinton said in an interview with the Guardian published Thursday.
The former U.S. Democratic presidential candidate suggested that immigration concerns in part contributed to Britain’s vote to leave the EU — which Clinton has previously described as the “greatest self-inflicted wound in modern history” — as well as her election loss to Donald Trump.
While Clinton said she admires German Chancellor Angela Merkel for her “compassionate” approach, she said it is “fair to say Europe has done its part, and must send a very clear message — ‘we are not going to be able to continue [to] provide refuge and support’ — because if we don’t deal with the migration issue, it will continue to roil the body politic.”
The Obama-era secretary of state also said Trump exploited the issue of migration during his 2016 election campaign and continues to do so in office.
“The use of immigrants as a political device and as a symbol of government gone wrong, of attacks on one’s heritage, one’s identity, one’s national unity has been very much exploited by the current administration here,” she said.
“There are solutions to migration that do not require clamping down on the press, on your political opponents and trying to suborn the judiciary, or seeking financial and political help from Russia to support your political parties and movements.”
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.politico.eu/article/hillary-clinton-urges-europe-to-curb-migration-to-stop-populists/amp/
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Thousands of French protesters clash with police, call for Macron’s resignation over gas taxes
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Thousands of French protesters flooded the nation’s capital Saturday to demonstrate against President Emmanuel Macron’s controversial fuel tax increase -- clashing with policies as they called for Macron’s resignation.
The angry clashes, both in Paris and other towns and cities across the country, mark the eighth day of “yellow jacket” protests against the tax, but have also come to encompass a growing anger against Macron and the French ruling class -- seen by many as out of touch.
The yellow jackets have become a uniform of sorts for the protesters, originating from the neon yellow jackets French drivers are required to keep in their vehicles.
Authorities said that at least 8,000 protesters flooded the Champs-Elysees in Paris alone, with 81,000 protesters in total nationwide compared to 244,000 last Saturday. Police deployed some 3,000 security forces after an attempt to march on the Elysee Palace last week.
Police used smoke, tear gas and even a water cannon to try and disperse the protesters, Le Monde reported.
Officials said that a no-go zone, set up around key areas including the presidential palace and the National Assembly on the Left Bank of the Seine River, has not been breached.
At least eight people, including two police officers, were injured, while dozens of protesters were detained, including for throwing projectiles.
In La Madeleine, an area filled with luxury brand shops popular with tourists, businesses shut down due to the protests.
Demonstrators created a fire barricade and began chanting “Macron resign!” when tear gas was launched at them, sparking a brief dash. Thick black smoke was billowing into the sky and the area was completely shut down
French police appeared have created a barricade in the area to prevent the protesters from joining the rest of the group at the Elysee Palace. Sky News reported that other protesters sang the national anthem, called Macron a thief and demanded his resignation.
In other cities, such as Lyon and Marseille, protests were more peaceful.
The diesel fuel tax has gone up seven euro cents (nearly eight U.S. cents) and will keep climbing in coming years, according to Transport Minister Elisabeth Borne. The tax on gasoline is set to increase by four euro cents. Gasoline currently costs about 1.64 euros a liter in Paris ($7.06 a gallon), slightly more than diesel.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.foxnews.com/world/thousands-of-french-police-use-tear-gas-water-cannon-against-paris-protesters.amp
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Thousands of French protesters clash with police, call for Macron’s resignation over gas taxes
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Thousands of French protesters flooded the nation’s capital Saturday to demonstrate against President Emmanuel Macron’s controversial fuel tax increase -- clashing with policies as they called for Macron’s resignation.
The angry clashes, both in Paris and other towns and cities across the country, mark the eighth day of “yellow jacket” protests against the tax, but have also come to encompass a growing anger against Macron and the French ruling class -- seen by many as out of touch.
The yellow jackets have become a uniform of sorts for the protesters, originating from the neon yellow jackets French drivers are required to keep in their vehicles.
Authorities said that at least 8,000 protesters flooded the Champs-Elysees in Paris alone, with 81,000 protesters in total nationwide compared to 244,000 last Saturday. Police deployed some 3,000 security forces after an attempt to march on the Elysee Palace last week.
Police used smoke, tear gas and even a water cannon to try and disperse the protesters, Le Monde reported.
Officials said that a no-go zone, set up around key areas including the presidential palace and the National Assembly on the Left Bank of the Seine River, has not been breached.
At least eight people, including two police officers, were injured, while dozens of protesters were detained, including for throwing projectiles.
In La Madeleine, an area filled with luxury brand shops popular with tourists, businesses shut down due to the protests.
Demonstrators created a fire barricade and began chanting “Macron resign!” when tear gas was launched at them, sparking a brief dash. Thick black smoke was billowing into the sky and the area was completely shut down
French police appeared have created a barricade in the area to prevent the protesters from joining the rest of the group at the Elysee Palace. Sky News reported that other protesters sang the national anthem, called Macron a thief and demanded his resignation.
In other cities, such as Lyon and Marseille, protests were more peaceful.
The diesel fuel tax has gone up seven euro cents (nearly eight U.S. cents) and will keep climbing in coming years, according to Transport Minister Elisabeth Borne. The tax on gasoline is set to increase by four euro cents. Gasoline currently costs about 1.64 euros a liter in Paris ($7.06 a gallon), slightly more than diesel.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.foxnews.com/world/thousands-of-french-police-use-tear-gas-water-cannon-against-paris-protesters.amp
Good
I wish them well & Hope that Ponce of a PM gets kicked out.
Though sadly that’s likely a long shot.
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France May Impose Emergency To Contain Worst Civil Unrest In A Decade
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Paris: France will consider imposing a state of emergency to prevent a recurrence of some of the worst civil unrest in more than a decade and urged peaceful protesters to come to the negotiating table, government spokesman Benjamin Griveaux said on Sunday.
Groups of young men with faces masked, some carrying metal bars and axes, rioted on the streets of central Paris on Saturday, setting a dozen vehicles ablaze and torching buildings.
"We have to think about the measures that can be taken so that these incidents don't happen again," Griveaux told Europe 1 radio.
The authorities were caught off guard by the escalation in violence after two weeks of nationwide protests against fuel taxes and living costs, known as the "yellow vest" movement after fluorescent jackets kept in all vehicles in France.
President Emmanuel Macron will hold an emergency meeting with the prime minister and interior minister later on Sunday to discuss the riots and how to begin a dialogue with the protest movement, which has no real structure or leadership.
When asked about imposing a state of emergency, Griveaux said it would be among the options considered on Sunday.
"It is out of the question that each weekend becomes a meeting or ritual for violence."
Protests began on November 17 and quickly grew thanks to social media, with protesters blocking roads across France and impeding access to shopping malls, factories and some fuel depots.
Authorities said violent groups from the far right and far left as well as "thugs" from the suburbs had infiltrated the yellow vests movement in Paris on Saturday, although Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said most of those arrested were regular protesters who had been egged on by fringe groups.
Speaking on BFM TV late on Saturday, Castaner said the authorities had put all security measures in place to prevent the violence, but that they had faced extremely violent, organised and determined groups.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ndtv.com/world-news/france-to-consider-state-of-emergency-to-prevent-riots-1956635%3famp=1&akamai-rum=off
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Yellow vests are being called everything but what they are in the media....march on.
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PC GONE MAD: Criticising migration could become CRIMINAL offence under new plan
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The United Nations Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration seeks to make immigration a universal human right. MEP Marcel de Graaff said: “I would like to say some words on the global compact on migration. On the 10th and 11th of December there will be an international congress in Marrakesh Morocco. The participating countries are set to sign this agreement and although this joint agreement is not binding it is still meant to be the legal framework on which the participating countries commit themselves to build new legislation.
“One basic element of this new agreement is the extension of the definition of hate speech.
“The agreement wants to criminalise migration speech. Criticism of migration will become a criminal offence.
“Media outlets that give room to criticism of migration can be shut down.
“The compact for migration is legalisation of mass migration.
“It is declaring migration as a human right so it will, in effect, become impossible to criticise Mrs Merkel’s welcome migrants politics without being at risk of being jailed for hate speech.”
In 2015 Angela Merkel pushed for an open-door migration policy across the EU. Critics said the move was motivated by Germany’s need to boost its workforce by at least one million.
The document is an "intergovernmentally negotiated agreement, prepared under the auspices of the United Nations, that covers all dimensions of international migration in a holistic and comprehensive manner”.
Austria, Australia, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Israel, Poland, Slovakia and Switzerland have already stated they will not sign the agreement.
One of the “guiding principles” of the document asks for a “whole-of-society approach” to promoting mass migration, including the role of the media.
Governments are asked to “promote independent, objective and quality reporting… and stopping allocation of public funding or material support to media outlets that systematically promote intolerance, xenophobia, racism and other forms of discrimination towards migrants”.
Italian deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini said on Wednesday that Italy will not sign the United Nations Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration next month.
He said: "Just like the Swiss, who carried forward the Global Compact up until yesterday and then said 'everyone stop', the Italian government will not sign anything and will not go to Marrakech.
"The floor of parliament must debate it. The Italian government will allow parliament to decide.”
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte warned the migration document tackles issues citizens are divided on.
Mr Conte said: "The Global Migration Compact is a document that raises issues and questions that many citizens have strong feelings about.
"Therefore, we consider it right to put the debate in parliament and subject any final decision on the outcome of that debate, as Switzerland has done.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.express.co.uk/news/world/1052923/UN-migration-agreement-Angela-Merkel-EU-criticise-migration-hate-crime/amp
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Spain’s Socialists take hit in Andalusia vote as far right wins seats
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Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez and Andalucia regional president Susana Díaz, both from the Socialist party | Cristina Quicler/AFP via Getty Images
MADRID — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Socialist Party took a beating Sunday in an election in Andalusia that saw the far right win seats in one of the country’s regional parliaments for the first time in decades.
The Socialists (PSOE) — which have ruled the southern region uninterrupted for 36 years — came in first but could lose their grip on power if parties on the right team up against them.
The results spell difficulties ahead for Sánchez, who will face local, regional and European ballots next May — and who is also expected to call a snap general election sometime next year.
With over 99 percent of the ballots counted, the PSOE won 33 seats out of 109 — down 14 from the last election in 2015. The far-right Vox party won 12 seats.
Vox’s success marks the first time a far-right party has won seats in either the national parliament or one of the country’s regional chambers since 1982. Until Sunday, Spain had been spared the right-wing populist surge found elsewhere in Europe. Many analysts say Vox’s performance in Andalusia could pave the way for further growth at the national level.
The conservative Popular Party came in second with 26 seats — a loss of seven seats from 2015 — while the liberal Ciudadanos gained 12 additional seats, winning 21 in total.
Overall, left-leaning parties won about 44 percent of the vote — down from 57 percent in 2015 — and 50 seats, while right-leaning parties won about 50 percent of the vote and 59 seats.
Juanma Moreno — the local leader of the Popular Party — said as the results came in that he would try to replace the Socialists’ incumbent regional leader, Susana Díaz, which would require parliamentary support from Ciudadanos and the far-right Vox.
“We know today that Andalusia has voted for change and therefore it will have change,” Moreno told reporters. “Forty years of Socialist hegemony in Andalusia has ended tonight.”
Yet Ciudadanos — which came in third place — called on other parties to support their own local candidate for the regional presidency. Díaz said the far right should be blocked from entering government — and she should stay in power.
“I call on all political forces to rein in the extreme right,” Díaz said, blaming poor turnout for the loss of votes on the left. About 59 percent of voters cast their ballots, 3 percentage points lower than the 2015 turnout.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.politico.eu/article/spains-socialists-take-hit-in-andalusia-as-far-right-wins-seats/amp/
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Macron's popularity hits new low amid French protests - poll
PARIS, Dec 4 (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Edouard Philippe's approval ratings hit new lows as the "yellow vest" protests gathered pace, according to an Ifop-Fiducial poll for Paris Match and Sud Radio published on Tuesday.
Macron's approval rating fell to 23 percent in the poll conducted late last week, down six points on the previous month. Philippe's rating fell 10 points to 26 percent.
The president's score matches the low charted by his predecessor Francois Hollande in late 2013, according to Paris Match. Hollande was then considered to be the least popular leader in modern French history.
The first "yellow vest" demonstrations were held on Nov. 17 to contest fuel-tax rises, and have since evolved into a broader protest movement and anti-Macron uprising.
http://news.trust.org/item/20181204072236-qgsyz
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Macron's popularity hits new low amid French protests - poll
PARIS, Dec 4 (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Edouard Philippe's approval ratings hit new lows as the "yellow vest" protests gathered pace, according to an Ifop-Fiducial poll for Paris Match and Sud Radio published on Tuesday.
Macron's approval rating fell to 23 percent in the poll conducted late last week, down six points on the previous month. Philippe's rating fell 10 points to 26 percent.
The president's score matches the low charted by his predecessor Francois Hollande in late 2013, according to Paris Match. Hollande was then considered to be the least popular leader in modern French history.
The first "yellow vest" demonstrations were held on Nov. 17 to contest fuel-tax rises, and have since evolved into a broader protest movement and anti-Macron uprising.
http://news.trust.org/item/20181204072236-qgsyz
Great more good news.
Liberal Ponce married his Grandmother
Him & Merkel need to go the sooner the Better
For all of Europe.
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Great more good news.
Liberal Ponce married his Grandmother
Him & Merkel need to go the sooner the Better
For all of Europe.
;D
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Slovakia government refuse free migration policies, proposed by UN.
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Slovakia government refuse free migration policies, proposed by UN.
18 countries so far
https://mobile.twitter.com/manny_ottawa/status/1069409119679918080
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Clashes as yellow vest protests grow in Belgium, Netherlands
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BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian police fired tear gas and water cannons at yellow-vested protesters calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Charles Michel after they tried to breach a riot barricade, as the movement that started in France made its mark Saturday in Belgium and the Netherlands.
Protesters in Brussels threw paving stones, road signs, fireworks, flares and other objects at police blocking their entry to an area where Michel’s offices, other government buildings and the parliament are located.
Brussels police spokeswoman Ilse Van de Keere said that around 400 protesters were gathered in the area.
About 100 were detained, many for carrying dangerous objects like fireworks or clothing that could be used as protection in clashes with police.
The reasons for the protests are not entirely clear. Neither Belgium nor the Netherlands has proposed a hike in fuel tax — the catalyst for the massive and destructive demonstrations in France in recent weeks.
Instead, protesters appeared to hail at least in part from a populist movement that is angry at government policy in general and what it sees as the widening gulf between mainstream politicians and the voters who put them in power. Some in Belgium appeared intent only on confronting police.
Earlier in Brussels, police used pepper spray and scuffled with a small group of protesters who tried to break through a barricade blocking access to the European Parliament and the European Union’s other main institutions.
The rallies, which started at different locations around the city and converged on the European quarter, disrupted road and rail traffic on one of the busiest Christmas shopping days of the year.
Walking behind a banner reading “social winter is coming,” the protesters chanted ”(French President Emmanuel) Macron, Michel resign.”
Dozens of people were searched as they arrived, and police warned people to stay away from the area.
Several hundred police officers were mobilized. Last week, yellow vest protesters clashed with police and torched two police vehicles in the same area. More than 70 people were detained.
In the Dutch city of Rotterdam, a few hundred protesters in the high-visibility vests that have become a symbol of the movement walked peacefully across the downtown Erasmus Bridge singing a song about the Netherlands and handing flowers to passers-by.
Sisters Beb and Ieneke Lambermont, aged 76 and 67 respectively, were among them.
“Our children are hard-working people but they have to pay taxes everywhere. You can’t get housing anymore. It is not going well in Dutch society,” Ieneke said. “The social welfare net we grew up with is gone,” she said.
“The government is not there for the people. It is there to protect its own interests,” she said.
About 100 protesters gathered in a peaceful demonstration outside the Dutch parliament in The Hague. At least two protesters were detained by police in central Amsterdam.
https://www.apnews.com/c0afb781cc074df88e40f1a2bd61ed92
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Denmark plans to banish unwanted migrants to small, remote island
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Denmark is trying to banish migrants whose applications have been rejected or who have a criminal record to a small, remote island that currently contains a crematory and laboratories.
The plan adopted Friday by the center-right government and right-wing Danish People’s Party, which together hold a majority in parliament, calls for officials to decontaminate the isolated island of Lindholm by late 2019 and open facilities for some 100 people in 2021. From 1926 until earlier this year, Lindholm, a 17-acre island, was a laboratory facility for a state veterinary institute that researched contagious animal diseases.
The facilities would house migrants who have been denied asylum but cannot be deported, and those with criminal records.
The New York Times reported the asylum-seekers would be required to go to the island center every day or face being imprisoned. Ferry service to travel to and from the island would also be limited.
Inger Stojberg, the country’s immigration minister, wrote on Facebook that asylum-seekers are “unwanted in Denmark, and they will feel that.”
Martin Henriksen of the Danish People’s Party told The Associated Press the government’s move “is a signal to the world that Denmark is not attractive” for migrants.
Henriksen told TV2 the country was going to “minimize the number of ferry departures as much as possible.”
However, human rights activists have denounced the decision, calling it degrading and inhumane.
"We demand that the government and the Danish People's Party stop their plans [for the island] and improve the conditions for all rejected asylum-seekers in Denmark," said Steen D. Hartmann of the online movement "Stop Diskrimination."
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.foxnews.com/world/denmark-plans-to-banish-unwanted-migrants-to-small-remote-island.amp
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Brazil's Bolsonaro says he will target Venezuela, Cuba
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(Reuters) - Brazil's far-right President-elect Jair Bolsonaro said on Tuesday that he would take all action "within the rule of law and democracy" to oppose the governments of Venezuela and Cuba.
Bolsonaro, who takes power Jan. 1, is a fervent anti-communist who has praised his country's 1964-1985 military regime. He frequently targets Venezuela and Cuba for verbal attacks, a drastic change from Brazil's governments under the leftist Workers Party that ruled from 2003 to 2016 and had warm relations with those regimes.
Brazil's incoming president did not provide any details during the Facebook live video when he made his most recent comments on Venezuela and Cuba.
The United States is counting on Brazil under Bolsonaro to be a strategic ally.
In late November, U.S. President Donald Trump's national security adviser John Bolton met Bolsonaro in his Rio de Janeiro home to help cement ties.
Bolton said Bolsonaro's election was a "historic opportunity" for Brazil and the United States to work together on security, economics and other issues.
https://www.www.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN1OH2F8
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US seeks close ties with Brazil’s new leader
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is seeking to cement close ties with Brazil’s incoming far-right leader with a visit to the country next week by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
Pompeo will lead the U.S. delegation to President-elect Jair Bolsonaro’s inauguration on New Year’s Day.
The State Department said Friday that Pompeo would discuss increasing U.S.-Brazil trade and investment, particularly in the technology, defense and agriculture sectors. It said Pompeo would also raise democracy concerns about Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela as well as potential threats from China’s growing presence in Latin America.
Bolsonaro has indicated he will adopt positions similar to those of President Donald Trump. Trump has urged countries to follow national interests in economic, security, foreign relations and environmental policies.
A senior State Department official said Pompeo was eager to talk with Bolsonaro about his plans for exerting Brazil’s sovereignty in dealing with other nations and with international organizations.
The official, who was not authorized to preview Pompeo’s trip publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity, said Pompeo would raise the broad issue of sovereignty when discussing multilateral agreements like the Paris climate accord from which Trump has said the U.S. will withdraw. Like Trump, Bolsonaro is a climate change skeptic and has suggested loosening Brazilian environmental protections to boost the country’s economy.
https://apnews.com/51ed41be989645479ec9b089cbd959f1
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Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro vows to ease gun laws after taking office
President-elect Jair Bolsonaro wants to fulfill a campaign promise to make it easier to own a firearm. More than 63,000 people were murdered in Brazil in 2017, despite relatively restrictive gun laws.
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Brazil's far-right President-elect Jair Bolsonaro has said he will relax the country's restrictive gun laws to allow people with no criminal record to own a firearm.
On Saturday, Bolsonaro wrote on Twitter that he would sign a decree ordering the move shortly after taking office on January 1.
The measure had been one of the former army captain's campaign promises. Bolsonaro believes the move could help more people in Brazil defend themselves against criminals.
The South American country, which registered a record 63,000 murders in 2017, is plagued by gun violence despite strong gun control laws. Firearm sales are restricted to small-caliber weapons, and buyers are required to complete extensive background checks.
In 2005, 64 percent of voters rejected a proposed ban on all firearms in a referendum.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.dw.com/en/brazils-jair-bolsonaro-vows-to-ease-gun-laws-after-taking-office/a-46896809
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Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro vows to ease gun laws after taking office
President-elect Jair Bolsonaro wants to fulfill a campaign promise to make it easier to own a firearm. More than 63,000 people were murdered in Brazil in 2017, despite relatively restrictive gun laws.
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Brazil's far-right President-elect Jair Bolsonaro has said he will relax the country's restrictive gun laws to allow people with no criminal record to own a firearm.
On Saturday, Bolsonaro wrote on Twitter that he would sign a decree ordering the move shortly after taking office on January 1.
The measure had been one of the former army captain's campaign promises. Bolsonaro believes the move could help more people in Brazil defend themselves against criminals.
The South American country, which registered a record 63,000 murders in 2017, is plagued by gun violence despite strong gun control laws. Firearm sales are restricted to small-caliber weapons, and buyers are required to complete extensive background checks.
In 2005, 64 percent of voters rejected a proposed ban on all firearms in a referendum.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.dw.com/en/brazils-jair-bolsonaro-vows-to-ease-gun-laws-after-taking-office/a-46896809
Sounds like he gets it.
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Europe’s Right Wing Woos a New Audience: Jewish Voters
Parties that oppose immigration are reaching out to a community concerned about anti-Semitism among Muslim extremists
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, shook hands in Jerusalem in July. PHOTO: MARC ISRAEL .SELLEM/JINIPIX/ZUMA PRESS
BERLIN—Emanuel Bernhard Krauskopf’s trips to his synagogue in the German capital have become an awkward affair.
The reason: Mr. Krauskopf and about 30 others recently founded a Jewish chapter of the Alternative for Germany, or AfD, an anti-immigrant party that is the largest opposition group in parliament—one whose members include people accused of anti-Semitism, right-wing extremists and others on the political fringe.
“I’m 69 and tired of being polite,” said Mr. Krauskopf, a retired engineer and entrepreneur. “I support a party that calls a spade a spade and really stands up for the Jews.”
Across Europe, anti-immigration parties with ties to far-right movements have stepped up efforts to recruit supporters in the continent’s small Jewish community, often drawing on perceptions in that community about anti-Semitism among Muslims.
Such concerns are widespread. A recent European Union survey found that 41% of Jews in Germany who had experienced anti-Semitic harassment blamed Muslim extremists, while 20% saw the perpetrators as having right-wing political views and 16% saw them as having left-wing views.
Muslim leaders in Germany say they work to counter anti-Semitism in their communities. “Our imams are trained and aware of the issue and they work together with schools and other religious communities to combat anti-Semitism,” said Mohamad Hajjaj, chairman of the Berlin chapter of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany. He added, “The Middle East conflict is used to spread animosity against the Jews.”
The Swedish parliament includes Jewish legislators who belong to the Sweden Democrats, a party with roots in neo-Nazism that it has since renounced. Austria’s parliament includes Jewish lawmakers who are members of the Freedom Party, which was founded by former members of Adolf Hitler’s SS.
The party of Geert Wilders, the Dutch politician and strident critic of Islam, has a Jewish legislator. And in France, which has Europe’s largest Jewish community, the pollster IFOP estimated that 10% of Jewish voters supported the National Front—whose founder once called the gas chambers a “detail of World War II history”—in the 2017 presidential election. The party has since been renamed National Rally.
To be sure, Jews in Europe have traditionally supported mainstream parties, and many Jewish leaders in Europe have condemned efforts to draw their followers to right-wing parties.
Marine Le Pen, the current National Rally leader, has publicly reached out to Jewish leaders to assure them she wouldn’t tolerate anti-Semitism in her party.
During the 2017 election campaign, Ms. Le Pen faced criticism after claiming the French state wasn’t responsible for the 1942 roundup of Jews to be sent to Nazi concentration camps.
Nearly 60,000 French Jews have left France in the past decade, many blaming frequent assaults against Jews—including high-profile murders and terrorist attacks—by Islamist extremists, said Shimon Samuels, the head of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Paris.
Safety concerns have also prompted Jews elsewhere in Europe to emigrate or consider doing so in recent years. The Jewish population in Europe is estimated to be more than one million people, a fraction of the Muslim population.
“The Muslim constituency is much bigger than the Jewish one,” Mr. Samuels said. “When it comes to the ballot box, everyone is vying for the Muslim vote,” he said of mainstream parties.
Right-wing political leaders such Ms. Le Pen, Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban have all traveled to Israel to build ties not just with its government but also with local Jewish constituencies, said Michael Wolffsohn, a historian and commentator who has written extensively about anti-Semitism in Germany.
“The alienation of Jews from mainstream parties in Germany and Europe will no doubt continue as anti-Israel rhetoric and the lack of engagement regarding the danger coming from parts of the Muslim community continues,” Mr. Wolffsohn said.
While Jewish voters may represent a relatively small portion of the electorate in many European countries, winning their support could help improve the public image of far-right parties, which often face criticism for their stances against immigration.
“I don’t mind being used as a fig leaf by the AfD as long as they do the right thing,” said Mr. Krauskopf.
Jewish lawmakers who belong to far-right parties in Europe say their countries haven’t done enough to address anti-Semitism among new arrivals.
“We have failed to explain to immigrants from Muslim countries that anti-Semitism is not acceptable here,” said David Lasar, a descendant of Holocaust survivors and a legislator for Austria’s Freedom Party, who has accompanied his party’s leader on trips to Israel as part of its bid to shake off allegations of anti-Semitism.
In Sweden, Paula Bieler is one of three legislators of Jewish background for the Sweden Democrats, which won 17.5% of the vote in September elections.
“Jews feel insecure in our country and talk about leaving because it’s not a safe place for them anymore. Much of the anti-Semitism comes from the immigrant community who bring the Middle East conflict here,” Ms. Bieler said.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/europes-right-wing-woos-a-new-audience-jewish-voters-11546257601
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PC GONE MAD: Criticising migration could become CRIMINAL offence under new plan
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The United Nations Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration seeks to make immigration a universal human right. MEP Marcel de Graaff said: “I would like to say some words on the global compact on migration. On the 10th and 11th of December there will be an international congress in Marrakesh Morocco. The participating countries are set to sign this agreement and although this joint agreement is not binding it is still meant to be the legal framework on which the participating countries commit themselves to build new legislation.
“One basic element of this new agreement is the extension of the definition of hate speech.
“The agreement wants to criminalise migration speech. Criticism of migration will become a criminal offence.
“Media outlets that give room to criticism of migration can be shut down.
“The compact for migration is legalisation of mass migration.
“It is declaring migration as a human right so it will, in effect, become impossible to criticise Mrs Merkel’s welcome migrants politics without being at risk of being jailed for hate speech.”
In 2015 Angela Merkel pushed for an open-door migration policy across the EU. Critics said the move was motivated by Germany’s need to boost its workforce by at least one million.
The document is an "intergovernmentally negotiated agreement, prepared under the auspices of the United Nations, that covers all dimensions of international migration in a holistic and comprehensive manner”.
Austria, Australia, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Israel, Poland, Slovakia and Switzerland have already stated they will not sign the agreement.
One of the “guiding principles” of the document asks for a “whole-of-society approach” to promoting mass migration, including the role of the media.
Governments are asked to “promote independent, objective and quality reporting… and stopping allocation of public funding or material support to media outlets that systematically promote intolerance, xenophobia, racism and other forms of discrimination towards migrants”.
Italian deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini said on Wednesday that Italy will not sign the United Nations Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration next month.
He said: "Just like the Swiss, who carried forward the Global Compact up until yesterday and then said 'everyone stop', the Italian government will not sign anything and will not go to Marrakech.
"The floor of parliament must debate it. The Italian government will allow parliament to decide.”
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte warned the migration document tackles issues citizens are divided on.
Mr Conte said: "The Global Migration Compact is a document that raises issues and questions that many citizens have strong feelings about.
"Therefore, we consider it right to put the debate in parliament and subject any final decision on the outcome of that debate, as Switzerland has done.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.express.co.uk/news/world/1052923/UN-migration-agreement-Angela-Merkel-EU-criticise-migration-hate-crime/amp
The sensible countries & I’m hoping the number of like minded countries increases
Fight back against the utter self destructive Madness.
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The sensible countries & I’m hoping the number of like minded countries increases
Fight back against the utter self destructive Madness.
U.N.? Fuck them.
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Clashes Break Out as France’s ‘Yellow-Vest’ Protests Show Signs of Revival
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PARIS—Thousands of “yellow-vest” protesters took to France’s streets Saturday, some clashing with riot police, in a renewed show of force against the government after demonstrations flagged during the holiday season.
A peaceful march along the Seine river turned violent when riot police blocked hundreds of protesters outside the Musée d’Orsay. Groups of demonstrators launched projectiles at police, who used tear gas to disperse them. Video posted to social media showed two policemen being dragged to the ground and repeatedly kicked when a group of protesters tried to force their way through a police cordon, blocking access to a bridge across the Seine. A barge on the river was set on fire.
As darkness fell, people burned scooters and bins along the Boulevard Saint-Germain, an upscale area south of the Seine that had been spared the brunt of previous yellow-vest protests.
Government spokesman Benjamin Griveaux had to be evacuated from his office when a group of people tried to break into the building using construction machinery.
“Once again, an extreme violence has attacked the republic - its guardians, its representatives, its symbols,” President Emmanuel Macron wrote on Twitter. “Justice will be done. Everyone must pull themselves together and ensure debate and dialogue can take place.”
Protesters also turned out in Bordeaux, Marseille, Lyon and other cities across the nation. The interior minister convened a meeting of security forces in response to the violence.
Saturday’s demonstrations suggest the yellow vests, or “gilets jaunes,” continue to present a formidable challenge to Mr. Macron’s government nearly two months after emerging to oppose a fuel-tax increase. Protesters have gathered every Saturday since then to denounce Mr. Macron’s government.
Some demonstrators said remarks this week from Mr. Macron in his New Year’s Eve address and later from Mr. Griveaux drew them out into the streets again. The president criticized those acting like “megaphones for a hateful crowd” and pledged to preserve “order of the republic…without complacency.”
Mr. Griveaux said he was in his office working with half a dozen others when his security staff told him he needed to leave through the back door.
“The French want order,” Mr. Griveaux said. “They want to open a dialogue. Those who broke in today did not behave like citizens. I hope we will find them and they will be punished.”
“I’ve come back because we’ve been provoked,” said Patrick Coudeyrette, a 54-year-old civil servant from Paris who protested Saturday after taking a break for the holidays. “People who protest peacefully like me are being accused of violence and wanting to overthrow the government.”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/clashes-break-out-as-frances-yellow-vest-protests-show-signs-of-revival-11546707826?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=3
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Pope blasts rise of nationalism and populism, appeals to Europeans not to allow new curtains to descend
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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis expressed concern Monday over the rise of populism and nationalism, including separatist tendencies in Europe, partly blaming those growing trends on reactions to waves of migration and on globalization’s disorderly development.
Francis offered wide-ranging and sometimes glum views on world issues in an hour-long speech to diplomats at the Holy See. Without specifying countries or political parties, Francis lamented national policies favoring “quick partisan consensus” over patient efforts for long-range solutions for the common good.
He cited challenges posed by “increased technological growth, which eliminates jobs, and the weakening of economic and social guarantees for workers.” His concerns included “the evil of child labor” and “a progressive decrease in the value of wages, especially in developed countries, and continued discrimination against women in the workplace.”
Francis acknowledged worry in Europe and North America about migrants, but urged sympathy for them, saying governments should help those fleeing poverty, violence, natural disasters and climate change and help integrate them into their host countries.
“All human beings long for a better and more prosperous life, and the challenge of migration cannot be met with a mindset of violence and indifference, nor by offering merely partial solutions,” he said.
Italy’s populist government has been denying port entry to private aid vessels that rescue migrants from Africa, Asia and elsewhere, in hopes of improved lives in Europe. U.S. President Donald Trump is sparring with lawmakers over his demands for a wall to thwart Latin American migrants crossing into the United States from Mexico.
Francis praised Colombia and other South American nations for accepting large numbers of Venezuelans fleeing food shortages and other economic difficulties.
Francis also reflected on the resurgence of nationalism in developed countries and cautioned against euro-skepticism gaining traction in Europe.
He warned that in the decades before World War II, “populist and nationalist demands proved more forceful” than international efforts for peace.
He said that one of the causes was a “globalization that has in some respects developed in too rapid and disorderly a manner, resulting in a tension between globalization and local realities.”
In addition, Francis said that “waves of migration in recent years have caused diffidence and concern among peoples in many countries, particularly in Europe and North America, and this has led various governments to severely restrict the number of new entries, even of those in transit.”
Still, he said, “I do not believe that partial solutions can exist for so universal an issue.”
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.marketwatch.com/amp/story/guid/87FA712E-12B3-11E9-BDC3-ED774D018C33
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Assailants beat far-right lawmaker unconscious: German police
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(Reuters) - Assailants wielding wooden bars beat unconscious a lawmaker for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the northern city of Bremen in what police described as a politically-motivated attack.
The AfD blamed anti-fascist activists for Monday's assault, calling it an assassination attempt against Frank Magnitz.
It posted a picture on Twitter supposedly showing Magnitz on a stretcher with a deep wound to his forehead and a bruised left eye following the attack carried out by three individuals.
Politicians from across the political spectrum condemned the attack and urged police to bring those behind it to justice.
"There is no justification for violence even against the AfD," Greens lawmaker Cem Ozdemir wrote on Twitter. If you fight hate with hate, you allow hate to prevail."
Police in the eastern state of Saxony said last week after an explosion targeted an AfD office that there has been a rise in attacks against the party, and that most incidents were acts of vandalism.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN1P20WC
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French Prime Minister says masks will be banned at protests amid 'yellow vest' movement
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France is planning to jail protesters who wear masks in the wake of weeks of violent demonstrations by the "yellow vest" movement.
Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said proposed legislation would target people who try to hide their identities while taking to the streets.
“We have to preserve the freedom to protest in France and punish those who want to violate this right,” Philippe said in an interview with broadcaster TF1 on Monday night.
French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe.Eric Feferberg / Reuters
His announcement follows weeks of anti-government protests which were sparked by a planned hike in gas taxes and have since morphed into a rebuke of President Emmanuel Macron’s policies.
Masks have been confiscated by police officers at some "yellow vest" protests. The legislation would allow perpetrators to be sent to jail. At the moment, the offense is considered more minor and is punished with a fine.
Philippe said the proposed law would result in troublemakers being forced to pay property damage occurring during demonstrations, instead of taxpayers.
However, he offered few details about the specifics his plan.
In France, demonstrations have to be declared and authorized by municipal authorities at least three days before the planned date. Failing to comply with this can result in an organizer serving up to six months in prison and paying a $8,574 fine. The new penalties that would be proposed under Philippe's proposed legislation were not immediately clear.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna956016
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French protesters want to set off bank run with withdrawals
PARIS (AP) — Activists from a French protest movement encouraged supporters Wednesday to set off a bank run by emptying their accounts, while the government urged citizens to express their discontent in a national debate instead of weekly demonstrations disrupting the streets of Paris.
Activists from the yellow vest movement, which started with protests over fuel tax increases, recommended the massive cash withdrawals on social media. One protester, Maxime Nicolle called it the “tax collector’s referendum.”
“We are going to get our bread back ... You’re making money with our dough, and we’re fed up,” Nicolle said in a video message.
The movement’s adherents said they hoped the banking action will force the French government to heed their demands, especially giving citizens the right to propose and vote on new laws.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe gave details Wednesday of a “big debate” the government plans to start next week in all the regions of France.
“We want it to be rich, impartial and fruitful,” Philippe said.
The debates will focus on four main topics: climate change, democratic issues, taxes and public services, the prime minister said. Anyone can propose a local event and an internet platform will provide another venue for discussion, he said.
President Emmanuel Macron proposed the debate as a way for the government to hear and to respond to the movement’s central complaints.
Macron also announced 10 billion euros ($11.5 billion) worth of measures to boost the purchasing power of French households.
About 200 protesters, including trade union members and participants in the yellow vest movement, gathered Wednesday in Creteil, a Paris suburb as Macron visited a handball facility dedicated to handball gymnasium.
Police officers used tear gas to keep the crowd at a distance from the French leader.
The yellow vest movement was named after the fluorescent garments French motorists must carry so they are visible if they need to get out of their vehicles in a place that could be unsafe.
https://www.apnews.com/c8646ad291c440978c5d8a260a11d454
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Maduro Squeezed as Trump Recognizes Guaido and Protests Expand
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is under unprecedented pressure after the U.S. and other nations recognized opposition leader Juan Guaido as the country’s rightful head of state and protests against the ruling regime expanded.
Trump formally recognized Guaido minutes after the 35-year-old president of the Venezuela National Assembly declared himself the head of state. Countries including Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Panama quickly followed the U.S. lead.
Venezuelans took to the streets in the biggest opposition protests since mid-2017 to back Guaido and increase pressure on Maduro. While the leftist government crushed violent protests two year ago, this time poorer areas of the capital are leading angry demonstrations over failed public services, food scarcity and rising prices. Local press showed crowds gathering in major cities.
“The people of Venezuela have courageously spoken out against Maduro and his regime and demanded freedom and the rule of law,” Trump said in a statement. He said that because the country’s National Assembly had declared Maduro illegitimate, “the office of the presidency is therefore vacant.”
Maduro responded by breaking diplomatic relations with the U.S., giving American diplomats 72 hours to leave the country. Guaido said the diplomats are free to stay in the country. Spokesmen for the White House and U.S. State Department wouldn’t immediately answer questions on whether foreign service officers would remain. One U.S. official dismissed Maduro’s order as meaningless, saying he’s no longer president.
Diosdado Cabello, the powerful No. 2 in Maduro’s socialist party, called on supporters to keep vigil at the presidential palace Wednesday night to defend the government. Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino said in a tweet that the country’s armed forces wouldn’t accept a “self-proclaimed” president.
Shortly before Trump’s statement, Guaido said in a webcast from a protest in Caracas that he would assume the powers of the Venezuela presidency. He invoked a constitutional amendment that allows for the head of the legislature to lead a caretaker government until new elections can be held.
Since taking the helm of the legislature on Jan. 5, Guaido has aggressively pushed the military and the international community to recognize him as the rightful head of state.
“I swear to formally assume the powers of the national executive as interim president of Venezuela to achieve the end of the usurpation,” Guaido said on stage in East Caracas before thousands of Venezuelans who rallied around him on Wednesday. The crowd cheered and sang Venezuela’s national anthem after Guaido took the oath of office.
Venezuela’s loyalist Supreme Court had already announced that it would depose Guaido and nullify the assembly’s motion that declared Maduro’s rule invalid.
The U.S. has steadily expanded economic sanctions and denunciations of Maduro since Trump took office, all but urging that Venezuelans overturn their government. Venezuela’s dollar bonds, which have gained 25 percent on average this year, rallied further on Wednesday as the opposition increased pressure on Maduro. While most of Venezuela’s bonds are in default, investors believe regime change could usher in plans to fix the economy and restructure the debt.
The Trump administration has also prepared to sanction crude oil exports from the country, according to people familiar with the matter, but hasn’t decided whether to take that step. Maduro’s reaction to Guaido’s move will help dictate whether the administration imposes the sanctions, the people said.
Senators who supported Trump’s move, including Republican Marco Rubio of Florida, also called for the U.S. to designate Venezuela a state sponsor of terrorism, which would trigger a new set of restrictions.
“More U.S. actions are definitely on the table,” Jason Marczak, a Latin America expert at the Atlantic Council in Washington, said in an interview. “We have seen a very deliberate ratcheting up of sanctions under the Trump administration, and I expect that those sanctions will be significantly ramped up.
A senior Trump administration official, speaking to reporters on condition of anonymity on Wednesday, suggested Trump will impose additional sanctions if Maduro doesn’t immediately turn over control of Venezuela’s finances to Guaido.
White House officials had already warned some U.S. refiners earlier this month that the Trump administration was considering sanctions on Venezuelan oil exports and advised them to seek out alternative sources of heavy crude.
Oil companies have beseeched the Trump administration not to take the step, warning the action could disadvantage Gulf and East Coast refiners designed to handle the Venezuela’s heavy crude and cause U.S. gasoline prices to spike.
The U.S. move to recognize Guaido risks a backlash, as Maduro is sure to warn that American “Yankees” are backing a coup against his government. But even invoking the checkered history of U.S. intervention in Latin American political affairs has worn thin for many Venezuelans and for opponents of Maduro throughout the region.
“We encourage other Western Hemisphere governments to recognize National Assembly President Guaido as the interim president of Venezuela, and we will work constructively with them in support of his efforts to restore constitutional legitimacy,” Trump said. “We continue to hold the illegitimate Maduro regime directly responsible for any threats it may pose to the safety of the Venezuelan people.”
Guaido has sought a transition government and has called for new elections. He and his supporters say Maduro’s latest term is illegitimate; about 60 countries concluded the election was fraudulent.
For now, at least, the competing claims of leadership by Maduro and Guaido may create a welter of confusion. Guaido may send an envoy to the Organization of American States, which has recognized his government. But at the United Nations,
Venezuelan allies on the Security Council such as Russia and China would almost certainly block such a move. The U.S., in turn, could ignore Maduro’s representatives at the UN or demand that they be stripped of their accreditation.
“You very well might have competing diplomatic representations abroad,” Marczak of the Atlantic Council said.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-23/trump-said-to-intend-to-recognize-guaido-as-venezuela-president
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Salvini Calls Merkel ‘Weak’ and Forecasts Losses for Macron
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Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini is ramping up his attacks on the European establishment.
Amid mounting tensions with France, Salvini predicted that he could have "new counterparties" in Paris or even Berlin after May’s European election and accused French President Emmanuel Macron of letting down his voters.
"It seems to me that Macron has his issues with millions of French to whom he made promises and did not deliver," Salvini said in an interview with Rai 1 radio station. "Merkel is weak."
Salvini and his coalition partner-cum-rival, Luigi Di Maio of the Five Star Movement, are competing for support in May’s European parliamentary elections as evidence grows that their confrontation style is hurting the Italian economy. The Bank of Italy has cut its growth forecasts and signaled that the euro region’s third-biggest economy might have slipped into recession at the end of 2018.
Earlier this week, the French government summoned the Italian ambassador after Di Maio said that France “never stopped colonizing Africa” and is contributing to the waves of migration by holding back Africa’s economic growth.
With nationalists across Europe looking to deal another blow to mainstream leaders in May’s ballot, Macron is facing another challenge from Marine Le Pen whom he beat in the 2017 presidential election.
Salvini insisted that the clash with France will have no impact on a business dossier including the possible sale of troubled airline Alitalia SpA, and of naval company Fincantieri SpA, which has a cooperation agreement with France’s Naval Group.
Late Tuesday, Berlin suspended its participation in Operation Sophia, a joint naval deployment by European Union members to combat human trafficking across the Mediterranean, according to Germany news agency DPA. Germany won’t dispatch another vessel when the frigate patrolling the Libyan coast ends its tour early next month.
The decision was prompted by Italy’s refusal to allow refugees to disembark in its ports, DPA said.
"If Germany leaves the mission it is not a problem for me," said Salvini, who took the decision to close Italian ports as interior minister. "All the migrants are arriving in Italy anyway."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-23/salvini-takes-a-swing-at-merkel-and-forecasts-losses-for-macron
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Salvini Calls Merkel ‘Weak’ and Forecasts Losses for Macron
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Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini is ramping up his attacks on the European establishment.
Amid mounting tensions with France, Salvini predicted that he could have "new counterparties" in Paris or even Berlin after May’s European election and accused French President Emmanuel Macron of letting down his voters.
"It seems to me that Macron has his issues with millions of French to whom he made promises and did not deliver," Salvini said in an interview with Rai 1 radio station. "Merkel is weak."
Salvini and his coalition partner-cum-rival, Luigi Di Maio of the Five Star Movement, are competing for support in May’s European parliamentary elections as evidence grows that their confrontation style is hurting the Italian economy. The Bank of Italy has cut its growth forecasts and signaled that the euro region’s third-biggest economy might have slipped into recession at the end of 2018.
Earlier this week, the French government summoned the Italian ambassador after Di Maio said that France “never stopped colonizing Africa” and is contributing to the waves of migration by holding back Africa’s economic growth.
With nationalists across Europe looking to deal another blow to mainstream leaders in May’s ballot, Macron is facing another challenge from Marine Le Pen whom he beat in the 2017 presidential election.
Salvini insisted that the clash with France will have no impact on a business dossier including the possible sale of troubled airline Alitalia SpA, and of naval company Fincantieri SpA, which has a cooperation agreement with France’s Naval Group.
Late Tuesday, Berlin suspended its participation in Operation Sophia, a joint naval deployment by European Union members to combat human trafficking across the Mediterranean, according to Germany news agency DPA. Germany won’t dispatch another vessel when the frigate patrolling the Libyan coast ends its tour early next month.
The decision was prompted by Italy’s refusal to allow refugees to disembark in its ports, DPA said.
"If Germany leaves the mission it is not a problem for me," said Salvini, who took the decision to close Italian ports as interior minister. "All the migrants are arriving in Italy anyway."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-23/salvini-takes-a-swing-at-merkel-and-forecasts-losses-for-macron
Great More Good News
It’s getting more & more tense within the EU countries
Hopefully 1 or 2 Countries will also leave the EU
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Estonia opposition wins election as far right surges
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Estonia's opposition liberal Reform party won Sunday's general election, outpacing centre-left Prime Minister Juri Ratas's party and a surging far-right buoyed by a backlash from mostly rural voters in the Baltic eurozone state.
Led by former MEP Kaja Kallas, Reform garnered 28.8 percent of the vote, well ahead of Ratas's Centre party on 23 percent, with the far-right EKRE more than doubling its previous election score at 17.8 percent, according to full results on Estonia's official state elections website.
Two other parties in the race which currently govern in coalition with Ratas, the Social Democrats and conservative Isamaa, respectively took 9.8 percent and 11.4 percent of the vote.
Both could team up with Reform for a 56-seat majority in the 101-member parliament, or holding a combined 60 seats, arch-rivals Reform and Centre could govern together as they have done in the past.
"Now the real work begins to put together the government and start running the country with common sense," Kallas told public broadcaster ETV/ERR.
Insisting that the "EKRE is not a choice for us," Kallas said Reform would "keep all coalition options on the table", adding that her party has "strong differences with Centre in three areas: taxation, citizenship, and education."
As for Ratas, when asked if Centre would consider becoming a junior coalition partner, he said "of course" but declined to elaborate.
EKRE leader Mart Helme raised the idea of a Centre-EKRE-Isamaa coalition commanding a 57-seat majority, according to ETV/ERR.
Bread-and-butter issues like taxation and public spending had dominated the lacklustre campaign, along with tensions over Russian-language education for Estonia's sizeable Russian minority and the rural-urban divide.
The far-right EKRE captured support promising to slash income and excise taxes and pushing anti-immigration rhetoric.
Turnout clocked in at 63.1 percent of eligible voters, the state election commission said.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.france24.com/en/20190304-estonia-opposition-reform-party-kaja-kallas-wins-election-far-right-surges
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Estonia opposition wins election as far right surges
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Estonia's opposition liberal Reform party won Sunday's general election, outpacing centre-left Prime Minister Juri Ratas's party and a surging far-right buoyed by a backlash from mostly rural voters in the Baltic eurozone state.
Led by former MEP Kaja Kallas, Reform garnered 28.8 percent of the vote, well ahead of Ratas's Centre party on 23 percent, with the far-right EKRE more than doubling its previous election score at 17.8 percent, according to full results on Estonia's official state elections website.
Two other parties in the race which currently govern in coalition with Ratas, the Social Democrats and conservative Isamaa, respectively took 9.8 percent and 11.4 percent of the vote.
Both could team up with Reform for a 56-seat majority in the 101-member parliament, or holding a combined 60 seats, arch-rivals Reform and Centre could govern together as they have done in the past.
"Now the real work begins to put together the government and start running the country with common sense," Kallas told public broadcaster ETV/ERR.
Insisting that the "EKRE is not a choice for us," Kallas said Reform would "keep all coalition options on the table", adding that her party has "strong differences with Centre in three areas: taxation, citizenship, and education."
As for Ratas, when asked if Centre would consider becoming a junior coalition partner, he said "of course" but declined to elaborate.
EKRE leader Mart Helme raised the idea of a Centre-EKRE-Isamaa coalition commanding a 57-seat majority, according to ETV/ERR.
Bread-and-butter issues like taxation and public spending had dominated the lacklustre campaign, along with tensions over Russian-language education for Estonia's sizeable Russian minority and the rural-urban divide.
The far-right EKRE captured support promising to slash income and excise taxes and pushing anti-immigration rhetoric.
Turnout clocked in at 63.1 percent of eligible voters, the state election commission said.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.france24.com/en/20190304-estonia-opposition-reform-party-kaja-kallas-wins-election-far-right-surges
Amazing how people in other countries are literally dying and fighting to have what we have in the USA, and how many in the USA are yelling about wanting what those people have/had. Very strange world ??? :P
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Amazing how people in other countries are literally dying and fighting to have what we have in the USA, and how many in the USA are yelling about wanting what those people have/had. Very strange world ??? :P
You ever watch that guy Vee on YouTube? He recently made alot of parallels between the way Great Britain is going and the old Soviet censorship model. It's pretty startling when you think about it.
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Yellow vest protesters set life-threatening fires and clash with police in Paris
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French yellow vest protesters set life-threatening fires, smashed up luxury stores and clashed with police Saturday in the 18th straight weekend of demonstrations against President Emmanuel Macron. Large plumes of smoke rose above the rioting on Paris' landmark Champs-Elysees Avenue, and a mother and her child were just barely saved from a building blaze.
French police tried to contain the demonstrators with limited success.
One perilous fire targeted a bank on the ground floor of a seven-story residential building. As firetrucks rushed over, a mother and her child were rescued as the fire threatened to engulf their floor, the city's fire service told The Associated Press. Eleven people in the building, including two firefighters, sustained light injuries, as other residents were evacuated to safety.
The rioting comes at the end of a two-month national debate that Macron organized to respond to protesters' concerns about sinking living standards, stagnant wages and high unemployment.
After the weekly protests dwindled recently, protesters were hoping to breathe new life into their movement against a president who they see as favoring the elite.
The violence started Saturday when protesters threw smoke bombs and other objects at officers along the famed avenue — scene of repeated past rioting — and started pounding on the windows of a police van, prompting riot police to retreat.
Simultaneous fires were also put out from two burning newspaper kiosks, which sent black smoke high into the sky. Several protesters smiled as they posed for a photo in front of one the kiosk's charred remains.
Demonstrators also targeted symbols of the luxury industry, as shops including brands Hugo Boss and Lacoste were smashed up and pillaged, and mannequins thrown out of the broken windows. A posh eatery called Fouquet's, which is associated with politicians and celebrities, was vandalized and set on fire. A vehicle burned outside the luxury boutique Kenzo, one of many blazes on and around the Champs-Elysees.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/paris-riots-mother-child-saved-from-bank-fire-champs-elysees-avenue-today-2019-03-16/
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Far-right populists score stunning win in Dutch provincial vote
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Far-right populist newcomer Forum for Democracy stunned the Dutch political establishment after winning the most votes in provincial elections, according to a preliminary count on Thursday of almost all the votes.
Strong gains made by both the Euroskeptics and the Greens in Wednesday’s election mean Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte is on course to lose control of the upper house of parliament.
The big winner, though, is the Forum for Democracy party led by 36-year-old Thierry Baudet. The party holds two seats in parliament after entering politics just three years ago. It will have 13 seats in the Senate, one more than Rutte’s liberal VVD.
In a speech to supporters after the election results, Baudet said the arrogance of the elite has been punished.
“We are standing amidst the debris of what was once the greatest and most beautiful civilization the world has ever known,” he said, adding that “we are undermined by our universities, our journalists … and administrators.”
The Greens more than doubled their seats to nine, while other opposition parties, including Geert Wilders’ Freedom Party and the Socialists, lost ground, down by four and five seats respectively.
Rutte’s center-right coalition — of his liberal VVD, CDA, D66 and the small Christian Union — had a one-seat majority in the Senate before the vote, but is set to lose seven seats overall.
Voters were choosing new regional parliaments, which will determine the makeup of the new Senate. The ballots were held two days after a Turkish-born man was arrested following a shooting in Utrecht in which three people were killed.
Dutch right-wing populism, dominated for a decade by Wilders and his Freedom Party, has been transformed in the past two years by the rapid growth of the Forum for Democracy. Baudet shocked establishment parties this week by blaming the government’s migration policy for the Utrecht attack just hours after the shooting. All other parties had suspended campaigning.
“This is a combination of an honor killing and a half-terrorist motive,” Baudet told supporters at a rally, Reuters reported. The shooter’s motive is still not clear.
Forum for Democracy is projected to win 12 percent of the Dutch votes in the European Parliament election in May.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.politico.eu/article/mark-rutte-to-lose-senate-majority-after-dutch-local-elections/amp/
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Far-right populists score stunning win in Dutch provincial vote
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Far-right populist newcomer Forum for Democracy stunned the Dutch political establishment after winning the most votes in provincial elections, according to a preliminary count on Thursday of almost all the votes.
Strong gains made by both the Euroskeptics and the Greens in Wednesday’s election mean Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte is on course to lose control of the upper house of parliament.
The big winner, though, is the Forum for Democracy party led by 36-year-old Thierry Baudet. The party holds two seats in parliament after entering politics just three years ago. It will have 13 seats in the Senate, one more than Rutte’s liberal VVD.
In a speech to supporters after the election results, Baudet said the arrogance of the elite has been punished.
“We are standing amidst the debris of what was once the greatest and most beautiful civilization the world has ever known,” he said, adding that “we are undermined by our universities, our journalists … and administrators.”
The Greens more than doubled their seats to nine, while other opposition parties, including Geert Wilders’ Freedom Party and the Socialists, lost ground, down by four and five seats respectively.
Rutte’s center-right coalition — of his liberal VVD, CDA, D66 and the small Christian Union — had a one-seat majority in the Senate before the vote, but is set to lose seven seats overall.
Voters were choosing new regional parliaments, which will determine the makeup of the new Senate. The ballots were held two days after a Turkish-born man was arrested following a shooting in Utrecht in which three people were killed.
Dutch right-wing populism, dominated for a decade by Wilders and his Freedom Party, has been transformed in the past two years by the rapid growth of the Forum for Democracy. Baudet shocked establishment parties this week by blaming the government’s migration policy for the Utrecht attack just hours after the shooting. All other parties had suspended campaigning.
“This is a combination of an honor killing and a half-terrorist motive,” Baudet told supporters at a rally, Reuters reported. The shooter’s motive is still not clear.
Forum for Democracy is projected to win 12 percent of the Dutch votes in the European Parliament election in May.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.politico.eu/article/mark-rutte-to-lose-senate-majority-after-dutch-local-elections/amp/
Great News.
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I don't want to get ridiculous or misunderstand the issue?
I assume, most modern right wingers don't want "Hitler led Nazi Party 2.0" running any GOV, right?
Perhaps, some thoughtful individual on the right could outline their goals and political objectives. thanks
I’d like to see more
National pride & culture heritage preserved and celebrated
Far less like Zero Cultural Enrichment from 3rd world Musli’s
And Blacks.
Illegal immigrants sent back asap
Less pandering to Queers & those with Mentally wrong wired brains that want to chop bits off
And mutilate themselves & Don’t want hear their noise
Better distribution of wealth
Royal family & all that crap gone
Better National health service
Education & defence
Long term scroungers made to do community based work for their £
The accurate and truthful reporting of news
An end to the Leftist liberal self hating & destroying ideas & MSM
End to Political Correctness
There’s a few for starters for you Howard.
I’m in the U.K.
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Believe or not I'm with ya on some of that stuff.
I'm all for a strong military and consistent immigration laws.
I do think we need a guest worker system and penalize any worker and employer that doesn't use legal workers.
BUT, I really don't care about most of the social or cultural issues.
I don't think we need ANY laws backing or banning "alternative lifestyles".
I'm for live and let live, regardless of your religion or sexuality.
Let's focus and enforce laws on crimnal acts instead.
For example, dress and talk anyway you want.
BUT if resort to violence or serious threats, you get arrested.
I tend to side with police and don't like most of police protests.
In that regard, I'd arrest agressive panhandlers on the streets.
Plus, I'm against most forms of welfare .
To me, it's simple; you don't work , you don't eat.
I think paying into social security and medicare via payroll deduction is a great thing.
Old folks need the help and we're all going to get old and can't work during our sunset years.
BUT those under 65, need to get their health care via their employer or own means. No handouts.
AGAIN, I really don't care about race ( ethnicity ), etc.
Treat everyone by the same fair standard and let the chips fall where they may.
Lastly, I think we should all promote trade between nations as the main goal.
question - what do you think of the Brexit debate going now in the UK?
I’m glad to hear you agree with some of my thoughts.
I do care about religion & ethnicity and it’s Negative effects
Also promoting queer / freak lifestyles isn’t right either.
I do believe there should be some social welfare up to a point
We should be helping & caring for some less fortunate & Definitely
The elderly.
As for the Debacle with Britexit is a disgrace
It’s made a mockery of politics & Democray
The majority of people voted out & that Should of been seen through and done by now.
We have been betrayed by a Traitorous Bunch.
I’d like to see some major civil unrest if we don’t leave very soon.
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Spanish far-right Vox party banned from TV debate
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The controversial, anti-immigration party achieved a surprise victory in recent regional elections.
Spain's Atresmedia network chose it to join the four major national parties for a debate on 23 April.
However, the electoral commission ruled that Vox's inclusion would be a violation of electoral law.
The network said it would respect the ruling but stood by its decision to include Vox in the debate.
"Atresmedia maintains that a debate between five candidates is of the greatest journalistic value and most relevance for voters," the network said in a statement after the ruling.
Spain's current Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, had agreed to take part in the private network's five-party debate - including Vox - rather than the four-party option proposed by a public broadcaster.
However, the electoral commission ruled that Vox's inclusion was not "proportional" under its electoral rules, since it does not hold any seats in the national parliament and attracted a very small percentage of the vote in the last general election.
Rise of nationalists vowing to 'make Spain great again'
Spanish election: Socialists battle to stop right-wing surge
Vox: Who are Spain's far-right party?
Vox's leader Santiago Abascal responded defiantly on Twitter.
"It's clear who calls the shots still in Spain: the separatists. Until April 28. Because a great victory for #LongLiveSpain will see those parties who wish to destroy our co-existence, constitution and homeland banned", he said.
Several smaller parties had asked to be included in the debate, based on previous electoral performance.
The 28 April ballot is being billed as a battle between the established parties, Catalan and Basque nationalists, and Vox.
Who are Vox?
Founded in 2014, the party struggled to make an impact on Spain's political landscape until it took 12 parliamentary seats in Andalusia in December, beating expectations that it would win five.
Vox has been derided as far-right and populist, anti-immigrant and anti-Islam but its leader Santiago Abascal believes its recent surge of support is because it is "in step with what millions of Spaniards think".
Its leaders reject the far-right label, insisting it is a party of "extreme necessity" rather than extremism. Its overall support for Spain's membership of the EU, it says, differentiates it from many populist and far-right movements across Europe.
https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-europe-47957010
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There is nothing wrong in having pride in one's own civilized heritage. Goat fucking is not civilized. Pedophilia is not civilized. Stoning is not civilized.
It is repulsive that some cretins here and in the real world associate the lack of color in someone's skin as somehow disqualifying and discrediting their accomplishments, their very culture, but if you possess even a modicum of shading to your skin, you're allowed to throw that around and do as you please in the name of "fairness".
One need only look at the architecture of ancient Greece and Rome and compare it to the current mudhuts of modern schmomalia and the traveling turd-burglars of arab lands to know this is so.
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Australia Conservatives Ride Economy to Shock Election Victory
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*Voters reject opposition’s progressive agenda on climate, tax
*Victory is biggest come-from-behind win since 1993 election
Australia’s center-right government clung to power in a surprise victory, with voters backing its stewardship of a slowing economy for another three years and rejecting the opposition’s progressive agenda.
Despite trailing in most opinion polls for years, Scott Morrison’s Liberal-National coalition closed down the gap with a relentless attack on Labor’s pledge to take tougher action on climate change and strip tax perks from wealthy Australians. For Labor leader Bill Shorten, the loss is akin to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 failure to win the U.S. presidency
“I have always believed in miracles,” Morrison, 51, told cheering supporters in Sydney, flanked by his wife and two daughters. “Tonight we’ve been delivered another one.”
President Donald Trump cheered the victory by a fellow conservative, tweeting “Congratulations to Scott on a GREAT WIN!”
Shorten, 52, ran on Australia’s most progressive agenda in decades, including tax cuts for low income workers, increases to the minimum wage, sweeping emissions curbs and scaling back concessions for property and stock market investors. That presented a big target for Morrison, with blanket TV ads warning Shorten was “the Bill Australia can’t afford."
The government also ran on its record of economic management, across-the-board tax cuts and a return to a budget surplus. In the final week, it announced support for first-home buyers, mixing that carrot with the stick of warnings that Labor’s proposal to curtail tax breaks for property investment would send prices tumbling.
With 75% of votes counted, the coalition was on track to win at least 74 seats in the 151-seat lower house, eking out a victory via gains in the mostly rural states of Tasmania and Queensland, according to Australian Broadcasting Corp. projections. Labor was on 66 and minor parties on 6, with 5 seats in doubt. While it remained unclear whether the coalition would gain the 76 needed for an outright majority, Shorten conceded defeat.
Morrison’s victory is the biggest come-from-behind win in Australian politics since Labor’s Paul Keating pulled off the "unwinnable" 1993 election. Like that poll, it was consistent warnings against the opposition’s expansive program that underpinned Morrison’s win.
https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2019-05-18/australia-conservatives-snatch-unwinnable-election-on-economy
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Sounds reasonable.
Some people would say we fought on the wrong side in WWII.
We ended up having 40 years of "cold war" with the old USSR.
Do you think western nations (USA) should have aligned with Hitler and Nazi Germany in WWII?
Howard the PhD promoting racism and anti-semitism in this thread.
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Sounds reasonable.
Some people would say we fought on the wrong side in WWII.
We ended up having 40 years of "cold war" with the old USSR.
Do you think western nations (USA) should have aligned with Hitler and Nazi Germany in WWII?
Because nobody listened to Patton.
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UK's Brexit Party maintains big lead in EU election poll
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(Reuters) - Nigel Farage's new Brexit Party has kept a big lead over both the ruling Conservative Party and the opposition Labour Party in a poll on voting intentions for the European elections.
According to the latest Opinium poll for the Observer newspaper, Farage's newly formed party is on 34% of the vote ahead of the May 23 election that Britain is participating in because it failed to leave the European Union as expected at the end of March. The party's support was unchanged from a week ago.
The poll put Labour in second place on 20%, down 1 percentage point. Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservatives stay in fourth place on 12%, up 1 point. The pro-EU Liberal Democrats, who have explicitly called for a second referendum on Brexit, are on 15%, up 3 points.
The Conservatives and Labour, Britain's two biggest political parties, endured a drubbing in local elections this month, with voters expressing their frustration over the Brexit deadlock.
Opinium's poll also showed the Brexit Party overtaking the Conservatives to reach second place in general voting intentions - with Labour on 29%, the Brexit Party on 24% and the Conservatives on 22%.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN1SO0P7
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Because nobody listened to Patton.
Operation Unthinkable, rearming SS divisions and turning East.
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Modi’s emphatic victory cements India’s nationalist shift
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When Narendra Modi led his Bharatiya Janata Party to a sweeping victory in India’s 2014 elections, it was seen by many as an exceptional, one-off event, stemming from anger at the incumbent Congress party over economic instability and corruption.
But in the wake of Mr Modi’s landslide re-election win on Thursday, it is clear that his latest victory is the harbinger of a fundamental change — nothing less than the reordering of India’s political landscape.
The BJP — the political arm of a century-old ethno-nationalist movement — has emerged as India’s paramount political force, supplanting Congress, which led the country’s anti-colonial struggle and dominated public life for decades after independence.
The BJP’s back-to-back wins are the first time any party other than Congress has secured two consecutive, single-party majorities in parliament. “This is essentially the wholesale replacement of Congress dominance by BJP dominance,” said Kanchan Chandra, professor of politics at New York University.
The verdict is a powerful affirmation of public faith in Mr Modi, a tea-seller’s son who depicts himself as the nation’s watchman and who has captivated Indians with his vow of asceticism, frenetic energy and efforts to improve their material and economic prospects.
Here, we have a single leader who exudes total dominance — the likes of which we haven’t seen since Indira Gandhi — in terms of being able to saturate the political space and sustain heightened popularity
Milan Vaishnav of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
“Getting a single-party majority in 2019 is even more significant than getting it in 2014,” said Sadanand Dhume, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. “In 2014, you could attribute it to the unpopularity of the [former prime minister] Manmohan Singh regime. In 2019, you can only attribute it to the popularity of Mr Modi.”
Through the adroit use of social media — including his own Narendra Modi “app” — a monthly national radio address and leaning on mainstream media outlets and other critics, Mr Modi has maintained his image as hardworking, well-intentioned and incorruptible. He is seen as working tirelessly to modernise India and elevate its global standing.
“Here, we have a single political leader who exudes total dominance — the likes of which we haven’t seen since Indira Gandhi — in terms of being able to saturate the political space and sustain a heightened level of popularity,” says Milan Vaishnav, director of the South Asia program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
But the BJP sweep also appears to mark the ascendance of an idea of India fundamentally at odds with the vision laid out by anti-colonial leader Mahatma Gandhi and his political heir Jawaharlal Nehru, the country’s first post-independence prime minister. They believed India’s interests were best secured by a secular state, governing a religiously and linguistically diverse society whose members all had equal claim as citizens.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.ft.com/content/3efe59a4-7d61-11e9-81d2-f785092ab560
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EU elections show a larger divide happening with the extremes of both ends picking up votes. I see Sebastian Kurtz is out, at least until September. Maybe this was just the Nationalist version of the battle of the bulge?
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Elections in EU and India tilt the world's largest democracies towards populism
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CNN) The voters in two of the world's largest democracies have spoken -- and their message is clear.
Elections in India and the European Union in recent days have resulted in gains for politicians with strident nationalist messages. In some EU countries the out-of-touch elites are savaged. The middle ground is crumbling.
In India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi easily secured a second term, shrugging off a challenge from the Congress Party, which attempted to paint him as a threat to India's secular pluralism, as voters responded to Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) doubling-down on Hindu nationalism and anti-Muslim rhetoric.
Across parts of the European Union, some populist, euroskeptic and anti-immigrant parties benefited at the expense of the establishment over the weekend. In the UK -- where most voters never expected to be taking part in these elections -- the Brexit Party, led by arch EU critic Nigel Farage, swept the board. A similar result was seen in France and Italy, where Marine Le Pen's Rassemblement National (RN) and Matteo Salvini's League came out on top.
Those results come hot on the heels of an Australian election in which voters contradicted months of polling and chose to retain the right-wing government of Scott Morrison, an evangelical Christian climate change denier.
Across the world there has been a consistent shift to the political right, as voters abandon the center-left and centrist parties, which once held power in many democracies, after years of austerity and economic downturn.
In Europe, the turn to the right -- with Britain perhaps being the best example -- has been fueled by a desire to recapture past glories. Pro-Brexit lawmakers often talk of their project as if they are revitalizing the British Empire, exaggerating not only the role Britain plays today, but the one it would likely have as a small country detached from the wider EU bloc.
In India, Modi's continued success has not been about yesterday's successes, but tomorrow's. Indians see themselves on the verge of becoming the next superpower, with Modi and his stridently nationalist BJP the best people to lead them there.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/05/27/india/european-union-india-populism-intl/index.html
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Nigel Farage's Brexit Party wins most UK seats in EU vote
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Britain's newly-formed Brexit Party comfortably beat the country's two main parties in European Parliamentary elections, early results showed Monday, as voters expressed their frustration over the Brexit deadlock.
The results are coming in after Conservative Party leader Theresa May announced her resignation as prime minister on Friday morning. It is expected that U.K. MEPs (Members of the European Parliament) will only take their seats until the country leaves the European Union.
Brexit has gripped British society for more than three years, splintering both the ruling Conservative Party and the opposition Labour party into warring factions since the country's EU referendum in June 2016.
The U.K. participated in European Parliamentary elections on Thursday after failing to leave the EU at the end of March. The UK is electing 73 MEPs from across 12 regions and 10 have so far declared. The Brexit Party have 28 MEPs winning 32% of the vote and are largest party in 9 regions.
The pro-EU Lib Dems have also made gains, taking second place with 20%. The Green Party also enjoyed a good night, recording its best performance since 1989.
The Conservative Party was ignored by the electorate, winning only 3 MEPs while the main opposition Labour Party won 10 MEPs and just 11% of the vote.
Veteran euroskeptic campaigner Nigel Farage — who is credited by some with forcing Britain's 2016 referendum on EU membership — launched his new party in April, after claiming the country's political leaders had betrayed the vote to leave. Farage's former party UKIP (The U.K. Independence Party) gained the most U.K. seats at the 2014 European Parliamentary election.
He has promised to challenge Britain's political leadership and fast-track the country's departure from the bloc.
The world's fifth-largest economy is currently due to leave the EU in October, but with Parliament split over the terms of the country's departure, it remains unclear how — or even if — it will.
Brexit Party 'getting ready' for a general election
"The Labour and Conservative parties could learn a big lesson from tonight but I don't suppose that they actually will," Farage said, shortly after the Brexit Party was seen winning the most U.K. seats.
"I have to say this, if we don't leave on October 31, then the scores you've seen for the Brexit Party today will be repeated in a general election and we are getting ready for it," he added.
On three occasions, U.K. lawmakers refused to vote in favor of May's much-maligned deal to leave the EU. It means an orderly exit with a deal, a no-deal departure, a general election and a second referendum that could ultimately reverse the 2016 vote to leave the bloc all remain possible over the coming months.
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/05/27/eu-elections-britains-brexit-party-set-to-win-most-uk-seats.html
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Salvini’s far-right party tops Italy’s EU election polls
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A jubilant Matteo Salvini kissed the cross of rosary as he thanked “those up there” for his far-right party’s victory in the European parliamentary elections.
Provisional results early on Monday morning gave the League a resounding 34.33% win, beating expectations and cementing its position as Italy’s biggest party.
How Matteo Salvini pulled Italy to the far right
“I didn’t entrust the immaculate Mary with a vote or party success,” Salvini told reporters in Milan. “But with the future and destiny of a continent.”
Salvini thanked supporters on his social media feeds soon after hearing the League was ahead in exit polls, posting a picture of himself holding a card with the message: “No 1 party in Italy, thank you.” On the shelves behind him were a “Make America great again” baseball cap as well as pictures of Jesus Christ and the Russian president, Vladimir Putin.
Mattia Diletti, a politics professor at Rome’s Sapienza University, said Italy had delivered the “most Trumpian” result in Europe. “I knew the League would win, but not by this much, we are now a province of Trumpism,” he said. “Italians were asking for strong feelings and emotion, to feel pride again, and like [Donald] Trump, that’s what Salvini gave.”
Salvini also posted a flurry of photos of him on the phone doing live interviews throughout the night as he celebrated his party going from 6.2% in the 2014 EU ballot to leading in Italy. “Five years ago, the papers wrote about our extinction, now here we are, the No 1 party,” he said.
But he said the festivities would only last “a few minutes” as “now is the time for responsibility”. He said: “Millions of Italians have entrusted us with a historic mission. That is to bring to the centre of the European debate the right to have stable jobs, the right to healthcare, to have babies.”
Salvini made demographics a key component of his campaign as part of a nativist vision to reverse Italy’s shrinking population and protect Italian identity. Along with the usual anti-immigration rhetoric, he also tapped into Catholic sensitivities while making an enemy of Pope Francis, often mocking the pontiff for calling on people to help migrants.
The League’s success will affect the balance of power in its already fragile national coalition with the Five Star Movement (M5S), which has gone from being Italy’s leading party to capturing just 17.7% of the EU vote, behind the centre-left Democratic party, which took about 22%.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/may/27/matteo-salvini-far-right-league-party-tops-italy-eu-election-polls
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Le Pen beats Macron in EU Parliament vote as far-right gains ground
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BRUSSELS — French far-right leader Marine Le Pen won her symbolic duel with President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday, as euroskeptic forces made strong gains in the EU parliamentary election.
Turnout EU-wide was estimated at 51 percent, the highest in 20 years, suggesting more than 200 million citizens across the 28-nation bloc voted in a poll billed as a battle between populists and pro-European forces.
Mainstream parties put up enough of a defense to keep a possible majority in the 751-seat assembly — and Green parties surged in western Europe — but Le Pen’s victory in her head-to-head with Macron set the tone of the night.
Le Pen’s National Rally was on track for around 24 percent, with Macron’s centrists trailing with 22 to 23 percent, according to two polls from Ifop-Fiducial and Harris Interactive-Agence Epoka.
Le Pen’s party was already the biggest French group in the outgoing parliament, and does not seem to have gained ground, but Macron personally invested himself in the campaign and was diminished by his loss.
Italy’s far-right League, headed by Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, also won the most votes with between 27-31 percent, according to exit polls.
Across Europe however, according to a projection prepared by the parliament, the center-right European People’s Party (EPP) is on course to have the most seats in the assembly with 173, down sharply from 216 in 2014.
With the center-left Socialists and Democrats (S&D) projected to win 147, down from 185, the two mainstream parties will no longer have a majority and will have to reach out to liberals to maintain a “cordon sanitaire” and exclude the far-right from decision making.
Each previous EU election since the first in 1979 has seen turnout fall, but initial figures from across the 28-nation bloc suggested this year’s culture clash has mobilized both populists and those who oppose them.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/le-pen-beats-macron-in-eu-parliament-vote-as-far-right-gains-ground/
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Why do these coalitions always exclude the “far right” but never the “far left”? Why is right always the boogeyman and when will they actually learn that people are voting for these parties at an exponentially larger rate each election cycle? It only makes them stronger and validates their points. ???
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Angela Merkel seen shaking for second time in weeks
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CNN) Angela Merkel has been seen shaking in public for the second time in less than two weeks, raising concern over the wellbeing of the German chancellor.
Merkel, 64, appeared to clutch her arms together to keep herself still as she attended an event with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Thursday.
The incident, at a farewell ceremony for Justice Minister Katarina Barley, was captured on a live feed by the Reuters news agency. At one point she was handed a glass of water, which she waved away.
Merkel's spokesperson later told CNN that the chancellor is "fine."
"Everything is taking place as planned. The chancellor is well," he added, indicating that Merkel would still take part in this weekend's G20 summit in Japan.
The chancellor attended the country's parliament half an hour later for the swearing-in of the new justice minister. According to Reuters, she then appeared relaxed and showed no signs of shaking as she talked and laughed with her vice chancellor, Olaf Scholz.
Earlier this month Merkel was seen shaking dramatically as she met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Berlin. She blamed dehydration for that incident.
"Since then I have drunk at least three glasses of water -- I obviously needed that and so I'm doing very well now," Merkel told reporters at a press conference with Zelensky shortly after video of her tremors was circulated.
Tremors can be caused by a number of conditions, ranging from neurological disorders to less serious issues such as medicinal side effects, stress or caffeine consumption.
Germany is in the midst of a record-breaking heatwave, with temperatures hitting 38.6 degrees Celsius (101.5 Fahrenheit) in parts, though Berlin was cooler than much of the country on Wednesday.
Merkel, who has been chancellor since 2005, is approaching the end of her lengthy tenure.
She will not seek reelection when her current term ends in 2021, she announced last year, telling reporters the position had been a "very challenging and fulfilling task."
https://www.cnn.com/cnn/2019/06/27/europe/angela-merkel-shaking-scli-intl/index.html
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Italy's Salvini closes Europe's once largest migrant centre
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Italy's Salvini closes Europe's once largest migrant centre
Hardline Interior Minister Matteo Salvini attends the closure of Mineo centre, which had also employed 400 people.
09 July 2019 GMT+3
A migrant reception centre on the Italian island of Sicily, which was once the largest in Europe, has been officially shut down.
Italy's hardline Interior Minister Matteo Salvini attended the closure on Tuesday and live-streamed himself walking around the facility and speaking to journalists.
The leader of the populist League party has been a critical opponent of the Mineo centre, which housed 4,100 people at its peak in 2014.
In 2017, he spent the night in the facility and claimed to have seen what he called "organised migration" designed to "replace Italian people with other people, Italian workers with other workers".
Activists defy Italian laws to rescue migrants at sea (3:03)
Speaking to reporters at the centre on Tuesday, Salvini said the future was in "smaller and more controlled centres", after the final inhabitants were removed last week to be sent to another centre in southern Italy's Calabria region.
About 50 former workers at the centre and unionists protested on Tuesday before Salvini's arrival, holding a banner reading: "Today we celebrate the funeral of Mineo."
Salvini also underlined the decrease in migrant arrivals since he came to office, saying the number of migrants in centres is down from 182,000 a year ago to 107,000 currently.
Interior Ministry figures show that 3,073 migrants have arrived in Italy so far this year, compared with 17,000 in the same period last year and 85,000 a year earlier.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2019/07/italy-salvini-closes-europe-largest-migrant-centre-190709141806722.html
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Merkel sits through anthems after shaking spells
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Angela Merkel sat through national anthems on Thursday during an official ceremony, as the German chancellor sought to prevent a repeat of uncontrollable shaking with a rare change of protocol.
After greeting Denmark's new Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen at the portico of the chancellery, a smiling Merkel walked her over to a podium where both leaders took their seats.
The unusual move came a day after a similar ceremony when the German chancellor was seen shaking involuntarily for the third time in public in less than a month, reviving questions over her health.
Merkel began trembling as national anthems were being played at the reception of Finnish Prime Minister Antti Rinne.
Just over an hour later, she attended a press conference as planned and told journalists that her health was no cause for concern.
She explained that she was simply still in a phase of "processing" a previous shaking spell, but that "there has been progress".
"I will have to live with it for a while," added Merkel, who turns 65 next week.
"Just like how it has come, one day it will go away too," she said.
The shaking on Wednesday was visible although less severe than during the first episode in June.
On that occasion she appeared unsteady and shook as she stood in the midday sun next to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, whom she was welcoming with military honours.
That first bout of shaking was blamed on dehydration. But a second episode struck a week later at the end of June, just hours before she was due to board a plane for a G20 summit in Japan.
Merkel has been leader of Europe's biggest economy for almost 14 years.
Frequently called the European Union's most influential leader and the most powerful woman in the world, Merkel has said she will leave politics at the end of her term, in 2021.
https://amp.france24.com/en/20190711-merkel-sits-through-anthems-after-shaking-spells
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Macron booed at Bastille Day celebrations
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French President Emmanuel Macron was given an icy reception as he arrived at the annual Bastille Day parade in Paris on Sunday.
As Macron rode down the Champs-Elysées in Paris to open the traditional annual military parade, protesters standing on the sidewalks booed him in an audible and sustained manner.
It’s rare for political protests to take place during the parade, the focal point of celebrations across the country to mark France’s national day. Macron’s approval ratings have improved in recent weeks alongside a drop in participation in the anti-government Yellow Jacket movement.
The parade itself proceeded as planned, as Macron sought to illustrate European unity, including forces from the Paris-based European Intervention Initiative, made up of troops from a range of EU countries.
Macron also hosted other European leaders at lunch afterward, including Germany’s Angela Merkel, the Netherlands’ Mark Rutte, Belgium’s Charles Michel and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker. The U.K. was represented by Prime Minister Theresa May’s effective deputy, David Lidington.
But protests escalated after the parade in some of the worst clashes between demonstrators and police since March, according to French media. Officers fired tear gas to try to disperse the crowd as protesters shouted anti-government chants, lit trash bins on fire and knocked down security barriers. Protesters were not wearing yellow vests, though some had yellow balloons, after police had blocked people wearing the garment from going past barriers.
Police had arrested 152 people earlier in the day before the bigger clashes, according to AFP.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.politico.eu/article/macron-booed-bastille-day-celebrations/amp/
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Merkel sits through anthems after shaking spells
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Angela Merkel sat through national anthems on Thursday during an official ceremony, as the German chancellor sought to prevent a repeat of uncontrollable shaking with a rare change of protocol.
After greeting Denmark's new Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen at the portico of the chancellery, a smiling Merkel walked her over to a podium where both leaders took their seats.
The unusual move came a day after a similar ceremony when the German chancellor was seen shaking involuntarily for the third time in public in less than a month, reviving questions over her health.
Merkel began trembling as national anthems were being played at the reception of Finnish Prime Minister Antti Rinne.
Just over an hour later, she attended a press conference as planned and told journalists that her health was no cause for concern.
She explained that she was simply still in a phase of "processing" a previous shaking spell, but that "there has been progress".
"I will have to live with it for a while," added Merkel, who turns 65 next week.
"Just like how it has come, one day it will go away too," she said.
The shaking on Wednesday was visible although less severe than during the first episode in June.
On that occasion she appeared unsteady and shook as she stood in the midday sun next to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, whom she was welcoming with military honours.
That first bout of shaking was blamed on dehydration. But a second episode struck a week later at the end of June, just hours before she was due to board a plane for a G20 summit in Japan.
Merkel has been leader of Europe's biggest economy for almost 14 years.
Frequently called the European Union's most influential leader and the most powerful woman in the world, Merkel has said she will leave politics at the end of her term, in 2021.
https://amp.france24.com/en/20190711-merkel-sits-through-anthems-after-shaking-spells
It’s likely her inner conscious trying to escape out of her body
As it hates her also.
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It’s likely her inner conscious trying to escape out of her body
As it hates her also.
Haha like something out of The Exorcist :)
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It’s likely her inner conscious trying to escape out of her body
As it hates her also.
Probably Parkinson’s. It’s a shame, because the last chancellor of Germany who was afflicted with it wasn’t a bad guy...
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For Merkel, it's time to pay the Devil his due. She is evil and deserves Hell. I hope there is one for her to go to. Her and all of islime and it's cohorts. FTN.
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I never bothered to look up video of Merkel but now that I just did...you have to think that they are medically trying to control that as much as possible for these apperances and that is still the result.
Serious condition. ...or she is having trouble maintaining her reptilian shapeshifting. :-\
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I never bothered to look up video of Merkel but now that I just did...you have to think that they are medically trying to control that as much as possible for these apperances and that is still the result.
Serious condition. ...or she is having trouble maintaining her reptilian shapeshifting. :-\
Probably Parkinson’s. It’s a shame, because the last chancellor of Germany who was afflicted with it wasn’t a bad guy...
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The Rise of the Chinese-American Right
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New generations of Chinese immigrants hate affirmative action — and some are beginning to love Trump.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nationalreview.com/2019/07/chinese-american-right-new-generations-immigrants/amp/
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Trump congratulates Boris Johnson: 'He will be great' prime minister
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President Trump on Tuesday congratulated Boris Johnson after it was announced Johnson would become the country's next Prime Minister.
"Congratulations to Boris Johnson on becoming the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom," tweeted Trump. "He will be great!"
Johnson won a Conservative Party leadership contest, garnering 92,153 votes compared to rival Jeremy Hunt's 42,656.
The politicians have had a positive relationship in the past with Trump saying prior to Johnson's election that he would be an "excellent" prime minister.
"I like him. I have always liked him. I don't know that he is going to be chosen, but I think he is a very good guy, a very talented person," Trump told The Sun of Johnson in an interview during his U.K. visit this year.
Outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May, whose resignation triggered the leadership contest, also voiced support for Johnson despite having often being the target of his criticism.
https://www.thehill.com/homenews/administration/454260-trump-congratulates-boris-johnson-on-election-to-be-prime-minister%3famp
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Trump congratulates Boris Johnson: 'He will be great' prime minister
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President Trump on Tuesday congratulated Boris Johnson after it was announced Johnson would become the country's next Prime Minister.
"Congratulations to Boris Johnson on becoming the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom," tweeted Trump. "He will be great!"
Johnson won a Conservative Party leadership contest, garnering 92,153 votes compared to rival Jeremy Hunt's 42,656.
The politicians have had a positive relationship in the past with Trump saying prior to Johnson's election that he would be an "excellent" prime minister.
"I like him. I have always liked him. I don't know that he is going to be chosen, but I think he is a very good guy, a very talented person," Trump told The Sun of Johnson in an interview during his U.K. visit this year.
Outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May, whose resignation triggered the leadership contest, also voiced support for Johnson despite having often being the target of his criticism.
https://www.thehill.com/homenews/administration/454260-trump-congratulates-boris-johnson-on-election-to-be-prime-minister%3famp
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How many will Hollywood star Richard Gere be taking back to stay with him at his house?
Richard Gere, Italy's Salvini clash over migrant ship
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(Reuters) - Hollywood star Richard Gere on Saturday urged the Italian government to stop "demonising people" and instead help migrants who have been stranded on a Spanish charity boat in the Mediterranean for more than a week.
Gere, who visited the Open Arms ship in a show of support on Friday, joined a news conference on the Italian island of Lampedusa to call for the 160 migrants stuck on the boat to be allowed to disembark.
He compared the political situation in Italy, where League leader and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has repeatedly refused requests by migrant ships to dock, to that of the U.S. administration of Donald Trump.
"We have our problems with refugees coming from Honduras, Salavador, Nicaragua, Mexico... It's very similar to what you are going through here," he said, accusing politicians in both Italy and the United States of demonising migrants.
"This has to stop everywhere on this planet now. And it will stop if we say stop," he said, adding that he only wanted to help people and not get into a political fight.
Salvini, who this week pushed through parliament tougher sanctions on charity ships that seek to bring migrants rescued at sea to Italy, was quick to reply.
"Given this generous millionaire is voicing concern for the fate of the Open Arms migrants, we thank him: he can take back to Hollywood, on his private plane, all the people aboard and
support them in his villas. Thank you Richard!" he said in a statement.
Standoffs with non-governmental organization boats have become common in the last year as European states at odds over who should be responsible for accepting migrants have refused port to vessels carrying rescued people, often leaving them stranded at sea for days awaiting a solution.
http://www.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN1V00D0
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Gere is willing and thrilling to offer assylum to every male migrant. Gerbils too.
Fookin' Social JustUs Warrior.
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How many will Hollywood star Richard Gere be taking back to stay with him at his house?
Richard Gere, Italy's Salvini clash over migrant ship
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(Reuters) - Hollywood star Richard Gere on Saturday urged the Italian government to stop "demonising people" and instead help migrants who have been stranded on a Spanish charity boat in the Mediterranean for more than a week.
Gere, who visited the Open Arms ship in a show of support on Friday, joined a news conference on the Italian island of Lampedusa to call for the 160 migrants stuck on the boat to be allowed to disembark.
He compared the political situation in Italy, where League leader and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has repeatedly refused requests by migrant ships to dock, to that of the U.S. administration of Donald Trump.
"We have our problems with refugees coming from Honduras, Salavador, Nicaragua, Mexico... It's very similar to what you are going through here," he said, accusing politicians in both Italy and the United States of demonising migrants.
"This has to stop everywhere on this planet now. And it will stop if we say stop," he said, adding that he only wanted to help people and not get into a political fight.
Salvini, who this week pushed through parliament tougher sanctions on charity ships that seek to bring migrants rescued at sea to Italy, was quick to reply.
"Given this generous millionaire is voicing concern for the fate of the Open Arms migrants, we thank him: he can take back to Hollywood, on his private plane, all the people aboard and
support them in his villas. Thank you Richard!" he said in a statement.
Standoffs with non-governmental organization boats have become common in the last year as European states at odds over who should be responsible for accepting migrants have refused port to vessels carrying rescued people, often leaving them stranded at sea for days awaiting a solution.
http://www.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN1V00D0
Ahahaa!!! ;D ;D
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EU elite stunned after bombshell French poll shows Macron losing to Le Pen for first time
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Emmanuel Macron’s leadership is crumbling according to a shock new poll in France released on Sunday. The French President would be neck-and-neck with his rival Marine Le Pen if voting took place today. The incredible polling result has put Mr Macron on edge, after he originally beat Ms Le Pen in a dramatic presidential run-off two years ago.
The Journal du Dimanche newspaper poll showed that Marine Le Pen would secure a whopping 28 percent of the vote in any scenario.
Emmanuel Macron would reach between 27 percent and 28 percent depending on the other candidates that ran in the race.
However, the French president would still be re-elected in the second round run-off against Ms Le Pen, winning 55 percent to 45 percent.
Mr Macron was elected in 2017 to a five-year term, so the next presidential election will take place in spring 2022.
The French President has consistently struggled to regain the support he achieved during his election campaign (Image: GETTY)
The French President has consistently struggled to regain the support he achieved during his election campaign.
This comes after a poll earlier in the week showed that more than half of French people were "disappointed" by French President.
Fifty-five percent of those polled said they were “disappointed” by his actions as the French leader.
A massive eighty percent said the 41-year-old centrist had done nothing to improve their personal and financial situation.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.express.co.uk/news/world/1199526/Emmanuel-Macron-EU-latest-France-Le-Pen-news/amp
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France to set migrant worker quotas in bid to appeal to rightwing voters
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France will start setting quotas for migrant workers from next year as Emmanuel Macron toughens his stance on immigration in an apparent attempt to appeal to rightwing voters.
The French labour minister, Muriel Pénicaud, said on Tuesday that France would set quotas for the first time, with the government working with employers to identify industries lacking qualified candidates and where foreigners could fill the gap.
“This is about France hiring based on its needs. It’s a new approach, similar to what is done in Canada or Australia,” Penicaud told BFMTV.
She did not say how many foreign workers would be granted visas, nor if an applicant’s nationality would be taken into account, a proposal floated last month by the prime minister, Édouard Philippe. The quotas were presented as a way to simplify the hiring process for businesses.
Currently, employers have to take part in a complex administrative process and justify why a French citizen cannot be hired for a position they intend to give to a foreign worker needing a visa.
With Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally hoping to make gains in local elections in March and Le Pen still seen as Macron’s main political rival in the run up to 2022 presidential elections, the centrist president has recently begun focusing on immigration and hardening his stance.
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/05/france-migrant-workers-quotas-rightwing-voters-marine-le-pen-emmanuel-macron
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kwon looking good!
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kwon looking good!
;D
I like to plug this Sanity4Sweden's channel whenever I get a chance. He moved out to the countryside a few months back just to avoid all the chaos in the city.
Really good inside info on the cluster-f that Sweden has become.
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kwon looking good!
Kwon is Stefan :o
:D
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;D
I like to plug this Sanity4Sweden's channel whenever I get a chance. He moved out to the countryside a few months back just to avoid all the chaos in the city.
Really good inside info on the cluster-f that Sweden has become.
Stefan is good, but should be more about Sweden.
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Stefan is good, but should be more about Sweden.
He does a 4 or 5 minute video every morning with Sweden updates once or twice a week.
I think it's a good format. Toss the meat out there in small and quickly digestible quantities. Listen to what the man has to say and move on to whatever else is going on in your life.
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He does a 4 or 5 minute video every morning with Sweden updates once or twice a week.
I think it's a good format. Toss the meat out there in small and quickly digestible quantities. Listen to what the man has to say and move on to whatever else is going on in your life.
I think you would like AVI YEMINI too , Facebook or TR.News :)
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Denmark sets up temporary border control with Sweden after attacks
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-denmark-border-sweden/denmark-sets-up-temporary-border-control-at-border-with-sweden-idUSKBN1WP0QZ
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Denmark sets up temporary border control with Sweden after attacks
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-denmark-border-sweden/denmark-sets-up-temporary-border-control-at-border-with-sweden-idUSKBN1WP0QZ
😱 OMG
Don’t Tell Mr Prime / FagggottMan off this Board
As Boarder Controls Don’t Work & All Immigrants Should Be Allowed
In No Security Checks as They Believe They Only Add Positives into
The Countries they’re entertaining.
Yes I’m Being Sarcastic B4 The aforementioned get all wound up.
🤣😂🤣
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I think you would like AVI YEMINI too , Facebook or TR.News :)
Cool I'll check him out.
The Duran has some solid content as well.
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Buddhist nationalists claim victory in Sri Lankan election
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KANDY, Sri Lanka (AP) — In this mountain city that was for centuries home to Sri Lanka’s kings and in recent years has been riven by religious violence, Buddhist nationalists are rejoicing the election of the country’s newest leader. They hope he ushers in another golden era for the nation’s ethnic majority.
“We built an ideology that the country needs a Sinhala leader who does not bend down in front of minorities,” said Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara, a nationalist leader and monk, referring to the Sinhalese ethnic group. “Now that ideology has won.”
Gnanasara and other members of his Bodu Bala Sena, or Army of Buddhist Power, campaigned hard for new President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Rajapaksa is a former defense official who is regarded by fellow Sinhalese Buddhists as a hero for his role in ending Sri Lanka’s 26-year civil war with ethnic Tamil rebels. But minorities fear him because of allegations he took part in war atrocities and ordered state-sponsored disappearances.
With the day-to-day violence of the civil war in the past, Buddhist nationalists in recent years have accused the government of paying too much heed to the needs of minorities, pointing in part to the previous government, which though led by Sinhalese Buddhists, also included ministers who were Hindu and Muslim.
About 70% of the 22 million people in this island nation off India’s southern coast are Buddhists, mainly ethnic Sinhalese. Hindus, mainly ethnic Tamils, make up 12.6% of the population, while another 9.7% are Muslim and 7.6% are Christian.
The days of Sri Lanka’s Buddhist kings and their monk advisers ended in the early 1800s with their defeat by the British, who ruled until independence in 1948. And though Buddhism was given predominance in Sri Lanka’s post-independence constitution, freedom to practice other religions was also enshrined.
https://apnews.com/bf051a4b2673484f8460131a7500b0ec
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Speculation: Hungary out of 'too gay' Eurovision
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Hungary has pulled out of the Eurovision song contest amid speculation the competition is "too gay" for the country's far-right government.
Although no official reason has been given for the withdrawal, a source inside Hungary's public broadcaster reportedly said they assumed hostility to the contest's LGBT+ links was behind the decision.
One pro-government commentator described Eurovision as a "homosexual flotilla" and said the country's mental health would be better if it did not join the competition.
https://amp.independent.ie/entertainment/music/music-news/speculation-hungary-out-of-too-gay-eurovision-38737213.html
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Speculation: Hungary out of 'too gay' Eurovision
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Hungary has pulled out of the Eurovision song contest amid speculation the competition is "too gay" for the country's far-right government.
Although no official reason has been given for the withdrawal, a source inside Hungary's public broadcaster reportedly said they assumed hostility to the contest's LGBT+ links was behind the decision.
One pro-government commentator described Eurovision as a "homosexual flotilla" and said the country's mental health would be better if it did not join the competition.
https://amp.independent.ie/entertainment/music/music-news/speculation-hungary-out-of-too-gay-eurovision-38737213.html
Wow - Decent & proper thinking Country - More power to them.
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AfD helps play kingmaker in Thuringia and now he steps down and new elections to be held. Mein Gott
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'Political earthquake' in Ireland as nationalists win historic result
Frustration with political status quo fuels surge for left-wing Sinn Féin.
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The left-wing nationalist party Sinn Féin surged to a historic result in the Irish general election over the weekend, upending the country’s two-party system as the wave of anti-establishment populism that has shaken up democracies around the world appeared to reach Ireland.
Sinn Féin, long associated with the nationalist terrorist group the Irish Republican Army or IRA, won the largest share of the popular vote in Saturday's election, coming ahead of Ireland’s two major centrist parties that have traditionally divided power between them for a century.
With over 96% of ballots counted on Monday, Sinn Féin had 24.53% of the first preference votes, Fianna Fáil had 22.18% and Fine Gael had 20.86%.
It seemed to be powered by the same dissatisfaction with traditional parties and economic inequality, particularly among young people, that has seen a growth in populist politics worldwide and in the United States.
"There is no longer a two-party system," Sinn Féin's leader Mary Lou McDonald told a jubilant crowd of supporters on Sunday.
Sinn Féin, however, may still be excluded from forming the next government, which must now be a coalition with no party winning enough seats to be a majority in the parliament's 160-seat lower chamber, called the Dáil Éireann.
Sinn Féin, believing before the election it would suffer losses, only fielded half the 80 candidates it would need to form a government itself. Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil ran more candidates and Fianna Fáil currently looks to have the largest number of seats. That means the two parties could theoretically keep Sinn Féin out of power.
Many observers though, including some members of both parties, have expressed doubts that is viable given the scale of Sinn Féin's gains.
McDonald has said she is in talks with other small left-wing parties about forming a "government of change" that would exclude Fine Gael and Sinn Féin. That will be difficult and many believe her party's best chance of getting into government is a coalition with Fianna Fáil.
Before the election, Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil had both ruled out a coalition with Sinn Féin. Leo Varadkar, Fine Gael’s leader who had been Ireland’s prime minister, said previously he would be open to forming a coalition with Fianna Fáil. Varadkar's party had hoped for a third term.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/political-earthquake-ireland-nationalists-win-historic-result/story?id=68884381
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‘It’s a powder keg ready to explode’: In Greek village, tensions simmer between refugees and locals
LESVOS, Greece — Those looking from the windows of the Drop Center, a popular school and cafe for refugees in the Greek village of Moria, could tell the mood had turned on a warm morning in early February. Afghan mothers pushing strollers were heading back to the refugee camp, while young men were rushing in the other direction.
A morning protest by around 300 asylum seekers over their squalid living conditions had begun peacefully enough inside the camp, home to some 20,000 people from 64 different countries, including Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq and Angola. But clashes soon erupted with riot police after the group tried marching to Mytilini, the main port and capital of Lesvos. Now protesters were coming toward this small village, and its residents were mobilizing.
After a truck filled with locals stopped outside the center, continually blasting its horn through the usually serene town, workers inside hit the lights and pulled down the blinds. There was a message over loudspeakers calling for villagers to gather at the church. And it provided an opportunity for the staff to evacuate those inside two at a time.
After that day, the Drop Center was closed and staff moved elsewhere on the island. For the organization that ran the school, A Drop in the Ocean, it seemed their welcome had run out. Another NGO had rocks thrown through their windows. Later a group of local vigilantes went door-to-door looking for aid workers or refugees. “I understand that [the villagers] are tense. They live in an extreme situation. But it doesn’t excuse their behavior toward us,” said Ida Sorbye, a worker at the Drop Center.
If the Greek island of Lesvos is the frontline of Europe’s refugee crisis, Moria is a no-man’s land. The small village’s population of around 2,000 is now dwarfed by the camp of the same name up the road. As many as possible are crammed into the main facility, designed to hold only 2,800, with the rest spilling out in tents and hastily-built structures on the slopes of ancient olive groves. Numbers have exploded over the last year as new regulations require refugees to apply for asylum at their first landing place in Europe. For many that means Lesvos.
Turkey said on Thursday it would no longer restrain hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers in its territory from reaching Europe despite a deal to do so reached with the EU in 2016. That means islanders are things to rapidly worsen. Thousands of refugees are now on the border of Northern Greece. The crisis poses the toughest test for Greece since a 2015 financial crisis.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/01/refugee-crisis-in-greece-tensions-soar-between-migrants-and-locals.html
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‘It’s a powder keg ready to explode’: In Greek village, tensions simmer between refugees and locals
LESVOS, Greece — Those looking from the windows of the Drop Center, a popular school and cafe for refugees in the Greek village of Moria, could tell the mood had turned on a warm morning in early February. Afghan mothers pushing strollers were heading back to the refugee camp, while young men were rushing in the other direction.
A morning protest by around 300 asylum seekers over their squalid living conditions had begun peacefully enough inside the camp, home to some 20,000 people from 64 different countries, including Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq and Angola. But clashes soon erupted with riot police after the group tried marching to Mytilini, the main port and capital of Lesvos. Now protesters were coming toward this small village, and its residents were mobilizing.
After a truck filled with locals stopped outside the center, continually blasting its horn through the usually serene town, workers inside hit the lights and pulled down the blinds. There was a message over loudspeakers calling for villagers to gather at the church. And it provided an opportunity for the staff to evacuate those inside two at a time.
After that day, the Drop Center was closed and staff moved elsewhere on the island. For the organization that ran the school, A Drop in the Ocean, it seemed their welcome had run out. Another NGO had rocks thrown through their windows. Later a group of local vigilantes went door-to-door looking for aid workers or refugees. “I understand that [the villagers] are tense. They live in an extreme situation. But it doesn’t excuse their behavior toward us,” said Ida Sorbye, a worker at the Drop Center.
If the Greek island of Lesvos is the frontline of Europe’s refugee crisis, Moria is a no-man’s land. The small village’s population of around 2,000 is now dwarfed by the camp of the same name up the road. As many as possible are crammed into the main facility, designed to hold only 2,800, with the rest spilling out in tents and hastily-built structures on the slopes of ancient olive groves. Numbers have exploded over the last year as new regulations require refugees to apply for asylum at their first landing place in Europe. For many that means Lesvos.
Turkey said on Thursday it would no longer restrain hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers in its territory from reaching Europe despite a deal to do so reached with the EU in 2016. That means islanders are things to rapidly worsen. Thousands of refugees are now on the border of Northern Greece. The crisis poses the toughest test for Greece since a 2015 financial crisis.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/01/refugee-crisis-in-greece-tensions-soar-between-migrants-and-locals.html
Erdogan said today he’s opening the boarders to hundreds of thousands. If that’s true, and he decides to let through the 3.7 million Syrian refugees he’s currently housing, it’ll make the crisis of a few years ago pale in comparison.
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Burning a EU flag in Germany is now a hate crime.
Up to 3 years in prison for destroying or even damaging an EU flag.
Hate can be anything. Hate may eventually be not worshiping a certain group of people.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52674809
(https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52674809)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_Desecration_Amendment (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_Desecration_Amendment)
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/06/trump-backs-ban-flag-burning-no-brainer.html (https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/06/trump-backs-ban-flag-burning-no-brainer.html)
President Donald Trump came out in favor of a fresh effort to challenge long-held precedent by the Supreme Court that would ban the burning of the American Flag. “All in for Senator Steve Daines as he proposes an Amendment for a strong BAN on burning our American Flag. A no brainer!” Trump wrote Saturday morning on Twitter.
All in for Senator Steve Daines as he proposes an Amendment for a strong BAN on burning our American Flag. A no brainer!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 15, 2019
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This is "nice" ( >:(), rape is almost leagal in Merkel land, but burning EU rag ........................ .
Italians love burning EU flag, don't they :D
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Burning a EU flag in Germany is now a hate crime.
Up to 3 years in prison for destroying or even damaging an EU flag.
Hate can be anything. Hate may eventually be not worshiping a certain group of people.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52674809
(https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52674809)
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Desperate Measures By The German/ EU Leaders - EU is crumbling fast & they’re shitting themselves
Fcuking Hate Crime 🙄 Pathetic Bunch - Burn Everyone of them & the stupid EU Plaques
Good Riddance to The EU.
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This is "nice" ( >:(), rape is almost leagal in Merkel land, but burning EU rag ........................ .
Italians love burning EU flag, don't they :D
Goes to Show just what a Hideous Horrible bitch merkal & her cohorts are.
Good for Italy. 👍🏻
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French president Emmanuel Macron loses absolute majority in parliament after defections
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French President Emmanuel Macron lost his absolute parliamentary majority on Tuesday after several of his MPs defected to create a new political group.
Seven of Macron's La Republique En Marche (LREM) MPs have joined the new group called "Ecology, Democracy, Solidarity".
Made up of 17 lawmakers, including other ex-LREM parliamentarians, the group said it would be "independent" and sit "neither in the majority nor in the opposition".
The latest defections mean Macron's formation now has 288 MPs — just one shy of an absolute majority. LREM had 314 MPs at the beginning of Macron's presidency.
"With this COVID-19 crisis, we need to overcome the divisions and postures, and collectively build the world of after," Matthieu Orphelin, the group's co-president wrote on Twitter.
The group's spokesperson, Hubert Julien-Laferrière, who defected from LREM, argued that none of them betrayed the "commitments of 2017" they were elected on under the LREM banner but that it is "rather the majority who have moved from it".
https://www.euronews.com/2020/05/19/french-president-emmanuel-macron-loses-absolute-majority-in-parliament-after-defections
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“Prior assumptions about our business no longer apply”: Cuts pile up at Vice, Quartz, The Economist, BuzzFeed, and Condé Nast
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Hundreds of journalism jobs — primarily, though not exclusively, at digital media outlets — were cut this week, piling up alongside thousands of other media job losses that have accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic (and joining the more than 20.5 million jobs that have been lost in the U.S. since April).
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This was such a horrible week.
Condé Nast: 100 layoffs + 100 furloughs
BuzzFeed: ~ 20 furloughs
Quartz: 80 layoffs
Vice: 155 layoffs
The Economist: 90 layoffs
335 media jobs eliminated. 120 jobs tbd ...
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Vice announced Friday that it’s laying off 55 employees in the U.S. today and about 100 more globally “over the coming weeks.” “The reality is that some tough decisions had to be made around our digital teams,” Vice CEO Nancy Dubuc wrote in a memo to staffers. “Currently, our digital organization accounts for around 50 percent of our headcount costs, but only brings in about 21 percent of our revenue.”
Quartz — owned by Japanese media business company Uzabase — announced Thursday that it is laying off 80 employees, almost half its staff (it had 188 employees as of the end of 2019), and is closing its offices in London, San Francisco, Hong Kong, and Washington, while also trying to find ways to reduce its rent in New York.
In a memo to staff, Quartz CEO Zach Seward said that while Quartz had 17,680 paying subscribers as of the end of April — not bad at all since it launched its paywall just a year ago — “advertising accounts for the bulk of our revenue, and that business has been hit very hard by the effects of coronavirus. Even after the pandemic recedes, the likely recession to follow could hurt ad revenue for years to come. Prior assumptions about our business no longer apply.” (Seward said he’s cutting his own salary by 50 percent for the rest of the year, “and the rest of our executive team — Katie Weber, Tomo Ota, and Katherine Bell — are voluntarily cutting their salaries by 20%, as well.”)
https://www.guy-apply-cuts-pile-up-at-vice-quartz-the-economist-buzzfeed-and-conde-nast/
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French president Emmanuel Macron loses absolute majority in parliament after defections
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French President Emmanuel Macron lost his absolute parliamentary majority on Tuesday after several of his MPs defected to create a new political group.
Seven of Macron's La Republique En Marche (LREM) MPs have joined the new group called "Ecology, Democracy, Solidarity".
Made up of 17 lawmakers, including other ex-LREM parliamentarians, the group said it would be "independent" and sit "neither in the majority nor in the opposition".
The latest defections mean Macron's formation now has 288 MPs — just one shy of an absolute majority. LREM had 314 MPs at the beginning of Macron's presidency.
"With this COVID-19 crisis, we need to overcome the divisions and postures, and collectively build the world of after," Matthieu Orphelin, the group's co-president wrote on Twitter.
The group's spokesperson, Hubert Julien-Laferrière, who defected from LREM, argued that none of them betrayed the "commitments of 2017" they were elected on under the LREM banner but that it is "rather the majority who have moved from it".
https://www.euronews.com/2020/05/19/french-president-emmanuel-macron-loses-absolute-majority-in-parliament-after-defections
Thanks for posting that - I’d not seen heard that had happened- Mind I don’t watch or read MSM news
And I’ve hardly been on the Internet over last few days.
Another Nail in Maricon’s Coffin - Good News.
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Thanks for posting that - I’d not seen heard that had happened- Mind I don’t watch or read MSM news
And I’ve hardly been on the Internet over last few days.
Another Nail in Maricon’s Coffin - Good News.
Absolutely my bro. I've received a few PMs behind the scenes in regards to this thread so I will try to keep a closer eye on the news and keep the updates coming.
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Absolutely my bro. I've received a few PM's behind the scenes in regards to this thread so I will try to keep a closer eye on the news and keep the updates coming.
Got to say you’re doing a very good job with up to date info in this thread.
Many Thanks. 👍🏻
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UN accused of language policing as ‘gender-neutral’ language code draws backlash and ridicule
The list was originally posted by UN Women and suggested replacing "landlord" with "owner" and "businessman" with "representative" among others
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The United Nations drew a major backlash after sharing a bizarre new dictionary of “gender-neutral” terms that were supposed to replace gender binary words used in day-to-day life. Social media users were quick to express their disapproval and confusion at the language policing maneuver.
“Help create a more equal world by using gender-neutral language if you're unsure about someone's gender or are referring to a group,” the United Nations Twitter account urged. The list was originally posted by UN Women and includes several terms that have been a part of public discourse for ages. The dictionary suggested replacing “mankind” with “humankind” and “chairman” with "chair.”
However, some others were a trifle more strained, with the list suggesting replacing “landlord” with “owner" - a term that already comes with its own problems due to slavery connotations and cannot practically be swapped with the original term without dramatically changing the intended meaning. Furthermore, the dictionary also suggests replacing "maiden name" with "family name," despite the fact that many people consider their family name as the one they are married into. Meanwhile, it also suggests “businessman" be replaced with "representative", despite the fact that the latter is often used to refer to a spokesman as opposed to someone owning a business.
Unsurprisingly, the tweet was inundated with hundreds of critical responses, with people suggesting the UN refrain from being the world's language police. “Stop trying to control people's language. It's creepy and unnecessary,” former British Member of the European Parliament Lucy Harris tweeted. "I remember when I used to respect this organization. We all make mistakes," one wrote.
https://meaww.com/un-major-backlash-gender-neutral-language-code-language-policing
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Got to say you’re doing a very good job with up to date info in this thread.
Many Thanks. 👍🏻
Thank you good sir!
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'Sex at birth': Hungary bans citizens from legally changing gender
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BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian lawmakers on Tuesday approved legislation banning the legal recognition of transgender citizens.
Amendments to the law on the birth, death and marriage registry, approved mostly by deputies from Prime Minister Viktor Orban's Fidesz party, will prevent transgender or intersex people from legally changing their gender to match their gender identity.
The bill changes the "sex" category in official documents like birth certificates to "sex at birth," defined as the "biological sex determined by primary sex characteristics and chromosomes." Once determined, the birth sex category can't be changed.
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The amendments were part of a large legislative package submitted by Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjen, head of the Christian Democratic party.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban listens to a question during a press conference after a meeting with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic in Belgrade, Serbia, Friday, May 15, 2020. Orban is on a one-day official visit to Serbia. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
"Given that the complete change of the biological sex is not possible, it is necessary to state in law that there is no possibility to change it in the registry of births, marriages and deaths, either," an explanation accompanying the amendment said.
The legislation has come under strong criticism from rights groups, which are asking Hungary's president to refrain from signing the bill into law and send it for review to the Constitutional Court.
Among those expressing concerns about the legislation were the European Parliament, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Council of Europe's Commissioner for Human Rights and the Hungarian Psychological Society.
https://kutv.com/news/nation-world/sex-at-birth-hungary-bans-citizens-from-legally-changing-gender
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'Sex at birth': Hungary bans citizens from legally changing gender
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BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian lawmakers on Tuesday approved legislation banning the legal recognition of transgender citizens.
Amendments to the law on the birth, death and marriage registry, approved mostly by deputies from Prime Minister Viktor Orban's Fidesz party, will prevent transgender or intersex people from legally changing their gender to match their gender identity.
The bill changes the "sex" category in official documents like birth certificates to "sex at birth," defined as the "biological sex determined by primary sex characteristics and chromosomes." Once determined, the birth sex category can't be changed.
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The amendments were part of a large legislative package submitted by Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjen, head of the Christian Democratic party.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban listens to a question during a press conference after a meeting with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic in Belgrade, Serbia, Friday, May 15, 2020. Orban is on a one-day official visit to Serbia. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
"Given that the complete change of the biological sex is not possible, it is necessary to state in law that there is no possibility to change it in the registry of births, marriages and deaths, either," an explanation accompanying the amendment said.
The legislation has come under strong criticism from rights groups, which are asking Hungary's president to refrain from signing the bill into law and send it for review to the Constitutional Court.
Among those expressing concerns about the legislation were the European Parliament, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Council of Europe's Commissioner for Human Rights and the Hungarian Psychological Society.
https://kutv.com/news/nation-world/sex-at-birth-hungary-bans-citizens-from-legally-changing-gender
And that exactly right - you cannot change sex. WTF is it with these Liberal Leftists & their total lack of comprehension- you can’t just change DNA & Genetics.
Regardless of what they add on or chop off or What they think they are 🙄🙄 OI leftist Twats let them put Tree / Frog / Crocodile or anything else they like because they think they are. 🙄🙄🙄
Fcuking idiots the lot of them.
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And that exactly right - you cannot change sex. WTF is it with these Liberal Leftists & their total lack of comprehension- you can’t just change DNA & Genetics.
Regardless of what they add on or chop off or What they think they are 🙄🙄 OI leftist Twats let them put Tree / Frog / Crocodile or anything else they like because they think they are. 🙄🙄🙄
Fcuking idiots the lot of them.
Well stated, brother!
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Transgender "girls" will not represent Hungary in Tokyo Olympics :D
Jeezzuss, just imagine 1 of them in rhythmic gymnastic :-[ :-[ :-[
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ECB warns virus response could renew fears of euro breakup
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A vast fiscal fightback to the coronavirus crisis unleashed by eurozone governments could raise questions about capitals' ability to repay debts and revive the threat of countries exiting the single currency, the European Central Bank warned on Tuesday.
"Should measures taken at the national or European level be deemed insufficient to preserve debt sustainability, the market assessment of redenomination risk might rise further," the ECB said in its biannual Financial Stability Report.
"Redenomination risk" refers to the danger of some countries quitting the euro - or the single currency collapsing altogether.
Indicators of the risk have surged for Spain and Italy in the first half of 2020, while France's have picked up slightly.
The ECB forecasts that eurozone public debt as a share of output will grow by between seven and 22 percentage points in 2020 as governments borrow hundreds of billions to support their economies, driving the total debt-to-GDP ratio in the region from 86 to almost 103 percent.
In normal times, eurozone countries target public debt below 60 per cent, although that boundary has been suspended during the pandemic crisis.
The ECB highlighted that government spending "has softened the impact, and is expected to support economic recovery".
So far, the Frankfurt institution's announcements of over 1 trillion euros ($1.1 trillion) in bond-buying this year alone have kept a lid on investors' perceptions of comparative risk between highly-indebted and fiscally unencumbered nations.
But the so-called "spreads" - differences between the yields on countries' debt - "might increase if investors assess that public debt sustainability has deteriorated," the ECB said .
"A more severe and prolonged economic contraction than envisaged.... would risk putting the public debt to GDP ratio on an unsustainable path," prompting fears to "cascade" to the rest of the economy, the central bank warns.
https://m.khaleejtimes.com/business/economy/ecb-warns-virus-response-could-renew-fears-of-euro-breakup