The Rise of Nationalism, Populism; Fall of The European Union

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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



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 Ĺkesson 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



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 Ĺkesson 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



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 Corbičre, 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



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:
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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



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



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



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



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.



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 

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Gays, blacks still voting for Brazil's Bolsonaro despite rhetoric



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."

- The desire to feel safe -

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




"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



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



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



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



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





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