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Re: How "Moderates" Serve The Right
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 29, 2023, 5:04 pm
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HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/sunak-gambles-lurch-uk-moderates-040000173.html
[quote](Bloomberg) -- Trailing in the polls, battered by
economic headwinds and seeing businesses and the City of London
flirt with the Labour Party, Rishi Sunak is rolling the dice
that a shift to the right could keep his Conservatives in power.
...
Downing Street’s political shift accelerated this week, starting
with the signals the government was willing to row back on some
environmental commitments. That’s because the election result in
Uxbridge and South Ruislip — Johnson’s old stronghold — showed
local opposition to a plan to tackle air pollution by charging
drivers of older vehicles. Turning away from green issues is a
long-held demand on the climate-skeptic right of Sunak’s party.
...
On Tuesday, the premier dramatically intensified his attacks on
Labour, accusing the opposition of being “on the same side” as
“criminal gangs” smuggling migrants into the UK.
...
Ministers and advisers told Bloomberg they would amplify
difficult debates in the coming months to show voters there are
key differences between the Tories and Labour on the pace of the
green transition, changing workplace culture, transgender rights
and migration.
...
The party will use Brexit-style arguments to appeal to the
emotions of older voters who make up the base. Sunak will make
the argument that the world is changing, but that the change
will be managed carefully — while warning that Labour will move
too fast. The rationale for that is visible around Europe,
according to the aide, who said Germany, Italy and the
Netherlands have seen an electoral pushback against the green
agenda.[/quote]
See also:
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Re: How "Moderates" Serve The Right
By: 90sRetroFan Date: September 17, 2023, 6:32 pm
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4LeLpjFOjY
[quote]France is imposing tight border controls on neighboring
Italy to make them turn away refugees.[/quote]
Woke comments:
[quote]"you have a right of asylum if you arrive in the EU but
we will make sure you won't arrive "[/quote]
[quote]It has never been tthe land of the free, even to its
colonies, except to the French.[/quote]
[quote]These immigrants are direct result of French colonial
rule and intervention in Libya.[/quote]
[quote]They should accept the consequences of
colonialism[/quote]
[quote]This is what colonialism and exploitation gets
you![/quote]
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Re: How "Moderates" Serve The Right
By: 90sRetroFan Date: September 18, 2023, 4:53 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/italy-mulls-migrant-crackdown-talk-140455932.html
[quote]The French government of Emmanuel Macron has shifted
right on migration and security issues, and on Monday, his
interior minister, Gerald Darmanin, was heading to Rome for
meetings. Darmanin said before he left that France would help
Italy maintain its border to prevent people from arriving but
was not prepared to take in migrants who have arrived in
Lampedusa in recent days.
’’Things are getting very difficult in Lampedusa. That’s why we
should help our Italian friends. But there should not be a
message given to people coming on our soil that they are
welcomed in our countries no matter what," he said on France’s
Europe-1 radio.
‘’Our will is to fully welcome those who should be welcomed, but
we should absolutely send back those who have no reason to be in
Europe," he said, citing people arriving from Ivory Coast or
Guinea or Gambia, saying there is no obvious political reason to
give them asylum.[/quote]
Here are some obvious reasons:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Ivory_Coast#Establishment_of_French_rule
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Guinea#Colonial_era
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gambia#English_and_French_administration
Here is another obvious reason:
HTML https://www.theguardian.com/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2011/oct/26/climate-change-developing-country-impacts-risk
[quote]Map reveals stark divide in who caused climate change and
who's being hit
...
while rich, industrialised nations caused climate change through
past carbon emissions, it is the developing world that is
bearing the brunt.
...
The point is starkly illustrated in a new map of climate
vulnerability (above): the rich global north has low
vulnerability, the poor global south has high vulnerability. The
map is produced by risk analysts Maplecroft by combining
measures of the risk of climate change impacts, such as storms,
floods, and droughts, with the social and financial ability of
both communities and governments to cope.
...
"Large areas of north America and northern Europe are not so
exposed to actual climate risk, and are very well placed to deal
with it,"[/quote]
[img width=1280
height=720]
HTML https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/binaries/content/gallery/metofficegovuk/images/research/climate/climate-impacts/climate-impact-projection-maps/multiple_impacts.png[/img]
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Re: How "Moderates" Serve The Right
By: 90sRetroFan Date: September 29, 2023, 5:33 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/german-opposition-leader-faces-criticism-113145409.html
[quote]Friedrich Merz, who leads the center-right Christian
Democratic Union, assailed the government's approach to
immigration in an appearance Wednesday on Welt television. He
said people “go crazy” when they see large numbers of
unsuccessful asylum applicants staying and getting “full
benefits.”
“They sit at the doctor's and get their teeth redone, and the
German citizens next door can't get appointments,” he alleged.
...
Health Minister Karl Lauterbach told the daily German newspaper
Bild that Merz was stirring up hatred against migrants “by
apparently deliberately creating the false impression that they
steal expensive care from Germans.”[/quote]
When in reality:
[quote]The head of the German dentists' association, Christoph
Benz, was quoted in Friday's edition of the Frankfurter
Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper as saying that “dentists are not
being overrun” and that he hadn't heard of any practice having
an appointment backlog because of having to treat large numbers
of migrants.
...
reporting had made clear “that what Mr. Merz asserted here
largely does not correspond to the facts.”
Asylum-seekers have only limited entitlement to health care
during their first 18 months in Germany, though they can see a
doctor in cases of acute illness or pain. They would only be
able to get dentures in that period if it was urgent.[/quote]
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Re: EU
By: . Date: October 11, 2023, 7:46 pm
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HTML https://apnews.com/article/france-racial-profiling-police-e7a943a9bebdfc0e40a99d756e9b4c16
It's OK for rejection to be white
France’s top body rejects contention by campaigners that racial
profiling by police is systemic
[quote]
France’s highest administrative authority on Wednesday rejected
an effort by rights campaigners to end what they allege is a
systemic and generalized practice by French police of targeting
Black people and people of Arab descent for stops and checks.
Local grassroots organizations and international rights groups
had hoped that a favorable ruling from the Council of State
could force deep reforms within French law enforcement to end
racial profiling.
Plaintiffs expressed dismay, although some drew comfort from the
ruling’s recognition that discriminatory checks do happen and
aren’t rare.
“These high judicial authorities have failed to understand the
violence and exclusion generated by these police practices,”
Issa Coulibaly, the head of a Paris youth association involved
in the compalint, said in a statement.
“They failed to grasp the historic opportunity to improve the
daily lives of millions of their fellow citizens, particularly
those perceived as Black and Arab,” said Coulibaly, who is
Black.
The Council of State is France’s ultimate arbiter on the use of
power by authorities. The plaintiffs’ lawsuit, France’s first
class-action case against police, was filed in 2021. It included
a 220-page file that was chock full of examples of racial
profiling by French police.
The government has denied systemic discrimination by police.
[/quote]
HTML https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/11/court-police-france-racial-profiling-identity-checks-discriminatory
Court finds police in France often use racial profiling in
identity checks
[quote]
Practice ruled to be discriminatory, but Conseil d’État says it
does not have power to force change in policy
France’s highest administrative court has recognised
discriminatory police identity checks based on racial profiling
exist in France and are not isolated cases, but said it could
not change political policy on the issue.
In a class action against the French state, six French and
international organisations including Amnesty International,
Human Rights Watch and the Open Society Justice Initiative had
asked for French authorities to be found at fault for failing to
prevent the widespread use of racial profiling.
They had asked the court to impose measures to make France end
the practice, arguing that non-white people across France,
notably young men perceived to be black or from north African
backgrounds, are routinely singled out and stopped in the
street, asked for identity papers and frisked without
explanation – often several times a day and from as young as 10
or 11 years old.
The court – the Conseil d’État – stopped short of calling the
issue systemic, but did say such checks were “not limited to
isolated cases”.
Significantly, it also said the practice amounted to
“discrimination for the people who have had an identity check on
the basis of physical characteristics associated with their real
or perceived origin”. But it added that it did not have the
jurisdiction to force a change in political policy.
Maïté De Rue, a senior lawyer at the Open Society Justice
Initiative who is involved in the case, said: “The decision of
the state council is extremely disappointing. It recognised that
ethnic profiling is a serious and pervasive problem in France.
“But it missed the historic opportunity to order the French
authorities to take measures to to end this racial
discrimination, in compliance with their international
obligations.”
Bénédicte Jeannerod of Human Rights Watch said she hoped this
would stop what she called the “posture of denial” of successive
governments over the existence of the problem of racial
profiling in France.
Issa Coulibaly, the head of Pazapas, a local youth group based
in the Paris suburb of Belleville, who was part of the legal
action, said the court had “failed to understand the violence
and exclusion generated by these police practices”.
He added: “They failed to grasp the historic opportunity to
improve the daily lives of millions of their fellow citizens,
particularly those perceived as black and north African.
“It was a missed opportunity. The court had the opportunity to
change the daily reality of people subjected to this. They
considered they couldn’t do it. And that raises a lot of
questions. How will that be seen by people affected by racial
profiling?”
He said people would once again feel that the problem was being
minimised.
Coulibaly said he had turned to the court because politics and
politicians had failed to address the problem for 40 years. “And
today the court is sending us back to politics, but for decades
the political class has failed to acted on this,” he said.
In 2017, the French rights ombudsman estimated that men
perceived to be black or north African were 20 times more likely
than others to be stopped by police for identity checks.
France’s interior minister, Gérald Darmanin, told a
parliamentary commission in July: “It’s false to say there is
systemic racism in the national police.”
[/quote]
The judgment will be coming to you very soon France.
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Re: EU
By: . Date: October 12, 2023, 9:26 pm
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HTML https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/12/france-bans-pro-palestine-rallies-cracks-down-on-protesters-amid-gaza-war
France bans pro-Palestine rallies, cracks down on protesters
amid Gaza war
[quote]
Ban comes as Israeli bombs kill more than 1,400 people, wound
thousands and wipe out neighbourhoods in Gaza.
The French police have used tear gas and water cannon to
disperse protesters who took to the streets in support of the
Palestinians, shortly after the government moved to ban all such
rallies.
Police broke up a rally in capital Paris on Thursday, following
orders from Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin to ban all
pro-Palestine demonstrations in the name of “public order”[Then
Why do you not also ban pro-Israeli demonstrations in the name
of “public order”?.] Critics called the order an attack on civil
liberties.
“We live in a country of civil law, a country where we have the
right to take a stand and to demonstrate. [It is unfair] to
forbid for one side and to authorise for the other and that does
not reflect the reality of Palestine,” 29-year-old Charlotte
Vautier told the Reuters news agency.
French minister Darmanin also said at least 24 people have been
arrested across France for “anti-Semitic acts” since Saturday,
adding that he believes any foreigner who commits such acts
should be expelled from France “without delay”.
No restrictions have been announced for events in support of
Israel.
“France is doing everything alongside Israeli authorities and
our partners to bring them home safely because France never
abandons its children[ Unless their "black" or Arab],” Macron
said, adding that Israel has the right to destroy Hamas but must
do so while “preserving civilian populations”.
[/quote]
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Re: How "Moderates" Serve The Right
By: . Date: October 15, 2023, 8:30 pm
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Full Sullivan: 'I won’t draw red lines on phosphorus bombs’ for
the Israeli military
[quote]
National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan says the U.S. government
is not interfering in Israeli military planning of a
counteroffensive in Gaza but that safely evacuating American
citizens and civilians from the region remains a top priority
for the Biden administration.
[/quote]
HTML https://youtu.be/35JSr3Etro8?si=hLyVKqyZmR2tpufT
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Re: EU
By: gaza Date: October 24, 2023, 6:33 pm
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HTML https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/10/23/germany-bans-public-grieving-and-solidarity-with-palestine/
Germany bans public grieving and solidarity with Palestine
[quote]
Germany is home to Europe’s largest Palestinian community, with
roughly 80,000 Palestinians living in the country. For years,
German authorities have tried to stifle Palestinian activism in
the country, viewing it as a nuisance to its explicit policy of
“unconditional support for Israel.” Demonstrations, such as one
earlier this year to mark the 75th anniversary of the Nakba,
have been sporadically banned in recent years and organizations,
like the Palestinian prisoner solidarity network Samidoun, have
also come under increasing scrutiny.
Yet the criminalization of solidarity with Palestine on a
national level has taken on entirely new dimensions since
October 7.
Talking points that were two weeks ago only uttered by far-right
AfD politicians are now being openly expressed by politicians
from all parliamentary parties in Germany. Playing off the idea
of “imported antisemitism,” the social democratic Chancellor
Olaf Scholz is now arguing that “we must finally deport on a
large scale” residents who do not hold German citizenship and
openly protest against Israel. The Christian Democrats (CDU) are
even demanding that the recognition of Israel’s right to exist
must become a precondition for German citizenship.
Samidoun has been made into public enemy number one, as the
media presents the group as a bastion for “sympathizers of
terror” that poses “a particular danger, because as a secular
organization, they are building bridges between Islamists and
radical leftists.” In a speech before parliament on October 12,
Chancellor Scholz personally announced a ban on Samidoun along
with a ban on the activities of Hamas in Germany.
The authorities have been particularly hostile towards any signs
of solidarity with Palestine.
Sonnenallee, a busy street in the district in which many Arab
migrants live, has become a focal point of dissent against
Israel’s attack on Gaza. The police patrol Sonnenallee every
evening with tight controls on the public squares. Racial
profiling and brutal arrests are commonplace and often recorded
and posted to social media.
As other European states are witnessing mass protests in
solidarity with Palestine, the German state has been able to use
force and violence to prevent such scenes on German streets. Yet
it is unlikely that the government will be able to ban these
sentiments of solidarity indefinitely, especially as the images
of Israel’s brutal attack on Gaza continue to circulate around
the world.
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Re: EU
By: Germany Date: November 13, 2023, 2:31 pm
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German Opposition Wants New Citizens To Accept Israel; 'Can't
Take Anti-Semitic Refugees...'
[quote]A German opposition party has called for measures to
combat anti-semitism amid the ongoing Israel-Palestine war. The
Christian Democratic Union has urged that anti-Israeli
activities be "put to an end". The leader of the party,
Friedrich Merz, said that the ability to become a German citizen
should be linked to respect for Israel's sovereignty. [/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCtP9AK_dt0
Comments:
[quote]Europeans should have thought about that before they
started creating refugees via western colonialism and constantly
interfering in Africa and the Middle-East. You don't get to go
around the world destroying people's ways of living and then run
away when the consequences for your action's come back to haunt
you.[/quote]
[quote]The DownFall Of Germany Is So Insane😂[/quote]
[quote]Forcing someone to like their oppressors ....how
ludicrous is that[/quote]
(Rightist) Europeans want to run away and wall themselves off
and not have to face the consequences for the western
colonialism that they all participated in. This is how you know
they are all COWARDS! Walling yourself off from your colonial
victims sounds so Israeli these days...
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Re: How "Moderates" Serve The Right
By: walls Date: November 13, 2023, 8:52 pm
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Walls can only take so much pressure before they break.
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