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Green Wave
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: October 12, 2020, 11:29 pm
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OLD CONTENT
Not all bad news coming out of the 2019 EU election:
news.yahoo.com/green-wave-eu-vote-amid-climate-crisis-194422602.html
--- Quote ---
> Berlin (AFP) - With double-digit scores across Europe's
biggest countries including a stunning 20 percent in Germany,
the Greens bagged record gains in EU elections on Sunday with
younger voters leading calls for action to halt global warming.
>
> The environmental party doubled its score in Germany from the
last EU elections in 2014, knocking the Social Democrats off
their traditional second place.
>
> In France, the Greens were number three with 12 percent, while
in Austria, Ireland and the Netherlands, they garnered
double-digits.
>
> In Britain, they were on 12.4 percent, nearly double their
previous score, and beating the ruling Conservatives into fifth
place.
>
> "To see The Green Party beating the Conservatives so far in
these elections is truly amazing. Something seismic is happening
in British and European politics," said Alexandra Phillips,
Green Party candidate for South East England.
>
> With the two main traditional EU blocs -- the conservative EPP
and the centre-left Social Democrats projected to lose ground,
the Greens could end up as kingmakers in the European
Parliament.
> ...
> In Ireland, Green Party candidate Ciaran Cuffe was on course
to top the first preference tally in Dublin on 23 percent of the
vote, with the Greens also seen in contention in the country's
two other constituencies.'
--- End Quote ---
Our enemies are not happy about it:
oklahoman.com/article/feed/9917921/green-wave-europe-wakes-up-to-climate-concerns-after-vote
--- Quote ---
> Alexander Gauland, co-leader of the far-right Alternative for
Germany, declared the Greens "our main enemy."
>
> "The Greens will destroy this country, and our job must and
will be to fight the Greens," said Gauland, whose party has
claimed that climate change isn't a man-made phenomenon and that
efforts to tackle it will harm Germany's economy.
>
> In addition to pushing for action on climate change, the
Greens have generally positioned themselves as a counterweight
to anti-immigration parties such as Alternative for Germany,
which have decried the influx of migrants from the Middle East.
--- End Quote ---
Greens tend to have a good grasp of what Western civilization is
about via their own field of specialization, as they have been
watching for a long time how those who damage the environment
least are the ones who have to suffer the worst effects of the
damage:
edition.cnn.com/2019/03/31/africa/poorest-hit-the-hardest-climate-change-mozambique-intl/index.html
--- Quote ---
> "This is one of the poorest places in the world, which is
paying the price of climate change provoked mostly, not only but
mostly, by the developed world," the 73-year-old added.
> ...
> Many of the world's poorest live in equatorial regions, which
already have high average temperatures. This means a tiny rise
can be sharply felt and lead to harsher impacts, according to a
2018 study in Geophysical Research Letter.
>
> Meanwhile, most of the world's richest nations are the largest
emission producers -- by burning fossil fuels and modern farming
practices that produce climate change causing emissions.
>
> Using climate model projections, the paper found that if
global average surface temperatures reached the 1.5 or 2 degree
Celsius (3.6 degree Fahrenheit) limit -- set by the Paris
Agreement -- countries like Indonesia or the Democratic Republic
of the Congo would feel the changes brought on by global warming
more keenly than higher latitude countries like the United
Kingdom.
--- End Quote ---
HTML https://europeangreens.eu/
---
The following article is a good introduction to how the issues
link up from a Green perspective:
www.thenation.com/article/climate-change-refugees-open-borders/
--- Quote ---
> Open Borders Must Be Part of Any Response to the Climate
Crisis
> ...
> The ice is thin and getting thinner. On May 16, one Italian
and four English scientists published the results of 25 years of
satellite monitoring of the Antarctic ice sheets. Their findings
were discouraging: The vast Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers
are thinning five times faster than they were in 1992; 24
percent of West Antarctica is now “in a state of dynamical
imbalance.” Four days later, another study predicted that under
a “business as usual” scenario—i.e., the current plan—sea levels
will swell by more than two meters by the end of the century,
resulting in the displacement of 187 million people. That figure
does not count those displaced by other climate-related
catastrophes: desertification, drought, wildfires, floods, crop
failures, hurricanes, etc. Even so, the authors wrote, there
will “clearly” be “profound consequences for humanity.”
>
> We are already beginning to suffer some of them. The racism
and fear that dominate the terms of the “immigration debate”
prevent us from seeing it, but the climate crisis is one of the
major factors spurring the movements of human beings across
borders. Severe drought in Central America has been pushing
Hondurans, Salvadorans, and Guatemalans north through Mexico to
the United States. Droughts in the Sahel, the Horn of Africa,
and the Lake Chad Basin have been driving many thousands from
both north and sub-Saharan Africa to risk the journeys across
the Sahara and the Mediterranean to Europe. A sustained drought
in Syria caused massive internal displacement, helping to spark
an uprising that degraded into war, causing hundreds of
thousands to flee across borders that, for all their apparent
permanence, didn’t exist a little more than a century ago.
>
> The timing could not be worse. In the absence of an actual
world war, national borders have never in human history been as
militarized as they are today. Borders, like nations, present
themselves as natural and eternal. They are neither, but
movement is. Humans have been on the move for hundreds of
thousands, perhaps even millions of years. For centuries,
institutions like slavery and serfdom restricted the movements
of the sectors of society that did most of the work, but until
just over 100 years ago, per John C. Torpey’s The Invention of
the Passport, there was no “consensus for the view that states
had an unequivocal right to bar foreigners from entry into their
territory.” Passports were not generally carried or required
until the First World War. The United States had no Border
Patrol until 1924. Borders as we now understand them—the fixed
and impermeable shells of what the political economist Karl
Polanyi called “the new, crustacean type of nation”—did not
exist when my grandparents were born.
>
> Over the last hundred years, borders have come to function
much as serfdom did until the 19th century: as a means of
restricting the movements of the poor. Some of us are free to
hop continents, suffering only the discomforts of economy seats;
for the wealthy, scholar Parvathi Raman points out, “open
borders are already a reality.” Others, who the accident of
birth deprived of the right brand of passport, die by the tens
of thousands in the deserts and in the Mediterranean. Thousands
more survive the journey only to be detained, caged, tortured,
and starved, or dumped back where they started.
>
> The planet’s most prosperous residents, meanwhile, have not
been gracious about their good fortune. Manufacturing a “crisis”
at the borders in order to justify their further hardening has
for decades been a project of the super-rich, one achieved
through years of investment in think tanks, media, and political
candidates spouting “populist” rhetoric. Some of the individuals
who have profited most from the creation of the climate crisis
are the same ones demanding that the fictional boundaries that
disfigure the planet be reinforced with a violence that is all
too real. One quick for-instance: The main, long-term funder of
the anti-immigrant movement in the United States is the Colcom
Foundation, which relies on the fortune of the Mellon Scaife
family, and hence of Gulf Oil, now Chevron. To protect their
investments, perhaps, Scaife family foundations have also
funneled tens of millions into climate-change denial.
>
> If the 20th century offered just one lesson, it is that the
ice is always thinner than we think. The centrifugal forces
holding nations together are the same ones that can tear the
world apart. Ours is already beginning to fissure. In 2015 it
took the arrival of fewer than a million refugees, about half of
them from Syria, to push a continent of more than 700 million
into a panic that continues to threaten the European Union with
dissolution. (For comparison, imagine 700 of the most
comfortable people human history has ever known all freaking out
because a single tired stranger is knocking at the gate.) In the
United States, a country of 329 million, the presence of 11
million people without the appropriate papers or levels of
melanin has been enough to bring national politics to a near
standstill, send an obvious cretin to the White House, and
rehabilitate the concentration camp as a viable form of housing
for children.
>
> This is just the beginning—of the climate crisis, and the
political unravelings that will continue to accompany it. And
so, it is time to shout, and loudly, that the freedom of all the
earth’s people to move across borders must be at the center of
any response to the climate crisis.
--- End Quote ---
Note "populist" has been put in "". The ridiculousness of
anti-refugee rhetoric calling itself "populist" is becoming
increasingly apparent.
---
The Green Wave continues in Austria:
greenworld.org.uk/article/austrian-green-party-wins-historic-share-vote-snap-election
--- Quote ---
> The Austrian Green Party has received its highest ever share
of the vote in a general election after winning 14 per cent of
all votes cast in yesterday’s (29 September) snap election,
raising the prospect of the party entering into a coalition with
the victorious centre-right Austrian People's Party (ÖVP).
>
> The Greens 10.2 per cent rise from the last election in 2017
has seen the party go from having zero seats in the National
Council to 23, after previously missing the four per cent
minimum threshold to qualify for seats in 2017.
>
> The Greens’ share of 14 per cent put the party it in fourth
place behind the ÖVP on 37.1 per cent, Social Democratic Party
of Austria (SPÖ) on 21.7 per cent, and the far-right Freedom
Party of Austria (FPÖ) on 16.1 per cent.
> ...
> Results show that support for the FPÖ has fallen by a third
following the Ibiza scandal, in contrast to the increase in
votes for the Greens, perhaps reflecting the surge in support
for Green Parties across Europe, due to increasing concern over
climate change.
>
> The Green success has brought the party lots of cause to
celebrate and the potential for a coalition with the ÖVP could
see environmental issues brought to the forefront of Austrian
politics. However, support for a union is divided within the
Green Party, with some members unsure of the conservative social
policies and wary of Kurz’s previous alliance with the
far-right.
>
> Speaking to Ruptly at the party’s headquarters, Green
candidate Sibylle Hamann, said: "Our positions are clear, we are
standing for a radical change in the Austrian climate politics.
We want social fairness and radical transparency and control.
Whoever wants to do this with us and wants to achieve it with us
is more than welcome. If it will be Sebastian Kurz, it's up to
him."
--- End Quote ---
I agree with this approach. Greens need to demonstrate how much
more they can do in government (even as minor coalition
partners) to further energize people to support them long-term,
including with a view to eventually making them major coalition
partners.
Further analysis:
en.rfi.fr/environment/20190930-thunberg-effect-climate-worries-help-revive-austrias-greens
--- Quote ---
> The Greens’ revival comes just two years after the party was
booted out of parliament after failing to win so much as a seat.
It also follows EU parliamentary elections in May – during which
green parties across the bloc enjoyed their strongest showing
yet.
> ...
> For Quentin Genard, from the Brussels-based environmental
thinktank E3G, the results in Austria add to growing evidence
that environmental concerns are reaching the top of Europe’s
political agenda. “Austria not an isolated case – far from it,”
he says.
>
> “This is part of a wider trend … Green issues and
environmentally friendly parties are getting a lot of traction
at the moment – largely because people on the street calling for
climate action sends a powerful message to policymakers.”
--- End Quote ---
At the very least, Greens should aim to overtake far-right
parties. This has not yet been successful:
slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/10/austria-freedom-party-far-right-election.html
--- Quote ---
> The real takeaway from Sunday’s election is the incredible
resilience of the FPÖ, which does not bode well for those
thinking that the far right will cease to be a factor in
European politics in the decades ahead.
>
> The FPÖ promotes itself as the chief protector of Austrian
identity and social welfare, both under siege by an influx of
foreigners. Once untouchable in mainstream Austrian politics, it
formed a government with Kurz’s center-right party after its
impressive showing in 2017. Its most recent fall from grace is
less a sign of voters turning away from the far right than the
result of very specific—and likely temporary—circumstances.
> ...
> Nonetheless, the future will be brighter for the FPÖ than what
many currently suspect.
>
> Sunday’s election showed that the FPÖ has expanded its core
support from 10 percent in 2002 to 15 or 16 percent in 2019.
Under the leadership of Strache, supported by a core team
consisting of members of German nationalist fraternities called
Burschenschaften, the once-divided party developed a unified
far-right, populist message. Despite the ongoing fights over
style and personal behavior, there are no longer ideological
differences within the party.
>
> At its heart, the FPÖ remains a populist opposition party that
will continue to capture the sentiments of many of those who
feel like they have “lost” due to globalization. Promoting its
particular brand of Heimat identity politics, the party will
keep on playing on the fears of a large segment of Austrian
society regarding illegal immigration and its impact on the
pensions, as well as the health care systems and job security of
Austrians. The party will be helped by a perceived inability of
the other parties to address these “politically incorrect”
issues. Simplified, populist slogans rather than concrete policy
proposals were what made the party appealing in the first place.
Consequently, following the dismal results on Sunday, the FPÖ
leadership was quick to announce that it will assume its
traditional role as an opposition party and not seek a new
coalition government with the ÖVP. While this position may
possibly change in the coming months, the FPÖ will without a
doubt be able to attract many a disgruntled voter unhappy with
the current state of affairs once the current scandals blow
over.
--- End Quote ---
It would not be at all out of place for Greens to start building
a paramilitary wing for the express purpose of preparing to
fight the far-right physically.
---
The Green Wave is even (to our enemies' annoyance) partially
mitigating what would otherwise have been total normalization of
cruelty towards refugees in Denmark:
vdare.com/articles/moral-of-denmark-disaster-the-left-hates-the-west
--- Quote ---
> the SDP had voted with the coalition led by Venestre
(translates as “Left”, but actually center-right conservatives)
to ban the burka and niqab, seize jewelry from refugees (on the
theory that if someone is receiving welfare, they should not
have jewelry worth thousands of dollars ), process
asylum-seekers outside Europe, and cap non-Western immigration.
But in order to form a “Left Bloc” coalition—with Greens and
Socialists, who favor Denmark’s wholesale
destruction—immigration policies are now officially to be
“softened.”
>
> During the election, Frederiksen pledged focus on
“repatriation” rather than “integration.” But this has now
changed to a desire to “improve conditions for families of
rejected asylum-seekers and recommence accepting refugees under
the UN’s quota system.” A plan to house asylum-seekers on an
uninhabited island in the Baltic Sea has also been revoked
[Denmark’s new government softens line on migration, By Emma
Wallis, Info Migrants, July 8, 2019]. And the Left Block
coalition has also overturned what they now claim is a “silly”
law mandating that you had to live in Denmark for nine years
before you could claim citizenship [Denmark Removes “Silly”
Requirement for Citizenship Forms, The Local, September 27,
2019].
--- End Quote ---
#Post#: 1511--------------------------------------------------
Re: Green Wave
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: October 12, 2020, 11:33 pm
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OLD CONTENT contd.
www.yahoo.com/news/austria-kurz-optimistic-government-deal-132533707.html
--- Quote ---
> (Bloomberg) -- Austrian conservative leader Sebastian Kurz
expects to strike a deal to govern in a coalition with the
environmentalist Greens by mid-January, breaking new ground in
Austrian politics half a year after his alliance with
nationalists ended in scandal.
>
> Kurz, 33, and Werner Kogler, his 58-year-old counterpart at
the Greens, said they will try to iron out any outstanding
issues and agree on a roster of ministers over the coming days,
and that the risk of failure is diminishing by the day. They
remained vague on the substance of the future government’s
program.
>
> “Our voters have given us different mandates, hence we’ll seek
a new political culture that is needed when groups that are so
diverse form a government,” Kogler said. “We’ll try as a
government to be a model for how to bridge contradictions we’ve
had in this country for years.”
>
> A pact between Kurz’s center-right, traditionalist Christian
People’s Party and the Greens -- who combine left-leaning urban
as well as more conservative rural constituencies -- would be
the first such coalition in Austria since the environmentalists
entered Austria’s political scene in the 1980s. It combines the
two clear winners of national elections held on Sept. 29.
>
> The deal is also an about-turn for Kurz, who moved his party
to the right and governed with the nationalist Freedom Party for
17 months before that pact collapsed after a scandal over a
sting video shot on Ibiza.
--- End Quote ---
---
Update:
www.yahoo.com/news/austrian-conservatives-greens-strike-years-220748930.html
--- Quote ---
> VIENNA (Reuters) - Austrian conservative leader Sebastian Kurz
struck a coalition deal on Wednesday with the Greens to ensure
his return to power and bring the left-wing party into
government for the first time, three months after Kurz won a
parliamentary election.
>
> The deal marks a swing left for Kurz, whose last coalition was
with the far-right Freedom Party. It also means Austria will
join fellow European Union member states Sweden and Finland in
having the Greens in government, albeit in a junior role, at a
time of growing calls for urgent action on climate change.
> ...
> For the Greens, many of whose supporters viscerally oppose
Kurz and his trademark hard line on immigration, going into
government with Kurz was a trade-off between the compromises of
power politics and the chance to shape policy after campaigning
for rapid action on climate change.
--- End Quote ---
The Greens should build a hypothetical backup coalition with
other left-leaning parties ready to go in the event the present
coalition breaks down. They should then make sure Kurz is aware
of this.
---
us.yahoo.com/news/merkels-party-punished-voters-hamburg-125027969.html
--- Quote ---
> Angela Merkel's CDU party were handed their worst-ever result
in the Northern city on Sunday (February 23).
>
> Hamburg CDU leader Marcus Weinberg looked downbeat as the
results came in - They scraped just 11.2% of the vote.
>
> Sunday's election came in the wake of the decision to step
aside by the national party leader and Merkel's protégée
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer.
>
> That move came after an eastern branch of the party voted with
the AfD to install a state premier from a third party against
her wishes, thus breaking a postwar consensus among the main
parties not to work with the far-right.
>
> The AfD just scraped into the Hamburg parliament, bucking
trends of increased support.
>
> The ballot came just days after a racist gunmen shot dead 11
people - including himself - in the Germany town of Hanau.
>
> A poll released in a German newspaper found that 60% of
respondents believed that the party were partly responsible for
right-wing violence in the country.
>
> Preliminary results put the SPD, who share power with the
conservatives at the national government, down from the last
vote in 2015 but still by the far the biggest party in Hamburg.
>
> Winners of the night were the Greens - who almost doubled
their vote - reflecting their national strength driven by
growing fears about climate change. Many predicting a green
surge in the next national election.
--- End Quote ---
---
voiceofeurope.com/2020/04/germany-leftist-officials-push-to-import-migrants-amid-pandemic/
--- Quote ---
> Dirk Behrendt of the Green party who serves as Minister of
Justice and Anti-Discrimination in Berlin, argued that migrants
from Greece should be moved to Berlin where they can be housed
in unoccupied hotels, German weekly newspaper Junge Freheit
reports.
>
> “We have a lot of vacant hotels in Berlin that could also be
used to accommodate refugees,” Behrendt said.
>
> “We have capacities,” he added. “The fact that the people of
Lesbos [Greece] live in makeshift tents in the rain and cold is
unworthy of the European Union.”
>
> German officials have been discussing importing migrants from
Greece since December. Initially, the State of Berlin wanted to
send a plane to pick-up the 1,500 hundred migrants in Greece but
it required a federal landing permit to do so.
>
> “If something does not happen very quickly at the federal
level – and for me that is more a matter of hours than days –
then Berlin is also willing to take its own steps together with
civil society organizations and fly people from Lesbos,”
Behrendt said.
--- End Quote ---
Greens are some of the only people who are actually trying to
help those who need help most, something that we used to expect
from politicians in general at least during emergencies.
---
Rightists frequently ask how it benefits Greens, whose primary
concern is environmentalism, to side with anti-racists on social
issues. This article might provide an answer:
www.vice.com/en_ca/article/v7ggqx/people-of-colour-experience-climate-grief-more-deeply-than-white-people
--- Quote ---
> We are not only disproportionately affected by the climate
crisis, but we carry a pain that comes from a long history of
racial terror.
>
> When the wildfires hit Australia last year, Bee Cruse was
horrified at the sight of the red sky, the black ash falling
like snow, and the smoke choking the whole East Coast.
>
> The fires were a direct reminder of the British genocide
against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people like her,
> ...
> We are not only disproportionately affected by the climate
crisis—breathing in more pollution, living in communities with
higher temperatures, suffering from more medical conditions,
experiencing more natural disasters, and being displaced at much
higher rates—but we carry the pain of the climate crisis deep
inside us.
> ...
> our grief—and our anger—is rooted in centuries of painful
history, and the current ecological violence hurled at our
communities.
> ...
> “For Indigenous people, climate grief comes from when they’re
first displaced by fossil fuel companies, by drilling, by
fracking infrastructure that makes Indigenous communities be
moved from their place of origin, their place that they have a
relationship with. (Our) relationship with the land is the first
thing that we care about,” Bastida said.
> ...
> Without colonization, the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and the
genocide and oppression of Indigenous peoples around the world,
we likely would be living in a different reality.
>
> Research has bolstered the idea that white supremacy has led
to the climate crisis. Scientists from University College London
found that the mass genocide that accompanied the colonization
of the Americas in the 15th century permanently altered Earth’s
climate, due to “a huge swathe of abandoned agricultural land”
that “pulled down enough carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to
eventually chill the planet.”
>
> Ravenous for the mass production of lucrative commodities such
as salt, cotton, and sugar, the slavemasters and colonists
stripped the land in what’s now known as Canada and the United
States, the Caribbean, and South America, murdering countless
Africans and Indigenous peoples along the way.
> ...
> Andom Ghebreghiorgis, Congressional candidate for New York’s
16th District, recalls a trip he took to see his family in
Eritrea in 2017, travelling from the capital Asmara to Keren.
>
> “We were leaving the Highlands and the mountains, going
towards lower lands. My uncle was pointing out trees that
another one my uncles—when he was governor of the area about 20
years ago—had planted as a reforestation effort,” Ghebreghiorgis
told me. “But there weren’t many trees anymore. It was brown
everywhere, and almost the entire land had turned into dust.”
>
> Seeing that, Ghebreghiorgis said, was a jolting first-hand
experience of Africa’s desertification, felt most by people who
have not contributed anything to global climate change.
> ...
> Those nightmares are a daily reality for people of colour, who
are too often left behind. When ecological disasters strike,
white people often receive resources long before those resources
reach communities of colour. A March 2019 NPR report found that
out of more than 40,000 records in the Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA) database, a staggering 85 percent of
post-disaster buyouts went to white, non-Hispanic families.
> ...
> “Because Black, Indigenous, and brown communities are the most
affected, it is indicative of not only more grief, but also more
action. My personal climate grief was addressed when I started
being an activist, having a purpose, (saying) ‘I’m not gonna let
this happen.’”
>
> Heglar says that too often, the white-led climate community
leans on the idea of hope, which can lead to inaction.
>
> Hope is “such a white concept,” Heglar said. “You’re supposed
to have the courage first, then you have the action, then you
have the hope. But white people put hope at the front. Their
insistence on hope for all of these years has led to exactly
where? Nowhere.”
--- End Quote ---
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StOCNXqpDXE
Of course Greens are more inclined to support China! Greens are
more likely to understand the importance of population
reduction. And who has been the world leader in state control
over reproduction for the last several decades?
---
HTML https://www.insidernj.com/author-chris-hedges-announces-cd12-run-green-party-candidate/
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Re: Green Wave
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: October 12, 2020, 11:38 pm
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Latest:
HTML https://www.politico.eu/article/former-austrian-far-right-leader-falls-short-in-comeback-bid/
--- Quote ---
> Heinz-Christian Strache, the former Austrian far-right leader
forced to resign last year in a major political scandal, lost
his comeback bid in local Vienna elections Sunday after his
party failed to garner enough votes to enter the city council.
>
> Strache's party — Team HC Strache — won just 3.6 percent of
the vote, well below the 5 percent necessary to hold seats in
the council, according to projections by Austrian state
broadcasting. The Social Democrats, who have governed Vienna
since World War II without interruption, came in first with 42
percent and are expected to renew their coalition with the
Greens, who won 14 percent. Chancellor Sebastian Kurz's People's
Party, which succeeded in winning over disgruntled far-right
voters, more than doubled its result to nearly 19 percent.
--- End Quote ---
At the link, a graph shows that Greens increased their vote
share from 11.84% in 2015. FPO, in the same interval, collapsed
from 30.8% to 7.7%.
#Post#: 1902--------------------------------------------------
Re: Green Wave
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: October 31, 2020, 5:16 am
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HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/ardern-makes-room-greens-zealands-075653362.html
--- Quote ---
> Despite a landslide election victory for her Labour Party, New
Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Saturday that the
Green Party would be given two ministerial positions to help
advance their "shared goals".
>
> The announcement came after Green Party members voted to
accept a "cooperation agreement" to support Labour.
--- End Quote ---
This should happen more often.
#Post#: 3746--------------------------------------------------
Re: Green Wave
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: January 28, 2021, 12:32 am
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The topic is Merkel's successor:
HTML https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/17000/germany-armin-laschet-merkel
--- Quote ---
> There is no guarantee that Laschet, a 59-year-old German of
Belgian descent, will become the next chancellor, or that he
will even be the CDU's chancellor candidate. Germany's political
landscape, with six main parties and more than 30 secondary
parties, is highly fractured. As a result, it will be difficult
for any one party to obtain an absolute majority in parliament.
>
> The Greens are now the second-most popular party in Germany,
according to recent polls. Even if the CDU emerges victorious in
the national election on September 26, Laschet, in order to
retain the chancellorship, almost certainly will be forced to
form a coalition government. The Greens are opposed to many of
Laschet's positions.
>
> If Laschet were unable to forge a governing coalition with the
Greens, they may decide to bypass the CDU altogether and
negotiate a three-way coalition with the Social Democrats and
the radical Left Party. Such a coalition would bring a swift end
the continuity espoused by Merkel and Laschet.
> ...
> Laschet has come under fire, especially from the Greens, for
past comments in which he defended Russian President Vladimir
Putin.
>
> In March 2014, at the time that Russia annexed Crimea, Laschet
criticized what he described as the "marketable anti-Putin
populism" (marktgängigen Anti-Putin-Populismus) in Germany. He
added: "Forty percent of the gas that we need for our modern
gas-fired power plants comes from Russia."
>
> In March 2018, former Russian intelligence agent Sergei
Skripal and his daughter were poisoned with the military nerve
agent Novichok in England. Western countries responded by
deporting Russian diplomats, but Laschet defended Putin.
>
> In January 2021, in an interview with the Frankfurter
Allgemeine Zeitung, Laschet said that the Nord Stream 2 gas
pipeline between Russia and Germany should proceed as planned,
despite the arrest in Russia of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.
He said: "The question of whether gas should reach us by land or
by sea is unrelated to Navalny's detention."
>
> The Nord Stream 2 project is opposed by many European
countries, as well as by both Democrats and Republicans in the
United States, because it would increase Germany's energy
dependency on Russia.
>
> Laschet has been ridiculed as a "Putin understander"
(Putin-Versteher), a pejorative term for appeasers of the
Russian strongman. Ralf Fücks, a former Green Party politician
who is now head of the Center for Liberal Modernity, a think
tank, elaborated:
>
> "You get the impression that Armin Laschet still believes in a
partnership with Putin's Russia. He ignores the fact that there
simultaneously is both a geopolitical and a value conflict with
Moscow. This conflict requires a certain degree of severity, a
policy of deterrence and also a policy of sanctions. It is
wishful thinking that all foreign policy conflicts can be
resolved through dialogue and goodwill."
> ...
> Veteran European affairs commentator Wolfgang Münchau wrote
about the potential difficulties in reaching a coalition deal
between Laschet and the Greens:
>
> "Laschet is the closest you get in German politics — outside
the AfD — to being a climate change denier. His successful
campaign theme was protection of German industry against
ambitious climate-change action. Should the Greens and the
CDU/CSU ever end up trying to a form a coalition, I would expect
very difficult negotiations to follow. The two parties are at
the opposite ends of the most important political debate in
Germany this decade — on the trajectory towards internationally
agreed emissions targets....
>
> "One of the foreseeable conflicts in the relationship between
Germany and the EU will be on fiscal policy. The consensus view
among international economists might have changed in favor of
higher deficits during economic crises. But the debt brake,
Germany's balanced-budget debt rule that is firmly anchored in
the constitution, is still in force....
>
> "The CDU's innate fiscal conservatism and Laschet's support
for coal mining and coal-generated power are formidable
obstacles to a CDU/CSU/Green coalition, which may be the only
viable governing option after the September elections. I cannot
see the Greens signing up to Laschet's agenda."
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Additional information:
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> Laschet is staunchly pro-Israel and has actively cultivated
relations with the Jewish state, which does nearly one billion
euros a year in trade with North Rhine-Westphalia. In September
2018, his first major overseas trip as state premier was to
Israel. During a subsequent visit to Israel in 2020, he opened a
representative office in Tel Aviv. At the time he said:
>
> "Our state's office in Tel Aviv is another milestone in the
relations between North Rhine-Westphalia and Israel. In no other
country does our state have an office with such a comprehensive
mission.
>
> "Our office in Israel will bring the cooperation between our
two states to a new level. We want to further strengthen the
exchange and the meetings between universities and municipal,
cultural and educational institutions and civil service groups.
That's a sign of our appreciation to our friends in Israel."
--- End Quote ---
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Re: Green Wave
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: March 13, 2021, 10:31 pm
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HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/green-leader-faces-backlash-claiming-190622609.html
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> Green leader faces backlash after claiming Royal scandals mean
Scotland should ditch The Queen
> ...
> The Scottish Greens have been accused of indulging in
“pathetic politics” after claiming allegations of racism within
the Royal family showed the monarchy should be scrapped in an
independent Scotland.
> ...
> “Their shooting and hunting estates can be put to better use
serving the local communities and creating more jobs.”
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Re: Green Wave
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: March 15, 2021, 5:47 am
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOVltVhn0t4
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Re: Green Wave
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: March 19, 2021, 10:15 pm
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How to know that our backing of the Greens is the correct
decision:
HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/germanys-greens-vow-scrap-russian-101908009.html
--- Quote ---
> Germany's Greens vow to scrap Russian gas pipeline after
election
> ...
> In common with the United States, which has imposed sanctions
on some entities involved in the Gazprom-led project, the Greens
say it entrenches the wrong response to Russia's annexation of
Crimea and its arming of separatists in east Ukraine.
>
> "The pipeline project Nord Stream 2 is not only a political
project because of its climate and energy implications but also
because it causes damage on the geopolitical level - especially
given the situation in Ukraine - and therefore it should be
stopped," read the programme, adding that Russia was
increasingly becoming an "authoritarian state".
> ...
> A poll by the Forsa research institute this week put the
Greens on 21%, behind the conservatives whose share has fallen
to 29%
>
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Re: Green Wave
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: March 28, 2021, 12:16 am
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/support-merkels-party-falls-further-231041230.html
--- Quote ---
> Support for Merkel's party falls further in poll, Greens
closing in
>
> BERLIN (Reuters) - Support for German Chancellor Angela
Merkel's party has fallen further, a poll released on Sunday
indicated, with the ecologist Greens closing in to just two
points behind them ahead of a national election September.
>
> With popular frustration growing over Merkel's government's
management of the coronavirus pandemic, support for Merkel's
Christian Democrats (CDU) and their Bavarian CSU sister party -
together dubbed the ‘Union’ - dropped to 25%, the Kantar poll
showed.
> ...
> Support for the Greens rose 1 percentage point to 23%,
according to the poll for Bild am Sonntag by Kantar, which
canvassed 1,447 voters between March 18-24.
>
> The left-leaning Social Democrats (SPD), currently in an
awkward ‘grand coalition’ with the Union, were steady at 17%.
The business-friendly Free Democrats (FDP) and the far-right
Alternative for Germany (AfD) were unchanged on 10%, while the
far-left Linke rose one point to 9%.
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Re: Green Wave
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: March 29, 2021, 11:20 pm
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Our enemies complain about Greens showing solidarity:
HTML https://gatesofvienna.net/2021/03/a-mosque-too-far/
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> The expansion of the Eyyub Sultan Mosque in Strasbourg has
caused controversy because it is managed by Millî Görüs, and was
recently offered a €2.5 million grant by the Green mayor of
Strasbourg to help with the construction.
> ...
> Europe Ecology Greens [Europe Écologie Les Verts, EELV]
announced Saturday its intention to bring a complaint for
defamation against ministers Marlene Schiappa [Citizenship] and
Gérald Darmanin [Interior], who oppose the Green Party mayor of
Strasbourg concerning a possible subsidy for the construction of
a mosque.
>
> “In accord with the executive bureau and Jeanne Barseghian,
the mayor of Strasbourg, EELV will lodge a complaint for
defamation against Marlene Schiappa and Gérald Darmanin,”
declared Julien Bayou, national secretary of EELV, in a
statement to the federal council, of which Agence France Presse
has obtained a copy. “We have taken the decision yesterday
(Friday) evening and the complaint will be lodged during the
course of next week,” stated the head of the Greens.
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