Right wing nuts worldwide.

Lucky Luke said:

Watch an Israeli Police Officer Get Caught Preparing to Throw a Stun Grenade #shorts

Footage shows an Israeli soldier about to throw a stun grenade into a crowd, before receiving orders to stop. ⁣⁣⁣⁣VICE News correspondent Hind Hassan (@hanoo...

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Better than bullets.

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Better than bullets.

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Well yea, but at Emergency services people?
The right wing nutter's face says it all doesn't it?

Proper nazis on the rise in Germany, went from 12% (results in 2021) to 22% in polls now. Scholz’s party got 25% in 2021. While there’s still a near-zero chance they can win a majority or form a coalition that has a majority… it’s not zero.


“Parts of the AfD spread hate and agitation against all kinds of minorities in Germany, especially migrants … We see that parts of the AfD also hold and promote an anti-Semitic attitude,” said Haldenwang.

“We see that parts of the AfD are very much influenced by Moscow and continue to spread Russian narratives”, particularly with regards to Russia’s all-out war in Ukraine, Haldenwang added.

“I think these are all circumstances that German voters should bear in mind when making their decision,” he said.

The question today is not whether the far right can achieve political power in Europe, but what it will do with it once it does.

Take the issue of Ukraine and Western Balkan countries’ accession to the EU. The far-right governments in both Poland and Italy want the union to expand to include these countries. Of course, the expansion of the EU from 27 to 35 or more members will require the European institutions to go through a significant transformation, including a move from unanimous to majority voting as a large and diverse Union cannot function if every country has the right to veto collective decisions.

If Europe’s far right takes the lead in this transformation, it would become instrumental to what is possibly the most consequential advance in European unity in recent decades and a momentous step towards building a continent-wide political power.

On 4 November 2016, the Daily Mail’s front page was wholly devoted to a screaming attack on the three judges who had ruled that parliament had to pass an act of parliament before the UK could lawfully leave the European Union. The “enemies of the people”, who included, the Mail yelled, an “openly gay ex-Olympic fencer”, were accused of defying 17.4 million Brexit voters.

That was the beginning.


The rightwing attack has since expanded and focused: judges, over-influenced by a liberal, pro-remain agenda, and empowered by the European convention on human rights (ECHR), stand in the way of a democratically endorsed programme of leaving the EU, and putting a stop to illegal immigration; the courts are aided and abetted in this frustration of democracy by politically motivated, or dishonest, lawyers, who are as bad as people traffickers in facilitating illegal immigration. The ideological right drives this government. Since 2017, it has expressed support for all elements of this attack; last week the lord chancellor, Alex Chalk, denounced lawyers for parading their political views in the work they do – an attack that would have embraced Clem Attlee helping the poor and migrants in east London in the interwar years.

Same old…

Enough is enough

The redesign of the house where Adolf Hitler was born will go ahead as planned, Austria’s interior ministry has said, after a documentary aired new claims about the late Nazi dictator’s wishes for it.

After years of legal wrangling, the government decided to turn the house in the northern town of Braunau, where Hitler was born in 1889, into a police station with a human rights training centre. Work will begin on 2 October.


In an attempt to prevent the building on the border with Germany becoming a neo-Nazi shrine, the government took control of the dilapidated building in 2016. The expropriation ended a bitter saga between the state and the former owner.

“Everything will go ahead as planned,” an interior ministry spokesperson said.


The Austrian director Günter Schwaiger, however, said the ministry’s plans for the house will “always be suspected” of being “in line with the dictator’s wishes”. He is expected to release a documentary about the building later this month.

As evidence Schwaiger cited the discovery of a local newspaper article from 10 May 1939, which states that it was Hitler’s wish to have his birth house converted into offices for the district authorities.

Best Of: A Powerful Theory of Why the Far Right Is Thriving Across the Globe

57,215 views Mar 31, 2023 The Ezra Klein Show
In last November's midterm elections, voters placed the Republican Party in charge of the House of Representatives. In 2024, it’s very possible that Republicans will take over the Senate as well and voters will elect Donald Trump — or someone like him — as president.


But the United States isn’t alone in this regard. Over the course of 2022, Italy elected a far-right prime minister from a party with Fascist roots; a party founded by neo-Nazis and skinheads won the second-highest number of seats in Sweden’s Parliament; Viktor Orban’s Fidesz party in Hungary won its fourth consecutive election by a landslide; Marine Le Pen won 41 percent of the vote in the final round of France’s presidential elections; and Jair Bolsonaro came dangerously close to winning re-election in Brazil.


Why are these populist uprisings happening simultaneously, in countries with such diverse cultures, economies and political systems?


Pippa Norris is a political scientist at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, where she has taught for three decades. In that time, she’s written dozens of books on topics ranging from comparative political institutions to right-wing parties and the decline of religion. And in 2019 she and Ronald Inglehart published “Cultural Backlash: Trump, Brexit and Authoritarian Populism (https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/... which gives the best explanation of the far right’s rise that I’ve read.


In this conversation, taped in November 2022, we discuss what Norris calls the “silent revolution in cultural values” that has occurred across advanced democracies in recent decades, why the best predictor of support for populist parties is the generation people were born into, why the “transgressive aesthetic” of leaders like Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro is so central to their appeal, how demographic and cultural “tipping points” have produced conservative backlashes across the globe, the difference between “demand-side” and “supply-side” theories of populist uprising, the role that economic anxiety and insecurity play in fueling right-wing backlashes, why delivering economic benefits might not be enough for mainstream leaders to stave off populist challenges and more.


Mentioned:


Sacred and Secular (https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/...) by Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart


“Exploring drivers of vote choice and policy positions among the American electorate (https://perryundem.com/wp-content/upl...


Book Recommendations:


Popular Dictatorships (https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/...) by Aleksandar Matovski


Spin Dictators (https://press.princeton.edu/books/har...) by Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman


The Origins of Totalitarianism (https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-orig...) by Hannah Arendt

More than 200 fishers stood together on the docks of Gaza’s seaport on Tuesday to voice their anger at the continuing Israeli violations against them and to demand immediate international intervention.
Fishers who operate off the coast of Gaza are constantly chased, harassed, intimidated and even killed by Israeli forces, he said.


“My right, the right of my wife and my children to move around Judea and Samaria is more important than freedom of movement for the Arabs,” he said in a Wednesday evening interview with Channel 12 News, using the biblical term for the occupied territory.

Lucky Luke said:

UK ‘seeking to block ICJ ruling’ on Israeli occupation of Palestine

Dismay over UK statement that opposes hearing altogether and is accused of ignoring significant facts

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Same tactic Israel used against Waters.
Imagine the power Israel holds over American politics.

A leading Democratic senator has called on Joe Biden to “get more personally engaged” in stopping “racists” in the Israeli government from a land grab in the occupied territories and committing “gross violations” of Palestinian rights or risk damage to the US’s credibility.

After a visit to Israel and the West Bank last month, Chris Van Hollen of Maryland told the Guardian in an interview that the US president should begin by reassessing the US’s huge military aid to Israel to prevent it from being used to facilitate annexation of the West Bank and oppression of the Palestinians, including the army’s complicity in escalating settler violence against the Arab civilian population.

Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has long opposed an independent Palestine. He has given extremist members of his coalition government – the far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, and the leader of the Religious Zionism party, Bezalel Smotrich – sweeping authority over governance of the West Bank.

“President Biden needs to realise that we are no longer a star on the American flag,” Ben-Gvir said on Twitter.
Critics noted that Ben-Gvir was nonetheless happy for Israel to take American aid.

schuylaar said:

boom! that shits against the law over there and rightly so- and they're not afraid of upsetting local militia.

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They don’t *have* ‘militia’