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Showing posts with label Politicians. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Politicians. Show all posts

4/11/21

Germany: Politicians blamed as summer vacation bookings plunge

Germans are in no rush to book their summer holidays due to the coronavirus pandemic and the tourism industry is blaming lawmakers for talking down the prospects of foreign travel.

There may be a glimpse of light at the end of the tunnel, though, with shoots of optimism that the third quarter may provide some late summer sun, both for travelers and the industry itself.

Read more at: Germany: Politicians blamed as summer vacation bookings plunge | News | DW | 11.04.2021

11/24/20

USA: Joe Biden: The Last of the 1968 Generation - by Denis MacShane

Biden (like Trump) is a life-long teetotaler. Irish families set great store by “signing the pledge” not to drink alcohol. Unusual for a young adult in the 1960s, Biden has kept off the booze all his life.

Joe Biden is the last top politician of the 1968 generation. That generation’s impact on politics in many countries has been remarkable and he is the politician America needs more than ever now to pacify a troubled America.

Read more at: Joe Biden: The Last of the 1968 Generation - The Globalist

3/11/19

USA: President Trump and his Republican party should brush-up on the definition of "anti-semitism"

Republicans in the US misusing the word Anti-Semitism
US's Republican politicians don't seem to understand  that if someone, be it a politician, or whoever, reacts against the Israeli Netanyahu Government's acts of violence, it does not automatically mean that this person  can be labeled an "anti-semitic".

Just like the other nonsense, which seems to be prevalent in the Republican Party, that anyone who wants the huge economic gap in the US, between the "have and have nots" reduced, gun control legislated, or universal healthcare for all established,  can be called  a Socialists.

In other countries this is just called "Good Governance", which unfortunately does not seem to be part of the present Trump Republican Administration's "modus operandi".
 
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2/15/18

USA Florida Parkland shooting: - Many US policians have blood on their hands: The NRA and gun lobby invested millions in Trump and other Republicans in 2016 and they are tied to the NRA hands and feet

At least 17 high school students are believed dead in a school shooting in Parkland, Florida. The suspect, a 19-year-old former student, had threatened his peers before, and collected guns at home, students told the Miami Herald.

The US’s political response to these tragic incidents has become rote—Republicans offer up “thoughts and prayers,” Democrats demands new legislation that stands no chance of passing.

America’s gun lobby has deep pockets. The National Rifle Association and its affiliates spent over $50 million in political advertisements in the last US general election, boosting Republicans who promised to support the NRA and targeting Democrats who propose stricter gun laws.

In fact, the pro-gun lobby spent over twice as much to fight Democrats ($34.5 million), as it did to support Republicans ($14.5 million). President Donald Trump, who tweeted his condolences to Parkland parents on Wednesday, was the biggest beneficiary of those ad dollars.

Separately, the NRA and affiliated pro-gun groups donated millions directly to individual politicians in Congress as well. Paul Ryan, Ryan Zinke, and Martha McSally were among the biggest recipients in 2016:

The NRA has a dedicated lobbyist, Marion Hammer, in Florida. She has helped make Florida a “laboratory for generating new types of gun protections,” as NPR host Terry Gross explained last year.

This year, Hammer is pushing for legislation that would prevent local sheriffs from testifying for gun control laws in uniform. Meanwhile, Republican politicians in the state are pushing to allow guns in elementary schools and airports.

Read more: Parkland shootng: The NRA and gun lobby invested millions in Trump and other Republicans in 2016 — Qua

11/23/15

EU’s Fate After Paris: A Dark Scenario - by Daniel Stelte


The EU: United we stand divided  we will fail
The terrorist attacks from Paris, inhuman and brutal, serve as an accelerant for already ongoing processes that have been weakening the European Union’s bonds.

Now they combine in a dangerous mixture and react with each other:
  • The “third world war”, as labeled by the pope, with radical Islam, which is intensifying for years and in which peaceful solution seems more and more utopian.
  • The wave of refugees flowing into Europe, trying to escape war, suppression and poverty.
  • A depressing lack of cultural will for self-defense of the West, serving like an invitation to intolerant people to become even more intolerant.
  • A European Union that shows more and more that it is not build on shared values but on the generation of economic gains and prosperity. Once Union stops being financially beneficial politicians come under pressure to explain the benefits to their national electorates.
  • European governments not sticking to agreements and rules. Declaring themselves incapable of returning to the order of law.
  • Governments and private sectors having lived beyond their financial means for years, unable to deal with the hefty debt load and unfunded promises for retirement and health care of an aging society.
  • European leaders who have instead of addressing these issues and the ongoing Euro crisis heads on have played for time – without making use of this time.
All of this – and the list is not complete – is now mixing and reinforcing each other.

Note EU-Digest:  Only unity in purpose and joint European action can overcome the dangers that lie ahead.  If the EU breaks up the enemy, which is not only terrorism as such, but also corporate greed and manipulation, will slowly but surely pick away and destroy democracy and liberty individually in each European state without mercy. The EU is worth fighting for !

Read more: EU’s Fate After Paris: A Dark Scenario - The Globalist

10/4/15

Dutch love democracy, dislike politics - by Graeme Kidd

Roughly 93 percent of the Netherlands thinks that democracy is the best possible form of government, and 95 percent think it is important to live in a democratically governed nation, a new survey from the Netherlands Institute for Social Research (SCP) revealed. Released on Friday, the report also found that 73 percent of people living in the country have a negative view of politics there.

“The main reasons put forward for dissatisfaction were that politicians do not listen and simply do what they want, that citizens have too little say and that politicians talk too much and act too little; or else they were dissatisfied with current policy at the time of the survey,” the research noted. Citizens are wanting to have a greater say through more public debate and the collection of public opinion information about democracy itself.

The SCP quoted one 30-year-old man as saying, “Generally Democracy as a state form works well, it is unfortunately the politicians that make a mess of it.”

Some 22 percent support more direct democracy where people vote on many referenda as oppose to representative politics, with 45 percent wanting to vote on a selection of referenda chosen by elected representatives. “This would seem to suggest that at least a proportion of the Dutch public see direct democracy mainly as a way of adding to or improving representative democracy rather than as an alternative to it,” the report noted.

The research was carried out by Dr. Diana den Ridder and Prof. Paul Dekker, and published under the title, “More Democracy, Less Politics?” The report was commissioned by the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relation to gauge the perception of the Dutch public into democracy and politics.

They also found that while people in the Netherlands deeply value equal treatment by the courts, opinion is divided about whether or not that exists. At the same time, 90 percent value both a free press and freedom to oppose government, with 70 percent saying they are satisfied with both.

Read more: Dutch love democracy, dislike politics - NL Times

4/7/15

Britain: Democracy v Psychology: why people keep electing idiots - by Dean Burnett

The British 2015 election campaigns are under way, and it’s clear that doing or saying unintelligent things is no barrier to political success. Unfortunately, there are several psychological mechanisms that lead to apparent idiots being elected into powerful positions. 

Read more: Democracy v Psychology: why people keep electing idiots | Dean Burnett | Science | The Guardian

2/16/15

USA - Political Integrity: Ben & Jerry's founder brings protest to Virginia Key - by Ben Crandell,

The man who brought us Cherry Garcia, Phish Food and New York Super Fudge Chunk has a distaste for the mint that is American politics. So Ben Cohen is fighting back the best way he knows how, with persuasive slogans — and ice cream.
The co-founder of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream will be in Miami this weekend with his Stamp Stampede tour, in which he and a group of volunteers stamp dollar bills with red-ink words of protest: One stamp says, "Not 2 B Used for Bribing Politicians." The other reads, "Stamp Money Out of Politics."
"The Stampede is a grassroots action to build the movement to get money out of politics by stamping messages on paper currency," Cohen says. "The Supreme Court has said that money is free speech, and we are taking them at their word. We're legally making our money scream."
Cohen will appear 3-5 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 15, at Culture Camp, a four-day series of workshops on music, dance, cooking, sustainability and community building at Virginia Key Beach Park in Miami through Feb. 18. The events will kick off the Virginia Key GrassRoots Festival of Music, Art and Dance, running Feb. 19-22, with performances by Donna the Buffalo, Jim Lauderdale, Afrobeta, Elastic Bond, Locos por Juana and the Spam Allstars, among many others. Several of the musicians are scheduled to appear at Culture Camp.
- See more at: http://www.southflorida.com/sf-ben-cohen-virginia-key-grassroots-fest-20150209,0,2784813.story#sthash.ovzKyRJN.dpuf
The man who brought us Cherry Garcia, Phish Food and New York Super Fudge Chunk has a distaste for the mint that is American politics. So Ben Cohen is fighting back the best way he knows how, with persuasive slogans — and ice cream.
The co-founder of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream will be in Miami this weekend with his Stamp Stampede tour, in which he and a group of volunteers stamp dollar bills with red-ink words of protest: One stamp says, "Not 2 B Used for Bribing Politicians." The other reads, "Stamp Money Out of Politics."
"The Stampede is a grassroots action to build the movement to get money out of politics by stamping messages on paper currency," Cohen says. "The Supreme Court has said that money is free speech, and we are taking them at their word. We're legally making our money scream."
Cohen will appear 3-5 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 15, at Culture Camp, a four-day series of workshops on music, dance, cooking, sustainability and community building at Virginia Key Beach Park in Miami through Feb. 18. The events will kick off the Virginia Key GrassRoots Festival of Music, Art and Dance, running Feb. 19-22, with performances by Donna the Buffalo, Jim Lauderdale, Afrobeta, Elastic Bond, Locos por Juana and the Spam Allstars, among many others. Several of the musicians are scheduled to appear at Culture Camp.
- See more at: http://www.southflorida.com/sf-ben-cohen-virginia-key-grassroots-fest-20150209,0,2784813.story#sthash.ovzKyRJN.dpufThe man who brought us Cherry Garcia, Phish Food and New York Super Fudge Chunk has a distaste for the mint that is American politics. So Ben Cohen is fighting back the best way he knows how, with persuasive slogans — and ice cream.\The co-founder of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream will be in Miami this weekend with his Stamp Stampede tour, in which he and a group of volunteers stamp dollar bills with red-ink words of protest: One stamp says, "Not 2 B Used for Bribing Politicians." The other reads, "Stamp Money Out of Politics"The Stampede is a grassroots action to build the movement to get money out of politics by stamping messages on paper currency," Cohen says. "The Supreme Court has said that money is free speech, and we are taking them at their word. We're legally making our money scream."
The man who brought us Cherry Garcia, Phish Food and New York Super Fudge Chunk has a distaste for the mint that is American politics. So Ben Cohen is fighting back the best way he knows how, with persuasive slogans — and ice cream.

The co-founder of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream will be in Miami this weekend with his Stamp Stampede tour, in which he and a group of volunteers stamp dollar bills with red-ink words of protest: One stamp says, "Not 2 B Used for Bribing Politicians." The other reads, "Stamp Money Out of Politics."

"The Stampede is a grassroots action to build the movement to get money out of politics by stamping messages on paper currency," Cohen says. "The Supreme Court has said that money is free speech, and we are taking them at their word. We're legally making our money scream."

Cohen will appear 3-5 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 15, at Culture Camp, a four-day series of workshops on music, dance, cooking, sustainability and community building at Virginia Key Beach Park in Miami through Feb. 18. The events will kick off the Virginia Key GrassRoots Festival of Music, Art and Dance, running Feb. 19-22, with performances by Donna the Buffalo, Jim Lauderdale, Afrobeta, Elastic Bond, Locos por Juana and the Spam Allstars, among many others. Several of the musicians are scheduled to appear at Culture Camp.

The man who brought us Cherry Garcia, Phish Food and New York Super Fudge Chunk has a distaste for the mint that is American politics. So Ben Cohen is fighting back the best way he knows how, with persuasive slogans — and ice cream.
The co-founder of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream will be in Miami this weekend with his Stamp Stampede tour, in which he and a group of volunteers stamp dollar bills with red-ink words of protest: One stamp says, "Not 2 B Used for Bribing Politicians." The other reads, "Stamp Money Out of Politics."
"The Stampede is a grassroots action to build the movement to get money out of politics by stamping messages on paper currency," Cohen says. "The Supreme Court has said that money is free speech, and we are taking them at their word. We're legally making our money scream."
Cohen will appear 3-5 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 15, at Culture Camp, a four-day series of workshops on music, dance, cooking, sustainability and community building at Virginia Key Beach Park in Miami through Feb. 18. The events will kick off the Virginia Key GrassRoots Festival of Music, Art and Dance, running Feb. 19-22, with performances by Donna the Buffalo, Jim Lauderdale, Afrobeta, Elastic Bond, Locos por Juana and the Spam Allstars, among many others. Several of the musicians are scheduled to appear at Culture Camp.
- See more at: http://www.southflorida.com/sf-ben-cohen-virginia-key-grassroots-fest-20150209,0,2784813.story#sthash.ovzKyRJN.dpuf
Read Ben & Jerry's founder brings protest to Virginia Key - SouthFlorida.com

2/21/13

Russia Clamps Down On Politicians Investing Illegally Overseas: Wave of Resignations Foreseen in Duma - by Yekaterina Kravtsova

The resignation of senior United Russia lawmaker Vladimir Pekhtin following accusations from opposition leader Alexei Navalny that he owned undeclared property in the U.S. triggered speculation that more lawmakers would quit their seats, throwing the ruling party into crisis.

Pundits said Thursday that with lawmakers facing an increasing barrage of incriminating evidence from opposition activists, the Kremlin would try to clean up United Russia — before reputational damage could affect the country's top leadership.

On Friday the Duma will consider a resignation claim from United Russia Deputy Anatoly Lomakin, who announced his decision to leave the Duma a few hours after Pekhtin's speech. Lomakin may become the fourth United Russia deputy to recently quit the Duma after Pekhtin, Vasily Tolstopytov, who quit Tuesday, and Alexei Knyshov, who left in October.

Read more: Wave of Resignations Foreseen in Duma | News | The Moscow Times

4/28/11

Economy: Politicians can't cut spending

In the 18th century, as democratic ideals were taking hold both on the American content and in Europe, it was observed that a democracy can exist only until its citizens discover that they can vote themselves access to the public treasury. While we don't know for certain who originally made this observation, he or she might have added a parallel: When politicians discover that they can buy votes through uncontrolled spending, economic collapse is assured.

As the US heads toward 2012, the population will be inundated with political ads proclaiming a new era of fiscal responsibility. Republicans will tell us that they engineered this "largest spending cut," and democrats, of course, will claim to have a master plan that will both cut spending and increase government's ability to meet our every need. In short, we will be lied to by both sides.

The reality is far too frightening for any career politician to acknowledge. Our nation borrows $6 billion per day. In 2010, government spending on entitlement programs alone exceeded total tax revenue. Today, one in six Americans receives money directly from the treasury. Every conceivable want and need of the masses is assumed to be government's responsibility. And, in the pursuit of votes, politicians have been only too willing to take it all on. Career politicians cannot and will not curtail spending. Funding government programs is the means by which they buy votes in order to remain in power. Next year, as political ads showing everything from hungry children to needy seniors flow across our TV screens, it won't take a PR genius to recognize that proposing specific, meaningful cuts is simply not an option.


For the career politician there is no self-interest separate from the desire to remain in Washington, feeding at the public trough for as long as possible. And, as history shows, the best way to do that is to spend, spend and spend some more. While limiting the terms of those elected to Congress would not solve all our problems, it would almost certainly make a serious (and honest) discussion about debt reduction much more likely.

Note EU-Digest: the answer to this problem lies in the hands of the voter. When looking for suitable political representatives, the voter must try and look beyond the billions of advertising dollars wasted by career politicians and political parties - be they Democrat or Republican, or indirectly associated with either one of these two parties, promoting unachievable goals  Instead, the voter should seriously start looking at political independents with a clean slate, who are driven by vision, ideals, inspiration and social consciousness, not just financial reward and political power. These people do exist, but it will require some personal effort and research by the voter to discover them. It will certainly be worth the effort and a service to the country.


For more: Politicians can't cut spending | The Newark Advocate | NewarkAdvocate.com