Angela Merkel
yikes, no node 5/18<div>
</div><div>took in large # syrian refugees cost her bigly; good on agw?</div><div>
</div><div>germany is banker for world, eg greece, so gave clout?</div><div>
</div><div>=</div><div>icn</div><div>
</div><div><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/31122020/germany-angela-merkel-clean-energy-transition/">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/31122020/germany-angela-merkel-clean-energy-transition/</a></div><div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30122020/chemical-plant-nitrous-oxide-climate-warming-emissions/">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30122020/chemical-plant-nitrous-oxide-climate-warming-emissions/</a></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$41 trillion in worker pension, need scale places to put in</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>green energy (wind) now cheaper than nat'l gas, thus massive stranded assets</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">local power grid resilient b/c it's local, not dependent on larger system.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">3rd industrial revo non-hier; must be glob-LOCAL; feed-in tariffs let local ppl go to bank and get loan b/c knew could repay</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>merkel how do future when plugged into coal and nuke?</b></font></p><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">china big green grid investment 12 wks after mtg w/ </font><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Rifkin" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" height="%2213%22" width="%2213%22" version="%221.1%22" cg="Cg" transform="%22translate%28-36.467808%2C-258.39005%29%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" d="%22m40.55%2C263.9c0-0.6213%2C0.6213-0.6213%2C0.6213-0.6213%2C1.864%2C0.6213%2C3.107%2C1.864%2C3.728%2C3.728%2C0%2C0%2C0%2C0.6213-0.6213%2C0.6213-1.243-1.864-1.864-2.485-3.728-3.728z%22/%3E" c="C" g="g" e="E" rgb="rgb" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" font-size="font-size" style="text-decoration-line: none; 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</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">" I<span style="background-color: rgb(247, 248, 248);">can only speak for the Hungarian people, and they don’t want any migration,” said Prime Minister Viktor Orbán | Attila Kisbenedek/AFP via Getty Images</span></font></div><div class="story-intro format-s" style="font-size: small; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.25em; margin-right: 0px; background-color: rgb(247, 248, 248);"><div class="summary" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.25em;"><header style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h1 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.2em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Viktor Orbán: Hungary doesn’t want ‘Muslim invaders’</font></h1><p class="subhead" style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hungarian prime minister speaks with German newspaper Bild after attending a meeting of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria last week.</font></p></header><footer class="meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.2em; display: inline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By <span class="byline" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; text-transform: uppercase;"><span class="vcard" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a rel="author" class="url fn" href="https://www.politico.eu/author/emily-schultheis/" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s;">EMILY SCHULTHEIS</a></span> </span></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p class="timestamp" style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.2em; display: inline;">1/8/18, 1:05 PM CET
Updated <time datetime="2018-01-08T17:14:37+00:00" style="box-sizing: border-box;">1/8/18, 5:14 PM CET</time></p></footer></div></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: small; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(247, 248, 248);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">BERLIN —<b> Hungary has refused to take in refugees because its population is not in favor of opening the borders, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán</b> said in an interview published Monday.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: small; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(247, 248, 248);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I can only speak for the Hungarian people, and they don’t want any migration,” Orbán said. “In my understanding, it’s not possible for the people to have a will on a fundamental issue and for the government not to comply with it.”</font></p><div class="story-interrupt format-s pos-alpha predetermined" style="font-size: small; box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; margin-bottom: 0px; width: auto; float: left; margin-right: 20.5625px; background-color: rgb(247, 248, 248);"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Most refugees come to Europe not because they are fleeing dangerous conditions at home but because they want to take advantage of economic opportunities, Orbán, </b>one of the bloc’s most vocal anti-refugee leaders, <a href="http://www.bild.de/bild-plus/politik/ausland/viktor-orban/orban-interview-54403736,view=conversionToLogin.bild.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s;">told German newspaper Bild</a>. As such, they shouldn’t be considered “refugees” so much as “Muslim invaders,” he said.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In keeping refugees out of Hungary, Orbán asserted he is merely following the will of his people — an indirect dig at Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose open-door refugee policy has come under fire in Germany.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Orbán’s comments echo <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/viktor-orban-refugees-europe-will-restore-the-will-of-the-people-on-migration-in-2018/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s;">those he made</a> last week at a meeting of the Christian Social Union (CSU), Merkel’s conservative allies.</span> The Hungarian prime minister predicted 2018 would see the “restoration of the will of the people” and criticized European leaders who “are not doing what the people want them to.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The difference between Germany and Hungary’s respective handling of the refugee crisis is that Germany “wanted migrants, and we didn’t,” Orbán told Bild. Hungary, he added, helped the EU manage the crisis by protecting its border with Serbia, an effort that he said has cost Budapest more than €1 billion since 2015.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To solve Europe’s migration crisis, leaders should focus on fixing conditions “where the problem lies” and prevent potential migrants from reaching the Continent, Orbán said.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The solution to the problem is certainly not to divide people who are in the EU illegally across the entire EU region,” he said. “We think one has to help where the problem lies, and not bring immigrants here.”</font></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div></div><div><p><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></span></p><p><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/donald-trumps-trade-war-masks-darker-agenda-aiding-far-right-europe">https://www.alternet.org/donald-trumps-trade-war-masks-darker-agenda-aiding-far-right-europe</a></font></span></p><p><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">djt moron but</font></span></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">there are others with a more sophisticated agenda, however, which may be even more concerning since they seem to see Trump as a useful tool. One of those is former Trump campaign chief and senior adviser Steve Bannon, who has been out of the limelight these last few months. The last we heard Trump was calling him "sloppy Steve," but apparently Bannon hasn't lost his affection for the big guy in spite of that. Frankly, Trump may not have lost his for Bannon either -- as long as someone is willing to kiss his ring he'll invite them back into his circle before long.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fareed Zakaria interviewed Bannon in Rome recently where he was enthusiastically cheering on the chaos of the recent Italian elections, implying that a new day of economic populism was surging across Europe like a Panzer division on methamphetamines. He was full of the usual contradictions and muddled philosophical compost, but he essentially made the case that right-wing nationalism is the wave of the future, while trying unconvincingly to claim that race, ethnicity and religion have nothing whatsoever to do with it. He sputtered his way through an unconvincing explanation about how Trump's massive tax cuts were the basis of Trump's economic populism:</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Europe is about a year ahead of the United States. . . . You see populist-nationalist movements with reform [here]. . . . You could begin to see the elements of Bernie Sanders coupled with the Trump movement that really becomes a dominant political force in American politics.</font></p><p><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">It's hard to say what's going to happen in America but it's hard to imagine a successful marriage between Sanders' left-wing populism and Trump's right-wing nativism. The xenophobia and racism is a real sticking point.</span></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In Europe there is certainly a rising right-wing movement that Bannon and his allies are closely observing, presumably for tips on how to use Trump to make it happen in America. For instance, Trump's newly confirmed ambassador to Germany, a former right-wing hit man and odious Twitter troll named Richard Grenell, has made one of the worst first impressions of any diplomat in history with this tweet:</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There was widespread indignation from across the German political spectrum but Grenell refused to back down, basically telling the German people he was only following orders:</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mind you, he was the only U.S. ambassador to do such a thing. Over the weekend Grenell went even further, giving an interview to Breitbart News in which he said he was “excited” by the rise of far-right parties in Europe and was prepared “to empower other conservatives throughout Europe, other leaders.” Breitbart reported:</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Unafraid to name names, Mr Grenell expressed a deep respect and admiration for the young Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz saying, “Look, I think Sebastian Kurz is a rockstar. I’m a big fan.”</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Chancellor Kurz, leader of the conservative Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP), formed a coalition with the populist Freedom Party (FPÖ) earlier this year, and has been one of the strongest advocates for securing the European Union’s external border.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Not long after the formation of the coalition, Kurz stood up to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, rejecting the controversial European Union migrant quota system. He was also been [sic] a leading conservative on the topic of counter-Islamisation while Foreign Minister in the previous coalition government, advocating and helping to pass a ban on the full-face Islamic veil.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The German government was not amused. According to Robert Mackay at The Intercept, it "demanded a formal explanation from the United States on Monday of what, exactly, the new U.S. ambassador in Berlin, Richard Grenell, meant when he promised to use his office to help far-right nationalists inspired by Donald Trump take power across Europe." Grenell tweeted that he did not plan to endorse anyone but stood by his claim that Europe, like America, is “experiencing an awakening from the silent majority — those who reject the elites and their bubble. Led by Trump.”</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">No doubt America's European allies were thrilled to hear that, especially with the neo-fascist rumblings coming from Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and now Slovenian right-wing nationalist Janez Janša.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The trade war is bad enough. White nationalist Trumpers stomping around Europe shooting off their mouths and giving support to far right politicians is making it worse.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a detail nearly no one will notice, Trump just named a right-wing academic and filmmaker named Michael Pack, who is allied with Bannon, to lead the broadcasting arm of the U.S. government, a $685 million agency that oversees prominent outlets such as the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. What could possibly go wrong there?</font></p><p><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></span></p></div><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/they-can-just-have-cartoon-new-book-reveals-obamas-real-reaction-trump-election">https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/they-can-just-have-cartoon-new-book-reveals-obamas-real-reaction-trump-election</a></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">evil mfer confirmed:</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rhodes also writes about Obama's farewells to world leaders. German Chancellor Angela Merkel reportedly told Obama that Trump's victory made her feel a greater obligation to run for a fourth term which she ended up winning. When she left Obama for the last time, she "had a single tear in her eye."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Obama also apparently felt that, despite the criticism he has since received, there was little more he could have done to counter Russian interference in the 2016 election. Calling out the meddling efforts even more than he did would have resulted in Trump saying Obama was rigging the election and Putin working harder to undermine the vote, the president feared.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell pointedly refused to issue a bipartisan statement condemning Russia' actions when Obama wanted to take action, limiting his options. Rhodes called this refusal "staggeringly partisan and unpatriotic," but he says Obama was unsurprised</b>...</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p></div><div></div>