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Post by pieter on Nov 17, 2018 16:50:19 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Nov 17, 2018 17:05:06 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Nov 17, 2018 17:10:12 GMT -7
 The People's Party (French: Parti populaire, Dutch: Personenpartij), abbreviated to PP, is a political party in Belgium. Primarily a French-speaking party, it considers itself to be to the right of the Reformist Movement, the main centre-right party in Francophone Belgium.
The PP was founded on 26 November 2009 by Rudy Aernoudt and Mischaël Modrikamen, inspired in part by the examples of the People's Party in Spain and the Union for a Popular Movement in France. The PP considers itself to be economically liberal in the European sense of the term. The party's manifesto emphasizes efficiency and disinterestedness in governance, plain speaking, and individual autonomy. The PP aims to reform the justice system and to strengthen the Belgian federal government relative to the regions and communities.
In its first electoral test, the 2010 Belgian general election, the PP won 84,005 votes (1.29% of the national total) and returned Laurent Louis as its first Member of Parliament for Walloon Brabant. The PP list for the Senate, headed by Rudy Aernoudt, took 98,858 votes (1.53% nationally) but failed to return a Senator.
Aernoudt and Modrikamen had a public falling-out in August 2010. Laurent Louis had publicly supported the policy of Nicolas Sarkozy in deporting Roma people from France. These comments provoked the indignation of both Aernoudt and the leaders of the PP's youth wing, but Modrikamen did not join in their call for Louis to apologize, and Aernoudt was expelled from the party. Aernoudt disputed the legality of his expulsion, and also criticized Modrikamen's call for a "Plan B" (an independent Wallonia-Brussels) as a betrayal of the party's federalist identity. Aernoudt also publicly accused Modrikamen of financial misdeeds.[ The rupture leaves the future of the party uncertain. The People's Party is supportive of Israel.
Mischael Modrikamen, president of the People's Party, has reiterated after the regional elections in 2012 the interest to offer a partnership with the Flemish party, the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA), to transform Belgium into a confederal state in 2014.
In 2014 the PP won 1 seat in the chamber of representatives and 1 seat in the Walloon Parliament. The PP reached more than 10% in some cantons. However Mischaël Modrikamen did not get a seat in the chamber of representatives. The PP participated in the European elections for the first time but did not get a seat despite the score of Luc Trullemans. |
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Post by pieter on Nov 18, 2018 3:34:54 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Nov 18, 2018 5:48:44 GMT -7
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Post by Jaga on Nov 18, 2018 5:48:53 GMT -7
Pieter,
I did not realize that Steve Bannon had so much following in Europe. I thought about him as clearly American "patriot".
I hope he would not succeed
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Post by pieter on Nov 18, 2018 7:46:01 GMT -7
Jaga, He has some influence, but I hope you and other Forum members have time to watch Steve Bannon's Oxford Union adress. Steve Bannon is right when he says that he advices the European rightwing populist parties, but that these parties are very well organised themselves and that Steve Bannon is not a hero or Guru over here. The European rightwing populist and nationalistic political parties don't need Bannon's help, strategic or tactical advice. Europe has very old political structures and the far left, leftwing, center left, centrist (pragmatic, technocratic, pragmatic parties of the middle, the center, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_tent ), center right, rightg and far right are very well organised today. Why, because Nationalism, Patriotism, Conservatism (Edmund Burke), Liberalism (Classical Liberalism), Social Democracy, Communist and socialist Marxism (Marxism-Leninism in it's different versions), Monarchism, Republicanism (European republicanism, which means anti-Monarchism and a Pro-Republic stance), corporatism, Fascism and Nazism have European roots. I separate Fascism and Nazism from Nationalism and Patriotism, because the present day European Nationalist and Populist parties are not fascist nor Nazi, but rightwing populist, national conservative, national liberal in some instances, social conservative, Nationalist, but not Nazi, nor Neo-Nazi nor Fascists. They are a new brand of rightwing populist Nationalist and national conservative political parties. The left tries to frame them as 'Nazi's" and "Fascists", but they are not. It is hard to understand for many Americans the national differences, the subtle nuances, the refined underlayers of national and regional sensibilities, areas of tension (stress fields), surface fractures, fields of tension, with in them a whole range of historical tensions, ethno-cultural differences, linguistic sensibilities, anti-imperialistic sensibilties (the allergic reactions of some European nations to the old power bases of Berlin -Prussian heritage-, Paris (-goes back to old Protestant Calvinist Huegenot-French Roman-Catholic; minority-majority tensions; Cardinal Richelieu's [1585 – 1642] who transformed France into a strong, centralized state and played a significant role in the bloody Thirty Years' War [1618 – 1648], Napoléon Bonaparte [reign 18 May 1804 – 6 April 1814], the Franco-Prussian War [19 July 1870 – 28 January 1871], The First World War, the Second World War [with nazi allie Vichy France], the post Second War French colonial and nuclear power and present day French influence in former French colonies and in Europe as a strong and powerful political, financial-economical and military [Nuclear/Atomic bom possesing] force, who is strong and dominant due to the 'Paris-Berlin axis' in the European Union and the power of France in the Francophone European Union cities Brussels (a Walloon French speaking city), Luxemburg and the French city Strasbourg. Next to that you have all kind of regional, border, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, political, social, financial, monetary and economical tensions in Europe. Karl mentioned the differences and tensions between 2 Scandinavian states with kindred cultures and societies, but different political directions and stances, Denmark and Sweden. I see differences between the Netherlands and Belgium. Within Belgium I see differences between the rather alt left, socialist French speaking Walloons and the rather national conservative, rightwing Populist and Flemish Nationalist Dutch speaking Flemish people with their ethnic centrism, Peoples nationalism, economic nationalism and their separatist segregation desire [the wish to establish the Republic Flanders, with strong ties with the Netherlands, or a Federation of Flanders and the Netherlands in one Federal state.). In Central-Europe you have the tension between Hungarians and Slovaks with the Hungarian minority in Slovakia, and you have the tension between Hungary and Romania with the Hungarian minority in Romania. In Germany the Freestate Bavaria (Der Freistaat Bayern), as Bundesland (one of the states that makes the Federal Republic of Germany) moves towards Bavaria, while other German states (Bundesländer) tend to align more with Berlin. Austria is closer to Hungary and Poland in the political sense than to Berlin or Paris. Also Italy is closer to Budapest and Warsaw than to Paris, Berlin or Brussels.
Steve Bannon, although being American (US-citizen) and a person of the North-American continent has some influence in Europe, because Donald Trump is popular amongst European rightwing populists, nationalists and national conservatives, the traditional, arch conservative, Eurosceptic (Anti-Brussels, anti-EU, Anti-Euro currency, anti-open borders, anti-immigrants and anti-refugees) movements, activists, militants, voters and politicians. These European people, although they know little about the USA liked what they saw on their television screens or internet blogs, youtube chanals and Facebook pages, Twitter, Myspace, read in their newspapers and magazines about the neocons, the Tea Party, Alt Right and the Trump movement. They like everything which is political incorrect, against the left, center left and center right political, financial and economical establishment. These people like every xenophobic, Islamophobic, Eurocentrist, Pro-Western, racist, anti-feminist, anti-liberal, anti-socialist, anti-communist, anti-elitist, and every Pro-White, Pro-Crhistian, Pro secular-European-Humanist and Pro-Western atheist sound they can hear, see, read, feel and experience. Everything not European, not national, not rightwing populist, not national conservative, not ethnocentrist, not-Western, multi-cultural, cosmopolitan and leftist is bad for these people. They have some allergic reactions or tendencies towards everything which is connected to Muslims and Islam, and next to that to Black or coloured Non-European, Non-Western people, and towards (Typical European) other Europeans from other regions and other linguistic blocks of countries. Over and over I heard people in the Netherlands saying; "France is a nice country, it only would be nicer without the French." Dutch people are West-Germanic North-West-Europeans, French people are Gaulish, Latin-Romanesque people South of us connected to the Spanish, Portuguese, Italians, some Swiss people and Romanians linguistically. If you cross the linguistic, cultural and ethnic borderline in Belgium between Flanders and Wallonia, and on the Dutch-Belgian border you come from one world into another. Just a few kilometers are between Maastricht in the Netherlands and Liège (Luik/Luttig) in the Walloon part of Belgium and you are in a completely different world qua atmosphere, language, culture and people. The French speaking Walloons of Liège are closer to Paris, Lille, Lyon or the French speaking Swiss city of Geneva. Maastricht is closer to the Flemish cities of Antwerp, Gent or the Dutch Brabant cities of 's-Hertogenbosch (Den Bosch), Breda or Bergen op Zoom. Closer to the German neighbours over the Dutch-German border who also speak a kindred Limburgian dialect than with the French speaking Walloons of Liège. Only because I was raised in a Francophone home and got French language lessons by my Dutch grandmother and at school I could have some fun time over there, because I could hide my Dutch background a little bit. The French speaking Waloons weren't particulary fond of the Dutch speaking Flemish and the Northern-Dutch tourists. A nickname of Liège was Petit Paris, little Paris. That says it all.
I could go on an on about border disputes, old scars, tensions between regions, between peoples and between nations. The German Heimatvertriebenen with their old hurt and longing for German Oberschlesien (Upper Silesia) West-Poland, for Breslau (Wrocław), Stettin (Stettin), Freie Stadt Danzig (Wolne Miasto Gdańsk in Polish and Free city Danzig in English) and for Sudetenland in the Czech republic, and the separatist movement in South-Tirol of German-Austrian speaking Austrian-Italians. And the Slovenian minority in Austria, Catalonia and Basque country in Spain, and the Nationalistic Corsicans, who are also xenophobic and Islamophobes.
Many of the Alternative for Germany, Geert Wilders PPV party, Marine le Pen's Rassemblement national (RN. formerly know as Front National), Italy's Lega Nord, Austria's FPÖ (Austrian Freedom Party), Hungary's Fidesz (the party of prime minister Victor Orban) and the Polish Prawo i Sprawiedliwość of Jarosław Kaczyński, Mateusz Jakub Morawiecki, Antoni Macierewicz and Mariusz Błaszczak supporters don't know who Steve Bannon is, because the German, Dutch, French, Italian, Austrian, Hungarian and Polish citizens and voters are very much focussed on their own life, their own economies in their own countries in staid of following American politics and news. Many Europeans only know Hollywood movies, American sitcoms, Disney world, American showbusiness and entertainment (pop culture) and don't know a lot about American politics. We got a limited view on America by watching European news.
Few Europeans know Steve Bannon's journalistic and political background, his influence and role in US politics and journalism. Few European people know that he is an American media executive, political figure, strategist, former investment banker, and the former executive chairman of Breitbart News. Ofcourse some European investigative journalists, documentary makers, politicians, students, academics and people who studied or study American Studies or Political science at European universities know him. But the masses do not because Europeans are very National, regional and local oriented. Regions are strong over here, and you have large city islands and urban agglomerations which are nearly city states. In a superficial way we know something about the USA, but it is always coloured and distorted by a European look on an American reality. The European continent, European countries are different than the USA. It is hard for Europeans to understand the American political system and economy, because it is rather different. The same counts for Americans who have an American perspective on life, and American political, social, cultural, sociological, financial, economical and American pragmatic ideas, realities and situations.
The mentality, the atmosphere, the social system, the economy, the political system (sort of democracy), the constitution, the bill of rights, the legal system, the education system, health care, social security, internal affairs, sport life, linguistically, family life, community life, religious life and the political reality is completely different in the USA than in Europe. Many European countries are monarchies, many European nations still have old class layers, with class codes, etiquettes, strong national roots that go back hundreds and sometimes even thousands of years back. I see the USA as a rather new country with a Pan-European culture of the caucasian white Americans, who have merged West-Germanic, Celtic, Scandinavian (North Germanic), Latin-Romanesque, Slavic, European jewish into a "New American European culture". And that American European culture is different also from the European cultures of the European continent and the British Isles, because in that "New American European culture" new elements of Native Americans, Afro-Americans, Latin-Americans, Asian-Americans are merged into that culture. Where European jewish culture plays a minimal role today on the European continent due to the absence of an European judaism, in the "New American European culture" of the Americans the American jewish culture is a lot more present and stronger. The same counts for Afro-Americans who have a stronger presence in the American entertainment industry, sport world, politics and economy than in Europe, because we have less black Europeans over here. Where in the USA Latin-Americans and South-Americans are a large minority group in Europe North-Africans (Berbers and Arabs), Middle-eastern people and people of Afghanistan, Turkey, Kurdistan, Iran, India and Pakistan are more present. This all makes that there are huge differences between Europe and the USA. When I visited the USA 2 times in 1999 and 2008 I came into a country and cities where I saw three dominant groups; European Americans, African Americans and Latin-Americans. And everybody is American or wants to be American. American English is the dominant language, and next to that I heard many languages, but all these people with other languages spoke English if you made contact with them. I was in LA and New York and saw people who look as blond and blue eyed as the Poles, Germans, Slovaks, Dutch, Czechs, Belgians, Danes and Swedes of Europe, and as brunette and redhead as these Europeans. But they were and are completely different from us. Some of them lived for centuries, a century or for decades in the USA and changed into Americans. Which is fine, perfect, okay and good for America. They are perfect for America. But despite their Polish, German, Slovak, Dutch, Czech, Belgian, Danish or Swedish name they are North-Americans, Americans, US-citizens. My dear American friends live in a different continent, with a different currency, different capitalist economy, different kind of English, and different outlook on the world.
I have never shared the Anti-American, sometimes fiercely anti-capitalist, anti-American culture, anti-American imperialism, Yankee go home mentality of some alt-left, new left, Populist lef, far right, ethnic peoples nationalist, ecological, regionalist, ethnocentic, Eurocentric Europeans. I don't share the in my opinion distorted idea of some European intellectuals, academics, socialists, nationalists and traditionalists that America (the USA) is a country without a culture, without civilisation, without a natural order (the European refined class system, many European people, traditional conservatives, hold on too), without people who are rooted in the land, connected to the land. The European notion that America and thus the USA is a creation of European colonialism, English colonialism. What I do see in the USA is a merger of European ideas, an organically developed society, economy and country, a merger of European, African, Latin-American and other cultures, ideas, structures and value systems. The European American majority of the USA has created a New European merging culture of several European christian cultures with some Pagan, Greek and Roman European influences. The English, Scottish and Welsh people left an Anglo-Saxon, Celtic and Protestant christian mark on the USA. The Protestant christians for a long time were the political elite and the economical elites. Millions of German, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic Protestant immigrants ad to that Protestant (Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist, Lutheran, Baptist) domination. The Irish, Italians, Poles, Slovaks, Croatians and others came later. The jewish masses came together with the central- and Eastern-European mass waves of immigration in the late 19th century and the early 20th century. Today we have 10 million Polish Americans. If the Polish American Diaspora was better organised it would have a greater influence in American politics. The Polish Americans could learn from the Jewish Americans, the Irish Americans and the Italians Americans.
Very few people in Europe know that Bannon was an officer in the United States Navy for seven years in the late 1970s and early 1980s. That Bannon worked at Goldman Sachs as an investment banker after his military service, and that he left Goldman Sachs as vice president. Few people over here know that Bannon became acting director of the research project Biosphere 2 in 1993. Very few people over her in Europe knew and know that in the 1990s Steve Bannon was an executive producer in Hollywood, and produced 18 films between 1991 and 2016. Few Europeans know that Bannon co-founded the far-right website Breitbart News in 2007, "the platform for the alt-right" in Steve Bannon's own words.
A self-described economic nationalist, Bannon advocates for reductions in immigration, restrictions on free trade with China and Mexico, and an increased federal income tax for those earning incomes of over $5 million a year. Bannon is a skeptic of military intervention abroad and has opposed proposals for the expansion of U.S. involvement in Afghanistan, Syria, and Venezuela. He has been described by some as a white nationalist but rejects the description. According to conservative commentator David French, Bannon has "done more than any other person to introduce the ... alt-right into mainstream American life".
Steve Bannon is building 'The Movement', a nonprofit organization to promote economic nationalism and right-wing populism in Europe. The organization is expected to hire 10 full-time staff in Brussels before the European Parliament election in 2019. In January 2017, Mischaël Modrikamen, leader of the Belgian People's Party, officially registered the group.
Background
Bannon initially discussed his plans for the organization with The Daily Beast, saying he wanted to create a populist "supergroup" bloc that could win up to a third of all 700+ MEP seats. He said he thought of the idea when he was invited to speak at an event hosted by Marine Le Pen. Bannon also believes that Sweden's 2018 elections created the perfect timing to launch The Movement.
The Movement stands as a counterpoint to George Soros' Open Society. Bannon has referred to Soros as "evil but brilliant", and expressed a desire to promote nationalism instead of globalism.
Interest and support
In July 2018, Bannon and other former and current staff of Donald Trump met with the Prime Minister of Republika Srpska, Željka Cvijanović, in Washington, D.C., attempting to expand influence in the Balkans.
Steve Bannon with the Prime Minister of Republika Srpska Željka Cvijanović in Washington, D.C. in July 2018.
The Movement has attracted the attention of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who spoke positively of the group. It was reported in September 2018 that Italy's Matteo Salvinihad joined Bannon's new eurosceptic network. UKIP stated they will work with the group. Giorgia Meloni, the leader of Brothers of Italy, has said she expects to officially join The Movement later in September 2018.
Giorgia Meloni, the leader of Brothers of Italy
Since then, The Movement has also attracted the attention of Geert Wilders, leader of the biggest opposition party in the Netherlands, the eurosceptic Party for Freedom, and Thierry Baudet, leader of another eurosceptic opposition party in the Netherlands Forum for Democracy. Wilders said he has arranged to meet Bannon in the Netherlands to discuss the group.
It is reported France's National Rally party, led by Marine Le Pen, will be joining The Movement.
Luigi Di Maio, leader of the Italian eurosceptic party M5S, recently met with Bannon and spoke positively of The Movement, although he remains ambivalent on whether or not he will join.
Criticism
Despite gains made by the group, the co-leader of the Alternative for Germany, Alexander Gauland rejected The Movement as an American conception and criticized its projections. He stated: "Mr Bannon will not succeed in forging an alliance of the like-minded for the European elections" citing what he believes to be their diverging viewpoints. The next day, the Freedom Party (FPÖ) of Austria's secretary general Harald Vilimsky stated his party, like Gauland's, is also unwilling to cooperate with Bannon, reiterating the party's independence and rejecting American influence in the populist movements of Europe.
Alexander Gauland rejected Bannon's The Movement an American conception
UKIP leader Gerard Batten stated in September 2018 that his party has no intentions of joining The Movement, saying UKIP "doesn't fit" into what Bannon proposes across Europe, and the party will instead pursue aims "for the British people"
UKIP leader Gerard Batten has other ideas and plans for Great Britain and Europe than Steve Bannon
In October 2018, Marine Le Pen downplayed Bannon's plans for The Movement, saying that only Europeans would be "the political force behind the EU elections (...) to save Europe".
Marine Le Pen downplayed Bannon's plans for The Movement, saying that only Europeans would be the political force behind the EU elections
Cheers,
Pieter
Sources: Wikipedia, International Business Times (IBTimes), Deutsche Welle and Paris Match.
P.S.- Not all Duch hate or dislike the French and Walloons, in the contrary many of them love the Wallonia french speaking part of Belgium and France and the French speaking part of Switzerland. Some Europeans who aren't French nor have French roots learned to speak French excellently. They go on holiday to France, are Au pair (children nanny and house keeper in one) , study in France or a French speaking Wallonia or Brussels region university, and French Swiss university in Geneva or in Quebec in Canada. Many non-French people have a second house or holiday home in France. Many people who aren't French moved to France to live and work there. Many foreign expats work there. French is still tought at many Dutch higschools, but less and less pupils if higschools choose French or German nowadays. English is the dominant language and Dutch pupils and students get a mix of British English at school and American music, lyrics of Hip Hop, R&B, Singer song writers, rock music and pop music, American language via movies and sitcoms, because the Dutch public tv and commercial tv do not have voice overs but subtitles. And the DVD's of foreign movies are always in the original language with Dutch subtitles. In cinema's we watch French movies in which French is spoken, Polish movies which have Polish speaking actors, German movies with German speaking actors, and British and American movies with actors and actresses who speak British English and American English. All with subtitles. Ofcourse the same is the case with Spanish, Italian, Czech, Arab, Persian, Israeli Hebrew, African languages and Asian languages. We always hear and see the original languages. Unlike the French, German and Czech audiences in cinema's and on German, French and Czech tv which have voice overs in German, French and Czech. I don't know how it is in Poland and Slovakia Jaga and Kaima. And how about the Russian Federation Eric? |
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Post by pieter on Nov 18, 2018 11:49:49 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Nov 18, 2018 13:18:29 GMT -7
To describe the European far right in it's National conservative, rightwing populist and modern nationalist 21th century form of movements, groups, political parties, organisations, action committees, blogs, websites, youtube chanals and Facebook pages would cost me probably a year of research, laying connections, e-mail correspondences, Facebook chats, private conversations, phone calls and going to demonstrations, debates, actions and manifestations. In the Netherlands you wouldn't understand Geert Wilders without the specific Dutch political history. The same counts for Alternative für Deutschland in Germany, Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (Law and Justice) in Poland, Rassemblement national (RN) in France, Lega Nord in Italy, Golden Dawn in Greece, Fidesz in Hungary, the FPÖ in Austria, Sverigedemokraterna (SD; the Sweden Democrats) in Sweden, Vlaams Belang (Flemish Interest) in Belgium, the Dansk Folkeparti (Danish peoples party) in Denmark), Perussuomalaiset (PS; Finns Party) in Finland, Demokratene i Norge (Democrats in Norway) in Norway, UKIP in Great Britain, and the Schweizerische Volkspartei (SVP; Swiss People's Party) in Switzerland. That long before Geert Wilders and Pim Fortuyn you had the Boerenpartij (Farmersparty 1959-1981) of Boer Koekoek (Farmer Cuckoo) in the sixties and the Centrum Partij en the Centrum Democraten in the late seventies with politician Hans Janmaat who had one seat in parliament and was completely ignored and isolated. You wouldn't understand Geert Wilders if you don't know that he first started his career in prime minister Mark Rutte's center right conservative liberal VVD party and gained a lot of experience there. Wilders' goal after he graduated from secondary school was to see the world. Because he did not have enough money to travel to Australia, his preferred destination, he went to Israel instead and volunteered for a year moshav Tomer on the West Bank. With the money he saved, he travelled to the neighbouring Arab countries, and was moved by the lack of democracy in the region, due to the conflicts at the time. When he returned to the Netherlands, he retained Israeli ideas about counter-terrorism and a "special feeling of solidarity" for the country. Living in Utrecht, Wilders initially worked in the health insurance industry. His interest in the subject led him into politics as a speech-writer for the Netherlands' People's Party for Freedom and Democracy. He started his formal political career as a parliamentary assistant to the party leader Frits Bolkestein, specialising in foreign policy. He held this job from 1990 to 1998. During this time Geert Wilders travelled extensively, visiting countries all across the Middle East, including Iran, Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Israel. Bolkestein was the first Dutch politician to address the consequences of mass immigration for Dutch society, including a sharp criticism of Muslim immigrants. He set an example for Wilders not only in his ideas but also in his confrontational speaking style. Political analyst Anno Bunnik later described Wilders as a "sorcerer's apprentice" to Bolkestein. Wilders strongly opposes the Dutch political system in general. He believes that there is a ruling elite of parliamentarians who only care about their own personal careers and disregard the will of the people. He also blames the Dutch system of multiparty coalition governments for a lack of clear and effective policies. In his view, Dutch society advocates rule by consensus and cultural relativism, while he believes that this should change so as "not [to] tolerate the intolerant". Wilders views British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as his greatest political role model. People's Party for Freedom and Democracy figure Frits Bolkestein also heavily influenced his beliefs.  1972 Farmers party election poster with Boer Koekoek (Farmer Cuckoo), Hendrik Koekoek (22 May 1912 – 8 February 1987) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_Party_(Netherlands)en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_Party_(Netherlands)en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_Democrats_(Netherlands)Steve Bannon is an intelligent guy and he has travelled extensively through Europe, investigated the European political situation and the differences between countries. He is an unorthodox political figure in the far right world, because far right political ideologues, thinkers, theoretics, philosophers, activists, militants, leaders and politicians often tend to be very strict, dogmatic, orthodox in the national conservative, populist and nationalist sense. Steve Bannon is a typical American rightwinger, pragmatic, realistic, well informed. But I think he underestimates the European far right differences, the national differences between these political parties and the fact that European nationalists tend to be sceptic towards outsiders. European rightwing populists and nationalists have different agenda's than American rightwing populists and nationalists. Except the Poles many Central-European, West-European and Southern-European far right rightwing populists are fond of Vladimir Putin. And rather a few of them are Pro-Hafez al-Assad's Ba'ath regime in Syria, because the Syrian regime has Syrian Christian and Druze allies next to the Allawites of the government, the army and the secret services. The European rightwing populist nationalists like the Syrian regime because it is against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Islamic State (Daesh), because it is anti-Al Qaida and because it is an allie of Russia and that is good in the point of view of these Pro-Russian, Pro-Putin European nationalists and rightwing populists. Strangely enough in the same time some of these nationalists are Pro-Israel and Pro-Likud in the same time.  Steve Bannon with Marine Le Pen in FranceSteve Bannon entered a strange world when he entered the European far right. He is in a world of conflicting nationalisms, different kind of rightwing populism, and a twilight zone where former people of the rightwing wing of the German Christian Democracy merge with Neo-Nazi's who supposedly transformed themselves in rightwing populists who serve the national conservative Alternative für Deutschland today. Not a long time ago they were supporters of the Neo-Nazi, Ultranationalist, Pan-Germanic, Hard Eurosceptic, Far right NPD ( National Democratic Party of Germany) and member of the Freie Kameradschaften ( informal organised Neo-nazi-Groups). But today the Alternative für Deutschland aligns itself with the Israeli right, like Geert Wilders PVV, the Austrian FPÖ and the Hungarian Fidesz Party prime minister Victor Orban. The European far right has changed in the last decades. The real Neo-Nazi's are a fringe group today, far greater is the national conservative and rightwing populist movement in Europe, with it's ties to the USA, Israel, Canada, Australia and Great-Britain (despite Brexit, European Nationalists from the continent want to follow Great Britain with a Nexit (Netherlands), Frexit (France), Polexit (Poland), and Danexit in Denmark. For now the EU is in tact, but the anti-European forces are gathering for the European elections next year.
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Post by pieter on Nov 18, 2018 15:10:03 GMT -7
 After leaving the White House, Steve Bannon declared his intention to become " the infrastructure, globally, for the global populist movement." Accordingly, he has supported various national populist conservative political movements around the world. These include France's National Front, Hungary's Fidesz, the Italian League, the Brothers of Italy, Alternative for Germany, the Sweden Democrats, the Dutch Party for Freedom, the Freedom Party of Austria, the Swiss People's Party, the UK Independence Party, the Flemish Vlaams Belang, the Belgian People's Party, Spain’s Vox, the Finns Party, the pan-European identitarian movement, Republika Srpska's Alliance of Independent Social Democrats, the Brazilian 2018 Jair Bolsonaro presidential campaign, and the Israeli Likud. Bannon believes that the aforementioned movements – along with Japan’s Shinzo Abe, India’s Narendra Modi, Russia's Vladimir Putin, Saudi Arabia's Mohammad bin Salman, China's Xi Jinping, Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and America's Donald Trump, as well as similar leaders in Egypt, the Philippines, Poland, and South Korea – are part of a global shift towards nationalism. A self-described economic nationalist, Bannon advocates for reductions in immigration, restrictions on free trade with China and Mexico, and an increased federal income tax for those earning incomes of over $5 million a year. Bannon is a skeptic of military intervention abroad and has opposed proposals for the expansion of U.S. involvement in Afghanistan, Syria, and Venezuela. He has been described by some as a white nationalist but rejects the description. According to conservative commentator David French, Bannon has " done more than any other person to introduce the ... alt-right into mainstream American life". Source: |
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Post by pieter on Nov 18, 2018 16:01:11 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Nov 19, 2018 4:50:01 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Nov 19, 2018 6:06:42 GMT -7
 Zanny Minton Beddoes Susan "Zanny" Minton Beddoes (born 1967) is a British journalist. She is the 17th and first female editor-in-chief of The Economist. She began working for the newspaper in 1994, as its emerging markets correspondent. Beddoes was educated at Moreton Hall School near Oswestry, received an undergraduate degree at Oxford University, where she studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at St Hilda's College, and earned a master's degree at Harvard University, as a Kennedy Scholar.
After graduation, she was recruited as an adviser to the Minister of Finance in Poland, in 1992, as part of a small group headed by Professor Jeffrey Sachs of Harvard. She then spent two years as an economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), where she worked on macroeconomic adjustment programmes in Africa and the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe.
Through this work, she joined The Economist in 1994 as the magazine's correspondent for emerging markets, based in London. She becamen the Economics editor in 1996, overseeing global economics coverage from Washington DC, and later moved to Business Affairs editor, responsible for business, finance and science. She began as the 17th and first female editor-in-chief on 2 February 2015.For more about Zanny Minton Beddoes read this link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanny_Minton_Beddoes  CGTN America is the American division of CGTN. CGTN is the collection of international language news channels run by China Media Group. It is based in Washington, D.C. and manages bureaus across North and South America. The service employs a mix of American, international and Chinese journalists and produces Americas-based programming with a focus on Asia for CGTN. CGTN America is led by director general Ma Jing with veteran Asia journalist Jim Laurie as executive consultant. It began broadcasting on February 6, 2012, replacing the former English language CCTV 9 in the region.  James Andrew Laurie is an American writer, journalist, and broadcaster who is known principally for his work in Asia. Laurie started a freelance career in the early 1970s writing for the Far Eastern Economic Review and other newspapers. In 1972, Laurie joined NBC News in Saigon to cover the wars in Vietnam and Cambodia. In 1975, with cameraman Neil Davis, he covered the final phase of the Communist take over of Vietnam on April 30, remaining 26 days in the newly renamed Ho Chi Minh City. His work in Vietnam in 1975 for NBC News earned him the George Foster Peabody Award from the University of Georgia.
Laurie reported for ABC News from 1978 to 1999. In 1980, his reporting in Vietnamese-occupied Cambodia resulted in a one-hour ABC News Close Up documentary This Shattered Land. Today Laurie is the executive consultant for CGTN America. Since 2012, his main role has been as 'executive consultant' at CCTV America, a Chinese state enterprise that aims to exercise Chinese soft power in the Americas. CGTN America replaced the former English language CCTV 9 in the region. |
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Post by pieter on Nov 19, 2018 6:12:26 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Nov 19, 2018 13:59:41 GMT -7
Bannon is close to European rightwing populism and leftwing populism in the sense that he combines traditional rightwing Nationalist and rightwing populist ideas with some rather leftwing populist elements. He is more a Józef Piłsudski like inclusive thinker, than a Roman Dmowski like ethnocentric peoples nationalist. He is close to modern European populism but influenced more by American ideas and life.
Steve Bannon's direction is Nationalist Populism and Economic Nationalism. With his movement he wants to unite the European conservative Eurosceptics, National Conservatives, Rightwing Populists, anti-Establishment/Anti-Elitist forces, European nationalists, anti-migration forces and European anti-Globalists.
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