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Post by pieter on Jan 13, 2020 7:58:12 GMT -7
When President Trump’s former strategist, Steve Bannon, was ousted from his White House post, he didn't disappear. He went to Europe and is heading up new projects to support right-wing populist parties that are currently surging across the continent. Vice News sent Michael Moynihan to Sweden, Italy, and Belgium to track Bannon and see the rise of Europe’s right-wing populist movement firsthand. Comment (criticism) Pieter: I quote Wikipedia: " This video is interesting and actual concerning the present growth and international Rightwing National Populist movement in Europe. But you see that it is a little bit behind track, because they talk about the populist regionalist, radical right Northern League, and the populist left-libertarian Five Star movement who formed a coalition government in Italy. That coalition fell in 2019 after a conflict between both parties about the construction of the Italian part of Turin–Lyon high-speed railway. After a vote in the Senate regarding the progress of the Turin–Lyon high-speed railway, in which the Lega voted against an attempt of the M5S (The Five Star Movement (Italian: Movimento 5 Stelle) to block the construction works. Many political analysts believe the no confidence motion was an attempt to force early elections to improve Lega's standing in Parliament, ensuring Salvini could become the next Prime Minister. On 20 August, following the parliamentary debate in which Giuseppe Conte, the 58th and current Prime Minister of Italy since 1 June 2018, harshly accused Salvini of being a political opportunist who "had triggered the political crisis only to serve his personal interest", the Prime Minister resigned his post to President Sergio Mattarella.
Conte, a non-party candidate (impartial) became the first person in the history of the Italian Republic to lead governments in the same legislature, both with the right-wing and the left-wing. Conte's first Cabinet, which included Five Star's leader Luigi Di Maio and the League's leader Matteo Salvini, was considered by many newspapers such as The New York Times and la Repubblica as the first populist government in modern Western Europe. Moreover, he was the first person to assume the premiership without prior government or administrative service since Silvio Berlusconi in 1994 and the first Prime Minister from Southern Italy since the Christian Democrat Ciriaco De Mita in 1989. Conte has been often nicknamed "the lawyer of the people" (l'avvocato del popolo), as he defined himself during his first speech as Prime Minister.
The present Conte II Cabinet is the 66th cabinet of the Italian Republic and the second cabinet led by Giuseppe Conte. The government was sworn in on 5 September 2019.
The cabinet is supported by the anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S) and the centre-left Democratic Party (PD), along with the leftist parliamentary group Free and Equal (LeU) and, since 17 September, the centrist party Italia Viva (IV), which splintered from the PD on that day. The government has been referred to as the "yellow-red government" (governo giallorosso), based on the customary colours of the main supporting parties.
The Conte II Cabinet is the one with the lowest average age of its members in the history of the Italian Republic.
The Turin–Lyon high-speed railway is a rail line under construction between the cities of Turin and Lyon. It will link the Italian and French high-speed rail networks and will be 270 km (170 mi)-long. The core of the project is the Mont d'Ambin Base Tunnel, a 57.5 kilometres (35.7 mi)-long tunnel crossing the Alps between Susa valley in Italy and Maurienne in France. The tunnel will be the longest rail tunnel in the world, ahead of the 57.1 km Gotthard Base Tunnel. It represents one third of the estimated overall cost of the project and is the only part of the line where work has started." Vice News (stylized as VICE News) is Vice Media's current affairs channel, producing daily documentary essays and video through its website and YouTube channel. It promotes itself on its coverage of "under-reported stories". Vice News was created in December 2013 and is based in New York City, though it has bureaus worldwide.Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conte_II_CabinetHistoryBefore Vice News was founded, Vice published news documentaries and news reports from around the world through its YouTube channel alongside other programs. Vice had reported on events such as crime in Venezuela, the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, protests in Turkey, the North Korean regime, and the Syrian Civil War through their own YouTube channel and website. After the creation of Vice News as a separate division, its reporting greatly increased with worldwide coverage starting immediately with videos published on YouTube and articles on its website daily.
December 2013, Vice Media expanded its international news division into an independent division dedicated to news exclusively and created Vice News. Vice Media put $50 million into its news division, setting up 34 bureaus worldwide and drawing praise for its in-depth coverage of international news. Vice News has primarily targeted a younger audience comprised predominantly of millennials, the same audience to which its parent company appeals.ReportersVice News had more than 100 members of its reporting and editorial staff in 35 bureaux around the world including New York City, Toronto, London, Berlin, Mexico City, São Paulo, Los Angeles, Istanbul, Moscow, Beijing, and Kabul. On April 21, 2014, while covering the conflict in Ukraine, Simon Ostrovsky, a Vice News reporter was kidnapped by pro-Russian militia and held for three days until being released in Sloviansk.www.vice.com/en_us/section/newswww.youtube.com/user/vicenews
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Post by pieter on Jan 13, 2020 8:49:28 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Jan 13, 2020 8:59:13 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Jan 13, 2020 9:01:05 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Jan 13, 2020 11:13:26 GMT -7
Folks,
My humble analysis from my North-West European corner of Europe today in januari 2020 is that the Continental European centre right conservative right and the far right National Populist Right with it's National conservative, Nationalist, anti-migration and anti-EU and Pro-Brexit and Pro-Trump stance is stronger than the traditional Centre left and left in Europe, because they are strong in their respective corners. The left is hopelessly polarised inside the left. The only successful parties on the left are the Green Parties of Europe. Les Verts (the Greens) in France, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (Alliance 90/The Greens in Germany), GroenLinks (GreenLeft) in the Netherlands, Die Grünen – Die Grüne Alternative ('The Greens – The Green Alternative') in Austria, Ecolo and Groen (Green) in Belgium, the Enhedslisten – De Rød-Grønne (literally Unity List – The Red–Greens), the Eco Socialist Socialist People's Party (Danish: Socialistisk Folkeparti, SF), and the Alternativet green political party in Denmark and the quite successful British English and Welsh eco socialist party, the Green Party of England and Wales in the United Kingdom.
In my country the centre left Labour Party, the centre left GreenLeft (GroenLinks) party and the leftwing Socialist Party are hopelessly polarised. The Party of Animals follows it's own course and the centre left to centrist social liberal D66 party is part of the government coalition and in that is linked to the conservative liberal VVD party (the largest party of the Netherlands and a centre right political party, the party of Prime Minister Mark Rutte), the social conservative Christian Democratic and centre right CDA party and the centre right Christian Union. Leftwing Union and cooperation is further away than ever, but the left has always had a tradition in Europe of discord, quarrels and political fighting with each other. The Social Democrats and Communists clashed most of the 20th century, leftwing socialist parties always criticised the pragmatic and market oriented policies of Labour parties which ruled together with centre right Christian Democratic and conservative parties in Europe in National coalitions.
Today the far right national populists have little competition on the right and can easily attack the centre right, the centre left, the left and the far left. They attack the centre right conservative liberals (Pro Market -Laisez Faire- Classical liberals), the Christian Democrats, the traditional conservatives, they attack centrist parties like the social Liberal D66 party, they keep attacking the Social Democratic Labour party, who already lost more than half of the votes in many European countries. The power of the Rightwing Nationalist Populists comes from the fact that they use a chastened, camouflaged, and rebranded version of the former Neo-Nazi, Neo-Fascist, Neo-Falangist, Neo-White nationalist, Identitarian, nativist versions of the former aggressive, violent, extreme right of classical West-European Neo-Nazi activists, Nazi Skins and far right Hooligans and activists, and use that chastened racism, xenophobia, hatred, aversion towards minorities, anti-Eastern-European sentiment, islamophobia, discrimination and merged it with centre right political marketing and experience of former classical liberals and christian democrats who became National Rightwing Populists, and with certain popular leftwing Social Democratic, Marxist and leftwing Populist and Leftwing nationalist elements.
The New Rightwing National Populist movements and political parties in Europe are very clever, very modern, very sophisticated, very well organised, very cunning, very shrewd, very intelligent, very successful, very energetic, very activist and lasting political organisations. Why because some of them exist for decades, because they attract the former voting base of Social Democratic, Marxist, Christian Democratic, Classical Liberal and Christian Democratic political parties who build coalition governments for decades and who ruled for decades. There are people inside these New National Rightwing Populist movements and political parties who were successful members of former centrist Democratic government parties of the centre left and centre right in Western-Europe. These people brought the campaigning tactics, strategic skills, grassroots movement building skills, political marketing skills, political congress organisation (from Labour and Christian Democratic parties), voters action skills, street campaigning (from door to door), campaign material (flyers, folders, posters, magazines, blogs, twitter feeds, Facebook pages and websites and youtube video's), and know how to act in city councils of the muncipalities with their former councillor skills, in the provincial or state councils and in national parliaments, because like Geert Wilders for instance they were parliamentarians for centre right or centre left political parties (both opposition and government in the past).
The Rightwing National Populist parties have attractive websites, youtube video's and appearances of their parliamentarians or senators on tv, radio, the newspapers, magazines and news blogs of the mainstream media.
Examples are the following:
The United KIngdom: www.thebrexitparty.org/ Germany: www.afd.de/ France: rassemblementnational.fr/ Hungary: fidesz-eu.hu/en/ Poland: pis.org.pl/ , www.facebook.com/solidarnapl/ , ruchnarodowy.net/ , www.lpr.pl/ , mw.org.pl/ and the ultranationalist national-revolutionary far-right political party Narodowe Odrodzenie Polski (NOP) ( en.nop.org.pl/ ) Austria: www.fpoe.at/ Switzerland: www.svp.ch/partei/ Denmark: danskfolkeparti.dk/ sd.se/vilka-vi-ar/?__cf_chl_captcha_tk__=763f03014acd5f4b041d306dd63e521ee2e9d4eb-1578934598-0-AQzWI1De9s9JZXuEevEAtRHs-LCGGAkaFplBTzgFP1Ya2maKwn7SPf3tkf76aXuaJAXEqIWs3lKLK9j_ihPl_IVKg4NPZ3GtkC1WVYrZO9PGhoSkNyNqe3mMQL4bUm6Gv2EZ11EyRtXt_UUnfryjDTuNSneH7ImEJUOCoYACCJG2zH4wIMXTb1JrsEDgCNA6rRw6wLxbgC9pyhyl7G-LaD_jVluf7UrAUgVokSLVKZuoqYng82hBwRlRQQPoUDr1Hkol4iwXcJ9xJ1JdcVRGFHP5NeE-rRvI9Gsjhsu8XYSEtNN5q8HvdErrvfwxfoirsw The Netherlands: www.pvv.nl/ and forumvoordemocratie.nl/ and Identitarian Resistance ( www.idverzet.org/ ), Pegida Netherlands ( www.pegidanederland.com/ ), and the Dutch Peoples Union (Nederlandse VolksUnie) ( nvu.info/ ) Belgium: www.vlaamsbelang.org/ Italy: www.leganord.org/ Spain: www.voxespana.es/ Czech Republic: www.anobudelip.cz/cs/ and www.spd.cz/ The Slovak Smer – sociálna demokracia is a strange party, because it's fit's the description of a Rightwing national Populist party in Western Europe due to it's anti-immigration, populist and nationalist stances. Ok, it is a Social Democratic Labour party, but a strange one with it's leftwing populism and leftwing nationalism. It is very close to a Rightwing National Populist Party. That's why I post the party in this list. The party is a strange duck in the European landscape of political parties: www.strana-smer.sk/ (Wonder what Kaima thinks of Smer? ) Greece: elliniki-lisi.gr/ and xrisiavgi.com/en/ Slovenia: www.sds.si/ ( The Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovene: Slovenska demokratska stranka, SDS), formerly the Social Democratic Party of Slovenia (Slovene: Socialdemokratska stranka Slovenije, SDSS), is a nationalist right-wing populist political party in Slovenia. It is the largest Slovenian political party in the Slovenian parliament.) and www.sns.si/ / www.sns.si/vep/ (The Slovenian National Party (Slovene: Slovenska Nacionalna Stranka, SNS) is a nationalist political party in Slovenia led by Zmago Jelinčič Plemeniti. The party is known for its Euroscepticism and opposes Slovenia's membership in NATO. It also opposes what it considers historical revisionism of events in Slovenia during World War II and to an extent is sympathetic towards the former Yugoslav government of Josip Broz Tito. The rightwing to far right Slovenian National Party is Slovenian nationalist, Social conservative, Economic nationalist, Right-wing populist, Eurosceptic, Anticlerical and has Yugoslavist ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslavism ) and even Titoist ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titoism ) elements. Croatia: www.neovisni.hr/ , www.h-rast.hr/, www.hdssb.hr/ , www.zivizid.hr/ , snaga.hr/ and promijenimohrvatsku.hr/ Serbia: www.sns.org.rs/ , www.srpskaradikalnastranka.org.rs/ , and the Leftwing Nationalist and Leftwing Populist Socialist Party of Serbia www.sps.org.rs/ of Slobodan Milošević (1941 – 2006), and the Populist, National conservative, Social conservative and regionalist United Serbia ( www.jedinstvenasrbija.org.rs/ ). Bosnia: The Bosnian Muslim Party of Democratic Action ( sda.ba/ ), the Bosnian Serb Alliance of Independent Social Democrats ( www.snsd.org/ ) and the Bosnian Croat Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( www.hdzbih.org/ ), the separatist Serb Nationalist Party Serb Democratic Party ( www.sdsrs.com/ ), the Serb Nationalist, National Conservative and conservative Party of Democratic Progress ( pdp.rs.ba/ ) Finland: The far right Finnish nationalist, National conservative, Economic nationalist, Social conservative, Right-wing populist, Eurosceptic and Anti-immigration political party, the Finns Party ( Perussuomalaiset) ( www.perussuomalaiset.fi/ ) and Soldiers of Odin (SOO), a Nationalist group founded in Kemi, Finland, in October 2015. The group was established as a response to thousands of migrants arriving in Finland amid the European migrant crisis. Their call themselves a "patriotic organisation that fights for a white Finland" that wants to scare away "Islamist intruders" they say "cause insecurity and increase crime".
The opposing populist left, far left, extreme left, leftwing nationalists often use the same rhetoric, clothing and agitprop the Rightwing National Populists use. Both shout aggressive slogans, are dominant and intimidating in their presence and have only one truth. Their truth. Both can be violent or harass their opponents. Steve Bannon has expressed his sympathy for leftwing populist and authoritarian leaders from China, Russia and Turkey.
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Post by kaima on Jan 13, 2020 11:43:42 GMT -7
It must take a huge and unique (I hope unique) ego to presume a leadership role in foreign nations, to fly in and 'speak the word' and have the flock recognize you are a great Fuhrer, and the One Being with the True Vision. Even tRump has not presented himself in this light.
Or is it the news media that assigns these titles and roles?
Kai
Thanks for the summary of European political parties.
PS. My current dream for America is to wake up to a country where the president is not always the headline.
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Post by pieter on Jan 13, 2020 13:20:47 GMT -7
Kai,
Despite the lack of modesty, humility, self-relativization and the ability to put himself in perspective, Steve Bannon has some influence on some Belgians, Italians, Duch people and other Europeans. Some European ethnic (Peoples) Nationalism rooted Rightwing National Populist reject him and distrust him as an American. An example of the latter is clearly Marine Le Pen, the leader of the French Right-wing populist, French nationalist, National conservative, Souverainist, Economic nationalist, Green Nationalist, Protectionist, Anti-immigration, Eurosceptic, Anti-globalist, Social conservative and to a certain extent Ameriskeptic and Pro-Russian Rassemblement national (National Rally). Steve Bannon seems to determined and self assure of his mission in Europe to built a Movement. He will always find people who are willing to follow him, who let themselves be lured into his plans and who he will train, indoctrinate and form.
Even when the large European Rightwing National Populist political parties ignore him, reject him and avoid contact with him he will find people who will connect to him and who will be persuaded to follow his movement, his lead, his plan and his ideology. It seems he has invested a lot of time, energy, effort and money in traveling through Europe, organising meetings, setting up structures for his movement and inspiring European followers like the Belgian right wing politician and lawyer Mischaël Modrikamen, the co-founder and leader of the Conservative liberal, Right-wing populist, Eurosceptic and National liberal People's Party, and Benjamin Harnwell, Director of the Academy of the Judaeo-Christian West, based at the historic monastery of Trisulti in Collepardo, province of Frosinone, central Italy. And next to these three, last but not least the Italian politician Matteo Salvini, the Federal Secretary of the Northern League since December 2013.
Mischaël Modrikamen (born 22 February 1966) is a Belgian right wing politician and lawyer. He is the co-founder and leader of the People's Party. He is the vice-president of the Alliance for Direct Democracy in Europe (ADDE) and the publisher of Le Peuple.
Benjamin Harnwell, Director of the Academy of the Judaeo-Christian West
Matteo Salvini, the Federal Secretary of the Northern League
Steve Bannon, Matteo Salvini and Mischaël Modrikamen
The British conservative Benjamin Harnwell also founded the Dignitatis Humanae Institute (DHI), also known as the Institute for Human Dignity and L’Istituto Dignitatis Humanae, a Catholic-inspired right-wing institute based in Collepardo, Italy. Its stated mission is to "protect and promote human dignity based on the anthropological truth that man is born in the image and likeness of God."
The motivation behind the establishment of the Dignitatis Humanae Institute came about when Italian politician Rocco Buttiglione was vetoed for the position of the European Commission's Vice-President and Commissioner for Justice, Freedom, and Security. Buttiglione, who was nominated to the European Commission by then-Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, described homosexuality as a sin and said the principal role of women was to have children."
Cheers, PieterItaly revokes Steve Bannon’s right to use a monastery for his political “gladiator” school Bannon planned to teach the art of his brand of politics at the school.By Gabriela Resto-Montero Jun 1, 2019, 4:08pm EDTThe Certosa de Trisulti monastery, where Bannon planned to host his political “gladiator school.” Alberto Pizzoli/AFP/Getty Images Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon’s plans for a far-right nationalist school have been halted by Italian authorities. Bannon hoped to run the school out of an ancient monastery near Rome, but officials say they are revoking rights to the grounds for failure to maintain the site and pay fees.
In a statement released Friday, Gianluca Vacca, an official with Italy’s cultural ministry, said that it was the government’s “duty” to revoke the rights to the Certosa de Trisulti monastery that the Human Dignity Institute, a far-right Catholic think tank Bannon partnered with, had obtained. Vacca cited the fact the group failed to pay proper concessions and said it was determined that the institute did not have any experience in cultural heritage custodianship. The ministry also voiced concerns that repairs had not begun that would make the historic property available for public use.
“Political opinions have nothing to do with us,” Vacca said. “We are interested in respecting the law and protecting the national cultural heritage, of which the Certosa is obviously part.”
Bannon, who once served as President Trump’s chief strategist, had hoped to train mid-career students “looking to do something different” in the rhetoric and strategy of far-right nationalism at the school. He promised the monastery would become a “gladiator school” and planned to call it the “Academy for the Judeo-Christian West.”
In response to the Italian government’s statement, Bannon signaled that he is not ready to give up on his dream of opening the school and said, “The fight for Trisulti is a microcosm of the fight for the Judeo-Christian West.”
Further complicating Bannon’s plan is the assertion by Italian authorities that a bank document the Human Dignity Institute submitted in acquiring rights to use the monastery had been forged.
Bannon has rejected this accusation, claiming that “everything actually is totally legitimate” and that questions over the authenticity of the bank document “is just dust being kicked up by the left.”Bannon hoped to create a global school for nationalist thoughtBannon hoped to use the planned school to create a legacy of populist teachings rooted in his own personal alt-right philosophies of governance.
“Will we teach the underpinnings of populism and nationalism? Yeah, absolutely,” Bannon told the Washington Post after the Human Dignity Institute won its bid to occupy the monastery for $111,000 a year. “But also a broader range of stuff. The trends of where we think the world is going.”
From the beginning, however, locals were opposed to the monastery — which features frescoes dating to the 18th century and priceless art — being used for political purposes by foreign operatives.
“Almost everybody is against this,” Mauro Bussiglieri, the mayor of a town near the monastery, said. “Citizens are having a hard time understanding that the [monastery] is going to be a place where future politicians are going to be trained. They keep looking at it as a religious place, and that’s it.”
Members of the Human Dignity Institute, a Catholic think tank led by Bannon ally and British political operative Benjamin Harnwell, have also taken issue with using the monastery for anything other than religious study.
Cardinal Renato Maria Martino, a one-time honorary president of the Human Dignity Institute, wrote a letter to Harnwell advising him not to use the grounds for political purposes.
“I recommend you to make sure the abbey is really turned into a place for worship and meeting open to everybody,” Martino wrote, according to Politico. “I really hope you and [the Human Dignity Institute] succeed in carrying out the project without any distortions or modifications, including in its implementation phase, that will degenerate the purposes you have worked for so hard.”
Harnwell vowed Friday to fight to hold onto the lease.
Bannon headed to Europe after falling out of favor with the president following reports that he’d said Donald Trump Jr.’s contact with Russian agents was “treasonous” and that Trump firing FBI Director James Comey was the biggest mistake in “modern political history.”
European far-right leaders including France’s Marine Le Pen and Italy’s Matteo Salvini welcomed Bannon’s expertise, although he was still met with some skepticism from conservative groups suspicious of American influence in European politics. Nevertheless, Bannon plans to remain an influence on the continent’s politics, and will join Harnwell in launching an official appeal of the Italian government’s decision.
The Institute operated from Rome between 2011 to 2019. In 2019, the DHI moved from Rome to the Abbey of Trisulti, a former monastery in Collepardo, Frosinone.
DHI founder Benjamin Harnwell was the first Chairman of the Institute. In 2011, he was succeeded by Lord Nicholas Windsor. In 2013, he was succeeded by Luca Volontè.
The group has ties to some of the most conservative factions inside the Catholic Church. In 2014, the Institute invited Steve Bannon as one of its key note speakers at a conference to discuss poverty, during which he praised European far-right parties. In 2019, Reuters reported that Bannon had helped the institute to craft curricula. Cardinal Raymond Burke, president of the Institute’s board of advisers, said that Bannon would play a leading role in the institute. Bannon said that he hoped to spur a populist movement in Europe.
A plan was backed by Bannon to turn the Abbey of Trisulti into an academy for training future European nationalists and populist politicians. The rights to use the facility were revoked by the Italian government at the end of May 2019 as bills were not paid.
In a letter sent on Cardinal Burke's twitter account on 25 June 2019 he announced his "termination of any relationship with the Dignitas Humanae Institute."en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Movement_(populist_group)
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Post by pieter on Jan 13, 2020 13:46:08 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Jan 13, 2020 13:55:38 GMT -7
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