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Press Release on the Protest in #Ellwangen March 14, 2019

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Ellwangen has become a symbol of our protest!

Picket from 11 a.m. onwards, Am Fuchseck in Ellwangen, rally at 3:30 p.m.

Refugees take legal action against their sentences.

Trial dates before the Ellwangen district court on March 14, 2019 cancelled!

Detained refugees must be released.

Since May 3, 2018 various groups and trial observers have presented criticism of the brutal police operation carried out by 500 officials at the first reception centre in Ellwangen. The police operation itself triggered more than 25 criminal proceedings. Letters and e-mails to the police headquarters in Aalen, to the democratic factions in the state parliament and to the Ministry of the Interior, Digitisation and Migration were not answered, or only partially or briefly. Evidently there is little interest to question the legality of the police action.

After the first trials began at the Ellwangen local court in July 2018 and a refugee was sentenced to six months in prison without probation for assaulting the police (tätlicher Angriff), there were already serious doubts about the legality of the police operation. Shortly afterwards, various groups wrote a multi-page inquiry to the Aalen police headquarters. The letter was sent to all democratic factions in the Stuttgart state parliament. It was also brought to the attention of the Ministry of the Interior.

The letter of 29 August 2018 already pointed out that “there was sufficient time between the protest action on 30 April and the police action on 3 May 2018 to obtain a court order. Since the time span between the two police operations was long, this does not constitute an exigent circumstance (Gefahr im Verzug)”. This point was taken up now by the judge of the Ellwangen local court, because also rooms in a refugee accommodation are protected by the Basic Law article 13 GG “inviolability of the home”.

After further proceedings at the district court Ellwangen and issuing of orders of punishment (Strafbefehl), numerous further inhabitants have taken legal action. In one case meanwhile the proceedings were terminated (Einstellung). The three scheduled trial dates for March 14, 2019 have been cancelled. The background to this is that the court has given up on the public prosecutor’s office to conduct further investigations. The proceedings are continuing, but hearings will not take place due to this court order for the time being. It is obvious that the police raid had no legal basis. And if a search has not been lawful, defendants did not make themselves punishable. In this context, we demand the immediate termination (Einstellung) of all cases and the annulment of all sentences already imposed on residents of the camp. We also demand the release of the detainees!

Alassa M. took legal action before the Stuttgart administrative court against the police operation of May 3, 2018. Since his legal re-entry and renewed application for asylum, the public prosecutor’s office has tried to criminalise him in connection with the protest in Ellwangen and to present him as a criminal. Months later, criminal investigations are initiated and orders of punishment (Strafbefehl) issued. The impression of a political guideline by the Green Party – CDU-led state government, in particular by the CDU-led ministry of the interior, is obvious here.

On Thursday March 14, 2019 we call for a protest to Ellwangen. We would like to commemorate the police operation that took place exactly a year ago in Donauwörth and of the questionable, violent role of the security personnel in the mass camps, especially in Bavaria. Mass camps, ANKER centres or first reception facilities are increasingly revealed as state institutions in which more and more basic and human rights of the residents are latently undermined. These institutions are increasingly developing their own dynamics and questionable power structures, which enable police operations such as those that took place in Ellwangen, Donaueschingen, Donauwörth, Plattling, Bamberg, Fürstenfeldbruck and other camps. We understand the protest in Ellwangen on March 14 also as a protest against these state power centres, which in the end can only be classified as a stage on the way to sealing off refugees and eliminating the right to asylum. Together we must put a stop to this development.

First signatories

Stoffwechsel e.V. Karlsruhe

Aktion Bleiberecht Freiburg

Freiburger Forum aktiv gegen Ausgrenzung

Solidarity International

Julia Scheller Landesvorsitzende MLPD Baden-Württemberg

Haru Schuh Mannheim

Justizwatch

Forim Azilon – Asyl und Menschenrecht Konstanz

Daniel Tandol

Komitee für Grundrechte und Demokratie

KOP – Kampagne für Opfer rassistischer Polizeigewalt

Freundeskreis Alassa & friends

Ausbrechen

Unabhängiger Freundkreis Asyl Murrhardt

Solinet Hannover

Karawane Hamburg

Lili Mirecki

Antifaschistisches Aktionsbündnis Stuttgart & Region (AABS)

OTKM Stuttgart

IL Stuttgart

▻http://cultureofdeportation.org/2019/03/13/press-release-for-march-14-2019
#Allemagne #réfugiés #asile #migrations #violences_policières #manifestation #Anker-Zentrum

In German :
▻https://refugees4refugees.wordpress.com/2019/03/13/pressemitteilung-zum-protest-am-14-03-2019-in-ellwangen

Germany pulls out of Mediterranean migrant mission Sophia

Germany is suspending participation in Operation Sophia, the EU naval mission targeting human trafficking in the Mediterranean. The decision reportedly relates to Italy’s reluctance to allow rescued people to disembark.
Germany will not be sending any more ships to take part in the anti-people smuggling operation Sophia in the Mediterranean Sea, according to a senior military officer.

The decision means frigate Augsburg, currently stationed off the coast of Libya, will not be replaced early next month, Bundeswehr Inspector General Eberhard Zorn told members of the defense and foreign affairs committees in the German parliament.

The 10 German soldiers currently working at the operation’s headquarters will, however, remain until at least the end of March.

The European Union launched Operation Sophia in 2015 to capture smugglers and shut down human trafficking operations across the Mediterranean, as well as enforce a weapons embargo on Libya. Sophia currently deploys three ships, three airplanes, and two helicopters, which are permitted to use lethal force if necessary, though its mandate also includes training the North African country’s coast guard. The EU formally extended Operation Sophia by three months at the end of December.

The Bundeswehr reported that, since its start, the naval operation had led to the arrest of more than 140 suspected human traffickers and destroyed more than 400 smuggling boats.

But Operation Sophia’s efforts have largely focused on rescuing thousands of refugees from unseaworthy vessels attempting to get to Europe. According to the Bundeswehr, Operation Sophia has rescued some 49,000 people from the sea, while German soldiers had been involved in the rescue of 22,534 people.

European impasse

The operation has caused some friction within the EU, particularly with Italy, where the headquarters are located, and whose Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has threatened to close ports to the mission.

Salvini, chairman of the far-right Lega Nord party, demanded on Wednesday that the mission had to change, arguing that the only reason it existed was that all the rescued refugees were brought to Italy. “If someone wants to withdraw from it, then that’s certainly no problem for us,” he told the Rai1 radio station, but in future he said the mission should only be extended if those rescued were distributed fairly across Europe. This is opposed by other EU member states, particularly Poland and Hungary.

Italy’s position drew a prickly response from German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen, who accused Sophia’s Italian commanders of sabotaging the mission by sending the German ship to distant corners of the Mediterranean where there were “no smuggling routes whatsoever” and “no refugee routes.”

“For us it’s important that it be politically clarified in Brussels what the mission’s task is,” von der Leyen told reporters at the Davos forum in Switzerland.

Fritz Felgentreu, ombudsman for the Bundestag defense committee, told public broadcaster Deutschlandfunk that Italy’s refusal to let migrants rescued from the sea disembark at its ports meant the operation could no longer fulfill its original mandate.

The EU played down Germany’s decision. A spokeswoman for the bloc’s diplomatic service, the EEAS, told the DPA news agency that Germany had not ruled out making other ships available for the Sophia Operation in future, a position confirmed by a German Defense Ministry spokesman.

Decision a ’tragedy’

The decision sparked instant criticism from various quarters in Germany. Stefan Liebich, foreign affairs spokesman for Germany’s socialist Left party, called the government’s decision to suspend its involvement a “tragedy.”

“As long as Sophia is not replaced by a civilian operation, even more people will drown,” he told the daily Süddeutsche Zeitung.

The Green party, for its part, had a more mixed reaction. “We in the Green party have always spoken out against the military operation in the Mediterranean and have consistently rejected the training of the Libyan coast guard,” said the party’s defense spokeswoman, Agnieszka Brugger. But she added that Wednesday’s announcement had happened “for the wrong reasons.”

Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, defense policy spokeswoman for the Free Democratic Party (FDP), called the decision a sign of the EU’s failure to find a common refugee policy.

Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), meanwhile, defended the decision. “The core mission, to fight trafficking crimes, cannot currently be effectively carried out,” the party’s defense policy spokesman, Henning Otte, said in a statement. “If the EU were to agree to common procedure with refugees, this mission could be taken up again.”

Otte also suggested a “three-stage model” as a “permanent solution for the Mediterranean.” This would include a coast guard from Frontex, the European border patrol agency; military patrols in the Mediterranean; and special facilities on the North African mainland to take in refugees and check asylum applications.

▻https://www.dw.com/en/germany-pulls-out-of-mediterranean-migrant-mission-sophia/a-47189097
#Allemagne #résistance #Operation_Sophia #asile #migrations #réfugiés #retrait #espoir (petit mais quand même)

The Black Mediterranean and the limits of liberal solidarity
►https://africasacountry.com/2018/08/the-black-mediterranean-and-the-limits-of-liberal-solidarity

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The Mediterranean has become a graveyard where black and brown bodies transit a hostile and deadly passage. While the rise of the far right in Europe and border externalization have resulted in a drastic drop of the number of refugees and migrants crossing the sea, more than 1,500 people have died so far in 2018 trying to reach Europe; making it one of the deadliest years. Far right policies, dead ideologies, and cultural wars also fundamentally altered Europeans’ view on issues of forced displacement, resettlement and solidarity.

When Paul came over the Sea is a now-celebrated documentary that highlights these issues through the encounter between two men: Jakob Preuss, a German filmmaker, former reporter and political advisor to the Green Party, and Paul Nkamani a Cameroonian migrant and political activist, whose work against the autocratic government in his home country resulted in him being expelled from university and abandoning his dream of being a diplomat.

#migrations #asile #racisme #mourir_en_mer

Opinion | The Pragmatic Left Is Winning - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/09/opinion/columnists/left-sanders-ocasio-cortez-primaries.html

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On Tuesday, Rashida Tlaib, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, won her primary in Michigan, and she is now overwhelmingly likely to become the first Muslim woman in Congress. In a referendum, people in Missouri voted 2 to 1 to overturn an anti-union “right to work” law passed by the Republican legislature. In an upset, Wesley Bell, a progressive city councilman from Ferguson, Mo., effectively ousted the longtime St. Louis County prosecutor, who many civil rights activists say mishandled the investigation into the police shooting of Michael Brown, the African-American teenager whose 2014 killing set off riots.

So it was strange to see headlines in the following days arguing that the left wing of the Democratic Party had hit a wall. “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s movement failed to deliver any stunners Tuesday night,” said CNN. “Down Goes Socialism,” announced Politico Magazine, despite the fact that Tlaib’s victory doubles the D.S.A.’s likely representation in Congress. “Socialist torchbearers flame out in key races, despite blitz by Bernie Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez,” said a Fox News headline.

In part, this spin might just be the inevitable backlash to Ocasio-Cortez’s sudden celebrity. Her primary victory was thrilling and hard-earned, and she’s a charismatic and rousing spokeswoman for her values. But her overnight anointment as the new face of the Democratic Party has created absurdly outsize expectations of her power as kingmaker.

In truth, there’s nothing surprising about left-wing candidates losing their primaries. The happy surprise is how many are winning. Unsexy as it sounds, the real story of progressive politics right now is the steady accumulation of victories — some small, some major — thanks to a welcome and unaccustomed outbreak of left-wing pragmatism.

The new generation of left-wing activists, by contrast, is good at self-multiplication. The Democratic Socialists of America alone has done more to build left political power since the 2016 election than the Green Party did in the 18 years after Nader helped elect George W. Bush.

Just as the Christian Right did in the 1990s, the new electoral left — which also includes groups like Justice Democrats and the Working Families Party — is trying to take over the Democratic Party from the ground up. These activists have, significantly, focused on races for prosecutor, which is a way to create immediate local criminal justice reform. (In Philadelphia, left-wing organizers last year helped elect civil rights lawyer Larry Krasner as district attorney. Among his reforms is the end of cash bail for many misdemeanors and nonviolent felonies.)

It’s true that several candidates endorsed by Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders lost on Tuesday, including Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan’s gubernatorial primary and Brent Welder in a congressional primary in Kansas. But it’s testament to how far left the Democratic Party’s center of gravity has moved that the winners in those two races — Gretchen Whitmer in Michigan and Sharice Davids in Kansas — could be considered establishment.

Whitmer supports a $15 minimum wage, marijuana legalization and statewide universal preschool. Davids, a Native American lesbian, former mixed martial arts fighter and lawyer, is running as a bad-ass feminist. One of her ads shows her training in a boxing gym. “It’s 2018, and women, Native Americans, gay people, the unemployed and underemployed have to fight like hell just to survive,” she says. “And it’s clear, Trump and the Republicans in Washington don’t give a damn.”

It’s certainly true that Davids’s campaign put more emphasis on identity and representation, while Welder, a 2016 Sanders delegate, stressed populist economics. The Democratic Party will likely be weighing the precise balance between those progressive priorities for a long time. But the point is, they are all progressive priorities. After Davids’s victory, Ocasio-Cortez tweeted her congratulations: “Your win is an incredible inspiration to so many, myself included.”

#Politique_USA #Politique_identité

The majority of Germans, opposed to extraditing Puigdemont
▻https://www.elnacional.cat/en/politics/germans-opposed-extraditing-puigdemont_253242_102.html

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The majority of Germans are opposed to the extradition of Catalan president Carles Puigdemont, according to a survey in conservative newspaper Welt carried out by Institut Civey. The survey asked: “Should the former Catalan regional president Puigdemont be extradited to Spain?". The majority is slim: 51% say no to extradition; 35% say yes and 14% don’t know. There is a majority opposed to extradition in all political groups except for voters of Angela Merkel’s Christian democratic coalition, the CDU/CSU.

Looked at another way, if the Puigdemont case had any weight in a hypothetical German election campaign, the most popular option for the parties would be to reject the extradition request. It can also be observed from the survey that the Puigdemont affair has clearly become a matter of German public interest and most citizens have formed an opinion on the issue.

Among the voters for parties that have been part of different German governments, the differences are narrower. 49% of Green Party voters oppose extradition, with 34% in favour; supporters of the social democratic SPD oppose extradition by 46% to 41%; the liberals of the FDP say no by 44%, ahead of 40% for yes. Only among CDU/CSU voters, is Puigdemont’s extradition favoured, by 51%, with 33% against.

New Zealand considers creating climate change refugee visas
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/31/new-zealand-considers-creating-climate-change-refugee-visas

As part of the new Labour-led coalition government, the Green party leader James Shaw was given the role of climate change minister.

He told Radio New Zealand on Tuesday that “an experimental humanitarian #visa category” could be implemented for people from the Pacific who are displaced by rising seas resulting from #climate change.

#migration_environnementale

Future of oil takes center stage in Norwegian election
▻https://www.reuters.com/article/us-norway-election-oil/future-of-oil-takes-center-stage-in-norwegian-election-idUSKCN1BB1XC

The future of Norway’s oil sector is emerging as a key issue for voters in a Sept. 11 parliamentary election, nowhere more so than in the oil capital of Stavanger.

The right-wing bloc of Conservative Prime Minister Erna Solberg is neck-and-neck in opinion polls with an opposition grouping led by Jonas Gahr Stoere’s Labour.

Should neither secure a majority, the smaller Green party - which pledges to stop oil exploration and phase out production within 15 years - could become kingmakers.

There is little chance of the Greens being able to call time on Norway’s number one industry, which all major parties back to the hilt, accounts for half of national exports and employs over 180,000 people.

But they have been gradually gathering support over the past four years and are polling at about 5 percent of the vote, underlining changes in Norwegian society and divisions over the future of oil.

Should they hold the balance of power, they could seek to force compromises to trim the oil industry’s ambitions, with environmentalists in recent months focusing on the need to limit oil companies’ expansion in the Arctic.

Greece: Protest and fire break out at Lesbos migrant camp

Police said no injuries were reported from Monday’s protest and that the fire believed to have been set deliberately at the Moria camp is still burning.

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#Lesbos #Lesvos #protestations #feu #Moria #asile #migrations #réfugiés #camp_de_réfugiés #Grèce #hotspots #résistance

Canada introduces law to ban tankers off north British Columbia | Reuters
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Canada’s Liberal government has introduced legislation for a moratorium on oil tanker traffic along the northern coast of the #British_Columbia province, the country’s transport department said on Friday, delivering on an election promise.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ordered the ban soon after the election in 2015, in which he took power on a pledge to balance resource development with protecting the environment.

Friday’s bill will likely pass because Trudeau’s Liberals hold a majority in Parliament.

Trudeau’s orders for the ban effectively slammed the door on Enbridge Inc’s #Northern_Gateway_pipeline, a project facing massive development hurdles that was to deliver oil to the north coast for export via tankers.

The move is part of a Liberal plan to toughen response to oil spills at sea. The plan was announced last year days before Trudeau formally rejected Northern Gateway, but approved another pipeline project through British Columbia, Kinder Morgan Inc’s #Trans_Mountain expansion.

According to Transport Canada, vessels carrying less than 12,500 metric tonnes of crude or other oils will be exempt from the tanker ban, so as to ensure northern communities can receive shipments of heating oils and other products.
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The ban does not apply to the south coast, which will likely see increased tanker traffic if Trans Mountain goes online.

Whether that happens according to schedule, however, has become uncertain after British Columbia’s pro-energy Liberals, unaffiliated with Trudeau’s federal party, lost their majority in a provincial election on Tuesday.

While absentee ballots still need to be counted in the close race, if the current seat count in the provincial legislature holds, the future of key energy projects in British Columbia will be pitted against the ability of the Liberals to work with the third-party Greens.

Canada : l’obligation de porter des talons hauts au travail interdite - Libération
▻http://www.liberation.fr/planete/2017/04/08/canada-l-obligation-de-porter-des-talons-hauts-au-travail-interdite_15614

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Obliger les femmes à porter des talons hauts sur leur lieu de travail est désormais interdit en Colombie-Britannique, a annoncé la Première ministre de cette province de l’ouest canadien, Christy Clark.

« Dans certains lieux de travail de notre province, les femmes doivent porter des talons hauts au travail. Comme la plupart des Britanno-Colombiens, notre gouvernement pense que c’est injuste », a indiqué vendredi Clark. Le Première ministre libérale considère une telle pratique « dangereuse et discriminatoire ».

« Avec le port prolongé de talons hauts au travail, il y a un risque de blessure physique en glissant ou en tombant, ainsi que des dommages au niveau du pied, de la jambe et du dos », précise le communiqué, co-signé avec la ministre du Travail de la province, Shirley Bond.

Bond s’attend « à ce que les employeurs y voient un signal très clair selon lequel imposer à quelqu’un de porter des talons hauts au travail est inacceptable ».

La Première ministre donne ainsi son aval au projet de loi du leader du parti écologiste Green Party, Andrew Weaver, qui prévoit de modifier l’actuelle législation sur les accidents du travail pour que les normes de sécurité, incluant les chaussures, soient les mêmes pour tous les sexes.

Cette annonce survient un mois après que vingt-cinq grandes chaînes de restaurants de l’Ontario (centre) ont décidé de ne plus imposer un code vestimentaire - minijupe et talons hauts - à leur personnel féminin.

#talons

Jill Stein, l’inopportune
▻http://www.dedefensa.org/article/jill-stein-linopportune

Jill Stein, l’inopportune

29 novembre 2016 – Qu’est-ce que veut donc Jill Stein, candidate du Green Party US, avec ses moins de 1% de voix, dans cette aventure qui devient de plus en plus surréaliste du recomptage des voix dans trois Swing States ? D’abord, c’était clair, on avait cru à une attaque alimentée par une manne mystérieuse, puis plus précisément à un complot entretenue par la perdante, Hillary dite par Diana Johnstone Reine du Chaos. Désormais apparaît une autre perspective, celle que Jill Stein cherche simplement à montrer les tares du fonctionnement du système électoral US, – s’il y en certes, et il y en a certes, – sans autre idée préconçue ni idée de complot.

Cela est résumé par sa plus récente déclaration (sur CNN), telle que la rapporte dans sa version la plus courte un ZeroHedge.com qui ne (...)

Swiss nuclear plants to remain on grid - SWI swissinfo.ch
▻http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/politics/vote-november-27_power-on-or-off-for-swiss-nuclear-plants-/42703330

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Swiss voters have thrown out a proposal to close the country’s five nuclear power plants after 45 years in operation.

The Green Party initiative was rejected by 54.2% of the vote, according to final results.

Only six of the country’s 26 cantons, mainly in French-speaking Switzerland, came out in favour of the phase out.
Vote results (swissinfo.ch)

November 27
Vote results: Nuclear power initiative

Switzerland’s nuclear power plants will not be forced to close after 45 years. A Green Party initiative is rejected.
in depth: Vote November 27, 2016

Despite the defeat, Regula Rytz, president of the Green Party, welcomed Sunday’s result.

“The high number of yes votes confirmed that citizens wanted to opt out of nuclear power in the long run,” she said.

The leftwing Social Democrats said the nuclear era was coming to an end, while the environmental organisation Greenpeace described the result as a “slap on the wrist” of the nuclear power industry.

#suisse #nucléaire

Etats-Unis : le Wisconsin va recompter les voix de la présidentielle
▻http://www.lemonde.fr/elections-americaines/article/2016/11/26/le-wisconsin-premier-etat-a-recompter-ses-voix-pour-la-presidentielle-americ

L’ex-candidate à la Maison Blanche, Jill Stein (Green Party), a officiellement soumis, vendredi 25 novembre, une demande pour recompter les voix de l’élection présidentielle américaine dans le Wisconsin.

La commission électorale de cet Etat dans le nord des Etats-Unis, a confirmé se « préparer à recompter les votes » conformément à la requête de l’ancienne candidate du Green Party. La commission affirme que ce nouveau décompte devra prendre fin le 13 décembre au plus tard. La commission dit encore calculer la somme dont le parti écologiste devra s’acquitter pour cette opération.

Jill Stein a assuré vendredi sur Twitter que le recomptage « commencera la semaine prochaine ». Mme Stein entend également demander un nouveau calcul des voix en Pennsylvanie et dans le Michigan, deux autres Etats très disputés qui ont basculé en faveur du président élu Donald Trump le 8 novembre.

L’ex-candidate verte affirmait vendredi matin sur son site avoir levé plus de 4,8 millions de dollars, sur les 7 millions nécessaires pour financer un nouveau décompte dans ces trois Etats-clés.

L’Amérique devenue folle en couverture du magazine L’OBS - RipouxBlique des CumulardsVentrusGrosQ
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Le magazine L’Obs (ex Nouvel Observateur) fait la couverture de son numéro du 27 octobre sur les élections aux Etats Unis.

Le gros titre que nous pouvons lire en gros caractères de couleur rouge (rouge sang ?) pose la question de savoir pourquoi l’Amérique est devenue folle. Un titre qui vient légender un portrait d’un Donald Trump qui occupe toute la couverture, grimaçant et pointant un doigt qu’on peut à bon droit interpréter comme menaçant.

Les caractères plus petits en blanc nous rappellent quand même que Donald Trump n’est pas le seul candidat au prochain scrutin présidentiel puisque sous le nom du milliardaire candidat nous pouvons lire celui de sa concurrente, Hillary Clinton.

La différence de traitement réservé aux deux candidats manifeste dans le choix de la photo d’un des candidats et pas des deux se retrouve dans le sous-titrage en caractères blancs et plus petits sous le titre en rouge : Donald Trump est résumé par un aspect de son comportement, celui d’être bonimenteur tandis que pour Mme Clinton on nous parle du regard que portent sur elle les électeurs.

Un bonimenteur nous dit le Larousse est une « Personne qui tient des propos habiles et trompeurs ».

« Bonimenteur » contre « mal aimée », on aura compris vers qui penche, avec des réserves ou pas, le coeur de la rédaction de L’Obs.

Pourtant, pour illustrer un peu mieux cette Amérique devenue folle, L’Obs aurait pourtant pu choisir aussi une photo de Mme Clinton. Par exemple celle ci-dessous qui montre une Hillary Clinton qui exulte à la nouvelle de la mort de Mouammar Kadhafi assassiné dans les conditions que l’on sait suite à l’agression de la Libye par l’OTAN, c’est-à-dire les Etats Unis.

Hillary Clinton exulte en apprenant la nouvelle de la mort du Colonel Kadhafi
Cette photo est extraite de la vidéo d’un entretien avec la chaîne de télévision CBS :

Ce qu’il y a de positif chez Donald Trump par rapport à Hillary Clinton c’est que, à la différence de cette dernière, il n’a pas de morts sur la conscience et qu’il semble nettement moins belliqueux, affichant notamment une volonté de dialogue avec la Russie.

Et puis L’Obs aurait pu compléter sa une en sous titrant après le « bonimenteur » Trump, la « mal aimée » Clinton, l’oubliée Jill Stein. la candidate écologiste est en effet la grande oubliée des médias américains, mais aussi français et de L’Obs en particulier.

Le Dr Jill Stein candidate du Green Party
On peut lire ici une interview acccordée par Jill Stein à Slate.

Outre Jill Stein, le Figaro nous apprend l’existence de deux autres candidats : le libertarien Gary Johnson et le républicain Evan McMullin

This poll shows Trump, Clinton running neck-and-neck in final 20 days | Washington Examiner
▻http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/clinton-i-support-the-second-amendment/article/2605005

Donald Trump holds a single-point lead over Hillary Clinton in a new national poll by Investor’s Business Daily/TechnoMetrica Market Intelligence, which has earned praise for its track record of accuracy in the last three presidential election cycles.

In a four-way matchup between Trump, Clinton, Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein, the Republican presidential nominee draws 41.3 percent support to Clinton’s 40 percent, putting her within the poll’s 3.6 percent margin of error. Johnson carries 7.6 percent support and Stein draws 5.5 percent.

In a two-way race, Clinton leads her Republican opponent by 3 percentage points.

The Left Deserves Better Than Jill Stein
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/the-left-deserves-better-than-jill-stein

If politics were a battle for the moral high ground, both Bernie Sanders and the Green Party might be in full control of the three branches of government. Sadly, it’s not and they’re not.

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As Nominee, Stein Says She Wants to Assume Mantle of Sanders’ Revolution
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The Green Party convention in Houston, Texas reached its climax late Saturday with presidential nominee Jill Stein calling on the American left to turn its back on the “two corporate parties” and...

“The Two-Party System Is the Worst Case Scenario” – An Interview With the Green Party’s Jill Stein | Alice Speri
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As the Democratic convention in Philadelphia progressed, and hopes of a revolution on the floor quickly faded for the thousands of Bernie Sanders supporters, support for another figure began to emerge on the streets: Green Party candidate Jill Stein. By the end of the week, Vote Jill signs where everywhere in the city, her name often scribbled directly over old Sanders posters and T-shirts. Bernie’s revolution had taken an unexpected turn, and as more protesters and delegates called for a “Demexit,” talk of a third-party option suddenly gained ground at a major party convention. On Thursday, as Clinton prepared to accept her party’s nomination, The Intercept spoke with Stein at an improvised South Philly campaign headquarters. Source: The (...)

Kevin Libin: Oil didn’t cause the Fort McMurray fire — it helped save people’s lives
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That’s a lot of speculation and conjecture about probable reasonable conclusions five decades out. Whatever you believe, though, it’s still a fact that large fires like this will happen, more or less, whether we use oil or we don’t. But as anyone who made it out of Fort Mac in time will tell you, whether you and your family survive the next fire — or any other natural disaster — depends on whether you have petroleum products or not.

That’s why obsessive climate zealots like Elizabeth May have it once again exactly backwards. The leader of the rapidly fading Green Party managed to provoke national media attention Wednesday for jumping on the crisis at Fort McMurray to demand Canadians “slash” fossil fuel consumption to prevent future wildfires. But no real scientist believes that wildfires can be completely prevented. Forests around Canadian townsites are already dangerously old and tindery, since they’re no longer allowed to regenerate through regular burning. And whether they wreak devastation across an uninhabited hillside or your local downtown depends as much on a sudden change in wind direction — as happened to Fort McMurray — as it does anything else. In fact, the only thing we can control is how prepared we are to escape them when they come. All the wind turbines and solar panels in the world won’t help rescue 88,000 people from a rapidly spreading inferno. For a miracle like that, we can only count on oil.

#FortMcMoney

’Of Course’ Fort McMurray Fire Linked To Climate Change, Elizabeth May Says
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The leader of Canada’s Green Party said Wednesday climate change was partly to blame for the wildfire devastating Fort McMurray, Alta., touching off a debate about whether it was the right time to discuss the causes of the conflagration.

“Of course,” Elizabeth May said Wednesday when asked if there was anything about the fire that is linked to global warming. “The temperature records were being smashed through last month for northern Alberta,” she said, while noting that no single event is caused by climate change alone. "It’s due to global emissions.

“Scientists will say we know with a destabilized climate, with a higher average global temperature, we will see more frequent, more extreme weather events ... due to an erratic climate, due to our addiction to fossil fuels.”

#FortMcMoney

Scotland’s pro-independence party scores big gains in vote - The Washington Post
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The pro-independence Scottish National Party Friday secured a third term in government with an historic third consecutive victory in the county’s parliamentary elections.

With 92 out of 129 seats declared, the SNP had secured 58 compared to the Conservatives with 15, Labour with 11, Liberal-Democrats with four, and four for the Green Party.

However, despite their extraordinary performance the SNP could still fail to win enough seats to form an outright majority and may have to enter into a coalition government with the pro-independence Green Party.

SNP Party Leader Nicola Sturgeon called the results “historic.”

“There are many results still to be declared but what is now beyond doubt is that the SNP has won a third consecutive Scottish Parliament election. That has never been done before in the history of the Scottish Parliament. We have tonight made history,” she said.

Le Green Party, les Verts américains, un petit parti, mais un parti national quand même, qui présente des candidats aux élections fédérales (le plus connu étant Ralph Nader), vient d’adopter la résolution BDS rédigée par l’association américaine d’anthropologie. Dans le texte ci dessous, ils dénoncent également la censure en israel et en France, et citent le papier de Glenn Greenwald qui dénonce le récent jugement de la cour de cassation française...

Green Party endorses proposed resolution of the American Anthropological Association for Israel boycott
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#Palestine #BDS #USA #Green_Party

The Electoral Farce
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I intend to devote no more time to the upcoming presidential elections than walking to my local polling station on Election Day, voting for a third-party candidate, most likely the Green Party...

Tired of the Two-Party System Foiling Alternatives? Instant-Runoff Voting Is The Obvious Solution
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Matt Gonzalez, President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, speaks to the Green Party national convention. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. June 26th, 2004. www.mattgonzalez.com

Interdiction de quitter l’Egypte pour un chercheur invité à parler des droits humains en Allemagne avant l’arrivée de Sissi - Al Ahram

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Germany’s Green Party had invited Mohamed Lotfy to a panel on human rights in Egypt, hours before President El-Sisi’s visit to Berlin