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Dec 10 2019 08:04am

In Sweden, the leader of the main center-right party 'Moderata" party has met with the leader of the country's right-wing populist 'Sweden Democrats' and afterwards stressed the two parties' strong agreement on many issues, and his willingness to occassionally cooperate with the SDs. This is a fairly dramatic break with his words from a year ago, when he had said that he would "never talk or work with the Sweden Democrats".

https://www.thelocal.se/20191204/first-meeting-between-swedish-democrat-and-moderate-party-leaders

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Dec 10 2019 08:24am

Quote (Black XistenZ @ 10 Dec 2019 15:04)

Too much of these right wing "patriots" are ready to get foreign money and to sell the ass of their country. This is now proven, happened just too much times in Europe (germany, austria, uk, and some others?) to be a coincidence.

It's better to listen and then simply "pull the rug out from under" :thumbsup:

This post was edited by Saucisson6000 on Dec 10 2019 08:35am

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Dec 28 2019 08:38pm

Dutch anti-Islam lawmaker revives plan for Mohammad cartoon contest

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-netherlands-cartoon-wilders/dutch-anti-islam-lawmaker-revives-plan-for-mohammad-cartoon-contest-idUSKBN1YW0H2

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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders on Saturday said he had revived his plan to hold a contest for cartoons caricaturing the Prophet Mohammad, more than a year after cancelling such an event out of fear for attacks in the Netherlands.

In a post on Twitter late on Saturday, Wilders called on people to send in their Mohammad cartoons.

“Freedom of speech must prevail over violence and Islamic fatwa’s”, the leader of the largest opposition party in the Dutch parliament wrote.

Wilders canceled a similar contest in August last year after police arrested a man who had threatened to kill him over his plan.

At the time, plans to hold the contest also prompted large demonstrations in Pakistan, organized by Islamist party Tehreek-e-Labbaik, which called on Islamist countries to sever all ties with the Netherlands.

Images of the Prophet Mohammad are traditionally forbidden in Islam as idolatrous. Caricatures are regarded by most Muslims as highly offensive.

In 2005, Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published cartoons of Mohammad that sparked demonstrations across the Muslim world as well as several attempts to kill either its editor or cartoonist Kurt Westergaard.

Ten years later, a pair of Islamist gunmen killed 12 people at the offices of magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, also known for publishing satirical cartoons of the Prophet.

Islam attempting to control the Netherlands now?

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Jan 9 2020 02:32pm

Big shoutout to Meghan and Harry for wanting to live their lives without an overbearing tabloid media and millions of the taxpayer's pounds each year to wave from an open top car at locals in the Commonwealth heartlands of Antigua and Barbuda.

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Jan 9 2020 03:07pm

Quote (dro94 @ Jan 9 2020 02:32pm)

i agree with everything, including the shoutout, except the tabloid bit. they'll be hounded whether they take the allowance or not sadly

especially in america where we have a weird fetish for them.

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Jan 9 2020 04:05pm

Quote (thesnipa @ Jan 9 2020 09:07pm)

i agree with everything, including the shoutout, except the tabloid bit. they'll be hounded whether they take the allowance or not sadly :( especially in america where we have a weird fetish for them.

Tabloid journalism is a lot worse in the UK because of the high incidence of rag newspapers

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Jan 9 2020 04:19pm

Quote (dro94 @ Jan 9 2020 04:05pm)

Tabloid journalism is a lot worse in the UK because of the high incidence of rag newspapers

We call that MSM over here.

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Jan 10 2020 05:22pm

9 months later, we finally have a government in Spain: minority coalition between centre-left PSOE and alt-left UP.

It's the first time that the national government will composed of a coalition of parties, and it will always be the largest cabinet ever (20 members, including the president and a record-breaking 4 vice presidents). UP's leader, Pablo Iglesias, will be "Vice President of Social Affairs", while his party colleagues get 4 ministries (Gender Equality, Universities, Consumption and Work&Employment).

Pedro Sánchez now starts his second term in office after being receiving parliamentary approval this week, thanks to the affirmative votes of his party (PSOE), his coalition colleagues (UP), and some other smaller parties. It all came down to convincing catalan left-wing separatist party ERC to null-vote (instead of voting against Sánchez) in exchange for a negotiation process between them and the national government, to find a "solution" that ends the catalan separatist issue (likely even greater autonomy). This led some small regionalist parties like PRC and CC, who were keen to vote for Sánchez, to vote against him, as they felt like their regions were once again discriminated in favour of Catalonia, but it wasn't enough to stop the president from being re-elected... by one vote.