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15/06/2020. London, United Kingdom. Boris Johnson New Zealand Trade Deal Message. The Prime Minister Boris Johnson filming his message to New Zealand inside No10 Downing Street to mark the start of the trade talks between the UK and New Zealand. Picture by Andrew Parsons / No 10 Downing Street
06/09/2022. London, United Kingdom. Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs James Cleverly poses for a photograph in 10 Downing Street.
James Cleverly was appointed Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs on 6 September 2022.
Picture by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street
Thats what this photo makes me think of... Lately its been IMPOSSIBLE to get away from hearing about politics. Cant help but feel really disappointed in the US... for voting in that monster Trump....
IFPRI Research Fellow, Danielle Resnick introduces the speakers at the even, Donor Approaches to Political Economy Analysis.
IFPRI hosted a policy seminar titled “Donor Approaches to Political Economy Analysis” on February 5, 2015. For more information, please visit: www.ifpri.org/event/donor-approaches-political-economy-an...
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H.E. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State of the United States of America, signing a joint statement on advancing women’s political participation.
Ms. Clinton was among the top women leaders who signed on to the joint statement with concrete recommendations on ways to advance women’s political participation.
Signatories of the joint statement included: H.E. Dilma Rousseff, President of Brazil; Honourable Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Prime Minister of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago; H.E. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State of the United States of America; Rt. Hon. Baroness Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission; H.E. Roza Otunbayeva, President of the Kyrgyz Republic; Lilia Labidi, Minister of Women’s Affairs, Republic of Tunisia; Helen Clark, Under-Secretary-General and Administrator, UN Development Programme; and Michelle Bachelet, Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director, UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women.
Photo Credit: UN Women/Catianne Tijerina
07/09/2022. London, United Kingdom. The Prime Minister Liz Truss chairs her first Cabinet. The Prime Minister Liz Truss chairs her first Cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of No10 Downing Street, after being appointed the UK’s Prime Minister on Tuesday 6th September 2022. Picture by Andrew Parsons / No 10 Downing Street
05/05/2023. London, United Kingdom. The Prime Minister's wife Akshata Murty welcomes the US First Lady Jill Biden, together with her granddaughter Finnegan Biden, to 10 Downing Street. Picture by Simon Walker / No 10 Downing Street
The President and Vice President simultaneously employ their right index fingers during Obama's 2014 State Of The Union speech.
House Speaker John Boehner looks as if he'd also like to raise a finger, but perhaps not his index finger.
Local accession number: 11_03_000110
Title: The political arena
Genre: Political cartoons; Lithographs; Prints
Publisher: Published by Boni Friz & Co., Cincinnati, O.
Date issued: 1861
Physical description: 1 print : lithograph ; 11 3/4 x 18 1/4 in.
Summary/Abstract: This cartoon was probably published during the opening months of the Civil War. The rats - one for each Confederate state - having nibbled at a cheese marked 'Sumter', find that they are hemmed in by a wall of Union states. A dog 'Old General' has Va. In his teeth and his heading toward the rest of the rats. The men surrounding the ring include: left to right, Jefferson Davis trying to sell bonds and letters of marque to Louis Philippe of France, Brother Jonathan (?) who warns John Bull to keep his dog out of the arena and Uncle Sam who roots for 'Old General.' Vignettes and notices surround the central picture.
General notes: Title from item.
Subjects: Dogs; Rats; Secession; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Uncle Sam (Symbolic character); Brother Jonathan (Nickname); Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889; Hancock, Winfield Scott, 1824-1886
Collection: Americana Collection
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: No known copyright restrictions.
Tonight is the State Of The Union address. Being that is a important thing when into politics to focus, at least in my eyes. I decided I need to make myself into a the political spectrum for the evening.
PLEASE NOTICE: None of these three pictures show my true feelings about the political party. Being blue left wing, purple "undecided/unknown", and red being right wing. Along with not all parties are shown.
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Party and Politics I *
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Party and Politics II *
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PARTY-POLITICS*
• Jede Party ist politisch, auch ohne Transparente und Flugblätter.
• Politisch ist der Umgang der Leute miteinander: Gemeinschaftlich oder sind alle auf einem Ego-Trip?
• Politisch ist es, wenn alle ehrfürchtig zum DJ hinauf blicken und ihn bejubeln, was immer er auch macht.
• Politisch ist, ob es bei einer Party um die Community geht oder nur um Profit.
• Politisch ist auch das Verhältnis zur Natur bei einem Open-Air: Bleiben Müllberge zurück?
• Politisch sind Partys auf denen in Straßen, Supermärkten und Konzernzentralen für Veränderung getanzt wird.
• Und politisch sind Partys, die sich bewusst Kommerz, Konsum und Kontrolle widersetzen, um dadurch zu einem wirklichen Freiraum zu werden...
Wolfgang Sterneck
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PARTY-POLITICS*
• Every party is political. There needn’t be a banner hanging with a political demand anywhere.
• So, for example, the question of who makes money out of a party is political. Is it a single person that thrives on inflated admission charges? Or is it a group of people that are mainly concerned with a good party?
• Political is the handling of nature at an Open-Air event. Does one strive to use the place sensibly or are there piles of rubbish left behind?
• Political is how people interact with each other at a party. Is it collaborative or an Ego-trip?
• Of course a consciously organized party that becomes a free space and defies the guidelines of commerce and consumption and control is also political.
• Political is as well how drugs are handled on a party.
• For example it is also political if all reverentially look up to the DJ and acclaim whatever he may do.
• Political is more than the question whether a track has political lyrics. Policy is also more than the talk of ministers. Policy is the relationship between us. Policy is our daily action ...
Wolfgang Sterneck
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Just Pinned to Politics: Geld regiert die Welt und wer regiert das Geld? youtu.be/Y_UKsIvQ6Pg ift.tt/1oPLYBJ
Well, maybe it's not a nice question but considering how many Iraqui children we've killed I think it's a legitimate one.
(left) M. K. Stalin, Deputy Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (born March 1, 1953) is an Indian politician and former actor. Political Party: DMK
(Right) Muthuvel Karunanidhi, (born June 3, 1924)] is an Indian politician and the current Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. He is the head of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), a Dravidian political party in the state of Tamil Nadu. He has been the leader of the DMK since the death of its founder, C. N. Annadurai, in 1969 and has served as chief minister five times.
He is also a playwright and screenwriter in Tamil cinema. He is called by his supporters as Kalaignar ("scholar of arts")
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Apparently a leftover political sentiment from the 2016 election. I found it still standing on a back road in Clinton County, Ohio yesterday.
Yesterday, June 20th 2010, there was the first round of presidential elections in Poland. Jarosław Kaczyński (the face on the billboard) scored second. The final round is scheduled in two weeks. Then we'll know who our new president is.
"Polska jest najważniejsza" (Poland is the most important) is Kaczyński's political campaign slogan. Political fiction for me...
I'm pleased by the clarity and concision of the following article from the Nation of Change website:
Why It’s a Privilege to be a Progressive in 2013 | NationofChange.
But I just can't help attempting an answer to the question asked at the end of the article, and which is, I think, important:
Research shows that conservatives will "rationalize away social inequalities in order to justify the status quo." They are orderly and moralistic and dependent on authority. Liberals, on the other hand, are more open to new ideas and experiences, probably because they have more of the gray matter that helps to manage complexity in the thought processes.
But if we're so smart..
..Why do we lose the wars of language and emotion to the conservatives?
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="200"] English: Anterior cingulate gyrus.[/caption]
First, I should say that I don't believe that liberals are "losing the wars of of language and emotion to the conservatives." In general, I sense that the daft, over-simplified kind of thinking that leads to, say, the denial of global climate change or ludicrous pronunciamentos regarding women and pregnancy, is slowly being exposed for what it is: junk thought that everyone ought to ignore.
But why is there such a polarized disconnect? I'm not a social science expert, but I can only imagine that whole galaxies of reasons exist. What I'm fascinated by, however, are neurological explanations. Using science in this way is certainly no more than conjectural exercise, but a compellingly consistent picture of neural diversity is being painted that we ought to pay attention to.
We could look, for example, at some fascinating research that has been done correlating brain structure and political attitudes. Summarizing one study, Joshua Holland writes:
Looking at MRIs of a large sample of young adults last year, researchers at University College London discovered that “greater conservatism was associated with increased volume of the right amygdala” ( $$). The amygdala is an ancient brain structure that's activated during states of fear and anxiety. (The researchers also found that “greater liberalism was associated with increased gray matter volume in the anterior cingulate cortex” – a region in the brain that is believed to help people manage complexity.)
Additional studies corroborate and replicate this connection, suggesting why it is, particularly from a liberal point of view, political conservatives seem to think re-actively rather than rationally, simplistically rather than complexly.
If liberals are losing the culture wars, it is not because liberal thought is somehow inherently flawed. It is because brain structure leads to ideology, and--to take that idea to the next, wildly over-simplified level--that means some of us are born with a neural morphology that leads to--well, a desire to join the NRA or the Tea Party.
If this were true (and it's a big "if"), then liberals, if they are to remain loyal to their social values, should stop condemning conservatives for their lack of empathy, or for their refusal to acknowledge the actual complexity of our social and environmental problems, or for their unwillingness to develop truly thoughtful, equitable, nuanced proposals for social change. The conservative brain that produces reactionary, black-and-white bloviating, is just another form of neural diversity. Conservatives are complete, whole, and perfect just as they are--just as are blacks, illegal aliens, Muslims, the disabled, the gay, the transgendered, women, and so on. If liberals wish to consistently champion and celebrate the inherent worth of human racial, religious, sexual, and gender diversity, then they must also celebrate the neural diversity of their conservative brothers and sisters.
But there's a catch.
Celebrating, rather than condemning, some forms of neural diversity would be liberals' ineluctable choice, were it not for another fact of neuroscience: neuroplasticity. You see, neural diversity exists in an enormous range of forms in part because brain structure is not a static thing. And changes to its form and function occur to a greater degree and at a faster pace than most people realize.
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="200"] A rotating animation of the human brain showing the left frontal lobe in red within a semitransparent skull. The anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is sometimes also included in the frontal lobe. Other authors include the ACC as a part of limbic lobe. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption]
For example, numerous studies have shown a strong correlation between changes in brain structure and the deliberate attempt to cultivate positive thoughts (as in metta meditation) or in the "open monitoring" practice of mindfulness. Those changes result in reduced amygdala density and correspond to a reduction in stress rumination, as well as in a thickening of those portions of the brain responsible for higher order thinking skills, empathy, and self-regulation. In other words, the brain responds, functionally and structurally, to predominant mental activity. As an aside, I have to mention in regard to the "higher order thinking skills" mentioned in this paragraph, the irony of the Texas GOP's explicit opposition to "the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS)" which it viewed as "simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority." In other words, obedience is preferred over independent thinking.
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="240"] Conservatism Manifesto. (Photo credit: mmoneib)[/caption]
Never mind, that the "founding fathers," whom conservatives consistently revere, were highly independent, literally revolutionary, thinkers--and they produced the country that conservatives always claim to be defending.
The bottom line, therefore, is that the field of liberal tolerance does not have to include shoddy thinking just because it is born of another form of diversity. It should, however, encourage meditation and mindfulness practices as a way to improve one's outlook, one's health, and one's willingness to be good to others. In this, I think, there is still room for conservative thought, perhaps the most conservative thought of all: cease from callousness to harmful behaviors, cultivate wholesome intentions, and act in ways that will benefit everyone.
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Politics Professors Dina Badie and Rober Bosco present arguments during a session of Politics and Pizza on April 12, 2016 during Common Hour.
photo by Jeff Geerling, flickr.com/people/lifeisaprayer/. Image is under a Creative Commons license, creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en.
From Geerling's description: "Sarah Palin at the August 31st 'Road to the Convention' Rally. This was taken just after she entered, before John McCain delivered his speech to over 10,000 supporters in the T.R. Hughes Baseball Stadium in O'Fallon, MO."
10 October 2022, Political Opening
Belgium - Brussels - October 2022
© European Union / Fred Guerdin
Apostolos TZITZIKOSTAS, Vice-President of the European Committee of the Regions
Vasco Ilídio ALVES CORDEIRO, President of the European Committee of the Regions
Elisa FERREIRA, Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms
23/09/2021. Mexico City, Mexico. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss walks through the Plaza de la Constitucion, El Zocalo in Mexico City. Picture by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street
10 October 2022, Political Opening
Belgium - Brussels - October 2022
© European Union / Laurie Dieffembacq
Younous OMARJEE, REGI Committee Chair, European Parliament
Vasco Ilídio ALVES CORDEIRO, President of the European Committee of the Regions
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This campaign has dominated my life for the last 3 years and for long periods of that I wondered whether we had any chance of prevailing against the power and influence of the oil & gas lobby and their allies in Government, but I am here today to tell you that I am now totally convinced that we will prevail and prevent the devastation that this industry brings.
Why am I so confident? What has become clear in recent months is that this issue resonates with people, with voters, across the political spectrum in a way that issues like climate change have singularly failed to manage.
Despite the fact that climate change science is established and only challenged by the loony right-wing fringe; despite the fact that the arguments have been won and just about every world leader now acknowledges that we are well on course for catastrophic climate change, within the lifetimes of most people alive today; despite this no major country has found it politically possible to do anything like enough to avert the impending calamities.
We have been preaching about climate change for decades and instead of weeing in the wind, we look destined to be pissing in the coming gales for all we seem capable of achieving on this issue. The threat simply does not seem obvious, immediate or personal enough to influence people’s votes.
But fracking is different. It does, of course have a critical climate change dimension, but voters of all persuasions are beginning to realise what is at stake, especially when it pitches up in their back yards.
Witness the reaction in the Tory heartland around Balcombe. Fracking was fine when it was up in the desolate North, as the profits being made would boost their dividend payouts and pensions funds. But bring it to their doorstep and all of a sudden it is their water turning shades of green and black, it is their health being threatened, it is their leisure and tourism and agriculture being ruined, and perhaps most tellingly of all for fans of capitalism, it is the value of their prized capital assets, their property, that is being decimated and made unsellable.
This is why they have welcomed us with open arms when we visit the Balcombe camp and recognise the sacrifices being made by people like Frances Crack and Caroline Lucas in risking their liberty for the cause.
We don’t fight for these people though. As eco -socialists, we in the Green Party and Plaid Cymru have long recognised that any environmental threat tends to be a socialist issue. Who is it that disregards the environmental consequences beyond ensuring they have a big enough compensation kitties for when it goes tits up?
BP were able to establish a $20 billion compensation fund straight after the Deepwater Horizon disaster (a disaster they had insisted could never happen) and it barely caused them a moments inconvenience. Meanwhile thousands of fishermen have lost their livelihoods and way of life forever; the tourism and hospitality industries, and the poorly paid people within it, have taken massive hits, while those with lawyers and accountants milk the compensation pot.
You see, it always the little guys that are ultimately made to pay for the mistakes of the big guys. Sound familiar? Here in austerity Britain?
So, we have voters from the left and the right finding common ground in opposing fracking, and we even have Conservative AMs championing the precautionary principle if we are to believe Suzy Davies. What a pity they are in opposition, I bet she hopes we think.
Which leaves us to consider the middle ground of the political landscape. And for that we need look no further than over my shoulder. This is, of course, crediting Carwyn and his mates with not quite being the Red Tories we see in Westminster, but where has been the leadership the Welsh people deserve on this issue?
Many of us here today have written to Carwyn, he is after all my AM in Bridgend, and what do we get? We get him peddling the ultimate myth of the fracking apologist, regarding, and I quote his letter directly: “the role that gas will have as a key transitional fuel as we move to a low carbon energy system”.
This only ever had any traction if we were to burn gas instead of coal, but there is absolutely no evidence of this happening – coal production has continued apace in the USA and a drop in coal consumption, in the capitalist world, only means a drop in price and greater demand and consumption in other, poorer, parts of the world.
The latest research coming out of the London School of Economics tells us that we have to leave between 60 and 80% of current known reserves in the ground if we are to stand a chance of avoiding catastrophic climate change. Wake up Carwyn – the very last thing we need is to keep looking for ever more extreme forms of fossil fuels.
If we had proper leadership here in Wales, we could be at the very forefront of the worlds low carbon economies given the staggering potential for renewable energy we have here in Wales – not just wind and solar, but ground source heating and biogas potential that would allow us to heat our homes a lot cheaper and safer than using shale gas – and not forgetting the near criminal waste of the second highest tidal range in the entire world rushing past our doors as regular as clockwork, just over there!
The latest multi-technology proposals suggest a readily available 14GW is going to waste everyday in the Bristol Channel – the equivalent of 4 Wylfa sized nuclear power stations, at least 10 Gas-fired power stations, or put another way – more than enough to meet the average consumption level of the whole of Wales today.
So what do we need? We need Carwyn to get his backside off the fence, get out here and listen to the hard cold facts of the matter rather than keep looking for a lead from the red Tories in Westminster that only ever give us slightly tamer versions of whatever the blue Tories say, and for him to recognise that we are not going away until we get the environmental and social justice of a ban on fracking in Wales.
Let’s hear you Carwyn! Thank you!
A coalition calling for a cross party motion on Shale Gas extraction Fracking in Wales.
Tues 24 Sept 2013, Y Senedd Cardiff Bay.
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Alice Walker was an integral part of the US Civil Rights movement during and after her college years, her activism continues and permeates her works of fiction. Living on this planet is a privilege. If activism is our rent then we think it is a small price to pay.
10 October 2022, Political Opening
Belgium - Brussels - October 2022
© European Union / Fred Guerdin
A supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood and Egypt's ousted president Mohamed Morsi fires fireworks towards police during clashes in Cairo on August 14, 2013, as security forces backed by bulldozers moved in on two huge pro-Morsi protest camps, launching a long-threatened crackdown that left dozens dead. The clearance operation began shortly after dawn when security forces surrounded the sprawling Rabaa al-Adawiya camp in east Cairo and a similar one at Al-Nahda square, in the centre of the capital. AFP PHOTO / MOSAAB EL-SHAMY