Mrs. Ike White
@whiteikemrs
Joined Jan 2025
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Jan 03, 2025 1 subscriber 31 posts
Centrist’s Circle bridges the political divide, offering balanced viewpoints and moderate opinions to foster understanding and bipartisanship in today’s polarized political landscape.
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Cheat sheet on Germany's colour-coded politics
Germany is preparing for elections after its previous three-party coalition collapsed. The main political parties are aligned by color codes and potential coalitions are described using national flags and imagery. Various alliances are being considered, with …
ECR accepts Bardella’s plea to jointly take down the Green Deal
The ECR are willing to work with "those who share our concerns about the economic and social implications of the Green Deal" – including the far-right Patriots for Europe, according to a letter seen by Euractiv. The post ECR accepts Bardella’s plea to jointly…
France: government survives no-confidence vote
Both the far-right National Rally and center-left Socialist Party declined to back a no-confidence vote in new French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou. But France's parliament remains bitterly divided. The French government under new Prime Minister Francois Bay…
NATO still looks to Donald Trump despite Greenland threat
NATO boss Mark Rutte said Trump "has been right many times" and played it cool when grilled by members of the European Parliament on the president-elect's Greenland plans. Rutte urged EU states to boost defense spending. For the boss of a military alliance de…
Trump's Greenland threat looms over NATO defense spending
NATO boss Mark Rutte said Trump "has been right many times" and played it cool when grilled by members of the European Parliament on the president-elect's Greenland plans. For the boss of a military alliance dedicated to mutual security, NATO chief Mark Rutte…
What Type of Guy is the alleged UHC shooter?
Assessing Luigi Mangione's media diet made me laugh: > The basic line is something like: The world is getting worse and phones are killing us; politics won’t save us but technology might; in the meantime, lift weights, take supplements, listen to podcasts.
Friedrich Merz: German conservative gunning to become chancellor
German opposition leader Friedrich Merz, who hopes to become the next chancellor, is a millionaire ex-corporate lawyer who promises a return to his CDU party’s conservative roots as an alternative to the far right. Now that centre-left Chancellor Olaf Scholz …
The View from Washington (3): An essay on Trump 2.0 and climate politics.
This is the third in an occasional series on the transition from Biden to the incoming Trump administration—the early days. The article first appeared on Civil Notion It's chaotic—perhaps surreal is a better word—here in Washington. In this third essay on Tru…
Jimmy Carter, former U.S. president and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, dies at 100
Jimmy Carter, the earnest Georgia peanut farmer who as U.S. president struggled with a bad economy and the Iran hostage crisis but brokered peace between Israel and Egypt and later received the Nobel Peace Prize for his humanitarian work, died at his home in …