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The Guardian gets it about right, but it is the Nigerian Guardian, not the UK's .....
https://t.guardian.ng/news/as-migration-row-flares-merkels-enemies-smell-blood/
"As migration row flares, Merkel’s enemies smell blood
Almost three years after German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s fateful welcome to a million migrants, her boldest move has come back to haunt her, with opponents at home and abroad smelling blood.
US President Donald Trump, always an uneasy partner, openly attacked Merkel on immigration last week, declaring on Twitter that “the people of Germany are turning against their leadership”.
Now, as Merkel heads into a crucial EU summit starting Thursday, she must fight for solutions to the flashpoint issue to resolve a deep political crisis threatening her at home.
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has long chanted “Merkel must go”, but now her traditional allies the conservative Bavarian CSU are flirting with the same idea.
The open challenge against Merkel is led by CSU boss and Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, who has cultivated ties with anti-immigration hardliners in Austria, Hungary and Italy.
Seehofer has threatened to defy Merkel and order border police from next week to turn back asylum seekers already registered in other EU countries — unless Merkel reaches an agreement on how to handle them with other member states.
Such open defiance would give Merkel little choice but to fire Seehofer, likely sparking a split between her CDU and the CSU that would cost the chancellor the wafer-thin governing majority she stitched together after a much weaker than expected performance in September elections."
She may survive beyond the World Cup, but EU Politics are about to be tested to breaking point, and that includes the Political drive for Global Warming. German business can't afford it.

stewgreen
re: Muggah's cv
quelle surprise not.
And his funding makes a sort of finger in cheek "pop" noise as it materialises in his bank account(s)

oops earlier link wrong
My Tweet on light changes

" Instituto Igarapé" politics ? left or right ?
Their recent output
- "Populism is poisoning the global liberal order" (They mean Trump)
- "The liberal international order is under assault."
- "the Role of Climate Change in Recurring Violence. "
Robert Muggah
Co-founder of the Igarapé Institute and SecDev Foundation/Group and faculty at Singularity University
Previous
The World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, UNODC
Education : University of Oxford

Jun 27, 2018 at 8:13 AM Uibhist a Tuath
Boarding schools and the Military do night time fire drills. ALL employers have a duty to ensure their employees can get out of a building in the event of the alarm being sounded. Schools should have practices.
ALL of the emphasis is on getting out of the building, and DO NOT STOP AND TRY TO FIGHT THE FIRE, despite the requirement for all employers to have Fire Extinguishers everywhere. The only time a Fire Extinguisher is ever used or handled is to act as a door stop to hold open self closing Fire Doors.
First Aid, Kiss-of-Life, etc are taught at school, and are required skills for employers and many training courses etc.
I did have to use a Fire Extinguisher whist a student. I pulled the pin, squeezed the trigger and held on to the cone to direct the white mess at the flames. My hand temporarily froze to the cone. I had not read the instructions first.

Delers
Too often we’re hearing about not drinking too much……eating too many doughnuts…
…or enjoying the warm glow of our wood-burning Goves…I mean stoves.
I can see their point: there’s enough hot air and smoke at the Environment Department already.
Gove is one of the cleverest and most able Conservative ministers and would certainly make a far, far better Prime Minister than Theresa May.
But he has been so busy, of late, trying to show that the Conservatives aren’t the “nasty party” with his touchy-feely environment policies that he is in danger of forgetting what it is Conservatives are actually for.
Gove is a conundrum. His conversion to Green worship is not rational.
Much though Delers extols Truss today; having seen her on QT, imho she is a vapid "Cameron Cutie" and like May, not a leader
One who stands out is:
Government ‘Cooperating’ with Big Business to Undermine Brexit

The last time Germany did not make it through to the second stage of the World Cup, was in 1938. It did not work out well for European unity.

stewgreen
Dr. Muggah is no Hans Rosling.
Unvalidated modeling projections are simply irresponsible and in this case it's the same old, same old stuff esp sea level rise.
There's plenty of data that we do know is real - there's enough of it to occupy a think tank with devising possible strategies to mitigate unwanted effects ... without making shit up.
Igarapé Institute Wikipedia page hints at where they're coming from - notably WHO, United Nations and Google are associated with the outfit. I was quite surprised to see no particularly overt connections to the notoriously byzantine and bent Brazilian Environment Agency , IBAMA.
An effort from the incredibly patchy BBC World Service tent. Item producer's Twitter feed seems to indicate "oooh! , shiny!" magpie tendencies.

Yep no BBC page on the California Climate Change Lawsuit
but June 10th they have Who are the Koch brothers?

Robert Muggah gave his expert advice on the consequences of the US Presidential Election in Nov 2016. He failed to spot the fraud and corruption in US and EU Politics, apart from that, was he proved correct about anything?
"With the future of liberal democracy hanging in the balance, what next?"
ROBERT MUGGAH and BRUNO GIUSSANI 14 November 2016
"While the results of the US election should be respected, Democrats (and liberals everywhere) must rapidly begin organizing to push back. There is simply too much at stake."
https://www.opendemocracy.net/robert-muggah-bruno-giussani/with-future-of-liberal-democracy-hanging-in-balance-what-next