Run away! Run away!
No good is to be found in those cursed words.
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They are looking for this way for months. I think they will declare Mr. Bolsonaro a perfect third way someday.
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Several papers carry initial reactions to Sunday’s approval by the Green party conference of an initiative calling for the legalisation of cannabis in Finland.
The Helsinki tabloid Ilta-Sanomat reports that the youth wing of the conservative National Coalition Party (NCP) immediately voiced support for the initiative. This group itself issued a call last autumn for legalising the cultivation, sale and possession of cannabis for self-medication.
Matias Pajula, the chair of the NCP youth organization, late on Sunday urged his party to also update its position on cannabis as soon as possible.
However, there are also other positions within the NCP. Party MP Arto Satonen tweeted that cannabis-related accidents nearly doubled in Colorado in the USA following the legalisation of cannabis. He described the Green’s initiative as further proof that the Greens are “removed from reality”.
The paper also quotes Christian Democratic MP Päivi Räsänen, who also expressed concern about the move by the Greens: “Has Interior Minister (Maria) Ohisalo not listened to the warnings of the police administration she oversees about its consequences? Wrong signal.”
In a bylined analysis, Aamulehti news manager Vesa Laitinen writes that with this decision, the Greens have painted themselves into a corner and assured that they will remain a marginal player in Finnish politics.
He argues that in order to broaden their support, the Greens need no more push on climate or drug policy. Instead, the party needs credible economic and foreign policy, responsible action addressing groups beyond its own core supporters.
Laitinen writes that on the other hand, it is good that party democracy works and that the rank-and-file make their voices heard. It is fair to outsiders, such as potential voters, he says, that initiatives such as this one expose the party’s true colours.
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Unless a more accurate translation would be third position, which would be far, far worse than Blair.
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Decriminalisation of cannabis ‘not enough’
The Green Party’s new deputy chair Atte Harjanne has told Joensuu-based Karjalainen that he would be in favour of decriminalising all drugs, following a knife-edge vote by his party backing the legalisation of cannabis in Finland.
Harjanne told the paper’s parent agency Uutissuomalainen that he believes a large number of Finland’s MPs are in favour of drug decriminalisation, but are afraid to back it publicly.
“It now seems that MPs are more cautious and conservative on this issue than the Finnish people,” Harjanne said, referring to a July poll by Helsingin Sanomat in which 42 percent of respondents said they would decriminalise cannabis use.
According to newspaper Karjalainen, Harjanne believes that decriminalising all drugs would be in line with health guidance from the World Health Organisation and Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL).
In the case of cannabis, Finland’s most-used illicit substance, the Helsinki MP believes just decriminalising the drug would not go far enough.
“I have changed my mind. I used to think that decriminalisation would be enough, but I don’t think it is,” he said.
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The claws are coming out.!
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Yeah, they insisted on conventional subs rather than the nuclear kind that France has stationed in the Pacific. Truth is daddy snapped his fingers.
For all the talk of Trump undermining NATO Biden’s done more serious damage already
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All of them are pretending that they’re not all doing what is in their own best interests.
And that foreign policy isn’t driven by business interests.
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That’s the rub. Australia requested nuclear subs converted to diesel electric. The French would have happily sold them nuclear subs if that is what they had ordered. So now saying they wanted nuclear after all is no excuse at all.
And anyway, the French reaction is not so much about the cancellation of the contract as about how it was done. They literally learned about it when their Australian ambassador watched Australian TV news. This was absolutely a calculated diplomatic affront.
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