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AfD, Vox mingle with ex-US Border Patrol chief, white nationalist leader at ‘remigration summit’  – POLITICO

AfD, Vox mingle with ex-US Border Patrol chief, white nationalist leader at ‘remigration summit’  – POLITICO

Two years later, a confident Sellner made himself available to journalists for interviews at the remigration summit, dwelling on concepts that he says are now going mainstream. “We have a very neurotic relationship to our own ethnicity, our own ethno-cultural identity and I think we need to overcome that,” Sellner told reporters at the summit, calling on Europeans to overcome their “guilt complex” and “self-loathing” stemming from “post-war consensus.” At least three AfD politicians attended the event, including Kay Gottschalk, a member of the Bundestag and one of the party’s cofounders. Gottschalk said he was there “to listen” as “a visitor.” Lena Kotré, an AfD member and representative in the Brandenburg state legislature, spoke on stage with Sven Tritschler, a member of the North Rhine-Westphalia parliament, also in attendance. Vox MPs Rocío de Meer and Carlos Quero featured on the summit’s speakers list. Activist Sammy Woodhouse, a supporter of U.K. right-wing party Restore Britain, was also among the speakers. Tensions emerged when reporters who had been accredited to cover the event were not allowed in …

Our Climate’s Wild Card | Jonathan Mingle

Our Climate’s Wild Card | Jonathan Mingle

In mid-October 2015 residents of the Porter Ranch neighborhood in northwestern Los Angeles started suffering from headaches, nausea, dizziness, and nosebleeds. About a week later an employee of Southern California Gas discovered the cause of their symptoms: a leak at the company’s nearby Aliso Canyon facility, a depleted oil field that serves as the second-largest natural gas storage system in the US. The leak’s full extent wasn’t verified until early November, when a scientist-pilot hired by the California Air Resources Board flew overhead with sensors that detected methane levels so high he thought the instruments were malfunctioning. By early January Governor Jerry Brown had declared a state of emergency. It was certainly a health emergency for the nearly 10,000 residents who were evacuated, but it was also a climate emergency: by the time it was finally plugged on February 18, about six billion cubic feet of natural gas—109,000 metric tons of methane—had escaped. For those four months Aliso Canyon was the largest known source of human-caused methane emissions in the US, and effectively doubled the …