Daily review 01/07/2024

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  1. adam 1
    1 July 2024 at 5:45 pm

    If you have the time, a bloody good listen.

  2. joe90 2
    1 July 2024 at 6:25 pm

    Dark days in France as kids share an anti-migrant song calling for mass deportations.

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    'I won't leave'

    Yes, if you leave

    And rather than you believe

    We gave you enough

    Now you can break

    Good storage

    And don't come back.

    https://lyricstranslate.com/en/crazy-girl-je-partira-pas-lyrics

    An anti-migrant electro-dance song titled Je Partira Pas (I won’t leave) has taken French social media by storm, despite efforts to ban it.

    The track, credited to an artist named Grazy Girl, first aired on June 21 during the Fête de la Musique (Music Day) in France.

    The song quickly went viral on social media platform TikTok, amassing a large following and hitting 47,000 views in three days.

    TikTok intervened, deleting two versions of the song. The first was removed on June 26, rendering all related videos silent with a message indicating the tune was “unavailable.” The second version, used in around a hundred video posts, was taken down on June 27. By then song had garnered several hundred thousand views.

    TikTok’s bans have not deterred users from re-uploading the track manually. Consequently, it has spread to other social media platforms such as X and YouTube.

    The SOS Racism organisation filed a complaint against the song on June 27 for “provocation to racial hatred”.

    Dominique Sopo, President of SOS Racism, highlighted that the lyrics specifically targeted people of Arab or Muslim origin, exemplified by terms including “djellaba” (kaftan) and “Fatma” (an Arabic girl’s name meaning “baby’s nurse”).

    https://brusselssignal.eu/2024/06/anti-migrant-hit-song-defies-censorship-ahead-of-french-elections/

    • joe90 2.1
      1 July 2024 at 7:49 pm

      Exit polls show Le Pen's Rassemblement National has won the first round of parliamentary elections.

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      They are scientists, doctors, real estate managers… and they have dual nationality. Speaking with Le Monde, they share a deep sense of injustice and their concerns for France.

      Some were born in Algeria, Morocco, Lebanon or Cameroon before emigrating with their parents. Others were born in France to foreign parents. And some settled here as adults, and acquired French nationality through marriage. Since Monday, June 24, when the far-right party's president, Jordan Bardella, presented the Rassemblement National (RN) program for the legislative elections, the announcement of his intention to ban dual nationals from certain so-called "strategic" jobs has worried, hurt and outraged these French people who have retained dual nationality.

      https://archive.li/TQb2o (lemonde)

  3. joe90 3
    1 July 2024 at 7:11 pm

    Russia has run out of physically-able older men, ethnic minorities, and young men from poorer regions. But rather than calling up able-bodied Moscovites of fighting age, they've gone to their allies for more cannon fodder.

    Because Poots' Three-Day Special Military Operation is going swimmingly.

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    On Wednesday, the Kyiv Post reported that Pyongyang had announced that it was sending “a military engineering unit” to Donetsk Oblast. Russia has controlled portions of this region since 2014, but this is also the area where it recently forced Ukrainian troops from the ruined town of Avdiivka after months of hard fighting. Russian forces partially occupied the village of Novooleksandrivka this week as they continue to press forward in this area. It’s unclear whether the North Korean unit would be deployed inside the long-occupied areas of Donetsk, or positioned closer to the front lines.

    While the official line is that North Korean troops will help Russian forces rebuild some of the areas they destroyed through bombardment with heavy artillery and glide bombs, a U.S. Defense Department briefing on Tuesday offered a different possibility: Russia may use North Korean forces as “cannon fodder.”

    https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/6/29/2248961/-Ukraine-Update-North-Korea-commits-boots-on-the-ground-in-Ukraine?

  5. ianmac 5
    1 July 2024 at 8:35 pm

    Funny that the CoC claims unity and concentrate on "Outcomes." Perhaps Mitchell is on a different outcome that Luxon hasn't been told about?

    Police Minister Mark Mitchell claims official communication from a Defence Force adviser contradicting him about the nature of the Government’s boot camps for young criminals was incorrect and must have been written by someone who didn’t understand the Government’s intentions.

    However, Mitchell himself appears to have contradicted the Prime Minister by saying the adviser’s assertion the Defence Force (NZDF) would only be involved in the boot camps at a governance level was “not accurate” and they would have “heavy defence involvement”.

    Oops.

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/police-minister-claims-nzdf-misunderstood-govt-boot-camps-promises-heavy-defence-involvement/SEJHJWQ4GRE57ADMURSNN752I4/

  6. aj 6
    1 July 2024 at 11:13 pm

    Ralph Nader has written a scathing critic of the Biden – Trump debate. he end with this theoretical passage which unfortunately never too place, because Biden wouldn't be able to deliver it.

    But on this list of Trump's record are some similarities with our own CoC:

    There was little daylight between Biden and Trump on militarism, Empire, genocide and a devouring, bloated military budget. But domestically, Biden could have exposed Trump as an abject tool of the worst of Big Business and Wall Street over Main Street, contrasting his record in the process. Here is one salvo that Biden could have delivered crisply and deliberately:

    “Let’s look at your record, Mr. Trump.

    CHILDREN – You blocked extending the child tax credit in January 2022, which was delivering $300 a month to over 60 million children;

    WOMEN – You’re opposed to their reproductive rights and want to punish them for their choice, not to mention your long history of abusing women;

    WORKERS – You and your Republicans in Congress have long opposed raising the paltry federal minimum wage frozen at $7.25 an hour. As President, you displayed your hatred of Unions and weakened job safety protections;

    IMMIGRATION – You single-handedly demanded your Party in Congress abandon a bipartisan immigration reform bill that the Congress was ready to send for my signature earlier this year;

    CONSUMERS – You weakened enforcement of life-saving health and safety laws and shut down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that worked to make Wall Street accountable;

    ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH – You think climate disruption is a hoax and tell the main fossil fuel polluters to “Drill, baby, drill” instead of backing planet-saving solar energy and wind power;

    PATIENTS – You want to end Obamacare and oppose the expansion of Medicaid in Southern Republican states, taking away healthcare for tens of millions of Americans;

    PUBLIC LANDS – Belong to all Americans and their descendants. You want to turn over big chunks of this land to corporations;

    TAXPAYERS – In 2017, you gave under-taxed super-profitable corporations and the very rich another giant tax cut which greatly increased the federal deficit; and

    Your hatred for the well-being of America shows how phony is your MAGA slogan. That’s just some of what you’ve done to the American people.”

    https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/07/01/biden-trump-debate-fiascos-for-both-candidates/

    • joe90 6.1
      2 July 2024 at 10:25 am

      There was little daylight between Biden and Trump on militarism,

      Says the bloke whose tweedledee tweedledum shtick handed a razor-thin 2020 election victory to W.

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