plinky

linky

linky

And yet, Mélenchon – who is like Macron in one specific way: the widespread rejection he as a person elicits among the French at large – and others in his party insisted that the left would enact “its programme, nothing but the programme, but all of the programme”.

There is just as much contempt for democracy in LFI’s “our way or the highway” approach as there was in Macron’s nomination of Barnier. The difference is that it failed, and Mélenchon’s obstinacy torpedoed the one real shot that the NFP had in governing the country and enacting some portion of its programme – Laurence Tubiana.

But to have a real second chance, it will have to truly break from Mélenchon in the way that the UK’s Labour party broke from Corbyn, and it will have to “get serious” about its economic programme.

It has one of the highest levels of taxation and the highest public spending relative to GDP (57.3 %) in the OECD, an unsustainable budget deficit, and a debt verging on unsustainable as well. When 10.9% of all French state spending currently goes to servicing existing debt, that is a leftwing issue: it means that €52bn a year is not being invested in green energy, sustainable agriculture, university facilities, research and public housing.

size of the hole is smaller than military spending, but i support french desire for first strike on london

France has a modern service and knowledge economy, where more than a fifth of the labour force either works for a small business or is self-employed, and where one of the areas actually growing – tech – requires investors to risk huge amounts of capital for very uncertain future payoffs. The left needs to speak to these people not about what the economy looked like in the 1970s, but about what it is going to look like tomorrow. And yet, in the whole of the NFP’s programme, AI wasn’t mentioned once.

imagine that

Are there ways around this? Undoubtedly. France could, for example, set up a system of public pension funds – modelled on its collection of non-profit health “mutuals” that form the backbone of its well-designed and effective hybrid public-private universal healthcare system – to redistribute market gains back to workers.

Just privatize pensions, nfp, are you nerds?

La medida fue oficializada en la Resolución 893/2024, publicada esta madrugada en el Boletín Oficial. “Créase el COMANDO UNIFICADO DE SEGURIDAD PRODUCTIVA, con el objetivo específico de ejecutar tareas destinadas a la prevención y control del orden en los enclaves productivos del País”

En el DNU, se destacó que “se han originado graves hechos de violencia, bloqueos e impedimento por medios ilícitos para que se pueda trabajar, comercializar y distribuir libremente la producción, en zonas portuarias (como) Bahía Blanca, San Lorenzo – Timbúes, zonas de producción de hidrocarburos como Vaca Muerta o zonas mineras, o Parques Industriales”. En ese sentido, señalaron que esos hechos “incidieron concretamente en un peligro colectivo a la vida, la libertad y el patrimonio de los habitantes y de las empresas o libre circulación de los trabajadores, como también de su actividad productiva”.

hello brownshirts?

dunno if the source is reactionary or fake or lefty, but executive order) exists

linky

replies show complete brainmelt with imagegen

to jewish comrades

linky

linky

linky

The report also found that wealthier Jewish students were more likely to support Israel than less wealthy ones; that more Jewishly engaged students were more likely to have negative views of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; and that Jewish students largely perceived their universities as being biased against Israel, while pro-Palestinian students believed the opposite.

John Mitchell, a spokesperson for the prisons, said the department had advance notice of the sweep in Kensington last week and were prepared for a surge of inmates. He said a nurse performing withdrawal assessments visited Cahill at about 1 a.m. Saturday, and Cahill “indicated she was fine.”

About six-and-a-half hours later, a nurse found Cahill unresponsive and administered CPR. Mitchell said a medical response team “continued lifesaving efforts,” but Cahill never regained consciousness, and was pronounced dead at 7:45 a.m.

...

Clark said Cahill struggled with addiction since she was a teenager — first it was prescription pills, then heroin and fentanyl. But she was also a loving mother to two boys, ages 12 and 6, Clark said, and was “very funny and all-around caring.”