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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Jun 3, 2022 15:52:53 GMT
In a bizarre turn, JLM appears to be bogged down in a dispute with the crooner Michel Sardou, and is trying to arrange a meeting to clear the air.
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on May 31, 2022 19:17:08 GMT
I've seen a number of oblique references to the French health system being "in crisis" - relique, any thoughts?
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on May 28, 2022 10:13:52 GMT
The CSU will still run as themselves. "In alliance with the EPP, the non-Bavarian branch of the CSU".
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on May 26, 2022 15:50:22 GMT
Newham Councillor Belgica Guaña (Lab, Canning Town South) - for the usual according to the Daily MailIs Guana the feminine version of guano?
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on May 22, 2022 21:46:14 GMT
CDU-Green talks in NRW this evening.
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on May 22, 2022 19:33:11 GMT
Blimey. One of the new ministers, Damien Abad, has been accused of rape.
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on May 22, 2022 19:15:23 GMT
From Le Figaro. An IFOP poll shows a LREM versus Zemmour run-off in the 4th Var.
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on May 21, 2022 21:06:06 GMT
I'm a Cronulla man. (Although my mother is a Queenslander)
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on May 21, 2022 20:27:11 GMT
South Sydney fan replaces Cronulla fan as PM. One of the very few good points about Tony Abbott was his choice of footy team. Rabbitohs are a huge improvement on Sharks for an Aussie PM mind. No. No no no no.
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on May 21, 2022 16:53:49 GMT
Are there any actual policy differences between Horizons and Agir, or is it more about personalities and when they started supporting Macron? Horizons has a bit of a feel of one of those fake parties Putin set up to give Russian elections a sense of legitimacy and attract votes from different ideological perspectives. The better question would be "are there any actual policy idea among Horizons and Agir ? I've just noticed that Borne is a member of yet another one of Manu's Potemkin partie, Territories of Progress. Macron is channeling his inner Putin with all these daft pseudo-parties.
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on May 21, 2022 16:51:54 GMT
I wouldn’t touch any mustard other than Dijon. Colman’s mustard is foul. Depeends on the brand surely? Big-standard Dijon isn't great. And of course, Colmans and Maille are the same company. (Carrefour own-brand tarragon mustard is the gold standard)
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on May 21, 2022 12:10:22 GMT
South Sydney fan replaces Cronulla fan as PM.
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on May 17, 2022 16:56:33 GMT
Isn't Horizons the party for people thinking Philippe ought to be President in 2027? Presumably he couldn't think of a useful but meaningless phrase to name it LREP.
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on May 16, 2022 20:07:01 GMT
New PM that will lead the incumbent majority to the legislative elections: Élisabeth Borne, current minister for labour. She used to work for the socialist as a technocrat. Not a politico. She'll be candidate in Calvados in june (I think it's for the first time but I'm not sure. I didn't check) A very badly-kept secret. They really have treated Castex with minimal respect. I see they've exhumed Cresson for her opinion.
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on May 16, 2022 12:48:34 GMT
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on May 16, 2022 9:04:15 GMT
It appears that neither the NPA nor their splitter friends from Révolution permanente will be joining Mélenchon's merry men. The NPA are refusing to work with the PS but have called for a vote for the Left coalition in seats where they aren't standing themselves. RP appear to be little more than a personality cult centred on a Trot called Anasse Kazib (there's a slightly gushing yet wooden comment by the actress Adèle Haenel praising him for educating her-it makes him seem like Lyndon LaRouche!)
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on May 14, 2022 16:36:43 GMT
Yet ask the same young people, now in their 70s, and they will tell you that France was full of Resistance heroes and that Vichy was a one-off stain on the national character rather than a sign of an underlying streak of authoritarian nationalism. That's something I was pondering some time ago. We see plenty of dramas/films/etc set in German-occupied northern France, but I can't think of any set in Vichy France. From that I don't have an cultural knowledge of how everyday life went in Vichy, compared to everyday life in occupied France being so commonplace as to be a trope. Louis Malle caused a lot of controversy with his film Lacombe Lucien (a very good film). I'll defer to relique but I believe this was the first major piece to show collaborators as essentially normal French, be they committed "collaborationists" or just opportunists. And in that way, it caused huge uproar, because it confronted France with the idea that the narrative of the war as plucky resistance versus nasty Germans was simplistic and allowed a lot of people to downplay their wartime activities. Edit: I think it's set in what had been the Vichy area before the Germans occupied the rest of it.
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on May 11, 2022 10:19:51 GMT
Devil Wincarnate: in addition to the historical background and the binational aspect (the guarantees provided to Denmark by the federal German government in 1955) there is one more reason why I can't take the CDU's habitual whining about SSW's special status seriously. There is a perfectly logical and simple solution to the issue that removes the special status to the SSW (and thereby the issue of whether it remains a national minority/minorities party or has morphed into a regionalist party) without violating the Copenhagen-Bonn agreement and upsetting the general German-Danish consensus about the border region: Divide the Land into two electoral districts equivalent to its two historical components: Landesteil Holstein and Landesteil Schleswig and either set a 5% threshold in each Landersteil for all parties so any party that passes the threshold in either landesteil gets seats in the Landtag, or allocate 58 seats to Holstein and 15 to Landesteil Schleswig, which would make it unnecessary to have a percentage based threshold at all in Landesteil Schleswig as the de facto threshold would be slightly higher than 5%. But the CDU has never been interested in any kind of practical solution, they just want to bitch about it every election season. I'm not exactly convinced by the CDU line on the SSW, but equally I'm not convinced by the SSW line that they are neither left nor right. Although arguably they look a bit like the two Danish liberal parties if they had never split! I do agree with your suggestion of a split... And the CDU unwillingness to do anything like it. Minority languages in Germany is a topic that doesn't seem to get much discussion. Thinking about it, are the CDU the only party to provide a speaker of a minority language as a minister-president? Incidentally, I walked past the SSW office in Flensburg a few years ago. It must be the least - imposing political HQ imaginable. I thought it was a house with a poster in the window at first.
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on May 10, 2022 9:25:03 GMT
The high-point of Prod enclaves in Bavaria was probably 1945-1960, when refugees from the east (particularly religiously-mixed Silesia and from surprisingly mixed Sudeten areas) turned up in numbers. But the Wirtschaftswunder and the need for labour in the cities forced an integration in the years that followed. Mind you, you can say the same about what went on in NRW, S-H (which had the most refugees as a proportion of its population).
But there are still new towns in Bavaria set up for the expellees which possibly have a plurality if not majority from löst Protestant areas. Geretsried near Bad Tölz, or Neugablonz (which means New Gablonz, that being a town in the Sudetenland).
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on May 9, 2022 18:46:43 GMT
Even reading background material while listening, I *still* don't know why May '68 happened or what they wanted. Its a lot easier to explain the former than the latter. As in Germany around the same time, a big part of it was younger people's frustration that their elders weren't being honest about what really happened in WW2. Which was ironic, as at least two major writers who articulated that position turned out later to be former NSDAP or SS members. The excellent modern history museum in Bonn has video footage taken by the British authorities upon liberation of the camps, to be shown to the locals. Quite stark and even frightening. It is forgotten how much "coming to terms" with the Nazi era was done in the immediate aftermath of the end of the war, before there was even a formal West German state. Of course, the DDR never had such a reckoning.
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