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Bert Ernste

The EU’s new migration pact is intended to neutralise the far right – it risks empowering it

The Guardian

With a heavy focus on deterrence, the agreement shows how far Europe’s centre has shifted to the right. (...)

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Still from film: migrants on crowded boat
A scene from the film Io Capitano (2023), which dramatises the plight of Senegalese migrants. Photograph: Greta De Lazzaris.

Seen in this light, the EU’s long-awaited pact on asylum and migration, which passed a knife-edge series of votes in the European parliament last week, continues an established trend towards deterrence. Ahead of European elections in June, in which rightwing populist parties are predicted to make significant gains, the pact’s centrist supporters have hailed the legislative package as a victory for the traditional EU values of compromise and moderation. Yet with a heavy focus on security screening and the removal of migrants deemed undeserving, the pact highlights how far Europe’s centre has already shifted to the right on migration – and risks further empowering the radical right it aims to neutralise. (...)

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Tags: #migration #migrants #eu #european_union #migration_pact #populism #radical_right #frontex #fort_europe

faab64@diasp.org
Farhad A

When #xenophobia is popular, #fascists become voices of #democracy : #Konfederacja proposed a referendum on migration policy

1) Do you support #EU relocation of migrants

2) Do you support social benefits for #immigrants?

3) Do you support paying immigrants Polish min pension if they did not pay into system

4) Do you support simplificiation in issueing migration permits to people from countries not culturaly close to #Poland (eg #muslim countries)

5) Do you support the project of the ministry of foreign affairs, which wants to admit into Poland atleast 400,000 migrants per year

#islamophobia #politics #fascism #populism #immigration

faab64@diasp.org
Farhad A

#Journalists should have an oppositional relationship with power, and that means all power. Not only should they have an aggressively oppositional relationship with their government and its oligarchs, they should have an oppositional relationship with the mass media itself. They should spurn the approval of other journalists and media institutions; all the best journalists do.

It's not okay for journalists to let themselves become tools of power. It's not okay for journalists to be friends with politicians and government officials. It's not okay for journalists to have tribal loyalty to other journalists or seek to ingratiate themselves to them.

Journalists should have loyalty to the truth and the truth only. Not to the high-level people they schmooze with at the nation's capital. Not to government officials in the name of maintaining "access". Not to their government's geopolitical interests. Not even to each other.

And of course everything I just described is career suicide to anyone who's looking to make it anywhere in the mass media. If what you want is to have the story of "being a journalist" and all the social clout that comes with it, you're going to do the exact opposite of what I said. That's a big part of what makes western journalists such herd-minded, approval-seeking losers; that's the only type of personality that can make it to any level of prominence in the mass media today. That's a problem, and if we're ever going to have a healthy society it's going to have to change.

The only way to do real critical reporting and still keep your job is to go independent, but that means going without all the resources people have at mainstream news outlets to get their information. Nobody's found a great solution to this yet, which is perfectly understandable because we live in a sick society where money and power are closely related and it takes money to produce good investigative journalism. So you'll see things like "independent" media outlets cozying up with plutocrats to pay the bills, and they always run into problems down the track.

Really it's a bit of a catch-22; we can't have healthy media until we have a healthy society, and we can't have a healthy society until we have healthy media. We just muddle through as best we can, telling the truth the entire time, come what may.
#Politics #Populism #Media
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wist@diasp.org
WIST

A quotation by Stanley, Jason

Fascist politics includes many distinct strategies: the mythic past, propaganda, anti-intellectualism, unreality, hierarchy, victimhood, law and order, sexual anxiety, appeals to the heartland, and a dismantling of public welfare and unity.

Jason Stanley (b. 1969) American philosopher, epistemologist, academic

How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, Introduction (2018)

#quote #quotation #fascism #nationalism #politics #populism

More notes and sourcing on WIST: https://wist.info/stanley-jason/54912/

WIST - Stanley, Jason | How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, Introduction (2018)

Fascist politics includes many distinct strategies: the mythic past, propaganda, anti-intellectualism, unreality, hierarchy, victimhood, law and order, sexual anxiety, appeals to the heartland, and a dismantling of public welfare and unity.

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wist@diasp.org
WIST

A quotation by Jones, Van

To change our laws and culture, the green movement must attract and include the majority of all people, not just the majority of affluent people.

Anthony Kapel “Van” Jones (b. 1968) American news commentator, author, lawyer

The Green Collar Economy (2008)

#quote #quotation #change #culture #elite #environmentalism #green #movement #populism

More notes and sourcing on WIST: https://wist.info/jones-van/51456/

WIST - Jones, Van | The Green Collar Economy (2008)

To change our laws and culture, the green movement must attract and include the majority of all people, not just the majority of affluent people.

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Digit

https://leftlockdownsceptics.com/2021/10/james-burnhams-managerial-revolution-and-the-great-reset/

"...the thesis is this: The rulers of this new society will be the people who effectively control the means of production: that is, business executives, technicians, bureaucrats and soldiers, lumped together by Burnham under the name of ‘managers’. These people will eliminate the old capitalist class, crush the working class, and so organize society that all power and economic privilege remain in their own hands." -- Orwell’s ‘Second thoughts on James Burnham’, 1946

#managers #jamesburnham #orwell #privilege #power #leftlockdownsceptics #greatreset #pseudopandemic #fascism #Bolshevism #therulingclass #thesubservientclass #agenda #wetiko #technocracy #authoritarian #authoritarianism #totalitarianism #problemreactionsolution #hegel #rulingclass #economicinterests #sellop #psyop #wef #communitarian #decievers #usefulidiots #cynics #stakeholdercapitalism #klausschwab #libertariancommunist #oligarchy #exploitation #managerialclass #managerialsociety #capitalism #managerialrevolution #capitalistglobaltransnationaltotalitariancoup #subvert #populism #crisisindemocracy #capitalistclass #contradictions #dramaticstructuraloverhaul #GreatResetagenda #WorldEconomicForum #goodread #despitetypos #politics #consider #cuibono

James Burnham’s ‘managerial revolution’ and the Great Reset

Dave B revisits James Burnham's 1940s theory of a 'managerial revolution' as a context for what is happening now.

dredmorbius@joindiaspora.com
Doc Morbius (moved to Glasswings)

"Hitler and Mussolini and Father Coughlan and Huey Long and Franklin Roosevelt ... attained their enormous influence by radio."

S.I. Hayakawa and General Semantics (1968)

I've had a few recommendations to look at the work of Hayakawa. He was an english professor, university president, and senator (from California). A decidedly eclectic mix.

The quote above comes at the opening of this lecture, discussing the revolution in media which had occurred at the opening of the 20th century. Highly recommended.

I'd come to the realisation of the significance of media and its role on society and politics a few years ago. I keep running into validation of that notion.

McLuhan isn't mentioned AFAICT though he makes similar points. See also #HannaArendt and the #FrankfurtSchool

https://youtube.com/watch?v=W0VdNQVlg7U

I've also queued up

(YouTube recommendations are proving interesting here.)

#SIHayakawa #Media #radio #politics #fascism #populism #MarshallMcLuhan

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