On today's In the News roundtable, Brian Becker, Esther Iverem, Nicole  Roussell and Walter Smolarek discuss how after months of talking,  begging and offering concessions the Biden administration’s dead-end  strategy of appeasing right wing Democrat Joe Manchin  has gone up in flames. Now Manchin wants to pulls the plug on the  “build back better” social programs entirely, and only a people's  movement can stop him. They also discuss the victory of Gabriel Boric  over his fascist opponent in the Chilean presidential  election, new revelations about the scale of civilian casualties from  U.S. airstrikes, the spread of the omicron variant, and more.

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Joe Manchin's War Against Workers

A second contribution to this project. I downloaded the track by OhWell & halF unusual (https://soundcloud.com/half-unusual/half-better-disquiet0592-collaboration-with-ohwell?), & added some extra electronic noise.

More on this 593rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, The Charm (The Assignment: Complete an asynchronous trio begun by two other musicians), at: https://disquiet.com/0593/

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All Better - with OhWell & halF unusual (disquiet0593)

In a historic event, on Monday the United Nations commemorated al-Nakba, which means “catastrophe,” and marked the beginning of the apartheid state of Israel and the massacre and displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes. Despite what Americans are taught, Israel was not created as a safe haven from oppression — in fact, the origin of Israel has anti-Arab, anti-Semitic, and imperialist roots.

Brian is joined by Dr. Nazia Kazi, a professor of Anthropology at Stockton University, and author of the book “Islamophobia, Race, and Global Politics,” which was just updated and re-released.

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How Colonialism Created Israel w/ Prof. Nazia Kazi

This is my first time participating in a Disquiet Junto project. I've been lurking on the mailing list and forum since December, but haven't had enough time to participate yet (or, at least, I told myself I didn't have enough time to participate). I've been mentally preparing to join in starting with project 600, but when I saw this week's assignment—to get started on a plan by getting over getting started—how could I let it pass by again?

Nonetheless, I put it off all weekend, and had to do it quickly Monday night. To save some setup time, I created this entirely with plug-ins in Ableton Live—something I haven't done in a while—along with a field recording of the morning here in the suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia. I used it as an opportunity to explore the Arturia MiniLab 3 controller I recently bought, and the V Collection software that pairs so well with it.

More on this 597th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Goal Line (The Assignment: Get started on a plan by getting over getting started), at: https://disquiet.com/0597/

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Each Day Begins Anew [disquiet0597]

release date :02/08/2023   
Haiku by Andrea Cecon https://www.amazon.com/Andrea-Cecon/e/B00955O0CA

Picture by Esmee Batchelor https://unsplash.com/photos/4tpVXhBMTG0

Silenzio (naviar Haiku 500)

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the phantom of the opera

From album Jaro /Spring/ Bandcamp 2023
https://tomassenkyrik.bandcamp.com/album/jaro

Notes to this recording:
Last April, I went to a floodplain forest in southern Moravia to capture a bombina bombina at one of the wetlands. No sooner had I settled down on the shore than the bombina bombina starts to call. My son fell asleep in his bicycle seat, it was beautifully quiet, no wind, no people, so ideal conditions. I quickly connected the equipment and started recording. After pressing the record button, I heard a small sport plane approaching me in my headphones. It circled over the wetland and then over the floodplain forest continuously for twenty minutes, yes really twenty minutes. It alternately receded and approached. I cursed quietly and preferably away from the microphones, so luckily my comments are not heard on the recording. The next day I downloaded the recording to my computer and was determined to delete it. But I listened to the recording. Something happened that I didn't expect. From the first seconds, the picture seemed to me as a compositional unit. The hum of the aircraft engine entered the recording with gradually increasing volume and began to create a harmony in the lower frequency band to the call of the bombina bombina. Since then, I listen to nature sounds and the sound environment differently. During the recording session, I took a photo of the location and my son sleeping on the bike. I decided to use it as the cover image for the whole album Jaro because it reminds me of the day I started listening a little "different"

Bombina bombina and a small sport plane

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