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NENA 99 Red Balloons [1984] (Official HD Music Video)
NENA | 99 Red Balloons [1984] (Official HD Music Video) - English version
NENA | 99 Luftballons [1983] [Offizielles HD Musikvideo] - German version
The lyrics of the original German version tell a story: 99 balloons are mistaken for UFOs, causing a general to send pilots to investigate. Finding nothing but balloons, the pilots put on a large show of fire power. The display of force worries the nations along the borders and the war ministers on each side encourage conflict to grab power for themselves. In the end, a cataclysmic war results from the otherwise harmless flight of balloons and causes devastation on all sides without a victor, as indicated in the denouement of the song: "99 Jahre Krieg ließen keinen Platz für Sieger," which means "99 years of war left no room for victors." The anti-war song finishes with the singer walking through the devastated ruins of the world and finding a single balloon. The description of what happens in the final line of the piece is the same in German and English: "Denk' an dich und lass' ihn fliegen," or "I think of you and let it go."[8]
. . . The English version retains the spirit of the original narrative, but many of the lyrics are translated poetically rather than being directly translated: red helium balloons are casually released by the civilian singer (narrator) with her unnamed friend into the sky and are mistakenly registered by a faulty early warning system as enemy contacts, resulting in panic and eventually nuclear war, with the end of the song near-identical to the end of the original German version.[8]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99_Luftballons
Richard Pryor commemorating MLK, 1983
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4706733/richard-pryorAs mentioned on the Lawrence O'Donnell show tonight
A most amazing demonstration of unimaginable skill!
https://twitter.com/SInow/status/1599554509373468672Sports Illustrated @SInow
Official
Just finished a shoot with @stephencurry30,
this dude just can’t miss 😳🔥
🎥 @ari_fararooy
@warriors
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EDIT - After posting I learned that this is a fake video.
I recall being warned by Obama about how advanced the video photoshopping had become.
Sorry bout that.
After allegations of racist hiring on Delta farms, DOL finds 11 more employers misusing visa program
After allegations of racist hiring on Delta farms, DOL finds 11 more employers misusing visa program
by Sara DiNatale
Agents with the U.S. Department of Labor fined 11 Delta farms for misusing a popular visa program after a sweep of investigations in the wake of public outcry and a Missisisippi Today investigation that found Black local workers being underpaid and phased out of farm jobs in favor of white workers from South Africa.
“The allegations made by Mississippi Delta farmworkers are alarming,” Wage and Hour Division District’s Jackson director, Audrey Hall, said in a statement. “The outcome of these investigations confirms that employers denied many farmworkers their lawful wages and, in some cases, violated the rights of U.S. workers by giving temporary guest workers preferential treatment.”
Mississippi Today’s investigation found at least five farms who paid their local workers – usually Black men – less money per hour than those on farm work visas through the H-2A program – usually white men from South Africa – over the last few years.
The labor department’s Wage and Hour Division fined the 11 farms a total of $122,610 and recovered wages for 45 workers totaling $134,532 in its latest string of investigations.
https://mississippitoday.org/2022/11/28/dol-fine-mississippi-delta-farms/?fbclid=IwAR15tdMQ4sy79AlrKELEsvb7MZtC45qdmwY4FFxdn6phzzXvD1bBsV20Y7A
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