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In France. See here and here. Evidence for cheats in PSA engines also came forward in other studies.

Do you know any other tunes? It turns out what you're playing for is only the beginning of the story. Here is something from the middle.

Vicious truck attack kills 84 during France fireworks display
Berlin massacre reminiscent of deadly Nice attack (12 dead, 48 injured)
Barcelona attack as it happened: At least 13 dead and 100 injured after van hits crowd in act of terror

We don't know how it will end yet, but the portents aren't good.

German Intel Report Reveals Extent Of Islamist Infiltration In Germany

You can avert your eyes if you want to, or refuse to hear, but that will not stop the truck, bomb, knife, machinegun, . . .

How Edward Snowden Changed the Habits of a Terrorist

There is only one person I know who changed behavior because of Snowden. In October of last year, I traveled to Kenya to meet members of al Shabaab, an al Qaeda linked group that had pulled off a spectacular attack on an upscale mall in Nairobi a month earlier. One of the members, a man named Abdul, changed the SIM card on his mobile repeatedly. When I asked him why, he gave me a one-word answer:

“Snowden.”

It's all good, right?

France's economy is growing well. http://m.en.rfi.fr/economy/201... Italy has a politician that is anti EUROZONE.https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/916249/Italy-Italian-election-2018-polls-anti-euro-EU-European-Union-Eurozone-Lega-Constitution not the EU

While I would not consider this as a model to follow, France's president Hollande already did that in 2015

Hail Zontar The Mindless, court jester and tormenter of the just!

I take it that you cannot imagine a European hospital or clinic not fully staffed for continuous 24x7 operations, with resources sitting idle just waiting to be put to use?

Doctor shortage reaching crisis, study warns

The German Medical Association (BÄK) and the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KBV) announced the results of a study showing that medical care is becoming harder to find in some parts of the country, particularly rural areas.

The study made it clear “that the doctor shortage is not a phenomenon anticipated for some time in the future, but is an urgent threat,” said KBV head Andreas Köhler. ...

In hospitals, about 5,000 positions were unfilled, the groups said. A decade from now, nearly 20,000 senior physicians and head physicians will have retired.

Medical Leave: Romanian Doctors Fleeing Poor Pay, Corruption For Western Europe

UK has fewer doctors per person than Bulgaria and Estonia

Spanish doctors and nurses emigrate for work

French government fights doctor shortage in rural areas

Europe’s ageing population will face doctor shortage

It is estimated that by 2020, 230,000 doctor‘s roles and 590,000 nursing positions will need to be filled. In less than a decade, there will be a professional shortfall of 1 million jobs in the health sector (including all roles). This means that about 14% of the total demand for health services may not be covered. This prediction is reflected in Italy, where almost 42% of national health service doctors are over 55. There are 14,280 aged over 60 compared to 13,196 aged 30 to 39. This vacuum of personnel is destined be filled increasingly by immigrants. Already in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Poland, 30% of foreign doctors are from non-EU countries. This percentage rises to 60% in France and Italy and even 80% in Ireland and the UK. These findings are a report prepared as part of the project “Health Workers 4all“.

I am reasonably sure that Germany would exit the EU if such a program was installed.

The German Prism: Berlin Wants to Spy Too

Same is true for France. They say that France is one of the few countries who does democracy right.

France - Alarm over massive spying provisions in new military programming law

Hell, in France they will burn an entire city over a small issue.

You're getting warm.

Some 1,067 cars set ablaze across France on New Year's Eve
France's Less Joyous New Year's Tradition

More than 40,000 vehicles are burned each year in France...

Any ideas on what might be going on? (I don't want to issue a spoiler just yet.)

No, Belgium. ICC is based in the Netherlands, which is right next door to Belgium, so to speak.

The ICC has no particular jurisdiction over European affairs - and it only deals with "serious" criminality, such as genocide, torture, ethnic cleansing, etc.

(Don't misunderstand me: it is a valid court of justice and it definitely has a role to play - but its area of expertise is murder on a grand scale, not spying on a grand scale).

Belgian courts, from Belgium - again, this is if I remember well (I may be totally wrong!) - can hear valid criminal cases brought before them even if said acts were committed outside of Belgium frontiers by foreign nationals. I think they have done just that in case of the genocide in Rwanda - but . See the following for more information:

http://www.english.rfi.fr/africa/20110420-belgium-arrests-rwandan-genocide-suspect

In any case, even if the above is not true, the company that was the target of GCHQ - Belgacom - is a Belgium telecom company. And, supposedly, so are the individuals that were targeted within the company itself. Courts in Belgium should therefore be perfectly competent to hear a case brought before them by these plaintiffs.

Make of that what you will.

China protects its companies (many of which are at least partially state owned). The US does not.

Sure it doesn't.

Actually, there were no statistical increase in deformities or birth defects among children in the region following the Chernobyl accident.

Yeah right, as if I could not see a steaming pile of bullshit this big. Extraordinary claims claim extraordinary proof: where's yours?

it was predicted that somewhere around 4000 people may die prematurely due to cancer from radiation exposure released by the reactor.

That's a study by the IAEA (and they would never-ever have an economic interest in promoting nuclear energy, would they?), and has been criticised for being cherry-picking: among other things, they considered only Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, whereas most of the fallout fell on the rest of Europe (see the EU parliament's report); also, the figure in their report is actually 9,000, not 4,000 as in the press releases they gave, because they, well, are lying liars.

2.4 million people may have been "affected" by the radiation, but this ranges from low to negligible doses that have no statistical link to cancer or birth defects.

You are counting only deaths, as if debilitating conditions were not to be put into the equation. 2.4 million affected people in Ukraine only is an enormous number, it's over 5% of the entire population. And that's "affected" as in "got a disease or a medical condition", not "received some radioactivity dose they never noticed".

Many people around the world live in areas of high natural background radiation, far higher then those exposed by fallout from Chernobyl, and suffer no increase cancer risk.

Really, come up with a source on that one. Far higher than Chernobyl and no cancer risk? You've got to be trolling.

These climatologists you speak of think they understand and can control a complex system like the world's climate.

Well, what would have given them all that hubris? Possibly scientific education and specialisation? Years spent studying the planet's climate?

Crichton is correct that complex systems are not simple [...]

Well no shit Sherlock.

[...] and [Crichton is correct that complex systems] cannot controlled.

As a PhD in control theory, I can solemnly declare you a charlatan. Space shuttles are controlled. Nuclear fission reactions are controlled (and they are both nonlinear and unstable). Hell even chaotic systems are controlled. And I am supposed to believe a Sci-Fi writer that has been called a moron by every competent climatologist that hey, you can't help complex stuff? I don't believe in penis-enlargement pills, therefore I don't believe in Michael Crichton.

Your foolish statement may be reworded as "Since you cannot understand a system as complex as the human body, you cannot possibly cure people".

Watch the video, he explains it better than I can: [...]

You know, I have this sick, sad habit of looking at politically incorrect sites. Nazis, racists, holocaust deniers—it's a little philosophical exercise, to think how the would would be absurd if these retards actually were right. There is however a line to draw, and Crichton, in that video, passed it after five minutes, when he said that Chernobyl was not really that much of a disaster because only "50 people died". Such a claim indicates a spectacular level of intellectual dishonesty: he's counting only the firefighters who died in the accident, and since nobody traced the isotopes, well, all those malformed children born in Belarus, all those cases of thyroid cancer, they could all just be a statistical anomaly, right? And that's only counting deaths, the really alarming numbers are the people who develop conditions because of the poisoning: in the Ukraine alone, the authorities estimate that 2.4 millions people were affected by the radiation. Note that Ukraine did not even get most of the fallout, Belarus did.

Well, that's enough to make up my mind for now: he's a shill paid by industry lobbyists to deliver lies. Call me up when they actually find a climatologist backing him up.

The US has stopped meaningful technological cooperation with its allies 5 years ago.

Géopolitique
Présentation : Richard Labévière, Emmanuel d'Abzac et Matthieu Vendrely
Réalisation : Olga Samssonov
Invité : Louis Caprioli
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Ancien chef de la lutte anti-terroriste à la DST, Louis Caprioli est aujourd'hui Conseiller Spécial de la société GEOS.

Il vient nous parler du Livre Blanc du gouvernement sur la sécurité intérieure face au Terrorisme (Documentation Française).
http://www.rfi.fr/radiofr/editions/072/edition_26_ 20060520.asp

AFP is big in France.

AFP is big all over the world. There are 3 real global news agencies, AP, AFP and Reuters (in no particular order).

Hell, they're even "big" in the US ! Look at Yahoo's top stories, check out the sources (upper right corner). Guess who comes third, right behind AP and Reuters ?

In other parts of the world (say, the Arab world or western Africa), AFP happens to dominate. It has more to do with politics and language than anything else, but still, they're not just big in France.

How many shortwave programs does AFP broadcast? And in what languages? Let's see, the answer would be none and none. Hell, the Beeb broadcasts in multiple languages.

Wow. Congratulations, you just discovered that a news agency is not the same as a media corporation (Hint: how many AP / Reuters programs are syndicated on public radio in the United States ? How many shortwave programs do AP and Reuters broadcast ?)

If you want French media, you should look at TV5 (French-language international television) or Radio-France Internationale (radio services in 19 languages).

Thomas-

According to a report on RFI (sorry, all audio in french), the court was told by a Canadian company that filtering based on country was very simple and they had a product (or patent, it went by quickly) to do this. Could this be iCraveTV? The report didn't say.

So the judge is going to wait a month (because the whole country goes on vacation the month of August) and then appoint a commission to investigate if filtering can be done country by country. The anti-hate groups asked the judge to impose 1 million FRF fines for each day that french citizens could access nazi memorabilia on yahoo, but the judge declined to do so until after the commission issues a preliminary report.

What might happen if yahoo doesn't implement some kind of system (it doesn't have to be 100%, just good enough) is that all french ISPs will be forced to drop all packets to/from yahoo's IP address range. They could have their business licenses revoked if they don't.

I understand why many european countries have laws against nazism. There is still a very strong racial hatred powering extremist politics using nazism as a symbol. In a region where memories of wrongdoing go back 1500 years, events that happened to people still alive are very recent. The war may have ended, but nazism was not eradicated, only driven underground. The anti-hate laws are there to remove the fuel from the fire, in the hopes that in another few generations the worst of the hatred will be extinguished.

It is interesting to see how american court cases try to attack "dirty pictures" outside the US, where nobody cares if women bare their breasts on the beach. There is a double standard at work, and when an american company is on the losing end of a judgement, americans hear more about it. The double standard goes both ways, when european companies lose to american laws, only europeans hear the rants.

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