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Who is "we"?

I mean the widely accepted meaning of the word in the English language. Like if you look it up in a dictionary, or what most people would understand if someone used it.

Anybody that criticizes Islam gets labeled "Islamophic"

Perhaps, but people keep telling me I'm a leftist Nazi SJW too. You can't react to them all, they are just idiots or trolls and basing your ideas on their nonsense is a bad idea. Look, I'm talking to you now, I'll happily criticise Islam for the practice of MGM and for many other things, and I'm not going to worry if some asshat uses their personal definition of islamophobia to label me.

It's not "all Muslims", it's the mass migration.

France has the largest proportion of Muslims in Europe and the most pessimistic projections suggest that it will reach a whopping 14% by 2050. At the moment only around 20% of Muslims in France claim to attend a Mosque regularly, and by 2050 that will likely decrease with time.

https://www.thelocal.fr/201712...

In order for the mass migration theory to hold, those numbers have to be obfuscated. For example, by talking abut 4 million Muslims in France, and not differentiating between them. 60% of British people identify as Christian, but the majority of British people also support same-sex marriage, gender equality and many other things that mainstream Christianity in the UK does not.

By the way, Muslims make up 4.4% of the UK population. Christians are not in any danger of being outnumbered in the next few centuries.

The Russian Embassy is close to the White House, as the US Embassy in Paris is ( or at least was) to the Elysée, with a fake last floor.

I have not been to Europe since the 70s. So I have to rely upon reporting.

In 2013 this was a thing

And in 2017, so was this

And then this year...

Imagine my surprise that this began in the 90s, around Strasbourg apparently...

Reuters, reasonably reliable, offers some more insight. Many reasons, even insurance fraud. Apparently the term 'youths' isn't very precise.

But they do not refute the reality that car burnings are a New Years' celebration in some areas of France, and even for general frivolity or riots. At least France doesn't seem to suffer from the Friday Night Fights so common in other parts of the world. And there are in fact incidents of car burnings in Sweden, who knew?

More than a few years. Even the highest estimates only place the Muslim population of France at about 15% by 2050.

Oh, and by the way, it's not France that has a language police. Not only are you clueless, you're ignorant as well.

https://www.thelocal.fr/galler...

Just a quick Google for 'french language police'. Just recently they were in the news for wanting a different French word for 'smartphone'.

Pretty sure Reuters is one of those fake-news sites the liberals have been hyperventilating about recently, after all it disputes "fact" that he knows.

Well if you had read the article you would have noticed the migrants got evacuated to the countryside a month ago. Furthermore in the pictures you would not have seen any trace of a wood fire because you would just not find any wood to burn in Paris. So no, migrants are not responsible for the wood fires that are in part responsible for the current pollution.

Plus, wood fires have been blamed for pollution for many years and almost got banned two years ago. Are you going to blame the migrants for that too? Now like then the wood fires the article talks about are just lit by people in the chimney of their residential house just because it's nice to sit by the fire when it's cold. But of course don't let a mundane explanation get in the way of your paranoia.

Here is a report of nuclear criminality in France. http://www.thelocal.fr/2016051...

Honestly, compared to Happy Meals, sodas, and the general crap North American kids eat ... they should be so lucky as to start eating like the French.

France is McDonald's 2nd biggest market, and the French eat at McDonald's about as often as Americans do.

I don't even know where to start. I mean, come on. I guess I should be surprised since France permits one to marry a dead person. http://www.thelocal.fr/2014022...

Maybe, licensing taxies was a good idea at some point. There is very little competition among them, because their usage is sporadic — you need it, you raise a hand to hail one and take the first available without any way of figuring out the driver's and his company's reputation.

But Uber and Lyft and others have changed that. You can choose between these companies and you know the driver's reputation — and bad ones don't survive there long. A piece of government bureaucracy found itself irrelevant.

That is a very hard thing to accept and acknowledge even for honest men and women. For the corrupt ones — and, face it, government jobs tend to attract a higher share of such — it is something to fight tooth-and-nail. With laws, regulations, and PR-campaigns... Private victims of the old system may also be used as foot-soldiers against the new. It will not be pretty, but technology is destiny. We'll win, but not easily.

And driving a taxi is a highly lucrative, highly desirable position with good pay, good benefits, and little risk.

Maybe, licensing taxies was a good idea at some point. There is very little competition among them, because their usage is sporadic — you need it, you raise a hand to hail one and take the first available without any way of figuring out the driver's and his company's reputation.

But Uber and Lyft and others have changed that. You can choose between these companies and you know the driver's reputation — and bad ones don't survive there long. A piece of government bureaucracy found itself irrelevant.

That is a very hard thing to accept and acknowledge even for honest men and women. For the corrupt ones — and, face it, government jobs tend to attract a higher share of such — it is something to fight tooth-and-nail. With laws, regulations, and PR-campaigns... Private victims of the old system may also be used as foot-soldiers against the new. It will not be pretty, but technology is destiny. We'll win, but not easily.

Shouldn't we be talking about the french butt-plug awakening instead?

Citation needed, by all appearances EDF was still turning a profit in 2013. It looks like some of their foreign holdings outside of Europe are problematic for them, but that just goes to show their core business of selling nuclear power to Europeans is profitable enough to offset losses from other investments. Hardly a condemnation of the economics of nuclear power.

As the press release indicate, they have both a large debt and a negative cash flow something they want to improve in the 2014-2018 period (by massive price hikes).

Basically EDF are producing electricity above market prices and is selling below cost to consumers. In order not to collapse, they will have to rise prices:

http://www.thelocal.fr/2013070...

Here is their debt stated as 39bn Euros in 2013 and that the company is in trouble:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fin...

On top of that, the aging fleet of EDF nuclear reactors will soon have to be either replaced or rejuvenated, which will mean a huge need for cash, and is highly likely to mean even further price increases for consumers.

As for 'free market solutions' I hadn't realized that when we discussed emissions reductions that a solution must be rejected because it is or is not capitalist enough in nature.

Well, that was the premise for the Google engineers article. They wanted to make renewable energy at prices competitive with gas/coal, and found out it wasn't possible.
That nuclear power can't compete on price is also why the free market have rejected it.

Personally I think it is a market failure that cheap but CO2 polluting fossil fuels are allowed to be used, and that a national energy plan must have it as priority to drastically reduce CO2 output.

FYI, this is fundamentally to protect customers. For example, this and this were recently reported as occurring in Paris by illegals cabbies.

FYI, this is fundamentally to protect customers. For example, this and this were recently reported as occurring in Paris by illegals cabbies.

France too. It was reported in Le Monde this morning but hasn't hit the international press yet in full force. Here is an English article from a local French paper. Apparently the whole assembly (congress) knew about it and was on board.