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Le Pen Concedes Defeat To Macron In France's Post-Hack Election (reuters.com)
"France has voted for continuity," candidate Marine Le Pen said in the wake of her defeat in France's presidential election, conceding that Emmanuel Macron had a decisive lead. Reuters has ongoing coverage of Le Pen's concession phone call and reactions from world leaders. "France Rejects Far Right," read a headline at CNN, touting their own live updates and early results showing Macron with a 65.9% to 34.1% lead, "on course for a decisive win." Macron is schedule to speak at the Louvre museum (where the grounds were "briefly evacuated" this morning after discovery of a suspicious bag.) Quartz is calling 39-year-old Macron "the second Generation X president of a major world power" (after Canada's Justin Trudeau).
The election was closely watched after a 9-gigabyte trove of emails from Macron's campaign were leaked online. CNBC reports that "One of the most talked about emails makes reference to binge-watching Dr. Who and masturbating to the sound of running water. It sounds generally incoherent. It could be false, or maybe the person wrote it after a few too many." The New Yorker traces the leak to a right-leaning Canadian site, whose editor says he found the documents on 4chan. But Reuters is crediting WikiLeaks with providing "the largest boost of attention" to the leaked documents, according to an analysis pubished by the Digital Forensic Research Lab of the Atlantic Council, a D.C.-based think tank on international affairs. WikiLeaks tweeted about the leak 15 times, bragging to Reuters that "we were hours ahead of all other major outlets." On Friday WikiLeaks also disputed the Macron campaign's claim that the leak mixed real documents with fake ones. "We have not yet discovered fakes in #MacronLeaks & we are very skeptical that the Macron campaign is faster than us."
Saturday WikiLeaks noted that several of the Office files "have Cyrillic meta data. Unclear if by design, incompetence, or Slavic employee." And Saturday afternoon they added "name of employee for Russian govt security contractor Evrika appears 9 times in metadata for 'xls_cendric.rar' leak archive."
Meanwhile, on the International Space Station, French astronaut Thomas Pesquet voted from space. Feel free to discuss the election's results in the comments.
The election was closely watched after a 9-gigabyte trove of emails from Macron's campaign were leaked online. CNBC reports that "One of the most talked about emails makes reference to binge-watching Dr. Who and masturbating to the sound of running water. It sounds generally incoherent. It could be false, or maybe the person wrote it after a few too many." The New Yorker traces the leak to a right-leaning Canadian site, whose editor says he found the documents on 4chan. But Reuters is crediting WikiLeaks with providing "the largest boost of attention" to the leaked documents, according to an analysis pubished by the Digital Forensic Research Lab of the Atlantic Council, a D.C.-based think tank on international affairs. WikiLeaks tweeted about the leak 15 times, bragging to Reuters that "we were hours ahead of all other major outlets." On Friday WikiLeaks also disputed the Macron campaign's claim that the leak mixed real documents with fake ones. "We have not yet discovered fakes in #MacronLeaks & we are very skeptical that the Macron campaign is faster than us."
Saturday WikiLeaks noted that several of the Office files "have Cyrillic meta data. Unclear if by design, incompetence, or Slavic employee." And Saturday afternoon they added "name of employee for Russian govt security contractor Evrika appears 9 times in metadata for 'xls_cendric.rar' leak archive."
Meanwhile, on the International Space Station, French astronaut Thomas Pesquet voted from space. Feel free to discuss the election's results in the comments.
Congratulations to the French people.
French politics have long been sick, and the sluggish economy with little hope for young workers is a result.
Sick how?
In every election cycle where the French have a choice between change and stagnation, all the parties who pretend to be opponents in the lead-up band together and urge everybody to vote for which ever final candidate is desired by the rich globalist investors class. It never matters who the candidates are, the press and nearly all the parties band together to oppose change and oppose anybody opposed to globalism.
The French people will now get several more years of stagnation terrorism, EU domination, burdens of EU bailouts for Greece, EU mandated open borders, etc and then they will get another chance at change.....which they will again stupidly reject because they are told to.
Define "fascist". If you don't think that definition will apply to the EU once it gets an army, read some history. Hell, just look at the militarised police everywhere to protect us against the terrorism that our governments imported.
FN are the most popular party in France amongst voters aged 18-34.
Is your entire comment satire?
Europe has even stronger gun laws and almost no murders compared to the US.
Europe actually has MORE murders than America.
I think you meant to say Western Europe, or the European Union.
Even in the EU, the murder rate is about 40% of America's, which is not "almost no murders".
And even better on them for rejecting freedom of the press. The press has destroyed the US, and France's ban on reporting on the email hack helped Macron because it kept people uninformed.
With what they had on the table as an alternative, it shouldn't really be surprising.
Now explain Trump's victory.
I think, first you have to explain to me how, in a nation of 200 million people, chance just happens to have arranged for the most qualified person to oppose Trump happens to be married to a former president. If you can explain that then please explain, why, outside a medieval dynasty, Mr Bush's son, Mr Bush actually becomes president. Finally, for an encore, explain how spending money is actually "speech" and so impossible for the government to regulate. Once we've finished those, then I will be able to restore my surprise that the US system fails to be fully democratic and we can start to look for explanations for Trump's victory somewhere beyond the simple "because the American systems fucked".
Trump voters seem to still consider him the better choice. Personally, I have nothing to complain about.
Europe also tends to be more ethnically homogeneous (per country). The U.S., for all its flaws, is a hodgepodge of people from all over the world. I've always suspected part of the high violence rate in the U.S. is due to latent racism and cultural biases present everywhere, but coming into conflict with each other much more in the U.S. than in other countries.
The counterargument would be Canada, which is more diverse than the U.S., yet has less violence. But if you stare at that map and a homicide rate map long enough, I think you'll convince yourself that Canada is an outlier, and that in general higher ethnic diversity in a country is correlated with higher violence rates.
We still have a long ways to go as a species.
Jews have been the scapegoats for a whole lot of things, there's plenty of hate to go around. There's not much a black man can do to make friends with a Ku Klux Klan member. But when have they ever made special demands for their religious minority? When have they demanded the rest of society bend to their way of life? When have they ever acted with disdain towards the society they live in? When have they committed atrocities against people who believe differently or changed religion?
They've been a despised pariah caste, but it's other people that have had a problem with the Jews, not the Jews that have had a problem with everybody else. In fact, they seem to be the world religion that cares the least about what non-Jews believe or do and make very little if any effort to convert others to Judaism. Try eating pork together with Jews and Muslims, it's neither kosher nor halal but I'll give you 100:1 odds that if anyone complains it's a Muslim. P.S. A lot of the arab world is still where Europe was before Hitler.
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